validate xml against xsd

2003-01-25 Thread David Wright
I am looking for a simple command-line utility that allows me to validate a given xml file against a given xsd file. For example: $ validate test.xml test.xsd Error on line 41: element missing For this project, I don't need a programming library that gives me a DOM or SAX view of the file. I j

makefile problem

2003-02-07 Thread David Wright
Can anyone help me out with the a makefile problem? I have a large number of subdirectories filled with simple sample programs. I want to do the following for each subdirectory { cd subdirectory if Makefile exists { make } else { for each .c file { $(CC)

no taskbar in gnome2

2002-10-29 Thread David Wright
I just upgraded to gnome2 in sid, and ran into a problem: there is no gnome taskbar (the thing with applets and a footprint menu). Most annoying this about this is that it's now impossible for a user to log out! (I have to become root and restart gdm.) Surely this can't be the way it was meant

xfstt superfluous?

2003-04-05 Thread David Wright
In an attempt to fix ugly fonts in gtk1.2 apps, I just added /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType to the xfs configuration file /etc/X11/fs/config, and it worked! Does this mean that xfs can serve both PS and TT, making xfstt completely unnecessary? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Unknown processes.

1999-06-04 Thread David Wright
27;m really in my lunch break.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: SV: SV: A little further: Short newbie question

1999-06-09 Thread David Wright
you a list of dselect's first default choice of package's: the one it uses if you skip the "package selection" step. Then you just type dpkg -i foo.deb bar.deb etc. etc. or you can push the list through dpkg --set-selections Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908

Re: ide-scsi module

1999-06-09 Thread David Wright
by putting ide-scsi into /etc/modules on its own line. This will insmod it during boot up. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only fo

Re: Connecting to the Net

1999-06-10 Thread David Wright
ppropriate dialout (alternate) device. --8< So the best advice for debian-user is probably /not/ to make a /dev/modem link. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA D

Re: Auto Shut-off

1999-06-11 Thread David Wright
ns. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Sound-HOWTO docs wrong; what next?

1999-06-16 Thread David Wright
rn from the experience. If you compile a bunch of guesses as modules, erring on the side of compiling too much, then you can just play about with insmod/rmmod (remember the latter only needs the basename, like soundcore) and put the settings there. That's one of the big advantages of modules,

Re: PS/2 mouse rolling away

1999-06-16 Thread David Wright
nce? I get this with a MS serial mouse sometimes. I'm not even touching the mouse and the cursor starts to "fall" slowly and jerkily down the screen. I guess even mice get fleas ;-) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wr

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-16 Thread David Wright
27;screen.' Well there's also the concept of an Alternate Screen in xterm. That's why you don't see, for example, the last screenfull of output from less when you quit, but just your interactive commands. less uses the alternate screen, and you can switch back and forth with C

Re: EPSON LX-300 under Linux

1999-06-16 Thread David Wright
DEVICE=eps9high -sOutputFile=\|"cat 1>&3" - 3>&1 1>&2 If you try to get much better quality than that, it gets far too slow (on an LX850). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept.,

Re: custom kernel won't boot

1999-06-17 Thread David Wright
uld be deleted. There *is* a need to rerun lilo, and dpkg -i kernel-image... asks if it may do so. If you refuse, I think it warns you that the system may now be unbootable. (I can't remember, perhaps you also have to refuse to make a boot floppy?) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +

Re: magicfilter for Epson FX-80

1999-06-18 Thread David Wright
-r240x216 -sDEVICE=eps9high -sOutputFile=\|"cat 1>&3" - 3>&1 1>&2 0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r240x216 -sDEVICE=eps9high -sOutputFile=\|"cat 1>&3" - 3>&1 1>&2 If you try to get much better quality than that, i

Re: Disabling the power button

1999-06-18 Thread David Wright
alt and power-down. > > Is this possible? I can't find an option similar to this in the > kernel options. Is it in your CMOS? But can't they just pull the plug? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] D-Link DE-650 - PCMCIA

1999-06-21 Thread David Wright
CTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Alt+ArrowUp (inittab kbrequest)

1999-06-21 Thread David Wright
is this: keycode 110 = Insert altgr control keycode 110 = KeyboardSignal control alt keycode 110 = KeyboardSignal That, in theory, and in practice here, works. Good luck, Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --8< Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44

Re: Alt+ArrowUp (inittab kbrequest)

1999-06-22 Thread David Wright
yourself must have already made equivalent to shutdown). I hope it's all sorted now and you have removed alt keycode 103 = KeyboardSignal Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, E

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] D-Link DE-650 - PCMCIA

1999-06-22 Thread David Wright
t of card manager or card I have - they're all in the source and, AIUI, you make a bundle of modules because you don't know a priori what make of card somebody else might want to push into the slot. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snai

Re: Alt+ArrowUp (inittab kbrequest)

1999-06-22 Thread David Wright
ardSignal to init, so hopefully > you've got the line > alt keycode 103 = KeyboardSignal > in /etc/kbd/default.map.gz > If you remove that it should fix it. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, E

Re: APT: how to dwnld already debs...

1999-06-22 Thread David Wright
ch of debs. You might not like this method... Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: changing default umask on useradd

1999-06-26 Thread David Wright
If you create the directory first, the skeleton files won't be copied because adduser assumes the home directory is not to be mucked about with. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, Engl

Re: Installing with LS-120 Drives

1999-06-28 Thread David Wright
g more useful if you choose an appropriate size. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread David Wright
v kernel-imageto see what it's set to and rdev kernel-image /dev/hda2to set it. This saves having to tell it where root is every time you boot it. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keyn

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello again > > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > > > > > > Is th

Re: new hard drive install

1999-07-01 Thread David Wright
ou use a different program, in which case what does it say and does it agree with the above? Or did you use the same program in which case it's a bit worrying that a program can write a partition table which it itself can't then read. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 73

Re: new hard drive install

1999-07-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > > > Yes. When you copy a kernel (e.g. I copy /boot/vmlinuz to > > c:\loadlin\zimage for loadlin to boot from dos) you need to rdev it. ^^^ > > Typerdev ker

Re: Help identify motherboard (486)

1999-07-01 Thread David Wright
l Bogomips: 486DX 33MHz 16 bogomips 486DX2 66MHz 26 bogomips so you ought to get more than that if it's on, and a lot less if off. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, M

ARP difficulties with 2.2.x kernels and slink

1999-07-01 Thread David Wright
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Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-07-02 Thread David Wright
gt; > I only have the base system installed. It's Debian 2.1 (Slink). > > I also tried wvdial. Not installed either. > > > > I'm eager to get Debian going. Please help. > > Thanks a million in advance. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 190

Re: Where is klogd instructed to dump the ring buffer into syslog?

1999-07-05 Thread David Wright
ne-shot (-o) emptying of the buffer to an explicitly named file (-f filename) for some purpose. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for

Re: Module problems!

1999-07-05 Thread David Wright
you have to untar the tree yourself, you have to make sure that link is correct (or use the full name -I/usr/local/src/kernel-source-2.2.10/include instead). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton

Re: Installation package batches

1999-07-13 Thread David Wright
tion, Dialup etc). Thanks. I think the file you need is in the boot-floppies package: /usr/src/boot-floppies/scripts/basedisks/master2files/master Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, Engl

Re: Wierd subject names in mutt

1999-07-14 Thread David Wright
. You might set ascii_chars in .muttrc while you sort out your character sets. This will make mutt use - | etc. from low ascii. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaim

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-16 Thread David Wright
t; you have to press . If you unintentionally press it twice (eg the keyboard double-strikes, or a slow 386 makes you think you might not have tapped the key hard enough) dselect goes straight into "Install" whereas you might want "Remove" or, even worse, to repeat "Select&q

Re: Trouble with new user

1999-07-19 Thread David Wright
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Re: Adding users - two quick questions

1999-07-19 Thread David Wright
is useless because you can prevent commands appearing if there's an initial space by setting HISTCONTROL (man bash). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These a

Re: Questions after recompiling kernel

1999-07-19 Thread David Wright
ut what is supposed to be there and what isn't? It's /etc/modules which needs emptying. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Adding users - two quick questions

1999-07-19 Thread David Wright
/etc/issue or whatever (like stating that you're recording a telephone call). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Questions after recompiling kernel

1999-07-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Stuart Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > David Wright wrote: > > > > Quoting Stuart Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I just compiled kernel 2.2.10 on my potato machine. This is the first > > > time I've ever compiled a kernel, so these questions are

Re: ARP difficulties with 2.2.x kernels and slink

1999-07-20 Thread David Wright
p contains 888.888.92.28 0x1 0xc 00:00:00:00:00:00 * eth0 In both cases, other machines show ? (888.888.92.28) at on eth0 So it appears that publishing the ARP entry kills the hardware address which negates the whole point of publishing it anyway. Quoting David Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...]

Re: Questions after recompiling kernel

1999-07-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, David Wright wrote: > > > There were two. You didn't leave one there, did you? > > Recently, i noticed a file "setup-localhost" showed up in /etc/init.d (and > properly symlinked) that tries to

Re: 3Com 509B Ethernet card working in Windows but not in Linux

1999-07-22 Thread David Wright
d/wire plays up (as has happened to me). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Vie

Re: My terminal is in a weird state - SOLVED

1999-07-22 Thread David Wright
n startx & so that you can recall the setfont command whenever you need it. 3. Define a single character alias, like F, to issue the setfont. 4. Learn to read the character mapping (if it's as consistent as mine). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +

Re: [Fwd: Lynx Problems]

1999-07-22 Thread David Wright
ant to pursue using linx on > linux, i can direct you to a group of blind linux users. It's hard to resist making the obvious cheap wisecrack! Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: mc: How to terminate an FTP connection ?

1999-07-23 Thread David Wright
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Re: 3Com 509B Ethernet card problem part 2

1999-07-26 Thread David Wright
oot time and keep it there (no autoclean). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official sta

Re: bad login tracking

1999-07-29 Thread David Wright
n some file ? Again, what's the point. Do you ask chadi if they remember making such a mistake? What might be more reassuring is to check that bad logins are immediately followed by a good one. Everyone makes typos. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1

Re: Potato

1999-07-29 Thread David Wright
s that potato *isn't* a release (yet). So how stable (lay sense) it is depends on the moment you chose to download it, and the wisdom and luck with which you applied any upgrades. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Sci

Re: using AUI port of 3c529 (MCA) network card

1999-07-30 Thread David Wright
is going to use through the id. > Thanks for any advice or information on this setup and my difficulties. The best advice is probably still to set the card up with its own (dos) utility for a fixed transceiver. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: dselect woes

1999-07-30 Thread David Wright
> > PPS: Don't know if this is anything but ppp.log had this message: > > Cannot > > determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Just an informational message, no worry. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright

Re: help with socket programming[OFF TOPIC]

1999-07-30 Thread David Wright
me, there exist: p-n=cc-n .. c2-n c1-n and they're all unique except the first pair. n is the same in all cases, but they're in different processes, and so distinguishable. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: kernel read/write

1999-07-30 Thread David Wright
ERIFY_... checking for you (assuming you're doing single value read/writes). > WBTE > (Wet Behind The Ears) ditto. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Discla

Re: kernel read/write

1999-08-02 Thread David Wright
prised if you were trying to add ioctls to control it. > Any ideas? And to repeat what I said before, it's definitely worth seeing if you can move on to 2.2 kernels (and Rubini's chapter 17) because many of the macros and functions have been made cleverer. Cheers, -- Email: [EM

Re: wmcdplay and tray-locking

1999-08-02 Thread David Wright
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Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
eed the ./* in case you have files called -d etc. which would generate undesirable option switches. I would also assume that rm -i ./*4~ could speed things up. Where the file name at least starts with printable characters, recognition () can also help as it automatically inserts the necessary backs

Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
!) for a clearer explanation than I could give. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Magicfilter and printing (Epson stylus 400)

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
s on lp in /etc/printcap. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Insmod ppa errors

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
mod lp insmod ppa to see if that works. More recent kernels with parport can handle a printer connected through the zip drive like dos can. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread David Wright
us a non-root recursive snapshot of /proc/[a-z]* for perusal. /home is split by user as there are so few. The very idea of all one's system software in a set of homogeneous .deb files is probably foreign to most unix administrators. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653

Re: most: cannot display *.gz files

1999-08-05 Thread David Wright
zless doesn't support. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Magicfilter and printing (Epson stylus 400)

1999-08-05 Thread David Wright
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Re: ppp fails "LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests"

1999-08-05 Thread David Wright
ing the chatscript by hand yourself using minicom? (PPP looks like garbage full of braces {{{.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for re

Re: starting ppp on host end

1998-08-12 Thread David Wright
the "nonsense characters" contain plenitudinous {{{ characters, LCP stuff is what you're seeing. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: nasty...

1998-08-12 Thread David Wright
you look at the output from ls -l /dev/sda16 /dev/sdb brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 16 May 28 1997 /dev/sda16 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 16 May 28 1997 /dev/sdb Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Ea

Re: nasty...

1998-08-12 Thread David Wright
. And base-files *didn't* have device files in base-files.list, probably for that very reason, that purging it would remove them! No /dev files now (bo) appear in *list. I think that answers all the points raised, except perhaps to say that it isn't in the spirit of unix/linux to prevent you

RE: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-14 Thread David Wright
rambled console. > > 1. Try typing "reset" > > 2. Try typing "clear" > > 3. Try running "top" This always seems to work. don't know why but it > > does. > > > Try vo -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax:

Re: X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect

1998-08-26 Thread David Wright
antage that you can study .startx.stderr at your leisure. Typically the real error message precedes the 111 error in that file, and sod's law dictates that the former will have scrolled off the screen. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: wfwg 3.11 trashed my partition table

1998-08-26 Thread David Wright
r 4. You should be able to recreate this effect with fdisk, though not with cfdisk. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: PPP via Minicom

1998-08-28 Thread David Wright
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Re: Disabling virtual desktops in X

1998-08-28 Thread David Wright
ind. (There's a package to allow one to cut and paste between different server instances.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: which log to diagnose crash

1998-08-28 Thread David Wright
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Re: Disabling virtual desktops in X

1998-09-01 Thread David Wright
re can I get it to have a try? The package is propsel. (I searched Packages for 'paste'.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses

Re: Linux console bug(s) (?)

1998-09-01 Thread David Wright
e, and have assumed it's to do with computing where the previous page should start in a file with enormous line lengths. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer:

Re: Installing and configuring Emacs20

1998-09-01 Thread David Wright
at, look at any packages that fiddle with lisp or emacs directories, e.g. /etc/emacs20/... Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching

Re: kernel package

1998-09-01 Thread David Wright
automate writing /etc/modules. Only you know whether you want to run kerneld (auto), whether certain modules should always be loaded (3c509, sound), attempted (ppa) or loaded on demand (lp). (Some of my choices.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snai

Re: Gateway monitors and X

1998-09-11 Thread David Wright
ot;EV700" #Monitor "ENVY 17ES" Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" # Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection #

Re: Install can't make boot disk

1998-09-11 Thread David Wright
disk, you can copy the kernel to there from /boot, rdev it, and then copy it onto a duplicate rescue disk in DOS. Then you need to build your own kernel with LS120 support. OTOH if that's not the problem, sorry... Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 19

Re: Getting startx to run

1998-09-14 Thread David Wright
the default "no" in the latter case if the reason you're installing another xserver is because your first selection was wrong. (Or if you were to select several xservers at the same time because you weren't sure which you needed.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44

Re: Gateway monitors and X

1998-09-16 Thread David Wright
s erred on the conservative side, Brian.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-10-01 Thread David Wright
infozip zip, not iomega zip, of course.) The great advantage is that you can view or unzip any file on anybody's PC, particularly if you make sure there's a copy of unzip512.exe on every disk. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail

Re: list of kernel error codes

1998-05-13 Thread David Wright
error code (here 2) increases by one after each out_p() call. The "kernel" error code (here #define EBUSY 16 /* Device or resource busy */) just muddies things. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Mil

Re: X crashes when switched from console w/ mouse event

1998-05-13 Thread David Wright
to the console less. Other > than that, maybe submit a bug to the xfree86 and X Consortium people and > cross your fingers. Have you tried running the mouse with gpm, using -R, and then setting XF86Config to get its mouse data from /dev/gpmdata in MouseSystems protocol? Cheers, -- Email:

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread David Wright
;t find a reference to findsuper in /usr/doc/e2fsprogs. > > However, findsuper produces a list of superblocks. It > works whether the file system is mounted or not. I've found dumpe2fs more useful (in the same package). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax

Re: Installing Debian from WindowsNT Pt. 2

1998-05-15 Thread David Wright
ted automatically by not specifying noauto. It's windoze which needs constantly rebooting and even reinstalling. Hope this helps, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer

Re: dselect removed everything

1998-05-15 Thread David Wright
ess most of us have virtually forgotten all that stuff as we upgraded so long ago. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching m

Re: URGENT how to change your domain name

1998-05-15 Thread David Wright
ain. If the IP number changes too, then there are a few extra places like /etc/init.d/network, but you can use rgrep to find them too. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6

Re: Boot problem after installation (and a cfdisk query)

1998-05-27 Thread David Wright
) 1020 4690980 2290.52 /dev/sdb 74heads 62sectors 1022cylinders cyl sectors MB 1022 4688936 2289.52 Why did it do that? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail:

Re: ipforward'ing on in kernel?

1998-05-29 Thread David Wright
y're not used. ppp is not built into bo installation kernels, but I guess it might be in more recent ones as I think that's now a supported method of installation. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dep

Re: pppd disconnects after authenticating

1998-06-05 Thread David Wright
d [LCP TermReq id=0x3] Mar 26 19:10:46 sparky pppd[524]: LCP terminated at peer's request Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for re

Re: Checking Ports? (fwd)

1998-06-08 Thread David Wright
free port, and likewise the clients will have to play chase the server. Meanwhile I don't worry. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are

Re: A debian-user question.

1998-06-10 Thread David Wright
tions. Since I'm not at > all a X-programmer I would like something a bit more high-level. Couldn't disagree with another's mention of gnuplot. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Mil

Re: Multiple IP numbers, one for each Subnet

1998-06-10 Thread David Wright
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Re: 2.0.34

1998-06-10 Thread David Wright
ied. Any other ideas? It's a long shot but what does the rest of what would be your /etc/init.d/network say? I only ask because you've played around with newer kernels which do things differently in this file. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-15 Thread David Wright
know the "correct" permissions for /boot files, but in terms of security, protecting them from disk-group users will be quite ineffective: the disk group has write permission for raw disk devices. The point about who can delete files in a directory is of course covered in the FAQ under

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-19 Thread David Wright
; at this after booting? Simple. Just use shift page up and down. This works at any time, just so long as you don't switch consoles. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > > On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: > > > > > > I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to > > > get > > > the info that scrolls across my

Re: Moving from Ethernet to modem

1998-06-29 Thread David Wright
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Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-29 Thread David Wright
with "Debian 98" :-( No, the great thing about linux booting up is that you can see that it's working. Positive confirmation. You're not left wondering whether a lack of error messages means that it all worked, or that the error reporter itself isn't working. Cheers,

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