similar to: Re: more cron job madness

Hey, > check-update sounds better than putting yum update in a cron job. Only a mad man would do that! Are the cAos and CentOS releases THAT BAD? > Much better to run a daily cron which rsyncs your local patch repository. So must one have your own local repository to avoid being labeled as a madman? In which one of the RedHad reference books can I find this? Just curious. Rick

Hey, > The easy way to make sure you are up to date with > all the latest patches is to run: > # yum update There is an even easier way -- tell cron to apply YUM updates every day. There is a HowTo on the cAos site here: http://www.caosity.org/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=102&op=page&SubMenu= Rick

John, I did not hear back from you right away. Maybe doing all the combinations is too big a job for one person. It might work if we split them up. I could do these two: RedHat 9 -> reinstall CentOS-3.1 RedHat 9 -> live update to CentOS-3.1 I am volunteering for these because I already have RedHat 9 and CentOS-3.1 CD's. The only rub is on Saturday I go on vacation, and at

Hello rsync, I am using rsync to download files from rpm repositories (because yum will not work directly with my !@#$% ADSL service). I am calling rsync from a python script. When the rsync server is down, I get error messages, but the message goes to mail, so I get a message you have new mail in /var/spool/mail/rick I would prefer the error message would not go to mail, rather I would like

Rick Graves wrote: > John, > > I think the error that I encountered earlier this week > was because I am now blocked from accessing the main > CentOS mirror. > > At any rate, today I tried a different mirror, and at > least yum would run. > > I am still on the RH9 X install. > > I tried yum update, and got this: > > Resolving dependencies >

Christopher, I have a couple of other points. My recent email with the subject "nVIDIA on CentOS 3.3" was specifically in response to Kevin Wood's Fri, 17 Sep 2004 email with the subject "Does the nvidia graphic card problem still exist with CentOS-3.3?". The wording of my email came out wrong because I was responding to Kevin's email (which I copy below, along

Aaron, > It is a kernel problem. The stack size changed in > the 2.6 kernel. You > need a version of the kernel with the old 8k stack > size. You can get > such a kernel from: > www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc2-kernel-i686.php > > As you can see these are fedora kernels but might > work on centos. Actually, while troubleshooting this display

Hey, I have several thousand email addresses, the vast majority of which are definitely no good, and I want to figure out which are good. So I will send out an email to all the email addresses. By making a list of the ones that bounced, and comparing that list with the full list, I can determine which are still good. This is for a non-profit association -- I am not in the spam business.

Hey all, I'm trying to figure out a way to insert a timestamp into a log file I'm creating for a cron job I'm setting up: /usr/bin/rsync -v --min-size=1 -rlpgo -O --inplace /home/myuser/Get* root at xx.x.xx.xx:/mnt/bravotv/media/compass 2>&1 >& /tmp/rsync_user.log I've googled this but all I could find are tips on how to add the time and date to the name of the

Hey SCTV Library, Good work! (Is that your real name?) > The problem was the AGP driver, Not the Nvidia driver. I was wondering if you could help me write an informative FAQ for this. Here is what I have so far: The Nforce2 driver is part of the kernel-unsupported package (which must be installed separately). Set the Option "NvAGP" to "1". This tells the kernel to

Ulrik wrote: Message: 2 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:59:14 +0200 (CEST) From: "Ulrik S. Kofod" <usk at cybersite.dk> To: centos at caosity.org Reply-To: usk at cybersite.dk Subject: [Centos] network card / kudzu When I have installed centOS, Kudzu says my network cards have been removed, and right after it finds them again and asks me to configure them? It looks like it is the

Denis, You wrote: > You may have problems on your side...but you can't generalise and say that it does not work. Maybe you have me confused with someone else. I did not write or imply that nVIDIA cards never work. Rather, I wrote that they may not work. By this, I meant that they do not work with some monitors. I checked what I wrote, and I believe the above paragraph is

>Doesn't the cron job run as a root user (or member of the root group)? >Certainly root owns the cron daemon, afaik. You are right insofar as the cron daemon process is owned by root. However, when the cron daemon runs a job, it starts the the job's process with the privileges (and the environment, e.g. $HOME) of the user for whom the job was added. I added the job to a crontab file

Hi All, How does one create a cron job that runs commands like: /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=xxx.com -update /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=yyy.com -update Say every 15 mins? -Jason

Hi list For a project we are trying to change the samba password automatically in a cron job. Since smbpasswd doesn't allow the password to be entered otherwise than though the console (user input). We found a solution to the input part though expect. But as thing go expect doesn't work in a cron job since it has no tty. Is there anyone who can point us the right way to a solution.

Package: logcheck-database Version: 1.2.23 Followup-For: Bug #254681 Please generalize "nobody" to "[_[:alnum:]-]+", as some cron jobs su to other users: Jul 11 06:51:16 tux su[10385]: + ??? root:hinfo Jul 11 06:57:25 tux su[29801]: + ??? root:www-data Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Does any one regularly reboot GS101? It sometimes lost registration with * and needs to be reboot. What is the best way to do it by cron? David Kwok

Hi list For a project we are trying to change the samba password automatically in a cron job. Since smbpasswd doesn't allow the password to be entered otherwise than though the console (user input). We found a solution to the input part though expect. But as thing go expect doesn't work in a cron job since it has no tty. Is there anyone who can point us the right way to a solution.

Hi, I have a Linux based NAS, which unfortunately appears to be a bit underpowered, heres why I say that: 5 PC's backup to the NAS on a weekly full with hourly incrementals 7 days a week between 7am and 6pm (2 week retention policy). There is no problem with that. Where there is a problem is getting that data off the NAS to the USB attached storage for off site (2 disks swapped weekly). The

we have CENTOS 5.5 on DELL server.? One of our script need run on first Saturday every month. ?We have following setup on cron job but it run every Saturday.? 15 04 1-7 * 6 /home/app/oracle/backup/monthlybk.sh ? Any one know how to fix it? Thanks.