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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Cygwin cron service on Windows server 2003
Working with windows 2003 can be somewhat awkward when running jobs via the scheduler so I was wondering if cygwin cron can be installed. Sure enough, good old google came through with the following:
http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg31579.html
The easiest way is to follow the ssh-host-config script in
creating a special account:
net user cron_server <passwd> /add /yes
net [...]
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Fedora Core 9 console access
Just installed Fedora Core 9 and discovered the method I had been using to setup a tty console has changed. Originally, I would add the following to the /etc/inittab file:
co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -t 60 19200 ttyS0 vt102
After adding this line I would then issue the command init q to re-read the inittab file and start the agetty [...]
