Re: how to determine PSU wattage

2013-07-31 Thread shimi
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a way to determine the nominal PSU power without taking the > computer apart (actually, preferably without powering it down)? Is there > any vendor information that Linux could in principle read? It's a > vanilla home de

Re: how to determine PSU wattage

2013-07-31 Thread Udi Finkelstein
PSU wattage is something that hints on the maximum total power your PSU can drive. Unless you are talking about specific Lenovo laptop DC bricks, that somehow encode their ID over the DC bannana jack, a normal PC power supply is not intelligent and has no communication protocol for describing its f

Fw: output of CRON job

2013-07-31 Thread Shlomo Solomon
OPPS - I meant to reply to the list. Actually, I already read about the possibility to install rsyslog, but aside from the "learning curve" of the new system, is there any real reason to do so? Are there problems with journalctl or is it just a desire to use the familiar old system? What's your r

Re: output of CRON job

2013-07-31 Thread Shlomo Solomon
MAILFROM in crontab solved the problem. I wonder if it's because this is a different version of postfix or because of the move from Mandriva to Mageia. In any case, thanks. BTW - based on your suggestion, I wanted to look at the MTA logs and discovered that Mageia's logs are in a completely differ

how to determine PSU wattage

2013-07-31 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hi, Is there a way to determine the nominal PSU power without taking the computer apart (actually, preferably without powering it down)? Is there any vendor information that Linux could in principle read? It's a vanilla home desktop, not a brand name server. I know of dmidecode and lshw, but nei

Re: output of CRON job

2013-07-31 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shlomo Solomon writes: > After moving from Mandriva 2011 to Mageia 3 I have a minor annoyance > with CRON output. The script below should provide 3 outputs (numbered > in the comments), but only the 2nd and 3rd arrive in my mail. > > In fact, any output from the cron job itself disappears. > > A

output of CRON job

2013-07-31 Thread Shlomo Solomon
After moving from Mandriva 2011 to Mageia 3 I have a minor annoyance with CRON output. The script below should provide 3 outputs (numbered in the comments), but only the 2nd and 3rd arrive in my mail. In fact, any output from the cron job itself disappears. Any suggestions where to look? Here's