Re: Unscrambling Files - some progress

2005-11-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote: It seems awk is the way to go... but I donm't know awk at all :-(. I can strip the field markers, and fold the lines. I need to know how to insert a huge space for the folded ones, as the output has to look this way x xxx x

Re: libbonobo-2.10.1 configure error

2005-11-04 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words Hi, On system Pentium-3; BLFS-Version svn-20051101; The following error occured while configuring libbonobo-2.10.1:- ./conftest: error while loading shared libraries: libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

RE: Unscrambling Files - some progress

2005-11-04 Thread David Fix
There is an indent program, is there? Good . I'll go after it. Thanks very much for the effort in the above example. It's a pity I'm illiterate in C. I'll try it. The max line lingth I see. Where do I set the indent? Yeah, it should just be called indent. :) Um... In that program

Re: Sounds like trouble (ALSA and soundcard issue)

2005-11-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Ryan Twitchell wrote: I now believe that alsaconf only works with modules. Certainly, it needs either dialog or whiptail, but I'm no longer convinced that it serves a useful purpose if you build your own kernels - my main desktop machine no longer uses any config files

Re: Unscrambling Files - some progress

2005-11-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote: There is a FIELDWIDTHS declaration I discovered, which when you delare it is used instead of FS, e.g. FIELDWIDTHS = { 12 3 19 3 2 3 47 } where the threes are space fields Interesting. I never got round to deleting info. I'm sure many do. I have

Re: Sounds like trouble (ALSA and soundcard issue)

2005-11-04 Thread Ryan Twitchell
Ken Moffat wrote: Ooh, who needs alsamixer when you can cat to /dev/audio ;-) Hehe... Thanks for your help Ken. I should have found this solution before even asking for help. Running xmms in a terminal actually allowed me to play sounds, to my surprise. I was running as root, which made

Configuring tcp_wrappers

2005-11-04 Thread Joseph M Dupre (AVAB Inc.)
The install instructions for tcp_wrappers indicates you need to adjust the inetd.d files (and xinetd.d files) to call tcpd and pass the actual inet server as an argument. For example: change server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd to server = /usr/sbin/tcpd in.tftpd However, when xinetd

Re: Sounds like trouble (ALSA and soundcard issue)

2005-11-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Ryan Twitchell wrote: The solution I'm not too sure about. The /dev directory has always been a bit mysterious to me, especially with udev. I put all the sound devices into the group 'audio' and gave them all group write permission. I then added my standard user to the

Re: Sounds like trouble (ALSA and soundcard issue)

2005-11-04 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 18:11 -0500, Ryan Twitchell wrote: I then added my standard user to the audio group as well. This is just what made sense to me, I'm not sure how 'proper' a solution it is. No, that's the proper solution. That's exactly what the audio group is for - to control which users