export PATH=.:$PATH (was:Re: Mailing list headers )
aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i have thios in my .bashrc :
export PATH=.:$PATH
ouch. One day, you'll execute something by accident...
make that
export PATH=${HOME}/bin/:${PATH}
instead and put your shell scripts into ~/bin/
kind Regards,
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Re: Xemacs problem
David Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to start xemacs, I occasionally get this error message: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0. Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit connections from your machine. Again, it doesn't happen all the time. However, nox-emacs works fine. What is going on? You have by chance logged in as one user, su()d to another and try to start xemacs as that other user? Putting xhost +localhost in your .xsession might be what you want, but only do that on a single-user machine, since it will allow anyone who is logged into your machine to start X clients on your display. (that could be nasty things like kbd-sniffers) HTH, -- Eberhard Burrcheck http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include stddisc.h -- electric cookie follows I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives. I don't see why I should have to believe in it in this one. -- Strange de Jim
Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?
virtanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a FAQ. You need a more recent version of XFree. You can download it with apt-get from: deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/ There is no apt-get available. The machine is not netted (yet). Where is it there? I can use another OS to get it. I succeeded by just downloading the binary of the server from xfree.org and putting it in place. kind Regards, -- Eberhard Burrcheck http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include stddisc.h -- electric cookie follows Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal. - Zaphod Beeblebrox in Hithiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Re: make slink SMP-clean?
Norris Preyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using slink with a 2.2.10 SMP kernel, and top (from procps 1:1.2.9-3) works just fine: I have installed 2.2.7 because I was nervous about some filesystem problem reports with Adaptec controllers. 10:36am up 5 days, 14 min, 1 user, load average: 2.05, 2.04, 2.01 75 processes: 72 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 142.2% user, 57.3% system, 124.1% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 257876K av, 244436K used, 13440K free, 47824K shrd, 94092K buff Swap: 128516K av, 3208K used, 125308K free 67888K cached PID USER SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 6433 preyern 1944 1944 524 R N 96.1 0.7 1021m slave3 6432 preyern 1944 1944 524 R N 95.2 0.7 1021m slave3 14667 preyern748 748 572 R 5.7 0.2 0:00 top . ^ ^^^ ^^ I was seeing weird, sometimes negative Values there. It all went well, after the dealer replaced the second CPU which was supposed to be a P3-450 like the first one; by accident they had installed a P2-400 into the second slot :-( The BIOS had shown two P3s but a look in /proc/cpuinfo and /me thinks the technician who assembled that machine will now have to look for a new job. Note that the Machine worked well otherwise and was heavily loaded during two days. Only X was a bit... nasty. I had attributed that to flaky Mouse. I'm a few hundred Kilometers away from the machine, so I do not even know the exact symptoms, but my pal reported mouse-clicks being unreliable and the windowmanager being somewhat tiresome (3 sec to change focus). Anyway: ASUS Boards seem to run nicely with different CPUs as does Linux. Only Graphics and top are troublesome and who knows, perhaps with switching off MTRR in the kernel would have helped there too. kind Regards, -- Eberhard Burrcheck http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include stddisc.h -- electric cookie follows Just remember: when you go to court, you are trusting your fate to twelve people that weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty!
Re: please someone send me their working exim.conf for ppp?
David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you get anything on the exim.conf file that you actually can hack into submission, I'd appreciate your either sending it on to me or posting it here. (preferably both:) My problem is that my ISP requires the login name on the from: address be that of the account at the ISP. My machine isn't named the same as my ISP, and the account here is different too. Note that there's a difference between From: and From (the envelope-From). Most likely, your isp like mine rejects everything with an envelope-from that differs from what you've been given as mail address by your isp. In smail, cou can add a line with your local logname as trusted user. Then move your sendmail executable away (rename it to sendmail_ for example) and make a fmall script in the place of sendmail, that calls sendmail_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] works nicely for me. kind regards, -- Eberhard Burrcheck http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include stddisc.h -- electric cookie follows An open mind has but one disadvantage: it collects dirt. -- a saying at RPI
Re: magicfilter and 1200 dpi
Joachim Trinkwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I just wanted to install my new LaserJet 4000 printer with magicfilter, and found that there isn't a filter for a 1200 dpi printer. Is there a way to modify an existing filter (I'm thinking of the psonly600-filter, which works with the LJ 4000) to get the 1200 dpi capability? just replace all occurrences of 600 by 1200 in /etc/magicfilter/psonly600-filter HTH, -- Eberhard Burrcheck http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include stddisc.h -- electric cookie follows An Italian is COMBING his hair in suburban DES MOINES!
Re: How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount
Joseph Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kernel parameter I can tweak so that I'll never have to intervene even if the FS is not unmounted cleanly? Three possible solutions (one and a half, that is.): 1) get a UPS and remove the main switch from the pooter. When your parents switch off the ups, Linux still has enough time to cleanly shut down 2) similarly, get a mainboard with functioning power-off and remove the main switch. The pooter can only be switched off with software assistance then and you should be ok. To switch on the computer, the D/V button of the modem can be used to generate an interrupt on the serial line (most modems generate an OK when D/V is pressed). 3) mount /usr readonly and the rest with the sync option. This will make the computer much slower wrt to filesystem performance and is not entirely fool-proof but you usually get away without severe damage. Kind regards, -- Eberhard Burrcheck http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include stddisc.h -- electric cookie follows God instructs the heart, not by ideas, but by pains and contradictions. -- De Caussade
Re: scsi hd idle spin down
Peter Palfrader aka Weasel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what makes you believe that spinning down drives is needed at all? The reason that the fans to keep the disks cool are too loud for me to have my box running during the night (my box is in my room). :) I bet you don't want to hear this, but /me thinks you made a mistake purchasing those drives :-/ [1] PS: fyi: the scsi controller is an AHA 2940 U2W, the disks are IBM DRVS09V and there's one swap partition on each of them. I've five md have you had a look at IBM's specs as to how many spin-up-spin-down cycles these drives are specified for? IIRC, these are server-drives and thus not specified to survive a lot of power-cycles but rather a log time of continuous operation. I doubt I'll have problems.. (At least I hope so :) unfortunately, I disposed off these old issues of C't[2] but by rotten brain clearly recalls being nervous about my own drives after reading that article about the matter of silencing (sp?) pooters and the issue of loud and hot drives. I disassembled my own case just to see that I got the letters wrong (I'm using DCAS drives) and that my drives are spec'd for more power-cycles than I usually do by powering down the machine twice a day in more than five years (siesta and night) but also said article told me to immediately get a spare drive of the same series because the newer drives are spec'd for less power-cycles (the really fast ones, that is). I recall only one number exactly, and that was a 1rpm drive by Seagate which is specified for ten years of non-stop operation but for only as few as 4000 power-cycles. (roughly once a day in it's useful lifetime!) so my advice is to check IBMs specs before asking for trouble first. Second, go for passive drive coolers and see how that works out. in the end, this is only my opinion and you're free to disagree. I've had my share of dying drives, though, and my DAT is one of the more frequently-used devices. [1] not, that they're bad, it's just that they lead to bad sleep in your case. [2] if you're really interested, I might dig up the issue from my old mail archives; after all, this came up more than once. kind Regards, -- Eberhard Burrcheck http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include stddisc.h -- electric cookie follows You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. -- John Viscount Morley
Re: scsi hd idle spin down
Weasel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've two SCSI harddisks and what I'm looking for is a tool/kernel patch that spins down those drives after some idle time and up again when needed. what makes you believe that spinning down drives is needed at all? PS: fyi: the scsi controller is an AHA 2940 U2W, the disks are IBM DRVS09V and there's one swap partition on each of them. I've five md have you had a look at IBM's specs as to how many spin-up-spin-down cycles these drives are specified for? IIRC, these are server-drives and thus not specified to survive a lot of power-cycles but rather a log time of continuous operation. kind Regards, -- Eberhard Burrcheck http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include stddisc.h -- electric cookie follows If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. -- Bette Davis
make slink SMP-clean?
Hello, I've just installed slink on a dual P3 box, and all went smoothly. I then fetched kernel sources and compiled a 2.2 SMP kernel and installed that. Still everything smooth (except for some minor no-brainers on my side). But now some commands, namely top and ps show funny results like negative loads and such. Are there precompiled packages somewhere to fix this or do I need to recompile the affected programs? kind regards, -- Eberhard Burrcheck http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include stddisc.h -- electric cookie follows Where you stand depends on where you sit. -- Rufus Miles, HEW
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. bash will properly escape it if you use file-name completion. Thus if you type ? and then tab after the command you'd like to operate on that file, bash will complete the name (unless you have other files beginning with ? too). Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to do with it either! Are you sure it's a file at all? It looks more like a misconfigured ls. Does the file show up in your $HOME only or in every directory? Regards, -- Eberhard Burrcheck http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include stddisc.h -- electric cookie follows BARRY ... That was the most HEART-WARMING rendition of I DID IT MY WAY I've ever heard!!
