Re: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-03-01 Thread Brian Jackson
On Saturday 01 March 2003 07:17 pm, James Miller wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Brian Jackson wrote: > > be about as close to stable as the rest of my system. (I've learned not > > to expect perfection unless I want to help make it that way) > > I guess I don't consid

Re: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-02-28 Thread Brian Jackson
I don't know if you can get ahold of a newer version of koffice, but I had the kind of stability problems with older versions. The newest version seems to be about as close to stable as the rest of my system. (I've learned not to expect perfection unless I want to help make it that way) --Brian

Re: distribution choice

2003-02-27 Thread Brian Jackson
al rule about RH: Never use a redhat .0 release) I hope this helped in the least bit. Good luck in your search. --Brian Jackson On Thursday 27 February 2003 12:59 pm, Haines Brown wrote: > I've always used Red Hat. My installation of 7.3 began to go sour last > fall after a cl

Re: File names with spaces

2003-02-17 Thread Brian Jackson
You can try to adapt this example from The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/moreadv.html#EX57 It deletes the file, but it shouldn't be too hard to adapt to your needs. --Brian On Monday 17 February 2003 01:11 pm, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying t

Re: new computer - mainboard question

2003-02-06 Thread Brian Jackson
I am having pretty good luck with Gigabyte boards(ga-7vrxp & ga-7vaxp i believe). All the onbaord hardware, even the NIC's just work (with 2.4.20 anyways). AGP 8x support still isnt there, but that is okay since I don't have any 8x cards. One thing to watch out for on the kt400 boards is that AG

Re: string manipulating?

2003-01-06 Thread Brian Jackson
Chuck Gelm writes: Thanks, Jim & Brian: [info|man cut] LemmeC if I understand the '-f' fields=LIST The LIST is a list of enumerated fields, i.e. field1, field2, field3,... [ala: 1,2,3,4,5,6] each separated by the delimiter. So, if "(" is a delimiter, then the following strings: v Inter

Re: string manipulating?

2003-01-05 Thread Brian Jackson
f1 -d\) -- and you get: 123.45.67.89 The first field[-f1] after the cut [-d\)] I hope this didn't confuse you more. It is kind of hard to put this in writing.(for me anyways) --Brian Jackson Chuck Gelm writes: Hi, Brian: Thanks. Your suggestion is the similar to Jim's wit

Re: string manipulating?

2003-01-05 Thread Brian Jackson
Oops. I meant: grep $your_options | cut -f2 -d\( | cut -f1 -d\) Brian Jackson writes: Maybe something like: grep $your_options | cut -f2 -d( | cut -f1 -d) That might work. Hard to say for sure, but it looks right. Should give you just the IP address. HTH --Brian Jackson Chuck

Re: string manipulating?

2003-01-05 Thread Brian Jackson
Maybe something like: grep $your_options | cut -f2 -d( | cut -f1 -d) That might work. Hard to say for sure, but it looks right. Should give you just the IP address. HTH --Brian Jackson Chuck Gelm writes: Howdy, Y'all: Using 'grep' I've parsed some stdou

Re: autologon of a certain user at startup

2002-12-27 Thread Brian Jackson
If you use kdm it has that functionality built in. You set it up under the control center in kde. --Brian Jackson Arno Seitzinger writes: Hi NG, on one of my Linux Machines running SuSe 8.1, I would like to automatically log on one certain user on boot-up so X and KDE starts without the

Re: bash script problem

2002-12-10 Thread Brian Jackson
Try this: fetchmail -su nofsk pop.vtown.com.au && pine || echo failed fetch see if that works for you. --Brian Jackson Daniel Peter Cavanagh writes: Hi, I'd like to write a script that will run a command, and if successful run another command otherwise echo a message. T

Re: && - Help

2002-09-30 Thread Brian Jackson
&& means to only execute the second/third/etc. command if the previous one completed succesfully. the echo is probably just toadd a blank line to make the output of this easier to read. Paul Kraus writes: > What does && represent? > > Here is the command that I saw it in. > watch -n 1 "/hy