Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-07 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Anthony Campbell wrote: > Thank you; next question, where do you find it? Is there a .deb file > available? http://www.opera.com/download/linux.html, and yes, there are .deb's.

Re: LILO+IDE+SCSI Problems

2001-01-31 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Andrew n marshall wrote: > > Hi, > I just installed debian for the first time and have run into a problem > getting LILO to boot properly. I think it is the standard 'LI' problem > with SCSI and IDE disks, but I have tried several things I found on the > web, none of which have been successful.

Re: LILO+IDE+SCSI Problems

2001-01-31 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Andrew n marshall wrote: > > I have not found these bugs on any of the bug pages. Can you give me a > specific URL? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=53061&repeatmerged=yes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=67115&repeatmerged=yes Ekkehard

Re: Changing speed of PCI bus

2001-01-16 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
"David B. Harris" wrote: > # Is it possible to modify the speed of the PCI bus in a running Linux > # environment? I.e., is there some command to temporarily reduce it and > # return it to its original value later? > > In a word, no. This would require special hardware, and from what I know > of

Changing speed of PCI bus

2001-01-16 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Hello, I am having some trouble with a PCI card; the trouble goes away if I reduce the PCI bus speed slightly (by reducing the FSB speed of my ASUS A7V mainboard from 100 to 95 MHz). The system (and the PCI bus) is not overclocked or in any other way non-standard; I suspect that some oscillator or

"wall" popping up?

2001-01-16 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Hello, I'm running unstable and helix-gnome. Is there a tool out there which will pop up a dialog box when a "wall" message is coming along? Things like xconsole or a big panel applet are not what I'm looking for... Or is it possible to have "wall" messages automatically being delivered as mail

"top" for network?

2000-12-13 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Hello list, Is there some kind of "top"-like application in Debian that will display the network throughput per-process? Thanks, Ekkehard

Re: Spin down SCSI drives

2000-11-21 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > Ekkehard Krämer wrote: > > > [scsi-spin] > > Spins down the disk alright, but only if it's not mounted. Actually, it also spins the drive down if it is mounted, giving some nasty effects when something (like hflushd) accesses the drive (like the things you've reporte

Local IMAP server

2000-11-19 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Hello, since Netscape Messenger isn't able to do proper locking on its own mbox files and I want to use both Netscape and mutt for mail reading, I'm thinking about installing a local IMAP server on my woody machine, which will only "serve" my own mails. The current situation is this: leafnode is

Re: Netscape 6.0

2000-11-17 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Daniel Borgmann wrote: > > > > My experience was that Mozilla M18 was not nearly as stable as > > > Netscape 4.75 and I removed it from my system. > > > > i have found its certainly more of a pig > ... > i heared of skipstone and really really want to try it. I just installed Skipstone, and it l

Re: fetchnews running automatically?

2000-11-17 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 04:33:27PM +, Ekkehard Kraemer ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > does fetchnews install some cron/anacron/etc. script which makes it > > fetch news automatically? > What's your crontab entry look like Mar

fetchnews running automatically?

2000-11-15 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Hello, does fetchnews install some cron/anacron/etc. script which makes it fetch news automatically? I have created a crontab entry which runs fetchnews every 4 hours, but it seems to me like it is run more often that every 4 hours... Ekkehard

User anacron run-parts

2000-11-13 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Hello, I have a few user scripts which run once a day. These are right now keeping track of their own time stamp, and are run regularly (for example by cron, or whenever logging in). Is the following line in /etc/anacrontab 1 5cron.SOMEUSER nice su - SOMEUSER bash -c run-parts --report

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

2000-11-13 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --download-only If I run apt-get from inside dselect (with "U" in the main menu), then when I "S"elect packages the first time, all packages that are new will be displayed at the top of all packages, making it easy to select inte

Re: Problems sending e-mail

2000-11-11 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Hannes Schuddel wrote: > Incompatibility between two sites on the route of the message > Authorisation failure at site 'rmail.urz.tu-dresden.de' for > Running exim in debugging modes brings only the following error message: > SMTP<< 250 rmail: You are bluffing - `pD4B9F445.dip.t-dialin.net` > e

Re: Fonts too big in XF 4.01

2000-11-11 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Hubert Chan wrote: > AFAIK, XF4 defaults to 100dpi, while XF3 defaulted to 75dpi, > Start X with the "-dpi 75" option. > Also, edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, and change the order of the > FontPath lines so that the 75dpi directories come before the 100dpi > You may have to change /etc/X1

Fonts too big in XF 4.01

2000-11-10 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Hello, I'm using XFree 4.0.1 (the current packages on a woody system) with a Voodoo3 2000 in 1280x1024 mode under HELIX Gnome. Everything was just installed with apt-get, no special fiddling has occured. This is my situation with the fonts: - All "gnomish" fonts (window frame menus, file manage

tar, cpio, or cp?

1997-11-30 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
Hi Torsten! > I use: tar cvf /dev/st0 . TH>I regulary create backups of my whole system using tar on SCSI tapes. What about symbolic links if the link is restored before the file it is pointing to? Is this handled correctly? MbG, Ekkehard --- OS/2 Merlin - mchtig magisch! -- -- TO UNSUBSCR