Debian Linux Problem

1998-03-26 Thread Neil
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Startup-scripts

1999-12-21 Thread Neil
rules Where would I put this (shell) script? I know that Debian has rules about the "proper" way to do certain system config things - what is the "proper" way to do this? Thanks in advance, Neil Conway -- Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Get my GnuPG key from <http://24.112.188.210/mykey.asc>

dpkg: "Can't find valid termcap file"

1999-12-22 Thread Neil
this on 2 of my boxen, and I have seen others complain about it - what is causing this, and how would I fix it? Thanks in advance, Neil Conway -- Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Get my GnuPG key from <http://24.112.188.210/mykey.asc>

Logging user's logging in

1999-12-26 Thread Neil
? Thanks in advance, Neil -- Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Get my GnuPG key from <http://24.112.188.210/mykey.asc>

test

2008-08-25 Thread Neil
Please disregard this message -- There are two kinds of people: 1. People who start their arrays with 1. 1. People who start their arrays with 0. --- ** Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature, please! ** --

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2008-09-03 Thread Neil
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Re: /var/log on tmpfs

2008-09-18 Thread Neil
n my EeePC this weekend, for it would help me if it would work. Could someone smarter and wiser than me (90% of this list fills at least 1 catorgory) please shine his or her light on wether this would theoretically work? Thanks Neil Sorry if this could be considered a thread hyjack. Just disr

Re: Sunbird server?

2008-09-18 Thread Neil
; > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, Can Sunbird import ICS files? Gcalendar can export to that format in settings - calendars Neil -- There are three kinds of

Re: how to save flash

2008-09-29 Thread Neil
ps To save the file as AVI I reccomend swf2avi. You should be able to find it in the packagemanager. On a Linux system you will not need it, because both VLC and Mplayer can play .swf files directly. Neil -- There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who cannot count --

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-10-01 Thread Neil
ing: you'd get half of the old file and half of the new one). To prevent this the filesystem should be locked as read only in some kind of way or the source should be booted from a live CD (or an OS on another partition). I'd advise the live CD, but it requires a restart. I have no experi

[OT] Does this have hardware issues

2008-10-12 Thread Neil
ill work under Linux? Thanks Neil -- There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who cannot count --- ** Hi! I'm a signature virus! C

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-16 Thread Neil
> > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi Can't you compress it on the client machine? Neil -- There are three

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-22 Thread Neil
>> regards >> >> >> >> regards >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > I've

Re: [opensuse] Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-03 Thread Neil
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Volkan YAZICI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I had used to be a ReiserFS user ~4 years and never had even a single >>> problem with it.

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2008-11-07 Thread Neil
a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi Hard links are used to make decent chains, like the chain to a boat anchor. Decorative chains are usually made of a much softer material, so the links in them could be decribed as soft links... Neil -- There

Re: mplayer playing HD files.

2008-11-21 Thread Neil
't enough you may want to try -hardframedrop. It's a nasty one, for it doesn't bother with detecting the "borders" between frames, so there will be some blocks and errors on your screen. If you want to solve this better, but more difficult you could compile Mplayer for your system. I have done this once (divx on a 166 P1 is possible) but I could only do it because my mate helped me and he is verry good at that shit. Hope it helps Neil -- While working towards the future one should be ensuring that there is a future to work to. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

2008-12-05 Thread Neil
ut of the properties of the disk (dunno wich exactly). It's like trying to remove the MD5 checsum of something: you can't. However: your problem will be solvable and the guys who know how to do this are already busy. Neil -- While working towards the future one should be ensuring that the

unsubscribe

2002-11-05 Thread Neil Stone
-- Neil Stone T: 01392 491293 M: 07866 368318 F: 01392 491293 SELECT * FROM users WHERE (clue != NULL AND clue > 0); 0 returned -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A foot on the ladder

2002-11-23 Thread Neil Foster
nd suchlike.  Many thanks for your help The firs thing is the modem! then the network card! There are failry basic thigns It's not a winmodem a normal modem hanign off com2 ie. ttys2. But linxu won't see it.   how do I start problem solving?   Best Regards Neil Foster  

Please clarify...

1998-06-16 Thread Neil Cheshire
ie. a stable hamm? Will that be 2.1 or is that coming later? Should I really wait for the stable release? Seeing as I am not desperate to upgrade? 1.2 rex 1.3 bo 2.0 hamm? Info please! Thanks, Neil. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting

1998-07-01 Thread Neil Cheshire
There is a mini-HOWTO on this and using BOOTPART: http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html Cheers, Neil. >> On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: >> >> > How can I boot WinNT4 using LILO or boot Linux using WinNT? >> > >> >

Re: KDE日本語パッケージについて

1999-08-21 Thread Neil Booth
nichi Miyazawa のカード > > Wow! wtf is this! lol!!! It's a standard Japanese message, and I can read it perfectly in Mutt . He's asking if there's a Debian Slink version of Japanese KDE, mentioning that at the above ftp site there is a directory for it, but the directory is empty. Any ideas? Neil.

Re: Please help a poor gaijin!

1999-08-31 Thread Neil Booth
ny and all who can shed light on this for me. I found Craig Oda's stuff very informative about the issues behind a Japanese setup:- http://tlug.linux.or.jp/~craigoda/writings/linux-nihongo/ but the bit about emacs and canna didn't work for me; luckily what was detailed in my book was a tad simpler and did work. If you get close, I may be able to help with the finishing touches. 頑張ってね。 Neil.

[NeilB@earthling.net: Re: Please help a poor gaijin!]

1999-09-01 Thread Neil Booth
e the next character. I found it a constant battle to use, whereas canna is just very smooth. Also, Emacs's dictionary seems very limited - nihongo is not recognised as a word, but gets split as Nihon and hiragana go! I may be using it wrongly, of course. Neil.

Two ethernet cards

1999-09-12 Thread Neil Booth
eth0, but the second driver fails with:- eth1: region already allocated at 0xe400 because that I/O port was grabbed by the tulip driver. Is there a way around this, or can I not use these two cards in the same machine? I can't see any jumpers or switches that might change either I/O port on the cards. Cheers, Neil.

Re: Two ethernet cards

1999-09-12 Thread Neil Booth
Peter Iannarelli wrote:- > Hello Neil: > > via the card configuration tool from the manufacturer, > you should be able to change the IRQ and I/O mapping > for the card(s) in question. > > Peter Hi Peter, Literally all that came in the box was a manual, a cable for Wake

Re: Two ethernet cards

1999-09-12 Thread Neil Booth
ust ignore the second one (presumably because they share I/O address). Using the other Dec driver, with which it seems compatible too, was what actually threw up an error message, making me think that was the true driver. Neil.

NFS Install fails, eth0 module?

1999-09-23 Thread Neil Conway
into a file on the root filesystem, were unsuccessful - I got "out of space errors", or the file I was trying to create was only 0 bytes. Thanks in advance for any help. Shouldn't Deb auto-detect my ethernet card, or at least prompt me for the driver diskette? Regards, Neil Conway Microsoft - Soft and limp?

Hello From Corel, was(Re: Strategic Alliance Between Corel, KDE and Debian)

1999-04-22 Thread Dave Neil
Hi Everyone, My name is Dave Neil. I'm working on the Corel Linux OS. I would like to comment on what we at Corel will be doing with regards to joint development with Debian. To help do this I'll respond to Mark's message. Mark Phillips wrote: > I just received the Debian

Location of old Debian packages?

1999-10-11 Thread Neil Parry
Does anyone know if there's an archive of old Debian src packages anywhere? I'm looking for lilo_17 as I need to recompile for partition-rewrite support which has been disabled in later versions. Neil Parry Department of Computing & Communications University of Lincs &a

Forcing a core dump?

1999-10-16 Thread Neil Booth
I have found a bug in some software that causes it to segfault. However, there is no core file to use with gdb. Why is a core file not generated / how do I force one? Thanks, Neil.

libslang problem after upgrade to potato

1999-11-02 Thread Neil Booth
g1" it tells me I already have the newest version, so I'm not quite sure where to go from here. I daren't reboot without sorting this out as libslang is in the base distribution, and quite a few upgrades did not go smoothly because of this libslang problem. Any advice appreciated. Neil.

Soundblaster installation problem.

1999-11-27 Thread Neil Booth
fine. What am I missing? Thanks in advance for any hints. Neil.

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #199

1998-02-15 Thread Neil Babcock
Could you remove me from your mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, February 09, 1998 2:38 AM Subject: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #199 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

Re: Running Debian

1996-11-04 Thread Neil Walker
Daniel Stringfield writes: > On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, George Bonser wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > How about a SVGALIB based program? That should fit on a floppy. > > > Now we have a possible three!:) dselect, xse

tclmidi-3.1

1996-11-09 Thread Neil Walker
Has anyone any exprience of compiling tclmidi on a debian system ? I cannot find a package. Thanks, Neil -- ~~~+ Neil Walker +44 626 853306Debian Linux | | Its different than I

setenv missing

1996-11-15 Thread Neil Walker
sr/include/stdlib.h' but I cannot find setenv etc on my system, and when I am in in a child shell my path is unknown. The kernel is custom 2.0.6 and mostly modular. Thanks, Neil -- ~~~+ Neil Walker (+44 626 853306) Learni

Re: setenv missing

1996-11-17 Thread Neil Walker
Thanks to all who responded, problem solved. Some time ago I had a trouble with with color-ls. I had put bash.rc's and bash_profile's in /etc & /root csh.cshrc and so on A clear out and fresh start has worked wonders, Thank

sound module

1996-11-26 Thread Neil Walker
here ? if not I apologize, Thanks Neil, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian 1.2 resq1440 disk problem

1996-12-17 Thread Neil Parry
. However, the same floppy works fine when tried on other 1.1 machines. I've tried formatting the disk on the PC in question, using different disks, writing the disk image from Linux (dd) and from DOS (rawrite2), downloading resq1440.bin again... any ideas?? Neil Parry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) S

Re: Hardware advice: seeking echoes of running Linux-PC clusters

1996-05-02 Thread Neil Turton
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Turton writes: > > There is a loophole if there is a file-system problem on the root > > partition. /etc/init.d/boot will drop you into a root shell if the > > root partition has serious errors on it. Maybe there

Re: Changing display mode in X

1996-05-17 Thread Neil Turton
doc useful, and it seems to be safe provided you told xf86config (in the xbase install in debian 0.96R6) the correct hsync and vsync frequencies for your monitor. (Get ready for Ctrl+Alt+Backspace if not. :-) More details in the XF86Config man page if you feel brave. Neil. +-----

equivs errors

2001-02-20 Thread Neil Grant
hi I am trying to create a dumby package for qmail, I have created a ctl file from the template (the attached file), then when I do 'equivs qmail.ctl' I get the output shown below thanks Neil dh_testdir touch build-stamp dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_clean -k # Add here commands to i

Re: equivs errors

2001-02-20 Thread Neil Grant
adding the source and change the package line has fixed it, thanks for the fast response Neil - Original Message - From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:58 AM Subject: Re: equivs errors > "Neil Grant" <[

Re: stupid questions about apt-get/dpkg

2001-03-01 Thread Neil Grant
ail or build a dummy package with equivs that provides mta, so that apt will uninstall exim say qmail is installed - then you just compile and install qmail however I havent managed to get apt to accept my dummy package instead of exim N

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade -u on testing wants to uninstall 189 packages

2001-03-06 Thread Neil Booth
is to apt-get remove data-dumper > first. Is there an easy way here to see which package is at the root of the chain of dependencies and causing problems? I found it by trial-and-error, but it can be terribly opaque. Neil.

Re: wvdial doesn't connect

2001-03-11 Thread Neil Booth
ternal or external? You should have no probs with an external one. Internal ones are more likely to give problems. Neil.

Re: [OT] Linux palmtop computers?

2001-03-24 Thread Neil Grant
> The Compaq product (dis)appears to be even worse, more of a proof of > concept thing. from what I have heard on the linux psion list compaq is quite strong in its support for linux handhelds - due to not wanting to rely on winCE interesting links... http://handhelds.org/ http://alllinuxdevice

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-26 Thread Neil Booth
cted to the internet. As soon as pppd is up, the problem vanishes, and it reappears when I disconnect. I haven't a clue either. Neil.

diald and fetchmail

2000-10-31 Thread Neil Darlow
er to prevent this from happening. I am polling two separate POP3 servers with a "timeout" setting of 120 seconds, using an unmodified /etc/diald/standard.filter. TIA, Neil Darlow.

inetd startup warns portmapper not running?

2000-11-08 Thread Neil Darlow
g condition (rpcinfo returning non-zero). The RPC services are working. I can talk between virtual consoles. All I've done recently is install security updates and packages from the official CD-ROMS (2.2 r0). Does anyone have any idea as to why this is happening? TIA, Neil Darlow.

inetd startup warns portmapper not running?

2000-11-09 Thread Neil Darlow
A long time ago, in a galaxy far... far away, Neil Darlow wrote: > My potato system has started warning that portmapper isn't running > during the execution of /etc/init.d/inetd at boot. Further investigation shows that most of the time rpcinfo returns program 10 not availab

Re: Help with apache

2000-11-10 Thread Neil Darlow
On 11/10/00, 6:57:06 PM, Eileen Orbell wrote: > I need a little help with apache and setting up the following code to > run. At this moment it is contained in my .hmtl file and nothing happens > other than the other html code I have in there >

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-11 Thread Neil Darlow
at least it will work properly. Are we talking XFree86-3.3.x and XF86_S3V server here? I use S3 Virge/DX cards and follow the recommendation for using the XF86_SVGA server. The XAA features work nicely and a hardware cursor is implemented. A good compromise. Regards, Neil Darlow.

Re: can't locate module tap0 (tap1,tap2,...,tap15)

2000-11-14 Thread Neil Darlow
th diald and the kernel docs also have something on this. Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048

Re: wvdial

2000-11-16 Thread Neil Darlow
Marcelo, Just add yourself to group "dialout". Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048 On 11/16/00, 6:53:26 PM, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I am running a fres

Re: Gome and window managers.

2000-11-20 Thread Neil Darlow
rce-wise, I prefer lightweight window managers. I use Sawmill but I suggest you experiment and find what suits you. You can do most configuration from the GNOME Control Center applet which allows you to switch between window managers and run their own configuration tools. Regards, Neil Darlow.

Re: debian 2.2 CRASHES often & easily

2000-11-22 Thread Neil Darlow
re stable kernel e.g. 2.2.17 final. I haven't done this myself yet. Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048 On 11/22/00, 6:21:00 PM, Folken Lacour wrote: > I

Talk refused by default?

2000-11-22 Thread Neil Darlow
comment associated with TTYMODE says change to 600 to make mesg n the default. If I execute mesg y on the remote machine I can talk to it. What am I missing here? Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA

Re: Where to find unzip?

2000-11-24 Thread Neil Darlow
stalled > > the zip packed but as written above whatabout unzip? > there's a package named unzip too It's in non-free so won't be on the Official CDROM set. I use the zip-crypt and unzip-crypt packages which are in non-US. Regards, Neil Darlow. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-

Perl's default include path

2000-11-25 Thread Neil Booth
e 5.6 installed as the default, but as you can see it's still looking in the 5.005 directory for stuff. How do I change the @INC default path to the correct one? Neil.

Re: Neighbor table overflow

2000-04-01 Thread Neil Booth
Hi Alex, This is almost always caused by not having a loopback interface. If you haven't, make sure the first interface you configure is lo. Neil. Alex McCool wrote:- > Helpp > > What is neighor table overflow?? > > I'm getting this after changing the IP addr of

hdparm, saving settings

1999-12-05 Thread Neil Conway
mode? I usually just run it from an xterm, but there have been no ill-effects thus far. Thanks in advance. -- Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 04-Dec-1999 TIme: 20:32:12 For my GnuPG key, please see: http://24.112.188.210/mykey.asc --

Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Neil Booth
down the serial line, or is there some special camera-specific protocol they use (rendering it useless without special software)? In the former case, how would I capture the data coming down the serial line? Thanks for any information or advice, Neil.

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-13 Thread Neil Booth
Hi all, Thanks for the very useful info. With this, and having found gphoto.org and noticing gphoto comes with Debian, I have everything I need to buy a camera that works with Linux. Cheers, Neil.

debconf error

2000-01-06 Thread Neil Booth
I'm running the latest potato, but if upgrade something to the latest and greatest, I tend to get the following error: debconf: failed to initialize Dialog frontend debconf: falling back to Text frontend How can I fix this? Neil.

Package pools and Japanese Debian problems

2001-01-06 Thread Neil Booth
I use Japanese Debian, and ever since pools were introduced I've not been able to update many packages at all without download errors, and new revisions seem to be far less frequent. Here is a typical apt-get example:- monkey:/home/neil# apt-get install modutils Reading Package Lists...

Mutt and viewing attachments simultaneously

2001-01-17 Thread Neil Booth
ts too. I couldn't find anything in the manual apart from auto_view in the muttrc, but that seems to be about converting non-text to text. Here I just want to see all the text attachments at once. Thanks, Neil.

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #267

2001-01-28 Thread Neil Youngman
> Subject: Re: ttyS3 permissions > Date: 28 Jan 2001 10:29:46 -0600 > From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Neil Youngman writes: > > Ouch, that's nasty. Is there a workaround other than adding something to > > the cr

Installing xlibs wants to remove xdm and other stuff

2001-02-03 Thread Neil Booth
This is what apt-get -s gives:- monkey:/home/neil# apt-get -s dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: intlfonts-japanese intlfonts-japanese-big xbase-clients xdm xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi

Small debian install

2001-02-10 Thread Neil Walsh
Hey all, I have this P75 with 500MB HD and 16Mb RAM just sitting there doing nothing (unwanted present from friend) so I'm going to install Debian on it. I was wondering has anyone managed to install debian on such a spec machine with an X server. Is it even feasible? Thanks in advance,

Re: 質問です 。

2001-07-02 Thread Neil Booth
t I did it on a 56K modem... Neil. [Sorry, my Japanese input is broken at present] Nakatani Yoshitaka wrote:- > 古いパソコンにlinuxをインストールしようとしている者です。 > 私の古いパソコンにはCD-ROMドライブが無く、フロッピーディスクドライブしか無いのです。 > debianはフロッピーのみでインストールできるという話を耳にしたのですが、 > それは本当なのでしょうか。 > その古いパソコンというのは DynaBook GT475

Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba

2001-07-09 Thread Neil Durant
r has an idea on how it might be done. Have you looked at CUPS ? It makes printing trivially easy. Also, setting it up to share the printer over Samba is a piece of cake. You should be able to install it with apt-get. Check out the website at: http://ww

DMA error

2001-07-11 Thread Neil Conway
hard drive, but I don't have them handy -- so tell me if they'd be helpful and I'll dig them up. TIA, Neil Conway

Re: Newbieish question

2001-07-15 Thread Neil Durant
htly in advance, but...) Why won't your basic Samba from stable do what you need? It works for me, with Win2k clients! Neil -- === Neil Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Fax: 08700 520159 ===

Re: Debian d.net team

2001-08-02 Thread Neil Grant
me me me :) but most of my blocks arent from my debian machines Neil PS sorry Zoltan for the extra reply _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

A good list of what Debian installs and what it doesn't

2001-08-04 Thread Neil Gibbs
Hey all, a Newbie here. Love Debian, but I noticed some things were not installed by default using the "simple" package install. On debian.org, some mention is made of this fact, but no detailed list of what is and isn't. For instance, telnetd and ftpd were nonexistent after install (I know, I k

Re: shutdown permission to users?

2001-08-14 Thread Neil Glenn
You may find this old trick works. Create a "captive account", one that does not have a regular shell, rather runs a command - in this case /usr/sbin/shutdown. The account name might be "shutdown". Give it a password that makes sense in your home. > > How can I give my users or a group permision

Gnome panel + sawfish = very slow ?

2001-08-22 Thread Neil Booth
nappy, but Sawfish is a bit limited :-( I know Sawfish is compliant, so what could be wrong? I'm running the latest debian unstable, XFree 4.1. Neil.

Re: Gnome panel + sawfish = very slow ?

2001-08-23 Thread Neil Booth
all gnome-session and see if it helps. If it does, I tend to think it is a bug that running panel from an rxvt causes such sluggishness; it really is unusable. If it doesn't help, well something else is wrong :-) Neil.

Re: Gnome panel + sawfish = very slow ?

2001-08-24 Thread Neil Booth
aining issue is where does Gnome get its window manager list from? It only lists Windowmaker, and if I try and add sawfish it segfaults. I would have thought this should be handled by the sawfish install scripts, but maybe not. Thanks, Neil.

Re: bug: "neighbor table overflow" message

2001-11-19 Thread Neil Booth
ce, or not configuring it first. Neil.

tty1-6 screwed up

2001-11-21 Thread Neil Booth
still works; I can log in and out there, but I can't see anything useful. What's gone wrong here, and how can I reset them without rebooting? Thanks, Neil.

Re: tty1-6 screwed up

2001-11-23 Thread Neil Booth
wfish WM; sawfish (I presume) dies; I get thrown back to gdm, and the 6 ttys are hosed. Can anyone else reproduce this? It's fully reproducable for me. Neil.

Re: t0rn v8

2001-12-03 Thread Neil Booth
> rootkit installed > > and > > Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while... > /usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.1/lisp/.cvsignore Have you looked inside this file? It's on my system too. It's a harmless text file. Neil.

Re: t0rn v8

2001-12-03 Thread Neil Booth
cups 2401/tcp opencvspserver 22273/tcp openwnn6 but only SSH and SMTP are visible outside my LAN (as verified by various firewall testing web sites). Neil.

RE: chkconfig is to redhat as ___ is to debian?

2002-03-07 Thread Neil Darlow
On 03/06/2002 at 19:54:28, Arthur H. Johnson II said: > Why dont you just create the symlinks yourself. Its what I do. Because that's dirty. Use Debian's update-rc.d utility instead. Regards, Neil Darlow M.Sc. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG

RE: chkconfig is to redhat as ___ is to debian?

2002-03-07 Thread Neil Darlow
directory structure of /etc/rcN.d or /etc/init.d is required. The utility also makes acceptable assumptions depending on how much command line information is provided. Regards, Neil Darlow M.Sc. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273

Unavailable packages question

2001-03-28 Thread Neil Booth
This is the output of a couple of dpkg commands on my system:- monkey:/home/neil# dpkg -l "mutt*" Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: upp

Re: Unavailable packages question

2001-03-28 Thread Neil Booth
want. The mutt-i package is not flagged "deinstall"; in fact only 2 or 3 unrelated packages are. It has never been installed on my system. Neil.

Java install problems

2001-03-29 Thread Neil Kenneally
I use csh so I'm not exporting the path).] Does anyone have any ideas? Neil -- Neil Kenneally Center for Computational Neuroscience and Evolutionary Robotics. The University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK.

Re: Java install problems

2001-03-29 Thread Neil Kenneally
I dumped kaffe and installed IBM's JDK and run time environment. Problem solved :-) Neil -- Neil Kenneally Center for Computational Neuroscience and Evolutionary Robotics. The University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK.

LaTeX word count?

2001-04-15 Thread Neil Conway
o do this? TIA, Neil -- Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Get my GnuPG key from: http://klamath.dyndns.org/mykey.asc Encrypted mail welcomed I've made up my mind. Don't try to confuse me with the facts. -- Indiana Senator Earl Landgrebe pgpIZhOFS8x7t.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: APT Questions.

2001-04-19 Thread Neil Walsh
u can also search via dpkg -l. See the man pages. > > $ apt-get search xfontsel > E: Invalid operation search > > dpkg -l searches only in package headers: > > $ dpkg -l xfontsel > No packages found matching xfontsel. > > Maybe search options where added after potato was released? I normally use apt-cache search when lookign for packages. Reagrds Neil -- This one's optimistic

Re: NB : unsubscribing

2001-04-21 Thread Neil Walsh
up doing is setting up procmail to filter all messages from this list to /dev/null. Messy solution, but it works. Regards Neil. -- This one's optimistic

Re: GCC packages fighting amongst themselves?

2001-11-09 Thread Neil Booth
many copies of the GCC > manual already. :-) Takes two to tango 8-). I just let CVS GCC install itself in usr/local after a "make install", and then it's first on the path anyway. Neil.

C locale and error messages

2001-10-10 Thread Neil Booth
is started to annoy me. Thanks, Neil. FWIW a typical "env" when getting the '?' is as follows: PWD=/home/neil COLORFGBG=15;0 WINDOWID=35651586 PAGER=jless HOSTNAME=monkey LESSCLOSE=/usr/bin/lesspipe '%s' '%s' LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe '%s&#

Re: flavours and modules: /lib confusion

2001-12-28 Thread Neil Spring
from "man make-kpkg": --flavour foo This option is now deprecated in favour of --append_to_version. --append_to_version places modules in the place you expect, and coexists well with modules. I use it all the time. -neil On Fri, Dec 28,

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread Neil Booth
Romain Lerallut wrote:- > You can run *any* text through cpp (not just C program sources, I use it > for my Fortran codes:) That's not true, certainly in GCC 3.0. Neil.

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-27 Thread Neil Booth
Romain Lerallut wrote:- > > Romain Lerallut wrote:- > > > > > You can run *any* text through cpp (not just C program sources, I use it > > > for my Fortran codes:) > > > > That's not true, certainly in GCC 3.0. > > > > Neil. > > &g

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