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OT: req for example cvs script run while committing (commitinfo)
by e.maryniak＠pobox.com 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:32:35 +0100 From: Eric Maryniak <e.maryniak(a)pobox.com> Message-ID: <20001114123235.A5384(a)xs4all.nl> Subject: OT: req for example cvs script run while committing (commitinfo) Hello, Can some kind soul give me a working example of a cvs script (perl, sh, everything ok) that is run when committing (cvs ci) in cvs? (ie. a script that is present in the commitinfo administrative file and thus run for every commit) --- somehow i can't get the examples in the cvs contrib directory to work properly... I'd be grateful for any _working_ example, no matter how locally customized and would prefer an example that gives a little bit more info than what you get when you put a watch on files, e.g. i'd like something like "+n lines, -n lines by someone on somedate on thatfile"... Thanx! Bye-bye, Eric -- Eric Maryniak <e.maryniak(a)pobox.com> Home page: http://pobox.com/~e.maryniak/ University of Amsterdam, Department of Psychology. Tel/Fax: +31 20 5256853/6391656. Internet: http://www.neuromod.org/ Who is General Failure & why is he reading my disk drive ?

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RE: [SLE] Old style page numbers in LaTeX
by kester.clegg＠comreco-rail.co.uk 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

Message-ID: <01C04E2D.9A0A8750.kester.clegg(a)comreco-rail.co.uk> From: Kester Clegg <kester.clegg(a)comreco-rail.co.uk> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:25:32 -0000 Subject: RE: [SLE] Old style page numbers in LaTeX Ah, I asked my girlfriend last night on your behalf! :-) She's a bit of LaTeX wizard (albeit on Windows; booo, hiss!) and says you should look in your page style sty files, the page numbering style is defined therein. The clue is that the command \nopagestyle turns page numbering off. Hope this helps, k. On Monday, November 13, 2000 3:07 PM, Kester Clegg [SMTP:kester.clegg@comreco-rail.co.uk] wrote: > Corvin, > I would love to help with all your far-flung LaTeX requests to bend the > default *.sty files and macros. However, I receive these emails at work on > NT, and my memory / my books / my machine are all at home, so I really can > only help with the more basic things! > > But as a passing comment, and not a criticism, I suggest that either a) you > investigate the trillions of sty files out there that help folk format > their work for various institutional in-house styles and adapt them, or b) > abandon LaTeX, as its macros are designed for people for whom a common core > of settings is acceptable, perhaps instead you might be better off with the > more flexible and low-level TeX? > > Incidentally, we received yesterday our copy of the TUGBoat and TeXLive 5 > CD (wonderful!), and browsing through that always gives me new ideas for > things to try. > k. > > > On Sunday, November 12, 2000 4:30 AM, Corvin Russell > [SMTP:corvinr@sympatico.ca] wrote: > > I've yet to get ahold of TeX Unbound... but in the meantime, how do > > you change page numbers so that they are text figures and not titling > > figures? > > > > Best, > > > > Corvin > > > > > > -- > > Corvin Russell <corvinr(a)sympatico.ca> > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > > For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > > Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq > > > > -- > To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq > > >

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RE: [SLE] Lexmark Z52
by kester.clegg＠comreco-rail.co.uk 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

Message-ID: <01C04E2C.AB1B1420.kester.clegg(a)comreco-rail.co.uk> From: Kester Clegg <kester.clegg(a)comreco-rail.co.uk> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:18:51 -0000 Subject: RE: [SLE] Lexmark Z52 Seems HP have announced very poor interim profits - not surprising I guess.... :-) k. On Monday, November 13, 2000 8:08 AM, Samy Elashmawy [SMTP:samelash@ix.netcom.com] wrote: > > I will do this with Epson as well. > > At 06:22 PM 11/11/2000 -0600, Avi Schwartz wrote: > >I agree. What I just did was to go to http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/ceo/email/ > >and leave a very respectful message to Ms. Carly Fiorina explaining that > >while I was a very loyal HP customer for many years now, I went out and > >purchased a Lexmark Z52 today due to the lack of HP developed drivers for > >their Deskjet printers. I also explained that it is not enough of HP to > >support the Linux community by releasing information about their printers > >and leaving it to the O.S. developers to write the drivers. These drivers > >are often released many months after the printers are released (if ever), > >often after the next generation of printers is released. > > > >Avi > > > >"Roy G. Culley" wrote: > > > >> Today I printed a scanned photo of my son on glossy paper at the > >> printers highest resolution and the result was excellent. I think > >> Lexmark have done a great thing for Linux colour printing and hope > >> that the likes of HP, Canon, etc, follow suit. High quality colour > >> graphics printing is essential if Linux is going to be accepted on > >> the desktop and at home. Lexmark have shown it can be done and at > >> a price that most can afford. > >> > > > >-- > >Avi Schwartz Get a Life > >avi(a)CFFtechnologies.com Get Linux > > > > > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > >For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > > >Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq > > >

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RE: [SLE] Reiserfsck? Help, I can't mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/
by kester.clegg＠comreco-rail.co.uk 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

Message-ID: <01C04E2C.7BFE12F0.kester.clegg(a)comreco-rail.co.uk> From: Kester Clegg <kester.clegg(a)comreco-rail.co.uk> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:17:31 -0000 Subject: RE: [SLE] Reiserfsck? Help, I can't mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/ This is the entire root directory we're talking about..... not just a few MB. ;-) However, given the way SuSE has set up the reiserfs utils, and given the fact that maybe reiserfsck might trash my stuff anyhow, I've given up trying to fix the filesystem. Instead, I've borrowed another hard drive from a friend and decided to copy the files over. Then I'll just reformat my main hard drive. Question is, do I risk reiserfs again? In fact, should anyone? k. On Monday, November 13, 2000 4:54 PM, Herman Knief [SMTP:herman@knief.net] wrote: > Can you mount it, copy reiserfsck to /tmp, then umount? > > - Herman > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Kester Clegg wrote: > > ->>Yes, I have since then been able to mount it using > ->>mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda3 /mnt > ->>but of course that is on a rescue system and reiserfsck is not in the bin / > ->>sbin utils. Bizarrely it is in /mnt/sbin but of course I can't use it > ->>because I have to mount the directory to see it and you can't run > ->>reiserfsck on a mounted drive. So, looks like I'll have to get another > ->>hard drive and copy the files over. It's really a PITA, and I'd like to > ->>know the cause and if there is any way to fix it. I can't understand > ->>SuSE's reasons for not putting reiserfsck in the utils available on a > ->>rescue system - what's the point of the other reiserfs tools? And how do I > ->>find out how to fix my machine with no man pages, no printed manual help, > ->>and a partially complete set of reiser utilities? > ->> > ->>I guess as no one from SuSE has answered previous criticism about the lack > ->>of support for the reiserfs when things go wrong, I'll just end up > ->>reformatting the hard drive. I doubt there is a way to fix it. > ->> > ->>The message in /var/messages/boot.log claimed reiserfs was trying to access > ->>beyond the end of the device. Anyone else had that? > ->>k. > ->> > ->>On Thursday, November 09, 2000 6:00 PM, Doug McGarrett > ->>[SMTP:dougmack@i-2000.com] wrote: > ->>> I'm sorry I don't have an answer for you. But there have been a number > ->>> of threads relating to the Reiser FS recently, and the question always > ->>> comes up, what are the advantages and disadvantages of Reiser. I > ->>> should think you have discovered a _major_ disadvantage, if there > ->>> is no way to recover your data! (I hope you do find a way, and > ->>> then report it here.) --doug > ->>> > ->>> At 11:45 AM 11/09/2000 +0000, Kester Clegg wrote: > ->>> >Hi all, > ->>> > > ->>> >This thread was posted a long time ago, but I now need to find similar > ->>> >solutions. I had a most unpleasant experience last night. After making > ->>> >alterations to try to improve my modem speed (setting ttS1 to sp_vhi), > ->>my > ->>> >machine refused to boot into X. startx worked, and so did kdm, but I > ->>> >couldn't return to the graphical login, even though the rc.config option > ->>> >was set to kdm. > ->>> > > ->>> >So I commented out my changes affecting the modem, and rebooted. Again > ->>it > ->>> >refused to boot into X, but this time kdm hung when I started. I had to > ->>do > ->>> >a warm reboot as the keyboard was looked. Kernal panic about half way > ->>> >through the reboot... > ->>> > > ->>> >I also notice root d_count=reached (this from memory, and it flashes > ->>past > ->>> >very fast) or something similar - is this the max mount count reached > ->>and > ->>> >would that cause the booting into X problem? > ->>> > > ->>> >mmm... > ->>> > > ->>> >After that, the machine reset itself to reboot about midway through the > ->>> >booting process. I tried to boot a rescue system, but no joy. I have: > ->>> > > ->>> >/dev/hda1 ext2 > ->>> >/dev/hda3 reiserfs > ->>> > > ->>> >mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/ > ->>> > > ->>> >fails under the rescue system, complaining that /dev/hda3 has the wrong > ->>> >major or minor number? I guess this is due to reiserfs? > ->>> > > ->>> >Can I mount this rieserfs partition using the rescue system off the CD > ->>> >(v.6.4)? If so, how? > ->>> > > ->>> >What has likely trashed my machine and what should I check to get back > ->>my > ->>> >work of the last month? All / any suggestions are welcome, because as > ->>far > ->>> >as I could see, /sbin under the rescue system has no reiserfsck on it > ->>(dump > ->>> >and resize and utils are there, but not fsck), so if there is a problem > ->>> >(and it looks bad?) what can I do? :-( > ->> > ->>-- > ->>To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > ->>For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > ->>Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq > ->> >

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Re: [SLE] Accessing samba / win98 shares
by seana＠romaxtech.com 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

From: "Sean Akers" <seana(a)romaxtech.com> Message-ID: <80256997.0037A159.00(a)romaxtech.com> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:27:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [SLE] Accessing samba / win98 shares Sean Akers@ROMAX 14/11/2000 10:27 You need to use smbmount to mount Windows 9x/NT/W2K shares. e.g. /usr/bin/smbmount //worf/sean /mnt/seanWorf -o username=sean,password='mypassword' this command will mount the share named 'sean' from the Windows machine named 'worf' to the mount point /mnt/seanW2K For public shares, everything after the -o option is not needed but on my setup only user 'sean' can access this particular share (it's a W2K machine). I have put the password in single quotes because my actual password contains punctuation characters. The quotes stop these characters being nabbed by the shell. You can also put entries in /etc/fstab. Here is an example from my setup: //worf/sean /mnt/seanWorf smbfs username=sean,password=mypassword This works very well IMO. I use this system to allow my Linux server to perform backups of data files from my Windows boxes to tape etc. I don't know of any console utilities to browse available Windows shares though. With smbmount you already need to know what is shared on the machine you are mounting. It would be nice to find such a utility esp. if it could write out fstab entries and/or smbmount command lines for you. Anyway I hope this helps. Whilst on this subject. Is there any way to automount Windows shares. On my setup, I have a cron job which attempts to mount the Windows shares every 15 minutes. This is needed because Windows being what it is tends to get rebooted and shutdown a lot (even W2K which although much better than previous versions is still rather flakey compared to Linux) and I have to make sure that the shares are mounted when the backup scripts execute. I also tend to share files between Windows and Linux and I just want to have immediate access to my Windows shares from Linux without having to manually mount them. I haven't had much success with automounting things so far. Any pointers would be most welcome. Sean.

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Dual boot box ??
by speaker1＠mindspring.com 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

Message-ID: <010701c04def$cddb55c0$d00b45cf@speaker1> From: "Darrell Nobles" <speaker1(a)mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:03:09 -0500 Subject: Dual boot box ?? Ok everyone , I am spitting in the wind. I have my system- SUES 6.3 and Wn98 setup, with Windoze on the second slave drive, and Linux as the master. Linux, works great, but i have a few apps, I use for work on MS. The problem is when I use the slave drive it pauses, and has to restart, using the master drive great,. Did I miss something? If i switch the settings on the drives, will I loose the ability to dual boot or install Lilo from a boot disk on the Windows drive-(how)??? Thanks all- till a newbie Darrell

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Apache webserver not working after update
by j.e.drews＠worldnet.att.net 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

From: Jonathan Drews <j.e.drews(a)worldnet.att.net> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:56:06 -0600 Message-Id: <00111018031100.00696@linux> Subject: Apache webserver not working after update Hello: I updated my SuSE 7.0 with the apache.rpm, from the SuSE updates URL, and now on startup it gives the message: "syntax error in httpd.conf file" The apache webserver will no longer start. this was the page that appeared when Netscape was started and it displayed Tux, tapping his foot in the upper right hand corner. It also listed all the SuSE url's for help. This page no longer appears. Also I updated to Netscape 4.76. I wonder if the Netscape update damaged the apache web page. Thanks in Advance Jonathan

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SuSE Icons in KDE2
by steve＠laird.owt.com 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

From: Steven W.Laird <steve(a)laird.owt.com> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:35:52 -0800 Message-Id: <00111123355202.00894@cobra> Subject: SuSE Icons in KDE2 I'm running SuSE 7.0 with the KDE2 update installed. The SuSE menu items in the KDE panel have the default question mark icons and I can't change them. Any suggestions? They all work correctly in KDE1.2. -- Steve

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Re: [SLE] disk partitioning
by klcroxen＠fas.harvard.edu 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

Message-Id: <200011131935.OAA06477(a)smtp3.fas.harvard.edu> From: "Kevin Croxen" <klcroxen(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:35:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [SLE] disk partitioning My proposed mount points would be: 1) /boot (including boot.b and vmlinuz) below 1024. Being generous, say 15 Megs. Probably less is fine too. 2) / (= /everything_else, any way you want it covering all the rest of the available space.) In one or more partitions, as convenient --so long as the kernel and the chained bootloader are in a little partition entirely within 1024, the arrangement of all the rest is optional. Cheers, --Kevin On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 18:43:04 +0000, paulm(a)waitrose.com wrote: >I'm just in the process of installing SuSE 6.4 on one of my machines. This >machine already has two other operating systems (Win95 and OS/2). I have a >reasonable amount of disk space for SuSE (around 8 GB), but the available >disk space within the first 1024 cylinders is limited (less than 2 GB). As >a result, I wanted to partition the drive to leave a relatively small >partition below the 1024 limit, and split the rest of the system onto >partitions further up on the disk. > >Can someone suggest a set of suitable mount points? I tried using one >partition set as /, and another set as /usr, but this isn't a wonderful >split - I've ended up with less than 100 mb on the / partition, but close >to 1.6 gb on the /usr partition. > >What I'm not sure of is whether I should make more than 2 partitions, or >whether there is a better split than the one I've tried. Any suggestions >welcome... > >paul. > >----------------------------------------------------------- >paulm(a)waitrose.com >Paul Marwick - Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, UK >Marwick Computer Services - OS/2, LAN & general computer consultants >----------------------------------------------------------- > > >-- >To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com >For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com >Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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Suse 7.0 patches
by jfmurphy＠charter.net 13 Nov '00

13 Nov '00

From: John Murphy <jfmurphy(a)charter.net> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 18:32:41 -0500 Message-Id: <00111318503300.00817@dad1> Subject: Suse 7.0 patches I went through the new updates and patches for 7.0 and ended up with a problem. I'm getting a error after updating Apache and Httpd from Suse's site. httpd.conf syntax error failed resources runlevel 3 Apache I don't get Suse's homesite startup in Netscape and the Suse help pages from my KDE panel don't run. After putting some time into it I do get the above if I run httpd from root. Someplace I'm missing something to start this up. I'm guessing in the httpd.conf file that my login screen tells me a syntax error, but I have no idea where? I deleted the update and installed the orginal files from Suse 7.0 but got the same result. John...... --------------------------------------------------------------- Linux, Win, DOS,- also known as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly! --------------------------------------------------------------- Contentment - is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. ---------------------------------------------------------------

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