Re: Problems getting dialup to work

2003-12-12 Thread Walter Dnes
92 or 1454, *NOT* 1500. Dial-up is usually 576. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email users are divided into two classes; 1) Those who have effective spam-blocking 2) Those who wish they did -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mutt, stop CC-ing the list

2003-12-10 Thread Walter Dnes
EMAIL PROTECTED] | formail -i "Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian-user list)" This appends a Reply-To: that undoes the damage caused by accepting, Chip's advice. This way, I can hit "r" when reading my "Debian-User" folder just like with my "Inbo

Re: could not eject CDROM as a normal user: [solved]

2003-12-10 Thread Walter Dnes
o one group, but not drop him from all other groups, > > without having to type in all the current groups he belongs to > > $> adduser > > If you already know these, apologies. Thank you very much. That's exactly what I was looking for. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL

Re: Dhcp and ssh

2003-12-09 Thread Walter Dnes
for router address. 192.168.1.255 The broadcast address used by the router (syslog output). This follows the default convention for broadcast address. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm not repeating myself; I'm an X Window user, I'm an ex-Windows user

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-09 Thread Walter Dnes
e demo game to demonstrate the potential of INFO. You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike... * Menu: * left:: ??? * right:: ??? * up:: ??? * down::??? * backwards:: ??? * forwards::??? -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email users are divided

Problems getting dialup to work

2003-12-09 Thread Walter Dnes
ted. --> Starting pppd at Tue Dec 9 18:33:41 2003 --> pid of pppd: 673 It stalls and just sits here until I hit CTRL-C --> Disconnecting at Tue Dec 9 18:35:04 2003 [18:35:04][/root] -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email users are divided into two classes; 1) Those who

Re: could not eject CDROM as a normal user: [solved]

2003-12-08 Thread Walter Dnes
oot] usergroups waltdnes cdrom,floppy,audio, This shows that the addition succeeded. At this point, somebody will point me to a simple built-in group management command that I missed... -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email users are divided into two classes; 1) Those who have effective spam-blocking 2) Those who wish they did -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Yamaha YMF-724F sound chip and midi

2003-12-07 Thread Walter Dnes
. And also, I don't run desktops, I run applications. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email users are divided into two classes; 1) Those who have effective spam-blocking 2) Those who wish they did -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting CDRW to work in Debian

2003-12-01 Thread Walter Dnes
> ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom > ln -s /dev/scd1 /dev/cdrw I used the names /dev/dvdrom and /dev/cdrw, mounted on /dvdrom and /cdrw, respectively. Otherwise, I followed your instructions to the letter. Thanks again. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email users are divided

Re: Getting CDRW to work in Debian

2003-11-30 Thread Walter Dnes
ts found. request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted i2o_scsi.c: Version 0.0.1 chain_pool: 0 bytes @ c1206f00 (512 byte buffers X 4 can_queue X 0 i2o controllers) -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email users are divided in

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Walter Dnes
es modelines for use with X. Note, you need to enable javascript. This is one of the few sites where it's actually justified to require javascript. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email users are divided into two classes; 1) Those who have effective spam-blocking 2) Those who wish t

Re: Info Problem

2003-11-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:14:59AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote > Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 06:29:55PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote > >> On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:58:43PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > >> > >> &g

Getting CDRW to work in Debian

2003-11-29 Thread Walter Dnes
ples whatsoever. Can somebody who's gotten a similar setup running please post their files? Thanks. Alternatively, there's supposed to be undocumented native support for ATAPI devices in cdrecord; has anybody figured that out? -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email users are div

Re: Info Problem

2003-11-29 Thread Walter Dnes
ram to get help? Okay, probably not practical. Is there an info-to-man conversion program somewhere ? -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email users are divided into two classes; 1) Those who have effective spam-blocking 2) Those who wish they did -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Setting text mode in the console

2003-11-29 Thread Walter Dnes
font with the consolechars command, e.g. consolechars -f /usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-10.psf.gz will give you the 10-high font. This is usefull for trying out different modes to see what you like. SVGATextMode can be used to pack in more scanlines, and give more rows with the same font. -- W

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-29 Thread Walter Dnes
'm going to have to do a lot of un-learning of Redhat in addition to learning Debian. Reminds me of The Firesign Theatre comedy album... "Everything You Know is Wrong". -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email users are divided into two classes; 1) Those who have effective s

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-29 Thread Walter Dnes
he new one. My worry about LVM is that if LVM depends on the OS/kernel to exist, then when the old OS is wiped, the "logical volume" holding my personal data ceases to exist. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email users are divided into two classes; 1) Those who have effective s

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-28 Thread Walter Dnes
ork with ReiserFS 2) Will it survive having the OS blown away (e.g. 3.01) and a new one (3.02) installed 3) Is it a regular option (I'm not into kernel patching) -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email users are divided into two classes; 1) Those who have effective spam-blockin

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-28 Thread Walter Dnes
files in /home/waltdnes get over-written ? > Or you could just give yourself One Big Partition and deal with the > attendant problems. I'm trying to get as close as possible to One Big Partition, without the problems. The minimal needs seem to be... / swap /var userspace+miscellaneous

How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-28 Thread Walter Dnes
user dir. My understanding is that Debian loads a whole slew of packages in /var during the main install and I need to have at least a gig of space. Is that correct ? Which directory ? Is it possible to symlink that directory elsewhere ? -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email users are