Installation; configuring the network

1996-10-11 Thread David Wright
/resolv.conf and removed all but one of the addresses from the nameserver line. This time, I've just typed in one DNS servername. I can add the others to resolv.conf myself. However, what's the correct action in the first place, and might the dialog box tell one more explicitly? David Wrig

Bizarre virtual consoles whenever I leave the X screen

1996-10-11 Thread David Wright
an AMI BIOS, and I'm using the SVGA Xserver. David Wright. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Pine keeps making me login

1996-12-17 Thread David Wright
) every time I type L to list the folders or select one with return. Is there a mistake in the configuration somewhere? 1.2 is just like 1.1. Please email any replies - all debian stuff stopped coming my way at the end of November for no apparent reason. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth

Avoiding probing a DEPCA card

1997-01-07 Thread David Wright
unlikely that you're going to have access to that file at this stage in the proceedings. Is the information contained therein (a list of insmod parameters accepted by each module) available anywhere that is more easily browsed? (I was fortunate in that the HOWTO happens to use io= and irq

Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE

1997-01-09 Thread David Wright
nd then moving it across to the depca one. I noticed while doing this that the 2.0.27 kernel has PPA built in which means that you can't (a) connect the zip drive to a running system and (b) can't switch between lp and ppa. I liked it better in 2.0.18 as a module. -- David Wright, Earth

Re: Custom Boot Disk and Network Problems

1997-01-10 Thread David Wright
lly thank yourself for keeping the .deb files if you manage to break dpkg-ftp as I did once! -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Repeat search in dselect

1997-01-15 Thread David Wright
it when it was installed. (At this stage, most beginners probably won't have wanted to search in dselect, but just accepted its initial suggestion.) Do you think this should be added to the kbd installation script? David. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton

Compiling the kernel - hiccups, and output

1997-01-15 Thread David Wright
f building the kernel (and everything else) on debian. I didn't even dare install gcc on my slackware box a year or so ago! David. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, U.K. Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Modules (was Re: Making kernel using "make install")

1997-01-17 Thread David Wright
the sound.o module always the same even though different base addresses/IRQs etc. were configured? David. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAI

Re: availability of pre-1.2 distributions

1997-01-21 Thread David Wright
not be a good idea to keep it? > > was there ever an answer to this question? perhaps I missed it. > > (Is there a shortage of diskspace on ftp.debian.org?) > > brian -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, U.K. Tel: +44 1908 653 739

Re: DE200 network card

1997-02-18 Thread David Wright
. I had to compile a kernel on another (3c509) machine to be able to use the ones with DE100 cards at all. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Sendfax errors

1997-02-18 Thread David Wright
facturer specific?). There's a table of numeric codes and their strings in /usr/doc/mgetty/fhng-codes but the programs already give you the verbose error. alt.fax and comp.dcom.fax are no help - I saw an unanswered request for error codes when I looked. Where ought I to look? David. -- David Wri

Re: Directory structure at Debian

1997-02-20 Thread David Wright
vel, which contains the most up-do-date > working release of each package, for use by 'developers'. This makes Debian even more of a moving target, a bad thing. I already keep all the packages I install on two zip disks, so I can easily clone another machine and know it should work (barring

Re: dselect and lprng...

1997-02-28 Thread David Wright
t;Available space in ../../../../../dosc/Debian/1.2: 235632k > > >Nothing to get. > > >Processing downloaded files...(for corrupt/old/partial) > > > > > > (I'm the person who

Special kernals (again)

1996-09-27 Thread David Wright
#x27;s not a very good PR exercise for Debian. This IS the first thing in the distribution that you meet! David Wright.

Re: Special kernals (again)

1996-09-30 Thread David Wright
the listings.) So I think I need a Unix system to unpack/repack the broken archive :-( David Wright. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Modprobe and modules - is this a problem?

2000-08-21 Thread David Wright
Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Recommended File and User sharing between Debian systems?

2000-08-21 Thread David Wright
livers again. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Selt-built kernel - complaints about modules!

2000-08-21 Thread David Wright
Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: problems upgrading standard kernel to 2.2.17-ide

2000-08-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dave Bresson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, David Wright wrote: > > a) If you're compiling a kernel module, you need kernel headers. > > When people write /usr/src/linux, they really mean "the kernel headers > > for the running kernel"

Re: Still confused (was Re: ** Emegancy Request **)

2000-08-21 Thread David Wright
onf and rerun lilo. Then see if it boots correctly. If you have problems understanding this, do post your existing partioning scheme (/etc/fstab will do nicely) and your intended one. If you're splitting or merging partitons, you have to do certain things slightly differently, and I can hardly

Re: mgetty with AutoPPP

2000-08-26 Thread David Wright
a_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd auth login debug crtscts modem > - ms-dns 10.10.10.1 lock proxyarp 10.10.10.1:10.10.10.5 > - > - change 10.10.10.1 to the ip of the linux box and 10.10.10.5 to the ip > - you want to assign the modem, and 10.10.10.1 to your DNS. Also be sure > - to turn on ip forwarding if you want to access things beyond the linux > - box. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: ppp install failing (loopback?)

2000-08-29 Thread David Wright
[1879]: expect (ogin:) Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: ^M Oct 7 23:01:28 home chat[1879]: ATDT65^M^M <---received ppp expects that reflection to stop happening once you connect. You might try posting the log (sanitised like the above). -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 190

Re: RW access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ?

2000-08-31 Thread David Wright
group has rw access to > > these devices. This goes for other device access as well. > Odd I must have done something else wrong as it didn't work when I tried > it the first time, but now it does. Thanks. You only pick up your groups when you login. Cheers, -- Email: [EMA

Re: finding tarbal on fat partition [yet another data recovery problem]

2000-08-31 Thread David Wright
27;ve been engaged in a four-day conversation on another list with someone having trouble setting up W98, Mandrake and Boot Magic, and I *still* haven't seen his partition table:- PARTITION TABLES AREN'T CLASSIFIED INFORMATION! Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 6

Re: Linux crashes a lot

2000-09-01 Thread David Wright
a machine. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Linux crashes a lot

2000-09-01 Thread David Wright
hardware. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-04 Thread David Wright
pppd to put it back before it quits. How are you stopping pppd? The correct way (e.g. as used by poff) is SIGTERM. Perhaps you are SIGKILLing it? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-04 Thread David Wright
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Re: Kernel compile error

2000-09-06 Thread David Wright
t's what ln -sf creates). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: strange broadcast message from syslogd

2000-09-06 Thread David Wright
d there aren't any crontab entries that might cause this. In my experience, this happens someone tries the rpc.statd buffer overflow exploit. I'm surprised you don't see it in syslog and messages (with the default syslogd.conf). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-07 Thread David Wright
esn't mean that the system is inherently flawed. Could you translate this into plain English, please? Specifically ASN.1 or equivalent data format tools from openssl Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth S

Re: dpkg binary dbase

2000-09-07 Thread David Wright
dom on PPP. But my point is that you can share the information in a text file (by posting it, for example). What good is a file full of codes? Am I going to bother to fish out a code book so I can help someone fix a problem? I can also browse and search any disparate set of configuration files with

Re: dpkg binary dbase

2000-09-08 Thread David Wright
not familiar with the A/B/C switches in grep. An alternative way of scanning would also be less with the -j command. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Piotr Krukowiecki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Mario Olimpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > > > > > > > > pppd removes g+w from /

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-08 Thread David Wright
t be > needed at all. Bad Thing. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: pppd changes permission to /dev/ttyS1 (my modem)

2000-09-14 Thread David Wright
security of your system as much as you like. Please don't encourage others to do likewise. Please don't criticise people for pointing out any security weaknesses in other's advice. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: using /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb

2000-09-16 Thread David Wright
mmand, to get and install the *.deb files in > /var/cache/apt/archives? What, do you mean the debs are on the machine already? Then just dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*deb Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Sci

Re: superformat?

2000-09-16 Thread David Wright
in. OTOH you could argue that superfloppies have pushed their capacity to 120MB: that's a bigger factor than 0.5 to 13. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer:

Re: superformat?

2000-09-16 Thread David Wright
not going to do this over the phone even if I own shares in BT! Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: superformat?

2000-09-16 Thread David Wright
(DOS/Mac) and (5) means that users of aforesaid OSes recognise the disk as unbroken if they happen to insert it into their machine. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA

Re: sunrpc

2000-09-18 Thread David Wright
nit.d/mountnfs.sh will start it. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: how to briefly disable mouse under X?

2000-09-19 Thread David Wright
t.d/gpm stop (and start) if you're repeating gpm through to X. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not si

Re: Linux programming book

2000-09-19 Thread David Wright
two, you know what all the system calls (in any language) are doing. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do no

Re: Help!! I need my LS120

2000-09-26 Thread David Wright
ce, Documentation/devices.txt, where all the device names and special numbers are listed that you might need for the mknod command. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaim

Re: quick upgrade help needed-kernel image not wanted

2000-09-26 Thread David Wright
to avoid the replacement problem. If they already have a kernel package without it that they need to use, they should "hold" it. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA

Re: serial line loopback

2000-09-26 Thread David Wright
problem with this (but it's been a few years; maybe > I'm just badly mistaken . . .)) I've had no problem with this (as far back as buzz). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton K

Re: New to Debian, boot problems

2000-09-27 Thread David Wright
a DOS partition which you defragged). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: New to Debian, boot problems

2000-09-27 Thread David Wright
IOS has to be able to get at these files before linux gets a look-in. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signif

Re: How to see module errors on bootup?

2000-09-27 Thread David Wright
, or anywhere else I've > looked. As well as dmesg, have you checked /var/log/kern.log? I think you may be asking a bit much for /var/log/syslog to contain these errors as they occur before syslogd starts (entering runlevel 2). The kernel messages get logged because the kernel maintains a

HOWTO get all the boot information, Re: boot information

2000-09-28 Thread David Wright
identical lines (as the bottom of one page is the top of the next. Now you can examine it at leisure or archive it. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These ad

Re: unzip not installed?

2000-09-28 Thread David Wright
to cause zip to unzip. Yes, you need unzip. Or you may prefer unzip-crypt instead. Which may be why they're separate. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer:

Re: How to see module errors on bootup?

2000-09-28 Thread David Wright
ht be a better place. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Partition question

2000-09-28 Thread David Wright
and copy the files. (You could even have the partition contain two directories, one for each OS, with symlinks pointing to the correct one, I imagine, though I don't think it's necessary.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wri

Re: tr '\verb|\|000' '\verb|\|\n'?

2000-10-03 Thread David Wright
nt the \ n is enough to print the n Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: /proc/interrupts

2000-10-04 Thread David Wright
line in /proc/stat (first number is total). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: /proc/interrupts

2000-10-05 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:43:29PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > > If you need the number when it's not in use, get it from the > > intr line in /proc/stat (first number is total). > > Wow. How do I read that? O

Re: New to Debian, boot problems

2000-10-05 Thread David Wright
he files (or defrag /dosc) after doing this, of course. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: mounting root via NFS

2000-06-14 Thread David Wright
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Re: non-contiguous vs Fragmentation

2000-06-14 Thread David Wright
ontig is nothing to worry about. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: use second hard drive to boot from?

2000-06-14 Thread David Wright
lling the bay). The allocation of cabling (primary and secondary) may be worth researching as you have a recordable CD (I can't remember if it's best to keep the CDs on one cable). Remember the master/slave jumpers. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax:

Re: boot install from HD

2000-06-15 Thread David Wright
above, I can really only think of "Configure Base System" which only seems to affect /etc/timezone and the clock line in /etc/default/rcS. What did you get wrong? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept.

Re: diald/pppd refused connection--PAP auth?

2000-06-15 Thread David Wright
left there) is explained in the second paragraph of SECURITY in man pppd. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Samba passwords

2000-06-15 Thread David Wright
<http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q166/7/30.htm> Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: samba auto-unloads

2000-06-15 Thread David Wright
7;t remember whether and where I saw that. Perhaps it can be configured to exceed the expected uptime of an NT server. :) I don't think inetd is an issue; that's just how the daemon starts up, not whether it keeps running. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653

Re: Blinkenlights?

2000-06-15 Thread David Wright
next summer unless he learns quickly. The parallel port pinout is in the pc-hardware faq on usenet. > I don't want to kill my serial ports :) They're the robust ones. Take good care of your parallel port. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +4

Re: diald/pppd refused connection--PAP auth?

2000-06-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kenward Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 10:52:09AM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Kenward Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Diald is my nemesis... Various attempts to get it working have failed to > ... > > Apologies if I pick up

Re: boot install from HD

2000-06-15 Thread David Wright
908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: set (floppy,cdrom,...) permissions for console user

2000-06-21 Thread David Wright
't know. But it's inherently unsafe. Look at /etc/login.defs on slink and, to complete the exercise left for the reader, see /etc/security/group.conf on potato. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Scienc

Re: Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread David Wright
for this package: `*': marked for installation or upgrade; ^^^ Hold (shown as '=') will prevent this. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA

Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

2000-06-27 Thread David Wright
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Error in syslog

2000-06-27 Thread David Wright
isfied if there's no ethernet active. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery.

Re: Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 27/06/2000 (15:38) : > > That's what it's designed to do. If you look at the package listing > > when you select [S]elect, you'll normally see *** against each packag

Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

2000-06-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oreste Salerno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 02:45:35PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > > > and that's what I did. The problem is that ide-cd only ignores hdb, but > > > still recognizes hdc. This thing does not happen if I write, directl

Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

2000-06-29 Thread David Wright
the separator, i.e. try hdb,hdc hdb-hdc or even hdbhdc. strstr() only looks for the first occurrence of a substring, and has no concept of separators. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keyn

Re: free Internet access

2000-06-30 Thread David Wright
know the country's dialling code, or hasn't realised that these posts travel to readers in other countries. What the h/m and p mean, I have no idea. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keyne

Re: find question

2000-07-03 Thread David Wright
an find Specifically: TESTS Numeric arguments can be specified as +n for greater than n, -n for less than n, n for exactly n. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept

Re: Cannot echo capital M

2000-07-10 Thread David Wright
/.inputrc contained "\e[E":beginning-of-line "\e[H":beginning-of-line "\eOH":beginning-of-line "\eOF":end-of-line "\EOF":end-of-line <-- the offending line "\e[F":end-of-line "\e[e":end-of-line Cheers, -- Email: [

Re: Scale

2000-07-11 Thread David Wright
n the map>:. Also correct, but irrelevant. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: emacs not obeying .Xdefaults in debian

2000-07-11 Thread David Wright
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Re: annoying C-s terminal freeze

2000-07-14 Thread David Wright
t myself since the 70s) that people expect it. > I can't see why some wants its terminal to > freeze. So that they can read what's written there, amazing as that might seem! Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wrig

Re: How do I get flexible email headers and sigs?

2000-07-14 Thread David Wright
uldn't.) However, it's very likely that, with multiple personalities having separate email addresses, filtering is already being done anyway. >I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. > This email was infected under the terms of the GN

Re: lilo

2000-07-14 Thread David Wright
ittingly with / as the current working directory. > Any idea why and/or fixes? TIA! Perhaps you have some relative paths in /etc/lilo.config ? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, En

Re: kerneld message / Workaround

2000-07-14 Thread David Wright
robe which only exists under 2.2. Perhaps you have a problem with your /proc filesystem (unless a bug has been introduced into these scripts). There should be no need to move/remove the scripts in /etc/init.d. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Sna

Re: kerneld message / Workaround

2000-07-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jonathan Heaney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > David Wright wrote: > > The scripts /etc/init.d/{kerneld,modutils} have to be able to handle > > both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels with kerneld or kmod. You will see they do > > this by testing for the presence of /proc/sys/kernel/mo

Re: kerneld message / Workaround

2000-07-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting brian moore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:51:06AM +0100, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > > David Wright wrote: > > > The scripts /etc/init.d/{kerneld,modutils} have to be able to handle > > > both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels with kerneld or kmod. You wil

Re: Remote Apps

2000-07-18 Thread David Wright
t it's something to do with other users on the machine. I don't know why. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: installation question...?

2000-07-20 Thread David Wright
| /boot disks date DEBIAN boot disks version number__/ > This disk uses Linux 2.2.17 -- / LINUX kernel version_/ Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 65

Re: Forwarding sent email-

2000-07-21 Thread David Wright
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Command Line on logout

2000-07-25 Thread David Wright
sional command line, press Ctrl-Alt-F1 through F6 and log in. If you really want to get rid of the login screen, then just don't run a display manager (xdm, kdm etc.). Use startx to start X instead. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail:

Re: Non-root user executing pon

2000-07-26 Thread David Wright
7;ll get > you going. Basic use has one line for each user, but, as you'll > read in the man pages, you can create sudoers groups. Yes, but it's all unnecessary. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth S

Re: modules.conf vs conf.modules

2000-07-28 Thread David Wright
gness to clean up anachronisms to improve and clarify the system, rather than trying to never change anything. > Can I delete my "/etc/conf.modules.old" file without worry? I would think so. If you're now using modules.conf, there's a one-level backup produced by update-modu

Re: why is kernel recompilation necessary?

2000-07-28 Thread David Wright
501346 Jul 7 11:40 vmlinuz-2.2.15 Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: LILO troubles

2000-07-28 Thread David Wright
rom the second drive. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: same debian, new hardware?

2000-07-28 Thread David Wright
refore you can give it parameters like root=/dev/hda1 single which was not possible before. (Of course, with slink and previous, one could copy the kernel onto a rescue disk to get the same effect.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David

Re: LILO troubles

2000-07-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting virtanen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Jason Schepman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Yes. I'm able to boot from floppies. I just can't boot from the > > > hardrive. > > > &qu

Re: volume control

2000-07-28 Thread David Wright
ED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: MC

2000-07-31 Thread David Wright
redhat style? man mc, and look at the -P option and the script given there. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-31 Thread David Wright
true will have moved on into other forums... Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: same debian, new hardware?

2000-07-31 Thread David Wright
Someone told me scsi is "faster" than non-scsi, can I capitalize on this > somehow? It all depends. IDE has become very fast, but the latest variants require good cabling to perform to spec. SCSI has always been a bit of a pain with cabling and termination, but it's great for ad

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