Changing run levels at boot time
By John C. Zastrow
As with most stories on this site, I use my stories to store notes on
things that I keep needing to lookup and that might help others.
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Simple grep and search & replace
By John C. Zastrowgrep -Hn -e “ int” *.c* *.h [Read More] -
Running cygwin cron from windows as a service
By John C. Zastrow2 Running cygwin cron from windows as a service Cron is a program for running scripts or programs at certain times. For cron to be able to do this, it has to be running when the machine is on. This is done by adding cron as a service. Open a... [Read More] -
X windows with Cygwin
By John C. ZastrowPC XStation Configuration Download the CygWin setup.exe from http://www.cygwin.com. [Read More] -
Simple netstat
By John C. Zastrownetstat -tln | fgrep :10000 [Read More] -
Meet Bubba
By John C. ZastrowWe had originally planned to slow down after the wedding – Didn’t happen! Now that the wedding planning is not consuming our time, this past Tuesday we decided to apply as foster parents at the Northern VA Sheltie Rescue Association. We figured they would check our references, enroll us in... [Read More] -
Reformatting a text field in Microsoft Access to be a true date
By John C. ZastrowI had a text field (DATEOLD) with values like 20030526, that were dates in YYYYMMDD. [Read More] -
Sending files over SFTP in an automated fashion
By John C. ZastrowThe exerpts below describe how to use SFTP to transfer files from one machine to another in automated fashion, such as using shell scripts. I needed to do this as part of a back up script. [Read More] -
Selecting Date from a Mysql field in specific format
By John C. ZastrowI had a membership table with users and the datetime at which they joined the site. I needed to get a count of members joining per month, so I did this: [Read More] -
Automate your life
By John C. ZastrowWhat is crontab? [Read More]