Re: Anyone have success with bootsplash package?

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:10:08 +0200, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:00:18 +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: >> I'm using vga=791. The splash image displays at the grub screen, and >> the boot messages are "nice". (No graphics, but small and nice >&g

Re: Anyone have success with bootsplash package?

el using the bootsplash patch. Install the full kernel sources, copy /boot/config* to /usr/src/linux- source*/.config then "make-kpkg --version=custom1 --added-patches=bootsplash kernel-image" (but there's a bit more to kernel-building than that) -- Stephen Patterson :: [E

Re: Anyone have success with bootsplash package?

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:10:05 +0200, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > Stephen Patterson wrote: >> I've tried it, with a few different vga=parameters using the debian >> bootsplash & bootsplash-themes packages and although it changes >> resolution and loads the frambuffer a

Re: Anyone have success with bootsplash package?

#x27;ve tried it, with a few different vga=parameters using the debian bootsplash & bootsplash-themes packages and although it changes resolution and loads the frambuffer at boot (verified via dmesg) it doesn't display any splash image but boots normally as framebuffer-text. --

Re: how to get k3b back in testing (yes, this sounds familiar)

and build your own binary package. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GMail invites to anyone who wants one "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door."

Re: ATA 80GB disk recommendation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:10:49 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it? I've had an IBM deskstar running just fine for the last 2 years. - -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Mounting USB stuff

ets to unmount, and then they call me wondering why files are > broken/missing.) autofs is your friend, mounts a device when the associated directory is accessed, then unmounts it after a configurable period of inactivity. Don't know how you'd obscure the difference between sda1 &am

Re: An alternative to ~/.xinitrc when using GDM ?

oad ~/.Xdefaults etc...). I'm using Openbox3 so there is no way doing it > from the WM. ~/.xsession (executable) works, it seems to have the same syntax as ~/.xinitrc and the common #! syntax is understood. - -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974

Re: Should users have to manually modprobe to use standard peripherals?

dd its name to /etc/modules, then it'll automagically get loaded on bootup. Hotplug's also meant to be able to find modules as needed. - -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GMail invites to

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:40:10 +0200, David R. Litwin wrote: Well, thats a lot of unreadble data, but seeing as you mention wireless, I thought I'd better mention that WPA is cranky at the beat of times. - -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: image viewer which supports auto-refresn and partial images?

f... sigh...] Gqview can handle updating on file change, not sure whether it barfs on STDERR though. - -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a

Re: Edit as new; was Re: Thunderbird not visible

ail "as-is". However, you can do a > dirty work around; copy the message, edit it to change the From: and > then bounce the edited message. In mutt, Esc-e lets you edit and resend a message (e lets you edit and keep a stored message). - -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://p

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

rge then there won't be many new/upadated packages to download. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Meliss

Re: Firefox Downgrade (was Re: Problem with Firefox and Mime (I think))

nd select firefox, you can see what versions you have available, to get an older one, you *might* have to add a sources.list entry for a previous debian release. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "

Re: email clients with reply-to-list feature

vorite email client has this feature or > not. Or use the newsgroup :) -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- M

Re: i cant print from firefox?

one. You should also install xprint-xorg if you've not already got it. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door."

Re: Automatically load module at boottime

and noticed that the osst module was not loaded. how can i make the > system automatically load the module at boottime? Add the module name to /etc/modules -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Re: shorthand for ip ranges

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:50:12 +0200, Jörg Schütter wrote: > ipcalc 192.168.0.151 - 192.168.0.185 I find http://subnetmask.info can be handy for IP calculations. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Available printers

an correct this by editing /etc/Xprint/C/print/attributes/document and setting *default-printer-resolution: 300 (or whatever resoution is appropriate for the printer). -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Who

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

I've run out of space on an upgrade, repeated calls of 'apt-get clean' followed by 'aptitude upgrade' have sorted things out well enough. If you run apt-get clean, that'll delete all the .deb files that have been downloaded to your system and free up quite a bit of space (

Re: fluxbox application switching panel

igure the iconbar (right-click) to show minimized and non-minimized windows, then you should be able to switch any window with alt-tab. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible

Re: IP Address assigned by ISP, dns set as static?

tain whatever you put in the option. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Debian drops ball on security updates

rg/debian-project/2005/06/msg00147.html> and > following replies. Oh? and I'd just classified this as more FUD from yet another company thats in the sack with Bill. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8

Re: running one thin client?

here's a configuration menu on gdm). Then on the laptop you can login locally as normal, or run a chooser from the gdm menu to connect to the X session on your desktop box. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E9

Re: enhancing xdmcp performance

ltime on a 100MBit network, though I've not tested full-screen and you'd then need some way of pushing sound across the network. Either way (ssh or XDMCP) are much quicker than regular vnc. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831

Re: Encrypting the hard disk?

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 14:50:15 +0200, Nardis Dome wrote: > > Hi, > > try cryptoloop > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cryptoloop-HOWTO/ Just don't forget your password or encryption type. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 1

Re: launching screensaver manually

g in the background, 'xscreensaver-command -lock' will do it. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'

Re: Which fonts a program uses

i, gsfonts-x11 and msttcorefonts to get a decent selection of fonts. http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/ could be handy too -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible nev

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

ppy image to /dev/hda). [1] http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ (there should be a package in debian/main too). -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried

Re: [solved] clock troubles

Bob Freemer wrote: > Wrong. NTP will fail to update the clock if the hardware clock skew is > too large. NTP cannot operate without a reasonably stable internal > hardware clock. Although there is an option to force ntp to set the clock, however large the difference is. -- Stephen

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

Jude DaShiell wrote: > I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, > because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in > reality otherwise. ... and I thought MS products would stop sucking as soon as they started making vacuums. -- Ste

Re: Backup and Restore Strategy

e /etc with the backed-up version. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: protecting/preventing a package from being removed?

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > You can put the package on hold. I'm not sure if it is the best way to > secure the package from accidentally being removed. but if you put the package on hold it'll never get upgraded... -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/

Re: Synchronize two servers (warm backup)

r. I want the backup > system to be in full readiness to take over, so all I have to do is throw a > DNS "switch" to have it become the server. Well, there's always rsync. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Co

Re: Outlook more efficient in storing mails?

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:00:09 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > After all, > even Outlook has File->Archive... functionality, so that the .PST > file won't get so huge. Though thats due to the fact the outlook can't cope with pst files above 2 GB. -- Stephen Patterson

Re: Thunderbird 1.0

st run thunderbird from there. Easy enough to remove later when a debian thunderbird 1.0 comes along. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your

Re: Nightstand Terminal

wer management will just work :) -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

setting GTK 1 font size

d for gtk1 applications, given that the current gnome-control center only sets it for gtk2? -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To U

Re: Emacs fonts for coding

makes it difficult to distinguish >> braces "{" from parentheses "(". Bad news for coding. > > -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-m-60-iso8859-1 I find my regular terminal font (7x13) to be good and just set emacs to use that. -- Stephen Patterson

Re: http Traffic Anayalsis

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 04:20:09 +0100, JB Hewit wrote: > I understand that there will always be traffic not going through our > proxy (Windows updates, etc) but I want a way to find out where the > traffic is going. http://www.ntop.org/ -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL

Re: Strange NFS messages: "lockd: cannot monitor..."

systems for security reasons, and probably has notes on how to cope with the few bits that need to be written to (symlinks?). -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be

Re: how does mutt send?

ruent with any > instructions I have seen anywhere else, but it works for me. I find that mutt works better with imap if INBOX doesn't contain messages, but is instead a folder containing only message folders. This way I can use the C key to browse the full folder structure (not just the on

Re: mutt pop configuration

mutt needs a configured local mailserver (exim, postfix or the like) though I've recently found smtppush to be very useful for sending email directly via my ISP's mail server (yes, I've got a dynamic IP and there are just too many places blackholing dynamic IPS these day

Re: VNC server desktop environment?

reads ~/.vnc/xstartup IIRC -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: OT usb-mass-storage WAS Re: why debian

ondary slave = /dev/hddscsi: 4th scsi drive = /dev/sdd > etc... On 2.4 at least (no devfs or udev pokery) usb drives get lettered in port order so sda'll be your 1st port, sdb the second usb port. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

or "lpr". I've used latex before, but that needs to generate a fair number of files from your input foo.tex document, so it can be painful making sure that none of these overwrite existing files and to clean them all up afterwards. groff is neater in this respect, as you can jus

Re: perhaps off-topic: mailserver requirements? (was: Re: experiences with Debian Alpha)

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:50:10 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > Also, spamc 3.0 can be kinda slow (or mine isn't tuned that well). > Especially with Baysean filters turned on. bogofilter tends to run a lot leaner than spamassassin. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: apache being hit

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:50:04 +0100, Mathias Tauber wrote: > Here you need the comment. If you still encounter problems, let > us know... Preferably with a few of the offending log entries. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux C

Re: pcmcia_core

while, there should be a pcmcia-modules package for your kernel version, which will sort it out. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -

Re: Does the classic mailer recipe from perlcookbook work fine in debian?

s to use the perl Mail::Sender module instead. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on HP DL360?

ian-installer/ It works just fine, though you've got to install lilo instead of grub. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health.

Re: Control another Linux box to play mp3s....

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:20:08 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > There are a number of ways for a workstation to control an MP3=20 > player on a headless Linux "sound server". One of the very pleasant ones is mpd from http://www.musicpd.org/ -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/

Re: How to use 2 sound cards in Debian

e you tried playing sound to any dsp devices above /dev/dsp ? cat, and xmms can both be configured to do this. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous

Re: Navigator 4.77 packages and sarge

; wants to maintain them any more. Though should you need them, they'll run fine under the current sarge. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazar

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

but hey, it was *the* main browser of the world for quite some time. [1] you need a sources.list entry for contrib, not sure whether its woody or sarge though. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public ke

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine (conclusion)

her were not perfect ... but > getting there! It may be worth installing ssh and the rfb version of vnc so you log in remotely for support. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Cautio

Re: Mutt Error: Can't Open Temporary File

#x27;ve seen this happen once before when a runaway backup script filled / -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

ier with large maildirs, pity mutt doesn't correctly display the message size with maildir though. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to yo

Re: A Little Confused

les, anyhow the simplest way of prettifying xdm is to install one of the others, such as wdm. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. --

Re: xemacs & auctex again....

onsole emacs, but with X11 support as well. This is what I use on the odd times I need ot monkey about with latex. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous t

Re: Firefox and Mozilla memory usage issues

cially as the debian packaged firefox runs just fine (albeit a little slowly) on my old P2 with only 64MB RAM. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous t

Re: Apache2 (testing) cgi-bin doesn't execute?

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:10:05 +0200, Iwan van der Kleyn wrote: > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ > You want a slash here^ > AllowOverride None > Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > >

Re: Backuppc

you ssh login between the hosts ok? -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Campus Monitoring System...!

p; 2, possibly 3 and has command-line options that can be used to specify different get and set community names from the default public/private, you could take advantage of this and use different community names from the default on your snmp devices. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMA

Re: command to answer "what's your OS"

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 03:10:06 +0200, Alan Shutko wrote: > $ echo Debian GNU/Linux Nooo, you want echo "Microsoft Windows 2.0" :) -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37

Re: How to set up CUPS client

ny one cupsys process can discover printers on any other cups server. AFAIK even windows can't beat that :) -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be haza

Re: "The world's most effective spam filter"

n't the least effort one to forget to pay your electricity bill? -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSC

pcmcia-cs or hotplug?

ial' way to sort out pcmcia? -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: iptables practical guide ?

advance There's the iptables guide at netfilter.samba.org, and I've made some notes regarding modular firewalling for a laptop at http://patter.mine.nu/thinkpad/firewall.html -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Cou

Re: migration to debian from NT4 :)

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:10:12 +0200, Gabriel Granger wrote: > Many thanks to all for the advise :) cant wait to put a sledge hammer > through our NT4 PDC ;) but what will you use to keep the door open with? -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to

Re: Configuring CUPS to allow all users to (re)start printer

ame. AuthType Basic AuthClass System Authtype Basic AuthClass User Authtype Basic AuthClass User > Uhm, OK, thanks. So there isn't any way to narrow it down to the > specific action of just starting the printer (which is really what I > was looking for)? -- Stephen Patt

Re: 'screen' saves life, all in a day's work

In your .screenrc defscrollback 1024# 1024 line scrollback -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: samba syslog error message

ss, does the username you're trying to change the password of exist in the samba password database? If not, use smbpasswd -a to add it. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Cau

Re: NFS, Samba, something more obscure?

share /home on a linux server to linux and windows clients, on a lan with a linux firewall. Samba works for sharing /home to linux, however it doesn't correctly track file permissions and this causes a lot of problems loading .xsession and a few other things I can't remember right now.

Re: Start postgresql for the first time

tgres"'. The defualt setup (see /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf) is to only allow users to access postgresql databases if their postgres username matches their linux username. To create database user accounts, log in as root, su to postgres and run createuser. As postgres, you can run

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

t; that. Or you can just edit /etc/inittab so that Ctrl+Alt+Del from a console is mapped to 'shutdown -h' rather than 'shutdown -r' -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37

Re: Firefox and Flash issues?

not confirm if sound does not work either as I have > no sound card on this machine. Anyone experienced this? Might be worth tailling ~/.xsession-errors or running firefox from an xterm to see if any errors are logged. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remov

Re: gnumeric Fatal error

to uprgrade for just this reason. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

n the server and client, filtering on either IP or MAC address. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: tips on using "screen"?

w list on last-line. hardstatus on hardstatus alwayslastline hardstatus string "%{.1099} %-w%{.bg}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%H %c:%s " and in .bashrc # check for detached screen processes screen -ls|grep Detached -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply

Re: Network Filesystem: NFS or Distributed?

aving 1 server and multiple clients connected to it. For a more distributed setup, you may find coda useful, though when I checked 2+ years ago it only supported ~15MB shares. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831

Re: spamassassin on low memmory machine

in to run no more than 1 session at a time? I use Exim4 and > courier. I run spamassin with spamd/spamc from procmail, using a lockfile so that procmail can only run 1 spamc process at a time :0fw:spamassassin.lock | spamc -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remov

Re: sunclock and colours

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 22:20:09 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Sunclock's colours are not working properly on a pc with an ati > graphics card: > > sunclock: warning: can't allocate color `Grey92' You may need to add those colours to /etc/X11/rgb.txt or increase your

Re: starting Perl script from inetd

r/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/SMTP/Server.pm line 55. > Connection closed by foreign host. Sounds like you've got something else running on port 25. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:50:06 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > There are also several latex to rtf converters. You may lose some > formating but it will open under word. Specifically, it tends to bork on multiple tabular environments. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PRO

Re: 4mm DAT drive

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 05:20:06 +0200, Eric N. Valor wrote: > > remember how to address the compression of the drive. In any event, I'm > sure it's different in Debian than old SunOS... =20 If nothing else, you could create a compressed tar volume with the j or z options t

Re: Well, time to cut to the bone...

, once you start getting away from the core C libraries. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: mounting floppy with fs auto doest recognize vfat

le with 1 filesystem per line. This indicates which order to attempt different filesystems for devices with fs-type auto. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be

Re: Good Linux backup program

nd I just write my own with bash scripts, tar and (sometimes) scp, backing up /boot /etc /home /usr/local and my installed package lists (dpkg --get-selections > foo). -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG

Re: Evolution Attachments icons problems

has the same problem, have anyone the solution? I get the same in testing, and have never had attachment icons in evolution working. As evolution's a gnome component, you may need to install nautilus for it to work. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to re

Re: Exim startup timeout

gt; scripts, I want it always to start, I just don't want this ridiculous > timeout. If the DNS timeout is down to a single address (for instance, do you have the laptop set to relay everything via another server). If so, you could add that server's name and IP to /etc/hosts -- Step

Re: etherape alternatives

mp, ethereal and ntop to name but a few -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: gnome desktop messup

ill be given a newly created default desktop(?) GNOME uses gconf to store most of its setup, so you could delete ~/.gconf* (though you would probably lose the config info for all your gnome apps). -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linu

Re: How do I stop portmap from listening on port 111 on my internet connection?

in /etc/hosts.allow portmap: 127.0.0.1 -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: pcmcia-cs in sarge not deconfiguring network interfaces

I've worked around it by adding 'ifconfig eth0 down' to the stop_fn() section of /etc/pcmcia/network.opts -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may

Re: mutt v. elm: reply-to-list

ecognises the email addresses of mailling lists. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printing under Sarge is messed up.

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:20:16 +0200, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Has anyone else had a problem with printing under Sarge recently? Which printing system are you using? If its cups, I'd suggest installing cupsys-bsd -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM

Re: xpdq?

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:00:15 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > With the broken cups in sid I want to start using the trusty old pdq > again. I don't need xpdq, but that makes life a lot easier. There's always lprng, which works beautifully with magicfilter. -- Stephe

Re: pcmcia modems with debian

vice would be greatly appreciated I've got a Xircom REM56G/100, which works almost perfectly (its a combined AT modem and network card so I've got to keep an eye on the routing). -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Co

Re: automatic login (NOT gdm)

launched? Well, startx is a shell script, you might be able to edit it and execute it as the last item in /etc/init.d -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be

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