Re: HD problems

2008-02-27 Thread David S
r USB booting, I have spent many hours googling, and the general consensus is if the BIOS doesn't support it, then its impossible. Good Luck David S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release: KNOPPIX5.1.1 for Trusted Computing Geeks (v1.0)

2008-02-11 Thread David S
Kuniyasu Suzaki wrote: > Dear, > > We released KNOPPIX5.1.1 for Trusted Computing Geeks (v1.0). >http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/index-en.html > It includes trusted computing software based on TPM(Trusted Platform > Module). Debian packages on KNOPPIX is validated by Remote Attestation. >

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-10 Thread David S
Marc Shapiro wrote: >> Amazing as in, XP can't. This seems a fairly insane design decision on >> the part of MS. >> > Does Vista do this, too? Yup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-08 Thread David S
one partition on a flash drive is standard, so WinXP must have decided to limit the number of partitions displayable to one. The interesting thing is, though, that Windows 98 can see more than one partition on a flash drive. However, the problem doesn't seem to affect portable hard d

Re: Xorg problems dpkg-reconfigure

2008-02-03 Thread David S
not up to par yet, and having a ready-built xorg.conf to slip bits in from would be handy for quickly getting Xorg working again. Plus now the proprietary ATI driver kicks up a stink every time I reinstall it. David S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: system boot hangs at or after filesystems check

2008-02-02 Thread David S
Csányi Pál wrote: > This hang happen at /var mount point. /var has its own partition > which is 14 GB. Hi Just a quick fix: disable checking the /var partition by changing it's pass value in /etc/fstab to "0". Does a CLI-invoked fsck hang when you check the /var partiti

Re: recent updates

2008-01-22 Thread David S
Celejar wrote: > I've also been getting this: > > option_space_encapsulate: option space agent does not exist, but is > configured. > I've been getting this message too. However, just identifying ourselves won't get us far, does anyone have any information on the

Re: One Button Backup--USB External HD

2008-01-20 Thread David S
hey were internal hard drive cases. The solution to constant IO errors is to get a very short USB cable, and keep it away from interference. They don't seem to have much fault tolerance. David S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Delete QT4 library

2008-01-20 Thread David S
Hi Jim If the QT4 library are one or more debian packages, then they should be specified as "auto removable" if not used, unless they were manually installed. The package manager will alert you if removing them will break any other packages. David S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: I need some help (Issues with amule, azureus and vlc)

2008-01-18 Thread David S
Tony wrote: > The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. You might have run out of memory. Try adding more RAM to the system and see if it works David S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody > sarge problems

2004-01-06 Thread David S
Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:47:39PM +, David S wrote: OK Im a bit confused, can anyone tell me why KDE will not install from sarge ? Because it's not working yet. This is a known problem ... Ahhh !! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

woody > sarge problems

2004-01-06 Thread David S
Hello :-) I have an experimental system, running woody. I decided to upgrade it to sarge. I changed my sources.list to : deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib #deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian

Re: Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers

2003-12-22 Thread David S
Scarletdown wrote: I just tried to install the GeForce video drivers downloaded from nVidia's site, in hopes that I would be able to make proper use of my video card (GeForce 5600 FX with 256MB RAM) Here is what the log file showed after the drivers failed to install... nvidia-installer log fi

Re: Illegal instruction after upgrade

2003-09-20 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:22:25 -0700 Bruce Pinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since that upgrade many processes won't start and even commands like ps are > giving back "illegal instruction". I'm guessing that there is some > instruction in libc6 that is not valid on the SPARC (i.e. a bug), but am

problem installing debian

2002-01-10 Thread David S
ed during setup, after i found i couldn't get to a desktop i tried reinstalling the system and installed the xwin components ONLY however the same errors and problem occured - any help will be gratefully received (it may be something really obvious but i'm an absolute beginner (sorry))   David S.

Update startup floppy for upgraded 2.2r3

2001-09-11 Thread David S. Bach
I upgraded my kernel to 2.2r3. The computer requires a floppy for booting and I need to know how to create or update the existing floppy (and to create a backup copy) so that when I boot I will be running the 2.2.32 kernel. TIA, db -- David S. Bach Seattle, Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] A

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread David S Dameron
SuSe Linux has a version of linux that you can run from the cd. If you are using a FAT filesystem, it will create two files on your computer for you to store your settings and personal data. If you are using a NTFS filesystem, you have to run though the setup, it only takes 2 min. It does not rep

Fwd: Re: 2.2r2 and 3c509 network card

2001-01-19 Thread David S. Bach
tiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David S. Bach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 2.2r2 and 3c509 network card Hi, also, do make sure you have turned the 'pnp' option off in the card's bios. You can configre your card with 3c

2.2r2 and 3c509 network card

2001-01-18 Thread David S. Bach
yone? TIA, db -- David S. Bach Seattle, Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] A true person of no rank

Previous post: modem hangup

2001-01-06 Thread David S. Bach
Last week there was a post about avoiding a modem hangup by specifying /dev/cua??? instead of /dev/ttyS?. Can someone please forward to me? I've been having this problem for a long time and wanted to implement the solution, but now I cannot find the message. TIA, db -- David S.

SCSI challenge

2001-01-03 Thread David S. Bach
n download - but, hey!, what do I do with them? I almost always solve my Linux problems (I have two other vanilla PCs running Linux as a gateway and a Web server) with man pages and HOWTOs. But this has me stumped. Can anyone out there direct me to the right resource? TIA, David Bach -- Dav

Re: kernel 2.4.0-test9 and Cisco Pix Firewall - Might be a bug???

2000-10-10 Thread David S. Miller
echo "0" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Yes, Cisco does know about the bug in their product. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com

Re: newer version of pilot-link for palm Os 3.5

2000-08-14 Thread David S. Jackson
552 My tarball of pilot-link-0.9.3 works fine with my Palm IIIxe with OS3.5.0. What problems are you having? -- David S. Jackson[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me. I'm afraid of widths. -- Steven Wright

upgrading libgtk1.2/gkrellm from frozen

2000-08-05 Thread David S. Jackson
I want to run the latest gkrellm from potato. What's the best way to upgrade libgtk1.2? Can you put woody in sources.list, upgrade libgtk1.2, then reedit sources.list? In short, how do you run the latest gkrellm (and thus use the latest themes) from frozen? -- David S. Ja

"NOQUEUE: Authentication-Warning:"

2000-07-25 Thread David S. Jackson
e make this error go away? -- David S. Jackson[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time.

Re: Huge X-fonts in Frozen

2000-07-24 Thread David S. Jackson
pi fonts *before* the 100dpi fonts. Just edit "100dpi" with "75dpi" and "75dpi" with "100dpi". -- David S. Jackson[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Someone in DAYTON, Ohio is selling USED CARPETS to a SERBO-CROATIAN

PPP problems

2000-07-24 Thread David S. Jackson
ppp0 route del default eth0 route add 127.0.0.1 lo Was it the netbase config script that I messed up on? How can I either rerun the script or modify text files so that every time I reboot I don't have to reset these routes manually? TIA! -- David S. Jackson[

Re: editors and browsers

2000-07-24 Thread David S. Jackson
ome recent hardware to run it on; its demands are significant. The real answer to your question, I think, is to consider looking into the non-graphical equivalents. Once you understand how the internet protocols work, text is really the native language you want to be dealing with. -- David S. Ja

libc.so.5

2000-07-22 Thread David S. Jackson
This is probably in a FAQ somewhere, but I don't know where. :-) I upgraded to Potato just recently (finally) and don't know the name of the file that provides a compatability library for libc.so.5. Can anyone tell me so I can apt-get it? TIA! -- David S. Jackson

gkrellm

2000-07-20 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, Are there any gkrellm version 0.7.5 compatible themes around anywhere? Or are there instructions for upgrading potato to woody libs so version 0.10.4 can run on it? -- David S. Jackson[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= can I

Re: clobbered fonts--intermittant

2000-07-01 Thread David S. Jackson
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 04:52:34PM -0400 David S. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Occasionally when I run sawfish or lately, even a freshly rolled > fvwm2 binary, I get clobbered fonts when I close out of X. It's > as though only some of the characters g

clobbered fonts--intermittant

2000-06-30 Thread David S. Jackson
nd so forth. It's like an alternate character set takes over the TTY. How can I determine just what the problem is? What is happening? Not sure how to go about this one. TIA! -- David S. Jackson http://w

Re: apt-get new helixcode gnome

2000-06-04 Thread David S. Bateman
Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Jun 04 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > I think I read somewhere in the Helix site that Helix Gnome was made > > available for woody only, and that they were not sure if it'd work > > for potato... > > Unlike the previous posters, I've had no problems using He

Re: Slink Package list Q

2000-05-30 Thread David S. Bateman
Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I saw from the list posted on Debian that Enlightenment 0.16X was included, > yet when I loaded the Slink I got from LinuxMall I got last week it was > version 0.14. What gives? > > Is there a list a list for Potato and can I trust it, ie E 0.16X on there? add ;

Re: lost /vmlinuz

2000-05-29 Thread David S. Bateman
Thanks Randy, that worked perfectly! BTW, any idea as to what caused the problem to begin with? I got the 2.2.12 kernel when I "dist-upgrade" to potato, then the 2.2.15-idepci kernel by way of "apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.15-idepci" and when I ran "apt-get upgrade" last night the package mgmt

lost /vmlinuz

2000-05-29 Thread David S. Bateman
I'm running potato on a pent 533EB and have been using 2.2.15-idepci , apt-get upgrade tried to upgrade my kernel image. I moved 2.2.15-idepci to .old and apt installed a new image but now when lilo tries to boot off the hard drive it complains that /vmlinuz is missing. In /lib/modules i've got 2.

Re: /dev/mouse problem

2000-05-28 Thread David S. Bateman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I do believe that your mouse should be symbolically linked > to /dev/psaux and not /dev/ttyS0 or any sort of ttyS 'if' it > is a ps/2 mouse that you are using. > > It is quite safe to delete mouse and relink mouse to /dev/psaux. is there a reason why the Slink install d

Re: Building i585/i686 optimized packages?

2000-05-25 Thread David S. Bateman
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 09:24:30AM +0100, Dominic Blythe wrote: > > < snip> can you optimize a kernal for coppermine chips yet? does the kernal deal with the fsb or does it rely on the bios? same question about the AGP slot ( 4X OK in Linux) ? TIA Dave ---

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-18 Thread David S. Bateman
Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 10:42:17AM +0200, Andreas Rabus wrote: I've only been using Linux since Feb. , so at the local LUG I usually just listen to the discussions and take in as much as I can. The people there (LUG) are about 80% RedHat users with the rest divided btw SuSe

Re: Screen Size

2000-05-15 Thread David S. Bateman
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 15-May-2000 Ed Slocomb wrote: > > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:57:54PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> > >> On 15-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote: > >> > Ok Guys, > >> > I got X Finally working mouse and all. But and you knew there had to be a > >> > butt. How can I c

re:Gnome gripes

2000-05-03 Thread David S. Bateman
could someone who has Gnome "working" post his/her configuation? I've edited Xsession according to _Learning Debian GNU/Linux : #!/bin/bash xterm & gmc & enlightenment & panel exit 0 ## basically I guess I'm running the aps without any " session" and I have to reconstr

logfile names

2000-02-14 Thread David S. Jackson
erent from the ones in other *.err files? 3. Is there anything like the PAM_pwdb type info on a RHL system? Something that tracks failed logins, successful su's, remote sessions, and so forth? Is this already logged to someplace else? 4. Where do the identd requests show up? Thanks muc

TkMan

2000-02-03 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, I don't see the TkMan package anywhere in Slink. Is that because of some Tcl incompatibility with Tk8.0 or something? -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "When we lose the right to be dif

logparser?

2000-01-28 Thread David S. Jackson
roblem with find. Did this ever get worked out? Is there a newer version of find that doesn't contain this problem the standard script talks about? -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Conversation is

menu question

2000-01-23 Thread David S. Jackson
er. Is there a central menu file I can hand edit, then use to update my respective window manager menus? Perhaps a menu config sanity checker or double checker script or something? -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

WMSOUND: Error on Play Event

2000-01-16 Thread David S. Jackson
octl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 read(3, 0xb330, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL Can anyone tell me what's going on here? -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: connect problem

2000-01-07 Thread David S. Jackson
As you can see from the log, it appears to be dawdling when it gets the login: prompt. Any ideas why this would be so? I commented out the PAP/CHAP section so AUTHENTIFY should be standard UNIX login by default, right? -- David S. Jackson

printer config tool?

2000-01-06 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, Is there a printer config tool or script to configure a printer in Debian? Or shall I just manually edit the /etc/printcap file? -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "In theory, theory and practic

wmsound: Error on Play Event

2000-01-04 Thread David S. Jackson
elect(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL Can anyone shed some light? TIA

dialout group

1999-12-23 Thread David S. Jackson
sudo instead of pon/poff? Isn't it safer to use the sudo setup instead of the dialout group? -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to b

Dialout group

1999-12-23 Thread David S. Jackson
ip group and not the dialout group? Basically, I'm trying to use pon with TkDesk, but first I need to make sure it works just with plain old userland me. :-) TIA! -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

dip group/dialout group?

1999-12-23 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, I was just noticing that the groupname for /usr/sbin/pppd is dip. But, as I look in /etc/group, there is no "dip" group listed, only a "dialout" group. Is this an oversight? Should I chgrp the /usr/sbin/pppd* stuff to the "dialout" group? -- David S. Jackson

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-02 Thread David S. Jackson
her learning curve. That said, I think the curve is worth the time and effort if you can manage it. :-) -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Out eth0, through the firewall, over the analog line, into

Re: /var/spool/mail/user missing

1999-11-23 Thread David S. Jackson
Let's isolate the relevant symptoms before we start worrying about version problems. But while we're on the topic, did you run /usr/sbin/eximconfig after the upgrade? I believe that usually gets run during the upgrade process. Could there be a problem there or

test

1999-11-18 Thread David S. Jackson
this is just a test

exim and procmail?

1999-11-18 Thread David S. Jackson
quot;PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin" >procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/home/dsj/mail" >procmail: Assigning "PMDIR=/home/dsj/procmail" >procmail: Assigning "LOGFILE=/home/dsj/procmail/log" >procmail: Opening "/home/dsj/procmail/log" > >-- This

upgrading with 2 CD's

1999-03-28 Thread David S. Zelinsky
I just got my slink CD's, and started trying to upgrade (from hamm). I can't find anything, in the Release Notes or elswhere, that says how to deal with multiple CD's. The closest thing is the file README.multicd which seems to be talking only about installs, not upgrades, and all it says is to be

X won't load

1999-02-16 Thread Bach, David S
I get the following messages when doing startx: -- X: exec of failed _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocket

Re: bash scripting

1999-02-12 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, ppl, > I would like to know, is it possible to fork the standard stdout > of some command into another two or three pipelines. The idea is to avoid > unnecessary disk load during temporary file writing/reading. So I need > something like this: >

suspicious connections

1999-02-07 Thread David S. Zelinsky
I have a stand-alone machine, with dialup ppp connection (using diald). I think someone was trying to hack me today, and I'd like advice on how to find out whether they succeded, and what to do about it. I'd also appreciate suggestions on the easiest way to prevent, or at least monitor, such acti

Re: Emacs

1998-12-19 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could someone explain the difference between emacs 19, emacs 20, and > xemacs? I'm emacs illiterate and I'm looking for a place to start. Emacs 19 and 20 are two successive versions of GNU-Emacs, produced by the Free Software Foundation's GNU project

Re: Partition confusion

1998-12-19 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I can have three primary partitions, and then the fourth and final "slot" > functions as a pointer to another table? (Or two and two, or four primaries, > or 1 and 3, etc?) Is the extended partition table limited to 4 partitions as > well, so that if I wa

Re: mailing list problems, printing

1998-12-17 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Given that you're getting output at all, the issue would be with the printer configuration on kingsnake; assuming kingsnake is also a Linux (or Unix) box, check its printcap file, specifically the entries for `raw' or `text'. It sounds like maybe a wrong filter script is being used. "Brian Morga

Re: Partition confusion

1998-12-17 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Jeff Miller's question (below) was answered by George Kapetanios: After making the partition with cfdisk, you have to run mkfs to make an ext2 filesystem on it. Without this, I'm surprised you were able to write anything at all to the partition. However, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KW>

X on DELL laptop hangs

1998-12-15 Thread David S. Zelinsky
A friend of mine installed hamm on a Dell laptop with Neomagic video. He got X configured with the VGA16 server. The X server seemed to work fine, but the machine would invariably hang, shortly after quitting X or switching to another virtual console. By "hang", I mean that ugly state where the

Re: reinstallation of system with full complement ...

1998-11-30 Thread David S. Jackson
ping libraries segregated on your system for special use with certain applications (that conflict with other libraries on the system) you might want to pay attention to this. Good luck! -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters." --Nathaniel Emmons

Re: Linux Tips & Tricks

1998-11-26 Thread David S. Zelinsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Just to let you know all that i've started a project called Linux Tips and > Tricks (http://www.patoche.org/LTT) in which i'm collecting tips i find. > Since i use Debian and read this mailing-list i will put tips sent here. > In fact there are the majority of tips i al

Re: Mailing list software for non-permanent internet access?

1998-11-25 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Mario Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to setup a mailing list, but I don't have a permanent internet > access. Is there a software I can configure for that? The fetchmail man page describes a way to do this, in the section titled "Good Ways To Use Multidrop Mailboxes". -- Dav

Re: diald time restriction

1998-11-24 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Peter Bartosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is it possible to restrict diald only to work at e.g. one hour per day? > > and how? (config file, cron-job, etc.) >From the diald man page: restrict or-restrict Normally filter rules apply at all times. T

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-23 Thread David S. Zelinsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gossamer) writes: > Actually you don't need ANY .forward fo rprocmail to work, as long as > you have a .procmailrc file in your homedir. Debian uses is as a > user-agent. That's not right. It's possible to set it up to use procmail by default, but Debian doesn't come that way

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-23 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, i still cannot use procmail. > > .forward > > |exec /usr/bin/procmail > `` You must have quotes around this: "|exec /usr/bin/procmail" otherwise /usr/bin/procmail will be interpreted as a

Re: emacs, PATH, trailing /

1998-11-21 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:54:49 -0500 (EST) David S Zelinsky writes: > > > > Ever since upgrading from bo to hamm, my PATH environment variable > > as seen from inside emacs (with (getenv "PATH&qu

emacs, PATH, trailing /

1998-11-19 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Ever since upgrading from bo to hamm, my PATH environment variable as seen from inside emacs (with (getenv "PATH")) has a trailing / on each entry: /usr/local/bin/:/bin/:/sbin/:/usr/bin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/X11R6/bin/ This doesn't really hurt, but has the annoying side-effect that if I type `

Re: /etc/mailname

1998-11-19 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Groumph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could someone say me what the /etc/mailname file is made for ? Which > program uses it ? > And when ? I could not find any doc on it ... >From the Debian policy manual: => 4.5. Mail transport agents => -- => => Debian pack

Re: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-18 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want the cookie security so other users can't do anything wrong. > I also want "root" to be able to use the X display no matter > who is running x. What is the simplest way to > achieve this? At the command line in the user's session, type:

Re: [ale] /dev/audio: Device or resource busy

1998-11-18 Thread David S. Jackson
ver heard of it. Guess it was a new package. That was part of the conflict. I also went to the BIOS, gave the parallel port IRQ 5 (Yep, you were right. It wanted 7!!!), and recompiled the kernel with sound on IRQ 7, and voila! It worked. NAS looks pretty cool, I must say, but I'll wait unti

Re: device or resource busy

1998-11-16 Thread David S. Jackson
Thus spake Conrado Badenas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "David S. Jackson" wrote: > > Card config: > > Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1,5 > > (SB MPU-401 irq 1 drq 0) > > OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0 > > Are you sure your SB16 use irq7 (default value for

Re: device or resource busy

1998-11-16 Thread David S. Jackson
t anywhere. Meantime, can you think of anything more? (There was no output from lsof /dev/audio last time I checked.) Thanks again! -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Zen is not some kind of exciteme

device or resource busy

1998-11-16 Thread David S. Jackson
/dma === 1: Sound Blaster8 4: cascade 5: Sound Blaster16 == If anyone can see something I'm missing, please advise. TIA! ;-) -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: dselect parse error

1998-11-11 Thread David S. Jackson
Thus spake David S. Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > I've got a problem with dselect bombing out on me: > > dselect: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0019' near line 1: > newline in field name `#padding' It seems that /var/lib/dpkg/updates

dselect parse error

1998-11-11 Thread David S. Jackson
. I've been installing from a local lan ftp server. Many thanks if anyone can help me on this one! -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "It is a greater compliment to be trusted than to be l

Upgrading Bo to Hamm with apt-get

1998-11-06 Thread David S. Jackson
point directly to the directory where Packages.gz is. If it means that I must have libmd5-perl on puddin (the Bo machine) before I can complete apt-get, I'm hosed, because libmd5-perl depends on glibc, right? So how I gonna doo dat?? TIA! -- David S. Jackson

timezones

1998-10-28 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Since I dual boot with Win95, I have my hardware clock set to local time. I don't use Win95 much any more (read: my wife now uses Linux :), so I figure I might as well change over to UTC, so Linux will handle daylight/standard time correctly (I hope). How do I make that change? I can't find any d

Re: Termcap vs. Terminfo---Redhat vs. Debian

1998-10-24 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Alan Eugene Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I found an old friend on a Red Hat CD---ephem, predecessor and sibling to > xephem. It was time to try alien. Interesting. Installed the package. > The binary doesn't work---termcap libraries are missing. > > Can I overcome this problem? The p

phantom in diald queue

1998-10-21 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Using diald, with a dynamic IP address, I sometimes get an annoying "phantom" in the packet queue. It's usually something like: /80 => /1234 evidently coming from an aborted http transfer. The stale local address is the IP address I had on some previous connection. The diald packet que

Re: dvi viewer in 2.0

1998-10-20 Thread David S. Zelinsky
xdvi is in tetex-bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I have just upgraded to 2.0. Previously I could view .dvi files with xdvi. > It is no longer present. Is there a .dvi viewer (preferably for x) that > does not require a tetex installation? > Thanks >

MTA / MUA bug

1998-10-17 Thread David S. Zelinsky
I read my email lists (such as this one) with Emacs+Gnus, and I've come across a serious bug. It seems that if a message contains a line such as the following, it bombs when incorporating new mail: from something Note the lower-case `f' in `from'. It doesn't seem to matter what the `so

Re: Star Office

1998-10-15 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 10:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > So star office 4/5 can be downloaded for free for non-commercial use? well > > thats very nice of them, but how many people are going to be prepared to > > wait > > through a 50Mb download

packet -> PID mapping? (was look up process)

1998-10-14 Thread David S. Zelinsky
I deplore "me, too" followups, but this was a question I've been meaning to ask for a long time; and since I didn't see any response for a couple of days, I thought I'd repeat it: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was having trouble with diald bringing up the line. A dump of the > /var/log/ppp.log

Re: unattended ftp

1998-10-12 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Rahul Sood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a > host and retrieve a file? Some have suggested using ncftp or wget to do this. That may be the best way to go. However, it is also possible to do it with plain-old ftp. You have t

// in paths

1998-10-07 Thread David S. Zelinsky
When I type (in bash): % type foo it returns foo is /usr/local/bin//foo with two /'s before `foo'. (I get the same effect with `csh' and `which'.) Has anyone else seen this behavior? Anyone know what's causing it? Or how to fix it? I'm using Debian 2.0 (hamm); kernel version 2.0.34 T

Re: exmh and the From field.

1998-10-04 Thread David S. Zelinsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > From time to time I am still trying to convince exmh to use the login and > address of my ISP's account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > [ ... excerpts from PPP-HOWTO, on configuring MH ... ] > > But it didn't give me the correct From field. > [ ... more from PPP-HOWTO

Re: Getting startx to run

1998-09-14 Thread David S. Jackson
Thus spake David S. Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I seem to be having the same problem as you are with my new 2.0 > distrib. I know it's not too fruitful to receive another "I have that > problem too" response, but perhaps we could colaborate until someone > with a

Re: Getting startx to run

1998-09-13 Thread David S. Jackson
one or both of us overlooked because of a 2:00am brainfart that clouded our vision. Hopefully someone smart will chime in and elucidate the error of our way? Luck and fortune to us both! :-) -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Our goal must be--not peace in our time, but peace for all time." --Harry S. Truman

Re: Introductory security texts - ssh, tcpd, tripwire?

1998-05-19 Thread David S. Jackson
can find it on sunsite/LDP. -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "What we call 'I' is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale." --Shunr

Re: SGML, Jade, Docbook -- HELP!!!

1998-04-24 Thread David S. Jackson
etty good DSSSL page (www.jclark.com/dsssl/ if memory serves). If it were still in print, you could read my book, Special Edition, Using SGML from QUE. But, there are still other good books around. DSSSL was only ratified in late 1995, so it's still relatively new. But for Linux, I

Re: sgml authoring

1998-04-11 Thread David S. Jackson
aTeX conversion utility. :-> ) Then from Docbook source, you could produce HTML, RTF, TeX, PS, GROFF, ASCII, and probably even other output formats for display or presentation. So, that's probably what I would use, or something similar. Good luck! -- David S. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pine

1998-04-06 Thread David S. Jackson
stalled on a University's network. Email for more infor if required. :-) -- David S. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.dsj.net> "Linux: Choice of a GNU Generation!" -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GTW/GL d- s+:+ a42 C+++ USL P+>+++ L+++ E++ W++ N++

Re: support for IBM ThinkPad 755CD

1998-03-31 Thread David S. Jackson
lp, at least for starters. -- David S. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.dsj.net> "Linux: Choice of a GNU Generation!" -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GTW/GL d- s+:+ a42 C+++ USL P+>+++ L+++ E++ W++ N++@ o-- K- w--- O++@ M V PS+ PE++ Y+>++ PGP++(

Re: exmh and procmail filtering

1998-03-31 Thread David S. Jackson
ki.fi/~reriksso/procmail/links.html ftp://cs.uta.fi/pub/ssjaaa/pm-tips.html http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/filtering-faq/ There are Pine, VM, Elm, and other MUA-specific pages that I know of off the top of my head (or in my bookmarks file); feel free to contact me if you change mailers! :-) -- D

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