Re (2): Questions regarding hardware for a Free Software (especially Debian)

2009-12-17 Thread peasthope
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:44:45 -0500, Celejar wrote, > KMS is apparently badly broken on my Intel 945GM: And LXDE is broken for the Intel 82815 Chipset on the board in the IBM NetVista 6578-RAU. Regards,... Peter E. -- Google "pathology workshop" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: 2 questions: 1., iptables, 2., local net with rtl8139

2004-08-18 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:28:52PM +0200, Na Zo wrote: > >>>The problem come, if i try to use the following command:<<< > > router:~# iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -m state --state ^ > ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT > > then i go

2 questions: 1., iptables, 2., local net with rtl8139

2004-08-18 Thread Na Zo
-- Továbbított levél -- Dátum: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 13:35:24 +0200 (CEST) Feladó: Na Zo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Címzett: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tárgy: 2 questions: 1., ipfwadm, 2., local net with rtl8139 hi! 1., I' d like to use ipmasquerading to share the internet, but i have prob

2 questions: 1., ipfwadm, 2., local net with rtl8139

2004-08-14 Thread Na Zo
hi! 1., I' d like to use ipmasquerading to share the internet, but i have problem with it. I have installed the following modules into the kernel IP: Netfilter Configuration ---> Connection tracking (required for masq/NAT) FTP protocol support IRC protocol support IP ta

2 questions

2004-04-05 Thread j smith
1st question i have 2 PCs, one with cable modem connection. I want to connect them using a serial line. the serial line actually is a serial mouse extention line. what software configuration do I have to make? 2nd question is it possible to use kernel 2.4 in Debian 1.2? the compiled kernel 2.4 h

Re: 2 questions from debian noob

2004-01-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-27, Timmy P. penned: > hello, > > i was wondering if yall could tell me why the network install for > debian does not support Internal PCI cards. I do not have a laptop, > and can not spare 7 cds to install the os that i have heard so much > good about. I'm not sure about the details

Re: 2 questions from debian noob

2004-01-27 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Timmy P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040128 10:15]: > hello, > > i was wondering if yall could tell me why the network > install for debian does not support Internal PCI > cards. It does. Why do you think otherwise? What card do you need it to support? > I do not have a laptop, and can not spare

Re: 2 questions from debian noob

2004-01-27 Thread Sanjay Chigurupati
I am running Debian on AMD athlon desktop -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2 questions from debian noob

2004-01-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Timmy P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040127 17:27]: > i was wondering if yall could tell me why the network > install for debian does not support Internal PCI > cards. I do not have a laptop, and can not spare 7 > cds to install the os that i have heard so much good > about. It depends on the chips

Re: 2 questions from debian noob

2004-01-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:27:41AM -0800, Timmy P. wrote: > i was wondering if yall could tell me why the network > install for debian does not support Internal PCI > cards. It does. I, for instance, installed using an internal PCI ethernet card the last two times I installed Debian. What probl

Re: 2 questions from debian noob

2004-01-27 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 11:27, Timmy P. wrote: > hello, > > i was wondering if yall could tell me why the network > install for debian does not support Internal PCI > cards. I do not have a laptop, and can not spare 7 > cds to install the os that i have heard so much good > about. > I've never

2 questions from debian noob

2004-01-27 Thread Timmy P.
hello, i was wondering if yall could tell me why the network install for debian does not support Internal PCI cards. I do not have a laptop, and can not spare 7 cds to install the os that i have heard so much good about. I do plan on buying the cd set...but i wanted to make sure it worked with

Re: speaker and bios [WAS: 2 questions: network card and internal speaker volume]

2003-11-04 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:06:46PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi! > I have 2 questions. First, how do I turn up the volume of the internal > speaker? Haven't solved this one, but... > > My second question is a little more complicated. I just put in a new > motherb

2 questions: network card and internal speaker volume

2003-11-01 Thread Vikki Roemer
Hi! I have 2 questions. First, how do I turn up the volume of the internal speaker? My second question is a little more complicated. I just put in a new motherboard, and everything is working fine except the onboard nic. It uses the same chipset that the old MB's onboard nic had (sis900)

Re: never mind last 2 questions

2003-01-15 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:28:46AM -0800, Adam Kao wrote: > I got my last two questions answered on IRC. you might share them with us just in case someone here is looking for them, too. :) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown D

never mind last 2 questions

2003-01-15 Thread Adam Kao
I got my last two questions answered on IRC. Thanks, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2 questions: ethernet card s82595fx ; bunch of background sounds

2002-11-03 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Antonio Rodriguez said: > Thanks Stephen for your help, just another question: how do you > control the volume output level (system wide, and/or user wide)? With a mixer. apt-cache search mixer will return a whole list of them. I prefer aumix myself, but YMMV. aumix

Re: 2 questions: ethernet card s82595fx ; bunch of background sounds

2002-11-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Thanks Stephen for your help, just another question: how do you control the volume output level (system wide, and/or user wide)? Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Antonio Rodriguez said: ethernet card s82595fx: What is the module for this? bunch of background sounds: I had to

Re: 2 questions: ethernet card s82595fx ; bunch of background sounds

2002-11-02 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Antonio Rodriguez said: > ethernet card s82595fx: What is the module for this? bunch of > background sounds: I had to disable gnome audio events to avoid a > bunch of repeating sounds that didn't seem to stop. Even that didn't > help. What could be wrong? Thanks. Usi

2 questions: ethernet card s82595fx ; bunch of background sounds

2002-11-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
ethernet card s82595fx: What is the module for this? bunch of background sounds: I had to disable gnome audio events to avoid a bunch of repeating sounds that didn't seem to stop. Even that didn't help. What could be wrong? Thanks. Using sb module, sound card is ess es1869 thanks to all -- T

Re: 2 questions

2002-09-02 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 00:04:12 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That doesn't matter, though. 'export' just marks a variable to be > exported - it doesn't save its current value and export that. Watch: Sweet! learn something new every day! -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: 2 questions

2002-09-02 Thread Nile Gomez
--- Nile Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- "Jamin W.Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:39:11 -0400 > > Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 2. How to add shutdown and reboot to logout menu? > > If you're using GDM, modify the gdm.conf file in /e

Re: 2 questions

2002-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 05:52:02PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:39:11 -0400 > Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Put 'export' before the $PATH part. For example: > > export $PATH="$PATH:/new_dir" > > The above won't work. You don't want the $ on the name o

Re: 2 questions

2002-09-02 Thread Nile Gomez
--- "Jamin W.Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:39:11 -0400 > Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2. How to add shutdown and reboot to logout menu? If you're using GDM, modify the gdm.conf file in /etc/X11 as root using your favorite text editor and change

Re: 2 questions

2002-09-02 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 18:39:11 -0400 Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 02:57:53PM -0700, Jianbo Wang wrote: > > > I installed woody on my pc. I have 2 questions: > > 1. PATH: I tried to add some directories to PATH, and I change > >

Re: 2 questions

2002-09-02 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 02:57:53PM -0700, Jianbo Wang wrote: > Hi, > > I installed woody on my pc. I have 2 questions: > 1. PATH: I tried to add some directories to PATH, and I change >/etc/profile and login.def, but $PATH doesn't change. >( I add $PATH="$PA

2 questions

2002-09-02 Thread Jianbo Wang
Hi, I installed woody on my pc. I have 2 questions: 1. PATH: I tried to add some directories to PATH, and I change /etc/profile and login.def, but $PATH doesn't change. ( I add $PATH="$PATH:/new_dir" in /etc/profile and login.def) 2. How to add shutdown and reboot to logou

linux 2.0.40 [was Re: 2 questions]

2002-02-22 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:57:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:22:38 +1100 Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not only did the 2.0 series not end at 2.0.36, but it is still going. > > 2.0.40-rc3 was released only 8 days ago. We'll see a real 2.0.40 in the > > near

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:22:38 +1100 Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dman wrote: > > It isn't too surprising that it still has a 2.0 kernel packaged for > > it, (in fact, .38 must be fairly new since I thought the 2.0 series > > ended at .36) but the installer uses a 2.2 kernel. > > No

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-22 Thread Matthew Dalton
dman wrote: > It isn't too surprising that it still has a 2.0 kernel packaged for > it, (in fact, .38 must be fairly new since I thought the 2.0 series > ended at .36) but the installer uses a 2.2 kernel. Not only did the 2.0 series not end at 2.0.36, but it is still going. 2.0.40-rc3 was release

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:19:57PM +0800, a wrote: | thanks! You're welcome. | actually both debians are in the same disk. the modem linux driver is for | 2.2, so i have to install 2.2, though i'm quite happy with 2.1. | | below is part of syslog. the first n lines is about modem's modules loadi

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread a
erminal parameters: Input/output error" means what? - Original Message - From: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 10:00 AM Subject: Re: 2 questions > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:07:40AM +0800, a wrote: > | i have 2 debians: 2.1 a

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:52:23PM -0500, dman wrote: > It isn't too surprising that it still has a 2.0 kernel packaged for > it, (in fact, .38 must be fairly new since I thought the 2.0 series > ended at .36) but the installer uses a 2.2 kernel. Yes. But some people likes 2.0 over 2.2 for some

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:07:40AM +0800, a wrote: | i have 2 debians: 2.1 and 2.2. the 1st question is about 2.1 and the 2nd is | about 2.2. Oh, ok. If the slink box isn't too underpowered (ie a 386 with 5MB RAM) then I recommend upgrading it. I'm currently getting my 486 box up to woody (and k

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 05:21:07PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: | On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:51:55PM -0500, dman wrote: | > Debian 2.2 (aka "potato") comes with kernel 2.2.20 now, and AFAIK, has | > always had a 2.2.x kernel. | | No it does not look like so. Stable potato always and still have 2.

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:51:55PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:38:55AM +0800, a wrote: > | i compile kernel 2.0.36. everything else seems OK except modprobe complain > | it can't locate char-major-10 iWhat was minor? If 135, it is RTC. alias char-major-10-135 rtc You foregot

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread a
--- Original Message - From: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 8:51 AM Subject: Re: 2 questions > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:38:55AM +0800, a wrote: > | i compile kernel 2.0.36. everything else seems OK except modprobe complain > | it ca

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:38:55AM +0800, a wrote: | i compile kernel 2.0.36. everything else seems OK except modprobe complain | it can't locate char-major-10 | | i have a Ham modem and debian 2.2. i compile the linux driver and install | it. but pon fails. i use the command below: | setserial /d

2 questions

2002-02-21 Thread a
i compile kernel 2.0.36. everything else seems OK except modprobe complain it can't locate char-major-10 i have a Ham modem and debian 2.2. i compile the linux driver and install it. but pon fails. i use the command below: setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 10 but it does not help.

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-11 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> 1.how to fsck /dev/hda3 which is root? it's mounted rw, and fsck warns it is > dangerous to check it. this is the safest way, but it needs a reboot: touch /forcefsck init 6 this will force a full fsck on all your partitions. if you set FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS, everything will happen au

Re: Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
: *lpadmin* not found. > > That means you don't have the 'cupsys-client' package installed. It > works for me because I have it installed. > Thanks. I had thought dpkg -S was sort of like examining the whole archive...live and learn.

Re: Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 10:19:54PM -0800, Patrick Kirk wrote: | > $ dpkg -S lpadmin | > cupsys-client: /usr/share/man/man8/lpadmin.8.gz | > cupsys-client: /usr/sbin/lpadmin | | Very odd - that doesn't work for me at all. | zulfiqar:~# dpkg -S lpadmin | dpkg: *lpadmin* not found. That means you do

Re: Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
> $ dpkg -S lpadmin > cupsys-client: /usr/share/man/man8/lpadmin.8.gz > cupsys-client: /usr/sbin/lpadmin > Very odd - that doesn't work for me at all. zulfiqar:~# dpkg -S lpadmin dpkg: *lpadmin* not found. > | Question 2: what is the correct command to print if you are using CUPS? > > Depends

Re: Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
"Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I thought I had printing working because from the CUPS web interface I can > print a test page. But that's all I can print! lpr /etc/aliases or lpr > /foo/anythiing else just shoots a blank sheet through. When I print from > samba, the p

Re: Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread ben
On Sunday 10 February 2002 09:55 pm, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > I thought I had printing working because from the CUPS web interface I can > print a test page. But that's all I can print! lpr /etc/aliases or lpr > /foo/anythiing else just shoots a blank sheet through. When I print from >

Re: Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:55:28PM -0800, Patrick Kirk wrote: | | Hi all, | | I thought I had printing working because from the CUPS web interface I can | print a test page. But that's all I can print! lpr /etc/aliases or lpr | /foo/anythiing else just shoots a blank sheet through. When I prin

Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I thought I had printing working because from the CUPS web interface I can print a test page. But that's all I can print! lpr /etc/aliases or lpr /foo/anythiing else just shoots a blank sheet through. When I print from samba, the print job seems to disappears. Question 1: how do I ins

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread Hay Seed
> 2.in MS-Windows, the monitor is turned down (the > LED blinks) after > a period of in-activity. In X, it just blanks. > what is the > difference? how to make the LED blinks in X? > Blanktime, StandbyTime, SuspendTime and OffTime in the "Screen" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config. See man XF86Con

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 16:34:39 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2.in MS-Windows, the monitor is turned down (the LED blinks) after > > a period of in-activity. In X, it just blanks. what is the > > difference? how to make the LED blinks in X? > > not sure, i don't trust APM, i rathe

Re: fsck'ing a rw-mounted partition and display power management in X (was: 2 questions)

2002-02-09 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1.how to fsck /dev/hda3 which is root? it's mounted rw, and fsck warns it is > dangerous to check it. You need to remount it read-only (ro). See mount(8) for details: mount /dev/hda3 -o remount,ro e2fsck /dev/hda3 mount /dev/hda3 -o remount,rw > 2.in MS-Windo

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-09 Thread nate
> 1.how to fsck /dev/hda3 which is root? it's mounted rw, and fsck > warns it is dangerous to check it. to do it without rebooting: init 1 mount / -o remount,ro e2fsck /dev/hda3 mount / -o remount,rw init 2 if you have other partitions mounted you have to unmount them first (umount /mountpoint)

2 questions

2002-02-09 Thread a
1.how to fsck /dev/hda3 which is root? it's mounted rw, and fsck warns it is dangerous to check it. 2.in MS-Windows, the monitor is turned down (the LED blinks) after a period of in-activity. In X, it just blanks. what is the difference? how to make the LED blinks in X?

Re: 2 questions: Sylpheed & Mozilla

2002-01-13 Thread Ross Boylan
KDE has a feature in which if a URL goes into the paste buffer it offers to open a browser. At least if you're in a Konsole this is what happens. There's a little bug so that it won't open mozilla properly when you do this. Supposedly a fix is coming. This is probably different from your proble

Re: 2 questions: Sylpheed & Mozilla

2002-01-12 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 22:34, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Ok, make uninstall seems to have disabled it, but the directories are all > still there. Is it Ok to delete them? If they are empty it's probably ok to rm them. > I'm using KDE. Sorry, I don't now anything about that > Clicking on hyperlink

Re: 2 questions: Sylpheed & Mozilla

2002-01-11 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On Friday 11 January 2002 12:19, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 21:07, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > The Sylpheed question is rather easy, I hope. > > How do you uninstall it? Just delete directories? > > How did you install it? If from source, there is probably a "uninstall" > target in

Re: 2 questions: Sylpheed & Mozilla

2002-01-11 Thread Craig Dickson
Curtis Vaughan wrote: > The Sylpheed question is rather easy, I hope. > How do you uninstall it? Just delete directories? How did you install it? If you used a .deb package, then dpkg -P sylpheed should do the trick. If you compiled it yourself, and installed it with "make install", then yo

Re: 2 questions: Sylpheed & Mozilla

2002-01-11 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 21:07, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > The Sylpheed question is rather easy, I hope. > How do you uninstall it? Just delete directories? How did you install it? If from source, there is probably a "uninstall" target in the source directory. cd /your/sylpheed/source/dir; make uninsta

2 questions: Sylpheed & Mozilla

2002-01-11 Thread Curtis Vaughan
The Sylpheed question is rather easy, I hope. How do you uninstall it? Just delete directories? Mozilla: Earlier I asked about how to make Mozilla my default browser. Ok, I got that to work, but now I have different problem. Say, for example, I have a hyperlink in a letter. If I tap on it, M

Re: 2 questions package installs and TCP/IP startup script

2000-08-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Mark! On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Mark Simos wrote: > 1. > I am trying to install vim on a really bare installation of Debian. I > have internet access that routes and resolves names fine. > > When I type "apt-get install vim vim-rt" or just about any other package > name i see listed on Debian's si

2 questions package installs and TCP/IP startup script

2000-08-27 Thread Mark Simos
All, I am sure these are pretty easy questions, but I am running out ideas. 1. I am trying to install vim on a really bare installation of Debian. I have internet access that routes and resolves names fine. When I type "apt-get install vim vim-rt" or just about any other package name i see liste

Re: 2 questions

2000-07-29 Thread kmself
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 02:56:53AM +0800, Li Wei wrote: Fix your system date > I have Debian 2.0. Where is the package festival? > festvox-kdlpc8k depends on it. BTW do you know any text2speech software? $ dpkg -S speak speak-freely Emacspeak-HOWTO .

2 questions

2000-07-29 Thread Li Wei
I have Debian 2.0. Where is the package festival? festvox-kdlpc8k depends on it. BTW do you know any text2speech software? I have problem connect to ISP after running pppconfig. PAP don't work. I use CHAT and below is part of output of plog: Jul 29 18:02:39 debian chat[189]: CONNECT Jul 29 18:02

Re: 2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-03 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 12:50:49PM +0100, Ulrich Hansmair wrote > hi freaks, > > recently I´m using apt-get to install my potato. I think this way of > distributing debian is a great step into future and perfectly combines the > abilities of the internet and free software. Debian should go this w

Re: 2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-02 Thread Edward Kear
At 06:40 AM 1/2/00 -0800, Fish Smith wrote: >hi freaks, Who's a freak?? >1. After apt-get update/upgrade I always get the >standard kernel-image >and >pcmcia-modules which overwrites my own compiled >versions. How can I >exclude >this packages from being upgraded? I would backup the compiled o

Re: 2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-02 Thread Fish Smith
>hi freaks, Who's a freak?? >1. After apt-get update/upgrade I always get the >standard kernel-image >and >pcmcia-modules which overwrites my own compiled >versions. How can I >exclude >this packages from being upgraded? I would backup the compiled ones, then put a script into your shutdown sequ

Re: 2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Jan, Oliver Elphick wrote about "Re: 2 questions on apt-get " > Ulrich Hansmair wrote: > >2.apt-get upgrade gives the following message: > > > >... > >The following packages have been kept back: > >dpkg-dev kernel-package perl perl-bas

Re: 2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ulrich Hansmair wrote: >1. After apt-get update/upgrade I always get the standard kernel-image and >pcmcia-modules which overwrites my own compiled versions. How can I exclude >this packages from being upgraded? Read the docs for kernel package and use --revision=... when building your own k

2 questions on apt-get

2000-01-02 Thread Ulrich Hansmair
hi freaks, recently I´m using apt-get to install my potato. I think this way of distributing debian is a great step into future and perfectly combines the abilities of the internet and free software. Debian should go this way. Now to the questions. 1. After apt-get update/upgrade I always get t

Re: 2 questions

1999-06-01 Thread Stephan Engelke
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:22:21PM +0100, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > Hi > > I have two questions to pose to the enlightened ones in this mailing > list (boy am i poetic today, maybe because a I've a couple of > presentations to do today :( ): > > Number 1 : Is there a way to allow the user

Re: 2 questions

1999-06-01 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > > Number 1 : Is there a way to allow the users to create an auto-responder > (so that their email sents a message for every message they got) saying > that they are on hollidays. I know, I know this things suck and they are > extremely anoying but the some people

2 questions

1999-06-01 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi I have two questions to pose to the enlightened ones in this mailing list (boy am i poetic today, maybe because a I've a couple of presentations to do today :( ): Number 1 : Is there a way to allow the users to create an auto-responder (so that their email sents a message for every message the

Re: 2 Questions

1999-04-11 Thread Marsh Ray
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:30:05AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > 1. How can I get my machine to automatically start fetchmail after > a reboot? Also, how do I have it ran by a user other than root > (it is only setup to run as me right now)? Debian's boot process is fairly well-described at: http

2 Questions

1999-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
I have two hopefully quick questions. 1. How can I get my machine to automatically start fetchmail after a reboot? Also, how do I have it ran by a user other than root (it is only setup to run as me right now)? 2. Is there a way to script the startup of a remote program? I want to have wmm

Re: 2 questions

1999-02-25 Thread Ramiel Givergis
At 09:33 AM 2/24/99 -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote: >> 2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by >> itself. I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has >> demand dialing. I do not want this. I want it to go up and come down when >> I tell it. > >Thats pro

Re: 2 questions

1999-02-25 Thread Ramiel Givergis
At 09:33 AM 2/24/99 -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote: >> 2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by >> itself. I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has >> demand dialing. I do not want this. I want it to go up and come down when >> I tell it. > >Thats pro

Re: 2 questions

1999-02-25 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > Thats probably your ISP kicking you off. Mine has a 2 hour limit. > > Try pppupd to get around no-traffic limits. For pure time limits... ? pppupd doesnt do what I need, since my ISP has dynamic IP allocation. I use a shell script I wrote instead. The source is availible on my homepage (it's

Re: 2 questions

1999-02-24 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 02/24/99 at 09:33:16, Andrei Ivanov wrote concerning "Re: 2 questions": > > 2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by > > itself. I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has > > demand dialing. I do not want this. I wa

Re: 2 questions

1999-02-24 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> 2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by > itself. I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has > demand dialing. I do not want this. I want it to go up and come down when > I tell it. Thats probably your ISP kicking you off. Mine has a 2 hour limi

2 questions

1999-02-24 Thread Ian Setford
Two things. 1) I keep fairly current and after dselect ran last week one time, no one except root can run ping. Was this done on purpose. If so, why? 2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by itself. I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has dem

Re: 2 questions

1998-03-25 Thread Paul McDermott
hello again, this is a reply to my own message. I have found a way to overlap one image onto another on my web page. There is a program in the imagemagick package called combine. It did exactly what I wanted. If anyone had a similar experience try the combine command. Thanks for the help. Paul

Re: 2 questions

1998-03-24 Thread Adam Edwards
At 09:19 AM 3/23/98 -0500, Paul McDermott wrote: >a picture every minute and it is put on my web page. I want to have my >updated quickcam image overlayed onto the quickcam window image. My >question is. Can I? and How do I do it in html. I've looked through the >html help files in lynx and I c

Re: 2 questions

1998-03-24 Thread Bob Clark
Concerning your first question, you ought to look at the "mirror" package. It takes care of the cleanup task for you. --Bob Paul McDermott wrote: > > hello everybody thank you for all of your help. I am using wget to > mirror the debian site or part of it anyways. My question is this: Is > th

2 questions

1998-03-23 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everybody thank you for all of your help. I am using wget to mirror the debian site or part of it anyways. My question is this: Is there a flag to delete files when wget downloads a newer version of the same package. I have to clear my ftp site once a week because i run out of space. I did

Re: 2 questions...

1998-01-16 Thread Martin Schulze
On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 02:23:43PM -0700, Mike Patterson wrote: > > Ok, actually, I lied. Three. The first is: I haven't been getting any traffic > from the list lately.. has something happened? For that reason, I'd appreciate > a cc of any responses... You're not subscribed anymore. I've put on

2 questions...

1998-01-16 Thread Mike Patterson
Ok, actually, I lied. Three. The first is: I haven't been getting any traffic from the list lately.. has something happened? For that reason, I'd appreciate a cc of any responses... First real question: I want to mount a directory on another system. How do I do this? I thought it would be in the

Re: Re[2]: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
Following up my verbose message ... One place you can find all the RFCs in a browsable format is http://rfc.fh-koeln.de/doc/rfc/html/rfc.html I find using the browser a bit easier than ftping the RFCs from internic or wherever ... : On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Sen Nagata wrote: : : : about private ip

Re: Re[2]: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Sen Nagata wrote: : about private ip address spaces: : : Address Allocation for Private Internets is rfc 1597 : http://www.internic.net/rfc/rfc1597.txt : : people may want to have a look at: : : http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/rfc1597.html : : which also talks about

Re[2]: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Sen Nagata
about private ip address spaces: Address Allocation for Private Internets is rfc 1597 http://www.internic.net/rfc/rfc1597.txt people may want to have a look at: http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/rfc1597.html which also talks about: Network 10 Considered Harmful (Some Practices Shouldn'

Re: 2 questions.....

1996-09-21 Thread Yves Arrouye
Second is a question with Ghostscript, I use gs to print postscript files on my deskjet. Now I use a function in my .bashrc to invoke it. The only problem is that when it is done printing I get the GS> prompt and have to type "quit" to finish printing and eject the paper. Is there a

Re: 2 questions.....

1996-09-20 Thread Gilbert Ramirez Jr.
> Second is a question with Ghostscript, I use gs to print postscript files on > my deskjet. Now I use a function in my .bashrc to invoke it. The only > problem is that when it is done printing I get the GS> prompt and have to > type "quit" to finish printing and eject the paper. Is there a way

Re: 2 questions.....

1996-09-20 Thread Paul Christenson
Andy Tarkinson wrote: > Second is a question with Ghostscript, I use gs to print postscript > files on my deskjet. Now I use a function in my .bashrc to invoke it. > The only problem is that when it is done printing I get the GS> prompt > and have to type "quit" to finish printing and eject the p

Re: 2 questions.....

1996-09-20 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Andy Tarkinson wrote: > First is a problem with dircolors. I had it working fine (I think) with > "stable" then I upgraded to "unstable" where the color-ls package becomes > obsolete. In profile I have a few aliases setting up ls, dir, etc using > color. Also I have "ev

Re: 2 questions.....

1996-09-20 Thread Brian C. White
> Second is a question with Ghostscript, I use gs to print postscript files on > my deskjet. Now I use a function in my .bashrc to invoke it. The only > problem is that when it is done printing I get the GS> prompt and have to > type "quit" to finish printing and eject the paper. Is there a way

2 questions.....

1996-09-19 Thread Andy Tarkinson
Hi all, I am a new Debian user and I think it is great, although it will take a little (not much) to get used to it after using Slackware for over a year. I have 2 questions one more specific to Debian than the other. First is a problem with dircolors. I had it working fine (I think) with

socks and maple on debian/2.0.x (2 questions)

1996-09-02 Thread Allen Moy
I am in the process of switching from "ancient" a.out/Linux 1.2.13 to debian/Linux 2.0.x Two questions (1) I have been using (under license through the university) maple on Linux. maple/xmaple for Linux has been running fine on my old a.out/Linux 1.2.13 distribution.