No, it must be crontab.
cron.daily is for generic make sure it runs at least once a day, with no
specific time.
crontab is where the crontab(8) format entries with specific times and
users etc live.
Cheers,
- Simon
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Dean Hamstead wrote:
cron.daily is run from
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, linley wrote:
I get a message saying that $HOME/.dmrc will be ignored. That the file
$HOME/.dmrc should be owned by the user and have permissions set to 644
and that the $HOME directory should only be read a writable by the user.
Not much of a pain except that I cannot re
On Fri, 12 May 2006, O Plameras wrote:
I have two issues:
1. I cannot recieve SBS signal cleanly; and
We have this in our strata block.
The SBS signal is the only digital tv signal in the UHF range, all the
rest are VHF. I believe our antannae don't do UHF.
2. I cannot recieve HDTV (only
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Simon Wong wrote:
* They have to open a file only readable by root and report back
the contents plus the root password plus the method of attack
Getting the root password itself is quite separate from getting root
access (unless you've not cleaned up after
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Steven Heimann wrote:
**1. Scope**
I wrote the following
sed -i.bak s/^\(\*\*[0-9][. ]\)\*\*\(.*\)$/\1\2**/ *.txt
Unfortunately sed seems to be putting the 2 trailing ** at the beginning
of the replacement line rather than the end of the line and after much
stuffing
. If
so you should try using another wifi channel.
Cheers
l1th10n
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:41 pm, Simon Bowden wrote:
Hi,
I'm just going to chirp in with my bad experience with this card.
While I could get it working, I think with the acx100 drivers:
http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
I found that under
Hi,
I'm just going to chirp in with my bad experience with this card.
While I could get it working, I think with the acx100 drivers:
http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
I found that under both linux and windows (especially the latter), I could
not get a very consistent connection. I've mainly
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Benno wrote:
snip
But if you are at the point of trying to get things in a few
cache lines, or with a small memory footprintf there is still snip
^^
evidence that someone has been coding too much lately ;-)
Cheers,
- Simon
Henry,
xmms doesn't usually set the volume. Nor is the volume set in a config
file - its essentially a state in the driver.
Just use a tool like aumix (or amixer for alsa) to change volume levels:
aumix -v50,0
play_sound
aumix -v0,50
play_sound
The -w option is also handy, depending on your
Hi Anthony,
In situations like this, I tell lilo before rebooting to boot to Windows
(lilo image label) for the next boot only.
# lilo -R Windows
As opposed to -D Windows (or editing lilo.conf), which sets the default
boot option to that label.
Cheers,
- Simon
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005,
Hi Howard,
I had this once, and similarly needed to retain leading 0's (rather than
${var%%0}).
The leading zero implies octal numbers. You can force a base with a
leading base#, i.e. 10#09 = 09, base 10, rather than 09 base-8 which is
invalid.
I'm not currently aware of a way of saying
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Simon Bowden wrote:
Hi Howard,
I had this once, and similarly needed to retain leading 0's (rather than
${var%%0}).
This should have been ${foo#0}, and I don't know a good way of removing an
arbitrary number of leading zeros without resorting to external tools
Hi,
I wrote up some stuff I did a fair while ago for at home.
I've got a different ISP and hardware now, but same applies, plus there's
probably useful general notes:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~simonb/swiftel/
Cheers,
- Simon
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi.
I would
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, James Polley wrote:
I have a bunch of procmail recipes that pick up mail for various
mailing lists I'm on and dump it to specific folders:
:0:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lists/security/linux-secnews
:0:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lists/SLUG
I'd like for any mail that matches one of
Adam,
You can use cron(tab), but you'd need to set the DISPLAY variable
appropriately:
DISPLAY=:0 xprogram /dev/null 2/dev/null
That's assuming the cron job is running as the same user and same host as
the X display. It gets a little complicated otherwise.
Your question does seem a bit
Mark,
At a guess, your XF86Config-4 file specifies a basic PS/2 mouse, rather
than the scrolly wheel one I expect yours is.
You'll find a line like this in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
Option Protocol PS/2
Change the PS/2 to ImPS/2, restart X and see how you go.
Michael,
Do a dist-upgrade, not an upgrade. An upgrade doesn't try hard enough - it
won't remove packages. dist-upgrade does, thus can resolve conflicts.
Of course, if you're running a production system, you'd want to watch
closely what gets upgraded and removed. I always run apt-get -V
Hi Howard,
Run help for a list of shell internals to get help on...
$ help history
history: history [-c] [-d offset] [n] or history -awrn [filename] or
history -ps arg [arg...]
Display the history list with line numbers. Lines listed with
with a `*' have been modified. Argument of N
Hi Terry,
I did this on a Debian box the other day with:
# install-keymap us
Cheers,
- Simon
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Terry Collins wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to change the global default keyboard for Ubuntu
(Warty?)
I think this one was installed with the UK keyboard and it is missing
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Voytek wrote:
using Tony's method, my largest file is:
find / -ls -type f 2/dev/null | awk '{print $7 $11 }' | sort -nr |
head -10
# cd /proc
Hi,
A handy way to avoid find going into other filesystems (useful when
network mounts are around), is to use the -mount option.
Hi Peter,
I've not had a machine with 2 sata disks yet, so I'm not sure what the
magic numbers would be... BUT, for normal scsi hotplug disks, you use the
following to tell the kernel about new ones:
echo 'scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0' /proc/scsi/scsi
The magic numbers are the host, channel,
Hi Howard,
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Howard Lowndes wrote:
I have been asked to set up multiple LANs with Internet access in what I
consider to be a hostile environment - a private uni student dorm
complex.
1. BIOS password has very limited effect.
2. GRUB password to prevent editing the GRUB boot
Hi,
I once wrote a rough How I did it for my Swiftel connection with a
NB1300. If TPG is PPPoE too, and if the NB1400 is similar (bridge mode
can't be any different) then it should only be a username+password
change...
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~simonb/swiftel/
Cheers,
- Simon
On Sun, 12 Dec
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Grant Byers wrote:
Distribution maintainers generally go to great lengths to ensure code is
compiled properly for a particular package and the package is usually well
tested before mainstream release. Distributions such as Debian take this one
step further, breaking this down
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Grant Byers wrote:
snip
2. Do I have the knowledge and skills to do a better job than these
distribution/package maintainers?
Gentoo uses the same strategy - it works by the package maintainer
providing a build script (ebuild). The main advantage of gentoo over other
distros
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, James Ponza wrote:
1. The BIOS reports the HDD name as: GDC GD!6 0JB-0 DEA# wheras it SHOULD be
something like WDC WD1600JB-00. (it is a WD 160Gb drive).
Hi,
I've seen this sort of thing before when both hard drives on the IDE
channel were set to Master. I also may have
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Alexander Samad wrote:
I am trying to do something like this
#!/bin/bash
SOMEVARIABLE
VAR2=$( awk -F, /$SOMEVARIABLE/ /some/pathtoafile/)
Now I have problems with my I can't use ' because I want SOMEVARIABLE
to be subsituted I have tried
VAR2=$( awk -F, \/$SOMEVARIABLE/
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Harald Richard Ashburner wrote:
Jason Rennie said:
Hi all,
I was wondering what people would recommend in terms of having suspend
functionality on a laptop under linux ?
I've got ACPI running so the battery meter works, but suspend does not
work according to the ACPI doc's.
I'm
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Voytek Eymont wrote:
how can I lowercase:
all file names ?
all directory names ?
recursively ?
Just plug stuff together?
find /path/to/start | tac | while read file; do
newname=$(echo $file | tr A-Z a-z) # could use towlower here i guess
mv $file $newname
done
The main
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Simon Bowden wrote:
Possibly only lowercase relative links:
if [ -L $file -a ${file:0:1} != / ]; then
...
Oops, I'm going to be pedantic. This should be:
mv $file $newname
if [ -L $file ]; then
target=$(ls -l $file | sed 's/^.* - //'
if [ ${target:0:1
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Shaun Oliver wrote:
hi,
I've just bought an emation usb flash drive
256 mb
when one plugs it into the system, where is it usually mounted?
or rather where abouts would I expect to mount it,
I have it listed at /dev/sda but I ain't sure if it's 1 2 3 or 4
any help would
Hi Shaun,
You should be mounting /dev/sda.
Notice the sizes - you have a 256M stick, /dev/sda is 256M, the others are
all ridiculously large (which would upset it).
Cheers,
- Simon
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Shaun Oliver wrote:
it looks like this.
major minor #blocks name
8 0
Hi Shaun,
It's usually left as a registered scsi device.
If you cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/0
(numbers might be different), then you should see something that says
whether it is attached or not. If it does think it's still attached, then
you're right that something is messed up.
If a second,
Hi,
Seems your mail server is not working right... I replied and it bounced.
Hope you're on the list... reply included below the bounce detail:
-
- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(reason: 550 5.7.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Relaying denied)
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, David wrote:
I've been exchanging email with a guy and have twice got the following
message half way through a sentence in his email:
snip
.. This way I know exactly where the
[Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding]
after which pine
rized host
This is the only portmap log I've ever had.
Has anyone come across something similar? I've no idea whether this is
the result of a trojan, or whether someone managed to gain access to
my machine (although if they did gain root access, why mail out a passwd
file?). Any thoughts?Sean.
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Simon B
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