February 2002 - main

Re: [Alug] php anyone?
by Brett Parker 18 Feb '02

18 Feb '02

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 03:32:54PM +0000, Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com wrote: > > This is all because msaccess outputs reports in html as separate pages and > names them filePageTwo.html, filePageThree.html etc etc. The output html > files are then sent to the web server, but the page I link from has the > file link simply as "file.html" and thus other files are not displayed. of > course, i could have a row of links, but they are not always needed and I > think this is messy and could lead to misinformation if old data is > displayed. So I've been doing the cat filePagetwo >> file.html up till > now. > Dearest of Teds - thanks for all that, I must admit to being a bit > overwhelmed though. I was thinking to run a bit of php code when the page > was accessed, to trigger the cat file2 >> file. The > $bigfile = join(file("filename1"), file("filename2")); > print $bigfile; > suggested by Brett does exactly what I need....I just need to figure out > how to run the damned thing now! > (I do need to find out how to trigger a script when web page is accessed > though, as I need to delete appended pages so they won't be appended the > next day (if there is a page two one day but not the next the old page two > will append when we don't want it).) You never actually need to generate the static page, also, if you *really* want to cheat, upload the files to a different directory (one that you know will only hold them) then using a small php script in the webtree concat all the files together and splat them out the other end, this has the down side of server load but the plus side of ease... <?php $content = ""; $d = dir("/path/to/files/"); while ($entry = $d->read()) { if ( filetype($entry) == "file" ) { $content = join($content, file($entry)); } } print $content; ?> as always - this is more or less off the top of my head, and hasn't been tested at all, I think that should work and will go > 2 files, not sure if the order will be correct thou. Would be more than happy to think some more about it if you want to go that route. Cheers, Brett

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php anyone?
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 18 Feb '02

18 Feb '02

Can anyone help me with a bit of php? I need to append the copntents of one file on to another when a web page is accessed. Cron is no use as the timing isn't fixed. I can append a line of text so far, but not the contents of a file, and as I'm away for the rest of the week and have been doing this manually till I find the fix, I'm panicking! - - help! Cheers, Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] input /output error on smbmounted directory
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 18 Feb '02

18 Feb '02

Steve Fosdick wrote: >In Linux, when you try to umount a filesystem and Linux says it's busy >that means that a Linux program has a file open on the filesystem >concerned. Often this is a program which was started with it's current >directory on that filesystem. > >Have a look at the fuser command which can tell you which processes have >files open on a filesystem so you can close them down or kill them off. >Once you have no Linux processes with files open on the filesystem then >you should be able to umount it. This is still causing problems. Anytime I try and gain information about this samba-mounted share, (including the fuser or umount commands) I simply get "Input/output error". I wondered if the fault lies in me changing the share to "full share" from "read only" from the windows side of things,while it was still mounted. (Changing it back doesn't make a difference). Jenny.

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 18 Feb '02

18 Feb '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Re: [Alug] Bit of fun: Your first Linux distro
by willem koopman 17 Feb '02

17 Feb '02

I'm only a young whippersnapper(17), and learnt how to use a computer with a 386 dx 44(Which is still around somewhere with Doom2 yeah!).and Win 3.1 when I was 11. As my dad has been in the computer world for 25+ years he had been using Linux since 0.9X (with a smug smile as well) He always used to tell me that MS was really a load of poopoo. I upgraded computer and os to MS win 95. Then I dicovered the joys of Linux. The one thing that attracted me to linux was The Gimp. My first linux distro was Redhat 6.2 Ahhh the memories; trying desperatly to compile some game or other and wondering what the hell this make and make install buisness was about. one other thing that stick out in my mind is my dad showing me this thing called the world wide web, This must have been when I was about nine/ten. Ahh the halowed sounds of a 14.4k modem :) PS Who is the youngest person on this list?

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Re: [Alug] Contributions
by MJ Ray 17 Feb '02

17 Feb '02

Ricardo: > I thought I'd add some reviews of that kind, cos newbies tend to want to know > that they can do in Linux the same things they used to do on the Mac/Windows > - at least it was a major consideration for me when switching over. [...] Of course, the more long-time GNU/Linux users among us have trouble remembering what seemed particularly important to be able to do on the Mac/Windows systems we may have used before. How about opening this out into a challenge: Q - Got a task you don't know how to do under GNU/Linux? A - Ask ALUG! Oh wait, that'll be this mailing list then ;-) -- MJR

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Contributions
by Ricardo Campos 17 Feb '02

17 Feb '02

I've just added reviews for Downloader for X and Audiogalaxy Satellite in the Software Directory for the ALUG website (!!HINT!!) I thought I'd add some reviews of that kind, cos newbies tend to want to know that they can do in Linux the same things they used to do on the Mac/Windows- at least it was a major consideration for me when switching over. I also browsed the site before I joined ALUG/installed Linux after following a link from Linux Format... It's be nice to see other reviews on the site, I'm sure veterans and newbies alike could contribute something (hell, I'm a newbie)... (hinthint). It's dead easy, ya know! ;-) Ricardo ------------------------------------------- "Surely this monstrous hybrid comes not from a mother's womb but from an Ephialtes, an Incubus, or some other horrendous demon, as though spawned in a putrid and venemous fungus, son of Fauns and Nymphs, more Devil than man." -Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subtarraneus, Amsterdam, 1665, pp.279-280 http://www.rscampos.net Check my online diary out: http://www.rscampos.net/blog.html -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] OT Small html question
by MJ Ray 17 Feb '02

17 Feb '02

BJ asked: > How can I get the alt property within an <img src=...> to be pre formatted > or at least can I get line breaks in it? If the browser doesn't wrap the alt contents, then it's a bug in the browser interface, IMO. You can either try using literal breaks or just hope the browser wraps intelligently, but I know of browsers which do neither. Sorry I can't answer the SGML one off the top of my head, but surely the web contains the answer for the particular DTD you're using? I can't think of any way of inlining images, at least. Here's a related question to both of them: when sending an xhtml attachment to an email, and attaching referenced images, how do you refer to them from the xhtml part? Just curious. It's not something I make a habit of trying to do, but it would be nice to know how to do it from GNU/Linux. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] input /output error on smbmounted directory
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

Steve Fosdick wrote: >So what has happenned here is that Linux thinks the remote windows >filesystem is still mounted and therefore it doesn't flush the names on >that filesystem from internal caches, hence why some names on that >filesystem look to be still there - when you try to open one of the files >or get more information on it though Linux tries to re-connect to the >windows machine and finds it doesn't respond. >So, to stop the errors you either need to tell Linux you don't need access >to that filesystem any more by umounting it, or startup the windows box >again so Linux can see it. Thanks, Steve....that makes sense. However I can't unmount as it thinks the share is busy, and I did restart the windows - is there any way i can manually flush the names on the internal cache? Thanks, Jenny.

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input /output error on smbmounted directory
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Feb '02

16 Feb '02

[Thinks, what am I doing in at work on a lovely saturday....] Can anyone help me on this?......I mounted a shared directory on my windows machine onto a directory called /jenshare on my linuxbox using smbmount. Then i went home, switched off the windows machine and forgot all about it. Now I have an error coming up right left and centre "File 'jenshare' exists but can not be stat-ed: Input/output error" Doing a ls-l / doesn't show the directory jenshare (I/O error again), however ls -a / does show it. I'm a bit stuffed here....can anyone offer assistance? Thanks. Jenny.

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