Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-09 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:45:08PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:09:24PM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: > > > > This is the error that finally drove me back to Galeon... I found that I > > loved it. If you can't fix it or something, give it a shot, though > > it

Re: Unable to umount filesystem whe shutting down

2001-11-09 Thread Akintayo Holder
Vittorio wrote: This is the first time it happens to me! Under woody I've compiled my own, very light kernel 2.4.13-1 (Bunk's stuff) for my hardware eliminating many options I don't need. Now, it all works ok (in syslog there isn't anything strange or missing dependency warning) but when I shu

Re: A RH package won't work on Debian

2001-11-09 Thread Craig Dickson
Michael P. Soulier wrote: > *snicker* > > Q. What does RedHat call their unstable tree? > A. A .0 release. I thought they called it Red Hat Linux. Craig

Re: A RH package won't work on Debian

2001-11-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:14:45PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On 9 Nov 2001, Paul Smith wrote: > > > Subject: A RH package won't work on Debian > > This is normal. It's a bug on Red Hat's side, as RH packages rarely > work right on RH. *snicker* Q. What does RedHat call thei

Re: A RH package won't work on Debian

2001-11-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 9 Nov 2001, Paul Smith wrote: > Subject: A RH package won't work on Debian This is normal. It's a bug on Red Hat's side, as RH packages rarely work right on RH. > I borrowed a laptop with vanilla RH 6.2, and brought it home, and it > works fine. Also if I boot my system into Windows and use

Re: Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable machine?

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:31:29PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:15:44PM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I'm trying to get abcde to work. Turns out that the version I have > > (from progen) is broken. The developers of this package say the > > versio

Re: dpkg problem

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:16:53PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > This is part of the textutils package. Your package should have a > depends on this. If not, file a bug. textutils is essential, so packages don't need to (and shouldn't) depend on it unless the dependency is versioned. -- Coli

CR/LF even better

2001-11-09 Thread xucaen
#include #include using namespace std; void process_file(int argc, char **argv); void process_stdin(); void check_char(char &ch); int main(int argc, char **argv) { if(argc > 1) process_file(argc, argv); else process_stdin(); return 0; } void process_file(int argc,

A RH package won't work on Debian

2001-11-09 Thread Paul Smith
Here's a weird one, and I don't know that anyone can help but I can't think of anything else to try. So, I'm beta testing a new commercial VPN client for Linux. The official supported platforms are Red Hat (of course), plus Caldera and Turbo Linux IIRC. Others on the beta list have reported good

[Fwd: Re: Big time problem after disk crash]

2001-11-09 Thread calyth-shaw
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:23:22PM -0800, calyth-shaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > I was rebooting the system when it froze, right after sending the "wall" > > message to all users that it's going to reboot. It resulted in an > > unflushed disk cache reboot, and I

GLE libraries

2001-11-09 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I'm trying to compile the GLE libraries from source obtained at http://www.linas.org/gle/ and I'm having a few problems. The latest version (3.0.5) fails to compile due to a makefile error (no rule to make COPYING.src in all-am, I think), but 3.0.4 compiles and installs just fine. When

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:09:24PM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: > > This is the error that finally drove me back to Galeon... I found that I > loved it. If you can't fix it or something, give it a shot, though > it'll require installing a bunch of gnome libraries just for that app, I > think

Re: Apt-get install removes?

2001-11-09 Thread Paolo Falcone
Iiro A K Jantunen wrote: >Hi! > >I tried to install (upgrade) perl on my Debian Potato. What happened, >was shocking to me. > >What was the problem? Why did install start such removing mayhem? > >I have used both potato and woody as sources for different packages. I had >just commented woody out

CR/LF

2001-11-09 Thread xucaen
#include int main() { char ch; while(!cin.eof() ){ cin.get(ch); switch(ch){ case '\r': break; default: cout << ch; } } return 0; }

Re: Gnus and SMTP?

2001-11-09 Thread DvB
Ole Sebastian Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been trying to get gnus speak smtp with my smtp-server, to avoid > having a local MTA (exim, sendmail etc). > In order to send mail directly through/get mail directly from my pop3 server account, I added the following lines to my .gnus file:

debootstrap

2001-11-09 Thread Tom Allison
Where can I find LOTS of documentation on this debootstrap program? It seems that this is being used to replace the old base*.tgz files that I'm so familiar with. I'm trying to figure out how to do a remote installation with near zero direct access to a computer and this might simplify things

Re: No xpr on debian...

2001-11-09 Thread nate
Mike Fontenot said: > > The xwd man page (for dumping an image of an X window) > gives a "see also" for xpr (for printing the resulting > X window dump). > > But xpr doesn't exist on my 2.2r3 debian distribution. > > What's going on? This is a fundamental capability...has > xpr been replaced by so

Re: 2 doubts

2001-11-09 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 22:04 9/11/2001 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear members , I have 2 doubts : 1) How do you take lilo out of MBR in a fully functional Win-Lin dual-boot machine ? 2) How do you write (manually) either the Win 98 boot loader or the Win 2K/Win NT boot loader to MBR ? Seems like you wa

Re: dpkg problem

2001-11-09 Thread Alan Shutko
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > This is part of the textutils package. Your package should have a > depends on this. If not, file a bug. textutils is essential, so the package doesn't need to declare a dependency. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Green light in A.M.

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-09 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Charles Baker wrote: | When I start mozilla 0.9.5 on sid I get an error | "Cannot create browser instance" I installed mozilla | via apt-get of the deb package. I'm currently running | 2.2.18 kernel and xfree 4.1 and windowmaker .70. I | tried to launch from the commandline in an eterm to |

mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-09 Thread Charles Baker
When I start mozilla 0.9.5 on sid I get an error "Cannot create browser instance" I installed mozilla via apt-get of the deb package. I'm currently running 2.2.18 kernel and xfree 4.1 and windowmaker .70. I tried to launch from the commandline in an eterm to see any error output, but still only got

Gnus and SMTP?

2001-11-09 Thread Ole Sebastian Stein
I've been trying to get gnus speak smtp with my smtp-server, to avoid having a local MTA (exim, sendmail etc). I get the following error from gnus: unknown extesion xverp Sending failed; SMTP protocol error I'm on a woody-box behind a firewall and an ADSL-modem. In my .emacs I have: (setq user-f

Re: No xpr on debian...

2001-11-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike Fontenot wrote: > > The xwd man page (for dumping an image of an X window) > gives a "see also" for xpr (for printing the resulting > X window dump). > > But xpr doesn't exist on my 2.2r3 debian distribution. > > What's going on? This is a fundamental capability...has > xpr been replaced b

Re: GTK for Mplayer?? (Possible issues w/ GTK & Ximian?)

2001-11-09 Thread Mike McGuire
This seems to be a problem with the Ximian packages, which I can't really help you with. But I can tell you that last I checked, the mplayer GUI is rather incomplete and uh, sucky. It didn't seem to do much but play, pause, and look nice. :) Maybe they've got it doing more by now, but IMHO it's

Re: Mail retrieval / delivery

2001-11-09 Thread Craig Dickson
C Masters wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2001 15:08, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > Here's what I have set up: > > > > Incoming mail: > > > > On Debian #1, fetchmail, running from per-user crontabs, retrieves > > our mail. (I want to change this to be a single system-wide fetchmail > > running as a

mailcap format code

2001-11-09 Thread ben
on loading netscape, i get the following message: Ignoring unsupported format code in mailcap file: %{ i've checked the mailcap man page, which suggests that format codes begin with %{ are part of the scheme of things, and i've also checked the mailcap file itself for any stray, unenclosed insta

Re: tape drive problems

2001-11-09 Thread Kurt Lieber
I discovered the problem -- it turned out to be the SCSI chain wasn't correctly terminated. (or it may have been because I was using passive termination -- I'm not sure) I purchased a new internal SCSI cable with an active terminator and now it works fine. Posting this here in the hopes it ma

unsuscribe

2001-11-09 Thread Abhishek Amit
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Re: Ftp downloads for Linux running AMD K6

2001-11-09 Thread nate
said: > Could somebody please send me the URL of an FTP site from where I > can download binaries (/bin variety and /sbin variety) for Linux > running AMD K6 ? > > My machine shows up as i586 . that is normal and expected. it will work fine(i have a K6-3 thats been running for years) if you wa

Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter

2001-11-09 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Timo Boewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > > > http://www.psionic.com/ has some good stuff - logcheck, portsentry > > and > > > hostsentry. > > > > > Hello Stephen, > > Hey, that was *exactly* what i was looking for. When i have time, i > will try these packages

Re: syslogd and iptables

2001-11-09 Thread Jeff
Raffaele Sandrini, 2001-Nov-09 19:13 +0100: > Hi all, > > what do i have to enter to the sylog.conf to split all the iptables messages > done by the LOG (-j LOG) target into another file than messages? > > cheers, > Raffaele > -- syslog doesn't allow this functionality. You need to replace it

Re: dpkg problem

2001-11-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Thank you. I found only two "tr" files: one in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/tr and the other, actually a directory, in /usr/share/locale. So I decided that before jumping to conclusions I would reinstall textutils, using "apt-get --reinstall install textutils". After doing this, I had no problem with fully

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 15:45:48 +, P Kirk wrote: > Forgot the attachment. > 6544 open("/usr/sbin/install-info", O_RDONLY|0x8000) = 4 > 6544 fstat64(0x4, 0x80f5c80) = 0 > 6544 fstat64(0x4, 0xbfffd2ec) = 0 > 6544 stat64(0x80fe5b0, 0x80f5ae0) = 0 > 6544 link("/usr/in

Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter

2001-11-09 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Timo Boewing: > > Hello all, > > I have some questions regarding system security. Besides of doing > filtering with IP tables, disabling inet.d services like telnet, r-tools > etc. and setting some general denials in /etc/hosts.deny (plus some > other stuff like changing default po

Re: exim question

2001-11-09 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Karsten M. Self: > on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:59:12PM -0500, Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hello all - > > A strange thing, presumably of my own doing, just appeared. I was > > looking through apt-cache show, and I happened upon exim-tls, which is > > exim with ssl sup

Re: Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable machine?

2001-11-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:15:44PM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to get abcde to work. Turns out that the version I have (from > progen) is broken. The developers of this package say the version in testing > is fine. Probelm is it depends on one more package from testing

RE: Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable machine?

2001-11-09 Thread Kris Huber
Stan, Here's a cut-and-paste-and-slightly-edited version of what I found about almost the same question I asked on this reflector a week or two ago (see thread "RE: cproto.deb for potato not available?"): Scheme using newer version of apt-get than you probably have: It seems the /etc/apt/preferen

Re: exim question

2001-11-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:59:12PM -0500, Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all - > A strange thing, presumably of my own doing, just appeared. I was > looking through apt-cache show, and I happened upon exim-tls, which is > exim with ssl support. I decided that would be a great i

Re: dpkg problem

2001-11-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:49:38PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a package that won't completely install or de-install. I think I > know how it happened and have that problem fixed, but can't do anything > with the package. I have tried to reinstall this package with all

Re: Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable machine?

2001-11-09 Thread dman
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:15:44PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I'm trying to get abcde to work. Turns out that the version I have (from | progen) is broken. The developers of this package say the version in testing | is fine. Probelm is it depends on one more package from testing. | | Is there a wa

Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter

2001-11-09 Thread Timo Boewing
Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: http://www.psionic.com/ has some good stuff - logcheck, portsentry and hostsentry. Hello Stephen, Hey, that was *exactly* what i was looking for. When i have time, i will try these packages. When i am done, i will let the list know about my experiences; if anyon

dpkg problem

2001-11-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I have a package that won't completely install or de-install. I think I know how it happened and have that problem fixed, but can't do anything with the package. I have tried to reinstall this package with all kinds of options and using dselect, dpkg and apt-get. When I use apt-get I get the follow

Re: Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable machine?

2001-11-09 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
You could try changing your /etc/apt/sources.list to include woody, do an apt-get update , then a apt-get -s -u install abcde to see what would happen An alternative would be to try grip which I like even better than abcde Stan Brown wrote: I'm trying to get abcde to work. Turns out that th

Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter

2001-11-09 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
* Timo Boewing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Especially, I am looking for a not-too-paranoid-to-setup-tool that can > review my logfiles and report me via beep and/or local mail that it > found something unusual in a log. Does anyone know of such a tool? http://www.psionic.com/ has som

intrusion detection / logfile reporter

2001-11-09 Thread Timo Boewing
Hello all, I have some questions regarding system security. Besides of doing filtering with IP tables, disabling inet.d services like telnet, r-tools etc. and setting some general denials in /etc/hosts.deny (plus some other stuff like changing default ports of some demons like sshd), I am loo

Re: Auto login ...

2001-11-09 Thread nate
=?iso-8859-1?q?Steve=20Kieu?= said: > > Hi, > > Is there a way to auto login using a specified user > name and password to a remote machine? I read rsh, > telnet manpages and found nothing, it specify -l > user_name but how about sending password? i do it with ssh. especially with rsync its pretty

Re: Auto login ...

2001-11-09 Thread xbud
umm don't use rsh or telnet use ssh and use RSA Authentication to login w/out a password. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc.. www.openssl.org www.openssh.org -xbud

Auto login ...

2001-11-09 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Is there a way to auto login using a specified user name and password to a remote machine? I read rsh, telnet manpages and found nothing, it specify -l user_name but how about sending password? = S.KIEU http://briefcase.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Briefcase - Manage your files online.

Re: POP over SSL

2001-11-09 Thread Alexander Wallace
THank you! I'll check it out. On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, martin f krafft wrote: > * Alexander Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.09 09:12:20-0600]: > > I guess I should have been more specific, I have a debian server that is > > my pop server, and a debian desktop in which I use evolution or other ma

Re: apt-get download for remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread Thorsten Gunkel
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:35:22PM -0500, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: > I have a very slow internet connection at home, but a fast one at > work. > What I would like to do is an apt-get update on the home machine, > take some ouputted list of files which need to be updated, use the > machine at work

Re: 2 doubts

2001-11-09 Thread ben
for windows, get to a dos prompt and use fdisk /mbr. that will restore the original windows loader. i remember trying to do that rewrite on an NT box years ago but ending up having to do a full reinstall. your question begs another. why would you want to do that? since lilo will give you options t

Re: OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:36:28PM -0800, nate wrote: > David Priban said: > > What exactly is the issue you are talking about? > > I was just about to build a system using 6410 raid 5 :( > > > > Also couple of weeks ago 3ware announced it is going to > > discontinue Escalade line of products. This

Re: POP over SSL

2001-11-09 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thanks! I'm trying to have an ssl enabled pop3 server, I'll look at those links you sent me! Thanks! On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya alexander.. > > are you building a ssl-enabled pop3s server ?? > - telnet localhost 995 > ( if it connects you already have a secure po

Re: POP over SSL

2001-11-09 Thread martin f krafft
* Alexander Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.09 09:12:20-0600]: > I guess I should have been more specific, I have a debian server that is > my pop server, and a debian desktop in which I use evolution or other mail > clients, and I would like to connect over ssl, evolution has the option, > bu

Re: GCC packages fighting amongst themselves?

2001-11-09 Thread Phil Edwards
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:12:17PM +, Neil Booth wrote: > > (Ironically, the reason I want to get rid of gcc-2.95 entirely and use > > only gcc-3.x is that I'm a GCC maintainer, and want to do lots of testing > > with the 3.x series. If the solution to this dependancy mess involves > > destroy

Re: Mouse wheel in potato...

2001-11-09 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thanks! That worked, but needed to remove the emulate3buttons to get it to work... Thanks to everyoune who offered help! On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Rafael Sasaki wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:13:03AM -0600, Alexander Wallace wrote: > > Hello there! Could someone tell me what needs to be in /etc

Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable machine?

2001-11-09 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to get abcde to work. Turns out that the version I have (from progen) is broken. The developers of this package say the version in testing is fine. Probelm is it depends on one more package from testing. Is there a way I can get this to work? If so, how? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROT

Re: POP over SSL

2001-11-09 Thread Alexander Wallace
I guess I should have been more specific, I have a debian server that is my pop server, and a debian desktop in which I use evolution or other mail clients, and I would like to connect over ssl, evolution has the option, but i don't know what I need to install in the server to be able to do it...

Re: GCC packages fighting amongst themselves?

2001-11-09 Thread Neil Booth
> (Ironically, the reason I want to get rid of gcc-2.95 entirely and use > only gcc-3.x is that I'm a GCC maintainer, and want to do lots of testing > with the 3.x series. If the solution to this dependancy mess involves > destroying gcc-doc, that's fine with me; I have many copies of the GCC > ma

Re: apt-get download for remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread Horacio de Oro
On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 13:35:22 -0500 "Thomas R. Shemanske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: apt-zip does that. > I have a very slow internet connection at home, but a fast one at > work. > > What I would like to do is an apt-get update on the home machine, > take some ouputted list of files which need

Re: Help

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:12:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have contacted the site you have placed a page holder on. I have > been able to reach this site as recently as !!/3/01 in A.M. By P.M. > this page was installed. I contacted the Web Master about your site's > block. They don't k

Re: Apt-get install removes?

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:01:08PM +0200, Iiro A K Jantunen wrote: > I tried to install (upgrade) perl on my Debian Potato. What happened, > was shocking to me. Looks like you tried to upgrade potato's perl to the perl from testing. 'apt-get install' won't make good decisions if you try that, as y

Re: Netscape in different desks with fvwm2

2001-11-09 Thread Mike Fontenot
Many thanks to Erdmut Pfeifer for a very informative response! I'll try that suggestion ASAP. One possible show-stopper: I tried dragging the Messenger window to another desktop, by using the 2nd mouse button within the pager window. It worked, but all pop-ups triggered by my use of the Messenge

Running DirectX Games using Linux OS

2001-11-09 Thread Lambrecht, Joris
Hi all, I've been off the thread for some time but ... Just to let you all know that http://www.transgaming.com/ is offering WineX wich it claims (and has had some good reports allready) to enable windows games to run on top of Linux. Hopefully this will be incorporated into the Debian distro so

Re: weird nvidia problem in unstable

2001-11-09 Thread Dominique Deleris
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 09:46:13 -0500, Mental <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Mental> Hello, I've run accross an odd condition on my debian (unstable) box. It Mental> seems that Quake3 is no longer textured properly on my geforce card. The Mental> game starts fine. Menu's look ok. Startup screen loads

iiBCS Emulator Modules for Linux

2001-11-09 Thread Amir Bukhari
halla all, when I try to compile iBCS, i become compiling error this error it not normal because it said that the most of the /usr/include/linux/*.h has syntax.., for example: c39a:/usr/src/modules/ibcs-2.2/iBCSemul# make gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -D__NO_VERSION__ -I../include -I/include -Wall

Re: Which installer? Aptitude, dselect deity...

2001-11-09 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:53:51 -0800 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since you recommended it, I installed and took a look at stormpkg. My > first impression is that it doesn't give me as much information as > dselect, and makes it harder to get at. For one thing, I have several > Python p

Re: Help

2001-11-09 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
> I have contacted the site you have placed a page holder on. I have been able > to > reach this site as recently as !!/3/01 in A.M. By P.M. this page was > installed. > I contacted the Web Master about your site's block. They don't know why. I > need > help. Neither I nor the site I am trying

Re: cannot set DISPLAY from remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread Casey Webster
/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, find the line that says :0 blah blah and take off the -nolisten tcp option from that line, then restart XDM. next time you logon, you will be able to connect to your machine remotely with X. On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:58:10PM +0100, Steffen Evers wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09,

Help

2001-11-09 Thread HFaisal
I have contacted the site you have placed a page holder on. I have been able to reach this site as recently as !!/3/01 in A.M. By P.M. this page was installed. I contacted the Web Master about your site's block. They don't know why. I need help. Neither I nor the site I am trying to reach knows why

Apt-get install removes?

2001-11-09 Thread Iiro A K Jantunen
Hi! I tried to install (upgrade) perl on my Debian Potato. What happened, was shocking to me. What was the problem? Why did install start such removing mayhem? I have used both potato and woody as sources for different packages. I had just commented woody out from /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-g

extace alsa compile error

2001-11-09 Thread Adam John Henry
I'm running sid, and after downloading (apt-get source extace) extace version 1.6.1 I am getting compile errors. My intention is to enable alsa support. To do this, I entered the extracted directory and edited the file './debian/rules' and changed '--disable-alsa' to '--enable-alsa'. I then ran

apt-get download for remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
I have a very slow internet connection at home, but a fast one at work. What I would like to do is an apt-get update on the home machine, take some ouputted list of files which need to be updated, use the machine at work to download those on the list, and transfer the files (say via CD, zip or ot

Re: Problem with testing upgrade (kdelibs3)

2001-11-09 Thread Cam Ellison
Thanks, Colin. That seems to have done the trick quite nicely. * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:01:14AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > > I just ran my weekly upgrade, which is usually problem-free, but now I > > have an odd one. Installation of kdelibs3_4%3a2.2

vsound and echo

2001-11-09 Thread Lang Hurst
I recently installed vsound with the intent of burning old episodes of This American Life onto a couple of CD's for a road trip. It installed with no problems, but when I record it has a really strong unwanted echo. RealPlayer works fine, but the echo happens in the redirect. Here is the info

Re: Mouse wheel in woody

2001-11-09 Thread Aniartia
On Friday 09 November 2001 00:01, Steffen Evers wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 23:33, Aniartia wrote: > > > Is it the same procedure with woody (XFree86 4.1.0)? > > > > Yes but you shouldn't need to do this: > > > > in Xsession: > > > > > > > > - > > > > # Starts t

Re: GCC packages fighting amongst themselves?

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:00:21PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: > There's probably an easy way out of this mess, but I'm somewhat new > to Debian. (Been using Linux for years, but just recently switched to > using a distro rather than hacking everything together by hand.) > > For a while now I've h

Re: Problem with testing upgrade (kdelibs3)

2001-11-09 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
* Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I just ran my weekly upgrade, which is usually problem-free, but now I have > an odd one. Installation of kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb gets hung up at > the following stage: > > Unpacking replacement kdelibs3 ... > Replacing files in old packa

Re: Second sending...

2001-11-09 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 08 Nov 2001, Ian Millsom wrote: > Its a rtl8139.. Now a lot of people will bag these cards, but they do the > job. I have about 30 other machines all the same setup > (processors/hdd/memory) differ, but the setup is the same and they all > work fine. > > > what is the system(s) hooked to?

syslogd and iptables

2001-11-09 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all, what do i have to enter to the sylog.conf to split all the iptables messages done by the LOG (-j LOG) target into another file than messages? cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For encrypted Mail get my Public Key from "search.keyserver.net" ID: 0xEC4950E9

Re: Problem with testing upgrade (kdelibs3)

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:01:14AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > I just ran my weekly upgrade, which is usually problem-free, but now I > have an odd one. Installation of kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb gets > hung up at the following stage: > > Unpacking replacement kdelibs3 ... > Replacing files i

Problem with testing upgrade (kdelibs3)

2001-11-09 Thread Cam Ellison
I just ran my weekly upgrade, which is usually problem-free, but now I have an odd one. Installation of kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb gets hung up at the following stage: Unpacking replacement kdelibs3 ... Replacing files in old package kdebase-libs ... Replacing files in old package konqueror

Re: cannot set DISPLAY from remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread Steffen Evers
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:31, Lars Jensen wrote: > Recently I installed woody on three machines and I am having the same > problem on all of them: > > When I try to export DISPLAY from a remote machine to any of the > three woody machines I get the error: > > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't

Re: Can't cycle thru X screen resolutions

2001-11-09 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:43:55AM -0800, tom schuetz wrote: > I'm running the generic S3 SVGA server, and it works fine, but only at what > looks like 600 x 800. > > This is no matter what I do with [CTRL] and [ALT] and +/-. > > This is also no matter what I specify in manually editing XF86Conf

Re: cannot set DISPLAY from remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread dman
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:31:00AM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote: | Recently I installed woody on three machines and I am having the same | problem on all of them: | | When I try to export DISPLAY from a remote machine to any of the | three woody machines I get the error: | | _X11TransSocketINETConn

Re: GCC packages fighting amongst themselves?

2001-11-09 Thread dman
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:00:21PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: | For a while now I've had both gcc/gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.0 installed; three | packages in all. I briefly tried uninstalling the gcc/gcc-2.95 packages | (why are there two of them? they're the same thing, aren't they?) but | found that th

Re: POP over SSL

2001-11-09 Thread Andreas Goesele
Alexander Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello there! > > What is the package I need to apt-get to be able to connect to my server > using SSL? > > Thanks! stunnel? Andreas Goesele

cannot set DISPLAY from remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread Lars Jensen
Recently I installed woody on three machines and I am having the same problem on all of them: When I try to export DISPLAY from a remote machine to any of the three woody machines I get the error: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 (I did not forget to do the xhost + to all

Re: x broken after upgrade

2001-11-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:58:10PM +0100, M.J.P.Benschop wrote: > I'm running potato on a laptop with a ATI Mobility M 4. Good. > I had a perfectly fine working X whith kde and everything. > After I did an apt-get update/apt-get upgrade earlier this week > X got broken. > I'll attach the /var/log/X

Ftp downloads for Linux running AMD K6

2001-11-09 Thread shyamk
Could somebody please send me the URL of an FTP site from where I can download binaries (/bin variety and /sbin variety) for Linux running AMD K6 ? My machine shows up as i586 . Regards, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam

ctrl key functionality gone missing

2001-11-09 Thread MRZ
I've noticed a fair bit of traffic on this general topic, so hopefully the answer to this springs right to mind.. I've a debian potato install that was recently upgraded to use the 2.4.x kernel line. I essentially upgraded Debian itself and my Ximian desktop at the same time, using the "bunk" pa

GCC packages fighting amongst themselves?

2001-11-09 Thread Phil Edwards
There's probably an easy way out of this mess, but I'm somewhat new to Debian. (Been using Linux for years, but just recently switched to using a distro rather than hacking everything together by hand.) For a while now I've had both gcc/gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.0 installed; three packages in all. I br

No xpr on debian...

2001-11-09 Thread Mike Fontenot
The xwd man page (for dumping an image of an X window) gives a "see also" for xpr (for printing the resulting X window dump). But xpr doesn't exist on my 2.2r3 debian distribution. What's going on? This is a fundamental capability...has xpr been replaced by something else to do this job?

R: problems with the keyboard?....I don't think so....

2001-11-09 Thread Fabio Cesari
Removing gpm solved the problem!! Grazie Andrea!! Fabio > -Messaggio originale- > Da: Andrea Vettorello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Inviato: venerdì 9 novembre 2001 17.12 > A: debian-user mailing list > Oggetto: Re: problems with the keyboard?I don't think so > > > On Thu, 2001

Re: 2 doubts

2001-11-09 Thread John Hasler
Shyam writes: > 1) How do you take lilo out of MBR in a fully functional Win-Lin dual-boot > machine ? The same way as on any machine running Linux: 'lilo -u /dev/hdxx'. This puts the MBR back the way it was before Lilo was installed. > 2) How do you write (manually) either the Win 98 boot loa

RE: Backspace is delete

2001-11-09 Thread Kris Huber
Shaya, Try adding: (global-set-key "\C-h" 'backward-delete-char) to your .emacs file on the Solaris side. I think that will take care of your problem. Maybe you'll run into other keys that don't get mapped the same, but you can easily configure that in the .emacs file. I'm not sure how to make

Re: 2 doubts

2001-11-09 Thread xio
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:04:36PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear members , > I have 2 doubts : > 1) How do you take lilo out of MBR in a fully functional Win-Lin dual-boot > machine ? > 2) How do you write (manually) either the Win 98 boot loader or the Win > 2K/Win NT > boot loader >

x broken after upgrade

2001-11-09 Thread M.J.P.Benschop
Hi, I'm running potato on a laptop with a ATI Mobility M 4. I had a perfectly fine working X whith kde and everything. After I did an apt-get update/apt-get upgrade earlier this week X got broken. Am I the only one experiencing this I'll attach the /var/log/XFree86.log. What I make from it i

Re: kdelibs3 broken in woody?

2001-11-09 Thread Steffen Evers
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:29, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > > I get errors while dist-upgrading today > > Sorry. I should think before I post. > > This is on testing. > > And I had a look into the buglist. It was reported and is closed, mh, > perhaps not fully closed. ;-) > > I solved it with --

Re: 2 doubts

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:04:36PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) How do you take lilo out of MBR in a fully functional Win-Lin dual-boot > machine ? You don't have to, you can just over-write it with whatever other bootloader you want to use (like GRUB! :) > 2) How do you write (manuall

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