> A good summary Volker, to which I will add the following (rather
> obvious, which is why you probably omitted it) point:
>
> * descriptive man page
Uhm, no, didn't think of it to be honest...
Depends what the intended use is. If it's a bad hack for myself, I only
put in --help to jog my memory
Martin Baehr wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:34:43PM +1300, Trev wrote:
> > I read in a file "Partitioning Dos and Don'ts": Setting up a linux extended
> > partition, which used to be a necessity with earlier disk tools, is now
> > generally a no-no. Is this correct ?.
>
> linux extended?
>
Matthew Gregan wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:17:40PM +1300, Trev wrote:
> > Matthew Gregan wrote:
> > > You should be able to have at least 63.
>
> > Is that by using an ext partition or not ?.
>
> 63 partitions in total per disk. So if you have 3 primary partitions,
> you could then cr
Martin Baehr wrote:
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 03:26:43PM +1300, Gareth Williams wrote:
You could cat file | head -n 96 | tail -n 33 :)
cat is almost always unnecessary:
head -96 file | tail -34
For completeness (and while we are on the topic):
tail +63 file | head -34
Cheers<
Carl.
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:36, you wrote:
> Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > If however you're trying to make a part for the kitset/toolbox, the
> > following rules apply:
> >
> > * error output goes to stderr, so it doesn't end up with the data
> > * input/output can come from/to stdin/stdout, or file(s)
>
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
If however you're trying to make a part for the kitset/toolbox, the
following rules apply:
* error output goes to stderr, so it doesn't end up with the data
* input/output can come from/to stdin/stdout, or file(s)
* the only way to give parameters to the program (e.g. to con
> Style question - aren't unix command line programs supposed to use
> parameters, rather than interactive prompting? and to read from stdin
> if no filename is supplied?
No, they can do whatever they want. For example, mutt and pine are
email clients which are interactive, and only use a text te
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 03:57:31PM +1300, CF wrote:
> > exit 0
> exit 0 means an exit code of 0, which to most programs means "sucessful
> completion" Perhaps you want exit 1 here and exit 2 below ...
It's not a good idea to pull exit codes out of thin air. Use a
semi-standardized exit co
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 15:14, Ross Drummond wrote:
> Comments, improvements appreciated
> echo -e "\nType in the name of the file you wish to extract lines from. \nThen
> press "
> read FileName
>
> echo -e "Type the number of the line where you want to start.\nThen press
> ."
> read StartNumber
There's an informative introductory article in the 2nd issue of the
Linux Journal regarding the "Software Toolbox" approach that is
characteristic of unix utilities.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2762
Note that the dictionary it references is in a different file in most
modern di
Ross Drummond wrote:
> Comments, improvements appreciated
It does the job, but it doesn't really follow the unix (Linux)
philosophy for command line utilities. By and large, unix people like to
be able to use smaller commands to build larger commands. This requires
commands to be non-interactive
Vik Oliver was asking how to chop up text files
Here is a bash script which I created to do this.
Line wrapping has messed things up a bit.
Download the script in text file form to avoid wrapping from;
http://www.inet.net.nz/~atobrent/readit.txt
Comments, improvements appreciated
Cheers Ross
29/10/03 13:15:30, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I can bring two laptops with wireless - one set up as a nocat auth
>gateway.
>
>what is your 'portable wireless platform" exactly?
detailed @:
www.infohelp.co.nz/laptop.html
Cheers Nick
I can bring two laptops with wireless - one set up as a nocat auth
gateway.
what is your 'portable wireless platform" exactly?
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:10:04 +1300
Rik T mobile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Chris & CLUG,
>
> Seeing we have deskspace at tonight's meeting, is anyone keen on some
Hi Chris & CLUG,
Seeing we have deskspace at tonight's meeting, is anyone keen on some wireless network
testing?
I remember Chris Bayley was exploring this a while back.
My portable wireless platform is ready to run, given a suitable environment & a few
pointers on settings (Knoppix 3.2 / Debi
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:50, Mike Beattie wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:38:42PM +1300, Paul William wrote:
> > The output of lsmod follows.
> ...
> > ide-core 97656 7 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-detect
> > via82cxxx trm290 triflex slc90e66 sis5513 siimage serverworks sc1200
> >
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:38:42PM +1300, Paul William wrote:
> The output of lsmod follows.
...
> ide-core 97656 7 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-detect
> via82cxxx trm290 triflex slc90e66 sis5513 siimage serverworks sc1200
> rz1000 piix pdc202xx_old opti621 ns87415 hpt366 ide-disk hpt
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:39:24AM +1300, Jaco Swart wrote:
> 1. To prevent his PC from booting when he receives telephone calls:
> Can this be changed in the BIOS?
Yes. Look around for support for waking up the computer from particular
IRQs. If it's an external modem, you'll need to disable wa
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:39, Jaco Swart wrote:
> 1. To prevent his PC from booting when he receives telephone calls: Can this be
> changed in the BIOS?
Turn off "Wake on Ring" or "Wake on Serial port" or "wake on IRQ4/IRQ3"
(or whereever the modem is set to)
> 2. Can KWord be set up to use the i
Flash rpms can be found at...
http://macromedia.rediris.es/site_ri.html
Robert
There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
-Original Message-
From: Jaco Swart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2003 9:39 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subje
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:06:34 +1300
antonovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hey,
> this is excellent - basically what I wanted to know for my partitions.
> Does anyone know any good info sites about lvm?
> Cheers
> Anton
>
LDP - always your first port of call:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWT
Good morning!
Regarding the Mandrake 9.1 installation I did for a friend a week ago: He has
been using it for a few days now, and came back with a few questions. I'd like
advice on a few, please :-)
1. To prevent his PC from booting when he receives telephone calls: Can this be
changed in the
Hey,
this is excellent - basically what I wanted to know for my partitions.
Does anyone know any good info sites about lvm?
Cheers
Anton
Martin Baehr wrote:
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:34:43PM +1300, Trev wrote:
I read in a file "Partitioning Dos and Don'ts": Setting up a linux e
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Hamish McBrearty wrote:
>
>> Hi there
>>
>> Well I was feeling a bit adventurous tonight and have successfully
>> upgraded my Gentoo box to 2.6.0-test9. Everything's very sweet, and
>seems
>> quicker but that could be my imagination.
>>
>> However, wh
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:34:43PM +1300, Trev wrote:
> I read in a file "Partitioning Dos and Don'ts": Setting up a linux extended
> partition, which used to be a necessity with earlier disk tools, is now
> generally a no-no. Is this correct ?.
linux extended?
does this mean maybe the linux ext
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Hamish McBrearty wrote:
> Hi there
>
> Well I was feeling a bit adventurous tonight and have successfully
> upgraded my Gentoo box to 2.6.0-test9. Everything's very sweet, and seems
> quicker but that could be my imagination.
>
> However, when I run Lilo I get an error I've ne
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:52:18PM +1300, Mike Beattie wrote:
> > dogs bark to much, i hate that. Wuff Wuff!!
> Screen!
see, i love it how i can silence screen and make it emit a text message
instead. i wish i could do the same to dogs...
> (and it's 'blonde' too, no?)
my screen has a bl
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:38, Paul William wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a web cam which I am trying to get working in Linux. When I plug
> the camera in it gets no power from the USB port. I get no messages in
> /var/log/messages. The output from lsusb
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] lsusb
> cannot open /proc/bus/us
from the epson site! (via google)
http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/lsd_note_e.html
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:06:08 +1300
Chris Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Nick Rout wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:47:10 +1300
> > Chris Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
>
Yeap ,generally you can only have a max on 4 primary partitions .
Cheers
Dale.
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 21:17, Trev wrote:
> Matthew Gregan wrote:
> >
> > You should be able to have at least 63.
> >
>
> Is that by using an ext partition or not ?.
>
> Trevor
>
> > Cheers,
> > -mjg
> > --
> > Mat
I managed to get it working (by reading the handspring visor howto!) :-)
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:38, Paul William wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a web cam which I am trying to get working in Linux. When I plug
> the camera in it gets no power from the USB port. I get no messages in
> /var/log/messages.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:17:40PM +1300, Trev wrote:
> Matthew Gregan wrote:
> > You should be able to have at least 63.
> Is that by using an ext partition or not ?.
63 partitions in total per disk. So if you have 3 primary partitions,
you could then create one extended partition and an additi
Hi,
I have a web cam which I am trying to get working in Linux. When I plug
the camera in it gets no power from the USB port. I get no messages in
/var/log/messages. The output from lsusb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lsusb
cannot open /proc/bus/usb, No such file or directory (2)
The output of uname -a:
Lin
Jason Greenwood wrote:
>
> ...- way to go Wesley!
>
Ditto!
Trevor
> http://www.linuxworld.com/story/35659.htm
Matthew Gregan wrote:
>
> You should be able to have at least 63.
>
Is that by using an ext partition or not ?.
Trevor
> Cheers,
> -mjg
> --
> Matthew Gregan |/
> /|[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:34:43PM +1300, Trev wrote:
> I will want at least 4 different Linux's :-), a partition for doing CDs, a
> partition for backups (from hda), that's 15 partitions, and will probably want
> more.
> Can i have that many ?.
You should be able to have at least 63.
Cheers,
-
Hi there
Well I was feeling a bit adventurous tonight and have successfully
upgraded my Gentoo box to 2.6.0-test9. Everything's very sweet, and seems
quicker but that could be my imagination.
However, when I run Lilo I get an error I've never seen before. The system
boots fine so I'm not too conc
Hi,
i have a new (2 months ago, not in yet :-( ) 80G hard drive and started
wondering how many partitions can you put in a ide drive.
I know i can have 4 primary, or 3 primary 1 ext
How many logical drives can you have in a ext partition ?.
I read in a file "Partitioning Dos and Don'ts": Setting
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
My new fav rescue disk is LNX-BBC which lives in my wallet.
Good point, I had one of those many years back. Downloading now...
Question of how to burn it though: Do corpcons sell to Joe Bloggs? In
what quantities? TasTech min qty is 20 for $30. Enough interest for 20?
I
Don't hold your breath... ;)
Wesley Parish wrote:
Just saying something that I felt had to be said.
Now it's up to BGjr and SB!
Thanks.
Wesley Parish
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:36, you wrote:
I may have missed this onlist but - way to go Wesley!
http://www.linuxworld.com/story/35659.htm
Hi there,
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:25, you wrote:
As we have so far got only Uttam and his SmartLink WinModem to be made to go.
I'm sure there will be room for you.
Uttam, please could you confirm that you will be bringing your machine?
...and I will confirm I shall brin
Good job Wesley.
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 00:36, Jason Greenwood wrote:
> I may have missed this onlist but - way to go Wesley!
>
> http://www.linuxworld.com/story/35659.htm
--
.''`. Paul William
: :' :Debian admin and user
`. `'`
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix
Hi there,
Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:47:10 +1300
Chris Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...will do...
libimlib1 is installed, but not the devel headers...that'll go on soon
and I might just have enough clock space to try compiling it tonite...
yeh but then what would i do tomorro
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