Re: hosts.equiv ignored after pam updates? (rsh/rlogin)

2007-09-13 Thread Lewis, James M.
I have the same problem and have not been able to pick through it yet. Like you, I suspect a change in a pam module. There are only a few to check but I have not had time to do it yet. Look in /etc/pam.d/rsh... jim

RE: Latex version 2.09 from 7 Dec 89 ??

2001-06-13 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi, Don't ask me why 'cus I don't know, but my fearless leader has decided he needs an ancient version of LaTex on his spiffy new Debian laptop. Since this is from Dec 1989, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess I can't get a .deb for it :) Anyone have a clue where I could find

[OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files

2001-06-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
I am using pdflatex to make .pdf files of a document. It prints just fine but looks bad when viewing with acroread. Is there some trick to using different fonts to make the screen display look good? I have tried using a couple of postscript fonts as well as the usual tex fonts (ccr). I have

RE: Querying Oracle

2001-06-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
I'd like to query a database on an Oracle NT server from my laptop using the LAN at my office. What should I install to this end on my linux-box laptop? You could install the client software from oracle. I have oracle 8.1.7 and it works fine. I haven't tried any free tools. There

RE: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files [solved]

2001-06-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Lewis, James M. wrote: I am using pdflatex to make .pdf files of a document. It prints just fine but looks bad when

RE: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files [solved again]

2001-06-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Matthias Richter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 11:28 AM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: [OT?] ugly screen fonts in .pdf files Lewis, James M. wrote: I am using pdflatex to make .pdf files of a document

RE: HP Deskjet 959C + PCL codes (w/ apsfilter)

2001-04-26 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Dominique Deleris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:58 AM To: debian-user-list; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HP Deskjet 959C + PCL codes (w/ apsfilter) Hello people ! I have a problem printing plain ASCII text to my printer:

RE: cron: nth weekday of month?

2001-04-25 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 6:58 AM To: debian-user Subject: cron: nth weekday of month? I've got a job I'd like to run once a month, on a set day of the week, say, the first Sunday of the month.

RE: howto identify missing stdlib.h after compile?

2001-04-25 Thread Lewis, James M.
Unless I compile with -Wall, following code compiles with no warning with gcc -g -o example example.c. How should I tell that this code is broke after compile? -- # include stdio.h /*# include stdlib.h*/ /*Not to have this for atof is the bug*/ int main(int argc, char **argv) {

RE: forgot manufacturer name of serial ethernet devices

2001-04-25 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Robert L. Yelvington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 5:59 PM To: debian-isp Cc: Debian Users Subject: forgot manufacturer name of serial ethernet devices a couple of months ago i read an article in some trade rag about a

RE: How do I build a driver floppy?

2001-04-18 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Peter Canning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 2:00 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: How do I build a driver floppy? In order to boot the installation system (2.2r2), I had to get the source code for newer

RE: smart file archiving

2001-04-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 2:43 PM To: Tim Kelley Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: smart file archiving On Thursday 12 April 2001 11:34, Tim Kelley wrote: Do you need them on cd, or

RE: Printing

2001-04-11 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Stephen E. Hargrove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 3:59 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Printing I'm having problems getting my printer going. It was working, then I had to reinstall, and now I can't get it

RE: Printing

2001-04-11 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Stephen E. Hargrove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:15 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Printing Nevermind, I figured it out, and I'm (finally) printing again. One more question, though. I keep getting

RE: Time

2001-03-28 Thread Lewis, James M.
I'm having a heck of a time getting my system time set correctly. /etc/localtime is a symlink to the proper time zone. I've looked in /etc/default/rcS and switched UTC from yes to no and back again. And, I've read the man page for hwclock a few times. Still, my system time is always

RE: grip cddb config

2001-03-16 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 12:34 AM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: grip cddb config Lewis, James M. wrote: Thanks, but that doesn't seem to work for me.!? I'm at a loss as to why. more info

RE: Combining disks in one virtual partition.

2001-03-16 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Simmons-Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 11:48 AM To: Debian/Gnu Linux Subject: Combining disks in one virtual partition. Hello, My question for you all is whether or not you can join the partitions of several small

RE: grip cddb config

2001-03-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Eric G. Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 10:51 PM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: grip cddb config On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:22:57PM -0500, Lewis, James M. wrote: Does anyone have a grip configuration

grip cddb config

2001-03-14 Thread Lewis, James M.
Does anyone have a grip configuration for cddb that works? xmcd works but I can't seem to figure out exactly what I have to put into grip to make that one work. tia jim

RE: HP LJ III with Jet Direct and Linux

2001-03-05 Thread Lewis, James M.
I don't know if it can talk TCP or not. It's an internal card, and I can set which io port to use from the panel menu (Parallel, Serial, optional), but I haven't found out how to get to any kind of configuration menu for the card. I don't have any manuals for the card, but I do have one

RE: Help geting hP jetdirect printer to work with Debian

2001-03-02 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Known Human Nick Rusnov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 12:44 PM To: Stan Brown Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Help geting hP jetdirect printer to work with Debian In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]it was written: I;m

RE: HP LJ III with Jet Direct and Linux

2001-03-02 Thread Lewis, James M.
I have an old HP Laserjet III with an old JetDirect card in it that I have purchaed used. I have to use the parallel port to print to it, but would like to use the network card instead. It was configured and running on another network, and there is some info to that respect in the

RE: 2nd try, what is my problem with apt-get?

2001-02-28 Thread Lewis, James M.
I have a machine that I have upgraded from stable to testign, and installed the 2.4.3 kernel with kernel package on. Now apt-get is failing. See the error messages? Script started on Tue Feb 27 04:42:29 2001 debian:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb

RE: 2nd try, what is my problem with apt-get?

2001-02-28 Thread Lewis, James M.
On Wed Feb 28 09:08:22 2001 Lewis, James M. wrote... I have a machine that I have upgraded from stable to testign, and installed the 2.4.3 kernel with kernel package on. Now apt-get is failing. See the error messages? Script started on Tue Feb 27 04:42:29 2001

RE: Exceed 6.0 with Debian 2.2r2 and Windows95

2001-02-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
Dear Debian-Community, how do I setup Linux Debian 2.2r2, so that I can connect to it remotely using Hummingbird Exceed 6.0, running on a Win95-Box? I use exceed on nt all the time (required to use nt @work...). You can use any number of connection methods. Since I am on an

RE: Suggestions for and comments on trackballs?

2001-02-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
Greetings, all. Over the last several months, I've been having increasing pain in my right wrist. A co-worker suggested that this is due to problems with standard mice and recommended that I try a trackball instead. So, I'm looking for a trackball that will work well with potato/X.

RE: Emacs works differently within X and outside

2001-02-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
Alan == Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alan If I run emacs so that it creates an x-window to run in then Alan the behaviour is different. In this case DEL and BKSP both Alan work the same and delete the character to the left of the Alan cursor). Alan

Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
I have to upgrade and need comments on motherboards. The two I am considering most are the tyan tiger 133 (S1834) and the tyan tiger 100 (S1832). The s1834 is a little faster and uses the via apollo pro133a chipset. The s1832 uses the intel 440bx chipset. Any pros/cons welcome as well as

RE: Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
than the 1832 by $10 or so. My main concern is the via chipset. Do you have the optional isa slot? jim HTH, Brooks -Original Message- From: Lewis, James M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:43 AM To: debian-user (E-mail) Subject: Hardware

RE: gnome-terminal question

2001-02-13 Thread Lewis, James M.
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:09:24PM -0500, D-Man wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:19:20PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | hi | | | i was curious what needs to be done to get a remote host | (connected through ssh) to display the hostname and directory | in the titlebar of a

vfat file name gotcha

2001-02-02 Thread Lewis, James M.
I just got caught by a vfat property that I wasn't aware of. I know about not supporting certain file properties. I was not aware that you can't have 2 files of the same name except for upper/lower case differences. An example... cp MYFILE.txt myfile.txt /zip/ will result in only

RE: lpr(ng) not filtering through enscript for remote printer

2001-01-26 Thread Lewis, James M.
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:15:55PM -0500, Lewis, James M. wrote: If you make a small tst.c and: $ cat tst.c|/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter ~/me.ps lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ :lp=lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:rm=remoteprinter.lincrud:rp=hp:lpr_bounce: \ :sh:pw#80:pl#72

RE: lpr(ng) not filtering through enscript for remote printer

2001-01-25 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi, Normally, with magicfilter installed, printing out a .c file will give a two collumned small font sized landscape printout, because it uses enscript. If you make a small tst.c and: $ cat tst.c|/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter ~/me.ps $ gv me.ps you will see what I mean (and this

RE: wacky kernel question

2001-01-10 Thread Lewis, James M.
On Wed 10 Jan 01, 3:07 PM, Cliff Sarginson said... I am glad to see I am not the only oldie on the list :) Bring back paper tape and drum storage I say... in which case you should join the united states air force. computer operators are still being trained on papertape / card drives

RE: Oracle

2000-12-19 Thread Lewis, James M.
Greetings, We are currently in the process of setting up the curriculum for teaching the Oracle database system here at the University of Advancing Computer Technology. I feel that it would be a good idea to teach Oracle administration on some sort of UNIX platform, and I am very

Oracle8iR2 install problem on Debian potato

2000-11-27 Thread Lewis, James M.
I can't get oracle to install on a debian potato system. The problem is that the installer will not run. What I get is Initializing Java Virtual Machine from ../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expanded/linux/bin/jre. Please wait... (that should be one long line...) Then the

postfix problem with myorigin

2000-11-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
I seem to be having a problem with postfix. It changes the myorigin variable in the main.cf file. It doesn't matter what I set it to. When I start postfix, it gets changed to localhost. It even got added to the end of the main.cf file once. Anyone seen this before? How do I make it stop

RE: postfix problem with myorigin

2000-11-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
I seem to be having a problem with postfix. It changes the myorigin variable in the main.cf file. It doesn't matter what I set it to. When I start postfix, it gets changed to localhost. It even got added to the end of the main.cf file once. Anyone seen this before? How do I make it

RE: emacs without backup option

2000-11-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
Does someone know which option is regarded to avoid emacs from imediately creating a backup file by opening a new or any other file? I did read the man page, but unfortunatly was not able to find the appropiate parameter. I haven't tried it but there is a variable called

RE: jetdirect and lpr

2000-10-31 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hey Guys, I've just changed networks and was using lpr with a printer on the lan that was using jetdirect. I am now on a different network and have edited my /etc/printcap to point the remote printer to the new IP. The only thing is now when I print... nothing comes out on the printer. Am

RE: BIOS32 entry (0xc00fa000) in high memory, cannot use

2000-10-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: LTG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 2:35 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Installing LinkSys LNE100TX on Compaq Prolinea 590 I have been trying to install the latest GNU/Debian release (Linux version 2.2.17

RE: vim + printing = wretched output

2000-09-07 Thread Lewis, James M.
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:36:10AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:43AM -0500, William Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim? I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt file the

RE: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Lewis, James M.
-- From: Thomas Guettler[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: Thomas Guettler Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 8:47 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article On Wed, Aug 30,

RE: Seeking Linux drivers and hardware for Barcode readers

2000-08-25 Thread Lewis, James M.
Any one seen, heard of, any hardware and drivers or third party drivers for linux OS for barcode readers. The barcode readers we use aren't os specific. They are either keyboard wedges or serial devices. There are bunches to choose from. The ones I have used are from Allen-Bradley

RE: Login with user name in CAPS

2000-08-24 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi list, I just logged in with my user name accidentelly in CAPS and the system let me log in. More suprisingly, everything that is printed on the terminal is in CAPS, too, including everything I type in lower case. Escape sequences for colorizing the terminal don't work either. This

RE: Problem with Samba after upgrade to frozen

2000-07-18 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi, After upgrading to 'frozen' at the weekend, I can't get samba to work. Whenever anyone tries to connect, I get an error logged, complaining that samba can't change the group id (this is in /var/log/smb). It appears to be trying to change to the group of the user that is trying to

RE: Problem with Samba after upgrade to frozen

2000-07-18 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi, IIRC, that is a bug with the 2.0.x kernels and the newer samba. If you are running a 2.0.x kernel, try changing to a 2.2.x one. I am running a 2.0.x kernel. If it's as simple as that, then I'll certainly do it (one of the reasons for moving up to frozen was go use the 2.2 kernel

RE: Printing to a Hewlett Packard Jet Direct card

2000-05-24 Thread Lewis, James M.
To give you another way that works... I use lprng and this is how I have connected to an hp4k printer... tnp015|rm164_hp|Remote hp8kN(ps) printer :lp=tnp015.ten.alcoa.com%9100 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/tnp015 :mx#0 :sf :sh This is roughly equivalent to using the raw

RE: Reinitializing LPD

2000-05-24 Thread Lewis, James M.
I have been rebooting every time I edit /etc/printcap. I know there is a better way to reinitialize the LPD system. Can someone tell me what it is? use the startup files in /etc/init.d. cd /etc/init.d ./lprng restart or ./lprng stop ./lprng start There will be one of these for

RE: Making my vt320 useful

2000-05-16 Thread Lewis, James M.
Is your TERM variable set to vt320? There are also a bunch of wyse types. See /usr/lib/terminfo/v/* and /usr/lib/terminfo/w/*. (or /usr/share/terminfo/...) On other systems there is a file in /etc/ that specifies what kind of terminal is on which serial line (gettydefs or ttytype or something

RE: socket programming

2000-05-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
I am writing a server that accepts telnet connections. I am using basic sockets to do so and do not use inetd. I cannot figure out how to disable the echoing to screen for the password. I have tried everywhere else, this is my last resort. Brett I'm not quite sure what you are doing from

RE: install help with a SCSI CDROM on a 486

2000-04-14 Thread Lewis, James M.
I've been fighting this Debian install for 3 weeks and am about tired of it. If I don't get an answer here, then I am taking the damn CD to the skeet range. OK, here is what I got: Debian 2.1 bootable CD, official type that comes in the box, has the Debian tm logo on it and the O'Rielly

RE: [OT] C help plz..

2000-03-16 Thread Lewis, James M.
You could just do: fflush (stdout); /* clear the stream buffer */ write (1, myvar, 4); /* write binary to stdout */ jim Thanks. This is exactly what I want. I have thought about doing it this way, it is just that from memory, there is a libc function that does the equivalent.

RE: Cups 1.0.5

2000-03-07 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi Jim, Thanks for your reply. Can you tell me more about how you worked around it by changing some of the macros in the a2ps config files ? I changed a2ps-site.cfg in the following ways: change DefaultPrinter: | #{lp.default} to DefaultPrinter: | #{lp}mydefaultprintername

RE: Cups 1.0.5

2000-03-01 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi dear Debian gurus, I am a home user running slink (Debian 2.1). I've installed the cups 1.0.5 deb package which overwrites my original lprng package. But when I try to do lpr ~/.bashrc it says lpr: error -- no default destination avaiable I found that it would

RE: STILL Configuring x-windows for EGA- can anyone help with thi s?

2000-02-23 Thread Lewis, James M.
I run X on a 486/66 (40meg mem) all the time. It isn't as snappy as on a fast machine but it works just fine, thank you. Of course, you can't expect to run gnome or kde but fvwm does a very nice job. I have also run X on a 486/33 with 16 meg memory. It is slower but it also runs ok. Takes a

RE: PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-17 Thread Lewis, James M.
I had a similar problem with a pci scsi card in an old 486. It would not let me leave a blank pci slot. The card had to be installed next to the video card which was in the first pci slot. hth jim Would modprobe ne2k-pci io=0x300 irq=11 work when: cat /proc/io... -001f : dma1

RE: ftp, inetd.conf, potato

2000-02-11 Thread Lewis, James M.
I seem to recall that lots of services were broken out into their own packages. ftpd was one of those. There are at least 3 different ftpd packages. Just pick one and install it. rsh-client, rsh-server and others were in that group also. The list of what got broken out into separate packages

RE: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Lewis, James M.
It's an IDE Do you have more than one drive in the box? - Original Message - From: Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:49 PM Subject: Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help! Is

RE: problems with remote printing lpr

2000-01-28 Thread Lewis, James M.
I'm running slink on a x86 box with all the security y2k updates applied. I've got lprng (version 3.5.2-2), magicfilter (version 1.2-28), a2ps (version 4.10.4-4) and aladdin-gs (version 5.50-3) installed. The first problem I'm having is that when I print (lpr file), I'm not getting a

RE: Laptop loses display

2000-01-27 Thread Lewis, James M.
I installed frozen on a Micron Transport Xpe After the kernel boot messages finish displaying my display goes blank? Has anyone seen this before? Could it be the terminal setting? If I hook a monitor to the back port I can view on the monitor - but never the laptop display I

RE: Woody? when did this happen? - when stable must be used to install slink - details (and probable latent bug)

2000-01-27 Thread Lewis, James M.
From: Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel == Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel I don't know why Debian people can't understand that Daniel releases/versions also need to be accessible by names that Daniel _don't_ change. Why refer to in in

RE: Laptop loses display

2000-01-27 Thread Lewis, James M.
I found the video.S file in the kernel-source(gnna try 2.2.14), as to what I NEED to change I am clueless. Do you know where its docs are? No I am not running xdm - the display turns off after the kernel's md driver init and before the scsi init. Perhaps all I need to do is compile a

RE: potato mirror

2000-01-25 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi, I'm in the middle of mirroring the potato distribution and notice that there are about 300+ packages symlink to slink distribution. Does this mean that I need to mirror slink also? No. I used rsync and told it to follow the symlinks. I can get just potato and just i386.

RE: Weird Console Stuff

2000-01-24 Thread Lewis, James M.
I've been experiencing a very strange console problem. My keyboard seems to have the wrong keys bound. In X Windows, no problems. In console, 'cwalstrom' types out as 'czqlstro,'. Obviously, I cannot log on in console mode because I cannot predict which keys I have to depress to get the

RE: char-major-6

2000-01-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
What is char-major-6? Where do I find this information so I don't have to bother clueful people about it? TIA, Try /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt jim -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

gs/magicfilter on a hp lj3

2000-01-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
I need to make magicfilter (ljet3-filter) or gs leave a bit more left margin. The lj3 has about .25 in that can't be written on and the output gets cut a little. Does anyone know how to make gs and/or magicfilter leave more left margin? At the moment, I can use a2ps with the --margin option

RE: slink - potato

2000-01-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi, My box running slink here would like to do the potato upgrade but I'm concerned that it might run out of disk space: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda1 296633 24881332500 88% / /dev/hda3 675175

RE: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'

1999-12-22 Thread Lewis, James M.
aphro hat gesagt: // aphro wrote: netscape uses the command 'lp' to print..which does not appear to work at the command line..when i lp a file ..i get ..: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] lp notes.txt ; lpq request id is 638 Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'HP Deskjet 500' Queue: 1 printable

RE: FRN Fwd: Linux on RS6000 F40

1999-12-13 Thread Lewis, James M.
Someone recently asked this list about whether or not Debian/GNU Linux can be run on the IBM RS6000, but I cannot find the original post. ...from a friend of a friend (below), and thanks to Albert (who is an excellent UNIX systems admin.). Now we know. Art That was me. I was

rs6000/7013

1999-12-09 Thread Lewis, James M.
Does anyone know if an ibm rs6000/7013 is usable with debian? I tried to find it at linuxppc.org but it was not in the supported list and not in the unsupported list. The hardware howto is x86 only. Can anyone clue me in?? I know next to nothing about this box except that it is going to die

RE: lilo.conf for boot from hda and sda?

1999-12-09 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi, It would be nice if someone could help me on this: I have suse-6.3 om my hda and debian-2.2 on my sda. My bios supports booting from either one, by changing boot order. However, it would be very convenient to boot the other Linux version without changing the bios settings!

zip disk repair script (was Error messages using iomega zip)

1999-12-07 Thread Lewis, James M.
Someone wanted the script to repair a scsi zip disk. I sent it but noticed it didn't go to the list. ($%* exchange). Anyway, here it is for anyone else that might want it. It's crude but it works. jim ===repairzip == #!/bin/sh #

RE: printcap for JetDirect printer

1999-11-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
Can someone help mewith the proper printcap entries for a HP 4000TN (ps) hooked up with JetDirect? It will be my only printer. Here is my lprng printcap entry for an hp 8000 dn lp1|tnp015|rm164_hp|Remote printer entry :lp= :rm=tnp015 :rp=raw

RE: writting a Daemon in c

1999-10-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
I am writting a Daemon in c, I need to know how to disconnect the program from the terminal so that if that terminal is destoyed it will not cause my server to shutdown. I have done this with perl scripts, but can't not figure it out with c. Thanks in advance Evan. There is a very good

RE: xserver connection refused

1999-10-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
I have an xserver for windows on my winbox and I can connect to my debian system by: start xserver on windows box... telnet 'url-of-linux-box' login: password: xterm -display 'url-of-windows-box':0.0 ... now running But this doesn't work the other way. I get a 'connection

RE: Problem resolving $(hostname) with DHCP

1999-10-10 Thread Lewis, James M.
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 12:48:38AM +, Andre Majorel wrote: I've just moved to a site where they use DHCP with W95 clients. I've managed to configure my (and a colleague's) good ol' Hamm to insert in the network with dhcpcd 0.70-5 but some problems remain : From To Operation

RE: Can't print to remote printer

1999-10-08 Thread Lewis, James M.
I'm stumped. I'm trying to print to a remote printer (don't have a local one), and everything looks right according to the howtos tc. Here's my printcap: # REMOTE HP4 lp|hp4:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp4-raw:\ :rm=1the ip address of my printer:\ :rp=the name of my

RE: Job in queue on hold, but not job in queue. Huh?!

1999-09-17 Thread Lewis, James M.
I'm trying to set up printing on a Debian box to a remote printer. My printcap looks like: lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ :lp=/dev/null:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:rm=the_printer's_ip_address:rp=hp lj4l:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4l-filter:\

RE: [OT] How to make a critical section in user program?

1999-09-17 Thread Lewis, James M.
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 09:28:47AM -0700, Jerry Gardner wrote: Wojciech Zabolotny writes: Hi All! I have yet another real time question. Is it possible to make a part of my program a critical section, so that during execution of this part of code my program can not be

r utilities went missing

1999-09-13 Thread Lewis, James M.
What happened to in.rexecd (and the rest of them)? They used to be in netstd in slink. I upgraded this morning and they went missing. I got the Contents-i386.gz from potato and they were not in there. Were they dropped on purpose? split out into another package? When will they be restored?

RE: [Debian] Ethernet MACaddress constantly changing

1999-08-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
Do you use dhcp to get your address? If you do, the linux dhcpcd releases it each time you shutdown so every time you reboot you get a new ip-addr. MAC addr is another story. That should be fixed to the adaptor and never change. (Well, almost never. There are a few that have mac addresses that

RE: Potato broke my samba

1999-08-11 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi, I have just upgraded our server from slink to potato (I wanted the new exim amoungst other things). Now we cannot connect to samba. I have checked my smb.conf with the testparams, it all looks OK (and of course it was working with the previous version of samba that came with

RE: micron laptop install probe

1999-07-29 Thread Lewis, James M.
My boot from the rescue disk hangs after the md driver. This problem was discussed in Dec 1998 on this list, and a modified boot disk was posted as a fix, but which I can not find at present. Does anyone have this disk or some other way to solve the problem? Which micron do you have?

RE: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-19 Thread Lewis, James M.
running samba. I have heard of file system problems but haven't experienced anything like that. jim Lewis, James M. wrote: After upgrading my system to potato, my samba services no longer work. I get an error message saying that the password supplied is not valid. Everything worked

RE: Extra page in printer

1999-07-19 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi all, I have a problem when printing in my printer. All the times after I print in my printer, there is a page with the following names: User: Host: Class: Job: How do I

RE: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-18 Thread Lewis, James M.
After upgrading my system to potato, my samba services no longer work. I get an error message saying that the password supplied is not valid. Everything worked fine under slink. If I remember correctly, part of the instructions on the old setup was to remove password encryption so windows

RE: samba: anyone else get Can't become connected user! with potato version 2.0.4b-3 kernel 2.0.34?

1999-07-02 Thread Lewis, James M.
Yes. It happened to me on Wed. I'm using 2.0.36. I figured it was a blunder and would be replaced within a day or two. The version just before this one worked fine. jim -- From: Jens B. Jorgensen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 1:32 PM To:Debian Users Cc:

RE: Banner page (job)

1999-06-30 Thread Lewis, James M.
If it is *after* the job it is probably the printer network interface and not linux. I had a similar banner from a laserjet printer with an hp network interface in it. The fix is to telnet to the printer (yes, you can do that) and set the banner feature to off. There is a simple help screen. I

RE: kill the child process

1999-06-29 Thread Lewis, James M.
check out the man page for the kill system call. It's in section 2. You should have the pid since you started the child... jim -- From: Shao Zhang[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 1:12 AM To:Debian Mail List Cc:The recipient's address is unknown. Subject:

egcs problem

1999-06-28 Thread Lewis, James M.
from gcc -v gcc version egcs-2.91.66 Debian GNU/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release) toupper and tolower throw warnings (or not) depending on optimization. Compiling the following test program with: cc -Wall -ansi -pedantic -c junk.c will not give any errors. However, adding -O causes ansi

xserver host id ?? (del / backspace problems)

1999-06-22 Thread Lewis, James M.
I am having backspace/del problems with xterm. Things work out right on the debian server if erase = del. Things work out right on exceed with erase = backspace. What I am trying to do is put some commands in my .profile (or .bash_profile, or .bashrc) to set the erase char properly. So far, I

RE: cdrom - no response

1999-04-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
Try putting append=hdc=cdrom in /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo. I had problems with 2.0.33 and later 2.0.3x kernels thinking my cdrom was an atapi floppy. jim -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 8:09 AM To:debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc:

RE: cpu used too much

1999-03-05 Thread Lewis, James M.
zombie processes are the remains of a process that exited. The reason they hang around is that the parent process didn't do a wait on them. As soon as the parent process exits, the zombie should be inherited by init and init will clean them up. Zombie's don't use any cpu and they don't use any

RE: file creation dates and SAMBA

1999-03-05 Thread Lewis, James M.
It does that because that's the way windows works. The file creation times are kept on copy. Samba probably doesn't do anything. The copy program (xcopy, copy, explorer, etc.) probably sets the timestamp at the end of the copy. jim -- From: Pezo[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

RE: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Lewis, James M.
Just a guess. I think it sees the whole thing. Disk drive makers sometimes use 1000bytes as 1k, whereas, most folks use 1024. The disk folks think 1,000,000,000 bytes is 1G. Others think 1,073,741,824 bytes is 1G. 6 x 1G = 6,442,459,944 bytes. Which 6.4G if you use the 1000 for 1k base. It

RE: Mouse again!

1999-02-02 Thread Lewis, James M.
If you are using old hardware you might have a pci problem. I have an old gateway p4d-66. I can't leave any empty slots between cards and have things work right. In my case, it's an advansys pci scsi card. If there is an empty slot between it and my video card (in the first slot) then it will

RE: ATAPI CDROM problem (NEC-260)

1999-01-19 Thread Lewis, James M.
Starting sometime around 2.0.33 kernel, I have had to put append=hdc=cdrom in lilo.conf. My home system has both an internal zip and a cdrom. I have to use the append line whether there is a zip drive present or not. It just seems to get the cdrom wrong. Just give it a hint in lilo.conf and

RE: Advansys SCSI Iomega Jaz drives

1998-12-23 Thread Lewis, James M.
I have one of those advansys controllers sold by iomega. I only have an external zip on it so this may be off base. Try using ctrl-A during boot to go into the board bios setup. Then look at the termination. It should be under adaptor setup (I think). It's the first option. If you have both

zip disk eject (mzip)

1998-12-22 Thread Lewis, James M.
What's the trick to be able to use mzip as a user other than root? I have tried to set the suid and sgid bits as mentioned in the docs. That didn't work. I am using the version in slink on an up to date slink system. tia jim

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