Re: Removing Package Dependencies

* nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-18 08:31]: > Lukas Ruf said: > > Is there any way to get rid of package dependencies? The reason for this > > question: I have been using VIM ever since I am using Linux -- and do not > > want to have emacs installed at all. However, packets like cxref have th

USB Midi adapters for Linux?

Are there any USB Midi adapters that are supported by Linux? Do USB midi adapters all use proprietary USB protocols or is there some kind of standard for doing midi via USB? I have a Fatar controller that I'd like to try out with Linux audio software. (A midi controller generates midi signals,

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

Lukas Ruf said: > Is there any way to get rid of package dependencies? The reason for this > question: I have been using VIM ever since I am using Linux -- and do not > want to have emacs installed at all. However, packets like cxref have the > idea they would depend on emacs -- but cxref, as an

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

Hi, Regarding symlinks in /etc/rcN.d * Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030218 14:31]: > I have asked this question many times and so far no one has ever > supplied an answer. Why remove the symlinks instead of just removing > the package? Here's an answer. One reason is that a simple way

Removing Package Dependencies

Is there any way to get rid of package dependencies? The reason for this question: I have been using VIM ever since I am using Linux -- and do not want to have emacs installed at all. However, packets like cxref have the idea they would depend on emacs -- but cxref, as an example, can be used wit

Re: travan ide

Le Lundi 17 Février 2003 20:35, Jeffrey L. Taylor a écrit : > Quoting herve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > hello > > i've got a stt28000a seagate travan and i have woody > > i load ise-scsi module then is recognized , /dev/st0 but when i type : > > > > mt -f /dev/st0 status, it returns an I/O error > > >

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

On Monday 17 February 2003 6:18 pm, nate wrote: >no. i've seen systems with many layers of symlinks and there was no >noticable impact either. Just as an experiment, I moved my /opt to /usr/local and symlinked it back to /. I can't notice any difference, that's for sure... Thanks for the respon

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:11:58PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > We have a HP laser printer here with a JetDirect server. It's, of > course, Windows optimized, so all LPR clients have to suffer from the > staircase effect > which occurs > when the print

Gnome2 Instalation

Hi I am trying install gnome2 in /etc/apt/sources.list I add this line deb http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian woody gnome2 (how this page http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html show me) when I ran #apt-get install gnome2, this message is displayed, why? (I don't have installed gnome

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Hi. When I trying to compile KDE from sources, I get the following error :( checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0.2) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Make sure that you have compiled Qt with

Re: VMWare package

On Monday 17 February 2003 06:18 pm, Kent West wrote: > Greg Norris wrote: > >1) The kernel headers need to *exactly* match your running kernel. If > >your using a distribution kernel, there should be a matching > >kernel-headers-* package that you can install. If you compile your > >own, be sure

Apt-install base system to non-root drive?

Hi, I'm off to cruise through the docs, but some quick help on this would be appreciated. I have a booting, network-capable system, but it's not running well. I'd like to install a clean copy of Sarge to a spare hard drive. The Sarge net-install CD was a total failure (see rant below, or ignore it)

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Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

Jeff Elkins wrote: > As a RH refugee, I'm used to running the 'setup' program to enable/disable > program startups at runtime. For Debian, am I correct in cd'ing to the > /etc/rcX.d dir and moving SXXprogram to KXXprogram to disable it? Every Redhat user asks about chkconfig. Having used Redhat

Re: VMWare package

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:52:29AM -0900, Andy wrote: > > Can you give us more detail? I can't get VMWare to work on Debian woody. > I posted problems on debian-user getting VMWare running last year, received a reply and was successful with the following. Have not upgraded kernel version or vmw

Re: spoofing the From: header

Scruloose wrote: > Hmm. I'll have to go wading through Exim's docs to find that out... I feel certain it supports it since all of the good modern MTAs support that and exim is a good one. Easier to try it and see that it works than to dig into the docs in this case. > The idea behind this is th

Re: cron solved

Ina&Frank wrote: > > From my experience with AIX (IBM-UNIX) I always run crontab -e being > the user I have to change for, root for the root crontable. This is how > I got puzzled by Debian and did not really find a solution in the > manpages for editing cron for root. For other users the manpa

Re: Gnome2 in testing - any chances?

DvB sez: } Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: } > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:11:33AM +0100, René Seindal wrote: } > | Is gnome2 worth the hassle? } > No. (IMO) } } Does this mean that, once gnome2 gets into testing, we're all screwed? Um, well, depends on your point of view. I was

Re: exim vs. mutt: envelope/from/sender ???

Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:21:47PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > I want to be able to change between email addresses from within mutt. > > How do I do that? > > > > Initially, I'd configured exim for this: > > local_domains = localhost:Bragi.private.n

Re: apt sources

alex wrote: I'm having a problem understanding the architecture of apt sources and have difficulty in getting packages with apt and dselect. According to the APT HOWTO, 2.1, The /etc/apt/sources.list file it says: (quote) "The entries in this file normally follows this format:" "deb-http://site

Re: unsubscribe doesn't work!~

Al Davis wrote: > > Fer'had Erdogan wrote: > > > > Not following the footer instructions, not via the website, not even by > > sending multiple e-mails to the list manager. So, if there's anyone here > > who cares about keeping this list decent; take me out! And maybe even > > fix the problem whi

Re: Explorer-type file manager

John Griffiths wrote: You might also look into purchasing a copy of Xandros, which is a debian-based distro; the reviews I've read of the Xandros File Manager (called xfm, but not to be confused with another filemanager by that name) make it sound like it's several steps beyond either of the abov

Re: Gnome2 in testing - any chances?

On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 21:04, DvB wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:11:33AM +0100, René Seindal wrote: > > > > | Is gnome2 worth the hassle? > > > > No. (IMO) > > > > Does this mean that, once gnome2 gets into testing, we're all screwed

Re: cron won't activate changes

Ina&Frank wrote: > > I added it in /etc/crontab (as root, using crontab -e) and added the line > 0 23 * * * root iptables -I FORWARD -s -j DROP > > Fooks, where am I missing the point? Why it won't edit the firewall at > 23:00hrs?? Check the syslog and see what it says? /var/log/syslog Inst

Re: Locale?

Jeff Elkins wrote: > Knoppix HD install apparently thinks I'm German. At any rate, ispell wants to > use the German dictionary. > > How can I fix the default locale to be US? But the default keyboard layout is German as one would expect. To get a us keyboard layout and I assume the accompanying

Re: Explorer-type file manager

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Window manager is icewm. > > As long as you have the right libraries installed (which apt will > automatically take care of), you should be able to run any filemanager > you can find -- the window

Re: About package libflash0

Hi, * Rodrigo Sobrinho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030218 12:32]: > Hi all > > this package can be used with plugin for mozilla? If you're running unstable try flashplayer-mozilla. It works well for me. A nice site to test it is: http://www.webdesignlab.co.uk/niksthings/masking.html Cheers, Ni

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

on Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:18:46AM +0100, Jeff Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I compiled kde and qt > to live in /opt. If I moved /opt to /usr/local/kde31 and made /opt a symlink > would this create overhead a human would notice?

Re: VMWare package

You're right... I should have mentioned the "include" directory. I didn't realize that the distro kernel-headers packages include multiple trees, tho... I've been building my own for quite awhile now. Thanx for the update! On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:18:11PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Having just

Re: IP's

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:44:23PM -0800, John F. wrote: > I would like to tell my firewall to deny all connections from any IP > address. What would I put as the IP to be blocked? I don't understand your question. Are you using ipchains or iptables (kernel 2.2 or 2.4)? Are you planning on acc

Re: Certification

on Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:04:33AM -0500, Mike M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Certification is for PHBs only. Right? Is there any evidence other than > marketing blather that certification is a worthwhile endeavor? Here's a slightly pragmatic take on this. Note that I'm not certified (well,

About package libflash0

Hi all this package can be used with plugin for mozilla? hercules:/usr/share/doc/libflash0# apt-cache show libflash0 Package: libflash0 Priority: optional Section: libs Installed-Size: 240 Maintainer: Aubin Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: libflash Version: 0.4.10-5 Depends: li

Re: VMWare package

Greg Norris wrote: 1) The kernel headers need to *exactly* match your running kernel. If your using a distribution kernel, there should be a matching kernel-headers-* package that you can install. If you compile your own, be sure to hang onto the headers after building. The easiest way to do t

Re: Explorer-type file manager

Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: -- Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 17 February 2003, 03:54 PM -0800): Trying to ease the transition to Linux for the family, I'd like a MS Windows-like Explorer file manager, both in look and usage. nautilus (GNOME filemanager -- also

how to reject all connections? [was: Re: IP's]

On Tuesday, February 18, 2003 13:44, John F. wrote: > I would like to tell my firewall to deny all connections from any IP > address. What would I put as the IP to be blocked? Would it not be easier to set the default target to DENY or REJECT? If you needed to specify the network address of all

apt sources

I'm having a problem understanding the architecture of apt sources and have difficulty in getting packages with apt and dselect. According to the APT HOWTO, 2.1, The /etc/apt/sources.list file it says: (quote) "The entries in this file normally follows this format:" "deb-http://site.http.org/debi

IP's

I would like to tell my firewall to deny all connections from any IP address. What would I put as the IP to be blocked? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Under debian 3 I've set up a small server working as a router of a dsl connection. For this reason I have a firewall like this: . IPTABLES=/sbin/iptables DEPMOD=/sbin/depmod INSMOD=/sbin/modprobe EXTIF="ppp0" INTIF="eth1" . echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward echo "1" > /

Re: Explorer-type file manager

You might also look into purchasing a copy of Xandros, which is a debian-based distro; the reviews I've read of the Xandros File Manager (called xfm, but not to be confused with another filemanager by that name) make it sound like it's several steps beyond either of the above, and perhaps even less

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Re: Explorer-type file manager

-- Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 17 February 2003, 03:54 PM -0800): > Trying to ease the transition to Linux for the family, I'd like a > MS Windows-like Explorer file manager, both in look and usage. > > Not that icon view, just the plain old "Explore" with directories > on t

Re: Gnome2 in testing - any chances?

Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:11:33AM +0100, René Seindal wrote: > > | Is gnome2 worth the hassle? > > No. (IMO) > Does this mean that, once gnome2 gets into testing, we're all screwed? I keep hearing about how much less configurable gnome2 is

Re: Recompile kernel lost network

deFreese, Barry wrote: -Original Message- From: Hubert Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recompile kernel lost network "Barry" == deFreese, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Barry> Oh Gods of D

Re: Gnome2 in testing - any chances?

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:11:33AM +0100, René Seindal wrote: | Are there any chances that gnome2 will make it into testing within, say, | a few months? There is a chance, yes. ;-). | Will I be better of reverting to stable and use the backport than 'risk' | an upgrade to unstable? Probably, o

Re: VMWare package

Basically I just unpacked the tarball for VMware Workstation 3.2, and ran the ./vmware-install.pl script. When it prompted, I selected /opt/vmware as the installation path, and /usr/src/linux/include as the location of my kernel headers... the latter being a symlink to the real location. There ar

Re: Can only use ALSA via OSS emulation layer

At 2003-02-18T00:58:25Z, Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just last weekend, I finally decided to get ALSA working on my main > workstation, which had been OSS-based until then. I also found that I had > to use the OSS emulation layer to get anything to work; KDE's aRTs would > either c

"apt-get -b source libexpat1" -> cp: cannot stat `usr/include'...

When doing a "apt-get -b source libexpat1": Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 369kB of source archives. Get:1 ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main expat 1.95.6-2 (dsc) [693B] Get:2 ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main expat 1.95.6-2 (tar) [292kB] Get:3 ft

Re: Explorer-type file manager

hi ya bill On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: > Trying to ease the transition to Linux for the family, I'd like a > MS Windows-like Explorer file manager, both in look and usage. > > Not that icon view, just the plain old "Explore" with directories > on the left and directory contents on

Re: Recompile kernel lost network

"Barry" == Barry deFreese writes: Barry> Oh Gods of Debian, I recently built a Dell Lattitude laptop Barry> to hopefully start doing development on. Installed Woody Barry> with 2.2.20-idepci kernel and everything was working fine. Barry> I decide to compile 2.4.18. First tim

trouble getting audio to work

Hello. System: ASUS A7M266-D dual Athlon MOBO with onboard C-Media 8738 audio chip. OS: Debian Woody kernel 2.4.18 built by me. Problem: I cannot get any sound. I verified that the kernel I built has sound support built in, and driver for the 8738. I checked /proc/pci to make sure the chip is de

Re: Can only use ALSA via OSS emulation layer

Kirk Strauser wrote: > In a nutshell, ALSA still starts without any error messages, but any > sound-playing program falls into an endless cycle of 100% CPU usage as soon > as playback starts. However, if I set `startosslayer=true' in > /etc/alsa/alsa-base.conf and restart via /etc/init.d/alsa, I

Re: Recompile kernel lost network - More information

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:27:50 -0800 "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:40:03 -0800 > >"deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > OK, so I used ifconfig eth0 x.x.x.x mask 255.255.255.0 and that worked > and I can ping devices on the network but I have

Re: Explorer-type file manager

hey bill, for folks who are really wanting a windows-like environment, i'd recommend going with a gnome or kde desktop environment. both come with built in file browsers, and i believe that they both also provide the click and go functionality for desktop icons as well. i don't know too much abo

Re: Explorer-type file manager

Bill Moseley said: > > I like Rox and FileRunner and a few others, but this is a case where I'm > trying to make it feel a lot like Windows. your best bet is probably to ditch icewm and go with kde then, or perhaps gnome. both seem to go after the win32 look and feel much more then the rest.(I pr

Re: Glide3 Compilation Problems

Kevin Smith said: > Hi All, > > When I try to compile Glibe3 from source on Debian Woody 3.0r1 powerpc, I > get the following errors. how about apt-get install libglide3 ? or if you want to build it: apt-get -b source libglide3 ? the source one requires you have source uris in /etc/apt/sources.

Explorer-type file manager

Trying to ease the transition to Linux for the family, I'd like a MS Windows-like Explorer file manager, both in look and usage. Not that icon view, just the plain old "Explore" with directories on the left and directory contents on the right. And where I can configure what mouse buttons do for e

Re: exim vs. mutt: envelope/from/sender ???

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:21:47PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: [mutt + exim and invalid envelope sender] | Initially, I'd configured exim for this: | local_domains = localhost:Bragi.private.network | | Now, I have this: | local_domains = localhost:private.network | | For rewrit

Re: muttprint only printing one page

also sprach Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.18.0010 +0100]: > I'm not sure if this applies to your problem: printing two pages onto > one only works with A4 paper. If you are using a different paper size > weird things happen. A4 here. it worked back when I was in the US printing to Le

Re: exim vs. mutt: envelope/from/sender ???

-- Michael D. Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 17 February 2003, 04:21 PM -0600): > > As some of you know, I am transitioning from netscrape to mutt mua's. > > I am having some mail sending issues. > > The host on which the new mail system resides is bragi.private.network. > The de

Re: Epson Stylus C82 "Printer not connected", nothing prints

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:19:11AM -0800, Ruchira Datta wrote: > I have a Debian Gnu/Linux 3.0 box, dual boot with Windows 2000, on which > I'm running Cups v. 1.1.15 with gimp-print v. 4.2.5. When I add my > Epson Stylus C82, it claims to have added it successfully. The > connection was through

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

also sprach Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.17.1938 +0100]: > Let me add that, in the past, I've had nothing but trouble using HP's > JetDirect... erm... directly. They've probably improved things since > I last had to deal with it, but their old network stack couldn't > handle more than o

Gnome2 in testing - any chances?

Hi, I use testing and hence Gnome1. Some day I'd like to try out Gnome2, but I am a bit reluctant to switch to unstable, as I have work to do, and need a usable desktop. Are there any chances that gnome2 will make it into testing within, say, a few months? Will I be better of reverting to stabl

Re: muttprint only printing one page

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:29:31PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > hi there, > > how do i go about fixing a problem i have with muttprint? it will only > print one physical page, so if i try to print a document consisting of > three pages, with two pages printed onto one, only pages 1-2 will come

Glide3 Compilation Problems

Hi All, When I try to compile Glibe3 from source on Debian Woody 3.0r1 powerpc, I get the following errors. bagpuss:/home/admin/Glide3# ./build.3dfx Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda8 2064208501328 1458024 26% /home Making all in swlib

Re: Good C/C++ IDE

on Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:33:01PM -0800, S Yuval ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > Can anyone suggest a good C/C++ IDE? I've tried Anjuta, KDevelop, > KStudio and have been disappointed. The only somewhat useful IDE I > could find was QIDE, which is a trial product and only supports C. See:

Re: freeamp problems ?

On Monday 17 February 2003 9:49 am, Jeff Elkins wrote: > On Monday 17 February 2003 4:26 pm, Dave Selby wrote: > >I have run freeamp from xterm, zip new info, just locks, HOWEVER I noticed > >that it sometimes freezes at exactly the same time as my modem droppes the > >line. > > Might it be attempt

Re: exim vs. mutt: envelope/from/sender ???

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:21:47PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > As some of you know, I am transitioning from netscrape to mutt mua's. > > I am having some mail sending issues. > > The host on which the new mail system resides is bragi.private.network. > The default exim and mutt install

Re: your mail

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:36:13PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: [please use a non-blank, meaningful subject line] > After my upgrade to testing/unstable everything still works fine except my > KDE > sound. Tried XMMS, this one works fine but there aren't sounds from KDE. > When > I go to the s

Re: cdrecord -scanbus fails

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:36:13PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: ... > > > I have append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. > > > On bootup dmesg|grep hdd shows > > > > > > ide-setup: hdd=ide-scsi > > > ide1: BM-MDA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS

Re: Enabling frame-buffer support in debian kernel

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:51:13PM +, Steve Webster wrote: > I'm trying to enable frame-buffer support while configuring > kernel-source-2.4.18, but all I get is a greyed-out list of choices in > xconfig. > > This is what I've done [...] > d) in /usr/src/linux did "make-kpkg kernel_imag

RE: Recompile kernel lost network - More information

>On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:40:03 -0800 >"deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Oh Gods of Debian, >> >> I recently built a Dell Lattitude laptop to hopefully start doing >> development on. Installed Woody with 2.2.20-idepci kernel and >> everything was working fine. I decide to compile 2

exim vs. mutt: envelope/from/sender ???

As some of you know, I am transitioning from netscrape to mutt mua's. I am having some mail sending issues. The host on which the new mail system resides is bragi.private.network. The default exim and mutt installations passed this name onto the internet, whereupon intelligent mail servers reje

Re: cdrecord -scanbus fails

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:07:01PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I did not intentionally set DMA on /dev/hdd and I don't know how to turn > it off. Could you tell me how you did this? man hdparm hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: OT: differences between database models

LDAP is an example of a hierarchical database ("upside-down tree"). j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.17.0930 +0100]: >> The topic is about three different database models: the relational, the >> hier

Re: passwordless ssh login not working

* Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030215 20:05]: > So, I rename 'identity' to 'id_rsa' and try again... IT WORKS!!! Huh? > The authorized_keys on the host still ends in > '/home/pigeon/.ssh/identity', which doesn't exist on either machine. Well, this is unsurprising. The last field of a public key li

Re: cdrecord -scanbus fails

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:36:13PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Monday, 17 February 2003, 03:38 PM -0500): > > It used to work. > > > > I have append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. > > On bootup dmesg|grep hdd shows > > > > ide-setup: hd

Can only use ALSA via OSS emulation layer

I am using ALSA 0.9.0rc6+2-1 via `alsa-modules-2.4.19-k7' on an Unstable workstation. This worked great until the last day or two, but a recent update seems to have broken my setup (and no, I'm not sure exactly what all I updated - this is an Unstable system in name *and* practice :) ). In a nuts

Re: cdrecord -scanbus fails

"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It used to work. > > I have append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. > On bootup dmesg|grep hdd shows > > ide-setup: hdd=ide-scsi > ide1: BM-MDA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc DMA hdd: DMA > hdd: Norcent RWJ-401S, ATAPI CD/DV

Re: DNS + DHCP

> Quoting Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> How do these two play nice together? >> >> Do you still need the perl script to do it or have they configured a >> way to talk directly (DHCP3, BIND9)? >> >> I know at one point that there was a perl script that did a nice job >> going between the two.

Re: (1) initrd + aha1542 (2) /etc/mkinitrd/modules

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:10:46PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > 1. initrd + aha1542 > I am failing to convert a kernel with aha1542 builtin into an initrd > one because of the aha1542 module. I had a similar problem a while back. IIRC, the aha1542 module requires the isa-pnp module, and the

Re: cdrecord -scanbus fails

-- Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 17 February 2003, 03:38 PM -0500): > It used to work. > > I have append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. > On bootup dmesg|grep hdd shows > > ide-setup: hdd=ide-scsi > ide1: BM-MDA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc DMA hdd:

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:08:48PM -0800, Raju Kurunkad wrote: > Check out rcconf. I found it quite useful for > starting/stopping services at boot. wholly mackerel -- THAT's the tool everybody has been looking for. yes, "mv" is simple but you get this slipmy creepy feeling that something could go

(1) initrd + aha1542 (2) /etc/mkinitrd/modules

1. initrd + aha1542 I am failing to convert a kernel with aha1542 builtin into an initrd one because of the aha1542 module. Eventually I got initrd to prompt for a shell. Within that shell I was trying to insmod the aha1542 module manually and get: # insmod aha1542=0x134 Using /lib/m

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 07:32, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 16/02/03 Paul Johnson did speaketh: > > > Well, that's because it also installs reccommends. Some folks prefer > > that. > > Partly, but it's also because it tries to upgrade my whole system, when > all I wanted to do was install a

Free fonts

Hello all, I just wanted to let everyone know that I have released a bunch of fonts under the GPL. All the fonts on http://www.cheapskatefonts.com are GPL. The font Dustismo is the most useful as it contains a standard sans-serif as well as a roman typeface.I know bitstream is about to

Re: Crossword agme for Debain?

stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to find one of these for my wie. A google search turns up a > couple, but a quick atempt at compiling them on my "testing"machine fails. > > Cany anyone help out here? Not if you don't tell us how the compiles failed! What error messages did you ge

epson printer dilemma

I have a dilemma regarding setting up my Epson 640 printer. If I use the magicfilter filterset, I get good fast printing in 360dpi mode, but the 720 and 720x1440 filters don't work. No output appears. On the other hand if I use apsfilter, I have all the resolutions available but the 360dpi mode i

cdrecord -scanbus fails

It used to work. I have append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. On bootup dmesg|grep hdd shows ide-setup: hdd=ide-scsi ide1: BM-MDA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc DMA hdd: DMA hdd: Norcent RWJ-401S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive I have burnt cd's with the Norcent CD-RW drive in the past. Now, sudden

Crossword agme for Debain?

I would like to find one of these for my wie. A google search turns up a couple, but a quick atempt at compiling them on my "testing"machine fails. Cany anyone help out here? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: Epson Stylus C82 "Printer not connected", nothing prints

Ruchira Datta wrote: I have a Debian Gnu/Linux 3.0 box, dual boot with Windows 2000, on which I'm running Cups v. 1.1.15 with gimp-print v. 4.2.5. When I add my Epson Stylus C82, it claims to have added it successfully. The connection was through "Parallel Port #1 (Epson Stylus C82)", since when

Re: Recompile kernel lost network

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:41:41 -0800 "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: Jacob S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 9:31 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Recompile kernel lost network > > > > > >On Mon, 17 Feb 200

Re: set up a LAN DNS so that it doesn't conflict with externalDNSes

At 2003-02-17T16:05:48Z, Jerome "Lacoste (Frisurf)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - from my LAN I want that the address xxx.mydomain.com resolves directly > to our server (192.168.1.2). Let's see if I have this straight. For clients on the LAN, `xxx.mydomain.com' should resolve to 192.168.1.2.

Re: network problem: configuration/DNS? cannot access internalmachine using our external IP

On Sunday 16 February 2003 09:20 pm, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 05:39:05PM +0100, Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:10, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > Yes, just stick 'nameserver a.b.c.d' in /etc/resolv.conf where > a.b.c.d is the address of your local nameserver.

KERNEL: assertion (newsk->state...) failed

Possible Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Feb 16 16:11:34 server kernel: KERNEL: assertion (newsk->state != TCP_SYN_RECV) failed at tcp.c(2229) Feb 16 16:11:34 server kernel: KERNEL: assertion ((1

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

At 2003-02-17T14:11:58Z, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or should I use this "opportunity" to (finally) upgrade to CUPS? I'd suggest CUPS. Once you have it running, you'll probably wish you'd done it earlier. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg31337/pgp0

cron.daily/exim: "failed to open DB file..." what's this about?

i get this daily in my cron reports--and i'm not sure where to fix it (or if it needs fixing): /etc/cron.daily/exim: failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Invalid argument failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: Invalid argument run-pa

Re: set up a LAN DNS so that it doesn't conflict with external DNSes

implement scheme (3) above, what you want is this. In what follows, I'm assuming that xxx.mydomain.com (192.168.1.2) is also the machine running your local DNS service. /etc/bind/named.conf: [ . . . ] // add entries for other zones below here zone "xxx.mydom

Re: travan ide

Quoting herve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hello > i've got a stt28000a seagate travan and i have woody > i load ise-scsi module then is recognized , /dev/st0 but when i type : > > mt -f /dev/st0 status, it returns an I/O error > > when i remove the cartridge and type ,mt -f /dev/st0 , it returns ther

howto get kdm to (offer) shutdown upon logging out....?

i know that older versions of gdm had this feature I have managed to get sudo to allow me as an ordinary user to do what I want... but there seem to be no obvious way to configure the behaviour of kdm on a per user basis... google search yielded: http://dot.kde.org/998717333/998842727 whic

muttprint only printing one page

hi there, how do i go about fixing a problem i have with muttprint? it will only print one physical page, so if i try to print a document consisting of three pages, with two pages printed onto one, only pages 1-2 will come out, the third just doesn't get printed. i verified with muttprint whether

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