Re: HELP: w/ grep on a log file.

1998-06-15 Thread david . oswald
THank for looking into this everyone. Turns out that the sed is not necessary. The date "+ %a %b %d" statement needs to be modified! I really need to get my shit together. The correct statement is date "+%a %b %d" where the space between the + and the %a needs to be rem

debian and MCI paging problem...

1998-01-28 Thread david oswald
Hello all... Here's what I need to do. I have a Debian box and various processes running on it that check various platforms (hp, aix...) for different configurations that we monitor. Such as file system capacity... - once we reach 95%, we want to send a page to the right guy/gal. I don't thin

Dell latitude CP w/ an attitude

1998-01-02 Thread david oswald
hello all... got me one of those Dell latitude CP laptops. (apparently with an attitude :)... Tried to get it to boot Debian and after booting from the resc1440, I press enter after the initial introduction the system starts to go through the initial boot from the disk and then completely reboots

questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread David Oswald
Hello all ... I have convinced a client of mine who is novell IPX based to install a debian linux machine into their small company. (all they have ever used is Novell for file and print shares). Initially , this new debian machine will be used to serve up internal web pages and do

strange hardware problem?

1997-12-02 Thread David Oswald
Hello all... sorry for the long letter. hope you find it entertaining. This story eventually becomes debian related please be patient... I have two of these machines and they are both in the same condition - Fu$%ed... The machines are Gateway P4D-66 (486-66mhz). They have been run

case statement question again...

1997-11-06 Thread David Oswald
Hello all - I have a KSH script question... sorry - the offending line is [10-31]) not [30-31]) Can someone out there take a look at this script. I want to perform an operation based on the day of month. but the days (10 - 31) are giving me a problem. I would really like to keep this a one liner

case statement question...

1997-11-06 Thread David Oswald
Hello all - I have a KSH script question... Can someone out there take a look at this script. I want to perform an operation based on the day of month. but the days (10 - 31) are giving me a problem. I would really like to keep this a one liner if i can. How bout anybody out there done something l

slang0.99.34-dev install problem

1997-10-31 Thread David Oswald
Hi all... while trying to install most.deb it occurs that slang0.99.34 needs to be installed. Here are the results of my installation. I could use some help here - I hope i'm not missing something obvious... Preparing to replace slang0.99.34-dev 0.99.38-2 (using /home/doswald/

How do I - boot into maitenence mode?

1997-10-22 Thread David Oswald
How do I - boot into maitenence mode. I have a machine about 6 months old that will not boot completely. I get the message : "mounting local file systems ..." and then the box hangs ... any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

oracle & debian questions

1997-08-05 Thread David Oswald
Hello all... We are investigating the possibility and options for accessing our existing oracle database running on an HP9000 from a Debian server. We would be interested in generating apache web page related reports... that would utilize SQLNET and SQLPLUS or equivalents. Are there any utilitie

Problems with the digest mailing & CC:Mail

1997-07-28 Thread David Oswald
Hello all ... I read the digest version of this groups mailings through cc:Mail and often I get too many messages within a digest mailing. CC:Mail will not permit me to read the last few notes within a given digest. Does any body else out there have this problem. PLEASE - Could al

Buying CD writer - any suggestions

1997-07-28 Thread David Oswald
Hello all... I in the market for buying a CDROM writer for archival of data. At this time Im thinking of buying a YAMAHA CDR400TX (which come with some windows package called CD Pro). But this machine will be used on my debian box - and obviously I need to know if it works well... any comments

MS-DOS CR & directory/file timestamping

1997-07-18 Thread David Oswald
Hello all , I have a network of users here running NT and these users write various files out to a Debian box running Samba. These files are then served up by an appache web server running on the same Debian machine. 2 QUESTIONS: 1) I need to remove the ^m found at the end of eac