Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-14 Thread Jonathan Gill
Hi Ok try something like this 0 0 * * 1 /sbin/reboot this means at midnight on the first day of the week run /sbin/reboot ( crontab line is ) Hope this helps. Jonathan On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 22:36, Stephen Berry wrote: > Hi, > > > I would like to have my LTSP server reboot once per w

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-14 Thread rob
How about: shutdown -r now ?? > I would like to have my LTSP server reboot once per week automatically. > I understand that I can use Cron to perform this but I don't know what to > put in my crontab file to make this happen! > Could someone tell me the script please??

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-14 Thread Johannes Berth
* Stephen Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14.05.02 16:36]: > I would like to have my LTSP server reboot once per week automatically. This is Linux, not Windoze! > I understand that I can use Cron to perform this but I don't know what to > put in my crontab file to make this happen! RTFM! man cronta

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-14 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
Dear Johannes, a little exposure sometimes does a lot of good. maybe quoting your letter to the list will sober you up. On Tue, 14 May 2002, Johannes Berth wrote: > * Julius Szelagiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14.05.02 21:19]: > > i bow to your superior wisdom. julius > > Die, Julius,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-14 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Tue, 14 May 2002 22:07:51 -0400 (EDT), "Julius Szelagiewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Johannes, > a little exposure sometimes does a lot of good. maybe quoting your > letter to the list will sober you up. There's one in every crowd; we're no different. Ya know, it kinda b

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-14 Thread Johannes Berth
* Julius Szelagiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [15.05.02 04:07]: > a little exposure sometimes does a lot of good. maybe quoting your > letter to the list will sober you up. Hey great idea. Publishing a private mail in a public mailing list. Is it really necessary that you prove your dullness t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:22:45PM -0500, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > Anyway...what I couldn't figure out is why anyone would ever want to reboot a >server. Every time you reboot, you risk incurring the wrath of changes you made that >you *think* will get restarted with the reboot. That is e

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Wed, 15 May 2002 07:12:38 +0200, "Johannes Berth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Julius Szelagiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [15.05.02 04:07]: > > a little exposure sometimes does a lot of good. maybe quoting your > > letter to the list will sober you up. > > Hey great idea. Publishing a pri

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Wed, 15 May 2002 08:56:53 +0200, "Hans Ekbrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is exactly why is is a good idea to reboot (after major changes, > and when you have time to handle it if it goes wrong): make yourself > confident that the next time the computer reboots (which might be when > y

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
Brian, you want to reboot from time for one reason only: the two of us didn't write all the software we run, so some of it isn't perfect. there are otherwise nice programs that that forget to return memory to the pool, there are those little annoying zombie processes, there are leftovers f

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Shane Kennedy
Has anyone heard of memory leaks. Of course linux itself doesn't have this problem, but many app's do. Anyone who feels like being rude, do it somewhere else. There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers, and anyway, the only one who knows THEIR system is the one asking the question. S

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
Johannes, since you are so strong on admin, you will understand why it is so fun to enter your name into the "drop his mail into the bit bucket" table. one last remark: it seems that the whimpering you hear is your own. julius On Wed, 15 May 2002, Johannes Berth wrote: > * Julius Szelagi

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Tommy Eaton
wow > -Original Message- > From: Johannes Berth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:16 AM > To: LTSP > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot > > * Stephen Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14.05.02 16:36]: > > > I would like to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Wed, 15 May 2002 11:52:33 +0100, "Shane Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anyone heard of memory leaks. Of course linux itself doesn't have > this problem, but many app's do. The only thing that caused us problems was Netscape; we didn't use any Java (which has/had a tende

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Johannes Berth
* Julius Szelagiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [15.05.02 12:51]: > one last remark: it seems that the whimpering you hear is your own. If you have a problem with me, put me in your killfile. But do it _silently_ and don't bother the mailing list with another useless mail from you. We could have mana

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Peter Billson
> The only thing that caused us problems was Netscape [snip] Netscape is always a problem, particularly when the GUI crashes but Netscape continues to run so the user can not start a new instance. My solution to this was to write a wrapper script that simply killall -9 netscape (and java

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Alessandro Selli
Il giorno Wed, 15 May 2002, Brian Fahrlander così ha scritto: |From: Brian Fahrlander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 07:15:53 -0500 |Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot | |On Wed, 15 May 2002 11:52:33 +0100, "Shane Kennedy" <[EMAI

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auto reboot

2002-05-15 Thread Dave Shiels
Johannes Berth wrote: > * Julius Szelagiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [15.05.02 12:51]: > >>one last remark: it seems that the whimpering you hear is your own. >> > > If you have a problem with me, put me in your killfile. But do it > _silently_ and don't bother the mailing list with another usele