Re: writing a script to simulate keyboard input

2007-07-19 Thread Eric Bambach
On Thursday 19 July 2007 10:48, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: > Hello, > > I have to use an archaic, menu-driven C program that requires keyboard > input to process commands (all of these commands are terminated by a > newline) > > I was wondering if there was any way I could use the program within a >

Re: way to "duplicate" console contents to a file?

2007-03-06 Thread Eric Bambach
On Sunday 04 March 2007 18:02, Linda Walsh wrote: > Is there a way to have my console messages duplicated and saved in a file? Have you looked into using the serial console and some sort of secondary server to capture its output? It could be easily logged and stored. Serial consoles are started

Re: sound card problem

2005-04-20 Thread Eric Bambach
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 11:04 pm, ymc014 wrote: > Hello, > > I really apologize for not informing in advance that this is the first > time I've used linux,I've been using windows through the years,from windows > 95 up to windows XP(my OS before I've decided to switch to Linux) so I do > not

Re: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread Eric Bambach
On Thursday 14 April 2005 12:14 pm, J. wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Eric Bambach wrote: > > Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration but It lacks the > > ability to give you a GUI interface. > > What ? Search for SSH GUI and google returns +770,000 matches.. !

Re: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread Eric Bambach
On Thursday 14 April 2005 02:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Eric Bambach wrote: > > Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration > > but It lacks the ability to give you a GUI interface. > > Getting a GUI interface for ssh is easy. Simply start > ssh fro

Re: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread Eric Bambach
Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration but It lacks the ability to give you a GUI interface. SSH Is quick and dirty remote administration and comes standard (or should ) on all Unix variants. (openssh.com) TightVNC is a rather "unrobust" remote X server but it gets the job done.

Re: Linux Backup

2005-04-06 Thread Eric Bambach
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 06:59 pm, smertz wrote: > I have spent a great deal of time on simple things in Linux as I am new > over the last week (No better way to learn) But I don't want to > re-learn in case the proverbial Hard Drive dies, so what is a good way > to back up my system? On my 2 Wi

Re: root password

2005-04-01 Thread Eric Bambach
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:36 am, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Any other suggestion of how to become root without knowing the root > password is a technique for breaking into systems, and I (and I hope > everyone else) will not give advice on that publicly, in this forum or > anywhere else. I respect

Re: root password

2005-04-01 Thread Eric Bambach
On Friday 01 April 2005 10:23 am, Tobias Hirning wrote: > Hi Ray! > > > [...] > > Any other suggestion of how to become root without knowing the root > > password is a technique for breaking into systems, and I (and I > > hope everyone else) will not give advice on that publicly, in this > > forum

Re: Linux Display silly question

2005-03-23 Thread Eric Bambach
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:39 am, Mukund JB. wrote: > Hi all, > > I am very new to the GUI thing. I don't know how it works. > I just have base Linux kernel running on an EBD9312 ARM Embedded Board > with Linux Prompt working & no display. > > Now, I want to provide GUI support to the existing L

Re: Some users locked out of ssh and sftp?

2005-03-01 Thread Eric Bambach
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 10:59 am, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 08:22 AM 3/1/2005 -0800, Eve Emshoff wrote: > >This isn't making sense to me. I have users logging in > >via SSH to a redhat linux box using their network > >username/password. I'm able to do it as are most > >others, either locally or re

Re: reconfiguring sound after kernel upgrade

2005-03-01 Thread Eric Bambach
On Monday 28 February 2005 11:21 pm, bj wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Bambach > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 11:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: reco

Re: reconfiguring sound after kernel upgrade

2005-02-28 Thread Eric Bambach
On Sunday 27 February 2005 11:17 pm, bj wrote: > Hi ! --snip-- > cd alsa-driver-1.0.8 > ./configure -->no error > ./make > the following error > > make[1]: *** No rule to make target > `/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/build/include/linux/config.h', needed by > `memalloc.o'. Stop. > make: *** [compile]

Re: Adding to the PATH but not if already in $PATH

2005-02-26 Thread Eric Bambach
On Saturday 26 February 2005 01:40 pm, you wrote: > "Eric Bambach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >On Saturday 26 February 2005 12:17 pm, you wrote: > >> I want to prepend a directory to my PATH in my $HOME/.bashrc and export > >> the result. But I only wa

Re: Adding to the PATH but not if already in $PATH

2005-02-26 Thread Eric Bambach
On Saturday 26 February 2005 12:17 pm, you wrote: > I want to prepend a directory to my PATH in my $HOME/.bashrc and export the > result. But I only want it to happen once: iow, if a directory I want > prepended is already in the PATH, do not prepend it again. > > Something like: > >if "/home/d

Re: ssh as proxy?

2005-02-16 Thread Eric Bambach
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 09:47 pm, you wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Eric Bambach wrote: > > Yep, you're 95% of the way there. > > Instead of the -L option try the -D option. This works to circumvent IRC > > restrictions for me in school ;) > > Im not too well

Re: ssh as proxy?

2005-02-15 Thread Eric Bambach
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 05:02 pm, James Miller wrote: > I've run across some material on the web recently that piqued my interest > owing to a situation we'll be faced with while on vacation. The situation > is as follows: we'll have access to a DSL connection for internet, but the > service bl

Re: Mouse grab and multiple desktops

2005-02-15 Thread Eric Bambach
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 09:00 am, you wrote: > Eric Bambach wrote: > >Hello, > > I am not a newbie but its sort of a newbie question so here goes. Note, > > these are PHYSICAL X desktops, not the kde virtual ones. > > > >I run multiple desktops (seperate kd

Mouse grab and multiple desktops

2005-02-14 Thread Eric Bambach
Hello, I am not a newbie but its sort of a newbie question so here goes. Note, these are PHYSICAL X desktops, not the kde virtual ones. I run multiple desktops (seperate kde 3.3 desktops, not xinerama). Is there either Some key combonation that will switch desktops? ex. Working in desktop 1, p

Re: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer

2005-01-11 Thread Eric Bambach
always check google, www.sourceforge.net and www.freshmeat.net :) Good luck to you though. I certainly wouldn't do it, nor would I advise it, but Im glad Linux gives you the freedom to! :) > Eric Bambach wrote: > >Hi, > > I would say no. The X server isnt all too bloated if you use a

Re: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer

2005-01-11 Thread Eric Bambach
Hi, I would say no. The X server isnt all too bloated if you use a lightweight window manager . Firefox, Openoffice, Xmms all use toolkits that need a backend X server to talk to. What gives you the impressions that X is that bloated? I would say just bite the bullet and search out a simple win

Re: Create files with specific sizes?

2004-12-15 Thread Eric Bambach
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 02:52 am, Khan wrote: > Hello, > > is there any way (some command) that will allow me to create blank files > with specific sizes, eg 1MB, 5MB, 10MB etc. > > TNX Just for the sake of chipping in...dd supports the K,M,GB suffixes so you don't have to remember odd numbe

Re: getting a console prog to run on tty2 at bootup

2004-12-10 Thread Eric Bambach
On Friday 10 December 2004 07:11 am, James Miller wrote: > Hello all. I'm running a new Debian variant called "Ubuntu"--sort of an > unstable/testing composite. I run a number of console apps and like to > keep a virtual console open for them (as opposed to using xterms). I've > found a nice sor

Re: Linux Help

2004-07-19 Thread Eric Bambach
On Monday 19 July 2004 12:59 pm, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Responses interspersed below. > > At 11:09 PM 7/19/2004 +0600, Kev wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm new to Linux, so i'm paling to install a gateway, with the following, > > > >1. Firewall > >2. DNS > >3. DHCP > >4. SMTP (relay only) > >5. Email Virus

Re: booting from USB drive (without BIOS support)

2004-07-17 Thread Eric Bambach
On Saturday 17 July 2004 08:57 pm, James Miller wrote: > > Let me know if you want a patch for 2.6, I can give it a shot. Just have > > a fire extinguisher handy ;) > > Yes, that would be interesting. At the moment, I'm considering older > kernels, since the root filesystem for this install has t

Re: booting from USB drive (without BIOS support)

2004-07-07 Thread Eric Bambach
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 09:37 am, you wrote: > Just for reference, here's the code for the patch: > > --- linux-2.4.14-pre8-ext3/fs/super.c.orig Fri Nov 16 00:59:18 2001 > +++ linux-2.4.14-pre8-ext3/fs/super.c Fri Nov 16 01:07:26 2001 > @@ -1009,11 +1009,13 @@ > * Allow th

Re: booting from USB drive (without BIOS support)

2004-07-06 Thread Eric Bambach
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 08:37 am, you wrote: > I've been recently investigating booting Linux from USB drives. From past > experience, this list is not the ideal place to pose USB related > questions, but I think at this stage my questions concern such fundamental > issues that I can pose some her