Re: Adding /dev/hdXX nodes

evfs (as you suggested). It worked really well, but I'd still like to know if there's a Debian way to add more drive devices. Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer Systems Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier Program

Adding /dev/hdXX nodes

up to hdh. I looked in the /dev/MAKEDEV script, but it's not clear to me what I'm supposed to do in order to get new devices, and it looks like even if I could figure out how to add more than 'h' drives, this script only goes up to 'l' anyway. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Re: seti@home

> P.S. - If we expect _others_ to broadcast, why don't we broadcast > in all directions around the globe, hoping that someone else hears > us? We've been doing that since Tesla, err... Marconi invented the radio. -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Compu

Re: scp shall only copy newer files

to run the server on either end, but I think you probably need the rsync package on both ends. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier ProgramGPG and PGP keys at my web page: University of

Re: Problem with mutt

mod 2755 /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock $ ls -l /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock -rwxr-sr-x1 root mail /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier ProgramGPG and PGP ke

Re: mutt read-only mailbox?

s the way mutt_dotlock used to be set up. Probably just a minor error on the part of the maintainer. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier ProgramGPG and PGP keys at my web page: Univ

OT - Tool for getting text body of email

ines, MIME-attached HTML, vcards, etc.). What I want is a filter that I pass an email in, and out pops the ASCII, 72-line width formatted message. All attachments, HTML mail, vcards and strangeness is removed. Does such a thing exist? Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 90

procmail: extraneous locallockfile

t messages, regardless of their destination / procmail status. Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier ProgramGPG and PGP keys at my web page: University of Alaska

Re: OT: Generall (GCC) compiler question

t makes the program smaller on the disk, and smaller in memory. But it means that the user of your program must have the library on his or her computer in order to run the program. This is probably the same as with the w32 *.dll files (dynamic link libraries). Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley

Re: Requesting a trackball recomendation

them in reserve when Logitech stops making them. They are great. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier ProgramGPG and PGP keys at my web page: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Re: procmail recipe not working

rs. So it should look like: * ? (formail -x From: -x Sender: -x Reply-To: -x Received: -x Subject: | fgrep -iqf $SPAMMERS) Except all on one line. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Fronti

Re: procmail recipe not working

into $HOME/procmail/spammers: End your IRS tax problems! [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got this from someone on this list sometime in the past, so they deserve the credit for this. Works great from here! Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager

Re: deny email to a user question

e --m owner --uid-owner switches to block port 25 to that user? Course, if you're running potato, you've probably got a 2.2 kernel, so this isn't an option. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Default helper apps with Mozilla 0.9.5

ting the /etc/mailcap file and restarting Mozilla will let you control this. The man page for update-mime discusses using /etc/mailcap.order to acheive this, but I'm not sure what the advantage is over editing the /etc/mailcap file directly. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley ph

Re: Gnucash

the maintainer's currently on vacation ... Honeymoon, IIRC from a similar discussion a week ago on debian-devel. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier ProgramGPG and PGP

Default helper apps with Mozilla 0.9.5

file. I'd like to change this to acroread, but I'm not sure where it's getting xpdf from. Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier ProgramGPG and PGP keys

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

the later comments mentions that this setting will be hooked into the user interface at some point in the future. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104937 Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

a minimum size of 14 points. If you change the 14 to a more appropriate value (like 8 on my system), the problem goes away. Thanks to everyone who responded. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Fronti

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

fed up with 0.9.5, though. It had been working great up until now. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier ProgramGPG and PGP keys at my web page: University of Alaska Fairbanks www.

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

orking on the Mozilla source says he doesn't have this problem. I don't know what distribution he's using, but it is possible this is a Debian problem (although I can't imagine what it could be). Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / N

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

> I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, FYI, this is Debian bug #115689 Also registered with Mozilla as bug #104868 Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Netw

Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

ell. mozilla-browser-cvs also has this behavior on my system. A quick test is at: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/test.html It's just a series of lines from N = -5 to N = +5. Each line should display in a different size font. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley ph

Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes

ere's something wrong with fonts on my system. Mozilla 0.9.4 worked just fine. Thanks! Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier ProgramGPG and PGP keys at my web page: University

OT: how to deal with old mail

such a beast? If not, how do you folks manage the great crush of old, accumulated email messages on your systems? Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier ProgramGPG and PGP k

Re: nimda probes

es, and when a scanner hits one of these addresses the daemon holds the connection open permanently. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier ProgramGPG and PGP keys at my

Re: VIM Behavior Modification

mmands :autocmd FileType * set noai" default is not auto-indent :autocmd FileType c,cpp,cc set ai " auto-indent in program code Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks IARC

\222 in Mutt email

problem with mutt, as far as I know). Thanks! Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks IARC -- Frontier ProgramFairbanks, AK 99775 phone: 907-474-2689 fax: 907-474-2643 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]GNUPG

Mutt + Japanese

7;set-language-env -l ja'. I could reverse the iso-2022-jp and us-ascii in the 'send_charset' variable, but then *all* the email will leave the system in Japanese. I'd rather mutt decide for itself which to use. Any thoughts? Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swin

Re: Cups after upgrade

Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks IARC -- Frontier ProgramFairbanks, AK 99775 phone: 907-474-2689 fax: 907-474-2643 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]GNUPG and PGP2 keys at my web site

Re: Creating Install CD with reiserfs

-08-21) -- the modules won't load so I can't get my network card running (3C509) and it can't find the base system on the CD either. But when the boot floppies are ready, it'll be really slick! Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network Manager

Creating Install CD with reiserfs

Hi! I noticed that the most recent woody boot disks include a directory for Reiserfs support. How would one create a Debian install CD (with the debian-cd package) that uses this kernel / boot image? Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network Manager

slow nfs server

I drives) are plain zippy when I'm logged into the actual raid machines. It's only when I NFS import them. Any suggestions / other options? Do I need to further tweak the kernel somehow, or change some network settings? Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Dr

Re: 2.4 kernel on woody install

ard. Build, reboot, tweak the network settings a bit (since the boot configurator didn't ask me about the network stuff) and I'm good to go. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks IARC -- F

Re: 2.4 kernel on woody install

ing there was a way to get a 2.4 kernel onto the CD so I could boot from it, rather than 2.2.19. Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks IARC -- Frontier ProgramFairbanks, AK 99775 phone: 907-474-2689

2.4 kernel on woody install

ld load a 2.4 kernel instead? I could just build a custom kernel that would support most of my hardware so I wouldn't need to worry about drivers. Any thoughts? Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks

Re: iptables rules

, but it's easy for me to tweak it when I discover I want a new rule or want to block something special. The first thing my shell script does is to flush the chains so I'm always starting fresh. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerU

Re: Lucent 56k Suddenly Stopped Working!

ok to see what group owns /dev/ttyS14 and add yourself to that group. If you look at the permissions carefully you'll see that the device is rw to the user and group, but there are no permissions for everyone else. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive Syste

Re: Lucent 56k WinModem

that). It's a site devoted to getting winmodems to work under Linux. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks IARC -- Frontier ProgramFairbanks, AK 99775 phone: 907-474-2689 fax: 907-474-2643

Help with Japanese support

fully integrated into Debian. Can someone give me some pointers on how what packages / configurations are necessary to allow my user to communicate in Japanese, while still leaving the majority of the system in English? Thanks! Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive S

Re: pppd 4.0

d this: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pppd/ there, and it's likely to be what you want. However, the latest version is 2.4.1, which is what's in sid, and perhaps woody as well. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerUniversi

Re: using convert to batch convert

d would reduce the size of all GIF images in the current (and all sub-) directories, as well as convert them to PNG files. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks IARC -- Frontier ProgramFairbanks, AK 99775 p

Re: Logging packets -- sysklogd / klogd / iptables

Quoting Christopher S. Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK, I'm going crazy here trying to get iptables to log packets to a > file called /var/log/kern.info. > What am I missing? And what is the right procedure to clear a log > without causing sysklogd / klogd to choke

Logging packets -- sysklogd / klogd / iptables

But ever since I decided to clear /var/log/kern.info by deleting it and touching it, I can't get sysklogd to put stuff into the file. What am I missing? And what is the right procedure to clear a log without causing sysklogd / klogd to choke? Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S.

Re: Maestro3 Won't Work

into the kernel, but I'm not sure how to do this. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks IARC -- Frontier ProgramFairbanks, AK 99775 phone: 907-474-2689 fax: 907-474-2643 email: [EMAIL

Kernel compile error?

kage build ii make 3.79.1-8 The GNU version of the "make" utility. Thanks! Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks IARC -- Frontier ProgramFairbanks, AK 99775 phone: 907-4

Re: Maestro3 Won't Work

;s no /dev/dsp.) I know I have a Maestro because when I > originally installed Debian, I chose Maestro3 as a driver and it worked fine. > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Which kernel version? And did you compile the Maestro3 driver as a module or build it into the kernel? Chris -

Re: Compiling Maestro3 Support

x' personally, but there are plenty of others. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks IARC -- Frontier ProgramFairbanks, AK 99775 phone: 907-474-2689 fax: 907-474-2643 email: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: sid / woody ppp not setting default gw

so it runs last in the sequence. This probably accounts for the 1 minute delay while it does other stuff. I still don't know why pppd isn't setting the default gateway itself, like it used to, and like the man page says 'defaultroute' should trigger. Thanks, Chris -- Christop

Re: AGP cards...anything weird?

y / sid, 4.0.3), and the results of '/sbin/lspci' (or what's in /proc/pci). You might also consult the "driver status" document at www.xfree86.org to see if your card is supported. This document contains information about both X versions (3 / 4). Chris -- Christopher S. Sw

sid / woody ppp not setting default gw

to set the default route, like it did previously? Some version info: ii ppp2.4.1-4Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon. ii libc6 2.2.3-7GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Linux machine 2.4.1 #1 Mon Feb 5 08:48:24 AKST 2001 i686 unknown Thanks!

Re: Fatal X server error.

you are running, but the versions of X in woody and sid can handle not having xfs running -- but if it's not there, the fonts need to be in the hard coded paths. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network ManagerUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks IARC -- Fron

lpq -P remote printer doesn't show all jobs

s the jobs that are associated with their local lpd, not the full set of jobs being printed / spooled on the server. Does anyone know how to configure lprng / lpr so that a remote lpq on a client shows the jobs being printed on the server? Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel:

Customizing menus

y_ to do this? The docs for menu suggest a ~/.menu directory with files underneath. I copied the entry for Eterm into my ~/.menu directory and tweaked it, but nothing changed. Any suggestions / hints? Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 cell: 322-1889

Sawfish - lisp error?

a-3GTK binding for librep with gnome support Thanks! Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 cell: 322-1889 Programmer / Analyst email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle Fairbanks, AK 99775 PGP2 key: ht

Re: Skipstone

bed_init(GtkMozEmbed *)): > assertion `retval == TRUE' failed. > Segmentation fault There's a fix in the 0.2-2 package, which is currently in incoming (at least it works for me) Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 cell: 322-1889 Programmer / Analyst

Skipstone

Embed *)): assertion `retval == TRUE' failed. Segmentation fault Anyone have any ideas? The bug tracking system shows three bugs filed against the package, but it won't show me the bugs to see if this has been reported / fixed or not. Thanks! Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 90

Re: dual head Matrox

reen "Screen 2" EndSection The two monitors are defined in the "Monitor" Section. There's a readme of some sort in the Matrox package that explains how to find the BusID's for the two heads. I think it's printed as part of the X startup stuff (startx 1&g

Re: inetd: Address already in use

Lee, > > I recently moved from potato to woody and now each time I > > 'apt-get upgrade' I get these messages in my syslog: > > You have two copies of inetd running (use ps to check). Duh. Thanks! Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-26

inetd: Address already in use

at I can do? Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 cell: 322-1889 Programmer / Analyst email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle Fairbanks, AK 99775 PGP2 key: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswin

Re: HP DesignJet 750C plotter support?

al printers, but I've never done any experiments to see the effect of removing it (if it ain't broke. . .). -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 cell: 322-1889 Programmer / Analyst email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbank

mpich -- Help!

e any hints on what I'm doing wrong, or what I should try next? Thanks. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 cell: 322-1889 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 9

Re: Sunclock kills other windows?

p to you). Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 cell: 322-1889 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswingle PGP2 key: http://www.frontier.

apt-get: 93 Protocol not supported

ches about half the files and then freezes at: [Logging in], and eventually times out. When I ftp manually (using ftp on the command line), everything seems fine. Any ideas on what's going wrong? Thanks, Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 cell: 322-1889 930 Koyuk

ImageMagick / MPEG

n someone tell me if there is a Debian package that includes this program? I have several MPEG libraries installed, but none of the Debian packages I looked at seemed like they included this file. Thanks. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive,

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

Thanks for the info. I searched the Netscape.ap file for all occurances of Courier and Helvetica and stuck those lines in my ~/.Xdefaults, but with the font sizes reduced by 10 (100 instead of 120 mostly). Now things look a little better. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

uses for displaying the menus and other non-web page text? Seems like there should be a X resource for that too. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iar

Re: Where to specify fonts for which apps?

X11/fonts/Type1/" > > If I comment out the "unix/:7101" line, the problem goes away (of course, > so do my TT fonts). Just a thought, try putting your "FontPath "unix/:7100" line after all the others, rather than first. Mine is at the end of the FontPath lin

Re: DesignJet

ative printer language. I'm not sure if all models understand Postscript -- if you've got one that doesn't, you're going to have to fiddle with Ghostscript / magicfilter to turn Postscript into PCL. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643

Re: LaTeX Package documents?

e isn't any documentation for this package in tetex-doc. Sometimes I wind up getting the source from CTAN just to get the *.dtx so I can create my own *.dvi / *.ps file for the package, but this is rare. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk

Re: LaTeX Package documents?

xdvi, or just save the *.dvi.gz file to a temporary place, and then gunzip / view using xdvi. You could also print them using dvips. I think these are the original .dtx files converted into *.dvi files for our convenience by the Debian developer who maintains tetex-doc. Chris -- Christopher S.

Re: Enlightenment Configuration

nment: /usr/share/man/man1/dox.1.gz enlightenment: /usr/bin/dox cswingle:~: dpkg -l enlightenment ii enlightenment 0.16.3-7 The Enlightenment Window Manager Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAI

Re: Real Player???????

player itself seems a little flaky). Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswingle

Re: pppd problems (CCP ResetReq)

s anyone know why printing debug output would cause pppd to fail in this way? Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775

Re: More ppp problems

your modem line and what they might be doing. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswingle PGP

pppd problems (CCP ResetReq)

ss of TCP/IP packets (during an apt-get, the download stops, it sits there for thirty seconds, and then starts downloading again). I know it's my home machine in because it connectes to a different dial in server just fine. Anybody know what I've done wrong? Chris -- Christop

Re: mouse

e with mouse properties until the mouse works. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswingle PG

Re: sendmail: NOQUEUE: Authentication-warning

point because these *new* warnings are only warnings, but if they became errors that bounced the mail, I'd be in a world of trouble that I couldn't fix. I was hoping there was a flag in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf that got changed in a recent potato upgrade and that I could reset to the way it u

sendmail: NOQUEUE: Authentication-warning

aimed to be bar I get these warnings from some of my Windows machines, as well as remote systems that must not be configured quite right. It's not a big deal, but does anyone know how to stop this warning? I worry about when it will no longer be a warning. . . Chris -- Christopher S

libungif3g-dev: post-installation script error

n the library. Is there a way around this, or should I file a bug report and wait for a repaired package? Where do these installation / configuration scripts live -- perhaps I can fix it myself? Thanks. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive,

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

IRQ 3 doesn't show up in /proc/interrupts, which seems strange, but it works. Don't know if this helps you or not. I sounds like you may have tried what I've got already. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, S

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

x27;t tried this solution yet with 3.1.8, but I'll give it a shot tomorrow and see if I can get my Xircom modem to work with the latest PCMCIA. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universit

Re: Lilo Config

mount the floppy on /mnt/floppy and restore the MBR: dd if=/mnt/floppy/mbr of=/dev/hda bs-512 count=1 Also, read /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt It'll save your butt one day. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C em

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

this goes away in 2.4 when PCMCIA is part of the kernel. . . Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99

vim / ssh / backspace

o the same thing as backspace, but it's a pain. My .bashrc on the work machine has: stty erase ^h in it, if that makes any difference. Can anyone think of what might be going on, or suggest what things I might try to make backspace work? Thanks. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley

Re: upgrading multiple machines to 2.1r4

this information and it's probably not very safe to try to do it by hand), but at least you'll have downloaded the packages only once. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fa

Re: Debian boot issue.

emove the SCSI card, install Debian 2.1, download and compile a 2.2.x kernel (with the correct Adaptec driver built in), then install the SCSI card and devices. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U

Re: gimp-nonfree

on the web because most browsers don't use the PNG transparency information. The latest Mozilla release (M12) does, but Netscape and MSIE 4.0 don't. Not sure about MSIE 5.0. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C em

Re: SANE / potato (Fixed)

ere as libsane-hp, and I wasn't calling the SANE programs correctly (I was using /dev/sg0 instead of hp:/dev/sg0). Sorry for the bandwidth. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U

SANE / potato

es in /usr/lib? find-scanner finds the HP scanner, but all of the SANE programs say "Failed to open device /dev/sg0, Invalid Argument". At this point I'm root, and have created /dev/sg0 using /MAKEDEV sg*. Thanks. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689

Re: rsh access

will allow 192.1.4.0 thru 192.1.4.255 Of course the server machine also has to have in.rshd installed and all of that. Also don't forget to restart the inetd daemon on the remote server if you change your /etc/inetd.conf file. Hope this works! Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley

Re: FrameMaker 5.5.6 for LINUX

potato (apt-getted this morning). Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswi

Re: Gcc compile/linker math

> I can't get gcc to link math functions like cos( ) etc. from > usr/include/math.h. | mathcalls.h Box is slink. Any help appreciated. > TIA. Try adding -lm to the end of your gcc line: gcc -O2 -g -Wall -o prog program.c -lm This links your program against libm.a. Chris --

mountd on SPARC

includes local filesystems (which are mounted just fine) and two remote filesystems, which are also mounting just fine. I am exporting one filesystem to a few remote machines, but /etc/exports contains machines other than the local machine. Anyone know what's going on? Chris -- Christop

Re: Error messages using Iomega ZIP

does a pretty exhaustive scan through a file and it'll find CD write errors. I don't know if it actually searches every byte / block though. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University

Re: How to create /dev/modem?

d for me. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswingle PGP key: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.ed

Re: How to create /dev/modem?

of detecting modems (in my experience). Hope this helps! Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775

Re: Clipboard-like software?

ons. Works like magic, and is far better IMHO than the key commands you have to use in Windows. Just select a bunch of text, an url, etc. with the left mouse button, move the cursor where you want it (like the location window in Netscape) and press the middle mouse button. Magic! Chris -- Ch

Re: Help with ethernet printer

nters I've used (HP, Xerox) have an internal spooler named lp. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775

Re: Deb package for Julian date?

ent. If you don't, tell me what you need and I can whip it together. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775

Re: Silo problem (SPARC potato) -- FIXED

Thanks for those who responded so quickly -- I put vmlinux instead of vmlinuz in my /etc/silo.conf file, so it was unable to find the kernel file. My stupid mistake. . . Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL

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