Re: Crontab issue

2003-03-08 Thread M.Lewis
Thanks Cameron, Ramesh, & Steve. I ended up putting in in a script. Mike On Saturday 08 March 2003 05:10, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 03:18 08 Mar 2003, M.Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > Percents are special in Vixie cron crontabs. You need to slosh it: > | > &g

Re: Crontab issue

2003-03-08 Thread M.Lewis
That didn't work Cameron. It gives me a file with the name of: dbman_back-\03\08\2003\03\14-tar.gz [snip] > Percents are special in Vixie cron crontabs. You need to slosh it: > > /bin/tar czvf /root/dbman_back-`date '+\%m\%d\%Y\%H\%M'`-tar.gz > /var/www/cgi-bin/dbman > > "man 5 cro

Re: Crontab issue

2003-03-08 Thread M.Lewis
Thanks Cameron. I'll give that a whirl. Mike On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:06, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 01:55 08 Mar 2003, M.Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | If I run the following from the comman line, it works properly: > | > | /bin/tar czvf /root/dbman_back-`dat

Crontab issue

2003-03-08 Thread M.Lewis
If I run the following from the comman line, it works properly: /bin/tar czvf /root/dbman_back-`date '+%m%d%Y%H%M'`-tar.gz \ /var/www/cgi-bin/dbman However, it I put this in my crontab, I get the following: Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /bin/tar czvf /root/dbman_back-`da

DHCP deny ?

2003-03-06 Thread M.Lewis
My DHCP server is running on my firewall. Is it possible to deny access to the DHCP server from the dirty side of the firewall ? My log is filling up with entries similar to the following: Mar 2 09:45:33 kennie dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:20:6f:13:ef:f0 via eth1: network 63.201.64.0/24: no fr

Re: ntp status

2001-11-26 Thread M.Lewis
Try 'ntptrace' or 'ntptrace FQDN' or 'ntptrace 192.168.1.1' On Sunday 18 November 2001 01:36 am, you wrote: > Hi Bret > > I use ntp from a CRON command line every 6 hours. It leaves a trail in > /var/spool/mail/root > > > Mike > > -Original Message- > From: Bret Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PR