Re: ? .bashrc and .bash_profile and PATH

2002-01-06 Thread Martin \"matlads\" Atukunda
hi you might want to check out the package sysprofile (apt-get install sysprofile) but it is only available for testing and unstable. generally though you can set PATH in /etc/profile for all users to use when they log in. hth -- M. On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:13:10PM -0800, Paul E Condon de

Re: trident: incredibly crappy sound

2002-01-06 Thread Martin \"matlads\" Atukunda
Hi I've got the same card #lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630 Host (rev 21) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02) Subsystem: Silicon Int

Re: "The following packages have been kept back"

2001-05-28 Thread matlads
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 01:30:41PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:53:16PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > > aalib1: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2) but 2.1.3-18 is to be installed > >

Re: "The following packages have been kept back"

2001-05-27 Thread matlads
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:16:45AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 03:16:55PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What is going on, and why can't apt-get upgrade the remaining 62 packages? > > How do I get it to upgrade them? > > It doesn't want to automatically process them

Re: Free mail a/c that allows download of mail

2001-05-27 Thread matlads
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 11:47:22PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any free mail accounts (like hotmail etc.) that allow you to > download your mail so that you can read it with mutt say? Instead of > having to view it through the web browser when connected to the > internet. Try www.m

"The following packages have been kept back"

2001-05-27 Thread matlads
Hi everyone, I tried to move from stable to testing yesterday. I edited my sources.list and changed all occurances of 'stable' to 'testing'. I then run the following: fot2:~#apt-get update fot2:~#apt-get dist-upgrade It upgraded only a few of the packages and 'kept' back the rest. i rerun

Authenticating for Web Access

2001-05-26 Thread matlads
Hello, I've ~ 200 users and the majority have their own workstations at the office. I would like to regulate their web access though not their access to their workstations depending on the current status of their payup email accounts. If the account is up to date then the workstation is given in

Re: Customizing Netscape w/.Xresources & .Xdefaults

2001-05-24 Thread matlads
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:36:11AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > A couple of years ago I asked this question and received a reply that > answered it. I need to ask again due to a recent destruction of all of > my systems including the archives. I want to remove the "SHOP" button > from the Netscape t

Re: Newbie: where did my tar.gz file decompress to?

2001-05-24 Thread matlads
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:49:04AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > In the continuing saga of this unix/linux novice > trying to install NVIDIA drivers from floppy I learned > how with the help of the responses from this list to > mount my floppy and decompress my tar files using "tar > -xzvf NVIDIA.t

Re: Font Problems in Sid...

2001-05-23 Thread matlads
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:33:08AM -0400, Daniel Katz wrote: > P.S. Anybody know a good introduction for beginners to this whole area > (i.e., fonts, character sets, and graphical displays)? check out 1. http://people.redhat.com/~mgalgoci/fonts/fixing.html 2. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini

Re: XDM or GNOME???

2001-05-23 Thread matlads
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:57:09AM +0200, spider wrote: > i installed potato on my machine, and i had XDM as the window manager. > i wanted to switch to GNOME, so i put: > exec gnome-session > in my .xinit file (/etc/X11/xinitrd/.xinit --- i hope its the right path...) > > 1. did i do the

Re: Abiword and ttf

2001-05-20 Thread matlads
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:45:47PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Could you please explain what aspects of xfs you had to tweak? I have xfs > installed. --Hans http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/ Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Static routes

2001-05-14 Thread matlads
joe /etc/network/interfaces man interfaces should also help Martin. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:14:33PM -0400, Michael Goodman wrote: > What file do I edit so my static routes are defined at boot? Thanks. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subjec

Re: rw permission to windows partition (was Unidentified subject)

2001-05-10 Thread matlads
much better approach. Martin. On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:49:24PM +0200, Markus Mohr wrote: > ...or mount it with the uid, gid of your user. Gives him the proper rights. > > ciao > marksu > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: I don't get it.

2001-05-10 Thread matlads
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 07:26:28AM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:47:11AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:04:23PM -0500, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:01:42PM +1000, Craig Holyoak wrote: > > > > potato => stable > > > >

Re: owning a process from another shell (same user)

2001-05-10 Thread matlads
I normally do a ^a a to get the same functionality. Martin. On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:29:44PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:08:16AM +0200, Casper Gielen wrote: > > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:49:35PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is there some way to tak