Re: Cheap printer?

Jeff Noxon said: > I would personally suggest a used laser printer. I see HP laserjets at > garage sales all the time (although I am sure the situation may be very > different where you are.) Toner costs a LOT less than ink. Not just garage sales - do a search on "printer postscript" on eBay and

1024-char block ll_rw error...?

(Forgive me if this is a repost; I subscribed this morning, confirming -after- I'd sent this to the list, and never saw it appear, so...) I'm trying to run a little program, 'pxcsvdump', that extracts the contents of Paradox tables -- but I'm seeing this error: ll_rw error: only 1024-char block

...Mutt / GnuPG...

Since some recent updates, GPG reports it isn't allowed to handle the already-open temp file Mutt points it to...? Anybody else experiencing this; anyone got an answer to it? -- -- Jeff -- "There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to

Re: Helix sawfish and minimizing

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:01:21PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that it's impossible to minimize just one window > if others have the same title? I frequently have lots of terminal > windows up and if I try to minimize one, they all disappear. > > I'm using up-to-the-seco

Newbie: How to get XFree... to work on my Compaq PC Ver. OF15; Model 1200-XL119

I'd really appreciate some help: can't get X (graphics) to work on the above machine. Struggled through and finally got a largish set of packages installed but can't get my graphics to work. I guess it's because it doesn't recognize my chipset. Here are data the manual (O'Reilly) asks for on pp.

Re: Helix sawfish and minimizing

On Jun 29 2000, Stuart Ballard wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that it's impossible to minimize just one > window if others have the same title? I frequently have lots of > terminal windows up and if I try to minimize one, they all > disappear. I just tried this now and it seems to be wor

X Fonts

Hi! I installed debian on my laptop (yes, I know that there is a laptop list, but I think the topic is more general) and I had a problem. The default font in X (used in netscape and jpilot) are too big. It's good when you use 1024x768 resolution, but my laptop only supports 800x600. I looked for

Re: Trident giving me migraine

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:38:52PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Mark Marburger wrote: > > > > HELP! my old video card sucked, so my friend gave me his Trident card. I > > put it in the box and now when i boot, the screen is friggin black How > > do I get into xf86config to change the settings?

Re: Trident giving me migraine

Mark Marburger wrote: > > HELP! my old video card sucked, so my friend gave me his Trident card. I > put it in the box and now when i boot, the screen is friggin black How > do I get into xf86config to change the settings?? Are you automatically booting into X (via xdm, gdm, wdm, or startx

Re: free Internet access

Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Hello, > > I recall many months ago that there was an ISP allowing linux users to > use the free internet access as long as we set our "home" to there > main page What was that provider? I need temporary access until > I can find an affordabe DSL provider w

Re: FTP server and security

hi ya jay... to enable anonymous user access to your server... just remove "real" from the list in /etc/ftpaccess ( real users ( people) won't be able to login.. ( and play with the /etc/ftp* files to get what you looking for.. there are owner/group permissions and uid/gid that need to be check

GNOME+Sawmill workspaces

I have GNOME and Sawmill/Sawfish (latest debs from potato/woody) and I want to have 4 workspaces in a horizontal row. The GNOME pager works as I want it to, except that Sawmill allows moving the cursor to the top or bottom of the screen as a way to change workspaces just like moving the

Re: Problem setting up Dialin PPP server

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 08:14:10PM +0530, Nagarjuna G. wrote: > After setting up the ppp server, when I try to connect to the server > ppp starts and immediately stops with the following error: peer refused to > authenticate. Any clues? Dialin servers almost never will authenticate to the client

RE: How to get dependencies also ...

Just use apt-setup an select a ftp-server as a source than dselect loads first every package down which is needed see ya Sven \\\ (..) ---oo0-()-0oo--- www.svenrichter.de -- ICQ: 61484034 E-Mail: Sven Richter <[EMAIL PRO

free Internet access

Hello, I recall many months ago that there was an ISP allowing linux users to use the free internet access as long as we set our "home" to there main page What was that provider? I need temporary access until I can find an affordabe DSL provider willing to provide a static IP. Thank yo

Re: Booting from network

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, C. Falconer wrote: > Sorry - missed the original on this... > > Do you have a rarpd server on the network? Later kernel 2.3 and all 2.4 > does not support rarp any more (I have the same problem, and rarpd the new > daemon for rarp won't compile for me) See, I knew I was

Re: ip forwarding

Nick wrote: > > i have a 2.1 debain system w/ 2.215 kernel > > i want to have a webserver inside my firewall. Therefore i need to forward > the requests for port 80 to the inside machine. So far it is set up to do > ipmasq w/ ipchains > > i installed the ipportfw and ipmasq packages and trie

Trident giving me migraine

HELP! my old video card sucked, so my friend gave me his Trident card. I put it in the box and now when i boot, the screen is friggin black How do I get into xf86config to change the settings?? And how the hell do I keep from getting 27,000 emails from this user list??? _

Re: how to start gnome

startx gnome-session or edit ~.xinitrc and add gnome-session On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:29:19PM -0700, Nick wrote: > i loaded gnome a long time ago and forgot how to start it > > i have tried > gnome-sessionand not luck

Re: Manipulating file content

Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > Bolan Meek wrote: > > > > this one is for all the regexp, shell, and editing-experts... > > > > How about us perl hackers, hunh?! Got sumpin' g'inst us, buddy!? Maybe I ought have said "perl slackers". (Well, I can get away with that since I resigned from PHADL). >

Re: Manipulating file content

Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > Bolan Meek wrote: > > > > this one is for all the regexp, shell, and editing-experts... > > > > How about us perl hackers, hunh?! Got sumpin' g'inst us, buddy!? > > Of course not! How could I?! :) Well, we members of the Perl Hackers Anti-Defamation League sometim

ip forwarding

i have a 2.1 debain system w/ 2.215 kernel i want to have a webserver inside my firewall. Therefore i need to forward the requests for port 80 to the inside machine. So far it is set up to do ipmasq w/ ipchains i installed the ipportfw and ipmasq packages and tried the following at the com

Re: Which PGP?

for windows i suggest freePGP you can get it from http://www.pgpi.org/ umm have not tried setting pgp up in linux so i do not know : ( At 11:47 29/06/00 +0100, Wilson Yau wrote: A quick question: Could anyone please (from your experience) suggest to me the best PGP plug-ins for mail clients l

gnome for potato

is there a binary package for potato i have found one for woody and slink but i like my potato box help if possible.

Re: quick directory question

I am currently learning to use awk myself but i think a silmple $ ls -all -F | grep /$ | awk -F/ '{print $8}' ^^^ sets the seperator to / instead of whitespace. if this doesnt work try $ ls -all -F | grep /$ | awk '{print $8}'|awk -F/ '{print $1}' and that should a

2 things (ipmasq & apache mod_include)

now this is basicly trying to kill to bords with one stone althugh the problems are unrealted. 1) ipmasq: In my flat my k6 200 running debian 2.2 is the firewall/gateway box. dialing up with a 33k modem etc. I have installed the package ipmasq and it worked sweetly. the only problem i have is

Re: Problems installing Netscape

On 29 Jun 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Just one more little question, since I'm new to Debian. How can I notice > > which packages are virtual and which other are not? > > Hmm. There are very few "virtual" packages. That's the only one I've Everything

Re: Problems installing Netscape

Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That did it! Thanks a lot, Gary! > > Just one more little question, since I'm new to Debian. How can I notice > which packages are virtual and which other are not? Hmm. There are very few "virtual" packages. That's the only one I've ever run across, and

Re: Subscription List

You need to send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please see instructions at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 04:47:03PM -0400, Andy & Page Hess wrote: > Please put me on your subscription list. I am new to Linux and I am Jeff

Modconf and Soundblaster

The last time I installed Potato, I was able to install Soundblaster support using modconf. I have two systems with SB16 and Sb AWE 32 cards in them. Which drivers do I use to get these going and how can I install the drivers without having to recompile the Kernel? Thanks in advance. -Dinesh ___

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 04:01:37PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > config for a special setting. IMO the biggest problem with pine is that Aside from the licensing? :-) > UW wants it to be really dumbed down for the novice users so they turn > most features off by default. Maybe it'd be a g

Ugly console font

After I installed Debian 2.2 (potato), I found that the system was using VGA type fonts instead of the standard terminal fonts (not X windows). How can I get rid of this? There are more than 25 lines on the screen and some applications (like man) scroll only the last 25 (very annoying). Thanks. -

RE: dynamic IP addressing

Greetings, Check out http://www.dyndns.org! They provide dynamic DNS service free of charge. I recommend a the ddup-client from http://www.ddup.org. It's really easy to use, just set it up as a cron job. Brooks > > hello. > > > > i have an ethernet card attatched to a DSL modem. > >

how to start gnome

i loaded gnome a long time ago and forgot how to start it i have tried gnome-sessionand not luck

Re: Manipulating file content

Bolan Meek wrote: > > this one is for all the regexp, shell, and editing-experts... > > How about us perl hackers, hunh?! Got sumpin' g'inst us, buddy!? Of course not! How could I?! :) > Well, you could use regexp in sed, or use an awk script, but if > I had only 3x3 matrices to transform,

Re: telnet vs ^Z

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:51:35AM -0700, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: > Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i've got linux in the basement, cranking and serving > > like a dream. to administer, i'm upstairs and i get > > in via telnet on my local 192.168.*.* intranet. > > > > on the c

Re: Problems installing Netscape

On 29 Jun 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I just installed Debian for the first time. It is Debian 2.1 slink. When > > I try to install Netscape via apt-get I get the following error message: > > > > Setting up netscape4 (4.0-15) ... > > > > ERROR: The Ne

Subscription List

Please put me on your subscription list. I am new to Linux and I am having some problems. Hopefully someone will have some solutions to the problems.   My e-mail addressis [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Thanks, Andy Hess

Re: How to get dependencies also ...

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:01:41 PDT, Dinesh Nadarajah writes: >I want to install a software package but I don't want >to download each of it's dependencies and install them >one by one. For e.g. if I wanted to install fvwm2, >then is there a command like: > >apt-get -install fvwm2 > >which will downlo

Re: Debian and Webmin

Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > > Has anyone tried managing Debian systems with Webmin > (www.webmin.com)? It is a browser based system admin. > tool for multiple OSs. > > Can anyone recommend a good book to understand Linux > (esp. Debian and RedHat) administration (including > network admin). > > Th

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

To be able to select messages and perform commands on them choose the enable-aggregate-command-set option in the config section. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Nitebirdz wrote: > Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:17:17 -0500 (CDT) > From: Nite

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > > There might be a special config option you need in order to turn this > feature on. If it doesn't work for you, let me know and I'll check my > config for a special setting. IMO the biggest problem with pine is that > UW wants it to be really dumbed down for the no

Re: Debian and Webmin

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > Webmin is a nice tool. Back in April, Jaldhar H. Vyas was working on > packages to include it in Debian. Jaldhar, do you have any news on those? Yes, I am happy to report that my packages have not destroyed anyones systems :-) and as there is a n

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Nitebirdz wrote: > I got another question for you though. How do you select say all messages > in a certain folder in pine? Or perhaps from message 1 to message 45, in > order to save them, delete them... whatever. > Use the semicolon

Re: Debian and Webmin

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:58:54 -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > Has anyone tried managing Debian systems with Webmin (www.webmin.com)? It > is a browser based system admin. tool for multiple OSs. Webmin is a nice tool. Back in April, Jaldhar H. Vyas was working on packages to include it in Debia

Re: Cheap printer?

Harald Thingelstad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > First: What kind of a cheap printer do you want? > The inkjet printers are known to be cheap to buy, but they charge a leg > and an arm for the ink. > Some manufacturers are known to sell their printers with a net *loss*, > earning their money on in

How to get dependencies also ...

I want to install a software package but I don't want to download each of it's dependencies and install them one by one. For e.g. if I wanted to install fvwm2, then is there a command like: apt-get -install fvwm2 which will download not only fvwm2 but also all of it's dependencies and install the

Debian and Webmin

Has anyone tried managing Debian systems with Webmin (www.webmin.com)? It is a browser based system admin. tool for multiple OSs. Can anyone recommend a good book to understand Linux (esp. Debian and RedHat) administration (including network admin). Thanks. -Dinesh _

Re: Cheap printer?

There is no such thing as a cheap inkjet printer IMHO. They all cost a fortune to operate. They work on the razor blade principle -- they give away the handle and expect to make money on the blades. I would personally suggest a used laser printer. I see HP laserjets at garage sales all the time

Re: Cheap printer?

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Harald Thingelstad wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Vicente Torres wrote: > ... > > So, I must return it and buy another printer. > > Wich one would you recommend to me? > > It must be cheap; I do not want to use color on my printings > > and it must work fine with linux. > > >

RE: Cheap printer?

FWIW Got into a tangle on another mailing list regarding inks, but here goes anyway. I buy Amazon inks for my Epson Stylus 800 and had no problems until I tried bulk ink and refilling cartridges. Print quality went south and is recovering with a return to new cartridges, but still not up to sn

problem with cdrom

hi, Can you help me?  My CD-ROM on the CPU seems to stop working, I put my CD in the drive and it doesn't seen to know it's there. lights flash but no response.  It use to start automatically but not anymore.  Went into the Device Management, says it's working but still I get no response fro

Re: netscape 4.73 & fortify (potato)

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 09:02:45AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > JudiElaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [SNIP] > > > > Anyone have any recommendations as to forcing the fortify, > > downgrading netscape, or waiting for fortify to be upgraded? > [SNIP] > > I believe that due to the "relaxation" o

Re: Cheap printer?

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Vicente Torres wrote: ... > So, I must return it and buy another printer. > Wich one would you recommend to me? > It must be cheap; I do not want to use color on my printings > and it must work fine with linux. > > Thanks > First: What kind of a cheap printer do you want? Th

Re: Cheap printer?

On 29 Jun 2000, Vicente Torres wrote: > > I have recently bought an EPSON Stylus color 480 > for my home use. > > It was a surprise for me to note that this printer has > no button to push and everything must be controlled from > Windows (including changing or installing the ink cartridge!). >

FTP server and security

Hello Group, I want to enable my potato box as a ftp server, I have removed proftpd and installed ftpd. I remember when install debian I said no to start the FTP server. Where do I enable this to start the server at boot time? Also is it true the enabling the ftp server will open up my server for a

Re: Password Comlexity

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:37:15AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 29-Jun-2000 Sajjad Haider wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am a graduate student, just started working on the area of computer > > security. Few months ago, when I used Debian OS, I remembered when you > > create > > a new a

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Philippe wrote: > Hi Adam, > > it takes just seconds to filter mail in Pine. From main menu, type S for > setup. Then R for rules. Then F for filter. Then A for add. Give the rule > a nickname by replacing the "no value set" in the menu. Put the Debian > user list address on

Re: Postfix troubles

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 10:25:25AM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > I'll give that a try to see if that fixes the problem. Is there a > problem with my myorigin/mydestination variables above ? That looks reasonable, but according to the bounce you posted earlier on mail is actually being given a do

RE: Password Comlexity

On 29-Jun-2000 Sajjad Haider wrote: > Hello, > > I am a graduate student, just started working on the area of computer > security. Few months ago, when I used Debian OS, I remembered when you create > a new account and enter password for it, the kernel warns you if it > categorize the password a

Password Comlexity

Hello, I am a graduate student, just started working on the area of computer security. Few months ago, when I used Debian OS, I remembered when you create a new account and enter password for it, the kernel warns you if it categorize the password as simple. I want to learn about the procedure

Re: Problems installing Netscape

Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed Debian for the first time. It is Debian 2.1 slink. When > I try to install Netscape via apt-get I get the following error message: > > Setting up netscape4 (4.0-15) ... > > ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp, owned by root, >

telnet vs ^Z

i've got linux in the basement, cranking and serving like a dream. to administer, i'm upstairs and i get in via telnet on my local 192.168.*.* intranet. on the console (linux keyboard/mouse/monitor) i can use ^Z to suspend a foreground job, just like in the documentation. but ^Z seems to be ignor

Problems installing Netscape

I just installed Debian for the first time. It is Debian 2.1 slink. When I try to install Netscape via apt-get I get the following error message: Setting up netscape4 (4.0-15) ... ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp, owned by root, and under a name matching one of the following:

Re: terminal programming

Atila Nemet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Are there some good texts (tutorials, faqs, anything?) on web about >how to write terminal independent programs? I need to a make a very See /usr/share/doc/libncurses5-dev/ncurses-intro.html on your Debian system (in the package libncurses5-dev, which you n

...error: "only 1024-char blocks implemented"...?

I'm trying to install a little utility program suite, that extracts information from Paradox database tables. All goes well when I run 'pxcsvdump' to stdout -- but when I try: pxcsvdump my_file.db > my_file.txt ...linux produces an error like so: 'll_rw error: only 1024-char blocks impleme

autofs and nis

Hi, How do we know that the auto.master and other autofs files are available on the client machine via nis ? What I mean is , on a client machine we can check for the availability of the passwd files by typing ypcat passwd. What is auto*.* equivalent. Should we do anything on the nis server to m

...error: "only 1024-char blocks implemented"...?

I'm trying to install a little utility program suite, that extracts information from Paradox database tables. All goes well when I run 'pxcsvdump' to stdout -- but when I try: pxcsvdump my_file.db > my_file.txt ...linux produces an error like so: 'll_rw error: only 1024-char blocks impleme

Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

Quoting Oreste Salerno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 2.2.15 code is the same as the 2.2.10, as what regards this part. Adding > these extra printk showed me that the string ignore is composed only by the > first word, even if actually there are more than one. i.e if i put: > > options ignore='aa hdb h

GDM don't load keyboard map.

Hi, I am running potato+last minute helix gnome. The gdm login screen seems not configured to handle foreign keyboards. Although I have a valid /etc/X11/Xmodmap for my Brazilian keyboard (abnt2), gdm don't load till the beginning of a gnome session. To solve this I have add a line to /etc/gdm/In

Helix sawfish and minimizing

Has anyone else noticed that it's impossible to minimize just one window if others have the same title? I frequently have lots of terminal windows up and if I try to minimize one, they all disappear. I'm using up-to-the-second helix GNOME on woody - so I guess I should technically take it up with

Re: rpm2deb

* "S. Champ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does anyone have a URL for rpm2deb ? Use alien.

RE: wallpaper/background

On 29-Jun-2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote: > hi, > > I've recently install a lot of themes for the WindowMaker > and really enjoy. I'm wondering if the wallpaper images > can also be installed in the console/tty (non-XWindow) > mode? > no, sorry. console does not work that way. GGI has s

RE: xterm cannot execute xterm

On 29-Jun-2000 Roy John Little wrote: > Dear list: > While upgrading my glib-gtk libraries, I tried to first uninstall the > originals using dselect. When I realized that my whole x-windows system > was being uninstalled, I did a ^C. What I notice now is that xterm, the > window I use for most o

Re: rpm2deb

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:34:08AM -0700, S. Champ wrote: > does anyone have a URL for rpm2deb ? Why not use alien for this? -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

rpm2deb

hello. does anyone have a URL for rpm2deb ? thank you. -- s.c.

Re: dictd cannot access localhost

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 07:04:10AM -0400, Valdemir Melechco Carvalho wrote: > Even if I restart dictd, it still doesn't work - it dies quickly, really > weird. It seens to be a dictd problem, I've already tried slink, potato > and woody dictd versions but it's all the same... Check your /var/log/

Re: Debian Installation -Simplest method

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 08:53:51AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I want to install debian 2.2. Is there a simple way to > install the system using a couple of floppies and a > network connection. For e.g. I can install FreeBSD > with 2 floppies and a network connection (the floppies > contain th

Pb installing Debian 2.1

Hello, In the installation process of the Debian 2.1 distribution, I missed an important step : I did something wrong and I could not choose an installation profile. I have a base system working. Can I use dselect with an option or something equivalent to install with a profile or do I have to inst

Re: quick directory question

Hi, your find is taking long time because find is recursive. Add -prune to the list of its arguments and you will probably get what you want :-) HTH Andrew Kae wrote: > Hello again > > A co-worker just helped me out and I think i found a quicker solution. I > noticed "find" can take some time.

Re: Debian Installation -Simplest method

> I want to install debian 2.2. Is there a simple way to > install the system using a couple of floppies and a > network connection. For e.g. I can install FreeBSD > with 2 floppies and a network connection (the floppies > contain the network card drivers, basic boot kernel, a > dhcp client, etc.).

Re: free books on C in Unix and X programming using Athena widget

a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: a> Do you know any web site that has free books on C programming in a> Linix and X programming using Athena widget? I'd recommend against using the so-called Athena Widget Kit; it looks ugly and it's hard to program in. Many Linux developers these days use the GIMP

Debian Installation -Simplest method

I want to install debian 2.2. Is there a simple way to install the system using a couple of floppies and a network connection. For e.g. I can install FreeBSD with 2 floppies and a network connection (the floppies contain the network card drivers, basic boot kernel, a dhcp client, etc.). There must

Re: logrotate

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 06:33:57PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Read the debian policy document. Debian has additional crontabs > (apart from user crontabs and the root crontab) in > /etc/cron.{d,daily,weekly,monthly} > The logrotate thing is (not surprising) in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate. Than

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Re: dynamic IP addressing

"S. Champ" wrote: > > hello. > > i have an ethernet card attatched to a DSL modem. > > i'll provide more hardware details, if requested, but for now i'm just > wondering > if there's a quick way to setting-up the dynammic ip-addressing. (preferrably: > without having to go through the "DynIP how

Problem setting up Dialin PPP server

After setting up the ppp server, when I try to connect to the server ppp starts and immediately stops with the following error: peer refused to authenticate. Any clues? Jun 29 20:10:32 hbcse pppd[31618]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x1d8b13a] Jun 29 20:10:32 hbcse pppd[31618]: sent [LCP EchoRe

Re: Compiling a new kernel and dselect problems

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 10:28:12AM +0200, Luca De Giorgi wrote: > Hi, > I'm a new entry in the worderful Debian world. > Previously i'd used Red Hat 6.x ad Mandrake but i thought i' was time to > make a jump in the real Linux world and started using a potato release > Well, my problem arise when i

Re: quick directory question

Hello again A co-worker just helped me out and I think i found a quicker solution. I noticed "find" can take some time. It's just: ls -all | grep "^d" | awk '{print $8}' Thanks again Get Your Private, Free E-mail from M

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

Bill Barnes wrote: > > Thanks for the quick responses! > > > > >If you built postgresql on your own, you may find it easier in the long > >run to build the 7.0.2 debian packages from source, especially if you're > >planning on running it on more than one machine. > > Sounds like the right thing

Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 07:11:00PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > then my reaction would be to put an > extra printk or two into the kernel source and see what it's actually > doing. > > 2.2.10 has: > > MOD_INC_USE_COUNT; > printk("ide-cd: will ignore %s\n", ignore); <- >

wallpaper/background

hi, I've recently install a lot of themes for the WindowMaker and really enjoy. I'm wondering if the wallpaper images can also be installed in the console/tty (non-XWindow) mode? --- tcp

Re: quick directory question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Well, to answer your first question, remove '-F' from the options list to ls. Regarding your second question, do a 'find . -type d'. Read the man page for find. HTH, noah On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Andrew Kae wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to list all the direct

RE: quick directory question

you could use find: find ./ type d > some.file Wes Wesley A. Wannemacher Instructor, Network Administrator Northwestern College [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Andrew Kae [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

quick directory question

Hello, I am trying to list all the directories in a directory and put it into a file. So far I have : $ ls -all -F | grep /$ | awk '{print $8}' ./ ../ .netscape/ mail/ which almost gives me what i want but i need to get rid of that / at the end, can someone help me out? If anyone has an ea

Re: Postfix troubles

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:19:06AM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > But then how come sending email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends it correctly > to my local user account ? Why should [EMAIL PROTECTED] be treated/relayed > any differently than [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Postfix does alias database rewrites at

xterm cannot execute xterm

Dear list: While upgrading my glib-gtk libraries, I tried to first uninstall the originals using dselect. When I realized that my whole x-windows system was being uninstalled, I did a ^C. What I notice now is that xterm, the window I use for most of my work, will not execute x-type commands: xter

Re: apt-get & kernel question

Dean wrote: > > Hi Eric: > Thanks for the reply. I checked and there is no ppp.o > in /lib/modules/2.2.15/net, but there is in my old > kernel at /lib/modules/2.0.36/net. Can I just > copy that to my 2.2.15 file? Or do I need to > make up a module? Dean You need to make a module (and tell th

truetype fonts and xfree86 4

i installed the pre-compiled xfree86 4 binaries from ftp.xfree86.org on a woody system, and have a Load "freetype" line in my /etc/X11/XF86Setup. it all works perfectly except xlsfonts doesn't load Truetype fonts, and so i can't use them in gimp/netscape etc either. what do i have to do to

Cheap printer?

I have recently bought an EPSON Stylus color 480 for my home use. It was a surprise for me to note that this printer has no button to push and everything must be controlled from Windows (including changing or installing the ink cartridge!). So, I must return it and buy another printer. Wich one

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