Re: crontab error

1999-07-24 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, guy keren wrote: Well, see, crontab specifically asks to use crontab -e , for good reasons, one of which is that crontab -e will open /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root and not /etc/crontab. That whole mechanism is a RedHat (and prolly debian too) mechanism of automating some stu

Re: crontab error

1999-07-24 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Ariel Biener wrote: > This is NOT where you put crontab entries, nor is this the format for > crontab (albeit close). the following is a work-around, not an answer to "why this problem occures in the first place" (even thought you're right - he shouldn't have tried doing wh

Re: crontab error

1999-07-24 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Jeff Rose wrote: It is not that. Read my mail. --Ariel > Mike wrote: > > > > Here is the crontab file > > > > SHELL=/bin/bash > > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > > MAILTO=root > > HOME=/ > > My crontab has SHELL=/bin/sh (SuSE 6.1) so as long as /bin/sh > exists, no p

Re: crontab error

1999-07-24 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Ariel Biener wrote: Ok. 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly this is /etc/crontab This is NOT where you put crontab entries, nor is this

Re: Off topic: PHP3 mode for XEmacs (+ on topic - Linux dinner)

1999-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AEBy>> I know this is off topic, but the question of a PHP mode for emacsen THis is more ontopix that al least half of the messages on the list! :) I'm looking for PHP mode for years :) AEBy>> has been brought up in this forum a couple of times and always got a AEBy>> lot of interest. So here's

Re: crontab error

1999-07-24 Thread Mike
Here is the crontab file SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # run-parts #0-59/5 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.5min 00 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 00 00 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 00 00 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 00 00 1 * * r

Off topic: PHP3 mode for XEmacs (+ on topic - Linux dinner)

1999-07-24 Thread Andre E. Bar'yudin
Hello guys, I know this is off topic, but the question of a PHP mode for emacsen has been brought up in this forum a couple of times and always got a lot of interest. So here's some kind of solution. Recently I've managed to combine a working piece of code which allows PHP3 code to have c-like

Re: Backup with hard disk and crontab

1999-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AB>> Why not purchase a 4GB DAT drive (afaik, there are IDE dat drives as AB>> well). Backups are to be made on either optical media or magnetic (or AB>> magneto-optical) medias, but backing up a hard drive on another hard drive AB>> is (can't find the word). I'm not sure on this. First, t

Re: crontab error

1999-07-24 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Jeff Rose wrote: That is not the problem: His crontab is trying to run: root /usr/bin/mrtg /mrtg/main-lizard.cfg and /bin/bash: is sending a response: /bin/bash: root: command not found Can we see the crontab file ? --Ariel > Mike wrote: > > > > Hi all. > > I'm kee

Re: Backup with hard disk and crontab

1999-07-24 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Moti Levy wrote: Hi, Why not purchase a 4GB DAT drive (afaik, there are IDE dat drives as well). Backups are to be made on either optical media or magnetic (or magneto-optical) medias, but backing up a hard drive on another hard drive is (can't find the word). --A

Re: crontab error

1999-07-24 Thread Jeff Rose
Mike wrote: > > Hi all. > I'm keep getting this error mesage in my root mail : > > Subject: Cron root /usr/bin/mrtg /mrtg/main-lizard.cfg > > /bin/bash: root: command not found > > my cron table looks like this : > > SHELL=/bin/bash > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > MAILTO=root You pro

Re: Backup with hard disk and crontab

1999-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
ML>> Its a redhat 5.1 with a 2.3.41 kernel so i dont want to mess with mirror ^^ Could you send a copy to me, CC to Linus and Alan? :) They still think latest kernel is 2.3.11... That would be great service to Linux community - we could skip 30 development steps a

Backup with hard disk and crontab

1999-07-24 Thread Moti Levy
Hi all, I have a linux box which is a mail server for a small company nothing fancy a PII266 and a 4.3 wd hdd. any way i was asked to prepare some sort of backup to it and thought of the following system. 1.connect a similar hd (model and size) 2.partiton it the same way the original hdd 3.use dd

Clock problem

1999-07-24 Thread Yoni Elhanani
Hello. Lately I had to shut down my computer, and I found out that when i shut it down the system clock changes his time, usually the time is similar (e.g. 2 days and 1 hour ahead), and the hardware clock remains, so i just manually issue a hwclock --hctosys. but why is that? I use RH6 out of the