Re: How to get consistent names for USB ports...

2016-02-26 Thread Christopher Swingley
v/ttyUSBxx device node, but there will also be a symlink to /dev/tty_west_station that I can use in scripts to read the data coming from that Arduino (or you can use to connect to that particular machine). Cheers, Chris -- Christopher Swingley Fairbanks, Alaska http://swingleydev.com/ cswin...@swingleydev.com

Re: pdf printing

2005-05-04 Thread Christopher Swingley
David, * David Roguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-May-02 04:49 AKDT]: > Yesterday i wanted to print a pdf book, but i didn't find any app in > gnome2.8 in wich i can print the odd and even pages. i tried with > gpdf, xpdf and evince. > My printer is configured with cups. > Anyone knows any app to do

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-08 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings, * Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-Nov-05 14:13 AKST]: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:31:21AM -0800, Stephen Le wrote: > > Is there an easy way to limit the commands a certain group of users > > can execute? > > I never done this but.. > > Use of chroot with bash started as rbash se

Long shot -- MLB Gameday audio / streaming MS ASF files

2004-03-05 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings! I know this is a long shot, but if there are any baseball fans out there who have subscribed to MLB's Gameday audio in the past, I have some bad news -- they've abandoned Real Audio and are now providing "MS ASF Video". Mplayer opens as the default application, but nothing happens

Re: Cloning

2004-01-29 Thread Christopher Swingley
ph, * Pedro Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-Jan-29 06:00 AKST]: > I'm about to install Debian on 12 computers (i*86). They will use the > same setup regarding software, but the hardware differs somewhat > between them. > > I would like to know if there is possible to, for example, install and

Samba and CUPS -- not using -o raw?

2004-01-16 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings! I've got the most recent packages of cupsys (1.1.20final-10) and samba (3.0.1-2) from my mirror, but when I submit jobs to one of my PostScript printers, it continually reports the PostScript error 'undefined command, userdict'. When I (in Windows) write the job to a file and then

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imap, BAD command unrecognized: FROM

2003-10-07 Thread Christopher Swingley
Derrick, * Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Oct-07 11:05 * AKDT]: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:01:47AM -0800, Christopher Swingley wrote: > | | ERROR : Bad or malformed request. > | | Server responded: Received: BAD Command unrecognized: FROM | |

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imap, BAD command unrecognized: FROM

2003-10-07 Thread Christopher Swingley
* Christopher Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Oct-07 09:01 AKDT]: > ERROR : Bad or malformed request. > Server responded: Received: BAD Command unrecognized: FROM > > $ dpkg --list squirrelmail uw-imapd > ii squirrelmail 1.4.0-1 Webmail

squirrelmail, uw-imap, BAD command unrecognized: FROM

2003-10-07 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings! I'm running Debian sid and have two installs of Squirrelmail with the uw-imapd server (running with plain text authentication via /etc/c-client.cf). Everything seems to work, except that when a user sends mail, the following message appears on the screen: ERROR : Bad or malform

Re: Not impressed with 2.6.0-test2 so far...

2003-09-16 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings, * Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Sep-16 19:17 AKDT]: > Unfortunately, it's a bit hard to provide full details because, as I > outlined above, I cannot even get a system working well enough to log in > and review dmesg. Does it get far enough to log messages to /var/log/kern.log

Re: Passing args to in-kernel drivers?

2003-08-09 Thread Christopher Swingley
* Christopher Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Aug-06 10:39 AKDT]: > If the pwc driver is built directly into the kernel, how does one pass > these options to the driver via an append="" in /etc/lilo.conf? It's probably rude to reply to one's own message, but h

Re: Hard Drive Mirroring

2003-08-08 Thread Christopher Swingley
Vince, * vinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Aug-07 11:25 AKDT]: > Hi I would like to mirror a hard drive and have no idea where else to > get information from. 'dd' will mirror everything from one drive to another (dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb), including partition tables, master boot record (MBR)

Passing args to in-kernel drivers?

2003-08-06 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings, I'm trying out a USB video camera that uses the Phillips kernel driver (pwc). The documentation discusses passing options when the module is loaded: $ sudo modprobe pwc size=cif fps=5 trace=1 (for example). If the pwc driver is built directly into the kernel, how does one pass

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings! * Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul-28 16:33 AKDT]: > dd has never failed me. My situation is different than his, but I've > used it extensively. > > I have a Thinkpad, and there's no cost effective way to backup up 20G. > I bought a second, identical drive and a car

Re: 2.6.0-test1 PCMCIA requires two insertions

2003-07-26 Thread Christopher Swingley
Marino, * Marino Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul-25 14:32 AKDT]: > > In short, to make PCMCIA devices work, it appears I need to insert > > them twice. The second time it recognizes them and works it's > > magic. > > > Why you don't do lsmod when it does not work and then lsmod when it

2.6.0-test1 PCMCIA requires two insertions

2003-07-25 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings Marino helped me to find what I was doing wrong with my PCMCIA modem and 2.4.6-test1. Thanks! But something strange is still going on. When I start up the laptop with an ethernet card in the slot, it doesn't recognize it on boot, despite having the driver enabled in the kernel. If

Linux 2.6.0-test1, PCMCIA modem

2003-07-24 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings! I'm trying to figure out how to get 2.6.0-test1 running on a laptop. I've gotten it to run fine on many desktop systems, but on the laptop I just can't seem to figure out what I'm supposed to do in order to get a PCMCIA modem to work (the laptop has internal eth0, and a Winmodem).

Re: Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Swingley
Leo, * Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul-22 07:42 AKDT]: > Anyone have experience wrt the reliability of this test kernel? I've been running 2.6.0-test1 (custom compiled by me for my hardware) for 8 days on my workstation. It does a fair amount of http / php / mysql stuff, as well a

Re: Securing POP3

2003-07-11 Thread Christopher Swingley
Ernest, * Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul-11 11:17 AKDT]: > Perdition 1.11 can function as a POP3s proxy. Currently it's in > unstable, which might not be what you want. If you're comfortable > compiling apps from source, you can get the distribution and docs from > http://www.verge

Securing POP3

2003-07-11 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings! What options do I have for securing POP3 on a Debian server? I've got clients connecting with all varieties of platforms (proprietary UNIX, Linux, Win XX, Max OS 9 / 10) and mail user agents (Eudora, Mozilla Mail, Netscape Mail, Lookout Express, Outhouse, etc.). Around 50 clients,

Wacky apache (1.3.27) behavior

2003-06-20 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings! I've got the latest apache (1.3.27.0-1) and php4 (4.2.3-14) packages, and I've noticed a very strange thing. If I create a file in the root of the web server (/var/www) named 'foo.php' that looks like this: BODY\n" ?> when I go to http://webserver/foo.php, I get a page that loo

Re: Mutt manual.txt.gz strange escapes

2003-03-18 Thread Christopher Swingley
Cameron, * Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Mar-18 12:50 AKST]: > > > > What's the appropriate way to view the Mutt manual > > > > (/usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz)? > > less -r > or > less -R Thanks. That works well. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley email: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Reading the mutt manual.txt.gz without the escapes...

2003-03-18 Thread Christopher Swingley
Mark, * Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Mar-18 12:15 AKST]: > The escapes are for BOLD text, and by using zcat manual.txt.gz you > will see the bold text, but it'll just scroll by too fast :). > > try it: zcat manual.txt.gz | more Thanks. That does work. I wonder why less can't do the

Mutt manual.txt.gz strange escapes

2003-03-18 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings, What's the appropriate way to view the Mutt manual (/usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz)? My mutt (1.5.3-3, from sid) has a macro defined: zcat /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz | sensible-pager which pages the manual through less. I see lots of escape characters, which makes it

Re: Free fonts

2003-02-20 Thread Christopher Swingley
Will, * Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Feb-19 23:30 AKST]: > then to figure out where to look for more info, > > dpkg -L freefont > > and so i browsed to > > lynx /usr/share/doc/freefont/ > > where i learned to try > > xset fp+ /usr/X11/lib/fonts/freefont > > ...an

Extra pages printed, CUPS & Samba

2003-01-27 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings, I have a Samba server (2.999+3.0.alpha, current sid version) and cupsys (1.1.18-2, current sid version) server running on a single computer, with a series of networked printers. My Linux clients use cupsys-client, and print successfully to all printers. Ditto my Macintosh users (J

Re: Drawing graphs for use in Latex

2002-11-20 Thread Christopher Swingley
Jens, * Jens Kubieziel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Nov-20 07:16 AKST]: > I'm looking for a tool where I can draw mathematical graphs like > y=3x^4+5x^3+9x^2+2 and save them so that I can use it in Latex. Which > packges provide those functionality? grace will also do this. It's more of a GUI graph

OT: Capturing video

2002-10-22 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings, I'm looking for a Debian package that would allow me to capture video streams I'm watching. I'm curious about this after watching movie trailer for _The Two Towers_ (it's a Real stream) and wanting to "download" the whole thing so I could show it to others on my home system (which

Re: "sudo su" Permission denied

2002-10-21 Thread Christopher Swingley
> I am trying to use "sudo su -". But I always get "su: Permission > denied". Eh? Why not 'sudo bash' ? -- Christopher S. Swingley email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier Program Please use encryption. GPG key at: University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.ed

Re: How do I turn up another NIC ?

2002-06-28 Thread Christopher Swingley
Dee, * W.D. McKinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Jun-28 11:45 AKDT]: > My question is how to get the is interface to work ? > cardmgr works great with PCMCIA's and DHCP picks up an address > right away. The PCMCIA slot defaults to eth1 so I guess the > on-board NIC could be eth0. I'm just not th

Re: Apache 1.3.26 compatible build of libapache-mod-perl

2002-06-21 Thread Christopher Swingley
* Ian D. Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Jun-21 07:10 AKDT]: > Does anyone know when a build of libapache-mod-perl that is compatible > with apache-common 1.3.26-1 will be made available? Point your favorite http client to http://incoming.debian.org, download, and dpkg --install the *.deb Chri

Re: New apache-ssl problem

2002-06-20 Thread Christopher Swingley
* Christopher Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Jun-20 14:04 AKDT]: > I just upgraded apache, apache-common, and apache-ssl to the 1.3.26 > versions recently uploaded to http.us.debian.org. The standard apache > seems to be working fine, but the SSL version isn't doing SSL.

New apache-ssl problem

2002-06-20 Thread Christopher Swingley
I just upgraded apache, apache-common, and apache-ssl to the 1.3.26 versions recently uploaded to http.us.debian.org. The standard apache seems to be working fine, but the SSL version isn't doing SSL. It's running, but not encrypted, so Mozilla won't get any data and I can telnet to the apache-ss

Re: Need advice on best SMP mainboard for Debian

2002-06-19 Thread Christopher Swingley
* Derek Gladding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Jun-19 15:46 * AKDT]: > > I am seriously considering the Tyan S2460 Dual AMD board. Any > > comments are appreciated. If you feel this is off topic please reply > > anyway off the list. Thanks! > > I'm running mixed Woody/Sid, home-cooked 2.4.18 kernel on

Re: OT - NFS through firewalls

2002-03-28 Thread Christopher Swingley
David, * David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Mar-28 12:19 AKST]: > With the setup you describe, I don't believe you should even be able to > ping the NFS server from the clients, much less mount a volume. Try it! I can ping the NFS server, and mount the NFS drive. Both work because the client

OT - NFS through firewalls

2002-03-28 Thread Christopher Swingley
I've got a setup like this: +--+ ++ |NFS | 10.0.0.20|Firewall| 192.168.1.1 ++ |Server|--||+-|Client 1| +--+10.0.0.38 ++|192.168.1.7 ++

Netscape and *.png files

1999-04-06 Thread Christopher Swingley
Hello! I'm having trouble getting Netscape to read portable network graphic (*.png) files. I've tried Navigator 4.08 and 4.51 via the netscape4 package and in both cases netscape simply quits with a "Bus error" when I try to open a *.png file in the browser. I've got libpng0g and libpng2 install

Re: prog. end of the boot ? rc.local

1999-04-02 Thread Christopher Swingley
Debian uses the /etc/rc0.d -> /etc/rc6.d folders for links to actual scripts in /etc/init.d. When the boot process reaches a particular run level (say level 2), it processes all the links in the /etc/rc2.d directory, in order. If the link starts with a K then it executes the link with the stop p