Re: unpacking *.deb

2001-11-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:06:31PM +0530, kilaru wrote: > I am running Red Hat 7.2 on my m/c > > I downloaded one package from debian. > Its name is foo.deb > > How do I unpack it? Karsten posed real answer using "ar". There is a easy way if Redhat packaged mc (midnight commander) properly.

Re: sieve (and cyrus) - doesn't work - how to troubleshoot?

2001-11-25 Thread Dave Carrigan
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > does cyrus create any log? Not that I know of, sadly. If there's a problem with the sieve file, cyrus silently behaves as if there is no sieve file. > postfix. it has the lmtp transport method, but how do I set the cyrus > side? What version of cy

Compiling audacity

2001-11-25 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hello, I am trying to compile audacity-0.97 on a machine running potato. Configure does not give any errors implying (I think) that I have the necessary supporting software/libs. But when I give make, the compilation aborts with the following error message: . make[3]: Entering directory `/hom

Is debian mailing lists available via NNTP ?

2001-11-25 Thread r000t
Is debian mailing lists available via NNTP? Thanks,

Re: sieve (and cyrus) - doesn't work - how to troubleshoot?

2001-11-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Dave Carrigan wrote: > > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > does cyrus create any log? > > Not that I know of, sadly. If there's a problem with the sieve file, > cyrus silently behaves as if there is no sieve file. that's extremely sad. > > postfix. it has the lmtp transport m

Woody FTP Install?!

2001-11-25 Thread Brian Clark
Err, alright, so I figure out everything will be fine with my hardware if I stick with woody, but I get ready to install and what?! No FTP install for woody? What in the world? So I'm going to have to install potato and then dist-upgrade? Over dialup? :-) If I do have to install stable, is it po

Re: bash/read built-in function

2001-11-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 12:21:01AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > bash-2.05$ echo "hello, world, this is ANOTHER test" | read a b > bash-2.05$ echo $b > world, this is a test > > is this because the pipe really just spawns another shell and thus the > variable $b of the spawning shell is preser

Re: Getting Linux to start a few daemons , I want , at startup

2001-11-25 Thread nate
said: > I wish to run /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start , at a run-level , > say run-level 5 (so far , it has not been assossiated with any > run-level) ., and /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop , while shutting down > > Starting Smbd [OK] > Starting Nmbd [OK] > my views are your asking a non-debian question a

Re: Missing /dev/mouse

2001-11-25 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
> I've got it just plugged in a normal, plain PS/2 plug. I don't think it > needs any special device doohickey, but it's an optical mouse that has a > USB-to-PS/2 plug. Any idea where I could find the device to symlink to? The device is /dev/psaux, but in XF86Config(-4) file you must also specify p

IPTables / Fwbuilder - eth0 gets stuck

2001-11-25 Thread Lambrecht Joris
Hi, To quickly set up a firewall on my Debian box i've compiled a 2.4.14 kernel with IPtable support and use fwbuilder to configure the script. For some reason the policy is only installed whenever it sees fit. I'm really new to this whole thing and don't really have a clue where to start. I'v

Re: mailsync - is it working for somebody?

2001-11-25 Thread jan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > Problem is that this will create exact copy of my mbox in from work at > > notebook, if I will change something on notebook and start this again I > > will lost everything (I'm mostly thinking about 'not new=readed' flag in > > mailing list archive

Re: Is debian mailing lists available via NNTP ?

2001-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 07:44:11AM -, r000t ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Is debian mailing lists available via NNTP? > > > Thanks, Please identify why your mailer's adding carriage returns to your message and make it stop. news:muc.lists.debian.user, IIRC. This is a one-way getway, mai

Re: scale ps with pstops

2001-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 03:18:23PM +0100, Michael Hierweck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I haven't got much experience with Postscript but I have to scale lost of > ps-File with a certain factor... > > The manual tells me to laern psotscript, but I don"t have the time do this > toda

Re: Default DHCP client

2001-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 02:14:11PM -0500, Mike Kuhar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > What is Debian's default DHCP client, pump, dhcp-client or dhcpcd? AFAIK, pump. Though you can install others via apt as you wish, or from other sources if you really want. To search for DCHP related packages:

potato release 3 and dial-up user dns problem

2001-11-25 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, On one of my client's machine I installed debian potato Release 3 from the 3 CD set. However with the kernel 2.2.19-prex version there seems to be some problem. What happens is for the first time when I connect to the net everything is working. nslookup, dns. But as soon as the connect is ter

Re: /bin/sh broken - now what?

2001-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:22:13AM +0100, A.R. (Tom) Peters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I tried to install the G77 compiler, and got the latest stuff from > testing. It required a newer version of libc6 (2.2.4-5), which got > installed first. Then all subsequent packages failed. I cannot open

Re: LVM and Kernel 2.4.15

2001-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 02:45:58PM -, Liam Ward ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using LVM with a 2.2.17 kernel to stripe across two SCSI disks. I'm going > to upgrade to kernel > 2.4.15. > > Are there are any known problems or should this be relatively smooth? Yes, there's a rathe

Re: Getting Linux to start a few daemons , I want , at startup

2001-11-25 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Shyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wish to run /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start , at a run-level , > say run-level 5 (so far , it has not been assossiated with any run-level) ., > and /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop , while shutting down . > > I understand that I might need Start and Kill scripts , > fo

Re: Dial up internet provider in Greater Hartford area?

2001-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 09:46:39AM -0800, Abner Gershon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My current free subscription to MSN will expire shortly. I was never > able to connect using Linux through that service and obviously they > would provide no support to me. Can anyone recommend a dial up > interne

Re: My mouse buttons stopped working

2001-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 07:32:23AM +1100, Mikael Gustaf Claesson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi. > > I'm running unstable, and the mouse buttons on my USB mouse just stopped > working. I suspect it could have something to do with the newest version > of gpm, but I'm not sure. I have gpm set up s

Re: Help:Problems with routing

2001-11-25 Thread Vittorio
> > Your desktop's default route should be ppp0, not eth0, like this: > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > Iface > 212.210.33.130 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 > ppp0 > 192.168.10.0* 255.255.255.0 U 0

Video problem on a ASUS A1300 with woody

2001-11-25 Thread techlists
I've can't seem to get X to work correctly on my ASUS A1300 Laptop. Every time I try to start X the screen turns black, the it starts turning white from the bottom right corner and continues to fill the screen. That can't be a good thing. The Video is an SIS630. I'm running Woody, with a 2.4

TEST

2001-11-25 Thread ANNIE CHALET

serious package management problem

2001-11-25 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
Consider this scenario: Program P1V1 depends on P2V1; both are installed and work fine. Now you install P3V2: it depends on a newer version of P2: P2V2; this gets automatically replaced. But P2V2 no longer works with P1V1. What is supposed to happen in this case? I think this is what happenend

Re: Getting Linux to start a few daemons , I want , at startup

2001-11-25 Thread Nick Sanders
On Sunday 25 November 2001 3:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wish to run /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start , at a run-level , > say run-level 5 (so far , it has not been assossiated with any run-level) > ., and /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop , while shutting down . > Check out update-rc.d

HELP

2001-11-25 Thread ANNIE CHALET
help

Re: Framebuffer AVI player?

2001-11-25 Thread Stan Brown
Thanks for the hepl. Sorry to repost this, but i never saw my reply show up in the lists. On Sat Nov 24 20:01:38 2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote... > > >> > >> K, that got me closer. I woulnd up using: >>=20 >> mplayer -vo fbdev -fbmode tv -vm [file_to_play] >>=20 >> Anid it displayed, centered on th

microsoft ttf in kde?

2001-11-25 Thread pReJkEr
hi is it possible to use ms ttf fonts ie. those for the web like verdana... in kde? tnx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Latest Galeon? will it work on potato?

2001-11-25 Thread Stan Brown
I saw the slashdot articel on the latest galeon. Since i'm looking for something to replace netscape (which has crashed 3 time this morning, already). I went tot hat site. I'm runing potato + Progeny + 24. kernel. WThe source traball failed configure, saying it needed a newer version of glib. I

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-25 Thread Stan Brown
On Fri Nov 23 16:37:33 2001 Rich Puhek wrote... > >nate wrote: >> > >One thing to remember is that the Tivo has a few minor advantages: > 1) Your serial port/USB port probably has a fairly high-priority >interrupt, this is why your mouse movement will cause your processor to >stop working on the

postfix size limit

2001-11-25 Thread martin f krafft
hi folks, i configured postfix to max out at 512k because that's the max size email i am going to accept, period. diamond:~# postconf message_size_limit message_size_limit = 524288 diamond:~# grep "size limit exceeded" /var/log/mail.log Nov 25 08:11:48 localhost postfix/cleanup[10798]: warning:

How to set up a _lower_ resolutin in frambuffer?

2001-11-25 Thread Stan Brown
I'm playing around with vcr like recording this weekend on my Debian system. Seems I may need to se my frambuffer to a lower rsolutin/higher color setup to get full screen playback, givne the quality of video stream that my machien seesm to be able to encode. I need to se it to a resoluting of 38

Re: microsoft ttf in kde?

2001-11-25 Thread D.
GO to this website and it will tell you how to do it. www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html HTH Don --- pReJkEr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > is it possible to use ms ttf fonts ie. those for the > web like verdana... > in kde? > > tnx > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUB

Re: HELP

2001-11-25 Thread D.
This list loves to help damsels in distress if we know what the problem is.. Help is a little general. D --- ANNIE CHALET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > help > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___

X11 header files

2001-11-25 Thread Batuke
Hi ! I need some X11 header files such as Xlib.h, Xutil.h keysym.h XShm.h. What package/s must i install to get them ? Thanks guys !

Fritz!PCI2

2001-11-25 Thread Ilja Vladimirov
Hi! I've got a Fritz!PCI v2.0 -ISDN-card and just don't manage it to get this card installed. Some days ago I got the new Kernel (2.2.14). I'm new in Linux and'll be very thankful if someone could help me! thx Ilja

Re: X11 header files

2001-11-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Batuke wrote: > > Hi ! > > I need some X11 header files such as Xlib.h, Xutil.h keysym.h XShm.h. > What package/s must i install to get them ? go to debian.org, click on Packages in the left side menu and use the last form to find in which package a file is. erik

RE: Default DHCP client

2001-11-25 Thread Mike Kuhar
Thanks for the info Karsten. I was using dhcpcd on my laptop then switched over to pump yesterday when the thought occurred to me about which Debian would use on a fresh install. Again, Thank you. -mk -Original Message- From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, Nove

Re: sound w/via chipset

2001-11-25 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 20:38:39 -0500 Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently replaced my motherboard with a BioStar M7VKL, which uses a VIA > VT8364 chipset, also known as "Apollo KL133". > > After a bit of fiddling, I have everything working except the video and the > sound. (I think.)

Re: suspending a pid

2001-11-25 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , November 24, Michael Heldebrant did write: > On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 08:31, martin f krafft wrote: > > hi all, > > given a PID of a process that hasn't been started from a terminal, is > > there anyway i can suspend it? i am root, and init started process x, > > is there a way that i can su

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-25 Thread John Lord
Hi Brian , On 23-Nov-01, you wrote: > So you're saying newbie questions are appropriate... Of course they are, weren't you a newbie once? or were you born a genius? ;-P > But no one wants to read newbie questions. So why are they > appropriate if no one wants to read them? So now you are the

Re: Framebuffer AVI player?

2001-11-25 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 16:44, Stan Brown wrote: > > On Sat Nov 24 18:45:28 2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote... > > > > > > > > > > > >You are trying to play 24-bit video on an 8-bit display. Nearly nothing > > >works with 8-bit color because such displays

libgnomeprint-bin_o.32-3_i386.deb problems

2001-11-25 Thread Mike Kuhar
For whatever reason, when I apt-get upgrade yesterday, it removed nautilus from my system. Broken dependancies? Anyway, today, while trying to re-install nautilus, I think I traced the problem down to: dpkg-deb: `libgnomeprint-bin_0.32-3_i386.deb' is not a debian format archive Could whoever

Framebuffer suport in 2.4.14

2001-11-25 Thread techlists
I'm trying to compile the 2.4.14 kernel to go on my laptop, but I can't seem to find where to enable vesa framebuffering or any kind of framebuffering.  Where is it under make menuconfig?   Wayne

Getting php4 to work on potato?

2001-11-25 Thread Stan Brown
I'm having a bit of a problem geting php4 to work on my stable + Progeny + 2.4 kernel machine. I have apache installed and woorking from a .deb package. I downloaded and compiled php 4.0.6, and all went well. I uncometed thet AddType lines in the default /etc/apache/httpd.conf file, and I copied p

Re: libgnomeprint-bin_o.32-3_i386.deb problems

2001-11-25 Thread Mike Kuhar
Just to add more information: bash-2.05a# apt-get -f install libgnomeprint-bin Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libgnomeprint-bin 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 8 packages not f

Re: serious package management problem

2001-11-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:22:57PM +0100, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > I think this is what happenend to my system. I tried to install > whatever was the current g77 compiler. It required libc6-2.2.4-5; I had a > lower version, which got replaced. But this broke (ba)sh, version 2.05-8, > which dep

Re: sieve (and cyrus) - doesn't work - how to troubleshoot?

2001-11-25 Thread Dave Carrigan
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > would this work for 1.6 (as I understand it there's quite a difference > between 1.5 and 1.6)? It should work for 1.6. I've never used 1.5. > do you know what's the line for cyrus deliver -l in /etc/inetd.conf? That was never documented at the cyrus

apxs Apahce script?

2001-11-25 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to get php4 installed corectly on my potato + Progeny + 2.4 kerenl machine, in order to use webvcr. I have installed apache using dselect. Acording to the php4 docs, I need to find a script called apxs, but a find fails to locate it. What am I doing wrong? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL P

Mailman archive

2001-11-25 Thread Antti Tolamo
How do I get mailman to make an private archive? I have set archiving period to a day and it doens't seem to to work. As I looked I didn't have */mailman/private/listname file which it needs.Infact I didn't have /pivate directory at all. And yes, I sended few messages so,there should be alread

Re: Framebuffer suport in 2.4.14

2001-11-25 Thread dman
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 08:42:17PM +0100, techlists wrote: | I'm trying to compile the 2.4.14 kernel to go on my laptop, but I | can't seem to find where to enable vesa framebuffering or any kind | of framebuffering. Where is it under make menuconfig? I'm checking with 2.4.10 since that's the sou

RE: /bin/sh broken - now what?

2001-11-25 Thread adcarlson
Try to find out if your /bin/sh is symbolically linked to bash, ash, korn, or whatever other shell. /bin/sh should be just a symbolic link...if it isn't linked, link it to something like bash. I had a problem when I upgraded to the 2.4.12 kernel and the update asked whether I wanted to go with th

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-25 Thread Shaya Potter
On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 08:45, Stan Brown wrote: > I've been playing with this this weekend. > > Setup is a Athalon 750mhz, very lightly loaded machine, just really running > vcr. > > I found thta with a resoluting of 384x288 I would drop a single frame or so > about every 2 to 5 seconds. Change th

pppd: capiplugin: capitty not ready, waiting for driver ...

2001-11-25 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
Hi, i'm running a router with pppd and the capiplugin (to use the same machine also for hylafax) with a AVM Fritz!Card PCI. It runs perfectly for about one day (it differs a little bit), but then it crashes with the above message (in the logfiles). The machine can't be rebooted nor i can logi

Dial up internet with dual connection?

2001-11-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:07:09AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Earthlink are a nationwide network -- you can dial in from just about > anywhere. Pay an extra $1 for each hour you're running a dual > connection. Do you have pointer to a HOWTO for dual connection? I am curios. My reminder for

konqueror does not open text files

2001-11-25 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, During one of the recent KDE upgrades, konqueror (.deb 2.2.1.0-6) stopped opening plain text files or even "document source" - instead it prompts for an application. What should I do to restore the old behaviour? Thanks, --ET.

Lexmark 3200...

2001-11-25 Thread Rob Hensley
Does anyone out there have a Lexmark 3200 printer working in linux?! If so, how the hell'd you do it? I've tried everything, but just can't get it workin'! If anyone has any suggestions, I'm more then willing to give 'em a try, thanks in advance. ---

Re: My mouse buttons stopped working

2001-11-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, gpm is undergoing majar bug squish and maintainer had a message on debian-dev requesting for filing detailed bug report. He seems to have uploaded new one to unstable. On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:08:50AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm running unstable, and the mouse buttons on my USB m

Re: konqueror does not open text files

2001-11-25 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Sunday 25 November 2001 09:29 am, Eugene Tyurin wrote: > During one of the recent KDE upgrades, konqueror (.deb 2.2.1.0-6) > stopped opening plain text files or even "document source" - instead > it prompts for an application. What should I do to restore the old > behaviour? In the Control Ce

Re: apxs Apahce script?

2001-11-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 11:57:55AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm trying to get php4 installed corectly on my potato + Progeny + 2.4 > kerenl machine, in order to use webvcr. > > I have installed apache using dselect. Acording to the php4 docs, I need to > find a script called apxs, but a find fai

Re: Woody FTP Install?!

2001-11-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:56:28AM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > Err, alright, so I figure out everything will be fine with my hardware > if I stick with woody, but I get ready to install and what?! No FTP > install for woody? What in the world? Hmm? There should be no problem with FTP. What exactly

Re: konqueror does not open text files

2001-11-25 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 12:29:59PM -0500, Eugene Tyurin wrote: > > Hello, > > During one of the recent KDE upgrades, konqueror (.deb 2.2.1.0-6) > stopped opening plain text files or even "document source" - instead > it prompts for an application. What should I do to restore the old > behaviour?

Re: help please

2001-11-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 04:07:05PM -, Clive Leonard wrote: > I have now installed Debian, and it boots up from HHD and leaves me in > a text only mode. All I can seem to do is log in and out as root (or > user) and do nothing else! > > I don't know, but surely debian has some form of GUI? Of

Re: /bin/sh broken - now what?

2001-11-25 Thread dman
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 07:58:34AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I had a problem when I upgraded to the 2.4.12 kernel and the update asked | whether I wanted to go with the default POSIX standard ash instead of bash. I | answered yes, and then my automated dialup scripts wouldn't work for the

Re: Mailman archive

2001-11-25 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 07:01:31PM +0200, Antti Tolamo wrote: > > How do I get mailman to make an private archive? You need to activate this through the Webfrontend. > I have set archiving period to a day and it doens't > seem to to work. > > As I looked I didn't have */mailman/private/listname

Re: Woody FTP Install?!

2001-11-25 Thread Brian Clark
Hi Colin, @ 12:55:03 PM on 11/25/2001, Colin Watson wrote: >> Err, alright, so I figure out everything will be fine with my hardware >> if I stick with woody, but I get ready to install and what?! No FTP >> install for woody? What in the world? > Hmm? There should be no problem with FTP. What ex

Re: Lexmark 3200...

2001-11-25 Thread Rob Hensley
i was able to compile ghostscript with it and everything, but from there on i was stuck! i had no clue what else to do, and all the printer setup apps i tried didn't help either...i'll try to compile gs with it again later tonight if i have time, and once i get that going maybe you can help me with

Re: lpr question

2001-11-25 Thread Dan Griswold
"Michael Norris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems as though I am using the -#num switch incorrectly. Two things: First, since '#' indicates a comment, it must be escaped using a backslash. So: lpr -\#2 foo.ps Second, the maximum value you can use after the \# is determined by tha

Re: Getting php4 to work on potato?

2001-11-25 Thread Antti Tolamo
Stan Brown wrote: I'm having a bit of a problem geting php4 to work on my stable + Progeny + 2.4 kernel machine. I have apache installed and woorking from a .deb package. I downloaded and compiled php 4.0.6, and all went well. I uncometed thet AddType lines in the default /etc/apache/httpd.conf

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-25 Thread Stan Brown
On Sun Nov 25 12:32:21 2001 Shaya Potter wrote... > >On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 08:45, Stan Brown wrote: >> I've been playing with this this weekend. >> >> Setup is a Athalon 750mhz, very lightly loaded machine, just really running >> vcr. >> >> I found thta with a resoluting of 384x288 I would drop a

Console characters are garbled after X initialization

2001-11-25 Thread Andrew Hurt
Hello all. Have pretty much had a successful transition from Progeny -> Woody. I am beginning to see, now ;-) My only real problem lies with the console display after I initialize X. When I Ctrl-AltF1-F5 (with X on F7), the characters on 1-5 are misdisplayed (some as blanks, and others as blo

Re: downloading with apt-get --download-only install package

2001-11-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michael Heldebrant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011121 13:38]: > On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 03:19, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > | sed -e "s/'\(.*\)'/\1/" > > Just to make sure I grok this fully: > > We're splitting the line into a beginning ', the matching regexp pattern > of any character as many times as we wa

plex86 problem (where is package xfonts-svga?)

2001-11-25 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I got this error.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ plex86 win95 Processing command-line options Opening VM (/dev/plex86) Processing config file /home/sk/.plex86/conf/win95... Allocating 16MB of physical memory in VM Mapping virtualized physical memory into monitor Zeroing virtualized physical memory Ma

Re: Getting php4 to work on potato?

2001-11-25 Thread Stan Brown
On Sun Nov 25 14:11:55 2001 Antti Tolamo wrote... > >Stan Brown wrote: > >> I'm having a bit of a problem geting php4 to work on my stable + Progeny + >> 2.4 kernel machine. >> >> I have apache installed and woorking from a .deb package. I downloaded and >> compiled php 4.0.6, and all went well. I

Problems with smc1211 tx

2001-11-25 Thread jennyw
I have an SMC 1211 TX network card which I understand uses the RTL8139 driver. Unfortunately, it wouldn't install when I was install Debian. Are there any known issues with this driver? Should I attempt to get a more recent driver? I'm installing using CDs -- potato (date on the cds is 8/25/2000 f

Re: Getting php4 to work on potato?

2001-11-25 Thread Antti Tolamo
Stan Brown wrote: On Sun Nov 25 14:11:55 2001 Antti Tolamo wrote... Stan Brown wrote: I'm having a bit of a problem geting php4 to work on my stable + Progeny + 2.4 kernel machine. I have apache installed and woorking from a .deb package. I downloaded and compiled php 4.0.6, and all went w

Re: Missing /dev/mouse

2001-11-25 Thread Joe M Mar
I think with a PS/2 you have to select '/dev/psaux' not '/dev/mouse' At 11:44 PM 11/24/01 -0600, MysteryMeat wrote: > > I have done installs from the net (using only the minimal set of floppies > to get started) in the past, and never had a problem of this type. > > /dev/mouse is usually a symli

Problem embedded ethernet on ECS K7S5A mobo? or SIS900 ethers..

2001-11-25 Thread bad bob
I am having trouble with activating the embedded ether on the ecs k7s5a mobo, it is a sis 900 device. Been using debian on an alpha, now gonna install on this system, but wondering if anyone else is using the same board... thanks bob

Re: track cpu usage

2001-11-25 Thread Serge Rey
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 06:40:25PM -0600, Jack wrote: > Hi, > > There is one thing bother me recently: periodically, randomly, the cpu > usage reaches 90%+, then it lasts for 1 or 2 seconds, during that > period there is no reaction in xterm and anything else(mouse may move > slowly). > > I

need "sr_mod" ?

2001-11-25 Thread Paul E Condon
I am new to Debian. I have just installed 2.2rm4 from in net. Now I want to get my CR writer working. I had it working under RedHat 6.2 on this same machine. I had gotten it working by following the Quickstart directions in the CD-Writing HOWTO. Now that doesn't work and I have to probe a deeper.

Mobile Networking Setup Ques

2001-11-25 Thread mallum
Aloha all; Is it possible for me to setup my laptop to 'know' what network its connected to and run scripts based on that ? For example, at work they use dhcp and at home my address is static. At work I manually 'pump' for an IP and at home I have to run ifup on the interface an d then manually e

Re: Mobile Networking Setup Ques

2001-11-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Nov-2001 mallum wrote: > Aloha all; > > Is it possible for me to setup my laptop to 'know' what network its > connected to and run scripts based on that ? > There are severl packages in Debian. Read through /var/lib/dpkg/available.

Re: Mobile Networking Setup Ques

2001-11-25 Thread Dmitriy
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 10:13:27PM +, mallum wrote: [snip] > > Can somebody point me in the right direction for doing this ? Can it > be done with somesort of broadcast ping ? Is there a package that will > help with this sort of configuration ? Yes, look at following packages: divine guessne

Stupid Newbie Question - Install Netscape from download

2001-11-25 Thread Phil Beder
I downloaded Netscape browser 6.2 from the netscape site in my windows partition as I dont have any means to browse the web in linux yet. I tried to install it using dselect pointing it toward the directory in my windows partition with the compresed file in .gz format. dselect did not recognize a

security updates

2001-11-25 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi all, On the strength of what I read re: getting security updates in the list archives, I put the following line in my /etc/apt/sources.list file: deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free ... but all it generates when I apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade is 'Fai

Re: apxs Apahce script?

2001-11-25 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Sunday 25 November 2001 18:57, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm trying to get php4 installed corectly on my potato + Progeny + 2.4 > kerenl machine, in order to use webvcr. > > I have installed apache using dselect. Acording to the php4 docs, I need to > find a script called apxs, but a find fails to loc

df redux

2001-11-25 Thread Glenn Becker
All, Some time ago I posted to the list about strange 'leaps' in the disk usage reported by 'df'. The problem was eventually traced to an outsized .xsession-errors file. This happened to me again (as of last night, it seems - I wasn't really keeping track). The partition is roughly 15G, half o

Re: multithreading sounds

2001-11-25 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 03:26, Martin Kacerovsky wrote: > Hi , > can you advice me how to get it working? > I've done : > o install packages esound, esound-common, esound-clients Yes. > o run esd as root No. esd will run automagically for each user that manages to get access to the sound hardware

libgtk1.2 & libgtkxmhtml1

2001-11-25 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, After getting this message : express: Depends: libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.6-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgtkxmhtml1 (>= 1.0.54-1) but it is not going to be installed I don't find this packages in testing. Can someone give me a clue to find them ? TIA - G

Re: Stupid Newbie Question - Install Netscape from download

2001-11-25 Thread Dmitriy
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 05:41:40PM -0500, Phil Beder wrote: > I downloaded Netscape browser 6.2 from the netscape site in my windows > partition as I dont have any means to browse the web in linux yet. I tried > to install it using dselect pointing it toward the directory in my windows > partition

Re: security updates

2001-11-25 Thread Dmitriy
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 06:48:19PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > Hi all, > > On the strength of what I read re: getting security updates in the list > archives, I put the following line in my /etc/apt/sources.list file: > > deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free > > .

Re: Mobile Networking Setup Ques

2001-11-25 Thread mallum
on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:30:16PM -0800, Dmitriy wrote: > > Yes, look at following packages: > divine > guessnet > intuitively > laptop-netconf > whereami > > (that's on unstable) > Cool, thanks - went with guessnet, just what I needed. I also tried laptop-netconf but didn't have much luck with

Re: libgnomeprint-bin_o.32-3_i386.deb problems

2001-11-25 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Mike Kuhar wrote: Just to add more information: bash-2.05a# apt-get -f install libgnomeprint-bin Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libgnomeprint-bin 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgrad

Re: df redux

2001-11-25 Thread Carl Fink
Glenn, please wrap your lines at less than 80 characters. On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 07:09:50PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > I guess my question is - do I have gobs of filehandle-less stuff > floating around on my system, now? And if so, how can I find it and > get rid of it? Unmount the partition,

Unidentified subject!

2001-11-25 Thread Shawn Lamson
hi all - after ruining gnome in an attempt to install a font translator (ttf2pt1) i decided to overhaul anyway, tried ximian gnome ; had panel errors gazou; decided to wipe ximian out, which meant uninstalling just about every gnome related package, so i decided to go from my beginner's potato to a

Installing PPP 2.4.0

2001-11-25 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, Sorry for the cross posting, but I am really stuck! I am currently setting up my Debian machine to connect to my ADSL modem for internet access. I have had everything working before, but I am having problems this time with the PPP daemon! I am trying to install the ppp-2.4.0 tarball, but aft

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-11-25 Thread Sean
Did you first do an apt-get update? If no, then apt-get update, and rerun apt-get dist-upgrade. You should not show any packages as not upgraded after a potato->woody dist-upgrade. Sean On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 18:41, Shawn Lamson wrote: > hi all - > after ruining gnome in an attempt to install a

Re: Getting php4 to work on potato?

2001-11-25 Thread john
According to our resident PHP dude, PHP 4.0.6 should be treated with much caution. In particular, the session management doesn't work - objects evaporate from the session for no aparent reason. So be careful with it. You may want to use 4.0.5 as it does work, even if it's a little quirky. John P

Re: apxs Apahce script?

2001-11-25 Thread Stan Brown
On Sun Nov 25 17:58:02 2001 Meir Kriheli wrote... > >On Sunday 25 November 2001 18:57, Stan Brown wrote: >> I'm trying to get php4 installed corectly on my potato + Progeny + 2.4 >> kerenl machine, in order to use webvcr. >> >> I have installed apache using dselect. Acording to the php4 docs, I nee

Re: need "sr_mod" ?

2001-11-25 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Paul E Condon wrote: I am new to Debian. I have just installed 2.2rm4 from in net. Now I want to get my CR writer working. I had it working under RedHat 6.2 on this same machine. I had gotten it working by following the Quickstart directions in the CD-Writing HOWTO. Now that doesn't work and I h

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