Author: sroot
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CRON – multiple cron jobs on one line (running consecutively, not concurrently)
This post will (hopefully) remind me in the future how to do something very simple. A crontab is normally running one command on each line. EG: # m h dom mon dow command 01 00 * * * /home/cronscripts/vine-warn-when-large-user-profile 05 00 * * * /home/cronscripts/vine-get-remote-pc-backup.sh 01 01 * * * /home/cronscripts/vine-samba-users 01 02 * *…
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cciss-vol-status on Ubuntu didn't work, it was cciss_vol_status
In the hope I find this post next time I’m trying to monitor a SmartArray drive controller, A fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04, installing package cciss-vol-status didn’t seem to work. I couldn’t even find the file on the system using ‘locate’. For some reason, it installed as cciss_vol_status (using underscores instead of hyphens).
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Bad Bot go away!
Sigh. Here I am at work on Tuesday morning. List of jobs to do being interrupted by our web server triggering over load alarms. Actually, it’s been doing it for quite a while, but I’ve never sat down to analyse the logs to find what’s happening to trigger the alarm (our gandi.net virtual server is…