cd writing with USB CD-RW

2002-05-28 Thread John Griffiths
hello all I've been using cdrecord very happily to burn cd's through ide-scsi can anyone suggest how I'd go about using a USB cdrw? Thanks for your time John WARNING - This email is confidential and may contain copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient of Capital Monitor's or

Re: Setting up Email from multiple POP accounts

2002-05-28 Thread synthespian
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 08:25:18PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:17:06AM +1000, Damian Del Campo wrote: > | Hi I'm looking to setup email on a debian machine -> I have a network > | of computers at home, one of which is set up as a router, file server > | and now hopefully a mail

Re: Woody: make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

2002-05-28 Thread Bob Proulx
> Just a quick question on a related matter. I have been using this > machine for a while now. $LANG was always set to C. C is the same as POSIX and the same as unset which is to say you get traditional sort order. Things are sorted like US-ASCII which is [A-Z] before [a-z] and the like. Setting

Re: two ethernet cards

2002-05-28 Thread Elizabeth Barham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am trying to set up a firewall, however I have hit a snag that I > cannot seem to get around. I am trying to run two ethernet cards, > both of them are Netgear FA310TX cards, and both are supposed to run > on the tulip driver. When I install the OS, and I set up eth0

Re: synaptic ???

2002-05-28 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Andy Saxena wrote: > > On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 08:40:27PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > > Anybody used synaptic on debian to manage rpm's? > > > > It is a graphical/x app that must run as root -- and, by default, root > > cannot run x apps ;< > > Eh? I run X apps all the time. Heck, I c

Mail-Followup-To: hacking in mutt

2002-05-28 Thread dman
I was going through the mutt FAQ and came across this : How can I change the Mail-Followup-To Header? Simply set mutt's edit_hdrs variable, and supply one yourself. Mutt will generate a Mail-Followup-To header if and only if you didn't supply one, and the message is directed to a

Re: SIGNAL 11 In libjvm.so

2002-05-28 Thread dman
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:45:52PM -0500, Eric Brooks wrote: | I am running on Woody Debian Kernel 2.2.19. I just installed the Blackdown | distribution of Java 1.3. Occassionally, when I just enter the 'java' | command, I get a SIGNAL 11, as illustrated below. | | From my reading, it looks like

Re: Package Configures inittab

2002-05-28 Thread tom r
Jerome, Thanks for the suggestion, and I've searched that file extensively. Still no clue. But I should be able to track this down during the init process. Everytime I reboot a line gets added to inittab. How can I track this down? Thanks. Tom On Tuesday 28 May 2002 16:14, Jerome Acks Jr

Re: unresolved symbols on Woody with a RH module

2002-05-28 Thread whbell
Quoting Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 03:29:02PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am running Woody with my own 2.4.18 kernel based on the 2.4.18-5 deb > > package. I have a supplier that has delivered a kernel module for a > special > > software modem that was

Re: Debian: local settings?

2002-05-28 Thread Petr Vanek
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 09:43:14PM -0600, David Jackson wrote: > Petr -- > No having this correctly set was causing problems with man pages. > The soluton was to run: > dpkg-reconfigure locales > > Which added this line the /etc/locales.gen: > en_US ISO-8859-1 i see, ok, so it means - at least on

Re: synaptic ???

2002-05-28 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 08:40:27PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Anybody used synaptic on debian to manage rpm's? > > It is a graphical/x app that must run as root -- and, by default, root > cannot run x apps ;< > Eh? I run X apps all the time. Heck, I can even run KDE/ Gnome as root. As

Re: sort

2002-05-28 Thread Dave Carrigan
O Senhor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can i delete equal lines from a file, without sort it? > If i use sort -u, the command clean up the repeat lines, but sort my > file (ascendent). I don't want this. I need my file in original form. perl -ne 'print unless $lines{$_}++' filename -- D

Re: 'debian' submenus have disappeared from my KDE menu

2002-05-28 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:18:04AM +0200, I.J.W. Wever wrote: > This morning I learned the hard way why one should alias 'rm' to 'rm -i'. Opinions will wary, but that is not necessary. Besides, it will get you into the habit of depending on "-i" as a check of last resort. If you were on another ma

Re: problem with sound...

2002-05-28 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:45:07PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Here's what is says for my sound card: > > > >Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio > >Controller (rev 40) > > Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 1200 > > Flags

SIGNAL 11 In libjvm.so

2002-05-28 Thread Eric Brooks
I am running on Woody Debian Kernel 2.2.19. I just installed the Blackdown distribution of Java 1.3. Occassionally, when I just enter the 'java' command, I get a SIGNAL 11, as illustrated below. From my reading, it looks like this could indicate either a hardware or a software problem. Has anyone

two ethernet cards

2002-05-28 Thread kbdlock
I am trying to set up a firewall, however I have hit a snag that I cannot seem to get around. I am trying to run two ethernet cards, both of them are Netgear FA310TX cards, and both are supposed to run on the tulip driver. When I install the OS, and I set up eth0, it works fine, right from t

Re: Fonts using various screen resolutions

2002-05-28 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:50:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have been doing a lot of reading on de-uglifying fonts on X. I have > installed truetype fonts, worked on xfs, tried different configurations in my > applications. > > In the end it worked quite well, but nowhere nea

Re: jdk 1.4.0 ???

2002-05-28 Thread Walter Reed
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 05:32:31PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > opennms wants to start; but, now, it tells me that I need jdk 1.4.0. > > Where can I find this deb? > > What do you think? Don't know about the deb but just go to sun's web site and download it. It's VERY easy. -- To UNS

Re: Woody: make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

2002-05-28 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:53:04AM -0400, David Jackson wrote: > Jeff -- > Thanks for you reply. > > > > According to /etc/locale.gen this is the command to build locales. > (and it worked) > > dpkg-reconfigure locales > > David > > > Just a quick question on a related matter. I have been

EXplanation: Re: Applications not using hosts file for name resolution

2002-05-28 Thread John
Pete Harlan wrote: This is a wierd but correct behaviour of IPv6 resolution. There are a huge number of bug reports about it. Do you know the rationale behind IPv6 considering this 'correct'? If you could explain it for the benefit of myself and everyone else who gets bit by this and searche

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 06:59:11PM -0400, Robert Funnell wrote: > I was going to ask if one could do this using dselect rather than > apt-get dist-upgrade, but concluded that it was a dumb question and > that the answer was obviously 'no'. I guess I was wrong. Do you have > to do anything special i

Re: How can I go further?

2002-05-28 Thread dman
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:45:00AM +0800, Squirrel wrote: | Dear All, | I have installed the minimal Debian Mips OS and also want to install | the compiler environment include the gcc ,ld,binutil and so on.Can you | give me a hand? If you're using potato : apt-get install task-c-devel If you'

Re: Where to ask: Can procmail modify a header field? Add a header field?

2002-05-28 Thread dman
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:40:39PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: | Can procmail modify a message header field (e.g., prepend "spam:" to | the subject field value)? Can it add a header field? Yes (more or less, at least). | (The procmailrc manual page leaves quite a bit to be desired.) It does.

How can I go further?

2002-05-28 Thread Squirrel
Dear All, I have installed the minimal Debian Mips OS and also want to install the compiler environment include the gcc ,ld,binutil and so on.Can you give me a hand? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tuning for processor architecture

2002-05-28 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I am interested in making special builds of some of my debian packages in order to tune them for the CPU of the specific machines they will be installed on. I would appreciate any input you have on the best way to pursue this, as well as which packages I should tune to get the most benefit. I

Where to ask: Can procmail modify a header field? Add a header field?

2002-05-28 Thread Daniel Barclay
Can someone point me to a good mailing list for asking the following question? Can procmail modify a message header field (e.g., prepend "spam:" to the subject field value)? Can it add a header field? (The procmailrc manual page leaves quite a bit to be desired.) I can filter mail via .forwa

Re: onshore-timesheet

2002-05-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 09:55:02PM -0400, Harland Christofferson wrote: > is anyone successfully using this package? i have loaded it but get the error: > > Sorry, I cannot complete your request: > > Cannot connect to backend: localhost:5432:timesheet: no connection to > the server Haven't

Re: Problem with syslog/kernel messages

2002-05-28 Thread Oki DZ
On 2002.05.28 16:51 Martin Hermanowski wrote: I got a problem with syslog on Woody. I have several machines on which kernel messages do *not* get logged to syslog. In the syslog.conf, the first line is: | *.* -/var/log/syslog I don't think that you need the vertical

onshore-timesheet

2002-05-28 Thread Harland Christofferson
is anyone using this successfully? i installed it, set it up, and tried to log in as admin. I receive the folloing error: Sorry, I cannot complete your request: Cannot connect to backend: localhost:5432:timesheet: no connection to the server If you feel that this is a bug, please report

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Oki DZ
On 2002.05.29 05:59 Robert Funnell wrote: I'm also confused about kernels. I think I read that there was a choice of kernel versions to use with woody. I guess there's no problem with upgrading to woody using the same old kernel? I assume that dselect doesn't do kernels. Usually, you wouldn't h

Re: Mac OS X package

2002-05-28 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Most of the subscribers to debian-powerpc are Mac users, so maybe you should ask there. I'm not so happy with what I've experienced with OS X installers so far, although maybe it's because the writer of the installer scripts didn't make the effort to make them flexible. For example, the inst

woody header files ???

2002-05-28 Thread Michael D. Schleif
As you may know, I built a new system last weekend, installing enough potato to boot and dist-upgrade to woody. Now, after apt-get'ing a bunch of stuff, I need to compile; but, I seem to be lacking enough header files. What am I missing? Which package? # ls -al `find /usr/ | grep README.header

Re: Mac OS X package

2002-05-28 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe that there are Debian users who are also Mac users. Question > is, compared to Debian packaging system, is it Mac's any better...? No. There is port of dpkg/apt to Mac OS X -- see HTH, john. -- "Knowledge itself is p

Re: Keyboard Crashing

2002-05-28 Thread Oki DZ
On 2002.05.28 23:10 Hereward Cooper wrote: Anyone else had keyboard just randomly stop working? The latest thing happened to me was that the plain<->PS2 keyboard converter stopped working; a little nudge on it fixed things. Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

onshore-timesheet

2002-05-28 Thread Harland Christofferson
is anyone successfully using this package? i have loaded it but get the error: Sorry, I cannot complete your request: Cannot connect to backend: localhost:5432:timesheet: no connection to the server If you feel that this is a bug, please report it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Mac OS X package

2002-05-28 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I believe that there are Debian users who are also Mac users. Question is, compared to Debian packaging system, is it Mac's any better...? Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2002-05-28 Thread Harland Christofferson
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Balsa

2002-05-28 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, At times, when I have messages with attachments, Balsa prints out the following: ** WARNING **: Cannot find expected file "gnome-multipart-alternative.png" (spliced with "pixmaps") with no extra prefixes Balsa is 1.2.4, Debian Sid. Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: problem with alsa and my via686a card...

2002-05-28 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:53:19PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > # ALSA portion > alias char-major-116 snd > alias snd-card-0 snd-via686a > # OSS/Free portion > alias char-major-14 soundcore > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 > Here is a simple method that I use to get

Re: sort

2002-05-28 Thread Steve Juranich
> > I haven't debugged/tested this. YMMV. > > That'll work, but imagine the performance when there are, say, > 75,000 lines, each 50 bytes... Hence the caveat. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTE

Re: sort

2002-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 14:25, Steve Juranich wrote: > Here's a chunk of Python code that should do the trick. > > lines = open(filename).readlines() > > line_dict = {} > for line in lines: > if line not in line_dict.keys(): > print line > line_dict[line] = 1 > > I haven'

question

2002-05-28 Thread Ari Kay
I downloaded xmakemol and it has the form *.deb. I would like to know how to run the file. I am currently working with Red Hat 7.2. _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: woody config file

2002-05-28 Thread Joris
>> If I want to compile a kernel but want to us my current configuration >> as a guide is that possible? > Copy an existing config into $(source-tree)/.config, where > $(source-tree) is the top-level directory of the unpacked kernel source, > and 'make menuconfig' or whatever you normally do. Coli

safe_mysqld hangs ssh connection every time. (woody)

2002-05-28 Thread justin cunningham
Why does this happen? If I start mysql /etc/init.d/mysql start this is not a problem though safe_mysqld --with or without options it hangs. Connecting via ssh terminal emulation is linux. -justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: ATI Radeon 7000

2002-05-28 Thread Petro
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 08:28:45AM -0600, user list wrote: > Reading with mutt makes me less likely to do the cut and paste. Anyway, > if the link to which you refer is Funny, works for me. apt-get install urlview. -- My last cigarette was roughly 36 days, 13 hours, 55 minutes ago. Y

Re: PHP4 setup problems

2002-05-28 Thread Joris
> It means that the kernel didn't know how to execute that file. Perhaps > you need '#! /usr/bin/php4' as the first line of the PHP script? Or add the following lines to /etc/apache/httpd.conf, preferably between and its ending tag AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType applicatio

Re: problems with cdr and cdrom: possibly related to upgrade

2002-05-28 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi Joachim and all. first of all, I think now that it is a hardware problem (loose cable, failing cdrom or something) rather than something in unstable, though i'm not absolutely sure. Secondly, though, I've been using this cd setup for over a month with no problems and with support built into the

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
Sweet, I will try again! Mike On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 07:50, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi Mark, > Did you install postgres and horde2 from sid? > > mike Yes, it was sid. I think I understand your problem now, though. I am betting that your hosts file does not say 127.0.0.1 localhost hostname b

Problem with logging in (Constant password change)

2002-05-28 Thread Patrick Klee
Hi all, I have a PPC, but it's pretty much the same on both since I have an x86 box as well. N E Hoo, here's the problem... I login to the system, and it says I need too create a new password. This is for root AND user! And it also happens everytime I login, it says I need to make a new pas

Re: how to confirm mod_perl is functioning with apache? to run mason

2002-05-28 Thread Petro
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:17:12PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > On 2002.05.23 20:42 justin cunningham wrote: > >hey list, I wanted to check out mason which requires mod_perl but it's > >not show as a loadable module in /etc/apache/httpd.conf I just > >installed libapache-mod-perl but wasn't prom

Re: bringing up multiple pc-card interfaces

2002-05-28 Thread Dave Price
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:17:43PM -0400, Loren Jordan wrote: > > in your /etc/network/interfaces remove the "auto eth0" and "auto eth1" > lines. When your pcmcia services start and the drivers for the cards are > brought online (modules loaded, or already built in) the pcmcia networking > exe

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Robert Funnell
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > >edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody, and do apt-get > >dist-upgrade > > > This usually works great, but for an upgrade of this magnitude (between > releases), I'd strongly recommend dselect or another tool with > interactive dependency negot

Re: problem with alsa and my via686a card...

2002-05-28 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, I've installed ALSA and attempted to run through it, but where I get really confused is where you have to edit modules.conf. I guess I'm a bit intimidated by the lines that say "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!" I wrote in the following lines: # ALSA portion alias char-major-1

Re: 'debian' submenus have disappeared from my KDE menu

2002-05-28 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Maybe you only have to run update-menus (as root?) to restore your menu structure. Regards, Joachim On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:18:04AM +0200, I.J.W. Wever wrote: > This morning I learned the hard way why one should alias 'rm' to 'rm -i'. > Everything is allright now, except for one tiny thing: e

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-28 Thread Petro
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:32:02AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, May 22, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:16:57AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Tue, May 21, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Is this the first time someone has

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Roach, Mark R.
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 07:50, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi Mark, > Did you install postgres and horde2 from sid? > > mike Yes, it was sid. I think I understand your problem now, though. I am betting that your hosts file does not say 127.0.0.1 localhost hostname but rather 127.0.0.1 localhost yo

jdk 1.4.0 ???

2002-05-28 Thread Michael D. Schleif
I want to run opennms on my woody. Months ago, I was told that I needed tomcat4. Found it last weekend and installed it. Then, opennms is available for mdk and rpm; so, I hunted around and found alien. Thanks, Colin. opennms wants to start; but, now, it tells me that I need jdk 1.4.0. Where

Re: debian x11/xfree86 howto ???

2002-05-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > What is the best all-round resource that explains the relationships > between all of those files? Is there some howto that explains the > system as a whole -- *not* the 50,000 foot level of how pretty > everything is -- rather, a system administrator's guide to tell me: if > you want to do th

debian x11/xfree86 howto ???

2002-05-28 Thread Michael D. Schleif
First, let it be known that I've been a cli guy for too many years. I've been running various flavors of linux since 1.x days. Mostly, though, I'd just telnet or ssh in and do what I need via cli. Occasionally, I'd take a stab at xfree86 and I could get a fairly nice gui; but, I always want to

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 13:48, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > I tried editing the pg_hba.conf file. > There were only 3 unpounded lines. > The first 2 pointed to localhost and the last one pointed to all hosts. > but, the last line had reject, so I changed it to trust > and I still couldn't get horde

Re: Package Configures inittab

2002-05-28 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 03:00:46PM -0600, tom r wrote: > Eric, > > Thanks for the response. I ran `dpkg-reconfigure sysvinit' but it did not > bring up the screen to request an addition to inittab, so I don't think > sysvinit is the one. Besides, when I installed debian on a previous laptop,

Re: Dual Boot with XP

2002-05-28 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:17:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > I am surprised - I was under the impression that XP was hostile to > Linux and you had to be sneaky to get it to work. So, am I right then; > > 1: install XP to hda1 > 2: install Debian to hdb1-7 > 3: install lilo

Re: Dual Boot with XP

2002-05-28 Thread Steve Juranich
> 1: install XP to hda1 > 2: install Debian to hdb1-7 > 3: install lilo to hda > 4: edit lilo.conf as above > 5: run lilo > 6: reboot and select as appropriate > > Is the right things in the right order? That's the order I'd recommend. That's what I did with m

problem with alsa and my via686a card...

2002-05-28 Thread alo
ok, I've installed ALSA and attempted to run through it, but where I get really confused is where you have to edit modules.conf. I guess I'm a bit intimidated by the lines that say "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!" I wrote in the following lines: # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd

Re: Dual Boot with XP

2002-05-28 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 23:17, Keith O'Connell wrote: > I am surprised - I was under the impression that XP was hostile to > Linux and you had to be sneaky to get it to work. So, am I right > then; > > 1: install XP to hda1 > 2: install Debian to hdb1-7 > 3: install lilo to hda >

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi Mark, Did you install postgres and horde2 from sid? mike On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 05:03, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > > > By default postgres only listens on a unix socket. At the bottom of the > > pg_hba.conf file it tells you that you can set postmaster to allow > > tcp/ip access by putting >

php session_start problems & squirrelmail

2002-05-28 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Squirrelmail is installed on several machines in our department, but it is used infrequently. The last time I used it was in March when it worked fine; a few days ago, I was unable to login on any installation. The imap setup is fine. One setup is sid with squirrelmail 1.2.6-1 apache

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I tried editing the pg_hba.conf file. There were only 3 unpounded lines. The first 2 pointed to localhost and the last one pointed to all hosts. but, the last line had reject, so I changed it to trust and I still couldn't get horde2 to configure postgres. I haven't tried the telnet localhost

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Falk Hueffner wrote: "Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I know this has been asked before, but what are , in general terms, the way of upgrading an entire system to woody? I have to install stable first (on an alpha...due to woody install glitches), Hmm, what's wrong with the

Re: User is not allowed to connect to X

2002-05-28 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 22:48, Pollywog wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2002 22:43:01 +0200 > > "Raffaele Sandrini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I made a cool autologin script wich logs a user "autologin" automatically > > in at the time we are at /dev/console (init is not completed). If i type

Re: Dual Boot with XP

2002-05-28 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Keith O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve, > > > Better yet, add this to /etc/lilo.conf: > > > > other=/dev/hda1 > > label=WinXP > > > > This works splendidly for me. YMMV. > > I am surprised - I was under the impression that XP was hostile to > Linux and you had to be sneaky t

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 11:03, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > > > By default postgres only listens on a unix socket. At the bottom of the > > pg_hba.conf file it tells you that you can set postmaster to allow > > tcp/ip access by putting > > > > tcpip_socket = 1 > > > > in your /etc/postgresql/postgr

Re: problems with cdr and cdrom: possibly related to upgrade

2002-05-28 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Cheryl, I suggest to check if the right modules are loaded. You need ide-scsi and scsi_mod , additionally for mounting a cdrom device sr_mod and for cd recording sg . Type lsmod (as root) to check if the modules are there. If not, modprobe -v . Then either the module is loaded or you get a

Re: free86server

2002-05-28 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 11:31:41AM -0300, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > Hello, > > I just started fooling around with debian. The part that gives me more > trouble than usual is the setup of the xserver. > I upgraded from xfree3.3.6 to 4.1.0 but I am getting the same problems. > The mouse doesn't work at

Re: Dual Boot with XP

2002-05-28 Thread Keith O'Connell
Steve, > Better yet, add this to /etc/lilo.conf: > > other=/dev/hda1 > label=WinXP > > This works splendidly for me. YMMV. I am surprised - I was under the impression that XP was hostile to Linux and you had to be sneaky to get it to work. So, am I right then; 1: install XP to

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Mike Egglestone wrote: > APT has to be the greatest thing ever. Jes, it is. > All you really need to do is edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file > to point to either stable, or testing, or unstable and then > run > #apt-get update > #apt-get dist-upgrade > > Obviously, you want woody, so you w

Re: unresolved symbols on Woody with a RH module

2002-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 03:29:02PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running Woody with my own 2.4.18 kernel based on the 2.4.18-5 deb > package. I have a supplier that has delivered a kernel module for a special > software modem that was developed using RH 7.2 with the default 2.4.7 kernel

apt-get upgrade wants to d/l unstable packages

2002-05-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I'm using the testing distribution (i.e. woody), but when I type "apt-get upgrade -s", it mentions unstable packages, e.g. Inst abiword (1.0.1+cvs.2002.05.24-1 Debian:unstable) [] Why? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc P

Re: Dual Boot with XP

2002-05-28 Thread Steve Juranich
Better yet, add this to /etc/lilo.conf: other=/dev/hda1 label=WinXP This works splendidly for me. YMMV. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://

Re: authenticate from LDAP (samba PDC)

2002-05-28 Thread dman
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:53:42AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: | On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:38:04PM -0500, dman wrote: | > Now I want to make samba be the PDC for the windows machines and have | > it authenticate against the LDAP server as well. The docs I've read | > seem to indicate that samba and

Re: sort

2002-05-28 Thread dman
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 03:12:50PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: | On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:06:33PM -0300, O Senhor wrote: | > How can i delete equal lines from a file, without sort it? | > If i use sort -u, the command clean up the repeat lines, but sort my | > file (ascendent). I don't want th

Re: Package Configures inittab

2002-05-28 Thread tom r
Eric, Thanks for the response. I ran `dpkg-reconfigure sysvinit' but it did not bring up the screen to request an addition to inittab, so I don't think sysvinit is the one. Besides, when I installed debian on a previous laptop, the question never appeared and I'm sure sysvinit is common to bo

Dual Boot with XP

2002-05-28 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, A quick question. This weekend I need to install Debian and Win XP on the same machine (XP on hda1 and Linux on hdb1-7). I want to know if the procedure is the same as it was when I last did this, with Windows NT, by creating a bootsect.lnx file and editing c:\boot.ini to point at the linux

Re: User is not allowed to connect to X

2002-05-28 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 28 May 2002 22:43:01 +0200 "Raffaele Sandrini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I made a cool autologin script wich logs a user "autologin" automatically in > at the time we are at /dev/console (init is not completed). If i type startx > there then i get a message "User is not allowe

User is not allowed to connect to X

2002-05-28 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I made a cool autologin script wich logs a user "autologin" automatically in at the time we are at /dev/console (init is not completed). If i type startx there then i get a message "User is not allowed to conect to X". How can i allow him? I'm prefectly able to do the same as root so its not

Re: USB-CAM

2002-05-28 Thread Kristian Rink
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 09:29:43PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > Is there any tutorial of how to mount a digital camera with USB- > I Need total guidance since i don't now anything about how to do it. In most cases, running gphoto or gphoto2 should be what you might want to do. For information beyo

Re: sort

2002-05-28 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 03:42:13PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Rick" == Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rick> Have you looked at 'uniq'? > > uniq still needs the lines to be sorted: > > # man uniq > > [...] > > NAME >uniq - remove duplicate lines from a *sorted* fil

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Roach, Mark R.
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 05:03, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > > > By default postgres only listens on a unix socket. At the bottom of the > > pg_hba.conf file it tells you that you can set postmaster to allow > > tcp/ip access by putting > > > > tcpip_socket = 1 > > > > in your /etc/postgresql/postgr

unresolved symbols on Woody with a RH module

2002-05-28 Thread whbell
Hello everyone, I am running Woody with my own 2.4.18 kernel based on the 2.4.18-5 deb package. I have a supplier that has delivered a kernel module for a special software modem that was developed using RH 7.2 with the default 2.4.7 kernel. I have set CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y but when I try to ins

Acoustic Coupler - configuration?

2002-05-28 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
How do I configure Debian for manual dial-in using Acoustic Koupler (on public payphones)? Thanks, Hearthstone. = A penny more. Should we, the people, be sincere about wanting a real peace on Earth, we would spend at least a penny more on active promotion of peace, than what we spend o

[R] problem with R-mathlib standalone (?)

2002-05-28 Thread Berkan Eskikaya
Hi, Short story: could somebody with r-mathlib installed on their system compile and let me know of the output of the tiny C code at the end of this message please.. Long story: I'm trying to use pgamma() within my C application but I'm getting strange results. I have r-mathlib 1.4.1-1, libc6 2.

Package Configures inittab

2002-05-28 Thread tom r
Hi all, I recently installed debian on my laptop. At one point, a package configuration script appeared and asked me if I wanted to add a getty for ttyS1 to inittab. I foolishly answered "yes" and now want to change it, but I don't remember which package it was. How do find which package mod

Re: sort

2002-05-28 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Rick" == Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rick> On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:06:33PM -0300, O Senhor wrote: >> How can i delete equal lines from a file, without sort it? If i use >> sort -u, the command clean up the repeat lines, but sort my file >> (ascendent). I don't want this. I

Re: sort

2002-05-28 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:06:33PM -0300, O Senhor wrote: > How can i delete equal lines from a file, without sort it? > If i use sort -u, the command clean up the repeat lines, but sort my > file (ascendent). I don't want this. I need my file in original form. > You might try using nl to pre

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, APT has to be the greatest thing ever. All you really need to do is edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to either stable, or testing, or unstable and then run #apt-get update #apt-get dist-upgrade Obviously, you want woody, so you would point apt sources to "testing". To point th

RE: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Ted Goodridge, Jr
The woody alpha install images have that nasty loop bug with the base pkg. Ted > -Original Message- > From: Falk Hueffner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Falk Hueffner > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 2:28 PM > To: Ted Goodridge, Jr > Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org; debian-user@list

w gives strange output on woody: (JCPU is very large 124 days?)

2002-05-28 Thread Walter Tautz
debian30:~# w 15:24:09 up 4 days, 4:30, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT rbutterw pts/0mfcf.math13:022:14m 124days ? - wtautz pts/1mfcf.math.uwater 13:160.00s 124days ? - Spec

USB-CAM

2002-05-28 Thread Peter Holm
Is there any tutorial of how to mount a digital camera with USB- interface. I Need total guidance since i don't now anything about how to do it. The only thing i grab right now is how i physichally attach the camera to my computer. But which configs are neccesary and how do i retreive files. An

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know this has been asked before, but what are , in general terms, the > way of upgrading an entire system to woody? I have to install stable > first (on an alpha...due to woody install glitches), Hmm, what's wrong with the woody installation?

Re: sort

2002-05-28 Thread Steve Juranich
Here's a chunk of Python code that should do the trick. lines = open(filename).readlines() line_dict = {} for line in lines: if line not in line_dict.keys(): print line line_dict[line] = 1 I haven't debugged/tested this. YMMV. Have fun.

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