Re: Security camera management software

2004-08-02 Thread Jeff Noxon
Have a look at Zoneminder (http://www.zoneminder.com/), a very nice surveillance app for Linux. Linux Media Labs makes 4 8-port analog capture cards that work with this app. On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:01:40AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Nelson

Re: A way of setting up a computer for routing *just* port 113?

2004-03-27 Thread Jeff Noxon
It sounds like you just need to install one of the fake identd packages, like nullidentd, and make your router forward port 113 requests to that. nullidentd will always answer foobar to any request. I run it on my router (a Debian machine) to fool silly IRC servers which require an ident service

Cheap dual-port NIC, anyone?

2000-07-26 Thread Jeff Noxon
Does anyone know of a cheap ($100 or less) dual-port NIC card? Or quadport? The best deal I am aware of is $150 for an Intel Dual 10/100 Server adapter, and that card requires two IRQs for some reason... Thanks Jeff

Re: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Jeff Noxon
There is no such thing as a cheap inkjet printer IMHO. They all cost a fortune to operate. They work on the razor blade principle -- they give away the handle and expect to make money on the blades. I would personally suggest a used laser printer. I see HP laserjets at garage sales all the

Re: Oracle 8i and Debian?

2000-06-27 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm running Oracle 8 w/ Potato on a production server. It was a PITA to get running but it runs very well. You'll find the discussion forums at Oracle.com an invaluable resource. Regards Jeff

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
Instead of asking the Debian mailing list for help with VMware's Samba, you should probably try using Debian's Samba -- which works just fine. :) Is VMWare 2.0 significantly faster than 1.x? I used it for a while and gave up. Good luck, Jeff On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 04:24:17PM -0600, Robert

Re: Wheel mouse not working...oy.

2000-06-13 Thread Jeff Noxon
FWIW, I tried using icewm and was unable to get the mouse wheel working with Netscape. But when I switched to sawfish (from Helix Gnome), the mouse wheel works in most programs including Netscape and Mozilla. Regards, Jeff -- Help Microsoft end piracy! Give Linux to a friend today! On Tue,

Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?

2000-06-11 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 06:43:12PM +0200, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: I am currently searching a program similar to Adobe Acrobat under Linux that makes PDF-files out of files of all kinds... gs contains a program called ps2pdf that will convert any Postscript file to PDF. PDF is mostly

Re: Promise Ultra66 Controller...

2000-06-05 Thread Jeff Noxon
I have one, and it works great. Download the IDE patches relative to 2.2.15 from www.linux-ide.org. Regards, Jeff On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:12:37PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote: Anyone get the Ultra66 controller to work in the kernel? I don't want to use it as a module, and I don't see it in

Re: Promise Ultra66 Controller...

2000-06-05 Thread Jeff Noxon
. Kelly Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Noxon wrote: I have one, and it works great. Download the IDE patches relative to 2.2.15 from www.linux-ide.org.

Re: Promise Ultra66 Controller...

2000-06-05 Thread Jeff Noxon
On my system, I see messages like this: hda: Maxtor 54098U8, ATA DISK drive hdc: Maxtor 91728D8, ATA DISK drive hde: Maxtor 91152D8, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0xac00-0xac07,0xb002 on irq 5 ide1 at 0xb400-0xb407,0xb802 on irq 5 ide2 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: Maxtor 54098U8, 39082MB w/2048kB

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-19 Thread Jeff Noxon
Have you looked at Best Power? The Fortress line is very competitive with APC, and comes with software and source code! Onvia.com carries them, and with free shipping and the various $25 coupon codes floating around... You can't beat the price! I bought one on back-order, and it arrived in two

Trick serial port question!

2000-04-26 Thread Jeff Noxon
I need to be able to open a dumb-terminal session to a serial port, while forcing RTS low. Strange, yes, but an absolute requirement. Can this be done with any existing utilities? kermit? Thanks Jeff

Re: Frozen, Potato or Woody?

2000-04-24 Thread Jeff Noxon
Frozen and Potato are the same thing (for now). You probably don't want to mess with Woody, particularly without doing a Potato upgrade first. In other words, upgrade to Potato. Apt-get is your best bet for a successful upgrade. You will need more disk space -- enough to hold new versions of

Re: Asus K7V motherboard

2000-04-14 Thread Jeff Noxon
If it didn't work, you'd be seeing posts about it. It's very unusual for an off-the-shelf motherboard to have problems with Linux these days. I'm about to buy a K7V myself. Linux works just fine on my K7M. Regards, Jeff On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:01:29AM +0200, Alfredo Amiel P. Leonardia

Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian

2000-04-11 Thread Jeff Noxon
Why, pray tell, are you trying to install RedHat postgresql RPMs on a Debian system? Debian has postgresql 6.5.3 already, in frozen. What you are doing with RPMs is just asking for trouble. The easiest thing to do is just upgrade your whole system to frozen. If you can't, then set up apt

Re: Transparent network bridge+filter?

2000-01-19 Thread Jeff Noxon
change -- it is not under my control. Thanks!! Jeff On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 08:42:00AM +0100, Onno Ebbinge wrote: At 02:08 PM 1/18/00 -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: Can anything that runs on Linux do reliable network bridging filtering? I need a transparent filter that I can drop into an existing

Transparent network bridge+filter?

2000-01-18 Thread Jeff Noxon
Can anything that runs on Linux do reliable network bridging filtering? I need a transparent filter that I can drop into an existing network. Ipfilter will do the job with Open/NetBSD. It may work on Linux, but requires kernel 2.0.35 and isn't compatible with glibc. Any suggestions would be

Re: Sound Blaster Live!

1999-10-06 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 07:57:16PM -, Pollywog wrote: I am using SB 16 (Vibra I believe it is called) and I use the OSS-Linux drivers, which cost me $20. They only allow half-duplex. Are there other drivers that allow this card to be used in full-duplex mode? I believe those cards only

Re: Flat-panel monitors?

1999-09-29 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 05:57:27PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: I was wondering what luck, if any, you guys have had with flat panel monitors in Debian. Has everything worked as it should? I'm using an SGI 1600SW (17.4 wide) with the #9 card it's bundled with. The X-Server for this card really

Re: Flat-panel monitors?

1999-09-29 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:59:42AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: I'm using an SGI 1600SW (17.4 wide) with the #9 card it's bundled with. A co-worker of mine owns this same monitor (boy is it sweet!) and uses the Acclerated X server. It's much faster and less buggy. You may want to check

Re: large hard disks (again)

1999-09-22 Thread Jeff Noxon
The 2.2 kernels will properly detect 1024 cylinders. For other kernels, you can put fdisk in xpert mode and override its detection, or you can also specify the disk geometry on the kernel command line. Regards, Jeff On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 05:14:25AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I have posted

Re: large hard disks (again)

1999-09-22 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 10:15:37AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Exactly what I suspected. Only how to figure out the geometry in the first place? Anyway I now have that information for the disk in question. As soon as potato is release it will be water under the bridge. Possible sources: -

Re: Riva TNT

1999-08-27 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 10:27:33AM -0400, Samantha Summers wrote: I have a Velocity 4400 which uses the Riva TNT. I thought this was built in the SVGA X server, but if it is, XF86Setup doesn't see it. I think I have the most current XF86Setup and SVGA server offered in stable. They are

Re: Mylex DAC960

1999-08-11 Thread Jeff Noxon
Installing Debian on a system with a DAC960 is not easy. I've done it several times, *by hand*, using the Debian rescue disk only to get a shell prompt. Let me repeat that it is very difficult, and I wouldn't be able to walk you through it. It works wonderfully once installed, however. I would

Re: 8MB PCI 1600x1200@76Hz video card suggestion?

1999-06-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 12:59:31PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I found: STB Velocity 4400 Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Riva TNT ASUS V3400 TNT (AGP only) Diamond Viper V550 Hercules Dynamite TNT What version of XFree is required, and what xserver do we use? Just about any

Re: 8MB PCI 1600x1200@76Hz video card suggestion?

1999-06-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm not sure who started this thread, but I recommend the nVidia RIVA TNT chip. You can buy a 16MB TNT card (PCI or AGP) for $99 at Best Buy. You can find them cheaper on the 'net. Creative Labs makes one, and so do several other companies. They work very well under both Windoze and X. And the

Re: 8MB PCI 1600x1200@76Hz video card suggestion?

1999-06-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 03:14:40PM -0400, Sean wrote: I've often wanted to go with a TNT card, but I'm concerned about the card's heat output. Every query I've ever made about just how hot does this card run has been left largely unanswered, which has just increased my trepidation about

Re: Mission critical Debian

1999-06-03 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm using it for two mission critical point-of-sale support applications for a Fortune 10 company. In fact we have used Linux in one of these roles since mid-95 (starting w/ Slackware and migrating to Debian later.) Plans for others are in the works. Slackware was a mess, but Debian is very

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Noxon
Oh, no. Let's not start another GNOME-vs-KDE thread. Please! On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 08:47:47PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. [ Rest deleted ]

Re: Potato

1999-04-21 Thread Jeff Noxon
At least 99% of Slink works with 2.2.x kernels. I have several machines running kernels 2.2.5/2.2.6 on Slink. I'm running Potato on one machine, and at the moment it is stable, but that will change from time to time during the course of the development cycle. Unless you want to deal with the

Re: new ATI graphics boards

1999-04-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
You might be better off avoiding ATI graphics boards under Linux. ATI is not cooperative with the developer community and drivers tend to take a while to get written stabilize. I've suffered through problems with several generations of Mach64 cards. Maybe the new boards work great already, but

Re: Citrix ICA and Debian Linux 2.0

1999-04-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
Try running 'ldd' on the executable to see what is missing. I.e., ldd winframe Or whatever the name of the executable is. Follow up here. Regards, Jeff On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 04:59:41PM +0200, Peter Niessink wrote: I'm a novice linux user, coming the spoiled-brat world of M$ ;-) Has

Re: cd-to-cd burning

1999-04-13 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 01:34:50PM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: What is the best way to do CD-to-CD copying under Linux? Specifically, I have a copy of the official debian 2.1 (slink) CD of which I want to burn an identical copy. Is it necessary to make an ISO9660 image from the current CD

Re: cd-to-cd burning

1999-04-13 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:51:16PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: Haven't tried this one, but: dd if=/dev/cdrom1 of=/dev/stdout bs=1048576|cdrecord dev= speed=?? -v -xa2 /dev/stdin (try it with the -dummy flag first as I've never done this!) It won't work because cdrecord has to know the

Re: K6 error

1999-04-13 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:40:17PM -0500, ktb wrote: AMD K6 stepping B detected - probably OK (after B9730) Check the serial number on your CPU. If it's this number, you're fine. If you have less than 32 MB, you're fine, unless you plan to add more. If you have a buggy chip, you can call

Document processing? (TeX/SGML?)

1999-04-12 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm looking for the best tool to create a professional-looking document once, and then render it in the following formats: HTML Postscript PDF ASCII I'm not concerned so much about a learning curve as I am about flexibility and results. Microsoft Word and other GUI-based products drive me nuts

Re: purge will not remove autofs

1999-04-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
Add an exit 0 to the top of the prerm script and try again. i.e., #!/bin/bash exit 0 Regards, Jeff On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 03:31:18PM -0400, Paul Kirschner wrote: In the process of installing and removing autofs and amd, I got autofs locked up so that I cannot remove, purge, install or

Re: CDDB updates

1999-02-12 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 06:21:03PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: Is there any way to upload a record to a CDDB server (either the cddb one, or in a local record)? I have a cd in front of me that gcd refuses to play because cddb doesn't produce a match for that CD id xmcd? That's the program

Re: SAMBA and Peer Networks?

1999-02-04 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 08:21:24PM +, tracheotomy bob wrote: I have installed SAMBA on my machine at work but what I really want to do is to be able to read other peoples shared Windows9x folder et al. It this possible with SAMBA or is SAMBA just a server-side application? SAMBA

Re: Search and Replace

1999-01-08 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 08:49:10AM -0700, John Greer wrote: I know that this is not Debian specific but I thought I would give it a shot anyway. I need to search a series of files for a text string (grep I know) and then I need to replace that string with another. Is there a command or

Re: SIIG SCSI AP-10 PCI Adapter Debian Help?

1998-12-22 Thread Jeff Noxon
There is an Initio driver available on the Initio website. The driver is also in the latest kernel snapshots from Alan Cox. If this information does not help you, let me know and I'll get more specific. SIIG does not make its own cards. They just buy cheap ones and sell them with their name

IDE RAID 1 Hardware - Experiences?

1998-12-22 Thread Jeff Noxon
I want to use a PCI RAID-1 IDE controller on a mission-critical Linux box. Are there any problems I'm likely to face? How will I know if a disk has gone bad? I want to avoid the software RAID driver because I need the system to be bootable even after a disk failure, without operator

Re: 64megs to 192megs of ram

1998-12-20 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:33:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Dec, Nuno Carvalho wrote: If you're using lilo you need to add to your lilo.conf the following line: append=mem=128M I not sure if 2.1.x kernels need that ! Yes, all kernels need it. The 64meg barrier is

Re: 8G ide harddrive limit?

1998-12-18 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 09:47:39AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I just brought 17.2G ide harddrive, and when I try to use cfdisk to partition it, it only sees 8G. FWIW, I updated cfdisk to ones in frozen. Bios and Linux bootup sees it as 17.2G, so I don't know why cfdisk will not.:(

Re: Compiling Netscape with LessTif?

1998-12-18 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:28:38PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: I vaguely recall some-one talking about compiling Netscape with lesstif, saving a lot of memory. Is this possible, and how would it be done. I searched in the debian-user archives, but all I found were some generic advice on

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! (fwd)

1998-12-17 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 12:33:00PM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: Here's the link. According to the stats I was 3rd to download, so I figured it was hard to find. The stats said that for me too, so something must be broken. (And I was so impressed by my own timing...) ;) Regards, Jeff

Re: how to put apache under hosts.{allow,deny}'s control?

1998-12-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 02:04:04PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: Subject says it all. How can I put non-inetd services under hosts.{allow,deny}'s control? If you really want that, the best thing to do is run Apache from inetd. According to the manpage it can be run that way. Regards, Jeff

Re: Creating 1.743MB Debian Rescue Disk

1998-12-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
I can't even get superformat/dd to create resc1743. I think we really need a 1.44MB rescue disk for systems that can't handle the oddball disk sizes. In my case, superformat formats/verifies just fine, but dd fails with a bunch of floppy driver errors. I ended up installing slink on a machine

Re: Segmentation faults

1998-12-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 06:22:54PM -0500, Tom wrote: Could anyone please answer these questions about segmentation faults? What is a Segmentation Fault? How do I trace its cause? How are they normally fixed. Why don't I get a core dump when they happen? Thank you It's a memory access

Re: quicky postgreSQL question

1998-11-25 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 02:47:53PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: How can I read in a comma delimited file and have the contents added to a SQL table? I seem to recall there being a program that did this for postgres. I've always done that kind of thing using Perl. You can use the postgres libraries,

Re: SQL Database performance

1998-11-19 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 04:58:00PM +, Martin Oldfield wrote: Does anyone have a feel for the relative performance of the various SQL databases in Debian ? I'd also be interested to know how these compare to something like Oracle (under either NT or Linux). I'm looking to manage two

Re: source code for /bin/login?

1998-11-12 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 02:09:33PM -0500, John B. Fink wrote: Hi folks, Due to an extreme amount of idiocy at the place where I work, I have need to modify the /bin/login program so that instead of displaying this -- adler login: it will display this -- login: [snipped] If you

Re: HELP slink upgrade: netscape: locale `C' not supported

1998-11-12 Thread Jeff Noxon
Re-install xlib6g and it should work. Now if only I could get Acrobat working again... Regards, Jeff

Re: How much RAM do I need?

1998-11-11 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 01:58:16PM -0800, Eric House wrote: I need to decide whether to upgrade my Debian laptop to 48 or 80 meg (from the current 16). Is there any way to log how much swap is currently getting used during the activities I run all the time? Try vmstat free Any other

[SMP] P2 Database Srvr: 1x450 or 2x350 CPUs?

1998-11-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm setting up a Debian box for my client as an Oracle server. I'm torn between Dual 350's or a single 450 MHz chip. The price is the same. The machine will have 256MB of RAM and a 16MB RAID-5 controller (either Mylex or AMI), and four Cheetah 9GB drives. Linux kernel will probably be

Re: [SMP] P2 Database Srvr: 1x450 or 2x350 CPUs?

1998-11-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 11:47:18AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: I'm setting up a Debian box for my client as an Oracle server. I'm torn between Dual 350's or a single 450 MHz chip. The price is the same. The machine will have 256MB of RAM and a 16MB

Re: Multiple IP addresses on one Machine

1998-11-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 02:58:21PM -0500, Collin Rose wrote: I am trying to setup Multiple IP addresses on one Machine. CAn anyone tell me how to do this? I.e. Apache will bind to one IP and the server itself uses another. You can use IP aliasing to do that. You need to have it enabled in the

Re: SOLVED: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?

1998-10-21 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 06:16:40PM -0500, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: Hi, Disregard my previous message. I already learned how to do it. Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to first session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people

Re: DRIVERS FOR DFE-530TX (D-LINK)

1998-10-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 01:48:27PM +0100, jrivas wrote: Anybody knows where i can get DFE-530TX (D-Link) drivers? Isn't that one using a DEC chipset? If so, try the tulip driver. Regards, Jeff -- It's time to close windows and open source. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Re: Oracle

1998-10-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 10:12:33PM -0400, Bedrock LAN Administrator wrote: alien -i oracle.rpm (or whatever the filename turns out to be) Oracle is a ~145mb .tar.gz file. It has its own installer. Regards, Jeff -- It's time to close windows and open source. Linux is a trademark of Linus

Re: Oracle

1998-10-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:25:56AM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Debian is not a company to sign up with. You can use Oracle on Debian with no problems whatsoever. It is even distributed in plain tarballs and not rpms. You can download it right now, if you want. I have a problem with that. I'm

Re: Do I have a win-sound card?

1998-10-08 Thread Jeff Noxon
Try using isapnptools to configure the sound chip. It's probably an ISA PnP device. Jeff

Re: Off Topic: Samba

1998-10-02 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 04:28:09PM -0400, dpk wrote: I have searched the Debian and Samba website for answers, as well as /usr/doc, and newsgroups for a resolution. I would like to use encrypted passwords, but not have to maintain a samba password file as well as /etc/passwd. Is it possible

Linux tools for Atmel AVR?

1998-09-25 Thread Jeff Noxon
Does anyone know of Linux tools for the AVR? Anyone interested in helping me write some? I'd like to see a macro assembler, simulator, and programming software. None of that stuff should be terribly complicated. Thanks Jeff

Re: Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-17 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 05:32:49PM +0100, Oliver Thuns wrote: No but there is apache-ssl, wich is also a debian package (in hamm), find it at www.debian.org - packages - search I think it's in the non-US section Does anyone know why it's such an old version of Apache? There should

Re: GTKICQ

1998-09-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 06:30:27AM +, Phillip Neumann wrote: Is was a dep problem. I found a directory inside another directory called .deps. I remove it and the compilation went ok. Why is this problem? The conculson of this is that the maker of this program used redhat .? My

Re: Apache mod_ssl

1998-09-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 04:11:28PM +0200, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote: Is there a Apache mod_ssl package under development? No but there is apache-ssl, wich is also a debian package (in hamm), find it at www.debian.org - packages - search I

Unable to create a boot disk for hamm install

1998-09-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm forwarding this for a friend. You can reply directly to me or to the list. I already told him how to boot from the rescue disk and the CD-ROM, but I've never seen this problem before and we would appreciate some insight. Thanks! Jeff --- I got stuck on my installation last night. I

Re: Softmodems and Debian

1998-09-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 12:11:40PM -0400, Person, Rod wrote: I FINALLY got Debian up and running to my liking with the help of a few if not more of you guys thanks. But here is something that hit me on the way to work today. I have a Digicom Softmodem. I have to load an algorithm before I

Re: Where's my mouse?

1998-09-04 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 08:37:04AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I change out my serial mouse for a ps2 mouse, and now my mouse can't be found. What do I do now? - In 'X': re-run XF86Setup and select /dev/psaux for your mouse port.

Re: Problem with superformat

1998-09-03 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 10:33:49PM +0800, zjdwdz wrote: When I used superformat I got an error message: ... mformat error. mformat: command not found Why did this happen? How to solve it? I've installed the fdutils package. TIA! You need the mtools package. fdutils recommends it. You

Re: Linux BOOTP server: questions

1998-09-02 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 01:38:18PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: I wonder what when it discovers that the configuration file has changed means. Does it keep an eye on the file? Yes. Jeff

Re: autonice or default priority of program

1998-08-29 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 03:37:09PM -0500, Torry Akins wrote: Is there a way to autonice a program when it is run? We use matlab running on debian linux. When a couple of these memory hogs run, the X display gets really choppy? It would be nice if matlab was set to a lower priority when

hamm: hwclock y2k problem

1998-08-28 Thread Jeff Noxon
FYI, to those whom may be concerned: There appears to be a bug with the hwclock program and y2k wraparound, on at least one system. I have several systems using the AMI model 721 motherboard. You'd think that AMI, being a BIOS manufacturer, would get this right... In any case, this board wraps

PHP 3.0.3 available on my webpage

1998-08-20 Thread Jeff Noxon
I couldn't wait any more for a PHP release that works with Apache 1.3.1, so I did it myself. You can download it from my homepage: http://www.planetfall.com/~jeff/debian/ This is PHP 3.0.3 for Apache 1.3.1 (Slink). I was going to build it for hamm, but I noticed that Apache 1.3.1 is no longer

Upgrade bo-hamm w/SOCKS proxy, how?

1998-07-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
I have a friend running bo, which he installed from CD. How can he upgrade to Hamm through his NT proxy server, running SOCKS? I can think of several difficult ways, but is there a beginners-approved way? Thanks! Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: PHP3 and PGSQL

1998-07-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
You need to edit /etc/php3.ini. RTFM in the /usr/doc/php3-pgsql directory. (Look at README.Debian.) It works great. On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 10:43:18PM +0200, Adam Heczko wrote: Hi everybody ! I've got problem running my *.php3 files, in which I use PostgreSQL as a database server.

Re: high end SCSI card recommendation

1998-07-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 08:10:08PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: Allen Ahoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyway, if this is a controller issue, whats the best controller for busy web servers running Debian LInux 1.3, kernel 2.0.33 and apache? I can just get one and be done with it, recompile

Re: Mirrored Drives?

1998-07-04 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 06:13:35PM -0400, Chris Brown wrote: I'm looking to increase the reliability (fault tolerance) of a system that's using IDE drives. Is there a way to add a second identical drive and have the the OS mirror the data on the partitions? such that if one drive actually

Re: postgres intallation failed

1998-06-29 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:14:19AM +0200, Networking Wizard wrote: After Shared PostgreSQL library intsallation (libpgsql 6.3.2-8) i've been trying to inttall postgresql (6.3.2-8) severl times, but i did not succeed; dpkg terminates because of unspecified errors. Here is the log: Unpacking

Re: postgres intallation failed

1998-06-29 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 06:29:17AM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: The bug is not in base-passwd but in postgresql. I used adduser to create the account if it did't exist, but I had not noticed that `adduser --system' assigns /bin/false as the shell. I have changed postgresql-6.3.2-11 to use

Re: Postgres, php question

1998-06-25 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 12:27:56PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 07:51:19AM -0400, Paul McDermott wrote: hello my debian user friends, I've installed Postgres.deb, php3.deb, apache.deb and www-pgsql from the slink area. I've done the postgres tutorial and it was

Re: staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:13:49PM -0400, Brian Morgan wrote: Where is that Staroffice4 that you're talking about? I can only find 3.1-8 in hamm/contrib/binary-i386/editors. StarOffice 4 is commercial -- i.e. not free. IMHO it's well worth the $100 since it's virtually a clone of MS Office.

Re: staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 11:59:53AM -0700, Brian Weiss wrote: StarOffice 4 is commercial -- i.e. not free. IMHO it's well worth the $100 since it's virtually a clone of MS Office. It's a bit sluggish though. Jeff That's not correct. I downloaded the full software package from their

Re: staroffice

1998-06-19 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 03:56:00PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote: Ok, I messed that up. Version 5 is scheduled for the second quarter. (It has only been 6 or 7 years since I had to *use* my poor excuse for German) Second quarter of 97 or 98? (Or if they were truly emulating Microsoft it

Re: Dvorak keyboard in X?

1998-06-19 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 02:00:33PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: Ian Keith Setford wrote: I was wondering if the current xbase has support for a dvorak type keyboard. If so, is it an option within xf86config? [snip] Perhaps there is another way to compensate for a Dvoraked keyboard

Re: Apple II Emulator

1998-06-17 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 09:13:44AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bad newsI can't find xgs anywhere! I just spent some time digging around the web, I found its offcial homepage is gone...I was able to find the authors homepage but it contained no mention of xgs, all I could fine was

NTSC Composite TV Output from X or svgatextmode?

1998-05-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm looking for a way to get NTSC composite video from my computer. I know that a number of external converter boxes are available, but I'd rather have it come directly from the video card, if possible. Do any cards support this under Linux? I tried an ATI Xpression PC2TV card, and it only worked

Re: Still can't sort out MBR -- Linux and NT

1998-05-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 05:54:08PM +0100, Tristan Day wrote: When I load from a boot disk (created by format /s at dos prompt in Win95), fdisk doesn't work because it doesn't exist, thus fdisk /MBR doesn't work. If I try this in linux, it says MBR not found tried in lower case too Of

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-08 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 03:10:57PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 09:13:58PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: Thanks -- that was an excellent idea. I had to massage nfsroot into working with libc6, but it was a great starting point. My client is now taking up 2100K

Re: Books or Debian wrong? and other stuff

1998-05-08 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 01:07:44PM -0400, Thomas J. Malloy wrote: When I, an linux and unix novice, find that commands I am entering are not yielding the results I expect how do I know if this failure is caused by a program bug, an error in the book or man page, my error or something else? For

Re: Books or Debian wrong? and other stuff

1998-05-08 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 02:05:21PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote: Kermit is full of bugs, and hamm does not have a current version. Kermit is easy to download, compile and install, and works well. Ctrl-\ is the escape character, but you have to follow it with another character to cause anything

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-07 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 04:42:23PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: I want to have the ability to dual boot with Debian and Windows 95 ? (I know with Windows NT and Windows 95 this is possible). Will such thing be possible Debian Windows 95? Absolutely. Lots of us do this all the time. Very easy

Re: Debian 1.31

1998-05-07 Thread Jeff Noxon
: On Thu, 7 May 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: off the secondary drive? Is there a graceful and free way to do this without installing LILO in the primary drive's boot sector? I don't think so. But you do boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hdb1 for your linux kernel stanza and boot=/dev/hda1

Re: Radius Server Authentication

1998-05-05 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 01:36:54PM -0500, Matthew D. Myers wrote: I would like to know if there is some way to make linux authenticate telnet and ftp sessions from a radius servers' user list? The answer is probably, if you recompile login, ftp, etc. to use PAM, and then configure PAM

Re: Radius Server Authentication

1998-05-05 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 02:02:26PM -0500, Matthew D. Myers wrote: Ok... what is PAM ? Pluggable Authentication Modules. Install the pam-doc package and go from there. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-04 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 10:57:39AM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: I use Joost's nfsroot package, which sets most of the stuff up. It's a good start - but You still need to do a fair amount of hacking to get it to work. I think the package got wiped out by the latest freeze, so you need to fetch

Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-02 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm about to set up a diskless Debian workstation. It's going to be booting over NFS using 2Mbps Wavelan... I know, not fast, but it's just going to be dishing out .MP3's to my stereo system -- so quietness and heat are the major concerns here. I know I can just do a full install in some

Re: incoming PAP authentication failures

1998-04-29 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 02:36:39PM +0200, Lorenzo Lazzeri wrote: Hello, On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: When I dialup to my Linux box, it keeps reporting authentication failures even though the password is correct.. Here is the ppp.log file (debug 9) I think your

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