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Thanks bakunin.

I think this will be very helpful. I can use this in my backup scripts to determine if the disk is mounted however I am unsure what i will need to do to find out why this is...

Hi again sorry for the late reply.

Yes the backup script had been working fine for a long time then one day i checked my backups and noticed backups were missing and this first time the hard disk...

I have a backup script. Before it runs it need to check the backup disk is connected. It usually mounts to /Volumes/Files_Bakup_1

I wrote a bit of script to do the check but it has failed me.

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Thanks that seems to work :D

I have a very simple script that uses a cron job to take a daily backup of our orders database.


echo "Dumping ORDERS database";
mysqldump -u root --password='mypassword' -h '1.1.1.1' --opt...

Oh thats easy thanks

Hi i have a php script that works 100% however i don't want this to run on php because of server limits etc. Ideally if i could convert this simple php script to a shell script i can set it up to run...

OK so i got round to testing the scripts and there was one error. Just needed a ; for the printf, so it treated the sql commands seperately.


printf "DROP TABLE %s;\n" $tbl_names


After...

Thanks a lot. That all makes sense. Ok. I'll implement the script as you have shown me, but won't get to test it until after Christmas when we go live with this new database. Thanks for all your help.

Thanks, i wondered while i was in bed do i really need to create a smaller version of the database on the development server before i upload or would it be better to just dump remotely from the live...

Hi,

I have to upload part of my database periodically when i make changes to product data etc. However I only want to upload certain tables. We suffer from bandwidth chock here, so i want to write...

Not sure i understand exactly what you mean? Have you got some examples to show me?

well assuming the text you want to transform is stored in a string variable. Something like this.


$text = "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...

First question. What scripting language do you plan to use to achieve this? Maybe a server side script such as PHP?

Somewhere in register.php? Would have to occur after your meta redirect.

i have just installed a cron job to run at 3 in the morning once a week. It's difficult for me to test if it works because the email backup program takes the email service down before running the...

Ok thanks. I found this leak command and run it on some processes.


mail:~ timgolding$ ps -ax | grep http
18780 ?? Ss 0:00.62 /usr/sbin/httpd
18781 ?? S 0:00.05 /usr/sbin/httpd...

I ran that command after a restart. Here's what i have done.

I stopped the mail service ran mailbfr -f then reconstruct -m. Then i restarted the server. Now the mail seems to be working and the...

mail:~ timgolding$ vm_stat
Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes)
Pages free: 127057.
Pages active: 25333.
Pages inactive: ...

-bash: free: command not found

:(

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I have top if that's any help. but i don't know how to see...

Hi my email appears to be broken. Well the whole server is barley responding. I can log in through ssh and look at the system.log file


sudo tail -f -n 1000 /var/log/system.log


When i do...

Hi,

My boss has suddenly started receiving 1000s of messages in his inbox. They are undelivered messages that are bouncing back, though the emails weren't coming from him. I guess either these are...

ah ok so maybe run that every 10 mins or so. Thanks

I don't understand how would this script get run? Need it to run automatically when a folder is uploaded, thx

Is there any way to have a script run (either on a web page or a shell script) when new files are put in a folder. E.g we have order response notification XML files uploaded to our server. They are...