Once upon a time Daniel B. said...
> Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > ...(see this page,
> > http://www.zip.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html, for full info), etc,
> > ...
>
> Is anyone else having trouble accessing that page (unknown host)?
The host should be www.zip.com.au
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Once upon a time Geengun Guim said...
> Hi?
>
> c:\tmp\kbs+-www.kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-test.cgi
> c:\tmp\mbc+-ddd.mbc.co.kr+-cwb-bin+-yes.pl
> c:\tmp\sbs+-sbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-ddd.cgi
>
> =>
>
> move c:\tmp\kbs+-www.kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-test.cgi www.kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-test.cgi
> move c:\tmp\mbc+-ddd
Once upon a time Joerg Johannes said...
> Hi List
>
> Why does a mount change the file permissions of a directory?
> Example:
>
> ls -l /mnt
> drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 2003-01-20 18:29 d
> mount /mnt/d
> ls -l /mnt
> dr-x--1 root root 4096 2003-01-24 09:22 d
Once upon a time Joerg Johannes said...
> Hi Colin
> maybe I should have described not only the symptom, but also the problem
> arising from all this. I try to mount /mnt/d as user (I am allowed to do that
> according to /etc/fstab). After mounting it, I have no right to enter the
> directory I
Once upon a time martin f krafft said...
> i have 13Gb of data and a 15Gb harddrive that i need to pass to my
> cousin, who runs windoze. i made a 15Gb partition of type 0C (Win
> FAT32 (LBA)) and tried to call mkfs.vfat on it:
>
> piper:/home/madduck# mkfs.vfat /dev/hdc1
> mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 F
Once upon a time dave selby said...
>
> Every time i add *.ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, I xfstt
> force-reload, it counts the correct number including the new ones, HOWEVER
> xlsfonts | grep ttf, and gimp only see the old ones till I do a complete
> re-boot.
Run the command "xset fp
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:27:29AM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote:
>
> > Well, it seems "google is your friend" is used extensivly trough this
> > mailing list. I tried my best to make friends with him and to find a
> > sample iptables config file, with no success.
Have a look at http://www.linuxgur
I notice that in the unstable distribution that libvorbis0 has become
libvorbis0a, and that libvorbis0a conflicts with libvorbis0.
This is causing "apt-get dist-upgrade" to want to remove a lot of my
packages, packages that I'd rather keep.
I gather this is to do with splitting libvorbisenc and l
Once upon a time Brian Nelson said...
> Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If this is true, could I create a meta-package, libvorbis0, that depends
> > on libvorbis0a, libvorbisenc2 and libvorbisfile3? I would have to change
> > libvorbis0a so th
Once upon a time Geordie Birch said...
> said Oliver Fuchs (on 2003-03-18),
>
> > On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Christopher Swingley wrote:
> >
> > > What's the appropriate way to view the Mutt manual
> > > (/usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz)?
> >
> > 1) Running mutt and typing F1.
> > 2) vim /usr/share/do
Once upon a time Matthew Weier O'Phinney said...
>
> I just use 'zless /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz'. For 'less', I've
> used the traditional less tool as well as the less.sh VIM script; both
> have worked for me.
Instead of 'zless ...', you can put "eval $(lesspipe)" in your shell rc
file,
Once upon a time Curtis Vaughan said...
>
> Basically, the issue is this, I have 2 files: File1 File2
>
> Both are text files. File1 was File2 a day ago. Since then File2 has had
> additional information tagged on to it (it's a log file). All I want to
> see is what information has been added s
Once upon a time Kirk Strauser said...
> At 2003-03-18T16:49:08Z, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is there some incantation one has to perform to get a Save option? If so,
> > what is it? And WHY???
>
> Well, you can have a large number of files open at once. If the main "File"
> menu h
Once upon a time Peter Hicks said...
> Is there a correct debian way to use iproute2 in the
> /etc/network/interfaces file? I need to set up a firewall machine with
> multiple external ip addresses and would rather use the ip tool than
> aliasing the addresses to eth0. Does ifup and ifdown support
Once upon a time Pigeon said...
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:37:02AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 05:43:42PM -0700, Glenn English ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 14:54, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> > >
> > > > Sorry this won't help you but I've always
Once upon a time Kevin Coyner said...
>
> As I dig through the docs, I find that I need to su postgres in order to
> create other users. Problem is that if I su postgres, I get queried for
> a password. I've tried the obvious, including nothing, but haven't got
> in as postgres yet.
su to root
Once upon a time Sheldon Lee-Wen said...
> Hi,
>
>I'm trying to write a script where I can get the names of files in a
> directory. Normally this is easy, like this:
>
>for doc in `ls /var/www/htlml/files`
> do
> echo $i
> done
>
> However, some of the fi
Once upon a time Cameron Matheson said...
>
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 08:00:52PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> > I like using
> > maildirs mostly because mbox feels like a dirty hack, with the whole
> > "From " thing.
>
> What do you mean by the "From "-thing?
The message boundary in a mbox-st
Once upon a time Gilberto Garcia Jr. said...
> Hey folks,
>
> I found on xmms site this configuration
>
> chmod 620 /dev/dsp
> chmod 666 /dev/mixer
>
> It makes all my sound programs work fine.
While that will work, it is not how it should be done in Debian.
The right way is to add yourself to
Once upon a time Colin Watson said...
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:04:01AM +, Adam wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 October 2003 08:00, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> > > find -type f | xargs chmod 0644
> >
> > I would have come up with
> >
> > find PATH -type f -exec chmod 0644 '{}' ';'
> >
> > Is the versi
Once upon a time Ricardo Diz said...
>
> I've installed the lastest pppoe and pppoeconfig (I'm running unstable)
> and it all promised to be quite simple. I used pppoeconfig for setting
> things up and it seemed to work fine until it started the connection.
> Here is the log:
>
> Oct 4 17:29:02
Once upon a time Jason Pepas said...
> hello,
>
> ide-scsi appears to be grabbing devices which I don't wish to be scsi.
>
> [...]
>
> how can I make ide-scsi only grab the devices I tell it to?
append="ignore=hdx" where hdx is the drive to NOT be ide-scsi.
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Once upon a time William C Brennan said...
>
> What is the "standard" way to permanently add a route to luke's routing
> table,
> so I don't have to manually do it after booting? It must be obvious,
> but I can't seem to find this documented anywhere.
man interfaces
For the static method, use
Once upon a time Neal Lippman said...
>
> eg, I create a directory called /home/restricted, and then want to mount
> a local disk partition containing an ext2fs file system:
> mount /dev/hda8 /home/restricted
>
> When I do the mount, the ownership and permissions of /home/restricted
> are n
Once upon a time Bruno Boettcher said...
>
> and i am looking on to where to switch on again the TCP part, to let the
> X server listen on the net as well
That depends on how you start your X server.
The argument "-nolisten tcp" is passed by default to the X server
process.
I'm using kdm,
Once upon a time W.D.McKinney said...
> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks. man crontab doesn't tell me what the syntax is for a "every 5
> minute"
> job though, and that's what I need. Any other ideas ?
man 5 crontab
This will tell you about the crontab file format.
man crontab
This tells you about the cro
Once upon a time nate said...
>
> drawbacks to reiserfs:
> - it does not handle bad blocks, so if your disks are of questionable
> quality you may have trouble if they start mapping bad blocks in the area
> where data is stored.
This is also a drawback to XFS - I think. I'm guessing that my hard
In a previous email to this list I stated:
> The authors of XFS seem to think that because it is a journalling
> filesystem, a filesystem repair tool is not necessary.
This was in response to the fsck.xfs man page that says it does nothing.
I was too hasty in saying this.
There is another tool
Once upon a time Pigeon said...
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:16:11 +, Chris Lale
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >One of my partitions is 8Gb and I have noticed exactly this behaviour.
> >It also takes aeons to mount during boot. Do you think I should convert
> >all my partions to ext3, or just
Once upon a time Levi Waldron said...
>
> Before the switch,
> -change fstab references from hda to hdb
> -in lilo.conf, change the root filesystem to root=/dev/hdb1 but leave
> boot=/dev/hda
> -run lilo
> -Put the HD in the secondary position and the win HD back in its primary
> position. Set
Once upon a time Try KDE said...
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to run the following script:
> for f in $(find . -name "*.txt"); do cmd1;cmd2;cmd3; done
> ,where cmd1, cmd2 and cmd3 are arbiturary commands. The problem is, if
> the found file names contain a space , for example "part1 part2.txt"
> will
Once upon a time Derrick 'dman' Hudson said...
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:16:13AM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
> | On Friday 29 November 2002 7:19 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> | > I just got a 20GB hard drive to add to my system. I'm familiar with
> | > the legacy DOS/Windows partition tabl
Is there any way that I can get dpkg to run custom scripts either before
or after it runs a package's pre/post install/remove scripts?
I know that I can configure apt-get to run pre/post invoke scripts, but
I'd like to hook into dpkg because not everything is done through apt.
The reason I want t
Once upon a time Andrew Perrin said...
> No, it's not more insecure; you're assuming the hypothetical hacker knows
> that there is an algorithm, and which character(s) are filled in by it.
...and you're assuming that security through obscurity is just as secure
as a secure encryption algorithm.
How can I stop kernel messages appearing on the console or at least
redirect them somewhere else? They're already going to syslog, so I dont
need to see the stuff on the screen.
It's having two undesirable effects:
1) During bootup, init script messages and kernel messages are
intertwined. eg. "S
I'm running unstable and the latest libc upgrade has caused me problems
with vmware 3.2 (see bug report #205328). The problem is with libc6
2.3.2. Vmware runs fine with 2.3.1.
It looks like there's been some ABI breakage with regard to threads in
that minor upgrade.
As an attempt to work around t
Once upon a time Bob Proulx said...
> Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> > I'm running unstable and the latest libc upgrade has caused me problems
> > with vmware 3.2 (see bug report #205328). The problem is with libc6
> > 2.3.2. Vmware runs fine with 2.3.1.
>
> You may n
Once upon a time Kent West said...
> Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
>
> >i am unable to start x from a screen session.
> >
> >it exits with a message 'user not authorized to run x server'. how can i
> >remedy it?
> >
> >will i be opening a security hole if i overcome this problem?
> >
> Look at the "all
Once upon a time Lukas Latz said...
> Barry,
>
> su -m surely does it. So what property that's carried over is it that
> makes the difference?
The difference is $HOME.
If you use just 'su', your user environment is inherited by the root
shell, except for some variables that get replaced by su. O
Once upon a time Lukas Ruf said...
> * Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-02 18:33]:
> > * Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-02 18:28]:
> > > At 2003-04-02T13:30:54Z, Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > running Debian sid, I can mount arbitrary, in fstab-preconfigured
Once upon a time Ina&Frank said...
>
> My question is that I want to exclude some of the ip addresses (PC's) to
> connet to the internet after, let say 21:00hrs each day. And when they
> are connectet at that time, to cut them off. The other addresses my
> still connect.
>
> Is there a way to
Once upon a time Gregory Seidman said...
>
> } Of course, configuring xterms can be annoying
>
> ...unless you bother to learn about Xt resources. Xterm is nearly
> infinitely configurable.
And dont forget about the control sequences documented in
/usr/share/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.txt.gz.
With
Once upon a time will trillich said...
>
> - my prompt includes escape sequences to hilite user@host:path
> and gnome-terminal gets all confused on cursor positioning,
> particularly when using word-delete to edit the command line.
> (i'd expect the linux console tohave similar conniptions,
Once upon a time Bill Moseley said...
>
> I have menu items that run xterms that ssh to different machines. I set
> xterm options on the command line to change colors and title. But is there
> a way in the .Xresources file to say settings apply to a specific xterm
> process by setting a command l
Once upon a time Michael Naumann said...
>
> >>I want my bash to obey eof (^D) only if there are no jobs in the background.
You can do it with the variable PROMPT_COMMAND. Its value is executed
prior to each prompt.
eg.
function job_test {
if [ -z "$(jobs)" ] ; then
set +o ignoreeof
els
Once upon a time will trillich said...
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:12:51AM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> >
> > With a combination of Xt resources (translations) and control sequences,
> > I've been able to do nifty things like bind function keys to change the
>
Once upon a time Victor said...
> I have just made a sbm floppy for debian from their latest stable relase
> cd, but when I insert into the system's floppy drive, GRUB always loads
> over it for some reason, how do I get to startup from the floppy or to
> get grub to start up from the debian cd?
Once upon a time [EMAIL PROTECTED] said...
> On 05 Jan 2003 18:19:08 +0800,
> Elijah wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Actually, if you want to use mplayer, you _really_ should download the
> > > source from the main site http://www.mplayerhq.hu and compile it.
> > >
> > > Sean
> >
> > I've already done th
Once upon a time Rob VanFleet said...
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:09:59PM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> [...]
> > . Changing font size and resizing xterm on keypress
> >
> > In your .Xresources (or .Xdefaults), add this:
> >
> > --- cut here ---
>
Once upon a time nate said...
>
> Most common problem I find is when trying to run a program
> as root on a remote system by doing su before executing the program. This
> can cause a authentication mismatch or something. Only workaround I've found
> is to login to the system as root and run it dir
Once upon a time Ross Tsolakidis said...
> Hi all,
>
> Running Debian Woody on my gateway box at home.
> 1 NIC connected to ADSL modem, the other to my network (standard setup).
>
> I use the debian package to do pppoe, (roaring penguin).
>
> I seem to be having issues when I drop line sync for
Once upon a time Glyn Millington said...
>
> I want to do this in the Debain way though - What I cannot completely
> grasp is the Debian way with fvwm, where most of the user configuration
> is done in "hook" files called from the system .fvwm2rc file. I'm not
> clear what should go into which h
Once upon a time Morten Bo Johansen said...
> Hi,
>
> If I wanted to create an alias for the loopback interface in
> /etc/network/interfaces corresponding to e.g.
>
># ifconfig lo:0 192.168.1.1
>
> then how should the entry look like?
Here's a section from my /etc/network/interfaces file:
Once upon a time Russell said...
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >
> > I think a more sensible rule is to only put directories in $PATH that
> > are at least as trusted as the relevant account. Thus, /usr/bin and so
> > on are always fine, ~/bin is only fine for the owning user, and . is
> > never a good
Once upon a time =?iso-8859-15?B?RW1pbCBI5Gdlcmx1bmQ= ?= said...
> OK and thanks!
>
> Re: Proxy information is generally stored by each program individually.
> Re: That means if you use, e.g., Mozilla for X and lynx for console, you'll
> Re: need to set the proxy information in each. Each should
Once upon a time Bill Wagner said...
> But one thing that is really getting me is that this kernel
> module is not getting loaded when the machine comes up.
>
> At least in a RH based distro, I would typically have an entry like this
> in my /etc/modules.conf:
>
> alias eth0 eepro100
>
> And th
Once upon a time David Baron said...
> On Monday 29 November 2004 16:04, Sam Watkins wrote:
> > If you want to see what variables are set, type:
> >
> > set
> >
> > this shows shell functions too.
> >
> > you can save these variables (and possibly functions) in a file:
> >
> > set > myvariables
Once upon a time Nate Bargmann said...
> * Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 29 15:15 -0600]:
> > Ok. I got bored and spend a minute writing this:
> >
> > function savevars()
> > {
> > for var in "$@" ; do
> &g
Once upon a time Cameron Hutchison said...
>
> I was working on a proper solution, but put it aside when I got to nine
> consecutive backslashes in a sed expression.
Replying to my own posts - a sign of madness.
A further sign is that I think I've got a function that will do
Once upon a time Cameron Hutchison said...
>
> function savevars()
> {
> for var in "$@" ; do
> eval echo $var='$(echo $'$var' | sed -e "s/'\''/'\'''\'\''/g" -e
> "s/
Once upon a time Miquel van Smoorenburg said...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >How might one save and restore setting of variables in a bash script to and
> >from a file in one's home (or sub-) directory?
>
> Okay so everybody's trying to outdo each
Once upon a time Thanhvu Nguyen said...
>
> I want to forward all my old mails to a new email address one by one
> instead of a big achieve. Of course I can manually forward one by one but
> I like to have this automated. Is there any (mail) application that allows
> me to do filters to do what I
Once upon a time martin f krafft said...
> adduser on a default Debian system will create a new group for each
> new user, and make e.g. /home/joe be joe:joe. Why?
>
> joe is *not* given rights to add members to the group. So what's the
> point? I think this is a RedHat-ism, and I think they never
Once upon a time Bob Alexander said...
> Robert Waldner wrote:
> >Which filesystem do you use?
> >
> >On my laptop, ext3:
>
> Robert,
> you are a genius ! (as ALMOST all Roberts :)).
>
> I am trying to do it on a FAT32 filesystem which of course is strongly
> objecting :)
>
> Thank you.
> Bob
>
> On (22/12/04 20:19), Juhasz Sandor wrote:
> >
> > I have to implement default umask 002 for my users on my Debian server.
> > I use KDM login. I searched the net, and I found tips only on setting umask
> > on console, and on terminal emulators. (The standard /etc/profile,
> > ~/.bashrc, /etc/bas
Once upon a time Cameron Hutchison said...
>
> To prepare a directory hierarchy for group use, I do the following:
>
> # chgrp -R $group $dir
> # find $dir -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 2770
>
> (I usually use mode 2775, but I think you wanted 2770 from your
> descr
Once upon a time Clive Menzies said...
>
> I've never really understood what the first digit does but
> having reread the chmod manpage it falls into place almost. Setting
> the group ID at 2, means any file or directory created by someone in 'group'
> will apply the same attributes?
Not q
Once upon a time Vineet Kumar said...
> * Cameron Hutchison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041222 14:56]:
> > # find $dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod g=u,o=-rwx
>
> To reduce this yet further, you could do it as
>
> chmod -R g=u $dir
>
> This handles both directories and
Once upon a time Deboo Geek said...
> On 5/8/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hit Escape, return to Normal mode and then use your H,J,K,L keys to move.
>
> I wish there was a way or some shortcut instead of extending the left
> hand and hitting Escape. Thanks anyway.
You c
Once upon a time Andrea Vettorello said...
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:13:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > What im meaning is say i have a 2.4.xx kern and a 2.6.xx kern they both are
> > gonna excute /etc/modules and /etc/modules.conf but say i want differeent
> > modules
Once upon a time Jim McCloskey said...
>
> |> FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/
>
> I've been banging my head against this problem for a week and a half
> now. I get the error message at boot time, but udev (as far as I can
> tell) seems to work as it is supposed to.
Are you sure udev is
Once upon a time Ray Kong said...
> I just installed the testing version, sarge, and I got nothing when I do
> man on opendir and readdir.
>
> $ man opendir
> No manual entry for opendir
>
> can someone tell me which package i should install? I am not lazy or
> something, believe me, I have tried
Once upon a time bing yu said...
> thanks I got the problem solved by another path : mount the device to
> none-root user, so I need no su to root when I locate to my /mnt/media
>
> the vfat file system go well by add this in the /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda7 /mnt/media vfat umask=0,uid=1003,gid=1003,
Once upon a time bing yu said...
>
> As Cameron Hutchison's reply to the list, I will check the docs of XFS
> to see the permissions.
I wasn't referring to anything XFS specific. XFS implements standard
unix permissions, so you want to look at the man pages for chmod and
chown.
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Once upon a time martin f krafft said...
> also sprach Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.04.1741 +0200]:
> >I need to move some files from a server to client. I am planning to
> > use scp for this. Using scp, I can only copy the files. But I want to
> > move the files instead of
Once upon a time Henry Lenzi said...
>
> I am currently running Woody and I created a chrooted sid partition.
> Here's my current partition scheme for sid:
If sid is in a chroot, it does not have a partitioning scheme. It lives
on the filesystem on which woody was installed.
> Filesystem
Once upon a time Adam Funk said...
> When I log out of xfce4, the gdm login box appears normally. Not long
> afterwards, an "X" (like the multiplication symbol rather than the
> letter) appears right in the middle of the screen. When I log back in,
> it stays on the screen until I run kmail or kn
Once upon a time Jerome BENOIT said...
>
> I am envisaging to buy a (cheap) wireless router (at least b compatible)
> which can run (Debian) Linux ?
I have two Linksys WRT54G's. They run Linux but by default you wouldn't
know since they are configured through web pages. I have since flashed
them
Once upon a time Lance Hoffmeyer said...
> How can I get a count of the number of files in a directory?
> directory + subdirectoies?
in a directory:
$ ls -1 $dir | wc -l
for subdirectories too:
$ find $dir -type f | wc -l
That last one gives you only the count of files. Directories themselves
ar
Once upon a time Lance Hoffmeyer said...
>
> find -maxdepth 1 -type d | cat -n
>
> but these two methods list all the hidden directories as well,
> .news, .mozilla ...
>
> I tried du --max-depth=1 --exclude '\.*' but it excluded everything
> (Guess it treated it as .*).
>
> How can I list only
I'm using evolution 2.0.2 to read my email.
When I get email with attachments from people in the windows world,
often the filenames will have spaces in them. When I go to save the
attachment to disk, the spaces in the filename are changed to
underscores.
Is there any way to turn off this behaviou
Once upon a time Nick Hastings said...
>
> I think you missed my point: I don't use xinerama nor do I want to.
> I'm using a dual head setup with a *single* matrox card.
>
> What I want is to somehow have my window manager or desktop
> environment to behave as described in chapter 9 of the xinerm
Once upon a time Nick Hastings said...
> Hi,
>
> * Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041110 17:11]:
> > Once upon a time Nick Hastings said...
> > >
> > > I think you missed my point: I don't use xinerama nor do I want to.
> > > I&
Once upon a time Bob Proulx said...
> Michael B Allen wrote:
>
> > Well the exec -l $SHELL -c "$STARTUP" solution fixes that
>
> Agreed.
>
> > provided /bin/sh exec accepts the option like bash.
>
> That was the problem with /bin/sh. /bin/sh is not required to accept
> args like /bin/bash. In
Once upon a time John Summerfield said...
> Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>
> >Does this exist?
> >
> >Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant?
> >
> >
> ^^
> I don't understand.
>
> According to dictionary.com,
> 1 entry found for perform
Once upon a time Silvan said...
>
> It would be cool if this process could use a CVS-style merge instead. I
> wonder how hard it would be to do this in practice?
>
> I guess it's not such a simple matter as merging two source files, really.
It's a matter of a 3-way merge, as cvs does it. The
Once upon a time Matt Perry said...
> On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 12:35, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know how I can make SHIFT+TAB do the same thing in my bash
> > shell as TAB does (ie. tab-complete)?
>
> Bash does that by default for me. Running Sarge here. I was able to do
> it over
Once upon a time Scarletdown said...
> On Wednesday 04 August 2004 22:29, Roy Pluschke wrote:
> >
> > then configure with ./configure --with-qt3-dir=/usr/share/qt3
>
> And that gave the same error as before:
You need in install the -dev packages, either libqt3-dev or
libqt3-mt-dev or maybe both
Once upon a time John Hasler said...
> Tong writes:
> > Thanks, John, that's something I am thinking of as the last resort.
>
> Why as a last resort?
Hard disk crash. I've gone through the same pain as the original poster.
It is not enough to simply backup /etc, as some packages automatically
ge
Once upon a time John Hasler said...
> Cameron Hutchison writes:
> > Hard disk crash. I've gone through the same pain as the original poster.
>
> So you mean restore, not reinstall.
Well, both. I restored my system by reinstalling it.
> Any package that overwrites your
Once upon a time Devin Atencio said...
>
> I am kind of stumped cause I downloaded the kernel-source-2.4.23
> from apt-get, Then ran make-kpkg kernel_image. I then ran dpkg
> -i kernel-image-whatever.deb And installed the kernel. When
> I reboot the machine it still boots the old kernel. I even
>
Once upon a time Nate Duehr said...
>
> On Sunday, Jan 18, 2004, at 13:28 America/Denver, Yan Xu wrote:
>
> >I am new to debian and linux. I installed Debian last week. Now, I
> >have a problem. If I press Ctrl - s in a terminal or in Emacs, the s
> >key will not reponse anymore no matter how I
I'm looking to clean up my display as my machine boots. Up until the
time init(8) starts, everything is fine. After that point, kernel
messages and init script messages become interleaved, and I find it
difficult to tell at a glance if something has gone wrong on startup
(and on the fast machines o
Once upon a time Doug MacFarlane said...
>
> I will shortly need to copy about 100 gb of data from one filesystem to
> another. [...]
>
> Any suggestions? Just exactly how would one tar one filesystem to another,
> without the intermediate tar file?
I've done it using cpio(1), since tar didn't
Once upon a time Kevin Mark said...
> Hi D-u,
> I'm trying to get gcc to compile some basic c++ programs and I'm running
> into some probably some really basic setup mistakes.
> gcc works with C programs.
> but c++ programs cant find the libs.
> =
Once upon a time Micha Feigin said...
> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 12:00:03PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> > On 2004-05-28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned:
> > > s. keeling wrote:
> > >>
> > >> However, this is likely only a problem for those of us who hate tabs.
> > >> Those who like tabs are blissfu
Once upon a time s. keeling said...
> Incoming from David Baron:
> > Is there a little script that can be cron-d to check if the internet
> > connection (pptp -> ppp0) is up and if not, reconnect?
>
> Try using the keyword "persist" in /etc/ppp/options.
For some reason, that does not work for me
Once upon a time Faheem Mitha said...
> On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, John Hasler wrote:
> > Faheem Mitha writes:
> > > Can anyone help me with a seemingly Debian-specific Python bug, Debian
> > > bug no. 252517 (see
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252517 )
> >
> > > Firstly, can anyon
I've just installed udev on my unstable box. This box has an nvidia
graphics card, and I run vmware.
How should I configure the system so that the appropriate device nodes
will be present in /dev on startup for both nvidia and vmware?
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Once upon a time Michael B Allen said...
> For some reason bash isn't sourcing /etc/profile. In fact after adding .
> /etc/profile to .bash_profile I don't think .bash_profile is being sourced
> b/c it had no effect.
The man page for bash explains what files are read on startup, in the
section INV
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