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David Karapetyan
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Wed Mar 12 18:43:18 UTC 2008
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1. Re: Ubuntu magic (Karl
> Larsen) (Steve Flynn)
2. Re: Ubuntu magic (Mario Vukelic)
3. Re:
> Installing a program with exe (Mario Vukelic)
4. Re: Installing a
> program with exe ( (``-_-??) -- Fernando )
5. Re: squid guard problem
> (Luca Ferrari)
6. Re: External USB hard drive "loosing" connection
> [Maxtor
onetouch] (NoOp)
7. Re: External USB hard drive
> "loosing" connection [Maxtor
onetouch] (Hemant Bist)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:49:40 +0000
From: "Steve Flynn"
> <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu magic (Karl Larsen)
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at
> 4:42 PM, Arvind K <arvindkhadri at gmail.com> wrote:
> Use sudo apt-get
> remove totem and then use the settings in VLC to make it
> the default
> player
Learn to trim young man - learn to trim...
--
Steve
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> person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
people suffer
> from a delusion it is called Religion.
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Message: 2
Date: Wed,
> 12 Mar 2008 17:52:27 +0100
From: Mario Vukelic
> <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu magic
To: "Ubuntu user
> technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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On Wed,
> 2008-03-12 at 06:18 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> His biggest
> problem is
> deleting Totem so VLC will come up as the prefered viewer.
Don't
> uninstall totem. Just rightclick a file of the desired format, go
to
> Options, then Open With, and choose VLC as the preferred application.
>
Otherwise, congrats and good luck :)
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:55:07 +0100
From: Mario Vukelic
> <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>
Subject: Re: Installing a program with exe
>
To: Ubuntu at bugabundo.net, Ubuntu-reply at bugabundo.net,
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 23:02 +0000, (``-_-??) -- Fernando wrote:
> It is
> known for breaking threads. maybe manual user intervention...
You meant
> "not known" :) And thanks for checking, I just assumed
gmail ...
>
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008
> 16:57:47 +0000
From: " (``-_-??) -- Fernando " <Ubuntu at BUGabundo.net>
>
Subject: Re: Installing a program with exe
To: "Mario Vukelic"
> <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>
Cc: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:55
> PM, Mario Vukelic
<mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-09
> at 23:02 +0000, (``-_-??) -- Fernando wrote:
> > It is known for
> breaking threads. maybe manual user intervention...
>
> You meant "not
> known" :) And thanks for checking, I just assumed gmail ...
Thats it.
>
typing ate 24.30 doesnt help.
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Message: 5
Date:
> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:03:13 +0100
From: Luca Ferrari
> <fluca1978 at infinito.it>
Subject: Re: squid guard problem
To:
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Cc: Travis Smith <ts0384 at gmail.com>
>
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On Wednesday 12 March 2008 Travis Smith's
> cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote:
> I guess I dont fully understand
> the question and not sure how to redirect
> with squidguard but maybe
> another solution would be to create a dns for
> www.porno.com and create
> and a record to where you want it to be
> redirected. I've used squid
> before but only to block sites not redirect
> them. If your not using
> local dns then edit your hosts file.
>
I don't want to use squidguard
> to redirect sites, as to block sites. But in
the example of squidguard
> there is a redirection to a default web page for
all blocked site, so I
> decided to redirect my users to a default home page
when using a wrong
> site. But if I redirect them to www.google.com I can see
the page
> right, when redirecting to a page of mine I cannot see the resources
in
> it.
Maybe the problem is that if the resource (e.g., and image) is
> referenced with
a local path (e.g., img/construc.gif) instead of an
> absolute url (e.g.,
http://www.google.com/img.png) it cannot be loaded.
>
Is it possible to have a workaround about that?
Luca
>
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008
> 10:30:52 -0700
From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: External USB
> hard drive "loosing" connection [Maxtor
onetouch]
To:
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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On 03/11/2008 09:47 PM,
> Hemant Bist wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently bought a Maxtor onetouch extenal
> USB drive 500GB for backup for
> my ubuntu dapper system.
> Every morning
> the backup script fails because it has problem in accessing
> the drive.
> Once I manually remount(sudo umount /dev/sda1; sudo mount
> /dev/sda1)
> the drive and restart backup it works fine.
> Has anyone seen this
> problem before? Any workarounds for this?
>
> Thanks,
> HB
>
>
>
> --snip from /etc/fstab--
> /dev/sda1 /var/backup ext3 rw 0
> 0
>
>
You'll probably find a solution here:
>
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/88746
>
It's a long read, but there are various workarounds listed.
>
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008
> 10:36:00 -0700
From: "Hemant Bist" <hemantbist at gmail.com>
Subject: Re:
> External USB hard drive "loosing" connection [Maxtor
onetouch]
To:
> "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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I will try remounting
> the drive from the script.[ Its a sbackup
package crontab running as
> root.]
I also suspect that its due to sleep mode. Could it have
> something to with
the fact that I reformatted the drive to ext3 from
> NTFS?
I found this article claiming that there is no problem with Maxtor
> drives.[
http://www.engadget.com/profile/1588927/].
Here are the errors
> I see in syslog.
.
localhost kernel: [174463.681864] sd 1:0:0:0:
> Device not ready.
localhost kernel: [174463.681885] end_request: I/O
> error, dev sda, sector
4655
localhost kernel: [174463.687888] Aborting
> journal on device sda1.
localhost kernel: [175036.945142] ext3_abort
> called.
localhost kernel: [175036.945164] EXT3-fs error (device sda1):
>
ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal
localhost kernel:
> [175036.945176] Remounting filesystem read-only
HB
On 3/12/08, Neil
> <hok.krat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Hemant
> Bist <hemantbist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I recently bought a Maxtor
> onetouch extenal USB drive 500GB for backup
> for
> > my ubuntu dapper
> system.
> > Every morning the backup script fails because it has problem
> in
> accessing
> > the drive. Once I manually remount(sudo umount
> /dev/sda1; sudo mount
> > /dev/sda1) the drive and restart backup it
> works fine.
> > Has anyone seen this problem before? Any workarounds for
> this?
>
> I'd simply start the script with "sudo umount /dev/sda1; sudo
> mount
> /dev/sda1" That is, if it is a bash script. Other types of
> scripts
> would need other commands, or a new script with that and the
> command
> to execute the original script.
> If you run the script as root
> (in the root crontab) it shouldn't even
> be necessary to use sudo.
> It
> might even be useful for the harddrive to shut down with the power
>
> consumption.
>
> just my 2 cents
>
> Neil
>
> --
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> people:
> 1. People who start their arrays with 1.
> 1. People who start
> their arrays with 0.
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: shorten "exit"
> !?
> (Owen Townend)
2. SV: Re: Locale settings (August Karlstrom)
> 3. Re:
> squid guard problem (Travis Smith)
4. RE: shorten "exit" |?
> (Jay
> Ridgley)
5. Re: Ubuntu magic (Karl Larsen) (Arvind K)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:38:53 +1100
From: "Owen Townend"
>
> <owen.townend at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: shorten "exit" !?
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On 3/12/08, Owen Townend
>
> <owen.townend at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 3/12/08, SYNass IT Ubuntu /
>
> Linux <i-ubux at synass.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Linux / Ubuntu experts &
>
> users
> > How and where can I add a short version of "exit" ?
> >
> > I
>
> am used to short versions of
> > x for exit and
> > q for quit or
> > sd
>
> for shutdown or
> > sb for setboot !!!
> >
> > Your advise and hints
> are
> very appreciated. ;-)
> > Cheers, svobi
> >
> >
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> Hey,
>
>
> `alias` is your friend.
> You can set alias's in your ~/.profile or
>
> .bashrc
> Something like this should work.
> `alias x='exit' q='quit'
>
> sd='shutdown -h now' sb='shutdown -r now'`
edit ^^ rb='shutdown -r
> now'
>
or just
> `alias kthxbye='shutdown -h now kthxbye; exit'
>
>
>
> cheers,
> Owen.
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:53:40 +0100 (CET)
From: August Karlstrom
>
> <augukarl at yahoo.se>
Subject: SV: Re: Locale settings
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--- Leo Cacciari <leo.cacciari at gmail.com> skrev:
>
>
> Each interactive login shell execute commands in ~/.profile. Adding
> the
>
> commands there would do the trick.
Thanks for the info. However,
> after
> adding
export LANG="sv_SE.UTF-8"
export
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
to
> ~/.profile and restarting X, I am still
> stuck with an all english locale.
> On
the other hand, after adding
>
LANG="sv_SE.UTF-8"
>
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
to /etc/environment and
> restarting the
> comuter I get the desired result.
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 12 Mar
>
> 2008 08:38:38 -0500
From: "Travis Smith" <ts0384 at gmail.com>
Subject:
> Re:
> squid guard problem
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for
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I guess I dont fully
>
> understand the question and not sure how to redirect
with squidguard but
>
> maybe another solution would be to create a dns for
www.porno.com and
>
> create and a record to where you want it to be redirected.
I've used
>
> squid before but only to block sites not redirect them. If your
not using
>
> local dns then edit your hosts file.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:20 AM,
>
> Luca Ferrari <fluca1978 at infinito.it> wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 March
> 2008
> Joris Dobbelsteen's cat, walking on the keyboard,
> wrote:
> >
> >
> Check
> your logs. Squid gives very decent output that you can use to
> >
> verify
> your assumption.
> >
>
> In the logs I found that squid is not
> able to
> access the original image,
> because of the redirect:
>
>
> 1205320921.812
> 6 192.168.4.201 TCP_HIT/200 984 GET
>
> http://www.porno.com/construc.gif -
> NONE/- text/html
>
> the
> construc.gif image does not exist at the url
> www.porno.com, while it
>
> exists of course at the url I've instrumented
> squidGuard to
>
> redirect....this
> is the problem: how can I make
> squidGuard to fully
> redirect the address?
>
> Luca
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:01:53 -0500
From: Jay Ridgley
>
> <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>
Subject: RE: shorten "exit" |?
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Folks,
Note that after you edit the
>
> .bashrc or any of the similar shell control
files, rather than logging
>
> off and back on, you should use
a command like:
source ~/.bashrc
>
> <---(use which ever shell script you are
working with here)
to test
>
> your changes. This provides a chance to make sure that you did
not muck
>
> something up when the changes were made. Cause if for some
reason you
>
> did something wrong now (some sort of error message is
issued) you can
>
> go back and correct the resulting problem, if you get no
response then
>
> your changes worked AND are active no need to log off and
back on.
If
>
> there is something seriously broken after your changes are made, you
may
>
> have trouble logging back on if you just log off...
Regards,
Jay
--
>
>
Jay Ridgley
jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
Registered Linux User ID - 9115
>
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008
>
> 22:12:01 +0530
From: "Arvind K" <arvindkhadri at gmail.com>
Subject: Re:
>
> Ubuntu magic (Karl Larsen)
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> <6ec04d020803120942u58cb431fw4d731d05ec4a7412 at mail.gmail.com>
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>
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Use sudo apt-get remove
>
> totem and then use the settings in VLC to make it
the default player
>
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> 1. Update and proxy question (Bart Silverstrim)
> 2. Evolution and
>
> screen size (Sridhar M.A.)
> 3. shorten "exit" !? (SYNass IT Ubuntu /
>
> Linux)
> 4. Ubuntu magic (Karl Larsen)
> 5. Re: VNC conections
> from
> multiple remote achines (stan)
> 6. Re: Locale settings (SYNass
> IT
> Ubuntu / Linux)
> 7. RE: shorten "exit" !? (Robert Sweetnam)
>
> 8.
> Re: Locale settings (Lea Gris)
> 9. Re: shorten "exit" !? (Ulf
> Rompe)
>
> 10. Re: shorten "exit" !? (Owen Townend)
>
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:08:41 -0400
> From: Bart
>
> Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com>
> Subject: Update and proxy
>
> question
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general
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> The organization I'm in has moved
>
> to using what I believe is a Bess
> filter behind a PIX firewall, and it
>
> authenticates users before allowing
> access to http and https sites.
> It
> tries to automatically authenticate
> users to a Windows Active
> Directory
> domain.
>
> The boss said I can manually configure my web
> browser to use
> the proxy.
> I set it up in Firefox to go to the
> correct port and
> address, and it
> prompts me to log in then I can web
> browse. But
> auxiliary services...my
> weather applet, my system
> updates...are blocked
> still. Even if I set my
> network settings to
> use that proxy and use
> authentication, the filter is
> blocking
> everything except for my Firefox
> browser.
>
> Is there a client-side
> solution to this??
>
>
>
>
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> Message:
> 2
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008
> 17:45:32 +0530
> From: "Sridhar M.A."
> <mas at mylug.org>
> Subject:
> Evolution and screen size
> To: Ubuntu Users
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> Hello,
>
> Wanted to try hardy-alpha6. Downloaded
>
> the iso. As I did not want to
> burn a cd and install it, thought o
>
> trying it as a VM.
>
> * Tried kvm to run it and got a blank screen. The
>
> command I used was
>
> kvm -cdrom hardy-desktop-i386.iso -boot d
>
>
> *
> Tried VirtualBox. could boot and play around. But, could not
> change
>
> the screen resolution.
>
> The overall look and feel of the
> distro is
> quite good.
>
> I tried running evolution and was frustrated.
> The window
> size is bigger
> than the screen res and I cannot resize it.
> The same
> patter continues
> and it is impossible to do anything. Is
> there a way to
> get round this
> problem? IMHO, this is a bad UI design
> :-(
>
> Regards,
>
>
> --
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> Message: 3
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> Date: Wed, 12
> Mar 2008 20:15:43 +0800
> From: SYNass IT Ubuntu /
> Linux
> <i-ubux at synass.net>
> Subject: shorten "exit" !?
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> Hi Linux
>
> / Ubuntu experts & users
> How and where can I add a short version of
>
> "exit" ?
>
> I am used to short versions of
> x for exit and
> q for
> quit
> or
> sd for shutdown or
> sb for setboot !!!
>
> Your advise and
> hints
> are very appreciated. ;-)
> Cheers, svobi
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008
>
> 06:18:07 -0600
> From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
> Subject: Ubuntu
>
> magic
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general
>
> discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Have a friend who uses Windows
>
> but wants to use Linux. Over about
> 4-5 years I got him to use Fedora
>
> whatever version I was on at that
> time. He had nothing but troubles
> and
> I would try to help him but it
> just never worked and he gave up.
>
>
>
> A couple of weeks ago he asked again and I told him ubuntu and he
>
> got
> the live cd and it ran fine on his computer. So he loaded it
> onto
> the
> computer and everything works. He (and me) were amazed. His
> biggest
>
> problem is deleting Totem so VLC will come up as the prefered
> viewer.
>
> The printer works, the Internet works it all works.
>
>
> He is now a
> happy Linux user
>
>
> Karl
>
> --
>
> Karl F.
> Larsen, AKA K5DI
>
> Linux User
> #450462
> http://counter.li.org.
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> Message: 5
>
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008
> 07:20:37 -0500
> From: stan <stanb at panix.com>
>
> Subject: Re: VNC
> conections from multiple remote achines
> To:
> Bernard Peek
> <bap at shrdlu.com>
> Cc: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>
> Message-ID:
> <20080312122037.GB17209 at teddy.fas.com>
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> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:08:13AM
> +0000, Bernard
> Peek wrote:
> > stan wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008
> at 11:09:14AM
> -0500, John DeCarlo wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at
> 12:13 PM, stan
> <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I would like to
> set up a machine
> so that multiple remote machines
> can
> > >>> connect
> and use VNC
> sessions on this machine. To do this I need some
> way
> >
> >>> of
> > >>>
> managing then "session ID" (as in machine_name:1 where 1
> is the
> display
>
> > >>> number) dynamically.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> I
> am also not sure
> what you want to do. You don't want the remote
>
> machines
> > >> to have
> to know their session id?
> > >
> > > The
> remote machines are windows
> boxes, and are administered by people
> who
>
> > > are not all that
> familiar with what they are ding. I want to be
> able
> to just
> > > tell
> them run (for example) vncviewer
> machine_name:10 and accept
> multiple
>
> > > simultaneous connections,
> each of which will get their own desktop
> but
> as a
> > > defined
> "guest"user.
> > >
> > > Does this make it
> clearer?
> > >
> > Let me
> see whether I understand the requirement
> clearly.
> >
> > As I
> understand it you want a number of Windows users to
> be able to
> >
> connect to a multiuser Ubuntu server system. Users would
> be able
> connect
> > at any time and would have access to a GUI desktop.
> You
> don't want these
> > users to have their own login ID on the Ubuntu
>
> machine, but you do want
> > each logged in user to see a different
>
> desktop rather than all of the
> > users sharing access to a single VNC
>
> display.
> >
>
> Yes, your application differs from mine. In my case I
>
> want the windows
> users to access a generic login ID that will provide
>
> certain services for
> them. These will be started up on the host machine
>
> automatically when that
> generic user logis in.
>
> --
> One of the
> main
> causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking
> zero,
> they had
> no way to indicate successful termination of their C
>
> programs.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date:
> Wed, 12 Mar 2008
> 20:23:56 +0800
> From: SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux
> <i-ubux at synass.net>
>
> Subject: Re: Locale settings
> To: "Ubuntu user
> technical support,
> not for general discussions"
>
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
> Message-ID:
> <1205324636.5622.52.camel at WS222>
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>
> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 12:44 +0100, Lea Gris wrote:
>
>
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > August
>
> Karlstrom a ?crit :
> > | Hello everyone,
> > |
> > | What I would like
>
> to have is a swedish locale but with messages in
> > english.
> > | I
>
> probably need something like
> > |
> > | export LANG="sv_SE.UTF-8"
> > |
>
> export LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> > |
> > | but to which file do I
> add
> these lines? I also want the settings to
> > take effect
> > | only
> for a
> local user.
> >
> > /etc/environment
> >
> > cat /etc/environment
>
> >
>
>
> PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/b
>
> in/X11:/usr/games"
> > LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> >
>
> LANGUAGE="fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en"
> > LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> >
>
> LANGUAGE="fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en"
> > ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
>
>
> > # Do not edit within this region if you want your changes to be
>
>
> preserved
> > # by debconf. Instead, make changes before the "###
> BEGIN
> DEBCONF
> SECTION
> > # FOR localeconf" line, and/or after the
> "### END
> DEBCONF SECTION FOR
> > # localeconf" line.
> >
> LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> >
> ### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
>
>
> Hi
> Lea,
> Merci / Thanks for
> your sample !
> Leo's explanations were quite
> great but how can I as
> newbie
> follow !? ;-(
> with your sample I see
> you are bilingual FR and
> EN and your locale is
> F ! ;-)
>
> Can I just
> copy and paste your sample
> into my environment and remove
> all entries
> of FR ... and replacing
> 'fr_FR' with the Swiss German one
> and
> how
> does the Swiss German look:
> de_CH ???
>
> TIA for advise and guidance !
>
> Cheers, svobi
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message:
> 7
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008
> 12:30:00 -0000
> From: "Robert Sweetnam"
> <robert at ops.sweetnam.eu>
>
> Subject: RE: shorten "exit" !?
> To: "Ubuntu
> user technical support,
> not for general discussions"
>
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
> Message-ID:
> <01C96AC135C5C24E9602A74B66A15217335C at exch.sweetnam.eu>
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>
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of SYNass IT
>
>
> Ubuntu / Linux
> Sent: 12 March 2008 12:16
> To: Ubuntu User List
>
>
> Subject: shorten "exit" !?
>
> Hi Linux / Ubuntu experts & users
> How
>
> and where can I add a short version of "exit" ?
>
> I am used to short
>
> versions of
> x for exit and
> q for quit or
> sd for shutdown or
> sb
>
> for setboot !!!
>
> Your advise and hints are very appreciated. ;-)
>
>
> Cheers, svobi
>
>
> --
>
> Hi, You need to edit your .bashrc file which
>
> is under your home
> directory.
>
> If you scroll down, you will see a
>
> line like the following:
>
> # some more ls aliases
>
> After the
>
> examples below this line add your own entries. For example to
> use sd
>
> for shutdown you would add:
>
> Alias sd='shutdown -now'
>
> You need to
>
> logout and back in again for the changes to take effect.
>
> Hope this
>
> helps
> Robert
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
>
>
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:33:03 +0100
> From: Lea Gris
>
> <lea.gris at noiraude.net>
> Subject: Re: Locale settings
> To: "Ubuntu user
>
> technical support, not for general discussions"
>
>
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID:
>
> <47D7CD7F.6050201 at noiraude.net>
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> SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux a ?crit :
>
> | Hi Lea,
> | Merci
>
> / Thanks for your sample !
> | Leo's explanations were quite great but
>
> how can I as newbie
> | follow !? ;-(
> | with your sample I see you
> are
> bilingual FR and EN and your locale is
> | F ! ;-)
> |
> | Can I
> just
> copy and paste your sample into my environment and remove
> | all
> entries
> of FR ... and replacing 'fr_FR' with the Swiss German one
> |
> and
> | how
> does the Swiss German look: de_CH ???
>
> Yep! :)
>
> You
> can copy modify
> as your wishes. It was pasted here in public mailing
>
> list on purpose.
>
>
> By the way, read carefully the english comments
> about debconf for
> where
> to place your custom variables.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> - --
> ~ L?a
> Gris - http://www.noiraude.net/
> () Campagne
> du ruban texte brut
> contre les courriels en HTML,
> /\ contre les
> pi?ces jointes dans un
> format propri?taire.
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> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008
>
> 13:36:47 +0100
> From: Ulf Rompe <Ulf.Rompe at icem.com>
> Subject: Re:
>
> shorten "exit" !?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID:
>
> <1205325407.20672.24.camel at ilsor.hnv.icem.de>
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>
> Am Mittwoch, den 12.03.2008, 20:15 +0800 schrieb SYNass IT Ubuntu
> /
>
> Linux:
> > How and where can I add a short version of "exit" ?
> >
>
> >
> I am used to short versions of
> > x for exit and
> > q for quit
> or
> >
> sd for shutdown or
> > sb for setboot !!!
>
> I assume you are
> referring
> to the shell. To exit a shell, you may send
> an EOF
> character. To do
> that, just press Ctrl-d. No need for a special
>
> shortcut.
>
> The other
> shortcuts may be set as shell aliases; Robert
> Sweetnam already
>
> explained how to do that.
>
> [x] ulf
>
> --
>
> Besuche machen immer
> Freude. Wenn nicht beim Kommen, dann beim Gehen.
>
> (Spanisches
> Sprichwort)
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
>
> Message: 10
>
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:38:09 +1100
> From: "Owen
> Townend"
> <owen.townend at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: shorten "exit" !?
>
> To: "Ubuntu
> user technical support, not for general discussions"
>
>
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID:
>
>
> <bb72339d0803120538r2aea30bbtc9507c094ccb1f65 at mail.gmail.com>
>
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> On 3/12/08, SYNass IT
>
> Ubuntu / Linux <i-ubux at synass.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Linux / Ubuntu
>
> experts & users
> > How and where can I add a short version of "exit" ?
>
>
> >
> > I am used to short versions of
> > x for exit and
> > q for quit
> or
>
> > sd for shutdown or
> > sb for setboot !!!
> >
> > Your advise
> and
> hints are very appreciated. ;-)
> > Cheers, svobi
> >
> >
> >
> >
> --
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> Hey,
>
>
> `alias` is your friend.
> You can set alias's in your ~/.profile or
>
> .bashrc
> Something like this should work.
> `alias x='exit' q='quit'
>
> sd='shutdown -h now' sb='shutdown -r now'`
> or just
> `alias
>
> kthxbye='shutdown -h now kthxbye; exit'
>
> cheers,
> Owen.
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