"403 Forbidden" when trying to config CUPS via http on a remote system

2002-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi. On 2 machines in our LAN, both running up-to-date woody, I am trying to configure CUPS on box2 from a web browser on box1. It doesn't even ask for username & password; it just displays the page: Forbidden You don't have permission to access the resource on this server. What am I doing wr

digital camera reccomendations for debian

2002-02-15 Thread nate
after my recent bout with printers...i feel the need to ask the list what is a good COMPADIBLE digital camera for debian(potato or testing, but not unstable). from the looks of it, gphoto is a popular program, and supports a bunch of cameras,im lookin for something under $500.. something

Re: GTK Themes not working

2002-02-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
That was it. I just installed the pixmap package, and now everything is working fine. Thanks. :) -Alex On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 17:44, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > On 15 Feb 2002 17:28:22 -0600 > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm having a bit of a problem with GTK themes. When

Re: Off Topic?: File format "AppleSingle"

2002-02-15 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:11:07PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote (1.00): > > I've bogged down on trying to convert a graphics file with a .tif > > extension. All the usual graphics viewers say this is not a .tiff file. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ file PigBladAnotZ.tif PigBladAnotZ.tif: AppleSingle > > enc

Re: Off Topic?: File format "AppleSingle"

2002-02-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:32:51AM +1000, Alan Davis wrote: > I've bogged down on trying to convert a graphics file with a .tif > extension. All the usual graphics viewers say this is not a .tiff file. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ file PigBladAnotZ.tif PigBladAnotZ.tif: AppleSingle > encoded Macintosh f

Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

2002-02-15 Thread Grégory Karékinian
Hi, I just installed a 2.4 kernel image on my woody box (binutils asked to upgrade the kernel due to linking failure...), Everything went fine until the beginning of the boot process (lilo well configured, of course). I get the following error : RAMDISK: Loading 3204 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk

erc

2002-02-15 Thread David Csercsics
I've got a question. I was looking for a decent irc client for the console and I have found 2 or 3 that I like. I ran across a thing called erc which is supposed to be an erc client for emacs. Never got ti to work though so I have no idea how good it is but it looked like it might be kind of neat.

Re: does this LKM exist?

2002-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:42:36PM -0500, Patrick Boe wrote: > hi all, > > I'm about to develop a loadable kernel module, but first I want to make > sure it doesn't already exist. Anyone know of something that already does > this? > > I want an LKM that will use kernel timers to periodically run

Re: Off Topic?: File format "AppleSingle"

2002-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:32:51AM +1000, Alan Davis wrote: > I've bogged down on trying to convert a graphics file with a .tif > extension. All the usual graphics viewers say this is not a .tiff > file. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ file PigBladAnotZ.tif PigBladAnotZ.tif: > AppleSingle encoded Macintosh

RE: X Help

2002-02-15 Thread Mike
I'd like to report that the problem is resolved and thank all those who replied directly to me and to the group. The problem was gpm, and the solution was "apt-get remove gpm". I'm currently playing with window managers to see which one I prefer. Mike -Original Message- From: Eric G.

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:26:29PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Mark Ferlatte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 08:05:19AM +0800, csj wrote (0.28): > > > Anybody has the formula for using the power button to shut down the > > > machine? > > > > I got this to work us

does this LKM exist?

2002-02-15 Thread Patrick Boe
hi all, I'm about to develop a loadable kernel module, but first I want to make sure it doesn't already exist. Anyone know of something that already does this? I want an LKM that will use kernel timers to periodically run a function within the kernel. The user specifies the function to the modu

Re: X Help

2002-02-15 Thread ben
On Friday 15 February 2002 07:21 pm, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 04:39:44PM -0500, Mike wrote: > > I'm part way there already. I tried the command "dpkg-reconfigure > > xserver-xfree86" from another message that just came in. I changed a > > setting for framebuffer ( or someth

cdrecord can't find scsi modules

2002-02-15 Thread James Hughes
Hi: cdrecord is not functioning. cdrecord -scanbus (as root) says the following: cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root cdrecord output via gcombust says (as root): /usr/bin/cdrecord: Bad file

Re: Mouse Jumps Sometimes

2002-02-15 Thread ben
On Friday 15 February 2002 07:16 pm, David Frey wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 06:38:46PM -0800, ben wrote: > > this has worked for some people. in gpm.conf, set the repeat type to raw, > > and use /dev/gpmdata as the pointer device in your x config, and run gpm. > > if it doesn't work, let me kn

Re: Mouse Jumps Sometimes

2002-02-15 Thread ben
On Friday 15 February 2002 07:16 pm, David Frey wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 06:38:46PM -0800, ben wrote: > > this has worked for some people. in gpm.conf, set the repeat type to raw, > > and use /dev/gpmdata as the pointer device in your x config, and run gpm. > > if it doesn't work, let me kn

hardware question

2002-02-15 Thread Richard
I am going to be putting together a new computer in the next couple of weeks. When i do i want to install debian on it. I am looking at a kr7a abit motherboard with the KT266A chipset. I was wondering if anyone has heard anything about running linux on this motherboard. Anything will be appreciate

Re: X Help

2002-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 04:39:44PM -0500, Mike wrote: > I'm part way there already. I tried the command "dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86" from another message that just came in. I changed a > setting for framebuffer ( or something like that) to off. Now I get a > desktop, but there are two is

Re: Mouse Jumps Sometimes

2002-02-15 Thread David Frey
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 06:38:46PM -0800, ben wrote: > this has worked for some people. in gpm.conf, set the repeat type to raw, and > use /dev/gpmdata as the pointer device in your x config, and run gpm. if it > doesn't work, let me know and i can scratch your particular setup off the > list of

Re: Mouse Jumps Sometimes

2002-02-15 Thread ben
On Friday 15 February 2002 06:14 pm, David Frey wrote: > ---UPDATE--- > > I killed gpm, but it didn't help. DMA is on, but I doubt that has > anything to do with the problem. It's a USB mouse with a ps/2 adaptor. > I might try straight up USB... > this has worked for some people. in gpm.conf, se

Re: New to Debian and Linux

2002-02-15 Thread ben
On Friday 15 February 2002 10:43 am, Jason Majors wrote: > > I am very new to Linux and Debian. What would be the first move in > > trying to learn Debian? > > I recently brought the "Learning The Bash Shell"? > > Read the docs at debian.org, install a system (the people on this list can > help),

Re: Mouse Jumps Sometimes

2002-02-15 Thread David Frey
---UPDATE--- I killed gpm, but it didn't help. DMA is on, but I doubt that has anything to do with the problem. It's a USB mouse with a ps/2 adaptor. I might try straight up USB... -David Frey

Re: nfs is slow

2002-02-15 Thread Andreas Leitner
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 00:13, Cameron Kerr wrote: > On 15 Feb 2002, Andreas Leitner wrote: > > > > >I am running a box with debian testing and one with woody. The testing > >acts as a nfs server and unstable as client. They are connected via a > >10MB hub - no real traffic, it's my home network. Wh

Re: Mouse Jumps Sometimes

2002-02-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya just seen this thread... if you have an ide disk... and yur mouse is going bonkers.. makingit hard to click on stuff or select text... check your DMA setting on your ide disks hdparm -iv /dev/hda - check that dma is turned on if its off ( dma = 0 ), than run hdp

Re: pcmcia

2002-02-15 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Michael Epting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Well, I'm running an older 2.4 kernel on my ancient Toshiba laptop and I | needed to change /etc/default/pcmcia from yenta_socket to i82365. | Everything is back to fine now. Curiously, this seems to have fixed the problem for me, too, even

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Mark Ferlatte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 08:05:19AM +0800, csj wrote (0.28): > > Anybody has the formula for using the power button to shut down the > > machine? > > I got this to work using the ACPI driver in 2.4, and acpid (Debian > package). acpid worked out

Re: Mouse Jumps Sometimes

2002-02-15 Thread Brian Clark
* David Frey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Feb 15. 2002 19:48]: > Yeah, I was running gpm. I'm going to kill it right now and fire up UT > for some "testing" ;-) Not trying to be a party pooper , but I'm not running gpm and I still get it. I hope yours turns out better than mine. -- Brian Clark | Debian

Re: Mouse Jumps Sometimes

2002-02-15 Thread David Frey
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:21:45PM -0500, David Roundy wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 03:29:15PM -0800, David Frey wrote: > > My mouse (a logitech optical wheel mouse) has one problem. Every once > > in a while, the cursor will "go crazy" and shoot into one of the corners > > of the screen. It

Off Topic?: File format "AppleSingle"

2002-02-15 Thread Alan Davis
I've bogged down on trying to convert a graphics file with a .tif extension. All the usual graphics viewers say this is not a .tiff file. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ file PigBladAnotZ.tif PigBladAnotZ.tif: AppleSingle encoded Macintosh file I have tried several approaches, but none have gotten

Re: Gnome problem

2002-02-15 Thread ben
On Friday 15 February 2002 06:13 am, Kapil Khosla wrote: > Hi, > I recently swithced to gnome as my desktop from icewm and I am having a > problem that my title bar is missing in all my > applications..netscape,xterm, etc I am thus not able to move any window and > the only way to close them is Fil

Re: spamassassin. CAREFUL ON UPGRADE

2002-02-15 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:15:08PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > * Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Feb 15. 2002 18:59]: > > > > [Hey Cam, you're not wrapping at 72, AFAICS. ] > > > I'm using emacs, which is supposed to be wrapping at 70. At least, it > > tries to assure me of this every time I f

Re: Mouse Jumps Sometimes

2002-02-15 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 03:29:15PM -0800, David Frey wrote: > My mouse (a logitech optical wheel mouse) has one problem. Every once > in a while, the cursor will "go crazy" and shoot into one of the corners > of the screen. It returns to normal after a few seconds. This is > *REALLY* annoying wh

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-15 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 08:05:19AM +0800, csj wrote (0.28): > Anybody has the formula for using the power button to shut down the > machine? I got this to work using the ACPI driver in 2.4, and acpid (Debian package). acpid worked out of the box, once I got the apropriate acpi kernel drivers load

Re: spamassassin. CAREFUL ON UPGRADE

2002-02-15 Thread Brian Clark
* Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Feb 15. 2002 18:59]: > > [Hey Cam, you're not wrapping at 72, AFAICS. ] > I'm using emacs, which is supposed to be wrapping at 70. At least, it tries > to assure me of this every time I fire it up. :-P Surely I'm not the only one seeing the above as a single

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-15 Thread csj
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 04:56:33AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:49:34AM +0100, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote: > > Le 2002.02.15 02:29, Bob Thibodeau a ?crit : > > >It's more secure than suid, but anyone with physical access to the > > >machine can stop it. > > > > Anyway, so

Re: spamassassin. CAREFUL ON UPGRADE

2002-02-15 Thread Cam Ellison
* Brian Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Feb 15. 2002 13:43]: > > > * Brian Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Hey, that's nifty. I adjusted some of my scoring and I only get one > > > or two that find their way through, but I'll surely zip those off to

Re: Mouse Jumps Sometimes

2002-02-15 Thread Brian Clark
* David Frey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Feb 15. 2002 18:30]: > My mouse (a logitech optical wheel mouse) has one problem. Every once > in a while, the cursor will "go crazy" and shoot into one of the > corners of the screen. It returns to normal after a few seconds. This > is *REALLY* annoying when I'm

Re: pcmcia

2002-02-15 Thread Michael Epting
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:18:40PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:26:36AM -0800, Vaughan, Curtis wrote: > > Here's what I get: > > Starting PCMCIA services: modulesinsmod: a module named pcmcia_core already > > exists > > insmod:/lib/modules/2.2.17/pcmcia/yenta_socket.

Re: GTK Themes not working

2002-02-15 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On 15 Feb 2002 17:28:22 -0600 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a bit of a problem with GTK themes. When I install a theme > from a Debian package, everything works fine and the theme shows up > fine. However, if I download a theme and try to install it manually > (i.e. get a

Mouse Jumps Sometimes

2002-02-15 Thread David Frey
My mouse (a logitech optical wheel mouse) has one problem. Every once in a while, the cursor will "go crazy" and shoot into one of the corners of the screen. It returns to normal after a few seconds. This is *REALLY* annoying when I'm playing Unreal Tournament because all of a sudden I'm staring

GTK Themes not working

2002-02-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'm having a bit of a problem with GTK themes. When I install a theme from a Debian package, everything works fine and the theme shows up fine. However, if I download a theme and try to install it manually (i.e. get a theme off of themes.org for example) only the colors get applied. The widgets all

Debian proxying using http/ftp, and writing to CD

2002-02-15 Thread Cameron Kerr
Hello, I'd maintain numerous Debian machines now (just set up a lab). I'd like to be able to install a `stable' machine, and then upgrade to woody, without using the network (I'd like to get the updates from a home, to save money at work (internet access costs $$$). So my problem can be split into

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-15 Thread Patrick Kirk
> >As an alternative to buying Partition Magic, try Bootit NG. You can make >the floppy disk, boot from it, cancel it's Setup, and then use the >partitioning tools. It can resize NTFS. > >http://www.bootitng.com > >Tom > superb - it works perfectly. thanks for the tip - my search of Google for a

Re: RAID

2002-02-15 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: >mdadd is the old stuff > - and requires raid0145 patches to 2.2.x and 2.0.x kernels > >raidhotadd/raidstart is the current raid tools > and does NOT require any patches for 2.4.x kernels > unless you start to play with ata-133 stuff Aha, it

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-15 Thread Michel Loos
Em Sex, 2002-02-15 às 20:54, Gerard Robin escreveu: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 02:54:47PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:45:59PM +0100, Johannes Franken wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > ... > > > and so I must install linux with

Re: nfs is slow

2002-02-15 Thread Cameron Kerr
On 15 Feb 2002, Andreas Leitner wrote: > >I am running a box with debian testing and one with woody. The testing >acts as a nfs server and unstable as client. They are connected via a >10MB hub - no real traffic, it's my home network. When I try to copy a >file from a local dir to a nfs dir on the

Re: Fetchmail and Netscape

2002-02-15 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 01:21:32AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote (0.32): > there is some fairly interesting perl module, don't remember the name > but I guess you can find it on cpan.org The module you are talking about is Mail::Audit, I think. M pgpNX7onFoEsk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: spamassassin. CAREFUL ON UPGRADE

2002-02-15 Thread Brian Clark
* Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Feb 15. 2002 13:43]: > * Brian Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hey, that's nifty. I adjusted some of my scoring and I only get one > > or two that find their way through, but I'll surely zip those off to > > that address. [Hey Cam, you're not wrapping at 7

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:54:56PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > I downloaded the 6 diskets 1.44 driver1 2 > and all worked fine until I get Next: install base system. > I put driver1-bin in the floppy but I got this anser: > > wrong disk you need disk1 of series the base series. > Where

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-15 Thread Gerard Robin
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 02:54:47PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:45:59PM +0100, Johannes Franken wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: ... > > and so I must install linux with diskets 1.44, but I have two > > questions: is it possible to

RE: X Help

2002-02-15 Thread Mike
I'm part way there already. I tried the command "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" from another message that just came in. I changed a setting for framebuffer ( or something like that) to off. Now I get a desktop, but there are two issues: 1) The mouse is VERRY jumpy, to the point of being imp

Re: Installer with Kernel 2.4?

2002-02-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Hanno! Hanno Boeck schrieb am Friday, den 15. February 2002: > Is there a debian installer CD for SID available that uses the Kernel 2.4 for > installation?? http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf2.4/ Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- C: Ich möchte nicht länger "Junge" genannt werden. Ich finde den A

Re: Installer with Kernel 2.4?

2002-02-15 Thread jeff
On Friday 15 February 2002 04:54 pm, Hanno Boeck wrote: > Is there a debian installer CD for SID available that > uses the Kernel 2.4 for installation?? I need this, > because I want to install over network/Internet and the > 2.2 Kernel does not support my network-card. > > cu, > > Hanno i dont' k

Re: CUPS

2002-02-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > I did that, though I think I still need to do something else. Instructions I had seen elsewhere said "http://localhost:631";. The FM says "http://localhost:631/admin";, which made a considerable difference. Strange. I can't think of any rea

Re: Gnome and Testing

2002-02-15 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:52:37AM +, Richard Sweeney wrote: > I am at a loss as how to install Gnome from the testing distribution. At > first I installed the x-window-system and gnome from stable by issuing > > apt-get install task-x-window-system-core task-x-window-system > task-gnome-des

X Help

2002-02-15 Thread Mike
Hi, I was running Debian stable OK, but wanted a newer version of a particular package and upgraded to testing. This seemed to go OK, until I rebooted the PC and many things, like X, man, and Ethernet were gone. I tried a fresh install of testing, and most things are working, except X. It appear

Re: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:56:19PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > | Ok, now bitchx depends on xutils, who in turn suggests xfree86-common, > > | who in turn depends on libaxw and so on (THIS BOX HAS

Installer with Kernel 2.4?

2002-02-15 Thread Hanno Boeck
Is there a debian installer CD for SID available that uses the Kernel 2.4 for installation?? I need this, because I want to install over network/Internet and the 2.2 Kernel does not support my network-card. cu, Hanno

nfs is slow

2002-02-15 Thread Andreas Leitner
I am running a box with debian testing and one with woody. The testing acts as a nfs server and unstable as client. They are connected via a 10MB hub - no real traffic, it's my home network. When I try to copy a file from a local dir to a nfs dir on the unstable box it is rely slow. midnight co

Not Debian related.

2002-02-15 Thread infotechsys
Hi, I'm trying to send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], but none these e-mails get thru. Can someone tell me if this an avtive group, if so how to get e-mail to them. Late. Wayne

Re: shmem information

2002-02-15 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2002 20:02 schrieb Patrick Boe: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get some system data, and I'm wondering if there's a tool > (system call, something) I can use to get it, or if I'll have to code the > data collection into the kernel myself. I want to gather periodic > snapshots

Re: Need Help with dpkg Error

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
> You said in your earlier message that you upgraded another machine > with the same version, right? > Was it the same file, or did each machine download its own copy? > If different files, do they match? Trying new package files doesn't change anything. Somewhere in it's caching, dpkg remembers th

Looking for lftp tutorial

2002-02-15 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, I'm looking for some good material to help me understand how to use lftp to it's full power. I've tried searching trough Google but haven't found anything :( I'm using Linux only since a couple of months, and currently I'm still using CuteFTP on Window$ because it seems to be the easiest way

Re: CUPS

2002-02-15 Thread Cam Ellison
* DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > You may also want to check the obvious... make sure cupsd is running. > :-) I _did_ think of that first. It is. Cam -- Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych. From Roberts Creek on B.C.'s incomparable Sunshine Coast [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't turn off lprng header page

2002-02-15 Thread Jim McCloskey
Curtis Dean Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> I just tried going over to lprng, and now I get a banner page with |> each job. I have "sh" in /etc/printcap. Any ideas? The command-line option -h to lpr is supposed to turn off printing of the banner page. I'm sure you knew this. But in the co

Re: pcmcia

2002-02-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:26:36AM -0800, Vaughan, Curtis wrote: > Try > /etc/init.d/pcmcia start > > Here's what I get: > Starting PCMCIA services: modulesinsmod: a module named pcmcia_core already > exists > insmod:/lib/modules/2.2.17/pcmcia/yenta_socket.o: No such file or directory

Re: PCMCIA

2002-02-15 Thread Norman Walsh
/ "Vaughan, Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Here's what I get: | Starting PCMCIA services: modulesinsmod: a module named pcmcia_core already | exists | insmod:/lib/modules/2.2.17/pcmcia/yenta_socket.o: No such file or directory | ds: no socket drivers loaded! | /lib/modules/2.2.17/

Re: mozilla-browser 0.9.8-1 help

2002-02-15 Thread Craig Dickson
begin csj quotation: > Why bother, when galeon can run mozilla much better AOL can. I used galeon for a while last year. The upgrade cycle got to be too annoying, though -- every time a new mozilla package came out, it wanted to uninstall galeon, and I'd have to mark it "hold" until a new galeo

Re: CUPS

2002-02-15 Thread Cam Ellison
* Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > What am I doing wrong, or not doing, please? > > You're not doing the following: RTFM and edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. > I did that, though I think I still need to do something else. Instructions I

Re: CUPS

2002-02-15 Thread DvB
Cam Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I'm trying to do a first time cups install for my HP parallel printer. > > > The "cupsomatic-ppd" package in sid claims to have the cupsomatic script > > > to

Re: NVIDIA driver

2002-02-15 Thread Caleb Shay
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 08:17, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > I already updated to Woody, but you were right Caleb. X was still > 3.2.something. For what reason ever, this package wasn't updated with the > distribution upgrade. > > Thanks people for your help! > > Btw, is this "kernel tainted

Re: shmem information

2002-02-15 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Patrick! On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Patrick Boe wrote: > I'm trying to get some system data, and I'm wondering if there's a tool > (system call, something) I can use to get it, or if I'll have to code the > data collection into the kernel myself. I want to gather periodic > snapshots of shared memo

Re: Linux and Win2k Servers

2002-02-15 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi R! On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, R R Potratz wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm teaching in a mission school in Niger and I've inherited an LAN of 12 of > win98/win2k machines, in a network with a win2k server taking the DNS, > DHCP and log on chores and some file serving. To this mix I would like to > a

Re: Need Help with dpkg Error

2002-02-15 Thread Bob Thibodeau
You said in your earlier message that you upgraded another machine with the same version, right? Was it the same file, or did each machine download its own copy? If different files, do they match? If not, try sneaker net. If those ideas don't work, you can try rebuilding by hand just to ge

Re: Linux and Win2k Servers

2002-02-15 Thread David Bell
AFAIK, All you need to do is start pump or dhcpcd, and they should configure the rest. :) On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 11:46, R R Potratz wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm teaching in a mission school in Niger and I've inherited an LAN of 12 of > win98/win2k machines, in a network with a win2k server taking

Re: NVIDIA driver

2002-02-15 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2002 01:37 schrieb Jeronimo Pellegrini: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:22:23PM -0800, Caleb Shay wrote: > > I think I've got this one... > > > > /etc/X11/XF86Config ? That's for XF86-3, the nvidia driver is for > > XFree-4 only. Either upgrade to woody or hunt around for pot

Need Help with dpkg Error

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
I keep getting the following error when I run apt-get anything on one of my boxes: Setting up libc6 (2.2.5-3) ... dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): md5sum gave malformatted output `fc857c5ac5fb84d80720ed4d1c624f6e' Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 I've tried removing th

RE: PCMCIA

2002-02-15 Thread Vaughan, Curtis
Try /etc/init.d/pcmcia start Here's what I get: Starting PCMCIA services: modulesinsmod: a module named pcmcia_core already exists insmod:/lib/modules/2.2.17/pcmcia/yenta_socket.o: No such file or directory ds: no socket drivers loaded! /lib/modules/2.2.17/pcmicia/ds.o: init_modules: Device o

Re: PCMCIA

2002-02-15 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:10:47AM -0800, Vaughan, Curtis wrote: | Twice now, I have experimented with upgrading from potato to woody. Each | time, however, I've experienced the exact same problem, which I can't seem | to resolve. | | During the update you get a question basically like this: | |

Re: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-15 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:56:19PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: | Ok, now bitchx depends on xutils, who in turn suggests xfree86-common, | who in turn depends on libaxw and so on (THIS BOX HAS NO FSCKING X!!!). It is a sugggestion, not a req

dpkg system messed up

2002-02-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith
TRYING TO UPDATE WITH DSELECT: .. /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update: line 39: 26924 Segmentation fault $APTGET $OPTS "$APT_OPT0" "$APT_OPT1" update update available list script returned error exit status 1. APT-GET UPDATE: .. Reading Package Lists... Done Segmentation faulty Tree... 0% Any sugge

PCMCIA

2002-02-15 Thread Vaughan, Curtis
Twice now, I have experimented with upgrading from potato to woody. Each time, however, I've experienced the exact same problem, which I can't seem to resolve. During the update you get a question basically like this: New modules are being installed for PCMCIA. It is preferable that you shut do

shmem information

2002-02-15 Thread Patrick Boe
Hi all, I'm trying to get some system data, and I'm wondering if there's a tool (system call, something) I can use to get it, or if I'll have to code the data collection into the kernel myself. I want to gather periodic snapshots of shared memory information for all running processes on a Sun SMP

Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Ok, now bitchx depends on xutils, who in turn suggests xfree86-common, who in turn depends on libaxw and so on (THIS BOX HAS NO FSCKING X!!!). So I have a suggestion: why don't we make ALL libraries "required" and just install all of them as part of the base system? (Well, sans non-DFSG-compliant

Re: CUPS

2002-02-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > * DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I'm trying to do a first time cups install for my HP parallel printer. > > > The "cupsomatic-ppd" package in sid claims to have the cupsomatic script >

Re: Galeon and libgdk-pixbuf2

2002-02-15 Thread Jim Gettys
I've had good luck by putting the Ximian potato feed first, installing galeon (and evolution), and then removing the Ximian potato feed. This gave me up to date galeon, Mozilla .9.8, and evolution. Remembering to remove the Ximian potato feed afterwards is *VITAL*, or you can completely screw up

Re: New to Debian and Linux

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
> I am very new to Linux and Debian. What would be the first move in trying > to learn Debian? > I recently brought the "Learning The Bash Shell"? Read the docs at debian.org, install a system (the people on this list can help), and use it. I learned by doing and making mistakes. If you want to b

Galeon and libgdk-pixbuf2

2002-02-15 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, I did an update on my Woody machine yesterday, which caused Galeon to be removed due to dependency problems. I've installed mozilla 0.98 from Sid along with a couple of libs that where needed. This went fairly well with the exception of libgdk-pixbuf2 which if I try to upgrade suddenly conflic

Re: Duplicating current debian install

2002-02-15 Thread Paul Seelig
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 06:03:20PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > François Chenais wrote on Fri Feb 15, 2002 um 05:42:06PM: > > > > i want to change my laptop disk from 5 Go to 20 Go > > But I do not want reinstall my debian. > Normally one installs Debian just once and then simply clones

New to Debian and Linux

2002-02-15 Thread Bannerman, Israel
To all: I am very new to Linux and Debian. What would be the first move in trying to learn Debian? I recently brought the "Learning The Bash Shell"? Any help would greatly be appreciated!! Thanks, -IB

Re: to woody from potato, some advices...

2002-02-15 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 21:35, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:16:04PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 13:17, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:53:16AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > > 1) Upgrade to woody via apt > > > > > > Definitel

Re: CUPS

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:15:36AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > * DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > http://localhost:631 or man lpadmin. > In my case, it doesn't. I get "Unable to connect to server: Connection > refused" messages to lpinfo, the web access tool, etc. And yes, I'm su'd to > root

Help - majordomo

2002-02-15 Thread Bodnyk, Bruce W
I'm attempting to run Majordomo 1.94.5 on Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. The wrapper config-test runs fine and doesn't report any errors. However on sending some commands I'm occasionally getting the following email back: -- MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)!! [EMAIL PROTECTED]: not replying to Mailer-Daem

Re: Trend VirusWall

2002-02-15 Thread Joey Hess
François Chenais wrote: > I just try to run rpm -i vmware.rpm and I have the same error. > > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > > > In fact, rpm -i doesn't find the 'rpm package index !!!' Maybe y

Re: Duplicating current debian install

2002-02-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 06:03:20PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Disk-upgrade-howto says, tar has a serious bug, however I do not know > what they are talking about. I suggest: > > tar -l -p -s --same-owner --numeric-owner / | tar -l -p -s --same-owner > --numeric-owner -C /mount/newdisk > Th

Linux and Win2k Servers

2002-02-15 Thread R R Potratz
Greetings, I'm teaching in a mission school in Niger and I've inherited an LAN of 12 of win98/win2k machines, in a network with a win2k server taking the DNS, DHCP and log on chores and some file serving. To this mix I would like to add a couple of linux machines to serve web pages and perhaps

Re: CUPS

2002-02-15 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:15:36AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: | * DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > > I'm trying to do a first time cups install for my HP parallel printer. | > > The "cupsomatic-ppd" package in sid claims to have the cupsoma

Re: ppp problems with strange log diagnostics

2002-02-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:36:27AM +0100, Laurent EVAIN wrote: > Hi, > > I run Debian 2.2 release 3 (stable) > and I use the script ``pon'' to connect > to my IP. > Sometimes I get a connection, sometimes the connection > stops and/or I can't connect. > Since I have 2 providers, I suppose that t

Re: cups drivers

2002-02-15 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Cam Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just downloaded and installed it. It depends on foomatic-bin, and > so this (along with a number of other packages got dowloaded and > installed, too. > > I didn't see that message. > > * Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] > > I believe

Re: CUPS

2002-02-15 Thread Cam Ellison
* DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to do a first time cups install for my HP parallel printer. > > The "cupsomatic-ppd" package in sid claims to have the cupsomatic script > > to configure it but I'm not finding it. > > > > Is th

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