[techtalk] BASH programming...

2000-04-20 Thread J Grant Boling
I took line 8 straight from a HOWTO on Shell Prompt Programming, and modified it slightly so that it left just the tty? part,  it works fine from the command prompt but when I go to login with the new /etc/profile it tells me I'm missing a trailing ' " '  ...  Any help would be greatly appre

Re: [techtalk] BASH programming...

2000-04-20 Thread Beverly Guillermo
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, J Grant Boling wrote: > I took line 8 straight from a HOWTO on Shell Prompt Programming, and > modified it slightly so that it left just the tty? part, it works fine > from the command prompt but when I go to login with the new /etc/profile > it tells me I'm missing a trail

Re: [techtalk] multiple x display

2000-04-20 Thread Beverly Guillermo
Have you checked to see if you have any lock files in your /tmp directory? Beverly On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, dez wrote: > Good Morrow techtalk, > > After successfully( for a couple of months) using the multiple display > startx -- :1 -bpp 16 >(etc...) > i get an error saying the ser

Re: [techtalk] newbie trying to set up ethernet connection

2000-04-20 Thread Beverly Guillermo
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Julia Coolman wrote: > I installed limuxppc 2000 on my 333 mhz imac from the downloadable CD > image a few weeks ago and have been unable to get my ethernet (yay dorm) > connection up. most of the documentation for redhat (close to linuxppc) > i've found says nicely how to se

[techtalk] that clothes thread

2000-04-20 Thread Vinnie ChassotXDrachen Surmonde
> Hardcore backpack. Then again, I have no fasion > sense, and the backpack is a part of my body ;) That and in oly you'd fit right in Speaking of neat backpacks I now am the proud owner of a frame pack with a zip-off daypack too bad it has wheels and a handle (people keep telling me that th

[techtalk] debian q: apt/dpkg/etc

2000-04-20 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
When I've been upgrading the last couple of times via capt or even just getting package lists via apt-get update, I am seeing a lot of this: iput: device 00:01 inode 4096 still has aliases! Sometimes it is device 00:00 with different numbers, sometimes device 03:07 with different numbers... 00:0