Re: Log rotation

2003-04-01 Thread Rich Puhek
...log.1 from matching. This is where I run into the problem. The files do not have a .log extension. They are in the format of MM.DD. Then anchor appropriatelly: /var/log/samba/smb\.[0-9][0-9]\.[0-9][0-9]\.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] --Rich

Re: mkisofs problem with woody

2003-03-20 Thread Rich Price
Rob Sims wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2003 08:29 pm, Rich Price wrote: The command: mkisofs -r -graft-points \ -x /var/image\ -o /var/image/cdromimag1 \ primus/bin=/bin \ primus/boot=/boot\ primus/etc=/etc

mkisofs problem with woody

2003-03-19 Thread Rich Price
\ primus/var=/var works as expected and produces a useable image file. I have not been able to find out why this happens. I would appreciate any help with this problem. -- Rich Price -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Sendmail, TLS, and incorrect hostname

2003-03-12 Thread Rich Puhek
other switches I'll need. Is there a Debian-way to do this nice and cleanly? Has anyone else run into (and solved) the issue? Thanks for any ideas! --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. 2125 1st Ave East Hibbing MN 55746 tel: 218.262.1130

decrufting system files (e.g. GNOME files)

2003-03-02 Thread Rich Johnson
~450 of these cluttering /etc. Thanks --rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Disaster recovery

2003-02-28 Thread Rich Johnson
I kept digging; here's a script reporting modified .conf files. dpkg-query -W --showformat='${conffiles}\n' | gawk '{print $2 $1}' | md5sum -c It's only a partial solution, but it helps and resolves (2) below. Rich Johnson wrote: Yeah, this works, but it's not quite what I want. I'd

Re: About to go all Deb

2003-02-25 Thread Rich Rudnick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:11 am, Shri Shrikumar wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:24, John Anderson wrote: [...] Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and would appreciate thoughts and guidence. /boot

Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 10:29, Daniel Barclay wrote: Mike M wrote: Socrates was stagnant and resting on his society's laurels? Good teaching inspires creativity. I didn't say Socrates was stagnant. Truly off topic, but Socrates is not the best example of good teaching, unless you

Re: Upgrading to KDE 3.1

2003-01-29 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 11:39, Jeetu Golani wrote: Hey ppl, I have KDE 3.0.4 running at the moment, had installed the debs of this. I wanna upgrade to KDE 3.1. I've read that an apt-get upgrade doesn't do the trick and causes problems. Would appreciate if someone here could tell me what's

Re: Gnome2 / Apt messed up

2003-01-29 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 17:54, karrottop wrote: How would I be able to completely remove gnome and then reinstall? Does anyone know what packages have to go... 'apt-get remove libglib1.2 libglib2.0-0' then 'apt-get install gnome-core' should get you a minimal gnome2 reinstall. -- First

How to run KDM on VNC but not on console

2003-01-29 Thread Rich
Howdy, I have a server on which I want to grant some users access via VNC. I the README.inetd file showed how to run KDM on VNC. It's pretty slick! But whenever I start kdm, it starts X and displays It's prompt on tty1. I don't want KDM to run on the console. This is a server, and I like the

Re: Nautilus problems in latest upgrade of Sid

2003-01-22 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 19:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did an aptitude upgrade a few minutes ago got my self in sync with the latest debs in Unstable. 2 problems : 1. Nautilus refuses to start. Trying to launch it from the command line spews this error : nautilus:18756): Gtk-WARNING

Re: looking inside zip/tar files with nautilus2

2003-01-18 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Saturday 18 January 2003 10:41 am, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: I have: numenor# dpkg -l | grep nautilus ii libnautilus2-2 2.0.0-1Shared libraries that part of Nautilus (GNOM ii nautilus2 2.0.0-1file manager and graphical shell (GNOME2) ii nautilus2-data 2.0.0-1

Re: Re: Can't boot Kernel panic: No init found -- partially solved

2003-01-13 Thread Rich
way to do it? I've got a log of most of the updates I've done. Thanks again, Rich B Original post: I can no longer boot my Sarge laptop. Here are the last few lines of boot up: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel momory 208k freed kernel panic: No init

Can't boot Kernel panic: No init found

2003-01-10 Thread Rich
'init=/sbin/init' and 'init=/bin/bash'. No dice. Booting older kernels gives the same results. I've booted with my recovery CD and fsck'ed my file system. No problems found. I've confirmed that init exists and executes. I'm stumped. HELP Thanks, Rich B. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: dual-boot redhat/debian

2003-01-09 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thursday 09 January 2003 05:33 pm, Robert Storey wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 07:42:15 -0500 Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ignoring, for the moment, why I would do such a thing, I want to set up a machine (laptop) to dual-boot both Redhat 8.0 and Debian (testing/unstable mix).

Re: [users@httpd] img src=my web address/photo.jpg not work

2002-12-22 Thread Rich Bowen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, eric lin wrote: No perl, in IE or netscape's URL, is I type http://www.linuxspice.com/case0.jpg I can see my photo but my html.index of C:\apach2\htdocs\ or /var/www/index.html if I have a line table border=0

Re: sync root passwords?

2002-12-16 Thread Rich Puhek
, and eliminate the -e. --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. 2125 1st Ave East Hibbing MN 55746 tel: 218.262.1130 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Looking for a Web link checker that understands https/ssl

2002-12-13 Thread Rich
Subject says it all. Thanks, richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Fried motherboard

2002-12-10 Thread Rich Puhek
the normal voltage into the regulator/switching portion of the supply, which can be very bad. --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. 2125 1st Ave East Hibbing MN 55746 tel: 218.262.1130 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: spamassassin installation help

2002-12-10 Thread Rich Puhek
edge. See the SA archives for details. --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. 2125 1st Ave East Hibbing MN 55746 tel: 218.262.1130 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: spamassassin installation help

2002-12-10 Thread Rich Puhek
, but wouldn't have done that on the mailserver itself. --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. 2125 1st Ave East Hibbing MN 55746 tel: 218.262.1130 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Today's Evolution

2002-12-04 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 19:51, Oki DZ wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:18:38PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: I had this problem when evo 1.2 first appeared in sid. I'd built evo snapshots and gtkhtml1.1 from source, and when I removed my build, I missed gtkhtml1.1-editor in /usr/local/bin

Re: Today's Evolution

2002-11-28 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 23:10, Oki DZ wrote: Hi, I just downloaded Evolution. My system is Sid. Evolution could only run up into the main window. When I tried to send an email, it complained about the unavailability of gtkhtml1.1; which in fact I have it. Do you have any problems with Sid's

Re: Package deity no more available?

2002-11-27 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 04:29, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:49:39PM +0800, Stephan Broennimann wrote: I can't find the package deity anymore? Does it no more exist? It was far too buggy and wasn't getting fixed, so it was removed. Consider using aptitude instead. I use

Re: Standard vs NONUS CD???

2002-11-15 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 00:19, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 14:55 2002-11-14 -0600 hat John Hasler geschrieben: Edward Guldemond writes: With software patents, distributing this software could be considered illegal to distribute in the United States. Fetching it from outside of the US is

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 10:22, Craig Dickson wrote: Colin Watson wrote: You explain to the common man not to use unstable. :) It *certainly* shouldn't have broken in the first place, but accidents happen. If one doesn't have enough system administration experience to cope with this

Re: ppp0 surveyer gnome applet? or some sort of script drivenstatus displayer?

2002-10-14 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 01:46, Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello! lately my internet connection through ADSL became really flakey, and i am not allways aware when the connection drops or is up... thus i would like to have some sort of status display somewhere... since i nearly don't use the

Re: ppp0 surveyer gnome applet? or some sort of script drivenstatus displayer?

2002-10-14 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 01:46, Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello! lately my internet connection through ADSL became really flakey, and i am not allways aware when the connection drops or is up... thus i would like to have some sort of status display somewhere... since i nearly don't use the

Re: Odd Path issue

2002-09-26 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 12:09, nate wrote: KentTest, it reports the expected /usr/local/bin/KentTest. However, if I run KentTest, I get bash: /home/westk/bin/KentTest: No such file or directory. If I log out and then log back in, I can run KentTest and it prints the message as

Re: Lost my viewports in sawfish!

2002-06-29 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 11:48, Steve Juranich wrote: rant nostrils=flared hands=ClenchedFist Okay, this whole GNOME2 crap has _GOT_ to stop. I'm really starting to get pissed off. I'll probably end up pinning my distro to testing if this goes on much longer. /rant It's bad enough that the

Re: Jumping through audio hoops after boot.

2002-06-26 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 10:15, Steve Juranich wrote: I'm the kind of guy who turns off his machine at night (mostly because the wife is worried about electric bills, though). After I boot up the machine, I can't play any sound until I first start gmixer (I've tried using amixer instead,

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 22:00, Chris Gushue wrote: Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: I use either zless (just like I would have used 'less' if it wasn't compressed) or more often 'view' (vim in read-only mode; vim6 automatically decompresses .gz files). I'm pretty sure that Vim 5.x (5.6? 5.7?)

Re: which prog to configure keyboard

2002-06-13 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 09:10, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:56:34AM -0700, Wm. G. McGrath wrote: Willy Sutrisno wrote: I like to change my keyboard from 101 to 106, I remember debian ask me about what keyboard I am using. But I don't know the name of the program. I

Re: OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-11 Thread Rich Puhek
(or a fiber card for a router or switch), and you're set. As a further bonus, you'll easily be able to upgrade to higher speed networking between the ethernets just by replacing the equipment on each end. --Rich _ Rich

Re: OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-11 Thread Rich Puhek
at a higher layer. I'm a test engineer by trade, not a communications engineer, so my explanation may be a bit off. Anyone have a copy of IEEE 802.3 laying around? I assume that deals with this problem in more detail. --Rich

Re: gedit

2002-06-10 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 11:18, ben wrote: i like gedit a lot but in the default state of the most recent debian version, 0.9.6, it doesn't display--in the open dialog--files or directories whose names begin with a dot. anyone know how to modify this? ben I just type a dot in the dialog box,

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Rich Puhek
appear. But I thought that the RTC was ignored after boot? If so, a bad RTC would explain a clock that comes up bad on boot every now and then, but not why a running system would suddenly shift time. --Rich _ Rich

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-06 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 05:37, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:24:27AM +0200, Ivo Wever wrote: involving elderly disabled people, to support Debian. I guess we should rethink Debian if it turned out some neo-nazi group used our software on their servers? Godwin's Law; end of

RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

2002-05-31 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 08:29, Jeremy Turner wrote: I could be wrong (I often am), but try: apt-get install gnome-session This should get you something. In your .xsession, put the line 'gnome-session'. Maybe someone with more experience can let us know the more preferred way? I just

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-23 Thread Rich Puhek
to produce the familiar bubbles. -- Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: mixture of regular debian libs and ximian gnome libs

2002-05-19 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 14:15, Josef Oswald wrote: First thanks for responding, now after I run this command I've got _lots_ of ximian packages, how do I remove them ( I know that with apt-get remove package a single package can be removed But a whole Bunch of them? I've been running

Re: Linksys NC100 network card

2002-05-05 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 22:21, Dr. Louis A. Turk wrote: Hi, Is there a Debian Linux driver for the Linksys Model NC100 v2 10/100 Network Card? Or should I buy a different card? If I need a different card, what is the best and easiest-to-install card? I use that card with the tulip

Re: devfs joystick question

2002-05-05 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 04:31, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: Just what *is* the path to the joystick device in /dev under devfs? I do have my modules installed for it and everything, though I compiled them post-reboot... please, please, someone answer this :) pretty please? -- First

Re: how to configure adsl?

2002-05-01 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 20:51, andrej hocevar wrote: Hello, I'm helping a friend configure his first Debian/Linux box. He's got adsl access to the internet but I don't really know what it is -- if I'm not mistaken, he needs kernel 2.4 with pppoe support and the pppoe programs (pppoe, pppoeconf,

Re: Repartitioning/Reinstalling

2002-04-25 Thread Rich Johnson
on how to specify and automate thi step. e. painless upgrade path. --rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie and scan attack

2002-04-25 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 12:04, craigw wrote: Okay, here's the kicker question: How can I, as a newbie, track this down and root it out, and clean my system? Also, is there a way I can do it without spending days at it, learning? Sounds like you don't have a lot of free

Re: Sendmail: to recompile or not recompile

2002-04-24 Thread Rich Puhek
that you have a virtusertable. The Debian way will create a makefile (assuming you have the relevant entries in your sendmail.mc file) allowing you to just make in your sendmail dir when updating files... --Rich _ Rich

Re: SCSI Tape Device

2002-04-23 Thread Rich Johnson
backing up the internal disks, but the system hung when backing up the outboard disks. A workaround was to reconfigure--I put all disks on the internal SCSI and isolatied the tape drive on the external SCSI. --rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Repartitioning/Reinstalling

2002-04-23 Thread Rich Johnson
are: Is this feasable? How do I do Steps 34? Which /var/lib or /var/cache files do I need to save for the new installation? Which commands do I need to read-up on to effect the re-installation of the .debs? Thanks, --rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: [Question] Harddisk Error!!! - damage

2002-04-15 Thread Rich Puhek
to the shutdown command. --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Maildir performance mutt (was Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt)

2002-04-12 Thread Rich Puhek
for the host status directory... that's another area that gets a large number of files, and I don't care if it gets corrupted (worst case I'll just wipe it out and let it re-populate). --Rich _ Rich Puhek

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 00:35, ben wrote: On Wednesday 10 April 2002 11:54 pm, Simon Hepburn wrote: ben wrote: thanks for the input. so, on attachments, none? some? If I'm helping people out with, say X problems for example, I'd far prefer to see their config and log files as attachments

Re: mail rules (WAS Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks)

2002-04-11 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 10:15, Daniel Toffetti wrote: 4. Spell check. i think stipulating a spell check would impose too much on many non-native english speakers whose participation on this list is very valuable, snip The spellchecker is pretty, but hardly useful enough as to require

Re: Potato vs. Woody

2002-04-11 Thread Rich Puhek
problems (had one box with an old-format /etc/lilo.conf file that caused me some difficulty when I rebuilt the kernel, but that's about it). Security holes shouldn't be an issue... you're dealing with the newest software. What issues did your friend have? Good luck! --Rich

Re: [HELP] RAID5 IN DEBIAN

2002-04-02 Thread Rich Puhek
+Root+Raid+LILO-3.html http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue17/raid.html Very Thanks -- Do you want to do software RAID 5 or hardware RAID 5? that will make a big difference in the necessary approach. --Rich

Upgraded to kernel 2.4.18, and pcmcia cards no longer work.

2002-03-29 Thread Rich Warren
the little penguine icon in the upper left corner). This doesn't happen when I boot from either of the hard drive images. Any suggestions? Thanks, -Rich- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mistake: apt-get and debian 2.2 - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Rich Puhek
Heh... This should lead to an even-tempered discussion. --Rich Jonathan Tabaco wrote: UNSUBSCRIBE Sorry to all those who are inconvenienced by this but I have tried multiple times to get removed from the mailing list. I even sent in the confirm CONFIRM u03180819391769 PLEASE

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-22 Thread Rich Puhek
(if you install a lot of stuff that's not under apt's control). --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _

Re: ext3 not mounting (ghost mounts created)

2002-03-15 Thread Rich Puhek
/local/some which had directories path/ foo/ and bar/? etc. etc. when you manually remounted your spool and log partitions, you had a mounted and running /var partition, that's why remounting manually cleared that up... --Rich

Re: File permissions on nfs mounted directory (Woody)

2002-03-14 Thread Rich Puhek
an additional daemon (whose name escapes me) to handle mapping the client's UID to the server's. ugidd is the daemon IIRC. I'm surpried it works as root... must have no-root-squash set. --Rich _ Rich Puhek

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Rich Puhek
there. --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _

Re: /tmp size

2002-02-27 Thread Rich Puhek
that /tmp was 50mb? It may be a seperate partition, use mount, or df -h to find out. See if xcdroast will allow you to specify where to put the temp files. That may do it for you. No, it is not your swap partition, your swap partition won't show up in your file lists. --Rich

Re: 3c509 setup disk?

2002-02-25 Thread Rich Puhek
have to, similar to the config program that used to ship with those cards. Might be necessary if you've got a '509 sitting around, and have no idea if it's set to the typical IRQ 10/IO 0x300 (well, typical in the DOS 6.22/Win3.11 setups we were doing way back when) or not. --Rich

Re: (OT) chicago

2002-02-22 Thread Rich Puhek
Mark S. Reglewski wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:25:02PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote: I do love driving the Chicago area freeways though. Watch Road Warrior before you go and you'll be ready for the evening traffic. Nothing like following someone doing 85 on 355 (speed limit supposedly

Re: (OT) chicago

2002-02-21 Thread Rich Puhek
on the right. Just make sure you've got a lot of quarters (or get Ipass). --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _

Re: strange vi

2002-02-19 Thread Rich Puhek
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:44:03 -0600 Rich Puhek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Is is console or xterm? What's the value of $TERM? either console or SSH session. $TERM is vt100. Looked at my termcap, which seems to match what I had before

Re: strange vi

2002-02-19 Thread Rich Puhek
guys must have their left thumb on the wrong side of their hand or something... hitting that darn key all the time :-) --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _

Re: Latest *stable* 2.4.x kernel ?

2002-02-19 Thread Rich Puhek
. I'd suggest investigating if your particular Promise card can be compiled into the 2.2.x kernel. If not, might be best to apt-get dist-upgrade to woody, then install 2.4.17 kernel. --Rich _ Rich Puhek

Re: strange vi

2002-02-18 Thread Rich Puhek
the original question: how does one get nvi to recognize the arrow keys? Things worked fine until I upgraded to woody, now nvi isn't playing nice. All the man page has to say is The cursor arrow keys should work, too. anyone with any ideas? --Rich

Re: strange vi

2002-02-18 Thread Rich Puhek
Ron Johnson wrote: Is is console or xterm? What's the value of $TERM? either console or SSH session. $TERM is vt100. Looked at my termcap, which seems to match what I had before. --Rich _ Rich Puhek

libmng dependency tangle

2002-02-17 Thread Rich Johnson
package? I can only purge items which are in use!!? Is the rationale for this non-intuitive behavior published anywhere? And most importantly, how do I get out of this mess? Thanks --rich -- Script started on Sun Feb 17

Re: libmng dependency tangle

2002-02-17 Thread Rich Johnson
Martin Wuertele wrote: Hi Rich! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Rich Johnson wrote: (Reading database ... 22636 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libmng (from .../libmng_0.9.3-0.potato.3_powerpc.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmng_0.9.3-0.potato

Re: Need help setting up Xserver

2002-02-13 Thread Rich Johnson
Elizabeth Barham wrote: Rich Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey folks-- I need some help setting up an Xserver on an older Mac. The machine is a stock PowerMac 8500 with 172MB memory and has a clean woody install. Does anyone have an XFree86Config for this such a machine

Re: Need help setting up Xserver

2002-02-13 Thread Rich Johnson
Günter Knab wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 06:06:39PM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: I need some help setting up an Xserver on an older Mac. *snipped** May be 'xf86config' works for you if your hardware is in the database. There were no obvious choices for keyboard (ADB, macintosh-extended

Need help setting up Xserver

2002-02-12 Thread Rich Johnson
Hey folks-- I need some help setting up an Xserver on an older Mac. The machine is a stock PowerMac 8500 with 172MB memory and has a clean woody install. Does anyone have an XFree86Config for this such a machine? There's likely to be other stuff which needs tweaking as well. Thanks-- --rich

Re: Where'd as go?

2002-02-09 Thread Rich Johnson
Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 01:34:15PM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: I've got a new powerpc woody system up and running, but I cant compile because ...cannot exec 'as': No such file or directory. Contents-powerpc tells me the assember should be part of devel/binutils

Re: Where'd as go?

2002-02-09 Thread Rich Johnson
Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 12:43:30PM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: Colin Watson wrote: I've checked binutils_2.11.92.0.12.3-6_powerpc.deb, and it does indeed contain /usr/bin/as. This wouldn't be something screwing up $PATH, perhaps? I must be missing something here

Where'd as go?

2002-02-08 Thread Rich Johnson
the installation? Or is there an alternate assembler I should be using? Thanks, --rich

boostrapping woody on PowerMac

2002-01-30 Thread Rich Johnson
: chroot /target dpkg error when installing the base system? I'm using boot-floppies 3.0.18. --rich

Re: dselect

2002-01-20 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 21:00, Asura wrote: Why in back ground. APT system run by dselect Pet peeve: apt has nothing to do with the questions that are asked while upgrading packages. asks question unless you set debconf to assume yes to all etc. Even then you'll have to pass

Re: dselect

2002-01-20 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 22:16, Rich Rudnick wrote: On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 21:00, Asura wrote: I hate replying to myself, but after reading David Maze's last post I realized I forgot something important :\ If I understand correctly, what might work for you is a three step process I have used

Re: Canon BJC-250

2001-12-26 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 16:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Jack Dodds wrote: How can I configure it to print to my old Canon BJC-250 through a standard (non-ECP) parallel port? apt-get install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-pstoraster cupsomatic-ppd Or replace

Re: Converting between maildir and mbox

2001-12-21 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 20:05, Craig Dickson wrote: Or, if you already have procmail set up, just adjust it for the new format, then pipe your old mail into it. Actually, I'm not sure that will work with an mbox file as input, because procmail might prefer to be invoked once per message (?).

OT: supressing line noise

2001-12-06 Thread Rich Rudnick
$150. rich -- first impressions are bunk (unknown)

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-23 Thread Rich Puhek
big deal, but then again, might be interesting to see how performance is with Debian on PPC. --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _

Re: Advice on aacraid, Dell 1U server

2001-11-21 Thread Rich Puhek
may not be that concerned. Thanks for any help. Rory -- Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Rich Puhek
multiple copies isn't a huge deal. You could even keep common files in export/etc and have the individual client directories contain symlinks (er... or would it need to be hard links... getting ahead of myself) to them, easing the burden of common configuration. --Rich David Wright wrote: Several

Re: proper format for /etc/networks

2001-11-19 Thread Rich Puhek
routing table, you'll see the word localnet. Snort shouldn't care about this... look at the DEBIAN_SNORT_HOME_NET option in /etc/snort/snort.conf for defining your home network. Other snort options are similar (and more flexible, since snort knows about subnet masks). --Rich nate wrote: whats

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-19 Thread Rich Puhek
to start from a certain point in an explanation to be certain everyone's on the same page... That's also very handy for others following along in the list or in the archives of a list. --Rich Adam Warner wrote: On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 14:35, nate wrote: Adam Warner said: Hi all, I've come

Newbie with apt-get problem

2001-11-17 Thread rich
-14_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Any clues? I'm not able to install anything at this point... Thanks, Rich

RE: About the i586 / i386 ' optimized releases ' differences ?

2001-11-16 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 10:08, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: | | linked code). (Does anyone have benchmark results?) If I remember | | correctly, it is debian policy to use '-g' and then strip non-library | | binaries. I'm sure I'll get howls for suggesting it, but I think that | | the policy

Re: Making a TCP or UDP or Unux Socket Server Listen on a port

2001-11-15 Thread Rich Puhek
see something on port 9889? If so, look at how the client is contacting it. If not, your server program isn't binding to a socket. see man 2 socket, man 7 socket, and a bunch of other man pages for further information. --Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having Server Programs (for TCP,UDP

Re: Unable to remove mysql-server.

2001-11-15 Thread Rich Puhek
I've had similar problems before. I got around them by creating the following /etc/init.d/mysql (or whatever...) file: #!/bin/sh exit 0; That way, the removal script is happy. The same trick works for upgrades as well. --Rich Chrys wrote: Hi, I tried to uninstall mysql-server

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-11-14 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 09:04, Tim Dijkstra wrote: Hi, (I'm not sure if this is on topic, but hey, I'am debian-user...) I used to use netscape's messenger to read my mail, but I've had it with that one. Then I tried pine for a while, but I'm not sure about that one either. So I thought

Re: Raid adaptec 2100S

2001-11-07 Thread Rich Puhek
Not out of the box. You'll need to create a custom boot floppy for the install. If I can ever find mine, I'll post an image, but I lost the darn thing in the blizzard of paper on my desk. Once you get it running, things work great from what I've seen. --Rich Hi im not on this list but im

Re: [debian-user] install with 3 partitions

2001-11-02 Thread Rich Puhek
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Re: kdm gdm + woody

2001-10-26 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 22:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'cause you're not supposed to login as root. You're not supposed to run a window manager or a desktop or any of that stuff. See 'man su' and 'man sudo' for better alternatives. So who was the idiot genius that thought that one up.

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-25 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 13:20, Erik Steffl wrote: I used to use aptitude this way: u (to update package list) g (to see what's going to happen) g (to make it happen) now it doesn't work (the actions are a lot different from what apt-get dist-upgrade would do) what's the

Re: deb files maintenance - Dependency overview

2001-10-25 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 14:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all. My debian distribution grew kinda big 1.2G. I know I'm not using a lot of what I have installed. Now, due to a number of interdependecies I would like to look at dependency tree of all deb files and pick out those branches

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