Startup script ?

2004-01-06 Thread Marc Hultquist
Just wanted to ask   Ok well using apt-get through the proxy here at work, finally started working, basically I had to import a global variable I.E export http_proxy="blabla/"   Now what I wanted to ask, is how do I create a startup script in Debian, so that whenever the machine is re-started

Re: Semi-new to linux, couple questions...

2004-01-06 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 15:48, Victor Varsanyi wrote: > Hello everyone, > After tying a few distroes i've settled on debian. I have a couple > questions: firstly can anyone recommend a good webcam that has drivers > available for linux? Also I just upgraded my kernel to 2.6.0 and gnome > to 2.2,

Re: linux bewbie lame question

2004-01-06 Thread linux
Citát Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:47:45 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Quoting Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:34:51 -0500 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > Citát Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > On Tue,

Re: locales & perl [solved]

2004-01-06 Thread Paul Brossier
i never had to edit locale.gen, reconfiguring locale does it for me. it also runs locale-gen. in local.alias, however, one can read : # Note: This file is far from being complete. If you have a value for # your own site which you think might be useful for others too, share # it with the rest of u

Re: xmove + ssh failure

2004-01-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Jesse Meyer: > > I'm trying to use ssh + xmove on a debian server to launch clients to an > OpenBSD laptop, but xmove seems to error on me: > > /* pang is the OpenBSD laptop, 10.0.0.4/pong is the debian server */ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ ssh -X -f 10.0.0.4 xmove > [EM

Re: OT: regex pattern problem

2004-01-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:59:55AM +, Craig Tinson wrote: > guys.. regex patterns are a *complete* mystery so am hoping someone can > help with one.. > > I have to find all entries in a file which match the following: > > (pg. 2) > (pg. 210) > (pg. 211) > (pg. 309) > (pg. 4000) > > etc etc >

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xmove + ssh failure

2004-01-06 Thread Jesse Meyer
Hello, I'm trying to use ssh + xmove on a debian server to launch clients to an OpenBSD laptop, but xmove seems to error on me: /* pang is the OpenBSD laptop, 10.0.0.4/pong is the debian server */ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ ssh -X -f 10.0.0.4 xmove [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: [EM

Re: RH Veteran is now a Debian Newbie

2004-01-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:16:09PM +, Colin Watson wrote: | On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:16PM -0200, Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: | > Em Ter, 2004-01-06 Ãs 08:18, Michael B Allen escreveu: | > > What surprises can a RH user expect? | > the fact that stable is | > obsolete,

Re: RH Veteran is now a Debian Newbie

2004-01-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:14:09PM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote: | > Back when I used RedHat I always found it to be a pain the way you | > have to manually track down, and rebuild, package depedencies. | > | > | So I thought I'd try debian as it seems a little more consistent. | > | Is this true?

Re: RH Veteran is now a Debian Newbie

2004-01-06 Thread Michael B Allen
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:16:09PM +, Colin Watson wrote: >> > > What surprises can a RH user expect? >> > >> >I guess the biggest hurdles would be the text-mode, no-detection >> > installer (do a system inventory first) and the fact that stable is >> > obsolete, so one is almost forced

Re: emergency: Openoffice, Fonts, what a mess

2004-01-06 Thread David
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:54:19PM -0800, David wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:12:13AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > > Hello, > > > > today, I did the usual apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on my > > girfriend's machine. > > In the process, the Openoffice backport was upgraded from 1.

Re: emergency: Openoffice, Fonts, what a mess

2004-01-06 Thread David
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:12:13AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > Hello, > > today, I did the usual apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on my > girfriend's machine. > In the process, the Openoffice backport was upgraded from 1.0.xx to > 1.1.xx. This has severe side effects. > > In short: prac

Re: emergency: Openoffice, Fonts, what a mess

2004-01-06 Thread Andy Gayton
Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:12:13AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: Hello, today, I did the usual apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on my girfriend's machine. In the process, the Openoffice backport was upgraded from 1.0.xx to 1.1.xx. This has severe side effects. Debian shou

Re: OT: regex pattern problem

2004-01-06 Thread Nano Nano
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:43:28PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Craig Tinson: > > guys.. regex patterns are a *complete* mystery so am hoping someone can > > help with one.. > > > > I have to find all entries in a file which match the following: > > > > (pg. 2) > > Which tool? I bel

Re: emergency: Openoffice, Fonts, what a mess

2004-01-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:57:46AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 03:36, Kevin Mark wrote: > > 03:36? This didn't reach me before 04:30... Don't know why?! but my ntpdate is running. > > > This is the kind of things that hurt Linux for the desktop. When average users,

Re: OT: regex pattern problem

2004-01-06 Thread Todd Pytel
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 21:43:28 -0700 "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which tool? I believe perl's would be... Yeah, each one works a little different. Perl's the best all-around, IMO, but I'll add grep... grep '(pg\. [0-9][0-9]*)' filename -- Todd Pytel ---

Re: OT: regex pattern problem

2004-01-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Craig Tinson: > guys.. regex patterns are a *complete* mystery so am hoping someone can > help with one.. > > I have to find all entries in a file which match the following: > > (pg. 2) Which tool? I believe perl's would be: /\(pg\. [0-9]*\)/ or: /\(pg\. \d+\)/ Shell woul

Re: linux bewbie lame question

2004-01-06 Thread Katipo
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:36:57 -0700 "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming from Katipo: > > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:34:51 -0500 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Citát Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 13:00:58 +, Tendril wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: MMap ran out of room

2004-01-06 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:53:13PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:51:56PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > # echo 'APT::Cache-Limit "25165824";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf > > > Hi list, > it seems that random newbies come across this. And it seems like a > simple fix to set

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-06 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 at 03:01 GMT, Greg Norris penned: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:53:21AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> I have a Belkin 4-port (don't recall the exact model, but OmniView >> sounds right), and while the keystroke aspect was fine, it didn't >> interact with X well at all. Swit

Re: Creating "Dummy" .debs (Was: RH Veteran is now a Debian Newbie)

2004-01-06 Thread Jacob S.
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:14:09 -0500 (EST) "Michael B Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I use debian it sounds like using custom packages is more > difficult. I'll have to create a file with equivs-contol and then edit > it. That's not so bad but knowing what to put in it bothers me. That's a

Re: linux bewbie lame question

2004-01-06 Thread Katipo
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:47:45 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:34:51 -0500 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Citát Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 13:00:58 +, Tendril wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: RH Veteran is now a Debian Newbie

2004-01-06 Thread ben_foley
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:16:09PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:16PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete Dutra > wrote: > > Em Ter, 2004-01-06 ?s 08:18, Michael B Allen escreveu: > > > Is 3.0r1 glibc 2.3. > > > > Don't remember. But I guess you will upgrade

OT: regex pattern problem

2004-01-06 Thread Craig Tinson
guys.. regex patterns are a *complete* mystery so am hoping someone can help with one.. I have to find all entries in a file which match the following: (pg. 2) (pg. 210) (pg. 211) (pg. 309) (pg. 4000) etc etc what regex pattern would I use? TIA Craig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: nForce 2 and Woody: How can I achieve a network install and what functionality is available without the nVidia drivers?

2004-01-06 Thread Scarletdown
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Then you did nat have an nForce ethernet card. The nForce ethernet card requires a binary driver from nVidia, or the forcedeth driver (only developed in the last few weeks). I'm using an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe MB, which uses the nForce chipset and has 2 built-in NICs. One of t

Re: emergency: Openoffice, Fonts, what a mess

2004-01-06 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 03:36, Kevin Mark wrote: 03:36? This didn't reach me before 04:30... > This is the kind of things that hurt Linux for the desktop. When average users, > trying to > get 'WORK' done, do a 'routine' upgrade and have a wrench thrown into a seemingly > simple Not that simple.

Re: KVM switch recomendation? - mice

2004-01-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Greg Norris wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:25:23PM -0600, Todd Pytel wrote: > > Well, I have a Belkin SOHO 4-port (PS/2) that exhibits X issues. If I'm > > using a wheel mouse (IMPS/2) and switch ports, the mouse goes crazy. One > > generally knowledgeable person h

Re: MMap ran out of room

2004-01-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:51:56PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:58:49PM +0100, Andreas Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello > > > > Karen Larson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > > > I had been installing Debian mixture of stable and testing (needed > > > ke

ProFTPD + LDAP

2004-01-06 Thread Brandon Yap
My goal is to get ProFTPD to auth against LDAP. I'm using the proftpd-ldap package in stable Debian Woody. My problem is that no matter what I put in /etc/proftpd.conf, it won't auth against LDAP. Even editing /etc/pam.d/proftpd and replacing every instance of pam_unix.so with pam_ldap.so doesn't w

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Greg Norris wrote: > Thanx for the info. After researching a number of KVMs from various > companies, I've decided that the SwitchView USB 4-port looks the most > promising. That beastie is on order, so I should know for sure in a > few days. ;-) Looks like Cybex became Avoc

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-06 Thread Greg Norris
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:25:23PM -0600, Todd Pytel wrote: > Well, I have a Belkin SOHO 4-port (PS/2) that exhibits X issues. If I'm > using a wheel mouse (IMPS/2) and switch ports, the mouse goes crazy. One > generally knowledgeable person hinted that USB mice might not have such > an issue, but

Re: emergency: Openoffice, Fonts, what a mess

2004-01-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:12:13AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > Hello, > > today, I did the usual apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on my > girfriend's machine. > In the process, the Openoffice backport was upgraded from 1.0.xx to > 1.1.xx. This has severe side effects. > > > Any help w

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-06 Thread Greg Norris
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:48:33AM -0800, Bill Thompson wrote: > I had the same trouble as well as mouse issues with the same Belkin > Omniview SOHO going between a Woody server and Sid desktop. I > replaced my KVM with a Avocent SwitchView and have had no further > issues. You can get more info at

Re: RH Veteran is now a Debian Newbie

2004-01-06 Thread Michael B Allen
> Back when I used RedHat I always found it to be a pain the way you > have to manually track down, and rebuild, package depedencies. > > | So I thought I'd try debian as it seems a little more consistent. > | Is this true? > > Debian includes all of its packages in one place, and automatically > b

Re: tft tcd screens

2004-01-06 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shri Shrikumar wrote: > I wonder what your experiences are with tft / lcd screens ? Do they > cause any more problems that CRTs? I have a lcd screen both on my laptop and workstation. I love it. Haven't seen any problems. - -- John L. Fjellstad we

Re: RH Veteran is now a Debian Newbie

2004-01-06 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael B Allen wrote: > So I thought I'd try debian as it seems a little more > consistent. Is this true? Is 3.0r1 glibc 2.3. How is support for > UTF-8 locales? Etc. What surprises can a RH user expect? I'm a former RedHat user too (changed back in

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-06 Thread Greg Norris
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:12:51AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I suspect you got a bad unit, or maybe one in need of a firmware upgrade > (you can flash that unit with a special serial cable). I flashed the firmware several times during the troubleshooting process. The symptoms changed somewhat

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-06 Thread Todd Pytel
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:29:06 +0100 John Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well, I have a Belkin SOHO 4-port (PS/2) that exhibits X issues. If > >I'm using a wheel mouse (IMPS/2) and switch ports, the mouse goes > >crazy. One generally knowledgeable person hinted that USB mice might > >not ha

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-06 Thread Greg Norris
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:53:21AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I have a Belkin 4-port (don't recall the exact model, but OmniView > sounds right), and while the keystroke aspect was fine, it didn't > interact with X well at all. Switching back to a machine running X > would result in the mou

Re: Evolution + multi accounts + Sync with laptop

2004-01-06 Thread Chris
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 01:32, Josh wrote: > hi > > i use evolution on my desktop which has some pop and imap accounts. > some of them have subdirectories. > mail format is mbox. > > i would like to be able to sync my emails between desktop and laptop ; > i thought of setting up an imap server on

Re: spamassassin and bayes filter after sarge upgrade

2004-01-06 Thread Doctorcam
* Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:37:23PM +0800, Brian Walker wrote: > > When I try to teach spamassassin based on "missed spam" I get the > > following error: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sa-learn --mbox --spam /home/brian/Mail/MissedSpam > > Cannot open

Kernel compile warnings?

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Schiraldi
I said: > Oh, and as long as i'm posting -- is http://lists.debian.org/users.html > truncated? If that was a problem, it appears to have been fixed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

emergency: Openoffice, Fonts, what a mess

2004-01-06 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, today, I did the usual apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on my girfriend's machine. In the process, the Openoffice backport was upgraded from 1.0.xx to 1.1.xx. This has severe side effects. In short: practically all the homework she has done over the christmas holidays (and has to submit t

Re: Semi-new to linux, couple questions...

2004-01-06 Thread tripolar
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 14:48, Victor Varsanyi wrote: > Hello everyone, > After tying a few distroes i've settled on debian. I have a couple > questions: firstly can anyone recommend a good webcam that has drivers > available for linux? Also I just upgraded my kernel to 2.6.0 and gnome > to 2.2,

Re: spamassassin

2004-01-06 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Hans du Plooy, > Hi all, > > I installed spamassassin-2.6.1 using apt-get (woody) > > When starting spamd, I get the following in my mail.log: > > Jan 6 16:41:21 hermes spamd[14266]: Failed to run RAZOR_CHECK SpamAssassin > test, skipping: ^I(Can't locate object method "check_razo

Re: e100 or eepro100?

2004-01-06 Thread Tony Godshall
According to GCS, > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 03:17:37AM -0500, lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > does it matter which of these network card drivers i use? > Yup, at least until both are working for you. For a while, I thought > eepro100 is a newer driver, until recently I had to help out a frien

Re: empty boot log

2004-01-06 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Peter! On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:49:44PM -0500, Peter McAlpine wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 19:01, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I no longer have a /var/log/boot although I remember having one, what does its presence depend on? Hugo. [19:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /var/log/boot dpkg: /var/log

Re: Mozilla news reader help

2004-01-06 Thread Erik Steffl
Tendril wrote: ... How do I make the news messages cascade (a la outlook express) as they appear as single lines at the moment and it easy to miss replies. those are threads, the leftmost button on the heading bar above the list of messages toggles between thread/non-thread views of message list

Re: Exim3 --> Exim4

2004-01-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-01-06 10:58:04 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Does the Debian exim4 package attempt to convert an exim3 install's > config files? Some small parts of it only. There were 3 problems when I upgraded several days ago. 1. With minimal DNS requests, it breaks primary_hostname on my machine

Kernel compile warnings?

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Schiraldi
I downloaded (through dselect) a fresh copy of the 2.4.22 kernel source, untarred it, copied a .config from another copy of the 2.4.22 source, ran make oldconfig, and when i try to build, i get all sorts of warnings like: hp_psaux.c:41:26: asm/hardware.h: No such file or directory Sure enough, my

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-06 Thread John Stevenson
Can anyone recommend a good 4-port (or thereabout) KVM switch? I need one which can handle USB keyboard and mouse inputs, and it would be a plus (but definitely not required) if it can accommodate both USB and PS/2 outputs. Well, I have a Belkin SOHO 4-port (PS/2) that exhibits X issues. If

run make-kpkg with distcc

2004-01-06 Thread Lucas Albers
I installed distcc and finally got it working kept on puking when I ran it from inetd: with this line in inetd.conf (verbatim from the install.) so ran it as user distcc and works great. I am able to run kernel compile with this command make -j8 CC=distcc and it is offloading the jobs to the

Re: empty boot log

2004-01-06 Thread Peter McAlpine
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 19:01, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I no longer have a /var/log/boot although I remember having one, what > does its presence depend on? > > Hugo. > [19:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /var/log/boot dpkg: /var/log/boot not found. oh. Maybe when I dist-upgraded to unstable it ch

Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-06 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 19:09:19 -0500, Andy Firman wrote: > > > I guess my question is what really controls the CHS layout of a disk? > (Nate mentioned firmware in a recent post.) > > The dd in this command obviously changed the hdb drive's CHS layout. > Andy, man fdisk If you read the Descr

Re: linux bewbie lame question

2004-01-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Katipo: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:34:51 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Citát Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 13:00:58 +, Tendril wrote: > > > > > > > What are the major differences between gnome and kde? > > > > > I am newbie and this is my

Re: Mozilla news reader help

2004-01-06 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:58:40 +, Tendril wrote: > Hi > > I hope that this is ok in this forum. Excuse me if is not. > > How do I make the news messages cascade (a la outlook express) as they > appear as single lines at the moment and it easy to miss replies. > > Many thanks > > Tendril I'm

Re: empty boot log

2004-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Peter McAlpine wrote: Hello, I recently deleted "/var/log/boot", and then did a "touch /var/log/boot". However, I have rebooted multiple times and the log remains empty. Does anyone have ideas where I could start looking for solutions to this problem? ls excerpt: -rw-r--r--1 root root

Re: Mozilla news reader help

2004-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tendril wrote: Hi I hope that this is ok in this forum. Excuse me if is not. How do I make the news messages cascade (a la outlook express) as they appear as single lines at the moment and it easy to miss replies. Many thanks Tendril What version of Mozilla? When I install Moz. 1.5 or 1.6b the

Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-06 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:20:24PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: > > Do the physical drives and partitions have to be EXACTLY the > > same for RAID 1 to work properly or will the following > > layouts of my drives be sufficient? > > Briefly

Re: mp3 file cutter

2004-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
LeVA wrote: Hi! I'm looking for a program which can cut mp3 files, according to a given cue file. I've tried CueSheetMaster (@ sf.net), but it is not working. It does nothing when I click on the cut mp3 menu. Anyone can recommend a good program? Thanks! Daniel http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/ or

Re: Mozilla

2004-01-06 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Michael W. Cole wrote: > I am using Debian/linux 2.4.23-1-686 on a Dell Inspiron 3200. I have > upgraded the Mozilla components to 1.5.3. I have noticed that the > application will open but I am not able to type anything into any box. > In fact the software seems to freeze an

Mozilla

2004-01-06 Thread Michael W. Cole
I am using Debian/linux 2.4.23-1-686 on a Dell Inspiron 3200. I have upgraded the Mozilla components to 1.5.3. I have noticed that the application will open but I am not able to type anything into any box. In fact the software seems to freeze and the only way to remove it is to kill the process.

Re: linux bewbie lame question

2004-01-06 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 17:47:45 -0500, linux wrote: > > Was that for me? If yes what was it for? If it was for me than I appologize and > just on the side arogance come from the words above mine, I mean your. I am not > doing to agrue with you, it never makes sence, I may not be very technicaly > kn

Re: linux bewbie lame question

2004-01-06 Thread Tendril
Katipo wrote: I am newbie and this is my experience. Gnome runs faster and gives me less trouble :)) KDE is more fancy and has more sofisticated aplications in it. If you boot to any of those you have them both available, for some reason some KDE stuff is on strike when run from Gnome in that case

empty boot log

2004-01-06 Thread Peter McAlpine
Hello, I recently deleted "/var/log/boot", and then did a "touch /var/log/boot". However, I have rebooted multiple times and the log remains empty. Does anyone have ideas where I could start looking for solutions to this problem? ls excerpt: -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jan 5 16:11

Mozilla news reader help

2004-01-06 Thread Tendril
Hi I hope that this is ok in this forum. Excuse me if is not. How do I make the news messages cascade (a la outlook express) as they appear as single lines at the moment and it easy to miss replies. Many thanks Tendril -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: ISO9660 file naming (limits)

2004-01-06 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:17:43 -0500 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:41:23PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > ... The only anomaly it produces is a visible (and -apparently- empty) > 'rr_moved' directory. > | > |mkisofs -r -D -L -l -graft-points -J -joliet-long -jcharset d

Re: has anyone heard of this new crap?

2004-01-06 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:22:30 -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: >> | It appears that the video files >> | do not have to be motion pictures; they can be simple JPEG >> >> JPEG is an open standard created jointly by several companies and >> organizations. I find it highl

Re: has anyone heard of this new crap?

2004-01-06 Thread Wendell Cochran
>Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:16:14 +0100 From: Kevin Boergens <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Antonio Rodriguez schrieb: >> Ownership of Streaming Audio and Video Challenged >> Acacia Media Technologies has sent letters to a number of colleges and >> universities essentially claiming that patents it owns gover

Re: curses corrupt when TERM is "linux" - but only under X

2004-01-06 Thread Christopher Martin
Hello, That makes some sense, but couldn't xterms be made to understand the "linux" TERMtype, as they understand "xterm", "vt100", etc.? I'm not volunteering or anything, just trying to understand the problem. Konsole has an option to set "linux console" as the key mapping, and comes with a sp

Re: Kernel Upgrade from 2.4.18-xfs to 2.4.23

2004-01-06 Thread George App
Problem fixed! Thank you Alan. I upgraded the FR114P firmware to the latest beta release (I had orignaly upgraded to the latest stable release) and every thing seems to be working fine. Thanks, George On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 22:21:29 + Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 04 J

single desktop per user with vncserver through inetd

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I like the feature where I can have my users login through one port and then login to their user with [xgk]dm, but last time I tried it I was able to make several instances of desktops, but not login to the same desktop again from another vncviewer (say, from another host). Is there a way to

Re: X nie dzia?a

2004-01-06 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello ?ukasz Ro?ej (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Can anybody tel what should I do to get my X Window working? > Here's what it says when I try to run it: > > (...) > Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list > > Fatal server error > could not open default font 'fixed' > (

Re: Exim4 Cyrus21 SA

2004-01-06 Thread Quenten Griffith
I forgot to mention I already have a router and transport for amavisd-new for virus scanning. Should I have that before the SA router or after? It would be nice if amavisd-new supported using spamc/spamd then I could do it all with in amavisd. --- Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tu

Re: linux bewbie lame question

2004-01-06 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Tendril (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> I'm no expert, but I _think_ what you need to do is install the alsa >> modules for your kernel. Find out which kernel you have with "uname >> -a". For example, on my box this command results in: >> >> Linux acureg 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:4

Re: Exim4 Cyrus21 SA

2004-01-06 Thread Quenten Griffith
Thanks for your quick response...What is the /etc/mail/filterusers part? Right now all my users use squirrelmail and there is a web interface plugin to allow users to update their whitelist/blacklist and it imports it into the mysql database. When I issue spamd -x -q -D flag and watch the output t

Re: postgres connects to server every 5 minutes

2004-01-06 Thread Alexander Wirz
Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> reason for this behaviour? > > pg_autovacuum (from postgresql-contrib) is started by > /etc/init.d/postgresql (if so configured by > /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf). It is turned on by default. > > -- > Oliver Elphick[

Re: Are there any woody r1->r2 update ISO's?

2004-01-06 Thread Dameon Wagner
On Tuesday, 06 January 2004 at 15:49, Steve McIntyre scribbled in "Re: Are there any woody r1->r2 update ISO's?": > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > > >I thought about jigdo, but I've never used it and figured that I'd > >end up with another 7 disks (well, 8 if you count the r0->r1 upd

Re: Exim4 Cyrus21 SA

2004-01-06 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:36:20PM -0800, Quenten Griffith wrote: > Hello all I am looking for suggestions on how to best > implement a Exim4 with Cyrus IMAP mail boxes (virtual > users) with spamassassian where users prefs. are > stored in mysql. Currently I have tried amavisd-new > but it does n

mp3 file cutter

2004-01-06 Thread LeVA
Hi! I'm looking for a program which can cut mp3 files, according to a given cue file. I've tried CueSheetMaster (@ sf.net), but it is not working. It does nothing when I click on the cut mp3 menu. Anyone can recommend a good program? Thanks! Daniel -- LeVA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: linux bewbie lame question

2004-01-06 Thread linux
Quoting Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:34:51 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Citát Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 13:00:58 +, Tendril wrote: > > > > > > > What are the major differences between gnome and kde? > > > > > I am newbie

NFS mount Netware shares ???

2004-01-06 Thread Michael D Schleif
Is there some trick to mounting Netware shares via NFS? Yes, I can get them mounted; but, the uid/gid is like nobody under AIX, largest signed 32 bit number, and file access is extremely limited under these circumstances. # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted

Re: linux bewbie lame question

2004-01-06 Thread Tendril
"Andreas Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello > Looks like cs46xx might be the right driver. Try > > modprobe cs46xx returned: modprobe: Cant locate module cs46xx > > best regards > Andreas Janssen thanks tho' T -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

exim4 cyrus imap SA and virutal users

2004-01-06 Thread Quenten Griffith
Hello all I am looking for suggestions on how to best implement a Exim4 with Cyrus IMAP mail boxes (virtual users) with spamassassian where users prefs. are stored in mysql. Currently I have tried amavisd-new but it does not use spamd/spamc so it will not connect to mysql to retrieve users prefere

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-06 Thread Todd Pytel
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 08:15:29 -0600 Greg Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good 4-port (or thereabout) KVM switch? I need > one which can handle USB keyboard and mouse inputs, and it would be a > plus (but definitely not required) if it can accommodate both USB and > PS/2 o

Re: curses corrupt when TERM is "linux" - but only under X

2004-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:29:55PM -0500, Christopher Martin wrote: > Just wondering if anyone knows what the issue is here. > > Any curses (menuconfig, alsamixer, etc.) apps I run in an xterm > (xterm, aterm, konsole - they all do the same thing) work well if the > TERM variable is set to "xter

Re: apt-get http mirrors ?

2004-01-06 Thread GCS
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:13:29PM +0200, Marc Hultquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering where I would be able to find a list of http deb mirrors for > my debian server ? Try 'apt-setup', you can choose your favour of access method and mirrors. /GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

plplot vs. pgplot

2004-01-06 Thread Micha Feigin
Can anyone share experience with the following packages? I am looking for a library for drawing plots and images, including layering them, such as drawing a contour plot over an image. Preferably something that can embed into gtk or qt windows but also work stand alone. I want to use it to port ma

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Greg Norris wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good 4-port (or thereabout) KVM switch? I need > one which can handle USB keyboard and mouse inputs, and it would be a > plus (but definitely not required) if it can accommodate both USB and > PS/2 outputs. I know this is completely

Re: X nie działa

2004-01-06 Thread David Z Maze
Łukasz Rożej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anybody tel what should I do to get my X Window working? > Here's what it says when I try to run it: > > (...) > Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list > > Fatal server error > could not open default font 'fixed' > (...) What

Re: postgres connects to server every 5 minutes

2004-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 18:16, outsider wrote: > Hi! > After an upgrade from postgres 7.3 to postgres 7.4 I see every 5 minutes > in the /var/syslog messages like > --- > connection: Host=[local] Port= > user=postgres > --- > postgres connects every 5 minutes to each database I have. What is the >

Re: High DPI values and how text and grfx loose scale.

2004-01-06 Thread David Z Maze
Mike Mestnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On my system I have small monitors that I drive at high resolutions. > This makes my DPI about 130. With this DPI it's vary obvious that > text is bigger, while EVERYTHING else remains small. This has > created a lot of bugs dealing with fonts being big

Configuring a non-root-user profile

2004-01-06 Thread Ruby Deepdelver
Hi. I'm a newbie in debian, and almost everything that i used to do in Mandrake now doesn't work in debian. I understand i'm doing something in the wrong way. I need to configure in my account some extra entries in the PATH variable. I configure my .bash_profile and it looks like this: PATH=$PA

Exim4 Cyrus21 SA

2004-01-06 Thread Quenten Griffith
Hello all I am looking for suggestions on how to best implement a Exim4 with Cyrus IMAP mail boxes (virtual users) with spamassassian where users prefs. are stored in mysql. Currently I have tried amavisd-new but it does not use spamd/spamc so it will not connect to mysql to retrieve users prefere

curses corrupt when TERM is "linux" - but only under X

2004-01-06 Thread Christopher Martin
Hello, Just wondering if anyone knows what the issue is here. Any curses (menuconfig, alsamixer, etc.) apps I run in an xterm (xterm, aterm, konsole - they all do the same thing) work well if the TERM variable is set to "xterm", but look partially corrupt if I set TERM to "linux". Interestingl

Re: X nie działa

2004-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:30:52PM +0100, Åukasz RoÅej wrote: > Can anybody tel what should I do to get my X Window working? > Here's what it says when I try to run it: > > (...) > Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list > > Fatal server error > could not open default font

Re: linux bewbie lame question

2004-01-06 Thread Katipo
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:34:51 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Citát Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 13:00:58 +, Tendril wrote: > > > > > What are the major differences between gnome and kde? > > > I am newbie and this is my experience. Gnome runs faster and gives m

Re: nForce 2 and Woody: How can I achieve a network install and what functionality is available without the nVidia drivers?

2004-01-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scarletdown wrote: Joseph Jones wrote: I am very much a newbie, I'm at about the level where I'm starting to mess with backports and can compile my own kernel as per the instructions in the newbiedoc (just). How can I do a network install of Woody on an nForce 2 motherboard? I'm guessing I wou

Re: has anyone heard of this new crap?

2004-01-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | It appears that the video files | do not have to be motion pictures; they can be simple JPEG JPEG is an open standard created jointly by several companies and organizations. I find it highly unlikely that this particular company owns any patents on JPEG methods, and

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