Re: problem setting user and group on mounting a cifs share

2008-04-29 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 21:16 +0200, Chris wrote: still does not work as expected. It does copy all the files in the source directory tree on running the first time. When run a second time it copies some, but not all files that were archived the first time, although these files have not

Re: problem setting user and group on mounting a cifs share

2008-04-29 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 22:46 +0200, Chris wrote: it only works with -ruv but not with -t. The time stamp is somehow not in the cards. Thus the files on the target all have the copy date. Not nice. No, not nice. I backup a W***ws server over smb nightly, which works well, but on the linux

Re: problem setting user and group on mounting a cifs share

2008-04-28 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 21:20 +0200, Chris wrote: I have two different machines on which I am mouting a cifs share with the following in /etc/fstab //192.168.178.27/share /mnt/share cifs users,noauto,credentials=/etc/cred 0 0 When the cifs module is loaded check for

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Mark Clarkson
Hi Tero, Vim is great for this but has a steep learning curve. Vim is also tuned for touch typists, which eventually pushed me into learning touch typing, which is great, especially for night time coding. One really simple and often overlooked feature is being able to view source code in two

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-05 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:16:02 -0800 Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian wrote: So can you explain exactly what the first ( echo $teststring ) does exactly please? In any case, I'd be interested in knowing where you found this construct. The bash man page seems to be one of

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-05 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:10:37 -0800 Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Clarkson wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:16:02 -0800 Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian wrote: So can you explain exactly what the first ( echo $teststring ) does exactly please? In any case

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-04 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:46:05 +0100 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could not get this to work, the shell complains: ./dirvish-mail.sh: 98: Syntax error: redirection unexpected Interesting to note that this does not work under busybox. I think this is rather an esoteric but often useful

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-03 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 19:48 +0100, Brian wrote: echo $teststring | { read A B C D E F; } echo Data received = $E Bytes --- $E is empty { read A B C D E F; } ( echo $teststring ) echo Data received = $E Bytes --- $E is empty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: MacBook

2008-02-09 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 14:46 -1000, RY wrote: To Whom It May Concern, I wanted to know if I could install Debian on a MacBook using Parallel Desktops. If this is possible which package do I use? The lack of middle-click plus many other little things drove me Mad when I did this last year,

Re: GUI programming

2008-01-17 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 07:06 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/17/08 03:53, Magnus Therning wrote: Jozef Peterka wrote: Hi there, just a short note: there are MANY popular toolkits, mostly qt(KDE), gtk(GNOME), wx, etc. etc. But, you are

Re: Converting 3gp to avi

2008-01-01 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 20:59 +, Mark Clarkson wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 19:48 +0100, Rico Secada wrote: Thanks, but this seems to need some unsupported codecs or something? I needed to do this the other way, avi to 3gp, and had to download the latest ffmpeg from subversion

Re: Converting 3gp to avi

2007-12-31 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 19:48 +0100, Rico Secada wrote: Thanks, but this seems to need some unsupported codecs or something? I needed to do this the other way, avi to 3gp, and had to download the latest ffmpeg from subversion as the debian-multimedia repository didn't have 3gp compiled in. I used