Mutt: font color

2002-11-27 Thread Qian Gong
Hi, I use the following line to define the foreground color for xterm. xterm*foreground: #afafaf It works well. But in mutt or pine, the white font is bright (#ff, I think). Is there a way to preserve the color #afafaf of xterm in mutt or pine? For vim, it preserves the color #a

Re: apt-sources and apt-preferences

2002-11-27 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:48:53AM +0100, fLokNo wrote: is somebody willing to post his/her two files (see in subject) with sources for cool packages and stuff? :) Sure, my sources.list is fairly complete for those using sid. It's based on the Hyper-Ultimate Mega Sour

Re: question about the security of entries in sources.list

2002-11-27 Thread nate
sean finney said: > hey all, > the principle of the matter, is there any way to limit the packages that > can be retrieved from a specific source? i too would like this info. I have been pretty turned off from 3rd party apt sources(that is, having them in sources.list all the time) for a couple y

question about the security of entries in sources.list

2002-11-27 Thread sean finney
hey all, so i've decided to give installing java a try, and put the following line in my sources.list: deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/ woody main non-free i apt-got installed j2re1.3 and now java works without a hitch, and i didn't even have to re-open

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Re: apt-sources and apt-preferences

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:48:53AM +0100, fLokNo wrote: > is somebody willing to post his/her two files (see in subject) with > sources for cool packages and stuff? :) Sure, my sources.list is fairly complete for those using sid. It's based on the Hyper-Ultimate Mega Sources.List Deluxe, thou

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 01:28, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:59:44PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't suggest that. Instead, they should munge email addresses. > > http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ > > > Nobody in their right mind uses a working email addr

apt-sources and apt-preferences

2002-11-27 Thread fLokNo
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Re: Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:59:44PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't suggest that. Instead, they should munge email addresses. http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ > Nobody in their right mind uses a working email address on Usenet for a > topic such as this. Gating a mailing-li

Re: Sending mail as a particular user

2002-11-27 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, McRae, Darren A wrote: > Hello, > > Is the a way of mail being sent as a particular user no matter what the > linux username is? So if I log in as root or daz or pete it sends mail > signed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This needs to be done via sendmail, as that is what I'm usin

Re: What should I do after a power failure?

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Please turn your line wraps on to 72 columns, your paragraphs are coming through as one giant line each. On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:08:49AM -0800, Fred Sloniker wrote: > I know that powering the system off manually is a Bad Thing (tm), > but I live in Cowville, so a black-out is always a possibil

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 27 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > > Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from >Debian lists. > > > > That is interesting, as I only have one particular type of additional > > email since partaking

Re: binary files

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:16:37PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > .bin? Isn't that a mac format generally? what does "file whatever.bin" > say? Floppy disk images, as well. If it's a floppy image, then dd if=/path/to/file.bin of=/dev/floppy/0 should work for devfs folks, or dd if=/path/to/fi

Re: pppd and pam

2002-11-27 Thread Alexey Chetroi
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:03:40PM -0800, nate wrote: > Alexey Chetroi said: > > > > I'm still trying to get pppd and radius work together. > > There's pam_radius module, so is it posible to auth. pppd > > users against pam_radius module? Does anybody get this working? > > what are you trying to

Alt-Gr and Windows-Key as Meta-Key suddenly stops working

2002-11-27 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, this is a mystery to me: Without changing any configuration, suddenly the Alt-Gr Key (which I urgently need in German!) and the Windows-Key which used to function as Meta-Key (for Emacs) stopped working. I have no idea, why this should be so, and unfortunately no idea how I could get my previ

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread John Hasler
John Summerfield writes: > Nobody in their right mind uses a working email address on Usenet for a > topic such as this. I guess I'm not in my right mind, then. I've used my working email address on Usenet for nearly twenty years now. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood,

Re: Why sid instead of sarge??

2002-11-27 Thread Joey Hess
Ron Johnson wrote: > # apt-get -t testing --build source pan The apt-get source command does not support pinning, even the simple -t kind. FWIW, apt-src does get it to work, but only if you use the package/testing form. Both also support using the package=version form if you know the exact version

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread debian
On 27 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from Debian >lists. > > That is interesting, as I only have one particular type of additional > email since partaking in this list: Nigerian 419 fraud email. That said, > blocking the

Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:22:37AM +0100, ernst wrote: > Wierd yes..mabye it's that simple that you are only missing Joliet support > in the kernel. I think this is the case with the default Debian kernel, though it's been a long time since I've used a stock kernel. It wouldn't surprise me, sinc

Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 05:09:58PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Why can't you do 'dpkg -i '? Or even just > 'dpkg -i *.deb' if you are installing everything in the directory > anyway. dpkg doesn't really care about filenames and doesn't use them > for anything. This is dependant on what shell

Re: Sending mail as a particular user

2002-11-27 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:37:20PM -, McRae, Darren A wrote: > Hello, > > Is the a way of mail being sent as a particular user no matter what the > linux username is? So if I log in as root or daz or pete it sends mail > signed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] i am not an expert but i can provide you poi

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 22:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A word of warning to all the gentle folk here. The archives to this > (and, I guess, other Debbian lists) are published at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/ > > This list is a wonderful source of email addresses for spammers. I have

RE: Catastrophic Tasksel failure on install

2002-11-27 Thread Bob Eby
Nate said: > sounds like a bug, I've used tasksel dozens of times and spacebar was > always what I used > to "select" something. Then I would hit tab to > navigate to the "finish" button and hit enter. Thanx for the reply. I've now run it successfully post-install, and exited without actually

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:02:34AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you are unhappy at the idea of your email address being published in > plan view for every spammer to take and use, then I uege you to complain > to the person who runs this list, or failing that, to the postmaster at > the hos

Re: Catastrophic Tasksel failure on install

2002-11-27 Thread nate
Bob Eby said: > Basically I don't know if I ran into a bug or if this behaviour is "by > design". sounds like a bug, I've used tasksel dozens of times and spacebar was always what I used to "select" something. Then I would hit tab to navigate to the "finish" button and hit enter. it's always wor

Re: Partition size

2002-11-27 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:58:22 +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:10:00PM +, Chris Lale wrote: >> Mark L. Kahnt wrote: >> I read in the Debian installation manual (v.3.0.24, 24th May 2002 >> section 6.4) that partitions greater than about 6Gb should be avo

Re: Low Disk Space (deleting /usr/share/locales) and printing

2002-11-27 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 20:21:43 +0200, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello Elizabeth, > >Am 14:44 2002-11-24 -0600 hat Elizabeth Barham geschrieben: >> >>Dear Everyone, > >> 1) Do I need all those locale files? LANG=C and if I understand >>this correctly, I do not need *an

RE: How to change Console display mode?(not under X)

2002-11-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
-Original Message- From: D.H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 2:47 PM To: Debian-user Subject: How to change Console display mode?(not under X) Hi all, The display mode of console(not under X) on my computer is SVGA by default, I didn't like that mode and want

How to change Console display mode?(not under X)

2002-11-27 Thread D.H
Hi all, The display mode of console(not under X) on my computer is SVGA by default, I didn't like that mode and want to change it to 'pure text mode', which configuration file should i modify?? Thanks.

Catastrophic Tasksel failure on install

2002-11-27 Thread Bob Eby
I've just installed the latest available stable debian on a new system. During install, I chose to run "tasksel" to set up my system. As soon as tasksel came up on the screen, I arrowed around a bit to see what was available. Once I was ready to select an item (X windows in this case) I hit spac

Re: Partition size

2002-11-27 Thread manicsession
- Original Message - From: "Richard Hector" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 5:05 PM Subject: Re: Partition size > On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 10:43, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 16:39, Mike Dresser wrote: > > > On 2

Re: Good Book on dselect

2002-11-27 Thread Russell
Dominic Iadicicco wrote: Anyone know of a good book on dselect? -- Just ask here. As root: # dselect Select the Access method (only needs to be done very infrequently). Use "apt" to get packages from the net. Select Update to download a list of online packages (needed infrequently). Select "

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Further information on 'eaugh'...

2002-11-27 Thread Fred Sloniker
Typing 'plog' periodically during a connection attempt shows that the computer gets as far as connecting with the other side, then appears to give up before username and password are supplied, saying 'command script required for demand dialing' or something similar. I've gone through 'pppconfig

Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread debian
A word of warning to all the gentle folk here. The archives to this (and, I guess, other Debbian lists) are published at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/ This list is a wonderful source of email addresses for spammers. I have posted just two letters before this to the list, and already I'

Re: What should I do after a power failure?

2002-11-27 Thread Russell
Fred Sloniker wrote: Hey, everybody. First-time Linux user here (well, sort of; I've struggled before with getting either Debian or SuSE installed, unsuccessfully). So far, I like what I've seen of Debian (mostly installation screens and documentation); not only do I like the actual freeness of

Re: reportbug has a bug...

2002-11-27 Thread Pierre THIERRY
> What versions of python and reportbug are installed? Sorry for the late answer... python 2.1.3-3.2 reportbug 1.50 Lately, le Moine Fou -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A msg15787/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] Debian vs Gentoo (discussed in newsletter)

2002-11-27 Thread Russell
Pigeon wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:19:20 +1100, bob parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:39, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, For instance, a lot of man pages for me don't really help me. They give me a clue yes, but do not provide all the help i need. I'm using Woody and

RE: ES1371 not functioning

2002-11-27 Thread Andrew R Reid
Hi Guys, Thanks for your help. I looks like I might well have a problem wich has been recified in later kernel releases. I'm upgrading my kernel to 2.4.19ac3 today, and will let you know the results. It definitely looks like it is a problem with APIC. I wish I knew how to change the IRQ PCI de

Re: Good Book on dselect

2002-11-27 Thread pierre
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 18:29, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: Here the only one i could find you may need a translator to read it. > dselect -- Pierre webmaster of. http://www.linux411.net your help with linux http://www.linux411.org your software and forum resources http://www.cecug.info Child

Good Book on dselect

2002-11-27 Thread Dominic Iadicicco
Anyone know of a good book on dselect? -- __ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with POP3/IMAP access for only US$19.95/yr Powered by Outblaze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Problem installing Debian woody

2002-11-27 Thread D.H
Thank you for your help! Now I know that was not because of bad media. The error was occured at configuration process, not the installation process. maybe some important parameters needed by by that package were not correctly assigned. - Original Message - From: "Levi Waldron" <[EMA

Re: dselect trying to remove newer stuff in favor of older stuff

2002-11-27 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Tim Verry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021128 12:13]: > > I've also noticed dozens of posts to this list with "apt-get ..." and almost > none that mention dselect, what's up with that? Cause we all love apt-get, and only use dselect if we really have to... I haven't used it in about 2 years. How

Re: cannot open /dev/dsp (permission denied)??

2002-11-27 Thread D.H
Now I have solved the problem. Because /dev/dsp belongs to the 'sound' group which doesn't include the user I used to login, so I cannot access that file. After adding my user to the 'sound' group£¬everything is ok! - Original Message - From: "Olivier Esser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "

Re: network configuration

2002-11-27 Thread Jeff
Ernesto Marquina, 2002-Nov-27 20:05 +: > Hi, > > While I was configuring my network on debian woody, the isntaller > asked me if theres an DHCP server on my network, I answered YES and > he configured everything for me. Now everytime I start my linux I > get this netenv window...and I choose t

dselect trying to remove newer stuff in favor of older stuff

2002-11-27 Thread Tim Verry
Everytime I mess w/ the sources.list, and go into dselect, it seems to arbitrarily choose a bunch of stuff to install. Well for instance adding "testing" for the first time. I don't even select anything, and then there is this mess of dependency and it ALWAYS wants to remove kdelibs4, libarts1

Re: compile 2.4.19 kernel,.. the debian way?

2002-11-27 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:57:53 -0500, cmustard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would appreciate any help/info or guidence in this area, also any > current good reading material on `proper' kernel compiling,... the debian way. The READMEs in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package are quite good. As a general

Eaugh. Connection problems.

2002-11-27 Thread Fred Sloniker
Okay, so I went through the twelve-hour download and install without significant hitches. (A few files had to be retried because my modem connection dropped a few times during the download.) My problem now is that, having restarted, I can't seem to get a working modem connection again. At fir

Re: still monitor problems

2002-11-27 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:04:01PM -0600, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: > > These modes are supported, there should be no problem implementing them. > However, now when I open Mozilla the screen just turns white. Right-click > with the mouse - and standard menu for Mozilla appears. But I do kind of >

Re: Partition size

2002-11-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 12:52, Mike Dresser wrote: > On 28 Nov 2002, Richard Hector wrote: > > > You could use the linear version, where you just concatenate the > > partitions together. That shouldn't take any longer to seek over than > > one big one - each byte is still only in one place. > > > >

Re: Nautilus and Gnome Panels

2002-11-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Solved? I think so, but you judge.  I just moved .gnome to .gnome_1, restarted X, and got now nautilus running plus Gnome panles, etc. I have noticed that Gnome has a tendency to get corrupted (at least .gnome), should I upgrade to the next version of Gnome? If so, what is the safe way of doing

Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?

2002-11-27 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Wathen, Metherion said: > i did some digging around the debian site and found what youre talking about > - jidgo. i'll give it a shot after the holiday, however i'd like to know > what is a .raw file and what do you do with it after downloading it? --how > do you make i

Re: compile 2.4.19 kernel,.. the debian way?

2002-11-27 Thread Nick Hastings
* cmustard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021128 10:59]: > Ok, it's time,... i just got a d-link air, dwl-650 wireless card for my old > timer laptop(pent mmx 233MHZ). I'm running debian woody 2.4.18-bf2.4, > and it appears that there is a debian linux-wlan-ng package for the > drivers but it is built agains

Re: sound card weirdness? newbie question

2002-11-27 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Rohan Nicholls said: > Hi all, > > I have finally made the full switch to linux, with windows running in an > emulator for company oriented stuff, and I was very impressed with the > improvements from potato as far as installing on my laptop, but as > always I have

Re: Nautilus and Gnome Panels

2002-11-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I must have some troublesome configuration: dpgk -s sawfish yields: " purge ok-not installed" however, sawfish is installed and is shown as active windows manager in the gnome control center.  the gnome version I have running is the one that came with woody , 1.4 Another funny thing is that now

compile 2.4.19 kernel,.. the debian way?

2002-11-27 Thread cmustard
Ok, it's time,... i just got a d-link air, dwl-650 wireless card for my old timer laptop(pent mmx 233MHZ). I'm running debian woody 2.4.18-bf2.4, and it appears that there is a debian linux-wlan-ng package for the drivers but it is built against the 2.4.19 kernel. I just downloaded 2.4.19.tar.bz2

Re: Partition size

2002-11-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On 28 Nov 2002, Richard Hector wrote: > You could use the linear version, where you just concatenate the > partitions together. That shouldn't take any longer to seek over than > one big one - each byte is still only in one place. > > Richard Well, wouldn't the raid partition be bigger than 6 gig

Re: Nautilus and Gnome Panels

2002-11-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 18:38, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Using sawfish. How do I fix it? Thanks Mark. > > Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > >On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 17:51, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > > >>On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:32:27PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I installed

Re: Nautilus and Gnome Panels

2002-11-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Using sawfish. How do I fix it? Thanks Mark. Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 17:51, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:32:27PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I installed Nautilus and saw all my Gnome panels disappear. I like Nautilus,

Re: load module on boot

2002-11-27 Thread p
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:36:15PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > Specifically, add the line > > NVdriver > > to /etc/modules. Add it manually or type > > echo "NVdriver" >> /etc/modules // (echo "newstuff" >> foo_file) hmm, that's a cool trick! i can definitely get some mileage outta that

Re: libc2.3 and 2.2

2002-11-27 Thread David Z Maze
Alessandro Foresi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to compile from my "unstable" with libc6-2.3 a program > for a "stable" system with libc6-2.2. > I try with download the libc6-2.2-dev, extract it in my home > directory, then -I/home/alef/libc6-22/usr/include in > the makefiles for the program

Re: xmms not openinng its windows

2002-11-27 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:43:50PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:32:15AM -0800, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > I've got a strange problem that I'm having trouble tracking down. > > > > The symptom: > > I run xmms (either from the command line or m

Re: Partition size

2002-11-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 10:43, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 16:39, Mike Dresser wrote: > > On 27 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > > > rather than Linux itself. That said, do you split it into several > > > partitions and use RAID on them - I can't see that as providing a hint > >

Re: Nautilus and Gnome Panels

2002-11-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 17:51, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:32:27PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > I installed Nautilus and saw all my Gnome panels disappear. I like > > Nautilus, but I would like keeping all panels with applets and quick > > launchers ready. Is there

2 ?'s -- tkseti colors not showing & 3-4 tcl/tk libs installed?

2002-11-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I just ran a dist-upgrade with Sid on my home box, and found some of the colors not displaying properly in tkseti's window (the text and background colors are wrong for the informational boxes, dark grey and light grey, respectively instead of the defaults). Things were fine before the upgrade, o

Re: load module on boot

2002-11-27 Thread Travis Crump
Ernesto Marquina wrote: Hi there, debian newbie here, I just configured my nvidia geforce2 go to work on my laptop (debian woody), I had to download and compile the nvidia drivers, and now it works fine. But in order to load the new driver I always have to load the module called NVdriver first b

Re: [OT] Debian vs Gentoo (discussed in newsletter)

2002-11-27 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "bob parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 8:19 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Debian vs Gentoo (discussed in newsletter) > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:39, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > Hi, > > For instance, a lot of man pages

Re: Nautilus and Gnome Panels

2002-11-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:32:27PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I installed Nautilus and saw all my Gnome panels disappear. I like > Nautilus, but I would like keeping all panels with applets and quick > launchers ready. Is there any way of achieving that, or do I have to > remove Nautilus?

Re: two different netenvs (work and home)

2002-11-27 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Rohan Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021128 09:18]: > > Netenv cannot deal with my adsl connection, so I would like to disable > it and make a script that calls dhcp (work) or calls my pptp script. > The problem is in init.d there is netenv, but I can find nothing in the > rcX.d dirs that

Re: xmms not openinng its windows

2002-11-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:32:15AM -0800, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > > Hi there, > > I've got a strange problem that I'm having trouble tracking down. > > The symptom: > I run xmms (either from the command line or my gnome taskbar) and > nothing happens. > I run ps -auwx and i can see 4 or so inst

Re: xmms not openinng its windows

2002-11-27 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:23:33PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Ben Hartshorne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021127 10:38]: > > I've got a strange problem that I'm having trouble tracking down. > > > > The symptom: > > I run xmms (either from the command line or my gnome taskbar) and > > nothing happens

libc2.3 and 2.2

2002-11-27 Thread Alessandro Foresi
Hallo, I need to compile from my "unstable" with libc6-2.3 a program for a "stable" system with libc6-2.2. I try with download the libc6-2.2-dev, extract it in my home directory, then -I/home/alef/libc6-22/usr/include in the makefiles for the program and then the debian/rules. The package was succe

Nautilus and Gnome Panels

2002-11-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I installed Nautilus and saw all my Gnome panels disappear. I like Nautilus, but I would like keeping all panels with applets and quick launchers ready. Is there any way of achieving that, or do I have to remove Nautilus? Thanks, 2 all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: architectures

2002-11-27 Thread James Tappin
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:02:33 -0500 Meredith Richmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how do i know what architecture my computer is? > > my computer is an acer notebook P1 (i sent a previous email saying it > was a 486, but i was wrong) > i would like to make sure linux is compatible with my compu

Re: Partition size

2002-11-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On 27 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Yes - that was the point I was seeking to make - if we shouldn't go over > 6 GB/partition, how the heck are we ever going to use the bulk of these > 80GB+ drives on the market? ;) 13 partitions? :D Oooh, that's a real lucky number there! Out of curiosity,

architectures

2002-11-27 Thread Meredith Richmond
how do i know what architecture my computer is? my computer is an acer notebook P1 (i sent a previous email saying it was a 486, but i was wrong) i would like to make sure linux is compatible with my computer before i change over but i find this a little confusing, so any other tidbits of info

Re: pppd and pam

2002-11-27 Thread nate
Alexey Chetroi said: > Hi all, > > I'm still trying to get pppd and radius work together. > There's pam_radius module, so is it posible to auth. pppd > users against pam_radius module? Does anybody get this working? what are you trying to do? I mean whats the real goal, are you setting up a dial

Re: Partition size

2002-11-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 16:39, Mike Dresser wrote: > On 27 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > rather than Linux itself. That said, do you split it into several > > partitions and use RAID on them - I can't see that as providing a hint > > of a fraction of the actual disk operation performance ;) >

Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-27 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:15:38 -0500, "Wathen, Metherion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, >i havent tried ls, thanks for the tip, both the file on the cd and the one >copied to the hd of my linux box have a filename that is shortened when read >from midnight commander. > >thanks again, i'll try ls >

Re: Partition size

2002-11-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On 27 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > rather than Linux itself. That said, do you split it into several > partitions and use RAID on them - I can't see that as providing a hint > of a fraction of the actual disk operation performance ;) Erm, raid on the same drive? I guess if you had a bad sect

Re: xmms not openinng its windows

2002-11-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ben Hartshorne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021127 10:38]: > I've got a strange problem that I'm having trouble tracking down. > > The symptom: > I run xmms (either from the command line or my gnome taskbar) and > nothing happens. > I run ps -auwx and i can see 4 or so instances of xmms running. This

Re: Partition size

2002-11-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 11:10, Chris Lale wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > On my 40 GB drive, I went with: > > > > / 1 GB > > swap 1/2 GB > > /opt 2 GB > > /usr 8 GB > > /var 4 GB > > /home 24 GB > > I read in the Debian installation manual (v.3.0.24, 24th M

Re: mounting floppies

2002-11-27 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:09:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am curious to know if there is a way for me to mount my floppy disks > without having to go in and login as root. If there is can someone please > tell me. I would appreciate it. Thanks. A line from /etc/fstab /dev/fd0 /f

Re: USB 1.x COMPATIBLE CDRW

2002-11-27 Thread Robin
Dean Roman wrote: Hello all, Has anybody got a USB CDRW drive working under linux with USB 1.x support? If so, please let me know which drive and manufacturer. Thanks, ---Dean. ~% cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -checkdrive robinj@helios [4:13:04pm] Cdrecord 1.11a39 (powerpc-un

RE: binary files

2002-11-27 Thread Shawn Lamson
make sure it has executable permissions ie, $chmod +x filename.bin and then $sh filename.bin or just $./filename.bin ( that is dot slash) HTH Shawn --- "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David, > > .bin is usually the Macintosh binhex archiving format. Might need to > make > s

Re: What should I do after a power failure?

2002-11-27 Thread David Z Maze
"Timmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > About 2 years ago, the last time I tried to get linux off the ground, I had > an accidental power interruption and the box was totally hosed from it. > > I've had one occur recently, and the file system checker did it's thing but > things were never quite righ

USB 1.x COMPATIBLE CDRW

2002-11-27 Thread Dean Roman
Hello all, Has anybody got a USB CDRW drive working under linux with USB 1.x support? If so, please let me know which drive and manufacturer. Thanks, ---Dean. -- Dean Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: What should I do after a power failure?

2002-11-27 Thread nate
John M Flinchbaugh said: > on the subject of journalled filesystems. i've been using reiserfs. i've > noticed that invariably, some files will get corrupted, > especially logs. they end up looking like 2 files spliced together. what kernel and what version of resier? any software raid? I've had

Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?

2002-11-27 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 27, 2002 09:32 am, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > hey thanks that's a good idea, > im planning on upgrading soon anyway, > other than the install discs (7 for woody), you say that the other software > is available as a downloadable iso or something? No jigdo iso, just download the program

Re: a couple of install questions

2002-11-27 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 27, 2002 01:18 pm, Meredith Richmond wrote: > hi, > i have an old Acer 486 notebook computer that is currently using win95. > i would like to start using debian but i didn't see it in your list of > compatible computer types... is it still possible to install it? Check the hardware req

Re: load module on boot

2002-11-27 Thread Levi Waldron
Specifically, add the line NVdriver to /etc/modules. Add it manually or type echo "NVdriver" >> /etc/modules to add it without editing the file. On November 27, 2002 03:00 pm, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Put it in /etc/modules > > -

RE: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?

2002-11-27 Thread Wathen, Metherion
i did some digging around the debian site and found what youre talking about - jidgo. i'll give it a shot after the holiday, however i'd like to know what is a .raw file and what do you do with it after downloading it? --how do you make it into a cd, is my question? thanks in advance, Happy holida

Re: What should I do after a power failure?

2002-11-27 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
on the subject of journalled filesystems. i've been using reiserfs. i've noticed that invariably, some files will get corrupted, especially logs. they end up looking like 2 files spliced together. anytime inn doesn't get to shutdown properly, i end up having to rebuild all its history db's, etc,

Re: What should I do after a power failure?

2002-11-27 Thread nate
Timmo said: > So I'm also very curious about what happens, aside from the file system > which seems to be able to fix itself. this entirely depends on how the system lost power. If the system lost power in a clean way, that being something such as a UPS cut the power(e.g. going from 110V to 0V in

Re: load module on boot

2002-11-27 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Ernesto" == Ernesto Marquina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ernesto> modprobe NVdriver Ernesto> How can I tell debian to always load it at startup?, and Ernesto> not having to type that command everytime I log in? Add 'NVdriver' to /etc/modules on a line by itself. Cheers! Shyamal

Re: Problem installing Debian woody

2002-11-27 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 27, 2002 03:07 am, D.H wrote: > Hi all, > I have tried to install Debian woody on my box for about 3 times(I > downloaded all the 7 ISO image files and burn them on CD), but every time i > got the same error when installing "diald" package, luckly, it doesn't > interrupt the whole i

Re: a couple of install questions

2002-11-27 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:18:55PM -0500, Meredith Richmond wrote: > hi, > i have an old Acer 486 notebook computer that is currently using win95. > i would like to start using debian but i didn't see it in your list of > compatible computer types... is it still possible to install it? well one

Re: What should I do after a power failure?

2002-11-27 Thread nate
Fred Sloniker said: > my attempts to educate her on computer no-nos. What do I need to do, if > anything, to make sure my hard drive isn't hosed after a power-off? Is > there an equivalent to the Windows Scandisk-after-crash thing? there is nothing you can do to be sure a filesystem that is mou

Re: upgrade to sid?

2002-11-27 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Tim" == Tim Verry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> If one were to put "deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ Tim> unstable main contrib non-free" in my sources.list, uh, I Tim> mean one's sources.list, then ran apt-get upgrade and watched Tim> about 200 packages get upgraded,

pppd and pam

2002-11-27 Thread Alexey Chetroi
Hi all, I'm still trying to get pppd and radius work together. There's pam_radius module, so is it posible to auth. pppd users against pam_radius module? Does anybody get this working? -- Best regards, Alexey Chetroi --- Smile... Tomorrow will be worse. (c) Murphy's law -- To UNSUBS

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