Hello,
Selecting multiple lines while viewing text through 'less' selects a
newline character for the folded lines. Can I disable this? I.e is there
any way I can emulate the -cn switch of xterm while selecting text within
'less'?
Thanks!
-K
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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
script so that I could have the script "feed" in the sequence of
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, at 5:52pm, Robin Doer wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Karthik Vishwanath schrieb:
#!/bin/bash
# set_idv3_tags.sh
IFS=\n # Not tested!!!
Tried all variants:
IFS=\n
IFS="\n"
IFS='\n'
IFS='
'
They don't work.
for directory in "
Hello,
I am trying to write a script to organize/sort my music collection. All of
my music is arranged as Artist/Album folders with tracks within them, and
most of these names have spaces (if not other strange characters). The
script I am trying to get working needs to get all filenames in a
Hello,
I added a networked printer using the gnome-cups-manager but I need to
customize the print command (specifically by adding a -U switch to lpr)
sent to that device each time I print to it, via the application that is
used to print.
I was wondering if there was a way to tweak the config
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, at 09:52, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> [cut]
> Wel, device 03:01 is /dev/hda1, and this time (I mean in contrast to
> James' recent posting) the reports do sound like an emerging hardware
> failure, especially if you are getting this many of them. So you *may*
> need a new hard
Hello,
Observed today, that my machine had utilized ~ 7G of hard drive space
(since the last time I saw it, ~ week ago)! The real killers were:
# du -hcs /var/log/* | grep -E '^[0-9]*.[0-9]*G'
2.6G/var/log/kern.log.0
2.6G/var/log/messages.0
2.6G/var/log/syslog.0
On inspection each
localhost, pretty cool) --
thanks, Ray!
-K
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, at 09:37, Ray Olszewski wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Richard Adams wrote:
> > On Friday 12 August 2005 07:27, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I run icewm as a window manage
Hello,
I run icewm as a window manager and have the network status displayed on
the task-bar. Sometimes I notice quite some activity on the network,
without really knowing which process is responsible for that. I would like
to determine the progam-name(s)/daemon(s) and the PID(s) that are invol
Hello,
I am able to use the meta-key bindings in bash (for command line editing
etc.) from an xterm while physically being at a machine (m1.umich.edu),
but these meta-key translations do not seem to work if I ssh into
m1.umich.edu from m2.umich.edu. However, the CTRL key bindings seem to
work fine
Hello,
I just realized that there exists an executable called /bin/dir, which gets
executed in preference to an alias'd 'dir' in my .bashrc. How can I ascertain
that the aliased entries get preference over executables in my $PATH? (I
thought it was logical for the shell to use the alias'd entri
try azureus -- http://azureus.sourceforge.net/howto_linux.php
-K
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Peter H. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I wanted to download some programs I ended up with a .torrent file, like
>
> dlg-2.10.0.iso.torrent.
>
> What am I supposed to do with that? This is unfamiliar to me.
>
> T
Hello,
We got a new machine at work with an intel [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Dell [model:
Optiplex GX280] with an Intel broadcom(r) NIC. I installed fedora core 2
by replacing the windows partition, which installed painlessly.
However, I am unable to "see" eth0 via a /sbin/ifconfig eth0 (I get a
m
Thanks for all responses -- Ray, I had removed a couple of
comments from the pasted .fetchmailrc in the email composer.
Hence the discrepancy about line number errors. :-?
Following Amin's advice I tried to run fetchmail from the
cmd-line and I could'nt authenticate myself (I am 100% sure
about ke
Hello,
I receive mail on this account that can be accessed via
POP3. I used to use fetchmail as my mail-fetcher on an old
machine to do this. I am trying to do the same from another
machine that runs Redhat 9 (Linux 2.4.20-8) and seems like I
cannot decipher how exactly to do this (perusing the
fe
Hello,
Experimenting with xmms-plugins on a debian (sid) machine running 2.4.18
on an athlon 2100 chip caused the machine to hang within X while xmms was
running. I had to resort to rebooting the machine after logging in
remotely. After the machine rebooted, I am unable to hear audio. I am able
to
Hello,
I develop a monte-carlo code written in standard C. I recently decided to
"add features" to the previous stable version and now the code aborts with
a Segmentation fault. I suspect the code is executing different parts of
the code before crashing, on different runs (and therefore crashing a
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, at 5:13pm, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 05:08 PM 9/22/2004 -0400, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> >I am unable to play ogg-vorbis encoded files under xmms. mp3s are fine,
> >however. What must I install to be able to listen to the ogg files?
> >
> >System
I am unable to play ogg-vorbis encoded files under xmms. mp3s are fine,
however. What must I install to be able to listen to the ogg files?
System details: Athlon xp1500+ cpu, debian woody linux,
kernel-2.4.18-1-k7.
Thanks,
-K
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, at 1:30am, simon wrote:
> hello
>
> Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> > -
> >
> > Now, I tried to apt-get install all the ncurses packages that matched
> > `apt-cache search ncurses | grep ncurses` and found that ncurses-ba
Hello,
I re-installed debian-woody on my machine (AMD K7 xp1500+) using the
network install from a minimal CD (http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/). The
full installation (using tasksel to get everything I thought needed),
apparently, went fine - no glitches.
I then updated the kernel by `apt-get i
these are in /var/log/messages.
sorry for the omission.
-K
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, at 10:15pm, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> I have a whole load of entries that look like:
>
> Aug 3 14:48:38 gandalf -- MARK --
> Aug 3 15:08:38 gandalf -- MARK --
> ...
>
>
> The
I have a whole load of entries that look like:
Aug 3 14:48:38 gandalf -- MARK --
Aug 3 15:08:38 gandalf -- MARK --
...
These are repeated every 20 minutes. How can I determine where are they
coming from and what they mean?
Thanks,
-K
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Hello,
Is there a way I can see all the perl modules installed and the related
documentation for these modules?
My problem is that I don't know what Module::Name to give perldoc.
All help is appreciated and apologies if this is off-topic on this list.
Thanks,
-K
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Hello,
I was considering adding an entry in crontab for automated synchronization
of files across two machines that I work on most frequently. One machine
is at work, while the other at home. I used ssh-keygen so that I am
able to be auto-authenicated to the machine at work from home. I want to
Hello,
There is a project underway in my lab which involves multiple users
accessing and working on my linux box. I wanted to have a common directory
where the files related to the project lived, which could be accessed by
all related users. I was thinking I could achieve this via creating a
group
changing the /etc/fstab entries to the ones you listed below, Amin, mounts
the devices at boot but does not allow a user to read them.
The problem persists.
-K
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, at 9:26am, Amin wrote:
> Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
>
> > /dev/hdb1 /dosd vfatdefaults
&
The layout of partitions on my system here looks like the following:
/dev/hda1 -> vfat
/dev/hdb1 -> vfat
/dev/hdb2 -> ext2
/dev/hdb3 -> ext2
/dev/hdb4 -> swap
/dev/hdb2 corresponds to /, and /dev/hdb3 to /home. I want to be able to
mount /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1 as /dosc and /dosd, respectively a
wski wrote:
> At 05:20 PM 4/25/2004 -0400, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> [...]
> > > 8. Throughout my response, I've interpreted "unable to hear audio" as
> > > meaning that the system fails silently ... that is, the "cat" process runs
> > >
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, at 8:36am, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> 1. Check (and tell us, if need be) what "lspci" reports about the sound
> hardware. It's hard to troubleshoot sound with no hardware information.
Heres the "relevant" info. from lspci -
:00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Lab
Hello,
I seem unable to get any audio out of my debian installation. The
relevant lines from lsmod shows me:
emu10k160812 0
ac97_codec 13428 0 [emu10k1]
sound 58440 0 [emu10k1]
soundcore 3972 7 [emu10k1 sound]
And, I am unabl
Hello,
I need to back up my home directory (from an account that I do not use
frequently any more). I was thinking of creating an ISO image of the same.
How can I do that?
While here I had another question relating to backups - whats a good
way/tool to incremently back up my $HOME directory (on
I have been able to view .prn files as postscript (.ps) using gv. Now, I
do not know if .prn files are really .ps files always, but you can give
that a shot. If it is a postscript file, ps2ascii or pstotext should
extract text from your file.
-K
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, at 5:32pm, Frank Roberts -
make is (was) installed.
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run --kernel-name=2.4.18-k7, did not
work.
So, I obtained NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run from nvidia.com, and ran as:
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run --kernel-name=2.4.18-k7, and this worked
(seemingly).
I set my X driver to be nvi
I tried adding/removing spaces from the Makefile and I still cannot get
'sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run' to function alright. I did
download NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run from nvidia's website and have
not installed the Debian package nvidia-kernel-source.
'uname -r' gives 2.4.18-k7
I installed the 2.4.18 source by 'apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18',
extracted the source and made a symbolic /usr/src/linux ->
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/, and followed all the instructions below
as is.
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run quits with an error.
# cat /var/log/nvidia-
Sorry for the duplicate postings (if it does get duplicated) -- my first
message was not posted even after ~10 hrs.
--
Along the process of trying to recompile a personalized kernel for this
machine (following my previous posts and responses), I seem to be unable
to run any X-based pr
Which driver(s) must I get from nvidia? I can get to their download site
(nvidia.com/object/linux.html), but am unsure what I need to download.
I got the latest version which gives me a file:
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run.
# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run
quits with a series of
Hello,
I recently installed the 3.0 debian linux (on an AMD 1500 pc) and am
learning the ways of debian packaging. I obtained a netinst iso, burned
the image and successfully rebooted back into debian. Next, I used tasksel
get all the packages that seemed relevant. Somehow I missed choosing
XFree8
Thanks for your response, Ray. I am still not particularly clear about the
/boot partition -- what exactly is it used for? I did have an older BIOS
on this hard-drive a while ago, and needed the /boot partition then to
dual boot. Now, if my BIOS can "see" all of /dev/hdb then its not
necessary for
Hello,
I have a dual-boot system (with windows-98 and redhat 7.3) setup on an old
hard disk. I recently obtained a new hard drive and have their order
configured such that the old drive is /dev/hda and the new one is
/dev/hdb. The partitions on /dev/hda are as follows:
/dev/hda1 * 1
Hello,
scp fails to get files from a remote machine when the .bashrc in the
remote machine runs /usr/games/fortune (or even just a plain echo). How
can I fix this without removing the "offending" line from the .bashrc
file?
Thanks,
-K
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By the time you get to the point w
Hello,
How do I mount a usb memory stick? I do see something connected to usb on
the output mount (I am running Redhat 9):
$ mount | grep usb
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
On plugging the device into the machine and looking at dmesg, shows me
stuff (which I think is connected to p
After I ssh -X into a remote machine and try to run mathematica, I get a
bunch of errors:
---
xset: bad font path element (#64), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
---
I assume t
Hello,
On trying to run xcdroast (or any program that requires X display) after
su'ing in as root, I get the following error:
---
[root @gandalf karthik]$ xcdroast
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
---
Hello,
Could someone point out how I could setup my machine so that a second user
may log in to the machine and run a 'startx' even though the first user is
logged in and has an active X session running, without killing the first
user's X session?
Thanks,
-K
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try gftp, has a gui and options for sub-directory tranfers. Alternatively,
ncftp is another great non-gui ftp client.
-K
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Azie Jamilah wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanna know if I can download or upload a whole directory using
> ftp. I know I can do it using some of Windows so
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