Re: Nvidea-GeForce2ConfigProblem

2002-09-19 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
I've got an athalon system with integrated nvidea geforce2 svga, ethernet, modem, sound card on a single chip (I believe). I found the debian packages for patching the current Woody X systems and kernel to be confusing, I prefer leaving kernel work to myself with straight downloads from

SSH Security Upgrade Causes Problems (potato) was: Why might sshd have simply stopped?

2001-12-09 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hello, Having installed last week's ssh security patches last night, I now am having severe problems talking to other ssh clients, with very slow transfer rates and high latencies. here are the specific versions (one on irix) where I am having troubles with the potato upgrade: debug1:

Enlightenment configuration tool?

2000-06-06 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hello: I'm running an up to date intel-potato distribution, and cannot find the enlightenment configuration tool anywhere. What am I missing? It is mentioned (but shaded out) in the gnome configuration menus, and I use it at work on my RH 6.1 system.

Re: Send an DNS Message

2000-06-06 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Perhaps you mean how to do dynamic dns updates? There's lots of info and i think some examples in: http://www.pop-uc.rcts.pt/mirrors/dnsrd/ -- N a t h a n O . S i e m e r s Bioinformatics Division of Applied Genomics Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute Hopewell

Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

1999-12-27 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
One apparrent success: apt-get dist-upgrade slink - potato on an old ast laptop. The kernel is actually 2.0.29 and hasn't been changed for a long time! (I still have it so I don't break my pcmcia ethernet, mostly due to laziness). Only problem I have seen is that the new system tried to load

Humble Request Re: New release over due

1999-12-03 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
I appreciate the fine quality of the debian distribution and the work that goes into it. Thanks very much! It is my preferred linux distribution. However, I have three systems that are at slink level, and have been waiting for a long time for a 2.2.* kernel, gnome (available outside official

Hitting web site consistently dropped ppp connection?

1999-03-21 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
could that happen? Is this a freak coincidence or the tickling/exploit of a pppd bug? It there an escape sequence embedded in the transfer that could reset the modem? Perhaps I am just a victim of a freak coincidence. Thanks for any ideas, nathan -- Nathan O. Siemers - Transcriptional

emacs20 slink problems

1999-03-17 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
installed on a slink system? Any help would be appreciated. nathan -- Nathan O. Siemers - Transcriptional Profiling, Bioinformatics - Division of Applied Genomics - Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute - Hopewell Building 3B - P.O. Box 5400, Princeton, NJ 08543-5400 - 609

hamm/slink gotcha

1999-03-08 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
this behavior? I have a local mirror of the debian archive that I believe I am pointing to correctly. Thanks, nathan -- Nathan O. Siemers - Transcriptional Profiling, Bioinformatics - Division of Applied Genomics - Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute - Hopewell Building

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-27 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
are attracting windows users and they I strongly agree. I have personal convictions that debian is the higher quality dist, but I cannot reccomend it to the corporation I work for simply because of the install process and dselect issues. nathan -- Nathan O. Siemers - Transcriptional

Re: fs not umounted at CTL-ALT-DEL

1998-10-26 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Have you possibly added any swap files recently? A while ago I tracked a similar problem to an open swap file that shutdown was not releasing before it tried to unmount. nathan -- Nathan O. Siemers - Transcriptional Profiling, Bioinformatics - Division of Applied Genomics - Bristol-Myers

Where is Bo?

1998-10-06 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
I need bo (debian 1.3) binaries of grep and ar to try and revive an old system before I can upgrade to hamm. Grep and ar have been lost :( I've seen the address of the bo site somewhere, but I just spent an hour looking through the web site with no success. Thank you. nathan -- Nathan O

Re: Using hamm? READ THIS about /usr/spool and related links...

1998-02-11 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Netscape outgoing mail may have broken due to this. nathan -- | Nathan Siemers - Division of Applied Genomics - Bristol-Myers | | Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute - H23-05, PO Box 4000, | | Princeton, NJ 08543-4000 - (609) 252-6568 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: applixware 4.3 install on debian system

1998-01-17 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am wanting to install applixware 4.3 on my debian system and would like some advice as the best way to approach it. should i use alien to convert the rpm packages or just run the install script or what? what has proved successful for others? For Applix 4.3.7, on

Re: Kernel recompile affects X display left-shift?

1997-04-07 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
A. M. Varon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Nathan O. Siemers wrote: Is there anything in a kernel recompile that would affect how XFree performs? I have an AST ascentia laptop, 800x600 screen. The default debian kernel gives an X display that is shifted about 30 pixels

Kernel recompile affects X display left-shift?

1997-04-06 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
This is totally weird...help! Is there anything in a kernel recompile that would affect how XFree performs? I have an AST ascentia laptop, 800x600 screen. The default debian kernel gives an X display that is shifted about 30 pixels to the right. Some of my early recompiles (boot floppies)

rsh root priv

1997-04-03 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hello all: I'm having trouble telling linux to allow rsh's to work as root from remote machines. Root's .rhosts, /etc/hosts.equiv, and /etc/hosts.allow don't seem to affect the permission denied result. Solution? Thanks, -- Nathan Siemers - Department of Bioinformatics Bristol-Myers Squibb

Upgrade to 1.2, Netscape Java solution, etc.

1997-03-24 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hello: Before I talk about problems, let me say that the 1.2 release that the people here have produced is very impressive and fairly solid. Nice work! I've got an AST Ascentia laptop running with full X, mouse, sound, ethernet, ppp, and power management. All with just a few days of

1.1 - 1.2 dselect/dpkg breaks

1997-03-19 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
After a trouble-free complete 1.2 install on a new laptop, I began the process of upgrading my 1.1 box. dpkg and dselect have broken after the list of available packages is updated: log Uncompressing /u/dna/usr1/people/nathan/src/debian/stable/binary-i386/Packages.gz ... done. Replacing

Will I need special kernel for farrallon pcmcia card?

1997-03-09 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
I just did a 1.2 install onto a new AST ascentia notebook. Now I have Helen Keller Linux running (no X, no network, no mouse yet). The first and most pressing problem is getting it to talk to a farrallon etherwave pcmcia card. Will I need to ftp packages over to the windows side and get a

Re: syslogd won't start

1996-10-04 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
it delays this way, or it is dying after it starts up. Some versions of sysklogd die at bootup when your net is not running (as in under ppp). Adding entries in /etc/hosts may solve your problem. See a recent thread in the comp.os.linux groups... nathan -- Nathan O. Siemers Bristol-Myers Squibb

Re: Netscape3.0 'ERASER' ?

1996-09-09 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
, isn't it? Stoyan Could it be the Debian netscape installation package Stoyan netscape_3.0.deb that wiped out something? (I don't thing so) Stoyan ? snip Installation of 3.0 by hand did nothing crazy to my bookmarks file. nathan -- Nathan O. Siemers, Ph.D. Bristol-Myers Squibb

Number of Linux processes allowed?

1996-09-07 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hello, I'm getting some out of processes errors lately in my debian 1.1 installation. Typically this is returned to the shell when I try to open a new xterm, etc. Linux secura-8 2.0.0 #3 Sun Jun 23 22:23:43 PDT 1996 i486 top says I only have about 50 procs running, and I doubt Linux would

syslogd not starting up...

1996-09-07 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hello again... Since upgrading to 1.1, syslogd doesn't start up at boot. I have seen this problem brought up on the list before, but didn't see an answer. This only relevant things in var/log/messages (not too useful as syslogd isn't usually running) is perhaps: Sep 2 10:05:23 secura-9

hellish symlinks in archive

1996-09-07 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Zoikes. You know, it is not straightforward to keep *only* the intel binaries mirrored on another machine. I did write a preliminary mirror config file: package=debian site=ftp.caldera.com remote_dir=/pub/mirrors/debian local_dir=/usr3/people/nathan/src/debian

1.1 system doesn't unmount a drive during reboot

1996-05-08 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
msdos umask=0 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults0 0 Of course every time I reboot, fsck gets run on the offending disk. Has anyone seen this before? I didn't have the problem with 0.93. nathan -- Nathan O. Siemers, Ph.D. (Chemist, obviously