help w/ modem

[J. Kyllo]

Well, after typing "crontab -l" as root, nothing shows up.  However, if
you look at /etc/cron.daily there's stuff in there; one of which is
"slocate.cron."  /etc/crontab runs everything in that directory everyday
at 4am by default.  

-Jeff

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On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, mike h wrote:

> I may be mistaken but I believe that RedHat doesn't ship with the root
> account's crontab installed.  So once you've done 'crontab /etc/crontab'
> once as root then it should update regularly. =)
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
> Michael Hornung		foobar at u.washington.edu
> 
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, J. Kyllo wrote:
> 
> |A brief note about locate.  I don't know about other distros but I know
> |that Redhat updates the loccate database once a day.  More specifically,
> |at 4am.  This is very annoying when you're sleeping 4 feet away from it!
> |It's run through cron, however, and can be changed pretty easily.  Thanks
> |for listening...
> |
> |-Jeff K.
> |
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> |On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Parker Thompson wrote:
> |
> |> 
> |> On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Robyn wrote:
> |> 
> |> :Thanks for the info, and the consolation (I needed that!).  I have one other
> |> :question (just to point out how new I am, heh) -- how do you get to minicom?
> |> :I keep seeing references to it, but I don't know how to start it.  On the
> |> :terminal, what directory is it in?
> |> 
> |> Mincom is a lot like hyperterminal in windows.  You can dial with it but
> |> won't be able to establish a ppp connection, so all you can do is shell
> |> stuff.  But it's nice for a quick setup, or to test things like your
> |> modem.
> |> 
> |> I'm not actually in linux and can't remember the path for it off the top
> |> of my head buy you should be able to type "locate minicom" from the shell
> |> prompt and find it.  ex:
> |> 
> |>  parkert at vger > locate minicom
> |> 
> |> locate keeps a database of all the files on your comp and should be able
> |> to track it down since it was probably installed when you installed linux.
> |> To digress for a moment from ppp, locate is really fast and great, but
> |> only updates itself when you tell it to, so it can tell you a file doesn't
> |> exist when it does.
> |> 
> |> It's a good idea to run "updatedb" once in a while to make sure that
> |> you're seeing a pretty accurate report of what's on your drive.
> |> 
> |> Hope that helps,
> |> 
> |> Parker
> |> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |> "Gotta go  andrew's screaming "fs tab...fs tab...fs tab" uncontrolably and
> |> it's really turning me on ....yeeooowww"
> |> 						-Mandi Wolfes
> |> 
> |> 
> |> 
> |> :
> |> :Robyn
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> |> :
> |> :                       ACHTUNG!
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> |> :Das machine is nicht fur gerfingerpoken und mittengrabben.
> |> :   Ist easy schnappen der Sprinngwerk, blowenfusen und
> |> :             poppencorken mit spitzensparken.
> |> :Ist nicht fur gewerken by das Dummkopfen.  Das rubbernecken
> |> :         sightseeren keepen hands in das Pockets.
> |> :          Relaxen und watch das blinkenlights...
> |> :
> |> :
> |> :
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