Re: Want to creat a CD with indexed HTML content

Thanks for the pointer Richard Pat On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 12:54 pm, Richard Hector wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:32:16AM +, Pat Colbeck wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am working on a little project to produce some reference materail on a > > CD. Basically it will be a canned web site. The ide

XFS XFree86 3.3.3

Hi I have upgraded my Slink XFree86 to 3.3.3 using the debs. I have two questions about this. 1. Since this uses XFS should the fontpaths be defined in the config file for XFS instead of XF86Config and if so what should the top of XF86Config look like (ie the bit where it calls XFS) ? 2.

RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 minutes) and has be

XFS XFree86 3.3.3

Hi Well I figured this out eventually. Just in case anyone else is having problems with this here is how it works. xfs will start automatically. You should remove all references to the actual fontapths in XF86Config and replace them with this FontPath "unix/:7100" The actual fontpaths are s

Re: Emacs without X in Debian?

Xemacs certainly doesnt need X. It used to be called Lucid Emacs (no reference to X). The version in the Debian debs is compliled with X support so if you launch it in X it will run as an X app but if you start it in a real console it will run fine or in an Xterminal do Xemacs -nw and it will stay

3C905B 10/100 card "falls back" to 10MB

Hi My job is networks and I can give you a major piece of advice, autonegotiation sucks ! You can run into all sorts of problems especially if both end of a link try and autonegotiate. I would ask your network manager to hard set the port on the switch you are connecting to to 100Mb full duplex

tacacs and radius

Chad A. Adlawan writes: > hello everyone ! > i friend was asking me whether i can help him convert his slackware system > to debian (since imthe only debian user in our group and their slak admin > jumped ship) from "tacacs" to "radius" ... whatever those are. can someone > please help

XF86Setup problem

Same thing with my Potato system. Pat

Re: network problem?

All VLAN stuff on switches makes use of oversize frames (or giants) as well. Basically they TAG the VLAN identifier and such like to a standard ethernet frame thus if the frame is already 1500 bytes long it becomes technically an illegal size. So if you have some switches with VLANs you may see o

GTK VIM debs

Hi Does anyone know the address of the site that has VIM debs compiled against GTK ? Ta Pat

Printing pronlem with Potato

Hi I am trying to print to a Netware prionter using Potato and apsfilter. I had this running fine using the Debain supplied kernel but I have now compiled my own 2.2.10 kernel and I can't print anymore. lpc reports the following when I try and start the printer:- lpc> start all ascii: pr

Not quite there with printing

Hi I have narrowed my printing problem down to the fact that on boot the /dev/printer device is not being created. If I remove generate a simple printcap using apsfilter or magicfilter for a local printer it works fine. However if I try and chain apsfilter to a Novell remote printer it doesnt crea

Re: Not quite there with printing

Patrick Kirk writes: > Why not check out the ultimate printing database for > Linux...http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?predef=CJ > > Nice resource but it still doesnt tell my how to link in the nprint batch file to lpd and apsfilter. Pat

3Com 509B Ethernet card working in Windows but not in Linux

I have used these cards with RedHat and Debian with both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels and they work fine. One thing to look out for is that they are ISA cards with some plug and play functions. The plug and play functionality is useless. Get the 3c5x9cfg program from the dos intsallation disks that come w

gv with neXtaw anyone?

I seem to remember that in the docs that come with either gv or neXtaw it says that it is not possible to link gv with neXtaw and gives the reason why. Sorry I can't remeber exactly why though. Pat Philip Lehman writes: > I'm trying to build gv using neXtaw, but it segfaults. Linking to > ne

Going back to RedHat (but only for a while)

and coming back to Debian as soon as possible. Probably once Gnome 1.0 is out and Potatoe moves to freeze. Again thanks to all those who have helped me out during the last few months and see you all again soon. Pat -- ___

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Unsure of how Debian is updated

Reply-To: Hi I am converting from RedHat to Debian and in the main am pleased with Debian. One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles updated packages. For example XFree86 3.3.3 is out now, will this eventually be integrated into the 2.0 release or are the packages in this rele

XFree86 3.3.3

the binary release from ftp.xfree86.org ? Pat -- - Patrick Colbeck Senior Technical Analyst _ Azlan Ltd Tel:+44 (0)1904

Smail and POP3

Reply-To: Hi Well I have got my X working now (finally found the old SUSE Matrox server on the Webi its gone from the SUSE hompage). Now I have a smaill Smail problem. I am using Smail to send mail and fetchmail to pull incoming mail from the company POP3 server. I have set my visable domain to

Smail not delivering mail to local domain

Reply-To: Hi Recently I posted about smail being able to deliver mail via smtp to remote domains but not to users on my own domain unless they existed on the box smail was running on. Basically I wanted mail for these users to be delivered to the company mail server. Several people have offered

Mutt colours

Reply-To: Hi This isn't really important but here goes anyway. I have over the last week or so being introducing myself to Debian and playing with Hamm and Slink. At one point my Mutt mailer was running with a nice colour setup (not one I made rather it was installed by one of the Mutt debs I us

Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?

OK well I guess I am qualified to put in my two hapeth here as I have just moved to Debian after using RedHat since 4.0. RedHat is VERY easy to install in some ways. Its hardware detection is very very good and it takes about 15 minutes to do the whole thing. It does however have some major disadv

Re: Mutt colours

On Wed Dec 16, 1998 at 09:00:56PM +0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Subject: Mutt colours > Date: Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 04:44:29PM + > > In reply to:Patrick Colbeck > > Quoting Patrick Colbeck([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Reply-To: > > Hi > &

What does this mean with dselect

Reply-To: Hi Can anyone tell me what messages like this mean when I use dselect with the apt access method. Checking system integrity...ok The following packages have been kept back gobjc smail g++ egcc doc-linux-html wxhelp doc-linux-text Thanks Pat

startx

Hi Some files have gone off my PC (I was upgrtading to slink). The most obviuse is "startx" does anyone know which package its in. I have tried reinstalling xbase but that didnt help. Pat

Made a mistake in dselect

Reply-To: Hi I made a mistake in dselect and unselected xbase, I aborted out without removing any packages. Is there a way of resyncing dselect so taht everyting I actaully have installed is selected so next time I run it it doesnt remove X ? Thanks and seasons greetings. Pat

Re: colored comman prompt

It certainly is. Check out http://bash.current.nu/ Themed bash prompt no less, with all different colours and escape chars etc. Pat On Thu Jan 07, 1999 at 09:57:48PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is it possible to make the command prompt colored? > > like the escape sequence that you do

Papersize and SO5

Hi I am trying to print to a HPLasterjet 4 Plus from StarOffice 5.0. I have my papersize set to A4 under Debian and also in StarOffice but whenever I try to print the printer gives an error saying it wants letter size paper loading ! I am using the generic postscript driver in SO. Has anyone seen

Re: removing ^M from a text file

I seem to remember that crypt++ with emacs/xemacs was supposed to do this but I just tried it and it didn't. I may be doing it wrong though, does anyone have any comments ? Pat On Tue Jan 12, 1999 at 03:13:41PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > I had the misfortune to be stuck with MSW

dosemu and freedos

Hi Looking through past messages of this list it seems that the freedos shipped with Debian (Slink) doesn't support lredir. Is their any point shipping it then as this seems to prevent any access to your hard drives. Also the "setup-dosemu" program appears to be missing, does anyone know if there

Re: Help needed with laptop

I had a similar problem with an AST M series laptop. Turned out it was the way Debian compile the kernel for the distribution. Try compliling your own kernel and make sure you make a zImage kernel rather than a bzImage kernel and hopefully you should be OK. Pat On Thu Jan 14, 1999 at 06:43:45PM

Re: Help with Smail/Fetchmail/Mutt!!!

eck" poll mail.esc.azlan.co.uk with proto POP3 user "username-at-pop3" there with password "password" is pcolbeck here Finally you can tweek mutts config (.muttrc) thus my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Colbeck) This will get mutt to make the from address anything you want. Hope this helps Pat

Re: Netscape Toolbar Icon

On Fri Jan 22, 1999 at 06:54:05PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 10:27:58AM +0700, UF Marpaung wrote: > > I've installed Netscape and Navigator45 in my Debian system. > > I use WindowMaker and Enlightenment. But why icon images > > in Navigator's toolbar look bad ? only 2 co

Gnome

Hi people I want to install Gnome on Slink but don't want to scatter new versions of the libraries (eg gtk) arround anywhere. Does anyone know if you can compile it like KDE where it looks for all libraries relative to a partciular install path (eg /usr/local/gnome) so the apps that come with Slin

Re: Would like to drop Pine for Mutt

And if you start mutt with "mutt -y" it will startup showing a list of mailboxes along with how much mail is in them. Pat On Sun Jan 24, 1999 at 02:47:39PM -0700, JD wrote: > Quoting Peter Berlau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 11:19:45PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > > Hi Daniel

Database Newbie

Hi I want to make a small multi user database but am not a programmer so I don't know C. I have found mysql and the xmysql administration program and it looks like I could get my head arround creating the actual database itself. However the user interface is a differnet matter, does anyone know if

Re: mailsorting with mutt

rent/Old-Tools mbox-hook +spool/Debian +current/Debian # # Aliases: # (called in ~/.muttrc to load them only once) # set alias_file=~/.mutt/aliases # add the Aliases here source ~/.mutt/aliases # and include all existing aliases Well I hope thi

Printing problems

d the problem ? Pat -- ____ Patrick Colbeck email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Analysttel: you dont seriously expect me to Azlan Ltd give that out on the internet do you ?

Re: Printing problems

On Tue Feb 02, 1999 at 03:39:23PM +0300, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > Patrick Colbeck wrote: > > I haven't made any changes to my printing setup but all of a sudden I have > > started getting this error when trying to print > > > > no connect permissions > >

Re: Break Key

t prompt, the type send brk press enter That will do it (works for a 2503 via a Dec Terminal server anyway) Pat -- ____________ Patrick Colbeck email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Analysttel: you don

Re: LILO hassles

; UNCOMPRESSING KERNELOK LOADING LINUX > > > > and than it hangs. > > I had a similar problem. Try compiling your own kernel and do a make zImage instead of bzImage (Debian default). Pat -- ____________ Patrick

Colour 15 bpp colour depth in X

hanks Pat -- ____ Patrick Colbeck email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Analysttel: you dont seriously expect me to Azlan Ltd give that out on the internet do you ?

Slink - just want to upgrade XFree86 and Gnome

Hi Well after several months in RedHat land (just to make it easy to keep up with Gnome) I want to move back to Debian. I have some nice new Debian 2.1 CDs but unfortunately 2.1 doesnt have XFree86 3.3.3 and I need it on both my PCs (Matrox G200 and a laptop with a GL7555). The question is how d

Potatoe - usable ?

Hi After trying to get slink working with gnome and enlightenment and finding lots of annoyances such as gnome-apt causing the ftp method to fail and not being able to turn of enlightenments pager I was thinking of upgrading to potatoe. So what the consensus of opinion, is potatoe usable at the

Weird PPP problem

Hi I have just installed Slink on my laptop with KDE 1.1.1 debs on top of that. I am having a weird problem with KPPP. If I run as root it works fine but if I run a a user it fires up the modem OK connects to the access router and starts the ppp deamon. The weird thing is that then it NAKs the a

Install problem

Reply-To: Hi I am having problems installing Debian 2.0 from a Chapbytes CD. It installs OK but on rebooting I get a message that says "3FA" and if I press return I get the lilo prompt. If I press return again I get the Loading Linux .. then the thing just reboots. Its an AST Ascentai M se

Lilo and MBR

Reply-To: Hi Following up to my prevous mail is the lilo or mbr shipped with Debian 2 faulty ? When trying to boot from hda3 (hda1 is win98, hda2 is swap) it just says loading Linux the reboots. It never gets to vmlinuz. This is like what happens when it cant find vmlinuz when you forget to

Re: Lilo and MBR

: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > > > Following up to my prevous mail is the lilo or mbr shipped with Debian 2 > > faulty > > ? When trying to boot from hda3 (hda1 is win98, hda2 is swap) it just says > > load

dselect problem on install

Reply-To: Hi Has anyone seen this problem with Debian 2.0 (from Cheapbytes) before ? It does the initial install fine and the reboots and asks you what type of install you want eg Scientific workstation etc and then runs deselect. When it gets to installing the packages all goes fine until it sta

Boot problems

Reply-To: Hi A few days ago I reported a problem booting from the stock 2.0.34 kernel distributed with Debian. My laptop just rebooted after displaying "loading Linux .". I fixed it by compiling my own kernel fronm the 3.0.36 sources and though well there you go a 2.0.34 bug. Not so I am afr

kde and jpeglib6a

se. I have installed libjpeg-progs_6a-11.deb libjpegg6a_6a-11.deb libjpegg-dev_6a-11.deb I presume these are the libraries its looking for but it still doesn't pick them up. Any ideas ? Pat -- --------- Patrick Colbeck S

Re: IPX over the Internet

As previous posters have indicated you definately cannot pass IPX over the Internet without some kind of tunnel. Internet routers only understand IP so when they see an IPX frame they would just drop it. What you have to do is encapsulate IPX in IP packets and the the IP packets can traverse the

Installing Woody from CD

Hi Whats the current status of the Woody CDs. I have downloaded all 8 dated the last week in January, if I actually blow CDs of these will I actually be able to do a clean install of Woody. I just wanted to cjeck before I wasted 8 CDRs. Thanks Pat -- --- Pat Col

Re: Installing Woody from CD

SuSE for the past 18 months or so). Pat On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:29:38AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Patrick Colbeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Hi > > > > Whats the current status of the Woody CDs. I have downloaded all 8 dated > > the last week in Ja

Stop dselect installing packages

Hi I did a minimal install on a server here that is just going to be an FTP and DNS server in a test lab. I did the initial install to reboot and then quite the install so far so good. Unfortunately when I go into dselect to install proftp etc and the choose install dselect also wants to install

Re: Stop dselect installing packages

urn to the top level menu. It would be nice at this point to just quit and then have a way of wipping out the selections. Thanks Pat On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:30:07AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 03:47:03PM +0000, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > > I did a minimal

Re: Stop dselect installing packages

Thanks Colin Thats exactly the thing I was looking for. Pat On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:43:18AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > You could move the cursor down to the line saying "Available packages > (not currently installed)" and press '_'. That will select to purge all > packages which aren't ye

Re: Arbitrarily setting From: header in Mutt

Hi If you are using different mail addresses when replying to specific people or companies you can use "send hooks" to automatically set a different "my_hdr" dependant on who you are mailing. If like me you use a different E-mail address for work and for mailing lists like this one and have your

Re: telnetd slow to respond

Yup I think the telnetd tries to do a reverse lookup on the incoming telnet session. Adding your ip address and machine name to the hosts file of the machine you are telneting to will speed it up a lot. Same thing applies to proftpd so maybe its a function of the inetd super server ? Pat On

Re: module sound with potato 2.2 r2

This raises a point that has been puzzling me for a while. I sthere a list anywhere of all the groups in debian, what they are for and when users should be added to each group ? I tend to do it by "cat group" to see what groups there are then guessing but maybe it is documented somewhere ? Pat

Re: domain name: internet vs. intra-net

The recommended way to cope with DNS on a LAN using private addressing that is connected to the internet somehow eg via NAT is to use a thing called "splt primary DNS". Basically what you do is this. 1. Have a DNS server on the publically addressed side that lists the stuff that the internet shou

Install from single floppy

Hi I have just aquired a Toshiba Libretto 70CT onto which I want to intsall 2.2.r3 and wipe out the nasty corrupted Win98 that is currently on the hard drive. Unfortunately this cute little thing has a strange PCMCIA floppy and the install barfs loading the root disk (basically it cannot see the f

Re: Install from single floppy

Hmm after losts of digging and squinting at web pages written in Japanese (which I dont understand at all) it seems to come down to this. 1. The Debian boot disk kernels wont read the floppy after the first disk. 2. Hence you must install from somewhere else. 3. Options are Zipdisk or DOS parti

Re: Install from single floppy

hanks Pat Carl> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:57:36PM +0100, Patrick Colbeck Carl> wrote: >> I am going with the DOS partition option. I have installed >> FreeDos in a little 50 mb partition and that works OK. Now I >> have to get the reuired Debian files on

Network starts before PCMCIA

Hi I just installed 2.2r3 on a Libretto and it works fine except that on boot it starts the networking before it starts PCMCIA so the ethernet card is not initialised. I can do a /etc/init.d/network resart and it all bursts into life. Is there a recommended way of fixing this issue ? Thanks Pat

Slow Ximian Gnome 1.4

Hi I 'upgraded' my Gnome on 2.2.r3 to Ximian 1.4 and it now runs like a dog. I have a P400 with 128Mb RAM and a Matrox G200, running top with just a gnome terminal open shows 50% CPU idle with XSVGA and Nautilus being the biggest CPU hogs (even though all Nautilus windows are closed). On the same

Re: laptop instillation via a PCMICA cd rom

Hi I just had a similar problem with a Libretto. I solved it by creating a small DOS partition and using packet drivers and packet driver type ftp software to ftp the basic files needed for an install (see the Debian install documents on www.debian.org). Basically you need the kernel and a couple

Slow server due to reverse lookup

Hi I have a tftp/ftp server running 2.2 in a lab environment. This thing is basically for people to ftp files to then tftp them down to routers etc for testing the code. Unfortunately both FTP and TFTP are extremely slow to connect (like over 20 seconds) and often the clients timeout. Once connec

Re: Slow server due to reverse lookup

uters/switches etc so networks come and go all the time and they can be anywhere within private address space. Thanks Pat >>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ethan> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:38:37AM +0100, Patrick Colbeck Ethan> wrot

Re: Slow server due to reverse lookup

orary storage area for router/switch firmware so I dont really care if someone manages to break it. Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Pat >>>>> "Bud" == Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bud> On Monday 11 June 2001 05:38, Patrick Colbeck wrote: >

Re: COM21 is killing me with ARP

It really doesnt matter that there is a whole class B address space as you should only get arped when someone om the same class B needs to know your mac address. Once the arping device has your mac address it should cache it so it doesn't have to arp for it again for a long time. All the other peop

Re: PDAs

Dont write off EPOC devices so quickly. PSION are doing quite well at the moment with the Revo and they are very popular here in the UK. I use a 5MX and its very good with a slot for flash expansion cards and a keyboard you can actually use. It syncs really well with Outlook etc (good for work whe

Re: CPAN updating Perl version

Hmm this raises another similar issue. Xemacs has its own packaging system that lets you download the latest elisp packages does anyone know the implications of this with apt ? Pat

Re: COM21 is killing me with ARP

Hmm point taken. I hadn't actually thought about the router actually running out of arp cache space. > "Bryan" == Bryan Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bryan> Actually it does matter. When Joe user turns off their box Bryan> it nolonger can answer requests for it's ethernet adde

Komba and user permisions

Hi I have just compiled Komba on 2.2r3 with KDE 2.2 from kde.debian.net and it works bar when I mount an NT share neither root or a user can see any files on the share. ls returns this bash-2.03# whoami root bash-2.03# ls NTserver ls: NTserver: Permission denied bash-2.03# df seems to work thou