Re: Squirrelmail and the address field

2002-10-30 Thread Jon-o Addleman
I think (but could be wrong) that you need to set this line: ServerName blablabla.com in apache's httpd.conf to your dyndns.org name, and then it should work. -- Jon-o Addleman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt trouble

2002-11-02 Thread Jon-o Addleman
know if it can be used any other way. -- Jon-o Addleman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with libesd-alsa

2002-11-03 Thread Jon-o Addleman
; so, I don't see a whole lot of improvement from OSS to ALSA. That's exactly what ESD is supposed to handle (among a few other things). That's the only reason I use ESD, anyway... It'd be nice if some sort of audio multiplexer like that was written into the kernel sound driv

Re: execute command from HTML page

2002-11-11 Thread Jon-o Addleman
but a better solution for controlling a dialup connection from several computers might be to use connectd. I've had great success with it. Search google for it - it's not packaged for debian, but it's very simple to install. -- Jon-o Addleman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail and virtualdomains

1998-09-01 Thread Thomas O. Kruse
Hi, >today I tried to reconfigure mySendmail 8.8.8 (hamm distribution) to set >up some virtualdomains. I followed instructions I've seen at >www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html and added line >FEATURE(virtusertable, `dbm /etc/virtusertable')dnl to my >/etc/mail/sendmail.mc file (at the end of f

Where is Bo?

1998-10-06 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
I need bo (debian 1.3) binaries of grep and ar to try and revive an old system before I can upgrade to hamm. Grep and ar have been lost :( I've seen the address of the bo site somewhere, but I just spent an hour looking through the web site with no success. Thank you. nathan -- Nat

CD from hamm

1998-05-20 Thread Thomas O. Kruse
Hi, I just downloaded the whole hamm stuff for the i386 arch. But that's too much to make just one CD out of it. What can I do to make dselect recognize a needed CD-change (I have only one CD-ROM drive). (How should the CD-layout be?) Thnx, Thomas -- Thomas Kruse   < >  Telefon:  (+49

Re: binary-i386 + binary-all >650 MB = CD size...

1998-05-21 Thread Thomas O. Kruse
Hi, well the main, contrib and non-free stuff is more than 650MB, too. I don't know how to burn an installable CD out of it, do you? Bye, Thomas -- Thomas Kruse   < >  Telefon:  (+49)2501-276527 Heideggerstrasse 4 < >  Fax:  (+49)2501-276528 48165 Muenster < > G e r m a n y   

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-27 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
rent and larger world. We are attracting windows users and they I strongly agree. I have personal convictions that debian is the higher quality dist, but I cannot reccomend it to the corporation I work for simply because of the install process and dselect issues. nathan

hamm/slink gotcha

1999-03-08 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
tting this behavior? I have a local mirror of the debian archive that I believe I am pointing to correctly. Thanks, nathan -- Nathan O. Siemers - Transcriptional Profiling, Bioinformatics - Division of Applied Genomics - Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute

emacs20 slink problems

1999-03-17 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
installed on a slink system? Any help would be appreciated. nathan -- Nathan O. Siemers - Transcriptional Profiling, Bioinformatics - Division of Applied Genomics - Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute - Hopewell Building 3B - P.O. Box 5400, Princeton, NJ 08543-5400 - 609

Hitting web site consistently dropped ppp connection?

1999-03-21 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
machine? How could that happen? Is this a freak coincidence or the tickling/exploit of a pppd bug? It there an escape sequence embedded in the transfer that could reset the modem? Perhaps I am just a victim of a freak coincidence. Thanks for any ideas, nathan -- Nathan O. Siemers - T

Re: mirroring servers over internet

1999-04-09 Thread Thomas O. Kruse
Hi, > Is it possible to sync two servers connected over the internet? > I want to sync the home-dirs of my users and there should be a very low What about the "coda" filesystem? > delay to sync files (some seconds or less). It should also be possible > to exclude files (on name, user, group, perm

Re: Just went tp potato

1999-10-25 Thread Darren O. Benham
reloads the inetd.conf file... On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > What does restarting inetd do? > -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. = * http://benham.net/index.html<[EM

Re: mouse problems W/ Corel linux

1999-11-21 Thread Darren O. Benham
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >I cannot get my serial mouse to work on Corel. I had no problem with >Calderaa OL 2.2, 2.3 and RH 5.2 & 6.0. > >gpm starts at boot and I am getting no error messages. I looked in >/etc for x11 and did not find it. Does debian put this file somewhere >else?

Re: Corel/deb...compile kernel

1999-11-21 Thread Darren O. Benham
I'd guess that corel doesn't install the source by default...? In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >Please forgive if this is a newbie type question, but I can't seem to >find the path to the source directory to recompile my kernel for the >Corel/Deb distribution. > > > -- ==

Re: fs not umounted at CTL-ALT-DEL

1998-10-26 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Have you possibly added any swap files recently? A while ago I tracked a similar problem to an open swap file that shutdown was not releasing before it tried to unmount. nathan -- Nathan O. Siemers - Transcriptional Profiling, Bioinformatics - Division of Applied Genomics - Bristol-Myers

Re: Nvidea-GeForce2ConfigProblem

2002-09-19 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
I've got an athalon system with integrated nvidea geforce2 svga, ethernet, modem, sound card on a single chip (I believe). I found the debian packages for patching the current Woody X systems and kernel to be confusing, I prefer leaving kernel work to myself with straight downloads from kerne

Re: applixware 4.3 install on debian system

1998-01-17 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am wanting to install applixware 4.3 on my debian system and would > like some advice as the best way to approach it. should i use alien to > convert the rpm packages or just run the install script or what? what > has proved successful for others? > For Applix 4.3.7,

Re: Using hamm? READ THIS about /usr/spool and related links...

1998-02-11 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Netscape outgoing mail may have broken due to this. nathan -- | Nathan Siemers - Division of Applied Genomics - Bristol-Myers | | Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute - H23-05, PO Box 4000, | | Princeton, NJ 08543-4000 - (609) 252-6568 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Will I need special kernel for farrallon pcmcia card?

1997-03-09 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
I just did a 1.2 install onto a new AST ascentia notebook. Now I have Helen Keller Linux running (no X, no network, no mouse yet). The first and most pressing problem is getting it to talk to a farrallon etherwave pcmcia card. Will I need to ftp packages over to the windows side and get a comp

1.1 -> 1.2 dselect/dpkg breaks

1997-03-19 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
After a trouble-free complete 1.2 install on a new laptop, I began the process of upgrading my 1.1 box. dpkg and dselect have broken after the list of available packages is updated: Uncompressing /u/dna/usr1/people/nathan/src/debian/stable/binary-i386/Packages.gz ... done. Replacing available pa

Upgrade to 1.2, Netscape Java solution, etc.

1997-03-24 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hello: Before I talk about problems, let me say that the 1.2 release that the people here have produced is very impressive and fairly solid. Nice work! I've got an AST Ascentia laptop running with full X, mouse, sound, ethernet, ppp, and power management. All with just a few days of tweak

rsh root priv

1997-04-03 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hello all: I'm having trouble telling linux to allow rsh's to work as root from remote machines. Root's .rhosts, /etc/hosts.equiv, and /etc/hosts.allow don't seem to affect the "permission denied" result. Solution? Thanks, -- Nathan Siemers - Department of Bioinformatics Bristol-Myers Squibb Ph

Kernel recompile affects X display left-shift?

1997-04-06 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
This is totally weird...help! Is there anything in a kernel recompile that would affect how XFree performs? I have an AST ascentia laptop, 800x600 screen. The default debian kernel gives an X display that is shifted about 30 pixels to the right. Some of my early recompiles (boot floppies) sponta

Re: Kernel recompile affects X display left-shift?

1997-04-07 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
"A. M. Varon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Nathan O. Siemers wrote: > > > Is there anything in a kernel recompile that would affect how XFree > > performs? I have an AST ascentia laptop, 800x600 screen. The default > > debian kernel

Re: syslogd won't start

1996-10-04 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
> isn't really starting when it delays this way, or it is dying after it > starts up. Some versions of sysklogd die at bootup when your net is not running (as in under ppp). Adding entries in /etc/hosts may solve your problem. See a recent thread in the comp.os.linux groups... natha

1.1 system doesn't unmount a drive during reboot

1996-05-08 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
0 1 /dev/hda1 /dosmsdos umask=0 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults0 0 Of course every time I reboot, fsck gets run on the offending disk. Has anyone seen this before? I didn't have the problem with 0.93. nathan -- Nathan O. Siemers,

Number of Linux processes allowed?

1996-09-07 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hello, I'm getting some "out of processes" errors lately in my debian 1.1 installation. Typically this is returned to the shell when I try to open a new xterm, etc. Linux secura-8 2.0.0 #3 Sun Jun 23 22:23:43 PDT 1996 i486 "top" says I only have about 50 procs running, and I doubt Linux would

syslogd not starting up...

1996-09-07 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hello again... Since upgrading to 1.1, syslogd doesn't start up at boot. I have seen this problem brought up on the list before, but didn't see an answer. This only relevant things in var/log/messages (not too useful as syslogd isn't usually running) is perhaps: Sep 2 10:05:23 secura-9 syslogd

hellish symlinks in archive

1996-09-07 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Zoikes. You know, it is not straightforward to keep *only* the intel binaries mirrored on another machine. I did write a preliminary mirror config file: package=debian site=ftp.caldera.com remote_dir=/pub/mirrors/debian local_dir=/usr3/people/nathan/src/debian get_patt=(binary-all/|non-free/bina

Re: Netscape3.0 'ERASER' ?

1996-09-09 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
I Stoyan> didn't scream vor vengence, but it was embarassing, isn't it? Stoyan> Could it be the Debian netscape installation package Stoyan> netscape_3.0.deb that wiped out something? (I don't thing so) Stoyan> ? Installation of 3.0 by hand did nothing crazy to my boo

max n of groups per user?

2000-08-24 Thread Lars O . Grobe
Hi! First - I'm new to the list. I used debian some time ago and now I'm thinking about installing it on a server machine at university. How many groups can a user have? I want to use a private groups concept with >300 users, and my admins must be members of all private groups because I want them

Re: max n of groups per user?

2000-08-24 Thread Lars O . Grobe
Addressed to: Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> debian-user@lists.debian.org ** Reply to note from Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:43:16 -0700 Hi Nate! > > the limit is 32, it is on slink, assume it is on potato as well. to eliminate > the need to change > ow

Re: max n of groups per user?

2000-08-24 Thread Lars O . Grobe
Addressed to: Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> debian-user@lists.debian.org ** Reply to note from Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:43:16 -0700 Hi Nate! > > the limit is 32, it is on slink, assume it is on potato as well. to eliminate > the need to change > ow

Re: max n of groups per user?

2000-08-24 Thread Lars O . Grobe
Addressed to: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> debian-user@lists.debian.org ** Reply to note from Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 01:47:32 -0800 Hi! The admins want to read / write, because we have services like burning cd's, printing / plotting etc. The user com

Re: max n of groups per user?

2000-08-24 Thread Lars O . Grobe
Addressed to: "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi Jonathan! ** Reply to note from "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:37:25 -0400 > how about assigning group owner ship of the home directories to and > administrative g

Re: max n of groups per user?

2000-08-25 Thread Lars O . Grobe
Addressed to: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> debian-user@lists.debian.org ** Reply to note from Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:09:22 -0800 Hi Ethan! > sigh, `don't want to learn'... ;-) > anyway it sounds to me what you need is ACLs, which are not support

Unix Permissions (was: Re: max n of groups per user?)

2000-08-25 Thread Lars O . Grobe
Addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan D. Proulx) debian-user@lists.debian.org ** Reply to note from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan D. Proulx) 25 Aug 2000 21:32:41 +0800 Hi! First, thank you all! You convinced me that the admin user concept (which means to have multiple root accou

autolog error message

2000-09-05 Thread Ariel O. Garcia
Hello, I am running autolog (up-to-date potato), but I get the following errors: --- From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -x /usr/sbin/autolog && /usr/sbin/autolog autologout: Can't get status of user's terminal (No

Re: sound card support? - intel SE440BX-2 onboard yamaha

2000-09-05 Thread Ariel O. Garcia
Hello, > I have the Intel SE440BK-2 motherboard with the onboard yamaha sound > chpiset. I haven't managed to get it to work with linux. > Does anyone have any expirience with getting this onboad sound card to > work with linux, or has any idea where to start? Yes it works but you need OSS (non-f

Floppy and audio permissions (PAM groups & autofs ?)

2000-09-05 Thread Ariel O. Garcia
Hello, I am running an up-to-date potato, and I have problems with the floppy/audio permissions. In fact (ideally), I would like to assign the audio and floppy groups to any user which logs in the console, so I can keep /dev/fd0 with 660 permissions etc. PAM modules can do that, at least i

Re: replace chars in filenames?

2000-09-11 Thread Lars O . Grobe
Addressed to: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> debian-user@lists.debian.org ** Reply to note from Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 10 Sep 2000 09:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Hi Krzys! Thank you!!! I must find out now if the apple clients will like the files than. CU, Lars.

Please remove my address from the list!

2000-09-28 Thread Lars O . Grobe
Addressed to: Distribution list (see below) I'm sorry, but the unsubscribe-procedure didn't work, and as I won't be able to read emails the next four weeks, I would like to be removed from the mailing list. Thank You, CU, Lars. Distribution list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-isp

Re: Modem Problem

2000-06-23 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
Hi Cristiana > Hi, I'm trying to connect with a modem > RVS ISDN X.75T /V.120 > It should connect with a analogic modem, please can you tell me the > initialisation string? At first, do you use Linux? RVS ISDN X.75T /V.120 looks more like a Windows device desciption... Secondly, am I right that

Re: netscape 4.73 & su -

2000-06-27 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange experience on my box. Here it goes: suppose you have > two accounts "prem" and "sec". Do > ... > everything is fine. If somebody know why this happens and a > workaround, I will be glad to hear them. Hi Christophe, Yes, I experience the

Re: OT - WindowMaker

2001-02-15 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:17:43AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: 1. i've added mutt in the wm's menus (using wprefs) but whenever i click on it it doesn't do anything Perhaps you need something like xterm -e mutt as the command to execute when you click on mutt. -- Tiarnán Ó Cor

pppd problems with 2.4.1

2001-02-22 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hey all, for some reason pppd doesn't work under the 2.4.1 kernel. I have a 2.4.0 kernel installed on my computer which invokes pppd perfectly, but when I try pon under 2.4.1, I get the following melancholy missive (from watch plog)... Feb 23 04:13:29 mousetrap chat[259]: ATDT1332103001235^M^M Fe

isdn question

2001-03-13 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
Hello for some time we have to use ISDN connection as a permanent Internet connection for our server with a fixed IP address. Is there a simple way to configure ISDN so that it authomatically goes back online if the connection failed? thanks in avance for a help PF

Re: isdn question

2001-03-13 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
Oliver does this mean that the server goes online on reboot or I have to start isdn by hands? How to make the isdn connection to startup each time the computer is switched on (rebooted) and then mantains itself on line? thanks, P.F.

language settings in command line and man pages

2001-03-23 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
Hello I have to work on a linux box with french language set default. Two questions: (i have root permissions there) 1) how to switch back to english in the command line? 2) how to make man pages english? I understand that I must read man pages to find out the answers, but what if they all ar

ppp problem, who can help?

2000-10-31 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
Gentlemen, I am trying ppp connection in between two linux boxes (basically to exchange files). 1) I am able to connect from the one computer to the other. When run with the debug option, pppd informs that the connection is istablished and both ip-up scripts are fired up. 2) I am able to make pin

ppp problem

2000-11-06 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
Hello, since one week can not set a ppp connection in between my two computers through the phone line cat /etc/ppp/options lock crtscts modem asyncmap 0 cat ppp pppd /dev/ttyS0 38400 \ connect 'chat "" at\&p1dp2921892 ogin: ppp word: ppp001' \ debug -detach ./ppp Serial connection established

Re: ppp, must dial 0 before number, how?

2000-11-15 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
> I have been asking the same question before and make up the following resume: (you can also read mgetty+sendfax info you'd find that dial-command ATX0DP0 would do the job (it says don't wait for the dial tone, go to pulse mode, dial 0)) so put Dial Command = ATX0DP0 in your wvdial.conf

strange dns problem on login to isp

2000-11-25 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
Hello, I have installed Debian linux both on my laptop and the desktop. I am using the both of the computers to login to my university Computer Center which serves as an isp for its employees. I am using one and the same external modem and have the following problem: I am using wvdial and if I

putting packages on hold

2000-12-09 Thread John O Sullivan
Hi, I've been scouring the documentation, but I can't find the answer I want to a simple question. I want to put a package on hold, actually I've done it with dselect, but I don't like dselect, and I'm sure theres some way of doing it with dpkg. the manpage for dpkg says that 'hold' is a flag you c

Sound card interrupt problem (ESS ES1878)

2000-12-12 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hello... I recently installed Debian on a Compaq Armada 7770DMT laptop with an ES 1878 sound card. I've compiled support for the Soundblaster into the kernel (2.2.17), which allows me to play audio cds, but gives a weird echo effect when I try to play wave files using 'play'. I've compiled the ke

Re: Sound card interrupt problem (ESS ES1878)

2000-12-13 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
All cool... we have sound and we are happy. What I ended up doing was compiling the sound directly into the kernel, using the Sb option on IRQ 5. Other than that, the defaults worked perfectly. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Cheers Tiarnan -- Tiarnán Ó Corráin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Part

strange mgetty+sendfax problem

2000-12-13 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
Hello, I am using mgetty+sendfax on top of potato linux box. It works pretty well (sends/recieves faxes) but sometimes (and always when I am sending a fax to the same target fax machine) the sendfax manages to send only a couple of pages and then fails to fetch the OK signal and hungs. sending f3

Debian+Tekram 390u2w cannot run full 40MB/s speed?

2000-12-23 Thread Jack O Max
Hello, I have a Tekram Ultra 2 SCSI card (DC390u2b eq DC390u2w) with an IBM Ultra 2 SCSI(LVD) Hard disk installed on the Debian 2.2. After successfully installed the Debian, I found a SCSI problem. Debian cannot run the SCSI(LVD) to 40MB full speed. (This system was installed Mandrake before and

How to make a new rescue boot disk for new Kernel?

2000-12-29 Thread Jack O Max
Can someone tech me step by step to create a new escue boot disk in Debian after I built a new Kernel 2.2.18 ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/

mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel ??

2000-12-29 Thread Jack O Max
Recently, I have rebuild my kernel. Everything runs fine, except I try to mount the floppy disk... mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /mnt mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel Which module should I included to fix this problem? Thanks in advance. Jack p.s. I had already enabled the module for MSDO

new Kernel 2.4 missing "Old Tulip" module ?

2000-12-30 Thread Jack O Max
I found that the new Kernel 2.4 does not have the Old DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support. My 1 year old Netgear FA310TX does not work properly without this module. Any suggestion to solve this problem? Thanks. Have a Happy New Year. __ Do You Y

Re: new Kernel 2.4 missing "Old Tulip" module ?

2000-12-30 Thread Jack O Max
lock up eth0 even the network backs on. I have to manually use ifdown eth0 and ifup eth0 to brings it up. > > It is still in the kernel, look for the "Generic > DECchip & DIGITAL > EtherWORKS PCI/EISA" configuration option. > > > Cheers, > Remco. --- Remc

Pls Help. DNS resolver problem.

2000-12-30 Thread Jack O Max
Situation: I have moved my Linux server to my college, my college provides me four IP addresses (203.111.111.111 - 114). I use only one IP address 203.111.111.111. Since I don't want to use my college name server as a resolver so I build the named in my own Linux server. What did I do? 1. Se

StarOffice_5.1 doesn't run on an autofs/nfs home-dir + nis passwds

2000-04-28 Thread Ariel O. Garcia
Hello, I have StarOffice 5.1 installed on a client computer (home directories autofs mounted from an nfs server, and nis passwords), but it doesn't run anymore since I started to update slink (it worked ok with glibc2.0.7). It blocks in soffice_dir/bin/javaldx. I tested setting the HOME

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

2000-05-19 Thread Darren O. Benham
Speaking as a member of the webteam... You're welcome to submit the rewrites. There are instructions on the site for downloading the webpages in source (*.wml, not *.html) form. In particular... Following changes can be a time consuming process (ask the people who do the Debian Weekly News) and

Re: wheel mouse

2000-05-29 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello, > > Another problem. > > I also have a logictech wheel mouse. I would like to use that wheel for > scrolling. > I have installed the package imwheel but I don't know what I should do next > to get the mouse working correctly. > > Any ideas? You will have to modify /e

Re: problems with download

2000-05-30 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm still getting these 404 errors in response to `apt-get upgrade' > and `apt-get dist-upgrade': > > Failed to fetch > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/debconf_0.2.80.15.deb > 404 Not Found These files simply don't exist! I had a l

Re: wheel mouse

2000-05-31 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have installed imwheel and it is running well only for netscape navigator > the wheelmouse is not working. There's no reaction at all or it doesn't work as you expected? > These are the settings in my .imwheelrc file (for Netscape Navigator) > > "Net

Re: wheel mouse

2000-05-31 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello everybody, > > As requested by Marc O. Sandlus i hereby send my complete iwheelrc file > > # IMWheel Configuration file ($HOME/.imwheelrc) Hi ~/.imwheelrc is OK (again, its working on my machine) Please verify that the file you sent was not /

Re: df reports wrong partition sizes?

2000-06-04 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
Ron Farrer wrote: > I have two 2GB disks (SCSI-2 narrow) and this is what 'df' reports: > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda8 1189183632032495712 56% / > /dev/sda7 2029267 1694526229834 88% /usr/src > /dev/sdb5

Re: df reports wrong partition sizes?

2000-06-04 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
Ron Farrer wrote: > Marc O. Sandlus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > It appears from this list, that /usr/src was mounted *before* /usr > > I guess that this causes your problems, since the mount point /usr/src > > didn't > > exist (yet) at the time /dev/s

Re: PPP conections

2000-06-06 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
David Hallam wrote: > > Hi > Until recently I've been able to set up stable ppp connections to my > isp. > I recently changed modems and they have been dropping out after 10 or > 20 minutes. Hi Do you have an "idle timeout" set for your connection? Try this (as root at bash prompt #): # grep idl

Enlightenment configuration tool?

2000-06-06 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
ystem. Thanks for your help. nathan -- N a t h a n O . S i e m e r s Bioinformatics Division of Applied Genomics Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute Hopewell Building 3B, P.O. Box 5400, Princeton, NJ 08543-5400 609 818-6568 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Send an DNS Message

2000-06-06 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Perhaps you mean how to do dynamic dns updates? There's lots of info and i think some examples in: http://www.pop-uc.rcts.pt/mirrors/dnsrd/ -- N a t h a n O . S i e m e r s Bioinformatics Division of Applied Genomics Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute Hop

Install problem

2000-02-08 Thread Charles O. Hartman
(newbie problem!) I'm using the two-CD set to install Debian on a 486. I choose one of the standard (C devel) packages during install. When I'm dumped into dselect, I go through Access, Update, and Install as instructed (including putting both CDs in in turn and rerunning Install, and including fo

Install problem

2000-02-11 Thread Charles O. Hartman
(would-be new user!) Having found that dselect wouldn't work right for me (it marks packages for installation but never actually installs many of them), I've been doing it by hand with dpkg. I have found that these two package files g++_2.91.66-0slink2.deb libstdc++2.9-dev_2.91.66-

Boot problem

2000-02-17 Thread Charles O. Hartman
(newbie alert!) (I've looked around the archives and haven't found anything that seems to help) This is about a 486DX-100 system. Debian Linux is installed on my hard disk, and I have a boot floppy. The floppy works OK, and uses the hard-disk root OK. When I try to boot from the hard disk, thoug

Humble Request Re: New release over due

1999-12-03 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
t; > drop > > > debian. > > > > Huh? I have not used stable Debian in a production system in a long time. > > The closest I have are some slink installs with some of the newer apps and > > libs needed to do what it does. On these systems I did not completely >

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
em I have now. > > thanks > > -- > Andrew > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- N a t h a n O . S i e m e r s Bioinformatics Division of Applied Genomics Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute Hopewell Building 3B, P.O. Box 5400, Princeton, NJ 08543-5400 609 818-6568 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Prospective Newbie

2000-01-13 Thread Charles O. Hartman
(My state: I've used computers for 30 years, but no Intel machines for 10 [so I don't know modern hardware & interfaces], and Linux never.) I'd like to install Linux (dip toe in water!) on an ancient Zeos machine (AMD 386DX, 6Mb RAM, 120Mb disk). However, this machine has no CD drive, and no net c

Getting started

2000-01-15 Thread Charles O. Hartman
Thanks to all who advised on my (newbie) project of putting Linux on an old 386 with 4M RAM and 120M disk. Perverse, but I'm doing it, and I have the disk-image floppies. As a first try, I made these partitions: hda1 swap 16Mb hda2 temp root 2Mb hda3 Linux 98Mb Problem: wh

retract message!

2000-01-15 Thread Charles O. Hartman
Oops -- I looked a little farther on the web and found the www.ourmanpann.com/linux/lowmem.html workaround. Charles Hartman Poet in Residence Connecticut College [EMAIL PROTECTED]

T-Shirts

2000-01-30 Thread Darren O. Benham
I am happy to announce that Debian T-Shirts are available from Copyleft, the Free Software "goodies" outfitter... Check out http://www.copyleft.net/ -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. = * http://benham.net/i

Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Dear All, Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. Help much appreciated -- Tiarnán Ó Corráin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus." --- GPG fingerprint: 4A05 1FC3 5370 26

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:38:54PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I > > believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. > > > > Help much appreciated > > Like dvipdf or dvipdfm or dvips and ps2pdf ? Do you kn

apt-get segfaulting

2001-01-28 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hey All, many thanks to those who gave advice on installing kernel 2.4 on my laptop. Turned out the problem was that I hadn't set the processor type in the kernel configuration... Now a new difficult rears its ugly head. Apt-get is segfaulting under the new kernel. When I try (for example) a

Re: apt-get segfaulting

2001-01-30 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
> > Now a new difficult rears its ugly head. Apt-get is segfaulting under > > the new kernel. When I try (for example) > > apt-get install mpg123, the > > program segfaults immediately. Ditto with > > apt-get remove xxx > Try runnin 'strace' to see what system calls are run immediately pr

apt-get broken

2001-01-30 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hey, is there any easy way to find out which packages apt depends on? My installation of apt is broken, and I seem to need a library (libapt) which I can't find anywhere. Cheers Tiarnan

SSH Security Upgrade Causes Problems (potato) was: Why might sshd have simply stopped?

2001-12-09 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hello, Having installed last week's ssh security patches last night, I now am having severe problems talking to other ssh clients, with very slow transfer rates and high latencies. here are the specific versions (one on irix) where I am having troubles with the potato upgrade: debug1: Remote

Re: alsa et al

2001-04-30 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Vicar In A Tutu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alsa source code doesn't want to compile. Tells me it needs the kernel source > to > be present in one of the directories; scoobied if I know what to do with it. Check that you have the kernel-source package installed, and that /usr/src/linux is a sy

Weird apt error

2001-05-03 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hello all-- I'm getting a really odd error with a debian box I administer. Apt seems to be broken, or at least missing some serious files. Any advice would be most welcome. crhist95:~# apt-get remove gdm Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Unable to write mmap - msync (5 In

rsync+ssh problem

2001-05-07 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
Hello I am trying to use rsync over ssh on one of my linux boxes. remotelogin]# rsync -avz -e ssh / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:backup bash: rsync: command not found unexpected EOF in read_timeout it does not ask for the password since my identity.pub is absorbed into the authorized_keys on xx.xx.xx.

Re: rsync+ssh problem -- more info

2001-05-07 Thread Peter O. Fedichev
"David L. Sifry" wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:32:28PM +0200, Peter O. Fedichev wrote: > > > I am trying to use rsync over ssh on one of my linux boxes. > > > > remotelogin]# rsync -avz -e ssh / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:backup > > bash: rsync:

Re: OT - WindowMaker

2001-05-08 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:17:43AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: 1. i've added mutt in the wm's menus (using wprefs) but whenever i click on it it doesn't do anything Perhaps you need something like xterm -e mutt as the command to execute when you click on mutt. -- Tiarnán Ó Cor

Re: Unable to connect to X Server

2001-05-14 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:04:15AM -0300, Arlequ?n wrote: > Another thing.. > when I start running xf86Config, when it's goning to enter graphic mode it > says > "Unable to comunnicate with X Server!" > and throws this error Try xf86config (note the capitalization). It's a text-mode configuration

Re: Yet Another X question

2001-05-14 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:51:02PM -0500, Rob Zietlow wrote: > I just installed Debian on my system. Because I wanted a new version of > Window maker, I didn't install an X-window manager. I compiled Window maker > and all that good jazz. I ran all the setups, Now when I login to xdm > (remotel

Re: newbie install problem

2001-05-15 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
>From the lilo manual (probably in /usr/doc/lilo): Disk error codes - - - - - - - - If the BIOS signals an error when LILO is trying to load a boot image, the respective error code is displayed. The following BIOS error codes are known: 0x40 "Seek failure". This might be a media problem

Re: two questions on emacs under Mutt

2001-06-09 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
> > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:29:26PM +, Vittorio wrote: > > > 2) Is that possible to configure emacs to wrap lines at, say, 72 char? For accents put (set-language-environment "Latin-1") in .emacs. To wrap text mode lines at 72, try (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fi

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