From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LhrRD-0006XF-W5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:23:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0890E0206; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:23:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f173.google.com (mail-ew0-f173.google.com [209.85.219.173]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B345E0206 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:23:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy21 with SMTP id 21so2206513ewy.34 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:23:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=x4r+HFFfI67nT1G8psCI1z89Nz5tfSg7Ou06SnDBlhI=; b=bvnq6CC3gUWq5OwZ4ZyvAK6D7RAYsYo5eESgnDtrARtIx3dIZujlQeXZqpwIfdbImY /cSXC24w4xEDcVDVJ8Q+3SCZNhpuTZY/xpSsHKJ3o9Gptd0T5ww0l3ItSkE8SEGghKvt tJn1yzXWcIcO1JEIGkxGU3f6d+5jndZ3AQ4OQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=rgW4//OjniVdtcosjD6Zx0fbOcDhaM6rs0z9/HGCY+BA/D4IsJ/t2295yQfhWYbBpd maS3v6xKnvGHPW8jXJcnirdcyHGxrVxxjfm+RaN4/JhXn57OUbWrsrPjydLM2lCJTYM6 s8+yAFWSlXsVfxjJ5YcxzMo7UDwCG+XGLV5IU= Received: by 10.210.127.13 with SMTP id z13mr82024ebc.91.1236889388753; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:23:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-227-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm1199208eya.56.2009.03.12.13.23.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:23:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:21:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.1 (Linux/2.6.28-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.2.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090311134054.4a4de361@lappy.evolone.org> <200903121252.16721.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20090312194332.38ee1a6b@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090312194332.38ee1a6b@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903122221.49932.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 66b54488-611b-4eb6-af1b-65c43d9f88a6 X-Archives-Hash: d1b127d3eddb41953664dec91d1c2464 On Thursday 12 March 2009 21:43:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > It didn't occur to me that when putting > the tilde at the wrong end, you were talking out of the wrong end :) I seem to be doing that a lot lately. You should have seen Tuesdays' blunder: mysql> UPDATE passwds set passwd=, status="NEW", updated="1236889084"; Rows matched: 4329 Changed: 4329 Warnings: 0 Hang on, that doesn't look right. there's no WHERE.... I hope there's a backup... What's in crontab -l? Lucky for me, some OTHER bright spark had mysqldump in a daily cron! -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com