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Re: [Alug] backup loop
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Adam Bower wrote: >and reduced the machine to the overall speed of a windows box. It's funny you should say that; that was one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind when the linux box was, for the first time ever, as responsive as a slug! Jen

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Re: [Alug] backup loop
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

Alexis said: >(who's had plenty of fun with cron before...) Ah! I also am surprised that the file didn't simply replace itself, why did it build up to size 33241453? crontab now changed to 0 12 * * * /home/jenny/backups 10 12 * * * /root/mainbak Fun and games today - just had to deal with first 1st aid casualty since finishing course a few months back, as a guy got a sheet of metal racking drop on his head. Thanks all, Jenny.

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backup loop
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 26 Jul '01

26 Jul '01

'Lo All, I appear to have sent my box into a timewarp of some kind. I set crontab to run my newly created backup file with * 12 * * * /home/jenny/backups the contents of /home/jenny/backups are if [ -d /home/jenny/cwp/ ]; then tar -czf /backup/cwpbak.tar.gz /home/jenny/cwp/ fi if [ -d /home/jenny/ ]; then tar -czf /backup/jen.tar.gz /home/jenny/ fi (I'm doing the dir and the sub dir as the contents of /cwp are shortly to be moved elsewhere) This set off as it should, and, wow, the entire computer has gone bonkers. tty0 has reams of computer generated code crunching away like mad, and, on logging in to tty1 (which took a good 20 secs) ps -aux shows masses of extra stuff, for example gzip and the above tar command seem to be running lots of times. Goes up to number 1253. I've tried a CTRL-C and have a nice white message saying "interrupted" but it still is crunching away. I'm about to do a reboot, hopefully that'll sort it out, but can anyone tell me *why* it did this? When I ran the command in there from a cli it executed fine. Jen ("Alarmed" of Burwell) ps. It is now taking 8 years to shut down. :-( Ah - message: " VFS: file-max limit 4096 reached". Oops. No wonder. I'm starting to suspect the * 12 * * *................)

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test message
by Brett Parker 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Well, read the subject, I've just changed e-mail address and changed all my subscription details, so now I'm testing to see if it all works as it should ;) Cheers, Brett

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Re :More on .Net (ashleyt.howes)
by Earl Brannigan 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Hi Ashley, > > Based on recent discussions on this list about .Net, I though I would share > an article on use.perl.org: > Cheers, quick and specific read. Pretty much confirms what I'd thought all along, .NET is nothing new but a hodge-podge of existing ideas/technologies. M$ Have never innovated a single thing, why should they start now ? Cheers Earl

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Re: [Alug] Bascule
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

MJRay wrote> >There's no originality in nicknames these days. Even if i call myself Euphrasia Bartleflock? Does anyone recall the subject on iRC of finding how many words you can make from mrsbarrett using grep? The final command i tried was something similar to grep -Ei "^[mrsbarrett]+$" /usr/dict/words (I have it at home, so that is from memory) This did the job, but it used all the letters as often as it pleased. Can we make it so it only uses each letter in the pattern once? Euphrasia

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Next meeting
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Hi all, could anyone likely to be coming to the bbq (5pm +) on the 12th send me the following details? We'll then keep it off-list but will be able to suss out how much food to get in. Ta Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com - Name - coming to meeting 12/7 - staying for bbq - will bring food (specify) - have a portable bbq to bring if necessary - have large awning (joke)

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RE: [Alug] Phreaked out
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Darren wrote: >I am in Essex, but there doesn't seem to be any decent groups near by so >guess I will be joining you guys soon if you will have me :) Ola. Next meeting coming up 12 Aug near Ipswich, incorporating Geek BBQ, if you are up for that. Jen.

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Phreaked out
by David Freeman 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Following adams suggestion of watching "The secret History of hacking" I was intreagued enough to watch, I was amazed that the program was actually quite good, it didn't just cover the basic Haxor prats but covered alot of stuff I didn't know like the Home brew computing club etc... I was pleasently surprised by this program. What did others think? Thanks D ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

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Maximum linux mag..
by pbit 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Haven`t been keeping-up with all the postings to alug, but I was wondering if anyone has mentioned that `Maximum Linux` has been taken out of publication. Please will people sign the petition at : http://www.petitiononline.com/maxlinux/petition.html thanks..

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