Re: pam broken in sid

2001-06-26 Thread Greg Baker
Unfortunately, I *have* installed it and don't have a session open. Me too. The other ways mentioned here are probably better, but here's what I did, just for the record... I had another Debian install on another partition (and I think I'm going to keep it for just such emergencies). I

Re: swap size

2000-12-01 Thread Greg Baker
The magic amount of swap is the totaly memory you ever expect to need, minus the amount of physical RAM you have. That's it, really. These 1xRAM, 2xRAM, etc. rules are just vague hand-wavey guidelines. Just guess how much memory you might need and subtract 1G (in your case). Note: some systems

CAP calendar client?

2000-09-01 Thread Greg Baker
Does there exist a calendar client that can talk to a remote calendar server with CAP (Calendar Access Protocol)? I'd like to work with the Sun Calendar server at work from home. There seems to be an aborted attemt by the Mozilla group and good intentions by Helixcode to add this functionality

dd and Playstation CDs

2000-05-08 Thread Greg Baker
Can anyone tell me how to use dd to make an image of a Playstation game? I keep getting this (several different games): # dd if=/dev/scd0 of=out.dd dd: /dev/scd0: Input/output error 36+0 records in 36+0 records out I take it I have to skip some blocks in there, but which ones? Greg

Re: audio devices in Debian

2000-05-08 Thread Greg Baker
I noticed yesterday when I was trying to get my soundcard workingin potatoe that there are no sound devices like /dev/dsp and /dev/audio! They *should* be there. Try running MAKEDEV (which creates the standard set of device files). Greg --- With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just

Re: dhcpcd

2000-04-03 Thread Greg Baker
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, kometboy wrote: I conclude from this that I don't know what I'm doing with dhcpcd (networking is my weakest area of Linux), and that my other two machines are working quite by coincidence. I'm using roadrunner, and it works fine with dhcpcd on the two machines that have

BOOTP failing (kernel request)

2000-04-02 Thread Greg Baker
I'm attempting to set up a diskless box (as a dedicated MP3 player) and I can't seem to get everything working. I'm using Etherboot (on a floppy) which does a BOOTP request to my main machine. That works fine--it gets it's IP address and TFTPs a kernel. The kernel starts correctly (as far as I

Re: uploads over modem are SLOOOOOW!

1999-08-20 Thread Greg Baker
I connect via dial-up with a usual connect of 50666/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS. When I send a large email with attachments or upload a file it is VERY SLOW. Watching the traffic on something like pppload or wmppp show only short bursts of intermintent traffic, often there is a 5-7 second pause

Re: [OT] StarOffice memory usage: 7 processes!

1999-08-18 Thread Greg Baker
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 25454 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 soffice.bin 25444 rickm 20 0 32676 31M 24772 R 0 0.0 12.7 1:12 soffice.bin 25455 rickm

Re: Setting up Exim

1999-08-17 Thread Greg Baker
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allright, maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm stuck: In X, I open a xterm and type eximconfig. I supply my mailserver's id and tell it where to put the mail (in the sole user's account: mine!). Not too difficult, even for a newbie like me.

Re: postscript

1999-08-04 Thread Greg Baker
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, erasmo perez wrote: does somebody knows some package that enables me to convert from gif, jpg, tif, etc to Postscript format? Have a look at either netpbm or imagemagick packages. Netpbm might do what you want; Imagemagick does. You'll probably need to install gs to do

Re: problems with htaccess

1999-07-12 Thread Greg Baker
Does anyone know of something that could affect apache's behavior for htaccess? I'm loading the appropiate module and the .htaccess file is well defined in srm.conf There are a few Apache directives that affect the .htaccess file. I could find: AccessFileName AllowOverride Docs for

Squid hogging memory with children

1999-07-09 Thread Greg Baker
I just upgraded Squid (to 2.1.2-1, the newest in stable). It's started to spawn a bunch of (16) child processes that consume a lot of my memory. Despite my best efforts with the config file, I can't change the number of children. Can anybody give my a pointer on this? I just want to use

Re: E-mail for dummies - part 2

1999-07-05 Thread Greg Baker
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote: qmail and fetchmail are MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents), right? fetchmail downloads messages from a pop3/imap server and puts them into the local mail delivery system. (Besides, where do the messages end up and in what form?) Correct so far.

Re: disconnected environment

1999-06-28 Thread Greg Baker
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Konstantin Kivi wrote: It seems that first cause sendmail to hang at startup (and it keep complaining like calhost sendmail[1921]: My unqualified host name (localhost) calhost sendmail[1921]: unable to qualify my own domain name ) with the second I got the mail that

Re: Getting Mpeg Trackname?

1999-06-25 Thread Greg Baker
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Andrew Holmes wrote: I've looked through the man pages for splay and mpg123 but I can't find an option to output the trackname information from an mp3 file. Have a look at the 'mp3info' package (which gives you the command 'mp3info'). That should do everything you need. It

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Greg Baker
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote: Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with a bus error. This usually happens when I close a Netscape window (actually, it happens close to half the time when I close a Netscape window), which is painful because I have