Re: IP Masquerade

2003-02-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
I supposed you could set something up with ssh, so PC1 tunnels a port to its own DNS port via sshd, but it's going to be significantly harder and less useful than ipmasq. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assist

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
No, certainly not that a human would notice. It's an interesting question whether there's a measurable delay at all -- I don't know the answer to that one. Another solution, of course, is to put it in a new partition and then mount the partition at /opt. ap --

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'd be shocked if IE worked reliably under wine, but would also be happy to find out otherwise. My experience is that MS apps are the worst trying to run under wine (presumably because of "undocumented" OS features). If I were in your shoes I'd spring for a copy of VMWare and run a virtual machine

Re: [OT] How fast are scanners nowadays?

2003-02-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
I've got an Epson Perfection 1640 Office scanner, which includes a sheet feeder. I bought a cheap SCSI card for it (it will use SCSI or USB) because when I bought it I was still running a 2.2.x kernel which had mediocre USB support. It's pretty fast for scanning - I'd guess less than a minute per

Re: Support

2003-03-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
I have a very similar board, the GA-7VAX, and have got everything except the sensors working. I haven't worked much on the sensors, since I don't care much about them. Got the sound working only recently, and with a fair amount of trouble, but can send you info on how I did it if you'd like. -

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, stan wrote: > [snip] > 13:58:15 up 249 days, 5:48, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.32, 0.36 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /etc/debian_version > testing/unstable > [snip] > That's certainly "stab;e"enough for em. And it gets apt-get dist-upgraded > pretty much every weekday mor

Re: Help with Realtek ALC650 sound

2003-03-04 Thread Andrew Perrin
I have the same chip working on my machine (a Gateway 7VAX motherboard with the same chipset). You will need kernel-source-2.4.20 and kernel-headers-2.4.20 installed to do the compilation, not just kernel-package. If you do have these, make sure your driver download is pointing at the right kernel

Re: wireless, packet loss

2003-03-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
I've got the same situation - different card (it's a Belkin) but same module, same errors, same (lack of) performance problem. It hasn't caused any problem for me in the roughly 6 months I've been using it. ap -- Andrew J Perrin

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-22 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Magnus von Koeller wrote: > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:05, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > > Good idea. Not only look for error messages but also for _success_ > > messages, at some point it should say that it found the device. > > Now, what if it does report success but s

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-23 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm no expert here, but I think the fact that this works means that ide-cd has got /dev/hdc, which is why ide-scsi doesn't grab it. I think there's an option to tell ide-cd to explicitly ignore /dev/hdc, but I don't know what it is. ap -

dist-upgrade deletes postgresql data!

2003-10-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
I did a dist-upgrade yesterday in order to move to sarge, which I needed for various reasons. Part of the upgrade included a postgresql upgrade, which was fine; the dialog asked if I wanted to save backups, I said yes, and put them in /data0/backups/postgres. Now none of my databases are there: [

Re: dist-upgrade deletes postgresql data!

2003-10-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
(at) unc.edu On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I did a dist-upgrade yesterday in order to move to sarge, which I needed > for various reasons. Part of the upgrade included a postgresql upgrade, > which was fine; the dialog asked if I wanted to save backups, I said yes, >

Re: [OT] deleting pictures from digital camera via computer?

2003-10-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
Works fine for me on an HP digital camera with exactly the same path structure. I usually just mv the pictures and the camera figures it out. It also works the other way: if I copy a .jpg picture to the camera it ends up in the camera's stack and can be viewed on the internal LCD. ap ---

Any simple way to add modules w/o recompiling the kernel?

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- In expectation of a new palm pilot arriving soon, I need to add two modules to my system: usbserial and visor. What I've done in the past is to do a make menuconfig; select the new modules; make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg --revision xx kernel_image; make-kpkg modules_image; cd /usr/src; dpk

Openafs woes

2003-01-23 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I'm running debian woody on a home machine that's behind an NAT masquerader (also woody). The home machine runs the OpenAFS client to connect to the UNC campus's AFS shared directory space. Generally this works fine, but there's one situation that consistently causes a problem. The sce

Re: Openafs woes

2003-01-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
r of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, David Z Maze wrote: > Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm running debian woody on a home machine that's behind an NAT > > masquerader (al

Re: Missing a PERL module called 'concat'

2003-01-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
Where is the "concat" function supposed to come from? The error you reference means that, on line 31 of the script, you call a function called "concat". Perl assumes that unqualified function names are in the main namespace, which is why it looks for &main::concat : & refers to a function, main to

Re: Tips for moving to XEmacs

2003-01-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
For Perl, definitely install and use cperl-mode, which will let you do lots of work with brace matching and indenting. I like syntax highlighting, but you can always turn it off by not invoking global-font-lock-mode. Best, Andy

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
Sure - to complete the prior command beginning with ls, do: !ls which will re-execute the last comment beginning with "ls". If you need finer-grained history, use the command: history which will let you copy-and-paste a prior command. ap --

SCSI CD-ROM disappeared

2003-01-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
I discovered this while trying to get sound working on my desktop machine. Basically, a SCSI CD-RW that once worked has simply stopped working, as far as I can tell. Details: the SCSI card is: 00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic (formerly NCR) 53c810 (rev 23) Subsyst

How crazy is it to run 2.4.20 on woody?

2003-01-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I'd like to use kernel 2.4.20 because (apparently) it drives my machine's built-in sound ref: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=20021218232653.45c6eac7.cgrimland%40yahoo.com.lucky.linux.kernel&rnum=6&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DU

Re: [OT] Learning PERL

2003-01-31 Thread Andrew Perrin
A standard is "Learning Perl" (http://www.bookpool.com/.x/h6ph9apwz1/sm/0596001320) ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andre

Re: LaTex editor

2003-01-31 Thread Andrew Perrin
Emacs... what else is there? (ducks) ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, ian

Re: envelopes in TeX

2003-02-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
Check out the envlab package; usage: \documentclass{letter} \usepackage[businessenvelope,noprintreturnaddress,nocapaddress]{envlab} ... \makelabels \begin{document} \begin{letter}{} \end{letter} \end{document} -- Andrew J Perrin

Re: envelopes in TeX

2003-02-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Tue, 11 Feb 2003 06:37:53PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > [snip] > speaking of configuring -- where should the .sty file go? i tried > just putting the whole envlab directory in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ > -- and i made all the permi

Re: SoundChip Realtek ALC650

2003-02-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
I have the same motherboard, and have not managed (so far) to make it work. This is my lspci -vv for it: 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device a002 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- Spe

Re: SoundChip Realtek ALC650 [Solved]

2003-02-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thank you for this - it got me further than I had been before. But I still have no sound. When I used the modules.conf you suggested, I got "Intel ICH Audio Card Not Found". But if I switch to uncomment the snd-via82xx line, the modules load perfectly, and I'm able to run the alsamixer correctly.

Re: SoundChip Realtek ALC650 [Solved]

2003-02-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
olina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Gemini wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le Jeudi 13 Février 2003 18:55, Andrew Perrin a écrit : > > Thank you for this - it got me further than I had been before.

Stumped: openAFS client "Connection Timed Out"

2003-02-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
I have a home network that includes a linux machine using iptables to NAT packets from three user machines: a laptop (debian 3.0, 2.4.18 kernel), a desktop (debian 3.0, 2.4.20 kernel) and a windows machine. The two debian machines run openAFS clients to connect to UNC's AFS servers. This setup has

apt-get Ign: why?

2003-02-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm trying to upgrade openAFS to 1.2.8 (the newest version) by following the directions at http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.2.8/debian-3.0/README . I've changed the appropriate lines in my /etc/apt/sources.list file, but when I try apt-get update I get: joehill:~# apt-get update Hit http://www

Intel 10/100 VE and eepro100

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Setting up a new computer (an IBM NetVista) that has an Intel 10/100 VE adapter built in, I'm unable to use a net install. What I did was to burn a CD with the vanilla kernel setup, and boot to it. I can boot fine, but when I try to load the eepro100 module, I get "init_module: no such

Re: Intel 10/100 VE and eepro100

2003-09-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Rich Puhek wrote: > > Andrew Perrin wrote: > > > Greetings- > > > > Setting up a new computer (an IBM NetVista) that has an Intel 10/100 VE > > adapter built in, I'm unabl

Re: Intel 10/100 VE and eepro100

2003-09-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Unfortunately, I tried 2.4bf with no luck. It includes eepro100, which > > fails, but not e100 (as far as I could tell). > > The e100 shows up in (at least) the 2.4.20 and later kernels. It is a > module an

Re: Procmailrc to play sound async when message arrives

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew Perrin
There's probably an easier way than this, but you could use perl to fork() the bplay processes, so they don't block. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hi

Re: Games for 1-2 year old child. Recommendations wanted.

2003-10-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Bengt Thure'e wrote: > Thanks, but it sort of demands an internet connection. I hope I can use > a very old laptop (Pentium 100), and no internet connection... Just to > put her somewhere and she can hack and slash at the keyboard... :-) > My son has loved emacs for just this

SYSLINUX: Boot Failed installing woody

2002-10-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I just built a new machine (AMD XP 2200+, 1G RAM), and I'm trying to do a network install of woody. I haven't done this, since I haven't inaugurated a new machine since potato. I created and verified the rescue, root, and driver floppies, and booted to the rescue floppy. But on bootin

libc6 problems

2002-10-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
I fear I've done something very wrong here. I'm trying to stay up to date, so I run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on a regular basis. This time I paid attention; quite a vew packages were held back, so I tried to install them. I found that libc6 was old: ii libc6 2.2.4-5GNU C

Re: libc6 problems

2002-10-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Seneca wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:09:02PM -0400, Andrew Per

Re: libc6 problems

2002-10-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > You need to be more clear on your system configuration (distribution, > preferences, ...) but let bme try help you. Sorry. It's a woody machine, upgraded when woody was testing. Nothing all that special about it; it's got a custom-compiled kern

Re: libc6 problems

2002-10-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:09:02PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > >> I fear I've done something very wrong here. I'm trying to stay up to date, > >> so I run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on a regular basis. > > >> This time I paid attention; quite a

AFS over ipmasq - does it work?

2002-10-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Setting up a new machine, I'm trying to run the openafs client from behind a firewall. The machine that is the firewall can use the client fine, but when I try to start openafs on the machine behind the firewall I get: joehill:~# /etc/init.d/openafs-client start Starting AFS services

Routing doesn't start automatically

2002-10-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- In setting up my new machine, I've run into an odd problem. When the machine boots, the routing table doesn't get restored correctly. I have to type the following: route add 192.168.0.3 eth0 route add default gw 192.168.0.3 in order to use any networking. Here's my /etc/network/in

Re: Routing doesn't start automatically

2002-10-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks to all who replied - it was indeed carelessness on my part. I copied the information from my other debian machine, but took it from eth1 (the interface connected to the DSL router) instead of eth0 (the one for the internal network). Thanks, Andy ---

Re: Project organizer and time-tracking software?

2002-10-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
I haven't used it (yet) but onshore-timesheet looks promising. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu O

Re: USB storage (memstick) trouble

2002-10-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
You need to build USB support, either into the kernel or as modules. Looks like usb-uhci exists, which means you need to first load usbcore. Alternatively, it's possible you have an ohci system. Try the following: insmod usbcore insmod usb-uhci insmod usb-ohci insmod usb-storage And see what

Re: USB storage (memstick) trouble

2002-10-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Seems like no luck to me, so here's the lspci output: I agree. > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System >Controller (rev 14) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP Bridge > 00:

Re: PCI Card for 2 USB Ports

2002-10-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Try it out - plug it into the box, boot up, and do: lspci That will give you a listing for the type of card it is; mine gives: 00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07) 00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07) Most controllers are one

Re: pop server

2002-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
What are you trying to do? telnet pop. 110 tells telnet to find a machine called "pop.hostname" and connect to port 110, which is equivalent to the pop3 port. I don't think that's what you're looking for. ap -- Andrew J Perrin -

Re: pop server

2002-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:42:04 -0400 (EDT) > Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What are you trying to do? telnet pop. 110 tells telnet to > > find a machine called "pop.hostname" and connect to port 110

Re: pop server

2002-10-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
What happens when you try to telnet kimber 110? If that succeeds, there's some problem with the setup of your POP server in terms of compatibility with the client. If it fails, there's a network problem. ap -- Andrew J Perrin -

Re: USB storage (memstick) trouble

2002-10-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
Check /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog as the device is plugged into, and removed from, the USB port. That sometimes provides clues as to what the drivers are doing. Also check /proc/bus/usb for information on what's being seen. I've never used a digital camera so don't have anything more sp

Re: OT: Recurring Event library?

2002-10-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
This is not a complete solution, but the Date::Manip module in perl has some of this in it - you can get, for example, "today - four weeks". ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U

Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot

2002-10-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > Without a doubt. Why not educate your friends about how their PCs work? > A fundamental problem today is that people don't understand the "how" and > "why". To attempt to protect the user from how a PC operates is IMHO to > do much more harm than go

Re: sending email w/perl

2002-10-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: The problem is: > open(FILE,">eltonjohn.txt"); Here, you open FILE for writing, but then... > [snip] >$smtp->datasend(FILE); Here you try to read from it. That won't work in any case; you can't read from a writing file handle. But you also hav

Re: Newbie & Debian 3.0 & GeForce4 MX 440

2002-10-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
Can you post your XFree86Config-4 file? I've got a GF2 card running just fine under debian 3.0. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECT

Why is my load average 3.00?

2002-10-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- On a new box I just built, the load average has been 3.00 for a couple of days now, with really no significant work being done. The box is a pretty powerful one (AMD XP 2200+, 1GB RAM, plenty of storage) and it's really not doing anything most of the time - email, mozilla, openoffice,

lm-sensors and lm78 chip

2002-10-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I'm trying to get lm-sensors to work, mainly to monitor the CPU temperature in my machine. I know the chip is an lm78, as reported by the following output from sensors-detect: Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78' Trying address 0x0290... Success! (confidence 7, driver `lm78

Re: Why is my load average 3.00?

2002-10-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks to all who responded. It appears that, indeed, it was khubd's D process that was causing the "problem". That, in turn, is related to problems I've been having with USB on that machine. You may hear more about those problems on the list shortly, but this one is solved. ap --

Re: My first Linux crash

2002-11-04 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > I was surprised that this issue took down the system on Linux. > I understand, as nate explained, that hardware errors will always > result in trouble but I expected the kernel to react differently. > (Or is this a limitation of x86 or the issue you men

Re: Cheap SCSI controller?

2002-11-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
I don't know that card, but I've used this one: http://www.pcwebshopper.com/pcibushigbus.html Several times with good results. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Car

Re: computer dead; help!

2002-11-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > has anyone had a monitor just up and die on them before? did anything > trigger it, do you think, or was it just random? Yes, I have. And it was even at Swarthmore! 'Course back then it was an IBM green-screen monitor connected to my XT compatible.

Re: load module on boot

2002-11-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Put it in /etc/modules -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Ernesto Marquina wrot

Re: sync root passwords?

2002-12-04 Thread Andrew Perrin
You might want to reconsider the project, frankly - why not make different root passwords for different machines? That would seem to be a more secure alternative. You can make them systematically different to save yourself memorizing them all, by (for example) using the second letter of the hostnam

Re: sync root passwords?

2002-12-04 Thread Andrew Perrin
Wed, 4 Dec 2002, sean finney wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:57:27PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > You might want to reconsider the project, frankly - why not make different > > root passwords for different machines? That would seem to be a more secure > > alternative.

Re: sync root passwords?

2002-12-04 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time Andrew Perrin said... > > No, it's not more insecure; you're assuming the hypothetical hacker knows > > that there is an algorithm, and which character(s) are filled in by it. > > ...and you&#x

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2002-12-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
Just a thought, but do you have ide and/or scsi as modules instead of compiled into the kernel? You will get this message if the kernel can't mount the root partition because it doesn't have the necessary drivers to talk to the disk on which the root partition sits. That is, if / is on an ide disk

Re: sync root passwords?

2002-12-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:58:19PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Take the canonical, one-password case, and give me a reasonably good > > password, say one generated from the phrase "I Procrastinate On Grading > > Papers By Deb

No network on CD net install

2002-12-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I'm trying to install woody on a laptop that has a USB floppy drive. I therefore boot from the CD-ROM drive to the Net Install/ Base .deb's CD (downloaded from http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/boot-floppies/). It boots fine and lets me partition and mount, but then I'm stuck; if I go t

Re: No network on CD net install

2002-12-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
s first, by running the "Configure Device Driver Modules" step This is ironic since it's that step I'm in I think it has to do with lack of PCMCIA support for the drive in which the CD is. ap > > -g > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:09:06PM -0500, Andrew

Re: No network on CD net install

2002-12-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
On 10 Dec 2002, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > Try booting with "ide1=0x180,0x386" as parameters to the kernel. Some > of those Sony machines have all kind of nast hacks in them. That did it - thanks! The debian install is now happily eating my cable modem's bandwidth. ap

Re: Installing a CD burner and USB head card

2002-12-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Barry Cugley wrote: > Hello > > My system is Debian V3 with kernel 2.4.18 on a 200Mhz Pentium. > > I have just installed a USB head card which has two connections for external > devices. I have connected a CD burner to the head card. The CD burner is an > external Iomega, P

Re: Getting a Zip Drive to Work

2003-08-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
Nope - depends on the kind of zip drive. ATAPI zip is seen as /dev/hd* unless you use ide-scsi to explicitly reassign it. To the OP: There may be an easier way to do this, but the way I do it with my ATAPI (IDE) zip drive is to look in /proc/ide/hd*/model: perrin:~# cat /proc/ide/hdd/model IOMEGA

Re: perl cgi problem

2003-08-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
The problem is that perl is wait()ing for the daemon to return before exiting. >From man perlipc: Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent In some cases (starting server processes, for instance) you'll want to completely dissociate the child process from the parent.

Re: USB Storage, Digital Camera, devfs, scsi, mounting hotplug

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
What's the contents of /proc/usb/*? ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Darry

Re: automatic overwrite with cp

2003-08-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
Or, alternatively: yes | cp -apRv source/* /destination/ -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Tu

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-03-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
The past three years I've used TurboTax for the Web - works great, easy to use, and works flawlessly (this year) with Mozilla as the browser under debian. Last year for a short time it stopped working, but it miraculously came back when people complained about linux not being "supported." ap

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-04-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
Dunno about FEMA, but USPS and Amtrak are "parastatals" -- not strictly government agencies, but semiprivate institutions chartered by the federal gov't. Also dunno if that makes a difference ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://ww

Re: netstat / masquerading

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
Try iptstate - works great for me. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, David

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-04-04 Thread Andrew Perrin
TurboTax for the Web did this last year in the US - mozilla worked fine but they sensed it out of the way. I and others posted complaints to the bug section about it and the sensing mysteriously disappeared. It didn't come back this year. You might try the same (although if 4/15 is the deadline i

Re: Integrated sound on Via VT8235 South Bridge

2003-06-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
I have that bridge on a Gigabyte GA7VAX motherboard. I downloaded the drivers for the sound chip (which is a Realtek ALC650) from the realtek website; here's what my lsmod shows for sound: snd-via82xx 7588 0 snd-pcm56928 0 [snd-via82xx] snd-timer 1084

Re: Integrated sound on Via VT8235 South Bridge

2003-06-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
Forgive me if this is obvious, but did you un-mute the appropriate channels with an ALSA mixer? That was my problem originally. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina

Re: Interface lo Not Coming Up

2003-05-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Jeff wrote: > > This ran fine. However, eth0 is not plugged in and I have to wait for > the DHCP process to timeout. That's why I had initially removed the > 'dhcp' part from the /etc/network/intefaces file, to speed things up. > And, once eth0 times out, it gets configured a

Re: Belkin CompactFlash reader problems

2003-06-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Chris Kenrick wrote: > > > > fdisk /dev/sdc1 // play with partitions > > If I try this with "-l" to list the partitions, there is no output and > the log file records an error message. Try just fdisk /dev/sda (if it's a that your device is being assigned to). > > Not

USB Epson scanner problem

2003-06-04 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I've been trying to move my scanner (an Epson 1640SU) from SCSI to USB in preparation for a new machine which will not have a SCSI card. I've got USB working (it mounts a USB memory stick fine) and the scanner module installed, as well as hotplug. Hotplug notices the scanner and assign

Re: 3c920 in 2.4.20; "network unreachable"

2003-06-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Rolf Erling Robberstad wrote: > I installed woody over the internet, configured by the > local DHCP-server. I then downloaded (from debian) > kernel 2.4.20 from http://www.kernel.org and compiled > it to get X working (as part of a i810/i815 howto). > > The 3c59x-driver was co

Re: 3c920 in 2.4.20; "network unreachable"

2003-06-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Rolf Erling Robberstad wrote: > It did work before I got the new kernel (downloaded > the kernel as an ordinary user). > > # dhclient eth0 > -didn't help (it is, however present on the machine) What did it do? Generally dhclient has output. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
I like my HP laserjet 1200SE, which meets all your criteria. Fast, cheap, postscript, parallel. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Allan Wind wrote: > ... > It surprised me that you still need to run a driver in the form of a ppd > to get things going perfectly (otherwise jobs would terminate abnormally > elsewise, never had that problem with the Texas Instrument aka Sharp > PostScript printer that I had

Re: [OT] Printer Languages (WAS: Re: [OT] Printer recommendations)

2003-06-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] Roberto Sanchez wrote: > what are these languages and what do they mean? > > HP PCL 6, HP PCL 5e, HP printer language (emulates Adobe® PostScript® > Level 2) PCL is HP's standard page description language; it's adequate but, to paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen, "it'

Re: [OT] Printer Recommendations

2003-06-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
[Sorry for the broken thread!] Allan Wind wrote: >The psonly-1200 filter does something; otherwise jobs are not terminated >and >the printer will kill some jobs after a timeout of 2 min (if I recall >correctly). Not a big deal, it just surprised me that I needed a filter >in the >first place.

Re: [OT] Printer Languages

2003-06-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote: > >> is it worthwhile to upgrade the RAM for light printing duties? > > > No. > > I disagree. I was able to buy a 3rd-party 64MB module for about $25. At > that price, why not? > -- Have you noticed any performance improvement? ---

Re: Using Debian as a Broadband Router

2003-06-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
As a starter, check speeds without the firewall (connected directly to the T-1). Generally that machine should be more than adequate for the task. Also check speeds from the clients to the fireall machine. All this will give you an idea what's wrong. ap --

Re: 6-1 Card reader

2003-06-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
What's the output of: fdisk /dev/sdb when the SD is in the slot? If an error, post the contents of /proc/bus/usb/devices . ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Caroli

Re: command for disk free ?

2003-06-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
df -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, David selby wrote: > Hello, > > I am wri

Re: vfat and ordinary users

2003-06-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
Mount with an appropriate umask, as in; mount -tvfat -oumask= /dev/hdb2 /mnt/drivec will make everything on the mount world-writable. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U

Getting rid of gnome and kde

2002-12-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
For some reason on the laptop I just installed debian on, I ended up with kde and gnome as the default desktops. I want my fvwm back! How do I rid myself of these? Thanks. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistan

Re: Getting rid of gnome and kde

2002-12-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks for the advice - eventually I just apt-get removed everything with "kde" in the name, as well as gnome-control-center and that took care of it. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Soc

HSF Linmodem

2002-12-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm about to embark on a quest to get my laptop's built-in modem (a Conexant HSF variet) to work. I don't see any .deb versions of the drivers, which leads me to believe I have to build from scratch. I have no problem doing so, but if I've missed something I'd appreciate the heads-up. Thanks. ---

Re: HSF Linmodem

2002-12-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Tom Massey wrote: > * Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-13 23:50]: > > I'm about to embark on a quest to get my laptop's built-in modem (a > > Conexant HSF variet) to work. I don't see any .deb

Re: Content Management System sought

2002-12-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
What about Back-End? (http://sourceforge.net/projects/back-end/) Disclaimer: I know nothing about it, just happened to run across it yesterday. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology

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