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On Tuesday 22 March 2016 08:55:26 Alan Grimes wrote: |
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> Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > Read the manual. |
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> > ...and get rid of all those excruciating scripts of yours and start |
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> > doing things manually and sanely, one step at a time. |
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> Repeat the following three times daily: |
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> The purpose of a computer is to save me time and effort. |
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That's reasonable. Here's my daily update script: |
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#!/bin/bash |
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# |
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# /usr/local/sbin/sync-update |
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# |
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emerge --sync &&\ |
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echo &&\ |
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echo " Updating eix database..."; eix-update; echo &&\ |
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emerge -auDvU --jobs=12 --load-average=20 --nospinner --keep-going |
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world &&\ |
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echo |
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That's it. I don't need anything more. Others have a fancier setup that runs |
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pretend updates overnight and e-mails them with the results, but I prefer my |
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way. You prefer yours of course, but it leads you into shark-infested waters |
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because you haven't a clue what you're doing. That's why you should go back |
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to doing things manually until you learn what you need to know. |
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Better still: switch to a distro that suits you better. |
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[OT] |
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How should I set up KMail's filters to ignore not only an obnoxious |
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contributor but all replies to him as well? Just filtering on his address |
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anywhere in the headers is too coarse because interesting titbits sometimes |
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appear in the conversation. |
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[/OT] |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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linux counter 5290, 1994/04/23 |
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