Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

2003-10-28 Thread Syd Alsobrook
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:22, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:07:59PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Emma Jane Hogbin writes: > > > The problem is that I want to release GPL, but PDFLib requires a fee > > > for commercial applications. > > > > Then it isn't Open Source.  Ple

Re: clone a debian installation

2000-04-07 Thread Syd Alsobrook
I have done this many times, the route I take is: "dpkg --get-selections > packages.dpkg" on master machine "dpkg --set-selections < packages.dpkg" on new machine remember to move the packages file to the new machine. Syd - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday,

X Key bindings

2000-04-04 Thread Syd Alsobrook
Could someone please tell me where I can find the binding that attaches the pause/break key to xscreensaver. I would like to change it to xlock. Thanks, Syd

Re: rm question

2000-03-28 Thread Syd Alsobrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 try rm -f [dir] Syd - - Original Message - From: "Antonio Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 11:47 Subject: rm question I want to delete a directory with a whole bunch of embeded subdirectories, I did rm -d k

console blanking

1997-11-12 Thread Syd Alsobrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How does one turn off the console blanking so that the x-windows screen saver is on all the time? thanks -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNGoxeSwk+M1fFNmTEQLr1wCdFP6woz3ajKHA0pIMkiBeAEnOIlE

Two networks no forwarding

1997-11-07 Thread Syd Alsobrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I want to have one computer connected to two networks, one public (internet) and one private no valid numbers, but I don't want traffic to be routed between the two. so I just build a kernel with the appropreate drivers and set both e

rsh

1997-11-05 Thread Syd Alsobrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Help, What do I need to do to get rsh to work without passwords on a closed network? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNGC8BCwk+M1fFNmTEQKrRQCg+CM176NGbJBIi/9MLdz8TZp93ioAoIPr RZ60OvI

Memory Exclusions

1997-09-26 Thread Syd Alsobrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could someone please tell me how to do memory exclusions for video cards under linux? Syd -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNCwEZywk+M1fFNmTEQKbcQCgoWTjsvagaMb3rd27+Kd00rborWgAoNHa nH1BIInl

X And Video

1997-09-26 Thread Syd Alsobrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am having an interesting problem now. I finally got my new machine to boot up and I reset my X configuration for my new video card. X works great but when I exit back to a stand tty the video is trashed (misc. characters, garbage, and general ba

Boot trama

1997-09-22 Thread Syd Alsobrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This should be easy but it is turning into a nightmare. I am upgrading my linux box to a new one by moving my drives from one box to the other. Before moving I compiled a new kernel to match the new hardware ran lilo and gave it a try. The new machi

Re: Debian Version Numbers - My rant on this

1997-08-20 Thread Syd Alsobrook
The way I see it is this. On ftp.debian.org there is a directory called "bo-updates" in there are all of the updates, with the changes info, that have happened since the last major release. Ok, so here is my point, since any changes that are done are announced via the "debian-changes" list why do w

networking X-windows

1997-08-14 Thread Syd Alsobrook
Ok, so I have looked everywhere for this answer but can not find it. I have my linux machine running X very well now I want to connect my winnt box to my linux box with X windows but can't figure out how. I have a X-server on my nt box but I don't know how to make the connection. can anyone help?

Large Disk New Install

1997-08-07 Thread Syd Alsobrook
Hello Everyone, So, I installed a new 1.3.1 system from the cheapbytes cd, the install went very smooth everything is working, although I find it annoying that deselect scans through every file on the disk when it is installing 1 file. Only one problem when I try to boot from the hard disk Lilo st

outside zone

1997-08-01 Thread Syd Alsobrook
Hello, I have what maybe an easy question. I am primary dns for someone and I am get the following messages in my logs, what I'm worried about is the ignored lines could someone tell me why it is saying this and how to fix it - ucfammed50 named[2865]: starting. named 4.9.5-REL Mon Apr 28 2

Backgrounding process

1997-07-31 Thread Syd Alsobrook
Ok, so I've seen this question on here before but I forgot the answer. I know that I can background a process the "&" but how do I keep the process running after I logoff? A good example would be compiling a kernel my mach takes about a hour to do this so when I telnet in I don't want to stay logge

Re: dns in an LAN?

1997-07-24 Thread Syd Alsobrook
At 10:33 PM 7/24/97 +0200, you wrote: >I just intalled the "bind" pakage,answer the cuestions it made me in the >installation, but how can I say it the IP address and names of the >network machines? Check out the DNS Howto at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html I just setup my on do

Re: script

1997-07-24 Thread Syd Alsobrook
At 09:27 AM 7/24/97 +0300, Mikko Väkiparta wrote: >How I can run some script on every day (clock 00:00) automatically? Use Cron check the manpage for context see also crontab Cron wakes every minute and checks /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly, /etc/cron.monthly and all user crontabs. the cronta

Re: Problems with old shadow-passwd

1997-07-24 Thread Syd Alsobrook
At 06:13 PM 7/24/97 +1300, Adam Shand wrote: >And when I try and uninstall shadow-passwd it is of course a required >package. Is there a nice way to overcome this which won't end up with >duplicate packages installed? > ># dpkg -r shadow-passwd >dpkg: error processing shadow-passwd (--remove): > T

samba and windows NT

1997-07-23 Thread Syd Alsobrook
I'm using debian 1.3 with samba 1.9.16. When my main workstation was running Win95 I could connect fine now I'm running NT 4.0 and I can browse the to my linux box but I'm getting a login error that says: The account is not authorized to login from this station. Here is my smb.conf [global] pr

Re: Mail Server

1997-07-19 Thread Syd Alsobrook
>I have managed to send mail from the Win95 box but cannot seem to get the setup right to allow the Win95 box to use the Linux box as a mail server. Can someone point me to some documentation on how to do this? > >Thanks in advance, > >Ross You will need to setup a pop3 server on your linux box. T

Year 2000

1997-07-18 Thread Syd Alsobrook
Just a curious question, does anyone know if linux in general and Debian in particular are year 2000 compliant? It would be a shame if we came down to the wire and had forgotten something Syd http://www.uc.edu/~alsobrsp "How do you know you're having fun if there's

Re: logon message

1997-07-15 Thread Syd Alsobrook
You will find the answer in "/etc/motd" At 01:54 AM 7/15/97 -0400, Paul Miller wrote: >how do I change the logon message? > >-Paul > > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . >Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > Syd http:/

cp command

1997-07-14 Thread Syd Alsobrook
Really easy The best way to copy a directory tree from one drive to another is cp -pr /usr /hd Thanks Syd http://www.uc.edu/~alsobrsp "How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it." Dougla

DNS not showing authority

1997-07-11 Thread Syd Alsobrook
I just recently setup a new domain and DNS servers for it, everything seems to be working fine with one exception. The secondary sever (WinNT) will not pull the zone data from the primary (debian 1.3) and the primary is giving non-authoritive responses to all queries with nslookup. Is there any way

path varible in tcsh

1997-07-09 Thread Syd Alsobrook
This should be easy but I just can't seem to find the answer. How do you set the globle path for tcsh when it is the login shell? I'm trying to set up x-windows and can't set the path correctly Thanks! Syd http://www.uc.edu/~alsobrsp "How do you know you're having fun

Re: Kernel Panic

1997-07-08 Thread Syd Alsobrook
At 09:36 PM 7/8/97 +0200, you wrote: >Did you included the driver for your root filesystem (probable ext2) >in the kernel (*not* as a module)? Seems to be the problem here. > >-- > Emilio C. Lopes Yeh, But I think that I figuared out the problem. I compiled some control

Kernel Panic

1997-07-08 Thread Syd Alsobrook
Hello! I just recently compiled a new kernel on my linux box, this isn't the first time that I have done this, but this the first one that had a problem. After recompiling the kernel servel times with different options and decided to check here. The compile runs fine with no proble

new kernel

1997-06-03 Thread Syd Alsobrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello, I have a machine that i just upgraded to v1.3 (that went perfectly). My question is this I want to upgrade the kernel (now v2.0.27) the easiest way possible can I copy the kernel from the install floppies for v1.3 (has kernel 2.0.30) or is it easier just t

Re: hdb trouble

1997-05-21 Thread Syd Alsobrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 09:44 PM 5/20/97 -0400, you wrote: > >I just upgraded to frozen. I rebooted and I noticed syslogd and kmsg took >a long time to load. Then I had some trouble reading /dev/hdb(my linux >drive) and I found this in /var/log/messages: I would check your CMOS to m

DEC vt420

1997-05-15 Thread Syd Alsobrook
hello, I am wanting to use a DEC vt420 terminal with my linux box, what is the best way to connect the terminal to linux? thanks Syd http://www.uc.edu/~alsobrsp "How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it."

free page error

1997-05-12 Thread Syd Alsobrook
One of the debian linux boxes that i am running has developed a little problem. The machine is scrolling the message "can't get free page". This machine is a 386 with 8meg and a 340hd at / and a 170hd at /usr/lib. If I remember Iset up an 50-80mg swap partion. Can any one help? Syd http://

New Hard Disk

1997-04-29 Thread Syd Alsobrook
I'm trying to add space to my system and all i have is a 170meg HD what I want to do is move everything from /usr/lib to the new HD and have the new drive mount at that point. I would like to have the move done in one command. is that posible or will i have to move the whole tree by hand? Syd