RE: Partition

2001-10-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya references to more parttion docs http://www.Linux-1U.net/Installation/partition.gwif.html c ya alvin - my silly rules.. - keep / as small as possible varies with distro - keep /tmp enough to - move all "user stuff" under /opt - backup only /etc and "u

Framebuffer is cool, but can I still use NVdriver module?

2001-10-18 Thread Lance Simmons
I have a TNT2 video card. I put framebuffer support in the kernel (2.4.12), and the framebuffer seems to be working fine. Great resolution, so I sure don't want to go back to svgatextmode. I can get X working using the fb device, but I'd very much like to use nvidia's NVdriver module instead. (Per

RE: Partition

2001-10-18 Thread Mark Carroll
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Scott Henson wrote: (snip) > well Im not looking for someone to hold my hand through the process. Im > just looking for some advice on what is a good sceme. I will then look at > whatever adivce I get and then determine what I need. Thank you. Lots of people have their own

Help on in.telnetd and route

2001-10-18 Thread Liu Tao
I am in a local net and I have a default gateway to visit internet. And I want to provide telnet service to local net. But there is something wrong with the gateway(win2k), it returns the route information very slow. My route looks like Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genm

RE: Partition

2001-10-18 Thread Scott Henson
> Well that because the needs are varied from one to the other. It's only > you that know what you need. > > I read the article below, and seems to be a good reading: > > http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/10/11/filesystem.html > > > Junaedi well Im not looking for someone to hold my han

Re: i810 on asus

2001-10-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi tomas easiest way to get X11 working on the asus mboard with onboard svga ( i assume ) http://www.Linux-1U.net/MotherBoard/Intel.X11.Patches/ ( go to the original intel site for the files too ) get the agp driver I810Gtt-0.2-4.src.rpm get the X server

Re: Partition

2001-10-18 Thread Junaedi Kartawijaya
--- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I have been unable to find any solid sugestions on how to size > the partitions. All of them give one or two vague recomedations, and > say that there are many wars about the proper way to do > it. Well that because the needs are varied from o

Re: 2.4.9 hanging on laptop

2001-10-18 Thread Mark Carroll
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, dman wrote: (snip) > What kind of keyboard and mouse? I'd assumed PS/2 - the mouse definitely is, and an external PS/2 keyboard can be plugged in - I have CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y and the mouse isn't working. (snip) > kernel. Another thing to try is to install the pre-packaged 2.4 >

Partition

2001-10-18 Thread Scott Henson
I am about to install debian on a 4 gig hard drive. I have looked around at How-tos and other documentation. But I have been unable to find any solid sugestions on how to size the partitions. All of them give one or two vague recomedations, and say that there are many wars about the proper way t

Re: Mutiple mail servers : REPOST

2001-10-18 Thread Debian GNU
Hello, I feel my question was not clear. I didn't want to run another mail server, because I have ONLY on DOMAIN. So I feel virtual hosting is not a solution. My problem is that my existing mail server is overcrowded (like hard disk size limitaion) and I want to shift some user to a new server

Re: X server setup error

2001-10-18 Thread Greg Lopp
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:26:46PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:02:44 -0400, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:21:36PM -0400, Greg Lopp wrote: > > | The following is what I see when I try to start X on my testing > > | system. This system ha

Re: 2.4.9 hanging on laptop

2001-10-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:02:44PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: | I have the vanilla kernel 2.2.18pre21 image running fine on a WinBook XL | laptop. | | I tried compiling kernel 2.4.9 from source but seem to have screwed | something up - the system appears to boot okay and ends up at the login | pro

Re: Rescye disk that understands Reiserfs ?

2001-10-18 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Stan Brown, > But, to do this I need for the kernel on the rescue disk to understand > Reiserfs. Where can I get such a rescue disk? Recovery is Possible (RiP) is a good little rescue disk than has drivers for reiserfs. This is what I used to convert my partitions to reiserfs. It can be f

2.4.9 hanging on laptop

2001-10-18 Thread Mark Carroll
I have the vanilla kernel 2.2.18pre21 image running fine on a WinBook XL laptop. I tried compiling kernel 2.4.9 from source but seem to have screwed something up - the system appears to boot okay and ends up at the login prompt, but the keyboard is completely unresponsive. gpm starts up but there'

Re: debian 2.2 release 3 and net connect

2001-10-18 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 19:55:42 +, Rajesh Fowkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happens is when I connect to the net for the first time using wvdial, it > gets connected but my dns is not working. nslookup just gives the names of > /etc/resolv.conf dns servers along with the error that no serv

Re: Settings for vim for C programming?

2001-10-18 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:15:43PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Earlier I set my tabstop to 4 to give me some more screen room in my C | program .c files. The problem is that when I print out the source code | (eg. for a Uni assignment) or when someone else edits it, the tabstops | are by def

Re: Settings for vim for C programming?

2001-10-18 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:15:43 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Earlier I set my tabstop to 4 to give me some more screen room in my C > program .c files. The problem is that when I print out the source code > (eg. for a Uni assignment) or when someone else edits it, the tabstops > are by default

Re: font problem in kde

2001-10-18 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Tom Allison, > > I'm experiencing a weird problem in kde: > > - when using kde wm, I can't access all fonts available in my > > system; it defaults to a very ugly and almost unreadable font (Arnold > > Boecklin). > > - when using another window manager, like wmaker, I launch kde

Settings for vim for C programming?

2001-10-18 Thread mdevin
Earlier I set my tabstop to 4 to give me some more screen room in my C program .c files. The problem is that when I print out the source code (eg. for a Uni assignment) or when someone else edits it, the tabstops are by default 8 spaces. What is the best way to deal with this? What I have curren

KDM not displaying GNOME selection

2001-10-18 Thread Nick Jennings
Hey All, Just playing around with the display managers, and I've taken a liking to kdm. However, it doesn't seem to be giving the option for the "other" session manager (GNOME), however blackbox, wmaker & sawfish all showup in the select box. Another thing is that KDE doesn't have a selecti

Re: Network: how can I set up remote printing (sid/lpr)

2001-10-18 Thread Alan Shutko
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CUPS is created by a company (commercial entity) but the CUPS system > is free. I think the source is available too. It's GPL. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Be independent. Insult a rich relative today.

Remove a half-configured package on Potato/Progeny/Testing...

2001-10-18 Thread JP Glutting
Hi, I upgraded my Potato box to Progeny, and now to Debian testing. When I tried to install xserver-xfree86 (4.1), it started out fine, identified my printer, and then hung while installing/configuring. This also happened when I upgraded to Progeny/Newton. In the earlier case I just uninstalled th

tips for managing mp3 playlists

2001-10-18 Thread zw
[ please cc: me! i'm not on the list now. thanks! ] hi, my favorite mp3 player (alsaplayer) does not have satisfying functionality for managing playlists. and i don't think winamp is much better on this either. so below is an invitation for tips managing mp3 playlists. i find for now the old unix

Re: apt preferences semantics (was Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?)

2001-10-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:17:50PM -0400, dman wrote: > | > I just installed galeon and mozilla-psm (neat!) using the preferences > | > stuff. When I tried [snip] > | Use a default pin between 0 and 100 for unstable. This will give your > | installed version higher priority(100) than any new unsta

Re: X server setup error

2001-10-18 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:02:44 -0400, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:21:36PM -0400, Greg Lopp wrote: > | The following is what I see when I try to start X on my testing > | system. This system has a trident 3Dimage975. This worked fine > | under 3.3.6, wasn't supporte

Re: Dockable bandwidth monitors?

2001-10-18 Thread Dmitriy
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:45:32AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > I'm looking for something similar to the look of wmavgload, that will > dock in wharf, that will do preferrably a line graph showing percentage > of the pipe being used on a particular (virtual) interface. > > Is there anythin

Re: apt preferences semantics (was Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?)

2001-10-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:09:43PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011018 09:39]: | > However, it doesn't seem that apt does what _I_ want it to do right | > now. I want to follow woody, except for a couple things that are | > only available in sid. So the semantics I wan

Re: Grainy X?

2001-10-18 Thread Ken Mead
Yeah I noticed it after I sent the mail Sorry again for the HTML people. And thanks again for the reply dman. Ken - Original Message - From: "Karsten M. Self" To: Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 6:09 PM Subject: Re: Grainy X?

Re: apt preferences semantics (was Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?)

2001-10-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:53:12PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: | First thing to check is order of entries in sources.list. They are correct. See my next post for what solves that problem. | To be honest, I do not know how exactly the logic behind it. I remember | reading it somewhere (source?) b

Re: j2re1.3 font ??

2001-10-18 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hey Jeffrey, > > Oof! that's a lot of text to edit =P > Any idea a real quick and easy way to edit it instead of by hand? > Thanks a lot. sed(1) ? -jwb

Re: j2re1.3 font ??

2001-10-18 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hey Jeffrey, Oof! that's a lot of text to edit =P Any idea a real quick and easy way to edit it instead of by hand? Thanks a lot. -rohan * Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > I was just wondering if there was

Re: X server setup error

2001-10-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:21:36PM -0400, Greg Lopp wrote: | The following is what I see when I try to start X on my testing | system. This system has a trident 3Dimage975. This worked fine | under 3.3.6, wasn't supported by 4.0.3 and is still giving me | trouble since support was added in 4.1.0

Re: Network: how can I set up remote printing (sid/lpr)

2001-10-18 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:14:35AM +1000, Alan E Davis wrote: | Thank you. | | I was able to get remote printing to work. The printer is an HP | Laserjet attached to one machine's printer port. I had to create an | /etc/hosts.lpd file; listing the hosts in hosts.equiv didn't work, | contrary to

Re: Sound Won't Work.

2001-10-18 Thread Michael Fontenot
Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Newsgroups: muc.lists.debian.user Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 5:14 PM Subject: Re: Sound Won't Work... > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:42:59PM -0600, Michael Fontenot wrote: > > > > The only remaining problem is that the sound level is much > > lower th

Re: j2re1.3 font ??

2001-10-18 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Greetings, > > I was just wondering if there was a way to change the font of Java from > whatever Lucida variant it has to something of my choice. It messes up > the appearance of applets, namely input boxes and whatnotany ideas? > I use java fr

j2re1.3 font ??

2001-10-18 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Greetings, I was just wondering if there was a way to change the font of Java from whatever Lucida variant it has to something of my choice. It messes up the appearance of applets, namely input boxes and whatnotany ideas? I use java frequently and therefore would like to change this =] -roha

Re: X11 hork after apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:51:23PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > I assume whomever is responsible for XFree86 packaging will fix this bug > which prevents users from running X. Yes. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network: how can I set up remote printing (sid/lpr)

2001-10-18 Thread Alan E Davis
Thank you. I was able to get remote printing to work. The printer is an HP Laserjet attached to one machine's printer port. I had to create an /etc/hosts.lpd file; listing the hosts in hosts.equiv didn't work, contrary to the Printing HOWTO. I may take you up on the offer to help install cup

Re: Problem booting my system

2001-10-18 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:10:09 MDT, Kris Huber writes: >With the boot sequence having scsi first, a program (the kernel, I assume) >runs and prints "001 " in an endless loop, filling the screen until I >. I have an IDE drive in the system (ext2 file system), but >I've disabled it in BIOS in additio

Re: Rescye disk that understands Reiserfs ?

2001-10-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011018 08:26]: > One of my Debuan boxes crashed last night. As I watched it crawl trhough > fsck'g a 40G partition, it dwaned on me that there was a better way to do > this. > > So, I wnat to convert my root partiton to Reiserfs. I have 2 partions on > that disk /

Problem booting my system

2001-10-18 Thread Kris Huber
Hello Debian enthusiasts, I'm having difficulty getting my system to boot off my SCSI hard disk. It boots off the rescue diskette, and I've rerun lilo after checking over the lilo.conf file. I got the following when I ran lilo: Reading boot sector from /dev/sda Warning: /dev/sda is not on the f

Re: Problems browsing a site

2001-10-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 05:52:30PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:32:05PM -0700, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > At 08:33 PM 10/16/01 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > >on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:54:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan > > >([EM

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > anyone can tell me what the fuck is that dexconf crap and how do I > > > get rid of it? I mean, really, which genius came up with the idea > > > that I need to regenerate a perfectly working config file every time > > > I update $PACKAGE? > > > now please watch yo

Re: emailing by IP question

2001-10-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011018 09:42]: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:29:54AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | Is it possible to send email by IP instead of Domain? > > Yes. > > echo "hello world" | mail -s "test message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Domains resolve to IPs anyways, though RFC 2821

Re: apt preferences semantics (was Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?)

2001-10-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011018 09:39]: > However, it doesn't seem that apt does what _I_ want it to do right > now. I want to follow woody, except for a couple things that are > only available in sid. So the semantics I want are : install package > from sid plus deps. Everything else is wood

Re: apt preferences semantics (was Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?)

2001-10-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
I am learning this new apt thing. APT with preference ROCKS! On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:04:39PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:04:33PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > | On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:03:55PM -0400, dman wrote: [snip] > | I used to do this. Do not. Check "man 5 apt_prefe

Re: X11 hork after apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-10-18 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Michael K. O'Brien wrote: > Hola~ > > Running unstable on two machines, both now hork after running apt-get > dist-upgrade. I believe the error is an ssh configuration because the > .xsession-errors contains: > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /usr/bin/ssh-agent sh /r

Re: How to allow a user to send a fax with mgetty

2001-10-18 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 05:28:11PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote: > At the moment I need to su in order to send a fax. How do I fix it so > that I can send a fax as a normal user? > > Pertinent info: > > Kernel 2.2.17 > > Mgetty running from Pototao 2.2R3 It is some time since I configured mg

Re: X11 hork after apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-10-18 Thread Michael K. O'Brien
Hola~ Running unstable on two machines, both now hork after running apt-get dist-upgrade. I believe the error is an ssh configuration because the .xsession-errors contains: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /usr/bin/ssh-agent sh /root/.xsession: No such file or directory root's .xsession fi

Re: xmms queueing

2001-10-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Örjan Persson wrote: > > Petteri Heinonen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello. > > Does anybody know a way to make enqueue as a default action > > when adding files to xmms's playlist? I know the command line > > option --enqueue, but it seems to affect only if I add files > > from command line.

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-18 Thread Craig Dickson
Tim Moss wrote: > I'm not sure what PEBCAK is but PEBKAC is > Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair I suspect K and C are commutative. Craig

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-18 Thread martin f krafft
* Tim Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.18 14:52:05-0700]: > I'm not sure what PEBCAK is but PEBKAC is > Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. but surely, this has a different meaning ;-> -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun

Re: Grainy X?

2001-10-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:29:57AM -0400, Ken Mead ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please set your mailer to send text rather than HTML, particularly to list or Usenet posts. Thank you. > I'm on a a20m IBM laptop, with a ATI rage mobilty vid card. Since I > upgraded X this morning when I run my windo

Re: Rescye disk that understands Reiserfs ?

2001-10-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:52:25AM -0400, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > One of my Debuan boxes crashed last night. As I watched it crawl trhough > fsck'g a 40G partition, it dwaned on me that there was a better way to do > this. > > So, I wnat to convert my root partiton to Reiserfs. I h

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
As I was mulling this over today (wandering aimlessly through the NC state fair), I realized that I had done something vaguely similar with a totally different strategy. Essentially, I heavily restricted write permissions to the directory where the tokens were to be *stored*, and had access to them

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-18 Thread Tim Moss
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:21:59 -0700 "Craig Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.18 22:25:42+0200]: > > > you know a word that has ADAC in it, and starts and ends with > 'he'? > > > say, what is PEBCAK??? you are giving me he

Re: Grainy X?

2001-10-18 Thread Ken Mead
Thanks I'll try that later today. Is there anything specific I should know about configuring the FB support for this card before i begin? I'm downloading kernel 2.4.12 now. What version are you using? Sorry I can't really be specific with the above question but I've never compiled FB support in an

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-18 Thread Craig Dickson
martin f krafft wrote: > * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.18 22:25:42+0200]: > > you know a word that has ADAC in it, and starts and ends with 'he'? > > say, what is PEBCAK??? you are giving me headaches!!! > > (2.5 rounds of recognition to the person who identifies the reference) H

Re: exim & cyrus imap problems {RESOLVED}

2001-10-18 Thread Lance_Hoffmeyer
Add a line "currnt_directory = /home/imap/mail# in exim.conf right under the command field Lance On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:07:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having problems getting exim to work with cyrus imapd. > In exim.conf: > > local_delivery: > driver = pipe > com

Re: Apache Method: POST

2001-10-18 Thread Michael Ward Cole
I apologize for the lack of information. Ok... I have gotten the Apache 1.3.9 server to accept a POST method. Not quite sure how or why but not really important at the moment. Now what I am trying to sort out is installing PHP4 into Apache to work with Postgresql. I had Apache installed, then I

optimizing .eps?

2001-10-18 Thread martin f krafft
i have a presentation that i give with acroread, TeX source. i have a couple of EPS files, one fo which is 500k, the other 300k. the 500k loads pretty fast in gv and acroread, the 300k, which is less complex (converted from jpg just like the 500k) takes ages! how can i optimize this .eps file to

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-18 Thread martin f krafft
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.18 22:25:42+0200]: > you know a word that has ADAC in it, and starts and ends with 'he'? > say, what is PEBCAK??? you are giving me headaches!!! (2.5 rounds of recognition to the person who identifies the reference) -- martin; (greeting

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-18 Thread Robert L. Harris
Thus spake Daniel Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 02:01:25PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > * Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.17 19:26:37-0500]: > > > > Hi boys and girls, > > > > anyone can tell me what t

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-18 Thread martin f krafft
* Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.19 06:17:34+1000]: > The answer here starts with P, ends with K, and has EBCA inbetween. If > you can't even start up dpkg-reconfigure, then I suggest you stop using > Debian now. Run, don't walk. you know a word that has ADAC in it, and starts and ends

RE: Apache Method: POST

2001-10-18 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> I am trying to get the method Post to work with Apache 1.3.9 and PHP4. > I can't get the POST method to go through. I have looked at the Apache > newsgroup but can't seem to find anything on there that will work. Any > help will be appreciated. > Thank you. > Michael I guess I'm looking for a

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-18 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 02:01:25PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > * Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.17 19:26:37-0500]: > > > Hi boys and girls, > > > anyone can tell me what the fuck is that dexconf crap and how do I > > > get rid

Re: just remove me

2001-10-18 Thread alephtnull
you'd just have to do it the old-fashioned way.."unsubscribe" -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: GeForce3: X won't start!!!!

2001-10-18 Thread Aaron Traas
Thanks! I must have missed that part. Worked like a charm! --Aaron Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:40:31AM -0400, Aaron Traas wrote: > > Yes, just now, but I'm not sure how it applies... I don't fully > > understand it, and does not mention the NVIDIA drivers. X worked before

fonts in X4

2001-10-18 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
hi, i've just installed some truetype fonts in X. if i run X as root everything works fine, but if i use my normal user account, i have just 3 (standart-)fonts available. any idea?

Re: UNSTABLE USERS: dpkg, doc-linux-html, and MD5sum fields

2001-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:14:54AM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote: > > "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin> I'm getting three or four reports a day about errors like > Colin> this: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' > Colin> near line 88004 package doc-lin

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-18 Thread martin f krafft
* Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.18 14:01:25-0500]: > > i think you messed up debconf. try > > dpkg-reconfigured debconf > > dpkg-reconfigured: command not found. Neither is dpkg-reconfigure. > Any other suggestions? learn how to administer a Debian system? > Anyway, I'll just ch

rsync logging and permission problems

2001-10-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I am taking the liberty of asking this here though it is not strictly about Debian, but I know very many Debian people do use rsync. I have just started using rsync for backups. I have had a couple of issues. Note I'm trying to use rsync as user using ssh between two machines both r

Re: Unable to use display manager

2001-10-18 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
seems to be a problem with the current packages. a friend and me have the same problem (with unstable/SID) On Thursday, 18. October 2001 19:55, Nick Jennings wrote: > Hello, > > I am a long time debian user, however I'm having a rather odd problem, > perhaps someone here has run into this befo

Re: UNSTABLE USERS: dpkg, doc-linux-html, and MD5sum fields

2001-10-18 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> I'm getting three or four reports a day about errors like Colin> this: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' Colin> near line 88004 package doc-linux-html': empty file details Colin> field `MD5sum' E: Sub-process /

Re: problem with postgres

2001-10-18 Thread Alberto Cabello Sanchez
You can try postgres:~$ psql blablabla template1=> create user somebody createdb ; postgres:~$ su - somebody Password: somebody:~$psql template1=> create database something; I hope this help... > > i try to install postgreSQL on debian testing, but i have problem : > > > > > ~$ createuser

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-18 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > * Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.17 19:26:37-0500]: > > Hi boys and girls, > > anyone can tell me what the fuck is that dexconf crap and how do I > > get rid of it? I mean, really, which genius came up with the idea > > that I nee

Re: Unable to use display manager

2001-10-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:41:13AM -0700, Nick Jennings wrote: > I assume a bug has already been filed? %% this message appeared on this list yesterday [Here are the latest news items from the X Strike Force webpage; see the URL in my .signature.] There is a small problem with a very obvious effe

Re: Unable to use display manager

2001-10-18 Thread Lance_Hoffmeyer
Yes. The maintainer put out a FAQ that essentially stated the bug was fixed and would be incorporated in the next release. Lance On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:41:13AM -0700, Nick Jennings wrote: > I assume a bug has already been filed? >

Re: Unable to use display manager

2001-10-18 Thread Nick Jennings
I assume a bug has already been filed? On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:19:53PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you are using Xfree 4.0.7 there is a misconfiguration in > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common-start > > exec "$REALSTARTUP" > > should not be in quotes > > exec $REALSTARTUP > > La

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread martin f krafft
* David J. Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.18 10:52:52-0700]: > If the attacker knows the algorithm (although not the prime number) this is > unfortunately trivial to crack: they just have to guess the time that is > encoded by the timestamp. :( look at my code. it should be obvious that i am

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread Greg Wiley
On Thursday, October 18, 2001 10:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If the attacker knows the algorithm (although not the prime number) this is > unfortunately trivial to crack: they just have to guess the time that is > encoded by the timestamp. :( You're right. I solved it as if the timestamp was un

Re: Unable to use display manager

2001-10-18 Thread Lance_Hoffmeyer
If you are using Xfree 4.0.7 there is a misconfiguration in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common-start exec "$REALSTARTUP" should not be in quotes exec $REALSTARTUP Lance On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:55:05AM -0700, Nick Jennings wrote: > Hello, > > I am a long time debian user, however I'm

Re: x-window-system-core_4.1.0-7_all.deb

2001-10-18 Thread Mark Robinson
Quoth "Branden Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:37:05PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: >> I don't know what you did from 4.1.0-6 to 4.1.0-7, but it broke my Dell i5000e >> (ATI Rage Mobility 128, using ati driver). The screen was covered with >> random display glitches (co

exim & cyrus imap problems

2001-10-18 Thread Lance_Hoffmeyer
I am having problems getting exim to work with cyrus imapd. In exim.conf: local_delivery: driver = pipe command = "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver ${local_part}" return_path_add return_output prefix = "" user = cyrus In imapd.conf defaultpartition: default partition-default: /

Re: how to downgrade a package and set it to hold in dselect ?

2001-10-18 Thread Craig Dickson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > dselect will only show you the latest version of a package. In fact the > version you want may no longer exist. Which is why /var/cache/apt/archives is your friend. I wrote a script to run through that directory and delete all but the most recent two versions of all

Unable to use display manager

2001-10-18 Thread Nick Jennings
Hello, I am a long time debian user, however I'm having a rather odd problem, perhaps someone here has run into this before. I am running woody, this is a fresh install. Perhaps it's a bug that needs to be reported? I can run X at the prompt (logging in the console), however when I use kdm

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:11:05AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: > This is just a general idea: > > I'm assuming a 32-bit timestamp. > > You want to encode that value somewhat securely > with an invertable hash into 16 * 7 = 112 bits > (less if you can't use control chars). It has to be > somewhat re

Re: how to downgrade a package and set it to hold in dselect ?

2001-10-18 Thread Craig Dickson
tim haegele wrote: > I like to downgrade binutils from version 2.11.92.0.5-3 to 2.11.92.0.5-2 . > How can I do this? Can it be done using dselect? Not that I know of. Hopefully you still have your binutils_2.11.92.0.5-2_i386.deb file in /var/cache/apt/archives. If so, you can just use dpkg dire

Re: Two complete lockups with kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-18 Thread Danie Roux
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Where does one find the 2.4.12-ac kernels? > > You build them yourself. Download Linus' 2.4.12 sources, apply Alan's > 2.4.12-ac3 patch, configure, build, and install. > > Craig The easiest way to ge

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:59:25AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:58:10PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > goal: a 4-16 byte 7-bit character value that somehow encodes the time > > of creation such that it can be extracted if the encoding scheme/seed > > is known. t

Dockable bandwidth monitors?

2001-10-18 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
I'm looking for something similar to the look of wmavgload, that will dock in wharf, that will do preferrably a line graph showing percentage of the pipe being used on a particular (virtual) interface. Is there anything like this or similar to this? -- Baloo

Re: Hard drive repartitioning..

2001-10-18 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:47:26AM +0200, Petre Daniel wrote: > Well,i have a pc without a floppy disk,with only cdrom and a 3 gb hard > drive. > I've put a first 1,8 gb windows partition and a 1,2 gb debian > partition.Now,since i'm not using any X thingie,i'd like to know > an easy way to reparti

Re: Navegador para internet

2001-10-18 Thread Alexander Wallace
Trata: apt-get install mozilla como root On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, André Muniz Costa wrote: > Como faço para instalar um navegador no Debian 2.2 r3? > Já tentei instalar o Netscape pelo apt do próprio cd do Debian, mas dá erro. >

IP for sending Email

2001-10-18 Thread Lance_Hoffmeyer
Is it possible to use an IP address to send email instead of a Domain name? If so, what would be an example? Lance

RE: how to downgrade a package and set it to hold in dselect ?

2001-10-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Oct-2001 tim haegele wrote: > hello all > > topic says all... > > I like to downgrade binutils from version 2.11.92.0.5-3 to 2.11.92.0.5-2 . > How can I do this? Can it be done using dselect? > you need to find the deb for the older version and install it with dpkg. Once this is d

Re: Two complete lockups with kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-18 Thread Craig Dickson
Anthony Campbell wrote: > Where does one find the 2.4.12-ac kernels? You build them yourself. Download Linus' 2.4.12 sources, apply Alan's 2.4.12-ac3 patch, configure, build, and install. Craig

How can I make a boot disk from a runing system?

2001-10-18 Thread Stan Brown
After a crash this morning, I am on a mission to convert my / partition to Reiserfs. Here is the scenario. potato + Progeny upgrades + 2.4.9 kernel. 3 hard disks 1 partitioned as / and /boot (and swap). the other 2 are already Reisefs filesystems. So, it seems to me that I need to be able to boot

Re: logging Firewall traffic

2001-10-18 Thread Aaron Brashears
I use ippl to track network traffic. I've never configured it to track things like NAT usage, or anything complex. However, by combining some carefully chosen ipchains with the -l option with ippl, you should be able to log most anything. http://pltplp.net/ippl/ http://packages.debian.org/stable/n

Navegador para internet

2001-10-18 Thread André Muniz Costa
Como faço para instalar um navegador no Debian 2.2 r3? Já tentei instalar o Netscape pelo apt do próprio cd do Debian, mas dá erro.

Re: /proc permissions and other things

2001-10-18 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:12:07AM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote: > Andrej Hocevar wrote: > > >did you deliberately insult me with your self-boasting remarks or > >was it just me reacting prickly? to me it seems that my question > > It would seem just a little of both. ;) Karsten is often brusque in

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