:
Type in ls -la and this will show hidden/archive directories in Unix.
Dan
John Leget [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do i get gnome/gtk apps to show me hidden files and dirs ?? ( i
dont
mean gmc )
In most other apps its no problem but gtk/gnome no success thusfar
Try the following
- Default gateway on your pc = wingate pc IP
see /etc/init.d/network and set the gateway ip here
- DNS server = wingate pc IP
add the following line to /etc/resolv
nameserver 192.168.0.1
( change 192.168.0.1 to your wingate ip )
hope that
How do i get gnome/gtk apps to show me hidden files and dirs ?? ( i dont
mean gmc )
In most other apps its no problem but gtk/gnome no success thusfar :(.
Is there some system config
for this. ( havent found it yet ).
cheers
Have you checked out PAVUK, do a search on freshmeat.
cheers
Oki DZ wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to download certain URLs according to a regex. wget has a
spider mode, but this mode doesn't download the documents. What I'd like
to to is to have wget in spider mode, and then download the documents
Does anyone actually have wine working on debian woody.
For a long time now all ive been able to get it to do is just hog the
CPU with a black window. Eterm showing building font metrics, it never
seems to finish this.
Just curious if it actually does work for anyone.
Hi all.
I just installed woody :) on my brother in laws pc , he was keen to poke
around. He had allready got hold of an older mandrake pack but it had
developed some problems. And since
potato is still cooking... ( and i dont have a local copy- i keep a
copy of woody myself though on a HDD in
I came across this on freshmeat a bit back maybe its what your looking
for
http://www.doornekamp.demon.nl/wakeonlan/
cheers
Tom Warfield wrote:
Okay i have a 3COM 905 card with the option of using the WakeUp lan feature.
My motherboard supports it and it is installed. Once the computer is
Does ~./xsession behave differently for startx and xdm ?. because i never
had a problem login in
as user via xdm and if ~./xsession was holding startx up i would have
thought the same would happen in xdm.
Im aware of how to run stuff through ~./xsession ( i think :)
i have
/usr/local/bin/chbg
For a lng time now ive had a problem running startx as normal user
It runs fine as root though.
I log in as normal user, run startx and it will just sit there. ???
Interestingly hitting CTRL c ( usually twice ) seems to kick start it,
so i assume its hanging
on some sub process spawned by
You only need to enable it on the PC thats connected to the internet . (Unless
i you
want multiple levels of firewalls ??)
check out the following site it has a mailing list for ipchains, i joined and
occasionally have a read thru, its slowly starting to make sense to me , must be
absorbing it
Youre missing a package on your system
( Well what do you know im actually learning this stuff )
did a dpkg -S as86
you need to install the bin86 package
cheers
Beavis wrote:
i am trying to compile the kernel 2.2.14 on to my i386 machine
please help if u can, thnakx
update:
after
Ughh, just run an additional command ( after youve installed bin86 re previous
email)
make install
does the work of copying and running lilo at the end.
Id suggest you modify /etc/lilo.conf to also point to a known working kernel
and
have a resue disk and maybe even a boot disk handy.
Ive now had this happen a few time.
Update local mirror
ran dselect ( using apt ) and update
Eterm shows up as newer version
install blah blha
I go back in and eterm is still listed under new updated, i confirm it
wasnt installed by checking the current version on the system. Its
marked for
Ive been using downloader for X at
http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/
Also has clipboard monitoring now.
cheers
Colin Marquardt wrote:
* maths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
is there any good download software (something like net vampire) for linux?
Don't know what net vampire is, but take
Unfortunately the install side of things i have found to be rather rough at the
edges
myself.
Installed debian over a year ago. And dumped the other OS.
Ive been trying to create potato cd's from a copy on my HDD using debian-cd
package.
Finally mamaged to get it to a state where it creates
Webdownloader works reasonable well, though i have the occasional site it fails
with.
And it has clipboard monitoring added recently as well though i find upon start
i
have to add the first link manually before it starts grabbing urls from the clip
board.
http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/
There appears to be a type on line 16 { should be } methinks
cheers
Eric G . Miller wrote:
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 02:57:15PM -0500, Marc Sherman wrote:
I'm running potato, with pppoe to connect to my ISP.
When pppd starts at boot time, I get the following error
message:
Couldn't open
Just locate the files in question on your cd's and install them manually
ie dpkg -i filename
cheers
Michael Zielinski wrote:
The Debian web-site tutorial mentioned using Midnight Commander (mc),
so I thought I would try it out. I do not have it on my system
(version 2.1), so I ran
Oh well learned another thing about ftp :).
I tried commanline ftp and found as follows.
The reason mirror was not fetching files pointed to be symlinks seems to
be a case of the remote server not responding to ls -L by not
unwrapping (???) symlinks ( -L option to ls ).
Bugger !! my local NZ
What can i use to mirror just the basic debian/main contrib non-free
mirror wont fetch files pointed to by symlinks.
have little luck with mirrordir with --follow-symlinks. ???
cheers
Hi.
ive been trying to use gftp and im getting the following error
Warning: Cannot parse listing /bin/ls: can't open cache
'/etc/ld.so.cache'
and of course remote listings fail ??.
but what has /etc/ld.so.cache got to do with this
what does this mean ??.
Will try something else
cheers
Did you check if perhaps its a dangling symlink, happens to me sometimes when i
poke
around with libs :).
cheers
Roy Pluschke wrote:
I am running the latest potatoe updated as of today. I have un-installed
wine but now get the following warning message when running ldconfig
ldconfig:
Why are certain characters mangled when i cut and paste ie from netscape
into gnotepad as follows
dm-moribund][.zip becomes dm-moribund%5D%5B.zip ive noticed this
before just wondering if i need to modify a setting somewhere
Cheers
PS Happy NewYears to all ;0)
Im not 100% sure on this but don't you need an external modem for that feature
to
work ?. You dont mention what type you have, i may be wrong wont be the first
time
and possibly not the last grin
Cheers
luis wrote:
hello
i continue interested in making my box to power-on-ring
i have
Same here ran strace but its gobledegook to me :0). unfortunately, what does
it mean
??.
By the way its SO5.1a that im running, the problem also occures on a HDD im
setting up
for a mate == clean potato install, clean SO5.1a install. ( bugger :( )
cheers
Gerhard Kroder wrote:
Eric G . Miller
it running on potato ?.
PS.PS yes... yes... i know its unstable but it has the files i would
otherwise have to keep up with manually, anyway i still prefer potato to
windows by a long shot ;0)
Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999 07:29:37 + John Leget wrote:
Installed using setup /net
.
[end excerpt]
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, John Leget wrote:
johnjl Just wondering if anyone here is able to run sun's staroffice on the
johnjl current potato.
johnjl
johnjl Its dead for me
johnjl --splash screen
johnjl --desktop appears
johnjl -- unrecoverable error appears
johnjl
johnjl
Just wondering if anyone here is able to run sun's staroffice on the
current potato.
Its dead for me
--splash screen
--desktop appears
-- unrecoverable error appears
Installed using setup /net as root.
Same problem when run as root or user, also tested on virgin potato
install some error.
Try this one works great for me drag and drop the urls
http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/
cheers
Robert J. Alexander wrote:
Is there something like Go!zilla for a Debian Linux system ?
I mean some browser plug/in or similar to take charge of FTP clicks
Thank you. Bob Alexander
--
What should the permissions /etc/ppp be.
I just updated potato recently and i notice they are root/root thus
wmppp failed as it couldnt
access /etc/ppp/peers which is root/dip and im a member of dip.
For the meantime i changed /etc/ppp to /root/dip is this the wrong
thing to do if so why have
.
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 01:40:40PM +1200, John Leget wrote:
Unfortunately it seems the tar file i downloaded is corrupt :(. The sum of
extracted
files is less than the originall tar file bugger
cheers
Paul Harris wrote:
i didn't have a single problem: i just downloaded the tarball
./setup
thats it... its there (in the tarball from mirror.aarnet.edu.au), along
with shitloads of f_..._. files, setup.ins and setup.zip
you didn't just forget to look at the whole dir right? ls | less ?
just try typing the binary name and see if it works...
Paul
On Sun, 23 May 1999, John
Right which came first the chicken or the egg.
Potato: Non-US
libssl09-dev conflicts with ssleay
openssl conflicts with ssleay
libssl09 conflicts with ssleay
ssleay depends on libssl09
how the heck do i get ssleay installed with this kind of dependency ;0)
cheers
revealed the problem
So i saved the loaded XV image over the original ;problem fixed . pat on back
and after a closer look at my desktop i can now see the missing part :0).
Go figure
Anyway guess ill see whats new in wmakerconf now
PS - wmakerconf 2.1 exhibits the same touchyness
John Leget wrote
It gets to 93% - WorkSpaceBack and seg faults
Im running Potato anyone have this working ???.
Using wmaker prefs for now :)
Cheers
Same problem here
I use ALSA sound drivers and just now tried compiled in OSS support same
problem, i
lose all
sound after q3test.
( Have a AWE64 ISA ).
Ran fuser /dev/*temp didnt show any sound devices in use but attempt to
access
/dev/dsp = device or resource busy.
Anyone have a sledge hammer
Greetings all,
Kernel 2.2.7-ac1, potato Asus p2b-ds.
Hmm im beginning to wonder if ive got some hard ware problems here.
Anyway anyone clued up enough
to give me an idea regarding the following errors. I had these a few
weeks ago, now theyre back :).
Also had a lock up just before just
Hmm, interesting i have been experiencing similar performance , potato,
2.2.6-ac2,
56K the bits burn down the line then suddenly fizzle, then pick up then die,
may just
be coincidence ie maybe just my isp acting up.
Im rather trying to sort out another problem :)
Brian Servis wrote:
Ever
Running 2.2.6-ac2, potato , ASUS P2B-DS Dual 450, 128Mb, SCSI Disks ,IDE
CDROM (hda ),ZIP (hdc)
In my continuing crusade to get info from my CDROM for mp3's :), ive
just come across the following
Apr 28 21:33:22 gabriel kernel: DMA memory shortage. Temporarily falling
back on virtual DMA
This
Hi,
Is anyone able to give me some pointers as to where im going wrong here
, i keep getting lots of the following
in the attempt of mp3'ing an audio cdrom to my hard drive
Apr 28 18:58:31 gabriel kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Apr 28 18:58:31 gabriel kernel: hda: DMA disabled
How i set it up is as follows:
Installed smail for SMTP,
( i use runq to force delivery in ip-up.d
and in
a wrapper script for POFF ).
Installed fetchmail to retrieve mail from my ISP and pass it to the above,
( fetchmail is
Apt has recently started asking if it should erase files. EEEeeek. :0) .
What exactly does this do, ie would this delete my local copy of potato
or does it only come into effect for
when used with apt get, i haven't been able to find anything re erase.
And if so how do i prevent it ( yeah i know
Hmm,
I was using rsync recently and found that instead of continuing interupted temp
files
it would each time start a new temp file ( copied from the original ), i ended
up
with 3 temp files larger than the original, now i guess maybe its in the way i
kill
it and it doesnt get to clean up.
Im
)
John Hasler wrote:
John Leget writes:
Hmm no help here then im running 2.2.5-ac3, potato, and i see its up to
version 2.3.7-2.
I installed 2.3.6 from unstable.
I dont think that alone is the problem run-parts ( invoked in both
ip-up and ip-down ) does of itself not exit until all
Hi,
Running kernel 2.2.5-ac3 , potato ( unstable ). poff version 0.9.4
poff myisp refuses to poff - kill my connection, and it reports the
following
/usr/bin/poff i could not find a pppd process for provider 'myisp' .
none stopped
but poff by itself does work.
Now i have checked my processes
hi all,
Im using mirror to keep up with potato , and a few other bits and
pieces.
My PC is set to fire up at night connect and do its thing.
Now I recently happen to notice that mirror actually resumed a file
major suprise here i had never seen it do that before. I had a look at
the code ( eek i
Hi,
ip-down does not stop ip-up.d's run-parts
When ip-up runs it runs the scripts in ip-up.d using run-parts.
This isn't working to well with me as i have several scripts in ip-up
which run in sequence - one after the other.
Thus if my line goes down my ip-down.d kills the current running
script
. Either this is is a different problem or it aint :) been fixed .
Gues ill have to check on that reported bug then ?.
Eitherway im picking up shell scripting ;0) , cant loose grin
cheers
John Hasler wrote:
John Leget writes:
ip-down does not stop ip-up.d's run-parts
Actually, the bug
Dang , id hoped this problem would dissapear, guess not.
Netscape v4.51 ( 4.5 prior) on 2.2.5 , potato, windowmaker
I occasionally find that netscape gets 'testy' and refuses to do
anything about my clicking on links exept mark them as followed, it wont
go anywhere unless i select to open the
Simple solution, we have another phone downstairs ( i camp with the pc and
modem
upstairs).
I bought myself a privacy adapter which is basically a phone splitter wich
disables
textension A if B is in use ( and vice versa), thus i do not get
disconnected
when they pick the phone up downstairs
. It's the way pppd and
ip-up work.
-Michael
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, John Leget wrote:
I ran into similar problems fortunately i had had some trouble with
junkbuster ( one
way of looking at it grin) and remembered seeing the following in the
/etc/init.d
Running potato im coming up against the following with kernel 2.2.4
acct.c: In function `sys_acct':
acct.c:197: too few arguments to function `filp_close'
acct.c:203: too few arguments to function `filp_close'
make[2]: *** [acct.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
hi,
Ive been trying rsync to copy some iso images it seems to work ok except
for one thing.
I find that when i get disconnected and the system reconnects it doesnt
move the temp file it creates during download and it just continues from
the *.iso in my source directory and creates another temp
HI,
I ran into similar problems fortunately i had had some trouble with junkbuster
( one
way of looking at it grin) and remembered seeing the following in the
/etc/init.d/junkbuster
startup script
su nobody -c command
so i tried this
su myself -c proggy to launch
and found it complained
Well the title says all,
Im running 2.2.3 , potato with gnome from
http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/
Anyway i just now thought id have a look at the CD player under
multimedia in the gnome panel menu and the darn thing nearly brings the
house down (im
Hi,
I have a simplistic ( not to efficient possibly) idea,
1) Setup netscape - rename ~/.netscape to say ~/.profile1
2) Setup netscape again rename ~/.netscape to say ~/.profile2
3) create a symlink ~/.netscape to point to the profile you wish to use
create a script to do change active
the kifes edge one's bound to get a few cuts ;0)
Any help/advise appreciated, and yes ill continue to dig thru the mans but
there's so
many other things im also trying to get a handel on :).
Cheers
J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 21:30:02 +1300, John Leget wrote:
[oops]
Im
Thanx,
I do now grin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*- On 20 Mar, John Leget wrote about Re: null pointer KABOOM
Ok,i had a look at oops-*.txt and did a make for ksymoops but unfortunately
this
fails to compile
error as follows:
oops.c:38: bfd.h: No such file or directory
Hi,
Dont give up its worth the effort.
Anyway consider it an Initiation test grin
Check out the following http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/;
slink being the most recently released stable version
Its a big download i think ive got about 1.2GB worth sitting on a spare disk
It may be easier
Hi,
Just hit a wee snag, umm, crash that is :)
Unable to handle kernel pointer dereferencee at virtual address
0070 .
there's about a page more, it also mentions process distributed-net.
Im running kernel 2.2.3 potato, i wrote the entire screen dump down but
what to do with it ??
,
hello all,
Ive come accross a couple of static binaries in my search for windoze
replacements, and since i download the occasional source to apps not in
deb's i was wondering how one makes these.
Now from what i understand they do not depend on lib's on my system as
they are compiled in - thus
Hmmm,
Also running 2.2.3 and potato
having a somewhat similar problem StarOffice has died R.I.P :(.
Anyhow the following error message comes up when i try to run it
"An unrecoverable error has occured, All modified files have been saved
and can probably be recovered at program start"
Yuk reminds
Hi,
depmod -a
check out man depmod
cheers
Mark Wagnon wrote:
I have couple of questions about upgrading my kernel to 2.2.3.
I downloaded the full source and went through all the steps to compile,
but when I rebooted I received an error telling me that modules.dep was
empty. I took a look
Tongue in cheek reply ;0).
It sounds like he's after a means to predict when the modem drops the line.
Anyway if you find one email it to me and ill customise it to show me the
upcoming
lottery results grin
cheers
Sorry about the wasted bandwidth , just couldnt resist.
John Hasler wrote:
thanx for the response though
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
JL == John Leget [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JL I now also get the following error when trying to fire it up again
JL manually etc/init.d/junkbuster start which give me this
JL # shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot
Hi,
Seems to work ok here, runnning potata SMP with kernel 2.2.3 also running the
distributed-net client and top shows full utilisation, i was also using xosview
but
that seems to be broken with my current setup :(
Interestingly some months back when i went SMP top showed 200% for a while :).
Greetings all
Running 2.2.3 and potato
I have suddenly started having problems with junkbuster, it runs from
inet.d or seems to accept it doesnt work, i restored config files from a
recent backup in case i had made i change in one of its config files
causing the problem but no go. I now also
Hmmm, would this sort of set up work for netscape, then i can just set up a
cron to fetch
the mail and have it ready when i get home ;0). To read with netscape say.
cheers
Nicolas PROCHAZKA wrote:
Try procmail, it's very good stuff, and it's independant of your email
client , an example of
Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote:
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote:
Hi Micha Feigin; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Frankie wrote:
Is there a recommended way of installing SO5 under debian?
there doesn't seem to be an install Package for it (like there is
Hi,
(im running potato ) check the file /etc/junkbuster/config
in my setup it has the following as default
listen-address :5865
Did you configure youre netscape proxy settings properly to use the above ??
ive set netscape to use localhost port 5865
gets rid of those pesky adds etc
Also check out the files in /etc/chatscripts/... these are used as well, i just
manually changed the phone no here recently.
cheers
Larry Fletcher wrote:
The first time I tried pppconfig it worked perfectly, but I just tried
to change the phone number and now it won't connect. (The only
hi,
Anyone have any problems with gqmpeg, i have now had several occasions
where it seems to have crashed my xserver - drops to console and than
xdm fires up again so its not just windowmaker ( well i assume :) ).
Ive switched to x11amp, now.
cheers
Hello ,
For some reason at the end of kernel compiles ( running potato and
2.2.1 now ) it complains that it cannot find a lilo signature on my
sda2.
Funy thing is lilo runs fine invoked manually, and sda2 is the boot
partition for it to install ( i use another boot manager for several
Just updated with potato, maybe not such a good idea :).
Anyway seems Midnight Commander has broken, now comes up
mc: error in loading shared libraries
/usr/lib/libgpm.so.1: undefined symbol: stdscr
bugger :(
cheers
Hi,
This may not be what your looking for but ive used it to boot up with
two xservers using xdm.
Check out the file
/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
allows multiple servers at specified bpp, vtXX
of course you will have to use ctrl-alt-Fxx to switch between them, you
can also custimize the
How do i get linux to see win/dos as lower case.
I came across this when i was copying some quake files using SAMBA they
come out in linux as all upper case, first i thought it was samba but i
zipped the files up copied the zip, used MC to have a look in the zip
and all upper case again. ( both
Just updated with debian i386 frozen today andi ran into trouble as
follows
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2:undefined symbol : _register_fram_info
which effectively killed dselect,xfstt (which caused x to bomb :)), and
probably more.
now i traced the symlink to
-
HI all,
Any mirror users out there, how do i force it to download the files that
symlink's on a remote site point to, ive had no success, it just ignores
them.
Thanx
Darn, bitten again by updating with slink ;0)
new version of open open_1.4-9 seems to behave differently ive been
using it to launch doom onto a graphics capable console now it just
comes up in its ussual vt7 saying not running in a graphics
capable-console.
Used to run into this problem before i
hey whats happened to dockit
just tried to use it to add an app to the dock and it tells me no more
dockit :(
just did a search for it and it's sniffsniff gone ;0) ??
Cheers
Eeek,
Just made the mistake of trying a terminal switch whilst running quake2
3.2 beta ( curiousity did indeed kill the cat here grin) anyway
resulted in a total lockup. took of 3dfx loop cable and bypassed monitor
no luck :(.
No response on numlock/caps either so i had to reboot.
When it came
Just updated my system and things came apart around the above with the
following error messages using APT
##Preparing to replace
netstd 3.07-4 (using .../net/netstd_3.07-5.deb) ...
Can't locate DebianNet.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
of the file,
oh well learning as a newby goes :)
thanx again
John Leget wrote:
greetings,
I need to move debian from drive 1 to drive 2 ( just deep sixed NT ;0)
), what are the steps necessary.
Thus far i have done a copy using mc ( skipping proc of course ),
modified lilo, fstab
greetings,
I need to move debian from drive 1 to drive 2 ( just deep sixed NT ;0)
), what are the steps necessary.
Thus far i have done a copy using mc ( skipping proc of course ),
modified lilo, fstab.
boots ok gets to checking the new sdb1 then it proceeds to run from
the old partition sda4, i
Hello all,
For some reason electric eyes (0.3-1) bombs,
im running debian slink. Everything seems ok
until i either try to open
or save anything then the following results.
Gdk-Message:
** ERROR **: sigsegv caught
any ideas.
Thanx
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