Re: [SLUG] cant telnet

2002-02-18 Thread Tony Green
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 18:47, henry wrote: > Dear Sirs: > > By "adduser","passwd", I see my ID in /etc/passwd . > Then I modified /etc/login.access by adding "+ : henry :ALL" > > > But I just cant telnet from outside,Could someone give some hint ? Henry, Can you please give some more in

[SLUG] cant telnet

2002-02-18 Thread henry
Dear  Sirs:       By "adduser","passwd", I see my ID in  /etc/passwd . Then I modified /etc/login.access by adding  "+ : henry :ALL"     But I just cant telnet from outside,Could someone give some hint ?     BestRegards Henry

[SLUG] cant telnet

2002-02-18 Thread henry
Dear  Sirs:       By "adduser","passwd", I see my ID in  /etc/passwd . Then I modified /etc/login.access by adding  "+ : henry :ALL"     But I just cant telnet from outside,Could someone give some hint ?     BestRegards Henry

[SLUG] trashing

2002-02-18 Thread Stuart
Hi y'all, Anyone know any good software to test stability on a new machine? ie want to work the CPU, memory and disk for a few days hours to see how it she runs. Tia, Stuart Guthrie. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/li

Re: [SLUG] Galeon - scrolling with mouse

2002-02-18 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 17:40, Andre Pang wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:20:45PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > > /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t autops2 -Rms3 -M -m /dev/input/mice -t > > autops2 -Rms3 > > > > The -R option repeats events to /dev/gpmdata, which X can use at its > > mouse device.

Re: [SLUG] Galeon - scrolling with mouse

2002-02-18 Thread Andre Pang
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:20:45PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > What I'm playing with at the moment, is using gpm to poll multiple mice, > which it does quite happily with the -M parameter. I'm calling gpm > like: > > /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t autops2 -Rms3 -M -m /dev/input/mice -t > autops

Re: [SLUG] Galeon - scrolling with mouse

2002-02-18 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 17:02, Simon Wong wrote: > Actually, I wonder if I can have a separate X config entry to handle the > touchpad separately? Soitanly! It's how I use an external mouse on my laptop. >From my XF86Config-4: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "CRT" Screen 0 "inny" 0 0

[SLUG] Debconf remote databases

2002-02-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
For anyone who's interested in that sort of thing, I've written an LDAP backend for debconf. This means that you can store debconf data somewhere other than the usual file. Very useful for clusters or anywhere a lot of machines need similar configs and you want to do it all automatically. To ge

Re: [SLUG] Galeon - scrolling with mouse

2002-02-18 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:54, Steve Downing wrote: > I'd nuke the Lines to do with Emulate3Button too, and Emulate3Timeout. > You don't need to emulate it, since you have a perfectly good middle > button/scroll wheel anyway. Might be confusing the issue. I have that in there so that when my mou

Re: [SLUG] Galeon - scrolling with mouse

2002-02-18 Thread Steve Downing
At Tuesday, 19 February 2002, Andre Pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:54:04PM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: >> >> /etc/X11/XF86config-4: >> >> Section "InputDevice" >> Identifier "Mouse0" >> Driver "mouse" >> Option "Protoc

Re: [SLUG] Galeon - scrolling with mouse

2002-02-18 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:09, Andre Pang wrote: > Replace this line: > > > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > > with this line: > > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" I want to have your babies ;-) I had used a capital "m" previously (from configs on the net I had seen) but

Re: [SLUG] Galeon - scrolling with mouse

2002-02-18 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:09, Andre Pang wrote: > Replace this line: > > > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > > with this line: > > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Andre, I have actually tried that once in the past but it made my mouse jump all over the place in X. Is it

[SLUG] Virtual & Monitor Terminal Mismatch.

2002-02-18 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi Sluggers ! I have just installed Deb 2.2r4 but still have a few small config problems. The most obvious is that the virtual terminal is larger than the monitor size - everything is magnified and I have to slide the mouse around to view whole images. This gets to be frustrating, although

Re: [SLUG] Galeon - scrolling with mouse

2002-02-18 Thread Andre Pang
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:54:04PM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: > I have a Logitech 3button mouse with middle button a scroll-wheel. > Plugged into the PS/2 port on my laptop (usually shared with a keyboard > on a splitter but I'm pretty sure it hasn't worked by itself either). > > /etc/X11/XF86con

Re: [SLUG] Galeon - scrolling with mouse

2002-02-18 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 14:54, Simon Wong wrote: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" > Opti

Re: [SLUG] Galeon - scrolling with mouse

2002-02-18 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 14:29, Dean Hamstead wrote: > scrolly wheels are easy to get going! > > whats the problem?? I have a Logitech 3button mouse with middle button a scroll-wheel. Plugged into the PS/2 port on my laptop (usually shared with a keyboard on a splitter but I'm pretty sure it hasn'

Re: [SLUG] Galeon - scrolling with mouse

2002-02-18 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 14:33, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Simon Wong wrote: > >Sometimes in Galeon the scrolling locks to my mouse moevement i.e. when > >I move the mouse up and down, the window scrolls up/down. > > If you don't release the scrollbar thumb inside the ren

Re: [SLUG] linux grinding to a halt

2002-02-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
> "Jeff Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kernel version? > 2.4.8-26mdk ... and from your other email: > That would be why, I have 128MB ram and 70 meg swap partition, I might > have to create a secondary swap file. There's your problem. The earlier 2.4 kernels were very lazily reclaiming

Re: [SLUG] Galeon - scrolling with mouse

2002-02-18 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Simon Wong wrote: >Sometimes in Galeon the scrolling locks to my mouse moevement i.e. when >I move the mouse up and down, the window scrolls up/down. If you don't release the scrollbar thumb inside the render window (the mozilla part of galeon) then it'll still hold o

[SLUG] Galeon - scrolling with mouse

2002-02-18 Thread Simon Wong
Galeon users! Sometimes in Galeon the scrolling locks to my mouse moevement i.e. when I move the mouse up and down, the window scrolls up/down. Since I can't get my scrollmouse to work (yet/still) this can be handy but I can't work out how to activate it. I looked in themanual but caouldn't see

Re: [SLUG] Linux, Novell and ncpfs

2002-02-18 Thread Terry Collins
Paul Copeland wrote: > > Hello All, > > I am a high school teacher whose school is running a Novell network. I have > been wanting to run both a staffroom and classroom dual boot Linux machine on > the Novell network. So I have downloaded and installed ncpfs and ipxutils. > And I have also dow

Re: [SLUG] linux grinding to a halt

2002-02-18 Thread Christopher Booth
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:46:22 +1030 (CST) "Glen Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Christopher Booth wrote: > > The machine is probably running out of memory and thrasing the disk > because it is writing to swap. The I/O queues get very long, and any > process that needs I

Re: [SLUG] linux grinding to a halt

2002-02-18 Thread Christopher Booth
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:09:37 +1100 "Jeff Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Sometimes (too often) I am working on my Mandrake 8.1 machine and suddenly > > everything grinds to a halt making me have to do a cold boot. > > Kernel version? 2.4.8-26mdk > > > Anything I can do to stop this

[SLUG] Strange browser behavior

2002-02-18 Thread Ken Caldwell
I am looking after four linux boxes running debian (testing). One of the boxes exhibits a strange behavior when running a browser. The browsers on this box do not render pages correctly. This is a very strange problem that has me baffled. If you start skipstone it barely renders anything

Re: [SLUG] linux grinding to a halt

2002-02-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Sometimes (too often) I am working on my Mandrake 8.1 machine and suddenly > everything grinds to a halt making me have to do a cold boot. Kernel version? > Anything I can do to stop this happening, I installed a monitor but it is > practically useless :p ... and you're sticking your tongue

[SLUG] linux grinding to a halt

2002-02-18 Thread ATP
Sometimes (too often) I am working on my Mandrake 8.1 machine and suddenly everything grinds to a halt making me have to do a cold boot. This is quite annoying and has the potential to corrupt data and losing information I am working on. This happens sometimes when using Mozilla, or anything tha

Re: [SLUG] Debian post configure question

2002-02-18 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 13:24, Richard Hayes wrote: > There does not appear to be a resolv.conf - Is this normal on Debian? I can't remember but you just need to create one as root in /etc/resolv.conf. ~# lsa /etc/resolv.conf 4.0k -rw-r--r--1 root root 68 Feb 19 11:14 /etc/res

[SLUG] Debian post configure question

2002-02-18 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear list, I have installed Debian Potato via floppy disks and have just installed a network card to get the updated software. There does not appear to be a resolv.conf - Is this normal on Debian? regards, Debian Dummy -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing - 113-115 Oxford St Darlinghurst Aus

Re: [SLUG] General Committee Nomination

2002-02-18 Thread Andre Pang
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 04:06:37PM +1100, Crossfire wrote: > I would also qlike to nominate Mary Gardiner for the position of General > Committee. Seconded. -- #ozone/algorithm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - trust.in.love.to.save -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.o

Re: [SLUG] Where has my disk space gone?

2002-02-18 Thread John Clarke
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:57:47AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > When I do a df on my filesystem the /tmp partition shows: > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda6 248895177996 58049 76% /tmp > > but if I do: > # for i in * ; do

[SLUG] Where has my disk space gone?

2002-02-18 Thread Howard Lowndes
When I do a df on my filesystem the /tmp partition shows: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 248895177996 58049 76% /tmp but if I do: # for i in * ; do du -s $i ; done then I get: 1 .ICE-unix 1 .X0-lock 1 .X11-un

RE: [SLUG] backup for lazyman(ask help)

2002-02-18 Thread Greg Hosler
On 18-Feb-2002 henry wrote: > Dear Sirs: > > I want to backup the basic system of linux as tallballs .Then I can > install linux just untar those balls > > I found that I can skip many directories(cause I know what they are). > but I cant > > "tar zcvf proc.tgz /proc" If

RE: [SLUG] backup for lazyman(ask help)

2002-02-18 Thread Greg Hosler
don't backup /proc. you really don't want to back it up. -Greg On 18-Feb-2002 henry wrote: > Dear Sirs: > > I want to backup the basic system of linux as tallballs .Then I can > install linux just untar those balls > > I found that I can skip many directories(cause I know what t

Re: [SLUG] Virtual Vs Monitor screen size.

2002-02-18 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 03:24:23PM +1100, Steve Downing wrote: > At Monday, 18 February 2002, you wrote: > >How do I disable it in order that the virtual screen fits the monitor ? > > In the "Screen" section of your XF86Config file, comment out any > lines which define a value for "Virtual". Th

Re: [SLUG] Virtual Vs Monitor screen size.

2002-02-18 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:41:01PM -0500, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Hi, I've just installed Deb 2.2r4 and am trying to complete a few configs. > My /etc/X11/XF86Config seems in order but the size of fonts and icons > is larger than normal and the virtual screen is larger than the monitor (good > for s

Re: [SLUG] ask Xwindow

2002-02-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
>Can I make a program(based on widgets) without typing "startx" first ? >or state more precisely. Is there any way to take out systembar on the >bottom of Xwindow-manager(like Gnome,KDE) ? Well, if you want to run an X program without having an entire GNOME/KDE environment run, yo

[SLUG] ask Xwindow

2002-02-18 Thread henry
Dear Sirs:      Can I make a program(based on widgets)  without typing "startx" first ? or state more precisely. Is there any way to take out systembar on the bottom of Xwindow-manager(like Gnome,KDE) ?   BestRegards Henry

Re: [SLUG] backup for lazyman(ask help)

2002-02-18 Thread Tony Green
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 19:21, henry wrote: > Dear Tony: > Tks for replying. > > > I am a SW(getting with embedded slackware). > > Just as you said, Installation of debian give me a good impression. > But even base on debian,I still need to do lots of lousy work(like make > kernel ,i