Re: Do debian-users get spammed a lot?

2002-10-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 14 October 2002 19:52, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:39:23 -0400 > > Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (20-30 per day!). Is this probably just a coincidence, or does > > debian-user get trolled/web-botted a lot? > > No problem here. I've been subscribed for o

Re: Fw: gnome2 instalacion

2002-10-14 Thread thomas kral
Probably late, but anyway, have you tried the folllowing page? http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html Thomas Dne 1997.01.07 01:32 napsal salva: > Hi > > I have debian woody 3.0 installed with kde3.0, and i want to install > gnome2, > Who can send me the packages adress and a installati

AW: Setting up RAID

2002-10-14 Thread Yildiz, Murat
I think you don't have any chance with softraid to expect resyncing a virgin disk by itself...or? Murat -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Montag, 14. Oktober 2002 23:19 An: Stephen Gran Cc: debian users Betreff: Re: Setting up RAID hi ya f

RE: laptop environment detection

2002-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
>So, I am fiddling around with whereami to do this; check for a wire, if so >bring it up. If no wire, drop eth0 and bring up wlan0. Solves the "pump" >problem; now all I have to do is get it to find the wireless card on boot. Can't you test the output of lspci for the wireless nic ? Just a tho

Re: subversion equivalent of 'cvs update -C'

2002-10-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:16:34PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> On Monday 14 October 2002 17:11, Colin Watson wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:01:21PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: >> > > Does subversion have an equivalent to the command 'cvs

Re: Postfix setup

2002-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.15.0608 +0200]: > This is an _additional_ way of allowing clients to relay mail through > you. You don't need to specify your local network if you already > allow other hosts within your domain to relay through you. how does he do so? he just s

Re: Postfix setup

2002-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.15.0555 +0200]: > If you have a static IP address then yes, "Internet Site". If you > have a DUL or a DHCP or other dynamic address then choose "Internet > with smarthost" and specify your ISP mail hub for the smart host. If you have a dynamic

Re: laptop environment detection

2002-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.15.0725 +0200]: > I expect either one would work well. I tried both and ended up with whereami, > but YMMV. With whereami, I was also able to understand what was happening in > the scripts despite being fairly ignorant of such things, and was able t

RE: how to control console's resolution?

2002-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
You could try adding the following to /etc/lilo.conf vga=ask When it boot it should give to option to try different modes, and you can enter 'scan' which will try to determine which mode are suppoorted. Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: Try KDE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:54:05AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Is there a download manager for linux at all ? > > I would like to schedule late night downloads. > Preferably with a pause/resume feature. Example: $ at 2300 at> wget -cw15 -t0 http://urls/go/here/ at> ^D job 230 at 2002-10-1

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 14:04, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > Crispin Wellington wrote: > > While most games are developed for Windows systems, you can find a lot > of useful information at gamedev.net and such. Oh yes! And gamasutra.com is another excellent resource. Crispin signature.asc Descr

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-14 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 10:22, Jason Stechschulte wrote: > >>I know there are a lot of programmers on this list, so I'm hoping >>someone might be kind enough to help me. I already am a so so >>programmer. I'm comfortable using Perl and PHP and I have a little >>experie

Bug in transfig 3.2.3.d-rel-3

2002-10-14 Thread J.S.Sahambi
Hello, I have just now noticed that a bug on the version of transfig 3.2.3.d-rel-3. When I use xfig to export a combined PS/LaTex figures using the default LaTeX font, the style becomes {rm} (Roman) instead of the usual {\familydefault}{\mddefault}{\updefault} e.g. the input inside a pstex_t l

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 10:22, Jason Stechschulte wrote: > I know there are a lot of programmers on this list, so I'm hoping > someone might be kind enough to help me. I already am a so so > programmer. I'm comfortable using Perl and PHP and I have a little > experience in C/C++. > > I'm now th

Re: laptop environment detection

2002-10-14 Thread Bruce
I expect either one would work well. I tried both and ended up with whereami, but YMMV. With whereami, I was also able to understand what was happening in the scripts despite being fairly ignorant of such things, and was able to quickly customize them to my purposes. By the way, whereami also

Re: ADSL, routers firewalls etc.

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-14 14:29:04 +0100]: > I manage a small office network that we can now afford to upgrade to an ADSL > internet connection. In researching ADSL support for Debian linux I am a > little confused on a few issues, mainly as I only have experience with Cable > Modem bro

Re: No DHCPOFFERS received

2002-10-14 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 October 2002 11:28 pm, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Alan Chandler heeft geschreven: > >It may be that you have to register the ethernet card address with the > > ISP > > I don't have a static ip adress but the cable company uses dynamic IP

Re: Linksys PCMCIA network card - what module to use?

2002-10-14 Thread Yuhanes Tjandra
Hi, I think, pcnet_cs is the module that you're looking for. Yuhanes Neal Lippman schrieb: >I decided to have a go at getting debian installed on my Thinkpad 770ED; >mostly I was able to get the initial module configuration to work (a few >glitches, but I can work those out later). However, un

Re: Linux: a gentle, growing approach

2002-10-14 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 October 2002 11:09 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > > you should try aptitude. I did, but I found it non-intuative. I suspect it was a learning curve thing, but I found it selected and de-selected packages is with a mind of its own, and

Re: Reiserfs & bad blocks??

2002-10-14 Thread Bruce
Thanks for the reply; luckily, the machine is still bootable, and seems to work fine except for the fact that I cannot install or remove any packages. I'll back up the drive, and dig out the receipt; the drive is only 6 months old and is still under warranty, so shouldn't have started deteriora

Re: Reiserfs & bad blocks??

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 04:47, Bruce wrote: > I figured this is a hardware/bad block problem. I rebooted with a rescue disk, > and ran reiserfsck --check /dev/hda2, and received the following error: > > hda: read_intr: error-0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=148574, > sector=148511 end_reques

Re: making a deb distro

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 10:11, jeff wrote: > was curious if there's any nifty documentation out there that would > cover creating you're own debian distro. i would like to make one with > all my favorite junk on it and pass it around to a handful of friends so > they can play with it. The way I

Re: How does Debian keep Packages.gz consistent over different sites?

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Try KDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-14 23:36:09 -0400]: > Lets say I have two lines in sources.list that are almost identical > expect for the http sites are different. And now I issue a "apt-get > update", and site1 tells apt "the latest version of testing/vim is 1.3", > while site2, which ma

Re: question

2002-10-14 Thread Kent West
Ramses Gonzalez wrote: >Hi! I got the Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 "woody". >I'm new to both unix, and I' d like to know what are the command lines >syntax to configure a video adapter in order to get X window runnin; > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common" and/or "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" may be

Re: AFS over ipmasq - does it work?

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-14 14:45:43 -0400]: > Setting up a new machine, I'm trying to run the openafs client from behind > a firewall. > > 1.) Is it possible to run an openafs client via NAT? and In order to determine this I would run tcpdump on the firewall machine and then m

Re: Setting Sound volumn

2002-10-14 Thread Jeff
lameth, 2002-Oct-14 22:53 -0400: > In what file do you set the volumn level for a sound card. You don't really use a file, but rather a mixer. If you don't have a mixer installed, there are a host of choices: $ apt-cache search mixer I'm currently using tkmixer. They all pretty-much work the

Re: Postfix setup

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-14 10:22:42 -0700]: > 4. Other destinations to accept mail for? > > vostok1.com, pacifica.vostok1.com, localhost,vostok1.com, localhost You have both vostok1.com and localhost in there twice. You probably wanted that 3rd comma to be a period. > 5. Lo

Re: Knoppix & DemoLinux

2002-10-14 Thread Jeff
Andy Saxena, 2002-Oct-14 21:58 -0400: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:45:08PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to promote Linux at the office. I handed out a few DemoLinux > > CDs for my co-workers to use. Could somebody draw a comparison between > > DemoLinux & Knoppix? > > >

Re: Name resolution on internal network

2002-10-14 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:19:48PM -0700, nate wrote: > Alex Malinovich said: > > > I just checked it and that was it as it turns out. Interestingly enough, > > the problem was not that the search line was missing, but that it had > > \000 appended to the end of it. Since his was the first comput

Re: Postfix setup

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-14 10:22:42 -0700]: > Whereas, I want to have a mail server for our office, which is > accessible not only to employees while in our office, but out of > office as well. This server is to serve only our employees of course > and not act as a relay, but e

How does Debian keep Packages.gz consistent over different sites?

2002-10-14 Thread Try KDE
Lets say I have two lines in sources.list that are almost identical expect for the http sites are different. And now I issue a "apt-get update", and site1 tells apt "the latest version of testing/vim is 1.3", while site2, which may not be up to date, tells apt "the latest version of testing/v

Starting X on second screen

2002-10-14 Thread Russell
Hi all, When using xdm, there's no where to enter command line parameters to startx or initx (0:1 etc) for using a second monitor, so is there an option for this in .Xsession or some other file? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: Name resolution on internal network

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-14 21:11:31 -0600]: > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-14 03:32:08 -0500]: > > I just checked it and that was it as it turns out. Interestingly enough, > > the problem was not that the search line was missing, but that it had > > \000 appended to

exim+fetchmail, the best combo for local retrieval?

2002-10-14 Thread Try KDE
To work with my ISP 's email cap limit, it seems to be a good idea to use a local server to fetch the emails first, and then use a client machine to finally retrieve them later (client machine is not always on). Shyamal points out (on Oct 12) that he uses exim+fetchmail to do that. In your ex

Re: xterm stops jobs writing to terminal

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-14 22:20:20 +0100]: > XTerm*loginShell: true > > that causes problems. I don't know why telling XTerm to use a login > shell gives rise to this strange behaviour, but it seems that it does. Check your tty settings. I am sure that when you compare a termin

Re: Linksys PCMCIA network card - what module to use?

2002-10-14 Thread nate
Neal Lippman said: > I decided to have a go at getting debian installed on my Thinkpad 770ED; > mostly I was able to get the initial module configuration to work (a few > glitches, but I can work those out later). However, until I can get > networking up and running, I cannot continue the install.

Re: How does apt-get construt package uri?

2002-10-14 Thread Try KDE
Rob, thanks for the example. Yes, it clearly shows the same package may have much more than three package files listed, considering all the different archs. -tk. Rob Weir wrote: >On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:49:27PM -0400, Try KDE wrote: > > >>Thanks Rob. >> >> > >Anytime. > > > >>Now,

Re: Name resolution on internal network

2002-10-14 Thread nate
Alex Malinovich said: > I just checked it and that was it as it turns out. Interestingly enough, > the problem was not that the search line was missing, but that it had > \000 appended to the end of it. Since his was the first computer that I sounds like you may have a win32 DHCP server? or perh

Re: wysiwyg html editor

2002-10-14 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Paul" == Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 08:38:02AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad Paul> wrote: >> Incidentally, if you use XEmacs you get an HTML mode based on >> the PSGML mode by default. This comes with all the DTDs for >> HTML, and the e

Re: Name resolution on internal network

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-14 03:32:08 -0500]: > On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 03:23, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > do you have a search line in the resolv.conf? > > search theloveshack.local > > I just checked it and that was it as it turns ou

Re: Do debian-users get spammed a lot?

2002-10-14 Thread Henrik Enberg
Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just started on debian-user this Saturday, then Sunday and today > I've been getting more spam email than I've ever gotten before (20-30 > per day!). Is this probably just a coincidence, or does debian-user > get trolled/web-botted a lot? Should I us

Setting Sound volumn

2002-10-14 Thread lameth
In what file do you set the volumn level for a sound card. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Do debian-users get spammed a lot?

2002-10-14 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:39:23 -0400 Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (20-30 per day!). Is this probably just a coincidence, or does debian-user > get trolled/web-botted a lot? No problem here. I've been subscribed for over a year and have only gotten about 5 items of spam total on th

Private Mail

2002-10-14 Thread Fred Annan
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Do debian-users get spammed a lot?

2002-10-14 Thread Levi Waldron
I just started on debian-user this Saturday, then Sunday and today I've been getting more spam email than I've ever gotten before (20-30 per day!). Is this probably just a coincidence, or does debian-user get trolled/web-botted a lot? Should I use a less favourite email address for posting

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-14 Thread Mark Carroll
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, David wrote: (snip) > Exim (or at least 3.35) can distribute mail to different mailboxes. If > I understand some of the posters in this thread, they have stated that > you cannot, but this is what I'm doing. You will find this info in the > file "filter.txt.gz" in /usr/share

Re: Linux: a gentle, growing approach

2002-10-14 Thread Mark Carroll
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.14.2200 +0200]: > > I must admit, I quite like dselect. I can browse very quickly through So do I. (snip) > you should try aptitude. TBH, part of the problem for me was with apt. It would try

RE: Rebuilding the Kernel Mini HOW TO

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Olds
Osamu, Yes I did read those sources, however they created problems...for those using xconfig taking out the pcmcia support in this way made it impossible to use. (The what to do with old kernel headers problem needs to be spelled out, the issue of where to make the package needs to be spelled out

Re: Mailman woes (new & improved) with exim

2002-10-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Mike Egglestone said: > Hi, > Do you have aliases setup in /etc/aliases? > > Mike > Quoting Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The odd thing is that a local user can send mail just fine. Could it be > > that exim is refusing because mailinglistname doesn't have an

Re: squid and HD size

2002-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:12:35PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > The Sparc has 2 HD's, each a whopping 1 Gig in size. So after the > Debian install, I'm left with about 1.1 gig of HD space. Will that be > sufficent for my SOHO LAN? You can tell squid exactly how much hard disk space it's allowed

Re: Rebuilding the Kernel Mini HOW TO

2002-10-14 Thread Russell
Michael Olds wrote: > > Thanks Bruce, please see my response to Russell...there is some kind of > misunderstanding (no doubt in my head) about the meaning of link and whether > a link is to or from, etc. What I described actually worked, so I need to > figure out how to say it so everyone will un

Re: How does apt-get construt package uri?

2002-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:49:27PM -0400, Try KDE wrote: > Thanks Rob. Anytime. > Now, if all the three current distributions are in the same pool, it > must be possible that the same package has three versions co-existing in > the same directory, and only Packages.gz from different distributi

Re: Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:16:38PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > This feature requires support on the server as well. (gtm support > pause/resume, I assume wget does also if the proper arguments are > given to it) Just add the line `continue=on' to your ~/.wgetrc. -rob msg06991/pgp00

Linksys PCMCIA network card - what module to use?

2002-10-14 Thread Neal Lippman
I decided to have a go at getting debian installed on my Thinkpad 770ED; mostly I was able to get the initial module configuration to work (a few glitches, but I can work those out later). However, until I can get networking up and running, I cannot continue the install. I have a Linksys 10/100 P

Re: squid and HD size

2002-10-14 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, That should be plenty. Squid's default cache size is around 100 megs. or you can set it to the amount you want. Unless you plan on using your server for other things, I can't see why 1 Gig of HD space isn't alot of space. Cheers, Mike Quoting Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The Sparc ha

RE: Rebuilding the Kernel Mini HOW TO

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Olds
Thanks Bruce, please see my response to Russell...there is some kind of misunderstanding (no doubt in my head) about the meaning of link and whether a link is to or from, etc. What I described actually worked, so I need to figure out how to say it so everyone will understand. Best Wishes! Mike Ol

Re: Rebuilding the Kernel Mini HOW TO

2002-10-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Looks like using /usr/src/linux is fine but linking /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm to real kernel was the problem. Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki @ Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference:

Re: Debian equivalent of .login file?

2002-10-14 Thread Levi Waldron
On Sunday 13 October 2002 20:37, Mathias De Belder wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 01:27:36PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: > > > What's the Debian equivalent of Unix's .login and .logout files? > > > Any user can place these files in their home directory and their > > > commands will be run at

Re: Mailman woes (new & improved) with exim

2002-10-14 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, Do you have aliases setup in /etc/aliases? Mike Quoting Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The odd thing is that a local user can send mail just fine. Could it be > that exim is refusing because mailinglistname doesn't have an account? > > Hmmm . . . > Cluebat? > Steve > -- > The only thi

RE: Rebuilding the Kernel Mini HOW TO

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Olds
Russell, No wonder none of the documentation around is exactly right or up to date! For me this needs to be translated into Window-speak. In windows, a link is like a file that when it is clicked, opens another file. I do not know what is needed here, but what worked, and the only thing that work

Re: Routing doesn't start automatically

2002-10-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks to all who replied - it was indeed carelessness on my part. I copied the information from my other debian machine, but took it from eth1 (the interface connected to the DSL router) instead of eth0 (the one for the internal network). Thanks, Andy ---

squid and HD size

2002-10-14 Thread Kevin Coyner
I have an old SparcStation20 that I've recently put Debian on. So far I haven't used it for anything productive, but was contemplating putting Squid on it to be a proxy-server for my 8 box SOHO LAN. The Sparc has 2 HD's, each a whopping 1 Gig in size. So after the Debian install, I'm left w

making a deb distro

2002-10-14 Thread jeff
was curious if there's any nifty documentation out there that would cover creating you're own debian distro. i would like to make one with all my favorite junk on it and pass it around to a handful of friends so they can play with it. thanks list! you guys always rock. -jeff -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Rebuilding the Kernel Mini HOW TO

2002-10-14 Thread Russell
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:08:46AM +1000, Russell wrote: > > Michael Olds wrote: > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > > > I am still in a fog in terms of simple things like symlinks. What you want > > > is to end up with a link in the linux directory called kernel-source-2.4.18 >

Re: Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Matthias Szupryczynski
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 11:54, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Is there a download manager for linux at all ? > > I would like to schedule late night downloads. > Preferably with a pause/resume feature. > > Any ideas ? apt-get install prozilla or apt-get install prozilla-gtk if you want to use th

RE: Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I *knew* this would be suggested. I don't suppose anyone has written a nice web front end to add/delete/reorder/schedule ? Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: Stephen Gran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 15 October 2002 12:01 PM To: 'Debian User List' Subject: Re: Downlo

Re: Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Joyce, Matthew said: > > Is there a download manager for linux at all ? > > I would like to schedule late night downloads. > Preferably with a pause/resume feature. > > Any ideas ? cron + wget? Steve -- "It is the creationists who blasphemously are claiming that

Re: Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:54:05AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: | | Is there a download manager for linux at all ? gtm | I would like to schedule late night downloads. This can be scripted quite nicely with cron and 'wget'. As an example, I have this cron job : # every day, do an apt-get

Re: Knoppix & DemoLinux

2002-10-14 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:45:08PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to promote Linux at the office. I handed out a few DemoLinux > CDs for my co-workers to use. Could somebody draw a comparison between > DemoLinux & Knoppix? > > Thank you. > Andy > To answer my own question Knop

Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Is there a download manager for linux at all ? I would like to schedule late night downloads. Preferably with a pause/resume feature. Any ideas ? Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rebuilding the Kernel Mini HOW TO

2002-10-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Did you read make-kpkg documentation especially by Kent West? I think instead of reinventing wheel, suppliment existing good document as patch bug report. /usr/share/doc/make-kpkg/README.gz (last section is by Kent) For this, use unstable version. Also my Debian Reference has a (good) sum

Re: How does apt-get construt package uri?

2002-10-14 Thread Try KDE
Thanks Rob. Now, if all the three current distributions are in the same pool, it must be possible that the same package has three versions co-existing in the same directory, and only Packages.gz from different distribution can tell apt-get which version to pick up? -tk Rob Weir wrote: >On M

Re: question

2002-10-14 Thread David Sanders
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 19:13, Ramses Gonzalez wrote: > how to configure a network adpater so it can see a windows 2k machine... > Use samba (http://www.samba.org/) to see Win 2K shares/printers. -- David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandersweb.net/david -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Rebuilding the Kernel Mini HOW TO

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:08:46AM +1000, Russell wrote: > Michael Olds wrote: > > > > Thank you, > > > > I am still in a fog in terms of simple things like symlinks. What you want > > is to end up with a link in the linux directory called kernel-source-2.4.18 > > that links to /usr/src/kernel-s

Re: Routing doesn't start automatically

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:58:46PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > # In new Debian installations, this file is deprecated in favour of > > # the ifup/ifdown commands (invoked from /etc/init.d/networking), which > > # can be configured from the file /etc/network/interfaces. > > > > so I guess I

Re: data recovery

2002-10-14 Thread nate
Jason Pepas said: > hey guys, > > a friend of mine somehow borked his windows partition when installing > linux. I don't have many details, because he is a linux newbie. if you have the exact geometry of the partition you may be able to re-create it. I would say live & learn, reinstall and nex

RE: Postfix MTA

2002-10-14 Thread nate
Vaughan, Curtis said: > I created the Sent and Trash folders on the server as you said to in one > of your earlier letters. I now have a Trash and Sent folders as > subfolders in my email client. > > Looking on the server my directory structure for mail is: > /var/spool/cyrus/mail/curtis/ >

RE: Rebuilding the Kernel Mini HOW TO

2002-10-14 Thread Bruce
> We're getting there. > > Yes, I have it incorrectly, what is wanted is that step five should read: > >[ ]5. # cd to /usr/src/linux/kernel-source-2.4.18 > > Corrected, thanks. I'm not sure that is what you want to do; what you want is your kernel source in a folder that clearly identifies it

Re: How does apt-get construt package uri?

2002-10-14 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 01:57:00 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:46:20PM -0400, Try KDE wrote: > > Here is a harder question (in my opinion, anyway): given a http/ftp > > line in sources.list, what's apt's algorithm for retrieve the list > > of packages. For

Re: How does apt-get construt package uri?

2002-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:57:00AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > The sources.list(5) man page is better, but still doesn't go into enough > detail. The actual URL constructed is: > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/Packages.gz

Re: question

2002-10-14 Thread Russell
Ramses Gonzalez wrote: > > Hi! I got the Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 "woody". > I'm new to both unix, and I' d like to know what are the command lines > syntax to configure a video adapter in order to get X window runnin; also, > how to configure a network adpater so it can see a windows 2k machine... >

Re: How does apt-get construt package uri?

2002-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:46:20PM -0400, Try KDE wrote: > Thanks to Eduardo Pereira Habkost's answer to the previous question - it > works beautifully. > > Here is a harder question (in my opinion, anyway): given a http/ftp line in > sources.list, what's apt's algorithm for retrieve the list o

Re: Rebuilding the Kernel Mini HOW TO

2002-10-14 Thread Russell
Michael Olds wrote: > > Thank you, > > I am still in a fog in terms of simple things like symlinks. What you want > is to end up with a link in the linux directory called kernel-source-2.4.18 > that links to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18. So how should that be said? > > [ ]1.d create a symbolic

Re: Routing doesn't start automatically

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:45:00AM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote: > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm not that well versed on calculating netmasks and broadcast address, > > but these look a bit strange. You might try the standard settings: > > a netmask of 255.255.255.0 could only be

RE: Postfix MTA

2002-10-14 Thread Vaughan, Curtis
I created the Sent and Trash folders on the server as you said to in one of your earlier letters. I now have a Trash and Sent folders as subfolders in my email client. Looking on the server my directory structure for mail is: /var/spool/cyrus/mail/curtis/ 1.

Re: How does apt-get construt package uri?

2002-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:46:20PM -0400, Try KDE wrote: > Here is a harder question (in my opinion, anyway): given a http/ftp line in > sources.list, what's apt's algorithm for retrieve the list of packages. For > example, deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free >contri

Re: Postfix MTA

2002-10-14 Thread nate
Vaughan, Curtis said: > I've finally got Postfix up and running, but when I try to use a mail > client, it won't let me send mail. It errors stating that: "The current > command did not succeed. The mail server responded: permission denied." > I'm thinking this may have something to do with writi

Re: Routing doesn't start automatically

2002-10-14 Thread Carlos Sousa
On 14 Oct 2002 11:45:00 -1000 Joseph Dane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just checked on my machine. I've got a file called > "/etc/init.d/network" which brings up the interfaces and updates the > route tables. it says: > > # In new Debian installations, this file is deprecated in favour of >

How does apt-get construt package uri?

2002-10-14 Thread Try KDE
Thanks to Eduardo Pereira Habkost's answer to the previous question - it works beautifully. Here is a harder question (in my opinion, anyway): given a http/ftp line in sources.list, what's apt's algorithm for retrieve the list of packages. For example, deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/

Re: oopadmin/spadmin problem?

2002-10-14 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:03:22 -0700 (PDT) Richard Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would gladly click the font button, but I don't get > _any_ buttons, just a blank screen (actually, a window > maximized to take up the whole screen, with nothing in > it). I have in the past used spadmin no prob

Re: subversion equivalent of 'cvs update -C'

2002-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:16:34PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On Monday 14 October 2002 17:11, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:01:21PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > Does subversion have an equivalent to the command 'cvs update -C', > > > i.e. overwrite locally modifi

Re: how to reinstall a package without removing it first?

2002-10-14 Thread Eduardo Pereira Habkost
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:22:00PM -0400, Try KDE wrote: > I cannot remove the package because the package in question is "apt" and > I screwed up on of its example files. :) I might be able to down its > deb file and extract the files I needed from it. But is there a simpler > way to force r

Re: Xfree86 problems

2002-10-14 Thread Russell
"Price, Erik" wrote: > > ... So I thought I would write to the mailing list, but I can't attach the log >because > Windows can't see the ext2 file system! mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy copy to floppy then umount /floppy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-14 Thread David
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:01:46PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: > Does exim allow the config. of simple mail delivery > on the following system?: > > -One mashine, connected tmp. to the internet > -one user with only one email adress and >   who likes to have his incoming mail sorted as: >  

how to reinstall a package without removing it first?

2002-10-14 Thread Try KDE
I cannot remove the package because the package in question is "apt" and I screwed up on of its example files. :) I might be able to down its deb file and extract the files I needed from it. But is there a simpler way to force re-installation of the same version? Thanks, -tk -- To UNSUBS

Re: subversion equivalent of 'cvs update -C'

2002-10-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 14 October 2002 17:11, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:01:21PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Does subversion have an equivalent to the command 'cvs update -C', > > i.e. overwrite locally modified files with the current ones from the > > repository? > > At least from exp

Re: subversion equivalent of 'cvs update -C'

2002-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:01:21PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Does subversion have an equivalent to the command 'cvs update -C', > i.e. overwrite locally modified files with the current ones from the > repository? At least from experimentation and reading through the code, it appears not to. So

Re: how to use NT's shared files?

2002-10-14 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 01:21:38PM +0200, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > > Or if you are GUI minded, take a look at komba or gnomba. Works well to > mount SMB shares with a couple of mouse clicks. Compared to Windows > "network neighborhood", the discovery behaviour is much more consistent, > espe

RE: Rebuilding the Kernel Mini HOW TO

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Olds
Thanks Joyce, Added a line: Why would I want to rebuild the kernel, and will just add quotes from anyone who responds here. For me "My kernel went from an original 1,263,333KB to 861,587KB," with the exact same setup. I also included your link. Best Wishes! Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org -Or

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....

2002-10-14 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:14:10AM -0500, Ron Johnson spake thus: > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 01:05, Alan D. Salewski wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:22:14PM +, Doug MacFarlane spake thus: > > > On 04 Oct 2002, 00:22:29, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > same for one of my freebsd boxes(my living

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