Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cron

2010-01-04 Thread Heiko Baums
Answering to arch-general again. ;-) Am Mon, 4 Jan 2010 10:51:29 +0100 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be: When a crontab is missed due to system downtime, sometimes you want the crontab to be done when the system boots up, but sometimes you do not want that at all. (eg a cleanup

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cron

2010-01-04 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 4 Jan 2010 08:07:15 +0100 schrieb Xavier shinin...@gmail.com: Having one tool doing 2 different tasks is quite in contradiction with the KISS philosophy. That said, I think the rest of your argument is valid, kiss isn't the holy grail, sometimes having a tool that is less simple, less

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cron

2010-01-04 Thread Heiko Baums
And regarding the missing support for /etc/cron.d in fcron, that's probably something for a feature request to upstream if someone thinks it's necessary. I haven't missed it yet. Greetings, Heiko

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cron

2010-01-04 Thread Jim Pryor
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 12:37:05PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Mon, 4 Jan 2010 10:51:29 +0100 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be: When a crontab is missed due to system downtime, sometimes you want the crontab to be done when the system boots up, but sometimes you do not want

[arch-general] Replies on arch-general to dev emails (was: Cron)

2010-01-04 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: I again answer to arch-general due to write permissions. You realize you don't need to say this *every single time* you answer an email from arch-dev-public? We do this (restrict who can post to that list) quite on

Re: [arch-general] Replies on arch-general to dev emails (was: Cron)

2010-01-04 Thread Jim Pryor
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:52:38AM -0600, Dan McGee wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: I again answer to arch-general due to write permissions. You realize you don't need to say this *every single time* you answer an email from

Re: [arch-general] Replies on arch-general to dev emails (was: Cron)

2010-01-04 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Jim Pryor lists+arch-gene...@jimpryor.net wrote: On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:52:38AM -0600, Dan McGee wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: I again answer to arch-general due to write permissions. You realize you

Re: [arch-general] Replies on arch-general to dev emails (was: Cron)

2010-01-04 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 10:57 -0500, Jim Pryor wrote: On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:52:38AM -0600, Dan McGee wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: I again answer to arch-general due to write permissions. You realize you don't need to say this

Re: [arch-general] Tiny webserver to run as root

2010-01-04 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 01/03/2010 10:04 AM, RedShift wrote: Hi all Does anyone have a suggestion for some software, a tiny webserver that is able to run as root and execute CGI scripts? It should be smaller than apache and preferably even smaller than lighttpd. It doesn't need a whole lot of features, it only

Re: [arch-general] Replies on arch-general to dev emails (was: Cron)

2010-01-04 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Jim Pryor lists+arch-gene...@jimpryor.net wrote: On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:52:38AM -0600, Dan McGee wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote:

Re: [arch-general] Replies on arch-general to dev emails (was: Cron)

2010-01-04 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:59:49 -0600 schrieb Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com: You realize you don't need to say this *every single time* you answer an email from arch-dev-public? We do this (restrict who can post to that list) quite on purpose, and this is the defined method of

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cron

2010-01-04 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:52:45 -0600 schrieb Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com: Though, I must admit, I did not see this email until after I replied. yacron was not evaluated when we looked into this... From Jim's explanations I think that it could be worth testing yacron, too. Greetings,

Re: [arch-general] Tiny webserver to run as root

2010-01-04 Thread Sebastian Köhler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:04:01PM +0100, RedShift wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion for some software, a tiny webserver that is able to run as root and execute CGI scripts? It should be smaller than apache and preferably even smaller than

[arch-general] Shutdown Issue

2010-01-04 Thread GTR
Hi I am using Gnome 2.28, and added the shutdown item to the panel. While using the shutdown button from the panel, the screen garbles up, and i don't see the normal shutdown messages, but the computer still shuts down normally. nothing is logged related to this. While using any other shutdown

Re: [arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

2010-01-04 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 04.01.2010 22:07, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: Hello, pacman just brought kernel 2.6.32 for my old laptop (P3 500MHz). A strange thing I noticed is that the fan won't go off when CPU is idling like it used to. Using powertop I can see more than 100K wakeups/s (extra_timer_interrupt is first