Re: Sybase With Debian?

1998-07-01 Thread Paul M. Foster
or not, but if you need to learn the language, it may not matter. Hope that helps, Paul M. Foster This is a vague recollection of a conversation a long time ago and it may be incorrect. Sybase has not been ported to Linux, but it has been ported to SCO. There is a essentially

Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???

1998-07-08 Thread Paul M. Foster
mismanage something like this? Paul M. Foster -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: VideoCard

1998-07-08 Thread Paul M. Foster
Debs/Rick: I was wondering if the Diamond 3D2000 was supported under Linux? Yes. Under X, use the s3v server. I have one of these and that's what I use. Paul M. Foster -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

IRQs and memory addresses

1998-07-10 Thread Paul M. Foster
parameters at boot time)? Thanks, Paul M. Foster -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Debian New User

1998-08-11 Thread Paul M. Foster
the pppsetup package from www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/index.html. This is a pretty simple script that will assist in setting up your ISP connection. Paul M. Foster

Lilo and 2 disk drives

1998-08-24 Thread Paul M. Foster
Debs: I have two hard drives, partitioned this way: /dev/hda1 dos partition /dev/hda4 Redhat /dev/hdb2 Debian Here's my lilo.conf, sitting on /dev/hda: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=100 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=redhat root=/dev/hda4

Re: Lilo and 2 disk drives

1998-08-24 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Alan Su wrote: Paul M. Foster wrote (Mon, 24 Aug 1998 01:34:27 -0400 (EDT) ): | |Debs: | |I have two hard drives, partitioned this way: | |/dev/hda1 dos partition |/dev/hda4 Redhat |/dev/hdb2 Debian | |Here's my lilo.conf, sitting on /dev/hda: | |boot=/dev/hda

Re: Lilo and 2 disk drives

1998-08-24 Thread Paul M. Foster
Debs: Here is the followup and solution. If a kernel image is on a different hard drive, you must temporarily mount that file system and point the lilo.conf to the kernel image on it before you run lilo. So the debian image part of lilo.conf below could look like this:

Re: /var/log/messages

1998-08-28 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Stefan Frank wrote: BTW, does anybody know how to check in a bash script, wheter a PPP connection is already up ? The /var/run/ppp0.pid file is already created when the modem is still dialing the phone number. Here's another solution-- a script I wrote to do what you're

Re: Getting Win9x to Recognize Linux as a Network Drive

1998-09-02 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, DMDP wrote: Is it possible to configure Win9x to recognize a Linux (partition or physical drive) as a network drive? Has any one done this successfully? Yes and no. Not a whole drive, but directories on it via Samba. Paul

Re: Couldn't find Packages.gz

1998-09-10 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote: I start dselect, select FTP in access (using my lokal Windows-FTP-Server) and then try to make an update. I get the following error message: Couldn't find Packages.gz in dists/stable... Someone can probably answer this better, but I've run into

Re: Debian DSELECT

1998-09-14 Thread Paul M. Foster
of contributing to the doc projects, but like Kent, I know too little to do much of value. Perhaps when I know more, I'll contribute. snip mightily Paul M. Foster

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-15 Thread Paul M. Foster
use it any way we want (almost). But Bill's never given away anything in his life. Maybe I'm wrong, but the world of Microsoft is not the world of Linux, and the ownership of things in Gatesville is a lot more important than it is in Linusland. snip Paul M. Foster

FTE editor

1998-09-15 Thread Paul M. Foster
of no other Linux editors that access the terminal this way)? 2) Is there a liability to changing the permissions on these device files so that regular users have r/w access to them? Thanks, Paul M. Foster

Re: FTE editor

1998-09-15 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Daniel Martin wrote: Paul M. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debs: SNIP Two questions: 1) Is this a dangerous thing (I know of no other Linux editors that access the terminal this way)? Accessing the terminal in this way? In itself no; in fact, if all

Re: glibc

1998-09-19 Thread Paul M. Foster
, in which case they should specify that when you run dselect. Paul M. Foster

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-21 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Paul M. Foster wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: Aside from the technical issues of having Linux use windows device drivers (such as the video card drivers), are there any legal reasons why

Re: Diamond 3D 2000 with S3V to display 24 bit color

1998-09-28 Thread Paul M. Foster
of my setup files, etc. Paul M. Foster

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: outlineing program?

2003-10-06 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 07:37:59PM -0400, stan wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:19:42PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: On Son, 2003-10-05 at 22:32, stan wrote: I remeber a month or so back playing with a nice (Gnome base I think) outlining program that generated XML files as an output.

libctk question

2003-10-22 Thread Paul M Foster
Anyone using libctk? I'm having a hard time getting the examples from the source tarball to compile. Moreover, I can't find any docs or tutorial. I don't even know what apps built with this library look like. Any guidance available? Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Incremental CDR backups

2003-10-26 Thread Paul M Foster
I'm having difficulty burning incremental CDR backups. (Using Debian 3.0r1/testing.) They burn fine, but when I mount the CD after the second and subsequent backups, all I can see is the original session. Here are the commands I give Linux: (First burn) mkisofs -r -o /tmp/cdimage

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: Incremental CDR backups

2003-10-28 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:44:16AM +1100, bob parker wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:08, Paul M Foster wrote: I'm having difficulty burning incremental CDR backups. (Using Debian 3.0r1/testing.) They burn fine, but when I mount the CD after the second and subsequent backups, all I can see

Re: Incremental CDR backups -- SOLVED

2003-10-30 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:05:47PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul writes There must be something I don't understand about this. For the sake of brevity, here's an example. First burn is /home/paulf/docs. It contains the files alfa, bravo, charlie and delta. I make an ISO

Re: OT - Documenting systems

2003-11-05 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:47:00PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: Hi By stealth, I seem to be developing a sysadmin personality, what with the expanding network here and increasingly getting involved in networking on behalf of clients. I've tried various approaches to recording details of

Re: elinks -dump without tables

2004-01-26 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 05:11:59AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 07:44:07PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: I use elinks -dump to get websites into text files. However, if the website contains tables, the output isn't well-formatted for a text editor -- all the tables become

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-26 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:49:26AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 05:01:17PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: Here's another view of that data: What about this one?: | Country Aid(Billions) People(Millions) Dollars/Person | Australia 1 19.750.76 | Austria 0.5

xscreensaver and KDE

2004-02-02 Thread Paul M Foster
I've noticed that in KDE, in the Control Center, you can select screensavers to run. Actually, either just one, or all of them randomly. However, I have an ~/.xscreensaver file where all my preferences are already picked out just the way I like them. It seems that KDE ignores this file in favor of

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: xscreensaver and KDE

2004-02-03 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:37:40PM -0800, Ralph Alvy wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: I've noticed that in KDE, in the Control Center, you can select screensavers to run. Actually, either just one, or all of them randomly. Paul How do you get KDE to use all of them randomly? I don't see

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: xscreensaver and KDE

2004-02-03 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:03:59PM -0600, ABrady wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 22:48:08 -0500 Paul M Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that in KDE, in the Control Center, you can select screensavers to run. Actually, either just one, or all of them randomly. However, I have

Re: xscreensaver and KDE

2004-02-04 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 06:10:04AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:50:24PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:03:59PM -0600, ABrady wrote: IceWM and XFCE will run xscreensaver at startup if you like. I do it with my ~/.xinitrc. It's like

Re: xscreensaver and KDE

2004-02-04 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:50:24PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:03:59PM -0600, ABrady wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 22:48:08 -0500 Paul M Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip So the question is: how can I get KDE automatically start up xscreensaver

Re: [DEB-USER] OT: C++ mailing list sought

2004-02-22 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:59:15PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Please forgive me asking this question here. Since accu.org charges for mailing list access and the Cpp list @topica was pretty bad when I last checked it out (or is this not the case anymore?), I am looking for a C++ mailing

PPP and internet connectivity

2000-10-14 Thread Paul M Foster
and gateway via the route command, but otherwise, PPP won't set one. Does anyone have a clue what could be the matter? Paul M. Foster

Re: connecting to concentric.net

1999-12-28 Thread Paul M. Foster
is a fairly standard setup. However, they use PAP authentication, so you'll have to include that. If you need more details, let me know. Paul M. Foster

Re: Proposal: Source file package format (summary)

1999-12-31 Thread Paul M. Foster
don't know of any analog for it on Debian. Paul M. Foster

Re: Proposal: Source file package format (summary)

1999-12-31 Thread Paul M. Foster
of software IMHO. Never used it, but I can imagine. Just thoughts... On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 03:42:58AM -0500, Paul M. Foster wrote: There are two really horrible things about Debian, though. 1) The dselect package handler. I'm speaking from Debian 2.1 here. It has a very primitive interface

Ethernet question

2000-01-10 Thread Paul M. Foster
setting somewhere in the init/rc hierarchy that I need to make to have it automatically load. In addition, it appears that the NIC card is not associating with a real IP address, only 0.0.0.0. Any idea how to fix this as well? Paul M. Foster

GPM question

2000-01-10 Thread Paul M. Foster
case, the mouse appears to not work at all at the console under gpm. No cursor shows up, and according to ps ax, gpm does not continue after the above error. Paul M. Foster

AOpen video card question

2000-01-10 Thread Paul M. Foster
Stealth 3D 2000. But surely someone has had success setting it up? Paul M. Foster

Re: AOpen video card question

2000-01-11 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, John Dalbec wrote: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I've got an AOpen PT75 II card that I tried to set up under X. It has an 86C385 chip on it. I tried S3V, SVGA and VGA16 servers, I tried autoprobing it, specifying the chipset, calling

Modules/Ethernet setup

2003-11-30 Thread Paul M Foster
When I was installing Deb 3.0r1 on a new machine, I couldn't find what I thought was the right module/driver for the ethernet card, so I just skipped it. Later I found the right driver. I can get the card up and working. Manually, I can do it this way: modprobe natsemi ifconfig eth0 inet

Windows character sets and Linux

2003-12-01 Thread Paul M Foster
I've often seen webpages where certain characters (primarily things like apostrophes, quotes and such) show as '?' under Linux. I believe this is a problem with character sets in Windows versus Linux. I'm assuming that if I include the proper locale in Linux, this problem will go away. Does

LILO ! framebuffer

2003-08-21 Thread Paul M Foster
Installation: Debian 3.0r1, kernel 2.4.16tsc, very old video card, so no weird nvidia drivers or anything. This is a machine I'm converting over from Red Hat 6.2. I'll searched for framebuffer in the Debian User archives for the last six months, and don't see the answer to this question. On

Re: LILO ! framebuffer

2003-08-22 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:39:07AM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Paul M Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Installation: Debian 3.0r1, kernel 2.4.16tsc, very old video card, so no weird nvidia drivers or anything. This is a machine I'm converting over from Red Hat 6.2. I'll

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: money/quicken/?

2003-08-24 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 05:28:11AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 02:33, Paul Johnson wrote: --snip-- Gnucash can track finances in multiple accounts, keeping running and reconciled balances. It has an X based graphical user interface, double entry, a hierarchy of

Re: LILO ! framebuffer

2003-08-26 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:29:14AM -0400, R Ransbottom wrote: Paul M Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On boot, I'm getting the framebuffer, with the little colored Tux in the upper lefthand corner of the screen. I don't want that, I want Had the same problem and the same

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-28 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:15:13AM -0500, Michael Heironimus wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:57:27PM -0400, Al Davis wrote: Learn the style, so when someone gives you a COBOL-style program in C++, you will understand it. Do not underestimate the value of this. You can take a COBOL

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:11:08AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: The recent COBOL discussion has gotten me to thinking. Some languages seem to be very popular in some situations. C is easily the dominant language for most things Linux. So therein lies the question. Why, exactly, is C so

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:08:08AM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: Hi! On Wed Aug 27, 2003 at 07:12:35PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: and others. In the last few years, I switched over to C++. I have never taken so long to write programs in my entire life as when I was coding in C

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:07:35AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 22:57, bob parker wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:55, Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 04:06, Alfredo Valles wrote: On Wednesday 27 August 2003 3:59 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at

Bouncing emails via procmail

2003-09-09 Thread Paul M Foster
Folks: I'm running Debian Testing, exim and procmail. Probably half my email is spam, which procmail dutifully diverts into a spam folder. But I'm wondering if it would be possible to get procmail to actually bounce email back to senders when it's designated as spam. I know MTAs can do this,

Debian CD Install Problems

2003-02-01 Thread Paul M Foster
I purchased the Debian 3.0r1 CDs from Cheapbytes recently, and have been unable to install from them. I had a similar thing happen with the 3.0 CDs. Here's what happens: Debian boots from the first CD, asks questions as usual, then asks for all the CDs to scan them. It builds the list of packages

Re: Debian CD Install Problems

2003-02-02 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:03:08PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: I purchased the Debian 3.0r1 CDs from Cheapbytes recently, and have been unable to install from them. I had a similar thing happen with the 3.0 CDs. Here's what happens: Debian boots from the first CD, asks questions as usual

Jerky Mouse

2003-02-02 Thread Paul M Foster
I've got a Microtel mini-ITX motherboard with a PS/2 mouse port on the back. A cheapo wheel mouse came with the machine, and worked for a while, then became jerky in X, and likewise in the console (gpm). I replaced it with another (almost new) wheel mouse, same story. So then I replaced that with

Trident CyberBlade/i1 and graphics characters

2003-02-03 Thread Paul M Foster
I've got a Trident CyberBlade/i1 display controller on my motherboard, and am running Deb 3.0r1 and X version 3. When I go from an X environment to a console (Ctrl-Alt-Fn), the normal graphics characters (like arrows, lines, etc.) are now hacked up. They show up as odd shaded areas or what have

Re: RPM and db3

2003-02-09 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 07:31:06PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:34:23AM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: When I try to run rpm to install an RPM package (yeah, I know), I get the following errors, and rpm does nothing: error: Cannot open Packages index using db3

Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...

2003-02-19 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:30:55PM +, Dave Selby wrote: I need an application to remind me when certain events are due, ie wifes birthday etc !!, I have tried korganiser, which has an alarm facility to flash a warning on the screen. This is AOK if the system is up and I am logged on as

Replicating a system... sort of

2003-02-19 Thread Paul M Foster
I'm attempting to set up a replacement system for the one on my desk. (When done, I'll swap them out.) This gets awfully tedious when I have to pick every package in dselect. My current desktop is a Woody, but the system I'm setting up is testing. I have a list of packages that I put on every

Mouse Cursor Offset in X

2003-03-05 Thread Paul M Foster
It seems like I've read about this problem before, but I can seem to find it in the archives. I have Debian testing running, with the X 4.2 statically linked binary. I'm running a Cyberblade i/1 video card, and a generic wheel mouse (IMPS/2). Sometimes when I go into X, the mouse cursor will

NFS/Apache Permissions

2002-10-25 Thread Paul M Foster
Two machines running Debian 3.0. spaceghost is a file/webserver on the local network (behind a firewall). Permissions/ownership on some directories: drwxrwxr-x /var/www root web drwxrwxr-x /var/www/mywebsite root web User on this machine is paulf, which belongs to group web. rocky is a

LaTeX and loops

2002-11-10 Thread Paul M Foster
Anyone who knows how to do loops (like for loops) in LaTeX, could you please contact me offlist? (This is way too esoteric for anyone else to be interested.) Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: Mouse Cursor Offset in X

2003-03-06 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:25:55AM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: Paul == Paul M Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul It seems like I've read about this problem before, but I can seem Paul to find it in the archives. Paul I have Debian testing running, with the X 4.2 statically linked Paul

Re: [DEB-USER] Mouse/X (XFConfig-4 is right)

2003-03-12 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:27:18AM +, Olivier wrote: Hello, I have my mouse correctly configured (and it used to work). However, from time to time, the pointer ( -| on screen) is displayed a little BESIDE the X Window think it actualy is. This results in the fact I do not `click'

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: How should we handle people who can not unsubscribe?

2003-03-29 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:50:58PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 06:54:28PM +, Pigeon wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:25:08AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: It would help if the listmaster was someone who actually *read* this list. Yeah, this

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: How should we handle people who can not unsubscribe?

2003-03-31 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:01:37PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: snip If you think that any organization would be willing to hand over listmaster powers to anyone on the 'net, you are probably too innocent to be a list master. My gosh, you guys act like a listmaster is God. It's not

Mozilla idealab link

2003-03-31 Thread Paul M Foster
I'm running testing, and the Mozilla that comes with it. Every time I start the program, it goes to a local page on my hard drive which has my favorite links on it. Immediately thereafter, before I do anything else, it jumps to http://find.idealab.com. This is pretty obnoxious behavior. I've

Re: Mozilla idealab link

2003-04-01 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:45:11PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: I'm running testing, and the Mozilla that comes with it. Every time I start the program, it goes to a local page on my hard drive which has my favorite links on it. Immediately thereafter, before I do anything

fetchmail incorrect headers retention

2003-06-01 Thread Paul M Foster
I'm having a problem with testing's version of fetchmail (6.2.1). It is leaving mail on my pop server, with the error message (in part): incorrect header line found while scanning headers. Every time it hits a piece of mail and issues this error message, it does not retrieve it from the pop

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: fetchmail incorrect headers retention

2003-06-01 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 05:55:57PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 31 May 2003 3:56 pm, Paul M Foster wrote: I'm having a problem with testing's version of fetchmail (6.2.1). It is leaving mail on my pop server, with the error message

USB Printer

2003-12-21 Thread Paul M Foster
Trying to hook up and run an Epson Stylus Photo R300M, which has only a USB connection to the computer. Using CUPS for my printing software. OS is Debian stable. When I try to tell CUPS to send a test page, it says it can't access /dev/usb/lp0, that there is no such device. Of course, the

Console/X transfer problems

2003-12-21 Thread Paul M Foster
I think I've seen this problem discussed before, but I don't know how I'd even query the archives on it. I'm on Debian stable, version 4.1.0.1 of xserver-xfree86, running a Trident Cyberblade i/1 video card and a generic monitor. Here's the problem: When I'm in X and switch out to a console

Versions by Debian release

2003-12-24 Thread Paul M Foster
I had a problem with X that I posted earlier this week to this list. I didn't receive any replies, and I had a feeling that the only answer was going to be upgrading xserver-xfree86 from the version I was running under stable. I did an apt-get update and apt-get --dry-run install xserver-xfree86.

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: Versions by Debian release

2003-12-26 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 07:45:42PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 12:03:28AM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: Now the question is: If I could do this, then why haven't we backported X (version 4.3) to stable? If you had

Unresolve symbols, running kernel

2003-12-28 Thread Paul M Foster
I'm trying to build the Wacom tablet driver from the linuxwacom project, and in attempting to load the resultant wacom.o module, I get three unresolved symbols: input_register_device_Rd7e250e3 input_event_Rbe7e42b3 input_unregister_device_Rcf34c401 I have the 2.4.18-1-k6 kernel image that loads

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: 2.6.0 + where is /etc/modules?

2004-01-04 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 05:29:34PM +0100, Pascal Seiler wrote: As a not for long time Linux (debian) user I'm totally confused about loading kernel modules in Kernel 2.6.0. I figured out that Kernel 2.6.0 uses module-init-tools. I dought that this will autodetect needed modules at boot time

Re: Cursor problems

2004-01-05 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:41:26AM -0500, Robert C. Thyberg wrote: I put this on the debian-laptop list but got no response. Have tried the Debian support pages but found no help there. I was advised to try this list by Tapio Lehtonen. What: SONY VAIO F490 650Mhz Intel, 18GB HDD

RE: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-15 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:10:46PM +1100, Matthew Joyce wrote: snip A humble request: could everybody be more consciencous about dropping offensive terms like KKK. The cognitive processes preceding such an utterance disturb me. Being from the South, I am really sensitive about

Re: [users] editing /etc/init.d

2001-07-12 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:46:53PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: also sprach john gennard (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 03:30:03PM +0100): So far I've not touched this area and find the manpage for 'update-rc.d' a little confusing. The script to be edited is linked to /etc/rc0/ /etc/rc6/ (as

Re: best practice for tar and gzip?

2001-08-12 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:46:42AM -0700, patrick q wrote: Hi, I have a lot of important archives, up to 10,000 files per ~10 Meg tar.gz tarball, that I like to keep as safe as possible. I test the archives when I create them, have backups, and off-site backups of backups, but I am

Re: Fwd: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1132

2001-08-14 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:22:17AM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: For once I am ashamed to be Australian.. No, I will never be ashamed of being an Australian. snip On behalf of all the educated Australians, I pray that you do not judge us all by the occasional fool. We are not all ignorant.

Re: DEB vs RPM

2001-08-23 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:43:06PM -0700, Miaoling Chiu wrote: I just received my September issue of LinuxFormat Magazine. The following from page 62 should be of interest to this group: RPMs in, DEBs out LINUX STANDARDS BOARDS SETTLES ON RPM The Linux Standards Board has recently

Re: OT: Collecting data in text files

2001-08-27 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:29:17PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: I have am currently dual booting to debian and would like to change to rely more on debian and related applications. I currently collect lists of information on many topics such as restaurants, phone lists, file folders,

Re: samba and nfs exporting same partition

2001-08-30 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:39:38PM -0400, James D Strandboge wrote: I have used samba, and I have used nfs, but haven't used both on the same machine, trying to export the same files. It may sound odd but I need to use samba because of windows machines, but want to use nfs for a few linux

Snort report questions

2001-09-05 Thread Paul M Foster
See the following message emitted by snort. The 207.* and 206.* addresses below are my ISP nameservers. The 192.* address is my wife's Windows machine on the network. I received the message at my machine. All machines are behind the firewall. Two things are peculiar. First, the destination IP is

Re: [DEB] Re: A good c++ mailing list

2001-09-20 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:26:24AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: snip you *need* to get Bjarne Stroustrups The C++ Programming Language 3rd edititon. in addition, www.accu.org has a public mailing list accu-general, which sports very competent people. but don't even think to confuse MFC with

Logcheck and Postfix

2001-06-10 Thread Paul M Foster
In Debian 2.2, logcheck is configured out of the box to mail reports to root every hour. I'm using Postfix for my MTA. Here's what's happening: logcheck mails its report to root, which is translated into [EMAIL PROTECTED] On my local lan, the domain is mars.lan, but I get my email from my ISP at

(FWD) rocky 06/14/01:07.02 system check

2001-06-14 Thread Paul M Foster
Anyone have a clue what/why the following? I know logcheck is sending me this, but it looks weird. Paul - Forwarded message from root [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rocky 06/14/01:07.02 system check Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 07:02:03 -0400

Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-01 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 04:16:48PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: snip Debian is working with a group from RH and elsewhere on a interchangeable packaging system, but it is a ways off. This is the real answer. LSB has compromised in a way that benefits the most distributions. As is

Upgrade CD-ROM Woes

2001-09-29 Thread Paul M Foster
I was having some trouble pulling some more packages off my Debian 2.2 CD-ROM via dselect, and was fiddling around with it. Finally, I accidentally started the process of upgrading, via ftp, my installation. Half an hour or so later, the process was done. I have to say that Debian is the _only_

Re: Upgrade CD-ROM Woes

2001-09-30 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 06:57:57PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: * Paul M Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010929 17:44]: ... Prior to the upgrade, I also used xmcd to play CD's through the jack on the front of the CD-ROM. However, after the upgrade, none of the CD-ROM programs will even

Re: [DEB] Re: *total* switch of CapsLock and Ctrl

2001-10-13 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:01:33PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Eugene Tyurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011011 17:59]: Hello, I would like to remap CapsLock and LeftCtrl keys on my system - not only for X, but also for console system-wide. Obviously, I have to do better than

Re: [DEB] Freegeek non profit SHOULD use non-profit libr? Linux distro.

2001-10-16 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:45:28AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: The first in-a-rut NERDO that clackers about flame bait or flame war get's E (gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable) pushed on the message and I go on to read the coherent responses. ;-) I've been LIFTING WEIGHTS and can push it

Debian S-L-O-W Upgrading

2001-10-22 Thread Paul M Foster
I just know I'm gonna get flamed for this, but... I love Debian, I truly do. Upgrades/updates are seamless. No crappy proprietary admin tools, just bare metal and vi for configs. Lots of little programs you don't get on other distros. Rock solid. But... it's like a year behind every other distro

Re: [DEB] Re: Debian S-L-O-W Upgrading

2001-10-23 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 11:39:59PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: I just know I'm gonna get flamed for this, but... snip But... it's like a year behind every other distro out there. As an example, I checked testing and unstable to see the latest version

mount/NFS/file copy problems

2009-01-14 Thread Paul M Foster
soft,intr,timeo=12,wsize=8192,rsize=8192 0 0 Here is the relevant content in the server's /etc/exports: /lan sherman(rw,sync,no_root_squash) So, effectively, root *is* being squashed, and even as the owner of the file I (paulf) can't do the copy. Any help would be appreciated. Paul -- Paul M

Re: Thanks to all -- Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?

2020-08-15 Thread Paul M Foster
nders, but it does show them in a nice calendar format on a web page. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-25 Thread Paul M Foster
e server and the browser; you just have to write some HTML, which is pretty easy. Otherwise, you're looking at fiddly code with GTK or QT (or ncurses). Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com

Permissions on NFS mounts

2020-12-09 Thread Paul M Foster
importantly, if I copy files to this share from the client, they will look like they belong to pi (user 1000) on the server. Is there some way in the /etc/exports file to adjust the parameters so that files retain my ownership on the server? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 04:52:02PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:34:24 -0500 > > Paul M Foster wrote: > > > > > > > > > > OMG. That's not an email list. It's a newsgroup. I didn't know anyone > > > u

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-12 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 10:45:01AM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 12/12/20 8:34 am, Paul M Foster wrote: > > I made various minor changes (like changing the mount to /music) and now > > the problem appears to be resolved. As is sometimes the case, the > > problem ge

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