Drivers for Serverworks chipset

2003-02-21 Thread Neal Lippman
I have on order a Dell server, which is based on the ServerWorks Grand Champion SL chipset. I was wondering if anyone knows what drivers should be used with this chipset, particularly the on-board 10/100/1000 ethernet? I expect there is Linux support, because Dell offers RedHat installed (I didn'

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test4 and ASUS P4P800

2003-10-17 Thread Neal Lippman
Don't forget that for hyperthreading support to appear like 2 cpus, you also need to enable ACPI Processor Enumeration for HT (ACPI_HT) and enable HT in the bios. Then again, I have yet to get a bootable 2.6.0-testx on my P4P800. If you have a working config file, please forward if you would! (I

NFS has a file size overflow problem

2003-10-21 Thread Neal Lippman
I don't know if this is known or not known, so I am throwing it out here first to see if anyone has heard of this one before. My guess is this is a known problem... I use nfs to share my /home and a /shared directory on my fileserver to workstations. The fileserver runs testing and is up to date.

OT: Rio SonicBlue S10

2003-01-27 Thread Neal Lippman
I am trying to figure out if this device is supported under linux-usb. I've found no direct references to it (the Rio-500 seems supported by a specific driver, but that's the closest I've come). It seems that this device might be supported as a usb mass storage device - usb-storage driver. Does an

Sort of OT: network logins

2003-01-27 Thread Neal Lippman
The subject doesn't really explain what I am looking for, but I couldn't think of a better two-word summary. I know this is a bit off topic, but I was hoping the collective expertise would provide me with some ideas. I am looking for an approach to the problem of having multiple installations of d

Photo archiving software?

2003-02-01 Thread Neal Lippman
Wondering if anyone has any suggestions for photo indexing and archiving software - something like (what I have been told) iPhoto does on the Mac. I have boxes full of old photos, and would like to scan them all in for storage; I need something that will handle that sort of task, including indexin

Re: List of users from a certain group

2003-02-02 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 14:18, Jason Lunz wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I have a group of users in my system just for mail, the name of that > > group is "correo". > > > > My question is, how do I obtain a list of users from this group? > > $ apt-get install members > $ members correo > > J

nfs is driving me crazy...

2003-09-07 Thread Neal Lippman
I could use some help from someone knowledgeable re: nfs. I have been using nfs for some time now, probably at least two years. My fileserver contains all user's files in /home, and /home is exported by nfs. This directory is mounted to /nfs on my workstation, and serves as my home directory on th

A little more on my nfs problem...

2003-09-07 Thread Neal Lippman
Also, some more stuff I've been noticing: 1) My understanding was that /var/lib/nfs/xtab was the file actually consulted by mountd to respond to an nfs mount request. Interestingly, that file only contains the info on /home, but not on the /shared export, even though /etc/exports includes both. T

Last nfs related post tonight...

2003-09-07 Thread Neal Lippman
OK, one final bit of info. I tried showmount -a on the server and it too failed witha connection refused error. ps aux didn't show mountd running! So, /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart, and now mountd is running. Immediately thereafter I could mount the shared partition. Based on this, it se

Do all debian kernel packages require an initrd?

2003-09-07 Thread Neal Lippman
Tonight, I tried to apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.21-4-k7 (AMD Athlon system). During the installation phase, I was given a warning that this image requires an initial ramdisk - which I am not using, as far as I am aware, with the stock 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel that originally came with woody (now sa

Re: Last nfs related post tonight...

2003-09-08 Thread Neal Lippman
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 02:55, Erik Rask wrote: > On 7 Sep 2003, Neal Lippman wrote: > > > OK, one final bit of info. I tried showmount -a on the server and it too > > failed witha connection refused error. > > > > ps aux didn't show mountd running! So, /etc/i

Boot time module configuration - stored in initrd.img?

2003-09-12 Thread Neal Lippman
I noted strange behavoir after installing linux-kernel-2.4.21-4.On reboot, a host of modules that I had never selected with modconf were installed. They were not in /etc/modules, however, so the kernel upgrade had clearly not modified this file (although they did appear selected in modconf - perhap

kernel-source-2.6.0-test-2

2003-09-12 Thread Neal Lippman
Has anyone been able to successfully use this package? I installed it but make xconfig just dies with a million errors, all coming out of scripts/kconfig/qconf.o. For reference, I have installed libqt-dev, so I thought I would be good to go Debian version is testing, btw. Thanks. nl --

Re: .config file for kernel-2.6.0-test4

2003-09-16 Thread Neal Lippman
>From what I have read (see my later post re inability to get 2.6.0 working, btw), there are enough incompatibilities between 2.4.x and 2.6.0-test-n that just copying the .config will not work. You could use that as a starting point, but you shoudl go through the config line by line and modify as n

Not impressed with 2.6.0-test2 so far...

2003-09-16 Thread Neal Lippman
Well, so far I'm less than impressed with 2.6.0-test2. Specifically, although I have installed both the source and run several compiles, as well as the pre-compiled kernel-image version, I have yet to get a running and working 2.6.0. The precompiled package in testing doesn't work at all; after

Re: Not impressed with 2.6.0-test2 so far...

2003-09-16 Thread Neal Lippman
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 22:11, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:07:38PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > > I'm wondering if anyone has gotten 2.6.0-test2 compiled and runnign at > > all > > Of course; tons of people are running it. It's what I use f

Question on make-kpkg

2003-09-17 Thread Neal Lippman
I've been using make-kpkg to build my new kernel,playing around with 2.6.0-test2. (aside: Thanks to all who responded to my earlier request for help.I've got a bootable 2.6.0-test built, but now I need to play with the config a bit and figure out what's causing some of the errors during boot; at le

modconf under 2.6.0-test?

2003-09-18 Thread Neal Lippman
Thanks again to those who have offered great advice on getting 2.6.0-test2 up and running. I have a bootable system, got sound working with relatively little trouble,so I'm continuing to work down myproblem list. Would appreciate thoughts on two more problems: 1) modconf doesn't find any modules.

modconf under 2.6.0-testn

2003-09-20 Thread Neal Lippman
I have been unable to get modconf to work under 2.6.0-test2 or -test4. The program runs, but shows only the "exit" option, with no modules displayed for selecting. Has anyone else seen this sort of problem,and if, any suggestions? nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

is the tty serial layer working in 2.6.0-testx?

2003-09-20 Thread Neal Lippman
I have run into another problem with 2.6.0-test2 and -test4. I use a Pilot M505 which I have always synced using the serial port (I never got around to getting it connected via USB). This has worked fine under the 2.4.x series, but does not work now that I have started using 2.6.0-test2 and -test4

Very confusing network problem!

2003-09-21 Thread Neal Lippman
I have encountered a networking problem that has me just stumped, so I wonder if anyone could lend some thoughts. My post is long to try to give enough detail to help figure out what is going on; I appreciate anyone who can read this and lend some thoughts. Here's the background: The system is deb

NIS updating question

2003-10-02 Thread Neal Lippman
I use nis on my LAN for storing passwd, group, hosts, services, etc, information. I need to update the hosts file with new ip addresses. Is there an command or easy way to propagate updated host information to the NIS database, or do I just use ypinit and rebuild the whoe database? Thanks. nl

kernel 2.6.0-test4 and ASUS P4P800

2003-10-06 Thread Neal Lippman
I'm having a heck of a time getting 2.6.0-test4 to boot on my ASUS P$P800-based system. I didn't have any real trouble getting a config working on my Athlon based system, but I cannot figure out where i am going wrong... If anyone has this MB and has successfully compiled a 2.6.0-test kernel, I wo

Re: Web-based e-mail system?

2003-10-07 Thread Neal Lippman
You may wish to check out "horde". My ISP uses this for webmail, and it is very nice. I understand it to be open source. I do not know the status of it in debian, or what backend mail stores it can access, soyou will need to research it. nl On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 09:49, Aaron wrote: > Hey, Debian

Is anyone else having trouble isntalling/upgrading mplayer?

2003-10-07 Thread Neal Lippman
I'm just wondering if anyone here is experiencing apt-get problems with mplayer. I'm running testing. I was using mplayer and the mplayer-plugin for mozilla just fine on my prior (athlon) system - I had mplayer-k7 installed. I upgraded that system to a new mb and processor, so now it's a P4 syste

Weird dependency problems installing mplayer...

2003-10-11 Thread Neal Lippman
I posted this once before, but figured it was worth another shot to see if anyone could help, as I am still stuck... I'm running testing. I was using mplayer and the mplayer-plugin for mozilla just fine on my prior (athlon) system - I had mplayer-k7 installed. I upgraded that system to a new mb a

Totally confused about what apt-get is doing...

2003-10-12 Thread Neal Lippman
OK, I've posted here before with my problem installing mplayer, and I've finally tracked things down to a missing libvorbis0a package. Here's what I cannot (now) figure out. 1) apt-show-versions | grep "vorbis" - shows me that I have no installed packages with vorbis in it, so I don't have libvor

Re: Totally confused about what apt-get is doing...

2003-10-12 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 15:07, Naitik Shah wrote: > I dont know if you've already dont this, but could you post > your sources.list? > Yes, here it is: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

Re: Totally confused about what apt-get is doing...

2003-10-12 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 15:08, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 19:30, Neal Lippman wrote: > > 2) apt-get install libvorbis0a tells me: > > > > Reading Package Lists... > > Building Dependency Tree... > > Some packages could not be installed. This may

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-12 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 18:45, stan wrote: > How cna I do this? > > The machine I want to match is a "testting" machine, that I quit updating > about a month agao. Still has Gnome 1.4 for instance. > > Will this ne a problem? > One approach is to create a list of all of the packages currently ins

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-12 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 21:14, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Neal Lippman wrote: > > > Now, using either of the above package lists, you can do: > > for pkg in $(cat package-listing-from-xxx); > > do > > apt-get install $pkg; > > done > >

Strange permissions behavoir on NFS mount...

2003-10-13 Thread Neal Lippman
Wondering if anyone can explain sort of odd behavoir I noted tonight on an nfs share. The setup: I have mounted an exported nfs share from my server onto my /home directory on my workstation (mount -t nfs nfs:/home /home). On the server machine (nfs), /home is exported with root_squash, so I would

More info...? NFS bug

2003-10-13 Thread Neal Lippman
I am convinced something is wrong with nfs. This is a f/u to my earlier post on nfs permissiosn problems with root_squash. Having played with this a bit more, I find that as userA -> su to root, sometimes I can see userB's files and sometimes not on the nfs share...even though with root_squash and

Linksys PCMCIA network card - what module to use?

2002-10-14 Thread Neal Lippman
I decided to have a go at getting debian installed on my Thinkpad 770ED; mostly I was able to get the initial module configuration to work (a few glitches, but I can work those out later). However, until I can get networking up and running, I cannot continue the install. I have a Linksys 10/100 P

Network startup on IBM Thinkpad

2002-10-16 Thread Neal Lippman
, ds, iThanks to all who responded with info to my question regarding the correct drive for a Linksys PC-Card 10/100 NIC for IBM Thinkpad. As best as I have figured out from the various responses coupled with online sources, the correct driver is the axnet_cs driver. Interestingly, this driver do

X 4.1.0 - is there gatos code?

2002-10-23 Thread Neal Lippman
I was wondering if any knows of the "official" XF 4.1.0 debs in woody include any gatos code? I am planning to hook up an ati radeon 7500 dual port (DVI-I and VGA) card, and have been advised that the drivers modified with "gatos" project code do not work properly. Thanks. nl -- To UNSUBSCR

ATI Radeon 7500 / X4.1.0 - need help!

2002-10-20 Thread Neal Lippman
I just got an ATI Radeon 7500 card with dual outputs (DVI-I and VGA). My search of the Xfree86 site, various newgroups, etc, turns up conflicting information regarding the status of this card. The only driver referenced on the XFree site is the ATI site, which does not list any radeon cards as sup

Re: XF4.1 on ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

2002-10-22 Thread Neal Lippman
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 08:07, Florian Thiel wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:35:47PM +0200, Juergen Stuber wrote: > > Oleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > I've installed Debian on half a dozen different machines, and configuring X > > > has always been the greatest pain. Currently, I'm

Strange nis / services problem - any thoughts?

2002-10-29 Thread Neal Lippman
I just recently converted over to using nis to deliver my /etc/passwd and /etc/group data on my home lan. All has been working fine with that for a few weeks, so I decided last night to convert over to having my workstation obtain /etc/services, /etc/protocols, /etc/ethers, and /etc/rpc data from t

Need help with NIS

2002-11-02 Thread Neal Lippman
I just recently converted over to using nis to deliver my /etc/passwd and /etc/group data on my home lan. All has been working fine with that for a few weeks, so I decided last night to convert over to having my workstation obtain /etc/services, /etc/protocols, /etc/ethers, and /etc/rpc data from

bash scripting question

2002-11-02 Thread Neal Lippman
I am trying to solve a bash scripting problem, but I cannot figure it out. I frequently need to execute a command of the form: for x in {A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z); do ; done This works fine if I actually type out the entire alpha

Mounting a partition with access allowed for only one user

2002-11-03 Thread Neal Lippman
I am wresting with a mount question but getting nowhere. Suppose that I want to mount a disk partition onto a subdirectory of /home, but want it to be available only to one particular user. Is there any way to effect this? eg, I create a directory called /home/restricted, and then want to mount a

What's the best way to contact someone knowledgeable on nis?

2002-11-07 Thread Neal Lippman
I'm trying to sort out a strange problem with nis - or at least, I think it's with nis. I haven't been able to find answers, including with an earlier post hear, so I was wondering if I could locate, perhaps, someone knowledgeable in the internal workings of nis, but I don't know how to go about th

OT: awk problem

2002-11-10 Thread Neal Lippman
Sorry for another OT post here, but this is the best place I've found for linux knowledge even when not debian specific. I am trying to write a short awk script to process my /etc/services file into a format that the utilities supplied with yp/nis can correctly handle. What I need to do is to pars

Re: OT: awk problem

2002-11-10 Thread Neal Lippman
No, it doesn't help...I tried putting it in a file - same exact problem. I assume you ran it with mawk? (/usr/bin/awk links to /etc/alternatives/awk which links to /usr/bin/mawk on my system). nl On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 22:53, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > It works for me although I did place your scri

Re: NFS Question

2003-08-14 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 19:19, Nyc0n wrote: > Im going to attempt to set up an NFS, I have done so in the past and > failed, ive read all the howtos and everything, but I had one question, > I already have the drives I want to make into the NFS, they are > currently reiserfs and already have stuff on

How to "fool" apt-get into believing a package is installed?

2003-08-23 Thread Neal Lippman
I am looking to install squid onto a system which runs my imap mail store, using cyrus-imap. As part of the cyrus installation, I have also installed cyrus-sasl. I compiled both myself, because at the time (over 1 year ago) that I did this, the version of cyrus-sasl and cyrus-imap running in stable

Re: How do I install a second harddrive

2003-08-29 Thread Neal Lippman
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 14:38, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi all, > I know that sounds stoopid, but I'm having trouble finding info > that tells me what I need to do to get a second harddrive on my system > recognized by linux. > When i boot the system dmesg clearly shows hdb as found. > however I do

Re: sony digital handycam (DCR-TRV60E) in linux

2003-08-30 Thread Neal Lippman
I also have a Sony digicam, which is connected to my system via a firewire card. To use it, via firewire, I modprobe'd video1394, ohci1394, raw1394 and ieee1394. All were with standard woody install (later dist-upgraded to testing) and no kernel recompile was needed. I have used both dvgrab and k

Packages: required vs recommended vs suggested

2003-08-31 Thread Neal Lippman
I was wondering if someone could clarify how apt-get handles the various categories of related packages. I did in install last pm of a package which "recommends" other packages, which it turned out I needed in order to make things work. However, apt-get install did not automagically install the r

[OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-01 Thread Neal Lippman
I'm just wondering if anyone has any info on why X seems to need so much CPU power? Way back when, probably around 1996 or 1997, I first tried to install Linux. Back then, I tried distro's from Corel and Redhat. My system was a Pentium 133 with 48 (and then 96) MB Ram. This system ran both Win 95

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-01 Thread Neal Lippman
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 18:20, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Tuesday 02 September 2003 00:02, Neal Lippman wrote: > > I'm just wondering if anyone has any info on why X seems to need so much > > CPU power? > > It's not X eating resources like mad, it's the way desk

Re: Packages: required vs recommended vs suggested

2003-09-02 Thread Neal Lippman
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 02:05, Bob Proulx wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > Neal Lippman wrote: > > > I did in install last pm of a package which "recommends" other packages, > > > which it turned out I needed in order to make things work. > > > > The

i865 based systems

2003-09-02 Thread Neal Lippman
Has anyone installed a 2.4 series kernel on a system based on the intel I865 chipset? If so, I am wondering if there are any recommendations re: motherboards that seem to work well. >From a quick grep through the 2.4.21 source (latest kernel available for testing) is appears that both i865 support

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-03 Thread Neal Lippman
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 18:01, Micha Feigin wrote: > The main problem I see with linux is the lack of commercial programs. > Unfortunately for some stuff there is no way around it. For commercial > quality image/video processing for example there is no alternative at > the moment, or places where y

"Restoring" system after MB/processor upgrade

2003-09-03 Thread Neal Lippman
I'm thinking about upgrading my system from its current AMD Athlon XP based system to a P4 (actually, I need to put together a new system for my son, so I'm thinking of giving him my current MB/processor and putting a new MB/processor into my system). Obviously, I don't want to lose my current tes

Re: "Restoring" system after MB/processor upgrade

2003-09-04 Thread Neal Lippman
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 16:22, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 12:07:04AM -0400, Neal Lippman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm thinking about upgrading my system from its current AMD Athlon XP > > based system to a P4 (actually, I need to put together a new s

autofs permissions

2003-03-25 Thread Neal Lippman
I am wondering how I can control the permissions of a directory created dynamicall using autofs. I have autofs4 enabled (sarge). I have a map for the /mount directory (called /etc/auto.mount), which has an entry for my floppy drive (/dev/fd0). The problem is that ordinary (non root) users cannot

CD label maker - what's your preference?

2003-04-05 Thread Neal Lippman
I am looking for a utility for making cd labels (round ones to stick onto the CD itself) and jewel case covers, and need to do this both for audio cds (I like to copy my CD's so I can have a copy at home and a copy in the car) and for data cd's. A scan through apt-cache shows (at least) the follow

Re: Security Questions

2003-04-06 Thread Neal Lippman
A few answers, but first a question: How do you know that your network has definitely been compromised? If the only evidence you have is that your daughter received returned emails she didn't send, how to you know that someone didn't generate those emails elsewhere, spoofing her email address and r

Re: Cheap high resolution (1600x1200) video card for debian

2003-05-29 Thread Neal Lippman
I am using an ATI Radeon 7500 on the DVI output at its maximum res of 1600x1200, and it works fine with X under testing. This card can do higher resolutions on analogue as well. I would suggest avoiding an OEM card based on the Radeon chips. I have read that the OEM cards, for unclear (to me) reas

Compile options for standard debian kernel?

2003-06-02 Thread Neal Lippman
Is there a way to find out the config options that were used for compiling the standard 2.4.19 kernel that comes with stable or testing? I need to compile a new kernel as the stock kernel does not seem to have the udf file system support enabled, but it would be handy to know what was compiled in

Re: Compile options for standard debian kernel?

2003-06-03 Thread Neal Lippman
Yes. Thanks much! On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 21:18, Kenton Brede wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:07:08PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > > Is there a way to find out the config options that were used for > > compiling the standard 2.4.19 kernel that comes with stable or testing? >

Re: Compile options for standard debian kernel?

2003-06-03 Thread Neal Lippman
.4.19. On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 21:37, Donald Spoon wrote: > Neal Lippman wrote: > > Is there a way to find out the config options that were used for > > compiling the standard 2.4.19 kernel that comes with stable or testing? > > > > I need to compile a new kernel as the st

Modules weirdness after upgrade to testing...

2002-12-21 Thread Neal Lippman
Tonight, I took the plunge and upgraded woody->testing, so that I could get X4.2.1 and try out my new ATI 7500. Anyway, there are a few weird things that I could use some help on; this post relates to modules. I did the upgrade by changing all occurrences of "stable" to "testing" in /etc/apt/sourc

After upgrade to testing, ?zinf problem

2002-12-21 Thread Neal Lippman
I just dist-upgraded from woody->testing tonight. After the upgrade, I tried to test things out to ensure nothing was broken, and when I got to testing sound, tried to play an ogg file with freeamp - which just didn't work right. I also could not get ogg123 to work, since it demanded libvorbisfile

A little dpkg wierdness after upgrade to testing

2002-12-21 Thread Neal Lippman
I noted a little weirdness with apt-get and dpkg after my dist-upgrade from woody->testing tonight. My practice is to run in my usual user-level account (nl) and use sudo for all root-like operations. When I install, for install, I use 'sudo apt-get install ' and so on. That has always worked just

Re: network print server

2003-01-11 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 21:21, Michael West wrote: > I have been using samba as a print server at home, but > I am often mucking around on my debian box, and sometimes this > results in my wife not being able to print. > > To increase user satisfaction I am considering purchasin

email-fax gateway - need suggestions

2003-01-13 Thread Neal Lippman
I was hoping some folks here could give me some suggestions on setting up an email to fax gateway. My project is basically to provide a mechanism so someone can email to a an address in my office (eg "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") and have that email automatically faxed out. This idea is to eliminate the ma

Mplayer help

2002-09-02 Thread Neal Lippman
Looking for some help. I've installed mplayer from the .debs available at deb http://mplayer.nmeos.net stable/ deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main and it seems to work ok (a few errors on startup about missing fonts and all, but I can live with that for now). I would like

Re: Mplayer help

2002-09-03 Thread Neal Lippman
On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 07:33, Udo Schlaepfer wrote: > Burkhard Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Date: 22.06.2002 18:33:20 (CEST) > > ?? > > > does mplayer support realmedia? if that is the case you have probably to > > compile it from source and configure it in the right way. so yes, giv

NIS setup question

2002-09-28 Thread Neal Lippman
I don't think I understand the NIS Howto. I was left with the impression that with libc6 installed, I would not need ypbind because libc6 knows about NIS all by itself. I have set up another system as an NIS server (running ypserv), but my client system cannot seem to see the information from th

How "stable" is "testing"?

2002-09-28 Thread Neal Lippman
I am wondering how stable people are finding testing for use on their workstations. I am running woody, and very happy with it. However, I would like to be a bit more up to date with some of my software - for instance, I'd like to be using KDE 3 instead of 2.2, and the newest evolution, so I was t

Re: HTML editing

2001-12-11 Thread Neal Lippman
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 01:25, Alec wrote: > Hi > > I just discovered that Mozilla has a gread WYSIWYG HTML editor. Up until > now my favorite choice was VIM. I'm still trying to figure out how to start > that editor without starting Mozilla itself, but does anyone know if KDE > offers any WYSI

Help getting KDE!

2001-12-14 Thread Neal Lippman
I could use some pointers; I've gone back a few months in the mailing list archives, and just cannot find an answer to this. I'm a debian newbie, having been running Mandrake for the past year. I just got a second computer to use for debian, figuring I'd work out all the kinks on the install th

How to read CD label?

2001-12-25 Thread Neal Lippman
Is there any utility that can give me the lablel on a CD (mouinted or unmounted - doesn't matter to me). I generally burn CD's with a volume label (with cdrecord), and I use them to keep track of what is on the CD, especially for backups which I encode with the date of the backup for future ref

OT: Need help from bash experts...

2002-02-11 Thread Neal Lippman
Sorry for OT posting; I am not sure if there is a newsgroups for bash experts, so I figured I'd try here. I need to be able to write a bash script that can copy files from a directory who's name includes a space (long story, but it's a windows directory under Win98 on a machine on my network).

Re: autofs

2002-02-12 Thread Neal Lippman
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 14:40, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > Hi all, > I feel a bit lost in running autofs. > > I've installed autofs package, compilled autofs4 support into kernel > and hoped that now my /floppy becomes automounted, but no :-(( > > I read man pages from autofs and auto.master, but

Re: newbie .. how to start with autofs

2001-11-08 Thread Neal Lippman
On Thursday 08 November 2001 04:25, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to have my cdrom and floppy, automatically mounted and umounted. > A friend told me "use autofs" . But this advice is not any help to me :-( > > Mirek Dobsicek I've been using autofs under MDK 7.2 and 8.1 for some

Re: persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-21 Thread Neal Lippman
On Monday 21 January 2002 22:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "dman" == dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > dman> First my current setup: > dman> 10GB Maxtor IDE disk > dman> Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > dman> 5.6G 5.1G 271M 96% / > dman> 4.0G 2

Re: Where can I get JetAdmin for Linux?

2002-01-22 Thread Neal Lippman
On Tuesday 22 January 2002 10:29, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm replacing a HP-UX workstation with a woody box. > > > > One of the functions of this HP box is to rotuinely check that status of > > a HP jetAdmin printer. > > > > Can I get JetAdmin softwa

Woody / SMP - how to set up

2003-07-01 Thread Neal Lippman
I am wondering if a stock woody install will support a Pentium 4 system with Hyperthreading to appear as a two processor system. Will the standard woody 2.4.18 kernel do so, or is a recompile required? nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

How "unstable" is unstable?

2003-07-06 Thread Neal Lippman
I'm wondering, from those running sid, just how "unstable" is it at the present time? The reason I am asking is that I would like to move on to KDE 3 and am feeling behind the times, still using KDE 2.1 in woody. I've been reluctant to track sid since I do need my workstation to be up and working

Re: Suggestions on choosing an IMAP server

2003-07-16 Thread Neal Lippman
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 19:07, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Hi D-U :) > > I'm going to switch from pop3 to imap, and I'd like to know what you guys > think is the best debian packaged IMAP server, and why. > > I'd really like to use MailDir mailboxes. > > Thanks. Although it seems that courier-imap is the

automount permissions problem

2003-07-26 Thread Neal Lippman
Here's my problem, maybe someone can help. I have a usb media reader than handles smartmedia, compact flash, etc. It works fine in the sense of being able to put media into it and mount the media, using the usb-storage module, and copy files off the media. The devices look like scsi disk drives, as

Re: automount permissions problem

2003-07-26 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 18:06, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Sat, July 26 at 5:49 PM EDT > Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I don't use automount but to get proper permissions for my vfat fs's i > use this type or entry in fstab > /

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-27 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 16:38, Michael Waters wrote: > Hi list, > > I can't get this usb reader to work at all with a smartmedia card (i > don't have a compact flash card to test) although searching on the web > suggests that the sddr-75 is a standard USB Mass Storage device and > there are reports

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-30 Thread Neal Lippman
can help here. My guess would be "no". Hope this helps. nl On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 02:56, Michael Waters wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Neal Lippman wrote: > > can you post the output of: > > > > 1) ls -l /dev/sd* > > > > and > > > > 2

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems [solved]

2003-07-31 Thread Neal Lippman
Congrats. Glad to hear you are up and running! On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 03:43, Michael Waters wrote: > > it works!!! Thank you so much Neal, thank you, thank you, thank you. I > had given up hope. :) > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003, Neal Lippman wrote: > > OK, here's what I

Linux logical volume manager - a few questions

2003-08-02 Thread Neal Lippman
I am looking at installing the lvm layer on my file server, which is presently running woody. I have two 80GB hd's, one of which presently stores my /home partition (exported via both nfs and samba to the other systems on my home lan), and another which I just installed. (Actually, there's a third

Need help re LVM setup...

2003-08-03 Thread Neal Lippman
I am looking at installing the lvm layer on my file server, which is presently running woody. I have two 80GB hd's, one of which presently stores my /home partition (exported via both nfs and samba to the other systems on my home lan), and another which I just installed. (Actually, there's a third

What happened to Zinf in testing?

2003-08-03 Thread Neal Lippman
Can someone enlighten me on what happened to zinf in testing? I used to use freeamp. Around 6 months or so ago, freeamp seemed to disappear and was replaced in testing with zinf. Tonight I was looking to reorganize my mp3 and ogg files, and went looking to see what my program choices were, and fou

Re: Moving /var to another drive

2002-03-12 Thread Neal Lippman
> George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > > > > > > > And transfer the data using tar: > > > > tar cplf - -C / var | tar xvf - -C /mnt > > I recently did something similar, moving my personal files to a new HD so that I can mount the entire drive (partitioned as one big

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance vs Kapitol

2002-03-16 Thread Neal Lippman
On Saturday 16 March 2002 10:15, hanasaki wrote: > Yup a new one for $35 that is Linux only. Thoughts? > > www.thekompany.com Well, I decided to buy Kapitol about 1.5 years ago, when it was first announced. I did this because Quicken is basically the only application that I use at home that req

Re: OT: Wireless NIC to NIC; need WAP?

2002-03-16 Thread Neal Lippman
On Saturday 16 March 2002 17:34, Kent West wrote: > I've got two Debian (Sid) boxes in different parts of the house. Can I > put in a wireless NIC into each one of them, and them talk to each > other, or must I have a Wireless Access Point as an intermediary? Wireless NIC's can, as far as

Video card support

2002-04-06 Thread Neal Lippman
I would appreciate input as to what video card to get for a new system I am about to assemble. My requirements: i don't game, so superfast 3d support isn't needed, but I do watch an occasional movie, and want good support for 2d graphics. I don't want to break the bank on this purchase either,

Woody install infinite loop

2002-05-05 Thread Neal Lippman
o one has any better ideas. Thanks. Neal Lippman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Woody install infinite loop seems fixed...

2002-05-21 Thread Neal Lippman
For those who like me were getting stuck on the woody install infinite loop problem (at the point where you specify your timezone, then create a root password and user accounts): I d/l'd a new woody CD #1 iso (via jigdo) over the w/e, and just tried it and the bug is now fixed. I guess the bork

Interesting question on nfs permissions

2002-06-08 Thread Neal Lippman
I have come across an interesting ( :confused: ) and difficult problem with an nfs mount; maybe someone has an idea. THe basic situation is that I have one linux box (running MDK 8.2, but that's probably not relevant) that I have just set up as a file server, and a second linux box (running Deb

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