Re: fortune bug ?

On 5/31/05, Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 31 May 2005 10:42, Aurélien Campéas wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fortune > > fortune: bad juju in is_existant: Permission denied > > Are you getting that continuously, every time you run it? Because fortune > does throw out "funny

Re: How can I tag Ogg/FLAC files from their discid?

On 5/19/05, Jonathan Melhuish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For various reasons, I need to be able to rip a CD whilst not connected to the > Internet, then tag the files with the correct metadata (from FreeDB) at a > later stage. Try abcde (A Better CD Encoder) You can specify which steps you want

Re: Disabling access to SSH

all users. If the pattern takes the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] then USER and HOST are separately checked, restricting logins to particular users from particular hosts. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant PGP: 0x357D2178 Skype: markmjanssen ICQ: 129696007 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Disabling access to SSH

anisms you can also limit this somewhat in SSH itself: in /etc/ssh/sshd_config AllowUsers I myself use a combination of tcpwrappers, iptables and AllowUsers -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant PGP: 0x357D2178 Skype: markmjanssen

Re: Debian and spam

t; the directory marks the cached info as dirty. I think the bash equivalent is 'hash -r' -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant PGP: 0x357D2178 Skype: markmjanssen ICQ: 129696007 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: On downloading Debian ISOs

t; applications) how many of these do I have to download? Debian is BIG, but you only need a netinst cd-image to get to a point where you can run debian and install the rest via the internet (http/ftp/nfs) With CD1 and 2 you should have more then enough to get a working system -- Mark Jansse

Re: [Debian-User] Security Hole!??

le. Should I complain to the > security team? On system installation there is a question: "Do you want world readable home directories Yes/No" Apparantly the answer to this question was Yes when the system was installed. Files that contain critical information in those homedirs are NOT world-re

Re: Completely OT: European mobile text-messaging

urself, although this could be expensive, best bet is to just SMS from your own mobile phone. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To U

Re: Silly kernel module question

and everything on the line after them are ignored. ipv6 8139too usbmouse mousedev snd snd-cmipci snd-pcm-oss ehci-hcd vmmon # I2C adapter drivers i2c-isa # I2C chip drivers sis5595 it87 -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consul

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

sking them for a tarball of a minimal system. Try the debian-m68k lists... -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

files: ./dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.26-2001-06-14/base2_2.tgz -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

t, changing some files to simulate the 'configure' stage and then chrooting into the chroot, and installing some final packages you need. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|

Re: how to view changelogs?

l apt-listchanges I'll display relevant changelog entries on updated packages -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Rack servers

ot going to use the things linux can sometimes have problems with (3d video accelleration, sound) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl --

Re: Dell 8000 problems -- 4-way split screen

ecify (another) one yourself. I remember something about 'video=vga16', but I could be wrong -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl --

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

order -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Limit a process's CPU usage?

hat keeps the cpu occupied with doing nothing... and give that a low, but higher then seti, priority... Or: Suspend the seti process every 10 seconds... turning it on 15 seconds later... (shellscript should be possible) -- Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Saiko Internet Technologies --

Re: debian 2.0: some intruder broke in

I can use dselect to install again the basic system > and so on > but I found only /dists/debian2.2 but not > /dists/debian2.0 Get a netinst cd, of download the complete iso do a clean re-install restore your data files from backup... (you do have a backup don't you) -- Ma

Reading the mutt manual.txt.gz without the escapes...

he escapes, but 'more' doesn't... try it: zcat manual.txt.gz | more And be happy... at least... somewhat happy... less would be better :) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-

[SOLVED] Re: Changing X resulution (Ctrl-Alt-+/-), only using acommand-line tool ???

On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 05:38, Joey Hess wrote: > Mark Janssen wrote: > > I know I can change the X11 resolution using the Ctrl-Alt-(Numerical+/-) > > buttons. However, on my Happy Hacking keyboard, and my laptop I don't > > have a numerical keypad, and the regular + a

Changing X resulution (Ctrl-Alt-+/-), only using a command-linetool ???

resulution from within an X session. Wine has a tendency to change resolutions sometimes without changing them back on termination... and working in a 640x480 screen with a huge virtual desktop isn't really handy :) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Lin

Re: Two network cards of same type, which eth0, which eth1?

simply loaded the correct module first. THey are detected in PCI order... so the lowest numbered PCI slot first, and then in order. So this depends on your motherboard. In my case they are numbered from low to high in the case. Check your mobo documentation. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.n

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

rev1 CDs and > was wondering if there were any helpful comments or suggestions to any > of the above. On the isolinux prompt enter 'bf24' -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix

Re: HOW DO I: Copy the package list from one machine, and installit on another machine?

: dpkg --put-selections < /tmp/some-file.txt -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: cdrdao CD -> burner question

cdrecord -scanbus' You need scsi emulation for whatever drive you want to use with cdrdao It will work without problems on any decent computer... I use a K6-350 with plextor 12 speed and aopen-dvd reader. Faster writing will need more cpu, but burn-proof or whatever will compensate. -- Mark J

Re: Bogus emails being sent out by me!

ning. Does anyone else see anything of the kind? Probably a spammer using your adress as the reply-to. You can try to trace it back if you get a DSN notice that includes full headers of the original mail... otherwise... you're out of luck. These things are happening more often lately. --

Re: What's the "debian" way to bind multiple IP addresses to asingle NIC???`

whatever interface you may use... I'm on token ring here at work... :( -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: System dies after logging out of an X session - SOLVED

On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 01:18, Marcin Chady wrote: > Disabling dri has done the trick. BTW, I'm not that familiar with dri. What > functionality have I lost by disabling it? Hardware accelerated 3D rendering (opengl) Software rendering takes over this task, but it's a lot slower, so 3d games and pro

Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 09:59, Jean-Marc Chaton wrote: > * Pigeon [Wed, 29/01/2003 at 18:22 +] > > > > British phones had a # key on the keypad for several years before the [snip] > > symbol. They mostly call it "hash" now. > In France, we call it the "sharp" key (dièse in French), coz the sign

Re: `apt-get update` going "E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

; E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > Any hints? 6 other boxes (stable, testing and unstable ones) are not > affected. Put a line like this one in your /etc/apt/apt.conf Adjust the cache-limit if needed. APT::Cache-Limit 1024; -- Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Saiko Internet Tec

Re: On-board lan.

it NIC 3Com 3C940 Gigabit LOM (21X21) 3Com 3C942 Gigabit LOM (31X31) Compaq NC6770 Gigabit Server Adapter Compaq NC7770 Gigabit Server Adapter Compaq NC7780 Gigabit Server Adapter -- Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Saiko Internet Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssl newsreader

naries and quite good for text groups too. It supports SSL. apt-get install pan :) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Open Office 1.0.1 problem under testing

nOffice.org (Austria) openoffice.org-spellcheck-de-ch - German spellchecking for OpenOffice.org (Switzerland) openoffice.org-spellcheck-de-de - German spellchecking for OpenOffice.org (Germany) -- Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Saiko Internet Technologies -- To UN

Re: did any one know sis305 agp is what chipset in xfree86 4?

the XFree driver with one from that website. -- Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Saiko Internet Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Is it possible to switch these processors?

net to find out info on motherboards, monitors, etc., if the OEM > is no longer in business or around. Easy... open the case... if you see a socket that says 'Socket 5' or 'Socket 7' that's it.. If you see a large cartridge... it's slot-1. -- Mark Janssen &l

Re: Secret APT commands?

and. You guys have any ideas? Thanks! There's a nice secret apt-get command :) $ apt-get moo -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To U

Re: Power Point reader

re (binary only) viewers for all their office formats. -- Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Saiko Internet Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remove definitivly a package

** Try the following: # touch /etc/webmin/webmin.acl # apt-get remove --purge webmin-qmailadmin -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To

Re: Interested.

bian. This is however not recommended for newbies and for servers. Or read up on apt-pinning and install a few select packages from the unstable tree. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.N

Re: none

ad the images from cdimage.debian.org. You need the debian 3.0 cd images for the i386 platform (unless you're running a MAC or other architecture) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-G

Re: Wish us all luck...

.shtml There are patches, new drivers and lots of documentation. This guy also patched the sis driver in the xfree 4.1/4.2 you're using, since the original sis driver from sis itself didn't work on many cards. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linu

Re: OT: change toolbar colours (in galeon)

background. Is this a more gnome-specific setting? Galeon is a GTK application, so it's look should follow whatever you have for a GTK theme. I've seen a mozilla look theme around on t.o, I suggest you look there. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix /

Re: xv?

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 17:11, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Is there a policy reason why there is no xv package, or is it just that no > one has bothered to package it? AFAIK it's non free, (shareware) and not allowing modification and/or binary distribution. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(a

Re: No DHCPOFFERS received

On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:45, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Mark Janssen heeft geschreven: > >Change /etc/network/interfaces, and change the config there (see man > >interfaces) > > > >It should look something like this: > > > >interface eth0 inet static > >

Re: No DHCPOFFERS received

.x.x.x network x.x.x.x netmask 255.255.255.0 -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: USB hard drive on linux

drives, they are lot's faster :) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: [Help] Maildir with Quota

y to create a seperate partition to store all the Maildirs on, and putting quota's on there. Then symlink all the user's maildirs to the new location. I don't use this method myself, since I store the maildirs on a non-shell server that has quota support built into the imap/po

Re: Restricted / Secure VI (or vi-alike editor)

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 18:05, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mark> Most importantly is the 'only editing files specified on the > Mark> commandline' and 'no shell esca

Restricted / Secure VI (or vi-alike editor)

he files listed on the command line (so osh can determine your access rights to them) and won't allow shelling out. Most importantly is the 'only editing files specified on the commandline' and 'no shell escapes whatsoever'. This way we can use this 'vi' versio

Re: Generating new host keys?

Help? > > I think I just hit the enter key when it prompted for password. ssh-keygen -N "" That skips the passphrase question... :) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl

Re: Real Player

al's site anymore. > Any suggestions on how to run this on sid? It's still there... but they made it practically impossible to find it, and you can't 'navigate' to it... you need this link: http://scopes.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html -- Mark Janssen -- mania

Re: 2.2 vs 2.4 kernels

usively for over a year, surely most > of the bugs have been shaken out? No they haven't... and what's wrong with choice ;) You can always select the 2.4 kernel from the boot/install-cd so what is the problem. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix /

Re: Aladdin eToken Pro + Linux

ive driver. Have you checked /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap if it contains an entry with the above vendor and product id. If not, try adding a usb-storage line using these id's (0x529 and 0x50c) Then restart the hotplug system and reinsert the usb device... -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl

Re: Aladdin eToken Pro + Linux

how i can use the USB token with > linux? AFAIK you need to issue a 'modprobe usb-storage' or 'modprobe usb_storage' That should solve your problems ;) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @

Re: How many files can be put in one directory?

files (directory entries) are placed in i-nodes. There is a limited number of space in these i-nodes, when it fils up there will be pointers to new i-nodes that contain more files for this directory. The more files... the slower accessing them gets... -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG

Re: OGG wont do

eptable) and gave me a huge space saving (192+k/sec -> 40-50k/sec) I however do NOT recommend you do this with music or sounds you want to keep in a High Quality (just re-record from the original source, if available) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linu

Re: apt-get source

quot;packagename hold" | dpkg --set-selections example: # echo "ssh hold" | dpkg --set-selections $ dpkg --get-selections | grep ssh ssh hold -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ Sy

Re: su to a specific system account without input password

On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 13:28, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > I'd like some of the user accounts to su "mysql" without input any > password. Is it possible? How? Use sudo... that's better suited for it... www.sudo.ws apt-get install sudo -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl

Re: grub Q

can mail it if you want... :) Or download it from your favorite mirror. www.cygwin.org -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Handspring Visor (PalmOS, USB) sync'ing w/ Evolution?

ar 7 16:02 . drwxr-x--- 81 maniac maniac 4096 Jun 12 13:00 .. crwx--1 maniac maniac 188, 0 Mar 7 15:04 0 crwx--1 maniac maniac 188, 1 Mar 7 16:03 1 lrwxrwxrwx1 maniac maniac 1 Mar 30 16:32 pilotsync -> 1 -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl

Re: Writing a book with sgml

share/doc/linuxdoc-tools/example/* Includes samples using eps images -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: VmWare on Woody

ext reboot. Hi, Could you send me these required changes... :) I currently have to re-run vmware-config every time I reboot... which is quite a lot on my laptop. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT

Re: Beginning to try to secure my box.

ove the portmapper and nfs. These are all only needed for NFS (and rpc, which is used (omong other things) by nfs). You can just add "exit 0" to the beginning of the /etc/init.d/portmap and nfs-* files to disable them. (Or remove relevant packages) Also check your /etc/inetd.conf Most s

Re: What's murhpy.debian.org doing in my firewall logs ?

user myself, I can say that this is the default xs4all > > setup if you are using batch-smtp. > > > > You could ask xs4all to remove the bolderman entry, but I don't think > > they will do that. So either request the xs4all helpdesk, or live with > > it. > &

Re: What's murhpy.debian.org doing in my firewall logs ?

P.s. zet je reply-to goed. Deze staat namelijk op [EMAIL PROTECTED] en dat is geen geldig adres... dus moet ik iedere keer .xs4all.nl er achter typen... Mark -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT

Re: What's murhpy.debian.org doing in my firewall logs ?

lderman.xs4all.nl MX 10 bolderman.xs4all.nl > > bolderman.xs4all.nl MX 100 mx1.xs4all.nl As an xs4all user myself, I can say that this is the default xs4all setup if you are using batch-smtp. You could ask xs4all to remove the bolderman entry, but I don't think th

Re: Converting mbox -> maildir

#x27;s, but it works, i've converted serveral large mboxes with it to maildirs. http://www.google.com/search?q=mbox2maildir http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/mb2md/ http://untroubled.org/mbox2maildir -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Sou

Re: vmware problem

ibs or whereever you want it to be. -rwxr-xr-x1 maniac maniac1170812 Feb 4 08:03 libc-2.2.5.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 maniac maniac 13 Apr 7 23:57 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.5.so -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Co

Re: [2002-04-30] Release Status Update

language select screen when running with framebuffer. I assume this is a requirement for these languages, since those chars are not in US-ASCII :) -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God

Re: Unidentified subject!

then "apt-get > update" and "apt-get upgrade"? Anything else? > > "Why not do an upgrade via ftp/http?" you might ask. > Coz I don't have a reliable Internet connection at > this time. I only have CDs. Yep, insert cd-rom, issue "apt-cdrom add&q

Re: which pkg contains that file

ayalan Also 'nano' is a PICO compatible editor... apt-get install nano -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: which pkg contains that file

; Dayalan AFAIK pico isn't packaged, since it is not DFSG free software. Apt-cache search will usually find what you need. Pico might be found in the pine(4)-src package. -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @

Re: Machine not freeing Cached Memory?

On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 13:13, Paul Sargent wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:09:35PM +0100, Mark Janssen wrote: > > The Linux VM prefers to swap stuff out, instead of clearing the cache. > > Lot's of stuff can safely be swapped out, > > Agreed, sleeping processes and

Re: Machine not freeing Cached Memory?

would otherwise be swapped. So don't worry... it's normal behaviour... (the 40 MB that was swapped was probably unaccessed for some long time... If it would be accessed often the kernel would have reduced the cache.) -- Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Cons

Re: ssh and X forwarding

your loopback interface and try again, if it still doesn't work, send more mail (with good content and error msgs, like this one :) ) > It looks as if ssh is trying to do the X forwarding and is setting > DISPLAY correctly. But something else is wrong. Bingo :) -- Mark JanssenUn

Re: fn keys in FX270

etween lcd and vga'. Your volume and eject buttons might just be hardwired to the volume control and the cd's eject function. The eject might not work if mounted, because it's locked then :) -- Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: m

Re: External USB hard disks?

ls for backups and kernel/application sources. -- Mark JanssenUnix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nlGnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 WWW Maniac.nl Unix-God.[Net|Org] MarkJanssen.[com|net|org|nl] SyConOS.[com|nl] -- To U

Re: External USB hard disks?

you have a preferred firewire card? My laptop has built-in firewire, but your best guess is any card that has the Texas Instruments chipset. So look for the Ti logo on the card before buying it. Most firewire cards are becoming quite cheap. I've seen as low as EUR 40. -- Mark Janssen

Re: Update shouldn't nuke XF86Config-4

is) is: "Do you want debconf to manage your /etc/X11/XF86config-4 file" Answering NO should do the trick here. I told debconf no on that question (since I have a highly tweaked config file and unofficial SiS drivers for my laptop) and everything worked just great after the upgrade, s

Re: External USB hard disks?

rth knowing. I think I'll search for a USB1 device for my production > machine :-) Thanks! You'd better go for firewire then. I have the maxtor firewire 80 GB. It works like a charm in both linux and windows... it's faster than USB1 (and 2)... and it work with a standard 2.4 kerne

Re: Linux equivalent of CloneCD?

.. Raw copies of anything :) It even knows about cue files... apt-get install cdrdao -- Mark JanssenUnix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nlGnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 WWW Maniac.nl Unix-God.[Net|Org] MarkJanssen

Re: Utility to convert videos

technically a requirement)? Transcode... don't ask me how it works... -- Mark JanssenUnix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nlGnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 WWW Maniac.nl Unix-God.[Net|Org] MarkJanssen.[com|net|org|n

Re: Updating woody-isolinux.iso using rsync?

ini-cd woody last week... but try: rsync so rsync people.debian.org:~hertzog/debian-cd/woody-isolinux.iso . (If that is the correct path, and it is indeed rsync-able...) -- Mark JanssenUnix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)mani

Re: Nosy ftp users

emove ftp alltogether, replace it with a http server, limited to the tree of files you want accessable... More then enough choices... -- Mark JanssenUnix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nlGnuPG Key Id: 357D217

Re: Woody not ready, methinks

woody is very near, and could be released any day now, the new boot-floppies work perfectly. I think you should check md5sums of files you download, or maybe use a better downloading system, like rsync. -- Mark JanssenUnix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at

Re: How to set up apt-get to use connect through a proxy

On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 11:17, James D. wrote: > Hi, > I've just succeeded installing woody on my new Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop (it > took me 4 days!!! because i've just switched to debian). I often bring my > laptop to work in the library, but i don't know how to make debian connect to > the Inte

Re: debian

On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 10:41, Pat Colbeck wrote: > I think its deb-ian as it was the names of the people who started it ie > Deborah and Ian. > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 01:47:55AM -0600, fti International wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > A basic question, what is the right pronunciation of "Debian"? >

Re: Daylight saving troubles

It could be handy to run NTP (if you have a 24/7 internet connection). I'm syncing my time on ntp[0|1|2].nl.uu.net -- Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nl GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Web: Maniac

Re: kernel panic

inue booting. After getting it up and running fix your lilo (or grub) configfile and reinstall lilo. -- Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nl GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Web: Maniac.nl Unix-God.[Net|Org] MarkJanssen.[com|net|org|nl] SyConOS.[com|nl]

Re: Galeon PSM

personal security manager". It's needed for HTTPS websites. apt-get install mozilla-psm :) -- Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nl GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Web: Maniac.nl Unix-God.[Net|Org] MarkJanssen.[com|net|org|nl] SyConOS.[com|nl]

Re: What's worng with ALSA???

d others) work just as well... I've been playing mpegs / mp3's and qt's for ages, never had problems with it. Mark Janssen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: dpkg - the letter prefixes.. what do they mean

On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 08:40, Harry Putnam wrote: > dpkg -l '*desk*' shows a series of hits, all are preceded by > `un' > > dpkg -l 'gnome*' shows a number of things some are proceeded by > ii and some by un. > > Where does on look to find out what these letters mean. I went thru > man dpkg sev

Re: SiS 6263 PCI card setup

Sorry, this mail got delayed... On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 15:44, David Shepherd wrote: > I need some help setting up a SiS 6236 PCI graphics card on my elderly Potato > box. > Has anyone got one of these working with XFree 3.3.6? > > I want to know if its possible to change the IRQ that the SiS c

Re: main conf file

sucks). If you don't want something started then you can probably tell dpkg to only install it, and not yet configure it (man dpkg, man apt*) or just shut it down after installing (man update-rc). -- Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mar

Re: Less and .gz files

d files, and even display something reasonable for graphics files. -- Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nl GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Web: Maniac.nl Unix-God.[Net|Org] MarkJanssen.[com|net|org|nl] SyConOS.[com|nl]

Re: 486SX success whit slink.

tall some other MBR over it (You always need something in there, or booting won't work.) The MBR choices you have debian-mbr lilo grub windows/dos mbr (bad) Take your pick :) -- Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E

Massive abuse from various Yahoo Groups to Debian Lists

PROTECTED] There have been others... but I had allready deleted these mails If it would be possible for you to make it impossible that e-mail adresses at host lists.debian.org be subscribed to yahoogroups.com lists it would make us realy happy. Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet

Re: 486 SX

On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 19:16, Gerard Robin wrote: hello, I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) before they go to the rubbish. It will be a really painful and slow task... but it'll work... provided they have some decent a

Re: Installing Debian over Network with the e100-driver

se reiser disks.. they were mentioned somewhere last week. Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nl GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Web: Maniac.nl Unix-God.[Net|Org] MarkJanssen.[com|net|org|nl] SyConOS.[com|nl]

Re: emergency shutdown?

t. Just boot from floppy then. >From DOS/WIN32 rawrite rescue.bin a: >From Unix/Linux dd if=rescue.bin of=/dev/fd0 Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nl GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Web: Mani

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