Re: cron job verification

2005-02-02 Thread Ed Lawson
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:45:31 -0500 Bob Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That won't work. As you said, $? will evaluate to an integer, which the shell will then (unsuccessfully) try to execute. I tried to use the script and it failed for the reasons you stated. Gives an erroneous report as a

Genetics - Open Source in reverse?

2005-02-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
The cooperation described in this article seems somehow familiar: http://www.techreview.com/articles/05/03/issue/magaphone.asp ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Genetics - Open Source in reverse?

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The cooperation described in this article seems somehow familiar: http://www.techreview.com/articles/05/03/issue/magaphone.asp I agree, both in terms of sharing code/genes and in terms of patents. Thanks for the pointer! --kevin (still

[OT] elephant memory systems

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
For those of you who remember using floppy disks back in the '80's, I thought that you might enjoy the collection that I put together: http://www.mrcoffee.org/~kdc/ems/ This is my collection of stuff related to Elephant Memory Systems, whose advertisements were famous back in the day. Enjoy!

Re: cron job verification

2005-02-02 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:45:31AM -0500, Bob Bell wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:15:46AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: #!/bin/sh # NEVER start shell scripts as #!/bin/bash -- it can lead to strange # and unintended results. Like what? I've never had a problem. If I specifically

Re: cron job verification

2005-02-02 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:34:01PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:45:31AM -0500, Bob Bell wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:15:46AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: #!/bin/sh # NEVER start shell scripts as #!/bin/bash -- it can lead to strange # and unintended

installation 'meeting' ?

2005-02-02 Thread Thomas J Fogal
Hey all, UNH has ACM meetings every once in a while that I attend for excessive nerdery and free pizza. At this last one it was mentioned that there was some interest in helping new users install Fedora... My immediate thought is that it sounds like an 'InstallFest How-To' and so I of course

Re: HP/Compaq Presario and Linux

2005-02-02 Thread Fred
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 14:12 -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:32:49PM -0500, John Abreau wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 08:48, Jerry Feldman wrote: religiously, JABR does not like SuSE, and have always installed easily on the same machines that SuSE failed to

Re: cron job verification

2005-02-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
rsync options if ! $? ; then echo -e \nrsync completed successfully!\n else echo -e \nrsync failed!\n! fi BTW, it's legit (and sometimes clearer) to do it like this: if rsync options then echo -e \nrsync completed successfully!\n else echo -e

Re: installation 'meeting' ?

2005-02-02 Thread Ed Lawson
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:09:39 -0500 Thomas J Fogal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, UNH has ACM meetings every once in a while that I attend for excessive nerdery and free pizza. At this last one it was mentioned that there was some interest in helping new users install Fedora... My

OT/humor - Help steal some of Saddam's money!

2005-02-02 Thread Randy Edwards
Today I found a bunch of these 401 scam spam messages in my mailbox. I thought the gimmick the sleazeball came up with to con people was pretty ingenious. Obviously the scammer had watched the movie Three Kings. :-) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Important Message

Re: cron job verification

2005-02-02 Thread Ed Robitaille
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:45:31 -0500 Bob Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:15:46AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: #!/bin/sh # NEVER start shell scripts as #!/bin/bash -- it can lead to strange # and unintended results. Like what? I've never had a problem. If I

Re: cron job verification

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ed Robitaille writes: If I'm not mistaken, If #!/bin/sh is used the shell will use what is set for the user variable $SHELL when a user logs in. I use zsh and have SHELl set for /bin/zsh. If what you say is true, why when you run a /bin/sh script doesn't exec run your shell scripts through

Re: cron job verification

2005-02-02 Thread Bill Sconce
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:19:48 -0500 Ed Robitaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:45:31 -0500 Bob Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:15:46AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: #!/bin/sh # NEVER start shell scripts as #!/bin/bash -- it can lead to strange

Re: cron job verification

2005-02-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
If I'm not mistaken, If #!/bin/sh is used the shell will use what is set for the user variable $SHELL when a user logs in. You're mistaken. The value of your $SHELL variable has nothing to do with which interpreter handles a given script when that script is directly executed by the kernel.

Re: cron job verification

2005-02-02 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:41:23PM -0500, Bill Sconce wrote: P.P.S. On many systems if you do an ls -l /bin/sh you'll find that this isn't an actual executable but a symbolic link. On my (Debian) systems it's a symbolic link which points to ...surprise, bash: Sure. But I think it's

Re: [OT] Free crap

2005-02-02 Thread Travis Roy
I grabbed one of the heated DSS LNBs, one of the DSS Glass-Links, some hard drives, a switch and a few other goodies. If you want some of the other stuff he has listed you better go get it.. Good stuff :) One of the DSS recivers was rather nice (a Sony one). Brian also has various goodies not

Re: NFS and firewalls

2005-02-02 Thread Bill McGonigle
This talk of NFS trickery got me thinking - has anybody here had experience with a network filesystem that's not a steaming-pile of backwards-compatible hacks? Maybe davfs or sftpfs? -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: