Re: __KERNEL__ and __MODULE__

2007-02-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
.6.17 kernel just to be > sure, and didn't found any instance of them. actually, there is a single example of "#ifdef KERNEL" in include/linux/coda.h but, what the heck, i'll submit a patch for that in the next 30 seconds. rday -- ===

Re: help with joining files

2005-04-16 Thread J.
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, James Miller wrote: > Thanks for your response, J. I'm faced with a fairly complex task here. I > suppose a more reasonable man would say, "heck with this. I'm gonna go buy > myself some CD's." But if I were a more reasonable man, I would

Re: help with joining files

2005-04-16 Thread J.
movement1.mp3' | \ sed 's/^\(.*\)-movement\([0-9]*\).mp3$/\1_FULL.mp3/g' result in: Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674_FULL.mp3 Note the nonlinebreak after the pipe is done because of the linewidth in e-mail.. > Thanks, James The GLUE at the GNU/Linux , Uni

Re: convert windows file names

2005-04-15 Thread J.
m##word}, ${foo:+bar}... Just look in the manual page.. To give an example, in combination with find : ~: find . -name '*.jpg' -print | while read file ; do echo "${file%/*}/thumb_${file##*/}" ; done The unix philosophy is, do one thing and do it good.. Search for `Unix philosopy&#

Re: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread J.
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 07:14 PM 4/14/2005 +0200, 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. > >

Re: .torrent

2005-04-14 Thread J.
sed to do with that? This is unfamiliar to me. Whatever you try, DO NOT EAT IT ! Or at least turn the power off before you set your teeth in the hdd.. > Thanks & regards > -- > Peter ;-) J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of

Re: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread J.
uld be great if we would know what distro <-> pc you use and if you know how to handle a X configuration. Because your already almost there... > > Cordially, > > S. Barret Dolph > > Taipei Taiwan J. -- Don't worry Ma'am. We're university students, - we

Re: root password

2005-04-01 Thread J.
be sure I will not criticize > you for doing so. If anyone can break into `A', `Your', `Someone's' OS, by following only a few steps with ease - The World should know. Since it is only then that Users are able to define quality. J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

RE: Syscall() vs _syscallN()

2005-03-30 Thread J.
{ return syscall(SYS_close, filedescriptor); } Bit more clear or .. ?? J. ~: man -k syscall afs_syscall (2) - unimplemented system calls syscalls (2) - list of all system calls > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On B

Re: Elvis and crontab

2005-03-29 Thread J.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, chuck gelm wrote: > Ray Olszewski wrote: > > At 01:41 PM 3/29/2005 +0800, Peter wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> In slackware, crontab is using elvis as the editor instead of vim and > >> I can't > >> make heads or tails out of it. > >> > >> Does anybody know how to change this

RE: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write script and cron it?

2005-03-29 Thread J.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 07:02 PM 3/29/2005 +0200, J. wrote: > >On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Mike Turcotte wrote: > > > > > That would be great if someone knew and could tell us how to set default > > > permissions on a specific directory. > >

RE: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write script and cron it?

2005-03-29 Thread J.
sername=user,password=passwd //host/c /mnt/c G00dLucK. J. > Information Systems > City of North Bay > 200 McIntyre St. E > PO Box 360 > North Bay, Ontario > P1B 8H8 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca > > > -Original Message-

RE: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write script and cron it?

2005-03-29 Thread J.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Mike Turcotte wrote: > That would be great if someone knew and could tell us how to set default > permissions on a specific directory. In the case if the directory is NOT a mount point: This is done either from the command-line with `chmod' or if you want this as a default, c

RE: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write script and cron it?

2005-03-29 Thread J.
users with access to accounting or hr, > respectively. > Accounting and HR are currently set up as > drwxrwx--T accounting > drwxrwx--T hr The program they use to access these files, does that program run under ?? which user/group ?? My best guess is, Fix that, and you fixed your

Re: Elvis and crontab

2005-03-29 Thread J.
e demands someone has of something, same goes for user friendlyness. According to my def. of user-friendly VIM is very userfriendly. You only need to know three to four keystroke commands to make it all work. Surely those four commands can't be much of a problem ? J. - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Syscall() vs _syscallN()

2005-03-29 Thread J.
page for syscalss ~: man syscalls 164 system calls.. depending on your kernel version.. etc.. Roughly speaking, the code belonging to the system call with number __NR_xxx defined in /usr/include/asm/unistd.h can be found in the kernel source in the routine sys_xxx(). .. etc... ..

Re: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write script and cron it?

2005-03-28 Thread J.
ment problem ? GNU/Linux , Unix are multitasking, multiuser operatingsystems and they should be treated like that.. Otherwise you will loose all the advantages of that at a certain given point.. GoodLuck.. J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

Re: Setting quota on user's home folders?

2005-03-16 Thread J.
minology is used in a M$ Wintendo enviroment but in the *X world they are refered to as directorys or special files. cheers J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.ker

Re: route to deferent gateways depend on the protocol

2004-12-20 Thread J.
ul lot of flexibility, so I would not rule > out some tricky solution, especially in a context where the gateways are > NATing routers. But I have nothing specific to suggest. > > >thanks > >Kev J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

Re: The du and ls -l

2004-12-19 Thread J.
is as well contributes to the overhead needed when making a filesystem on a disk. > Hoping for a help np m8 > TIA > -- > With regards, > > Jagadeesh Bhaskar P J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [

Re: 2 questions: 1. ssh permissions to 777 and 2. recursively change all directories/files to 777

2004-12-10 Thread J.
these programs, files are for.. That would eliminate the need of your script.. And is one cronjob less.. One process less, memory less, cpu cycles less.. etc.. J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

Re: 2 questions: 1. ssh permissions to 777 and 2. recursively change all directories/files to 777

2004-12-10 Thread J.
man bash etc, etc.. Sorry for my suggestion: But... Buy a good basic linux sysadmin book. Solid user-right management is the fundamental of a stable secure linux system and allows you to exercise control over almost every aspect of user privacy. hehehe.. Greetz.. J. > Otherwise, this >

Re: right form for sources.list entries

2004-12-07 Thread J.
the distribution or apt sources (licensing issues), by uncommenting the two lines with repository "universe" on /etc/apt/sources.list (basically gives you access to software unsupported by the Ubuntu team and which may not be under a free license) and add deb http://archive.ubuntu.c

Re: accessing email via POP3

2004-12-01 Thread J.
ilrc, and then try it again. That way you can be sure you typed the right password and it's not messed up.. g00dlUcK.. J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

Re: accessing email via POP3

2004-12-01 Thread J.
isp1.nl proto POP3 username president password UsCliNton mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d clinton" set logfile "/var/log/fetch.log" Of course every command listed in your .fetchmailrc can be given on the command-line as options to fetchmail. J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: accessing email via POP3

2004-12-01 Thread J.
p-users poll pop.myisp1.nl proto POP3 username president password UsCliNton mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d clinton" set logfile "/var/log/fetch.log" Of course every command can given on the command-line as options to fetchmailrc J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: uname -a

2004-12-01 Thread J.
is it possible that machine & > > > processor is 686 and hardware platform is 386 > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > ankit jain > > > --- "J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you compile the kernel yourself ? If so yo

Re: uname -a

2004-11-29 Thread J.
s > > ankit jain Did you compile the kernel yourself ? If so you should reconfigure and recompile. If not then prob. you have installed a default kernel, which is, yes precompiled for the 386. Anyway if you are a `starting' user it shouldn't be much of a problem or affect t

Re: Locate Vs Find

2004-11-28 Thread J.
searched.. There are no. examples of c code directory handeling available in the snippits section at rdrs.net or more `find' examples in http://www.rdrs.net/docs/src/reminder.txt Greetzz.. J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body

Gnome menu path

2003-06-08 Thread J S
ough about Gnome to get started with it quite yet. Josh -- J S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html P

Linux as a router and/or bridge

2003-05-30 Thread J S
Linux people, I'm trying to understand how to set up a Linux system as a router. For example, assume I have an interface with IP address 192.168.0.1(eth0) and another with IP address 192.168.1.1(eth1). What do I need to do to allow traffic received on one interface to be automatically forwarded

Need some help understanding Gnome

2003-05-27 Thread J S
Newbies and Non-newbies, I need some help with Gnome under RH 9.0. I'm trying to figure out what exactly is being executed when I right-click on the desktop background, select disks->CD-ROM. I'm also trying to figure out what directory/directories gnome looks in for determining it's menu structu

Mandrake 9.1 kernel

2003-03-26 Thread J S
I noticed at the Mandrake website that Mandrake 9.1 claims to ship with kernel 2.4.21. The odd thing is that 2.4.21 hasn't been released as a stable release yet. Does anyone know what they are actually using? Is it Mandrake's policy to ship the latest prepatches instead of stable versions? Josh

Switching from Metacity to Sawfish in RH 8.0

2003-03-25 Thread J S
Does anyone have a good explanation of how Gnome knows what window manager to start when Gnome is loaded. Right now I'm running Gnome under RH 8.0 which uses the Metacity window manager be default, but I want to play around with Sawfish, and possibly other managers. Anyone know how to change this

Re: [SOLVED] Re: File names with spaces

2003-02-23 Thread J.
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:59:37AM +0100, J. hunted and pecked out: > [snip] > > > > BTW, > > > > please remember that `blank' is a GNU extension, regarding portability > > issues.. etc.. > > > &

Re: file transfer via telnet

2003-02-22 Thread J.
Little mistake.. I guess. This could disrupt potentialy the encode file. references: man ascii B.T.W. tr -d '\015' works also als a DOS to UNIX newline converter. I have it as a handy alias in my .bashrc. alias nodos="tr -d '\015'" nodos < my_msdos_newline.t

Re: [SOLVED] Re: File names with spaces

2003-02-21 Thread J.
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote: > J., > > Thanks for your suggestions. While googling comp.unix.shell today, I found yet >another method. I was not aware that "*" when used by itself matches every filename >in a directory. Apparently, part of the p

Re: file transfer via telnet

2003-02-21 Thread J.
ccess, but no ftp (or anything > else I could use to upload files). Do any of you guys know the > telnet method? > > Cheers, > Steven Telnet is one of the oldest base proto's arround. So where you want to look is: http://www.rfc-editor.org Start at RFC856 J. - To unsu

Re: [SOLVED] Re: File names with spaces

2003-02-20 Thread J.
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote: > J., > > Thanks for your suggestions. No problemo, btw: 4 out of 5 pages on teamfinders.org are generating http 404 not found messages. I think you should have a critical look at all the http links in the main page. J. - To unsubsc

Re: File names with spaces

2003-02-20 Thread J.
le ; do echo "$file" ; done or find . -type f | while read file ; do echo "$file" done or more exotic, array version. IFS=$'\n' eval 'lines=( $(cat < $file) )' # now you have a array of lines which can be proccessed further.. These all where t

Auto logoff feature enabled? (Debian Woody)

2003-01-27 Thread [ Jason J ]
Hi Everyone, I've just installed Debain Woody; base-install an a dell inspiron 8100. The install went fine but I have one question. When I step away from the machine to take a break, I return to find that I've been logged-out automatically. I'm running KDE as my Window Manager, using the Gn

Java and Apache

2002-07-03 Thread Sridhar J (june end)
Hi I am installing Linux for the first time and hence the storm of questions. Sorry abt that 1. I want to use Java with Apache on Mandrake Linux 8.2. How do I go abt it? 2. Where are PHP and MySQL installed by default? Regards Sridhar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Apache in Linux

2002-07-03 Thread Sridhar J (june end)
Hi 1. I have installed Mandrake Linux 8.2 with all server tools. But I couldn't find where Apache was put in. I know that we have to untar and then install apache, but the gzip file could not be found. Can someone help me? 2. Is there any equivalent in Linux for the "File find" utility in window

Reg:gcc

2002-06-26 Thread Sridhar J (june end)
Hello Thanks to all of you who replied promptly to my question. I would like to clarify one thing. When I compiled the program using gcc, I tried typing a.out. When that didn't work, I did a ls -l which showed me a file called a.out*. Doesn't it mean that a.out is in the current directory? So wh

gcc

2002-06-26 Thread Sridhar J (june end)
Hello When I compile a C program using gcc, I get an a.out file. But when I type a.out, the error is "No such command" How do I execute the file? Regards Sridhar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordom

RE: Desktop Manager

2002-06-05 Thread Sridhar J
Hi Jackson Thanks very much for the prompt reply. I really appreciate it. Regards Sridhar -Original Message- From: Joseph Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 2:34 PM To: Sridhar J Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Desktop Manager Sridh

Desktop Manager

2002-06-05 Thread Sridhar J
Hello I am going to install Mandrake 8.2 with the new 2.4.18 kernel. But I heard that the default Desktop manager is not very good. What Desktop Manager do you suggest for Mandrake. Will all other DMs work on all Linux distros? Regards Sridhar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

RE: Hardware and soft modem

2002-05-30 Thread Sridhar J
ments. Regards Sridhar -Original Message- From: Haines Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sridhar J; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hardware and soft modem satish, You send a mail attachment to the list related to the topic,

Related to thread: which UNIX to use, but offtopic

2002-05-29 Thread Sridhar J
Hi Something offtopic, but one question, what is a hardware modem and what is a software modem? Regards Sridhar -Original Message- From: Raider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:29 AM To: David Benfell Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: which UNIX to use (was: Re

Sorry Ray

2002-05-21 Thread Sridhar J
Opps, I am very sorry. My mail client, as usual, is Outlook. when I click reply, it gets addressed to the person sending it. I realised this only when I saw Mark Johnson's mail. Why does this happen only with this list? On other lists, "reply" usually gets addressed to the list. Anyway, I am so

Linux router

2002-05-20 Thread Sridhar J
Hello I have an old Cyrix system that I would like to turn into a router-firewall and put it before my Webserver. I would alos like to have my IDS running on this. No other service should run on this. No apps, nothing. How do I go about it? What distro should I choose? What files do I have to ed

Re: archives

2002-05-19 Thread J D Reimer - WA5RRH
Should start showing up again at www.mail-archive.com within the next few hours. Don't know what happened to theaimsgroup - I'll try again. -jdr- On Friday 17 May 2002 12:42 pm, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 05:35 PM 5/17/02 +0530, G Anna wrote: > >Dear All, > > > >Where is the archive for this mai