Re: NIS

1999-11-02 Thread sharkey
> Is there bug in NIS package? It looks like ypbind dies, I've tried to compile > it but it still does not work Works ok for me... Eric

Re: please help test debian frozen

2000-06-20 Thread sharkey
> (3) There was a problem with the mouse setup. I selected a PS/2 mouse > during the installation. However, when the X display manager (WDM in my > case) was started, the mouse wasn't working. I checked, and it seemed > that /dev/mouse was symlinked to sth like "/dev/gpmdata|..". I removed > that s

Re: Burning Potato CD

2000-05-05 Thread sharkey
> Ihave already on my Hard Drive a full Potato distribution under .deb file > form. With pseudo-image-kit-2.0 I would like to burn this distribution but > I didn't succed in finding the .list files for the potato distribution. Is > there anyone somewhere ? rsync "129.13.126.5::debian-cd/potato-i38

Re: nfs re-export issues

2001-04-27 Thread sharkey
> Hey all, I am working on getting a diskless cluster working and > everything seems to be fine except for one thing, but first let > me give you a breakdown of the suspects: > > client - app server - file server > > The client mounts /export/home as /export/home off the app > server, and the app

Re: X screen shifts right !!.

2003-04-01 Thread Eric Sharkey
> Sounds like it's the monitor being too clever for it's own good. > > Some monitors store positional settings per refresh rate. It might be doing > this and getting stuck between modes. > > Try shifting the refresh higher or lower and see if it makes a difference. No, this isn't the case. Mon

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-11 Thread Eric Sharkey
> I have just install the Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (testing/unstable) > on a dual processor machine > --I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 on my laptop a few months ago. > To have a nice login I have installed the `linuxlogo' package: > according to the printed message, only one processor is identified.

Re: I don't want sshd

2002-02-21 Thread Eric Sharkey
> Hi > > On one of my Debian boxes, I need ssh, but no sshd. I especially don't want > to RUN sshd. I achieve this by stopping the daemon and removing all symlinks > to /etc/init.d/ssh in /etc/rc?.d/. However, every time ssh package gets > upgraded, I get those symlinks back and sshd restarted.

Re: Jessie: Weekly or Beta?

2014-10-27 Thread Eric Sharkey
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:24 PM, softwatt wrote: > I am interesting in using Jessie. > The Debian page at https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > presents me with 4 ISO's: Beta 1, Beta 2, Weekly, Daily. > > When it comes to stability, which one is the best? If you're concerned about stab

Re: Jessie: Weekly or Beta?

2014-10-27 Thread Eric Sharkey
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > | If you read only one document before installing, read our Installation > | Howto, a quick walkthrough of the installation process. > http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apa.html > > It mentions four installation methods. That's four diff

Re: Jessie: Weekly or Beta?

2014-10-27 Thread Eric Sharkey
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:25 PM, softwatt wrote: > On 10/27/2014 07:53 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote:> I'd just try the most > current daily build. I expect it to work >> for most cases. > > On 10/27/2014 07:56 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote: >> If you want to try it out, the

Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

2014-11-03 Thread Eric Sharkey
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:30:02 +0100 > Peter Nieman wrote: > >> no one has mentioned autofs in this thread > > No, but I will put it in my list of options for /etc/fstab entry. autofs isn't an option for /etc/fstab, it's a completely separat

Re: Multiple desktops in lightdm?

2014-11-06 Thread Eric Sharkey
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 06 nov 14, 03:58:13, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> I want to be able to log on multiple times, simultaneously, to the same >> machine, with the same physical keyboard and boutse and screen, but with >> different user ids. So that when I'm

Re: Multiple desktops in lightdm?

2014-11-07 Thread Eric Sharkey
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Brian wrote: > On Thu 06 Nov 2014 at 12:49:45 -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Andrei POPESCU >> wrote: >> > >> > A different method to achieve the same thing would be to use Ctrl-Alt-Fx >>

Re: Bash

2014-11-14 Thread Eric Sharkey
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > I want to conditionally output from the bash command. for example > > telnet localhost 25 > 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Postfix > > #! / bin / bash > COMMAND = `telnet localhost 25` > if ["$ COMMAND" == "220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Pos

Re: No sound in Wheezy; Pulse audio through Nvidia graphics card to HDMI

2015-03-23 Thread Eric Sharkey
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:41 AM, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > Just reinstalled debian and are having lots of problems getting the sound to > work through HDMI. I had it working but now it has just stopped. I'm > watching the screen through the same HDMI so I presume hardware is good. What kind of

Re: No sound in Wheezy; Pulse audio through Nvidia graphics card to HDMI

2015-03-24 Thread Eric Sharkey
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:31 PM, James Allsopp wrote: > Sorry, didn't make myself clear, the sound card is an intel hda onboard and > there's a small cable which takes this from the motherboard to the nvidia > graphics card, which then connects to the HDMI cable. [] > > I've installed the nvidia d

Re: No sound in Wheezy; Pulse audio through Nvidia graphics card to HDMI

2015-03-24 Thread Eric Sharkey
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:57 AM, James Allsopp wrote: > How would I go about checking those? On the command line, "alsamixer" will give you an ncurses based mixer panel. If your outputs are muted or have 0% volume, you won't get sound. You can uninstall pulseaudio with: sudo dpkg --remove pul