I did not fully understand you. Does or doesn't the BIOS get the right time
after the system is shutdown?
In any case, there are hw K scripts:
[18:17:27 /tmp]$ ls /etc/rc?.d/*hw*
/etc/rc0.d/K25hwclock.sh /etc/rc6.d/K25hwclock.sh /etc/rcS.d/S50hwclock.sh
[18:22:27 /tmp]$
Note that your system
Ryan:
I have a similar system. If in /dev/, you have no 'st?' devices, try
making them with 'mknod /dev/st0 c 9 0' = 'mknod /dev/st7 c 9 7'.
Check the man page for correct options...
They should have root:tape ownership and be owner:group RW. Put any
users that need acces in group 'tape'
Wilson:
I have a SCSI tape too. The device names are /dev/st0 (rewinds after
each operation) and /dev/nst0 (does NOT rewind after each operation -
you or your program/script must do the rewind).
You can use 'mt -f /dev/[n]st0 OPERATION' to manipulate a tape
(do man mt for a description of the
Howard Mann wrote:
Hi All,
When I print a document from Netscape ( e-mail or webpage) or
Acroreader (.pdf doc) ,the printed fonts are huge and offset to the
right half of the page.Of course, only a small portion of the page is
thus printed.
This does not occur when I print an ASCII
hypnos wrote:
Am I correct in assuming that the encryption between
client/server is started before any exchange of data
takes place? Specifically, I'm wondering if the
username is passed in clear-text or encrypted when
using the -l username option to ssh client.
The machine public keys are
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 02:02:30PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote:
On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linux
server is used as a gateway (and some other things), but it doesn't work
properly. When internet exploder is used, all goes fine (most of the
time), but
I forgot my password how can I get it back
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, aphro wrote:
: well i read from multiple sources that their UP-SMP upgrade tool worked
: about 20% of the time..compaq came up with a tool that was 99-100%
: successful *if* you had compaq hardware..
:
: there are many many files that had to be changed to give NT SMP
Hi,
Does anyone know of a place that might have DEBs or RPMs of
the Krash version of KDE? I'm not having much luck finding any.
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Hi,
Is there a package similar to alien which can convert a
.tar.gz source code file into a DEB package? I've tried doing
it with alien and it tells me it created the DEB OK, but when I
try dpkg -i, there doesn't seem to be a file I can run to launch
the program. Typing the command doesn't work
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linux
server is used as a gateway (and some other things), but it doesn't work
properly. When internet exploder is used, all goes fine (most of the
time), but when
Hi again!
Allright, now I finally got my sb live soundcard working (debian
kernel-image installs take all the pain out of kernel-upgrading) I
thought it would be cool if I could get it to autoload when booting,
so that I won't have to do su modprobe manually every time. So
started looking for
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 04:17:10PM +, Fraser Campbell wrote:
I have a sun4m machine and Debian installed great on it with one
exception. It will not boot correctly (or at least the way I'd like it).
The first hard drive has partition 3 labelled as type Whole Disk. The
hard drive is
I have checked that there is no /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0. Does it
mean the kernel dosen't support tape drive Need me recompile the
kernel ??
Thank You!
Wilson
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Dean Allen Provins wrote:
Wilson:
I have a SCSI tape too. The device names are /dev/st0
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:
: On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linux
: server is used as a gateway (and some other things), but it doesn't work
: properly. When internet exploder is used, all goes fine (most of the
: time), but when for
On Mon, 17 Jan, 2000 à 12:57:43PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote:
Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory
but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had
weird permissions:
c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alberto Maurizi) wrote:
Reinstalled gdm: it works.
However, xhost + tells:
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
xhost: unable to open display :0.0
and so does any X application launched from an xterminal.
Why?
From the
Hi, All
moved to potato icewm-1.0 and found strange problems:
i cannot swith to another workplace!
Any keyboard (Ctrl-Alt-- etc) or mouse command
will swith to next workplace but icewm immediately
switch it back to workplace 1.
i run mostly potato stuff on intel.
Any ideas/advices?
thank
Fredrik Appelberg wrote:
Hi again!
Allright, now I finally got my sb live soundcard working (debian
kernel-image installs take all the pain out of kernel-upgrading) I
thought it would be cool if I could get it to autoload when booting,
so that I won't have to do su modprobe manually
Don't know about your second question, but I think I can help with the
first.
Take a look at /etc/modules You'll want to list any modules you want to
load (and their parameters) one per line in that file.
Ex Redhatter huh? Welcome to the light. :)
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Fredrik Appelberg
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Neilen Marais wrote:
If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the
following problem after the package files have been downloaded:
'rm /etc/apt/apt.conf'
Jason
Fredrik Appelberg wrote:
[Disclaimer in advance: I'm not an expert on any of this, but I have
come up against the same issues; all my answers are only from memory, so
read the docs on my suggestions before blindly following them]
Allright, now I finally got my sb live soundcard working
Hi,
I need help to mirror the slink distribution. I have mirror
previous release (hamm) before and I did not seem to have any
problem.
I've modified the config file and try to do it for slink and
it always timeout (or something) on me and stopped.
I have a fresh partition that I
Is debian set to use cd-rw from the install?
(IE. Do you need to simply install the necessary packages, or re-compile the
kernal?)
- Dan
What have you heard of the libranet distribution? Is it pure debian? A good
dist. for newbies, or should you just go with the debian dist?
- Dan
Hi, i recently ran 'apt-get install xf86setup xserver-svga' and installed
the svga x server as my default. After configuring it and everything, I
tried to run 'startx', but it didn't exist. So then I went into
/usr/X11R6/bin/ and ran './startx'. That's where I got the error:
X: X: cannot execute
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 09:12:45AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Werner) wrote:
Thanks Nate, but I found the problem. Well, it may not be the actual
problem but it lets java work for me. It just figures that I'd figure
this out within 10 minutes of sending my post.
Hi
A GRUB floppy won't boot my old system which has a 486/66, 16 MB
RAM, VL bus mother board, adaptec 2840 with (now) one 1GB scsi drive
(Bios is enabled on the controller for that drive) and a scsi CD
ROM. Linux 2.0 is on /dev/sda1, swap is on /dev/sda2. 2.0.34
Kernel. The kernel is redev'ed
Your machine isn't a Sparc, is it?
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Wayne wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to excute fdformat. No matter what I enter I get the
following error message:
floppy drive state
now=13142098 last interrupt=13142098 last called handler=c0182f4c
timeout_message=floppy
Not sure about the ISDN card, but I do this with an external modem using the
mgetty package.
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 02:20:11PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote:
Hardware:
ISDN Teles 16.3 card
Goal:
I want to be able to let other computers log in on my server, by calling
the server with a
David Wright wrote:
Like Chris Baker, I can't seem to search the list archives at
http://www.de.debian.org/Lists-Archives/
No matter what I put as the search string, even stuff like `debian'
which has to be in archive somewhere, I get a blank response on the
page
for ping make sure ICMP masqurading is turned on in the kernel. i dont
think this is a run-time configuration otpion it needs to be turned on
when configuring the kernel.
nate
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:
ron On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote:
mjnf How can i do this if even dpkg complains about the Illegal
mjnf Instruction thing
honestly if it were my box i would reinstall.
mjnf I don't think there is any problem with the kernel. It has been working
mjnf for a long time, with
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, David Wright wrote:
d.wrig Err, wrong. Root can ignore ownership and permissions, but that's
d.wrig about it. Any program that allowed root to do whatever it liked
d.wrig would be insane.
there are kernel patches out there to restrict usage too..the patches i
use restrict
over recent months ive played with corel linux 1.0, suse 6.3, caldera 2.3,
and more recently mandrake 7 ..all are pretty easy provided you install it
on supported hardware.. depends on what the newbie wants..i got a co
worker to go with suse6.3 and hes loving it..another newbie (linux newbie
not
Ron Rademaker wrote:
Hardware:
ISDN Teles 16.3 card
Goal:
I want to be able to let other computers log in on my server, by calling
the server with a modem or isdn card. The server isn't always connected to
the internet and runs a 2.2.13 kernel with debian 2.1
Can anybody tell me how
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Timothy C. Phan wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I need help to mirror the slink distribution. I have mirror
: previous release (hamm) before and I did not seem to have any
: problem.
:
: I've modified the config file and try to do it for slink and
: it always timeout
Wilson:
I have checked that there is no /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0. Does it
mean the kernel dosen't support tape drive Need me recompile the
kernel ??
Thank You!
Wilson
Your original post (see later in this post) shows that the kernel
recognized your tape drive. Thus you
kinda depends on what kinda cd-rw ur using. the cd-writing in linux isn't
directly handled by the kernel but by a program such as cdrecord and it's
frontend xcdroast. unfortunately, last i looked these programs only
supported scsi. if you're using a scsi device then you're fine. just read
the
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/17/00
at 01:24 PM, Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I hate to prolong this thread, but I have to ask ... Who the hell cares? And
what is the relevance to Debian?
Don't know about the _thread_, but do know that sometimes I have questions
that I really don't
Ron Rademaker wrote:
On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linux
server is used as a gateway (and some other things), but it doesn't work
properly. When internet exploder is used, all goes fine (most of the
time), but when for example someone tries to ping from
Hi Nathan,
Thanks for the information. I, however, have problem using rsync because
I'm still using 1.3.1 and rsync required libc6. Is there another way around
this. Does 'mirror' is no longer used for mirror site?
Thanks!
Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Timothy C. Phan
After upgrade from slink to potato the Swedish characters åäö are not
displayed any longer either in console or in X. The keyboard is a
Keytronic with Swedish layout. The Swedish keymap has been loaded:
loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/se-latin1.kmap.gz.
Also this keymap has been made the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Szyszka) wrote:
Is there a package similar to alien which can convert a
.tar.gz source code file into a DEB package? I've tried doing
it with alien and it tells me it created the DEB OK, but when I
try dpkg -i, there doesn't seem to be a file I can run to launch
the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I forgot my password how can I get it back
If it's your root password, boot with 'linux init=/bin/sh' at the LILO
prompt (assuming you use LILO) and you'll get a shell; then use 'passwd'
to reset your root password and boot normally.
If it's a user password, log in as
Having built my first GNU/Debian kernels with SMP support (2.2.13-2
and 2.2.14-1 for i686) an experience drawn was that the kernel had to
have the SCSI module aic7xxx.o compiled into the kernel for the kernel
to boot. The boot disk is /dev/sda.
The machine I'm writing this on is running
Jonathan Lupa hat gesagt: // Jonathan Lupa wrote:
But I've been considering giving the OSS (pay money version) audio
drivers a try since they support full duplex for my SB card. In thier
documentation they want me to do the linking.
What SB Card? If it's an AWE, you could try the alsa
Robert Marlow hat gesagt: // Robert Marlow wrote:
if ur using atapi there's a little more to do before going straight to
the howto. first you need to recompile you're kernel so it supports
generic scsi devices, turn off ide cdrom support and turn on ide-scsi
emulation. this should make your
I know some people don't want to compile a kernel. They just want to be
able to use the cd recorder.
There are some packaged kernels at ftp.greenbush.com for ide cd writing.
The 2.2.13 was recently built mainly because I needed to write files from
an NTFS(ugh) partition to CD-RW after NT crashed
On 17-Jan-2000 Frank Barknecht wrote:
Jonathan Lupa hat gesagt: // Jonathan Lupa wrote:
But I've been considering giving the OSS (pay money version) audio
drivers a try since they support full duplex for my SB card. In thier
documentation they want me to do the linking.
What SB Card? If
Hi,
* Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 09:31:42AM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote:
I have a similar system. If in /dev/, you have no 'st?' devices, try
making them with 'mknod /dev/st0 c 9 0' = 'mknod /dev/st7 c 9 7'.
Check the man page for correct options...
They should have root:tape ownership and
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