Re: GRUB no long gives menu on boot

2012-08-03 Thread John Foster
A suggestion. You may have lost the mbr when the disk failed. If you completely reinstalled your system oncluding reformat of drives that option should have been offered. Do you recall that occuring. On Aug 2, 2012 8:46 PM, Matt Zagrabelny mzagr...@d.umn.edu wrote: Greetings, I have the

Network Connection issue

2011-11-03 Thread John Foster
I recently installed a new D-Link DGE-530T 10/100/1000 Gigabit Desktop PCI Adapter card to connect to the internet. It was originally not recognized as there was not a driver available in debian. A new firmware-realtek update installed the driver but I had also installed another 'recognized' 3-com

Fwd: Network Connection issue

2011-11-04 Thread John Foster
-- Forwarded message -- From: Victor Nitu vic...@debian-linux.ro Date: Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 8:22 AM Subject: Re: Network Connection issue To: John Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com On 11/04/2011 02:53 PM, John Foster wrote: The sections below are as you requested; I do only have

Re: Network Connection issue

2011-11-07 Thread John Foster
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Geoff Simmons gsimm...@gsimmons.orgwrote: Hi John, On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 02:55:51PM -0500, John Foster wrote: I recently installed a new D-Link DGE-530T 10/100/1000 Gigabit Desktop PCI Adapter card to connect to the internet. It was originally

Is apache broken in squeeze?

2011-09-11 Thread John Foster
Sorry but I need to know if apache2 is broken. I recently had to modify my system while installing a new mediawiki from the tarball. I tried to reload apache I got a ton of errors, i must say this was after trying to add a lot of required stuff from sources other that debian for both mediawiki

Console access using F1 etc

2011-09-14 Thread John Foster
I recently had to do a new installation of squeeze on a production server. Its been a LONG time since I did that and I see a few things are different since my last time. I can not access the consoles by hitting ctrl,alt, delete. I recall a couple of years ago that I had to edit something somewhere

Re: Console access using F1 etc

2011-09-14 Thread John Foster
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: John Foster wrote: I recently had to do a new installation of squeeze on a production server. Excellent! Its been a LONG time since I did that and I see a few things are different since my last time. I can not access

Re: Console access using F1 etc

2011-09-14 Thread John Foster
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: John Foster wrote: Well I use it as an application server for a lot of video content so I need the X-windows for editing and viewing. I also do both on this system and it is an intranet server as well. When you said

Non functioning D-Link Ethernet adapter card

2011-09-14 Thread John Foster
I installed a D-Link DGE-530T 10/100/1000 Gigabit Desktop PCI Adapterethernet card. Based on the RTL8169xx chip. The thing is not recognized by any flavor of linux. Mint, Ubuntu, or Debian (squeeze). Worked in Windows 7pro after installing the drivers from the setup disc. I want it to work on this

Re: Console access using F1 etc

2011-09-15 Thread John Foster
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: John Foster wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: John Foster wrote: Any idea what I need to edit to get my system back to what I like. I will probably figure it out sooner or later, but sooner will be better. Probably

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-22 Thread John Foster
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Alex avko...@hotmail.com wrote: Any comments on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware and its ability to preclude booting from alternative operating systems such as Linux, BSD etc., would be greatly appreciated, as per article entitled

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-23 Thread John Foster
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:31 AM, chris tknch...@gmail.com wrote: We can all see where this is going... MS has OEM's lockout UEFI, some new team will pop up and start the PC jailbreak/unlock scene, MS will cry that its illegal, court wont even understand wtf is going on, etc, etc ... :) On

Re: How to lock packages to protect them of being removed during upgrades?

2011-09-23 Thread John Foster
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: Hi :) how can I find out which packages I need to lock against upgrading, to avoid that Synaptic will remove other packages I need? Isn't there a way to lock packages against removing? Usually there only will be

Re: cssed plugins

2011-09-29 Thread John Foster
On 9/29/2011 12:54 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:53:30 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: Anyone know a debian way to get cssed plugins. I can get it done using the tarballs, but I don't want that on my system. I don't see them pre-packaged as deb but rpm:

Re: Kompozer plugins

2011-09-29 Thread John Foster
On 9/29/2011 1:01 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:57:57 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: Any advice on getting plugins into Kompozer from stable. I tried to follow the basic process from within Kompozer but it defaulted to firefox plugins which would not install on it. Said pages did

Re: MediaWiki 1.17.0 new stable release from Wikimedia

2011-07-26 Thread John Foster
On 7/21/2011 1:24 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:46 PM, John W Foster wrote: There is a new stable release from Wikimedia of MediaWiki 1.17.0 Any idea when we will see it packaged for Debian. It is said to support substitution// {{subst}} {{safesubst}} // so that the error

GRUB2 boot issue

2010-12-19 Thread John Foster
as sometimes the filters get list replies. -- John Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d0e405b.8010...@gmail.com

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-24 Thread John Foster
should be aware of? Can only be answered if we know what you want form the monitor. FYI: if you just want an easier to read screen text resolution, then reset it in the boot menue. X will be reset anyways to what ever is avaliable on the monitor. is easily finetuned. Thanks, Mark -- John

Re: EXT4 File system viewer for Windows 7 pro 64 bit

2011-01-07 Thread John Foster
. -- John Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d27afd2.3020...@gmail.com

Users can't pop anymore

1997-02-24 Thread John Foster
After an upgrade to 1.2.7 I notice that in /etc/inet.conf there is now a #off# in front of the pop3 service. This means that our rather irate clients can't pop their mail using Eudaora etc. the /etc/inet.conf warns not to uncomment these unless I know exactly what I'm doing.. OK, what would I be

identd

1997-03-10 Thread John Foster
I have no entry for identd in /etc/services. What is the well known port(tcp or udp)? Is there a good reason why it's not in by default, ie. security? John Foster

Re: how to make mtools useable by all?

1997-03-27 Thread John Foster
On 27 Mar 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote: I would like for mtools to be useable by everyone in the lab, not just root. Is there a way to change this? I changed the permissions of the /dev/fd0 device to 775, and made sure that /dev/fd0 belonged to group floppy. I then made all the mtools

Documentation - I see squares

1997-03-02 Thread John Foster
In a lot of man pages, and some of the documentation in /usr/doc there are there little squares or cryptic $%^ thingees. I guess that there's something I've missed somewhere... What have/haven't I done? John.

Re: Documentation - I see squares

1997-03-03 Thread John Foster
In a lot of man pages, and some of the documentation in /usr/doc there are there little squares or cryptic $%^ thingees. I guess that there's something I've missed somewhere... What have/haven't I done? On the assumption that you ran into some highlighting or underlining markup,

Fixed == Documentation - I see squares

1997-03-03 Thread John Foster
to be, and some of the funny codes are B7 for example. It looks like a bit of hex. Try adding export LESSCHARSET='latin1'to your profile. Paul Serice Thanx to all who replied! John Foster

Re: lilo.conf--vga=ask doesn't; APM

1997-04-04 Thread John Foster
terminal up if you get it wrong (I did!). Once it works it's _very_ nice though. John Foster

Re: Safer package installation

1997-04-04 Thread John Foster
are in a maze of twisty little symlinks, all alike. John Foster.

error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-09 Thread John Foster
services. The biggest problem is of course that other machines can't authenticate me anymore, so it may as well not be connected to the network at all! Any help at all would be nice, as I can't see anything wrong with the bash script, but it's not my strongest suit anyway. John Foster

Re: error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-11 Thread John Foster
? John Foster

Does this list still work?

1997-04-17 Thread John Foster
Does the list still work, or have I been cut of for some reason? John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Does this list still work? - The saga continues...

1997-04-18 Thread John Foster
discussion on this thread, please CC: me, otherwise I won't get any of it, unless the truly excellent Debian people find that it's a problem at there end and manage to resolve it. I suspect that it's probably at this end though. BTW, all smail config files are as created by smailconfig. John

Tx chipset

1997-04-21 Thread John Foster
Has anyone tried the new Tx chipset with Debian? I'm looking at the new Tyan MB. John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

ping to debian machine gets duplicate responses

1997-04-23 Thread John Foster
I've set up a box, and got IP-Aliasing going. The trouble is that if I ping it from outside the LAN all the ICMP reponses come back twice! What does that mean, and how do I fix it? The machine is a Cyrix box, with a NE2000 clone that otherwise seems to work very well. Debian 1.2.8 John Foster

Re: Rocket Port ISA card and LINUX

1997-04-24 Thread John Foster
I installed the ISA RocketPort card on a debian 1.2.8 machine with no problems at all. I had built a kernel first. John Foster On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:49:04 -0500 From: Lauralyn Gorham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Ted. I'm going

Re: How is apache setup for multiple domains?

1997-05-02 Thread John Foster
and reload apache. I not managed to get the mail to work as a multihomed server to deal with the virtual domains. I've read the file on Multihomed servers in /usr/doc/smail but I'm none the wiser. John Foster. On 2 May 1997, Chris Brown wrote: I have been looking at using apache as our web

NFS Problem

1997-05-11 Thread John Foster
is running. On mars, it has /home pluto(ro) in /etc/exports, and both nfsiod and mountd are running (from inetd). Why doesn't this work? John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

How to set up net-acct with ppp?

1997-05-16 Thread John Foster
. There are 32 lines into the server, running through a Comtrol RocketPort card. There is an IP associated with each rocket port. I really only care about accounting the data volume each user generates, as the standard accounting (sac, ac etc) gives the time component. John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

net-acct and a ppp dial-in server

1997-05-19 Thread John Foster
the clock back 25 years!). Surely someone somewhere has got nacctd working with mgetty and ppp for dynamic IP. Any suggestions at all are welcome, as I'm starting to really hate this machine! John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Majordomo w/Smail ?

1997-05-20 Thread John Foster
I set it up a while back. I seem to remember that some of the paths were not as the docs indicated. It wasn't on a handy machine, but I seem to remember that majordomo expected some things to be in /var/lib/majordomo that were actually in /usr/lib/majordomo. There was also a problem with the @LIB

Re: g++ targetcompali - dos 8086 code?

1997-06-05 Thread John Foster
If you get the GNU source you can build a cross-compiler, by specifying the right arguements to the configure script. I built a gcc that produced ELF binaries for Linux on a SprcStation that way... John Foster On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Lars Hallberg wrote: Hello Is it posably (whit debian

Setting limit on mailbox size with smail

1997-06-07 Thread John Foster
Anyone know how? I want to put a 2/3 Meg limit on mailbox size on a mail server. John F. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread John Foster
to one another, unless some more experienced users want to take on the responsiblity of dealing with the enquiries. If there is to be a new list, then perhaps a Debian-Guru list would be more appropriate. John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-10 Thread John Foster
/documentation thing a lot lately. There has to be a way for newbies to get into the /usr/doc/*/*gz files before they know about gzip, zcat and zless. And there has to be a way of saying RTFM without being rude. John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-10 Thread John Foster
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, John Foster wrote: [snip] I've been thinking about the entire newbie/documentation thing a lot lately. There has to be a way for newbies to get into the /usr/doc/*/*gz files before they know about gzip, zcat and zless

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-10 Thread John Foster
configuration somewhat disturbing. One of the many reasons I like Debian is that my PC looks like _my_ PC. So far I like the mc approach best. John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

ZOPE not working. Maybe config problem. Any Debian Tips?

2003-10-07 Thread John Foster
I have been trying to get zope to work for 2 weeks now. No luck! It seems to start OK (the zserver is working) on port 9673 as described in the debian readme. However when I try to login using either format http://www.myserver.com:9673/ or http://localhost:9673/ I get the same response in a

Need help with settings for Apache2../etc/default

2003-10-15 Thread John Foster
is appreciated. -- John Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Knoppix-like install of Debian?

2003-10-19 Thread John Foster
' to 'unstable.' You do not need a security deb entry. HTH Charels Thou doth entre onto vast waters filled with bugs! BEWARE -- John Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Eclipse installation: j2re1.4 has no installation candidate (Debian SID)

2003-10-21 Thread John Foster
? And is there a deb package for Sun's jdk? Thank you in advance! Try adding this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file 8-) deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian unstable non-free main -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Can Anyone tell me what this is?

2003-10-22 Thread John Foster
://www.linux.it/~md/linux-faq Virtually your, The Moderation Robot. --- Follows the first few lines of your article Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:53:15 -0500 From: John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: AdVance-Computing Systems User-Agent

Re: Where to announce?

2003-10-22 Thread John Foster
development sanction. Good Luck.! We need many more folks who are willing to allocate their efforts to enhancing the scope of Debian. -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apache2 and.... php

2003-10-22 Thread John Foster
-common1.3 you are out of luck, and there are a lot of them. I am currently trying to get drupal running using this method but so far just research on how to accomplish this. I will keep you apprised of any other things that I discover. -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems

Re: Enquiries

2003-11-01 Thread John Foster
Kelvin Lee wrote: Hi my name is kelvin from singapore. I had a question to make and that is does Debian OS accepts some windows applications like microsoft office pro, designing applications? Regards, Kelvin -- In one word NO. Although you can use other applications to

How to fix: glibc installed over libc6 broke system

2003-11-01 Thread John Foster
I did a real dumb thing without thinking. I grabbed a .rpm of glibc 2.3.9 from SuSE, converted it to a .deb with alien and installed it. Of course I forgot that libc6 is the debian way of handeling this dependency (see locales; unstable) Yeah it was VERY late. Any way it broke the entire

Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?

1997-06-18 Thread John Foster
it. John Foster On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote: Seems like the incoming spam has picked up, although I haven't been on usenet for weeks. Makes me wonder if we have a spammer subscribed to the lists just to collect email addresses. Anybody else with the same problem

Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?

1997-06-18 Thread John Foster
That gets complicated because many people are at the mercy of a technically challenged ISP. It would be great if everyone could get a static IP with DNS. OK, so I'm technically challenged! How do I put 1200 clients in 2 C class networks with static IPs? Jon Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

The technically challenged WAS Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?

1997-06-18 Thread John Foster
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, M BAILEY wrote: OK, so I'm technically challenged! How do I put 1200 clients in 2 C class networks with static IPs? Are these all unix stations or are some of these Win95/NT if the latter of the two you can buy a product from Bay Networks that lets you use IPX

How do I find the source of the spammers?

1997-06-19 Thread John Foster
distribution. Perhaps I should be using another mail-daeomn. Or is there a way that I can restrict things in smail? The documentation for smail is (or was anyway) pretty woeful! This is rather urgent as I see it! John Foster System Administrator (in training!?) Net-Trek/Cynergy

Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-20 Thread John Foster
router, using mrtg (which isn't a debian package). But I'm **very** careful! Root should really only be used to do specific administration tasks. Unprivilaged users should be used for day to day stuff. There's not much you can't do with groups and permissions set right. John Foster

Smail and spammers

1997-06-20 Thread John Foster
outside (that is compuserve)? Is there a resource out on the Internet that will point me in the right direction? Wot a lot of questions! John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Strange IP address in mail header

1997-06-28 Thread John Foster
: 3671313288a65eb1890m0762123a Comments: Authenticated sender is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: RO It got past inetd. How do they do that? John Foster. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: .gz ??? what, how?

1997-07-01 Thread John Foster
that the user base is growing at such a rate that it could be time... Perhaps there should be a quick intro to gzip, zless and zcat in the opening scripts (just after the first dselect run?). John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: off topic: password strategy as an ISP

1997-07-03 Thread John Foster
of pwgen though, there is a definate pattern to the passwords it generates. This does concern me a bit. John Foster As you can see, this message is very offtopic, but still somewhat Debian related. I am curious how folks who use Debian in a production environment deal with allocating passwords

Re: Idea for deity. (dselect) Security hole alert system.

1997-07-04 Thread John Foster
On this point, is/has anyone work(ing|ed) on COPS as a deb package? John Foster On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: On Tue, 01 Jul 1997 23:07:37 -0400 (EDT), Alex Yukhimets wrote: No I'm not willing to work on it, and no I have not thought out the fine details, but I think it would

Re: off topic: password strategy as an ISP

1997-07-04 Thread John Foster
think a shell script could ever be a secure shell... John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

TEST POST

1999-04-16 Thread John Foster
Just checking the list mail features Please ignorebegin:vcard n:Foster;John x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:AdVance-Computing Systems;WHQ adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:President x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Foster end:vcard

where is crypt command in linux?

1999-04-16 Thread John Foster
I have some encrypted files sent to me that I want to use. They were encrypted by using a program called enigma. I have the source code for the program but it will not compile properly. Well enigma seems to but the Makekey does not. Probably because it is a generic distribution, not specefic to

Re: where is crypt command in linux?

1999-04-16 Thread John Foster
Shaleh wrote: On 15-Apr-99 John Foster wrote: I have some encrypted files sent to me that I want to use. They were encrypted by using a program called enigma. I have the source code for the program but it will not compile properly. Well enigma seems to but the Makekey does

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-16 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently switched from SuSE Linux to Debian and installed 2.0.34. When booting I noticed the following message: Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug Workaround enabled. Does somebody know what bug this is and what workaround is implemented. I have a rather

Re: PS/AUX

1999-04-17 Thread John Foster
Michael Beattie wrote: Sorry, stupid question, I just decided to change to a PS/2 mouse, but I dont have the faintest about how to set it up. kernel recompile? --- YEP! probably a good time to upgrade to 2.2.5 :-)begin:vcard n:Foster;John

Re: Pine question

1999-04-17 Thread John Foster
iehrenwald wrote: Hi everyone, I am using pine to read/send mail. I am also using a dial-up connection for my Internet access. My login name for my machine is 'ian'. My account on my ISP is 'iehrenwald'. How do I get pine to send mail from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and not '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: New Kernel install

1999-04-17 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems I've finally succeeded into compiling the kernel successfully (cross fingers). Now, for installation, I have to: # cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.35 # cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map-2.0.35

Re: PS/AUX

1999-04-18 Thread John Foster
Michael Beattie wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, John Foster wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: Sorry, stupid question, I just decided to change to a PS/2 mouse, but I dont have the faintest about how to set it up. kernel recompile

Re: PS/AUX

1999-04-19 Thread John Foster
Michael Beattie wrote: Ouch... well, Im not going that far, yet, Ive been told my VX/Pro MB wont like the 2.2 series very much... but a simple upgrade to 2.0.36 with PS/2 enabled sorted things... My only question.. how do I increase the mouse speed in X? gpm was easy.

Re: Star Office 5.0

1999-04-19 Thread John Foster
Robert Rati wrote: Has anyone gotten Star Office 5.0 to install on Debian 2.1? Everytime I try to ru nthe setup program, An error message pops up about the window manager not setting the window size and it defaults to the default size, then the windows start to come up and X freezes.

Re: More problems compiling kernel

1999-04-20 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wayne Topa dixit: ~ ~ Subject: Re: Help! More problems compiling kernel ~ Date: Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 02:43:38PM +0200 ~ ~ In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ~ ln -s kernel-source-2.0.35 linux ~ ~ ls -l should show you that linux - points to

Re: Upgrading gcc, libc6 and others from hamm to slink

1999-04-20 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After much trouble trying to compile a 2.0.35 kernel on a hamm 2.0.34 machine, I've decided to upgrade some stuff. Will this be enough, or would I need anything else? Will it cause any trouble in hamm? (touching libc6 scares the hell out of me!) I've downloaded

Re: More Star Office 5.0

1999-04-20 Thread John Foster
Robert Rati wrote: I got Star Office to install finally thanks to everyones help. I installed it as root, figuring it would be a network type application, but since it's the personal edition I'm guessing only the person that installed it can use it, right?

Re: Printer Compatability

1999-04-20 Thread John Foster
Micha Feigin wrote: I couldn't find the answear to this on the Hardware-HOWTO I am looking for a printer to connect to my linux machine. I was wondering which of these printers (this are whats avainlable) will work with linux without too much of a fuss ( I don't have too much time in

Re: Self-extracting compressed binaries in Linux?

1999-04-20 Thread John Foster
William R Pentney wrote: Is there any program that can create compressed self-extracting executables a la PKLite in Linux? Anyone know of any? Just curious. - see: http://www.pkware.com/shareware/pkzip_unix.htmlbegin:vcard n:Foster;John

Web Publishing Tools

1999-04-20 Thread John Foster
HI ALL! Anyone know of a really good webpublishing tool for linux. i need something equivalent to UGH! Front Page(without all the crappy extension stuff) HotDog, or HotMetal etc. The netsaape communicator, Amaya etc just don't cut it.begin:vcard n:Foster;John x-mozilla-html:FALSE

NEED GUI for MySql, Solid, Postgres, Oracle

1999-04-20 Thread John Foster
I really need a strong GUI for MySQL. Any one know of a good one. I have already looked at PHP3AdMin and was not impressed. I have been used to Lotus Approach and want something with that equivalent robustness. I could also switch to any other DataBase such as Solid, Oracle Postgres, etc. I just

[Fwd: Corel : GNOME vs KDE]

1999-04-23 Thread John Foster
Sami Dalouche wrote: I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. KDE is not free or not fully free. It's worse than Gnome : - it takes more memory - it's not GTK ( I'm a GTk fan) - I will have less apps because Gnome is newer and has, I think,

Need Help w/Printing problems

1999-04-23 Thread John Foster
I have an old Canon LBP 430 laser printer. I can get it to print using magicfilter and loading the lj3 driver. However it will not utilize the paper loading and some other functions. I have to hand feed it the paper. Any one know how to get this printer up to speed? It uses the PCL printing

Re: kernel 2.2.6

1999-04-25 Thread John Foster
Anonymous Coward wrote: i'm a new debian user, but fairly experienced linux user. i just got slink (debian 2.1) in the mail so installed it. i downloaded kernel 2.2.6 to upgrade the first time it said a86 command not found so i searched mailing list archives and found out i needed the

Getting Rid of Unnecessary Files

1999-04-25 Thread John Foster
I want to know if there is a way to clean out all of the copyright,copyleft,changelog, and other non-essential files in my Debian installation. i also want to clear out all of the non-English related stuff and the non-i386 stuff fron the tree. All of this takes up tons of space. These files are

I NEED info on XML TOOLS

1999-05-03 Thread John Foster
Just what it says. I am seeking any comments on software development tools and applications that utilize/are aware of XML. I want tools that will run on LINUX--I do not care if they are Open Source, commercial, free, or not for now. ANY ideas references suggestions are appreciated especially if

Need Project development Software

1999-05-04 Thread John Foster
I need project development software for linux. It needs to be of the type that is teamwork oriented and allows offsite participation by team members. It must be web or server based so that it runs in a web environment. This is to be used for developing several items of software and other projects.

Re: Newbie: Installation problems

1999-05-07 Thread John Foster
Sudhir P wrote: Hi, Please excuse me for the wide distribution. And do excuse me for not being able to give the exact technical terms in the following. I have tried to explain the situation to the best extent that I can (now). My present set up: -- I have an i586

Re: xosview

1999-05-07 Thread John Foster
Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: Has anyone been able to get xosview to run on a 2.2.x kernel system? I currently have a Dual P200 system with Debian 2.1. Since updating to the 2.2.5 kernel I have not been able to use xosview at all. It starts but does not display anything at all and I have to

Re: Apps For Debian?

1999-05-09 Thread John Foster
Peter Ludwig wrote: On Sun, 9 May 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: In foo.debian-user, you wrote: On Sat, 8 May 1999, Lawrence Wickline wrote: Also need something that will make .gifs (Gimp doesn't seem to do this) Haven't found one yet myself... I wouldn't mind a decent package...

Re: Some newbie questions

1999-05-09 Thread John Foster
Luis M. Garcia wrote: On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 12:47:04AM +1000, Robert Norris wrote: 1 - My X server since installation starts automaticly... I don't want it to auto - start. How do I take that option out? I'm guessing you mean xdm. If your system is like mine, you'll have a file

Netscape icons not in color-WHY?

1999-05-12 Thread John Foster
OK so I'm a perfectionist! I have Netscape communicator 4.51 installed on my debian linux box. It runs fine no problems at all. I have noticed the all the icons across the top are no longer in color as with previous versions.Anyone know why or if there is something missing or set up incorrectly. I

Need Tips tricks to use Kodak DX6440 camera

2004-01-25 Thread John Foster
I have them compiled in the kernel there is no problem from a hardware standpoint..I need any advice on making this all work. Thanks! -- John Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-29 Thread John Foster
I have an idea! Why don't we figure out a way to bounce all the virus crap to the spammers. That would kill two bad birds with one big stone:-) -- John Foster Advance-Computing Systems We build amazing servers! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Web server with PHP setup mod-ssl

2004-01-29 Thread John Foster
can get. You should install apache-ssl if you want to set up a secure server especially if this is a production system. That will take care of your mod-ssl issues. Apache2 which is OK in unstable is MUCH easier to work with.but it is in UNSTABLE :-) -- John Foster Advance-Computing Systems

Re: Web server with PHP setup mod-ssl

2004-01-30 Thread John Foster
etc...that don,t quite cut it. Youi also must uncomment the line in both these files that represents the modules. /etc/apache/httpd.conf and /etc/apache-ssl/httpd.conf they are very dirrerent. -- John Foster Advance-Computing Systems We build amazing servers! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-19 Thread John Foster
. These are the real facts. I still learn something EVERY day, and have problems, mostly of my own doing. But my system has not CRASHED in 3 years while running Linux, but about every other week when running Windows. Best Wishes! -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173

Re: PGCC

1999-07-20 Thread John Foster
rather than a release, though. Just ./configure ; make bootstrap-lean ; make install should do the trick. --- What is PGCC? -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173

Re: STABLE graphical FTP clients?

1999-07-21 Thread John Foster
that gracefully. Any Ideas? Bryan --- I like WxFtp (motif static). I seems to have all the features necessary about the same as cuteftp. -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173

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