RPC: Program not Registered

2003-10-22 Thread Richard Lyons
Nice to be back with a broadband connexion and to be able to re-subscribe to my favourite list (even if only for a few weeks). Not so nice to try to get at the work I've been doing mentime on my laptop by an nfs mount and to get: RPC: Program not Registered Being more or less a dork about net

Re: RPC: Program not Registered - SOLVED

2003-10-23 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 11:52, Clive Menzies wrote: [...] > > > so nice to try to get at the work I've been doing mentime on my laptop > > > by an nfs mount and to get: RPC: Program not Registered [...] > You might want to look at: > file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/NFS-HOWTO.gz Yes, found t

Re: printer icon

2003-10-23 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 23 October 2003 22:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I SIGNED ON TO AOL 9.0 AND LOST MY PRINTER ICON got off lightly, then... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

unstable cups problem

2003-10-26 Thread Richard Lyons
I've just done an update on a system that was originally a Knoppix 2.1 install, and is now mainly unstable (I suppose). Since the update, cups doesn't actually print anything. The jobs appear in the print manager (under KDE) as "Processing..." and stay there permanently. As cups does not all

Re: unstable cups problem

2003-10-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 26 October 2003 11:25, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > Since the update, cups doesn't actually print anything. [...] SORRY - to reply to my own post. Problem solved wondoze-style: reboot. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: problèmes sur bjc 4300

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 12:25, scotto di perrotolo jean-pierre wrote: > depuis l'installation sur mon PC, de windows XP Pro [...] Dey ave ze dark side aussi en france... zut alors -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Lyons
Is there a quicker way of locating the broken packages announced at the head of the screen than scrolling through everything? TIA -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 14:18, JG wrote: > > Is there a quicker way of locating the broken packages [...] > /~b > > will bring you to the next broken package. > > l~b > > will narrow the packages list to only those that are broken. [...] Thanks. I really haven't got used to this apt system ye

Re: All pdf attachments defanged by spamassassin

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 15:08, Patrick Beard wrote: > >>The 'doc' and jpg emails come through [...] > > > and the pdf > > > is now inline ASCII. [...] Interesting. A manufacturer I work with was having difficulties receiving my drawings in pdf last week. Perhaps his ISP is suffering the sam

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote: [...] > Hrm.. Does debian-user not set the reply-to to the list, or is this my [...] Apparently not. I wonder why not. It would surely be a good idea - for those using simpler mail clients. I use kmail and filter lists direct to thei

Re: Outgoing SMTP ports

2003-10-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 14:23, BruceG wrote: [...] > (I noticed when replying using Ximian Evolution, it does the to: as the > original poster. If I reply to all, it cc:'s the debian-user list. I had > to delete the to: and move debian-users from cc: to to: Wonder why that > is?) It's because

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-10-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 09:40, Rob Weir wrote: [...lots of good advice snipped...] Thanks! -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Time is runnign too fast

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 30 October 2003 04:18, cr wrote: [...] > Definitely a joke. Look at some of the pages it links to: > > http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/newsburst3.htm > http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/windows_no.htm > > On second thoughts, I have a nasty feeling the second of those links might

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 30 October 2003 12:30, Haines Brown wrote: [...] > For years I didn't "loose all that", but could "su - root" as I > needed. I still don't know whether my system's busted or if it is me > ;-) That is, is "loosing all that" a natural occurance or a flaw in my > setup? [...] The point is,

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: Incremental CDR backups

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 30 October 2003 15:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > PS: in case anyone is interested, I have written two Perl scripts > intended to make full and incremental backups on CD-R more > convenient. [...] Yes. Very interested. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: phonetic symbols

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 30 October 2003 16:13, Hoyt Bailey wrote: [...] > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote: > > > I can't convert the Windows file into pdf in Windows because I don't > > > have the Acrobat Reader program; > > > > ---right. > > In Linux the pdf is free but in Windows it costs 600 euros. I u

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 31 October 2003 09:40, cr wrote: [...] > GWBasic [...] > I suppose I could go all the way back to Edlin. Oh... the cosy, warm nostalgia of it... edlin and assembly language... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 31 October 2003 02:11, Mark Healey wrote: > When installing there was no networing setup. [...] > How do I get this to work? > > Asus A7V8X mobo with > Broadcom 4400 onboard lan [...] Mark: I just read this thread. I had a similar problem (with a different NIC) a couple of month

Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 01 November 2003 04:43, Kent West wrote: > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > >Ok Sold. I'm game but I need to get stable "stable" enough to get PPP > >working. I wouldn't worry about the stability of "unstable" - I am a complete newcomer to Debian and my mosty-unstable system is far more stable t

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 01 November 2003 12:03, Kurt Sys wrote: > Hello, > > I have to install a new computer. I install Debian Woody (3.0r1) from > boot-CD (CD1 -- NON-US). Everything works fine except for one thing, I > can't get my ethernet card to work. I found on the net several people with > similar or t

Re: winmodem (was "X Windos System will not start")

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 02 November 2003 12:38, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > From: "Richard Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Saturday 01 November 2003 04:43, Kent West wrote: [..] > > > Chances are you have a so-called "soft-modem" (aka "winmodem"). You > >

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 18:52, Monique Y. Herman wrote: [...] > Knoppix's ability to detect stuff is nothing short of amazing to me. [...] > And did I mention Knoppix is sweet? Just love that Knoppix CD. Take it everywhere with me... Come to think of it, I never have to use it, so it obvious

Re: Red Hat

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 12:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How-to Install kickstart (Red Hat) in debian: > Como instalar kickstart en debian > (English & Spanish) > (Ingles y Español) > > I need a machine with red hat for use redhat-config-kickstart? NO !! :-) [...] This is timely. I just got

Re: Problem with umount/umount2

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 15:33, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > > I am using Debian unstable with the kernel that came with Knoppix 3.3 > which uses kernel 2.4.22-xfs. I have mounted /dev/hde6 as /usr, > /dev/hde5 as /home and /dev/hde8 as /var. When I shutdown there is > always a mess

pg database hosed in update - help!

2003-11-07 Thread Richard Lyons
Looks like I've really done it now! From a misplaced sense of neatness, I decided to remove the stable and testing sources from sources list did "u" and (after some inspection etc) "g". It looked easy enough, but I got this error announcement: -start quoted text--- S

Re: pg database hosed in update - help!

2003-11-08 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 08 November 2003 00:03, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:48:28PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Stopping and restarting the postmaster > > /var/lib/postgres/dumpall/7.3/postmaster -D /var/lib/postgres/data -p > > 5431 -o -d0 > > /v

X-server errors

2003-11-09 Thread Richard Lyons
Over the years, using various RH and SuSE versions, and again recently under Debian, I've noticed the list of errors generated by the X-server. Usually, the screen is full of them when dropping back to command line. I've come to accept them as normal. But are they? Should I care? It would b

identifying failed processes

2003-11-09 Thread Richard Lyons
Once in a while, something causes Xwindows to freeze. My simple-minded response is to ctl-alt-F2, ps -e, then guess which process might have done it and kill pid, ps -e again to see if it died, kill -9 if not, then alt-F7 to see if the problem is cured. Then do it all again until problem solve

Re: hardware detection on i386

2003-11-11 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:21, Tom Allison wrote: [...] > > You may want to check out http://www.libranet.com. The previous > > version is available for free download, and an apt-get upgrade will > > bring you to sarge/sid. > > Very impressive! > Thank you for the suggestion! [...] > PS - wood

Re: more install problems

2003-08-05 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 14:28, Geoff Thurman wrote: [...now irrelevant context snipped...] > I'm a newbie, and this might in any case be too late to help, but > the best instructions for installing Knoppix to hdd are probably > those on www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/debian-knoppix.html. They made > se

Realtek 8139 install prob solved! [was: more install problems]

2003-08-05 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 17:23, Greg Folkert wrote: > Okay now, SINCE you went through a ton of trials and > tribulations... > > Time to Write up a Good Summary with a few key details [...] There is not much to it: PROBLEM Trying to install Woody from CD set onto a second-hand IBM Thinkpad 570

Re: from knoppix3.2 -> where?

2003-08-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 01:26, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 00:33:59 +0100 Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 August 2003 23:52, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > > From Knoppix's changelog and package list, I should think the > > > OP is rathe

Re: from knoppix3.2 -> where?

2003-08-07 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 23:52, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:32:42 -0400 Howell Evans wrote: > > My knoppix knowledge is meger, but if its anything like the > > debian install you are running stable. > > From Knoppix's changelog and package list, I should think the OP is > rather t

Re: Good Debian-based distro

2003-08-10 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 10 August 2003 8:48 am, Loren M Lang wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm looking for a good debian-based distro with a good and user friendly > install program. I love debian much better than redhat based distros > mostly for the packaging system, especially

Re: CD access probs

2003-08-10 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 10 August 2003 7:30 pm, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: [...] > > Oh dear, found it. Missed a module at configure time when installing > > the Knoppix: > > $ /sbin/insmod ide-scsi > > insmod: ide-scsi: no module by that name found [...] > It depends. Where did you get your kernel from? If you co

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-10 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 11 August 2003 3:36 am, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:25:48AM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: [...general description snipped...] > Give more technical detail. How are you trying to start X? Most > importantly of all, what do the error messages say? Yes. I d

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-11 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 11 August 2003 1:43 am, Howell Evans wrote: > what is in your .xinitrc? > > all you have to have in it is "startkde". i think its startkde anyways. > if it isnt that its kdestart. No ~/.xinitrc at all. I wrote one for a user and did 'startx' - got same thing, ut after a cuple of second

Re: HTML mail

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 7:46 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Most of the spam I receive is HTML format. Is there a fairly painless way > of sending anything formatted HTML to my trash folder? > > I use kmail and sid. I use contains "a href=" OR contains "/form>" OR contains "/body>" Or similar

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 21:33, Lance Simmons wrote: [...] > My spam box is full of plausible sounding subjects from familiar > sounding names. You're unlucky. Mine is full of things like "Improve your life w eokglo ruu fhrcf" from "Jed Wray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I have thousands of them -

Re: more install problems

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 16:25, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday 05 August 2003 14:28, Geoff Thurman wrote: > [...now irrelevant context snipped...] > > > I'm a newbie, and this might in any case be too late to help, but > > the best instructions for installing K

from knoppix3.2 -> where?

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
I've installed Knoppix 3.2-2003-07-26 which has kernel 2.4.21-xfs and KDE 3.1.1 (Debian/unstable release). Can anyone help me understand which flavour of debian I should be tracking and installing from? If I've understood this right, I need to alter the sources.list depending on whether I am

Re: USB mouse phantom devices (SOLVED)

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 14 August 2003 4:41 am, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: > illuvatar:/dev/input# ls -l mice > crw-rw1 root root 13, 63 1969-12-31 19:00 mice [...] > > Wow, look at that creation date. Must be a devfsd thing? The end of an era. I've come over all nostalgic... -- richard

Re: Newbie Q: Where are my kernel sources?

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 14 August 2003 2:07 am, Antony Gelberg wrote: [...] > Or even better: > > tar xvfj whatever.tar.bz2 > > I only found that one out last week. Swap the j for z for .tar.gz. Oh, that's interesting - I always thought the f had to come at the end since it refered to the filename following

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 11 August 2003 4:11 am, Damien Solley wrote: > Looks like X is running fine. You just need a window manager other than > twm! > from a console, edit your ~/.xinitrc file. For simplicity, this file can > have just one line, reading: > startkde That fails - command not found > > Tha

Re: [OT: m r ducks] Re: pdf readers

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 1:13 am, nori heikkinen wrote: [...] > > speaking of which ... if you read french, check out "Mots D'Heures: > Gousses, Rames" -- my favorite therein being "Un Petit d'Un Petit": > > Un petit d'un petit > S'e'tonne aux Halles > Un petit d'un petit > Ah! degre's te fallen

Re: more install problems

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 04 August 2003 20:39, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > Perhaps I should reinitialize the root partition and re-install, > > using the 2.4.18-686 kernel -- there is a way to select the > > kernel during the install, isn't there? Ac

Re: HTML mail

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 14 August 2003 7:15 am, Jeff Elkins wrote: > On Wednesday 13 August 2003 7:40 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > >On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 10:56, Richard Lyons wrote: > >> On Wednesday 13 August 2003 7:46 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: > >> > Most of the spam I receive is

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 11 August 2003 5:19 am, Damien Solley wrote: > Yes, it seems kde is not installed. startkde should work. > Perhaps you should rerun apt-get and see if you can install kde? > apt-get install kdebase > Perhaps there is a problem with the installation? Maybe even run: > apt-get i

Re: /usr/sbin/pppd: bad local IP address 127.0.0.1

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 14 August 2003 12:28 am, Shaul Karl wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:24:31PM +0200, Frederik Ferner wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:01:40 +0300, Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > $ /usr/sbin/pppd call provider dryrun > > > /usr/sbin/pppd: bad local IP address 1

recovering kde setup

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
I stupidly posted this on the tail of another thread, so it sank without trace. Excuse the repetition, then. I managed to create some mysterious freeze-up when restarting KDE (Konqueror looking for a now-not-mounted partition that I had been looking at in the previous session). This meant tha

Re: CD access probs

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 10 August 2003 3:13 pm, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: [...prob mounting CD...] > /dev/cdrom is a symlink to what? ouch. That was simple enough, then. Point it at the right place... OK, that works. Problem 1 SOLVED. > > > And, if that is not enough, the CDRW says > >Could not mount dev

Re: test.mydomain.com ???

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 14 August 2003 11:40 am, Bengt Thurée wrote: > Hej, > > If for instance I purchased the www.mydomain.com domain, > how do I get the test.mydomain.com and mail.mydomain.com > for instance? [...] > Do I need to buy the test.mydomain.com domain as well, or? > > How would I solve this if I

Re: [MAILER-DAEMON@etc] What to do?

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 12:52 am, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:42:04 -0700 > > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:32:23 +0200 > > > > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What can I do about something like this? Apparently, the host is >

broken kde menus

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
I'm picking up the saga from "how NOT to work with debian" thread - now that the basic problems are solved, there are just a few left-overs. I used the radical method of puging every kde and qt related file from the system by hand in order to lose the malign influence of the old Woody and RedHa

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 11 August 2003 3:39 am, Damien Solley wrote: > It seems to me that if you are seeing the debian logo (xdm, kdm?) then X > is NOT broken. X is starting, but not giving a login prompt (or was it > set to auto-login?). I hate graphic logins, so I always set to text loginand startx explicit

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 11 August 2003 5:06 am, Michael D. Schleif wrote: [...kde dead after upgrade...] > Try this: > > > 0gated-at.bofh.it> We-ell. That looks horrible. 31 or 32 packages to remove by name (and the names of sev

Re: Changing window managers The Debian Way (was Re: how NOT to work with debian)

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 11 August 2003 4:39 am, Ron Johnson wrote: [...] > Isn't it The Debian Way to do: > # update-alternatives --config x-window-manager Now that's useful. I was able to select icewm. A bit clumsy, but at least it runs. Mozilla, qcad, gimp, gnumeric, abiword (not used it before, but if OO

Re: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 11 August 2003 4:08 pm, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > Try this: > > > > > > > > > > >.7%4 0gated-at.bofh.it> > > > > We-ell. That looks horrible. 31 or 32 packages to remove by name [...] > All I know is that

how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
I previously today posted my problem with KDE breaking. Not getting any quick help, I tried to use aptitude to update, thinking that if the KDE supplied with Knoppix were to be updated, it would be reconfigured and solve my problems. Well aptitude certainly found a stack of things to update, a

CD access prob

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
I'm feeling perticularly dim today. Having messed up my RH boot while setting up Debian (Knoppix) on my desktop box, I was about to shrug and say @so what - now I'll just have to use the Debian. But one or two bits aren't working, and I'm sure I really know how to mend them if I could get my b

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 16:45, Steve Lamb wrote: [...] > So "Game, set, match" means "He won the game which won him the set > and as a result won the match." As long we are all clear _who_ won... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: kde does not start any more

2003-08-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 14 August 2003 7:48 pm, juerg maier wrote: > Hi > > spent quite some time looking for help on the web but all tipps and > tries do not help. > > I somehow broke my kde installation. Now removing and reinstalling does > not help, neither the tipps written out in xsession-errors. > I have

print manager - cups

2003-08-17 Thread Richard Lyons
I have a Xerox Docuprint 4512 laser printer, which has worked with various distros of Linux. In some, I have to call it a 4508, as the 4512 driver is absent, and the 4512N doesn't work. It is not a PS printer. Feeling adventurous, I hought i'd try cups with the latest install (unstable-ish)

Re: Undeleting from a FAT partition

2003-08-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 17 August 2003 6:05 pm, Neilen wrote: [...] > Thanks, this worked a charm. I happened to know the names of the files > I wanted to undelete, since they were just dscf.jpg, etc. But how > could one find out what the possible undeletable files are? It's a very long time ago since I u

Re: print manager - cups

2003-08-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 17 August 2003 7:03 pm, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:24:08PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: [...verbose description of print failure from gimp snipped...] > Well, you speak of at least one application which prints perfectly > normally. So you know there's

Re: print manager - cups - mostly SOLVED

2003-08-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 17 August 2003 8:31 pm, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:23:10PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > I'll look for the previous thread. Did so: suggestion there was that either gimp1.2-print not installed (it was) or printer not set up in gimp - it wasn

Re: how to configure e-mail server

2003-08-22 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 22 August 2003 11:54, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] > According to support.microsoft.com, you need to call +1 800-936-4900. > Have your credit card handy: Microsoft charges $245/call and never He can't do that. It's sure to be a non-registered copy in India - or anywhere else in the devel

Re: Converting ext3->XFS

2003-08-22 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 22 August 2003 14:46, Tom Badran wrote: > On Friday 22 Aug 2003 12:37, Johann Koenig wrote: > > > Which is exactly what i was saying, except i dont know how to make a > > > tarball that retains all file permissions/attributes etc.. > > > > Those should be retained by default. Make a direc

nfs use-once-only?

2003-08-25 Thread Richard Lyons
I was so thrilled to get nfs working (laptop to workstation) for the first time yesterday. But today I get mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused every time. So I tried in the other direction. Set up /etc/export and /etc/hosts.allow and - easy - it connects. But only on

Re: nfs use-once-only? - SOLVED

2003-08-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 08:21, Erik Rask wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Richard Lyons wrote: > > I was so thrilled to get nfs working (laptop to workstation) for the > > first time yesterday. But today I get > >mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused

Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up

2003-08-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 14:58, Sarah Forbes wrote: > Hi, > > I have an install of the unstable distribution with a 2.4 Kernel. When I > boot up, my keyboard and mouse become disabled as soon as the log in > manager displays. > > Can you tell me how to stop x-windows from starting during the boot

OT - archiving mail

2003-12-05 Thread Richard Lyons
I know this is not really the forum, but all the bright people who can contribute to this are here... For years, I've kept a substantial hierarchy of "folders" in my mail client, reflecting a filing system similar to that for other files in my home directory. Currently there are over a hundred

Re: Where to get the new installer?

2003-12-05 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 05 December 2003 23:02, Mariano Kamp wrote: [...] > > It works with Knoppix (besides a lcd-screen issue). Any idea how > bad it is to start out with Knoppix and then use it as a Debian > system? My experience with Knoppix was excellent. I used it on two systems (laptop and desktop) a

Re: Where to get the new installer?

2003-12-05 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 06 December 2003 01:53, Mariano Kamp wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[··] > > > >My experience with Knoppix was excellent. I used it on two systems > >(laptop and desktop) and both are now mostly unst

Re: printer icon

2003-12-08 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 07 December 2003 03:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dunno about anyone else, but I find these blank articles very refreshing... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] voting

2003-12-08 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 08 December 2003 21:49, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 18:12, s. keeling wrote: [...] > eternal power and deity; demonstrated, > among other things, by the immense and beautiful complexity of living > systems. Paul cited DNA. On a "higher" level, photosynthesis and > blo

Re: [OT] voting

2003-12-08 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 08 December 2003 21:34, Paul Morgan wrote: > paul > > "Don't be so humble. You're not that great." > (Golda Meir) What is really interesting is who did she say that to? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: mutt + squirrelmail

2004-11-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 18 November 2004 13:28, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Thursday 18 November 2004 12:02, Maurits van Rees wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:34:41AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > Do mutts and squirrels play together? > > > > > > Imap access has be

Re: mutt + squirrelmail

2004-11-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 19 November 2004 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:12:22PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > expect folders to be inside INBOX, the INBOX can only be read in > > mutt at startup. Once you move into another folder, returning to > >

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-23 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 01:38:22AM +0100, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:56:31PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > No, it didn't. There is a message before "Sending message..." saying > > "Create Sent Y/n". Sent does exist on the imap server, but perhaps not > > in the rig

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:16:53AM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Tuesday, 23.11.2004 at 23:56 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > sendmail "/usr/sbin/exim4 -bm" > > Interesting that it was that option which fixed it: by default, Debian > symlinks the usual location of sendmail to the inst

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-25 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:03:29AM +0100, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:52:08AM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Right: that unknits it. If I can just get the formulation right for > > saving my copy to the imap server, rather than locally, then I think I >

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 02:44:07PM +, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:50:10 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > This may be wrong, but it seems to work. If I add INBOX to folder, then > > when I try to navigate back to the inbox from elsewhere, and [tab] on >

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:25:17AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: [...] > > Anyway, let me tell what I do here for other people who may not have read > the whole thread. Actually, mutt *can* read POP3 and/or IMAP accounts, if > it is compiled with proper support (such as Debian's). > > In fact, I in

Re: using mail

2004-11-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:31:56AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Sam Watkins wrote: > >On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:48:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > >>When I use: mail it sends mail to that address with the > >>options that I have set via dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. > >> > >>But it

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:09:12AM -0500, Noah Durell wrote: > Adam Aube wrote: > >Noah Durell wrote: > >>Adam Aube wrote: > >>>Noah Durell wrote: [...] > Also when I try to access the CUPS web interface on > http://localhost:631 it says: > > Forbidden > You don't have permi

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:29:23AM -0500, Noah Durell wrote: > Here it is: Well, I asked for it, so I had better say something. I'd better come clean and admit that I am no expert. It looks alright to my untutored eye. There are rather a lot of comment lines so a bit of help from sed gives:

wi-fi - choice of hardware

2004-12-07 Thread Richard Lyons
Apologies if this subject has been overworked lately. There have been several threads on wireless lan kit, but I am still hesitating... There are a number of combined adsl-modem/router/lan-switch boxes around. Looking on one well known UK hardware website, I see the following, which all meet tha

Re: wi-fi - choice of hardware

2004-12-08 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:44:11AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 00:23, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > > > 3com Office Connect ADSL wireless 11g firewall router > > 3CRWE754G72-A-UK > > > > Belkin 54g wireless DSL/Cable

Re: wi-fi - choice of hardware

2004-12-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:49:51AM +, Dave Howorth wrote: > Eugen Leitl wrote: > >This is getting a bit offtopic for the list, perhaps we should take it to > >private mail. > > Please keep it on the list. It's a very interesting thread. > I second that. I am also wondering about getting a sig

Re: knoppix HD-install problem

2004-12-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 02:19:32PM -0500, David Syme wrote: > I am not sure I agree with the above statement. 'above' ...or was that 'below'? > While RTFM is a bit > impolite, I do think asking knoppix-related questions on a debian > mailing list is a bad idea. I am not saying that there are no

Re: Why is dvips ignoring the -P option?

2004-12-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:02:18PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > Following a recent discussion on this list ("Using more than one driver > for a laser printer?") I used CUPS to set up two virtual printers that > both connect to /dev/lp0 using different drivers: the Brother driver > and the raw PostScri

Re: Why is dvips ignoring the -P option?

2004-12-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:28:54PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Thursday 16 December 2004 13:40, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:02:18PM +, Adam Funk wrote: [...] > >> > >> When I run "dvips -Pps foo", the output goes to the Broth

webcrawl to cache dynamic pages

2005-05-02 Thread Richard Lyons
I am considering how to crawl a site which is dynamically generated, and create a static version of all generated pages (or selected generated pages). I guess it would be simplest to start with an existing crawler, and bolt on some code. Or, alternatively, write a script (perl, I fear) to modify t

Re: pdf printing

2005-05-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:49:15AM -0300, David Roguin wrote: > Yesterday i wanted to print a pdf book, but i didn't find any app in > gnome2.8 in wich i can print the odd and even pages. i tried with > gpdf, xpdf and evince. > My printer is configured with cups. > Anyone knows any app to do so?; i

Re: apt-get deprecated?

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:59:21AM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote: [...] > answer as I see it is this. When starting aptitude, aptitude updates > its own packages list by reading in the dpkg state and merging it with > its own list. > > Now there's several bugs posted on aptitude (check bugs.debian.org

Re: webcrawl to cache dynamic pages

2005-05-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:27:41PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > I am considering how to crawl a site which is dynamically generated, > and create a static version of all generated pages (or selected > generated pages). I guess it would be simplest to start with an > existing crawler,

SOLVED: webcrawl to cache dynamic pages

2005-05-07 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:10:58PM -0700, Caleb Walker wrote: > On 5/6/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:27:41PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > I am considering how to crawl a site which is dynamically generated, > > &g

Re: webcrawl to cache dynamic pages

2005-05-08 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 09:48:07AM +0200, Nacho wrote: > > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:27:41PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > I am considering how to crawl a site which is dynamically generated, > > > and create a static version of all generated pages (or selected [...]

Re: webcrawl to cache dynamic pages

2005-05-09 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:31:08AM +0100, David Hugh-Jones wrote: > > On 09/05/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 09:48:07AM +0200, Nacho wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:27:41PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > &

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