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10:21 AM

@karel. For some reason, the user in that discussion channel never types when I'm online. He usually types a message between 12 hours and a couple of days later.

L. D. James

10:34 AM

I decided to stop trying for a while.

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Q: Syntax error when i use ssh with awk over bc

I basically get the memory usage from two different nodes via ssh and store this in two different variables. I then select the host with lesser memory and return a code 0 or 1. function selectNode() { arr=("$@") mem1=$((ssh ${arr[0]} "free -m | awk 'NR==2{print \"%f\n\", \$3*100/\$2 }'")...

karel

@L.D.James At least he accepted your answer first. I had users go "thank you very much" no accept, no upvote and then two years later I got the green checkmark. I've even done some research on this and discovered that users who abandon their questions for a long time have a higher probability than average of getting any of their questions downvoted.

That result surprised me, I wasn't expecting it. I now try to reply in some form within 24 hours to answers to all questions that I ask.

L. D. James

I appreciate the accept answer. I tried and was very much involved. But I can't get over the frustration of, at the time spending 10 minutes typing steps, then without any response, he just leaves, just as he did this morning. Then I have to wait 10 hours or a few days to see the results of the commands I gave.

I believe he starts to get some insight and decide to work on his own, then get stuck, and come back to tell me where he got stuck. I believe this is the case this morning. He ignored me until, most likely he was stuck again.

It wouldn't be bad if he would message, he has to go, or any type of courtesy... he just leaves without any response. This is the first time he came back within a couple of hours, then respond to the last message.

At first, I thought he was leaving because he was having problems with his connection, or preparing his computer for the command, or something to that effect. When it always happened, I decided to get him to type while I was online by asking him if he was there. It was within five minutes of me getting the chat notice. He ignored the message and dropped out of chat. Then came back and answered my question.

@karel Yes. I never forget when I was new to AU. I used to ask questions and sometimes take a while to come back to check for answers. Most systems are not as quick and direct as AU.

But an actual chat/discussion is different. Even out of frustration, I couldn't just drop out while the user was there without excusing myself.

RobotHumans

3:23 PM

Does anyone else wish we had "apt-get -U install"? it'ld behave like pip -U install or apk -U install, where you inline specify -U instead of apt-get update && apt-get install.

Videonauth

3:33 PM

@RobotHumans not really, as it opens up for even more failures while updating, and in turn more questions which are dupes anyways

RobotHumans

@Videonauth A fair point. It just seemed like extra keystrokes, and I have the sysadmin virtue of laziness (spends 2 hours automating a 5 second task)

Videonauth

hehehe, why does that sound familiar? :p

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