Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:28:37PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > > Just hit this myself. I'm not at work, so I'm not completely sure how I > fixed it (and my box is back in windows, so I can't ssh in...) > > I do know that it has to do with the new kernel images using initrd to boot. > This means

character set??

2001-05-06 Thread Dale Morris
I have a question about character sets. Currently I have my locale set to US IS0-8859-1. Should I edit this to use other locales, and if so, what locales should I use? The problem I am experiencing is when I am using mutt to read email, and I receive a mail from Thomas Kohler (I think) it shows up

Re: Postfix or Exim?

2001-05-06 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 06 May 2001, mdevin wrote: > up. However, I had trouble getting it to work because it complained > that port 25 was already taken: That is your fault (or some other package's). Not postfix's. > I think this was due to inetd binding this port for some reason. I had > upgraded from Exim a

Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-06 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach mdevin (on Wed, 02 May 2001 03:12:19PM +1000): > Can you explain further how that works to someone who barely know > that i puts vim in insert mode and esc takes it out? I had a look > at the manpage and vimtutor and I can't see how gqip works - but it > did work and it is cool! i hav

Re: Where's lame

2001-05-06 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Mike Fedyk (on Sun, 06 May 2001 06:46:41PM -0700): > Is there a posibility of a source only distribution of certain packages? of course. check out qmail for instance. i guess to be fully honest, i *think* this is the reason that lame isn't part of the package system. why don't you beco

Re: LOGO (with the turtle)

2001-05-06 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 05 May 2001, Andrew Hagen wrote: > Does anyone know of a free Linux implementation of LOGO computer > language? (The LOGO with the turtle.) Are there debs available? Yes, package ucblogo. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the dar

Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Jason Healy
At 989201956s since epoch (05/06/01 21:19:16 -0400 UTC), Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hi there. I just installed kernel-image-2.4.4-686 on my P-III. > Unfortunately, it panics during the boot, saying that it can't find the root > partition. I have the root option set to /dev/hda4 in my lilo.con

Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-06 Thread mdevin
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:32:04PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > how about that? hmm? okay, i'm sure there's something... wait, then there's > > gqip > Man that is cool. Can you explain further how that works to someone who barely know that i puts vim in insert mode and esc takes it out?

Re: Where's lame

2001-05-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:03:47PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Viktor Rosenfeld (on Sun, 06 May 2001 02:47:15AM +0200): > > how come, lame is nowhere in Debian? Not even in sid? Or libmp3lame > > for that matter. > > from the lame webpage: > > "Personal and commercial use of compiled

Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Nate Amsden
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > Hi there. I just installed kernel-image-2.4.4-686 on my P-III. > Unfortunately, it panics during the boot, saying that it can't find the root > partition. I have the root option set to /dev/hda4 in my lilo.conf, and I possible the kernel doesnt support the ide

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Brian May
> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: Karsten> Place your response *after* quoted material. Why? I like to see the new message at the top, instead of having to scroll down to access it. Especially in this case, since you can tell what the poster is saying without reading the quoted mess

Re: Sendmail bug still biting

2001-05-06 Thread Michelle Murrain
On Sunday 06 May 2001 05:41 pm, you wrote: > > Please try > 0) make sure you have db3 installed > 1) rm /etc/mail/aliases.db > 2) newaliases I've done that. (I checked again just now - I have the most recent version of libdb3 installed.) I still get the same error. Michelle --

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Brian May
> "Ross" == Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ross> this would temporarily remove much of my system, and since some key Ross> packages aren't in woody (e.g., sawmill), I took a less radical Ross> approach. It is called sawfish-gnome, and it is in unstable. Not sure about te

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:13:41PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes, and when I was buying I wanted color. My ink-jet printer does > > 12PPM black/10PPM color and supports 1440 x 720 DPI. > > Does it do those speeds at the highest res? What printer is

trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi there. I just installed a binary kernel 2.4.4 on my P-III. Unfortunately, it panics during the boot, saying that it can't find the root partition. I have the root option set to /dev/hda4 in my lilo.conf, and I tried passing that as a boot option, but I had the same problem. Any idea w

trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi there. I just installed kernel-image-2.4.4-686 on my P-III. Unfortunately, it panics during the boot, saying that it can't find the root partition. I have the root option set to /dev/hda4 in my lilo.conf, and I tried passing that as a boot option, but I had the same problem. Any idea w

syntax error in backup script

2001-05-06 Thread Jason Pepas
i am brewing up a backup script, but i am running into an error which has me baffled. i try to run the script and get a syntax error which look something like this: syntax error near unexpected token 'elif' this is the line in question: elif [ ! -f "/backup/current/*fullbackup.tar.gz" ] here

Re: Diagrams with Dia: Help!

2001-05-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Andrzej Swedrzynski wrote: > I use dia on regular basis on two Potato computers and never had > any problems (except making it display and print iso-8859-2 let­ > ters, but that's another case; anyone knows solution?). I've never used dia, so this probably of no use to you... If you don't

Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

2001-05-06 Thread Ross Boylan
Is there a way to get mozilla on woody to do strong encryption? The docs refer to the personal security manager, but the file no longer exists. Mozilla's site says the security is now incorporated into the nightly build. Since that build seems not to have made it to woody, I still need to do som

Re: wait till end of write, how?

2001-05-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:25:09PM -0700, Rick Commo wrote: > > Given that a W2k client copies a large file into a samba share on a > > Linux server, how can a process (e.g. shell script) that will read this > > file wait until the file is totally transfered? > . > . > . > One alternative is to use

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:43:51PM -0700, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Try reportbug. This is not the only debian bug report tool, but it > seemed the right choice for me, and works pretty well. The only > problem is that it sometimes takes quite awhile for it to query the > existing

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 03:12:30PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:39:59AM +0100, raphael calvelli wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I hope this question is not too much off topic, but this looks a good > > place to ask it: > > > > - "free software"

Re: Getting realplayer streams to disk files

2001-05-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:39:27AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > > if it were me i woulda given up a long time ago :) > Porno makes the world go 'round, and motivates in striking ways ;)

Re: X question

2001-05-06 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Sunny Dubey (on Sat, 05 May 2001 06:50:52AM -0400): > how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything that I highlight > with my cursor? it does that by default, no? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:";

Heads up: apt.conf syntax change

2001-05-06 Thread Ross Boylan
With the latest woody upgrade I started getting errors that apt.conf had extra characters. It used to be I could start a line with # to comment it out. That doesn't work anymore. I'm also not sure if // still works. /* comment like this works */ So, if you happen to be using the other comment

Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-06 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach will trillich (on Sun, 06 May 2001 12:32:04PM -0500): > gqip gq} fewer keystrokes :) martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- i need not suffer in silence while i can still moan, whimper a

Re: weird jump in use reported by df

2001-05-06 Thread Jason Healy
At 989195842s since epoch (05/06/01 20:37:22 -0400 UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I typed df just out of curiosity to see what my disk usage was up to and > was shocked to see that it had almost *tripled* from the last time I > checked it (just a few days ago) -- it's gone up from 11% to 27%. W

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Ross Boylan
Try reportbug. This is not the only debian bug report tool, but it seemed the right choice for me, and works pretty well. The only problem is that it sometimes takes quite awhile for it to query the existing bug database; I'm not sure why. It's often much slower than getting the same info on the

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread geordie
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Michael Wardle wrote: > Sorry, I should have qualified that. I meant this in context of > software which is available for $0, regardless of whether the source > is openly available. This would mean that Microsoft Internet > Explorer (for instance) is also gratis. freeware?

weird jump in use reported by df

2001-05-06 Thread burningclown
All, I typed df just out of curiosity to see what my disk usage was up to and was shocked to see that it had almost *tripled* from the last time I checked it (just a few days ago) -- it's gone up from 11% to 27%. I haven't downloaded *that* much new stuff! Could this be a sign someone is making

Re: Using Samba 2.2 as PDC

2001-05-06 Thread Florian Petri
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 06:16:53PM +0200, Bostjan Muller wrote: Hi! > * On 06-05-01 at 14:59 Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > +Here quoted text begins+ > > On Sunday 06 May 2001 08:14, Florian Petri wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > [...] > > > Any ideas? I have no idea what's wrong... > > > > >

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread raphael calvelli
At 9:15 +1000 7/05/01, Michael Wardle wrote: Michael Wardle wrote: raphael calvelli wrote: > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero > costing" together; > > So, what about use of the term "libre software" ? It is already > working in italian "libero", french

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Michael Wardle
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:06:30AM +1000, Michael Wardle wrote: > > raphael calvelli wrote: > > > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero > > > costing" together; > > > > > > So, what about use of the term "libre software" ? It is already > > >

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:06:30AM +1000, Michael Wardle wrote: > raphael calvelli wrote: > > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero > > costing" together; > > > > So, what about use of the term "libre software" ? It is already > > working in italian "libero", french

X question

2001-05-06 Thread Sunny Dubey
hi, how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything that I highlight with my cursor? Thanks Sunny

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Michael Wardle
Michael Wardle wrote: > > raphael calvelli wrote: > > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero > > costing" together; > > > > So, what about use of the term "libre software" ? It is already > > working in italian "libero", french "libre" and spanish "libre". > > "grati

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:39:59AM +0100, raphael calvelli wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I hope this question is not too much off topic, but this looks a good > place to ask it: > > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero > costing" together; only in the broken engl

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:39:59AM +0100, raphael calvelli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I hope this question is not too much off topic, but this looks a good > place to ask it: > > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero >costing" together;

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Michael Wardle
raphael calvelli wrote: > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero > costing" together; > > So, what about use of the term "libre software" ? It is already > working in italian "libero", french "libre" and spanish "libre". "gratis software" would be a good term, since

[off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread raphael calvelli
Hello everyone, I hope this question is not too much off topic, but this looks a good place to ask it: - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero costing" together; - "open source" is also confusing because of the slight differences between GPL and just Open source

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

2001-05-06 Thread Robert Cymbala
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Robert Cymbala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I COULD USE some advice on where to begin trouble-shooting the >> following problem. Sometimes email that I send from Emacs (using C-x >> m compose-mail) does _not_ appear in exim. > >Are you sure it isn't in

Re: Sendmail bug still biting

2001-05-06 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
The quick fix to this problem until it's resolved is to not run the sendmailconfig script. Remove the aliases.db and run newaliases by hand. You may also need to chown root:root *.db while in the /etc/mail directory as I have to do that with the current version in unstable or else the serve

Mail-Followup-To (Re: Shutdown/switching computer power offautomatically ?)

2001-05-06 Thread Akop Pogosian
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > BTW, your mailer appears to be broken as it completely ignored my > Mail-Followup-To: header. I read the lists and I neither need nor > appreciate Cc:s > I use pine and it apparently ignores Mail-Followup-To. However, it does honor the Reply-To: head

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:34:47PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > This came up on another list. The problem involves testing existence of > a Unix shell variable from another program with limited system > interaction features. ... >$?MYVAR > > ...which allows testing of presence of a variabl

microtech cameramate usb

2001-05-06 Thread Charles Lewis
Anyone successfully get cameramate working? If so do you just need to enable usb storage in the kernel to get it working? What is device is used, /dev/scdb? I'm wanting to use it to get pictures off of my camera (compactflash) and to load pictures onto a portable mp3 device (smartmedia). -- Char

Re: Where's lame

2001-05-06 Thread Preben Randhol
Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/05/2001 (11:34) : > Hi, > > how come, lame is nowhere in Debian? Not even in sid? Or libmp3lame > for that matter. Forget MP3, Ogg Vorbis is better as it is free : http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html And there are packages in sid (perh

mouse wheel scrolling

2001-05-06 Thread lin_newbie
Hi all, I am trying to get my USB MS Intellimouse to scroll in Linux. have downloaded and installed imwheel 0.9.9. My Pointer section in the XF86Config-4 is as follows. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Intel

Re: Need Help with chroot systax, not covered in docs..

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:31:09AM -0500, John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Here is what I want to do; I have a dual boot system with partitions: > /stable and partition /unstable. I want to mount /unstable to directory > /stable/unstable after doing so I issue command; > 'chroot /unsta

mouse wheel scrolling

2001-05-06 Thread geekmitul
Hi all, I am trying to get my USB MS Intellimouse to scroll in Linux. I have downloaded and installed imwheel 0.9.9. My Pointer section in the XF86Config-4 is as follows. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IntelliMous

Re: A mess with startx, xdm and gnome

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:54:49AM +, Victor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I had installed gnome and xdm under potato 2.2r3 and XFree86 3.3.6 on my > workstation . Sometimes I used startx and some other time xdm to launch gnome > and all had been working great. > > Yesterday, because I wanted

Re: webmin

2001-05-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Jim Darrough wrote: > Can I obtain and install Webmin using apt-get? > You certainly can. install webmin or webmin-ssl (the latter is preferred for extra security) plus webmin-core then do: $ apt-cache search webmin to see the various other webmin modules available. -- Ja

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:54:04PM -0700, Akop Pogosian wrote: > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Well, this distro _does_ include APM support compiled into the kernel. > > However, that support is turned off by default because it's insane to > > not support the least common denominat

A mess with startx, xdm and gnome

2001-05-06 Thread Victor
I had installed gnome and xdm under potato 2.2r3 and XFree86 3.3.6 on my workstation . Sometimes I used startx and some other time xdm to launch gnome and all had been working great. Yesterday, because I wanted to install the Gimp 1.2 resorting to the debian unstable site packages, I issued the

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-06 Thread mike polniak
Viktor Lakics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > > I know this was discussed in this list already, I did my homework, > read the archives, but I am still confused. Here is my problem: > > I have stock potato 2.2.r3 with XFree 3.3.6. and Ivan's KDE for > potato. I want to get antialised font

ISA and PCI network cards

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay all (again), I've got to install a box with two network cards. I've got a nasty feeling that I'm going to end up with an ISA and a PCI both of which are compatible with the ns2000 driver module. So, onto my questions: both of them are PnP (oh really? - the ns2000 driver is not plug and play o

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-06 Thread Akop Pogosian
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:56:19AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > > > What is Linux Mandrake doing differently, say compared with a recent > > > Debian, which just hangs at "power down/off" ? > > > > The difference is on the setting o

KDE printing to cups

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay all. So how do you do it then? I really can't work out how to get kde to print to cups. Any ideas? I normally just print with a pipe to lp -d LaserJet. In all the kde apps there is just listed a generic dot-matrix printer, but printing to it does sod all. Thanks, Matthew -- Matthew S

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-06 Thread Akop Pogosian
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Oki DZ wrote: > Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > > What is Linux Mandrake doing differently, say compared with a recent > > Debian, which just hangs at "power down/off" ? > > The difference is on the setting of the kernel. > I use Debian and my system get powered off after "poweroff" c

Re: XFree 4.0.3 for woody

2001-05-06 Thread Timeboy
On 06 May 2001 20:50:31 +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: **Timeboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: ** ** > I have a great running 4.0.3 on potato. Needet only to ** > update to libc6_2.2. ** ** Mh, I added this line to my sources.list ** deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ woody/i386/ ** ** Bu

Re: SSH-2.4.0 ./configure error

2001-05-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:17:40 -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > checking whether the C compilier (gcc -g) works...no > > configure error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot > > create executalbles. > Do you happen to have gcc installed? It seems like make can't find it. > Perh

Re: wet blue

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:28:58AM +, Frederico S. Mu?oz wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:27:28PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:09:46AM +0300, tmefnl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > DEAR SIR , > > > WE ARE INTERESTED TO BUY WET BLUE SPLIT CATTLE HIDES , WITH F

Re: LOGO (with the turtle)

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:19:56PM +0200, Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote on 06/05/2001 (11:34) : > > on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:11:44PM -0400, Andrew Hagen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a free Linux implementation of LOGO computer >

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:54:26PM +0300, Tommi Komulainen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:25:35PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:22:40AM +0300, Tommi Komulainen ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > if test "${LANG+set}" = set; then LAN

Re: Postfix or Exim?

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:40:21AM +1000, mdevin wrote: > Look, I know this is a flame bait question. I was interested in trying > Postfix because I thought it may be more customisable and easier to set > up. However, I had trouble getting it to work because it complained > that port 25 was alrea

Re: Getting realplayer streams to disk files

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:46:33AM -0400, Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > I'm just amazed that it is so important to block us from caching > > > postage-stamp sized movie commercials, and 10-second snips of music. > > > What I hate

Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-06 Thread Glyn Millington
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > -- > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #15 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : > Is there a good place to learn snarky PERL TECHNIQUES? One of > my favorites is http://webtechniques.com, where Randall Schwartz > contributes a monthly sample, explaining li

xserver-sis 0.990907-2.deb

2001-05-06 Thread peter.millard2
Hello Debian   I have tried many times to get my SiS6326 graphics card on debian 2.2r2 without success . I was going round the debian site and found that the driver is not free so is not include in the disks   xserver-sis 0.990907-2.deb is the correct driver which i saved on download on to a

Sendmail bug still biting

2001-05-06 Thread Michelle Murrain
Hi folks, I'm running debian woody, and got bit by what *I think* was bug 94103, where I get the error "Cannot open database /etc/mail/aliases.db: Invalid argument" when I try to run newaliases, and also my aliases aren't working, and my mail logs are full of errors like this. I read about bug

Re: webmin

2001-05-06 Thread freedman
On Sun, May 06, 2001, Jim Darrough wrote: > Can I obtain and install Webmin using apt-get? > > Thanks, Jim Darrough > > Jim Darrough, ARS KI7AY > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ki7ay.com Hi Jim, Searching at 'http://packages.debian.org', webmin is available in unstable, but not potato. See: '

Re: XFree 4.0.3 for woody

2001-05-06 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Timeboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I have a great running 4.0.3 on potato. Needet only to > update to libc6_2.2. Mh, I added this line to my sources.list deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ woody/i386/ But there were too many hold packages. And a warning AFAIR about libc6. Is it safe to

webmin

2001-05-06 Thread Jim Darrough
Can I obtain and install Webmin using apt-get? Thanks, Jim Darrough Jim Darrough, ARS KI7AY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ki7ay.com

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-06 Thread mike polniak
Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have lived w/o a printer both at home and at work for some time now. If > I need anything printed I've done so from a Mac or Windows PC. Probably > sheer laziness. > > Now, however, I want to do a bit of self-publishing (poetry), and I'm > los

Re: XFree 4.0.3 for woody

2001-05-06 Thread Timeboy
On Sun, 6 May 2001 17:56:27 +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: *Hi * * i saw that sid has allrady Xfree 4.0.3 included? * When will woody be updated? Hi Raffaele! You could update your xfree86 to 4.0.3 by hand. Downloading the packages from www.debian.org and doing as root: dpkg -i More then 2

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-06 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:15:24PM +0200, Jens Benecke wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-kde@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: AA with potato (strictly) > Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-kde@lists.debian.org > From: Jens Benecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sun,

Re: power off on shutdown doesn't work

2001-05-06 Thread mike polniak
Akop Pogosian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: > > > Akop Pogosian wrote: > > > > > > Linux kernel has a feature that enables a machine capable of turning > > > the power off on it's own to do so with "shutdown -h.." or "poweroff" > > > commands. I used to rely

noel@koethe.net: attempt to reply re postgresql

2001-05-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
My reply to Noel Koethe fell foul of an over-enthusiastic spam-blocking policy. I repost it here in case he may be able to see it and so that anyone at uni-bonn.de can tell their administrators that they're blocking the wrong stuff. =

Re: Example of "date" sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-06 Thread will trillich
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:25:03AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > P.S. if the gnu info browser gives you the heebie jeebies, try using pinfo -- > works like lynx. MANY THANKS for that one! yay pinfo! (and look which tip showed up by serendipity -- really!) -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #11 from Wil

vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-06 Thread will trillich
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:01:11AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:27:19AM -0400, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > also sprach mdevin (on Sat, 05 May 2001 09:20:15PM +1000): > > > How do you stop this from happening? > > > > actually, set noautoindent won't cut it

Re: Can't Connect to ISP

2001-05-06 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Sun, 06 May 2001 01:00:09 hammack wrote: > I've RTFMs. Running Debian 2.2.18. Here are the applicable conf files. I think?? It looks like it's not getting the "ppp" as an option after the password. TIA John > It looks like you're not in the group "dip" for pppd. Su and then issue

Re: tcpdump broken by upgrade (Potato)

2001-05-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: tcpdump broken by upgrade (Potato) Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:22:31AM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Has anyone else (using the 2.4.4 kernel packages) lost tcpdump? Replying to my own message: Forget it! The problem turned out

Re: Can't Connect to ISP

2001-05-06 Thread V.Suresh
How about having the Stupid Mode =1 option in wvdial.conf. I think that will send ppp first and then authenticate. May help. Once upon a time, Joost van der Lugt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And typed: >* hammack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010505 23:12]: >>I've RTFMs. Running Debian 2.

Re: ATI Radeon compatibility

2001-05-06 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, 6 May 2001, C+J Baker wrote: > I need to know if your product supports the new ATI Radeon chip. > Please reply. Thank you. > > C. Baker I'm not sure if stable (potato) has much support for Radeon cards, but I definitely know that unstable (sid) does. IIRC, Radeon support is co

Re: SSH-2.4.0 ./configure error

2001-05-06 Thread Simon Law
On Sat, 5 May 2001, J. [iso-8859-1] Ram?n Fdez wrote: > I'm trying install ssh in my firewall linux box, when system run ./confugre > in ssh-2.4.0 directrory the next error message is displayed: > > checking whether the C compilier (gcc -g) works...no > configure error: installation or confi

Re: Page-up/Page-down keys and shell history

2001-05-06 Thread Joost van der Lugt
* Lindsay Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010506 08:53]: >On Sat, 5 May 2001, Joost van der Lugt wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've been looking into this for a litle bit and am unable to find an >> answer. This is a feature AFAIK only implemented by SuSE: >> >> At a prompt type one or more characters the

Re: Using Samba 2.2 as PDC

2001-05-06 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 06-05-01 at 14:59 Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > On Sunday 06 May 2001 08:14, Florian Petri wrote: > > Hi! > > [...] > > Any ideas? I have no idea what's wrong... > > > > cu Floh > > Unless I'm mistaken, SAMBA can only act as a BDC of an existing NT/2000

ATI Radeon compatibility

2001-05-06 Thread C+J Baker
I need to know if your product supports the new ATI Radeon chip. Please reply. Thank you. C. Baker _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

XFree 4.0.3 for woody

2001-05-06 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi i saw that sid has allrady Xfree 4.0.3 included? When will woody be updated? cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For encrypted Mail get my Public Key from "search.keyserver.net" ID is: 0xEC4950E9 Fingerprint: FFEA 3317 8624 4771 A05D 2AFA 46A2 A22B EC49 50E9

Re: LS120 drive

2001-05-06 Thread Dale Morris
I have a LS-120 (Superdisc) on a compac that I've used with linux. don't like it.. If convenient, or you're buying, I would get a zip drive. Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2001, [iso-8859-2] Szatori Péter wrote: > > > Hi > > > > At home I use a LS-120 drive and yes if you bu

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

2001-05-06 Thread Alan Shutko
Robert Cymbala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I COULD USE some advice on where to begin trouble-shooting the > following problem. Sometimes email that I send from Emacs (using C-x > m compose-mail) does _not_ appear in exim. Are you sure it isn't in exim's queue? Run mailq as root... mailq as a

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-06 Thread Alan Shutko
"Steve R. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am a huge fan of the HP inkjet printers (and I'm eagerly waiting > for drivers as good as the ones for Windows). http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! "The Computer made me do it."

SSH-2.4.0 ./configure error

2001-05-06 Thread J . Ramón Fdez
I'm trying install ssh in my firewall linux box, when system run ./confugre in ssh-2.4.0 directrory the next error message is displayed: checking whether the C compilier (gcc -g) works...no configure error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executalbles. Where

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

2001-05-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:47:24PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: > > Mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" gets into exim's queue, but mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" does _not_. Mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > does _not_ appear in exim. Glad I caught that fact, but I wonder how > many other messages disappear

Re: Does apsfilter work?

2001-05-06 Thread Dale Morris
I had *lots* of problems with this, what eventually worked best for me was to install lprng package and go the lprng webpage. There it gives instructions and commands to set the proper permissions. After that, everything works well. HTH [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Nelson, > d

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-06 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, May 5, Ethan Benson did write: > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:34:47PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > This came up on another list. The problem involves testing existence of > > a Unix shell variable from another program with limited system > > interaction features. > > > > I us

Re: Slow Cable Modem Revisited

2001-05-06 Thread W. Paul Mills
The DFE-530TX+ works fine for me on cable modem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaldhar H. Vyas) writes: > Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my > @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys > Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replac

Linksys EtherFast NIC, full duplex?

2001-05-06 Thread Jack
Hi, I have two machine connected using crossover cable and LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 Cards. (same card on both machine). I only get 4-5Mbyte/sec when ftp or nfs between each other. Both machine are running Woody. I am sure it's not the best it can get with those NICs. I can get 9-10Mbytes/sec

Need Help with chroot systax, not covered in docs..

2001-05-06 Thread John Foster
Here is what I want to do; I have a dual boot system with partitions: /stable and partition /unstable. I want to mount /unstable to directory /stable/unstable after doing so I issue command; 'chroot /unstable apt-get update' 'chroot /unstable apt-get upgrade' What happens is that all of the pro

Re: LOGO (with the turtle)

2001-05-06 Thread Andrew Hagen
Sorry about replying as opposed to starting a new thread. Thanks for the help. Andrew Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't install debian after freebsd?

2001-05-06 Thread Carel Fellinger
[[ please put your remarks *below* the quoted text, preserves context and makes replying soo much more fun ]] On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:34:48AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System ..snipped normal looking output of fdisk > I mean debian

Re: Can't Connect to ISP

2001-05-06 Thread John Hasler
Joost van der Lugt writes: > ...where does pre-login go? At first thought I would assume this would be > before the login name is given,... It is. He needs "Post-login", which shows in the "Advanced" menu when "Chat" authentication is selected. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Danc

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