Hi Folks, I enjoyed my first encounter with the mhvlug today at lunch. Glad I finaly found you.
One thing that came up briefly was an technique that has helped me debug or monitor cron jobs using screen. If your not familiar with screen it is a layerable, detachable text terminal. It lets you connect and disconect to a collection of terminal sessions, cut and past between them and share them with others, all the while each terminal is still running. Back in the day of unreliable phone connectivity it was a required program. Now I find I use it any time I connect to a remote machine where a wireless or long network connection is involved. That way if for any reason the connection is dropped, you can reconnect to the session with no loss. Anyway, at lunch I mentioned using it in cron jobs, I started doing this for automated backups so I could connect to the backup and see what was going on if or when there was a problem. I could not find the article that originaly turned me on to the idea but I did find this one which shows how to use screen to monitor init jobs: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9598/sam0504k/0504k.htm It gives some examples that should get you going. Enjoy, -Greg -- Greg Priest-Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Oct 3 - Security and Privacy Nov 7 - Django Python Application Framework
