Re: 'sed' syntax ...

2003-09-23 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Jamie , Try "sed -e'...'" On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Jamie Risk wrote: > I can't figure out form sed's "info" or "man" pages how to make the > facsmilie of the following work; > > sed `s/ +$//` source.txt > > I hope it's obvious that I'm trying to strip trailing white space from the > fi

Re: Wireless Lan

2003-09-07 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello John , Try ... , Hth , JimL http://www.linux-wlan.org/ On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, John T. Williams wrote: > Anyone here know where I can find a could set of instructions for setting up > wireless on a linux laptop? > I need do figure out how to: > 1. get my wireless card into

Re: TCP as a module

2003-07-27 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Eric , If a question has to do with Networking please forward the person to netdev or linux-net maillists . DaveM (& others) will be ranting at the person for posting a network question on the kernel list otherwise . JimL On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Eric wrote: >

Re: su fails

2003-07-15 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Alan , On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Alan Bort wrote: > Well... I think bash actually has a builtin su... so if you reinstall Fyi , bash (as of 2.05b.0(1)-release) does not have a builtin of "su" . try typing 'help' at the bash shell prompt for one . Then just do eit

Re: X - what is the screen resolution used ?

2003-07-10 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Heimo , If it is under KDE then try : Start Application/Preferences/Information/X-Server (it actually runs , "kcmshell xserver") Openwin had a simular tool in the 'right mouse button' drop down tool . But I haven't seen a working instance of o

Re: Tape emulation

2003-06-13 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Philippe , 1) Please wrap line when send to mail lists to less than 80 coloumns . 2) Huh ? , in general "Everything is a file , Files are how everything is done" . 3) what are you trying to accomplish ? Hth , JimL On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Philippe Marmillod

Re: Redhat 7.3 Samba Start at startup

2003-03-03 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Paul , Try 'man chkconfig' , Then 'chkconfig samba' Hth , JimL On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Paul Kraus wrote: > How can I set samba to start when the server starts. > Every time I reboot the machine I have su, /sbin/service smb restart. > Paul Kraus -- +---

Re: tar for "full" floppy backup?

2002-12-09 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Gents , One word , df . Hth , JimL On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > dashielljt wrote: > > I've never tried this and have never heard of > > any success with this idea either. > I do not see the problem. It is easy to create a > compressed archive file (let's call i

Re: tar for "full" floppy backup?

2002-12-07 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Jerry & all , If it is Slackware the tar binary provided is Gnu-Tar . Try doing a 'tar --help' & report the output from 'tar --version' . There maybe issues with certain versions of tar . Another item to look at is can you read floppies on yo

Re: Samba mount not as root

2002-11-29 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Mike , On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: > > > Have written some scripts that perform network backups. However I am > > > only able to run them as root. How can give mount permissions to ano

Re: need method of backing up files

2002-11-08 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Shaggy , Look at rsync , works beautifully for me . JimL http://rsync.samba.org/index.html On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Shaggy Im-erbtham wrote: > I use Slackware 7.0 with upgraded 2.4.18 kernel in a box which serves > as file server to 5 win9x clients. > > Is there a method to pe

Re: CD-ROM settings and bash resources

2002-10-19 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Bryan , Fyi , Mentioning M$-widows if only saying that the hardware itself is funtioning , can (and usually does) illicit a smaller response from some groups . Also might want to post a little more info about the device & system & kernel . That inf

Re: Dumb Questions

2002-09-25 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , Not to prolong this threads death ... FUBAR , Old Military (& others) Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition A less polite word was used in the original then too: foobar , To attempt to loose the 'Fouled' because of the less