Re: CD Burner Permissions

2001-09-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 20:35, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Nathan E Norman: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:02:00AM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:28:57AM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > From /etc/fstab: > > > > /dev/scd0 /cdr iso9660 ro,defaults,users,noauto 0 0

TSR

2001-09-24 Thread shyamk
I suppose TSR = Terminate (but) Stay Resident I have a few doubts on this front : 1. Does this mean , that once I switch my machine that is running a TSR , the TSR is gone ? I guess that for all programs , a shutdown or poweroff , stops the process. 2. One of my friends said that if a TSR hits

Re: apt-get wierdness: when 6 is equal to 9

2001-09-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > maintains more complex package list information than can be represented > in dpkg's available file (especially if you have apt set to use multiple > distributons at the same time, etc). Yeap, pretty much. > I find this very unsatisfactory. Yes, generatin

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread ephemeron
On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 05:16, Sunny Dubey wrote: > Can you name me a single OSS app that can do what Norton does?? > Can you name me a single OSS app that can take images of entire hard drivers, > or various parts, and send them over the network on the fly?? > Can you name me a single OSS app that

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread dman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:16:35PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: [lots of flames snipped] | Can you name me a single OSS app that works on MORE than just UNIX? (windows, | 9x, 2000/XP, AtheOS, et al) How about one in particular that you like - KDE? -D

testing: package xlibs conflicts with xmcd

2001-09-24 Thread DvB
Just ran an apt-get -u upgrade and pulled the new X packages from testing. When It came time to upgrade xlibs, I got the following: debian:/home/vanbalen# apt-get -u upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded xlibs 1 packages u

Re: OT or relevent?

2001-09-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:46:09 -0400, Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lee Elliott wrote: > > Just read this. > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21830.html > > > > LeeE > > > > > > > > I can't find any reference to Security Systems Standards and > Certification Act at h

Re: java with Konqueror in KDE (woody)

2001-09-24 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:46:07PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hmm, maybe it's true that a j2sdk1.3 or so is needed for Konqueror JAVA to > function properly... I have j2sdk1.3 installed, too. But don't know anymore > where I got it. The only Java package I have installed is the j2re1.3 pa

Re: apt-get wierdness: when 6 is equal to 9

2001-09-24 Thread Kamil Kisiel
On September 24, 2001 12:21, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin: Hereward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > > > once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the > > > same > > > available packages. > > > > have

Re: About a laptop

2001-09-24 Thread dman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:38:31AM -0700, Lucho Debianero wrote: | Im planning to buy a dell inspiron new 8100, anybody | knows if there is any problem with woody specially | with the internal-pci modem and ethernet? Do you have the model number? That usually helps when researching hardware comp

Re: Preemptive kernel patch?

2001-09-24 Thread Daniel T. Chen
Yes you do. Look in the kernel mailing list archives for this month for reasons why. =) --- Dan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.asc On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Dmitriy wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was experimenting with preemptive kernelpatch for 2.4.10

Re: OT or relevent?

2001-09-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Lee Elliott wrote: Just read this. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21830.html LeeE I can't find any reference to Security Systems Standards and Certification Act at http://thomas.loc.gov/ -- Jerome

debian on abit be6

2001-09-24 Thread james terris
I have an Abit BE6 motherboard with a Celeron 300A CPU and 6 hard drives and I was wondering if there was a way that I could install debian and have it automatically recognize all four ide channels. I was able to install it and have it recognize the first two channels but I'm not sure how to get th

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread John Hasler
Sunny Dubey writes: > I mean is there a single app like Norton Ghost that will let you install > any OS (x86 arch) of your choice,... You want to copy an OS installation? dd will do that, nor is it limited to x86. It will copy anything, and is available on all *ix's on all architectures. -- Joh

Re: CD Burner Permissions

2001-09-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Nathan E Norman: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:02:00AM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:28:57AM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > From /etc/fstab: > > > /dev/scd0 /cdr iso9660 ro,defaults,users,noauto 0 0 > > > > > > ls -l /dev/scd0 > > > brwxrwxrwx1 root

Re: dpkg -l does not report all packages?

2001-09-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:47:51PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:53:35PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > > 'apt-get update' doesn't update dpkg's available file. Use 'dselect > > > > update' instead, which does 'apt-get

Re: amd / radeon users, attention.

2001-09-24 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> i just got a frame rate of 250 fps on gears. mamma mia! :-) Actually, that's kind of slow. I get more like 900 on my athlon 850/256MB RAM/Radeon 64 DDR VIVO. You might want to `ldd `which gears`` to make sure you are using the right GL libraries. I had this same problem and after fixing my G

Re: apt-get wierdness: when 6 is equal to 9

2001-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > I wish, though, that apt-get would tell you that it hasn't updated > dpkg's database. The 'apt-get update' versus 'dselect update' thing is > an incredibly frequently asked question. I wish apt-get update (and more generally the internal update functions that are used by all

Re: text in menu bars has turned to hash marked boxes

2001-09-24 Thread Charles Baker
--- joe golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles Baker wrote: > I saw that too. I had similar problems with fonts. > It > turned out that since I didn't initial do an > dist-upgrade to woody, and probably since I was > running X and apt-get from a virtual tty, that some > parts of Xfree86 3.x we

Re: logrotate still not workin

2001-09-24 Thread nate
> On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 15:12, nate wrote: > Dumb question for you, but you have logrotate set to not run > daily/weekly etc in the global part of the config file do you? > That could be overriding the size limits you want it to follow. not dumb if it helps me fix the problem :) currently the

Re: logrotate still not workin

2001-09-24 Thread nate
> On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 15:12, nate wrote: > Dumb question for you, but you have logrotate set to not run > daily/weekly etc in the global part of the config file do you? > That could be overriding the size limits you want it to follow. not dumb if it helps me fix the problem :) currently the

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010924 14:21]: > > > dude ... that is so NOT a word! > > yes, but fuck isn't a word, either, your point being?? > > > > > As to your points regarding application software, I'd tend to agree with > > your description of word processors, but I think you were a bi

[NuBe:] frozen keyboard

2001-09-24 Thread Andrew Laing
Yesterday, I was updating a fresh install to testing. When asked what to do about the newer config files, I made the fool-hearted assumption that since it was a brand new install with all defaulted configurations, that these newer configs would be safe if not better choices. Soon after saying y

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread Sunny Dubey
On Monday 24 September 2001 07:56 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:16:35PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: > > Can you name me a single OSS app that works on MORE than just UNIX? > > (windows, 9x, 2000/XP, AtheOS, et al) > > Looking through just the list of packages I maintain in Debi

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:16:35PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: > Can you name me a single OSS app that works on MORE than just UNIX? (windows, > 9x, 2000/XP, AtheOS, et al) Looking through just the list of packages I maintain in Debian, there's at least two for starters. The Perl and Java stuff is

Re: apt-get wierdness: when 6 is equal to 9

2001-09-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 12:21:39PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin: Hereward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > > once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the > > > same available packages. > > > > h

devfsd question

2001-09-24 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Is it possible to have devfsd perform multiple actions when a device is registered? For example, I want two things to occur when /dev/tts/0 is created... set the ownership/permissions, and create a /dev/ups symlink. My original attempt used the following two entries: REGISTER ^tts/0$ CFUNCTIO

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Sunny" == Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not only is Applixware decent stuff, but it does have nice > filters ot export and import Microsoft office file formats. > However it is closed source technology, and costs about 50 > bucks a license. How much do you spend

RE: nfs mounting problems

2001-09-24 Thread Bob Koss
> > > > I posted this on comp.linux.os.networking and didn't get any > > responses. I'm hoping somebody here might be able to help. > > > > > > I want to backup my laptop (thinkpad-wireless) to the tape drive in my > > server (bear). > > Not sure why your nfs isn't working but I'd suggest trying du

Re: apt-get wierdness: when 6 is equal to 9

2001-09-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Peter Jay Salzman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > begin: Hereward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > > once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > > > problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the > > > same > > > available packag

Re: time sync probs

2001-09-24 Thread Nate Duehr
What you're looking for if you want a quick "set the time right now" application is ntpdate, not ntp. NTP slews the clock and also sets up settings to know how good/bad your internal clock are. Messing with the software clock while using NTP is just going to make NTP take even longer to figure ou

Re: time sync probs

2001-09-24 Thread Doug Fields
> I then restart the ntp daemon and noticed my date never changed. > However, earlier, I used ntpdate to sync with that time server > and it worked. (I make sure both aren't running at the same time) Have you tried running ntp recently? Often the time difference is too great for ntp to sync in

Preemptive kernel patch?

2001-09-24 Thread Dmitriy
Hi everyone, I was experimenting with preemptive kernelpatch for 2.4.10. There are actually two patches: patch-rml-2.4.10-preempt-kernel-1 patch-rml-2.4.10-preempt-ptrace-and-jobs-fix-2 If anyone else is using/trying it, I applied both of them, but do I really need to apply the ptrace and jobs f

Re: matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?

2001-09-24 Thread Lee Elliott
On Monday 24 September 2001 5:57 pm, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > * Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Jason Boxman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sunday 23 September 2001 02:28 pm, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > > Anyone run a matrox g450? > > > > I've got one working with kernel 2.

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:24:35PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: [ snip ] > this email has been pretty funny, and I thank you for writing it. > this entire email was about calling me and idiot, and yet never once has a > REAL reason be presented to me about why I'm wrong and where. > > So please, te

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread Sunny Dubey
On Monday 24 September 2001 04:11 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:50:32AM +0200, oivvio polite ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I might soon have to set up some 20 - 30 boxes supporting some 200 > > students. They'll want to do word processing, browse the web, read > > mail.

OT or relevent?

2001-09-24 Thread Lee Elliott
Just read this. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21830.html LeeE

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread Sunny Dubey
> ROTFLMAO. I have news for you: > > 1. fuck is a word: v., n., and interj., according to dictionary.com. > It's just that your government censored it out of all the dictionaries > -- for da kids! Maybe you should buy a British English dictionary > ( but then, WTF do I know, English isn't my first

Re: More on the font problem

2001-09-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:34:43PM +0930, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Mark Fox wrote: > > > Greetings: > > > > Oops. Here's the picture that I should have attached. > > > > Mark A. Fox > > > > Also see the GTK

Re: Apache and mod_auth_mysql -- what happended?

2001-09-24 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:35:05PM -0700, Gordon Paynter wrote: > I have found a copy of mod_auth_mysql.so on an older debian machine, > which I am using without problems, but it seems to have been removed > from the apache-common package, which is where it used to be, > according to a page I found

Re: Configuring GCC search directory

2001-09-24 Thread Akintayo Holder
Krzys Majewski wrote: dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 08:04:43PM -0400, Akintayo Holder wrote: | hi, | I am trying to install palm dev tools on woody. I would like to knwo how | you set the search path for the GCC compiler ? any information about | where i can find

Re: time sync probs

2001-09-24 Thread Mike Egglestone
Thanks to those who replied. What I would do is change my date to a few hours earlier than normal time, and then launch ntp. I was under the impression it would sync quickly. I wonder how long would I have to wait for it sync up? I checked with ntpq and ran "peers", there was alot of info from th

X sluggish after upgrade to 4.1

2001-09-24 Thread Jesper Holmberg
After a short vacation, I yesterday did an upgrade of my Testing system, bringing me the xfree86 4.1. Now, my X seems quite sluggish, especially noticeable when scrolling in a web browser (I've tried several). I first suspected this could have something to do with the frame buffer, but I have trie

RE: apt-get interrupted, file locked

2001-09-24 Thread NORMAND Jacques
are you root ??? you can run apt-get or dselect only as root jacques -Message d'origine- De : Peter Christensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : lundi 24 septembre 2001 23:49 À : debian user Objet : apt-get interrupted, file locked I think I'm making progress! I tried apt-get (as su

No Gnome panel

2001-09-24 Thread Rodin Fadul
When I installed debian, the gnome panel was not available, so I download it and installed it later. But it does not show in the desktop until I type "panel" on the run command window. The problem is I get a terminal window with: /dev/dsp: Permission denied. And when i run the file manager (s

Re: apt-get interrupted, file locked

2001-09-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:48:55PM -0400, Peter Christensen wrote: > Could not open lockfile /var/cache/apt/lock, open (13 permission > denied) > Couldn't lock the cache dir, /var/cache/apt, another process is using > it > > Is this fixable? What should I do if I lose the connection next time

Re: Fax / Modem question.

2001-09-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-09-23 at 22:29, Kieren Diment wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the right forum, to ask this, but here goes. > > I'm happily using mgetty to send faxs out, but I need to receive the > occasional fax as well. I can't have the modem auto-answer, as this > would disrupt the separate voic

[rml@ufl.edu: Re: report: success with agp_try_unsupported=1]

2001-09-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
forwarded to the debian-user list for its archives... - Forwarded message from Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Subject: Re: report: success with agp_try_unsupported=1 From: Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Maile

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > dude ... that is so NOT a word! > > yes, but fuck isn't a word, either, your point being?? ROTFLMAO. I have news for you: 1. fuck is a word: v., n., and interj., according to dictionary.com. It's just that your government censored it out o

apt-get interrupted, file locked

2001-09-24 Thread Peter Christensen
I think I'm making progress! I tried apt-get (as suggested by Dman and Karsten). I ran : apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade After about two hours I lost my internet connection (not uncommon for me) and when I tried to get things going again I got the following messages: Could not open

Re: FW: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread Chris Kenrick
> Can you name me a single OSS app that can do what > Norton does?? > Can you name me a single OSS app that can take > images of entire hard > drivers, > or various parts, and send them over the network on > the fly?? > Can you name me a single OSS app that can multicast > to an entire network,

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-24 Thread Keith G. Murphy
dman wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 09:29:11AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > | DvB wrote: > ... > | > You could always set up a tarpit: > | > > | > http://www.hackbusters.net/LaBrea/ > | > > | How is this different from, or better than, CodeRedneck? > > If you read the page, it says that La

Re: nfs mounting problems

2001-09-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 06:25, Bob Koss wrote: > > I posted this on comp.linux.os.networking and didn't get any > responses. I'm hoping somebody here might be able to help. > > > I want to backup my laptop (thinkpad-wireless) to the tape drive in my > server (bear). Not sure why your nfs isn't w

Apache and mod_auth_mysql -- what happended?

2001-09-24 Thread Gordon Paynter
Hi all, I'm wanting to authenticate users to a web site a MySQL database. To do this, you load the mod_auth_mysql module, and pass it the appropriate parameters -- only mod_auth_mysql seems to have disappeared. I have found a copy of mod_auth_mysql.so on an older debian machine, which I am u

Re: ESD click problem

2001-09-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 03:41, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > I never thought I'd be complaining when I finally got sound > to work, but I guess I'm not so easy to please... there's a > tiny problem with esd that I hope someone can help me with. > > I'm using Gnome as my desktop, and I have enabled

2.4.10, problems?

2001-09-24 Thread Terry Warner
I was wondering if anyone was having problems with 2.4.10? On a UP machine or SMP machine. I'm kind of curious before I possiably upgrade (and if anyone is using ext3 with 2.4.10 if they are having problems too) This may be off topic so I apologize ahead of time. Thanks Terry //Terry Warner//

Re: time sync probs

2001-09-24 Thread ktb
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:19:54PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > > I thought I would try and sync my potato server > to an internet time server, so I installed ntp, edited > the /etc/ntp.conf file: > > server 192.5.41.209 > > I then restart the ntp daemon and noticed my date never chang

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread Sunny Dubey
> dude ... that is so NOT a word! yes, but fuck isn't a word, either, your point being?? > > As to your points regarding application software, I'd tend to agree with > your description of word processors, but I think you were a bit harsh on > your treatment of browsers: no, I even stated that t

Re: apt-get wierdness: when 6 is equal to 9

2001-09-24 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > just tried it -- i think you're right. imho, this goes beyond > inelegance, > and borders on a bug that needs to be fixed. it's unthinkable that > there are > two databases of available packages which are out of sync everytime we > c

Re: amd / radeon users, attention.

2001-09-24 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i just got my epox 8kha board with a radeon card to work with DRI under > linux. it was rough going, and i've seen, while websurfing, that alot of > people have had trouble with this in the past. many people are getting "agp > unsupported" messag

ALERT: Not able to compile with gcc

2001-09-24 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi, Since 3 weeks i am not able to caompile anthing biger (eg. QT, KDE ...). After some compilieing time (10 mins) the system hangs up compleetly!!! I am not able to do anything even not changing the console. Its gcc from woody last updated on Saturday. I havn't changched anything on my swap ra

Re: Deleting duplicate messages with formail/procmail

2001-09-24 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Jason Rashaad Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > I'm not sure about what you are doing with formail currently, but I have the > > following at the top of my .procmailrc script and it works great: > > > > # avoid duplicate messages > > :0 Whc: msgid.lock > > | formail -D 1638

Re: crash

2001-09-24 Thread Hans Gubitz
Thanks to all. I successfully reinstalled perl-base and debconf in this order. I think I fixed all the other problems in the same manner, Hans Gubitz -- Hans Gubitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

amd / radeon users, attention.

2001-09-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i just got my epox 8kha board with a radeon card to work with DRI under linux. it was rough going, and i've seen, while websurfing, that alot of people have had trouble with this in the past. many people are getting "agp unsupported" messages by the agpgart driver. if anybody needs help (i assum

Re: java with Konqueror in KDE (woody)

2001-09-24 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: "Alejandro Diego Garin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stephan Hachinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 4:33 PM Subject: Re: java with Konqueror in KDE (woody) > On Friday 21 September 2001 18:43, you wrote: > > - Original Message - > >

Re: i810 & XFree 3.3.6 & kernel 2.4.x

2001-09-24 Thread Timeboy
On Monday Sep 24 11:23 Vittorio wrote: > ** Under potato and kernel 2.2.19 I have been able to compile the Intel > ** module agpgart.o for i810 (downloaded from Intel site) and make it work > ** with XFREE 3.3.6. > ** > ** Now with the new kernel 2.4.9 (which I compiled to tailor to my > ** hardw

Re: Deleting duplicate messages with formail/procmail

2001-09-24 Thread Jason Rashaad Jackson
> I'm not sure about what you are doing with formail currently, but I have the > following at the top of my .procmailrc script and it works great: > > # avoid duplicate messages > :0 Whc: msgid.lock > | formail -D 16384 Admin/msgid.cache > > :0 a: > Admin/duplicates > > Dupli

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-24 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:12:16 BST, Matthew Sackman writes: >Ah ha! >Things are not as bad as they seem. > >If I do cat /dev/zero | nc -u -p 1666 doris.namkas 1666 >and set up doris.namkas to receive correctly then knetload reports >around 98000KBit/s which doesn't seem too bad. > >Doing it the

Re: Apology about my rant

2001-09-24 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Mike Pfleger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I don't know about anyone else, but after the second innappropriate > posting by this individual, Errr... just to clarify, by "individual" I meant the originator of this thread, not Craig. I thought this was clear; but on re-reading, it seemed like it

time sync probs

2001-09-24 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I thought I would try and sync my potato server to an internet time server, so I installed ntp, edited the /etc/ntp.conf file: server 192.5.41.209 I then restart the ntp daemon and noticed my date never changed. However, earlier, I used ntpdate to sync with that time server and it worked.

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
Ah ha! Things are not as bad as they seem. If I do cat /dev/zero | nc -u -p 1666 doris.namkas 1666 and set up doris.namkas to receive correctly then knetload reports around 98000KBit/s which doesn't seem too bad. Doing it the other way round reports the same (ish, though in this case, the sendi

Re: Apology about my rant

2001-09-24 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > No hard feelings. One thing, though, is that I've seen you write > intemperate messages on other occasions, too, most recently on the ext3 > mailing list. I don't know about anyone else, but after the second innappropriate posting by this individual,

Re: matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?

2001-09-24 Thread Jason Boxman
On Monday 24 September 2001 01:59 pm, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > > > Mine tries to load the mga_hal module and fails, presumably > > > because I haven't installed it. I take it you've downloaded the one > > > from matrox.com? What does it do? Also, FWIW, if you don't

Re: matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?

2001-09-24 Thread Jason Boxman
On Monday 24 September 2001 10:49 am, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > OK, thanks. > Mine tries to load the mga_hal module and fails, presumably because I > haven't installed it. I take it you've downloaded the one from > matrox.com? What does it do? The README for the HAL download at Matrox's

Re: apt-get wierdness: when 6 is equal to 9

2001-09-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin: Hereward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the > > same > > available packages. > > have you tried running the update selection from dselect. I think th

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
Ok people, do not use the drivers from scyld - ONLY use the modified ones in the 2.4 kernels. I say this because having compiled and installed the ones from scyld I've had many lockups and the network just seems to die - you can still ping your own network card, but nothing else is available. Low

Re: text in menu bars has turned to hash marked boxes

2001-09-24 Thread joe golden
Charles Baker wrote: I saw that too. I had similar problems with fonts. It turned out that since I didn't initial do an dist-upgrade to woody, and probably since I was running X and apt-get from a virtual tty, that some parts of Xfree86 3.x were installed along with the 4.x fonts. The 3.x Xserver

Re: apt-get wierdness: when 6 is equal to 9

2001-09-24 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the > same > available packages. have you tried running the update selection from dselect. I think the problem is that dpkg only lists the files from the package list

Re: Apology about my rant

2001-09-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > I'm sorry to have sent my rant about /tmp on Saturday. It wasn't > appropriate for the list and it also wasn't any fault except my own that I > didn't understand the differences between Debian and my usual system. I > was very upset to have had my machine crash, then de

apt-get wierdness: when 6 is equal to 9

2001-09-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hello all, problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the same available packages. explanation: i just built a new system, and scp'd over the sources.list file from an older machine. both machines have the same /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/de

Re: Apology about my rant

2001-09-24 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Jeffrey W. Baker (on Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:24:25AM -0700): > I'm sorry to have sent my rant about /tmp on Saturday. It wasn't > appropriate for the list and it also wasn't any fault except my own that I > didn't understand the differences between Debian and my usual system. I > was very

Re: OT: reply-to-list in Gnus?

2001-09-24 Thread Glyn Millington
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I should probably post this on gnu.emacs.gnus, but I'm too lazy to read > that whole newsgroup in addition to this list.. Anyone know how to do > a "followup" to an nnimap group (in this case, the debian-user list) > in such a way that the list, ra

Re: Re. Window Manager

2001-09-24 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Sidney Brooks saw fit to inform me that: >Following Ano Nim, I created /home/.xinitrc with the >text icewm and,lo and behold, when I start Debian, I >still get enlightenment. Why have u created .xinitrc in /home ? It should be in /home/sidney assuming that sidney is your login name. Things shoul

Re: matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?

2001-09-24 Thread Remco van de Meent
Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > > Mine tries to load the mga_hal module and fails, presumably > > because I haven't installed it. I take it you've downloaded the one > > from matrox.com? What does it do? Also, FWIW, if you don't install > > the matrox drivers, the 450 is only supported starting with

Re: apt-get & packages marked as rc

2001-09-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 14:02, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Vineet Kumar saw fit to inform me that: > >* Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010921 07:23]: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Is there any way to remove all the packages at a stretch using apt or dpkg > >> ? > >> > >> When we do apt-get remove the configur

Re: INIT:Entering runlevel:2 failed

2001-09-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 09:47, gerard robin wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:55:13PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 18:37, Robin Gerard wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:18:27PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 20:09, Robin Gerard

Num-/Caps-/Scrolllock funnyness in X (nedit stuff)

2001-09-24 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hi I don't know how to cure this issue (on potato x86, xserver-svga): When numlock, capslock or scrolllock are pressed, Ctrl key sequences output something like control char representations in nedit (smotif linked, I believe) instead of executing like usual. Under Xpmac in linuxppc that's not th

Re: About a laptop

2001-09-24 Thread burningclown
I've had some dealings with the folks at http://www.qlitech.com. They seem fairly on the ball and the prices are competitive. Haven't actually -purchased- anything, so that's a soft recommendation, I guess! Glenn Becker On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Lucho Debianero wrote: > Im planning to buy a dell ins

Re: About a laptop

2001-09-24 Thread David Mohr
I am running unstable on a Inspiron 8000 and the internal pci network card even works! I was very happily surprised as I had expected that both internal cards would not work. Mine has a 3com internal pci device, the 8100 might have a different one though, I don't know for sure. I think most pci

Re: OT: reply-to-list in Gnus?

2001-09-24 Thread David Z Maze
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KM> I should probably post this on gnu.emacs.gnus, but I'm too lazy to read KM> that whole newsgroup in addition to this list.. Anyone know how to do KM> a "followup" to an nnimap group (in this case, the debian-user list) KM> in such a way that the li

Re: matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?

2001-09-24 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jason Boxman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sunday 23 September 2001 02:28 pm, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > Anyone run a matrox g450? > > > I've got one working with kernel 2.4.8 and X 4.1.0, but it did > > > hang my box once. Maybe I should be us

Re: CD Burner Permissions

2001-09-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:02:00AM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:28:57AM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > > From /etc/fstab: > > /dev/scd0 /cdr iso9660 ro,defaults,users,noauto 0 0 > > > > ls -l /dev/scd0 > > brwxrwxrwx1 root cdrom 11, 0 Feb 11 2001 /dev/scd0

Re: dynamic ip addresses

2001-09-24 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time "Christy Schulte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I sent out an earlier message about setting up ddclient, but since no > one > responded I'm assuming no one uses this particular program. > Sorry must of missed it, but I run ddts on my dynamic ip address it works great. Signup, down

About a laptop

2001-09-24 Thread Lucho Debianero
Im planning to buy a dell inspiron new 8100, anybody knows if there is any problem with woody specially with the internal-pci modem and ethernet? Thanx. PD: any other suggestions about laptops? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam vide

AW: cannot login 2 X since upgrade 2 woody

2001-09-24 Thread Mayer, Christian \(Dregis\)
Hi, i was logged in via text console and i even can start kde via startx, cause no login is necessary. but when i try logging in via xdm or kdm it fails. in .xsession-errors it says: Xsession: unable to launch kde X session; kde not found. Xsession: Falling back to default session. Xlib: connecti

Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-24 Thread Richard Hector
Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > I believe we could have released a version of Debian containing OpenSSH > 2, Xfree86 4.x, and kernel 2.4.x by now had we decided that such a thing > was important. It's important to me, as I'm sure it is to a good number > of other Debian users and developers. Agreed.

Re: CD Burner Permissions

2001-09-24 Thread David Z Maze
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SG> I've forgotten how I set my user accounts so they can burn CD's as SG> mortals. I'm adding a new user, and these are the steps so far taken: ... SG> ls -l /dev/scd0 SG> brwxrwxrwx1 root cdrom 11, 0 Feb 11 2001 /dev/scd0 SG> SG> So - addu

Re: Deleting duplicate messages with formail/procmail

2001-09-24 Thread John Patton
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:02:31AM -0400, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: > OK. Due to some ignorance on my part (errors with my procmail filters as > well as using 'formail -s procmail' with extreme prejudice) I now have many > many MANY copies of individual messages in all my mail folders. Is ther

Re: CD Burner Permissions

2001-09-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 08:28, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > I'll try to repost this now that I'm no longer munging my PGP state. > I've forgotten how I set my user accounts so they can burn CD's as > mortals. I'm adding a new user, and these are the steps so far taken: > adduser jane > - norm

Re: Woody.ISO?

2001-09-24 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I think you can download the woody Cd image in raw format. Which I had no troubles burning from regular burn software.(Windows or Linux) Try doing a google search for woody cd image. I think your idea on how the upgrade works is pretty accurate. Someone else on the list could probably explain

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