Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-14 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 11:51, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:39:54AM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > | (b) how to make this change to /etc/inittab as a package to be installed > | on multiple machines? > One character difference. It doesn't look like inittab is in any > pac

appearance of xfce on Debian

2002-06-14 Thread tvn1981
Hi, I apt-get install xfce and when I start it . I cannot see the xfce main bar. Why is Debian setting up xfce this way ? How can I get the normal xfce main bar ? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: appearance of xfce on Debian

2002-06-14 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:58:58AM -0400, tvn1981 wrote: > Hi, I apt-get install xfce and when I start it . I cannot see the xfce > main bar. Why is Debian setting up xfce this way ? How can I get the > normal xfce main bar ? How are you running it? See also, xfce_setup (which doesn't have a

Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-14 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:16:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Using "apt-cache search" doesn't show much. (Unless I'm using > the wrong keyword to search by!) > > $ apt-cache search popup [...]> > Any other suggestions? xitalk: $ apt-cache show xitalk Package: xitalk Priority: optional Sectio

Re: appearance of xfce on Debian

2002-06-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:58:58AM -0400, tvn1981 wrote: > Hi, I apt-get install xfce and when I start it . I cannot see the xfce > main bar. Why is Debian setting up xfce this way ? How can I get the > normal xfce main bar ? It sets the bar below the screen for some reason. edit ~/.xfce/xfwm-

Re: Debian Doc page lags behind

2002-06-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, [CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for pointing out short comings. Let me clarify. On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:51:49PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:16:33PM -0400, David Teague wrote: > > I remember Dale (aka Dwarf) Sheetz's the Debian > > Linux User's Guide. ISBN

3dwm - how to make it do anything?

2002-06-14 Thread Erik Steffl
I installed 3dwm but I can't make it do anything (interesting). When I start the server it opens the window, it's completely black and stays the same, no matter which client I run (except of pick client, which displays three squares). shouldn't clock display clock? and vncclient display vnc?

Error installing mailman with exim

2002-06-14 Thread Grégoire Cachet
hello I try to configure mailman on my gateway for internet, using the exim mail server My system is debian woody I installed exim, and just changed the configuration in order to relay my own computer on the local network. Then I installed mailman and created a new list typing : # newlist test

RE: Error installing mailman with exim

2002-06-14 Thread Jan Johansson
> I try to configure mailman on my gateway for internet, using > the exim mail > server http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman.html follow that one, and then you will not need to alter your aliases at all. In fact, altering aliases will break the config. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Running something on start up and shutdown

2002-06-14 Thread Joris
> What's the best way to run a script once on startup and again (well, a > related script) on shutdown? I want to run the scripts as a user rather > than root, which I believe is the standard init.d method. your script could read: #!/bin/sh # /etc/init.d/myscript # references /etc/init.d/mystart

DSL connexant PCI card

2002-06-14 Thread David Dumortier
Hello the list At the beginning : the 1st time I posted I was unsuscribed ... don't know why ... Nethermind, I hope my message is not duplicated ! Or I apologize (correct english ?) I've got a Olitec DSL-modem chipset Connexant under woody, kernel 2.4.18 and my pinguin box don't want to configure

Re: Help with cdrecord

2002-06-14 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 13 June 2002 23:55, Brian Dessent wrote: > I'm having trouble with gcombust / cdrecord. I have a Plextor 4X CDR > on the scsi bus. I run a test burn and it fails, probably because > I'm trying to burn from a network (smb) share. I'll try making the > iso first next time. Anyway, whe

Re: chaging compiler

2002-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:20:53PM -0700, ian wrote: > >i would like to know how to change my default gcc compiler from the > >current version to another. Perhaps you didn't see my response to the last time you asked this. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0206/msg02178.html -- Colin Wats

Re: New Video Card

2002-06-14 Thread vrih
On 13 Jun, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I just replaced the Voodoo Banshee in a machine with a Hercules 3D Prophet > 4000XT card. I thought the choice of card would be straight forward when I > re-ran xf86config, but it isn't. Can anyone else running this card tell me > which driver I shoul

RE: Error installing mailman with exim

2002-06-14 Thread Grégoire Cachet
Le ven 14/06/2002 à 09:27, Jan Johansson a écrit : > > I try to configure mailman on my gateway for internet, using > > the exim mail > > server > > http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman.html > > follow that one, and then you will not need to alter your aliases at all. In > fact, altering aliases w

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-14 Thread Ivo Wever
Philipp Lehman wrote: Ivo Wever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some people advise to repeat this procedure several times. Can anyone explain why? I see no reason why one pass doesn't suffice. [..] http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html Thanks for the replies and especially

OT: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Paladin
Does any one know how to access the BIOS setup of an old IBM PS/2? It seems that hitting "del" while booting doesn't work... Thanks -- Paladin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Jan Johansson
> Does any one know how to access the BIOS setup of an old IBM PS/2? > It seems that hitting "del" while booting doesn't work... Not possible. If you by "older" mean models 8xxx (386 and 486 systems) or older, there is no BIOS config utility, you have to install their utility software on a dedi

RE: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Jan Johansson
> Does any one know how to access the BIOS setup of an old IBM PS/2? > It seems that hitting "del" while booting doesn't work... You spamassassin setup is severly warped by the way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello I'm running gdm, windowmaker, woody and xfree 4.2. i need to run software on a remote mahcine that outputs to my local X server. On the remote machine, i export DISPLAY="mylocalIP:0" then on my local machine, i xhost . but it doesn't work - on the remote machine i get the error Error:

problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello I'm running gdm, windowmaker, woody and xfree 4.2. i need to run software on a remote mahcine that outputs to my local X server. On the remote machine, i export DISPLAY="mylocalIP:0" then on my local machine, i xhost . but it doesn't work - on the remote machine i get the error Error:

"ps" and caculate start_time

2002-06-14 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I'd like to show the process list and try to list those who has be running over customized time. Is it possible? Say, I'd like to list the cron programs which has been running for 3 days. -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatpahud.gpg

su to a specific system account without input password

2002-06-14 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I'd like some of the user accounts to su "mysql" without input any password. Is it possible? How? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatpahud.gpg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

RE: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Ronald Castillo
Have you read well the screen at boot time? The first screen usually tells how to do this. On some PCs you have to press Del (not your case, it seems), on others Esc and on some others you have to press Ctrl+Alt+Esc at any moment (those are the kinds of PCs I've seen). I've seen this on PCs rang

realplayer window immediately locks up on launching

2002-06-14 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Hello (woody, 2.4.18bf2.4 I am trying to get realplayer working. I downloaded the installer from realnetworks and installed it. when i run it, it opens a window, maybe displays a couple of widgets, then locks up. anyone else had this problem? how can i fix it? cheers matthew -- To UNSUB

RE: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Jan Johansson
>I've > seen this on PCs ranging from 386s so maybe one of these > should work for > you. The first PS/2 to have a "internal" BIOS config utility was the 95XL series. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

USB mouse only moves up and down

2002-06-14 Thread Riaan Rottier
Hi I installed a USB optical mouse on my computer. After going through the whole process as described in www.linux-usb.com the mouse worked but only moving up and down when I move the mouse side to side. Neither the buttons nor the up and down movement had any effect. lsmod gives: Module

Re: realplayer window immediately locks up on launching

2002-06-14 Thread Matthew Yee-King
oops! i forgot - i installed alsa0.9rc1 and hadn't rebooted yet so the kernel modules were in a bit of a state - ... now its fine. On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:32:49 +0100 Matthew Yee-King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > (woody, 2.4.18bf2.4 > > I am trying to get realplayer working. I downl

Re: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Hi, Am Freitag, 14. Juni 2002 13:30 schrieb Ronald Castillo: > Have you read well the screen at boot time? The first screen > usually tells how to do this. On some PCs you have to press Del > (not your case, it seems), on others Esc and on some others you > have to press Ctrl+Alt+Esc at any mome

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-14 Thread Ulf Rompe
Chris Gushue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wish more things supported transparently viewing gzipped files :) I remember there once was a library which overloaded the original libc functions for opening files. You had to preload it by setting the variable LD_PRELOAD to this lib (like you do with

GDM config

2002-06-14 Thread Helgi Örn
Hello all! I installed Blackbox and I want to put it Logi sessions menu but I'm not sure how to do that, can someone exolain that for me. I know this: gdmconfig -> Expert -> Login sessions -> Add session But what should I put into the script window? Cheers, Helgi Örn -- ~ This message is di

Re: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 01:17:43PM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: [somebody else wrote:] > > Does any one know how to access the BIOS setup of an old IBM PS/2? > > It seems that hitting "del" while booting doesn't work... > > You spamassassin setup is severly warped by the way. Your mail setup is al

Re: problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 01:21:59PM +0100, Matthew Yee-King wrote: > I'm running gdm, windowmaker, woody and xfree 4.2. i need to run > software on a remote mahcine that outputs to my local X server. On the > remote machine, i export DISPLAY="mylocalIP:0" then on my local > machine, i xhost . but i

RE: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Jan Johansson
> Your mail setup is also rather warped - it doesn't insert > attributions, > and it keeps starting new threads which I have to manually > link together > in mutt if I want to follow the conversation ... Well, thats what happens when the Mail admin thinks policy-locking Outlook to his own prefe

Re: USB mouse only moves up and down (solved)

2002-06-14 Thread Riaan Rottier
I solved it, apparently the problem was the usbmouse module, modprobe -r usbmouse... Mouse works. Riaan On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 13:47, Riaan Rottier wrote: > Hi > > I installed a USB optical mouse on my computer. After going through the > whole process as described in www.linux-usb.com the mous

Re: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:50:01PM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Your mail setup is also rather warped - it doesn't insert > > attributions, and it keeps starting new threads which I have to > > manually link together in mutt if I want to follow the conversation > > ... > >

ACPI

2002-06-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi, all: Apologies for the length of this, but I thought to err on the side of detail. My Toshiba Portege 3020CT has an ACPI BIOS (v. 8.10, just recently upgraded). After installing acpid, I enabled ACPI support in the kernel, but when I booted, I got this: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Dri

Re: ACPI

2002-06-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, I wrote: > ACPI: Core Subsystem version [20011018] > ACPI: Subsystem enabled > > (The 20011018 looks pretty old - is there a more recent .deb?) Actually that's the stuff in the kernel isn't it? Should I download the latest from the Intel site and replace it in the kernel so

Re: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Kenneth Sims
IBM reference disks can be found at the ftp site below. Look at allfiles.txt to find the file you need. It will probably be in the refdisks folder. ftp://204.146.167.81/pub/pccbbs/ KS At 14:04 6/14/2002, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:50:01PM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: > Col

eth0 no such device

2002-06-14 Thread Ken Januski
Hi, Can anyone give me any clues on how to get my ethernet card working. It works on W2K on other partition so I know card is fine. I've added append parameters to lilo.conf which I think are correct. And I believe I have correct driver. But everything I do gives me this error: "eth0 no such devi

RE: eth0 no such device

2002-06-14 Thread Jan Johansson
> I believe > I have correct driver. > Thanks for any advice. Start by telling uss what card it is, and what chipset it uses. If it is a PCI device, you should with almost complete certanty _not_ add anything to lilo.conf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

dd boot floppy to cd image

2002-06-14 Thread Henning, Brian
Hello- I have a grub boot floopy that has no file system. It just boots into grub. I want to be able to put this floppy boot section onto a cd image to burn to a cd. I don't really care if the cd image has a file system or not. I just want it to boot grub. I am pretty sure I need to use dd to pull

Re: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Freitag, 14. Juni 2002 14:50 schrieb Jan Johansson: > Well, thats what happens when the Mail admin thinks > policy-locking Outlook to his own preferences is a good idea. indeed _not_ a good idea. It might help to convert RE: into Re: by hand? regards gerhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

How to get the ALSA driver to start at boot?

2002-06-14 Thread Ivo Wever
I managed to get my sound setup to the point where I can get sound by running 'modprobe snd-via8233' and some commands for unmuting the appropriate channels. However, I would prefer the driver being loaded by the ALSA entry in /etc/init.d, since the alsa config files seem to load the driver wit

Re: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Jan Johansson
> indeed _not_ a good idea. > It might help to convert RE: into Re: by hand? That i hadnt noticed actually.. Thanks, ill actually try to do that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get the ALSA driver to start at boot?

2002-06-14 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 04:00:04PM +0200, Ivo Wever wrote: > I managed to get my sound setup to the point where I can get sound > by running 'modprobe snd-via8233' and some commands for unmuting the > appropriate channels. However, I would prefer the driver being loaded by > the ALSA entry in /et

Re: eth0 no such device

2002-06-14 Thread Jim Lynch
You need to have the drivers for your card either in the kernel or in a module and load that module. I suggest you generate a custom kernel by installing the source and following the directions in the README. You will be able to configure it to support your network card specifically that way. Ji

Re: How to get the ALSA driver to start at boot?

2002-06-14 Thread Ivo Wever
Simon Law wrote: Ivo Wever wrote: I'm assuming that you're using ALSA 0.9. Yes, I am. You should add the correct module lines (that you would put in modconf) in /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 I couldn't gather the format of a module line from the alsa docs and it isn't in the exampl

Re: su to a specific system account without input password

2002-06-14 Thread Mark Janssen
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 -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178

Re: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Hi Jan, Am Freitag, 14. Juni 2002 16:02 schrieb Jan Johansson: > > indeed _not_ a good idea. > > It might help to convert RE: into Re: by hand? > > That i hadnt noticed actually.. Thanks, ill actually try to do > that. Hmm... It was only a desperate idea :-( sorry gerhard -- www.pegasus.com ht

Re: su to a specific system account without input password

2002-06-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-06-14T11:28:09Z, Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like some of the user accounts to su "mysql" without input any > password. Is it possible? How? Do they need to actually *be* mysql, or do they just need to run programs as mysql? If the latter, check out `sudo'. -- Kirk

I'm looking for permanent work in Toronto

2002-06-14 Thread Andrey Petrunko
Hello! My name is Andrey Petrunko. I'm computer programmer from Russia. I have immigration visa and the air tickets from Russia to Canada. I will be relocated from Russia into Toronto July 17. I have very good practice as the computer programmer in: Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, MSSQL, ASP, HTML, Java

Re: su to a specific system account without input password

2002-06-14 Thread Jason Schildt
Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello list, I'd like some of the user accounts to su "mysql" without input any password. Is it possible? How? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatpahud.gpg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Mozilla fonts

2002-06-14 Thread Travis Crump
Ross Boylan wrote: I was playing around with fonts on Mozilla today, and noticed a number of odd things. I'd be curious if anyone can explain a bit more about what is going on. 1. I can't find anything that controls the fonts used in the browser menu bar and menus. It looks as if the same fo

zope

2002-06-14 Thread O Senhor
hello, How can i start and stop the zope server? In SuSE and FreeBSD there are the start and stop script, and in Debian/GNU Linux? I have stopped with kill, and can't restart Thanks! -- - thesirbr

Re: Error installing mailman with exim

2002-06-14 Thread Michel Loos
Em Sex, 2002-06-14 às 03:45, Grégoire Cachet escreveu: > hello > > I try to configure mailman on my gateway for internet, using the exim mail > server > > My system is debian woody > > I installed exim, and just changed the configuration in order to relay > my own computer on the local network.

RE: zope

2002-06-14 Thread Jan Johansson
> How can i start and stop the zope server? In SuSE and FreeBSD there > are the start and stop script, and in Debian/GNU Linux? I have stopped > with kill, and can't restart /etc/init.d/zope restart (or stop, or start or...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: HP 2200d (double face) still not working

2002-06-14 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 17:44, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi, > I configured a potato box with cups from potato and hp-ppd from woody. > No problem. > I only cant find the double side option. > Is this because I'm using potato? > Can you send me you

Re: I'm looking for permanent work in Toronto

2002-06-14 Thread Helgi Örn
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 03:28, Andrey Petrunko wrote: > Hello! > My name is Andrey Petrunko. I'm computer programmer from Russia. I have > immigration visa and the air tickets from Russia to Canada. I will be > relocated > from Russia into Toronto July 17. I have very good practice as the computer >

Re: problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread David Z Maze
Matthew Yee-King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running gdm, windowmaker, woody and xfree 4.2. i need to run > software on a remote mahcine that outputs to my local X server. On > the remote machine, i export DISPLAY="mylocalIP:0" then on my local > machine, i xhost . Eew eew eew. Don't do th

Re: I'm looking for permanent work in Toronto

2002-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 10:31, Helgi Örn wrote: > On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 03:28, Andrey Petrunko wrote: > > Hello! > > My name is Andrey Petrunko. I'm computer programmer from Russia. I have [snip] > > > > Andrey Petrunko > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Well what do you make of this! He's been developing a to

Re: pam_ldap not working right

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:07:30PM -0700, David Wright wrote: | | Looking over your files, I see quite a few problems: | | 1) You need to configure nss_ldap.conf as well as pam_ldap.conf. Umm, I don't have that ... I need to install libnss-ldap ... that really helps :-). | 2) The lines in nssw

Re: I'm looking for permanent work in Toronto

2002-06-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14 Jun 2002 10:45:23 -0500 "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And apparently he's done a good job of it, too... Oh well I hope he gets an respectable job this time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DSL connexant PCI card

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:33:47AM +0200, David Dumortier wrote: | I've got a Olitec DSL-modem chipset Connexant under woody, kernel 2.4.18 | and my pinguin box don't want to configure it !!! | | I explain : | - scanpci & lspci say IRQs, adresses and others but say unknown device lspci should te

Re: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:50:01PM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: | > Your mail setup is also rather warped - it doesn't insert | > attributions, | > and it keeps starting new threads which I have to manually | > link together | > in mutt if I want to follow the conversation ... | | Well, thats wha

Re: realplayer window immediately locks up on launching

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 01:32:49PM +0100, Matthew Yee-King wrote: | I am trying to get realplayer working. I downloaded the installer | from realnetworks and installed it. when i run it, it opens a | window, maybe displays a couple of widgets, then locks up. | | anyone else had this problem? Ye

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:59:24PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: | On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 11:51, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:39:54AM +1000, James Cameron wrote: | > | (b) how to make this change to /etc/inittab as a package to be installed | > | on multiple machines? |

Diagnosing serial ports

2002-06-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
This is a followup to yesterday's attempt to get a CoStar Labelwriter XL working under linux. I plugged the thing into a windows laptop and it printed fine, so the problem is not in the printer. If I start statserial, point it at /dev/ttyS1, and plug/unplug the printer from the computer, the CTS/

Re: OT: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Emil Pedersen
Paladin wrote: > > Does any one know how to access the BIOS setup of an old IBM PS/2? > It seems that hitting "del" while booting doesn't work... As other have mentioned they don't have a bios, they use sectors on the disk instead and load the bios/rom at boot. I've read that some mainframes use

Re: problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 10:32, David Z Maze wrote: > Matthew Yee-King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm running gdm, windowmaker, woody and xfree 4.2. i need to run > > software on a remote mahcine that outputs to my local X server. On > > the remote machine, i export DISPLAY="mylocalIP:0" then on

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:15:31AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:59:24PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > | The package I have made (which also adds a graphical shutdown image > | using zgv) does this in the post-installation script ... > | > | # change control/alt/

mozilla and galeon eat RAM

2002-06-14 Thread Klaus Imgrund
Hello, got a little problem with mozilla 1.0.0 and galeon 1.2.5 - i think. Things started going real slow today and i checked with top and gtop to see whats going on there. That shows for galeon and mozilla 5 running processes each eating up 18 megs of RAM each. Can that be ok? I updated galeon to

Re: ACPI

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:04:37AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: | apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.16) | ACPI: APM is already active, exiting | | So, I disabled APM (by appending "apm=off" in lilo.conf), and, on | rebooting, got this: Good so far. | apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flag

Re: Foreign Language with OpenOffice?

2002-06-14 Thread Glyn Millington
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I appreciate your response. Could any one give me any guidance as to > how this is done? Do I use the standard OpenOffice (English version) > that I already have and just do something with locales or with kbd or > something? Or do I download a special Germ

Re: problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 14 Jun 2002 11:11:58 -0500 "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok... From an xterm window on my local box, I do > $ssh -X @ > > Then from the command prompt on the remote box, I type > $mtr -g www.cox.net > and instantly get the error > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > >

Re: GDM config

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:29:18PM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: | Hello all! | | I installed Blackbox and I want to put it Logi sessions menu but I'm not | sure how to do that, can someone exolain that for me. I know this: | gdmconfig -> Expert -> Login sessions -> Add session | But what should I put i

Minimizing all windows

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy Folks, In windows, you can right click on the task bar and one of the options is to minimize all windows, exposing the underlying desktop. I've looked through both the gnome-list archive and the Gnome User's Guide but was unable to find any reference to similiar functionality. Is this

Re: mozilla and galeon eat RAM

2002-06-14 Thread Joris
> got a little problem with mozilla 1.0.0 and galeon 1.2.5 - i think. > Things started going real slow today and i checked with top and gtop to > see whats going on there. > That shows for galeon and mozilla 5 running processes each eating up 18 > megs of RAM each. > Can that be ok? > I updated gal

Re: problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 11:11, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 10:32, David Z Maze wrote: > > Matthew Yee-King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > Eew eew eew. Don't do that. Debian disables unencrypted X network > > sessions. But since you're using ssh to log in from one machine to

Re: Minimizing all windows

2002-06-14 Thread Dave Bordoley
In metacity you can use ctl+alt+d to minimize all. This should also be included in the gnome actions menu eventually I would hope. dave On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 12:08, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Howdy Folks, > > In windows, you can right click on the task bar and one of the options > is to minimize a

Re: Minimizing all windows

2002-06-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > In windows, you can right click on the task bar and one of the options > is to minimize all windows, exposing the underlying desktop. XFce has an "Iconify All" option when you right-click on the desktop - of course, that presumes that some desktop is

Size of debian?

2002-06-14 Thread Rob Ransbottom
How do I determine space required mirror the source and binary-i386 aspects of stable, unstable and testing? rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Size of debian?

2002-06-14 Thread Jamin W . Collins
First, please don't reply to an existing thread to start a new one. On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:52:56 -0400 (EDT) "Rob Ransbottom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I determine space required mirror the source and > binary-i386 aspects of stable, unstable and testing? I mirror the above for both i3

Re: problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 11:15, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On 14 Jun 2002 11:11:58 -0500 > "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok... From an xterm window on my local box, I do > > $ssh -X @ > > > > Then from the command prompt on the remote box, I type > > $mtr -g www.cox.net > > and

Re: GDM config

2002-06-14 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 18:33, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > If your users want to use blackbox, all they need to do is run the > Control Center (gnomecc) and choose it in the window manager section. > (if it isn't already listed, add it) > The point is to be able to start Blackbox as desktop not a

Re: problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread Benedikt Wildenhain
Hello, On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:48:08AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Over a local, switched fast ethernet connection, what kind of > performance drain will I see tunneling through ssh? Both boxen > are GHz+. I only have an 650 MHz, so I cannot say how it will work on your system. Most programs c

Re: GDM config

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 07:13:07PM +0200, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: | On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 18:33, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > If your users want to use blackbox, all they need to do is run the | > Control Center (gnomecc) and choose it in the window manager section. | > (if it isn't already l

Re: GDM config

2002-06-14 Thread Matthias Ellinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 18:33, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: >> If your users want to use blackbox, all they need to do is run the >> Control Center (gnomecc) and choose it in the window manager section. >> (if it isn't already listed, add it) >> >The p

Re: ACPI

2002-06-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, I wrote: > I'm sure I've missed something obvious and will feel really dumb when it's > pointed out to me! Doh! Glad I found it before anyone asked :) I'd compiled ACPI support but not all the 'bits' that make it actually do anything!! Now when I boot, a 'dmesg | grep ACPI

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Re: GDM config

2002-06-14 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 19:19, Matthias Ellinger wrote: > > create file in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/blackbox > > "exec blackbox" > > save and mark as executable. > > Restart gdm - that should do it. Thank's this worked very well...:-) Cheers, HÖ -- ~ This message is digitally signed - GPG key

RE: zope

2002-06-14 Thread O Senhor
Thanks, Exists one script zopectl (in /usr/sbin). Thanks again. On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 12:00, Jan Johansson wrote: > > How can i start and stop the zope server? In SuSE and FreeBSD there > > are the start and stop script, and in Debian/GNU Linux? I have stopped > > with kill, and can't

Re: Size of debian?

2002-06-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 11:36, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > First, please don't reply to an existing thread to start a new one. > > On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:52:56 -0400 (EDT) > "Rob Ransbottom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How do I determine space required mirror the source and > > binary-i386 aspect

Re: Size of debian?

2002-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 01:16:02PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > My unstable mirror for i386 is currently ~5 GB. I've got a Perl script > that I wrote that scans through the Packages.gz for the different > distributions and just adds up all of the file sizes. The format of > Packages.gz is straig

OT: Perrun virus: Is this Windoze only?

2002-06-14 Thread Paul E Condon
Today's Sacramento Bee contains a news report about a new virus, called Perrun, that infects JPEG files. (Yes, data files) Does anyone on this list know what this is? and is it a problem for Debian GNU/Linux? -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: OT: Perrun virus: Is this Windoze only?

2002-06-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 14:03, Paul E Condon wrote: > Today's Sacramento Bee contains a news report about a new virus, called > Perrun, > that infects JPEG files. (Yes, data files) Does anyone on this list know what > this is? and is it a problem for Debian GNU/Linux? > There's a good slashdot art

Re: Running something on start up and shutdown

2002-06-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >By the way, I'm not sure what the success thing was in the stop case >below; I got errors when I tested it and removed it from my script. That's because the example was actually a redhat example. A standard init.d template c

Re: OT: Perrun virus: Is this Windoze only?

2002-06-14 Thread Alan Shutko
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Today's Sacramento Bee contains a news report about a new virus, > called Perrun, that infects JPEG files. (Yes, data files) Those "infected" jpegs are completely harmless unless you already have been infected by the real virus. > and is it a problem

Re: Running something on start up and shutdown

2002-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 14:13, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >By the way, I'm not sure what the success thing was in the stop case > >below; I got errors when I tested it and removed it from my script. > > That's because t

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 12:34 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:14:48AM +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote: | I have the following in top: | | PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND | 532 root 16 -10 289M 32M 7528 S < 54.6 6.5 8:35 XFree86 | | I t

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