Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-10 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 22:22:38 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hah! I've seen titlebars in your screen shots... those are never on terms, me smarmy bastage! And c'mon, admit it: When it's dark, and no one's lookin, you fire up fbpanel... You sick B*stard! no way! I never minimize

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-10 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 22:21, HaywireMac wrote: no way! I never minimize anythin', seein' as I got 8 desktops I flip through with me mousewheel, LOL! I will admit that I've begun using idesk, just so's I kin use those loverly Mac icons I went through so much trouble to convert way back when on

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-10 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:52:42 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Only 8. I VNC into the server and have 10 desktops, then have another 10 locally here, and a new PIII-500 running RH that I VNC into with another 6 desktops. You're lagging, mate...badly so... Well, I do VNC into my

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-10 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:03:37 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: What does it do better? I'm not trying to bait, i really want to know. It has more eye candy and you don't have to configure it using inscrutable text files. That would be the way I would look at it coming from the

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-09 Per discussione mike
this gives me a blue prompt : PS1=\[\033[34m\][\$(date +%H%M)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w]$ this gives me a lighter blue prompt : PS1=\[\033[36m\][\$(date +%H%M)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w]$ HaywireMac wrote: I want to make my bash prompt blue. According to the LDP, IIUIC, it should look like this:

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-09 Per discussione JM5379
just a wild guess from looking at what you have listed, it appears that the part \w$[\0[0m\] may have mismatched or misaligned \ since they don't follow the exact same escape sequences as what comes before. man bash should cover this pretty good, if i remember correctly. hth. joe ---

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-09 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 07:54:16 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: this gives me a blue prompt : PS1=\[\033[34m\][\$(date +%H%M)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w]$ this gives me a lighter blue prompt : PS1=\[\033[36m\][\$(date +%H%M)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w]$ ah, I see now, if you use one [], then

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-09 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 07:54:16 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: this gives me a blue prompt : PS1=\[\033[34m\][\$(date +%H%M)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w]$ this gives me a lighter blue prompt : PS1=\[\033[36m\][\$(date +%H%M)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w]$ and if you want the prompt to be

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-09 Per discussione Heather/Femme
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 07:54:16 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS1=\[\033[36m\][\$(date +%H%M)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w]$ second gives me a cyan prompt...but ty. :D Femurs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-09 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 9 2003 04:56 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 07:54:16 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS1=\[\033[36m\][\$(date +%H%M)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w]$ second gives me a cyan prompt...but ty. :D Femurs PS1= \W \\$just gives ya a good 'ol tom $ (as

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-09 Per discussione Eric Huff
Here is another cool thing: you can have the prompt set the title of the xterm for you. This way, in the taskbar i see the path 1st, so when there's a bunch of them open, i know which is which. #PS1=\[\033]0;\w: \u\007\] -- sets title sets prompt -- #\[\033[33m\]\w \$ if test

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-09 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 21:50:16 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Here is another cool thing: you can have the prompt set the title of the xterm for you. This way, in the taskbar i see the path 1st, so when there's a bunch of them open, i know which is which. #PS1=\[\033]0;\w:

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-09 Per discussione Heather/Femme
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:00:13 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:56:37 -0600 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: second gives me a cyan prompt...but ty. too bad you couldn't do like in Q3, eh? ^3H^2a^1y^5w^2i^4r^6e^1M^2a^3c, LOL! Then we'd have

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-09 Per discussione Heather/Femme
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 23:00:56 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday September 9 2003 04:56 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 07:54:16 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS1=\[\033[36m\][\$(date +%H%M)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w]$ second gives me a cyan

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-09 Per discussione Eric Huff
assuming you use a taskbar, or even titlebar, you Pekwm traitor! ;-) Hah! I've seen titlebars in your screen shots... And c'mon, admit it: When it's dark, and no one's lookin, you fire up fbpanel... You sick B*stard! You know, pekwm has been so smooth for so long! I love it. I don't even

Re: [newbie] Lost bash Shutdown command

2003-04-02 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 10:33 am, Ken Rhodes wrote: Hello Everyone, I have been using Mandrake since version 6.0 and have continually upgraded with no real problems. However, after recently upgrading to 9.1, when I use the bash command shutdown I get a command not found error message!

Re: [newbie] Lost bash Shutdown command

2003-04-02 Per discussione Raffaele Belardi
Same here, had to copy /sbin/shutdown to /bin to make it visible to all users, then chmod a+s /bin/shutdown to suid it. I'm using standard security level, I wonder if in lower security level it's different. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone, I have been using Mandrake since

Re: [newbie] Lost bash Shutdown command

2003-04-02 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Ken Rhodes wrote: Hello Everyone, I have been using Mandrake since version 6.0 and have continually upgraded with no real problems. However, after recently upgrading to 9.1, when I use the bash command shutdown I get a command not found error message! Can anyone tell me what happened and why?

Re: [newbie] Lost bash Shutdown command

2003-04-02 Per discussione Ken Rhodes
Thanks to all who responded... logging in as superuser allows me to use shutdown. I haven't tried the other suggestions yet. Maybe I changed my security level/permissions or something when I upgraded this time. Regards, Kenneth Rhodes --

Re: [newbie] Lost bash Shutdown command

2003-04-02 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 12:01 pm, Ken Rhodes wrote: Thanks to all who responded... logging in as superuser allows me to use shutdown. I haven't tried the other suggestions yet. Maybe I changed my security level/permissions or something when I upgraded this time. I know that (under 9.0)

Re: [newbie] Lost bash Shutdown command

2003-04-02 Per discussione G_REEPER
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yours it not the only one. I found the same problem on my install. It appears that it isn't limited to the console. I do have a extra question. If you have the X starting when it boots instead of logging into an account click reboot and see if

Re: [newbie] Lost bash Shutdown command

2003-04-02 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 19:33, Ken Rhodes wrote: Hello Everyone, I have been using Mandrake since version 6.0 and have continually upgraded with no real problems. However, after recently upgrading to 9.1, when I use the bash command shutdown I get a command not found error message! Can

Re: [newbie] Lost bash Shutdown command

2003-04-02 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 20:08, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Same here, had to copy /sbin/shutdown to /bin to make it visible to all users, then chmod a+s /bin/shutdown to suid it. I'm using standard security level, I wonder if in lower security level it's different. raffaele It would be better

Re: [newbie] OT - bash-how to operate on nested directories

2002-04-07 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 15:53:07 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can generate a playlist using: find /tunes -type f -follow -name '*.ogg'-o -name '*.mp3' -o -name '*.MP3' | sort myplaylist.m3u. This includes all the files in all the folders in /tunes. But what if I want to

Re: [newbie-it] bash: directory o file inesistente

2001-09-19 Per discussione Marco
... il messaggio di errore ti dice che non c'è uno script che si chiama configure nella directory da dove lanci il comando ... quindi ... parto dall'inizio e provo ad immaginare: Credo tu ti riferisca ad un programma sorgente con estensione tar.gz (o tar.bz2).. Se è così il primo passo è quello

Re: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05

2001-09-10 Per discussione antoine rivoire
u'r right jay. what might be helpful is if someone could mail me a fairly standard /etc/bashrc , bashprofile and /home/.bashrc, to see what it looks like and does. On Sunday 09 September 2001 11:55, you wrote: The later version of bash does not mess up your bashrc, but it won't restore

Re: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05

2001-09-10 Per discussione Tim Holmes
I can't find the original email sent on this topic, but it says that the hostname was replaced with the bash-2.05$. Are you simply referring to the prompt? Or is the hostname actually saying it's bash-2.05$? As for the request for a standard /etc/skel/.bashrc and /etc/skel/.bash_profile,

Re: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05

2001-09-09 Per discussione Jay DeKing
The later version of bash does not mess up your bashrc, but it won't restore your lost one either, if I understand you correctly. Jay On Friday 07 September 2001 11:17, I was honored with this communique: right, some more interesting facts i have just discovered: i have lost the pretty

RE: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05

2001-09-06 Per discussione Lionel Pitaru
Does the user that you were loged in have permissons on his assigned home directory? The same happened to my a couple of days before, and I see in LunxConf that the home directory of the user I was logging in was created by the root and the user ddidn't have permissons . . . Maybe it's just a

Re: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05

2001-09-06 Per discussione antoine rivoire
On Thursday 06 September 2001 13:38, you wrote: Does the user that you were loged in have permissons on his assigned home directory? The same happened to my a couple of days before, and I see in LunxConf that the home directory of the user I was logging in was created by the root and the

Re: [newbie] invoking bash scripts

2001-04-16 Per discussione David E . Fox
On Saturday 14 April 2001 18:28, you wrote: I tried ./scriptname and bash reports "No such file or directory". I can ls and it shows scriptname* which should indicate that it is executable and in the current directory. Careful here. Scripts can be confused in the sense that it'll report 'no

Re: [newbie] invoking bash scripts

2001-04-14 Per discussione Keith Christian
Hi Dean, Likely your system is set up (properly so) without the current directory in the path. To invoke a shell script named, say, foo.sh, type this: ./foo.sh (Notice the leading dot-slash) and it should run. This indicates that the script is in the current directory: dot represents the

Re: [newbie] invoking bash scripts

2001-04-14 Per discussione Dean Steichen
I tried ./scriptname and bash reports "No such file or directory". I can ls and it shows scriptname* which should indicate that it is executable and in the current directory. btw: I bought the book "LINUX Shells by Example" by Ellie Quigley and have been trying to run some of the scripts from

Re: [newbie-it] bash

2001-03-12 Per discussione Andrea Celli
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: Ciao a tutti, improvvisamente la bash non fa pi il prompt come al solito con il mio nome (localhost etc. etc.) ma si presenta solo come "bash-2.04". Il problema che non riconosce pi alcuni comandi nemmeno con il login come root, l'unico modo per eseguire lo