Re: Galeon takes two tries to start

2002-05-01 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 19:52, Roach, Mark R. wrote: > I am running galeon on an old armada laptop. Often when I start galeon > up, it shows up on the screen for a moment, and then disappears. This is > if I run it from the gnome menus. Typically, allthough not always, if I > run it again, it stays u

Re: isdn question

2001-03-14 Thread Harald Thingelstad
"Peter O. Fedichev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > for some time we have to use ISDN connection as a permanent Internet > connection for our server with a fixed IP address. Is there a simple way to > configure ISDN so that it authomatically goes back online if the connection > failed? >

Re: Booting from SCSI when there is IDE

2001-03-14 Thread Harald Thingelstad
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > More than 3 years ago someone filed a bug report that LILO doesn't support > booting from SCSI drives when there is an IDE drive in the system. > > I am not able to test this as I don't own any SCSI devices, and the person > who originally reported th

Re: apt-get question

2001-03-12 Thread Harald Thingelstad
b3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:45:06PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > 1. Does the order matter? Will it look to cd first if the cd entry is > > first in the file and then online second? > > I'm not entirely sure if order matters or not... It does. If you keep the

lprng+magicfilter: How to print to M$windows queue?

2001-03-11 Thread Harald Thingelstad
I currently have a Debian box and a M$windows 98 box connetcted via network. The M$windows box has a usable printer, a Lexmark 5700, and I want to use it to print from my debian box. I know it should've been the other way around, i know it's possible and it's been done before with a different dis

Re: [OT] tuning kernel memory usage

2001-02-28 Thread Harald Thingelstad
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey folks. This question has been nagging at me for a while now, and > it's about time I asked. I've got a Debian box (potato, upgraded to > kernel 2.4.1, but that's irrelevant). I'm seeing swap usage that I > don't understand. Here's the outpu

Re: Uh-Oh...

2001-02-28 Thread Harald Thingelstad
John Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well I grabbed 2.4.2, did a make-kpkg as usual and installed it. But I > reboot to find my filesystem pretty well trashed. I'm running Sid and > everything is on Reiserfs except for /boot. The only way I can do anything > (with any kernel) is to boot to

Re: debconf / perl in unstable

2001-02-27 Thread Harald Thingelstad
> last time i tried to apt-get upgrade my potato/sid system to unstable, it > completely broke perl, debconf and apt. i was really displeased. I ran into this problem a while ago and had to install perl 5.6 from unstable. I installed the whole shebang as i tend to use perl rather extesively :) :

Re: Printing Problems

2001-02-27 Thread Harald Thingelstad
I've found magicfilterconfig to be quite reliable. Primitive but reliable. And, I can't seem to get printtool to work either. At least it fails at setting up my local Canon BJ30 printer. It works fine with the BJ600 driver in magicfilter. Harald

Re: newbie: apt->x11 only?

2001-02-20 Thread Harald Thingelstad
> I would like to get only xfree86 4.0 (out of woody, presumably), but > don't want to deal with all of woody updates - what's the easiest way? > i tried getting sources.list to point only to pool/../xfree, and such, > without success > i also tried loading all 'testing' into dselect but couldn'

Re: 2.4 kernel

2001-02-06 Thread Harald Thingelstad
ername.1_i386.deb (fix up the lilo settings as I don't agree with the defaults, then run lilo.) (Any perfections would be appreciated.) -- Definition of a geek: "I think, and I can't do anything about it." Harald Thingelstad

Re: IMP error: 'document contained no data'

2000-10-17 Thread Harald Thingelstad
Whoops, forgot. All relevant packages are potato, (except for the netscape from proposed-updates) and everything worked fine last week. No configuration changes. Did security updates during the weekend. Suddenly above error message. The setup is Horde, Imp, Php3, Postgresql, Netscape, Imap4, exim

Re: IMP error: 'document contained no data'

2000-10-17 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 03:51:40 Matthew Thompson wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, ian mckerrow wrote: > > > I've had that same spontanious error using netscape > > under MS. I tried to discover the cause but gave up > > after a few hours and went to bed. The next morning > > the error was absent. I

Re: installing Mach 64 Xserver

2000-10-17 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:34:46 Bob Edwards wrote: > I installed debian from a 3 CD set. When I tried to use 'XF86Setup' I > got as far as trying to install my video card and XF86Setup gave me the > following message: > > "The server required by your card is not installed. Please install the > MAch

Re: mail sorting

2000-09-19 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:53:39 Olivier Billet wrote: > Hi evrybody ! I wonder if it's possible to sort mails with sender's name as key and for example put the result in different folders. > > Thanks in advance, > > Olivier. > Entirely. I'm personally using procmail but there are other scripts

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-08 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 19:05:32 Wayne Sitton wrote: > OK guys, I think you've gotten off the subject that I needed. Although > what you have given me is great, what I need now is kind of like stories > of thing that have happened to show why Debian would be better. Or, > even links to stories about

Re: logging interaction between minicom and modem

2000-09-05 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 15:22:12 you wrote: > Is there a way to log the interaction between minicom and modem > similar to what chat sends to ppp.log and syslog? > > Ever since I upgraded to potato last weekend chat hasn't gotten along > with my modem (external 57600 USR sportster) > > when I lo

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On 10 Jul 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Sorry to break in on this thread and being off-topic, but... > CIDR is 10 years old! Anyone still thinking in class A and class C > is probably still using COBOL too... sigh > Sorry to break in but.. Looking upon the earth as flat is a fine assumpt

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Jameson Burt wrote: > I run Debian potato Linux (upgrading it weekly) within a network > that others have setup for Microsoft Windows 95/98. > This network has (over the same ethernet cables) > computers and printers covering 4 C-class networks > as follows [first 2 digits a

Re: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Harald Thingelstad
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 > > an

Re: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Harald Thingelstad
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: Lost root access :-(

2000-06-27 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Frank van der Hulst wrote: > Help!!! > > I just installed Debian GNU/Linux, everything was going well. > > Then I decided I'd change the shell for root to the C shell. So I used > emacs to change the /etc/passwd entry for root, so that root's shell is > /bin/tcsh > > Then,

Re: Trouble with internal network

2000-06-26 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Mostly Harmless wrote: > I'm trying to get an internal network working so that I can set up IP > masquerading for a few Windows boxen (side question: anyone know what > IPs to block to prevent @home from probing for home networks?). > > Here's the output of /sbin/ifconfig -a

RE: Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.

2000-06-26 Thread Harald Thingelstad
> Boot the machine down to runlevel 1 (single user) and try it again > without X and gnome running it might act differently > > Does your other control key make any difference? > > -- > From: Harald Thingelstad[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.

2000-06-25 Thread Harald Thingelstad
This frustrating little problem... When having a running process, ctrl-c or kill doesn't work on my system. You have to use kill -9. A simple example: ping 127.0.0.1 this process is meant to run as long as you want, then you ctrl-c it to get your statistics. However, ctrl-c doesn't work. No react