Basic log question

Just trying out backintime. I put it in crontabs and append to a log file. So far so good, but I don't get time or date of the last entry. Here the crontab entry:
*/45 * * * * backintime -b >>/tmp2/backintime/messages.log
Question: Do I have to fiddle around with the code of backintime to get more info or can I do something in the crontab entry?

> Hm, comparing stuff takes a long time
<gasp> With rsync if you don't change the contents much it shouldn't take more than a minute ... If you have a million tiny files it may take more but I guess you would like your backups to run perfectly, so you'd better check what's wrong.
BTW: Although Dillon's cron supports 'every n minutes' you may want to check '45 * * * *'. Are you using the "stock" Arch cron or some other one?
Last edited by karol (2009-12-18 15:37:02)

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Hello, I have a basic question about dso update. so if i get a record like this in my dso from ecc:
Name Amount
John $100
This record will go into new table first then in active and change log will also be updated right?
In the next load someone modified the amount and reduce it from 100 to 80 and i will get something like this
Name Amount
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Change log will be the same right? so it cancels out the original value and place new value which is 80
What will happen if I delete all my change log as a part of my clean up process? what if later on if someone goes and modified the record from 80 to 40? because see the original record of 100 and then -100 and 80 will be gone right?
please help me understand this issue.thank you.

Hi John,
First time when you will load the data the recordmode of the record will be N...i.e. New record....
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John $100
Now next time when the Amount changed from $80 from $100....status in the Change log will be
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Suppose in the cube the value is :
Name Amount
John $100
After delta load the status in the cube will be :
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John $100 --> Previous loading
John -$100 --> Before Image
John $80 --> After image..
So $100 and -$100 will cancel each other and the value will be $80......
If you delete the Change log...it will not impact much untill and unless you delete the record from the ODS.....
Because, next time when it become 80 to 40......if you load the data......
In ODS changelog the situation will be...
Name Amount
John -$80 --> Before Image
John $40 --> After image..
As I told that both before and after image will get generated as apart of the same request..
So, In the cube ...
John $100 --> Previous loading
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John $80 --> After image..
John -$80 --> Before Image
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miamigrad wrote:
I have very basic question: I connect to my home network wirelessly with a linksys router and cable modem. But the speed is very slow. If I turn off airport and connect to the router, the connection is about twice as fast as using airport. I've had my mac about two years, and maybe I need to update the software or hard ware, but don't know what I need.
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Are you in close range of the router when you are using wireless? Are other wireless devices connecting simultaneously? I guess it could be possible that wired takes priority over wireless in terms of how routers work, but I really don't have any idea. Maybe someone else knows about that. But as always with anything that isn't acting up to par, I would repair permissions, repair hard drive, (I don't even bother to verify, just repair) and if that doesn't fix it, then create a new user account, log in to it and compare with your regular user account.
Also the white hardware you saw on the support site, is either the airport extreme base station or express base station, which essentially is a router with print sharing and music sharing. To my knowledge, it has no firewall built in and costs way more than a plain wireless router which is easier to set up. In other words, you don't need one for your wireless connection.

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7. Contracts and vendor list:-
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9. How to replicate Plant. How to use DNL_PLNT?. Is BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_ALL will replicate all the PLANT's and its locations from the R/3 backend?
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Hi
Answers to your questions ->
1. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/e9/d0fc3729b5db48e10000009b38f842/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/74/ec7b3c91c1eb1ee10000000a114084/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/55/d77c3c3fd53228e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/77/e97b3c91c1eb1ee10000000a114084/frameset.htm
2. Provided the necessary role is given to the Purchaser (Buyer) in the System.
a) Yes
b) Yes
3. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/e5/f5e938b4ece075e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/70/00c73a584611d6b21700508b5d5211/frameset.htm
4. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/2c/867d3ca2156c6ae10000000a114084/frameset.htm
The vendor ORG has to be seperately created through trasaction PPOCV_BBP before replicating the Vendors from the R/3 System.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/70/00c73a584611d6b21700508b5d5211/frameset.htm
5. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/42/d3b671ba67136fe10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
6. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/29/d586398dcfd74fe10000000a11402f/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/05/9b8139437eac2ae10000000a11402f/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/f5/b4bcdac7c40c4dba53e3695d18236c/frameset.htm
7. Yes, from Browser it's quite easy and is quite user-friendly.
8.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/d3/4b9c3b122efc6ee10000000a114084/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/18/db183d30805c59e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
9.
You can use the following three routines to download locations from the backend system and store them as business partners in SAP Enterprise Buyer.
BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_ALL
To get all the location numbers from each backend system that is connected
BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_FROM_SYSTEM
To get all the location numbers from one particular backend system
BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_SELECTED
To get selected locations
Previously, locations were not given business partner numbers in SAP Enterprise Buyer. If you are configuring an upgrade, you can use routines BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_FROM_SYSTEM and BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_SELECTED to check that the following conversions have been made:
·        Conversion of user favorites
·        Conversion of user attributes
·        Conversion of old documents
Routine BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_ALL checks these automatically.
Once you have run the routines, the location data is available in the SAP Enterprise Buyer system. Table BBP_LOCMAP contains the mapping information (in other words, which business partner number corresponds to which location in which backend system).
For more information, see SAP Note 563180 Locations for EBP 4.0 plant replication
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/62/fb7d3cb7f58910e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm50/helpdata/en/77/e97b3c91c1eb1ee10000000a114084/frameset.htm
10. PPOCA_BBP(Create) / PPOMA_BBP(Change) / PPOSA_BBP(Display).
Regards
- Atul

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I just started looking at swing yesterday because I want to provide a GUI to replace a command line utility we use. I've basically finished it but have a quick question about form - I will get some literature later but would like to get a feel from the people here. If you have a JFrame with a few JPanels each which contain some other components, what is the best practice for variable declaration? Should I just declare the variables locally or should I make them instance variables? The reason I ask is that I have a button that submits a message but that message is dependant on check boxes, etc. from from the frame. If I declare them at the method level I then have to start passing them around whereas if I declare them as instance variables I can access them very easily BUT this may not be good form.
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Thanks, that was something that crossed my mind before I just made eveything an instance variable. It was during that process that I thought, do these all need to be instance variables? Then I thought, SHOULD they all be instance variables. At that point my brain imploded so I came here. :)

Switching to mac, basic noob questions

Hi, I'm new to this. I have some xmas and bday money and i need a laptop. I have two desktop PC's (one XP and one Vista) and have had PC's all my life. I feel like switching it up and giving macs a try, it would make my purchase more fun. I've done some research and i think i want the black macbook with 2 gigs of ram. Here are some questions i need answered before going much further.
1.) I notice that every 6 months new macbook models come out. I also noticed that the last three (at least) have been very similar in hardware. Is it common that the new macbook probably coming out in the summer will be unvieled at macworld? If there is a big difference i might wait, i don't want to get the last model in a product line. Id the difference is another slight processor speed increase i won't bother waiting. As far as i know this isn't available information yet, so i'm just looking for a 'usually they do/don't' type of response.
2.) Is the apple care support really all it's cracked up to be? I'm not about to let my purchase go to waste on me, but at the same time if the support is rarely needed i might not bother. I'm a student and don't have too much money to blow if it's usually a waste. I generally like getting the warrenty for my things, i'm just looking for a more experienced opinion.
3.) Are the Apple stores in the Best Buys independent from Best Buy, or are they the same? I would like to put the 900 or so dollars i can down on this and put the rest of my best buy card to pay off over the next few months.
4.) If they're the same, does anyone know if the apple computers fall under best buy's "no interest for blank months of purchases over black?"
thanks!

Hi Thomes08!
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
It sounds like you're in the process of making an excellent decision to go with a 2.2GHz "BlackBook" and up your RAM to 2.0GB. I think you'll be extremely pleased with your purchase.
1.) Unfortunately, these forums are not designed to be used as a means of product speculation. Matter of fact, it's against the Terms of Use (of these discussion pages) to speculate on upcoming product releases. We'll have to wait the 2-weeks for Mac World to see what comes out, there's no way to have any insight into the excitement that Steve's Keynote brings to technology.
2.) I'm a big fan of AppleCare, mostly because it ensures peace of mind over the reliability of my product for the 3-years that it'll serve as my primary machine. While, I've had multiple Macs last beyond 3-years, I also typically swap it out for the "latest and greatest." Especially with a portable and your student discount. The cost of APP for a MacBook is a relatively "no brainer" especially if you consider the cost (for parts & labor) of even the most basic repairs if the machine falls out of warranty.
3. I'm not entirely familiar with the logistics of the agreement that Apple has with Best Buy, so I'd rather not speculate. I do know that Apple also offers financing options through BML (Bill Me Later) and Juniper Bank, but I'm unfamiliar with the specifics of a split payment. Buying an Apple product through Best Buy still entitles you to all the same "benefits" of ownership, so there's no advantage (or disadvantage) to shop @ Best Buy.

4 basic java questions..

ok so I already learned Java last year (in grade 11), but my teacher didn't really teach anything, we learnt everything by ourselves from the API... so theres a lot of things I actually don't understand, but for now I want to ask 4 basic questions:
1. What does static mean?
2. Why would u "final" a constant variable? ie. If you have a variable called SIZE which is set to 5, so if u want it to be a constant, just never change its value. But what does the keyword final do to it?
3. What's super? I see it sometimes, and my teacher showed us in the applet exampls to use super.paint(g) or somethign like that for the paint method, but I never use that because I noticed it works fine without it..
4. Whats a question mark? I saw a game that was made in java and it had a lot of places where it had a question mark , which was part of the syntax. For example,
int j1 = i != 0 ? i - 1 : 199;
OR
JUMPVEL = (fSuperSlime) ? 65 : 31;
I really don't understand these lines...
feel free to answer any of these questions...

wow cool...thanks.. that question mark thing is nice
saves a few lines..
now, about super, so u mean u can access the parent
class's variables?Variables, methods, constructors, if the access level is such that it's allowed.
This will be covered in any tutorial or text though.
Sun's basic Java tutorial
Sun's New To Java Center. Includes an overview of what Java is, instructions for setting up Java, an intro to programming (that includes links to the above tutorial or to parts of it), quizzes, a list of resources, and info on certification and courses.
http://javaalmanac.com. A couple dozen code examples that supplement The Java Developers Almanac.
jGuru. A general Java resource site. Includes FAQs, forums, courses, more.
JavaRanch. To quote the tagline on their homepage: "a friendly place for Java greenhorns." FAQs, forums (moderated, I believe), sample code, all kinds of goodies for newbies. From what I've heard, they live up to the "friendly" claim.
Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java (Available online.)
Joshua Bloch's Effective Java
Bert Bates and Kathy Sierra's Head First Java.
James Gosling's The Java Programming Language. Gosling is
the creator of Java. It doesn't get much more authoratative than this.

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can any one pls give me the link for basic ddic interview questions

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Basic database question, and subscribe/unsubscribe code

Hi there
Although I've created and manage a website, and about a million years ago I worked with databases, I'm still a bit green and in need of some help ...
I have the website based on my local machine (laptop). I want to use a subscribe/unsubscribe for a newsletter via the website.
Before I go ahead with this, I need to clarify a very basic database issue ... would I have to always leave my laptop running in order for people to be able to subscribe to the newsletter on the website, i.e. will it still connect to the database if the laptop is not running?
I'm using Dreamweaver 3, so I hope I can use this version to connect with a database? I did install Dreamweaver 4 on one occasion with the intent of upgrading the website to it, but because I'm still a bit unsure of myself and was unfamiliar with the changes the newer version created, I decided to leave it on Dreamweaver 3 rather than risk stuffing the website up completely!
I also have Dreamweaver UltraDev but for some reason it won't install.
I'm hoping to follow instructions given on Dreamweaver Developer Centre for setting up a PHP development environment (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/setting_up_php.html).
If anyone would be so kind as to advise whether I'm on the right track with all this, using Dreamweaver 3, that'd be great!
Also, I'm sure this is unlikely, but is there any way to include a subscribe-unsubscribe without having to actually use a database?
Many thanks in advance :-)
Cheers, Chrissie

Thanks for your help and advice - much appreciated. I'm going to go the way
of hosting, as you suggest, and save myself the heartache
Quoting jj12689 <[email protected]>:
To answer your first question, yes your laptop needs to be powered on
for users to be able to access the database and subscribe/unsubscribe.
There is another way of doing it, but it requires more work on your
part. You could make an online program that would generate SQL
statements and place them in a text document on the server. Every time a
user subscribes/unsubscribes it would add them to the end of the text
document. Then you could make an update button on a back-end admin page
that you would have to push that would take that text file, open it and
take the sql statements and submit it to the database on your computer.
I would advise against this method, since it is time consuming, and not
very fast for today's world. I would recomend using a server based
database, if the host you currently have dose not have a database, I
would recomend finding another host. I use surpasshosting.com for my
hosting because they are cheap, reliable, and have all the requirements
I need.
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