Squeeze GNOME Terminal 2.30.2 config

2011-09-07 Thread rir
I am not finding the info to do this. I'd like to configure Gnome Terminal to: o- Pass the key through to the program being run. o- Have the terminal launch in 25 lines x 80 columns o- Have the terminal launch in a custom size or zoom setting. I want to do this by some configuration set

Re: Problem with fonts in console Squeeze

2011-07-14 Thread rir
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 05:52:37PM +, CamaleĆ³n wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:42:15 -0400, rir wrote: > > > Is there a 40x16 font that I could get console-setup could use? > > > > Or is there a better way to get Squeeze to display 25 lines by 80 > > columns

Problem with fonts in console Squeeze

2011-07-13 Thread rir
Is there a 40x16 font that I could get console-setup could use? Or is there a better way to get Squeeze to display 25 lines by 80 columns utilizing the entire screen at 1280x1024? I am running the (new?) Kernel Mode Setting framebuffer stuff. rir@switch:~$ lspci | grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA

Re: trn nntp authorization

2008-09-04 Thread rir
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:43:50AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:56:09AM -0400, rir wrote: > > How do I get trn to authorize. I can connect manually: > > $ telnet newsgroups.comcast.net nntp > > Trying 216.196.97.136... > > Connected

trn nntp authorization

2008-09-02 Thread rir
rname_ 381 more authentication required authinfo pass _password_ 281 News.GigaNews.Com quit How do I set up trn to authorize like this. Thanks. rir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-27 Thread rir
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:43:50AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Because I need to burn CDs at times and as far as I have knowledge, > Knoppix atleast won't let the CD out once booted. Use "knoppix toram" at the boot prompt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: udev issues backing up /dev

2007-02-27 Thread rir
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:56:32AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > rir wrote: > >My question is what should I be backing up regarding udev? > >You imply that, on a running system, /dev/.static/dev should be backed > >up as /dev. > I can't add anything to the discus

Re: udev issues backing up /dev

2007-02-25 Thread rir
an operating system that has a filesystem and version of restore that match some 15 year-old archive. Thanks for the reply; I didn't realize that about dump. Be well, rir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

udev issues backing up /dev

2007-02-24 Thread rir
is to save the devices that are there; it is possible that some package or person could add a special node. If that happens, a backup should catch it. The hiding of a mounted filesystem seems very broken to my sysadmin side. Be well, rir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Help with udev's secret mounts

2007-02-23 Thread rir
Udev's secret remounting of /dev at /dev/.static/dev gives me pause. How IS that done, anyway? I am interested in using find and cpio to make a root filesystem backup. How should I handle the /dev tree? If I just grab the run-time /dev it will become the boot-time /dev of my restored system

Re: Purging mailboxes in mutt

2005-12-06 Thread rir
it > will also un-mark messages deleted by other sessions. Set up mutt to do everything via IMAP. Be well, rir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dumb DNS

2005-12-06 Thread rir
t;hosts" file, and it can serve local info based on dhcpd lease info. Be well, rir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: partition this thing!

1999-09-29 Thread rir
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:17:09PM -0400, Chris Ruvolo > wrote: > > At 11:02 PM 9/26/99 +0300, you wrote: > > >This is my first try at more than swap and /. > tiny /boot, giant > > >/home, right? Anyone feel like helping? > having the kernel on a

Re: Debian and Redhat

1999-09-29 Thread rir
> > However, there are some software that these servers MUST have, right now > it's > Legato Networker and the UPS software (not sure which UPS system we will use > > If you are using APC UPS then you should check their website. I sent them If using Best, they gives you source code to compile

Re: Debian to be too late released

1999-09-20 Thread rir
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, andreas palsson wrote: > There are two reasons, NFS and RAID. > NFS under Linux 2.2 is painfully slow, and the improved driver will not > show up until 2.4. Are there many interface changes brewing up in the changes between 2.2 to 2.4? I'd call the changes between 2.0 and

Re: Debian to be too late released

1999-09-13 Thread rir
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Surely I would appreciate a 2.4 [kernel] ready distribution. Why?

memcpy/memcmp type warnings

1999-09-07 Thread rir
I am running slink with a 2.2.11 kernel, with minimal changes to support the kernel as per the Debian web page. Using gcc 2.7.2.3 I get the following on an app's compilation: In file included from hbb.c:15: /usr/include/string.h:38: warning: conflicting types for built-in function `memcpy' /u

Help? Problems with serial port

1999-08-13 Thread rir
On a SMP slink system with a 2.2.10 kernel I am logging the following from mgetty. The "Interrupted system call" makes me think this is not just a chat script problem. I am not sure what I should be looking at to fix the problem. If mgetty is not run minicom works fine to dial out. /var/log/mg

Re: Best way to check out hardware / BIOS problems?

1999-08-09 Thread rir
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, David Hamilton wrote: > I have two systems that crash regularly while running slink. I > suspect that this is probably hardware-related, but I can't see any > The hardware is fast and reliability improves if I turn off both > internal and external cache, although performance d

Help Problem w/ Slink & inewsinn

1999-05-03 Thread rir
Moving to slink, I'm having trouble with my test posts of netnews. I get the following message: Can't generate Message-ID, Illegal seek Any clues appreciated. rob [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LILO - System.map conflict

1999-04-30 Thread rir
On 30 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > So it looks like the kernel *does* need this file. What's the function > and why did it work without it? > If I recall correctly If I recall correctly the map file is used to provide symbolic identifiers for debugging kernels. So the kernel needs this to

sgid bit on dirs Was: Re: problems w/pppd 2.3.7

1999-04-15 Thread rir
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Jeremy wrote: > On 14 Apr 1999, John Hasler wrote: > > > Jeremy writes: > > > drwxr-s--- 2 root dip 1024 Apr 12 08:17 /etc/chatscripts > > > ... > > > > Set group ID on execution on a directory does nothing useful that I know > > of. The group needs execute pe

Dynamic libraries? termcap? curses?

1998-09-24 Thread rir
I have an application upgrade provided as a binary for Redhat 5.1. This is a mature C program, basic business app, ported to many unixen, been around for 15 years at least. (Conetics C/books 4.0) Naturally I want to run this on Debian 2.0, as I have every machine here running Bo or Hamm (except

Re: is onboard aic7890 supported?

1998-09-07 Thread rir
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Ali A. Kooshesh wrote: > I have an ASUS motherboard with on board AIC7890 SCSI controller. > Both, my hard disk and > CD ROM are SCSI. Is there a kernel that supports this device? I have just booted on this controller for the first time. There was a reference to: ftp:ftp.d

Re: Smail in hamm checking DNS lookups?

1998-08-26 Thread rir
On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: > > I recently upgraded several of my Bo systems to Hamm. All went fine. I > am currently struggling with some of the minor changes that the new > packages have. delete use_bind in your /etc/smail/transports file's smarthost clause and probably anywhere

?rsh by root?

1998-08-12 Thread rir
I am trying to use rdist to distribute system files from one Debian host to nine Debian desktop hosts. How/Where does one set up in.rshd so that root can rsh in as rdist attempts? In /etc/inetd.conf, as below? Or what? # /etc/inetd.conf: see inetd(8) for further informations. #:BSD: Shell,

Re: tape backup regiment

1998-03-14 Thread rir
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > If you want to do a full backup each night the cron job is a snap, just > 'dump 0f /dev/tape-device'. As to the restore disk this is something I've > Rob Goodwin wrote: > > I would like to set up a "fail-safe" backup system for a linux box that > >

Re: APC UPS'es

1998-02-26 Thread rir
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gerardo Lamastra wrote: > Well, we use a Linux powered server which is tied to the APC SmartUPS 1000 > and everything works right. > I think you should not have any problem to configure the UPS; the > genpowerd daemon is used, with the following command line: > > /sbin/genpow

Help w/ telnet[d]

1998-02-13 Thread rir
This is with several Debian 1.3.x machines. I'm trying to make telnet transparent. That is: I want to pass local environment variables to the remote machine, I want to login automatically, and I want to launch a process on remote. Telnet is giving me difficulties, I thought the man page was clea

HELP! w/ dump & restore

1998-02-13 Thread rir
Where can I find source for dump+restore? I have dump_0.3-14.deb and have hit a problem where the master/slave protocol is is botched. I'd like to try a newer version before giving up. It it may be simpler to build dump from source than to work with the version packed for hamm. rob [EMAIL PROT

Dump & restore

1998-02-05 Thread rir
Where can I find source for dump+restore? I have dump_0.3-14.deb and have hit a problem where the master/slave protocol is is botched. I'd like to try a newer version before giving up. It it may be simpler to build dump from source than to work with the version packed for hamm. rob [EMAIL PROTE

? MOXA 104+ fourport serial

1997-12-26 Thread rir
Has anyone got a MOXA C104+ 4 port card up with the serial driver. This is a AST Fourport clone. Moxa literature indicates that there are various types of this card. The one I have as 4 16c550's not an ASIC. The card cannot be set to the I/O addresses that are indicated by the driver. I don

Help Kernel Oops!

1997-11-06 Thread rir
How do I interpret this kernel debugging output? How do I learn to interpret kernel debugging output? How do I fix my system so I don't need to learn to interpret kernel debugging output? This is infrequently occurring at unknown times on an lightly loaded system, i.e. just debian-distributed cr

RE: why /var/tmp/ not be cleaned at boot time

1997-10-08 Thread rir
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > Yeah, so you can have some temporary scratch space that survives a reboot. > > Anything that can evaporate at reboot time, you put in /tmp, anything you > want > to survive a reboot, you put in /var/tmp. I would caution against using this idea on a

MATSHITA CW-7501 CD-R

1997-08-29 Thread rir
Does anyone know if the MATSHITA CW-7501 scsi cd-r will work with current tools under debian (bo). Thanks. rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Help! Problem w/ sh at boot

1997-08-17 Thread rir
I am getting the following at boot and shutdown, with linux 2.0.29. What should I do? Starting system daemon: syslogd klogd Starting kerneld, version 2.1.34 (pid 119) sh: no job control in this shell sh-2.00# _ Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron. sh: no job control in this shel sh-2.00# _

Help! Problem w/ sh at boot

1997-08-13 Thread rir
I am getting the following at boot and shutdown, with linux 2.0.29. What should I do? Starting system daemon: syslogd klogd Starting kerneld, version 2.1.34 (pid 119) sh: no job control in this shell sh-2.00# _ Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron. sh: no job control in this shel sh-2.00# _

Problem w/ sh at boot

1997-08-09 Thread rir
I am getting the following at boot and shutdown, with linux 2.0.29. What should I do? Starting system daemon: syslogd klogd Starting kerneld, version 2.1.34 (pid 119) sh: no job control in this shell sh-2.00# _ Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron. sh: no job control in this shel sh-2.00# _

Unidentified subject!

1997-07-31 Thread rir
When using pine with diald, pine waits for the link to come up and the mail to go out before returning from a ^X (send) command. Any tips. rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mail setup.

1997-07-31 Thread rir
On a little ethernet like so: moola.ethernet fin.ethernet coin.ethernet = ppp.isp.net With one POP mailbox on pop.isp.net and nameservers in isp.net. Using smail 3.2 and ppp/diald. I'd like to have all mail leaving the ethernet to be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBS

PCMCIA Ethernet card?

1997-05-01 Thread rir
I am looking for recommendations for a PCMCIA ethernet card with both thinnet and 10bt and a modest price tag. This only need work with linux. rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTE