Re: Script for when system was last updated

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-03 22:24, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Monday 02 June 2008 23:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:14:24PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: >>> Not long ago I booted Lenny, and discovered there were more than 800MB of >>> updates wa

Re: Script for when system was last updated

2008-06-03 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 02 June 2008 23:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:14:24PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Not long ago I booted Lenny, and discovered there were more than 800MB of > > updates waiting to be installed, and not a bunch of fun on dialup. > > Looking at my saved history f

Re: Script for when system was last updated (Resolved)

2008-06-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/03/2008 08:06 AM, Nigel Henry wrote: [...] lastupd=`ls /home/djmons/History-files | sort -n | tail -1` xmessage "Last updated on $lastupd" Now the xmessage displays correctly with the date of last update. Thanks for the help with the script. Nigel. Sure, glad to be of help. -- To U

Re: Script for when system was last updated (Resolved)

2008-06-03 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 14:12, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Monday 02 June 2008 22:57, Mumia W.. wrote: > > On 06/02/2008 01:14 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > [...] > > > Could someone suggest a script I could put in ~/.kde/autostart that > > > would put up an xmessage saying when the system was last upda

Re: Script for when system was last updated

2008-06-03 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 02 June 2008 22:57, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 06/02/2008 01:14 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: > > [...] > > Could someone suggest a script I could put in ~/.kde/autostart that would > > put up an xmessage saying when the system was last updated, when I boot > > up Lenny? > > > > Much appreciation to

Re: Script for when system was last updated

2008-06-02 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/02/2008 01:14 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: [...] Could someone suggest a script I could put in ~/.kde/autostart that would put up an xmessage saying when the system was last updated, when I boot up Lenny? Much appreciation to all you scripting gurus out there. Nigel. I'm hardly a scriptin

Re: Script for when system was last updated

2008-06-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:14:24PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Not long ago I booted Lenny, and discovered there were more than 800MB of > updates waiting to be installed, and not a bunch of fun on dialup. Looking at > my saved history files, I hadn't updated for nearly 2 months. > > I save the