Re: [nlug] Reading a locked file.

2010-08-13 Thread Richard Thomas
On 8/12/2010 11:06 PM, JMJ wrote: That's not silly, this is Use your social networking skills to get someone to accidentally kick a power cord loose or otherwise kill power to the server you need access to. Then, when you just happen to find out that the server went down, say Hey,

Re: [nlug] Reading a locked file.

2010-08-13 Thread Don Delp
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Richard Thomas r...@dicksonlife.com wrote: Rich,  Great minds think alike!  unfortunately type just gets part way and dies with an error when apache grabs the file for writing.  

Re: [nlug] Reading a locked file.

2010-08-13 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Don Delp nesma...@gmail.com wrote: I should have thought of Robocopy earlier. Reading about the idea of using tail to snatch a bit of the file at a time made me think of it. We use it all the time to copy large files over small pipes. There is a trick to

Re: [nlug] Reading a locked file.

2010-08-13 Thread Jim Peterson
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 23:06 -0500, JMJ wrote: On 08/12/2010 04:32 PM, Richard Thomas wrote: Use mirrored raid and yank one of the drives (I'm just being silly now) That's not silly, this is Use your social networking skills to get someone to accidentally kick a power cord loose

Re: [nlug] Reading a locked file.

2010-08-13 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Don Delp nesma...@gmail.com wrote: I should have thought of Robocopy earlier. Reading about the idea of using tail to snatch a bit of the file at a time made me think of it. We use

Re: [nlug] Reading a locked file.

2010-08-13 Thread Don Delp
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Don Delp nesma...@gmail.com wrote: I should have thought of Robocopy earlier.  Reading about the idea of

Re: [nlug] Reading a locked file.

2010-08-13 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.comwrote: Ok, I got robocopy copying but... two things... log file is stored in D:\Program Files\path\to\apache\logs\ so you have to use quotes because of the space in the path, but don't use the trailing backslash as that

Re: [nlug] Reading a locked file.

2010-08-13 Thread Don Delp
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I got robocopy copying but... two things... log file is stored in D:\Program Files\path\to\apache\logs\ so you have to use quotes because

Re: [nlug] Reading a locked file.

2010-08-13 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Don Delp nesma...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I got robocopy copying but... two things... log file is stored

Re: [nlug] Reading a locked file.

2010-08-13 Thread Don Delp
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.com wrote: Being a dev server I can control hits on it so I let the copy get to 25% and then hit it... it still died and started over.  25% of 700Mb is over 100Mb.  If it doesn't hit restartable by then a developer needs to be

Re: [nlug] Reading a locked file.

2010-08-13 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Don Delp nesma...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't think of this, but I bet robocopy sees that the log file is different from the original when new data is added to it. I don't know if it does a checksum or just checks the timestamp, but that would explain the

[nlug] Blu-Ray support is here!

2010-08-13 Thread Jim Peterson
Nero Linux 4 supports Blu-Ray now, so this is an exciting development for those with Media Center PCs! http://linusearch.com/wordpress/?p=1189 Jim Peterson Technology Coordinator Goodnight Memorial Library 203 S. Main St. Franklin, KY 42134 (270) 586-8397 www.gmpl.org Tweet me @GMLGeek Library

Re: [nlug] Reading a locked file.

2010-08-13 Thread Evan Brown
I'll just run tail -f other_log_file and read that one. Oh wait... it is windows so no tail command... http://tailforwin32.sourceforge.net/ I havent ever used it though. so i cant vouch at all for it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG

Re: [nlug] Blu-Ray support is here!

2010-08-13 Thread John Wolfe
On 08/13/2010 09:46 AM, Jim Peterson wrote: Nero Linux 4 supports Blu-Ray now, so this is an exciting development for those with Media Center PCs! http://linusearch.com/wordpress/?p=1189 Interesting, yet another pretty neat advancement in blu-ray w/linux has come out of the VLC project. Who

Re: [nlug] Reading a locked file.

2010-08-13 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Evan Brown nog...@gmail.com wrote: I'll just run tail -f other_log_file and read that one. Oh wait... it is windows so no tail command... http://tailforwin32.sourceforge.net/ I havent ever used it though. so i cant vouch at all for it. I have several

Re: [nlug] Reading a locked file.

2010-08-13 Thread JMJ
On 08/13/2010 10:08 AM, Andrew Farnsworth wrote: I have several versions of tail that run under windows... I just cannot install them on the server. I'm beginning to think that you dreamed up this scenario just to torment the list. LOL JMJ -- You received this message because you are

Re: [nlug] 3D Printing - links, notes and observations

2010-08-13 Thread Greg Jones
--- On Thu, 8/12/10, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote:    Then how about a 'inkscape for Rookies' at the install fest :) ... Russ had also mentioned the same for GIMP. I would be more than happy to come to the install fest, bring the lappy toppy and the Wacom so I can answer questions and

Re: [nlug] Reading a locked file.

2010-08-13 Thread Greg Jones
--- On Fri, 8/13/10, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.com wrote: I have several versions of tail that run under windows... I just cannot install them on the server. And there in lies the big issue. The more I think about this the more I think a script is the best approach. Something that can

Re: [nlug] Blu-Ray support is here!

2010-08-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
Interesting, but this only brings support to BURN Blu Ray discs, not actually play back commercial Blu Ray video discs. Chris On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Jim Peterson jim.sokytec...@gmail.comwrote: Nero Linux 4 supports Blu-Ray now, so this is an exciting development for those with Media