$/usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 1> /dev/null

[LSK]

:shrug:

[Deja Q]

1. Sending your body parts for an hour to do nothing?

:hide:

[Hugin]

2. Paste it onto a command line somewhere...

I think it does something UNIXy.

[LSK]

3. it was running on my firewall repeatedly

[Hugin]

8. Must be a clog in the tubes...

This'll fix it right up, "rm -rf /bin"

[Writer]

4. /geek++

[Deja Q]

5. And you didn't respond to my geeky thread!

:cry:

[Writer]

9. Which geeky thread?

[Deja Q]

12. .

:spray: :spray:

Point taken... most of them are rather geeky... :rofl:

[LSK]

6. what gives you that idea?

:popcorn:

[Writer]

10. Hmmm... let me think about that one for a while.

;)

[Omphaloskepsis]

7. Cron job to the bit bucket...

I get nothing..

[LSK]

11. its a slackware system

[Omphaloskepsis]

17. And totally harmless.

If you wanted to run hourly cron jobs at 2:30 everyday.

30 2 * * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily 1> /dev/null

[LSK]

18. except it was running over 100 times this morning

when I did a ps -aux

[Omphaloskepsis]

21. Something sounds fucked up.

That shouldn't be normal. Might be a good time to make sure your data is safe. And I am stepping out of my Linux comfort zone.. Hopefully someone else can provide help.

[LSK]

22. its just my firewall box

The past few days my connection was really slow and this morning it was dead.

It only does firewall stuff. No data to save except configs.

[billyskank]

19. man run-parts

RUN-PARTS(8)                                                     RUN-PARTS(8)

NAME
       run-parts - run scripts found in a directory

SYNOPSIS
       run-parts <directory>

DESCRIPTION
       run-parts is a utility that will run scripts that are found in a direc-
       tory. For example, it might be useful to create an /etc/cron.daily
       directory and put scripts in there for daily cron jobs. Then run-parts
       can be called once a day from root's crontab to run all the scripts
       found in /etc/cron.daily:

       40 4 * * * run-parts /etc/cron.daily

       run-parts automatically skips files with certain suffixes that are gen-
       erally associated with backup or extra files. Any file that ends in
       one of these will be silently ignored: ~ ^ , .bak .new .rpmsave
       .rpmorig .rpmnew .swp

AUTHOR
       Patrick J. Volkerding <[e-mail]>, with ideas borrowed
       from the Red Hat and Debian versions of this utility.

SEE ALSO
       crond(8), crontab(8).

Slackware Version 8.1.0           14 Apr 2002                     RUN-PARTS(8)

[Hugin]

23. So, lemme guess it's running it say 'Hourly'...

:rofl:

[LSK]

25. give the man his prize!!!

[Hugin]

27. But... But... What about the TUBES?!?!

There's tubes for the dump trucks... Somewhere!

I'm sure of it and ZOMBIES! There's ZOMBIES and DAEMONS all over the place.

:7

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Ah, memories. I used to print all my patient's prescriptions to /dev/null.

God, how I hated them.

[LSK]

14. did they live?

:rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Not in the strictest sense of the word, no. Let's just say that they didn't not unlive.

Technically speaking.

[billyskank]

15. billyskank@du:~$ ./configure --enable-brazilian-joke=yes

checking for lsk... yes

[redqueen]

20. why is geek-speak so hot?

:shrug:

[LSK]

24. only in the lounge would this thread get 20+ replies

:rofl:

[LSK]

26. ok, I am leaving work now to address this problem

Pray I am back here shortly.

[LSK]

28. kick for the nerds out there!

Yo!

:D

[DBoon]

29. so you are expecting something from STDERR?

nt