On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 10:28, Mike Egglestone wrote:
Hi,
I have a fairly new install of Potato r3 and
have apt-get install magicfilter and lprng.
I have an hp 940c deskjet printer
attached to /dev/lp0
#
# This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig.
#
lp|hp940c|hp940c:\
you'd have to export
HTH,
Richard
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On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 18:09, Dmitriy wrote:
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:13:19AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
wayne wrote:
erik
Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, same thing here. :-(
Happens when switching from X to VT.
I saw this a while ago, although there was a lot more chaff on the
screen.
see Kevin's page at:
http://www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html
--Rich
Stuart Allen wrote:
I am having trouble installing Potato on a Dell Poweredge 2450. The problem
appears to be the Perc 2/DC RAID controller. When booting off the rescue
floppy, the system hangs after the following three
. it clashes with netpbm. netpbm uses ppmtompeg. Both
of them take the same configuration file. There are examples in
/usr/share/doc/ucb-mpeg/mpeg_encode/ I think.
fame and its friends may be worth pulling if you don't need B frames.
hth
cheers, Rich
Hmmm,
Your network number should be correct, and you're right about what the
netmask *should* be. Apparantly an installation script got horribly
confused about netblocks.
Try hand-editing your network file with the correct information.
--Rich
Stan Brown wrote:
I upgraded a Debian machien
in determining
the netmask (as far as the configuration scripts go, not as far as IP
addressing goes)? Sounds like Stan did enter in his network address
correctly, so it's strange that his broadcast got set to the default
Class B mask.
--Rich
by default. Try
echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
and see if that fixes it.
cheers, Rich.
locally?
They're in stable. Or, if you use a local apt-mirror with the delete setting
set low, they're in there.
[snip rest; I have no good answers]
cheers, Rich.
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 07:31, Jason Healy wrote:
At 1002229481s since epoch (10/04/01 02:04:41 -0400 UTC), john wrote:
It's interesting that you say you have DRI working but not bus mastering.
Can
you run setpci on the device and see if bit 3 of word 4 is set? If so my
problem
isn't
On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 20:30, john wrote:
Thanks for replies so far
Stephen Gran suggested that I look for a setting in the BIOS to search PCI
1st.
Unfortunately the BIOS in this machine has a funky graphical UI (i.e. is
designed for stupid people) and has no options suitable.
This
On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 14:40, dman wrote:
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:44:01AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote:
|
| Is there any technical advantage in using a display manager
| to start X window system apart from using xinit related
| stuff from the command line ?
You get a nice pretty
'BEGIN {srand()} {print rand() \t $0 }' unshuffled.m3u \
| sort | cut -f2 shuffled.m3u
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?
thanks in advance,
rich
I'm running woody - why have mame and quake both become obsolete? (i could do
without quake, but mame is a must!)
thanks in advance
* Rob Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I found stuff like this before and have been using it:
When using mutt or slrn, text width=72
autocmd BufRead mutt*[0-9]set tw=72
autocmd BufRead .followup,.article,.letterset tw=72
Thank you very much.
Rich
* Timeboy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi!
Yesterday i tried balsa 1.1.7-3 from Sid. It looks great: I can receive
mails and also all other things may be working great. But if i try to
send a mail balsa hangs. There is no error message and no other
information about this on console.
* Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote:
Curt Howland wrote:
One more comment:
I continue to get /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy when trying to use
sound. If I cat message.au /dev/audio even as root, I get the
message /dev/audio Device or resource busy.
Some other
* Steve Dondley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Problem:
Pressing CTRL-ALT-+/- (numeric) doesn't change my screen resolution setting.
X (with sawmill)
always starts out in 1024 x 768 with 16 bpp (65,000 colors) and I can't
figure out how to change it.
Background:
For practice, I just
' to
`/home/rich/.kde/share/applnk/Debian/Sound': Permission denied
it still works when logged in as root, however. I have purged and
re-installed menu, but it still does the same thing - any ideas?
thanks in advance,
rich
Howdy all,
I've got my soundblaster card working, with appropriate entries in
/etc/modutils, but it will not autoload, and I have to do:
su -c modprobe sb
to get it to work. My /etc/group entry has:
audio:x:29:rich
so why can't I start sound as my (non-root) self?
Thanks in advance
* Cameron Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hey,
I'm trying to get this cursed Voodoo 3 3000 working in Woody, but it
doesn't seem to want to. I've installed the following packages:
mesag-glide2
glutg3
libglide2
libglide3 // i installed this after libglide2 didn't work alone
I'm
and
10 meg, go with the trusty old 3c509. Again, you should be able to find
plenty of used ones there for well under $70 each.
--Rich
John Purser wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for a source for nearly 100 10/100 ISA Ethernet cards for a
linux network I'm helping with at a local Charter School
.
/funny
--Rich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeez, this has popped up on the list A LOT lately ... check the
archives.
It's an apparently harmless Gnome Easter Egg. Poor Wanda has come in
for a lot of paranoia the last month or so! :)
Glenn Becker
if the
spacebar needs to be hit a few times, just as long as it's somewhat
functional.
--Rich
Stig Brautaset wrote:
* dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
| I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I
| used
* Greg Wiley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Tuesday, August 21, 2001 10:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to revert back to logging into a command
prompt and starting X from there.
apt-get remove xdm
If you want to keep xdm on your machine, but disabled:
update-rc.d -f xdm
the devices semi-dynamically at startup IIRC, hence a
potential ID conflict if you add a device later).
BTW: yes, a couple of people (including myself) have mentioned the
adapters.
--Rich
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dman wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:24:31PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote:
| Personally, I'm stuck with an NT box at work, so I end up using Netscape
Not to fear -- mutt works great with cygwin (just patch attachment.c
to use binary mode for opening files or else M$ will screw up
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:36:21 Gilles Pelletier wrote:
I'm used to a web - news interface, but not to email - news. I can't
post
directly to th enewsgroup. I suppose that's normal. I received two
copies
of some posts, none of others. Answering to any any of the two copies I
received, sends the
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:40:40 Eileen Orbell wrote:
Hi,
What is the simplest, compatible network card I should purchase for a
new Debian install? Thanks in advance
I got this one at a computer superstore for $12. Everything worked fine.
Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100
of Bill Gates, or any other offence that's landed
them there, and it won't bother me at all.
--Rich
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:47:07 Gilles Pelletier wrote:
We're a small group mulling over the respective merits of Debian and
Slackware for a newbie. Of course, since apt-get takes care of
installing
dependencies and upgrading the whole installed software, we were leaning
towards Debian. The
by date or by thread. Some things
are handy in curses-based environments, but a quick scroll bar in
Windows (or, X, I suppose) works pretty well for scanning mailing lists,
expecially once you get the feel for the list.
--Rich
other than
ext2? I've noticed that a df of that directory (or even a simple ls of
the com subdirectory) can take a long time on ext2. Perhaps reiserfs or
something like that might be better suited for such a directory?
--Rich
Ian Perry wrote:
Hi,
I have noticed some wierd directories on one
On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:26:53 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:08:08PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote:
The recommended fix (search the archives) is to upgrade to woody first,
then sid. Worked for me.
I assume that they're fixing this problem though, no? I mean
On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:08:10 Patrick Kirk wrote:
Me too. It was a fresh install and I formatted again.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian User Mailing List
debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 9:10 PM
,
Brett
or zcat filename.gz | more
or, if you use gnome, 'gnome-help-browser /usr/share/doc/HOWTO'. Very useable.
I've got a panel button for it :)
Rich
into a browser, just have the
clients synchronize their bookmarks file with the master file, either
manually or through a cron job. The actual transfer could be ftp, wget,
rsync, etc. If you've got NFS mounting, you could have some neat tricks
with an NFS mount and symlinks, etc...
--Rich
Walter
of creating your own.
Good luck!
--Rich
Michael Blood wrote:
Hello,
I am attempting to install Debian 2.2 on a box with an Adaptec 2100s Raid 5
Controller.
After creating the disk array using the utilities that come with the adaptec
card.
All that being done I run the debian
Err... Sorry, wrong Adaptec-related web site. The correct site is:
http://www.aurore.net/source/
The dpt patches are the ones you need.
--Rich
Rich Puhek wrote:
Michael,
You need to patch your kernel to add the necessary drivers that support
the Adaptec card. Adaptec hasn't gotten
that you have
ext2 enabled.
--Rich
John Griffiths wrote:
Hi everyone,
hoping someone can help me here
I followed the instructions on
http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html
for upgrading 2.2r3 to the 2.4 kernel.
I thought i'd followed the isntructions to the letter,
but when i
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 09:46:17 Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
i installed xserver-xfree86_4.0.3-4_i386.deb today, and simple things like
the shaped window extension disappeared. xdpyinfo reports:
number of extensions:8
LBX
MIT-SHM
SECURITY
XC-APPGROUP
XFree86-Bigfont
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:48:57 Jameson C . Burt wrote:
My email lines get split after about 76 characters.
How could I change this to something longer,
or should email lines be split at 76 characters?
This limit causes problems whenever I email Linux syslog lines,
which are seldom less than
I can't remember what I did, but now, after a few
seconds after logging onto a gnome seeion, a box pops up asking for
'password'
How can I stop that annoying thing?
--
Rich Collins
. It doesn't sound very appropriate for a fan,
which is either on, off, or possibly running at a reduced speed. There's
probably a few EEs with motor-controller experience out there who could
say more...
--Rich
Joost Kooij wrote:
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:18:21AM +0200, thomas wrote:
So my idea
-linked program can do to you!
--Rich
Matthew Sackman wrote:
In the interests of maximising hard-disc usage, I once moved the contents
of /lib to another partition (non-root) and created a sym-link. An hour
later I had repaired the damage - it really don't like
test of balsa (it stopped sending for some reason, while mutt works ;)
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:47:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi all!
I did a search for mp3 in the stable package list and got a number of
players.
Does anyone have any favorites? I'd like to hear people's opinions.
which, if any, can copy CD tracks?
thanks!
xucaen
grip
, /var should definately be in its own partition,
since otherwise you risk filling the root partition with log messages,
etc.
--Rich
Craig Dickson wrote:
(snip)
- Getting it right for the boot process (should I make / reiser or
ext2?): I assume I need to have /etc, /bin and /sbin on the root
Debian 2.2.r3 running a
webserver in runlevel 3, and I may have the machine setup as a backup MX
server and a web server in runlevel 5, without X in either.
--Rich
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www.ntdcommunications.com
message, right?) but received no reply. If you're feeling kind, reply to me
personally (if it's still less than 2 hours after this mail hits the list) so
at least I know it's getting through.
Thanks,
Rich Rudnick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And ignore the abacus and the slide rule? For shame! we must remember to
study our roots!
Remember heck week from one of the later Revenge of the Nerds movies?
--Rich
D-Man wrote:
That's a good idea, but we really ought to start with vacuum tubes,
now shouldn't we .5 wink?
-D
Howdy all,
I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect how do I find
out which .deb package provides these?
Thanks in advance,
Rich
Howdy all,
I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform
relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While
WP8 under W98, I can hold the page down key for 5 seconds, and when I
let go, the scroll immediately stops. Doing the same under linux,
users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
$
... and people ask why we run Debian :-)
--Rich
Paul Wright wrote:
so what does 114 days of uptime buy you?
A sense of pride.
does it matter that much???
To me, no. To others, maybe.
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Ummm, maybe it's just too late at night and I'm missing something, but I
think you can do what you want by editing /etc/inetd.conf, and removing
or commenting out the following line:
smtp stream tcp nowait mail/usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
--Rich
Bryan Walton wrote:
This may
port 25 to tempt spammers. Output of cron jobs and the
like will still be passed on to my smarthost.
--Rich
Jim Breton wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:33:40PM -0700, Eric N. Valor wrote:
That pretty much turns off exim altogether.
Actually the script in /etc/init.d/ will start exim
with your last boot
process. You didn't jump the gun and try logging in before your system
had completed starting up did you?
--Rich
J. Ramón Fdez wrote:
Hi all,
When I try login in my debian 2.4 as normal user, system say:
login: jramon
Sytem bootup in progress - please wait
Password
cat oldmessage | tr :German: :English: newmessage
Isn't working for me... is my tr broken?
Just a little Monday humor!
--Rich
MaD dUCK wrote:
what's going on???
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
\ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED
the server after 30 min or so, then
transparantly reconnect if you use the share again. I have a hunch that
this is related to your problem. You might want to check the server
setup to see if there's a switch to correct/change that.
--Rich
Robert Hawkey wrote:
I know this probably isn't the best
... of course, that can be kind of a chicken and egg problem for
someone without an existing installation around!
Thanks for the clarification on the version.
--Rich
Simon Law wrote:
The 905C support was broken in 2.2.18pre21, which ships with potato.
The best way to fix that is via a new kernel
Try setting your CPAN to ask for dependancies instead of automatically
installing them. That way, you can skip the perl-5.6.1 portion... maybe
anyhow.
--Rich
:x
Robert L. Harris wrote:
I just ran a perl -MCPAN and did the install Bundle::CPAN and it's
trying to install and compile perl
Adaptec makes a 4-port PCI card, Intel has some two port cards. I'm sure
there are others out there as well. If I remember correctly, the Adaptec
unfortunately took an IRQ for each port, which was a bit of a pain.
--Rich
Matthew Sackman wrote:
Hay all.
Does anyone have any knowledge
Jason,
Try:
MASQUERADE_AS(whizzird.net)
in your sendmail.mc file. That should rewrite your outgoing email as if
it all came from whizzird.net instead of the FQDN of the machine.
--Rich
Jason Majors wrote:
I have several machines, one acts as a mailserver, with an MX entry and all
Also note that if you're installing an older version of Debian, the
3c509c won't work. The older driver only worked up to the 3c509b. I'm
not sure when exactly things changed, but if you're using the latest
disk images you're ok.
--Rich
Jason Majors wrote:
The 3c59x kernel module covers
to change how some
transmit and receive buffers are allocated. They can chose how full the
buffer can get before triggering an interrupt, some can shift the buffer
sizes to favor transmission over reception, etc...
--Rich
with Stability and Standards. A single page of bad
HTML shouldn't sink all of H.M.S Netscape. That and bad HTML really
shouldn't exist. Yes, I was about to argue that that's really the
designer's fault, but browser-specific tags is what got us into this
mess.
--Rich
of experience most of us (the members
of debian-user) have with the subject.
Sorry for adding to the noise, but geez, this list is chatty enough
already to be almost unmanagable. Bottom line: let's let the discussion
die or else move it over to another list or NG.
--Rich
(loads of chatter deleted
can send error
messages to me, and stuff like that). For all those servers, I run Exim
setup to use a mail server as a smarthost. Most importantly, I remove
exim from inetd.conf, so that they're never used to relay mail.
--Rich
Peter Donaldson wrote:
I tried sendmailconfig but still i am
as a backup to
only be switched in if the primary failed, how would that be handled?
--Rich
Matthew Sackman wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:05:11PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:32:31PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
...
- even if you had 2 power supplies
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done.. this topic has wandered far enough!)
--Rich
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unplugging the hard drive and see if
the CD ROM reappears... Try plugging in just the hard drive and
unplugging the CD ROM and see if the hard drive reappears.
Of course, before doing all this you should check to see if anything
obvious (like an accidentally unplugged cable) has happened.
--Rich
.
--Rich
George M. Butler wrote:
Hi all,
I have been asking questions on this list and received lots of help. I
am new to
Linux but have some
limited experiece with Unix in the past. I have just
discovered that my employer will let me have $400 to buy books related
to my job.
I am
server jive with the /etc/bind
files?
Shouldn't you have a $ORIGIN lan. in your first file (after the @
sections)?
How does your machine show up in the logfiles? (something like telnetd
... connect from mac (192.168.1.100) or ...connect from mac.lan.
(208...?
--Rich
will trillich wrote:
Apr 17
200MB swap
/dev/hda2 5GB/
/dev/hda3 2GB/usr
/dev/hda4 (everything else) /var
Push more onto the / partition if your /home gets real big, more onto
/usr if /usr/local/src gets big, and more onto /var if your logs are
killing you for some reason.
--Rich
John Foster wrote:
I am
?
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The Automounter will help you. The documentation wasn't real clear to me
at first, but I managed to get it up and running.
See the Automounter mini-HOWTO at:
http://www.kernel.org/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Automount.html or your favorite LDP
mirror for more details.
--Rich
Stephen E. Hargrove wrote
problems enabling SMP support... that's fairly simple
(a checkbox in the kernel config). The other little details like device
drivers will get you. If you're a constant fiddler you're probably
able to figure it out though :-)
--Rich
JACKSON, DEAN wrote:
Right I have just spent the last 3 evenings
Also look at the update-rc.d command (see man update-rc.d for details).
That will allow you to do things like:
update-rc.d postres start 3 (start postres in runlevel 3)
update-rc.d postres stop 50 6 (stop postres at sequence 50 in runlevel
6)
--Rich
Alan Chen wrote:
Just as an excercise
Well... remember that most of the recent Melissa style worms are slapped
together with Visual Basic... Not a great risk that ext2 support will
show up :-)
--Rich
...and the paperclip winked at me and said: It looks like you're
writing a macro virus... Would you like help?
(another stolen .sig
-aladdin in unstable (or any Ghostscript 6.0). If you run Potato
(like me), you can always download the sources and compile it yourself.
Rich
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From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron
Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
to certain commands with root privileges. Once set
up, you can issue the command sudo wvdial ... and you'll be up and
running without worrying about setuid problems and device file
permissions.
Rich
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Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.
tranferred from win95 to
win98... my question is, will win98 allow itself to be installed on a
partition of my choosing, or will it just erase everything and install
itself wherever it wants?
Thanks in advance,
Rich
. It suffices for what I do
with it.
Good luck,
Rich
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Aren't these one-line witticisms pretentious?
, too, depending on
what your app requires. Generally, if the app requires package
libfoo, you'll need to have libfoo-dev (although check the Debian
package list (unstable) for the exact name, the correspondence is not
always 1:1).
Good luck,
Rich
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From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron
Why do
Bryan,
See the following for PERC/3 info. The first one has Debian disk images and
kernel patches that will work great to install the PERC/3. I've never tried it
on a 4200, but I have installed on an 2450.
http://www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html
http://domsch.com/linux/
--Rich
Josep
when I tried
to do a full restore, I had some problems. My impression from poking
around the code a bit symlinks are not supported.
Good luck,
Rich
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Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
/bash
cd /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives
for j in *
do
update-alternatives --auto $j
done
Rich
--
From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
there, but that's a look at the guts of the
worm anyhow...
--Rich
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Check your network cabling. I'd suspect that B may have a bad receive pair. Also
make sure that you didn't plug into an uplink port if you're not supposed to, or
that you didn't hit an uplink button on the hub.
--Rich
Jonathan Matthews wrote:
Hi -
Sorry for this intrusion into your inbox
)? If I have to reinstall all the packages (similar to upgrading
with Red Hat), is there a way to do *that*?
Thanks,
Rich
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Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
.
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/archives on another machine) so I
don't have to download the same set of packages twice for each machine.
Thanks,
Rich
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If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
Rob:
Try tar --extract --file=archive myfile
where archive is the name of your tar file, and myfile is the name of your
desired file.
See info tar for more details.
--Rich
Rob Hudson wrote:
Anyone know of a way to do this?
I need a single file out of a 1.6GB tar archive. It takes
xterm. Strange?
I last clue when I log out of Windowmaker, before switching to back
to wdm, a screen of strange SVGA-looking chaotic graphics briefly
flashes - it does NOT do this for root.
Any clues?
Thanks in advance,
Rich
xterm. Strange?
One last clue when I log out of Windowmaker, before switching to
back
to wdm, a screen of strange SVGA-looking chaotic graphics briefly
flashes - it does NOT do this for root.
Any clues?
Thanks in advance,
Rich
Manager : Command Line Options : End
ProfileManager : GetProfileDir
ProfileManager : GetProfileDir
Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : End
Segmentation fault
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Rich
be?
thanks in advance,
rich
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