Re: Silent Cron Jobs

2008-03-27 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/26/08, Curt Howland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to whip up a small cron job, I put a short script in /etc/cron.daily thinking that this would work. Well, yes, it works, but I get mail sent to me by cron explaining that the job executed successfully. That's odd, usually cron only

Re: DELL Inspiron 530N

2008-03-25 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/24/08, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/22/08, DebianMike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just received a Dell Inspiron 530N pre-installed with Ubuntu. I am now trying to figure out how to install debian on it. The system will boot from the CD-Drive but when the kernel takes over

Re: Sound problem in L35 Toshiba Satellite

2008-03-25 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/24/08, Rodrigo Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lspci detects an audio card but I am not sure it is the right one and it is not under multimedia but under Audio. I looked up the Toshiba Satellite L35, and apparently it has two sound cards. Very weird. I have compile from the sources

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-24 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/24/08, Sanjaya Vitharana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selecting 1024 x 768 75 Hz choosing Medium will end up with 1024 x 768 60 Hz. Now Desktop-Preferences-Screen Resolution has only 60 Hz option in dropdown for 1024 x 768. Blast it. Try installing gvidm, too. Try using the vesa driver,

Re: naive question: sshfs with negative niceness

2008-03-24 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/22/08, Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on my (little) cluster, I used sshfs to mount the `/home' directory on the worker nodes: is it possible (and recommended) to give a negative niceness to sshfs ? You can run: | nice -10 sshfs foo: /bar You should be fine. Tom -- To

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-23 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/22/08, Sanjaya Vitharana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not accurate. Your display's vertical refresh is 50-120 Hz, not 50-160. Thanks, I found the correct one as. http://www.viewsonic.com/support/desktopdisplays/crtmonitors/e2series/e50c/index.htm I have tried with

Re: How to set thunderbird to work with localmail

2008-03-22 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/22/08, Jabka Atu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello,.. How should i set Thunderbird to work with local mail : for instance Kmail know's how to access /var/mail/username and get messages from there. Hmm, it looks a little tricky, but

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/21/08, Sanjaya Vitharana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just trying to move my home desktop to Debian from Windows. As initial stage I'm trying with dual boot until I get used to Debian. But the problem is with gdm Display Properties. I can't get expected quality for 1024 x 768 resolution as

Re: Sound problem in L35 Toshiba Satellite

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/20/08, Rodrigo Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed DEBIAN ETCH on my Toshiba laptop. At the beginning I was able to handle the control volume but no sound came out of the speakers. So going through the web I started upgrading and downloading more packages and applications

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/21/08, Sanjaya Vitharana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After reading this mail I tried to start the X using startx (instead of gdm) it directly loged me as a root. But same effect, it only shows me 60/87 Hz for 1024 x 768 and previous problems are there. Yeah, startx is better for testing.

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/21/08, Michael Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tried merging a the CD's yet. I'm cleaning of a HD partition in preparation for my first attempt. Mean while I found a program APT-MOVE, anyone know about this? I haven't looked up any man pages on it yet, but I'm wondering if

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/21/08, Tom Goulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/21/08, Michael Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tried merging a the CD's yet. I'm cleaning of a HD partition in preparation for my first attempt. Mean while I found a program APT-MOVE, anyone know about this? I haven't looked

Re: kinit/resume - what's it mean? how to boot from failed sys??

2008-03-20 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/20/08, michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hands up to making a mistake - I've been trying to get my AMD64 Debian 'etch' box to recognise a Promise controller and thought that installing dmraid would help. I did a apt-get install dmraid and then rebooted... only to find it in BusyBox with

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-20 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead of all the CD's when installing

Re: wget's Great; Is there a wput?

2002-09-11 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
I need to upload a 700MB file to a remote Debian machine, and the network is iffy between here and there. Is there a counterpart to wget that will push a file and keep trying until all the pieces arrive? I will have to recommend: while ! rsync -vessh foo host: ; sleep 15 ; done -- Tom

Re: multiple x sessions?

2002-09-11 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
. That what you wanted? -- Tom Goulet mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UID0 Unix Consultingweb: em.ca/uid0/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multiple x sessions?

2002-09-11 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
xinit to specify a different window manager. xinit wmaker -- :1 subtly shows off his bias -- Tom Goulet mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UID0 Unix Consultingweb: em.ca/uid0/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: mtent warning - newbie

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
/ ext2errors=remount-ro 0 Are you sure you are copying all of it? Most of the lines are missing the last field. -- Tom Goulet mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UID0 Unix Consultingweb: em.ca/uid0/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Kernel Panic with 2.4.19-686

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Goulet (UID0)
the .config file for the kernel to find out, but it's a little cryptic. Uhm, that's probably not everything. -- Tom Goulet mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UID0 Unix Consultingweb: em.ca/uid0/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: package problems

2001-11-19 Thread Tom Goulet
it depends on g++ to configure. It would appear that they depend on each other to install completely but how do you get around this? You can specify both packages to be installed at once: dpkg --install package1 package2 -- TomG pgp8mw1L8Gjkg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: interfaces and ip addressing

2001-11-19 Thread Tom Goulet
I would like to know what file is used for setting up ip addresses and gateway. What about interfaces, how can I create more than 2 lan cards enable. Let say, I got 2 3com nics. The file is /etc/network/interfaces. See man interfaces for more information. In redhat, I used rpm. What pkg

Re: galeon

2001-11-19 Thread Tom Goulet
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:55:02PM +, ben wrote: which package is galeon stored in? i don't have it. what's the appropriate syntax to apt-get just that package? Galeon is not in stable. If you are using stable you will have to add some custom lines to /etc/apt/sources.list, install the

Re: apt-get question---

1999-12-07 Thread Tom Goulet
Where does apt-get download the files from? /etc/apt-get/sources.list man apt-get would have told you. TomG Tom -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null pgpPFJ4OK0vuH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ADSL

1999-12-06 Thread Tom Goulet
i am planning to go for ADSL bellsouth fastacess account. they are giving an internal pci adsl modem card. what are the linux compatible adsl cards? I don't think they make ADSL modem cards yet. (My ADSL modem is about as large as a kleenex box.) But they will probably give you an ethernet

init not working

1999-12-04 Thread Tom Goulet
Greetings all, My /sbin/init is not respawning processes (like gettys), and not acknowledging /sbin/init q or similar things. Many processes are defunct and zombied but not actually closing. Also, this has happened before but I dismissed it because of something else I was screwing around with

Re: init not working

1999-12-04 Thread Tom Goulet
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 10:34:53PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:33:14AM +, Tom Goulet wrote: Greetings all, My /sbin/init is not respawning processes (like gettys), and not acknowledging /sbin/init q or similar things. Many processes are defunct and zombied