Re: But ....

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 05:19:55PM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: | > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:23:53AM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: | > | 2) reboot in maintenance mode (or whatever is called in english: in | > | italian is "Modalità provvisoria": 640x480 screen with very few colors); | > | > FYI i

Re: wierd xmms question --> SOLVED

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:57:06PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: > Well, there is a setting.. In XMMS options, under MPEG Layer 1/2/3 > confiration, in the Streaming tab, all the way at the bottom.. > SHOUT/Icecast title streaming Excellent! Thanks so very much! -Mike

Re: dselect is a liar

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:51:50PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:38:56AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:19:49PM +1000, Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > > when i fire up dselect, it tells me that fetchmail version 5.8.11-1 is > > > availible.

modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135 (daemon.log)

2001-07-17 Thread Gladimir
I have tracked this down to the point that I know it is an alias for the real time clock, and that it only occurs soon after switching to run-level 6 and run-level 0. I also know that the alias exists in two files, that I know of; /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modutils/arch/i386. Removing the alias

RE: Date Problems...

2001-07-17 Thread Ian Perry
The #uname -a command also gives you the version and date of compilation (installation ?) eg one our old machines gives Linux router1 2.0.36 #1 Thu Sep 2 09:28:09 EST 1999 i686 unknown one of the newer gives Linux router2 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown I often use the command

Re: Date Problems...

2001-07-17 Thread Calvin Chong
on 7/18/01 11:34 AM, Leonard Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey All, > > This is probably going to be an easy question for most of you, but I can't > seem to get a grasp on what the problem is... > > # hwclock > Tue Jul 17 22:38:11 2001 -0.044470 seconds > # hwclock --localtime > Wed Jul

Re: PINE

2001-07-17 Thread Calvin Chong
on 7/18/01 11:42 AM, Jeff Maxson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, dude wrote: > >> >> I know PINE is not what debian users use, >> but i recently convinced my girlfriend to >> let me install debian on her windows computer. >> Her only gripe with using it is >> that there are no

Re: Date Problems...

2001-07-17 Thread Ari Pollak
First of all, I don't think that's the real 'uname -a' output. uname -a has more than just the date. Second of all, the hardware clock and the system (Linux) clock are different. if you type the command 'date', you'll probably get the same output as uname. To transfer the hardware clock to the syst

Re: VCD program under Gnome/X11?

2001-07-17 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
but I thought newest esd stuff won't work with libasound1, right? I try installing libasound1 with the new esd stuff but it said something about unsupport protocal or something like that. And I think that's where libasound2 comes in right? Edwin Lau On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:28:19AM +0800, c

Date Problems...

2001-07-17 Thread Leonard Leblanc
Hey All, This is probably going to be an easy question for most of you, but I can't seem to get a grasp on what the problem is... # hwclock Tue Jul 17 22:38:11 2001 -0.044470 seconds # hwclock --localtime Wed Jul 18 03:37:34 2001 -0.558978 seconds # uname -a Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000

Re: PINE

2001-07-17 Thread Jeff Maxson
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, dude wrote: > > I know PINE is not what debian users use, > but i recently convinced my girlfriend to > let me install debian on her windows computer. > Her only gripe with using it is > that there are no debs of Pine. > > She has tried building it from source > downloaded fro

Re: wierd xmms question

2001-07-17 Thread Ari Pollak
Well, there is a setting.. In XMMS options, under MPEG Layer 1/2/3 confiration, in the Streaming tab, all the way at the bottom.. SHOUT/Icecast title streaming On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:13:14PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: > Hello. > > This is kind of an odd one, but does anybody here listen to ww

Re: PINE

2001-07-17 Thread Ari Pollak
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:23:58PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I haven't used pine in ages. Switched to mutt not long ago, and haven't > looked back.. But, there was a 'mana' package, which appears to be a > fork from pine. Worked about as well when I tried it, but I haven't heard > a thing a

Re: PINE

2001-07-17 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, dude wrote: > > I know PINE is not what debian users use, > but i recently convinced my girlfriend to > let me install debian on her windows computer. > Her only gripe with using it is > that there are no debs of Pine. > > She has tried building it from source > downloaded f

Re: perl question

2001-07-17 Thread Calvin Chong
Simply Speaking, This would have been done better with these shell commands: # cd /directory # rm -rf * # cd ..; :) rgrds, Calvin "Lamer" -- >From: "Mike Egglestone"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "debian-user" >Subject: perl question >Date: Thu, Jul 18, 2002, 4:53 AM > > Hello... > > Here's

Re: PINE

2001-07-17 Thread idalton
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:28:42PM -0400, dude wrote: > > I know PINE is not what debian users use, > but i recently convinced my girlfriend to > let me install debian on her windows computer. > Her only gripe with using it is > that there are no debs of Pine. > > She has tried building it from s

Re: PINE

2001-07-17 Thread David Purton
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, dude wrote: > > I know PINE is not what debian users use, > but i recently convinced my girlfriend to > let me install debian on her windows computer. > Her only gripe with using it is > that there are no debs of Pine. > > She has tried building it from source > downloaded f

dselect is a liar

2001-07-17 Thread bmcintyre
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:38:56AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:19:49PM +1000, Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > when i fire up dselect, it tells me that fetchmail version 5.8.11-1 is > > availible. > > when i check the same on the website it states that version 5.8.12.1 is

wierd xmms question

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello. This is kind of an odd one, but does anybody here listen to www.3po3.com using xmms? I could swear that I used to get music track info scrolling in the text display. I have a bunch of track titles and artist names jotted down on my notepad, and I can't imagine how else I got them. So...

apache 1.3.9/stable

2001-07-17 Thread Jens Gecius
Hi folks, does anybody have a clue regarding user-authorization in apache-stable? I'm trying pretty hard to get it to work on my box, but it just doesn't work. Not with access.conf entries nor with .htaccess files. the appropriate section does look like this (same in htaccess or access.conf): Au

Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato

2001-07-17 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/18/01 01:00:19 +, Robin Gerard wrote: > > Have a look at the attached mail that I send you. > HTH That was really nice. I've saved that message for future reference. It worked like a charm and I'm in business and my system is safer for it too. Thanks! -- Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato

2001-07-17 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/17/01 13:55:01 -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > excerpted from usermod(8): Yeah I read that. That was before I realized I could take a look at the /etc/group file to see what groups I belonged to (and I'm sure there's a more refined method for that too ;^) ), so I wasn't really sure what group

apt-move config problem

2001-07-17 Thread Paul Mackinney
Anyone have more insight on this? Here's a question I asked Joost & his reply: > I've installed apt-move, and I've got my mirrors directory set up. Each > time I run apt or deselect I decline to let it remove downloaded files > and apt-move update. > > So far so good, but when I apt-get update i

PINE

2001-07-17 Thread dude
I know PINE is not what debian users use, but i recently convinced my girlfriend to let me install debian on her windows computer. Her only gripe with using it is that there are no debs of Pine. She has tried building it from source downloaded from washington.edu but to no avail. Are there any d

Re: Starting with postgreSQL and pgaccess

2001-07-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:30:57PM +, Victor wrote: > Connection to database failed ConnectDB().Connection refused: Is > the postmaster running (with -i) at localhost and accepting > connections on TCP/IP port 5432? Probably postgresql is not listening for tcp/ip connections. If I remembe

Re: How can I trace a segfault on program start?

2001-07-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 05:02:52PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:04:52AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >> I have compiled a program with gcc 2.95. It segfaults immediately on > star > >ting > >> and neither gdb nor strace reveal

Re: "man" command made easy? ->vim

2001-07-17 Thread florentin ionescu
"Actually, I'm not 100% sure that vim supports backreferences like that (the \1 in the replacement text). I know that Python's and Perl's regex engines do. I think I've heard/read that vim does do backreferences." Vim does support backreferences, "h: regex" will give more details.There was a re

evolution install

2001-07-17 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
Hi, I spent few hours trying to install Evolution. I try all the ways know, dselect, apt-get, wget *.deb and then dpkg -i ... This is what I get always: Unpacking libgal-data (from libgal-data_0.8-6_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing libgal-data_0.8-6_all.deb (--install): trying to overwrite d

Re: [OT] beware citibank!

2001-07-17 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:08:44PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Unfortunately, I was unable to get their site to cooperate with me > using any of Mozilla, Netscape 4.77, or Konqueror. Their site is so > javascript-heavy (and broken) that I could only get it to work with > IE/Win32. Unacceptable. I

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:14:48PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > > > 'bout the only thing i can say about which ide controller is used is that > > > it is built into the motherboard in a hp vectra vl. > > > > > > and the driver version is one thing i did notice: redhat

Re: perl question

2001-07-17 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 04:53:50PM -0400, Mike Egglestone wrote: > What would be a nice command to remove a dirtory that had files in it? > Even better what would be a nice command to delete all files > in one directory... (leaving the directory intact) #!/usr/bin/perl -w use File::Path; rmtre

gnucash 1.6.1-2

2001-07-17 Thread William S.
I used apt-get install to get the latest unstable version of gnucash. When I try to run it I get: gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: libqthreads.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I am using kernel 2.4.5 with the latest unstable packages. I currently have

Re: seting up a gateway

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:39:54AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: | On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:15:06PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > I know you will need iptables for a 2.4 kernel (haven't been there | > yet). For 2.2 kernels it is as simple as "apt-get install ipmasq" | > (which will install ipchains which

Re: How to write a man page?

2001-07-17 Thread Aaron Hall
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > I've had success writing man pages in POD, Perl's psuedo-documentation language. Even if you aren't familiar with Perl, POD may be easier to deal with with troff. Perl includes a program called pod2man which will convert the POD to troff for you. On top

Re: Setting up printing

2001-07-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:13:57PM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Brian, what's been said about CUPS is true, and that's what I use. I guess you haven't heard all that's been said about CUPS... > In any case, any system you use is going to need a recent Ghostscript > with support for your printe

Re: 2 Monitors/1 MG400/X 3.3.6

2001-07-17 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 04:08 p.m. 17/07/01 -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: I sent an email out yesterday about setting up 2 monitors on my Matrox Millennium G400 card. The response I received seems to assume that I'm running X 4.x. I'm not, I'm using Potato and don't want to dabble with woody if I don't have to. Can

Re: How can I trace a segfault on program start?

2001-07-17 Thread Philippe Troin
"Oliver Elphick" writes: > I have compiled a program with gcc 2.95. It segfaults immediately on starting > and neither gdb nor strace reveal any useful information: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:.../src$ people > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:.../src$ gdb people > GNU gdb 2001

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-17 Thread Leonard Stiles
Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Leonard Stiles wrote: > > > Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>I realized some problemes with "auto" and vfat, namely long > >>filenames. When I tried the auto/detection it always showed 8.3 > >>filnames. > >> > > What is the output

JDK in unstable?

2001-07-17 Thread Hank Marquardt
I could have sworn this was just on the list -- but I couldn't find it in the archive ... mea culpa for not saving it. Can the java SDK (1.3.1) be installed in unstable? ... I downloaded the official sun linux binary ... unpacked it, updated alterntives and and exported the class paths ... all I g

Re: VCD program under Gnome/X11?

2001-07-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, check out xine (xine.sourceforge.net). If you're using unstable or testing, i *think* that their is already a debian package Cameron Matheson On 17 Jul 2001 10:53:36 -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just wondering if there is any software under Gnome or X11 that p

Re: But ....

2001-07-17 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:23:53AM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > | 2) reboot in maintenance mode (or whatever is called in english: in > | italian is "Modalità provvisoria": 640x480 screen with very few colors); > > FYI it is called "Safe Mode" in English. You may need to press F5 > during sta

Re: How to set up a "prefect" router

2001-07-17 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: How to set up a "prefect" router Date: Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:16:30AM +0200 In reply to:Raffaele Sandrini Quoting Raffaele Sandrini([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tuesday 17 July 2001 20:02, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > > I assume you want to set it up and have it just work

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 16:14, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > > > 'bout the only thing i can say about which ide controller is used is > > > that it is built into the motherboard in a hp vectra vl. > > > > > > and the driver version is one thing i did notice: redhat 7.1 has an id

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 03:47:30AM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Note wrote: > > > Thankfully, I forget the details[0]. From experience, no, it won't be > > exactly hosed: you'll end up with a .nfs004950384672385721380937 file that > > will grow and eventually fill up the partition... nothing an rm -rf /

Re: apt-get package list problem

2001-07-17 Thread Joost Kooij
Thanks, Josip. - Forwarded message from Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > - Forwarded message from Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > From: Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: apt-get package list problem > > Sebastiaa

Re: seting up a gateway

2001-07-17 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:15:06PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > I know you will need iptables for a 2.4 kernel (haven't been there > yet). For 2.2 kernels it is as simple as "apt-get install ipmasq" > (which will install ipchains which does the "real" work) and then tell > the others on the LAN to use yo

Safe mode (was: Re: But ....)

2001-07-17 Thread Guy Geens
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Perhaps it uses the standard bios interfaces only when in "safe Joost> mode". IIRC the standard vga bios interface is limited to a Joost> 640x480 resolution. Standard VGA resolution, minimal device drivers loaded, no networking, no s

Re: How to get an Iomega 100MB USB Zip Drive to work with Debian?

2001-07-17 Thread Guy Geens
> "Joern" == Joern Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joern> I am new to Linux, and have just installed Debian/GNU Linux on Joern> a Dell Dimension XPS R400. The only problem I am facing, is - Joern> how to get an Iomega 100MB USB zip drive to work with Debian Joern> 2.2r3? I have installed th

Re: How to set up a "prefect" router

2001-07-17 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:33:49PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > I have an old 486 DX33Mhz PC. I'd like to set it up as a router. It has a > Ethernetcard, 250MB HDD and no CDROM. > What is importatnt to look at? Should i use a 1 floppy Linux? If yes wichone? > Should i use debian? Is

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:39:03PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > initially, i had the setup as > disk > disk > cd-rom > disk > > with all jumpers (master/slave) appropriatly set. > and as previously noted, redhat 7.1 (2.4.2) saw the configuration, > debian (2.2.12) di

Re: How to set up a "prefect" router

2001-07-17 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:33:49PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > I have an old 486 DX33Mhz PC. I'd like to set it up as a router. It has a > Ethernetcard, 250MB HDD and no CDROM. > What is importatnt to look at? Should i use a 1 floppy Linux? If yes wichone? > Should i use debian? Is it impo

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-17 Thread csj
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 18:32, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > Leonard Stiles wrote: > > Note that you can alternatively specify "auto" as the file-system > > type, in which case it will be auto-detected by mount. > > I realized some problemes with "auto" and vfat, namely long > filenames. When I tried t

Reporting dependecy problems

2001-07-17 Thread Andreas Fromm
Hi, I'm using testing on my desktop and often have had dependency problems while installing new packages. The Problems usualy had where of the kind that the required version of a package on which my package depend on wasn't available in testing, so I had to manualy download the unstable version

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 08:21:32AM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote: > > "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave> 1) Yes, there is a reason. Do a search on "reply-to considered > Dave> harmful" for more information. > > do a search for 'reply-to munging considered useful', for w

seting up a gateway

2001-07-17 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, Is there a gateway HOWTO? I found something along that lines but none of it applied to a debian system. Also what do i need a 2.4.6 kernel for it to work, am i right in thinking that it is different from 2.2.x? Thanks in advance, Hereward

Re: How to set up a "prefect" router

2001-07-17 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 20:02, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > I assume you want to set it up and have it just work, for an indefinite > period. I also assume that if it breaks, *you* have to fix it :). > In that case, consider not using the harddrive. Along with the > power supply and fans, it is the

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
> > 'bout the only thing i can say about which ide controller is used is that > > it is built into the motherboard in a hp vectra vl. > > > > and the driver version is one thing i did notice: redhat 7.1 has an ide > > driver version 1.10 whereas debian with 2.2.12 has an ide driver version > > of

Re: VPN for linux?

2001-07-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... for windoze side... use pptp ?? http://www.Linux-Sec.net/VPN c ya alvin On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Jean-Baptiste Note wrote: > I'm just experimenting with VPN here, and it's a lot of fun... > > There's nothing as simple as using stunnel. > > basically on the server side you have st

Re: Exim as a LAN mail server [possibly-OT]

2001-07-17 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:01:18PM +0100, Nikki Locke wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carel Fellinger > wrote: ... > > Only if the destination machine is on the net too in those few > moments > > that you are. Imagion that you are to send mail to my mail server > > directly, then it's qu

Re: VPN for linux?

2001-07-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Note
I'm just experimenting with VPN here, and it's a lot of fun... There's nothing as simple as using stunnel. basically on the server side you have stunnel ready to accept incoming tcp connections and ready to launch ppp over the created pty. you have to configure ppp properly (chap mecanism fo ins

XFS ReiserFS and ext3 performance comparison

2001-07-17 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Sorry if this is off the topic. Yes there have been already a lot of discussion about this matter but this only mentioned about ext2 (not clearly for ext3) so I would like to know your experience of using and comparison btw them. Personally I have used reiserfs, ext2 and jfs, xfs; reiserfs

Re: JDK in unstable?

2001-07-17 Thread Craig Dickson
Hank Marquardt wrote: > Can the java SDK (1.3.1) be installed in unstable? ... Yes. I have it working. > I downloaded > the official sun linux binary ... unpacked it, updated alterntives and > and exported the class paths ... all I get are complaints about libs > missing (libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.

Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato

2001-07-17 Thread Robin Gerard
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 10:47:24PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On 07/16/01 07:20:47 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > > Better is: add your user to the cdrom group and chmod the device to that > > group instead of disk. > > Thanks for the heads up. I know how to add a user to a group, but

Re: How to set up a "prefect" router

2001-07-17 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:57:44PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: > > Sorry to intrude, but this last bit was too good to pass up! I have access > to DATA I/O burner that will happily do EPROMs like those Award's BIOS came > on in those older MBs. Where are docs on how to muck with this to make an >

Re: .bashrc

2001-07-17 Thread Greg Wiley
On Tuesday, July 17, 2001 1:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Subject: Re: .bashrc > Hi, > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:00:16AM -0700 or thereabouts, Greg Wiley wrote: > > The problem with ~/.xsession for kdm is that > > you lose the session selection capability of > > the login app. I ended up cr

Re: Scanner + printer choice

2001-07-17 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:17:43 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have decided to purchase a new scanner and printer - especially since > Canon seem unwilling to help development of drivers for their scanners. > I intend to ditch my Canon models to a friend and won't buy Canon again. > > I was cons

Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato

2001-07-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
excerpted from usermod(8): -G group,[...] A list of supplementary groups which the user is also a member of. Each group is separated from the next by a comma, with no intervening whitespace. The groups are subject to the same re

Re: 2 Monitors/1 MG400/X 3.3.6

2001-07-17 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:31:11PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: > I'm not sure if both heads of a Matrox G400 are supported in 3.3.x. If > you have multiple video cards, it's theoretically possible to start each > card up in a different display, and then switch between the two using > ctrl+alt+F7 or F8

Re: 2 Monitors/1 MG400/X 3.3.6

2001-07-17 Thread Ari Pollak
I'm not sure if both heads of a Matrox G400 are supported in 3.3.x. If you have multiple video cards, it's theoretically possible to start each card up in a different display, and then switch between the two using ctrl+alt+F7 or F8, but I'm not sure of the specifics of setting this up. With X4, it'

Re: perl question

2001-07-17 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 03:53 pm, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hello... > > Here's one for some of the perl guys > > I want to delete a directory that will have files in it... > I don't know the name of the files there for wildcards might > be needed > > I understand that "rmdir" will wip

Re: JDK in unstable?

2001-07-17 Thread Ari Pollak
There are JDK debs at ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/java/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/ -- ___ ___ / _ | / _ \ Ari Pollak - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.aripollak.com / __ |/ ___/ /_/ |_/_/ A man needs a good memory after he has lied.

Re: [OT] beware citibank!

2001-07-17 Thread Jens Gecius
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ---Very OffTopic--- But very true! > Anybody thinking about opening an acount with Citibank, beware. > > I recently opened an account with them, wooed by their rating as "#1 > for the Internet Transactor". Offering free online bill payment was > also

Re: perl question

2001-07-17 Thread Craig Dickson
Mike Egglestone wrote: > What would be a nice command to remove a dirtory that had files in it? rm -rf directory > Even better what would be a nice command to delete all files > in one directory... (leaving the directory intact) rm -rf directory/* which will delete everything in a director

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:08:39PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2001 10:45, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:39:03PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in > his amx wrote: > > > initially, i had the setup as > > > disk > > > disk >

Re: How to write a man page?

2001-07-17 Thread Colin Watson
Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> what formats, > >Troff, with the man macros. > >> tools do I need to write > >A text editor (or better still, *the* text editor, ie. Emacs :-) > >> and format a man page? > >groff > >See "man 7 man" for more i

Re: how to switch root file system?

2001-07-17 Thread Steve Kieu
--- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Kieu wrote: > > yeah AFAIK povot_root is a system call ? and to > use > > that I have to do some coding, is it right? > > Pivot root is a system call but there is a program > by the same name. > pivot_root(8). Sorry to waste your time, as my $PATH

Re: [OT} Linux and reiserfs

2001-07-17 Thread MaX in the FaX
Sean Quinlan wrote: * Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-15 19:40): Unofficial reiserfs install disks seem to come and go quite regularly, the site I got mine from no longer exists... but this site looks like it has pretty much the same disks: http://debianboot.digitaltux.com/

Re: boot problem

2001-07-17 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
Sorry. Ididnt check that, and its been a while since i did the last configuration.

Re: gnucash 1.6.1-2

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:06:28AM -0700, William S. wrote: | I used apt-get install to get the latest unstable | version of gnucash. When I try to run it I get: | | gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: | libqthreads.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No | such file or directory | |

2.4 kernel and pcmcia nic

2001-07-17 Thread Craig Coles
I have my new laptop working with unstable and the 2.2.18 kernel. I have built the 2.4.6 kernel but have not found all the right options to get the new kernel (or something) to bring up the network card (a 3com pcmcia 3c575 or something, the 3c59x driver seems to like it). If I select i82365, 3c5

Re: How to set up a "prefect" router

2001-07-17 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Raffaele Sandrini (on Tue, 17 Jul 2001 06:33:49PM +0200): > I have an old 486 DX33Mhz PC. I'd like to set it up as a router. It has a > Ethernetcard, 250MB HDD and no CDROM. > What is importatnt to look at? Should i use a 1 floppy Linux? If yes wichone? > Should i use debian? Is it i

perl question

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hello... Here's one for some of the perl guys I want to delete a directory that will have files in it... I don't know the name of the files there for wildcards might be needed I understand that "rmdir" will wipe out an empty directory and "unlink" will wipe out files (only if I

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:36:02AM -0400, D-Man wrote: > | filnames. Well, most times I use vfat foramttd ZIPs and the few > | times I use something else I use > | mount -t hfs /dev/hdd /zip > | (why don't I need a partition number in this case?) > > I guess because the entire disk is 'hfs' (the

[OT] beware citibank!

2001-07-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
---Very OffTopic--- Anybody thinking about opening an acount with Citibank, beware. I recently opened an account with them, wooed by their rating as "#1 for the Internet Transactor". Offering free online bill payment was also very attractive. Unfortunately, I was unable to get their site to coop

Re: Gnome got ugly?

2001-07-17 Thread csj
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 23:14, David Z. Maze wrote: > Kurt Dresner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > KD> Does anyone know what happened with the recent (last couple of > weeks) KD> update of gdm, such that the login screen is just really > ugly looking? KD> It used to have the little picture and just t

Re: via82cxxx

2001-07-17 Thread Igor Guida
On Monday 16 July 2001 20:09, Tony Godshall wrote: > > > I've got a question about sound configuration. > > > I know I have a VIA PCI audio controller : > > > I/O 220-22F > > > IRQ 5 > > > and it seems to be sound blaster compatible. > > > > > > What should I do to get it working ??? > > > > > > M

Re: VCD program under Gnome/X11?

2001-07-17 Thread Ari Pollak
mplayer is excellent for a wide variety of movie formats, including VCDs. The URL is http://mplayer.sourceforge.net, and I do have debian packages make if you want.. -- ___ ___ / _ | / _ \ Ari Pollak - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.aripollak.com / __ |/ ___/ /_/ |_/_/ A man needs a

Re: Starting with postgreSQL and pgaccess

2001-07-17 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:30:57PM +, Victor wrote: > I'm now having a go at using postgresql, the version included in debian > 2.2r3. > > Now, while I've been able to create my first db and tables using psql > under postgres user, No need for that. Just create a valid user with your id,

Re: How to set up a "prefect" router

2001-07-17 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:02:54PM -0400, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > I think some kind of 1 floppy linux, as you mentioned, might work fine for > you. Other possibilities are floppy based tftp (aka diskless) boot and > (if you have access to a burner) eprom based tftp boot. Sorry to intrude, b

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Re: Getting more from the Sun4M ???

2001-07-17 Thread Guenter Millahn
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Ken Seefried wrote: > > > > > Guenter Millahn writes: > > > > > > > > 1) Is it possible to run the SCSI connection with a higher speed? > > > > > > There are SBus cards that can run faster. I've got an SBus FWD SCSI > > > drive

NetMeeting Users Firewall Security Update

2001-07-17 Thread Paul Cortez
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Re: locale problem

2001-07-17 Thread csj
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 20:04, Richard Black wrote: > My locales seem to be screwed up: > > nedit > NEdit: Locale not supported by C library. > NEdit: Using C locale instead. > > I reran local-gen: > #locale-gen > Generating locales... > en_CA.ISO-8859-1... done > en_IE.ISO-8859-1... done > e

Re: .bashrc

2001-07-17 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi, On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:00:16AM -0700 or thereabouts, Greg Wiley wrote: > The problem with ~/.xsession for kdm is that > you lose the session selection capability of > the login app. I ended up creating a new > mechanism that sources a local user init file > before running the main Xsessio

Re: gnucash 1.6.1-2

2001-07-17 Thread Geoffrey Romer
This is a bug that just appeared in the latest version of libguile9, whereby libqthreads (Which GnuCash needs) was accidentally not included. I've submitted a bug and it has been acknowledged. A corrected version of libguile should be forthcoming, hopefully within a day. In the meantime, you'll

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 10:45, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:39:03PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > > initially, i had the setup as > > disk > > disk > > cd-rom > > disk > > > > with all jumpers (master/slave) appropriatly set. > > and as previously noted

Re: seting up a gateway

2001-07-17 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:29:12PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: | Is there a gateway HOWTO? I found something along that lines but none of it | applied to a debian system. It would be titled "IP Masquerade" and "Linux Networking" or something like that (on linuxdoc). | Also what do i need a 2.

2 Monitors/1 MG400/X 3.3.6

2001-07-17 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I sent an email out yesterday about setting up 2 monitors on my Matrox Millennium G400 card. The response I received seems to assume that I'm running X 4.x. I'm not, I'm using Potato and don't want to dabble with woody if I don't have to. Can someone give me a lead or hint on what I need to do wit

Re: install debian up redhat 6.2 ...

2001-07-17 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:42:24AM -0500, Saul Fabian wrote: > I have a problem, ?How I can format my hard disk ? > > I want to change my redhat 6.2's linux to debian, but > I can?t install debian. When I boot the debian > installation disk, my system gives my this message: > > loading linux ...

How to set up a "prefect" router

2001-07-17 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I have an old 486 DX33Mhz PC. I'd like to set it up as a router. It has a Ethernetcard, 250MB HDD and no CDROM. What is importatnt to look at? Should i use a 1 floppy Linux? If yes wichone? Should i use debian? Is it important to use kern2.4? Other usful tipps? cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele

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