init not working

1999-12-04 Thread Tom Goulet
Greetings all, My /sbin/init is not respawning processes (like gettys), and not acknowledging /sbin/init q or similar things. Many processes are defunct and zombied but not actually closing. Also, this has happened before but I dismissed it because of something else I was screwing around with

Re: init not working

1999-12-04 Thread Tom Goulet
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 10:34:53PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:33:14AM +0000, Tom Goulet wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> My /sbin/init is not respawning processes (like gettys), and not >> acknowledging /sbin/init q or similar things. >&g

Re: ADSL

1999-12-06 Thread Tom Goulet
>i am planning to go for ADSL bellsouth fastacess account. >they are giving an internal pci adsl modem card. >what are the linux compatible adsl cards? I don't think they make ADSL modem cards yet. (My ADSL modem is about as large as a kleenex box.) But they will probably give you an ethernet ca

Re: apt-get question---

1999-12-07 Thread Tom Goulet
>Where does apt-get download the files from? /etc/apt-get/sources.list man apt-get would have told you. TomG > >Tom > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > pgpPFJ4OK0vuH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: package problems

2001-11-19 Thread Tom Goulet
>it depends on g++ to configure. It would appear that they depend on each >other to install completely but how do you get around this? You can specify both packages to be installed at once: dpkg --install package1 package2 -- TomG pgp8mw1L8Gjkg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: interfaces and ip addressing

2001-11-19 Thread Tom Goulet
>I would like to know what file is used for setting up ip addresses and >gateway. What about interfaces, how can I create more than 2 lan cards >enable. Let say, I got 2 3com nics. The file is /etc/network/interfaces. See man interfaces for more information. >In redhat, I used rpm. What pkg inst

Re: galeon

2001-11-19 Thread Tom Goulet
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:55:02PM +, ben wrote: >> > which package is galeon stored in? >i don't have it. what's the appropriate syntax to apt-get just that package? Galeon is not in stable. If you are using stable you will have to add some custom lines to /etc/apt/sources.list, install the

Re: kinit/resume - what's it mean? how to boot from failed sys??

2008-03-20 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/20/08, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hands up to making a mistake - I've been trying to get my AMD64 > Debian 'etch' box to recognise a Promise controller and thought that > installing dmraid would help. I did a > apt-get install dmraid > and then rebooted... only to find it in BusyBox

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-20 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every > time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's > to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead > of all the CD's when instal

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/21/08, Sanjaya Vitharana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just trying to move my home desktop to Debian from Windows. As initial stage > I'm trying with dual boot until I get used to Debian. But the problem is > with "gdm" Display Properties. I can't get expected quality for 1024 x 768 > resoluti

Re: Sound problem in L35 Toshiba Satellite

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/20/08, Rodrigo Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed DEBIAN ETCH on my Toshiba laptop. At the beginning I > was able to handle the control volume but no sound came out of the > speakers. So going through the web I started upgrading and downloading > more packages and application

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/21/08, Sanjaya Vitharana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After reading this mail I tried to start the X using "startx" (instead of > "gdm") & it directly loged me as a root. But same effect, it only shows me > 60/87 Hz for 1024 x 768 and previous problems are there. Yeah, startx is better for t

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/21/08, Michael Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't tried merging a the CD's yet. I'm cleaning of a HD partition > in preparation for my first attempt. Mean while I found a program > APT-MOVE, anyone know about this? I haven't looked up any man pages on > it yet, but I'm wondering i

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/21/08, Tom Goulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/21/08, Michael Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I haven't tried merging a the CD's yet. I'm cleaning of a HD partition > > in preparation for my first attempt. Mean while I found a pr

Re: How to set thunderbird to work with localmail

2008-03-22 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/22/08, Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello,.. > > How should i set Thunderbird to work with local mail : > for instance Kmail know's how to access /var/mail/username and get > messages from there. Hmm, it looks a little tricky, but

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-23 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/22/08, Sanjaya Vitharana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is not accurate. Your display's vertical refresh is 50-120 Hz, not > > 50-160. > Thanks, I found the correct one as. > http://www.viewsonic.com/support/desktopdisplays/crtmonitors/e2series/e50c/index.htm > I have tried with "dpkg-r

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-24 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/24/08, Sanjaya Vitharana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Selecting 1024 x 768 75 Hz choosing "Medium" will end up with 1024 x 768 60 > Hz. > > Now Desktop->Preferences->Screen Resolution has only 60 Hz option in > dropdown for 1024 x 768. Blast it. Try installing gvidm, too. Try using the "ve

Re: naive question: sshfs with negative niceness

2008-03-24 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/22/08, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on my (little) cluster, I used sshfs to mount the `/home' directory > on the worker nodes: is it possible (and recommended) to give a negative > niceness to sshfs ? You can run: | nice -10 sshfs foo: /bar You should be fine. Tom -- To UN

Re: DELL Inspiron 530N

2008-03-25 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/24/08, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/22/08, DebianMike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have just received a Dell Inspiron 530N pre-installed with Ubuntu. I > >> am now trying to figure out how to install debian on it. > The system will "boot" from the CD-Drive but when the kerne

Re: Sound problem in L35 Toshiba Satellite

2008-03-25 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/24/08, Rodrigo Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lspci detects an audio card but I am not sure it is the right one and it > is not under multimedia but under Audio. I looked up the Toshiba Satellite L35, and apparently it has two sound cards. Very weird. > I have compile from the sources

Re: Silent Cron Jobs

2008-03-27 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/26/08, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to whip up a small cron job, I put a short script > in /etc/cron.daily thinking that this would work. > > Well, yes, it works, but I get mail sent to me by cron explaining that > the job executed successfully. That's odd, usually cron

Re: mtent warning - newbie

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
ab: static file system information. > /dev/hda6 / ext2errors=remount-ro 0 Are you sure you are copying all of it? Most of the lines are missing the last field. -- Tom Goulet mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UID0 Unix Consulting

Re: /dev/pts (aka UNIX98 ptys) needed?

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
> Will anything break if I dont have /dev/pts support compiled into my > kernel? Probably not. -- Tom Goulet mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UID0 Unix Consultingweb: em.ca/uid0/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Kernel Panic with 2.4.19-686

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
drivers (not as a module)? You can read the ".config" file for the kernel to find out, but it's a little cryptic. Uhm, that's probably not everything. -- Tom Goulet mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UID0 Unix Consultingweb: em.ca/uid0/

Re: wget's Great; Is there a wput?

2002-09-11 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
: ; sleep 15 ; done -- Tom Goulet mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UID0 Unix Consultingweb: em.ca/uid0/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Virtual Servers on Apache

2002-09-11 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
w.npc-usa.com You have too many _default_s :) -- Tom Goulet mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UID0 Unix Consultingweb: em.ca/uid0/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multiple x sessions?

2002-09-11 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
itchingness. That what you wanted? -- Tom Goulet mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UID0 Unix Consultingweb: em.ca/uid0/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multiple x sessions?

2002-09-11 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
think you can use xinit to specify a different window manager. xinit wmaker -- :1 -- Tom Goulet mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UID0 Unix Consultingweb: em.ca/uid0/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr