Re: Free Memory and Tasks

2006-01-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/11/2006 03:30:07 PM, Marco wrote: Every day my free memory decrease and I don't understand why... BTW, you want your free memory to decrease becase memory is no good unless it's used. If it's not used for anything else the OS uses it for disk buffers. See also vmstat & ps -axv Karl <

Re: saving xterm scrolling data to file

2006-01-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/11/2006 04:14:55 PM, Haines Brown wrote: When I run a command with debug in xterm, a lot of info scrolls past. How can I save this to a file? All I get is how to debug the debug message, not the debuging information itself, which just scrolls quickly by in the terminal: I vaguely recall

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/11/2006 09:16:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop 1) Unplug printer. This should clear it's memory, which can contain pages and pages of smiley faces. 2) Use lp

Re: Email login options

2006-01-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/12/2006 09:49:50 AM, Tony Heal wrote: What I am looking for are solutions/best practices for SMTP authentication so local and remote users can use our SMTP server, and pop authentication without depending on the Windows domain. Does anyone have any suggestions that does not require sendi

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

2006-01-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/12/2006 01:34:42 PM, Jim Holland wrote: It seemed initially that uudeview could do it all out of the box - decoding MIME base64, uuencoding, BinHex etc. It does that all very well - even with broken boundary lines and missing headers etc. However the more I tested it the more problems I

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

2006-01-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/12/2006 02:35:06 PM, Jim Holland wrote: Hi On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > What about mimedecode? I hadn't come across that before. I tested it with various encoded messages and it didn't do anything at all - output was the same as input. It seems to be

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

2006-01-12 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/12/2006 02:35:06 PM, Jim Holland wrote: Hi On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > What about mimedecode? I hadn't come across that before. I tested it with various encoded messages and it didn't do anything at all OTOH, maybe I am thinking of mpack/munpack and script

LVM2 and custom kernel

2006-04-13 Thread Morten O. Hansen
Hi there, I'm trying to build a custom kernel, and everything works except LVM2. When the kernel is booting, and the lvm-script is trying to mount the discs, it gives me a kernel-panic. I have googled it a bit, and I tried adding "--initrd" to make-kpkg, but that didn't work. I also tried adding

Re: LVM2 and custom kernel

2006-04-14 Thread Morten O. Hansen
> Which kernel are you compiling? Is it a debian kernel or a vanilla one > from kernel.org? > What version of debian are you running? > What bootloader are you using? > Do you have the lvm2 package installed? I'm trying 2.6.15.7 now, from kernel.org. This is debian unstable, with GRUB, and yes

Re: LVM2 and custom kernel

2006-04-14 Thread Morten O. Hansen
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 11:00 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > That sounds right... You could try starting with > your /boot/config-2.6.16-x-foo file from the debian kernel (since that > should have the required options selected) and customizing from there. I didn't really see anything I have missed..

Re: LVM2 and custom kernel

2006-04-14 Thread Morten O. Hansen
Aaaah, finally, it works. :) I had to enable ramdisk-support, since I have the root on LVM. (ramdisk- and initrd-support). Thanks for your help! - Morten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: irssi & core dumps

2006-04-14 Thread Morten O. Hansen
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 17:44 -0500, lostson wrote: > Hello > For the past few days irssi keeps dumping core files quite regularly. > Has anyone encountered a fix for this problem, thanks. > -- > LostSon Same here, it dumps core every time I quit. - Morten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: LV Device Missing

2006-04-29 Thread Morten O. Hansen
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 03:01 +, Ian Petts wrote: > I'm fairly new to LVM, but I've been having an intermittant problem that > I hope someone can help me with. > > Every few (2-10ish) reboots of my machine, my LV fails to be recognised. > I also have this, happens almost every time. Do you use

Fully Encrypted Message

2006-05-08 Thread P . O . W
Message : dongo *Good day * *This is a fully Encrypted Message for Security Reasons * *Please Do not ask how I got your contact because .that I will explain later* *I am A US Soldier(NAME AND LOCATION WITHHELD), I served with the 1st Armored Division in Iraq. *My Colleagues and I moved

Docbook is broken, where do I ask for help? Bug#318817

2005-08-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
cbook I get the message: I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd (And, I can't generate pdf output.) Although I apparently did not file it for the right package the maintainer helped me anyway, reaching the conclusion that a c

Re: daisy-chaining internet connectivity

2005-08-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/09/2005 08:45:08 PM, Terrence Brannon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: >> > * Ensure that packet forwarding is in place. Use either a firewall >> > package or do this yourself with low level commands. >> > >> > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Ok, I did this ech

Re: disk usage of an umounted partition?

2005-08-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/09/2005 09:11:54 PM, Colin Ingram wrote: I don't know if this is even possible but can I find out the disk usage of a partition with a unknown or damaged filesystem? file -s /dev/fooa will often tell you what sort of filesystem it is and then you can try to mount or repair it. (or "moun

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/10/2005 12:27:50 AM, Chris Palmer wrote: As Unix-like-system afficionados, we can't afford to get uppity about what decade our software was designed and implemented in. :) Like Gregory, I find minicom entirely sufficient. In fact I very nearly like it. As for the rest of it, why have e

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/10/2005 12:13:45 AM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: If you can't recall the commands and _must_ have them in a menu then wack something out with tcl/tk or make a special menu bar/drawer/applets with gnome or whatever. I suspect the right way to do this is to use XUL, javascript, and mo

Re: getting gpg to decrypt to stdout.

2005-08-10 Thread LAUDREN O SiseBhfAtr
Title: gpg --decrypt "your encrypted file" gpg --decrypt "your encrypted file" seems to be ok (I tried it on a Win32 O.S.).   Olivier LAUDREN Tel: (+33) 1421 44491 Mob: (+33) 668311294 Fax: (+33) 1421 48334 Société Générale  

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/10/2005 04:34:38 AM, Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:13:45AM +, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Wow. That's the cliche of how Linux people treat questions, right there. "If you want a program like that, just write one yourself." Well, you did ask _why_ no such pr

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/10/2005 06:32:56 AM, Daniel D Jones wrote: Sorry, don't mean to be all elite about modularization. This is what I'd do, and do do in similar circumstances. YMMV I'm a Cisco tech for a very large organization. Half the time, I'm connected to a router console via a serial port. The othe

Re: Debian hangs at 5% on install ??

2005-08-10 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/10/2005 01:16:57 PM, Ken Walker wrote: The system has 1 CD SCSI cd writer at id:0 ( 50pin cable ) - Terminated 1 Dat drive at id:1 ( 50pin cable ) 1 Dat drive at id:2 ( 50pin cable ) 1 Scsi 9g at ID:3 ( 68pin cable ) - Terminated 1 Scsi 9

emacsclient

2002-06-17 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hi debian-users, a question for the emacs-heads on the list: is there any way to get an emacsclient process to connect to an emacs running on a remote host? I can't find any answers in the documentation, but I think it should be possible. Any ideas? -- Tiarnan O Corrain (tiarnan.o&#

Re: IPv6 subnet?

2003-02-27 Thread - = k o l i s k o = -
man interfaces section: INET6 ADDRESS FAMILY kolisko On Čt, 2003-02-27 at 02:23, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I got a /64 from tunnelbroker.net and the tunnel is up and running > happily. I'm trying now to get my /64 subnet on the backend up and > running. They gave me: > > 2001:470:1F00:4

security bug in BIND9

2003-06-02 Thread - = k o l i s k o = -
Hi all, i have installed Adamantix 1.0.1 (latest) based on Debian Woody. I never had problem with woody and security. Now on my servers where is installed bind9 as dns cache somebody (maybe virus, worm, hacker) killed by remote named processes on my servers. Here is my daemon.log: Jun 2 11:3

Re: security bug in BIND9

2003-06-02 Thread - = k o l i s k o = -
> > Jun 2 11:32:19 mx1 named[22616]: client 80.95.118.109#9868: no more TCP > > clients > >: quota reached > > Jun 2 11:32:19 mx1 named[22616]: quota.c:68: INSIST(p != ((void *)0) && >

Re: [Users-l] security bug in BIND9

2003-06-02 Thread - = k o l i s k o = -
> > Jun 2 11:32:19 mx1 named[22616]: client 80.95.118.109#9868: no more TCP > > clients > >: quota reached > > Jun 2 11:32:19 mx1 named[22616]: quota.c:68: INSIST(p != ((void *)0) && >

telnet: could not resolve

2003-06-23 Thread - = k o l i s k o = -
Hi all, i am using on all woody machines commands like "telnet 0 25" or "telnet 0 110" for telnet to localhost port. Since i upgraded to sarge on few machines "telnet 0 port" dont work: 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:kolisko$ telnet 0 25 telnet: could not resolve 0/25: Name or service not known 1 [EMAIL PR

mail server with ldap authentication

2002-09-04 Thread - = k o l i s k o = -
Hi all, what is the best solution in debian distribution for using a openldap (or another ldap) and full mail server system. I mean something like: pop3, pop3+ssl imap, imap+ssl smtp, smtp+ssl web mail interface web admin tools virtual domains (something like vpopmail) central ldap authenticati

sql-ledger shows ugly pdf after tetex upgrade in sarge

2003-06-25 Thread - = k o l i s k o = -
Hi all, i have installed from source sql-ledger - http://www.sql-ledger.org It has a feature exporting to PDF. All worked fine, exports looked very nice. But after upgrade my Debian Sarge (few days ago) PDF exports looks ugly. I think that the problem is with upgrade tetex to 2.0.2 version which i

Modem connection with a Pulse Dialing.

1998-09-26 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi all, I've just configurated my PPP connection and the chatscript is working fine. But my phone line is PULSE instead of tone, and it's trying to dial by tone. Do you know how can i change it? Regards Bruno

Problems after upgrade! Please help.

1998-10-20 Thread Luiz O. L. Zorzella
I'm in deep trouble. Yesterday I upgraded some packages from hamm to slink, and since then I've been unable to use my ppp link. I'm writing from a non-mantained win 95 I have in hand, because I can't do it under linux. pon stalls without dialing or returning the prompt, and at /var/log/messages th

A problem compiling Qpopper

1997-09-09 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Dear I can't compile qpopper because it asks a library called *lshadow*. With this, qpopper could recognize shadow passwords (and that's what I want). The debian compiled qpopper can do this, so they have this lib. Where do I find this lib? Is this lib in some package that I can install? Please, he

Configuring Qpopper

1997-09-15 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi all, Does somebody know how to configure qpopper to get a mail in ~user/mail intead /var/spool/mail/user ? Thank you Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Configuring Qpopper

1997-09-16 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
ee access internet bar/cafe/gallery. >243 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia. 12:00pm - 11:00pm >http://www.binary.net.au > >On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: > >> Hi all, >> Does somebody know how to configure qpopper to get a mail in ~user/mail >&g

Re: ifconfig

1997-10-01 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
At 12:51 PM 9/30/97 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: >Jimmy Lu wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Can someone tell me how to setup a machine with one network >> interface card(eth0) to respond to more than one IP address? >> FreeBSD seems to be able to do something as follows: >> ifconfig ep0 192.168.123.

IFCONFIG - help!

1997-07-18 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi; How can I configure several IP addresses in just one network interface? Is there some parameter on ifconfig? Thanx Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

where is the kernel modules

1997-07-21 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hello, Where in debian ftp site can I get the kernel modules like "ip_alias.o". I'd search trough a lot of directories and didn't find it. Thanks Bruno Bruno Simoes -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Compiling the Kernel

1997-07-22 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hello, I had problems while compiled the kernel. First I didn't have anything in my "/usr/src" directory, so I got the "linux-2.0.29.tar.gz" file, that's my installed version, apply "tar -xzvf" and got a directory tree "/usr/src/linux/*". So, I did "make config", everything'

Libc5

1997-07-22 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi all I have to install libc5-dev, but a dependency problem occurs with my libc5 version. While I have 5.4.23-6, dpkg askes 5.4.33-3 libc5. How can I get a newer version of libc5.deb, for easy installation? Or can I force dpkg to install this libc5-dev anyway? How Can I do this? Thanks a

How do I make modules?

1997-07-23 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hello; Is there some way to make modules? I have all fonts, and made the kernel, but it turn too big. So I want to make modules to load by "insmod". How can I make "files.o" with these fonts? Thank you Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMA

Problems with Liloconfig

1997-07-23 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi I already compiled the kernel but couldn't make it bootable from HD for lilo. I followed 2 diferent steps: 1. Making zlilo : It didn't work. An compilation error occured. 2. Using "make", I moved the new vmlinux to /boot/vmlinuz , started "liloconfig" and it comp

what's the better mta?

1997-07-29 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi I'm installing a linux box as mail server, and would like to know what is the better MTA to use. I'm thinking about smail, but I guess sendmail is most popular. Anyway, I don't discard another mta, since it's realy good. Do you have any sugestion? thank you Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS M

what's the better mta?

1997-07-29 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi As I asked before, I also would like to know if there's a recomended _news_ server Regards Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: what's the better mta?

1997-07-29 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi Joey >Using Debian GNU/Linux you are able to use some different MTAs. I know this... >You shoul depend your decision which one to use on you personal >experiences and your needs. You're right. >The question 'which is the better mta' can't be answered. >It's the same as with 'is emacs better

Problems with Smail3.2

1997-07-30 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi there I have a problem with my smail . When it accesses a remote host whose has in its MX entry an IP address, and not a full-qualified name, it return an error message: "unknow host". It mean that smail does not recognize a mail relay host by its IP number, instead by its host

Problems with Smail3.2

1997-07-31 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi there I have a problem with my smail . When it accesses a remote host whose has in its MX entry an IP address, and not a full-qualified name, it return an error message: "unknow host". It mean that smail does not recognize a mail relay host by its IP number, instead by its host

Just testing, nevermind

1997-08-01 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
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Smail is getting confused

1997-08-01 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hello I have a Bind driver router configured in smail (/etc/smail/routers). When it finds a MX entry in the target host where is its IP number (x.x.x.x) instead its name (target.com) it doesn't accept this kind of MX entry. What can I do? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Where do I find Smail user group

1997-08-01 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
While I don't find a asnwer for my question - it's pretty specifical - in a Debian user's list, do you know some list where I can find smail users? Thank you Bruno At 12:11 PM 8/1/97 -0300, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: >Hello >I have a Bind driver router configured in smai

Re: Smail is getting confused

1997-08-04 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
-0300, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote: >Bruno O. M. Simoes writes: > > I have a Bind driver router configured in smail (/etc/smail/routers). When > > it finds a MX entry in the target host where is its IP number (x.x.x.x) > > instead its name (target.com) it doesn'

newaliases

1997-08-04 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi all, Where do I find the program "newaliases"? thank you Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

qmail

1997-08-05 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi there I took this file in www.qmail.org and doesn't seem to work: taz# tar -xzf qmail-1_01_tar.gz tar: Skipping to next file header gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error I couldn't descompress it. Does someone know either if there's a debian package compiled q

A quick question

1997-08-07 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Where do in debian ftp site I find the libncurses.so.3.2 library? Thanks in advances Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

A quick question

1997-08-07 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
>Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 13:48:35 -0300 >To: Lista Debian >From: "Bruno O. M. Simoes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: A quick question > >Where do I find the libncurses.so.3.2 library? >Thanks in advances >Bruno > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LI

A quick question

1997-08-07 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi Where do I find "libncurses.so.3.2". In my system I have the 3.2 version. Is it in some directory of ftp.debian.org? Thanks in advances. Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: sendmail v/s smail

1997-08-08 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
>smail should be your choice if you are serving <100 users with average >mail volumes. The upcomming version of smail will be a bit faster and >handle more users. > >The configurations are MUCH easier but you need to get all sendmail >thought out of your head. If you are going to be smtp ONLY, yo

Re: Qmail ./qmail-config does not work! hard error???

1997-08-15 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
At 02:55 AM 8/15/97 +0800, Dima wrote: >>>David M wrote: > >Hello guys, > > > >more surprises! ;) Everything compiled ok but when I got to step 7 there > >is a hard error message when the ./qmail-config script tries to run > >./dnsfq hostname. It reports hard error! > > > >Have any of you qmail

QPOPPER Compiling

1997-08-18 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi all, I'm compilig qpopper to work with qmail. Qmail asks to set up some parameters on qpopper source. But the new customized qpopper doesn't accept shadow. I know how to do this, but I have to enable "LIBS= lshadow" in the source, but _ld_ doesn't find this lib. Help me Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIB

Qmail user alias

1997-08-20 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi; I'm trying to install qmail, but it still doesn't send to local users. I tried to creat a /var/qmail/users/assign trough qmail-pw2u, but it doesn't accept my passwd entries: "qmail-pw2u: fatal: unable to find alias user" Does qmail use some kind of alias? Do you have another idea? Thank you Bru

.bashrc

1997-08-22 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi all, does anyone know which (and where) is the *system-wide* .bashrc file? Thanks in advances Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Fw: NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Invalid argument

2001-10-13 Thread L^Å^rinha....=^o^=
Me tire do seu catalogo obrigada     - Original Message - From: James D Strandboge To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 11:35 AM Subject: Re: NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Invalid argument On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:38:39PM +1000 or thereabouts, Graha

Re: Making use of the default printer

2007-09-16 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:02:02 +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: >> . . . same error: >> >> lp test.ps >> lp: Error - LPDEST environment variable names non-existent destination ""! > > there could be something that set's the LP environment variable > . . . > #env |grep LP Thanks for the reply, which

Re: Surefire Xorg driver/config?

2007-09-16 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:59:12 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> . . . I don't know what to look for in an obscure case >> like this. > > wow, I'm stumped. I've changed the subject line in hopes of catching > some other eyes. . . I have to say, of the thousands of the packages in my system, X

Re: downgrade

2007-09-16 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:35:15 +0800, Henry Yuniarfan wrote: > how to downgrade debian etch from 4.r1 to 4.r0 Fist off, as warned, it is not supported. If you insist going further, make sure you check out all road blocks before hitting the road: http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/distro/debi

Re: Managing grub/menu.lst with multiple distros

2007-09-16 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:35:14 -0400, KS wrote: > Is there a way that each of them can update grub (initrd, vmlinuz, > menu.lst etc.) automatically upon a kernel upgrade? Simple, run update-grub after you've upgraded your kernel. Ref: http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/disk/boot/boot06-Gr

On defense of the sshd crackers

2007-10-09 Thread T o n g
[The is a security configuration question. Let me try it here to see if I can some valuable inputs before heading to newsgroup] Hi, I used to turn on my sshd just in case that I need to ssh back into my box. But recently, I noticed that whenever I turn it on, almost instantly, there will be a cra

[OT] Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-26 Thread T o n g
l option is set using shopt. [-+]O [shopt_option] shopt_option is one of the shell options accepted by the shopt builtin (see SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below).If shopt_option is present, -O sets the value of that option; +O

Re: [OT] Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-26 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:32:57 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >> I'm wondering if you have read my OP or not. Read it again pls. >> > >> > source ~/.bashrc >> >> Guess that I am having bad lucks now, having two people replied without >> even reading my question, and the two replies are

Re: Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-26 Thread T o n g
efined in my ~/.bashrc: $ bash $ alias rd alias rd='rmdir' $ type dt dt is a function dt () { pushd +$1 } $ exit exit I.e., there are there in the interactive shell. Now I want to use them in my script: $ bash -O expand_aliases -c '. ~/.bashrc;

Re: Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-26 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:12:56 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> I'm wondering if you have read my OP or not. Read it again pls. > > Yes I have. Use functions. Don't use aliases. Despite its limitations, why one can't use aliases in scripts? This sounds like "Don't use #define in C" to me (again, des

Re: [OT] Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-27 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:40:02 +, William Pursell wrote: >> An advanced bash alias expansion question -- >> How can I use my aliases or functions in my bash script? > >> PS. I even tried the following but it didn't work either: >> >> $ bash -O expand

Re: [OT] Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-27 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:59:35 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Instead of complaining pointlessly, maybe you could have said > something like: . . . Sorry about my attitude, I was very disappointed that I carefully wrote the OP but nobody *seems* to read it carefully. Thanks again to *anyon

Re: print a sample of all fonts?

2008-01-27 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:53:56 +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > is there a way to have gimp or whatever print a sample of each > font on the system without manually writing them all out? tia. Both answers so far seems to me only allows you to view the font one by one, which involves a

Debian FTP server setup questions

2008-02-29 Thread T o n g
Hi, I have some questions regarding Debian FTP server setup. 1) Having installed wu-ftpd, ps shows: root 4190 1 0 17:58 ?00:00:00 ftpd: accepting connections on port 21 The problem is that I noticed that /etc/inetd.conf did not get changed. but I also don't have a /etc/ini

Re: Debian FTP server setup questions

2008-02-29 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:51:23 +, T o n g wrote: > I have some questions regarding Debian FTP server setup. > > 1) Having installed wu-ftpd, ps shows: > > root 4190 1 0 17:58 ?00:00:00 ftpd: accepting connections > on port 21 > > The problem is

Re: Debian FTP server setup questions

2008-02-29 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:58:05 +, T o n g wrote: >> How the ftpd get started? Isn't it suppose to be started from inetd? > > Got this part answered from grml mlist. . . > > Somebody please answer the 2nd question. > >> 2) Do I need special setup for ano

Re: Debian FTP server setup questions

2008-03-01 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:16:49 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: >> Is there any special reason you use wu-ftpd, BTW? . . . >> >> I generally found proftpd more intuitive than vsftpd to configure. > > IMHO vsftpd works more smoothly with more clients No special reason, just I used wu-ftpd since RedHat 6.

Re: netselect with proxy

2008-03-05 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:47:30 +, Oscar Corte wrote: > I'm trying to use netselect without any success. AFAIK, it has been broken for at least a year now. I was looking for the answer too. Here was my questions: I had been able to use netselect before. When I tried it again just now, all site

Re: netselect with proxy

2008-03-09 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:18:57 +, Tim Channon wrote: >>> I'm trying to use netselect without any success. >> >> AFAIK, it has been broken for at least a year now. I was looking for the >> answer too. Here was my questions: > > "At least" is an understatement. > > Bung ye the following exact w

Re: Grub questions

2008-03-09 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:19:35 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a debian system that I need to reconfigure grub for. Some questions: > > 1) How can one browse a partition in grub (ls, pwd)? Not directly browsing, but grub gives you feedback what the partitions are. See: http://xpt.sourceforge.ne

Re: Personal backup of copy-protected DVDs

2008-03-09 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:53:19 +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > On 3/8/08, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> My daughter want to make some backups of her games on copy-protected >> >> DVDs. >> >> >> >> Anybody knows how to do that with Linux? > > Have a look here: > 'Simple CD-ROM

Re: Trouble with grub on usb thumb drive :(

2008-03-15 Thread T o n g
First of all, you should really consider Owen's suggestion to use UUID to boot USB stick. Ref: Booting with grub on usb-flash-pen http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/live/grml/grml04-Boot/ar01s02.html Now back to your specific question... On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:27:47 +, Caesium 5 wro

What's the problem with this cron command

2008-03-15 Thread T o n g
Hi, Please take a look at the following cron task: * * * * * rootps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao *write|growisofs.*speed=' > /dev/null || logger get executed. It bewilders me that it is not doing what I want. Here is the syslog when it is run: Mar 15 13:15:02 cxmr /U

Re: DVD life-cycle

2008-03-15 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:11:28 +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > this is what i want to do: > > - rip a DVD into a suitable format: divX, whatever. I'd like to make > sure the ripped version is an exact bit-by-bit copy of the original - > for backup purposes mom! - but that's not reeelly necessary

Re: What's the problem with this cron command

2008-03-15 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:19:10 -0700, David Fox wrote: >> Please take a look at the following cron task: >> >> * * * * *rootps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao >> *write|growisofs.*speed=' > /dev/null || logger get executed. > > I'm not exactly sure why you want to do that - the

Re: What's the problem with this cron command

2008-03-15 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:00:04 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> >> PS. I'm sure the PATH is setup properly in my cron, so cron can find ps >> >> & grep. >> > >> > cron runs in a restricted environment and doesn't (to my knowledge) >> > source $PATH from anywhere, so you need to explicitly add t

Re: cron and command quote

2008-03-17 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:48:19 +0100, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: >> >> * * * * * rootps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao >> >> *write|growisofs.*speed=' > /dev/null || logger get executed. >> >> PS. I'm sure the PATH is setup properly in my cron, so cron can find ps >> >> & grep. > >

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

2008-03-17 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:29:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html Sorry to be the one who breaks the embarrassing news to you but the above url led me to something related to *sex scandal*, from which I failed to compreh

Re: cron and command quote

2008-03-18 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:40:35 +0100, s. keeling wrote: >> I.e., somehow, the 'ps | grep' was able to find something in cron, whereas >> when executed directly under shell: >> >> $ ps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao *write|growisofs.*speed=' >> >> $ /bin/sh -c "ps -eaf | grep -E

Re: Grub questions

2008-03-18 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:51:03 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/disk/boot/boot06-Grub/ar01s09.html#Do_Really_Need_GRUB_Menu_ >> > > Thank you for the tutorial link. I think that I can take it from > there. Glad that I could help. > Why didn't google get m

[Solved] grep and cron & command line

2008-03-18 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:54:46 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: >>> Now the crontab reads: >>> >>> * * * * *rootis_burning || logger get executed. >>> >>> + set -x >>> + ps -eaf >>> + grep -E -[dts]ao |cdrdao *write|growisofs.*speed=' >>> root 15306 15295 0 09:29 ?00:00:00 grep -E cd

Re: cron and command quote

2008-03-18 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:31:37 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: >>> So, '||' is just as legal as '&&' and would do just as it does on the >>> command line, assuming of course there is nothing found by the grep. >>> >>> I don't think the problem is the use of the OR or AND operators. >>> Rather it's the

[OT] Paste board on the Internet

2008-03-29 Thread T o n g
Hi, I once saw people put their long log output (eg xorg log) to the Internet "paste board" to shorten the question here. But can't find such posts any more. So, do you know any Internet "paste board" that is hassle free? which one do your prefer and/or suggest? Thanks -- Tong (remove unders

Re: Sendmail configuration

2008-03-31 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:17:51 -0700, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Wednesday 19 March 2008 03:21:17 am Andrius wrote: > >> how to configure Sendmail to send a messages through ISP SMTP server? > > Install sendmail-doc and check /usr/share/doc/sendmail/cf.README.gz > for SMART_HOST ( define(`SMART

What is this ata exception

2008-03-31 Thread T o n g
Hi, I saw the following for the first time when I rebooted just now: Mar 31 09:10:04 cxmr kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Mar 31 09:10:04 cxmr kernel: ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 123392 in Mar 31 09:10:04 cxmr ker

Re: Can we run a qemu instance as a dedicated home network firewall?

2008-03-31 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:20:26 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Can we use a virtual qemu linux machine as a firewall for > a real home network? > > I have a small network at home, with a few desktops and a DMZ and > a linux firewall machine. > > Now that virtualization is working for me, via qemu,

Enable SSI on Debian for Apache 1.3

2008-07-02 Thread T o n g
Hi, I'm having problem enabling SSI on Debian for Apache 1.3. I know Apache 1.3 is no longer included in Debian, but Apache 2 gives me more trouble configuring. Long story short, I've done some searches and been following this 2 articles: Apache server-side includes on Debian http://fnord.phfact

Re: bandwidth tool

2008-07-07 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:20:13 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >> Is there a tool to measure network traffic? I am using ifstat but its >> reporting wrong statistics. I am trying to get something similar to >> >> eth0 , 16Mb/sec >> eth1, 10Mb/sec >> >> etc.. >> >> I need something simple :-) >

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