Sometimes we should be careful on what we wish for. Yeah, I am now trapping in this situation. Last year, I consulted my counselor and said to him about my interest on out-of-town or overseas project. My assignment always in the Jakarta since joined this company and client near the head-quarter. On the other hand, friends from my batch have opportunity to involve in out-of-town project or be assigned to the client which is far from the head-quarter. Different traffic jam, different allowance.
I am now a SAP-BASIS consultant. If you ask me about my position, whether I like it so I won’t hesitate answering your question “NO”. I never want to be a technical consultant and I know my capability and what I can do. I prefer involve in the project where I can understand the client’s business process and how to make the best decision to improve their production, their performance and reduce the production cost. That the reason why I love so much my last project. It was a strategic-related project. My client wanted to find the potential distributor for their product in Indonesia, distributor who know how to import a short-age product and have experience in its distribution. It was not an easy task but I love it so much although I did not get allowance.
That project also inspired me to pursue my master degree in Industrial Management and I plan to take it next year through Erasmus-Mundus’ program. But I have to prepare all the required documents such as TOEFL and GMAT certificate. And it is the big problem for me now because I just received confirmation from my HR representative that I will be assigned in Kuala Lumpur for 7 months (July 2009 – January 2010).
Arrrgh, this is suck. How can I prepare my TOEFL and GMAT certification if I be there? Maybe you will say, I can prepare myself there but GMAT is something new for me and I plan to take the course before I ready for the certification and I have to take the both certification this year because the application deadline for the reception of application is on January 2010.
What should I do? Should I reject the assignment? Or should I wait 1 more year to apply the master degree. Please show me the way out.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Monday, March 02, 2009
UNIX Crontab
Cron is used to execute tasks as background job at the specific time in UNIX system. Crontab (Cron Table) is a file which contains the schedule of cron entries to be run at specified times.
1. Crontab Restriction
You can execute crontab if your name appears in the file /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow. If that file does not exist, you can use crontab if your name does not appear in the file /usr/lib/cron/cron.deny. If only cron.deny exists and is empty, all users can use crontab. If neither file exists, only the root user can use crontab. The allow/deny files consist of one user name per line
2. Crontab Commands
export EDITOR=vi to specify a editor to open crontab file.
crontab -e Edit your crontab file, or create one if it doesn't already exist.
crontab -l Display your crontab file.
crontab -r Remove your crontab file.
crontab -v Display the last time you edited your crontab file. (This option is only available on a few systems).
3. Crontab File
A crontab file has five fields for specifying day , date and time followed by the command to be run at that interval
* in the value field above means all legal values as in braces for that column.
The value column can have a * or a list of elements separated by commas. An element is either a number in the ranges shown above or two numbers in the range separated by a hyphen (meaning an inclusive range).
4. Crontab Example
A line in crontab file like below removes the tmp files from /home/someuser/tmp each day at 6:30 PM.
30 18 * * * rm /home/someuser/tmp/*
Changing the parameter values as below will cause this command to run at different time schedule below :
If you inadvertently enter the crontab command with no argument(s), do not attempt to get out with Control-d. This removes all entries in your crontab file. Instead, exit with Control-c.
5. Crontab Environment
cron invokes the command from the user's HOME directory with the shell, (/usr/bin/sh).
cron supplies a default environment for every shell, defining:
HOME=user's-home-directory
LOGNAME=user's-login-id
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:.
SHELL=/usr/bin/sh
Users who desire to have their .profile executed must explicitly do so in the crontab entry or in a script called by the entry
6. Disable Mail
By default cron jobs sends a email to the user account executing the cronjob. If this is not needed put the following command At the end of the cron job line .
>/dev/null 2>&1
7. Generate log file
To collect the cron execution execution log in a file :
30 18 * * * rm /home/someuser/tmp/* > /home/someuser/cronlogs/clean_tmp_dir.log
1. Crontab Restriction
You can execute crontab if your name appears in the file /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow. If that file does not exist, you can use crontab if your name does not appear in the file /usr/lib/cron/cron.deny. If only cron.deny exists and is empty, all users can use crontab. If neither file exists, only the root user can use crontab. The allow/deny files consist of one user name per line
2. Crontab Commands
export EDITOR=vi to specify a editor to open crontab file.
crontab -e Edit your crontab file, or create one if it doesn't already exist.
crontab -l Display your crontab file.
crontab -r Remove your crontab file.
crontab -v Display the last time you edited your crontab file. (This option is only available on a few systems).
3. Crontab File
A crontab file has five fields for specifying day , date and time followed by the command to be run at that interval
* in the value field above means all legal values as in braces for that column.
The value column can have a * or a list of elements separated by commas. An element is either a number in the ranges shown above or two numbers in the range separated by a hyphen (meaning an inclusive range).
4. Crontab Example
A line in crontab file like below removes the tmp files from /home/someuser/tmp each day at 6:30 PM.
30 18 * * * rm /home/someuser/tmp/*
Changing the parameter values as below will cause this command to run at different time schedule below :
If you inadvertently enter the crontab command with no argument(s), do not attempt to get out with Control-d. This removes all entries in your crontab file. Instead, exit with Control-c.
5. Crontab Environment
cron invokes the command from the user's HOME directory with the shell, (/usr/bin/sh).
cron supplies a default environment for every shell, defining:
HOME=user's-home-directory
LOGNAME=user's-login-id
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:.
SHELL=/usr/bin/sh
Users who desire to have their .profile executed must explicitly do so in the crontab entry or in a script called by the entry
6. Disable Mail
By default cron jobs sends a email to the user account executing the cronjob. If this is not needed put the following command At the end of the cron job line .
>/dev/null 2>&1
7. Generate log file
To collect the cron execution execution log in a file :
30 18 * * * rm /home/someuser/tmp/* > /home/someuser/cronlogs/clean_tmp_dir.log
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Nothing Certain Here
February 16, 2009 I back to work again after the vacation I took last week due to my grandmother’s funeral. I open my outlook and there are 3 incoming emails. The first two is from my friend and the other one is from my ex supervisor. Email from my ex supervisor is about helping request. He asked me to help him creating a SOP (standard operation procedure) with regards to access to Production server (both SAP and OS Level).
It’s Ok for me to help him because it’s still related to SAP. Just 5 minutes started my work, another manager come to me asking for a help. What the eff…… I feel like a servant. I think not only me the one in the office who sitting on the bench. There are at least 15 persons and they available to help him. Why does he want my help? I heard his explanation and after he explained it to me, I said to him that I have another job from my ex supervisor. He looked disappointed, but I did not care.
I called my ex supervisor who also my counselor asked him about the task he gave me. After heard his explanation I dare to ask him about my next project. 2 weeks ago my HR representative and him said I will be assigned to A*P project. It’s a SAP Implementation project. Can you guess what did He say to me on the phone? He said maybe I will not be the team member in this project….S*it….. They promise me this project 2 weeks ago and now they said the different thing. Upset fill me up and I have no sprit anymore to complete the task he just gave me…..
I think there is something wrong with this company. They expect us to work maximal, but what feedback they gave to us? They can only give you promises and they never try to fulfill them.
Hmm….maybe this is the fate of being an analyst, the bottom-line position in the organization structure. You have to and must do what the upper-line ask you to do even though you do not want to do it for some reasons.
If you work in this company, you have to learn to maintain your expectation because nothing certain here.
It’s Ok for me to help him because it’s still related to SAP. Just 5 minutes started my work, another manager come to me asking for a help. What the eff…… I feel like a servant. I think not only me the one in the office who sitting on the bench. There are at least 15 persons and they available to help him. Why does he want my help? I heard his explanation and after he explained it to me, I said to him that I have another job from my ex supervisor. He looked disappointed, but I did not care.
I called my ex supervisor who also my counselor asked him about the task he gave me. After heard his explanation I dare to ask him about my next project. 2 weeks ago my HR representative and him said I will be assigned to A*P project. It’s a SAP Implementation project. Can you guess what did He say to me on the phone? He said maybe I will not be the team member in this project….S*it….. They promise me this project 2 weeks ago and now they said the different thing. Upset fill me up and I have no sprit anymore to complete the task he just gave me…..
I think there is something wrong with this company. They expect us to work maximal, but what feedback they gave to us? They can only give you promises and they never try to fulfill them.
Hmm….maybe this is the fate of being an analyst, the bottom-line position in the organization structure. You have to and must do what the upper-line ask you to do even though you do not want to do it for some reasons.
If you work in this company, you have to learn to maintain your expectation because nothing certain here.
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