WOW. That seems like a creative (and extensive) workaround to get a web
language to run as a cron job.
But I am going to save it. If all a person knows is PHP I can see where it
might be the shortest route.
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script from the web? You dont have access to a cron file to have it run
at set times?
But I think any language will handle what you want. Personally Id just
write it in shell script. It doesnt sound like it needs anything beyond
that. Or if it did then Id write it in Basic. Wh
ckdoor in
case you close the one they found.
Its a good idea to check not only the access logs but the error logs on a
regular basis. Especially if you are about to add a new feature. Always
look for it in the errors log before you add something new
Gandalf
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Alex Mandel wrote:
> I finally have a small low power contraption on the way to begin my
> foray into a low power network server. Looking around at my options I'm
> not sure what distro to try on it first.
A big factor in small...
can you operate in text mode for console admi
altho thats probably just because Im old.
But when you get past that Id love to help with other setups.
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ined up correctly
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a valid regex would
> look like to match. Help??
Maybe list the directory by date of the file and grab the tail end of it?
Something like...
for fyl in `ls -1rt |tail `; do echo "rm -f $fyl" >>rm_log.txt; done
(bash shell version)
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There is also an ImageMagick elist. Id be surprised if it couldnt do it.
Altho not surprised it hasnt popped up as an answer. Damn rough territory
to work in. :( Ive got half a dozen projects stopped for not understanding
enough graphic and math jargon to make ImageMagick work
tually there are pros and cons to it.
But like many subjects, not really worth going into for the average
person. In general the recommendation is correct enough.
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DISCLAIMER: these are of course my one opinions of what I would do if this
was me. The "safe and appropriate" instructions would be much harsher.
Usually something like delete everything, reformat, start over.
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> a NAS server?
Just a quick response.
The way I got a feel for the extensive multi-server handling on Sonic.net
shell server was by doing the df commmand.
See what that gives you.
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he data on a persons
home computer more trouble than its worth to retrieve. They dont take into
account that the eWaste is often shipped to 4th world nations where the
people make pennies a year and are dying from exposure to the metals being
extracted. There is no "more trouble than its wo
mas
wishlist. I would like to recover old programming code and such, then
reformat them. Maybe even use them like floppies for making backups.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fregistry%2Fwishlist%2FXK5Y1Y775VOW&tag=anyonecannet-20&
ally funny writeup. Go thru the whole thing spousing lots of security
jargon then at the end its a tin-foil hat for your computer to match the
one you are wearing.
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So you might want to take into account which of those companies and jobs
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urs, then comes now-time when Im trying
to get the difference between go-time and now-time then convert those
epochs back into hours and seconds. I have trouble with math if it uses
more than one operation on a line. This gave me headache
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on the webpage if I can figure out how to show "which
will be X from now"
Ive given up on Epoch time (my math sucks). I might have to do some basic
programming on it but Im really surprised I have to go that far.
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On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Brian Lavender wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:00:40AM -0700, Gandalf Parker wrote:
>> WOW, I just won a free year of Sonic.net at the highest speed they can
>> provide (in some cases up to 30Mps) by twittering a few times and
>> including #sonicnet
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:00:40AM -0700, Gandalf Parker wrote:
>> WOW, I just won a free year of Sonic.net at the highest speed they can
>> provide (in some cases up to 30Mps) by twittering a few times and
>> including #sonicnet
/etc?
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On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Gandalf Parker wrote:
just realized that I failed to comment. Sorry about that.
>
> My server is 63.199.8.158 and my router is 63.199.8.153
> At the moment I have this running...
> while true
> do
> pyng=`ping -c 1 63.199.8.153|grep ttl|cut -d= -f4|c
to support web-based email handling)
Not sure if that helps.
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to support web-based email handling)
Not sure if that helps.
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ad period back when centralized lists of
"spammers" came out. But later it leveled out abit when the SPF protocol
was developed. Check to see that an SPF text line is added to the domain.
It helps at cleaning up old spam-lists.
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ng on that system at all if its set up
to relay. I hope they are using its capabilties in some way. At the moment
Im fighting with PostFix because its being abit of a hog on my system. Im
trying desperately to teach it to be a tiny tiny server.
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every single mile
makes a big difference in my attendance.
Heck even if we dont do that we should at least make plans for a car pool
or something. I can offer free (crappy) server space for anything
involving such a group.
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With a kn
an article on this.
http://any1can.blogspot.com/2006/12/everyone-can-be-internet-server.html
So I would recommend starting out with something in the closet then moving
up as you see a definite need.
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now I am an ISP.
With a knick-knack paddy-whack
deb
s a
command-line downloader. There are some examples online of using wget with
youtube which simply involves parsing the first webpage response to get the
direct name of the file then downloading it and renaming it to put the proper
extension on it.
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this is minimum)
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e some down time. Then I will open it up and see if
some dustball is trapped someplace, and possible keep the case off.
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to restrict the cpu use rather like the nice command.
Once I find out the cuplrits I plan to rewrite the scripts accordingly.
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nk I will leave the iostat part running and hope to
catch the next warning display
Thanks
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:49:36AM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote:
> Gandalf Parker wrote:
> > Its not a continual message. I was hoping for a program that would tell me
> > what processes were causing it.
>
> It sounds as though you need to use both gkrellm and top. top will
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:48:50AM -0700, Bill Broadley wrote:
> Gandalf Parker wrote:
> > Its not a continual message. I was hoping for a program that would tell me
> > what processes were causing it.
>
> top, although as mentioned it could be a hardware problem so even
Its not a continual message. I was hoping for a program that would tell me what
processes were causing it.
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Since kernel upgrade (debian etch) Ive gotten occassional messages to console
about overheating CPU.
Getting hardware fixes is out of the question for the moment. Any suggestions
on pinning down which programs are causing it?
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rative, conversation piece, a good money
investment (if you want to buy the real thing or happen to know someone in the
air force), and its portable.
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On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:47:55PM -0700, Bryan Richter wrote:
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> Crap, i was gonna name my mud client 'clump'...
Id be interested in a mud client.
Linux? text mode? Im still using tintin++
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what was getting me in trouble so I convert the phone-numbers
to names in the from as it hits my mailbox before I read it.
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en I did
it) that its St. Murphy's way of saying "do backups"
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:40:35AM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>
> I use these parameters to do it:
Just to piggyback abit here. Does anyone have parameters for ogg or ogv to avi?
I have a guy wanting to put videos on my server but he works in ogg which Ive
never messed with.
G
Does anyone know what it takes to host videos?
I have a Debian server.
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:13:48AM -0700, chris evans wrote:
> Go ahead and delete the swap file, i doubt it has anything critical in it.
By "delete" maybe meaning do a windows thing and move/rename it to something
else until you figure out that its really not needed.
Ga
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 12:57:13PM -0700, Jimbo wrote:
> hey I fix cars...how hard is a laptop?
LOL.
But I was once told that if a desktop is a Ford, then a laptop is a Toyota.
Tightly packed, needs special tools, special parts, pain-in-the-ascii.
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h they do with laptops but
they weem willing to try anything you want.
They have been great to me in all aspects. I cant say enough about them and
cannot think of a "but" or "except".
Not sure what area is covered by the wiki but Id request they be added there
also.
1160
wouldnt keep out an expert burglar)
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Someone in a horror movie says "We should be safe here"
Someone driving says "Ive never
course there are less crude methods of achieving all of that
but I tended to find the learning curve less for me since it used
features of the system that I easily understood and could work with.
Just an option.
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Aptitude tells me...
Wasnt able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 package.
and that I might have to manually fix the package due to a missing arch.
Basically I always let aptitude take care of these things, or hire someone
if it cant. Any quicky suggestions?
Gandalf Parker
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Bill Kendrick wrote:
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 01:56:37PM -0800, Gandalf Parker wrote:
Hm I wonder if Pine has something like that.
Yes, it's called:
alias pine mutt
*ducks*
LOL
But I kinda expected that.
Actually my complaint is that I wish it would defau
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Brian Lavender wrote:
I am able to view it and reply to it.
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/75
I just added
auto_view text/html
to my .muttrc and I am golden.
Hm I wonder if Pine has something like that.
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only covering the proper use of applications. Anything
real involved came to our desk anyway.
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ar but if you know the job is hauling freight then why
would you ask for a car?"
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me sounds good albiet I'm no pc wiz.
Could openoffice and the variable of gzip be integrated somehow into this
concept?
It would make it easier. The script could unzip the file and work it in
the original formats if those are more familiar to you.
d simplify avoiding file
access collisions.
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layer that does not act as a device. Please, keep us
updated.
sung to the tune of "Money for Nuthin"
Look at them yo-yo's, that's the way to do it
dancing thru their housework to their mp3's
that aint working, that's the way to do it
getting their chores done and
p strategy (not some kiddie joystick
game). It supports Windows, Mac, and Linux. But I totally understand what
you say. I prefer to play it in GUI Windows, and host it in Linux where I
can make the most use of all of its command switches by scripting.
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Cylar Z wrote:
amateur server admins. Iâm sure some of you are
doing this at home and that the setup is relatively
simple â can anyone give me a few pointers? How did
you do it when you set your server up?
Are you sure that they only gave you one IP?
Mine gave me 5 (act
quot;
but many have taken the easier course of using one setting for all. You
would need to check other domains against that server and maybe see.
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irectly using the
dns server which has the oddthotz.com info is a slight boost)
You might find that both of Sonics DNS servers are your best bet. You
might find that mixing one of each, Sonic and SBC is best plus you avoid
the "all eggs in one basket" thing.
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orks.
Also how does he have his domains setup? In a single large httpd.conf
file? That CAN work under the new setup but it doesnt like it.
I highly recommend that you compress and store all of the config files
such as all of /etc to someplace so that you can refer back to the
s it and I can do a SED
command on. I want to go back to the original settings and let the catalog
decide what should or shouldnt be upgraded.
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A previous manager put a lock on just about everything prefering to do it
himself, and I want to go back to using aptitude recommends.
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ouldnt "testing" become a new version of "testing"?
Maybe it has to be started over?
Just guessing.
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a web page now so we can gauge our level against it?
I did a google for "walk to end the war" and sacramento, but it came up
with too many results.
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the logins are listed.
Such as "web pages of people on our system" or if they have a shell
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been internet and I think that everyone should google:
(A) their name. As a full string. On a regular basis I google "Anthony A.
G. Parker" and sometimes "Gandalf Parker" with the quotes. (but Gandalf
Parker comes up with way too many hits in web and newsgroups. Its a good
thi
aptop ever gets stolen or hacked.
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My apologies to everyone. It appears that an fsck at some point did in
fact wipe a couple of libraries. So the xwindows that used to work, was
broken. So reinstall packages was the correct answer.
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everything X
related then reinstalling xbase-clients which will depend on all the
rest and you might get twm or something too.
Its not that important. I dont want to mess with the whole system just to
try out this one thing. If I cant find the starter on the system as it is
then I will just toss the p
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Rick Moen wrote:
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OK that seemed to get the same result. An xwindow session, but no gnome
menus. Just the debian splash screen and a mouse cursor.
Um, I'd really very strongly suspect that you're missing some ke
no gnome
menus. Just the debian splash screen and a mouse cursor.
But thanks for a new thing to try.
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above commands I get a blank
graphic-mode screen with a working mouse cursor but no menu
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pdfinfo (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information
extractor (version 3.00)
(returned from shell)
Yeah see if you have pdfinfo on your machine.
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site" complainers if they returned to ask for a
change, was it with a please or was it more like a complaint.
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ow what to do with that.
Hmmm does Linux default setup know what to do with an iso?
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like I have to list every quirky subdir that every domain has on
it with a disallow. I havent found an example for something like "allow
index.html"
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