/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: 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

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 p

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

loopback absent in routing table

2002-05-18 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. We h

Motherboard/Mainboard+Athlon chip

2002-02-22 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
I'm in the market for a new computer and plan to run potato. The last time I bought a box for linux, I bought a cheap system and found the on-board sound & video chipsets weren't supported. This time, sound and video are non-issues -- the system will act as a personal server more than a workstati

Re: pdf editor ?

2001-03-19 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:40:35AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Not sure there's literally such a thing as a "PDF Editor"; Acrobat > doesn't let you do much with an existing PDF file. But if you're looking > to *create* PDF files, that you can do with ps2pdf, dvipdf, pdflatex, > ... - it depends o

Borland's JBuilder & O'Reilly's _Learning_Java_

2001-03-17 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
Dear All: Has anyone installed and run Borland's JBuilder 4.0 or 3.5 on a potato system (not as root) successfully? Version 3.5 comes on a CD with O'Reilley's _Learning_Java_. I installed it using an IBM JVM (below for version). Install went well, but it died with an error (below for verbose o

Seti At Home & gethostbyname

2001-03-17 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
Dear All: I'm having a problem with tkseti &/or setiathome. It's been AGES since I ran the client, and I actually think i upgraded to potato since i last started. I started it back up and have finished a unit. Unfortunately, sending a result doesn't seem to work. Error message: Sending result

Re: Anacron schedule

2001-03-05 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
Thank you, Erdmut. This is much help -- indeed, the solution! Many thanks, judith On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:23:27AM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: > > I think what you are looking for is /etc/cron.d and the files therein. > Typically, when anacron is installed, there is a file /etc/cron.d/ana

Re: Anacron schedule

2001-03-05 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
Thanks for solving my problem, Mike! Change /etc/cron.d/anacron to change when anacron is run regularly. On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 06:01:45PM -0500, mike polniak wrote: > > The cron daemon uses the files in /etc/cron.d as an extension of > /etc/crontab. So /etc/cron.d/anacron runs /usr

Re: Anacron schedule

2001-03-05 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
To recap, I am trying to find out where anacron is instructed to run at 7 am(ish) every morning so that i may change it to 5 am. Thanks for any help, judith In response to a listing of suggested places to look, I document the parts of anacron i now understand: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:50:20

Re: Anacron schedule

2001-03-05 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:13:57PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > oops, sorry, I guess you already knew that. > That's what I get for reading too fast. > Oops, on my part, too! judith

Re: Anacron schedule

2001-03-05 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:10:56PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:58:10 -0600, Judith Elaine Bush said: > > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:12:33PM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: > > > > > > as there is /etc/crontab for cron, there is a

Re: Anacron schedule

2001-03-05 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:12:33PM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: > > as there is /etc/crontab for cron, there is a /etc/anacrontab for anacron. Indeed. Except the /etc/anacron specifies frequency (how many days apart should something be done) and delay (how long after anacron is invoked shoud some

Anacron schedule

2001-03-05 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
I've edited /etc/crontab to change the time (ana)cron runs its daily, weekly, and monthly scripts. They still seem to run after 7 am and not at 5:25. The system has been rebooted since the crontab change (not my fault!), so any and all daemons have been restrted since the change. I am a little c

Re: Bizarre Clock Problem

1999-08-15 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
I have three identical new thin clients with as identical a set-up as i can manage to create -- and one shows this problem. It's particularly annoying as i had the system set to reboot at a certain time every day (mainly to clean up any flakiness from Netscape) -- and the system would set itself

Debian hardware vendors

1999-05-28 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
Does anyone know of a list of hardware vendors who are experienced in installing Debian into the systems they package? Has anyone had good experience they'd like to share? My recent experience has been so-so, (although the complications aren't entirely due to the vendor's lack of familiarity with

debian-user@lists.debian.org

1999-05-24 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
*- On 23 May, Fethi A. Okyar wrote about "netscape menubar black&white" Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > Don't run your X server in 24bpp mode. Netscape has a known problem > with 24bpp, use 16bpp or 32bpp. Other than the icons being in b&w (and i like the reduced visual clutter) is