Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
Hi,
I have an Acer 19" wide screen (AL1916W) which doesn't display text
properly, even on the terminal. I run GNOME on unstable, and this
problem shows in various resolutions I've tried, and the screen's own
resolution of 1440x900 is not available on GNOM's menu. Attac
Russell L. Harris wrote:
Regarding Dictionary 2.14.0, the Gnome desktop dictionary applet for Etch:
Clicking on the applet opens an overlapping (i.e., always-on-top)
window to display the definition of a word. But the window is
entirely too small, and invariably requires tedious scrolling. The
Brian Durant wrote:
OK, maybe I am posting the wrong error message? Here is what I get
after I update in Synaptic:
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimedia/dists/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz:
404 Not Found
It looks to me like the path is correct, however I
Marko Randjelovic wrote:
I installed sun-java with apt-get:
sun-java5-bin - 1.5.0-08-1
sun-java5-demo - 1.5.0-08-1
sun-java5-doc - 1.5.0-08-1
sun-java5-fonts - 1.5.0-08-1
sun-java5-jdk - 1.5.0-08-1
sun-java5-jre - 1.5.0-08-1
sun-java5-source - 1.5.0-08-1
Then I dowloaded java_app_platform_sdk-5
Hi list. I'm running into a little bit of a problem with package
management on my system and I was hoping someone out there might help:
My problem occurs with apt-get, aptitude, dselect, synaptic or any other
front-end to apt.
I can manually download packages and successfully install/upgrade
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
what version of apt-get?
check out bug 401263.
Interestingly, though the bug says it applies to 0.6.46.2, I am
running that with no problems. (k7 arch). but there are a variety of
possible solutions posted.
you may have to use dpkg to manually install an older(or
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
check out the package apt-listbugs. It puls down critical (and maybe
severe) bug reports and prompts you before installing packages. That's
how I saw the segfault bug in apt and held my apt and apt-utils at the
current version pending resolution.
A
The funny thi
José Alburquerque wrote:
When installation pauses because of a pending bug, does that always
mean that a package should not be installed?
Oops I didn't realize that the man page for apt-listbugs sort of
explains it. Never mind the simplistic question. :-)
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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
mostly I ignore anyhting marked as . Anything marked as
(or other things, are there others?) I review carefully to
see if it applies on my system. Often, the bugs are for different
architectures or are things that aren't critical to me and I can
safely ignore them. I
Shrinivasan T wrote:
Friends.
I got the debian etch testing 25 cds and converted them into 3 DVDs.
Installed debian etch testing using those DVDs.
and I wished to update all the multimedia stuff.
so added the debian-multimedia.org repository.
My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this.
---
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hi everyone. I have a usb-audio-device (aka a skype phone), and a
couple of speakers plugged into my regular soundcard. I can get sound
out of either device separately, but not both. I feel that I should
be able to use both the soundcard, and the usb-audio-device at th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have an emergency boot disk -- a floppy on which lilo wrote an MBR.
It works fine. I use it to dual-boot a functinoal sarge and a severely
broken etch (well, actually the etch doesn't boot).
The etch installer's lilo won't run. I could try running the installer
ag
Mike McCarty wrote:
José Alburquerque wrote:
As far as I know, lilo and grub are mutually exclusive because both are
Nope. GRUB may be installed in any Boot Record, not just the Master
Boot Record. For example, on my machine, I do not have GRUB on my
MBR. I use Microsoft's MBR, and us
Mike McCarty wrote:
José Alburquerque wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
José Alburquerque wrote:
As far as I know, lilo and grub are mutually exclusive because both
are
Nope. GRUB may be installed in any Boot Record, not just the Master
Boot Record. For example, on my machine, I do not have
Mark Grieveson wrote:
If I recall correctly, the module lines were something like:
alias snd-card-0 snd-fm801
options snd-fm801 index=0
alias snd-card-1
options index=1
represents the second module for a second "soundcard" to be
loaded in the kernel at the same time.
Do you t
Russell L. Harris wrote:
I need a method to email a weekly Bible study to a list of a hundred
or so recipients.
I found in the Debian archive a package named "libmail-bulkmail-perl".
I installed the package and looked at the example files in
"/usr/share/doc/libmail-bulkmail-perl", but I have bee
Russell L. Harris wrote:
During configuration of another machine running Etch, I discovered
that .bash_profile appears to be ignored when logging into X.
Specifically, the problem is that the "~/bin" directory does not
appear in the path when, in an X terminal, I execute:
$ echo $PATH
Howe
Andy Hawkins wrote:
Hi,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andrew Sackville-West<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
what version of apt? there was a segfault problem in -2 or -3 which is supposedly fixed in -4. version 0.6.46-3 I
think it was.
Apologies, should have said. This is Debia
Andy Hawkins wrote:
But this apt hasn't been updated in a while I suspect. I'm still interested
in why this problem has suddenly started happening.
As I said, I'm still on Debian Stable, so I'm not sure if the apt from
testing will 'drop in'?
Andy
You know, I remember starting to experienc
Nigel Henry wrote:
Esd should not be being started at bootup, as it's a Gnome thing, but will
probably be started when you login to Gnome. I can't login to Gnome on Etch
for some reason. It's probably annoyed that I use KDE. Anyway I booted up
Sarge, and logged into Gnome, there under "Applicat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, this did the trick - installing of libesd-alsa0 instead of libesd
solved the problem.
Now the question is - shouldn't libesd-alsa0 be automatically installed
with alsa instead of libesd?
Kind regards,
Vladimir.
I would say; but I'm not sure that the user list
jiakomo wrote:
Hello,
I 'm a new debian user (unstable) (gnome 2.14.3 - kernel 2.6.18-3-amd64).
I am also a victim of this bug :(
There are no file associations AT ALL - if I double click a file I get "couldn't
display "/path/file". I can only open files with right click -> open with other
appl
Andy Hawkins wrote:
Hi,
An update to this, it appears that my cron job runs:
apt-file update
which is what corrupts the bin files
Does this help at all?
Andy
Andy:
I'm really no expert, just suggesting as best I know to help with what
I've seen, but I really don't think that running
Hi. Basically, I'm bran new to Debian although I've been using linux
for quite some time now. I must say it's a lovely OS! I had no idea it
was this aesthetically pleasing (the gnome desktop) and generally stable.
I really needed a change from my old OS (RHEL clone) because I felt like
the
José Alburquerque wrote:
My problem is that when I run 'apt-get update' I get these errors:
Failed to fetch
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
MD5Sum mismatch
Failed to fetch
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/non-free/binary-i386/P
Hi. I'd like to "optimize" certain packages specifically for my system
(It's a Pentium 3 system; though old, I'd like to recompile some
packages for i686 to improve performance). I was looking into
apt-build, but I tested it on libxine1 and it doesn't seem to use the
optimizations that I had con
Hi. I'd like to "optimize" certain packages specifically for my system
(It's a Pentium 3 system; though old, I'd like to recompile some
packages for i686 to improve performance). I was looking into
apt-build, but I tested it on libxine1 and it doesn't seem to use the
optimizations that I had
José Alburquerque wrote:
Hi. I'd like to "optimize" certain packages specifically for my system
(It's a Pentium 3 system; though old, I'd like to recompile some
packages for i686 to improve performance). I was looking into
apt-build, but I tested it on libxine1 and i
Does anyone know a way for regular users to use cdrecord for CD
writing/blanking without the need for it to setuid? Any pointers would
be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque
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Magnus Therning wrote:
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 20:53:35 -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
Magnus Therning wrote:
Not an answer to your question but you should be able to fine evince
in the GNOME menu. It's filed under Applicaitons->Graphics->Document
Viewer on my system.
Matej Cepl wrote:
José Alburquerque wrote:
Does anyone know a way for regular users to use cdrecord for CD
writing/blanking without the need for it to setuid? Any pointers would
be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I think you need to have at leas this:
chelcicky:~$ ll `which cdrecord
Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote:
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:39:43PM -0600, Glenn English wrote:
If you want to do it without the extra group, just make the burner world
write-able. I don't see how a cracker could get much mileage out of
that...
Note, however, that if cdrecord doesn't run SUID
s. keeling wrote:
José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Thanks for your reply :-) I believe that my cdrecord has the same
permissions and everything works fine like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll `which cdrecord`
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root cdrom 133 2006-01-07 13:43 /usr/bin/cdrecord*
My p
José Alburquerque wrote:
s. keeling wrote:
Very odd, on both of you.
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ all `which cdrecord`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 133 2005-01-09 09:55 /usr/bin/cdrecord*
No SUID needed.
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ id
uid=1000(keeling) gid=1000(keeling)
groups=20(dialout),24(cdrom
David E. Fox wrote:
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:55:54 -0600
"Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Also be CAREFUL. On my system, /usr/bin/cdrecord is a SHELL SCRIPT, and
SUID-root shell scripts are a big security hole, IIRC. You probably want
to set the permissions on /usr/bin/cd
José Alburquerque wrote:
Does anyone know a way for regular users to use cdrecord for CD
writing/blanking without the need for it to setuid? Any pointers
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Just thought I'd let everyone know, I think I'll just be using cdrecord
as it is. I&#
Mirko Scurk wrote:
I know it's not polite to answer your own post, but this problem realy
makes me angry.
I compared my main desktop comp (where cd automount is not working well)
and my laptop (where everything is fine) with almost same sw packages and
only difference I noticed was that dbus-la
Nick Wright wrote:
Unfortuantely the computer occasionally locks up (no kernel panic or
anything helpful to go on here). I realise there are any number of
reasons (hardware, software) that might be the cause of the random
lockups. They're happening about once a week at the moment.
I too have
Nick Wright wrote:
Interesting -- that sounds like the machine is still running.. can you
connect to it on SSH or ping it still when it gets into that state? If
you can still log in then you might be able to just kill off the X
process and have it start again without needing the reboot. Also,
th
T wrote:
Hi
I know that udev has the advantage that allowing people to write their own
rules for mounting the devices. But can I just use the udev as-is? Does
udev fully backward compatible with traditional /dev directory?
I have a Epson Stylus CX1500, which has been working fine. I used to ch
Jabka Atu wrote:
i have installed mplayer from : http://www.debian-multimedia.org
sid/main Packages
debian:/home/mha13/Desktop# apt-cache policy mplayer
mplayer:
Installed: 1:1.0-pre8-0.1
Candidate: 1:1.0-pre8-0.1
Version table:
*** 1:1.0-pre8-0.1 0
500 http://www.debian-multimedia.o
Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
Hi:
I am trying to update my unstable on one of my linux machines and it
gives
Failes to fetch
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
MD5Sum mismatch
same for Packages.gz in non-free/binary-i386
W: Could'nt stat sourc
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Is there a utility to check ink levels on HP Deskjet series printers? I
looked through the djtools manpage, and, while there is some interesting
stuff there, I do not see this. It seems that djtools
T wrote:
Hi
Can anyone give me a quick and generic recipe to mount HDs/USBpens by
their labels?
I've read many Udev articles but haven't figure that out yet.
thanks
I know that partitions can have labels. For ext2/ext3 partitions you
can set/see partition labels using 'e2label' (man e
M-L wrote:
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 16:41, Marc Shapiro wrote:
This tells me where the printer is, but I still do not know how to tell
CUPS where it is. Do I put the full URI:
'hp:/usb/deskjet_5550?serial=MY27V1K2BY2L' into the location under
'Modify Printer'?
Any help will be appreciated
M-L wrote:
Thanks Jose,
But none of this works for me, printconf or otherwise, I still get the same
error when trying to print, a test page or otherwise:-
Unsupported format 'application/postscript'!
I maybe don't have something installed, but what that might be has me stumped.
I installed
José Alburquerque wrote:
Charlie:
I believe your error may be due to some missing mime cups files.
Have a look at the following thread (it describes a problem very
similar to what you're describing here):
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/peripherals-hardware/38429-printer-problems
Abishek Goda wrote:
Hi All,
Is there a quick guide/howto to configure a Canon S200
SPX on a debian Sarge. Simple cups configure does not
recognize my printer. I tried configuring as a RAW USB
printer, but wouldn't work. Are there canon drivers or
should I use some other driver for canon as well
Mark Grieveson wrote:
The Debian package has been created in the current directory. You can
install the package as root (e.g. dpkg -i
sun-j2sdk1.5_1.5.0+update08_i386.deb).
Removing temporary directory: done
So, after
Hi all. I apologize if you get this e-mail twice, mail reader
configuration is a little awry! This a general shell (bash) question
which I hope someone may be able to answer: I created a "bin" directory
in my home directory in which I've placed a few scripts and executables
I'd like to be ab
Kelly Clowers wrote:
I think you may want to put that path stament
in .bashrc, which is used for non-login shells
(i.e. xterms). Then you could also take it out
of .bash_profile, because .bash_profile pulls in
.bashrc.
Yep, this did it. Thanks a lot.
Cheers,
Kelly
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Adam Hardy wrote:
I rebooted 1/2 an hour ago and when x came back and I started using
the mouse, I realised the wheel on the mouse wasnt scrolling anything.
This is on etch.
I honestly don't think I installed or upgraded anything that would
have caused this, and I'm at a loss for what to do.
Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
So Noteedit allows mouse control, but many advanced notation
possibilities aren't supported; Lilypond supports all sorts of things,
but I can't see my score and adjust positions of articulation symbols,
etc, with the mouse. The noteedit mailing list suggested starting
with
ciol wrote:
Hello, I have got a problem with cdrecord. My CD-writer is an 'ATAPI'.
So I followed these instructions :
/usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup
# cdrecord dev=ATA: -scanbus
I get :
scsidev: 'ATA:'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -1 target: -1 lun: -1
Warning: Using badly designed ATA
Hello list! I've got a simple shell question that I can't figure out.
I wrote a simple 3 line bash script designed to read from stdin and
output the lines to stdout that looks like the following:
--script.sh
#!/bin/bash
while read LINE; do
echo $LINE
done
--
Ben Breslauer wrote:
Quoting the echo should do it:
--script.sh---
!/bin/bash
while read LINE; do
echo "$LINE"
done
--
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That simple? Sorry I asked! :-)
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Vilches Martin wrote:
Hello, first of all I have no idea about Debian but Im working on a
pretty nice software base on Debian so I need to work on this J
The software I use is Pluto Home, which is a home automation software.
The thing is that I have a Dell touch screen which I use with my xp
Serena Cantor wrote:
I download jre 1.5 from sun, and install it in
/usr/local. In its lib directory, I find font config
files for redhat, suse... but not sarge,so jre can't
display Chinese.
How can I add font config file for sarge? Thanks!
__
Do
Andreas Eriksson wrote:
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:05:27AM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote:
Dear all,
In order not to invoke thunderbird and firefox manually when gnome starts, I
tried to save the current settings when I log out. But gnome says it can
not save thunderbird and firefox settings.
I a
Hi all. Anyone out there using apt-build? When I began using it, I
tried to "rebuild" glibc without knowing that debian already provided a
customized glibc for an i686 processor (like mine), so I installed the
one provided by debian.
However, whenever I issue an "apt-build update-source" I
Arthur Marsh wrote:
Adam Porter wrote, On 2006-09-18 19:12:
So, is there any way to set compiler flags in the Debian package
building
process other than using apt-build or editing debian/rules?
look at the package:
pentium-builder
"Replaces gcc, cc, and g++ with scripts that build pentiu
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
Hi,
Under the Help menu, on the about opetion, I see that it's stated
'GNOME Web Browser' instead of 'Epiphany'. Is this an upstream
decision or Debian. The problem is that this behaviour is inconsistant
since it's not the same with gedit, nautilus, gcalctool, ...
The
debianista.deb wrote:
hey
I would like to know what are the commands behind shutdown and
logout at the main menu applet (GNOME) or where can I see that? please
thanks
regards
debianista.deb
The dialogs that come up are part of the GNOME desktop functionality.
When you logout of GNOME
debianista.deb wrote:
yeah thanks for reply ;)
yes it is, gnome uses gdm to logoff and shutdown, but I would like to
know how can I open that dialogs from the console ? please
thanks
debianista.deb
I don't understand exactly what you are asking so I'll answer in the
following way:
If you
Redefined Horizons wrote:
I've recently installed the Java 1.5 packages for Debian. I'm trying
to create a simple bash script that will launch a java program. (There
isn't a Debian package for this program, but I hope to create one if I
can get it runnging.) I'm
trying to launch the program, but
Ed Young wrote:
What I want to do is to execute the program as a normal user.
How can I do this?
How must I configure the system (/dev/lp0, /dev/parport0, /dev/port,
/etc/group) to allow this program to access the parallel port? I want
to do this to reduce the security issues related to runnin
Jeff Zhang wrote:
I can play video with mplayer -vo directfb ???.avi, but normal user
can't do it and mplayer complains that permission of /dev/tty0. what's
the better method to resolve it? whether it will cause security problem?
As I suggested in the "Parallel port access as non root user" t
Raquel wrote:
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500
Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now,
so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them
why Debian is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how
the s
Jeff Zhang wrote:
thanks :)
I have installed the package, but it seems that it doesn't work if just
change permission of tty0. I have to find out other related devices
first then to make it working.
If you read the docs, it says how to get the package to actually
"work". Here's what /usr/sh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:29:36PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote:
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:18:27PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote:
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 15:04, Albert Dengg wrote:
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:22:04PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote:
Jeff Zhang wrote:
José Alburquerque wrote:
Jeff Zhang wrote:
thanks :)
I have installed the package, but it seems that it doesn't work if just
change permission of tty0. I have to find out other related devices
first then to make it working.
If you read the docs, it
Miles Bader wrote:
{I've scoured various gnome settings files etc., though, and cannot find
any reference to it... it's driving me nuts!]
-Miles
Miles, sorry didn't notice your thread earlier. :( On my system I use
the Keyboard Indicator applet for switching between keyboards (Is this
wh
Vegard L. Rekaa wrote:
I was not able to test this, since mpeg123 is no longer available
trhough apt (how come?). Either way I reinstalled all crucial
ALSA-packages, including the oss-emulation package. This had no effect
on my problem.
I think that 'mpg321' is designed to work as an 'mpg123
Miles Bader wrote:
I dunno, I'm really confused. The only thing that's clear is that the
configuration for this stuff sucks ... :-/
-Miles
I'd be frustrated too. Maybe the GNOME list might have some suggestions?
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libre fan wrote:
Hello,
I have a Debian Etch+Sid and Xubuntu Dapper dual-boot.
Last Friday I updated Debian (lot of xorg stuff was updated) and when I
rebooted I got this message on the screen: out of scan range
Though X is started (I typed startx on a terminal) Wdm (my display
manager)
Redefined Horizons wrote:
I develop Java programs on Debian, and I thought I'd try getting
Netbeans installed. (I'm currently using Eclipse.) I know there isn't
a Debian package for Netbeans yet, so I thought that I would try
installing directly from the .bin file provided for Linux at the
Netbe
Redefined Horizons wrote:
I was finally able to get Netbeans runnning on Debian, but I had to
use the 5.0 Linux installer, not the 5.5. I have pasted my message
from the Netbeans user list below for everyone's reference.
Thanks for the help guys. I really appreciate it.
Scott Huey
Tom,
I tri
Alan Chandler wrote:
Has anyone here got Eclipse, with the WTP plugin working with the Debian
configured tomcat5?
The debian tomcat configuration seems to have been modified in some way. I
can see from the changelog that some of the standard classpaths have been
taken out and added later to
Has anyone experienced segmentation faults with gxine? I've been trying
to run it since I installed testing a few months ago (I believe I had
gxine 0.5.6 then). I thought that an upgrade would fix my problem, but
to this date updates have not made a difference.
Currently, I'm running sid and
José Alburquerque wrote:
Currently, I'm running sid and my gxine version is 0.5.7. When I run
it from a terminal, it starts up fine. I have some media marks that
I've added and when I click on any of them, gxine buffers fine, starts
playing and shortly after disappears with a se
Scarletdown wrote:
I'm trying to remaster a set of DVDs, and AVIDemux is giving me a
strange problem.
After ripping the disks to my hard drive using vobcopy, I renamed the
VOB files, changing their extensions to mpeg. When I bring up one of
the mpegs in XINE, it looks fine, full screen. Howeve
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How do i get some music
I use a java application called limewire (www.limewire.com). I
downloaded the rpm and converted it to a debian package using alien.
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What java packages are needed to make it run?
Robert
All the program needs is a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or a Java
Development Kit (JDK) properly installed on the system. I use the
sun-java5-* packages from the sid repository and all's ok here.
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Daniel Baumann wrote:
you mixup things.
first, real player == helix player + real branding + two non-free
plugins (for mp3 and real media)
second, you *either* install helix player *or* real player, but not
both. and the one does not need the other anyway.
And aren't there packages for bot
libre fan wrote:
libre fan wrote:
Last Friday I updated Debian (lot of xorg stuff was updated) and when I
rebooted I got this message on the screen: out of scan range
I reconfigured several times trying to correct errors, and I compared the
original Xfree config file with the present
Is anyone else seeing this in sid using gnome?
I "downgraded" my openoffice.org packages to the ones from testing
because I ran into some problems opening files. I had to install an old
'libdbus' (1.2) to be able to install 'openoffice.org-gnome' (which
depends on 'openoffice.org-gtk') so I e
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HELP ME TO GET MY PRINTER WORKING
http://www.linuxprinting.org/lexmark-faq.html
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Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute
the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the
prompt of a bash shell.
Currently, I have my bash prompt set up so that it displays the current
date. If I can print the date just before each command is ex
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:10:57PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute
the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the
prompt of a bash shell.
Currently, I have my bash p
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
If it is always the same commands, then consider setting them to use the
time command as an alias.
For example, if you always want to know how long a dd took, then use
something like `alias dd='/usr/bin/time /usr/bin/dd'`.
Of course, you will need to use dd and not /us
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute
the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the
prompt of a bash shell.
Currently, I have my bash prompt set up so that it displays the current
date. If I can print the date just before each command is
J.A. de Vries wrote:
You could use PROMPT_COMMAND for this. I do to create a sort of statusbar in my
shells (with the added help of tput).
Found out about this last night using man. :-)
I've copied the relevant parts of the code I wrote for that below. Just add it
to your bashrc, adjust the
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute
the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the
prompt of a bash shell.
Currently, I have my bash prompt set up so that it displays the current
date. If I can print the date just before each command is ex
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
you could try to insert the current date into your prompt (PS1) string, if
you want it this way.
also, looking at 'man bash', there's special variable:
PROMPT_COMMAND
If set, the value is executed as a command prior to issuing each
primary prompt.
If I
José Alburquerque wrote:
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute
the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the
prompt of a bash shell.
Oops. Sorry about re-send. Just ignore this please.
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Dave Whiteley wrote:
Looking at things differently...
Can you not use the unix "time" command to display the process times on
completion?
Dave
I take it you're referring to the same command already mentioned by
Roberto and others. Right?
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Jose Alburquerque
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Todd Pytel wrote:
I've got some video clips (AVI's with XVid + AC3) that have very low
volume levels. I would like to boost the volume, preferably doing as
little transcoding as possible. I've used "normalize" in the past to
serve this purpose (after demux'ing the AVI), but it only works for
WAV'
Basanta Shrestha wrote:
#totem vcd:///dev/cdrom
#totem vcd://
both works. Can anyone suggest a work-around for this?
Note: /dev/cdrom has symlink to /dev/hdb.
-Basanta
would 'totem vcd:///cdrom' work? It could be that you're missing a link
from /dev/cdrom to /cdrom.
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Jose
Scott Gifford wrote:
If you're using bash, try something like this:
PS1='@$SECONDS $ '
PS4='@$SECONDS: '
set -x
That will show you the number of seconds since the shell started up in
your prompt, and before running each command. Plain seconds are nice
and easy to subtract; if you'd
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