Re: XFree86-4.0 screen resolution missmatched with monitor viewing area

that I see something that I think might be what you don't understand! 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: Overnight clock problems?

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Re: autofs example

/scd0 floppy -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,umask=002,uid=0,gid=100 :/dev/fd0 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: some mutt stuff [II]

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Re: autofs example

are good for. ;) I guess one day the penny will drop, but it hasn't yet. (There's no typing involved with an entry in /etc/fstab.) 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: disk duplication question

device names. 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: RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing

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Re: Muddled explanation of classed vs. classless IPs

' Planning for Windows 2000 seemed to know no more than this. Nothing about classless IP. Thanks, -- 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: Which computer to buy ?

for it and as far as I know no such applications exists for Linux. Before spending any money on a P4, I would visit http://www4.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q1/010208/index.html Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept

Re: Looking for clock track different times?

a specific different time, so I just type TZ=US/Eastern swisswatch 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: Looking for clock track different times?

Quoting Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): David Wright wrote: I looked but apart from twclock I couldn'rt find anything. Anyone know of an applet capable of showing times in different places? It might help to say what it is about twclock that you don't like. TZ=US/Eastern

Re: Lost permissions on /dev/modem?!

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Re: switch back to XFree86 3.3.6

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managing multiple machines

I manage a cluster used for computational neuroscience at a University. The number of machines is starting to get to a point where it is difficult to maintain software synchronization across machines. Any tips? I already use LDAP to distribute user and group information and NFS to share /home

allowing root to display to a user's X session

When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user, then su to root in an xterm and run ethereal (a packet-sniffer with GUI) to watch the network traffic that results from my actions as a user. I would like to do this on Debian, but when I try to start ethereal, I get the

managing multiple machines

Several posters have pointed out that I can get DHCP to assign IPs based on MAC, which goes a long way toward solving my problem. I guess if I share hosts using ldap, I can still give each machine a unique name, too. Now the only problem I can think of with sharing /usr and /etc is that my file

RE: managing multiple machines

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Kelley, Tim (CBS-New Orleans) wrote: I would say if you're gonna go ahead and share /usr you may as well go diskless. I think you are probably right about this. OR: run a centrally managed group of apps over X remotely (this could get messy tho) this way they all run on

Re: matlab6 java

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:52:34PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: Hi, I'm in trouble .. I'm trying to run Matlab6, but it doesnt want to start in GUI mode and in /root appears file log.java.. It starts only in command mode, if i use -nojvm option. We had the same problem on a Red Hat

Re: Cluster?

I have 3 computers running a debian distros and another running Windows 2000. I am losing time when i execute a programs (waiting a lot of time and i not have a time). i use a lot of programs, nearby to ten or eleven, and my CPU is hot. ;) Your best bet for clustering under Linux is Mosix

Re: Non-interactive password check

On session start the user sends his login name and the password for the remote account. I want to check the authenticity by something like trying to ssh into the remote account and immediately logout again. The unix user doing this is the owner of the apache process. If this is the only

Re: Newbie installation: any autodetection of devices?

So I decided to let them install Debian from our local ftp-server for a start. I am preparing for this, but find it not so easy to do. I use and apprecite Debian daily, so I hate to say this, but it's true: if you want to impress them with an easy Linux installation, don't use Debian!

new tar wants to remove my kernel!

I am running testing with kernel 2.4.12. Get this... debian:/home/ichbin# apt-get install tar Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: build-essential cpio debhelper debmake devscripts dh-make dpkg-dev initrd-tools

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

Hi, I want to benchmark my desktop system running in Linux (Gnome, XF86 v3.x, 2.4.5 kernel) against itself running Win98se. Is there a benchmark program that will work in both enviornments to give me an accurate benchmark? No, of course not. Different systems do different things well and

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

I really don't need the preaching. I wanted a straight answer. Au contraire. You got a rather information-packed answer that is as straight as possible, dosed up with a bit of good-natured joshing. You now know: Process-cyclingUnix Threads manipulation Windows FP

Audigy Drivers

Does anyone know the status of drivers for Creative's Audigy sound cards? I would like to buy one and use it with Debian. Does Alsa 0.9.x support it? If so, how to I use the Alsa drivers on a Debian (Linux 2.4.x) system? If not, can someone point me to a development site/list?

Re: nfs root mount problem

How did you make a boot floppy that initiates the process? I am just starting to try to make diskless systems (not to make thin clients, but to centralize software installation on a computational cluster) and am stuck. The etherboot tutorial says to cat floppyload.bin 3c905.lzrom /dev/fd0

scientific graphing program with histograms

Can anyone suggest a scientific graphing program that can do histograms. * i don't know if guppi can, but there is no debian package * grace claims it can, but it lies. it wants you to import a list of (X,Y)s and then generate a histogram of Ys.\ A histogram-generator imports a list of Ys

downgrading xemacs using apt-get

The newest sid xemacs crashes at start. No problem, I think, that's the price of using unstable -- I'll just downgrade to testing. But it doesn't work! apt-get install xemacs21/testing complains about unmet dependencies (isn't apt-get supposed to resolve depndencies?! it works with the sid

guppi package

Are there any plans to make a stand-alone guppi package (currently only libguppi exists, essentially for invocation by gnumeric and gnucash)? As a sysadmin for a scientific lab, it would be a nice tool for my users, but given the hell that is compiling bonobo applications, I won't

starting point for kernel compile

I'm going to have to compile a custom kernel (need built-in nfs in order to etherboot) for the first time, so I am looking for advice. I would like to start with all the options set as for kernel-image-2.4.17-k6 and then just change the few options I need; is there a way to do this? Also,

/var/cache/apt/archives

I'm relatively new to Debian, and I just discovered that I have accumulated over 1G of .deb's in /var/cache/apt/archives. Can the contents of this directory be regularly wiped? Why isn't their a cron job to do this by default -- does one loose something?

netinst

The revised Debian CD pages (http://www.debian.org/CD/) are very frustrating. Click on Download a minimal bootable CD image and what do you get? A page telling you about how much better it is to use a minimal bootable image -- and no link to one! So -- where do I obtain a minimal bootable

Re: netinst

frustrating. Click on Download a minimal bootable CD image and what do you get? A page telling you about how much better it is to use a minimal bootable image -- and no link to one! I followed the links to here: http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/releases/20011227/ Ah, I

nVidia and X problems

I am using an AGP nVidia GeForce2 MX video card and am experiencing video problems. The screen, even in text mode, shows lots of flickering, horizontal lines. The monitor is a 1600 x 1200 19 LCD; I can plug it into another machine and the image is beautiful, so I don't think the problem is in

system-wide sawfish + gnome configuration

I am currently preparing a new multiuser system. Previously I have just let users configure their desktops as they like, starting from the distributions defaults, but now I would like to customize our default desktop. So... How do I create system-wide defaults for sawfish and gnome? Can I

SB Live! 5.1 problems

I just added a Creative SB Live! 5.1 card to my machine -- my first sound card -- and am having trouble with it. On the software side, everything seems to run just perfectly, but it produces no sound. Right off the top: I can use normal stero speakers even with a surround-sound card, right?

openldap .deb status

Hello Wichert, I am writing to inquire about the status of the openldap packages. I note that the sid/unstable packages are at version 2.0.14, while openldap.org is calling 2.0.21 stable. Most of the sid packages follow upstream releases very closely (e.g. the mozilla package usually updates

Re: SB Live! 5.1 problems

But anyways, you should make sure that the card is not muted. Thanks for the tip; I'll try it when I get home. But... what is muted? (I know what the word means, I just don't know why one would do such a thing to a soundcard.)

sound wierdness

I have a wierd sound problem: sound works from some apps but not from others. I have all the basics: lsmod shows my sound modules are loaded (emu10k1 for SB Live! 5.1), I am a member of audio and cdrom, and cat endoftheworld /dev/dsp plays the music. freeamp also plays ogg and mp3 files

Re: sound wierdness

looks like you haven't plugged your CD-ROM into your soundcard, right? to listen from audio cd's over your speakers you need to connect the CD-ROM drive to the soundcard. that would explain, why the vumeter doesn't show anything. Thanks for your suggestion, Willi. I actually do have the

diskless X problems

I am trying to set up a diskless workstation (to centralize maintainance) but am having problems getting X sessions to work. The system boots (from a floppy, then mounts root and /usr seperately over nfs), and I can login and work from a text console. The xdm login appears, but when I log in,

Re: shutdown/halt as user

How can I let a normal user use the halt or shutdown command? All the responses to this query have been ugly hacks. The right way to do this this (put on flame-retardant suit here) is the way RedHat does: make the halt binary call up pam for authenticaton and authorization and allow the

Re: shutdown/halt as user

Now, would you like /sbin/halt to also show a Are you really really sure (Abort/Ignore/Retry/Fail)? dialog a few times and then count to 10 (so we could press ^C) before doing telinit 0? If the sysadmin wants his users to go through this: yes, that's exactly what I want. If he wants his

Re: shutdown/halt as user

Stuff like this doesn't belong in sysvinit. It belongs in an optional package that can call shutdown, not in shutdown itself. Let alone in the halt binary! Fine, I wouldn't object. But I would point out that (1) you don't loose any modularity with a pam layer, since you can configure pam

CUPS prints postscript, nothing else

I am running CUPS 1.1.14 on Debian (sid), and printing to a Tektronix Phaser 850 (postscipt laser printer) which is attached directly to our LAN with its own IP. I configured it using lpadmin -p ColorLaser -E -v lpd://111.222.333.444/ps -m Phaser_850-Postscript.ppd I can send it postscript

kde on sid won't install

I have a hard time believing that a package as important as kde being broken wouldn't generate a flood of bug reports. What am I doing wrong? # apt-get install kde Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

Re: kde on sid won't install

the thing that is holding you up is that the current kde packages depend on libglib1.3-12 which is no longer in the debian archives Wow! This is a major bug! Thanks for the tip; I found the relevant bug reports under the libkmid package. The fix has been pending for 20 days now; let's hope

users choose x-session-manager

Now that KDE is working on sid again, I'd like to let my users choose between Gnome, KDE, and None. Is there some way to let users override /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager at the graphical login?

Re: After potato install, why does 1st dselect install so much?

exactly what you want to apt-get (which also only satisfies Depends, and does not bother with Recommends or Suggests). Dselect will give you everything that's Required, Important or Standard, IIRC. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David

Re: Routing problems

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Re: hardware clock keeps local time?

comments for guidance. Oh, and before you start, make sure that M$ has completed its alteration after the last DST clock change. 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: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

the command and precede with space yes | (the space assumes that this will prevent the line going into your history). 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: why does getdomainname(2) answer (none)?

. so it seems you need to tell it. 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: Can extra keyboard keys execute shell commands?

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Re: rtl8139 vs. 8139too (was Problems with 8139too...)

newer right?) Take a look at http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.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

Re: Can't find modules - but they work

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Re: How to remove messages from mbox based on relative date?

example uses the Date: header, partly as an excuse to warn of the dangers of using the -a switch which writes From_ lines in what is probably going to be a format that mailers can't grok. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: How to download a package?

taken home for my machine there.) 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: patching kernel versions

and where you unpack the tarballs, patch them, build them, etc. is up to you, does not have to be done as root (use fakeroot), and does not trouble apt one whit. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton

Re: Killing session remotely?

know. 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: Shutting down as a user

-Alt-Del. If you're worried that it halts but doesn't power off, then compile a kernel with APM enabled and Power of on Shutdown selected. 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

Stalled modems, Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

and it won't. And, yes, it's common to all my USR modems (3 x 33k, 1 x 56k). 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: How to remove messages from mbox based on relative date?

Quoting Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:32:05AM +0100, David Wright wrote: If you process email using the Date: header, then you're basing your processing on the date it was allegedly sent. If you process email using the output of the date command

Re: Shutting down as a user

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Re: How boot scripts?

for, but you are making work for yourself by not playing the Debian way. 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: /proc/kcore

in the kernel source. I guess you might be able to debug something with it. 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: Parallel zips

(the more modern ppa) might do too. 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: Printing text

:rm=999.888.777.63:\ :rp=text:\ groks text with any old line-ending char 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: [bmw2288@yahoo.com: installing xfree86]

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Re: Example of date sytax to return a date in the past?

is the STRING fomrat? $ date --date 30 mins ago Fri May 4 16:49:39 BST 2001 $ date Fri May 4 17:19:45 BST 2001 $ 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: X question

with several, but not in any depth. Perhaps the Tkinter/tk/tcl ... source might give some clues as to how these things are done. 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: Auto alias on reply in mutt?

that, e.g. when you're reading the message you're about to reply to. 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: Page-up/Page-down keys and shell history

like any hints on how to fix it. I'm not sure what hints to give, when I have no idea what you mean by messy. 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: syntax error in backup script

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Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

/bin gzip is not in that PATH. 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: Page-up/Page-down keys and shell history

Quoting Joost van der Lugt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] [May 08. 2001 18:41]: I'm not sure what hints to give, when I have no idea what you mean by messy. Well finally had some time, and as said it seems all to be in the inputrc: \e[5~:history-search-backward

Re: X question

the general problem. In case you haven't tried this for your particular example, do try pasting the new URL anywhere on the browser page, i.e. ignoring the location window. (It may be browser dependant.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David

Re: booting 2.4.4

don't use 2.4.x. (I can't even see where the Zip support parameters are for that matter.) 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

Re: configuring line printer

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Re: How many Linux is enough for lilo!?

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Re: (mutt) move old messages, but what to do when none are found?

if there happen to be no items tagged. 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: [OT] secure script without cron?

. If ping succeeds (0), you exit. 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: init.d shell script can't stop daemon (python script)

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 or plagiarised.

CUPS auto-banner

Forgive my density, but the CUPS manuals are singularly impenetratable. How to I confiure a CUPS server to automatically print a banner with every job? Just to be clear, I don't want my users to have to type -o job-sheets=standard each time.

pam-ldap and passwd

I am having problems using passwd to change passwords stored on an LDAP database. I have /etc/pam.d/passwd looking just like it does on my RedHat box: auth required pam_env.so auth sufficient pam_unix.so likeauth nullok auth sufficient pam_ldap.so use_first_pass

cracklib problem

Whenever I insert password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=6 difok=3 at the top of my /etc/pam.d/passwd stack, I get passwd: Critial error - immediate abort whenever I try to change a password. Am I misusing this module (running sid)? I notice that the PAM documentation says

pam_cracklib.so

Is anyone suggessfully using the pam_craclib.so module in a passwd stack? Did you have to set up a dict file or something to get it to work? If so, please give instructions. Simply putting it in a passwd stack is causing my passwd changes to fail. (Running sid.)

remote X problems

Argh! I hate^H^H^H^H^H am having some trouble with X. $ ssh -l root foo.example.com foo# xosview Can't open display named Yes, sshd_config on foo contains X11Forwarding yes and ssh_config on my machine contains ForwardX11 yes In fact, everyting works fine on many other machines I have

Re: remote X problems

ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] -X is the same as saying X11Forward = yes and root@ is the same as saying -l root. Doesn't help. (I did try, just to make sure.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remote X problems

Okay, I figured out the problem. Seems the xbase-clients package needs to be installed. I don't quite understand why the packages of programs like xosview don't depend on this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT - NFS through firewalls

With the setup you describe, I don't believe you should even be able to ping the NFS server from the clients, much less mount a volume. Try it! The trouble is that there is no way for the NFS server to address a client; so while a packet might get to from a client, there is no way it can send a

xemacs + xml - error on sid

I am running the latest xemacs on sid (xemacs21-21.4.6-7). Whenever I open a .xml or .htm file, my screen splits, with the lower half going to an *SGML LOG* buffer, which reports External entity doc not found. Then it says (1) (error/warning) Error in `post-command-hook' (setting hook to nil):

Re: xemacs + xml - error on sid

uninstall the psgml package. $ dpkg -s psgml Package: psgml Status: purge ok not-installed Priority: optional Section: text Thanks for trying, but that's not it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xemacs + xml - error on sid

uninstall the psgml package. Ah, I see. psgml appears to be a seperate package for emacs, but included in the xemacs package. Is there some one I can disable that mode for xemacs? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xemacs on debian = horked

Xemacs (xemacs21-21.4.6-7) on Debian appears to be completely horked. There are tons of bug reports going back over 2-1/2 years, many without so much as an initial reply from the maintainer. Many appear to cover very simple but very annoying issues. What's going on? Is this package orphaned? A

Re: Apache + mod_ssl

If I want to use the mod_ssl [http://packages.debian.org/testing/non-us/libapache-mod-ssl.html] do I have to recompile apache? No. You need to introduce the line LoadModule ssl_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_ssl.so into the DSO list in /etc/apache/http.conf (or maybe the install

Re: diskless

I have a 6-machine computational cluster running diskless under Debian. We are using a custom-compiled kernel 2.4.17. To get this to work, you MUST compile your own kernel. The stock Debian kernels don't fufill the requirements for diskless booting. I'm afraid I won't be able to recall them all

Re: diskless

Root-NFS: Server returned error -101 while mounting /tftpboot/kiosk0 Hmm. Use ethereal to watch the RPC calls going back and forth; it often gives more detailed info on the meaning of error codes. Have you tried booting off /tftpboot/192.168.1.2 (or whatever your client IP is) instead of

kill, kill, kill...

How do I tell *$#*@% dpkg: I dont' care that your f**king postremoval script returned errors, just get absolutely everything that had to do with this package off my system and forget it ever existed ??? dpkg --force-all --purge XXX doesn't do it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

package management

Okay, I have calmed down a bit since I sent my kill, kill, kill mail, and now have some more rationally formulated questions about package management. 1) Is there any way to force dpkg to remove as much of a package as it can and then liquidate the entry from its database, regardless of

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