Re: [PLUG] Possible Causes of Cron Inconsistencies

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: Quick recap: that shell script lives in /etc/cron.daily/ and worked consistently until recently. In root's crontab is the command to run all scripts in /etc/cron.daily at 04:40am. The three main scripts in that directory are 0logwatch, 1pflogsumm,

Re: [PLUG] Dirvish backups are using *far* too much space

2009-04-14 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 02:20:34PM -0700, Rogan Creswick wrote: I started using Dirvish to manage backups of a couple important directories at work in early March, and I just realized that the nightly backups are taking up an enormous amount of space (about 30x more than expected ;). You

Re: [PLUG] Possible Causes of Cron Inconsistencies

2009-04-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: First, if it won't run manually, then you've got a better chance of figuring it out. Run it in strace to see if the error is visible: strace -o /tmp/pflogsumm.trace /usr/local/bin/pflogsumm The output of strace is cryptic, but the failure should be

Re: [PLUG] Possible Causes of Cron Inconsistencies

2009-04-14 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 08:21, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   I mis-communiated the location of the problem. /usr/local/bin/pflogsumm runs. It is normally called by /etc/cron.daily/1pflogsumm which is a shell script that defines the variables (e.g., time period, log file

Re: [PLUG] Sunday Tech Session

2009-04-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:43:08 -0700 Scott Howard show...@k-hlaw.com dijo: Are we on for Sunday at the usual place and time? Absolutely. That is, the Clinic will be held from 1-5 at Free Geek, 1741 SE 10th Avenue in Portland. ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: PLUG Advanced Topics April 15th 2009

2009-04-14 Thread Alan
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 14:45 -0700, Tony Rick wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Alan a...@clueserver.org wrote: Advanced Topics April 15th, 2009 7pm - 9pm-ish Location: Roots Organic Brewery 1520 SE 7TH Portland, Oregon Topic: Server Sky - Data

[PLUG] F/OSS Sales Lead Tracking Software

2009-04-14 Thread Eric Wheeler
Hello all - I am looking for Linux program(s) that will allow me to: + Track my phone calls + Track calls by advertisement that brought in the lead. + Configure follow-up calls for clients + Track support tickets Other ideas on this subject are welcome. -Eric

Re: [PLUG] F/OSS Sales Lead Tracking Software

2009-04-14 Thread Bill Barry
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Eric Wheeler p...@ew.ewheeler.org wrote: Hello all - I am looking for Linux program(s) that will allow me to: + Track my phone calls + Track calls by advertisement that brought in the lead. + Configure follow-up calls for clients + Track support tickets

Re: [PLUG] Possible Causes of Cron Inconsistencies

2009-04-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: ah, then you should start the debugging there. add a set -x to the top of the shell script to get verbose output of every command that runs. i bet you see that some variable is not being set as expected or some 'setup' part of things is

Re: [PLUG] Possible Causes of Cron Inconsistencies

2009-04-14 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 16:51, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: ah, then you should start the debugging there.  add a set -x to the top of the shell script to get verbose output of every command that runs.  i bet you see that some

Re: [PLUG] Possible Causes of Cron Inconsistencies

2009-04-14 Thread Joe Pruett
Today's results suggest it's a lot more complex. This morning, my INBOX had the report mailed after the 00:02am run, but not the report for a scheduled run at 04:40am. But, when I manually invoked the shell script from the command line about 10:15am, it ran, too. That's why I wrote it's

Re: [PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: PLUG Advanced Topics April 15th 2009

2009-04-14 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Alan a...@clueserver.org wrote: I am working on a speaker for May.  I have been talking to the department of speakers for Intel. Any particular topics people are interested in?  Intel compilers? Intel libraries? Specific techniques? (Or whatever I can get.)

Re: [PLUG] Possible Causes of Cron Inconsistencies

2009-04-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: while that was my guess as to what's wrong, set -x will debug a plethora of problems. OK. I just made the addition and manually ran /etc/cron.daily/1pflogsumm. Output is below (and it was successful): + '[' -z '' ']' + '[' -f /var/log/maillog

Re: [PLUG] Possible Causes of Cron Inconsistencies

2009-04-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Joe Pruett wrote: a lot of those scripts don't produce output at all (no email) if there is nothing to report. could it be that between your 0002 run and 0440 that nothing of interest has happened, so you don't get any email? Joe, No, that's not what happens. Usually

Re: [PLUG] Possible Causes of Cron Inconsistencies

2009-04-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Larry Brigman wrote: depends on the configuration of the crontab. Also the crontab doesn't have the same parsing capability as as Bash, so file will get an error were as file 21 will get stderr and stdout to the file. Larry, Done. I'll see what happens in the