reinstall

2002-02-04 Thread Tom Cook
Is there some way to get apt to re-download and re-install ALL packages installed on the system? I am not looking for an upgrade, but a reinstall. Should I just write some script to get a list of installed packages and xargs them to 'apt-get --reinstall install' or is there some way to specify al

Re: Equivalent of rc.local

2002-02-04 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Michael Merritt wrote: > What is the Debian equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local in RedHat (ie, where to > put user defined commands that should run at boot time?) /etc/init.d, I guess. Take a look at the "skeleton" file, so that you don't have to build the scripts from scratch. A

Device or resource busy error.

2002-02-04 Thread James Rende
Folks. I am trying to get my aging machine as far away from Windows as humanly possible. I can't, however, get Debian to recognize my NIC. When I try to run modprobe rtl8139 as root, I get an error telling me that the Device is not ready or in use. I'm running Debian 2.2r2 Kernel 2.2.17 The c

Re: OT: TV Out & DVD

2002-02-04 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 12:32, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > I'm putting together a 500Mhz-cpu machine to sit in my living room, > primarilly to play dvd's. Ideally, I'd be displaying to the television there, > however I'm not sure what to look for in a video card. > > In order to get DVD's scaled to f

Re: routing problem

2002-02-04 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > As I'm goin on the assumption you want Box C to have an option >of which network (.9/24 or .7/24) go through and as they are equal hop >count but obviously different bandwidth I would be tempt'd to suggest >possibly running zebra on the three mach

OT: TV Out & DVD

2002-02-04 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
I'm putting together a 500Mhz-cpu machine to sit in my living room, primarilly to play dvd's. Ideally, I'd be displaying to the television there, however I'm not sure what to look for in a video card. In order to get DVD's scaled to full screen, it'd be nice to have some degree of 2d accelerati

Re: printers

2002-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 21:17:17 -0500 Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have spent 30 minutes searching the Debian.org site for information on > supported printers. > > I am new to Linux and currently have Mandrake installed, but I am > thinking about changing to Debian. I have been told that th

Re: unsubscribe

2002-02-04 Thread Bruce Burhans
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Re: unsubscribe

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Re: printers

2002-02-04 Thread Henry House
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:17:17PM -0500, Fred wrote: > I am new to Linux and currently have Mandrake installed, but I am > thinking about changing to Debian. I have been told that the apt-get is > far superior to RPM. But I was looking for printer driver packages > before I make a commitment.

Testing transition

2002-02-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Please post on mailing list and use 72 char/line. On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 05:51:34PM -0800, Kapil Khosla wrote: > Hi, Thanks for your reply. I am new to Debian and want to make sure > one thing. What will happen if I add "testing" as my last line to my > sources.list file and the same package in t

Re: Equivalent of rc.local

2002-02-04 Thread Paolo Falcone
Michael Merritt wrote: >What is the Debian equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local in RedHat (ie, where to >put user defined commands that should run at boot time?) As you know, all initialization scripts are placed in the /etc/init.d directory. Symlinks to the scripts inside that directory are placed

Re: printers

2002-02-04 Thread Paolo Falcone
Fred wrote: >I have spent 30 minutes searching the Debian.org site for information on >supported printers. > >I am new to Linux and currently have Mandrake installed, but I am >thinking about changing to Debian. I have been told that the apt-get is >far superior to RPM. But I was looking for

Company Merger

2002-02-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Equivalent of rc.local

2002-02-04 Thread briand
> "Michael" == Michael Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> What is the Debian equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local in Michael> RedHat (ie, where to put user defined commands that should Michael> run at boot time?) /etc/init.d is where the actual scripts reside For each of the diff

Company Merger

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Re: Total lockups using ext3

2002-02-04 Thread Arne Goetje
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 07:53, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:20:17AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > After weeks of frustration, I've finally settled that the frequent > > lockups I've been getting when on-line with 2.4 series kernels is due to > > enabling ext3. If

Re: UrlView strangeness

2002-02-04 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 07:35:08PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I use mutt which uses urlview to present a list of url's in a message. > Lately, sometimes some of the lines in that list are blank (sometimes > they're *all* blank). If I count the url's in the message and arrow down > to the appropri

Re: xawtv video0 not found

2002-02-04 Thread Keith Willoughby
Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have v4l compiled into my kernel but when I try to run xawtv I get: > > This is xawtv-3.68, running on Linux/i586 (2.4.17) > can't open /dev/video0: No such device > v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway > v4l: open /dev/video0: No su

printers

2002-02-04 Thread Fred
I have spent 30 minutes searching the Debian.org site for information on supported printers. I am new to Linux and currently have Mandrake installed, but I am thinking about changing to Debian. I have been told that the apt-get is far superior to RPM. But I was looking for printer driver pac

Re: Multi-domain POP/IMAP server

2002-02-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya if you were to use sendmail... ( i think it'd work with exim too?? donno ) have fun mailing alvin http://www.Linux-1U.net ... 1U stuff for p4/amd toys ... for virtual domains pop/imap servers... /etc/mail/local-host-names ( sendmail.cw ) domain_1.com pop.domain_1.com

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Re: Equivalent of rc.local

2002-02-04 Thread David Z Maze
Michael Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the Debian equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local in RedHat (ie, > where to put user defined commands that should run at boot time?) You might want to look at the Debian FAQ, particularly question 10.6 ("It looks as if Debian does not use rc.local to

Re: Plotting tool for histograms etc.?

2002-02-04 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 10:06:16 -0800 (PST), Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does the debian distribution include a good and easy tool for plotting > histograms, pie charts, and other common plots in statistics? Are there > any other good statistics packages for basic 1 and 2 variable > stati

Re: SMP kernel

2002-02-04 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020205 12:33]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 04 February 2002 03:36 pm, Nick Hastings wrote: > > Hi, > > > >not sure what's available in potato but a quick check on a sid box > > reveals: > > > > % apt-cache search ke

Equivalent of rc.local

2002-02-04 Thread Michael Merritt
What is the Debian equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local in RedHat (ie, where to put user defined commands that should run at boot time?) -- Michael MerrittO2/CO2 Conversion Specialist [w] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ww

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Re: SMP kernel

2002-02-04 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 04 February 2002 03:36 pm, Nick Hastings wrote: > Hi, > >not sure what's available in potato but a quick check on a sid box > reveals: > > % apt-cache search kernel-image | grep -i smp > kernel-image-2.4.16-686-smp - Linux kernel image 2

Re: atx shutdown

2002-02-04 Thread Stephen Robertson
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Greetings: I'm running into some problems trying to get an ATX box to really shut off during a shutdown. Originally with 2.2.19 & 2.4.10, it would reboot with 'shutdown -h now' command. Odd and irritating. I built a new kernel with 2.4.17 and now I can get it

atx shutdown

2002-02-04 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greetings: I'm running into some problems trying to get an ATX box to really shut off during a shutdown. Originally with 2.2.19 & 2.4.10, it would reboot with 'shutdown -h now' command. Odd and irritating. I built a new kernel with 2.4.17 and now I can get it to actually halt and not reb

Re: lilo.conf

2002-02-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:23:56PM -0800, Kapil Khosla wrote: > Hi, > I have installed Potato on my laptop and edited my lilo.conf to have > dual boot At boot time, I have to press shift and enter windows. I > have seen some graphic selection option in some systems What is the > way to get that ?

Re: SMP kernel

2002-02-04 Thread Michael Merritt
On Monday 04 February 2002 18:36 pm, Nick Hastings wrote: > So if I wanted to install an off the shelf SMP kernel I'd do > > % sudo apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp Thanks, Nick. Just the answer I was looking for. -- Michael MerrittO2/CO2 Conversion Specialist [w

Re: SMP kernel

2002-02-04 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, not sure what's available in potato but a quick check on a sid box reveals: % apt-cache search kernel-image | grep -i smp kernel-image-2.4.16-686-smp - Linux kernel image 2.4.16 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII SMP. kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp - Linux kernel image 2.4.17 on PPro/Celeron/PII

UrlView strangeness

2002-02-04 Thread Rick Pasotto
I use mutt which uses urlview to present a list of url's in a message. Lately, sometimes some of the lines in that list are blank (sometimes they're *all* blank). If I count the url's in the message and arrow down to the appropriate blank line it fires up lynx and takes me where I want to go. Has

SMP kernel

2002-02-04 Thread Michael Merritt
I did a network install of Potato (2.2r5) on Friday, then updated to testing (3.0). The machine is an HP Vectra XU 6/200 with 128MB RAM. It has a dual-Pentium Pro motherboard, but I only had one processor in at the time of install. Today I added a second PPro200 processor to the machine, so i

lilo.conf

2002-02-04 Thread Kapil Khosla
Hi, I have installed Potato on my laptop and edited my lilo.conf to have dual boot other=/dev/hda1 label=Windows table = /dev/hda # restricted # alias=3 At boot time, I have to press shift and enter windows. I have seen some graphic selection option in some systems W

Re: Auctex/LaTeX/Emacs problem

2002-02-04 Thread Ryan Claycamp
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:08:52PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Sunday, February 3, Ryan Claycamp did write: > > > 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

Re: Interresting report by logcheck....

2002-02-04 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:47:21PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > I'd appreciate it if you'd direct me to the newer material that > supersedes the information in RFC 1033, Noah. I'll be searching myself > as well. I don't wish to remain ignorant, of course. From RFC 1912 (Common DNS Operationa

Stops at Boot

2002-02-04 Thread Jens Kubieziel
Hello, I'm using Debian Woody 3.0.17 with Kernel 2.2.19. My systems stops at boot-up for 10-20 seconds. It shows this message: , [ Meldungen beim Booten ] | ... | vfb ac97_codec aci | ... ` Is this stop normal or can I change something for faster boot? -- Best regards, Jens

Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:50:07PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I upgraded my kernel using the prepackaged 2.4.17 pentium pro ... So you upgraded kernel. > Request_module[block-major-3] Root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 ... So you can not mount root. Is root

Re: vi cmd / replacing a certain line only.. pls help!! urgent..

2002-02-04 Thread Steve Mayer
Louie, Try :50,100s/Jan 2/Jan 1/g Steve On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:08:05AM +0800, louie miranda wrote: > How to replace a certain line on vi, > > ex: > > line 1 up to line 100 > > i want to replace only line 50 to 100 > how will i do that in vi? > > i did do, > > :%s:50,100/Jan 2/Jan 1/

Re: Total lockups using ext3

2002-02-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:20:17AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > After weeks of frustration, I've finally settled that the frequent > lockups I've been getting when on-line with 2.4 series kernels is due to > enabling ext3. If I turn this off in fstab the lockups don't occur. Has > anyone e

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:46:03AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts > under X ? One of the best source of TT fonts are from M$ :-( ii msttcorefonts 0.9.9 Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts Package: msttco

Re: Problem with ping on myself

2002-02-04 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:57:47PM +0100, maniatronic wrote: > That's a little bit old , i thought, and so i compiled the 2.4.17 Kernel. > But there is no option named 'loopback device' or something similar, that I > could chose in the menuconfig! > Is it named diffrently ??? Actually there is.

Re: Problem with ping on myself

2002-02-04 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Does /etc/network/interfaces have the following two lines? auto lo iface lo inet loopback If not, add them and try: ifdown -a ifup -a Now, try ping yourself again. Check also that /etc/hosts has a line similar to: 127.0.0.1 localhost pgppSy4Z9NqmW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-04 Thread briand
Thanks very much Eric, your changes made the difference. xfontsel now works and shows the truetype fonts correctly. I would have never figured out that the link was necessary. Here's a recap to summarize the changes. This is for XFree 4.x : 1. In your XF86Config (or XF86Config-4) file :

Linux-friendliest video card mfg?

2002-02-04 Thread Kent West
Which video card brand is the friendliest to Linux? I figure to vote with my $. Kent

Re: Multi-domain POP/IMAP server

2002-02-04 Thread bibi
le 4/02/02 21:50, Michael Merritt (by way of Michael Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > I need a POP & IMAP server that support multiple (virtual) domains on a > single IP address. > > Suggestions? courier-pop + courier-imap works like a charme Ghislain.

Re: Multi-domain POP/IMAP server

2002-02-04 Thread Emile van Bergen
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Michael Merritt wrote: > I need a POP & IMAP server that support multiple (virtual) domains on a > single IP address. > > Suggestions? I dealt with this using qmail and used a home-grown checkpasswd script for its POP3 server. That script accepted a full [EMAIL PROTECTED] as t

Re: Auctex/LaTeX/Emacs problem

2002-02-04 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, February 3, Ryan Claycamp did write: > 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 fl

Re: dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support !

2002-02-04 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 04 February 2002 11:30 am, Andreas Reislöhner wrote: > Hello, > > anybody know the problem and would like to help me ? > > > Server:/# apt-get install mc > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra

Problem with ping on myself

2002-02-04 Thread maniatronic
Hi. Debian is new to me. Í have got the 2.2r3 potato version with the 2.2.19pre17 Kernel. That's a little bit old , i thought, and so i compiled the 2.4.17 Kernel. Now I've got a problem with sending a ping on my self. What I've done: First: I've insmod the modul for my network-card. (bash~>

Re: StarOffice Fireballs on HP Omnibook XE3L

2002-02-04 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 03:59:14PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > Hi everybody > > I'm trying to get StarOffice 5.2 to run on my dad's HP Omnibook XE3L > notebook. > > It seems to load sort of ok, but X grinds to a slow painful crawl (like > big delays on just moving the mouse) and black lines a

Re: smtp error during fetchmail

2002-02-04 Thread p
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:19:50PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:37:14PM +, p wrote: > > debs, > > > > when i fetchmail, i get an smtp error: > > > > fetchmail: smtp connect to localhost failed > > fetchmail: smtp transaction error while fetching from pcisys.net

User mailing list manager

2002-02-04 Thread stan
I'm building a Woody machine for my wife. This weekend I worked through exom fetchmail SapmBouncer and mutt setup, and I'm almost ready to turn her loose on t. However it has dawned on me that someone might have a "user mailing list mager" script or something. here is what I'm lloking for. Foreev

Re: Many apologies for auto-reply spam

2002-02-04 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 04 February 2002 9:51 am, Stephenson, Paul wrote: > > I don't usually bother turning on auto-replies (partly due to concern over > the possible effect on mailing lists) but my colleagues turned it on for me > when my wife had a baby and I sud

Error on Gnome startup

2002-02-04 Thread Chris Tillman
I have an error box coming up when I launch gnome. It says 'The applications menu could not be loaded. Look at the condole output for a detailed description of the errors.' But, what console is it referring to? I looked at the console from which I launched startx, nothing there. Would it be displa

RE: Multi-domain POP/IMAP server

2002-02-04 Thread Matt Andreko
Qmail with vchkpw Apt-get install qmail-src ucspi-tcp-src vchkpw Build-qmail Build ucspi-tcp That's what I like -Original Message- From: Michael Merritt (by way of Michael Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 3:51 PM To: debian-isp@list

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Multi-domain POP/IMAP server

2002-02-04 Thread Michael Merritt
I need a POP & IMAP server that support multiple (virtual) domains on a single IP address. Suggestions? -- Michael MerrittO2/CO2 Conversion Specialist [w] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.miklm.com | (931) 205-1392

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-04 Thread Scooter
Here's what I did. Turned on antialiasing in KDE Panel, apt-get install xfs, apt-get install xfstt, apt-get install msttcorefonts (this is a debian package for obtaining truetype fonts from Microsoft (they are free fonts). After all this apt-getting, reboot the machine, and you should have tr

Re: vi cmd / replacing a certain line only.. pls help!! urgent..

2002-02-04 Thread louie miranda
ah, its ok i've done it.. thnx :) louie miranda (axis0.ath.cx) -- Security Is A Series Of Well-Defined Steps chmod -R 0 / ; and smile :) - Original Message - From: "louie miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 20

dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support !

2002-02-04 Thread Andreas Reislöhner
Hello, anybody know the problem and would like to help me ? Server:/# apt-get install mc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: e2fsprogs libc6 libdb2 libgdbmg1 libglib1.2 libgpmg1 libncurses5 mc-common perl perl-base

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-04 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:46:03AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts > under X ? > > Here's what I did, maybe someone can point out the error in my ways. > > Add > >Load "xtt" > > to XF86Config Change this to Load "free

Re: ATI Radeon video card

2002-02-04 Thread Scooter
Provided you have turned on all of the appropriate things in kernel like DRI, etc. (and make sure the radeon is a module), then you need to view your XFree86 log file. If DRI is not being loaded (and that's your only problem), then my solution was to remove my Robotics modem PCI card and SB Li

Re: [Re: kernel upgrade problem]

2002-02-04 Thread Deva Seetharam
actually, i did enable realtime clock support while configuring the kernel. what is surprising is, the 2.2.19 kernel is running in SMP mode. cheers deva Deva Seetharam posts : > .. TIME: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0 > > and the machine hangs after this message. what is going on? Is this not an RTC

Re: mail -v my@my.com < in.tar.gz -- HELP

2002-02-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:27:33AM +0800, louie miranda wrote: > hi for ex: i have this file in.tar.gz format, i want to insert it when > sending email thru: > > mail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] < in.tar.gz > > -- when i rcv this email, it reads binary format and attached in the msg > body.. > uhm, how

Re: smtp error during fetchmail

2002-02-04 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:37:14PM +, p wrote: > debs, > > when i fetchmail, i get an smtp error: > > fetchmail: smtp connect to localhost failed > fetchmail: smtp transaction error while fetching from pcisys.net > fetchmail: query status=10 (smtp) > > suggestions? > > thx. > > b. Check t

vi cmd / replacing a certain line only.. pls help!! urgent..

2002-02-04 Thread louie miranda
How to replace a certain line on vi, ex: line 1 up to line 100 i want to replace only line 50 to 100 how will i do that in vi? i did do, :%s:50,100/Jan 2/Jan 1/g it does not work :( pls help.. louie miranda (axis0.ath.cx) -- Security Is A Se

Re: DHCP client and server scripts - merging results

2002-02-04 Thread Henry House
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:31:10PM -0800, John Mautz wrote: [...] > What would like is to take the DNS addresses retrieved by dhclient and > stick them in the dhcpd.conf, then have dhcpd restarted to apply the > changes. This way when either ISP changes any server info on me all the > changes a

Re: routing problem

2002-02-04 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Obviously the issue resolves around the default gateway setup on the machines... Box A should obviously have the ultimate default gateway as it has the internet access directly... Box B should go to Box A if it isn't destined for either network 192.168.9/24 or 192.168.7/24 which would go ou

true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-04 Thread briand
Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts under X ? Here's what I did, maybe someone can point out the error in my ways. Add Load "xtt" to XF86Config I also added /usr/share/fonts/truetype to the font path. run ttfmkfdir -o fonts.dir in my /usr/share/fonts/tr

smtp error during fetchmail

2002-02-04 Thread p
debs, when i fetchmail, i get an smtp error: fetchmail: smtp connect to localhost failed fetchmail: smtp transaction error while fetching from pcisys.net fetchmail: query status=10 (smtp) suggestions? thx. b. //

Re: Mounting novell volumes on linux

2002-02-04 Thread Andre Berger
* Pontus Ullgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-02-04 10:42 -0500: > I'm stuck in a Novell/NT environment and want to mount Novell volumes on > my linux machine. > > I'm running: > Debian 3.0 with 2.2.17 kernel. > kernel modules ipx and ncpfs loaded. > ncpfs version 2.2.0.18 > > The servers runs: > No

Re: simple questions

2002-02-04 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2002.02.02 19:08, Alexey a écrit : > > > /dev/null 2>&1 > > man bash and see about redirection. :) > It's me again. OK... $ /mount -a mount: /dev/hdc3 already mounted or /mnt/deb busy MSDOS FS: Using codepage 866 MSDOS FS: IO charset koi8-r $ /mount -a > /dev/null $ mount -a > /dev/nul

routing problem

2002-02-04 Thread Casper Gielen
lets start with network topology: /\/\/\/\/\ < internet > \/\/\/\/\/ | | - | box A | - | 192

Re: USB Keyboard

2002-02-04 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:12:55AM -0800, Anton Graham wrote: [...] > We commented the line in /etc/modules because we don't want it > autoloading yet (usb-uhci could be the wrong driver). Now comes the fun > part: /sbin/modprobe usb-interface [...] On some machines ``cat /proc/pci'' will tell yo

Re: mail -v my@my.com < in.tar.gz -- HELP

2002-02-04 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, louie miranda wrote: >hi for ex: i have this file in.tar.gz format, i want to insert it when >sending email thru: > >mail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] < in.tar.gz > >-- when i rcv this email, it reads binary format and attached in the msg >body.. >uhm, how can i make it as an attacheme

RE: Ayuda!

2002-02-04 Thread Harris, Jason
Você ocupar-se-ia de se eu falasse no espanhol em vez de Portugues? Eu não conheço Portugues. É a pergunta como eu instalo o pppoe? -Original Message- From: Nemesis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 6:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sub

Re: USB Keyboard

2002-02-04 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 04-Feb-02 by Bruce Burhans: > I'm encouraged, Anton. The modules will be on the 2.2r5 CDs? I can > live with a fast repeat-rate for awhile, but not without a KB! Do I need > to write anything into... > ... / LILO config? Nothing, works out of the box if your BIOS supports a USB ke

Plotting tool for histograms etc.?

2002-02-04 Thread Lars Jensen
Does the debian distribution include a good and easy tool for plotting histograms, pie charts, and other common plots in statistics? Are there any other good statistics packages for basic 1 and 2 variable statistics? Thanks, Lars. %

Re: Directory becomes sticky socket?

2002-02-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:44:10AM -0600, Chad C. Walstrom wrote: > [Note: Please include me in the Cc: of your reply, for expediency's sake.] > > I'm not sure how this came about, but I cannot remove the directory > /usr/share/doc/libldap2. > > [09:36:47] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505)$ ls -lad

Problem with Seagate ATA Tape drive

2002-02-04 Thread Mike Alborn
I have a Seagate STT8000A IDE tape drive which up until a couple of days ago, was working perfectly. That was under kernel 2.4.9-686. Over the weekend, I upgraded to 2.4.17-686, and now I get 'Device or resource busy' whenever I try to access the tape. lsof and fuser do not report the devic

mail -v my@my.com < in.tar.gz -- HELP

2002-02-04 Thread louie miranda
hi for ex: i have this file in.tar.gz format, i want to insert it when sending email thru: mail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] < in.tar.gz -- when i rcv this email, it reads binary format and attached in the msg body.. uhm, how can i make it as an attachement? pls help ty. louie miranda (axi

sftp no login

2002-02-04 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am trying to login to a machine using sftp. I can ssh without any problem. The FAQ mentions trying with sftp host /usr/bin/true and seeing if there is any output. When I try I get "Unknown command" which makes since because there is no file called true. What can I do to fix this problem? debu

Re: Installing Woody from CD

2002-02-04 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi Dimitri Do you mean you installed Potato then upgraded to Woody from the Woody CD's or from the Internet. I have Potato 2.2r3 CDs so that would be an OK way for me to go (actually I have got Potato installed on my laptop just to re familarize myself with Debian as we have all been using SuSE fo

Re: Woody root on RAID and 2.4.17

2002-02-04 Thread George Karaolides
Hi John, You came up trumps. Your pointers got me running woody with root on software RAID. Thanks! STOP PRESS: I've now got woody with root fs on LVM on software RAID-1. The ultimate server weapon... Watch this space. I'd like to write all this up in an informal HOWTO which I'll put up on

Re: OFFtopic: printing in vmware

2002-02-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:52:24AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > I am running win2k within vmware and was wondering how > to access the printing system on the localhost? Does > it have something to do with configuring the samba server > vmware runs? Yep. Basically you need to: 1) Make sure that pr

OFFtopic: printing in vmware

2002-02-04 Thread Walter Tautz
I am running win2k within vmware and was wondering how to access the printing system on the localhost? Does it have something to do with configuring the samba server vmware runs? -walter

Re: [linux-lvm] Directory becomes sticky socket?

2002-02-04 Thread William Blunn
> I'm not sure how this came about, but I cannot remove the directory > /usr/share/doc/libldap2. > > [09:36:47] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505)$ ls -lad libldap2 > s-w--w---T 16806 236536206 1076048101 1084824775 Oct 1 2004 libldap2= > [09:36:52] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (506)$ file libldap2 >

Re: Installing Woody from CD

2002-02-04 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Patrick Colbeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi > > Whats the current status of the Woody CDs. I have downloaded all 8 dated > the last week in January, if I actually blow CDs of these will I > actually be able to do a clean install of Woody. I just wanted to cjeck > before I wasted 8 CDR

Weekend update issues

2002-02-04 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings. I have my system (woody) set to do an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade twice a week at 3 am. This morning, when I arrived, things were odd: - The pre-existing link /usr/share/texmf/web2c -> /var/lib/texmf/web2c was gone, rendering latex inoperative without recreating it by hand; and -

Re: Which FTP client?

2002-02-04 Thread Thomas Halahan
I really like ncftp. It's got queueing batch jobs (ncftpbatch), you can list remote directories (ncftpls), it remembers the directories you were in etc.. It's great. Tom On Saturday 02 February 2002 09:37, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to replace my current favorite FTP client > C

Re: LAN setup

2002-02-04 Thread Thomas Halahan
Look at dnsmasq package (thekelleys.org.uk I think - or just google find). Its simple and easy and much better than bind for small LANS. Excellent! On Thursday 31 January 2002 20:11, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > I've got my LAN set up and running, and so far so good. > I'm using a gat

Re: Total lockups using ext3

2002-02-04 Thread Andrew Agno
Romain Lerallut writes: > Thanks also to Andrew and caphuso on #debian for how to remove the > journal (I'll read some more man tune2fs :) Actually, the tune2fs thing just removes the flag that says it has a journal. If you have a .journal file or files lying around and want to get rid of them,

Directory becomes sticky socket?

2002-02-04 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
[Note: Please include me in the Cc: of your reply, for expediency's sake.] I'm not sure how this came about, but I cannot remove the directory /usr/share/doc/libldap2. [09:36:47] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505)$ ls -lad libldap2 s-w--w---T 16806 236536206 1076048101 1084824775 Oct 1 2004 l

Re: How to enable EXT3 FS on 2.4

2002-02-04 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 15:55:28 +0100, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > You can't put comma separated lists of types in fstab. > > You can, but you should not. Why? -- Eric G. Miller

diald problem

2002-02-04 Thread David Gardi
Hello, I have diald 0.99.1-1 and I think I have set things up properly put it is still not working. I have replaces the contents of /etc/diald/connect with "pppd call name" which is what I use to bring up my ppp link. I have set things up for modem use, and dynamic IP. When I start diald from /etc

Re: Ajuda!

2002-02-04 Thread Nemesis
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:26:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tipo queria instalar o debian aqui,achu ele show,mais não tenhu idéia de como > instalar o adsl nele pelo "PPP adaptador PPPoE-Speedy BR_SPOPE_SB1_NR1"tipo > será que poderiam me enviar o comando para eu configurar o adsl pelo p

Re: ATI Radion video card

2002-02-04 Thread John Covici
I got it working, but it apparently doesn't provide accelleration, so I am going to try to generate the kernel module and see if that makes it work better. I used driver=radeon in the device section for the card. On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone gotten XFree86 up

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