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')
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:
devfs_re
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 spr
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" ?
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
i
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 microphon
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
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:
img
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 serv
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" ?!
I
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 ru
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 PROTECTED]:
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
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:
sett
Oki DZ wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:09:07AM +0100, David selby wrote:
Its quite possible I have misunderstood how to do this, I have a lot od
"Doh !" moments.
I had an aha moment.
I set the gdm config to have two X server settings, one with 24 and the
other with 16bp
csj wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:35:05 +0100,
David selby wrote:
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.
I believe this has been fixed in Debian
Oki DZ wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:27:58PM +0100, David selby wrote:
I setup my modes in subsection "display" as "800x600" "1024x768" and
restarted X.
Do you happen to have the word "Virtual" on the Display subsection?
Oki
I have tryed
Marc Wilson wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:04:19AM +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
I think k3b is the best, it works fine on my laptop (1024x768), don't know
how small your screen is, but it can be resized to about 600x480,
And gee, it requires all of KDE, just to have a front-end
Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
David selby wrote:
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 occasional use.
I think
Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
David selby wrote:
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 occasional use.
I think
Erik Steffl wrote:
David selby wrote:
Erik Steffl wrote:
David selby wrote:
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.
I just tried it
Erik Steffl wrote:
David selby wrote:
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.
I just tried it and the window is about 800x570. I can make
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 oc
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 ctr
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 seem
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 start
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 usu
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 sup
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 eve
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 NV
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
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 ...
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 for
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
time
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 ava
day 02 August 2003 10:07, 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
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"
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/anacro
Many thanks everyone, now logged in
Dave
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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]:~$ n
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
/etc/anacro
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 s
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 s
You might wanna chance those lines to "nice -19 run-parts --report
/etc/cron.". 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 emails yo
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:
X-Cron-Env:
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
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" &>/dev/n
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, but
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 aga
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
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
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'
#
[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
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/
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
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).
http://dickey.hi
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 aga
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 whic
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
to
Paul Johnson wrote:
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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 a
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
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 defa
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 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]>
E
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 doe
Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 04:47:39PM +0100, David selby wrote:
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=
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 OK,Print,
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 resort
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:
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. I
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 &
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
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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David selby wrote:
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
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 s
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 ];
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 refuse
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
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
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 ...
/usr/loca
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 u
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 Debi
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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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 t
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 di
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 numerical digits.This is for error checking. I thought [sets] was
the way to go
if
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
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
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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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 no
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
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
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 b
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 k
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
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
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