Hello,
lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior GNU/Linux
experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their accounts.
By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, desktop-theme, menues,
MUA-settings, browser-settings, printer ...
The users will most likely either use KDE or
Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 09:41 GMT, Philipp Schulte penned:
> > I would like to create a role-account, configure everything for this
> > account and copy all those settings everytime a new user is created.
> > I know about /etc/skel but I am not sur
Brad Sims wrote:
> On Saturday 13 December 2003 3:41 am, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any
> > pointers.
>
> Hrm try copying and chmoding as needed: .kde, .gnome, .gnome2, .vimrc, .bashrc.
Doesn't work. It'
Nunya wrote:
> FWIW this approach works perfectly for me.
> I cp -rL my dotfiles as root, chown root, chmod a+r them.
> When I reimage, I cp them as my account. This fixes the owner.
> I think they still end up world-readable, but you can fix that.
>
> I do it for these files:
>
> desk:/mnt/ap
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:37:20PM -0700, cxpx wrote:
> Hey that got it to work for me!! I have had problems following
> other how-to's. Well, the HD speed went from 3 MB to 22 MB. This
> is still a long way from 66. Is this normal? (I here 66 is almost
> unattainable) I have a motherboard and
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:16:53PM -0400, Daniel P. Katz wrote:
> I just finished installing Debian 2.2 on a box with a Seagate
> Tapestor8000 IDE tape drive and ran into a bit of a problem. When I
> boot up the machine, I get the following messages:
>
> hdb: Seagate STT8000A, ATAPI TAPE
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:12:30PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote:
> I know this has to be covered in a FAQ or manual somewhere, but somewhy I
> can't find it. I have a Kingston KNE120TX 10baseT ethernet card which I'm
> trying to get my system to recognize. Is there a standard 'net card
> driver mo
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 06:50:42PM +, stefan goeman wrote:
> I use fetchmail, exim and mutt to read and (try to) send mails.
> Is there a possibilty to create a folder were all your sent mails are being
> stored (like in pine)??
Yes, you can use the "record"-option in your .muttrc. Somethin
Hi,
I recently exchanged my MSI-6167 board with a new MSI-K7pro. Since
then I seem to have a problem with the Power Management.
I chose "Enable console blanking using APM" in the kernel setup
(2.2.17pre20) and with the old board the screen was turned off after
10 minutes.
But with the new board I
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 07:32:51AM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > "apm: set display: Unable to enter requested state"
> >
> > But APM is activated in the BIOS and the kernel recognizes it while
> > booting:
>
> Turn apm *off* in the bios. Linux apm will handle it alone, and
> better usually than
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 12:55:13PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
> I am running Debian Potato on a machine which is totally SCSI ( I
> feel that way myself sometimes) and includes a PlexWriter
> CD-Writer and a SoundBlaster Live 1024.
>
> I hadn't used my machine this morning and I happened to ente
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 08:18:43PM -0500, luke b wrote:
> I am having problems with lilo. When my computer boots, I have no
> opportunity to type my other kernel labels. It just says "LILO", and I am
> unable to type anything. Lilo is in my MBR. Please help . . .
Does it say
prompt
timeou
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 05:39:44AM -0500, Ronald L. Chichester wrote:
> Does anyone have suggestions regarding what components would make up a
> good PC running Debian? I'm looking for something around the $2,000
> range (without monitor). I'll happily build the box myself. What I'm
> looking f
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 07:48:30PM +0900, Peter Kim wrote:
> First my computer has trouble resolving name. I get the error:
> "nt_http_fetchfile :: http.us.debian.org couldn't be resolved, Host name
> lookup failure (h_errno=2)"
>
> I've checked /etc/resolv.conf and it says:
> nameserver 210.249
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:36:07PM +0900, Peter Kim wrote:
> > Was the module for your card loaded? Does your card have those little
> > lights that can show activity and stuff like this? If so, does it show
> > activity when you try to connect?
>
> Yeah. I've got five ethernet ports. I've chos
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:40:19PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote:
>
> I came home from work to find my debian box (woody) frozen - nothing was
> displaying on the monitor, keyboard/mouse weren't doing anything either.
>
> I rebooted the system, during the startup the various partitions were
> being
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:04:51PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote:
> >>>>> "PS" == Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> PS> Did you test the partition with #badblocks ? Try turning DMA
> PS> off for the check.
> PS>
>
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 04:13:38PM +0900, Peter Kim wrote:
> I need to be able to login to my Linux web server, via a communications
> server (Portmaster). The communications server will be connected to web
> server with a serial cable.
I guess you can use "SLIP" or also "PPP" for this.
#zless /
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 11:20:14PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> 3) Make sure you enable APM support, and enable the power off at
>shutdown option.
The option is calld something like "Use real APM mode ..." and I have
seen a system, where the system would *not* power off if this option
was
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 10:47:44PM +1100, loki wrote:
> Aargh! After going through documentation which is out of date etc.
> and then the annoying gpg.rc which comes with mutt but demands I
> download RSA modules and so on.. does anyone have a sample config
> which doesn't bother using patent-en
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 10:28:43AM -0500, John Reinke wrote:
> I should have included some specs. I guess I was too frustrated to think of
> that...
>
> Hardware:
> 500MHz Athlon (NO overclocking, no overheating)
> 96MB RAM (appended 96M in LILO, and accounted for in 'free')
> ATI Rage Pro (8MB
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 08:19:38AM -0700, Kirk Schroeder wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a Debian box that I can not ping my SuSE box. Is there something in
> Debian that I am
> missing? I have no problem setting up the SuSE boxes and networking them,
> but I really want
> to convert to Debian. I am a
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:06:59AM -0700, Richard Swen wrote:
> I can complete every thing but make the drive bootable.
> When I try to make the hard drive bootable, it seem
> like the CDROM is detected as having the MBR. I may
> be mistaken on the device names but here is what I
> remember.
>
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:21:36AM -0500, John Reinke wrote:
> Well, I ran the memtest86 program on my computer, and it looks like I have
> some bad memory. My question is: Is it normal (safe) to have one error on a
> stick of RAM?
If you want to have a stable system then it is not safe!
But I a
file is at some
> time readable unencrypted (after saving in the editor), and forgetting
> to turn off the backup file option in the editor when changing the file.
I solved this problem with a little script:
#!/bin/bash
gpg .dev.gpg > /dev/null
emacs .dev
rm .dev.gpg
gpg -r "Philip
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:18:20AM -0700, Shel Johnson wrote:
> Does anyone know of a website where I could enter a motherboard serial
> number and find out who made the motherboard.. I used to have an URL, but
> I lost it.. thanks!!
I think you are looking for http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/
HTH
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:06:49AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> When I try to telnet into my potato machine, I get a "connected to"
> message followed by "Connection closed by foreign host" and a
> disconnect. /etc/inetd.conf shows:
Do you try to log in as root?
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:32:18PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote:
[video problems]
> If this is the problem, what would be the best way of fix it? FYI the
> video is integrated on the motherboard, so simply replacing it won't
> work. :( Or is the sucker toast?
A videocard onboard in a 486-system?
We
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:11:21PM -0500, Jay Ford wrote:
> Can anybody verify that Debian runs on a Dell Precision 420?
Debian runs on about everything ;)
> It has an integrated dual-channel (Ultra 160 & Ultra Wide) SCSI controller.
> Does Debian support it?
Which vendor?
> There are sever
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 03:50:20AM -0700, Nick Willson wrote:
> Here is result of "modprobe tulip":
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
> invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> /lib/modules/2.2
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 12:41:43PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote:
> Since I discovered apt :-) in slink, I've been always using the
> unstable distribution. I would use 2.2, but in that version there are
> not the "latest" versions of some programs, for example, emacs, gnome,
> etc. And the problem o
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 05:59:38PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> Sep 8 17:50:11 mi apmd[1744]: User Suspend
> Sep 8 17:50:13 mi kernel: apm: busy: Unable to enter requested state
I get the exact message. I am sure it is a BIOS problem here. Did you
enable APM in your BIOS? What does /proc/ap
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:12:08PM -0500, Paul T. McNally wrote:
> I did a reinstall. The first time I installed potato, the mouse was
> all fd up, it sticks to the bottom of the screen and refuses to
> com up. I can see the tip of the pointer on the bottom edge of the
> screen. When that happene
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:13:44PM -0500, William Jensen wrote:
> I've seen this type of mouse behavior before when gdm(?) is being run. If
> you check the archives just a couple weeks ago you will see a fair amount
> of usefull fixes for this situation.
It's called "gpm". It sucks ;)
Phil
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 08:37:12PM +0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
> How do I force the system to identify the ethernet card?
> I have put the following line in lilo:
> ether=0,ox300,eth0 to force probing
That should be obsolete because it is a PCI, isn't it?
> How do I compile the rtl8139.c file (I
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 03:28:12PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:01:33AM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote:
No I did not write this! Just because we have the same name does not
mean you are allowed to fake qoutes ;)
> > > How do I compile the rtl8139.c
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:39:24PM +0100, Dominik Bittl wrote:
> I deleted /dev/hda as root and now i cant boot anymore (without disc) !!
How could this happen ;)
> I tried to mkdir /dev/hda but it doesnt work with lilo !! My NT is still
> working.
> What can i do ??
Have a look at /usr/src/l
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 03:11:06PM -0400, John Anderson wrote:
> I downloaded the ide patch for kernel 2.2.17, but how exactly do I install
> it?
unzip it
put in /usr/src
cd /usr/src/linux
patch -p1 < ../ide-patch
Phil
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:40:51PM +0100, Bob wrote:
> I have a problem with a debian GNU / Linux 2.2 (potato). I tells me that
> network is unreachable, whatever I do.
> When I installed debian, I could not load the ne module (on io=0x280 irq=5).
Can you do it now?
> I only have lo interface
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 12:51:50PM -0400, Rob Tandy wrote:
> How does one tell if a network card is running at full or half duplex?
There is a program called "mii-diag" and "pci-diag" somewhere at
http://www.scyld.com/diag
Phil
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:03:28PM +0100, Jaime Silvela wrote:
> I recently installed Debian 2.2 on my computer after having used Debian
> 2.0 for a year and a half. My computer had been complaining often about
> corrupted disk sectors under Debian 2.0, and I figured perhaps my HD was
> faulty
Hello,
I just wanted to get a new kernel for my Debian-Potato. I downloaded
2.2.16 and wanted to configure it but menuconfig aborts with this
message:
nepomuk:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering direct
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 08:37:22AM +0200, Alberto RodrÃguez Ortega wrote:
> just install the ncursesX.XX-dev
> (current X.XX version). U can see on the descripton ion the package just is
> the header and developments files.
It was called libncurses5. Now it seems to work fine. Any ideas, why
thi
Hello,
if I try to load a man page that does not exist I do not get the usual
"No manuel entry for XXX" but this:
nepomuk:~# man foo
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/cvsconfig.1.gz: whatis parse for
cvsconfig(1)
failed
Terminated
What's going in here? And what has CVS to do with it?
Thanks,
Phil
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 01:51:13AM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> Hello,
> if I try to load a man page that does not exist I do not get the usual
> "No manuel entry for XXX" but this:
>
> nepomuk:~# man foo
> man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/cvsconfig.1.gz: wh
Hello,
another really strange problem with my Debian-Potato-system:
if I start "apropos [some command]" apropos just won't stop writing
what it found on the STDOUT. Seems like a loop, I have to terminate
it.
"whatis" works fine. What might be the problem here?
BTW: Is there a way to keep the curso
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 05:34:58PM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> if I start "apropos [some command]" apropos just won't stop writing
> what it found on the STDOUT. Seems like a loop, I have to terminate
> it.
> "whatis" works fine. What might be the probl
Hello,
I tried to turn off the delay after a failed login. I changed the line
in /etc/login.defs to this:
FAIL_DELAY 0
But it is not working. To me it seems like setting it to "1" results
in a delay of about two seconds. Is it possible to turn it off or
set it to exactly one second?
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 02:05:53PM +0200, Marcel Karras wrote:
> I'm using the Netscape Communicator 4.72. (very slow) If I try to
> recieve an E-Mail then I will be asked to input my password. I did
Why don't you save the password?
> it, but after pressing the return-button Netscape kills itsel
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 07:11:38PM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote:
> Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
> Sending DHCP and RARP requests ... timed out!
> IP-Config: Reopening network devices... Sending DHCP
> and RARP requests ..<7>eth0: Transmit error, Tx status
> register 82. .
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 02:11:04AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> Does not single user mode inquires for root password?
> One alternative in case one forgets the root password is to use the rescue
> disk, go to the 2nd VT, mount / and clear the root password from /etc/passwd
> or /etc/shadow as appr
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 10:38:14PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> There's and "idebus=xx" where xx is between 20 and 66 inclusive in
> 2.4.0-pre... If it's backported to 2.2.17preNN then it'll probably work
> by having an 'append="idebus=66"' in LILO or similar in GRUB. Check
> /Documentation/i
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 12:02:33AM -0400, Dave Bresson wrote:
> so i used to be running the 2.2.17-ide kernel which came with potato, but
> have since took it upon myself to go with a homegrown kernel, one which i
> have configured and compiled myself. I downloaded the source to 2.2.16
> and patc
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 12:37:28PM +0200, Magnus Ericson wrote:
> I am new to Linux and Debian and needs to find out how to change the name
> (both machine and domain) and ip-address.
I think you are looking for these files:
/etc/hostname
/etc/hosts
/etc/network/interfaces
Phil
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:20:02AM +0100, c-3 wrote:
^^^
How about putting your name there?
> I can't get my sound card to work under linux (SB16).
> So far I've recompiled my kernel with sound drivers, what else do I
> have to do?
Which module did you c
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:24:23PM -0800, David Steinberg wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Matheson Cameron wrote:
> > I was wondering if I could change the bindings of
> > ctrl+alt+del, so that it did `shutdown -h now`,
> > instead of `shutdown -r now`
>
> It sure is!
>
> As root, edit /etc/initt
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:29:50PM +0100, Pascal THIVENT wrote:
> Reboot your linux system and just check the boot message to see if the sound
> card is recognized
What do you think logfiles are for?
BTW: http://learn.to/qoute
Phil
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 12:21:11PM +0100, c-3 wrote:
> I didn't compile it as a module, because one told me it would be
> better to compile it direcect into the kernel. And so I did.
Where does it say so? I have heard from many people that they were told
not to use modules.
> I've compiled the
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:41:50PM +0100, c-3 wrote:
> Ok, I will try to compile it as module, I just thought it would be better to
> have it permanent embeded into the kernel.
No, it's not. You can't unload and load it again if it is not a
module.
Phil
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:41:50PM +0100, c-3 wrote:
> Sorry, that my knowledge does have a big gap so far what linux
> matters. But I think you wasn't born with your momentary
> knowledge, too. So please try to treat somebody with a little bit of
> the respect he gives to you, even although h
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:51:27PM +0100, c-3 wrote:
> > I think I wasn't too harsh or something.
> > But rebooting in order to see if the sound card was detected at
> > boot-time is about the most dumb reason to reboot I can think of.
> > Phil
>
> Yes, it is, when you know where to get the info
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:04:24PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
> I am helping a friend set his X on a Laptop. The graphic chip is handled by
> the SVGA server. I have configured the whole thing using XF86Setup and
> Xconfigurator and after that manually tweaking the setup file.
> I get th
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:12:49PM -0500, Richard Black wrote:
> can anyone recommend a tool that will estimate network/connection
> speed? In particular I want to estimate my upload/download times over
> my cable DSL...
$apt-get install bing
Phil
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:47:50PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Quick and stupid question: Is there any way to disable the console system
> beeps short of yanking out the damn speaker?
Put this in your .inputrc:
set bell-style none
Phil
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:41:54PM -0600, Jason N. Price wrote:
> I have a debian install running the 2.4.2 kernel. I want to allow external
> telnet/ssh access, but am not sure how. I apt-get'ed ssh and telnetd, but
> don't really know where to go from here. If anyone could help me out, I"d
Hello,
I am trying to highlight those folders in mutt which have unread mails
in them by an "N".
I have added "%N" to my folder-format-string and it looks like mutt
reserves space for it but it never shows up.
I have read that tools that check for new mails like biff can spoil
this setting but I r
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:58:13PM -0500, mike polniak wrote:
> Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am trying to highlight those folders in mutt which have unread mails
> > in them by an "N".
> > I have added "%N" to my folder-format-string a
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 09:19:01PM -0300, Martin Marconcini wrote:
> I compiled 2.4.2 and after booting it I realize I forgot to include the
> NIC driver (Intel Express 100/PRO). Is there any way to create that module
> without having to recompile the entire kernel??
Just do a $make module
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:20:37PM -0500, mike polniak wrote:
> Then i would have to check the paths to the mailboxes next.
They are correct and typing "c" brings me to them. Any other idea?
Phil
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:27:51AM +0100, Wouter de Vries wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:15:44AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:20:37PM -0500, mike polniak wrote:
> >
> > > Then i would have to check the paths to the mailboxes
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:40:22PM +0100, Gregor Kaleta wrote:
> How can I view the size of a spezial directory e.g. /usr?
$du -sh /usr
Phil
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:13:18PM +0100, Florian Steurer wrote:
> I try to write a backup (shell-)script and use the "scp"-command. It
> asks for a password, how can I automize the passwort prompt -> I mean
> that the password is direct read from the shell script, without
> prompting. I tried so
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:49:11PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> OK quickly before it hangs again..
> can't be sure they're related, but it only started hanging after I set
> up the new monitor.. new monitor means new modelines etc., so I guess it
> could have something to do with my ati xpe
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:16:11AM -0700, Jason Whittle wrote:
> I'm running a brand new install of potato, and I have a Linksys ethernet card
> that I'm trying to compile the driver for. The driver recommended on the
> Linksys support page that I compile the driver named tulip.c with the
> fo
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:47:55PM +0200, Raymond Scholz wrote:
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/72.2kB of archives. After unpacking 87.0kB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> 100% [Scanning packages]Template does not contain
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 04:22:50PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> OK I've given up on sendmail. On to exim now. Here are the features I
> want. Right now, it looks like sending mail fails silently.
> - cron jobs can send mail to root, who forwards them to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Di
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 04:24:14PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> Ran memtest-86 for 5h, 18m, 43sec at which point the machine
> froze. memtest to that point reported 0 errors. CPU problem? -chris
Did you double-check the CPU-cooler? If it does not fit perfectly on
the CPU then the CPU
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:43:04AM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote:
> anyone remember how to get the monitor not just go black, but tell it to
> use the -what was it called?
> "vesa-compliant green-mode stuff-thing"...
You want your monitor to be switched off, don't you?
Did you enable "Enable conso
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:21:01PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> > Did you look at /etc/aliases?
> Yeah, what should it say?
Mine says:
postmaster: root
root: phil
...
> > > - outgoing mail (e.g. from Mutt) send via localhost:6025 which is port
> > > forwarded to smtp.cs.ubc.ca:25.
> >
>
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:21:22PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> Yeah, I took out the CPU last night, removed the custom cooler
> I put on last week, and put the stock cooler back, smearing some
> standard white heatsink compound on the contact area.
> The BIOS says ~35 C, which sounds OK to m
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:30:37PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> > Doesn't your ISP offer you a SMTP-Relay-Server? If you are connected
> > most of the time you don't need one anyway...
>
> Dunno, what's that? I want my mail going to/from my school server.
To me it seems like you are assuming
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:05:40PM +0200, Francesc Oller wrote:
> I'm trying to use UDMA66 in my computer but haven't suceeded
> until now.
> /dev/hda:
...
> UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 mode2 mode3 *mode4
Should work
> I use Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, kernel 2.2.17-ide with Andre Hedrick's IDE
> patch
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:09:54PM +0200, guran remberg wrote:
> I have a computer, that is connected to the Internet from within a LAN,
> through a gateway. Thus my net was set up as 10.0.4.15, &c. According to
> the 'NET HOWTO' those numbers nor the name, Archimedes.brisen.rings.se,
> should n
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:18:31AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > To me it seems like you are assuming that mails _from_ you have to go
> > the same way like mails _to_ you. That is not the case!
> > An SMTP-Relay-Server
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:02:30PM +0200, Francesc Oller wrote:
I guess if Vojtech Pavlik says "no way" then we can stop talking about
this ;)
> > You got this drive at the same Controller? Of course it slows down and
> > causes problems.
>
> I've 4 devices: the ATA66 HD, the old EIDE one, an 4
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:46:52AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote:
> Can a Linux box controls a network printer? Please email me the
> solution. Thanks!
Are you talking about a Host with a printer who should be reachable
over the network or do you mean a printer with a built-in NIC?
I have g
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:14:43AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> I am able to print PostScript files with:
>
> $ lpr file.ps
>
> to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system.
>
> But I am unable to print plaintext files with:
>
> $ lpr file.txt
...
> My current printcap (created with m
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:57:03AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> Answered my own question.
>
> The answer here appears to be the enscript package.
But why are you using ps_only_ in the first place?
Phil
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:30:52AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> [of course, i wish i'd found it five months ago when i was originally
> looking for it... NOW, i'm looking for a list of active mirrors so i can
> get around the 'ftp.us.debian.org is dead' syndrome... any ideas?]
' Debian FTP or
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:43:51PM -0200, Leonardo Dias wrote:
> Have any of you guys ever had a problem setting DMA to a PC?
Some minor problems.
> I know it's not Debian specific. Only that I'm trying to set DMA both my
> IDE drives and none of them work. It should be BIOS-related. I've
> al
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 02:15:31AM -0700, Omar Shuja Siddiqui wrote:
> where can i find beginning information on
> understanding the source code of linux.
If you are looking for a book, how about this one:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/
Phil
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:49:57PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote:
> I'm having trouble with adapting the ISDN device to a 2.0.38 system. A
> helpful person told me that the routing table lacks of some
> information but he couldn't help me further.
...
> GOOFY:[rland] #route -n
> Kernel IP ro
Hello,
I want to set my system's time with ntpdate but it looks like ntpdate
doesn't change naything at all.
I tried setting the time about 3 minutes back to see if ntpdate would
correct it, but it simply doesn't.
nepomuk:~# ntpdate -d -b -s 132.187.1.3
transmit(132.187.1.3)
transmit(132.187.1.3)
On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 04:55:09PM -0500, Larry Shields wrote:
> Try this, first off, comment out the first two lines as it tells you to do,
> then use this:
> >From the command line, or added it to the script...
>
> ntpdate -b -s tick.boulder.noaa.gov
> ntpdate -b -s potomac.nist.gov
>
> Hope
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 05:40:55AM -0500, MarkEmmanuel wrote:
> Hi all!!! I installed Debian Linux on my Macintosh and I was looking for
> book recommendations for a beginner user. The most I know about Linux/Unix
> are the basic commands like ls, chmod, and cd. (I love shell accounts...)
> I'm
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 06:37:38PM +0200, Stephan Kiesel wrote:
> On starting the system and the isdn services, my ippd0
> establishes a connection to my isp nameserver (IP-address:port 53) every 10
> minutes without any user activity. I have configuration files in /etc/isdn
> but no idea which f
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:41:10PM -0400, Jack wrote:
> Frustrated with my new machine. It's a self-assembled machine and it's
> the first one I've made. (PIII, PC133, 128M mem)
>
> Tried to boot from the my old hard-disk, which has Win98, Win2k,
> Debian installed on it.
>
> Win98 could be
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:30:00PM -0500, Bob Edwards wrote:
> My mouse is not working in X. I've made a lot of silly mistakes along
> the way that have made things a lot more difficult than necessary. But I
> persist . . .
>
> Pertinent information:
>
> PS/2 Mouse
Is it a Logitech?
> Potato
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:17:25AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> Oct 25 00:08:06 jojda insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent
> than /lib/m
> odules/2.2.17/modules.dep
>
> is somewhat troubling me, I have fairly plain debian unstable install,
> why do I get the message?
Do a 'depmod -a'
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:01:21AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 21 Oct, ColdWater wrote:
> > Even with the boot in before the 1024cil, is it recomended to to create a
> > /boot partion?
>
> In the manual of SuSE Linux (German Distribution) it's recommended to
> create a /boot partition
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