Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:51:24 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > >> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:09:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I >>> have decided they would be a good i

Re: sleep inside .xsession ?

2004-09-17 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to open urxvtd (the urxvt unicode daemon) from .xsession > and urxvtc (the client). The problem is that the client needs for the > daemon to start first so I need to wait. I can't figure out how to > implement such a wait. You could also try

greylistd and fetchmail

2004-08-09 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I thought I'd try greylistd, but I realized that it probably won't work for me. If I use fetchmail to pull my mail off a POP server and pass it to a local instance of exim4 which uses greylistd, it won't work because the rejection goes back to me (the fetchmail machine), right? Or is ther

Re: dvips TeX printer driver

2004-02-08 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) writes: > [...] the dvips command now prints. I'm glad it worked. > My plain text files print darker than my .ps files, and I did not see > anything in info dvips to suggest one could control that, probably > because this is an issue for the printer itself. But

Re: dvips TeX printer driver

2004-02-07 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) writes: > It seems that in my old RedHat installation, dvips did the printing as > well, but not under debian. Also, my recollection is that the LaTeX > manuals presume dvips will do both operations at once. I don't think redhat or debian makes any difference. I

Re: swen killed me!

2003-10-01 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
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Re: Intel 10/100 VE and eepro100

2003-09-16 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unfortunately, I tried 2.4bf with no luck. It includes eepro100, which > fails, but not e100 (as far as I could tell). I used the information on this webpage to do a net install from my desktop. I needed drivers that weren't in the 2.4bf kernel: http:

Re: .config file for kernel-2.6.0-test4

2003-09-16 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, can I use my .config file from the 2.4.20 kernel ?? Does 'make oldconfig' work? It should read through an old config, taking your past answers and ask about new options. Note that between 2.4.20 and 2.6.0-test4, there will be a lot of questions. Bri

linux/modversions.h in kernel.2.6-test2

2003-08-14 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
I downloaded the kernel-source for 2.6-test from unstable and compiled it on my laptop. CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y in my .config and /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.0-test2/include/config/modversions.h contains '#define CONFIG_MODVERSIONS 1' only. However, there is no modversions.h in my include/linux direc

Re: pointing device on thinkpad

2003-07-31 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks for trying to help. Just for the record, that did not work. > The thinkpad pointing device works fine in X set up as psaux+PS/2. > /dev/gpmdata kills it completely. In neither case will it work > outside of X. Hey-ho, so it goes. I don't h

Re: kernel-image-2.4.18-686.postinst problem

2003-07-25 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Well, a little over a year after I posted the question, I found the solution to my question. TeXlive contains a readlink program which was earlier in the path that /bin/readlink. That's it. I exited dselect, changed the path in the shell, and reran the installation. The same thing happened with

/proc/partitions does not match /dev

2003-07-21 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I recently got Debian running on an IBM X31 laptop. I installed Woody bf24 kernel first, then installed a 2.4.21 kernel-image from unstable. Today I built my own kernel 2.4.21 and when I run lilo, I get the following message: Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory st

Re: choosing version of gcc to compile with

2003-06-23 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've seen various recommendations: > 1) CC= (or CXX) > kernel builds, at least with some add-ons, apparently require some > other variable get set too. I can't remember it offhand. > > or > 2) edit the makefiles by hand (ugh) > > or > 3) use dpkg-dive

Re: Kernel will not compile

2003-06-17 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think, in general, it's best to stick with 2.95 compilers for the > kernel. There are exceptions, but the easiest route is to use gcc-2.95 > for compiling kernel source. You can do this by editing the > kernel-source-2.4.20/Makefile and setting HOST

logcheck rules question

2003-06-12 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, The following line appears in the oidentd file under /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server (wrapped for readability): ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ oidentd\[[0-9]+\]: \[127.0.0.1\] Successful lookup: .* , .* : list \(list\)$ What does the word 'list' refer to? I cannot find a place to defi

Re: Balky Netgear FA311 ethernet card

2003-06-09 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Sorry, I was out of town last week. Responses below. Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should the FA311 card be listed in early part of the kernel > messages? I see the message about the card pretty soon after the SCSI disks are identified. Here is the relevant section from my kern.log: Jun

Re: Balky Netgear FA311 ethernet card

2003-06-01 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a very small home network consisting of two computers connected > by ethernet via a hub. One computer is currently Windows only, and > the other is a Debian/Windows dual boot. The dual boot machine is an > elderly Pentium Pro system with the Netgear FA31

Re: PPPOE / ADSL fails

2003-04-04 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Both of you should try adsl-start as an alternative. I had been using pppd at boot-time to get my DSL connection up and it has worked for months. However, about a week ago, it stopped working. I fought with it for a while. Just to see what happened, I tried adsl-start and it worked immediately.

Re: xpdf

2003-03-27 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Obvious poking around doesn't suggest a way for gv or ghostview to do > full-screen mode. You might be able to put something together quickly > that embeds gs; if it were me and I cared quite enough, I'd spend an > hour or so trying to figure out if a qu

Re: envelopes in TeX

2003-02-11 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'm starting to send out resumes and cover letters &c., and want to > print pretty envelopes in TeX. should i not bother, and just do it on > a public printer running windoze on campus? or is there a package i > can easily use to print my envelopes to

Re: [OT] volunteer work

2003-02-10 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I found indymedia.org several months ago. A channel from Iran is starting and those individuals have asked for technical help. I don't know what OS they are using, but I assume they would be open to a reasonable suggestion to run free software. This was the site, but it appears that they

Re: apt-get update fails with "Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

2003-01-07 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
A quick google search shows that you need to increase the Cache-limit in /etc/apt/apt.conf. I just had to increase mine a couple days ago. Here's my apt.conf: bs:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT { Default-Release "stable"; Cache-Limit "14194304"; }; DSelect { Clean "prompt"; // always|auto|p

Re: ssh and run programme in the background.

2003-01-04 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
You could also run the programs with at or batch. Note that these will run at specific times (at) or when the system load is below a certain level (batch). But, you can tell at to run now. HTH. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: run-parts

2002-12-30 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I named the script mail_ppp. It's purpose is to email > my dynamic address to a specific email address after > dial up, so I can access my network from remote locations. I did this with the following script. The IP address part may be ugly, but it works.

Re: how to rename multiple files

2002-12-09 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
There are also mmv, mcp, mad, and mln. The syntax takes a little getting used to, but once you get a feel for it, this is a nice set of programs. I think you can apt-get mmv. Here's an example I used yesterday. It takes a bunch of files starting with week, then a 0 or a 1, then a single charact

[Solved] fetchmail rules for logcheck?

2002-10-04 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, Sorry for the wasted bandwidth, but it had not occurred to me to check the workstation and server directories. Rules for fetchmail are in both of those. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fetchmail rules for logcheck?

2002-10-04 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I recently started running the fetchmail service from /etc/init.d, rather than running it under my own account when I login. One thing that I like about this is that error messages go to syslog and then I see them in my logcheck emails. Unfortunately, there are also hundreds of lines of

Re: Quicken under debian

2002-06-28 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am wondering if anyone could recommend a solution for using > Quicken on my debian woody system. Quicken is essentially the ONLY > windows application that I still need, and thus is the only reason > that my laptop still has windows98 loaded on it. I w

Re: ipchains: drop a single IP address?

2002-06-28 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:30:00AM -0400, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > | This works for me: > | > | ipchains -A input -s 12.27.41.66 -j DENY -l > > Does this send back a "connection refused" packe

Re: ipchains: drop a single IP address?

2002-06-28 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
This works for me: ipchains -A input -s 12.27.41.66 -j DENY -l You can drop the final -l if you don't want to log. HTH. Brian Flaherty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multiple tape backup?

2002-06-28 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
I had been using tar, but then found pax and really liked it. I have been using it since. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl problem?

2002-06-26 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Thanks, that took care of it. Should this be reported as a bug for the testing version and is there something to do to fix it for Woody? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl problem?

2002-06-25 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I just installed libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl from testing and the xls2csv.pl in the /usr/share/doc/libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl/examples/xls2csv.pl gives me an error when I try to run it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ~/bin/xls2csv.pl ps.xls 1-A1:C3 Can't call method "Value" on an undefined va

Re: SMP working

2002-06-07 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
I believe the packaged kernels do not support SMP. When I cat /proc/cpuinfo, I see both my CPU's. Unless there are other packages available, you will need to build your own kernel. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

2002-05-22 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
"Thomas R. Shannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I strongly recommend the calendar that comes with Emacs (calendar.el): > > 1) its almost certainly already on your system. > 2) its very versatile > 3) it stores you appointments in text files > 4) since Emacs is cross-platform for almost everythi

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Willy S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, > > How come root can not run a graphical program under other user > session. Let say, I do 'su' and I try to launch gkrellm. Xterm will > produce this message: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect

Re: poweroff wont poweroff

2002-04-30 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
"Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (I > connect nothing but the computer to the battery support - not even the > monitor. Once the power failure shutdown has been tested I don't need > to see what's happening.) Are you using the UPS for surge protection as well as battery backup

kernel: recvmsg bug

2002-02-10 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, Earlier today this popped up in my logs: Feb 10 15:33:01 localhost kernel: recvmsg bug: copied 0 seq 4AB2A9F8 There is nothing else around it or in any other logs that I can find. The only thing I can find that might be related is: 02/2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:33:00: START: ident pid=22553 I

Re: Printing and CUPS - 2 questions

2002-02-10 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
"Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I thought I had printing working because from the CUPS web interface I can > print a test page. But that's all I can print! lpr /etc/aliases or lpr > /foo/anythiing else just shoots a blank sheet through. When I print from > samba, the p

Re: Urgent LaTeX problem - any ideas?

2002-01-27 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings- > > Using the seminar package to develop a lecture, I'm using graphicx to > include an eps chart exported from R: > > \resizebox{\textwidth}{\textheight}{\includegraphics{crime.eps}} Rather than what you have above, what about something alo

Re: adsl and xemacs (beginner)

2002-01-26 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
"Kapil Khosla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I am a beginner and have 2 questions: > 1) I configured my DSL from Verizon from root, by using the Roariing > Penguin software but when I go to my user account I am not able > to connect as I dont have the adsl-start utility. > Will I need to redo

Re: ADSL with woody or what is this newbie doing completly wrong?

2002-01-26 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Does the session drop immediately or does it seem to timeout? Also, could you try 'pppoe -d'? See the man page for pppoe for a full explanation. Perhaps this will provide more detailed information about what is causing the drop. There is also a debug option that can be passed to pppd. Maybe th

Re: ADSL with woody or what is this newbie doing completly wrong?

2002-01-26 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Stefan Ruecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've an ADSL(PPPoE) connection but unfortunatly I am not able to setup > woody in a manner that this connection works. Here is a small extract > from my syslog maybe a more expirienced one can help me out: Hello, By checking on www.google.com

Re: latex packages

2002-01-23 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
I would check the catalouge on-line at www.ctan.org, under 'Graham Williams's catalogue.' I would assume a package installed version could get old pretty quickly. But, obviously it is better than nothing if you don't have constant web access. As for which Debian package has it, I would guess tet

Re: latex packages

2002-01-23 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on Wed, 23 Jan 2002 01:05:25PM -0800, Richard Otte insinuated: > > Nori, > > I saw a recent message about not displaying the page number on the first > > page of a Latex document. What interested me is that you said you > > start every .tex file off wi

Re: Junkbuster cannot resolve names?

2002-01-22 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
I wrote this about using junkbuster on a testing machine. > When I > try to access a page that is not on my machine, I get the message 'No > such domain: www.google.com' (for example). However, when I > try http://216.239.37.101 (google's ip), I did get the page and I was > able to search and clic

Re: A cups printing setup question

2002-01-22 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
I haven't yet done this, but it is on my list. Does the local machine with the printer accept external requests? Check in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, anything there to change? If you dont' mind, please post the solution, if you get it working. Brian

Re: Where can I get JetAdmin for Linux?

2002-01-22 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm replacing a HP-UX workstation with a woody box. > > One of the functions of this HP box is to rotuinely check that status of a > HP jetAdmin printer. > > Can I get JetAdmin software for Linux? If so has anyone got a pointer to a > location? I don't

Junkbuster cannot resolve names?

2002-01-22 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I was using junkbuster a while ago, and I tried it again yesterday. The version I had used in potato worked quite well. I told netscape to use localhost:5865 as the proxy, and it worked pretty well. However, since moving up to testing, it doesn't work anymore and I haven't found anything a

Re: I get ^M in the mail headers.

2002-01-10 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
I had this happen a little while ago. I don't recall exactly, but either exim was not running or exim had been upgraded. I quit fetchmail, restarted exim and then restarted fetchmail. That fixed it. If it does not, for some reason, there is an argument you can put in your .fetchmailrc that will

Re: scanner recommendations?

2001-12-18 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Well, I don't know if you have access to such a facility, but at Penn State, there is a place called Salvage, where old (and sometimes non-functional) equipment goes. People may then buy this old equipment. I purchased three scanners from them and the last one worked ($15 each). It is an HP Scan

Re: setting up printer (ps)

2001-12-15 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I use CUPS, and it is fairly easy to set up (if your printer is > supported by the provided drivers). I recently installed CUPS and set it up for a NEC printer. A ppd file was not supplied in the package (see /usr/share/cups/model directory), but I was able

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-08 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Did you try the Linux hardware database? It is something like lhd.datapower.com. Good luck. Brian

Re: Question about dselect:

2001-11-19 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Petro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Is there a way to tell dselect ONCE AND FOR ALL that I have no wish > to install gcc on this machine? I don't know how this is done exactly, but I know you can create a dummy package and say that it provides gcc, etc. This way you and dselect c

Re: Adsl/network problem "SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable"

2001-11-16 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Are you sure that you card is up before you try to connect? Before you type the dhcpd command, what do you see when you type ifconfig? Is the module loaded (lsmod)?

Re: OT: Hardware upgrades

2001-11-15 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just upgraded my box ( unstable about 3-4 months berhind on the > updates ). The upgrade was from PII 233 BX chipset motherboard to Athlon > 1800+ XP VIA KT266A motherboard. The problem seems to be the following: > > 1. I cannot boot o

Re: NEC Silentwriter Superscript 660 printer support

2001-11-15 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have NEC Silentwriter Superscript 660 printer. > > I can access the printer (when it's shared by a windows box) and print fine > by using HP LaserJet 4 series, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.1.99-b1 driver. > > Now, NEC is no longer developing new drivers for this printer an

Natsemi [was Re: Tulip chip Netgear card]

2001-11-13 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm fairly new to Debian, but not new to Linux. In particular, I > > know about > > configuring almost everything, but not much about the Debian way of doing > > things. > > I have a pair of Netgear FX-310TX NICs. (

Solved: xinetd refuse connect

2001-11-12 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
I am cutting out the past writing in the interest space. The answer turned on the xinetd entry, hosts.allow, and hosts.deny. Thanks Mike, for suggesting xinetd configuration issues. I was thinking in terms of one machine providing the proper information to another. I had the wait line in the rs

Re: xinetd refuse connect

2001-11-12 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 12:16, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to run an rsync server from xinetd. I have a desktop > > connected via eth0 to a DSL line and eth1 connected to a little hub

Re: NIC Troubles (etherexpress pro/100, neteverywhere)

2001-11-11 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, After building the modules are they loaded? If you type lsmod (as root) do you see the right driver? As an example, I have a second nic that I haven't yet figured out how to start automatically. So, whenever I want to use it, I type 'modprobe natsemi' which loads the module natsemi and p

xinetd refuse connect

2001-11-11 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I am trying to run an rsync server from xinetd. I have a desktop connected via eth0 to a DSL line and eth1 connected to a little hub. My laptop is on the hub too. When I start the rsync server from the prompt, I can access it from my laptop just fine (on the internal network). But, when

IDE kernel messages after potato install

2001-07-17 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I have had two messages in kern.log since installing potato 2.2-r3 yesterday. First, brief background: Gateway Solo 9300 with a 450 Mhz Pentium, 288 MB RAM, 12 GB IDE hd and IDE CDROM. Phoenix BIOS 16.53. Windows 98 currently resides on /dev/hda1, but I haven't added it back to lilo yet.