Re: DO NOT UPGRADE UNSTABLE: Terminal text stops functioning

2003-07-21 Thread Adam Warner
I wrote: > The bug is most likely caused by initscripts, sysvinit or sysv-rc. If > you have upgraded you may wish to downgrade/wait for a fix before > rebooting, especially if your computer doesn't automatically boot into > X. I have confirmed that downgrading to initscripts_2.85-4.1_all.deb sys

Re: kernel-source-2.4.20-bf2.4 ?

2003-07-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.22.0053 +0200]: > If the kernel is installed and running, would "uname -r" get what you > need? Or if not installed, would running dpkg --contents on the .deb > and seeing what the /lib/modules/xxx directory name is do it? It's installed, but uname

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE UNSTABLE: Terminal text stops functioning

2003-07-21 Thread Geordie Birch
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 06:14:01PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: > I wrote: > > > The bug is most likely caused by initscripts, sysvinit or sysv-rc. If > > you have upgraded you may wish to downgrade/wait for a fix before > > rebooting, especially if your computer doesn't automatically boot into > > X

Re: kernel-source-2.4.20-bf2.4 ?

2003-07-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.21.2211 +0200]: > You want to know the revision of the kernel modules that go with this > kernel (are installed if you install from this CD)? That is, after you > install from this CD, you find, among other things: > /lib/modules/2.4.20

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-21 Thread Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D.
Bah dum ba... 1st: A problem with this list is its huge signal to noise ratio. If you don't have an answer to give jokes are less than helpful. 2nd: Louie, the answer to your question is: You don't need just a gpg public key. What you probably want is a gpg key pair. Having just a public ke

help apache-ssl does not show any pages

2003-07-21 Thread Ivan Wills
Hi I have installed the apache-ssl package but every time I try to connect to it I get an error. In my browser if I try to connect to the server I get a message about the ssl certificiate not being signed by a recoognised authority (which is fine as it was created during the install process) the

DO NOT UPGRADE UNSTABLE: Terminal text stops functioning

2003-07-21 Thread Adam Warner
Hi all, Since upgrading to the latest unstable I have discovered that after my startup reaches "Setting up X socket server directory ..." that I get no further output at the terminal. I have confirmed this on two different computers. Neither the computers nor keyboards are locked up. I am able to

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-21 Thread Stephen Touset
Sorry to be brusque, but: man gpg Louie Miranda wrote: How can i have a gpg public key? -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > Do you suspect there could be a long enough delay between releasing > the alleged infractions and producing a clean kernel that fully > changing OSes could make sense, however? > like u said .. if worst comes to worse. either ppl will develop patches and features for the latest hardware or som

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-21 Thread Louie Miranda
> Go to a locksmith in your nearest town and ask them to cut you one. They keep > blanks on hand. Have you done this? So how was it? Was it so good? -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: "Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: setting window manager in Gnome 2.2 (on woody)

2003-07-21 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 04:19, Daniel B. wrote: > How does one change the window manager in the Gnome 2.2 backport > for woody? I couldn't find anything relevant in the Desktop > Preferences. You could check the list archives, it's an FAQ. Basically, Gnome people say: "Window Manager" ist tech-spe

Re: moving menu panel in Gnome 2.2 (on woody)

2003-07-21 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 04:19, Daniel B. wrote: > In Gnome 2.2 (the woody backport), can the menu panel be placed other > than at the top of the screen? If not, why not? click with middle mouse-button (cursor changes to a cross) and drag. But only top or bottom are possible or make sense. You can a

"Connection Reset by Peer" or "hang"

2003-07-21 Thread Aurelien Derouineau
(Original Post: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3745) Here is my problem: I am trying to install a software (Steam), and from time to time during the update (it gets the files from the net), it ends up either with "Connection reset by Peer" or it just hangs. I am not behind a router.

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-21 Thread Michael D. Crawford
> How can i have a gpg public key? Go to a locksmith in your nearest town and ask them to cut you one. They keep blanks on hand. Warmest regards, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Wind

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:37:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 23:32, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:25:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:03:55PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > [snip] > > SCO has made no claims against the

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:06:26AM +0530, Sharninder Singh-662 wrote: > > > > If worst comes to worst and SCO finally show some incriminating code > > in 2.4, stepping back to 2.2 until the relevant bits are purged from > > 2.4 is all anyone should need to do to cover their assets in countries > >

how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-21 Thread Louie Miranda
How can i have a gpg public key? -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > If worst comes to worst and SCO finally show some incriminating code > in 2.4, stepping back to 2.2 until the relevant bits are purged from > 2.4 is all anyone should need to do to cover their assets in countries > where this becomes an issue. ya .. very true and debian makes it even better by

Re: Kernel 2.6.0test1 Mini-HOWTO

2003-07-21 Thread arief_mulya
Dear Marino, Nice HOWTO. I like to know, if the change to fstab (sysfs and usbfs) will affect how 2.4* kernel works? Have you tried that? About ALSA, it's perfectly working the last time I try them. But it seems we need some change in the alsa init scripts. For me, the solution was just compile

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 23:32, Brian McGroarty wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:25:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:03:55PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: [snip] > SCO has made no claims against the 2.2 kernels. > > If worst comes to worst and SCO finally show some in

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:25:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:03:55PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > This Slashdot story > > (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1516240&mode=thread&tid=130&tid=185&tid=187&tid=190&tid=88) > > references this Yahoo! story (htt

Re: strange ifconfig output

2003-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 12:20, Nicolas wrote: > I have a working ethernet card on a router with strange output. It has no TX > paquets and a lots of errors. I tried to change the NIC ant PCI socket. I > event switch the two interfaces (eth0 and eth1) using the mac address. What > ever I do, if

Kernel 2.6.0test1 Mini-HOWTO

2003-07-21 Thread Marino Fernandez
After much fiddling, I finally made this kernel work fine with my machine (Fujitsu C 7651 lifebook (Laptop)), Pentium III, I830m integrated graphics, PCMCIA modem (thanks to shitty winmodem). 1) make a /sys folder 2) enter this in fstab: sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 00 none /proc/bus/

Re: i810 problem

2003-07-21 Thread Salman Haq
Hi, You're using version 4.1.0 of X which may not support your hardware properly. My Dell 2350 has the Intel 845GL chipset and when I installed debian I couldn't get X to work either. It turns out that the chipset is only supported by version 4.3.0 of X which can be downloaded and installed

Fw: i810 problem

2003-07-21 Thread Jennifer
> Hi, I am no expert on Debian and X. But I did have similar problem when I > was trying to use X on Debian. In my case , the problem with this error > message were related to the wrong chose of VGA driver type and also wrong > VedioRam setting. > > > > > > i have i810 board and Debian 3.0,

i810 problem

2003-07-21 Thread J. Smith
i have i810 board and Debian 3.0, but X does not work, below is output by xinit: warning: process set to nice value 0 instead of -10 as requested This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and patches submitted to [EMAIL P

Re: No GUI

2003-07-21 Thread MJM
On Sunday 20 July 2003 21:04, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 09:55:40PM -0600, Marvin Aguero wrote: > > Any pointers on how to change this? > > Search the archives, people ask this one about once a week. http://lists.debian.org/search.html search on on gdm or kdm or xdm search dkpg

setting window manager in Gnome 2.2 (on woody)

2003-07-21 Thread Daniel B.
How does one change the window manager in the Gnome 2.2 backport for woody? I couldn't find anything relevant in the Desktop Preferences. Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

moving menu panel in Gnome 2.2 (on woody)

2003-07-21 Thread Daniel B.
In Gnome 2.2 (the woody backport), can the menu panel be placed other than at the top of the screen? If not, why not? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Network Audio System

2003-07-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Is anyone using NAS? I notice their mailing list no longer works and there are jillions of debian msgs on Google about it needing a maintainer. I have just installed it from the tarball because Sarge doesn't have the dev version and the tarball is more recent. It seems to be a very complete system

Re: nVidia problems

2003-07-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 02:20:05 +0200, Jose wrote: > I wrote earlier about the problems I was having with the onboard > graphics. I had a spare PCI card with the same video chip (Riva TNT2 > Mach64 16mb) There's a RIVA TNT2 chip by nVidia, and there's a Mach64 Chip by ATI. Who crossed the two? ;-)

Re: mouse pointer does not show

2003-07-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:20:11 +0200, maguer wrote: > In fact, the mouse pointer does show for a little while. It disappears, > and remained invisible when the first window pops up (the one with the tip > of the day or something like that). Hmm. This doesn't sound like a driver issue at all. Maybe

Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:30:12 +0200, Jimmy Johansson wrote: > Oh, you are so right! Tried doing it manually and messed up somehow so now > I think I'll just have to install from scratch again! The more it hurts, > the more you learn! :-) (or so I hope!) OK, first lesson. STOP REINSTALLING. Serious

Re: tee -a /dev/null

2003-07-21 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030721] Richard Kimber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks. I'll have to research it. I thought I was just running cups. xprint is not a print-spooling daemon like lprng or cups & thus it depends on them, so most likely you are running xprint on-top of cups. Some apps (inclu

Re: Loading drm

2003-07-21 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 03:30:12 +0200, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: But, when I look in modconf, it shows a "-" sign after agpgart, indicating that it is not installed, but it is. What would I have to do to straighten this out? The minus sign doesn't mean "not installed". It me

/proc/partitions does not match /dev

2003-07-21 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I recently got Debian running on an IBM X31 laptop. I installed Woody bf24 kernel first, then installed a 2.4.21 kernel-image from unstable. Today I built my own kernel 2.4.21 and when I run lilo, I get the following message: Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory st

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-21 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 19:33:30 -0500, Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You asked what you should do to read the documentation from a package. >If you want to read a package's documentation, you should install or at >least download the package. Not rocket science there. If your intent >is

Re: Automatic renice

2003-07-21 Thread Johannes Zarl
Sorry, I don't know of any other way to automatically start a process with a given priority other than ``nice -n 10 xmms''. > As a last solution, I'd cron a script as root to renice automatically, > but I can't obtain a list of the xmms processes (' ps -A | grep xmms | > awk "{print $1}" ' gives

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-21 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Leif B. Kristensen: > Ahem. So, in order to find one package of interest, I should install a > random number of packages and read the documentation afterwards? Or, > maybe I could run an > > apt-get install * > > and be finished with it once and for all? > > Thank you for a really ima

Re: configuring DHCLIENT-2.2.x

2003-07-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lars" == Lars Unin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> I installed using a hard disk net install with kernel Lars> 2.4.18-bf. i'll have a go at downloading packages, Lars> otherwise i've just about given up. What is a "hard disk net install"? Probably you need the initrd tools etc

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-21 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:29:24 -0500, Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thus spake Leif B. Kristensen: >> However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name >> such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names? Shouldn't >> the original module name be referr

nVidia problems

2003-07-21 Thread Jose
I wrote earlier about the problems I was having with the onboard graphics. I had a spare PCI card with the same video chip (Riva TNT2 Mach64 16mb) so I installed it, disabled the onboard and viola! I got video! The onboard will only work with the nv driver even though it is the same as the PCI

Re: configuring DHCLIENT-2.2.x

2003-07-21 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Can't tell from what you've written, but you might be selling Debian short because you're not using the package system properly. Many packages depend on others - this is true in other distros too. apt-get will alert on dependencies, but you might try installing aptitude (apt-get install aptitude)

Re: webmin-quota fails

2003-07-21 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Robert C. Mosher II wrote: > I'm trying to use webmin to manage disk quotas, but when I go to the > Disk Quotas link I get this error: > > mount::list_mounted failed : Undefined subroutine &mount::list_mounted > called at (eval 14) line 2. > > I'm using running Woody, have t

grep binary file detection

2003-07-21 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, When I grep through my mbox files, the ones that I imported from Outlook Express return "binary file matches". I have run dos2unix to remove the ^M's. Any ideas why this is happening? They look normal in vi. Antony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Oops

2003-07-21 Thread Alan Connor
Sorry about both these stupid posts. Working on a function :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to specify MAIL FROM

2003-07-21 Thread David
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 10:38:18AM +0800, yuwen wrote: > I use exim to send mail directly to the outside world. But since I > don't have my own doname name, the MAIL FROM field of my email is just > like [EMAIL PROTECTED]' where leo is my hostname. Many stmp server refuse mail > whose MAILFRO

howdy

2003-07-21 Thread Alan Connor
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Re: kernel-source-2.4.20-bf2.4 ?

2003-07-21 Thread David
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:00:14PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I need to compile a module to be used with the LT 2003 Debian CD, > which comes with the 2.4.20-bf2.4 kernel. I can't seem to find the > kernel-source package. Of course, there is kernel-source-2.4.20, but > I don't know which revis

Re: Sed Tutorial

2003-07-21 Thread Alan Connor
From: Robin Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: sed tutorial hello, why google gives a lot of unreachable sed tutorials ? (error 404 ...) Where can I get them if they exist ? TIA. -- Gerard I have never seen anything that compares with the OREILLY book, "sed and aw

Re: Copying a dvd movie

2003-07-21 Thread Nicos Gollan
OK, I'm falling for it. Could we please all try to keep this one small and civil afterwards? On Monday 21 July 2003 22:36, Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D. wrote: > Let's see, you can spend a week trying to get DVD::rip > working and the associated stuff like transcode > that it needs, and dvdcss and all the

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-21 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Leif B. Kristensen: > However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name > such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names? Shouldn't > the original module name be referred to on the package page? http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-polic

Re: Could this be debian ?

2003-07-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:39:00AM -0400, alex wrote: > > http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-07-21.htm > > Item 10 - Just for grins > > Get your flamethrowers ready! http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-07-21.htm";> *yawn* -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:

Re: Smaller margins in postscript documents.

2003-07-21 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Monday 21 July 2003 17:04, David Z Maze wrote: > I suspect you're not really writing postscript documents by hand; what > is producing the files? There's not an easy way to do this in > general. There might be something that could rescale a file to be 10% > larger and still centered, but I can

Re: tee -a /dev/null

2003-07-21 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:18:33 +0300 Manolis Tzanidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > root 11858 1 0 Jul05 pts/500:00:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xprt > > -ac-pn -nolisten tcp -audit 4 -fp > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,/usr > > /X11 > > R6/lib/X11/fonts/Tru

Re: sed tutorial

2003-07-21 Thread Mark C
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 00:39, Robin Gerard wrote: > hello, > why google gives a lot of unreachable sed tutorials ? (error 404 ...) > Where can I get them if they exist ? Dunno, sorry cannot help on that one as its not really a debian specific problem ;) But I've found some tutorials for you, not s

Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-21 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
Hi, I'm still fairly new to Debian and am trying to find my way around the system. I've got some gripes about the naming practice and poor documentation of Perl modules. As an example, I started out today to find a package which I have used a lot on my W2K system, named DBD::XBase. It's an excellen

Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-21 Thread Andrew P. Porter
cladistics _never_ tells you ancestry directly, but sometimes it is possible to infer it from what it does tell you. - andrew porter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Solved LCDproc client problem!

2003-07-21 Thread Rthoreau
On Monday 21 July 2003 16:18, Rthoreau wrote: > On Wednesday 16 July 2003 14:45, Rthoreau wrote: > > On Saturday 12 July 2003 23:24, you wrote: > > > I have a CrystalFontz 20x4 lcd without keypad, that I am trying > > > to get LCDproc setup on. > > > I am using the current stable version .0.4.3. >

Re: kernel-source-2.4.20-bf2.4 ?

2003-07-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * martin f krafft [Mon, Jul 21 2003, 03:00:14PM]: > I need to compile a module to be used with the LT 2003 Debian CD, > which comes with the 2.4.20-bf2.4 kernel. I can't seem to find the apt-cache search kernel headers 2.4.20 MfG, Eduard. -- Alfie: in zukunft frag mich einfach, bevor

RE: sed tutorial

2003-07-21 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Search on Google for 'sed tutorial' http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=sed+tutorial&; btnG=Google+Search First link is not broken: http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/sed.html Second link is not broken: http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/computer/docs/unix/sed.htm Third link

sed tutorial

2003-07-21 Thread Robin Gerard
hello, why google gives a lot of unreachable sed tutorials ? (error 404 ...) Where can I get them if they exist ? TIA. -- Gerard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-21 Thread Jimmy Johansson
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >So I will leave nologin and makedev alone but I think I will remove > >quotarpc and see what happends. > > Why not purge the package that provided it, instead of manually > mucking around with debian-installed files ? Oh, you are so right!

Re: mouse pointer does not show

2003-07-21 Thread maguero
Guys, Thanks for your interest on this issue. I didn't mean to raise such a heat discussion. :-) OK. Let me clarify that the mouse seems to be working because if I move it around, I can see the different buttons on the KDE user interface changing colors. If I click on the root window, a menu

passwd + libcrack problem

2003-07-21 Thread Mark C
Hi, I just building a new server from woody (all components are only from woody), I installed libpam-cracklib on my system. when i now edit /etc/pam.d/passwd and /etc/pam.d/passwd as instructed therein: comment out this line: password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5

Re: mouse pointer does not show

2003-07-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 19:20:05 +0200, Kent West wrote: > I'm confident that you didn't mean to sound condescending . . . :-) No offence meant, your reply just seemed totally out of place to me. But you're right, your interpretation of the original mail can be justified :-) -- Best Regards, |

Re: Copying a dvd movie

2003-07-21 Thread Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D.
Let's see, you can spend a week trying to get DVD::rip working and the associated stuff like transcode that it needs, and dvdcss and all the codecs... Or for $100 you can simply download dvdXcopy and get it running on your windows box in under five minutes. wah, wah, wah. cry all you want about w

Re: mkboot

2003-07-21 Thread Keith O'Connell
> I wanted to make a boot disk, prior to experimenting with the compiling of kernels. > > I ran mkboot /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-k7, and the disk was created. > > I rebooted and the floppy started to boot up, until it hit a kernel panic. The error > message was; > > Root fs not mounted >

Re: Automatic renice

2003-07-21 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:20:09 +0200, Christophe Courtois wrote: > Do you know a way to set the niceness of a process without typing renice > at the command line after each reboot? Especially when renicing to -10, > which needs to be root... Well, you can set the nice value a program runs under

Re: cvs command usage remotely

2003-07-21 Thread David Z Maze
"Asim Hussain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i want to use CVS commands such as update, checkout and checkin > remotely... i used the command: > > cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/product/b/cvs/srcRepositiory login > to logini enter my password and i get in... Do you, in fact, have a CVS p

Re: Shell Question..

2003-07-21 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Jeff Schaller wrote: > Boy, reminds me of the old "useless use of cat" award... I always > use: I've got a bunch of those on the shelf here, anyone need one? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Anyone Install Debian on an SGI Indy?

2003-07-21 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
For that matter: http://www.zorg.org/linux/indy.shtml On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 09:50, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi All, > I'm wondering if anyone on the group here has installed Debian on an Silicon > Graphics Indy Workstation. Years ago I read somewhere that it could be done but you > had to le

somewhat off topic: ethernet card problem

2003-07-21 Thread Micha Feigin
I guessing my eth card is dead but hoping ;). Sony's support team are useless and incompetent so I don't bother (tried to contact them on other problems but they were never able to give anything else then the template answear). My eth card stop functioning. Its a realtech 8139 compatible onboard c

Re: Anyone Install Debian on an SGI Indy?

2003-07-21 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/ also, Google on "Debian SGI Indy" and other combinations. I'm not doing it, but there appears to be non-trivial support. Cheers, Bret On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 09:50, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi All, > I'm wondering if anyone on the group here has installed Debi

Automatic renice

2003-07-21 Thread Christophe Courtois
Do you know a way to set the niceness of a process without typing renice at the command line after each reboot? Especially when renicing to -10, which needs to be root... Problem : xmms skips sometimes due to the -ck patches ; I'd like to keep the patches, KDE is much more responsive, and se

Re: kernel-source-2.4.20-bf2.4 ?

2003-07-21 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 10:56, martin f krafft wrote: > I also found that. My problem, and I probably wasn't quite clear > enough is that I don't know what revision to use for the kernel > module package. You want to know the revision of the kernel modules that go with this kernel (are installed if

Re: Could this be debian ?

2003-07-21 Thread John Cuson
actually made me grin a little. reminded me of the time when i was starting with debian a few years ago and going around in circles because dpkg wouldn't let me install pkg. a w/o the presence of pkg. b, and wouldn't let me install pkg. b w/o the presence of pkg a. looking back, however, no one o

Re: mplayer problem

2003-07-21 Thread Nathan Poznick
Please see my earlier message in reply to your first mail. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200307/msg02915.html -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost pgp0.pgp Desc

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:23:40PM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon Jul 21, 2003 at 12:08:29PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > And you could ignore to use mutt if you don't want to mess with a MTA. > > > BTW, ever tried to run eximconfig with option 2? You can setup a > > > s

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread John Hasler
Roberto write: > "... it will offer UnixWare® licenses tailored to support run-time, binary use > of Linux ..." (quoted from the Yahoo! article. > Any ideas is this will actually go through? What do you mean by "go through"? They don't need anyone's permission to sell a promise not to sue. > Wh

cvs command usage remotely

2003-07-21 Thread Asim Hussain
hello ppl... i want to use CVS commands such as update, checkout and checkin remotely... i used the command: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/product/b/cvs/srcRepositiory login to logini enter my password and i get in... then i use: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/product/b/cvs/srcReposit

mplayer problem

2003-07-21 Thread J. Smith
> i have debian 3.0 and complied/installed mplayer, > but > can't play a mpeg file. > > below is output of mplayer: > > Using GNU internationalization > Original domain: messages > Original dirname: /usr/share/locale > Current domain: mplayer > Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale > > > M

netenv doesn't do anything

2003-07-21 Thread Micha Feigin
I installed netenv on my laptop since I constantly move between networks/proxy servers etc. Only problem is that it doesn't seem to actually do anything other then ask me what network to start on. Couldn't see any environment variables or any change to the ips. How do I set it up? Also on that note

Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Andrew P. Porter wrote: > > > > > About the SCO vs. Linux lawsuit, > > >From the Linuxandmain website: > > http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=361 > > It is not obvious that the Linux kernal got any code from SCO; > the text could have traveled i

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-21 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Mon Jul 21, 2003 at 12:08:29PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > And you could ignore to use mutt if you don't want to mess with a MTA. > > BTW, ever tried to run eximconfig with option 2? You can setup a > > smarthost using mailserver within 9.3 seconds (if you are fast ;-). > > But that

SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-21 Thread Andrew P. Porter
About the SCO vs. Linux lawsuit, >From the Linuxandmain website: http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=361 It is not obvious that the Linux kernal got any code from SCO; the text could have traveled in the other direction (or both come from a common source).

Re: unix file attributes: general question

2003-07-21 Thread Haines Brown
> > Is there any other attribute information stored or potentially stored > > in the file? Applications apparently can detect a document's file > > type, so that information must be held somewhere. Is information about > > the document's MIME type and charset also held? > > No. Applications that d

Re: Shell Question..

2003-07-21 Thread Nicolas
try "sed -n 'x p; x q' filename " That will print only line x On Monday 21 July 2003 14:54, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > No strictly on topic but can anyone think of a better way to print out > line x of a file in Shell Script. Best I have so far is (in pseudo code) > > cat /tmp/file | head -$x |

Re: Shell Question..

2003-07-21 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Rus Foster said on Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:54:21AM -0700: > Hi All, > No strictly on topic but can anyone think of a better way to print out > line x of a file in Shell Script. Best I have so far is (in pseudo code) > > cat /tmp/file | head -$x | tail -$x+1 > > Anything better or a perl one liner

webmin-quota fails

2003-07-21 Thread Robert C. Mosher II
I'm trying to use webmin to manage disk quotas, but when I go to the Disk Quotas link I get this error: mount::list_mounted failed : Undefined subroutine &mount::list_mounted called at (eval 14) line 2. I'm using running Woody, have the quota package installed, and have quota support compiled in

Re: Shell Question..

2003-07-21 Thread Jeff Schaller
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Rus Foster wrote: > No strictly on topic but can anyone think of a better way to > print out line x of a file in Shell Script. Best I have so far > is (in pseudo code) > > cat /tmp/file | head -$x | tail -$x+1 > > Anything better or a perl one liner? Boy, reminds me of the ol

Shell Question..

2003-07-21 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, No strictly on topic but can anyone think of a better way to print out line x of a file in Shell Script. Best I have so far is (in pseudo code) cat /tmp/file | head -$x | tail -$x+1 Anything better or a perl one liner? Cheers Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $1

Making coasters

2003-07-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I have started experiencing some odd behavior when burning CDs. I am running Sid with a Debian 2.4.20 kernel (with the nVidia AGPGART patch). I always burn the CDs from the command line with cdrecord. Every so often the machine hangs during the burn process. I have tried bruning from a gnome-

Re: Auto load pop3 mail at night ?

2003-07-21 Thread David selby
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 09:11:13PM +0100, David selby wrote: When I installed Debian, it offered me something like this, but at the time I ignored it and enterd defaults ! I now can not remember what the package was to do a dpk

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-21 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Bijan Soleymani (Mon 21 Jul 02003 at 12:08:29PM -0400): > On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 07:43:31AM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > > > > ad IMAP: A MUA has to support IMAP or IMAP would be another POP. IMAP > > mails belongs on the server side and not on the client. > > > > ad POP: Do

Re: tee -a /dev/null

2003-07-21 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030721] Richard Kimber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks. I get > > root 11858 1 0 Jul05 pts/500:00:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xprt -ac > -pn -nolisten tcp -audit 4 -fp > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,/usr/X11 > R6/lib/X11/font

Re: configuring DHCLIENT-2.2.x

2003-07-21 Thread Lars Unin
Ive downloaded 2.4.18 k7 but it wants another couple of packages. This is turning into Mandrake all over again... I installed using a hard disk net install with kernel 2.4.18-bf. i'll have a go at downloading packages, otherwise i've just about given up. When sarge is released I may come fo

Re: Copying a dvd movie

2003-07-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 01:31:56PM -0400, Antonio Rodr?0X wrote: > The following is only an ficticious sequence of events. Any similarity with reality > is purely coincidental. Nobody that I know intends to do so. > \begin{fiction} > Suppose you have a DVD movie that you want to copy. > What woul

Re: Setting up eth0 - estrange behaviour on Woody

2003-07-21 Thread Valter G. Nogueira Jr.
Shaul Karl 200.152.201.242 is my internet address which I alredy tested with a Window 98 machine. below are the outputs ifconfig and ping: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:21:CC:8D:65 inet addr:200.152.201.242 Bcast:200.152.201.241 Mask:255.255.255.248 UP BROADCAS

Re: Copying a dvd movie

2003-07-21 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 21 July 2003 19:31, Antonio Rodr0X wrote: > \begin{fiction} > Suppose you have a DVD movie that you want to copy. > What would be the best way to do it? > \end{fiction} Search google for "dvd::rip". That should do it for transferring movies to ((S)V)CD, DVD+-R(W) or harddisk. -- Got B

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