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Readline5.1 released
The first public release of the GNU Readline library, version 5.1, is now available for FTP with the URLs ftp:--ftp.cwru.edu-pub-bash-readline-5.1.tar.gz ftp:--ftp.gnu.org-pub-gnu-readline-readline-5.1...
Can someone help me debug my sound setup
Hi Using hotplug (and hence not udev) with a 2.6.14.3 custom compiled kernel with modular alsa support. Modules loaded : sndseqdummy 3844 0...
Can someone help me debug my sound setup
Madhusudan Singh sndseqoss,sndrawmidi,sndseq,sndseqdevice,sndpcmoss,sndpcm,sndtimer,sndmixeross An attempt to restart alsa-utils fails...
Calling a program when inode is unlinked
Ignoramus17480 Was afraid that was what you meant, but tried to slide by on-the-cheap. But what if...
Call script when a new file is stored within a directory
Yes, inotify. Only problem I have is that there seems to be no way of making it recursive, which I think then breaks if you want to watch a whole directory tree: inotify prog starts...
pppconfigalike in Fedora
Fedora writes a simple config file for each interface, eg.etc-sysconfig-networking-devices-ifcfg-ppp0 with contents: # Please readusr-share-doc-initscripts-*-sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. IPV6INIT=no USERCTL=yes PEERDNS...
XMMS & Scripts
personally ... i would install the xmms or beep-media-players infopipe plugin. This plugin touches a file...
C program for getting IP address of standlone box with no sockets 7162
What do you mean by a "standalone box"? If it has no network connections, then...
C program for getting IP address of standlone box with no sockets 7163
the Black Sun and said: What? If you're going to call ifconfig, why not just use popen...
C program for getting IP address of standlone box with no sockets 7164
What? If you're going to call ifconfig, why not just use popen()? PA: I was just not aware of this function. Thanks for pointing it out. Unwilling to make system calls? Are...
Escaping backslash programming question
You'll need to create a new file anyway. If all you want to do is delete that line... mvtmp-tempfileetc-syslog.conf Will do it. :-) You might want...
Linux Security 7166
If you run redhat-fedora there is a program system-config-securitylevel you can use to configure a firewall rather easily. In the Gnome menus it's called security level or something...
Linux Security 7167
E11 It depends on what distribution you have used and how you installed it. Well, Robert Morris wrote a worm over 10 years ago that got through a weak spot in sendmail, and managed...
Linux Security 7168
Iñaki Silanes I understood it easily enough. I only said viri because virii was manifestly wrong. And it is true that our knowledge of Latin is based almost entirely on...
Grub Installation Mini HowTo
I wrote a guide called the "Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To". Part of this document explains how to install Lilo. Many users have asked...
Important file lost how to avoid in the future
Had a background job that was outputing log file entries to a disk parbreastion that was nearing full. During this process, I vi'ed an important source...
Firefox only connects after a ping
I wonder if any of you kind people could please solve a little mystery for me? Having...
Running Eclipse From Applications Menu
Hi all, I'm having a problem running eclipse from the Applications menu. i'm using Ubuntu 5.10 for 64-bit PC. i downloaded Sun's JDK 1.5.006 and installed it inhome-edwin11...
How to set up an automatic archive of city council committees' public notices 7173
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:08:55 -0500, Chuck F. staggered into the Black Sun and said: ...and formatting like bold, italics, or different fonts is really not possible with plain text, to say...
How to set up an automatic archive of city council committees' public notices 7174
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:08:55 -0500, Chuck F. Personally I fail to see how the choice of data format has anything to do with any server...
How to set up an automatic archive of city council committees' public notices 7175
Hmm. buttuming I'm understanding the question... Store all your notices in binary form in a database, alongside article publish date, article breastle, and a unique ID (automatically...
Newbie Q: Interactive program eats up CPU
Hi all, I wrote a simple C program, exactly at the bottom of this post. It's an interactively game, needing user's input. When invoked at the Linux since no GUI...
Newbie Q: Interactive program eats up CPU
Steve Kirkendall Thank you, steve. I read some faq and they all say I should avoid scanf. Right now, my code is below...
Kmail problems with filters and Spam 7178
From my Kmail filter rules:- Filter named 'Bogofilter Check': under 'Filter Criteria' is 'match all of 'Filter Actions' is 'Pipe Through bogofilter -p...
Kmail problems with filters and Spam 7179
I thought that was the reason IMAP was invented! Pop clients always send a delete command if they want to delete a mail. The server does not delete it automatically. Clients...
ubuntu problems
I have installed Ubuntu 5.04 Intel, on the same disk with FC4. I did not let ubuntu to install Grub, but created a boot floppy. 1st problem ----------- I am unable to boot Ubuntu from HD...
ubuntu problems
Looks like you are usingdev-hda3 for the Fedora root file system ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Your Ubuntu root file system is probably not indev...
msdos files from linux thanks
I was mounting hda5 with root# mount -t msdos -o umask=0dev-hda5mnt-msdos but now I am mounting...
Xen helping to test Xen
You can help the Xen-project by testing Xen 3.0 on a x86-based hardware. Please read: Do: 0) Download the Xen 3.0 ISO (CD image). 1) Verify...
minimal OS for backup in case of Windows failure
js5895 If you want the ability to reliably write to an NTFS drive, you need...
strange things in bookmarks.html
In an effort to explain something else, I took a very close look and occupy ONE...
strange things in bookmarks.html
Charles said the following, on 12-14-05 14:19: snip These site icon "tokens copies" are something that has appeared relatively recently. I don't know offhand when, or where, they were introduced; perhaps...
shutdown hangs
Very weird. I can't get shutdown to work. I've tried "shutdown -h now", "shutdown -r now", and "reboot" and "poweroff", yet, here I am...
shutdown hangs 7188
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Peter T. Breuer .. .. Same thing, basically, happened again today. I tried many ways to fix the...
shutdown hangs 7189
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Peter T. Breuer .. .. Here's an excerpt ofvar-log from the first time this problem occurred (I posted here at 21:37...
Bootup getting stuck
I am facing a strange problem. We have a storage adapter connected to a PCI slot, and whenever a hard disk...
samba and big files question
Hello, I'm trying to do the following: I want to mirror a directory (seen on a windows box) through a linux box onto a webserver. This is what I'm thinking about...
samba and big files question 7192
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:30:37 +0000, Robert Latest There are even more complications than that. Caveats: I have no...
samba and big files question 7193
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:45:55 -0700, a lot in great detail Hello Douglas, thanks a great deal for your...
sendmail & virtual users
Hey; I tried posting this on comp.mail.misc and have yet to receive an answer. Hopefully, someone here will know: I'm transferring my domain to a different company that will set up an MX record...
Advantages of 64bit Installation
I run a PC with AMD64 3400+ 2.8Ghz CPU (one cpu), with 1GB RAM. It can ( as you indicate) run both 32 and 64 bits...
Screenshots and Virtual Desktops
Thank you, Chris. I guess I never thought about the aspiration of this desktop environment to be efficient (KDE is greedy) and thus re-draw ele- ments on the screen rather than set them aside...
command to find the flavour of linux 7197
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm sorry to have to tell you that you have an impossible requirement. That's because the OSisLinux. You shouldnt have...
command to find the flavour of linux 7198
CWO4 Dave Mann buttuming you mean that you need to write files depending on the distribution of Linux you are running, someone has already provided a...
Ubuntubinsh default how
When a shell starts up, it determines two things: - is it a login shell? - is it an interactive shell? The behavior of the shell depends...
how to see the list of all the function names 7200
I left HatRed for MandrX a couple of years ago after they abandoned the market segment I'm in.) HatRed 7.3 is...
how to see the list of all the function names 7201
Robert M. Riches Jr. said the following, on 12-15-05 17:30: snip comments on geriatric version of RedHat...
Questions about the Adaptec AAA131 RAID card
I have an Adaptec AAA-131 RAID and I want to use it in a server I am building and...
Open Source ERPCRM Software, CKERP, v.0.16.1 released
A new release, v.0.16.1, of CK-ERP, has been posted at SourceForge.Net, New features include, 1...
Linux 4GIG
grobteam I have thought about the 4+4 option. I have never done anything about it because the box has only 4 GBytes of memory in it. If I put another 4 GBytes...
Index File Contents under Linux
Sun and said: Maybe, but first you'll have to define "index" more rigorously. What data do you want to retrieve? Keywords, authors, file size, last-modified date? Do you want this to operate...
NBie Frustrations
I'm just about to give up on trying Linux (Ubuntu 5.10). This is my first attempt, and I am already pretty disappointed. 1. I can't make Macromedia Flash sites work no...
Mouse trouble
I have a fairly new home-built computer that's having mouse related trouble. My mouse looses the ability to move my cursor vertically with annoying frequency. I...
SOLUTION Mouse trouble
In the original post I snip I've fixed my "mouse trouble". The synopsis of the problem is that my system would lock up...
Printing problem DELL OptiPlex GX260
We are a team of three people trying to install a linux network. On our way we have found a lot of problems that we have managed to solve one or the other way. Finally...
Printing problem DELL OptiPlex GX260
My experience with Suse and real systems administration is that it bites goat rocks. The Autoyast tools obscure, moddy, and in fact violate the software that they are supposed...
GNUCash font problems
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 5.10. GNUCash's selection of font for nearly the entire UI is HUGE. I have a hi-res...
