Re: LPRng, Debian, and OS X

|> And what's wrong with CUPS? It's what's on your Mac. Well, it's not *my* Mac . More seriously, I've configured CUPS before on a different system, and that experience was as horrific as Eric Raymond's[1]. And using CUPS to solve this tiny problem seems like overkill in the extreme, Jim

Re: How do I move apt cache from /var/cache/apt/archives ?

Shahid Bhatti wrote: Hi, While doing a distribution upgrade on my newly installed Debian server it seems I've run out of space on the root partition / because I got the error message "E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ to hold all the .debs." Now I have added

hdparm and disk access

I am getting wireless Internet access from my college and I am wanting to put Debian on an old AMD K6-2 to serve as my Internet gateway for the rest of my computers. However, I want this box to run on as little power as possible so my question is one from more of a hardware perspective I guess. I

[Chris] Re: [Silvan] Re: Console font change on startup - breaks laptop

> And after looking at that list I suspect S60svgatextmode :-) Will > remove it and see if it helps :-) At least I did - except that the svgatextmode shows dpkg -l svgatext* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err

Re: [Silvan] Re: Console font change on startup - breaks laptop

> "Silvan" == Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> When the console font changes. It changes from standard 80x25 >> to something else (not sure what - quite a lot smaller >> characters). Before this started happening the switch to gdm >> was Silvan> O. While you're

Re: ping server

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 16:50, John Summerfield wrote: > debian user wrote: > > > i would like to set up a ping server for my office. I however have > > not found a simple way of recieving a responce of "dead" or "alive". > > I am not to concerned about time etc? I just want to ping a few > >

Re: vi globally append question

From: Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:05:43PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > > From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:49 > > am Subject: vi globally append question > > > > > hi all, > > > > > > i have a file like; > > > > > > # one 123

Re: ping server

debian user wrote: i would like to set up a ping server for my office. I however have not found a simple way of recieving a responce of "dead" or "alive". I am not to concerned about time etc? I just want to ping a few servers and then send the results out in a email to a few key personal.

Re: Newbie problems galore

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I > > see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for the life of me, I > > can't find a trace of the software. It's really bad to have to play > > games with tar at both

Re: Formatting disc on HP Writer 7100`

Hey, Did you ever get your issue resolved? I have the same problem. Thanks! Tom

Re: ping server

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:23:17AM -0400, debian user wrote: > i would like to set up a ping server for my office. I however have not > found a simple way of recieving a responce of "dead" or "alive". I am > not to concerned about time etc? Try fping. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fping plato plato i

Re: kernel panic

Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: I am trying to install the kernel 2.6.6, so I downloaded it, compiled it and installed it, but, when I boot I get a whole bunch of errors. How did you build it (make or make-kpkg)? Did you use an initrd? Are you on stable/testing/unstable? Unfortunately I ha

Re: vi globally append question

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:05:43PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:49 > am Subject: vi globally append question > > > hi all, > > > > i have a file like; > > > > # one 123 > > > > and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning

Re: starting X hangs on network timeout (hosts file ignored)

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:08:39AM +0100, Steven Satelle wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:28:56 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > Same behavior (I am using wdm and no xdmcp and the no listen on tcp > > switch). It seems like /usr/X11R6/bin/X is whats causing the trouble, > > running tcpdump when X s

Re: vi globally append question

From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:49 am Subject: vi globally append question > hi all, > > i have a file like; > > # > one > 123 > > and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of > each line which is not started with a # . how can i do > it with vi or ed, so fa

Re: [Silvan] Re: Console font change on startup - breaks laptop

On Wednesday 14 July 2004 03:54 am, Chris wrote: > >Sounds like you're booting into a framebuffer mode that your desktop can > > cope with and your laptop cannot. > > Possible - but then the laptop would never manage the change would it > not? It does manage it after a couple of reboots or so. I g

Re: Tiny X pointer

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 21:15, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I use X 4.3.0 on a Debian/unstable system. It's running at 1600x1200 (at > 85Hz :) ) on a 19" monitor, and the display is perfect except that my mouse > pointer is tiny (smaller than 12pt fonts). I've been using X for years but > it's never o

Re: KDE printer interface problem

Michael, Thanks for this reply. I must have missed it in the normal deluge(*) of e-mails from the kde-user list. In the meantime, a hard copy of the document I needed to print turned up and then I got distracted until now. On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 03:25 pm, Silvan wrote: > > How do I diagnose t

Re: Tiny X pointer

Kirk Strauser wrote: > I use X 4.3.0 on a Debian/unstable system. It's running at 1600x1200 > (at 85Hz :) ) on a 19" monitor, and the display is perfect except > that my mouse pointer is tiny (smaller than 12pt fonts). I've been > using X for years but it's never occurred to me to want a large >

Different sized gnome fonts in KDE

Sorry about starting a new thread but I deleted the mail and now remebered how I fixed this problem. Gnome fonts where using a different dpi than kde was. Under gnome-font-properties there is a "details" or "advanced" button, I forget which. Press this and the new dialog will allow you to set

Problem installing "module-init-tools"

Using either aptitude or apt-get, I receive the following message during install: Unpacking module-init-tools (from .../module-init-tools_3.1-pre5-1_i386.deb) ... md5sum: MD5 check failed for '/etc/modprobe.conf' dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/module-init-tools_3.1-pre5-1_i386.d

How do I move apt cache from /var/cache/apt/archives ?

Hi, While doing a distribution upgrade on my newly installed Debian server it seems I've run out of space on the root partition / because I got the error message "E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ to hold all the .debs." Now I have added the following line i

Re: 2.6.7 questions

Bradley Alexander wrote: ... It appears that part of the problem is that for some reason (which hopefully someone can straighten out for me, modules don't seem to be autoloading. Did I forget to install something? Things work well under 2.4, I just tried to bring up an encrypted loopback filesys

Re: Help compiling mozilla-firefox

Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Hello, I am trying to build mozilla-firefox 0.8-12 from testing. I'm following the directions at . On an unmodified source tree (fetched with "apt-get source mozilla-firefox"), the build fails with the followi

Re: Why GTK apps show smaller fonts under KDE?

I notice that fonts are smaller for GTK applications (like pan) under KDE. E.g., for the same app -- pan, fonts are smaller in KDE than in my fluxbox. There's a setting in Kmenu > Settings > Gnome Control Center. After setting the font size you'll need to symlink /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon in

Tiny X pointer

I use X 4.3.0 on a Debian/unstable system. It's running at 1600x1200 (at 85Hz :) ) on a 19" monitor, and the display is perfect except that my mouse pointer is tiny (smaller than 12pt fonts). I've been using X for years but it's never occurred to me to want a large pointer. Where should I loo

Help compiling mozilla-firefox

Hello, I am trying to build mozilla-firefox 0.8-12 from testing. I'm following the directions at . On an unmodified source tree (fetched with "apt-get source mozilla-firefox"), the build fails with the following error: gcc -o hos

KDE color setting inheriting (was: How to set pan's color)

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:40:32 -0400, * Tong* wrote: >> How do you set pan's color? >> >> I want to set it white on black. I can't find where to set pan's >> color (bg/fg, for its group/header/message window). Moreover, the >> default Gnome/gtk theme doesn't specify g/fg color setting either. > >

Re: Why GTK apps show smaller fonts under KDE?

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:32:45 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: >> I notice that fonts are smaller for GTK applications (like pan) under >> KDE. >> E.g., for the same app -- pan, fonts are smaller in KDE than in my >> fluxbox. >> >> Why is that? Is there a fix? > > The command: "gnome-font-properties" w

Sucon '04

Those of you intending to attend SUCON '04[0] might want to drop me a quick note. Since I live in the city I was thinking of organising a Debian gettogether on the perimeter of the conference. Don't know how or when or if at all yet[1], but it'd be good to get a list of Debian folks coming over for

debootstrap chroot problem

I recently purchased a Fujitsu Stylistic 2300 tablet PC from eBay. It came bare and of course I'm going to install Linux on it. I've got an external USB 2.0 case for a 2.5" hard drive, so I'm using that to get a base system on before putting it back into the tablet. I've decided to use debootstra

Re: Mailing to remote domains not supported

On (15/07/04 14:45), Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:45:16 -0600 > Subject: Mailing to remote domains not supported > > Guys, > > I have configured fetchmail just fine, i.e. I downlo

Re: Need help, superblock on reiserfs corrupt

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > FAU wrote: > > > Hello, > > my Debian (stable version) crashed and has corrupted my reiserfs > > partion. Can´t boot/mount it anymore :(. > > > > I started Knoppix from CD and > > I tried reiserfsck /dev/hda2 and it tolds me: > > "If the partition

Re: Mailing to remote domains not supported

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 19:25, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > It is not a fetchmail problem. I was trying to explain the > configuration/setup I am using. > > Doing further research, at the moment I am reading exim's man page. I > still don't know if this is what I am looking for. > > Anoth

Re: help on Keyboard language..

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:47:07 +0200, Lorenzo Rossi wrote: > Hi, > > when I installed debian I setup my keyboard with italian layout. > After an apt-get upgrade I loose the keyboard settings..how can I > restore the correct language? > > thanks > Lorenzo if you do a dpkg-reconfigure locales it wi

Re: courier-imap-ssl "server disconnect" error behind firewall

Damon L. Chesser wrote: Vadik wrote: Please turn off your requst for a return receipt. Sorry for that. I accidentally send email using different account (and yes I did it more than once). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Mailing to remote domains not supported

It is not a fetchmail problem. I was trying to explain the configuration/setup I am using. Doing further research, at the moment I am reading exim's man page. I still don't know if this is what I am looking for. Another question on the side: The man page reads: "The SIGHUP signal can be used..."

Re: Why GTK apps show smaller fonts under KDE?

--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I notice that fonts are smaller for GTK applications (like pan) under > KDE. > E.g., for the same app -- pan, fonts are smaller in KDE than in my > fluxbox. > > Why is that? Is there a fix? The command: "gnome-font-properties" will sort this. -

Bug#259660: mozilla-thunderbird: TB dupes mail

Package: mozilla-thunderbird Version: 0.5-4 Severity: normal I'm using tb on the debian-user list. I choose "reply all" and then (usually) erase unwanted addresses. This generally leaves a cc: for debian-user and some blank addresses. Wayne Topa noticed my email gets to the list with two cc: hea

Re: LPRng, Debian, and OS X

Jim McCloskey wrote: Has anyone here seen this problem, or does anyone know of a fix? And please don't let the fix be `change to CUPS'. And what's wrong with CUPS? It's what's on your Mac. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environm

Re: Mailing to remote domains not supported

Ryan Waye wrote: A. This is Debian/GNU Linux list, not a Fetchmail list B. Fetchmail does exactly what its name says: Fetch mail. To send mail, you need to use a program such as sendmail or exim. Er Ryan 1. Fetchmail is part of Debian 2. The problem doesn't look to me to be a fetchmail prob

Re: file descriptor 0 (zero)

Wayne Topa wrote: Nobody should get duplicate mail on that account, so I rate it as a curio. I will watch though. Well 'yesterday' I was getting dups on 'most' of your mail. Odd thing is they were coming in 2-4 hours 'after' the original. It was so sporadic that it got me thinking I had do

Re: Slow networking/performance

> You don't have to be at the box, you can ssh into it and launch tethereal. > See what happens if you do a: > dig google.com > dig -x 192.168.0.1 > > And other name related stuff Thanks. I don't yet have my new Debian box connected to the 'net - our phone provider still needs to do their stuff.

Why GTK apps show smaller fonts under KDE?

Hi, I notice that fonts are smaller for GTK applications (like pan) under KDE. E.g., for the same app -- pan, fonts are smaller in KDE than in my fluxbox. Why is that? Is there a fix? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: courier-imap-ssl "server disconnect" error behind firewall

Vadik wrote: Chris wrote: On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:33, Vadik wrote: I use courier-imap-ssl and I have mozilla connection to a few accounts at the same time, so my MAXPERIP=40. With this setup I have absolutely no problem from home, but from the work I often get "server disconnect" error. I

Re: Mailing to remote domains not supported

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:45:16 -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys, > > I have configured fetchmail just fine, i.e. I download my emails > directly to my laptop and read them with mutt. So far, so good. > > The problem I am facing now is when I try to send email.

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

On Wednesday 14 July 2004 5:40 pm, Dale Amon wrote: > The test was successful. I'm going to be keeping > a backup copy of the system disk though, just in > case something happens and I have to back out > a dselect that breaks something mission critical > to me... Newest Mozilla package 1.7.1 wil

Re: USB Disk

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:26:14 -0500, John Fleming wrote: > Running unstable - How to get USB disk mounted? My fstab is: > s,exec 0 0 > /dev/hdb3 none swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/sda /mnt/sda auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 > assuming that /dev/sda is your usb disk, change that to read /dev/sda1 and it

Re: [OT] How to set pan's color

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 19:14:43 -0400, * Tong* wrote: > How do you set pan's color? > > I want to set it white on black. I can't find where to set pan's > color (bg/fg, for its group/header/message window). Moreover, the > default Gnome/gtk theme doesn't specify g/fg color setting either. I found

SOLVED Re: Help USB disk

> Could someone please tell me or direct me to an explanation of how to use a > USB disk (memory stick) on Debian unstable? I've done this on Redhat with > the same hardware, and I've seen similar threads here, but I can't get it > going. Thanks! - John I finally got it going from the archiv in

XF86Config-4 not being modified by dpkg-reconfigure

I've got a sid box on which I wanted to change the resolution, so I ran "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86". Afterwards, I took a look at the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, and found that it was not touched. I've seen this before, and followed the instructions at the top of the XF86Config-4 file, a

Re: KDE Fonts Too Large

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:13:03 +0300, Janjs Jangori wrote: > Part output of the original /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > > Section “Files” > FontPath“Unix/:7#Local font server > # if the local font server has problem, we can fall back on these > FontPath

ssh and xauth in forwarding X clients

Sorry to trouble you all, I am trying to ssh into a server and then run X clients. After several days of investigation I am still entirely unable to use any of my debian sid systems as the X server that ssh forwards it's display to. So, I have two laptops side by side. One with redhat fedora cor

Re: NTP IP via DHCP (using dhcp3-client)

Alex Malinovich said on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:44:18PM -0500: > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 11:57, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > Alex Malinovich said on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:41:48AM -0500: > > > I'm trying to get my laptop to use whichever NTP server is specified via > > > DHCP and not having much luck. I

Re: /proc/bus/usb directory is empty

No, it wasn't. I added that line and it worked. Thanks! On Thursday 15 July 2004 11:44, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Is the following in /etc/fstab? > > none/proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 > > > --

Mailing to remote domains not supported

Guys, I have configured fetchmail just fine, i.e. I download my emails directly to my laptop and read them with mutt. So far, so good. The problem I am facing now is when I try to send email. I receive an email back with the message "Mailing to remote domains not supported". Any ideas? What do I

[Fwd: Re: Newbie problems galore]

--- Begin Message --- David A. Cobb wrote: Hi! I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" Official" and started to install it. First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches fo

Re: how to write a script that recursively check files in a directory with md5sum

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Matthias Czapla wrote: I have no idea, but I use something like this to recurse down a tree and do something with every file: #!/bin/bash for i in `find -type f` do whatever you wan't to do, just use $i instead of the filename. done This will not work if any component of a

Re: Newbie problems galore

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 21:34, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>I still haven't figured out how to make the Linux data visible from > >>within Windoze, other than scribbling files from Linux onto one of the > >>VFAT-mounted drives. > >> > >> > And you won't, unless you resort to

Re: LILO 010101 error

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:11:43 -0300 (BRST) "Daniel Figueira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to install the bare minimum of woody bf2.4. > I have the following partitions on my hard drive: > hda1 windows - 80GB - NTFS > hdc1 /boot - 25MB - ext3 > hdc2 /home - 05GB - ext3 > hdc3 /

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:06:41PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > what about sda3? This is what works for me (that's without relying on > /etc/fstab): > > mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /mnt/ipod Ok, this worked (yay!!) but it is read-only. I found a document which said the partition may need to be

Help USB disk

I apologize if this is a repeat - My server was down awhile and I haven't seen my own post and not sure it got sent. I plugged my USB disk into the computer and bad things apparently happened! I'm functional again, but not sure what happened! Could someone please tell me or direct me to an expla

USB Disk

Running unstable - How to get USB disk mounted? My fstab is: # /etc/fstab: filesystem table. # # filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=0

Re: NTP IP via DHCP (using dhcp3-client)

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 11:57, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Alex Malinovich said on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:41:48AM -0500: > > I'm trying to get my laptop to use whichever NTP server is specified via > > DHCP and not having much luck. I have heard that dhcpcd will > > automatically rewrite your ntp.conf if

Re: Newbie problems galore

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still haven't figured out how to make the Linux data visible from within Windoze, other than scribbling files from Linux onto one of the VFAT-mounted drives. And you won't, unless you resort to third-party products (I've heard of such utilities, but have never used

Re: /proc/bus/usb directory is empty

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:44:41PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Is the following in /etc/fstab? > > none/proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 I thought it was "usbfs"... Hmmm looking in a 2.4.23 Doc../usb/proc_usb_info.txt document: **NOTE**: If /proc/bus/usb app

Re: Newbie problems galore

> I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I > see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for the life of me, I > can't find a trace of the software. It's really bad to have to play > games with tar at both sides of the route in order not to munge up the > "magi

Re: cdparanoia rips all zeros

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 23:17, John Krasnay wrote: > Thanks, Greg. cdda2wav is working much better. > > I'd still be interested if anyone had insight into why cdparanoia would > suddenly and permanently stop working, right in the middle of a rip, > after months of flawless performance. Umm... It Br

Re: df shows negative blocks...

>Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It is possible that the filesystem is not really clean, even though it > is not marked as such. Try running 'e2fsck -f -v -C0 /dev/hda2' > Hopefully, that should sort the matter out. > > Regards, > Raj Kiran e2fsck found nothing strange... :s Gr, j00s

Re: help

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 13:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi i cant get on to lookitsme and iv had lots of e-mails and i cant > see them coz i cant got on web site and i realy like the web site its > the best iv ever been on the only thing i dont like about it is that i > cant get back on since i did

LILO 010101 error

I am trying to install the bare minimum of woody bf2.4. I have the following partitions on my hard drive: hda1 windows - 80GB - NTFS hdc1 /boot - 25MB - ext3 hdc2 /home - 05GB - ext3 hdc3 / - 25GB - ext3 hdc4 /swap - rest of hd I have chosen to place lilo on hdc. I configured my BIOS t

Re: vi globally append question

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:25:52PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:45:26PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:05:32AM -0400, David Turetsky wrote: > > > > i have a file like; > > > > > > > > # > > > > one > > > > 123 > > > > > > > > and i would li

Re: How do Kernel updates work on Woody?

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:42:50AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:50:29PM +0530, Didar Hussain wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm a new Debian user. I want to know how do kernel updates > > happen? > > > > Let me explain: > > > > I've installed "Woody" on my PC. The kernel is

Re: setup euro symbol problems

Juha Siltala wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 09:44:51PM +0200, Koos Vriezen wrote: > > > > I'm having some trouble getting the euro symbol, mainly finding documentation > > about this issue actually. I've installed euro-support and according to this > > docu, for Xfree 4.1 (I have debian/testing

Re: /proc/bus/usb directory is empty

Is the following in /etc/fstab? none/proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL

/proc/bus/usb directory is empty

Hi, I have two machines that are identical in hardware. One is running RH 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18) and the other is running Debian Woody (kernel 2.4.26). The machine running RH 8.0 shows all the USB ports in /proc/bus/usb. However, on the machine running Debian, the /proc/bus/usb directory is empty.

Re: vi globally append question

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:45:26PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:05:32AM -0400, David Turetsky wrote: > > > i have a file like; > > > > > > # > > > one > > > 123 > > > > > > and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of > > > each line which is not started with a

Re: LPRng, Debian, and OS X

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:20:19AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: } I have a Debian (testing) box which runs LPRng version 3.8.27-1 as its } printer spooler. } } I have set up /etc/hosts.lpd and /etc/lprng/lpd.perms so that this box } will handle print-requests from the laptops that are also part of

Re: Newbie problems galore

> --- "David A. Cobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" > > Official" and started to > > install it. > > First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the > > Official kernel on the CD > > is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 > > and the

Re: vi globally append question

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:06:07PM -0400, David Turetsky wrote: > > David Turetsky wrote: > > >>:%s/^[a-z]:[0-9]/#/g > > > Try something like: > > > %g!/^#/s/^/#/ > > > Steve Lamb replied: > > >Personally I'd do it this way: > >%s/\(.*\)/#\1/g > > David responded: > > Steve's ap

Re: Newbie problems galore

Jacob S. wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:08:14 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; You might be able to get your network working, in which case you won't need to reboot into Windows. Actually, he mentions nVidia hardware a

help

hi i cant get on to lookitsme and iv had lots of e-mails and i cant see them coz i cant got on web site and i realy like the web site its the best iv ever been on the only thing i dont like about it is that i cant get back on since i did my profile so can u plz help me  my user name is yvonne cri

Re: Newbie problems galore

Hello David A. Cobb (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" Official" and started > to install it. > First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD > is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian > archive has nVidia p

Re: courier-imap-ssl "server disconnect" error behind firewall

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 18:44, Vadik wrote: > Chris wrote: > > >On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:33, Vadik wrote: > > > > > >>I use courier-imap-ssl and I have mozilla connection to a few accounts > >>at the same time, so my MAXPERIP=40. With this setup I have absolutely > >>no problem from home, but f

help on Keyboard language..

Hi, when I installed debian I setup my keyboard with italian layout. After an apt-get upgrade I loose the keyboard settings..how can I restore the correct language? thanks Lorenzo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vi globally append question

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:05:32AM -0400, David Turetsky wrote: > > i have a file like; > > > > # > > one > > 123 > > > > and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of > > each line which is not started with a # . how can i do > > it with vi or ed, so far, i 've tried; > > > > :%s/^[a-z]:[0

Re: How do Kernel updates work on Woody?

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:50:29PM +0530, Didar Hussain wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a new Debian user. I want to know how do kernel updates > happen? > > Let me explain: > > I've installed "Woody" on my PC. The kernel is the default 2.4.18-bf2.4 > There have been certain recent kernel vulnerabilities.

Re: how to write a script that recursively check files in a directory with md5sum

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:18:55PM +0200, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: > Since I'm kinda new at this I just have to ask what's wrong with a > for-loop.. > To slow? Depends on what you do in the loop's body. > I have no idea, but I use something like this to recurse down a tree and > do something wit

Re: gnumeric Fatal error

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:00:08 +0200, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > I just installed (via apt-get install) gnumeric, but it crashes when I > run it. > > It displays the following error: > >"Fatal error: Cannot allocate memory" It runs in sid, I've had to uprgrade for just this reason.

LPRng, Debian, and OS X

I have a Debian (testing) box which runs LPRng version 3.8.27-1 as its printer spooler. I have set up /etc/hosts.lpd and /etc/lprng/lpd.perms so that this box will handle print-requests from the laptops that are also part of the home network (the printer is connected to the parallel port of the D

Re: how to write a script that recursively check files in a directory with md5sum

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:54:59AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > >BTW, what are all those files in your home directory? I have only > >about 14000 and thought that this is the biggest mess ever ;) > > Oh, stuff. source of debs, built and otherwise. CVS checkouts of stuff. > Documents. Photos (s

Re: vi globally append question

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 06:49:20 PDT, Sean writes: >and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of >each line which is not started with a # . how can i do >it with vi or ed, so far, i 've tried; > >:%s/^[a-z]:[0-9]/#/g > >but this would CHANGE the first character of each line >to a hash, pls help.

Re: ALSA / C-Media 8738 - module installed twice?

apt-get remove all of your sound packages and reinstall them, then see what happens. On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:43:00 +0200, Martin Seebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting my C-Media 8738 PCI to work under ALSA. > It is working with OSS, but there is a bug in the XMMS

Re: Newbie problems galore

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:08:14 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David A. Cobb wrote: > > > First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD > > is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian > > archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is to go

Re: Newbie problems galore

You really shouldn't run apt-* without apt-update, first, by the way. --- Ryan Waye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:19:03 -0400, David A. Cobb > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" > Official" and started to > > install it. > >

Re: Newbie problems galore

Aye, it does sound like you have quite a mess on your hands. My personal _recommendation_ (do not take this as law) would be to start from scratch, and use one of the beta Sarge installers. You'll find Sarge far more up-to-date, with support for 2.6 kernels and Nforce chipsets right out the gate.

Re: Newbie problems galore

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:19:03 -0400, David A. Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" Official" and started to > install it. > First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD > is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 an

Re: Newbie problems galore

On 2004-07-15, David A. Cobb penned: [snip] I don't have the brain power right now to answer your question about kernels ... so moving on ... > I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I > see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for the life of me, > I

Re: Can't play audio CDs with XMMS

On (15/07/04 09:21), Bill Wohler wrote: > I just installed a new Sarge system and went to play an audio CD like I > always do by clicking on the open button and entering /dev/cdrom in the > textfield and hitting enter. > > However, the dialog goes away but the UI doesn't do anything. > > XMMS pla

Re: Can't play audio CDs with XMMS

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:21:07 -0700 Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed a new Sarge system and went to play an audio CD like > I always do by clicking on the open button and entering /dev/cdrom in > the textfield and hitting enter. > > However, the dialog goes away but the UI

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