Re: Forcing system to save all open files


"Geico Caveman" <spammers-begone@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

I am working on a critical LaTeX document these days that takes a lot of
work and I would prefer not to lose any (or at least much) work at any
time.

However, thanks to a bug in the atheros wireless driver of my network
card,
my system undergoes intermittent, unpredictable freezes. This is a
confirmed bug. Solution unknown. Nothing I can do about it.

To work around this, I want to set up a cron job that rsync's all my
documents to a remote server every 15 minutes. I do not mind having to
type
in the password. Passwordless RSA key logins are impossible as the remote
filesystem is on AFS and I cannot access my remote ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
before
I get tokens and mount the home directory. Running an openafs client is
also not advisable as this accursed bug seems to get triggered more
frequently if I have greater network activity and the openafs client
(which
would be a perfect solution otherwise) does generate that.

Anyhow, is there a way for me to force all open documents to be saved ?
Regardless of whether it is an open, unsaved session in emacs or kile or
even Microsoft Word running on Crossover Linux.

Yes, I will look into any autosave feature that my editors might have, but
if I could find a way to trigger a system wide save of all open documents
owned by a certain user (namely, myself), it would be so cool.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.


Backing up is of course a good idea...but you need to solve the REAL
problem...
which is that of your network card.

It makes NO sense to continue to use an unreliable machine.
If there is no fix for the driver then by all means get some supported H/W!

If you have a laptop...a PCMCIA card may be a viable solution if no patch
for your Atheros is eminent.


.

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