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cat for binary file
Hello! I need to find program like cat to show bin file? Where is any? regards - MJ ... 10 Feb 2010 17:56

shebang and ubuntu
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 08:16 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody identifying as Phred Phungus wrote... On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:24:14 -0700, Phred Phungus wrote: I've now tripped on another instance of being denied permission: dan(a)dan-desktop:/usr/bin$ ls -l >text1.txt bash: text1.txt: P... 9 Feb 2010 04:00

disable sudoers "notty" option on a per directive basis
My sudoers has a Default "requiretty" that prevents sudo commands in scripts etc. I had a situation where I'd like to allow this for a particular user+command combination. [am running a remote reboot script as a specific system user] I dislike the too-broad approach of just removing the "Defaults requiret... 11 Feb 2010 11:39

Kernel messages about hard drives
All of a sudden, two separate hard drives in the same box have started to cause the kernel to print out messages like the following: hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 hdb: DMA timeout retry hdb: timeout waiting for DMA hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 Are these drives on their last legs... 8 Feb 2010 22:33

wget - which port number(s)?
wget -d -o wgout3.txt .... or look at the help Logging and input file: -o, --output-file=FILE log messages to FILE. -a, --append-output=FILE append messages to FILE. -d, --debug print debug output. -q, --quiet quiet (no output). -v, --verbose be verbose (... 8 Feb 2010 11:05

unable to mount udf(?) filesystem
I was given a home-made DVD that plays on a standard DVD player, but I'm unable to view it on a computer, with the ultimate intention of frame-by- frame editing using kino. Your help and/or advice is very welcomed, please. Diagnostics follow: $ /sbin/lsmod | grep udf udf 79077 0 $ ca... 9 Feb 2010 21:55

Need replacement for iTunes on x64
Hi All, Just put my second customer on desktop Cent OS 5.4 (x64 this time). The only thing I can not substitute for is iTunes. All he wants to do it to control his iPod (he really does not listen to music on his computer). Any recommendations? Many thanks. -T ... 9 Feb 2010 11:41

Is there a way to do an updatable pop up from bash
Hi All, I have a bash script to read my UPS' line voltage: #!/bin/bash X=1 while [ "$X" = "1" ] do LineVoltage="`/etc/rc.d/init.d/apcupsd status | \ grep -e "LINEV :"`" echo $LineVoltage sleep 5 done Is there is a way to make an updatable pop up with... 10 Feb 2010 12:14

how to zero nfs counters
I was trying to zero my nfs statistics counters and get an error message: nfsstat -z nfsstat: zeroing of nfs statistics not yet supported Is this still the standard situation or is there a patch that fixes this. I just installed the latest CentOS 5.4 distro so I thought my NFS server was pretty up to dat... 9 Feb 2010 16:15

How do I get mozilla-livehttpheaders to work with Debian iceape?
I am using Debian iceape browser (unstable/sid). I have installed mozilla-livehttpheaders using the following command: apt-get -t unstable install mozilla-livehttpheaders This does not seem to have any effect on the browser. What do I do next? I point the browser at about:plugins and this gives: Default Pl... 12 Feb 2010 01:08