- Tong - wrote:
In my script I have
touch -r $file1 $file2
the file1/2 can be anything file, ../path/file, /root/file, etc.
The problem is when file1/2 are irregular file names. E.g., -test.file1/2.
I.e., anyway to make the following touch command works?
$ touch -r -test.file1
Hi. I searched the archives about this and found a thread or two that
was relevant, but they were more than 3 years old. At that time, the
issue was caused by moving ldd from ldso to libc6.
I have a woody system that I recently installed fresh. I have libc6
2.2.5-6. I don't have ldd, which
Henning, Brian wrote:
I have a grub boot floopy that has no file system. It just boots into grub.
I want to be able to put this floppy boot section onto a cd image to burn to
a cd. I don't really care if the cd image has a file system or not. I just
want it to boot grub. I am pretty sure I
I'm having trouble with gcombust / cdrecord. I have a Plextor 4X CDR on
the scsi bus. I run a test burn and it fails, probably because I'm
trying to burn from a network (smb) share. I'll try making the iso
first next time. Anyway, when it fails the drive is locked, it will
not eject, and
1. What package includes 'dpkg-reconfigure'? I have the man pages for
this command but not the binary. I seem to have all the other dpkg
commands.
trixie:~ find /usr/bin -name '*dpkg*'
/usr/bin/dpkg
/usr/bin/dpkg-deb
/usr/bin/dpkg-split
/usr/bin/dpkg-name
/usr/bin/dpkg-source
Brian Potkin wrote:
copernicus:$ dpkg -S dpkg-reconfigure
debconf: /usr/share/man/pt_BR/man8/dpkg-reconfigure.8.gz
debconf: /usr/share/man/man8/dpkg-reconfigure.8.gz
debconf: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure
trixie:~ find /usr/bin -name '*dpkg*'
As you see debconf has dpkg-reconfigure in
Nicos Gollan wrote:
I've got my monitor connected to my laptop so I can work at my desk
easier. The laptop's native resolution is 1400x1050 which my monitor
...
Try xvidtune (I don't know what package that's in). It produces
modelines from a relatively friendly GUI.
Or xf86cfg (if you
Alice M. Pinard wrote:
I don't see how I could do that the whole reason I have the hard drive
on the Promise ultra is that it's a 60g hd and reportedly with even the
most up to date bios available for my mb it will only see 32g
wouldn't putting a hd that it can't see all of be a
Ian D. Stewart wrote:
As the size of IDE hard drives increase, what are the
advantages/disadvantages of using a single large hard drive as opposed
to a RAID stack (say, 80 GB hard drive vs. raid tower w/ 4 20 GB hard
drives) ?
I'd say it all depends on the specs of hard drives. If you're
I've recently installed woody on an older system: 6x86 P150, 112MB RAM,
Matrox Millennium I 4MB PCI, Buslogic multimaster PCI scsi (all scsi, no
ide). This system is far from modern but I really remember it feeling a
lot faster when it was my primary workstation (running win95.)
I've installed
Ron Johnson wrote:
Is this an 6x86 P150 or an 800MHz Athlon? Or is the win2k
box the 800MHz Athlon?
Some musings:
- how much RAM on the win2k box?
- On my 1GHz Athlon, I see X spiking up to 60% CPU at times.
(Yes, I run X4.1, Gnome 1.2 and mozilla 1.0rc3.
- Do you run gnome 1.2 or
FreeportWeb Debian Support Account wrote:
When you open Kazaa and Kazaa Lite (which is the same thing), you
get a browser interface, this is where the popups are coming from --
right from the site. Not much you can do about that.
I use adshield for ie, and I have never once gotten a popup
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
Blocking his posts to the list while the listmaster tries to help
him could help -- if the listmaster has the time to do that, of course!
That would save a lot of bandwidth (the offending posts *and* the
discussion about them would at least not last too long), but
Markus wrote:
I have a very simple but irritating problem: I have
started (right after installation of Debian) startx
and now it automatically starts every time the system
is started. The resolution is though way too low
(340*240 or something) and this causes huge
difficulties in trying to
Hi.
I have installed Debian on an older system (Cyrix 6x86, Tyan Tomcat
430HX) whose BIOS is brain dead. It will not accept a year greater than
1999. Unfortunately, there is not a BIOS update past the one I have
(v2.22, 11/96) [ Rant: Actually, there is an update which fixes a ton
of stuff
Adar Dembo wrote:
I have some processes whose cpu usage I would like to monitor, and pipe
into a file. As far as I know, top can't monitor a single process and
send its cpu usage into a file, so I'm wondering what other programs
might do this. This is a testing installation, on a computer
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