Re: mtab SNAFU

2007-11-25 Thread Haines Brown
"David Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 25 Nov 2007 10:59:25 -0500, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > desperation I deleted the multiple instances from /etc/mtab. I > > should have consulted first, but didn't want to be pain. ... &

Re: wget initialization syntax errors

2007-11-25 Thread Haines Brown
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I created ~/.wgetrc and put into it simple options such as: > > > >--mirror > You need to man wget and learn what rc file option does what you > want, if

mtab SNAFU

2007-11-25 Thread Haines Brown
boot? Multiple instances of mounting is a common problem, but in all the discussion, I've yet to see a definitive answer. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

wget initialization syntax errors

2007-11-25 Thread Haines Brown
uncommented line in ~/.wgetrc other than the line number 12 "--mirror", I get: ~$ wget http://www.USS-Irex.info wget: Syntax error in /home/brownh/.wgetrc at line 13. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Locale Problem

2007-11-16 Thread Haines Brown
ve to be removed from the /etc/default/locale list? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-11 Thread Haines Brown
ounted device: # mkdosfs /dev/sdd1 Mount and check if files can be added, read and removed from the partition. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-09 Thread Haines Brown
s. > > Try: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd [nothing: hang] -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Haines Brown
C=0x80 ASCQ=0x0ASC=0x80 ASCQ=0x0 Nov 8 16:41:21 teufel kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 109928 Nov 8 16:41:21 teufel kernel: printk: 113 messages suppressed. Nov 8 16:41:21 teufel kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdd, logical block 13741 ... --

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Haines Brown
# mkdosfs -I /dev/sdd mkdosfs 2.11 (12 Mar 2005): when I mounted it, the files remain. Hoever, for some reason my xterm displays them in green, while files are normally displayed in black. I can add and then delete a test file on the device, which also shows up green. -- Haines Brown

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Haines Brown
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > n Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:22:54PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > What device are we talking about: What device and what partition on the > device? > > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/sdd bs=512 count=1

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Haines Brown
Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Haines Brown wrote: > > Kiran, > > Thanks for the help. I should emphazie that my promblem is not > > mounting the usb-key drive, but only deleting the files on it. I can > > copy those files, but not delete or

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-07 Thread Haines Brown
2 sectors/track, 1009 cylinders Units = cylinders of 992 * 512 = 507904 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 11009 500433b W95 FAT32 This looks OK. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM

Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-07 Thread Haines Brown
how to do that for a usb-key. Is it usually done with a proprietary low-level format utility? Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fetchmail authorization failure

2007-10-29 Thread Haines Brown
So, out of the blue, I lost any connection to the POP and SMTP servers. Since then I have aquired the information needed to restore e-mail service. As for K's suggestion, I already planned to migrate from RMAIL to mutt when the opportunity arose. -- Haine

Re: mouse emulation with X

2007-10-29 Thread Haines Brown
er is moved over a button, typing 5 from the keypad has the effect of clicking the left mouse button. I don't know where the operation of MouseKeys is documented. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: SMTP smart host authentication fails

2007-10-28 Thread Haines Brown
t's apparently not what I want to do): port = 587 in perhaps /exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp. Perhaps If I had the time I could extract a clearer picture from the book. Thanks for the help. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUB

Re: SMTP smart host authentication fails

2007-10-28 Thread Haines Brown
t 587. This may solve my problem. > according to /etc/services that's ssmtp. But who cares? You tell the > firewall what port to open. Your ISP told you what port to use so you > tell the firewall and you tell exim. Tell exim4 the port to use? Where would that be? -- Ha

Re: SMTP smart host authentication fails

2007-10-27 Thread Haines Brown
t > > > > There is no such file as /usr/sbin/initd to restart. > > However, there is /etc/init.d/exim4 restart. Ouch. I was led astray here. Running the command didn't have cause feedback, which I took as good news. I'm now using # invoke-rc.d exim4 restart ,

Re: SMTP smart host authentication fails

2007-10-27 Thread Haines Brown
7;m using debian Etch)? That is, does reconfiguring Exim also restart inetd, and does restarting inetd also rescan Exim4 configuration? # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config # /usr/sbin/initd restart -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMTP smart host authentication fails

2007-10-27 Thread Haines Brown
TECTED] R=smarthost defer (-1): lookup of host "smtp.hartford-hwp.com" failed in smarthost router 2007-10-27 08:51:05 1Ill85-0002gD-1O => brownh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=local_user T=mail_spool I'm not being authenticated on the SMTP server. -- Haines Brown

SMTP smart host authentication fails

2007-10-26 Thread Haines Brown
x27;ve been using many months. Could it be that the server does not like the hostname "teufel" in my address? I know that I have to edit messages sent to this newsgroup by removing it from the address on the From: line. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

locales broken

2007-10-26 Thread Haines Brown
quot;en_US" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). locales/etch uptodate 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 I tried to install locales, but couldn't for the same reason. Can I and should I uninstall locales and th

Re: fetchmail authorization failure

2007-10-26 Thread Haines Brown
they alerted me to the change by sending me an HTML message, which I tend not to read because I use a text-based mail reader. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fetchmail authorization failure

2007-10-25 Thread Haines Brown
configuration source at position 4 The problem here is that I don't use a GNOME (or any) desktop, although I run a few GNOME applications. I've no idea what's going on here, but it seems to involve resolving an address. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM

Re: permission of script linked to cron

2007-10-22 Thread Haines Brown
Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Haines Brown wrote: > > I have a script, ~/scripts/backup, owned by root, that mounts an > > external UPS drive, creates a directory based on date, and backs up my > > hard disk with the exception of a few directories.

permission of script linked to cron

2007-10-22 Thread Haines Brown
ermission just because it is in user's directory? b) Why does the script snippet above not work? c) How can I do what this script snippet intends without exposing my plain text password? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Small USB stick system

2007-09-14 Thread Haines Brown
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 03:57:56PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > Suppose one wanted one usb-key to serve the two main purposes of > > having one: system maintenance and installation. I see directions for > AFAIK the Live De

Re: dual purpose USB-key

2007-09-11 Thread Haines Brown
n (long time since I last booted)? If so, my question would be moot. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dual purpose USB-key

2007-09-10 Thread Haines Brown
choose between either doing maintenance on the current hard disk or running the installer to install a basic debian system on a new hard disk? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Small USB stick system

2007-09-10 Thread Haines Brown
installation executable to the bootable system on usb-key and differentiate between these two functions in the grub menu? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Locale won't set

2007-09-01 Thread Haines Brown
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:28:10 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > I believe I'm getting closer. > > > > I can't reinstall locales because with locales broken, I can't install > > any packages. Is it p

Re: Locale won't set

2007-09-01 Thread Haines Brown
'd appreciate a suggestion that a simple recovery of the original locale-archive file from backup would be OK and whether there are any other steps I need to take. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Locale won't set

2007-08-31 Thread Haines Brown
viously relevant environment variable I have is: $ printenv ... LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ... Should I go ahead and have root insert environment variables such as LANGUAGE = "en_US.UTF-8" into its environment and then run # dpkg-reconfigure locales again? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: browser display of accented characters

2007-08-22 Thread Haines Brown
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:38:59PM +0300, Juha Tuuna wrote: > > On Wednesday, 22. August 2007 13:29, Haines Brown wrote: > > > I'm not sure when this problem came up, but perhaps when I upgraded to > >

Re: browser display of accented characters

2007-08-22 Thread Haines Brown
Juha Tuuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday, 22. August 2007 13:29, Haines Brown wrote: > > I'm not sure when this problem came up, but perhaps when I upgraded to > > etch. Put simply, my browsers no longer can display accented > > characters. > Loo

browser display of accented characters

2007-08-22 Thread Haines Brown
n and iceweasal they are broken: This is a test ä ü é I try to use the browser defaults, and the default for both browsers is "serif". I'm not sure what my system interprets that as (Times New Roman?), but I'd assume it is with a font that supports normal accented characters.

mounting usb frustration

2007-07-28 Thread Haines Brown
udev is 0.105-4. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB bus fails to see devices

2007-07-14 Thread Haines Brown
27;t have /proc/bus/usb/drivers . That used to be the mount point for usbdevfs. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB bus fails to see devices

2007-07-14 Thread Haines Brown
27;t have usbdevfs mounted anywhere ($ mount reports procbususb is mounted on /proc/bus/usb, although I see no procbususb file there). Wouldn't the absense of a mounted usbdevfs definitely interfere with the kernel's ability to see my camera? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM

USB bus fails to see devices

2007-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
usb for it looks like my printer and USB mass storage devices aer loaded multiple times. Should I have seen a /proc/bus/usb/drivers directory with some drivers in it? Given the above, where is it likely the problem lies? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Haines Brown
. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: elementay fax questions

2007-06-21 Thread Haines Brown
"Tim Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 20 Jun 2007 09:33:30 -0400, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > For incoming faxes, the fax-modem must obviously discriminate > > between analog voice and digital fax so that the phone rings with > > an

elementay fax questions

2007-06-20 Thread Haines Brown
gt; phone -> fax-modem | -> computer serial port -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup script modification help

2007-06-04 Thread Haines Brown
Mike et al, Thanks for the fix and the suggestions. I understood the script just to the extent I could mess it up ;-( -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

backup script modification help

2007-06-04 Thread Haines Brown
ot worked well because it does not like to backup the /sys directory. Actually, backing up /sys dangerous). So I'd like to modify the script to block cpio from doing /sys as it avoids /proc, but not sure how. Help would be appreciated. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To

getting iceweasel to use gnus for MailTo:

2007-05-10 Thread Haines Brown
(save-excursion (message-goto-body) (insert body)) While an emacs session is running, I click on a mailto: link on a web page, and nothing happens. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade to etch kills nntp server authentication

2007-04-12 Thread Haines Brown
Kushal, Thanks for the reply. I find that for some reason I can now access the NNTP server, and so the problem disappeared. Now I'm on to address other problems as you will see in my second query to the group. Haines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

etch upgrade authentication problems

2007-04-12 Thread Haines Brown
ldomain teufel.hartford-hwp.com $ cat /etc/host.conf multi on $ cat /etc/hostname teufel In /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.1 teufel.hartford-hwp.com teufel Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Upgrade to etch kills nntp server authentication

2007-04-12 Thread Haines Brown
r won't start either because it insists on creating a new authority file (~/.serverauth.3044) that neither shows up nor works. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Using tar to extract files from tape

2006-07-13 Thread Haines Brown
tvf options for tar, I get the same result. How does one extract the *xyz files from the tape? -- Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

extracting files from old DAT tape

2006-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
individual files this way from a tape made in the first place with bru? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex SS-482 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

~/.xsession crashes xserver

2006-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
t; 0' failed". I needed the .xsession file to hold the lines: xset s off xset -dpms On my current machine, I have no problems with an .xsession file being present, although I'm not using any desktop manager (just IceWM). -- Haines Brown KB1GRM

Re: "forgot password" workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
> Haines Brown wrote: > > I have sarge I installed on a new hard disk, and I can log in OK, but > > I decided to see if I could log in without a password. I tried two > > methods: > > > > 1. I booted knoppix and opened a terminal. In it I tried to do: > >

"forgot password" workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
if I can delete it. Any suggestions? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex SS-482 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What is "semantic"?

2006-07-08 Thread Haines Brown
els? Why do some directories have a cache file, but not others? Why do I need the semantic.cache files? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex SS-482 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Root can't run scanner

2006-07-02 Thread Haines Brown
# scanimage -L No scanners were identified. ... I don't find any .usermap for scanning in /etc/hotplug/usb/, nor is there any usb.usermap file. Not sure there should be. The closest is /etc/hotplug/usb.handmap, but it has no entry for a scanner. I assume that hotplug is irrelevant here. -

HPFS: Bad Magic

2006-06-18 Thread Haines Brown
ng used? Any suggestions about how to proceed? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex 482 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Viewing ASP files

2006-05-19 Thread Haines Brown
mind was that it was a perl file or PDF of some kind. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex 482 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Viewing ASP files

2006-05-19 Thread Haines Brown
Sorry for the naive question, but I occasionally acquire files with the .asp (active server pages) extension. What is the simplest way to view such files or convert them into a more convenient format (even plain ASCII)? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex 482

Re: Using setenv DISPLAY

2006-03-12 Thread Haines Brown
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:30:06PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > As others have pointed out, sudo does not by default preserve its > > > environment when starting privileged processes. To get X worki

Using setenv DISPLAY

2006-03-06 Thread Haines Brown
t must have it, as in my examples above? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

utility to grab a web site

2006-01-22 Thread Haines Brown
I have a need to recursively capture the entire contents of a large web site that uses frames. What utility would accomplish this and automatically reproduce the directory structure and populate the directories with the files and images from the site? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

saving xterm scrolling data to file

2006-01-11 Thread Haines Brown
make sure there is sufficient quoting around the arguments. I vaguely recall there is a utility to capture input to the terminal to file. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

saving xterm scrolling data to file

2006-01-11 Thread Haines Brown
When I run a command with debug in xterm, a lot of info scrolls past. How can I save this to a file? All I get is how to debug the debug message, not the debuging information itself, which just scrolls quickly by in the terminal: For debugging messages, please use the --debug option. Debugging

gphoto2 debug message

2006-01-11 Thread Haines Brown
hoto2/gphoto2-filesys.c(2): Clearing fscache LRU list... 11.863764 libgphoto2/gphoto2-filesys.c(2): fscache LRU list already empty 11.863783 gphoto2-filesystem(2): Internally deleting all folders from '/'... Nothing shows up in /opt/tmp/camera. What does "Folder '/' does not

getting going with midi

2005-12-10 Thread Haines Brown
idi file: $ pmidi -p 64:0 filename.midi But instead, it just hangs with no sound out. Any suggestions -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Setting locales fails

2005-12-03 Thread Haines Brown
I tried to dpgk-reconfigure locales, and set environment and the default to en_US.UTF-8. Now I get: $ locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default l

Browser stopped displaying European characters

2005-11-13 Thread Haines Brown
, Preference, Fonts, I have "Western Encoding". In Firefox, English is the preferred language. Default encodeing is ISO 8859-0. I can add a language (German) to the Preferences list, but it has no effect on the display of German accented characters. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM

Locale not configuring

2005-11-10 Thread Haines Brown
ON="POSIX" LC_ALL= -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: device file permissions the debian way

2005-09-17 Thread Haines Brown
I'm subscribed to both until I find time to figure out how to gate the list, and until then, I can't reply to newsgroup messages. Sorry.) -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hotplug lacks /etc/hotplug/usermap file

2005-09-12 Thread Haines Brown
etect the camera (Canon Powershot A510). -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

device file permissions the debian way

2005-09-11 Thread Haines Brown
up. I've been warned not to create new groups, and so wonder what I should do. There are no relevant log messages. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't open lp device

2005-09-08 Thread Haines Brown
> Haines Brown wrote: > > I've returned to this problem after struggling with other > > matters. I'm running kernel 2.6.8-2-686 with sarge. I've > > installed lprng. > > You could try changing in /etc/printcap > > :lp=/dev/lp0:\ > &g

can't open lp device

2005-09-06 Thread Haines Brown
he print server to communicate. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA setup fails for user

2005-09-06 Thread Haines Brown
> On 9/5/05, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK, the interface being used is ALSA. :) I don't think ALSA > cares about anything in /dev. Interesting. Where would that interface be located? > So if you reboot, sound doesn't work, but if you then reco

Re: ALSA setup fails for user

2005-09-06 Thread Haines Brown
> On 9/5/05, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK, the interface being used is ALSA. :) I don't think ALSA > cares about anything in /dev. Interesting. Where would that interface be located? > So if you reboot, sound doesn't work, but if you then reco

Re: ALSA setup fails for user

2005-09-05 Thread Haines Brown
teface such as /dev/snd/pcmC0D0? It may be simply that the config file needs modification, and after a reboot I'm loosing the custom configuration I create by running alsaconf. I suspect I need /etc/asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc. I'm not sure what to put in them and their syntax. --

Re: mounting USB drive: "FIFO stuck"

2005-09-03 Thread Haines Brown
peats itself when fetchmail runs again in half an hour. Again, the parport_pc and parport modules are loaded and being used. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mounting USB drive: "FIFO stuck"

2005-09-03 Thread Haines Brown
at /etc/group | grep disk disk:x:6: -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ALSA setup fails for user

2005-09-03 Thread Haines Brown
card, and the onboard sound sc97 chip is disabled in BIOS. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

can't unlock /dev/lp0

2005-09-02 Thread Haines Brown
l/lpd/lp:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ :pl#66:\ :pw#80:\ :pc#150:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: The permission situation: $ ls -l /dev/lp0 crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 0 Jul 31 18:54 /dev/lp0 $ cat /etc/group | grep lp lp:x:7:brownh --

Re: Alt+numbers for special characters (e with acute accent, for example)

2005-08-30 Thread Haines Brown
I find it difficult to reply to this query when it is mime encoded (I use a text based MTA: emacs rmail). -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FIFO stuck

2005-08-28 Thread Haines Brown
checked printer cable, that the printer is seen, the driver loaded. In desperation I temporarily opened /dev/lpr0 permission: $ ls -l /dev/lp0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root lp 6, 0 Jul 31 18:54 /dev/lp0 and put myself into the /etc/group/lp -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUB

User can't run xmms despite permission setup

2005-08-27 Thread Haines Brown
ev/mixer having 666 permisions. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge, kernel 2.4 versus 2.6, issues: random boot, sound, usb

2005-08-24 Thread Haines Brown
On issue 2, I discovered the hard way that if I have USB boot support set up in BIOS, and try to boot with an USB device connected, it gets me into trouble. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Can't create .Xauthority for users

2005-08-19 Thread Haines Brown
> > On Thursday 18 August 2005 16:26, Haines Brown wrote: > > I'm setting up a new machine with 2.6.8-2-686 kernel on sarge. Things > > seem to be working except for one thing: Users can't start the x > > server (root has no problem). > > > > W

Can't create .Xauthority for users

2005-08-18 Thread Haines Brown
s I must use "iface eth1 inet dhcp" because the eth0 is down and does not support communications. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can't create .Xauthority for users

2005-08-18 Thread Haines Brown
lines enjoyed by eth1: Link encap: Ethernet HWadd... and the line inet addr: ... Interrupt:NNN Base address:NNN In /etc/network/interfaces I must use "iface eth1 inet dhcp" because the eth0 is down and does not support communications. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To

loopback interface does not come up

2005-08-17 Thread Haines Brown
55 dns-nameserver 192.168.111.1 Postfix installation said to put a dns-nameserver line here, and I put in the address of the firewall. I have in /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.2 -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

uncompressing .sitx with unstuff

2005-08-17 Thread Haines Brown
what to make of this error statement. Is there a non-proprietary way to decompress .sitx files? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

resolvconf configuration

2005-08-16 Thread Haines Brown
-up.d/ directory is empty. Also, /etc/network/run --> /dev/shm/ifstate is empty. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

grub-install strange error

2005-08-13 Thread Haines Brown
rub package was originally installed from a running system (kernel 2.4.27-2-386), by mounting the target disk that has kernel 2.6.8-2-686 and installing grub from a chroot prompt. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

gnus sources.list: ambivalent results for security updates

2005-08-13 Thread Haines Brown
to which I chroot has a 2.6.8-2-686 kernel, while the booted system has a 2.4.27-2-386 kernel. Is this difference relevant? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge debootstrap missing resolve.conf

2005-07-30 Thread Haines Brown
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Haines Brown writes: > > After running cdebootstrap on a new install of sarge (no kernel yet), I > > found that /etc/resolv.conf was missing. > > A long-standing bug. /etc/resolv.conf should be in basefiles or something >

sarge debootstrap missing resolve.conf

2005-07-30 Thread Haines Brown
vconf directory. Should I just copy over that directory and all its contents? Is the symlink from /etc/resolv.conf still needed? I'm aiming to install kernel 2.6.8-11-2-686 -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

re-linking synonyms

2005-07-30 Thread Haines Brown
fig and came up with no obvious answer on how to re-link. Googling brought up material mostly about databases. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cross install; cross platforms

2005-07-28 Thread Haines Brown
r system (after changing hostname and fstab appropriately)? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: proper way to change ip and hostname

2005-07-26 Thread Haines Brown
et, changed /etc/hostname, and rebooted; nothing else. As far as I can make out after a month, this procedure worked beautifully. I can think of ways it could lead to a problem or two, but I don't think that denies the basic soundness of the approach. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: SBC DSL Service

2005-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
2.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 Take everything I say with a grain of salt: I'm a learner as well. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Browsers get stuck on some websites.

2005-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
It loaded quickly on galeon, and then I tried firefox. The first time I tried it wouldn't load, but I had two sessions of firefox running, and when I closed one of them and tried it on the other, it loaded without problem. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBS

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