Re: sending a mail message to a new user when account has been created

gt; cat README | mail -e -s "please read this information for new users" [EMAIL > PROTECTED] ? It sounds like a sensible place to put it. Try it and see! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.

NFS mount failure - why?

to cure it, please? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light un

Re: NFS mount failure - why?

On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 02:35, Tom Cook wrote: > Oliver Elphick wrote: > [snip] > > What does 'ls -l /usr1 /usr2 /usr3' tell you? No clues there: $ ls -ld /usr1 /usr2 /usr3 /usr1/usr2 drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 1024 Feb 8 00:46 /usr1 drwxr-xr-x9 root ro

Re: postgres 7.1 (woody) - how to stop debugging

can effectively stop all debugging? Do you have syslog sending stuff to the console? If so, configure syslog to throw them away. Or set postgresql not to use syslog. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.c

Re: Several packages fail to install, exit status 10

the second line. # dpkg --purge xdm As each line in the script is executed, it will be printed with + in front of it. Take a look at what happens just before the script exits (with an error) and cure it. . -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: packeges kept back

On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 09:53, Franois Chenais wrote: > What does message > > The following packages have been kept back > > means ? The packages have either been placed on hold or cannot be installed because of dependency problems. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

watching? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? t

Re: Postgresql upgrade 7.1 -> 7.2 issue

peer" in pg_hba.conf it will produce this error. Change any occurrences of "peer" to "ident" in /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf. If you run postgresql-dump by hand, you will probably also need to make the temporary change of adding "local all trust" at the top of that fi

Re: postgresql upgrade problem

use the removal of any packages? Quite a number of packages had to be rebuilt against the new libpgsql2 and this may have contributed to the hold-up. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E

Re: Relational Data Base Managers

y by a sourceforge guy some weeks ago, >http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim2705.php3 > >mysql is only for simple tasks see articles at http://www.at.postgresql.org/inthenews.html -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: what is the major and minor number of cdrom in mknod?

e first hard disk is usually found, i.e.: master on the first IDE port. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1

PostgreSQL 7.1RC3 packages, including potato

Packages of PostgreSQL 7.1RC3 have been uploaded to experimental (I think they're still in incoming). These have been built for unstable. The same packages are available at http://www.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql At this URL you can also find versions built for potato. -- O

Re: command for closing windowmaker

er, so I can >put a button on the panel to log off? (like 'click-enter')? With the same combination, I use the gnome-panel's logout icon - 2 clicks (icon, OK). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http:/

Re: Postgres do.maintenance

.0 ident sameuser This will allow any user to connect through TCP/IP on localhost as himself without giving a password. He will not be able to change identity. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oli

Re: Woody PostgreSQL compile fails in Potato box

nt package is tcl8.3-dev. It will probably work with an earlier tcl version. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/

Re: Hepl! I messed up! PostgreSQL 7.1 RC1 pacakges

in dependency H**L. > >First, whay did I do wrong? You got the packages built for unstable; if you look more closely in that URL you will also find packages for potato. >Second, how can I recover from this mess? Replace those packages with potato ones. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: sawfish on woody

wfish replaces >sawmill, and sawfish didn't make it from sid to woody yet. It is in unstable (0.38-5); perhaps you had a mirror problem? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8F

undefined reference to `atexit'

urned 1 exit status But if I compile a very small program that calls atexit() directly, it has no problem finding it, even though I specify no library at all. As far as I can see, atexit() is part of libc6. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of

Re: make xconfig button.ref eroor

uthority $ su or run $ xhost +localhost or something else to give root the right to run on your X server. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47

Re: postgres user

t to take advantage of this. The reason for the change is to improve the default security of PostgreSQL. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC

Re: PostgreSQL 7.1RC3 packages, including potato

Johann Spies wrote: >On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 05:40:40PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> Packages of PostgreSQL 7.1RC3 have been uploaded to experimental (I think >> they're still in incoming). These have been built for unstable. >> >> Th

Re: Is PostgreSQL 7.1 in Sid broken??

script is /var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql.postinst.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 88

Re: Postgresql-problems

gure" looking for tclConfig.sh? Look at the options passed to configure in debian/rules. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47

PostgreSQL 7.1 packages for potato

Packages of PostgreSQL 7.1 for potato are now available from http://people.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql/potato.html -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F

Re: pg_dumpall question

probably that you are running these commands directly rather than under the control of the postgresql-dump script. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47

Re: postgresql do.maintenance messages

it down to a particular table (or tables). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 58

Re: Pop server...

Alexander Wallace wrote: >Hello there! What do I need to apt-get to be a pop server? gnu-pop3d -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 6

Re: "Daddy, something's wrong with the filesystem..."

f used blocks has changed. The number of blocks available is the number available to an ordinary user. The filesystem keeps a margin of 5% which only root can use (man mke2fs(8)). df shows this: you have 963811 total blocks of which 923613 are used, but the remaining space is 4.18% (less than

Re: OT: SQL + PostgreSQL

debian-user; I don't read all messages, but I do scan the subjects for references to my packages. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D

Re: RedHat vs Debian?

key until you really, really mean it...and no keybounces either! It sorts like this: 1. new packages 2. upgraded existing packages 3. not-upgraded packages -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1

Re: apt problems with http.us.debian.org?

ly downloaded and upgraded from http.us.debian.org. The rest 404 >'d >on me. What gives? Any one else experience this problem? The mirror is out of sync. Try again in the morning, or try a different mirror. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: Timezone prob

o put into my >/etc/timezone for Europe Berlin? Europe/Berlin -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D

Re: how to run commands automaticly when boot up?

Tao Liu wrote: >Which script shall I add the commands to, >so that the commands will run when boot up? Such scripts are held in /etc/init.d and have symbolic links to them from /etc/rc?.d where ? is the runlevel. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: simple scripts made difficult? :)

are $1, $2, etc. The output of a command can be put into a command line by using backquotes or $(): myscript `mycommand_that_outputs_two_words` Then the script: #!/bin/bash # myscript -- echoes the first argument if [ -z "$1" ] then echo No arguments supplied"

Re: Segmentation Fault & All possible solutions Please.

ond by carefully writing your programs so that they never try to access invalid pointers. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 G

Re: Got a question.

-to set to debian-user@lists.debian.org -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 93

Re: postgresql/horde/imp problem on woody (was Re: testing)

r if you are trying to connect with TCP/IP when the postmaster isn't configured to accept it? > use: dpkg-reconfigure -plow packagename to reconfigure. > >isn't it supposed to create the database itself? and it never asked me >for a password. how can i get horde to run wit

Re: Postgres Version in 2.2r3

bob parker wrote: >Could anyone let me know what version of postgres >comes with 2.2r3 please. >I've tried the obvious postgres -v, psql -v to no >avail. SELECT version(); potato (2.2) contains PostgreSQL 6.5.3 -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL P

Re: weird 100% disk usage

corban][05:09pm][/home/joeytsai] # du -shx / >23M / One possibility is that there is material written in a mount-point directory such as /usr. When the partition is mounted, the contents of that directory (if any) will be unavailable. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: libssl09 for postgresql_7.1.3 ??

any matching file it finds.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge aga

Re: installing gnu gcc

e the configuration scripts may fail. " The question is, how do I put "cc or gcc" in my path or set CC in my enveronment? I'm not clear what guide you are reading here. The normal way to install anything in Debian is to install a package that contains it. For example: apt-get install

Re: installing gnu gcc

On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 00:49, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 00:18, Markus Ray wrote: Hi, > > I am new to Debian and I wanted to install GNU GCC on my OS. It says in > the guide "when configuring a native system, either cc or gcc must be in > your path or you

Re: Building from source

ber so as not to get out of sync with 'official' versions debuild packages required: dpkg-dev devscripts any listed in debian/control under Build-Depends -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/

noel@koethe.net: attempt to reply re postgresql

TP id f46GLGiW027836 ========= -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47

Re: new to linux, trying to get netscape to work

buy Debian from Cheap*Bytes? >Do I just need a newer release? Is Netscape normally included with the >Debian release? You do have a fairly out of date CD set, and it would be worth spending a small amount of money or a large amount of download time in updating it. (All Debina package

Re: Aliasing an IP address? [semi-OT]

stem you are attached to. For example: `cardctl scheme eca' when I'm visiting that company or `cardctl scheme lfix' when I come home. The command sets up the IP address and other parameters as appropriate and can be configured very flexibly. I use it to change /etc/hosts and /

Re: postgresql-install problem!

execv /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/createdb " > >where is the mistake! What are the permissions of that file? and of /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/? It sounds as though something has happened to one of them. As a work-around you can create databases inside PostgresSQL with the command CREATE DA

Re: postgresql with tcp/ip conection

tication setup is done in /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf. Oliver Elphick postgresql maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: your request for Debian involvement

organisation and have no marketing budget. Therefore there are no freebies, except for possible volunteer help. > We view this as a good opportunity for the promotion of your operating > system and to get some feedback from our users. I would be delighted > if you would get back to me. >

Re: Any way to search executable name?

to http://packages.debian.org and search on package contents there. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 36

Re: Disk tools in debian

ts just like Tong, and not like you, Oliver. I fail to see what > > I could be doing wrong. Maybe there is a problem here. > > Same here. Nothing. I am running Sid. I guess someone who is seeing this problem should file a bug afainst util-linux. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Start postgresql for the first time

reate new users, he is by definition an administrator or superuser in respect to PostgreSQL, just as the user postgres is in the default installation. In my own set-up I give myself that privilege and therefore very rarely need to use the postgres login to access the database. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

create a database, so it is quite likely connecting to template1 first (since that is the only database it can be sure exists). Try changing the database parameter of the pg_hba.conf line to "all". -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

> > > >Why is postgresql trying to do an IDENT-authentication? > > > > > Comment out the line(s) that say it can. Better to find out why it is matching one of those lines. From the details given, it must either be because the connection is using a Unix socket

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 11:41, Johann Spies wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:44:38AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > I found the documentation confusing to say the least. > > > > I agree with that. (Once I got it working, I found sql-ledger to be > >

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:52, John Hasler wrote: > Oliver Elphick writes: > > I have written an accounting system in the past and now I have looked at > > sql-ledger I prefer to do the same again, since it doesn't suit my ideas > > of what such a system should be like. >

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

ing all the consistency rules into the database (triggers, foreign keys, etc.) so you could possibly have two different interfaces to the same database. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://ww

Re: kill process by name

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 19:29, Muratorio, Diego wrote: > Hello Rick, I am looking for the same, did you find something about > kill process by name? > You want killall, from the psmisc package. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

9. It should be easy to remove data relating to past years, without affecting the current data; equally it should be possible to keep multiple years' data on-line. I have the beginnings of the design of such a system; if anyone else would like to contribute ideas, please email me. -- O

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 14:10, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 02:14, John Hasler wrote: > > Oliver Elphick writes: > > > I have the beginnings of the design of such a system; if anyone else > > > would like to contribute ideas, please email me. > > &g

Re: Where can I find postgresql 7.3 package?

hick/debian/ deb http://people.debian.org/~elphick/debian woody main If you really need 7.3 rather than 7.4 I can arrange to send them to you. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 102

Re: aptitude hanging

tallation process to stop indefinitely. I can hit ctrl-c to break > out, but can not get the foomatic-filters package to install > completely. It's a bug - see http://bugs.debian.org. There's a patch included. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: postgres connects to server every 5 minutes

base I have. What is the > reason for this behaviour? pg_autovacuum (from postgresql-contrib) is started by /etc/init.d/postgresql (if so configured by /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf). It is turned on by default. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL P

Re: Permissions with Postgresql

to psql, it will show you the queries it is sending to the backend for \dt, \dv and so on. You can either extract the names into a script file or do GRANT ALL ON (SELECT ...) TO user,... If your permissions structures are likely to be complicated, with sets of users having different permissions

Re: postgres do.maintenance question

level = true > > (Only one of the two referenced variables is set.) stats collection is not related to autovacuuming; that's a separate issue. The parameters for pg_autovacuum are set in /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: help! - how to get postgres 7.3 back

-- > So there apparently was no problem with the client but the server > failed. I was stumped then to know what to do next. Use --force-depends and --force-conflicts. I explained this in a mail that I did not cc to the list; tell me if you want me to resend it. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: SOLVED: help! - how to get postgres 7.3 back

dump and the upgrade fails, you can simply delete the database, initdb and reload from the dump. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5

Re: postgres installation question

well as databases) there is almost nothing that you need to log on as `postgres' to do. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oli

Re: postgres ident error

ing. It would be very easy for someone to just copy/paste/edit > and end up with a problem. I should have thought that the fact that access is locked down to the local machine would give him to think a bit and wonder why! I can't summon up much sympathy for people who ra

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

But to demonstrate that the use of "and" in numbers is not unAmerican either: "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent..." -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Is debian site down?

On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 14:36, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Is the debian site down? Some machines hosted by HP are down for 24 hours or so. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 10

Re: Postgresql7.4.2-5

at /var/log/postgres.log. Should I be looking somewhere > else? Check the permissions of files in /etc/postgresql - they must be readable by the user 'postgres'. A new package has been uploaded. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL

Re: APT problem: postgresql won't install/uninstall/upgrade/reinstall

ldn't get into such a mess > again! Could you let me know, please, what the problem was, and which version you were upgrading? -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/

Re: help on a script

machine]:[target directory name] Make the script executable and make sure the user under whose uid it will run is able to connect with ssh without supplying a password. In /etc/crontab: 01 23 * * Sunday [username] /usr/local/bin/mail-

RE: help on a script

? Like the apache default www-data? How would I set up the user? On the target machine mkdir ~/.ssh On the sending machine: ssh-keygen -t dsa (leave the passphrase empty) scp .ssh/id_dsa.pub [other machine]:.ssh -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROT

RE: help on a script

On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 07:38, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > Make the script executable and make sure the user under whose uid it > > > will run is able to connect with ssh without supplying a password. > > > > > > > How exactly would I do that? Make a user tha

Re: openwebmail + postgresql configuration

ccessfully). > > > Right now I have to figure this out, but my openwebmail part of the > question is, can I set the host to a local socket? If the hostname is blank, rather than "localhost", you will get a Unix socket -- Oliver Elphick

Re: PHP + PostgreSQL

a first step. Now you need to find out whether PHP is attempting a connection to PostgreSQL. If it isn't, it's a PHP or Apache problem. If it is, it may be a PostgreSQL authentication problem. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PHP + PostgreSQL

ation (lower case required, I think), you also need to set the users' passwords before they can be used. Go into psql as user postgres and do: ALTER USER username WITH PASSWORD 'password goes here'; -- Oliver Elphick

Re: PHP + PostgreSQL

user who is running the web-server. Remember that the *first* matching line in pg_hba.conf is the one that applies; also remember to reload/restart postgresql after changing that file. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Obsessed with a clean system

You can safely allow them to be removed, so far as the current operation of your system is concerned. It might in the future lead to some hiccups; for example, if a new and necessary dependency were to be added to kde, you would miss it. Arguably, that would

Re: OT: Questions or Doubts?

a decision" is much more > American -- we'll just invent the option we want and then take that one. As in Iraq... -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Sid and security

... > Question: Am I correct that a parallel location for unstable is not > needed? There is none. It would be far too much effort for the security team to cope with. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight h

Re: Sid and security

rom sid (unstable) ever goes into woody (stable), only into sarge (testing) which is soon to become the new stable. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C

Re: Wrong interpretation og '\$' by bash?

s a root, '$' is displayed > instead of '#'. > > Why is that so - '\$' is supposed to display '#' if the effective > uid is 0, and how it can be corrected? Quoting, I think. Because you are using double quotes, the backslash is being interpreted

Re: Wrong interpretation og '\$' by bash?

]\$\w/: ' > > and that worked! I played about a bit and consistently the latter > quoting style produced the expected result but the former did not. I > have no idea why this is (a bug?) It is a consequence of shell quoting rules. "..." does variable substitution

Re: select N random lines in a file

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 20:35, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to write a script that will select N number of > random lines in a file. Any suggestions on how to do this? > Use the rand() function in awk -- Oliver Elphick

Re: postgres phpgroupware login woes

hostname localhost (thus using TCP/IP) while default psql access will be to a blank hostname, thus using a Unix socket. The two different access modes can have different authentication, as explained above. Oliver Elphick maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: postgres phpgroupware login woes

for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:15:26 +0100 Subject: Re: postgres phpgroupware login woes From: Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PRO

Re: OpenOffice.org and Spelling

gt; > I just tried that. Nothing changed. Any switch or toggle I'm forgetting > to throw? Thanks. There is an implication of a cd into the new directory before making the link. Would that work? -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: please help

rom an HP website, for example https://www.designjet.hp.com/reg_product_home.html?new_product=750C&pageseq=937897 -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 2

Re: Help!!!! If I'm to get debian up, I need help solving this...

our network setup that is at fault. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1E

Re: Usability Questions

ight.) Ctrl-Alt-F1-- switches to first virtual console Ctrl-Alt-Del -- standard shutdown/reboot Make sure that the shutdown line in /etc/inittab says -h rather than -r, otherwise it will just reboot. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work in X; that's why you have to switch to a cons

Re: Network Connection Question

xpansion Slot > Audio In & Out / Game Port on Front > Internet Ready > Microsoft Works > ATI Rage Pro Turbo 2X AGP with 4MB SGRAM > Crystal CS4280 3D PCI Audio > 40x Max. CD-ROM Drive > 4.3GB HDD (Ultra DMA EIDE) [ADDED 30 GB NEW HDD] > 3.5" 1.44MB FDD >

Re: getting full package name

en the name of the package is so long that I cannot tell what the name > is. > > In that situation if grep through the file /var/lib/dpkg/available and I > find the full name. > > This is just a helpful hint for newbies that may have this problem. This is easier:

Re: How to set up CUPS client

c/cups/client.conf and change the line that sets ServerName -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3

Re: finance/business

This is still only in the planning stage and is certainly not a possibility for someone wanting to change right now. On the other hand, if they really want to go open-souorce and would like to contribute to the specification, that would be very good. -- Olive

Re: [exim4debian] Re: Debian-exim - blech!

es with account names deliberately > created by the local admin. I never did understand: what was the problem with "mail"? -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/

Re: [exim4debian] Re: Debian-exim - blech!

qually to "Debian-exim" - it might be assigned to a user; it's quite as likely as that "mail" might be so assigned. > Second, purging exim4 in such a situation could lead to all files > belonging to that user to be deleted. Purging exim4 should

Re: [exim4debian] Re: Debian-exim - blech!

should not remove all files that they create, not, at least, without asking; editors and databases, for example. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG

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