Re: Not a speed reader.

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Pepas
> Note, though, that neither of those shows you messages output by init > scripts. are there any tricks for obtaining this? -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

minimal boot loader?

2003-08-24 Thread Jason Pepas
I'd ask here before I go off and write a script which accomplishes the same thing. thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mkisofs oddity

2003-04-05 Thread Jason Pepas
considered correct behavior? is there no way to simply make an image of a directory without resorting to graft-points? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

nfs mount during debian install

2003-03-03 Thread Jason Pepas
Hi, Is using an nfs mount for / during the debian insall supported in any way? or plan to be supported? -jason pepas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

memory leaks, and the proper way to interpret memory usage

2003-03-03 Thread Jason Pepas
rpret all the different memory statistics, how does one nail down the source of a memory leak, etc. thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Very few packages selected during install

2003-02-25 Thread Jason Pepas
he above. my question is, how can I select the packages which the second option installed, and where can I read more about why this is happening (ie, what policy is this following?) thanks, jason pepas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: pbuilder failing

2003-02-16 Thread Jason Pepas
required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii debootstrap0.1.17 Bootstrap a basic Debian system this is debootstrap from stable (woody). does this mean pbuilder is incapable of building a sid base.tgz from a woody sys

pbuilder failing

2003-02-15 Thread Jason Pepas
es/libpam0g_0.76-9_powerpc.deb E: Couldn't download libpcap0 pbuilder: debootstrap failed -> cleaning the build env -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any way to play Canon movie files?

2003-02-15 Thread Jason Pepas
> Is there any way of playing these files in Linux? I have the same camera. I haven't tried this myself yet, but Ben Edgington has apparently figured out how to do it: http://www.edginet.org/techie/linux/ -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: mc not in color by default

2003-02-12 Thread Jason Pepas
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 01:52 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > hello, > > when I start mc from an xterm, it is not in color by default. That is, I > have to use "mc -c" to force use of color. > > $TERM is set to "xterm-debian". > > is this a bug or a

mc not in color by default

2003-02-12 Thread Jason Pepas
hello, when I start mc from an xterm, it is not in color by default. That is, I have to use "mc -c" to force use of color. $TERM is set to "xterm-debian". is this a bug or a feature? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

inteligently downgrade packages?

2003-02-03 Thread Jason Pepas
-base perl-doc perl-modules perl-tk tetex-extra 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 downgraded, 0 to remove and 300 not u pgraded. Need to get 15.4MB/19.3MB of archives. After unpacking 15.2MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: list delay

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
past few months), which corresponded to changing ISP's, but perhaps that wasn't my problem after all. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: lhd, where have you gone?

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
does anyone know what happened to the linux hardware database (lhd.zdnet.com)? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Download installed .debs??

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
> apt-get install --reinstall > (It'll use the cached .deb's in /var/cache/apt/archives when it finds > it, though) > > If you really want to _download_ new, rm that deb from the directory > and run the above command. you might try this in combination with -d (d

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
> a bootable cd collection as a backup. now that's *cool*. you might check out mondo as well. apt-cache show mondo -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
ake one echo "No Current Full Backup - Performing Full Backup Now..." fullbackup; else # otherwise, do an incremental backup echo "Performing Incremental Backup..." incrementalbackup; fi # end if statement echo "-- Backup Script Done --

Re: cdrecord exit status 254

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
> command with a '-'; thus "-rm -f *~ *.o" will work even if no files > existed to be deleted. 'info make' for all the details. cool. thanks again. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 384mb RAM installed but 57mb recognized at bootup..........huh ?

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
ke the RAM DIMM out and look at it. If it only has chips along one side of the PCB, this might be causing the problem. This "single sided RAM" usually shows up as only half capacity in older systems (though in this case, "older" could be as recent as 2 years or so). -jason p

Re: Automounting

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
ntially the same as it is on windows. discs are mounted when insterted, and unmounted when you hit the eject button. Supermount is a kernel patch: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~quintela/supermount/ -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread Jason Pepas
essions as well, in > cases in which you had multiple sessions running concurrently. This is > because bash reads ~/.bash_history when starting up, works with the > history in memory, then writes ~/.bash_history when exiting. thanks. I had noticed odd behavior regarding bash_history be

Re: cdrecord exit status 254

2003-01-29 Thread Jason Pepas
working correctly, but has an odd policy of exit status? thanks for your reply, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cdrecord exit status 254

2003-01-29 Thread Jason Pepas
cdrecord appears to exit with status 254, which works fine from console, and burns good cd's, but causes make to think it failed, when it actually didn't. ideas? man page turns up nothing, google returns 2 other people asking my question with no answer (one in spanish). -jason pepa

Re: Howto redirect output from a terminal

2003-01-29 Thread Jason Pepas
the second option is to use script. If you just want to capture the output of a program, start script, execute stuff, and then type exit to stop script. All screen ouput was logged to a file in the current directory. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread Jason Pepas
e you can use the up arrow to reach previous commands. or you can grep your .bash_history, like grep ls ~/.bash_history -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: perldoc bug?

2003-01-29 Thread Jason Pepas
> Upgrade and try again. If it persists, file a bug. yup, that fixed it. perl 5.8 doesn't play nicely with perl-doc 5.6 -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

perldoc bug?

2003-01-28 Thread Jason Pepas
hmm... (pts/4)jason@marsala:~$ perldoc -f sin No documentation found for "perlfunc". hrmm... (pts/4)jason@marsala:~$ dpkg -l | grep perl ii libft-perl 1.2-13.1 Perl module for the FreeType library ii libperl5.6 5.6.1-7Shared Perl library. ii libperl5.8 5.8.0-14

perl-doc package bug?

2003-01-28 Thread Jason Pepas
hello, I think there might be a bug with the perl-doc package in the testing branch. (pts/4)root@marsala:/var/cache/apt/archives$ apt-get install perl-doc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: perl-doc 0 packages upgraded,

cdrom read errors.

2003-01-24 Thread Jason Pepas
ot; ;; stop) ;; restart|force-reload) ;; *) ;; esac exit 0 anyone have any ideas what is causing this? my only guess is that the cdrom is trying to read past the end of the media? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anti-aliasing

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
o get gtk2 to use AA fonts, like GDK_USE_XFT=1 or somesuch... I'll have to look through my notes for that. ... yes, I edited /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Gnome and added: # make AA work export GDK_USE_XFT=1 of course, that only helps you if you use gdm. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBS

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
olor15: white *VT100*colorUL: yellow *VT100*colorBD: white I don't really know anything about xresources, so the *VT100... part might be non-ideal. Also, these colors are just a starting point. anyone? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 01:35 am, Kevin wrote: > Please can you help with this error? > Below is the log, env and .bashrc > > DISPLAY=debian:0.0;export DISPLAY try this: export DISPLAY=:0.0 export XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

checkinstall man page [was Re: Unidentified subject!]

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:47 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:03:53PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > > > What's -mand? Perhaps you mean -mandoc. > > > > hmm, looks like I didn't copy / paste that correctly. lets try that > > again: &

Re: irssi-text not working

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
hmm, I sent this 5 hours ago and it still has not appeared. here it is again: On Thursday 02 January 2003 03:28 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. > > issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. > > ii ir

Re: Audio Video digital capture / playback

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 01:40 pm, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Any recommendations on Audio Video digital capture / playback hardware > and software woking on Woody / Sarge? mplayer / mencoder seem to be the most flexible (most codecs, most input/output methods, etc) tools available. -jason

Re: starting X

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
d check the box for x windows. > currently, tasksel seems to just install x-window-system. I assume by your methodology that you are more interested in initally going with a minimal install, so try apt-cache show x-window-system apt-cache show x-window-system-core then pick one and apt-get i

Re: kernel recompile

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
lected. hmm, but if the kernel name has i386 in it, this might not be the problem... -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CMI 9738 sound driver

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
; Davor don't know if this applies to your chipset, but you might for the module i810_audio or i810_codec or something like that. This supports several AC97 compatible chipsets (I am using the sis7... something or other and it works, but only at 48khz). -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: pdf2ps Segmentation fault

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
- #!/bin/sh # script to use adobe's acroread to convert pdf documents to postscript. # see the advanced bash scripting howto: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/ if [ ! -n "$1" ] then echo "Usage: `basename $0` file1.pdf file2.pdf..." exit 1 fi acroread -toPostScript $@

Re: irssi-text not working

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 03:28 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. > > issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. > > ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2text-mode version of the irssi IRC client > > any id

Re: irssi-text not working

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 03:28 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. > > issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. > > ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2text-mode version of the irssi IRC client > > any id

irssi-text not working

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2text-mode version of the irssi IRC client any ideas? perhaps some sort of perl module dependency problem? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBS

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
> What's -mand? Perhaps you mean -mandoc. hmm, looks like I didn't copy / paste that correctly. lets try that again: (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz | groff -mandoc - | gv :106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space after `sp') gv displays noth

Unidentified subject!

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
e, but starts from a different spot. your opinions are welcome. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?

2002-12-09 Thread Jason Pepas
> some folks like to sniff passwds... those are some of the ones you > should worry about... ( there are ssh based pwd sniffers too ) ssh based password sniffers? can you provide us with any evidence of this? -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: ide-scsi grabs everything

2002-11-26 Thread Jason Pepas
thanks for the responses guys, looks like I should be able to get it sorted out with your help. -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ide-scsi grabs everything

2002-11-26 Thread Jason Pepas
mount it (mount reports not valid block device). Any ideas? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-25 Thread Jason Pepas
On Sunday 24 November 2002 11:25 pm, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:50:38PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Just now, when I tried to cp the *.VOB files from a movie disk > > mounted udf onto /dvd-rw, I got the same "Input/output error". > > Believe it or not, this is a functio

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-24 Thread Jason Pepas
On Sunday 24 November 2002 10:56 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 20:44, Jason Pepas wrote: > > On Sunday 24 November 2002 07:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip] > > > if you just need to get the video streams, and not neccessarily the vob > >

debian filesystem inside a file

2002-11-24 Thread Jason Pepas
hello, i was wondering if it is possible to install debian, using a file as a partition. Sort of like how BeOS will install inside windows, creating its filesystem in a file. I think this has been done with umsdos, but what about under NTFS? Is there any hope of that? thanks, jason pepas

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-24 Thread Jason Pepas
old) or > if there was some trick I didn't know. Thanks, > > Ric if you just need to get the video streams, and not neccessarily the vob files themselves, mencoder can copy the streams into an avi file: mencoder -dvd 1 -oac copy -ovc copy -o foo.avi this will also decrypt them.

kbdrate problems

2002-11-24 Thread Jason Pepas
the default anyway, and is there a way to set that? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: allowing remote x connections?

2002-11-06 Thread Jason Pepas
Enable=true /etc/init.d/gdm restart X -query foo.bar.com -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tftpboot.img

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
> etherboot is for creating floppies... etherboot can also make bootroms. check out http://www.rom-o-matic.net/ if your sun has a bootrom slot, and the controller is supported by etherboot, and you can find someone with an eeprom burner, you should be good to go. -jason pepas --

Re: VCD creation

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
mpeg1video. However, it uses avi as the file format (avi is really just a "wrapper" format), so you would need something pull the mpeg1 stream out of that avi file and format it as an mpg file. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: choice of software

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
is not a concern, but for someone with, say, 128MB of RAM, if they are running a desktop environment, an email client, and a few mozilla windows, 28MB of RAM is suddenly a scarce resource. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tftpboot.img

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
on if you like. then: tar xzvf etherboot-x.x.x.tar.gz cd src make bin32/card.dsk where card is the name of your card, ie, rtl8139.dsk. grep the Makefile for card names. your floppy image will be in src/bin32, named card.dsk. Write it to floppy: cat card.dsk > /dev/fd0 -jason pepas -- To

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
> I know for a fact that parted can resize a ro-mounted partition, because > I did it once to shrink the root partition. (To make room for a swap > partition.) did you know you that linux supports swap files as well as swap partitions? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
crypt passwords.txt.gpg > passwords.txt -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: macintosh hardware

2002-11-03 Thread Jason Pepas
bus mac: http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net./ http://www.symsys.com/~ingram/hardware/powermac/potato-install.html -jason pepas ps - glad to see they have improved the install manual with 3.0. In the past, the exact models which were and weren't supported weren't listed in the manual,

Re: Mozilla Anti-Aliasing

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
;s, and was able to get mozilla running with antialiased fonts. However, it could only "see" two fonts, both of them monospaced. I assume this is because I did not properly install fontconfig. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing lines from a file

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Saturday 02 November 2002 02:29 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > On Saturday 02 November 2002 02:19 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > I know this has come up before but what is the best > > way to remove lines 5-10 and lines 16-20 from > > a file using the console and a batch file?

Re: removing lines from a file

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
e head and tail to grab the sections you want (try piping them into each other to get subsections) -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] literate programming

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
he generated output into Postscript, hyperlinked PDF or compressed HTML. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which half are you in?

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
I CTRL-O'ed I was in another place. I haven't noticed this bug lately, so it may have been fixed. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

each debain cd has a different kernel

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
does one select which kernel to use with the multiboot cd? I have performed numerous installs and I don't recall seeing this option. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: deleting directory

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
hink all those warnings about rm -rf while root were nonsense meant to scare small children, until I didn't realize what directory I was in and lost several hundred megabytes of mp3's one day... ("hmm, why is the rm command taking so long... OH NO!") -jason pepas -

Re: gnome2 applets

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Saturday 02 November 2002 06:51 am, iain d broadfoot wrote: > Jason Pepas wrote: > >>specifically, netleds and wavelan. > > > > I would highly recommend netmon-applet as a replacement for netleds. > > > > -jason pepas > > $apt-cache search netmon-appl

Re: gnome2 applets

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Saturday 02 November 2002 06:51 am, iain d broadfoot wrote: > Jason Pepas wrote: > >>specifically, netleds and wavelan. > > > > I would highly recommend netmon-applet as a replacement for netleds. > > > > -jason pepas > > $apt-cache search netmon-a

Re: Is my Xserver useing too much memory?

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
file/partition, this becomes not as important, as the leaked memory will eventually get pushed out into swap, and will never be called back in from swap. I have had leaky X video drivers before, but it would take months for that alone to fill up a large swap space. -jason pepas -- To UNSU

Re: gnome2 applets

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
> specifically, netleds and wavelan. I would highly recommend netmon-applet as a replacement for netleds. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cmpci audio skipping

2002-11-01 Thread Jason Pepas
ssibilities). But I thought I would shoot a mail out to the list in the mean time and see if anyone else is experiencing this. here is the lhd entry: http://lhd.zdnet.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?3228 (their database seemed to be down last time I checked). -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: P4 with 1GB RAM, swap required?

2002-10-30 Thread Jason Pepas
> Thanks for this hint! This is really great! > > wbr, I generally try to write this stuff down as i figure it out. You might enjoy http://jason.pepas.com/linux/notes/ -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Tools to maintain my own set of homebrewed deb's?

2002-10-30 Thread Jason Pepas
rver, then run some command that > automatically updates Packages.gz. > > Anybody know, offhand, what does that? > > - Joe dpkg-scanpackages ./ /dev/null > Packages gzip Packages you could set up a cronjob to make a new Packages.gz file each night is that what you were asking? -jason pe

Re: P4 with 1GB RAM, swap required?

2002-10-29 Thread Jason Pepas
nalty because it will never be brought back in from swap. To create a swap file (64MB in this example), instead of a partition, dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1M count=64 mkswap /swap edit /etc/fstab: /swap noneswapsw 0 0 swapon -a cat /proc/swaps -jason pepas

cups wont print

2002-10-22 Thread Jason Pepas
nt only to find "error 22" problems, so I purged cups and installed from unstable, and how I have my current situation. is this a known issue? someone else on #debian is having the exact same problem, and is also using unstable. thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: disabling ide-scsi

2002-10-19 Thread Jason Pepas
t; if lsmod is run a second time after cdrecord -scanbus, "sg" is the only module newly loaded. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: Re: disabling ide-scsi

2002-10-19 Thread Jason Pepas
sorry, forgot to send this to the list. -jason pepas -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: disabling ide-scsi Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:32:57 -0500 From: Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Why? ide-scsi is an almost p

Re: disabling ide-scsi

2002-10-19 Thread Jason Pepas
t against it). I just > removed this package (the modules I wanted loaded were manually entered > anyway). nope, discover isn't installed, and lsmod doesn't report ide-scsi, yet I have devices a-plenty when I cdrecord -scanbus. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

disabling ide-scsi

2002-10-19 Thread Jason Pepas
to do the exact opposite of what I need (it tells ide-cd to not grab a cdrom). The cd-writing howto addresses this question, but does not give an answer (see http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.28 ). any ideas? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-10-16 Thread Jason Pepas
trying to find > what exactly was causing the problem, but no luck so far... hmm, that almost sounds like a power supply problem to me. What are the details of your setup? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lite On 40x Burner

2002-10-15 Thread Jason Pepas
really don't care to > waste my money. > > -steve http://www.storagereview.com/ check them out - very in depth review of hard drives and optical drives. They previously had a Lite-On drive recommended on their leader board, but I don't think it was the 40x. -jason pepas -- To

Re: What services are using these ports?

2002-10-15 Thread Jason Pepas
I wrote up some notes on how to disable inetd stuff. You might find them useful. how to disable inetd services on a debian box: first, figure out which services are running. to do this, you will need nmap: # apt-get install nmap and now: $ nmap localhost Starting nmap V. 3.00

data recovery

2002-10-14 Thread Jason Pepas
ata should still be there. If any of you can recommend what I should do next, or point me to any tools for data recovery, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I start a X session on another machine

2002-10-13 Thread Jason Pepas
me" where hostname is the second machine. Make sure "Enable=true" is set in the XDMCP section of /etc/gdm/gdm.conf. You should be presented with the gdm login for your second machine. To switch between them, just CTRL+ALT+F7, and CTRL+ALT+F8. Instant KVM. -jason pepas -- To UNS

gnome2 wallpaper changer

2002-10-12 Thread Jason Pepas
hey all, was tooling around and figured out a way to automatically change the gnome2 wallpaper. gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "foo.jpg" one could write up a small script and have this happen regularly with cron. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Cable connection !!!

2002-10-11 Thread Jason Pepas
nly get an IP address about 10% of the time, and even then it would drop the connection within an hour. Then by chance I tried a 100mbit NIC and it has worked flawlessly since. go figure. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

init.d script for folding at home client

2002-10-11 Thread Jason Pepas
- cut here --- #! /bin/sh # folding at home init.d script for debian, based off of /etc/init.d/skeleton. # by jason pepas. PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/folding DAEMON=/usr/local/folding/FAH3Console-Linux.exe NAME=FAH3Console-Linux.exe DESC="Folding at Ho

Re: Terminal type

2002-10-10 Thread Jason Pepas
> Where is the bash shell started? there is more to it that this, but for starters have a look at /etc/inittab. The "getty" lines are what create the tty's, and when a user logs in, whatever shell is specified for that user in /etc/passwd is started for them. -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: desktop

2002-10-10 Thread Jason Pepas
> First, make sure you've installed the X Window system and appropriate X > server (I /believe/ that doing an 'apt-get install x-window-system' will you might also need to apt-get install xserver-xfree86. oh wait, scratch that, you are using debian 2.2, so you might need to install an xserver

channel bonding

2002-10-09 Thread Jason Pepas
d" to work. If anyone knows of any decent links on how to get this going, please let me know. thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kbdrate set by normal users

2002-10-07 Thread Jason Pepas
ned. have you experienced anything similar to this? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kbdrate set by normal users

2002-10-06 Thread Jason Pepas
hello, I would like to change the default keyboard repeat rate. I have tried writting a /etc/ini.d/kbdrate.sh script, but it does not seem to change things globally. any ideas? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: the apt-get cache, backing up and using to install debain on another machine

2002-10-06 Thread Jason Pepas
cat selections.txt | dpkg --set-selections apt-get install if I understand things correctly, after doing that and copying over your /etc directory, you should have an install almost identical to your previous one. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ide-scsi grabs devices against my wishes

2002-10-05 Thread Jason Pepas
don't wish the zip drive to be scsi (ide-scsi grabs it anyway). In another comp, I have an ide dvd rom, and don't wish it to be scsi (again, it is anyway). how can I make ide-scsi only grab the devices I tell it to? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

gdm login does not appear under "who"

2002-09-29 Thread Jason Pepas
I have noticed that if I log into gdm, I do not show up as being logged in via commands like "who" and "w". not only that, but if I open up a konsole, I am still "not logged in". However, opening up an xterm will list me under "who". is this normal / expected behavior? -jason -- To UNSUB

compression and encryption with gdm, cygwin?

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Pepas
Hi, I am exporting a gdm X session to a windows box running cygwin/xfree86. is there anyway I can use ssh to make this a secure connection, and is there anyway I can compress the stream to speed things up a bit? ( it is pretty slow as is, over a cable modem). thanks, jason -- To UNS

Re: A Good FTP Client.

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 26 September 2002 19:09, Gord Berta wrote: > The default gFTP client always gives me a headache, in any distro. > The one I found the most user friendly is kBear. Drag and drop from hard > drive to your web site and vice versa. > The problem is when I apt-get kbear in 2.7, I get the fo

debian menu in kde

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Pepas
where can I read up on the internal workings of the kde menu system? I would like to figure out how to get it to use the standard debian menu system (kde 2.2.2 does its own thing). -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

festival plugin for mozilla?

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Pepas
is there such a thing as a festival (text to speech) plugin for mozilla (like the one for konqueror? -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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