Re: [newbie] auto update of files?

2001-12-11 Per discussione Liam O'Connell
Paul Rodríguez wrote: I heard once of a program that will automatically update files on your computer from a remote server. rsync? there is a manpage. ? Any body know how I can automate, say, going to a website, downloading and installing a src.rpm made daily from CVS while I sleep?

Re: [newbie] download manager

2001-08-24 Per discussione Liam O'Connell
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I tried for tripod as ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It didn't work. It didn't ask for password. By inserting with : after lvgandhi also didn't work. It works for me in kfm (although I don't know your password, so I don't know if it will actually connect ;-) ). Looks like someone

Re: [newbie] download manager

2001-08-20 Per discussione Liam O'Connell
L.V.Gandhi wrote: How to do ftp with login:password to a site in konq? IIRC URL syntax should be: protocol://user:password@host:port/pathname so ftp://myname:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ should do the job. Although it probably won't accept the myname:mypassword construct, but if you just type in

Re: [newbie] nvidia install

2001-08-19 Per discussione Liam O'Connell
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 18 August 2001 06:40 pm, Andy Flatt escribió: Please help a TOTAL newbie. I just got an Nvidia GeForce 2 MX400 64mb AGP graphics card and I am having trouble getting it to function properly. Here are my specifics: LM 8.0 SMP Kernel I believe you're SOL.

Re: [newbie] StarOffice Word 97/2000 format

2001-08-19 Per discussione Liam O'Connell
Paul wrote: Are you perhaps trying to save to a Windoze partition where regular users have no write permission? I've had SO hang when writing to a FAT32 partition where there _is_ write permission, but is kills itself over the fact that the permissions (obviously) can't be changed...I think

Re: [newbie] nvidia openGL issues

2001-08-18 Per discussione Liam O'Connell
I am having issues using the nVidia drivers with LM 8.0. answer: replace kdm with gdm that worked! although gdm is not as pretty as kdm :( is this in a FAQ? It should be, I can safely I would never have though of trying that :) cheers Liam

Re: [newbie] Newbie question..

2001-08-18 Per discussione Liam O'Connell
David E. Fox wrote: I got over 100 files to be extracted.. they all are in .tar.gz format Sure, you can script their extraction: # for i in *.tar.gz do zcat $i | tar -xf - done tar -xzvf *.tar.gz ? Liam p.s. gunzip -c is far more stylish than zcat, anyway ;-)

Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 Beta

2001-08-18 Per discussione Liam O'Connell
John Simmons wrote: 8.1 beta is out with KDE 2.2 and the 2.4.8 kernel. All of the mirrors have two sets of iso files. Which set should I download? The freq or the raklet version? AFAIK 'raklet' is 8.1 beta, 'freq' is freq#3 which is a bit older (but supposedly more stable) Liam

Re: [newbie] Newbie question..

2001-08-18 Per discussione Liam O'Connell
David E. Fox wrote: tar -xzvf *.tar.gz ? That might work too. :) Liam p.s. gunzip -c is far more stylish than zcat, anyway ;-) Well, zcat is fewer characters to type. So there. :) I've just gotten used to a zcat something piped to tar way of doing this. Obviously someone who is

[newbie] nvidia openGL issues

2001-08-17 Per discussione Liam O'Connell
Hi there, I am having issues using the nVidia drivers with LM 8.0. I've downloaded the RPM's from the nVidia website and amended XF86Config-4 as described in the readme, and the 'nvidia' driver seems to load OK (X works as normal except that it flashes up a nvidia logo on startup). However, I