Re: What is difference between sid n woody?

2002-04-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Read http://www.debian.org/doc and follow link to read Debian FAQ :) On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 07:52:04PM +0100, Gaurav Kumar wrote: > Hi Frenz > > Q1) What is the difference between sid n woody? > > Q2) How can I find if my system is sid or woody? > > TIA. > > -Gaurav > >

Trouble with default stable kernel upgrade

2002-04-16 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Say, I had problems with my default upgrade this afternoon. I'd already installed an earlier 2.2.19 kernel, and it wanted to put a new one in. It did give a warning, but the upshot was I got a modules directory that wouldn't talk to the NIC on my laptop (Toshiba 2715XDVD Satellite; the NIC is Xir

Re: Dpkg trouble again

2002-04-16 Thread Addis Perez
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 01:34 pm, Florian Struck wrote: > Could someone be so kind and give me the list file for > rcs? > they are listed in the file: /var/lib/dpkg/info/rcs.list Here goes! I attached my rcs.list. **note** I installed it on woody, not sid. I hope this does not bring problems a

Re: Pointer to Galeon user mailing list?

2002-04-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 08:47:39AM -0400, stan wrote: > A quick check of the Galeon home page failed to point me to how to > subscribe to the isers mailing list for this package. > > Has anyone got a pointer as to how to subscribe to this list? http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/galeon-u

Re: Samba alternative

2002-04-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
SMB is, indeed, a little hack-ish for an all-*ix network. NFS is probably sufficient for a small network like the one you're talking about, although there are enough security things to think about that if you're not behind some kind of firewall you might want to think about limiting to NFS over TCP

check for root kit

2002-04-16 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
There is a very small possibility that someone has intruded into our network. I would like to test my 3 woody machines for possible root kits. What is the best way of doing this? Should I check the md5sum of programs such as find, ps and ifconfig against the packaged versions? Also, is there any w

Re: starting nfs - allow/deny

2002-04-16 Thread David Smead
Alvin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/filesystems ext2 msdos vfat nodev proc nodev nfs iso9660 nodev devpts [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot$ grep -i nfs config-2.2.19-idepci CONFIG_NFS_FS=y I decided to reboot and see where I was. In the process, the mouse cursor d

Tux in ASCII

2002-04-16 Thread Wendell Cochran
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Re: Dpkg trouble again

2002-04-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 07:34:19PM +0200, Florian Struck wrote: > Ok ill ask again like in my earlyer post where i didn't get any answer. > Could someone be so kind and give me the list file for rcs? cause mine is > empty due to a crash while updating with dselect on sid. > And now the package "rc

Emacs' main menu font

2002-04-16 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Where can I set the font for the main menu of Emacs? Thanks in advance, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NOSQL

2002-04-16 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I asked this before, and the only answer I got was some obscure crack in German. Is NOSQL still a useful thing, and/or is anyone using it? If so, what kinds of projects is it used for? -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-3717,

Re: Samba alternative

2002-04-16 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Alex Malinovich quotation: > > I've heard that SMB isn't really the greatest protocol for file sharing > between systems on a LAN. I've also heard good things about Coda and a > few strong-points about NFS. What would you all suggest? Sticking with > Samba is easy enough as it's already con

Re: Alternative to DEBIAN-CD

2002-04-16 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Daniel Mashao quotation: > > messages (if they were error messages at all :) ). All I want is a > program that will take the address of the mirror site, the dist I want, > and say get woody for me. Have the program get it. Simple. > > So are there any alternatives to debian-cd? If that's

Re: How do I get off the list??

2002-04-16 Thread csj
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:34:45 -0400 Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eileen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi, > > > > I have tried for 2 weeks to ge off this list. As you can see, from > > I continue to see people having this problem. Why? Probably because they'r

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-16 Thread -
It looks like no one has any first hand experience with any of the 17 computers.  Can someone offer any opinions about the makeup and suitability of these computers for Linux operation based on the information provided on the web page?  Linux is mentioned but it seems that the modem is a Win

pwcheck problem

2002-04-16 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, I'm using cyrus-pop3d 1.5.19-9 and sasl-bin 1.5.27-3 on woody. By default, users with Cyrus mailboxes were authenticated against their UNIX passwords. This setup ceased to work today for some reason (I suspect that was after running /usr/share/sendmail/update_auth, but I'm not sure). The

Re: Samba alternative

2002-04-16 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:49:08AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've heard that SMB isn't really the greatest protocol for file sharing > between systems on a LAN. I've also heard good things about Coda and a > few strong-points about NFS. I was about to start use Coda when I realised the prett

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-16 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Elizabeth" == Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Elizabeth> emacs is simply a great editor. A lot of people are put Elizabeth> off at first by it's complexity and memory foot-print size Elizabeth> but once you get the hang of it, vi and other editors Elizabeth> become a real d

ogle doesn't work!

2002-04-16 Thread Leonardo Canducci
woody with kernel 2.4, gnome 1.4 updated every day (adsl). ogle -u cli /dev/dvd does not play any video or sound. ogle (gui): properties doesn't cause any effect (no dialogs). dselect-ed ogle-mmx and ogle-gui. made the symlink /dev/scd1 (I'm using ide-scsi emulation for both cdwriter and dvd) to /

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Help installing packages (newbie but refusing to give up)

2002-04-16 Thread GQ Kokidko
I am a new user and have installed the base system of the stable debian linux on hdb1 and windows 2000 on hda1. I can boot to linux and windows and have lilo configured properly but dselect and tasksel aren't able to find the packages (which are on hda1 in order to install them. Tasksel cant s

Re: How do I get off the list??

2002-04-16 Thread Jason Healy
At 1018974885s since epoch (04/16/02 11:34:45 -0400 UTC), Wayne Topa wrote: > I continue to see people having this problem. Why? > This is 'not' Rocket Science. I've been using linux and mailing lists for 8 years now, so I consider myself in the 'able-to-handle-things-that-are-not-rocket-science'

Re: Dual Boot with Win2k (NEW QUESTION)

2002-04-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:38:14PM -0400, GQ Kokidko wrote: > I too am a new user and have installed linux on hdb1 and windows 2000 on > hda1. I can boot to linux and windows and have lilo configured properly > but dselect and tasksel aren't able to find the packages (which are on hda1 > in ord

Re: HP 722C Printer working?

2002-04-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 03:51:50PM -0700, ben wrote: > > access at localhost: 731. i don't use a 722c but i know that i've seen s/731/631/, I think. -rob -- I did not vote for the Australian government. pgpD3umgRsmQC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [±¤°í]debian-us er´Ô ¾È³çÇϽʴϱî?

2002-04-16 Thread Rob Weir
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Re: Samba Won't Take Passwords

2002-04-16 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:14:33 -0700 "Brian W. Carver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > Workgroup, and I can see the linux box named Debian in there. When I > try to access it I get a pop-up box labeled Enter Network Password > that says "You must supply a password to make this connection: > Reso

Re: Samba Won't Take Passwords

2002-04-16 Thread Derek Loree
Hi Brian, You need to log into the '98 machine as the user "brian", don't bother entering a password. '98 has no concept of a remote user being different from a local user (or has no concept of what a user is), it just uses the username of the person logged in. If you have no login screen, then

I want Source Files for Dselect and DebConf

2002-04-16 Thread Xeno Campanoli
And I can't seem to find it on the Debian Website. Any suggestions? -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-3717, U.S.A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: How do I get off the list??

2002-04-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Wayne Topa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eileen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi, > > > > I have tried for 2 weeks to ge off this list. As you can see, from > > I continue to see people having this problem. Why? > > I just changed ISP's and was subscribed to a half dozen D

Re: How do I get off the list??

2002-04-16 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:34:45AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > I have tried for 2 weeks to ge off this list. As you can see, from > > I continue to see people having this problem. Why? Part of the problem seems to be that the listmanager software does not behave correctly all the time. I've s

Apache and mod_ssl

2002-04-16 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Is there anyway to have Apache STOP asking for the password when restarting the server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I/O error, dev 16:41 (hdd)

2002-04-16 Thread debian-user
Hi, Could somebody please explain this dmesg output a little more verbosely: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:41 (hdd), sector 29437448 hdd: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hdd: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=29437511, sector=29437448 Than

jigdo in the background

2002-04-16 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi Hi i have a little LAN here (3 PCs and a router). The router has no screen. Is it possible to start the jigdo process on it and detach (close the ssh connection)? I don't like to have 2 computer on the whole night. The router runs also Debian (like all my PCs). cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele

Eth0 issue

2002-04-16 Thread curtis
I have posted this issue before without getting any results. Having tried to remedy the issue on my one also without any results, I am giving this a second try. Hopefully somebody can help me. Basically, the problem is this: whenever I boot my system (a laptop, btw), my eth0 interface does not a

Samba alternative

2002-04-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
I used to have a full-blown Windows network set up at home with 5 PCs. As I started converting them to Linux I would set up Samba on each machine so they could still talk with the other Windows machines. At this point, I only have ONE fulltime Windows box running, and that's my local PDC/NAT router

Re: starting nfs - allow/deny

2002-04-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya david > knuth:/etc# exportfs -vr > exporting 192.168.8.0/255.255.255.0:/ > unexporting feynman.amplepower.com:/ from kernel > feynman.amplepower.com:/: Function not implemented as others have previously stated... you have to install the nfs-server package before you can get "pass go" ...

ricerca

2002-04-16 Thread Gabry
Ho una scheda tv cardpca20tv da un po di anni. adesso con windows millennium non mi funziona. Ci sono i drivers aggiornati? un cordiale saluto. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pointer to Galeon user mailing list?

2002-04-16 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 05:47, stan wrote: > A quick check of the Galeon home page failed to point me to how to > subscribe to the isers mailing list for this package. > > Has anyone got a pointer as to how to subscribe to this list? All sourceforge projects are the same. Go to http://sourceforge.

Micro Tech ystemless computers

2002-04-16 Thread -
It's ridiculous how posting a simple question on this forum can create a controversy that has no bearing on the original posting, all because I called them 'Walmart' computers.  Apparently, some people have a short attention span along with pet peeves.. I wonder how many of these people ever

Re: frozen-bubble

2002-04-16 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 11:33, James Vahn wrote: > Does anyone know the cause for this? > > [SDL Init] X Error of failed request: > BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) > Major opcode of failed request: 144 (XFree86-VidModeExtension) > Minor opcode of

Re: Why was Galeon droped from STABLE?

2002-04-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:20:11PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think the question is why galeon was droped for testing? Providing that it builds on arm and that nobody files a release-critical bug on it in the next two days, it will get back. It was originally dropped because the version

Re: starting nfs - allow/deny

2002-04-16 Thread David Smead
Alvin, knuth:/etc# exportfs -vr exporting 192.168.8.0/255.255.255.0:/ unexporting feynman.amplepower.com:/ from kernel feynman.amplepower.com:/: Function not implemented knuth:/etc# exportfs -v / 192.168.8.0/255.255.255.0(rw,async,wdelay,nohide,insecure,no_root_squash) Originally, the exports fil

Re: Why was Galeon droped from STABLE?

2002-04-16 Thread Brian Nelson
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Subject line says it all. > > This is the best browser out there tofay & I have production machines on > testing that I don't want to mess with unstable peices for, so now dselect > is trying to remove my browser :-( I believe the reason was something along the

Re: starting nfs

2002-04-16 Thread David Smead
Osamu, I'm running potato. 1. knuth:/etc# uname -a Linux knuth 2.2.19-idepci #1 Sat Jun 9 13:39:29 EST 2001 i686 unknown 2. I started out by downloading the two boot floppies and did a network install from them, getting everything off the debian site. Later I did a dselect all and downloa

xscreensaver

2002-04-16 Thread Marcelo Leal
what the command line for lock the screen with xscreensaver ??? i use xlock, but the xscreensaver is more cool than that one... when i execute xscreensaver, appears that dialog box thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: sneakernet apt

2002-04-16 Thread Daniel DiPaolo
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 08:38, Satelle, StevenX wrote: > I'm running 2 separate machines which have no connection between each other. > One (mach-1) has an always on high speed web connection. The other (mach-2) > doesn't. Both running Debian-2.2r5. installed from CD. I want to download > updates on

Re: Apache && libphp4.so

2002-04-16 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 08:19:57 -0400 "Kurc, Marcin A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > why don't you just uncomment the line an restart apache? > > Marcin Kurc > CAD Systems Administrator > Cooper-Standard Automotive > That was the first thing that I tried but when it didn't work I thought you may

What is difference between sid n woody?

2002-04-16 Thread Gaurav Kumar
Hi Frenz Q1) What is the difference between sid n woody? Q2) How can I find if my system is sid or woody? TIA. -Gaurav For live cricket scores download Yahoo! Score Tracker at: http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cricket/tracker

Re: sneakernet apt

2002-04-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 16, 2002, Satelle, StevenX ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm running 2 separate machines which have no connection between each > other. One (mach-1) has an always on high speed web connection. The > other (mach-2) doesn't. Both running Debian-2.2r5. installed from CD. > I want to downl

Re: Swapfiles

2002-04-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 16, 2002, Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > On a 128Mbytes machine, how much swap space can it handle? Would it be all > right to assign it 384Mbytes? I tend toward 2-3 times physical RAM for swap, as swap partitions, on the following basis: - Despite arguments that as

Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-16 Thread Jamin W . Collins
I'm hoping someone here might be able to give me a few pointers on how to track down a strange system lockup. When the lockup occurs, both monitors drop to power saving mode and the system from what I can tell is dead to the world (no network connectivity and completely unresponsive to local acces

Re: Virtual consoles filled with... test pattern?

2002-04-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 15, 2002, Roach, Mark R. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is a very strange variation on a problem I experienced > occasionally in mandrake. My console windows are now filled with > vertical lines. Mostly purples, but all sorts of other colors too. > nothing I type shows up on the scr

Is there a way to continue a process elsewhere?

2002-04-16 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, suddenly, all my consoles went blank after trying to open a file with bmv (this is not normal behaviour!) but I could still enter X. Since I wasn't using screen at that time, would there be a way of continuing a process in X? Or sending a command to it; whatever, just to avoid going through

Re: Probleme mit Radeon und Philips 107P (Was: Unidentified subject)

2002-04-16 Thread Kristian A . Rink
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:31:50 +0200 "Sven Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Kristian, Hallo, Sven et al,... ...danke für den Kommentar und sorry für die vergurkte Mail, irgendwie hat mein MUA die Headerzeilen durcheinandergehauen - ich werd's abstellen. :) > Das von Dir geschilderte P

Re: Why was Galeon droped from STABLE?

2002-04-16 Thread dman
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:19:58AM -0500, dman wrote: | On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 08:49:00AM -0400, stan wrote: | | This is the best browser out there tofay & I have production machines on | | testing that I don't want to mess with unstable peices for, so now dselect | | is trying to remove my brow

Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:02:34PM +0200, DSC Siltec wrote: > I have the opposite problem , but I can help you with yours > even as I ask about mine. > > You are using the ISO-8859-2 character set, or else the Eastern-European > character set. That includes such things as Polish (Z-caret, S-car

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-16 Thread Joey Hess
John S. J. Anderson wrote: > So, where do python and e-lisp fit in your little scheme? (No pun > intended.) You can compile-n-run, or compile to intermediate > byte-code, distribute, and run. Or how about BASIC? It comes in both > interpreted and compiled versions; does the "scripting" > vs. "progr

Dpkg trouble again

2002-04-16 Thread Florian Struck
Ok ill ask again like in my earlyer post where i didn't get any answer. Could someone be so kind and give me the list file for rcs? cause mine is empty due to a crash while updating with dselect on sid. And now the package "rcs" is blocking all installation processes. I cant remove rcs cause dpkg

Re: starting nfs - allow/deny

2002-04-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya donno the current implementation ... but in the old days... hosts.allow is checked before hosts.deny ... in the files below everything is allowed... never gets a chance for checking deny and nothing is deny anyway since its commented out - sometimes ... in /etc/exports..

Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-16 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:40:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > >In many different man pages characters that should probably be some form > >of quote are displayed as a Z with an inverted caret on top. > > Can you give me an example page where you see this so that I can

Alternative to DEBIAN-CD

2002-04-16 Thread Daniel Mashao
I find debian-cd complicate and I cannot find the reason why it should be. All I want is to go to my usual mirror site and get woody distribution files and write them to a cd so that I can go home and update my computer to woody. 'potato' is just plain old - released in 2000, etc. I have a scanner

Samba alternative

2002-04-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
I used to have a full-blown Windows network set up at home with 5 PCs. As I started converting them to Linux I would set up Samba on each machine so they could still talk with the other Windows machines. At this point, I only have ONE fulltime Windows box running, and that's my local PDC/NAT router

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-16 Thread Steve Juranich
> Now I want to try out speech, no I am not losing my sight, its simply the > challenge, which brings me back on topic. If you're looking to fool around with speech, look at the festival package instead (no emacs required). If you're a signal processing wonk, you'll want the 'speech-tools' packag

Re: How do I get off the list??

2002-04-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Eileen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > I have tried for 2 weeks to ge off this list. As you can see, from I continue to see people having this problem. Why? I just changed ISP's and was subscribed to a half dozen Debian mailing lists. I went to www.debian.org, went to t

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-16 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Russ Pitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have always disliked emacs, so much so that when the install programs > loaded it I dumped it out as soon as I got to the root prompt, right from > years ago when I first started in linux. emacs is simply a great editor. A lot of people are put off at f

Re: sneakernet apt

2002-04-16 Thread Daniel Faller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 April 2002 15:38, Satelle, StevenX wrote: > I'm running 2 separate machines which have no connection between each > other. One (mach-1) has an always on high speed web connection. The other > (mach-2) doesn't. Both running Debian-2.2r5. i

Re: extern modem

2002-04-16 Thread Siward de Groot
"Karl E. Jorgensen" wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:43:35PM +0200, Vincent Poirriez wrote: > > I am new in the debian world, I have a problem in configuring my modem > > connection, either using pppconfig or kppp to configure it I obtain: > > Sorry, the modem is busy. While it's not true of

Re: sneakernet apt

2002-04-16 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 14:38, Satelle, StevenX wrote: > I'm running 2 separate machines which have no connection between each other. > One (mach-1) has an always on high speed web connection. The other (mach-2) > doesn't. Both running Debian-2.2r5. installed from CD. I want to download > updates on

How to log the whole start process

2002-04-16 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I'd like to log the whole output during the start process of Debian. I know that i can see all kerenl output with "dmesg" but everything wich comes after i can't. Is there a way to log that till that point where i should log in? cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Anno

jigdo and pik

2002-04-16 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I saw on the webiste that jgdao is the main CD image creation tool now... It is the successor of pik... Can anyone give me a reson? Pik does basically the same thing like jigdo and is runs on much platforms cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Annoyed about M$ Windo

frozen-bubble

2002-04-16 Thread James Vahn
Does anyone know the cause for this? [SDL Init] X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) Major opcode of failed request: 144 (XFree86-VidModeExtension) Minor opcode of failed request: 16 (XF86VidModeGetGamma) Serial

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Apr-2002 Russ Pitman wrote: > I have always disliked emacs, so much so that when the install programs > loaded it I dumped it out as soon as I got to the root prompt, right from > years ago when I first started in linux. > > Now I want to try out speech, no I am not losing my sight, its sim

Re:Why was Galeon droped from STABLE?

2002-04-16 Thread rafaelsch
>>Subject line says it all. > >This is the best browser out there tofay & I have production machines on >testing that I don't want to mess with unstable peices for, so now dselect >is trying to remove my browser :-( > >-- >"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve >ne

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-16 Thread Russ Pitman
Replying to myself. Sorry for wasting the bandwidth. Forget all ths crap Russ On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:07:28PM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: > I have always disliked emacs, so much so that when the install programs -- russ

Re: Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 03:33:10PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > In that case a likely candidate for upheaval is `libreadline'. > Look at `/etc/inputrc' and see that (input|output)-meta is on. > > # Be 8 bit clean. > set input-meta on > set output-meta on > ... > > Hope this

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-16 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 15 April 2002 21:56, John S. J. Anderson wrote: > jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > when would you use programming as opposed to scripting? > > Well, before I answer that, define, if you would, the difference > between "programming" and "scripting". (Warning: I don't think there's > mu

Re: Why was Galeon droped from STABLE?

2002-04-16 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin stan quotation: > > This is the best browser out there tofay & I have production machines on > testing that I don't want to mess with unstable peices for, so now dselect > is trying to remove my browser :-( Let me see if I understand this: You don't want unstable pieces on these systems,

Re: Why was Galeon droped from STABLE?

2002-04-16 Thread dman
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 08:49:00AM -0400, stan wrote: | Subject line says it all. Nothing is ever dropped from stable, and galeon was never in stable. It was dropped from woody because it doesn't meet the requirements to be in woody (if it ever was in woody, which I'm not sure of). | This is the

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2002-04-16 Thread lambd33
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Re: starting nfs

2002-04-16 Thread dman
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 01:16:50AM -0700, David Smead wrote: | Trying to mount knuth from henry says: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# mount /mnt/knuth | mount: RPC: Program not registered That means the server doesn't have mountd/nfsd running. It has portmap, but no programs have registered with po

Re: starting nfs

2002-04-16 Thread dman
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:11:24AM -0700, David Smead wrote: | Osamu, | | I read the reference manual but didn't find anything that addresses the | errors I get, which are: | | knuth:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start | Starting NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Function not implemente

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2002-04-16 Thread Satelle, StevenX
I'm running 2 separate machines which have no connection between each other. One (mach-1) has an always on high speed web connection. The other (mach-2) doesn't. Both running Debian-2.2r5. installed from CD. I want to download updates on mach-1 and get a copy of /var/cache/apt onto mach-2 (via a wi

Re: Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 08:34:05AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:41:11PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 05:42:57PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:03:34PM +0200, Henrik Enberg wrote: > > ... > > > > M-< goes to the top

Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-16 Thread Russ Pitman
I have always disliked emacs, so much so that when the install programs loaded it I dumped it out as soon as I got to the root prompt, right from years ago when I first started in linux. Now I want to try out speech, no I am not losing my sight, its simply the challenge, which brings me back on to

Re: hosed /var directory

2002-04-16 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Corinna Schultz quotation: > Help! My /var directory got hosed and I don't know how to recover it! What program did you use to back it up? -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM:

Re: Swapfiles

2002-04-16 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Oki DZ quotation: > > On a 128Mbytes machine, how much swap space can it handle? Would it be all > right to assign it 384Mbytes? Short answer: yes. Long answer: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/swap-allocation.html Of special interest would be this line: "If your calculated swap space is v

Why was Galeon droped from STABLE?

2002-04-16 Thread stan
Subject line says it all. This is the best browser out there tofay & I have production machines on testing that I don't want to mess with unstable peices for, so now dselect is trying to remove my browser :-( -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither libe

Pointer to Galeon user mailing list?

2002-04-16 Thread stan
A quick check of the Galeon home page failed to point me to how to subscribe to the isers mailing list for this package. Has anyone got a pointer as to how to subscribe to this list? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-16 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin John S. J. Anderson quotation: > > I'm confused by the above statement. Canceling out the double > negative, I get > > "that is the definition most people mean when they know enough to > call non-scripting 'programming'". You cannot cancel two negatives out of sentence by merely ass

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-16 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin John S. J. Anderson quotation: > > So, where do python and e-lisp fit in your little scheme? (No pun See the followup email. It ain't my scheme, and I don't agree with it; I was presenting what my experience shows is usually meant by people who don't know better than the split "scripting"

Re: nvidia Twinview TV wo/ 800x600

2002-04-16 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 18:26, James Hook wrote: > 2.) Every now and then X will restart, most of the time it is after > switching from a vt back to X, not a big problem but when I switch back to > a vt after this restart the screen stays in a graphical mode and garbage > is displayed (coloured horiz

Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-16 Thread Colin Watson
Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: >In many different man pages characters that should probably be some form >of quote are displayed as a Z with an inverted caret on top. Can you give me an example page where you see this so that I can try to reproduce it? It sounds like your fonts aren't doing the right t

Re: Reconfiguring network with DHCP/BOOTP

2002-04-16 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 04:56, Ryan Jordan wrote: If the net card is properly installed, check the /etc/network/interfaces file and see if it looks somthing like this: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp If you later want to configure the pc with static ip, just comment o

nvidia Twinview TV wo/ 800x600

2002-04-16 Thread James Hook
G'Day, I have a NVidia Geforce2 w/tv out video card, im running X4 (recently updated with the unstable dist) using the NVidia drivers (1.0.2802), gdm starts X automatically. Problem I am having is as follows: 1.) I cannot seem to get the TV to run at 800x600 if I am running in twinview mode (CRT

Re: starting nfs

2002-04-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:11:24AM -0700, David Smead wrote: > Osamu, > > I read the reference manual but didn't find anything that addresses the > errors I get, which are: > > knuth:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start > Starting NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Function not implem

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2002-04-16 Thread Bartosz Wierucki
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Gnome very, very slow.....

2002-04-16 Thread Vittorio
I have a constantly updated woody installation on my laptop. When as user_one I start a gnome-session (sawfish desktop) using startx it all ticks wonderfully, whilst starting from other users (root, user_two and user_three) the same gnome session: 1) Gnome loads slowly, too slowly (say 40-60 sec

rotating logs : 2 newb questions

2002-04-16 Thread José
hi all, i'm a little newbie :) and i need to know how to change the rotate frequency of the apache logs. (error, access and custom) also, i have dhcpd running and it's logging to the syslog , how to log into /var/log/dhcpd ??? thx for those infos. José. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

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2002-04-16 Thread alex
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Re: starting nfs

2002-04-16 Thread David Smead
Osamu, I read the reference manual but didn't find anything that addresses the errors I get, which are: knuth:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start Starting NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Function not implemented mountd. Exporting directories for NFS kernel daemon...feynman.amplepower

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