Re: GNOME destop manager.
Hi, I finally got woody installed on my cpu. I'm now trying to get my printer to work. When I try signing on as root thru the GNOME deskop mgr I get a message informing me that root is not allowed to sign-on thru the GDM. Is there a way I can override this? later- Wayne Yep, in the file /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf is the entry AllowRoot=false (in the section [security]) Change it to true, restart gdm and it should work! HTH Jos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost linux partition
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, #KUNDAN KUMAR# wrote: dear all, My system is (was) dual boot with debian on a partition of 5 Mb and windows on the other 13 Mb. Everything was working fine till I ran the norton-antivirus on a file. NAV reported that the boot partition has been changed and this is a virus like activity. I was just out of mind and asked it to repair... which led to distruction of the last partition table. Now the debian can't boot. What can I do, how can i regain the last partition table? Any help will be greatly appreciated Kundan If you're using LILO; boot from a linux-floppy and re-run lilo... HTH Greetz Jos Lemmerling
Re: New to Debian -- simple questions
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Alson van der Meulen wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:11:22AM -0600, Sam TH wrote: 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after typing in my name and password. I read through /etc/login.defs and there was a reference to a file that I thought this message was coming from, but the file didn't exist. Change the file /etc/motd to whatever you want to see when you log in. don't forget to chattr +i it, or edit /etc/rcS.d/S55bootmisc.sh not too update it at boot time -- You should modify the next entry in /etc/default/rcS EDITMOTD=no and then you could empty (or edit) your /etc/motd file. HTH Jos Lemmerling
Re: ppp-related script not running correctly
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: Hello; I created a script (called fetchmail-on) and placed it in '/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/' so that it will get executed when ppp connects. For some reason it doesn't get execute 'fetchmail'. I can sit there (with 'ps aux|grep fetchmail') and see that the script itself gets executed. I can even directly execute the scrip and it runs correctly. It's just when pppd runs it, it fails to do it's job. Try 'ps auxf|grep fetchmail' to see who's the owner of the job (proberly root or pppd). The logfiles should then proberly complain about 'no mailservers specified', or something like 'fetchmailrc must be owned by you'. I had the same problem until i launched 'fetchmail -d60' while being the correct user. Most of the time the fetchmail-daemon keeps on running, even if there's no connection... (so far, so good :-) ) Any ideas what might be going wrong? TIA, Ron hth Jos Lemmerling
Re: (3Com) Ethernet card 100Base-only capable?
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: Hi guys I got myself a second box onto which I just installed potato! Yippie! I have one problem, though: the network card. :( If this is really so, I think it's annoying for cards as this to exist. Are there any specific reasons for having Ethernet cards that are only 100Base capable and not 10Base also. Thanks for help Sven I'm not sure about the following, but maybe there is a tool provided by 3com, that you can use to put the card in '10 Base-mode'. This could be done with the 3c509b (put it in auto, TP or coax mode). The configuration could be written to the EPROM, so you don't have to use various commandline options. hth Jos Lemmerling
Re: [fox@xs4all.nl: Re: gnapster won't download: fopen: No such file or directory]
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Rev GRC Sperry wrote: ermm, no it ain't. Please read the second half of what you quote below: Today the court of appeals stayed the judge's order to shut down Napster until they consider our appeal, probably in September. Not that I think napster does it's job particularly well but I thought people should know that it is up. Of course, there's always gnutella for file sharing-- of open source software, of course. Heh. -Grant oio` See them clamber, these nimble apes! They clamber over one another, and thus scuffle into the mud and the abyss.--Nietzsche ioi` On 2 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: Anybody else have this problem with gnapster? Everything works except, gah, the downloading part. If I try to d/l something I get fopen: No such file or directory on stderr, several times, and nothing happens. This is Gnome gnapster 1.3.10 -chris ermm check out their site... Napster is down QUOTE Thanks for being a member of the Napster community and for the support you have shown. As you have probably heard, the RIAA won a court battle this week that may keep you from using Napster to share music. Today the court of appeals stayed the judge's order to shut down Napster until they consider our appeal, probably in September. /QUOTE Greetz Jos Lemmerling Whoops!! I heard something like shutting napster down and boycotting certain music labels (...) on the news, and then someone asks why Gnapster is not doing what it's supposed to do... and so ... .. . sorry!
Re: gnapster won't download: fopen: No such file or directory
On 2 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: Anybody else have this problem with gnapster? Everything works except, gah, the downloading part. If I try to d/l something I get fopen: No such file or directory on stderr, several times, and nothing happens. This is Gnome gnapster 1.3.10 -chris ermm check out their site... Napster is down QUOTE Thanks for being a member of the Napster community and for the support you have shown. As you have probably heard, the RIAA won a court battle this week that may keep you from using Napster to share music. Today the court of appeals stayed the judge's order to shut down Napster until they consider our appeal, probably in September. /QUOTE Greetz Jos Lemmerling
Re: kernel patches
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Art Edwards wrote: I'm sure this is an old question, but I have found browsing the list archives daunting. I'm attempting to build a new 2.2.15-ide kernel from 2.2.15 sources. I have found the ide patch. I downloaded it into /root and used dpkg to install it. Is it now applied to the 2.2.15 source tree? If not, what do I do to apply it? Finally, do I need to rerun make xconfig after the patch? Thanks Sorry, no answers but more questions... I downloaded the next patch (kernel-patch-2.2.15-ide_2405-1.deb) and i was wondering if this patch includes previous patches. Eg. To use the Onstream DI30, Onstream provided a patch called ide_2_2_15.2124.patch.gz . Is this patch also ``added'' if i install the debian-patch ?? TIA Jos Lemmerling
Re: Another ethernet configuration problem
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, James Polson wrote: Problem (trivial, I'm sure): how do I download the driver when I don't yet have a connection to the internet? I could download it when I'm using Windows 98, but then how do I then get it from one disk partition to the other? Anyway, I think you can see what I'm getting at. Again, any help would be appreciated! Thanks, James Polson on my laptop i do the following: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/wintendo Make sure the directory /mnt/wintendo exists, and check out if your windows-partition is hda1 (correct if it's different). You can now access your windows-partition in the directory /mnt/wintendo and copy your file. bye Jos Lemmerling
