Re: Printing a web page shrunk to a single page

2009-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:41:39 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: > I want to print a web page (a conference that I want to hang in uni) in one > page. I can see it on screen as one page (landscape) but when I want to print > it the right side is cut out. zooming the page doesn't seem to help as the > width

Re: SATA support

2007-07-21 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:29:23 -0500 Dustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How complicated is it to use a Dual-layer burner? I > appologize, I would gladly test it on my own, but I don't have the > hardware to find out, and buying it just to find out it isn't working > kind of defeats the purpose

Re: Anybody know the program to splitt big mpeg to smaller mpeg?

2006-11-28 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:04:33 +0700 Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anybody know the program to splitt big mpeg to smaller mpeg? try the mpgtx package. > > ------ Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: yikes

2006-10-29 Thread Shawn Lamson
owever, given that I have an > ati card, I found the right package, and installed it via aptitude > (xserver-xorg-video-ati). Now, for some reason, I've got a plug icon > letting me know that my computer is running on ac power. Hmm. the joy of running testing/unstable :) > &

Re: How to control display position?

2006-10-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
e > control the position of the display in the screen? > > you can try xvidtune ... read up a little on it first as technically i guess you can damage your monitor with it. -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:00:22 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:15:03PM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > > > from http://www.debian.org/security/ > > > > You can use apt to easily get the latest security updates.

Re: apt-get question?

2006-07-02 Thread Shawn Lamson
es ... do #dpkg -i ./filename > > -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread Shawn Lamson
ist file. you got it right the first time :) > > deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free > > Thanks a lot, > > > Alejandro > > -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xorg upgrade: xdm fails, xterm can't change fonts?

2006-04-29 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:25:32 + Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > but it seems from an strace of xterm that /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color > > is no longer checked... I looked through the last 30 days of packag

Re: Xorg upgrade: xdm fails, xterm can't change fonts?

2006-04-28 Thread Shawn Lamson
/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color is no longer checked... I looked through the last 30 days of package changelogs and didn't see this noted... bug report time? -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Outsider's observation upon the pros and cons of Debian

2006-03-12 Thread Shawn Lamson
ing around" with other OS's .. in fact if I really wanted to try something else it would be BSD ... maybe I gave you something to think about here - maybe not - but i figured i'd chime in. -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DHCP problem following Etch upgrade

2006-02-21 Thread Shawn Lamson
een a problem to date, and am not quite sure what the difference is. > > As a follow-up, I've tried replacing dhcp-client with dhcp3-client, and > the same problem is still arising. > > have you tried the dhcpcd package? -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: about tar works O.T.

2006-02-14 Thread Shawn Lamson
rchive1.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 slamson slamson 51200 2006-02-14 09:29 archive2.tar i'm sure it isn't related to his problem... -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't use default kernel's sb16 module

2006-02-14 Thread Shawn Lamson
of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Routing problem

2006-02-14 Thread Shawn Lamson
ay. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/firewall-examples.html#RC.FIREWALL-IPTABLES AFAIK it doesn't just forward packets by default... i haven't used a linux box for NAT since kernel 2.4 though. -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: your mail - Matrox video card help on Alpha

2006-02-09 Thread Shawn Lamson
n. A single specific screen section # may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen" # option. Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" Device "rosewill gf 6600" Monitor "Sceptre" DefaultDepth 24 >

Re: _some_ DVDs won't play

2006-02-09 Thread Shawn Lamson
whether or not the replacement set was from the same seller on Amazon). > > But there's still a small chance that it could just be bad disks anyway. > > have you tried anything besides xine? maybe vlc or mplayer? vlc is a pretty easy install, #apt-get install vlc > >

Re: ls defaults...

2006-02-08 Thread Shawn Lamson
ing (in my current xterm)... i'd say check your locales, mine seemed to have changed too. > > A > > > > > Regards, > > DigbyT > > -- > > Digby R. S. Tarvin > > digbyt(at)digbyt.com > > http://www.digbyt.com > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrom scsi problem

2006-02-08 Thread Shawn Lamson
bably won't do what you want, if dvd/cd writing is what you want... you will probably be in the position of putting ATAPI in front of your drive spec in cd writing apps or using a modified x-cdroast app... for example I now do #cdrdao --device ATAPI:0,0 to indicate my non-scsi cdrom device whe

Re: Disk checks on restart

2006-02-08 Thread Shawn Lamson
. P.S. your mailer didn't add an X-Mailing-List header so you got a direct reply as well as one to the group. > > Tony Heal > Pace Systems Group, Inc. > 800-624-5999 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with X window system

2006-02-07 Thread Shawn Lamson
xserverrc: /usr/bin/X: No such file or > >directory and some similiar code. > > > > > Try "apt-get install x-window-system". if that doesn't work , you can try x11-common ... not sure which is applicable on 3.0 anymore... i think that is the one for "

Re: vi trying to connect to X

2006-02-05 Thread Shawn Lamson
ve you restarted X recently? If not, try it... i had similar issues using icewm (a window manager similar to KDE) after some upgrades. HTH, Shawn -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: moving phpbb2 to a new server

2006-02-05 Thread Shawn Lamson
addition to the phpbb database backup... i have done this successfully once before but i had the same version of php and mysql on both machines... that made it pretty simple. good luck. -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

problem with rbash and su

2006-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
Version: 3.1-2 Pretty easy for anyone to set this up and test... or am i missing something? Thanks -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem pinging my own IP address

2006-01-14 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:27:38 -0500 Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I am having a problem pinging my own IP address. I am on a cable modem > (DHCP). > > Kernel 2.6.8-2-386 > > > below is netstat, a ping of 2 addresses in my range, fo

problem pinging my own IP address

2005-11-28 Thread Shawn Lamson
(remote) systems fine, also is pingable on the local network. I can ping it and ssh into it, etc. but not from itself. I did try searching google and the debian-list-archives but didn't see much on this. I did find that the errors to ld.so.nohwcap and ld.so.preload are meaningless. Any h

problem

2005-11-28 Thread Shawn Lamson
(remote) systems fine, also is pingable on the local network. I can ping it and ssh into it, etc. but not from itself. I did try searching google and the debian-list-archives but didn't see much on this. I did find that the errors to ld.so.nohwcap and ld.so.preload are meaningless. Any h

interpreting output of SNORT

2004-07-31 Thread Shawn Lamson
2 ICMP Destination Unreachable (Communication Administratively Prohibited) 2 65.212.179.1-> 138.89.107.88 Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: mounting floppy with fs auto doest recognize vfat

2004-06-26 Thread Shawn Lamson
-t auto in the mount command? According to the man page it will read the superblock and/or compare with /proc/filesystems... Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dpkg mysql 4.0.18 and subqueries

2004-05-18 Thread Shawn Lamson
erver independently with ease or is there a newer version upstream being released soon? Thanks for any info. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What e-commerce with debian ?

2004-03-28 Thread Shawn Lamson
ian.org > aboutdebian.com >-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFAZwRMUzgNqloQMwcRAkKiAKCuWUa5P2PLndM3P+ISgDKWcAMJVQCePPAb >Vf2cNgsOubILw+mUQct9oiA= >=ln/j >-END PGP SIGNATURE- > > Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Phone dialer for Linux

2004-02-07 Thread Shawn Lamson
aren't sure. Let me know what happens as once I take my box down and throw in a serial port I plan to do this as well (this has been my plan for about 18 months) if it goes well for you I will *finally* get to it though! Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Thu, February 05 at 2:37 AM EST Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mit, 2004-02-04 at 18:19, Shawn Lamson wrote: > >> Can you copy the output of >> #locale -a >> and >> #locale >> for us? >> Also I am no expert in locales but

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Wed, February 04 at 6:07 PM EST Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mit, 2004-02-04 at 16:04, Shawn Lamson wrote: > >> You could try starting OO from a shell where you are exporting the >> locale. I would check the output of locale to see what it

Re: can't see files while ssh'd as root?

2004-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
to the box as root? > >Thanks >Kylie are you using # ls -a ? Which files can't you see? Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
xport LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" openoffice and it was still okay opening utf8 encoded files and rendering umlauts. I think you can also do LANG="en_US.utf8" or whichever encoding is appropriate for you and is in the output of locale -a. Also in OO under Tools>Options there is a Languag

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice

2004-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" openoffice and it was still okay opening utf8 encoded files and rendering umlauts. Also in OO under Tools>Options there is a Language setting - again mine is set to "Default" and it is okay - maybe you have something other specified? HTH and sorry i

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-01 Thread Shawn Lamson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ convert 071699s.jpg 071699s.pnm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ display 071699s.pnm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ file 071699s.pnm 071699s.pnm: Netpbm PPM "rawbits" image data [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ file 071699s.* 071699s.jpg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.02 071699s.p

Re: hdb: driver not present

2003-12-15 Thread Shawn Lamson
n mind if the CD-RW is the on IDE-0 as slave it is probably identified as hdb... you can run #dmesg | less to read what is identified on the IDE controllers. CD-RW have to use scsi interface drivers. Perhaps the Seagate is on IDE-1 as master and would be hdc? Also run #lsmod | less to see whi

Re: Timesheet for period ending 12-12-03

2003-12-15 Thread Shawn Lamson
ems/timesheet.html > Bill Lumberg also wants to remind everyone that if they worked on two or more job codes to use the new timesheets. Be aware that TPS reports must also be filed in triplicate. If anyone needs a copy of that memo he will send it out. P.S. Peter we will be working

Re: can't logout on consoles

2003-12-14 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, December 14 at 10:44 PM EST Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello - > >Recently I have experienced that when logging out on a console the >message "logout" appears and the session hangs there. The screen >accepts keypresses and I can CTRL+ALT+F7 ba

can't logout on consoles

2003-12-14 Thread Shawn Lamson
uot;logout" for all users, including root. I don't recall this being related to any upgrade. Anyone have a clue for me? TIA Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: icewm log out problem.

2003-12-03 Thread Shawn Lamson
ox. If it is just killing X then you may need to add the Option "DontZap" to XF86Config-4 in the server or monitor section... see the manpage for XF86Config-4 for details. I copied this to icewm mailing list as well. HTH, Shawn > >Thanx. > > Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Poll: who's apt-get upgraded sid this week?

2003-11-27 Thread Shawn Lamson
;m continuing to run aptitude ~daily, but my mirror hasn't seen any >updates since the compromise. > Likewise. Did you install any new (to your system) packages... I did apt-get install -s and it looked like it would work but I didn't actually install anything, will wait 't

Re: usb mouse

2003-11-25 Thread Shawn Lamson
ed keybdev for a >mouse anyway?! > >Thanks... > I was able to get mine working with the steps here: http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html under HID mouse configuration. HTH, Shawn >= >--- >Simon Tod >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-25 Thread Shawn Lamson
137.218). - connec > >I would think that box would be redundant ? > >am I wrong? > > >Thanks >red > > I am getting the same from security.debian.org Err http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main Packages Could not connect to security.debian.org:80 (194.109

Re: Flash and Java in mozilla-firebird ?

2003-09-19 Thread Shawn Lamson
EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ l /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/plugins/*java* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 63 Sep 14 01:09 /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so ->/usr/lib/j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Verizon DSL success?

2003-09-06 Thread Shawn Lamson
or 2 years with rp-pppoe, kernel mode for the last year (kernel 2.4 and above i think). See http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/ Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

2003-08-14 Thread Shawn Lamson
ngly everyone needs to see the >answer to, like the following: I don't consider it off topic. If it is going to affect me using debian it belongs on debian-user. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can I get VNC to start a Gnome session?

2003-08-09 Thread Shawn Lamson
gnome-panel & #start Gnome gnome-wm & I really don't know the actualy executables - probably you do. You might also have to do something about gpm in there. HTH, Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 - look for the line STARTUP=$HOME/.xsession in /etc/X11/Xsession -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Lilo Problems OT

2003-08-08 Thread Shawn Lamson
a user to*easily* set a Mail-Followup_To: header. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Utility to lookup hosts on an IP address

2003-08-03 Thread Shawn Lamson
ROTECTED]:# dpkg -S $(which resolveip) mysql-server: /usr/bin/resolveip resolveip - but it is part of the mysql-server package. You can get the same info from traceroute, nmap, often ping will show you a domain name... there is another of which the name escapes me just now. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROT

Re: Partition sharing

2003-08-03 Thread Shawn Lamson
into problems. I am sure someone will post specific problems for you :0 My two cents, Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: restarting wget?

2003-08-03 Thread Shawn Lamson
d that it was redownloading but it may just have been checking the sizes of the files already existing in the dirs in question. This option works great for large files but if you are dealing with a large number of small files it is probably just as quick to start over, who knows? HTH Shawn Lamson

Re: Is there's a way to put the sidebar of mozilla on the right?

2003-08-03 Thread Shawn Lamson
Not sure about versioning and stuff - but this is at http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html and belongs in userChrome.css <--start sample code--> /* Place the sidebar on the right edge of the window */ window > hbox { direction:rtl; } window > hbox > * { direction:ltr; } <-

Re: Doesn't MY_ENV=abc printf "${MY_ENV}\n" suppose to print abc?

2003-08-03 Thread Shawn Lamson
TECTED]:~$ (MY_ENV=abc && printf "x${MY_ENV}\n") xabc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo x$MY_ENV x [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ The parens make a subshell which is the "new environment" I assume the the man page is talking about, right? Thank you, Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: script to run at boot

2003-08-01 Thread Shawn Lamson
.local 5)update-rc.d rc.local start 99 2 . yes a period at the end I think this will put it in /etc/rc2.d as S99rc.local but you may need to read the update-rc.d man page as I am not an expert on it. HTH Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: "eject" command only works for root

2003-07-31 Thread Shawn Lamson
>Common users can mount/unmount the drive - this is from /etc/fstab: > > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 > > 0 > >So I'm perplexed as to what is preventing common users from being able >to open the drive with the "eject"

Re: sudo doesn't work

2003-07-29 Thread Shawn Lamson
#x27;s not what it's supposed to do :/ > >now where's the bug? I note that two different commands are referenced... maybe an oversight? /usr/courier/bin/maildirmake /usr/local/bin/maildirmake maybe if you path it out explicity in sudoers? HTH Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cannot Connect to some website on linux

2003-07-28 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Mon, July 28 at 1:20 PM EDT Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Monday 28 July 2003 12:13, Shawn Lamson wrote: >> Could one of you briefly describe ECN and/or point me to a link? I >> have never heard of it. > >It's described in RFC 3168: > >htt

Re: Cannot Connect to some website on linux

2003-07-28 Thread Shawn Lamson
lt;--SNIPPED--> ... >Well, overall ECN is a great way to make the Internet "self-regulate" >and of course the biggest obstacle is M$ products. But for quite a >while yet, defaulting it to OFF is a good thing. Could one of you briefly describe ECN and/or point me to a link? I have never heard of it. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: automount permissions problem

2003-07-26 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, July 27 at 12:51 AM EDT Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Shawn Lamson wrote: > >> On Sat, July 26 at 5:49 PM EDT >> Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[AutoFS problem] > >> I don't use automount but to get proper permi

Re: automount permissions problem

2003-07-26 Thread Shawn Lamson
/mnt/win98 vfatdefaults,gid=6,umask=002 then as long as I am in group 6 ( disk on my box ) I have read access... The key is the umask portion and equates to permissions of 775 or rwxrwxr-x in case you aren't familiar with umask. HTH, Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Including tulip drivers in a new kernel

2003-07-25 Thread Shawn Lamson
elieve you should add alias eth1 tulip to /etc/modutils/aliases and then update-modules... but as I say I have a "monolithic" kernel so I do not practice this system and you should read for yourself. You could also do insmod tulip to load the module, I think... Shawn > >On Thursday,

Re: incomplete shutdown?

2003-07-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
be the ones killing the processes. I would log in as root again, manually kill them, then shutdown -h now or shutdown -r now. Hopefully they won't restart on boot and you won't have that problem again. I think a preferred way is to rename the gdm to gdm.old in /etc/inittab and then #upda

Re: cron, won't change time !

2003-07-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
for anachron. Edit the file /etc/cron.d/anachron... to me this system is doubled up and I would comment out the lines in the system wide crontab - maybe this is wrong and someone can point out why? Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla 1.4-2 and bookmark folders

2003-07-17 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Fri, July 18 at 12:27 AM EDT Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is anyone besides me having trouble creating new folders or moving >bookmarks around? > I am on mozilla 1.4-3 and yes. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: hostname is not correct

2003-07-17 Thread Shawn Lamson
is is relevant - but what does the command hostname return at this point? You can also #cat /proc/sys/kernel/hostname to see what it says - and to change it w/o rebooting echo "riverside" >> /proc/sys/kernel/hostname (not sure if this is really advisable, though). What MUA a

Re: snapshots

2003-07-16 Thread Shawn Lamson
ick on a window or select a region. The image will be saved to "filename.jpg" or if you choose a different extension a different format. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keystroke ctrl+s freezes terminal/console

2003-07-15 Thread Shawn Lamson
aceful way? What is the purpose of ctrl+s >> >> ( i believe I have the emacs style command line editor )? How can >> >> I disable ctrl+s or alter it so that it does not freeze my >> >> console/xterm? >> >> >> >> Thanks for any help. >>

Re: keystroke ctrl+s freezes terminal/console

2003-07-15 Thread Shawn Lamson
at is the purpose of ctrl+s ( >> i believe I have the emacs style command line editor )? How can I >> disable ctrl+s or alter it so that it does not freeze my >> console/xterm? >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> Shawn Lamson >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

keystroke ctrl+s freezes terminal/console

2003-07-15 Thread Shawn Lamson
alter it so that it does not freeze my console/xterm? Thanks for any help. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xf86config problem

2003-07-15 Thread Shawn Lamson
named that way for people who wanted to preserve their XF86Config v.3 config files when upgrading so they could run either one. You can safely copy XF86Config-4 to XF86Config and rerun your setup. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: openoffice hangs machine

2003-07-14 Thread Shawn Lamson
>Thanks I am not super knowledgable about locales or gdk but I believe two things to check are your LOCALE setting, ie. export LANG=C GDK_USE_XFT=1 in your .bashrc or similar start up file.. or do it from an xterm command prompt and start oo again. HTH, Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUB

Re: bash: for to, reading escaped spaces in filenames

2003-07-13 Thread Shawn Lamson
ed the filename in one piece ! ie test & this\ is\ a\ test > >Without resorting to complex string manipulation & cutting, is there a >neat way to do this ? Does $export _tox=key#key is whatever it is you are searching for $for file in *${_tox}*; do echo "$file"; don

Re: Eject problem

2003-07-12 Thread Shawn Lamson
ent >> >>Seems to me like the cdrom does not support software ejecting. How old >>is the drive? Does/did it eject in Window$? >> >The drive is one, maybe two years old at the most. And, yes it ejects >just fine in Windows. I'm just grasping at straws really, but what

Re: Eject problem

2003-07-11 Thread Shawn Lamson
believe cdrom is the default. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sources.list

2003-07-10 Thread Shawn Lamson
/sources.list... you might as well pound out your cdrom lines. You can check http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html for url's to update from too. And see section 2.3 of that doc for net-select to get the "best" sources. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GN

Re: OT: which scanner should I choose?

2003-07-10 Thread Shawn Lamson
(google). http://www.hp.com/cposupport/scanners/support_doc/bps01785.html Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: which scanner should I choose?

2003-07-10 Thread Shawn Lamson
put, No doubt if sane says it is okay it is (and they clearly list it as stable)... I note that that model is only 300x300 dpi... granted it is inexpensive, but it may not provide all the resolution you want. HTH Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla history (completion)

2003-07-10 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Thu, July 10 at 10:44 AM EDT Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hmm, I've been using sid all along, and noticed that version 1.4 just >made it in... but despite the recent upgrade I still had no completion. >However, after following your advise and first removing mozilla and the >turn

Re: X lockups

2003-07-08 Thread Shawn Lamson
u can't launch them from applets/menus. HTH Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies...

2003-07-07 Thread Shawn Lamson
g the help sections for options. It is a little painstaking (ie. you enable one option and it opens a menu for many suboptions ) but it was pretty clear. I think if you have specific hardware you need supported you should just look for info on that topic, rather than something comprehensive for all

Re: mounting cdrom

2003-07-07 Thread Shawn Lamson
kage "cdtool", using cdplay. > >Guldo Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with ncurses in X

2003-07-02 Thread Shawn Lamson
>didn't seem to get there with it. This is a text only mailing list, nothing wrong on your end. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Connecting remotely to my home computer

2003-07-02 Thread Shawn Lamson
acess locally) $vncserver :7 -geometry 1024x768 -alwaysshared -dontdisconnect -depth 24 Note: that is *not* tunneled. to bring that up on my desktop it is $vncviewer -truecolor -geometry 1024x768 -shared callerio:3 and voila!... you type your password and I do a ctrl+z then $bg to background it and then e

Re: apt-get / sources.list

2003-07-01 Thread Shawn Lamson
is also very easy to fix. Add the following line to /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Cache-Limit "8388608"; " > >Thomas. > I guess you could try higher/lower numbers to suit your needs. HTH Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 P.S. I am cc

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Shawn Lamson
tabs, or other white space? You'll probably get a million responses from this as someone asks it about every 3 months. I guess the simplest answer is to protect your expanded variable name with double quotes. for file in `ls` do mpg123 "$file" done HTH Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] D

Re: tasksel, first time with debian

2003-06-30 Thread Shawn Lamson
f will ask you for options, hope you have your monitor and vid card specs handy if you want it exact. > > Any help on how to get past this would be greatly appreciated. Sorry > if I haven't posted enough info, or wrong list. I don't know of a better list. Shawn > TIA, >

Re: Correct way to add things to shell profile?

2003-06-30 Thread Shawn Lamson
etc/skel and it will be copied into each home dir by useradd. PATH=$PATH:/usr/custom/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin will take the current PATH (usually set from /etc/profile) and add the rest to it. HTH Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: screwed up permissions for whole filesystem

2003-06-30 Thread Shawn Lamson
d during recursive directory traversals. " I do not know of an easy way to fix it if you did, though. I guess most system files have a mode of 755. I made a similar mistake in /usr once. I had to tweak the X init file perms but mostly made things 755 and it has seemed okay since. > &g

Re: Junk mail on the list.

2003-06-30 Thread Shawn Lamson
will go a week without any at all. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sb Audigy, how?

2003-06-30 Thread Shawn Lamson
http://opensource.creative.com/ > > I'm sorry for being so "wordy". > > Thanks in advance! > > /Jimmy > > Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emu10k1 WILL NOT load!

2003-06-30 Thread Shawn Lamson
1=y CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=y CONFIG_SOUND_TRACEINIT=y CONFIG_SOUND_DMAP=y CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI=y That's it. Sorry I can't offer advice with modules. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: simple bash loop problem ...

2003-06-30 Thread Shawn Lamson
t works ? I can tell you what I usually do but I bet there are better ways. for n in $(seq -w 1 9); do echo $n; done Then seq -w means that if I have some digits with 2 or more positions it will pad the lower numbers with 0's in front so they are all equal width. If you know the exact numb

Re: telnet: could not resolve

2003-06-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
you will need to restart inetd (if in fact that is what you are using and I am on the right track here), if so try /etc/init.d/inetd reload and then telnet away. HTH, Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
rom the grub prompt. I also assume that caps count but am not sure. What does $ls -l /boot/boot/grub show? Are you doing this with the drive mounted? I think that since the how-to docs I have seen recommend booting off of the grub-boot floppy that it thinks it is not mounted. Just throwing out id

Re: bash: problem with [sets]

2003-06-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
nal test. > >> > >> > > > >They aren't. [ ... = ... ] tests *equality*, not pattern matching. > > > >Cheers, > > > > > > > Yes, fundermental misunderstanding on my part, this grep ^[0-9]*$ is > an ingenious solution, Im s

Re: need help with NFS setup

2003-06-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
.0.3-1NFS support files common to client and serve ii nfs-user-serve 2.2beta47-15 User space NFS server. Maybe you installed nfs-kernel-server instead and the kernel isn't configured for it? I used nfs-user-server and setup was trivial as you describe above. I'll assume

Re: passing environment variables back to shell

2003-06-23 Thread Shawn Lamson
/bin/bash echo ONE echo TWO echo THREE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ set $(sh ./return3 ); echo :$1: :$2: :$3: :ONE: :TWO: :THREE: This passes them out. They won't have the names you specified, though. Why not just run ipmasq from within the script, though? HTH > > matt > > Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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