Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Stephan Sauerburger
This is a general shell-scripting question: In a for loop which runs through all files, as in: for file in `ls` do #stuff done How do I have it make sure it iterates file-by-file? The following example, to play all mp3s in the current directory: for file in `ls` do mpg123 $file done ...will do

Re: X sudden brokenness

2003-06-23 Thread Stephan Sauerburger
es, forcing placement of all their files, without doing a remove first? 2. If you have your distro and all your packages installed under Unstable, is there a clean, easy way to revert back to "Stable" or "Testing"? On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:29:46AM -0500, Stephan Sauerbu

X sudden brokenness

2003-06-23 Thread Stephan Sauerburger
Hi all, My x server suddenly became inoperable after a routine reboot to Windows and back. I changed nothing as far as configuration or messed with any related files since it last worked. One pecularity, and the only clue I have as to the cause, is I found a few files in my /lost+found directory,

xlibs-dev package unresolvable conflict

2003-04-01 Thread Stephan Sauerburger
Hi, I have the "xlibs" version 4.2.1-6 package installed, and am trying to install "xlibs-dev" to resolve other dependencies. However, upon hitting enter at the selection screen, it complains with a "Dependency Conflict/Resolution" screen and says "xlibs-dev depends on xlibs (= 4.1.0-16)". The xlib

Re: dpkg/dselect misbehavior

2003-03-29 Thread Stephan Sauerburger
implemented? On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:57:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:22:26 -0500 Stephan Sauerburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just installed Debian from a Deb 2.2 Potato CD after a hard drive crash which occurred about a month ago. I used the same CD I did f

dpkg/dselect misbehavior

2003-03-29 Thread Stephan Sauerburger
Hi all, I just installed Debian from a Deb 2.2 Potato CD after a hard drive crash which occurred about a month ago. I used the same CD I did for the previous install, and as far as I can tell, the same installation procedure - just put the essential packages from the first CD on the system, enough

Re: Innovation3D documentation

2002-11-03 Thread Stephan Sauerburger
...anyone...? On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:48:05AM -0500, Myself spanked upon the buttocks of Barbie in Morse Code: Hi, I'm trying to learn how to use Innovation3D, and seeking tutorials on how to do so. innovation3d.sourceforge.net's help section has a nice list, starting with a quick guide that p

Re: mutt trouble

2002-11-02 Thread Stephan Sauerburger
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 09:26:25AM -0500, Jon-o Addleman spanked upon the buttocks of Barbie in Morse Code: On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 05:21:04PM +0530, sandip spake thusly: hello! this is what i did: mutt :source ~/.alias m #to compose new mail tried to use alias, doesnt work still! any further s

Innovation3D documentation

2002-11-02 Thread Stephan Sauerburger
Hi, I'm trying to learn how to use Innovation3D, and seeking tutorials on how to do so. innovation3d.sourceforge.net's help section has a nice list, starting with a quick guide that pretty-much just lists the basic menu entries, and all the tutorials assume basic modeling skills with the program, b

Re: PHP module for Apache

2002-10-27 Thread Stephan Sauerburger
-0500, Stephan Sauerburger wrote: in the body. I put it in /var/www (which DocumentRoot points to in httpd.conf), but when I visit http://localhost/hello.php4 in any browser I've tried so far (opera, IE, lynx and galeon (mozilla)), it doesn't spew out the html code with output from p

PHP module for Apache

2002-10-27 Thread Stephan Sauerburger
Hi, I'm trying to get basic php functionality working on my Apache web server to start playing around with interfacing with mysql. I created a "hello.php4" file containing the simplest php code, with an html structure and this: in the body. I put it in /var/www (which DocumentRoot points to in h

Sed replacement from file

2002-10-19 Thread Stephan Sauerburger
Hi, I'm writing a script that inserts a line of text into a configuration file. But it can't be at the end, has to be in an arbitrary point. So I thought I'd put a line at the point where I want to insert the text, like "--sed-replace-here--". Thing is, though, I have several lines I want to inser