Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-22 Thread Ken Irving
for a new swen onslaught triggered by posting this, now that the last attack has slowed to 5 or so per day after a couple posts some weeks ago. -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering University

Re: Illegal characters in cron

2003-10-28 Thread Ken Irving
(\), will be changed into newline char­ acters, and all data after the first % will be sent to the command as standard input. Ken -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Ken Irving
for other MS executables, but in general this sort of solution is going to add cruft to my mail processing. I.e., the swen worm attack has a lasting impact, however small. Ken -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Ken Irving
the Broadcom working. It is reasonable to expect some difficulties in building a system with barely supported hardware, however non-rare it might be. Ken -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering University

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:26:39PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:08:05 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:17:52PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: ... It all comes down to specific hardware

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-02 Thread Ken Irving
/boot to /boot.new, then booted knoppix and renamed /boot.new to /boot (on the / partition), edited /etc/fstab to remove the /boot mount, chrooted to the / partition and ran lilo. Also needed to run cfdisk to make the / partition bootable, then was back in business. -- Ken Irving, Research

Re: Browsers that *don't* support about:blank

2003-11-03 Thread Ken Irving
that do and browsers that don't, but you're still going to need to point to an RFC to have a convincing argument. Good on the maintainer for adhering to standards and not giving in to creaping feeturitus. -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-03 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:42:32PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:13:17PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: wsa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Alvin Oga wrote: /boot is NOT needed ... - /boot was needed in the old days to guarantee that the boot kernel

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-04 Thread Ken Irving
you could be up and running, networking included, just with the default CD, then upgrade away after that. But maybe there's no PCI or ISA slots, or I'm obviously missing something. Good luck! Ken -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental

Re: firewall setup xdsl: eth0/eth1/ppp0?

2003-11-05 Thread Ken Irving
ppp0 and eth1 - it shouldn't block communication. so, what do you think, if I configure eth1 as external? thanks for any advice! andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ken Irving

Re: Phone dialer for Linux

2004-02-12 Thread Ken Irving
proceeding to its modem handshake mode. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-24 Thread Ken Irving
, or maybe elsewhere. Try googling on delete /tmp or something... Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-24 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:50:45AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:40:01PM +, andy wrote: Hi all Can someone advise me on the pros and cons of deleting the contents of /tmp/ as part of general security conscious non-paranoia. I was thinking that it would

Re: delete lines that contain duplicated column items

2007-04-03 Thread Ken Irving
column value hasn't been seen, print it and record it as seen. -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: script command operation question

2007-04-06 Thread Ken Irving
of the script after terminating the script session. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-17 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:23:19AM -0700, Leonid Grinberg wrote: opendir(DIR, system('pwd')); Sorry, that should be: opendir(DIR, `pwd`); ` returns output. system() does not. Or just use '.' as the directory name. -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Trying to end my subscription? HELP!

2007-04-18 Thread Ken Irving
, the unsub message is there, but is hidden due to it not having its own mime part -- or maybe it's that the unsub message is added after the final closing tags of the mime structure. It was submitted as a bug along with a possible fix, but for whatever reason the situation persists. Ken -- Ken Irving

Re: Trying to end my subscription? HELP!

2007-04-18 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:37:31PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:28:12 -0800 Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Ken, This has been discussed several times. As I recall it's really a bug I wasn't aware that it had, but that's because I'm relatively new

Re: Trying to end my subscription? HELP!

2007-04-18 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:21:48PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: Who know's if it will ever be fixed... ^ s/'// Arggh... -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-19 Thread Ken Irving
quoted in this message isn't very complete. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-19 Thread Ken Irving
only when it seems necessary, but the standard response to someone using find has been that it's bad due to spawning umpteen processes. Looks like that's no longer the case! Hmm, -execdir looks new as well, and very useful... Thanks! Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: aptitude deleted most of packages!!

2007-04-19 Thread Ken Irving
... ;-) The bug report seems to imply it's been fixed. -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] inline python (was Re: [ in /usr/bin Question)

2007-05-10 Thread Ken Irving
language is intrinsically superior to YOURS because it is not cryptic is, well, a comfortable belief, I suppose. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packaged version of killfile?

2007-05-17 Thread Ken Irving
a cost in keeping some frequent-and-otherwise-useful posters active on the list, and are in any case easily identified and ignorable by the OT tags. -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Ken Irving
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Re: Question about Mutt

2007-05-19 Thread Ken Irving
wondering is if there is some setting which would make messages marked for deletion available like a normal message, at least ... Just hold the shift key and use j or k (i.e., J or K) to go up or down. Without shift deleted messages are skipped, but not so with the shift key. Ken -- Ken Irving

Re: bash script error

2007-05-22 Thread Ken Irving
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Re: OT: symlinks question

2007-05-31 Thread Ken Irving
ln -s B mylink but is't there a simpler way to do it? I would be amazed if there weren't any (this operation occurs quite often), but I could not find any clues in man ln. Try: ln -s A --force mylink or ln -s A -f mylink Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

[OT] s's or m's ... was: Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-06-02 Thread Ken Irving
^R tops the list). Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Debian Package Manager

2007-06-25 Thread Ken Irving
and other documentation. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Debian Package Manager

2007-06-25 Thread Ken Irving
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:49:43AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wanted to install a motherboard monitor. I found one in the list, xmbmon, and chose to install it. It said installation complete. However, I have no idea how to find it and run it. It's

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-27 Thread Ken Irving
to address the subject question. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-31 Thread Ken Irving
of the three MS Word Text translators will be chosen, though surely that's obvious to a well trained user. ;-) Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What does apt and dpkg mean?

2006-11-01 Thread Ken Irving
, dpkg is similar in function to rpm. See the Debian Reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ also other documentation at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: delaying upgrades dangerous?

2006-11-02 Thread Ken Irving
this problem must occur pretty frequently. Are there really no safeguards against this? Perhaps taking the mirror offline or otherwise locking it might be necessary. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-03 Thread Ken Irving
there:, save, part1 } -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-04 Thread Ken Irving
, change word to newword, and it still didn't seem to work. The interesting part of the otherwise mundane problem was that the pattern to match is perhaps on two different lines. I don't see how this is addressed in the proffered solution. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-04 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 01:03:14PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 09:56:12PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:27:42PM +, michael wrote: I've been trying to do this with 'awk' but am hitting probs (not used awk for ages!) so all offers welcome

Re: cable modem connection slower than dial up

2006-11-06 Thread Ken Irving
setting for the interface. It might need to be reduced. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-06 Thread Ken Irving
with some specific token appearing anywhere within it; that was how I read the OP's statement, i.e., that the newline might be anywhere in the word. Here's a simple brute force re for perl that will do the deed: m/(\d+)\s+P[\n-]*r[\n-]*o[\n-]*c[\n-]*e[\n-]*s[\n-]*s[\n-]*o[\n-]*r/msg Ken -- Ken

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-07 Thread Ken Irving
info 5 Proces- sor junk info 6 Proc- essor junk info 7 Processor junk info 8 Processor junk info 9 Pro- cessor junk info 10 P rocessor Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: manual software installation

2006-11-07 Thread Ken Irving
from conflict with debian packages. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-09 Thread Ken Irving
or seemingly hung connections sometimes, but not always. As always, just a WAG. As someone showed in another thread, I've used a line in the interfaces file (in /etc/network/) to set this value. Good luck! Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-11 Thread Ken Irving
this done! Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread Ken Irving
{} \; or find -name 11419\* -exec mv {} somename \; if you'd like to have a look at it. There might be a problem with special characters in the name getting fouled up when the shell interprets it. If so, it might be possible to use rm if you escape those characters. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL

Re: Which firewall?

2006-11-22 Thread Ken Irving
to get a working system, but would need to master a bunch of fine manuals to fully understand iptables, so kiSS still has me using shorewall. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UNSUSCRIBE

2006-11-22 Thread Ken Irving
, which as PGP-MIME signed do *not* display the list info at the end. This is either a bug or a feature of the mailing list software. It's been reported as a bug, and could be fixed, but that's up to the list managers. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-29 Thread Ken Irving
%J.out, 128 Processo rs Requested, Dependency Condition ended(10417); RUNLIMIT ... -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Ken Irving
-rtc.html Sounds promising, but it doesn't actually work. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:11:38PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: On 11/29/06, Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:51:21PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: With the regular GUIs in Windows (XP), I don't think it is possible to use BIOS UTC time... but maybe (probably

Re: shell script and variable problem

2006-12-01 Thread Ken Irving
) that would clarify what's going on. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shell script and variable problem

2006-12-01 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 06:51:05PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: The problem is that my test if [ -n $exlist -a -f $exlist ] does not work. For some reason, this always evaluate to true, and then the tar command fails. Why is this? Not sure, but it'll work if you enclose the variable

aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-02 Thread Ken Irving
and will be REMOVED: ... I'll probably just go back to using apt-get, and probably everything will be fine until the next time I decide to try aptitude. Is there a compelling reason to bother? Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-02 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:39:04AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: $ sudo aptitude install wmmoonclock -s ... The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: groff imagemagick libconfig-inifiles-perl perlmagick python2.3 python2.3-iconvcodec ... Per another thread, I tried

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-02 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 05:34:23AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061202 04:52]: I've periodically tried using aptitude, but always get scared off when it seems to run away. I'm sure it knows what's best for my machine ;-), but is it possible to override

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-02 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:00:14PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:39:04 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: I'll probably just go back to using apt-get, and probably everything will be fine until the next time I decide to try aptitude. Is there a compelling reason to bother

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-02 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:38:46AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061202 06:26]: On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 05:34:23AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: Does synaptic do something better than apt-get? It doesn't appear to be very usable on a command-line

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-02 Thread Ken Irving
conflicts with aptititude, then couldn't this be handled in the package setup as policy? Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-02 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 01:05:29AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 11:27:46 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: If it isn't safe to use apt-get once aptitide is installed, i.e., apt-get conflicts with aptititude, then couldn't this be handled in the package setup as policy

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-04 Thread Ken Irving
the installation despite removals being pending. How do you do this? The only way I was able to figure out was to do the removals first, so they were no longer pending. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Ken Irving
these lines, you could use touch (somehow) to make the file timestamp agree with the time value shown in the name, and then use file test operators. Maybe touch a dummy file to the age limit you want, and use $target-file -ot $limit-file as the test. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Crontab Problem

2006-12-09 Thread Ken Irving
it to \%. I don't see any hint of that in crontab(1) or cron(8), but I do see some hits on google that talk about it. I've looked on stable and unstable, not testing. Are the manpages in error? -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Crontab Problem

2006-12-09 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 09:18:48PM -0600, W Paul Mills wrote: Ken Irving wrote: On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:13:22PM -0500, Bill Marcum wrote: The % sign has a special meaning in crontabs. Change it to \%. I don't see any hint of that in crontab(1) or cron(8), but I do see some hits

unscientific debian users world survey

2006-12-20 Thread Ken Irving
effects and any number of other complicating factors, but I think it gives a crude hint at the span of debian users around the world. I'd like to be able to extend the pipe to maybe plot a bar chart against a world map, but that'll have to wait. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Media Wiki 1.7 - Set-up / Install Help

2007-07-02 Thread Ken Irving
makes sense -- not sure why this isn't done automatically, but maybe it has to do with single- or multi-wiki sites... Hope this helps... Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Media Wiki 1.7 - Set-up / Install Help

2007-07-03 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:33:38AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: On Monday 02 July 2007 12:04, Ken Irving wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:19:15AM +0100, Nick Adie wrote: The read me file is very confusing as it talks about a file that does not exist and a symbolic link that appears

[OT] bash HISTCONTROL=ignorespace; was Re: libraries in debian BROKEN...

2007-07-20 Thread Ken Irving
saw sitting there ready to accidentally cut again. Or something... -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Script of the ftp

2007-07-20 Thread Ken Irving
to be in your scripts. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CUPS: unable to configure printer

2007-07-28 Thread Ken Irving
: username: root password: the_password_of_root I'm unable to find where this is documented, but add your user to the 'lpadmin' group, and you can use your regular user password for the cups admin web pages. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CUPS: unable to configure printer

2007-07-28 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:16:28PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:18:26PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Thomas Beresford [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070727 22:49]: Hello, I tried to setup my HP PSC 1315 printer today on my Debian Etch running CUPS 1.2.12

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-07 Thread Ken Irving
' in front of the command, and will see the expanded command in the output. E.g., the previous command would be: find . -name \*.wav -exec echo lame -h -b 160 {} {}.mp3 \; If it looks good remove the 'echo', or maybe pipe the resulting list of commands into xargs. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL

Re: How to make phone call using modem in Linux

2007-08-11 Thread Ken Irving
want. (Hmm, reminds me of the Microsoft approach to office software standards...) Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Command touch and irregular file names

2007-08-14 Thread Ken Irving
it? Thanks tong -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: view the exit status from command line

2007-08-15 Thread Ken Irving
! Here's a $0.02 recipe from my ~/.bashrc: if [ $PS1 ]; then PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -n $? ' fi This way, an interactive bash will print the exit status of the last command before its prompt, so you can _always_ see it. Very handy, IMO. :-) Thanks for this great idea! -- Ken Irving

Re: view the exit status from command line

2007-08-15 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:42:16PM +0200, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: Ken Irving wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:21:17PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to know if the command exited with status zero or non-zero. Can this be done

Re: nslookup from behing router/modem

2007-08-16 Thread Ken Irving
' entry in some file on your system... Good luck! Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to make phone call using modem in Linux

2007-08-17 Thread Ken Irving
call too. Maybe dtmfdial is a solution too, but I don't know how to configure it yet. any other idea, who have make phone call using modem on Linux before? Please let me know. Thank you all. ;) Thang Kieu On 8/11/07, Ken Irving [EMAIL

Re: /sys/power/state question with sudoers!

2007-08-19 Thread Ken Irving
, but this defeats the purpose of restricting sudo to a certain set of commands. The command here is 'sh', so this could be restricted as usual. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /sys/power/state question with sudoers!

2007-08-19 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 07:56:07PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 07:09:29AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: $ sudo sh -c cd /home ; du -s * ??? sort -rn USAGE So, you can do it in on command, sudo is lauching a shell, which is responsible of redirections

Re: DHCP renewal..

2007-08-19 Thread Ken Irving
, and then you'll be screwing up that other user as well as yourself. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DHCP renewal..

2007-08-19 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:04:34PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Ken Irving wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 02:25:14PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: Running a liveCD system. At the first boot ip-address is obtained via DHCP The ip-address is changed to a static ip-address

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Ken Irving
other commands, but find that I prefer using the real thing directly. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory

2007-08-20 Thread Ken Irving
and always: chroot /f: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

2007-08-23 Thread Ken Irving
access it. Since there's no modem, there are no dialing strings. Doug. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Command to see ip address on etch stable

2007-08-23 Thread Ken Irving
the settings for each interface; you can alternatively specify the interface you want to see, e.g,. $ ifconfig eth0 If you're behind a NAT router (or even if not), there are websites that can show you the Internet IP you're on, e.g., perhaps checkmyip.com. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

2007-08-24 Thread Ken Irving
with screen showing a shell on the local host, i.e., the same as without those arguments. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

2007-08-24 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:48:42AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:14:21AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: As an alternative to minicom, 'screen' also makes a useful serial terminal program. At least on OS X, I often do something like this to talk to routers and the like

broken old installer?

2007-08-24 Thread Ken Irving
installer? -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: broken old installer?

2007-08-24 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:21:17AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: I'm somewhat CD-writing-impaired, and have always installed debian systems using outdated installers. For a long time I used a woody net install cd, but since mid-2005 I've been using a sarge net install cd, as recently as a month

Re: broken old installer?

2007-08-24 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:51:29AM +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:49:52PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: but since mid-2005 I've been using a sarge net install cd, as recently as a month ago, without problems. Now I'm seeing the install fail. ... Should I

Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Ken Irving
above? find . -name \*.c -type f -exec grep -H a_certain_function {} \; The -H option to grep makes it output the filename; that ought to help with your command above. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: ssh-agent (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

2007-08-30 Thread Ken Irving
to running cron jobs and such by providing a script which you source to set a few variables to the authorized keys. You need to connect to the host once to authorize those keys, but after that the jobs can run autonomously. Not sure if this is relevant... Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: undigesting and filtering by list-id

2007-09-24 Thread Ken Irving
, threading and replying), which doesn't preserve the 'list-id' header. Is there no choice, then, but to filter by 'to' (and 'cc' etc.)? Perhaps you can use formail -A list-id: ... to add that header? -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: undigesting and filtering by list-id

2007-09-24 Thread Ken Irving
actually get hit. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Ken Irving
and perspectives. This thread has raised a lot of issues, and, while I don't share the OP's particular problem or needs, much of the discussion has been interesting and potentially useful. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: more of that sed editing (Re: ASCII Formatter Whose Name I've Forgotten)

2007-09-26 Thread Ken Irving
in emails. It my not handle your runaway foobar example very well, though: $ echo barfoobarbarfoobarbarfoobarbarfoobarbarfoobarbarfoobar | par -w 40 barfoobarbarfoobarbarfoobarbarfoobarbarf oobarbarfoobar -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: bash expansion crap...

2007-10-02 Thread Ken Irving
the for loop would be appropriate? for (( expr1 ; expr2 ; expr3 )) ; do list ; done First, the arithmetic expression expr1 is evaluated according to the rules described below under ARITHMETIC EVALUATION. The arithmetic ... Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to access RS-232 console from terminal?

2007-10-04 Thread Ken Irving
possible to drive the serial port directly via terminal or shell, but maybe a bit tough to get the stty settings configured correctly, something that minicom does for you. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: gnome alarm clock / egg timer?

2007-10-09 Thread Ken Irving
. * Add multiple Timer Applets to the panel to have multiple timers running simultaneously * User interface follows the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Wiki page automation (POST method with urlencode)

2007-10-15 Thread Ken Irving
can get raw text page quickly from wiki using w3m command. I can use vim to edit it. I should be able to post data with w3m using POST method. But the data needs to be encoded etc. which makes it a bit cumbersome. Is there any tool set or script example to upload page to wiki. -- Ken

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