OT: Thanks and Margaret Thatcher (was: Re: scripts, was Re: TBird mail)

2022-12-08 Thread rhkramer
Thanks to David Wright and Greg Wooledge for their replies. Thanks also to David for the reference to the article on Margaret Thatcher -- I'm trying to obtain a copy through my local library (ILL). On Wednesday, December 07, 2022 11:53:18 AM David Wright wrote: ... > Margaret Thatcher is a prim

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread alberto fuentes
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:04:45 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> Do you remember where did you get that information? From what source > >> (it > >> was from a mailing list, rss news, onli

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread alberto fuentes
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I would prefer a script to prevent my system against issues. > Well, they are intended for training purposes but I guess I also prefer the script that prevents issues instead one that causes them ;D greets aL

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:04:45 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Do you remember where did you get that information? From what source >> (it >> was from a mailing list, rss news, online magazine, a blog...)? >> >> > No. The computer I was in has

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 20:37 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > I gave it another try and found this[1] and this[2]. Im not sure it is > what I was looking for. The web is nothing like I remember. Besides, > they seems pretty old and only for readhat. > > Since nobody else is able to find anything lik

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 20:37 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > I gave it another try and found this[1] and this[2]. Im not sure it is > what I was looking for. The web is nothing like I remember. Besides, > they seems pretty old and only for readhat. > > Since nobody else is able to find anything lik

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread alberto fuentes
I gave it another try and found this[1] and this[2]. Im not sure it is what I was looking for. The web is nothing like I remember. Besides, they seems pretty old and only for readhat. Since nobody else is able to find anything like it I guess I dreamed about it Thanks anyway! greets! aL [1] http

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread alberto fuentes
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Do you remember where did you get that information? From what source (it > was from a mailing list, rss news, online magazine, a blog...)? > No. The computer I was in has been formatted at least twice... Neither it was a computer I was logged in

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:21:53 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > I few months ago I saw some scripts with a list of 50 or so common > problems in a debian box. The scripts were suppose to randomly break > something on the system so you had to find the problem and fix it. The > fix was saved into some

Re: scripts for batch treatment

2009-03-11 Thread Mart Frauenlob
Mart Frauenlob wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: Bernard: I intend to copy a number of files chosen from a given directory. At first, I've made a mistake : instead of deleting unwanted files from a copy of said directory, I worked on deleting lines on a filelist that I had extracted using 'ls

Re: scripts for batch treatment

2009-03-11 Thread Mart Frauenlob
Jochen Schulz wrote: Bernard: I intend to copy a number of files chosen from a given directory. At first, I've made a mistake : instead of deleting unwanted files from a copy of said directory, I worked on deleting lines on a filelist that I had extracted using 'ls -l > filename.txt'.

Re: scripts for batch treatment

2009-03-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Bernard: > > I intend to copy a number of files chosen from a given directory. At > first, I've made a mistake : instead of deleting unwanted files from a > copy of said directory, I worked on deleting lines on a filelist that I > had extracted > using 'ls -l > filename.txt'. I am not sure

Re: scripts for batch treatment

2009-03-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone ! > > I intend to copy a number of files chosen from a given directory. At > first, I've made a mistake : instead of deleting unwanted files from a > copy of said directory, I worked on deleting lines on a filelist that I > had extracted > using 'ls -l > filename.

Re: scripts running all the time?

2008-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Daniel Dalton wrote: My /home/daniel/bash-scripts/hpodder just contains the line echo "hello world" cron runs stuff without a tty and simply mails the output to the user. If you don't have local delivery setup properly, you won't get the mail. Instead of just "echo hello world", put "echo he

Re: scripts running all the time?

2008-02-23 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:59:53PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:49:18PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > >Daniel Dalton wrote: > > >0 7 * * * /path/to/script.sh > > When would that stop? How do you make it stop at 10? b

Re: scripts running all the time?

2008-02-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:49:18PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > >Daniel Dalton wrote: > >try 'man 5 crontab', that will tell you the format of the crontab file > >For your case, I think the following line should work > >0 7 * * * /path/to/script.sh >

Re: scripts running all the time?

2008-02-23 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I want to put a call to my hpodder (podcaster) in a script that runs all the time. So I can have my computer on and when the time hits 7 am or between 7 and 10 am it will podcast. This is because I get better download s

Re: scripts running all the time?

2008-02-23 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Daniel Dalton wrote: try 'man 5 crontab', that will tell you the format of the crontab file Ok had a quick read. For your case, I think the following line should work 0 7 * * * /path/to/script.sh When would that stop? How do you make it stop

Re: scripts running all the time?

2008-02-23 Thread John Hasler
Daniel Dalton writes: > man crontab but didn't find much. man 5 crontab -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scripts running all the time?

2008-02-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I want to put a call to my hpodder (podcaster) in a script that runs all the time. So I can have my computer on and when the time hits 7 am or between 7 and 10 am it will podcast. This is because I get better download speeds earlier in the morning. So what script co

Re: scripts Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

2004-08-09 Thread listcomm
> there's a gui for mh too Yes... thanks for reminding me, I was going to say something about that, for the benefit of whoever is bemoaning his mail system... it's "exmh" (formerly "xmh"), and is implemented AFAIK entirely in TCL, which can be customized to change the GUI (or blow it off the air

Re: Scripts on connect

2003-07-28 Thread John Hasler
Jernej Zidar writes: > Where should be put the scripts that must run when a dialup connection is > estabilshed? /etc/ppp/ip-up.d Scripts to be run when ppp comes down go in /etc/ppp/ip-down . Look at the scripts already there for examples. What exactly are you trying to do? Most Debian package

Re: Scripts ...........

1998-10-10 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hello, | | -I want to create some scripts, but i know nothing about that language, | so i need some help | | The first script is for calculate the time im connected to internet: | 1) If pon is executed, (by anyone) then catch time1 | 2) If poff is exe