Re: Mounting windows share

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Jones
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 21:27, Dan Jones wrote: > I have a file server running Samba with a public share, readable and > writable to anyone. I have two Windows machines and one Mandrake > machine successfully accessing the share. Viewing the connections under > Webmin shows the machin

Back ground execution pauses

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Jones
What causes some scripts (such as the POPFile Beysean filter written in Perl) to require an ENTER keypress when run in the background? In other words, running ./script.pl & the program executes but the command prompt does not reappear until you press the ENTER key. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Changing groups

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Jones
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 07:44, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 06:54:34AM -0400, Dan Jones wrote: > > Is there no way to change your group under a GUI? Executing newgrp > > under a terminal only affects that session, not the parent GUI process. > > You have t

Changing groups

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Jones
Is there no way to change your group under a GUI? Executing newgrp under a terminal only affects that session, not the parent GUI process. If I set up groups and give them access to various files, can I only access those files from a command line? Doesn't that defeat much of the usefulness of ha

Re: Back ground execution pauses

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Jones
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 21:01, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:34:37 -0400 > Dan Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What causes some scripts (such as the POPFile Beysean filter written > > in Perl) to require an ENTER keypress when run in the backgrou

Mounting windows share

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Jones
I have a file server running Samba with a public share, readable and writable to anyone. I have two Windows machines and one Mandrake machine successfully accessing the share. Viewing the connections under Webmin shows the machines connected as user nobody, group nogroup. However, when I try to

nls iso8859-1

2003-08-09 Thread Dan Jones
I do not have X installed on my server, and thus do not have any additional fonts installed. However, when I try to map to an smbfs share, I get the error that samba can not load nls iso8859-1. What packages can install to correct this error without loading the entire X suite? Thanks in advance

Re: nls iso8859-1

2003-08-09 Thread Dan Jones
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 12:02, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Dan Jones (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I do not have X installed on my server, and thus do not have any > > additional fonts installed. However, when I try to map to an smbfs > > share, I g

Re: Mounting windows share

2003-08-09 Thread Dan Jones
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 21:07, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > OK, additional info. Running smbclient -L mandor (mandor is the name of > > the file server) from the Mandrake machine shows three file shares, one > > of which is the one I'm trying to access. Running the same command from > > the Debian mac

Network speed

2003-07-22 Thread Dan Jones
Is there a straightforward way to determine what speed (10 or 100mbs) a NIC is running? How about to determine if it is in half or full duplex mode? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Junk mail on the list.

2003-06-30 Thread Dan Jones
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 13:39, alex wrote: > I'm getting a lot of junk mail that is addressed to this list. Am I >the only one getting this stuff? No. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux debian source code.

2003-06-30 Thread Dan Jones
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 15:15, Fabio Miranda Hamburger wrote: > How can i get the source code of linux debian -stable? > If I want to get it from a ftp mirror, what would be the full directory > to reach it? > No offense intended but your question either isn't very clear or indicates that you do not

Re: dual booting

2003-06-28 Thread Dan Jones
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 08:41, Armin Catovic wrote: > Hi, > Just got a quick question. How do I dual boot my Debian 3.0 with Windows XP > Professional with SP1. I would like to have the boot up screen when I start > my PC so I can select between XP and the beautiful Debian. So what are you asking?

Re: Evolution 1.4 bug?

2003-06-27 Thread Dan Jones
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 22:10, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to confirm the bug in Evo 1.4; ie: when you have the folder > pane on (you can see the folder tree on the left), you wouldn't be able > to click on "Calendar". Evolution would just crash. I can verify that this is not a unique problem

HW. address read/write mismap

2003-06-22 Thread Dan Jones
Can anyone tell me what causes the subject error? It's being generated by an older SMC Ultra network card that I'm temporarily trying to use. The card was functioning in another machine before I installed it in this one. When I added the SMC card to the machine, it became eth0. I edited /etc/ne

Re: kernel compile problems with gcc 3.3

2003-06-10 Thread Dan Jones
On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 23:44:58 -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote: >Actually, both errors are *not* the same > > >Dan's is due to something missing in the kernel sources; I've read >the thread in the kernel developpers' mailing list, I can't recall >exactly what is missing, but I know that a patch is available

Re: kernel compile problems with gcc 3.3

2003-06-10 Thread Dan Jones
On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 23:16:55 -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: >Dan Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 18:26:46 GMT, Matthias Leopold wrote: >>>hi >>> >>>i tried to recompile my 2.4.20 kernel with make-kpkg (as i have >>>

Re: kernel compile problems with gcc 3.3

2003-06-09 Thread Dan Jones
On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 18:26:46 GMT, Matthias Leopold wrote: >hi > >i tried to recompile my 2.4.20 kernel with make-kpkg (as i have >successfully done before) incorporating the xfs and ck patches. this >time the process stopped with the following error message: > >net/network.o(.text+0xe117): In funct

Re: Compiling kernel

2003-06-08 Thread Dan Jones
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 22:22:26 -0400, Dan Jones wrote: >>>I'm told that gcc 3.2 will compile the original source without >>>modification. I may try downgrading my compiler and seeing if >>>that works. >>gcc 3.2 instead of 3.3 indeed works fine; my kernel comp

Re: Compiling kernel

2003-06-07 Thread Dan Jones
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 03:54:19 +0200, Ronald Capel wrote: >On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 21:19:02 -0400 "Dan Jones" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>It appears to be a problem with gcc 3.3. The function (located in >>net/core/rtnetlink.c) is declared as extern __inline__ int &

Compiling kernel

2003-06-07 Thread Dan Jones
Attempting to compile kernel 2.4.20 under testing. Getting the following linker error: ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o init/do_mounts.o \ --start-group \