Re: Debian and KDE33

Jeff Goodwin wrote: Hello, The KDE org refers people to you to get an official ruling on when/whether you give your official binaries of KDE 3.3 to them. Also, I just did a CD install of Debian and found KDE 2.2 on there. Is a later KDE version ok for Debian (Woody)? See www.backport.org and

Re: a question about pppd

Incoming from Shu Hung (Koala): > s. keeling ??: > > | Incoming from Shu Hung (Koala): > | > |> I want my perl script to check if the pppd is on > |> > |> how can I do that? is there any function to check so? or does the > |> pppd lock any file for me to check so? > | > | > | /sbin/ifconfig > | >

Re: All these open ports

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a port is open, and associated with a program which isn't from a debian package and you don't believe you put it there yourself - its time to consider the possibility your machine has been compromised. Okay... that gives me an opening to try this again. At the risk of

Debian and KDE33

Hello,   The KDE org refers people to you to get an official ruling on when/whether you give your official binaries of KDE 3.3 to them.  Also, I just did a CD install of Debian and found KDE 2.2 on there.  Is a later KDE version ok for Debian (Woody)? Thanx Jeff Goodwin

Re: select N random lines in a file

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 09:16:37PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 04:11:39PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > > > That only prints one line whenever the second range number is less than > > the first[which happens roughly half the time][ignoring the fact that > > ./foo should a

Re: a question about pppd

Incoming from Shu Hung (Koala): > I want my perl script to check if the pppd is on > > how can I do that? > is there any function to check so? > or does the pppd lock any file for me to check so? /sbin/ifconfig /var/lock/LCK..ttyS[0-?] -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insuffici

Re: All these open ports

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a port is open, and associated with a program which isn't from a debian package and you don't believe you put it there yourself - its time to consider the possibility your machine has been compromised. Okay... that gives me an opening to try this again. <> In an

a question about pppd

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I want my perl script to check if the pppd is on how can I do that? is there any function to check so? or does the pppd lock any file for me to check so? thanks -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with T

Re: select N random lines in a file

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:35:14PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to write a script that will select N number of > random lines in a file. Any suggestions on how to do this? > > > Lance Hi Lance, any language preference? C,perl, bash? there are 1x 10^6 ways. Is this

Re: GUI Database?

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 12:54:59PM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 12:45:30AM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > > > > >>I'm one of those persons switching from a major desktop (OS X) to Linux > >>(

exabyte packetloader 1U problem

We have an Exabyte VXA2 packetloader 1U attached via SCSI to a server. We have used mtx and Exabyte's own loadLibtool to rotate the chager and maniopulate the cartridges, but we cannot arite to any tapes. After a tape is loaded in the drive, I try the dump command below: hostname:~# dump -0u -v -

Re: Question about using dpkg-deb:

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 09:35:44PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am trying to understand how to use dpkg-deb from reading the man page. > I've been downloading deb packages and installing them on my system > using aptitude and apt-get. Now I would like to burn a CD that contains > a usable debian

Re: Debian Update

> > and make sure your /etc/apt/source.list not pointing to your > > cd installation( except you want to install new package from it ) > > Why not? An upgrade will always get the latest packages, and install will > do the same, as long as you have an update source as well as the CDs in > sour

Question about using dpkg-deb:

I am trying to understand how to use dpkg-deb from reading the man page. I've been downloading deb packages and installing them on my system using aptitude and apt-get. Now I would like to burn a CD that contains a usable debian archive of these packages. I think I should be able to do this using

Re: Installing/Updating debian on a machine with no internet access

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Hi all, I have recently switched over to Debian/Sarge from Redhat 9.0. This is at my home where my pc has an internet connection. I had downloaded the first few iso images using jigdo, installed from them, then over the past few months, installed/upgraded several packages u

Re: Fluxbox

John Lowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> During my installation a couple of weeks ago, after having chosen to |> install packages from "testing", I installed fluxbox as my window |> manager and got a very recent version, 0.9.9. There are a number of |> differences between this iteration of fluxb

Re: Installing/Updating debian on a machine with no internet access

Welcome to the wonderful land of Debian :-) > Firstly, is there any way to build a list of packages installed on my > machine at home which includes the source from which the package was > installed? There definitely is. Others may have better solution. My way is on the 'source' machine do dpkg

Nautilis taking _forever_ to start

JUst did a new unstable install, and since kde seems to not be installable right now, I installed Gnome. It worked OK for a little while, but now it seems to be taking forever for the spalsh screen to go away (minutes0. It seems Nautilis is taking forever to start. Can I just disable Nautilis some

Installing/Updating debian on a machine with no internet access

Hi all, I have recently switched over to Debian/Sarge from Redhat 9.0. This is at my home where my pc has an internet connection. I had downloaded the first few iso images using jigdo, installed from them, then over the past few months, installed/upgraded several packages using apt-get. I want to

Re: sound/CD player question

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 07:47:26PM -0400, mike wrote: > I got it to work. The non-privileged user had to be added to the disk > group. Thanks for your help. (Probably) Bad idea. $ ls -l /dev/hda brw-rw1 root disk 3, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hda Your unprivledged user can now extr

Re: problem installing Sendmail

> I'm familiar with, and comfortable with, Sendmail. So, when Debian > tries to install Exim I just say, "No thank you", and install > Sendmail. It was no problem at all. I think... based on what I've heard here on this topic, that If I Had It To Do Over Again, that is what I would do also. Bu

SIOCDELRT: No such process (sarge networking)

I have a problem (or two) with networking... sometimes networking doesn't come up at all, and sometimes (all other times?) it uses the wrong address but otherwise works. When it uses the wrong address, I can simply [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# ifdown eth0; ifup eth0 and it is fixed, with no error. Ho

Re: GUI Database?

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:45:30 -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: > I'm one of those persons switching from a major desktop (OS X) to Linux > (the PPC version of Debian's distro.) I want something like Filemaker Pro. > I know there is MySQL, but frankly, the difficulty level makes me want to > just run and

Re: the Packages files should get to mirrors last -- no swarthy emails

Ursine.ca Postmaster wrote: Nobody at ursine.ca regularly corresponds with people in Taiwan. Had you bothered to follow instructions, you would have found the explanation and how to get your message delivered anyway. like "jump through hoops" I guess? so if it is your claim that nobody at ursine.c

Re: sound/CD player question

I got it to work. The non-privileged user had to be added to the disk group. Thanks for your help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMD Dual Opteron Workstation

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 01:57, Paul Wollam wrote: > Does Debian support AMD Dual Opteron Engineering Workstations using > the MSI K8T Master 2 Motherboard? On unstable, should be. I've only tried Debian on an Athlon64 and it does look good, but I haven't tried installing it using debian-installer

Re: anonymous proxy

I think there may be a point of confusion here... Are you looking for a packaged proxy server to run on a Linux system? I think - and I'm hardly the one to ask - that you can use "squid" for this, and I've seen reference to several other implementations. In fact, it's not that difficult to configu

Re: Combining images?

> That is so true, even though many people wouldn't expect it to be the > case for "inherently GUI" tasks like working with photos. I was > certainly glad to discover ImageMagick after I started using a digital > camera: the command line is the easiest way to rotate 30 JPGs 90 > degrees to the le

Fluxbox

During my installation a couple of weeks ago, after having chosen to install packages from "testing", I installed fluxbox as my window manager and got a very recent version, 0.9.9. There are a number of differences between this iteration of fluxbox and the earlier one, 0.1.14, of course. Fran

Re: Help straightening out disk partitions.

> Here is the testdisk output which cites the error, described differently by > each program but this is it: > Disk /dev/hdb - CHS 65536 16 63 - 32256 MB > Thanks--Any help greatly appreciated! I'd do sfdisk -d /dev/hdb Then look at the resulting output to make sure it all adds up correctly.

Re: anonymous proxy

In debian testing -apt-get install  anon-proxy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you please point me to the corresponding thread, as it simply can't be the one at , at least not according to your description. Yes, that's the one. I am of course being deliberately extreme in my ch

Re: Firewall packages (was: All these open ports)

> You could get something close to Zone Alarm (minus the application > permissions stuff) with a very short iptables script which set the > policies for INPUT and FORWARD to DROP, and OUTPUT to ACCEPT, and adding > a couple of rules for allowing related and established connections on > the INPUT c

Re: anti-freeze

> >and I apologize for that. But does anyone know of ways to work on a > >problem such as this? > Oh, I know a gardiner who'd suggest getting out the axe and sharpening > it, then keeping it next to the miscreant:-) Having been around that bush not long ago, I vote for the axe. There's just no

Re: All these open ports

> If a port is open, and associated with a program which isn't from a > debian package and you don't believe you put it there yourself - its > time to consider the possibility your machine has been compromised. Okay... that gives me an opening to try this again. At the risk of provoking the usu

Re: anonymous proxy

> Can you please point me to the corresponding thread, as it simply > can't be the one at > , > at least not according to your description. Yes, that's the one. I am of course being deliberately extreme in my characterization, but the ess

gnugk vs openh323gk

I'm thinking of setting up a h323 gatekeeper to do videoconferencing. I noticed that Debian has two packages, gnugk and openh323gk and was wondering if anyone has experience using these packages. Which one is the better (for different value of better). -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjell

Re: Kernel updates with apt-get?

Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do you know when a new kernel has been released (say for security > reasons)? What is the approved method for finding this out? It's announced in the debian security mailinglist. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custo

Re: anonymous proxy

Hello! On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 03:12:15PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oops!! Look out!!! You've asked Der Verboten Question!! You vill be > SHOTT!! You are obviously a spammer and etc. etc. blah blah... > (bore... yawn... > > (I asked the same question on here a couple of weeks back and

Re: anonymous proxy

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:36:45 +0200, "messmate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > is there an anonymous proxy server available by debian ? > If not where else for linux ? Oops!! Look out!!! You've asked Der Verboten Question!! You vill be SHOTT!! You are obviously a spammer and etc. etc. blah

Woody Kernel Security Updates

The recent 2.4.27 kernel fixed a few security issues (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.27). Does anyone know if these affect the current Woody kernel packages and if so when security updates are likely to be released? Thanks, Phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: What is the program to reset Exim configuration??

Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: It's been a long time but I remember there is a console program that will ask me a number of quesions about my Exim setup like Using Smarthost, name of smarthost, etc What is this program called? For the life of me I cannot remember. Lance I believe "dpkg-reconfigure exim

Re: What is the program to reset Exim configuration??

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 04:43:52PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > It's been a long time but I remember there is a console program that > will ask me a number of quesions about my Exim setup like > Using Smarthost, name of smarthost, etc > > What is this program called? > > For the life of me

Re: What is the program to reset Exim configuration??

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 04:43:52PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > It's been a long time but I remember there is a console program that > will ask me a number of quesions about my Exim setup like > Using Smarthost, name of smarthost, etc > > What is this program called? > > For the life of me

What is the program to reset Exim configuration??

It's been a long time but I remember there is a console program that will ask me a number of quesions about my Exim setup like Using Smarthost, name of smarthost, etc What is this program called? For the life of me I cannot remember. Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Howto burn vcd ???

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:15:29PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > That gives me these two (2) files: > > AVSEQ01.DAT > AVSEQ02.DAT > > Now, what do I do? How do I use these files? How do I burn this to CD? They're MPEG1 files, if you did everything right. Now you use some tool lik

anonymous proxy

Hi, is there an anonymous proxy server available by debian ? If not where else for linux ? Thanks in advance for the info. mess-mate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Creative Muvo2 MP3-player

Hi! Anyone here use a Muvo2 on Debian? According to some site it's an ordinary USB-storage device, although only kernels 2.4.26 and 2.6.3 (and above) can mount it. Is it safe to buy one? It seems very neat otherwise (small and yet has 4 GB capacity). What could be the problem with mounting, somet

Re: XMMS doing strange things

Thomas Adam wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:44:13PM -0700, John Floren wrote: MadMan and id3ed show the tags as correct; is this an xmms issue? No, it's an inability on your part to not check the BTS (Bug Tracking System): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=260168 -- Thomas Adam

Re: GUI Database?

Bram Mertens wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 18:41, Ed Sutherland wrote: [...] Ah, PhpMyAdmin. I ran across it in a MySQL online tutorial and downloaded it. It's not installed because of all the editing and hoop-jumping involved. I now need to find a tutorial for installing PHPMyAdmin. ;) O

Re: select N random lines in a file

On Sunday 22 August 2004 20:40, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to write a script that will select N number of > random lines in a file. Any suggestions on how to do this? I can't guarantee that this is the best approach, but I would write a small Perl program. If you don'

Re: XMMS doing strange things

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:44:13PM -0700, John Floren wrote: > MadMan and id3ed show the tags as correct; is this an xmms issue? No, it's an inability on your part to not check the BTS (Bug Tracking System): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=260168 -- Thomas Adam -- "Frankly, Mr

Re: perl module --> debian package name

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 01:17 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 02:06:30PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 12:12 -0400, John Harrold wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > I was trying to run a perl script on a Debian box and it kept complaining > > > that I didn't have

XMMS doing strange things

Today I downloaded Juk and used the "Guess Tags from Filename" feature on my entire music directory. When that was done, XMMS started displaying some song names completely incorrectly. For example, "Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" shows up as "als - c nTeSyWt imns" What did I do tha

Re: unsubscribe

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Janine La Fon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is one of the reasons I wish to unsubsribe. Children get on my computer > and I don't want them seeing things like this. Oh, that's nice. So repost it so everybody gets to see it again even if it wou

Re: select N random lines in a file

Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all, > > I would like to write a script that will select N number of > random lines in a file. Any suggestions on how to do this? bogosort -n file | head -N .Henrik -- Henrik Christian Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems administrator -- To

aic7xxx: SCB_xxx error ???

Recently, I have begun seeing a disruption of one (1) SCSI bus on one (1) system. It is very intermittent (see Frequency, below), and lasts for a minute or so. The final message indicates a *recovery*; but, I wonder whether or not I am approaching hardware failure -- and, which hardware? Control

Re: help

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 12:23:06PM -0700, Bob Vila wrote: > I am running Woody on an old laptop (IBM Thinkpad > 560), and X is doing something really wierd. Whenever > I get into X, about the top inch of the screen just > stays greyed out, and if you try to move your mouse > over it, it display

Re: help

Bob Vila wrote: I am running Woody on an old laptop (IBM Thinkpad 560), and X is doing something really wierd. Whenever I get into X, about the top inch of the screen just stays greyed out, and if you try to move your mouse over it, it displays what should be there at the bottom of the screen. W

Re: select N random lines in a file

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 04:11:39PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > That only prints one line whenever the second range number is less than > the first[which happens roughly half the time][ignoring the fact that > ./foo should also be $FILE]. Yeah, it's not perfect, but it was just off the top of

Re: select N random lines in a file

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:35:14PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to write a script that will select N number of > random lines in a file. Any suggestions on how to do this? > > Lance One way: - Count lines in file - Pick N line numbers - Show file, filtering out u

Re: Xterm, Schmexterm

Stefan O'Rear wrote: I_HATE_MBOX From the Bash Manual: # `\[' # Begin a sequence of non-printing characters. This could be used to # embed a terminal control sequence into the prompt. # # `\]' # End a sequence of non-printing characters. corrected prompt: export PS1='\[\033[1;31m\

Re: select N random lines in a file

Thomas Adam wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:35:14PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello all, I would like to write a script that will select N number of random lines in a file. Any suggestions on how to do this? Here's one that prints random lines of files, ensuring not to overshoot the known l

help

I am running Woody on an old laptop (IBM Thinkpad 560), and X is doing something really wierd. Whenever I get into X, about the top inch of the screen just stays greyed out, and if you try to move your mouse over it, it displays what should be there at the bottom of the screen. What should I do

Fw: enzymology

I can't figure out why I can't find stuff like this on my own. http://www.downloadhangout.com/ref44.html You can download console games & full CD albums, dvd's and stuff. I grabbed 9 CD's worth of music & 5 games. You have to check out how many things they have in here to download - it's out of

[OT] More than one "helper" application in mozilla

Anyone know if there's an easy way to add menu items to mozilla? I'd like to add a right-click items to select more than one application for given mime types. For example, be able to select xmms, xmms -e, alsaplayer or mplayer for audio/mpeg. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSC

Re: select N random lines in a file

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 20:35, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to write a script that will select N number of > random lines in a file. Any suggestions on how to do this? > Use the rand() function in awk -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROT

Re: select N random lines in a file

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:35:14PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to write a script that will select N number of > random lines in a file. Any suggestions on how to do this? Here's one that prints random lines of files, ensuring not to overshoot the known length of t

select N random lines in a file

Hello all, I would like to write a script that will select N number of random lines in a file. Any suggestions on how to do this? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SOLVED: How to configure /etc/network/interfaces WAS: how to connect two PC's with a cross-over ethernet cable?

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 19:44, John Floren wrote: [...] > > If pon doesn't look at /etc/network/interfaces can't I just edit my > > /etc/network/interfaces to: > > --- start --- > > auto lo eth0 > > > > iface lo inet loopback > > > > iface eth0 inet static > > 192.168.3.1 > > 255.25

Re: AMD Dual Opteron Workstation

Does Debian support  AMD Dual Opteron Engineering Workstations  using the MSI K8T Master 2 Motherboard?

Howto burn vcd ???

I have downloaded this: That gives me these two (2) files: AVSEQ01.DAT AVSEQ02.DAT Now, what do I do? How do I use these files? How do I burn this to CD? What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - D

Re: Xterm, Schmexterm

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:41:54PM -0400, John Lowell wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > export PS1='\033[1;31m\]\h:\w\$\033[0;37m\] ' I_HATE_MBOX From the Bash Manual: # `\[' # Begin a sequence of non-printing characters. This could be used to # embed a terminal control sequence into the p

Re: X pointer problem

Thomas Adam wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:23:24AM -0700, John Floren wrote: A few months ago I downloaded an OS X-style theme for GNOME. Part of the theme changed the mouse pointer so as to look similar to in OS X. However, when I stopped using that theme, the mouse didn't change back. Now

Re: Xterm, Schmexterm

Marc Wilson wrote: It's not xterm. It's the shell you're running inside it. Correct your custom prompt, making sure that you actually mark the non-printing characters AS non-printing so that bash will know where the lines end. You will note that things start behaving again if you remove the custo

Re: X pointer problem

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:23:24AM -0700, John Floren wrote: > A few months ago I downloaded an OS X-style theme for GNOME. Part of > the theme changed the mouse pointer so as to look similar to in OS X. > However, when I stopped using that theme, the mouse didn't change back. > Now when I sta

X pointer problem

A few months ago I downloaded an OS X-style theme for GNOME. Part of the theme changed the mouse pointer so as to look similar to in OS X. However, when I stopped using that theme, the mouse didn't change back. Now when I start, say, FVWM, instead of the usual large black "X" cursor, I get a

Re: how to connect two PC's with a cross-over ethernet cable?

Bram Mertens wrote: wireless. The laptop has a built-in WLAN card (Prism 802.11g). However There's prisms and there's prisms. I think if yours works, there should be a firmware file on your cd: a file whose name ends .arm. There are cards based on prism54 cards that do not yet work with Linu

Re: Re: sound/CD player question

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 19:19, mike wrote: > Now root can play CDs, not the normal user, inspite of being in the > cdrom group. Time to show I learnt something on this list already! :) Did you log out and log in again as that user? Apparently changes to a user's groups only take affect the next t

Re: How to configure /etc/network/interfaces WAS: how to connect two PC's with a cross-over ethernet cable?

Bram Mertens wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 18:36, John Floren wrote: [...] Could I use something like this? --- /etc/network/interfaces --- auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface lan inet static address 192.168.0.123 netmask 255.255.255.0 iface wan inet dhcp --- EOF --- No. Wh

Re: GUI Database?

Ed Sutherland wrote: S.D.A. wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 12:45:30AM -0400 or thereabouts, Ed Sutherland wrote: <>I'm one of those persons switching from a major desktop (OS X) to Linux (the PPC version of Debian's distro.) I want something like Filemaker <>Seriously, MySQL has a fairly dec

Re: Re: sound/CD player question

Now root can play CDs, not the normal user, inspite of being in the cdrom group. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xterm, Schmexterm

Jon Dowland wrote: On an unrelated note, if you find yourself with a spare 30 minutes give the debian package `menu' a look. This handy program lets you define menu entries in a wm-agnostic way, but also automatically builds menus for all menu-carrying programs. Hello Jon! Many thanks for your r

Re: OT: Which tool, and how, to get partial string from file?i

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 09:39:22 -0500 From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [SNIP] > (2) > The online information did not address my needs (and I suspect > that tree-bound versions would suffer similar shortcomings). . . . [SNIP] Understood. Several times, with several subjects, I've felt blocked,

Re: GUI Database?

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 18:41, Ed Sutherland wrote: [...] > Ah, PhpMyAdmin. I ran across it in a MySQL online tutorial and > downloaded it. It's not installed because of all the editing and > hoop-jumping involved. I now need to find a tutorial for installing > PHPMyAdmin. ;) On my system (debian

Re: How to configure /etc/network/interfaces WAS: how to connect two PC's with a cross-over ethernet cable?

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 18:36, John Floren wrote: [...] > > Could I use something like this? > > --- /etc/network/interfaces --- > > auto lo eth0 > > > > iface lo inet loopback > > > > iface lan inet static > > address 192.168.0.123 > > netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > > iface wan

Re: OT: merge two files

Le samedi 21 Août 2004 22:11, Nicholas Lativy a écrit : > On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 09:42:15AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > I want to merge the contents of one file with the bottom X lines of > > another. This works: > > > > cat file1 > EndResultFile && tail +20 file2 >> EndResultFile > > > > Is this

Re: GUI Database?

Kevin Mark wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 12:45:30AM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: I'm one of those persons switching from a major desktop (OS X) to Linux (the PPC version of Debian's distro.) I want something like Filemaker Hi Ed, I recently u

Re: Combining images?

Also try out ale ("a tool that merges images to increase fidelity or create mosaics") and grunch ("merge partial scans into a larger image"). I happened to notice them just a few days ago while browsing the graphics packages. brian On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 07:20:57 -0500, Nate Bargmann <

Re: GUI Database?

S.D.A. wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 12:45:30AM -0400 or thereabouts, Ed Sutherland wrote: <>I'm one of those persons switching from a major desktop (OS X) to Linux (the PPC version of Debian's distro.) I want something like Filemaker <>Seriously, MySQL has a fairly decent web front end in P

Re: How to configure /etc/network/interfaces WAS: how to connect two PC's with a cross-over ethernet cable?

Bram Mertens wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 22:37, Jon Dowland wrote: [...] A better solution is to use logical interface names aka interface aliasing. The details are described in manpage interfaces(5) ; the mapping 'eth0-home' would probably be what you wanted for transfers, and 'eth0-work' for nor

Re: running network config in Sarge

john gennard wrote: How do I run network configuration in Sarge. I ignored it in a recent install? Would someone please let me know. John. Probably the easiest way is to do "apt-get install etherconf", which will give you a nice interface to network configuration. If you need to change anything

Re: unsubscribe

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Re: running network config in Sarge

john gennard wrote: How do I run network configuration in Sarge. I ignored it in a recent install? Would someone please let me know. I edit /etc/network/interfaces with vim. I expect that vigor might do as well. for more, man interfaces etc. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PR

Re: clarification re Grub

john gennard wrote: Have installed the Official snapshot of Sarge dated 7th August. Everything went silky-smooth. I did leave network configuration as I wanted to use wifi and in any case didn't know my IP address. For the first time, I used grub - the installer did everything for me. Unfortunately

Re: Re: Ethernet card not responding after some time

Hi, lspci shows that the card indeed has power saving abilities. However, I do not know how to turn them off. I have ACPI turned off (I could turn it back on if that helps). I also turned off all my power saving abilities in the BIOS. Still the network card says that it has power savings. BT

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running network config in Sarge

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clarification re Grub

Have installed the Official snapshot of Sarge dated 7th August. Everything went silky-smooth. I did leave network configuration as I wanted to use wifi and in any case didn't know my IP address. For the first time, I used grub - the installer did everything for me. Unfortunately, I have 13 partitio

Help straightening out disk partitions.

I installed a new hard disk and freed up area on the disk used for linux. I used qtparted to delete a now unneeded vfat32 partition and wanted to enlarge a remaiing fat32 partition used for storing audio data and then add in the remaining freed up space several ext3 partitions to move stuff off

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