Re: Galeon takes two tries to start

2002-05-01 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 19:52, Roach, Mark R. wrote: I am running galeon on an old armada laptop. Often when I start galeon up, it shows up on the screen for a moment, and then disappears. This is if I run it from the gnome menus. Typically, allthough not always, if I run it again, it stays up

Re: Booting from SCSI when there is IDE

2001-03-14 Thread Harald Thingelstad
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: More than 3 years ago someone filed a bug report that LILO doesn't support booting from SCSI drives when there is an IDE drive in the system. I am not able to test this as I don't own any SCSI devices, and the person who originally reported the bug

Re: isdn question

2001-03-14 Thread Harald Thingelstad
Peter O. Fedichev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello for some time we have to use ISDN connection as a permanent Internet connection for our server with a fixed IP address. Is there a simple way to configure ISDN so that it authomatically goes back online if the connection failed? thanks

Re: apt-get question

2001-03-12 Thread Harald Thingelstad
b3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:45:06PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: 1. Does the order matter? Will it look to cd first if the cd entry is first in the file and then online second? I'm not entirely sure if order matters or not... It does. If you keep the cd-rom

lprng+magicfilter: How to print to M$windows queue?

2001-03-11 Thread Harald Thingelstad
I currently have a Debian box and a M$windows 98 box connetcted via network. The M$windows box has a usable printer, a Lexmark 5700, and I want to use it to print from my debian box. I know it should've been the other way around, i know it's possible and it's been done before with a different

Re: Uh-Oh...

2001-02-28 Thread Harald Thingelstad
John Travis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well I grabbed 2.4.2, did a make-kpkg as usual and installed it. But I reboot to find my filesystem pretty well trashed. I'm running Sid and everything is on Reiserfs except for /boot. The only way I can do anything (with any kernel) is to boot to

Re: [OT] tuning kernel memory usage

2001-02-28 Thread Harald Thingelstad
Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey folks. This question has been nagging at me for a while now, and it's about time I asked. I've got a Debian box (potato, upgraded to kernel 2.4.1, but that's irrelevant). I'm seeing swap usage that I don't understand. Here's the output of

Re: Printing Problems

2001-02-27 Thread Harald Thingelstad
I've found magicfilterconfig to be quite reliable. Primitive but reliable. And, I can't seem to get printtool to work either. At least it fails at setting up my local Canon BJ30 printer. It works fine with the BJ600 driver in magicfilter. Harald

Re: debconf / perl in unstable

2001-02-27 Thread Harald Thingelstad
last time i tried to apt-get upgrade my potato/sid system to unstable, it completely broke perl, debconf and apt. i was really displeased. I ran into this problem a while ago and had to install perl 5.6 from unstable. I installed the whole shebang as i tend to use perl rather extesively :) :

Re: newbie: apt-x11 only?

2001-02-20 Thread Harald Thingelstad
I would like to get only xfree86 4.0 (out of woody, presumably), but don't want to deal with all of woody updates - what's the easiest way? i tried getting sources.list to point only to pool/../xfree, and such, without success i also tried loading all 'testing' into dselect but couldn't

Re: 2.4 kernel

2001-02-06 Thread Harald Thingelstad
would be appreciated.) -- Definition of a geek: I think, and I can't do anything about it. Harald Thingelstad

Re: installing Mach 64 Xserver

2000-10-17 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:34:46 Bob Edwards wrote: I installed debian from a 3 CD set. When I tried to use 'XF86Setup' I got as far as trying to install my video card and XF86Setup gave me the following message: The server required by your card is not installed. Please install the MAch 64

Re: IMP error: 'document contained no data'

2000-10-17 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 03:51:40 Matthew Thompson wrote: On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, ian mckerrow wrote: I've had that same spontanious error using netscape under MS. I tried to discover the cause but gave up after a few hours and went to bed. The next morning the error was absent. I concluded

Re: IMP error: 'document contained no data'

2000-10-17 Thread Harald Thingelstad
Whoops, forgot. All relevant packages are potato, (except for the netscape from proposed-updates) and everything worked fine last week. No configuration changes. Did security updates during the weekend. Suddenly above error message. The setup is Horde, Imp, Php3, Postgresql, Netscape, Imap4,

Re: mail sorting

2000-09-19 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:53:39 Olivier Billet wrote: Hi evrybody ! I wonder if it's possible to sort mails with sender's name as key and for example put the result in different folders. Thanks in advance, Olivier. Entirely. I'm personally using procmail but there are other scripts as

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-08 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 19:05:32 Wayne Sitton wrote: OK guys, I think you've gotten off the subject that I needed. Although what you have given me is great, what I need now is kind of like stories of thing that have happened to show why Debian would be better. Or, even links to stories about

Re: logging interaction between minicom and modem

2000-09-05 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 15:22:12 you wrote: Is there a way to log the interaction between minicom and modem similar to what chat sends to ppp.log and syslog? Ever since I upgraded to potato last weekend chat hasn't gotten along with my modem (external 57600 USR sportster) when I look in

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Jameson Burt wrote: I run Debian potato Linux (upgrading it weekly) within a network that others have setup for Microsoft Windows 95/98. This network has (over the same ethernet cables) computers and printers covering 4 C-class networks as follows [first 2 digits

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On 10 Jul 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Sorry to break in on this thread and being off-topic, but... CIDR is 10 years old! Anyone still thinking in class A and class C is probably still using COBOL too... sigh Sorry to break in but.. Looking upon the earth as flat is a fine assumption

Re: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Vicente Torres wrote: ... So, I must return it and buy another printer. Wich one would you recommend to me? It must be cheap; I do not want to use color on my printings and it must work fine with linux. Thanks First: What kind of a cheap printer do you want? The

Re: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Harald Thingelstad wrote: On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Vicente Torres wrote: ... So, I must return it and buy another printer. Wich one would you recommend to me? It must be cheap; I do not want to use color on my printings and it must work fine with linux. Thanks

Re: Lost root access :-(

2000-06-27 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Frank van der Hulst wrote: Help!!! I just installed Debian GNU/Linux, everything was going well. Then I decided I'd change the shell for root to the C shell. So I used emacs to change the /etc/passwd entry for root, so that root's shell is /bin/tcsh Then, I found

RE: Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.

2000-06-26 Thread Harald Thingelstad
Boot the machine down to runlevel 1 (single user) and try it again without X and gnome running it might act differently Does your other control key make any difference? -- From: Harald Thingelstad[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 26 June 2000 8:22 AM

Re: Trouble with internal network

2000-06-26 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Mostly Harmless wrote: I'm trying to get an internal network working so that I can set up IP masquerading for a few Windows boxen (side question: anyone know what IPs to block to prevent @home from probing for home networks?). Here's the output of /sbin/ifconfig -a:

Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.

2000-06-25 Thread Harald Thingelstad
This frustrating little problem... When having a running process, ctrl-c or kill doesn't work on my system. You have to use kill -9. A simple example: ping 127.0.0.1 this process is meant to run as long as you want, then you ctrl-c it to get your statistics. However, ctrl-c doesn't work. No