On Wed 16 Mar 05, 10:42 PM, Rod Roark [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 10:26 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
What's the quick and dirty way of using md5sum or sha1sum to check the
equivalence of the files residing in two directories? I suppose I can whip
up a Perl script to
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
[...]
Another question (with my tail between my legs).
When I do this, I get many Stale NFS file handle messaages:
$ diff -r project2/ /dvd/
diff: project2/Getting Started with Corel Painter 8/data/movies/chap05:
Stale NFS file handle
On Thu 17 Mar 05, 8:03 AM, Jeff Newmiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
[...]
Another question (with my tail between my legs).
When I do this, I get many Stale NFS file handle messaages:
$ diff -r project2/ /dvd/
diff:
Any file that diff reported Stale NFS file handle, I can cat, edit,
play,...
I don't even know how to diagnose the cause.
I've no idea either what's wrong, but if I were you, I'd start by seeing
what syscall diff is using (and cat etc. aren't) that provokes the
error. Try running your diff
On Thu 17 Mar 05, 8:54 AM, Josh Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Any file that diff reported Stale NFS file handle, I can cat, edit,
play,...
I don't even know how to diagnose the cause.
I've no idea either what's wrong, but if I were you, I'd start by seeing
what syscall diff is using
ok... this might be a dumb question... but as my home machine is now
an OS X machine, a few little things are driving me nuts...
the lack of the seq command is one of those things. I have tried
searching for the source code for the version that is normally found on
most normal *NIX
Dylan Beaudette wrote:
ok... this might be a dumb question... but as my home machine is now
an OS X machine, a few little things are driving me nuts...
the lack of the seq command is one of those things. I have tried
searching for the source code for the version that is normally found
on
on Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:33:06PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Mon 14 Mar 05, 9:31 AM, Bob Scofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Of course I do not expect much sympathy from Debian users for this type of
computing. But after Ken's answer to my question about apt
First: don't start a new thready by replying to a message from an
existing one. Your email headers will cause your message to appear in
the other (unrelated) thread.
Compose a new message and address it to list instead.
on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:19:02PM -0800, John Wojnaroski ([EMAIL
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:33:06PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Mon 14 Mar 05, 9:31 AM, Bob Scofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Of course I do not expect much sympathy from Debian users for this type of
computing. But after Ken's answer to my
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:28:27PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:42:41PM -0800, Mark K. Kim ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
But this works only if the remote computer has a ssh server with X
forwarding enabled, which it is by default on most systems I've
seen.
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:42:41PM -0800, Mark K. Kim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, John Wojnaroski wrote:
[snip]
I'm trying to login into a remote host and have the host export the screen
display back to my machine
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:28:27 -0800
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:42:41PM -0800, Mark K. Kim
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
$xhost +
BAD MARK. NO DONUT. OR COOKIE.
Please do NOT suggest people try this, particularly...
*but* this will work
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:42:41PM -0800, Mark K. Kim [censored] wrote:
[snip]
$xhost +
BAD MARK. NO DONUT. OR COOKIE.
Lols. In theory, you're right that it's a bad advice. In practice, it's
not a problem, especially for:
1. Brief
On Thu 17 Mar 05, 2:26 PM, Mark K. Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
My autoshop teacher once told me that a good mechanic always uses the
correct wrench for the correct nut, so a good mechanic should never use
the monkey wrench (a.k.a. adjustable wrench.) But a good mechanic, he
added, would
Mark K. Kim wrote:
BTW, John, you can add a hostname after the '+' sign to allow connections
only from that computer. Example:
$xhost +remote_host_ip_or_name
which would be the next next best thing to ssh -X and MIT magic cookie
thingy.
This is still fairly insecure on the internet, however, as
On Thursday 17 March 2005 02:03 pm, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
In danger of starting a flame war, I am going to give my view of Debian.
Debian is in fact based on wonderful ideas, but it has horrible
implementation.
Seeing as how I both love and hate Debian, a flame war would be difficult for
On Thu 17 Mar 05, 2:56 PM, Bob Scofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Thursday 17 March 2005 02:03 pm, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
Debian's installation process is difficult and requires
intimate knowledge of how linux works. In order to have an up-to-date
system, you risk instability (with
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
Datapoint: I have tried, and failed, to install Gentoo twice. I never
failed to install Debian.
Yep, I know, everyone is shaped by their experiences. I've tried, and
failed, with Debian about 3 times. The last time was about the time I
first tried Gentoo... which
Closely related topic: Opening an X11 client as a user different from
the one one is logged in as. (The typical situation is that you wish to
open some -- preferably small and conservatively coded -- X11 app with
root-user authority, while logged in as a non-root user.)
I've collected a list of
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:11:06PM -0800, John Wojnaroski wrote:
As far as I can tell, this may be one of the few cockpit simulations
using Linux as the platform rather than all that MS stuff...
Additionall info on the flightgear website under the projects page
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:21:52PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
- Mark Kim's xhost+ advice. DON'T DO THIS. EVER. Google for the
reasons, they're well known and tedious to recount. Fortunately,
most sane X servers don't allow this in their default sessions.
It's fine in a LAN
Quoting Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Debian's installation process is difficult and requires intimate
knowledge of how linux works.
Which of the couple of dozen installers for Debian are you referring to?
Please see: Installers on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian
In order to have an
Someone wants to install Linux on a Mac iBook (i.e. PowerPC arch.) at
the installfest Saturday. This is new to me. Any recommendations,
especially in regards to distribution? For new users, I often go with
Fedora. I see that the test version of Fedora 4 is out with a version
for PPC. I'll
On Thursday 17 March 2005 03:23 pm, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
Someone wants to install Linux on a Mac iBook (i.e. PowerPC arch.) at
the installfest Saturday. This is new to me. Any recommendations,
especially in regards to distribution? For new users, I often go with
Fedora. I see that the
Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Debian's installation process is difficult and requires intimate
knowledge of how linux works.
Which of the couple of dozen installers for Debian are you referring to?
Please see: Installers on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian
See,
Quoting Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Someone wants to install Linux on a Mac iBook (i.e. PowerPC arch.) at
the installfest Saturday. This is new to me. Any recommendations,
especially in regards to distribution? For new users, I often go with
Fedora. I see that the test
Quoting Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
See, that's the beginning of the problem. What installer to use?
Freedom of choice sucks, doesn't it? ;-
Why isn't there a standard one that just works?
Notice the pointer icons for installation options known to be excellent
of their kind?
On Thu 17 Mar 05, 6:49 PM, Mitch Patenaude [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hmm... just a guess. Is lockd running on lucifer?
File locking was added in NFS4, but for backward compatibility it was
run in a separate daemon. I'm guessing that most programs don't
bother with file locking, but it
On Thursday 17 March 2005 15:20, Bill Kendrick wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:21:52PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
- Mark Kim's xhost+ advice. DON'T DO THIS. EVER. Google for the
reasons, they're well known and tedious to recount. Fortunately,
most sane X servers don't
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:21:49 -0800, Richard Harke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have to do xhost + in order to run firefox. I found this after googling
because it wouldn't run at all. I am behind a NAT router but I would rather
not do this. On the other hand, I have been using firefox more and
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:13:16 -0500, Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It appears that I have stumbled onto a bug that exists (and apparently, has
always existed). NFS mounting a vfat or msdos partition has issues.
A (somewhat hackish) workaround would be to use samba for filesharing
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