Re: Command touch and irregular file names

2007-08-15 Thread Brian Dessent
- Tong - wrote: > In my script I have > > touch -r "$file1" "$file2" > > the file1/2 can be anything file, ../path/file, /root/file, etc. > > The problem is when file1/2 are irregular file names. E.g., -test.file1/2. > > I.e., anyway to make the following touch command works? > > $ touch -r

Re: dd boot floppy to cd image

2002-06-14 Thread Brian Dessent
"Henning, Brian" wrote: > I have a grub boot floopy that has no file system. It just boots into grub. > I want to be able to put this floppy boot section onto a cd image to burn to > a cd. I don't really care if the cd image has a file system or not. I just > want it to boot grub. I am pretty sure

Missing ldd

2002-06-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Hi. I searched the archives about this and found a thread or two that was relevant, but they were more than 3 years old. At that time, the issue was caused by moving ldd from ldso to libc6. I have a woody system that I recently installed fresh. I have libc6 2.2.5-6. I don't have ldd, which is

Help with cdrecord

2002-06-13 Thread Brian Dessent
I'm having trouble with gcombust / cdrecord. I have a Plextor 4X CDR on the scsi bus. I run a test burn and it fails, probably because I'm trying to burn from a network (smb) share. I'll try making the iso first next time. Anyway, when it fails the drive is "locked", it will not eject, and cdr

Re: Multiple questions

2002-06-12 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Potkin wrote: > copernicus:$ dpkg -S dpkg-reconfigure > debconf: /usr/share/man/pt_BR/man8/dpkg-reconfigure.8.gz > debconf: /usr/share/man/man8/dpkg-reconfigure.8.gz > debconf: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure > > > trixie:~> find /usr/bin -name '*dpkg*' > > As you see debconf has dpkg-reconfigu

Multiple questions

2002-06-12 Thread Brian Dessent
1. What package includes 'dpkg-reconfigure'? I have the man pages for this command but not the binary. I seem to have all the other dpkg commands. trixie:~> find /usr/bin -name '*dpkg*' /usr/bin/dpkg /usr/bin/dpkg-deb /usr/bin/dpkg-split /usr/bin/dpkg-name /usr/bin/dpkg-source /usr/bin/dpkg-gen

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-09 Thread Brian Dessent
"Ian D. Stewart" wrote: > As the size of IDE hard drives increase, what are the > advantages/disadvantages of using a single large hard drive as opposed > to a RAID stack (say, 80 GB hard drive vs. raid tower w/ 4 20 GB hard > drives) ? I'd say it all depends on the specs of hard drives. If you

Re: Lilo Q

2002-06-09 Thread Brian Dessent
"Alice M. Pinard" wrote: > I don't see how I could do that the whole reason I have the hard drive > on the Promise ultra is that it's a 60g hd and reportedly with even the > most up to date bios available for my mb it will only see 32g > > wouldn't putting a hd that it can't see all of be a

Re: Changing refresh rate in X

2002-06-09 Thread Brian Dessent
Nicos Gollan wrote: > > > I've got my monitor connected to my laptop so I can work at my desk > > easier. The laptop's native resolution is 1400x1050 which my monitor > ... > Try xvidtune (I don't know what package that's in). It produces > modelines from a relatively friendly GUI. Or xf86cfg (if

Re: Performance tuning?

2002-06-08 Thread Brian Dessent
Ron Johnson wrote: > > Is this an 6x86 P150 or an 800MHz Athlon? Or is the win2k > box the 800MHz Athlon? > > Some musings: > - how much RAM on the win2k box? > - On my 1GHz Athlon, I see X spiking up to 60% CPU at times. > (Yes, I run X4.1, Gnome 1.2 and mozilla 1.0rc3. > - Do you run gnome 1

Performance tuning?

2002-06-08 Thread Brian Dessent
I've recently installed woody on an older system: 6x86 P150, 112MB RAM, Matrox Millennium I 4MB PCI, Buslogic multimaster PCI scsi (all scsi, no ide). This system is far from modern but I really remember it feeling a lot faster when it was my primary workstation (running win95.) I've installed X

Re: KaZaA + Debian Woody + XP

2002-06-07 Thread Brian Dessent
FreeportWeb Debian Support Account wrote: > When you open Kazaa and Kazaa Lite (which is the same thing), you > get a browser interface, this is where the popups are coming from -- > right from the site. Not much you can do about that. I use adshield for ie, and I have never once gotten a popup

Re: How to change resolution in X-window?

2002-06-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Markus wrote: > > I have a very simple but irritating problem: I have > started (right after installation of Debian) startx > and now it automatically starts every time the system > is started. The resolution is though way too low > (340*240 or something) and this causes huge > difficulties in try

Re: in case you missed this from ponik

2002-06-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Blocking his posts to the list while the listmaster tries to help > him could help -- if the listmaster has the time to do that, of course! > That would save a lot of bandwidth (the offending posts *and* the > discussion about them would at least not last too long), bu

Old motherboard, braindead bios.

2002-06-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Hi. I have installed Debian on an older system (Cyrix 6x86, Tyan Tomcat 430HX) whose BIOS is brain dead. It will not accept a year greater than 1999. Unfortunately, there is not a BIOS update past the one I have (v2.22, 11/96) [ Rant: Actually, there is an update which fixes a ton of stuff and

Re: Monitoring CPU usage of a process

2002-06-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Adar Dembo wrote: > > I have some processes whose cpu usage I would like to monitor, and pipe > into a file. As far as I know, top can't monitor a single process and > send its cpu usage into a file, so I'm wondering what other programs > might do this. This is a testing installation, on a compute