Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] quick fix for ping from crontab problem (was Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Re: Script re-acting differently when run in crontab...)

[Stefan W. <sw...@gl...>]

Am Dienstag, 15. April 2003 12:01 schrieb Friedrich Lobenstock:
> McGuigan, Scott wrote:
> > I unfortunately don't know enough to say if something here is right o=
r
> > wrong, so that is why I pass this back to the great folks who know
> > Devil-Linux. :)
>
> Ok, the ping on DL 0.5 seems to be buggy when called from
> cron. Can't say why it won't work from cron but I can offer
> you a quick fix:
>
>   * Download the file PING.tar.bz2 from
>       ftp://ftp.fl.priv.at/pub/devil-linux/0.5/patch/base/
>
>   * create a directory patch with subdirectory base on your
>     DL floppy disk
>
>   * copy PING.tar.bz2 to patch/base/ on your floppy

is there a link to the docs discribing how to put patches in which form o=
nto=20
disk ? Or can I just put in base all packages I want to update ?

>
>   * reboot, or copy PING.tar.bz2 via scp to your running
>     DL and run
>      tar -C / -xjf PING.tar.bz2

--=20

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