Newbie administrator

2003-02-26 Thread Phil
I am running the only Debian server in the NYC Dept. of Education. 1. running Samba correctly (is there a way to hide the configuration files in the home directory?) 2. running netatalk correctly (I have 1 OS-X machine that can't logon on but I'm not sure where the problem is there) 3. running N

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-02-26 Thread Phil
At 02:45 PM 2/26/03 -0500, you wrote: On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Phil wrote: > I am running the only Debian server in the NYC Dept. of Education. > 1. running Samba correctly (is there a way to hide the configuration files > in the home directory?) I ended up just deleting those files, as I d

Error msg :VFS: limit exceeded

2003-03-01 Thread Phil
My first Debian machine, running potato, used for experimentation and storing files displayed an error message at the consle logon screen that went something like: Login: VFS: files open exceeded 4096 and then I couldn't login rebooting solved the problem . . .so far. what was tat about? -

man pages for xfree

2003-03-03 Thread Phil
It's been a while since I set up an X configuration. The last time was on a potato machine. There is no XF86Config file in /etc/X11 and when I "startx" I get /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: ursr/bin/X11/X No such file or dir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: exec: ursr/bin/X11/X cannot

Re: man pages for xfree

2003-03-03 Thread Phil
At 08:50 PM 3/3/03 +0100, you wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:26:26PM -0500, Phil wrote: > It's been a while since I set up an X configuration. The last time was on > a potato machine. There is no XF86Config file in /etc/X11 and when I > "startx" I get > /usr/X1

Linux enigma

2003-03-06 Thread Phil
Linux enigma: I recently tried to install SuSE linux on a workstation that does not boot from CDROM. There is a suse utility that writes installation files to a windows HD but alas suse could not install and put on Debian. HOWEVER! the suse installation utility created several directories that

pci video card suggestions?

2003-03-08 Thread Phil
I have an old box I use for a file server and experimenting/testing. it does not have a AGP video card slot, just pci slots. anyone have a suggestion for an inexpensive card linux likes? I'm tired of looking at 640x480 resolution! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

simple (non-technial) software question

2003-02-04 Thread Phil
I'm setting -up linux machines at a school and the teachers are interested in Mavis Beacon teaches typing and Mathblaster type programs. They want programs that are fun for the kids and teach them things at the same time. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

56K modem

1998-06-26 Thread Phil
I have a supra 56i PCI I just upgraded, and notices it not to work under debian. ISAPNP doesn't even pickup on it. I don't think it's windows hardware, but I didn't notices under win95 a PCI modem enumerator isn't this something like the enumerators used for PNP, if so there may be hope... Or may

SSLtelnet

1998-06-26 Thread Phil
ANy notice that SSLtelent will not let me connect to localhost where SSL in.telnetd is running? And after the SSL3 certificate error, my display is messed up(how to I fix this by hand also) Has anyone used this with success between two machines. I'm going to be administrating a machine, and SSL t

PCI PNP was 56k Modems

1998-06-27 Thread Phil
The PCI modems are fairly new, be on the look out for sound cards too(ISA will eventually disappear from new motherboards thus the PCI versions). I decided to go with this to free up a ISA slot... I only have two, and one is ISA/PCI slot(shares the same case slot)! There is little doubt in my min

netscape-help!!

1998-07-17 Thread Phil
I've recently hit a snag with netscape: I can't get it to download pop mail. Netscape in WIn95 works, and so does fetchmail, but not netsape in linux. I tried a complete reinstall, and even erased my user-specific netscape directories. What could be causing this? User permissions for a

Re: netscape-help!!

1998-07-21 Thread Phil
error is he getting? There could be several reasons. > > On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: > > > Hi... > > > > Bah. Use fetchmail then; it's probably a better idea anyway. (make it a > > cron job or something; then you can download your mail on demand t

getting Sawfish

2002-10-03 Thread Phil
I updated and now have problems with Gnome. It seems I don't have a Gnome compliant window manager. is there an apt-get method to get sawfish? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

strcpy HELP!!!!

1998-04-16 Thread Phil
I'm using libc6 2.0.7pre1-4 and strcpy gives me a segmentation error! I've attached my C test program for inspection(source only). I only do a few things. malloc memory for a variable(forgot a corresponding free) copy a string in this varible, copy this string to another string, print both on the

Home network problem

2005-06-12 Thread Phil
The linux server running file and printer sharing for windows, Apple and linux clients does not get the internet in KDE. I get an IP address and subnet mask info, and RX & TX packet flow when I issue a ifconfig command on eth0 (the only NIC) I can ping all local machines, the DSL router a

Re: Home network problem

2005-06-12 Thread Phil
At 03:40 PM 6/12/2005, Craig Russell wrote: Phil wrote: The linux server running file and printer sharing for windows, Apple and linux clients does not get the internet in KDE. I get an IP address and subnet mask info, and RX & TX packet flow when I issue a ifconfig command on

Broadcom wireless driver

2005-06-22 Thread Phil
I got a brand new Dell laptop with a Broadcom BCM 943056 wireless card. I was told they (broadcom) put out a linux driver for it but then pulled it back. because I can't use it under linux, I'm stuck using windows more than I want to. does anyone know where I can find this driver?? -- To U

NIC driver needed

2005-06-23 Thread Phil
I got a brand new Dell laptop with a Broadcom BCM 943056 wireless card. I was told they (broadcom) put out a linux driver for it but then pulled it back. because I can't use it under linux, I'm stuck using windows more than I want to. does anyone know where I can find this driver?? -- To

WinFast 3D L2300

2000-01-13 Thread Phil
I got a problem to setup x-window with video card "WinFast 3D L2300". Have anyone installed this card? Which clockchip should be choose for it?   Phil

XF86config

2000-01-17 Thread Phil
the XF86config file.   I could see the screen sections for SVGA, MONO, VGA16 and accel X-servers. I couldn't see the screen section for my X-server : XF86_3Dlabs   What's the problem with it? or How to do the purpose I wanted?   Phil  

[Potato] IRQ/DMA/IO config with ISA PnP card (Was: Re: Soundblaster 16)

2001-08-22 Thread Phil
) : Aug 22 13:34:46 ile kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error ? could somebody explain us how to configure (editing the files) IRQ/DMA/... ? > From: Steven Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Soundblaster 16 > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 04:07:47 -0700 > Another posibility you could try is installing the sndconfig package. > I know it available in sid (unstable) but I don't know if it's packaged > for stable. not in Potato :( PS: I don't have M$/Windo$e ! -- Phil (in digest mode)

[Potato] IRQ/DMA/IO config with ISA PnP card (Was: Re: Sound cards & Linux?)

2001-08-22 Thread Phil
ter protocol it's compatible with. Could somebody help me out > > with this? Thanks a bunch. :-) see : Subject: [Potato] IRQ/DMA/IO config with ISA PnP card (Was: Re: Soundblaster 16) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 19:37:11 +0200 any links/docs ? -- Phil

e100 NIC module problems

2004-03-29 Thread Phil
I got a new Dell poweredge 400SC that comes with an embedded NIC. Lspci refers to the ethernet controller as an "Unknown device e100 (rev 02)" I tried using eepro and eepro100 modules but they wouldn't work. Both returning error messages saying " Hint: you are trying to install a module with

ppp problems

2004-04-01 Thread Phil
I'm trying to set up a home server (as practice) and having trouble with finding module for a dell e100 imbedded NIC. It seems that one exists on the debian site but the NIC doesn't work so I can't logon. So, I dug out a serial modem and plugged it in and got it to log into my ISP . . .

RPMs on debian

2004-04-01 Thread Phil
Is there a way to install RPMs on Debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Modules from other dist's ??

2004-04-02 Thread Phil
I couldn't get my NIC to work because the module didn't exist in except on the internet. (can't logon). I found the module I need (e1000.o) when I put SuSE the machine. Can I copy the e1000.o file into the /lib//net/ directory when I put Debian back on and use it?? or are these things

testing PPP connection

2004-04-14 Thread Phil
I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to send the the data necessary to logon but browsers don't work in KDE or Gnome. How can I test this

Re: testing PPP connection

2004-04-14 Thread Phil
At 01:21 PM 4/14/04 -0600, you wrote: Incoming from Phil: > I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression > messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be > functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to send the the data

Re: testing PPP connection

2004-04-14 Thread Phil
At 01:21 PM 4/14/04 -0600, you wrote: Incoming from Phil: > I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression > messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be > functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to send the the data

Troubleshooting NIS

2006-06-24 Thread Phil
I'm trying to setup some servers at school.  I'm using NIS because I've use it before an it was easy.   ypserv and ypbind come up as running on their respective machines, but the client machine - at first seemed to authenticate and then give "can';t write to /home folder" messages and now seems

Re: Troubleshooting NIS

2006-06-25 Thread Phil
On Saturday 24 June 2006 22:38, Gerard Sharpe wrote: > Phil wrote: > > I'm trying to setup some servers at school. I'm using NIS because I've > > use it before an it was easy. > > > > ypserv and ypbind come up as running on their respective machines, bu

Re: [Gimp-user] Next gotcha

2016-07-24 Thread phil
l the damage done in trying to deal with that > cabal. > > Ah, but I'd prefer to write a new kernel from scratch and get rid of a > whole lot of cruft. Linus has done well, and the bazaar has worked > well, but the committee effects take their toll. Systemd was just the > worst

StarOffice for potato

2002-03-29 Thread Phil
I have old x86 machines (I work at a public school) and managed to get Debian 2.1 running but I'm having trouble getting software. mozilla,and staroffice are not installing because of glibc conflicts. wher can I find old packages that will install on 2.1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Modeline Calculator

2002-04-01 Thread Phil
I need to calculate valid modelines for a configuration. Does anyone know where in the world (or on the web) that modeline calculator is??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

disable xdm

2002-04-01 Thread Phil
how can I disable xdm and boot into terminal mode. I prefer to use startx. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

get XFree on one screen

2002-05-24 Thread Phil
I have Debian on an antique machine and have Xfree86 and gnome running. However the only device I could get to run was the VGA16 and it seems to recognize the 640x480 modeline configuration but repors thatit is running in virtual 800x600 mode.In the mode the screen does not fit on the monitor

Software installation question

2002-06-03 Thread Phil
Software installation question I finally got Debian with X running on an old Compaq box. I got a copy of StarOffice (5.2) as a downloaded file and installed it by running the very large file named: "so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin..bin" I was thrilled that I got my first piece of software installe

Software installation

2002-06-03 Thread Phil
OK let me re-phrase my question! How can I turn a bin package into a Debian package so that apt-get install to run it ?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Configuring a NIC

2002-06-15 Thread Phil
I installed Debian and never got the network card recognized. I've been looking over past NIC configuration inquiries on this forum as well as at DebianHELP.org. Most of the solutions seem to involve finding drivers, making modules and compiling a new kernel. unfortunately downloading driver

Re: Configuring a NIC

2002-06-15 Thread Phil
At 01:09 PM 6/15/02 -0700, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Saturday 15 June 2002 12:53 pm, Phil wrote: > I installed Debian and never got the network card recognized.  I've been > looking over past NIC configuration inquiries on this forum as well as at > DebianHELP

Re: OFF TOPIC How can I help a friend remove coPilot?

2024-11-09 Thread Phil
And if anyone thinks for one millisecond that it actually removes it . . . . On 9/11/24 18:55, George at Clug wrote: If anyone remembers the original question... Today I checked our Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers and in Settings, Apps, Apps & Features, I was able to select "Copilot" an

X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Phil Newcombe
uld find - X -reconfigure, dpkg reconfigure X (?), xf86congigure, etc. and it always comes out the same. And this exact same computer has worked fine for at least a year on unstable! Well anyway, thanks in advance for any help anyone might be willing to offer. Phil N -- Phil Newcom

Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Phil Newcombe
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:17:22AM -0800, Phil Newcombe wrote: I can't seem to change color depths either. No matter what I do - use -bpp on the command line or change the color depth line in XF86Config-4 manually - nothing changes. And when I click on xse

Re: Dummy

2003-03-02 Thread Phil Reynolds
x27;ll have a look. alien is in the distribution. I used it twice, IIRC, to install some things that weren't available as .deb. I later removed one, and upgraded the other, which had become available as a .deb, but that particular machine still thinks I installed it with alien. -- Ph

How can I handle this situation?

2003-03-06 Thread Phil Sager
s table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. I guess what I need is an answer to that last question Linux is asking. Thanks in advance...I appreciate any and all help... Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: How can I handle this situation?

2003-03-07 Thread Phil Sager
Right on Christian, thank you very much... -Original Message- From: Christian Schoenebeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How can I handle this situation? On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:43:34 -0600 "Phil Sager" <[EM

spamassassin and exim in woody

2003-03-19 Thread Phil Reynolds
My mail system runs exim and I am wanting to integrate spamassassin into it too. I am not sure of the best way to do this, and would appreciate some assistance with the configuration. I am using the versions of both packages contained in woody. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o

Re: NTFS support

2003-03-19 Thread Phil Reynolds
d to turn on "include experimental options" to access that. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Mapping eth0 two ways

2003-01-21 Thread Phil Reynolds
ravel with my laptop, which now seems probable. Can anyone offer me some guidance? -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Burning a CD without ide-scsi

2003-01-21 Thread Phil Reynolds
e you having problems with it or just looking for a change? -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mapping eth0 two ways

2003-01-21 Thread Phil Reynolds
mething. Unfortunately, there seems to be little if any documentation for this on how to get it to achieve what I need. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 msg25388/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: give me the command line

2003-02-03 Thread Phil Reynolds
that without reinstallation? If this is before you log in, remove the link "S99kdm" from /etc/rc2.d, assuming 2 is your normal runlevel. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley

Re: cdrecord: What does "BURN-Free is OFF" mean?

2003-02-04 Thread Phil Reynolds
they also have a writer. An ATAPI CD writer will function as a read-only drive if you let the ide-cd driver loose on it. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 67, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows

nfs setup question

2003-02-11 Thread Phil Beder
I've setup nfs a couple of times with potato, but to check if nfs is running, I would issue a rpcinfo -p and usually get 2 or 3 lines from protmapper and status.d (or something like that) if nfs is not running, and if nfs is running the rpcinfo -p commandf would return about 15 lines includin

NFS setup problem

2003-02-11 Thread Phil Beder
when I check to status of nfs on the server I';m trying to setup, the rpcinfo -p "servername" command returns rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper RPC: rompte system error - connection refused the lsmod command shows nfsd, nfs and lockd. what did I do wrong? what am I overlooking. -- To UN

Re: NFS setup problem

2003-02-11 Thread Phil Beder
On 11 Feb 2003 08:56:06 -0700 "Andreas J. Guelzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 07:51, Phil Beder wrote: > > when I check to status of nfs on the server I';m trying > to > > setup, the rpcinfo -p "servername" command re

NFS problem

2003-02-11 Thread Phil Beder
> > when I check to status of nfs on the server I';m trying > to > > setup, the rpcinfo -p command returns > > > > rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper RPC: remote system > error > > - connection refused > > > > the lsmod command shows nfsd, nfs and lockd. what did > I do > > wrong? what a

Disabling USB devices?

2003-09-27 Thread Phil Edwards
ent of the machine, the devices in question, the other gear in the room, and the pesky walls holding up the roof make the plugging/unplugging a hassle, not to mention dangerous to the other gear (think stray elbows). Is there a "power this USB device down and ignore it" command? Phil --

Java (JRE) support package for mozilla?

2002-10-08 Thread Phil Edwards
Hello. For earlier versions of Netscape, there was a netscape-java-477 package, which provided the Java runtime for the browser. Is there such a package available for Mozilla 1.1? I've been scanning through lists of packages but haven't found anything. Thanks for your time, Phil -

rage128 and dri (?)

2002-10-21 Thread Phil Reardon
the need for version 2.2 of r128.o seems clear. How can I get that at least? Thanks in advance, Phil Reardon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

booting to console

2002-10-21 Thread Phil Reardon
How can I boot to the console? I am stuck in a loop at the graphical login screen due to a faulty XF86Config file (I think!) Phil Reardon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mozilla icon in titlebar

2002-11-11 Thread Phil Edwards
ittle distinctive Mozilla icon back? Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Mozilla icon in titlebar

2002-11-14 Thread Phil Edwards
icon, a miniature version of the big one used to start the browser. Since 1.1 it's the same X11 icon as anything else. What do I need to do to restore the mozilla icon for my users? Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing'

Re: Mozilla icon in titlebar

2002-11-15 Thread Phil Edwards
Ah, the techhouse.org icons did it. Thanks on behalf of all my users! :-) Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijk

How to use the libstdc++5-dbg package?

2002-11-28 Thread Phil Edwards
tree won't work, because the files are renamed during build and install. Is there a "source package for use when debugging"? Thanks, Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to mak

sid-sawfish windows borders missing

2002-12-02 Thread Phil Reardon
I just did a dist-upgrade from stable to unstable and all is well except my windows have no borders, so I can't resize or move them at all. How can I do turn on windows borders? Thanks, Phil Reardon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: sid-sawfish windows borders missing

2002-12-03 Thread Phil Reardon
Thanks for your help. When I typed sawfish at the prompt, I got the borders and decorations, and also an access error on the session. When I checked, I saw identd was the owner of .sawfish/sessions, so I changed that. Works now. Phil Reardon On Monday 02 December 2002 22:14, Oki DZ wrote

Yes, do as I say!

2002-12-03 Thread Phil Edwards
phrases. Good pick, dpkg authors! You made my day. (Preventing stupid people from trying "/usr/bin/yes | apt-get ...", perhaps?) Phil [*] fileutils is depended on by the kernel source package -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How n

"What satisfies this dependancy?"

2002-12-09 Thread Phil Edwards
e the same, or similar enough.) Thanks, Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: "What satisfies this dependancy?"

2002-12-10 Thread Phil Edwards
I'll go give grep-dctrl a try, then. Thanks for the suggestions! Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra

held back packages

2003-03-25 Thread Phil Reardon
Hello: After a dist-upgrade from Woody to Sid, I find subsequent upgrades are leaving behind lots of packages, abot 350 in fact. Have I done anything wrong or are so may packages being held back for everyone these days. And if so, why? Phil Reardon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: mutt: GPG sign and encrypt

2003-03-29 Thread Phil Reynolds
] --sign --encrypt [filename] > Press any key to continue... > > Has anybody found a fix for this? I just plain installed both mutt and gpg, and to my surprise, it worked straight away without me having to fix anything. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet:

cups and hpijs driver

2002-12-16 Thread Phil Reardon
advance. Phil Reardon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cups and hpijs driver

2002-12-16 Thread Phil Reardon
It turns out there is a debian package called hpijs, so I installed that along with foomatic-bin. But it still did not show up in the driver list. What do I do now? Phil Reardon Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 13:41, Phil Reardon wrote: How do I get the hpijs driver for

Re: Software that can be used with MSN

2003-01-14 Thread Phil Reynolds
what I should apt-get?). I would recommend using gabber, getting a Jabber account and using Jabber's MSN gateways. everybuddy does indeed work but the version in woody is well out of date. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.

The "c102" libraries want to kill KDE. How do I protect them?

2003-01-14 Thread Phil Edwards
em on hold manually. Phil (Yes, I would love to downgrade to testing, but dselect doesn't know what to do when required packages don't exist in "more-stabler" distros.) -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not t

Changeover of SCSI buses

2003-01-18 Thread Phil Reynolds
might these buses have swapped over? If I can refer to the CD writer as /dev/sg1 in cdrecord, this won't matter, but I consider this a strange thing to happen anyway. -- Phil Reynolds (PGP now available) o Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com

wmaker-gnome crashes with netscape mail

1999-06-08 Thread Phil Dyer
Can anybody else confirm? WindowMaker .53 will crash if you have the messenger window open (not minimized) in Netscape 4.6 and get a new email -- dyer

install-device driver problem

1999-06-21 Thread Phil Wu
quantum HD 1.44Mb Floppy Disk 56k Modem IDE ATAPI cdrom 128 Mb Ram 8Mb Leadtek Winfast 3D L2300 vedio card No SCSI device. The other question: How to mount block devices such as floppy disk and cdrom? Where could get infomation about modules (device drivers)? Thanks Phil

Device Driver Problem Again

1999-06-22 Thread Phil Wu
sk 8 Mb Leadtek Winfast 3D L2300 Vedio card 128Mb Ram Atapi IDE CD-ROM Phil Phil

Re: hamm dist sites

1999-06-22 Thread Phil Dyer
Robert Rati wrote: > Are there any ftp sites with the hamm dist still on them? All ther ones > I've found only have slink and potato. Thanks. > > Rob > > http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/ ftp://debian.midco.net/debian

Installation-dselect

1999-06-24 Thread Phil Wu
h, what is the next step to install X window. The other question about mouse. After I installed the standard debian, the nouse wasn't work. How to make it work? Thanks. Phil

Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?

1999-07-25 Thread Phil Dyer
Carl Fink wrote: > Is there a way to try KDE/GNOME on stable that I'm missing? I did > some fairly extensive searches via www.debian.org's package search > engine. I should specify that I want a reasonably new release of > either, not the alpha GNOME in stable. > Doing a search on the archives

Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare

1999-07-31 Thread Phil Dyer
Paul wrote: > > First I was told that I didn`t have "libm.so.5" so the graphical > Installer wouldn`t work, then a load of error messages saying "wp.No > such file or directory" Finally it askes me for an installation > directory so I type in /usr or > /home and it says "invalid directory" an

Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)

1999-07-31 Thread Phil Dyer
Salman Ahmed wrote: > > > (5) Initially, I tried to get the .debs for XFree86-3.3.3.1-2 from the > following site : ftp.netgod.net. Upon instructions from another Debian > user, who has been kind enough to offer email support during my > installation nightmare (Hi Kris!), > I added the following l

dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile often fails

1998-08-24 Thread Phil Nitschke
-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 When I dpkg-deb --extract the files, there is nothing wrong. Why would the --fsys-tarfile option be having problems? Thanks, -- Phil

chatscript permissions

1998-09-04 Thread Phil Dyer
Since I upgraded to hamm, only root is allowed to run pon. /var/log/ppp.log reports that my user logon does'nt have permission to open /etc/chatscripts/provider. --open /etc/chatscripts/provider failed :access denied. All users have read perm. What file is holding it back? thanx, Phil

RE: chatscript permissions (fixed)

1998-09-05 Thread Phil Dyer
back? The users must also have execute permission on /etc/chatscript. This a known bug in the ppp package. -- That's it, just had to give execute to /etc/chatscripts. Thanks. -- Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ "We should

Re: /tmp permissions

1998-09-14 Thread Phil Humpherys
he's not the root user, he won't be able to use up the root-reserved part of the disk (about 6%). But yes, /tmp (where ever it happens to live) is designed to be a scratch area for all users. -- Phil Humpherys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DriverSoft Unix Systems Administrator

Re: 386SX-33 for pop3 server and proxy server

1998-09-14 Thread Phil Humpherys
> I think you need more than 4 MB to install Linux (or FreeBSD). No, 4MB is the minimall installation requirement. -- Phil Humpherys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DriverSoft Unix Systems Administrator Mobile: +1.801.725.3257 WWW/PGPkeys: http://www.spire.com/~humphery

Re: Getting mail from a POP3 server

1998-09-14 Thread Phil Humpherys
I now realize) without any luck. Can > someone point me to a straight forward solution, preferably with > examples of the config files? I don't really care which software I use, > just so long as I can get it to work. I highly recommend fetchmail. -- Phil Humpherys

Re: How to find my IP address

1998-09-20 Thread Phil Humpherys
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, this oughtta be an easy one. How do I determine what IP address > I've been given by my dhcp server? > > Okay, I just figured out one way: ping HOSTNAME. Duh. But is there > another way? /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 -- Phil H

hamm upgrade/c++ libraries

1998-06-29 Thread Phil Dyer
package that I missed? I'm using kernel 2.0.33. Thanks, -- Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it-- and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a

hamm and login question

1998-07-01 Thread Phil Dyer
Just upgraded to hamm, and now when I login I get:Unknown item 'ISSUE_FILE_ENAB'this comes after login prompt and before passwd prompt. /etc/login.defs is set to ISSUE_FILE_ENAB no What's the deeeal with that? thanks, -- Phil Dyer [

boot parameters

1999-02-16 Thread Phil Reardon
Hello: I would like to go to debian from my present redhat 5.1 system. I have an Adaptec 2920 controller and a Seagate ST-34555N disk. Both of these may require some parameters at the boot prompt . My question is, given that I am now using linux, how can I find out what those parameters should b

Re: magic cookie error

1999-02-20 Thread Phil Dyer
Pollywog wrote: > I am getting this MAGIC COOKIE error when I try to run some X stuff as root. > Is there something I can add to my profile in order to avoid it? > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > ktail: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > > tha

Re: configuring modem, installing netscape communicator

1999-02-21 Thread Phil Dyer
Daniel Kahraman wrote: > Hello All: > > How do I install my modem? I think it is already installed. So the > question becomes how do I set up the dial-up configuration (manually) > for my local ISP? > > Dan > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Dan, run pppconf

Re: partitions for sun sparc 10

1999-02-24 Thread Phil Nitschke
sr/local partitions, but you might install some KDE or StarOffice applns, and then these partitions might be a convenient place to put them. -- Phil

fetchmail and ssh

1999-03-12 Thread Phil Nitschke
isible --syslog --daemon 250 --timeout 90 \ --interface "ppp0/150.101.132.131" --silent \ --mda "/usr/bin/procmail -Yf- -d %s" \ --folder "/users/phil/.mail/home-xfer" \ harpo

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