Linux-Misc Digest #61, Volume #28 Fri, 8 Jun 01 14:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: linux and the modem -- a little help? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: XFree86 resolution (Yvan Loranger)
Re: merging files into one recurisively (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
Re: linux and the modem -- a little help? (Frank da Cruz)
Re: Replicating Linux computers ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: directory map command? (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
Re: Enlightenment and Logitech MouseMan ("Georges Heinesch")
A grep question ("Georges Heinesch")
stronger password with pam (christophe donnier)
Re: hardware autodetection (John Hasler)
Re: A grep question (Yvan Loranger)
Re: A grep question (Stephen Rank)
Re: AC'97 sound chips on board - no sound in RedHat 7.0 (Giles Morant)
Re: missing beep, RH7.1 (Leonard Evens)
Re: GROUP TAKEOVER IN PROGRESS (b2k)
Re: hardware autodetection ("Paul E. Bennett")
Re: System.map deleted by mistake ("D. Stimits")
Re: GROUP TAKEOVER IN PROGRESS (Steve)
Re: merging files into one recurisively (Vilmos Soti)
Re: WINE.CONF (Pete Clements)
Re: New Server: Hardware under Linux ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: Can LINUX "kill" a user application on it's own? ("Steve Wolfe")
need book on unix/linux utilities (Lori Holder-Webb)
Re: Printing problem: selecting input tray (Marek Zawadzki)
Re: A grep question (Jan Schaumann)
Re: Linux Q3A ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: How much is Linux (TM) worth? (Marek Zawadzki)
Floppy format confusion,HELP!!! (Jeff Pierce)
Re: Printing problem: selecting input tray (Bob Tennent)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: linux and the modem -- a little help?
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:40:54 +0200
In comp.os.linux.misc Cary Kittrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My question: can someone tell me of any software out
> there which will drive a modem under Linux? Though,
Drive one? Do you mean, listen on one, and start a login session
when the time comes? Or do you want a pppd there? Whatever ... mgetty
is the thing for the task.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
Subject: Re: XFree86 resolution
Date: 8 Jun 2001 15:13:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
Chad Lemmen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> Thanks for the info. xf86cfg won't work on version 4.1.0, it exits with
> a "signal 11 error" I think thats what it was. It does that after reporting
> a bunch of unresolved sym links. So I installed 4.0.2 and ran
> XFree86 -configure and it generated XF86Config for me without errors. I then
> reinstalled 4.1.0 and just used the XF86Config generated from 4.0.2. I added
> a Mode line for "800x600" and added DefaultDepth 24 since it was defaulting
> to 8. Everything seems to be working ok now.
rhetorical question: has everyone forgotten my favourite xf86config proggy?
[assuming it's still being used for 4.1]
--
Merci........Yvan Pour le plein air: Club Vertige
http://www.ncf.ca/vertige
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From: Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: merging files into one recurisively
Date: 8 Jun 2001 15:15:08 GMT
David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
> Iam running RedHat 6.2 (server). I want to merge together a bunch of
> files, that are in a directory structure. Then remove all duplicate
> words and setting the remainer as a comma separated list of words.
> How can I do this?
Hmm, interesting problem...it depends a bit on the original format
of the files. You can merge them all with cat, like
find /dir1 -type f -exec cat {} \; > /otherdir/all
To remove duplicate words, look at "man sort" and "man uniq". These
will only really work correctly if your original files (and hence the merged
file) have one word per line. If they don't, you're going to have to do
some more preprocessing on them.
Anyway, if they are just one word per line, and they don't have to
be in any particular order,
sort all | uniq > all.uniq
Then, to make them comma-separated, under the bash shell, do
while read LINE ; do
echo -n $LINE,
done < all.uniq > all.comma
(This will leave a comma after the last word in the file. I don't
know if this will be a problem for you or not.)
Of course, you could just do away with all the intermediate files,
and do
find /dir1 -type f -exec cat {} \; | sort | uniq | while read LINE ; do echo -n $LINE,
; done > all.comma
JDW
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank da Cruz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: linux and the modem -- a little help?
Date: 8 Jun 2001 15:16:50 GMT
In article <9fqjf0$utp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Cary Kittrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: ... can someone tell me of any software out
: there which will drive a modem under Linux?
:
Kermit:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html
The Kermit program on one end makes the call
with the modem. On the far end, the call is
answered by some form of getty. Then the Kermit
program on the other computer can be used in
conjunction with the calling Kermit program to
transfer files.
It can be totally scripted for unattended
operation.
- Frank
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Replicating Linux computers
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 17:00:41 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Peter> The point is that ghost does it via broadcast, so you can
> Peter> do 50 at once. You'd need 50 helpers to do it at once the
> Peter> way I just described. Mind you, you could race round the
> Peter> room with the floppy. I once wrote the /etc/rc file to do
> Peter> all that while installing a room full of clients. As I
> Peter> recall, it took me the first two rows (about 8 machines) to
> Peter> get it right. The trouble is that one has to program in a
> .................................................^^^^^^
> Peter> reboot in order that the kernel sees the new partition
> Peter> table ..
> Wrong! You don't need a reboot.
> Firstly, most, if not all, fdisk utilities on Linux will use the
> appropriate ioctl() calls to tell the kernel to re-read the partition
> table. This feature has been there since the first time I used
Unfortunately it will fail if the disk is mounted, which it generally
is at this point, because we're copying data to it (hic).
> Peter> either that or you have to hope that all the
> Peter> bioses and all the disks are exactly alike (they never are)
> Peter> and dd the whole disk (which is how ghost does it,
> Peter> usually).
> If all the machines are identical, that's not a problem. Having to
> configure different IP addresses for the machines is more difficult.
> So, if the machines are to be networked together, you would eventually
> want to set up BOOTP or even better: DHCP (but I prefer DHCP with
> statistically assigned IP addresses). If you have set up DHCP or
> BOOTP, then network booting is just a few steps away. So, why not
> network-boot the machines? Why not have one server serve the file
> system to all other machines (NFS root-mount)? That would save much
> maintenance work in the long run. (Imagine having to apply distro
> patches!)
It's no problem to maintain large numbers of separate clients at once
(I have hundreds). I use a script system called "doit" to distribute
and queue tasks, and another which compares md5sums of everything
everywhere and gives the majority verdict to the minority class.
The number of differences between the machines is of the order of
10-20 files.
Peter
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From: Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: directory map command?
Date: 8 Jun 2001 15:20:17 GMT
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael wrote:
>> can't find a command I once used to output my complete directory
>> stucture to a file. Can anyone help?
> Is the command "tree > save_to_file" what you are looking for?
What distribution has the command "tree"? Slackware 7.1 doesn't...
Maybe "find > file" would work for the OP.
JDW
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Date: 8 Jun 2001 16:45:49 +0100
From: "Georges Heinesch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Enlightenment and Logitech MouseMan
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
I solved the problem. It was a broken Enlightenment installation. I
installed Englightenment before the MouseMan was properly configured
in XF86Config. That was the reason why the "User menu" didn't show up.
Georges
--
Quoting Georges Heinesch (04-Jun-01 17:21:29):
> Hi.
> My Logitech MouseMan isn't working properly witrh Enlightenment
> 0.16, I can drag the windows (hence, the button is recognized), but
> the E "User Menu" doesn't show up.
> What I use now is ...
> ----- /etc/XF86Config -----
> Section "Pointer"
> Protocol "Wsmouse"
> Device "/dev/wsmouse0"
> ZAxisMapping 4 5
> Buttons 5
> EndSection
> ----- cut here -----
> Everything works (even the wheel), except the left mouse button.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> TIA
> --
> Cu Georges Heinesch, Luxembourg
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.geohei.lu
> PGP RSA & DH/DSS public key on request and on public servers
> ... watch your 6 ...
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Date: 8 Jun 2001 16:58:31 +0100
From: "Georges Heinesch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A grep question
Hi.
Possibly off-topic, but someone here should know the answer.
Which grep (or egrep, fgrep) options do I have to use to extract all
lines from a file except a lines containing a given string.
# grep "list all lines except" 'foobar'
TIA
--
Cu Georges Heinesch, Luxembourg
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.geohei.lu
PGP RSA & DH/DSS public key on request and on public servers
... if you can't beat them, join them !
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (christophe donnier)
Subject: stronger password with pam
Date: 8 Jun 2001 08:26:57 -0700
Hello everybody,
I try to figure out how to configure /etc/pam.d/passwd to force
my users to use, let's say, at least 2 numerics, and 2 non-alphanumeric
and a password minimal lenght of 8 characters. I've made some test (red hat 6.2,
pam-0.72-6 ) but the options are not obvious, also the cracklib seems
to make some restrictions that I don't understand. Did anybody already
implemented password checking this way ? thanks for more informations, as
I don't understand the doc /usr/doc/pam-0.72-6 for dcredit, ucredit,
lcredit ... etc is not clear at all. (chapter 6.3.3 password component).
Thanks
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: hardware autodetection
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:51:51 GMT
Wroot writes:
> How come Debian and FreeBSD do not autodetect hardware the way Windows,
> Mandrake and Redhat do?
Because you haven't written the necessary code.
> How am I supposed to know which cryptic kernel modules I should enable
> and with which parameters?
I see no evidence that anyone has supposed anything about what you know.
In any case, the information you need is in the documentation, except for
that which only the manufacturer of your hardware can supply.
If you have an actual question, just ask it. Whining does no one any
good.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
Subject: Re: A grep question
Date: 8 Jun 2001 15:50:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
"Georges Heinesch" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> Hi.
>
> Possibly off-topic, but someone here should know the answer.
>
> Which grep (or egrep, fgrep) options do I have to use to extract all
> lines from a file except a lines containing a given string.
>
> # grep "list all lines except" 'foobar'
-v
man grep <= use this command
--
Merci........Yvan Pour le plein air: Club Vertige
http://www.ncf.ca/vertige
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From: Stephen Rank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A grep question
Date: 08 Jun 2001 17:34:24 +0100
"Georges Heinesch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi.
>
> Possibly off-topic, but someone here should know the answer.
Lots of people here do, but the best place to look for answers is in
the man page.
> Which grep (or egrep, fgrep) options do I have to use to extract all
> lines from a file except a lines containing a given string.
>
> # grep "list all lines except" 'foobar'
man -v foobar
HTH,
Stephen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Giles Morant)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,tw.bbs.comp.linux,hk.comp.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: AC'97 sound chips on board - no sound in RedHat 7.0
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:37:24 +0000 (UTC)
Wilson Ng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi,
: My on-board sound chip VIA AC97 audio controller (WDM) works fine with
: WinME. I tried to run sndconfig to enable the sound in my Linux
: installation in RedHat 7.0. The program detected that the sound device is
: VIA82cxxx. After I confirm the autoprobe was done and my system hangs. I
: rebooted Linux and the startup freeze when starting the sound module.
: Any body can help?
: Thanks, Wilson.
This is a FAQ. Look back through dejanews or google groups. Basically,
all you need to do in install the ALSA sound drivers from
http://www.alsa-project.org IIRC. Quite straightforward and my machine
works perfectly for playing mp3s &c. -- I don't do MIDI or anything
complicated with it.
Giles Morant
--
Giles RC Morant
http://www.morants.demon.co.uk/giles
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: missing beep, RH7.1
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 11:27:02 -0500
brandon chubb wrote:
>
> Has anyone had a problem with their keyboard bell gone missing when
> upgrading to RH7.1? This is on a work PC that just uses a keyboard
> speaker, which would give me the ctrl-G bell before (using RH 6.2 or
> RH 6.0). I've tried starting and stopping the sound server, which probably
> doesn't apply to this. Using Gnome with Sawfish. Any tips to get
> it back? (I've also turned on the sound through the session settings,
> but it doesn't seem to help.)
>
> -- brandon
I don't know if this is relevant, but check the preferences
under setting for your gnome terminal(s). There is one which controls
the keyboard bell which may be set for silence.
(I had the opposite problem when my son objected to the bell ringing
every time he backed up to the beginning of the line in a command.)
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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Subject: Re: GROUP TAKEOVER IN PROGRESS
From: b2k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.drugs.pot,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.python
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 17:00:51 GMT
> The mere fact you don't know makes me want to take of every 'zig'. A
> little help, you need.
>
> http://hubert.retrogames.com/article.php?sid=1
> http://members.nbci.com/finagler/base/
> http://www.newgrounds.com/frames.php?location=/collections/ayb.html
>
> For Great Justice.
more like great injustice
--
brent k kohler - infamous usenet troll
http://greenscreen76.freeservers.com/adp.html
smore moge druks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Paul E. Bennett")
Subject: Re: hardware autodetection
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 01 12:26:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Dave Uhring" writes:
> Wroot wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > How come Debian and FreeBSD do not autodetect hardware the way Windows,
> > Mandrake and Redhat do? How am I supposed to know which cryptic kernel
> > modules I should enable and with which parameters?
> >
> > Wroot
> >
>
> They presume that you know what you installed.
With the propensity of manufacturers to minimise the information they
deliver with new systems that is becoming a situation that will be
harder to maintain. Took me a while to find out about the basics of my
laptop (I eventually had a very helpful pointer to the exact document
I needed).
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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 11:15:12 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: System.map deleted by mistake
Tom Edelbrok wrote:
>
> I accidentally wiped out my /boot/System.map file, (it was size 196625, and
> dated April 19, 1999). It is for kernel 2.2.5-15 (Redhat 6.0).
>
> The system was still up and running however, so I did a locate on
> "System.map" and found another one labelled /boot/System.map-2.2.5-15 of
> size 180770 and dated with today's date. So I copied this file into
> /boot/System.map.
>
> I then rebooted and the system came up successfully, but complained many
> times along the way that /boot/System.map pointed to a wrong kernel version.
>
> So far everything seems to run OK.
>
> Is there some way I can regenerate a proper System.map without rebuilding
> the kernel?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
If you have the exact kernel source and it is configured (e.g., make
menuconfig) exactly as the installed kernel, you might be able to get
away with recompiling the kernel but not having to install it. You'd
just copy the System.map created during the compile. But I doubt it is
possible (within realistic efforts) to create a System.map without at
least compiling a new kernel (again, not necessarily having to install
the whole thing).
D. Stimits, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: alt.drugs.pot,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: GROUP TAKEOVER IN PROGRESS
Date: 8 Jun 2001 17:15:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 7 Jun 2001 22:40:35 -0700, Wroot wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shawn Michael Taub) wrote in message
>news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> All your base are belong to us,
>
>Where is this from? I keep seeing it everywhere. Must be a classic. Something
>Pr. Nixon used to say, perhaps?
I've seen this link in another group with the post title:
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
http://rmitz.org/AYB3.swf
I havn't checked the link out yet so don't know how relevant it is.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
3:52pm up 126 days, 16:42, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
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Subject: Re: merging files into one recurisively
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 17:29:54 GMT
David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
> Iam running RedHat 6.2 (server). I want to merge together a bunch of
> files, that are in a directory structure. Then remove all duplicate
> words and setting the remainer as a comma separated list of words.
> How can I do this?
Try something like this:
find /dir -type f -exec cat {} \; | tr " " "\n" | sort | uniq | tr "\n" "," > output
Vilmos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Clements)
Subject: Re: WINE.CONF
Date: 8 Jun 2001 10:31:03 -0700
Jonas Diemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> On 8 Jun 2001 04:57:23 -0700
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Clements) wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger) wrote in message
> > news:<9fqb9g$ors$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > > Pete Clements ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> > > > Can someone post/email me a copy of thier wine.conf file as
> > > > mine seems to be blank and i ame not brave enough to code it myself
> > > > from the man pages. I have tried re-installing the latest ver of
> > > > wine and it stills seems not to put anything in that file.
> > >
> > > do you mean .winerc ?
> >
> > Well whatever. Wine will use either /etc/wine.conf or /$home/.winerc
> > However both of my files are blank :-( and wine returns that it can not
> > find the windows dir specified in one of the above files!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Pete.
>
> did u get my config? did it help?
Got it, changed it + will test it when i get home. Thanks ever so
much, fingers crossed it will work if not there will be more postings
:-) cheers again
Pete.
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: New Server: Hardware under Linux
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:22:19 -0600
> I'd do software RAID in your case. I couldn't justify the
> extra cost for a fancy raid card when the Linux kernel's
> software RAID ought to do just fine in a two-disk RAID-1
> situation.
$150-$300 for a used card is well worth all of the fiddling that you'll
save, and will have added benefits as well. After using hardware RAID on
my servers, I'm even considering a small array on my home workstation....
steve
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can LINUX "kill" a user application on it's own?
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:24:35 -0600
> I have been running an application under LINUX and, for some strange
> reason, it seems to get "killed" via a kill -9. The problem is, I
> don't know "whom" is doing the killing.
>
> Can (will) LINUX kill a process on it's own? I believe what's
> happening in my application is a memory leak of some kind and, I'm
> theorizing now, that LINUX is aware of the situation and is taking
> some action.
Once a machine is very nearly completely out of memory (physical AND
virtual), then Linux has some sort of mechanism to kill off what it thinks
is the most guilty culprit. However, I would imagine you'd notice the
swapping and thrashing before you filled all of your virtual memory. Try
ulimit -a , and see if you might be bumping into some user-specific
limits.
steve
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From: Lori Holder-Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: need book on unix/linux utilities
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 12:17:54 -0500
Actually, a couple of books, I think.
I need help learning how to use the *nix utilities like awk, grep, shell
programming, and regular expressions. I know enough to realize that
grep, for example, will make some given task a lot easier, but I don't
know enough to get started using it. The man pages are not very useful
for a complete novice - I think they're better if you already know how
to use it and have forgotten the switches or options.
I understand why regexes would be incredibly useful to me, but putting
one together, OTOH, is a different matter entirely. I've been exposed
to them in learning perl and tcs, but all of the books I have assumed
some previous familiarity with regular expressions. Not very helpful
for me.
In addition to the fundamentals of those 3 tools, I'd also like
something that functions as an overall guide to *nix utilities. I find
myself asking a friend for help on accomplishing some task. They say,
"Oh, you should use X [fill in *nix utility here]." All too often my
response is "Great, I had no idea that I could *do* that with my
system."
I looked at Linux in a Nutshell and didn't find that it answered my
need. Running Linux was a great start, but I need to know where to go
from there. I've been using linux for a couple of years now, and am
starting to feel like I've got a Porsche that I didn't know would shift
up from 2nd gear.
Thanks for any recommendations!
Lori
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From: Marek Zawadzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing problem: selecting input tray
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 13:33:41 -0400
In my school they use a daemon (lpd) and two separate queues for that.
But I don't know how to set it up under Linux. Look at man pages for
lpd/lpc/lpq/.
That's all I can help with:(
Pim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to be able to print a postscript file, selecting from which
> sheet feeder of my HP LJ 2100 the paper should come from. Does anyone
> know how to do this? I know the PCL escape sequence to do this, so if
> I could get gs to print that sequence it should work, but don't know
> how to do such a thing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> pim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Schaumann)
Subject: Re: A grep question
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 17:42:28 -0000
* Georges Heinesch wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Possibly off-topic, but someone here should know the answer.
>
> Which grep (or egrep, fgrep) options do I have to use to extract all
> lines from a file except a lines containing a given string.
>
> # grep "list all lines except" 'foobar'
While others suggested
man grep
I'd also recommend
man sed
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and
bigotry at worst. -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Q3A
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:32:16 -0600
> This is really driving me up a wall. I'm totally lost here. I've been at
> this for almost four days now.
>
> Which files do I need?
>
> I want to run a dedicated Quake III Arena server on my RedHat Linux 7.0
> machine.
Is it that hard? I read the dedicated server help file on the CD, and
the README that came with the Linux point release, and didn't think it
was. In any case....
Copy the baseq3 directory from your CD to the Linux machine. (I'm
assuming that you have a Windows CD). Then install the latest point
release for Linux, then install the same point release on your machine.
> Exactly which versions of which files should I download and how should I
> install things to simply run a Q3A dedicated server on a Linux machine?
[quake]$ ls -al
total 10300
drwx------ 5 quake quake 4096 May 7 16:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 May 25 14:05 ..
drwx------ 3 quake quake 4096 Feb 25 23:39 .q3a
drwx------ 2 quake quake 4096 May 7 16:37 baseq3
-rwx------ 1 quake quake 578024 Feb 25 23:35 q3ded
[quake@helix quake]$
Then, try something like :
./q3ded +set dedicated 2 +set bot_minplayers 3 \
+set bot_nochat 1 +set sv_hostname "your name here" \
>/dev/null 2>&1 &
steve
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From: Marek Zawadzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How much is Linux (TM) worth?
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 13:47:37 -0400
I say, let's make Linus sell the trademark (not the system, though:), then
let's share the money, then let's call Linux Linux2, sell it again, and so
on, and so forth :).
-marek
while (1) {
$money = sell("Linux".$pf, Microsoft,
$10000000000000000000000000000000000);
send($money/$number_of_linux_users, $linux_users);
if (!defined($pf)) $pf=0;
$pf++;
}
Jan Schaumann wrote:
> * Wroot wrote:
> > I wonder how much Microsoft would pay Linus to buy the Linux trademark
> > (they can't buy all the code that was written under GPLs, but they can
> > buy the trademark, can't they?)
>
> I'm fairly certain they have investigated the matter and if they could
> make such an offer, they will have made it.
>
> -Jan
>
> --
> Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
>
> Reasons Why a Beer is Better Than a Woman:
> (2) A beer would never own a car with an automatic transmission.
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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 13:51:48 -0400
From: Jeff Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Floppy format confusion,HELP!!!
I used to think I knew about floppies, but now I find a ton of different
formats and /dev/fd*'s.
What is the difference between /dev/fd0h* and /dev/fd0u* ?
How do you go about formating a floppy now?
Say I wanted to format a floppy 1.68 Meg, how?
FAQ makes mention of going beyond 80 track to 83. How do you know if
your drive is capable of this?
--
Jeff Pierce
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://pages.preferred.com/~piercej
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Printing problem: selecting input tray
Date: 8 Jun 2001 17:43:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 02:04:33 GMT, Pim wrote:
>
>I want to be able to print a postscript file, selecting from which
>sheet feeder of my HP LJ 2100 the paper should come from. Does anyone
>know how to do this? I know the PCL escape sequence to do this, so if
>I could get gs to print that sequence it should work, but don't know
>how to do such a thing.
gs converts Postscript to PCL (or whatever) but you don't have to use gs. Try
catting your PCL escape sequence directly to the printer device. Or configure a
PCL printer and lpr it.
Bob T.
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