Disabled COM1: ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged!

oticed any problem but just curious. Thanks Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Disabled COM1: ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged!

line for /dev/ttyS0. Rebooted to check the output and the message is gone. I really should learn the Debian way for these kind of things but for now that'll do. And the keyboard error has most likely always been there, didn't notice. Thanks Jon. - Original Message - From: "Jac

RE: sound card detection problem

audio group: adduser your_name audio And also change the permissions on the audio devices: chmod o+rw /dev/dsp* chmod o+rw /dev/mixer* After that you should have sound. At least, that works for me. Jon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [SOLVED]: Re: sound card detection problem

> -Original Message- > From: Stephen Gran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2003 3:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SOLVED]: Re: sound card detection problem > > > This one time, at band camp, Aryan Ameri said: > > On Mon

Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian

of what you need from unstable. I haven't had any problems pulling the occasional package out of unstable so far. Jon. > Thanks, > Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fast but unresponsive modem connection

hing else goes really slowly. I never noticed this much of an effect on Windows and I don't think it's my imagination. 'MTU size' comes to mind but I don't know anything about it. What can I do? Thanks in advance, Jon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: xt?

ould be easier (though still difficult) to port Linux to the 286. As far as I know, no one is working on that currently. Of course, Intel chips are all backwards compatible, so ELKS or Minix should run on a 286, or 386, or whatever, in addition to an 8086. --Jon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (http://cc.usu.edu/~jonh/)

Problems with the Desktop-Icons under GNOME

tion in GMC, but that does not help... Could anyone help me with this? thanks in advance, Jon -- WinNT error 003: FPU error - enter any 11 digit prime number to continue...

potato & C++

o luck. btw: I have both the 'regular' compiler installed and the g++ compiler package. Removing the g++ package didn't change anything. I've compiled ok before, but that was some time ago -- probably before upgrading to potato. any help would be appreciated, Jon -- #include int

Re: potato & C++

ctory. Since my PATH didn't include home or ./ , running a.out was picking up an a.out lying around in my projects subdir -- which happen not to produce output. Which of course didn't change when I reduced it to "hello world" to trouble shoot. thanks, Jon

Re: extern IP

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Borislav Petkov wrote: > we have a wlan at our dorm and we get all itnernal IPs DHCP-ed. Everything > works fine but I'd like to run an internal www and therefore need my external > IP. You don't need your external IP to run an internal web server. If your DHCP assigned addre

Re: extern IP

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Joost De Cock wrote: > > > The problem is, I don't have access to the D-Link router/DHCP server so > > > that i could run ifconfig on it. Any ideas are appreciated. > > To find out it's address, just do a traceroute: > traceroute debian.org > > First address is the dlink inter

Re: Detaching and reattaching a process to different terminals?

The program your looking for (for in the future) is called screen. apt-get install screen >From the package description: "screen is a terminal multiplexor that runs several separate "screens" on a single physical character-based terminal. Each virtual terminal emulates a DEC VT100 plus several AN

Re: Advanced Routing

(and thus interface / network) based on source IP or other matches. http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/iproute2.html -- Jon On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:48:51 -0300, Mariano Wahlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need some help to solve a routing problem.. > > I have a fire

Re: Advanced Routing

Doh, that URL is not the one I meant to paste. http://www.linuxguruz.com/iptables/howto/2.4routing-4.html The above URL has the example I meant to point out. On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:27:13 -0400, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you will need is to use source routing with iprout

Re: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?

er accounting/processing software (one that just stores summary info for example) and bzip2's the logs, deleting after a couple days, this shouldn't be bad on a dialup. -- Jon On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:27:56 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just want a basic log

Re: How to save the iptables rules for booting?

Actually, calling '/etc/init.d/iptables start' will be the same as 'load active'. So you just need a standard symlink in /etc/rc?.d/S05iptables -> /etc/init.d/iptables Then to save your rules (as im guessing you already did) just manually issue /etc/init.d/iptables save - Original Message

Re: xfree 4.3 in sid anytime soon?

> what's holding up x 4.3 from going into sid? > Is it going to be a long time? I'd also like to know this. Why is it that the Debian 'X Strike Force' can't get 4.3 into unstable? Note that 4.3 was released on the 27th of February 2003. Let's have a bet. Who thinks this 'strike force' can get 4

Re: OpenSSH_3.8p1 (from Debian Installer) and Secure CRT

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Michael Bellears wrote: > I have just tested the debian installer (Excellent work by the way > guys!), and have found that Secure CRT(4.1.6 (build 251) and earlier > tested) cannot login to the box via ssh.(Only allowing SSH2) > > The failure reason is: "Unable to authenticate

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

Paul Smith wrote: On the other hand, Windows is an even worse resource hog than Linux, and there's NO freakin' way you'll be able to get Windows (well, maybe Windows 3.1...) to run at all on that system, much less any of the Office products. So... Oh come on. I've got an old Pentium 166 here with

Re: screen vs. multiple xterm's + remote connection

ck the screen you ^a x'ed in, it will auto reattach and pickup where you left off. As a side note, one should never leave their terminal unlocked. Opens you up to the jokes of coworkers changing your command prompt to 'moo' and other such silly/evilness ;} -- Jon -- To UNSUB

Re: Where's routed?

Check out the package zebra. Replaces routed and ripd. http://www.zebra.org/ On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:46:13 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run Debian unstable & plan to setup dynamic routing (for the first > time). I'll probably start with RIP, & maybe graduate to OSPF. >

Re: Firewall froth..

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:00:37AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > You can prevent this stuff appearing by inserting "klogd -c5" to > /etc/init.d/klogd. See /www.shorewall.net/FAQ.htm. It's better to modify /etc/default/klogd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Questions about d-i disk encryption

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 06:20:08PM +0200, Hans Martin wrote: > 2. Because I'm experimenting with the installation, I would like >to skip one stop of the prepartion of the encryption, that >takes about two hours (does in write /dev/random to >/dev/hdaX?). How can I skip this step easily

Re: Questions about d-i disk encryption

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 09:00:52AM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 26/04/2008, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the 'Partition settings' screen, toggle 'Erase data' from yes to no. > > In practice I very much doubt that this would ever red

Sendmail compiled with tcpwrappers yet ignores /etc/hosts.deny ?

compiled with support, can anyone help ? Thanks, Jon

Re: Sendmail compiled with tcpwrappers yet ignores /etc/hosts.deny ?

On Sun, 2015-11-22 at 23:44 +, jon wrote: > > root@mail:/usr/share/doc# ldd /usr/sbin/sendmail |grep 'libwrap' > libwrap.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libwrap.so.0 (0xb7525000) > root@mail:/usr/share/doc# cat /etc/debian_version > 8.2 > > I want to

Re: Disappearing text in FireFox

e.g. the first heading is "Francesco Cusa" but when the page first loads, I can only see "Francesco". If I select that text or quickly scroll down and back up, 'Cusa' appears. Cheers Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Urgent...8 System Administrators for Frankfurt

know if you have know of guys who may have these skills.   Thanks and kind regards,   Jon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SQUID iptables error.

Hi there, trying to set up SQUID and following the TransparentProxy-mini-HOWTO and getting to the # iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3128 and get ... iptables: No chain/target/match by that name # iptables -t nat -L gives Chain PREROUTING (polic

can't read sid from /proc/1/stat

Hello I just started having this very strange problem with my Debian install. I've tried rebooting and that hasn't helped. I'm running woody on the Debian 'packaged' kernel 2.2.17. Whenever I try to do a command like ps/w/uptime it just freezes with no output and I have to Control-C out of i

Re: KDE 3.4.2 and British English

ins running round speaking American > English? It's a packaging bug. You will find that kde-i18n-engb has installed everything under /share, when it should go under /usr/share. If you move the files to /usr/share then the right English should show up in KDE. I didn't bother to report th

Re: Power off

ed my kernel with ASPI support instead of APM support. Check the model of your motherboard and what power management it supports. Also, check BIOS settings, make sure it is enabled. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make-kpkg, stock kernel, and alsa

an. However, it assumes you compile your own kernel as well. http://www.d.kth.se/~d98-jas/debian/debian-install-alsa.txt As for no pre compiled alsa modules for 2.4.20. I guess, they just haven't arrived yet. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=182315 also has some nice info that t

Re: SpamAssassin weightings - am I missing something?

t feel that score reflects the true spaminess on your > mail, that's the perfect reason to change it in your prefs. Indeed. Though you have to be careful about false positives: One mailing list that I'm on is falsely labeled as spam by the (stable) spamassasin, and is unlike the rest

problems with 'root' floppy

ll the base packages from an earlier release using only floppies some time ago(Potato I think). I haven't used the computer in years and don't have these old installation disks any more, so trying them is not really an option. Any ideas why I can't get dbootstrap to run? Let me know i

Major network problems

Ever since a power outage this weekend, I have no internet access in my Linux box (which is used as a network router). Even local loopback isn't working. After testing with help from #debian, it seems that ifconfig is acting up. When I try to ifup -v lo, I get the following: ifconfig lo 127

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

map to install: no dpkg: error processing console-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: console-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) (Tanks for your effort. I must be pretty h

Re: NFS share: cannot write

-t nfs localhost:/Dades /mnt cd /mnt ... .. (You may need to insert localhost into /etc/exports.) -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IRC protocol blocked

ling, and everything is plain sailing: ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] xapplication -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

ting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20-586tsc i686 [ELF] Module Loader present -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

apt.conf? (was: Re: Getting XFree 4.3?)

.conf, or should I put the above two lines into a file in the given directory? (Which name?) -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Sub-process gzip returned an error code

returned an error code (1) Get:2 http://ftp.no.debian.org stable/non-free Packages [202B] 9 .. and so on. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cannot compile the kernel

ddef.h:213: error: syntax error before "typedef" Probably wrong packet or something? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

startx fails: device dri/card0 missing

-1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed [drm] failed to load kernel module "i830" (II) I810(0): [drm] drmOpen failed The module itself seems to be there. -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mai

Re: Cannot compile the kernel

iding on /usr/src, so this was obviously wrong. In Redhat and SuSE the kernel just is there. But in Debian it is nowhere. -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Please Help with Serial ATA!

nux to work. Is it even possible to get Debian installed and running on a SATA drive? Cheers! Jon -- Jon Earle SAVE FARSCAPE http://www.savefarscape.com/ Vegetarian - an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NIS updating question

database? Hi, Rerun the Makefile in /var/yp and cross fingers. Cheers, Jon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Holy Spam!

ant their service providers to take reasonable, not intrusive, but reasonable measures to reduce or eliminate their exposure to the spam industry. I've been forced to change my email address, thanks to the debian mailing list. Is this a positive result of the desire for openness? Cheers! Jon

Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

uot;.bdf.gz" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".pmf" already registered at priority 0 Any idea of what goes wrong? Or how to debug my situation? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.

Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

4f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1 I'll try the mailing list. -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNS

Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

, Gnome?) or Displaymanager (GDM, > XDM, KDM etc.) Aww. Thanks. It somewhat worked. Ok, then I am closer. No mouse, but the screen came up. No xterm was there, I just have to install one. Need a displaymanager and a windowmanager I guess. (Haven't got acquainted with Debian

Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

e proper mouse configuration when recompiling the kernel. 3. I miss xdm, gdm and kdm. Which one should I choose? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

dselect conflicts (was: Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400)

gure out thise things? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dselect conflicts

* Joachim Fahnenmueller > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:13:51PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: > > and a new testing version of XFree 3.2. > > 3.2 isn't _very_ new, is it? Did you install it as a deb package? Yes, but from some non official looking http address. The downloading p

Re: "MUD" Game Engines

of Debian. I'd recommend doing a web search for the specific kind of MUD you're looking for (Tiny, MOO, Diku, LP ...?), and then download & build it. If you're looking for more general resources, try starting from http://www.kanga.nu/, which has a wealth of MUD-related stuf

Re: Linksys PCMCIA network card - what module to use?

cmcia_cs package get used, and for many cards that's preferred.) Jon Leonard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installing on a Dell Latitude C400

, and of course no XFree yet. (The problem started almost immediately after I chose "install" on the first menu.) I never thought it was even possible to do something with the video timing in console mode, but now I find it is not true. Anyone know what is happening? -- Jon Haug

Re: Turn on the service

nable lazy windowists to connect to the computer if they need. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help me please with TAR

with " tar xjf ... " I get such a message: > > tar (child): bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory > tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting no > tar: Child returned status 2 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous error You need the bzip2 package. Try:

Re: Installing on a Dell Latitude C400

me on > my dell inspiron 8000[1]. You're shooting pretty well. This made it! (You should do well in biathleton or something. :-) -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCR

Getting XFree 4.3?

ttp://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/ ./ (And I did do an 'apt-get update'.) Any suggestions? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.ui

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

* Nick Hastings > apt-get install xserver-xfree86 Why did it work to write: apt-get install x-window-system -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

* Paul Johnson > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:55:21AM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: >> My Dell Latitude needs XFree 4.3, but I'm not sure how to get it for >> my Woody laptop. Trying: > > Look for a backport on apt-get.org or upgrade to sid. That's what I did: deb htt

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

* Colin Watson > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:55:21AM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: >> My Dell Latitude needs XFree 4.3, but I'm not sure how to get it for >> my Woody laptop. Trying: >> >> apt-get install x-window-system=4.3 > > You can't make up version

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

ntconfig1 (>= 2.2.0) but it is not installable Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.4-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 --

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

anually (it doesn't happen very > > often). Some of these errors may go away if you put this in apt.conf: > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > APT::Cache-Limit 1000; > > Also, put an official "testing" source into sources.list too. How?

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

) ... Looking for keymap to install: no dpkg: error processing console-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: console-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of

Re: CVSROOT permissions

istory file not > writable by normal users (or if it should or shouldn't be). Well, what permission is set on the CVSROOT directory in the reposotory? I guess that the individual file permissions is not that important as the files are not updated, but new files are made. -- Jon Haug

apt-file update --> error

ts-i386.gz not found Error: http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice//dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz not found Error: http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/OpenOffice.deb//dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz not found But maybe I just can ignore these messages? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ssh setup

* Jeff Elkins > Yep, X11Forwarding is set to yes in /etc/ssh_config for both the client and > the server. SSH seems to function normally in all other respects... On the server side, it is the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no

How to reconfigure network settings easily?

est way to make the changes? I don't really know anything about dhcp and I'd prefer not to have to learn too much about it if possible - ideally I want to go thru the network setup part of the installation again or run some similar easy process. Thanks, -- Jon Ramsey Bangoid 111 St

Re: ssh or VPN

any application on remote host and all traffic is encrypted. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to reconfigure network settings easily?

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:14:37AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:46:56AM +0100, Jon Ramsey wrote: > > I'm running a testing/unstable system on a new machine for home. I set > > up the machine at work with a static ip, gateway and dns for our work &

Re: How to reconfigure network settings easily?

et everything to work w/o a reboot ;( -- Jon Ramsey Bangoid 111 Stanmore Hill Stanmore Middlesex HA7 3DZ Tel: 020 8954 2900 Fax: 020 8954 8500 http://www.bangoid.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Password discrepancies

character encoding mismatch. This is a pain in the ... for all non-English setups in many situations. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hot keys under fvwm

n them and emacs's definition, how can I > make it? I don't think this is possible. Better to keep them apart, or use som tricks with num lock. But I have been wrong before... -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Xvidtune

In my debian, the file is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

RedHat has the directory /etc/cron.hourly, but this is not present in debian. Why is that? Should think that clock synchronization is needed. Especially since most computer clocks drift with at least 5 second every day. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To

cdrecord: Cannot open SCSI driver

e sure you are root. Well, maybe my kernel isn't configured for my cd writer, but how do I do just that? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

uded into cron.hourly was entirely my own. Chrony accesses the Internet, but I am confined behind a restrictive firewall. We have our own ntp server running somewhere. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

n 'ntpdate -u SERVER; hwclock --systohw' every hour. > If you want to avoid computer clocks drift, you should consider proper > solution such as the one provided by ntp (see the ntp-simple package). Or 'chrony' as someone else told me. But thanks anyway. -- Jon Haugsand

Re: cdrecord: Cannot open SCSI driver

responding to 'cdrecord -scanbus'. There is a slight problem, though. Nothing happened after a reboot, I had to perform a 'modprobe ide-scsi' manually. Thus, I guess I need this to be performed at each boot, but where to put it? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.n

Re: i have 2 problems

use the > comand "poweroff". most of the times it works but > sometimes my sistem crashes(the screen turns black and > i can't use my keyboard to enter in text mode with > C-A-F1 for example) > i've tried with "shutdown -h now" and it is the same &g

Re: nfs mount error

s would be greatly appreciated. Do you have debian on both machines? The setup in /etc/init.d is slightly different on debian and redhat. Check portmap, rpc and nfs on both machines: ps aux | grep -E 'portmap|nfs|rpc' | grep -v grep -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.n

Re: NFS. [ Was: Re: nfs mount error ]

Reboot is the only way... (Perhaps not, because some tricks can still be applied, but it is annoying.) -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS. [ Was: Re: nfs mount error ]

d duplicated n-times elsewhere Thanks. Does this apply to smbfs too? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: command for disk free ?

sk... Furter, we have to hope that df's output is stable for your script's life time. A slightly more robust approach would be: df | grep /dev/hdb1 | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/%//' -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCR

removing software with apt-get or dselect

Hello all, I've read the available documentation pretty thoroughly and still cannot find the answer to this. How do I remove packages that were installed with another package using apt-get or dselect? For example, say I want to install mozilla but later decide that I don't want it anymore. How do

Re: bash: how to split a $var ?

variable is excactly like that, i.e. the first four characters are to be taken. But regular expressions can also be picked out: echo ${var1%t*} If you need a reasonable portal solution, sed is a choice: echo $var1 | sed 's/[^0-9].*//' -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sharp tif to jpg or png image conversion

* Levi Waldron > I am trying to convert a .tif scanned image of text to something readable by > web browsers, ie png or jpg. Have you tried convert? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: need help with NFS setup

is a few things to consider: Do you have firewall (iptables, ipchain, etc) between the computers? Is portmap running? (Try: 'ps aux | grep portmap' on both computers.) Try to mount an nfs partition locally. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To

Re: why is the access time of dirs not chaged?

27;s access > time be changed. Maybe it is on purpose to avoid too much disk > access. In version 7 Unix did they do that too? Maybe because it isn't read as per policy. I mean, you can have access to the file with only access bit x set on the directory. -- Jon Haugsand, [E

Re: Printer Recommendations?

ctID=bpl10045&locale=en_US I got mine after a few weeks, it doesn't cost you anything. It's just a bit of cardboard that you have to ram down into the paper tray so that it replaces the 'separation pad' that apparently gets worn out on older models. Perhaps this is your problem? The solution worked for me - it used to eat as many pages as it could; now it does them one at a time. Jon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3d cards

*think* the URL is http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html - Jon

Tape drive device files?

s using the device file ht0, but the device doesn't exist. What am I missing? What is the proceedure for creating the device files for this tape drive? Thanks in advance, Jon. -- Mailed using Netscape Communicator 4.6 running on Debian Linux 2.1begin:vcard n:Dallara;Jon tel;fax:408.970.

Boot Up Problem

ggestions?  Everyone I askhas never heard of this...And Yes... the map file exists as /boot/map and in /etc/lilo.conf i havemap=/boot/map as the 3rd line.Thanks in advance,Jon

Re: LILO problems with new HD

I don't know if we have similiar problems or not. With my system it can't find the map file, but it still boots up, so I'm not sure what the deal is with that. Can a system boot up without a map file? It seems like it can. But like your problem, I always thought you needed the map file. I know

Re: LILO problems with new HD

You were referring to System.map for the error messages, not the /boot/map file used to load the system.

Help - IDE tape drive devices?

36 netlink 37 ht0 Block devices: 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 7 loop 9 md 22 ide1 36 ed Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Jon. -- Mailed using Netscape Communicator 4.6 running on Debian Linux 2.1 L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU

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