Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
David Selby wrote:
Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
Hi
I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for
that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading,
X wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe 'nvidia
Given a modules name, is there an easy way to locate it in make
menuconfig without searching through making educated guesses ?
I am trying to locate information on
af_packet ... which has sprung up in /etc/modules ... what does it do ?
ip_conntrack_ftp ... where is it in make menuconfig ?
If I
Graeme Tank wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 01:39:05PM +, David Selby wrote:
Given a modules name, is there an easy way to locate it in make
menuconfig without searching through making educated guesses ?
I am trying to locate information on
af_packet ... which has sprung up in /etc
Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
Hi
I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for that
occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading, X
wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe 'nvidia'
manually, and then it loads, but with an error:
I have installed a simple firewall, personal home PC, dial up link, no
ethernet. It consisted of ...
iptables -N block
iptables -A block -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A block -m state --state NEW -i ! ppp0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A block -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -J block
Good Morning
I have a quickcam pro 4000 USB webcam with a built in microphone which
I am trying to get working.
I have installed USB drivers, pwcx-2.4.20 pwc which give me video,
According to
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22/Documentation/philips.txt
I need to install USB audio support for the
Hi,
My dpkg database seems to be slightly corrupted with respect to the
imgsizer package
If I try to install it I get:
debian:/home/web#
debian:/home/web# apt-get install imgsizer
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
Florian Ernst wrote:
Hello David!
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:42:49AM +, David Selby wrote:
My dpkg database seems to be slightly corrupted with respect to the
imgsizer package
If I try to install it I get:
[...]
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 55249
package
David Selby wrote:
I am hopeing to use gnomemeeting to contact my realtive in Australia
(a computer illiterate!)
Before I email him telling him what to do I neet to find a suitable
ILS server.
Every ILS server I have tried is not family friendly, Does anyone
know of an ILS server
I am hopeing to use gnomemeeting to contact my realtive in Australia (a
computer illiterate!)
Before I email him telling him what to do I neet to find a suitable ILS
server.
Every ILS server I have tried is not family friendly, Does anyone know
of an ILS server that is Family friendly ?!
It
David Selby wrote:
I have a relative who has moved out to Australia am interested in
using a webcam 56K modem for a video link (I know the picture
quality will be rough)
Can anyone point me in the right direction for video link software ?
Many thanks
Dave
Thanks for the help, I like
OK this is a bit OT but I am stuck.
I am trying to get Yahoo messenger working on woody. Apparently the
package is for woody.
http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html
I installed it with dpkg -i, it did not show any dependency problems,
when I run it I get:
[EMAIL
David Selby wrote:
OK this is a bit OT but I am stuck.
I am trying to get Yahoo messenger working on woody. Apparently the
package is for woody.
http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html
I installed it with dpkg -i, it did not show any dependency problems,
when I run it I get
I have a relative who has moved out to Australia am interested in
using a webcam 56K modem for a video link (I know the picture quality
will be rough)
Can anyone point me in the right direction for video link software ?
Many thanks
Dave
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Pim Bliek wrote:
Hi,
I've set the following in my kernel-config (2.4.21):
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
I have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe rev 2.0 motherboard.
When I run hdparm -d1 /dev/hda I get the following error:
# hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Hello all,
I run my display at 800x600, Sometimes it would be usefull to run it at
1024x768, for example to run xcdroast.
I setup my modes in subsection display as 800x600 1024x768 and
restarted X.
It appears to take the highest resolution, ie 1024x768 and make a buffer
for it. If I
Hello all,
I have just installed a SAMSUNG DVD - CD RW drive, done the config
I tried xcdroast, I like it but it insists on a 1024x768 screen which is
a bit of a problem with my eyes / monitor.
Can anyone else recommend another app, mainly for data backup,
preferably GUI since it will be for
Hi all,
Got a problem. I have a wacom tablet which I managed to get going by
following the Linux wacom project howto, it appears to work OK, though
havent tried GIMP yet.
My problem is with X.
If I ctrl-alt-f1, I get a console, if I ctrl-alt-f7 X restarts I get
KDM loggin ? It is then
Additional info ...
I have upgraded my kernel to 2.4.21, I have updated my Nvidia driver to
1.0.4496
With a new kernel, I loaded wacom etc, same problem.
Interestingly when I have ctrl-alt-f1, I can flip between 1-6 no probs
back again. It is only when I select 7 for X that the problems
Just to announce to the world, I solved the X instability.
I had my PS2 mouse + wacom tablet combining data and sending it to X via
/dev/input/mice
By chance I changed my XF86Config-4 file to split the data streams,
Instability goes, rock solid debian again.
I was unsure who to e-mail since it
Mark Barnes wrote:
I'm trying to install stable on a system with an Asus A7V600
motherboard, which supports serial ATA with a VIA VT8237 chipset.
I've googled around for installation information on serial ATA support
generally, and not found much that's on point. I'm not sure if serial
ATA is
wsykes.lists wrote:
All,
I have a crappy old Compaq Presario 1210, and KDE runs like a dog on it.
I really only need a couple of xterminals, and mouse functionality.
What version of Xwindows is light and fast on older boxes. I dont care how
ugly it is.
Will I need to run xdm, or kdm?
Do i
Anthony Campbell wrote:
My Riva TNT2 AGP card has just packed up and I'm looking for a
replacement that will work reliably on Linux with a 19 monitor. I don't
play games so I need something fairly basic but with good 2D
performance and AGP. Any recommendations please?
AC
I recently bought a
I have hit a problem with bash ... as a sample program I have ...
#!/bin/sh
test=123456789
temp=${test:1:2}
echo $temp
If I execute the above in woody bash I get
23
OK so far. I have cgywin on 98SE, running bash 2.05b.0-9. When I run the
above I get ...
:syntax error:bad substitution
for the
David selby wrote:
Hello mate,
Ive been quiet for a couple of days, trying things looking for the
results next morning, found out a few things .. think I have cracked it.
/etc/cron.d/anacron /etc/anacrontab are not duplicate I found
this by accident.
/etc/cron.d/anacron
Hello,
A while ago someone suggested using the stat command to get modification
times for files etc, ls -al will give the info but I would have to do a
lot of string stripping etc ...
I have looked up man stat, confusing ... googled for it, confusing !
It is not a regular command, ie stat on
, David selby wrote:
Hello,
A while ago someone suggested using the stat command to get modification
times for files etc, ls -al will give the info but I would have to do a
lot of string stripping etc ...
I have looked up man stat, confusing ... googled for it, confusing !
It is not a regular
Elie De Brauwer wrote:
a) do you have the coreutils package installed (which provides the stat binary
on my machine
b) that is not true, there are manpages for a whole lot of file, for example
if you have the mesa development files installed you have the manpages for
all Opengl functions
DOH !!
all I need is a -nt, -ot ! why didn't I think of that I guess this
is the learning curve.
Many thanks
dave
Colin Watson wrote:
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:07:26AM +0100, David selby wrote:
A while ago someone suggested using the stat command to get modification
times
David selby wrote:
Elie De Brauwer wrote:
a) do you have the coreutils package installed (which provides the
stat binary on my machine
b) that is not true, there are manpages for a whole lot of file, for
example if you have the mesa development files installed you have the
manpages
PS still cant find coreutils or stat, though its not a problem now.
debian:/home/web# dpkg -i stat
dpkg: error processing stat (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
stat
debian:/home/web#
Err can I crawl into a hole, please ...
Hello mate,
Ive been quiet for a couple of days, trying things looking for the
results next morning, found out a few things .. think I have cracked it.
/etc/cron.d/anacron /etc/anacrontab are not duplicate I found
this by accident.
/etc/cron.d/anacron is the system crontab
Hello
I have logged onto ftps before, but never an anonymous one. I need to
log into ftp://archive.progeny.com/
I can view the files with mozilla, no passwords needed. I will be using
wget, but initially I want to loggon with ncftp, which I have used before.
I have tried
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
Many thanks everyone, now logged in
Dave
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Stephen Touset wrote:
Did you try restarting anacron when you made the /etc/anacrontab
changes? The reason it's working now is probably because you added
that line into /etc/cron.d/anacron, and it restarted the next time it
came across that.
Try taking out /etc/cron.d/anacron and see if it
Stephen Touset wrote:
Did you try restarting anacron when you made the /etc/anacrontab
changes? The reason it's working now is probably because you added
that line into /etc/cron.d/anacron, and it restarted the next time it
came across that.
Try taking out /etc/cron.d/anacron and see if it
You might wanna chance those lines to nice -19 run-parts --report
/etc/cron.interval. I don't know if that's the problem, but it
might be ;)
Also, check in your cron directories to see if there's a crontab entry
that restarts crontab. That's what's likely to be causing the problem.
Crontab
Hello,
I have started to get the following message e-mailed to me at night.
Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] test -x /etc/init.d/anacron
/etc/init.d/anacron start
+2/dev/null
X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh
Hello,
Writting a small script to make mozilla show the results of HTML code
written in vi, when vi saves, the script automaticly changes mozilla to
show that HTML.
I need to know if mozilla is running, if not I need to call it first ...
seemed simple
if ! ps ax | grep mozilla-bin
David selby wrote:
Hello,
Writting a small script to make mozilla show the results of HTML code
written in vi, when vi saves, the script automaticly changes mozilla
to show that HTML.
I need to know if mozilla is running, if not I need to call it first
... seemed simple
if ! ps ax | grep
James Ng Yuen Sum wrote:
Hi,
I am a chinese user. If i want to use xcin(one input chinese characters
XIM server), I need to open a konsole and type the following command:
export LANG=zh_TW.Big5
env|grep LC
I have tried to add the above command in ~./bashrc and ~/.profile, but
when i start kde
David selby wrote:
James Ng Yuen Sum wrote:
Hi,
I am a chinese user. If i want to use xcin(one input chinese characters
XIM server), I need to open a konsole and type the following command:
export LANG=zh_TW.Big5
env|grep LC
I have tried to add the above command in ~./bashrc and ~/.profile
OK Ive looked into this, but I can't get it to work ...
my /etc/cron.daily executes at 7:35 AM +- a couple of mins.
I need it to execute at 1:30AM +-, no problem I thought .. I enterd
/etc/crontab
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
Dave Carrigan wrote:
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 07:36, David Z Maze wrote:
Depending on how complicated the script is, rewriting it as a shell
function might be appropriate. You could add to your .bashrc file
something like
cdls() { cd $1; ls; }
and then cdls foo would change directories to foo
Shawn Lamson wrote:
On Thu, July 24 at 8:13 AM EDT
David selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file.
# This file also has a username field
I am trying to get my bash scripts to highlight some of their output in
colour, a bit like ls --color
It seems that I have to use ANSI esc sequences ...
man xterm ..
SEE ALSO
resize(1), X(7), pty(4), tty(4)
Xterm Control Sequences (this is the file ctlseqs.ms).
I have a script to show a certain directory, it would be great if that
script could change my pwd to that directory.
Inside my script is a cd /usr/lo., however since the script
automaticly runs in a subshell, when it ends my directory has not changes.
I have tries
export PWD=/usr/lo
no
Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:44:57AM +0100, David selby wrote:
I cant find the control sequences document ctlseqs.ms, though I have
searched the system as root for it.
.ms is the source form (it's a troff macro set). Try
/usr/share/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.ps.gz or
/usr/share
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, David selby wrote:
I am trying to get my bash scripts to highlight some of their output in
colour, a bit like ls --color
It seems that I have to use ANSI esc sequences ...
man xterm ..
SEE ALSO
resize(1), X(7), pty(4), tty(4)
Xterm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, David selby wrote:
I am trying to get my bash scripts to highlight some of their output in
colour, a bit like ls --color
It seems that I have to use ANSI esc sequences ...
man xterm ..
SEE ALSO
resize(1), X(7), pty(4), tty(4)
Xterm
Hello ...
My ppp link is dial on demand. At present I have /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot to
start it. This is OK but if online I have to su and poff to kill the
link once started, so I can use the phone, or wait 5 mins for it to
drop. My wife struggles with this. I cannot use fluxbox docapps, or KDE
Joerg Johannes wrote:
Hi everybody.
I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of my
laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how much
time I have left until I have to shutdown or running to the nect power
jack. I know there exists a kde applet
James Ng Yuen Sum wrote:
Hi,
I am a chinese user. If i want to use xcin(one input chinese characters
XIM server), I need to open a konsole and type the following command:
export LANG=zh_TW.Big5
env|grep LC
I have tried to add the above command in ~./bashrc and ~/.profile, but
when i start kde
Paul Johnson wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 09:11:13PM +0100, David selby wrote:
When I installed Debian, it offered me something like this, but at the
time I ignored it and enterd defaults ! I now can not remember what the
package was to do
Hello
I have been trying to get cron to execute programs at set times,
As a test I am trying to execute dillo (loads fast!) I setup cron as
user testbed to execute dillo every five mins,
I get the following ..
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 20 11:10:01 2003
Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Elie De Brauwer wrote:
On Sunday 20 July 2003 12:17, David selby wrote:
Hello
I have been trying to get cron to execute programs at set times,
As a test I am trying to execute dillo (loads fast!) I setup cron as
user testbed to execute dillo every five mins,
I get the following ..
From
Elie De Brauwer wrote:
On Sunday 20 July 2003 12:17, David selby wrote:
Hello
I have been trying to get cron to execute programs at set times,
As a test I am trying to execute dillo (loads fast!) I setup cron as
user testbed to execute dillo every five mins,
I get the following ..
From
Hello
I need a program to auto load my many pop3 mail accounts (can't get on
with IMAP) preferably in the middle of the night. And hopefully grab
them from a spool directory via Mozilla 1.3
When I installed Debian, it offered me something like this, but at the
time I ignored it and enterd
Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 13:30:10 +0200, David selby wrote:
PS works with mozilla
mozilla --display=:0
Mozilla is GDK/GTK-based. Those apps use the GNU-style long options with
two leading dashes.
* * * * * dillo --display=:0
works for me. (What about DISPLAY=:0 dillo
Can anyone tell me where $PATH is set ?
In /etc/profile, it is set to
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/local/java/java.current
/bin
However
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
So this does
Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 01:20:08 +0200, David selby wrote:
Hello, I am trying to get a bash script to work which will hibernate
till 1:00 am, it appears to work OK
Ahh, the bash :-)
let $_mintoone -gt 1440:_mintoone=$_mintoone-1440
let 'toone = toone 1440
Hello,
I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it.
for _scantox in $(ls $_tox); do
.
done
works just file with _scantox holding the file name, However some of the
file names are in the form of
342345\ remind\ for\ apt-get\ update
ie they have escaped spaces in the name.
Steve Lamb wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 11:05:41 +0100
David selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it.
for _scantox in $(ls $_tox); do
.
done
Why use ls? Use the shell's globbing. IE, poor man's ls:
bash-2.05b$ echo
Jeff Schaller wrote:
David selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it.
However some of the file names are in the form of
342345\ remind\ for\ apt-get\ update
ie they have escaped spaces in the name.
Without resorting
Hello again, more thorny bash escaped space problems ...
in $_tox is a file called this is a test
Below is the portion of code that is causing problems
for _scantox in $_tox/* ; do
_scantox=${_scantox// /\\ }
echo $_scantox
cat $_scantox | xmessage -fn 9x15 -center -buttons
Hello, I am trying to get a bash script to work which will hibernate
till 1:00 am, it appears to work OK
# ensure script executes next at 1:00am
let _mintoone=(1440-($(date '+%H')*60+$(date '+%M')))+60
if [ $_mintoone -gt 1440 ] ; then
let _mintoone=$_mintoone-1440
fi
sleep $_mintoone'm'
However
Vineet Kumar wrote:
* David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030709 12:08]:
Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls
-l sed ? I have a bash script that needs to get the info. Because the
file size varies I cannot use cut, it may cut the wrong bit.
stat -c %y
Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls
-l sed ? I have a bash script that needs to get the info. Because the
file size varies I cannot use cut, it may cut the wrong bit.
Dave
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I have a pipe of commands
echo $scanhtml | csplit -f index -q - /lock/ {*}
I want the output to go to $tempdir/websync/ ... Is there a more elegant
way than my present solution of ..
cd $tempdir/websync
echo $scanhtml | csplit -f index -q - /lock/ {*}
This seems a bit of a bodge and I am
Jonathan Matthews wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:03:27PM +0100, David selby wrote:
Hello,
I am writing bash a bash sed script, it has been going suprisingly
well. I need a loop to count 9 times the variable n to the count ..
[snip]
for N in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
do
echo $N
done
I'm
David selby wrote:
I am starting to use sed but am having a problem with one expression
in ...
cat /mnt/archive/fluxbox/keys | sed 's/:ExecCommand//g ;s/^Mod4 \(.\) Mod
4 \(.\)/WinKey \1\2/g'
works except I hoped s/\/[^ ]+\///g would match any /path/to/file/ and
delete it. It refuses to match
David selby wrote:
Hello,
I am writing bash a bash sed script, it has been going suprisingly
well. I need a loop to count 9 times the variable n to the count ..
for n=1 to 9
next
kind of thing, but this is not BASIC !!
My best guess is
declare -i n=1
while [ $n 9 ]; do
.
n=$((n
I am starting to use sed but am having a problem with one expression in ...
cat /mnt/archive/fluxbox/keys | sed 's/:ExecCommand//g ;s/^Mod4 \(.\) Mod
4 \(.\)/WinKey \1\2/g'
works except I hoped s/\/[^ ]+\///g would match any /path/to/file/ and
delete it. It refuses to match.
Idealy ...
Hello,
I am writing bash a bash sed script, it has been going suprisingly
well. I need a loop to count 9 times the variable n to the count ..
for n=1 to 9
next
kind of thing, but this is not BASIC !!
My best guess is
declare -i n=1
while [ $n 9 ]; do
.
n=$((n+=1))
done
All i get
David Z Maze wrote:
David selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can enable other users to log into my x server with xhost +, I need
to do this because I want ro run a program via user web crontab which
uses xmessage.
Uh, there's no better solution at all? With the default Debian
settings
David Z Maze wrote:
David selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I run fluxbox and KDE. where can I put setup files ie xhost setup,
Most google searches suggest .Xclients, .xinitrc or .xsessions,
ITYM .xsession (singular).
On debian, when booting via a graphical login manager (I use KDM
Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:57:07PM +0100, David selby wrote:
My bash masterpeice is almost complete ... I have one last problem that
no matter how many or '' I use I cannot get around.
I need to use an if...then construct to check that my 4 digit date field
is 4
I can enable other users to log into my x server with xhost +, I need to
do this because I want ro run a program via user web crontab which uses
xmessage.
Idealy I would like only root user to be able to access my x server ...
(less users who can access it, more secure ... rule of thumb) so I
I run fluxbox and KDE. where can I put setup files ie xhost setup,
Most google searches suggest .Xclients, .xinitrc or .xsessions,
On debian, when booting via a graphical login manager (I use KDM) these
do not appear to be read by the system.
Dave
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In bash how can I split a string eg ...
var1=0624todaysfile
I want var2 to equal the first 4 digits, ie 0624
My first instinct was cut but this is for files only, head tail are of
no use ...
Many thanks
Dave
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David selby wrote:
In bash how can I split a string eg ...
var1=0624todaysfile
I want var2 to equal the first 4 digits, ie 0624
My first instinct was cut but this is for files only, head tail are
of no use ...
Many thanks
Dave
Many thanks everyone, still a learner with respect to bash, your
Boukhaïri wrote:
what about tr ?
David selby wrote:
David selby wrote:
In bash how can I split a string eg ...
var1=0624todaysfile
I want var2 to equal the first 4 digits, ie 0624
My first instinct was cut but this is for files only, head tail are
of no use ...
Many thanks
Dave
Many thanks
Vineet Kumar wrote:
* David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030620 11:07]:
Many thanks everyone, xmessage -file xxx seems to work, It seems to take
the formatting from the file and not have a problem, strange it can't
take it directly from however will remember this workaround.
It works
i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
hi there. i've recently installed 3.0r1 on my spanking new p3-600
(hey, it's exciting for me) after running an old-assed verison of debian
since 1997 on my primary box. i've had a few annoying little problems,
most of which have been fixed. but that's
Can anyone suggest a man or document to explain fonts to me in
relatively clear terms ?
I am having problems tieing up my Ariel size 12 font on Abiword with
the same font on the command line.
At the moment I stick to -fn 9x15 which i borrowed from a script. It
works but I would really like to know
Vineet Kumar wrote:
I can recommend you start using meaningful subject lines!
This is at least the third question you've posted with a Subject of
can anyone recommend ? I didn't read your message, but I saw
the word font in it before I deleted it. Even that one word font
would have made a
David selby wrote:
Having quite a bit of success with bash, got first script to work,
auto archives a backup every day and delete the oldest backup files if
partition is 95% full ...
Want to try something more adventurous however am stuck on something
s simple, how do I generate a new
Having quite a bit of success with bash, got first script to work, auto
archives a backup every day and delete the oldest backup files if
partition is 95% full ...
Want to try something more adventurous however am stuck on something
s simple, how do I generate a new line in xmessage
I got
Can anyone suggest a man or document to explain fonts to me in
relatively clear terms ?
I am having problems tieing up my Ariel size 12 font on Abiword with
the same font on the command line.
At the moment I stick to -fn 9x15 which i borrowed from a script. It
works but I would really like to
TR wrote:
I am using wdm to login to X, but it shows only a few of the possible window managers. However, all of them are there:
Line from /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config:
DisplayManager*wdmWm:
David selby wrote:
I need to get the first two file names from a directory ...
My code
directory=$(ls -r --format=single-column)
works perfect and gives me ...
20030617Jun17.tar.gz 20030616Jun16.tar.gz 20030615Jun15.tar.gz
20030614Jun14.tar.gz 20030613Jun13.tar.gz 20030612Jun12.tar.gz
David selby wrote:
Hello,
I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk
partitions. I can get this via gfreedisk or kwikdisk but I need a CLI
command so I can process its standard output.
I have tried man -k free, man -k disk ... etc...but cant find one
I know
Hello,
I am using mozilla, when replying to this list, I have the options of
reply to sender only, or reply to all. To reply to the list I have to
reply to all. Then I have to remember to delete the to: personale
e-mail addred, some people realy don't like it if you don't!
Has anyone found a
Elizabeth Barham wrote:
David writes:
I am using mozilla, when replying to this list, I have the options of
reply to sender only, or reply to all. To reply to the list I have to
reply to all. Then I have to remember to delete the to: personale
e-mail addred, some people realy don't like it
I need to get the first two file names from a directory ...
My code
directory=$(ls -r --format=single-column)
works perfect and gives me ...
20030617Jun17.tar.gz 20030616Jun16.tar.gz 20030615Jun15.tar.gz
20030614Jun14.tar.gz 20030613Jun13.tar.gz 20030612Jun12.tar.gz
20030611Jun11.tar.gz
Hello,
I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk
partitions. I can get this via gfreedisk or kwikdisk but I need a CLI
command so I can process its standard output.
I have tried man -k free, man -k disk ... etc...but cant find one
I know there must be a linux command
Noah Meyerhans wrote:
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 11:26:27AM +0100, David selby wrote:
I have wmmon running, the CPU memory screens work AOK but the I/O
screen showes zip no matter how much disk I/O I do. I checked out there
web site at http://windowmaker.mezaway.org, it no longer exists. I
This is a fairly trivial problem, but if anyone knows the answer ..
I have wmmon running, the CPU memory screens work AOK but the I/O
screen showes zip no matter how much disk I/O I do. I checked out there
web site at http://windowmaker.mezaway.org, it no longer exists. I
scanned google but
Hello,
I have installed xscreensaver 4.1 on woody, Having installed loads of
-dev packages I still have multiple packages that are un-avalible. I
believe this is because of a lack of open.GL. When I ./compile I get the
warning ...
David selby wrote:
OK Ive hit something in konqueror.
When I used knoqueror I used to get a list of text options along the
top that I used all the time, eg view, show hidden files etc. Its gone
I have tried right click, confgure toolbars but can't get my text
menus back !
any Ideas
Dave
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