Changing Users in a script

2011-08-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a system with several different users and would like to use cron to run this script as root: #!/bin/bash for user in `ls /home/`; do # echo Path: $user if [ ${user:0:1} != 0 ]; then path=/home/$user/Backup if [ -e $path ]; then

Re: Changing Users in a script

2011-08-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Aug 15, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a system with several different users and would like to use cron to run this script as root: #!/bin/bash for user in `ls /home/`; do #echo Path: $user if [ ${user:0:1} != 0 ]; then path

Re: Changing Users in a script

2011-08-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Aug 15, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: The problem is sudo can't be run without a tty, so I can run it myself, but it won't run from a script. Using 'su' would solve that problem. BTW... I assume that is because you have tty-tickets turned

Rsync -- Different Outputs on No Transfer

2011-08-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm using rsync on normal Debian (6.x), on two embedded systems that run what look like Debian variations (DNS-321 by D-Link and Stora by Netgear) and on OS X. On Debian, whenever I run rsync (rsync --delete -rlptv -e ssh /my/path/ myname@mybackup:Backup/, if there are no files to transfer,

Re: Rsync -- Different Outputs on No Transfer

2011-08-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Aug 14, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com writes: […] It's not a must fix but when I'm scanning output files, obviously it's a LOT easier to verify everything went smoothly if I get a quick and simple output than if I have to scan a long list

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 25, 2011, at 6:15 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-04-25, Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com wrote: --- SNIP --- A couple points here. I checked the source code for the Dynamic Tree Demo that is used as a JNLP demo. Now I will admit I haven't been using Java for a couple years and have

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 25, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:33:45 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-04-24, Camaleón wrote: (...) Once the user trusts the application, the local JVM will load and run the JAR file exactly as if it had originally resided on the local hard

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 25, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-04-25, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:33:45 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-04-24, Camaleón wrote: (...) Once the user trusts the application, the local JVM will load and run the JAR file exactly

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 25, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-04-25, Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com wrote: --- SNIP --- On Apr 25, 2011, at 6:15 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: --- SNIP --- Are you in a position to put a web server on the machine which offers the network share? That would allow you

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
Liam, I've read your posts on this thread, but I'm replying in kind of a reverse order -- or skipping the earlier ones if my comments on those make it in here. On Apr 24, 2011, at 4:33 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-04-24, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:08:47

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 23, 2011, at 6:44 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:42:56 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Apr 22, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:03:00 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: (...) I need a way, on Linux, to access files on a network share, which could

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 23, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 04/23/2011 12:04 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I don't have to use SMB, I could have the server use NFS as well, but I can't find anything about reading an NFS share unless it's mounted. As best I can tell, unless you use a program like

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 23, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:04:20 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Apr 23, 2011, at 6:44 AM, Camaleón wrote: Does Java handle the SMB protocol on its own? I know I can't list a directory that way with ls, even with the Samba client package installed

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 23, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 04/23/2011 12:59 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm also looking into creating a temporary mount point and deleting when it's done, but if there's a crash or something, that temporary mount point would remain, unless I put it in /tmp

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 23, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:03:00PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: I now know I can use smbclient to read files on an SMB share without having to mount it, but I need to do more than that. I want to be able to access either Java classes

Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
I now know I can use smbclient to read files on an SMB share without having to mount it, but I need to do more than that. I want to be able to access either Java classes or an executable on a shared volume on a server without having to mount the volume on the local system. (There are a couple

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 22, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:03:00 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: (...) I need a way, on Linux, to access files on a network share, which could be SMB or NFS (or something else) without mounting the volume. For example, if I'm on System A and I have

Re: Ubuntu Versions

2011-04-05 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 5, 2011, at 7:15 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/05/2011 05:37 PM, Mark wrote: [snip] upgrading. For all its flaws, one nice thing about Windows is that it has a 10-year (14-year for XP) support cycle, so while there may be service packs, etc., to the end user, the interface is

rsyncd.conf - Specifying /home/user for Daemon?

2011-04-01 Thread Hal Vaughan
Anything I search for to find this keeps giving me links to backing up your home directory, and I know how to do that. What I'm concerned with is setting the home directory in /etc/rsyncd.conf. In other words, if I type: rsync thisdir me@backupsys::Backup How can I specify in rsyncd.conf

Re: How do I clone Computer A from Computer B?

2011-03-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 3, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Jason Hsu wrote: Computer A is running minimal Debian with a firewall and servers, including SSH. I can use Computer B to ssh my way into Computer A. How do I use Computer B to clone Computer A? So far, I've only been able to clone Computer A by booting

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:26 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20110303230321.8e7ff15c.jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com, Jason Hsu wrote: I may get hate-mail for saying this, but I don't recommend Debian as your first distro. Assuming you have enough RAM (at least 512 MB, preferably 1 GB or more), I

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 3, 2011, at 11:06 PM, Ryan Collins wrote: Someone for the love of GOD, help me. I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless entries on ways to load a gnome desktop, but nothing I try works

Re: please help me write a udev rule

2011-03-02 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, I always run a command like this when I plug a USB disk: echo 1024 /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors however, the disk is not always `sdb'. Can I write a udev rule according to the UUID of the disk? Do you mean a specific USB

Re: xinetd UDP vs. TCP Output

2011-02-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
Short answer: It's not possible. Long answer: After the research it took me, I'm just too damned lazy to write it up. Just trust me, can't be done. Hal On Feb 24, 2011, at 3:49 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm using a small program that's started by xinetd. The incoming signal to it would

xinetd UDP vs. TCP Output

2011-02-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm using a small program that's started by xinetd. The incoming signal to it would be a broadcast signal, which means it has to be UDP. I wrote two versions of the test program, one in Perl and one as a bash script and both ran into the same problem. They worked fine when I first set them up

Can't Create SymLinks on CF Card

2011-02-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
I found this when using tar to unpack an OS image archive. I've been doing this for a while on another CF card and had no problem. But now, when I untar the archive, I keep getting cannot create symlink and operation not permitted. I bypassed tar and tried creating some of the symlinks by

Re: Can't Create SymLinks on CF Card

2011-02-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-02-22 21:14 +0100, Hal Vaughan wrote: I found this when using tar to unpack an OS image archive. I've been doing this for a while on another CF card and had no problem. But now, when I untar the archive, I keep getting cannot

Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a compact flash card I'm experimenting with that goes into an embedded system. In the future I'll be working with more CF cards and I know I won't always know the size of the card ahead of time. I'm working on a Perl program so I can put the CF card in and the program will partition

Re: Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:49:41AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: fdisk: Doesn't seem to have a batch/script mode and I'd have to calculate sizes in megabytes from cylinder info fdisk does allow you to specify the start cylinder, then something

Re: Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 19, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/19/2011 02:18 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:49:41AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: fdisk: Doesn't seem to have a batch/script mode and I'd have to calculate sizes

Re: Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
into with other projects. Hal On Feb 19, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:49:41 -0500 (EST), Hal Vaughan wrote: I have everything else worked out so it can be done in a batch mode or in a program, but I'm having trouble with partitioning. I've been working

Re: Cleaning DHCP and Host Info for New LAN

2011-02-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 17, 2011, at 6:40 AM, Bob wrote: On 02/17/2011 12:24 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:22 PM, Bob wrote: On 02/17/2011 06:38 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: 8 snip system image pushed onto a CF card rm -f /mnt/src/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules rm -f /mnt/src/etc

Cleaning DHCP and Host Info for New LAN

2011-02-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm working with some embedded systems where the OS will be Squeeze on a CF card. The idea is to have a basic setup that will be stored in a zip file and when it's time to create a new system, the files will be unzipped onto a new CF card, then the card will be put in a new system. Of course

Re: Cleaning DHCP and Host Info for New LAN

2011-02-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:22 PM, Bob wrote: On 02/17/2011 06:38 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm working with some embedded systems where the OS will be Squeeze on a CF card. The idea is to have a basic setup that will be stored in a zip file and when it's time to create a new system, the files

Trouble PXE Boot After Kernel Starts Loading

2011-02-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a Soekris Net5501 and I'm using tftp to boot pxelinux.0 and, ultimately, from there, I want to install Squeeze. First, I have to thank Debian, since the PXE boot explanation (sorry, lost the link from earlier) was a very good explanation on how to set up PXE. But since it was for Etch,

Re: Trouble PXE Boot After Kernel Starts Loading

2011-02-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 15, 2011, at 5:31 AM, Michael Tsang wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2011 16:17:27 Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a Soekris Net5501 and I'm using tftp to boot pxelinux.0 and, ultimately, from there, I want to install Squeeze. First, I have to thank Debian, since the PXE boot explanation

Re: Trouble PXE Boot After Kernel Starts Loading

2011-02-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
in 3 different places. What was happening was that when the baud rate changed, rather than getting garbage on the screen, I was getting nothing, so it didn't seem like a baud issue. Hal On Feb 15, 2011, at 3:17 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a Soekris Net5501 and I'm using tftp to boot

Re: Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?

2011-01-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jan 17, 2011, at 12:16 PM, T o n g wrote: On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:08:36 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: I'm running Debian Squeeze, and I have only gnome-core installed so that I would not have Evolution or Epiphany installed since I do not use them. Me too. Basically because

Re: Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?

2011-01-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jan 17, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:26:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: This is an example of why I've been moving away from FOSS. Someone makes a good point in a bug report and the programmer/developer/maintainer throws it back in his face, which

DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. I can do rsync -av but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an image of just the files from one drive to another? For example, an

Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a frustrating situation. I had a RAID go out on me and require rebuilding. It's mostly rebuilt and all my data is intact, but not all the settings and config info and program files have been copied over yet. And, while I have to rebuild that RAID, which is my back up -- well, you can

Re: Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jan 8, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 08 ian 11, 18:42:53, David Sastre wrote: On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:22:01 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: I can simply re-install Debian with no trouble, the only issue is that I don't have the up-to-date list of all the packages installed

Re: Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
for the help on this, but overall, thank you for Debian and all those willing to help on this list. Hal On Jan 8, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a frustrating situation. I had a RAID go out on me and require rebuilding. It's mostly rebuilt and all my data is intact, but not all

Re: [SOLVED!] Communicating with USB Modem

2010-10-18 Thread Hal Vaughan
, Phil Requirements wrote: On 2010-10-13 22:28:10 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: Comments and some info at the bottom, so it makes sense when you read it. (Hey, there's NO way I'm going to top post on this list!) Now I have a few notes on this, since there's been a few private conversations

Re: [SOLVED!] Communicating with USB Modem

2010-10-13 Thread Hal Vaughan
Comments and some info at the bottom, so it makes sense when you read it. (Hey, there's NO way I'm going to top post on this list!) On Oct 9, 2010, at 3:21 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a Debian Lenny system and I've plugged in a USB 56K modem. (I know that's as outdated as a Model T

Communicating with USB Modem

2010-10-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a Debian Lenny system and I've plugged in a USB 56K modem. (I know that's as outdated as a Model T, but I need it for business.) When I type cat /proc/bus/usb/devices I get this: T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=480 MxCh= 8 B: Alloc= 0/800 us ( 0%), #Int= 0,

Re: Communicating with USB Modem

2010-10-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Oct 9, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 03:21:36 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a Debian Lenny system and I've plugged in a USB 56K modem. (I know that's as outdated as a Model T, but I need it for business.) When I type cat /proc/bus/usb/devices I get

Re: Communicating with USB Modem

2010-10-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:39:49 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Oct 9, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: Don't go nuts with this. Just plug the modem, open a console, type dmesg | grep -i usb and put the result here (for very long logs, upload

Re: Communicating with USB Modem

2010-10-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Oct 9, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:29:40 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) Bufff... as per this doc¹ you could try sl-modem package from non-free repo (it seems that your device -SV92U2- uses the Scorpio

Re: Communicating with USB Modem

2010-10-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Oct 9, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:28:31 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Oct 9, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: ... I see that, the one thing that is discouraging me is that, while I know they are talking about the chip, the pictures are of PCI modems

Re: Communicating with USB Modem

2010-10-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Oct 9, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Phil Requirements wrote: On 2010-10-09 19:26:42 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Oct 9, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Camaleón wrote: [big snip] O.k. I also think geting an USB modem to work should just be plug and play and no needing to mess with drivers at all. But it could

Can't Install Packages in Batch Mode

2010-09-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a bash script with the following in it: DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install $install From what I've read, this should set the front end for debconf to non-interactive and should go on ahead with the install I've set up with a list of packages to install.

Re: Can't Install Packages in Batch Mode

2010-09-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sep 26, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a bash script with the following in it: DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install $install From what I've read, this should set the front end for debconf to non-interactive and should go on ahead with the install

Re: Updating files in /etc Remotely (and automated)

2010-09-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sep 12, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 05:15:50PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: I will be working with a server on the Internet that uses rsync and is running Debian. I will be setting up initial /etc/rsyncd.conf and /etc/rsyncd.secrets files on it. But along

Re: Updating files in /etc Remotely (and automated)

2010-09-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sep 12, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:01:26PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sep 12, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 05:15:50PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: I will be working with a server on the Internet that uses rsync

Re: Updating files in /etc Remotely (and automated)

2010-09-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sep 12, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Joe wrote: On 11/09/10 22:15, Hal Vaughan wrote: I will be working with a server on the Internet that uses rsync and is running Debian. I will be setting up initial /etc/rsyncd.conf and /etc/rsyncd.secrets files on it. But along the way, whenever a new user

Re: Updating files in /etc Remotely (and automated)

2010-09-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sep 12, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Rob Owens wrote: ... When using ssh keys to log in, you can specify (in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys) a command which will automatically run when that key is used to log in. And that key will be useless to do anything else. Simply using that key to conenct to the

Updating files in /etc Remotely (and automated)

2010-09-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
I will be working with a server on the Internet that uses rsync and is running Debian. I will be setting up initial /etc/rsyncd.conf and /etc/rsyncd.secrets files on it. But along the way, whenever a new user is added, they'll need to be updated. I can use ssh on this system, but, of course,

Re: SSH Rsync issues

2010-09-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sep 10, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Rob Owens wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:01:55PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: In short: I have ssh set up on two systems so I can ssh from one to the other. My id_rsa.pub in ~/.ssh on my system is copied into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote system. I

Re: SSH Rsync issues

2010-09-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sep 10, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:57:56AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sep 10, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Rob Owens wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:01:55PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: In short: I have ssh set up on two systems so I can ssh from one

Re: SSH Rsync issues

2010-09-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sep 10, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:18:42PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sep 10, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Rob Owens wrote: You should probably google rsyncd encryption and see what you can find. For the single-colon rsync, you don't need to specify --rsh

SSH Rsync issues

2010-09-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
In short: I have ssh set up on two systems so I can ssh from one to the other. My id_rsa.pub in ~/.ssh on my system is copied into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote system. I can ssh from local to remote with no issue and it's configured so authentication does not use passwords, but uses

Re: SSH Rsync issues

2010-09-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sep 9, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Kevin Ross wrote: On 09/09/2010 03:01 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I can rsync to the other machine. Using rsync localfile tnet-web::threshNet-Public works fine and the file is transferred. BUT when I try to use rsync over ssh, it will NOT work. According

Re: DHClient Exit Scripts

2010-08-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Aug 15, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I've been reading the man pages for dhclient, but I'm stuck with one key question I've missed. I have an exit script set up to notify me of the IP address of a particular system (on a LAN) whenever the IP address changes. For now I'm

Re: DHClient Exit Scripts

2010-08-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Aug 17, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 84960162-4435-43b2-a07b-3361f8bda...@halblog.com, Hal Vaughan wrote: 2) It will only run bash scripts. I tried putting a Perl script in that directory and it wouldn't work, so I had to put a bash script in that directory to run

DHClient Exit Scripts

2010-08-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
I've been reading the man pages for dhclient, but I'm stuck with one key question I've missed. I have an exit script set up to notify me of the IP address of a particular system (on a LAN) whenever the IP address changes. For now I'm testing, but in the future it'll be running where I have no

Re: DHClient Exit Scripts

2010-08-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Aug 15, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 1af890a5-5bf9-46c9-8c4b-b709170dd...@halblog.com, Hal Vaughan wrote: I've been reading the man pages for dhclient, but I'm stuck with one key question I've missed. I have an exit script set up to notify me of the IP address

Re: Embedded System Recommendations

2010-07-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jul 28, 2010, at 4:58 PM, Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com writes: I'm working with something that will go in people's offices. I was seriously considering using some Soekris boxes (http://soekris.com). The problem is the upper limit of RAM is 512 MB

Re: Embedded System Recommendations

2010-07-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jul 29, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:41:11 -0400 Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com wrote: I'm working with something that will go in people's offices. I was seriously considering using some Soekris boxes (http://soekris.com). The problem is the upper

Embedded System Recommendations

2010-07-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm working with something that will go in people's offices. I was seriously considering using some Soekris boxes (http://soekris.com). The problem is the upper limit of RAM is 512 MB. I'd like to get something a little faster than their systems and with more memory, but the memory would

Re: Esperanto

2010-04-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 28, 2010, at 1:22 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:35:48 -0700 (MST) Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: ... Isn't this list moderated? If so, why hasn't this imbecile been dumped? This list is not moderated. Too bad.

Re: BonziBuddy

2009-10-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Oct 20, 2009, at 12:57 AM, Bonzi Buddy wrote: hi my friend wants me to install bonzibuddy 4 him but i cannot find it where can i get ithow should i install plz help this is a emergency k thx bai How is the need to install Bonzi Buddy an emergency? It's not something that one really

Re: no fsck?

2009-07-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jul 21, 2009, at 12:39 AM, jeremy jozwik wrote: new to debian, trying to restore some files $ ./fsck.vfat -rv /~~~ bash: ./fsck.vfat: No such file or directory please help! You've got fsck, you don't have fsck to work on vfat file systems, which are under the MS-DOG category. Try, as

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-07-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jul 6, 2009, at 2:30 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: I like to offend midgets. Can we do that now? Just a few small jokes? I'd prefer if you do a Jew joke! I'll do my best not to get offended. Anybody else volunteer for humiliation? I'm a Trekkie. Unfortunately, I don't live in my Mother's

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-07-05 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jul 5, 2009, at 1:50 AM, Rustam wrote: On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 00:33 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: ... [snip] ... haha :) well, i know some might think this thread is offended, some might just delete. the truth is this is OT. but despite that, let me post my first reply to this: It doesn't

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-07-05 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:32 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: haha :D it doesn't work too. can we make linux more human ? Then it'd be called a Mac. Fanboy! Human is the Ubuntu colour/icon scheme! Fanboy! Ubuntu is Debian Sid Lite pretending to be some other OS and GUI. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-07-05 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jul 5, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: It's too bad that some people are so thin-skinned that a word like boobies upsets them. It's not like we're talking about raping someone, for instance. Now I'm really offended. The thread stops here. And now we know the thread will go on

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-07-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jul 4, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:44:51 +1200 Chris Bannister mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 08:47:09AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Comcast Master Account elizabethmusb...@comcast.net [2009 Jun 27 15:05 -0500]: hi i want

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-07-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jul 4, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 04 July 2009 20:33:14 Dotan Cohen wrote: $ sudo apt-get install woman Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package woman $ Oh, oh. Out of luck, I'd guess.

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-07-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jul 4, 2009, at 8:43 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com [2009 Jul 04 16:10 -0500]: On Saturday 04 July 2009 20:33:14 Dotan Cohen wrote: $ sudo apt-get install woman Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-06-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 27, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Scarletdown wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 1:34 PM, John Musbach johnmusba...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize, I had a virus on my computer and it was doing all kinds of weird stuff. Sorry! On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Comcast Master

Re: Goodbye debian

2009-06-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 25, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:30:33AM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: Hi, 2009/6/25 明覺 shi.min...@gmail.com: I do not have time to read your replies about another discussion anymore for they are useless, and I do not feel happy with all you debian

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 24, 2009, at 1:21 AM, Cowley Harris wrote: This guy asked a relatively simple question which I'm paraphrasing here as can you run Debian without perl or python, the answer is pretty much no. He gave his reasons for the question and his opinion on the answers he was given. He's also

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 24, 2009, at 1:53 AM, 明覺 wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Micha Feiginmi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:21:22 -0400 Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com wrote: ... I'm being blunt, but, honestly, I run a business on custom software I've written and I can do

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 24, 2009, at 2:07 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 01:43:35PM +0800, 明覺 wrote: What about XML, YAML, HTML, javascript, and such? No more browser? No more internet? :-) Of course I will use all of them, I even use windows vista everyday for playing games, that's

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 24, 2009, at 2:09 AM, 明覺 wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Micha Feiginmi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: ... The only one language for microsoft is c#, oh wait, its visual basic, sorry wait a minute it's forms for the gui, assembly in the drivers in if you start digging you

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 24, 2009, at 2:11 AM, 明覺 wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Micha Feiginmi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:18:16 +0800 明覺 shi.min...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:18 PM, John Haslerjhas...@debian.org wrote: 明覺 writes: yes, currently it's true,

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:05 AM, 明覺 wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Dale Harrisrod...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 02:45:45PM +0800, 明覺 wrote: thank you! I thought they are kind to give me advice, but I'm wrong, they just want to laught at me, it doesn't matter, I finally

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 24, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Cowley Harris wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote. But I haven't seen anyone insult him yet -- but then I haven't read many of the overnight posts yet. Anybody here watch The daily show. The first time I ever saw a show, they had a piece where they had Donald Rumsfeld

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 23, 2009, at 8:32 PM, 明覺 wrote: ... I open this thread as a programmer, you can ignore my questions about programming in the future, but you should not ignore my questions as a debian user. I don't know if your culture is aware of the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, but you

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 23, 2009, at 8:34 PM, 明覺 wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Frank Lin PIATfp...@klabs.be wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 17:40 +0800, 明覺 wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Tzafrir Cohentzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:17:18AM +0800, 明覺 wrote: I want to

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:13 PM, 明覺 wrote: ... I think the OP need to spend some time with Haskel, Erlang, Prolog, and Lisp. teaseOnly *then* can you truly learn to *hate* non C-based languages. ;)/tease Thank you, my plan is to first learn C/C++, then learn other languages, I learn other

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:51 PM, Dale Harris wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:28:10PM -0400, Napoleon wrote: You just don't get it, do you? There are different programming languages because there are NEEDS for different programming languages. There will NEVER be one programming language

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 23, 2009, at 10:02 PM, 明覺 wrote: 2009/6/23 Jeff Soules sou...@gmail.com: I open this thread as a programmer, you can ignore my questions about programming in the future, but you should not ignore my questions as a debian user. Right now you are showing that you're a person who

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 22, 2009, at 8:00 AM, 明覺 wrote: ... Looks like a strange idea to me to run a one programming language only system, it would hint that there's a one fits all language and other are just for decoration purpose... (Well, some may agree I guess ;-) ) yes, currently, I'm almost a one

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 22, 2009, at 9:18 PM, 明覺 wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:18 PM, John Haslerjhas...@debian.org wrote: 明覺 writes: yes, currently it's true, but I hope one day I will be able to take full control of my system, and modify them as i like, if I have those other language programmed

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jun 22, 2009, at 10:35 PM, 明覺 wrote: 2009/6/23 Napoleon rri0...@attglobal.net: 明覺 wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:18 PM, John Haslerjhas...@debian.org wrote: 明覺 writes: yes, currently it's true, but I hope one day I will be able to take full control of my system, and modify them as

Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On May 21, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: 2009/5/20 Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com: Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't tend to have to log on to very often. I checked the bad directory and get this: [...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l reportX total 0

Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On May 22, 2009, at 12:52 AM, Kent West wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On May 21, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: 2009/5/20 Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com: Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't tend to have to log on to very often. I checked the bad directory

Controlling Fonts and Font Sizes in GTK Applications

2009-05-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a Debian system hooked up to an HDTV. I'm using KDE as the DE and have had no problem adjusting the fonts used by KDE apps so they are big enough to see from across the room, but I'm stuck with itty- bitty fonts for Firefox and other GTK based apps. When I search with apt-cache, I

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