Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

er to have greater flexibility (in font selection) over performance, but maybe there are other reasons. Ken PS, OT: Bracing myself for a new swen onslaught triggered by posting this, now that the last "attack" has slowed to 5 or so per day after a couple posts some weeks ago. -- Ken Irvin

Re: Illegal characters in cron

caped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline char­ acters, and all data after the first % will be sent to the command as standard input. Ken -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern En

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

the problem is past. The patterns in .procmailrc are potentially still useful for other MS executables, but in general this sort of solution is going to add cruft to my mail processing. I.e., the swen worm attack has a lasting impact, however small. Ken -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAI

Re: Can't install networking.

g, and then resume your effort to get the Broadcom working. It is reasonable to expect some difficulties in building a system with barely supported hardware, however non-rare it might be. Ken -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Cen

Re: Can't install networking.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:26:39PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:08:05 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > > >On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:17:52PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > >> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> ... &

Re: Partitioning

/ partition and ran lilo. Also needed to run cfdisk to make the / partition bootable, then was back in business. -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering University of Alaska, Fairbanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Browsers that *don't* support about:blank

hy aren't you looking for that? Might be nice to come up with a list of "browsers that do" and "browsers that don't", but you're still going to need to point to an RFC to have a convincing argument. Good on the maintainer for adhering to standards and not giving

Re: Partitioning

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:42:32PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:13:17PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > wsa (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > > >> /boot is NOT needed ... - /boot was needed

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

ar cards and have done this a number of times. It seems reasonable to expect you could be up and running, networking included, just with the default CD, then upgrade away after that. But maybe there's no PCI or ISA slots, or I'm obviously missing something. Good luck! Ken -- Ken I

Re: firewall setup xdsl: eth0/eth1/ppp0?

dvice! > > andreas > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research

Re: file creation permissions

there is a way to accomplish > what you want with the existing rules of linux permissions. > Why do you want to change ownerships? > > Mike -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering

Re: sed, bash script

le`; cat $f | sed command > $tmp ; mv $tmp $f; done > > > > > > Is there anything intrinsically wrong with: > > > > > > find directory -name "*.foo" | xargs sed -i -f sed_script > > Perl also provides the -i option to change files in place

Re: print HTML in "B" size

ps where psnup is in the psutils package. Other options can be used to set the output paper size, or the psresize command can be used to change the target size. Ken -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern En

Re: sed, bash script

kage (size) stable sed 3.02-8 (100.4k) The GNU sed stream editor. testing sed 4.0.7-1 (184k) The GNU sed stream editor unstable sed 4.0.7-1 (184k) The GNU sed stream editor Ken -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and E

Re: [OT] Pointer for data aquisition over serial port

d cu (part of the uucp distribution) under perl's Expect module to do this sort of thing, where cu handles the comm channel and expect the timeouts and automating the interactive stuff, but find Net::Telnet a simpler solution. Ken -- Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!

the CD burn operation and ntpdate's actions, but the first time I had no idea, panicked, and replaced ntpd with ntpdate. After reading this thread I'll go back to ntpd. -- Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!

SI emulation for the CD writer, no actual SCSI hardware, and cdrecord to do the writing. In the course of writing two CDs with about 300 MB the clock slowed by 97 seconds, as subsequently reset by ntpdate. FWIW. Ken > -----Original Message- > From: Ken Irving > > On Sat, Dec 21

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

... check commands $ find /music/mp3 -exec chown -R pierre {} \; # ... do it This is probably a lot slower than using recurse options in commands, but I feel it can be safer. -- Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Set group seting to multiple files

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:20:48PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:07:24AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > I did this once, then panicked and halted the process when I heard > > a lot of disk activity. The problem is (I think) that the wildcard > > ma

Re: apt-getting source for my kernel

4 Ask a friend to let you use their machine with networking and google for it. Ken -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering University of Alaska, Fairbanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Newbie installation query

ption for apt-get you can preview what packages will be removed or installed (and configured), so that dselect-like feedback is available. Use apt-cache show to get information about any of the packages, and I think the end result is equivalent to what you get from dselect, if a bit more hands-on. Ke

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

ase64 signatures (most known like Klez, Hybris, BugBear...) # - iframe html exploit # - CLSID hidden extensions exploit # - xml codebase exploit # - generic executable trap for bat, pif, vbs, vba, scr, lnk, com, exe # - generic macro detection for doc,dot,xls,xla files # - generic

Re: man files to text editor

it's being piped and so runs as a filter, but it's probably not the default pager (since it's not installed by default on a base install). Ken > > > Try it you may like it - simple and quick. > > I meant ``it shouldn't work for you''--of course I tr

Re: Getting CPU load (from /proc/?)

m bottle­ necks. Linux vmstat does not count itself as a running process. -- Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

eleted from the server. I thought it might have something > > to do with the message itself, but I manually deleted the first one that > > caused this from the pop server and it didn't help. Hmm, that's "fixed" the problem in my experience. -- Ken Irving Trident Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dropped out of potato install sequence

a much more detailed package listing than was displayed during the install dialogs. Is it possible to run a command to run through the install profiles (tasks) from the command line? -- Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: concatenate eps files

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:31:44PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > hey, > does anyone know how i can take an eps file and print it onto a page > 2x5, so that the initial eps file is on the page 10 times, preferably > without any margins in between? http://sourceforge.net/projects/cardsto

Re: networking (offlist)

at I'm not sure of what you need. Good luck! Ken > Thank you, > Michael > > - Original Message - > From: "Ken Irving" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Michael W. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:14 PM > Sub

Re: inetd vs xinetd

ng the xinetd program for system administration", by T. Zlatanov. -- Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to handle whitespace in filenames ???

tion to grep is needed since grep is run on a single file, so doesn't report the name by default. -- Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to handle whitespace in filenames ???

imited by spaces. I think the appropriate answer is "don't do that", and not "fix the shell", but that's just my opinion. Ken -- Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

using Woody vs testing

ing sufficient once it becomes stable. What happens to testing when woody becomes stable? Does sid (suddenly?) become testing? I'm sure the answers to these questions are in the documentation, so any pointers (RTFM) will be appreciated. Ken -- Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: pasting text into bash without use of mouse

the command line > c> itself. Is there such a linuxian function? > > you can use shift+insert to paste into bash That seems to be a function of xterm rather than bash, but thanks for pointing it out. (Probably doesn't help the original poster, since it's still in X, but I might find a use for it.) -- Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: app for making cards?

the way. The script takes eps images and puts them in the postscript output, scaling to fit. http://www.mosquitonet.com/~jkirving/pub/cardstock.html The database is pretty limited, with only Avery #5376 in it, but it would be simple to define other entries. I guess 5371 is identical in layout anyway. Ken -- Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to remove messages from mbox based on relative date?

ers, do simple header munging/extracting or split up a mailbox/digest/articles file. The mail/mail­ box/article contents will be expected on stdin. -- Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Sounds off in bash

ble: # set bell-style audible # set bell-style none set bell-style visible Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vi globally append question

> >%s/\(.*\)/#\1/g > > David responded: > > Steve's approach would put a # in the front of ALL > lines whether or not they initially contain an existing > # to begin with > > If that is what you wanted to do, you could: > > %s/^/#/

Re: Wish to network my home computers but don't know Jack about it

. (There'll also be the "loopback interface", lo, which allows your linux box to talk to itself using the same networking routines in the kernel.) > I'm starting to feel as if I've not done sufficient googling. I'd highly recommend killing a tree and getting a

Re: What utility to post my gateway's IP?

ome workstation to work, then looking in the headers for the cable modem's address. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DSL problem (possibly OT)

> ... Maybe have a look at the mss setting? Ken -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering University of Alaska, Fairbanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Grep only mail headers via STDIN?

? From grepmail(1) on woody: If no mailbox is specified, takes input from stdin, which can be compressed or not. grepmail's behavior is undefined when ASCII and binary data is piped together as input. Otherwise, if mailgrep et al otherwise work, you might conside

Re: Grep only mail headers via STDIN?

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:55:43AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:37:01AM +0100, Jens Benecke wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to create a script that greps for a specific mail header coming from > > STDIN. "mailgrep" and "mboxgr

Re: Permission change - recursive

rt of thing, e.g., $ find some_dir -type d -exec echo chmod 0770 {} \; $ find some_dir -type f -exec echo chmod 0660 {} \; The echo is there so that the actions can be inspected before actually doing them. Ken -- Ken Irving Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Eng

Re: Set title bar name

27;s a shell script I've been using to set the window title... $ cat `which title` #!/bin/sh # 27jul99 kci, 07feb2000, by Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if [ "$1" == "-h" ]; then # online help message echo \ ' Set X termina

Re: Phone dialer for Linux

such app was a dialer using perl/tk, with various buttons to control it, numeric keypad, etc. These use the same semicolon trick to keep the modem from proceeding to its modem handshake mode. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stable, Unstable, Testing

ute" method, you'll also need to do a bit of research and find and install any dependencies yourself. Maybe it's just me, but $ sudo apt-get install SOMETHING seems simpler than that. ACTUALLY, THOUGH, I'd really use $ sudo apt-get install SOMETHING -s where the -

Re: Stumped with a Posix/Perl Question

\n" } __END__ A - 1 A - 2 B - 1 B - 2 This builds a hash keyed on the first space-delimited token on a line, with the hash value being an array reference to which the 3rd token is pushed. Afterwards the hash is iterated for printing, and the arrays pretty-p

Re: xwatch or root-tail for remote server?

oot window. Root-tail, is a program that displays one or more log files, on the X root window, through the use of transparent windows. Ken -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering

Re: Before going with debian questions.

cut it. > until you understand packaging tools. After which point you want to > look at pinning. I'll have to look into pinning. I prefer running stable, but want some packages not available there. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian /etc/hosts Behavior

ed > locally. I had the same thing on one machine running unstable (hostname before localhost), but not on others running stable. I recently used the hostname command (followed by some grepping and editing other files under /etc) to change the host's name; maybe that was responsible for this

Re: daylight savings time

dard Time, should not be affected by daylight savings time. Maybe change that to EDT? -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rcs file

ate an updated revision file. That is my problem. > > Anyone know how to fix this? (Quoted text formatted to fit and to try to understand it...). I'm don't follow what you're trying to do, but I frequently use rcs for quick & dirty versioning of individual files, and just u

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

packaging system just isn't set up to do it. It could be, but it isn't. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

way to represent large sets of addresses and you can maintain the lists without the need to restart or even refresh your Shorewall configuration. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: deleting content of /tmp

is may be specified/suggested in the FHS, or maybe elsewhere. Try googling on "delete /tmp" or something... Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: deleting content of /tmp

On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:50:45AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:40:01PM +, andy wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Can someone advise me on the pros and cons of deleting the contents of > > /tmp/ as part of general security conscious non-paranoia.

Re: Media Wiki 1.7 - Set-up / Install Help

a suggestion to create a symlink to this setup script into /etc/mediawiki1.7/; this just puts the script into the more conventional /etc/ tree, which makes sense -- not sure why this isn't done automatically, but maybe it has to do with single- or multi-wiki sites... Hope this helps... K

Re: Media Wiki 1.7 - Set-up / Install Help

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:33:38AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > On Monday 02 July 2007 12:04, Ken Irving wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:19:15AM +0100, Nick Adie wrote: > > > > > > The read me file is very confusing as it talks about a file that does not >

[OT] bash HISTCONTROL=ignorespace; was Re: libraries in debian BROKEN...

well, like having that un-guarded table saw sitting there ready to accidentally cut again. Or something... -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Script of the ftp

t; files. > > And try ncftp. It's got a utility called ncftpput which should help > you in this circumstance. Also see netrc; a .netrc file can contain the user & password for ftp sites, so they don't need to be in your scripts. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CUPS: unable to configure printer

password..." ??? The username of root is "root". > > On my system, this works: > > username: root > password: the_password_of_root I'm unable to find where this is documented, but add your user to the 'lpadmin' group, and you can use your

Re: CUPS: unable to configure printer

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:16:28PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:18:26PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > * Thomas Beresford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070727 22:49]: > > >Hello, > > > > > >I tried to setup my HP PSC 13

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

s even for non-destructive commands, just to make sure what's going to happen. You really only need to insert 'echo' in front of the command, and will see the expanded command in the output. E.g., the previous command would be: find . -name \*.wav -exec echo lame -h -b 160 {} {

Re: How to make phone call using modem in Linux

you wanted by saying it was "like" some other program; without being familiar with that program, it's hard to know what you want. (Hmm, reminds me of the Microsoft approach to "office" software standards...) Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Command touch and irregular file names

ot;-test.file2" > touch: invalid date format `est.file1' > > I think if the touch command uses the standard gnu getopt lib, then > the above code should work, shouldn't it? > > Thanks > > tong -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: view the exit status from command line

sh will print the exit status of the last > command before its prompt, so you can _always_ see it. Very handy, > IMO. :-) Thanks for this great idea! -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: view the exit status from command line

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:42:16PM +0200, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Ken Irving wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:21:17PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> >>>>>>

Re: nslookup from behing router/modem

the administrator. Those for which 'Dynamic' was chosen # are empty. 0dns-up fills in the nameservers when pppd gets them from the # provider when the connection comes up. You can edit these files, adding # 'search' or 'domain' directives or additional nameservers. Read the # resolv.conf manual first, though. ... Anyway, maybe such an approach could turn up an empty 'search' entry in some file on your system... Good luck! Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to make phone call using modem in Linux

onfigure > it yet. > > any other idea, who have make phone call using modem on Linux before? > Please let me know. > > Thank you all. ;) > > Thang Kieu > > > On 8/11/07, Ken Irving < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: /sys/power/state question with sudoers!

shell, which is > > responsible of redirections, pipes, chaining commands... > > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this defeats the purpose of > restricting sudo to a certain set of commands. The command here is 'sh', so this could be restricted as usual.

Re: /sys/power/state question with sudoers!

On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 07:56:07PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 07:09:29AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > > > > $ sudo sh -c "cd /home ; du -s * ??? sort -rn > USAGE" > > > > > > > > So, you can do it in on command,

Re: DHCP renewal..

r would probably give that ip to another system, and then you'll be screwing up that other user as well as yourself. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DHCP renewal..

On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:04:34PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Ken Irving wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 02:25:14PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: >>> >>> Running a liveCD system. >>> >>> At the first boot ip-address is obtaine

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

o use and have learned vi/vim, so I'm not unwilling to do this kind of thing, but plan to stick with apt-get on the command line until there's some compelling reason to do so. I also tried wajig, which is a wrapper around apt-get and some other commands, but find that I prefer using the "real thing" directly. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory

root root 121K 2007-08-20 15:50 ld-2.6.1.so* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2007-08-20 22:07 ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> > ld-2.6.1.so* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1,4M 2007-08-20 15:50 libc.so.6* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K 2007-08-20 15:50 libdl.so.2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 304K 20

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

eed ppp. If you _do_ need > ppp, then the PPP-HOWTO will tell you how to setup a link. Its really > quite easy. Basically you set up mgetty on one box and have ppp on the > other box access it. Since there's no modem, there are no dialing > strings. > > Doug. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Command to see ip address on etch stable

is will show the settings for each interface; you can alternatively specify the interface you want to see, e.g,. $ ifconfig eth0 If you're behind a NAT router (or even if not), there are websites that can show you the Internet IP you're on, e.g., perhaps checkmyip.com. Ken -- Ke

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

you're using for > /dev/tty.usbserial. I tried it on a sid box, but just end up with screen showing a shell on the local host, i.e., the same as without those arguments. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:48:42AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:14:21AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > As an alternative to minicom, 'screen' also makes a useful serial terminal > > program. At least on OS X, I often do something like this to

broken old installer?

the net upgrades later. Should I not be using my trusty old installer? -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: broken old installer?

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:21:17AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > I'm somewhat CD-writing-impaired, and have always installed debian systems > using outdated installers. For a long time I used a woody net install cd, > but since mid-2005 I've been using a sarge net install cd,

Re: broken old installer?

On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:51:29AM +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:49:52PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > > but since mid-2005 I've been using a sarge net install cd, as recently > > > as a month ago, without problems. Now I

Re: Search for string in files

lso to list in which file the string was found? Or any modification to > the command given above? find . -name \*.c -type f -exec grep -H a_certain_function {} \; The -H option to grep makes it output the filename; that ought to help with your command above. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh-agent (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

u need to connect to the host once to authorize those keys, but after that the jobs can run autonomously. Not sure if this is relevant... Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

find -name 11419\* and if it does, then something like find -name 11419\* -exec rm {} \; or find -name 11419\* -exec mv {} somename \; if you'd like to have a look at it. There might be a problem with special characters in the name getting fouled up when the shell interprets it.

Re: Which firewall?

working firewall in 5 or 6 lines vs 10's or 100's that may result from shorewall. From my standpoint, I only need to mess with 5 or 6 lines (if that) in shorewall to get a working system, but would need to master a bunch of "fine" manuals to fully understand iptables, so kiSS sti

Re: UNSUSCRIBE

> Messages, such as yours and mine, which as PGP-MIME signed do *not* > display the list info at the end. This is either a bug or a feature of > the mailing list software. It's been reported as a bug, and could be fixed, but that's up to the list managers. Ken -- Ken Irving,

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

t; 'ended(10417)';./cont> > Tue Nov 28 21:35:48: Submitted from host , to Queue , > CWD <$ > HOME/scratch/3d_newgc>, Output File <%J.out>, 128 > Processo > rs Requested, Dependency Condition ; >

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

in the Windows bloodline, maybe to accomodate AIX (an old MS *nix variant?) or something, but while it apparently remains, it is not well or properly supported. This page discusses the issue: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html Sounds promising, but it doesn't actually work. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:11:38PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > On 11/29/06, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:51:21PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > >> With the regular GUIs in Windows (XP), I don't think it is possible to > &

Re: shell script and variable problem

s applied to the next token it sees, perhaps the -a? I've run into the same issue recently, and would like to somehow become less baffled by the ins and outs of shell (bash) scripting. Presumably there's a statement in bash(1) that would clarify what's going on. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shell script and variable problem

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 06:51:05PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > > The problem is that my test > > if [ -n $exlist -a -f $exlist ] > > does not work. For some reason, this always evaluate to true, and then > > the tar command fails. Why is this? > > Not sure, but

aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

arkauto '~M!~R~i' ... The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: ... I'll probably just go back to using apt-get, and probably everything will be fine until the next time I decide to try aptitude. Is there a compelling reason to bother? Ken -- Ken Irving,

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:39:04AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > $ sudo aptitude install wmmoonclock -s > ... > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > groff imagemagick libconfig-inifiles-perl perlmagick python2.3 > python2.3-iconvcodec > ... > &g

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 05:34:23AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061202 04:52]: > > I've periodically tried using aptitude, but always get scared off > > when it seems to "run away". I'm sure it knows what's best

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:00:14PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:39:04 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > > I'll probably just go back to using apt-get, and probably everything > > will be fine until the next time I decide to try aptitude. Is there a >

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:38:46AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061202 06:26]: > > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 05:34:23AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > Does synaptic do something better than apt-get? It doesn't appear to >

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

7;t "safe" to use apt-get once aptitide is installed, i.e., apt-get conflicts with aptititude, then couldn't this be handled in the package setup as policy? Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 01:05:29AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 11:27:46 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > > If it isn't "safe" to use apt-get once aptitide is installed, i.e., > > apt-get conflicts with aptititude, then couldn't this be

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

uch what I was trying to find, a way to do the installation despite removals being pending. How do you do this? The only way I was able to figure out was to do the removals first, so they were no longer pending. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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