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: 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: 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: [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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Why GTK apps show smaller fonts under KDE?

2004-07-15 Thread Thomas Adam
--- * Tong* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I notice that fonts are smaller for GTK applications (like pan) under KDE. E.g., for the same app -- pan, fonts are smaller in KDE than in my fluxbox. Why is that? Is there a fix? The command: gnome-font-properties will sort this. -- Thomas

Re: [Fwd: Installing package on debian]

2004-07-16 Thread Thomas Adam
-get or aptitude or whatever it is you use would be useful here, sine blindly showing us package versions is meaningless. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas

Re: [Fwd: Installing package on debian]

2004-07-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Vijaya S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setting up expect (5.41.0-1) ... Now do: dpkg -L | grep 'usr/bin/expect' You should see: /usr/bin/expect. If not, mail the output of dpkg -L expect here. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor

Re: [Fwd: Installing package on debian]

2004-07-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Vijaya S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/bin/expect So it installed just fine -- if there were dependency issues, it would not have installed. So I have no idea what it is you're having trouble with -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor

Re: Unknown Scancode Errors

2004-07-16 Thread Thomas Adam
here to the list. You'll find them in /var/log/messages -- 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: x apps won't start as root under normal user

2004-07-16 Thread Thomas Adam
is: su - password: xauth ~user/.Xauthority export DISPLAY=:0.0 Where ~user above us the username of the person who currently has X running. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up

Re: Software to HTMLize a text file?

2004-07-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if there was anything like the tools that convert a plain old ASCU file to PostScript for HTML conversion? Why to PS and then HTML? Why not text - HTML? txt2html - Text to HTML converter -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread Thomas Adam
are). -- 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: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread Thomas Adam
into. There is no command ll. If you mean ll to be an alias for ls -l then you should have stated so, since ll is not a standard alias at all, as far as bash is concerned in Debian. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Pete Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not pipe the output through less .. eg: # cat somedoc.txt | less Why would you want to cat the file _and_ page it? That is a useless use of cat here, as less accepts STDIN. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread Thomas Adam
and hold SHIFT and press PGUP/PGDN, but the scrollback availability is limited to both console and xterms. -- 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: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Rus Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sound like STDOUT and STDERR I thought this too, but dumpkeys writes to STDOUT in this instance. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From sid ~/.bashrc: # some more ls aliases #alias ll='ls -l' #alias la='ls -A' #alias l='ls -CF' I would guess that this would also apply to sarge Yup -- it is still commented out by default -- Thomas Adam = The Linux

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread Thomas Adam
is that only stdout is sent to some_file. Why? Because stderr is duplicated (that's what the '' means) to stdout before stdout is directed to the filename. To get around this: command ./some_filename 21 The equivalent command, being: command ./some_filename -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread Thomas Adam
-F: '/$user/ {print $2}' ./filename -- Thomas Adam [1] No, I don't want an obscure example, nor do I care. My point here is that the Useless use of Cat scenario still applies when a program can accept files. = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor

Re: Listing Files - Permissions in Octal?

2004-07-18 Thread Thomas Adam
`trytrytry.wav' 644 -rw-r--r-- n6tadam n6tadam `typical.png' 600 -rw--- n6tadam n6tadam `ugh.pdf' 644 -rw-r--r-- n6tadam n6tadam `vsound.wav' as an example. See the man page. :) -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http

Re: Magic mismatch??

2004-07-20 Thread Thomas Adam
--- C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hda: status error: status=0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest} hda: drive not ready for command hda: lost interrupt hda: interrupt lost hda: interrupt lost That drive is failing. Backup any data and replace it, it's a gonner. -- Thomas

Re: dpkg/apt question

2004-07-22 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Preston Boyington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dpkg --set-selections packages.txt then: apt-get install ^^^ Wrong. You want to do: apt-get dselect-upgrade -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http

Re: Webmin dies on startup

2004-07-22 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Jonathan Melhuish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually run the stable version, but I have also tried installing the testing version, to no avail. I have tried removing and re-installing both versions. paste the output of: bash -x /etc/init.d/webmin start -- Thomas Adam

Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Wanda Round [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would like to clone that to another machine hdb3 with 4.5 gb total (was Mandrake). Entire hard drive is 10 gb. You'll want to read this, then: http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/OneDiskToAnother -- Thomas Adam = The Linux

Re: DIR_COLORS

2004-07-29 Thread Thomas Adam
snipped..] You can uncomment the use of eval `dircolors -b` in ~/.bashrc -- 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: Whats with this new Debian installer?

2004-08-08 Thread Thomas Adam
but big deal. Who cares? They're usable, intuitive and don't require lots of RAM to install. It just means that you have to use the keyboard more often. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?

2004-08-08 Thread Thomas Adam
else. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Squatted harddisk

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Adam
tried df, but that is very minimalistic. I'd like to get a treeview of files and space in use... Any suggestions? cd / du -sk * Is probably your best bet (it's slow, mind). Can you also paste the output from the following commands: df -h df -i -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask

Re: Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Adam
want to take a screendump of the console (/dev/tty*)? If so: setterm -dump -file ~/output.dump \ col -b ~/output.dump ~/screen.capture Might help, although you'll find: http://www.p12n.org/hacks/screendump helpful. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain

Re: sound settings Sarge - KDE

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Adam
and a alsactl restore on login. i am guessing that somewhere there is an automated tool for this though. Umm, yes, the alsa initscript handles this for you. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Adding new hardware to existing system

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Adam
scsi-emulation is taking over it, diverting it, or it is on another IDE channel. Again dmesg | more will help you there in ascertaining that information. There is also discover from the progency people which is an attempt to detect HW -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You

Re: restarting network connections

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Adam
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 01:35:03PM -0700, Paul Maser wrote: Besides rebooting, how do you restart the network connections after making changes to /etc/network/interfaces? Thanks; /etc/init.d/networking restart -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain

Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Adam
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:08:15PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there, I've been known to break security, implement an SUID shell script to hack the sendmail.cf file to change the system identity That doesn't do anything. SUID/GID bits on shell scripts are ignored. -- Thomas Adam

Re: restarting network connections

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Adam
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:09:35PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: /etc/init.d/networking restart It really only makes sense to use invoke-rc.d from maintainer scripts. We had this discussion a while back. Truth is, both work just fine. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You

Re: Perfect mirror copy?

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:56:56PM -0600, Kent Andersen wrote: what would be the procedure for making a perfect bootable copy of a primary linux drive? http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/OneDiskToAnother Will be of use to you. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since

Re: Ugly fonts on new KDE installation

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Adam
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:56:30PM -0700, Sean O'Dell wrote: What could be working on my desktop system that's not working on the new machine to make Tahoma look nice and crisp? http://linuxgazette.net/100/adam.html perhaps? -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You

Re: restarting network connections

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Adam
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:01:35PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: Hmm... unlike the other responders, I've done this with /sbin/ifup, but I'm no expert, just a humble desktop user. Perhaps the experts can shed light on the different approaches? The script calls if{up,down}. -- Thomas Adam

Re: screensaver in KDE

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Adam
-- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how change default paper size in emacs for tex-dvi-view-command

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:39:41PM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: I want to know how to change the paper size for this command. I have tried to put the folloiwng line in ~/.emacs but the bevaiour does not change: You can use 'paperconfig' from the 'libpaper-utils' package to do this. -- Thomas

Re: Boot with no KDE?

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:32:28AM +, Richard Cavell wrote: Where is kde being started? You mean KDM. The easiest thing to do is: echo false /etc/X11/default-display-manager -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey

Re: File

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:34:13PM +0100, Justin Cassidy wrote: Could somebody please attach and email me /etc/init.d/mysql? I accidentaly deleted it apt-get --reinstall install mysql-server -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse

Re: newbie kernel question

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 01:32:25PM -0400, Mark D. Hansen wrote: How can I tell which Linux kernel is running on my Debian machine? Thanks. uname -r -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: modules fail after apt-get upgrade

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Adam
: depmod -a It appears that you're trying to load modules that are newer/older than the kernel version you're booting with. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: newbie kernel question

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Adam
. As an aside, kindly *try* and keep your replies on-list and do not top-post. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What am I running now, Sarge or Sid?

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Adam
will break your system. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Not being detected as burner

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Adam
.X you'll need scsi-emulation still, and ide-scsi. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Not being detected as burner

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Adam
as well as the sg module. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SOLVED Re: A novice having trouble with X window on install

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Adam
). -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Adam
sending the e-mail. But that's just me. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge Automatically reboots

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:22:53PM -0500, Murali Krishnan Ganapathy wrote: Hi List, Till last week, my Debian/Testing installation was working very well. Please search the back archives for the past day for this list [1], this question has been answered at least four times now. -- Thomas

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Adam
to using a different MUA is a ridiculous suggestion. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My last post was 2 hours ago

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:46:07PM -0700, Tong Sun wrote: and I haven't seen it yet. This one spammed us just fine. ;) I suggest you resend your original post. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Orphaned libraries and programs

2004-08-11 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:17:42AM -0400, Loki wrote: But your local libraries executables should all be in /usr/local. autoconf-based configure scripts default to installing in /usr/local, so I Which is why utilities such as 'stow' and 'checkinstall' are so useful. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly

Re: Piped package list

2004-08-11 Thread Thomas Adam
--set-selections ./selectionfile apt-get dselect-upgrade. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Piped package list

2004-08-11 Thread Thomas Adam
apt-get upgrade No, you *must* do: apt-get dselect-upgrade. (man dpkg for more information.) Heh, yes, it *is* worth reading. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Installing mySQL..

2004-08-11 Thread Thomas Adam
you have told us. -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in the arse. -- Morrissey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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