Re: [SLUG] Silly shell challenge

Can't resist a shell challenge, can I?... :) On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote: Here's some silly shell... $ grep bogomips /proc/cpuinfo | awk '{ print + $3 }' | tr -d '\n' | cut -c 2- | bc 6121.06 Very silly. awk + tr + cut is highly redundant and bc is not installed on my system.

Re: [SLUG] Silly shell challenge

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, John Ferlito wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 06:19:26PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Here's some silly shell... $ grep bogomips /proc/cpuinfo | awk '{ print + $3 }' | tr -d '\n' | cut -c 2- | bc 6121.06 Your mission: To work out what it's doing, why you'd be

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG Meeting: this Friday (February28th)

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Eddie F wrote: Hello Mary, Do I need to be a member to attend this Friday? --- Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SLUG meetings are open to the public and free of charge. No, you never need to be a member to attend a slug meeting. Everyone is welcome.

Re: [SLUG] Making filesystems in sparse files [Was: block filesystemdevices stored as regular files.]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Karl Bowden If I create an empty block device in a file ... compare this line: (dd if=/dev/zero of=new_filesystem seek=1 count=1 bs=1M) will it use up the whole 10G straight away or will it expand as nessecary? eg is the 10G just a

Re: [SLUG] Canon LBP 1120 Compatibility?

On 17 Jan 2003, David Fitch wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 21:45, Harry Ohlsen wrote: Does anyone know whether the 1120 works OK with Linux? the talk of GDI on here makes it sound not very likely: http://www.canon.com.au/products/printers/laser_printers_low_medium_volume/lbp1120_specs.html

Re: [SLUG] Networking Problems

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Bill Barnes wrote: I have 3 pc\'s. 1 running smoothwall and 2 running mandrake 9.0. I have purchased a Sky Link Net 1008 8 port N-Way Fast Ethernet Switch and 3 Cat 5 UTP cables. When I connect all 3 pcs via this Switch ( the Smoothwall box on the uplink port and the

Re: [SLUG] Recover a full / partition

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Denovo Systems wrote: Under SCO can recover from a full root filesystem simply by removing files. Under RedHat we remove files but we don't seem to get the space back. We still show 100% (see above df) in / Why doesn't file removal recover workspace. Answer: It does,

Re: [SLUG] December meeting

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Mary wrote: What do people think about a December meeting? The committee was vaguely envisaging having a more playful meeting, and perhaps debuting the SLUG quiz... Hmm. Playful... :) So, what are your preferences among: A. A December meeting on Friday 13th December

[SLUG] Redhat 8 CDs

Can anyone Volunteer to bring a copy of Redhat 8 along to the paintball day for me? I can reimburse for copying or swap for blank disks. -- Jess (Everything with a grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] PCI resource collision

First suggestions: Go into the bios and under the PCI/PNP options tell it to reset the configuration data. If that doesn't work try changing the 'PNP OS installed' setting. YMMV. :) -- Jess (Everything with a grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Strange shut down

On 8 Nov 2002, Chris Barnes wrote: I hate that...you make sure your machine is up for as long as possible to be on the top of the ranks on the Linux Counter site, but then you hit those damned keys. It still baffles me why that function is enabled by default on linux. its the absolute first

Re: [SLUG] Another 'C'ly question

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Peter Rundle wrote: Coding a 'C' routine I need to know at execute time, the full path that the program is being executed from. In shell this is in $0 and is expanded at runtime even if the program is found via the $PATH variable, I.e echo $0 will always contain the full

Re: [SLUG] Debian installation no floppy drive.

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Gareth Walters wrote: I am installing Debian on a machine without a floppy drive Booting from the Debian 3.0 CD's. While the kernel is booting everything seems fine, until the appears on the screen and the installation stalls floppy0:unexpected interrupt sensei

Re: [SLUG] Telnet hangs after message and before login

Ok. Replying to my own post to report workaround... I still think this is very strange behaviour. On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Jessica Mayo wrote: Symptom: No login prompt (telnet hangs) /home/user telnet 203.47.39.xx Trying 203.47.39.xx... Connected to 203.47.39.xx. Escape character

[SLUG] Telnet hangs after message and before login

I've got a problem at work that's hurting my head... I have found a single mention of it through google, but no solutions, perhaps I'm not searching for the right thing. SSH is not an option, sorry. :) Box is Redhat6.1, recently had an FTP security patch installed. Telneting from some IP

Re: [SLUG] pine permission problem

? I've never heard of that before. I'm assuming it's something to do with Pine periodically checking for new mail... and not being able to update it's flags. I've never seen that message before, either... -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

[SLUG] Free junk... 486 motherboards.

Can't stand to see things go to waste... Plans for one of my old projects have changed, and I now have half a dozen 486 motherboards available free to anyone who might have a use for them. :) All tested as working fine last time I powered them up about 6 months ago. All are Vesa Local Bus

Re: [SLUG] dosemu; help needed

the DOS mouse drivers, but a mouse makes getting around those big PCBs _so_ much easier. :) -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: help needed please

mod_mime_magic would think of them. :) contrast with the output from: file ~/* -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] What distribution???

distributions rather than one. :) -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] strange mounting/filesystem behaviour

using the whole partition, and you should probably back up and recreate it, probably giving the real size to mkfs. If it's the same as what cfdisk reports, I don't have a clue what's going on. :) -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] what is kernel memory doing?

initialisation and kernel arg processing only happens once, so the memory used by them is made available to other things. Because you're compiling a kernel with less options, there is less wasted space in the first place. That's why the number gets smaller. :) -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything

Re: [SLUG] Routing problem (I think)

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Alan L Tyree wrote: Not sure I understand. My present hosts file is: snip Shouldn't that do the trick? As long as it's on both machines, I would have thought so. Assuming, of course, that DNS _is_ the problem. -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail Question

not my current directory, as you might've expected... I _hope_ this isn't afflicting you. linked directories are thankfully not commonly used, and usually only in places where full paths are the norm. -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

Re: [SLUG] alternative to fetchmail

of. -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] VPN Win32--Linux?

high encryption package installed. Any others? Experiences? -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] VPN Win32--Linux?

people may have to do it. :) -- Jessica Mayo. (with work hat) (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] ask emacs(get the previous command )

to move cursor backwards, and CTRL-F to move cursor forwards. Try CTRL-N and CTRL-P. :) This is how I use Bash on terminals with broken cursor key emulations, and without resorting to VI mode. (yuk :) -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

[SLUG] Apache Gateway?

I'm sure someone asked about this before but have been unable to find anything usefull in the archives or on the Apache website... What I want to do is have a webserver fetching some of it's content from a second apache that is NOT visible to the outside world. I'm sure it can be done, but

[SLUG] Linux Web Cafe?

Does anyone here have experience to share setting up a web-cafe style environment under Linux? I (indirectly) have someone interested in doing so and would like comments, etc. * It seems to me it should be very easy _if_ you've done it before. :) * What about the Computerbank guys? This seems

Re: [SLUG] ask uninstall(Slackware)

. Not only does it remove the package properly, it checks it's not deleting files needed by other packages. -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Connecting external Modem

and pointing pppd or minicom in the right direction. ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem Can anyone advise what the best procedure is to make connection to the modem and establish communication. What sort of communication were you hoping to establish? -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG

[SLUG] Bite the Troll... (Re: Anti-MS bullshit)

as a flame filter gets edited. :] -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Linux swap

the swapfile logics, the second swapspace is never used until the second one is full. In this case, I can see no benifit at all. If this has changed with 2.4 kernels, I'd like to know... :) -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info

Re: [SLUG] Linux and device drivers

series kernels, hence the preference for open-source drivers. Arguments / feedback?? As above. :) -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Laserjet 1100 RedHat 6.2 printing problems

say. :) -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] SLUG meeting summary...

Bhajee.' :) Delicious appetisers, followed by a selection of good curries... What more could you want? If Chinese was getting boring, this was the answer. :) Of course, this is just one fragment. Comments from others? -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] ext2fs corrupt inodes?

. Any ideas welcomed... -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] ext2fs corrupt inodes?

you're looking for and have an appropriate reference machine handy. Any idea how this may have been done and how to correct it? chattr? Presto! I knew there had to be a filesystem tool for it. Thanks. You can learn something every day, if you try. :) Cheers, Many thanks. :) John -- Jessica

[SLUG] Best Distribution (was: [chat] Re: Newbie list)

their favorite/current distro apart? -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[OT] Re: [SLUG] Wslug Meeting 14/4/02

User Group... For more Linux examples see... http://www.sharoncolon.com/shazunix.htm I'm afraid I don't see this page either. All lynx renders is a list of headings and no examples. Suspect Javascript (evil :) Brian -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

Re: [SLUG] CGI

up being from 127.0.0.1, rather than the address of your ethernet card. I might be able to come up with some more ideas. Let me know how you go. -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] X - virtual console, X dies.

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Martin wrote: $author = Jeff Waugh ; Ouch. :-) X3 or X4? the full thing on the chip is Trio3D/2X What version of X are you running? -- Jessica Mayo. ( also found 2X vs X3/X4 cryptic. :) (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] I dream in #!/bin/bash (splitting a diff patch)

somewhere to do the job. Yes, I'm sure scripting in ZSH could've done it better. :-P -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] ownership of samba shares

get this to work, please post and I'll try again. :) -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] ownership of samba shares

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Jessica Mayo I recall trying this with smbmount recently and it appearing to have no effect... filesystem still mounted root:root... I can't guarantee what samba/kernel version it was on though. So: If anyone does get this to work

Re: [SLUG] bash shell script variables

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Paul Cameron wrote: Are you XFire's crazy girlfriend? Can't claim that title I'm the _OTHER_ Jess :) Paul PS And if so, shine on you crazy diamond! Heh Yeah Now I've met REAL crazy, I realise I'm merely deranged :) -- Jessica Mayo [big Jess] (Everything with a Grin

Re: [SLUG] bash shell script variables

] ; then But that's a nasty piece of code I really would suggest putting the export flags somewhere other than in the same file as the script Even have a seperate file just listing the companies to export -- Jessica Mayo (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail problem

. it sounds like your domain name is misconfigured. I can do a Mail Server lookup for the second Fully Qualified Name, but not the first. -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Keeping TCP character strings together

. :) -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) [and cursing early mornings... Zzz..] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Small correction to that nextx script

distributions I have ready access to: ASPLinux 7.1: Has it. RedHat 6.1: Does not. Slackware 7.1: Does not. Scott. -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Shocking Service

one step above KFC. Do you have an alternate suggestion? I'd happily hear it. :) Paul. -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug