Brian, Hello there! Good to hear from you
I only SOUND as if I know what I am doing!! I have only been using Linux for about a year now, and much of it still puzzles me. For me, running Ubuntu, it is an alternative to MSW and is an excellent alternative. I only delve (and usually get stuck!) when I want it to do something a bit different. You do not need to use the command to do 99.9% of tasks. I use it sometimes as a way of trying to keep my synaptic gaps firing!! rysync is a command (or is it a program) that will compare two folders and synchronise the two. I use it to backup my data onto a NAS. There are a swathe of options - called switches - that do all sorts of clever things, but I tend to stick with the simple ones ones I have got it to work! A GUI alternative is Grsync which is excellent, but I wanted to try the raw rsync as a way of attempting to demonstrate to myself that brain death had not yet struck! cron is my new found friend. It is like task scheduler in Windows. I did try a GUI version of it, but did not get on with it, so went to the command line. netstat - no idea! Phil used that as an example I suspect rather than typing out my command!! If you can, try to get to our user group at some stage - or a more local one if there is. It was attending a group that really got me using Ubuntu. Most of the guys there are excellent with Linux, and the rest of us are learning like me, so you will not be out of place. Ed Brian Smith wrote: > Greetings All, > > As a newcomer to Linux I'm fascinated by this strange new world. > > This email doesn't require an answer, I just thought it might amuse you to > know that I've no idea what an rsync command is (something you type at the > terminal, I suspect - and I *do* know what the terminal is and can even go > to it. Then I'm lost because DOS commands generally don't work.) > > I've also no idea what a cron job is. Fascinating :-) > > The reply made some sense - the syntax is like DOS but what on earth does > 'netstat' stand for, I wonder? > > See you at the next meeting - when is it, by the way? > > Confused of Stamford. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Thompson > Sent: 24 November 2008 20:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts > Subject: Re: [Peterboro] Getting rsync output into a file > > Edward Kerr wrote: > >> I am running a rsync command as a cron job, but I would like to have the >> output that normally scrolls past you on the terminal sent to a text >> file for me to look at later. > > as a general rule you can direct the standard output into a file using > the > character followed by the filename > > for example > > netstat >phil.log > > creates a file phil.log with the output of the netstat command in it, > instead of it flying off the top of the monitor. > > you only get the one file no matter how many times you do it, so it is > overwriting without asking. > > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.9/1807 - Release Date: 24/11/2008 > 14:36 > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
