Re: Which Netscape to use? / Thanks

2000-09-18 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Thanks a lot! 475 got most favourable votes. It installs well (after I > realised that the tar file is no longer required ;-)) and seems to > perform stable. This depends to a large extent on what pages you want to view. In case they contain

Re: 3com 3c509 and the mouse

2000-09-18 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 12:05:25PM +0200 or thereabouts, Atila Nemet wrote: > Hi! > > I have just installed debian 2.2 and I have a few problems :o) > First, my mouse does not work. I can not start the X because it > reports that there is no mouse. In consol mode there is also no mouse. > Seems to

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-18 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: > And, like I said, I can print plain text files fine with lpr... also I > noticed that I can print in Abiword (but it's not suitable for me > because of the other problems I mentioned). So I don't know what's > stopping me from being able to print in gv and kword. > You are able

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:50:25PM + or thereabouts, Gary Turner wrote: > ultimate functionality and safety. Until software gets even more out > of hand, I am memory and HD rich. > > The system will consist of: > PII 350 mHz, Spacewalker HOT 661, Award BIOS > 192 meg ram > 8 gig HD (primary m

Re: Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

2000-09-18 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 06:09:22PM +0200 or thereabouts, Kai Weber wrote: > This is exactly the displayed menu. Shouldn't it be something dynamicly > loaded code? I will ask in the sawfish mailinglist, too. But could > someone inform me, whether his sawfish like packaged from Helix displays > the D

ISDN Login

2000-09-18 Thread Sven-Eric Jannasch
Where i have to store the ID and Password for a ISDN Dialup-Connection on Debian Potato? Sven-Eric Jannasch

any know NAT/VPN out there?

2000-09-18 Thread will trillich
i'm trying to get NAT/VPN going from debian to debian thru the internet, via tunnelv. any gurus out there? (ethertap? netlink? what the...?)

making install diskette for ftp

2000-09-18 Thread adam.edgar
Ive run into a problem upgrading from slink to potato because of my own stupidity. I had Slink running fine but decided to rearrange my installation while upgrading (remove fat partition...). Well I forgot that the Slink CD I have does not have the drivers for an epic100 network card. So I need to

Re: making install diskette for ftp

2000-09-18 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 02:16:17AM -0500 or thereabouts, adam.edgar wrote: > Ive run into a problem upgrading from slink to potato because of my own > stupidity. I had Slink running fine but decided to rearrange my > installation while upgrading (remove fat partition...). Well I forgot that > the S

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:46:11AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:50:25PM + or thereabouts, Gary Turner wrote: > > ultimate functionality and safety. Until software gets even more out > > of hand, I am memory and HD rich. > > > > The system will consist of: > > PII 350

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 11:54:13PM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote: > > /boot - 50MB > > / - 256MB > > /usr - 2GB > > /swap - 2xRAM > > /var at least 1GB (for /var/cache/apt) > /tmp at least 50MB to 100MB > > and ditch /boot you don't need it and its more trouble then its worth, > just

Re: apt-move and helix

2000-09-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello World, > > I like to keep a partial mirror and I use apt-move (woody) to good effect. > > Now I'd like to mirror helixcode as well. But I can't figure out a way to > arrange things so that apt-move will handle it gracefully. Has anyone got > th

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:14:39PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > > yes you can do away without /boot. i'm just being generous here. in fact, / > can be 64MB only or even 50MB if my memory serves me right even on my most bloated install / is only taking up 19MB as for /boot there was just a mention

Perl @INC - include NFS mounted repository

2000-09-18 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, I'd like to include a NFS mounted repository (actually a very comprehensive Debian installation) into the Module Search Path of Perl. Boundary conditions: * transparent for the users * Modules that are also locally available should not be loaded by NFS. Does anyone know how to manage

Re: Recommended Partitioning

2000-09-18 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:32:48PM -0400, Rob wrote: > Hey, im about to install deb2.2, can anyone recommend a specific > partitioning scheme? I would do the following: /boot /dev/hda1 - primary 10 MB win2k /dev/hda2 - primary 1.5 GB / 2.0 GB (for growth) /var1.0 GB (or 2.0) for d

Re: F2 key programming

2000-09-18 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:43:46PM +0100, ivan wrote: > I'd like to be able to press the F2 key when in X-windows xterm instead of > entering > " | more " (par exemple). What is the easiest way of achieving this? I've > tried various > things like editing /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm to no avail. >

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:46:11AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > /swap - 2xRAM I don't think the 'rule' of swap being 2xRAM is necessary anymore. I have 256 MB RAM, and 133 MB swap, and hardly use the swap at all (currently using about 712 KB of swap). My system can have up to 1 GB of RAM. I hard

Re: Checking md5sums

2000-09-18 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Michael S. Fischer wrote: > Can someone please tell me how to use the Debian packaging tools to > scan a system for changed files based on the md5sums contained in the > .debs? I've used a simple for bash, like this: for F in `ls /var/lib/dpkg/info/*md5sums`; do md5sum -c $F

Re: Perl @INC - include NFS mounted repository

2000-09-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:26:02AM +0200, Thomas Gebhardt wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to include a NFS mounted repository (actually a very > comprehensive Debian installation) into the Module Search Path > of Perl. > > Boundary conditions: > > * transparent for the users > > * Modules that are

Re: Checking md5sums

2000-09-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:18:39AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Michael S. Fischer wrote: > > > Can someone please tell me how to use the Debian packaging tools to > > scan a system for changed files based on the md5sums contained in the > > .debs? > > I've used a

Re: can anyone explain why ??

2000-09-18 Thread Simeon Simes
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:10:04PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > so i guess, the driver is not the best in this regard - or is it an inherent > > problem of atapi drives? > > its a problem of atapi drives mostly, if you have DMA turned on that can > reduce cpu utiliz

Re: ISDN Login

2000-09-18 Thread Shaul Karl
> Where i have to store the ID and Password for a ISDN Dialup-Connection on > Debian Potato? > Is it async PPP or sync PPP? For sync PPP I believe but not sure that it takes a pointer from ipppd command line or from /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0 and uses either /etc/ppp/pp-secrets or /etc/ppp/chap-sec

yppasswd: can't see server

2000-09-18 Thread Nate Amsden
Kind of odd. yesterday i setup a NIS/NFS server on Solaris7 x86 (inside vmware ontop of debian). To test it i setup a Linux mandrake 7.1 distro since it has built in NIS during the install(again on top of another machine in vmware ontop of debian) it works fine. i have a debian 2.2r0 based laptop

Re: can anyone explain why ??

2000-09-18 Thread Nate Amsden
Simeon Simes wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:10:04PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > > Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > > > so i guess, the driver is not the best in this regard - or is it an > > > inherent > > > problem of atapi drives? > > > > its a problem of atapi drives mostly, if you have

Re: MPI and parallel processing

2000-09-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 02:21:20PM +0200, Lukasz Walewski wrote: > Has anyone any experiences with parallel programming under Debian? Yes :-) . There's a mailing list debian-beowulf@lists.debian.org about this sort of thing (subscribe in the usual fashion) which will probably be better able to a

RE: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-18 Thread TODD WITTER
When I installed Helix, it asked what I wanted installed. I chose not to install the games. And it did just that. On 17 Sep 00, at 18:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: > > > This Helix-Gnome thing is very nice, but I wish I could get rid of the games > > an

Urgent LaTex question

2000-09-18 Thread Loren Hoffman
Hi, I've got a quick LaTex question. Is there a way to make LaTex _not_ justify the text on the right? The only thing I can think of is line breaks after each line. It's for a paper which I need to submit tomorrow morning, with a guideline that the text be only left-justified. If you could he

apt-get question

2000-09-18 Thread Frank Grimm
Hello, Since the potato release i am using apt-get instead of dpkg, but some apt-get isn't able to work with some .deps (e.g. aalib, gimp) is exists with the error message: $ apt-get install aalib1 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package aalib1 has no available ve

Re: sunrpc

2000-09-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Joachim Trinkwitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I removed *portmap from /etc/rc2.d and I am still having sunrpc start up > > on boot. I want to remove sunrpc from my system, but am having > > trouble. Can anyone explain how sunrpc starts and how to stop it from > > starting? > > Do you have

Re: Urgent LaTex question

2000-09-18 Thread Thomas Halahan
\raggedright On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Loren Hoffman wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a quick LaTex question. Is there a way to make LaTex _not_ > justify the text on the right? The only thing I can think of is line > breaks after each line. > > It's for a paper which I need to submit tomorrow morning, w

Re: Urgent LaTex question

2000-09-18 Thread Vee-Eye
> I've got a quick LaTex question. Is there a way to make LaTex _not_ > justify the text on the right? The only thing I can think of is line > breaks after each line. > > It's for a paper which I need to submit tomorrow morning, with a guideline > that the text be only left-justified. If you co

touch and nfs

2000-09-18 Thread Jeff Green
Load on a group of our servers has forced a change of structure to a cluster of machines with various drives nfs mounted. This works very well for most applications however a number of scripts use touch which appears to fail on files nfs mounted from other machines in the cluster, when run by the s

SOLVED: Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

2000-09-18 Thread Kai Weber
+ Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > This is exactly the displayed menu. Shouldn't it be something dynamicly > > loaded code? I will ask in the sawfish mailinglist, too. But could > > someone inform me, whether his sawfish like packaged from Helix displays > > the Debian Menu? > > mine does I s

RE: OL400

2000-09-18 Thread Max . Hyre
Dear Mr. Kopishke: You asked: > Hi, I have a Okidata 0l400 LED printer, what filter should I use in > magicfilter? I can't get to my OL400 machine right now, so this is from memory, but if you check your user's manual, you'll see that the OL400 emulates an HP (Laserjet, LJ II+, maybe?).

Re: Urgent LaTex question

2000-09-18 Thread Paul Huygen
Loren Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a quick LaTex question. Is there a way to make LaTex _not_ > justify the text on the right?[..] > It's for a paper which I need to submit tomorrow morning, [..] \begin{flushleft} blabla bloebloe etc. \end{flushleft} works. Probably there are be

non-us potato-proposed-updates: no Packages?

2000-09-18 Thread Hein Roehrig
http://non-us.debian.org/dists/potato-proposed-updates/ does not contain a Packages file, therefore it is not apt-get-able. This is in contrast to http://http.us.debian.org/dists/potato-proposed-updates/ which makes me think that something is wrong here!? -Hein

POP -> IMAP w/ Maildirs?

2000-09-18 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I have an application in mind where I download some folks' POP3 mail from their ISPs to our local server, then present their E-mail (they're Win95 users on our local network) using an IMAP server. So far I can do everything very simply using fetchmail + procmail -d + UW IMAP. However, I'd like to

Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor?

2000-09-18 Thread dochawk
chris chryed, > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 02:14:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > yikes, I can do without the gory details :) does this mean that once I > > find a block of a tar, I can start extracting, even if it wasn't the > > middle? > You want to find the first block of the tar. I

Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor? (fwd)

2000-09-18 Thread dochawk
> > yikes, I can do without the gory details :) does this mean that once I > > find a block of a tar, I can start extracting, even if it wasn't the > > middle? > you mean "even if it wasn't the START?", right? > the answer is yes. just verified this. yes. Thanks. > > And now that I think of

LILO 21.5-1 beta, LILO 21.4.32

2000-09-18 Thread Colin R. R. Johnson
Hi, I just upgraded to woody (apt-get dist-upgrade) which worked extremely well except for lilo. The lilo 21.4.32 package contains lilo 21.5-1 beta. Further, when I run Lilo (I compiled a 2.4 kernel) I get the following: LILO version 21.5-1 beta, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger 'lba3

dselect questions

2000-09-18 Thread Cantoni, Mike
I am attempting to install Debian 2.2 on my Compaq laptop. I installed the following tasks: C++ Dev, C Dev, Debug, Devel Common, Dialup, Laptop, and X Window System. I was able to complete the installation, but am having trouble adding additional packages. I performed the installation using offi

RE: Recommended Partitioning

2000-09-18 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
I have Win2K and Debian at home, (excuse: my day job is developing in MS env. Yuch) For my MS stuff I keep a 1.5G for system and programs, 250M for swap and a 1G FAT32 for files - NTFS is notoriously incompatible so I prefer FAT32 for personal stuff. Speed is only really an issue with loading apps

FW: dselect questions

2000-09-18 Thread Cantoni, Mike
> I am attempting to install Debian 2.2 on my Compaq laptop. I installed > the following tasks: C++ Dev, C Dev, Debug, Devel Common, Dialup, Laptop, > and X Window System. I was able to complete the installation, but am > having trouble adding additional packages. I performed the installation >

Re: Perl @INC - include NFS mounted repository

2000-09-18 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:26:02AM +0200, Thomas Gebhardt wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to include a NFS mounted repository (actually a very > comprehensive Debian installation) into the Module Search Path > of Perl. > > Boundary conditions: > > * transparent for the users > > * Modules that are

Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Jonathan Markevich
I figured that title would get your attention... :) I discovered emacs is on my system, and I don't particularly want it there. I have no idea how it got there either, and it's probably taking up a healthy amount of disk space. Here's some interesting stats... bash-2.03$ dpkg -S `which emacs` d

Problems with upgrading from 2.2.17-compact to 2.2.17

2000-09-18 Thread John Palmieri \(Quinticent\)
Hi everyone, I just installed Debian using the compact kernel and FTP. After installing I tryed to apt-get kernel-image-2.2.17 and when I booted my eth0 interface wouldn't come up(my tulip drivers get loaded fine and the compact kernel works with my school network fine [dhcp]). The same happened

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > I figured that title would get your attention... :) > > I discovered emacs is on my system, and I don't particularly want it there. > I have no idea how it got there either, and it's probably taking up a > healthy amount of disk space. Here's som

Re: advanced power management and linux?

2000-09-18 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Yep, You're going to fry the fan. You don't need a resistor on it either, just pull the connector off the PS Motherboard - pretty simple fix. Invert the PS so the fan port is pointed up, this will allow convection to occure and the hot air to escape the PS. I don't know how well it will ru

RE: dselect questions

2000-09-18 Thread somogyi lóránd
you should use apt-get: apt-get install xemacs and, apt-get install netscape or it's maybe: apt-get install communicator good luck. p.s.:if you didn't scan the cd's already, do it with apt-cdrom. > I am attempting to install Debian 2.2 on my Compaq laptop. I installed > the following tasks: C+

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 07:51:29AM -0400, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > bash-2.03$ dpkg -S `which emacs` > dpkg: /usr/bin/emacs not found. > > What package do I have to purge? $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/emacs dpkg: /usr/bin/emacs not found. $ ls -l /usr/bin/emacs lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 23

this beeping makes me sick

2000-09-18 Thread QBA
Hi, I just want to turn off beeping in linux. It comes from the inner speaker (not from my sound card and portable speakers) when I press arrow keys in vi (it's just an example) and the cursor can't go any further. How am I to do it? Thanks for help, QBA

Re: this beeping makes me sick

2000-09-18 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Unplug the speaker. Andrei

all .deb md5sums

2000-09-18 Thread Jim Breton
Is there someplace on debian.org from which I can get a file or files containing the md5sums of all the packages? Not the packages' contents, but the packages themselves. I have some ISOs I got from another site (linuxiso.org) and I would like to confirm the sums of all the packages before I use

Re: this beeping makes me sick

2000-09-18 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Try adding 'bell-style none' to /etc/inputrc T. QBA wrote: > > Hi, > > I just want to turn off beeping in linux. It comes from the inner speaker > (not from my sound card and portable speakers) when I press arrow keys > in vi (it's just an example) and the cursor can't go any further. > How am

Re: this beeping makes me sick

2000-09-18 Thread Peter Malewski
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:00:30PM +0200, QBA wrote: > Hi, > > I just want to turn off beeping in linux. It comes from the inner speaker > (not from my sound card and portable speakers) when I press arrow keys > in vi (it's just an example) and the cursor can't go any further. > How am I to do it?

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread John Hasler
Jonathan Markevich writes: > I discovered emacs is on my system, and I don't particularly want it > there. Emacs19 is standard priority (erroneously, IMHO). > What package do I have to purge? emacs19 -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

CIPE experts, anyone?

2000-09-18 Thread will trillich
having a bit-o-trouble getting CIPE compiled. (anybody have it running for kernel 2.2.17? please?) after following /usr/share/doc/cipe-source/README* ... # dpkg -i cipe-2.2.17_1.3.0-2+2.2.17_i386.deb (Reading database ... 27995 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace cipe

OT: no cdrom audio from sound card line out

2000-09-18 Thread Mark Schiltz
I think I have tried everything, maybe my sound card is not fully supported? I have a motherboard with built-in soundpro (CMI8330). The sound is working with the exception of the cd audio. I know the cd is working because I can use the phone plug on the face of the cdrom. Any Ideas? -- I'm here

Re: Which Netscape to use? / Thanks

2000-09-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Sep 2000, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > > > Thanks a lot! 475 got most favourable votes. It installs well (after I > > realised that the tar file is no longer required ;-)) and seems to > > perform stable. > > This depends to a large extent

Re: Debian 2.2

2000-09-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > looks like bad cds to me, i'd get new ones from somewhere(not sure where > to reccomend) see the debian homepage for who has them, or if you have a > CD-R you can make your own. it seems since debian does not make their > own cds(non commercial) quality can be q

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Sep 2000, John L . Fjellstad wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:46:11AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > > > /swap - 2xRAM > > I don't think the 'rule' of swap being 2xRAM is necessary anymore. > I have 256 MB RAM, and 133 MB swap, and hardly use the swap at all > (currently using about 712 KB

Packages???

2000-09-18 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I've installed RH, MD, SuSE, Caldera, FreeBSD, etc. and now would like to install Debian 2.2 I know, I know, but I like "punishment" :) I'm kid of hesitant because of all the new "nomenclature" such as "dselect" "dpkg", "apt-get", etc. I've been monitoring this news list for a while, and I have

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 07:51:29AM -0400, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > bash-2.03$ dpkg -S `which emacs` > dpkg: /usr/bin/emacs not found. > > What package do I have to purge? Is there some other obscure tool for > finding files in packages? Who put it there? My condolences on emacs. I agree

include dirs

2000-09-18 Thread jereme
hi all, I hope this question is directed to the correct group and not too redundant. I checked the list archives and the policy manual before mailing this off. What i would like is for someone to point me towards a good source of information about what headers i need on my system, where

Installation help

2000-09-18 Thread Martin Scott Goldberg
Here's the deal - I have an abit bx62.0 motherboard with an abit hotrodd66 (dma66) adaptor plugged in to a pci slot. I have a memorex 48x atapi cdrom and a 40 gig HD plugged in through the hotrod. The first problem is that the cd will not boot. I have the same problem with Freebsd and Beos cd's

Re: gnupg help

2000-09-18 Thread Hubert Chan
Vee-Eye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2) You could add an > uid to your key ("gpg --edit-key " and then with "adduid" add the > new address). And then select the old uid with "uid" and delete it with "deluid". Hubert

Mini SQL Deb

2000-09-18 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings! Is there a .deb available for the Mini SQL database from http://www.hughes.com.au? I couldn't find one off the Debian site, so I thought I'd ask the general populace. It's for a class that I'm taking, and I don't want to have to use their server. Thanks, Brooks

Re: Kernel panic (continuation)

2000-09-18 Thread Julio Merino
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 11:04:59AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > would be helpful if you specified what kind of MB you have with what > kind of controller, and what brand/type of HD, on the linux-kernel > mailing list the IDE guy has cursed Western Digital drives for not > behaving in a sane manner

free Interrnet provider for Linux and exim

2000-09-18 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Thanks everybody (and especially Tim Anderson) who helped me to find an free Internet provider for Linux. I succeeded to connect to worldshare.net. Now I have an other question. How can I use their outgoing server (smtp.worldshare.net) for relaying my email. In exim.conf I put: smarthost: driver

xinetd/tcp wrappers problem

2000-09-18 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
Hello, I run xinetd and I found that compiled-in tcp wrappers don't work... hosts.allow: identd : ALL : severity daemon.info : allow proftpd : ALL : severity daemon.info : allow ALL : ALL : severity daemon.notice : deny /etc/xinetd.conf: service ident { socket_type = stream

bug in gdb! it segfaults!

2000-09-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hello all, i'm debugging a c++ program, and found something very distressing: % gdb wellspring core GNU gdb 19990928 (warranty snipped) This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"... Core was generated by `./wellspring'. Program terminated with s

Re: this beeping makes me sick

2000-09-18 Thread William Jensen
xset b off & I have that in my .xinitc and it works like a charm. - Forwarded message from Peter Malewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:06:29 +0200 From: Peter Malewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: QBA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: this beepi

Re: Display problems with woody

2000-09-18 Thread Jim Lisi
Bill Barnes wrote: > > Hello List: > > Just ran a dist-upgrade from woody, kde2, helixcode. > Now gedit opens a display as non-root user, but as root, says > Xlib: connection :0.0 refused by server > Xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server > > gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Re: bug in gdb! it segfaults!

2000-09-18 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello all, > > i'm debugging a c++ program, and found something very distressing: > > % gdb wellspring core > GNU gdb 19990928 > (warranty snipped) > This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"... > Core was generat

Re: POP -> IMAP w/ Maildirs?

2000-09-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The Cyrus IMAP server (http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/) is designed to handle mail for users who don't have accounts on the machine. I'd take a look at it. I've been looking to do something like this and still haven't gotten it together. I'm going to suggest hacking UW IMAP to do this might be dif

Re: gnupg help

2000-09-18 Thread Vee-Eye
> And then select the old uid with "uid" and delete it with "deluid". > > Hubert But there is a problem with publically distributed keys, as someone (Ethan, I think) pointed out in the "previous" (Nietzsche: Die ewige Wiederkehr des Gleichen ...IIRC) thread. Here is the gnupg-handbook speaking:

Re: APM: disable mouse interrupt?

2000-09-18 Thread Krzys Majewski
Sadly, interrupt 12 is not listed in the power management section of the BIOS setup. It goes, perversely, something like this: Interrupt 3 [Primary Secondary Disabled] Interrupt 4 [Primary Secondary Disabled] Interrupt 5 [Primary Secondary Disabled] Interrupt 6 [Primary Secondary Disabled] Inter

RE: free Interrnet provider for Linux and exim

2000-09-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-Sep-2000 Dan Pomohaci wrote: > Thanks everybody (and especially Tim Anderson) who helped me to find > an free Internet provider for Linux. I succeeded to connect to > worldshare.net. > Now I have an other question. How can I use their outgoing server > (smtp.worldshare.net) for relaying my e

gpm and X and mouse

2000-09-18 Thread Krzys Majewski
I've tried to tell X to use the fifo /dev/gpmdata as its pointing device but it doesn't work. The mouse behaves fine under gpm (even cut&paste works) but is unuseable under X. The mouse cursor does move when I move the mouse, but in completely erratic and unpredictable ways. The only way I've got t

RE: free Interrnet provider for Linux and exim

2000-09-18 Thread Pollywog
Or... you could always check POP mail from the woldshare.net pop account right before sending. On 18-Sep-2000 Dan Pomohaci wrote: > Thanks everybody (and especially Tim Anderson) who helped me to find > an free Internet provider for Linux. I succeeded to connect to > worldshare.net. > Now I have

Re: gpm and X and mouse

2000-09-18 Thread Ray Percival
I am having the same problem with the mouse pointer in X. I'll have to try this when I get home sounds like a bug to me. -- Original Message -- From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:19:51 -0700 (PDT) >I've tried to tell X to us

how to briefly disable mouse under X?

2000-09-18 Thread Krzys Majewski
What's a good way to programmatically disable the mouse under X, and re-enable it again, without restarting X. By programmatically I mean "not by unplugging the mouse or cutting the wire and re-soldering it". -chris

html2ps

2000-09-18 Thread nw x
Hi, Debians: I have a question about html2ps that is I just install it under my usr/local directory and then I use the command html2ps filename.html > filename.ps however, it report the following warning message: can not find the file and /usr/local/lib/html2ps/html2psrc and then it just conver

Re: dselect questions

2000-09-18 Thread David Z. Maze
Cantoni, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MC> 1) Should overwrite the source list with a new list when selecting MC> (A)ccess? You probably never need to re-run the (A)ccess command from dselect. For APT, it tends to be significantly easier to manually edit /etc/apt/sources.list anyways. MC> 2)

Re: OT: no cdrom audio from sound card line out

2000-09-18 Thread David Z. Maze
Mark Schiltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> I think I have tried everything, maybe my sound card is not fully MS> supported? I have a motherboard with built-in soundpro MS> (CMI8330). The sound is working with the exception of the cd MS> audio. I know the cd is working because I can use the phone

Re: gpm and X and mouse

2000-09-18 Thread James Dietrich
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:19:51PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > I've tried to tell X to use the fifo /dev/gpmdata as its > pointing device but it doesn't work. The mouse behaves fine > under gpm (even cut&paste works) but is unuseable under X. The > mouse cursor does move when I move the mouse, b

Re: include dirs

2000-09-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, jereme wrote: > hi all, > > I hope this question is directed to the correct group and not > too redundant. I checked the list archives and the policy manual > before mailing this off. What i would like is for someone to point me > towards a good source of information

Re: include dirs

2000-09-18 Thread David Z. Maze
jereme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: j> I hope this question is directed to the correct group and not j> too redundant. I checked the list archives and the policy manual j> before mailing this off. What i would like is for someone to point me j> towards a good source of information about what head

Re: how to briefly disable mouse under X?

2000-09-18 Thread David Z. Maze
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KM> What's a good way to programmatically disable the mouse under KM> X, and re-enable it again, without restarting X. By KM> programmatically I mean "not by unplugging the mouse or cutting KM> the wire and re-soldering it". Umm, you can't, really; the m

Re: OT: no cdrom audio from sound card line out

2000-09-18 Thread Mark Schiltz
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, David Z. Maze wrote: > Mark Schiltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > MS> I think I have tried everything, maybe my sound card is not fully > MS> supported? I have a motherboard with built-in soundpro > MS> (CMI8330). The sound is working with the exception of the cd > MS> audio. I

Termcap and Terminfo (fwd)

2000-09-18 Thread Alberto Pereira
People, After moving a RH based server to Debian I found a strange problem. In this server runs locally a program (acessed by Windows machines with Telnet) originally from SCO UNIX and the terminal must be reconfigured to "SCO ANSI". Default Debian instalation don't have "scounix" term

minicom doesn't work. Why ?

2000-09-18 Thread Pablo De Napoli
Hi! Minicom doesn't work on my system. I think the problem is in my system (and not a bug in minicom) , because the same version used to work before (that I needed to reinstall my system). I cannot even type a single character on the terminal emulator. When running under X11, I got the message:

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:02:23AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > I discovered emacs is on my system, and I don't particularly want it there. > > I have no idea how it got there either, and it's probably taking up a > > healthy amount of disk space. Here's some interesting stats... > > > >

Re: bash login for root

2000-09-18 Thread Joey Hess
Bruce Richardson wrote: > Debian doesn't put .bash_profile in for root. I assume you mean on a new install of debian 2.2 This is a bug in base-config (my package). See bug #66963 I hope to fix this eventually. -- see shy jo

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
"John L . Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [1 ] > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:46:11AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > > > /swap - 2xRAM > > I don't think the 'rule' of swap being 2xRAM is necessary anymore. > I have 256 MB RAM, and 133 MB swap, and hardly use the swap at all > (currently us

Re: bash login for root

2000-09-18 Thread Joey Hess
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I'll have to think a bit before I say it's really bad. I think it's not > a *good* idea It's a horrible idea. All someone has to do then is crack your user account, and they can trivially edit one of your dotfiles and the next time you su to root, they have cracked

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:02:23AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > I discovered emacs is on my system, and I don't particularly want it > > > there. > > > I have no idea how it got there either, and it's probably taking up a > > > healthy am

Re: OT: no cdrom audio from sound card line out

2000-09-18 Thread Mike Werner
Mark Schiltz wrote: > I think I have tried everything, maybe my sound card is not fully supported? I > have a motherboard with built-in soundpro (CMI8330). The sound is working with > the exception of the cd audio. I know the cd is working because I can use the > phone plug on the face of the cdrom

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> why not dpkg -l emacs ? jm> un emacs (no description available) It's probably "emacs19" or "emacs20", or one of the xemacs varieties. The simplest way to find out what package a particuler file belongs to is with dpkg -

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Ray Percival
I know that when 2.2 installs in is emacs19. But of course you know that as soon as you remove emacs RMS sends large men to your house to break your knees. :) I like emacs but it is big. -- Original Message -- From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Repl

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