Re: generador de passwords

2000-09-12 Thread Antonio Castro
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Miquel wrote: El lun, sep 11, 2000 at 01:57:38 +0200 Hue-Bond ha dit: El miércoles 06 de septiembre de 2000 a la(s) 16:12:57 +0200, TooMany contaba: ¿Existe algún paquete que trabaje en conjunción con el adduser, y que genere automáticamente una password para

Re: NFS

2000-09-12 Thread Carlos López
Voy a intentar explicártelo lo mejor que sé. El portmap es un programa que guarda el registro de versión de programas rpc como es el caso del servidor nfs. Para comprobar si está levantado tienes que ejecutar la siguiente orden: ps xa |grep portmap Si te devuelve un valor parecido a esto: 23453

Re: tar y tape

2000-09-12 Thread Jaime Fernández Martínez
Tengo una cinta igual o similar y básicamente lo hago igual que con el SCO ( cpio -ocB -O$CINTA ) donde $CINTA es /dev/cinta, un enlace a /dev/st0. Tengo algunos script en sh que me permiten automatizar la copia de seguridad diaria, realizándose de noche. Un problema que tengo al hacer

RE: Publicación 'profesional'

2000-09-12 Thread Arregui-García, Javier
Hola, Yo hace poco escribí una mini-novela con LaTeX, y haciendo lo mismo que quieres hacer tú. Me enfrenté al mismo problema de ilegibilidad. Si te interesa, te puedo mandar lo que yo hice (no me lo sé de memoria, lo tengo en casa) para dejarlo con una presentación impecable. Hasta me adapté la

Re: generador de passwords

2000-09-12 Thread Hue-Bond
El lunes 11 de septiembre de 2000 a la(s) 21:24:29 +0200, Antonio Castro contaba: Como passwords especialmente faciles de recordar y razonablemente segura se podr?a usar un generador que creara claves concatenando palabras y separadores de palabras. A mí se me ha ocurrido hacer

Gestionar las colas de impresión en X

2000-09-12 Thread Hue-Bond
Buinas. Me apetecía tener un programa para Xwindow que mostrase los trabajos de impresión que le llegan al lpd, tal como hace lpq, pero en una ventanita, actualizada en tiempo real (con un refresco de algunos segundos me llega) y algo así como lo que hace

Re: Gestionar las colas de impresión en X

2000-09-12 Thread Jordi
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 02:05:29PM +0200, Hue-Bond wrote: Me apetecía tener un programa para Xwindow que mostrase los trabajos de impresión que le llegan al lpd, tal como hace lpq, pero en una ventanita, actualizada en tiempo real (con un refresco de algunos

Re: sai y software

2000-09-12 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
TooMany wrote: Buenas. ¿Alguien sabe de algún software para atender la conexión serie con un sai marca X? (de los que vengan con Potato o Woody) ¿Marca X quiere decir marca desconocida? Por favor da más detalles. saludos, --

Re: generador de passwords

2000-09-12 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Dos opciones: 1.- parchaera passwd para que no sea interactivo (no es muy dificil) y poderle pasar cosas así: echo passowrd |passwd kk 2.- utilizar mkpasswd (paquete whois no me preguntes por qué) Saludete Javi On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:29:57AM +0100, Alberto

Re: Problemas con la instalaci_n de Potato

2000-09-12 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
¿Qué módulo? ¿Qué tarjeta? Si no das más información no se puede ayudar.. Javi On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:16:28PM +0200, Jose Angel Fdez. Luengo wrote: Hell-o! El día Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:53:45 -0500 (CDT), Carlos L_pez [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Sí. Durante la

Re: Problemas con la instalaci_n de Potato

2000-09-12 Thread Jose Angel Fdez . Luengo
Hell-o! (B (BEl día Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:12:39 +0200, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a [EMAIL (BPROTECTED] escribió: (B (B (B ¿Qué módulo? ¿Qué tarjeta? Si no das más información no se puede (B ayudar.. (B (Bveamos... (B (B--- /proc/pci --- (BEthernet controller: DEC DC21040 (rev 35).

Re: Paquetes corregidos.

2000-09-12 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
El 10 Sep 2000 a las 09:24PM +0200, Jon Noble escribio: El dom, 10 sep 2000 17:16:05 Andres Seco Hernandez escribió: # Seguridad para Debian Potato deb http://security.debian.org/ potato updates/main updates/contrib updates/non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/

Re: generador de passwords

2000-09-12 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Antonio Castro wrote: Un sencillisimo programita C sería mas eficiente no ? La verdad con la de estupendos programas para generar claves que tiene que haber me siento un poco ridículo haciendo esto pero como parece que se insiste en el tema voy a aportar mi granito de arena. Perl es mucho mas

Re: generador de passwords

2000-09-12 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
El Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:27:55PM +0200, Miquel contaba: mmm, no poder mezclar mayusculas y minusculas o caracteres especiales, no es solo un poblema: es la frontera entre una password fuerte de otra que no lo es. No creo que lo sea demasiado en Linux. Normalmente los únicos sistemas que han

Re: generador de passwords

2000-09-12 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Alberto Rodríguez wrote: El problema es que no lo quiero hacer de manera interactiva. passwd funciona de manera interactiva, y yo tengo que crear unas 1500 cuentas de correo... Se me ocurre lo siguiente: si ya creaste las 1500 cuentas (o sea ya tienes un renglón /etc/passwd por cada usuario)

Re: Gestionar las colas de impresión en X

2000-09-12 Thread Hue-Bond
El martes 12 de septiembre de 2000 a la(s) 16:39:23 +0200, Jordi Roman Mejias contaba: Podrias probar el printop, esta bastante bien $ printop Error in startup script: can't read printcap_list: no such variable while executing foreach i $printcap_list { lappend [... bla bla bla ...]

Re: Error en latex

2000-09-12 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
\begin{abstract} Texto \end{abstract} Ojo, que creo que no puede haber espacio entre \begin y { Si sigue sin funcarte, envíame un fichero sencillo que no te funione, junto con los errores que te da, y veo si puedo hacer algo... Saludos, Jesus. Camilo

Re: Publicación 'profesional'

2000-09-12 Thread Santiago Calvo Ramos
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:49:32PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat Fichero.ps | psbook | psnup -2 Libro.ps En primer lugar, te he de dar las gracias, porque yo tambien andaba barruntando, el como hacer lo que dices. La herremienta que yo conocía, era mpage, con la que usando las

Re: Gestionar las colas de impresión en X

2000-09-12 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Hue-Bond wrote: El martes 12 de septiembre de 2000 a la(s) 16:39:23 +0200, Jordi Roman Mejias contaba: Podrias probar el printop, esta bastante bien $ printop Error in startup script: can't read printcap_list: no such variable while executing foreach i $printcap_list {

Re: sai y software

2000-09-12 Thread Hue-Bond
El martes 12 de septiembre de 2000 a la(s) 15:37:25 +0200, TooMany contaba: ¿Alguien sabe de algún software para atender la conexión serie con un sai marca X? (de los que vengan con Potato o Woody). if (X == Merlin Gerin) { En la web www.mgeups.com tienen unos megas para bajarse.

Re: Gestionar las colas de impresión en X

2000-09-12 Thread Hue-Bond
El martes 12 de septiembre de 2000 a la(s) 19:30:34 +0200, Agustín Martín Domingo contaba: Lo que usas es lpr Ok, tomo nota :^). Prueba el antiguo que tengo en mi página, http://corbu.aq.upm.es/~agmartin/linux/store/debian/printop-lpr_1.0-2_all.deb Trae menos cosas que el actual,

Re: Error en latex

2000-09-12 Thread Rodolfo García
Estaria bien que encontrara un error al LaTeX, por si no lo sabes el autor te paga muucho dinero por ello, lo compartirás con Barahona y con el nene ;) Un saludo. On mar, 12 sep 2000, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona escribió: \begin{abstract} Texto \end{abstract} Ojo, que creo que

Debian: Mudo?¿?¿?¿?¿

2000-09-12 Thread Roberto Saldivar
Esta pregunta no esta muy relacionada con Debian, pero mi sistema se quedó mudo por que perdi la configuracion de los jumpers de la tarjeta de sonido. Si alguien tiene el manual de instalacion con el diagrama de la tarjeta asi como las configuraciones por favor envieme una copia o

Re: Error en latex

2000-09-12 Thread Miquel
El mar, sep 12, 2000 at 11:46:15 +0200 Rodolfo García ha dit: Estaria bien que encontrara un error al LaTeX, por si no lo sabes el autor te paga muucho dinero por ello, lo compartirás con Barahona y con el nene ;) jeje, bueno, en realidad no es el autor de LaTeX, sino Donald Knuth, el

Comportamiento extraño de traceroute

2000-09-12 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Holas, veamos, desde que estoy con mi conexión ADSL no paro de jugar... dado que entre otras cosas no me fio de la configuración que me han dejado, aún habiendo cambiado muchas cosas según el famoso COMO de www.volados.org. No me fio de: -. Conf del router. -. Conf de la interacción kernel -

RE: Script para execução de aplicações remotas

2000-09-12 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Alessandro Fernandes Martins wrote: On 12-Sep-2000 André Luís Lopes wrote: Oi pessoal Ola, Tentei com shh e o mesmo ocorre (não dá - ou não sei como - para passar a senha como parâmetro). Alguém saberia como fazer para passar a senha ? Ou alguém

Re: debian.org.br br.debian.org

2000-09-12 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Gostaria, se fosse possível, que vocês me enviassem o nome de todos os mirrors da Debian que funcionam para que possa montar uma lista e disponibilizar a todos. Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Oi Macan, por enquanto vamos colocar um mirror da debian tambem aqui

Re: debian.org.br br.debian.org

2000-09-12 Thread Alessandro Fernandes Martins
On 12-Sep-2000 Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote: Gostaria, se fosse possível, que vocês me enviassem o nome de todos os mirrors da Debian que funcionam para que possa montar uma lista e disponibilizar a todos. Por falar em mirror, voces tem ideia de quanto espaco eh necessario para

Re: Another Poll (Update)

2000-09-12 Thread Pat Mahoney
I apologize, it was an immature thing to do, but I've never seen a poll that lets you vote many times. In my defense, I had the choice of either inflating a poll or memorizing the names of unpronounceable Hindu (should that be Hindi?) gods for my Asian Mythology class. Also, debian is now much

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-12 Thread ferret
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 03:54:13AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: If there are no fixed events then everything should go in the yearly files. The events are fixed. The main point is that the Jewish calendar is based on the motion of the moon,

Printing w/Epson SC800

2000-09-12 Thread John Gilger
I feel like a total mental case. I have potato up and running fine, but even though I've read a pile of f'ing manuals I can't get my epson sc800 printer to listen when debian talks! I have installed apsfilter, lprng, and aladdin-ghostscript as recommended in the PRINTING-HOWTO, but for some

Re:

2000-09-12 Thread ktb
Stephen Hupman wrote: Hi I am attempting to configure X. I can make the blank screen appear and that is about it. Help. The information required to configure this software is very specific. I don't know how to find some of the information, ie video card, clockchip, RAMDAC, can you help?

Re: laptop

2000-09-12 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:38:25PM +0100 or thereabouts, Bruce Richardson wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:01:30AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: debian is the most laptop-friendly distro i've encountered. I'd have to question that, even in my recent-Debian-convert fervour. Slackware comes

Re: keyboard setting? (debian hates me part II)

2000-09-12 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: Hi all. I can not set the keyboard map in my debian 2.2 (potato). Symbols do not corespond with keyboard!. I try to 'loadkeys es' it responds 'Loading es.kmap' but it seems to do nothing (yes I have a spanish keyboard!:). And the 'Ctrl-C' sequence does not send an

gnome/wm strangness

2000-09-12 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have two systems. One woody, xfree 4.0.1, woody windowmaker and gnome. The other is potato, acceleratedX, potato windowmaker and gnome. Both have identical windowmaker setups, for the most part. Now, until recently I had been simply envoking windowmaker with exec windowmaker in .xinitrc. A

Re: Another Poll (Update)

2000-09-12 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:05:28PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: I apologize, it was an immature thing to do, but I've never seen a poll that lets you vote many times. In my defense, I had the choice of either inflating a poll or memorizing the names of unpronounceable Hindu (should that be

Re: Deleted /dev/hda (MBR)

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 08:37:29PM +0200, Moritz Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 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) !! ... What can i do ?? if i am right, and you really have only

gnome/wm strangeness

2000-09-12 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have two systems. One woody, xfree 4.0.1, woody windowmaker and gnome. The other is potato, acceleratedX, potato windowmaker and gnome. Both have identical windowmaker setups, for the most part. Now, until recently I had been simply envoking windowmaker with exec windowmaker in .xinitrc. A

Re: hostname/netname

2000-09-12 Thread Will Trillich
thanks for your info! now i've got some fine-tune questions-- On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:21:40PM -0400, Gregg C wrote: If you want people to be able to surf www.dontuthink.com, email [EMAIL PROTECTED], telnet to server.dontuthink.com, etc then you need DNS. Your ISP could do it, but its

Re: hdparm

2000-09-12 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:18:31PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: How do I know if I need any of these options for my hard drive? Are the kernel/ide driver defaults reasonable? Do these flags improve performance? (Right now I'm just using hdparm -y to spin down the disk) -chris i've tried

Network Configuration

2000-09-12 Thread Saran
Hi Guys, I just subscribed to this list to get more information regarding the Debian Linux, which kind of lacks a lot of information resources. Most sites are about RedHat Linux and as much as Debian is giving me problems, I still like to stick to this distribution instead of moving to RedHat.

Re: cvs over ssh

2000-09-12 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! Try out the following: setenv CVS_RSH absolute_path_to_ssh or export CVS_RSH=absolute_path_to_ssh Then set your CVSROOT variable accordingly: setenv CVSROOT :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot or export CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot The :ext: determines the access method, which is

Re: Own boot scripts

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:21:53PM +0200, Julio Merino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, I would like to know where should I put my own boot up scripts. For example, I write one to restore my mixer setup on boot up and save it in shutdown. I saved it in /etc/init.d and then I made the

Re: your mail

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:58:05PM -0400, Stephen Hupman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi I am attempting to configure X. I can make the blank screen appear and that is about it. Help. The information required to configure this software is very specific. I don't know how to find some of the

Re: your mail

2000-09-12 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:15:41PM -0700 or thereabouts, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:58:05PM -0400, Stephen Hupman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi I am attempting to configure X. I can make the blank screen appear and that is about it. Help. The information

RE: Network Configuration

2000-09-12 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
See below Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my -Original Message- From: Saran [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:05 PM To:

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2000-09-12 Thread ben . konrath
hey i have been trying to get 2.2 (i386) working with rogers @home cable modem service. the problem that i keep encountering is that i can only get on-line when i am using a NIC that has been used with the cable modem in windows. if the card is used elsewhere or the cable modem is used with

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
How does noflushd compare with the noatime,sync mount options? I looked at the package description but it doesn't say much, and I'm a little scared to install the deb lest it do something intense. -chris On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Thomas Hood wrote: I suggest that you check out the noflushd daemon

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Debian install docs do say something about disabling all memory holes in the bios. -chris On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:09:08PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote: Does your bios have the setting memory hole at 64M activated? I'm not sure if that's the

Re: Another Poll (Update)

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:26:07AM -0500, Will Trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: btw -- for a first-time install, which debian variant is simplest to get up running? corel? storm? libranet? LinuxCare Bootable Business Card ;-) -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-12 Thread Joey Hess
Krzys Majewski wrote: How does noflushd compare with the noatime,sync mount options? Noflushd is a daemon that spins down disks that have not been read from after a certain amount of time, and then prevents disk writes from spinning them back up. -- see shy jo

RE: Network Configuration

2000-09-12 Thread Saran
Hi, I thought linuxconf is only available on RedHat ? Yes, the RH box is acting as the gateway for the network also. Dunno about the kernel version, but I'll try it later. As for the collisions, I'm not sure, but there has been no problems. Could this be the issue ? Both the RH server and my

Re: hdparm

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
I can get my drive to spin down now with hdparm -y. It then spins up right away again unless I mount my filesystems with the noatime option. I throw in the sync option for good measure. -chris On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Will Trillich wrote: On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:18:31PM -0700, Krzys Majewski

Re: your mail

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Uh ok this is a braindead reply but did you try turning off the modem for a few minutes. I had a hard time getting my new machine to work with cable, it suddenly worked on the third network card (a 3c905b). -chris On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey i have been trying to get 2.2

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Uh yeah that's what the package webpage says, but I'm a bit perplexed about the last part. Surely they have to spin up the hd again *eventually*. Maybe I can just install it, kill the daemon, and read the manpage.. -chris On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: Krzys Majewski wrote: How does

Re: X won't start

2000-09-12 Thread Adrian Nims
Thaks to all who helped me to solve this problem. I succesfully working out. Thank you, Adrian Nims

RE: Network Configuration

2000-09-12 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
1. Linuxconf is a Linux administration/configuration tool...as such any Linux distribution can run it (see http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/). 2. Whoa...2 (I repeat 2) gateways...and 2 routersso which box acts as gateway for which network..confusing isn't it andit may be the

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-12 Thread Joey Hess
Krzys Majewski wrote: Uh yeah that's what the package webpage says, but I'm a bit perplexed about the last part. Surely they have to spin up the hd again *eventually*. Maybe I can just install it, kill the daemon, and read the manpage.. Writes don't spin it up; reads continue to do so. (As

anybody got everybuddy running?

2000-09-12 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, normally i use gnome-ICQ but since at least one of my friends uses AIM... i needed a client for that now i installed everybuddy onto my woody and all that happens after the windows pops up are tons of messages like this one: LIBICQ ICQ_SetDebug(3)Server told us to go away. LIBICQ

OT: good DNS server

2000-09-12 Thread Rino Mardo
Just want to get a feedback on granitecanyon.com as we seem to be having problems with them all the time. I heard others say it's because of granitecanyon's own reliability to maintain DNS. Is that true? -- Who's watching the watchmen? ICQ: 15096825

Re: booting with lilo win2k

2000-09-12 Thread Arcady Genkin
Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is just a guess on my part, but you may actually need to have other= pointing somewhere else. If you have support in your kernel for NTFS and/or FAT/VFAT, you could try mounting the Windows/DOS filesystems you have and look for the one which has

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Christian Pernegger: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:19:23PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: There is a README in /etc/init.d for a reason, you know .. I fully understand that you as the Grand Master of the Debian init system might be annoyed by such a question, but why

RE: Network Configuration

2000-09-12 Thread Saran
Well, the way my company network is configured is that the RH box acts as router and gateway and firewall both for internal and external network; internal here being the 100.100.100.x network and external being 255.255.255.248. I suppose that the same goes for my colleague's PC as it is configured

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
Oh well. According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:49:41 +0800 X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Sir/Madam Your message cannot be delivered to the recipient because his/her mail box storage limit has

ssh, gethostbyname, and hosts.deny, oh my!

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
I've got a little problem here involving ssh, gethostbyname, and /etc/hosts.deny, which by curious coincidence strongly resembles the subject line of this post. The setup: I'm connecting via ssh to a server on our DMZ, proxied through a masquerading firewall. Like this: Internet

no PPP support

2000-09-12 Thread john gennard
I'm not sure if this is a KDE or a Debian issue. Have recently installed Debian 2.2 (already run 2.1), and use KDE 1.1.2. When I launch Kppp the following message appears:- This kernel has no PPP support neither compiled in nor via the kernel module loader. To solve

Re: OT: good DNS server

2000-09-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya,... yeahgranitecanyon is creating headaches for me as my customers think its my stuff when i am not their primary/secondary dns. yet they park the server here... - maybe time to instituteya gotta have primary dns on the machine you park here - if

Re: Freezing during boot-up for installation

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:53:37PM -0700, Rosa Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I need help getting Debian installed. I bought a book, learning Debian/GNU Linux by McCarty (O'Reilly Pub.) which included a CD with debian. In the instructions it told me to create a boot disk. I followed

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Hm, not convinced, man page doesn't help, runs nice though, think I'll keep it. Is there anything like this for spinning down the cpu fan? (Like an apm --standby that runs whenever the system is idle, or does that make sense? I tried the doze feature in my bios but this seems to try to put the

at command?

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Where do I find the at command, or equivalent, which is like a command-line crontab that says: execute such-and-such command and such-and-such date and time. A search for at, as you can imagine, is not very helpful. -chris

Freezing during boot-up

2000-09-12 Thread Heil
Booting the system stops after starting statd lockd I got the message: wait_on_irq CPU 0 irq: 1 [0 1] bh: 0 [0 0] [c0109bc5] [c0128c7e] [c0128e12] If I disable statd and lockd, I got a problem with snort snortstuck on TLB IPI wait (CPU #0) and again wait_on_irq CPU 0 The

Re: at command?

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:55:37AM -0700, Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Where do I find the at command, or equivalent, which is like a command-line crontab that says: execute such-and-such command and such-and-such date and time. A search for at, as you can imagine, is not very

Re: freeware windoze client that will do ssh?

2000-09-12 Thread Matthew Vernon
William Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My bad, I meant to say freeware windoze client that will do FTP with ssh On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:41:22PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 14:35:58 -0500, William Jensen wrote: Any ideas? =20 Putty.

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-12 Thread Jason Quigley
Lucky I didn't shut my server down then ;-) --On Monday, September 11, 2000 22:19 +0200 Julio Merino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:09:08PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote: Does your bios have the setting memory hole at 64M activated? I'm not sure if that's the exact

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-12 Thread Julio Merino
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:44:41PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: Debian install docs do say something about disabling all memory holes in the bios. -chris I have these options disabled... but why are they useful? Thanks On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at

Re: Own boot scripts

2000-09-12 Thread Julio Merino
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:13:57PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:21:53PM +0200, Julio Merino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, I would like to know where should I put my own boot up scripts. For example, I write one to restore my mixer setup on boot up

Re: anybody got everybuddy running?

2000-09-12 Thread Julio Merino
I've setup everybuddy with an ICQ, AIM and Yahoo Messenger accounts, each of these working right. But I noticed that the Yahoo one was going really bad. In everybuddy, where it expects you to put the screen name for ICQ, you should put the UIN, and that should be enought. And about AIM, I guess

Re: your mail

2000-09-12 Thread Julio Merino
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:58:05PM -0400, Stephen Hupman wrote: Hi I am attempting to configure X. I can make the blank screen appear and that is about it. Help. The information required to configure this software is very specific. I don't know how to find some of the information, ie video

How do I adust the Gamma(brightness) level?

2000-09-12 Thread Wong TM \(Huang Deming\)
Please help me. How do I adust the Gamma(brightness) level for X? I using xfree 4.0.0, kde and I have a Creative TNT. What/Where are the settings I should change? Any help is appreciated. __ ..|__|.---.-..-. | __|| || _ || _ | |||__||___._||_|

Re: anybody got everybuddy running?

2000-09-12 Thread Robert Lazzurs
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Bruno Boettcher wrote: hello, normally i use gnome-ICQ but since at least one of my friends uses AIM... i needed a client for that now i installed everybuddy onto my woody and all that happens after the windows pops up are tons of messages like this one:

Xfree86 keyboard extensions and Emacs META Key

2000-09-12 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, just tried to finetune my XF86Config file. I found the following effects: 1. When I use the keyboard extensions: LeftAlt Meta RightAltModeShift #RightCtlCompose #ScrollLock ModeLock XkbDisable then the Alt Key works as META in Gnu/Emacs (fine!). But the

Re: Own boot scripts

2000-09-12 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 11:56:30AM +0200, Julio Merino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:13:57PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:21:53PM +0200, Julio Merino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, I would like to know where should I

CD-writing on USB-connected CD writers

2000-09-12 Thread Robert Varga
Does anyone have any experience with writing CDs on a USB connected CD writer in Linux? Is there a way to do it? Regards, Robert Varga

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
Well, had you done the full RTFM routine (it means read ALL of them until you find what you want...) Point taken. see /usr/share/doc/sysvinit. Thanks very much, that's all I wanted to know. So don't get too surprised that someone was a bit harsh in his reply. Oh, I wasn't. I knew I was

eps to pdf

2000-09-12 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I have a postscript figure made with gnuplot. Actually, this is a .eps file since I have chosen the option set terminal postscript eps enhanced in gnuplot to create the figure. I want to convert this figure to a pdf figure. 1) However, when I do this with ps2pdf (or convert ...), I get

starting isdnutils by script

2000-09-12 Thread rene_schrader-boelsche
Hi there, after reading and understanding the doc-files about ISDNUTILS I can now enter the WWW. But a little problem is left. In the Lehmann-Distribution of Debian 2.2 I found the hint to use a script (chapter 7 of dahb.txt) to start and stop the services. But I can only start as root the

Old packages between upgrades

2000-09-12 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, I have a question about upgrading the system. When I upgraded some time ago from slink to potato and then woody, I had a package, ncurses3.4 installed on the system... This package is really old, but it's not replaced with libncurses4 or libncurses5. So, I simply erased it without any

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:44:41PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: Debian install docs do say something about disabling all memory holes in the bios. -chris I have these options disabled... but why are they useful? Thanks No idea.. I just

How do I adust the Gamma(brightness) level?

2000-09-12 Thread Wong TM \(Huang Deming\)
Please help me. How do I adust the Gamma(brightness) level for X? I using xfree 4.0.0, kde and I have a Creative TNT. What/Where are the settings I should change? Any help is appreciated. __ ..|__|.---.-..-. | __|| || _ || _ | |||__||___._||_|

Help!! No more processes left in runlevel

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Shit shit shit I've broken my machine again. Won't halt, won't boot. When booting it claims it's going into runlevel 3 but none of the rc3.d scripts are run, and it won't let me login (except as root), saying system bootup in progress. If I try to change runlevel it sends TERM, sends KILL, and

Stupid... Stupid...

2000-09-12 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I'm so ashamed... I stress to my wife and kids backup, backup, backup. And what do I do?? I screwed my lilo.conf file up royally w/o making a backup :( Now I CAN boot Debian 2.1 but can NOT boot W98 with my wife's stuff. I have W98 on hda1 and Debian on hda5 Would someone be kind enough to email

Re: Stupid... Stupid...

2000-09-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:16:28AM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: I'm so ashamed... I stress to my wife and kids backup, backup, backup. And what do I do?? I screwed my lilo.conf file up royally w/o making a backup :( Now I CAN boot Debian 2.1 but can NOT boot W98 with my wife's stuff.

Re: Stupid... Stupid...

2000-09-12 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Chris, there is a script at /usr/doc/lilo/examples that mounts a lilo.conf. Give it a try. Quoting Christopher W. Aiken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm so ashamed... I stress to my wife and kids backup, backup, backup. And what do I do?? I screwed my lilo.conf file

Re: Stupid... Stupid...

2000-09-12 Thread Julio Merino
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:16:28AM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: I'm so ashamed... I stress to my wife and kids backup, backup, backup. And what do I do?? I screwed my lilo.conf file up royally w/o making a backup :( Now I CAN boot Debian 2.1 but can NOT boot W98 with my wife's stuff.

RE: Help!! No more processes left in runlevel

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
-Original Message- From: Krzys Majewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:10 PM To: Debian user list (undigested) Subject: Help!! No more processes left in runlevel Shit shit shit I've broken my machine again. Won't halt, won't boot. When booting it

How can I enable network scanning?

2000-09-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
Can anyone help with this problem, please? Versions: libsane1.0.2-1 sane 1.0.2-1 I am trying to access a scanner through the network. The scanner is an HP ScanJet on 'sarah' (192.168.1.3). It works on that machine: sarah $ scanimage --help ... List of available

Unidentified subject!

2000-09-12 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I have a postscript figure made with gnuplot. Actually, this is a .eps file since I have chosen the option set terminal postscript eps enhanced in gnuplot to create the figure. I want to convert this figure to a pdf figure. 1) However, when I do this with ps2pdf (or convert ...), I get

Re: Scsh (Was: Re: My orphaned packages.)

2000-09-12 Thread Daniel Kobras
On 11 Sep 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Daniel == Daniel Kobras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel On 10 Sep 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: `scsh' ought to be taken over by someone who actually uses it. I've not even looked at it in over a year. Daniel If nobody objects

starting isdnutils by script

2000-09-12 Thread rene_schrader-boelsche
Hi there, after reading and understanding the doc-files about ISDNUTILS I can now enter the WWW. But a little problem is left. In the Lehmann-Distribution of Debian 2.2 I found the hint to use a script (chapter 7 of dahb.txt) to start and stop the services. But I can only start as root the

eps to pdf

2000-09-12 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I have a postscript figure made with gnuplot. Actually, this is a .eps file since I have chosen the option set terminal postscript eps enhanced in gnuplot to create the figure. I want to convert this figure to a pdf figure. 1) However, when I do this with ps2pdf (or convert ...), I get

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