Re: archive for old debs?

2001-01-22 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:58:03 EST, mike polniak writes: >Lance Simmons wrote: >> >> libgimp1.1.29 isn't there. I guess what I'm looking for is probably a >> search engine. Does anyone have suggestions for how to _find_ old debs? > > Search google.com or http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/ with a mask

Re: Soundcard: Aureal Vortex2 SQ2500

2001-01-22 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote: > I couldn't get onto that web site. is it down?? > No but I see I've accidently left out the : after http http://www.braincells.com/debian/aureal/ is the correct URL. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Installing / applying Mozilla themes?

2001-01-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 10:49:52PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > I would imagine so, as you have a chrome subdirectory somewhere in > ~/.mozilla. However, Mozilla's software installation doesn't support > that. It absolutely sucks, and the mozilla people (from what I've > heard) have no i

Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-22 Thread Matt Miller
How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package- by-package examination, what can be done to detect this potential garbage?

X failure-- Help, please....

2001-01-22 Thread Tom Schuetz
Two things: I'm running potato, and I know my mouse is a ps/2, but it won't respond at all when I'm running the VGA server. As for the SVGA server, I get this on startx: X: exec of usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA failed _X11TranSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: connection re

Re: ip_masq_* _not_ as modules?

2001-01-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:00:31PM +0100, Janto Trappe wrote: > Hi, > > AFAIK it's not possible to compile the ipmasq modules (ip_masq_ftp, > ip_masq_raudio...) directly into the Kernel. Is this correct? yes -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpOrO4VTsXc5.pgp Description: PGP s

Re: Control CPU fan's speed

2001-01-22 Thread Arcady Genkin
Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So I got this new motherboard (ASUS CUSL2-C), and I hear that one of > > the Windows utilities that come with it can control CPU fan's speed. > > I thought that it would be very nice (I have no way of checking), > > since the native Intel's fan on my PII

Re: Soundcard: Aureal Vortex2 SQ2500

2001-01-22 Thread Xucaen
I couldn't get onto that web site. is it down?? --- "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, William Leese wrote: > > You may be interested in my debianized driver > package for Aureal chipset > sound cards > (http//www.braincells.com/debian/aureal/) > > Contrary to w

Re: Soundcard: Aureal Vortex2 SQ2500

2001-01-22 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, William Leese wrote: > Hi all, > > at the end of this month i'm planning on buying a new comp. system, this will > be part of a small home network and will be running debian and Win98se for an > ocassional game which doesnt get released for linux. > > It seems from several rev

package holding doesn't work in dselect

2001-01-22 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I wanted to install wmaker for my newly compiled X4, but I can't because it requires me to install xfree86-common and xlib6g.  This won't do, so I put those two packages on hold, but then it comes up with the dependancy problem screen, with them re-selected.  Why doesn't hold work?  

Re: imap package ignores MH style email folders (potato)

2001-01-22 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > With mh style (directory) folders in ~/Mail, I used the imap mail > user-agents imp, postilion, and mutt, giving (if needed) > the folders directory "Mail/", but all user-agents responded essentially, > "0 Messages" > then if I look for folders, I se

Re: Can't run freshly compiled X

2001-01-22 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Cameron Matheson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hey, # # I just finished compiling X4.0.2, but now when I try to run it, it says: # # Fatal server error: # could not open default font 'fixed' a) Used packaged wherever possible. Compiled-from-source packages are are *much* better than

Re: Mailbox vulnerable!

2001-01-22 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, RAccess wrote: > Hello. I am running exim on my home debian woody. I am using pine as my > email client and it shows the following error, whenever it checks the > mailbox: > > [Mailbox Vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection] > > This is obviously a di

Re: networking questions

2001-01-22 Thread mike polniak
seg wrote: > Forgot to mention why I want to log ip traffic. I mostly want to determine > which ports are used by my games. Is this possible? Install pkg 'iptraf'. Real time IP monitor that shows ports, packets and statistics. I leave it on an xterm all the time to check my connections.

logrotate source?

2001-01-22 Thread Ken Weingold
This looks like an interesting tool and I would like to check it out on our OpenBSD box. Does anyone know about a source tarball for it? This may sound stupid, but I am not sure what to do with the tarball available from the Debian site. :-/ I looked at the Makefile and it looked okay to me, so I

Re: Installing / applying Mozilla themes?

2001-01-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:58:10PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > 1. How do you install a theme systemwide? I've downloaded the Alfred > theme zipfile, but can't figure out what to do with it. Just open the .xpi in mozilla; it will be installed automatically. In order for this

Install on A7V

2001-01-22 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I'm trying to get Debian running on my Asus A7V motherboard with a Thunderbird processor. I moved the disk that I want to install onto to the ATA66 controller and then was planning on upgrading to 2.4 kernel and then moving it back to the ATA100 controller after that. This seems to be the r

Still need help and Sorry to Kmself

2001-01-22 Thread
First: my apologies to kmself. I guess I didn't realize I was sending to you rather than the list. I hope I haven't used up your good will. Second: kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:02:08PM +0800, Tim&Pep ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm a Debian newbie. I ha

Can't run freshly compiled X

2001-01-22 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I just finished compiling X4.0.2, but now when I try to run it, it says:       Fatal server error:     could not open default font 'fixed'   Curses, I don't know what to do.   Cameron Matheson

re:networking questions

2001-01-22 Thread seg
Forgot to mention why I want to log ip traffic. I mostly want to determine which ports are used by my games. Is this possible?

Re: Skipstone, Galeon, in potato?

2001-01-22 Thread Pollywog
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:34:59 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 01:56:35AM +, Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:51:33 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > > > > > > > > Yeah. I'm running Woody on my desktop, thought I'd stick

Re: Skipstone, Galeon, in potato?

2001-01-22 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:56:35 + (UTC), Pollywog said: > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:51:33 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > > > > > Yeah. I'm running Woody on my desktop, thought I'd stick to Potato for > > the laptop. So I've got Galeon and Skipstone on the desktop. Have to > >

Re: No menu entries under fvwm2

2001-01-22 Thread Andrew Perrin
I had the same issue when I went from slink -> potato. I believe the issue is that fvwm2 got renamed to simply fvwm; that means the names of the configuration directories change as well, from fvwm to fvwm2. I had written some fairly involved stuff that referenced fvwm2, so I used links to fix this:

Re: A secure FTP replacement

2001-01-22 Thread Nate Amsden
Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Is sftp not available as a Debian package? Couldn't find it in > dselect. > > In any case, what are you folks using as a replacement for unsecure > FTP protocol? I need a solution that would also provide my Windows > users a viable method to transfer files to my server.

Re: debian init.d scripts

2001-01-22 Thread Curtis Hogg
rc.S is for system-required scripts iirc... networking is started up there instead of at the rc.[123456] level, so it ensures you have network connnectivity in all runlevel modes... well except for singleuser of course. course i'm probably wrong about that. 's been some time since i mucked with my

Re: Control CPU fan's speed

2001-01-22 Thread Nate Amsden
Arcady Genkin wrote: > > So I got this new motherboard (ASUS CUSL2-C), and I hear that one of > the Windows utilities that come with it can control CPU fan's speed. > I thought that it would be very nice (I have no way of checking), > since the native Intel's fan on my PIII wants to be a jet-plane

Re: How to clone a system easily?

2001-01-22 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Thanks, but I want a real /total clone; all updates, configurations, links, files, etc. Not just a similar fresh install. Greg At 04:01 AM 01/22/2001 -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:15:52AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > My preference is to do a minimal base sys

No menu entries under fvwm2

2001-01-22 Thread davec
I've just re-installed debian (to the current stable release), and my fvwm2 window manager menus are empty, except for one X-term item. Is this a new policy? Or was something screwed up in my install? -davec

Re: Skipstone, Galeon, in potato?

2001-01-22 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 01:56:35AM +, Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:51:33 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > > > > > Yeah. I'm running Woody on my desktop, thought I'd stick to Potato for > > the laptop. So I've got Galeon and Skipstone on the desktop.

Re: Networking questions

2001-01-22 Thread seg
 Been reading up on my spare time (did read the ipchain, net and a few other howtos), but I still am a total newbie:)  Got some question on how to "put your suggestions to work". Also if anyone has a link on how to use -REDIRECT, plz provide:)      "For a firewall machine, I'd not only comme

Re: Compiling X4.0.2

2001-01-22 Thread mike polniak
Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I just compiled X4, but after I did "make install >& install.log" I checked the log, and it bailed because I don't have "-lz". What package is this library in? (or where can I download it?). You need zlib1g-dev pkg ,a compression lib. -- ~~~

Re: Control CPU fan's speed

2001-01-22 Thread mike polniak
Arcady Genkin wrote: > So I got this new motherboard (ASUS CUSL2-C), and I hear that one of > the Windows utilities that come with it can control CPU fan's speed. > I thought that it would be very nice (I have no way of checking), > since the native Intel's fan on my PIII wants to be a jet-plane >

debian init.d scripts

2001-01-22 Thread MaD dUCK
hey, i am new to debian - done redhat and suse and am now finally with what truly seems to be the best distro. honestly, it was a pleasure to install debian and using it is fabulous too for i *hate* that redhat/suse automatic config crap. anyway, been looking around through /etc/init.d and i actua

Re: Skipstone, Galeon, in potato?

2001-01-22 Thread Pollywog
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:51:33 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > > Yeah. I'm running Woody on my desktop, thought I'd stick to Potato for > the laptop. So I've got Galeon and Skipstone on the desktop. Have to > say I like the idea more than the execution so far, but they're both > sweet

Re: Installing / applying Mozilla themes?

2001-01-22 Thread kmself
on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 07:18:19PM -0600, Nate Bargmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:58:10PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Debian/Potato, x86, Mozilla M18. > > > > I'm trying to apply one or more Mozilla themes, they don't install as a > > regular user. I've f

Re: mem management between Debian and Red Hat?

2001-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am setting up the WebTrends Enterprise Reporting Server on my Debian >box here. It's for work and the only think this machine will be >running. They say that the Linux version is for Red Hat. I don't >buy that and am running Debian. There is a probl

Re: archive for old debs?

2001-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:58:12PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> On 22-Jan-2001 Lance Simmons wrote: >> > Where can I find old versions of debs? I need libgimp1.1.29 instead >> > of 30. Isn't there an archive somewhere? >> >> likely not. We keep the deb t

Re: Skipstone, Galeon, in potato?

2001-01-22 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:26:12PM +1100, Cyrus Patel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > See subject. Any way to install one, the other, or both, under Potato? > > I don't find them listed with available packages. > > > > -- > > Karsten M. Self htt

Control CPU fan's speed

2001-01-22 Thread Arcady Genkin
So I got this new motherboard (ASUS CUSL2-C), and I hear that one of the Windows utilities that come with it can control CPU fan's speed. I thought that it would be very nice (I have no way of checking), since the native Intel's fan on my PIII wants to be a jet-plane turbine. In short, are there u

Re: upgrading a built-in video card

2001-01-22 Thread Steve Witt
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Joseph Anthony De Los Santos wrote: > Hello, > > Right now, I am currently using a pathetically underpowered built-in video > card (s3 virge) for my debian pc. I would to upgrade it to a much better one. > My question is would my built-in card cause me any trouble? I thin

Re: out of RAM.

2001-01-22 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 07:10:52PM -0500, D-Man wrote: : :I'm a little late, but for future reference: : :Do you have the machine set up so it boots to a default (useful) :system? If so you could try just rebooting from the ssh session. :I've done this before with my system (for various reasons).

Re: Skipstone, Galeon, in potato?

2001-01-22 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hello Karsten, Both Skipstone and Galeon are under heavy development and I would recommend compiling them from sources. First get the sources - galeon is at galeon.sourceforge.net and skipstone is at muhri.net/skipstone. Install mozilla and mozilla-dev from potato and before compiling galeon ma

Re: A secure FTP replacement

2001-01-22 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 06:38:09PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: :Is sftp not available as a Debian package? Couldn't find it in :dselect. I don't see it for "stable" either, though it is showing up on my "unstable" boxen. You could get the source and recompile against you're installed libraries.

Re: Installing / applying Mozilla themes?

2001-01-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:58:10PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Debian/Potato, x86, Mozilla M18. > > I'm trying to apply one or more Mozilla themes, they don't install as a > regular user. I've found a couple of references that indicate Mozilla > is broken in assuming that themes need to

Skipstone, Galeon, in potato?

2001-01-22 Thread kmself
See subject. Any way to install one, the other, or both, under Potato? I don't find them listed with available packages. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/

Installing / applying Mozilla themes?

2001-01-22 Thread kmself
Debian/Potato, x86, Mozilla M18. I'm trying to apply one or more Mozilla themes, they don't install as a regular user. I've found a couple of references that indicate Mozilla is broken in assuming that themes need to be installed globally (system level) rather in user space. But I can't find men

Re: Compiling X4.0.2

2001-01-22 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Cameron Matheson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hey, # # I just compiled X4, but after I did "make install >& install.log" I checked the log, and it bailed because I don't have "-lz". What package is this library in? (or where can I download it?). Also, I'm trying to install emacs, X, etc.

Compiling X4.0.2

2001-01-22 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I just compiled X4, but after I did "make install >& install.log" I checked the log, and it bailed because I don't have "-lz".  What package is this library in?  (or where can I download it?).  Also, I'm trying to install emacs, X, etc.  Someone told me I could if I put the packages o

Re: A secure FTP replacement

2001-01-22 Thread John Galt
locutus:/usr/src# apt-cache show sftp Package: sftp Priority: optional Section: non-US Installed-Size: 56 Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.9.5-1 Depends: ssh, libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libncurses5, libreadline4 (>= 4.1) Filename: dists/woody/non-US/main/binary

Re: possible move to unstable..

2001-01-22 Thread Tom Pfeifer
As I expected, several others have already filed bug reports on this problem. Tom Bob Hilliard wrote: > > Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is getting away from the thread's original subject, but the new > > lilo package that did make it into woody (21.6-2) *is* broken as far a

Moron X - No Mouse

2001-01-22 Thread hammack
Thanks to Mile, Mark, and Joris for previous comments.  Problem:  Kengsinton 4 button track ball will not work.  A second 3 button mouse would likewise not work.      Linux boots into login window automagically.  I can log into an X window with the following  characteristics; a blank scree

DHCP questions for dispose5@hotmail.com

2001-01-22 Thread Dis Pose
I'm not subscribed to the list, so please cc me on any replies. I'm a current dialup user, changing to DSL imminently. I also have a LAN Masqueraded behing that connection and plan to continue that. My (new) DSL provider tells me I need to use DHCP to obtain my IP address, etc. No problem ther

Re: out of RAM.

2001-01-22 Thread D-Man
I'm a little late, but for future reference: Do you have the machine set up so it boots to a default (useful) system? If so you could try just rebooting from the ssh session. I've done this before with my system (for various reasons). -D On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:36:27PM -0500, Dan Brosemer w

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 vs 3Com NIC

2001-01-22 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > Did you follow procedure while building the kernel ? Maybe you have some > problem there ? Umm, what special procedure is there to compiling a kernel anyway? I configured it with `make menuconfig` compiled it with `make-kpkg clean && make-kpkg kernel_image` and install

Re: kernel version mismatch

2001-01-22 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Warfride wrote: > > Hi, I'm running a potato (2.2r0) box. > > When I try to run a driver I've compiled, i get a kernel version > mismatch message, complaining that the driver was compiled for kernel > 2.2.15, when I'm running 2.2.18 (I've tried 2.2.17, and 2.4test11 aswell). > > I reinstalled

Re: archive for old debs?

2001-01-22 Thread mike polniak
Lance Simmons wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:48:55PM -0800, hansen wrote: > > > > On 22-Jan-2001 Lance Simmons wrote: > > > > Where can I find old versions of debs? I need libgimp1.1.29 instead of > > > > 30. Isn't there an archive somewhere? > > > > they just go away to > > > > http://arc

mem management between Debian and Red Hat?

2001-01-22 Thread Ken Weingold
I am setting up the WebTrends Enterprise Reporting Server on my Debian box here. It's for work and the only think this machine will be running. They say that the Linux version is for Red Hat. I don't buy that and am running Debian. There is a problem that they haven't seen there before and

Re: vi - wraplen found

2001-01-22 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:16:27PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: [snip] | | one feature I was never able to make work exactly like I want to is | autoindent... (the C autoindent which is supposed to be smart). Have you tried :set cindent ? 'autoindent' simply maintains the indentation level, ci

Re: adding Windoze

2001-01-22 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Although it grieves me to say so, there are a couple of Windows-only apps # I'd love to run ... specifically the XML IDE XMLSpy, and a couple of # Chinese-language applications. If you're willing to do a little work, you might consider Win4Lin. Nice ap

Re: A secure FTP replacement

2001-01-22 Thread Arcady Genkin
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Is sftp not available as a Debian package? Couldn't find it in > > dselect. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>dpkg -p sftp > Package: sftp > Priority: optional > Section: non-US > Filename: dists/woody/non-US/main/binary-i386/sftp_0.9.5-1.d

Re: X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts -- SOLVED

2001-01-22 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
mike polniak wrote: > You may have to re-create the fonts.scale and fonts.dir. Never mind. I copied the fonts again from a fresh Win98 install, resynced xfstt and now everything works fine. Dunno, why it wouldn't work before. Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-be

Re: free memory

2001-01-22 Thread D-Man
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:27:23AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: | | Right. Just seems funny to not include that somewhere. I can get the total | from here: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dmesg | grep RAM | RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size If you look at some of

Re: archive for old debs?

2001-01-22 Thread Lance Simmons
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:48:55PM -0800, hansen wrote: > > On 22-Jan-2001 Lance Simmons wrote: > > > Where can I find old versions of debs? I need libgimp1.1.29 instead of > > > 30. Isn't there an archive somewhere? > > they just go away to > > http://archive.debian.org libgimp1.1.29 isn't th

Re: A secure FTP replacement

2001-01-22 Thread Joey Hess
Arcady Genkin wrote: > Is sftp not available as a Debian package? Couldn't find it in > dselect. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>dpkg -p sftp Package: sftp Priority: optional Section: non-US Installed-Size: 56 Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.9.5-1 Depends: ssh,

A secure FTP replacement

2001-01-22 Thread Arcady Genkin
Is sftp not available as a Debian package? Couldn't find it in dselect. In any case, what are you folks using as a replacement for unsecure FTP protocol? I need a solution that would also provide my Windows users a viable method to transfer files to my server. Now that I've wrapped POP3 and IMA

Woody Lilo problem

2001-01-22 Thread Gernot Bauer
Hi, I just updated my debian woody (testing) installation with dselect and when it tries to install the new lilo-version, I get the following errors: > Configuring packages ... /var/lib/debconf//config.1295: > /usr/sbin/lilo_find_mbr: No such file or directory > lilo failed to configure, with e

kernel version mismatch

2001-01-22 Thread Warfride
Hi, I'm running a potato (2.2r0) box. When I try to run a driver I've compiled, i get a kernel version mismatch message, complaining that the driver was compiled for kernel 2.2.15, when I'm running 2.2.18 (I've tried 2.2.17, and 2.4test11 aswell). I reinstalled and it didn't help.

Re: archive for old debs?

2001-01-22 Thread hansen
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:58:12PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 22-Jan-2001 Lance Simmons wrote: > > Where can I find old versions of debs? I need libgimp1.1.29 instead of > > 30. Isn't there an archive somewhere? > > > > likely not. We keep the deb that is in potato and testing and

install ok?; 60Gig ATA100 HD

2001-01-22 Thread Chris Palmer
Hi, all... Getting good feedback from you all; THANKS! I've got another question on my issue. Brief recap: I've got a 60Gig drive that doesn't look to be the right size to cfdisk, but I understand that newer versions of the kernel (2.2.14, for example) calculate the size of large drives over 3

Re: adding Windoze

2001-01-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:08:56PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > > All, > > Although it grieves me to say so, there are a couple of Windows-only apps > I'd love to run ... specifically the XML IDE XMLSpy, and a couple of > Chinese-language applications. > > Is there ANY relatively headacheless w

Re: Networking questions

2001-01-22 Thread Moritz Schulte
"seg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >  1. My inetd.conf files contains entries such as these ones: >    #:STANDARD: These are standard services. >     These are of the form #:LABEL: (what the file states). Are these enabled > or commented  out? See man inetd.conf. Lines beginning with a '#' a

ip_masq_* _not_ as modules?

2001-01-22 Thread Janto Trappe
Hi, AFAIK it's not possible to compile the ipmasq modules (ip_masq_ftp, ip_masq_raudio...) directly into the Kernel. Is this correct? Janto -- Janto Trappe - PGP key available upon request - Germany

Re: E-mail

2001-01-22 Thread Bud Rogers
On Monday 22 January 2001 14:42, Colin Watson wrote: > Robert Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >i simply wanted to ask if it would be possible to get an E-mail > > like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Although debian.com exists and redirects to the right place, > debian.org is the real domain; we're not

[SOLVED] Re: LILO based bootfloppy

2001-01-22 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:24:28PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: :Hi, : :I can't seem to get lilo to cooperate in installing the boot block on :a floppy: : :[EMAIL PROTECTED] deb-boot]# lilo -v -C bdlilo.conf -r /floppy/ :LILO version 21.5-1 beta, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger :'lba

Wrap-up: Driver for DSL Modem

2001-01-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
I wrote: > My local telephone company (BellSouth)is offering an attractive > deal on DSL service. They will supply a "3COM HOMECONNECT ADSL MODEM > PCI" (I think it is model 3CP3617), but they only support Windoze > ("support" means they supply a driver). > > Is anyone successfull

RE: Networking questions

2001-01-22 Thread Jason Mogavero
  -Original Message-From: seg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 2:29 PMTo: debianSubject: Networking questions    I have a few questions, here goes:    1. My inetd.conf files contains entries such as these ones:    #:STANDARD:

Re: Problems installing Netgear FA311 Ethernetcard.

2001-01-22 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 11:49 AM 1/22/01 , you wrote: My Netgear FA311 Card was not found at bootstrapping (rescue disk). I were not able to install the recommended 'tulip' driver into the kernel at installation process. I wanted to install the 'tulip' driver as a module, after I build my system, but /dev/eth0 did n

Networking questions

2001-01-22 Thread seg
   I have a few questions, here goes:    1. My inetd.conf files contains entries such as these ones:    #:STANDARD: These are standard services.    #:BSD: Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocls       These are of the form #:LABEL: (what the file states). Are these enable

Re: How do I get off this list?

2001-01-22 Thread Remco van de Meent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry to bother the list with this. But the method for unsubscribing > (that came in an email when I subcribed), does not work. How do I > unsubscribe? When people have difficulties unsubscribing from the lists, most of the time it is caused by a mismatch between the add

Re: bmp to jpg conversion

2001-01-22 Thread aidanc
Thanks to everyone who helped me with this! I took the advice from the list and checked out magicfilter and the mogrify command: mogrify -format jpg *.bmp did the trick! Thanks again, Aidan

Re: path and editor

2001-01-22 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:46:56PM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: > firstwhat the heck is the command that lets me see what my command > path is.? > > I know in unix... you type something like: > echo $path maybe try: $ echo $PATH > I guess I could just less /etc/profilebut there

Re: path and editor

2001-01-22 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:46:56PM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: > HI... > I've been looking all over the web for these 2 simple answers and can't > find them > > firstwhat the heck is the command that lets me see what my command > path is.? > If you are looking to find what director

Re: MUAs and timestamps, was Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

2001-01-22 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:45:29PM -0500, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: [-->8-- a very nice'n'quick script ---] Perfect! Thanks to all who replied, all your suggestions were helpful. I'll probably use Erdmut's script as it's so "nice, short and clean" and because I just love Perl. :) -- Maciej Kalisi

Re: path and editor

2001-01-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Mike Egglestone" wrote: >HI... >I've been looking all over the web for these 2 simple answers and can't >find them > >firstwhat the heck is the command that lets me see what my command >path is.? > >I know in unix... you type something like: >echo $path Nearly: echo

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-22 Thread Brendan Cully
On Monday, 22 January 2001 at 18:47, Brian May wrote: > > "Phil" == Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Phil> I don't know what else to say. With everything I've tried, > Phil> all my mail folders are shown as subfolders of INBOX until I > Phil> tweak the config a little

RE: archive for old debs?

2001-01-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jan-2001 Lance Simmons wrote: > Where can I find old versions of debs? I need libgimp1.1.29 instead of > 30. Isn't there an archive somewhere? > likely not. We keep the deb that is in potato and testing and unstable. That is it. When a package is updated the old ver just goes away. If

RE: path and editor

2001-01-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jan-2001 Mike Egglestone wrote: > HI... > I've been looking all over the web for these 2 simple answers and can't > find them > > firstwhat the heck is the command that lets me see what my command > path is.? > > I know in unix... you type something like: > echo $path > echo

archive for old debs?

2001-01-22 Thread Lance Simmons
Where can I find old versions of debs? I need libgimp1.1.29 instead of 30. Isn't there an archive somewhere? Lance Simmons

path and editor

2001-01-22 Thread Mike Egglestone
HI... I've been looking all over the web for these 2 simple answers and can't find them firstwhat the heck is the command that lets me see what my command path is.? I know in unix... you type something like: echo $path basically... the identical command to path from the dos OS...

Re: E-mail

2001-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
Robert Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i simply wanted to ask if it would be possible to get an E-mail like: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Although debian.com exists and redirects to the right place, debian.org is the real domain; we're not a commercial organization. That said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] address

Re: OT: check book balancer - xacc packages

2001-01-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
David Z Maze wrote: > FWIW, I routinely use gnucash, which is derived from xacc but is built > on the free Gtk+ widget toolkit rather than the non-free Motif. > Unfortunately, both stable and testing appear to have a pre-release > version of gnucash. The version in unstable works pretty well fo

Re: Mutt, unnoticed new mail and improper access/change times

2001-01-22 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 07:17:08PM +, David Wright wrote: ... > Nice. The problem hadn't worried me enough to look for a workaround, > but may I steal that? Yep, that seems to be the tradition in Open Software Circles anyway, so be my guest:) I improved a bit on that recepy (better locking):

Re: mail setup with DSL

2001-01-22 Thread Hans Marcus Kruger
On Monday 22 January 2001 18:45, Glenn Becker wrote: If you have a few number of addresses, I would suggest you to use fetchmail. If you have a lot of mails, it may be an option to let a local server handle the mail. Then you should have your own domain (as you have static ips this would be ver

Re: adding Windoze

2001-01-22 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello Glenn, What I did on my last couple of bench-boxes was install whatever linux flavor I was pounding on at the time, but when it comes time to "partition the hard drive" I would add a 1-2GB fat32 partition along with usual swap, boot and root partitions. It worked very nicely. I would l

Re: ls no longer uses @ when -F is used

2001-01-22 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:11:53PM -0500, John Covici wrote: > Hi. I am using 4.0.35 (using Debian unstable distribution) and if I > use ls -1 -F all the links to directories have a slash at the end > instead of @ . > > Any workaround or is new version coming out to fix this? > Check the bug lo

Re: OT: check book balancer - xacc packages

2001-01-22 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:43:01AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 22-Jan-2001 Xucaen wrote: > > hi all. > > has anyone ever installed either of the following > > debian packages? > > > > stable 100% xacc-smotif 1.0.17-1 (1166.5k) > >A personal finance tracking program. > > st

Sound problem

2001-01-22 Thread ngillm - Nathan Gillmore
Hello all, I'm having a bit of a problem getting my sound to function properly. Let me give a rundown of what I've done so far. First of all, I am running the 2.2.18 kernel, recently compiled, with everyting working fine. I'm also running KDE 2.0.1. I have the following modules installed, and t

Re: OT: check book balancer - xacc packages

2001-01-22 Thread David Z Maze
Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: X> has anyone ever installed either of the following X> debian packages? X> X> stable 100% xacc-smotif 1.0.17-1 (1166.5k) X>A personal finance tracking program. X> stable 75% xacc 1.0.18-4 (344.4k) X>A personal finance tracking program. FW

Re: has debian-user dried up?

2001-01-22 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:36:39PM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: :Hello: : :Since Friday, I've seen 5 messages on this list. During the previous :week, there seemed to be about as many! It was VERY ACTIVE until quite :recently. : :What's happened? something at your end I suspect, I'm still ge

RE: has debian-user dried up?

2001-01-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jan-2001 Dean Allen Provins wrote: > Hello: > > Since Friday, I've seen 5 messages on this list. During the previous > week, there seemed to be about as many! It was VERY ACTIVE until quite > recently. > > What's happened? > I have seen quite a bit more than 5. That said, we have been

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