Re: How do I prevent User 'A' from seeing User 'B' /home contents

2003-10-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 18:10, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Nick Hastings ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031012 01:37]: > > * Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031012 16:56]: > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:53:46AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I need to know how to change permissions

Re: A Selection of XMMS Skins?

2003-10-12 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:19, Michael Bonert wrote: > Is there an apt package of XMMS Skins? I'm getting sick of the default > one. > > I searched with 'apt-cache search xmms', that, however, didn't find > anything. I then tried googling--that just found me RPMS--yuck! The > archive (here) doesn

Re: A Selection of XMMS Skins?

2003-10-12 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:19, Michael Bonert wrote: > Is there an apt package of XMMS Skins? I'm getting sick of the default > one. > > I searched with 'apt-cache search xmms', that, however, didn't find > anything. I then tried googling--that just found me RPMS--yuck! The > archive (here) doesn

Re: Mail server

2003-10-12 Thread Paul William
postfix is *supposed* to be better for larger volumes of email. I use exim and in the past have used postfix. Both are good. On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 16:10, ralph bacolod wrote: > I just read the header of an email from this list and > I saw that murphy.Debian.Org uses Postfix. Why is this > so? Why

Re: Re: DRI in XFree86 4.2

2003-10-12 Thread David W . Aquilina
Are you using xinerama? I haven't explicitly configured xinerama, though it appears its built-in to the X server (from the XFree86 log): "(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA" I'm afraid I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to stuff like this in X, is there any way I can disable a buil

tetex on unstable: dvips (5.92b) -Ppdf problem

2003-10-12 Thread Mark M
Hi, I am using unstable with dvips 5.92b. When I try: dvips -Ppdf process.dvi -o process.ps I get the error message shown below for a number of fonts. ps2pdf then gives bad screen output. Does anyone know what the problem is? Regards, Mark. (cc's welcome) kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljf

Re: no volume display in XMMS

2003-10-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
>>> >> I'm just getting to know XMMS, and I like it a lot.  But I have one >>> >> problem:  the volume analyzer and all of the visualization windows >>> > >>> >all> show zero.  That is, I get no volume display.  I want a volume >>> > >>> >> display! > > This is not a hardware problem. > > I had t

Re: Do-all computer?

2003-10-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 18:42, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 21:20, alex wrote: > > > I don't care whether it is one with a preinstalled MS Windows XP or > > systemless or a preinstalled Linux, as long as it can be configured > > with multiple Linux systems and MS Windows XP

Re: What window manager for KDE?

2003-10-12 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 12:06:57PM -0400, stan wrote: > I'm getting more and moore unhappy with teh "downgrade" of Gnome 1.4 to > Hnome 2.2[4[. I've also got a machine that I'm having problems with Gnome > sessions on. > > So, I decided to try KDE (I'm on testing). Now wth kdm, I cna log in, but I

Re: Re: ebay slow

2003-10-12 Thread J Y
Quoting Susan Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My Ebay is so much slower than any other site. It's driving me crazy. > Is there any way to fix it? Also, how do I email Ebay? I can't find an > email address. > To email ebay (they don't make it easy) go to their main page, bottom. Click 'help', a p

Re: Help - kernel 2.4.22 hangs

2003-10-12 Thread Cam Ellison
* Roberto Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jerome R. Acks wrote: > >http://home.t-online.de/home/Johannes.Deisenhofer/nforce2linux.html > > > >http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261.html > > > >In your kernel config you probably also should have: > >CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC is not set >

Re: Grub

2003-10-12 Thread J Y
Hello, I booted from the floppy, and I found (with uname -r) that my computer is running the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel (vmlinuz) with initrd.img-2.4.18-k7. There is no other initrd in boot so it has to be the k7. I have an athlon cpu and chose the k7 kernel during install. Somehow though I'm running the

Re: Installing with root fs as reiserfs

2003-10-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 12 Oct 2003 06:51:57PM -0400, stan insinuated: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 07:28:48PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 13:06:17 -0400, stan wrote: > > > I've done this in the past by downloading some special floppy > > > images, but when I looked at that site, I f

Re: no volume display in XMMS

2003-10-12 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 12 October 2003 11:13 pm, David Palmer. wrote: >On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:49:09 -0400 > >Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'm just getting to know XMMS, and I like it a lot. But I have one >> >> problem: the volume analyzer and all of the visualization windows >> > >> >all>

Re: shell script question

2003-10-12 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:18:11 -0400 Jeff Elkins wrote: > > In the same vein, I'm working through a list of mp3s where some of them need > re-encoding. First, I convert them to wavs with this script fragment: > > mpg123 -b 1 -s "$1" | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - "$2" > > where I feed the

Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?

2003-10-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
I'm pretty sure that the answer to this is "no", but: Is there any relationship between the address returned by malloc(3) and the physical address of the block of RAM? I'm almost positive that there isn't - after all, there's not much chance of a block being swapped out and back in to the same lo

Re: shell script question

2003-10-12 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 12 October 2003 10:35 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: >On Sunday 12 October 2003 6:50 pm, Colin Watson wrote: >>On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:37:16PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: >>> I'm trying to write a script to change spaces in a filename to the >>> underscore character: >>> >>> #!/bin/sh >>> for i

Acer TravelMate 660: Need Debian References

2003-10-12 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi, I have been tasked to evaluate an ACER TravelMate 660 NoteBook (Centrino, Pentium M, 1.4G, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB Disk, WiFi, 802.11b, et. al). It comes with YOU KNOW WHAT XP Professional (restore CDROM). I tried KNOPPIX 3.3 with (so far) no problem. I tried WOODY with no problem when using X11/

Re: no volume display in XMMS

2003-10-12 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:49:09 -0400 Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm just getting to know XMMS, and I like it a lot. But I have one > >> problem: the volume analyzer and all of the visualization windows > >all> show zero. That is, I get no volume display. I want a volume > >>

Re: shell script question

2003-10-12 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 12 October 2003 6:50 pm, Colin Watson wrote: >On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:37:16PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> I'm trying to write a script to change spaces in a filename to the >> underscore character: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> for i in *; do >> if test -f $i; then >> mv $i `ec

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote: > "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the password file > > is > > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

Re: advise about bying ATI Gaphic card

2003-10-12 Thread Lee Elliott
On Sunday 12 October 2003 23:04, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > Hi > > I'm thinking of bying Hercules 3D Prophet 9600, so I googled for it. I > didn't find many matches (on the debian lists), and most of them were in > french, so I was wondering is that good or bad? > Is this card well supported? I know

Re: DRI in XFree86 4.2

2003-10-12 Thread Lee Elliott
On Sunday 12 October 2003 21:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings all, > > I'm running Debian unstable and I'm attempting to get DRI working with my Voodoo5 (AGP). I can't figure out where my problem lies, everything seems correct. Help would be greatly appreciated. > > I'm running Linux

Re: no volume display in XMMS

2003-10-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
>> I'm just getting to know XMMS, and I like it a lot. But I have one >> problem: the volume analyzer and all of the visualization windows all >> show zero. That is, I get no volume display. I want a volume >> display! > > Hello Andrew, > > Not enough information. > Are you running the Alsa so

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-12 Thread Sacha Chua
"J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the password file > is > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > I thought the empty password field would do the job, but apparently no

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-12 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 21:14, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Neal Lippman wrote: > > > Now, using either of the above package lists, you can do: > > for pkg in $(cat package-listing-from-xxx); > > do > > apt-get install $pkg; > > done > > which will work although not be the most e

A Selection of XMMS Skins?

2003-10-12 Thread Michael Bonert
Is there an apt package of XMMS Skins? I'm getting sick of the default one. I searched with 'apt-cache search xmms', that, however, didn't find anything. I then tried googling--that just found me RPMS--yuck! The archive (here) doesn't seem to have anything on this either... Does one have to in

Re: burning from .ogg

2003-10-12 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Hi Anthony, On 03-10-13 01:36 +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > Anyone know of an easy way to burn an audio CD from .ogg files, i.e. > without converting them to .wav first. I'm not fussed about a GUI, > infact I'd rather not have one. There's mp3burn, which is strictly CLI & I think a

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Re: kernel 2.6.0-test4 and ASUS P4P800

2003-10-12 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hello, Neal. |> I'm having a heck of a time getting 2.6.0-test4 to boot on my ASUS |> P$P800-based system. I didn't have any real trouble getting a config |> working on my Athlon based system, but I cannot figure out where i am |> going wrong... |> |> If anyone has this MB and has successfully co

Re: hard disk not accessable via second ide controller

2003-10-12 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 05:47:15PM +, Eric Bachman wrote: > > What do I need to do be able to access the hard disks? > 00:12.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc: Unknown device 0680 > (rev 02) I've got one of those. Building a kernel with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X=y makes mine work. CONFIG_

Re: shell script question

2003-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:37:16PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I'm trying to write a script to change spaces in a filename to the > underscore character: > > #!/bin/sh > for i in *; do > if test -f $i; then > mv $i `echo $i | tr '" "' '_'` > fi > done > > When run, it gives

Re: What window manager for KDE?

2003-10-12 Thread peter vdm
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 02:06, stan wrote: > I'm getting more and moore unhappy with teh "downgrade" of Gnome 1.4 to > Hnome 2.2[4[. I've also got a machine that I'm having problems with Gnome > sessions on. > > So, I decided to try KDE (I'm on testing). Now wth kdm, I cna log in, but I > just get the

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Neal Lippman wrote: Now, using either of the above package lists, you can do: for pkg in $(cat package-listing-from-xxx); do apt-get install $pkg; done which will work although not be the most efficient way (because you will have to run apt-get for each pack

Re: burning from .ogg

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Antony Gelberg wrote: Hi all, Anyone know of an easy way to burn an audio CD from .ogg files, i.e. without converting them to .wav first. I'm not fussed about a GUI, infact I'd rather not have one. A sox is a great tool for converting audio formats (it will do ogg, wav, mp3, au, and a few other

Re: Help - kernel 2.4.22 hangs

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jerome R. Acks wrote: http://home.t-online.de/home/Johannes.Deisenhofer/nforce2linux.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261.html In your kernel config you probably also should have: CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC is not set I was unsuccessful getting a 2.4.22 kernel to work properly and en

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-12 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 18:45, stan wrote: > How cna I do this? > > The machine I want to match is a "testting" machine, that I quit updating > about a month agao. Still has Gnome 1.4 for instance. > > Will this ne a problem? > One approach is to create a list of all of the packages currently ins

sudo fails with "... /etc/sudoers: Permission denied" for root but not for user

2003-10-12 Thread Harald Gutsche
Hi all, I have three machines which are updated from sid regulary and are on the same update level now (especially for the tests). All 3 machines use the same versions for all common installed packages. Especially for sudo base* etc. Two machines run fine but one has a weird problem: starting su

burning from .ogg

2003-10-12 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, Anyone know of an easy way to burn an audio CD from .ogg files, i.e. without converting them to .wav first. I'm not fussed about a GUI, infact I'd rather not have one. A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help - kernel 2.4.22 hangs

2003-10-12 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 03:37:13PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > The box has an Asus A7N8X with an Athlon CPU, and runs Debian > testing/unstable. There are 2 RT8139 NICs. http://home.t-online.de/home/Johannes.Deisenhofer/nforce2linux.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261.html I

ICQ's problem

2003-10-12 Thread James Ng Yuen Sum
Hi, When I go to the site http://go.icq.com to use ICQ, I cannot enter my icq number and password in the box, which is for inputting the icq number and password. Is there any library or packages needed to be installed in order to use the icq function in http://go.icq.com Regards, James Ng -- T

Re: Do-all computer?

2003-10-12 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 21:20, alex wrote: > I don't care whether it is one with a preinstalled MS Windows XP or > systemless or a preinstalled Linux, as long as it can be configured > with multiple Linux systems and MS Windows XP or 98SE as my old > Quantex is. > > I'd go for one that I need to

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
stan wrote: How cna I do this? The machine I want to match is a "testting" machine, that I quit updating about a month agao. Still has Gnome 1.4 for instance. Will this ne a problem? On source machine: dpkg --get-selections >selections.txt On destination machine: (make sure sources.list is the

Re: advise about bying ATI Gaphic card

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi I'm thinking of bying Hercules 3D Prophet 9600, so I googled for it. I didn't find many matches (on the debian lists), and most of them were in french, so I was wondering is that good or bad? Is this card well supported? I know that ATI released drivers for it, but the few

Re: How do I prevent User 'A' from seeing User 'B' /home contents

2003-10-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Nick Hastings ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031012 01:37]: > * Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031012 16:56]: > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:53:46AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I need to know how to change permissions of each user so that > > > they only see their own home dir

Re: copying entire hard drive

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 12:58:41PM -0400, Gerard Ceraso wrote: I have a hard drive that is going bad so I want to copy it from the old hard drive to the new one, same hd and everything. I was wondering which was faster doing dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda or mounting each partition and a

Installation via HTTP?

2003-10-12 Thread Robert Tilley
How can Debian be installed via HTTP? When I install Debian, I get to the point where it asks if I wish to continue installing via PPP. To my knowledge, PPP is for use with a modem. How do I continue installation using TCP/IP once my network card has been recognized? Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Installing with root fs as reiserfs

2003-10-12 Thread stan
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 07:28:48PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 13:06:17 -0400, stan wrote: > > I've done this in the past by downloading some special floppy images, but > > when I looked at that site, I found out that the images are for the > > distribution prior to

Re: Special control characters ???

2003-10-12 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Michael writes: > First, two examples: > >^I >^M > > Obviously, you know that these are each single characters, and not two: > caret+letter. > > Where do these come from? Are they features of the shell? They're simply adjustments to the output for the rendering of non-visual ASCII cha

Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-12 Thread stan
How cna I do this? The machine I want to match is a "testting" machine, that I quit updating about a month agao. Still has Gnome 1.4 for instance. Will this ne a problem? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: Installing with root fs as reiserfs

2003-10-12 Thread stan
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 07:28:48PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 13:06:17 -0400, stan wrote: > > I've done this in the past by downloading some special floppy images, but > > when I looked at that site, I found out that the images are for the > > distribution prior to

Help - kernel 2.4.22 hangs

2003-10-12 Thread Cam Ellison
The box has an Asus A7N8X with an Athlon CPU, and runs Debian testing/unstable. There are 2 RT8139 NICs. I have a custom 2.4.22 kernel built to use iptables, an ide-cd burner, a couple of USB devices (I'm not sure what is relevant to the problem), and so on. The kernel boots to the point of inst

Re: Programmer for hire

2003-10-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/10/03 19:20), alex wrote: > Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:20:07 -0400 > From: alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Programmer for hire > > Dominique Devriese wrote: > >Bob Tilley writes: > > > > > >>I would like to wet my feet in the Open Source pool. Can anyone > >>

shell script question

2003-10-12 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm trying to write a script to change spaces in a filename to the underscore character: #!/bin/sh for i in *; do if test -f $i; then mv $i `echo $i | tr '" "' '_'` fi done When run, it gives me the error "too many args in line four." How can I fix this? Thanks, Jeff Elk

Re: Cell Modem and Linux

2003-10-12 Thread Al Davis
On Friday 10 October 2003 04:16 pm, Bill Moseley wrote: > Anyone have information on using a cell modem with linux? > It's not for a desktop (i.e. not pcmcia). > > What kind of drivers are needed, if any? I have one and use it occasionally. It is a modem, so it interfaces like a modem. No speci

advise about bying ATI Gaphic card

2003-10-12 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I'm thinking of bying Hercules 3D Prophet 9600, so I googled for it. I didn't find many matches (on the debian lists), and most of them were in french, so I was wondering is that good or bad? Is this card well supported? I know that ATI released drivers for it, but the few matches I've found sc

passwordless root login

2003-10-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the password file is root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash I thought the empty password field would do the job, but apparently not. There is no /etc/shadow file. --Bruce Fields --

Re: no volume display in XMMS

2003-10-12 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 07:56:59 -0400 Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just getting to know XMMS, and I like it a lot. But I have one > problem: the volume analyzer and all of the visualization windows all > show zero. That is, I get no volume display. I want a volume > display! >

Re: Programmer for hire

2003-10-12 Thread alex
Dominique Devriese wrote: Bob Tilley writes: I would like to wet my feet in the Open Source pool. Can anyone suggest any needy Projects? I can do C, C++, Pascal, Assembly, etc. and would like to put my talents to work to give something back to the Community that has given my desktop so much.

Re: copying entire hard drive

2003-10-12 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 12:58:41PM -0400, Gerard Ceraso wrote: > I have a hard drive that is going bad so I want to copy it from the old > hard drive to the new one, same hd and everything. I was wondering which > was faster doing dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda or mounting each partition > and and just

login-delay after boot

2003-10-12 Thread [loonyx | rolf joho]
my woody-box drives me mad: after boot, wen the login-prompt appears, i can enter a username, but then i have to wait ~4 MINUTES!!! until i can enter my password. it's not that my machine was so superslow ( it worked right on earlier setups). also subsequent logins behave as one woud expect... i h

DRI in XFree86 4.2

2003-10-12 Thread dwa2
Greetings all, I'm running Debian unstable and I'm attempting to get DRI working with my Voodoo5 (AGP). I can't figure out where my problem lies, everything seems correct. Help would be greatly appreciated. I'm running Linux 2.4.22-smp (installed from the debian package) and XFree86 4.2.1.1.

Re: Question PPC First Installation

2003-10-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/10/03 22:48), Michael Flaig wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:11:54PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (11/10/03 22:27), Irrlicht wrote: > > > Can someone please help me? Would be vey kind ;))) > > > > > > I try to install Debian on my Ibook. I read pretty much HOWTO's till now. I >

Re: 2nd try? fontconfig? autohinter? anyone?

2003-10-12 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 05:08:43PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 16:37, Pigeon wrote: > > Pigeon wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:40:12PM -0700, Tom wrote: > > > > > > > > You know, this is the first slipup in the Matrix I've experienced > > > > since I switch to Linux.

grip in unstable

2003-10-12 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, Anyone having problems with grip in unstable? When I hit "rip and encode", it says no songs selected, should it rip the whole CD? I say yes, and it rips the first song to wav, then stops. A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Odd problem, crash/panic on laptop during boot.

2003-10-12 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:13:56PM +0100, Andrew Hayes wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm affraid I am a complete newbie when it comes to debian although I've > a bit of experience with other distros, so urm... yeah flame on I suppose :) > > I'm trying to install Debian 3.0 on to my rather old laptop,

Special control characters ???

2003-10-12 Thread Michael D Schleif
First, two examples: ^I ^M Obviously, you know that these are each single characters, and not two: caret+letter. Where do these come from? Are they features of the shell? Where is an exhaustive list of such special control characters, and their definitions? They come in quite handy for

Re: Group src

2003-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:39:46PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > El domingo, 12 de octubre de 2003, a las 19:37, Colin Watson escribe: > > This group owns source code, including files in /usr/src. It can be > > used locally to give a user the ability to manage system source > >

Odd problem, crash/panic on laptop during boot.

2003-10-12 Thread Andrew Hayes
Greetings, I'm affraid I am a complete newbie when it comes to debian although I've a bit of experience with other distros, so urm... yeah flame on I suppose :) I'm trying to install Debian 3.0 on to my rather old laptop, a Compaq Presario 1220 as it's the only machine running Windows in the pl

Re: Group src

2003-10-12 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El domingo, 12 de octubre de 2003, a las 19:37, Colin Watson escribe: > This group owns source code, including files in /usr/src. It can be > used locally to give a user the ability to manage system source > code. Also, they are given write access to the default repository created by c

Re: The plot thickens - Unable to handle kernel paging request.

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rob Dupuis wrote: Following my previous posts: 'fsck hangs my machine unpredictably'; I've managed to back up a lot of the data from this drive by skipping fsck on boot and pulling the data off over the network. I now want to reinstall debian. When I try to install kernel v 2.4 from the CD I get t

Re: HOWTO enter Ctrl-S to BASH from console

2003-10-12 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:08:04PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:59:31PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Here is my somewhat OT question since this is not exactly Debian but > > generic BASH question... > > > > In order to search command history in BASH, I can use Ctrl-R (re

Re: Totally confused about what apt-get is doing...

2003-10-12 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 15:08, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 19:30, Neal Lippman wrote: > > 2) apt-get install libvorbis0a tells me: > > > > Reading Package Lists... > > Building Dependency Tree... > > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > > requested an

Re: Totally confused about what apt-get is doing...

2003-10-12 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 15:07, Naitik Shah wrote: > I dont know if you've already dont this, but could you post > your sources.list? > Yes, here it is: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

The plot thickens - Unable to handle kernel paging request.

2003-10-12 Thread Rob Dupuis
Following my previous posts: 'fsck hangs my machine unpredictably'; I've managed to back up a lot of the data from this drive by skipping fsck on boot and pulling the data off over the network. I now want to reinstall debian. When I try to install kernel v 2.4 from the CD I get the message: 'Unab

Re: Totally confused about what apt-get is doing...

2003-10-12 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 19:30, Neal Lippman wrote: > 2) apt-get install libvorbis0a tells me: > > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribu

Re: Totally confused about what apt-get is doing...

2003-10-12 Thread Naitik Shah
I dont know if you've already dont this, but could you post your sources.list? Naitik. On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 02:30:06PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > OK, I've posted here before with my problem installing mplayer, and I've > finally tracked things down to a missing libvorbis0a package. > > Here

2.6-tes6 vs 2.6-tes5 about visor

2003-10-12 Thread Naitik Shah
I've been unable to get my Palm Zire 71 working with kernel 2.6-test6 / test7. Anyone else using a Palm, any palm device and noticed any such problems? I've reverted back to test5-mm3 for now, and its working for now! Naitik. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Grub, now booting debian from grub

2003-10-12 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 07:56:37PM -0800, J Y wrote: > > grub> > find /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-k7 > (hd1,4) > grub> > find /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-k7 > (hd1,4) > for Debian/GNU put this for your menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, kernel 2.4.18-k7 root (hd1,4) kerne

Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Faheem Mitha wrote: > Which key is this exactly? Also, are you sure this is not what is called rsh rsa authentication? I was just looking for rsh authentication. Faheem. In your case it is the key contained in ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (or

Re: Group src

2003-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 08:09:40PM +0200, Frank A. Uepping wrote: > Hi, > for what is the group src used in Debian? src This group owns source code, including files in /usr/src. It can be used locally to give a user the ability to manage system source code. HELP: /usr/src is owne

Totally confused about what apt-get is doing...

2003-10-12 Thread Neal Lippman
OK, I've posted here before with my problem installing mplayer, and I've finally tracked things down to a missing libvorbis0a package. Here's what I cannot (now) figure out. 1) apt-show-versions | grep "vorbis" - shows me that I have no installed packages with vorbis in it, so I don't have libvor

Group src

2003-10-12 Thread Frank A. Uepping
Hi, for what is the group src used in Debian? Is there any document describing the policy of the Debian groups? /FAU -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hard disk not accessable via second ide controller

2003-10-12 Thread Eric Bachman
Hallo, I have a recently installed Debian with Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4. My goal is a home file server with software raid 1 for data, leaving the os on disk hda. Linux is installed on a 2Gb disk in hda1 /boot hda2 swap hda3 / There is also: hdc cd-rom hdd not used (just added

Re: Installing with root fs as reiserfs

2003-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 13:06:17 -0400, stan wrote: > I've done this in the past by downloading some special floppy images, but > when I looked at that site, I found out that the images are for the > distribution prior to the current stable oen. Current stable (woody) supports installation on Reis

Installing with root fs as reiserfs

2003-10-12 Thread stan
I've done this in the past by downloading some special floppy images, but when I looked at that site, I found out that the images are for the distribution prior to the current stable oen. Givne that I wnat to wind up with "testing" installed, whats the best way to do this? -- "They that would

Re: mutt header display question

2003-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:42:17 -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Just a minute ago, when I just catted a sample msg file in the shell it > showed as > > AmikaGuardian (TM) Server <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > So now I understand why my filter wasn't working. Can someone explain to > me why mutt's disp

Re: USB Serial Driver Isn't quite Working.

2003-10-12 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Diumenge 12 Octubre 2003 18:07, en Joachim Fahnenmueller va escriure: > Is the USB serial driver loaded? Try with lsmod or modprobe > usb-serial . As I have the same problem with my usb-to-serial cable I'm posting my experiences here: After plugin

Re: Moz won't open PDFs; Galeon will

2003-10-12 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Using Mozilla 1.4-6 from sid, I can't open any PDFs on the web. I click on a PDF link, and a blank mozilla window (not an external window, like xpdf or acroread) opens, and it acts like it's downloading, but the Moz window stays blank (except of course for the menus and icons

copying entire hard drive

2003-10-12 Thread Gerard Ceraso
I have a hard drive that is going bad so I want to copy it from the old hard drive to the new one, same hd and everything. I was wondering which was faster doing dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda or mounting each partition and and just using cp. ~gerard http://devslash.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

mutt header display question

2003-10-12 Thread Paul Mackinney
I've been trying to write a mailfilter rule, nothing worked. Finally I noticed that while mutt displays the From header as AmikaGuardian Server <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This showed the same whether with the full headers toggled on or off. Just a minute ago, when I just catted a sample msg file in th

Moz won't open PDFs; Galeon will

2003-10-12 Thread Kent West
Using Mozilla 1.4-6 from sid, I can't open any PDFs on the web. I click on a PDF link, and a blank mozilla window (not an external window, like xpdf or acroread) opens, and it acts like it's downloading, but the Moz window stays blank (except of course for the menus and icons and address bar an

XRenderCompositeText8

2003-10-12 Thread Garret Cotter
Dear all, I'm running unstable, with, AFAIK, the latest versions of all the packages. After my last update/upgrade (Fri Oct 10) most of my gnome apps refuse to start. I can't get a gnome-session going; if I run KDE and start a gnome app from a terminal get the error message: relocation error: /us

Re: USB Serial Driver Isn't quite Working.

2003-10-12 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Is the USB serial driver loaded? Try with lsmod or modprobe usb-serial . On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 09:10:02AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I am using the USB mass storage driver on a Maxtor external > drive which normally works well. I added a new Edgeport/8 serial > converter and plugge

Re: Multi-headed X servers for multiple local users

2003-10-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Best solution ever seen on Linux: I am using it right now. Have 1 PC running various flavors of Debian, with 2 nvidia video cards, 2 samsung monitors, 2 IBM Model M keyboards, and 2 usb mice. They have patches for 2.4.21, 2.4.22 and are working on 2.6.0 1. I downloaded the 2.4.21 kernel 2. Apply th

Re: /dev/audio: No such device, do I have to recompile kernel?

2003-10-12 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Erik, 1. When a program (e. g. xmms) doesn't work as expected, start it out of a terminal so that you see its error messages. 2. xmms has different output plugins (options > preferences). With your driver, I think you need the OSS plugin (libOSS.so). Using ALSA, you would need the ALSA plugin.

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Re: Re: ebay slow

2003-10-12 Thread Susan Scott
My Ebay is so much slower than any other site.  It's driving me crazy.  Is there any way to fix it?  Also, how do I email Ebay?  I can't find an email address.

What window manager for KDE?

2003-10-12 Thread stan
I'm getting more and moore unhappy with teh "downgrade" of Gnome 1.4 to Hnome 2.2[4[. I've also got a machine that I'm having problems with Gnome sessions on. So, I decided to try KDE (I'm on testing). Now wth kdm, I cna log in, but I just get the background. No menu bars or anything. Perhaps I h

Re: Grub, configuration not easy

2003-10-12 Thread J Y
Hi, I guess I spoke too soon, although I can login to debian from grub now something is wrong. I can't connect to the internet for one. I just booted from the floppy and I can connect. So something isn't loading correctly with the debian grub entry I have( which is listed below).BTW I did a uname -

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