Brett Holcomb wrote:

Yes, that's what etc-update does...

> Isn't this what etc-update does?
>
> Axel Gerber wrote:
>
>> Axel Gerber wrote:
>>
>> of course the first line has to be "./anypath/._cfg000_somefile" too, my
>> error, sorry. No full rename requested, just a semi-automation for the
>> updates...
>>
>>> ./anypath/._cfg000_anyfile
>>> to
>>> mv ./anypath/._cfg000_somefile ./anypath/somefile
>>
>>
>

I guess then I don't understand why the original poster wanted a script to
do the same thing.

Andreas Thalhammer wrote:

> Brett Holcomb wrote:
>
> Yes, that's what etc-update does...
>
>> Isn't this what etc-update does?
>>
>> Axel Gerber wrote:
>>
>>> Axel Gerber wrote:
>>>
>>> of course the first line has to be "./anypath/._cfg000_somefile" too, my
>>> error, sorry. No full rename requested, just a semi-automation for the
>>> updates...
>>>
>>>> ./anypath/._cfg000_anyfile
>>>> to
>>>> mv ./anypath/._cfg000_somefile ./anypath/somefile
>>>
>>>
>>

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Brett Holcomb wrote:

> I guess then I don't understand why the original poster wanted a script to
> do the same thing.

Perhaps he just didn't know about etc-update...

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That's why I asked <G>. I guess he must not have known.

Philipp Becker wrote:

> Brett Holcomb wrote:
>
>> I guess then I don't understand why the original poster wanted a script
>> to do the same thing.
>
> Perhaps he just didn't know about etc-update...
>

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Axel Gerber wrote:

> And BTW: since the last update to XFree4.0.3 it doesn't start anymore.
> Tells me (--) using vt 7
> (EE) no screens found
>
> I didn't change anything and BTW the graphics board is a nvidia with nv as
> the driver. xfree86config didn't help =:-(

Some things have changed a little bit... replace "nv" with "nvidia" as
driver-name. And the kernel-module now also has the name "nvidia", so
change this as well (if you haven't done this already).

HTH :-)
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Philipp Becker wrote:

>> I didn't change anything and BTW the graphics board is a nvidia with nv
>> as the driver. xfree86config didn't help =:-(
>
> Some things have changed a little bit... replace "nv" with "nvidia" as
> driver-name. And the kernel-module now also has the name "nvidia", so
> change this as well (if you haven't done this already).

eeehhhmmm but I wanna use the xfree-driver not the kernel modules, as I did
in the past since the kernel-nvidia didn't wrk for my sparkle tnt-2...

BTW: outa your mail address some may get the idea that blast is a referrence
to another hobby of you (kites???) since blast is a bigger version of the
Revolution and Supersonic?!?!

cul8er

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