Ric

Thats excactly what i needed, ive been trying to grep and awk my way thro it, this is so much easier. Thanks A Lot Ric

Read it as a .ini file Thanks

Can any one tell me how to read variables from a text file so they can be used with in a bash script ie text file has serverone_host=amber serverone_ip=10.0.0.1 servertwo_host=green servertwo_ip=10.0.0.2 and so on bash file picks out the different variables so rather then having to edit a load of scrips i would only have to edit the text file each time i deploy a system gee i am asking the question and that doesn't make sense to me hope it make sense to some one out there Regards Ric

quick reply presuming you are wanting a filtered transparent proxy change the shorewall rules /etc/shorewall/rules so thet the line REDIRECT loc 3128 tcp www is REDIRECT loc 8080 tcp www 8080 is the default port for dansguardian then restart shorewall in the /etc/squid/squid.conf add if they are not there already httpd_accel_host virtual httpd_accel_with_proxy on httpd_accel_uses_host_header on httpd_accel_port 80 restart squid and all should be well if that dosnt work ild post my squid.conf file after i get back from work Regards Ric

I have the same MotherBoard and Mandrake was doing the same i found i needed to disable legacy usb support, then it carryed on (dont know why it worked but it did 4 me) Ric

Thanks i will give that a try Ric

Hi I hope some one can help me, I use a perl script to make logon scripts for my samba domain, #! /usr/bin/perl # Generate a custom logon script when a user # logs into the network open LOGON, ">/home/share/netlogon/$ARGV[0].bat"; print LOGON "\@echo on \r\n"; print LOGON "IF EXIST F: NET USE F: /DELETE /y\r\n"; print LOGON "IF EXIST H: NET USE H: /DELETE /y\r\n"; print LOGON "IF EXIST I: NET USE I: /DELETE /y\r\n"; print LOGON "IF EXIST J: NET USE J: /DELETE /y\r\n"; print LOGON "IF EXIST T: NET USE T: /DELETE /y\r\n"; print LOGON "IF EXIST S: NET USE S: /DELETE /y\r\n"; print LOGON "IF EXIST R: NET USE R: /DELETE /y\r\n"; print LOGON "IF EXIST K: NET USE K: /DELETE /y\r\n"; print LOGON "IF EXIST V: NET USE V: /DELETE /y\r\n"; print LOGON "IF EXIST W: NET USE W: /DELETE /y\r\n"; print LOGON "IF EXIST U: NET USE U: /DELETE /y\r\n"; print LOGON "IF EXIST X: NET USE X: /DELETE /y\r\n"; print LOGON "IF EXIST F: NET USE F: /DELETE /y\r\n"; print LOGON "NET TIME \\\\$ARGV[1] /SET /YES\r\n"; # print LOGON "NET USE H: /HOME\r\n"; print LOGON "NET USE I: \\\\$ARGV[1]\\Students\r\n"; print LOGON "NET USE J: \\\\$ARGV[1]\\Learning\r\n"; # print LOGON "NET USE T: \\\\$ARGV[1]\\Applications\r\n"; # print LOGON "NET USE S: \\\\$ARGV[1]\\BootImages\r\n"; print LOGON "NET USE R: \\\\$ARGV[1]\\applications\r\n"; if ($ARGV[2] eq "teachers") { print LOGON "NET USE K: \\\\$ARGV[1]\\Teachers\r\n"; print LOGON "NET USE V: \\\\$ARGV[1]\\AdminStudents\r\n"; } if ($ARGV[2] eq "admin") { print LOGON "NET USE K: \\\\$ARGV[1]\\Teachers\r\n"; print LOGON "NET USE V: \\\\$ARGV[1]\\AdminStudents\r\n"; print LOGON "NET USE W: \\\\$ARGV[1]\\AdminTeachers\r\n"; } # print LOGON "deltree /y c:\\windows\\profiles\\* \r\n"; print LOGON "if not \"%OS%\"==\"Windows_NT\" GOTO NT9x\r\n"; print LOGON ":NTOS\r\n"; print LOGON "echo \"Windows NT\"\r\n"; print LOGON "echo printers\r\n"; print LOGON "\\\\$ARGV[1]\\netlogon\\con2prt.exe /f\r\n"; print LOGON "regedit /s printerpatch.reg\r\n"; print LOGON "logonprinters.vbs\r\n"; print LOGON "NET USE H: \\\\$ARGV[1]\\$ARGV[0]\r\n"; print LOGON "GOTO END\r\n"; print LOGON ":NT9x\r\n"; print LOGON "echo \"Windows 9x\"\r\n"; print LOGON "if exist \"c:\\WINDOWS\\PROFILES\\\" deltree /y c:\\windows\\profiles\\*\r\n"; print LOGON "NET USE H: /HOME\r\n"; print LOGON "if not exist c:\\windows\\proguard.exe copy \\\\$ARGV[1]\\Netlogon\\ProGuard.exe c:\\windows\r\n"; print LOGON "del c:\\windows\\*.pwl\r\n"; print LOGON "c:\\windows\\proguard.exe\r\n"; print LOGON "R:\\packages\\INTERCHK\\W95Inst\\setup -inl -a\r\n"; print LOGON "start /wait r:\\packages\\INTERCHK\\Savagent.exe -update -poll=3600\r\n"; print LOGON "GOTO END\r\n"; print LOGON ":END\r\n"; print LOGON "echo \"DONE!!\"\r\n"; print LOGON "EXIT\r\n"; # print LOGON "pause\r\n"; close LOGON; This all works very well however i now want to be able to test which lab a machine is in the machines are all names lab1-01, lab1-02, lab2-01 etc. now to the question does anyone know how i can do a 'if' command that only looks at the 1st 5 letters of the machine name (the lab1 bit) The machine name is passed to the script as $ARGV[3] hope that makes sense regards Ric

Hi don't know if you ever fixed this problem but i have the same graphics card,, i got it working by installing the nvidia drivers then running drakxconf again, this got me in with opengl support regards Ric

Thanks for the quick response, that is exactly what i amm looking for . Cheers Ric

Can some one help me with a script that can read a list of full names, then strip all but the first 3 letters of the first name and join it to the the surname to make a username. ie Full Name richard smith --- becomes ricsmith unless there is already a user called ricsmith in which case it would make richsmith . then run the useradd command : useradd -d /home/ricsmith -g some_group -p (get a password from some other file) then out print out the fullname, username and password to yet another file . Dose any of that even make sense. Thanks for any help. Ric

Thanks for the reply, I have since taken that card back to the shop and swapped it for a pinnacle pctv rave card, now i can get a picture but only static for sound dose anybody have any experiance with this card/thoughts ideas (dose this now need a new thread) Ric

I have bought a Hauppage WinTv card because i had read they work with mandrake but it didn't. found out it had the cx88* chipset and google'd around for a bit and found http://bytesex.org/cx88/ but i dont know what to do with that, anybody have any ideas what to do, or another sollution to get it working. Ric

The k3b rpms from their website works for me the mandrake rpms that ship with mdk9.2 dont, Thats for dvd+rw btw Ric

I put 8.2 onto kazza and renamed it 9.2 to see if any one would take the bait and they did so sorry if ive wasted your bandwith :D

Im sure if they posted a link to the torrent here we could help them with the faq :D