Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-26 Thread Jan Trippler
On Mit, 26 Feb 2003 at 15:32 (-0600), Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Over the past few weeks, I've been recieving several pieces of mail > directly to my inbox because users are Bcc'ing (for what ever reason) > the debian-user list. I would like to ask those people to please NOT bcc > the list. If yo

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-19 Thread Jan Trippler
On Son, 19 Jan 2003 at 15:40 (+), Hugh Saunders wrote: > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill > > 1609 ?S 0:01 xine /dev/hdc > 1610 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc > 1618 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc > 1619 ?S 0:00 xine /dev/hdc > 1620 ?

Re: very slow Linux clock

2003-02-16 Thread Jan Trippler
On Son, 16 Feb 2003 at 15:05 (+0200), Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I have big trouble with my Linux Clock: > it is very slow, so [1] the time becomes quickly wrong > and [2] updates with NTP stuff (or others) seems ridiculous. > > How can we fix it ? I'm not sure, but try to delete /etc/adjtime, set up

Re: default run level

2003-04-03 Thread Jan Trippler
On Don, 03 Apr 2003 at 14:39 (-0600), Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote: > Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change inittab to so that > the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X? 2 Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: awk usage question

2003-05-30 Thread Jan Trippler
On Don, 29 Mai 2003 at 20:19 (-0400), Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I'm trying to filter a file from tcpdump (actually tethereal) using awk, > but am stuck in one spot. > > In words, what I'd like to do is: > > 1. only read lines with the word "Message" in it > 2. in lines with "Message", ou

Re: Mounting USB devices

2003-01-12 Thread Jan Trippler
On Son, 12 Jan 2003 at 14:34 (+0100), ernst wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > > One more dumb question...how do I know my user ID? > > cat /etc/group |grep your_username Useless use of cat award ;-) grep your_username /etc/group But so you will not get the _user_ id. Try

Re: Sed or Awk Question

2003-01-14 Thread Jan Trippler
On Die, 14 Jan 2003 at 13:42 (-0500), Jody Grafals wrote: > > Dose anyone know how to replace a line break with a space using sed or > awk? > > for example > > cat > dog > goat > duck > > would become > > cat dog goat duck You don't need to use sed or awk: jan@k500:~/tmp> x=`cat animal