apt-file update --> error

2003-05-30 Thread Jon Haugsand
Searching around for information on packages and where a file might be and so on. Saw the apt-file, and I installed it 'apt-get install apt-file'. However, 'apt-file update' did not work out: apt-file update Error: http://security.debian.org//dists/stable/updates/Contents-i386.gz not found Erro

Re: Broken Mouse: [Was: Unidentified subject!]

2003-05-30 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > >> What type of mouse do you have? Is it a PS/2 mouse? >> Serial? USB? > > PS/2 > >> Post the contents of the mouse section of >> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. > > Here they are: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Serial Mouse" > Driver

problems with zope in current unstable

2003-05-30 Thread Daniel Meier
hey there I'm not able to install zope in the current unstable release, there seems to be something wrong with the /var/lib/zope/var directory (no such dirs and files). when i place some backupfiles there zope is still not able to start (stalled processes). thx for any asistance. kind regs danie

problems with zope in current unstable

2003-05-30 Thread Daniel Meier
hey there I'm not able to install zope in the current unstable release, there seems to be something wrong with the /var/lib/zope/var directory (no such dirs and files). when i place some backupfiles there zope is still not able to start (stalled processes). thx for any asistance. kind regs danie

Re: OT: The Hurd

2003-05-30 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:14:44PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I've wiped the drive and started over, and started a new, much cleaner > document. It can be found at > http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/A_Beginners_Second_Attempt_to_Install_the_Hurd.html > > Unfortunately, I've run into problems again,

Re: lists vs. subscribe (was Re: mutt to follow discussions.)

2003-05-30 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2003-05-29 14:24:38 -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > And to follow up to my own post. Mutt 1.5.4i (2003-03-19) does > not set $use_domain yes by default. The docs say: > use_domain > Type: boolean > Default: yes > When set, Mutt will qualify all local addresses (ones without the @host > porti

Re: Ximian Evolution unuseable in sid, downgrade doesn't help

2003-05-30 Thread Andrew Ingram
Happened to me too :( Did you also remember to downgrade libcamel0 ?? That needs to be downgraded before Evolution. I checked on incoming.debian.org and didn't notice a newer version to fix it either. Look like we are stuck with the downgraded one for a while :( On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 20:14, Lea

Re: sndconfig problems: sound only works until reboot

2003-05-30 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, I don't know wether this is important so to be sure I send this. In an old email I found somebody suggesting lspci; Here is the output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: OPTi Inc. 82C701 [FireStar Plus] (rev 32) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: OPTi Inc. 82C700 (rev 31) 00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instr

Re: Wine with apt-get

2003-05-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 29 May 2003 23:40, Miguel M. wrote: > Hey, > > OK i found a site that I can d/l Wine from but I keep > getting this error message: > --- > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet > dependencies: > wine: Depends: libwine (= 1:0.20030529.034101) but > 0.0.20030408-1 is to be instal

Re: Can apt-get install or remove openoffice

2003-05-30 Thread Mauro Darida
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:20, Kevin Mark wrote: > > (Reading database ... 110934 files and directories currently installed.) > > Unpacking openoffice.org (from .../openoffice.org_1.0.3-2_all.deb) ... > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org_1.0.3-2_all.deb (--unpack): >

Re: problem with "at"

2003-05-30 Thread Dirk
I tried the script below. This does show that "nice" works for me. But there is something strange with lavrec. It doesn't matter if I use "nice" or not, it still doesn't record very well. It is probably related to lavrec So I'll take it to the mjpegtools mailing list. Thanks for your help. Dirk

Re: awk usage question

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 20:19, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I'm trying to filter a file from tcpdump (actually tethereal) using awk, > but am stuck in one spot. > > In words, what I'd like to do is: > > 1. only read lines with the word "Message" in it > 2. in lines with "Message", output everyt

Re: Broken Mouse: [Was: Unidentified subject!]

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin Mark
GPM is for using the mouse in a console/terminal, not when you are using X apps. On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 16:34, Sara wrote: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Serial Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "Microsoft" > Option "Device" "/de

Re: Inserting a into sed's replacement string

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 13:31, bob parker wrote: > I'm using Woody with Gnu sed version 3.02 (the default). > > I want to be able to insert tab chars into the output lines eg > > sed = somefile | sed 'N;s/\n/\t/' > > just gives me the literal 't' immediately following the number at the start > of

Re: Inserting a into sed's replacement string

2003-05-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
* bob parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030529 10:54]: > I'm using Woody with Gnu sed version 3.02 (the default). > > I want to be able to insert tab chars into the output lines eg > > sed = somefile | sed 'N;s/\n/\t/' > > just gives me the literal 't' immediately following the number at the start >

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 13:06, Sara wrote: > Hi! > > I´m running a debian unstable since two weeks ago, and > it was perfect till I start messing around and now > mouse doesn´t work. I don´t know if it´s related with > what I did or not: I changed some links in the rx*.d Hi, the rcX.d directories ar

installed libdvdcss2, libdvdread has problem

2003-05-30 Thread David selby
+kenobi wrote: David selby wrote: Jeremy Petzold wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 10:49 am, David selby wrote: Am happily playing with gmplayer & xine. I have come across some DVDs which xine refuses to do anything with and gmplayer reports "cant open VMG info!" Can anybody shine any light on t

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeffrey L. Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030527 20:53]: > 2) configure DHCP server to give out the same IP address each time and > configure DNS with the names and IP addresses once and edit > /etc/resolv.conf once on each box. You could use the dhcp server options "domain-name" and "domain-name s

Re: [tir@igidr.ac.in: Problems with xlibs.]

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin Mark
> Preparing to replace xlibs 4.1.0-14 (using .../xlibs_4.2.1-6_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement xlibs ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.2.1-6_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package > wordnet -- Err

Re: [tir@igidr.ac.in: Problems with xlibs.]

2003-05-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 29 May 2003 22:16:04 +0530, Tirthankar C. Patnaik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lewis:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get -f install > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Correcting dependencies... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > xlib

Re: [OT] xmms and position slider in streams

2003-05-30 Thread Alex Polite
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 04:41:00AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:17:50PM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: > > The position slider in xmms is not visible when playing streams? I can > > play the same ogg or mp3 streams through windows winamp and use the > > position slider. Is the

RE: Inserting a into sed's replacement string

2003-05-30 Thread Reckhard, Tobias
> I want to be able to insert tab chars into the output lines eg > > sed = somefile | sed 'N;s/\n/\t/' > > just gives me the literal 't' immediately following the > number at the start > of each line. I haven't tried this in sed, but with "echo -e", you need to escape the backslash as well, so

Re: Is it likely that a malfunctional PC internal speaker can make a PC appear "dead?"

2003-05-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya trevor On Fri, 30 May 2003, trevor sealy wrote: > Hi Debian, > I turned on my PC as usual which did not run POST and there were no beeps > from my internal speaker to indicate a POST error. There was no video, > and hence no error messages. My system appears to be dead - although the > fan

Re: KernelCompileFailure

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 29 May 2003 23:09:19 -0400 "Kevin Herzig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm thinking one of two things. Either you have the wrong version of the > kernel headers installed, or you need to make clean and make dep again. I > like to make /usr/include/linux a symlink to /usr/src/linux/includ

RE: Is it likely that a malfunctional PC internal speaker can make a PCappear "dead"?

2003-05-30 Thread dbalder
>I turned on my PC as usual which did not run POST and there were no beeps >from my internal speaker to indicate a POST error. There was no video, >and hence no error messages. My system appears to be dead - although the >fan on the CPU and the system fan are obviously running, and the LEDs on >th

Re: Help with mixed versions, please

2003-05-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 12:16:36AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > 1) Getting dselect (and whatever dependent listings it relies on) > consistent with the packages I have (and want) on my system. I am > afraid to turn dselect loose after selectin

Is it likely that a malfunctional PC internal speaker can make a PC appear "dead?"

2003-05-30 Thread trevor sealy
Hi Debian, I turned on my PC as usual which did not run POST and there were no beeps from my internal speaker to indicate a POST error. There was no video, and hence no error messages. My system appears to be dead - although the fan on the CPU and the system fan are obviously running, and the LEDs

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-30 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:51:38PM -0400, Jerry Quinn wrote: > That's one. You don't have to go out of your way in the simple case > to get dnsmasq to forward dns requests upstream. It also incorporates > /etc/hosts into its cache. Just so I'm clear, the reason it reads /etc/hosts is so that so

RE: KernelCompileFailure

2003-05-30 Thread Tommy
I ran the debianized clean and make make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image and the kernel header files are ii kernel-headers 2.4.20-8 Header files related to Linux kernel version ii kernel-headers 2.4.20-8 Linux kernel headers 2.4.20 on AMD K6/K6-II/ trying to make a

Help with mixed versions, please

2003-05-30 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Hello, I've just re-subscribed, and maybe this is just being discussed now. If so, I can't see it - I don't have any recent messages before today. I installed Woody on my Thinkpad last week, and then added sources in testing so I could install the later sane packages, to get my Memorex scanner w

Re: awk usage question

2003-05-30 Thread Jan Trippler
On Don, 29 Mai 2003 at 20:19 (-0400), Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I'm trying to filter a file from tcpdump (actually tethereal) using awk, > but am stuck in one spot. > > In words, what I'd like to do is: > > 1. only read lines with the word "Message" in it > 2. in lines with "Message", ou

Re: awk usage question

2003-05-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:52:50PM -0400, Kevin McKinley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2003 22:00:28 -0400 > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I'm trying to filter a file from tcpdump (actually tethereal) using awk, > >

RE: KernelCompileFailure

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin Herzig
I'm thinking one of two things. Either you have the wrong version of the kernel headers installed, or you need to make clean and make dep again. I like to make /usr/include/linux a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include/linux, then make /usr/src/linux a symlink to whichever directory the kernel I'm tr

Re: awk usage question

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 29 May 2003 22:00:28 -0400 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to filter a file from tcpdump (actually tethereal) using awk, > > but am stuck in one spot. > > > > In words, what I'd like to do is: > > > > 1. only read li

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-30 Thread Jerry Quinn
Bill Moseley writes: > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:11:12PM -0400, Jerry Quinn wrote: > > R Ransbottom writes: > > > > > > > > > > This is great! I put in a wishlist to have dnsmasq read the dhcp > > > > lease file out of the box. Then dnsmasq will really be plug and > > > > play. >

Re: woody, sarge, or sid?

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 29 May 2003 20:48:58 -0400 Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hope this is helpful; sorry for being long-winded. No need for apology; that was a good explanation. Once you've identified which packages apt can't deal with, you can hold them so dist-upgrade won't try to remove them

Re: mkinitrd

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 30 May 2003 00:50:55 +0200 (MEST) Axel Gerster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I have a Highpoint HPT370A Raid Controller. Highpoint offers just an > module (which works) but no kernel patch. Due the fact, that I want / to > reside on the raid, I think the module should be in the initrd

Re: Ximian Evolution unuseable in sid, downgrade doesn't help

2003-05-30 Thread Richard Heycock
Yeah, I upgrade to 1.2.4-2 and I got a SEGV, and did a downgrade. I get local messages (en_AU) but the it still works. To get rid of them I've got a small bash function in my .profile that sets the locale to C, but I guess this doesn't help you much. rgh On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 05:14, Leandro Guim

Re: OT: The Hurd

2003-05-30 Thread Richard Heycock
At the risk of sounding smug, I managed to install the Hurd onto an Asus L3 without too much trouble. I followed the "Installing the Hurd" document by Neal Walfield and it all went well. I think (it was a while ago) I did a little "ad libbing" but not much. It can be done! I like the document thou

Re: runlevels [was: fried(?) computer hangs on boot]

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 29 May 2003 19:48:32 -0400 Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your help, everyone. > > My mom asked me about the problem, so I explained it in as much detail > as I could (she's the only person in the family who's not a computer > person, though), and she's convinced t

Re: awk usage question

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:41:46PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote.. > Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1. only read lines with the word "Message" in it > > 2. in lines with "Message", output everything to the right of the > > word "Message". This could be one word

Re: awk usage question

2003-05-30 Thread David Z Maze
Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to filter a file from tcpdump (actually tethereal) using awk, > but am stuck in one spot. > > In words, what I'd like to do is: > > 1. only read lines with the word "Message" in it > 2. in lines with "Message", output everything to th

Re: lists vs. subscribe (was Re: mutt to follow discussions.)

2003-05-30 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-29-03 18:36]: > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:39:13PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > > > The logic for the mail-followup-to header is a little more > > complicated, and involves both subscribed and known lists. > > > > First of all, mutt will only generate a

Re: woody, sarge, or sid?

2003-05-30 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 29 May 2003 15:06:55 -0400 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't speak for unstable, but at the moment, testing is quite a mess > and has been for about 2 weeks. You can't use dselect with essentially > destroying your system, and hand apt-get upgrades give 100+ packages not > upgrade

Re: awk usage question

2003-05-30 Thread Alan Shutko
Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. only read lines with the word "Message" in it > 2. in lines with "Message", output everything to the right of the > word "Message". This could be one word or twenty words. awk '/Message/ { print substr($0, index($0, "Message")+lengt

awk usage question

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin Coyner
I'm trying to filter a file from tcpdump (actually tethereal) using awk, but am stuck in one spot. In words, what I'd like to do is: 1. only read lines with the word "Message" in it 2. in lines with "Message", output everything to the right of the word "Message". This could be

Re: CUPS / HPLJ5: very slow printer processing

2003-05-30 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 19:21, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm using CUPS to print to an HP LaserJet 5. Output is...terrifyingly > slow, particularly when generating my standard output -- multi-sheet-per > page reports created by running textfiles through mpage: > > $ mpage -2 foo.txt | lpr > >

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-30 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:11:12PM -0400, Jerry Quinn wrote: > R Ransbottom writes: > > > > > > > This is great! I put in a wishlist to have dnsmasq read the dhcp > > > lease file out of the box. Then dnsmasq will really be plug and > > > play. > > > > Since only one dhcp server should

Re: runlevels [was: fried(?) computer hangs on boot]

2003-05-30 Thread Vikki Roemer
Thanks for your help, everyone. My mom asked me about the problem, so I explained it in as much detail as I could (she's the only person in the family who's not a computer person, though), and she's convinced that there's something physically wrong with the HD (I dunno why, but that's her belie

Re: libqt3-mt installation conflict

2003-05-30 Thread Hamid
Thanks for the reply. But I have installed KDE 3 and it is working. But I don't have any libqt* Hamid Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote: El Jueves, 29 de Mayo de 2003 23:59, Hamid escribió: Hi I was trying to setup libqt3 files by: # apt-get -s -t unstable install libqt3-mt To instal kde 3 i

Re: KernelCompileFailure

2003-05-30 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 29 May 2003 16:01:06 -0700 (PDT) Tommy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > net/network.o(.text+0xcac0): In function `rtnetlink_rcv': > : undefined reference to `rtnetlink_rcv_skb' > make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20' > make: *** [stamp-bui

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-30 Thread Jerry Quinn
R Ransbottom writes: > > > > This is great! I put in a wishlist to have dnsmasq read the dhcp > > lease file out of the box. Then dnsmasq will really be plug and > > play. > > Since only one dhcp server should exist on a segment it is a bad > idea to have such a package work without, a

Re: libqt3-mt installation conflict

2003-05-30 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
El Jueves, 29 de Mayo de 2003 23:59, Hamid escribió: > Hi > I was trying to setup libqt3 files by: > # apt-get -s -t unstable install libqt3-mt To instal kde 3 it is necesary to install 'libqt3c102-mt' instead of 'libqt3-mt'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

CUPS / HPLJ5: very slow printer processing

2003-05-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm using CUPS to print to an HP LaserJet 5. Output is...terrifyingly slow, particularly when generating my standard output -- multi-sheet-per page reports created by running textfiles through mpage: $ mpage -2 foo.txt | lpr I'm looking for suggestions on speeding processing, which is curre

problems installing on kontron x-board

2003-05-30 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Hi I have made several attempts of installing Debian on a quite new embedded system, the Kontron X-board (www.get-x-board.com). Amazing piece of hw, credit-card size, 266MHz National Semiconductor Geode 1200 processor, 128MB ram, 128MB compact-flash (although the install is made to a second CF of

Re: mkinitrd

2003-05-30 Thread Axel Gerster
> This question is not easy to answer without knowing more about what you have > and what you're trying to do. > > Can you explain what kind of hardware you're trying to support, what > distribution of Debian (and which kernel) you're running, and what you need > to do? In particular, why do you th

Re: mkinitrd

2003-05-30 Thread Axel Gerster
> cp initrd.img initrd.gz > gunzip initrd.gz > mkdir mnt > mount -o loop initrd mnt > Now, copy whatever you want into mnt/... > umount initrd > gzip initrd > cp initrd.gz initrdnew.img Well, thx. But there are two more problems then. How to get the module loaded and the error "disk full". Yours

KernelCompileFailure

2003-05-30 Thread Tommy
I have unstable on a laptop and desktop. Laptop unstable compiles the kernel without a problem On the desktop make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image fails with the following make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/arch/i386/lib' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.

Wine with apt-get

2003-05-30 Thread Miguel M.
Hey, OK i found a site that I can d/l Wine from but I keep getting this error message: --- Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: wine: Depends: libwine (= 1:0.20030529.034101) but 0.0.20030408-1 is to be installed How can I tell apt-get that I want to install that versi

Re: Broken Mouse: [Was: Unidentified subject!]

2003-05-30 Thread Kent West
Sara wrote: What type of mouse do you have? Is it a PS/2 mouse? Serial? USB? PS/2 Do you remember seeing anything about "gpm" in /etc/rc*.d? (BTW, it No, there is nothing. I don't know why "/etc/gpm-root.conf" is there; I'm not familiar with that file, but I see it's on my box

Exim4 in Unstable

2003-05-30 Thread Matthew Walkup
When trying to setup exim4-daemon-lite or exim4-daemon-heavy in unstable, it stalls on: Setting up exim4-config (4.20-1) ...   There are processes still running, but it never ends (just sits there).   Any Ideas?   - Matt

libqt3-mt installation conflict

2003-05-30 Thread Hamid
Hi I was trying to setup libqt3 files by: # apt-get -s -t unstable install libqt3-mt To me, the message was surprising. apt-get listed all KDE packages (including kdebase) in the "to be removed" section. Since I used simulation of installation, thanks God, I am happily using my KDE 3.1.2 . But I

Re: Mozilla Mail apparently not wrapping lines at 72 characters

2003-05-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Harshwardhan Nagaonkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030529 13:48]: > Hey this is even better. I have turned it off now, I expect it will work > on restart of mozilla. > Either way, thank you Travis Crump for the extra info, It helps a lot. > This feature is sort of > irritating (my own opinion). Do you

PAM messages on chrooted console

2003-05-30 Thread Ming Hua
Hi, I am trying to run a chroot on my woody machine (so that I can try sid later). I set up the chroot environment according to Debian Reference: woody# apt-get install debootstrap woody# debootstrap woody /var/chroot http://... woody# mount -t proc proc /var/chroot/proc woody# cp

Re: lists vs. subscribe (was Re: mutt to follow discussions.)

2003-05-30 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:40:51PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On a related note: I noticed that my reply had: > > Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], > Debian users list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Mutt users list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is not my address. > >

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-30 Thread R Ransbottom
> This is great! I put in a wishlist to have dnsmasq read the dhcp > lease file out of the box. Then dnsmasq will really be plug and > play. Since only one dhcp server should exist on a segment it is a bad idea to have such a package work without, at least, forcing the user to set it up. -

Re: Installing xserver

2003-05-30 Thread Tim Emerick
Redhat uses a package called Kudzu. It keeps a database of installed hardware and scans on boot for hardware changes. I find it quite helpful when I forget what type of card is installed. --- Joris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joris, > > > > Thanks for the lead. It's always nice to have some

Re: lists vs. subscribe (was Re: mutt to follow discussions.)

2003-05-30 Thread Bill Moseley
On a related note: I noticed that my reply had: Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian users list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mutt users list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is not my address. I didn't have $hostname set in my .muttrc so I assume it set the Mail-Followup-

Re: startup scripts

2003-05-30 Thread Corey Donohoe
man update-rc.d On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 06:51 AM, Sharninder Singh-662 wrote: hi i have a script which i want to run just aftert the system has booted up and before the login prompt is shown to the user...where do put this script ? i am running debian woody. regards sharninder -- To UNSUB

Re: Broken Mouse: [Was: Unidentified subject!]

2003-05-30 Thread Sara
> You'll get more nibbles with a subject line. You are completely right. Sorry about that. > What type of mouse do you have? Is it a PS/2 mouse? > Serial? USB? PS/2 > Do you remember seeing anything about "gpm" in > /etc/rc*.d? (BTW, it No, there is nothing. > sounds like you're trying to

Re: [OT] Can Samba and NFS coexist?

2003-05-30 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Am Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2003 19:19 schrieb Joerg Johannes: > Hi everybody > > I am about to plan a fileserver for both windows and linux clients. Is > it possible to share the same directories for windows and linux > clients? Or do I have to set up different home directories for the > samba and the

isapnp.conf

2003-05-30 Thread sdownes
My laptop has an expansion port containing a 3c509b ethernet card. The 2.2 kernel, LTSP boot disk & windows recognise this as io 0c300 irq 10 & work. The 2.4.20 kernel recognises it as 0x220 irq 5 & doesn't 2.4 kernel says it uses isapnp but I cannot run it from root or find it or find a isapnp.

Re: Mozilla Mail apparently not wrapping lines at 72 characters

2003-05-30 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Travis Crump wrote: Barney Wrightson wrote: I am still not sure if I like it or not, but don't worry about your text not being wrapped in other peoples MUAs, I am pretty sure it is. HTH, Barney You can turn it off by setting the preference "mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support

Re: procmail: Segfault with autoreply rules

2003-05-30 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 07:04:43PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:37:02AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). > > > > > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > > > recipients. T

Gnome2.2 install problem

2003-05-30 Thread Piers Kittel
Hi all Have just set up my new PC with Debian, changed the apt-get sources list but I'm having an annoying Gnome2.2 apt problem, and am not quite sure how to fix this. I run: apt-get install gnome and get the following error message: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Some

Re: [OT] Can Samba and NFS coexist?

2003-05-30 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:19:44PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi everybody > > I am about to plan a fileserver for both windows and linux clients. Is > it possible to share the same directories for windows and linux > clients? It should work. There is/was a samba setting to watch out for, s

Re: Installing xserver

2003-05-30 Thread Joris
> Joris, > > Thanks for the lead. It's always nice to have some hardware > detection. Does it build a database so that when new hardware is > installed, it opens a dialog for you to configure it during the boot > process? I don't think so, I've never used it myself. As a student, I rarely buy new

Re: [OT] Can Samba and NFS coexist?

2003-05-30 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
El Jueves, 29 de Mayo de 2003 19:19, Joerg Johannes escribió: > Hi everybody > > I am about to plan a fileserver for both windows and linux clients. Is > it possible to share the same directories for windows and linux > clients? Or do I have to set up different home directories for the > samba and

Re: lists vs. subscribe (was Re: mutt to follow discussions.)

2003-05-30 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:39:13PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > The logic for the mail-followup-to header is a little more > complicated, and involves both subscribed and known lists. > > First of all, mutt will only generate a mail-followup-to header if > (1) the $followup_to option is set,

Ximian Evolution unuseable in sid, downgrade doesn't help

2003-05-30 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
I upgraded Evolution to 1.2.4-2, it ceased to work without error messages. Now I downgraded to 1.2.4-1. It first required slaying oaf and bonobo, now it opens without showing any message folder: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ The font "-*-arial-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,

Broken Mouse: [Was: Unidentified subject!]

2003-05-30 Thread Kent West
Sara wrote: Hi! I´m running a debian unstable since two weeks ago, and it was perfect till I start messing around and now mouse doesn´t work. I don´t know if it´s related with what I did or not: I changed some links in the rx*.d files, in order to start X directly at init (I think I just did that

Re: OT: The Hurd

2003-05-30 Thread Kent West
David Fokkema wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 03:29:23PM -0500, Kent West wrote: David Fokkema wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:20:00PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I just installed the Hurd on a Gateway E-1800. It's a bare minimum install, with lots of broken-ness. And they say inst

Re: Installing xserver

2003-05-30 Thread Haines Brown
Joris, Thanks for the lead. It's always nice to have some hardware detection. Does it build a database so that when new hardware is installed, it opens a dialog for you to configure it during the boot process? The discover is a frontend for hardware detection tools, and you mentioned one for the

Re: woody, sarge, or sid?

2003-05-30 Thread stan
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:14:27PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:49, Gezim H wrote: > [snip] > > On the other hand if I get > > sarge or sid is my system gonna crush often, how unstable is really sid? If > > I get sid, and I want to install gimp, with "apt-get install gimp"

Re: Modem: LSR safety check engaged

2003-05-30 Thread Al Davis
On Thursday 29 May 2003 06:47 am, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > ANyone know what this means? ANybody successfully got this > card to work with Linux? > > I tried ActionTEc's PCI 56K V92 Call Waiting modem, which > is supposed to work with Linux; its existence is not > recognized either by win

Inserting a into sed's replacement string

2003-05-30 Thread bob parker
I'm using Woody with Gnu sed version 3.02 (the default). I want to be able to insert tab chars into the output lines eg sed = somefile | sed 'N;s/\n/\t/' just gives me the literal 't' immediately following the number at the start of each line. Attempting to actually type a tab key in the place

Re: pilot-link in Sid and Sarge: Much bigger question

2003-05-30 Thread Ludovic Rousseau
Le vendredi 25 avril 2003 à 15:27:57, David Krider a écrit: > I would love whatever pointers the lists may have to offer on this, but > it raises a much larger question about versions and currency in general. > I see that pilot-link is the same version in Sid as it is in Woody, and > that version i

[OT] Can Samba and NFS coexist?

2003-05-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I am about to plan a fileserver for both windows and linux clients. Is it possible to share the same directories for windows and linux clients? Or do I have to set up different home directories for the samba and the nfs server? Is there a good howto (apart from http://de.samba.org/

Unidentified subject!

2003-05-30 Thread Sara
Hi! I´m running a debian unstable since two weeks ago, and it was perfect till I start messing around and now mouse doesn´t work. I don´t know if it´s related with what I did or not: I changed some links in the rx*.d files, in order to start X directly at init (I think I just did that with xdm, kd

[tir@igidr.ac.in: Problems with xlibs.]

2003-05-30 Thread Tirthankar C. Patnaik
Folks, I had sent this query sometime back, but I haven't received any replies. Could someone please help me with this? TIA, -tir -- -- Tirthankar, IGIDR. +91-22-2840 0919 x275 (r), x593(o), x542(CFL). http://www.igidr.ac.in/~tir LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that

RE: Cygwin SSH through a router?

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin Griffis
I'm running a Freesco box at home, so "NAT Box" might be more like it. It looks like, if one wants a full desktop environment, this *isn't* the way to go. Good for running an occasional X app, maybe? Anyway, thanks for helping this poor newbie out. :-) Thanks, Kevin Griffis -Original Mess

Re: mkinitrd

2003-05-30 Thread bruce edge
On Thu, 29 May 2003 17:50:10 +0200, Axel Gerster wrote: >> > can someone please explain to me how to get an module into an existing >> > initrd.img and get it loaded on bootup? Or does someone know a good >> > howto? >> If you just want to add a module, and not recreate it from scratch, try this:

Re: mkinitrd

2003-05-30 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 29 May 2003 17:22:18 +0200 (MEST) Axel Gerster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I only have the source code for a module. How to patch it into the kernel? This question is not easy to answer without knowing more about what you have and what you're trying to do. Can you explain what kind of h

Re: mkinitrd

2003-05-30 Thread Mike M
On Thursday 29 May 2003 11:22, Axel Gerster wrote: > > Would it be easier for you to embed the module into the kernel? > > I only have the source code for a module. How to patch it into the kernel? 1) run make menuconfig 2) read "Legend" in Main Menu -- Mike M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: woody, sarge, or sid?

2003-05-30 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:49, Gezim H wrote: [snip] > On the other hand if I get > sarge or sid is my system gonna crush often, how unstable is really sid? If > I get sid, and I want to install gimp, with "apt-get install gimp" is it > gonna install gimp 1.3 (unstable)? Does sid use unstable pack

Re: Cygwin SSH through a router?

2003-05-30 Thread David Z Maze
"Kevin Griffis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use PuTTY on a Win98 machine to connect to my home machine behind a > router, tunnelling VNC over SSH. Is it possible to tunnel through a router > using Cygwin/SSH and get an X desktop? I bet you don't mean "router", but rather "NAT box". Regardle

Re: Spamassassin auto-learn not working

2003-05-30 Thread Patrick Kirk
Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 03:49:26PM -0700, Michael Montagne wrote: [...] In my effort to make it work from a single database of bayesian data, I had added -x to /etc/defaults/spamassassin. This caused bayes to not work. It works fine now as this report shows. Colin, it was

Re: mkinitrd

2003-05-30 Thread Axel Gerster
> > can someone please explain to me how to get an module > > into an existing initrd.img and get it loaded on bootup? > > Or does someone know a good howto? > > Have you checked the Kernel HOWTO? Yes, I have. But the Explanation there does not contain any things like: Which files do I need. Which

Re: Backporting from sid

2003-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 08:52:12PM +0700, +kenobi wrote: > I have some backported package from sid (compiling from source package) > on my woody machine. > 1. How do i know which of my backported package have new version in sid, > so i may do backporting upgrade? Try using apt-src. > 2. How i c

Re: lists vs. subscribe (was Re: mutt to follow discussions.)

2003-05-30 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2003-05-25 13:23:32 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I'm trying to figure this out myself. In particular, it looks > like there might be a bug in either the documentation or (I hope) > mutt 1.4. The documentation says that the ~l pattern matches > messages to known lists (anything matched in a s

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