increase mysql max connections over 1024

2002-06-13 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I'd like to increase the number of max connections above 1024 in Linux. I think I have to increase PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX in /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h /* The number of threads per process. */ #define _POSIX_THREAD_THREADS_MAX 64 /* This is the value this implementation supp

Mozilla fonts

2002-06-13 Thread Ross Boylan
I was playing around with fonts on Mozilla today, and noticed a number of odd things. I'd be curious if anyone can explain a bit more about what is going on. 1. I can't find anything that controls the fonts used in the browser menu bar and menus. It looks as if the same font may be used on displ

Re: Running something on start up and shutdown

2002-06-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks, that's what I needed. After consulting the policy manual, I decided the right thing was for the script to execute on entry into level S and exit for levels 0 and 6. The incantation for the script MSGateway is update-rc.d MSGateway start 90 S . stop 15 0 6 . reflecting my judgement I

pam_tally.so - unusable?

2002-06-13 Thread Patrick Cheong Shu Yang
Hi All, I am trying to implement account lockout in our production environment using pam_tally.so. Has anyone had any success in implementing this? I tried it and it does not seem to work. Here is the scenario:- Users login to our production boxes from their Windows machines using ssh (via putty

HIGH QUALITY SINTERED Nd-Fe-B MAGNETS

2002-06-13 Thread sam
 HIGH QUALITY SINTERED Nd-Fe-B MAGNETS Brief Introduction ShenZhen Suncomm Communications Technology CO.,Ltd.is is a state-run enterprise ,and managed by our selves.It builds up a high quality Nd-Fe-B production line with the capacity of 100t/a by investment of 18 y

Re: Running something on start up and shutdown

2002-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 21:13, Ross Boylan wrote: > What's the best way to run a script once on startup and again (well, a > related script) on shutdown? I want to run the scripts as a user > rather than root, which I believe is the standard init.d method. Since you (presumably) know about init.d &

apt-get problems

2002-06-13 Thread Michal Zachar
I'm trying to upgrade to woody and managed to apt-get instal apt apt-utils. Some other packages were uploaded as well. Since then I'm facing two problems. One is that display of string's is scrambled See following: Second most of additional packages I'm trying to download are t

chaging compiler

2002-06-13 Thread ian
hi all, i would like to know how to change my default gcc compiler from the current version to another. thanx in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: maildirmake

2002-06-13 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:13:04 -0500 "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:20:05PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > | "maildrop" is a good package to get "maildirmake" with. > > Yes, but maildirmake has some limitations. It won't create the folder > if any

Running something on start up and shutdown

2002-06-13 Thread Ross Boylan
What's the best way to run a script once on startup and again (well, a related script) on shutdown? I want to run the scripts as a user rather than root, which I believe is the standard init.d method. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Dependancy Analysis

2002-06-13 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
That appears to be it...thanks! On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:53:12AM +1000, Chris Kenrick wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:48:49PM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: > > All, > > > > I recalled a package (in woody) that would analyze your dependancies and > > point > > out unused libraries, etc.

Re: Dependancy Analysis

2002-06-13 Thread Tom Massey
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:48:49PM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: > I recalled a package (in woody) that would analyze your dependancies > and point out unused libraries, etc. Does anyone recall what the > name of that package is? deborphan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Dependancy Analysis

2002-06-13 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:48:49PM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: > All, > > I recalled a package (in woody) that would analyze your dependancies and point > out unused libraries, etc. Does anyone recall what the name of that package > is? deborphan? - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Dependancy Analysis

2002-06-13 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
All, I recalled a package (in woody) that would analyze your dependancies and point out unused libraries, etc. Does anyone recall what the name of that package is? Phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:39:54AM +1000, James Cameron wrote: | On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 14:53, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > Also, the default inittab has Ctrl-Alt-Del mapped to reboot the | > system. You can always use that to try and reboot. (I remapped it to | > shutdown on my systems becaus

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic---SOLVED?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 07:13:24AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | This isn't an adequate engineering solution to the problem since it is | contrary to what I understood about the liloconfig system. | What does work is: linux mem=768M | What was in lilo.conf that I removed was 'append "mem=128M" an

Re: do I need a woody update after 50 days?

2002-06-13 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], I suggest you bring a copy of Debian ftp archive in the laptop or hard disk drive and put it in the LAN as the central installation source. It's about 8.4 GB total. I think the InstallFest may need a ftp archive in the LAN for faster installation. If you put one in the LA

Re: HP 2200d (double face) still not working

2002-06-13 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, I configured a potato box with cups from potato and hp-ppd from woody. No problem. I only cant find the double side option. Is this because I'm using potato? Can you send me your config files? TIA,Paulo Henrique. On 07 Jun 2002 13:19

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 14:53, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > Also, the default inittab has Ctrl-Alt-Del mapped to reboot the > system. You can always use that to try and reboot. (I remapped it to > shutdown on my systems because I wanted to) (a) how to make this work even in X, (b) how to make t

Debian-User: Your work-at-home report: How to Find Freelance Work

2002-06-13 Thread news
Hi Debian-User Thanks for registering with Freelance Work Exchange. Our messages are sent only to subscribers who have opted in to the Freelance Work Exchange mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, you can remove your name using the link at the end of this message. FIND WORK, MAKE MONEY

Re: do I need a woody update after 50 days?

2002-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 07:58:08AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what if the debian system is remote, no phone line. Can I somehow > first tell headquarters that I want to download all the changes from > 5/14/02 to today onto some file, and then take that file to the remote > system? There's

Re: do I need a woody update after 50 days?

2002-06-13 Thread kindly_remove_this_part_first_jidanni
P> Whenever you get your woody CDs, after installation you'd better use P> "apt-get update" to update the packages list from the headquarter and P> "apt-get upgrade" to upgrade necessary packages. what if the debian system is remote, no phone line. Can I somehow first tell headquarters that I wan

Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-13 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:16:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Using "apt-cache search" doesn't show much. (Unless I'm using > the wrong keyword to search by!) If you want instant messaging capabilities, you could try Jabber. There are plenty of Jabber clients out there, and setting up a

Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-13 Thread Petr Vanek
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:41:18PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:16:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Any other suggestions? > > talk if it's just unix. Get talk and talkd. I don't think there's > Windows clients, though. who did say that? ;-) : http://ftp.peng

Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:16:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > I could run samba and linpopup on both ends, but that seems > like a big waste, since that's all I'd use samba for... > > Any other suggestions? talk if it's just unix. Get talk and tal

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020613 15:54]: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:51:02AM -0500, Nick Traxler wrote: > > Everyone has been recommending APM for this, but my motherboard (Abit > > VP6) wouldn't turn the power supply off until I turned on ACPI in the > > kernel. Check up on this as well

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Joris
>> ps - I heard that APM is turned off in the presence of SMP, so that may >> have been the reason. > > I coulda sworn it could still kill power for it on SMP systems... /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/Documentation/Configuration.help, line 115: Symmetric Multi-Processing support CONFIG_SMP The "

Re: Configuring Samba to join a NT domain

2002-06-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya you need to do some initial work... and what does your smb.conf look like ?? ( seems there are too many different default smb.conf file ( depending where you get it and who's stuff you're getting getting samba from samba.org is usually faster/easier to change/tweek to make it do what you

Re: will configuration files get overwritten?

2002-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 05:06:52AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I hear some configuration files shouldn't be edited by hand, but > should instead have dkpg-reconfigure run on them. Will such files > have warning messages every time in them saying how one should edit > them, and also if the next ti

Re: clearly asked to delete something dear

2002-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:38:59PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I wish you experts would take a look at this from the point of us new > users. A new user is faced with capital letters from the system > saying something dear to him will be removed. > > On the other hand we have lower case letters

Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
Using "apt-cache search" doesn't show much. (Unless I'm using the wrong keyword to search by!) $ apt-cache search popup gnome-sudo - GUI frontend to sudo kdestudio - a powerful development environment for KDE linpopup - Xwindow port of Winpopup, running over Samba loadmeter - Attractive X11 load

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 03:54:13PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:51:02AM -0500, Nick Traxler wrote: | > Everyone has been recommending APM for this, but my motherboard (Abit | > VP6) wouldn't turn the power supply off un

Re: pam_ldap not working right

2002-06-13 Thread David Wright
Looking over your files, I see quite a few problems: 1) You need to configure nss_ldap.conf as well as pam_ldap.conf. 2) The lines in nsswitch.conf should really be "files ldap" not "ldap files", i.e. local data takes precedence. 3) You need to tell pam.d/login to use the same password for pam_

Re: maildirmake

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:20:05PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: | On 13 Jun 2002 23:14:20 +0200 | "Andrew Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > Where is maildirmake ? | "maildrop" is a good package to get "maildirmake" with. Yes, but maildirmake has some limitations. It won't create the f

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:51:02AM -0500, Nick Traxler wrote: > Everyone has been recommending APM for this, but my motherboard (Abit > VP6) wouldn't turn the power supply off until I turned on ACPI in the > kernel. Check up on this as well as APM. De

Re: will configuration files get overwritten?

2002-06-13 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 05:06:52AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I hear some configuration files shouldn't be edited by hand, but > should instead have dkpg-reconfigure run on them. The general case is like this. If you edit a config file, then you will be asked if you want to keep your customized

pam_ldap not working right

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
I'm trying to setup a debian system that will 1) pull all user info from LDAP (except root, of course) 2) be a samba PDC, and pull all user info from LDAP My first test was with a spare RH box. I managed to make login, su, and ssh on it authenticate against OpenLDAP on Debian. It was

THANKS Re: maildirmake

2002-06-13 Thread Andrew Fowler
That did the trick, thanks, Andy On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 23:20, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On 13 Jun 2002 23:14:20 +0200 > "Andrew Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Where is maildirmake ? Even dpkg -S maildirmake says it's not found > > (does dpkg -S search non-intalled packages at all ??).

Re: Sony SDT-7000 Tape Drive & DDS2 Tapes?

2002-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 17:01, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 15:47, Carlos Laviola wrote: > > [ Please Cc me on replies; I'm not subscribed to debian-user. ] > > > > Hey folks, > > > > I have a Sony SDT-7000 tape drive that can, theoretically, record up to > > 8 Gb of data on a DDS2 t

clearly asked to delete something dear

2002-06-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
I wish you experts would take a look at this from the point of us new users. A new user is faced with capital letters from the system saying something dear to him will be removed. On the other hand we have lower case letters from a person in the newsgroup saying it is not what it seems, as there

will configuration files get overwritten?

2002-06-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
I hear some configuration files shouldn't be edited by hand, but should instead have dkpg-reconfigure run on them. Will such files have warning messages every time in them saying how one should edit them, and also if the next time I update the package if they will get overwritten or not? E.g. som

New Video Card

2002-06-13 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I just replaced the Voodoo Banshee in a machine with a Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT card. I thought the choice of card would be straight forward when I re-ran xf86config, but it isn't. Can anyone else running this card tell me which driver I should use for XFree86 4? Keith -- _

mutt-dev@mutt.org: Non-member submission from debian-user

2002-06-13 Thread owner-mutt-dev
Your submission to the list has been forwarded to the list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for approval because you do not seem to be on that list. If you want to join the list, send email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, with "subscribe mutt-dev" in the message text (not the subject). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Sony SDT-7000 Tape Drive & DDS2 Tapes?

2002-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 15:47, Carlos Laviola wrote: > [ Please Cc me on replies; I'm not subscribed to debian-user. ] > > Hey folks, > > I have a Sony SDT-7000 tape drive that can, theoretically, record up to > 8 Gb of data on a DDS2 tape. However, I can only get it to store 4 Gb > on any DDS2 t

Re: emacs Word Wrapping

2002-06-13 Thread Steve Juranich
> I would like to set up emacs so that it wraps lines only at word boundaries > and inserts a new line. Can someone tell me how to do that. I've went > throught the whole emacs tutorial and lots of other documentation > without any luck. Thanks in advance. Do "M-x auto-fill-mode", or add this to y

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:21:33PM -0400, Loren Jordan wrote: > At 10:38 AM 6/13/2002 -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > >When I was in the (US) Navy, a hard drive that contained classified data > >wasn't considered clean until after 7 swipes. > > There are places that only consider a smoldering pile

Help with cdrecord

2002-06-13 Thread Brian Dessent
I'm having trouble with gcombust / cdrecord. I have a Plextor 4X CDR on the scsi bus. I run a test burn and it fails, probably because I'm trying to burn from a network (smb) share. I'll try making the iso first next time. Anyway, when it fails the drive is "locked", it will not eject, and cdr

emacs Word Wrapping

2002-06-13 Thread ben
I would like to set up emacs so that it wraps lines only at word boundaries and inserts a new line. Can someone tell me how to do that. I've went throught the whole emacs tutorial and lots of other documentation without any luck. Thanks in advance. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Newbie Resources Was -- Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-13 Thread Bill Morgan
On 6/13/02 1:16 PM, "David Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember Dale (aka Dwarf) Sheetz's the Debian > Linux User's Guide. ISBN 0-9659575-1-9. published > by Linux Press in 1998. > > It was distributed with a CD of Debian 2.1. It > was available as html for free electronic > redistribu

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-13 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Hi Ron, Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2002 22:50 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > > > Not all of us have/want sound cards!!! > > > > > > Of course! Is there a problem in this list to discuss > > > soundcard-reated problems? > > > > > > I may misunderstood your arguement. > > > > Hes is/was trying to be funny/o

Re: maildirmake

2002-06-13 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 13 Jun 2002 23:14:20 +0200 "Andrew Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where is maildirmake ? Even dpkg -S maildirmake says it's not found > (does dpkg -S search non-intalled packages at all ??). Or can someone > point me to an alternative. Nope, "dpkg -S" is only for installed stuff (TMK).

Re: artsd, scsi & me

2002-06-13 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:14:35 -0700 "G. L. `Griz' Inabnit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you tried another drive (preferrablly IDE) for the OS? > > No. I would highly recommend you try this. The errors that are listed are obviously SCSI. However, this doesn't mean that they are the

maildirmake

2002-06-13 Thread Andrew Fowler
Hi ! Half way through installing getmail. Docs mention that the maildir dir to which mail is delivered must already exist and that maildirmake should be called in order to create one. Where is maildirmake ? Even dpkg -S maildirmake says it's not found (does dpkg -S search non-intalled packages

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 14:56, Wayne Topa wrote: > Gerhard Gaussling([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi Ron, > > > > Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2002 19:35 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > > > > Not all of us have/want sound cards!!! > > > > Of course! Is there a problem in this list to discu

Sony SDT-7000 Tape Drive & DDS2 Tapes?

2002-06-13 Thread Carlos Laviola
[ Please Cc me on replies; I'm not subscribed to debian-user. ] Hey folks, I have a Sony SDT-7000 tape drive that can, theoretically, record up to 8 Gb of data on a DDS2 tape. However, I can only get it to store 4 Gb on any DDS2 tape I try (4 Gb == max for DDS1, iirc). Anyway, anyone has info

Re: where is xwindows in debian potato rev6

2002-06-13 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:24:02PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > I strongly recommend you to read > > > http://www.debian.org > > > http://www.debian.org/doc and links > > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/ > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual > > > http://www.debian.org/

PHP and PHP-XSLT runing problem on woody.

2002-06-13 Thread Arild Evensen
I am asked to temporarly support a site whitch must have xslt, tryed to installed php-xslt on woody. It shows up as XSLT enable on phpinfo, but i am not able to run the XSLT page. Returning "The page cannot be displayed". And i know they are working sins i have them runing at another site. Have add

Re: can't get epson perfection 1650 scanner to work, xsane just sits there... no gui comes up

2002-06-13 Thread Walter Tautz
Just to reply to myself. It seems to be working now. Either the reboot worked or because the root file system was full and consequently the scanner module may not have been properly loaded. Albeit I'm getting a black and white image even though the image I'm scanning is colour. -walter -- To U

Re: artsd, scsi & me

2002-06-13 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thursday 13 June 2002 12:19 pm, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:08:25 -0700 > > "G. L. `Griz' Inabnit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > internal > > Western Digital WDE18310 Ultra3 > > TDK CDRW8432 CD-RW (ide {idescsi emu}) > > Creat

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Gerhard Gaussling([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi Ron, > > Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2002 19:35 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > > Not all of us have/want sound cards!!! > > Of course! Is there a problem in this list to discuss > soundcard-reated problems? > > I may misunderstood your

[Debian Doc page lags behind] Re: Newbie Resources Was -- Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-13 Thread synthespian
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:16:33PM -0400, David Teague wrote: > > Hi > > > I remember Dale (aka Dwarf) Sheetz's the Debian > Linux User's Guide. ISBN 0-9659575-1-9. published > by Linux Press in 1998. Hi- Yes, it's updated. Look at the previous posts. By the way, why is the w

Re: After base install, which packages should I add?

2002-06-13 Thread David Kimdon
Hi, Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:10:33PM -0700 wrote: > Hello, > I just installed the potato base and I'm not sure which packages I > should start adding in order to have a "full featured" system. I know I > want X,gcc,emacs, etc. but I'm not sure what else. debian-boot is for discussion and problems

sendmail setup with two distinct queues?

2002-06-13 Thread Kurt Yoder
Hello list I'm attempting to set up sendmail with two separate queues, one for incoming and one for outgoing mail (this is for the mailscanner package). I've tried setting it up via /etc/mail/sendmail.conf with the following config: DAEMON_MODE="Daemon"; DAEMON_PARMS="-bd -ODeliveryMode=queueonly

Re: artsd, scsi & me

2002-06-13 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:08:25 -0700 "G. L. `Griz' Inabnit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > internal > Western Digital WDE18310 Ultra3 > TDK CDRW8432 CD-RW (ide {idescsi emu}) > Creative DVD 8400E (ide {idescsi emu}) > IO Mega Zip 100 (ide {idescsi emu}) > IO Mega 2 gig Ja

can't get epson perfection 1650 scanner to work, xsane just sits there... no gui comes up

2002-06-13 Thread Walter Tautz
this is on woody: $ ls -al /dev/usbscanner0 crw-rw-rw-1 root root 180, 48 Jun 13 13:29 /dev/usbscanner0 cat /etc/sane.d/epson.conf # epson.conf # # here are some examples for how to configure the EPSON backend # # SCSI scanner: #scsi EPSON # # Parallel port scanner: #pio 0x278 #pio

labelwriter xl

2002-06-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
Has anyone got one of these working? It's a CoStar LabelWriter XL, a serial label printer. Theoretically a driver called pbm2lwxl is supposed to drive it, but I get no results whatsoever. If anyone's got one going I'd appreciate a hand. -

artsd, scsi & me

2002-06-13 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey All, I'm having a really bad day (forth one in a row!!) and give up. "I" am not coming up with any solutions, so I'm asking here. Equipment List: Tyan Thunderbolt w/Intel 440 chipset (latest bios) Adaptec AIC-7896 v2.11 (dual channel)

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-13 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Hi Ron, Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2002 19:35 schrieb Ron Johnson: > Not all of us have/want sound cards!!! Of course! Is there a problem in this list to discuss soundcard-reated problems? I may misunderstood your arguement. regards gerhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Newbie Resources Was -- Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-13 Thread David Teague
Hi I remember Dale (aka Dwarf) Sheetz's the Debian Linux User's Guide. ISBN 0-9659575-1-9. published by Linux Press in 1998. It was distributed with a CD of Debian 2.1. It was available as html for free electronic redistribution, That was one of the better Newbie Debian books. Does anyone

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 10:43, René Seindal wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 05:27:26PM +0200, Gerhard Gaussling wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 23:31 schrieb Richard Beri: [snip] > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148219 which appears to > related to some problem with flash and soun

webmin

2002-06-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Anyone know how to fix this. I get: proc::pty_process_exec failed : Undefined subroutine &proc::get_new_pty called at /usr/share/webmin/proc/proc-lib.pl line 176. in several webmin modules: Linux Bootup Configuration Partitions on Local Disks -- Kevin C. Smith | "A Society that w

Re: gimp

2002-06-13 Thread Rogerio Acquadro
I don't belive that this is possible using a bitmap image. I think that this is only possible using a vector graphic. Enlarging your bitmap will result in loft of quality... Rogerio On 12 Jun 2002, O Senhor wrote: > Do you know how can i change the picture scale, witho

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:43:59AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:23:23PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote: > | I'd say I'm pretty much joe average: emacs isn't even on my system, and > | after two years of using linux I still don't know how to cut and paste > | in vim :)

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:23:23PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote: | On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 22:00, Chris Gushue wrote: | > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > > I use either zless (just like I would have used 'less' if it wasn't | > > compressed) or more often 'view' (vim in read-only mode; vim6 | > > autom

Re: which prog to configure keyboard

2002-06-13 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 09:10, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:56:34AM -0700, Wm. G. McGrath wrote: > > Willy Sutrisno wrote: > > > I like to change my keyboard from 101 to 106, I remember debian ask me > > > about what keyboard I am using. But I don't know the name of the > > >

Re: Configuring Samba to join a NT domain

2002-06-13 Thread Jason Healy
At 1023991098s since epoch (06/13/02 11:58:18 -0400 UTC), Francisco Fialho wrote: > what changes must I do in my smb.conf to make > it possible! My local IP is one of the domains IPS, > but I can't see the rest of the network and the network > can't see me ( obvious). Read /usr/doc/samba-doc/html

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:14:48AM +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote: | I have the following in top: | | PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND | 532 root 16 -10 289M 32M 7528 S < 54.6 6.5 8:35 XFree86 | | I think there is a problem there. XFree86 takes wa

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Loren Jordan
At 10:38 AM 6/13/2002 -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: On 2002.06.13 09:16 Jan Johansson wrote: > I remember reading about a data recovery team that recovered > files after > the data had supposedly been removed with a 'dd' command like above. www.ibas.no they claim to be able to see under 3 layers

Re: ipchains, iptables, and 2.4.18

2002-06-13 Thread Chris Gushue
Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Linux box for sharing my DSL connection. For a few years it used to be just a 486, but I recently upgraded it to a K6-2/500 :) Woo Hoo!! Go, Speed Racer, go! (Did the 486 die?) One of them died, but the last one I was using just got replaced. You don't even need

Re: which prog to configure keyboard

2002-06-13 Thread Lorens Kulla
Try apt-get install hotkeys... On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 11:56, Wm. G. McGrath wrote: > Willy Sutrisno wrote: > > I like to change my keyboard from 101 to 106, I remember debian ask me > > about what keyboard I am using. But I don't know the name of the > > program. I need to reconfigure again. Could

Re: grub Q

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:12:47AM -0400, Alice M. Pinard wrote: | Is the grub in woody the 'gnu grub' or is it 'the grub off which gnu grub is | based'? (Just making sure I'm reading the right online comments/info/docs) GNU. Erich's GRUB isn't maintained anymore because he left and some other GN

Eterm

2002-06-13 Thread O Senhor
Hello, My Shift+ PageUP (or PageDown) are not working im my Eterm terminal. Do you know how can i fix this? Thanks. -- - thesirbr O Senhor do Brasil.

Re: which prog to configure keyboard

2002-06-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:56:34AM -0700, Wm. G. McGrath wrote: > Willy Sutrisno wrote: > > I like to change my keyboard from 101 to 106, I remember debian ask me > > about what keyboard I am using. But I don't know the name of the > > program. I need to reconfigure again. Could anyone tell me, wha

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-13 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2002 17:43 schrieb René Seindal: > Do you think this is related to > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148219 which appears > to related to some problem with flash and sound. The bug is not > reproduceable by all. It still happens to me, starting from > Mozilla

Re: which prog to configure keyboard

2002-06-13 Thread Wm. G. McGrath
Willy Sutrisno wrote: > I like to change my keyboard from 101 to 106, I remember debian ask me > about what keyboard I am using. But I don't know the name of the > program. I need to reconfigure again. Could anyone tell me, what is > the name of the program to change the settings? Speaking of whic

Configuring Samba to join a NT domain

2002-06-13 Thread Francisco Fialho
Guys, I've put my Debian Woody box yesterday, and I can use the net, fetch emails, and so on... I'm a client of a NT Server Domain, and I want to connect my machine to this domain, I want to be able to browse it, through a Windows machine and vice-versa... what changes must I do in my smb.conf to

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:08:25PM +1000, Matt Chipman wrote: > Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3 > > ya cant live without it :) I have mc running permanently on one virtual terminal and use it frequently so I wouldn't dream of challenging your second statement. Pressing F

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-13 Thread René Seindal
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 05:27:26PM +0200, Gerhard Gaussling wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 23:31 schrieb Richard Beri: > > I tried the "dpkg-reconfigure mozilla-browser" and set the audio > > to "none" but mozilla was still crashing. Right now I have just > > disabled the kde artsd server alt

dpkg and memory

2002-06-13 Thread Paladin
I've recently upgraded to woody (has some of the people here might now, since I requested some help for that). I recently noticed something: dpkg is taking a lot more memory that before. I had noticed that dselect was slower, but I thought it was because of some increase in the number of packages,

Re: ext2 file recovery software

2002-06-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, June 13, 2002, at 12:41 , Paul Scott,,, wrote: I was thinking that creating a new file system (the problem) would have written new backup superblocks. Am I wrong? I would be glad to be wrong! What if an fsck had been done just after the problem happened? Well, if only the

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-13 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 23:31 schrieb Richard Beri: > I tried the "dpkg-reconfigure mozilla-browser" and set the audio > to "none" but mozilla was still crashing. Right now I have just > disabled the kde artsd server altogether and mozilla is stable. > Granted I have no sound in kde, but I can

Re: mc-like X app (was: Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?)

2002-06-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Joris([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3 > > > > ya cant live without it :) > > I can't ;-) does anyone know an X alternative to it? imho, gmc is not > worth being called the gnome mc, and xnc is't too user-friendly either. >

Re: mc-like X app (was: Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?)

2002-06-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:10:31PM +0200, Joris wrote: > > Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3 > > > > ya cant live without it :) > > I can't ;-) does anyone know an X alternative to it? imho, gmc is not > worth being called the gnome mc, and xnc is't too user

Re: USB install problem

2002-06-13 Thread marshal
First of, I hope you've looked at www.linux-usb.org for all your Linux USB needs. Most of the basics are covered in the manual there. > "Riaan" == Riaan Rottier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Riaan> Thus two questions: 1) From the data below, can anyone tell Riaan> me whether USB is com

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 09:16 Jan Johansson wrote: > I remember reading about a data recovery team that recovered > files after > the data had supposedly been removed with a 'dd' command like above. www.ibas.no they claim to be able to see under 3 layers of overwrites. And since they are a public contract

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Nick Traxler
Everyone has been recommending APM for this, but my motherboard (Abit VP6) wouldn't turn the power supply off until I turned on ACPI in the kernel. Check up on this as well as APM. ps - I heard that APM is turned off in the presence of SMP, so that may have been the reason. -- Nick On Thu, Jun 13

Still Debugging Broken X

2002-06-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, I'm still locking up in X running Gnome+Sawfixh, Gnome+icewm, KDE, with and without about every app I have and it's completely random. Once a week or 3 times a day (yesterday). I have physically replaced all hardware, only copying my config and such. I'm at the point of playing with mod

Re: grub Q

2002-06-13 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 09:33 Mark Janssen wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 14:12, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > or... another way to look at it... does anyone know a way to pack up a set > of info docs so that it could be read on a windows box? (that way I could > browse through it here at work ) There is a cygw

Re: setting up a Gateway

2002-06-13 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 09:25 Nicos Gollan wrote: On Thursday 13 June 2002 14:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ye all Linux Wizzards. > > plunging around some time with debian (at the moment 2.4.18 kernel) I > am trying to set up a linux box as a gateway. What you want is probably masquerading. Read the ipf

Java in Opera 6.01

2002-06-13 Thread Gregor Szyrach
Hi group, first i want to apologize for my german posting on this group. Now to the problem: I'm running Debian 3.0 woody an my machine. So installed Opera 6.01 static-linked as deb-file via dpkg -i opera...deb The actual problem is, that Java-Applets are not running, when Opera is started by a

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