Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-14 Thread Ken Irving
replaces the shell with the new process. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: autolock console

2009-04-09 Thread Ken Irving
terminates. Meanwhile pro- ... Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: dialing phone numbers

2009-04-09 Thread Ken Irving
;) should put the modem back into command mode, so that it won't try to detect a modem on the other end. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: dialing phone numbers

2009-04-09 Thread Ken Irving
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Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-07 Thread Ken Irving
somebody to do work and pay attention to your issue. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: autolock console

2009-04-07 Thread Ken Irving
. Include terms like linux or debian to help narrow it down if necessary. Try it; it's quite an amazing resource. ;-) Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: side-by-side display of two files with latex

2009-04-02 Thread Ken Irving
want, or vim -O (with no-wrap and scroll-bind options set). Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-02 Thread Ken Irving
automatically, but likely will never use it. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how make my laptop beep when low battery?

2009-03-28 Thread Ken Irving
, maybe it'll do what you want. Good luck! Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: What's happening to my aptitude

2009-03-19 Thread Ken Irving
was something like what happened to my aptitude?... $ dict aptitude ... From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: aptitude n : inherent ability [ant: {inaptitude}] -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) A bit of irony there! ;-) Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

2009-03-18 Thread Ken Irving
don't see any point in quoting it as shown. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

2009-03-18 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 01:45:42PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090318164208.ga14...@localhost, Ken Irving wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:19:20AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I think I'd rewrite it as: find . \ -name '*.odt' \ -exec sh -c 'unzip -c $1 content.xml

Re: tools to get a mirror of modem/router configuration

2009-02-19 Thread Ken Irving
to make of the click through bit; that sounds like maybe you want to generate a set of linked web pages from the config file, which sounds like a job for perl, python, etc. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Ken Irving
know its there, and what you need to do to get it. I haven't done it, but I think it will work. Try it and let me know. I'm interested in finding out. ;-) -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:55:13PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-02-10_10:12:03, Ken Irving wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:47:12AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-02-10_12:56:53, Dotan Cohen wrote: Is there a tool that I can use to browse an offline file system, ie

Re: Question about procmail and exim4

2009-02-05 Thread Ken Irving
or less like what the manual suggests. Look at the NOTES section of the procmail(1) manual page -- this ... There might be some information in there to answer your question. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Ken Irving
that particular problem. Well behaved programs should return the terminal to its original state, but maybe that didn't happen. Killing programs with the KILL (-9) signal would probably have this effect, vs using the default TERM (-15). -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: How to see the output of a custom init script on Lenny?

2009-01-22 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 09:16:01AM +0100, Sander Marechal wrote: Ken Irving wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:21:55PM +0100, Sander Marechal wrote: Is there nobody who knows how to show the stdout ouput of an init script during shutdown? My guess is that the answer is no. Output

Re: How to see the output of a custom init script on Lenny?

2009-01-22 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:48:16PM +0100, Sander Marechal wrote: Ken Irving wrote: A red message? I missed the earlier part of the thread so don't know what you're dealing with, but I suspect you must be in a gui environment, and telling the system to shut down via a mouse click

Re: How to see the output of a custom init script on Lenny?

2009-01-21 Thread Ken Irving
, perhaps you could write output to some non-volatile location and look at it later. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

2009-01-18 Thread Ken Irving
about. # ### if (/^Subject:.*(exim|sendmail|[x]?emacs|gdm|xdm|imap|cgi|[ ]?deb[ ])/) { to Mail/trash } Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: stuff in ~/bin won't run

2009-01-18 Thread Ken Irving
(if not already there) for startx. -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: psad, aptitude, man, mutt, all suddenly broken on my Lenny server. I'm very concerned.

2009-01-15 Thread Ken Irving
/ is full; what does df show? Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Character mode for telnet

2009-01-10 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:15:51PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:13:32PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: I know that, after I connect with telnet I can got to command mode and enter 'mode char' to get into character mode. Is there any way to have

Re: Character mode for telnet

2009-01-10 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:04:25AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:15:51PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:13:32PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: I know that, after I connect with telnet I can got to command mode and enter

Re: Character mode for telnet

2009-01-09 Thread Ken Irving
a wireless connection and I need to be in character mode for it to work. I tried and failed to find a way to do this, and just use 'm c' after starting telnet ('m line' to go back to line mode). You might try netcat (nc) as an alternative to telnet. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ssh-agent without graphical display manager? how?

2009-01-04 Thread Ken Irving
-agent bash $ ssh-add ... Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: mousewheel scroll

2009-01-04 Thread Ken Irving
to, but maybe in a browser? There are several configurable settings in FireFox/IceWeasel that control how scrolling via the mouse wheel works; try entering about:config as a url, and poke around a bit. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: update on printing problem

2009-01-01 Thread Ken Irving
root 4096 2008-08-27 13:03 /var drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2008-12-05 14:36 /var/spool drwx--x--- 3 root lp 4096 2008-12-29 15:42 /var/spool/cups drwxrwx--T 2 root lp 4096 2008-08-29 14:12 /var/spool/cups/tmp Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Command line problem

2008-12-31 Thread Ken Irving
that is called in that event. If such a handler exists, but does nothing, it could have the result you see. -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: problem with CUPS

2008-12-31 Thread Ken Irving
be sufficient to be a member of group lpadmin; there's no need to be root to manage CUPS, in my experience. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: hard crash on leap second

2008-12-31 Thread Ken Irving
on the problem. I'm expecting to see an additional second of error in the clocks of some systems I manage via radio telemetry, but wasn't expecting anything like you describe. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: hard crash on leap second

2008-12-31 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 04:02:03PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 07:25:25PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: I had a hard crash of my lenny system precisely when the leap second was added. While X has flaked in the past, I've never had a hard crash before. I have no other

Re: hard crash on leap second

2008-12-31 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 07:48:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/31/08 19:19, Ken Irving wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 04:02:03PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 07:25:25PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: I had a hard crash of my lenny system precisely when the leap second

Re: hard crash on leap second

2008-12-31 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 08:20:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/31/08 20:05, Ken Irving wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 07:48:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/31/08 19:19, Ken Irving wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 04:02:03PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 07:25:25PM

Re: manual of C library

2008-12-31 Thread Ken Irving
) 8 System administration commands (usually only for root) 9 Kernel routines [Non standard] Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

2008-12-24 Thread Ken Irving
doesn't work (sometimes get quick answer, sometimes takes a couple of minutes, mostly it times out). aptitude upgrade times out. It seems like there is a little movement but very slow for some reason. A too-big MTU setting can give odd results in some cases. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

2008-12-24 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:25:07PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:38:23 -0900 Ken Irving fn...@uaf.edu wrote: On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 06:28:01PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:10:46 + Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com wrote: Just

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

2008-12-24 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 02:16:26PM -0800, ow...@netptc.net wrote: From: fn...@uaf.edu On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:25:07PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: Ken Irving fn...@uaf.edu wrote: ... A too-big MTU setting can give odd results in some cases. but how would it change on a running

Re: Perl modules

2008-12-08 Thread Ken Irving
being overwritten or whatever. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bashism (Was: Locale testing)

2008-12-06 Thread Ken Irving
/bin/thunderbird $@ I could probably google and find out why the semicolons are not necessary, nor the export command, but why is the exec preferable? Probably just because it doesn't leave the wrapper script as a process to be returned to after you're done with thunderbird. Ken -- Ken

Re: where are the data and log folders of postgresql 8.3 on debian sid?

2008-12-05 Thread Ken Irving
for the package there should be sufficient information there to do what you need. Good luck! -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where are the data and log folders of postgresql 8.3 on debian sid?

2008-12-05 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 06:28:03PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 10:03:04AM +0800, ? wrote: I have installed postgresql 8.3 from debian package, and i'm reading the official document from postgresql, the document says after installing the database, it needs

Re: where are the data and log folders of postgresql 8.3 on debian sid?

2008-12-05 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 12:17:40PM +0800, ? wrote: On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 06:28:03PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 10:03:04AM +0800, ? wrote: I have installed postgresql 8.3 from debian

Re: TTY programming

2008-12-02 Thread Ken Irving
seem successful and the application works. I simply cannot report any status. Any ideas? Many modems have a quiet or echo mode that can turn on/off output of status messages, e.g., ATe0 or similar. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Ken Irving
relationship to the floor. If you're standing on stairs, the water has a different height relative to each stair. Etc. -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Ken Irving
of impending deja vu... -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Ken Irving
. Me, three. One more. -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shorewall network/interfaces

2008-11-25 Thread Ken Irving
and only rejected everything as being a martian. Seriously broken? I'll have to go back and RTFM. Highly recommended! Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Ken Irving
should be fixed before adding more stuff? Granted, the majority of d-u messages are not multipart-encoded, so the special list suffix lines are usually visible. Even if visible, though, I doubt that a CoC link would do much good. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Ken Irving
don't know why that is. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Ken Irving
. There's some weirdness that results in it not always being displayed. Viewing message source reveals that it is indeed there. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345283 Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Here's something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)

2008-11-18 Thread Ken Irving
appending the optional stuff at the end, and it would have to jump through some hoops to work properly with MIME messages, e.g., at least terminate the last such section. Or so I dimly recall... Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Here's something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)

2008-11-18 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:43:49AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/18/08 03:35, Ken Irving wrote: [snip] also for some MIME forms if the last one is visible. The list software does not change, mung, or otherwise mess with message bodies other than Well it should! http

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-13 Thread Ken Irving
... until some things start to act a bit *wierd*. Yes, there has long been a setting in Windows to use UTC on the hardware clock, but there are (or at least used to be) numerous application and/or system bugs that obviated its use. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Q re: if test of command in bash script

2008-10-28 Thread Ken Irving
the term `exit status' and others might be used. Shell commands always return an exit status if 0 -- meaning true -- if the command doesn't fail, and usually 1 otherwise, but some other exit values are used. See also EXIT STATUS in bash(1). Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water

Re: Q re: if test of command in bash script

2008-10-28 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:57:40PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Ken Irving wrote: ... I'd tend to format the above code a little differently, but here's the same thing with the `if' using the mkdir command directly: if [ -d $targetDir ]; then echo -e YES, '$targetDir exists

Re: Setting Multiple Shell Variables from One Run of awk

2008-09-30 Thread Ken Irving
so that the changes are made to the current shell. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering University of Alaska, Fairbanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: bash script question

2008-04-18 Thread Ken Irving
. -type d -name .svn | xargs echo rm -r I'd recommend EXTREME CAUTION any time you're scripting rm, particularly with the -r option. Often you may need to do this as root to have rm work without prompting, and it's easily possible to do real damage by accident... Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Xen in Etch, basic setup

2008-04-04 Thread Ken Irving
? I'll have to get back to you on these two in a few hours when I have some time. -- Steve Lamb -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSH through wireless router

2008-04-01 Thread Ken Irving
router but then I'm stuck with the password. I've tried the password I use to administer the router without luck. ssh implicitly provides your local user name as the user on the remote end; maybe try it with an explicit user name, e.g.: $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL

Re: script doubt

2008-03-27 Thread Ken Irving
the lines contain no spaces, but they don't look like they'd cause a problem. Try grep $symbol directly, omitting the comma, etc., etc..Try grepping for some symbols manually. Maybe there are non-printing (i.e., hidden) characters in the file? Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Ssh connection hangs. Ignored ACK packet?

2008-03-17 Thread Ken Irving
broadcast 192.168.1.255 mtu 1452 ifconfig(8) should show the MTU value, and maybe can be used to set it. I was able to set the MTU using ip(8), so it should be pretty easy to test, e.g.: $ sudo ip link set eth0 mtu 1452 Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: etch netinst tasksel standard system (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)

2008-03-14 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:22:21AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:59:27PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: The search subcommand can be used to list those packages: aptitude search ~pstandard ~prequired ~pimportant though it's still not clear what is really added

Re: etch netinst tasksel standard system (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)

2008-03-14 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 06:57:27AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:59:27PM -0800, Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Browsing the source, /usr/bin/tasksel, shows that selecting standard system ends up running aptitude with a set of search selectors

Re: DCHP

2008-03-14 Thread Ken Irving
to. This shouldn't have anything to do with what OS you're running. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: etch netinst tasksel standard system (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)

2008-03-14 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:45:06PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:41:08AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: It seems to that a base install includes 'required' and 'important', while 'standard' will add packages that are considered, well, standard on a *nix system

Re: Install from list of packages [Was: Re: etch netinst tasksel standard system]

2008-03-14 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:23:29PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:58:13AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: [1] Doug's method is good, but I want to automate it further. I just have to write a sed script to make the output of 'aptitude search !~M~i' suitable

etch netinst tasksel standard system (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)

2008-03-13 Thread Ken Irving
presumably installed during part of the base install. I might do another install without this option and see what the difference is... Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Ken Irving
wrapped. What program could I call from the command line that would open such a viewer on a given file? (My desktop is gnome but kde is installed.) Try less -S (which I usually alias to lesss). Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: rotating a rectangular image in Gimp

2008-03-05 Thread Ken Irving
, but ImageMagick convert can do this; e.g.: $ convert -rotate 90 input.jpg output.jpg -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: node link as variable in bash script?

2008-03-04 Thread Ken Irving
are not typed, and you can use $NODE where the string /dev/rfcomm2 would otherwise be used, e.g., perhaps with mknod(1): ... mknod $NODE c $MAJOR $MINOR -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Basic bash question.

2008-03-03 Thread Ken Irving
. It is a redirection but I don´t know how to make both things happen at the same time. Is that possible?With all the bash commands? Without GUI(X),all command line environment. The tee command does this. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

2008-02-29 Thread Ken Irving
this command: sudo tar -cvzf /TERASTATIONBACKUP/2008Feb29.tgz /home | split -b 2000m - 2008Feb29.tgz The -f option of tar identifies the output file, and its argument should be - (a single dash) to use standard output. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: changing the install location of a series of deb's

2008-02-22 Thread Ken Irving
you (he) set a symlink in either /usr/local/ or /opt/ to the other? Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-13 Thread Ken Irving
approved standard based on Adobe's 1.7 PDF reference document. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-13 Thread Ken Irving
to an article found on linux.com, the GNU PDF project will be working in this direction. http://www.linux.com/feature/122195 -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

~/bin not in default path (was Re: wrapper script issue)

2008-02-11 Thread Ken Irving
as ~/bin/ls, vs needing root to do the same in /usr/bin/. (Of course, there's no end to other mischief they could do in such a case, but that's why it's a stupid example. ;-) Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Shell script function problems

2008-02-09 Thread Ken Irving
definitions from within a script, since the function is still external to the script, though it's at least defined in a file. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wrapper script issue

2008-02-08 Thread Ken Irving
you're doing what you think you're doing. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wrapper script issue

2008-02-08 Thread Ken Irving
were showing. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wrapper script issue

2008-02-08 Thread Ken Irving
that and other system directories alone, and put your customized stuff in /usr/local/bin/ or equivalent, perhaps ~/bin/, etc. But I'm repeating myself... -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: discovering debian ...

2008-02-04 Thread Ken Irving
that these things should be in a default install, and would be surprised if they were missing. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2 Network Cards

2008-02-02 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:44:47PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:37:03PM -0800, Raquel wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:09:00 -0800 Raquel wrote: I have 2 network cards in this machine. Currently only one of those cards is setup but now I have need to setup

Re: 2 Network Cards

2008-02-01 Thread Ken Irving
said much about the firewall, I'd suggest looking at shorewall and its docs, only because that's where I've read about doing this sort of thing. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2 Network Cards

2008-02-01 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:35:18PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:37:03PM -0800, Raquel wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:09:00 -0800 Raquel wrote: I have 2 network cards in this machine. Currently only one of those cards is setup but now I have need to setup another

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Ken Irving
directories, libraries, etc., there should be no conflicts. If the sources you're installing from *do* put things into system as opposed to local places, then you could probably look at that as polluting the machine. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to send mails with attachments for each file in a directory ?

2008-01-29 Thread Ken Irving
argument to get the output to stdout.) Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Ken Irving
without it growing out of control. The configuration option APT::Clean-Installed will prevent installed packages from being erased if it is set to off. Running apt-get clean will likely reduce the stuff cached in your /var partition. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-23 Thread Ken Irving
} How can I use them in my script? . . . So just use functions. . . I'm wondering if you have read my OP or not. Read it again pls. source ~/.bashrc -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-21 Thread Ken Irving
it very well. Just a thought... -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-18 Thread Ken Irving
presumably be local, but the rsync operation might be on a remote system where the lights aren't visible. For that matter, umount also blocks... I often use sync before umount, but I suppose it's not really necessary. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: flock, fcntl, lockf?

2008-01-14 Thread Ken Irving
it is, so the right way would be whatever other programs that might be operating on the same files are doing. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Ken Irving
varies, and some lists work the other way, but on this and many lists the convention is to top post, trim heartily, try to get the attributions right(1), and have a good day! Ken (1) the attribution from the OP is missing in this message, I think. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:00:28PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:49:52PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: In fact, it's a social convention, a matter of etiquette. The practice varies, and some lists work the other way, but on this and many lists the convention is to top post

Re: passing argument with brace expansion to script

2008-01-13 Thread Ken Irving
simple tests would answer the question. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: passing argument with brace expansion to script

2008-01-13 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:36:09PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: Ken Irving wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:59:52PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: Hi! I have a script to which I would like to pass an argument that contains brace expansion, but I want the expansion to be evaluated

Re: passing argument with brace expansion to script

2008-01-13 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 02:04:59PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:36:09PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: Ken Irving wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:59:52PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: Hi! I have a script to which I would like to pass an argument that contains

Re: Perl realted question..

2008-01-10 Thread Ken Irving
would need to stay the same, perhaps using padding with spaces or something. Probably much more reasonably and conventionally doable with fixed-sized records, but if the need was there I don't see why it shouldn't be possible. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Vá : awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Ken Irving
? No. -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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