Re: KDE printer interface problem

this deluge so I will try to show a little more restraint in future, myself. -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] net au +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Routing Question

thence through my cable cable modem and, finally, through the ISP host 144.132.248.1 to the net. Possibly there is more than one default route on the host where you are having problems? Also '/usr/sbin/tcpdump eth0' (or '/usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth1') (don't think it will w

Re: any last words before I install kernel 2.6?

d and re-booted ad infinitum, until I eventually booted again off a CD. So I installed 2.4. I still have occasional problems with kdm even with 2.4, so, perhaps my hardware may be the problem. Would it be worthwhile sending my hardware details to a list concerning the kernel? regards, J

Re: OT: Managing huge Mail/ folders (with mutt?)

Karsten and others, Firstly, thank you all for the responses. On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 02:35 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 07:18:55PM +1000, James Sinnamon > > > So could anyone tell me how they handle ever growing Mail > > folders? Perhaps '

OT: Managing huge Mail/ folders (with mutt?)

). TIA, James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] net au +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123 (aka jaymz-.a.t.-bigpond-net-auStralia) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

KDE printer interface problem

diagnose this problem? TIA. James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] net au (aka jaymz-.a.t.-bigpond-net-auStralia) +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pppd authentication problem

nu/debian/debug/kppprc.txt Can anyone spot what is wrong or what is missing? BTW, is there a relationship between kppp and ppp? Does kppprc have anything to do with the files in /etc/ppp/ ? ... or with /etc/network/interfaces ? TIA James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] net au +61 41

Re: NFS mount very very slow

Dear list subscribers, For the record, the problem is now fixed and nfs works very well. On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:25 pm, James Sinnamon wrote: > At first I thought my command: > >   mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs > > ... had failed.  It seemed to have hanged.  I tried

FYI: Mouse cursor problem due to wrong VideoRam value

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 06:34 pm, James Sinnamon wrote: > Dear Mark and everyone else, > However ... > > Cursor now gets blocked out with ugly black stripes > -- > > One problem, which is more than a little

Re: Moving from RedHat/KDE to Debian/KDE

to tune video params to fit the screen better > (wont help much if its already out of monitor's specs > and thus blank); ctrl-tab and ctrl-Fn to switch > desktops. > TIA. James. -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving from RedHat/KDE to Debian/KDE

gestions in the meantime will be greatly appreciated. Thanks again, regards, James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Moving from RedHat/KDE to Debian/KDE

ng. From where I stand it's complexity seems to approach that of neuroscience. Are there any good online documentary resources which could explain how X Windows and KDE fit together? I would like to be able to understand how the Menu structures and other settings relate to files and dir

Re: NFS mount very very slow

Dear John et al, (Firstly, sorry about the previous double posting. At first I posted using a different e-mail address to that under which I had been subscribed, so I resent it using the correct address.) On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 01:53 pm, John Summerfield wrote: > James Sinnamon wrote: >

Re: NFS mount very very slow

Dear Paulo et al, On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 07:12 am, Paulo Silva wrote: > A Sex, 2004-06-25 às 12:25, James Sinnamon escreveu: > > Dear list subscribers, > > > > At first I thought my command: > > > > mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs > > > > ... ha

Re: NFS mount very very slow

Dear Paulo et al, On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 07:12 am, Paulo Silva wrote: > A Sex, 2004-06-25 às 12:25, James Sinnamon escreveu: > > Dear list subscribers, > > > > At first I thought my command: > > > > mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs > > > > ... ha

Re: NFS mount very very slow

Dear John et al, On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:48 pm, John Summerfield wrote: > James Sinnamon wrote: > >Dear list subscribers, > > > >At first I thought my command: > > > > mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs > > > >... had failed. > >Eventu

NFS mount very very slow

can anyone tell me how to work out what the problem could be? The entry in 192.168.0.6:/etc/exports is: /etc 192.168.0.2(ro) where 192.168.0.2 is the nfs client. TIA James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNS

Re: HOWTO's on sid/sarge - where are they?

Flo, On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:13 pm, you wrote: > Hello James! > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 07:56:02PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:22 pm, you wrote: > > This package is in the non-free section of the Debian archive, so > you'd need

Re: Need to get NFS and SMB installed and working.

&searchmode=searchfiles&\ case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=i386 or http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?\ word=NFS_HOWTO.gz&searchmode=searchfiles&\ case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=i386 TIA James -- James Sinnamon jp

How to replicate debian system on Local Network?

they did, is there an easier way? TIA James - James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard working

neakd --- Is lineakd (http://lineak.sourceforge.net/index.php?nav=docs) the solution? Is it necessary to have another daemon running in order to use a different kind of keyboard? TIA James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 957

Debian equivalent for RedHat 9 X login manager startup

Dear Debian users, In RedHat Linux 9.0 the X login manager (and eventually KDE) is started at boot-up time from the following line in /etc/inittab: x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm Can anyone tell me the equivalent way to do this with Debian? TIA -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph

Is there a utility to get IP address from interface?

x27;' | awk '...' | etc 144.133.251.117 ? TIA James PS. I am doing this all in order to get ddns3 working so any pointers to useful docs would be greatly appreciated. -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- T

Re: Connecting from (Debian) server to X server on desk machine.

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:33 pm, you wrote: > James, > > On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:12:49PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: > > Where do I set X on my desktop machine so that after I 'ssh' to my > > Debian server machine, I can run, for example, konqueror, and be able to &

Connecting from (Debian) server to X server on desk machine.

[1]+ Exit 1 konqueror [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ --- ? TIA. regards, James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Can I install non debian source packages?

Thomas, On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 05:41 pm, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- James Sinnamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # > > > If I want to install a package with a version number later than what > > exists as a Debian package (I had in mind Zope and Plone), is there > > any

Can I install non debian source packages?

I am prepared to set up the environment, configure it, build it, and also install whatever other packages on which the package depends? TIA. James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: /etc/network/interfaces statically defined default gateway

Thomas, On Tue, 25 May 2004 09:13 pm, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- James Sinnamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > > How is the default gateway using, say eth0 or eth1, defined in > > /etc/network/interfaces, if dhcp is not used, that is if I use: >

/etc/network/interfaces statically defined default gateway

... instead of: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp ? TIA James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61 2 95692123, +61 2 95726357 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: have used only 4904 out of 9729 cylinders, but "No free sectors available"

On Mon, 24 May 2004 01:47 pm, James Sinnamon wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > During my installation of a 'testing' (I think) system I partitioned > my 80Gig hard disk drive. I have been told that I have not provided enough information. My apologies to all. I installed D

have used only 4904 out of 9729 cylinders, but "No free sectors available"

e that the change is permanent. I hope I am wrong. I partitioned about 45Gig, and planned to finish partitioning some other time. However fdisk now informs me: No free sectors available What should I do? TIA James -- James Sinnamon jps at westnet com auStralia ph +61 412 319669, +61

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

having a second X server running seems like a reasonable stopgap measure. By having two concurrent X window sessions running, I would not need to close down X and start another X session as root, every time I need to run some administrative task. Thanks for your help. James > Sam Morgan >

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

cute 'su -', then $LOGNAME in the child bash shell will be 'root', the expression '[ ! "$LOGNAME = "root ]' will evaluate to false, and so nothing will happen, as far as I can see. So I don't see what difference it makes in my situation. I appreciate your help,

after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

or to that, as the normal user that started the X window session: xhost localhost This somehow doesn;t work on Debian Linux (unstable distribution). Would anybody be able to tell me why, and how to go about diagnosing the problem, or better still, what to do about it. TIA, James -- James S

Re: need workaround for perl-5.6 bug to install unstable.

William, Firstly, thank yo for your reply. William Leese wrote: > On Monday 05 February 2001 16:15, James Sinnamon wrote: > > Dear Debian users, > > > > I am stumped trying to install 'unstable/sid'.. When I run, for > > example, 'apt-get install deb

need workaround for perl-5.6 bug to install unstable.

grateful if anyone could show me where there is information about a workaround that would get me around this problem so that I could start to build my 'unstable' system. TIA James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350

Re: Configuring aptget to use HTTP proxy

.hope this example points you in the right direction James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350

Backspace key not working in xterm

key can be changed? (BTW, this problem is similar to one I have experienced with the emacs editor from time to time) TIA James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350

need help installing unstable

ewhere which are specific to installind sid/unstable? Thank you. James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350

Re: need a lilo.conf which does not mess up existing linux / partition

I made the correction, the problem was fixed. It seems obvious now, of course. Hope this is useful to somebody out there and sorry again, if anyone went to any great trouble. regards, James James Sinnamon wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > WhenI ran lilo yesterday, it somehow

need a lilo.conf which does not mess up existing linux / partition

dev/hda8 # Why isn't it boot=/dev/hda ???!!! root=/dev/hda8 compact install=/boot/boot-menu.b delay=20 map=/boot/map append="" vga=vga read-only image=/vmlinuz label=Linux image=/vmlinuz.old label=old === -- James Sinnamon [EMAI

Installation : how to find 3Com card?

all Operatiing System and Modules" using drivers.tgz and base2_2.tgz from, but if anyone can offer any suggestions in the meantime, I would be very grateful. TIA JAmes -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350