NumLock

2001-04-04 Thread Rob Byrnes
Excuse the uber-newbie question, but how can I adapt the following to the "Debian way"? >Place this in in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local to activate Numlock for the first six terminals: > >echo "Activating Numlock ..." >for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do > /usr/bin/setleds +num < /dev/tty${i} > /dev/null >

New XFree86 debs...my fault

2001-04-04 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
I know the timestamps are screwed up on -13 in unstable. I'll upload new ones hopefully tomorrow to fix this. Sorry about that...guess I shouldn't have rebooted the UP2k 15 times without checking the date :-P C

Re: NumLock

2001-04-04 Thread Jean-Paul Blaquiere
> On Apr 04, Rob Byrnes illuminated with a virtual pen : > Excuse the uber-newbie question, but how can I adapt the following to the > "Debian way"? > > >Place this in in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local to activate Numlock for the > first six terminals: > > > >echo "Activating Numlock ..." > >for

Re: New XFree86 debs...my fault

2001-04-04 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 04 Apr 2001, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > I know the timestamps are screwed up on -13 in unstable. I'll upload new > ones hopefully tomorrow to fix this. > > Sorry about that...guess I shouldn't have rebooted the UP2k 15 times > without checking the date :-P How about installing ntpd

Re: New XFree86 debs...my fault

2001-04-04 Thread Nikita Schmidt
On Wednesday, 4 Apr, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > Sorry about that...guess I shouldn't have rebooted the UP2k 15 times > without checking the date :-P > Hmm... I thought hwclock issues were sorted a while ago. Has anybody looked into this - is it bad hardware or software? After many years

Re: New XFree86 debs...my fault

2001-04-04 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 04 Apr 2001, Nikita Schmidt wrote: > > Hmm... I thought hwclock issues were sorted a while ago. Has anybody > looked into this - is it bad hardware or software? > > After many years of persistent "wrong date" threads in various mailing > lists, it seems to me now that Alpha Linux will *n

Re: New XFree86 debs...my fault

2001-04-04 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Paul Slootman wrote: > How about installing ntpdate and configuring /etc/init.d/ntpdate so that > it'll get the correct time automatically? :-) Our firewall blocks it, I believe, so that's no good. I'm going to try to bring up the "let's start an NTP server in-house" idea to

Re: New XFree86 debs...my fault

2001-04-04 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 04 Apr 2001, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > How about installing ntpdate and configuring /etc/init.d/ntpdate so that > > it'll get the correct time automatically? :-) > > Our firewall blocks it, I believe, so that's no good. I'm going to tr

Re: New XFree86 debs...my fault

2001-04-04 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Paul Slootman wrote: > Even better of course... One master system behind the firewall that an > be reached by all local systems and that can reach out through the > firewall to sync itself. We've talked about this in engineering before. Perhaps I'll get something up this we

Re: NumLock

2001-04-04 Thread Britton
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote: > > On Apr 04, Rob Byrnes illuminated with a virtual pen : > > > Excuse the uber-newbie question, but how can I adapt the following to the > > "Debian way"? > > > > >Place this in in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local to activate Numlock for the > > first six

Re: Problems with xwindows and avanti

2001-04-04 Thread Philip Kendall
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:01:33PM +0100, Sebastian Moeller wrote: > Hello Jean-Paul > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote: > > > I haven't applied any of these patches the other guys have mentioned either. > > What do they do our of interest? > > If I was one of the other guys, tha

Re: New XFree86 debs...my fault

2001-04-04 Thread T. Weyergraf
Hi, > On Wed 04 Apr 2001, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > > > How about installing ntpdate and configuring /etc/init.d/ntpdate so that > > > it'll get the correct time automatically? :-) > > > > Our firewall blocks it, I believe, so that's no g