Re: newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow

2003-10-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
set needs a lot of swap that "some time" will become "a lot of time" or even "almost all the time", which is called "thrashing". You can always add more swap later as a "swap file" - see "man swapon". More swap will not affect your p

Re: newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow

2003-10-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
hat must be fetched from disc, which is a speed win. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ What do _you_ care what other people think? - Arlene Feynman -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow

2003-10-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
0. Damn. I guess I have to go and remove RedHat 9 from my 233MHz laptop with 96MB of RAM. A pity - it _appeared_ to work just fine. Of course, I'm running FVWM instead of KDE or Gnome... -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ A Master is

Re: Recommend multi port ethernet adapter?

2003-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
n the core copic, it's possible to get (at least) dual port Intel EEPro100 cards; we've got one in a firewall I help look after. Seems to work. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Dope will carry you through times of no money bet

Re: CPIO - this should be simple - right !

2003-10-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
cpio gets a nice untouched "/cvsroot/*" string, thus: cpio -iuvdB '/cvsroot/*' < /dev/nst0 Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ In the unlikely event of losing Pascal's Wager, I intend to saunter i

Re: NFS Action

2003-10-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
Steve, please press Enter every 70 chars or so. Thanks. On 14:50 07 Oct 2003, Rigler, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Is NFS started on the server? | Use "chkconfig --list" to make sure nfs, nfslock and portmap are all turned on . Turn them on and start them (with "service") if they aren't alr

Re: X11 window with no frame or title bar

2003-10-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
use title bars or borders at all. Makes for a much nicer desktop to my eyes. See: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/fvwm/ Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ A clean desk is the sign of a blank mind. -- redha

Re: Does sleep() system call cause the scheduler to be rerun?

2003-10-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
eciate any helpful response to resolve this question in my mind. Sleep is what you want. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ A slipping sear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopul

Re: i hate procmail

2003-09-28 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14:57 26 Sep 2003, christopher j bottaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thursday 25 September 2003 06:47 pm, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > Again, mutt may be your friend here: | > - "T." | > select all items | > - ";|procmail -f $HOME/.procmail

Re: i hate procmail

2003-09-25 Thread Cameron Simpson
true first) - ";d" deleted every tagged item Avoid that last step until you're sure the others are good. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ So this judge in Virginia rules that a lesbian wasn't fi

Re: Sendmail from Shell Script?

2003-09-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
; | > If its plain text then just | > | > cat filename | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | I new there was an animal in there but couldn't come up with cat. Well you don't need it: sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < filename Cat is a tad overused

Re: NFS: The wrong tool perhaps?

2003-09-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
uot; stuff instead of arbitrary and weird API calls). And NFS does that fairly well. Why not tell us a bit more about the problem context? Presumably you have some reason for not wanting NFS or find it cumbersome somehow. What are they? Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#7

Re: cpio -i without original path

2003-09-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
r cf /somewhere/else/archive.tar bah (Note: _never_ put the archive inside the stuff to archive - it can grow forever because at somepoint tar or cpio will start archiving the archive, into itself!) Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs

Re: SIGPIPE, where is it coming from?

2003-09-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
remote backup, only on a full system. Please press [return] every 70 chars or so. The above was one long line:-( | Still want to see the script? Of course. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ A ridiculous place! Leaping from one bump to another,

Re: Linux on DEC Alpha?

2003-09-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
x27;s, | > or will they not work on Alpha? | | No. RH9 is for Intel only | I believe that 7.1 was the last release of Red Hat for the alpha chip. Compaq released RedHat 7.2 for the Alpha. That was the last one. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosti

Re: Apache sending incorrect mime type for Excel files

2003-09-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
-tune my mod_deflate configuration. _If_ you didn't restart APache after the first change I'd be more inclined to blame the restart here. The output filter stuff should only affect the Content-Encoding, not the Content-Type, AFAIK. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: vim question - comment multiple lines

2003-09-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
and/or "man ed" for more info on the line mode. It's very handy for stuff like this. Ex is pretty much a complete superset of the ed editor. And of course, once adept at using ed/ex, you're also much of the way to being adept with the sed command... Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <

Re: Service script not killing process.

2003-09-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
ng temp files, removing .pid files etc etc. -9 is meant as a _last_ resort, after the process has proven intransigent. You _never_ use it as the _first_ attempt to shut something down. It's on par with pulling the power cord from your PC every night instead of doing a clean shutdown.

Re: A mailer/attachment question

2003-09-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
t only in a interactive way. Any recommendation? I use munpack for this. It's part of the metamail package: http://freshmeat.net/projects/metamail/?topic_id=861 Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Through and through the world is

Re: Uninstall X Windows

2003-09-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
;t complain. However, your Segmentation Fault error message is a worry. It should not happen. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ There's a difference between skepticism and nihilism. - Doug Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redh

Re: putting a title on the xterm window

2003-09-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
-n "^[]2;${PWD}^G" | fi | if [[ xterm == $TERM || vt102 == $TERM ]] | then chpwd | fi | | | The ^[ and ^G are real control characters, not ^ and [ or G. I use this script: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/scripts/ttylabel Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EM

Re: NFS export read-only is not honored

2003-09-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
you checked that they really are writable? The permissions will look unchanged. However, any actual attempt to write should get met with EROFS "Read Only Filesystem". So, in short, have you just looked, or have you tried to write to a file? Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL

Re: Scripting password

2003-09-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
yping before the echo gets turned off, which would be bad. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Rather than a beep Or a rude error message, These words: "File not found." - Haiku Error Messages http://www.salonmagazine.co

Re: end of line at bash

2003-09-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
nnecessary but permitted). Try this: echo -e 'first line\nsecond line' so that the \ is not treated as a shell punctuation character. Myself, if I want it one one line I tend just to: echo foo; echo bar Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#74

Re: FW: Problem with MC

2003-09-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
apps expect the old 8-bit character sets and do not handle the multibyte encodings in UTF-8. The workaround is to request the C locale: export LC_ALL=C That should at least make these apps behave as they did before. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://w

Re: Scripting help

2003-08-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
8 21 Aug 2003, Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hmmm. wouldn't start=$(date +%s) be a bit more efficient? Yes, it would be. I keep forgetting about date's +format option. It didn't exist when I starting using UNIX:-) -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#

Re: edit the bootup sequence

2003-08-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
've looked at using runlevels for this (eg runlevel 4 for offsite etc) but it doesn't work well at all. Since we needed something more expressive and flexible and because the extremely slowness of the startup scripts, run in series, was very frustrating I wrote rc.mobile. Cheers, -- C

Re: edit the bootup sequence

2003-08-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
h this before. Consider rc.mobile an interesting exercise for later. BTW, I tend to turn of kudzu (hardware detection) completely if my machine config is stable. It takes a long time and is a complete waste if your machine doesn't change. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: man info and info info

2003-08-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
fo like "man" output - it finds both info and man entries and asks you what you want. It's at least made things tractable for me: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/index.html#s-text-info2x Info: just say "no". Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Scripting help

2003-08-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
he won't be "the time the script took to execute", because the script's still running. But you can do things like: start=`perl -e 'print time'` body of script here ... end=`perl -e 'print time'` echo "took `expr

Re: Decrypt Passwords

2003-08-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 15:12 21 Aug 2003, Marcos de Souza Trazzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hey I've already set the clock yet [...] | And aim't ignoring those requests, when i've "warned" (Yesterday), solve | the problem on the same instant. Thanks! -- Cameron Simpson &

Re: sigevent.h

2003-07-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
a linux include file. Look, this is the second such item you've posted. Do this: cd /usr/include find . -name sigevent\* -ls Behold, no answers. Ergo: the file isn't there. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ There&#x

Re: stddef.h

2003-07-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
lease help me. We would need to know why your program wants that include header, and on what platform (eg solaris, aix, etc) it was written. It's clearly doing something nonportable, but until we know what that is we can't help further. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Do

Re: Adding files to log (cat?)

2003-07-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
n was a bad idea and started looking through a couple | man pages. - cs, who also hadn't looked at logger, but now sees many users for it. Thanks:-) Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ An unbreakable toy is useful for breaki

Re: Procmail (???) error

2003-07-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
/bin/sh | LOGFILE=/tmp/procmail.log | VERBOSE=yes | LOGABSTRACT=all | | :0: | * ^TO_.chemteach | !chemteach Drop the trailing : with !addr rules. The ":" says "use locking", but there's no locking needed (or reasonable) when piping to programs (the "!addr&quo

Re: mozilla's mail - counting msg's

2003-07-18 Thread Cameron Simpson
;$mailfile" | wc -l done should be a good first cut. Note that this will probably also count "deleted" messages if you haven't used the "compact folders" button (which rewrites mail files without the deleted messages). Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PR

Re: Sending two attachments in one mail

2003-07-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12:32 07 Jul 2003, Khademul Islam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | So far I am able to send one attachment by using the mutt command. Here is | what I have right now. Please advise how I can send two files at the same | time. | mutt -a test.xls -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null You haven't tr

Re: Is that process running?

2003-06-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
, usually from a /var/run/daemon.pid file or something like that. Another thing you can do is not "check the pid" but "see if the service is there. Eg examine the output of "netstat -an" for a service listening on the appropriate port (eg with awk checking for LISTEN

Re: Shell Scripting Question

2003-06-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08:21 24 Jun 2003, Jon Haugsand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | * Cameron Simpson | > | > I tend to do this: | > find dir -type f -name '*.html' -exec bsed 's|this|long/thing/with/slashes/this|g' {} ';' | > or just: | > bsed 's|this

Re: bsed (was: Re: Shell Scripting Question)

2003-06-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08:22 24 Jun 2003, Jon Haugsand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | * Cameron Simpson | > You can get bsed here: | > | > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/scripts/bsed | > | > An extremely useful wrapper for sed. | | Not much information here, is it? Can you give a short tu

Re: *extremely slow* text processing on Redhat 9

2003-06-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
back in the Dark Ages) and so that the many apps that aren't wide-char and locale aware keep running. Eg the threads on Acrobat needing "C" locale etc. I expect this legacy need to be gone in two years, hopefully a little less. Frankly, I welcome UTF-8. No more stupid "what enco

Re: *extremely slow* text processing on Redhat 9

2003-06-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
n some progress with this. See here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82032 Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Think of me as CVS with a brain and with some taste.- Linus Torvalds -- redhat-list mailing list u

Re: Shell Scripting Question

2003-06-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
hes/this|g' {} ';' or just: bsed 's|this|long/thing/with/slashes/this|g' *.html for just the .html files in the current directory. You can get bsed here: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/scripts/bsed An extremely useful wrapper for sed. -- Cameron Simpson

Re: Accurate 'du' count

2003-06-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 15:43 22 Jun 2003, Ashley M. Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Cameron Simpson wrote: | | >No, I meant df. Because that will tell you how much space is really being | >used up _without_ having to run a du over the tree (which can lie unless | >it sees every link). | >

Re: compile problems

2003-06-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
iting a makefile and using spaces instead of a tab to indent actions. A test make of IPTables-IPv4-0.97a here doesn't do it. What's on line 86 or your makefile? Mine has a humble macro setting. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting

Re: Accurate 'du' count

2003-06-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14:19 22 Jun 2003, Ashley M. Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Cameron Simpson wrote: | >How sure are you? Rsync on its own doesn't do that - you need to have | >a separate pass that makes a link tree and then rsync that. Is that | >your setup? | |Oh yeah, daily.01

Re: Accurate 'du' count

2003-06-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
ill tell you if you're copying everything fresh or making linked trees with few differences. My suspiscion is that unless you've neglected to mention some part of your backup arrangements you're getting complete copies, not "incremental" trees. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <

Re: RedHat 9 distro

2003-06-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
el RPM. Probably you're missing that. A better subject line might attract better responses, eg "apxs on redhat 9?" or something like that? Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ I found that by working six weeks a year I

Re: file system environment

2003-06-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
sed by mapping names into a single case (eg lowercase) before using them with the filesystem. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ "I'm a lawyer." "Honest?" "No, the usual kind." -- redhat-list mailing

Re: case? switch? I need to write a script and neither of these options work.

2003-06-18 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16:46 18 Jun 2003, dlangschied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Sorry, I did not include the "in" after $reply and the case statement works. | I am still curious about switch. "switch" is a csh syntax. Stay well away from it and csh. Evil! -- Cameron Simpson <[E

Re: Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Cameron Simpson
, is there a way for the list software to recognize and | unsubscribe such folks? No, because the report goes directly to the poster. The list software never sees it at all. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The mark must be robust enough to su

Re: Setuid in rh9?

2003-06-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
Please don't top post. On 20:08 16 Jun 2003, Drew Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | The correct answer would've been, rebuild perl with setuid. No. The correct answer is to stay the hell away from setuid, and use sudo which allows fine grained control. -- Cameron Simpson &

Re: RUN fsck MANUALLY

2003-06-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
ed, it started - good as new! If you're going to answer yes to all the questions you can say fsck -y /dev/hda2 and it will answer "yes" for you. (And there's no need to use -A if you're fscking just one filesystem). Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson &

Re: Setuid in rh9?

2003-06-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
y to do it. If you need a particular script to be run by a nonroot user and do root things, use sudo to grant the power. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The Tao that is seen Is not the true Tao, until You bring fresh to

Re: changing permissions

2003-06-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
line to the /etc/fstab file. See "man fstab" for details. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Sometimes you just need to look reality in the eye, and deny it. - Garrison Keillor -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mai

Re: BASH scripting for a mouse

2003-06-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
ts, and if's condition test _is_ a command, a much more readbale idom is this: if /bin/grep -qi "serial" /etc/sysconfig/mouse then echo "A serial mouse is attached to this system." else echo "There is not a serial mouse att

Re: simultaneously

2003-06-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09:24 14 Jun 2003, Dadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I need to launch a command, simultaneously, on several 'Nix servers from | a remote computer runnig RH; the number of the servers is quite big so | to telnet or ssh in each one of them is not the way to do it ... ; is | there any way that I ca

Re: /dev/tape?

2003-06-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 15:31 12 Jun 2003, Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Shouldn't /dev/tape be created/updated automatically on a system with a | tape drive attached? Maybe by the install process. But generally not. | It isn't on my Red Hat 7.3 setup... So make a symlink. No big d

Re: changing permissions

2003-06-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 18:13 08 Jun 2003, Brent L. Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | ok thanks | If I wanted to unmount the ntfs drive what command would I | use | | I used this to mount it | | mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb5 /mnt/diskNT umount /mnt/diskNT -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Symlinks and absolute vs relative paths

2003-06-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
se you. Pick your own interpretation. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. - Rich Kulawiec Any sufficiently advanced feature is indistinguishable from a bug. - Gr

Re: daemon / background process manager

2003-06-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
u want in more detail? -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The problem with elections is that the government always wins. - Chris Rudram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Process age

2003-06-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
t should run for at most 10 seconds. Timeout's a script you can get here: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/scripts/timeout Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ "Gosh, that's the 3rd motorcycle that's passe

Re: mkinitrd failed

2003-06-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
? Specificly, you need loopback support in the kernel you're running during the build. I've have a kernel RPM upgrade break because of that. (And the RPM didn't catch the breakage. Ugh. Tacky install script.) Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.c

Re: how to setup proxy in terminal?

2003-06-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
tion to the environment variables $http_proxy, $ftp_proxy etc. For example, mine here is: [~]amadeus*20> echo $http_proxy http://proxy.home:8080 Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Here was a man who not only had a re

Re: exiting graphical interfaces

2003-06-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
7 will take you back to it. | > Wouldn't mind making change to text only login with the option of | > starting KDE if I want it. That'll work too. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ There's nothing quite like the pitter-patter

Re: how the heck do I close port 6000 used by X server?

2003-06-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
-- -nolisten tcp | | Any help would be great the thing just will not die :( Just checking: you _have_ restarted X after making those changes? -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ ...the problem is not what is in front of the eyepiece but is o

Re: sed replacing newline

2003-06-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
| sed s/\)/\n/g | | I tried quoting adding quotes. Does anybody know if it is possible to do | this with sed? | | I managed to accomplish what I wanted with | | cat junk.txt | sed s/\)/\+/g | tr \+ \n sed 's/)/\ /g' junk.txt >notjunk.txt -- Cameron Simpson <

Re: xterm problem and kernel build

2003-05-31 Thread Cameron Simpson
; "UNIX 98 pty" and "Filesystems" -> "/dev/pts file system" and rebuild. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ No electrons were harmed in the production of this message. - Dr. P. Gensheimer <

Re: xterm problem and kernel build

2003-05-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09:10 30 May 2003, Manuel Ar?stegui Ramirez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | We need more details to help you. | Have you activated any insual option in your new | kernel ? And does xterm emit any useful error messages? -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Mega Problems

2003-05-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
table until you get a match, and so it's trying to stat /mnt/chuck during this process. Which is fine provided you're not _in_ /mnt/chuck (which I doubt). So your permission problems probably do not stem from your "Stale NFS file handle" problems, and the NFS problem does not need to

Re: Migrating

2003-05-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
Its a simple box. /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group These are plain text files. Take only the lines for your own added accounts. The ones supplied with the OS are under the control of the vendor, and so may differ from distro to distro. It is important that they match the distro. -- Cameron S

Re: Can't to call Server Side Includes

2003-05-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12:45 28 May 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Now it is : | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] cgi-bin]$ ls -l | total 8 | -rwxr-xr-x1 edward edward 3650 May 26 12:34 textclock.cgi | -rw-r--r--1 edward edward123 May 26 02:40 WS_FTP.LOG | [EMAIL PROTECTED] cgi-bin]

Re: Need more speed - CPIO

2003-05-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
s is if this is all running | on a multi-processor system since you dont | get cpu bound. So he should potentially upgrade | to multiple cpu based servers if that is not the | current case and implement a double buffered io program | to replace the call to DD to handle the tape drive directly. Sure.

Re: Can't to call Server Side Includes

2003-05-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
chmod a+rx /home/edward/public_html/house/cgi-bin/textclock.cgi and retry. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Hag:Two things you must know about the wise woman. First...she is a woman.

Re: man error

2003-04-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
install... Yeah, the man command and/or the bash manual entry installation is busted-as-supplied. Here's a diagnosis I made in February: Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 22:38:36 +1100 From: Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error Message

Re: group nobody

2003-04-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
e group name | in Linux which correspondences to Solaris group "other"? Nothing special. Why do you think you want it? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Dan shouts back to be careful and I ignore that remark. If I wanted to be caref

Re: Viewing CP status

2003-03-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
fromfile >tofile and see it go. Sometimes useful. It uses my perl stuff so you you can either grab the few modules it uses from here: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/scripts/cs/ or just get the whole css package: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/ Cheers, -- Came

Re: Disk Errors then a crash

2003-03-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
error on ida/c0d0 | > | > After this, the messages just repeat until the crash... | | HHmmm. Find out what make/model the hard drive is, go to the web site, then | download and run the Hard Disk diagnostic software. There's also a "badblocks" command (if you can still be into Linu

Re: Configuring X Windows with Redhat 8

2003-03-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
| 'screens' seem to be misconfigured. | | What's the new utility for doing this? The X server itself can usually be used. See this: http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/redhat-install-list/msg57534.html Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://

Re: dmesg output - please interpret

2003-03-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
gicdev, which I think it is. I always disable magicdev and just use an entry in my automounter for the CD, so when you know there's a data disc in it you can just "cd /mnt/cdrom" and it gets mounted then. Not probing in the background. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: SSH quirk...

2003-03-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
#x27;re dicking with an ethernet interface or firewall rules it can cut your connection off from the RST packet, so your ssh connection never sees the drop of the connection, just silence. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Uhlmann's Razor: When

Re: dmesg output - please interpret

2003-03-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
tracks I recognize! | | ?? in fstab... do you have auto in the cdrom line??? I'm more inclined to think he has an audio CD in the drive, not a data CD. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ The ZZR-1100 is not the bike for me, but the

Re: some question about UNIX terms

2003-03-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
the "mcopy" command (see "man mcopy") Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ We should measure progress not by how many laws can be passed but by how little governing people need. -- Don Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: some question about UNIX terms

2003-03-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
section 1 is commands 2 is system calls (kernel API) 3 is library calls 4 is special files (devices, usually in /dev) 5 is file formats 6 is games 7 is conventions and miscellany 8 is administrative commands See "man 1 intro",

Re: help on tapes (urgent)

2003-03-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
drives? Broadly speaking a SCSI tape is a SCSI tape. I have used box DLT and DDS drives on RedHat boxes happily. You need to insmod the "st" driver, but then it all "just works". -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ With no clue of the t

Re: ls --full-time

2003-03-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
mtime2iso" and use in Tony's script: cd $targetdir for datafile in *; do formatteddate=`mtime2iso "$datafile"` mv "$datafile" "datafile.$formatteddate" done Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAI

Re: Tape backup software and drives

2003-03-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
e you start the next volume | but... AMANDA is widely used, and has worked for me. http://freshmeat.net/projects/amanda/?topic_id=137 Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is

Re: Terrible 'cp' loop

2003-03-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
sted your options. If the kernel _does_ ever give up on the error recovery the process _will_ die, but until then it'll grind away because it's not in code that considered the signal list. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Thre

Re: terminal timing out

2003-03-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
IP & do just as well? Ping will happily ping forever, which is what your loop is intended to do. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ My computer always does exactly what I tell it to do but sometimes I have trouble finding out what it w

Re: Crontab issue

2003-03-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
a file with the name of: | dbman_back-\03\08\2003\03\14-tar.gz Bugger. Maybe the manual lies. Just chuck it in a script and call the script: I tend to do that anyway myself as soon as a cron command becomes even slightly complex. It also means you don't need to worry about weird cron

Re: Crontab issue

2003-03-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
/bin/sh or by the shell specified in the SHELL variable of the cronfile. Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline characters, and all data after the first % will be sent to the command as stan

Re: How do I enable .cshrc while logging in

2003-03-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
the computer was | hung at interprocess communication and it warned | "Could not read Network connection list dcopserver | program /root/.DCOPserver_Truc:0 running. Please | check that dcopserver program is running" That's really weird. What else is in your .login file? -- Cameron

Re: keeping the pipe open

2003-03-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
splitting the above example up, but I hope the approach is now clear? Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ ..And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, till the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on themselves and

Re: test empty dir

2003-03-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
you want to know if it's empty? There may be a cleaner approach. In particular, I would point out that rmdir WILL NOT remove a nonempty directory, so you can go: rmdir /dirname 2>/dev/null with impunity, IF all you want to do is clean up an empty directory without risk of losing

Re: Questionmark tacked to filename

2003-03-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
or echo file_prefix* | od -c # trim the listing a bit Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ The usual work schedule (so far as I can figure) for the PhD folks around here is nine to five Monday through Friday. I have a slightly differ

Re: (no subject)

2003-03-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
ather expensive. It makes the mail system do lots of needless DNS lookups. It also means that a DNS outage can make your box start rejecting email. It means that is a domains DNS is completely down, you'll reject email from it. Your call. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: QuestionMark tacked to filename

2003-03-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
to see if anyone has seen this behavior on their Linux box before I talked to the vendor of this binary | code. Are you _sure_ there's a question mark as part of the name? What command are you using to show this? You may need to show us the script, too. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#

Re: ls operation changed

2003-03-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
Mar 1 16:55 .. | + set +vx Weirder and weirder. I've tried this on RH7 and RH8 and it behaves sanely (i.e. does NOT follow the symlink) for me. What disto are you running, and what version of ls (or fileutils)? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.a

Re: ls operation changed

2003-03-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
l. | Yes. | "alias ls" reports nothing. And plain "alias"? What does: ln -s /foo bah set -vx;ls -l bah; /bin/ls -l bah;set +vx recite? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ In My Egotistical Opinion, most people&#

Re: IBM T23 - DVD & Floppy Drives help?

2003-03-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
vd etc, pointing at the appropriate real devices. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ In retrospect, lighting the match was my mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve the gerbil.- Vito Bustone -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

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