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Hi all.. Created a script using animail (a fetchmail like app) that checks all my internet mail accounts and brings the messages to my local system. I set it up in cron to run every hour of every day at 15 minute intervals (ie: 1:00, 1:15 etc..) Problem is, every 15 minutes of every hour of every day of the year, I get a crom mail message notifying me the script has run. YIKES... thats 96 crom msgs a day (assuming I leave machine on 24/7) I've spent the last couple of hours or so looking at man cron, searching for a cron.config file, but no luck.. Surely there must be some way to turn this off.. I can't imagine someone setting up a cron job that runs every 5 minutes or so.. WOW.. 288 notification messages a day.. (and that would be for just one task) Any ideas on this one? TIA

Try this.. When you use 'su' add a '-' (ie: su -) The difference is su: changes uid:gid only su - : changes uid:gid to 0, reads your bashrc, and moves you to /root directory. (much more like actually loggin in as root as opposed to just changing uig:gid)

OK.. I tired that.. even 'REBOOTED' although I admit I thought long and hard on how to accomplish this without having to actually do it.. :P Long and short of it... It failed to help... so I just obtained copy of 9.1 CD's and upgraded... everything working like wonderful now... I pitty 9.0 users trying to use this scanner... It's a real pitty.. the list of supported scanners for epson just SKIP this model.. it goes from 1240 to 1260 with no 1250 in between.. DARN!!.. OK.. better run... Thanks for your suggestions..

Mdk 9.0 and i've followed all the instructions i've ever found on how to get this thing to work but it just doesn't want too.. Neither Kooka or Xsane see the device. Here is a list of all instructions I found.. (not necessarily in order)... my /dev/usb - [mike@kirk mike]$ lsl /dev/usb/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 hid/ crw-rw---- 1 lp sys 180, 0 Dec 31 1969 lp0 crw-rw-rw- 1 mike root 180, 48 Dec 18 14:32 scanner0 [mike@kirk mike]$ lsmod displays [root@kirk root]# lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted isofs 25652 1 (autoclean) inflate_fs 17892 0 (autoclean) [isofs] nls_iso8859-1 2844 4 (autoclean) udf 85472 0 (autoclean) ppp_deflate 41024 0 (autoclean) bsd_comp 4344 0 (autoclean) sr_mod 15096 2 (autoclean) ide-cd 28712 0 (autoclean) cdrom 26848 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd] floppy 49340 0 (autoclean) parport_pc 21672 1 (autoclean) lp 6720 0 (autoclean) Module Size Used by Not tainted scanner 9140 0 (unused) isofs 25652 1 (autoclean) inflate_fs 17892 0 (autoclean) [isofs] nls_iso8859-1 2844 4 (autoclean) udf 85472 0 (autoclean) ppp_deflate 41024 0 (autoclean) bsd_comp 4344 0 (autoclean) sr_mod 15096 2 (autoclean) ide-cd 28712 0 (autoclean) cdrom 26848 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd] floppy 49340 0 (autoclean) parport_pc 21672 1 (autoclean) lp 6720 0 (autoclean) parport 23936 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] via82cxxx_audio 19036 0 uart401 6628 0 [via82cxxx_audio] emu10k1 56172 1 ac97_codec 9928 0 [via82cxxx_audio emu10k1] sound 55732 0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401 emu10k1] soundcore 3780 0 [via82cxxx_audio emu10k1 sound] nfsd 66576 8 (autoclean) lockd 46480 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 60188 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] ppp_async 7456 1 ppp_generic 20064 3 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async] slhc 5072 1 [ppp_generic] af_packet 13000 0 (autoclean) eepro100 19096 1 (autoclean) supermount 14340 3 (autoclean) ov511 68508 0 i2c-core 15332 0 [ov511] videodev 5792 1 [ov511] printer 6944 0 keybdev 1920 0 (unused) mousedev 4116 1 hid 18340 0 (unused) usbmouse 2004 0 (unused) input 3456 0 [keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse] ehci-hcd 14472 0 (unused) usb-ohci 18216 0 (unused) usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused) usbcore 58304 1 [scanner ov511 printer hid usbmouse ehci-hcd usb-ohci usb-uhci] rtc 6560 0 (autoclean) ext3 74004 3 jbd 38452 3 [ext3] sd_mod 11612 0 aic7xxx 120604 1 scsi_mod 91140 3 [sr_mod sd_mod aic7xxx] [root@kirk root] ------------------------------- On Mandrake 9.0 systems, you may find that "Image Scan! for Linux" shows a Could not send command to scanner message and refuses to work. For reasons still unclear, we have noticed that the configuration file /etc/sane.d/epson.conf may get truncated over a reboot. This file is used by SANE to connect to your scanner and part of the sane-backends package that is installed by default. When this has happened iscan can not connect to your scanner (it uses SANE internally) and will show a message box with Could not send command to scanner. You can get your scanner back to working order with the following work-around. It reconstructs the truncated /etc/sane.d/epson.conf file. 1. log in as root 2. edit /etc/sane.d/epson.conf You can use the following contents as is, just cut-and-paste them into your editor buffer and save. # /etc/sane.d/epson.conf # See sane-epson(5) for more information. # # for a SCSI scanner scsi EPSON # # for a parallel port scanner #pio 0x278 #pio 0x378 #pio 0x3BC # # for a USB scanner # - only enable this if you really have an EPSON scanner # It could otherwise block your non-EPSON scanner from # being recognized. usb /dev/usb/scanner0 3. start "Image Scan! for Linux" $ iscan Should you be using an USB scanner, then you might want to take a look at How to use USB for additional information. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Check the kernel version. Execute the following command and check that the kernel version is 2.4.3. or later. $ cat /proc/version 2. Connect a scanner. Turn on the scanner and connect it with USB. 3. Edit "/etc/sane.d/epson.conf". Example) When the device file name of the USB scanner is "/dev/usb/scanner0", change the line which begins with usb of epson.conf as follows.. usb /dev/usb/scanner0 4. Acquire the vender ID and model ID. Execute the following command to acquire the vendor ID and model ID of the connected scanner. $ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices S: Manufacturer=EPSON S: Product=EPSON Scanner 010F C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 2mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=ff Driver=(none) E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 1 Ivl=16ms E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=03(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms [ 5. Install the scanner module. Example) Execute the following command as a root user. (Specify the vender ID and model ID acquired in the step 4 to the "vendor" and "product", respectively.) # modprobe scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x010b 6. Run the Image Scan! for Linux. $ iscan ---------------------------------------------------------- ANYONE??

btw, PMPATRICK.. this script works great... now I just need to learn WHY it works.. LOL.. again, thanks to all of you..

You guys are just too good... Yes, I have mkisofs and can figure out how to use it eventually using man pages if necessary. BUT .. one thing... K3B setup indicates the mkisofs applicatin is not there but it is. Ummmm, and it's in /usr/bin (which is in search path). The permissions are rws instead of rwx for owner. I'm guessing this is SUID and wondering why that would prevent K3B from finding it!! :unsure: Any ideas on how to remedy this would be helpful.. I use the CLI all the time and am definately NOT afraid of it or of learning new CLI tricks and tips and whatever... but if I can do it with K3B, what the heck.. why not? <g>

I've used mdkl 8.1 - 9.0 with DSL and linksys router and it was ALWAYS hassle free. Your gona love it.. <g>

I have a win2k user friend that would like a copy of one of my personal CD's. He lives in another city so we want to just have me make an iso and let him download it and make his own CD from the iso image. OK... Not a problem until I found NONE of my CD apps actaully create iso images. What I get are img/toc file pairs that can be burned to a cd in Linux but are not compatable with any win2k app (that Im aware of anyway).. Any ideas? Eroaster, X CD Roast, K3B, gnometoaster.. I've tried just about all the major ones.. TIA ... Mike

uummm... I have no idea either, but you might look at sweep. I read somewhere it is supposed to be a very good sound file editor. Maybe it can do what your looking for.. Good Luck.. http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/ Mike

Sorry EZROLLER, I didn't mean to ignore your post.... On my system, there is no /etc/X11/dm directory on my system (mdk 9.1). There is: /etc/X11/xdm/, /etc/X11/gdm/ but NO /etc/X11/dm/ OR /ect/X11/kdm/ .... Of course it doesn't really matter now since it seems to be working. I plan to try adding another Desktop to validate this procedure.

All... After I restarted xserver (Ctl+Alt+Bksp) a couple of times, I was able to access tne new desktop. It must be xserver has to reinitialize itself and reread that directory in order to know what desktops are available. Thanks for your help.. Mike..

I vote Kuickshow too... There is a Linux version of XNView (a window$ image browser) with slidshow and all that. It will also animate gif and png animations... I'm don't remember it coming in a RPM for mandrake but the install from tarball was no big deal. Works great. Only issue was starting it in browser mode. You have to involk it 'xnview -browser' but that info is in the man pages..

there is NO /etc/X11/dm but there is /etc/X11/xdm, the contents of which are total 52 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Sep 16 13:32 authdir -> ../../../var/lib/xdm/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18360 Mar 12 2003 chooser* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 509 Mar 3 2003 GiveConsole* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 367 Mar 3 2003 TakeConsole* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1976 Mar 3 2003 Xaccess -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 961 Mar 3 2003 xdm-config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3181 Mar 3 2003 Xresources -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 625 Mar 3 2003 Xservers -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 68 Mar 3 2003 Xsession* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 563 Mar 3 2003 Xsetup_0* The only *.desktop files in /ect/X11 are located in /starthere [root@kirk starthere]# lsl total 24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3436 Mar 7 2003 applications.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4022 Mar 7 2003 preferences.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5219 Mar 7 2003 serverconfig.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5334 Mar 7 2003 sysconfig.desktop [root@kirk starthere]# There are, what look to be startup scripts for them in /etc/X11/wmsession.d/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117 Mar 13 2003 01KDE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129 Feb 25 2003 02GNOME -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 224 Jan 21 2003 03WindowMaker -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 133 Jun 22 2002 04Enlightenment -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142 Aug 19 2002 06XFce -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143 Jan 24 2003 07IceWM -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134 Mar 14 2003 15AfterStep -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 159 Mar 2 2003 16fluxbox* [root@kirk wmsession.d]# I added a session for antiright using the config menu and it didn't show up in here so I did 'cp 01KDE 08Antiright' and edited it to start the new desktop. Logged out, logged in again only this time choosing the new item Antiright but kdm started iceWM (again) just like last time. Any more ideas

Maybe this is old stuff but I just can't keep looking anymore At one time I had a little HOWTO on adding desktop GUI's to KDM and/or changing between kdm/gdm etc, but it is long gone somehow. I'm running mdk 9.1 and installed a new desktop I found called Antiright but I can't put it in the kdm. The configuration menu option just adds a 'text entry' for it and if I choose it, kdm runs iceWM. If someone can with this I promise I'll print it out and have it tatooed to palm of my hand so I'll never EVER forget it again.. :P TIA Mike..

And to think all this time I believed I had done something wrong during installation!! -------- The box said, install Windows 98 or better. So I installed Linux! --------