Re: [ubuntu-uk] Work Experience

2009-04-20 Thread Tim Dobson
Josh Holland wrote: > Sorry if this is very late notice, but I would like to ask if any > Midlands-based companies would be able to take me on for work > experience related to computers this summer. Heya Sadly I can't help out here this time, but you should definitely come and hang on on #dfey a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server Power Management

2009-04-20 Thread Ian Pascoe
Cheers Folks, Ian -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com]on Behalf Of Alan Pope Sent: 19 April 2009 19:08 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server Power Management 2009/4/19 Ian Pascoe : > I'm thinking that a

[ubuntu-uk] Manchester Free Software Talk: green h consulting, a social venture using free software

2009-04-20 Thread Tim Dobson
Anyone coming to the Jaunty release party later on this week might also be interested in this: Hope to see you there! Tim :) Original Message Subject: [Fsuk-manchester] Re: Manchester Free Software Talk: green h consulting, a social venture using free software Date: Mon, 20 A

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bash and Path checks

2009-04-20 Thread Tony Travis
Cornelius Mostert wrote: > Thanx but I am familiar with / in Linux and \ in windows... i saw a > script use \ as i did and naturally I assumes (incorrectly though) > that it is also | (pipe) but backward pipe like <, come to think of it > the path the person wanted to append to the variable a path

[ubuntu-uk] Bash and Path checks

2009-04-20 Thread Cornelius Mostert
Thanx but I am familiar with / in Linux and \ in windows... i saw a script use \ as i did and naturally I assumes (incorrectly though) that it is also | (pipe) but backward pipe like <, come to think of it the path the person wanted to append to the variable a path that contained a space in it so t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bash and Path checks

2009-04-20 Thread Tony Arnold
Cornelius, Cornelius Mostert wrote: >> Are you doing this to avoid the mkdir if the directory you are creating >> already exists? If so, then the is an option -p which means it is not an >> error if the directory already exists. It also creates parent >> directories as needed, so: >> >> mkdi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bash and Path checks

2009-04-20 Thread Stephen O'Neill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/04/09 09:27, Sean Miller wrote: > pipe is | not \ > > \ is the way you make a character literal. In other words you remove > it from the parsing and have it interpreted as the character it is. > > Like "I'm going slightly \"mad\""... ;-) And

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bash and Path checks

2009-04-20 Thread Sean Miller
pipe is | not \ \ is the way you make a character literal. In other words you remove it from the parsing and have it interpreted as the character it is. Like "I'm going slightly \"mad\""... ;-) Best, Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

[ubuntu-uk] Samba as Print Server

2009-04-20 Thread Cornelius Mostert
Hallo all I have a Samba and Printer problem... Site details: Linux Primary Domain Controller - Samba Clients - Win XP Printers - Various shared on the client PCs Print Server - Samba Problem: I have a problem getting NON root/Admin users to print... 1. So PC "A" is a Win XP PC having a shared pr

[ubuntu-uk] Bash and Path checks

2009-04-20 Thread Cornelius Mostert
>Are you doing this to avoid the mkdir if the directory you are creating >already exists? If so, then the is an option -p which means it is not an >error if the directory already exists. It also creates parent >directories as needed, so: > > mkdir -p $newPath/Sound/MP3 > mkdir -o $newpa