Re: Debian queries

2004-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 1. In the newest version, how good is the hardware support? Better than any other OS on the market. You might have to work for parts of it, but jeeze, what other distribution of anything supports 13 architectures? How m

Re: mounting extended or logical partions

2004-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Christopher J. Noyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I managed to mount my primary DOS/Windows FAT32 partitions on my two hard > drives, i.e. /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 but I can't mount the logical/extended > partitions, i.e /dev/hda2 /dev/hdb2 etc. Doe

Re: IMAP server to fit this bill?

2004-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I so love people who think that the entire Unix world uses > procmail to filter mail, mutt to read mail, etc, etc, etc. while the > whole time pointing out one of the defining features is how flexible >

Re: apt-get upgrade question

2004-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frédéric Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just ran the update and have seen that some openssl libs have been > patched. My question is : should I restart ssh daemon and other > dependant programs (apache-ssl, exim-tsl, ...) in order to make the

Re: xterm double-click to select words like "cups-bsd", "/var/log"

2004-03-19 Thread Rebecca Dridan
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:51:13PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > HOW CAN I GET DOUBLE-CLICKED WORDS TO HIGHLIGHT EVERYTHING BETWEEN > SPACES; eg, all of "cupsys-bsd" or all of "/var/log/messages"? > > > After either double-clicking or a more awkward highlighting, > I click the middle mouse but

Re: YaST

2004-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > About the only thing I've ever found in the FHS or SuSE that I really > liked was the concept of /srv directory for holding file providing > services. > > Is there any discussion on Debian and introducing /srv

Re: Which package creates /etc/environment?

2004-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because 'dpkg -S' can't find it. Right, nothing in Debian provides it. I created mine by hand. > And more to the point, what's looking at that file? It isn't my login shell, > it isn't any of the setup fi

Re: Sharing sound between users

2004-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > If someone logs into gnome -they own the esd and no one else can get in >> > and use sound, even after they log out, unless someone man

Re: YaST

2004-03-19 Thread glenn
ditto - I used to use suse 5.2 & 5.3 - before trying redhat & mdk & settling here. Don't remember why I changed from suse (just to check the hype around rh i think) but I've missed YaST ever since. Though I notice I dont seem to miss it as much in debian as I did in RH, perhaps the defaults are bet

Re: Oh yeah...

2004-03-19 Thread glenn
Best of luck with palm pilot, mine works one day not the next - cant workout what I need to do, for it to behave reliably. The PALMOS-HOWTO was essential for me to get it going. Q here for those reading would running hotplug and/or udev help my palmpilot thing work out better? I've had to stop us

Re: Debain over Redhat

2004-03-19 Thread glenn
Here's why I switched to debian over redhat and mandrake... There comes a time, even with redcarpet and that other tool mandrake use to find and install rpm packages (which never worked for me consistantly), that a given version of that product, just stops being maintained in any real sense - noth

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think the concurrent delivery stuff is something you might find > useful. (I hope I did mention this possibility -- I tend to forget > sometimes.) Heh, yes, you realize how much I post. But for now, I

Re: no audio cd play from CD writer

2004-03-19 Thread Travis Crump
Simmel wrote: Yes, I didn't check that. But does that also explain why I cannot get the tracks listings in xmms or in the "cd play" application? ->HS Nope, seems I missed that line, sorry :/ No if the cable is defective or missing only no sound is provided, but you should be able to see the track

xterm double-click to select words like "cups-bsd", "/var/log"

2004-03-19 Thread Jameson C. Burt
I frequently double-click with the left mouse button from a previous xterm displayed result like ii cupsys ii cupsys-bsd Here, double-clicking "cupsys" highlights the whole word, but double-clicking "cupsys-bsd" highlights only "cupsys", since double-clicking sees a word boundary at charact

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: [snip] > But what about LCD support (how easily can I adjust refresh rate etc.? > I am not afraid to do it by hand, as long as it will let me). I googled on my LCD monitor's model and found that someone had posted some helpful modelines. I used those s

Modules for sata controler

2004-03-19 Thread Chris Lowe
Hi I have been attempting to install Debian for the first time on my pc. But I am having a problem getting the installer to recognise my Via VT8237 sata raid controller. I am trying to install Debian from a DVD with Debian 3.0r0 on it. I have heard there is support for my controller in kernel 2.6

Re: dsl Verizon.com

2004-03-19 Thread Jerome R. Acks
Easiest way I found to connect to verizon DSL was to purchase Linksys BEFSR41 cable/DSL router and connect through that. You just setup the router up to login to verizon and plug the ethernet cable from your network card into the router. You can either set up static IP on your computer or setup DH

Re: Pinning

2004-03-19 Thread Johann Koenig
On Friday March 19 at 11:33pm "Pedro M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and I read from Synaptic Use apt-get. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Anti-Flag - A Start : Underground Network Today is Pungenday, the 5th day of Discord in the YOLD 3170 Celebrate Mojoday My public pgp key: http://mental-graf

Re: Laptop net card module

2004-03-19 Thread Nathan Malmberg
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:22:14PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > After installing Debian on a laptop everything was working fine. > > Then after updating to 2.4.18, however, the pcmcia netcard doesn't work. > > I've determined the following: > > The module [xirc2ps_cs.o] isn't installed. It se

Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 pcmcia services broke after "aptitude upgrade"

2004-03-19 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:53:54 -0600 Nathan Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 09:59:30AM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > All of the correct modules are being loaded, but when I attempt to > > run"/etc/init.d/pcmcia start', the process just hangs, sitting at > > this mes

soundblaster live alsa

2004-03-19 Thread Paul William
Hi all, I am trying to get my soundblaster live card to work using alsa. I get sound out of the left/right speakers but a lot of static from the center and back left and back right speakers? They worked fine with the emu10k1 driver. I have done a lot of tweaking the alsamixers settings without

Need help getting ALSA to work in Sarge

2004-03-19 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm running Sarge, X windows, and Gnome. I have a CMI8738 sound card. Sound works under Knoppix, so my problem is with software and dummy user. I've installed all the stuff that has alsa in its package name and that seems plausibly necessary. I've run alsaconf. Before I started this project I alrea

Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 pcmcia services broke after "aptitude upgrade"

2004-03-19 Thread Nathan Malmberg
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 09:59:30AM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > All of the correct modules are being loaded, but when I attempt to run > "/etc/init.d/pcmcia start', the process just hangs, sitting at this > message; > > Starting PCMCIA Services: Intel PCIC probe: Not Found > using yenta_socket

Linux clients in network - experiences?

2004-03-19 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
Yo! So far, my experience was with administrating smallish servers and mostly stand-alone clients. The future shines bright, however, and I may soon be in a position to do much more than that. But, lacking experience, I now need some advice. [debian-security CC:ed since people there certainly

Re: KDE Mouse Failure

2004-03-19 Thread Clyde Wilson
I made the changes and kdm came down with no error messages... Pigeon wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:46:28AM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rev 1 "woody". I can bring up gnome just fine but when I try to bring up kde I get the following message: (**)

Re: OT: help with mawk

2004-03-19 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Thu 18 Mar 2004 16:53:58 +(-0800), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:19:43PM +0100, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > > Hi ghcbc, > > > > VARIABLENAME=$(mawk 'whatever') . > > Hi, > > Thanks. I can get this to work on the command line, but not in a bash > script. I thin

Re: Oh yeah...

2004-03-19 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two more things I need: Ximian evolution (helps with work and schedules and stuff to keep track of my crazy life) apt-get install evolution and palm pilot accesibility, apt-get install jpilot pilot-xfer and then some tweaking, particularly if it's USB. which I eventu

Re: Console is screwy (shows what looks like boot log)

2004-03-19 Thread Brad Sims
Hrm, I rebooted and added the phrase vga=normal and uncommented the line in config about Option "UseFBDev" "true"... We'll see if that fixed it It's nice to know I wasn't the only one with that problem -- "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasti

frustrating problem with networking encountered while installing "Woody"

2004-03-19 Thread Renhao Zhang
I'm trying to dual boot an old Pentium box with Debian "Woody" and win98. The few bugs I've encountered are falling one by one as I work on the new installation. However, one persistant mystery has remained stuborn. Here is the problem: booting from Windows, I can get onto my home LAN and reach

Re: mozill hangs due to realplayer 8

2004-03-19 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 06:39:55PM +0100, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote.. > H. S. wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I installed realplayer 8: > >1) Downloaded rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm > >2) did "apt-get install realplayer" > >3) it asked for the location of the _rpm file, which I specified > >

Re: Console is screwy (shows what looks like boot log)

2004-03-19 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 19 March 2004 10:11 am, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Do you use any framebuffer driver? I had the same problem switching from > XFree to a console using rivafb. Vesafb of plain text mode work > Hrm how do I tell what framebuffer I am using? I have the following line commented out in Xfree86.

Oh yeah...

2004-03-19 Thread users
Two more things I need: Ximian evolution (helps with work and schedules and stuff to keep track of my crazy life) and palm pilot accesibility, which I eventually DID get to work under SuSE but was a wrestling match. How do these work out in Debian? Message posted via www.linuxforums.org .

re:Debian queries

2004-03-19 Thread users
Thanks for the replies. More insight is very welcome, so keep them coming. So far what I think I am going to do is wait for SuSE 9.1 and the new release of Debian (which I presume will both use the 2.6 Kernel) and re-compare, based on user opinions. But the info now is welcome. Message post

Re: PPD files

2004-03-19 Thread Paul Yeatman
In cleaning up my desk, I ran across a sheet of old notes that somewhat answers my own question. 'defoma-psfont-installer' is the command I was trying to recall that requested PPD files. Still not sure what this is all about, however. Paul ->>In response to your message<<- --received from Paul

Re: X 4.3 for testing (from unstable?)

2004-03-19 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 01:11 pm, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote: > I am (told that I am) in need of X4.3 to get my graphics card > working. > > Does anyone know whether the X packages from unstable work in > testing? Are there other sources of X 4.3 for testing?

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-19, Travis Crump penned: > > Unstable, on the other hand, breaks much more spectacularly on package > installation with no warning other than people moaning on the > lists/IRC/BTS. I don't want to imply that this is a frequent > occurence, but it does happen... I've only been bitten in

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-19, Paul Johnson penned: > > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] >> Unstable is where bug fixes, new packages, etc are first introduced >> into a debian distribution. (There's also something called >> "experimental," but that's not a proper distribution.) > > The im

Re: Mouse behavior with kernel 2.6.X ( running 2.6.4 and 2.6.3 on another machine)

2004-03-19 Thread Enrique Samson Jr.
Micha Feigin wrote: I'm struggling witht his for a while. I have been running 2.6. But I don't like the mouse behavior at all. It's *to* fast compared to 2.4. How can I get the 2.4 mouse behavior back? on the other hand, i find the default mouse setting on 2.6.3 better. One hitch though, mouse f

Re: CUPS

2004-03-19 Thread Morphix User
Arron Kau escribió: When I installed cupsys-bsd apt removed lpr because it was incompatible. Now everything is working. I think cupsys-bsd acts as a replacement for lpr. (?) That's for sure, because they are the same ;) See http://am.xs4all.nl/phpwiki/index.php/MorphixHdFaqUsing (printing) Th

Re: CUPS

2004-03-19 Thread Arron Kau
When I installed cupsys-bsd apt removed lpr because it was incompatible. Now everything is working. I think cupsys-bsd acts as a replacement for lpr. (?) On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 15:29, Alan Shutko wrote: > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:55:00AM +, Adam Funk

Re: YaST

2004-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:55:29PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm not familiar enough with the YaST inner workings to know how it > might manage the differences in file locations because of the Debian > Policy. I think anyone who packaged YaST for Debian would have to make it fit into Debian, not

Re: YaST

2004-03-19 Thread Tom Allison
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: I'm curious to hear what the Debian community has to say about this. I just filed an Intent To Package it. Interesting. I'm not familiar enough with the YaST inner workings to know how it might manage the differences in file locations because of the Debian Policy. Abou

Re: CUPS

2004-03-19 Thread Alan Shutko
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:55:00AM +, Adam Funk wrote: >> In my experience, just installing cupsys-bsd didn't make lpr work >> (output just disappeared). > > Me too. Did you folks have some other lpr command installed as well? (I don't see how, I belie

Re: KDE Mouse Failure

2004-03-19 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:46:28AM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: > I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rev 1 "woody". I can bring up gnome just > fine but when I try to bring up kde I get the following message: > > (**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2" > (**) Generic Mouse: always reports c

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:02:06PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >It seems with SuSE and redhat (which I played with for a week or two), > >my major issues are ALWAYS hardware. Which I doubt is earth > >shattering. > > > >2. Boot loader --> I am pretty sure I read on their

Re: Which package creates /etc/environment?

2004-03-19 Thread Lorenzo Prince
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Phil Edwards: # Because 'dpkg -S' can't find it. A little Googling indicated that your shell may look at it after /etc/profile. But from what I can see, no package actually creates it. It may have been created by a script invoked by you or

mvs to mp3

2004-03-19 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Has anyone heard of a tool to convert mvs files to mp3? (mvs being a sony audio file type) The only thing I've been able to come up with is converting to wav and then to mp3. Or, perhaps there's a utility to convert mvs to wav (I'm not aware of a linux utility for this) and then piping that thr

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-19 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No good reason why, but I am considering switching from SuSE 8.2 to Debian. Knowledge and skill-wise, I probably am still in the "newbie" category, but I can do a heck of a lot more than I could at first. Some questions for those of you who use Debian: 1. In the newest v

Re: CUPS

2004-03-19 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:55:00AM +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Friday 19 March 2004 06:20, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:03:12PM -0800, Arron Kau wrote: > >> I've gathered from doing some research on this that I am not the only > >> one to have problems with CUPS. I act

Re: Hardware Support issues

2004-03-19 Thread Christopher J. Noyes
I tried to configure it but when I started the X server it crashed. here is my config and the output. Any ideas? Christopher J. Noyes - Original Message - From: "Andreas Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 04:06 PM Subject: Re: Hardware Support

Re: Hardware Support issues

2004-03-19 Thread Christopher J. Noyes
natsemi fails to load. I downloaded the source from the manufacturers site but it failed to compile. Christopher J. Noyes - Original Message - From: "Jason A Whittle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 03:43 PM Subject: Re: Hardware Suppo

Laptop net card module

2004-03-19 Thread Curtis Vaughan
After installing Debian on a laptop everything was working fine. Then after updating to 2.4.18, however, the pcmcia netcard doesn't work. I've determined the following: The module [xirc2ps_cs.o] isn't installed. It seems to be related to another module: ds.o, but when I try to install ds.o, I

Re: Pinning

2004-03-19 Thread Pedro M.
Johann Koenig escribió: On Monday March 15 at 01:48pm "Pedro M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How to say to Debian I prefer install Mozilla -unstable and not Mozilla -testing ( only this package in unstable). In /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release "testing"; In /etc/apt/preferences Packag

Debian queries

2004-03-19 Thread users
No good reason why, but I am considering switching from SuSE 8.2 to Debian. Knowledge and skill-wise, I probably am still in the "newbie" category, but I can do a heck of a lot more than I could at first. Some questions for those of you who use Debian: 1. In the newest version, how good is the

Re: how to export messages from outlook express

2004-03-19 Thread Raúl Alexis Betancort Santana
El Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:35:56PM -0300, Hector Scaramelli escribió: > On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 18:15, Katipo wrote: > > root wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm in the last steps of my migration from M$ to Debian. I have 400MB of > > > messages that I need to have available in my mail client. Using Xi

Re: Which package creates /etc/environment?

2004-03-19 Thread Rob Sims
On Friday 19 March 2004 01:03 pm, Phil Edwards wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:12:57PM +, Robert Harris wrote: > > Phil Edwards wrote: > > >Because 'dpkg -S' can't find it. > > > > > >And more to the point, what's looking at that file? It isn't my From my /etc/pam.d/login: # This module

Re: Debain over Redhat

2004-03-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 00:34, Matthew Joyce wrote: > Dear Debian-users, > > An future project here will use Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL on a Dell server. > > The vendor will advocate Redhat, but Debian is the only linux I have > used so that would be my choice. > I will be supporting the box and os, the

Re: Mozilla mail

2004-03-19 Thread Kent West
Pedro M. wrote: Kent West escribió: So at a command line from within Gnome, you're entering "Mozilla" to start the browser, but "Mozilla -mail" does not start the email client? Yes, it starts it, but without the email / news servers, preferences and so on that I see when I start it from Mozill

X 4.3 for testing (from unstable?)

2004-03-19 Thread Asbjørn Sæbø
I am (told that I am) in need of X4.3 to get my graphics card working. Does anyone know whether the X packages from unstable work in testing? Are there other sources of X 4.3 for testing? Asbjørn Sæbø -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posti

Re: Resier-FS and nfs.

2004-03-19 Thread forum
> Any comments? Do the other journaling fs better then reiser when nfs, > lvm and quotas support are the _main criteria_ for choosing the fs? I'd say that the main attraction of reiserfs is the particularly noticable improvement it offers for speed and storage space used by many small files. I

Re: how to export messages from outlook express

2004-03-19 Thread Asbjørn Sæbø
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:52:27PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi: > > I know this one! Download Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows. It will > import your e-mail messages from Outlook. > [...] Or it will not. I have never got this to work myself, despite several tries, although I know that

Re: Mozilla mail

2004-03-19 Thread Pedro M.
Kent West escribió: Pedro M. wrote: Kent West escribió: How are you starting mozilla the browser? I suspect that you've got two different versions of mozilla installed, expecially if you're really entering "Mozilla -mail" instead of "mozilla -mail" <-- notice the case of the "M". (I have no

Re: mounting extended or logical partions

2004-03-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Christopher J. Noyes (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I managed to mount my primary DOS/Windows FAT32 partitions on my two > hard drives, i.e. /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 but I can't mount the > logical/extended partitions, i.e /dev/hda2 /dev/hdb2 etc. Does anyone > know an answer for this? You

Re: how to export messages from outlook express

2004-03-19 Thread Hector Scaramelli
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 18:15, Katipo wrote: > root wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm in the last steps of my migration from M$ to Debian. I have 400MB of > > messages that I need to have available in my mail client. Using Ximian > > Evolution right now. > > I need suggestions on how to do it. > > > Go to

Re: Bourne Shell help

2004-03-19 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 19 March 2004 12:37, Paul Galbraith wrote: > I think this should be an easy question, but after some effort I still > haven't found an answer, and am really curious now! > > I wanted to run a compile in the background (in a bourne shell) and dump > stderr and stdout to a fileshould be

Re: mounting extended or logical partions

2004-03-19 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 03:35:43PM -0500, Christopher J. Noyes wrote: > I managed to mount my primary DOS/Windows FAT32 partitions on my two hard drives, > i.e. /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 but I can't mount the logical/extended partitions, i.e > /dev/hda2 /dev/hdb2 etc. Does anyone know an answer for

Re: Hardware Support issues

2004-03-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hallo Christopher J. Noyes (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Does anyone know if there is support for NVIDIA Geoforce 2 video > cards? Support (no acellerated 3D) using the nv driver in XFree 4.1 (is in Woody) and newer. Acellerated 3D if you install the driver from nvidia.com. best regards

Re: how to export messages from outlook express

2004-03-19 Thread Hector Scaramelli
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 18:15, Katipo wrote: > root wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm in the last steps of my migration from M$ to Debian. I have 400MB of > > messages that I need to have available in my mail client. Using Ximian > > Evolution right now. > > I need suggestions on how to do it. > > > Go to

Re: YaST

2004-03-19 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Tom Allison wrote: > I guess the news is out. > SuSE's YaST is going GPL this year. > > > http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5175682.html?tag=nefd_top > > > I've used it and found it a pretty decent tool. Me too. > I'm curious to hear what the Debian community has to say about

Re: how to export messages from outlook express

2004-03-19 Thread Katipo
root wrote: Hi, I'm in the last steps of my migration from M$ to Debian. I have 400MB of messages that I need to have available in my mail client. Using Ximian Evolution right now. I need suggestions on how to do it. Go to your file menu in Evolution, and click on 'import.' Regards, David. -- To

Re: IMAP server to fit this bill?

2004-03-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Dave Carrigan wrote: Which is 100% true based on your initial assumptions. Uhm, no. It is 100% correct based on what I know. However, if your initial assumptions are false, then this is also false. Your initial assumption is false. No, your assuption is false. Where was it ever said that

KDE Mouse Failure

2004-03-19 Thread Clyde Wilson
I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rev 1 "woody".  I can bring up gnome just fine but when I try to bring up kde I get the following message: (**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"(**) Generic Mouse: always reports core events(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice   

Re: Hardware Support issues

2004-03-19 Thread Jason A Whittle
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 03:32:52PM -0500, Christopher J. Noyes wrote: > Does anyone know if there is support for LinkSys NE 100 TX (LNE0TX v4) network cards? Try the 'natsemi' kernel module. Cheers, Jason Whittle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Hardware Support issues

2004-03-19 Thread Christopher J. Noyes
Does anyone know if there is support for LinkSys NE 100 TX (LNE0TX v4) network cards?   Does anyone know if there is support for NVIDIA Geoforce 2 video cards? Christopher J. Noyes

mounting extended or logical partions

2004-03-19 Thread Christopher J. Noyes
I managed to mount my primary DOS/Windows FAT32 partitions on my two hard drives, i.e. /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 but I can't mount the logical/extended partitions, i.e /dev/hda2 /dev/hdb2 etc. Does anyone know an answer for this? Christopher J. Noyes

Re: Which package creates /etc/environment?

2004-03-19 Thread CW Harris
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:05:36AM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: > Because 'dpkg -S' can't find it. > It is created by the "locales" package installation scripts. > And more to the point, what's looking at that file? It isn't my login shell, > it isn't any of the setup files that it looks at (.bash

Re: Make your own Debian Woody Dist. Server on Apache

2004-03-19 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Simmel wrote: > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:11:08 +0100 > From: Simmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Make your own Debian Woody Dist. Server on Apache > Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 04:11:37 -0600 (CST) > R

Re: Which package creates /etc/environment?

2004-03-19 Thread Phil Edwards
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:12:57PM +, Robert Harris wrote: > Phil Edwards wrote: > >Because 'dpkg -S' can't find it. > > > >And more to the point, what's looking at that file? It isn't my login > >shell, > >it isn't any of the setup files that it looks at (.bashrc and so forth). > >But the va

Re: Microsoft TrueType fonts not working now?

2004-03-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:34:10PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I just tried to install Microsoft TrueType fonts on my laptop via the > msttcorefonts package. All seemed to go off correctly and the fonts > appeared where expected in /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/ > I also mo

Re: IMAP server to fit this bill?

2004-03-19 Thread CW Harris
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:09:05AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > CW Harris wrote: > >mutt *can* access IMAP servers if that's what you mean. > > Mutt isn't the only client that people can use. I guess I just completely misunderstood you. I thought you were questioning if the IMAP mail was avail

Re: X problems with kernel 2.6

2004-03-19 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2.6.x kernels do: # modprobe mousedev; # modprobe psmouse; HTH, rrs On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Didier Caamano wrote: > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 03:00:29 -0700 > From: Didier Caamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: X problems with

Re: IMAP server to fit this bill?

2004-03-19 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:22:47AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Dave Carrigan wrote: > >As for putting extra headers into a message, I'm not sure why you think > >this is a problem. That's what headers are for -- to convey > >meta-information about a message. > > Because forwarded messages are n

Re: cups on sarge

2004-03-19 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 18:38, messmate wrote: > Hi, > I've updated my sarge packages within cups. > However, cupsd won't starting anymore :( > Is there any bug on that final16 release ?? > Thanks for your help It works for me, it might have bugs though. chech /var/log/cups/error_log Kenneth > mess-

Re: how to export messages from outlook express

2004-03-19 Thread kd4d
Hi: I know this one! Download Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows. It will import your e-mail messages from Outlook. It will also, incidentally, translate them into a usable format. The resulting files are in a well-hidden (and literally hidden) directory. On my computer, in: C:\Documents and Set

Re: Mozilla Firefox Plugins

2004-03-19 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 17:09, James Hosken wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Is there a way to apt-get firefox plugins? > I can't find any when searching apt-cache, but I'm sure there will be. > > Can any one point me in the right directions? > Thanks > J > Apt-get for

Re: how to export messages from outlook express

2004-03-19 Thread Kent West
root wrote: Hi, I'm in the last steps of my migration from M$ to Debian. I have 400MB of messages that I need to have available in my mail client. Using Ximian Evolution right now. I need suggestions on how to do it. TIA Hector I haven't looked in a couple of years, but when I was looking, O

Bourne Shell help

2004-03-19 Thread Paul Galbraith
I think this should be an easy question, but after some effort I still haven't found an answer, and am really curious now! I wanted to run a compile in the background (in a bourne shell) and dump stderr and stdout to a fileshould be simple enough, but obviously I don't spend enough time in

how to export messages from outlook express

2004-03-19 Thread root
Hi, I'm in the last steps of my migration from M$ to Debian. I have 400MB of messages that I need to have available in my mail client. Using Ximian Evolution right now. I need suggestions on how to do it. TIA Hector -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: iptables and snort

2004-03-19 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 22:36, Col @ Home wrote: > Hi, > > Am trying to set up a firewall on a Debian linux machine using > iptables. New > to linux, can anybody point me in the direction of > a good guide to configuring a firewall using iptables? > > I also want to get snort and acidlab going. Any

Re: mozill hangs due to realplayer 8

2004-03-19 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 17:30, H. S. wrote: > Apparently, _Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen_, on 03/15/04 12:39,typed: > > It sounds like a sound problem. > > If you are running esd or arts and realplayer tries to use oss you can > > get problems like this. > > Or opposite. > > Try to configure relaplayer

Re: IMAP server to fit this bill?

2004-03-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Dave Carrigan wrote: As for putting extra headers into a message, I'm not sure why you think this is a problem. That's what headers are for -- to convey meta-information about a message. Because forwarded messages are not the same as the original message. If the person forwards it as a MIME a

libc6 - initscripts conflict

2004-03-19 Thread Axel
Hello, I am trying to upgrade libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 to libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11 in Sid, but I get this error: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/default/devpts', which is also in package initscripts The installed version of init

Re: IMAP server to fit this bill?

2004-03-19 Thread Steve Lamb
CW Harris wrote: mutt *can* access IMAP servers if that's what you mean. Mutt isn't the only client that people can use. I so love people who think that the entire Unix world uses procmail to filter mail, mutt to read mail, etc, etc, etc. while the whole time pointing out one of the def

Modem connection disrupted after upgrade with apt-get

2004-03-19 Thread Gill
I have just completed an 'Upgrade' via apt-get (NOT a 'dist-upgrade'). The only resulting problem I'm aware of is that I can no longer dial out. The TR (is that actually DTR) and RTS indicators on the modem are switching on and off - off for about half a second, on for about a second. If wvdi

Re: IMAP server to fit this bill?

2004-03-19 Thread CW Harris
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 08:03:47AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Dave Carrigan wrote: > >showstopper. Cyrus 2.1 works just fine with Squirrelmail, and it > >supports shared folders with full ACLs. Plus, after you move your mbox > >messages into the Cyrus message store, they're available from anywhere.

Re: dsl Verizon.com

2004-03-19 Thread Roberto Sanchez
H. S. wrote: Apparently, _Christopher J. Noyes_, on 03/19/04 00:00,typed: I have DSL with verizon.com. It uses a Westel Wirespeed external modem connected to a network card though ethernet. Does anyone know how configure this on debian? Christopher J. Noyes (maybe this explains why you are usi

Re: dsl Verizon.com

2004-03-19 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Johnson wrote: "Christopher J. Noyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have DSL with verizon.com. It uses a Westel Wirespeed external modem connected to a network card though ethernet. Does anyone know how configure this on debian? If you're lucky, and they're not using PPPoE, then this will

Re: Console is screwy (shows what looks like boot log)

2004-03-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Jorge Santos (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Brad Sims (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> >>> My virtual consoles (ie F1-whatever) after a short period >>> will go screwy and show what looks like boot logs or >>> multi-color flashing garbage...

Dell Inspiron 8100 pcmcia services broke after "aptitude upgrade"

2004-03-19 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I've installed Libranet (debian) on my friends Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop, using a Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 +56K Modem The install went fine, and I set everything up as he wanted. The network was working, so we could get on my Internet access. I then ran "aptitude update", followed by "apti

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