kernel upgrade problem

2002-02-03 Thread Deva Seetharam
hi all, i have a dual pentium (coppermine) processor machine and i was running kernel version 2.2.19. i am trying to upgrade to kernel 2.4.17. when i installed the kernel-image 2.4.17 and rebooted the machine, i got the message Total of 2 Processors activated (3742.10 BogoMIPS). Enabling IO-APIC

Re: internet connection - Thanks, Ben!

2002-02-03 Thread Klaus Neumann
---Original Message--- From: ben Date: Sunday, February 03, 2002 08:05:11 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: internet connection - was: solved: CS4236 ... On Sunday 03 February 2002 06:33 pm, Klaus Neumann wrote: [big snip] the fact that you can access the nameservers from you

Auctex/LaTeX/Emacs problem

2002-02-03 Thread Ryan Claycamp
I have lost the color markings in xemacs when I edit a LaTeX file. I am running woody and I think it happened after I updated to the new version of auctex. I noticed that when auctex installed, it said something like emacsen ignoring flavor xemacs. How do I get the color back in xemacs when it i

mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-03 Thread Aaron Brashears
I upgraded my kernel using the prepackaged 2.4.17 pentium pro kernel. On bootup, I get the following message: Request_module[block-major-3] Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:0

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2002-02-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:48:52AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > | dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > | > SpamAssassin does a pretty good job of tagging these so I

CN810 motherboard

2002-02-03 Thread Larry W Stains
> Hi Steve, > I ran across your discussion on the web about the CN810 motherboard. > I am trying to find a audio driver for the audio controller chip on the CN810 > board. Can you help me in any way? I sure would appreciate any help you > can offer. The chip numbers are: > FW82801AA > F1281

Re: internet connection - was: solved: CS4236 ...

2002-02-03 Thread ben
On Sunday 03 February 2002 06:33 pm, Klaus Neumann wrote: [big snip] the fact that you can access the nameservers from your girlfriend's machine suggests that it is, indeed, a configuration problem on the linux box. as i said, it's all mighty weird. you still haven't given us a post of /etc/net

Re: devfs and ide-scsi devices

2002-02-03 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 01:23:32PM +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 07:57:41PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > Problem: devfs & devfsd do not create /dev/cdroms and /dev/tapes and > > related symbolic links. > > [snip] > > Any thoughts on how I can get devfs to create /dev/c

Re: How to overburn CD's?

2002-02-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 01:40:43AM +, Jason Wood wrote: > I have heard about overburning, but a search on google for "overburn linux" > seems to bring up one reference - namely to the CD-writing FAQ, where it just > says that cdrecord can handle overburning without doing anything special. >

Re: new Debian FAQs

2002-02-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 01:52:27PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi guys, > If anyone has some time to go through Debian Planet, Debian Help and other > similar sites and make a list of frequently asked questions, preferably with > answers, please do, and send me the results. :) FAQ is old and d

modem

2002-02-03 Thread canducci
Tenho um Modem US Robotics 3595A PCI que não funciona no Linux Debian o que eu faço...  

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2002-02-03 Thread Wayne Topa
dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:48:52AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > | dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > | > SpamAssassin does a pretty good job of tagging these so I can > | > automagically dump them. > | > | Then I am doing someth

Debian Perl packages, modules - how to cleanup extras

2002-02-03 Thread S. Taylor
What's Debian's procedure for installing and maintaining perl? At the beginning, dselect insisted that packages for perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 be installed. Is it necessary Other lib*-perl packages were installed and recently perl 5.6.1 was compiled, successfully, after most defaults were accepte

Warning: Type conversion failed

2002-02-03 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I get a little window saying this twice, one time right below the other, as follows: (HTML Title?: subprocess diagnostics) Warning: Type conversion failed Warning: Type conversion failed [Okay button] every time I bring up a new mail message window by hitting on the Communicator 4.77

Warning: Type conversion failed

2002-02-03 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I get a little window saying this twice, one time right below the other, as follows: (HTML Title?: subprocess diagnostics) Warning: Type conversion failed Warning: Type conversion failed [Okay button] every time I bring up a new mail message window by hitting on the Communicator 4.77

Re: passwd segfaulting

2002-02-03 Thread Eric-Olivier Lamey
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 04:17, Bill Bell wrote: > I started compairing these files you listed above between my Sid machine > (working) and the broken Woody box. I found that /etc/pam.d/passed was an > exact > copy of /etc/passwd on the Woody box. The Sid box had a totally Hmm, that's a *maj

devfs & DVD

2002-02-03 Thread Mircea Luca
Hi everybody I just spend the last 2 hours reading the various docs on the net, the devfsd manpage and /etc/init.d/devfsd but still can't figure out how to create a symlink /dev/dvd --> /dev/hdd. The symlink shall be persistent between reboots. Any help appreciated . I'm running sid with kerne

Re: can't KILL tty

2002-02-03 Thread ben
On Sunday 03 February 2002 06:24 pm, Tony Green wrote: > On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 13:19, ben wrote: > > On Sunday 03 February 2002 05:27 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > > Any suggestions on how to kill a tty that is frozen without > > > rebooting? I have tried > > > > > > slay lance > > > skill tty2 >

Re: internet connection - was: solved: CS4236 ...

2002-02-03 Thread Klaus Neumann
Just got home from work ... thanks for your reply ... ---Original Message--- to check that all of your installed apps are properly configured, do dpkg -C This gives me a new prompt after about two seconds. Nothing more. and post the results of that. there may be something else that scre

Re: can't KILL tty

2002-02-03 Thread Tony Green
On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 13:19, ben wrote: > On Sunday 03 February 2002 05:27 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > Any suggestions on how to kill a tty that is frozen without > > rebooting? I have tried > > > > slay lance > > skill tty2 > > skill KILL tty2 > > skill NOHUP tty2 > > skill HUP tty2 > > > > la

Re: devfs and ide-scsi devices

2002-02-03 Thread Paul Hampson
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 07:57:41PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > Problem: devfs & devfsd do not create /dev/cdroms and /dev/tapes and > related symbolic links. > > woody box > devfsd 1.3.21-3 > stock kernel-image 2.4.17-386 > Modules loaded that pertain to scsi: sg, aic7xxx, ide-probe-mod, > ide-

Re: can't KILL tty

2002-02-03 Thread ben
On Sunday 03 February 2002 05:27 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Any suggestions on how to kill a tty that is frozen without > rebooting? I have tried > > slay lance > skill tty2 > skill KILL tty2 > skill NOHUP tty2 > skill HUP tty2 > > lance kill -9

Re: How to enable EXT3 FS on 2.4

2002-02-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Herbert, I am confusedi by your comment. (I know you know better but it does not make sense to me.) On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:39:39AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > # cd /etc; mv fstab fstab.old > >> > # sed 's/ext2/ext3,ext2/g' fstab # forged to be

How to overburn CD's?

2002-02-03 Thread Jason Wood
Hi, I am trying to create an audio CD... trouble is that it runs to about 76 minutes in length and the blank CD's that I have are only the standard 74 minute versions. I have heard about overburning, but a search on google for "overburn linux" seems to bring up one reference - namely to the CD

Re: can't KILL tty

2002-02-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 07:27:21PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Any suggestions on how to kill a tty that is frozen without > rebooting? I have tried > > slay lance > skill tty2 > skill KILL tty2 > skill NOHUP tty2 > skill HUP tty2 How about raw command # su # ps aux| grep tty2 ... see proce

can't KILL tty

2002-02-03 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Any suggestions on how to kill a tty that is frozen without rebooting? I have tried slay lance skill tty2 skill KILL tty2 skill NOHUP tty2 skill HUP tty2 lance -- Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: unsubscribe

2002-02-03 Thread csj
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 16:17:37 -0800 (PST) "Paul 'Baloo' Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, csj wrote: > > > > unsubscribe > > > > I think you have to place the "unsubscribe" in the subject line (as in > > this email). > > That won't work. If it did wouldn't get two copies o

Re: X configuration problem

2002-02-03 Thread ben
On Sunday 03 February 2002 04:20 pm, Kapil Khosla wrote: > Hi, > There seems to be a problem in my keyboard map when I try to install X on > my Toshiba laptop. > > I am installing woody and it creates the file > xf86config -v3 , if i run that it doesnt actually modify my xf86config file > as the c

gnome-session multiple apps startup

2002-02-03 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I just installed gnome-session and when I did I start getting multiple apps opening up at startup. Before I had one instance of xdaliclock opening up. Now I have four. A few other apps do this as well. Instead of one opening up 2-3 open up. What should I do to stop this from happening? I thin

Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs

2002-02-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I had similar symptoms once. Segfaults and apparently corrupted disk > > files. It turned out to be a bad memory SIMM. Try running memte

devfs and ide-scsi devices

2002-02-03 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Problem: devfs & devfsd do not create /dev/cdroms and /dev/tapes and related symbolic links. woody box devfsd 1.3.21-3 stock kernel-image 2.4.17-386 Modules loaded that pertain to scsi: sg, aic7xxx, ide-probe-mod, ide-scsi, sd_mod and scsi_mod devfs is mounted at boot by including "devfs=mount" at

Re: dpkg error?

2002-02-03 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 03 February 2002 12:55 pm, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: > Hi ... > > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:14:58PM -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote: > >I removed gpm with: 'update-rc.d -f gpm remove' then 'dpkg -P gpm' > >Apparently this did not remove a reference to gpm somewhere in the > > dpkg system. Dse

Re: [±¤°í] CD¹øÈ£ºÎ 2002 Àü±¹ÆÇ ¾È³»

2002-02-03 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Alan Shutko wrote: > It won't stop if you are proactive about it. I did exactly that for > around 6 months and kept getting the same .cn spam from the same > places, and all the ISPs did was indicate to spamcop that they were no > longer interested in reports. No action was e

Re: X configuration problem

2002-02-03 Thread Kapil Khosla
Hi, There seems to be a problem in my keyboard map when I try to install X on my Toshiba laptop. I am installing woody and it creates the file xf86config -v3 , if i run that it doesnt actually modify my xf86config file as the changes i make to the modes etc are not reflected in the file after

Re: unsubscribe

2002-02-03 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, csj wrote: > > unsubscribe > > I think you have to place the "unsubscribe" in the subject line (as in > this email). That won't work. > CC'ed to the list so you don't get more copies of this same advice: > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "un

Re: [±¤°í] CD¹øÈ£ºÎ2002 Àü±¹ÆÇ ¾È³»

2002-02-03 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Bruce Burhans wrote: > Might just take you up on that, Baloo, and thanks for the offer. > Have Bellingham phone number. There's probably a LUG in that area that you could probably bribe a geek to come out and help you, as well. Might be easier than sitting on the phone.

unsubscribe

2002-02-03 Thread csj
On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 21:23:37 +0100 Thierry PROBST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > unsubscribe I think you have to place the "unsubscribe" in the subject line (as in this email). CC'ed to the list so you don't get more copies of this same advice: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: syslinux.cfg

2002-02-03 Thread Wim Speekenbrink
> I'm a brand new, first time Linux user and managed to delete the text > in syslinux.cfg on the boot-floppy. Now I can't startup Debian anymore > :-( Would someone be so kind to post the text in his/her syslinux.cfg? Solved! (I made a new boot-floppy with the installation CD) Speek

Re: X configuration problem

2002-02-03 Thread ben
On Sunday 03 February 2002 12:16 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > Kapil Khosla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I could not install my base system due to network problems and stopped > > installation and did reboot. > > > > I then installed xserver-vga16, xf86setup. > > > > When I do startx i get the f

Re: C Integrated Development Environment

2002-02-03 Thread john
dman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:09:34AM +1000, john wrote: > | dman wrote: > | > | > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:35:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > | > | Im setting up a machine for a friend and he needs an IDE for developing > | > | C and C++. Anyone have a recomendation on a good one

Re: passwd segfaulting

2002-02-03 Thread Bill Bell
Quoting Eric-Olivier Lamey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 02:42, Bill Bell wrote: > > I have included output from getent and strace. I looked through > > the /etc/passwd file trying to find any errors as you describe, (no > luck yet). > > I am not sure how the /etc/passwd-, /et

Re: syslinux.cfg

2002-02-03 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 07:46:54PM +0100, Wim Speekenbrink wrote: > I'm a brand new, first time Linux user and managed to delete the text > in syslinux.cfg on the boot-floppy. Now I can't startup Debian anymore > :-( Would someone be so kind to post the text in his/her syslinux.cfg? > > Speek Thi

Re: dpkg error?

2002-02-03 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi ... On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:14:58PM -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote: >I removed gpm with: 'update-rc.d -f gpm remove' then 'dpkg -P gpm' >Apparently this did not remove a reference to gpm somewhere in the dpkg >system. Dselect will not install new packages as it fails with the >following messag

Re: Source

2002-02-03 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi .. On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 06:45:21PM -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote: >On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 17:43, Bruce Burhans wrote: >> Is Kernel 2.4.1.7 (or is it 2.4.17 ?) the one that comes with >> 2.2r5? >> I searched from top to bottom and couldn't find this >> info. Don't want to buy source f

Re: compiling with the vpn patch

2002-02-03 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi .. :) On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 08:19:51PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >Hey people. > >I'm trying to patch kernel 2.2.18 and 2.2.20 with the vpn patch. >Unfortunately, it presents no new option for IPsec MASQ under a make >menuconfig. So, putting the following in manually > >CON

Re: passwd segfaulting

2002-02-03 Thread Bill Bell
Quoting Larry Holish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 06:53:17AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am running up to date woody on a small firewall box. I have had > this problem > > for some time where passwd ALWAYS segfaults when it is called. I have > searche

Re: passwd segfaulting

2002-02-03 Thread Eric-Olivier Lamey
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 02:42, Bill Bell wrote: > I have included output from getent and strace. I looked through > the /etc/passwd file trying to find any errors as you describe, (no luck > yet). > I am not sure how the /etc/passwd-, /etc/shadow and /etc/shadow- files play > into this. Is i

XFree86 hangs / How to use Xfree 4.2.0

2002-02-03 Thread Martin Emrich
Hi ! My X-Server hangs sometimes. I can still move the mouse, but the cursor stays in its last state. It doesn't react on any keypresses, except the allmighty Alt-SysRq-S U B, which is the only way to reboot without risking a looong fsck. I'm using Debian sid, currently with X 4.1.0. I have a Son

Re: passwd segfaulting

2002-02-03 Thread Larry Holish
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 06:53:17AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I am running up to date woody on a small firewall box. I have had this > problem > for some time where passwd ALWAYS segfaults when it is called. I have > searched > archives, looked at the /etc/passwd to see if

Re: The New World Order is Here !

2002-02-03 Thread Glyn Millington
Stig Brautaset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Oleksandr Moskalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: >> >> Stig, >> >> Would you mind sharing your set of procmail filters? > > I don't mind at all. Brilliant - many thanks!! Glyn --

kernel broadcasting needed when upgrading to CUPS 1.1.12-5 ??

2002-02-03 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, When upgrading my woody system from CUPS 1.1.12-4 to 1.1.12-5, the library libslp1 1.0.6-3 was installed. libslp1 (OpenSLP) requires broadcasting, and for this route to be added: route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev Why do I need an "IETF standard protocol (RFC 2608) that is u

Re: passwd segfaulting

2002-02-03 Thread Bill Bell
Quoting Eric-Olivier Lamey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 06:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > Hi, > > > I am running up to date woody on a small firewall box. I have had > this problem > > for some time where passwd ALWAYS segfaults when it is called. I have > sea

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2002-02-03 Thread Thierry PROBST
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Re: Woody kernel rebuild screws the pooch.

2002-02-03 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Phillip Remaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > I seem to be an idiot. > > I wanted to add sound to by Woody install, and figured I needed to build me > a kernel (to add isapnp which seems not to be there by default). > The kernel (2.2.20) that installed with the woody installer used > th

Re: X configuration problem

2002-02-03 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Kapil Khosla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could not install my base system due to network problems and stopped > installation and did reboot. > > I then installed xserver-vga16, xf86setup. > > When I do startx i get the following error. > dbe : Unknown error loading module > Config error :/etc/X1

Re: [±¤°í] CD¹øÈ£ºÎ 2002 Àü±¹ÆÇ ¾È³»

2002-02-03 Thread Alan Shutko
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You should automagically dump them into a seperate folder and run them > through spamcop.net. It won't slw/stop unless you're proactive about > it. It won't stop if you are proactive about it. I did exactly that for around 6 months and kept get

Re: ssh2 / X problems

2002-02-03 Thread shock
* Stephen E. Hargrove ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Cameron Kerr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, shock wrote: > > > > Does it happen with any other user account? > > it happens with all accounts. okay, i'm not really sure what's going on, but rebooting my client

gdk fontset warning problem

2002-02-03 Thread Adam Kessel
Hi All: All of my gdk applications give the error: Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 on startup (e.g., gvim, gqview, etc..). This problem seems to be fairly common, based on a number of google.com searches, particularly for people using other cha

X configuration problem

2002-02-03 Thread Kapil Khosla
Hi, I could not install my base system due to network problems and stopped installation and did reboot. I then installed xserver-vga16, xf86setup. When I do startx i get the following error. dbe : Unknown error loading module Config error :/etc/X11/xf86config:48 Subsection "extmod" Module secti

Re: XFree86 config for i810E 1280x960

2002-02-03 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > begin Dimitri Maziuk quotation: > > > * Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > ... > > > So, now the question: why does XFree86 4.1 (Sid) insist on using the > > > vaguely flickery 60Hz mode rather than the nice 85Hz mode? > > >

Mailman admin saying "Error decoding authorization cookie"

2002-02-03 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I suddenly seem to have a problem with mailman After successfully logging in to admin one of my lists (all lists show this problem) - if I select another subsection I get thrown back to the login screen with the text Error decoding authorization c

Re: passwd segfaulting

2002-02-03 Thread Eric-Olivier Lamey
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 06:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, Hi, > I am running up to date woody on a small firewall box. I have had this > problem > for some time where passwd ALWAYS segfaults when it is called. I have > searched > archives, looked at the /etc/passwd to see if it may

syslinux.cfg

2002-02-03 Thread Wim Speekenbrink
I'm a brand new, first time Linux user and managed to delete the text in syslinux.cfg on the boot-floppy. Now I can't startup Debian anymore :-( Would someone be so kind to post the text in his/her syslinux.cfg? Speek

Re: ssh2 / X problems

2002-02-03 Thread shock
Cameron Kerr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, shock wrote: > > Does it happen with any other user account? it happens with all accounts. > Try running the server in debug mode. This will likely tell you whats > happening. this results in output on both the client and ser

Using Amanda client software, via Debian package.

2002-02-03 Thread stan
After years of recomending to people that they build amanda from source, instead of trying to us the Debian packages, I find myslef trying to do just that. So, how is this suposed to work? I'm failing like this: amandad: debug 1 pid 16259 ruid 34 euid 34 start time Sun Feb 3 13:35:48 2002 am

sysvinit; cleaning

2002-02-03 Thread Jim McCloskey
I had a problem at boot time yesterday that I had never seen before. Since the California energy-`crisis' I typically shut down at the end of the day's work. When I re-booted yesterday morning, everything went as normal until bootmisc.sh began to clean out the /tmp directory. At that point, the s

Re: OT: how to extract meta data of rpm, need to understand how alien

2002-02-03 Thread Mathias De Belder
> convert the package since I need to hack the deb package generated but > it would be nice to actually look at the rpm in more detail. rpm -qpi packagename.rpm. You may drop the -i option. You can always 'visit' the RPM archive in case using midnight commander or a similar tool...

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-02-03 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:29 AM +0100, Karsten Heymann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * Seneca Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020201 11:05]: > > > David Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a very good reason for not wanting to install GNOME or another > > >

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-02-03 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Rob Mahurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 06:20:18PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:58:06 -0800, "Karsten M. Self" > > wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > It's not for older/slower boxen though. I'd recommend *NO LESS* than a > > > PII-233, and think

Re: Spamassassin and allowing mail through

2002-02-03 Thread dman
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 09:46:05AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: | I have SpamAssassin working perfectly with Exim (thanks to dman!) but I | cannot workout how to specifically allow through an email which falls foul | of SA. I subscribe to a newsletter which SA marks as SPAM. Here are the | headers

OT: how to extract meta data of rpm, need to understand how alien

2002-02-03 Thread Walter Tautz
convert the package since I need to hack the deb package generated but it would be nice to actually look at the rpm in more detail. Anyone know how to do this? Alas rpms don't use the simple ar format. -walter

Re: XFree86 config for i810E 1280x960

2002-02-03 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Dimitri Maziuk quotation: > * Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > ... > > So, now the question: why does XFree86 4.1 (Sid) insist on using the > > vaguely flickery 60Hz mode rather than the nice 85Hz mode? > > Because it's just a dumb computer program? I guess so! I still

Re: Which FTP client?

2002-02-03 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 02:37, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Balazs Javor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Hi! > > > > I'm trying to replace my current favorite FTP client > > CuteFTP with a Linux one. > > Which is the best client out there? > > > > I'd like to be able to: > > -easyly create a que

Into Debian [was: [±¤°í] CD¹øÈ£ºÎ2002 Àü±¹ÆÇ ¾È³»]

2002-02-03 Thread Wendell Cochran
>Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:22:28 -0800 >From: " Bruce Burhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Ben, thanks. I've seriously looked into the dual-boot approach and >concluded that I'm very likely to end up with two non-working OSs. If I >had more experience or a pro like you for a neighbor, sure. But I'm >basic

Re: Duplicating installed system

2002-02-03 Thread Magnus Hacker
fine. Again lilo complains about invalid /dev/hda1 (dos partition). But it can be mounted. So, I just commented out and ran lilo. No complaints now. But while booting it just stops and says, Kernel panic: I can't find a root and I want to scream. Everything is there. Checked the /etc/fstab a

Re: mutt setup help, please

2002-02-03 Thread christophe barbé
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:40:49AM -0500, stan wrote: > Umm, I;m still doing something wrong here. > > Here is the appropriate section from ~/.mutt/muttrc: > alias hpadmin "HPUX Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > subscribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > alias du "Debian User List" > subscribe Try

Re: [±¤°í] CD¹øÈ£ºÎ =?iso-8859-1?B?MjAwMiDA /LG5xscgvsizuw==?=

2002-02-03 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:48:52AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: | dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: | > SpamAssassin does a pretty good job of tagging these so I can | > automagically dump them. | | Then I am doing something wrong. Spamassassin doesn't do anything | with them except

Re: [±¤°í] CD¹øÈ£ºÎ =?iso-8859-1?B?MjAwMiDA /LG5xscgvsizuw==?=

2002-02-03 Thread Wayne Topa
dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 03:17:37PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote: > | > | From: "Carl Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | To: > | Subject: Re: [±¤°í] CD¹øÈ£ºÎ2002 Àü±¹ÆÇ ¾È³» > | Date: Saturday, February 02, 2002 2:31 PM > | > | terry <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: The New World Order is Here !

2002-02-03 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Oleksandr Moskalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > Stig, > > Would you mind sharing your set of procmail filters? I don't mind at all. In fact, that has been the goal all the time, hence it is vigorously commented and implemented with "easy tuning" variables at the top for people that fi

Re: Woody's version on Squid and http / https proxy of AOL IM

2002-02-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since upgrading to Woody, the http proxy connection, squid, from AOL IM >fails with "unable to connect" https has never worked for me as a proxy >through Squid. The proxy setting used in AIM are the same ones that are >curre

Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs

2002-02-03 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Due to a faulty fan, one CPU overheated and brought the system down. On > > restart, fsck indicated that some filesystem corruption occured. > > > > On startup, gdm would not start.

Woody's version on Squid and http / https proxy of AOL IM

2002-02-03 Thread hanasaki
Since upgrading to Woody, the http proxy connection, squid, from AOL IM fails with "unable to connect" https has never worked for me as a proxy through Squid. The proxy setting used in AIM are the same ones that are currently working fine for Mozilla on Win and Lin and IE on Win - both for ht

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-02-03 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 06:20:18PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:58:06 -0800, "Karsten M. Self" > wrote: > > [snip] > > It's not for older/slower boxen though. I'd recommend *NO LESS* than a > > PII-233, and think you'll be happier with a PIII-600+ CPU. For memory, > > 1

Re: Woody root on RAID and 2.4.17

2002-02-03 Thread John Pochmara
George, >And then, once the RAID system is bootable, install the MBR to /dev/sdb as >well: > ># MBR's to which lilo will be installed >raid-extra-boot=/dev/sda, /dev/sdb > >Am I getting this right? I wouldn't like to trash the single-disk install >too... What I did was get everyt

Re: The New World Order is Here !

2002-02-03 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
Stig, Would you mind sharing your set of procmail filters? Regards, Alex. * Stig Brautaset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Err... No? Whatever gave you that idea? Did you not read my post? > > My spam filter caught the original spam, based on such things as sender > address, character set us

Re: The New World Order is Here !

2002-02-03 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 02 February 2002 22:26 pm, Stig Brautaset wrote: > Can you please stop reposting spam to the list? My spamfilter caught the > original spam, but there is precious little I can do about followups to > spam when (a) the subject line is changed, and (b) there is no > "References:" or "In-

Re: Problem with tasksel

2002-02-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 02:30:46AM +, Stig Brautaset wrote: > I might be wrong, but I think the problem is that tasksel "Does Not > Work(tm)(R)" with anything other than potato. I'm guessing that nobody > have 'defined' or set up the dependencies for the packages yet. I am > further guessing th

Re: Problem with tasksel

2002-02-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 05:53:54PM -0800, Kapil Khosla wrote: > I was installing woody over the network and had some problem so could > not install the base system. > After rebooting I configured the problem with the network but now how > to i resume the installation ? > > I just get the prompt an

Re: Woody root on RAID and 2.4.17

2002-02-03 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, > > /dev/md0 - /boot > /dev/md1 - swap > /dev/md2 - root > > ># Specifies the boot device. This is where Lilo installs its boot > ># block. It can be either a partition, or the raw device, in which > ># case it installs in the MBR, and will overwrite the current MBR. > >#

Re: Accelerated NVidia XWindows ? ....

2002-02-03 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 05:05, Sean wrote: > Actually NVidia doesn't use DRI ... they have their own direct hardware > interface that's bundled with the binary driver. > They're very fast, but I have found slightly unstable. Starting and stopping the Xserver on a few different VT's (say 7 and 8) an

Re: mutt setup help, please

2002-02-03 Thread stan
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 09:25:16PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 06:02:27PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > | > | I'm making progress on this mutt setup, but I have a few questiosn, if you > | have time. > | > | 1. Can you send me an example alieas entry? It looks like I will have to >

Re: [±¤°í] CD¹øÈ£ºÎ2002 Àü±¹ÆÇ ¾È³»

2002-02-03 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Bruce Burhans wrote: > broken down in November 2001, and I just ordered a Gateway the nest > day for MS Word. I do a lot of writing and couldn't even spare the time Why not get OpenOffice or StarOffice instead? It can open, edit and save to MS formats without having to dic

Re: [±¤°í] CD¹øÈ£ºÎ2002 Àü±¹ÆÇ ¾È³»

2002-02-03 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, dman wrote: > SpamAssassin does a pretty good job of tagging these so I can > automagically dump them. You should automagically dump them into a seperate folder and run them through spamcop.net. It won't slw/stop unless you're proactive about it. -- Baloo

lpd filter error: No way to print this type of input file

2002-02-03 Thread Serafim Zanikolas
Hello Debian fellows! I was fine with the lpr printing system 'till I moved to the lpr-ppd package (version 1:0.72-2). When I try to print a text file I get an email with a subject of ``Subject: error while running /var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter to print'' and the following message: -- email start -

Automagic spam prevention and reporting

2002-02-03 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Search for the very effective chinese/asian characterset procmail > filters via Google. I don't see the messages, and report them to > upstream ISPs automatically with Ricochet (a "razor" precursor). Interesting. How accurate is ricochet and how easy

Re: The New World Order is Here !

2002-02-03 Thread CaT
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 11:30:05PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote: > > > > [1] -- Nothing personal; this is an issue that have irritated me a > > > >long time, unfortunately for you I am fed up now and need to > > > >vent my frustration. > > > > > > wouldn't that be more an issue of th

Re: Latex & letter's headers...

2002-02-03 Thread Paul Huygen
"Jeremy T. Bouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tried your example [of a personal LaTeX Class to produce letters] > here but kept running into problems trying > to find the hitpos.sty file... > Jeremy Thank you for trying. And sorry that it didn't work out. I was toot quick and sent an unf

Re: problems with Quota

2002-02-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mikkel Johan Grønmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm experiencing some difficulties using quota.. >When, >[naboer:/home2/miga]# edquota -u bluee >I get, >edquota: open remount-ro permission denied >edquota: open remount-ro permission denied >. >perhaps if I list the

Re: Why do I need all these apt-howto-* files?

2002-02-03 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Davide Inglima - limaCAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > >> Remove apt-howto and the language specific versions you don't want. As I >> understand it, the apt-howto package now only contains dependancies for >> all language variants as opposed to the howto itself. Keeping (as an >> example)

Re: new Debian FAQs

2002-02-03 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Have you taken a look at wiki.debian.net ? Looks promising imho ...

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