Re: testing symbolic links

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Angus D Madden wrote: >Does anyone know a of utility to check if a symbolic link is valid? You may want to check out a program called readlink. Its probably already on your system. IIRC, its part of the texmf distro. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: user xsession or how to start ssh-add

ull And make sure you have ssh-askpass installed. This should be run by your Window Manager (perhaps you can use xclients file) Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: test filter???????????????????????????

Um, what's the idea of reposting my own post? Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: date '+%a %b %e %Y' does not work from within crontab.

) in the command, unless escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline characters, and all data after the first % will be sent to the command as standard input. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: Flash Player doesn't work.

he vendor. When I used the deb, the music would play super-fast. Using the vendors release worked fine. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: CorelDRAW replacement

does. > >Is there any free software that does such anyway? So that I could start >migrating... You might like to check out Kontour (formally known as KIllustrator). It is part of KOffice. However, I do not know if it can handle CorelDRAW files. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

nitive Guide', published by O'Rielly. I found it very enlightening reading. Hope this helps. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: why boot using floppy is very slow?

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Cameron Kerr wrote: >Perhaps playing with some of the floppy boot-time parameters might help. >See bootparam(7) for more info. Actually, to rebut my own advice, this is worthless, since the initial ramdisk is loaded by the boot manager, not the kernel (since the kernel

Re: driver ac'97 in intel 815E chipset?

it lists VIA for the sound, then say M to VIA 82C686 Audio Codec If its a 1371 based sound controller, then saying M to Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 (ES1371) should do the trick. Hope this helps. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: why boot using floppy is very slow?

en on those is reasonable too, mostly. Notice that syslinux has an option (-s, IIRC), to create a ``stupid, but portable'' version, which is slower, which makes me think it _might_ be a kernel/controller issue. Perhaps playing with some of the floppy boot-time parameters might help. See b

Re: 3c509 setup disk?

fg program to disable the PNP, if you get what I mean... Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

ur driver is compiled into the kernel. >i keep forgetting about the amazing power behind the /proc area. >i'll check this out -- cool idea. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: chkconfig --add equivalent

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > chkconfig --add fwconfig man update-rc.d Don't forget the `.' Chkconfig is a Redhat (well, Ultrix really, IIRC) thing. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

ts still zero, your card may be dropping interrupts. The testing program will show this. A symptom of this fatal condition is that the lights on the hub flicker, meaning data is sent, and the ping target gets the frames, and sends them back, but nothing happens. PS. Send the dmesg output

Re: [OT] "-" user on solaris

lieve that's why its often nicknamed Slowaris ;^) Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: which driver for Belkin ethernet card?

. Its a function of the chipset. You can tell what chipset a PCI card has by using the lspci command. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: Printing problems - hostname bad

does not reverse-resolve to your hostname, I think. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: pid of a script?

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, ah. wrote: >I was wondering how to find out the pid of a (bash) script. Use the special parameter $$ for the PID, and $PPID for the parent process ID man bash Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Routing problems in stable

, and nowhere from there. PROGNOSIS: Packets are not being routed from 192.168.1/24 to 192.168.0/24 on the machine labelled ROUTER. Thanks for any hints. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: OT: kvm alternatives? (was: booting with no keyboard or moue)

ot require a console? You can use a serial console to do that, if thats the case. Otherwise, there are no other alternatives. $500 is very steep (I'm assuming you mean US dollars), for a four-port KVM, you can do better, I'm sure (I'm in New Zealand, I can get them for about that in

Re: nfs is slow

tried include ntop,etherape. Have a look in the networking section, there are a lot of networking programs. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Debian proxying using http/ftp, and writing to CD

CD, really, but only with the packages I use, not all of them. I've tried using debian-proxy, buts its a bit flaky, and only uses rsync. I'd rather use a closer/faster mirror, none of which support rsync. I've also tried using debian-mirror, but its broken... Has anyone got a HOWTO

Re: RAID

ata-133 stuff Aha, it works!!! Thank you very much (very good end to a very stressful week). I ended up getting the source, for anyone doing this, you need to get the raidtools-5sommat from www.kernel.org. For testing users, see the raidtools2 package. Cameron Kerr -- [EMA

Re: nfs is slow

4k or 8k). Stangely enough, I haven't been able to replicate the strange dip... Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: procmail rules

. Also, you have not told us exactly what you are trying to accomplish, which means I have to guess >:0: >* (change|update|new|different).*(e-?mail|address) >/var/mail/addresschanged What are the intended semantics for this rule??? What are you trying to accom

[ANSWER] Why gpm is weird.

module to fix what they broke. Hope this may help someone. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: Help with Expect & Xterm

can't do it the right way and use ssh, with ssh-agent? Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: Help with Expect & Xterm

e a new xterm xterm -e myexpectscript Where your expect script would spawn telnet. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: PAM and /etc/security/access.conf

the other files in there too. >I'm using Potato with 2.2.19 kernel. > >Also, I find no reference to PAM in the /proc directory. Why would you? Its got very little to do with the kernel, as its a userland library. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: sample resolv.conf

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, faisal gillani wrote: >My resolv.conf file is missing .. can anyone give a >sample file so i can use ? Sure, search localdomain nameserver 111.222.333.444 nameserver 111.222.333.445 Of course, there's always the manual page resolv.conf(5) Cameron Kerr -- [EMAI

RAID

array under Debian 2.2r5? I've read the docs in /usr/share/doc/raidtools/ too, btwand the raid modules are loaded (raid[015]) Thanks ever so much I need a gin. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: Bandwidth limiting

e, I haven't had time to play with it that much. >I tried limiting the packet size, but it really doesn't do much. >Hope there is a solution somewhere, besides shutting down the FTP. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: sgml or latex?

Odd, that's the second message in a `Chinese' character set that was in English (and therefore went into the deleted folder). Is gb2312 used for anything else than Chinese? (any _non_ English?). Keep in mind the message was sent by a French national. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTE

What happened to dhcpcd

Hello, can anyone tell me why there is no longer any packages for dhcpcd in testing or unstable. I'd rather not use pump, since I've heard that it has problems with multiple interfaces. dhcpcd is in stable, and is what I have been using. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTE

Re: xterm resource settings and woody

ts not Debian defaults! Personal settings should be made in your ~/.Xresources or ~/.Xdefaults file. Once you've changed them, you can run xrdb -override ~/.Xresources, and start a new xterm. Personally, I also stick in my ~/.bashrc this, if [ $TERM = "xterm" ]; then TE

Re: Limit 32 group membership

not access to directory, where right is apply to 33'th group. Perhaps you should try using LDAP, or NIS. Just an idea... Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: [root@eboga.d2g.com: No Screen Found]

you upgrade to version 4 of XFree86. The OP can do this easily by ``pinning'' this particular package, or by doing a full upgrade to woody. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: .xsession fatal to X...?

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Tom Schuetz wrote: >My X-Windows works fine, until I try to employ an .xsession file. Make .xsession executable, and link it to .xinitrc (Debian uses .xinitrc in startx, other distros use .xsession or .xinitrc, meaning the same thing) Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: apt-get update problem

stable_main_binary-i386_Packages Kill this file, then try again. It should be recreated. You might like to move it out of the way first, just in case. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: Verifying packages

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Cameron Kerr wrote: >My question is: Is it possible to verify all of the existing packages on >the system so I can tell which packages have now corrupted files? Hi, I couldn't find anything to do this, so I made something myself. The md5sums for all package files

Verifying packages

Is it possible to verify all of the existing packages on the system so I can tell which packages have now corrupted files? At least I had a backup, of /home :( Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: routing problem

his? If he wants to use the links to agregate bandwidth, he should look at using iproute2 to split the traffic (I forget what this is called) Hope this helps, Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: mail -v my@my.com < in.tar.gz -- HELP

t;Subject Line" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope this helps Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: ssh2 / X problems

t I can remember) - The Compile Time compilation options - The sshd2.config (name?) Does it happen with any other user account? Try running the server in debug mode. This will likely tell you whats happening. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: install nslookup

res1. I think bind9-host is a meta-package for host, which contains the host program, which is similar to dig. The rest are just libraries that they require. >Do I really readlly need most of bind9 just to do ns lookups? Its not most, its just a wee bit. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

RE: 100mbit nic: intel or 3com?

s this would prove they Cisco are playing silly buggers. (The first three octets of a MAC address identify the manufacturer.) Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: 100mbit nic: intel or 3com?

card (using the 8139too kernel module) might do you well anyway, and save you an extra $60 (NZD), ~$25 dollars US. You can use this saved money to bump up your RAM. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: Funky email disclaimer

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: >Yow, not only does the legal team have no clue about technology, but no >clue about the McQuary Limit, to boot. The _what???_ limit? Is that the `no more than 4 lines in your sig' limit? Cameron Kerr -- [

Re: install nslookup

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, wang wrote: >hello! > i want to use nslooup > what soft i need to install ? > THANKS > wang You really should use dig or host (use dig). nslookup is deprecated. dig is fairly good to use. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL

Re: x-configuration (initialization) problem - MOUSE

? Well, if a mouse is moving erratically, it generally means the protocol is set wrongly in your XF86Config. Also, lately, gpm seems to gone really borked, so you might try downgrading to the stable version apt-get remove gpm apt-get install gpm/stable Cameron Kerr -- [EM

Re: ETH interface in full duplex mode

MII chip on them (10/100BaseTx cards). You might have to use the manufacturers DOS tool to change the setting on older 10BaseT cards. >thx 4 any help. You're welcome. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: Borked mouse

x27;m hoping I'll see a new gpm deb come over >pretty soon--hearing other people's experiences makes me suspect something >there. Yes, I downgraded my gpm to gpm/stable (apt-get remove gpm; apt-get install gpm/stable). When started, gpm would exit (``Resource Temporarily Unavaila

Re: What's the best way to pull a package from unstable to a Woody system?

ke the kghostview package from unstable, more desirable than the one from woody, and each time you apt-get upgrade, it'll sync that particular package to unstable. More information can be found at http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2002/1/mail#1 Hope this helps. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROT

Re: S/Key Password prompt using ssh

e some RSA keys for yourself (using ssh-keygen). Using the -v flag to ssh should show you what's heppening. Hope this helps. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: Urgent LaTeX problem - any ideas?

s, you might also like to make PDF versions of your slides, in which case you should really use \declaregraphicsextensions, and use \includegraphics as crime, and not crime.eps. (Pictures in PDF can look a lot better this way). If you want, gimme an email, and I'll send you an example I

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

On 27 Jan 2002, Andreas Goesele wrote: >Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, if the error is indeterminate, then I would start to suspect your >> hardware. Errors such as this often indicate bad memory, in my >> experience. Getting segfaults all th

Re: Can't startx due t fixed fonts

ound in XF86Config but there was nothing there about fixed fonts either. > >Anyone know what the fix is and if so could you tell me. Hmmm, are you running the font server. I know this can be the cause of some of these kinds of problems. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

re. Errors such as this often indicate bad memory, in my experience. Getting segfaults all the time is a classic example of this. Get hold of memtest86 (http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/) and give your memory a good going over. Running crashme off a boot floppy might also be, ah, interesting... &

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

ebian Maintainer does things differently, in order to keep the binaries smaller. Perhaps there is a compatibility packages in oldlibs (libc5 package) Warning: This is just an educated guess. Good luck Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: remote mutt - printing local?

fty Telnet on MacOS 9. I don't know of any Windows emulators, but then, I haven't had to look. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: HOWTO->dd an MBR onto a HD

;Might want to let somebody else verify, because this isn't stuff you >want to fool around with I'll second that. (416 sounds familiar, but you should check this yourself) Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: Mouse stops in xfree86 4.1.0

s a repeater. I shall (one of these days), try it on a Slackware box and try to replicate, since I never had a problem using Slackware. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: adding all users to group

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: >also sprach Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.0848 +0100]: >> All of the users on a Debian system have UID >= 1000. For some unknown >> (to me) reason, the user `nobody' has a UID of 65534 (or -1) > >that

Re: Kernel 2.5.1 Problem

guration). Also You probably need to update your modutils. See the Changes file in the kernel documentation. You might like to check out this website http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html I haven't checked whether or not it support 2.5 series kernels, but. Either that, or upgrade to

Re: adding all users to group

1000. For some unknown (to me) reason, the user `nobody' has a UID of 65534 (or -1) That will list the local users, no biggie. Lets complete the program then, shall we. -- ~/bin/lsusers --- #!/bin/sh # List all the users (non system) registered on

Re: fetchmail -> procmail -> spambouncer -> sendmail problems

ndmail, I suggest you read the Sendmail-Rewrite-HOWTO (mini?). Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: iptables in potato

ut I've never used it. BTW, look at http://netfilter.samba.org to find the HOWTO for iptables, and NAT in 2.4. You won't find it on linuxdoc ;) Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

Re: dumb icon question

lored, and hunted | but I can not find them. dpkg -L guitar It would seem that it is in /usr/share/pixmaps/guiTAR.xpm with a desktop shortcut stored as /usr/share/gnome/apps/Utilities/guiTAR.desktop Disclaimer: I don't use guiTAR, or GNOME Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.