Re: [ubuntu-uk] help seting up alamin

2010-12-02 Thread Jacob Mansfield
The situation is basicly that I want to be able to send an e-mail (or maby use a M$ Outlook plugin) to be able to send an sms to a number that I can specify with the message. the modem is a siemens TC65-T. also, if a message is recived I need to send it out in an email along with who it is from. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shell script .....

2010-12-02 Thread Barry Drake
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 12:41 +, Saikiran Madugula wrote: > The script seems to be missing bang here ... (#!/bin/bash) OOPs! I missed that one! Thanks. That cured the problem. I should have looked a bit closer at the shell line. Thanks to all of you who came up with suggestions. I did try

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual Monitor set up NVIDIA Twinview

2010-12-02 Thread Graham Smith
Liam, > If you ran it from System | Administration, it should have asked you > for your password. That's gksudo - the same as sudo but running > graphically. Nope, that would have made sense, as I did run it from System|Administration, I got an error saying it couldn't parse the x -config file

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual Monitor set up NVIDIA Twinview

2010-12-02 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Graham Smith wrote: > Liam, > >> and reboot, or is there something else I should be doing. >> >> Remember that you must be running as root to save from nvidia-settings. >> >> Personally, I run it from a terminal: >> >> $ sudo -s >> # nvidia-settings >> > > > Thanks,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual Monitor set up NVIDIA Twinview

2010-12-02 Thread Graham Smith
Liam, and reboot, or is there something else I should be doing. > > Remember that you must be running as root to save from nvidia-settings. > > Personally, I run it from a terminal: > > $ sudo -s > # nvidia-settings > > Thanks, that sounds like a good idea, but in fact it seems to have saved the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual Monitor set up NVIDIA Twinview

2010-12-02 Thread Liam Proven
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Graham Smith wrote: > Following on from my new monitor thread, I ended up with a Viewsonic > VG2227WM 22" Monitor. I know this wasn't mentioned in that thread, but for > various reasons that is what I ended up with.  And, as suggested, I also > replaced my Matrox

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shell script .....

2010-12-02 Thread Saikiran Madugula
On 02/12/10 11:14, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi there > > I wrote a little script for doing an rsync to a second hard drive. It > goes like this: > #/bin/bash The script seems to be missing bang here ... (#!/bin/bash) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shell script .....

2010-12-02 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 11:14 +, Barry Drake wrote: > I wrote a little script for doing an rsync to a second hard drive. It > goes like this: > #/bin/bash > rsync -r /home/barry /media/hda1/backups/barry_pc | tee >(zenity > --progress --pulsate --text="Backing up files ") >backup_log.txt > k

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shell script .....

2010-12-02 Thread Colin Law
On 2 December 2010 11:14, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi there > > I wrote a little script for doing an rsync to a second hard drive.  It > goes like this: > #/bin/bash > rsync -r /home/barry /media/hda1/backups/barry_pc | tee >(zenity > --progress --pulsate --text="Backing up files ") >back

[ubuntu-uk] Shell script .....

2010-12-02 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there I wrote a little script for doing an rsync to a second hard drive. It goes like this: #/bin/bash rsync -r /home/barry /media/hda1/backups/barry_pc | tee >(zenity --progress --pulsate --text="Backing up files ") >backup_log.txt killall zenity zenity --info --text="Backup comp