Re: bash question (Solved!)

2002-05-24 Thread Kenny Donahue
Paul Iadonisi wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 16:45, Kenny Donahue wrote: Ok, here's one for all you bash experts out there. I have a line in a script that does this: lspci -d1134:1 | /usr/bin/wc -l The idea of course is to get the number of our boards in the system. the funny thing

bash question

2002-05-23 Thread Kenny Donahue
Ok, here's one for all you bash experts out there. I have a line in a script that does this: lspci -d1134:1 | /usr/bin/wc -l The idea of course is to get the number of our boards in the system. the funny thing is, if I log in as root I get 2/* Note the 6 blank spaces before the 2 */

Re: bash question

2002-05-23 Thread Kenny Donahue
, Kenny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated: Thu, 23 May 2002 16:45:47 EDT Kenny Donahue said: Ok, here's one for all you bash experts out there. I have a line in a script that does this: lspci -d1134:1 | /usr/bin/wc -l [...snip...] /* Note the 6 blank spaces before the 2 */ if I

Re: bash question

2002-05-23 Thread Kenny Donahue
nope. TERM=xterm on both which xterm /usr/bin/X11/xterm on both Ken Ambrose wrote: On Thu, 23 May 2002, Kenny Donahue wrote: lspci -d1134:1 | /usr/bin/wc -l The idea of course is to get the number of our boards in the system. the funny thing is, if I log in as root I get 2

Re: Apache server attbi question: Update

2002-04-03 Thread Kenny Donahue
the same ( I use DHCP from the Linksys) and I had stopped/ /started the Apache server several times thinking that was the issue. Anyway, all is well now. Thanks again for the help, Kenny In a message dated: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 10:11:44 EST Kenny Donahue said: Hi all, This is a little bit off topic

Re: Apache server attbi question

2002-04-02 Thread Kenny Donahue
mike ledoux wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:11:44AM -0500, Kenny Donahue wrote: This is a little bit off topic but has anyone been able to get their Apache server working with the change from Mediaone.net to attbi.com? Mine's working

Laptop help

2002-03-13 Thread Kenny Donahue
Hi All, Wow, two post in a week. This is scary! We are having some laptop problems and were wondering if any of the admin. gurus out there could help us. We just installed RH 7.2 on to a Dell Latitude laptop. The install went fine but we are having troubles with the ether net stuff. We want

Linux admin help

2002-03-11 Thread Kenny Donahue
Hi All, Can anyone point me towards a good reference for linux admin information? Linux is not officially supported here so we have to self admin most of the time. I searched the web but the 6 billion hits I got were hard to sort out grin. Thanks, Kenny -- Ken Donahue Software Engineer phone:

Re: Linux admin help

2002-03-11 Thread Kenny Donahue
-0631893-0820840 it's due to be published on the 29th, for $50, and worth every penny. -Ken On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 09:34, Kenny Donahue wrote: Hi All, Can anyone point me towards a good reference for linux admin information? Linux is not officially supported here so we have to self admin

Re: Linux admin help

2002-03-11 Thread Kenny Donahue
Thanks, I use man -k a lot. I've never had too much trouble finding out what I need from either the man pages, the web, or real admins. A couple of the unix admins here are linux/bsd geeks so they are also a big help. The problem is every time I need to do something, I have to stop,' search,

Linux Install

2001-04-12 Thread Kenny Donahue
Hi all, I have another Linux install issue for you. I just bought an AMD TBird 900 and an Abit KT7A MB with an onboard ATA 100 RAID controller (HT370 I think). To get windows 98 to work without corrupting my c: drive twice a day, I moved the single HD to the RAID IDE connector. Windows now works

Re: Install help please

2001-04-03 Thread Kenny Donahue
. It's now past midnight and I'm going to bed. G'night all, Kenny Stephen Ryan wrote: On 2 Apr, Kenny Donahue wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get Linux installed on my new machine but I'm having problems getting X to come up. I have an Abit KT7ARAID mb and an Abit Gforce 2 MX graphics card

Install help please

2001-04-02 Thread Kenny Donahue
Hi all, I'm trying to get Linux installed on my new machine but I'm having problems getting X to come up. I have an Abit KT7ARAID mb and an Abit Gforce 2 MX graphics card. For some reason I can't get get X to install properly. Everything else seems ok. Any ideas? Please don't be shy about

Re: Install help please

2001-04-02 Thread Kenny Donahue
: In a message dated: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 10:22:54 EDT Kenny Donahue said: Hi all, I'm trying to get Linux installed on my new machine but I'm having problems getting X to come up. I have an Abit KT7ARAID mb and an Abit Gforce 2 MX graphics card. For some reason I can't get get X to install

Re: Red Hat 7.0 install problems

2000-12-20 Thread Kenny Donahue
I tried runnig fdisk from windows, this is what I got. -- Display Partition Information Current fixed disk drive: 1 Partition Status TypeVolume Label Mbytes System Usage 1

Red Hat 7.0 install problems

2000-12-18 Thread Kenny Donahue
Hi all, I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this install problem I'm having. I'm trying to install RH 7 on a pII 350 as part of a duel boot machine. I'm doing a typical custom install (all defaults plus kernel dev, emacs, and utils). The problem is Linux will not boot. After the reboot,

Re: firewall on a floppy

2000-11-27 Thread Kenny Donahue
. My wife's system has an on-board 100Mbps. I had to buy a NIC for my Laptop, so I got a 100 (cardbus), and got a 100 for my tower because I use it to back up my wife's system. On 21 Nov 2000, at 16:20, Kenny Donahue wrote: I was looking at these. I'm still thinking of getting one for my

firewall on a floppy

2000-11-21 Thread Kenny Donahue
Hi All, Well, cable modems are finally available in Nashua (and there was much rejoicing). I would like to set up a "firewall on a floppy" using my old 486. I've found several that seem to do want but I really don't know much about firewalls. Which one's are people happy with and which ones

Re: What do you want to hear about?

2000-11-09 Thread Kenny Donahue
I'm planning on doing this myself. I'm planning a HERMS/RIMS system with temp sensors and pump relays attached to an old pc running Linux. Cheap, cool and way too geeky. Any one who wants to be introduced to all grain home brewing, let me know. I still do it the old fashioned way using all manual

put_user or copy_to_user?

2000-08-08 Thread Kenny Donahue
Hi, I'm fairly new to Linux drivers so I've been playing with the examples by Ori Pomerantz. Ori uses put_user in a loop and copies each char in one by one, move the pointer and returns the number of bytes copied. The read is then (magically) called again and it returns zero. I changed this

Re: put_user or copy_to_user?

2000-08-08 Thread Kenny Donahue
Thanks Mike, Re-reading my post I realized that I forgot to ask my question. When is the proper time to use one over the other? The copy_to_user seem to have less overhead since it's not in a while loop but if it's not going to be used anymore, I guess I should use put_user. Thanks, Kenny

More teach the newbie

2000-07-13 Thread Kenny Donahue
Hi, Thanks for all the "e-mail on Linux" responses. I think I'm going to stick with Netscape for now and hope newer versions get more stable. I still use pine when telneting or just a quick and dirty e-mail though. If you all don't mind, I have a couple more questions. Until now, I've been a

Email on Linux

2000-07-11 Thread Kenny Donahue
Hi all, What do people use for e-mail and web browsing on their Linux boxes? Right now I'm running Netscape 4.73 for my browser and e-mail. I really don't like them at all. They are way too unstable. I don't want to go back to the Pine/Elm/Emacs days since I've become spoiled with spell check,