user group

2003-01-19 Thread Mike Thompson
I want to make some non-shell accounts and there is a group called user in /etc/group. Is this group used for this purpose? -- Mike Thompson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simple HTTP Server Recommendation

2002-10-16 Thread Mike Thompson
alternative? > > TIA > > madmac > > -- > Doug MacFarlane > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mike Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 386 or 486 machine

2002-10-23 Thread Mike Thompson
> more powerful system, or just get it started and wait a week ;) > > Rupert I have debian on a 486 with 20M memory using icewm for xwindow manager to run gnumeric. The complete install is ~450M. I use mutt for email and lynx for browsing. Mike Thompson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: gnu-chess

2002-10-19 Thread Mike Thompson
atp-get install gnuchess gnuchess-book crafty crafty-books-medium xboard On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 04:09:25PM +0330, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote: > Where can I find a gnu-chess package for Debian please? -- Mike Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: power down and power off also?

2002-11-23 Thread Mike Thompson
lt and just have to switch off the main switch? > > -- > regards, > > sandip p deshmukh > --*** -- Mike Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

linreadline error on new install

2003-12-08 Thread Mike Thompson
until I received this error. The install went fine when I installed from mirror.direct.ca/pub/linux/debian perhaps there is an error left over from the recent system reinstall. Mike -- Mike Thompson -- If you always do what you have always done. You will always get what you have always gotten

Re: how to start gnome

2000-06-29 Thread Mike Thompson
startx gnome-session or edit ~.xinitrc and add gnome-session On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:29:19PM -0700, Nick wrote: > i loaded gnome a long time ago and forgot how to start it > > i have tried > gnome-sessionand not luck

Re: Database program

2000-07-08 Thread Mike Thompson
run into > memory problems. This may not be a problem since when I installed debian > I made a 64mg swap partition. I'm not sure. > > Can anyone suggest a program, preferably one that does not run on X? I > just want a plain text based app that gracefully deals with lo

Re: mail problems

2000-07-26 Thread Mike Thompson
David, I am going through a dialup isp and have the following at the end of my /etc/exim.conf file. It only rewrites mail destined for the Internet. hth mike ## # REWRITE CONFIGURATION

Re: xlibs error

2000-12-07 Thread Mike Thompson
work until I > fix this. > > TIA, > > Gareth > -- > Gareth Bowker | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PhD Research Student | http://users.aber.ac.uk/tgb96/ > Space Robotics Team | Office: (01970) 621528 > University of Wales, Aberystwyth | Mob

Re: ppp check.

2000-04-13 Thread Mike Thompson
Kent perhaps you want something like this # # ###/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/up-time-sh #!/bin/sh rdate -s timelord.uregina.ca #use your own timeserver echo -e "#\nOnline: `date`" >> /var/log//online echo -e "`date +%s%t`\c" >> /var/log//online #

Re: mailsystem configuration

2000-05-08 Thread Mike Thompson
Moritz, Fetchmail and Exim are what I use for my home system. The configuration is fairly simple. Mike Thompson #!/bin/sh # Fetchmail configuration file poll gmx.de protocol pop3 username mjodeit password "your-password" flush fetchall For exim answer the install questio

Re: Debian 2.1 install

2000-06-01 Thread Mike Thompson
Tim; This was a problem with the kernel scsi code and was fixed in newer versions. You need a newer kernel to install. Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:25:31PM -0500, Tim Willis wrote: > > On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:55:50AM -0500, Tim Willis was only > >escaped alo

Printer not working after upgrade to 2.2 kernel

2000-03-10 Thread Mike Thompson
hem I only have /dev/lp0 -- /dev/lp2 and now my printer works fine. Also the printer changed from /dev/lp1 to /dev/lp0. I have been running the same devices since Debian 1.3.1. I hope this helps anyone else with the same problem. Mike Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Free-ware may contain bug

Is list active

2001-02-06 Thread Mike Thompson
I have not been getting debian-user-digest for over a week now. Does anyone know what has happened? -- Mike Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I can read MIME or uuencoded e-mail attachments in PDF, Postscript, HTML, RTF, DVI or Latex, or text formats. Please do not send Word, Excel or PowerPoint

Re: Epson Stylus Color 800

2001-11-02 Thread Mike Thompson
The epson stylus depends upon recode do you have this installed? On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:16:40AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 101 : Issue 1923 > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of

Re: gnuchess (player vs. computer)

2001-09-29 Thread Mike Thompson
there. Mike Thompson dogsbody at frechess.org On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 11:21:08PM +0100, Ricardo Diz wrote: > You have to pass some parameters to gnuchess when you start xboard (i can't > remember the parameters). > > Try check the manpage of gnuchess ('man gnuchess

dvisvga missing fonts

2001-09-29 Thread Mike Thompson
hanks Mike -- Mike Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Woody network download

2001-05-16 Thread Mike Thompson
After having made root, rescue and driver disks 1 thru 4, when my system goes to download the base system if I choose network I get the following: "id: unknown user name: 0" then "[: 0: unexpected operator" Serveral messages later about "trying to get" I end up back at the install base system scree

Re: NOSQL

2002-04-17 Thread Mike Thompson
NOSQL fills all my requirements, which are simple, small table, sport player database eg. A similar interesting database can be found below Starbase: A User Centered Database for Astronomy http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/web/ADASS/adass_proc/adass_95/rollj/rollj.html -- Mike Thompson [EMAIL

Re: mutt and my email address

2002-04-18 Thread Mike Thompson
rc, but > those don't seem to help either. What am I missing? > > Thanks, > > Brooks > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mike Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I h

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-19 Thread Mike Thompson
ards. > Pegasus is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's > staggering. > > http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm > > GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg > -- Mike Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Discovery consists of see