Re: CDROM problems with installer 2.2.23

> Hi > > Have installed potato(carefully,multiple times) using boot floppy images > 2.2.23 from CDROM. On reboot, apt-get tries to access packages and gets > error: "fs iso9660 not supported by kernel". Using mount has always > given the same error. I tried using an older version installer (2.1) >

Re: Wrong Newsgroup ?

Could be that people reading debian-devel@lists.debian.org can answer that. Yet I am not sure if that list is appropriate for this question. --- Begin Message --- Hi there ! Some Days ago I had a question about the apt-mirror .exclude file. Since there wasn't the slightest reaction I wonder wheth

Re: dhelp_parse: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles

> Hi ! > > using apt-get install ... (or dhelp_parse by myself) gives me the error: > dhelp_parse: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles > > since my last dist-upgrade on friday. > Strace says: > > open("/var/lib/dhelp/titles", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0644) = -1 EEXIST > (File exists) > open("/var/lib

Re: ssh braindamage (protocols, RSA auth) FIXED

meh. keeping this short. I'm an idiot, kinda. :) SSH is a complicated mess, that's my excuse. Basically, this sums it up: RSA = v2 (*not* v1) RSA1 = v1 DSA = v2 So, when I said it was doing v1 when it should be v2, I meant it was doing RSA when it should be doing DSA. And then realized th

magicfilter simple question

Hi, I installed magicfilter and setup 2 remote printers. What would be the best way to add a 3rd printer? also, how do you set the default printer? Before, I would just blow away /etc/printcap and then add all 3 printers at once. Is there a better way? Would it be okay to backup my /etc/printcap

Re: Ximian Evolution and keyboard mappings

On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 23:47, Pedro I. sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > The mail composer in Evolution has a bizarre key binding and I can't > figure out how to change it. heh. I just fixed this for my wife, she had the same complaint. Bizarrely enough, you have to look at the "HTML Editor" settings i

Re: Messed up console

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:31:19PM -0400, dman wrote: > What happens if you run 'reset' in the console? I know that if one > cats a binary file a similar situation can happen (some binary > characters are seen as control characters and changes the terminal > settings). Running 'reset' resets th

Re: lost /usr partition

Okay, my question wasn't clear, but I figured it out, so here is what I did. After mounting /dev/hdb1 on /mnt of hda, as suggested below by Ian, I went to / and did an archive copy of home onto /mnt/home. cp -a home /mnt/home. This moved the home directory and its children to /home of hdb. T

Re: testing

On 12-Sep-2001 Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:12:32PM -0500): >> how stable is testing? would it be too risky to upgrade from stable >> to testing? > furthermore, the apache transition does not work quite well, you'll > have to edit some config file

CDROM problems with installer 2.2.23

Hi Have installed potato(carefully,multiple times) using boot floppy images 2.2.23 from CDROM. On reboot, apt-get tries to access packages and gets error: "fs iso9660 not supported by kernel". Using mount has always given the same error. I tried using an older version installer (2.1) which explici

Ximian Evolution and keyboard mappings

Hello, The mail composer in Evolution has a bizarre key binding and I can't figure out how to change it. For example, HOME/END take me to the begining/end of the document rather than to the beginning/end of the line, CTL-X doesn't cut the selection, CTL-V doesn't paste the selection (seems to take

OT: USB and/or FireWire cables

Hi, anybody knows the maximal length for those cables? I knows that it depends on the cable but I mean the "traditional" cable. Thanx. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tels. 665.99.41 - 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMA

Re: CPU Overclocking & Kernel compile

On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Hi Listers, > > What are the issues involved in compiling a kernel on a machine with CPU > overclocked ? > > Yesterday I tried to compile 2.4.9 kernel on a celerone machine 466MHZ > which was overclocked to 550MHZ. The motherboard is ASUS P3C2000. >

building a kernel

Hi, I am new to debian, actually I don't even have everything running yet as I want it to. Right now I was trying to build a kernel and I got the following problem make xconfig rm -f include/asm rm: `include/asm' is a directory make: *** [symlinks] Error 1 On my RedHat distro /usr/include/asm is

Re: Messed up console

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:53:36PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: | I'm having an odd problem: The text in my consoles is messed up, even | after a reboot. It looks fine when prompting for username and password, | but once I log in the text becomes a mess of random ASCII characters | which render

Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:20:53PM +, Vittorio wrote: | Please, could someone explain step by step how I can get rid of initrd | stuff when compiling the 2.4.9. | | As I wrote in this thread I was able to build my own 2.4.9 kernel | using initrd and the related stuff. | | When using make m

Re: removing xfs

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:21:27AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > version 4.0.1so, afaik, X doesn't need either xfs or xfstt since there > is a built in font server already but I could be wrong... You're right :). What are your font paths? You may just not have a line in your X config file

Re: fbset [was Re: uptime]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:50:30PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010916 18:21]: | > Ooh, cool. I'll have to check it out. Maybe that way I could switch | > framebuffer resolutions without rebooting :-). | | umm ... I take it you've never heard of fbset? Close. I've h

Re: uptime

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:20:33AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: | ... | > | > The difference bewteen server and workstation is a couple registry | > keys and the price tag. :-) | | I used to think that, too, until a (shudder) VB/MSSQL app I wrote | refu

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:18:33PM -0700, Mark Seven Smith wrote: | - Original Message - | From: "Peter Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: "debian user" | Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 8:54 AM | Subject: Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it? | | | > Dman wrote: | > | > -T

KUPS removed?

I'm a big fan of KUPS ("Description: KDE administrator for CUPS"), but it seems to have vanished from Debian without a trace. Given that I can no longer find the package on http://packages.debian.org/ , how can I find out when and why it was removed from Debian? BTW, yes, I know that I could writ

cannot start sshd

Hi again group, Sorry to post this message again, but I am still not able to get sshd to start. Below are the results from the diagnostics that I ran to figure out the problem. I have even tried a fresh install of ssh because I did not know what else to try. I am not behind a firewall so I cann

woody and php

hi all about to install a new server and being relatively close to the woody release was wondering if it made sense to upgrade it to woody before I put it into production planning to run apache php mysql webserver with some email duties (exim & qpopper in all likelihood) has anyone got any wa

Re: when is woody stable release?

On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 06:45, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:28:06PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > > hi. i can't check the debian site right now because of some proxy > > problems but can someone tell me when is Debian woody going to be in > > release stable? > > I'm afraid nobody w

Galeon 0.12 startup error

Any body here knows a fix for the following galeon 0.12 error: Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences. Check your gconf setup, look at galeon FAQ for more info The info, needless to say, hasn't been very helpful. TIA

Re: Problem Printing

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:57:29PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:18:11PM -0400, Brian J . Dumont ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having some difficulty printing to my new printer. I have a > > P2-333 based system running Debian 2.2r2, using the defa

Re: removing xfs

version 4.0.1so, afaik, X doesn't need either xfs or xfstt since there is a built in font server already but I could be wrong... > > Hi, > > trying to remove xfs font server but something's gone wrong... after > > removing xfs and restarting X, X seems to start fine then exits abruptly > > and

Re: lost /usr partition

Thanks Ian, thats almost it. I will install debian on hdb with a /, /usr and a /homepartitions. Now how can I move the info under /home on hda to /home on hdb? Then I will do a low level format on hda to rehabilitate that drive for use as a backup device. On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:29:27 Ian Lee w

Re: Lookup during intensive IO

> On Monday 17 September 2001 11:42 am, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: > > I am lost, I don't know what to do find the cause of the problem. > > When I put the machine under IO stress the it lookup. It hapens > > during backup of the machine by the network to an amanda server. > > Doing ta

Re: Xawtv and XFree86 4.0

On Monday 17 September 2001 16:34, Adam McDaniel wrote: > What kind of tv card do you have? What version of X? It's a pinnacle PCTV Studio Pro and I'm running 4.0.3. > Also, what colour-depth are you running in? Now I'm running 16 bpp. > To my knowledge, xawtv doesn't REQUIRE XVideo unless i

Re: when is woody stable release?

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:28:06PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > hi. i can't check the debian site right now because of some proxy > problems but can someone tell me when is Debian woody going to be in > release stable? I'm afraid nobody will be able to give you an accurate answer to that one. Debia

Re: How to get rid of Gnome desktop?

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Mike Alborn wrote: > > I found that /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager -> /usr/bin/gnome-session > > ; apparently at a recent package upgrade Gnome overwrote whatever used to > > be there. Which begs the question why KDE is still on my screen. > > It appears that gnom

Re: Error message at boot time

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:21:14 PDT, "Karsten M. Self" writes: >on Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 05:00:45PM +0100, Keith O'Connell ([EMAIL PROTECTED] >lueyonder.co.uk) wrote: <...> >> tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0x1000, 00:A0:CC:D3:72:BA, IRQ >> 11.

Re: Lookup during intensive IO

On Monday 17 September 2001 11:42 am, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: > I am lost, I don't know what to do find the cause of the problem. > When I put the machine under IO stress the it lookup. It hapens > during backup of the machine by the network to an amanda server. > Doing tar of the f

Re: apt-get problem workaround... is this a bug?

Am 13. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Paul D. Smith so: > I just asked on debian-devel. Did you get an answer? ciao, der.hans -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # Practice socially consious hedonism. Do whatever you want, # as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. - de

Re: default window managers

on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:45:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > where do set the system wide default windows manager? i recently did an > apt-get dist-upgrade of the unstable tree and it changed the default windows > manager from windows maker to fvwm, and now when i se

Re: Error message at boot time

on Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 05:00:45PM +0100, Keith O'Connell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have an old 400 Mhz Pentium, that I want to use as a firewall. It has > 80Mb ram and a 6Gb disk. Now I understand that this is easily ample for > the task. > > It only has one network card in it at the moment

Re: How to get rid of Gnome desktop?

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:22:01PM +0200, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > Mike, > thanx for your suggestions, but I have neither a .xinitrc, a .xsession, a > .Xinitrc, a .Xsession, or XINITRC set (I do have a .Xdefaults which > contains lots of stuff but nothing Gnomish). > I found that /etc/alternat

Re: Error message at boot time

on Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 05:00:45PM +0100, Keith O'Connell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have an old 400 Mhz Pentium, that I want to use as a firewall. It has > 80Mb ram and a 6Gb disk. Now I understand that this is easily ample for > the task. > > It only has one network card in it at the moment

Re: Problem Printing

on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:18:11PM -0400, Brian J . Dumont ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having some difficulty printing to my new printer. I have a > P2-333 based system running Debian 2.2r2, using the default > 2.2.17 kernel. I recently bought an Epson Stylus Color 777 and > am tr

Messed up console

I'm having an odd problem: The text in my consoles is messed up, even after a reboot. It looks fine when prompting for username and password, but once I log in the text becomes a mess of random ASCII characters which render the console unuseable. What could cause this, and how can I fix it? I'm

Re: video players

on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:48:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > what good video players are there in linux? i've been playing around > with Xine but it's messed up, sometimes i can get .mpg files to work > sometimes it starts with a green screen, sometimes it has no sound

Re: ownership of target of /dev/cdroms/cdroms0 in devfs

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:35:11PM +0200, Jakob B. Jensen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 09:40:06PM +0200, Eamon Roque wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Why is it then that when I mount a cdrom by hand, I can't change the > > options? > > When I do a "mount -o exec /cdrom" I get still have the following i

Re: O.T. citibank again

on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:33:35AM -0400, Christopher Mosley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > This month I was no longer able to view records or make credit card payments > from citibank's website (due to the ever encroaching javascript). Switch banks, and tell them why. I have the same problem w

Re: Printing .pdf files

on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:27:22AM -0400, Jason Boxman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 17 September 2001 03:10 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:55:45PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:02:52AM +1000, [EMAIL PROT

Re: lost /usr partition

If you just want /home on the new hardrive. Create a partition of the size you want using a partition tool. I would then test to make sure linux can see it and mount it using the mount command somthing similar to mount /dev/hdxx -t filesyste(ext2 for linux) /mnt you may want to copy any files ac

Re: How to get rid of Gnome desktop?

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Mike Alborn wrote: > My best guess is that gnome is being loaded from your ~/.xinitrc or > ~/.xsession files. Perhaps setting up X to load a different config file > depending on the disk you currently have booted. Accoring to the xinit > manpage, > the environment varia

Relocation Truncated to fit

I'm trying to build snort 1.8.1 on my Debian box (2.4.8 kernel from BenH source, PowerPC machine), and I get the errors below. I wonder if someone could either point me to the source of the errors, or maybe explain how to debug them myself. I'd think that it was a missing include file or some

Re: Null DISPLAY

* Robert Kerr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi all, > I have an interesting (?) problem. I have an automated test that I run > nightly. One of the things that is in this test is a graphics routine. > But, when I run this test from a cron job the test fails because there's > no DISPLAY to op

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

- Original Message - From: "Peter Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian user" Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 8:54 AM Subject: Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it? > Dman wrote: > > -This means that when netscape was compiled it was linked against a > -different version

Re: kernel compile problem

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:50:57AM +0200, pink panther wrote: > hi! > > I tried to compile the kernel of my potato distro (kernel is quite old: > 2.2.17) and I got the following error message: > as86: command not found; > or something like that. The main problem the as86 is seems to be missing

Null DISPLAY

Hi all, I have an interesting (?) problem. I have an automated test that I run nightly. One of the things that is in this test is a graphics routine. But, when I run this test from a cron job the test fails because there's no DISPLAY to open for the graphics test. Is there a NULL DISPLAY device

fbset [was Re: uptime]

* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010916 18:21]: > Ooh, cool. I'll have to check it out. Maybe that way I could switch > framebuffer resolutions without rebooting :-). umm ... I take it you've never heard of fbset? -- Vineet http://www.anti-dmca.org Unauthorized us

Re: video players

hi biarro... you can download and compile many different video players... http://www.Linux-Video.net/Video.Players/ ( sorry... its not *.deb packages ( if oyu know where the *.deb packages is... i'll add it to the ( correspondng (readme) *.txt files xtheater work

Re: ownership of target of /dev/cdroms/cdroms0 in devfs

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 01:53, Richard Gooch wrote: > > Also any permissions related configuration directives in > > /etc/devfs/conf.d/* will over-ride /etc/devfs/perms (so there's no > > real need to comment anything out of /etc/devfs/perms unless you are > > making permissions more restrictive and wa

sendmail or perl: which is the bad one..

Hi! Just wanted to do a minor tweak to my sendmail-config at home, whilst stumbling into: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/mail# sendmailconfig Configure sendmail with the existing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc? [Y] Updating sendmail environment ... Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions

Re: Lyx and ispell problems.

> I have recently installed the Lyx 1.1.6fix3 package from Debian/Unstable and > I am having some problems using the spellchecker feature. Whenever I try to > use the spellchecker from the "edit" menu I get an error message saying the > ispell-process has died and that I probably do not hav

Re: video players

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > what good video players are there in linux? i've been playing around > with Xine but it's messed up, sometimes i can get .mpg files to work > sometimes it starts with a green screen, sometimes it has no sound. > what player are there that can play .mpg .avi and divx?

Re: default window managers

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:45:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > where do set the system wide default windows manager? i recently did > an apt-get dist-upgrade of the unstable tree and it changed the > default windows manager from windows maker to fvwm, and now when i set > up a user to run gn

Re: default window managers

On Monday Sep 17 21:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ** where do set the system wide default windows manager? How i mean in /etc/X11/Xsession. Timo -- Nothing is impossible! You only need to know the way. :-)

Re: video players

> what good video players are there in linux? i've been playing around with > Xine but it's messed up, sometimes i can get .mpg files to work sometimes it > starts with a green screen, sometimes it has no sound. what player are there > that can play .mpg .avi and divx? > mplayer is good (mpl

video players

what good video players are there in linux? i've been playing around with Xine but it's messed up, sometimes i can get .mpg files to work sometimes it starts with a green screen, sometimes it has no sound. what player are there that can play .mpg .avi and divx? __

default window managers

where do set the system wide default windows manager? i recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade of the unstable tree and it changed the default windows manager from windows maker to fvwm, and now when i set up a user to run gnome-session in his .xsession file, gnome 1.4 starts up in fvwm and ever

Re: abiword unstable in testing??

"joe golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeez folks, I'm a debian supporter, but if debian hopes to make > inroads on the desktop it needs a *solid* word processor. Doesn't > have to be real fancy, but it can't half eat letters. Shouldn't you be addressing this to abiword developers? FWIW, I

Re: [Cdrdao-devel] can't record cd-text with cdrdao

Tzvetan Ivanov wrote: cdrdao-1.1.5 is working perfectly with 0x0 record flag - but i've got a problem with the cd-text-record flag (0x10) - if anyone had this problem solved please email me ... thanx in advance cdrdao simulate --remote 9 -v0 --device 0,6,0 --driver generic-mmc:0x10 --buffers

Re: Wrong Newsgroup ?

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:17:43AM +0200, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hi there ! > > Some Days ago I had a question about the apt-mirror .exclude file. Since > there wasn't the slightest reaction I wonder whether I am in the wrong > Newsgroup ? > > Could you direct me to the right one in this case

Cannot compile PCMCIA modules

I'm trying to install a new kernel w/ PCMCIA on a Dell laptop. I've installed the 2.4.9 kernel source from testing, along with the pcmcia-source (3.1.28-2) from unstable. I compile the kernel w/o problems. When I try to run make-kpkg modules_image, the install fails when compiling the file /usr/s

Re: Perl problem in Debian Linux?

Thanks to all for writing. Indeed I had forgotten to use the !usr/bin/perl at the top. I thought I had. I guess it was trying to execute as a shell script. Problem solved. Thanks. Sebastian On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 08:13:33PM +0200, Christian Jaeger wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:22:40 -0400 Se

Re: How to get rid of Gnome desktop?

On Monday Sep 17 19:26 A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > ** Can anybody tell me exactly when and how a particular desktop (Gnome or > ** KDE) is started on a Debian system? After a `startx` all kinds of scripts > ** and programs get run using all kind of config files and I loose track > ** where Gnome

Re: sound problems

On Monday Sep 17 14:28 Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > ** 1.) How do I make them work using the normal account? I believe it's in > the file permissions, but what exactly do I need to modify? do i need to suid > root any of those programs? Do as root: # addgroup audio This will put the user

Re: abiword unstable in testing??

Is anyone else seeing abiword unstable (version 0.9.0-0.1) cutting off letters? Jeez folks, I'm a debian supporter, but if debian hopes to make inroads on the desktop it needs a *solid* word processor. Doesn't have to be real fancy, but it can't half eat letters. Thanks for all advice from

Re: Installation Obstacle with X

I gave up and simply re-formatted my hard drive, and reinstalled a very minimal debian package with no x window system. I'm going to print out your post and keep it by my side when i do go ahead and try to install a window manager and other x environments. Thank you very much for taking the tim

lost /usr partition

Recently I lost the /usr partition on my IDE drive. I was unable to fsck or boot or reinstall (RH7.1). So I installed debian base (potato) without any /usr and am able to get to /home and can see all my files. I want to move /home to a new second drive I have installed but am unsure how to d

Re: issues uninstalling courier-imap from woody

On Friday Sep 14 01:04 "Fox, Michael" wrote: > ** Hi, > ** > ** I upgraded from 2.2r2 cd install, to the woody via apt-get dist-upgrade > some > ** weeks back. > ** > ** Just lastnight I realised my imap server is not working, and when I > ** investigated why, it turns out /etc/courier is gone.

Re: How to get rid of Gnome desktop?

Hi Tom, My best guess is that gnome is being loaded from your ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession files. Perhaps setting up X to load a different config file depending on the disk you currently have booted. Accoring to the xinit manpage, the environment variable $XINITRC tells xinit where to look fo

Re: rm & download

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 06:34:21PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote: > The protocal is the problem, the http server is not the same as the > realserver (neither is ftp, ssh, telnet, etc...), and so can't be got in the > same way. If the file is avaliable through http, then it can be downloaded > so,

Re: can't mount smbfs

On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 12:01, Bob Koss wrote: > > I attempt to mount my win98 box known as thinkpad-wired on my linux box: > > bear:~# mount -t smbfs //thinkpad-wired/E /mnt/thinkpad-winblows > session request to THINKPAD-WIRED failed > session request to *SMBSERVER failed > SMB connection failed

Re: Perl problem in Debian Linux?

It works fine for me under bash. How are you running it? I just pasted it into a file, called it test.pl, and did perl test.pl. Worked fine with both 5.6.1 and 5.005_03. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc

Re: Perl problem in Debian Linux?

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:22:40 -0400 Sebastian Canagaratna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (3) gives: syntax error near unexpected token '(<*' I haven't read the whole thread, but of course if you don't put a #!/usr/bin/perl line at the top of your script the shell tries to execute it itself and

Re: gnumeric needs libgdk_imlib.la

Thanks to Ray Dassen's suggestions, I got the Gnumeric deb to build. Maybe there are general lessons here that others can use. I would say an important thing for a newcomer is to learn to use nice the facilities that are available: Trouble installing a package? Check Debian bug report lo

Re: Perl problem in Debian Linux?

Thanks Pietro for you reply. Here are some details. The program foreach (<*>){ print "$_\n"; } gives (1) no error with perl -c (2) runs ok from the command line with perl -e (3) gives: syntax error near unexpected token '(<*' The same happens when I replace the <

Re: rm & download

> wget http://server/real.rm actually worked and grabbed the proper rm file. > ofcourse conveniently enough, i just tried it now on the first site i found > and it failed :P > The protocal is the problem, the http server is not the same as the realserver (neither is ftp, ssh, telnet, etc...), an

Re: Xawtv and XFree86 4.0

#include Pedro António Neves wrote on Sun Sep 16, 2001 um 05:31:20PM: > I'm trying to run xawtv on my woody box, and although the program runs Look in your XF86Config-4 file and search a line containing "v4l". Remove or comment this line out. Background: if xawtv finds v4l module loaded, it use

How to get rid of Gnome desktop?

Can anybody tell me exactly when and how a particular desktop (Gnome or KDE) is started on a Debian system? After a `startx` all kinds of scripts and programs get run using all kind of config files and I loose track where Gnome comes in. The situation is, that now both KDE and Gnome start. To my

Re: [SOLVED] startx immediately after console login

As Lukas Ruf so kindly pointed out to me, I was missing the obvious that my terms were still parsing /etc/profile each time they were ran, so I added a condition to check whether $DISPLAY contains a value or not, and run 'startx && exit' if $DISPLAY is empty. -Rob

Re: rm & download

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:50:14PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > One way you can try is with a tool called 'wget'... except replace rtsp and > > pnm with http. Realistically though I think that > > you're not going to get the actual rm file itself... but it might work > Nah, wget doesn't recog

Re: how to change the default mta?

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:29:29PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > i have debian2.2r0 and using exim. how can i change the default mta > to postfix? i will be installing postfix from sources and doing "dpkg > -r exim" won't allow me to remove exim. If you're OK with building postfix from the Debianiz

can't mount smbfs

I attempt to mount my win98 box known as thinkpad-wired on my linux box: bear:~# mount -t smbfs //thinkpad-wired/E /mnt/thinkpad-winblows session request to THINKPAD-WIRED failed session request to *SMBSERVER failed SMB connection failed bear:~# thinkpad-wireless is in /etc/hosts and the /mnt/t

Re: rm & download

> One way you can try is with a tool called 'wget'... except replace rtsp and > pnm with http. Realistically though I think that > you're not going to get the actual rm file itself... but it might work Nah, wget doesn't recognize the protocol. The realplayer system is designed so that you can't

Unidentified subject!

Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: Compiling a kernel on another processor Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Rajesh Consultancy Thanks to all who replied. Will get back to the list with my results. Warm Regards -- Rajesh Harry Henry Gebel saw fit t

Lookup during intensive IO

I am lost, I don't know what to do find the cause of the problem. When I put the machine under IO stress the it lookup. It hapens during backup of the machine by the network to an amanda server. Doing tar of the filesystems can lookup the machine. What I have done to try to isolate the problem:

Re: X forwarding problem with SSH.

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 01:59:05PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Adam McDaniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010905 13:38]: > > This may seem like an obvious question, have you a look in the > > messages/syslog file on the xserver itself? Perhaps its coming across > > permissional errors. > > > > With t

Re: Xawtv and XFree86 4.0

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 05:31:20PM +0100, Pedro Ant?nio Neves wrote: > > Hi > > I'm trying to run xawtv on my woody box, and although the program runs > I have no sound and the display's only black and white. > On the xterm window from where I run xawtv I get the following error > message: > Xli

Re: rm & download

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:15:41PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to downloads the following files : > > rtsp://rxn-rbn-sea07.rbn.com/usat/usat/g2demand/010913_worldtrade_planes.rm > > pnm://rxn-rbn-sea07.rbn.com/usat/usat/g2demand/010913_worldtrade_planes.rm > > One is us

Re: rdate can't connect socket

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:54:55AM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I have the following command in a cron.daily script: > rdate time.mist.god > > This has worked consistently for a long time, but for the past > week or two it returns: > rdate: Could not connect socket: Connec

Re: uptime

* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > > The difference bewteen server and workstation is a couple registry > keys and the price tag. :-) I used to think that, too, until a (shudder) VB/MSSQL app I wrote refused to run on NT swerver (developed on WS). And yes, I made sure all relevant DL

Re: Real Player as Plug-in

Bob Underwood wrote: > > On Monday 17 September 2001 03:00, Erik Steffl wrote: > > I have also sent this to debian-user, I think other users might be > > interested... > > > > Bob Underwood wrote: > > ... > > > > > i looked at all the files in the /usr/lib/RealPlayer8 directory and > > > all app

Re: uptime

* Martin F Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > > oh, so you mean it was optimized for network access? hah! well, i have > one of those servers standing right here, running *only* checkpoint > firewall-1 on a *fresh* install, with *flawless* hardware, and guess > what - crashes every fi

startx immediately after console login

I am trying to figure out the best method to automatically startx after a user logs in from the console. I know I could accomplish easily by using a graphical display manager, but I would prefer to avoid that if at all possible. I have tried a couple of methods thus far, with less than satisfacto

Re: O.T. citibank again

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:33:35AM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > This month I was no longer able to view records or make credit card payments > from citibank's website (due to the ever encroaching javascript). > When I spoke to the citibank experts on these matters, they were not even > awa

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