insmod in /etc/module file?

2002-06-02 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Hey i'm trying to add : "insmod ide-scsi" during start-up do i put this in the "/etc/modules file"? or somewhere else? what is the equivalent of RH's "/etc/rc.local" in Woody? thanks Jule -- Jule Slootbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blindtheory.cjb.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Regular files/directories invisible

2002-06-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 30, 2002, Xaveer Leijtens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > A number of my files have become invisible to 'ls'. For example > /var/log/apache seems empty, but I can still cat/edit/... the files > which I know are there, for example: > > [iopo] cd /var/log/apache > [iopo] ls -la > tota

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-02 Thread Richard Otte
Thanks for all the useful suggestions, but I'm still having problems getting things to work. I installed netatalk, and the Mac can see my machine, but cannot connect to it (it gives the error: files are already mounted locally). I then tried to ftp to the Mac, which had file sharing on and should

Re: simple traffic monitor/firewalls

2002-06-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 29, 2002, Arthur Dent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Under windows I had a little network picture which would show up in my > system tray on the taskbar whenever I was on the internet. It showed 2 > computers linked and whenever there was traffic either to of from my > pc the sma

Re: low memory installation 4mb 386sx

2002-06-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jun 23, 2002, Rick Dawson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello everyone: > This is my first posting to this newsgroup. > I have the following system: > 386SX-25 > math copro > 4mb ram > 1.44 fdd > 120 mb hdd > 4x atapi ide cdrom > > know ram is cheap but I want to do this because I understan

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Re: Monitoring CPU usage of a process

2002-06-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Adar Dembo wrote: > > I have some processes whose cpu usage I would like to monitor, and pipe > into a file. As far as I know, top can't monitor a single process and > send its cpu usage into a file, so I'm wondering what other programs > might do this. This is a testing installation, on a compute

Re: Monitoring CPU usage of a process

2002-06-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Adar Dembo wrote: > I have some processes whose cpu usage I would like to monitor, and > pipe into a file. As far as I know, top can't monitor a single process > and send its cpu usage into a file Actually, it can: #top p follows a single process; add the 'b' flag for batch

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-02 Thread Gary Turner
On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 18:29:25 -0700, craigw wrote: >As far as printing, I have a question of my own: >Connected to the OS X machine is a Lexmark Z22, which has drivers for >Windoze, Mac Classic, and Mac OS X, but no Linux last time I checked. >Is there any hope of using it from the Linux box? see

Re: how to make mozilla send mailtos to mutt?

2002-06-02 Thread Tom Allison
Rohan Deshpande wrote: Hi, The subject basically says it all. I check around mozilla prefs but didn't find much, and I prefer mozilla to galeon. Thanks a lot! :R -- Rohan Deshpande [EMAIL PROTECTED] you mean you don't have to use the mozilla email ??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Monitoring CPU usage of a process

2002-06-02 Thread Chris Kenrick
You've probably already thought of this, but would a simple shell script do the trick... eg while [ true ] do ps aux | grep [s]omeprocess >> somelogfile sleep 60; done Note that the using the square brackets around the first letter of the process name is just a neat trick to

Re: Monitoring CPU usage of a process

2002-06-02 Thread Adar Dembo
Won't gkrellm require X? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show gkrellm Package: gkrellm Priority: optional Section: x11 ... Depends: gdk-imlib1, libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-4), xlibs (>> 4.1.0) ... Like I said, I have no GUI, this is a completely console-based sy

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Re: Monitoring CPU usage of a process

2002-06-02 Thread David Palmer
Hello, Try gkrellm. Regards, David. On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 09:32, Adar Dembo wrote: > I have some processes whose cpu usage I would like to monitor, and > pipe into a file. As far as I know, top can't monitor a single > process and send its cpu usage into a file, so I'm wondering what > other progr

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Re: exim's header rewrite

2002-06-02 Thread Michael C Alonzo
> The proper place to achieve that is in your Mail User Agent (MUA, > e.g. mutt) and not in your Mail Delivery Agent (MDA, e.g. exim) > simply because your MDA doesn't know to what mail you're replying. > You need to sort the incomming mail into seperate folders and then > use mutt's mailbox-hook f

Gnome applets

2002-06-02 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm running kernel version 2.5.18 and I notice that the Swap Load & Memory Load applet 1.4.0.1 no longer work. Is this a known bug? Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

2002-06-02 Thread Grant Bowman
Karsten, You might be interested to know that twiki is now (as of two days ago) a packaged Debian app in unstable! Cheers, -- -- Grant Bowman<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

WP8 document window size

2002-06-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I'm not sure if this is related to my upgrade from stable to unstable, but since doing that, WordPerfect 8 opens its document window larger than my 800x600 screen. It always used to open a 600x600 or so document window; now it's about 900x600. Any thoughts as to where I should look to see

Re: Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

2002-06-02 Thread Grant Bowman
Very interesting discussion. I have a list of groupware products on my webpage: http://www.grantbow.com/groupware.html I know that phpGroupware has a functional calendar server. There has been much discussion about it on the OpenOffice.org mail list. More info is available at:

Re: inserting carriage return characters

2002-06-02 Thread angelaoyu
Hi What is recode ? recode ..pc ? Thank you "Q. Gong" wrote: > > What is a simple way to insert a carriage return character just before > > each line feed (new line) character in a text file? > > > > > Try command: "cat old.txt | recode ..pc > new.txt" > > Qian > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Monitoring CPU usage of a process

2002-06-02 Thread Adar Dembo
I have some processes whose cpu usage I would like to monitor, and pipe into a file. As far as I know, top can't monitor a single process and send its cpu usage into a file, so I'm wondering what other programs might do this. This is a testing installation, on a computer without any GUI or anything

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-02 Thread craigw
On Sun Jun 02, 2002 at 01:55:13PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > At 1023018658s since epoch (06/02/02 09:50:58 -0400 UTC), Richard Otte wrote: > > At home my kid has a Mac running osx and we'd also have a switch. We'd > > like to connect it to my Debian machine in such a way that we could > > transf

Re: [Help]!

2002-06-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, mantis wrote: > hi please could someone give me a hand i've been trying to source drivers for > a FM-56AMR winmodem > (unfortunately) on debian 2.2 without any success if you could please give me > some assistance > would be greatly appreciated thanks it would be nice if you

Re: Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

2002-06-02 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > The issue with calendaring seems to be less finding single-user > calendar software (there's scads for GNU/Linux), but finding a way > to distribute calendar information among users -- department and > project orientations being most useful. This is what the iCalendar

Re: networking with a DSL router

2002-06-02 Thread Robert Webb
Patrick Albuquerque wrote: On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 07:50:05PM -0400, Robert Webb wrote: Patrick Albuquerque wrote: Hi all, I bought an Ovislink SR-500 router/switch, but can't configure it. It has a default address of 192.168.1.254, and I'm supposed to be able to configure it v

Re: networking with a DSL router

2002-06-02 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 07:50:05PM -0400, Robert Webb wrote: > > Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I bought an Ovislink SR-500 router/switch, but can't configure it. > > > >It has a default address of 192.168.1.254, and I'm supposed to be able > >to configure it via telnet at port

Re: Security Updates Sources

2002-06-02 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
"Jean-Charles Preaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > Just a little question : > is there a security updates sources for the woody release ? > as : > deb http://security.debian.org/ > potato/updates main contrib non-free > for the potato release ? > Which

Re: networking with a DSL router

2002-06-02 Thread Robert Webb
Patrick Albuquerque wrote: Hi all, I bought an Ovislink SR-500 router/switch, but can't configure it. It has a default address of 192.168.1.254, and I'm supposed to be able to configure it via telnet at port 333. Unfortunately I can't even ping it. My internet connection is up on ppp0/et

networking with a DSL router

2002-06-02 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
Hi all, I bought an Ovislink SR-500 router/switch, but can't configure it. It has a default address of 192.168.1.254, and I'm supposed to be able to configure it via telnet at port 333. Unfortunately I can't even ping it. My internet connection is up on ppp0/eth0 as I write this and I'm tryi

Re: [Help]!

2002-06-02 Thread Jason Thomas
http://www.linmodems.org/ On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 08:26:10PM +0200, mantis wrote: > hi please could someone give me a hand i've been trying to source drivers for > a FM-56AMR winmodem > (unfortunately) on debian 2.2 without any success if you could please give me > some assistance > would be gr

Re: Multiple files

2002-06-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 31, 2002, Daniel D Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How does one handle multiple files via most command line utilities? For > example, suppose you have a handful of perl scripts (*.pl) and you want > to save them in the same directory with a different extension. The > command > > c

Re: List etiquette/ Thanks everyone

2002-06-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 31, 2002, Daniel Toffetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Can someone tell me what is the agreed upon method on this list for > > saying thanks. > > > > There were so many replies to my questions it would be a very long > > job to reply to everyone individually with thanks, though if tha

Re: resizing root partition

2002-06-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 30, 2002, Walt Mankowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:34:52AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, May 29, 2002, Joris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > But here comes the catch. None of the root environments I found on > > > floppy had resize2fs on them.

Re: /etc/init.d/network vs /etc/init.d/networking (Debian Guide?

2002-06-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I've discovered the /etc/network/interfaces file -- I think I should > fix things there. > > yes, that is the correct location now > Side Note: > > If /etc/init.d/network has been discontinued and the functionality > moved to /etc/network/interfaces, perhaps someone should update Debian

Re: Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

2002-06-02 Thread Dale Hair
There is a web based calendar called WebCal, GPL license, there is a demo on their site. It has public and private calendars. I've been meaning to try it out. http://bulldog.tzo.org/webcal/webcal.html > The issue with calendaring seems to be less finding single-user > calendar software (there's

Re: PPP

2002-06-02 Thread Marcelo Braga
Marcelo Braga, 2002-Jun-01 16:16 -0300: > > **I can ping only my local interface (192.168.100.1), but I can`t ping the > other side (192.168.100.2). > Okay, can you ping from the remote server back to this server? If so, then there's a problem on the remote server, probably routing. If you ca

/etc/init.d/network vs /etc/init.d/networking (Debian Guide?)

2002-06-02 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
Long story short, as I've told it before, a friend began the setup of a debian box for me (i'm a little overbusy with work and a very long commute), wasn't familiar with debian, never seemed to "get it," eventually gave up in frustration. So, i'm now trying to decipher the setup of a box with stab

Re: Abiword

2002-06-02 Thread Dale Hair
> Reading the hint, it seems to indicate all that's needed are the > two files (fonts.dir and fonts.scale) be in /usr/share/Abisuite/fonts > and it should fly. They are already in place. > > But Abi complains that it can't add its fonts to the X fontpath. Which > is strange, because I'd expect X

can't change my password

2002-06-02 Thread Marco Herrn
Hi, when trying to change my password with passwd I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ passwd Changing password for marco (current) UNIX password: passwd: Critical error - immediate abort After entering my current pw it waits for 2 seconds then the error message appears. The same happ

Re: apt or broken package problem

2002-06-02 Thread Tomasz Kosinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On 2 Jun 2002, Tomasz Kosinski wrote: > > > In the last few days, apt has been reporting "E: Fatal, conflicts..." > > errors, and I can't determine what is causing this. For example, if I > > try to install "dia" I get a total of 69 "E: Fatal, conflicts..." > > errors,

Re: Security Updates Sources

2002-06-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 06:49:31PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:47:01PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:57:17PM +0200, Jean-Charles Preaux wrote: > > > Just a little question : > > > is there a security updates sources for the woody rele

Re: Security Updates Sources

2002-06-02 Thread synthespian
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:47:01PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:57:17PM +0200, Jean-Charles Preaux wrote: > > Just a little question : > > is there a security updates sources for the woody release ? > > Not yet. There will be when it's released. In the mean

Re: Can't opencrt1.o

2002-06-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 10:33:25AM +0800, Squirrel wrote: > "int main() > { > int a,b; > a=a+1; > b=a+2; > return 0; > }" > Then I typed "gcc-3.1 t2.c" in and it said "/usr/bin/ld:Can't > open crt1.o:no such file or directory..." Sounds like you need libc6-d

RE: X server setup

2002-06-02 Thread Slootbeek, Jule S
Weel i figured it out... i have to run modprobe input modprobe mousedev modprobe usbcore modprobe uhci modprobe hid but ihow can i set up X to run this before going into X? cuz now i have to log into KDE press CTRL+ALT + F1 type those commands, and then return to KDE... any ideas? Jule -Ori

Re: boot message: insmod problem

2002-06-02 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Eduardo Gargiulo wrote on Fri May 31, 2002 um 09:17:07PM: > - > insmod: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20020531.log Read-only file > system > insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/net/unix/unix.o: cannot create > /

Re: Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

2002-06-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 29, 2002, Ian D. Stewart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 2002.05.20 14:09 stan wrote: > >Can anyone recomend a nice time schedulign software application that's > >in > >Debain Woody's archive? A Gnome interface would be a plus. > > I know I'm coming into this thread somewhat late. I'm

Re: boot message: insmod problem

2002-06-02 Thread Seneca
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:17:07PM -0400, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > I'm running woody on i386. During boot process, the log shows some > errors like that > > - > insmod: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20020531.log Read-only

Re: Man page output

2002-06-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 10:54:22PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:53:50PM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > >Is there an easy way to output man pages without all of the underlined > > >text? I want to redirect man page output to text type files,

Re: Debian ports [was: Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"]

2002-06-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:14:30PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's also worth pointing out that the effort that some people see as > > being wasted on other ports actually benefits the distribution as a > > whole in the long run. For example, somebody

RE: X server setup

2002-06-02 Thread Slootbeek, Jule S
Wel i think i finally got my screens right...yeey i did dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and tried some different options.. now i just have to get my USB mouse working.. i believe i installed the modules in the kernel correctly, and the USB mouse should be under /dev/input/mice right??? is this ri

Re: *****SPAM***** WHY?????????????????????????????

2002-06-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jun 02, 2002, Tomas Ponik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > SPAM: Start SpamAssassin results -- > SPAM: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been altered > SPAM: so you can recognise or block similar unwanted mail in future. > SPAM: See h

Re: how to make mozilla send mailtos to mutt?

2002-06-02 Thread Travis Crump
Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hi, > > The subject basically says it all. I check around mozilla prefs but > didn't find much, and I prefer mozilla to galeon. > user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true); and/or user_pref("network.protocols.useSystemDefaults", true); are supposed to

Re: apt or broken package problem

2002-06-02 Thread jim
On 2 Jun 2002, Tomasz Kosinski wrote: > In the last few days, apt has been reporting "E: Fatal, conflicts..." > errors, and I can't determine what is causing this. For example, if I > try to install "dia" I get a total of 69 "E: Fatal, conflicts..." > errors, mostly with packages which have no cle

WHY?????????????????????????????

2002-06-02 Thread Tomas Ponik
Exuse me, WHY DO I GET MORE THAN 500 MAILS DURING LAST 3 DAYS FROM LOT OF DIFERENT PEOPLE (EVERYTHING ABOUT DEBIAN) ? WHAT DOES IT MEAN? I'M NOT MEMBER OF LIST.DEBIAN.ORG > "Stephen Doty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Does Debian Linux atomatically detect a nextwork pcmcia card ( mine >

Re: exim's header rewrite

2002-06-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:23:40PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:56:05PM +0800, Michael C Alonzo wrote: > > I have two pop mail servers, 1 from my ISP and one from softhome.net. > > here's my mailing list subscriptions: > > > > PACIFIC.NET.PH(ISP) S

Re: plptools & the Revo/(Diamond Mako)

2002-06-02 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Brian wrote: > Has anyone used plptools, (p3nfsd and/or ncpd) to mount their Psion Revo > to their Linux box via the serial cable? Yea, they work fine, for the most part. I used plptools-0.10 (forgot where I downloaded it from at the moment), built and installed it a

Re: Question

2002-06-02 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"Stephen Doty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does Debian Linux atomatically detect a nextwork pcmcia card ( mine > is = Linksys wpc11)? It should so long as you have built a module (or one is available) for that particular PCMCIA NIC. For 2.4.17, the driver you need is (from Documentation/Configu

Re: Unshar-ing John Walker's "texttogif.shar.gif "

2002-06-02 Thread Paul Scott
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I am trying to gunzip and unshar the utility "textogif" from http://www.fourmilab.com/webtools/textogif/textogif.html but no luck so far, gzip is refusing to unzip, saying didn't recognize the format. Any one knows what the problem is? If any one has the utility (perl scr

Re: Lower-latency kernels?

2002-06-02 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 21:50 Uhr +0200 02.06.2002, Christian Jaeger wrote: ... Sorry, this was supposed to go to debian-powerpc. Christian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Lower-latency kernels?

2002-06-02 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I'm quite a bit tired of all those 20-second-or-so almost-freeze times when untarring a big file, filtering a bunch of mails in Eudora under MOL, etcetc, just because the kernel 2.4.18 virtual memory infrastructure is paging, sorting and freeing memory or whatever and meanwhile also blo

Re: acpi sleep/suspend

2002-06-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 01:09:33PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > > How can I make linux (2.4.18) go to sleep if I haven't used my box > after X minutes? My mboard supports acpi and my monitor supports > dpms. DPMS is working. The "sleepd" package (available in woody, don't know about potato) does

Question

2002-06-02 Thread Stephen Doty
Does Debian Linux atomatically detect a nextwork pcmcia card ( mine is Linksys wpc11)? Thank you. Stephen Doty

Re: gnome-terminal vs console

2002-06-02 Thread Felix Natter
Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where does gnome-terminal pick up settings that differ from the console? > > For example, 'locale' on the console shows everything as 'en_US' but in > gnome-terminal it shows as 'english'. Maybe you need to enable the "login terminal" option of gnome-te

Re: Question about mail alias for root

2002-06-02 Thread Bob Proulx
> eximconfig, when asking where to route mail for root and postmaster, > prints the following warning: > > Note that postmaster-mail should usually be read on the system it is > directed to, rather than being forwarded elsewhere, so (at least one > of) the users you choose should not r

Re: DHCP & reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Bob Proulx
> The changes to the gateway address being used by the Debian system should > have little impact on the delay you are seeing in your telnet sessions > starting. As I don't use telnet on my systems (I much prefer SSH) I don't > have any sure fire advice for you. However, you may want to look into

Re: MPlayer

2002-06-02 Thread csj
On Fri, 31 May 2002 14:56:59 +0200 Romuald DELAVERGNE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 2002.05.24 20:32, O Senhor a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > I have compiled the MPlayer in my Debian Machine, and was fine... But > > when i try run it, (mplayer , nothing appears. Only messages > > about permissio

DMZ virus scanning HTTP proxy = squid?

2002-06-02 Thread martin f krafft
hi all, i am looking for ways to install a virus scanning HTTP proxy in a DMZ network. i'd like to use squid in addition to ScannerDaemon by openantivirus.org, but ideally, the choice of anti-virus server shouldn't matter. essentially i am looking for an "amavis" for squid... however, squid being

apt or broken package problem

2002-06-02 Thread Tomasz Kosinski
I regularly use apt to update or install new packages to my testing system - since I have a dial-up connection, I avoid days-long "dist-upgrade"s, and just "update" then "install" package by package according to need. In the last few days, apt has been reporting "E: Fatal, conflicts..." errors, an

Re: request for documentation pointer

2002-06-02 Thread Jeffrey Chimene
Alice: A search of this list for through the past 60 days will turn up many answers to the question you're asking. One interesting answer was to apply the "--download_only" switch to the "apt-get dist-upgrade" command, and execute this as a cron job overnight. Again, read the list archives for the

Re: Unshar-ing John Walker's "texttogif.shar.gif "

2002-06-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
gunzip worked for me: gunzip textogif.shar.gz On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 08:33, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I am trying to gunzip and unshar the utility "textogif" from > http://www.fourmilab.com/webtools/textogif/textogif.html > but no luck so far, gzip is refusing to unzip, saying didn't recognize

[Help]!

2002-06-02 Thread mantis
hi please could someone give me a hand i've been trying to source drivers for a FM-56AMR winmodem (unfortunately) on debian 2.2 without any success if you could please give me some assistance would be greatly appreciated thanks Regards Shay. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-02 Thread Jason Healy
At 1023018658s since epoch (06/02/02 09:50:58 -0400 UTC), Richard Otte wrote: > At home my kid has a Mac running osx and we'd also have a switch. We'd > like to connect it to my Debian machine in such a way that we could > transfer files between the machines. Since OS X is just Unix underneath,

Re: DHCP & reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:20:35 -0500 "Judith Elaine Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't tested whether the long delay with telnet has gone away, > but the Debian box can now see the rest of the world. I suspect my > friend's Linksys box has a different LAN IP than mine. The changes to the g

Re: DHCP & reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 12:16:30PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:03:08 -0500 > "Judith Elaine Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The answer is below. Should the Gateway be the IP address of the > > Linksys box? I'll be trying that before I leave in 15 minutes. Thanks >

Re: Netscape 4.77 and PDF files

2002-06-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, B. L. Jilek wrote: > select Plugin --> nppdf.so > > These are the plugins: > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so > /usr/lib/netscape/plugins-libc6/nppdf.so Thank you!! I linked to it from my .netscape/plugins directory and now it works as before. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman

Re: DHCP & reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:03:08 -0500 "Judith Elaine Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The answer is below. Should the Gateway be the IP address of the > Linksys box? I'll be trying that before I leave in 15 minutes. Thanks > very much for the quick pointer. Yes. Once the gateway entry is correct (

acpi sleep/suspend

2002-06-02 Thread Paul Miller
How can I make linux (2.4.18) go to sleep if I haven't used my box after X minutes? My mboard supports acpi and my monitor supports dpms. DPMS is working. Thanks, -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DHCP & reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 11:28:51AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 11:12:59 -0500 > "Judith Elaine Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We have a home LAN behind a Linksys DSL router (model BEFSER41). > (snip) > > The Debian box can ping a laptop on the LAN successfully (by

Re: Netscape 4.77 and PDF files

2002-06-02 Thread B. L. Jilek
Hi Patrick! On Sun, 02 Jun 2002, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi: > > I searched the archives but found no mention of this. It used to be (in > the 'potato' distribution) that Netscape displayed PDF files inside the > browser window, as if they were just another web page. Since I upgraded > to the

Netscape 4.77 and PDF files

2002-06-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi: I searched the archives but found no mention of this. It used to be (in the 'potato' distribution) that Netscape displayed PDF files inside the browser window, as if they were just another web page. Since I upgraded to the 'unstable' distribution, Netscape forgot how to handle PDF files at a

Re: DHCP & reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 11:12:59 -0500 "Judith Elaine Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a home LAN behind a Linksys DSL router (model BEFSER41). (snip) > The Debian box can ping a laptop on the LAN successfully (by IP > address); it cannot ping the outside world. A laptop can ping the > Debia

Question about mail alias for root

2002-06-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. eximconfig, when asking where to route mail for root and postmaster, prints the following warning: Note that postmaster-mail should usually be read on the system it is directed to, rather than being forwarded elsewhere, so (at least one of) the users you choose should

DHCP & reverse DNS in Linksys LAN environment

2002-06-02 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
Long story short: a friend began the setup of a debian box for me (i'm a little overbusy with work and a very long commute), wasn't familiar with debian, never seemed to "get it," eventually gave up in frustration. So, i'm now trying to decipher the setup of a box with stable r 6 installed. I've

Unshar-ing John Walker's "texttogif.shar.gif "

2002-06-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am trying to gunzip and unshar the utility "textogif" from http://www.fourmilab.com/webtools/textogif/textogif.html but no luck so far, gzip is refusing to unzip, saying didn't recognize the format. Any one knows what the problem is? If any one has the utility (perl script) already unpacked, plea

Re: hello?

2002-06-02 Thread jim
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Doug Riddle wrote: > Got you just fine Jim. and Whoosh! fast too. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-02 Thread Cam Ellison
First, you need to install netatalk on the Linux box. It is set up to handle printing, too, though I haven't gotten it working with my setup (Mac laptop that I use for work), mostly due to sheer laziness. You will have to put a home subdirectory for your son on the Linux box. Good luck Cam *

Abiword

2002-06-02 Thread jim
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, vanillicat wrote: > Hi Jim, > > Just a note that this message of yours got through. > > Also, your query regarding abiword made it through to me as well. I'm > having the *precise* same issue, so I too am watching what turns up. Thanks for the reply. I've changed the subject

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-02 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.02 09:50 Richard Otte wrote: At home my kid has a Mac running osx and we'd also have a switch. We'd like to connect it to my Debian machine in such a way that we could transfer files between the machines. We also have a postscript printer connected to the switch, and we both use the

Re: hello?

2002-06-02 Thread vanillicat
> Does this list work? I receive it via news and now through email, but it seems spotty. Messages are missing, including my own request for help with Abiword. > > Just a simple ACK would be appreciated, thanks. Hi Jim, Just a note that this message of yours got through. Also, your query regardin

Anyone got java JMF working on Debian?

2002-06-02 Thread mdevin
I can't seem to get the Blackdown JMF package to work. I am running woody and have installed the jmf package from Blackdown along with sdk1.3 (also Blackdown .deb). Both are the woody distro current versions. The main java stuff works fine. I mean I have written java classes using swing stuff a

hello?

2002-06-02 Thread jim
Does this list work? I receive it via news and now through email, but it seems spotty. Messages are missing, including my own request for help with Abiword. Just a simple ACK would be appreciated, thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

home network with mac

2002-06-02 Thread Richard Otte
At home my kid has a Mac running osx and we'd also have a switch. We'd like to connect it to my Debian machine in such a way that we could transfer files between the machines. We also have a postscript printer connected to the switch, and we both use the phone to connect to the internet. Can an

how to make mozilla send mailtos to mutt?

2002-06-02 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hi, The subject basically says it all. I check around mozilla prefs but didn't find much, and I prefer mozilla to galeon. Thanks a lot! :R -- Rohan Deshpande [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Athlon XP Motherboard Advice Sought

2002-06-02 Thread Graham/Aniartia
On Saturday 01 June 2002 5:25 am, Simon Read wrote: > I'm considering building an Athlon XP 2100+ based system. I'd like to > build it with a 333 MHz Front Side Bus. I'm considering KT333 based > motherboards from various manufacturers. I'm especially enamoured > with the EPoX 8K3A+. Does

Re: Athlon XP Motherboard Advice Sought

2002-06-02 Thread David Palmer
Hello, They have the most comprehensive manuals, also. Regards, David. On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 04:24, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > I can't say enought about how good ASUS boards are. > They always seem to have solid components built on them, > and I haven't had one let me down yet. > A little mo

gnome-terminal vs console

2002-06-02 Thread Rick Pasotto
Where does gnome-terminal pick up settings that differ from the console? For example, 'locale' on the console shows everything as 'en_US' but in gnome-terminal it shows as 'english'. But my main problem is that accented characters aren't handled properly in gnome-terminal but they are in the cons

seek Tape drive with USB interface

2002-06-02 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I am looking for Tape drive with USB interface. Any suggestion? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Connect Linux to Windows XP

2002-06-02 Thread Steve Haslam
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 11:11:50AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Ronald Castillo writes: > > Any tips on how can use PPP? > > It's trivial on the Linux end, but I'm not sure Windows can do it at all. Windows can *do* it, but it's not particularly fun. Notably, I used mgetty with it's auto_ppp featu

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