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Running cygwin cron from windows as a service

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

2 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. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

PC XStation Configuration Download the CygWin setup.exe from http://www.cygwin.com. [Read More]

Simple netstat

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

netstat -tln | fgrep :10000 [Read More]

Meet Bubba

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

We 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. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

I 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. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

The 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. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

I 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. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

What is crontab? [Read More]

Greed is not synonymous with America

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

But it’s getting harder to prove that point to myself when I read things like this. [Read More]

Linux.com: Bugs in your shell script?

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

By: Larry Reckner Topics: Shell Subsection: Intermediate If your writing a shell script and want to watch exactly what is going on (very usefull for debugging purposes), add the line [Read More]