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October 2005

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Meeting minutes from earlier this week

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI everybody, We had our meeting in one of the rooms right off of the Morgan Hall dining area. I think there were 7 or 8 of us, with two newcomers (welcome!). The discussion started with GRUB and some of its more interesting features vs. LILO, such as command line editing and adding graphics to the background. I had made a GRUB bootable CD prior to the meeting. GRUB has a large number of features, and we touched on only a few. After that, we somehow ended up on the topic of VNC: http://www.realvnc.com http://www.tightvnc.com <-- There was also interest in the "suspend to disk" feature of my laptop, which actually worked in a live demo. One person asked if it was possible to do this on a desktop machine (I don't think so....). In addition, Mel K. (newcomer) brought his laptop, onto which he wanted to install RedHat 9.0, which was having trouble recognizing his external USB hard drive. I gave Mel my SuSE 9.3 pro CDs and asked him to give that a try. Mel said that he'd keep us apprised of his progress. Pizza / soda followed at the Tech Pizza restaurant where we've gone after the last several meetings. Mel mentioned that he has interest in VistA (open source medical software). Try http://www.vistasoftware.org and google turns up other seemingly related links. Later, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDRx4CHl0iXDssISsRAgHDAJ9ZQ4B0Morwv7EcxvAicO9fCxl2LgCdFxFg 5z9ZHpXjfJMuedYXi0ySZMI= =fVQp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Oct. 8, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Meeting minutes from earlier this week

by Jon Gaudette

Andy Stewart wrote: > > There was also interest in the "suspend to disk" feature of my laptop, > which actually worked in a live demo. One person asked if it was > possible to do this on a desktop machine (I don't think so....). > Hi Everyone, I have lurked for a while now, but first post to this list. Just wanted to say that the "suspend to disk" feature is available on a desktop machine. With Gentoo I use the 'suspend2-sources', and have had no problems with hibernating both my Athlon 64 desktop computer, nor Pentium3 laptop. A good howto is available on the Gentoo Wiki site, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Software_Suspend_v2 The instructions are fairly informative, that even non-Gentoo users should be able to use the howto as a stepping stone to getting the feature into their kernel. Hope this is of some help. -- Jon Gaudette

Oct. 7, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Splitting Text in linux.

by Brian Waite

On Tuesday 04 October 2005 9:25 am, Brett Russ wrote: > On 10/4/05, Chuck Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 05:42:01PM +0700, Aramico wrote: > > > I have a log with more than 200000 lines in one single file. > > > Can I split it into several defined files as file1, file2, file3, > > > file4, filen where I can defined it for 20000 line for each ? > > > How can I make it ? what command in linux to make it ? > > > > The 'split' command can do that: > > > > split -l 20000 -d --verbose file file > > Ah, much easier :-) > > OK, now that we know the easiest way, who can post the most obfuscated > method? Not the MOST obfuscated, but darn near the slowest: If I could only embed that alst cur assignement! #!/bin/sh if [ $# -lt 3 ] ; then echo "Usage: $0 <infile> <incr> <outfile_prefix>" exit fi while [ ${cur:=`wc -l $1| awk '{print $1}'`} -gt 0 ] ; do tail -$cur $1 | head -$2 > $3$(((`wc -l $1 | awk '{print $1}'` - $cur) / $2)) cur=$(( $cur - $2 )) done Thanks Brian

Oct. 5, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Splitting Text in linux.

by Mike Leo

open Kwrite, copy first 2000 lines, past into new file. Repeat. --- Brett Russ <bruss(a)alum.wpi.edu> wrote: > On 10/4/05, Chuck Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 05:42:01PM +0700, Aramico > wrote: > > > I have a log with more than 200000 lines in one > single file. > > > Can I split it into several defined files as > file1, file2, file3, file4, > > > filen where I can defined it for 20000 line for > each ? > > > How can I make it ? what command in linux to > make it ? > > > > The 'split' command can do that: > > > > split -l 20000 -d --verbose file file > > Ah, much easier :-) > > OK, now that we know the easiest way, who can post > the most obfuscated method? > > :-) > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Oct. 4, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Splitting Text in linux.

by Brett Russ

On 10/4/05, Chuck Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 05:42:01PM +0700, Aramico wrote: > > I have a log with more than 200000 lines in one single file. > > Can I split it into several defined files as file1, file2, file3, file4, > > filen where I can defined it for 20000 line for each ? > > How can I make it ? what command in linux to make it ? > > The 'split' command can do that: > > split -l 20000 -d --verbose file file Ah, much easier :-) OK, now that we know the easiest way, who can post the most obfuscated method? :-)

Oct. 4, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Splitting Text in linux.

by Chuck Anderson

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 05:42:01PM +0700, Aramico wrote: > I have a log with more than 200000 lines in one single file. > Can I split it into several defined files as file1, file2, file3, file4, > filen where I can defined it for 20000 line for each ? > How can I make it ? what command in linux to make it ? The 'split' command can do that: split -l 20000 -d --verbose file file

Oct. 4, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Splitting Text in linux.

by Brett Russ

On 10/4/05, Aramico <aramico(a)duahati.com> wrote: > I have a log with more than 200000 lines in one single file. > Can I split it into several defined files as file1, file2, file3, file4, > filen where I can defined it for 20000 line for each ? > How can I make it ? what command in linux to make it ? sed is your friend... man sed something like: sed -n 1,+19999p <big-file> > <little-file-1> then sed -n 19999,+19999p <big-file> > <little-file-2> of course, you'd best make a loop to do this quickly. BR

Oct. 4, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Splitting Text in linux.

by Bill Mills-Curran

Aramico, See the "split" command. It will do what you want. Bill On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 05:42:01PM +0700, Aramico wrote: > > > Friends, > > Can somebody help me here... > I have a log with more than 200000 lines in one single file. > Can I split it into several defined files as file1, file2, file3, file4, > filen where I can defined it for 20000 line for each ? > How can I make it ? what command in linux to make it ? > > > Regards, > > > > Aramico > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Oct. 4, 2005

Splitting Text in linux.

by Aramico

Friends, Can somebody help me here... I have a log with more than 200000 lines in one single file. Can I split it into several defined files as file1, file2, file3, file4, filen where I can defined it for 20000 line for each ? How can I make it ? what command in linux to make it ? Regards, Aramico

Oct. 4, 2005

SuSE Installation process.

by Adam Keck

Hello All, Does anyone have in-depth knowledge of the current SuSE install process? I want to get an install to exclude certain GIDs that we use in NIS when the install assigns GIDs to groups owned by packages. I found that I can assign the correct GID to an internal group in the autoyast XML file, but the package that uses that GID still gets a group assigned with that GID. Then result is duplicate GIDs in /etc/group. Ideally I would like to know how to get the installer to ignore certain GIDs. -Adam

Oct. 3, 2005