Re: bash quoting problems

2011-08-09 Thread Bob McGowan
in the corrct place. Does anyone know how to do this? You may want to consider putting the sed script in a file and using the -f script (or --file=script) option instead. No quoting needed. ;) -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Wicd Wireless Woes

2011-05-26 Thread Bob McGowan
different Ubuntu/Kubuntu releases. I don't know what the Ubuntu references are, that info's all on my home system. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: permissions all zero when using 'cp'

2010-12-30 Thread Bob McGowan
the above as root. Since the original file is readable by all, what happens if you do the copy as a regular user? -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Web calendar sharing in Evolution

2010-12-30 Thread Bob McGowan
of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025 Registered Ubuntu User # 28654 Many thanks, and Happy New Year. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: JACK configuration

2011-01-17 Thread Bob McGowan
variations. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d34bc11.8060...@symantec.com

dual boot hardware problem

1998-08-14 Thread Bob McGowan
that it might not work, based on this boot hang. Any thoughts or theories that might help would be appreciated. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com

RE: Formatting a file with mkfs.msdos

1998-08-17 Thread Bob McGowan
the two utilities I can supply you with some alternatives (assuming you have sed and tr available). --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com

RE: dual boot hardware problem

1998-08-17 Thread Bob McGowan
need fixing. Is there anything else that needs changing? Thanks again, --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -Original Message- From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 17, 1998 8:55 AM To: Bob McGowan Cc: Debian Users (E-mail) Subject

RE: win98/hamm dual boot problem

1998-08-19 Thread Bob McGowan
this helps ;-) --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com

RE: freeing space on /usr?

1998-08-22 Thread Bob McGowan
. As to appropriate things, nothing other than trying to avoid directory structures with lots of symlinks comes to mind. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -Original Message- From: Mike Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 21, 1998 2:22 PM To: debian-user

Install problem - kernel problems with Adaptec 2740 EISA cards

1998-05-07 Thread Bob McGowan
I downloaded the Official CD images 2 or 3 months ago and did all the checks and balances before burning a CD. I also checked the CD image file against the burned image (dd and cmp under a UNIX system) and found no errors. I tried to install from the CD using a DOS boot and running the

RE: Problem with my shell

1998-05-07 Thread Bob McGowan
of the string, which of course could not be found. Could be ae was writting in DOS Text Mode?? --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: how to zmodem via telnet?

1998-05-13 Thread Bob McGowan
not exactly helpful, in this case;-) --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: V.90 modem recomendation

1998-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
if it is a winmodem or are there workarounds? I know some of this is probably documented and I just haven't found it yet, so pointers to reading material are also appreciated. TIA, --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -Original Message- From: Hamish Moffatt [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Installing Debian from WindowsNT Pt. 2

1998-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
Linux box is at home so I cannot check details for you on that end. Good luck. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 1998 12:40 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: recipient

RE: Linux the hard way

1998-05-15 Thread Bob McGowan
correctly transferred data - thank goodness ;-). On your Linux system, use tar to extract the files. There may be other utilities that would do recursive transfers, but I do not of them. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: first script executed

1998-05-20 Thread Bob McGowan
being used. Of course, this means doing a normal install again so you can track things. I have found that using these techniques can also be a powerful (and sometimes surprising) way to learn the system. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

RE: NFS mount problem

1998-05-26 Thread Bob McGowan
to start by telling the init program to go to run state 3, rather than run state 2, as its initdefault in /etc/inittab. I expect something similar on the Debian Linux side. I hope this helps you get NFS running. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

RE: NT and Linux

1998-05-27 Thread Bob McGowan
-Original Message- From: King Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 12:29 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NT and Linux Hello, I got into a discussion with a system administrator of a

RE: Nethack save files: was: angband save problems

1998-05-28 Thread Bob McGowan
for this to work. If they are both set to group id games and then the executable is made set GID with group games, things worked fine. This was a week or two ago and I do not remember if the group was acutally named games, but the procedure is what counts, here. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot

RE: Getting ttyx

1998-05-28 Thread Bob McGowan
Several ways, including piping the tty output to sed or cut or awk. But my preference would be: basename $(tty) # assumes you are using bash, ksh etc. or basename `tty` # back quotes for sh --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -Original Message

RE: adding users via scripts

1998-06-01 Thread Bob McGowan
. Searching for ideas, advice, etc. Thanks. How about just adding the 'passwd' command to the scirpt? --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: NT and Linux

1998-06-01 Thread Bob McGowan
the impact on CPU performance. In HW RAID, there is no additional impact. So even if SW RAID for a single RAID5 subsystem matched HW RAID for the same config, there will certainly come a breakeven point, where additional capacity causes CPU performance degradation in the SW RAID setup. --- Bob

RE: NT and Linux

1998-06-02 Thread Bob McGowan
Hi, King, my comments follow your questions, below. I hope this helps. Bob King Lee asks: Thanks Bob McGowan for your very informative reply. I gather that 1. Software raid is OK if problem is I-O bound, i.e., CPU would normally be idle waiting for I-O. I would agree

RE: set clock to GMT?

1998-08-28 Thread Bob McGowan
tend to suspect the hardware clock itself (the chip or its power supply). Then you would want to use the hardware clock to periodically update your system software clock. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com

RE: find replace?

1998-09-08 Thread Bob McGowan
to process requires some shell knowledge and a little additional information from you. Do you want each processed file to be concatenated on stdout or should each file be saved as an individual processed file? And which shell are you using? --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com

RE: Serial Console

1998-09-11 Thread Bob McGowan
with the original names to the serial device being used as the console. IHTH and Good Luck, --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Manon Metten wrote: On 4/5/07, *Douglas Allan Tutty* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux I want to change the name and

Re: backup-restore question

2007-04-06 Thread Bob McGowan
Chris Parker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Question being is it possible to restore a backup from a win32 (2003 server) ntfs filesystem via tape onto a linux machine. I want to be able to test our backups to make sure all is restorable. If this is possible how to do it

Re: permission of shadow file and upgrade the kernel

2007-04-09 Thread Bob McGowan
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:47:23PM -0700, ann kok wrote: Hi all why the permission of the shadow file in debian is 640? ---deleted 1. What do you think the permissions of shadow should be? The only user who needs to read /etc/shadow is root, that is the

compilation issues with a Gnome based app.

2007-04-13 Thread Bob McGowan
Hi, all, I'm trying to build an application called gASQL, version 0.6_0.2.94 and it's bombing out in the configure script. Bottom line is that it wants to use 'gnome-config' to find out about the parts that are installed, but when run the way the configure script sets it up, it fails to

Re: Xen Upgrade to 32-bit PAE on Etch: Advice Please

2007-04-18 Thread Bob McGowan
$ apt-cache search hypervisor libc6-xen - GNU C Library: Shared libraries [Xen version] xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386 - The Xen Hypervisor on i386 xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae - The Xen Hypervisor on i386 with pae xen-linux-system-2.6.18-4-xen-686 - XEN system with Linux 2.6.18 image on i686

Re: Impact on changing the shell of default system accounts

2007-04-18 Thread Bob McGowan
Felipe Rocha wrote: Hello, I would like to know which is the impact on changing the value of the default bash '/bin/sh' of the system accounts. If it doesn't have problem, which option ('/bin/false', '/usr/sbin/nologin' or '/dev/null') best fit on this situation? Here you have a list of

Re: Impact on changing the shell of default system accounts

2007-04-18 Thread Bob McGowan
Bob McGowan wrote: Felipe Rocha wrote: Hello, I would like to know which is the impact on changing the value of the default bash '/bin/sh' of the system accounts. If it doesn't have problem, which option ('/bin/false', '/usr/sbin/nologin' or '/dev/null') best fit on this situation? Here

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-20 Thread Bob McGowan
Michael Fothergill wrote: --- Dear Debianists, thanks for all the useful comments on video editing etc. I do have a few other questions that I have accumulated after investigating this a little further. I have nosing into the various different kinds of camcorders that are about these

Re: Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X

2007-04-20 Thread Bob McGowan
Amy Templeton wrote: I probably should've put this in the last email I sent out, but it is kind of off-topic for that and it just occurred to me. Since installing Debian (a while back), I'm unable to get back to a TTY after I invoke startx. --- I presume you mean that using the 'Alt-Ctl-F#'

Re: audacity number fonts

2007-04-20 Thread Bob McGowan
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:06:17PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Friday 20 April 2007 19:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:47:19PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I recent update to debian sid has had a strange side effect. When I run

Re: opinion sought: lvm vs. evms

2007-04-20 Thread Bob McGowan
Miles Fidelman wrote: I run a couple of rack-mount servers, each containing 4 fairly large SATA disks. I'm getting ready to rebuild one of the boxes as a development/staging environment. I'm considering using Xen, with an etch Dom0, and wondering what's the best way to manage the underlying

Re: to allow root logins or not?

2007-04-23 Thread Bob McGowan
Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 15:53 -0500, Default User wrote: Gee, I hate to ask another question, but - During an Etch install, it asks if I want to allow root logins. If not, no root account is set up (I guess as a security measure), and all admin access is done by sudo. Now

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-24 Thread Bob McGowan
Michael Pobega wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:03:13PM +0200, Andrea S. Gozzi wrote: I noticed that ubuntu 7.04 switched to the UUID method for drives/partitions identification in fstab. I heard rumors that debian will soon do the same (or already does). Even with google I couldn't find any

Re: the mysql postgresql question.

2007-04-25 Thread Bob McGowan
Dave Patterson wrote: Hi all - is it possible to go with one database system for all package dependencies? Package foo depends on mysql for install, Package bar allows postgresql or mysql but requires one or the other. Package umpty-scratch prefers postgresql. Is it necessary to have both

Re: hda:lost interrupt!!!

2007-05-01 Thread Bob McGowan
Owen Heisler wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 08:48 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 05:26:13PM +0530, shyam narayanan wrote: hi all, I had a perfect debian installation and as i boot up i am getting the error messsage hda:lost interrupt hda:DMA interrupt recovery

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-02 Thread Bob McGowan
Martin Marcher wrote: Hello, my setup is in a 30GB partition with LVM on top. now i had something like the following initially set up / 1GB /home 3GB and a few other non standard mountpoints ok i found that although this is just some minimal system for testing the / partition is to small

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-03 Thread Bob McGowan
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:54:10AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: On 5/3/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somewhere in the debian documentation is a warning that after going to single-user mode a return to multi-user is not guaranteed to work. too bad

Re: order of IDE drives in lenny

2007-05-07 Thread Bob McGowan
Towncat wrote: I needed to re-install my Debian system due to a disk failure. (Used to be etch, now lenny.) I have a new primary IDE master to which I installed, and I also have an IT8212 IDE card in the machine. For some reason when booting, the IT8212 gets assigned the /dev/hda-hdd, while the

Re: Random Crashes

2007-05-07 Thread Bob McGowan
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 04:54:18PM +0200, Gregor wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: So I took of the old 512Mb ram module, because it should be the one with problems, since the crashes happened already when I had only that one. The system still crashed. Just to be

Re: etch in amd64: system freezes

2007-05-07 Thread Bob McGowan
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Dear list, I have installed etch in a new AMD64 machine. My problem is the following: after a very little activity in the Gnome desktop, the system freezes (even an open window terminal freezes) and only a hard reboot bring the system back. If during the boot I

Re: order of IDE drives in lenny

2007-05-07 Thread Bob McGowan
Bob McGowan wrote: Towncat wrote: I needed to re-install my Debian system due to a disk failure. (Used to be etch, now lenny.) I have a new primary IDE master to which I installed, and I also have an IT8212 IDE card in the machine. For some reason when booting, the IT8212 gets assigned the /dev

Re: access to DVD movies

2007-05-08 Thread Bob McGowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian users, http://xinehq.de/ suggests xine_dvd_plugin for access to DVD movies. xine_dvd_plugin is not visible in Debian. What in Debian has a similar function? Thanks, ... Peter E. Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ You may

Re: Quote or double quote error in crontab

2007-05-08 Thread Bob McGowan
Valdir Marcos wrote: In crontab, I have: 00 01 * * 1-7 root/usr/bin/sarg -f /etc/squid/sarg-diario.conf -d `(date --date 1 day ago +%d/%m/%Y)`-`(date --date 1 day ago +%d/%m/%Y)` And this line generate the following message: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Apr 22

Re: cron and CRON

2007-05-08 Thread Bob McGowan
Valdir Marcos wrote: Take a look: # pstree init─┬─atd ├─bash ├─cron─┬─firebird │ └─sendmail ├─cron───cron─┬─sendmail │ └─sh───curl ---deleted extra content # ps aux | grep cron root 14094 0.0 0.1 1764 820 ?Ss 00:21 0:00

Re: [ in /usr/bin Question

2007-05-09 Thread Bob McGowan
bdeferme wrote: Tom Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all...I am new to this Debian thing :-) I used it in the Woody days but moved over to the FreeBSD world for the last few years. I recently installed Testing (Lenny) and see the left bracket in my /usr/bin directory and do not know what

Re: [ in /usr/bin Question

2007-05-09 Thread Bob McGowan
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:00:58AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: bdeferme wrote: Tom Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all...I am new to this Debian thing :-) I used it in the Woody days but moved over to the FreeBSD world for the last few years. I recently

Re: Are volume labels a file-system thing?

2007-05-10 Thread Bob McGowan
Hendrik Boom wrote: I just discovered that the commands for reading ans setting volume labels have 'e2' in their names, like e2label. Does this mean that I can label my partitions only if I put an ext2 of ext3 file system on them? Or is there some other mechanism I should know about?

Re: hardware freezez and no clue where to start searching

2007-05-10 Thread Bob McGowan
AndiSHFR wrote: Hi. Maybe someone can give us a hint or direct us in the right direction. We have a debian testing system. uname -a shows: Linux sv-vmhost02 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 11:36:53 CEST 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux The machine seems to freeze every n seconds for some seconds. It

Re: [ in /usr/bin Question

2007-05-10 Thread Bob McGowan
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 05:08:33PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: No wonder I can never figure out what a shell script is trying to do, either way it looks like a cat on a keyboard. Give me python and fortran77 any day. As I don't use python

Re: exporting a variable to global shells

2007-05-11 Thread Bob McGowan
Jan-Florian Hilgenberg wrote: Hi guy's, first I am german, so ignore my bad english please ;-) i want to get a variable out of a child shell in it parent shell, the sense is, that I want to use the ProxyServer of my school automaticly if it is pingable, the script isn't hard but the variable

Re: hda: lost interrupt

2007-05-11 Thread Bob McGowan
Dallas Clement wrote: Hello All, I just installed the Debian Etch 4.0 on my system. It will not complete bootup however. It keeps hanging on hda: lost interrupt and eventually fails to boot entirely. I previously had Debian Etch Testing installed. It has been working fine for the past

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
Hans du Plooy wrote: william pursell wrote: Your version is missing the final ', so I'm guessing you meant: sed 's/\\)/ /' Yes, sorry, several mistakes on my part... which will replace occurences of \) with a single space Not what I had intended, I just wanted to replace ) with a space.

Re: exporting a variable to global shells

2007-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
cga2000 wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:33:12PM EDT, Bob McGowan wrote: snip 3. in the parent script, where you use your script, change it to be: HTTP_proxy=$(getproxyip) .. you can take it one tiny step further by using an array: . child: cz=($c0 $c1 $c2)/* .. $c4 .. etc

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:59:49AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: william pursell wrote: Your version is missing the final ', so I'm guessing you meant: sed 's/\\)/ /' Yes, sorry, several mistakes on my part... which will replace occurences

Re: exporting a variable to global shells

2007-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:13:32AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: cga2000 wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:33:12PM EDT, Bob McGowan wrote: snip 3. in the parent script, where you use your script, change it to be: and more snipped So: $ echo a b c d | read x y z p

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-16 Thread Bob McGowan
Brendan wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/15/07 15:52, pedxing wrote: I would like to configure things so that, for instance, when I (ok, actually my wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my mp3 player, when the copy dialog says 100%, I can immediately unmount the device

Re: bash scripting question

2007-05-16 Thread Bob McGowan
Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I've got a question about a short bash script I wrote. I need it to --snipped-- #!/bin/bash lab_num=41 for map_name in aest_90 bush_90 carol_90 comp_90 \ hirs_90 roan_90 swan_90 vir_90 ; do lab_let=$(echo -n $(printf \\x$(echo $lab_num))) echo

Re: bash scripting question

2007-05-17 Thread Bob McGowan
Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-05-17, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some general comments, mostly aimed at making your code cleaner without changing what it does. First, both 'echo' and 'printf' put their results on standard out. Your call of 'printf' is inside command substitution, so

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-21 Thread Bob McGowan
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:21:17PM -0700, pedxing [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On May 17, 8:50 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, ideally, nothing would be written to the flash at all until either sync or umount. Yes, I wait. Yes, I also

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

2007-05-21 Thread Bob McGowan
Deboo ^ wrote: Can eveyone list the best of UNIX/Linux books. In other words the books that doesn't let you leave it. My choices are: 1. Unix Power Tools (I think there's no second to this one and this is the King of all Unix/Linux books) 2. The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for

Re: Mount a Windows partition

2007-05-22 Thread Bob McGowan
Wayne Topa wrote: Matthias Brennwald([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Dear all I installed Debian Etch on a Dell D800 laptop. There's another partition with Windows (an some of my files) on it. How can I mount this partition? I tried the following so far: - sudo apt-get install

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-24 Thread Bob McGowan
Marko Randjelovic wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/23/07 20:40, Ken Hu wrote: ¼ Wed 2007-05-23 ¼ 21:25 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty Ð0 What filesystems can your Mac OSx read and write? Well , I think the filsystem my mac uses is HFS, but I can find no way to mount HFS on Linux. Of course my Mac

Re: adaptec sata installation

2007-05-30 Thread Bob McGowan
. What is the CPU (AMD/Intel/???, 64 bit, 32 bit...)? 3. How much memory? 4. Which Debian (etch/stable, testing, old stable...)? 5. Anything else you think we need to know. -- Bob McGowan Symantec, Inc. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Bob McGowan
in the substitute by the \1. So, this part of the line: PaySeq=#Mark is replaced with: # Where is the sequence number for each line. -- Bob McGowan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: slurping a file

2007-06-01 Thread Bob McGowan
to modify items listed;, etc. Then click start and go get a cup of coffee (or your preferred beverage of choice) and enjoy a movie while it all gets downloaded ;) -- Bob McGowan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: hwclock /dev/rtc

2007-06-04 Thread Bob McGowan
a driver for it? $ lsmod|grep rtc rtc12372 0 If you get no output, then the rtc driver has not loaded. But you don't need to write one, try: modprobe rtc first. Then, if hwclock works, you may need to add the driver name to the /etc/modules file. -- Bob McGowan smime.p7s

Re: printer setup

2007-06-04 Thread Bob McGowan
US letter size, the job will stop, waiting for the correct paper type. You'd need to use one of the CUPS configuration tools (I prefer the browser based method), select the printer configuration and verify the paper size there. -- Bob McGowan Symantec, Inc. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Bob McGowan
the command to the end of your .xinitrc file in your home directory. -- Bob McGowan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: hwclock /dev/rtc

2007-06-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Mumia W.. wrote: On 06/04/2007 06:12 PM, Paul Wise wrote: [please CC me, I'm not subscribed] On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 13:36 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: $ lsmod|grep rtc rtc12372 0 [...] No I didn't write that. Bob McGowan wrote that. Please be more careful

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-06-05, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't answer the question regarding base causes, but to get a program to run after you quit X, add the command to the end of your .xinitrc file in your home directory. I'm not sure how to do this. I didn't have

Re: partition table type

2007-06-06 Thread Bob McGowan
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Re: partition table type

2007-06-06 Thread Bob McGowan
Mike McCarty wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jeffry s wrote: i am also wondering what all those partition type mean. can anyone point any documentation about the difference of amiga, bsd, dvh, gpt, mac, msdos, pc98, s390

Re: problem

2007-06-06 Thread Bob McGowan
, you would not be the only one (that I know of) making this complaint. By the way, this particular mailing list has a lot of people on it who may well be developers, but don't work on Debian. We are users, as the list name suggests. -- Bob McGowan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: dd_rescue works to copy an NTFS ...

2007-06-07 Thread Bob McGowan
the appropriate filesystem repair utility (fsck, checkdisk, ...) to try to fix things so files at least are readable. But the data in those missing sectors is lost, period. Caveat emptor ;) -- Bob McGowan Symantec, Inc. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Apache2 and PHP5 configuration problem

2007-06-07 Thread Bob McGowan
/www/apache2-default/index.html and /var/www/index.html both serve correctly). However, when I try to use a .php file, a file download dialog pops up. So, I'm clearly missing something in the Apache2 configuration. Can someone point me the right way on this? Thanks, -- Bob McGowan

Re: Apache2 and PHP5 configuration problem: SOLVED

2007-06-07 Thread Bob McGowan
Atis wrote: On 6/7/07, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got both these installed on my Debian etch system. I've enable the 'server-info' and 'server-status' URL's and based on the info in them, the mod_php5 module and configuration are loading. I have Apache set up so I can access

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-11 Thread Bob McGowan
Michael wrote: thx Bob. (Is there any list you're not subscribed :) Using 'null' is slightly shorter than my 'sed' command...but somehow i can't help it's still not really straight enough. Doing complicated things just to have quite common formatted filenames handled, is so *uncool* for a

Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

2007-06-11 Thread Bob McGowan
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:10:59AM -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I looked on the maintainer webpage which seems to indicate that an IBM Thinkpad 390 Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) needs to have a patch installed for fluxbox to work. Since an MMX is somewhat slow, I was

Re: problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg

2007-06-12 Thread Bob McGowan
version: 1.0.8766-4 -- /Arijit Sarkar/ /Kolkata, India/ Evolution on Debian testing Did you also upgrade the kernel? If so, you need to re-run the nvidia installation script to either install a pre-compiled, or to compile and install a custom, Nvidia driver. -- Bob McGowan smime.p7s

Re: /lib/init/rw

2007-06-14 Thread Bob McGowan
not. ;) -- Bob McGowan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Cursor problems

2007-06-15 Thread Bob McGowan
;) -- Bob McGowan Symantec, Inc. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

konsole from script errors

2007-06-19 Thread Bob McGowan
I've got a simple script to start KDE konsole with a specific geometry: /usr/bin/konsole --geometry $coordinates The value for 'coordinates' is either passed in via an argument or set set to a default value: 671x504+0-0 I just used this script to start a konsole session from a session

Re: Detecting disk drives from an installation script

2007-06-20 Thread Bob McGowan
together into one long, unformatted string. Thanks. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Ore. Orestes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backgrounding a script

2007-06-20 Thread Bob McGowan
there for illustration only. The code you want to have actually run goes after the 'if' statement. Bob McGowan PS: Forgot to mention, you may also not need to do the 'me=$(type...)' part, I do it so I can verify I'm actually running the script I think I'm running. Problems of this type can happen

Re: /etc is gone

2007-06-21 Thread Bob McGowan
, as printed during the startup, particularly just before the point where you get a shell prompt. Hope this helps -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-21 Thread Bob McGowan
, changes to /etc/profile wiil do nothing. See the man pages, section FILES, for a full list of rc files for each shell. Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Turning off the %^* scroll wheel

2007-06-22 Thread Bob McGowan
functionality. So you might try a very basic interface, such as 'ps2' or 'fups2' (described as being used for 'broken' PS/2 mice). Though the names are from gpm they should match names used by X11, since the two have to (and do in my experience) work together. -- Bob McGowan smime.p7s

Re: ssh on lan by hostname instead of dynamic ip

2007-06-22 Thread Bob McGowan
that allows this. You then put the IP and host name in your /etc/hosts file. From what I can see in the man page for dnsmasq, it would basically do the same thing as the above, it just puts the configuration onto your local server rather than the router (my guess;-) -- Bob McGowan smime.p7s

Re: /etc is gone

2007-06-22 Thread Bob McGowan
. Hope this helps -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob McGowan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

List Archive problem?? (Was: Re: Can't boot after installation == ALERT! /dev/sda1 doest not exist. Dropping to a shell.)

2006-10-26 Thread Bob McGowan
. Verus. -Original Message- From: Bob McGowan Sent: dinsdag 24 oktober 2006 17:52 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Can't boot after installation debian wrote: Hello, i have a new poweredge 1950 with an embedded dell perc 5/i raid controller There are 2 disks in it of 72GB

Re: Can't boot after installation == ALERT! /dev/sda1 doest not exist. Dropping to a shell.

2006-10-27 Thread Bob McGowan
. -Original Message- From: Bob McGowan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 26 oktober 2006 17:53 To: debian Subject: RE: Can't boot after installation == ALERT! /dev/sda1 doest not exist. Dropping to a shell. Versus, My intent in sending you to the archives was to save

Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?

2006-10-27 Thread Bob McGowan
HXC wrote: That is a very extensive list, thanks a lot! I especially like the konqueror option :-). Do you happen to know a way to view the Debian specific readme's in /usr/share/doc/? On Friday 27 October 2006 17:05, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Friday 27 October 2006 05:40, HXC wrote: I

Re: xargs and max chars

2006-11-01 Thread Bob McGowan
michael wrote: Anybody got a quick solution to how to use xargs in corp with, say, find and ls when there's more chars than xarg (see -s) likes for a single run? eg if I run find . -name 'me*' -print | xargs ls -altd and find gives more than circa 20k chars then it appears that ls is run

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