Re: remote admin

2005-04-14 Thread qwms-avib
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 from an xterm, login to the remote server and execute xterm. This will cause a remote xterm to appe

Re: Interpreting disk space and changing backup path

2004-12-22 Thread qwms-avib
Eve Atley wrote: > > I ran the df command on Redhat Linux 9, and came up with > this...what exactly does it mean? Which is my main drive? You appear to have two drives: a master HD on your primary IDE cable: > /dev/hda1 101089 29129 66741 31% /boot > /dev/hda2 37334192 505

Re: Getting ls results in text file - Charset issue

2004-12-21 Thread qwms-avib
ACario wrote: > > I'm running following command in a console: > ls > out.csv > Then I open the file "out.cvs" in vi and here is what I get > ^[[00m^[[01;34mcxoffice^[[00m/ > ^[[01;34mDesktop^[[00m/ > ^[[01;34mGNUstep^[[00m/ > ^[[01;34mkde^[[00m/ > ^[[01;34mLogs^[[00m/ It appears your ls is aliased

Re: Getting ls results in text file - Charset issue

2004-12-21 Thread qwms-avib
joy merwin monteiro wrote: > > these characters look more like ANSI escape sequences > (everything prefixed with an ESC (^[ ) ) > > > ^[[00m^[[01;34mcxoffice^[[00m/ > > ^[[01;34mDesktop^[[00m/ > > ^[[01;34mGNUstep^[[00m/ > > ^[[01;34mkde^[[00m/ > > ^[[01;34mLogs^[[00m/ They are color codes. 34m

Re: Create files with specific sizes?

2004-12-14 Thread qwms-avib
SVisor wrote: > > >>is there any way (some command) that will allow me to > >>create blank files with specific sizes, eg 1MB, 5MB, 10MB etc. > ... > > dd if=/dev/zero of=file1 bs=1k count=1024 > > I wanted a file of garbage, not zeroes. Just pick a sufficiently large file or device for your inp

Re: Create files with specific sizes?

2004-12-14 Thread qwms-avib
Khan wrote: > > is there any way (some command) that will allow me to > create blank files with specific sizes, eg 1MB, 5MB, 10MB etc. dd if=/dev/zero of=file1 bs=1k count=1024 dd if=/dev/zero of=file2 bs=1k count=5120 dd if=/dev/zero of=file3 bs=1k count=10240 -rw-r--r-- 1 steven users 10485

weird keyboard problem

2003-07-19 Thread qwms-avib
I have just installed AbiWord to my modified Slackware system. Everything is working fine, EXCEPT the letters/numbers on the keyboard. When I press a letter/number key nothing happens. All the other keys work: Space, Backspace, Home, End, UpArrow, DownArrow, LeftArrow, RightArrow, keys, PageUp, P

Re: Slackware 8.1.01 Install????

2003-06-10 Thread qwms-avib
Hal MacArgle wrote: > > booting from a DRDos702 floppy the BIOS sees the > BusLogic controller OK but doesn't, automatically, > assign a drive letter to either CD. A DOS bootdisk can be downloaded from www.bootdisk.com that handles the following CDrom drives: --- Adaptec

scrambled screen

2003-06-02 Thread qwms-avib
Over the years, I have used Linux on a dozen different computers and have never run into this problem before. I've just installed Slackware 7.1 on a Compaq 400 (MMX) with S3 Virge video card. Everything is working OK (including the XFree 3.3.6 S3V server) except that when, I exit X and return