Re: Must /tmp be on boot partition?

2000-02-01 Thread David Wright
with foo being a separately mounted partition. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery

Re: damn! I screwed up

2000-02-01 Thread David Wright
on the video card you have. However, I assume you have Hobson's Choice, because dists/stable/main/binary-m68k/x11/xserver-fbdev_3.3.2.3a-11.deb appears to be only xserver in slink/m68k. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: damn! I screwed up

2000-02-01 Thread David Wright
match the name of a particular program within them, even though the odd one does. They are also in lower case with a more restricted character set.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England

Re: logrotate

2000-02-01 Thread David Wright
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Re: Two crashes so far with dselect configure

2000-02-01 Thread David Wright
enough that people may want/require either, so they're both supplied. Just remove the one you don't want. (With no preferences, I just remove the older one.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes

Re: Setting up Debian - II

2000-02-02 Thread David Wright
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Re: Yehaw!

2000-02-02 Thread David Wright
-2.3.41_foo.1_i386.deb in the directory above you (i.e. in ..) which you can then install like any .deb file. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses

Re: Odd screen

2000-02-02 Thread David Wright
. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own

Re: Setting up Debian - III

2000-02-02 Thread David Wright
, dos 6.x warning). DOS fdisk won't create more than one primary partition for some reason. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only

Re: Pink text on white ground?

2000-02-02 Thread David Wright
it to check the colors. I three-quarters expect that you've got a dead gun in your monitor or something similar. Not if it's on a white background. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England

Re: Yehaw!

2000-02-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, David Wright wrote: You'll be left with a package called /kernel-image-2.3.41_foo.1_i386.deb in the directory above you (i.e. in ..) which you can then install like any .deb file. I follow up to that point but my Windows brain does

Re: Beep?

2000-02-03 Thread David Wright
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XF86Config but NOT for a mac

2000-02-03 Thread David Wright
it to a more sensible location (above). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views

Re: PPP kernel support?

2000-02-04 Thread David Wright
. The kernel works well except I can't dial out. The PPP-HOWTO mentions this problem (under Debugging). There will also be such questions answered in the Mail Archives but I can't recall how long ago. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David

Re: Module upgrading question

2000-02-04 Thread David Wright
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Re: Beep?

2000-02-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting Joachim Trinkwitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Many things make the system beep when you type the wrong thing in. Typically, pressing up- or down-arrow (bash shell, command recall) too many times will make the system

Re: LateX/TeX problems on slink. tex.fmt missing???

2000-02-09 Thread David Wright
/msg01204.html Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my

Re: Install problem

2000-02-10 Thread David Wright
.tgz . gunzip base2_1.tgz ls (Copying it prevents you altering the original. IIRC at this stage . is / so it doesn't matter if you add a tarfile.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England

Re: Problems with Kernel 2.2.13 and 2.2.14

2000-02-10 Thread David Wright
on the inaccessible scsi disk at boot time). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views

Re: Install problem

2000-02-11 Thread David Wright
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Re: Network config and domain name ?

2000-02-16 Thread David Wright
for all my card types and hack. Sorry about such a long post... Hardly :) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do

Re: Recording cd's with cdrecord or xcdroast

2000-02-17 Thread David Wright
operations (via hard disk). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed

Re: tpqic02 question

2000-02-22 Thread David Wright
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Re: default options

2000-02-22 Thread David Wright
then download that deb, you'll find the /boot/config... file contained within. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do

Re: fork failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-02-24 Thread David Wright
is set. Anyone? Check whether you're trying to start samba daemons from xinetd (and don't). Samba bug #17907. any idea why nmbd went nuts? that hasn't happened to me. Perhaps you don't. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright

Re: NCR53c406a

2000-02-24 Thread David Wright
the same drivers. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here

Re: wu-ftpd fails CRC checks

2000-02-25 Thread David Wright
057748fecb0b918eda5dc3df0ebf4a1d winamp25e_full.exe VERY different sums Any thoughts? One of bit difference will give a completely different md5. That's an essential property they have. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright

Re: NCR53c406a

2000-02-25 Thread David Wright
in the computer. So there's any way to pass trought this message and install sytem ? As I said, try different kernels. There are some more at the ftp site. Do you have any fast/slow/safe kernels on your CD? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David

Re: pause page

2000-02-29 Thread David Wright
if no output is being generated. Obviously it would be an inappropriate way of doing things in a multitasking OS. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer

Re: pause page

2000-03-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, David Wright wrote: Quoting Beavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): sometimes i try to read the help files, but they come down to fast how do you pause the scrolling text? the pause/ break button doesn't seem to respond i know

Re: Cups 1.0.5

2000-03-01 Thread David Wright
660C -vparallel:/dev/lp1 Does that need quotes? (I have no idea, not running cups.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA

Re: IBM NetFinity 7000

2000-03-02 Thread David Wright
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Re: Kernel 2.2.14 and Xserver

2000-03-03 Thread David Wright
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Re: installation script (was: dc390 what does...)

2000-03-07 Thread David Wright
: hda1 hda2 is an example. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed

Re: How to add a user to a group on the fly

2000-03-07 Thread David Wright
session, so I can just Alt-Ctrl-Fx back and forth between the two X sessions until I get around to shutting down session #1.) Thanks anyway! Why not just /bin/su - foo where foo is yourself? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright

Re: quick question

2000-03-08 Thread David Wright
it off, if I intend to boot into DOS first, then Linux? I would use a better subject line. If you're booting into DOS, then make just the DOS partition bootable. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton

bin86 missing (was Re: compiling new kernel)

2000-03-08 Thread David Wright
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Re: colors change. help

2000-03-08 Thread David Wright
could run X with more colour depth. I have to use 8bpp. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

2000-03-09 Thread David Wright
and only adds up the files it can see (subject to mount points, permissions, etc.). df just tells you what used and what's free, without caring about whether the used blocks are accessible. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: HELP! Install problem. How to free I/O locked by reserve=... in boot params?

2000-03-09 Thread David Wright
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Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-09 Thread David Wright
guess what the maintainers have completed and/or manually piece it together again. I hope this micro-history makes it a bit plainer. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-10 Thread David Wright
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Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-10 Thread David Wright
to each ISP's server? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here

Re: How to make SCSI only bootup

2000-03-17 Thread David Wright
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Re: no such device as /dev/lpt1

2000-03-17 Thread David Wright
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Re: make menuconfig

2000-03-17 Thread David Wright
. check a kernel-source paragraph in the Packages file.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official

Re: How to have quieter bootup messages?

2000-03-17 Thread David Wright
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Re: empty .ssh directory

2000-03-17 Thread David Wright
in the List Archives :( Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here

Re: ADDING [deb...] TO SUBJECTS

2000-03-29 Thread David Wright
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Re: s...l...o...w... ppp xfers

2000-03-30 Thread David Wright
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Re: Su Development Packages

2000-03-30 Thread David Wright
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Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-30 Thread David Wright
? Alternatively, is the transducer set correctly in a combination card? Don't rely on autoselect on some cards. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses

Re: EMERGENCY: LILO can't load Win95 / Mount fails

2000-03-31 Thread David Wright
rather quietly into linux kernels, judging by rgrep -i -r fat32 * Ie, have you mounted the partition successfully before from linux? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA

Re: ext2resize: anyone know know to use it?

2000-03-31 Thread David Wright
believe that a filesystem size must be = partition size. In other words, expand a partition first, contract a filesystem first. But backup the essentials before doing either! Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept

Re: apt-get and personal data

2000-03-31 Thread David Wright
, countries, number of installed systems, the fields they are working in, etc. You may well fall foul of the Data Protection Act at least in Europe. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7

Re: serial line initialization

2000-03-31 Thread David Wright
and crtscts should be redundant here. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery

Re: cron

2000-03-31 Thread David Wright
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Re: Include directories

2000-03-31 Thread David Wright
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Re: Help

2000-03-31 Thread David Wright
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Re: Unusual Lilo LI problem

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
to install it on both disks so that you don't have to worry if you remove the ide drive again. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only

Re: zip and parport printer sharing??

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
the parallel ports differently so your 2.0's lp1 will probably become 2.2's lp0. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me

Re: EMERGENCY: LILO can't load Win95 / Mount fails

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Angus Claydon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, David Wright wrote: Quoting Stefan Baums ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hda1 contains what cfdisk calls Win95 FAT32 (LBA) (the lost Win95 partition) hda4 contains a Debian 2.0 base system LILO was set up

Re: serial ports faster that 38.4K?

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
user. spd_vhi Use 115kb when the application requests 38.4kb. This parameter may be specified by a non-privileged user. --8 Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David

Re: gzip/gunzip problems

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
, and even CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 if you should come across one of these. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do

Re: Include directories

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Viktor Rosenfeld ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): David Wright wrote: Are you saying that the software you downloaded has .c files and some .h files specially for it? Exactly! What I do in that case is to have all the .c and .h files in the current directory (whereever), and use

Re: zip and parport printer sharing??

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
that without modules, you have to make sure that the zip drive is present when you boot. Or can you use any of the scsiutils to get round this? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England

Re: NIC

2000-04-03 Thread David Wright
? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own

Re: is there a linux clone of solaris ndd

2000-11-29 Thread David Wright
? If so, ping hostname. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-12-01 Thread David Wright
workaround, though it's untested as I don't use dselect: 1, 2. As above. 3. Do this as a user, not root. That way you're limited to read-only access. 4. Restore it to point at stable. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: SCSI

2000-12-04 Thread David Wright
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Re: Netscape, IMAP and compact folder

2000-12-04 Thread David Wright
to compact the folder? Does it crash? Are you changing folder at that time? Does the change succeed? Does the folder always contain a very new email whenever you have that problem? etc. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: Partitioning disk

2000-12-04 Thread David Wright
premise - of course one of the reasons we use linux is precisely because we can write software ourselves, and we need somewhere to install it. I don't want Debian putting anything into local. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright

Re: swap size

2000-12-04 Thread David Wright
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Re: SCSI

2000-12-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting John F. Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What is the minimum connector distance for scsi II? At least 10cm. This is also the maximum distance that termination can be from the end of the cable. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David

Re: swap size

2000-12-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): David Wright writes: I get the impression that the rule Swap = N * Physical RAM dates from the time when men were men, swapfiles were swapfiles, and systems actually swapped. I used to run System III on an Onyx (no paging: just swap). No 2x rule

Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-06 Thread David Wright
2 Is that the sort of thing you want? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery

Re: messages to root

2000-12-11 Thread David Wright
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Re: how to see the full name in dpkg -l

2000-12-12 Thread David Wright
in an xterm, dpkg -l promptly resets it back to 80 (though not in a VC). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread David Wright
style of command. Otherwise, lpr: lp: unknown printer) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify

Re: Questions i can't answer

2000-12-12 Thread David Wright
resides: /instmnt Choose from a list of all Archive paths Please select the directory that you will use to install ... from: /instmnt which is what mine looks like. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk): David Wright wrote: Quoting Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk): What's the difference b/w lpr foo.txt and lpr -P lp foo.txt ? There is no difference, so long as lp is the first printer defined in /etc/printcap. -P is needed

Re: Debian checks filesystems at every boot

2000-12-13 Thread David Wright
not try cat-ting /etc/mtab and see if that reveals anything. Cat it before you shutdown too, to see if everything is listed there correctly. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7

Re: /home owner and group changed

2000-12-13 Thread David Wright
with the same name and number. So your fix was attacking the problem from the wrong end. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me

Re: Debian is not for me

2000-12-14 Thread David Wright
: chgrp audio /dev/hdd Making yourself a member of group disk gives you the power to trash all your hard disks because you can write to the raw devices. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes

Re: modprobe module problem (char-major-10-135)

2000-12-17 Thread David Wright
like to hear about it. Anyone?? man update-modules Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official

Re: installing pine

2000-12-18 Thread David Wright
in what ways. Configurability, customisability, whatever, of keystrokes and status information for each type of screen, navigation, colours, headers, editor, etc. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton

Re: installing pine

2000-12-20 Thread David Wright
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Re: Permissions - Newbie Style Question

2000-12-20 Thread David Wright
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Re: overly-strange reaction of modem to pon

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
happens. This can even happen just after it has answered a call which instructed mgetty to callback. (I've never noticed what the lights are doing.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
to use your mail client's group reply command, whatever that happens to be. Warning: this is a religious issue ;) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
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Re: installing pine

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
it in my postings. Sorry if you meant something different. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread David Wright
keeping abreast of such a heavy traffic list. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:33:57PM +, David Wright wrote: If you dislike two copies, then I don't understand why you have included Mail-Followup-To: Ken Weingold [EMAIL PROTECTED], in your headers. here's all of his headers. i dinna see any

Re: NE2000 ISA NIC setup

2000-12-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting urbanyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): sorry - which file is this? i'm having big NIC problems as well. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, David Wright wrote: You can put module-loading options in a file called, say, /etc/modutils/local and then run ^^^ Cheers

Re: Hi All

2001-01-10 Thread David Wright
Programming Language). ^ That should still be Combined. CPL was jointly developed by Cambridge and London Universities. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science

Re: Modem errors

2001-01-11 Thread David Wright
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Re: mutt - new key binding!?

2001-01-11 Thread David Wright
that it will work in the list of emails, (else pager), and cat is the program. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do

MUAs and timestamps, was Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

2001-01-11 Thread David Wright
(or any other MUA) meant to do it then? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery

Re: MUAs and timestamps, was Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

2001-01-12 Thread David Wright
a small price to pay to have to reapply the access timestamps. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify

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