When my office machine is reinstalled, will the crontab be preserved, or will it be overwritten?
When a machine is reinstalled, it doesn’t have cronjobs for users accounts in /var/spool/crontab. The remedy is to set your login shell to reinstall a set of cronjobs whenever you start a shell. • Make ~/.crontab contains the cronjobs like they appear with crontab -l. • Add “crontab -f ~/.crontab” to your “.bash_profile” file. The .bash_profile runs when your account starts a new bash login shell (aka you open a terminal window, or start an ssh connection). How can I burn a CDROM? You’ll need a blank CD-R and access to a CD burner. The computers in 314 are all equipped with burners, and the program k3b should do the trick for custom CDs. If you already have an iso image, you can open a file manager window, right-click on the iso image file, and select “Burn to Disc” from the menu. CDs can also be created with the command line applications mkisofs, and cdrecord or growisofs.
