changing permissions of files in directories

Hi I am just wondering if there is anything out there that lets you change permissions of all files in a directory tree but not the directories. I need the directories to stay executable but want to set the files to be read only. Thanks for any for any pointers John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

sed question

Hi I am just beginning to learn how to use sed in order to sort my squid log files by virtualhost and am having trouble getting my head around how the regular expression works. I can sort my log files into the different virtual hosts using grep eg "grep '^test' access-sed.txt > test.wilderne

Re: sed question

Hi Carlos Thanks for your help. On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:10:14 +0100 Carlos Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:20:46 +1000 John Habermann wrote: > > I have tried things like the following: > > > > sed -e 's/^w.*\s//' > log > &g

Re: sed question

thanks Carlos, that works great. I think I am beginning to get grasp regular expression syntax now. Thanks very much for you help John On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:05:38 +0100 Carlos Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:38:58 +1000 John Habermann wrote: &g

Content management systems evaluation

Just been evaluating open source Content Management Systems for the last couple of months. They have all been installed and are being tested on a debian system. I have been documenting the issues involved with the installation of the various systems and these are on the web at www.sydney.wilder

virtual servers vs dedicated servers

Hi I am just wondering if anyone has any advice on hosting using virtual dedicated servers. I have found a few companies that offer this service and am curious as to how it compares to dedicated servers in terms of performance. I see that most of them offer RedHat as the OS although Aktiom Net

logging apt-get/dpkg activity

Hi I am just wondering if anyone can tell me how I can set logging in apt-get or rather dpkg. I would like to keep track of what packages have been installed or removed but I can't seem to find any information on how to turn logging on in apt-get or dpkg. Is this possibe? I looked in syslog.co

mozilla url tab autocomplete

Hi I have been playing around with the different mozilla based browsers for linux and have found one thing that I would really love to know how to configure. When you start typing a url in the address bar in mozilla previous urls that match will show and you can simply press tab to select the

mozilla url tab autocomplete

Hi I have been playing around with the different mozilla based browsers for linux and have found one thing that I would really love to know how to configure. When you start typing a url in the address bar in mozilla previous urls that match will show and you can simply press tab to select the

Mozilla chrome registry problem

nks for any clues in how to fix this John Habermann -- John Habermann The Wilderness Society, Cairns Tel: 0417 783 642 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wilderness.org.au jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: Mozilla chrome registry problem

problems with before I bother the list. cheers John On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:46:12PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > John Habermann wrote: > > >The following is what is on line 68 in /usr/bin/update-mozilla-chrome: > > > > touch ${LIBDIR]/chrome/user-skins.rdf > > &g

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:32, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 07:49:01 +0100 > > "Phillip Deackes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:22:25 +0200 > > > > Luca Pasquali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Galeon is the only substitute that I've in mind by now, links rox > > > > >

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

reload the page it will work. Have emailed the webmaster for the site so will see what they have to say. On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:42, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Apr 09, 2002, John Habermann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:32, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > > >

Re: exim config b0rken

I had a similar problem with kmail when I set exim up. I was able to send mail out using balsa or mail but all I got from kmail was unrecognised protocol. I ended up deleting kmails mail folder and then setting kmail up again. It then seemed to work fine with exim so I thought there must have b

Re: Dual Boot with Win2k

Not sure how useful this will be to you but have included an attachment of my effort to get WIn2k and Linux dual booting. That was off different partitions on the same disk though. There is a couple of howtos at the ldp (see www.linux.org in the minihowtos section that might be a bit more useful

Re: compilation problems

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 12:23, Vivek Bharathan wrote: > Hello, I recently reformatted my hard drive and upgraded from potato to > woody. Previously, under potato, when I upgraded and recompiled my > kernel, I simply set the config file, typed make dep, and make install > and configured lilo and everyth

netscape bus error

what he started with. Thanks for any help John Habermann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

netscape bus error

nt, bit different to potato with gnome as the desktop, which is what he started with. I am really impressed that he has stuck with linux, shows you what happens when people start learning computers on linux. Thanks for any help John Habermann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: make-kpkg

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 05:04, dave mallery wrote: > > question: can i simply: dpkg -r kernel-image-2.4.18_custom1.0_i386.deb ?? > > > it needs to be obliterated, since it can't use the monitor. will the > above -r also re-arrange my /etc/lilo.conf? or do i have to do that by > hand? You can just r

Re: "mirror"

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 06:56, dave mallery wrote: > hi > > i have a second machine with a minimal woody install. my main deb machine > has been upgraded daily for a long time now. i just copied the contents > of is /var/cache/apt/archive (loads) to the minimal machine. > > how do i get the minimal m

Re: alpha-release of a bug-report & some questions

Here is a copy of /etc/apt/sources.list. I run unstable and although I am in Australia often find that it is quicker to run it of the main US servers which is why they are the uncommented ones. If you want to get your system to woody (ie testing) just uncomment the lines pointing to testing and

Re: 2.4.17 kernel for debian

want from the debian servers or even install the source and compile the kernel yourself! Have fun John Habermann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev/video

Have you tried mknod mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0 ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video see linuxusbguide.sourceforge.net and read the USB-guide for more information John Habermann On Sat, 4 May 2002 09:11, David Wright wrote: > I am running sid. I just plugged a Logitech Pro 3000 Quick