Recent content by lhorner

This is getting scarier! I just went to preferences - users to try to fix the password problem. Sure enough, the number of characters in the password had changed. So i put the correct password back in. i still can't log into terminal using that password. so i created a new user with a new...

Is this the 2003-03-03 update? I finally installed it yesterday (26th so I'm slow) and find today that: icab can't find it's hotlist file icab won't open mail when i click on a mailto link mail won't open http links in anything at all when i click on them !!! my password has been...

I have the September developer package installed. I have a file /usr/bin/make, but if I type make at the command line I get "command not found". Other commands in /usr/bin (such as who and whoami) work. What am I missing / what do I need to do to install software that's not already in...

OK, I checked that. cron jobs (as in entries in a crontab file) seem to run fine. at, however, still doesn't do what it ought to do. I'm more confused than ever.

Nope, cron seems not to be functioning. A call to ps shows cron running, but a simple at command to write the date to a file doesn't produce a file. What should I be trying next?

Thanks for the response. Batch will wait until one job is finished before starting the next one, which for the number crunching I'm doing makes more sense than running lots of things slowly all together as at would do. (At least in principle this works. I think from what I read that the...

I found the line in the crontab file to uncomment so that batch should work (i.e. it checks for batch things to run every 10 minutes), but I don't ever find atd running and I haven't yet gotten a job to actually run with batch as far as I can tell. Does it exist? How do I enable it if it does...