Hello,
This is the second time I've posted this question. If someone could
suggest a better place to post it, please do. I'm not sure if it would
be appropriate to post to the debian-x mailing list.
I know I've seen this before, but I cannot find the solution anywhere.
I can run X as root
Hello,
I know I've seen this before, but I cannot find the solution anywhere.
I can run X as root just fine. But when I try to run it as a user, I
get the following errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
(WW) xf86ReadBIOS: Failed to open /dev/mem (Operation not permitted)
Fatal server error:
Manfred Heubach wrote:
Hello,
I've accidently used mkfs.ext3 on the wrong harddisk (used hdb3 instead of hda3). Is
there any way to recover the files on this partition? There is no backup copy of this
partition.
If it is not possible to recover the files or filesystemstructure maybe it's
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:04:16 +0200,
Andrea Tasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] top posted in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:40:38AM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael Ward
Cole wrote: I tried the D-Link dwl650+ which didn't have a driver for
linux. Then I tried the
Hello,
How can I determine when packages were entered into a distribution? I
updated something recently (in unstable) that broke Win4Lin, but I don't
know which package it was. Is there a list somewhere that shows when
certain packages were updated?
Thanks.
--
Brian J. Stults
Assistant
Jacob Stowell wrote:
Hi All,
I was wondering if someone might be able to remind me how I can turn off
tooltips in gnome2. I had to reinstall this weekend and that is the
last thing I can't seem to figure out. Every time the mouse pointer
runs over a panel applet a box pops up, even when I
Jörg Johannes wrote:
Totally agreed. This is one major reason for me not to use gnome. I
stick to icewm...
I don't like rap music, but that doesn't mean I won't use my CD player.
In other words, you can use gnome without anti-aliasing.
BTW, no offense to rap music. I just don't like it.
I compiled an XPI for the mozilla spellchecker that works for me with
the mozilla-1.2.1-3 package. It is here:
http://mumford1.dyndns.org/~bs7452/linuxhelp/
I used the source available from http://spellchecker.mozdev.org. Their
XPIs don't work with debian because they use an older version of
Brian Stults wrote:
I compiled an XPI for the mozilla spellchecker that works for me with
the mozilla-1.2.1-3 package. It is here:
http://mumford1.dyndns.org/~bs7452/linuxhelp/
I used the source available from http://spellchecker.mozdev.org. Their
XPIs don't work with debian because
Hello,
When I generate pdf's and view them in acroread (5.0.5) the fonts are
very fuzzy. For example... I create a file in OpenOffice using the
Arial font which is anti-aliased. I then print it to a postscript file.
If I view it through gv, it looks just as fuzzy at first, but then I
Alan Shutko wrote:
Brian Stults [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then I convert it to a pdf using ps2pdf.
What version of ghostscript are you using? Could you put up a small
sample some where?
It sounds as if the fonts are getting converted to type 3 fonts,
which acroread doesn't display very
Tom Badran wrote:
On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 4:36 pm, Brian Stults wrote:
Hello,
When I generate pdf's and view them in acroread (5.0.5) the fonts are
very fuzzy. For example... I create a file in OpenOffice using the
Arial font which is anti-aliased. I then print it to a postscript file.
If I
Faheem Mitha wrote:
Dear People,
I was wondering whether how well (or at all) some commercial
scientific programs run on Debian, say Sarge. Specifically, I was
wondering about Gauss, Mathematica, Matlab, SAS, Splus. I think that
Mathematica runs ok, but I'm not sure about the others. I suppose
I cannot upgrade libasound2 because it is trying to overwrite a file
called /usr/share/alsa/cards/ICH.conf. When I try to remove the file as
root, I get this:
rm: cannot lstat `/usr/share/alsa/cards/ICH.conf': Permission denied
When I try to ls the directory as root, I get this:
ls:
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hill All !
The John package (password cracker) write the file `john.pot'
in the root directory '/'.
I do not like that:
how can we ask to John to write this file somewhere else ?
John writes the list of cracked passwords in ~/ which would be /root if
run by the
James Hughes wrote:
On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 10:08:36PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
Sorry, should have noted in previous mail, but...
I'm no expert, but I believe this is because you don't have a socket
driver loaded. Based on the kernel listed in your output, you should
probably be
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Hello,
I just used resize_reiserfs to shrink a reiserfs partition. It worked
fine, and df is reporting the device size that I expected. However,
fdisk still reports the old size. How can I shrink the partition in
fdisk so it reports the
Is there a way to figure out what options a debian developer used to
compile the source of a package. In particular, I'd like to know what
options were used for the most recent mozilla in unstable. I've been
trying to compile from source so I could include the spell-checker. It
compiles
I'm receiving a recurring kernel oops on a machine running sid and
2.4.18. The oops and ksymoops output are below. This particular oops
occurred after running dmesg. I am new to oops tracing. Should I join
the kernel mailing list and post it there? Could this just be something
like bad
Hello,
When I start X with ssh-agent (i.e. ssh-agent startx), X hangs. I put
xterm on the first line of my .xinitrc and that won't even come up.
The cross-hatched X background comes up, but nothing else. If I run it
withouth ssh-agent, everything runs fine. Ssh-agent was working fine up
steev wrote:
snip
Anything's worth a shot at this point. Unfortunately, changing the
order had no effect.
But I've now discovered that something funky is going on.
Under Openoffice, the truetype fonts are available. They aren't
available anywhere else I've found. I'm running KDE 2. The
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 14:14, Bill Moseley wrote:
Before spending too much time reading dated docs, is their a current
Debian-specific howto/doc on setting up printing?
I installed magicfilter, and now looking at CUPS, but not sure if they can be
used together - or if they conflict.
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 04:59, O Polite wrote:
Pardon my English, speling is broken in Evolution.
Search the web for the unofficial debian package for gnome-spell.
Install it and spell-checking in evolution will work.
--
Brian J. Stults
Department of Sociology
University of Florida
P.O.
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 10:19, O Polite wrote:
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 12:48, Brian Stults wrote:
Search the web for the unofficial debian package for gnome-spell.
Install it and spell-checking in evolution will work.
http://www.luyer.net/EvoBuilds/spell-checking/gnome-spell_0.3-0_i386
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 15:27, Patrick Kirk wrote:
Hi all,
I need to see the list of machines on a LAN that can be seen in Network
Neighborhood ion the Windows boxes. I only have ssh access to the server
over the Internet. nmap 192.168.0.1-255 only gives me the names of machines
that are
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 07:16, Preben Randhol wrote:
Chris Jenks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28/01/2002 (12:59) :
There was a thread about this, roughly two weeks ago or so. It an easter
egg.
Phew. I didn't see that thread. Sh*t I thought somebody was messing with
my computer. I searched
Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like
win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the
program, the swap space still appears to be occupied. It's mostly an
annoyance, and probably doesn't affect anything. However, it seems that
perhaps it would
Hello,
My work computer is located behind a firewall, and the only way to ssh
into it is to first ssh to one of the university's unix machines, and
then ssh to the work computer. I finally learned that I can forward the
ssh connection by adding command=ssh IPADDRESS to the authorized_keys
Marc Shapiro wrote:
I was given a new-to-me, but still ancient box ( Pentium 166 ) with
Win95 on it. At the time, windows was booting fine. I put in a new HD
(and moved the old disk to hdc) and installed Debian -- after playing
around with other distros (my old DX486 has never had any other
Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
i'm currently running win4lin v2.x with kernel 2.2.18. i've recently
upgraded my kernel to 2.4.6, and find myself needing to upgrade to win4lin
3.0. i've patched my kernel and all that good stuff. however, when i run
the win4lin-install, it doesn't see my current
Mautz, John wrote:
Anyway, I'm tired of dual booting and before I buy Win4Lin I want to make
sure it will work. I noticed their web site has a patch for generic 2.4.3.
Will this same patch work for 2.4.10?
Once you pay for Win4Lin, you have access to newer kernel patches up
through
I am using a statistical package (Stata 7.0 for linux) that, among other
things, can read in raw data and create a database from it. I have an
ascii file of data, and the program reads the data just fine. The files
that I work with are quite large, though, so it is useful to gzip them
(in
Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
How would you go about printing to a remote printer on a WinNT
without CUPS? I have it working beautifully through CUPS/smbclient, but
CUPS is too heavy memorywise on my old laptop. I couldn't find any info
on the web on how to do it without CUPS, though.
I
Hello,
I have already posted this to openoffice's Issuezilla, but I thought I
might also ask here. I was extensively using the most recent openoffice
build (638) for over a week with no problems. It really has come a long
way in a short time. However, suddenly it started segfaulting and I
Brian Stults wrote:
I have already posted this to openoffice's Issuezilla, but I thought I
might also ask here. I was extensively using the most recent openoffice
build (638) for over a week with no problems. It really has come a long
way in a short time. However, suddenly it started
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
Firstly, is there a recommended way of doing printing with Debian? I
see various mentions of LPD, LPRng, CUPS, PDQ and printtool, and there
are a large number of printer-related packages in the archive, many of
which conflict with one another, but I can't find a
Fair enough. Thanks anyway.
-Brian
Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:19:50AM +, John Griffiths wrote:
At 06:50 PM 8/30/01 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
[ Why all the wireless questions all of a sudden? There are dedicated
lists for this, y'know. ]
c'mon Joey,
BTW what does [ sed -e s/^\([^,]*\).*$/\1/ ] accomplish? I'm just
grooving on one liners lately and am curious. It seems like -
awk -F : '{print $5}' /etc/passwd is all you need to spit out the full
names.
Not quite the same thing:
$ awk -F : '/karsten/ {print $5}' /etc/passwd
Karsten
I have a simple wireless question. It is not debian-specific, but it is
such a simple question that it probably does not necessitate searching
for and subscribing to the appropriate wireless mailing list. Anyway,
here goes...
I have a limited amount of money to try to upgrade my home lan
I am trying to create an fstab entry that would allow a specific
ordinary user to mount and umount an ncp volume. Here is what I
currently have:
clas /mnt/clas ncp
user=bstults,uid=1000,passwdfile=/etc/credential/credfile.txt,noauto 0 0
This allows root to mount and umount using mount
I have the following in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc:
exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
When I run nmap, I get this for X:
6000/tcp openX11
Is that unusual? I had thought since I specified nolisten the tcp port
would not be open. Also, how can I check to be sure it is not
Hello,
When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the
screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of
vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it just produces
more verticle white lines where the text should be.
Any suggestions?
Paul Scott wrote:
Brian Stults wrote:
Hello,
When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the
screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of
vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it just produces
more verticle white lines where
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400, Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Hello,
When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the
screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of
vertical white lines of varying width
Touloumtzis, Michael wrote:
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400, Brian Stults wrote:
When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the
screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of
vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it just
Thanks for the tremendous response to my initial question. As many of
you suspected, the sysadmin mainly needed to know that I was more than a
casual user of linux. I politely, and deferentially, explained that I
would only need to run an ssh server, and that I am quite conscientious
when it
Hello,
In the fall, I will be starting a new position as Professor of Sociology
at the University of Florida. When I interviewed, one of my
requirements was that I be allowed to run linux on my office computer.
They said it would not be a problem. However, now that I have signed
the contract
Andrew Perrin wrote:
Okay folks - I've started getting lots of files in WordPerfect format
(seems to be the default for some people in my department). Any advice on
reading them? StarOffice doesn't seem to be happy with them, and I can't
get WP from Corel to run on my system (Debian 2.2r3):
Hi,
Last night I upgraded from kernel 2.4.1 to 2.4.5 and now bttv is not
working properly. The modules all load fine, and the picture quality is
great. However, I just get static for audio. The modules are:
videodev
i2c-core
i2c-algo-bit
tuner
bttv
tvaudio
I know the module options are
Hi,
A while back, I remapped the ms-windows key on my keyboard to open an
xterm. The mapping was done through sawfish configuration. I was
pleased to have a Microsoft-intended key open a program that is such a
bastion of *nix OS's. Anyway, maybe 2-3 weeks ago, the key stopped
responding. Not
On 19 May 2001 17:43:05 +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote:
Now you should be able to bind F15 to any action with sawfish. That's
why I was asking how you map a key with sawfish. I'd assume that
sawfish binds keysyms to actions, but doesn't now about raw keycodes.
But I haven't tried it myself, so
Marco Parrone wrote:
...
I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To around 300-400 MB.
Without losing data. I mean, just want to resize the partition.
What software should I use?
...
i think you should use parted, but i've never used it,
and i don't know if it work well or not.
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
I've installed CUPS in my box but I could not manage to have it
work properly, that is, I can print the test page but nothing else.
Even trying the Print a File from KUPS I can't print
anything. Also I can't access the admin page from
Chris Howells wrote:
I'm trying to work out where interface 'lo' is brought up on potato.
I believe the default culprit is /etc/init.d/networking. It calles
ifup which in turn refers to /etc/network/interfaces where you
probably have an entry for lo.
-Brian
--
Brian J. Stults
Hi,
I have a computer connected to a cable modem, which then connects to a
hub with two other computers on it. I use ipchains to share the
connection. Connecting to anything external works great. However, if I
want to ftp from one of the internal computers to the gateway machine,
it takes
Anthony Fox wrote:
A few days ago, an apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade broke ssh for
me. Apparently the version of ssh that was installed was compiled
against a later version of the openssl library than I have. So I
attempted to compile the ssh package from source against my version of
The unix system at my school is not mountable from off-campus. However,
I can mount it via smbfs from my work computer (on campus), and I can
mount my work filesystem via nfs from home. I figured that if the unix
filesystem is mounted to my work computer, I could access it from home
through my
I would like to cease using the ximian packages and go back the the pure
debian packages. I thought I could just remove the ximian line in
sources.list and do update/install in dselect. However, I guess since
the ximian packages still appear to dselect as the newest, it will not
install the
I have a strange situation regarding volume. User cannot change the
volume with certain applications, but they can with others. For
example, users can change the volume with gmix, but not with the gnome
mixer applet. Also, users can change the volume with realplayer, but
not with freeamp. My
William T Wilson wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, brian moore wrote:
does the process list Z under STAT ? if it is the process has gone
Not quite true... zombies don't ever die: they're already dead.
While the description of zombie processes is accurate, I think another
likely situation
As the subject indicates, there are some processes that hang and cannot
be killed. Specifically, occasionally dselect will hang while trying to
install a package. After waiting for a long time, I try both Ctrl-c and
Ctrl-z and neither will work. Then I try to kill the process from
another
Hi,
I have a laptop with debian (unstable) installed on it. Sometimes I use
it at home and sometimes I use it at work. At work, it has a direct
connection to the internet, so it has its own IP. At home, its
connection is masqueraded through my main linux box which shares a cable
modem. There,
I recently updated through dselect, and the process hangs when it tries
to upgrade libc6. I am using testing. Here is what I get:
Preparing to replace libc6 2.2.1-1 (using libc6_2.2.1-3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 .
It will hang there for at least an hour (yes, I let it run for
/bugreport.cgi?bug=83561repeatmerged=yes
Osamu
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:30:47PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote:
Hello,
For at least a few weeks, I have been attempting to install an updated
magicfilter deb (using unstable). When I do, it unpacks fine, but then
something strange happens
Jason Davies wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone seen this problem before? When I try and enable the network (on
bootup) I get error messages. Here is what I get when typing these commands:
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor
lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor
ifconfig
Hello,
For at least a few weeks, I have been attempting to install an updated
magicfilter deb (using unstable). When I do, it unpacks fine, but then
something strange happens. It starts running lots and lots of instances
of send-mail. In fact, it just keeps starting new processes until I
am
Michael Epting wrote:
This was hilarious. I had shut down my laptop this morning after reading,
but not entirely absorbing, the above. This evening when I booted it, I
of course could not bring up eth0, which is a Proxim Symphony PCMCIA card.
Since I couldn't bring up networking, I
Nick wrote:
I recently upgrade from potato to unstable and ran into some difficulties
w/ my network interfaces.
when i try to restart my network ie: /etc/init.d/networking restart
I get the following message
SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file desriptor
lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor
How do you disable the keyboard bell at the console (not in X)? I have
debian on my laptop and I have a fetish for tab-completion. It can get
a little embarassing on airplanes with the bell ringing constantly.
Thanks,
Brian
--
Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
Xucaen wrote:
Hi all, curious here,
is there a practicle reason for doing this? What
is the purpose?
xucaen
I am using win4lin to run mswindows applications (in fact, mswindows
itself) from within linux. You can run the mswindows session in a
window in X, or you can start a new X
Is it possible from within X to start another session of X on a diffent
console? I know I can just Ctrl-Alt-F2, login, and then startx. Then I
could toggle between Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8. However, I would like
to accomplish the same thing without dropping down to a console. When I
try to
Has anyone had any luck getting win4lin to work with the 2.4.0 kernel?
I've got 2.4.0 working properly, but now I'd like to use win4lin and
they only have kernel patches available for up to 2.2.17.
Thanks,
Brian
--
Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
University at Albany
D-Man wrote:
I will be moving shortly and will no longer have my T1 connection :-(.
I am considering getting DSL or a cable modem, but wanted to check
with the Debian gurus first. Assuming both services are available,
how well do they interroperate with Debian? What are people's
Bob Nielsen wrote:
Any thoughts on why part of some tracks would be missing?
Are the mp3's corrupt/incomplete? Often, mp3's that I download are not
complete for whatever reason. Even if I am sure I've downloaded 100% of
the file, sometimes it still ends abruptly. Apparently many people
Hello,
I'm having a serious problem installing certain new debs. Some time
ago, my system crashed and when I rebooted, fsck (with my permission)
deleted a lot of files. It mostly screwed up apache and X. Eventually
I just forced a reinstall of those packages and most things seem fine
now.
Hello,
I am trying to set up ftp tunneling through ssh. I would like to have
secure ftp connections, but I don't like the limited command line of
sftp. I really want to be able to use ncftp through ssh.
I collected several sources of documentation, and I think I am close to
success. From an
Jim Kroger wrote:
unsubscribe me, stick these 60 emails a day up your ass
_
James K. Kroger, Ph.D.
Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior
Department of Psychology
3-N-4D Green Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1010,
Rob VanFleet wrote:
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:00:55PM -0500, Christopher W Aiken wrote:
I want to install Debian 2.2 to a second machine. I have
used apt-get to get and install a whole lot of stuff
(over 65MB of files) on my first machine. After I install
on my second machine can I
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'd like to draw on the general
computing expertise of this group.
Where I work, we have a unix server with 4 CPU's. There is not a nice
police at our center, and I have been trying to make the case to the
sysadmin that there should be. Could someone please
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:53:46PM -0500, Jacob I. Stowell wrote:
Hi again,
Today I moved /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6 and I apt-get --reinstall all of
the packages associated with X 4.0.1. However, I still received the
error cannot open fonts (the one I posted yesterday). I was so
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I upgraded XFree86 yesterday to 4.0.1 and had several problems in
WindowMaker with the color mapping, ie can't find black, white etc and
I had this problem, too. It was because the file /etc/X11/rgb.txt was
blank. I took a valid one from another installation
I put all the mp3's in a directory and from that directory I run the
following script. Use the argument clean to first erase the cd if
it's CDRW.
###
#!/bin/bash
if [[ $1 == clean ]]
then
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,1,0 blank=fast
fi
for I in *.mp3
do
mpg123 --cdr - $I |
Krzys Majewski wrote:
typically met with an incredulous stare. This is probably
because in America people believe that if something
makes a lot of noise, then it must be really powerful and
hence good.
Inappropriate and unnecessary, IMHO.
--
Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
Department
Hello,
I'm sorry that this is off-topic, but I think many people here would be
able to answer this question easily. The unix system in my research
center has a file server with 4 CPUs. I don't know all the specifics of
the machine, but my question is rather general anyway. Basically, the
file
Is there a way to search the contents of a tar.gz file withouth having
to extract everything. Specifically, I want to determine the disc-id of
an audio CD, so I downloaded the freedb database in tar.gz format. Of
course, it's a very large file. I would like to grep the contents to
find the CD
_ is to ncftp, as ssh is to telnet.
Is there a secure method of ftp? I use ssh instead of telnet between my
home and work computers, but figured that's not all that great if I use
ftp just as much and it isn't as secure. I really like ncftp, though,
so I would hate to give it up. What
You can't connect two boxes directly with an RJ45 cable. You need
either a hub between them or a crossover cable. That is, the send
wires from one box have to be connected to the receive wires from the
other box, and vice versa. If you're only going to be using two
computers on this network, I
Try the GNU task page:
http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html
It lists needed documentation as well as new and existing projects that
are seeking developers.
--
Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936
Web:
Patrik Magnusson wrote:
How do I get it to work?
The helpfile tells me to edit the driver/Makefile and change
the values of CARD and TUNER. As far as I can tell there are no
Makefiles or .h-files containing either word.
Do I need anything besides the kernel-source?
Has anyone got it
Richard Black wrote:
Hi all,
I have my gnome panel set to auto-hide, which would be great except that
when I go to raise it, it raises _under_ other windows (making it a bit
tricky to actually use it :-)).
Does anyone know how to set it so that it raises on top? I am using
sawfish as
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
Hello,
Have installed Xcdroast and can copy cd's etc. But I want to make a
new cd containing data I've stored in one of my directories - in this case
10 mp3's. I am using a cd-rw cd. after I burn it, verify it - my CD-ROM
can see and play it
André Dahlqvist wrote:
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 03:57:03AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
no, /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm should NOT be symlinked
into your kernel tree. debian does this right unlike most redhat
distros.
Exactly. And Linus has also pointed out several times
What are the best permissions for this directory. I only ask because I
noticed that on my home machine, they were as follows:
drwxr-xr-x 15 1046 telnetd 4096 Aug 6 23:04 linux
And at work, they were like this:
drwxr-xr-x 15 1026 user 2048 Jul 9 20:19 linux
Any
I recently bought a Creative Labs PCI128 OEM. It has the ES1371 chipset
which is an option in kernel config. It was a snap to set up in linux,
and it has been working great. I got it at www.bunta.com for $30US. I
highly, highly recommend that company. Their prices are reasonable and
they
Is there a function in bash that is similar to tcsh's precmnd?
Something that will allow you to run a command before each prompt is
printed? Thanks.
--
Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936
Web:
Brian Stults wrote:
Is there a function in bash that is similar to tcsh's precmnd?
Something that will allow you to run a command before each prompt is
printed? Thanks.
I'll answer my own question in case it's of interest to anyone (and from
now on I'll always search for 5 additional
Hello,
I'm using the kernel-based auto mounter, autofs. I have all my mount
points in the default /var/autofs/misc, and I have symbolic links to
them in /mnt. However, whenever I do a listing of /mnt (either from an
xterm, or from within an application such as StarOffice), all of the
devices
Joseph de los Santos wrote:
Hi,
Windows 98's ICS feature is really cool. Does debian support ICS too? if so,
can someone tell me or point me to some documentation on how to do this? just
2 home computers... a debian box and a win 98 box over a 56k dialup connection
to be used fo
keke abe wrote:
S. Champ wrote:
what is the command to read these README documents, without having to
first use
a command to un-gzip the same?
emacs is your friend. Open directory, choose a *.gz file and type
'Z'+'yes'.
regards,
abe
Better yet, put this in your .emacs file:
Hi,
Not entirely debian related, but... Can someone recommend a simple
language that I could use to write a pop-up message program for X? I
would like to be notified when I have new mail in a samba-mounted
spool. I haven't found any applets that suit me because when I don't
have mail, I don't
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