Sawfish/GNOME right-mouse-click send-to-back

2000-12-13 Thread Gareth Bowker
the window menu. I've got the sawfish-gnome package installed here, I don't remember off-hand if it's installed at home, but I assume it probably is. Thanks, Gareth (Please CC: messages to me as I'm not on the list atm) -- Gareth Bowker | [EMAIL P

Re: vnc problem: unable to connect to vnc server

2000-12-08 Thread Gareth Bowker
es you with your ip address(es). If you don't really want ipmasq installed, you could always install the package, copy ipofif someplace else then remove the package... HTH, Gareth -- Gareth Bowker | [EMAIL PROTECTED] PhD Research Student | http://users

Re: new

2000-12-08 Thread Gareth Bowker
x27;s there to start with. To completely upgrade your distribution, run: apt-get update && apt-get -y dist-upgrade but remember that this will mean you're running unstable, and things can (and certainly do) break from time to time. HTH, Gareth -- Gareth Bowker

Re: setting up dns

2000-12-07 Thread Gareth Bowker
James Preece wrote: > > I have managed to get named running, but there is no /vary/named dir. > > Can someone help me start building the zone files etc, or run through what I > need to do. Without being sat at home I can't be 100% but IIRC look at /etc/named/named.conf HTH

Re: X after booting

2000-12-07 Thread Gareth Bowker
ings. HTH, Gareth -- Gareth Bowker | [EMAIL PROTECTED] PhD Research Student | http://users.aber.ac.uk/tgb96/ Space Robotics Team | Office: (01970) 621528 University of Wales, Aberystwyth | Mobile: (07971) 219986

xlibs error

2000-12-07 Thread Gareth Bowker
ich is also in package xpaint dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-10_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Any help resolving this would be great as apt refuses to work

pppd vs ipppd

2000-09-27 Thread Gareth Bowker
What have people's experiences been of ipppd, and does it support these features? Also, how easy is it to set up channel bonding using ipppd? Thanks in advance, Gareth -- Gareth Bowker | [EMAIL PROTECTED] PhD Research Student | http://users.aber.ac.uk/tg

Re: apt-get size mismatch with woody

2000-09-26 Thread Gareth Bowker
quite important - after all, it may not decompress properly/work at all without it, so telling it not to perform the size check wouldn't achieve anything. You'd probably just end up with broken packages... Gareth -- Gareth Bowker | [EMAIL PROTECTED] PhD Res

Re: apt-get size mismatch with woody

2000-09-26 Thread Gareth Bowker
Gareth Bowker wrote: > I get this every so often too. I just rerun apt-get update. What seems > to happen is that the last byte of the packages isn't being downloaded > for some reason. Oops, I actually meant apt-get upgrade, not update. It's normally grabbing the lis

Re: apt-get size mismatch with woody

2000-09-26 Thread Gareth Bowker
t it down to the fact that we have to run through a webcache here (which quite often doesn't work as it should), but it could be down to the debian servers/mirrors or apt *shrug*. I've never looked into it as rerunning fixes it. Hope this helps, Gareth -- Gareth Bowker