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| smapty | Earlier today, I had a server running 12.04 go down. Found out that a package got updated that removed firmware for a aic94xx controller. Seems like it got removed from a package for legal reasons, but there was no warning before it removed the firmware. | 03:27 |
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| Patrickdk | there is always a warning | 03:31 |
| Patrickdk | it's in the change logs | 03:32 |
| smapty | Fair enough. Unless I was looking for it in the changelogs specifically, amongst all the other updates that the machine received, it’s incredibly easy to overlook. | 03:42 |
| Patrickdk | hmm, I have mine set to show me all the changelog when I update the machine | 03:48 |
| Patrickdk | I also have it set so all updates get emailed to me, and I look over them | 03:48 |
| Patrickdk | just sign up on the maillist to receive them | 03:49 |
| Patrickdk | it just matters exactly how much you care | 03:49 |
| smapty | It’s not a matter of if I cared or not, the server is a tool and it’s maintainence is important, but it’s not my primary responsibility. It’s a tool I use for development for other things. Thanks for the direction toward getting the changelists when I go to update. | 03:53 |
| smapty | I’ll take a look at getting that setup. | 03:54 |
| morenoh152 | hello all | 05:27 |
| morenoh152 | can I use gparted to make my current server raid 1? | 05:30 |
| morenoh152 | I already used it to format my new hdd. But I need to make the new hdd work with my current hdd. Anyway to avoid a installation? | 05:30 |
| morenoh152 | *reinstallation | 05:30 |
| morenoh152 | how can I make a partition extended with gparted? | 06:01 |
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| lordievader | Good morning. | 08:21 |
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| bitbyte | Is there a way to run chmod, on a full directory and tell it only to do files not folders ? | 10:14 |
| bitbyte | so I want to it to run through check every folder and amend every file | 10:14 |
| maswan | you'd need to use find to do that | 10:15 |
| TJ- | bitbyte: " find /path/to/base -type d -execdir chmod .... {} \;" maybe? | 10:15 |
| TJ- | bitbyte: oops, "-type f" ! | 10:16 |
| bitbyte | mmmm i’ll give it a shot, i’m currently just amending my plex directory so you can see lots of folders and files scattered all over | 10:16 |
| bitbyte | TJ- : so you think this will do without the quotes “ find /media/data/plex_source/ -type f -execdir chmod 644 {} \; “ | 10:17 |
| bitbyte | TJ- it worked like a charm thanks for the help | 10:36 |
| bitbyte | Another quick one guys if you don’t mind, im trying to run “ find /media/data/plex_source/anime/One\ Piece/ -type f -execdir rename -v 's/L@mBerT/ /' *.mkv {} \; “ without the quotes but when it gets to the @ sign it dies thinking it needs a package | 11:02 |
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| TJ- | bitbyte: does it need escaping, with "\@" | 11:12 |
| bitbyte | i’ll give it a shot thanks | 11:12 |
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| histo | t | 14:35 |
| ahmadgbg | Hi, i need to put 20TB in raid 5. Which drives should i use? I heard something about "Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits read". Thanks for the help! | 14:37 |
| ahmadgbg | anyone | 14:42 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: well | 14:49 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: what sort of use? | 14:50 |
| ahmadgbg | RoyK: Storage and like 5 websites | 14:50 |
| RoyK | what sort of storage? VMs? archive? | 14:51 |
| RoyK | what sort of i/o pattern do you expect? | 14:51 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: if you don't know, just describe the use of the server as well as you can | 14:52 |
| ahmadgbg | Royk: Archive, i will put raw videos from the cam to save them, I will even use a NAS to back them up. | 14:53 |
| ahmadgbg | Royk: The websites will be wordpress | 14:53 |
| andol | ahmadgbg: Not sure if you want to use RAID5 for a 20TB array. With that amount of data there is supposedly a significant risk of a second disk failuring during the rebuild which happens after a firsk disk dies. | 14:54 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: do you expect lots of traffic on the websites? if not, it shouldn't matter a lot | 14:54 |
| RoyK | andol++ | 14:54 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: better use raid6 - rebuild time for a large raid is significant | 14:54 |
| ahmadgbg | Royk: not so much.. like 2000 unique visitors/month | 14:54 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: I guess my mobile phone could do that ;) | 14:54 |
| ahmadgbg | Royk: haha :D... So if i use Raid 6.. which drives should i use | 14:55 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: for such use, probably WD Red or something | 14:55 |
| bekks | ahmadgbg: how man drive ports does your controller have? | 14:55 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: doesn't seem to be very i/o intensive | 14:55 |
| RoyK | bekks: I guess it's better to get controllers enough or controllers large enough than just basing it on what's there | 14:56 |
| ahmadgbg | Royk: so i can use 10^14 drives? | 14:56 |
| ahmadgbg | bekks: 6 ports | 14:56 |
| bekks | RoyK: yeah, so it would be interesting wether he already has a controller. | 14:57 |
| tonyyarusso | Does it need to be hardware RAID or would mdadm work? | 14:57 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: IMHO there's very little difference between enterprise drives and consumer drives. it's mostly marketing BS | 14:57 |
| RoyK | tonyyarusso: MD usually does a better job than hw raid ;) | 14:57 |
| tonyyarusso | RoyK: I often use MD myself. It's an ongoing debate at the office. :) | 14:57 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: I'd recommend md raid for flexibility, or zfs if you're nervous about data consistency | 14:58 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: but then - a bitflop or two won't ruin a video | 14:58 |
| ahmadgbg | RoyK: i was thing about zfs2 i think its named? | 14:58 |
| tonyyarusso | So, add a couple of plain SATA cards and you can support that amount a heck of a lot cheaper | 14:58 |
| andol | Well, having the HW RAID battery backup can sometimes be nice, but otherwise I too have a preference for mdadm. | 14:58 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: zfs2? no such thing afaik | 14:58 |
| tonyyarusso | I also normally go for 10 rather than 5/6 - a few more drives, but better performance and safer. | 14:59 |
| RoyK | tonyyarusso: sure, but doesn't look like he needs the performance | 14:59 |
| ahmadgbg | Royk: Z2 :D | 14:59 |
| RoyK | tonyyarusso: and no, raid1+0 isn't really safer than raid6 | 14:59 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: ah - raidz2 - it's zfs' implementation of raid6 | 14:59 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: raidz3 if you're really paranoid (and don't care much about write performance :P) | 15:00 |
| ahmadgbg | RoyK: ye.. should i go with that and WD red drives? | 15:00 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: keep in mind that if you choose zfs, you'll lose most of the flexibility offered by md | 15:00 |
| ahmadgbg | RoyK: well im going to backup the data on a NAS so that wont be needed right? | 15:00 |
| ahmadgbg | RoyK: like? | 15:00 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: so, on top of my head, I'll suggest setting up an mdraid with 4TB WD Red drives in RAID6 | 15:01 |
| tonyyarusso | I've had good luck with my handful of reds so far, fwiw. Small sample size, but since when does the Internet care about reproducible validity of opinions? :P | 15:01 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: flexibility of adding/removing drives to the raid etc | 15:01 |
| ahmadgbg | RoyK: ok then i will use that :D | 15:01 |
| RoyK | so, 7 4TB drives in RAID6, that'll give you 20TB, or 18TiB (TiB as in what the OS reports as terabyte) | 15:02 |
| RoyK | so perhaps get 8 drives | 15:02 |
| ahmadgbg | RoyK: but i saw something about if i use 10^14, there is a change that it wont rebuild if a drive crashes | 15:02 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: that's why you should use raid6 ;) | 15:03 |
| ahmadgbg | RoyK: smart :D | 15:03 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: is this a home server or a production thing? | 15:03 |
| ahmadgbg | RoyK: its in between :D | 15:03 |
| tonyyarusso | Home *is* production! | 15:04 |
| RoyK | if it's a production thing and you have the budget, I'd go for seagate constellation 4TB drives | 15:05 |
| RoyK | tonyyarusso: hehehe | 15:05 |
| ahmadgbg | RoyK: its a home then :D | 15:05 |
| ahmadgbg | RoyK: WD red are much cheaper... | 15:05 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: so, 7 or 8 drives in raid6 plus maybe a spare drive if you're nervous | 15:05 |
| ahmadgbg | RoyK: it wont be a problem right :D | 15:06 |
| RoyK | ahmadgbg: and perhaps a controller like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/LSI-SAS-9211-8i-6Gbps-8Port-PCI-Express-SATA-SAS-Host-Bus-Adapter-New-/380703631558?pt=US_Server_Disk_Controllers_RAID_Cards&hash=item58a3b468c6 | 15:06 |
| RoyK | those are good | 15:06 |
| RoyK | you'll need sas-sata cables, though, but sata plugs neatly into sas, so it'll work well | 15:07 |
| RoyK | http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mini-SAS-4i-SFF-8087-36P-36-Pin-Male-to-4-SATA-7-Pin-Splitter-Adapter-Cable-0-5M-/111316051784?pt=US_Drive_Cables_dapters&hash=item19eaf42748 | 15:07 |
| RoyK | a cable like that | 15:07 |
| * RoyK likes working with storage ;) | 15:08 | |
| ahmadgbg | Nice :D.. and if i want to add more drives it will be easy right | 15:08 |
| RoyK | with mdraid, yes | 15:08 |
| RoyK | with zfs, no | 15:08 |
| ahmadgbg | is it easy to setup? | 15:09 |
| RoyK | it'll probably take a week (or two) to add a drive to a raid that size, but it'll work well (and the raid will be usable during that time) | 15:09 |
| RoyK | yes | 15:09 |
| ahmadgbg | nice :D | 15:09 |
| ahmadgbg | Now its buy time :D | 15:09 |
| RoyK | hehe | 15:10 |
| RoyK | good luck :) | 15:10 |
| luminous | hi! what permissions does logstash need to read /var/log/* ? | 16:32 |
| luminous | I've added logstash to the adm group as an initial attempt on this, but that is not sufficient, and logstash is still getting permissions errors | 16:32 |
| RoyK | luminous: normally group membership in adm | 16:50 |
| luminous | I thought that would work too | 16:50 |
| luminous | apparently not | 16:50 |
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| RoyK | luminous: restarted logstash? | 16:50 |
| luminous | yes, even restarted the whole system | 16:50 |
| RoyK | which logs does it fail to read? | 16:51 |
| luminous | the init.d does some chroot stuff, but it can read other logs in /var/log just fine | 16:51 |
| luminous | RoyK: auth.log and all those that are owned by root:adm | 16:51 |
| luminous | or root:root | 16:51 |
| RoyK | chrooting it to disallow it to read /var/log disables it to do its job :P | 16:52 |
| luminous | RoyK: don't get confused there, it can read /var/log/* | 16:53 |
| luminous | but it doesn't have permissions to read some of these files | 16:54 |
| luminous | let me look at the script to be more specific | 16:54 |
| luminous | is it ok to paste 4 lines here? | 16:55 |
| luminous | sorry, 5 | 16:55 |
| RoyK | !pastebin | luminous | 16:55 |
| ubottu | luminous: For posting multi-line texts into the channel, please use http://paste.ubuntu.com | To post !screenshots use http://imagebin.org/?page=add | !pastebinit to paste directly from command line | Make sure you give us the URL for your paste - see also the channel topic. | 16:55 |
| luminous | ok, thanks for confirming | 16:55 |
| RoyK | luminous: find out which files that aren't readable | 16:59 |
| luminous | RoyK: right now, it's anything that logstash does not own | 17:00 |
| luminous | but actually, let me add world readable to auth.log | 17:00 |
| luminous | and we can confirm | 17:00 |
| luminous | I was also thinking of dropping the chroot in that init script | 17:00 |
| luminous | to test | 17:00 |
| luminous | but the chroot chroot's logstash to / | 17:01 |
| luminous | hrm, it seems removing the chroot let's logstash read auth.log with the perms I've given it (added to adm group) | 17:04 |
| luminous | that's weird | 17:04 |
| luminous | I don't know if I can debug this deeply enough right now, it might have to wait | 17:04 |
| luminous | somehow the chroot --userspec seems to be limiting what logstash can see | 17:04 |
| luminous | even though it's in the adm group | 17:05 |
| RoyK | luminous: sudo su -c "cat /var/log/auth.log" logstash | 17:05 |
| luminous | RoyK: logstash has no shell, so that doesn't work | 17:05 |
| RoyK | luminous: sudo su -s /bin/bash -c "cat /var/log/auth.log" logstash | 17:06 |
| luminous | that worked | 17:06 |
| RoyK | then the logstash user can read those | 17:06 |
| luminous | but not when run in the chroot | 17:07 |
| luminous | but I'll need to redeploy this vm to test that theory some more | 17:07 |
| luminous | but I'll need to push that out till later | 17:07 |
| luminous | too many deadlines | 17:07 |
| luminous | :) | 17:07 |
| luminous | thanks for the assistance so far RoyK :) | 17:07 |
| RoyK | :) | 17:08 |
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| SpaceBass | hey folks | 20:42 |
| SpaceBass | trying to upgrade an old 10.10 (PPC) server which hasn't been online in a while. when I run apt-get update I get a lot of 404s and it fails. Any tips? | 20:43 |
| Patrickdk | use the archive | 20:46 |
| andol | SpaceBass: That being the result of 10.10 not having been supported for a while, and not longer being availible in the regular repo server. | 20:46 |
| SpaceBass | andol, exactly | 20:46 |
| SpaceBass | Patrickdk, is that http://old-releases.ubuntu.com ? | 20:46 |
| andol | SpaceBass: Yepp | 20:47 |
| Patrickdk | yes | 20:47 |
| Patrickdk | edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to use it | 20:47 |
| SpaceBass | any way to apply that change to the entire sources.list ? | 20:47 |
| Patrickdk | your best text editor | 20:47 |
| Patrickdk | or sed | 20:47 |
| Patrickdk | or perl | 20:47 |
| Patrickdk | or ... | 20:47 |
| SpaceBass | yeah...my see and regx are too rusty... vi it is | 20:47 |
| andol | SpaceBass: Still, a reinstall might be preferable, given that your current upgrade path looks something like 10.10 -> 11.04 --> 11.10 -- 12.04. | 20:48 |
| SpaceBass | yeah...probably easier to stand up a basic amazon instance | 20:49 |
| SpaceBass | had the hardware and thought it might be worth reviving | 20:49 |
| Havenstance | so i installed ubuntu 14.04 server, and it put GRUB on my USB Key, not really a problem except it wasn't the USB Key I'd like it on. how can I low level copy one drive to the other? | 20:56 |
| Havenstance | anyone able to answer a question about Grub? | 21:10 |
| bekks | Havenstance: why dont you install grub onto where you want it? | 21:11 |
| Havenstance | bekks, I haven't the foggiest how, I hit the guided, Whole Disk Encryption with LVM. and when I do grub-install /dev/sdb it gives an error about installing it on encrypted disk, so I did what it said and it said it installed successfully and I now have a /boot directory which I didn't have before | 21:13 |
| Havenstance | but when i reboot it throws up non-system disk or disk error replace and strike any key when ready. I put in the flash drive reboot it boots fine | 21:14 |
| Havenstance | May need to reinstall, I've had this issue before and I usually pull the USB key and let it fail then tell it where I want it to go. | 21:14 |
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| dkorras | hi all. please can you help me, my ubuntu server has WLAN and LAN enabled and conencted to the same network, when i boot wihtout LAN connected and then connect it later, all traffic still flows over WLAN, how can i make the switch automatic to use LAN when available ? | 21:29 |
| SierraAR | dkorras: If by WLAN you mean wireless and by LAN you mean wired, disconnect from the wireless network when you hook up the cable | 21:35 |
| SierraAR | dkorras: I'm not certian if there's a way to automatically switch from wireless to the wired connection | 21:36 |
| Patrickdk | sure, using metric's | 21:36 |
| SierraAR | I also just realised this is for aserver not a desktop, and I'm probably gave a rather stupid answer | 21:36 |
| Patrickdk | but it won't switch, just new connections will use the lower one | 21:36 |
| dkorras | i have search there is a program called guessnet | 21:39 |
| dkorras | there is no documentation to set it up though | 21:39 |
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| r4do | hi guys. i'm trying to open my perl application in browser (http-service is nginx) and i getting such error: An error occurred while reading CGI reply (no response received) | 21:53 |
| r4do | i'm using unix socket fcgiwrap, ubuntu 14.04 | 21:53 |
| Patrickdk | and? | 21:53 |
| Patrickdk | fix your perl application | 21:53 |
| r4do | what i need to fix? it worked on other server | 21:54 |
| Patrickdk | how should I know? | 21:54 |
| Patrickdk | your perl application does log it's errors right? | 21:54 |
| r4do | yes, but there are no errors in log file | 21:54 |
| Patrickdk | I'm not talking about the nginx log file | 21:55 |
| Patrickdk | did you attempt to run the perl app yourself? | 21:55 |
| r4do | nginx error.log is clear | 21:55 |
| Patrickdk | yes I know that | 21:55 |
| Patrickdk | that is why you should not be looking at it | 21:56 |
| Patrickdk | but at your perl applications log file | 21:56 |
| r4do | Patrickdk: my application log file is clear, just thar data which i write there | 22:00 |
| Patrickdk | well, your perl application is crashing for some reason | 22:00 |
| r4do | run from bash is ok, any errors | 22:00 |
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| Thatguy | does any one here use proftpd? | 22:35 |
| luminous | openssh sftp? | 22:38 |
| Thatguy | Luminous if you talking to me for some reason all my config files for it need to be able to be read as everyone | 22:52 |
| Thatguy | so 777 or so | 22:52 |
| Patrickdk | 777? | 22:59 |
| Patrickdk | everyone needs to write to your config files? | 22:59 |
| Thatguy | well i got t as | 22:59 |
| Thatguy | 744 | 22:59 |
| Thatguy | for some reason it cant read the config files unless it can be read by everyone even thought the process is run under root | 23:00 |
| Thatguy | really wierd | 23:00 |
| Patrickdk | well, that is simple | 23:01 |
| Patrickdk | the file is owned by the wrong user/group | 23:01 |
| Thatguy | currently root but when i look at ps aux o see who is running proftpd its root | 23:02 |
| Patrickdk | what is the /etc/proftpd folder owned by? | 23:02 |
| Thatguy | "root 8720 0.0 0.0 118484 2400 ? Ss Jun28 0:00 proftpd: (accepting connections)" | 23:02 |
| Thatguy | root | 23:03 |
| Thatguy | and group root | 23:03 |
| Patrickdk | hmm | 23:03 |
| Patrickdk | mine is the same | 23:03 |
| Patrickdk | except the config files I have passwords in, is owned by proftpd and only readable via proftpd user | 23:04 |
| Thatguy | hmm | 23:04 |
| Thatguy | I'll see if there a ruser caled proftpd | 23:04 |
| Patrickdk | proftpd 1446 0.0 0.0 84076 2184 ? Ss Jun22 0:02 proftpd: (accepting connections) | 23:04 |
| Thatguy | hmm | 23:06 |
| Thatguy | just set the user of the files to proftpd and nothing | 23:06 |
| Patrickdk | ya, in the proftpd you configure the user/group | 23:06 |
| Patrickdk | so it's up to you | 23:06 |
| Patrickdk | the debian maintainer never really *debianized* it | 23:06 |
| Thatguy | says root | 23:07 |
| Thatguy | I believe its set to root so I can set the ftp user uid | 23:07 |
| Thatguy | so say if you login as | 23:07 |
| Thatguy | user1 it will use say thatguy on the system | 23:08 |
| Thatguy | how i gt it setup for my websites | 23:08 |
| Thatguy | each website under different user | 23:08 |
| Thatguy | then each ftp account needs to be under a different user as well | 23:08 |
| Patrickdk | same with me | 23:08 |
| Thatguy | got mine reading off mysql db :D | 23:09 |
| Thatguy | for the users | 23:09 |
| Thatguy | in your init.d/proftpd does it say what user to run as? | 23:10 |
| Patrickdk | no | 23:10 |
| Thatguy | ok | 23:11 |
| Thatguy | I think i have fixed it | 23:12 |
| Thatguy | soon know | 23:12 |
| Thatguy | Patickdk thanks I think we've fixed it | 23:21 |
| Thatguy | yay | 23:21 |
| Patrickdk | :) | 23:22 |
| z1haze | would someone please help me make a script that would make backups for a directory for me every like every hour? im trying to setup a backup system for this game server im running.. but the console is very primitive because its in alpha still | 23:25 |
| histo | z1haze: use cron | 23:28 |
| histo | z1haze: where are you copying the backup to? | 23:28 |
| z1haze | i just want to create a backup folder within the game folder | 23:28 |
| z1haze | i dont know what cron is, im sorry i dont know how to program i just play games :\ lol | 23:29 |
| z1haze | i found a tut on making a shell script to backup | 23:29 |
| histo | z1haze: cron is just what you want. | 23:29 |
| z1haze | but can it be automated, like if the server process is running, it does this every hour | 23:29 |
| z1haze | ok great: how do i use this? | 23:30 |
| histo | z1haze: you can schedule a task to run every hour of every day of the month to cp /some/file /to/another/place | 23:30 |
| histo | z1haze: crontab -e | 23:30 |
| z1haze | ok great, but in my case its a series of region files | 23:30 |
| z1haze | well actually i want to do the entire contents of the region folder | 23:31 |
| z1haze | only because new region files are generated when players scout new land | 23:31 |
| z1haze | and of course id like to have something like FILENAME=ug-$(date +%-Y%-m%-d)-$(date +%-T).tgz | 23:31 |
| Thatguy | I would be zip my self | 23:31 |
| histo | z1haze: so you want to create a tgz? | 23:31 |
| z1haze | i juist want the concept of a backups folder, generating a new zip/tar each time so its not overwriting | 23:32 |
| z1haze | say like, someone gets griefed 2 days ago, but i wasnt on | 23:32 |
| z1haze | i dont want th ebackups to overwrite the loss, i want to be able to go back and fix that region if i need to | 23:32 |
| Thatguy | "zip -r date(date thinghere).zip /path/to/folder/" | 23:33 |
| histo | z1haze: then use tar czf /path/to/save/location.tgz /path/to/compress/directory | 23:33 |
| histo | z1haze: oh nvm you want sequential backups | 23:34 |
| z1haze | ok can we kinda start from crontab -e | 23:34 |
| z1haze | yes sequential | 23:34 |
| z1haze | im in contrab now, and i opened with nano | 23:34 |
| histo | z1haze: http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/2010/02/linux-how-to-incremental-backups-using.html | 23:35 |
| histo | z1haze: keep in mind that you will fill up your drive unless you monitor how many of the backups you are going to create | 23:36 |
| z1haze | oh wait histo, i dont need this type | 23:36 |
| z1haze | it seems that backup ur describing will overwrite the same file, but only modifying new files or ones that have been changed | 23:37 |
| z1haze | hmm lets say i have region files 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 and 1.5.. i want tobackup all region files every hour | 23:38 |
| z1haze | but lets say region file 1.5 has some issues with it that i need to investigate, i learn the time of the incident, i find the region backup with that timestamp, and i pull the 1.5 region file out of that backup and replace the real region file | 23:39 |
| z1haze | basically, i need to schedule the execution of a shell script based on if a process is running | 23:40 |
| z1haze | i will write my own shell backup script, how can i schedule this based on IF the game is running | 23:40 |
| histo | z1haze: just call the script with cron | 23:42 |
| z1haze | can you give me an example | 23:45 |
| z1haze | i dont understand the 0 0 5 0 stuff | 23:45 |
| z1haze | also, i dont see how i can make it dependent upon a certain process is running | 23:45 |
| histo | z1haze: You will have to learn about scripting, cron is easy enough to explain in here. | 23:48 |
| z1haze | so cant u explain if its easy enough | 23:48 |
| histo | z1haze: first fields are minutes, hour, day of month, month, day of week. | 23:49 |
| z1haze | so what about one that is just every hour | 23:49 |
| histo | z1haze: 0 * * * * | 23:50 |
| histo | z1haze: that would be at 0 minutes, every hour, every day of mont, every month, every day of week. | 23:50 |
| histo | z1haze: or you could just do @hourly | 23:50 |
| histo | z1haze: there are special strings, @reboot, @yearly, @annually, @monthly, @weekly, @daily, @midnight, @hourly | 23:51 |
| z1haze | ok 1 sec let me try this out on a new instance | 23:51 |
| z1haze | how would i go about these 2 issues ill run ito though: | 23:51 |
| z1haze | it will backup even if the server is offline (pointless) | 23:52 |
| z1haze | and secondly, how to i say, i only want to keep.. 72 backups | 23:52 |
| z1haze | but now that im thinking about it, your ideea of the incremental is not bad because if nthing is changed is those previous regions, why do i need them backed up every time | 23:52 |
| z1haze | it wil make it harder to find the filse i need though i bet | 23:53 |
| histo | z1haze: you could just back up the changes or the whole thing. | 23:53 |
| z1haze | yea i want to backup changes | 23:53 |
| z1haze | do you know how to write that | 23:53 |
| histo | z1haze: yes | 23:53 |
| histo | z1haze: just write a script that checks if your process is running, if it is then create a backup. | 23:54 |
| z1haze | great, let me get this instance up and running so it can be tested | 23:54 |
| z1haze | haha i have no diea how to do that but ill be back | 23:55 |
| z1haze | 1 min, thanks for helping me | 23:55 |
| histo | z1haze: i'm not going to write it for you. Then you won't learn, I will answer questions that you come across though. | 23:55 |
| z1haze | ive never written scripts in my life im not a programmer | 23:56 |
| histo | z1haze: you don't have to be a programmer. It's plain text just the commands that you would type in a console. | 23:57 |
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