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Re: [arch-general] System Cron jobs not running
by Jason Towell 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Hi Alex, I think in a default configuration crond handles hourly and runs anacron to handle the daily, weekly, etc. I was having trouble running a daily until I realized my cron.daily shell script environment path did not include /usr/local/bin. Placing the full path to my perl script fixed the issue. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Ferrando" <alferpal(a)gmail.com> To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 9:05:56 AM Subject: Re: [arch-general] System Cron jobs not running Maybe I'm getting it wrong, but is dcron the one that runs the cron.hourly/daily and so on folders as the crontab in the wiki with reference to that default crontab for dcron, not cronie On Fri 21 Oct 2011 05:55:33 PM CEST, R7h0re4 wrote: > Karol Blazewicz<karol.blazewicz(a)gmail.com> writes: > >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:54 AM, R7h0re4<r7h0re4(a)att.net> wrote: >>> >>> I made a custom script that I want to put into the weekly system cron >>> job and according to my logs the script is not running weekly like it >>> should. >>> >>> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 87 Aug 4 13:39 cool_script.sh >>> >>> According to my information the permission are correct as only root >>> should be able to run system cron jobs. >>> >>> This is the only thing I have seen in my logs. >>> >>> Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Anacron started on 2011-10-20 >>> Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.weekly' locked by another an >>> acron - skipping >>> Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 12 min. >>> Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Jobs will be executed sequentially >>> Oct 20 03:02:01 localhost anacron[14151]: Job `cron.weekly' started >>> Oct 20 03:02:02 localhost anacron[14151]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated >>> Oct 20 03:02:02 localhost anacron[14151]: Normal exit (1 job run) >>> Oct 20 03:13:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' started >>> Oct 20 03:13:55 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' terminated >>> Oct 20 03:13:55 localhost anacron[14161]: Normal exit (1 job run) >>> >>> I do not have Anacron installed, and my script does not run weekly like >>> it is supposed too, I would like fix this problem. >>> >>> Any suggestions are welcome! >>> >>> R7h0re4 >>> >>> >> >> Are you using cronie, dcron or some other cron? cronie provides anacron. > > I do have Cronie installed but I am still wondering why the script won't > run if put in the weekly cron folder. My understanding is the > documentation is a little week concerning this topic on the Wiki. Do I > need to fill a bug report, or is something out of place. > > R7h0re4 > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and contain information that may be confidential and/or legally privileged. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete the message. Any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this communication by someone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio-0.7.5, mkinitcpio-busybox-1.19.2
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

On 10/23/2011 05:12 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > Hi all, > > I've tagged and rolled mkinitcpio 0.7.5 which is mostly more minor > fixes. Ideally, this is the last release of the 0.7.x series before I > start doing some more serious work. Shortlog is small and found below. > > I've also rolled up a new busybox package to go with it. I've tested > this new combo a variety of setups. > > Dave Reisner (11): > init: refer to busybox by full path on --install > move manpage to section 8 > mkinitcpio: avoid stomping on TMPDIR from the environment (FS#26373) > mkinitcpio: ensure get_kernver always returns a kver > install/pcmcia: fix syntax error (missing&&) (FS#26427) > manpage: correct section number in manpage header > install/udev: relocate udevd for udev 174 > install/base: include new_root as part of build process > init_functions: tighten up mount option gathering > init_functions: replace grep/sed with PEs > init_functions: avoid setting var without LHS > > > Please signoff both architectures. > > Regards, > Dave > > sign-off i686 for archiso. builds/boot OK, shutdown with deinitramfs is working now (Many thanks), so persistense is now working. -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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[arch-general] Arch and Gnome 3problems
by Christian 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hi all on this list, First, I really apologize if this is off list, but I had trouble registering on the forum's. But OK, now to my problem. I used Gnome in the passed, v2.30 with no issues and I had to do a reinstall of my system and now I am running the latest Arch. However, Gnome seems to be working fine, I think, but I am having problems when I try to use Orca, the screen reader for Gnome. I am visually impaired so I rely on speech and or braille. Here is a short summery of what I did after the installation of Arch was complete I added my user and added it to some of the groups, like audio,video,storage,optical, etc. Then, I did: pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-utils xorg-server-utils pacman -S xf86-video-ati pacman -S gnome gnome-extra pacman -S xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse rc.d start dbus pacman -R gnome-shell gnome-screensaver /etc/rc.d/gdm start Isn't this correct for getting Gnome up and running? Many thanks for any help, Christian

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[arch-general] udevd related warning after initscripts update
by Mauro Santos 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

After the latest initscripts update I get a warning (?) from udevd (?) when shutting down, it goes like this: ... Deactivating Swap [Done] Sending SIGTERM to processes [Busy] udevd[pid]: 'udisks-part-id /dev/sda2' [pid] terminated by signal 15 (terminated) [Done] Saving random seed [Done] ... In my case sda2 is the swap partition, nothing seems to break as swap still gets enabled when the machine boots but I was wondering if this is expected and if this might cause trouble for some corner case. -- Mauro Santos

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[arch-general] What's wrong with the xorg-apps packages group?
by Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hi, With the command `pacman -Qm' it shows me `xorg-apps' as a foreign package, but this doesn't happen with other groups I have installed like `texlive-lang'. What makes different to `xorg-apps'? Just curious... Regards -- Ricardo (http://r.untroubled.be/)

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[arch-general] Is /etc/locale.conf optional in the last upgrade?
by Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

I did a system upgrade. So /etc/locale.conf is optional, right? I just create it if necessary, but it is not created by default, isn't it? And if I understand correctly, LOCALE is been used as always from /etc/rc.conf if /etc/locale.conf doesn't exist, does it? Thanks in advance, regards. -- Ricardo (http://r.untroubled.be/)

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[arch-general] arch4ec2 - EC2 AMI bootstrapping scripts
by Peter Schuller 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hi, I have scripted from-scratch bootstrapping of EC2 AMI:s for Arch: https://github.com/scode/arch4ec2 Feedback appreciated. It was originally based on https://github.com/yejun/ec2build Currently it's only tested on 32 bit and I have only created a pre-bootstrapped image in the eu-west-1 region. I figure better to wait for some initial feedback before creating images for all the permutations. -- / Peter Schuller (@scode, http://worldmodscode.wordpress.com)

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[arch-general] syslog-ng ignores filter boolean logic
by Leonid Isaev 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

Hi, I just updated syslog-ng 3.2 -> 3.3 and noticed that my iptables logs go into every possible logfile, i.e. /var/log/{messages,kernel,iptables}.log. This is despite the fact that syslog-ng.conf contains lines like: filter f_kernel { facility(kern) and not filter(f_iptables); }; I tried modifying the rules in filter f_iptables() and moving this filter before f_kernel and f_messages (by default it is after), but still get firewall logs everywhere :( Does anyone have this problem? Thanks. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] problem with qingy - broken after logout
by J. Bakshi 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

Dear list, I have come from the debian world. I am a debian user and stick to the light-weight applications since beginning. I have found arch wiki/tutorial etc... are extremely knowledge based.. hence I have joined the list to gain my knowledge and experience and also to get help on some critical issues. I am using quingy as a framebuffer login manager. It runs well. But when I logout from the console; the qingy comes back with a complete broken look.. where no input is possible. qingy has some resolution issue which I have fixed by editing /etc/directfbrc with the following `````````````` mode=1024x768-76 depth=32 `````````````` But still suffering with this broken qingy after logout. Has anyone have any clue to fix it ? Thanks

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[arch-general] Samba: Access Denied
by Eric Griffith 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

So I'm trying to figure out why Samba won't allow me to share the folder: /home/admin/data on my home server; but it will share: /home/ just fine. /home/admin/data is chmodd'ed 777 because its gonna be the 'public share' folder with nothing personal in it, the user is admin, the group is users. Whenever I try to access the folder from my laptop TO the server; I get "Access Denied" Relevant SMB.conf section: [Public] path = /home/admin/data/ available= yes browsable = yes public = yes writable = yes create mask = 0777 guest ok = yes [admin@server ~]$ ls -l total 12 drwxrwxrwx 2 admin users 4096 Oct 21 13:09 data drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 21 12:58 ftp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 21 13:49 http [admin@server ~]$ Just incase this is the issue: the permissions on /home/admin (the admin folder specifically) are [admin@server home]$ ls -l total 4 drwx------ 5 admin users 4096 Oct 21 13:53 admin [admin@server home]$ So could the problem be that /home/admin's permissions wont allow me to share a subfolder, even though the subfolder's permissions are fine? If so; what would be an okay permission setup to use for /home/admin so that I CAN share /home/admin/data, without letting everyone have access to my overall /home? The reason im doing Samba instead of NFS is because there's windows machines on the network as well

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