Re: [PLUG] Battery Backup Question

2023-09-28 Thread Dick Steffens
On 9/27/23 23:43, Keith Lofstrom wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 02:11:03PM -0700, Dick Steffens wrote: The battery has 12.54v. Sounds like my UPS is borked. Any ideas on how to test it? And any recommendations on who makes a good, moderately priced model? At 12.54 volts open circuit, the batter

[PLUG] Resolved: Battery Backup Question

2023-09-28 Thread Dick Steffens
On 9/27/23 16:13, Dick Steffens wrote: On 9/27/23 16:10, Bill Barry wrote: Yes, I would definitely take it out of the circuit and test it. There is little else that can go wrong with a UPS. Especially since all the warning signals are working. BIll Probably tomorrow. Thanks for confirming the

[PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-28 Thread John Jason Jordan
Several years ago I created a couple shell scripts to make rsync create mirrors of / and /home on another drive installed in the computer. Although it took awhile I created cron jobs to run the scripts every day at 3am and 4am. My efforts worked perfectly for years, but now I'm migrating from Xubu

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Battery Backup Question

2023-09-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
UPS Lead Acid gel cells are not what they used to be. A decade ago I could get a 12v 7ah gel call from Panasonic that would sit in a box For 6 months, not significantly sulfate, then work in a UPS for 5 years. Today everything on the market is complete crap. Even the AGM versions are hardly be

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 28 Sep 2023, John Jason Jordan wrote: My efforts worked perfectly for years, but now I'm migrating from Xubuntu 22.04.3 to SparkyLinux 7.0, and I'd like to migrate cron jobs in the process. SparkyLinux automatically mounts / and /home from Xubuntu, so I can just copy config files from th

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-28 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:13:28 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >I don't know where those distros keep cron files. But, look first at >/etc/; there should be a set of cron directories there; e.g., cron.d/, >cron.daily/, cron.hourly/, cron.monthly/, cron.weekly/. > >Second, use the `slocate' command,

Re: [PLUG] Battery Backup Question

2023-09-28 Thread wes
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 8:33 AM Dick Steffens wrote: > I have three of these models > if you have 3 of them, you could swap batteries with a working one and follow the problem to its source. -wes

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-28 Thread wes
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 6:21 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > >I don't know where those distros keep cron files. they are kept in /var/spool/cron. But, look first at > >/etc/; there should be a set of cron directories there; e.g., cron.d/, > >cron.daily/, cron.hourly/, cron.monthly/, cron.weekl

Re: [PLUG] Battery Backup Question

2023-09-28 Thread Dick Steffens
On 9/28/23 18:32, wes wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 8:33 AM Dick Steffens wrote: I have three of these models if you have 3 of them, you could swap batteries with a working one and follow the problem to its source. -wes True, but one of them is for my wife's computer, so I can't do that

Re: [PLUG] Move cron jobs to new computer

2023-09-28 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:58:41 -0700 wes dijo: >On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 6:21 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> >> >I don't know where those distros keep cron files. > > >they are kept in /var/spool/cron. > >But, look first at >> >/etc/; there should be a set of cron directories there; e.g., >>