Re: Tivoli Storage Manager on Debian?

2004-06-30 Thread Latévi Max LAWSON DAKU
Lars Schimmer a écrit : Hi! Has anyone installed and used the tivoli storage manager on debian unstable? I have to and don't know if the rpm's are working fine on debian, or has anyone .debs ? I'm using it with no problem. You have to download the rpm package and use alien to install it on your

Re: Temp and fan speed monitoring in GKrellM

2004-06-30 Thread MillTek
Chris Metzler wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 01:09:19 -0400 MillTek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a good tutorial in using GKrellM to monitor system and cpu temps and fan speeds? I've read a few but so far have only been able to get CPU temp sdisplayed. My board is an Abit N

Re: Moving from RedHat/KDE to Debian/KDE

2004-06-30 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear Debian Users, Thanks for all of your responses. I have tried the suggestions, but have make only a small amount of progress. On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:39 pm, John Summerfield wrote: > I find configuring X on Debian a never-ending challenge. A technique I > (and a few other I know) use is to

Re: Temp and fan speed monitoring in GKrellM

2004-06-30 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 01:09:19 -0400 MillTek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > Can anyone recommend a good tutorial in using GKrellM to monitor system > and cpu temps and fan speeds? I've read a few but so far have only been > > able to get CPU temp sdisplayed. My board is an Abit NF7-M with At

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-06-30 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:48:45 +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Wednesday 30 June 2004 17:10, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > >> On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 13:41 +, Adam Funk wrote: >>> I just did an apt-get upgrade and it kept a lot of packages back. I >>> tried to apt-get install a few of them and it threatene

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-06-30 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:46:13PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: >On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:01:32PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Does this exist? >> Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant? >> Am I the only one going crazy just trying to edit files? > >And you don't just use xterm (ins

Re: root system type unknown in /etc/mtab

2004-06-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
1. I do have ext3 in my kernel. 2. Yes, I converted from ext2 to ext3 properly. 3. I didn't edit /etc/mtab; I edited /etc/fstab, but when the mount command listed the root partition as unknown I READ (but did NOT edit) /etc/mtab. /etc/fstab clearly says ext3 for /dev/hda3 and it seems to be moun

Temp and fan speed monitoring in GKrellM

2004-06-30 Thread MillTek
Hi, Can anyone recommend a good tutorial in using GKrellM to monitor system and cpu temps and fan speeds? I've read a few but so far have only been able to get CPU temp sdisplayed. My board is an Abit NF7-M with Athlon 2500. Thanks, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: automounting

2004-06-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
No, I wasn't automounting as root either; had already checked that. my /etc/fstab is ok; tried putting in kudzu and it made no difference. Read in the README.debian for autofs that I needed to compile the kernel with autofs support as a module; I did this but even though I see a "probe" line f

Re: OT: do any comcast users ever get spam from comcastonline.com?

2004-06-30 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:23:53AM -0500, Aaron Hall wrote: > IIRC, TCI was bought by AT&T Broadband, which was subsequently bought by > Comcast. So this might now be Comcast address space. It's not enough to I think I figured out what it was: My ATT Cable (which was bought by comcast) has a sepe

Re: OT: do any comcast users ever get spam from comcastonline.com?

2004-06-30 Thread Aaron Hall
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, William Ballard wrote: > In addition to occasionally getting mails which appear to be from > comcast from m0.net, I occasionally get emails with headers thusly: [headers and links snipped] > My email preferences say send me no emails and I've called Comcast > several times a

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-06-30 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:01:32PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Does this exist? > Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant? > Am I the only one going crazy just trying to edit files? And you don't just use xterm (instead of the disaster that is gnome-terminal) because...? -- Marc

Re: Printing from Mozilla and Firefox

2004-06-30 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 05:18:33PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > Until recently, printing from Firefox and Mozilla was working fine, > however, following recent upgrades first Firefox (0.8-12) baulked and > later Mozilla (1.7-2) became similarly afflicted. The Mozilla maintainer went insane and re

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-06-30 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:27, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 14:20, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > It gets laggy. Inconsistently. When using vim inside gnome-terminal. > > For example, in the topmost line (again in vim, with gnome-terminal at > 87x98 chars) it is really noticeable, and

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-06-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 14:20, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > It gets laggy. Inconsistently. When using vim inside gnome-terminal. For example, in the topmost line (again in vim, with gnome-terminal at 87x98 chars) it is really noticeable, and the CPU hits 100% just holding the cursor key down. It really

new word for wordnet: performant

2004-06-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 14:17, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time John Summerfield said... > > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > >Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant? > > According to dictionary.com, > > 1 entry found for performant?. > > > > Mai

Re: Wireless and kernel 2.6

2004-06-30 Thread Alex Derkach
I have a Presario 2100, and if the `lspci -v -v` reports it as a Broadcom BCM94306 802.11g adapter (which most of the WLANs are, the only way you can get it working (so far) is to use ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sf.net) I used the driver CD that came with my laptop and now the adapter gets dete

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-06-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 13:18, John Summerfield wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > >Does this exist? > > > >Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant? >^^ > I don't understand. > >Am I the only one going crazy just trying to edit files?

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-06-30 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:43:54 -0500 Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > | problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at > > | a time, gets

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-06-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time John Summerfield said... > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > >Does this exist? > > > >Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant? > > > > > ^^ > I don't understand. > > According to dictionary.com, > 1 entry found for perform

Re: Wireless newbie with WaveLan on Dell

2004-06-30 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Dell Inspiron 1100, Debian Sid, PCMCIA Lucent WAVELAN Gold wireless card. When I insert it, I hear the two beeps indicative of a successful card insertion I'm running 2.6.6-2-686. I've tried running "modconf" to insert the wavelan_cs Discovered the "wavelan_cs" module to be unn

Re: detaching a process from an ssh session ??

2004-06-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:07:25AM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > Thus spake Zenaan Harkness: > # The thing with this is that it terminates the backgrounded process. > # > # Eg: > # > # > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > # # # run a long-running process, background it: > # # apt-move mirror > # # > # # b

Re: OT: Faulty laptop wanted

2004-06-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 05:41:50PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > Hello all, > > Do someone have a laptop with a broken screen but working base unit with > a built in network card (i.e. not a PCMCIA network card) lying around > that I can buy off you? Need a low power firewall box. > > Thanks! >

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-06-30 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > | problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at > | a time, gets dozens of "unexpected signal" (source unknown) > | and gives up the ghost. > |

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-06-30 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 30 at 03:43PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Will Trillich said on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500: > > questions: > > 1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active > >daemons and restart them when necessary? maybe some > >utility already exists for

Re: EnableHiMem for Memory == exactly 1GB?

2004-06-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Karl Hegbloom wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 17:31 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: For 1-2 GB machines there is also a patch that gives you a 2GB-2GB memory split which allows you to use up to two GB without highmem (not sure where the exact limit is). The upside is no memory remapping on context switch,

Re: force rtl8139 card to 10Mbps Half duplex through module options?

2004-06-30 Thread John Summerfield
Micha Feigin wrote: Is it possible to force the rtl8139 card (8139too module) to do 10Mbps half duplex with no auto negotiation using module options instead of one of the external programs? It looks like the media option may be able to do it but couldn't get it to work. I am currently using the eth

Re: Apt problems

2004-06-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jonas Jasas wrote: Where that pre-removal script is kept? I gues that problem is in permitions, what other problems can be with that script? Preparing to replace finger 0.17-6 (using .../finger_0.17-7_i386.deb) ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old pre-removal script: Permission denied dpkg

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-06-30 Thread John Summerfield
Zenaan Harkness wrote: Does this exist? Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant? ^^ I don't understand. According to dictionary.com, 1 entry found for performant?. Main Entry: performant Function:

force rtl8139 card to 10Mbps Half duplex through module options?

2004-06-30 Thread Micha Feigin
Is it possible to force the rtl8139 card (8139too module) to do 10Mbps half duplex with no auto negotiation using module options instead of one of the external programs? It looks like the media option may be able to do it but couldn't get it to work. I am currently using the ethtool program for t

Printing problems with mozilla

2004-06-30 Thread Brad Sims
no Xprint servers found... xprint starts with no errors... I did a apt-get purge and reinstall of xprt and friends, and mozilla and friends. echo $XPSERVERLIST returns blank and here is my output from xprint restart: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/xprint restart Restarting Xprint server(s)

fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-06-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Does this exist? Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant? Am I the only one going crazy just trying to edit files? tia zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian + The New PowerBook G4s

2004-06-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 06:12:30PM +0200, Bob Hentges said > Rob Weir wrote: > > >On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:37:54PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson said > > > >> > > > > > >I've just bought an ibook g4 and a netgear ma111 usb wireless thingy, > >which works quite well...it would be cool if the airport

Re: automounting

2004-06-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I want to be able to have my floppy and cdrom automount. I have enabled > automount support in the kernel and have installed autofs. I have looked > at and tried to follow the information in the autofs man page, the > automount minihowto, http://en.

Re: no tooltips in the GIMP...

2004-06-30 Thread Silvan
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 08:53 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > up, and in varying sizes, but they're either empty or displaying text > > in the same color as the background. > > I had a similar problem some weeks ago, when the dialogs of some filters > were showing without any text. I haven't seen th

Re: root system type unknown in /etc/mtab

2004-06-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya cheryl On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > My system seems to be functioning fine; I recently changed it to ext3. > When I look at dmesg my root system (/dev/hda3) is indicated as mounted > and an ext3 filesystem with internal journal. However, when I run "mount", > while my ot

Re: Comparision presentation of Debian with RedHat

2004-06-30 Thread John Summerfield
Alvin Oga wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Ralph Katz wrote: On 06/30/04 09:00, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Dear Users, I need a little help. We are an ISP and running RedHat distribution on our servers. I want to migrate them to Debian gradually because of the excellent features that Debian provid

Re: automounting

2004-06-30 Thread John Summerfield
Cheryl Homiak wrote: I want to be able to have my floppy and cdrom automount. I have enabled automount support in the kernel and have installed autofs. I have looked at and tried to follow the information in the autofs man page, the automount minihowto, http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/automount.h

Re: Comparision presentation of Debian with RedHat

2004-06-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 06/30/04 09:00, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > Dear Users, I need a little help. We are an ISP and running RedHat > > distribution on our servers. I want to migrate them to Debian > > gradually because of the excellent features that Debian provides like

Re: lilo problem after upgrade on sid

2004-06-30 Thread praveen
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:12:14PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >hi > > > > > >i've been running sid and after an apt-get -f upgrade yesterday morning, i > >found that my lilo hangs. the letters "LIL.." come up and it simply > >freezes. i read through several man-

Re: Wireless and kernel 2.6

2004-06-30 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I would like to ask you how to setup my wireless adapter using Sarge with a Kernel 2.6 series. It is a Presario 2580US P4 notebook that came with a on board HP WLAN 54g W450 wireless adapter. It currently has SuSE 9.0 but I haven setup wireless. To make it simpl

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Thomas Adam
--- John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bloody hell! > Dolphin:~# apt-get install apt-listbugs > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > dpkg-ruby libdpkg-ruby1.8 libintl-gettext-ruby libintl-gettext-ruby1.8

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread John Summerfield
Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: Thomas Adam wrote: --- Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To change from testing to unstable, is is as simple as s/testing/unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list, `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` (or do I need to use dist-upgrade for this)? Basically, yes. "dist-upgrade"

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread John Summerfield
Be lenient in what you accept. Some poor sod got a blast on a blind list I was on for a time because he didn't top-post and he, the blind bloke, didn't want to "read" all the other material before he got to the point. OTOH someone else on that list told the blind bloke how to get past it. Me, I'

Re: Comparision presentation of Debian with RedHat

2004-06-30 Thread John Summerfield
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Dear Users, I need a little help. We are an ISP and running RedHat distribution on our servers. I want to migrate them to Debian gradually because of the excellent features that Debian provides like policy, package management, release cycle, security updates and

Wireless and kernel 2.6

2004-06-30 Thread linuxnand
Hello all, I would like to ask you how to setup my wireless adapter using Sarge with a Kernel 2.6 series. It is a Presario 2580US P4 notebook that came with a on board HP WLAN 54g W450 wireless adapter. It currently has SuSE 9.0 but I haven setup wireless. To make it simple I would like to era

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-06-30 Thread John Summerfield
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Will Trillich said on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500: questions: 1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active daemons and restart them when necessary? maybe some utility already exists for this? or /proc/something? or `ps ax`? monit can

Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? (for remote ssh tunnels)

2004-06-30 Thread John Summerfield
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:05:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Will Trillich wrote: On Sat, Jun 26 at 08:33PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: I don't understand why the server would be making the connexion request. By definition, the client does that.

automounting

2004-06-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I want to be able to have my floppy and cdrom automount. I have enabled automount support in the kernel and have installed autofs. I have looked at and tried to follow the information in the autofs man page, the automount minihowto, http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/automount.html the quick autofs t

root system type unknown in /etc/mtab

2004-06-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
My system seems to be functioning fine; I recently changed it to ext3. When I look at dmesg my root system (/dev/hda3) is indicated as mounted and an ext3 filesystem with internal journal. However, when I run "mount", while my other partitions are indicated as ext3, my root partition is listed

Re: Configuring kdm

2004-06-30 Thread Rafael Alexandre Schmitt
Thomas Beresford wrote: Well, I put that on .xinitrc but did'nt work, I still can't get the xfce4 option to appear on my kdm window managers menu? Am I doing something wrong? Thomas Beresford -- Don't forget that your ~/.xinitrc should be executable. chmod +x ~/.xinitrc. xfce-mcs-manager x

Straw 0.23 LookupError

2004-06-30 Thread Titus Barik
Hi all, This is not a new problem in Debian/unstable, but I've not yet found a working solution to get Straw working. When trying to load an article using Straw, I get the following error: LookupError: unknown encoding: en_US.ISO8859-1 Are there any workarounds? Regards, -- Titus Barik <[EMAI

flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-06-30 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, so it appears that I cannot successfully play flash with my web browser anymore. This has begun since I upgraded to sarge. Mozilla (and firefox) using flashplugin-nonfree freezes when I go to common flash sites. The entire browser is then hosed until the processes are killed from another win

Wireless newbie with WaveLan on Dell

2004-06-30 Thread Kent West
(I've been trying to avoid asking the list, but after two days of searching and tinkering . . . . ) I just "inherited" a Dell Inspiron 1100, and of course promptly installed Debian Sid. I also have a PCMCIA Lucent WAVELAN Gold wireless card. When I insert it, I hear the two beeps indicative of

Re: Comparision presentation of Debian with RedHat

2004-06-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/30/04 09:00, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Dear Users, I need a little help. We are an ISP and running RedHat distribution on our servers. I want to migrate them to Debian gradually because of the excellent features that Debian provides like policy, package management, release cycle, security upda

Re: Is this a bug in mutt or a malformed email?

2004-06-30 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 05:21:37PM -0600, CW Harris wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:43:06PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > A poster to a pigeon rescue group I'm on posts in > > multipart/alternative format, HTML and plain text. > > > > Normally, when reading his emails, mutt (woody, 1.3.28-2) happil

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-06-30 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:25:04 +0100 (BST) Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If I started using aptitude and decided to go back to using apt-get, >> would any problems arise? > > Not really. They're interchangeable. That's not my understanding.

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-06-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Will Trillich said on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500: > questions: > 1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active > daemons and restart them when necessary? maybe some > utility already exists for this? or /proc/something? > or `ps ax`? monit c

Re: Debian + The New PowerBook G4s

2004-06-30 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, Thanks very much for your opinions on the box and MacOS. I'll most likely have it dual-boot for quite some time and I will probably go out and by OS X 10.4 when it is released (due to the ``Spoken Interface''). However, I'm going to have to use Linux on the box because I need it for my pr

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-06-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at | a time, gets dozens of "unexpected signal" (source unknown) | and gives up the ghost. | | questions: | 1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to mo

Re: How to print the name and email from a signature file?

2004-06-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul Johnson: > LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How can I print out the signer's name and email address from a signature > > file, without being it imported? > > What are you talking about? Probably a PGP/GPG key. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insuffici

automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-06-30 Thread Will Trillich
problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at a time, gets dozens of "unexpected signal" (source unknown) and gives up the ghost. questions: 1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active daemons and restart them when necessary? mayb

Re: gkrellmd time synchronization problem + deci-seconds clock

2004-06-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 02:49, Bill Wilson wrote: > I see it's a time sampling beating effect caused by the clock seconds > display being updated only once per second regardless of any update > interval settings. If you can compile a new gkrellm (you don't need > to install a new gkrellmd server), t

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 2004-06-30 03:40 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > so i took matters into my own hands. i'm having a small group of us > (10-15) download gaim and other clients, and sign up at gabfest.net > (thanks a lot, jamin!), for a proof-of-concept; we'll hopefully > migrate to our own server soon.

quote - Re: resolv.conf has been lost

2004-06-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya carl On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Carl Fink wrote: > I did not write that. If you're going to cite me, quote some of my > stuff. :-) having to edit out who said what in prior comments might scare a few from replying if the smtp rejected any missing contents i never did understand who cam up wi

Two 'lpd' Problems

2004-06-30 Thread the softrat
Running woody and lprng. First, why doesn't my woody system start 'lpd' at boot? What should I look for? (Ownership and/or permissions may be a problem, but 'checkpc' is happy.) Second, what is the minimum lpd.perms file and what are its ownership and permissions? Thank you for your help. G

Re: Tivoli Storage Manager on Debian?

2004-06-30 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:10:08 +0200, Lars Schimmer escreveu: > I have to and don't know if the rpm's are working fine on debian, or > has anyone .debs ? You will have to ask IBM, but probably you will have to end up using alien. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (1

Re: Grid: Globus in Debian

2004-06-30 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:40:08 +0200, cenapad escreveu: > is there a kind of Globus packet to Debian? http://apt-get.org./ -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11) 5685 2219 Av Sgto Geraldo Santana, 1100 6/71[EMAIL PROTECTED] 04.674-000 SÃo Paulo, SP

Re: Remote text printer and standard input woes and well the **** thing dont work... sorta,

2004-06-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya kent On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Kent Andersen wrote: > Your Fix did allow it to print, but /etc/init.d/lpr restart is a real pain, > if you follow me. add the "FormFeed" ( fq) option in /etc/printcap ( man printcap ) your printcap should look like this, if your printer is a network pri

Re: Slow Interactivity / hdparam Tuneup?

2004-06-30 Thread khromy
Mike, You may want to try setting unmaskirq to 1 (hdparm -u1 /dev/hda) and I/O support to "32-bit w/sync" (hdparm -c3 /dev/hda). This might help with your interactivity. Regards, khromy L1: khromy ;khromy (at) lnuxlab.ath.cx Michael B Allen wrote: I'm running 2.4 on a T30 laptop.

Re: ALSA under 2.6.7

2004-06-30 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Hi all! I finally decided it was time to upgrade to the 2.6 kernel. So I have compiled myself a kernel, based on Linus' 2.6.7 with the Ruby patches. I need those for my local multiuser setup. It all seems to work very nicely, except that I lost my sound. The problem is,

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 04:13:03PM -0500, Kirk Strauser insinuated: > On Thursday 2004-06-24 03:47 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > dude, i totally would, but this one is not under my control -- my > > company uses yahoo IM to do half of our work, and i don't think > > they're open to switching. > > O

Re: Slow Interactivity / hdparam Tuneup?

2004-06-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Michael B Allen wrote: > I'm running 2.4 on a T30 laptop. X gets very choppy when the disk rocks. > When locatedb is running the machine is barely usable. Can anyone recommend > changes that I can make that might improve the situation? playing with hdparm options is dangerou

Re: Is this a bug in mutt or a malformed email?

2004-06-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:43:06PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: | A poster to a pigeon rescue group I'm on posts in | multipart/alternative format, HTML and plain text. | | Normally, when reading his emails, mutt (woody, 1.3.28-2) happily | displays the plain text part and ignores the HTML. | | However,

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-06-30 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I started using aptitude and decided to go back to using apt-get, > would any problems arise? Not really. They're interchangeable. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://l

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-06-30 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 17:10, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 13:41 +, Adam Funk wrote: >> I just did an apt-get upgrade and it kept a lot of packages back. >> I tried to apt-get install a few of them and it threatened to remove >> packages I need. > > I really enjoy "aptitude

Re: resolv.conf has been lost

2004-06-30 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:03:09AM -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 16:04 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:38:05PM -0300, cenapad wrote: > > > I've noticed that resolv.conf has been reseted each time I reset > > > computer, that is, if I reboot ou shutdown

Re: init scripts etc.

2004-06-30 Thread Thomas Adam
--- MillTek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > H, > Can someone please tell me the name and location of an Init script that > I can use to run a sctript of my own? If I write a script that is If you mean writing your own initscript, a template (as documented in the manpage) is available: /etc/init.

Re: init scripts etc.

2004-06-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 02:18:11PM -0400, MillTek wrote: > H, > Can someone please tell me the name and location of an Init script that > I can use to run a sctript of my own? If I write a script that is > executed by one of the 'official' scripts, do I have to do anything > special to return c

init scripts etc.

2004-06-30 Thread MillTek
H, Can someone please tell me the name and location of an Init script that I can use to run a sctript of my own? If I write a script that is executed by one of the 'official' scripts, do I have to do anything special to return control to the script that called mine? I'd also like to have sys

Re: Flow Charts

2004-06-30 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Jason A Whittle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to create a large number of small, simple flow charts. I > looked at XFig, but ideally I would like to enter all of the > relationships > and then generate the diagrams for various formats. Following up on the > TeX thread, would th

Re: Comparision presentation of Debian with RedHat

2004-06-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 06:07:42PM +0545, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Dear Users, > I need a little help. We are an ISP and running RedHat distribution on our > servers. I want to migrate them to Debian gradually because of the excellent > features that Debian provides like policy, package m

Grid: Globus in Debian

2004-06-30 Thread cenapad
Hello, buddies... Well, is there anyone here who have some experience with installation of Globus Toolkit in Debian linux? If so, could you help me? It would be nice to proceed the installation with a a script to automatically download, extract and install gt3. Or else... is there a kind of Glob

Getting no sound from ALSA under 2.6.7

2004-06-30 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi all! I finally decided it was time to upgrade to the 2.6 kernel. So I have compiled myself a kernel, based on Linus' 2.6.7 with the Ruby patches. I need those for my local multiuser setup. It all seems to work very nicely, except that I lost my sound. The problem is, I'm not really getting

Flow Charts

2004-06-30 Thread Jason A Whittle
I would like to create a large number of small, simple flow charts. I looked at XFig, but ideally I would like to enter all of the relationships and then generate the diagrams for various formats. Following up on the TeX thread, would this be an appropriate application of LaTex? Cheers, Jason

RES: Active Directory

2004-06-30 Thread Guilherme Rocha_Sul Soluções
Dear friend, Debian is compatible with Active Directory (AD), but every linux distro need's the samba package to debian "speak" with AD. See www.samba.org for more details. Recommended you to make many tests with a server AD and Debian stations because in this "school" the errors don't have

newuser cant update-inetd --enable ftp (or rather ftp doesn't start)

2004-06-30 Thread John Redmond
As per subject line I'm a new user (OK knoppix hd install) trying to enable ftp for some local file transfer. tried update-inetd --enable ftp which changed the file but netstat doesn't show it listening. Further exploration showed inetd not running. Started it. disabled ftp then enabled it again --

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! Please don't top-post, it kills the reading flow. True, many MUAs set the cursor to the top of the message being edited, but that's just so the user can weed out unneeded lines starting from top. On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 06:12:05PM +0100, Ricky Clarkson wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:41:19

Re: Active Directory

2004-06-30 Thread Adam Aube
sysadmin wrote: > Would you please tell me if Debian works with active Directory? It does. Details depend on what you mean by "works". Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Scheme (Re: Visual C++?????)

2004-06-30 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 19:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Introductory Computer Science should not be taught with C++ anyhow... > CS should be introduced with Scheme.  It's a superior teaching language. > >  http://www.htdp.org/ >  http://www.teach-scheme.org/ > > The introduction to htdp explai

Re: lilo problem after upgrade on sid

2004-06-30 Thread Patrick Ouellette
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i've been running sid and after an apt-get -f upgrade yesterday morning, i found that my lilo hangs. the letters "LIL.." come up and it simply freezes. i read through several man-pages and lists and figured that the lilo may be pointing to incorrect map or something simp

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Ricky Clarkson
Is that true in the case of experimental? I had a few problems with experimental that I thought were related to this, a while back. On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:41:19 +0200, Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:31PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > > --- Ri

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Re: gkrellmd time synchronization problem + deci-seconds clock

2004-06-30 Thread Bill Wilson
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:22:50 +1000 Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I am trying to synchronize the time between two boxes. I'm playing > with ntp*. > > * If you know of any digital X-based clock program that displays in > deci-seconds (or finer) resolution, I would very much like

delete mbox mail from command line

2004-06-30 Thread Mark Gillingham
A kind list member pointed out that I had previously begun this thread in another thread. I know that I should not have done that. Please excuse me. Following is my original message and a follow-up. Mark Gillingham wrote: > In Mutt, I just learned;), that one might delete messages more than 1 w

Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? (for remote ssh tunnels)

2004-06-30 Thread richard lyons
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 14:49, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:05:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > Will Trillich wrote: > > >On Sat, Jun 26 at 08:33PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > I don't understand why the server would be making the > > connexion request. B

lilo problem after upgrade on sid

2004-06-30 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
hi i've been running sid and after an apt-get -f upgrade yesterday morning, i found that my lilo hangs. the letters "LIL.." come up and it simply freezes. i read through several man-pages and lists and figured that the lilo may be pointing to incorrect map or something simply wrong with the MBR.

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.4

2004-06-30 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 05:13:54PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > On Wednesday 30 June 2004 16:40, David Baron wrote: > > This was just upgraded from Sid. How come the about box still says 1.1.1? > > Actually what came from sid was 1.1.1-4. True. BTW: Rene told me on Saturday he is work

OT: Faulty laptop wanted

2004-06-30 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Do someone have a laptop with a broken screen but working base unit with a built in network card (i.e. not a PCMCIA network card) lying around that I can buy off you? Need a low power firewall box. Thanks! Piers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:31PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Ricky Clarkson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:07:10 +0100 (BST), Thomas Adam > > If you have appropriate source lines you can do apt-get install > > thepackage/testing or apt-get install thepackage/st

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