Re: [Eug-lug]extract to here

2002-11-06 Thread Mike O
gunzip filename.gz tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz couldn't resist. __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Eug-lug]What time?

2002-11-06 Thread Dexter Graphic
Is there a command you can type at the Linux command line to tell you what time it is (or at least what time the computer thinks it is)? ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [Eug-lug]What time?

2002-11-06 Thread Mike O
date What about setting the time in the BIOS? Will both OS's recognize that properly? --- Dexter Graphic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a command you can type at the Linux command line to tell you what time it is (or at least what time the computer thinks it is)?

Re: [Eug-lug]timezones?

2002-11-06 Thread Bob Miller
Rob Hudson wrote: I _think_ my BIOS is set to GMT (or UTC, what's the difference?) and Linux adjusts that according to my timezone setting. In windows, when I change timezones it wants to update my BIOS (I'm guessing). So there is a constant battle between my Linux and Windows sides b/c I

Re: [Eug-lug]extract to here

2002-11-06 Thread Dexter Graphic
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 15:30, Mike O wrote: gunzip filename.gz tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz couldn't resist. The gunzip worked but it deleted the original file.Is there some way to stop it from doing this? ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Eug-lug](no subject)

2002-11-06 Thread ericiam
To whom it may concern, Hello, Im a volunteer at opn.I have a dual os computer, the first is windows xp and the second is redhat 8.0 my problem is I have a hsp56mr modem and I don't know how to set it up can you help me? Thank you, Eric

Re: [Eug-lug]IP Service Control / those fah-bee guys = )

2002-11-06 Thread Ben Barrett
Yeah, /. had a article a while back: Uncap Your [Cable]Modem, Get Visit From the FBI http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/03/152232 the originally-referenced article:

Re: [Eug-lug]What time?

2002-11-06 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W.)
date What about setting the time in the BIOS? Will both OS's recognize that properly? --- Dexter Graphic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a command you can type at the Linux command line to tell you what time it is (or at least what time the computer thinks it is)? Don't know about Linux,

Re: [Eug-lug]extract to here

2002-11-06 Thread Ralph Zeller
On 11/06/02 04pm, Dexter Graphic wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 15:30, Mike O wrote: gunzip filename.gz tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz couldn't resist. The gunzip worked but it deleted the original file.Is there some way to stop it from doing this? Next time, just use: tar xzvf

Re: [Eug-lug]extract to here

2002-11-06 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:22:38PM -0800, Dexter Graphic wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 15:30, Mike O wrote: gunzip filename.gz tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz couldn't resist. The gunzip worked but it deleted the original file.Is there some way to stop it from doing this? $ gunzip -c

Re: [Eug-lug]What time?

2002-11-06 Thread Ralph Zeller
And rdate gets the time from another computer that's setup as a time server. On 11/06/02 05pm, Cory Petkovsek wrote: date prints the os's clock hwclock prints the hardware's clock you can set one from the other with hwclock --hctosys or hwclock --systohc If you want your system in UTC/GMT

RE: [Eug-lug]What time?

2002-11-06 Thread Cory Petkovsek
I use ntpdate and didn't have to do anything other than set the /etc/defaults/rcS utc line. Cory -Original Message- From: Jacob Meuser [mailto:jakemsr;jakemsr.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 5:46 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [Eug-lug]What time? On Wed, Nov 06, 2002

Re: [Eug-lug]Winmodem Support [was: (no subject)]

2002-11-06 Thread Mark Bigler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im a volunteer at opn.I have a dual os computer, the first is windows xp and the second is redhat 8.0 my problem is I have a hsp56mr modem and I don't know how to set it up can you help me? Modems that require special drivers are always a challenge under Linux. In

Re: [Eug-lug]What time?

2002-11-06 Thread Mark Bigler
Ralph Zeller wrote:  in UTC time.  In debian this is in /etc/defaults/rcS, a line that says 'UTC=yes' If you're using Debian's debconf system, it might be better to run: /usr/sbin/base-config so that the new setting is noted in the debconf database.

Re: [Eug-lug]What time?

2002-11-06 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:47:30PM -0800, Cory Petkovsek wrote: I use ntpdate and didn't have to do anything other than set the /etc/defaults/rcS utc line. Cool. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Eug-lug]extract to here

2002-11-06 Thread Cory Petkovsek
then there's also my fav: zcat file.gz file and of course bzcat file.bz2 file and also zgrep pattern /var/log/kern.log.4.gz zegrep zless file.gz zmore zdiff file1.gz file2.gz zcmp and one I just discovered: gzexe (1)- compress executable files in place It compresses executables

Re: [Eug-lug] hsp56mr modem support

2002-11-06 Thread Ben Barrett
searching google Listed as Not working on The unofficial PCTel Winmodem in Linux compatibility database databasehttp://pctelcompdb.sourceforge.net/viewdetails.php?id_no=43 (kernel 2.4.18, rh7.3) Sure don't know anything about this, but the PCTel drivers have hsp in the name, which MIGHT mean

[Eug-lug]Erase Character

2002-11-06 Thread Grigsby, Garl
I know I have asked this before, but I never did get it working right, so here goes again. On a daily basis I work on a number of different Unix platforms including Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, and IRIX. Most of my work is done from either a HP-UX machine or a Linux machine. Most of these

RE: [Eug-lug]RE: running dnscache on laptop

2002-11-06 Thread Cory Petkovsek
I'll give you the source if you want it. I haven't looked at webmin at all, so no plans at this time. It's basically 'sp_who' but the output is parsed into an HTMl table. I also have a grep like function that takes out a few lines from the results to place elsewhere on the page. Nothing too

[Eug-lug]social event

2002-11-06 Thread Mike O
I don't know how many of you give a Fark about this but just to get the geeks out The people have spoken... The Fark MEETUP in Eugene, OR will be Saturday, Nov 9 @ 6PM Espresso Roma 825 E.13th Ave. Eugene, OR 97402 If you don't know what I'm Farking talking about then go to

Re: [Eug-lug]What time?

2002-11-06 Thread Bob Crandell
date Dexter Graphic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: Is there a command you can type at the Linux command line to tell you what time it is (or at least what time the computer thinks it is)? ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Eug-lug]What time?

2002-11-06 Thread Bob Crandell
I use ntpdate and I didn't even know there was a ntpdate config file. Cory Petkovsek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: I use ntpdate and didn't have to do anything other than set the /etc/defaults/rcS utc line. Cory -Original Message- From: Jacob Meuser [mailto:jakemsr;jakemsr.com] Sent:

RE: [Eug-lug]Erase Character

2002-11-06 Thread Jackson Gibbs
The solution used where I work is to source ~/`uname -s`/profile and then place the correct 'stty' command in the platform-specific profile. -Jackson -Original Message- From: Grigsby, Garl [mailto:garl.grigsby;eds.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 6:51 PM To: eug-lug (E-mail)

RE: [Eug-lug] Modem

2002-11-06 Thread Dexter Graphic
...I have a hsp56mr modem and I don't know how to set it up... How do you know it's an hsp56mr modem? Are you getting this from the Windows Device Manager? My experience is that hsp refers to a type of driver, a host signal processor, meaning only that the modem depends on the host CPU for

Re: [Eug-lug]still dead

2002-11-06 Thread Scott MacWilliams
Hey Mike, I've been through the drill four times, and it still isn't working. It gets to the scandisk program, runs that and asks to 'fix' a lot of files, then finally gets done and still won't go. I end up getting the same messages. I can't get down there tomorrow night, so I don't know when

[Eug-lug]SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: November PLUG Meeting

2002-11-06 Thread David Mandel
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT The Portland Linux/Unix Group will meet 7 PM Thursday Nov 7, 2002 at Portland State University

Re: [Eug-lug]Erase Character

2002-11-06 Thread Neil Parker
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Grigsby, Garl wrote: On a daily basis I work on a number of different Unix platforms including Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, and IRIX. Most of my work is done from either a HP-UX machine or a Linux machine. Most of these systems use a different character for erase (HP uses 'DEL',

[Eug-lug]Thanks! But what about doing it in KDE?

2002-11-06 Thread Dexter Graphic
Thanks for all the command line help (determining the time and extracting archives). But doesn't anyone ever use KDE? Like for browsing through the compressed help files in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en/ ? I thought maybe if I entered . as the default directory in ark's preferences that it might

Re: [Eug-lug]What time?

2002-11-06 Thread Patrick R. Wade
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:03:11PM -0800, Mike O wrote: date What about setting the time in the BIOS? Will both OS's recognize that properly? Traditionally, on *NIX-only boxen you set the firmware time to UTC. Local time in Eugene (PST) is UTC -8. Conventional wisdom moreover suggests that