Re: My warning about Lenny

* Joey Hess [2010-01-10 23:23]: > This is not the case in Debian 5.0. Nor was it the case with Debian 4.0. > Debian 3.1 (2005) was the last one to do that. Interesting. Tasksel on my Squeeze box still does that. Yours, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: My warning about Lenny

* Andrzej Borucki [2010-01-10 21:09]: > Thanks, > > > If you installed "Graphical desktop environment" a graphical > > login-manager is started and you should be able to switch "session" to > > get either gnome or kde. > > How to install "Graphical desktop environment" ? I can't install find g

Re: My warning about Lenny

Hi! Your questions are better asked on debian-user@lists.debian.org - thus CCing. * Andrzej Borucki [2010-01-10 19:58]: > I am beginner in Linux. I install Debian 5.0.3 "Lenny". I have several > warnings: > - in install I can't choose Gnome or Kde "Graphical desktop environment" will install

Re: ACPI HOWTO (draft #2)

Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those who are interested I've got my second draft of an ACPI HOWTO > online. > > http://xtrinsic.com/geek/articles/acpi.phtml > > Please feel free to let me know if you there are any parts which are > unclear or flat-out wrong. :) I took the ker

Re: Slow mailing list (41 min. for internal process)

Hi Simon! On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Simon Hepburn wrote: > You are doing well, I'm getting a lag of about 3 hours here in the UK. It > used to take minutes. I don't think this difference can be accounted for by > the recent extensive thread on racism as some have suggested. it appears that murphy i

Re: Playing with domains: virtual host

Hi Sebastiaan! On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > why trick the webserver with bind? ever tried mod_rewrite with apache? > > > Sorry, I was incomplete: I do not have any (special) access to the > server where the page is hosted. on your box. if the domain is accessed via your box mak

Re: soundcard

Hi George! On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, George Teodor wrote: > I have an ess1868 soundcard which works fine but only logged in as root. > I can't make it work as user.I'm using potato. Any solutions? put yourself into the audio group yours martin -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: Playing with domains: virtual host

Hi Sebastiaan! On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Sebastiaan wrote: > I am trying to trick a webserver with bind. This is the situation: > > - I have a domain server for sacred-key.org > - I have a webpage which is located at www.cosjoan.box.nl, which is in > fact a virtual host > - I would like configure bin

Re: Functionality compiled into a Debian kernel?

Hi Adam! On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Adam Warner wrote: > Just a quick question: I'd like to move to a Debian woody kernel image > but wish to find out whether HPT366 hardware support has been compiled > into the image so that my computer will continue to boot. > > Some install disks on the Debian arch

Re: Interfaces configuration and tap0

Hi Philippe! On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Philippe Raxhon wrote: > Thanks a lot (I had forgoten that line) but I still have tap0 on > startup, but not in single mode, so it's probably a daemon that is > setting it. The real problem is that tap0 is set has the default route, > and I still have to do; >

Re: Freeswan package on woody?

Hi Martin! On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Martin Edward John Waller wrote: > I'd like to install freeswan on a woody machine, > but a package search for it cam up with nothing. > > Is there a freeswan package at all? > Do I need a 2.4 kernel? (if so, any issues > upgrading from a 2.2 kernel to a 2.4 kern

Re: Interfaces configuration and tap0

Hi Philippe! On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Philippe Raxhon wrote: > I'm running a Debian 2.2 with testing packages. I have 2 network cards: > - eth0: not configured, it's used by pppd (ADSL line) when started. > - eth1: configured as 192.168.1.254, for my local network (configured > using linuxconf, pres

Re: Pump and Dhclient

Hi Raghavendra! On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > I start udhcpc manually. What is the best way to start udhcpc while > booting up ? Is it OK to create a symlink farm using update-rc.d ? How > are you doing this ? modify /etc/network/interfaces and add the auto line: eg auto

Re: in what config file should I place 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5", and pon ?

Hi John! On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, John Kennedy wrote: > I have a 56k dialup/firewall box using Debian 2.2.17 > > I configured the dialup connection using 'ppp-config' > and selected 'demand' dial > however after reboot doing 'netstat -nr' returns only > > "192.168.1.10 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 e

Re: Xresources/xterm no longer being read?

Hi xucaen! On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, very weird that this happens. /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm used to > give me a black background instead of the default white background, but > now with woody it is as though it isn't being read. > I'm attaching it just incase the sy

Re: Potato with custom kernel - how?

Hi Pontus! On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: > I need to install Potato on a Dell PE4400 server that has a PERC3/Di hardware > raid. I've tried several different preconfigured rescue-disks, but none of > them have worked. After having spent over a week on this, I believe I need to

Re: Nice Fonts

Hi R.! On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, R. Pac wrote: > how can use windows fonts with Xfreee and which debian packages contains > nice fonts ? > > in my XF86Config file this line > report an error during initialisation : > FontPath"unix/:7100"# local font server > > how can I

Re: Doc 2 make a deb package

Hi François! On Thu, 07 Mar 2002, François Chenais wrote: > Where can I find that ? apt-get install maint-guide yours martin -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- NO HTML MAILS PLEASE PGP/GPG encrypted and signed messages preferred pgppsxtxzFevB.pgp Description

Re: how to get around libssl09 dep?

Hi Michael! On Thu, 07 Mar 2002, Michael Marziani wrote: > I'm running stable tree, and it looks like libssl09 is history, with no > replacement. So, when I try to install ssh, still there http://packages.debian.org/stable/non-us/libssl09.html > mon:~# apt-get install ssh > Reading Package Lis

[SOLVED] strange locale problem in x

Hi debian! On Thu, 07 Mar 2002, Martin Wuertele wrote: > set -a > . /etc/environmen > set +a > > is executed in Xsession but somehow later when starting x they get > overwritten. actually it was not set - latest Xsession script does no more include it. yours martin --

strange locale problem in x

hi, i have a strange problem on one of my boxes with locales in x: if i run xterm and type locale i get: LANG=POSIX LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POS

Re: update-mozilla-chrome seg fault

Hi Greg! On Tue, 05 Mar 2002, Greg Madden wrote: > I have a woody box with KDE from Sid . When trying to install Mozilla > from Woody I get the following message: > > updating mozilla chrome registry > /usr/bin/update-mozilla-chrome: line 49: 14658 segmentation fault > regxpcom >/dev/null

Re: what package do we use

Hi Geoffrey! On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Geoffrey Deasey wrote: > I have a need for a version of apache that I can use secure certificates > with. > What package do I use and what do I use to create a csr. > > I have a working installation of apache. you can use apache-ssl or libapache-mod-ssl if yo

Re: Newbie install help

Hi Paul! On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Paul McKinley wrote: > I am new to Debian Linux. I have a very slow internet access and its not > flat rate. How would I go about downloading the bare minimum in order to > get a Linux box to boot? My system is an AMD Athlon 1.33GHz, with 1GB > RAM. I need no sound,

Re: firewire cards

Hi Sheldon! On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote: > Does anyone know where I can find a list of compatible firewire cards for > linux? Or are they all the same? check at http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/hcl.php, the list is basen on chip and vendor, model. yours martin -- <[EMAIL PROT

Re: OT: Web Standards

Hi dman! On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, dman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:17:44PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > | On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, dman wrote: > | > | > | Other than the fact that they run Windows on thier servers? > | > > | > Really? I thought they were one of the rare companies that p

Re: postgres 7.1 - too much logging

Hi Andreas! On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Andreas Goesele wrote: > thanks to help from this list I now finally have successfully upgraded > to postgresql 7.1. > > But now my syslog gets to much logging from postgres. In > postgresql.conf I have: > > debug_level = 0 > log_connections = on if only localh

Re: Forte Agent look-alike MUA

Hi Alex! On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Alex Malinovich wrote: > You should really look into Evolution. It's not only the best mail (and > office) suite in Linux, it's pretty much the best one I've EVER used. > Come to think of it, is there ANYTHING that hasn't been done better in > Linux? :) of course:

Re: libmng dependency tangle

Hi Rich! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Rich Johnson wrote: > (Reading database ... 22636 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking libmng (from .../libmng_0.9.3-0.potato.3_powerpc.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/libmng_0.9.3-0.potato.3_powerpc.deb (--unpack): > t

Re: Help! I have deleted my "startx"-File!

Hi Andreas! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Andreas Maresch wrote: > Today I have made a _BIG_, thumb newbie-error: I have deleted my "startx" > -file! > I have potato 2.2.19pre9 with kde 2.0.1, no modifications. > My X-server is XF86_SVGA. > > Is there a fast method to regain the deleted file? > Or can a

Re: potato version of galeon?

Hi will! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, will trillich wrote: > what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed? > (basically same inquiry as before, but with a more pertinent > subject line and a bit more elaboration on the details:) > > i've got potato(stable) set up including > > deb http:

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

Hi Osamu! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > For ssh use package name "ssh" (openSSH version). > > For ftp, use wu-ftp or pro-ftp if you do not know too much like me. > There is more users for these. But merely transferring files, there is > a command called "scp" in ssh package. and ev

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

Hi Cheryl! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I am working on a computer for friends and want to be able to login to it > once they take it home so i can fix things at a distance if they have a > problem. I haven't found a howto that covers this, but if there is one > please steer me to i

Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

Hi Grégory! On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Grégory Karékinian wrote: > I've been searching on google but found no way to boot a 2.4 kernel > without initrd. I indeed don't have any scsi hdd, so i don't think i > need it. works just as with 2.2 or 2.0. configure the kernel without initrd support, compile

Re: Procmail's {cur,new,tmp} subdirs

Hi csj! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, csj wrote: > Having wrestled with mutt, I'm now trying to get procmail to work. > From the looks of it, I've set up my .procmailrc correctly. > /var/mail/foo is a big fat zero ;-) > > Mail which I set up as: > > :0 > * ^X-Mailing-List.*de

Re: recommendations for portable mp3 player

Hi O! On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, O Polite wrote: > I'm getting tired of my minidisc, too much skipping, too short battery > life, no good. > > Maybe it's time to get a portable mp3. > > My sister in law just got an Ipod. Very nice thingy, but I understand > that it still doesn't work with linux. Besi

Re: ext3 commit time

Hi Daniel! On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Daniel Faller wrote: > I am running the ext3 filesystem on a laptop. The default value for the > commit time of ext3 seems to be 30 sec, which is too short for the HD to spin > down. How can I increase this timeout ? > > Has anyone experineces of bad impacts in

Re: mutt and xfaces

Hi Bostjan! On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Does anyone know how to enable mutt and xfaces (adding your xface to > emails, and viewing others x-faces)? afaik add in ~/.muttrc my_hdr X-Faces: to view them check out the docs here http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/#config yours martin

Re: shmem information

Hi Patrick! On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Patrick Boe wrote: > I'm trying to get some system data, and I'm wondering if there's a tool > (system call, something) I can use to get it, or if I'll have to code the > data collection into the kernel myself. I want to gather periodic > snapshots of shared memo

Re: Linux and Win2k Servers

Hi R! On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, R R Potratz wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm teaching in a mission school in Niger and I've inherited an LAN of 12 of > win98/win2k machines, in a network with a win2k server taking the DNS, > DHCP and log on chores and some file serving. To this mix I would like to > a

Re: sshd logs and possible security violation

Hi Chris! On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Chris Evans wrote: > I think this belongs on d.-user not the security or ssh lists. > > Thanks to people who helped point me to logcheck, I saw my first > attempted login from outside today. At least, I'm pretty sure that's > what I saw but I am seeking some i

Re: maximum nuber of messages in mutt?

Hi David! On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, David B Harris wrote: > Just to throw in my two cents :) Sylpheed, a GTK+-based MUA, is probably > one of the fastest MUAs available under Linux. > > It uses MH mailstores, and it caches. Opening a folder with ~10k > messages takes about three seconds on my machine

Re: offline news reader

Hi Ian! On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Ian Balchin wrote: > Hi, > > Time to get news going on my machine. I want an offline mail > reading system that can dial in via my isp to collect news from > local server (news.saix.net i think). > > I have been looking thru dselect for in packages opt-news and see

Re: Network card problem

Hi Dimi! On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Dimi wrote: > I tried to install the Debian > Woody . The > installation was succesfull. But I cannot install my network card . It > is not in the list where you can choose the network card. And I tried > also som

Re: man in woody

Hi Marcelo! On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > 1) how can I use the man command in woody? each time I type "man something" > I get the message "bash: man: command not found" > 2) the same for X. Typing "startx" get "bash: startx: command not found" looks like you haven't install

Re: Total Newbie To Debian Linux

Hi kevincrookes! On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, kevincrookes wrote: > Hello. I do not know if this is for the right mailing list channel, but > i thought that i would post it in here. Bascially i am a total newbie to > Linux. A friend total me about it over the internet and he says the > Debian Linux is a

Re: dhcp server

Hi debian! On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Martin Wuertele wrote: > > default-lease-time 600; > > max-lease-time 7200; > > I am also using those default values. The problem does not arise when the > dhcp server goes down, but whe

Re: Minor, but irritating, symlink problem

Hi Andrew! On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote: > In december, I upgraded my office machine from debian to woody. A very > small, but nevertheless irritating, thing changed that I can't explain or > change; can anyone offer any wisdom? > so I have to manually enter the / (or an additiona

Re: dhcp server

Hi debian! On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I restart the dhcp server all machines lose connectivity and need to > grab another lease. Is there any way to prevent this? what are your values for default-lease-time and max-lease-time? i use default-lease-time 600; max-lease-ti

Re: mutt, Atachments not being fowarded

Hi stan! On Fri, 08 Feb 2002, stan wrote: > What do I need to set in my muttrc file to get it to foward the atachments > on an email, when I foward the email? put set mime_forward=ask-yes in your .muttrc and it will ask you for mime forwarding which will include the attaches, ask-yes will put

Re: Games on Linux?

Hi D! On Fri, 09 Feb 2001, D & E Radel wrote: > Sad to hear about Loki Game's demise. What good free/GPL 3D games are there > for Linux, now that they are gone. Am I gonna be stuck with tuxracer? No > disrespect > for ol' tuxracer intended. :-) for nice little games check out http://blackholesu

Re: adding a nic

Hi Mike! On Thu, 07 Feb 2002, Mike McCue wrote: > So without doing this, will the modprobe step from Chris still work ? > Reason I'm asking is I'll have to pound on a few different addresses to > find the card, from the sounds of this I'll need to reboot after changing > the addresses every t

Re: Mutt

Hi Terence! On Fri, 08 Feb 2002, Terence Ng wrote: > I have just installed X environment and I can use Balsa or Mozilla to > delete the mails in /var/spool/mail/ngterry. Can somebody teach me to > delete mails by Mutt? Why I cannot just type 'd' or '^d' to delete > mails? is there some read

Re: adding a nic

Hi Mike! On Thu, 07 Feb 2002, Mike McCue wrote: > I have an old compaq with 2 nics that I plan to use for a gateway/firewall. > Both nics are ne2k compatable, and both are isa. One works under the 2.2 > kernel, one works under 2.4 (I guess it's the better isa pnp support). > > I've got the ni

Re: Creating boot floppies

Hi Bill! On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Bill Wohler wrote: > Thanks for the pointer. This is what I was looking for. I ran: > > mkboot /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17-686-smp > > However, this creates a floppy that panics when it tries to mount the > root filesystem. Something about device 302. My root f

Re: Creating boot floppies

Hi Bill! On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Bill Wohler wrote: > The creation of boot floppies used to occur during the installation of > kernel-image. However, when I just installed 2.4.17, I wasn't asked to > create a boot floppy. And I want to create one. > > I discovered mkrescue but every operatio

Re: wmaker menu

Hi Marcelo! On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I am running potato 2.2r5 and I have WindowMaker as the window manager. > I would like to add nedit to the wmaker menu (apps -> editors -> nedit). > I have installed nedit from the precompiled file the nedit people have > at their webpa

Re: Mutt

Hi Terence! On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Terence Ng wrote: > I have just set up my MTA. After I read an email, I would like to > delete it. After I type in 'd' or '^d', a message shows 'Mailbox is > read only'. Why? Is it because I capture the mail directly from > /var/spool/mail/ngterry? Did I miss

[SOLVED] OT: heretic 2 crashes

answering my question On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 08:14:18PM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: > hi, > > this if OT but i hope i'm not the only one trying to play heretic 2 on > debian > > i patched it to version 1.06c but it crashes every time i try to open the > d

OT: heretic 2 crashes

hi, this if OT but i hope i'm not the only one trying to play heretic 2 on debian i patched it to version 1.06c but it crashes every time i try to open the door at the end of the hive part 1 with the button under the lightning spell. anyone found a way how to get to the hive part 2? bugs rep

Re: /var/spool/mail and now /var/mail

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:09:36AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Ok, when I did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade two days ago /var/mail > was created, but I still have /var/spool/mail also and that's where my > system says I have mail when it comes in. what's the deal here? /var/spool/mail is u

Re: Where are the debian files for compiling from source?

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:24:46AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've downloaded the vim source tarball from the debian site but how do I > compile this as a deb package? Where are the relevant debian files for > doing this? if you did apt-get source vim you have a directory called vim- if y

Re: Mplayer PNG sprt WMaker

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 03:06:06PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > MPlayer was compiled WITHOUT libdvdread support. I installed > libdvdread2-dev because I could not find libdvdread-dev. Should this > make a difference? no, this should be good enough. i don't compile mine with dvd since i don'

Re: Mplayer PNG sprt WMaker

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 01:10:08PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I tried to compile MPlayer and got an error saying PNG support required > for GUI interface. I am using WindowMaker. What do I need to do in > order to get PNG support? the -dev library to compile with png support - i have libpn

Re: debian mirror

hi, On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:16:54PM -0500, John Cichy wrote: > Can anyone tell me the aprox. size required to create a mirror with > 'anomftpsync' if I were to exclude everything execpt the i386 stuff? according to http://www.debian.org/mirror/size between 2.6 and 4.s gb plus 100-180 mb for

Re: OT: info on Tekram 315U and scsi in general

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:49:27AM +, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > I read somewhere that this card was perfect for cdrw's. Does it work > fine with hdd's - is the performance faster than ide for hdd with this > card ? with ide you only access one hdd per controller simultaneously. this means on

Re: OT: info on Tekram 315U and scsi in general

hi, On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:49:30PM +, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Hello wise people of debian-user, > > Apologies for the off-topic post but in my experience, debian-user seems > to encompass the more intelligent of the human species and seem to be > able to answer almost any question. >

Re: initrd and kernel 2.4.17

hi, On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 08:59:48PM -0800, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > i'm in the process of upgrading my woody box to kernel > 2.4.17. does 2.4.17 require initrd to boot-up? 2.4.17 boots fine without initrd, have it running on my test box. yours martin -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: setting up FTP-server

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:41:02PM +0100, Kurdt wrote: > I want to set up an FTP server on a non-standard port. Like 4321. How > to do? I can't find any HOWTO. > Or an HTTP-server, also non-standard port. I want those ports because > of being blocked from my ISP. What is the right setting-up?

Re: LVM - pvcreate error

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:08:48PM +, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > I tried LVM today, but didn't get very far. I've used fdisk to set the > partition type, and tried to pvcreate it. But I get an i/o error. What > have I done wrong? This is on an up to date woody system. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# uname

Re: Play VCD on computer

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:38:58AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:36:30 -0500 > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are unofficial .debs of mplayer packaged by developer Marillat > (http://marillat.free.fr). you should not use any packaged version of mplayer for the following

Re: why does a process gets killed?

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:24:30PM +0100, Imre Vida wrote: > > Watch the kernel log /var/log/syslog, or > > Check resource limits (umlilit -a, ulimit -Sa), or > thanks, this is the problem > cpu time is set to 3600 s > > and now, how on earth can i set this value? root can change this in /etc/s