Re: Shell Script (If and Else) problem

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if [ ... ]; then command; else other_command; fi I much prefer: [ ... ] { foo } || { bar } -- Thomas Adam ___ To help you stay safe and secure online

Re: How to remove exim4 when aptitude doesnt think its installed?

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas Adam
be a start. Indeed, at this stage, I'd use dpkg: # dpkg -P --forget-old-unavail exim4 -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Model Search 2005 - Find the next catwalk superstars - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/hot/model-search

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas Adam
. They're mechanical, like most things, so they're bound to wear out eventually -- especially if they get used all the time.It could be that you get unlucky with your particular drive. -- Thomas Adam ___ WIN ONE OF THREE YAHOO

Re: oom-killer

2005-11-27 Thread Thomas Adam
in to preserve the kernel, since without that, nothing runs. -- Thomas Adam The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better

Re: Upgrading to linux-2.6.14.2

2005-11-25 Thread Thomas Adam
, although I suspect it might not be as comprehensive as to catalougue URLs. -- Thomas Adam The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get

Re: Synaptic Package Manager vs. RPM

2005-10-06 Thread Thomas Adam
file of an RPM already in existance, for most packages. -- Thomas Adam ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: how to show refresh rate of ttys?

2005-10-05 Thread Thomas Adam
to make sure it indeed worked. What makes you think the value you have is wrong in the first place? Indeed, why do you even _care_? -- Thomas Adam ___ Does your mail provider give you FREE antivirus protection? Get Yahoo

Re: setting up environment variables

2005-09-23 Thread Thomas Adam
to use ~/.x{session,init} --- let the user do it for themselves. The easy work around, even without it is, is to get your teminal emualator to spawn a login-shell. -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW

Re: Replies to echo difficult

2005-09-21 Thread Thomas Adam
to see it. This list causes me to have to paste in a CC: or another To: in order to get the response onto the list. Search this list's archives, going back, say nine months or so. You'll find it was discussed in more detail than even you would want. -- Thomas Adam

Re: Java installing

2005-09-21 Thread Thomas Adam
environment variable. -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: bash script

2005-09-17 Thread Thomas Adam
is your best bet. I am not sure if this answers your question or not. I'm having trouble understanding it. -- Thomas Adam ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos

Re: device file permissions the debian way

2005-09-17 Thread Thomas Adam
device. It's fine, as long as the necessary and correct (correct in terms of the policy you're enforcing on your system) permissions are there on the device the symlink points to. What alternatives are there? Why should there be any alternatives? -- Thomas Adam

Re: [gnome art] I cannot identify a program

2005-09-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Andrea Ballatore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want absolutely to install the application in top-left corner. Can you tell me which is it? gaim. -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal

Re: How to detect that runlevel switch is done

2005-09-15 Thread Thomas Adam
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, is there a standard way how to detect that switching the runlevel has finished? Yes, see the runlevel command: man 8 runlevel It tells you the previous and current runlevel. -- Thomas Adam

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Thomas Adam
requested will help. -- Thomas Adam ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread Thomas Adam
type y, bash lists the files using /bin/more. chase `which pager` says that /usr/bin/pager points to /usr/bin/less. As root: update-alternatives --config pager -- Thomas Adam Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread Thomas Adam
saved. By default (unless you change it with 'tune2fs') the journal is committed every five seconds. The other, perhaps less obvious idea, is that you need to change your mouse settings via the 'xset' command. -- Thomas Adam

Re: screen scrolling

2005-06-25 Thread Thomas Adam
assume based soley on the way the key-binding is written, that you're referring to some aspect of Emacs? -- Thomas Adam. ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http

Re: gnome-control-center vs kde - side effects on font sizes

2005-06-19 Thread Thomas Adam
application will start up 'gnome-settings-daemon' if it isn't started. -- Thomas Adam. ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

Re: Three short apt/dpkg questions

2005-06-16 Thread Thomas Adam
of the (non-installed) package which owns a particular (non-installed) filename? e.g., which package will install the file printf.1.gz? apt-get install apt-file \ apt-file update \ apt-file search whatever -- Thomas Adam

Re: Mouse config

2005-06-16 Thread Thomas Adam
, the touchpad worked. You should ensure that for your configured mouse in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 that you're using /dev/input/mice as the correct Mouse location. Also, assuming you have everything picked up by hotplug, you'll want the hid kernel module running. -- Thomas Adam

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-15 Thread Thomas Adam
the weaknesses aptitude has over apt-get. But that has been discussed to death already. -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
is pushing it a little. No, it's the exact, and proper definition. -- Thomas Adam ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
process fun, IMO. I am curious though which WMs you feel were lacking in that regard. I'd have said the issue isn't so much with the WM, as it might have been with the application, for reasons I won't bore you with. -- Thomas Adam

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
that XFCE supports. -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
? FVWM2, WM, BB, a few others that were supposed to be the kitty's titties but I uninstalled in about 5m flat because they were completely lacking. IceWM was one that I used for Completely lacking _how_? -- Thomas Adam

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
across the board. If that's what works for you, then that's nice. -- Thomas Adam. ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
were expecting or not, depends. But like all good WMs, they can be changed -- as to how this happens, depends on the WM, and to an extent, depends upon how far one is prepared to dig to do it. -- Thomas Adam

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
means to achieve the same goal. Just because that means might not be how you wanted, that is not lacking; the functionality still exists. -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
of style options, and many focus policy hints. You can't enumerate these easily in such a way that the user could understand or know what they mean. Fvwm-themes does a good job at bridging this gap, mind. -- Thomas Adam

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
does not preclude text file configuration. If you think it does, go try configuring I never said it did. -- Thomas Adam. ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
in question. Trying to explain it otherwise, is tricky. -- Thomas Adam ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
neither you or a WM could do anything about. -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
. Sure are acting like it. Welcome to a text-based medium. Ambiguity, anyone? -- Thomas Adam. ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
internal defaults. -- Thomas Adam. ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
then appearing detailing the option. To depict anyone of those options would be quite a challenge. As a semi-example of a GUI disaster, just look at the program xcolors. -- Thomas Adam. ___ Yahoo

Re: Sarge - disk list?

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
of the following (depending on your needs): http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/ ... the netinst iso comes with base -- whereas the business card one does not. -- Thomas Adam The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-13 Thread Thomas Adam
provides a great deal more flexibility. So in that way, WMs are much faster, and most WMs are damn good at managing the windows mapped to them. -- Thomas Adam The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-13 Thread Thomas Adam
tried to load KDE or GNOME? They take an absolute age, pulling in I don't know what -- and whats more, the case of KDE that loads a lot of libs for applications, whether you use them or not. But then, this discussion doesn't change the difference between a DE or a WM. -- Thomas Adam

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-13 Thread Thomas Adam
good thing is that it has plenty of eye-candy. You can't do a thing with it other than that. -- Thomas Adam. The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-13 Thread Thomas Adam
to crash a lot, and offered not a lot in terms of focus or placement policies in comparsion to other WMs (and some DEs). But I can see why people like it. -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-12 Thread Thomas Adam
the best place to look would be here: http://www.xwinman.org it has to be my most favourite website. -- Thomas Adam. ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http

Re: Preventing apt from storing too much locally

2005-06-11 Thread Thomas Adam
. You can turn these off if you wish, in favour of using apt-proxy, or apt-cacher or whatever. But I'd be more inclined to run: apt-get {auto,}clean every so often. -- Thomas Adam The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug

Re: quick chemistry drawings

2005-06-09 Thread Thomas Adam
chemtool - Chemical structures drawing program xmakemol - A program for visualizing atomic and molecular systems xmakemol-gl - A program for visualizing atomic and molecular systems chemtool isn't too bad. -- Thomas Adam

Re: Installing a program from source

2005-05-31 Thread Thomas Adam
/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/CompileFromSource -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Can we define a Key Binding for mouse click in FVWM

2005-05-19 Thread Thomas Adam
'. -- Thomas Adam The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :) -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux

Re: More woes from earlier upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Michael Satterwhite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/fr/man1/cups-config.1.gz', which is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287609 *sigh* -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor

Re: More woes from earlier upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Thomas Adam
on his back, legs twitching in the air. Don't take it personally, but this is the second time within the last few days where we (as in the sense of debian-user) have had to play the BTS-frontend, for an otherwise simple operation. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http

Re: More woes from earlier upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Michael Satterwhite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem you referenced is stated as being closed on 12/29/2004. It's occurring *NOW*. Have you done: apt-get update since then? -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor

Re: More woes from earlier upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Michael Satterwhite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: several times Is it possible then that you're using some mirrors in /etc/apt/sources.list that have fallen by the wayside? I'd certainly check that. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor

Re: apt-file fails???

2005-01-06 Thread Thomas Adam
things like this happen. Look here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=229540 -- Thomas Adam [1] Whether you knew it existed or not is irrelevant. If you did, then you'd surely have looked there. = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor

Re: dkpg --purge question..

2005-01-06 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Ishwar Rattan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed sylpheed-clasws using apt-get and want to remove it. # dpkg --purge sylpheed-claws You want: apt-get --purge remove sylpheed-claws -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor

Re: Some questions from new debian user

2005-01-04 Thread Thomas Adam
that the font lines are listed in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 -- change them around. - setserial sets my internal modem speed to 9600 on every reboot. How I can fix this? My modem uses ttyS0 dpkg-reconfigure setserial -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http

Re: Maple 9.5 interfaces on Debian box

2005-01-04 Thread Thomas Adam
near the correct amount of information needed to answer it. Specifically you need to say *what* issues you are having with the Motif interface. Knowing your WM (Window Manager) would help, too. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor

Re: User environment and gdm/xdm

2005-01-04 Thread Thomas Adam
programs you want to start here #in the form: # # program # program2 # Start the window manager exec /path/to/my/window/manager -- Then just: chmod 700 ~/.xsession That will then get read when you login via [gx]dm. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux

Re: run levels 1 and S

2004-12-15 Thread Thomas Adam
--- martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any differences between the run-levels 1 and S? I know that S10single is not executed for S, but init spawns sulogin directly. Any functional differences? Other than what you have said above, no. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend

Re: cdrom ownership being reset to root:disk upon reboot

2004-12-15 Thread Thomas Adam
--- H. S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I change their permissions to root:cdrom and reboot, the permissions again are set to root:disk. Remove 'discover'. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug

Re: X.org ----- Xfree

2004-12-12 Thread Thomas Adam
quite happily with XFree86. :P -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill

Re: X.org ----- Xfree

2004-12-09 Thread Thomas Adam
version numbers of programs must be good because they'll work better. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get

Re: xserver

2004-12-09 Thread Thomas Adam
a URL to them (at the worst case, a pastebin). -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience

Re: stopping xserver from loading

2004-12-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deinstall xdm, gdm and/or kdm, depending on which you've installed. echo false /etc/X11/default-display-manager Is probably better. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http

Re: Expired passwords and Display Managers

2004-11-29 Thread Thomas Adam
)? login into the (gasp!) console, and use 'startx'. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience

Re: nohup command

2004-11-25 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Olive Esseret [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I knew this command but it does not works in all case: try (in X) nohup emacs This works fine for me, and does what it is supposed to do. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor

Re: automated script with login into x

2004-11-25 Thread Thomas Adam
page for details: http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/StartX -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when

Re: Where can I find the program supervgatextmode

2004-11-16 Thread Thomas Adam
/STM_reset -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you

Re: SCP GUI

2004-11-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Christian Christmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, are there any SCP GUI clients for Sarge? xterm -e scp . :) gftp can be coaxed into using ssh2 as one of its supported protocols, so I would imagine that can do it, at least. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http

Re: SCP GUI

2004-11-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Pascal Bonesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How about konqueror with the fish:// or nautilus with sftp:// protocoll? Or am I mistaken? Isn't that going through ssh and using scp? Sort of. Fish is a filesystem via ssh. Although for such things, I prefer using shfs. -- Thomas Adam

Re: strange error message when trying to upgrade

2004-11-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea how to correct this? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281601 -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Thomas Adam
find the fact that aptitude's difference on the CL to the ncurses interface to be worrying at best. I'm sticking with apt-get. At least until the bugs for aptitude are reduced... -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:21:54 + (GMT), Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can see no advantages to using aptitude over apt-get. If I'm not mistaken, d-i uses aptitude (or maybe its a cut-down fork or something). If a user installs using

Re: Please help: Sarge+KDE terribly slow!?

2004-11-14 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Mirek Stefanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But one day I decided to upgrade to Sarge - after one day battle it was done. Now I have to wait about 10 minutes to start KDE desktop, and This is normal for KDE. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG

Re: XMMS: playing CDROM through software, no cable link

2004-11-09 Thread Thomas Adam
- preferences - Audio I/O Plugins - CD Audio Player (doube click on that). Ensure the digital audio extraction box is pressed in. That's it. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up

Re: how to debug a random freezing problem?

2004-11-09 Thread Thomas Adam
them, google for the specs, and compare their heat tolerant levels against the temperature the CPU is at. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you

Re: Redirecting stdout and stderr into a file

2004-11-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Blake Swadling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep 21 logfile grep 'whatever' ./file 21 is what you meant. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish

Re: Mcopy not removing the ^M character

2004-11-08 Thread Thomas Adam
to DOS format. There's many, many ways you can do this. I happen to use a nice program called flip (which is apt-gettable). You use it thus: flip -m *.txt Which will convert all .txt files to msdos CR/LFs. That way, when they're burnt to CD, it'll all be Just Fine (tm). :) -- Thomas Adam

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader

2004-11-06 Thread Thomas Adam
-- the license of AAR is such that it cannot be shipped with Debian officially. You could use xpdf instead. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you

Re: Scripting

2004-11-06 Thread Thomas Adam
to the shell which started the script? thescript 2 /dev/null would redirect all errors to the bit-bucket. If you wanted to blank the entire lot: thescript /dev/null 21 (or, if you don't care for portability, the command above is the same as: thescript /dev/null ) HTH, -- Thomas Adam

Re: ignoring dependencies

2004-11-05 Thread Thomas Adam
will work. If it is the case that youhave versions of packages B and C that are already installed, you could use 'equivs', but I don't think it will help you here. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll

Re: bash_logout xsession help needed

2004-11-02 Thread Thomas Adam
.html -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :) -- Benjamin

Re: number of files in directory?

2004-11-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I get a count of the number of files in a directory? directory + subdirectoies? Crudely: ls -1 | wc -l (note the -1 option to 'ls' is hyphen-one, NOT lower-case L, which is what the option to 'wc' is). -- Thomas Adam = The Linux

Re: Getting rid of rc packages

2004-11-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What's the best way to remove Remove Config-file packages? COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs dpkg --purge -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http

Re: Getting rid of rc packages

2004-11-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 11:03:30PM +, Thomas Adam wrote: --- Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What's the best way to remove Remove Config-file packages? COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs dpkg --purge

Re: oddity with find -exec grep -i

2004-10-31 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Chris Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/find /usr/lib/ecartis/lists/ -name users -print \ -exec grep --ignore-case $1 {} \; | grep -B 1 $1 Odd, it works fine for me. Are you sure there is no other factor? -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http

Re: mounting a local directory over another directory

2004-10-31 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: possible (I seem to recall seeing an option for this somewhere but not sure about it and I can't find it). mount --bind foo somewhere -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http

Re: Save/restore ALSA mixer settings

2004-10-31 Thread Thomas Adam
--- David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What two calls should I put in here to get the mixer setting saved and restored? alsactl store alsactl restore -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug

Re: Save/restore ALSA mixer settings

2004-10-31 Thread Thomas Adam
--- David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Didn't work. Can you be any less specific? Please give details, about *what* didn't work, expected outcomes, any errors produced, etc. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http

Re: xserver-xfree86 managing different settings

2004-10-26 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Scotty Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't be the first person to want to do this, so how do I do this? apt-get install gvidm -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up

Re: Where is the key for the password files stored?

2004-10-25 Thread Thomas Adam
' the file and pwconv(8) to recode it again. Be *very* careful that you don't clash any UIDs. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them

Re: squid async-io with debian-unstable problem

2004-10-25 Thread Thomas Adam
1318 0.5 23.3 18592 14532 ? SOct16 80:26 (squid) -D -sYC -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get

Re: CAnt'reboot: cannot open /mnt/etc/fstab: no such file

2004-10-24 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Adam Felix Bogacki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...snip. hdb: irqtimeout: status=0xd0 {Busy} ide0: reset: success ...snip You could try passing the kernel parameter nodma at the grub/lilo prompt, although I'd be much more inclined to say your disk is screwed. -- Thomas

Re: Sounds off in bash

2004-10-21 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Otto Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting X through startx so again I'm missing the .xsession . I know there is a sample somewhere but I can't find it. http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/StartX -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http

Re: Sounds off in bash

2004-10-21 Thread Thomas Adam
to launch here #Now launch the window manager xfce-mcs-manager xfwm4 --daemon xftaskbar4 xfdesktop exec xfce4-panel == Save that as ~/.xsession. chmod 700 ~/.xsession -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor

Re: Sounds off in bash

2004-10-20 Thread Thomas Adam
For the console you can add that to ~/.bash_profile For X, add it to ~/.xsession -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you

Re: losing vc cursor

2004-10-19 Thread Thomas Adam
that? If it is a kernel version, I certainly have never heard of it. Although one thing you could try is pressing ^L at the console. But again, I can't be any more specific. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll

Re: Where are mistyped name logins stored?

2004-10-19 Thread Thomas Adam
. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :) -- Benjamin A. Okopnik

Re: connecting computers

2004-10-18 Thread Thomas Adam
-cans and a piece of string. Just make sure you shout loud enough; the commands into the can. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them

Re: How to configure apt to retrieve Packages.bz2?

2004-10-18 Thread Thomas Adam
,Sources} in any of the example configs, or package It also begs the question who cares? given that the size decrease would be negligable. [..snip egotistical bull..] -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net

Re: Serious problems after apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-10-11 Thread Thomas Adam
-- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :) -- Benjamin A. Okopnik

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

2004-10-08 Thread Thomas Adam
Environment you're using. * Which application you're using. If you can't manage this, then we're in trouble, as it makes trying to answer your question rather difficult. You can do it using -geometry, only if the application supports it. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again and will it recognize the packcages it already got? If apt-get is interrupted, it'll continue from where it left off. Note that you might find:

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