Re: gtk-config and glib-config?

2000-12-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
libglib1.2-dev libgtk1.2-dev On Fri 15 Dec 00, 12:58 AM, Ken Weingold said... > I am trying to install gaim, but configure can't seem to find > gtk-config and glib-config. What packages do these come with? I > am wondering if I don't have them. -- Just upgraded to Woody? Don't have permissi

mkttfdir is segfaulting on me

2000-12-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hello all, mkttfdir is segfaulting on me. i'm posting this before contacting the package maintainer. i think i recall reading a post that truetype fonts can't have internal spaces in their names. is this true? could be caused by entries in font.dir like: suckgolf.ttf -misc-I suck at golf-medi

Using apt-get upgrade-Any way to get list first? Solved!

2000-12-15 Thread Jonathan Gift
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:54:20PM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote: > I don't see anyone having replied yet, so > > If you use APT, you can 'apt-get upgrade -u' which will show you the > packages to be upgraded. You can then say no to continuing and put on hold > anything that you don't want coming

Re: php4-postgresql problem

2000-12-15 Thread Rino Mardo
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:15:53PM +0100 or thereabouts, Knud S?rensen wrote: > Rino Mardo wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:20:42AM +0100 or thereabouts, Knud S?rensen > > wrote: > > > Rino Mardo wrote: > > > > which source file did you use php4 or php4-mysql > > > > > > > there's no s

Re: exim outgoing addresses...

2000-12-15 Thread Rino Mardo
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:36:59AM -0600 or thereabouts, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I have my system setup as a satellite, which forwards all email to a > sh\marthost, who delivers it. > > But when it arrives, I'd like the addresses to show where they came from, > > e.g. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh question / 2nd post first did not work

2000-12-15 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Andrew Hall wrote: > This may be silly, but here goes. I have downloaded the new version os ssh > due to the security > announcement a little bit ago. Looking at its depends I see that it requires > libz1 but I can not > find that package anywhere on the debian site. I do

Re: mkttfdir is segfaulting on me

2000-12-15 Thread Bernhard Josef Rieder
> hello all, > > mkttfdir is segfaulting on me. on me too :( It was also the reason for X not to run (at least with xtt, freetype works but I would prefer xtt) and making me buy a new graphics card (Ok. Having an old S3Virge-PCI card it was time for this step anyway) > i think i recall reading a

Re: exim outgoing addresses...

2000-12-15 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Rino Mardo wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:36:59AM -0600 or thereabouts, Gregory Guthrie > wrote: > > I have my system setup as a satellite, which forwards all email to a > > sh\marthost, who delivers it. > > > > But when it arrives, I'd like the addresses to show where

Re: what is > ?

2000-12-15 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 11:08:49PM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 07:41:01PM -0700, cls-c/s wrote: > > in bash, i sometimes hit ' at the end of a command and i then get > on the > > next line. what does > do? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ top' > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Network Monitoring recommendation

2000-12-15 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, sena wrote: > On 14/12/2000 at 17:26 +, Craig Coles wrote: > > I am looking for a tool to monitor the through-put of my connection to the > > internet. I want to know if my connection is maxing out, or my users just > > have slow connections to the internet. Is there a

Re: [OT] Apple IIe help please

2000-12-15 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 10:53:45AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Friday, December 1, Lizard did write: > > > At 06:25 PM 12/1/2000, D-Man wrote: > > > > >Hi all. I apologize for the off topic-ness of the message and the > > >cross-post. > > >I have a friend who has a program she likes (w

Re: remote management

2000-12-15 Thread Leen Besselink
> Would this be a dial-in connection to the computer to manage it? What I need > is > to manage the computer remoteley all the way back to the lilo prompt. Are > there Withut special hardware it's impossible to get to the Lilo prompt, after all Linux manages it's own serial ports and it hasn't

Re: Linking Recursively

2000-12-15 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:17:06PM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: > On Thursday 30 November 2000 12:51, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > This is Unix, so you use several tools together to accomplish > > whatever you want: > > > > $ mkdir collapsed > > $ cd collapsed > > $ find /original/path -pri

Re: remote management

2000-12-15 Thread Nico De Ranter
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:51:30PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > > :I am managing my server remotely using ssh. If my network connection > > :goes down for some reason, I have no control over it, is there a way > > :where I could check to

Re: gtk-config and glib-config?

2000-12-15 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:58:48AM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > I am trying to install gaim, but configure can't seem to find > gtk-config and glib-config. What packages do these come with? I > am wondering if I don't have them. I have the Contents* files of my debian CD's in /potato on my syste

Re: DESTROY

2000-12-15 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 09:23:26AM -0500, Debian Ghost wrote: > Hey Steve, > Thanks for the reply. > I did what you suggested and didn't find anything I am missing. > Can you look at this and tell me if I am missing what I am missing ? :) > > p.s- is the second package acronym a joke ? (pathologic

Re: I'm Confused with SBLive!

2000-12-15 Thread Rob VanFleet
Well, one way I guess the creative drivers could be different is that fact that there are always daily builds at opensource.creative.com, so if there are any recent changes, they would be there first. -Rob On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:11:41AM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "stef" == stef wr

Re: remote management

2000-12-15 Thread Matt Fair
I looked at realweasel.com, I could not see a place where you could purchase The PC Weasel 2000 on the site, where can you purchase this product. I tried the demo, it is exactly what I need. Thank you, Matt > zOn Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:51:30PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000

Debian problem on UltraSparc

2000-12-15 Thread Tommy Wu
1. I've 1024MB RAM on my box. But when I use kernel 2.2.18, it won't boot correctly except I add a append="mem=512m" to let kernel use only 512MB. Is there any configuration that I miss ? (I've try 2.4.0-test9 to test12, they will use all 1024MB RAM correctly) 2. Does any

Re: remote management

2000-12-15 Thread Nico De Ranter
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 02:49:15AM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > I looked at realweasel.com, I could not see a place where you could purchase > The PC > Weasel 2000 on the site, where can you purchase this product. I tried the > demo, it is I don't know, I haven't bought any yet (I'm planning to).

Re: Using apt-get upgrade-Any way to get list first? Solved!

2000-12-15 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 07:10:23AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:54:20PM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote: > > I don't see anyone having replied yet, so > > > > If you use APT, you can 'apt-get upgrade -u' which will show you the > > packages to be upgraded. You can then sa

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-15 Thread Joerg Johannes
Well, thanks for everybody's suggestions. I have tried out this way: \pdfoutput=1 \documentclass[a4paper, pdftex]{report} \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.jpg} \begin{document} \includegraphics{somepicture} \end{document} That worked for me (not only with .jpg but also wit

Continuing sound saga (es1370, etc.)

2000-12-15 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
I'm unable to get my SB PCI64 (es1370) card to play. It worked for a couple of days, then quit while I was running a game in Wine. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the es1370 and soundcore kernel modules several times. Right now I also have the sound and soundlow modules installed. But every time

mysterious messages

2000-12-15 Thread Jim McClosky
Does anyone know what the crud below is? It was printed to the first virtual terminal while I was doing apt-get dist-upgrade (to 2.2r2) on VT2. This is on a brand new box, recent install. It's not in the logs anywhere that I can find, Jim -

VM, iso-latin1 and uptating emacsen packages

2000-12-15 Thread Frodo Baggins
Hi debianers, I got no answer on a preceeding mail on almost the same subject, so I try again. The basic problem is that I have some problem with vm under xemacs. More precisely, it does not handle well messages containing accents: it always put a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii header.

[robert@namodn.com: proxy domain name resolution]

2000-12-15 Thread Rob
Hello, I am using Apache as a proxy server, and I would like to run multiple instances of the proxy server, each one resolving names differently. Unfortunately, Apache does not seem able to resolve domain names based on anything but the /etc/hosts file and the /etc/resolv.conf .. If there is a p

Cannot read HDDs, help!

2000-12-15 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I am having a very bad problem now. I got a multibay carrier to add a second HDD on my Compaq LTE 5200 laptop, so I was trying to back up the filesystem to another HDD. Then, I shutdown the system, and the message said the system has been halted. I then pulled out the multibay carrier

Re: Using apt-get upgrade-Any way to get list first? Solved!

2000-12-15 Thread Jonathan Gift
> > BTW, do you know the deb ftp address for sources.list? I only have the > > http one and the ftp would be faster. > > there's just been a thread recently about ftp vs. http, and how > http should be faster. > > to see if it's true for you, munge your sources.list to use FTP, > and do "apt-get

Re: Debian problem on UltraSparc

2000-12-15 Thread Joshua Uziel
* Tommy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001215 00:56]: > 1. I've 1024MB RAM on my box. But when I use kernel 2.2.18, it won't > boot correctly except I add a append="mem=512m" to let kernel use > only 512MB. Is there any configuration that I miss ? (I've try > 2.4.0-test9 to test12, they w

Re: mysterious messages

2000-12-15 Thread Christoph Simon
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:56:48 -0800 Jim McClosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know what the crud below is? It was printed to the first > virtual terminal while I was doing apt-get dist-upgrade (to 2.2r2) on > VT2. This is on a brand new box, recent install. It's not in the logs > an

Re: Cannot read HDDs, help!

2000-12-15 Thread kmself
on Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 05:20:48AM -0500, Fu-Dong Chiou ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I am having a very bad problem now. I got a multibay carrier to add a > second HDD on my Compaq LTE 5200 laptop, so I was trying to back up the > filesystem to another HDD. Then, I shutdown the system,

Re: scanning SCSI-bus on a running system

2000-12-15 Thread Joerg Johannes
> # echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" >/proc/scsi/scsi > > # echo "scsi remove-single-device 0 0 0 0" >/proc/scsi/scsi Well, I tried that out, to the result that the scanner is listed in /proc/scsi/scsi, but I still cannot access it. Nevermind, I'll turn it on whenever I start the syste

Re: Exim, RBL/ORBS, fetchmail and POP3

2000-12-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:41:11PM -0500, John Bacalle wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:23:50PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > exim's blackholing only works if the messages are delivered direct to your > > computer and not via fetchmail. > Are you absolutely sure? I ask because the fetchmail

Re: problems after upgrade to progeny

2000-12-15 Thread Andre Berger
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andre Berger wrote: > > > > I've just upgraded my potato box to progeny. There's a problem with > > xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-12), the mga driver, and geometry. Vertical > > window borders are partly gibberish, like waves, and the text of lines > > between t

Choose debian archive path, what is it

2000-12-15 Thread horelacy
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:debian archive path Hi there, I recently bought debian2.2 and am having trouble installing it. Everything goes well right up to 'install operating system kernal & modules'. I select this option and then choos

SBLive working but something is missing

2000-12-15 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, my sblive works well with Kernel >= 2.2.17. But I think, there shoul be some more devices for sound than /dev/dsp*? Sometimes I read errors in logfiles about missing /dev/sndstat or similiar. What does this mean and how can I get it working? $ cat /dev/sndstat cat: /dev/sndstat: No such devic

Netscape update brocken?

2000-12-15 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, today after updating my system (woody) following "error" occured: The following packages have been kept back communicator netscape Why? They seem to depend on Netscape 4.75 but now 4.76 is installed. Can I savely remove these packages without missing further Netscape updates?

Re: Signal 11 when using 'ps'

2000-12-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Thanks guys for the help. Ok first, my CPU is not overclocked. My hardware is all fairly new though, so I'll list the major components: Athlon "Thunderbird" CPU, 1Ghz Asus A7V mobo Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI card 18Gb Seagate SCSI drive "Geforc

Re: SBLive working but something is missing

2000-12-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:15:46PM +0100, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > my sblive works well with Kernel >= 2.2.17. But I think, there shoul be > some more devices for sound than /dev/dsp*? Sometimes I read errors in > logfiles about missing /dev/sndstat or similiar. What does this mean and > how can

partitionmagic

2000-12-15 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I am curious about how does Partition Magic work under Debian ext2 filesystem. Thanks Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Re: partitionmagic

2000-12-15 Thread Cory T. Echols
On 12/15, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > I am curious about how does Partition Magic work under Debian ext2 > filesystem. > I have used partition magic 4.0 on a limited basis w/ext2 partitions, and had no problems with it. It actually caused me more problems with FAT s

Kernel patches (Was: make-kpkg question)

2000-12-15 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
> you definitely do not want use the patches for 2.2.18 with any > other kernel, unless you really know what you are doing (you > would have to make sure that the files that the patch changes > are unchanged between 2.2.18 and whatever you will use). This brings up another question: According to w

Re: Re: SBLive working but something is missing

2000-12-15 Thread romain lerallut
> Begin Original Message >From: "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:15:46PM +0100, Kai Weber wrote: >> Hi, >> >> my sblive works well with Kernel >= 2.2.17. But I think, there shoul be >> some more devices for sound than /dev/dsp*? Sometimes I read errors

Re: SBLive working but something is missing

2000-12-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 02:00:11PM +0100, romain lerallut wrote: > > I think it would be a good idea to clearly define what is OSS-related and > what isn't, so one wouldn't look for a bug that isn't really there. True. Let me make it clear then that I am using Creative-Labs' driver, not OSS.

Porting applications to Debian

2000-12-15 Thread Simon Broad
I'm pretty new to Linux, but have been asked by a customer to port a Unix product to Debian.   This may sound daft to a lot of you, but would I need to port the product on a Debian box or, as I already have SuSE and RH available will a port on one of these be OK?   I'm sure there are many

Re: Kernel patches (Was: make-kpkg question)

2000-12-15 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:50:34PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > you definitely do not want use the patches for 2.2.18 with any > > other kernel, unless you really know what you are doing (you > > would have to make sure that the files that the patch changes > > are unchanged between 2.2.

Re: more apt-get help please??

2000-12-15 Thread Xucaen
--- will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try > http://www.eGroups.com/files/newbieDoc/ > > the "apt-get-intro.html" file there may be it. > that's one i've hobbled together and got mostly > good feedback on. it's mostly a > scratch-the-surface > kind of thing, but it might be what you

Re: partitionmagic

2000-12-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 07:51:06AM -0500, Cory T. Echols wrote: > On 12/15, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hi! > > I am curious about how does Partition Magic work under Debian ext2 > > filesystem. > > > I have used partition magic 4.0 on a limited basis w/ext2 > partitions, and ha

Still no luck with modversions (compiling alsa)

2000-12-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 15 05:59:06 2000 Newsgroups: Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 05:59:06 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: alsa and modutils Fcc: sent-mail In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Network cards

2000-12-15 Thread garyjones
I have seen network cards which plug into the serial or parallel port (I forget which, now). Basically I want to connect a laptop to a network (both of which are running Debian), and a) there is no room to fit a card in inside; and b) the PCMCIA slot seems to be bug^H^Hroken. Does anyone have a

Where do I go from here? was: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-15 Thread Dan Griswold
Seeing as my thread has peetered out, I was wondering if anybody had any ideas of where else I might ask the question. I have searched on Google and Northernlight, and none of the information retrieved there has gone beyond the good suggestions offered here. For those new to this thread, my questi

Re: I screwed up my apt/dpkg system

2000-12-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:23:12PM -0800, Scott Bronson wrote: > > Why the heck isn't debconf written in C? This happens to me ALL the > time (well, every other month or so). Something as fundamental as > debconf really should not have so many dependencies. > See the debian-boot list where the

Re: remote management

2000-12-15 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:51:30PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: :> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: :> :I am managing my server remotely using ssh. If my network connection :> :goes down for some reason, I have no control over it, is there a way :> :where I could check to see

Digital Photo in Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I have bought yesterday a (cheap) digital photo camera. It's an Kodak EZ200 (it uses the USB port). How can I use it under Linux? Thanks. -- Pedro Quaresma de Almeida e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Digital Photo in Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Ray Percival
You need to get the 2.2.18 kernel to get the USB backports after that your best hope is apt-get install gphoto and hope that they have it right now. -- Original Message -- From: Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:44:25 +

Re: remote management

2000-12-15 Thread Bill White
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:32:08 EST, "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Opined: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:51:30PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > :> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > :> :I am managing my server remotely using ssh. If my network connection > :> :goes d

Re: Digital Photo in Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Ray Percival writes: > You need to get the 2.2.18 kernel to get the USB backports after > that your best hope is apt-get install gphoto and hope that they > have it right now. > Thanks. gphoto vs. photopc (phototk), which is best? > -- Original Message

password checker

2000-12-15 Thread ktb
I need to check user passwords on a server here at work. I would like to test it from my Debian box if this is possible. I searched the archives and packages but didn't find the program I'm looking for. I'm running potato. Thanks, kent -- "In

Re: partitionmagic

2000-12-15 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > I am curious about how does Partition Magic work under Debian ext2 > filesystem. > It works very well, in my experience. PM doesn't work _in_ linux, but there is a "linux install" option that creates a bootable

Which IMAP server to use

2000-12-15 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I am planning to switch my private mail server from Redhat to Woody and at the same time upgrade to a decent IMAP server. But the choices, the choices! There seem to be courier-imap cyrus-imap and uw-imapd. I think I heard good things about Courier. Then again, there is a whole HOWTO for Cyrus

RE: Processed: help

2000-12-15 Thread Martin Johnson
Dear Darren, I have purchased 1 copy of Debian potato 2.2r0 official binary and source from cheeplinux(uk) and I seem to have a problem with disk 2. It seems that there are many many corrupt packages that wont install. Some of the packages seem to be the following: tetex-

Re: password checker

2000-12-15 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:47:16AM -0600, ktb wrote: > I need to check user passwords on a server here at work. I > would like to test it from my Debian box if this is possible. I > searched the archives and packages but didn't find the program > I'm looking for. I'm ru

auto responder from Simon Broad

2000-12-15 Thread ktb
There is a person who has turned on an auto responder and it is bouncing mail from the list. Maybe you have been told but here is his name and address - Simon Broad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maybe you can take him off the list? Thanks, kent -- "I

Re: mouse attention problem

2000-12-15 Thread William Heindl
Hi Pete, Thanks for the reply. > >is gpm running? Yes, like so: /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -l "a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377" > >do you see any gpm messages in /var/log/messages? Unfortunately, no. The only reference I see to the mouse is: "Dec 15 08:05:15 cass16 kerne

Re: Using apt-get upgrade-Any way to get list first? Solved!

2000-12-15 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:54:20PM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote: > > If you use APT, you can 'apt-get upgrade -u' which will show you the > packages to be upgraded. You can then say no to continuing and put on hold > anything that you don't want coming down the pipe. You can achieve the same by addi

JDE install problem on Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Glenn Murray
Hi, I have successfully installed JDE on Win2K but am failing on Debian linux. I have tried two ways: 1. Via the Debian package. I can't find any documentation on what to add to my .emacs, the usual things (load path and require) don't seem to work. 2. "By hand", as worked with Win2K

Use of TTY7-TTY12

2000-12-15 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all In the debain sytem the tty7-12 are not used by default. How can i for example use TTY10 to schow me the messages file. If i log in in an other tty and type 'tail /var/log/messages > /dev/tty12' then it does show the changing of messages there but the other tty is blocked because tail is at

Re: Which IMAP server to use

2000-12-15 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > Hi, > > I am planning to switch my private mail server from Redhat to Woody > and at the same time upgrade to a decent IMAP server. But the choices, > the choices! There seem to be courier-imap cyrus-imap and uw-imapd. > I think I heard good things abo

Re: partitionmagic

2000-12-15 Thread Ken Weingold
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000, Andy Bastien wrote: > Pending further investigation, we now allege that Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hi! > > I am curious about how does Partition Magic work under Debian ext2 > > filesystem. > > > > It works very well, in my experience. PM doesn't work _in_ linux, but >

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-15 Thread Erik Steffl
will trillich wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:20:03AM +0100, Manegold wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm wondering what VNC is. According to the package listing it is a > > remote display system. Therefore something like X. > > But what does that mean? Can I use it instead of X? > > Does it need special

Install newer pakages than the stable release serves

2000-12-15 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all, I use potato. I need to install the newest OT Developpmet pacckage (2.2.2). Potato serves only the 2.0.2 version. I saw that woody has the newest libraries. What is now the uncomplicatest way to get the qt-2.2.2-dev package installed with all depencies and so on? Cheers, Raffaele -- Sen

Install newer pakages than the stable release serves

2000-12-15 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all, I use potato. I need to install the newest OT Developpmet pacckage (2.2.2). Potato serves only the 2.0.2 version. I saw that woody has the newest libraries. What is now the uncomplicatest way to get the qt-2.2.2-dev package installed with all depencies and so on? Cheers, Raffaele -- S

Re: Use of TTY7-TTY12

2000-12-15 Thread Brendan Cully
On Friday, 15 December 2000 at 17:49, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi all > > In the debain sytem the tty7-12 are not used by default. How can i for > example use TTY10 to schow me the messages file. If i log in in an other tty > and type 'tail /var/log/messages > /dev/tty12' then it does show the c

Re: Porting applications to Debian

2000-12-15 Thread Erik Steffl
> Simon Broad wrote: > > I'm pretty new to Linux, but have been asked by a customer to port a > Unix product to Debian. > > This may sound daft to a lot of you, but would I need to port the > product on a Debian box or, as I already have SuSE and RH available > will a port on one of these be OK?

Re: Porting applications to Debian

2000-12-15 Thread D-Man
It would be best to have a system set up to test on, but if it runs on Unix and doesn't do anything that is system/implementation dependent it should work. What they probably really mean is they would like you to create a Debian specific package they can install. This simply means making th

purify type of software

2000-12-15 Thread Timothy C. Phan
hi, Is there any 'purify' type of software for Linux? It seems that efence does the work but it does not seem to tell me the non-deallocated memory at the end of the program. THanks! --- Tim

Re: xdm takes so long to start [was Re: New X Server crashes]

2000-12-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Joey Hess wrote: > > Shao Zhang wrote: > > xdm on my machine(laptop) takes about 50 seconds to start. > > > If no one knows why, then I am going to fire up a bug report against it. > > I've already tracked down this bug and filed a report, so please don't > bother. any news on this? xdm still

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-15 Thread Ernest Johanson
I have seen a situation where a system that began on Slackware was migrated to Debian years ago. Several Debian upgrades have been done since then. There are user ids between 500 and 100 and there hasn't been any problems. Hopefully this isn't an accident going somewhere to happen. One idea might

Re: more apt-get help please??

2000-12-15 Thread Chris Gray
> Xucaen writes: x> --- will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> try >>> http://www.eGroups.com/files/newbieDoc/ >>> >>> the "apt-get-intro.html" file there may be it. >>> that's one i've hobbled together and got mostly >>> good feedback on. it's mostly a

Re: more apt-get help please??

2000-12-15 Thread Xucaen
--- Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Xucaen writes: > x> what is the syntax for the sources.list? > and what > x> is apt.conf used for anyways? > > $ man 5 sources.list > $ man 5 apt.conf > > Look especially at the examples in > sources.list(5). well, there's the catch. I

Re: Which IMAP server to use

2000-12-15 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:03:41PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: I installed it on my test machine, and it couldn't have been easier. Netscape is still bitching because I didn't create a site certificate yet, but it's working. Thanks so much! j > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Juergen Fiedler wrote: [...]

FATAL: file_map_allocate: Exceeded filemap limit

2000-12-15 Thread Florian Kessler
Hi all, what does this error message mean? Thanks, Florian

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-15 Thread Chris Gray
> Ethan Benson writes: eb> if you extract the home directories after creating the new user eb> accounts they should get the new ownership properly as GNU tar is eb> fairly smart about this sort of thing. Actually, a tar file (according to POSIX) can have the uid only represented

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-15 Thread B. Dragoo
--- Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > One idea might be to do a search and replace on the > passwd file, placing a > 1 (or 2, etc) in front of the existing user id. That > would necessitate > changing the ids on the user's files. I had a > similar situation and wrote > a Perl sc

Re: more apt-get help please??

2000-12-15 Thread Chris Gray
> Xucaen writes: x> --- Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > Xucaen writes: x> what is the syntax for the sources.list? >>> and what x> is apt.conf used for anyways? >>> >>> $ man 5 sources.list >>> $ man 5 apt.conf >>> >>> Look especially

Sound is working for everything but cds

2000-12-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Okay, I know this is a boring issue, but I've now finally got sound working okay (as evidenced by the fact that I can play .wav files at will), but I still can't play cds. The cd's spin, and if I plug headphones into the jack in the CD-ROM drive I hear the music, so I know the player is working fi

Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

2000-12-15 Thread Tom Schuetz
I had Red Hat installed on my Presario as a dual boot system. It had its own hard drive, and worked somewhat, but eventually it flashed the BIOS and the whole motherboard had to be replaced. I was told (tersely) by Compaq Support that Presarios are NOT GOOD with Linux. But, I WANT LINUX. Name

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-15 Thread Joey Hess
Ethan Benson wrote: > uid's 100 - 999 are reserved for the packaging system/daemons etc. > you won't likely have a problem but it would be better to migrate to > debian policy anyway. It's perfectly safe to keep those users starting at 500. Debian packages that want an id in the 100-999 range w

Re: Signal 11 when using 'ps'

2000-12-15 Thread Chris Gray
> Ed Cogburn writes: ec> Thanks guys for the help. ec> Ok first, my CPU is not overclocked. My hardware is ec> all fairly new though, so I'll list the major components: ec> Athlon "Thunderbird" CPU, 1Ghz You lucky bastard. ec> Fourth, t

Re: exim

2000-12-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:24:42PM -0500, A R wrote: > Carel Fellinger wrote:Aha bingo, found the culprit, and it's me again:) > Fetchmail as e precursion ... > Same failure after the fix: okee, that's the error we are going to tackle next, but first I would like to know for sure that fetchmail

Re: how to fake from address in an email

2000-12-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:39:08PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: ... > If they're using exim it's just a matter of adding a an appropriate > rewrite rule, no need to worry about relaying or anything like that. I > think that when you install exim there's even a nice setup for you > already in /etc/ex

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-15 Thread B. Dragoo
--- Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > uid's 100 - 999 are reserved for the packaging > system/daemons etc. > you won't likely have a problem but it would be > better to migrate to > debian policy anyway. Yeah, that's about how I'm thinking about it, too. Debian goes through so much to

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-15 Thread B. Dragoo
--- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's perfectly safe to keep those users starting at > 500. Debian > packages that want an id in the 100-999 range will > dynamically allocate > it with adduser, which will never trample over an > existing user, and it > doesn't matter what user id it p

Mail receipts

2000-12-15 Thread Cheng H. Lee
Does anyone know how to configure either exim or mutt so that I can request and receive read receipts for my email? Thanks for any help in advance, Cheng

Re: Sound is working for everything but cds

2000-12-15 Thread Chris Gray
> Andrew Perrin writes: ap> Okay, I know this is a boring issue, but I've now finally got ap> sound working okay (as evidenced by the fact that I can play ap> .wav files at will), but I still can't play cds. The cd's ap> spin, and if I plug headphones into the jack in the CD-R

Re: partitionmagic

2000-12-15 Thread Kelly Corbin
I've used it quite a bit including versions 4 and 6. I have had no problems whatsoever with FATx or EXT2 partitions. EXT2 has been supported since ver. 4. Ver. 6, the current version, is even more robust and offers more error correction ability. Unfortunately it requires 2 boot disks instea

Re: Sound is working for everything but cds

2000-12-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i would've suggested this to, but he did say that CD's played under windows. wouldn't windows need a cable from the CD player to the sound card too? pete On Fri 15 Dec 00, 2:36 PM, Chris Gray said... > > Andrew Perrin writes: > > ap> Okay, I know this is a boring issue, but I've now fi

Re: Digital Photo in Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Scott Patterson
> gphoto vs. photopc (phototk), which is best? Gphoto supports over 100 cameras and is being actively developed. The gphoto development team is actually revising the code to make it VERY modular (a library). This change will make it independent of the interface (ex: GNOME, KDE, tk, curses, etc).

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-15 Thread Ernest Johanson
The system uses the underlying user ids to identify files rather than the user names. Run ls -ln to see the ids instead of the names. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, B. Dragoo wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:37:59 -0800 (PST) > From

Re: Sound is working for everything but cds

2000-12-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
My apologies to both of you and to the list for this... I had removed my CD-ROM earlier for use in installing linux on another box, and when I reinstalled it I didn't plug in the cable. I'll just slink back into my cave now Andy ---

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