Re: network install via dialup?

2003-12-20 Thread James Miller
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:26:37AM -0600, James Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin > > connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network install would be > > the best option

Re: question

2003-12-20 Thread Kent West
Carl Fink wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:02:22PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I run Windows 98 inside Linex, so when I shut down Windows I'm still running Linex? Almost. You can do that with LinUX, using commercial products like VMWare and Win4Lin. To my limited knowledge, ther

Re: Where is ptkdb ???

2003-12-20 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Michael D Schleif wrote: > Where can I find ptkdb in DEB? > ># apt-show-versions perl >perl/unstable uptodate 5.8.2-2 I don't think there is a deb for it, but you can easily create one with dh-make-perl (that's how I install all my perl modules). Bye -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: 4MB s3 video card (was QuickTime for Linux?)

2003-12-20 Thread James Miller
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Scarletdown wrote: > James Miller wrote: > > > > Be interested to know if that 4MB s3 video card is a Virge VX PCI? I > > installed Sid recently on a machine with the s3 Virge/VX 4MB video > > card and was unable to get a display out of it. I tried both the s3 and > > the s3

Re: Americas army

2003-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 09:44:21PM -0600, Brad Sims wrote: > Any ideas? I am running Debian Sid Have you tried prodding around the Military's official site for the game? I understand there's a message forum there where you may be able to find support

Re: Losing too many ticks!

2003-12-20 Thread Johann Koenig
On Saturday December 20 at 07:49pm Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If this is your sig you you should add --, like this Actually, its two dashes (--) followed by a space (-- ) on a line by itself. Thats the official sig indication. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: The Get Up Kids - Off The

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 04:07:29AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > 127.0.0.1 is a reserved IP always pointing to the local computer. You > could even do ping 127.0.0.1 on you windows machines to ping themselves > (another way is to use the reserved name l

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 05:16:41PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:35 am, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > Hi D-U list folks, > > > there was a recent thread about TigerDirect giving the nod to > > >

Re: 4MB s3 video card (was QuickTime for Linux?)

2003-12-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:51:49 -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > James Miller wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Scarletdown wrote: > > > Without opening up the case, all I can do is consult my notes on the > system. My notes just say: > > PCI0: S3 Vi

Re: fonts

2003-12-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:02:28PM -0800, Gruessle said > Does this have something to do with the error I get when I open AbiWord? What error? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:NSA rail gun Medco Armani nuclear morse Adriatic

Re: Comment on HP printer working on Debian 3.0

2003-12-20 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 20 December 2003 4:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just got a used HP Laserjet 6L on Ebay for $65+shipping. I have a a HP LaserJet4+, with 50M of ram, Postscript, and JetDirect; I got on ebay for ~$130USD /with/ shipping. Works a treat with CUPS, and gimp-print. My inkspitter is

Re: can't get screen to work for XFree86 in Debian

2003-12-20 Thread Ashley Hinton
Hello Ashley Hinton (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: I'm installing Debian 3.0 r.2 from CD, but am unable to get XFree86 to work. When I try to run X it says the computer can't find any screens. I'm using an NVIDIA GeFORCE 4MX video card into a 17" monitor. What should I do? Look at the archi

Re: XF86 problem for Ashley

2003-12-20 Thread Ashley Hinton
Jeff, There was no such line in XF86Config-4. Any other ideas? -- Ashley Hinton http://www.gestaltswitch.co.nz/ Hi Again, I looked up the line and it says "Use FBDev" "true" Jeff Hi Ashley, I just went through this this morning with a Riva TNT card. The fix for me was at the root command prompt t

Re: how to debug an apt-get error?

2003-12-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 02:45:04PM -0300, Toshiro wrote: > I'm running sid, I'm having a problem with the upgrade of kdm, the error just > says that the postinstallation script return an error (30). This message is > very cryptic and it's pretty much useless. > > Anybody know if there is a proc

Re: Americas army

2003-12-20 Thread Brad Sims
I too am having problems getting America's Army to load... Xlib: extension "XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD" missing on display ":0.0". GL_EXT_bgra not supported - bailing out. I do indeed have hardware acceleration enabled... but I don't have GL_EXT_bgra listed as a OpenGL extention... My video card is

Re: can't get screen to work for XFree86 in Debian

2003-12-20 Thread Mark Cooke
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 15:04, Ashley Hinton wrote: > I'm installing Debian 3.0 r.2 from CD, but am unable to get XFree86 to > work. When I try to run X it says the computer can't find any screens. > > I'm using an NVIDIA GeFORCE 4MX video card into a 17" monitor. You need to install the Official

silly gcc problem -- lost my libraries

2003-12-20 Thread michelle
and my marbles, I think. I can still compile "hello world", but I'm getting link errors if I call math or file functions (basic stuff like sqrt, fprintf). They've been available so long through the default library path that I don't know where to find them. How do I restore this? How embarrassi

Re: software raid

2003-12-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya andy On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Andy Firman wrote: > > for setup of a new system ( the right way?? ) > > - make sure the partition type is FD(raid) not 82(linux) > > Can one simply change the partition type via fdisk on an existing system > if one is going to add a new drive to RAID1 the dr

Re: kazaa

2003-12-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 08:00:42AM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Saturday December 20 at 02:01pm > Dobai-Pataky Balint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 12:59, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:41:50AM +, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > > > > Hello, > > >

clamscan --move=directory fails "Invalid argument."

2003-12-20 Thread hanasaki
clamscan is failing to move files from the maildir folder to a virus folder. I think this is due to the filenames containing characters such as = , : these names are automatically assigned by exim4 when putting the mail into the new directory and by courier when moving them

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 02:58:52PM -0700, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > Jeffrey Barish wrote: > > > I have 3 computers on my home network. The Windows machines are > > connected to each other using ICS. I can ping one Windows machine > > from another Windows machine simply by naming the destination: >

Re: Comment on HP printer working on Debian 3.0

2003-12-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Antonio Rodr([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 00:44:38 +0800 > Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > I am looking for an economical printer for printing documents. The > > printer shall work on Debian 3.0 OS. Some shops recommend HP Deskj

Re: Argument list too long

2003-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:53:35AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Another option, not yet given, is : > > find . -name \*.jpg | xargs rm > > > Read the manpages for find and xargs. find lists all > files/directories matching the given criteria on stdout. xargs read

Re: Where can I get a certain version of a package?

2003-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:40:18AM +0100, Stefan Bellon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I need an older version of a package. I read the man page of apt-get > and it tells you that you can do > > # apt-get install package=version > > but it just tells me that the version is not available. How do I d

Re: OS emulation question (was: question)

2003-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:02:22PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can I run Windows 98 inside Linex, so when I shut down Windows I'm still > running Linex? You want vmware or some similar program. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: network install via dialup?

2003-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:26:37AM -0600, James Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin > connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network install would be > the best option for them. You don't get into the "whys", but I'd b

Re: Restarting daemons

2003-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:30:20AM -0800, Doug Hunting wrote: > I was hoping there would be a simple command to restart a daemon. Namely > lprng. I know about killall but what signal do you pass it to have it > restart?? Type /etc/init.d/ to see wha

Re: Suggestion: Media Check for ISO Images

2003-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:37:27PM +1100, Enoch Ko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > To: Debian Developers/ISO Image Maintainers > > I downloaded Debian GNU/Linux 3.0R2 i386 from mirror sites and the MD5SUMS > check was correct for the images. However, when attempted an install of > the system, some

Re: Web server Partitions - /tmp

2003-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:32:26PM -0800, Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: You left off full attributions: > > Alvin Oga wrote: > > > if /tmp is a separate partition and it cannot mount it during bootup, > > > nothing will work right if the ap

Re: Debian logo stolen.

2003-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:17:45PM -0800, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:55:33PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svang?rd wrote: > > I remember some news about elektrostore.se had stolen the Debian logo. > > Since they are still using it, did nothing happen? > > I think it's

Re: Help with dselect

2003-12-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:31:07PM +1100, Medi Esmail wrote: > HI all, I was wondering if i can recover from a mistake i did using > dselect, I was choosing the new kernel package and when it came up > with dependencies i found some packages i had were removed etc any way > i made some changes and

Re: Wish to network my home computers but don't know Jack about it

2003-12-20 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:29:27 -0600 "Cybe R. Wizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > I am finally getting around to networking my family boxen (Christmas > present to myself) but haven't a clue about networking anything. Thanks to all who replied, especially Kevin Mark, Kent West, Ken Irving, and

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-20 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:35 am, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > Hi D-U list folks, > > there was a recent thread about TigerDirect giving the nod to > > M$WINDOWS. Now threre is a place to buy debian-certified (and can > > be prel

Re: question

2003-12-20 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
On Saturday 20 December 2003 07:42 pm, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:02:22PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can I run Windows 98 inside Linex, so when I shut down Windows I'm > > still running Linex? > > Almost. > > You can do that with LinUX, using commercial products like VM

Re: question

2003-12-20 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 December 2003 04:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can I run Windows 98 inside Linex, so when I shut down Windows I'm > still running Linex? > > Thanks > Rob If you want to run applications ported to Win32 you could use a version of 'w

Re: software raid

2003-12-20 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:43:31PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: > > > I've been trying to get debian stable working with software raid using > > various documentation. [snip] > for setup of a new system ( the right way?? ) > - make sure the partition t

Re: question

2003-12-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:02:22PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can I run Windows 98 inside Linex, so when I shut down Windows I'm still > running Linex? Almost. You can do that with LinUX, using commercial products like VMWare and Win4Lin. To my limited knowledge, there's no Free Software

question

2003-12-20 Thread rob
Can I run Windows 98 inside Linex, so when I shut down Windows I'm still running Linex?   Thanks Rob

Re: Comment on HP printer working on Debian 3.0

2003-12-20 Thread Antonio Rodr
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 00:44:38 +0800 Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am looking for an economical printer for printing documents. The > printer shall work on Debian 3.0 OS. Some shops recommend HP Deskjet > 3550 with USB plug. > > Any folk has experience on the abovementio

Re: logcheck regexp for spamassassin

2003-12-20 Thread Greg Norris
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 04:01:08PM -0500, Bill Marcum wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:34:56PM -0600, Greg Norris wrote: > You don't say whether the message is listed as an "event" or a "security > violation", but I'm guessing it's the latter, and the reason is that > the email address contains

Re: can't get screen to work for XFree86 in Debian

2003-12-20 Thread Medi Esmail
Hi Ashley, I had a similar problem but mine was proably due to a old video card i was using .. I resolved it using dpkg and tied to configure it with that .. and got X working that way ,ight be an option to explore... dunno if this helps much. Medi --- Ashley Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Losing too many ticks!

2003-12-20 Thread Wayne Topa
michelle([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Losing too many ticks! > TSC cannot be used as a timesource (Are you running with SpeedStep?) > Falling back to a sane timesource. > > This pops up on my console a little while after bootup. I'm not sure what > it's talking about or how to m

Re: phpmyadmin not there [ammended]

2003-12-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Gruessle([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > From: Wayne Topa > > > Gruessle([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > > > > > I just installed phpmyadmin via apt-get > > > > No errors it all went thru fine. > >

Re: 4MB s3 video card (was QuickTime for Linux?)

2003-12-20 Thread Scarletdown
James Miller wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Scarletdown wrote: I'll give it a try on my testing station later to see if I can get it to run on older hardware. The testing station is a Packard Bell Multimedia C115 with a Pentium-200. 96MB RAM, 4MB S3 video card, and some sort of Be interested to kno

4MB s3 video card (was QuickTime for Linux?)

2003-12-20 Thread James Miller
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Scarletdown wrote: > I'll give it a try on my testing station later to see if I can get it to > run on older hardware. The testing station is a Packard Bell Multimedia > C115 with a Pentium-200. 96MB RAM, 4MB S3 video card, and some sort of > Be interested to know if that 4MB

Re: how to use external router?

2003-12-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:26:22PM -0400, Jeff Waltermire wrote: > I have a cable modem and a D-Link 614+ router that work fine in SUSE > and WinXP. I would like to use that on my Debian Box but how do I set > up Debian to use my gateway of 192.168.0.1 (D-link router)? Where do > I setup that m

Re: Help with dselect

2003-12-20 Thread Medi Esmail
Hi Clive, I tried that initially but the problem i face is i have quit out of dselect frist time and now it remembers all the selections regardless if i press Q or X or Esc... when I go to Install packages I would like to hope and see there are no packages to install remove or upgrade but instead i

Re: Comment on HP printer working on Debian 3.0

2003-12-20 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am looking for an economical printer for printing documents. The > printer shall work on Debian 3.0 OS. Some shops recommend HP Deskjet > 3550 with USB plug. > > Any folk has experience on th

Re: Port forwarding with ipmasq

2003-12-20 Thread Bill Goudie
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:06:44PM +0800, Brendan Bache wrote: > I'm running debian woody on my gateway with the ipmasq package installed > and I need to do some port forwarding. For instance, I need to forward > some ports for BitTorrent running on a box on my LAN so I created a file > /etc/ipmasq

Re: QuickTime for Linux?

2003-12-20 Thread David
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 01:50:18PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > David wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:56:21AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > > > >>I tried making an mplayer shortcut on the desktop, but it doesn't work. > > > >Try calling "gmplayer" instead of mplayer in your shortcut. That's > >w

RE: phpmyadmin not there

2003-12-20 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 11:46:58 -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > From: Wayne Topa >> Gruessle([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> >>> >>> I just installed phpmyadmin via apt-get >>> No errors it all went thru fine. >>> The Debian phpmyadmin says that the location is >>> http://localhost/phpmyadm

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-20 Thread Jeffrey Barish
Jeffrey Barish wrote: > I have 3 computers on my home network. The Windows machines are > connected to each other using ICS. I can ping one Windows machine > from another Windows machine simply by naming the destination: > > ping windowsB > > from machine windowsA will elicit a response. I ca

Re: logcheck regexp for spamassassin

2003-12-20 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:34:56PM -0600, Greg Norris wrote: > Every now and then, logcheck complains about syslog messages such as > the one below. Not a big problem, but it's supposed to filter out > messages which match the associated regexp... which really should cover > this case, as far as I

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Kent said: So, post the complete contents of /etc/network/interfaces. Also post the output of "ifconfig". Also post the nic-related output of "lspci". And perhaps post the output of "lsmod". If you say so: The /etc/network/interfaces file as it currently stands

Re: how to debug an apt-get error?

2003-12-20 Thread Lou Losee
* Toshiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-20 16:26]: > > > > >I'm running sid, I'm having a problem with the upgrade of kdm, the > > > > > error just says that the postinstallation script return an error > > > > > (30). This message is very cryptic and it's pretty much useless. > > > > Have you tried

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread mmissett
Kent, Sorry, I should have included this question in the previous post, and forgot: Will pump run at all if dhcp is not enabled in /etc/network/interfaces? Because eth0 will *not* come up at all with dhcp enabled there. So pump is not normally being called up anyway, right? (Since eth0 is

Re: how to debug an apt-get error?

2003-12-20 Thread Bill Goudie
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 04:48:53PM -0300, Toshiro wrote: > On Saturday 20 December 2003 16:38, Kent West wrote: > > Toshiro wrote: > > >I'm running sid, I'm having a problem with the upgrade of kdm, the error > > > just says that the postinstallation script return an error (30). This > > > message

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread mmissett
Kent said: >So, post the complete contents of /etc/network/interfaces. >Also post the output of "ifconfig". >Also post the nic-related output of "lspci". >And perhaps post the output of "lsmod". If you say so: The /etc/network/interfaces file as it currently stands (the only way it will come u

apt-mir script.

2003-12-20 Thread Lucas Albers
I want to install a testing kernel on a stable i386 system, that does not have network yet. I can copy the debs to a cd, create a file apt repository, and just use apt-get to install the additional packages, like such. I tried using apt-move to do this, but I was to dumb to figure it out. Steps:

Re: QuickTime for Linux?

2003-12-20 Thread Scarletdown
David wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:56:21AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I tried making an mplayer shortcut on the desktop, but it doesn't work. Try calling "gmplayer" instead of mplayer in your shortcut. That's what's update-menus put in my menu. That worked, and in the

Re: phpmyadmin not there

2003-12-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Gruessle([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > From: Wayne Topa > > Gruessle([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > > > I just installed phpmyadmin via apt-get > > > No errors it all went thru fine. > > > The Debian phpmyadmin says that the location is > > > http://localho

Re: how to debug an apt-get error?

2003-12-20 Thread Toshiro
> > > >I'm running sid, I'm having a problem with the upgrade of kdm, the > > > > error just says that the postinstallation script return an error > > > > (30). This message is very cryptic and it's pretty much useless. > > Have you tried "script"? I think 'script' is used to capture screen output

Re: persistent www connection to aol adserver

2003-12-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 13:37, Debian User wrote: > group, > > i happened to be running tcpdup -i eth0 this a.m. just to see what is > going on outside of my firewall. i noticed my firewall accessing an > adserver in the aol.com domain. i cannot figure out what process is > causing this to contin

Re: QuickTime for Linux?

2003-12-20 Thread David
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:56:21AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main > > > >they have debs there for all versions. > > Thanks. MPlayer installed fine. Now I need to figure out how to > install additional codecs for it. > > Also, for

RE: Reminder: Free movie tickets!

2003-12-20 Thread Remigio, Amado S
Do I know you, "Julia"? I'm puzzled... __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Reminder: Free movie tickets! Author: "Julia Leonardo" at HQ-IRM-001 Date:12/20/03 12:24 PM Don't forget! Go here and we'll both get free movie tickets!

Re: how to debug an apt-get error?

2003-12-20 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Toshiro: > On Saturday 20 December 2003 16:38, Kent West wrote: > > Toshiro wrote: > > >I'm running sid, I'm having a problem with the upgrade of kdm, the error > > > just says that the postinstallation script return an error (30). This > > > message is very cryptic and it's pretty mu

Re: 2.6.0 kernel, dhclient

2003-12-20 Thread David Sanders
On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:16 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * David Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031219 23:05]: > > I compiled a 2.6.0 kernel for a woody machine. The DHCP client quit > > working and I was unable to access the network. Script /sbin/dhclient > > checks the version of your kernel

Re: how to debug an apt-get error?

2003-12-20 Thread Toshiro
On Saturday 20 December 2003 16:38, Kent West wrote: > Toshiro wrote: > >I'm running sid, I'm having a problem with the upgrade of kdm, the error > > just says that the postinstallation script return an error (30). This > > message is very cryptic and it's pretty much useless. > > What tool are you

RE: phpmyadmin not there

2003-12-20 Thread Gruessle
From: Wayne Topa > Gruessle([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > I just installed phpmyadmin via apt-get > > No errors it all went thru fine. > > The Debian phpmyadmin says that the location is > > http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ > > > > It is not there - what is going on? > > > > You

Re: how to debug an apt-get error?

2003-12-20 Thread Kent West
Toshiro wrote: I'm running sid, I'm having a problem with the upgrade of kdm, the error just says that the postinstallation script return an error (30). This message is very cryptic and it's pretty much useless. What tool are you using to do the upgrade? apt-get upgrade? dist-upgrade? aptit

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Kent, Thanks yet again. Sorry if I was not clear. I *did* run: ps ax | grep -E 'dhcp|pump' exactly that way. What it produced in response was, exactly: 233pts/0 S 0:00 grep -E dhcp|pump I don't know what that means, but if I am understanding you correctly, it means pu

Re: hard disk access on every keystroke in console mode!

2003-12-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, michelle wrote: <...> > The pauses in KDE3 must be due to something else. Parts of KDE3 will freeze when kbuildsycoca runs. e.g., upgrading changes the menues, which gets noticed by FAM, which starts kbuildsycoca, which results in konqueror freezing until KDE sorts out what i

Re: 2.6.0 kernel, dhclient

2003-12-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* David Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031219 23:05]: > I compiled a 2.6.0 kernel for a woody machine. The DHCP client quit working > and I was unable to access the network. Script /sbin/dhclient checks the > version of your kernel and starts the appropriate client software. For a > 2.6.0 kerne

Re: OT How to get debmenus with fvwm - solved

2003-12-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 07:08:17PM +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > Thanks, Micha! Simple and effective solution. > > Being chonically lazy, my next question (OT) is if you can recommend a > good menu-driven configuration tool for fvwm. > Afraid that AFAIK there is none. The big show stopper for a lo

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Has anyone bought one of these? Or any of the other models. Care to > share your experience? LinuxCertified has kindly loaned me one to use as a test system in my work on the Debian installer. It's a nice laptop, though about 3x the size I'm used to (I used to use a so

Re: Restarting daemons

2003-12-20 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:30:20 -0800 Doug Hunting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was hoping there would be a simple command to restart a daemon. > Namely lprng. I know about killall but what signal do you pass it to > have it restart?? > > -Doug Try "kill -HUP ". Better yet, daemons usually have a

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread mmissett
Kent West wrote: >You need single quotes around the 'dhcp|pump' part: > >>ps ax | grep -E 'dhcp|pump' >> >> 215 ?S 0:00 pump -i eth0 > >If you still don't get something like the above, then pump is not running. > >It's _probably_ some sort of configuration problem, but just to >

Re: can't get screen to work for XFree86 in Debian

2003-12-20 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Ashley Hinton (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm installing Debian 3.0 r.2 from CD, but am unable to get XFree86 to > work. When I try to run X it says the computer can't find any screens. > > I'm using an NVIDIA GeFORCE 4MX video card into a 17" monitor. > > What should I do? Look at th

persistent www connection to aol adserver

2003-12-20 Thread Debian User
group, i happened to be running tcpdup -i eth0 this a.m. just to see what is going on outside of my firewall. i noticed my firewall accessing an adserver in the aol.com domain. i cannot figure out what process is causing this to continue. i used tcpdump and netstat to the fullest of my ability

Restarting daemons

2003-12-20 Thread Doug Hunting
I was hoping there would be a simple command to restart a daemon. Namely lprng. I know about killall but what signal do you pass it to have it restart?? -Doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

USB printer and TurboPrint

2003-12-20 Thread Doug Hunting
I have installed TurboPrint several times before with success in using my USB printer. That was BEFORE I enabled USB support in my new kernel. I am now running 2.4.23 kernel with USB support enabled so that it would configure my USB keyboard and mouse as USB devices and not as generic devices.

Re: how to create an encrypted loop device?

2003-12-20 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Gonzalo Sainz-Trápaga (GomoX) (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 13:20:13 +0100, Kevin Mark wrote: >> Also, why have the blowfish and other crypto modules IN the >> precompiled kernel and the required CRYPTOLOOP modules output the >> main kernel deb? -Kev > > Probably becau

Re: how to create an encrypted loop device?

2003-12-20 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Kevin Mark (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I did a search and found that there is a debian package for > cryptoloop. Do you have to compile a kernel for this? If so, is there > a prebuilt module for this? If not, is it for legal or other issues? > Also, why have the blowfish and other crypto

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Kent, Thank you again for your response. To answer your questions: Do you have other machines getting dhcp addresses on this LAN? Or better yet, can you throw a Knoppix CD in the computer and see if it gets an address? (There may be some sort of hardware/cabling/networ

Re: hard disk access on every keystroke in console mode!

2003-12-20 Thread Kent West
michelle wrote: The normal login does some sort of database updating that does a lot of disk access (find, sort, and updatedb show up in a ps listing. What is this for BTW?) It updates the database that the "locate" command uses to find files on the system, as in "locate foo" or "locate mai

how to debug an apt-get error?

2003-12-20 Thread Toshiro
I'm running sid, I'm having a problem with the upgrade of kdm, the error just says that the postinstallation script return an error (30). This message is very cryptic and it's pretty much useless. Anybody know if there is a procedure to see what is going on really? I mean, I'd like to watch th

network card in compaq

2003-12-20 Thread Lucas Albers
I have started the steady process of converting my machines from redhat to debian. Yeterday I got a new hp lt?330, can't remember the exact model number. Planning to use the machine for snort analysis and the old box was too slow. It has the broadcom bcm5700 integrated in gigabit network card. I

Re: kazaa

2003-12-20 Thread Dr Gavin Seddon
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 14:25, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Patrick Lesslie wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:41:50AM +, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >>Last night I was at a friends house and he showed me Kazaa lite. I > >>found this morning it is possible to run it on my Debian mach

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-20 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi D-U list folks, > there was a recent thread about TigerDirect giving the nod to M$WINDOWS. > Now threre is a place to buy debian-certified (and can be preloaded with > debian or RH) laptops! (from LWN.net) > http://lwn.net/Articles/63933/ > Has anyone

XF86 problem for Ashley

2003-12-20 Thread Jeff Waltermire
Hi Again, I looked up the line and it says "Use FBDev" "true" Jeff Hi Ashley, I just went through this this morning with a Riva TNT card. The fix for me was at the root command prompt to run nano (text editor) then ctl R to read file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and remove the line that says "FB "

Re: phpmyadmin not there

2003-12-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Gruessle([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I just installed phpmyadmin via apt-get > No errors it all went thru fine. > The Debian phpmyadmin says that the location is > http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ > > It is not there - what is going on? > You haven't done your homework, again.

Re: Filtering emails in ~/Maildir

2003-12-20 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 04:36:46PM -, demslh wrote: > I've jsut setup a Debian unstable box as an email server. It uses > fetchmail to pull emails from several different pop3 accounts, which > passes the emails to exim4, which dumps them in ~/Maildir > I then pick up the emails using courier-im

Re: Filtering emails in ~/Maildir

2003-12-20 Thread Mark Roach
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 11:36, demslh wrote: > I've jsut setup a Debian unstable box as an email server. It uses > fetchmail to pull emails from several different pop3 accounts, which > passes the emails to exim4, which dumps them in ~/Maildir > I then pick up the emails using courier-imap server and

XF86 problem for Ashley

2003-12-20 Thread Jeff Waltermire
Hi Ashley, I just went through this this morning with a Riva TNT card. The fix for me was at the root command prompt to run nano (text editor) then ctl R to read file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and remove the line that says "FB " "true". I can't remember off hand but it has to do with a framebuff

can't get screen to work for XFree86 in Debian

2003-12-20 Thread Ashley Hinton
I'm installing Debian 3.0 r.2 from CD, but am unable to get XFree86 to work. When I try to run X it says the computer can't find any screens. I'm using an NVIDIA GeFORCE 4MX video card into a 17" monitor. What should I do? -- Ashley Hinton http://www.gestaltswitch.co.nz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Comment on HP printer working on Debian 3.0

2003-12-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I am looking for an economical printer for printing documents. The printer shall work on Debian 3.0 OS. Some shops recommend HP Deskjet 3550 with USB plug. Any folk has experience on the abovementioned printer. Any comment or another suggestion are welcome. Thanks in advance. Season's

Re: Problem with swiss-german on testing / unstable

2003-12-20 Thread Urs Schroffenegger
Uwe Dippel wrote: I need some help on keyboard layout; can anyone point me to a good description ? This is the trouble: I'm using Swiss-German as keyboard layout. Using dpkg-reconfigure I could set the non-X behaviour to be okay (qwertz, Alt Gr 2 = . When I start X, however, it won't. With "us" in

Filtering emails in ~/Maildir

2003-12-20 Thread demslh
I've jsut setup a Debian unstable box as an email server. It uses fetchmail to pull emails from several different pop3 accounts, which passes the emails to exim4, which dumps them in ~/Maildir I then pick up the emails using courier-imap server and an imap client. What i want to do now is filter t

Re: how to use external router?

2003-12-20 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
On Saturday 20 December 2003 10:26 am, Jeff Waltermire wrote: > Greetings All, > I am coming to Debian after using SUSE for a couple of years because > I want to easily update packages. I am very used to the YAST program > to help setup things. > > I have a cable modem and a D-Link 614+ router tha

how to use external router?

2003-12-20 Thread Jeff Waltermire
Greetings All, I am coming to Debian after using SUSE for a couple of years because I want to easily update packages. I am very used to the YAST program to help setup things. I have a cable modem and a D-Link 614+ router that work fine in SUSE and WinXP. I would like to use that on my Debian B

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