debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2003 : Issue 10
Today's Topics:
sources.list for people.debian.org/~ [ will trillich
<will@serensoft.com> ]
woody! i made it! [ will trillich
<will@serensoft.com> ]
Re: initializing linux partitions af [ Nori Heikkinen
<nori@sccs.swarthmor ]
Re: users and x/gdm [ "Karsten M. Self"
<kmself@ix.netcom ]
Re: initializing linux partitions af [ Gerald Livingston
<debuser@sysmatri ]
Re: ArgoUML [ Tom Badran <tb100@doc.ic.ac.uk> ]
Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 [ "Kevin" <kevin@robertsesq.com> ]
configuring X with 3D Prophet [ Alberto Stracuzzi
<stracuzz@media.d ]
Unidentified subject! [ Kevin.Bewley@camr.org.uk ]
Re: initializing linux partitions af [ Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> ]
Re: Unofficial Debian package manage [ Frank Copeland
<fjc@thingy.apana.or ]
Timing a program run? [ Gerald Livingston
<debuser@sysmatri ]
Re: Timing a program run? [ Paul Johnson
<baloo@ursine.dyndns.o ]
Re: Timing a program run? [ Thomas Krennwallner
<krennwallner@a ]
Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 [ "Kevin" <kevin@robertsesq.com> ]
Re: Timing a program run? [ sean finney <seanius@seanius.net> ]
Re: Timing a program run? [ Elijah <desiderata@softhome.net> ]
Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 [ James Tappin <james@tappin.me.uk> ]
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:14:19 -0600
From: will trillich <will@serensoft.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: sources.list for people.debian.org/~elphick?
Message-ID: <[🔎] 20030102021419.B12902@serensoft.com>
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 09:31:11AM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 04:14, will trillich wrote:
> > couldn't get the ~elphick/postgresql apt thingie to work, so i'm
>
> I think that is now fixed. Please, let me know.
i can't figure out what to put in my sources.list file --
anything i try with "apt-get" seems to insist on there being a
point in the remote repository path that includes a "dists"
directory, and browsing around
http://people.debian.org/~elphick/repository/
i don't find any such "dists/" directory that would make my
apt-get happy. i do find
debian/
stable/
woody/
contrib/
installed/
main/
non-free/
but no "dists/" which my apt seems rather persistent about.
(there's probably some setting i can change, tho, right?)
suggestions (and blitheringly simple pointers i've overlooked)
are welcome. :)
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Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #103 from Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>
:
Trying to CREATE A CRONTAB FOR THE LAST DAY OF THE MONTH? Best
to put all the logic within the crontab itself (a Good Thing,
since you then only have to look in one place to find it):
1 0 28-31 * * [ "$(date +%d -d +1day)" -eq "1" ] &&
/path/to/script args
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:16:11 -0600
From: will trillich <will@serensoft.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: woody! i made it!
Message-ID: <[🔎] 20030102021611.C12902@serensoft.com>
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after a few speed bumps, I'M FINALLY RUNNING WOODY -- and on my
primary server, no less. awesome!
thanks for y'all'uns patience and help. :)
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I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0;
Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #102 from Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
:
Trying to LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN? Check out the links here:
http://pub13.ezboard.com/fiwetheylinux.showMessage?topicID=649.topic&index=39
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 03:15:35 -0500
From: Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: initializing linux partitions after installation
Message-ID: <[🔎] 20030102031535.A7025@merlin.sccs.swarthmore.edu>
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on Thu, 02 Jan 2003 07:56:36AM +0000, Karsten M. Self insinuated:
> on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:24:40AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen
(nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu) wrote:
> > so, i did it! i installed debian from scratch, woo-hoo! it's now
> > installed, but not configured, so i still have half the work ahead
> > of me ... but thanks to y'all and to debian, it was much easier
> > than i'd expected it to be.
> >
> > now my question is: during setup and installation, i partitioned
> > off my hard drive into a swap partition /, /usr, /var, /tmp, and
> > /home. i initialized the swap and the first three of the others,
> > but then i stopped, and moved on to the rest of the installation.
> > now i don't have /tmp or /home initialized or mounted. how do i
> > go back and do this?
>
> 1. Create the partition (you've done this apparently).
>
> 2. Create a filesystem on it. E.g.: if /dev/hda6 is /home:
>
> mke2fs /dev/hda6
>
> 3. Add an entry to /etc/fstab.
>
> 4. Mount the filesystem.
perfect, that works like a charm. google hadn't been any help on this
one ... guess i'd just been phrasing my question wrong. thanks!
> > what's weirding me out is, having created a user account for
> > myself and logging in, `pwd` says i'm in /home/nori. how can this
> > be, if i didn't initialize a /home partition?
>
> You don't need to create a partition for given mountpoints, you
> *can* do so if you like. /home/nori is probably on your root
> partition (/). You can check this with:
>
> $ cd /home/nori; df .
yup, that's exactly what it was.
> > i mean, i'm going to go back and initialize it and /tmp just as
> > soon as i figure out how, but i'm kind of confused.
>
> You're doing fine. The confusion is permanent, its focus shifts
> with time.
:) so i'm seeing. thanks!
</nori>
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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 08:23:40 +0000
From: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: users and x/gdm
Message-ID: <[🔎] 20030102082340.GA1311@ganymede>
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on Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:47:08PM -0500, George Georgalis
(george@galis.org) wrote:
> Something seems wrong with the archives at the moment...
>
>
> I just finished walking remote hands through a not so simple x
> configuration. whew.
>
> now a user can 'startx' and use the session, but with gdm the session
> starts then immediately returns to the gdm
login.
>
> I presume there is a permissions problem here... how do I enable users
> with console access (or users in a group) to access (run) the xserver?
In /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config:
allowed_users=console
You should be able to manage this setting with:
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common
man 5 Xwrapper.config for more information.
Peace.
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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:24:59 -0600
From: Gerald Livingston <debuser@sysmatrix.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: initializing linux partitions after installation
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:56:36 +0000
"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> No, but it means you're going to want to move the directory and copy
> its contents to the new mountpoint once you've created it:
>
> $ sudo bash
> # cd /
> # mv home home-bak
> # mount /home
> # cp -pdR home-bak/* /home
>
I never created a separate /home partition -- made a 27G /. Decided last
night to clean up and rearrange drives. I've been using /home for all
kinds of storage -- mp3, ogg, local copy of hosted web site, etc. Ended
up having to move 22G of files and put /home on its own 40G drive.
Don't feel like re-partitioning so now I'm using the extra space in /
for things like /tmp and /var/cache/apt.
My current drive mess looks like this:
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc7 ext3 27G 898M 25G 4% /
/dev/hdc3 ext3 9.2G 4.8G 4.0G 55% /debian
/dev/hdc1 ext3 19M 4.7M 13M 27% /boot
/dev/hdc5 ext3 14G 6.4G 6.7G 49% /usr
/dev/hdc6 ext3 4.6G 246M 4.2G 6% /var
/dev/sda1 ext3 17G 33M 17G 1% /scsi
/dev/hda2 ext3 28G 15G 12G 58% /mp3.mov
/dev/hdb1 ext3 37G 22G 14G 62% /home
hda is 40G, hdb is 30G, hdc is 60G, and sda is 18G. Still have some
re-arranging to do, just haven't decided what to move where. I like
having most of my free space in one area. With these drives I suppose I
should go to LVM -- does it allow free space to be concatenated across
physical drives?
Gotta figure out what the heck is sucking up /var too since I have
/var/cache/apt sitting elsewhere.
G
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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 08:49:36 +0000
From: Tom Badran <tb100@doc.ic.ac.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: ArgoUML
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On Thursday 02 January 2003 6:05 am, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> ArgoUML-0.12 Runs fine on this:
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1-b21)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.1-b21, mixed mode)
>
> downloaded and installed directly from java.sun.com
Also works fine with the blackdown debian packages. You might need to edit
/usr/bin/argouml to set which jvm to use if you have things like gij or kaffe
installed.
Tom
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 00:52:25 -0800
From: "Kevin" <kevin@robertsesq.com>
To: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>,
<debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
> on Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:32:20PM -0800, Kevin (kevin@robertsesq.com)
wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
> > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
> >
> >
> > > on Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:35:02PM -0800, Kevin (kevin@robertsesq.com)
> > wrote:
> > > > Please can you help with this error?
> > > > Below is the log, env and .bashrc
> > > >
> > > > DISPLAY=debian:0.0;export DISPLAY
>
> <...>
>
> > > More useful information:
> > >
> > > - What command are you running?
> > > - What is the *exact* error message?
> > > - How is your root session executing?
>
> You didn't answer this question. Are you logged in directly as root, or
> did you run 'su' or 'sudo' from another userid?
>
> > > - Are you local or remote on this box?
> > >
> > >
> > > If you are logged in as a nonprivileged user, are 'su'd or 'sudo'd to
> > > root, and are attempting to run an X client, try specifying the local
> > > display *and* merging xauth records, as root:
> > >
> > > # export DISPLAY=<local display>
> > > # xauth merge ~/<nonprivileged user>/.Xauthority
>
> > make xconfig
> > cannot open display: debian:0.0
> > root
> > local
>
> That's a bit terser than is useful.
>
> Are you *logged in as root, directly, on an X display?* I doubt it.
>
> The solution I suggested previously should work. Try it and report
> results.
>
> Peace.
>
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make xconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts kconfig.tk
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts'
cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk
echo "set defaults \"arch/i386/defconfig\"" >> kconfig.tk
echo "set ARCH \"i386\"" >> kconfig.tk
cat tail.tk >> kconfig.tk
chmod 755 kconfig.tk
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts'
wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk
Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display
"10.100.4.2:0.0"
Error in startup script: invalid command name "button"
while executing
"button .ref"
(file "scripts/kconfig.tk" line 51)
make: *** [xconfig] Error 1
Yes I was login directly as root
Kevin
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 10:54:09 +0100
From: Alberto Stracuzzi <stracuzz@media.dsi.unimi.it>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: configuring X with 3D Prophet
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Hi to everyone.
I know that it isn't fair to send the first mail to a list imploring help...
but....
I installed Debian on my laptop and everything was perfect... So I decided to
install it on the office dsktop pc (it isn't mine so I can't decide which
kind of components to use) but I wasn't able to start X.
The pc uses a Hercules 3d Prophet 4500 64MB Ram graphic board.
I tried everything: writing to Hercules and SGS, installing drivers they
showed me (drivers are not certificated by Hercules and SGS), manually
configuring the XF86Config with values of Bus PCI... Nothing happened: "No
screen found"...
I could attach the log file but I don't hate you and I didn't want to bore
the list...
Simply: anyone did it with success and did he/she write me?
Alberto
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:19:06 +0000
From: Kevin.Bewley@camr.org.uk
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:
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Hi,
I know this is an old one but I can't find anything on Google. I have an
old S3 Aurora64V+ Videocard in my laptop and wish to use the vesafb to get
the lovely penguin and a 800x600 console. I'm pretty sure the card doesn't
support VESA 2.0 (only VESA 1.2) but I was told that there was a patch I
could apply to the kernel source prior to compilation that will sort this
out.
Is this true?
Where can I get the patch and some instruction on how to apply it?
Oh yes, I'd need a patch for Kernel version 2.4.20 if possible as that is
what I'm running at the moment. If it's any help the laptop I'm using is a
Compaq Armada 7350MT.
Cheers,
Kevin
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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 01:39:26 -0800
From: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: initializing linux partitions after installation
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Hi,
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:56:36AM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> No, but it means you're going to want to move the directory and copy its
> contents to the new mountpoint once you've created it:
>
> $ sudo bash
> # cd /
> # mv home home-bak
> # mount /home
> # cp -pdR home-bak/* /home
It works for /home since it usually does not have any filename starting
with "." period in it.
For the the last line of the example, I would use a command line:
# cp -pdR home-bak/. /home
or using equivalent and easy to remember "archive" option:
# cp -a home-bak/. /home
This ensures that everything gets copied including file names starting
with period.
Cheers :)
Osamu
PS: without "/." after home-bak, /home/home-bak/is created.
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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:54:14 +0000 (UTC)
From: Frank Copeland <fjc@thingy.apana.org.au>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Unofficial Debian package management
Message-ID: <[🔎] slrnb18325.fth.fjc@wossname.apana.org.au>
On 26 Dec 02 15:00:22 GMT, David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org> wrote:
> I've been using mini-dinstall to maintain a small private repository
> (mostly with my custom-compiled kernels). You can add other things to
> it, but it wants a full source package with a .changes file, which
> means pretending to be a developer and building the package from
> source yourself.
How are you creating custom kernel packages with .changes files? I've
been unable to work out how to do it with kernel-package and make-kpkg.
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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 03:57:10 -0600
From: Gerald Livingston <debuser@sysmatrix.net>
To: debuser <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Timing a program run?
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OK -- dumb question that I can't remember the answer to and can't find
by googling.
How the heck do I time how long it takes a certain script to run?
I've searched the archives and google and apropos and apt-cache on all
kinds of variations of "time" (timing, timer, etc) and can't find
anything.
Do I need to write a 'date +%s' in to the beginning and end of the
script and do the math when it finishes?
Another dumb bash question later if I can't figure it out.
G
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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:07:03 -0800
From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
To: debuser <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Timing a program run?
Message-ID: <[🔎] 20030102100703.GB27608@ursine.dyndns.org>
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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:57:10AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote:
> How the heck do I time how long it takes a certain script to run?
This isn't shell specific. And you're probably going to have to get a
surgeon to remove your hand from your forhead from hitting it so
hard. 8:o)
time <command>
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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 11:07:52 +0100
From: Thomas Krennwallner <krennwallner@aon.at>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Timing a program run?
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Hi!
On Thu Jan 02, 2003 at 03:57:10AM -0600, the boisterous
Gerald Livingston <debuser@sysmatrix.net>
wrote to me:
> How the heck do I time how long it takes a certain script to run?
$ time app
so long
Thomas
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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:12:34 -0800
From: "Kevin" <kevin@robertsesq.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin" <kevin@robertsesq.com>
To: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:59 PM
> Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
>
>
> > on Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:32:20PM -0800, Kevin (kevin@robertsesq.com)
> wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
> > > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:03 PM
> > > Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
> > >
> > >
> > > > on Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:35:02PM -0800, Kevin
(kevin@robertsesq.com)
> > > wrote:
> > > > > Please can you help with this error?
> > > > > Below is the log, env and .bashrc
> > > > >
> > > > > DISPLAY=debian:0.0;export DISPLAY
> >
> > <...>
> >
> > > > More useful information:
> > > >
> > > > - What command are you running?
> > > > - What is the *exact* error message?
> > > > - How is your root session executing?
> >
> > You didn't answer this question. Are you logged in directly as root, or
> > did you run 'su' or 'sudo' from another userid?
> >
> > > > - Are you local or remote on this box?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > If you are logged in as a nonprivileged user, are 'su'd or 'sudo'd
to
> > > > root, and are attempting to run an X client, try specifying the
local
> > > > display *and* merging xauth records, as root:
> > > >
> > > > # export DISPLAY=<local display>
> > > > # xauth merge ~/<nonprivileged user>/.Xauthority
> >
> > > make xconfig
> > > cannot open display: debian:0.0
> > > root
> > > local
> >
> > That's a bit terser than is useful.
> >
> > Are you *logged in as root, directly, on an X display?* I doubt it.
> >
> > The solution I suggested previously should work. Try it and report
> > results.
> >
> > Peace.
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> make xconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts kconfig.tk
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts'
> cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
> ./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk
> echo "set defaults \"arch/i386/defconfig\"" >> kconfig.tk
> echo "set ARCH \"i386\"" >> kconfig.tk
> cat tail.tk >> kconfig.tk
> chmod 755 kconfig.tk
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts'
> wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk
> Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display
> "10.100.4.2:0.0"
> Error in startup script: invalid command name "button"
> while executing
> "button .ref"
> (file "scripts/kconfig.tk" line 51)
> make: *** [xconfig] Error 1
>
> Yes I was login directly as root
>
> Kevin
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FYI
If I try xhost +localhost
xhost: unable to open display "debian:0.0"
Kevin
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 05:13:24 -0500
From: sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>
To: Gerald Livingston <debuser@sysmatrix.net>
Cc: debuser <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Timing a program run?
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heya,
how about... "time"? i think it outputs the timing information
to stderr after it has finished running the app. it's funny
all your searching didn't show that up :) for future reference,
"man -k keyword" is another good place to look.
sean
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:57:10AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote:
> OK -- dumb question that I can't remember the answer to and can't find
> by googling.
>
> How the heck do I time how long it takes a certain script to run?
>
> I've searched the archives and google and apropos and apt-cache on all
> kinds of variations of "time" (timing, timer, etc) and can't find
> anything.
>
> Do I need to write a 'date +%s' in to the beginning and end of the
> script and do the math when it finishes?
>
> Another dumb bash question later if I can't figure it out.
>
> G
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Date: 02 Jan 2003 18:30:22 +0900
From: Elijah <desiderata@softhome.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Timing a program run?
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> > How the heck do I time how long it takes a certain script to run?
>
> $ time app
Oh, sorry about that. I suggested 'cron'. my mistake. I thought you want
to schedule that script of something ^o^
Elijah
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 10:27:03 +0000
From: James Tappin <james@tappin.me.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:12:34 -0800
"Kevin" <kevin@robertsesq.com> wrote:
> FYI
> If I try xhost +localhost
> xhost: unable to open display "debian:0.0"
>
3 alternatives spring to mind; either:
xhost +debian # as the original user
or:
export DISPLAY=localhost:0 # as root before running make xconfig
or even:
ssh -X root@localhost # instead of su
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