Re: default run level

2003-04-06 Thread Michael Naumann
On Sunday 06 April 2003 04:20, Ramsay D. Seielstad, KC2GMW wrote: > Timing is everything ... after several months with the basic, nothing-X > installed, I finally got around to adding sound and Xfree86. I also ended > up rebooting and rather than the usual text consoles for login got the X > log

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-04-05 Thread Michael Naumann
> Nah, be reasonable - 's gotta be ed. You can't use vi on a teleprinter. vi -e works perfectly for me on my Highspeed Hasler SP20 ASR. This device can not only 50 and 75 Bauds but also 100 Baud - and vi still works flawlessly :-) - Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: X over ssh

2003-03-30 Thread Michael Naumann
On Sunday 30 March 2003 20:17, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:53:21PM +0200, Michael Naumann wrote: > > Oh, somehow I expected another answer. > > I'm quite sure, that it should be possible to tunnel X over ssh. > > And in one direction it works

Re: X over ssh

2003-03-30 Thread Michael Naumann
On Sunday 30 March 2003 19:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 06:22:06PM +0200, Michael Naumann wrote: > > I'm a bit clueless now. > > Hopefully anybody can help me out here. > > I have two machines m1 and m2 (both woody) connected. > > I can ssh -X

X over ssh

2003-03-30 Thread Michael Naumann
I'm a bit clueless now. Hopefully anybody can help me out here. I have two machines m1 and m2 (both woody) connected. I can ssh -X successfully from m1 to m2 and vice versa. Now my problem on m1 ls ~/.ssh -> authorized_keys id_rsa id_rsa.pub known_hosts ssh -X m2 xlogo -> displays t

Re: ASUS motherboard

2003-03-27 Thread Michael Naumann
On Thursday 27 March 2003 09:48, Jim McCloskey wrote: > Thanks a lot to Mark Devin and Ralph Brown for their help. Both > suggested using the sis900 driver for the onboard LAN on the Asus > P4S533-E. > > I've tried that, and the problems persist. Loading the module sis900 > (with modprobe or with i

Re: Magic SysRq

2003-03-21 Thread Michael Naumann
On Saturday 22 March 2003 03:42, nate wrote: > Michael Naumann said: > > According to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/Documentation/sysrq.txt I have > > to set CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ when configuring the kernel to > > enable this feature. > > > > Yet, I do not find th

Magic SysRq

2003-03-21 Thread Michael Naumann
According to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/Documentation/sysrq.txt I have to set CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ when configuring the kernel to enable this feature. Yet, I do not find this key in .config nor under "make menuconfig". Any hint what I'm missing here? TIA, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

2003-03-04 Thread Michael Naumann
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 21:41, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > This has been bugging me for several years, and today -- hopefully -- > some kind soul is going to enlighten me ;> > > Several years ago, running ksh on several AIX and Solaris servers, and > many, many simultaneous xterm's open on many bo

Re: Couple of more questions.

2003-03-04 Thread Michael Naumann
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 12:50, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > Who ate my sandwich? > > > > Not me ;-) > > How can I be sure ;o) He really was not. I was. It tasted wonderful. You want it back ? Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: KMail : Index 0 out of range

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Naumann
On Monday 03 March 2003 02:50, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > On March 2, 2003 05:22 pm, Michael Naumann wrote: > > I'm using KMail (1.3.2) on a woody-box and it works perfectly. > > Except for one minor flaw: Each time i jump to a new message, > > either via , +, Cursor or Mo

KMail : Index 0 out of range

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Naumann
I'm using KMail (1.3.2) on a woody-box and it works perfectly. Except for one minor flaw: Each time i jump to a new message, either via , +, Cursor or Mouse, I get a new entry in .xsession-errors, saying: QMenuData::removeItem: Index 0 out of range What is causing this? Should I be concerned? How

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread Michael Naumann
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 15:21, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > i am sure there must be a way of doing it. i am not getting it though. > > let us say, i have done ls -l , etc etc > then i have done a few more commands at the prompt. > > now, i want to use that ls command again. is t

Re: scrolling trough the argument of a command

2003-01-29 Thread Michael Naumann
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 08:58, Pierre Burri wrote: > with another flavour of linux, I can scroll trough the argument of bash > command with instead of scrolling the whole commands (with Arrow > Up) saved in the history. > For example if in the past I have edited with vi the files /etc/host

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-23 Thread Michael Naumann
On Thursday 23 January 2003 16:30, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > Hi > My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent > show which process that eats all the memory. > Can anyone figure out what to do this could be a kernel issue or > something? > I use kernel 2.4.21-pre1 What ma

Re: bash, expressions, ???

2003-01-05 Thread Michael Naumann
05.01.2003 21:23:16, "Egor Tur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi. >Who can explain? >ps ax | grep lpd > 398 ?S 0:00 lpd Waiting > 5593 pts/13 S 0:00 grep lpd >ps ax | grep [l]pd > 398 ?S 0:00 lpd Waiting > >What do [l]? That is more a grep question than a a bash

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Michael Naumann
05.01.2003 02:00:03, "Gerald V. Livingston II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want "TRUE" if there is one or more zzz.jpg files in a directory, >"FALSE" if there are zero of them. One solution might be: ls | grep -q '\.jpg$' Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: bash guru wanted

2003-01-03 Thread Michael Naumann
04.01.2003 01:34:03, Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You can do it with the variable PROMPT_COMMAND. Its value is executed >prior to each prompt. > >eg. > >function job_test { > if [ -z "$(jobs)" ] ; then >set +o ignoreeof > else >set -o ignoreeof > fi >} > >PROMPT_COMMAND=

Re: gqview and pgm

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Naumann
Thanx everybody. I'll add my versions, in case someone wants to further investigate. Works for Ron not for Lourens not for me (woody) not for me (Knoppix) works for me (Knoppix on Laptop) gqview 1.0.2 1.0.2-1 1.0.2-1 1.0.2

Re: bash guru wanted

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Naumann
02.01.2003 00:52:05, Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >* Michael Naumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-02 00:33]: >>I want my bash to obey eof (^D) only if there are no jobs in the background. > >I can't help you with the Bash, but I recomm

bash guru wanted

2003-01-01 Thread Michael Naumann
When I try to view a pgm-file with gqview, I always get a core-dump (Segmentation violation). This is reproducable on two machines here - but only for pgm. The picture shows up very shortly before the crash. Example: gqview /usr/share/gimp/1.2/gimpressionist/Brushes/shape02.pgm Is this reproduc

gqview and pgm

2003-01-01 Thread Michael Naumann
When I try to view a pgm-file with gqview, I always get a core-dump (Segmentation violation). This is reproducable on two machines here - but only for pgm. The picture shows up very shortly before the crash. Example: gqview /usr/share/gimp/1.2/gimpressionist/Brushes/shape02.pgm Is this reproduc

Re: grep freezes system

2002-12-30 Thread Michael Naumann
30.12.2002 13:57:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) wrote: >On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 11:10:36PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: >> I'm fairly sure, that the memory consumption of grep is quite independent >> of the number of files/dirs to be searched. Except for transferirng &g

Re: X Win and Mouse

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Naumann
29.12.2002 23:20:15, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >isnt mouseless X pointless, or shouldnt that be pointerless... > >Regards, Dean. Not for me. I admit that I have a mouse attached and fully functional, but I avoid touching it as much as possible. (Well of course to limited success as soon as it ge

Re: X Win and Mouse

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Naumann
29.12.2002 19:26:30, "Matthew Daubenspeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hal Vaughan said: >> 2) Does anyone know how X behaves if it is looking for the mouse on the >> wrong port? Does it not start, start w/out a mouse, keep restarting >> until it finds the mouse, or what? > >It will fail to sta

Re: grep freezes system

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Naumann
29.12.2002 20:06:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) wrote: >Yet this grep thing happened today - I know 64MB RAM is >not quite what you would use nowadays - but I only have >currently a few xterms running and no fancy stuff which >would eat up my mem (swap is nearly untouched). I'm fairly sure, t

Re: basics about env variables

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Naumann
29.12.2002 16:35:43, "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 29/12/02 Robert Land did speaketh: > >> NNTPSERVER=news.btx.dtag.de >> export NNTPSERVER >> >> then did a new init and tried a echo $NNTPSERVER >> which resulted in a blank line in response. >> >> What was my fault and was thi

Re: grep freezes system

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Naumann
29.12.2002 10:51:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) wrote: >Using recursive grep for large directory structures >caused the entire system to freeze. I once had this, when I tried to access scsi-devices with hardware-problems. Responsiveness of the whole system went drastically down. Hanging app

Re: bash read oddity

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Naumann
29.12.2002 05:06:21, "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Got a strange situation happening on a friends Debian box. I found the >problem by debugging his ALSA startup problems. Turns out that he's >getting some extra character added to the output of "read" command. > >The following co

Re: need some readline tricks

2002-12-22 Thread Michael Naumann
20.12.2002 22:26:16, andrej hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:27:42PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: >> If you mean readline in bash, you can add >> >> "\M-[A": history-search-backward >> >> to your .inputrc. >>

Re: Xterm behavior

2002-12-20 Thread Michael Naumann
On Friday 20 December 2002 08:46, Robert Storey wrote: > 2) Xterm ignores my settings in .bashrc and /etc/profiles concerning aliases. For >example, I would like to add these settings: Beware, you are confusing things a bit. It's not xterm which wants to read your .bashrc xterm can start a shell

Re: need some readline tricks

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Naumann
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 11:22, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am looking for a readline trick. Say for example, when I > type an "s" and a arrow key at the prompt, I should be able to scroll > last command that begins with an "s". Is it achievable in realine? Short a

Re: vi alternate problem

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Naumann
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 03:20, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Vim has a compatibility mode (vim -v) to more like the > original vi... That would be "vim -C". Though I never had the need to use this. "vim -c" starts in vi-mode, not compatibility mode. The difference is, that vi-mode is to be seen ve

Re: xset somehow broken?

2002-12-17 Thread Michael Naumann
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 17:20, DEFFONTAINES Vincent wrote: > I used to use "xset -s off" to poweroff screen blanking on X when I was > watching TV on my desktop in the past. > > Now it seems that this option, though remaning documented (in xset manpage) > is broken? Running Xfree4.2 on Debian

Re: perl's stat and symlinks

2002-12-15 Thread Michael Naumann
15.12.2002 18:23:32, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 05:31:15PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: >> when I do from perl >> @f= stat "f"; >> @sl2f = stat "sl2f"; >> I always get the same contents in @sl2f

perl's stat and symlinks

2002-12-15 Thread Michael Naumann
I have a file f and a symlink sl2f to this file. ls -l shows the following: lrwxrwxrwx1 mn users 1 Dec 15 16:22 sl2f -> f -rw-r--r--1 mn users 0 Dec 15 16:23 f when I do from perl @f= stat "f"; @sl2f = stat "sl2f"; I always get the same contents in @

Re: catch the output of an app in a perl script

2002-12-08 Thread Michael Naumann
07.12.2002 01:18:56, Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's been some years since I've done real perl programming (thank God >for Python!), but the original poster might find it interesting that >the "pipe open" syntax allows the program to read the output when it >is ready. The backquote

Re: root fs not in df

2002-12-08 Thread Michael Naumann
07.12.2002 19:30:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > I don't have a KNOPPIX based system to look at this problem. But I > would start looking at /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh and others and make > sure that after the mount command there the system shows up in the > mtab. Perhaps at the time of

Re: root fs not in df

2002-12-07 Thread Michael Naumann
06.12.2002 19:25:57, "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Michael Naumann said: >> On one of my systems, wich otherwise works perfectly, I >> have one small issue. >> If I do 'df', I do not see my root fs. (Same for 'mount') >> I know

Re: [OT] Perl pattern matching

2002-12-06 Thread Michael Naumann
On Friday 06 December 2002 16:53, Jörg Johannes wrote: > Hi List > > Sorry for coming in here with such a question, but this list ahs perl > gurus, and response is much faster than comp.lang.perl.misc (and I need > the answer fast...) > > Here it comes: > In "Programming Perl (german translatio

Re: catch the output of an app in a perl script

2002-12-06 Thread Michael Naumann
On Friday 06 December 2002 12:56, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:35:08PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > > How can i catch the output of a program runned in a perl script? > > Use the "pipe open" syntax. The perlopentut man page will help. Or even easier, use $output = `cmd`;

root fs not in df

2002-12-06 Thread Michael Naumann
On one of my systems, wich otherwise works perfectly, I have one small issue. If I do 'df', I do not see my root fs. (Same for 'mount') I know it is here and it works (it's /dev/hda4). The corresponding entry is in the /etc/fstab. Doing 'df /', I get Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Availa

Re: Partition size

2002-12-05 Thread Michael Naumann
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 07:15, Rob Weir wrote: > X has to know about poer events, since it will have to re-initialise > your video hardware when your machine wakes up again. Thanx, that X tells me about such events, where it is actively doing something as important as re-initialising my har

Re: what process is using swap

2002-12-04 Thread Michael Naumann
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 12:05, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello list, > > Is there any way to know what process is using the swap space? From "man ps": Programs swapped out to disk will be shown without command line arguments, and unless the c option is given, in brackets HTH, Michael -

Re: cfdisk revisited

2002-12-01 Thread Michael Naumann
01.12.2002 18:07:53, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The linux booters (lilo, grub, syslinux, etc.) don't care about that > flag. It is MS-DOS and MS Windows that cares. Its possible that it > only cares if you use an MS boot loader, it may not matter when you > chainload th

Re: DMI pool data

2002-11-30 Thread Michael Naumann
30.11.2002 22:15:59, mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello all, >after searching on 'dimi pool data' I didn't found a >solution on my pb: >My computer hangs after the bios message : >'Verifyng DMI pool Data ... update success ' >I tryed following: >-cleared the cmos >-disconnect everything

Re: Partition size

2002-11-29 Thread Michael Naumann
On Friday 29 November 2002 03:24, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 05:40, Michael Naumann wrote: > > For this very reason, I have ext2. But gkrellm shows me small write > > peaks every other second. I figured out, that /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > gets fi

Re: Partition size

2002-11-28 Thread Michael Naumann
On Thursday 28 November 2002 19:06, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:52:14AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > I have had no problems with ext3 either, nor have I heard of anyone > > having problems, nor is there any bugs open in e2fsprogs. Should we > > just flatly recommend ext3

X11 and PM Event received: Power Status Change

2002-11-26 Thread Michael Naumann
Today I installed debian (from Knoppix) on my Laptop. Nearly everything works fine so far, except for one little flaw. Every minute or so a new line is written in my /var/log/XFree86.0.log, stating (II) PM Event received: Power Status Change What can I do to disable this (nonsense) message. This m

Re: Tool showing directory size of the complet drive

2002-11-20 Thread Michael Naumann
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 18:52, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > Hi, > I am looking on Debian woody for a tool which can show me the size of > folders/files of my complete drive to proof where my disk-space is > wasted. > I am now on 75% and I do not have a clue where my space is wasted. Maybe, you get

Re: manual for vim

2002-11-19 Thread Michael Naumann
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 12:47, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > moreover, are there any 'active' mailing lists for vim? I recommend the vim-mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is also read and commented by Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim. See you there. I guess you'll get all the help you nee

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-18 Thread Michael Naumann
On Friday 15 November 2002 15:25, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 02:40:06PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > > Can anyone of you confirm that this is due to xmms? > > If so, I think there must be a severe bug anywhere, > > if not, I think there is an even more severe

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Naumann
16.11.2002 00:12:53, Ricardo Diz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P.S. Does anyone knows how do I put a result from command line into > mutt/vi when sending mail? In vi you can read the result of a command like this: :r !hdparm -tT /dev/hda5 HTH, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Naumann
16.11.2002 01:30:28, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Better in vi Are you serious. VIM is always better :-) I agree, except where vi is aliased to vim :-> - Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Naumann
16.11.2002 00:38:34, Glyn Kennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone found a way to >make it ignore shifted mouse events but still process normal clicks? You can disable it via :map Put this in your .vimrc and you're set. HTH, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: URGENT - How to shutdown Debian 3? - URGENT

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Naumann
16.11.2002 00:14:34, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On November 15, 2002 03:31 pm, Llies Meridja wrote: > >> No it does not work, first when I choose GNOME session and do >> ctrl+alt+del nothing happens, then when I log to KDE session and do >> ctrl+alt+del I get system guard! > >Did you

Eterm -xrm

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Naumann
I have a little problem with Eterm. Currently I'm using xterm, but a friend of mine showed me some nice Eterm features, and I read in man, that Eterm is supposed to be a replacement of xterm, so I experimented with it. One problem comes up, which is quite puzzling to me: Eterm -xrm "*Page:1 2" e

Re: Setting default width of xman

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Naumann
15.11.2002 19:23:05, Joe Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >11/15/02 9:05:08 AM, Michael Naumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>What you want is >>Xman*manualBrowser.geometry :800x900 >>in your .Xdefaults. > >Thank you. > >How did you figur

Re: Setting default width of xman

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Naumann
On Friday 15 November 2002 17:24, Joe Riel wrote: > When I select manual page in the xman startup window, > the window for the manual is too narrow, I have to manually > increase it to the proper size. How can I change the default > size? > > I read the xman man page, it mentions the -pagesize opti

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Naumann
On Thursday 14 November 2002 06:52, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:13:10PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:08:08AM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > > > Last day I had a heavy crash of my woody box. > > > I suspect some misbehaviour of

Re: Javascript and forms

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Naumann
lected); > } > > http://localhost:1234/cgi";> > > > > > > > > > > >-tk > > Michael Naumann wrote: > >On Thursday 14 November 2002 03:20, Try KDE wrote: > >>Your html is ill-formed. The

Re: Xterm question.....

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Naumann
On Thursday 14 November 2002 11:10, Urban Gabor wrote: > Hi, > > may be, this question is quite newbie. My xterm uses > xterm-debian setting, and I can't use backspace. How can I > solve this? Since noone else mentions it, I'll do. Try (from your shell): stty erase C-V Backspace where C-

Re: aptitude locked

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Naumann
On Thursday 14 November 2002 01:59, nate wrote: > Michael Naumann said: > > Warning: could not lock the chache file. Opening in read-only mode. > > I have never used this program, but if it were me the first > thing I would do is run strace on the app > > strace aptitude

Re: Javascript and forms

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Naumann
dio-button). Anybody knows how to access the value of a radio-button in JavaScript ? -- Michael > > -tk > > Michael Naumann wrote: > >I have a small problem accessing form-vars via JavaScript. > >In below example, I have two vars in a form, > > one of type radio (

aptitude locked

2002-11-13 Thread Michael Naumann
Last day I had a heavy crash of my woody box. I suspect some misbehaviour of xmms here. The whole display was very flickery and no application responded any more, though I saw, that gkrellm was still working. Even switching to a console (ALT-F1) did not succeed. I had the the X-screen still visible

Javascript and forms

2002-11-13 Thread Michael Naumann
I have a small problem accessing form-vars via JavaScript. In below example, I have two vars in a form, one of type radio (n0) and a normal input-var (n1). In the JavaScript Function CheckInput() I can acces the value of n0, but not of n1 . Depending on the browser, I get different results:

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-12 Thread Michael Naumann
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:08, Alex Polite wrote: > I visited my mother last week to help her setup her DSL > connection. While doing so I realized that her Windows 2000 350 MHz > box is a lot more responsive then my Debian/GNU/KDE 500 MHz box. > > So out goes KDE. > > I tried out the minimalis

Re: Trashed partition table

2002-11-08 Thread Michael Naumann
08.11.2002 18:01:57, Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >I installed some other OS and id overworte the MBR, to make a long >story short, I booted with ethe second woody disc and went for the >rescue option at which point I was surprised to find out that fsck >claimed one of the par

Re: allowing remote x connections?

2002-11-06 Thread Michael Naumann
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 14:06, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > i want to allow some local machines to send their displays to the > desktop machine i know there's something to tweak with the server, > but i don't know what Is it 'xhost +' you are looking for? -- Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-05 Thread Michael Naumann
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 04:40, bob parker wrote: > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:51, Michael Naumann wrote: > > If you want unbreakable encryption, you must go for a program able to > > handle a "One Time Pad" and you must only use each Pad once. > > No not really. Tex

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-05 Thread Michael Naumann
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 01:33, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:01:41PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > > On November 4, 2002 06:03 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Here is the script for VIM which automate GNUPG. > > > > Thank you for all the advice! I went with the GPG in vim - since i

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-04 Thread Michael Naumann
04.11.2002 22:57:08, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a simple way to encrypt a single text file on my system, so that it >can only be viewed if you know the password? I want to securely store my >online username/passwords, bank card PINs, etc that I'm always forgetting. > Ver

Re: [OT] Pointer for data aquisition over serial port

2002-11-04 Thread Michael Naumann
On Monday 04 November 2002 16:31, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:32:14AM +0100, Jörg Johannes wrote: > > Hi List > > > > The subject says it (nearly) all: I have an old spectrophotometer which > > has a serial port. According to the manual, it reads commands in > > cleartext, and outp

Re: Compiling a new kernel

2002-11-04 Thread Michael Naumann
On Monday 04 November 2002 14:12, Emanuele Boieri wrote: > Hi everybody I hope that somenone can help me. I just followed precisely > the instruction for compiling/installing a new kernel (2.4.19). The > previeous version was 2.2. 1.. tar xvjf "the kernel source" > 2.. make menuconfig > 3.. ma

Re: Thread Stealing (was: Installing debian via network)

2002-11-03 Thread Michael Naumann
03.11.2002 18:59:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > Michael Naumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-03 16:19:09 +0100]: > > 03.11.2002 04:29:40, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [Please start a new thread for a new question, it makes it much easier

Re: Installing debian via network

2002-11-03 Thread Michael Naumann
03.11.2002 17:16:13, "Donald R. Spoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -SNIP- < > >The "fastest" way, IMHO, is to use the Debian CDs on the SuSE computer >and do a "clean' install. This will over-write your current SuSE install. > >If you have some files on your SuSE box that you might want to pres

Re: Installing debian via network

2002-11-03 Thread Michael Naumann
understand what you want to say with this. Didn't I start a new thread.? Or was there already an equal named thread ? I'm quiet new to this list, so maybe I didn't get it. > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:10:58AM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > > Now I have a second Box, c

Installing debian via network

2002-10-31 Thread Michael Naumann
I'm in the following situation: I have a fully functional woody installation. On a separate partition I have all the seven cd's and everything is set up, so that I can use dselect without any need to insert any cd. So far so good. Now I have a second Box, currently running SuSe. This box is connec

Re: Q: Debian, fvwm, virtual desktops and howto place specific programs at startup

2002-10-29 Thread Michael Naumann
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 16:51, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > I make use of fvwm on Debian unstable and start fvwm with startx. I > have seveal virtual desktops. On some, the first thing I do after > starting fvwm is placing the same programs every time, e.g. jpilot on > the first virtual de