At Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:22:15 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, henry wrote:
Sometimes I make Makefile ,I get lots of error messages so that I cant look
them in time.
I try to make tmp.log , but it fail (I cant dump those error message into
tmp.log).
Could someone
At Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:11:02 +1000, Mick Howe wrote:
I need to change the default run level in redhat 7.1 for a while.
if you don't want to make it permanent, then:
from lilo (or other bootloader), add the runlevel as a kernel command
line argument:
eg:
lilo: linux 5
will boot into run
At Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:45:04 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Angus Lees
don't punish those who do the right thing.
(aka don't optimize for the failure case)
It's only a recommendation. [...] One can always choose to ignore
the recommendation.
but my point is that SLUG should
louis, your mailer (USANET web-mailer (CM.1201.3.01A)) has a very
confusing quoting style.
At Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:40:10 +1000, Louis Selvon wrote:
Angus Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:17:46 +1000, Louis Selvon wrote:
When I create a domain called domain.com
At 21 Apr 2002 10:17:45 +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote:
When: Saturday, May 4th (from 11:00)
so whats with the short notice?
especially when involving family, my weekends are booked *much*
further ahead than that.
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At Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:38:53 +1000, Triet Hoai Lai wrote:
Terry Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[terryc@owl 2002]$ pdftex 20020417-perm.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1)
(20020417-perm.tex[/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg]
Babel v3.6Z and hyphenation
At 19 Apr 2002 13:39:54 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
Now. Just so I know, in case I do it again, is there a relatively easy
way to recover a partition table?
gpart. its way cool.
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At Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:17:46 +1000, Louis Selvon wrote:
When I create a domain called domain.com with username username
from the control panel from root that directory is accesible at
/home/virtual/domain.com/ (This is the base directory for the domain)
At the user account level for that
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 03:14:12PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
Angus Lees wrote:
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:12:29PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
Angus Lees wrote:
At Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:39:31 +1000, marty wrote:
what tools are people using to create PDFs?
i use pdftex
At Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:16:51 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote:
The secondary MX only stores the email until the primary is back up.
It then fowards the email to the primary.
depends entirely on how the secondary is setup.
there's no reason you can't have an MX over your fast cheap link, then
a
At Tue, 16 Apr 2002 20:58:00 +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
Feh. Reboot into single-user mode ('linux single' at the LILO prompt), and
fsck all the hard drives you want.
no need to *reboot* to get to single user mode.
just telinit s - then you probably want to do a ps listing and
gracefully
At 16 Apr 2002 09:42:50 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote:
According to the notes recently on slug wine does not support directx so
it probably will not support games very well.
wine does directx fine (can even use DGA). it does not do direct3d
(but i think the
At Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:22:53 +1000, Andre Pang wrote:
Not to take anything away from the work that CodeWeavers have
done, but I'm still surprised at the number of people who haven't
heard of Win4Lin.
Its downsides are (a) no support for Windows 2000, and (b)
basically no DirectX support.
At Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:36:01 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote:
I use Codeweaver WINE successfully to run a proprietary legal research
CD and (seldom now since installing OpenOffice.org) M$ Office.
However, I have never been able to install these in a Windoze-free
system since the setup programs
At Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:58:29 +0900, Antony Stace wrote:
What is an easy way to see the HTTP headers in a HTTP request.
the lwp-request (aka GET, HEAD or POST) script that comes with
the perl LWP library is very good for this sort of stuff.
works with all the stuff that LWP does too (https, http
At 08 Apr 2002 12:52:37 +1000, Simon Wong wrote:
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 15:34, Angus Lees wrote:
i'm guessing you are also setting it somewhere else, and that setting
is overriding the customize option.
Not intentionally!
I couldn't find anything in the site wide /etc files that set
At 08 Apr 2002 19:49:36 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
Minutes of the SLUG committee meeting 26th March 2002
Suggestions for future talks:
[...]
As always, volunteers for these or any other talk would be most
welcome.
still willing to do intro to emacs, intro to perl and
At Mon, 8 Apr 2002 22:31:41 +1000 (EST), lukekendall wrote:
On 8 Apr, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
Usually they get dumped to /var/log/messages if the system isn't too far
gone, so that you often don't need to write anything down.
That should be mentioned in the man page for ksymoops.
At 07 Apr 2002 14:19:50 +1000, Simon Wong wrote:
I am having trouble with the auto indent settings for the C major mode
(c-basic-offset).
I want this to be 4 which is the standard setting. At one point I had
changed it to 2 but I can't change it back.
C Basic Offset: [Hide] 2
[State]:
At Fri, 5 Apr 2002 19:27:50 +1000, marty wrote:
$author = Angus Lees ;
At Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:39:31 +1000, marty wrote:
what tools are people using to create PDFs?
i use pdftex (or rather, pdflatex). it usually produces pdf's of
higher quality (conformance to pdf standard
At Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:39:31 +1000, marty wrote:
what tools are people using to create PDFs?
i use pdftex (or rather, pdflatex). it usually produces pdf's of
higher quality (conformance to pdf standard and general layout) than
the adobe tools themselves.
the tool doesn't need to work with
At Thu, 4 Apr 2002 00:46:23 +1000,
Paul Robinson wrote:
What I was planning to do was install the new drives and mount them as /mnt/temp and
/mnt/temp2
for example and then run cp -a / /mnt/temp so as to copy everything form the root
structure
across.. but I got to thinking.. wouldn't it
At Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:55:53 +1100, Daniel Harper wrote:
I have some Page Breaks in a document that I want to get rid of in Perl.
perl -pi.bak -e 's/\f//g' a_document
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At Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:01:00 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
So using cp -lr is a very effective way to speed up and save space when
patching very large codetrees, but I'm interested in what's going on
beneath.
When patch changes a hard linked file, it relinks it so that it becomes a
new file
At Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:11:30 +1100 (EST), Jessica Mayo wrote:
I was looking at UML this morning. I wanted a Win32 port.
I downloaded the patch to the latest stable 2.4 kernel.
[ done while looking over the LINE 0.5 code (think Lin4Win :) ]
But I'll never get started with distractions like
At Sat, 23 Mar 2002 13:49:57 +1100 (EST), david wrote:
GRIPE
[...]
It has occurred to me that IT people need to do a basic HUMAN
communication course before being allowed to touch a computer.
/GRIPE
is it just me, or is the more obvious alternative to the above:
It has occurred to me
At Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:06:41 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
... If you teamed up with a couple of other people, we could run a stream of
developer talks for new hackers, introducing all of the free software tools,
from project management stuff, compilers to debuggers and packaging systems.
Anyone
At 21 Mar 2002 10:17:51 +1100,
Peter Hardy wrote:
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 10:11, Jamie Honan wrote:
Pictures, frames, ssl, and text mode browsing.
Does w3m do http auth? This is the one sticking point that's stopped me
from replacing lynx with links on all of my machines.
w3m does. links
\begin{Peter Hardy}
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 10:39, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Peter Hardy
Commercial software, but well worth the price, and the money gets poured
back in to wine development.
Proprietary! We use Free commercial software *every* day.
Pedant! :-)
Free software,
\begin{Andre Pang}
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:32:03PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
At 21 Mar 2002 10:17:51 +1100,
Peter Hardy wrote:
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 10:11, Jamie Honan wrote:
Pictures, frames, ssl, and text mode browsing.
Does w3m do http auth? This is the one sticking point
\begin{Bill Bennett}
I'd like to install elvis, which is a vi/ex clone, but it
occurred to me to ask if anyone has any experience with others.
Has anyone any strong feelings they'd like to air?
emacs
M-x viper-mode
;)
it has 5 emulation levels, to ease the rehabilitation process.
(why is
At Wed, 20 Mar 2002 08:52:35 +1100,
Alan Vink wrote:
Setting up IP Aliasing on A Linux Machine Mini-HOWTO
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/IP-Alias/
IP Alias has been deprecated in 2.4.x and replaced by a more powerful
firewalling mechanism
with iproute there is no need for interface
At Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:27:54 +1100,
Richard Hayes wrote:
As a Debian dummy who is trying to change from Red Hat to Debian but
is failling ;)
I read about the Storm Administration System which I believe was a
part of the Storm distribution.
It contains the Storm Administration System
From: Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:20:48 +1100
Subject: e-tax
As you are aware, e-tax was introduced as a mainstream option last year.
The lack of software for any other platform other than Windows has led
me to write to you.
I have begun some correspondence with the
At 19 Mar 2002 22:21:16 +1100,
Ken Foskey wrote:
Power users use vim which will automatically unzip when it opens for
edit. It will then zip when you save automatically.
You just have to be deranged to understand the command set.
ObEmacs:
M-x auto-compression-mode
(or echo
At Tue, 19 Mar 2002 02:22:26 +1100,
Bill Taylor wrote:
cat didn't work last night, unless I did somthing wrong. the particular
readme's are .gz .does that make a difference?
they seem to be binaries or produce symbols instead of letters with
cat,less or more,ended up locked up again. the 3
At Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:39:14 +1100,
Anand Kumria wrote:
mirror.aarnet.edu.au and planetmirror.com are maintained by the same group
of people. So if one is broken, both are.
from what i've heard from jason, i thought mirror.aarnet end
planetmirror.com.au where different machines, with different
At Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:30:07 +1100,
Jeff Waugh wrote:
I'm looking for a KDE person who would like to do a combined GNOME/KDE
desktop talk with me at the upcoming Linux Workshop in May.
[ Yes, this does exclude the amazing choice outside the scope of desktop
environments, but I'm pretty sure
At Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:54:03 +1100,
Alister Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a folder with some rather large files eg 300MB +
I want to be able to tar up the whole folder so that I can burn them onto CD
and put them onto another system. (in another city).
I have read up a bit on the
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:29:54PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
It feels a bit wrong using a massive hulk of a
thing like MySQL or Postgres for what's essentially logging.
apparently there's this thing called O_APPEND, which supports multiple
writers and is persistant ...
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:40:36PM +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
My point precisely. Use something that _IS_ interactive, or at least
something that is a bit easier to learn.
nothing produces plain text documents as well as troff (see manpages for
example). and wysiwyg is a flawed concept
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:44:36PM +1100, Andy Eager wrote:
Just so happens I am working on a script to do a similar thing for the
LPIC course currently being undertaken at Granville TAFE.
rpm -qai | egrep ^Name|^Size | sed s/ */ /g | awk 'BEGIN {FS= } \
$1 == Name $2 == : { printf
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:24:08PM +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote:
And having given you two fish, let me suggest at this point that it would be well
worth your while learning to fish.
A great place to start is perldoc.com, which should contain just about everything
you could need.
Looking
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:46:58PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Michael Still
Does anyone know of a good SGML editor which can hide the tags (but
continue to insert them for paragraphs etc), and has a spell checker?
Lyx, or, if you're willing to do some hacking, Conglomerate.
emacs
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 05:51:16PM +0800, henry wrote:
I want to print the first 5 characters in front of a definite word
as follows:
It's supposed that the definite word is AU.
INPUT --aassewrab cdAUwst
OUTPUT(I hope to get ) - -ab cd
($output) = $input =~ /(.{5})AU/;
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:04:00PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Angus Lees wrote:
if you don't like dselect (and thats understandable), you could try
deity-curses, deity-gtk or aptitude.
Aptitude comes highly recommended by a while bunch of top Debian
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:02:53PM +1100, Matt Hyne wrote:
Guys, I have number of linux boxes here and I want to only have one place that
username/passwords are stored (for admin reasons). Rather than go the full overkill
and set up NIS, is LDAP (or something else) a better alternative.
why
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:59:47AM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote:
A little trick I find useful is using the cache search functionality:
apt-cache search cups
please note that apt-get/apt-cache are no substitute for a real
user-friendly apt frontend.
if you don't like dselect (and thats
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:59:39PM +1100, Crossfire wrote:
If your desire to learn how to program using Xlib, you should refer to
souce code from simple X11 programs, the X11 programming manuals, and
to any XLib tutorial material you can find. (There is a book about
XLib and Motif
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:53:53PM +0900, Antony Stace wrote:
I have run into a problem with postgres. I cannot update some rows in a table while
i can update other rows in the same table. How can I see what locks are on a
table/row in postgres?
don't know. but pgmonitor could show you what
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:16:26AM +0800, henry wrote:
2. download Net-telnet-3.02.tar.gz from www.cpan.org
3. a. untar it
b. perl Makefile.PL
c. make test -pls see tmp.log as attached(that why my
perl-script fail )
d. make install
try
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 12:22:56PM +1100, Jason Rennie wrote:
but perl doesn't seem to have a setuid function ?
$ = $user_id;
see $, $, $( and $) in perlvar(1)
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slug list:
please CC replies to tony, as he isn't subscribed to the list.
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From: Tony Prince [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Inquiry
Angus Lees,
Secretary, SLUG
Dear Angus
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:37:23PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
I need to be able to receive PDFs from that other OS and print them here
First problem is that pdf2ps errors out.
So I used xpdf to view the mailed pdf and saved it as a postscript.
i've had more luck with pdftops (comes with
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:19:51AM +1100, Michael Kraus wrote:
G'day Sluggers and Peter,
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 21:37, Michael Kraus wrote:
a) run Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Quark Express, etc?
There's a Linux-native version of Corel Draw kicking around I think.
Info about
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:09:13PM +1100, Russell Andrew Willis wrote:
Also trying to set up dual boot for Win2000 RH7.1, I'd like to use
NTFS but lilo doesn't seem to load no matter what order I load them. I
have gone through the archives there appears some issue with the NTFS
system,
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:16:51PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
Cool trick for wine users:
* Make sure you've got support for the binfmt_misc driver[2] in
your kernel. I think it gets compiled in to distro kernels
these days - check that /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:30:20AM +1100, Rob B wrote:
At 09:45 18/01/2002, Richard Hayes sent this up the stick:
Last night I tried to install Woody on a system without either CDRom or
networkcard.
I have a number of floppies: driver-1.bin, driver-2.bin, driver-3.bin,
driver-4.bin,
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:45:45PM +1100, chesty wrote:
I have found the lack of documentation
about how Debian configure things after the installation quite a
surprise. Does anyone know of any decent documentation on post
installation of a Debian release?
So you're looking for the
\begin{David Fitch}
ok it's got me! how do you find/install netscape for sparc (debian
potato but also woody)?
I can see all the java and spelling etc pkgs but not the one with
the actual executable!
netscape doesn't exist for sparc-(glibc-version) ?
try mozilla or something instead.
--
\begin{David Fitch}
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:15:50PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
netscape doesn't exist for sparc-(glibc-version) ?
try mozilla or something instead.
h, so why not?
got mozilla but not really that impressed with it.
ask netscape.com - its proprietary software
\begin{Howard Lowndes}
I am setting up Frees/wan IPSec tunnels between two sites that both have
dynamic IPs.
I can get both sites to do a dynamic DNS update (both forward and reverse)
to a DNS server with a static IP before I need the tunnels to come up.
At the left end, basically the
\begin{Rob B}
OK ... this is what I have so far ...
aylee:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14$ export PATCH_THE_KERNEL=YES
aylee:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14$ sudo
make-kpkg --revision=loop.1.0 --added_patches xfs configure
aylee:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14$ sudo make config
configure,
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~gusl/Jeff.jpg
tee hee
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\begin{John Ferlito}
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 07:12:59PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
$ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=pants.1.0 --added_patches freeswan,mppe configure
this sets everything up and patches everything
--append_to_version +freeswan+mppe can also make things a little clearer
later
\begin{Darrell Burkey}
I have two Linux boxes connected to separate Bigpond Direct accounts via
modems that dial in to the same Telstra router. Anytime the two boxes talk
to each other I get the following messages on the consoles of both machines:
Dec 29 08:45:26 adminserver kernel:
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Holy cow! Krazy Sunday Linux Challenge!
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it is:
Reboot a linux-mipsel machine using only... a running root bash process.
You may not execute any program [1], you may not use the switch [2].
-
\begin{Matt -}
I am wondering if anyone has seen any Linux Pocketbooks
around recently. I have tried several newsagents and many
say they are sold out till some time next year (March?!).
i've got a free copy of the advanced pocketbook (debian on the cd) here.
it was sent to slug, i just keep
\begin{[EMAIL PROTECTED]}
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 05:10:54PM +1100, Andrew Foster wrote:
thing.mp3
pants.txt
yer.rtf
others.html
These files do exist on my system, except they're scattered throughout a
directory tree hierachy, and there's no path info in my text file
\begin{Jeff Waugh}
quote who=Kevin Waterson
I have a bunch of xls files I need to get the email addresses from
anyone have a quick one liner?
[ Simpler: export to csv and use cut. ]
xls2csv file.xls | cut -d, -f 7
(substitute 7 with the appropriate column)
xls2csv comes with the
\begin{Bill Bennett}
\usepackage{pstricks,pstcol,pst-poly,pst-node,multido}
\PstPolygon[unit=7.5,PolyNbSides=9,PolyOffset=2]
and can report that you'll get a nine-sided overlapping
polygon.
Can some kind soul tell me how to make the outline thicker?
\fboxrule doesn't work.
iirc, the
\begin{Steve Kowalik}
chattr is used to change the extended attributes of an inode on a ext2
partition.
append only (Very useful if you keep using instead of )
and for syslog files (obviously)
compressed - I'm not sure why this is here, as I haven't seen it used.
there were some patches
\begin{Andre Pang}
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:26:29PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
'tag alles,
Gus (and others), which was the automounter you said you preferred on
Friday? amd or autofs?
I'm no Gus, but I use autofs at home. It's the more 'modern' out
of autofs/amd I think, and it
\begin{Michael Lake}
I have a few things echoed to the screen by .bashrc
I can turn them off but there must be a way to ignore output of ssh before
root runs the tar program.
then thats a bug in your .bashrc
several suggestions for your .bashrc:
only echo if bash is in interactive mode
\begin{Jobst Schmalenbach}
I have written a perl script which has somewhere in the code
$rc = ($content =~ s/$regfrom/$regto/);
$regfrom and $regto are passed to the script from the command line.
I want to do:
../bin//sitesed.pl -r 'CommonFooter.cgi\?([a-z]*) /somepath/([a-z]*)
\begin{Rev Simon Rumble}
On Fri 28 Sep, Jeff Waugh made the following spurious claims:
What was missing from CVS that prompted your question?
A user interface that the admin, sales and marketing staff can use?
i'll let others answer that one.
if everything else is unsuitable, surely after
\begin{Glen Turner}
Rick Moen wrote:
Subversion rocks. I've finally started using it (cautiously), now that
it's passed the self-hosting milestone. And boy will I be glad to ditch
CVS.
Ironically we'll probably need a cvs/DeltaV gateway before
we can finally put CVS to rest at the
\begin{Jill Rowling}
I think the short timeout automounter sounds like a good idea. Most 'doze
users look at the flashy light on the disk before ejecting it.
So what are the mount options for auto mount when write,
auto-umount-after-write, assuming (say) vfat?
you need to setup an
\begin{Ken Foskey}
Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote:
1) If you think your program requires multithreading, 99% of the time,
you're wrong.
2) If you /still/ think your program requires multithreading, see point 1.
Rubbish, threading is needed in a lot of applications. For example
web
\begin{Jon Biddell}
What lawyers call intellectual property is -- as every Latin student
knows -- no more than theft from the public domain.
-- Andy Mueller-Maguhn, newly elected ICANN board member for Europe.
i don't get the latin student bit.
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\begin{Jeff Waugh}
Could be a cvswrappers issue? Add this to your CVSROOT/cvswrappers file to
store various binary-type files such as PDFs and Word documents:
*.xbm -k 'b' -m 'COPY'
xbms (and xpms) are text (in fact, they're valid C source code)
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\begin{Tom Massey}
Mandrake stores it's configuration for kdm in /usr/share/config/kdmrc.
ouch. FHS says this should be in /etc - and for several good reasons.
i'd consider that a fairly serious bug against the mandrake kdm packaging.
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\begin{Crossfire}
Ross Mitchell was once rumoured to have said:
[Snip]
So I tried it the 'proper' way and used ipnat and rdr to pass
137/138/139 tcp/udp on to the box from the 10's to the 169's. That
works (checked via nmap for tcp and udp) but trying a 'net view'
from the 10.x fails to
\begin{Steve Downing}
From the wouldn't it be cool if Department:
Is it possible to tell the kernel NOT to cache disk writes to a certain
mounted filesystem. Then if that mount suddenly dissappears, everything
has been already written.
see the sync mount option (mount(8))
the
\begin{Jeff Waugh}
[ Sometimes suggestions that are shrugged off or flamed one month become
relevant another time, but only because they were mentioned the first time.
Most projects have bug tracking systems too, which is usually the right
place to make suggestions about modules, etc. ]
heh.
\begin{Laurie Savage}
The lock file does not exist. Netscape is freezing randomly for this user
and no others on the same same machine.
strace it and see what its trying to do when it freezes.
(warning stracing netscape can make you go blind)
i'd also try the good 'ole rm -r ~/.netscape
\begin{Jamie Wilkinson}
speculate that if you got an agp matrox g400 dualhead, and a pci version of
the same, you will be able to do this with ease.
you can use multiple PCI cards fine, so long as the cards+drivers
support MMIO mode, where they can move the cards from the standard VGA
\begin{Adam Kennedy}
I'm trying to hunt down a usefull way of debugging Perl CGI scripts that
deal with file uploads.
BTW, the script isn't crashing. It runs OK, and loads the temp file (
containing the uploaded file ) OK, but it's failing somewhere after that in
some code somewhere, and
\begin{Steve Kowalik}
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:35:25AM +1000, Peter Hardy uttered:
grep $HOME /etc/passwd | awk -F : '{ readline; print $1 }'
steven@broken:~$ grep $HOME /etc/passwd | awk -F : '{ readline; print $1 }'
steven@broken:~$
But, I use LDAP for auth. :-)
in that case use
\begin{Andy Eager}
Nothing wrong with ncurses, but want it to be able to run with normal
unix i/o redirection (or piping) as well as from stdin. Don't want
ncurses sending anything other than boring old text (maybe even the odd
line-feed or form-feed).
it'll Just Work.
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- Gus
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\begin{Craige McWhirter}
Gus did reference this as an appropriate starting place:
http://www.debian.org/devel/
and I believe the new maintainers guide as well.
everything in the Packaging section on that page is useful.
in particular:
the debian policy manual. answers all those what is
\begin{Mike Lake}
I have rpm 3.0.3 on my Debian box and want to update to 4.0
(to alien a RH7 mozilla binary for the Alpha).
But apt-get update rpm does not update it as it thinks thats the most
recent - pooh.
(add testing or unstable deb-src lines to /etc/apt/sources.list)
(as root)
\begin{Crossfire}
Jeff Waugh was once rumoured to have said:
That would be the Fifty Ton Budgie solution, methinks. ;)
Not if your X is broken and respawning rapidly.
bah. haven't redhat fixed that one yet?
the xdm in debian only restarts the Xserver a certain number of times
before
coordination) and they should endevour to "neutralise
disruptive elements".
Urn: key is now with Tim Bayfield. Urn is now(?) level 6
engineering somewhere.. Gus to talk to Tim and sort out latest
arrangements.
Angus Lees
Last modified: Tue Jun 12 11:33:41 EST 2001
\begin{Heracles}
Trevor Gunter wrote:
It goes
OH for about 60 sec and gives up and tries again after a couple of mins. By
the way it's an external modem, and I've tried my home modem on the system
and it does the same thing.
Check that e-smith is not assuming that your machine is set
\begin{Jon Biddell}
Q. What is the oldest / wierdest / most cantankerous piece of hardware that
you've ever had Linux running on ?
at one stage i was swapping onto a floppy in order to run a 486/SX
diskless X terminal.
the speed is bearable, until two processes start to swap
simultaneously.
\begin{Crossfire}
Andy Eager was once rumoured to have said:
Hi all,
Does anybody know how to dump/edit a file in raw (hex) mode ?
- From within X ?
- From the command shell ?
for dumping:
od -t x1
and from within X, that would be:
xterm -e od -t x1
(there now, didn't a
\begin{Ken Caldwell}
Earlier today I upgraded another computer running Debian (testing).
Now I cannot log in.
I have tried changing the password of my user account back to what
it was but still cannot login and I have created a new dummy account
but cannot log in to it either.
The system
\begin{getadog}
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:28:45PM +1000, Andre Pang wrote:
on another note, has anybody else found that 2.4.5 is playing
weird memory games with the swapfile and is generally pretty
unstable? i managed to completely freeze it just by running
'Eterm -fn 9x15' (which is
\begin{Ken Foskey}
How do you set up a News server so that the box continually grabs
messages and stores them for later reading even when not logged on?
see leafnode
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