Re: CD-ROM Problem

1997-12-16 Thread Carey Evans
that would fit on a desk. (I've still got that ZX81 - broken - in the bottom of a drawer.) OTOH, an AS/400 would fit on a desk, but it wouldn't leave much space. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc As a concept, virtual reality seems to appeal

Re: Image Sound

1997-12-17 Thread Carey Evans
... on it as root. Then read the copyright in /usr/doc/xv to see *why* it's in non-free. [2 text/html; us-ascii (7bit)] Is this really necessary? -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc As a concept, virtual reality seems to appeal

Re: xdm....HELP!!!!!!???????

1997-12-17 Thread Carey Evans
should also be able to log on using [F1] after the password insted of [Enter], which will pop up a single xterm without running your .xsession. Actually, I *never* log in to X as root, but just use `su'. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc As a concept

Re: NFS on Linux 1.3

1997-12-20 Thread Carey Evans
Networking Client to access files and printers on the Linux server via the Notwork Neighbourhood. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc A B C D E F G H I J K M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: kernel module question

1997-12-20 Thread Carey Evans
the dependency. I suppose you could edit /lib/modules/2.0.32/modules.dep after depmod creates it, and add the dependencies yourself. I'd like something in /etc/conf.modules, but I don't see anything. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc A B C D E F G H I J K M N O

shared memory value was: Re: /usr full !?

1997-12-20 Thread Carey Evans
libc. If I run 60 sleeps (along with X, XEmacs, Netscape, etc.), the shared memory exceeds the total memory. (Which really stuffs up xosview 1.4.1's display.) -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc A B C D E F G H I J K M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Re: compiling autofs

1997-12-20 Thread Carey Evans
. Comment it out again and it should compile. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc A B C D E F G H I J K M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: cdrom problem

1998-01-18 Thread Carey Evans
. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: gcc 2.8.0 and friends

1998-01-18 Thread Carey Evans
. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Remote X-term

1998-01-18 Thread Carey Evans
on the real machine. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Remote X-term

1998-01-19 Thread Carey Evans
. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Updating the kernel

1998-01-19 Thread Carey Evans
/src.) cd to /usr/src/linux or /usr/local/src/linux, run make xconfig, then use kernel-package to make yourself a nice kernel .deb. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Fast Network Terminal Graphics (gnuplot)

1998-01-19 Thread Carey Evans
\ CtrlKeyF11:set-terminal-type(tek) \n\ CtrlKeyF12:set-terminal-type(vt100) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: *-* auto-upgrade from rex to hamm

1998-01-21 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: does rex = rexx (script language found in OS/2 amongst others) As others have pointed out, no. But REXX == Regina, a package in to-be-2.0. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always

Re: Upload files via web browser

1998-01-21 Thread Carey Evans
. ISTR all the necessary documentation comes with CGI.pm. For Debian 1.3, install CGI-modules and libwww-perl. The modules are part of Perl 5.004 in hamm. (This is all IIRC and IMHO, BTW.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source

Re: logging into Winnt from linux

1998-01-22 Thread Carey Evans
*your* resources with your workgroup.) If you compile the kernel with SMBFS support, you can mount the files off your server or any Win95 PC with TCP/IP enabled. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always

Re: Q: Booting Tektronix Xterminal from Linux Box.

1998-01-24 Thread Carey Evans
there, but I think they're all there. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: would like to use qmail on debian box and got bo running on a hinote ultra 2

1998-01-26 Thread Carey Evans
;; 100 | 64 | 65 | 70 | 6 | 77 | 78 | 112) exit 100 ;; *) exit 111 ;; esac - -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: default xterm

1998-01-26 Thread Carey Evans
. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Help serial port communication

1998-01-28 Thread Carey Evans
. Although it describes *how* to do it, it's a bit short on what and why. You could try looking at the source for things like minicom, dip and pppd. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: IP_ALIAS problem

1998-01-28 Thread Carey Evans
0 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 02 lo [etc.] I don't actually have any other computers on the network ATM to test it properly. Did you use kernel-package to recompile and install? Can you try running depmod -a? -- Carey Evans http

Re: Network interface card for Linux

1998-01-28 Thread Carey Evans
similar when sompiling modules separately, but the instructions with the module should be enough. I can't recommend any card myself, but I have had 3Com cards recommended to me. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always

Re: Help serial port communication

1998-01-29 Thread Carey Evans
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Carey Evans wrote: [...] I think it's generally necessary to do O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK to open a disconnected serial port, then set CLOCAL with termios, and finally turn off O_NONBLOCK with fcntl. Of course, for just setting the speed it should

Re: Nedit hangs system

1998-01-31 Thread Carey Evans
, for example. I had problems with a statically linked Mosaic 2.7b5 grabbing the focus like this in certain conditions, involving the right mouse button menus. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: acct bug?

1998-01-31 Thread Carey Evans
, for a system that isn't turned on at 6:42 am. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: strange samba error message: corrupt IPC area - remove it!

1998-01-31 Thread Carey Evans
Samba is using. Then type ipcrm shm id where id is from the output of ipcs. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-02-01 Thread Carey Evans
don't have the URL handy. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ae don't accept arrow keys

1998-02-01 Thread Carey Evans
on it though. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-02-02 Thread Carey Evans
. This can be a very small partition. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: PPP daemon

1998-02-04 Thread Carey Evans
compile options but haven't installed the new modules that go with it. If you did it yourself, you need to select PPP when you configure it, and do make modules_install. IMHO it's easier using kernel-package. Are you using the kernel and modules that the install procedure used? -- Carey

JetDirect printing Re: none

1998-02-04 Thread Carey Evans
just keep quiet about things I know nothing about... Nah.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: web forms killing ppp!

1998-02-05 Thread Carey Evans
does your ISP use? FWIW, I seem to be having a problem like this with my USR Sportster Voice 56K. It only happens irregularly though. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: xterm: no available ptys

1998-02-05 Thread Carey Evans
to communicate with some other programs as well as gnuserv. Next time it happens, you could try M-x list-processes in Emacs, and (as root): # fuser -v /dev/tty[pqrs]* The latter will list which processes have which ptys open. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans

Re: [Q] Multi-instalation procedure?

1998-02-05 Thread Carey Evans
up 100 Alphas to do the effects for Titanic, they wrote a script. I the second example, you'll probably also need to re-run LILO. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: Install CD rom drive

1998-02-05 Thread Carey Evans
IDE interface. Do you have a spare controller, or space for a second drive on your IDE controller? -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: Question re: splitting files

1998-02-07 Thread Carey Evans
... -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Monolith DynDNS + ip-up

1998-02-07 Thread Carey Evans
/mlddc 21 to make sure that mlddc finds the file. (And so that only one fork/exec is needed by reordering the redirections.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

/dev/cdrom was: none

1998-02-07 Thread Carey Evans
packages. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: kernel v2.0.32 make

1998-02-08 Thread Carey Evans
somewhere? -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ppp connection newbie

1998-02-08 Thread Carey Evans
to find out about this file. Also have a look at the documents in /usr/doc/ppp/. To see how things are going, add debug to /etc/ppp.options_out and look at /var/log/syslog to see what's happening. Once you seem to have a connection, try something like ping 146.7.2.2 to check. -- Carey Evans

Re: teTeX and \noindent

1998-02-09 Thread Carey Evans
for quotes that open a chapter... Can you mail me some code that demonstrates the problem, and tell me what to look for, so I can check the latest Debian version? -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Using mgetty automated callback, and the NO CARRIER message.

1998-02-09 Thread Carey Evans
options control whether a modem hangup should be considered as an error or not. This option is useful in scripts for dialling systems which will hang up and call your system back. The HANGUP options can be ON or OFF. Does this work? -- Carey Evans

Re: libc5 (not libc6) by default? (was: CDE)

1998-02-11 Thread Carey Evans
a problem with the Debian packages of fvwm2 and other programs a few months ago. I don't know how you'll get it to load libc5 by default; I haven't had this problem. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always

Re: UPS again

1998-02-11 Thread Carey Evans
of the controller software to try out. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Compiling w/shadow support

1998-02-11 Thread Carey Evans
be very few packages you need to do this for. Is this plain Debian 1.3.1? but when the make gets down to the -lshadow area, ld dies with the old: ld: cannot open -lshadow: No such file or directory Try leaving it out, or using -lcrypt. The latter is for libc6, IIRC. -- Carey Evans

Re: rpc.portmap, ethernet-card prob

1998-02-11 Thread Carey Evans
devices, in any case. (BTW, I think your '?' key is sticking.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: Printers and printing

1998-02-11 Thread Carey Evans
? You should be able to print to an HP LaserJet with this anyway. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

Re: Modem

1998-02-11 Thread Carey Evans
/0setserial. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

zip disks Re: PPP problems still

1998-02-12 Thread Carey Evans
-1.deb is in a more usable form. Or even something like backup-incr-19980201-19980212.tar.gz. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: Compiling w/shadow support

1998-02-12 Thread Carey Evans
they need the password. It might be an option in the Makefile. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: INFO - HTML

1998-02-12 Thread Carey Evans
. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: X Windows

1998-02-12 Thread Carey Evans
had to do it, with either the 3.2 S3V server or the 3.3 or 3.3.1 SVGA servers. (However, the S3V server did lock up occasionally when restarting, so maybe I should have tried it.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you

Re: PS/2 Mouse problem

1998-02-12 Thread Carey Evans
. /dev/psaux, like the name of the module. You can also find this in section 3.6 of the Busmouse-HOWTO. [2 text/html; iso-8859-1 (quoted-printable)] This is completely unnecessary, and quite annoying. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL

Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)

1998-02-12 Thread Carey Evans
the file with NONBLOCK set in expect (see man 3tcl open): set tty [open /dev/ttyS0 {RDONLY NONBLOCK}] exec stty 115200 -echoe -echo raw @ $tty close $tty -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always

Re: limiting user access

1998-02-13 Thread Carey Evans
probably want to run something like tmpreaper to keep it clean too. Look out for anyone usinh email to keep big files. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: trimming wtmp

1998-02-13 Thread Carey Evans
month by /etc/cron.monthly/standard. If this isn't happening (for instance, because your PC isn't switched on early in the morning when this happens) you should look at installing anacron. You could run that file immediately anyway. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages

Re: Incredibly huge /var/log/lastlog

1998-02-13 Thread Carey Evans
. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Carey Evans
it was using the CHAP auth that the server wanted. This isn't what +chap means... you're saying that the ISP has to provide a password to *you*. Put debug in /etc/ppp.options_out, and check /var/log/syslog to see what gets logged. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans

Re: looking for a regex to match an email addr...

1998-02-16 Thread Carey Evans
. There was a multiple page, strictly correct, URL-matching regex posted some time ago. There has been a lot of `discussion' about verifying email addresses. DON'T ASK THIS QUESTION THERE. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source

Re: oops -- did a bad thing

1998-02-16 Thread Carey Evans
post wrapped properly next time? Leave off the v-card thing too, please. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mounting /tmp

1998-02-17 Thread Carey Evans
or directory After mounting /tmp, do a chmod 1777 /tmp. The permissions on /tmp must allow world writes, and when you mount a new volume, the permissions on its root directory get used. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source

Re: Mail setup and configuration

1998-02-17 Thread Carey Evans
. A popular mail-reader appears to be mutt, although I use Gnus under XEmacs myself. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Clueless newbie in need - PPP problems

1998-02-17 Thread Carey Evans
whether something like ftp 130.207.7.21 works. You probably need to fill in your ISP's name servers in /etc/resolv.conf, something like the following. The addresses could be wrong, though. - domain wave.ca nameserver 24.113.32.2 nameserver 24.112.32.2 - -- Carey Evans http

Re: Printer

1998-02-18 Thread Carey Evans
to that. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

CD-ROM drivers was: Re: good morning

1998-02-18 Thread Carey Evans
w/256kB Cache, CHS=3876/16/63, DMA hdc: FX600T, ATAPI CDROM drive [...] I use /dev/hdc to access it when programs ask where it is. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: Xemacs configuration question

1998-02-19 Thread Carey Evans
Dave Mallery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: where do i tell Xemacs about my mail and news server node names?? For Gnus reading news, (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp news.server)). The easiest way to get mail working from a server is to download it with fetchmail. -- Carey Evans http

Re: kcore

1998-02-19 Thread Carey Evans
for the networking. /proc is more like an easy to use view of the internal structures in the kernel. /prox/sys is where most of what you can fiddle with in the /proc filesystem is. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always

Re: smbfs

1998-02-22 Thread Carey Evans
think newer (2.1.x kernel) versions of smbmount will do this automatically. Try `nmblookup the-computer' (or nmblookup -d 2 '*'). -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-22 Thread Carey Evans
. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: root access and dselect | ftp

1998-02-22 Thread Carey Evans
as a user.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: lprng

1998-02-22 Thread Carey Evans
/spool/lpd/bj10sx must be in your /etc/printcap. Try running checkpc to see if your printcap and folders are set up as lprng thinks they should be. You can run checkpc -f a couple of times to make everything as it expects. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans

Re: lprng

1998-02-23 Thread Carey Evans
. Is there a magicfilter setup, or something? TIA I gues magicfilter would use the bj10e driver. You could test it with # /usr/sbin/bj10e-filter file.ps file.bj; cat file.bj /dev/lp0 or whatever, and see what happens. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans

Re: Motif

1998-02-23 Thread Carey Evans
, and doesn't come with (or for?) Debian. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: C locale

1998-02-23 Thread Carey Evans
the env. variable LANG incorrectly. IIRC StarOffice does this. Look though /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc, and any scripts that they call. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: ipx_configure: socket: Invalid argument ?

1998-02-23 Thread Carey Evans
and/or /etc/conf.modules and make sure they reflect the new state of your system. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New Linux user

1998-02-23 Thread Carey Evans
. You can check to see what's been found with dmesg | more. From the rescue disk, type Alt-F2 and use that console. Look for something like: hdc: FX600T, ATAPI CDROM drive The I can use /dev/hdc, in this case. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU

Re: Xdm, utmp, who and finger

1998-02-23 Thread Carey Evans
/Xstartup script will see and try to add a utmp entry. I don't think it worked when I tried it, but I didn't try very hard, and that was a while ago. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: How to track hard drive seeks?

1998-02-23 Thread Carey Evans
. Most will just be sitting there in a select or accept waiting for a connection somewhere, or waiting for a few minutes to see if something's changed Other programs keep accessing files, which changes the access time and means the disk needs to be updated. -- Carey Evans http

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

1998-02-23 Thread Carey Evans
. X is probably too slow over serial. (Just another option.) It is easy to plug in two mice, dodgy to plug in two monitors, but pretty much impossible to plug in two keyboards at the moment, IMO. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

1998-02-24 Thread Carey Evans
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: [snip] I think most X apps would run tolerably over a null modem cable. If I understand these gadgets right, the can operate at the speed of the serial port, which is about 120 kbps, I think. Even over ppp (33k modem

Re: C locale

1998-02-24 Thread Carey Evans
got wg15-locale installed too. Anyway, being in the US the default locale should work. Check what printenv says about your environment, and unset any of the locale variables. *Something* must be setting them, so try to find out what it is. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages

Re: formatting a floppy

1998-02-24 Thread Carey Evans
Tonetti.doc, R Tonetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I format a 3.5 floppy disk in Linux, either bootable or not? % superformat /dev/fd0 (superformat is from the fdutils package.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source

Re: RFC1035 and MTA's

1998-02-24 Thread Carey Evans
not surprised if they don't work. There's nothing wrong with 3com.com, btw, which upgrading *really* old DNS servers wouldn't fix. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

1998-02-24 Thread Carey Evans
. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: How to track hard drive seeks?(more info/questions)

1998-02-25 Thread Carey Evans
be dirtying them. Try dropping into single-user mode (telinit 1) and starting and stopping individualy programs (with /etc/init.d/foo start and ... stop) and seeing whether the disk is used. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you

Re: POP

1998-02-25 Thread Carey Evans
guessagain is carey here; poll bar.example.com protocol pop3: user fido there with password ruff is heyyou here; I'm doing something very similar to this at work, where a script runs hourly to dial up, upload and download mail, and hang up again. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz

Re: security problem (tcp/ip)

1998-02-25 Thread Carey Evans
mirror. This will solve most of your problems. For pop3, you can forward it over ssh, or use something with APOP authentication if the content of your email isn't sensitive. You can also plant fake emails and see who's reading them by the rumors that start to spread... -- Carey Evans

Re: ethernet card (hamm)

1998-02-28 Thread Carey Evans
won't load if it's incompatible. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problem with gmp? Conflict on /dev/ttyS0?

1998-02-28 Thread Carey Evans
protocol. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: security problem (tcp/ip)

1998-02-28 Thread Carey Evans
: poll mailhost port 1234 via localhost with pop3: preconnect ssh -f -L 1234:mailhost:110 mailhost sleep 20 /dev/null; The version of fetchmail in 1.3.1 might be too old for this. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source

Re: root access and dselect | ftp

1998-02-28 Thread Carey Evans
returned and saved with no problems. These files will then contain the commands. Just be careful, and do as little as possible as root. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: SMTP transaction error

1998-02-28 Thread Carey Evans
to send to a computer named Mozart; is this in /etc/hosts? If you `telnet Mozart 25' do you get a response starting with 220? If you're running smail, you might need to reconfigure it with `smailconfig'. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL

Re: fetchmail doesn't work for me either

1998-03-01 Thread Carey Evans
] RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] DATA Subject: test . QUIT -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-03-01 Thread Carey Evans
? -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-03-02 Thread Carey Evans
of the header of an email. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Activate Lilo

1998-03-02 Thread Carey Evans
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Re: quicken??

1998-03-02 Thread Carey Evans
itself yet, but it would be a good starting point for write it yourself, and it seems to have a bit of extensibility possible. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Modifying Routing Tables on the fly

1998-03-03 Thread Carey Evans
Ian Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: USER=$( who|grep ttyS1 | awk '{printf $1}') In the interests of eliminating unneeded commands, did you realise you can write this more easily as the following? USER=$(who | awk '$2==ttyS1 { print $1 }') -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-03-03 Thread Carey Evans
already a -f in the command line. (It could have been an sh script, but I don't know how to look in $@ for -f in bash.) It could be rewritten in C. This is all completely untested, of course. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source

Re: How to remove Boot block

1998-03-04 Thread Carey Evans
- the number depends on the device. Type lilo -u /dev/sda to copy the saved boot sector back. Edit lilo.conf appropriately and rerun lilo with the new setup. You might need to do something like activate /dev/sda 1 to make the right partition boot. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages

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