How to configure ls colors
Hi, how do I configure the colors ls shows? I cant find any kind of manual for this ... neither man ls nor info ls nor /usr/share/doc/fileutils ... mfg -- Andreas Sliwka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | f y cn rd ths y mst hv bn sng nx --BEGIN GEEK CODE V3.12 BLOCK- GCS/MU/L d-(+) S:++ a- C++$ UL++$ P++$ L+++$ E--- W+$ N++ o-- K- w-- O- !M !V PS+(++) PE Y+ PGP>++ t(+) 5+ X- R tv+ b+++ DI++ D G e+ h- r++ x+++ ---END GEEK CODE V3.12 BLOCK--
Bash question
Hi, where or whom should I ask not-so-easy bash questions? The one special question or problem is: I want to start a program in a shell script, get the filedescriptor for its standard input and let other programs, which I want to start after the first program, writer there standard output into the first ones standard in (ie make a /bin/program >&filedescriptor). A workaround would be to put braces around the programs and pipe the output of the so started sub-shell into the program ( program_number_1; program_number_2; ... program_number_n; ) | first_program But thats way to ugly for me ... Whom can I ask? Where can I look ? Thanx in advance, mfg -- Andreas Sliwka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ goff:13961062 --BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- GCS/MU/L d-(+) S:++ a- C++$ UL++$ P++$ L+++$ E--- W+$ N++ o-- K- w-- O- !M !V PS+(++) PE Y+ PGP>++ t(+) 5+ X- R tv+ b+++ DI++ D G e+ h- r++ x+++ ---END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
gdm's Gtkrc doesnt work
Hi, I tried to change gdm´s look by setting Gtkrc=/usr/share/themes/Exceutive/gtk/gtk.rc in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf but I see no difference to before. Did I overlook something ? mfg -- Andreas Sliwka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ goff:13961062
Yamaha YMF 724
Hi, I got a new board with an Yamaha YMF 724 on board. How can I get this chip to play sound? mfg -- Andreas Sliwka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ goff:13961062
Re: X based developer
Brant Wells wrote: > > Howdy All... > > Is there an X-based programming environment like Visual Basic, or Visual > C++??? Any help woule be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Brant > > __ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Take a lok at CodeCrusader (http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/jcc/), may be that is whta you are looking for ... mfg ----------- Andreas Sliwka --- http://emil.nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de/~goff talk to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ICQ:13961062
gnome-apt
Hi, anybody any experiences with gnome-apt ? I've got a mixed hamm/slink and like to get rid off dselect ... mfg --- Andreas Sliwka --- http://emil.nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de/~goff talk to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ICQ:13961062
Re: HD partitioning.
Star Linux, start fdisk and enter t (for setting the type of a partition), Answer all questions, eventually press L to show the list of partition types (where 82 is Linux native and 6 is Dos >=32Mb) , press x to write the changes to disk. Should do ... mfg --- Andreas Sliwka --- http://emil.nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de/~goff talk to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ICQ:13961062
Can't start X on my Laptop ...
Hi, My mom gave me her old Laptop (Toshiba T1950) from work, so Im in the mobile buisiness now, proging Java on the road ... While installing slink was a quite easy (downloading all .deb on my main machine, tarballing, spliting onto disks and so on), I was unable to get X working. Main problem is my not existant knowledge of the hardware of the Laptop, i.e. which VGA card and whch Display are build in. SuperProbe reports a "Generic VGA (or unknown SVGA)", which is not a help (or is it? I don't know ...). The Linux-Laptop Guide (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/) had no useful information for me, at least none I could find ... I got the laptop with plain MSDOS 6.2 , so I cant look into the windows configfiles ... ok. Can anybody help me ? I'm lost at the moment. mfg ------- Andreas Sliwka --- http://emil.nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de/~goff talk to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ICQ:13961062
Re: Help! My CDROM is terrible. I can't mount it.
> When I try to mount it (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom), the error message > tells me that iso9660 is not supported by the kernel. So your kernel doesnt understand the filesystem (iso9660) of the CD, just recompile your kernel with iso9660 support or make a module aout of it (if possible) and load it mfg -- --- Andreas Sliwka --- http://emil.nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de/~goff talk to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ICQ:13961062
Re: Desktop manager for X Window in a slow computer?
Daniel González Gasull wrote: > > Hi! > > I have a potato i486 DX2 66 MHz with 8 MB RAM running > X with Linux Debian 2.0. Which desktop manager for X > Window may/must I use? Just take a window manager with a (very)small memory footprint, mw2, blackbox, or icewm mfg+ ----------- Andreas Sliwka --- http://emil.nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de/~goff talk to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ICQ:13961062
Re: Learning more/Linux programming books
Steve Lamb wrote: > > I don't know, I think if there were a language to start newbies out on, > it is perl. Don't have to worry about many of the things that other > languages force upon you yet gives you a good gounding in how those other > languages work. Heaven, no! I think its quite a sinn to give perl to a newbie, perl corrupts. I use Perl since two years and I quite like it, but only because I can choose to use either imperative or oop thinking in perl and I dont have to every variable. And thats the reason why a newbie should start with a a structured language like java (oop), pascal (imperative) or scheme (functional/lists oriented), so she/he learns to order hers/his thoughts and get a habit of problem solving. Perl gives you every opportunity to everything in one or two or in any other way, and I don't think that this is a good start in programming ... soryy, my 2 euros mfg -- ----------- Andreas Sliwka --- http://emil.nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de/~goff talk to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ICQ:13961062
Re: Script..... cvs......
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > I need a hand with scripting... ive got a script that 'want' to update cvs > things. But sometimes i get messages like: > "cvs [update aborted]: connect to anoncvs.gnome.org:2401 failed: Connection > refused" > > The script goes on ignoring the message and it think, it has update the > module... How can i make it more intelligent trying again when this message > apear? > > Thanks, Try testing the special bash variable $?. quote from man bash : $? Expands to the status of the most recently executed foreground pipeline. so either you test this value explicitly: cvs something; if test "$?" ; then echo "darn" ; fi or you use it implicitly cvs something || echo darn hope this helps mfg --- Andreas Sliwka --- http://emil.nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de/~goff talk to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ICQ:13961062
Re: The Gimp and gif
> I can load gifs into The Gimp but I can't save them. What am I missing? Try to set the Image type to >indexed< first (right mouse click menu image->indexed) > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null mfg -- ----------- Andreas Sliwka --- http://emil.nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de/~goff talk to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ICQ:13961062
