Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-31 Thread dman
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 12:24:51AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Wed, Mar 27, 2002, Elizabeth Barham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > =?iso-8859-1?q?=20?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > > FROM: MRS MARYAM XXX | > > XX COTE D' IVOIRE | > > TEL:XXX- XX-XX-XX-XX | | | | > What

Re: why use sendmail?

2002-03-31 Thread dman
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 02:00:36PM +0100, Simon Hepburn wrote: | John Lord wrote: | | > Hi folks, | > | > | > Just a simple question realy, why should I use sendmail in conjunction with | > KMail, rather than let KMail do the job? | | It depends on you situation | | If you are running a standalo

Re: why use sendmail?

2002-03-31 Thread dman
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 09:50:44AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: | Lo, on Sunday, March 31, Simon Hepburn did write: | | > dman wrote: | > | > > The reason is that KMail is not a proper SMTP client. The RFCs (821, | > > 2821) state that if a message can't be delivered to the next server in | > > c

Re: why use sendmail?

2002-03-31 Thread dman
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 02:08:41PM +0100, Simon Hepburn wrote: | dman wrote: | | > The reason is that KMail is not a proper SMTP client. The RFCs (821, | > 2821) state that if a message can't be delivered to the next server in | > charge, then it must keep the message and retry later. It can't j

Re: Removing line breaks

2002-03-31 Thread dman
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 04:58:31AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: | On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:31:06PM -0600, dman wrote: | > #!/usr/bin/env python | > | > import sys | > p = [] | > for line in sys.xreadlines() : | > l = line.strip() # strip all leading and trailing whitespace | > if l : | >

Postfix.

2002-03-31 Thread Corey Halpin
It seems that the latest postfix packages default to rejecting mail claiming to be from localhost. I understand that this makes sense for spam prevention. However, it does unpleasant things if you happen to use fetchmail. I lost several hours of email because I didn't notice it was doing t

Re: Debian SID & Configuring X

2002-03-31 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 17:24, Michael Madden wrote: > I recently installed the latest Debian Woody SID version, and I am running > into > tons of problems getting X to work. I have the following X packages > installed: > > ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-13 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructur

Doublescan 320x240 modeline

2002-03-31 Thread Dave Maxwell
Back when I running Mandrake, I had some low resolution modelines defined that I used to get nice fullscreen displays of SDL games, XMMS plugins and the like. Now that I'm running Debian, the xserver refuses to utilize these modes. The relevant portions of XFree86Config-4 looks like this: Se

nfs: wrong fs type, bad option...

2002-03-31 Thread Bill Moseley
This is going to be a D'oh!, I'm sure. I've got nsf working between a few SuSE (6.2) machines in my LAN, but when I try to connect from my Woody machine to the SuSE machine the Woody machine reports: # mount -t nfs cory:/home/moseley/data /mnt/data mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock

Debian SID & Configuring X

2002-03-31 Thread Michael Madden
I recently installed the latest Debian Woody SID version, and I am running into tons of problems getting X to work. I have the following X packages installed: ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-13 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure ii xserver-xfree8 4.1.0-13 the XFree86 X server I am us

Re: Vmware not running anymore after dist upgrade

2002-03-31 Thread Greg Norris
What version of vmware are you running? For 3.0, the fix is located at ftp//platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-ws-any-update14.tar.gz. Also, the latest 3.1 beta has the fix applied. On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:55:28AM +0200, CASASSOVICI Alexander wrote: > Hi > > I had vmware running allright .

Re: Installing XFree 4.2 into non standard location - help

2002-03-31 Thread Bill Triplett
On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 18:54, Andreas Leitner wrote: > On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 20:16, Bill Triplett wrote: > > Yes, I know what you mean. You can install it somewhere else, just > > update your PATH and /etc/ld.so.conf to add the new directories so that > > you will be able to work with the new dir. J

iptables not logging (much)

2002-03-31 Thread Michael West
I cannot get my iptables firewall to log syslog.conf: kern.* -/var/log/kern.log lsmod shows ipt_LOG moduled loaded I created this test "firewall" in an attempt to log something iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination LOGall -- anyw

Re: divx unter linux

2002-03-31 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
Sean wrote: This is what babelfish made of it: "does one of you know, how I divx film under linux look at can? I already the LIBRARY of divx.com installed yourself, but divx does not film can I nevertheless not look I use woody." I assume you're looking for a divx movie player. I like mplayer ..

Re: divx unter linux

2002-03-31 Thread Sean
This is what babelfish made of it: "does one of you know, how I divx film under linux look at can? I already the LIBRARY of divx.com installed yourself, but divx does not film can I nevertheless not look I use woody." I assume you're looking for a divx movie player. I like mplayer ... found at ht

Re: Vmware not running anymore after dist upgrade

2002-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:55:28AM +0200, CASASSOVICI Alexander wrote: > Hi > > I had vmware running allright .. > > last week i had a dist-upgrade done ( it was kinda normal no kernel > update nothing special) an .. i cannot power on vmware anymore > > here is what it says : > > VMware PANIC:

Vmware not running anymore after dist upgrade

2002-03-31 Thread CASASSOVICI Alexander
Hi I had vmware running allright .. last week i had a dist-upgrade done ( it was kinda normal no kernel update nothing special) an .. i cannot power on vmware anymore here is what it says : VMware PANIC: (ide1:0) NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):692 VMware PANIC: (VMX) AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):692

divx unter linux

2002-03-31 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
hi, weiss einer von euch, wie ich unter linux divx-filme angucken kann? ich hab mir schon die library von divx.com installiert, aber divx-filme kann ich trotzdem nicht gucken. ich benutze woody. gruss, patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

kernel not booting

2002-03-31 Thread Scott Henson
I just compiled a new 2.4.19-pre4-ac3 kernel. Now I have been compiling kernels for quite a long time, and Im not sure why its not booting. It gets all the way to where it displays "Init version 2.84" or something to that affect, then it hard locks and wont respond to any input. I know this is t

Re: How much Linux on 1 GB hard drive?

2002-03-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 30, 2002, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Davor Balder wrote: > > >G'day to all, > > > > > >I am planning to install Linux on my friends computer... I am thinking of > >Debian Potato just for start... I think he has 4 GB hard drive... His > >sister may be using Windoze, but h

Re: Galeon problems (unstable)?

2002-03-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Mar 31, 2002, Steve Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >From "Karsten M. Self" , on Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at > >03:02:14AM -0800: > > on Thu, Mar 28, 2002, Paul Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've been using the galeon/mozilla-browser/mozilla-psm combo for about 6 > > > months now and

Re: apt-move

2002-03-31 Thread Sean
I'd mount the iso's, and then put file:///path/to/debs in my /etc/apt/sources.list. For exact syntax, check out man sources.list. If you put the iso paths at the top of the list, it will look there first. There may be a better way, but that's what I'd do. Sean On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 18:27, Greg

Re: Galeon problems (unstable)?

2002-03-31 Thread Steve Cooper
>From "Karsten M. Self" , on Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at >03:02:14AM -0800: > on Thu, Mar 28, 2002, Paul Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've been using the galeon/mozilla-browser/mozilla-psm combo for about 6 > > months now and love it. I'm always using the stuff out of unstable > > although most

Re: PC-Chips M748LMRT Motherboard

2002-03-31 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 05:49, Ronald Castillo wrote: > Hello... I was wondering if anyone has a PC-Chips M748LMRT motherboard. > I have heard that there are lots of problems for configuring these > motherboards and I want to know if this is true because I want to build > a Linux system under this Mo

Re: Installing XFree 4.2 into non standard location - help

2002-03-31 Thread Andreas Leitner
On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 20:16, Bill Triplett wrote: > On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 09:57, Andreas Leitner wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 00:01, Bill Triplett wrote: > > > On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 08:32, Andreas Leitner wrote: > > > > > > > > I own a AIW Radeon. The card works quite nicely with XFree 4.1, bu

Re: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread Simon Hepburn
On Sunday 31 Mar 2002 11:36 pm, you wrote: > >Are you using the linux framebuffer ? If not, comment out this line: > > > > Option "UseFBDev" "true" > > > >Apart from that your config looks fine. > > During the install the --configuration of some package asked whethe

apt-move

2002-03-31 Thread Greg C. Madden
I have successfully created a local mirror & moved the packages from the apt/archive to the local mirror using apt-move (nice tool). I would now like to populate it with more packages. I have 8 of the woody iso's and would like to somehow get the packages directly from these as opposed to using 'ap

Re: Driver for Addonics SV550 sound card

2002-03-31 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
Am Sonntag, 31. März 2002 01:47 schrieb Tony Anand: > Hi All, > Does anyone know where I can find linux drivers for an Addonics SV550 > sound card, which uses the Yamaha YMF724E-V chipset? Thanks > much, > Tony. >  Chat with friends online, try MSN > Messenger: Click > Here 1st: don't write html-m

Re: mail retrieval-delivery-sorting

2002-03-31 Thread Carlos Sousa
On 30 Mar 2002 18:36:07 + "David H. Askew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > list favorite) and from what I've read, very capable. I'm considering > the following setup... using fetchmail to get my imap and pop3 email, > which will forward email to smtp(exim here), and use procmail rules to

Re: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread I.J.W. Wever
Hmmm... I should ask this on one of the xfree86 mailing lists instead of here, shouldn't I? sincerely, Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: testing + some unstable packages

2002-03-31 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 12:38:28PM -0800, Alan Su wrote: > i've got an installation of testing on my laptop, but i wanted to > upgrade a few packages (notably galeon) to the unstable version. i'd > rather not just point apt to the unstable distribution, as i'm pretty > happy with the way testing i

Re: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread Simon Hepburn
I.J.W. Wever wrote: > Section "Device" > Identifier "Matrox G450" > Driver "mga" > Option "UseFBDev" "true" > EndSection Are you using the linux framebuffer ? If not, comment out this line: Option "UseFBDev"

Post-installation probs after upg from potato to woody

2002-03-31 Thread FFF
Hi, I got the following errors after upg. and configuring: Setting up findutils (4.1.7-2) Can't locate File/Basename.pm in @INC (@INC contains: usrlocal/lib/perl/5.6.1 usrlocal/share/perl/5.6.1 usrlib/perl5 usrshare/perl5 usrlib/perl/5.6.1 usrshare/perl/5.6.1 usr/local/lib/site_perl/powerp

Re: testing + some unstable packages

2002-03-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, March 31, Alan Su did write: > i've got an installation of testing on my laptop, but i wanted to > upgrade a few packages (notably galeon) to the unstable version. i'd > rather not just point apt to the unstable distribution, as i'm pretty > happy with the way testing is working ou

Re: Command line access to X cut buffer?

2002-03-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:00:21AM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > I have a bunch of tools (FvwmButton setup, etc.) that want to grab the > contents of the X cut buffer and use it to invoke programs, etc. > > For example, if I select a hostname and click mouse-2 on a button in my > FvwmButtons, I want

Re: fun with printers

2002-03-31 Thread Andrew Agno
> > > *~U@ > > > > This looks like you've got the wrong driver for your printer then. > > > But the test page worked... Yeah, but you can't trust a test page to exercise everything about a printer driver. In fact, it really only tells you that there is a connection between your computer a

Re: bug in textutils ?

2002-03-31 Thread Leo Laursen
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >> head -21 gives the first 21 lines as expected, but >> head -22 gives the first 23 lines, ie. one extra, > $ head -21 Timer.cc|wc -l > 21 > $ head -22 Timer.cc|wc -l > 22 Sorry, my stupid mistake. I failed to notice that a line in the file was accide

Re: bug in textutils ?

2002-03-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > head -21 gives the first 21 lines as expected, but > head -22 gives the first 23 lines, ie. one extra, > and it seems that values above 21 gives an extra line. > > Is this a known bug (or maybe a feature :-) $ dpkg -l textutils Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed

Re: fun with printers

2002-03-31 Thread Paul Mackinney
Andrew Agno declaimed: > Paul Mackinney writes: > > Andrew Agno declaimed: > > > If it's raw postscript, you'll just see text. Is that what you get? > > It looks like gibberish: > > > > *~U@ > > This looks like you've got the wrong driver for your printer then. > But the test page worked..

Re: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread I.J.W. Wever
Dear Simon, thanks for your reaction. I realised that I was using the wrong file and XF86Config-4 actually had 'mga_hal' where it should have had 'mga' (which is almost the same problem for which you gave the solution :) ). Please ignore the attachments of the previous message: I made some progr

Re: rc.local equivalent in Woody?

2002-03-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > This question comes up enough that a policy ought IMVAO be set for it. > > Viz: any rc script named local-foo is considered local and sacrosanct > by the system, where "-foo" could have any arbitrary value, including > null (for the single instance of a local script). > > But this way I cou

Re: bug in textutils ?

2002-03-31 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 06:57:53PM +0200, Leo Laursen wrote: > Hi > I just found something peculiar with "head" in debian unstable > > textutils version 2.0-12 > > head -21 gives the first 21 lines as expected, but > head -22 gives the first 23 lines, ie. one extra, > and it seems that values abo

Re: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread Simon Hepburn
I.J.W. Wever wrote: > A few days ago I installed Woody and since then I have been trying to > get Xwindows running. I've downloaded the appropriate drivers for my > Matrox G450 from the Matrox site and tried the XF86config with various > options, but withous succes. These are not strictly neccess

Re: testing + some unstable packages

2002-03-31 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Son, Mär 31, 2002 at 12:38:28 -0800, Alan Su wrote: > in order to do this, i'm manually using dpkg to install packages that > i download from the unstable distribution. however, for this to work, > i need to upgrade a bunch of other packages on which these few > packages depend. is there a way

testing + some unstable packages

2002-03-31 Thread Alan Su
i've got an installation of testing on my laptop, but i wanted to upgrade a few packages (notably galeon) to the unstable version. i'd rather not just point apt to the unstable distribution, as i'm pretty happy with the way testing is working out for me. in order to do this, i'm manually using dp

Re: still stuck

2002-03-31 Thread Simon Hepburn
dave mallery wrote: > On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Simon Hepburn wrote: > > dave mallery wrote: > > > i did an apt-get -f install and exerpt the following problem: > > > > > > Unpacking libgnome-vfs-common (from > > > .../libgnome-vfs-common_1.0.5-1_i386.deb) ... > > > dpkg: error processing > > > /var/ca

[newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread I.J.W. Wever
Hello all, A few days ago I installed Woody and since then I have been trying to get Xwindows running. I've downloaded the appropriate drivers for my Matrox G450 from the Matrox site and tried the XF86config with various options, but withous succes. I don't know how to tell XFree86 to use the mga

Re: clipboard between kde & gnome apps

2002-03-31 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Shri, the standard X way should always be possible: mark text with left mouse button, then click with middle mouse button where you want to paste it. HTH Joachim On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 01:47:52PM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > What does everyone else do to copy and paste between applicatio

Re: still stuck

2002-03-31 Thread dave mallery
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Simon Hepburn wrote: > dave mallery wrote: > > > i did an apt-get -f install and exerpt the following problem: > > > > Unpacking libgnome-vfs-common (from > > .../libgnome-vfs-common_1.0.5-1_i386.deb) ... > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnome-vfs-com

Sugestions for 2way audio between machines?

2002-03-31 Thread stan
Given 2 Woody machines, what's the best way to set up a real time bi-directional audio conection between the machines? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin --

Re: audiphone?

2002-03-31 Thread David Roundy
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 09:50:02AM -0500, stan wrote: > I need to set up 2 way realtime audio communications between 2 wood > machines. > > The NAS man page mentions "audiophone", but I can't seem to find it on my > mahcines. Is it a seperate package? > > Also what other choices do I have for doi

Re: still stuck

2002-03-31 Thread Simon Hepburn
dave mallery wrote: > i did an apt-get -f install and exerpt the following problem: > > Unpacking libgnome-vfs-common (from > .../libgnome-vfs-common_1.0.5-1_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnome-vfs-common_1.0.5-1_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/u

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still stuck

2002-03-31 Thread dave mallery
hi i am trying to get gnome back on my "woody" machine. i purged the three aps that were really stuck using dpkg. (large amounts of learning going on) all the gnome stuff that we purged last week (in order to get x running) want to get re-installed (cuz the debs are sitting there) i did an a

Re: Installing XFree 4.2 into non standard location - help

2002-03-31 Thread Bill Triplett
On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 09:57, Andreas Leitner wrote: > On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 00:01, Bill Triplett wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 08:32, Andreas Leitner wrote: > > > > > > I own a AIW Radeon. The card works quite nicely with XFree 4.1, but some > > > features (TV Out, TV In, ...) will only work wi

Re: Debian optimized for Pentium-class CPUs?

2002-03-31 Thread Alan Shutko
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > I'll note that (from an office conversation, so consider it hearsay), > RH's optimizations are restricted to the kernel and glibc. Seems to match the packages on their ftp site these days. Over the years, they've also optimized Mesa and gzip, but they don't appear to

Re: Is this enough ?

2002-03-31 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "faisal gillani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "list debaun" Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 3:25 PM Subject: Is this enough ? > Well i have a machine which is intel 200 mhz with 32 > mb ram sitting in my backward can i use it as a debain > + apache web server on my net

Re: Is this enough ?

2002-03-31 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
Hello, that should be enough if you simply want to serve html-pages. If you want to use php-scripts with data from a mysql-database or even worse: java servlets like cocoon, there could be performance problems. It does work in any case - it's only a question of speed. Daniel On Sunday, Mar

bug in textutils ?

2002-03-31 Thread Leo Laursen
Hi I just found something peculiar with "head" in debian unstable textutils version 2.0-12 head -21 gives the first 21 lines as expected, but head -22 gives the first 23 lines, ie. one extra, and it seems that values above 21 gives an extra line. Is this a known bug (or maybe a feature :-) Rega

Re: Is this enough ?

2002-03-31 Thread Sean
That's plenty of machine for a "closet server". Of course, if you can scrounge it up, adding more RAM would help the most wrt performance. On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 09:25, faisal gillani wrote: > Well i have a machine which is intel 200 mhz with 32 > mb ram sitting in my backward can i use it as a de

Re: why use sendmail?

2002-03-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, March 31, Simon Hepburn did write: > dman wrote: > > > The reason is that KMail is not a proper SMTP client. The RFCs (821, > > 2821) state that if a message can't be delivered to the next server in > > charge, then it must keep the message and retry later. It can't just > > say

Re: Creating local package cache with apt-move

2002-03-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, March 31, Simon Hepburn did write: > Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > On a related note, how come /var/lib/dpkg/available keeps getting hosed? > > It's happened to me twice now. The first time, I figured I was SOL and > > re-installed from scratch (fortunately I didn't lose much). It h

Re: Installing XFree 4.2 into non standard location - help

2002-03-31 Thread Andreas Leitner
On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 00:01, Bill Triplett wrote: > On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 08:32, Andreas Leitner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I own a AIW Radeon. The card works quite nicely with XFree 4.1, but some > > features (TV Out, TV In, ...) will only work with X 4.2 + some special > > drivers from the Gatos pro

using gtcd with ALSA?

2002-03-31 Thread Greg Norris
I've noticed that gtcd's volume slider doesn't do anything, after switching to the ALSA for sound. Is there any way to make this work again, short of switching back to the OSS drivers. My sound card is a SBLive (emu10k1). Thanx! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Web-sites for X-configuration for Debian?

2002-03-31 Thread Josef Oswald
Hate to follow-up on my own post. Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi :-) > > Just recently I installed worker a nifty file manager, it's is a very > help-ful tool, there is one small problem: the fonts in lynx and > Xterm are very small, they are not controlled by any setting in > .X

PC-Chips M748LMRT Motherboard

2002-03-31 Thread Ronald Castillo
Hello... I was wondering if anyone has a PC-Chips M748LMRT motherboard. I have heard that there are lots of problems for configuring these motherboards and I want to know if this is true because I want to build a Linux system under this Motherboard. I would also like to know the steps for configur

audiphone?

2002-03-31 Thread stan
I need to set up 2 way realtime audio communications between 2 wood machines. The NAS man page mentions "audiophone", but I can't seem to find it on my mahcines. Is it a seperate package? Also what other choices do I have for doing this? Thanks. -- "They that would give up essential liberty fo

Is this enough ?

2002-03-31 Thread faisal gillani
Well i have a machine which is intel 200 mhz with 32 mb ram sitting in my backward can i use it as a debain + apache web server on my network for small load "30 users to be exact "of users ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings

Re: LILO doesn't work!

2002-03-31 Thread Seneca Cunningham
black.fish wrote: > hi! i've got a problem with my debian woody. when i installed it there > was an error message like: "writing lilo... hmm, i think you're > writing a fs ... this might be an important bug...". it came when i > the installer was just writing the base of woody. since i can't boot

Re: why use sendmail?

2002-03-31 Thread Simon Hepburn
dman wrote: > The reason is that KMail is not a proper SMTP client. The RFCs (821, > 2821) state that if a message can't be delivered to the next server in > charge, then it must keep the message and retry later. It can't just > say "oh, well" and give up. KMail (along with Lookout and every ot

Re: why use sendmail?

2002-03-31 Thread Simon Hepburn
John Lord wrote: > Hi folks, > > > Just a simple question realy, why should I use sendmail in conjunction with > KMail, rather than let KMail do the job? It depends on you situation If you are running a standalone box with dialup connection and you get your mail through your ISP, I would just l

RE: Sound Problem

2002-03-31 Thread Ronald Castillo
What kernel version are you using? (use "uname -r" to find out). I think that SB16 is an ISA card, so you have to turn on ISA PNP. You can do it using ISAPNP (install the "sndconfig" package). Or you can update to the 2.4.18 kernel which has true ISAPNP capabilities. (way easier to configure) I

clipboard between kde & gnome apps

2002-03-31 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi All, I wonder if there is a solution to this problem. The clipboard doesnt seem to work between applications from different frameworks (i.e. GNOME and KDE). If Im running KDE with klipper at the bottom right of the screen, it will copy the clipboard from the GNOME apps so they paste into other

Re: Getting Handspring Pilot Setup

2002-03-31 Thread james martinez
Ok yet another problem with getting my Visor to sync. had it working and then I had to change to kernel 2.4.18 to get the new Nvidia video card to work. But now my visor will not sync anymore. One thins when I compiled the new kernel it added /dev/usb which has ttyUSB* so now I have two sets of th

Re: Sound Problem

2002-03-31 Thread Jeff
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 2002-Mar-30 12:34 +0100: > Hi! I hope you can help me. I've Debian Woody running on my pc and a > soundblaster 16 in it, but I can't use it. When I try to play music using > play, cdplay, mpg123 or any other program an error message like "Device dsp > not found" occurs. I trie

Cannot set sound volume after kernel upgrade

2002-03-31 Thread Bojan
Hi all, I upgraded my Woody kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.4.18. Everything is working fine except I cannot set sound volume on SB Live ?? Any sugestions would be welcome. Bojan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

devfs and tmpfs

2002-03-31 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
OK, I installed devfs and it seems to be working OK, I'm wondering how I ditch the original disk-based /dev filesystem now. Also, anybody try tmpfs, or should I stick with a disk-based /tmp and tmpreaper? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Creating local package cache with apt-move

2002-03-31 Thread Simon Hepburn
Richard Cobbe wrote: > On a related note, how come /var/lib/dpkg/available keeps getting hosed? > It's happened to me twice now. The first time, I figured I was SOL and > re-installed from scratch (fortunately I didn't lose much). It happened > again about an hour ago, but I recovered by blowing

Re: Mutt + GPG

2002-03-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 30, 2002, Rohan Deshpande ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sorry everyone! Forgot the subject! > > -- > Rohan Deshpande > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * Rohan Deshpande ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I was just wondering: when using Mutt and GnuPG, with all the public > > ke

Re: success story

2002-03-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 30, 2002, faisal gillani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i am a windows network administrator & about a month ago on one of my > network i placed a debian linux server + apache webserver on the other > hand i had a windows 2000 server running Ms ISA server the place on > which these server

Re: Fetching and printing web pages automaticly

2002-03-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 30, 2002, stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I want to be able to use cron to fetch & print certain web pages on a > scheduled bassis. $ apt-get install html2ps $ html2ps | lpr -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you unde

Re: Debian optimized for Pentium-class CPUs?

2002-03-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Mar 29, 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 29-Mar-2002 Paul F. Pearson wrote: > > Not that Woody is slow on my new 900MHz Celeron, 512MB PC, but I was > > wondering to what CPU target the precompiled distro was configured? > > Would I see a significant difference i

Re: Troubles after upg from potato to woody

2002-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 05:37:20AM +0400, FFF wrote: > After I dl the necessary files to upg and dselect start installing and > configuring I got the following errors: > > Setting up findutils (4.1.7-2) > Can't locate File/Basename.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > usrlocal/lib/perl/5.6.1 usrlocal/sha

Re: Galeon problems (unstable)?

2002-03-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Mar 29, 2002, Peter Whysall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 03:05, Paul Smith wrote: > > > This is a bit brutal, but I had all sorts of problems with Galeon (going > from 1.0 to 1.2) until I zapped my settings with "galeon-config-tool > --clean" to thoroughly clean all

Re: Galeon problems (unstable)?

2002-03-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Mar 28, 2002, Paul Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've been using the galeon/mozilla-browser/mozilla-psm combo for about 6 > months now and love it. I'm always using the stuff out of unstable > although most of my system is Woody (I do it with apt-get -t unstable). > > However, on one

Re: Removing line breaks

2002-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:31:06PM -0600, dman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 02:41:31AM +0800, csj wrote: > | What's the fastest way to reformat a mutt-friendly text file into > | something a WYSIWYG word processor would love? > | > | Let's take this email as an example. When I use the linewrap

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-31 Thread Preben Randhol
christophe barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/03/2002 (12:02) : > > I don't know what he means but XMMS and Realplayer both have a esd > output option. I don't understand what I did last time when I tried the esd in realplayer. I tried it again now and now it works :-) Now I really really whi

X resources the Debian way

2002-03-31 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, How does one set some individual application properties the Debian way? If I start a console application from the Debian menues it will by default start in a maximized terminal window. Allthough what environment that terminal has I'm not quite sure of, as mc startc in black and white by defau

Save Session

2002-03-31 Thread Alan Shrimpton
Hi again, Can someone tell me why my session isn't saving each time I exit. Even my window manager changes. Doesn't matter whether I am root or a user. Now running Sawmill on Potato Cheers Al -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: tulip driver woes ....

2002-03-31 Thread Ronald Castillo
It's good to know I'm not alone!! My tulip card was working fine until I make a kernel update. Then it stopped working, but I was getting help from this mailing list until I had to send my PC to warranty. Have you tried to install or reconfigure the "dhcp-client" package? From: dman <[EMAI

Re: Problems with devfs and sound

2002-03-31 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 31 Mar 2002 8:54 am, I wrote: > After a dselect update on 25th March my sound has stopped working Red Herring, there is a problem but this wasn't it. I had done a telinit 1 (to get into single user mode) followed by a Ctrl-D (to go back into multiuser mode). This killed off devfsd and

Troubles after upg from potato to woody

2002-03-31 Thread FFF
Hi, After I dl the necessary files to upg and dselect start installing and configuring I got the following errors: Setting up findutils (4.1.7-2) Can't locate File/Basename.pm in @INC (@INC contains: usrlocal/lib/perl/5.6.1 usrlocal/share/perl/5.6.1 usrlib/perl5 usrshare/perl5 usrlib/perl/5

Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 27, 2002, Elizabeth Barham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > =?iso-8859-1?q?=20?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > FROM: MRS MARYAM XXX > > XX COTE D' IVOIRE > > TEL:XXX- XX-XX-XX-XX > What are you all's opinion of this letter? Did anyone else respond to > the others? Is any

Re: LILO doesn't work!

2002-03-31 Thread Michael D. Crawford
See if you can boot off a floppy or linux CD and have a look at your /etc/lilo.conf Make sure that the place that lilo installs is what you want. If you want lilo to control the initial startup of your machine, then it will go into the first sector of your hard drive, and will be either /dev/hda

Web-sites for X-configuration for Debian?

2002-03-31 Thread Josef Oswald
Hi :-) Some-one told me that most likely there exist some web-sites that would help a new-bie to set-up X. Just recently I installed worker a nifty file manager, it's is a very help-ful tool, there is one small problem: the fonts in lynx and Xterm are very small, they are not controlled by any s

LILO doesn't work!

2002-03-31 Thread black.fish
hi! i've got a problem with my debian woody. when i installed it there was an error message like: "writing lilo... hmm, i think you're writing a fs ... this might be an important bug...". it came when i the installer was just writing the base of woody. since i can't boot linux normally. when i s

Problems with devfs and sound

2002-03-31 Thread Alan Chandler
After a dselect update on 25th March my sound has stopped working I use devfsd, and this is at the limit of my knowledge but... Applications tend to access devices like /dev/dsp in /etc/modutils/1devfsd there are a series of aliases that do alias /dev/sound sound-slot-0 alias /dev/dsp /dev/soun

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 30, 2002, Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/03/2002 (09:29) : > > > > I can think of another: use a browser that doesn't support flash. > > Even better would be if one could turn it on and off in galeon/mozilla > with a button. Then there

OK, I got X working now why does pppconfig do weard stuff?

2002-03-31 Thread D Haben
G'day again I managed to update and install DEBIAN (2.2r2 potatoe?) and now have the Mach64 X server as my default. It works on the Compaq Armada E500. But now I open a xterm - it's properties are white background and the the prompt is: "nodename:~#". Q1: How/where do I change the properties f

Re: Window Maker Mod1 and Mod2 keys

2002-03-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 26, 2002, Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > When trying to edit some of my key shortcuts in Wprefs I notice that when > I capture an Alt-Tab I get a Mod1 + Mod2 + Tab capture. > > Where does the Mod2 come from? Many of the shortcuts are Mod1 + not > Mod1 + Mod2 + as that all of m

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