Re: DIVX?

2000-10-17 Thread Damien
> Hmm.. I got the xmps from "unstable", compiled the avi codec from > xmps-0.1.1beta, put it in /usr/lib/xmps/Codecs, got the divxc32.dll, > but when I click "configure" after selecting the avi codec in xmps, > nothing happens. How did you get your xmps working? -chris > there were instru

Java JSP Tomcat

2000-10-17 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Why does Debian provide (only) GnuJsp, Tomcat is the standard reference implementation now. Is it easy to change to use Tomcat? Should I just do it, or wait, is anything coming? I want the standard JSP directory structures, and a guaranteed standard implementation. Thanks, Gregory Guthrie --

Re: resize a filesystem

2000-10-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:25:28PM +0200, Jaume Teixi wrote: > I've an scsi disk with /home artition and another fre ext2 partition > without any filesystem > > now I want resize /home partition, by adding free partition to it > > what's the best way to handle this ? parted ? ext2resize ? by han

Re: Ftpd setup

2000-10-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:04:36AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Guys, > I have FTPD installed and was wondering how I change the default directory. > Also how can I add users just for the ftp and not to have access to login > via ssh or something. I looked for the man pages but there are none >

Monitor power-down/screensaver

2000-10-17 Thread Tim Wood
Hello, I'm running potato on a desktop and a laptop using ice-wm/gnome in X. The laptop is set in the bios to blank the screen and that's fine. The desktop screen blanks in console but not in X. I'm trying to wean my family off windoze - but with limited success. To make it more familia

Re: FTPD configuration

2000-10-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:33:09AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello All > Where would I change the root directory for FTPD. I also want to add a user > that has only access to one directory and cant see anything else. How is > this doen? > Thanks add thier username to /etc/ftpchroot. note this is

Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'

2000-10-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:54:23AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > It looks like (to me) that making shutdown setuid root means anybody > can shutdown the computer, from any location, as /etc/shutdown.allow > is only checked when -a is passed. Am I wrong? no you are correct, if you make shutdown suid

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-17 Thread Pollywog
On 18-Oct-2000 Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: >> I use alias ld='ls -l | grep "^d"' >> >> Many interesting ways of doing the same thing :) > > Just make sure you don't get that confused with the _real_ "ld" command (the > GNU linker)! :-P I never thought of that... I must change that alias.

aime mud server

2000-10-17 Thread Pat Mahoney
I've recently started playing around with the aime mud server (advanced interactive mudding environment, so I guess "aime mud server" is redundant). I haven't been able to sign up for the mailing lists at aime.sourceforge.net, so I will ask my questions here. 1. I can't seem to get admin access.

Re: Mutt - marking mailbox as having new mail.

2000-10-17 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-10-17 18:16:49, RenX99 wrote: > What I have is this.. You open mutt, press "c" to change folders, > press "?" to get a list of folders. The debian folder has a "N" > next to it when there is no mail in it, and the others do not have > anything marking... but when you enter a folder there

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-17 Thread Russell Davies
; --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V ; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ; Content-Disposition: inline ; Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ; ; > I use alias ld=3D'ls -l | grep "^d"' ; >=20 ; > Many interesting ways of doing the same thing :) ; ; Just make sure you don't get that confused with

Re: MetaFont & X

2000-10-17 Thread H. S. Teoh
Oops, I found the answer to both my questions... I guess I should've RTFM'd for the X question since it's addressed in the README.Debian for tetex-base. The second answer is found by searching the BTS archives... Sorry for clogging the list with an irrelevent question :-/ T

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-17 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
> I use alias ld='ls -l | grep "^d"' > > Many interesting ways of doing the same thing :) Just make sure you don't get that confused with the _real_ "ld" command (the GNU linker)! :-P -- Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. - Pl

Weird boot problem

2000-10-17 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Ok, I'm sure if this is lilo, or what but the last few times I have had to reboot(not often, admitedly) Lilo has been rendered unusable and I have to boot from a CD and re-run lilo. I havn't been changing kernels or anything. Usually it'll go LIL- and freeze, but just recently it tried to boot the

Re: Mutt - marking mailbox as having new mail.

2000-10-17 Thread RenX99
What I have is this.. You open mutt, press "c" to change folders, press "?" to get a list of folders. The debian folder has a "N" next to it when there is no mail in it, and the others do not have anything marking... but when you enter a folder there is new mail in the folder with an "N" marking

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Oct-2000 USM Bish wrote: > I am on bash. This is part of the the output of the > command "ls -d */" on my home directory. Only the > sub dirs are displayed. > > aedes:~$ls -d */ > Mail/ page/ nsmail/ > bd4v605/ free/ tklatex/ > > HTH >

Re: ppp redial

2000-10-17 Thread Erik Steffl
that's true, I was just providing more info, I use x-isp because I can have a list of numbers, if one fails it calls another - AFAIK the ppp scripts provided with debian do not have this functionality - do they? (I haven't found anything that looked like it might provide the same functionality, b

Thank you all...and au revoir

2000-10-17 Thread montefin
To _Everyone_ on this list, This is _the_ best distro-specific linux support I have found ever. AAMOF, it's probably _the_ best general linux support I've found also. The movers are coming to crate everything up tomorrow for my move to San Jose. I left this list until last to 'unsubscribe' and ju

Re: Mutt - marking mailbox as having new mail.

2000-10-17 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-10-17 17:34:18, RenX99 wrote: > This happens with all the mail folders except for my debian folder > for some reason. Any ideas what needs fixed? Do you all your files listed in mailboxes? /Allan -- Allan M. Wind email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O. Box 2022

Mutt - marking mailbox as having new mail.

2000-10-17 Thread RenX99
I have noticed that when my mail comes and procmail filters it into my different mailboxes that the other mailboxes never get marked as having new mail in them, even when they do. This happens with all the mail folders except for my debian folder for some reason. Any ideas what needs fixed? Ren

Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:13:21PM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > So uh, why did you let it? > I presume this would have been your response if I had reported that 'vi' had > deleted my kernel images, too? :) > Why did I "let" it?!?! Because I was neve

Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > It seems so basic. When you say "apt-get install ..." the "plan" is clearly > the addition of software to the system. Removal is patently "not part of the > plan", unless explicitly acknowledged by the user. If apt executed removals you were prompted an

Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-17 Thread Joe Emenaker
> Just out of curiosity; what did you install that conflicted with netbase and > friends? I was upgrading mysql-server, of all things. Granted, this was on a system that hadn't been refreshed in about 3 months or so, so there were about 100 packages that dselect wanted to bring up-to-date. That

Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-17 Thread Brent Buchholz
Just out of curiosity; what did you install that conflicted with netbase and friends? Brent

Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-17 Thread Joe Emenaker
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > and a couple of others. In other words, upon reboot, there was no > > network connectivity and no way to GET network connectivity without > > bringing in netbase and it's dependencies via floppy disk. > > So uh, why did you let it? I presume this wo

Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-17 Thread Jeff Green
Try remote rebooting a server with a 120Gig Raid array and 1GB Ram takes several hours to come up if wants an fsck! "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > another reason why you shouldnt reboot a box from remote :) when one of my > servers needs a reboot i always make sure someone is nearby incase > some

Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
another reason why you shouldnt reboot a box from remote :) when one of my servers needs a reboot i always make sure someone is nearby incase something goes bad. for the same reason i refuse to attempt a slink->potato upgrade from remote, too risky. of course i also pray whenever rebooting a serve

Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Jeff Green wrote: > Surely a quick trip to /var/cache/apt/archives and a run of dpkg -i with > the right package names would have fixed this, if apt-get doesn't apt-get install with the right package names would have also fixed it, and told you when you finally got the right

Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-17 Thread Jeff Green
Surely a quick trip to /var/cache/apt/archives and a run of dpkg -i with the right package names would have fixed this, if apt-get doesn't install without some extra fiddling this is usually a message to you. Make damn sure you know what it is doing, especially if you, like me are several thousand

Re: Apt-getable CD-ROMs

2000-10-17 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: > Jesse Goerz wrote: > > 1. I'm trying to create backup CD's that I can scan into my > > sources.list file just like the distribution set does. Does anyone > > know or have a source of information for this? > > You would use apt-cdrom for this. That designa

network configuration question

2000-10-17 Thread frank mori hess
Suppose you install debian without a network card, then later add one. Is there any way to re-run that initial installation program (where it prompts you for your ip address, hostname, etc) without having to also reinstall everything else? Or do you have to get the scripts and configuration file

Re: Full Automatic Unattended install like RedHat "Kickstart"

2000-10-17 Thread kmself
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:41:13AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a install format in Debian like Red Hat's "kickstart"; > a text file with all options, prompts, package selection, disk > partioning, root passwd, ... etc for a full installation with ANY > keyboard

Re: Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > It seems that apt-get decided to UNINSTALL: > o netkit-inetd > o ipchains > o netbase > and a couple of others. In other words, upon reboot, there was no > network connectivity and no way to GET network connectivity without > bringing in netbase

Apt should be called "inapt" (rhymes with "inept")

2000-10-17 Thread Joe Emenaker
I tried to install a package using apt-get yesterday. It complained about dependencies for some stuff. It suggested that I use "apt-get -f install {packagename}".   So I did   It downloaded a bundle of packages, whizzed through the configurations for them in no time at all.   Everything s

Re: ppp redial

2000-10-17 Thread John Hasler
Erik Steffl writes: > I use x-isp, it re-dials when connection is lost... I guess other ppp > front-ends have similar fuctionality No "front-ends" needed. Just give pppd the 'persist' option. You can do this in pppconfig: Go to 'Advanced"' and select 'Persist'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My emails are vanishing...

2000-10-17 Thread serge delorme
That was it ! Thanks On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:41:25PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: serge delorme writes: > > > I have an odd problem with my emails. I have a dialup > > connection, I get my mail via fetchmail and for what I can see > > it's working OK. Mutt is my mail reader and I a

Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'

2000-10-17 Thread Brian May
> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ethan> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:56:16PM +1100, Brian May wrote: >> Wrong - shutdown.allow has no affect for ctrl+alt+del. You can >> press this even if you are not logged in. Ethan> Wrong, the existance of /etc/shutdown.a

Re: ttmkfdir

2000-10-17 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:16:43PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > Is it just me, or is the utility 'ttmkfdir' not included in any debian > package? I'd like to get it, so I can finally scale those truetype fonts, > like I did under RedHat. It annoys me to no end to know I could do this > easily unde

Re: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

2000-10-17 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:17:15PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > I recently got myself a used Matrox Millenium (there are several---I got > the one with the 220MHz RAMDAC and 4Megs WRAM), and am very happy with it. > The online manual is available at > http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/user_man

Re: Network printer

2000-10-17 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:46:52AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Can a Linux box controls a network printer? Please email me the > solution. Thanks! Are you talking about a Host with a printer who should be reachable over the network or do you mean a printer with a built-in NIC? I have g

Re: My emails are vanishing...

2000-10-17 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: serge delorme writes: > I have an odd problem with my emails. I have a dialup > connection, I get my mail via fetchmail and for what I can see > it's working OK. Mutt is my mail reader and I also have GKrellM > running on the desktop (bear with me). > If I have more than 100 emails gkrellm stop

My emails are vanishing...

2000-10-17 Thread serge delorme
I have an odd problem with my emails. I have a dialup connection, I get my mail via fetchmail and for what I can see it's working OK. Mutt is my mail reader and I also have GKrellM running on the desktop (bear with me). If I have more than 100 emails gkrellm stops the count at 100, Mutt only diplay

Re: gtk pixmap themes don't work

2000-10-17 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Perfect. Thank-you very much. God this mailing list is a great thing! -Jeff Timmy Douglas wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:02:10PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > > Hi, I recently installed debian woody and I just noticed that the gtk > > pixmap themes don't work in gnome! I have all the late

ttmkfdir

2000-10-17 Thread Joel Dinel
Is it just me, or is the utility 'ttmkfdir' not included in any debian package? I'd like to get it, so I can finally scale those truetype fonts, like I did under RedHat. It annoys me to no end to know I could do this easily under RedHat . Thanks ! -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gtk pixmap themes don't work

2000-10-17 Thread Timmy Douglas
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:02:10PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > Hi, I recently installed debian woody and I just noticed that the gtk > pixmap themes don't work in gnome! I have all the latest packages, does > anyone know what might cause this? Thanks. -Jeff Suggests: gtk-engines-gtkstep, gtk-

Re: Disk files

2000-10-17 Thread kmself
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:34:35PM +0100, Simon J. Bale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to install Debian to a disk file so that I don't have to > re-partition my hard disk. There are GNU/Linux installations based on the usmsdos filesystem. I've done this with SuSE. I don't

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2000-10-17 Thread Jeff Howie
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:31:48PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I run an older PII-180/96M at home. Galeon works, but it's not as > lightweight as some would have you believe, and stability varies > greatly. I'm finding text-mode browsers more and more attractive as > time goes by. Prima

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #270

2000-10-17 Thread Andre Berger
Chris Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What's that, a comment or do you just have problems to unsubscribe? May I quote from what's been added to your msg automatically: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Andre > Please remove me from this list. >

gtk pixmap themes don't work

2000-10-17 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I recently installed debian woody and I just noticed that the gtk pixmap themes don't work in gnome! I have all the latest packages, does anyone know what might cause this? Thanks. -Jeff

Re: problems with udma66

2000-10-17 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:02:30PM +0200, Francesc Oller wrote: I guess if Vojtech Pavlik says "no way" then we can stop talking about this ;) > > You got this drive at the same Controller? Of course it slows down and > > causes problems. > > I've 4 devices: the ATA66 HD, the old EIDE one, an 4

Re: exim help needed (fwd)

2000-10-17 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:18:31AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > To me it seems like you are assuming that mails _from_ you have to go > > the same way like mails _to_ you. That is not the case! > > An SMTP-Relay-Server may be located somewhere in

compiling ftape problem

2000-10-17 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi I have a problem compiling ftape-4.04a I think I made correct modifications to MCONFIG, but I get this: zftape-rw.c: In function `zft_set_flags': zftape-rw.c:76: `ZFT_Q80_MODE' undeclared (first use in this function) zftape-rw.c:76: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once zftape-rw

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-17 Thread kmself
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:36:05PM +, Thomas Halahan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to determine an easy alias or sh script that will list > only the directories in a directory. It should have similar > functionality to the ls command. E.g. > > [tom]$ lsd ~ > > should

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2000-10-17 Thread John Griffiths
At 02:31 PM 10/17/2000 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:35:42PM +0200, Kristian Rink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: >> >> What is galeon? A browser? > ><...> if its a light gecko based browser your after i'd recommend checking out skipstone.. tabbed mulitple browse pa

Re: ppp redial

2000-10-17 Thread Erik Steffl
I use x-isp, it re-dials when connection is lost... I guess other ppp front-ends have similar fuctionality erik Jack wrote: > > how to set the ppp to redial when losting connection? > > thanks! > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Network printer

2000-10-17 Thread kmself
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:46:52AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > > Can a Linux box controls a network printer? Yes. > Please email me the solution. My mail client doesn't handle liquids. Will the precipitate be sufficient? > Thanks! De nada. -- Karste

Re: backup and rebuild strategy

2000-10-17 Thread kmself
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:08:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using a cheap, low-spec PC (running Debian 2.2) as a dial-up server, > firewall, proxy webserver, etc. for my main home PC. > > Now I have it configured as I want it, I'd like to make some backup

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2000-10-17 Thread kmself
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:35:42PM +0200, Kristian Rink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> What is galeon? A browser? <...> > Actually, the galeon browser utilizes the Mozilla HTML rendering engine > (gecko) to display sites, so if you want to get galeon running, you'll > not get very far withou

Metafont & X

2000-10-17 Thread H. S. Teoh
[Please Cc: replies to me -- I'm not on this list since it's too high-traffic.] For you teTeX gurus out there... what do I need to do to get Metafont to use X to display fonts? I'm trying to learn Metafont (from the Metafontbook) but the examples don't work because I can't figure out how to view t

Re: ppp redial

2000-10-17 Thread Jack
thanks for the replies. I've uncommented "persist" in /etc/options and it works. > Look into "man pppd" for "persist" option. :)

Re: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

2000-10-17 Thread Erik Steffl
I like 3dfx, fairly good performance, they provide info, opensource drivers etc... the new ones are a bit too expensive though (up to $300), the older models (voodoo 2) are about $100 (still good performance (for me) but does not match newer competing cards)... erik Andy Bastien wrote:

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-17 Thread Erik Steffl
using -d for this is confusing like hell because -d is 'well known' switch in standard unix ls - it lists directory as if it were file, i.e. does not list the content of the directory (useful with -l), it has no effect on files (they are listed just like they would be without -d) erik J

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:19:49PM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > is, we get kde2 package combinations that don't work. I'm beginning to > think there is a serious fundamental problem with apt... Not really. If the packages don't work together then the packages should have dependancies saying

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-17 Thread Thomas Halahan
your solution is more elegant than what i have put together with a find call. however how could you get it to list recursively? i have tried ls -1 -R -d */ tom On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, USM Bish wrote: > I am on bash. This is part of the the output of the > command "ls -d */" on my home directory.

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-17 Thread Thomas Halahan
Perfect, Thanks very much. I have just added a bit so that I can list directories recursively. E.g. lsd -R At present file "~/home/bin/lsd" is #!/bin/sh if [ $1 ]; then if [ $1 = "-R" ]; then MAXDEPTH="" DIR=$2 #echo $1 MAXDEPTH = $MAXDEPTH fi else M

RE: Compact FLASH problems

2000-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
not actually an answer, but, there is a debian-laptop list. I suspect people there may be able to help.

Re: ppp redial

2000-10-17 Thread Lazar Fleysher
> how to set the ppp to redial when losting connection? in /etc/ppp/peers edit the file with the provider information (default is provider) and add persist maxfail N N is the number of attepmts to conenct before ppp gives up, set to 0 for never give-up. I've never used maxfail, so can not comm

ppp redial

2000-10-17 Thread Jack
how to set the ppp to redial when losting connection? thanks!

Compact FLASH problems

2000-10-17 Thread Brian Dockter
Please forgive me if this is a duplicate. I couldn't find my original post anywhere, so I'm sending it again. I'm having trouble getting my PCMCIA adapter working. Here's a brief system description: Debian v2.2 with 2.2.17-idepci kernel Dell 450MHz PIII Actiontec PCMCIA adapter (TI

Re: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

2000-10-17 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Chris Gray wrote: > On my home box I run Windows 98 for games and Debian(Woody) for serious > (non-graphics-intensive) work. I want to upgrade my video card. I'm more > interested in something that will be straightforward to install on both > platfo

Re: Multiple X consoles on LINUX

2000-10-17 Thread mike
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 23:34:29 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:40:58AM +, suraj vijayan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I would like to get multiple X consoles on my LINUX PC. > > I'm able to switch to a different console by , > > but I'm unclear how to get x

mysql- fault with apt

2000-10-17 Thread Jan- Hendrik Palic
Hi to all I wanted to install mysql-server last night, but there is still a problem and I don't know where. I installed mysql 3.23.xx, the latest beta- version, but I don't know, that it is a beta, and then I removed it from my potato, beacause it depends of debcnf from woody, which depends i

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #270

2000-10-17 Thread Chris Hansen
Please remove me from this list. Christopher Hansen Operations Administrator Continental Resources Wooddale, IL. 60191 -Original Message- From: [

Re: What documentation and what order

2000-10-17 Thread David A. Rogers
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Snowfox wrote: > > David - > > You're asking a million questions at once. Your best answer is to dig > in and start doing things. This sort of disconnected learning is only useful and fun if you are young and have no other obligations. Once you have a wife, kids, and a y

RE: Ricochet unix compatability

2000-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-Oct-2000 Aaron Brashears wrote: > I have been thinking about getting a ricochet wireless modem for my > laptop. A friend of mine told me he had no problem configuring his old > (28kbps) modem with a linux box. However, after reading the marketing > material which doesn't even claim NT compat

Re: ippp0 dials wrong number

2000-10-17 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:55:55PM +0200, Clemens Hermann wrote: > Hi, > > as told in the subject: My ISDN-Card always dials a wrong number. I am > in Germany and according to syslog my ippp0 always tries to dial to the > netherlands (I am looking forward my next phone bill ;-). > My environment i

Re: Problems with my cable company

2000-10-17 Thread James
You need to call up the cable company and get all your #'s (DNS, IP, Hostname, Gateway, Netmask ect) That was what I had to do. - Original Message - From: Rogelio E. Castillo Haro To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 2:26 PM Subject: P

Re: IMP error: 'document contained no data' (fwd)

2000-10-17 Thread Matthew Thompson
Oops, sent this to -testing, my bad... :( Matthew Thompson http://mattyt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~mattyt "Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." --Oscar Wilde -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:52:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew

resize a filesystem

2000-10-17 Thread Jaume Teixi
I've an scsi disk with /home artition and another fre ext2 partition without any filesystem now I want resize /home partition, by adding free partition to it what's the best way to handle this ? parted ? ext2resize ? by hand ? thanks, jaume.

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-17 Thread Jeff Howie
I _LIKE_ IT (ie 'ls -d */')! :&) Up 'til now I've been using: lld() { ls -l $@ | grep -E ^d return 0 } But your solution is much more elegant. thks.jeff On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:49:32PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: > I am on bash. This is part of the the output of the >

Re: apt-get: "The following packages have been kept back" - What does it mean?

2000-10-17 Thread Moritz Schulte
Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running potato. Recently I've upgraded helix-gnome and since then > every time i run apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) it tells me: [...] > The following packages have been kept back > task-helix-gnome > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 t

Ricochet unix compatability

2000-10-17 Thread Aaron Brashears
I have been thinking about getting a ricochet wireless modem for my laptop. A friend of mine told me he had no problem configuring his old (28kbps) modem with a linux box. However, after reading the marketing material which doesn't even claim NT compatability, much less *nix - I'm unsure if I'll be

Re: System.map problem

2000-10-17 Thread Moritz Schulte
Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, it happend after I compiled the kernel, and yes, I see that size > of /boot/System.map-2.2.17 is different from that of > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/System.map > > If I understand you correctly, after compiling the kernel, I have to copy >

RE: What if Debian crashes?

2000-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > What is good/bad to backup (tar+gz) on a Debian-system (etc|var|usr...)? > you want a copy of /etc and /home for sure. /usr/local if you use it, same with /opt. /var is probably ignoarable, unless you need logs. dpkg --get-selections > mypackages, will write all of the packages you have i

RE: Off Topic - 4th Annual Linux Showcase

2000-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-Oct-2000 Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > Any Debianites out there attend the 4th Annual Linux Showcase > and Conference in Atlanta GA USA last week? > > W-O-W !!! > > Over 1200 registered attendees and exhibitors. Really great > show. Lots of information. Lots of big name companies like

Problems creating new kernel packages with make-kpkg

2000-10-17 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hi, I have some strange problems using make-kpkg. I'm trying to create debian packages for a heavily patched 2.2.17 kernel. I choosed "uni" as flavour and currently I am at revision "12". I create the packages with the command make-kpkg --bzImage --flavour uni --revision 12 buildpackage The

RE: apt-get: "The following packages have been kept back" - What

2000-10-17 Thread Mario Vukelic
> to find out the cause of your problems, do a 'apt-get install > task-helix-gnome', that should tell you why it is being held back. Yup, that did the trick. gaim was the offender, I believe its name was changed to gaim-gnome. apt removed gaim and installed gaim-gnome. Everything ok now. Thanks

What if Debian crashes?

2000-10-17 Thread Andreas Palsson
Hello. Here's a question which might be a little stupid, what do I do if Debian crashes? Until now I have never experienced a crash, freeze, system-/disk-fault in 3 years. I might be lucky, but I never experiment with unstable or 'frozen' distributions or applications. What tools are there to c

Problems with my cable company

2000-10-17 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
  Hi, I've a COM21 cablemodem from my cable local company to access Internet... But, The dhcpcd doesn't obtain an IP Address, how I need to configure my debian Linux-box? wich are all the files to review? TIA -- Rogelio E. Castillo  

Re: apt-get: "The following packages have been kept back" - What does it mean?

2000-10-17 Thread John Travis
Mario Vukelic wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running potato. Recently I've upgraded helix-gnome and since then > every time i run apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) it tells me: > > "host:/home/mario# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packa

RE: apt-get: "The following packages have been kept back" - What

2000-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > What does "kept back" mean /exactly/? Can I "dpkg --purge > task-helix-gnome" safely? My understanding is that it isn't needed after > it has done it's duty of selecting all gnome packages that depend on it. > Am I right? > it means that apt wants to update it, but can not due to a depends/

Re: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

2000-10-17 Thread J. Bruce Fields
I recently got myself a used Matrox Millenium (there are several---I got the one with the 220MHz RAMDAC and 4Megs WRAM), and am very happy with it. The online manual is available at http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/user_manuals/older/home.cfm if you want to check out the specs. It's an old card

Off Topic - 4th Annual Linux Showcase

2000-10-17 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Any Debianites out there attend the 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference in Atlanta GA USA last week? W-O-W !!! Over 1200 registered attendees and exhibitors. Really great show. Lots of information. Lots of big name companies like IBM, HP, SGI, VMWARE, SuSE, RH. (just to name a few). Ku

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-17 Thread USM Bish
I am on bash. This is part of the the output of the command "ls -d */" on my home directory. Only the sub dirs are displayed. aedes:~$ls -d */ Mail/ page/ nsmail/ bd4v605/free/ tklatex/ HTH alias lsd="ls -d */" should do your job ! USM B

Ftpd setup

2000-10-17 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello Guys, I have FTPD installed and was wondering how I change the default directory. Also how can I add users just for the ftp and not to have access to login via ssh or something. I looked for the man pages but there are none installed for it. And help on where the config file are kept and on h

Re: path to syntax.vim

2000-10-17 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:21:35PM +0200, Willi Dyck wrote: -|Hello, -| -|vi searches for the syntax.vim file in /usr/share/vim/syntax/. -|But my path to that file is different. Where can I change this -|behaviour? -|Best regards -| Set your environment variable in your .tcshrc or .bashrc file: F

Re: ftp.us.debian.org unavailable

2000-10-17 Thread Ted Cabeen
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dpk writes: >The server for ftp.us.debian.org ran out of disk space earlier this >week. Implementing a raid has forced me to rebuild the archives for >both Debian and GNU. Hopefully this should be done soon. (If someone >can provide a faster rsync mirror than ftp.d

ftp.us.debian.org unavailable

2000-10-17 Thread Dpk
The server for ftp.us.debian.org ran out of disk space earlier this week. Implementing a raid has forced me to rebuild the archives for both Debian and GNU. Hopefully this should be done soon. (If someone can provide a faster rsync mirror than ftp.debian.org it will help) Sorry for any inconveni

anyone try using pseudo-image kit...keep getting *** Error: getline(): not interactive, use stdio. error

2000-10-17 Thread Walter Tautz
when trying to run ./make-pseudo-image binary-i386-1.list ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org for example seems to occur for other ftp sites... there is a note in the readme about using wget instead of ncftp but it puts too much load on the ftp server. Should I be running as root perhaps? -walter

Re: problems with udma66

2000-10-17 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
Hi! No chance getting this to work on 2.2 now, try 2.4.0, it should work. I hope to fix 2.2 later ... Vojtech On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:05:40PM +0200, Francesc Oller wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to use UDMA66 in my computer but haven't suceeded > until now. > > Configuration: > > Epox EP-

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