May 2003 - main - earth.li

[Alug]Debian 3.0 r0
by Edenyard 27 May '03

27 May '03

John Seago wrote: > > seems to want to log me on with a GUI and does'nt give me time to log on > to the command line and then startx. > Hello, John - glad to see you're still hanging in there! I've never used Debian but I expect it's like all the others in this respect: look for a file in the /etc directory called 'inittab'. In that file, you should find a line that reads thus: id:5:initdefault: If you change the 5 to a 3, save the file and then re-boot, you should find that it runs up with the standard login, rather than the graphical one. Of course, to edit this, you'd best have MC working, so maybe you need to get that installed first. Hopefully someone else can put you out of your misery with that problem - as I say, I've never used Debian. Hope this helps? Gerald.

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[Alug]Serial port permissions?
by Edenyard 27 May '03

27 May '03

Over the weekend, I installed Efax and Efax-gtk to get Linux to behave as a fax machine. It looks good but I ran into a problem with accessing /dev/ttyS1 (where my modem is), which I'd appreciate some help with. Running Efax-gtk as an ordinary user, I got an error message when it tried to access the modem, saying that permission was denied. I checked the ownership of /dev/ttyS1 and it is root:uucp. I then edited /etc/groups and added myself to the 'uucp' group, but this didn't fix the problem. So I put that back as it was and chowned /dev/ttyS1 to root:users, since I know I'm in in the group 'users'. That worked, but it's left me feeling slightly guilty: should I have altered the ownership of /dev/ttyS1? I suspect not! So how do I make it all work without chowning /dev/ttyS1, please? It works without any of these tweaks if I run Efax-gtk as 'root', as bad as that sounds! Thanks for any clues! Gerald.

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[Alug]New Company, help!
by Tony Dietrich 26 May '03

26 May '03

Sorry if this is considered off-topic guys. I've been working part-time, combined with a day job, for the last couple of years. Just lately, the biz has got to the stage where I can't afford the time for the day job, so I've had to go full time, and start up a one-man company (I took it Limited so I can get cheaper liabilities insurance :p) But the problem is that at the current size, I'm going to really struggle to survive, even though everyone says I've got a good chance. So if any of you guys have any contacts, potential sales queries etc., that you can pass my way without harming yourselves, I'd really appreciate it. It won't take much to reach the 'safe point'. We can supply most hardware, cabling, software etc, do in-house systems audits/analysis and training, but our core biz is the costing of publicly-funded criminal cases on a bureau basis for solicitors and lawyers. So if any of you are friendly with a solicitor, perhaps you could mention us :p Thanks in advance -- Tony Dietrich Transoft Computer Consultancy Ltd. Felixstowe Suffolk 07769710115 -- Tony Dietrich Transoft Computer Consultancy Ltd. 07769710115

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[Alug]Debian 3.0 r0
by John Seago 26 May '03

26 May '03

I had a go at putting the above in as an additional OS to Slackware, now I know the Xserver with this works because I did try this once before, and despite putting in what makes X work with Slackware it does'nt seem to like what I have said about my mouse, so the X server won't start. It also seems to want to log me on with a GUI and does'nt give me time to log on to the command line and then startx. the third problem I'm having is I don't know what the default file manager is called. I'd like Midnight Commander so I know my way around, but what is the command to add it to the installation, please? (MC must be there somewhare on one of seven CD's). Typing aptget or apt get seems to have the result of confusing the poor thing, both sides of the keyboard! -- John Seago

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[Alug]anouncement from sco
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 26 May '03

26 May '03

All, Has anyone seen this? http://www.sco.com/scosource/letter_to_linux_customers.html Jen

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[Alug]Goodbye
by Alexis Lee 26 May '03

26 May '03

Hi, It's been a pleasure, but I moved pretty permanently to Southampton about a month ago so I'm going to transfer LUG. Thanks for the help, hopefully I gave as good as I got! Cheers, Alexis -- Prunes give you a good run for your money. "Think about the good things, that I did to you, And think about the bad things, that I didn't do" - Crystal Method

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[Alug]PS tothe Debian Post
by John Seago 26 May '03

26 May '03

I'm subscribed to the Digest, so you may not a quick thank you unless you copy the reply to me and the list. Thank you all for your forebearance. -- John Seago

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[Alug]Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 26 May '03

26 May '03

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Re: [Alug]Lilo - Fatal: register_bios: volume ID serial no. duplicated: 0000000A
by Wayne Stallwood 25 May '03

25 May '03

ALUG <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> >I don't have two the same. They are both IBM but the product and >revision numbers are quite different for each drive. >The scsiinfo command gives me the drives' serial numbers which are both >different and nothing like the number quoted in the error message. Ok I am looking at the Lilo source now, it all seems to happen in device.c at about line 425 Can you set the verbosity to level 4 "lilo -v 4", run lilo and send the output. Wayne

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[Alug]hexdump
by richard 24 May '03

24 May '03

Hello ALUG list, Does anyone know to use the hexdump program? I've been trying all night (and am at serious risk of fatal caffeine poisoning!) All I want it to do is print every byte of a file in hex notation without any other rubbish (no indexes, no ASCII, no spaces, no line feeds, no nothing). It claims that you can pass it a format string in the same format as fprintf() so I tried this: $ hexdump -e "%x" {filename} >{outputfile} but it just said that my format string was a "bad format {%x}". Any help would be very much appreciated! Richard.

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