locks and pppd

2000-07-10 Thread Lukas Eppler
lready on the screen into the phone when I have a modem. Please help me, I have spent hours trying to solve that problem today. (which is probably not even worth the effort, but that's the nerdy business, isn't it?) - -- Lukas Eppler iotalab gmbh, Limmatauweg 18a, 5408 Ennetbaden +41 76

Re: ssh won't forward x11 connections [solved]

1999-09-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
se than me would use ssh to connect to my own computer? Thanks anyway, Lukas Am Mon, 27 Sep 1999 schrieb Martyn Pearce: >Lukas Eppler writes: >| Hi, >| >| when typing >| >| ~$ ssh localhost kvt >| >| I get >| >| _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: e

ssh won't forward x11 connections

1999-09-26 Thread Lukas Eppler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, when typing ~$ ssh localhost kvt I get _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 101 kvt: cannot connect to X server spy:10.0 This happens also when I try to connect to my machine from the outside. Since it works on the other three machines I in

strange modem behaviour

1998-12-16 Thread Lukas Eppler
When using my modem by ppp, everything works fine, always. But when trying to dial with the following script (which I plan to use out of a database), it sometimes hangs at the stty command. I have a Laptop using a ClipperCom World V.34 PCMCIA Modem. Removing it and reinserting does not solve the pr

Re: Oracle 8i has problems [solved]

1998-11-28 Thread Lukas Eppler
keeps one to two requests in the queue until it is flushed (about every 10 seconds). A workaround is to let a script start a request every second or so. Just wanted to let you know. On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Lukas Eppler wrote: > Hi, > > We managed to set up an Oracle Version 8i on our 2xP

Oracle 8i has problems

1998-11-26 Thread Lukas Eppler
request is completed instantly, but it isn't... It seems the page is blocked afterwards, outside Oracle. Since no one out there seems to have that problem we consider to try out Redhat, which would be a pity. So, I would be glad if someone could give me a hint what to try. Thanks, -- Lukas E

Re: Setting variables for menu access

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
rofile, i think. -- Lukas Eppler (godot)

Re: Security problem

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
ect. is there a directory to mention to have the security updates quicker than a week, without going slink/unstable? Thanks for your replies. -- Lukas Eppler (godot)

Re: Crash

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
ugh /etc/init.d/* stop, halts then kills the remaining processes. this is the safe way, and would not 'crash'. I saw once that at the end of the shutdown, a 'halt' or 'reboot' is executed at the very end, so on these systems, typing 'halt' is like just pressing the power button. try if your problem goes away by using 'shutdown -r now'. -- Lukas Eppler (godot)

Re: Debian Menu Methods & WMaker Menu Config

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
on. And it should work for all window managers in one run. -- Lukas Eppler (godot)

Re: KDE Questions

1998-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
em solved with the slink version? -- Lukas Eppler (godot)

Re: Security problem

1998-10-24 Thread Lukas Eppler
ve such a great distribution system and make no use of it. A pity, really. But thanks for the information. Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://so

dinstall

1998-10-24 Thread Lukas Eppler
No replies to my last post. Probably it was too long. Compressed: What does a kernel to be used with rescue disks need other than initrd/ramdisk? How can I find out what the problem is when dinstall exits with error code 100? How can I disable scsi bus scans at the boot prompt? Gruss -- Lukas

Re: mount NFS during boot problem

1998-10-24 Thread Lukas Eppler
or rpc.nfsd on the server machine was not up (i.e. on the other computer). So, maybe it is really the missing local portmapper. Find out where it gets started, and take a look at the logs of the other computer, if your machine tries to connect or not. Gruss -- L

can't dinstall

1998-10-23 Thread Lukas Eppler
r with the screwdriver when I want to use the scanner.) Helplessly yours -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors

1998-10-22 Thread Lukas Eppler
str($2,2),$1 }' | sort -n| head -10 I admit this produces a lot of traffic, but just once. Still better than ftp1. I don't know how it should be adapted for apt, tough. Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch

Re: just shoot me

1998-10-21 Thread Lukas Eppler
y fixed immediately in stable, or will they come in an upgrade dir, like I saw with 'bo-upgrades'? I heard rumors that cd vendors are against every change in stable, which is understandable. Maybe it will get better with apt? Or can I feel secure by using stable? Gruss -- Lukas Epple

Re: BROWSER

1998-10-18 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:51:22PM +0200, Lukas Eppler wrote: > > forms. You might try lynx and configure it with zgv as graphical viewer > > (runs in the console, but is quick as hell). > Can you tell me how to configure lynx thi

Re: BROWSER

1998-10-16 Thread Lukas Eppler
alled. Other browsers I only know the name: amaya, mozilla (from netscape), qtscape (mozilla port on qt-libraries). Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot)

Debian on Notebooks

1998-10-16 Thread Lukas Eppler
omprar un notebook (ayer) y quisiera instalar > Linux en él. Podriais aclararme cosas ???. Even tough I did not understand everything (Julián, please try to write english, even if it is difficult for you, people will understand better) it seems the same question. Thanks, -- Lukas Eppler (godot)

No Deadkeys in some X apps

1998-01-30 Thread Lukas Eppler
Hi, Everything works in xterm, but in kvt, netscape, lyx I have no deadkeys. Since I use a german keyboard layout, I have no chance to type a ~, for example. (ok, copy-paste from an xterm works, but...) Can someone give me a hint where to look at? Thanks, -- Lukas Eppler (godot

lpr to ethernet printer / apsfilter

1997-12-30 Thread Lukas Eppler
? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FR

Bootdisk for PCMCIA?

1997-12-22 Thread Lukas Eppler
Hi, Is there a boot floppy set which supports installation over a pcmcia network card? If not, how is the simplest way to do it? -- Lukas Eppler -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Removing obsolete packages

1997-11-18 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Dirk Bonne wrote: > >>>>> "Lukas" == Lukas Eppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Lukas> Hi, When I remove a package, which contains files also > Lukas> contained in other packages, is it removed? > > Lu

Re: Removing obsolete packages

1997-11-18 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Dirk Bonne wrote: > >>>>> "Lukas" == Lukas Eppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lukas> Hi, When I remove a package, which contains files also > Lukas> contained in other packages, is it removed? > dpkg will refuse to r

Removing obsolete packages

1997-11-17 Thread Lukas Eppler
perl, perl-base: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00307/auto/Socket perl, perl-base: /usr/lib/perl5/File perl, perl-base: /usr/lib/perl5/auto perl, perl-base: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/DynaLoader Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fe

Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread Lukas Eppler
Unix) eingesetzt werden. Bereits werden Gegenprogramme gegen diesen sogenannten "F0"-Bug angeboten, die wie Virensucher die Programme nach dem fatalen Befehl absuchen. Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch

Re: dselect problem...

1997-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
while with it already solved such problems for me. I think forcing someone to use unstable packages when having such kind of problems is not the best way. a lot of people are using stable without these problems. Are you sure you don't need extra packages when usi

Re: win95 fat32

1997-10-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
lied the patch. Probably some people running unstable know more...? Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-24 Thread Lukas Eppler
On 21 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lukas Eppler writes: > > This is also better for debian, because every package comes with its own > > config tool. > > This is news to me. What config tool comes with cnews? with suck? with > pppd? You're right, I shou

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-24 Thread Lukas Eppler
pkg. Does this make sense? Yes it does. It is only a calling standard. A definition. It would be simple to follow it for package maintainers, and easy to implement in dselect/diety. Please don't take me too literal, I learned english too late to be able to express everything the right way

Re: make dep errors

1997-10-23 Thread Lukas Eppler
which I ran dpkg -i * ... Kind of a brute-force way... :-) Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:[EMAIL PR

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-21 Thread Lukas Eppler
he diety project in hamm. They're doing a lot of work on that. Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:

Re: Where is xload program?

1997-10-17 Thread Lukas Eppler
splitted not long ago. Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: From Slackware to Debian

1997-10-17 Thread Lukas Eppler
r a 1.6 gig hardisk. I am relatively new to linux. I am asking back: What is bad about one big partition? I have it like that, I am flexible as hell, and have no clear problems with it. Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch

Re: Problems

1997-10-16 Thread Lukas Eppler
ack-and-white-xterms, never seen. So I copied /etc/termcap/x/xterm-color over /etc/termcap/x/xterm after having made a backup of the black-and-white xterm description. No problems encountered until now. So, every normal xterm is known to be able to handle colors. Gruss -- Lukas

Re: Login's source absent

1997-10-16 Thread Lukas Eppler
cho...; setterm) > /etc/issue to write a happy colorful greeting. Probably cp /etc/issue /etc/issue.old is a good Idea. After logging in, login displays /etc/motd. Can be colorful too, I think. Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot)

Re: man page for nsswitch.conf

1997-10-16 Thread Lukas Eppler
hat libc6 is unstable and in development. So problems about it should go in [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.

Re: mail delivery notification

1997-10-09 Thread Lukas Eppler
u can use the command 'finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]' to see when your recipient checked his mail for the last time. -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet:

my first package - xvgr

1997-10-07 Thread Lukas Eppler
t, but I am afraid I would bother them with my stupid questions. And, I don't want to upgrade to unstable yet, so I may need someone who helps me with publishing. Let me advertise a bit more: If you think you may be able to debianise a program, try it. Let debian be growing. :-) Have fu

Re: non-English Linux use

1997-10-04 Thread Lukas Eppler
n't suffer for that, I'm just interested. Thanks -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem installing Debian 1.3.1 on Thinkpad 760ED

1997-10-03 Thread Lukas Eppler
ably you'll have to copy the pcmcia- and kernel-sources to your laptop by hand afterwards to get pcmcia-support, maybe there is a pcmcia-support binary around for the targa kernel. Otherwise, look into the old messages here (old i.e. last week), there was a discussion about installing pcmcia-suppo

Re: mpeg and dat viewer

1997-10-03 Thread Lukas Eppler
*** Opt non-free xanim 2.70.6.4-2 2.70.6.4-2 Plays Multimedia files which is on debian. It supports several formats. -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.

Re: bo-updates

1997-10-01 Thread Lukas Eppler
, but just one plain Packages.gz file > in bo-updates/ So it would be even simpler!? So let's do it! Who can do it? -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch

bo-updates

1997-09-30 Thread Lukas Eppler
be a good solution, stable stays stable! And creating these sub-directories wouldn't be _that_ hard... or am I missing something? Thanks, -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch t

Re: No Debian updates?

1997-09-30 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, lukas eppler wrote: > > Do people who don't want to fiddle around with libc6-stuff wait half a > > year for an upgrade? > > ... > The excuse we have this time is the libc6 change. This means _ev

Re: No Debian updates?

1997-09-29 Thread Lukas Eppler
use software which is four months behind, I can buy a cd, that's faster. The ftp/dselect method was, why I changed to debian. Why don't you try to have something stable and actual? Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-26 Thread Lukas Eppler
ith dftp regularly, its more convenient to buy cd's every half a year. And when that happens, the debian way of installing software is not much better than the redhat or suse way, which would be a pity. Would it be too much work to maintain a "current"-distribution? -- Luk

Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-23 Thread Lukas Eppler
which is available, something which can't be done by sharing software on cd. Are there no new stable packages, or do I have to wait until a major upgrade is ready? -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fe

Re: disk activities on a notebook..

1997-08-18 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, David Puryear wrote: > On 11-Aug-97 Lukas Eppler wrote: > On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: > > On Aug 8, 1997, at 07:05, David Puryear wrote: > > > Does anyone know what is accessing the hard drive every 3 or four > > > sec

Re: disk activities on a notebook..

1997-08-16 Thread Lukas Eppler
when files are accessed, only which files... There are situations, where my hd spins down, but it managed only to stay calm for at maximum 2 seconds. ?? Thanks, -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch

trick for laptops

1997-08-01 Thread Lukas Eppler
hen you log in over the net, so it changes the behaviour of local logins only. There is an /etc/issue file appended here as an example. I was just so glad about having found this trick that I wanted to share it. Thanks, -- Lukas Eppler (godot)

supported serial cards?

1997-07-18 Thread Lukas Eppler
Hi, Does somebody know a good serial card with at least eight ports, which is simple to set up with Debian? Thanks, -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch:

xserver-svga 3.3-3 on an lcd

1997-07-14 Thread Lukas Eppler
code selection modified because virtualX != 1024 (--) SVGA: Using Linear Frame Buffer at 0x0800, Size 1MB (--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture) (--) SVGA: XAA: No acceleration primitives defined. Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot)

/proc filesystem

1997-06-30 Thread Lukas Eppler
any clues? -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-m

sendmail and innd broken

1997-06-30 Thread Lukas Eppler
195.48.69.100 # eth0 end My installation is "stable". (For the Version numbers). Any help is appreciated. -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch

Able to boot zImages?

1997-03-21 Thread Lukas Eppler
e-Bootdisk to work with the other six Debian-Rescue-Disks? Thanks in advance -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: