Postfix Upgrade Problem

2003-10-29 Thread Richard
ates line. Any help greatly appreciated. No mail system just now and I'm having to use Mozilla mail instread. Thanks Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Upgrade Problem..

2003-11-08 Thread Richard
27;apt-get upgrade' dies altogether thus causing the whole upgrade to die.  Can't install Joe or remove it.  Can't fix it with 'apt-get upgrade -f'.  Any other option I can try to get round this ?   As things are I can use the machine but I can't install or remove

Re: Upgrade Problem..

2003-11-08 Thread Richard
Kent > Richard wrote: > > " Unpacking replacement Joe... > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/joe.potrm: line 3: /usr/bin/update-menus: > > Permission denied > > Can you manually run /usr/bin/update-menus? Yes, that's fine. > Look at line 3 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/jog.

Re: Mouse Problem (solved - partial)

2003-01-24 Thread richard
again for the input, with a working mouse ;) richard

Kernel Compiling Problem

1999-06-22 Thread richard
A problem has recently started compliling custom kerenels. I had to rebuild my machine (long story) and now the custom kernels are't build properly. The line I use to build them is make-kpkg --revision=custom.X.Y kernel_image where X is usually a major change number and Y is a tweak number. eg cu

debian-user split

1999-07-05 Thread richard
I had this thought the other day when I was looking over some archived deban-user stuff. Two thoughts actually. I know that there are an awful lot of questions that crop up time and time again. These aren't directly related to the Debian-FAQ but crop up enough that maybe there should be somethi

why isn't vim building

1999-07-14 Thread richard
I'm trying to build the vim sources to use gvim. I did it a while ago but have since rebuilt my machine. The problem is that I'm happily copying the three vim files to /usr/src/vim and extracting them with dpkg-source -x vim vim_5.0-0.2.dsc, changing the debian/rules file to remove the two no X swi

xfstt and ram

1999-07-24 Thread richard
I added a few M$ truetype fonts and installed xfstt to improve Netscape's look. I wonder if I did it right. gmemusage tells me xfstt is using 4.5 megs of ram. Is this normal?

ttyp0 permissions

1999-07-24 Thread richard
I'm running potato and modemu has developed a problem. I start it with modemu -e "AT%B0=1%B1=1&W" -c "minicom -o -p tty%s" . The tty%s always translates to ttyp0. Recently the permission on ttyp0 has become crw--- 1 root tty3, 0 Jul 23 21:37 /dev/ttyp0 I hit it with chmod go+r

Re: netscape crashing (solution!!)

1999-07-28 Thread richard
Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > this is what you should do if you've been having problems with netscape > crashing a lot and have a glibc2.1 system (crashes for me occurred either > after password authentication or when closing a netscape window): > > * clean off all the netscape/nav

Re: Removing alsalib

1999-07-28 Thread richard
Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried removing alsalib while freeing up some hard drive space (i.e. > removing unused packages) and encontetered the following error: > > Removing alsalib0.3.0 ... > argument missing for `remove' at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 96. > dpkg: error processing alsali

Re: startup info

1998-07-25 Thread Richard
deb yet as I am waiting for my 2.0 cd before changing over) Regards all Richard Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Rati wrote: > > > > Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg > > doesn't show me enough of the info. Tha

Can I use an IDE Wearnes 622 CD-Writer Under Linux??

1999-02-14 Thread Richard
I have been having so much trouble getting CD's to write on my Crapdoze box I am wondering how hard it would be to get it to work on my Linux system. Perhaps there is a FAQ or documentation on how to get my breed of writer working? Can it be done? Richard.

Anyone messed around with Appletalk?

1999-02-14 Thread Richard
Does anyone know anything about Appletalk? We have a Mac user here and I was wondering how hard it would be to setup Debian so he may access resources etc. Is there some documentation on this ? there doesn't seem to be a Howto or anything. Thanks. Richard.

URGENT: Bug in INIT ?

1999-02-23 Thread richard
Sorry for the cross-posting but I need a 'user' answer to this but I thought that it might be of interest to the development group as well. If it's not apologies. I tried to install Debian 2.0 on an old Dell machine at work today, I'm afraid I don't know what type it was; all I can say is that

C question

1999-03-24 Thread richard
I know this is the wrong place to ask, so I've got two questions now. What is a good unix/C newsgroup? I think I'm gonna need some help. Now my real question. I've got a perl script that checks the permissions and creates directories. Now I want to rewrite the script in C. I know nothing abou

web db suggestions please

1999-08-20 Thread richard
Hi all. I'm kinda having a go a developing an intranet at work and I need some opinions from any experts out there. We have a document register that is obviously used register any documents written, written in vb and accessing an Access db. Now I would like to move this to this intranet. At the

Thanks for mail

1998-10-10 Thread richard
Thanks for helping with the old mail probs. I was under hte impression that because I needed fetchmail to collect from a pop3 server then smail using smtp wouldn't send. But then I'm very new to 'real' mail only ever having used Miscrsoft stuff before. Apologies to everyone who mentioned wrapp

modem connection speed

1998-10-25 Thread richard
How can I tell at what speed I am connecting to my ISP under linux? * * "This job's too hard for us" -Andy and Randy Pig *

Quake 2

1998-11-05 Thread richard
I had a go at running Quake 2 this weekend, with limited success I spent ages getting all the libc5 stuff, (glide 2.53, Mesa 3.0 quake2) and I could only run softx in an x window. yeuch. However I noticed that there was also a glibc version of quake2, so after attempting to recompile mesa using gli

search engines in html

1998-11-08 Thread richard
How do I build a seach engine for web pages? Where should I look for information? I want to construct something similar to the microsoft online support search engine. (pet project 1) Any suggestions? * * "This job's too hard for us" -Andy and Randy Pig *

standardising X

1998-11-08 Thread richard
Hallo, This is purely an asthetic question, so all coments are welcome. I'd like to standardise my X Windows, so that they all look and operate the same. I assume this is possible but I don't know where to start. Here's what I'd like. gvim looks very nice, it has a nice scroll-bar on the

x3270

1998-11-18 Thread richard
Hallo all, a while ago someone mention x3270 for connection to IBM mainframes. Well, I finally found it (x3270-3.1.1.6) but I just cannot get the thing to compile. OK, I know I need to learn C, but I could use some help to sort this out. Useful information. OS: Debian 2.0,

buggy xbase or am I doing something wrong?

1998-11-25 Thread richard
Hallo again, I'm not certain if this is a problem on the debian cd's I've got (cheap bytes) or if I'm just doing something incredibly stupid, so maybe someone out there can offer some help. If I do a fresh debian install (I'm trying to stick linux on my machine at work) then for X to wo

xfree86 errors

1998-11-28 Thread richard
Can someone tell me what these errors mean? I figure that they aren't very important but I'd still like to know what they mean. Next, how can I get rid of these messages, not just catting error to /dev/null but actually eliminating the cause. Where do I start, how do I find out where to start?

debian X

1998-11-28 Thread richard
Hallo again, I'm puzzled about the way the debian X distribution works. On my machine at home I put on the distribution from Xfree86.org because I was more familiar with that and I couldn't figure out dselect properly at the time, but on my machine at work I've put the 'proper' Debian X

IPX Networking

1998-11-30 Thread richard
Hallo again. I want to try and get my machine to access the local Windows 95 network and the Novell server. Now I assume that I'm going to need samba to access the shared Win95 drives but that can wait. Firstly I need to get access to the Novell server. I assume that this is going to

X authentication problen

1998-12-01 Thread richard
X is running fine apart from one problem involving the .Xauthentication file. If I login as user bob and startx everything is fine. I happily compiled vim-5.3 for the graphical interface. Now, if I su to root and try to run gvim I get the following error; Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refus

Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support

1997-12-05 Thread richard
Allen Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wrote a e-mail to gateway2000's tech support team asking them if Linux > was compatible with my Promise Ultra 33 here is an EXACT copy of what was > returned: > > Hello Allen, > > Thanks for your message. Unfortunatly, Linus has not been tested on any

Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian

1997-11-25 Thread richard
might be nice to achieve a bigger number than the other guys, it would seem rather pointless to do so by biasing the sample. -- http://staff.elmail.co.uk/~richard/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-26 Thread richard
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone used with/out success a AMD K6 chip under Debian? > > TIA! Yes, and it works fine. -- http://staff.elmail.co.uk/~richard/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EM

Re: Linux, a MicroSoft product? (fwd)

1997-11-28 Thread richard
Pancho Horrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >IS THIS TRUE? No... >Judge Richard Shortner, in an opinion handed down today, ruled that >win this one on appeal" said attorney Lou Zurr. "Well, anyway, I'm

installing a backup drive

2003-11-28 Thread richard
est way to go about this? -- -richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-05 Thread richard
you should use 4 digit dates. Same section as above. It also modifies the syntax of RFC822 to allow this to work l-) -- http://www.elmail.co.uk/~richard/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: mutt + squirrelmail

2004-11-21 Thread richard
lt mutt and/or the bits I cribbed from various sources is disagreeing with exim4. Or doesn't exim4 come into the sending of mail? I get so confused by these components. I have tried setting exim4 (with dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config) as internet server and as using smarthost (my ISP). Both wor

Courier certificate

2004-11-21 Thread richard
e relevant instructions, please? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

clock oddity

2004-11-21 Thread richard
I've been reading man pages of hwclock, xclock, adjtime, and so on, but cannot see how to adjust the time shown on teh icewm clock, which is steadfastly 56 minutes ahead of the hwclock (which is set reasonably correct). Which utility controls this? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Courier certificate

2004-11-21 Thread richard
t attached to example.com as a result of this entry? Any guidance would be appreciated. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: clock oddity SOLVED

2004-11-22 Thread richard
hony. I missed that when reading the man page. It worked, of course. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Courier certificate SOLVED

2004-11-22 Thread richard
useful, and I have successfully generated a new certificate with correct details. It was necessary to delete/move the old one first. Thanks, -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how does mutt send?

2004-11-23 Thread richard
a remote system. Sending mail normally from command line functions correctly AFAICS. TIA -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-23 Thread richard
send it, nothing happened, and nothing showed up in the exim log. Should there be a setting in the /etc/Muttrc or ~/.muttrc that should specify how to send? I grepped for 'exim' in both and found nothing. So I am sending this again from squirrelmail. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-23 Thread richard
mail" which is a local maildir, but it still asks about Sent. Nothing shows in /var/exim4/mainlog, so it isn't getting that far. Err... what next? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IP forwarding configuration

2000-09-04 Thread Richard
that there is no ipchains rules that deny ip forwarding. Check that the default policy for forwarding chain is ACCEPT. Still doesn't work. Did I miss anything? Please, help me. Thanks. Richard.

Gnome mouse icon

2000-09-19 Thread Richard
Hi all, I have installed Gnome over Debian. Everything goes ok, but the mouse icon: there is no mouse icon. Instead, there is a blank square, without any arrow. Any clue? Thanks in advance.

FTP problem

2000-10-26 Thread Richard
Hi guys, I have installed the Debian 2.2, with the ftp service (wu-ftpd) running. The problem is that initiate a connection from any machine takes a lot of time (more than 1 minute). The rest of the services (telnet, www ...) works fine. Does anybody knows why? Thanks. Richard.

Re: Aiii, xfree86redux

1999-12-24 Thread Richard
Same here. Use only the 3.3.5 with the XVGA server. Works great, though sometimes Enlightenment freezes up every now and again, but that's because the V3 support isn't ... awesome ;) Castille At 11:29 AM 12/24/99 -0500, Todd Suess wrote: Just to put my $.02 in, I have my vood

Re: PPP connection

1999-12-24 Thread Richard
Sound like you need to set your DNS servers that it'll use to resolve things. Castille At 10:50 AM 12/24/99 -0800, Jacob Smith wrote: Hey Well I got my modem to connect to my ISP fine now. I accomplished this by commenting out the 'auth' line in the ect/ppp/options file

Re: Detecting IBM 13.5GB IDE HDD---anyone?

1999-12-26 Thread Richard
Actually, yeah. I have the IBM 14.4 GXP drive, and it detects fine. It's on as secondary on my secondary IDE controller, but I don't know if that affects anything. . . I have much the same system, except on an EPOX board with a bios that's only a few months old. . . You might wanna see if there

enlightenment epplets and debian

1999-12-28 Thread Richard
anyone had any luck with these? I can't seem to get them to run right ... Castille

Re: Booting Linux and Win98

2000-01-14 Thread Richard
Coincidentally, I'm doing the same thing, but using boot floppies since LILO doesn't like how big my my new HDD is (/dev/hdd, coincidentally), or where I have the linux partition. Is there any way to work around that? (I would like to use a kernel above 2.0.36, but the boot floppy makers for the

X server can't find mouse

2001-08-23 Thread richard
n with Red Hat and later Mandrake. I did try ln -s /dev/ttys0 /dev/mouse but it still didn't see it. I don't know how to find or configure gpm or even what it is. Everything else seems to behave fine. What's missing? Thanks much Richard

hardware question

2002-02-15 Thread Richard
appreciated. richard

dominate xdm?

2001-09-03 Thread richard
New install and just got X to work. xdm starts twm, which is lame, on VC7 with a login. You can't get out of it on that console. Startx won't work anywhere of cours. I want to use e.g. icewm. How do I reconfigure xdm to default to a different window manager, and/or turn xdm off? I couldn't find th

fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel?

2001-09-11 Thread richard
A still new installation of potato from CDROM. Upon mount /dev/cdrom or mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom I get the subject error message. The line /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,no auto is already in /etc/fstab, put there by the installer. What's wrong? Do I have to reins

CDROM problems with installer 2.2.23

2001-09-17 Thread richard
after some effort X-windows was working somewhat. I then tried to mess with kernel issues to get the CDROM working but I'm not winning. As I reread this, sounds like hdc maybe can't reach the CDROM. I'll check the hardware, but are there any other insights? Richard

exim envelopes

2004-10-26 Thread richard
he mail queue # by using the mailq command or exim -bp. #queue_list_requires_admin = false # The errors_copy line will cause the specified address to receive a copy # of bounces generated on the system. #errors_copy = [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] # end -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

exim envelope problems

2004-10-27 Thread richard
option you are asking exim to lie and not be RFC # compliant. But some people want it. #accept_8bitmime = true # This will cause it to accept mail only from the local interface #local_interfaces = 127.0.0.1 # If this next line is uncommented, any user can see the mail queue # by using t

Re: [debian-knoppix] nvidia and kernel-image-2.6.3-1-k7

2004-03-16 Thread Richard
t.img -o loop=/dev/loop0 you can try it with vmware Your kernel must be little ( not enought space on the boot.img to do a kernel more than 960 Ko ) Good luck richard From france ;) On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 10:27, Enrique Samson Jr. wrote: > Hi. > I'm using kernel-image-2.6.3-1-k7 on

configuring ppp and lan

2006-11-27 Thread richard
lan to be on the same subnet as the Wind modem, though I cannot see why that should be necessary. Any ideas? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: configuring ppp and lan

2006-11-28 Thread richard
ry again. Marty, thanks for all your advice. I can see I have more days' work ahead... But at least in less of a fog. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replacing Gnome with KDE

2006-11-28 Thread richard
s end of line, so you don't have to 'n' your way through hundreds of packages containing the letters 'kde') HTH -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-28 Thread richard
w about daylight saving time (from as long ago as Doze98, IIRC). So the twice a year change shouldn't be needed. > > I haven't run windows since 3.1 so I don't know if you can tell Windows > that the bios is on UTC or not. I don't know this either. For the rare occasio

Re: configuring ppp and lan

2006-11-28 Thread richard
nsense. There must be a way to configure it to avoid this. (And to get leases longer than 40sec from the wireless router, too, I hope -- it filled 2GB of log activity yesterday. But that is another story.) Back to the howtos... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replacing Gnome with KDE

2006-11-28 Thread richard
in about a tenth of the time feels to you. And then you could move on... ...better not start that war again. :-) -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-29 Thread richard
. I've tried other lengths of time too, but always get around 36 seconds. The renewals are filling acres of logs and the resolv.conf gets rewritten every time too. Has anybody else seen this kind of behaviour? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-30 Thread richard
>> This may be a faulty bit of equipment, but equally I could be missing >> something obvious again. I have three boxes attached to a DLink DI524 >> wireless router, two cabled and one wireless. All three get leases of >> between 32 and 40 seconds. David, 'ps -a' doesn't show any instances of dh

Re: configuring ppp and lan

2006-11-30 Thread richard
le to /etc/resolv.conf. The routing table is okay when only one interface is up. A messy hack, but better than nothing. Thanks Marty and thanks too to Bill Marcum. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mepis --> Debian migration

2006-11-30 Thread richard
Mepis admin stuff. Sorry, I don't know which Mepis pkg it was. HTH -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread richard
akes my killer app: ps2pdf -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie need help on upgrading/installing "current weekly snapshot CDs"

2006-11-30 Thread richard
install it separately if not. It will magically appear in the KDE menu system when installed. After a few weeks, you may like to try different window managers, and even uninstall kde, but it is far and away the easiest way in coming from windows. Oh yes, your other two CDs: use them as coasters. They will be out of date soon enough. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-30 Thread richard
> Hi Richard, > > can't exactly help you but I've got a similar problem with a DI-604 wired > 4 port router. > Only it never releases and I've been running the same IP addresses on the > corresponding machines for more than a year although it was set to renew >

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-30 Thread richard
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:14:56PM -0600, W Paul Mills wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > B. Hoffmann wrote: >> Hi Richard, >> >> can't exactly help you but I've got a similar problem with a DI-604 >> wired >> 4 port rou

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-12-04 Thread richard
re set up months or years apart, and from different media. Maybe it is a DLink feature after all... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: restarting eth0

2006-12-20 Thread richard
> Hello all > > Should be just a quickie: how does one restart the ethernet card eth0 in > Etch? I use 'ifdown eth0' followed by 'ifup eth0' I expect there is another way. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?

2006-12-20 Thread richard
rst, I might have to unmute the mixer. Laptops, that's another matter. With them, I don't even waste time trying any more. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-20 Thread richard
ing [...] Hehehe. Thank you, Andrew. Smooth analogy. Actually, I think it should be on the debian site. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

moving /var

2006-12-20 Thread richard
l was well. I might have been more persistent but had a slow (and expensive) i'net connection so it was easier to give up. What should I have done? TIA -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt cache files (*.bin) corruption

2006-12-20 Thread richard
interesting. Aptitude always complains that it cannot get a lock and opens read-only when I try that. I wonder why it didn't for you. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: moving /var

2006-12-20 Thread richard
artition) which was of course trouble-free. Perhaps I shall try again when I get back to that box ( am in the wrong country at the moment). Really, I asked two questions mixed up together. The other is how to run makeinitrd, or anything else such as lilo or grub-install (or whatever the command

Re: moving /var

2006-12-21 Thread richard
ts you off from > > the /dev and /proc filesystems so that none of these commands will run. > > mount proc -t proc /mnt/chroot/proc > > check the debian install manual, there is information on installing > from another unix system and included there is how to install kernels

Re: local partition backup with rsync

2006-12-21 Thread richard
and reran lilo to point to the newly copied partition. You did edit /etc/lilo.conf as well, didn't you... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: moving /var

2006-12-24 Thread richard
gering minor numbers behind etch as a result of the lack of available bandwidth for upgrading. Thanks again to everybody for the insights. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pppoe configuration - unable to ping outside

2006-12-26 Thread richard
ough with ppp0 being a gprs modem). If you close the ethernet connections and then start ppp0, does your ppp0 then connect to the outside? I am not sure it is relevant, but what happens to resolv.conf in each case? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: pppoe configuration - unable to ping outside

2006-12-26 Thread richard
startscripts + config) > > > > computer --> via "normal" ethernet --> router --> pppoe --> isp That is definitely the easiest way, but I for one would like to know how to do it the "difficult" way. The easy road is not always open. -- richard -- T

Re: pppoe configuration - unable to ping outside

2006-12-28 Thread richard
sb -- Eth1 --> router --> home lan '---computer---' (In that setup, I can only activate external or internal networking, but not both at once. The issue is I think my imperfect understanding of routing, particularly how to achieve a different default route

Why and how to blacklist soundcard or networkcard modules?

2007-01-11 Thread Richard
does this happen? ... I am sure not to be the only one who had the switching ethx interfaces but i do not understand why that happened. And what is now wrong with my 'sid box' that it always wants to use the card which is not connected to my audio-amplifier? thanks for your thoughts R

Trying to get Chinese writing in GTK and QT programs

2007-09-17 Thread richard
Hi I already tried many times to get this chinese writing working in GTK programs and QT programs, but most times it is only working in one of them. Now again i seem not to get QT programs understand that i would like a chinese input method and in GTK programs it just works. Does somebody has th

Re: Trying to get Chinese writing in GTK and QT programs

2007-09-17 Thread richard
richard wrote: Hi I already tried many times to get this chinese writing working in GTK programs and QT programs, but most times it is only working in one of them. Now again i seem not to get QT programs understand that i would like a chinese input method and in GTK programs it just works

perl modules

2007-10-01 Thread Richard
Where do I find the perl modules, Net-Telnet,TimeDate and a few others. Are they on a debian repository, or do I have to download from cpan ? apt-get doesn't find anything -- Best Wishes Richard Bown ~~~ Registered Linux User 365161 OS Mandriva 2

Re: perl modules

2007-10-01 Thread Richard
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:29:26 -0400 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:23:51PM +0100, Richard wrote: > > > > Where do I find the perl modules, Net-Telnet,TimeDate and a few > > others. Are they on a debian repository, or do I hav

Re: debian kernel bugs / or is it grub?

2007-10-11 Thread Richard
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:50:54PM +0800, Ben Evenweg wrote: >> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:15:35AM +0800, Richard van der Veen wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> I am not sure how to send a bug report

Re: debian kernel bugs / or is it grub?

2007-10-11 Thread Richard
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I find it hard to understand how ubuntu can boot when debian > can't. I'm willing to be that if you end up reinstalling debian again, > it just works. shrug. > > A Back in Ubuntu again after another unsuccessful install-round with Debian. Tried again, a littl

Re: debian kernel bugs / or is it grub?

2007-10-12 Thread Richard
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 02:03:05PM +0800, Richard wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I find it hard to understand how ubuntu can boot when debian can't. I'm willing to be that if you end up reinstalling debian again, it just works. shrug. A Back

Re: debian kernel bugs / or is it grub?

2007-10-12 Thread Richard
David Brodbeck wrote: On Oct 12, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I ask because all those errors you posted make me still think you've got some hardware problem. BUt I'm no expert by far. Just as an aside, I've had occasional problems with Linux on machines that had IDE hard

Development Enviroment

2007-11-02 Thread Richard
Looking for IDE or RAD development environments application (KDE) for Java, Perl, Lisp. On the Macintosh, we had toolbox which had all the libraries, and objects, to program in several languages. Doesn't (KDE) offer this too ? if so, which application gui would work ? Major Thanks - Ri

Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-03 Thread Richard
d be better than xcode on the mac, which contain all libraries, and syntax for dozen of languages, it just made it easier to type and see a drop down command choice, from the contextual menu. with a built-in debugger..neat. TIA - Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-03 Thread Richard
On Saturday 03 November 2007 5:49:04 pm Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Nov 3, 2007 2:02 PM, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looking to get into programming for linux, > > would like to do: Java, Perl & Lisp > > > > What editors (IDE or RAD) environment appli

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-16 Thread Richard
stet LSI-Logig and Adaptec-Chipsets) Got Kernel-Oooops and even Panics Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mdadm - raid1 - sata - udev - kernel-2.6.16-2-686 - Problems

2007-02-01 Thread Richard
added these to /etc/udev/links.conf M md0 b 9 0 M md1 b 9 1 M md2 b 9 2 M md3 b 9 3 M md4 b 9 4 I am wondering if this is something to do with udev. Any Clues anyone ? Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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