Re: [SLUG] Banks colluding with Microsoft ?

; For what it is worth, when i hassled Westpac, they actually personally ; phoned and mailed me with an apology and a promise that they are actually ; working on making their website fully standards compliant. So far nothing ; has changed, but I live in hope. If you don't hassle them, they will kee

Re: [SLUG] Banks colluding with Microsoft ?

; I used do do this stuff for various clients including the oil industry.. ; and managed to keep interactive websites (orders, registrations, remote ; website updates..) operable and bulletproof with complex javascript etc. ; for the current AND previous versions of IE, NS, Opera, Knoqueror, on

[SLUG] disregard previous mail

Please disregard my last email with subject `9fans', it was accidentally generated. I considered not saying anything, but this is quicker than explaining to everyone individually what happened. (Those technically inclined can scroll down for a longer explanation)

[SLUG] difficult recruiters.

I'm sure this has been brought up before, I think the free software community (us) needs to do something about recruiters who *insist* on applicants submitting resumes and what-not in Microsoft Word format. I've been sending back a polite message saying that I simply do not use Microsoft software

Re: [SLUG] if [[ -e *.TXT ]] ; then

; I want to check to see if there are any files to move (otherwise I get an ; error message generated if there are none) ; Then move the relevant files ; ; if [[ -e *.TXT ]] ; then ; mv *.TXT /tmp ; fi yes, I thought as much. That's pointless, just move them. If there's nothing there, you won't

Re: [SLUG] if [[ -e *.TXT ]] ; then

; how do I check that a file with a particular extension exists in a directory ; in a shell script. a more relevant question is why do you want to? It sounds like you're checking to see if a file exists before you do something to it (process it, move it, delete it) this is a race condition and is

[SLUG] which (non-nvidia) graphics card?

This is probably a FAQ here -- but can anyone recommend a non-NVIDIA graphics card that has 2d _and_ 3d dri capabilities in XFree 4.0.3? Bonus points for suggesting a cheap place online to purchase one. :) cheers, r. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] morning question

;; I have a csv list of names and emails in the form below ;; name,email,company,title ;; I think it is allready sorted by the email field. ;; I want to do a case insensitive match on "email" and remove duplicates. ;$ sort -t , -k 2,2 test -u -f file # may suffice. sigh. s/test// r. -

Re: [SLUG] morning question

; I have a csv list of names and emails in the form below ; name,email,company,title ; I think it is allready sorted by the email field. ; I want to do a case insensitive match on "email" and remove duplicates. $ sort -t , -k 2,2 test -u -f file # may suffice. r. -- SLUG - Sydney Lin

[SLUG] Re: DNS problem after upgrade to woody

; After upgrading, I am unable to connect to mailserver with fetchmail, ; to remore hosts with apt, telnet, ssh, irc, lynx or mozilla. Messages ; are: unable to resolve host... something wicked happened... domain ; name could not be confirmed... it appears that there is a problem with ; DNS an

Re: [SLUG] Time Drift

; On my box (deadrat 6.2) the hwclock reports the right GMT but the system ; clock seems to have drifted over the 20 days the box has been up so it is ; now about quarter of an hour slow... ; ; any suggestions for why that is happening and a [fix | pointers to docs] ? ; http://cr.yp.to/clockspe

Re: [SLUG] sendmail replacement

; i want to get rid of sendmail and put in an easier to configure ; equivelant. i also want to transfer the current emails that are read ; through sendmail. ; ; so, can anyone suggest an easy to configure, secure, imap, email server ; other than sendmail? http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html http://www.gl

Re: [SLUG] Question about Email (what do u use?)

; has support for sending/retriving of multiple email acounts pop3 that is. I ; was woundering what do the slug users use or recommend besides netscapes ; email client :). nmh, why? It's text based, minimal, and adheres to the toolset approach (read _not_ monolithic), then again I have a sickness

[SLUG] NT and cityrail.

revealed the following.. Remote OS guesses: Linux 2.1.122 - 2.2.14, Linux kernel 2.2.13 I'm glad they woke up to themselves. -- Russell Davies UNIX Systems Administrator Deutsche Bank -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/lis

Re: [SLUG] Shell Script question

whoops, make that; - $ sed "s/,,/,'',/g;s/,,/,/g;s/,$//" <<_ + $ sed "s/,,/,'',/g;s/,,/,/g;s/,$//;s/^,//;" <<_ r. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Shell Script question

; and parses it to another program. I want to check each field to see if it is ; blank and if so exchange the blank for two single quotes (ie: '' ). ; I am trying to use an if statement right now, but I cant figure out how to ; represent a blank. [snip] ; What's wrong with the above picture? w

Re: [SLUG] Help with rm

; Of course you can, if it is your box you put on what you think makes it ; useful. Hundres of thousands of boxes have Perl on them. Which OSes ; come with Perl as standard? Solaris does *now* (v8), others are following ; as well. But they didn't used to. I avoid perl as well if I want something

Re: [SLUG] Help with rm

; The moment you find this to be the case, is the moment you should go out ; and compile the GNU toolchain for your platform. I don't like this argument. This often isn't an option. ; All these portability problems go away once everyone is using the GNU command s. IMO, it's better (and less eff

Re: [SLUG] Help with rm

; rm -rf /bad/directory ; ; this deletes the directory as well, you can mkdir /bad/directory again ; afterwards if you need that directory to be there. assumption. how do you know he didn't have dotfiles in that directory he wanted to preserve? r. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing Lis

Re: [SLUG] Help with rm

; >cd $dir && echo * | xargs -n 400 rm -f ; ; And just as well, echo * would have run into the same arglist ; limitations. ls | xargs rm would be better. ; quite.. without the performance hit of forking and running rm _for every file_ *ouch!* As an aside, I'd like to comment on the 'find . -pri

Re: [SLUG] Help with rm

; I have this from time to time and I think the way I did it is remove the ; files 1 at a time using this command: ; ; find /bad/directory/* -print -exec rm -fr {} \; that's horribly inefficient (assuming it works), surely if the problem is a limitation on argv, then wouldn't your /bad/directory

Re: [SLUG] Help with rm

; I have managed to runout of inodes on a partition du to a buggy routine. ; ; I know what I want to delete, but when I do rm -f * in the problem ; directory it comes back with "Argument list too long" ; ; Can anyone think of a way around this one? restricting the argument list by refining your

Re: [SLUG] Re: perl substitution of metacharacter

; one of the things i *really* dislike about gnu sed (the others are too ; far gone to be worth considering) is it doesn't support \123 style ; escapes That's funny, the following seems to suggest GNU sed is one of the few seds that DOES support it (which make IT not worth considering, GNU exten

Re: [SLUG] // ??

; I accidently typed cd // on one of my slackware 7.0 boxes. ; ; Surprisingly it happily took me to //, which seems to be an alias for the / ; directory. ; ; Interestingly this 'feature' does not occur on DeadRat, or on earlier ; versions of slackware. ; ; Does anyone know why this might have h

Re: [SLUG] perl substitution of metacharacter

; I would still use sed to do it, in particular from a shell script which may ; process a large number of files. ; ; Sed is much quicker to load than perl. the only problem being that sed doesn't cope with NULs, I'm talking about sed in general, not a particular version of GNU sed either, so d

Re: [SLUG] perl substitution of metacharacter

; garfield:~# ascii ^@ ; ASCII 0/0 is decimal 000, hex 00, octal 000, bits : called ^@, NUL ; Official name: Null ; ; So it's just a null so something like ; ; print $c unless ($c = 0); no, that's wrong. - you're assigning not comparing. - what are you comparing? (what

Re: [SLUG] perl substitution of metacharacter

; ; I have a file that's being processed by Perl that has a bunch of ; ; "^@" symbols in it. This is the "Control-at" character. ; ; I want to expunge the file of all the "^@" symbols. ; ; You seem to have NULs embedded in your file, many programs are well ; known for not coping with them too w

Re: [SLUG] perl substitution of metacharacter

; I have a file that's being processed by Perl that has a bunch of ; "^@" symbols in it. This is the "Control-at" character. ; I want to expunge the file of all the "^@" symbols. You seem to have NULs embedded in your file, many programs are well known for not coping with them too well. s/\00

Re: [SLUG] Sed Question

; This is driving me nuts, I've doen this before and do you think I can ; drag the command out of my memory! What's the syntax in sed that puts ; the wild card expresion matched in the first side of the substitute back ; in on the replace side? I believe you're thinking of '&'. r. -- SLUG - Sy

Re: [SLUG] Easy shell scripting question

; > > newmonth = `echo $oldmonth | sed -e 's/0\([1-9]\)/\1/'` ; > newmonth = `echo $oldmonth | sed -e 's/^0//'` ; > ; Both of these work on the target system, so I'm going with the one that ; involves the least typing. You can save another couple of keystrokes by omitting the '-e'. r. -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] sed help please

; $CHARS is not being expanded when enclosed within single quotes. ; ; try: ; sed -e "s?CHARS?$CHARS?g" firstly, you don't need the -e. secondly, there's no need for an alternate pattern/replacement seperator, sed is smart enough to recognise that when '$' is followed by something, it doesn't de

Re: [SLUG] Grepping a variable and spaces.

; You can eliminate all forking by learning some sed, although admittedly this I hasten to add 'except for the initial fork for sed' there. ;) r. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Grepping a variable and spaces.

; Try the -w (grep for word) option. ; ; Also you could reduce the pipeline to: ; ; grep -w $TMP < /tmp/modemlist$$.tmp 2>/dev/null | tail -1 ; You can eliminate all forking by learning some sed, although admittedly this is slighly less readable to novices than the grep -w|tail solution.

Re: [SLUG] Grepping a variable and spaces.

; grep is giving me a hard time in a script with the following line which need ; modifying: ; LINE=`cat /tmp/modemlist$$.tmp | grep -e $TMP 2>/dev/null | tail -1` ; ; $TMP contains a PID number which I need to grep out of the modemlist$$.tmp ; file but need to check with spaces eg.. " $TM

Re: [SLUG] name server weirdness

; It's not a problem for an individual with the skills. But for a ; distribution this is not good enough. Isn't this exact (bogus) argument applied to linux as a whole? I'm sick of hearing it, if you don't have those skills you shouldn't be playing with MTAs. r. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User G

Re: [SLUG] name server weirdness

; Crap. If all we had to do was to change the name, then qmail would've been ; part of Debian ages ago and we wouldn't have spent the huge amount of ; effort ; to convert our main server away from qmail. Read this from ; http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html: yes, that was an assumption on my part.

Re: [SLUG] name server weirdness

; dnscache is not free software. it certainly is free software. I suggest you review your facts. r. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] name server weirdness

; Any ideas what could be causing this? I recently upgraded to ; bind-8.2.2_P5-9, from the latest Redhat RPM, following a security alert, ; so that's my prime suspect. Has anyone else had problems? ; ; All my queries should be forwarded to the Uni's central nameserver ; (I've got a line ;

Re: [SLUG] Perl Q

; > Don't do that. In order to do what you want, you need to be using ; > array references. ; > return \(@a, @b); ; ; Ah. I had tried return (\@A, \@B); but got references back ; ie ; ARRAY(0x80d721c)1 ARRAY(0x80d7234) they're the same thing. ; perlref refers me also to perlreftut for a t

Re: [SLUG] Perl Q

; Simple Q, ; ; My perl script has a function and I want to return two ; arrays from the function. I found that I can't just assign ; the return values like this; ; ; (@A, @B) = readData(); ; ; sub readData ; { ; # get data and create @A and @B ; return (@A, @B); ; } Don't do t