Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) > server (woody)

2003-06-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/06/03 11:12), Bob Proulx wrote: > Mark C wrote: > > It feels like a client issue, as RedHat on the client works great. > > I just realized that Mark pointed out that you were running NFSpv2 > instead of NFSpv3. That could make a big difference. Check your > kernel versions. Here is the d

Re: Debian compatibility with Mac G4 computer, and will it run Blender 3-d modeling software, which runs under Linux?

2003-06-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/06/03 12:37), Daniel Fredrickson wrote: > Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 12:37:33 -0500 > Subject: Debian compatibility with Mac G4 computer, and will it run > Blender 3-d modeling software, which runs under Linux? > From: Daniel Fredrickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > P

Re: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel

2003-06-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/06/03 12:16), Informática. Cabildo de La Gomera wrote: > Doesn´t works! > > # modprobe smbfs > # Can´t locate module smbfs > > It says it cant locate the needed module, and I am sure that > "apt-get install smbfs" says "Sorry, smbfs is already the newest version" > > Where is the module s

Re: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel

2003-06-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/06/03 14:48), Informática. Cabildo de La Gomera wrote: > How can I install the new kernel? > I use dselect - if you use help (?) it will give you the command key to search (/) Look for "kernel"; to repeat the search use "\". You need a kernel-image 2.4.18 for your machine type (probably i

Re: initrd and lilo.conf

2003-05-27 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Brian On (27/05/03 12:22), Brian W. Carver wrote: > I just compiled a custom 2.4.18 kernel for my woody-running > laptop. > I'm new at this and am pretty sure I am about to shutdown > and be unable to boot back up, because this initrd/lilo > stuff has me baffled. Please help! > I followed t

Re: initrd and lilo.conf

2003-05-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (27/05/03 10:32), Brian Carver wrote: > New problem: > > When I proceeded with the > > dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.18-custom.1.0_i386.deb > > after deciding that initrd.img was ok to put in lilo.conf I get an > error: > - > Setting up kernel-image-2.4.18 (custom.1.0) ... > Failed to create

Re: How do I make a recovery floppy ?

2003-06-01 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Al On (31/05/03 09:48), Al Dykes wrote: > I didn't have a floppy drive when I set up my system, so I skipped > the "make a floppy" step. How do I make one after the fact. > > My #1 priority is protecting my multi-boot setup (LILO), including the MBR. > so i can boot w2k, in an NTFS partit

Re: Dumb Newbie KDE Pager Question

2003-06-03 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Rich On (02/06/03 09:39), Jacob S. wrote: > Last I used KDE (way back during version 1.something), you could drag a > window to the desktop number you wanted it moved to on the taskbar. You > should also be able to click the button on the upper left hand corner of > a window or right click it'

Re: inode error, linux won't boot

2003-06-03 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Emma On (02/06/03 13:22), Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Ooops. I created a new user by mistake when I was finishing the > installation, or maybe it happened before. The result is that > /home/emmajane no longer contains my files. > > Any idea where they might be? > I did something like this the ot

Re: Accessing a NFS mounted directory as a user.

2003-06-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/06/03 15:45), N. Pauli wrote: > I have got NFS up and running on my 3 machine network in which beech [10.0.0.5] > is the server and mesh [10.0.0.6] and tecra [10.0.0.7] are clients. From beech > I have exported /tmp and /var/www and mounted them on the two clients as > /mnt/beechtmp and /mnt

Re: [OT] ergonomic setups

2003-06-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/06/03 15:44), Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 02:07:29AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 12:27:37PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > i'd like your opinions/feedback about what kind of ergonomic setups > > > you use at home and in the office. as i mentioned a

NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients

2003-06-08 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I've been round in several circles in the last 24 hours without success. Looking through the docs and googling provided numerous ideas as to the source of the problem but various fixes failed to sort this particular problem: I've recently set-up a network with 3 servers running NFS and Samba.

Re: NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients

2003-06-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/06/03 22:43), Clive Menzies wrote: > I've been round in several circles in the last 24 hours without success. > Looking through the docs and googling provided numerous ideas as to the > source of the problem but various fixes failed to sort this particular > problem: >

Re: NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients

2003-06-08 Thread Clive Menzies
agnostic section of "The Unofficial Samba HOWTO" - I guess it demonstrates that I don't know what I'm trying to do ;-) > On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 23:58:36 +0100 > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Some further info: > > > > Hydra:/# /usr/

Re: NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients

2003-06-08 Thread Clive Menzies
can't access Phoenix because Samba isn't talking to NIS, I guess. In an ideal world, I would like to maintain all user and group information on one server (Hydra) and let it validate users for itself, Zeus and Phoenix. Sorry if this is a bit long winded. > > Clive Menzies <

Re: Cant use mailing list

2003-06-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/06/03 01:34), Fred Bowker wrote: > This is a really dumb question but I don't know how to post a follow up > message in the mailing list > How to post a reply thanks for any answers ill test them by replying a message to the thread Hi Fred You're running a risk of alienating the people

Re: Cant use mailing list

2003-06-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/06/03 09:02), Hugh Saunders wrote: > uOn Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:45:14AM +0100, Fred Bowker wrote: > > This is a really dumb question but I don't know how to post a follow up > > message in the mailing list > > How to post a reply thanks for any answers ill test them by replying a > > messag

Re: NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients

2003-06-09 Thread Clive Menzies
fo is at > pamsmb.sourceforge.net, though the file should be part of the samba > packages. > > That should be enough to get things rolling. I'm happy to > continue off-list if you want - authentication and interoperabilty are a > particular interest of mine. >

Re: Cant use mailing list

2003-06-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/06/03 13:54), Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:20:10AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > If the OP wants to join the list to climb the debian > > learning curve, it is likely that he's not yet installed Linux, in which > > case mutt is probably not a

Re: samba-cups-w2k client print problems

2003-06-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/06/03 16:22), Thomas wrote: > I have a debian machine acting as a file/print server with a deskjet > 970cxi usb printer attached. My debian laptop client can print via > cups/samba and it works reasonably well. However my w2k client cannot > access the printer.The printer share is visible bu

Re: Content Managment Systems List

2003-06-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/06/03 15:31), Grzesiek Sedek wrote: > Subject: Content Managment Systems List > From: Grzesiek Sedek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 09 Jun 2003 15:31:37 +0100 > > Hi, > Does anyone have a list of Content Mangement Systems avialable in > Debian? > Thanks >

Re: Cant use mailing list

2003-06-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/06/03 10:50), Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:20:10AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > If the OP wants to join the list to climb the debian > > learning curve, it is likely that he's not yet installed Linux, in which > > case mutt is probably no

Re: Switching Desktops

2003-06-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/06/03 19:02), Nick Wilson wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Sorry for the lame quesiton ;-) I just can't find the 'button'! > > I installed on a very old machine but made sure twm was installed. Now, > half an hour later I can get KDE (default) up but would like to change > the default desktop

Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/06/03 14:03), Kevin Griffis wrote: > I would like to eventually do all my web development on my Linux laptop and > ditch FrontPage altogether. I am planning to build a site on a LAMP machine > and was wondering what Open Source web design tools are out there for > Debian. Does anyone have

Re: Cant use mailing list

2003-06-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/06/03 17:36), Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:38:42PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > And I'm still struggling with my set up not > > managed to implement procmail yet and the cron job to "getmail" is being > > mailed to me every 5 five

Re: Cant use mailing list

2003-06-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/06/03 03:24), Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:49:45AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (09/06/03 17:36), Pigeon wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:38:42PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > > And I'm still struggling with my set up ..

Re: Installing Debian from Red Hat (without a CD or floppy drive)

2003-06-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/06/03 02:15), Steve Grabowsku wrote: > When we last left our hero, he was trying to install Debian onto a machine > with no floppy or CD drive, but with a working Red Hat installtion > > Thanks to this list, I was able to get good instructions on how to do > a cross-install using a chro

Re: fstab Mystery

2003-06-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/06/03 00:37), Carlos Sousa wrote: > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:37:12 +0100 > From: Carlos Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: fstab Mystery > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:16:24 -0700 Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Carlos Sousa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030610 15:19]: > > > On

Re: 2troubles

2003-06-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 01:08 pm, george roman wrote: - i can't make anny users (i can create them, but i can't grant access whith users other than root) they exist in /etc/password anh in /home Are you using useradd? adduser works much better in debian - when i want to turn off my comp

Security update for 2.4.18

2003-06-11 Thread Clive Menzies
Following the recent security alert I've installed new kernels on 4 machines including two HP LPro servers, one of which is dual processor. I installed the corresponding 686 smp kernel and /root is showing: vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-1-686-smp However, uname -ra gives: Linux Hydra 2.4.18-1-6

Re: Security update for 2.4.18 - solved

2003-06-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/06/03 01:04), Clive Menzies wrote: > Following the recent security alert I've installed new kernels on 4 > machines including two HP LPro servers, one of which is dual processor. > > I installed the corresponding 686 smp kernel and /root is showing: > vmlinuz -> bo

Re: Recompile Debian Woody Kernel

2003-06-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/06/03 14:03), tt tt wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:03:44 +0100 (BST) > > Are there any beginners guides to recompiling the kernel - specifically for woody? > This is not woody specific but an excellent guide nontheless: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/tutorials/kernel-pkg/index-kernel

Re: ispell dictionary is missing

2003-06-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/06/03 10:57), Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > It can't open it because it doesn't exist! I scanned through the man pages > for ispell but they all seemed to suggest that the dictionaries should > already be there...the only file that I have in /usr/lib/ispell is > default.aff > > I've got aspell

Re: Partially broken tasksel after dist-upgrade

2003-06-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/06/03 10:01), Andrew A. Raines wrote: > Unfortunately, I didn't find chapters 5 & 6 of the Debian > Reference Manual before I tried to upgrade my machine from a 3.0 > instal to testing. Now I'm having problems. Although, I've done > `apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' before and it's

Re: howto add kde v3.x to woody ???

2003-06-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/06/03 21:44), Michael D. Schleif wrote: > I have googled and read and gone to kde.org, and I come away with the > silly notion that I can have a woody system, including kde v3.1x. > [snip]... > Bottomline, can kde v3.x be *simply* and *reliably* introduced to woody > systems? To testing?

Re: open office compatibility

2003-06-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/06/03 12:30), ian wrote: > > Is Open Office v1.0.3.1 compatible with woody (kern. ver. 2.4.18)? > ian > We're running 1.0.3-2 on 2 PC's and a G4, all running woody (2.4.18). The PC's are fine but OpenOfficeCalc is unstable on the Mac side (Crashes on opening quite often). I am getting som

Re: your mail

2003-06-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/06/03 22:08), Royer Kerwin wrote: > Subject: > From: Royer Kerwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 18 Jun 2003 22:08:33 +0200 > > hello; > > please can someone tell me how tu unsuscribe ? > Go to: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#subunsub Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: installation problem on Dell OptiPlex

2003-06-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/06/03 07:03), Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hi, > >I got a problem during installing debian on a Dell Optiplex L60. > >I startet the installation with the disks (Kernel 2.2.20, version: > >comcat,woody), but at the point of installing the networkdriver i > >stoped. > >

Re: Debian PPC

2003-06-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/06/03 23:28), Kent West wrote: > John A. English, n/OEF wrote: > > >Debian users, > > > >I am trying to install Debian Linux on an iMAC computer. > > > >I bought a set of distribution disks and booted the disk 1 then > >followed the directions and successfully installed the command line

Re: Changing UID's?

2003-06-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/06/03 21:36), cr wrote: > > I'm 'cr', UID 1000 in my Debian setup.However, under RedHat I was > UID 500 and all my heaps of data (left over from RedHat) is filed as owner > 500 group 500. This means I can't readily access it without changing > something. > > I could, of course

Re: how to log "init" output?

2003-06-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/06/03 19:09), Mike Williams wrote: > > I'd like to get more visibility of what's happening when my Debian system > boots, but the output of the /etc/init.d/* scripts scroll by so fast that I > can't read it. > > Is there some way I can either make the console buffer larger (so I can > scro

Re: Changing UID's?

2003-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/06/03 19:13), cr wrote: > On Sunday 22 June 2003 00:21, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (20/06/03 21:36), cr wrote: [snip] > > > > > However, it would be more sensible I think if I was User 500 in both > > > systems. Is there any safe legal way to change

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/06/03 00:52), cr wrote: > I'm still booting off floppy and trying to get GRUB sorted. > > I have /boot on /dev/hda1 and root on /dev/hda5 > > (At first, LILO was just hanging with 'LI 99 99 99' and GRub, when I > installed it gave an Error 5 - 'partition table bad'.Eventually I

Re: tray open or drive not ready

2003-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/06/03 11:22), Kent West wrote: > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:22:38 -0500 > From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: tray open or drive not ready > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], > debian users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I've been trying to install grub on my har

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/06/03 16:36), Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:56:37 +0100 > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > to guide me. The only variation I adopted was to not rerun update grub > > after editing the menu.lst. It seemed to put all the settings

Re: tray open or drive not ready

2003-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/06/03 16:11), Kent West wrote: > > Thanks for the response, Clive. Turns out I was doing things the proper > way; it's just that something was screwy with the MBR I reckon. (hd0 > refers to the first hard drive that the BIOS lists, not to the first > hard drive on the first IDE port -- g

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/06/03 01:20), Kevin McKinley wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:04:47 +0100 > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I did this, it took the values and reset them to to the default > > values. So having gone around in circles more than once, I

Re: Integrated Broadcom nic on Dell times out with dhcp

2003-11-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/11/03 17:17), Kent West wrote: > I have a new Dell Dimension 2400 with an integrated Broadcom BCM4401 > 100Base-T nic. > > When I first installed Woody on it, with a 2.4.18-bf kernel, the nic was > not recognized. > > When I upgraded the kernel to a stock 2.4.22-1-686 kernel, the nic >

Re: epson

2003-11-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/11/03 11:51), steef wrote: > The black ink on my epson 870 does not print. The colors print. > I have run the nozzle check, etc., several times and it still doesn't print. > I have a new black cartridge and it still doesn't print in black. > > Can anyone help? > Thanks > Karen > > under w

Re: Enterprise Hardware support

2003-11-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/11/03 14:22), Pedro Miguel Ruivo (TRQV-DSI) wrote: > just a couple of questions. > > i'm looking for a Linux distro to install on Compaq DL380 and DL360 G3 > Servers. > I'm relatively confortable with Debian but can't find any support on the part > of hardware manufacturers for Debian. > >

Re: Enterprise Hardware support

2003-11-20 Thread Clive Menzies
nd Netatalk instead of KDE etc. HTH Clive > > -Mensagem original- > De: Clive Menzies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviada: quarta-feira, 19 de Novembro de 2003 15:25 > Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Assunto: Re: Enterprise Hardware support > > > On (19/11/03 14:2

Re: installed with no X

2003-11-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/11/03 23:41), Thinker wrote: > After installing Debian 3.0r1 "woody" "stable" after rebooting the > machine I get the error message... > > "I cannot start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely > that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X server > output to

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/11/03 10:42), Knut Willy wrote: > I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. > > 1. Have a Windows-98 PC, which has internet connection. >Do not intend to use Linux on this one. >Afraid of having two operating systems on same machine. If you have a broadband co

Fwd: Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Clive Menzies
I think this was meant for the list . - Forwarded message from Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > To: Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 03:03:52 -0800 (PST) > Subject: Re: Learning debia

Re: installed with no X

2003-11-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/11/03 08:14), Thinker wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 04:41, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (19/11/03 23:41), Thinker wrote: > > > After installing Debian 3.0r1 "woody" "stable" after rebooting the > > > machine I get the error message...

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/11/03 23:39), Stephen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:15:05PM -0500 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > You can look into clamAV. > > But if SpamAssassin is too resource intensive I think you will find > > antivirus scanners to be even more so. > > > > clamav+spamassassin

Re: (unofficial) Debian project list status

2003-11-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/11/03 02:48), Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've been lurking on the #debian-devel IRC channel, some info on lists. > This is an unofficial informational posting. > > > If you weren't already aware, several Debian project servers were > compromised by what appears to have been a password captur

Re: Installing CUPS

2003-11-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/11/03 09:46), peted wrote: > How do I know if I have CUPS installed? Also, is there some type of > configuration program for CUPS? I get an error message when I try to run the > KDE Printer manager stating that it could not connect to the CUPS Server on > localhost:631 Open a shell in co

KDE3.1 in sid and woody

2003-12-05 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I am just rebuilding Debian on my Powermac G4 having repartioned to install sid as the main system but with a "/" partition to run woody as a fallback (this is my main workstation). Both installs have worked fine (after a couple of blind alleys) and I've installed various packages using aptitu

Re: SOLVED - KDE3.1 in sid and woody

2003-12-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/12/03 00:27), Ross Boylan wrote: > Check http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianKDE > sid needs some help to install > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:52:22PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am just rebuilding Debian on my Powermac G4 having repartione

Re: IntelliMouse Explorer (USB Compatible)

2003-12-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/12/03 22:27), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I decided trying to get help on this list after having read many articles I > found with google and having tried a lot of different entries in the > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /etc/gpm.conf files - none of which worked. > > My computer is a PowerBook

Re: How to Esc?

2003-12-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/12/03 13:07), Gruessle wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Gruessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:07:27 -0800 > Subject: How to Esc? > > > In the install > I am in "Testing up sources ..." and get connection timed out > > How can I esc from thet without reboot? Ctl-C

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

2003-12-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/12/03 00:19), Gruessle wrote: > To: Lucas Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Gruessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 00:19:00 -0800 > Subject: RE: Redhat to Debian conversion > > > I am not sure if we are on the same page. > The apt is installed and wo

Galeon 1.3.10 on sid (ppc)

2003-12-15 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I've just ugraded from sarge to sid and using aptitude. I tried to install galeon. However, aptitude reported errors and so I tried to remove it using aptitude, dpkg -P, and apt-get remove. All of these produce the following error: dpkg: error processing galeon (--purge): Package is in a ve

Groundhog day (was Galeon 1.3.10 on sid (ppc)

2003-12-16 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Sorry to re-post but I'm really stuck (I've been reduced to reinstalling woody on another partition, just to be able to function). To recap, using aptitude, I installed Galeon 1.3.10 (which seems to run although there were some errors reported on installation). My problems started when I trie

Re: Groundhog day (was Galeon 1.3.10 on sid (ppc)

2003-12-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/12/03 19:20), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:32:03PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Hi > > > > Sorry to re-post but I'm really stuck (I've been reduced to reinstalling > > woody on another partition, just to be able to function).

Re: Printer Problems

2004-11-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/11/04 14:29), Noah Durell wrote: > Hello, > I seem to be getting this error when I try to add a network printer to > my printer list in KDE: > > Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: > Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is > co

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/11/04 08:52), Jacob S wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600 > Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]: > > > Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document or thread > > > (which I couldn't find) that expla

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/11/04 10:46), Jacob S wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:15:14 + > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On (23/11/04 08:52), Jacob S wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600 > > > Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/11/04 15:52), Wayne Topa wrote: > Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0500 > > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600 > > > > Nate Barg

Re: /var/mail/mail

2004-11-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/11/04 10:11), David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > >> I think the best way is to change the file /etc/aliases. A few lines > > >from that file on my system: > > >* * * > > >mail: root > > >I have this line there. > >I added cron: root so will

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/11/04 12:08), Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 23 Nov 2004, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > For now I will adopt "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach. I am > > > unsure of what removing x-window-system entails ... something to explore > > > when I have more time ;) > > > > This shouldn't be

dodgy sudo upgrade on woody ppc - echos processing

2004-11-24 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I don't think this is a ppc specific problem and so I'm posting here. In response to the sudo security alert I've upgraded 1 sid workstation and 3 woody servers (2 i386 and 1 ppc). All are fine except for the woody ppc upgrade. During "aptitude upgrade" dpkg couldn't write to its file becau

Re: freetype "xfontsel"

2004-11-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/11/04 04:44), Olive Esseret wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a utility analog to > xfontsel but which allow to choose freetype font and > show their name in the fontconfig format. This allow > me to configure the fonts that icewm use for its > interface. Hi Olive I've got xfontsel here

Re: Problem re-stated

2004-11-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/11/04 02:14), jack kinnon wrote: > Hi folks, > > I will re-state my problem. I had been running 'stable' for months when I > decided to upgrade to 'testing' via the net. I did a apt 'update' followed by > a 'dist upgrade'. Because the number of bytes to be downloaded exceeded my > volu

Re: Thanks to Kent West et al

2004-11-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/11/04 17:44), Brian wrote: > A few days ago I started what turned out to be a very long thread about my > attempts, as a newbie, to get my new Debian installation working properly. > I disappeared for a few days because my monitor blew up so I couldn't even > use the Debian box, but I now ha

Re: Help! Problems installing a new debian 3.0 woody

2004-12-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/12/04 12:49), Katrien de Vos wrote: > Yesterday I received 4 CD's of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 "Woody" for i386. > Enthousiatically I started to install. > I am an experienced Windows XP user and (at home) I have a notebook PC > (Celeron II, 667 MHz). > Partitioning was no problem. I even used

Re: changing default os in grub

2004-12-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/12/04 09:38), john gennard wrote: > I've been using grub for a little while now, and > its setup as been 'automatic'. > > I run Sarge and also have Sid installed. > > Frequently, I install debian based distros just to > have a look at them. > > Now, I have ubuntu as the default selection

Re: changing default os in grub

2004-12-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/12/04 20:34), john gennard wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > >>[snip] > > >Hi John > > > >You need to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst with a text editor. I have a > >rather complex grub set-up (which was an interesting learning > >experience) on

Writing to SMB share fails from some applications

2004-12-11 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Without going into a long explanation (which would probably only serve to confuse) of how I got to here, I have a problem saving to a samba share from specifically openoffice and kwrite. However, I can save to a samba share from the command line and from gvim running under kde. I had used smb

Re: hardware spec's

2004-12-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/12/04 19:20), charles ortega wrote: > Hello > > I am trying to find a version of Linux that can be put on older apple > performas and power Macs that run 603 and 604 processors with old style > keyboards and mice does any of your versions work for this . Hi Chuck You can download the new

Raid1 device disappears on reboot

2004-12-16 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi After failing to resolve this problem at the time of install (d-i rc2), I created a Raid1 array manually. This box has 1 80Gb ATA disk with sarge installed. Plus 2 SATA 120Gb drives with the following: description: RAID bus controller product: 82801EB (ICH5R) SATA (cc=RAID)

Re: Xfree86 setup on old-world Mac HELP!

2004-12-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/12/04 16:11), Eric Scott wrote: > Yo; > Just installed Woody on my ol' PowerMac 7300 with it's integrated video > system. How on earth do I get Xfree up and chipper? dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86 does it's "Please enter the video card's bux > identifier," but lspci does me no good

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/12/04 13:39), Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > > > 4) Lastly, I hope you will not mind me mentioning Knoppix but I have seen > > impressive screen shots of it while there are very few available for Debian. > > Knoppix however appears to be merely an introductory vehicle for Linux so my > > th

Re: And Now for My Next Frustration - The Printer

2004-12-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/12/04 01:50), Scarletdown wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > > >On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:32:44AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > > > > > >>I've done all of that. This model is supported, and it still isn't > >>working. > >> > >> > > > >So you can print from every application except KDE a

Re: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/12/04 20:19), Juhasz Sandor wrote: > Hi! > > I have to implement default umask 002 for my users on my Debian server. > I use KDM login. I searched the net, and I found tips only on setting umask > on console, and on terminal emulators. (The standard /etc/profile, > ~/.bashrc, /etc/bash.bash

Re: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/12/04 17:37), David Mandelberg wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > For existing directories: $ chmod -R 775 should do the trick > That will work for the directories themselves, but all files in them will be > executable. > > I wrote a (very basic) bash script that

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

2004-12-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/12/04 14:13), Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:25:57PM -0600, J.A. de Vries ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On 2004-12-21 @ 18:30:35 (week 52) Bob Alexander wrote: > > > > > Slowly building my "disaster assurance" strategy on top of the file > > > backups. > > > > > >

Re: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-22 Thread Clive Menzies
> > umask 002 > > > and private groups for every user (for their home directory). Is this the > > > common way to solve this situation? If not, please help me. > > The is common, with the addition of setgid directories (chmod g+s > dirname). Files created in a dire

Re: HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/12/04 22:20), Ian Meyer wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to get our system to boot using > kernel-image-2.6.8-1-i686-smp and kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp with > no luck. Both panic with the message very similar to this (can't cut and > paste anything since I'm working on the console)

Re: SMBMount issues between Woody and Sid

2004-12-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/12/04 14:59), Gonzalo Sainz-Trápaga wrote: > Hi, I posted this message on debian-testing and someone recommmended > posting here instead. The original message follows. Since samba 2.2 > went EOL lately, I upgraded Samba on the server to samba 3.0 from > backports.org after writing this messa

Re: md0 disappeared

2005-01-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/01/05 13:31), Vít Baloun wrote: > Hallo Clive, > I have the same problem that you reported here: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/12/msg02266.html > > Did you work it out? I have two md devices: md0 and md1. md0 is mounted as / > (root). After reboot I can find md0, but md1 (and

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/01/05 23:09), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > I used the lpr command to print an image, which gave me great problems. > The printer writes text on every 4th page saying: > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > %%Creator: The X Print Server's PostScript DDX (xprint.mozdev.org) > > I tried deleting the pri

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/01/05 18:17), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > On (03/01/05 23:09), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > >> I used the lpr command to print an image, which gave me great problems. > >> The printer writes text on every 4th page saying: > >> %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > >> %%Creator: The X Print Server's

Re: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/01/05 15:14), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On (04/01/05 18:17), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > > This is the output of the command > > > > > > $ ps aux | grep lpr > > > > > >

Re: Printer outputting raw postscript

2005-01-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/01/05 00:19), Tony Parsons wrote: > Hi, I was just setting up my dads computer with Sarge when I ran into a > problem with the printing. > > We're using CUPS, just a basic installation thus far. I was setting it up > using KDE Printing Manager, and when it came to trying the test page, al

Re: Umask 002 policy

2005-01-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/12/04 10:40), Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time Clive Menzies said... > > > > I've never really understood what the first digit does but > > having reread the chmod manpage it falls into place almost. Setting > > the group ID at 2, means

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/01/05 01:56), Alexander Schmehl wrote: > Hi Kevin! > > * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050103 07:08]: > > > I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments > > appreciated! > > What is the target group of your diagramm? Since I don't think people > without dee

Re: Please teach me something on Debian and modules

2005-01-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/01/05 17:36), Bob Alexander wrote: > I am trying to load the ibm_acpi module with some options. > > I placed the > ibm-acpi > line in /etc/modules > > I tried using the following line in /etc/modprobe.conf > > options ibm-acpi hotkey=enable,0x experimental=1 > > ran depmod -a and reb

Re: Install Debian on Dell Dimension XPS Txxx

2005-01-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/01/05 23:57), Marcel Faber wrote: > Hi Clive, > > Read your notes on the Debian newsgroup and wondered > if you experience any problems with installing the > nVidia video adapter. How did you succeed? I can't get > it installed. Can i also use a generic driver? Any > tips for me? Thanks in

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