On Monday 11 October 2010 18:41:25 Keith Edmunds wrote: > Two comments, not meant to sound harsh (but I'm aware that they may do). > > Firstly, there's no need to quote an entire thread just to say that you > have things working now. > > Secondly, you can approach Linux from a number of perspectives, one of > which is to try to understand how it works. That isn't necessarily easy: > it's a complex system and I maintain that I learn something new about > Linux every week (and I've worked with it full time for ten years, and > used it for a lot longer). But if you do want to understand it, I would > suggest that when you come across a problem such as you had, and you > receive advice about how to solve it, you should try one thing at a time. > That will allow you to see what does and does not work (even the 'does not > work' may teach you something), and it will also allow you to teach others > when you thank Fred, Bill, Alice and Susan for their advice, and say that > it turned out to be Susan's idea of doing XXX that fixed it. > > Keith > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > --------------------------------------------------------------
OK I have debated about replying and have decided to do so, but I don't wish to turn this into a bun fight but I did find your comments rather grating. Firstly I will put my hands up and apologise for the full quote, that was a schoolboy error. I was in a bit of a rush and wanted to thank those that had taken the time to rply to my request for help. Unfortunately thanking people on userlist like this one is something I don't do enough of. In resolving this problem with the help of all those replies I got, some of which made suggestion which I had forgotten about and when tried\checked the results helped. I have learnt the following, configure crontab from the command line, save text file (in this case crontab) at the command line, add folders to the $PATH. I am a product of the gui era while I understand the power and the complexity of the cli but I am all for an easy life and if the gui will give me that then that is where I will live. So all in all I did learn a lot, but as I said in my thank you post, I am not sure exactly what I did that resolved the problem. I think it was one, two maybe even three little things that was stopping it from working properly (like the file I wanted crontab to run only needed the file name not the .sh on the end of it), ultimately each replied was another piece in a jigsaw which I was trying to complete without a picture to refer to. Unfortunately I have not had a lot of time to resolve the problem hence the time it has taken to resolve a fairly simple problem. Linux is complex (but so is any OS), but I have pretty much taught myself to run, install and resolve problems I come across. My linux usage is a hobby and while I have been playing with Linux from Suse 6 days it has been my main OS at home for at least 6 years. I have asked question here and else where and as you learn something new about linux everyday. But I don't see why you feel the need to think that I have not learnt anything from the replies I had been given, I did not continually come back asking what the next step was, I asked question and learnt from the suggestion I was given and the result I obtained, hence I resolved my problem, not quickly, but I resolved it Tim -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
