What sort of programs do folks here use Cron for ? It schedules things to run in the background if I'm not mistaken ? Thank you all for your time. Lee
lee wrote:
What sort of programs do folks here use Cron for ? It schedules things to run in the background if I'm not mistaken ? Thank you all for your time. Lee
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On 03/08/2003 11:12 AM, lee wrote:
What sort of programs do folks here use Cron for ? It schedules things to run in the background if I'm not mistaken ?
I have it starting fetchmail hourly to download email, (when I was on dialup I had it dialup and send mail), I also use it to update antivir, send the firewall logs to dshield, backup, update the root.hints file, and more. It is a great scheduler. It could be used with fou4s to keep a system updated, but I prefer to do this more hands on. HTH. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
On Friday 07 March 2003 22:12 pm, lee wrote:
What sort of programs do folks here use Cron for ? It schedules things to run in the background if I'm not mistaken ? Thank you all for your time. Lee
1) Grab the weather from my weather station and make up a web page, every 10 mins. 2) Run a couple of check programs to make sure fetchmail is still running (every 15 mins) 3) Check that PPPD is still running every 15 mins. 4) Set the hardware clock from the system clock once a day. 5) Run logcheck against the logs once an hour looking for strange happenings. 6) Copy my /home partition to a backup partition in the middle of night. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 03/08/03 08:52 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "A hangover is the wrath of grapes."
I have SuSE 8.0 on an Athlon 1600, reiserfs with two HDD, one ATA33, the other slower. As I find that everything, especially when using HDD, seems to be very slow, I wonder if there might be some programs (Cron maybe) running in background, doing something (maybe unuseful) which make the system go slower. Any idea ? TNX, Riccardo.
On Sunday 09 March 2003 05:18 am, riccardo ferraro wrote:
I have SuSE 8.0 on an Athlon 1600, reiserfs with two HDD, one ATA33, the other slower. As I find that everything, especially when using HDD, seems to be very slow, I wonder if there might be some programs (Cron maybe) running in background, doing something (maybe unuseful) which make the system go slower. Any idea ? TNX, Riccardo.
Riccardo, First of all, there is not anything in a hard drive, slower than the ata33! :o) My guess is you meant to say ata133 instead? Secondly, even the ata133 drive is not running at full speed, even if your IDE on the motherboard is rated at 133. Thirdly, it's not always a good idea to put two hard drives on the same channel and especially not a hard drive and cdrom as the IDE will resort to the slowest drive speed on that channel to maintain sanity in the antiquated design. If you are concerned about your system appearing slower, then run a program like ksim or gkrellm or top (from a shell) to keep an eye on things as you work during the day. All of those will monitor your systems, cpu, drive, processes, etho, ppp0, mem, swap, etc. Shouldn't be too hard to track down a problem then. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.5 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
On Sunday 09 March 2003 08:17 am, PL O'Smith wrote:
On Sunday 09 March 2003 05:18 am, riccardo ferraro wrote:
I have SuSE 8.0 on an Athlon 1600, reiserfs with two HDD, one ATA33, the other slower. As I find that everything, especially when using HDD, seems to be very slow, I wonder if there might be some programs (Cron maybe) running in background, doing something (maybe unuseful) which make the system go slower. Any idea ? TNX, Riccardo. **************** trimmed************
Hi, Use KSysguard, click the columb name to sort by % usage and keep an eye on which tasks are hogging the sys. Let us know .................... PeterB -- Proud to be a SuSE Linux User since 5.2 --
I installed SuSE 8.1 (Personal) on my Toshibat 6100 a few days ago. Everything went pretty smoothly aside from the power management and my wireless card not working. Today I used YaST to upgrade to the latest NVIDIA drivers available through SuSE, and now my screen resolution is alll messed up. No matter what I try, it seems that I can not get back to 1600x1200 mode. I'm stuck at 1400x1050 (I think). My video card is NVidia GeForce4 420 Go (32Mb). I tried running SaX2 (through YaST) several times to make sure that my monitor is set to LCD 1600x1200. In fact when I first launch YaST/Hardward/Graphics the desktop settings show that the monitor is LCD 1600x1200 and the resolution is 1600x1200 -- but that is not the resolution that it is running. I tried uninstalling the NVIDIA drivers that got installed through YaST, which were not the latest version. I upgraded to the latest version of the drivers (1.0-4191) which I downloaded from NVIDIA and installed using RPM (following NVIDIA directions). But that did not help either. Can someone please help me recover my 1600x1200 resolution? I don't even care about using the NVIDIA drivers (which have 3D aceleration support) -- I just want to get back to the native resolution :) Thanks, --Maciej
Hello. Which model of 6100 do you have ? The 1.8GHz and 2GHz models only support 1400x1050. The 2.4GHz one is the only one to run at 1600x1200. Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: Maciej Zawadzki [mailto:mbz@urbancode.com] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 15:41 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] NVIDIA Driver Problem on SuSE 8.1 I installed SuSE 8.1 (Personal) on my Toshibat 6100 a few days ago. Everything went pretty smoothly aside from the power management and my wireless card not working. Today I used YaST to upgrade to the latest NVIDIA drivers available through SuSE, and now my screen resolution is alll messed up. No matter what I try, it seems that I can not get back to 1600x1200 mode. I'm stuck at 1400x1050 (I think). My video card is NVidia GeForce4 420 Go (32Mb). <snip>
Stuart, I have the 2Ghz, which does support 1600x1200 -- (there may be some variations in the specs in other parts of the world, I've noticed that before on web sites people put together about the 6100). Anyhow, I got my problem fixed. I simply uninstalled all NVidia packages via the KPackage app and then tried to reconfigure the graphics through YaST -- it picked on the fact that no driver was installed and asked me whether I want to install the default one (the one that came with 8.1, also the one that had no problem supporting 1600x1200). So now I am back where I started -- got my 1600x1200 resolution working but without hardware acceleration for 3D. I found another piece of info on this topic at http://www.unchainedwriters.com/readstory.php?storyid=410. It seems that the NVidia driver can have trouble communicating with the panel display in order to get the display resolution -- the suggested fix is below. I will probably try it out once I get some more time. <snip> To get the panel to work, you need to alter another file on your machine. It is the module loader configuration file (/etc/modules.conf) Add to new lines to the end of it: options NVreg_SoftEDIDs=0 options NVdriver Nvreg_Mobile=4 This tells the Nvidia driver to ignore what ever the laptop panel is reporting and set itself to use its own internally hard coded settings for TOSHIBA ‘COPAL’ based laptops. (Which this units display is). </snip> On a related note, has anyone had any luck getting the wireless working with SuSE 8.1 and the 6100? My card seems to work partially -- when I run iwconfig it displays the name of my wireless network (which I did not cofigure on the card), but it will not ping the access point/router. I'm thinking that this could be related to problems I originally had with PCMCIA -- I had to specify the NOPCMCIA=yes option in order to boot and later I made modifications to the /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file (PCMCIA_PCIC_OPTS="pci_int=1 pci_csc=1 irq_list=9,10'). Thanks, --Maciej Stuart Powell wrote:
Hello.
Which model of 6100 do you have ? The 1.8GHz and 2GHz models only support 1400x1050. The 2.4GHz one is the only one to run at 1600x1200.
Stuart.
-----Original Message----- From: Maciej Zawadzki [mailto:mbz@urbancode.com] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 15:41 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] NVIDIA Driver Problem on SuSE 8.1
I installed SuSE 8.1 (Personal) on my Toshibat 6100 a few days ago. Everything went pretty smoothly aside from the power management and my wireless card not working.
Today I used YaST to upgrade to the latest NVIDIA drivers available through SuSE, and now my screen resolution is alll messed up. No matter what I try, it seems that I can not get back to 1600x1200 mode. I'm stuck at 1400x1050 (I think). My video card is NVidia GeForce4 420 Go (32Mb). <snip>
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Bruce Marshall -
Joe Morris (NTM) -
lee -
Maciej Zawadzki -
Peter B Van Campen -
PL O'Smith -
riccardo ferraro -
Stuart Powell -
Terry Eck