Recent content by plarkin

Yikes. Those are some ugly scripts.

Now that I've moved most of my production stuff off of LinuxPPC and onto OS X, I have a need to adjust how I deal with log files. Previously, in LinuxPPC, the secure.log file would contain any ftp connections, sshd or telnetd connections. I had a cron job that would mail me that log file...

Yes, I discovered that earlier today when I downloaded CronniX and there's a menu option to drop the path into cron. It auto-enters the /usr/bin/opn part in there for you.

OK. I've made my first venture into Applescript on OS X. I made a simple script, as follows: tell application "FileMaker Pro" activate end tell I saved it as an application. It works fine if I double click it ... As expected, FMP pops to the foreground. If I take this SAME...

I set up an OSX Server to be used primarily as a File Server. I added 5-6 users to test with. I created each user so their Home space is in /Users/username. When I log in as one of the users, I have the option of mounting a "Users" volume and a "Public" volume. First of all, what...

I set up an OSX Server to be used primarily as a File Server. I added 5-6 users to test with. I created each user so their Home space is in /Users/username. When I log in as one of the users, I have the option of mounting a "Users" volume and a "Public" volume. First of all, what...

by the way... should i NOT run cron jobs as root? I always do so I don't have to worry about permissions or anything...

OK, I think I found the problem with my scripts not running. On my LinuxPPC machine, I used #!/bin/bash at the top. I changed that to /bin/sh and it worked (I think). I'll see tomorrow since most will run through the night. Mail going to /dev/null is another issue I'll have to look...

I checked the log. None of the shell scripts executed at all. Only one thing executed and that was a simple command to mail me a log file. (Although it executed, the mail.log show that it was sent to /dev/null rather than the To: recipient I entered. Aaagh!)

I've set up a MacOS X (client version) box to do various webserverving tasks. It uses mysql and php. I've successfully moved most of my apps over but I cannot for the life of me get cron to do anything! I have a crontab setup to run 3 scripts. I've tested them at various points in the...