Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-23 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
party drivers to come out. I've come to understand that I'll not get compiz or beryl (flashy 3d desktop environments) to work anytime soon on my ATI card, and I must admit that I don't push my machine performance with many games. Have circumstances in the Nvidia/ATI worlds changed?

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
atteries don't have a battery memory problem at all. My little exercise wasn't so much about classic "memory" effect in older battery technologies, but more about the monitoring hardware reporting empty prematurely, since the juice is there to run another hour, but the ba

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
rned back on. I think it ran for nearly another hour after initially reporting empty, so obviously it was a bit out of calibration. After a recharge, the battery meter more accurately reported that I had 2 hours left. It was still degraded from original performance, but I at least regai

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
rectly. I blacklisted yenta_socket from hotplug to allow it to later be initialized properly by pcmcia scripts. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/pcmcia pcmcia_core yenta_socket And reboot. -- John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mobile Phone Software

2006-01-06 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
iendly, obexftp will talk the OBject EXchange protocol over serial-like links. I've used it with IRDA and bluetooth connections. I'm not really aware of any pretty gui apps available in Debian for this, though. -- John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DVDs burned in Win, filenames shortened

2005-12-14 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
ames. Try mounting the disc in question explicitly as "udf" and see if you see the proper long names you expected: mount -t udf /dev/dvd -- John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using LaTeX (was: Re: Writing technical text - THANKS !)

2005-11-16 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, John and others. > > On Nov 15 2005, John M. Gabriele wrote: > > One thing I don't understand about LaTeX/TeX though is why it's so > > darn big and complicated. > > LaTeX isn't big. Well,

Re: sytem running out of free disk space

2005-11-15 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Realos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > I have a debian machine with 1.4G hard disk which is running out of > space. Running "apt-get autoclean" and "apt-get autoclean" have provided > me with about 100M free space but it is still too short for my server > machine. > > I see there are

Re: Writing technical text - THANKS !

2005-11-15 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Joe Mc Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, > > thanks a lot guys for the push towards Latex. > > After struggling with groff etc for years, Latex is a charm. Already > I can do tables, footnotes, indexes, headers, footers, maths, item > lists wonderful, a joy to work with.

Re: Tomcat5 problem on debian

2005-11-15 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Lian Liming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed tomcat5 on debian/unstable. It is on my laptop with > P M1.6, 512M. The problem is that tomcat server is very slow to > connect. On my first connection after installation, it took 4~5 mins to > show the tomcat index on localhost:8010.

Re: wiki package recommendation

2005-11-13 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- noc ops <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > can anyone recommend a wiki package (stable) and willing share their > experience. > > any pointers will be appreciated. > > > regards, > /virendra > I tried a few a while ago. I was looking for something fairly small and simple. Easy to ins

Re: Tools to manipulate PDFs

2005-11-13 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Christmann: > > > > are there any tools that allow one to > > split, merge and append PDFs? > > apt-cache show pdfjam > > Needs tetex. > > J. > -- I like pdftk. ---John _

Re: GUI

2005-11-10 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm new to linux. I installed debian ver 3.1. When finished the > > > installation, debian started automatically in GUI. What I have to do > > > so that not to start the GUI automatically? > > > > aptitude purge gdm kdm xd

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > >Bruno Buys writes: > > > > > >>(there are winmodems available, but I´m avoiding these). Are they debian > >>friendly? > >> > >> > > > >Some winmodems can be used with Linux but they are not at all friendly. > > > > > I

Re: What is a soname?

2005-11-04 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Paulo M C Aragão <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang, > > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:09:20AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > Hello, > > > With the current ABI transitions, I have noted a lot of mention about > > > soname changes, always wondering what it means. Could someone >

Re: help needed installing Debian

2005-11-03 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Goran Dimovksi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello every body, > > I have some problems installing Debian. > I did download Debian 3.1 i386 netinst. And the systmes is : > mobo-Tyan S5112 > CPU-Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz/800Mhz > HDD--3x250GB SATA conected to 3ware RAID controler card. > With

Re: apt-get vs. dselect

2005-11-02 Thread John M. Gabriele
I've tried learning to use dselect in the past and have failed, even after carefully reading what docs I could find. My advice is to avoid dselect like the plague. --- Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just > looking for quick

Re: package download statistics

2005-11-01 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Bill West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > Does anyone know of a place that keeps track of downloads from debian > mirrors by package? I figured that this information would be available all > over the place, but I have not been able to find it. Any help would be > appreciated. > >

Re: Which Java to use?

2005-11-01 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Robert Glueck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Hall wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > Does anyone have any recommendations for which JRE I > > should use in a "set it and forget it" environment? > > > > Jim Somewhat related to your question: I ran Fedora Core 4 for a while, and it comes with

Re: books/doc for programmers and sysadmin on a debian system

2005-11-01 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- anoop aryal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > anoop aryal wrote: > > > is anyone aware of books/doc about how best to: > > > > > > 1) manage source-code (not just in a CVS/subversion but, how do you lay > > > it out so that managing multiple projects is easy) > > > > > > 2) do .deb packaging eas

console font corruption w/ 2.6.12/xfree86/voodoo3

2005-06-19 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
k here, to see if anyone's seen this behavior. Thanks. -- John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Disable power button in Linux

2005-06-13 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
script, which is probably /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh. You can remove the mapping or edit the script to disable it. For mapping changes, a restart of acpid may be needed. Your sons method of restarting it would be fine too -- one last time anyway. -- John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.a

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

2004-12-09 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:20:06PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Something I missed. echo 4 >/proc/acpi/sleep indeed does so. Then > what? > You power down? With the button? I reboot with resume=/dev/hda13 in > the > boot cmdline and linux complains about not being shutdown right, > and he

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

2004-12-09 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:10:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>Hi. I have an IBM thinkpad and I installed Debian on it and got a > >>daemon called sleepd -- however it wants a command to actually put the > >>machine to sleep. Its default was apm -s which of course never worked > >>because th

Re: suplusing a disk, how to 'clean' up? Overwriting data?

2004-11-24 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 02:02:57PM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > Just wondering how one can accomplish cleaning > up the disk? I.e. I want to overwrite > the existing disk so that no information can > be recovered. I've heard that dd has it's uses? > Simply recreating file systems is not likely > to

Re: vote: best webmail !

2004-11-05 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:50:04PM +0800, ms linux wrote: > which one is the best webmail ??? I've been looking > for this ... > squirrelmail ? openwebmail ? or ... on my debian unstable box a year or 2 ago, squirrelmail kept breaking (just got stuck sending mail, etc), and it was hard to get it t

Re: [ltp] Problems with automount

2004-11-02 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:22:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is anyone using autofs? For me '--timeout=' option in /etc/auto.master > does not work (ie. I wait, wait and wait and the device is not unmounted). > I'm using Debian and this is what '/etc/init.d/autofs status' gives me: i've

apache2 as caching proxy

2004-10-27 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
i have my apache2 server on debian unstable configured as a forward proxy and as a disk cache. proxy works, but disk cache does not. it never drops any files in the CacheRoot. i know that the disk_cache module is loaded, and that the CacheRoot directive is being read, because removing the LoadMo

Re: Apache2 allocate shared memory!

2004-09-13 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 01:37:44PM +0100, nx13372 wrote: > ii apache2-common 2.0.50-12 Next generation, scalable, extendable > web se > ii apache2-doc2.0.50-12 Documentation for apache2 > ii apache2-mpm-pr 2.0.50-12 Traditional model for Apache2 > > I'm getting: > [Mon Sep 1

Re: Soundblaster Live! 5.1 blacklisted

2004-09-12 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:44:53AM +0300, David Baron wrote: > There is a bug in current kernels / alsa -- you may have to check > this > everytime you boot up. Hope they fix it soon. i've not looked it up, but i think the bug comes from letting hotplug load the sound modules, and they're not ge

Re: Soundblaster Live! 5.1 blacklisted

2004-09-10 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:44:53AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: > >Your configuration looks fine to me. > Well, that's interesting. I have no sound whatsoever out of my > machine. :( > > Any ideas then as to why when the configuration is good I get no > sound? > I

Re: Stopping kernel 2.6/discover loading Alsa and OSS

2004-09-08 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:30:38PM +0100, Mark Cooke wrote: > John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > >i've not used discover, but hotplug may be what's loading your sound > >drivers by their pci device. you may need to blacklist the one you > >don't want automatically

Re: Stopping kernel 2.6/discover loading Alsa and OSS

2004-09-08 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:06:05AM +0100, Mark Cooke wrote: > I just upgraded from 2.4.26 to 2.6.8 from unstable, in the process I > upgraded hotplug, alsa, and discover to version 2, everyhing is > generally fine, apart from when I run the gnome-mixer, it shows a > sigmatel soundcard?? and my S

Re: IBM Compatibility

2004-08-31 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:45:47PM +0200, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote: > I am ordering IBM G40 Thinkpads and would like to know wether they will > work nicely with debian. Googling seems to say that in general ibm > hardware will work painlessly with linux but no definitive answer on > debian or any

Re: use udev

2004-03-27 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 02:32:46PM +0200, Ilkka Lindroos wrote: > I installed 2.6.3 with udev just a couple of days ago, and > everything is workin just fine. I have booted with 2.4 few times, > and no problems there either. i installed it as well, but i had to revert back to the /dev/hda* devic

Re: mozilla-firefox 0.8-5 cant add bookmark

2004-03-22 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:31:34PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Hi list, ever since I upgraded to mozilla-firefox 0.8-5, I cant bookmark any > > page. This is totally reproducible on my box, everytime I click "Bookmark this > > page" on any random page, a warning dialog pops up saying: > > XML

RE: apache won't start although no errors

2004-02-07 Thread John M. Purser
When I was experimenting with Apache it would show up in ps as "httpd" not "Apache". -Original Message- From: Kevin Coyner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: apache won't start although no errors On Sat, Feb 07, 2004

RE: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-24 Thread John M. Purser
Excellent! Thanks for the post. John -Original Message- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:45 PM To: Debian Users List Cc: Antonio Rodriguez Subject: Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:41:33PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wro

RE: The threat to our national security

2004-01-23 Thread John M. Purser
Yep. Kind of amazing. Thanks for the post. -Original Message- From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 5:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SCO: The threat to our national security Sorry if this is old news or already posted and to those burned ou

Re: ALSA and Kernel 2.6

2004-01-12 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:13:57PM +0100, Gregory Soyez wrote: > just installed the kernel 2.6.1 with ALSA support (alsa snd module , PCI > snd_intel8x0 module and all the OSS emulation stuff) as well as the packages > alsa-base and alsa-utils. But when I try to modprobe snd I get > unable to

Re: More 2.6.0 woes

2004-01-10 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 11:41:58AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > Last night I've reported a bug about the evbug issue to > kernel-image-2.6.0-1-686-smp[1] but it still hasn't appeared in the BTS. > You might want to keep an eye on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=kernel-image-2.6.0-1

Re: switching user in X without logging out previous user

2004-01-07 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:40:13PM -0800, Steven Yap wrote: > If you're using Gnome 2.4, there's a "New Login" item in System Tools > under the Application menu item. This will create a new X11 session on a > different virtual terminal, complete with (x|k|g)dm. I uses gdm as my > graphical login

Re: postgres connects to server every 5 minutes

2004-01-06 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:16:24PM +0100, outsider wrote: > After an upgrade from postgres 7.3 to postgres 7.4 I see every 5 minutes > in the /var/syslog messages like > --- > connection: Host=[local] Port= > user=postgres > --- > postgres connects every 5 minutes to each database I have. What is

Re: Fw: 2.6.0, ppp, devfs

2004-01-01 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:07:17PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > On Wednesday 31 December 2003 23:31, Andrew Morton wrote: > > when i modprobe ppp_generic, i get this error in dmesg: > > PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 > > devfs_mk_cdev: could not append to parent for ppp > > failed

Re: menufont in psi

2003-12-08 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:19:55PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I don't have it either, or at least, I can't > find it anywhere. What exactly do I have to look for to get the kde > desktop config app? Please note, that I do not want a full KDE > installation, Psi is the on

Re: menufont in psi

2003-12-08 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 09:12:28AM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > Somebody could tell me how to change the font in menu and dialogs of a > KDE program? I do not use anything of KDE beside psi, which got a hindu > looking font after the last update of my debian sid. Where could I > change that? Ou

Re: Best Current Pratice Postgres upgrade 6.5-->7.2

2003-11-20 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:50:19PM -0800, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > The docs seem to imply that upgrading with this big a jump from > 6.5 to 7.2 is dangerous.even if I do it by hand like so: > > pg_dump mydatabase > dump.mydatabase > destroydb mydatabase > upgrade the database system to 7.2 >

gnome root window (background) image?

2003-11-10 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
what sets the background image in sid's gnome? i set it in the background dialog found under desktop preferences menu, but it never takes affect. i end up resorting to running chbg in session startup programs. i have another machine though that does the background just fine with the one in prefe

RE: HOWTO make a server

2003-10-29 Thread John M. Purser
Good Morning, My Debian box provides DNS, Firewall, and NAT for my home network like I think you're planning to do. The HOWTO's are a great place to start but you need to read (or at least scan) the BIND, IPTABLES, etc. documentation as well and don't forget the README.Debian. Many of the HOWTO'

sid: gnome background not set

2003-10-28 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
using latest gnome and sawfish or metacity in sid, my background image has stopped being set on login. if i check it in the desktop preferences and touch a config, it comes back. what is responsible for doing this? i'd like to file a bug report. -- }John Flinchbaugh{

Re: user-level logrotate?

2003-10-03 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:14:16PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I have a few applications that create log files in my home directory. Is > there a (simple) way to use logrotate as a normal user? simpler than logrotate, there is also savelog(8) for individual logs.. -- }J

Re: Apache dies silently?

2003-09-23 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:00:55PM +0200, j2 wrote: > Sounds familiar, but i cant recollect php or paache being upgrade lately.. > > > more /etc/apt/preferences slightly deeper, i think it was a conflict in the libs used by 2 php modules: pg and imap. i dropped the imap module and i was fine. i

Re: Faked From-Adress with my domain on them

2003-08-27 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:12:24AM +0200, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: > Since there is no reaction to my private mail, I have to do this publicly. > Kevin Mark uses my domain 'waidele.info' in order to fake his from-adress. > I have asked him to stop it, but he still continues. > So once again, Ke

Re: nfs use-once-only?

2003-08-25 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:00:23PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > I was so thrilled to get nfs working (laptop to workstation) for the first > time yesterday. But today I get >mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused > every time. So I tried in the other direction. Set up

RE: Joining a windows domain from behind a debian NAT box

2003-08-18 Thread John M. Purser
I'd like some more details. Are you connecting to the windows domain via vpn? John Purser -Original Message- From: Anand Atreya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Joining a windows domain from behind a debian NAT box Hi, I ha

RE: Samba running under inetd and init.d

2003-08-18 Thread John M. Purser
init.d On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 21:37, John M. Purser wrote: > Good Morning, > > A few days ago I installed Samba on my Woody box. All was well for a couple > of days then smbd stopped running with an error message that said port 139 > was already in use. With help from this group I

RE: What service is using a port? - Solved

2003-08-18 Thread John M. Purser
Thanks Nate. fuser worked perfectly. What it turned out to be was inetd watching the port so it could run samba on demand. Unfortunatly Samba was also in the run level scripts. I installed from the .deb using stable sources so I'm kind of puzzled about how this happened and why it worked at fir

Samba running under inetd and init.d

2003-08-18 Thread John M. Purser
Good Morning, A few days ago I installed Samba on my Woody box. All was well for a couple of days then smbd stopped running with an error message that said port 139 was already in use. With help from this group I tracked down inetd as the culprit and sure enough there were lines to start Samba i

What service is using a port?

2003-08-17 Thread John M. Purser
I apologize. I know this was a thread a while back and I believe it was on this mailing list but now I can't find it. I'm getting this error message from samba: [2003/08/17 12:15:26, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(789) bind failed on port 139 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0. Error = Address already

RE: Name resolution on a dual homed host - Solved

2003-08-14 Thread John M. Purser
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Patterson Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 4:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Name resolution on a dual homed host On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:20:10 +0200, John M. Purser wrote: > I've got a Debian woody box acting as firewall for a small home

Bind Error message: update '1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN' denied

2003-08-14 Thread John M. Purser
Hello, My /var/log/messages has a lot of lines that look like: Aug 12 08:29:55 lan named[244]: client 192.168.1.10#2083: update '1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN' denied Aug 12 08:34:55 lan named[244]: client 192.168.1.10#2094: update '1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN' denied The client involved is my win2k m

RE: test.mydomain.com ???

2003-08-14 Thread John M. Purser
I got similar errors from kde using an internal name. The problem was dns resolution as the dhcp client was over writing my resolv.conf. Bottom line, the place(s) you told your computer to look for addresses didn't come up with one for that name. I'd say you could run your own dns server making

RE: Bind Error message: update '1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN' denied

2003-08-14 Thread John M. Purser
message: update '1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN' denied On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 15:46, John M. Purser wrote: > Hello, > > My /var/log/messages has a lot of lines that look like: > > Aug 12 08:29:55 lan named[244]: client 192.168.1.10#2083: update > '1.168.192.in-addr.arpa

Name resolution on a dual homed host

2003-08-14 Thread John M. Purser
Hello, I've got a Debian woody box acting as firewall for a small home network. It has two ethernet cards with the internal network one being static and the external one configured by DHCP. I use a cable modem for internet connectivity. I'd like the Debian box to use the dns server it's running

RE: Bind9 on Woody - "Bad dotted quad" - Solved

2003-08-14 Thread John M. Purser
In my zone files I wrote the addresses in the "A" records as 192.168.1.41. with a trailing period. I was sure that was right so never questioned it. Removing the last period fixed everything. Thanks to all who replied. John Purser -Original Message----- From: John M. Purser [mai

RE: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)

2003-08-14 Thread John M. Purser
Ooooh! A blanket call for opinions! Finally a letter I'm qualified to respond too! I got on Woody when it was testing because a project I was involved with was using it. We had several people from HP on the project and too a man their Unix was Debian. It was my introduction to Debian. About a

RE: Bind9 on Woody - "Bad dotted quad"

2003-08-03 Thread John M. Purser
x27;ll go back to the documentation again to see what I can see. John Purser -Original Message- From: Richard Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 4:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bind9 on Woody - "Bad dotted quad" On Saturday 02 August 2003 23

Bind9 on Woody - "Bad dotted quad"

2003-08-02 Thread John M. Purser
I've installed the bind9 package and tried to configure it to work with my little internal network. When I start it up I get an error message telling me "bad dotted quad" saying it's from the zone configuration file for my network which uses the 192.168.0 network numbers. When I replace this with

pcmcia not identing cards on boot (2.5/sid)

2003-06-16 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
--SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable i'm running the 2.5 kernels and sid on my laptop, and for probably nearly a month my pcmcia nics have not been recognized correctly on boot. it tries to load memo

Re: Starting Mozilla NOT maximized?

2003-06-14 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:07:20PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > Some time ago, I exited Mozilla (1.3.1, from unstable I think) while=20 it was=20 > maximized. Sinc

Re: Mozilla opens full-screen with Xinerama

2003-05-29 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
--+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:27:39AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:39:49AM -0400, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > > i'm actual

Re: Mozilla opens full-screen with Xinerama

2003-05-29 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
--pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 06:24:54PM -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > Try xfwm as your window manager. It's configurable, light-weight and=20 has > full xinerama suppo

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-03-31 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:25:11PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > equivalent linux program that anyone here knows about / uses? or do i > have to suck it up and do them by hand? my solution has been to use one of the online website-based tax services. i personally have used www.taxact.com for the

temporarily hanging and broken connections on lan

2003-03-22 Thread John M. Adams
a Debian problem. But it started within a day or two of making the switch. Thanks again. -- John M. Adams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Package cleanup following demise of /usr

2003-02-14 Thread John M. Adams
quot;Please stop trying to autoconfigure and deconfigure on the basis of dependency". I have been busy for a day learning all about these things, having read over various manpages many times, but, as a brand-new debian user I would be exceedingly grateful for any advice. Thanks very much,

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-06 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:19:48AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > that LOGINDISABLED seems to mean that normal non-tls auths are > > disabled. i have it listening to imap2 and imaps: > Somehow you seem to have missed the debconf question about enabling > plaintext authentication. > # dpkg-recon

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-05 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
--oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:39:32AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:47:22 -0500 > John M Flinchbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-05 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
i'd like to use squirrelmail, but the only imap implementation i can get to allow it to login is the mailutils-imapd. that server apparently doesn't let me append to the INBOX.Sent, so it always complains about that when i send mail. i'm trying to use uw-imapd now, but it seems to only allow ssl

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-16 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:31:51PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > I presume you mean either in testing or stable? Unstable has... > Package: squirrelmail > Version: 1:1.3.2+1.4.0rc1-1 > ...which is what I've been calling 1.4.0rc1. Maybe doing the same with > v1.3.2 would help? I'm not sure.

Re: changing IPs

2003-01-08 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 04:00:04PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a Pentium 200 MMX running Debian Linux v1.3. The machine has > recently moved and now needs a new fixed IP as it is functioning as a > server. What files need to be modified for this IP change? I have > modified the file

Re: mozilla 1.2 and commandline

2002-12-06 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:45:50PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > This is exactly what they do: they lock the profile so that you can't > start a second Mozilla with the same profile. The problem is more > with file consistency, AFAIK. Profile sharing would need things to > synchronize both instan

Re: What should I do after a power failure?

2002-11-27 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
on the subject of journalled filesystems. i've been using reiserfs. i've noticed that invariably, some files will get corrupted, especially logs. they end up looking like 2 files spliced together. anytime inn doesn't get to shutdown properly, i end up having to rebuild all its history db's, etc,

gnome session unusable after sid update!

2002-11-16 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
has anyone else run into a problem with the gnome session login? with gdm or startx, it gets stuck at the gnome splash screen. it shows no icons for loading programs like usual. logging in with no configs doesn't help either. -- }John Flinchbaugh{__ | [EM

Re: gnome2 + enlightenment

2002-11-05 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:56:59PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Just out of curiosity, does enlightenment otherwise work with Gnome 2? > Is this a major irritant or something fairly minor(I don't quite > understand what you mean)? Do multiple desktops work properly(each is > allowed to have i

broken jabber-1.4.2?

2002-10-22 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
i have jabber 1.4.2 install from source (to more easily facilitate transports), and it's completely broken with the upgrade of libc6 in sid. it segfaults and dumps core when i try to connect, and running it in gdb and backtracing it produces the following: #0 0x40023aaf in __pth_ring_delete () f

dpkg assertion failed

2002-09-24 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
is this a dpkg problem or a problem with my package database? how do i correct it? i know it's happening with dpkg 1.10.[789]. thanks. --- density:/home/john# dpkg --configure -a dpkg: /mount/md0/home/adam/debian/mine/dpkg/v1_10/dpkg-1.10.9/ main/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `depen

gdm dies occasional

2001-04-13 Thread John M. Flinchbaugh
my gdm dies occasionally while i'm logged in. i'll log in, work a bit, logout, and x restarts, but gdm is gone, so it doesn't show the login. i have to kill x, then restart gdm to get it back. it's on a laptop, and i often suspend the machine, instead of shut it down, but i don't see much correl

IMAP and Exim

2001-03-13 Thread John M.
I want to set up an IMAP server, but I don't know what package to get. I currently have Exim working great, it sends and receives mail, but I need access to this mail from home and from several machines, so I don't want to use POP, but IMAP seems to be just what I'm looking for. I'm using woody

Exim and IMAP

2001-03-13 Thread John M.
I want to set up an IMAP server, but I don't know what package to get. I currently have Exim working great, it sends and receives mail, but I need access to this mail from home and from several machines, so I don't want to use POP, but IMAP seems to be just what I'm looking for. I'm using woody a

Re: Dell Q & A & Comments

2001-03-12 Thread John M. Flinchbaugh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:35:53PM -0800, hammack wrote: > Dell has quoted: $2180, INSPIRON 4000, 128MB, 10 GB HD, 850mHZ, XGA, V90 Gold Card Modem, 24 X CR-ROM, with RH 7.0 installed. My thinking is, test drive the RH for a while. then copy all con

broken gnucash in unstable

2001-02-16 Thread John M. Flinchbaugh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 has anyone else managed to get gnucash deb installed in unstable i386? when i try to add it, it immediately removes itself in conflict resolution because it depends upon two packages which ultimately conflict with each other. - --

reconfiguring pcmcia nic when laptop resumes

2001-02-16 Thread John M. Flinchbaugh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i seem to remember months ago, with the linux 2.4pre kernels and debian unstable, dhclient would run anytime the laptop awoke and reconfigured the nic. this was quite convenient since it often awakes on a new network. somewhere along the line, it sto

Re: Cannot bring up lo.

2001-02-14 Thread John M. Flinchbaugh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:59:55AM +, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote: > I have had this error for about 2 days > I can't bring the loopback interface. If I type > '/etc/init.d/networking restart', I get: > Reconfiguring network interfaces: lo: unk

Logging question / PPP session termination problem

1998-01-14 Thread John M. Rulnick
Briefly: Syslogd goes wild when PPP connections terminate, "ppp_dev_stats called" appears ad infinitum in logs. Help? Details: A person connects to my Debian machine via modem, using PPP. When they kill PPP to disconnect, system messages start being generated at a rapid rate. This messa

Re: samba security -- more info?

1997-09-30 Thread John M. Rulnick
Thank you. Actually, I'm wondering if you could point me to the *source* fixes for samba (assuming it is not just a Debian security problem), since the information is to be passed on to a non-Debian sysadmin. John -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

samba security -- more info?

1997-09-29 Thread John M. Rulnick
Dear Folks, If you know about the samba security problem, could you please send me as soon as possible a pointer to more information, or to the (source) patch or fix? Thank you. John -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mai

Re: emacs ispell -- request for bug confirmation

1997-06-24 Thread John M. Rulnick
rnatives). Again, I'd appreciate independent confirmation before I submit any kind of bug report. Thank you. John --- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: 23 Jun 1997 01:04:40 -0400 From: "John M. Rulnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:

emacs ispell

1997-06-23 Thread John M. Rulnick
Using emacs_19.34-11.deb with ispell_3.1.18-11.deb or ispell_3.1.20-0.1.deb, attempting to use any ispell function (for example, M-$) within emacs, I get the message "ispell did not output version line" and the command fails. Strange. So I'd be grateful to anyone who can clue me in to what's

Re: man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)

1997-06-21 Thread John M. Rulnick
Thank you, Christian. Yes, man-db's unspecified dependency on perl appears to be the problem. And so it seems, as BG Lim pointed out (thank you), that this is a small packaging bug. Thanks, folks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . T

man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)

1997-06-19 Thread John M. Rulnick
Summary of problem: -- Installation of the current (bo/1.3) "man" package fails. In particular, with a fresh install of Debian 1.3, both dpkg -i man-db_2.3.10-38.deb and dpkg -i man-db_2.3.10-39.deb yield failed configuration due to failure of /usr/sbin/chmanconfig. Proble

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