it invokes xterm (instead tty). Although it needs Xs it runs rtorrent as I wanted it to. Still, if anyone would have any idea how to conduct it by means of raw /dev/ttys I would be more than thankful
Hi,
I want to fork a new process from a daemon that needs terminal attachment to some ttyN or pts/N device. Here is the code
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int... (5 Replies)
Hey
First of all: I'm on a Mac. I'm quite new to this, so forgive me if i sound like a newb :-)
I wish to install the Deluge BitTorrent client. First of all I installed Macports and made it run smooth. But then I ran into a problem when I should install Deluge. I can post the log, and maybe... (4 Replies)
I can call a C program from the shell and results are outputted as normal. The C program processes some files and spits out a .csv file.
If I scheduled it in cron, there is no output.
If their a special way to schedule C programs in cron?
thanks & regards (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I need a way to test from within a script if it is running from cron or from terminal.
The ways I found till now are:
1) test if $PPID corresponds to the cron daemon
2) see if $TERM has a valid terminal value or "'dumb", in which case it is ran by cron
... but I feel the... (2 Replies)
I am using tcsh
what could possibly be a problem, when using crontab to invoke a shell script. ?
The script has the read, write and execute permission to all users. And the script works as expected while executing it in stand-alone mode.
Is there a way to trace (like log) what error... (9 Replies)
In the following script, I wish to invoke a compiled C++ program, consimv4 and pass it some command line arguments through the shell script's command line arguments and variables. But for some reason, when I run the script, I just return to the shell prompt and nothing happens. For the life of me,... (7 Replies)
I have a program R installed on Ubuntu under /usr/bin/R. I also have a different version installed under /home/user/R. I would like to invoke the locally installed program temporarily. How can I do this automatically by running a script and then switching to the default program?
thanks,
SM (2 Replies)
If I run 'who -u' interactively or from a script invoked through bash in a tty on my Ubuntu 12LTS box I get an output like this:
testuser pts/0 Dec 9 02:32 . 2163 (host.xx.yy)
running the same through cron I get:
testuser pts/0 2012-12-09 02:32 00:05 2163... (2 Replies)
Hello All,
I have a text file containing output from a command that contains lots of escape/control characters that when viewed using vi or view, looks like jibberish. But when viewed using the cat command the output is formatted properly.
Is there any way to take the output from the cat... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
cron-apt
CRON-APT(8) System Manager's Manual CRON-APT(8)NAME
cron-apt -- program to update the system using apt-get
SYNOPSIS
cron-apt [configfile]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the cron-apt command.
cron-apt is a program that uses the information in /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ as arguments to apt-get line by line in file order.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
--help
Show summary of options.
CONFIGURATION
Configuration can be done by editing /etc/cron-apt/config and by adding rules to /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ The variables that you can set in
/etc/cron-apt/config is documented in the configuration example in /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/examples/config
From version 0.5.0 the optional FILTERCTRLM attribute is deprecated.
SEE ALSO
apt-get (1)
aptitude (1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Ola Lundqvist ola@inguza.com for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). This manual is
free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
CRON-APT(8)
01-29-2012
