Renaming files

2003-01-04 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Sorry for the length of this thought I should be VERY clear as to the limited scope of what I'm doing. Bob, I use mmv out of habit. It does more than mv and I've used those functions in the past -- rather than try to remember which functions mv does not do. OK -- when I followed up on that old t

Darell Speirer/BJS/BJSERVICES is out of the office.

2003-01-04 Thread DSpeirer
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Re: ipchains and DHCP with kernel 2.4.20

2003-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:07:31PM -0800, Geoff Hunsicker wrote: > We are using kernel 2.4.20. When we try to use > ipchains it tells us it is not compatible with the > kernel. Is this because we have left out a kernel > option, or are ipchains no longer supported? There's an ipchains compatibilit

RE:Radeon Mobility M6/LY problem

2003-01-04 Thread Hell.Surfers
windows me does that, me thinks m$/ati may use part of xfree86 Dean McEwan, If the drugs don't work, [sarcasm] take more...[/sarcasm]. On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 14:04:33 -0500 Matt Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- Greetings, I recently purchased an hp pavilion xt345 laptop, which

spamassassin setup / exim

2003-01-04 Thread will trillich
okay, i've browsed dman's spamassassin setup at and i've got it, well, doing something... it seems to add a whole new slew of headers, a blank line and then repeats the original headers and message: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jan 04 23:50:16 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Squirrelmail/uw-imap start up problems

2003-01-04 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > I would assume the version in sid has the fix. It does indeed. For those who don't want to use a package from sid, I also have a backport to woody available from http://www.braincells.com/open/ I don't think it is the same problem as #152219 bu

Re: Will my fonts every look good?

2003-01-04 Thread David Z Maze
"Stig Are M. Botterli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Moseley >wrote: >> >> $ dpkg -l | grep font >> >> ii gsfonts-x110.16 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11. > > This package is a real uglificator. Replace it with a dummy equiv. Why do you

Re: /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten

2003-01-04 Thread Bob Proulx
alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-04 19:54:47 -0500]: > For the benefit of someone who doesn't have much experience > and occasionally has a problem understanding > generalizations, could you elaborate a bit on these? Let me try. > "A better solution is to edit /etc/dhclient.conf. Since dhcpcl

Re: no modules after kernel compile

2003-01-04 Thread David Z Maze
Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Part 3 of my "kernel compile saga." > > My new kernel compiles OK, it boots OK, but there are no modules. Typing > lsmod shows no modules loaded, even though /etc/modules says: ... > A look in directory /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/drivers confirms that the

Re: config X under woody -- SOLVED... and yet...

2003-01-04 Thread will trillich
i'm still trying to get enough pixels displayed on my monitor so that if i decide to start up mozilla, i can see the entire window. :) 1024x768 doesn't seem to be in the X-app designer's lexicon! (and i *know* i had more pixels in X when i was running potato.) alas... On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 04:2

Re: /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten

2003-01-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-05 03:58:02 +]: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 05:23:13PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Of course, if apt-get ever updates dhclient, the package may overwrite > > /etc/dhclient-script, so keep a seperate copy > > No, it won't. /etc/dhclient-script is ma

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-04 Thread jereme
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now my question is: during setup and installation, i partitioned off > my hard drive into a swap partition /, /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home. i > initialized the swap and the first three of the others, but then i > stopped, and moved on to the rest of the

Re: no modules after kernel compile

2003-01-04 Thread sean finney
heya, well.. are you sure that your kernel compile compiled those as modules when you made your kernel? (a quick way to check is to grep through the /boot/config-) if so, try re-installing your kernel package .deb(s). there's a y/n question in the process that might keeps you from accidentally

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources

2003-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 05:33:20PM +0800, Elijah wrote: > I'm trying to install Mplayer 386 or 686 via synaptic but it seems I > don't have libvidencore0. I checked out libvidencore0's dependency and > it requires libc6. It doesn't seem to accept my current libc6 (currently > installed) because it

Re: Switching to GNOME2

2003-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 10:46:55PM -0600, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: > I'm very impressed with GTK2 and GNOME, and am indeed thinking about > switching from KDE, but what is the best way to do so in Debian? > Should I just use update-alternatives to change the window manager > and point my disp

Re: Strange Number Lock Behavior

2003-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:49:06PM -0500, Erinn wrote: > Hi, > > Previously, I had an all text Debian firewall. Everytime I would boot > it, the number lock would turn off. I thought it was specific to that > box until I installed Debian on my workstation. The behavior persists > and as I'd never

ipchains and DHCP with kernel 2.4.20

2003-01-04 Thread Geoff Hunsicker
We are using kernel 2.4.20. When we try to use ipchains it tells us it is not compatible with the kernel. Is this because we have left out a kernel option, or are ipchains no longer supported? Also, we are trying to use DHCP to connect to our cable modem. We can ping systems on our ISP's net, but

Re: avi, mpeg

2003-01-04 Thread sean finney
heya, On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 06:29:32PM +0800, Elijah wrote: > Hi! > I'm having problems installing mplayer on my debian, does that command > up there ^ be enough to compile and create a deb? will I still need > dependencies like the mplayers in the apt sources? eg. libvidencore0 you know, i hon

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-05 04:04:19 +]: > > And I've bumped into this. How *DOES* one test for the existence of > > ANY file with a given extension without getting a "too many arguments" > > error when there are multiple files? > > How about: > > find . -maxdepth 1 -name '

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Colin Watson said: >> Took a couple of tries to get the syntax correct but I >> ended up with this: >> >> if [ `ls *.jpg 2>/dev/null|wc -l` -gt 0 ] >> >> then for i in *.jpg; do mmv "$i" `date +%s`-$a.jpg; a=a+1; done >> >> fi > > In general it's better to avoid putting backticks in the middle of

kdevelop - unmet dependencies

2003-01-04 Thread Kevin Coyner
I'm running testing and would like to install kdevelop, but when I run apt-get install kdevelop I get the following: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have

Re: Files saved to one directory Drive space consumed somewhere else

2003-01-04 Thread Denzil Kelly
Thanks this seems to have fixed the problem. --- Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Denzil Kelly wrote: > > I downloaded an .iso and specified that it be > saved to > > /home/myhome/myiso, however, when doing this > wmmount > > shows that the / partition is the one actually > > decreasing i

Switching to GNOME2

2003-01-04 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
I'm very impressed with GTK2 and GNOME, and am indeed thinking about switching from KDE, but what is the best way to do so in Debian? Should I just use update-alternatives to change the window manager and point my display manager to GNOME, or is there more I have to do? Secondly, I want to cust

Strange Number Lock Behavior

2003-01-04 Thread Erinn
Hi, Previously, I had an all text Debian firewall. Everytime I would boot it, the number lock would turn off. I thought it was specific to that box until I installed Debian on my workstation. The behavior persists and as I'd never witnessed it in any previous operating system, I thought it was Deb

Re: Revert Back to Gnome 1.4 from Gnome2

2003-01-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:24:28PM -0800, Itsik Aviad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > I would truly appreciat it if somone could tell me how to revert back > to Gnome 1.4 from Gnome2? IMO this should be filed as a packaging bug. Gnome2 should be distinguished from gnome1 / gnome1.4. Several o

Re: mail server

2003-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 06:47:54PM -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > For these sites, route e-mail thru your ISP. (I use Postfix, not > exim, so the details are left as an exercise for the reader.) eximconfig will do the whole setup for you, including letting your home network join in (when it asks

Re: mail server

2003-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:23:15PM +0100, Raymond Gree wrote: > what should I setup in exim to allow this? It should already be doing so for the computer running exim. To enable it for your home network, you'll need something like this in your exim.conf. host_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1 : 192.168.0

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-04 21:51:21 -0500]: > On January 4, 2003 09:20 pm, the fabulous Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > > > Thank you. Took a couple of tries to get the syntax correct but I > > ended up with this: > > > > if [ `ls *.jpg 2>/dev/null|wc -l` -gt 0 ] > > then for

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources[SOLVED] ... Onto another problem with gnome :(

2003-01-04 Thread desiderata
I hashed some outside apt sources and it somehow fixed up the dependencies of libxvidencore0, mplayer seems to download now. Thanks :) another prob: After rebooting I logged on the usual gnome wm but it just flashes a bit and throws me back to gdm. Kde works though. I figure the bogus outside

Re: Files saved to one directory Drive space consumed somewhere else

2003-01-04 Thread Denzil Kelly
I am using mozilla --- nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Denzil Kelly said: > > I downloaded an .iso and specified that it be > saved to > > /home/myhome/myiso, however, when doing this > wmmount > > shows that the / partition is the one actually > > decreasing in size as the file downloads. Does

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources

2003-01-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 06:19:08PM +0800, Elijah wrote: > > > Actually, if you want to use mplayer, you _really_ should download the > > source from the main site http://www.mplayerhq.hu and compile it. > > > > Sean > > I've already done that and I'm having problems running it, gives me an > er

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 08:20:18PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > Jamin W. Collins said: > > On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:00:03PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II > > wrote: > >> I want "TRUE" if there is one or more zzz.jpg files in a directory, > >> "FALSE" if there are zero of them. > > > >

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 06:58:18PM -0700, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > shopt -s nullglob > SOME=FALSE > MATCH=*.jpg > for f in $MATCH; do SOME=TRUE; break; done > > I tried [ -z $MATCH ] also but it always fails even though echo $MATCH > prints an empty string. You probably need to double-quote "$MATC

Re: Files saved to one directory Drive space consumed somewhere else

2003-01-04 Thread Travis Crump
Denzil Kelly wrote: I downloaded an .iso and specified that it be saved to /home/myhome/myiso, however, when doing this wmmount shows that the / partition is the one actually decreasing in size as the file downloads. Does anyone know why this might be happening? I have a 2 drives in this box and t

Re: There is no place like Sarge.... Knoppix must go.

2003-01-04 Thread Dan Hunt
On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 19:02:32 + "Chris Lale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Hunt wrote: > > I had decided Knoppix 3.1 could be installed on my old windows > > Are you trying to use Knoppix to install Debian? There are instructions > at http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/1104.barr_p

no modules after kernel compile

2003-01-04 Thread Robert Storey
Hi all, Part 3 of my "kernel compile saga." My new kernel compiles OK, it boots OK, but there are no modules. Typing lsmod shows no modules loaded, even though /etc/modules says: msdos via-rhine ide-scsi sg agpgart es1370 parport parport_pc A look in directory /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/drivers

Re: Files saved to one directory Drive space consumed somewhere else

2003-01-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:39:18PM -0800, Denzil Kelly wrote: > I downloaded an .iso and specified that it be saved to > /home/myhome/myiso, however, when doing this wmmount > shows that the / partition is the one actually > decreasing in size as the file downloads. Does anyone > know why this migh

Re: Files saved to one directory Drive space consumed somewhere else

2003-01-04 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Are you watching the filesapce *AS* the file downloads? Perhaps whatever you are downloading with is using /tmp to save the file until it's complete and you don't have /tmp on a separate partition. G Denzil Kelly said: > I downloaded an .iso and specified that it be saved to > /home/myhome/myiso

Re: kernel compile error

2003-01-04 Thread nate
Rodrigo F. Baroni said: > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/include/linux/kernel_stat.h:48: > `smp_num_cpus' undeclared (first use in this function) A guess for a workaround would be to check to see if SMP is enabled in the config, if it is, turn it off. If it is not, turn it on, and see if that help

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:00:03PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > Colin Watson said: > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:20:31AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > >> if [ -e *.JPG ]; then for i in *.JPG; do mv "$i" "${i%.JPG}.jpg"; > >> done fi > > > > That -e test looks dreadful ... surely it'll usua

Re: Files saved to one directory Drive space consumed somewhere else

2003-01-04 Thread nate
Denzil Kelly said: > I downloaded an .iso and specified that it be saved to > /home/myhome/myiso, however, when doing this wmmount > shows that the / partition is the one actually > decreasing in size as the file downloads. Does anyone > know why this might be happening? I have a 2 drives in > this

Re: Files saved to one directory Drive space consumed somewhere else

2003-01-04 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:39:18PM -0800, Denzil Kelly wrote: > I downloaded an .iso and specified that it be saved to > /home/myhome/myiso, however, when doing this wmmount shows that the / > partition is the one actually decreasing in size as the file > downloads. What are you using to download

Re: /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten

2003-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 05:23:13PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 16:25, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > great, i just modified the script to add my info in each time. that > > should take care of it. thanks! > > Of course, if apt-get ever updates dhclient, the package may overwrite

Re: System won't boot

2003-01-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 06:32:13PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > When attempting to boot my newly installed system, it gets as far as the > following and then stops with a kernel panic. Is this repairable, and if > so how. I am a relative newbie, so be as simple as possible. Any help > is greatl

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:57:17AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see > some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. Yeah, every bug report you file must be dealt with as an emergency even if it really requires a redesig

Re: USB Mouse not working ( contd )

2003-01-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:45:55AM -0800, suresh kumar sharma wrote: > Hi, > thanks for help ,but I am still not able to get the > usbmouse to work . > Here is what all I have done . > I loaded input,mousedev,usbcore,usb-uhci,and hid > modules . > I can see the red light in the mouse but it does no

Files saved to one directory Drive space consumed somewhere else

2003-01-04 Thread Denzil Kelly
I downloaded an .iso and specified that it be saved to /home/myhome/myiso, however, when doing this wmmount shows that the / partition is the one actually decreasing in size as the file downloads. Does anyone know why this might be happening? I have a 2 drives in this box and they are patitioned as

Revert Back to Gnome 1.4 from Gnome2

2003-01-04 Thread Itsik Aviad
Hi I would truly appreciat it if somone could tell me how to revert back to Gnome 1.4 from Gnome2? Thanks Itsik __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: avi, mpeg

2003-01-04 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 06:29:32PM +0800, Elijah wrote: > > I'm having problems installing mplayer on my debian, does that command > up there ^ be enough to compile and create a deb? will I still need > dependencies like the mplayers in the apt sources? eg. libvidencore0 > I think

Re: Chat servers

2003-01-04 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 08:52:30PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > Thanks to all for all the suggestions. Does anyone know of a client or > server implementation for irc or jabber that could be embedded into an > html webpage, thus allowing users to login and chat w/o having to > install additional softw

kernel compile error

2003-01-04 Thread Rodrigo F. Baroni
Hello all, When I do %make bzImage to a 2.4.18 kernel source in a 233Mhz Pentium Pc (lmr 591 mother board), the follow error appear: In file included from ksyms.c:17: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/include/linux/kernel_stat.h: In function `kstat_irqs': /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/include

Re: Chat servers

2003-01-04 Thread Jacob S .
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 22:18:04 -0600 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 09:13:52PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > > > Does anyone know of some good chat server software other than irc > > that doesn't use Java? (Preferably open source). > > Take a look at Jabber. It

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Fraser Campbell
On January 4, 2003 09:20 pm, the fabulous Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > Thank you. Took a couple of tries to get the syntax correct but I > ended up with this: > > if [ `ls *.jpg 2>/dev/null|wc -l` -gt 0 ] > > then for i in *.jpg; do mmv "$i" `date +%s`-$a.jpg; a=a+1; done > > fi If there were

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Raja R Harinath
Hi, "Gerald V. Livingston II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin Watson said: > >> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:20:31AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: >>> if [ -e *.JPG ]; then for i in *.JPG; do mv "$i" "${i%.JPG}.jpg"; >>> done fi >> >> That -e test looks dreadful ... surely it'll usually expand to lo

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-04 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-04 18:57]: >I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see >some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. Scroll back. Shift-PgUp/Shift-PgDown Thorsten -- It is exactly because markets are amoral that we canno

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources

2003-01-04 Thread Elijah
Hi, ok, just tried it. But it seems that it still has 2.2.5 displayed on the available versions (??). That's weird ... Can having too many sources on my sources.list cause problems?? cause I think I'm having some now. I think I'll hash some of it... Elijah On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 09:53, Seneca w

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Jamin W. Collins said: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:00:03PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II > wrote: > >> I want "TRUE" if there is one or more zzz.jpg files in a directory, >> "FALSE" if there are zero of them. > > Assuming you don't want the names of the files, just whether they are > there or no

Re: avi, mpeg

2003-01-04 Thread Elijah
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 10:04, sean finney wrote: > i've used a small handful of apps to do this. my current favorite is > mplayer. it plays almost anything i can give it, it's not horribly bloated > or buggy, and though it isn't directly available via apt-get, it ships > with a debian directory in

[SOLVED] CMI9738 sound driver

2003-01-04 Thread dbalder
Hi all, Thanks to all who have replied to my post regarding CMI 9738 chipset audio driver. CMI9738 at least in my case was somewhat misleading as I later found as on my board there is SiS 7012 audio accelerator. Driver that is actually needed was i810_audio.o driver (I found sndconfig package t

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources

2003-01-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 05:33:20PM +0800, Elijah wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install Mplayer 386 or 686 via synaptic but it seems I > don't have libvidencore0. I checked out libvidencore0's dependency and > it requires libc6. It doesn't seem to accept my current libc6 (currently > installed)

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources

2003-01-04 Thread Elijah
> Actually, if you want to use mplayer, you _really_ should download the > source from the main site http://www.mplayerhq.hu and compile it. > > Sean I've already done that and I'm having problems running it, gives me an error in my configs or something (?). that's why I've decided to use the d

Re: avi, mpeg

2003-01-04 Thread sean finney
i've used a small handful of apps to do this. my current favorite is mplayer. it plays almost anything i can give it, it's not horribly bloated or buggy, and though it isn't directly available via apt-get, it ships with a debian directory in its source. this means you can # ./debian/rules binar

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Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources

2003-01-04 Thread Sean
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 04:33, Elijah wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install Mplayer 386 or 686 via synaptic but it seems I > don't have libvidencore0. I checked out libvidencore0's dependency and > it requires libc6. It doesn't seem to accept my current libc6 (currently > installed) because it n

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources

2003-01-04 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 05:33:20PM +0800, Elijah wrote: > I'm trying to install Mplayer 386 or 686 via synaptic but it seems I > don't have libvidencore0. I checked out libvidencore0's dependency and > it requires libc6. It doesn't seem to accept my current libc6 (currently > installed) because it

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Michael Naumann
05.01.2003 02:00:03, "Gerald V. Livingston II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want "TRUE" if there is one or more zzz.jpg files in a directory, >"FALSE" if there are zero of them. One solution might be: ls | grep -q '\.jpg$' Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:00:03PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > Colin Watson said: > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:20:31AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > >> if [ -e *.JPG ]; then for i in *.JPG; do mv "$i" "${i%.JPG}.jpg"; > >> done fi > > > > That -e test looks dreadful ... surely it'll u

Re: KDE3 -- wich packages to download

2003-01-04 Thread Paul Scott
Andy wrote: Its a problem with some of the packages changing boundaries I think. What was the reason given for holding back the packages? It does not say. Only "The following packages have been kept back" There are 55 held back. I did not pay attention when it did some installing the fi

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:00:03PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > And I've bumped into this. How *DOES* one test for the existence of > ANY file with a given extension without getting a "too many arguments" > error when there are multiple files? > > I want "TRUE" if there is one or more

Desperate for Mplayer apt sources

2003-01-04 Thread Elijah
Hello, I'm trying to install Mplayer 386 or 686 via synaptic but it seems I don't have libvidencore0. I checked out libvidencore0's dependency and it requires libc6. It doesn't seem to accept my current libc6 (currently installed) because it needs at least version 2.3 upwards. I've searched the de

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-04 Thread nate
Dan Jacobson said: > Isn't there something that I can turn on to capture all these, or are we > too early in the startup? turn on serial console in lilo.conf, and check to be sure your kernel has serial console support. for 2.2.x kernels the options would be: CONFIG_SERIAL=y CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOL

Re: Kernel hacking: building single module

2003-01-04 Thread Lukas Ruf
* Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-04 23:32]: > * Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-04 19:15]: > > > Ok, that works, although it does a lot more work than I wished ;). > I suppose it has to go through the enter build process to build all > the dependencies. Nice if I could just r

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-04 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:57:17AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see > some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. > E.g. something about mtab. Ok, cd /var/log; grep mtab * */* > Nothing. > > You will answer "oh, mtab

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
Shift-PgUp? On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:57:17AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see > some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. > E.g. something about mtab. Ok, cd /var/log; grep mtab * */* > Nothing. > > You will ans

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Colin Watson said: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:20:31AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> if [ -e *.JPG ]; then for i in *.JPG; do mv "$i" "${i%.JPG}.jpg"; >> done fi > > That -e test looks dreadful ... surely it'll usually expand to lots of > arguments which will confuse [, or perhaps to an empty strin

Re: /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten

2003-01-04 Thread alex
David Gardner wrote: Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A better solution is to edit /etc/dhclient.conf. Use one of append search foo.example bar.example prepend search foo.example bar.example depending on the effect you want. -D I agree, that is a much much better so

Re: how do i get wu-ftp to work?? (Debian Woody) (solved)

2003-01-04 Thread Lukas Latz
Thanks guys, I did switch to vsftpd, and in the end it worked, but the first thing that happened on testing was that any connection was outright refused. Turns out the problem was that in inetd.conf ftp was commented as such: ##ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sb

Re: avi, mpeg

2003-01-04 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:04:30PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > What would be the best to see some avi or mpeg movies? Would depend on the encoding of the avi file, but normally xine or mplayer. > Or converter from avi to mpeg? Again depends on the encoding, but normally transcode. -- J

Courier-IMAP / MySQL

2003-01-04 Thread Mickey Mullin
Heta, I am running Woody with postfix, mysql, and courier-imap (and courier-base, courier-authdaemon, courier-authmysql, courier-pop, and courier-debug). Postfix is set up to deliver mail in maildir format based on information in a mysql database. It delivers mail predictably (though I had to ch

Re: IP firewalls

2003-01-04 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 03:58:43PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > One can use ipfwadm (or ipchains) in addition to iptables with > 2.4.kernels: Not "in addition to", in place of. I can't speak for ipfwadm specifically, but with the ipchains wrapper it's one or the other. You can't use iptables com

Re: mail server

2003-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
Quoting Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > Almost. Some sites will reject your connection just because you have > a dynamic address. > For these sites, route e-mail thru your ISP. (I use Postfix, not exim, so the details are left as an exercise for the reader.) HTH, Jeffrey

[ANNOUNCE] Struts Training in NYC and DC in January

2003-01-04 Thread John Menke
Increase Your Struts Productivity - Attend the BaseBeans Public Struts Training We have a 11 hour public class in DC and in NYC in January. Washington DC Class -- January 18th 2003 NYC Class -- January 24th 2003 This class is taught by baseBeans Engineering, the company voted to have the be

Re: avi, mpeg

2003-01-04 Thread nate
Antonio Rodriguez said: > What would be the best to see some avi or mpeg movies? Or converter from > avi to mpeg? > Using woody 3.0 my favorite mpeg-1 player is xine. Some say mplayer is better, but I haven't tried it myself(yet). I use avifile for avis, I don't think its included with debian 3.0

console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. E.g. something about mtab. Ok, cd /var/log; grep mtab * */* Nothing. You will answer "oh, mtab, don't worry about that". But the general problem of messages that appear

Re: mail server

2003-01-04 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:16:40PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: | * Raymond Gree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-04 19:11]: | | > actually I can directly receive email with exim (without using my | > internet provider mail server) now I would like to send email again | > without using my internet provider

Re: /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten

2003-01-04 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 09:51:52AM +1100, David Gardner wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > A better solution is to edit /etc/dhclient.conf. Use one of | > append search foo.example bar.example | > prepend search foo.example bar.example | > depending on the e

Re: KDE3 -- wich packages to download

2003-01-04 Thread Andy
> Its a problem with some of the packages changing boundaries I think. What > was the reason given for holding back the packages? It does not say. Only "The following packages have been kept back" There are 55 held back. I did not pay attention when it did some installing the first time around

Re: Will my fonts every look good?

2003-01-04 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:22:19PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > I think I've spent too much time messing with my fonts, reading > TrueType, AA, and de-uglification HOWTOs, and messing things up with > msttcorefonts. > > Is it possible to get really nice looking fonts overall? It might just be me

avi, mpeg

2003-01-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What would be the best to see some avi or mpeg movies? Or converter from avi to mpeg? Using woody 3.0 Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IP firewalls

2003-01-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
One can use ipfwadm (or ipchains) in addition to iptables with 2.4.kernels: CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPFWADM This option places ipfwadm (with masquerading and redirection support) back into the kernel, using the new netfilter infrastructure. It is not recommended for new installations (see ac

Re: /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten

2003-01-04 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 04 Jan 2003 05:19:39PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 09:01:57AM +1100, David Gardner wrote: > | Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | > | > i don't changed anything as root between relapses, so i can't figure > | > out what's causing this.

Re: Re: Chat servers

2003-01-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:30:35AM -0600, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > if liz has soggy trousers did she pee herself? > > > > Dean McEwan, If the drugs don't work, [sarcasm] take more...[/sarcasm]. > > Amazing, I'd told procmail to send all his linux-kernel garbage to

System won't boot

2003-01-04 Thread Trey Sizemore
When attempting to boot my newly installed system, it gets as far as the following and then stops with a kernel panic. Is this repairable, and if so how. I am a relative newbie, so be as simple as possible. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. These are the last 4 lines when booting: kmod

Re: Soundblaster Live

2003-01-04 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:51:58PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > I've got a SoundBlaster Live ! soundcard and he doesn't work here. > Probably it's quite easy to get it work and I searched google about it > but I can't find something usable. They talk about compiling but I use > debian for 2 m

Re: /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten

2003-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 16:25, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Sun, 05 Jan 2003 09:01:57AM +1100, David Gardner insinuated: > > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > i don't changed anything as root between relapses, so i can't figure > > > out what's causing this. any ideas? > > > > If y

Re: Soundblaster Live

2003-01-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Willem-Jan Meijer said: > Hello, > > I don't get KDE3 working and my father is getting mad he can't handle this > computer so I left kde 2.2.2 installed, But thanks for the help, I shall try > again a.s.a.p. > > I've got a SoundBlaster Live ! soundcard and he doesn'

Re: Will my fonts ever look good?

2003-01-04 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Stig Are M. Botterli wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Moseley >wrote: > > > > $ dpkg -l | grep font > > > > ii gsfonts-x110.16 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11. > > This package is a real uglificator. Replace it with a dummy equiv. I remove

Re: Soundblaster Live

2003-01-04 Thread Seneca
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:51:58PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > I don't get KDE3 working and my father is getting mad he can't handle this > computer so I left kde 2.2.2 installed, But thanks for the help, I shall try > again a.s.a.p. > > I've got a SoundBlaster Live ! soundcard and he does

Re: KDE3 -- wich packages to download

2003-01-04 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi yall & Andy, yep, it is not a good thing, when your debs fly into a mincer. For package managment, I love Synaptic. Give it a try. It is an apt front end. Now, to install Synaptic, type "apt-get install synaptic" at the command line and press Enter. Once apt has finished installing Synap

Re: /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten

2003-01-04 Thread David Gardner
Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A better solution is to edit /etc/dhclient.conf. Use one of > append search foo.example bar.example > prepend search foo.example bar.example > depending on the effect you want. > > -D I agree, that is a much much better solution. *grin

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