THNKS! (Was Re: Adding a lot of users in a single operation.)

"fertilize" their work environment, we tend to find these problems. This could be a great question to put in FAQ. Again, thanks for your help, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Commun

proftpd doesn't allow users to log in

ecord anything, only that I closed the session down. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communications Group

Adding a lot of users in a single operation.

Hi! I was wondering whether it would be possible to add a number of users with a single command. Ideally, there would be a call to pwgen (or something like that!) and the passwords would be held in a file. Any ideas (apart from "do it in perl!")? Jose -- Jose L

Re: Athlon and debian

le disks and make them boot off an Athlon aware kernel? That is, get the disks you mention in your message from unstable, and then have the installation procedure from stable. X-? I'm a bit confused. Thanks a lot for your help, we'll see how it goes when it

Athlon and debian

hics card will not be supported by XF86 3.3.2 (?). So far, I have installed slink and apt-get upgrade-ed it as necessary. Is there a better way? Has someone got any "success stories" about Debian and Athlon? Thanks, Jose -- J

OT/INFO: Number crunching processor

his. Any thoughts on this? Thanks a lot, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communications Group Department of Electronic Engineering University of Sheffield UK

Re: Burning CD-Rs with Debian?

ore sense to just burn slink, install that and then upgrade? Thanks, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communications Group Depa

Burning CD-Rs with Debian?

t main or do you get the non-free bits as well? Sorry if the questions are a bit stupid, but this is my first time. So far, I kept going with network installs, but now it's time to upgrade the old box at home. Thanks a lot! Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans

Re: ATI Mach64 mouse woes!

blame for). The card's fine (windows 3.11 finds it, boots in lo res and the mouse wiggles about nicely, as if it nothing had happened), and this problem has happened with every single PCI SVGA card I've used so far (and I have tried 3 different ones!!!). Any other suggestion

ATI Mach64 mouse woes!

ntium MMX compatible with PCI and ISA bus and with an VXPro+ chipset. I'm using debian slink with XFree 3.5. Tia, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communications Group

What packages are installed?

rint-avail, but this does not seem to take wildcards. Any hints? Thanks, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communications Group Department o

HP 890C printing

ev/lp0 (no need to spool here so far). What comes out of this is a garbled output of one line of greek symbols reminiscent of the days of dot matrix printers :) Thanks in advance, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student

lp stopped working--"connection refused"

s bit, it's just when it sends the job to the printer that I get an error. I'm clueless as of what's going on in here... Can anyone help? TIA, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communicat

apt-get cache deleted-->apt-get not working anymore

ion. Does anyone have any clues on how to go on about this? Thanks in advance, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communications Group

Re: Lprng and magicfilter

goes on and on [sorry :D] you may want to read the Printing-HOWTO. Or reconfigure magicfilter to work as a ljet4m. So, as root, try /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. The program that runs is self-explanatory... -- Jose L Gomez Dans

LPRng spooling and small HDDs

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[ERROR!] NEW Samba + Printer woes

Again, sorry for the annoyance! Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communications Group Department of Electronic Engineering University of Sheffield UK

NEW Samba + Printer woes

ouple of days ago, with only one parallel port, everything worked fine. lptune says that both lp1 and lp2 use polling. I don't know what else to do. Any words of wisdom on that one? Cheers, Jose -- Jose

Two printers under lp

to this printer's spool directory, but there they stay. If I issue an lpq, the queue appears to be empty. Any clues? Thanks, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Com

SMB as printer server: suggestions

that)? I'm getting desperate now!!! Also, does anyone know how to go around on the clients side, when they're using WfWg? I downloaded a TCP/IP driver, and disk sharing is no problem. It's only printing that doesn't happen! Thanks for your help.

[THNXS]&[Q]: SMB client for Dos/win3.11

, basically X-D) Thanks a lot, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communications Group Department of Electronic Engineering

Installation on an i386 with *only* 40 Mb HDD

its for this. I only want this computer to act as a very simple and experimental printer server. Any ideas? Thanks, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communications Group

Network card is giving trouble

ort this problem out? Cheers, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communications Group Department of Electronic Engineering University of Sheffield UK

Debian printer server for heterogenous network

Cheers! Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communications Group Department of Electronic Engineering University of Sheffield UK

Xfig question

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gnuplot/libvga and permissions

fine (I can only think of zgv at the moment) from my normal user account, I am at a bit of a loss here. I suspect that I set some dodgy permissions, but which? Thanks for the help! Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar

Fortran + X11 compilation

plot -lX11 The thing seems to work, but ldd complains it can't find the X11 libraries. I don't know what libraries these are, does anyone have a clue? Thanks! Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar &a

Re: Problem with gpm/mouse in general

or gpm options... device=/dev/ttyS0 responsiveness= type=ms append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\"" All that from /etc/gpm.conf. Hope that helps! Cheers, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student

Re: Mouse again!

sically, in old motherboards, you needed some hardware on the first PCI slot. Since the card is too big, I can only place it on the last slot. I placed the sound card (which I'm not using or anything near that), and the problem persists. I'll try to use another gfx card that I

Mouse again!

work Thanks a lot. Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communications Group Department of Electronic Engineering University of Sheffield UK

Re: Mouse not working--could it be an S3Virge incompatibility issue?

is going around errantly, moving extremely fast most of the time, or not showing up at all. So at least now it moves too fast to be useful, but the buttons don't work :/// -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communicatio

Re: Mouse not working--could it be an S3Virge incompatibility issue?

; Which com port is your mouse on? It's on /dev/ttyS0 (COM1), all other details are set to standard settings. -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communications Group Dep

Mouse not working--could it be an S3Virge incompatibility issue?

nd my serial port. The card is a S3 Virge with a 86C325 chip. Does anyone know what might be causing this? My old card is an extremely old VGA. Thanks a lot and sorry for going on about the same problems all the time Regards, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD st

Re: Mouse not working!!!!!!!!!

On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 07:01:48PM +0100, Björn Elwhagen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:23:46AM -0600, Jose L. Gomez Dans wrote this: > > > >As I said in my original message, I think it's a hardware problem. I only > > shut down my computer, installed a card, a

Re: Mouse not working!!!!!!!!!

ry this isn't much help; maybe others on the list will have more info > for you. Thanks a lot. Maybe with a bit more information -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communications Group Department of Electronic Engineering University of Sheffield UK

Mouse not working!!!!!!!!!

that the problem might be in the irq/port. Can anyone help? I think I have to change something in the BIOS, but I'm not used to these things yet :-))) Thanks a lot! Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Commun

Smail not delivering local e-mail

figuration is mixing the two addresses up. Can anyone help? I'd be glad to provide any files. TIA, Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans Radar & Communications Group Department of Ele

Help with smail!

are fine, and I don't know what has caused this program to stop working. Outgoing mail seems to work fine, so I guess that the problem lies within the tcp/ip bit of the chain, not with smail. Please, if someone's got an idea, help. TIA Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans

Accessing Novell mail from debian

format to read these files, but I don't know what format to choose. I tried a crontab entry to "cat" all the .cnm files in the novell directory to my spool file, but the resulting file is useless. Does anybody have any help on that one? Cheers! Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans

colour in emacs/console

emacs does when called from X. Cheers,Jose -- Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student Radar & Communications Group Department of Electronic Engineering Univ

Moving computer without losing things

Hi! I have been using a debian system for a couple of months now, and I am extremely happy with it. However, since this isn't my computer, I have been told that I'll have to leave this computer, and take a newer one. I was wondering if there is a way to actually send all the files I've got

HP 5L still giving problems!!

le is sent to it, it prints out all sorts of weird characters, and something that resembles the file. Does anybody know what's wrong with this? I've got gs (v3.33), and I've got my magicfilter for ljet4l (among others :D). Any more help would be appreciated. Thanks!

HP Laser Jet 5L anyone?

Hiya! I've been tinkering around with debian for the past two weeks, and everything seems to be working fine. Unless the printer is taken into account. The printer is an HP LaserJet 5L, and even though it can print simple text, it won't print PS files properly. I think it might have to do