DHCP on two interfaces

Hi everybody, after a long abstinance from debian-user, I've run into a problem, I can't solve on my own. Here it is: I have to local interfaces, eth0 (192.168.1.1) and wlan0 (192.168.2.1). There's also an isdn interface (ippp0) connected to the outside world. I want DHCP to serve IPs and stuff

Fonts to big in gtk1 programs

Hi, For a long while now fonts in gtk1 applications (gimp, gnucash, ...) are broken. Basically they are too large. I've looked on google and setup some defoma and fontconfig stuff and while the appearance is better now, they are still the same size. I'm running up-to-date unstable on powerpc.

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

Hi, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Okay, okay, I can think of an irregular German bit. As a small child, I > once said "Du hast mich wehgetutet." (Instead of wehgetan.) I > conjugated the verb improperly, and don't think I've ever been allowed > to forget it, even after 20 years! Du hast *mir* we

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

Hi, two ways come to my mind: 1) On a normal Debian system, the fsck check at boot time is skipped, when the file /fastboot is present. It gets deleted at each boot-up. So, take down your broken hard drive, boot, run `touch /fastboot`, power down, put your broken hard drive back in and boot. Do

Re: Toolchain to run 2.6 kernel? [SOLVED]

Hi, module-init-tools solved the problem. Thanks to Nathan and Eamon for your quick help. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Toolchain to run 2.6 kernel?

gain) in 2.6, I guess I need new utils to accompany the new kernel. Is that in unstable already? BTW, I'm on a G3 PowerMac. TIA, Viktor PS: RTFMs and pointers appreciated. -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help

y hdb to hda in /etc/fstab as others have mentioned. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] 4-way split screen on Dell laptop 8000

uot;video" at or above line 105 in file /etc/lilo.conf try append="video=vga16:off" in lilo.conf Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[SOLVED] Re: Q: Pointers to configure SMTP AUTH

Hi Alexander and Gregory, thanks for your help, using cram-md5 authentifacation and encrypting the transfer over ssl works now. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Q: Pointers to configure SMTP AUTH

ticed that there's an exim-tls package in unstable. But I'm still looking for pointers on how to set that up (hassle-free). Any help is appreciated. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld Max-Born-Institut fuer Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie Max-Born-Strasse 2A, D-12489 Berlin, Germ

Q: Transparrent ssh tunneling

and then originates from the shellhost. Thanks, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DVD ripping in 100 words or less

der a low nice value, this way you can still use your system while it is transcoding the movie. You just can't reboot it. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

KDE and WindowMaker dock apps

too? BTW, I'm using the unofficial KDE 3.0.1 packages from ccheney (about 4 months old), but the same appears with an older CVS version of KDE (early alpha, IIRC). If the problem is fixed in the current rc2 snapshot, just tell me so. Ciao & thanks, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http:

Re: What program to record from /dev/dsp

e in one step (you won't need sox), it can even record > 'directly' to mp3 (with an external program). I've compiled ecasound-2.1dev11, but it still exited after 2G. Darn. Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ msg01597/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What program to record from /dev/dsp

u won't need sox), it can even record > 'directly' to mp3 (with an external program). Hmm, ecasound from Debian sid does not support large files, I just tested it over night. I'll compile tonight and see what it gives. The audio is okay, looks pretty promising. Thanks, Vi

What program to record from /dev/dsp

who played today in the Arena, Berlin. Radio Fritz broadcasted it. I have the Gentleman set in beautiful beautiful quality, if anybody is interested, but Seeed got cut off after 15 minutes of their set. Fuck. -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ msg01196/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

xawtv: Can't select language with bilingual programming

hanks, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpXnFd3m5z52.pgp Description: PGP signature

Where to find KDE docbook DTD

Hi there, which Debian package provides the following DTD: Thanks, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpiQRGMipnjl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why does the base-config package depend on aptitude

. Thanks for being gentle with me. :) Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpMFZob5XLcB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Why does the base-config package depend on aptitude

Hi there, $ apt-cache show base-config ... Depends: ..., aptitude WTF? Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpaBLU60UpHs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: KDE3 link?

Hi, Helgi Örn wrote: > I would like to upgrade to KDE3 in Woody, is there some link to KDE3 > Debian packages which is usable with apt-get? See http://calc.cx/kde.txt. Haven't tried that out yet. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.d

Re: Question: Sound recording from radio station

y. That's basically good enough for me, even for later editing and downgrading. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpmKwvxyXy1L.pgp Description: PGP signature

Question: Sound recording from radio station

wavsplit to convert and split the raw audio data into handable wav files? sox can read from stdin and write to stdout, but wavsplit doesn't seem to support that. Any other way to split wavs? Did anybody try that and can give some hints? Pointers to HOWTOs would be suggested, also. Th

Re: how to kill obsolete pts/n processes was 'how to kill old screen sessions'

justin cunningham wrote: > Hi, I need to reclaim some of my pts/... that aren't showing up using > ps -lots-of-different-options but are showing up with who. How do I do > this? How about, # killall `ps ax | grep pts | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1};'`

Re: BASH question

#!/bin/sh > > echo -n "Doing something.." > (while true; do echo -n "."; sleep 1; done) & > DOTLOOP=$! > ping -c 1 www.web.de > /dev/null > kill $DOTLOOP > echo " done." Hmm, not on my system. The only difference i

BASH question

the fetchmail command runs (not shown there) I get the following message: /home/viktor/bin/getmail: line 16: 3869 Killed /bin/bash -c 'while true; do echo -n "."; sleep 1s; done' This, of course, is not surprising, it's normal bash behavior. Unfortunately,

Re: Less and .gz files

gzipped files, but also have at look at tar'd files, rpms, debs, ... Simply add eval $(/usr/bin/lesspipe) to your shell startup script. Also take a look at the less manpage, specifically section INPUT PREPROCESSOR and NATIONAL CHARACTER SETS. HTH, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW:

Re: How to use the BTS?

martin f krafft wrote: > you either email > > @debian.org > > or you use the tool 'reportbug' in the equally named package, which > makes it a lot easier. Umm, of course! Thanks, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ p

How to use the BTS?

Hi, I was looking at some bugs on the Debian BTS, some of which seem to be resolved, but are still in the database. How can I post to the BTS, so the people who are responsible for the package / the bug will see my info? Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de

Re: [OT] Re: Can someone please explain this WAS: new photos from my party!

X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In fact, the bounce address does not appear anywhere in my typical debian-user mail. Could it be that it is mangled somewhere between debian-user and my ISP? Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpIfaQejRPtz

[OT] Re: Can someone please explain this WAS: new photos from my party!

mail in general or list-software in particular, so could you explain that to me? Usually on debian-user, the address in the From: header is the same as in the X-Envelope-Sender:, except when purposely mangled by the sending machine, as is yours. Or am I mixing something up? Thanks, Viktor -- Vikt

Re: Can someone please explain this WAS: new photos from my party!

EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp8K5cCchDAM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Problem w/ bilingual sound in xawtv

w to solve this? I searched /usr/share/doc/{xawtv,xserver-xfree86} and google without any luck. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpUbpVkUigUt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

Tim locke wrote: > I need to copy a whole subdirectory to another > subdirectory...possible? (i.e. cp /home/user1/file > /home/user2/file) as a regular user. How about cp -r? Or better yet: cp -a. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/

Re: Shutdown process and Upgrade

vironment. Having said that, I find myself running `reboot` in Konsole sometimes, but usually only, when I test newly compiled kernels. No need to mention, that I don't have any important data open at that point. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik

Problems with GnuPG

stem: Debian Sid, 1 month since last dist-upgrade Kernel: Linux 2.4.16 Mutt: 1.3.23-4 GnuPG: 1.0.6-2 TIA, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp1Uw6KmYENB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: transfering linux system to another hard drive

rrants a complete reinstallation -- at least not with the Debian boot-floppies. :) Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpN0rE1NDcEm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: transfering linux system to another hard drive

though the above list is off the top of my head. Good luck! Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpZo0KVMid1z.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

x27;s 4:30am and I'm rather stoned, so if my post sounds incoherent or even offensive, please don't take it as this. PPPS: I thought it impossible, loosing a (potential) Debian user to RedHat. This just doesn't sound right, IMNSHO. -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp39qwdbiYdi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dark background in gvim-gtk

gt; :bn > :bp > :b# > :b > > commands. I use them for buffer switching so I don't have to move my > hand all the way over to the mouse. (it's far! ;-)) Schwet, again! -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpE6ra2dBSaU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

e you get it going, you should follow up some of the information. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpGshVGO26Fa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dark background in gvim-gtk

et! Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp3IdCk5gBtM.pgp Description: PGP signature

dark background in gvim-gtk

Hi, is it possible to get a black background using gvim-gtk. The help says, that X resources are only available to the Motif and Athena guis which look plain ugly. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgplHajm0nUiT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Computer won't power off

Hi, what kernel version is in woody? The apm code was changed in 2.4.9 and broke apm shutdown on a couple of systems. This was fixed, IIRC, in 2.4.13. So if "apm=on" at the kernel cmdline (see other posts) doesn't cut, you might consider upgrading your kernel. Cheers, Vi

Re: How do you do this ...

/etc/init /bin/init /bin/sh in that order. If none exits, it will panic, saying that it couldn't find any init. You can overwrite this by passwing the init= option to the kernel at bootup. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel

Re: nslookup

gt; > > Forgot to install this when I installed Debian. > > dnsutils : > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=nslookup&case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=i386&directories=yes Or use dig. But don't ask me for its syntax. Ciao, Viktor --

Re: "upgrade" vs "dist-upgrade"

e seems to be some discussion about the answer. Some people suggest using mainly "upgrade" and "dist-upgrade" only on occasions. Care to tell, why? Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpDJMWto5dTX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: "upgrade" vs "dist-upgrade"

the same effect. An "upgrade" on woody or sid might leave your system broken, though. So, if you "upgrade" to woody, better use "dist-upgrade". :) Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp5gMah2dnWB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Power off at Shutdown

ged in that version and broke power off on some systems, including mine and some other folks on lkml. I've never had 2.4.12, but 2.4.13 fixed this at least for me. Cheers, Viktor PS: I have i # CONFIG_APM_REALMODE_POWER_OFF # CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS which should be good enough on most systems.

Re: ldso remove warning

ng it. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpEvVLXD12iC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Add a new module to kernel?

nd. No offense intended. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpeQlMslFBL9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 100hz in Xfree86-4.1?

deline directly in a MONITOR section. See "MONITOR SECTION" in `man XF86Config`. BTW, if you have your console running at your wanted resolution via the framebuffer, you can use `fbset -x` to get a nicely formatted MODE section for your XF86Config. HTH, Viktor -- Viktor Ros

Re: Kernel 2.4.13 has no /dev files or info with lspci

If not, then `cd /dev && MAKEDEV hda` should suffice. HTH, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp8TuFgTSU63.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

;m running is some four years old now and I never had to do any reinstall whatsoever. To make a long story short: Debian's apt-get system just rocks. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpEgdl1nEYLn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Proposed Updates for "Potato"

bug actually comes in this way is rather small. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp6cprUvqRix.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to apply a patch?

filesmy fingers are already worned out and I'm > still > not even half-way done... I guess it's just a dirty hack, but I think switching the directory names and then apply the patch normally should do it? Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgptBhL5r0KJt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: framebuffer bootup question [SOLVED]

Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Viktor Rosenfeld: > > Should have digged further! > > > > In linux/drivers/video/modedb.c there is an array of struct fb_videomode > > which lists the video modes that are supported by tdfx through modedb. > > > > Luckily

Re: framebuffer bootup question [SOLVED]

Should have digged further! In linux/drivers/video/modedb.c there is an array of struct fb_videomode which lists the video modes that are supported by tdfx through modedb. Luckily [EMAIL PROTECTED] is compiled right in and works beautifully, too. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http

Re: framebuffer bootup question

Or, is there a way to get a list of the modes supported by the kernel? Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp1ihaeUxBck.pgp Description: PGP signature

framebuffer bootup question

le of 80x30. I also tried to run fbset at bootup, but this only changes the first VT all others remain at 60Hz. Also, is there a way to get rid of the white area next to the penguin? TIA, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpOUkgd9pTTA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Newbie compiling kernel...

so if you use lilo, then you'll have to reinstall lilo. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpaiwBj5cF8s.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: international characters in mutt

Walter Hofmann wrote: > LANG=de_DE mutt > > and it works fine (but mutt speaks german now, which I don't really > like). Try overwriting LC_MESSAGES, ie LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt . mutt should speak English again, while showing German characters. Ciao, Viktor --

Re: file conflicts between packages

re -- if you uninstall one package with the file, the other package will break, because the file is missing. Kinda like Microsoft. :) However, if you're using unstable, this isn't such a big deal, because the package will get fixed quickly. Once the package is fixed, the packaging system

Re: How do I change build options for debian/rules binary?

iao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgplHPATrgaAx.pgp Description: PGP signature

How do I change build options for debian/rules binary?

abled-compressed option to the configure command, but the resulting binary still does not include support for compressed folders. What's the Debian way of changing configure options? TIA, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpLRl77pIz5r.pgp Descri

Re: adding a second NIC

e. If this works you should read up on ipchains/iptables, so you know what you're doing. HTH, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpg0LWkqq2Vi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The joys of Debian unstable

e funny thing is that no pam libraries are used by shutdown, reboot and others, and that login ist still buggy. WTF? Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp0U7e2mNYe7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The joys of Debian unstable

INIT: switching to runlevel 6 upon shutdown. I never had /var/run/utmpx nor /var/log/wtmpx before. I have a system running potato (along with kernel 2.4) and libc5-2.1.3, there the problem does not appear. ANY help is greatly appreciated. Ciao, Viktor Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > 3) N

Re: Speeding up scp (Was: Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.)

ould have mentioned that, though.) In this case, blowfish is a nice speed improvement. Any idea, why it' not the default? Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpQVwgqBnmqa.pgp Description: PGP signature

The joys of Debian unstable

Luckily all file system except the root are served by NFS, so things could be a lot worse. *Any* ideas how to fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated! TIA, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgps0A5akpAwG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Speeding up scp (Was: Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.)

> Nice difference, right? Stop! Could the file /var/www/testi.100M be in the OS cache during the second try? If not, than a 300% speed improvement is certainly nice. Cheers, Viktor PS: I'm too lazy -- and too tired -- to try it out myself. -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.

the problem lies with scp. On my local network I experience transfer rates of less than 200kB/s with scp because the server is an old Pentium 133 with not enough horse power. With plain old rcp I get up to 6MB/s on a 100MB (half duplex?) link. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: version.h missing - how to install kernel headers

make dep in the kernel source directory to get this file created. HTH, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

mysql root account stopped working

erpretation of the host table recently changed? Thanks, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: [OT] folder-hook mutt question

Thanks to Sean and Sawomir for their quick reply. It works now. Ciao, viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

[OT] folder-hook mutt question

Hi mutt users, the following command doesn't work folder-hook debian-user set index_format="%3C %s" I get "%s: unknown variable" when accessing the debian-user folder. Any ideas? Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

HOWTO check mp3 files

ile is finished. Is there a tool, that will check whether an mp3 file is complete? Or is this by design not possible? Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: Probleme mit Sendmail

that this error message isn't really a concern for me. The kernel wants to do something that requires lockd, lockd gets loaded by modprobe while the kernel is bitching about lockd being not ready, once lockd is successfully loaded, the kernel shuts up. This is just my idea of the world, I h

Re: Probleme mit Sendmail

Maybe it's enough to pass an option to mount? Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Probleme mit Sendmail

nfs rw 0 2 homer:/exports/halde /vol/halde nfs rw0 2 -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: RedHat vs Debian?

t I have found that the errors are much easier to fix than testing errors. And if I can't get it to work, it'll usually repair itself with the next dist-upgrade. MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

No Mozilla binary in *bin

Hi, The mozilla binary seems to have moven to /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla, at least on my sid system (updated this week end). I'm just wondering if this is on purpose or if this is a bug, which should be reported. Any ideas? Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informat

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

Walter Hofmann wrote: > > Viktor Rosenfeld schrieb am Dienstag, den 21. August 2001: > > > but `rm ??remove-files` will also do the trick > > No, it gets globbed to "rm --remove-files" so this won't work. Argh, now that you're pointing my nose at it, I

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

It has been suggested already that `rm -- --remove-files` is the proper way, but `rm ??remove-files` will also do the trick (but could erase a lot more, so watch out)! Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: xawtv and NFS won't play

er getting the information from the video hardware. Anyway, thanks a lot, I can now watch TV again. Hurray! Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

xawtv and NFS won't play

d to connect to Server can't open x11 display :0 When my home dir is mounted locally, it reports the correct window size and stuff. I am stumped and have no clue where to look. The man page says nothing and I can't find any other documentation. Any ideas? Thanks, Viktor -- V

Re: SID out of Date ??

. I use for two month now on my router, firewall, fileserver, etc. and it works flawlessly. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot

comes the network stuff. If this is still the same with 2.4.6 (it should be, but I wouldn't know, I have floppy support compiled as a module), than something is broken there. HTH, Viktor PS: I just compiled 2.4.6 on my machine, let's see, if it's boots. -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

always install from sources. Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: PDF file generation.

which is actually very good. But I only used it once to typeset my school year book with PageMaker (those were the days), and now I find pdflatex far superior. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: ???

it reinstalling? Read http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html and don't be scared to try it out yourself. It is really easy and very straightforward. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

[OT] Software to draw microprocessor schematics

w to export xfig drawings, so I can use them with pdflatex, but the library for Computers->Schematics is a little lacking. Is there a special tool for drawing microprocessors with a decent UI out there? Or does anybody know an extensive library for xfig? Thanks, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld W

Re: Java 2 VM in Debian

Guy Geens wrote: > > >>>>> "Viktor" == Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Viktor> I just installed the package, and I noticed that Netscape is > Viktor> unable to load the java 2 plugin. I don't really need java in > Vi

Re: "su" Capability Needed In Konqueror

d of fake authentication data a la sshd(8). > alpha:/web/debian/http# konqueror > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > konqueror: cannot connect to X server :0 See what Marc wrote in this thread (export XAUTH

Re: Java 2 VM in Debian

Hi, Matthias Richter wrote: > > Viktor Rosenfeld wrote on Wed Jun 20, 2001 at 01:00:18AM: > > I looked at `apt-cache search java`, but I can't find the package I need > > to install for a Java 1.2 VM. `apt-cache search blackdown` didn't show > > anything eithe

Re: another strange bootup message: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

ded by the 2.0 kernel (those were the times), but is no more necessary on 2.2 or 2.4. It doesn't do any harm and can be safely removed. Cheers, Viktor PS: I bet this bit every single Debian user who upgraded from slink to potato. :) -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: Java 2 VM in Debian

San Segkhoonthod wrote: > > It's called jdk but the version is 1.1. if you need > 1.2 or higher, get it from blackdown, ibm, and sun > (seem to be 1.3, i guess) None of this is packaged for Debian? Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Java 2 VM in Debian

Hi, I looked at `apt-cache search java`, but I can't find the package I need to install for a Java 1.2 VM. `apt-cache search blackdown` didn't show anything either. Is there such a package in unstable? TIA, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Does anybody run plex86 on Debian

Hello, I was wondering if anybody is running plex86 under Debian? I have a current sid system running, but there is no package. I've compiled from sources, but have problem starting a VM. Seems like bochs can't find a vga font and is panicking. Any success stories? Viktor

Re: Grub: Does it allow for modularized kernel fs

piled-in or as a > > module. > > > Bad luck, so it never will be possible to have a fully modularized kernel. Err, not so fast! I think HURD actually provides this, and grub has hooks to load a specific module set for the HURD. It won't use that module itself though. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

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