Hello steelrails2001, Saturday, August 13, 2005, 10:12:14 PM, you wrote:
s> Well, you know what they say about ASSUMing... going back in and s> looking at all user's crontabs, I discovered that in root's crontab, s> 17 blank lines below some comments the KDE kcron program had added, s> was a happy little entry for ntpdate that runs (you guessed it) at s> 10:00 and 22:00. As you suggested I adjusted the execution time to s> happen at 15 past the hour for ntpdate and moved that entry up to s> where even an idiot like me can see it without scrolling down. Moral s> of the story, never assume that what's displayed on the screen is all s> there is to see. It's now 22:10 local time and the scalehouse files s> did their rename/move a single time 10 minutes ago. Problem solved, s> methinks. Thanks a million, guys! This would have 'got' me, too.<g> I see this trick several times a day in scamster's URL's, where they leave a long string of white space, so their redirect does not show up in the browser address box, but it's not the sort of thing my antenna was attuned to, for config files. -wittig website: http://www.robertwittig.com/ weblog: http://robertcwittig.blogspot.com/ . ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h1o6q39/M=362335.6886445.7839731.1510227/D=groups/S=1705006580:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124026546/A=2894361/R=0/SIG=13jmebhbo/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/education/digitaldivide/?source=YAHOO&cmpgn=GRP&RTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/";>In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
