openoffice.org and ispell

2003-11-14 Thread lorian
Hi there, I have tried to install openoffice, but it wouldn't peacefully coexist with ispell and related dictionaries; it "conflicts" with them - I am quite anxious to know why on earth. Has anyone had similar trouble? Is there any way to get ispell and openoffice to coexist with one another?

Re: file and directory permissions question...

2003-11-06 Thread lorian
Eric, > /foo - Only folks in the 'users' group can read, write and delete > files/dirs. The permissions of directory foo do not influence whether someone can open a given file in it for reading or writing, only whether he can delete, create, or rename a file. Read permission for the dir

Re: Problem with umount/umount2

2003-11-05 Thread lorian
Sebastian, > > I have mounted /dev/hde6 as /usr, /dev/hde5 as /home and > > /dev/hde8 as /var. When I shutdown there is always a message > > from umount2 that /usr was busy etc, and when I reboot next > > time it always does the checking of /dev/hde6. The other drives > > appear to

Re: Adding scsi devices ???

2003-11-01 Thread lorian
> > > Last night, he added a SCSI cdrom and tape drive to the system. He > > > insists that the AIC-7980 controller lists the devices during post. > >^^^ > >=20 > > What does the underlined expression mean? Are the

Re: Adding scsi devices ???

2003-10-31 Thread lorian
Michael, forgive me if I am just stating the obvious or if I should have missed your point. > Last night, he added a SCSI cdrom and tape drive to the system. He > insists that the AIC-7980 controller lists the devices during post. ^

Re: Incremental CDR backups -- SOLVED

2003-10-31 Thread lorian
Hello Paul, > # Make image > mkisofs -r -o /tmp/cdimage /home/paulf/cdrom > # Test image > mount /tmp/cdimage -r -t iso9660 -o loop /cdrom > mc /cdrom To do a more thourough and completely automatic check, I suggest you say 'diff -rq /cdrom /home/paulf/cdrom'. This will, however, yield

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: Incremental CDR backups

2003-10-30 Thread lorian
Paul writes > > There must be something I don't understand about this. For the sake of > > brevity, here's an example. First burn is /home/paulf/docs. It contains > > the files alfa, bravo, charlie and delta. I make an ISO of this, stored > > in /tmp/cdimage. I burn it to CDR and delete t

Re: mkfs.msdos, FAT 32 and wrong disksize

2003-10-30 Thread lorian
Lukas writes: > > I have not had > > any problems with the schedule: > > > > 1 - win fdisk 2 - linux fdisk 3 - win format (for all vfat) 4 - > > linux mkfs (for all ext2/3) > > > > My way for doing things like that: > 1 - cfdisk, partion all the disk as you want to > 2 - inst

Re: du and df problem... Please help!

2003-10-29 Thread lorian
I'm afraid I can't help you directly, and with my system, df and du behave more like you would expect. The ideas I did have seemed a bit too straightforward to myself. Anyway, allow me to ask one or two questions to get it clearer: > When I run du on each root directory (ie. /boot, /dev, etc),

Re: mkfs.msdos, FAT 32 and wrong disksize

2003-10-29 Thread lorian
> Dear all, > > don't ask why but I have to prepare a disk with FAT32. I won't ask ;-) , but if you happen to have also Windows on your machine, I think I have an advice. To my experience, FAT32 is the only way to really share a partition between Linux and Windows (i.e., have the same acc

xkbdcomp reports mysterious error

2003-10-29 Thread lorian
When running X, I get the following error message from the server: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Error:No Symbols named "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@" in the include file "de" > Exiting > Abandoning symbols file "default" Error