Re: eth0: no IPv6 router present

2008-06-18 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas H. George wrote: | Some Progress. The ifconfig shows that eth0 has been given the address | 169.254.122.180 and will not allow it to be changed or deleted. However | ifconfig will create eth0:0 and allow the address of the parent machine | to

Re: Silent Cron Jobs

2008-03-27 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curt Howland wrote: | Hi. | | I tried to whip up a small cron job, I put a short script | in /etc/cron.daily thinking that this would work. | | Well, yes, it works, but I get mail sent to me by cron explaining that | the job executed successfully. | |

Re: xorg and aspect ratio's

2008-03-03 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: | Hi | | I am having a problem with my X server. i am using amd64 with nvidia | driver. | | | I have it connected to a plasma screen its an old one with a menu option | for 4:3 or 16:9 | | I would like to keep it in 16:9 mode for wat

Re: run-parts not running cron.daily?

2007-12-31 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > It turns out that this is caused by moving a shell script (with a .sh > extension) into the run-parts directory. Run-parts won't run filenames > with dots in them. If this is documented clearly anywhere, I couldn't > find it, bu

Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-27 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: > When dialing up my ISP in an interactive mode providing user name and > password I get a third prompt with the prompt message "AiiNET". So now > I get 3 prompts: "user name", "password", and "AiiNET" where before

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-14 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:16 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> Celejar wrote: >>> So acroread uses about 10 times as much space as xpdf (and I haven't even >>> looked closely at acroread's dependencies vs. those of xpdf). >> Isn't Acror

Re: Sign emails with ssh-dsa-key ?

2007-03-03 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Duffner wrote: > Hi, > I created my ssh-dsa keys with the ssh utilities. > Can I use these keys for things like mail signing, > mail and/or file crypting or anything else ? > Or is it a special format which I can use only for ssh ? > > At leas

Re: What UPS to buy

2007-02-04 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russell L. Harris wrote: > I've had two or three APC UPS units burn up, in the sense of emitting > smoke; that is a bit scary. Cleaning house a week ago, I came across > six or seven APC units of various models which have failed within the > past fiv

Re: xorg & xfree86

2007-01-15 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raghu Kodali wrote: > I am not very clear about the differences between xorg & xfree86. Why > did we move from xfree86 in sarge to xorg in Etch? I tried to google it. > I could get only individual information but not a comparision. License issues. ---

Re: update messages

2006-12-31 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 19:11 +, Digby Tarvin wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 07:31:04PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: >>> On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 17:37 +, Digby Tarvin wrote: Here is what it says: >>> [...] Main

Re: Adding /bin/false to /etc/shells

2006-12-18 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 L.W. van Braam van Vloten wrote: > Hello group, > > Is there any objection against adding /bin/false to the file > /etc/shells? Most notably, are there any security considerations? > > I wish to create a user that can log in to my FTP server, but wit

Re: poweroff permission

2006-12-16 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 linux china wrote: > hi, > > if listing the reboot, I can see it is a soft link to halt. > > $ ls -l /sbin/reboot > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 6 14:23 /sbin/reboot -> halt > > and halt can be executed by others, > # ls -l /sbin/halt > -rwxr-xr-x

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Shapiro wrote: > Kent West wrote: >> Marc Shapiro wrote: >> >>> I closed firefox and unmounted the /mnt/Sarge partitions. Now running >>> 'locate libflshplayer.so' returns nothing. I restarted firefox and it >>> still runs the flash on that pa

Re: Crontab Problem

2006-12-09 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Irving wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:13:22PM -0500, Bill Marcum wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:34:06PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: >>> I tried doing something like this in the system wide crontab >>> (/etc/crontab) and I was disappointed

Re: Mozilla resolving host problem

2006-12-02 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Shultz wrote: > With great regret, the problem has shown its ugly face > again. mozilla again shows: Resolving host www.google.com > > and a delay. I didn't have any problem until yesterday > when it started. > >> By any

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-30 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 B. Hoffmann wrote: >> This is normal. I have 3 dlinks, 2 linksys and a debian box set up as a >> DHCP server. They all work this way. So what's the problem. > > > Thought it's supposed to rotate IP addresses from within the specified > range? No. If

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-30 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wish mine worked like that. I got it from a box store. Here in Italy. > It'll be very difficult to persuade MediaWorld that it is faulty. I have not looked into how the lease time works, but curious if your problem might b

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-30 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 B. Hoffmann wrote: > Hi Richard, > > can't exactly help you but I've got a similar problem with a DI-604 wired > 4 port router. > Only it never releases and I've been running the same IP addresses on the > corresponding machines for more than a year a

Re: mozilla, cups and kprinter: Printing is no fun

2006-11-21 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Dear all! > > Are there any suggestions as to "howto setup printing systemwide" for > firefox, iceweasel, icedove and other gnome applications? > > We have nfs-mounted home-directories, use a cups-server for printing, > a

Re: Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?

2006-11-17 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wackojacko wrote: > Wackojacko wrote: >> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: >>> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:28:27PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > So your sample line in /etc/fstab wil

Re: exim4: how to handle other addresses on my ISP?

2006-11-15 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Metzler wrote: > Here's my situation and what I want: > > 1. I have a machine with no domain of its own, in the sense that I > haven't registered a domain or anything like that. My ISP is > speakeasy.net. Outgoing email goes to a smarthost.

Re: xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem (More Info)

2006-11-13 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Topa wrote: > Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> _ >> X Window System Version 7.1.1 >> Release Date: 12 May 2006 >> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 >> Build Operating System

Re: apache problem

2006-11-09 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timothy Wu wrote: > Hi, > > I had a fresh install of Debian (Testing branch) and my apache is not > working properly: > This is what's shown in error.log > > [Thu Nov 09 15:13:46 2006] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) configured -- > resuming normal op

Re: What is this in my syslog????????

2006-11-06 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M-L wrote: > I have this in my syslog while downloading the latest updates from Debian? > > My computer drops off the modem. the modem is still connected but ppp is not, > the computer doesn't respond to being on the net/ > > I don't use chat and wo

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-31 Thread W Paul Mills
Andrei Popescu wrote: anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, happy as I am that you guys found an excuse to chat about your respective girlfriends here, I think mine would prefer I talked to her a bit rather than staring at a screen uttering expletives, so I took the easy route, made another us

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread W Paul Mills
anthony wrote: Hello I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of debian for over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home directory. When I log in I get the message - your home directory .dmrc file has the wrong permissions - permissions should be set to 664

Re: xserver-xorg-core Broken - need quick help - cows are hungry

2006-10-28 Thread W Paul Mills
Kristian Lampen wrote: I broke my Etch-i386-Installation yesterday (on an Acer-Aspire-1700 Laptop): After an normal aptitude-update (updating of xorg components and some other stuff), X refuses to work. The problem is that I used VMware with WindowsXP and a cow-management software for my farm.

Re: Help - my xserver just went wild!

2006-10-11 Thread W Paul Mills
Mark Phillips wrote: I just did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on Debian Sarge and now I get a message that my xserver is restarting every few seconds. The screen is flashing through the gdm login so fast that I cannot login. Anybody see this before? Any suggestions on how to fix it??

Re: Printing crashes firefox

2006-10-05 Thread W Paul Mills
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 05 Oct 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote: In the last week or so I'm finding that printing some pages (not all) in Firefox crashes it. Googling shows quite a lot of similar reports and there is a bug report (#344401) in Debian for the same thing. However, nearly all these s

Re: mozilla-firefox keeps crashing

2006-08-29 Thread W Paul Mills
Micha Feigin wrote: mozilla firefox keeps crashing on me very consistently lately. It crashes almost immediately on most sites and disabling all plugins doesn't seem to help at all. The error on the command line is The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error. This probably refle

Re: Can't ping

2006-08-09 Thread W Paul Mills
Helge Stenström (KI/EAB) wrote: From: W Paul Mills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 7 augusti 2006 16:22 Subject: Re: Can't ping Helge Stenstrom wrote: Response from `route -n` on my trouble machine (Debian Sid, IP=147.214.195.137): localhost:/mnt/hda9/helge# route -n Kern

Re: Can't ping

2006-08-07 Thread W Paul Mills
Helge Stenström (KI/EAB) wrote: From: W Paul Mills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 7 augusti 2006 16:22 Subject: Re: Can't ping Helge Stenstrom wrote: Response from `route -n` on my trouble machine (Debian Sid, IP=147.214.195.137): localhost:/mnt/hda9/helge# route -n Kern

Re: Can't ping

2006-08-07 Thread W Paul Mills
Helge Stenstrom wrote: I can't ping nodes outside my subnet. I can reach the internet by hopping via another machine on the subnet, which makes it possible to write this e-mail. Is there a config file I should check carefully? Things broke when I upgraded my Debian Sid in late July, with the p

Re: Printing stopped working on Debian testing

2006-06-30 Thread W Paul Mills
Joshua McGee wrote: Printing stopped working overnight on Debian testing, possibly due to cron-apt running. I tried to remove and reinstall, and I am facing the following messages: /// www:~# apt-get install cupsys Reading package lists... Done Building d

Re: marillat

2006-06-28 Thread W Paul Mills
W Paul Mills wrote: Marty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francesco Pietra wrote: Is deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed It's changed to deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org

Re: marillat

2006-06-28 Thread W Paul Mills
Marty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francesco Pietra wrote: Is deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed It's changed to deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main Has anyone gotte

Re: can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-26 Thread W. Paul Mills
ings to default. Then things worked much better. Personally, I also got rid of xprint, because it seems to be a pain. Paul - -- /** Running Debian Linux * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son,* * that whoever b

Re: Can I install a package and restrict its use to only one other package?

2005-12-31 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: Dial-up modem 'No CARRIER'

2005-10-21 Thread W. Paul Mills
things. Need a different init string, or timing out too soon. Couple of things to try. Look at the modem init string used by windows, and try it. Also try to connect with a terminal program such as minicom. Sometimes you can find clues to the problem by entering and watching everything as it happens. Paul - -- /**

Re: breakage of setserial in Sarge

2005-08-20 Thread W. Paul Mills
f in > /etc/ > > Uwe Perhaps you should read "/usr/share/doc/setserial/README.Debian.gz" See "/usr/share/doc/setserial/serial.conf" for a sample serial.conf file if you need one. Also check bugs.debian.org as there are some known bugs which will affect SOME users.

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread W. Paul Mills
Sword, but there is gnomesword and related packages. Paul - -- /** Running Debian Linux * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son,* * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16* ** W. Paul Mills *

Re: File-->Quit doesn't work any more: A firefox bug?

2004-12-07 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: Package to block random SSH login attempts?

2004-12-05 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: Mozilla crashed when browsering webpage containing after installing libflash-mozplugin

2004-11-25 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: Mozilla crashed when browsering webpage containing after installing libflash-mozplugin

2004-11-24 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: I can not see these pages from my machine

2004-10-27 Thread W. Paul Mills
gnore all this. Paul - -- /** Running Debian Linux * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son,* * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16* ** W. Paul Mills ** http://Mills-USA.com/ **/

Re: XEmacs has stopped working.

2004-08-18 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: cron (-84) package broken on unstable

2004-07-29 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: broken cups in sid

2004-05-29 Thread W Paul Mills
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Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

2004-04-20 Thread W Paul Mills
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Re: Display manager

2004-04-17 Thread W Paul Mills
nDesktopDir DefaultSession=default.desktop x-snip- Hope this helps, Paul -- /** Running Debian Linux * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son,* * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16* ***

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2004-04-15 Thread W Paul Mills
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Re: ext2/ext3 filesystems

2003-12-28 Thread W. Paul Mills
l 20 1998 /dev/hda9 Paul -- /** Running Debian Linux * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son,* * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16* * W. Paul Mills * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://Mills-USA.com/ * * GnuPGPrint = 09B

Re: Dlink DI-604 router

2003-12-18 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-26 Thread W. Paul Mills
uld think that box would be redundant ? > > am I wrong? > > > Thanks > red Downloads from non-us are currently not available due to security breach. Paul -- /** Running Debian Linux ******** * For God so loved the world that He gave hi

Re: apache 1.3.28-4 on unstable

2003-10-27 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: apache 1.3.28-4 on unstable

2003-10-25 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: apache 1.3.28-4 on unstable

2003-10-24 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: Spamassassin thinking i'm a spammer

2003-10-03 Thread W. Paul Mills
nts > (root, mark, etc) are by default never spam? > > Thanks, > > > Mark "whitelist_from menem.mine.nu" in /etc/spamassassin/local.cf or ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs Paul -- /** Running Debian Linux **** * For God so loved the worl

Re: [OT] Calif. cable ISP info-- RR or Earthlink??

2003-08-14 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: Hi, where is gnome2 configuration file?

2003-07-19 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: libc6: did it move from unstable to testing?

2003-03-09 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: compiled kernel problems with ide-scsi and modversions.h

2003-01-26 Thread W. Paul Mills
vices (if any) on your system. Paul - -- /** Running Debian Linux ******** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son,* * that whoever believes in Him should not pe

Re: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3

2003-01-25 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: Problems with own 2.4.18

2003-01-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
caught up in something like this? Paul - -- /** Running Debian Linux * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son,* * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16* * W. Paul Mills * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Linux PDA (voice, writing recognition)

2002-12-31 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: How to get compiler changed to gcc-3.20

2002-11-30 Thread W. Paul Mills
time. Paul - -- /** Running Debian Linux * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son,* * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16* * W. Paul Mills * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://Mills-USA.co

Re: KMAIL

2002-11-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
dressbook is part of the kdebase package. Paul - -- /** Running Debian Linux * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son,* * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * mailto:[EMA

Re: ALSA not saving mixer settings

2002-11-04 Thread W. Paul Mills
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Re: alsaplayer problems

2002-10-31 Thread W. Paul Mills
d. > > > T > Strangely enough, the only way I can make it work is -- alsaplayer -o oss And yes I am using ALSA sound drivers. Paul - -- /****** Running Debian Linux * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son,* * t

RE: Fetchmail / exim / courier imap

2002-10-31 Thread W. Paul Mills
27;frozen' | awk '{print $3}' ) Paul - -- /** Running Debian Linux * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son,* * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16* * W. Paul Mills * mailto:Pau

Re: Apt errors: Warning: could not lock the cache file.

2002-09-30 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sven Hartrumpf) writes: > I have installed packages using aptitude when my / partition filled up > by some /etc ... files (from CUPS packages). > Installation failed therefore. > Now, everytime I call aptitude I get: > "Apt errors: Warning: could not lock the cache file. Openin

Re: Gnome/sawfish - font problem (sid)

2002-09-04 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oliver Elphick) writes: > Also, sawfish's options no longer appear in the Control centre menu. I > don't know if this is related, but both happened around the same time. > > Can anyone give me a clue where to look? This happend to me a while back. Found I had sawfish install

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

2002-09-01 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) writes: > [1 ] > Isaac To wrote: >> If you look at the license of non-free software in the Debian archive and >> read the copyright file of each of them, you can find that they allow the >> binary code to be distributed in a Debian CD-ROM to be sold. They become >>

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

2002-08-31 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Klaus Imgrund) writes: > On the xmms website is a statement that nothing has changed. > I tend to stick with what xmmms has on their site - after all it's their >program.They would probably know that they are about to go to jail;-0 I agree with this. But some seem to think it

Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

2002-08-31 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Isaac To) writes: > * All commercial distribution of Debian must choose either to take away > all MP3 decoding programs from their non-US distribution (or not > shipping non-US at all), or to pay Thomson accordingly. Alternatively, > Debian can simply drop MP3 p

Re: man or info?

2002-06-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
Good discussion! Learned something! Thanks, Paul -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: man or info?

2002-06-20 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > To summarize somewhat, perhaps unfairly, the GNU Project seems to > believe that providing a complete detailed manual is always preferable > to providing a reference card; the Debian Project observes that not all > upstream authors have the time or inclin

Re: /etc/printcap with CUPS & Openoffice 1.0

2002-06-15 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (nate) writes: > > >> I had a similar problem with wordperfect 7. I used "lpr -o raw" >> with cups to solve the problem. >> > > > where did you use the lpr? did/does wordperfect have a way to > specify a command line printer command? seems most X apps do, > gnotepad+, netscape 4

Re: /etc/printcap with CUPS & Openoffice 1.0

2002-06-14 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (nate) writes: > hi. > > this is getting frustrating. I recently setup CUPS on my desktop > to spool to a Jetdirect card connected to a HP Laserjet 4000. > > I can print fine if i use lpr, or if i use netscape(4.x) which > calls lpr, or adobe acrobat reader which calls lpr too. e

Re: galeon doesn't work with proxies?

2002-05-27 Thread W. Paul Mills
Do not know about squid, but galeon works with junkbuster, and oops. Did not work with some versions of tinyproxy. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dman) writes: > [1 ] > > Having recently learned of adzap and pyredir, I'm trying to convince > galeon to use squid to proxy all requests. As a first s

Re: What's the meaning of "echo $@"?

2002-05-26 Thread W. Paul Mills
$@ returns the arguments to the script, similar to $* The following bash script will show the differences. x- myargs.sh -- #!/bin/bash # myargs.sh IFS=";" echo "$@" echo "$*" echo $@ echo $* echo "$# arguments" exit 0 x end myargs.sh -

Re: Galeon user agent causing problems?

2002-05-22 Thread W. Paul Mills
I had this problem when using tinyproxy with galeon. Changed my proxy to oops and works fine now. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roach, Mark R.) writes: > I have been unable to get to www.cdw.com using galeon for a while now. I > get the message "Redirection limit for this URL exceeded." strangely,

Re: Passing io/eth params to 8319too driver

2002-05-20 Thread W. Paul Mills
Not sure on the passing parameters, but I have four such cards. DLink DFE-530TX+, 2 of them work fine with 2.4.x kernels, but the two newer ones will not. And the factory supplied driver source will not compile with 2.4.x kernels. Perhaps you are caught with something like this. Actually there are

Re: Rebooting under a customized kernel

2002-05-06 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (curtis) writes: > Ok, after trying to compile the kernel now several different ways, I > still can't boot up afterwards. That is, on boot up while it's doing > the, what is it LILO 2.22 something like that, it gets > started and then starts over, and over, an

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-05-01 Thread W. Paul Mills
like to hang in there, just gets in the way. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (craigw) writes: > On Tue Apr 30, 2002 at 06:16:44PM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: >> >> >> Old netscape directories including ~your_home/.netscape/ >> can cause havoc with mozilla. Also make sure you star

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-04-30 Thread W. Paul Mills
Reboot! This is Linux, never reboot, except to install new kernel. ;-) Mozilla runs from a shell script. The variouse variables are set by the script so mozilla can find all its parts. Only programs run by the script will see those variables. They go away when terminated. Old netscape directorie

Re: strange mail

2002-04-19 Thread W. Paul Mills
Seems to have been me. Looks like something broke after an "upgrade" -- hopefully fixed now. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Turner) writes: > I received the following, plus a duplicate (except for message IDs) 6 > minutes later. Can anyone shed any light on where these come from, and > why?

Re: Debian "kernel-reboot"(?)

2002-01-16 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Bengtsson) writes: > W. Paul Mills went something in the lines of: > > Are you starting "X" with "startx" or with a display manager? > > If starting with startx, do you have an idle time limit on your > > console idle time? &g

Re: Debian "kernel-reboot"(?)

2002-01-15 Thread W. Paul Mills
Are you starting "X" with "startx" or with a display manager? If starting with startx, do you have an idle time limit on your console idle time? Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Bengtsson) writes: > Hi! > > I'm having some problems with Debian, and I'm hoping that someone can > help me out. >

Re: startx -> /usr/bin/X11/X no such file

2001-12-17 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello all, > > Frustrated. Original running woody now sid trying to > resolve this issue. I am hoping that one of you has > crossed this bridge and are able to help! > > xf86config runs without snag... but when > 'startx' -> fails, b/c no /usr/bin/X11/X > > My und

Re: Secure POP over SSH

2001-12-16 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pollywog) writes: > I read the docs at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Secure-POP+SSH.html > and I am wondering whether this approach can work for multiple mailboxes > at one ISP (if I use fetchmail). What I am almost sure will happen is > that before the SSH tunnel is di

Re: Cahnging default vi?

2001-11-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan Brown) writes: > One of my potato + progeny machies seems to heve elvis as the default for > vi. After a few days of being anoyed by it's aberent non standard behabior, > I'm ready to change to something else (vim perhaps ?0 ( or the real thing > if the FreebSD vi has been

Re: RealTek Chip support

2001-11-21 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hanasaki JiJi) writes: > I am looking at a MS-6368 Mother board that says it has a RT8100. How > can I check for support for this board? Or, 8100 a general number means > an 81xx is is used (i.e.: maybe a 8129 or 8139) > > Thank you. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: RealTek RTL8129/8139 Fast Ethernet driver for kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-20 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) writes: > * On 20-11-01 at 10:40 Emil Pedersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > +Here quoted text begins+ > [...] > > I think it's important to be very precise what chip is used; I've heard > > lots of trouble with the chip '8139C' (note the trailing 'C')

Re: RealTek RTL8129/8139 Fast Ethernet driver for kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-19 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dries Kimpe) writes: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Coen De Roover wrote: > > > > I'll follow your advice :) > > The strange thing is however, that before I upgraded to 2.4.X everything > > worked fine .. > > > I noticed the same thing. > The card is a RTL8139C and since I switched to

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX: the -REAL- driver

2001-11-05 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphael Bustin) writes: > I found a very interesting page on D-Link's website: > > > > wherein a clue may perhaps be found. > > It seems that Revisions A, B and C of this board > (the DFE-530TX+) do indeed use rtl8139.o fro

Re: newline in terminal??

2001-10-29 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rohan Deshpande) writes: > Hi everyone, > > I was just wondering why this is happening: > > When I am typing in a terminal, i.e. a long directory, at the end of the > terminal's width, the text does not start on a new line. It just > overwrites what text is already on screen;

Re: Cron

2001-10-21 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Theo Wribe) writes: > How do I create a crontab that run's #ping IP every 10 seconds? > > Tried crontab -e > > 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * */bin/ping -s 8 -c 1 www.sunet.se 1> > /dev/null 2> /dev/null > > But it doesn't seem to work. You are sending a ping every 10 minut

Re: cron every 5 minutes

2001-10-21 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lance Hoffmeyer) writes: > Isn't the syntax to have cron run every five and not send email to anyone > > MAILTO="" > 5 * * * * */5 * * * * user program ^^^ || |+--- if this is /etc/crontab or /etc/cron.d/ +--- yours only works at 5 p

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