Anonymous ftp times incorrect?

1998-08-11 Thread Colin Telmer
th no avail. The one strange thing that I have run across is the anonymous ftp sessions seem to add EST to an EST clock. User ftps don't. Does anyone have any idea why this is? Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: voice mail

1998-08-21 Thread Colin Telmer
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Carl Vilbrandt wrote: > Where do I look for a voice mail/fax software and or > hardware for Debian/Linux. Thanks in Advance. For software, look at the various mgetty-* packages. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: where is NNTPSERVER variable set?

1998-08-25 Thread Colin Telmer
read from /etc/news/server? Unless that is trn specific, that is where mine is set. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

hands-free phone with debian?

1998-09-13 Thread Colin Telmer
Is there a way that I can set up a voice modem to allow me to place and receive phone calls using the microphone connected to my voice modem and some sort of software to answer and dial? Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Re: desktop calendar for linux

1998-09-22 Thread Colin Telmer
rot.de/plan.html Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Re: DontZap zaps...(X problem)

1998-10-06 Thread Colin Telmer
ot;DontZap" method does not work here, I am using Debian > 2.0. Any one got ideas ? Works for me: Section "ServerFlags" DontZap EndSection -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Re: ftp.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org

1998-06-20 Thread Colin Telmer
On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > Anyone know what is up with these two sites? ftp.debian.org appears to > be refusing connections and ftp.us.debian.org looks like the daemon is there > but inactive. :/ I just got into ftp.debian.org fine. us didn't work however. Che

fvwm2/xterm/bash/(child process) problem

1998-06-25 Thread Colin Telmer
Say I run a process in the background from an xterm. For example, emacs & Then, if I kill the xterm by clicking on the X in the right, top corner, it ALSO kills emacs. On the other hand, if I kill the xterm by typing `exit' at the command line, the emacs job continues. I want to have the

fvwm2/xterm/bash/(child process) problem part II

1998-06-26 Thread Colin Telmer
Say I run a process in the background from an xterm. For example, emacs & Then, if I kill the xterm by clicking on the X in the right, top corner, it ALSO kills emacs. On the other hand, if I kill the xterm by typing `exit' at the command line, the emacs job continues. I want to have the

RedHat questions (relative to debian)

1998-07-02 Thread Colin Telmer
My brother recently set up a linux machine in Pittsburgh and decided to choose RedHat over Debian as some other people in his department use it. I firmly recommended against this, but he failed to listen:) Now, it seems that these other people aren't as knowledgable (sp?) about RedHat or linux as f

Re: Weird crash with dhcpcd and X11

1998-07-07 Thread Colin Telmer
dpcpcd client in the foreground while it went out and fetched an ip address. I don't remember exactly how I did it but it involved fiddling with the /etc/init.d/dhcpcd script. I don't have the hack anymore as I now use ADSL rather than a cable modem. Sorry. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontari

Redirecting X output

1998-07-09 Thread Colin Telmer
I have a bizzare X program that needs to have it's gui on the console for it to run non-interactively and will crash even when the console is locked. Is there any way of redirecting the X stream to something like /dev/null? Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL P

[off-topic] IN THE ECONOMIST THIS WEEK

1998-07-10 Thread Colin Telmer
na's prize-winning sex-advice column * You can read these articles, and many more, in the free area of The Economist Web Edition, at http://www.economist.com. Subscribers can also read 60 more new articles. ******** -- Colin

Redirecting X output

1998-07-12 Thread Colin Telmer
I have a bizzare X program that needs to have it's gui on the console for it to run non-interactively and will crash even when the console is locked. Is there any way of redirecting the X stream to something like /dev/null? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailt

[off-topic?] real audio capture?

1998-07-17 Thread Colin Telmer
, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com> -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: more questions about time

1998-07-24 Thread Colin Telmer
, but the jist of it is correct. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com> -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

MAILER-DAEMON@telmer "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE"

1999-02-10 Thread Colin Telmer
7;t figure out what keeps creating them after I delete them. I do not have any pop pr imap software installed. I do however infrequently use netscape mail and have it pointed at the same folders as pine is. Could netscape be creating these messages? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontar

RE: MAILER-DAEMON@telmer "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE"

1999-02-10 Thread Colin Telmer
#x27;t pop anymore so I find them simply annoying. Maybe this will be the last straw that moves me from Pine to Mutt (although I suppose Mutt could do the same). Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Re: MAILER-DAEMON@telmer "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE"

1999-02-10 Thread Colin Telmer
one note. Small concern, so I'll probably just put up with it. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Re: Controlling Volume on an Audio CD?

1999-02-10 Thread Colin Telmer
mixer such as gom should do it. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Enlightenment and xearth

1999-02-10 Thread Colin Telmer
appreciated. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

emusic DR0.8 hangs

1999-02-11 Thread Colin Telmer
99902 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Support binaries ii libemusic0 0.8-1 Analysis and playmode modules for eMusic ii libesd0 0.2.7-0.199902 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared libraries and esd is running. Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, On

x11amp always starts four processes

1999-02-27 Thread Colin Telmer
5564 4020 ?S09:59 0:00 x11amp I assume that this shouldn't happen - has anyone else experienced it? Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Re: web link checker

1999-03-13 Thread Colin Telmer
p://starship.skyport.net/crew/marduk/linbot/ Why not just install the debianized version? I don't know about stable, but it is in unstable. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

/etc/localtime and glibc 2.1

1999-03-17 Thread Colin Telmer
ltime 1999 So I thought I could simply create /etc/localtime with the single line reading "EST" but that didn't do anything. Any ideas? -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Re: /etc/localtime and glibc 2.1

1999-03-18 Thread Colin Telmer
Ignore this. I forgot about tzconfig. Cheers. On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Colin Telmer wrote: > I am running potato and have glibc 2.1 installed and date reports GMT time > rather than EST. I realize that the timezone package was replaced by glibc > 2.1 but I can't figure out how to tell

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-18 Thread Colin Telmer
ou are, so who's correct? Here's a solid source - from all the bad war movies I've seen over the years, I have heard "0 hundred hours" but not "24 hundred hours":) If only I could finish my thesis with such rigour. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

modem answering to a different song?

1998-12-30 Thread Colin Telmer
Has anyone been able to get a modem to answer to a distinct phone ring? My phone company allows one to have up to four numbers on one line each with a distinct ring and I would like to set up a fax server that answers only on one of these numbers. Any ideas? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa

Re: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread Colin Telmer
nes, depending on the version you use, > that mention xdm. For example, > start-xdm > If you want to get rid of xdm, comment that line out. I assume the outcome is the same, but to be consistent with the syntax of that file, you don't comment it out - you change "start-xdm"

Re: Can't install emacs on potato

1999-09-08 Thread Colin Telmer
n-US/contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/non-free I repacked a version (with liblockfile0_0.1-6_i386.deb) after this message. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Help with exim -> Message frozen (fwd) ?

1999-09-11 Thread Colin Telmer
I recently moved from smail to exim and have occasionally been sent the following note (below). I don't really know what it means (other than the obvious:)) nor how to fix it. Can anyone shed some light on this problem? -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

modules, kmod, printing, and tape backup

1999-09-11 Thread Colin Telmer
1 (autoclean) fat25120 1 (autoclean) [vfat] Does anyone know how to tell kmod to preload zftape before ftape (if that is the problem - if not what is?)? Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[

Re: video .mov player for linux ?

1999-04-14 Thread Colin Telmer
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Conrado Badenas wrote: > Hi! > > Does anyone know of a player of .mov video files for GNU/Linux into a > Debian package? I don't want to return to Windows 3.1 Try xanim Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Removing the Enlightenment Pager

1999-04-18 Thread Colin Telmer
ng a fully updated potato system. Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Re: subdivise potato and slink in two mailing lists

1999-04-22 Thread Colin Telmer
uld be hard to stop people from posting any type of questions to debian-user and debian-devel is the potato list. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

How can I permentently get rid of the Enlightenment 15 pager?

1999-04-25 Thread Colin Telmer
I guess the subject line says it all. I am running the latest potato, enlightenment and gnome. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Re: potato's octave?

1999-04-30 Thread Colin Telmer
ugh > for my purposes. The latest 2.0.14 is compiled against glibc2.1 and therefore does not segfault anymore. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

1999-10-24 Thread Colin Telmer
ported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Any idea how I fix this? Thanks in advance. Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Netscape's toolbar is black & white?

1999-10-24 Thread Colin Telmer
iated. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

mandb error messages

1998-10-11 Thread Colin Telmer
ting to the root of these? Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Alarming Pine/remote netscape problem

1998-10-13 Thread Colin Telmer
AIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:56:25 -0400 From: "Colin Telmer (DoF)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Fwd: test with htm

Re: SATAN .deb?

1998-10-15 Thread Colin Telmer
myself agree with you but anytime I have brought it up elsewhere, there is definitely divided opinion on the package. Anyway, this question might be better suited for debian-devel. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

limiting ftp access from web page?

1998-10-22 Thread Colin Telmer
I have my ftp directory linked from my web page and want to limit access to certain domains. Any idea how I can do this? I am running debian slink. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Re: about latex and tables

1998-11-01 Thread Colin Telmer
sn't so hard to split by hand. But what do I do when > the table should take several pages ?) Use either the supertab or longtable package. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Re: sound/mixer

1998-11-03 Thread Colin Telmer
s "ACI mixer". That's enabled, but doesn't help. Any > help would be great. gom should do what you want (I don't know if it is present in hamm, but you can always rebuild the package). Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

ssh and X11 question: tcp_wrappers?

1998-11-12 Thread Colin Telmer
on to bertha.gsia.cmu.edu:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Any ideas how I can fix this? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

ethernet card and ppp modem connection

1998-11-25 Thread Colin Telmer
Hi, I connect to the internet via an ethernet connection by default but now also need to occasionally use a ppp connection to make a secure connection to my office. Can I divert net traffic to the ppp connection on occasion without disturbing my ppp connection? Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa

Re: ethernet card and ppp modem connection

1998-11-26 Thread Colin Telmer
p-up.d to add a route to your office network via the ppp interface"? Could you point me to documentation that I can use to figure this out? Any help is really appreciated. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

OFFTOPIC: ssh in userspace?

1998-11-26 Thread Colin Telmer
this? Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

expect script with ppp and stty forces reboot

1998-11-29 Thread Colin Telmer
y 38400 -echoe -echo raw < /dev/ttyS1 > /dev/ttyS1 just hangs. I can't figure out how to reset this, so I have to reboot (cheap excuse). Does anyone know how I can solve this? Thanks, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Re: expect script with ppp and stty forces reboot

1998-11-30 Thread Colin Telmer
n the stty command hangs. Given my lack of understanding of this stuff, I thought that I was doing something analogous to leaving the serial port busy so I could not access it again, but I don't know how to figure that out. Thanks again for your help, I really appreciate it. This would be a great deal easier if I didn't need to have an interactive script to ask for a one-time passphrase. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

RE: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Colin Telmer
ng the mail locally really isn't an option, although I > suppose I could make *copies* of it instead of moving it from the mailserver > to a local machine. Isn't that basically what IMAP does? There is an fetchmail option to leave mail on each or some of the mailservers. Cheers

Re: Remote backup

1998-12-03 Thread Colin Telmer
ible, and prompt you for a username and password. If you use [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/DEV/FILE NAME', `tar' will complete the remote connection, if possible, using your username as the username on the remote machine. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

RE: ISP username for diald

1998-12-06 Thread Colin Telmer
d let me connect without one. Maybe this will help - from the ppd man page. set it in /etc/ppp/peers/ user name Sets the name used for authenticating the local system to the peer to name. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

mime-support and streaming mp3

1998-12-06 Thread Colin Telmer
stuff at all. So I assume that it must have been included in the stock mailcap/mime.types included in mime-support in an older version. Anyway, other than setting the suid bit on the player, can someone tell me the exactly how to add support to my mime files for mp3 files? Cheers. -- Colin Telmer

Re: pine

1998-04-06 Thread Colin Telmer
up. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ckermit gone?

1998-04-07 Thread Colin Telmer
Don't quote me on this however. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multi-tasking

1998-04-09 Thread Colin Telmer
ed ediff which does a great colorful job at diff'ing files in different buffers (along with a whole lot more). However, if you are just working with text files and not programming languages, this option might be overkill. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: kde : using kdm instead of xdm

1998-04-17 Thread Colin Telmer
d. Has anyone else > had this problem? I have just started using it and have always had shadow passwords on. Did you install the debian archive kde or the kde deb files from the kde site? I used the ones that I found inbetween hamm and Incoming on ftp.debian.org. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, O

Re: background color in XEmacs 2.0

1998-04-22 Thread Colin Telmer
class, name?) but the idea is there. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New imap saves all mail to $HOME/mbox ????

1998-04-22 Thread Colin Telmer
for some time, but isn't there an option to fetchmail to specifically tell imap to leave the mail on the server? Would that fix the problem? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: KDE Problem - try beta4

1998-04-22 Thread Colin Telmer
iling lists, there are still some very basic outstanding problems or missing features. One thing that really caught me off guard is that someone stated that you cannot assign window functions to function keys. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>

Re: New imap saves all mail to $HOME/mbox ????

1998-04-22 Thread Colin Telmer
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Colin Telmer wrote: > > You are thinking about POP3 ... a completely different protocol. With IMAP > you mail never leaves the server. I don't think so - from fetchmail(1): -k, --keep (Key

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-23 Thread Colin Telmer
tt in that regard. so why not _try_ to offer them all (I emphasis try as UoW seems to be making this hard to do with pine - your argument above is valid if the average user has to patch and compile it also:)). I don't mean to fuel the debate, but pine also threads:) Try "$" and &

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-23 Thread Colin Telmer
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Telmer wrote: > > I have been using pine for years (no nfs spool) and have never ever > > experienceed corruption and mail loss due to pine. > > FWIW, I used pine for years, and experienced frequent data loss. (I use mutt >

HELP - Host/IP mismatch causing mail denial

1998-05-01 Thread Colin Telmer
ay? Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to speed up the EMACS at start-up ?

1998-05-06 Thread Colin Telmer
(byte-compile-file (concat file ".el"))) (load file)) (byte-compile-if-newer-and-load "~/.elisp/telmerco") -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Am I missing something or is this a HUGE security flaw?

1998-05-06 Thread Colin Telmer
lines. Not much of a difference, but if I recall before I started using xdm, try (startx &); exit lockvc could be used but then you still leave yourself logged in on a vc and another program protecting it. If you are memory economizing, I would suggest the above. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telme

Re: Another dumb newbie question.

1997-03-29 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jim Smith wrote: > At 12:42 3/28/97 -0800, you wrote: > >Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jim Smith wrote: > >> > >> > I'm slowly getting this system to do what I want, but there are a couple > > > >> > >> I think

lost old pgp key

1997-03-29 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This may not be the most appropriate place to ask this question but since debian was the reason I started using pgp, I thought that someone here may have some suggestions. Stupidly when I first started using pgp, I made a key pair and uploaded it to the public

awe-drv istallation problems

1997-04-01 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have just finished recompiling the kernel (2.0.29, Debian 1.3) to include the awe-drv. This worked quite well and the kernel booted properly. My AWE32 sound card works as it did before (ie. cat foo.au >/dev/audio plays foo.au). However, the AWE synth device see

finger from remote site will not list .plan

1997-04-01 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At the moment remote users who finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] are told that I have no plan. However if I finger telmerco while logged onto terrapin, I get to see my .plan (pgp key). I recall fiddling with cfingerd and noticing that you could restrict remote users but c

/usr/lib/cgi-bin ownerships and permissions

1997-04-18 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- My question pertains to dedicating a user to webmaster to allow the user to create and maintain cgi scripts. First, do cgi scripts get run by www-data? When apache (or I assume any web server following the new web standard) is installed, it creates the directo

dhcpcd and win95 help please

1997-04-28 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I am installing debian on a second hard drive on a machine that is currently running win95 and is connected to the internet via a cable modem and dhcp. I plan to boot linux via a bootdisk (so that the person who owns the compute doesn't see anything to do wit

latex/databases

1997-04-28 Thread Colin Telmer
I am beginning a review of a literature on the relations between the governments of Canada and will be writing small summary reports on each article/book/etc. Rather than just filling a directory with latex files, I am wondering if the is a simple-to-use database that I could use to store and manip

Re: AccelX and Xfree together

1997-04-29 Thread Colin Telmer
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Chris Hanson wrote: > You will need to install an XFree86 server in order to satisfy the > package dependencies that require an X server. Other than that, it's > not important. In the future, you will have to be careful not to > update the XFree86 server package accidentally

Re: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Colin Telmer
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: > > > At 09:50 AM 29/04/97 -0700, Ryan Shaw wrote: > > >i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. > > >i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at > > >t

.fvwm2/ hook problems

1997-05-01 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I decided to finally make use of the debian menu system by converting my old .fvwm2rc into the various hook files that live in .fvwm2/ but I seem to be missing something - I added the line + "I" Module FvwmButtons to .fvwm2/init-restart.hook and then sta

Anonymous ftp via apache?

1997-05-02 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am running frozen (ie new web standard) and would like to link my anonymous ftp site to my web page. I was just going to create a link from something in /var/www to something in /home/ftp but I thought I would ask if there is a standard way to do this. Is there

Printing to Win95 printer via samba?

1997-05-08 Thread Colin Telmer
I have being trying to figure out how to print to a printer attached to a networked win95 machine using samba for about 2 hours now and I don't seem to be getting anywhere. I was hoping someone could shed some light on the matter if I supply some details. First of all, I also have win95 on my mac

Re: latex/databases

1997-05-09 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 9 May 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: > In your email to me, Dirk Herr-Hoyman, you wrote: > > > > At 07:58 AM 5/9/97 -0400, Tim Sailer wrote: > > >In your email to me, Rob Browning, you wrote: > > > > >> I've kind of settled on postgress, partially because I w

Re: Printing to Win95 printer via samba?

1997-05-09 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 8 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > The printer I am trying to print to is called HPLIII as listed > > from the output of "smbclient -L Main" where Main is the server: > >

su vs. su -

1997-05-09 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- When I am logged in as telmerco and "su" to root in another rxvt, I can run emacs in either the foreground or the background (ie. "emacs" or "emacs &"). However, when I use "su -" rather than "su" I can only run emacs in the foreground. What can I do to get it to

su vs. su - -- ignore

1997-05-09 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Sorry, I stupidly did not check if DISPLAY was set (which is wasn't) when "su -"ing. Cheers. - -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Onta

smbclient not form feeding

1997-05-10 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I posted the following message to comp.protocols.smb but I thought that other debian users may know the solution. Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Colin. comp.protocols.smb #12964 [1] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Telmer) [1] smbclient not form

magicfilter and smbprint together?

1997-05-10 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have recently figured out how to print from my debian machine to a win95 printer using lpr and the input filter smbprint as follows: rlp|Remote printer entry:\ :cm=HPLIII printer in IIGR 301:\ :lp=/dev/rlp:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\

ncsa ServerName problem (fwd)

1997-05-11 Thread Colin Telmer
BC EC 0B PGP Public Key at http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca> - -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 20:04:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "James G. MacKinnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ncsa No joy with ncsa

Re: magicfilter and smbprint together?

1997-05-11 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 11 May 1997, Carey Evans wrote: > Something like the following should work better. Also, are you sure > you want to do CR/LF translation in this case? ljet3-filter doesn't. > The "$@" passes on the options from lpd to magicfilter, as documented > at the top

magicfilter entry for pdf files?

1997-05-11 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Does anyone have a magicfilter entry to print pdf files using acroread or gv? I am printing to a HP ljet3 but I can figure out the ljet3 specifics myself. Is there more than one offset/magic combination for various pdf files? I looked into /etc/magic for entries

Re: magicfilter entry for pdf files?

1997-05-12 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 11 May 1997, Mark W. Blunier wrote: > I added the following two lines to my /usr/sbin/dj500-filter to print > pdf files: > > # PDF files added by MWB > 0 %PDFpipe/usr/bin/acroread -toPostScript Would this not just transform the p

Re: magicfilter entry for pdf files?

1997-05-13 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 12 May 1997, Mark W. Blunier wrote: > Incidentally, I found another message today: > > - > > To make printing work from acroread, I had to add the following line > > /Default currenthal

Diamond 2500 video card and XFree 3.2

1997-05-15 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I apologize if I cannot supply that much information, but my department is planning to install Xfree3.2 onto a second debian linux machine and is concerned about the video card. His first machine had a Diamond 2001 but the second machine came with the new Diamond

SMC EtherPower PCI card supported?

1997-05-15 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I have just looked through the Ethernet HOWTO and the tulip driver page to see if the new SMC EtherPower PCI card (DEC 21041 chip) is supported and have become somewhat confused by the choice of drivers to use. Any suggestions? Is this driver included in the

login installation weirdness?

1997-05-20 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Sorry about the subject line, but I don't know how to briefly describe this problem. Anyway, I have just finished installing 1.2 and everything went perfectly except that on the first virtual terminal (ALT-F1) when any user exits, /etc/issue is not read and the f

copying dpkg info to another machine?

1997-05-23 Thread Colin Telmer
Horrible subject, but what I would like to do is to install a set of files on one debian machine via dselect and find an easy way to install the exact same set on another machine. I know there has been a discussion about this in terms of using backup/restore commands, but I only want to do this ver

smail paniclog/ftape problem?

1997-05-26 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- In the last two days, I have found these two entries in /var/log/smail/paniclog: 05/26/1997 02:02:03: [m0wVsp6-0002CyC] write to spool failed, \ dir=/var/spool/smail 05/26/1997 02:02:03: [m0wVsp6-0002CyC] incoming mail lost: spool file \ write error: No such file

ADSM/iBCS

1997-05-26 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Is anyone successfully using any version of the ADSM backup software (client) with the iBCS module package? I can easily get the modules installed (although I had to rebuild the package), and I used to be able to run the sco client under 1.1, but I am now running

root user and nfs mounts

1997-05-26 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Currently I mount my home directory from a departmental AIX machine using the following exports on the AIX machine: /home3/telmerco -access=sargan:terrapin and the following fstab on my debian hamm machine: qed:/home3/telmerco /home/telmerco/qed nfs defaul

kerneld and iBCS (was Re: ADSM/iBCS)

1997-05-27 Thread Colin Telmer
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > Actually i'm right now sitting at our Debian Linux machine and have > succeded to have it all up and running. There is the "Linux ADSM > Mini-Howto" by Thomas Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from > 1996/01/03 which provided me with all the missing information t

Re: kerneld and iBCS (was Re: ADSM/iBCS)

1997-05-27 Thread Colin Telmer
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > I never touched "/etc/conf.modules" in any case. Make sure that > 'kerneld' gets actually started in "/etc/modules": auto is all that is listed in my /etc/modules also and kerneld works fine with my sound, floppy, vfat modules. From lsmod, terrapin:~#

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