Author: sroot
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Backups for Google Calendar – a ruby application
I admit I’ve not been so busy posting the to blog this year. One thing that’s kept me busy has been learning Ruby on Rails making my first opensource application. I’m a hobby programmer, so the idea of sharing my code is worrying. I’m sure there are lots of errors, bad practice and so on.…
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CRON – multiple cron jobs on one line (running consecutively, not concurrently)
This post will (hopefully) remind me in the future how to do something very simple. A crontab is normally running one command on each line. EG: # m h dom mon dow command 01 00 * * * /home/cronscripts/vine-warn-when-large-user-profile 05 00 * * * /home/cronscripts/vine-get-remote-pc-backup.sh 01 01 * * * /home/cronscripts/vine-samba-users 01 02 * *…
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cciss-vol-status on Ubuntu didn't work, it was cciss_vol_status
In the hope I find this post next time I’m trying to monitor a SmartArray drive controller, A fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04, installing package cciss-vol-status didn’t seem to work. I couldn’t even find the file on the system using ‘locate’. For some reason, it installed as cciss_vol_status (using underscores instead of hyphens).