Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

2001-01-21 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's no such syslog facility "cron". Cron logs to the 'daemon' > facility. The only way to tweak what cron messages you see is to adjust > what daemon priorities get logged. Read the syslog and syslog.conf man > pages. Hmm. And from where d

Re: Start up?

2001-01-21 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:24:10PM -0600, Joshua Kruck wrote: > Is there come kind of script that run when the machine boots that i can > put commands into? I want to run sound on when the machine boots, i > would also like to mount some samba commands. Can someone point me to an > easy way to do

raidtools on sparc

2001-01-21 Thread Tom Marshall
I cannot seem to get the raidtools working on a sparc. I was hoping that someone here could help out. Before I start, let me note that I've been using Debian with raidtools on several x86 machines for quite some time without any troubles. The machine is an Ultra 2 Enterprise (sun4u, SBUS, SCSI).

"netscape-base-4" dependency?

2001-01-21 Thread Alex Chamberlain
I'm tearing my hair out trying to get Netscape installed on potato. I have netscape-base-475 and all its dependencies selected in dselect, but then dselect says "netscape-base-475 depends on netscape-base-4; netscape-base-4 does not appear to be available". I've searched high and low on ftp.debia

Re: Sound for woody with 2.2.12

2001-01-21 Thread Jonathan Gift
John Galt wrote: > > > >I have in modules: > >sound > >uart401 > >sb io... > > > >Missing: > >mpu... > >op13... > > These mostly deal with midi. mpu is "mpu 401 support (NOT for SB)" which > is self explanatory why you shouldn't need it, and opl3 is "ymf 2XXX/opl3 > support". My advice to you on

Re: pump: "no extra parameters are expected"

2001-01-21 Thread Jim Breton
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 06:32:47AM +, Jim Breton wrote: > In /var/log/daemon.log I see the following: > > cardmgr[163]: + /sbin/pump -i eth0 > /dev/null > cardmgr[163]: + pump: no extra parameters are expected > cardmgr[163]: start cmd exited with status 1 Well... I found the problem. I had

Re: filtering in mutt

2001-01-21 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:47:10PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > > is there a way to filter mail in mutt? i am testing mutt in > IMAP mode so i do not believe i can use procmail or anything > external to do it. the mail system is cyrus so i do not have > access to the mail files themselve

Marking all messages read in mutt?

2001-01-21 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Hello! This is a simple question, but my 15-minutes of scouring the web didn't turn up anything, so here goes. Is there any way to mark all messages in a folder read in mutt? This function would be particularly useful after coming back to 300+ mail messages from debian-user after a 2-day bre

Re: Marking all messages read in mutt?

2001-01-21 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:41:02AM -0600, Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) wrote: > > Hello! This is a simple question, but my 15-minutes of scouring the web > didn't turn up anything, so here goes. Umm, why did you search the web, there's quite a lot of documentation with mutt itself, and even

Kernel 2.4.0, Potato, and rpc.quotad

2001-01-21 Thread Vibol Hou
Hi, Do any of you have problems with kernel 2.4.0 and rpc.quotad? I compiled Quota support into the kernel, and everything else seems to work fine, but rpc.quotad locks when it tries to load (just sits there after executing it). -- Vibol Hou http://khmer.cc

Re: Frequent download time outs

2001-01-21 Thread Carl Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Kelm) writes: > I am having trouble getting reliable downloads using Debian 2.2. After > downloading 30-150KB the download usually stops and eventually times > out. I noticed this first when I tried using apt-get to download the > base system packages. During 'apt-get up

Understanding Mutt + Fetchmail + Procmail

2001-01-21 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
It's taking me a bit of time to understand I few things about how Mutt, Fetchmail and Procmail work together (I am moving from kmail). I use exim to send mail and fetch my mail from my ISP's pop server. I think the process should be: Fetchmail fetches my mail from my ISP's pop server and handle

Re: Security Updates

2001-01-21 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:46:32PM -0800, Terry Carney wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > > > Is there any way I can "apt-get" the patches for the security updates on > > Debian.org? Thanks! > > deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free You can also

Trouble getting DRI to Work with ATI Rage 128

2001-01-21 Thread franck
Hi everybody, I'm trying to get XFree 4.0.2 DRI work on my Debian Testing box. My video card is an ATI Rage Fury (Rage 128 with 32MB). I run kernel 2.4.0-test11, and installed XFree 4.0.2 from debs (I managed to find out I have to use ati and no more r128 out of the list, thanx !). For DRI, I fol

Re: Sorry, off topic, but HOWTO get to bios with IBM Thinkpad 755...

2001-01-21 Thread Frank Copeland
On 21 Jan 01 02:37:20 GMT, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >IIRC, you hit F1 during the bootstrap. The manual I read (ThinkPad 560X) said to hold the F1 key down, power on, and continue holding down F1 until the BIOS setup came up. Frank

raid 10 with lvm

2001-01-21 Thread Martin Würtele
hi, we're upgrading our webserver and i'd like to know, how to set up a raid 10 with lvm (this section's missing in the LVM-HOWTO) the system is going to be a potato with some upgrades (modutils for kernel 2.4 and postgres 7.0.3 for potato). for performance reasons we want a raid 10, raid 5 is a

Re: Emacs Esc- key (off topic)

2001-01-21 Thread MH
> "Dale" == Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> My apologies for posting off topic. I want to bind the Alt Dale> key to the Meta key in Emacs. Is there a simple 'newbie' way Dale> to do that? OT is no problem... But you could have been more specific ... I suppose you a

Re: problem compiling kernels

2001-01-21 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:57:52 -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx said: > > Package fails to spend adequate time reading documentation :) > > I'm sure there's bugs since it's software, but that's not the problem > I'm having just to lazy to RTFM, as I have another way to do what I > need. I have ju

Re: Understanding Mutt + Fetchmail + Procmail

2001-01-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:12:58PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > It's taking me a bit of time to understand I few things about how Mutt, > Fetchmail and Procmail work together (I am moving from kmail). > > I use exim to send mail and fetch my mail from my ISP's pop server. > > I think the

Re: No available ptys

2001-01-21 Thread USM Bish
Thanks for this info. This was education for me since I know very little about device files and pseudo filesystems. The error seems to be elsewhere, since after changing the fstab I get the message "mount: devpts already mounted at /dev/pts". My /etc/init.d/devpts.sh is in place and obviously has

Re: Security Updates

2001-01-21 Thread Bill Shui
what about the testing version? are there going to be any deb packages from security.debian.org for the "testing" distribution? ps. anyone know how to get deb packages for KDE2 without upgrading to unstable? cheers. Bill On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Diego Biurrun wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 0

Re: "talk" doesn't

2001-01-21 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:23:15PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I can't get the "talk" program to work. Just as a test, I'm trying to > talk to myself within X. I open two terminals, find which terminal is > which with the "tty" command, and then from one terminal (say > /dev/pts/0) I type "talk

Re: "talk" doesn't

2001-01-21 Thread Moritz Schulte
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't get the "talk" program to work. Just as a test, I'm trying > to talk to myself within X. [...] > The screen divides into two sections (upper and lower), the top > reports "No connection yet" for a few seconds, and then reports > "Checking for invitat

PPP connection can't find servers

2001-01-21 Thread Jake Hoban
Apologies if this has been posted before - I've only just subscribed.   I'm in the process of a new debian installation via floppies and ppp. I'vegot to the point where it dials my ISP to get to the FTP server, but itnever connects to it and after a while the modem hangs up.I had this proble

Re: Security Updates

2001-01-21 Thread Moritz Schulte
Bill Shui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ps. anyone know how to get deb packages for KDE2 without upgrading to > unstable? http://kde.tdyc.com/ moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GP

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-21 Thread Robert Waldner
>"Steve R. Hastings" wrote: > >I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux > >distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian > >rather than something else. (This is also some kind of a rant, read at own risk, see below for major points) 2.5 years ago

Re: PPP connection can't find servers

2001-01-21 Thread John Hasler
Jake Hoban writes: > I've got to the point where it dials my ISP to get to the FTP server, but > it never connects to it and after a while the modem hangs up. Post copies of /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp/peers/provider, /etc/ppp/pap-secrets, /etc/ppp/chap-secrets (munge passwords), and the o

Dump-terminal

2001-01-21 Thread Hans Marcus Kruger
As the dump-terminal lacks ability to clear screen and possition the cursor, I am having some troubles executing lynx in cron-, at-jobs and in scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d. Even specifyiong lynx -term=vt100 will not work. Does anyone know a good work-around, so that dump will be able of such abi

Re: x on my laptop problems

2001-01-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bob Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I had the problem quoted below on the 430CDT after the base installation. I > tried the apt-get statement cited in this email response--apt said the > task-x-window-system-core was installed. I did apt-cache show to see if > there were fixed fonts of any

Re: Can't get sound to work!

2001-01-21 Thread Rev. Ferret
Ok, I got sound working. On my windows boot the sound was on IRQ 5, it kept trying to put it on IRQ 7 in linux. I added a /etc/modutils/sound file and put options sb irq=5 io=0x220 dma=1 in it, but when I rebooted it seemed to ignore that file. So instead I edited /etc/modules. It had a singl

help! just upgraded and now can't login!

2001-01-21 Thread
Hi, I'm a Debian newbie. I have just used apt-get to upgrade my system and now I can't seem to log in at all under X. I can login on one of the other virtual terminals (or whatever you call that when you press ctrl-alt F6). What have I done? Can I fix it? Thanks. Tim

Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

2001-01-21 Thread mike polniak
> > As I wrote in my previous message, ever since I added "cron.!info;" to > the line that pipes to /dev/xconsole, I am not seeing the exim cron > notifications any more. Did you mean : cron.!=info; ? ^^ -- ~~~

upgrade question

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi guys. I'm confused by the two databases for dpkg and apt-get. Currently apt-get has an up to date potato reference, so if I try to upgrade it will upgrade netscape-base-4, since I'm running 4.75 and 4.76 is available. However, if I check what's available with dpkg with dpkg --print-avail, it

Re: "netscape-base-4" dependency?

2001-01-21 Thread mike polniak
Alex Chamberlain wrote: > I'm tearing my hair out trying to get Netscape installed on potato. I > have netscape-base-475 and all its dependencies selected in dselect, > but then dselect says "netscape-base-475 depends on netscape-base-4; > netscape-base-4 does not appear to be available". I've se

128-bit encryption netscape

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I'm running netscape 4.75 from the security site, which has 128-bit encryption. I want to upgrade to potato r2 from r1, and it's going to upgrade netscape. So, how do you tell if the version you're about to upgrade to has 128 bit encryption support? I've looked in all of the descrip

upgrade -1?

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. What's the accepted way to upgrade everything on your system, except for an exclusion list? Looking at apt-get -s upgrade, I want to exclude a package or two but still have the convenience of upgrade. Is that possible? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: GDM dont work

2001-01-21 Thread Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed
Olivier Billet wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:33:50AM -0800, Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed wrote: > >> Try deleting all "orbit" files from the /tmp directory. > >> I had this problem a while ago... I think I had been hacking > >> around the password files by hand and not using the proper > > >com

Re: Trouble getting DRI to Work with ATI Rage 128

2001-01-21 Thread mike polniak
franck wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm trying to get XFree 4.0.2 DRI work on my Debian Testing box. > My video card is an ATI Rage Fury (Rage 128 with 32MB). > I run kernel 2.4.0-test11, and installed XFree 4.0.2 from debs (I managed > to find out > I have to use ati and no more r128 out of the lis

Re: No available ptys

2001-01-21 Thread David B . Harris
To quote USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # drwxr-xr-x rootroot0 Jan 21 13:08:32 2001 pts Looks like you're running 2.4.0, with devfs enables and mounted. Don't use devfs unless you're read the documentation(not sure where it is, check /usr/src/linux/Documentation ). David Barclay Harri

free memory

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey guys. If I do a free on my gateway, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 14308 13680628 1468 2428 7068 -/+ buffers/cache: 4184 10124 Swap:96764

installing a burner

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I just picked up an HP 9150i burner. I currently have an Acer x40 CD-ROM, and it's /dev/hdd. That means that it's the slave of the second IDE controller, yes? The burner is an IDE device as well, and I need to set the jumpers for the desired controller. Now, is there a reason why, w

Re: Emacs Esc- key (off topic)

2001-01-21 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, January 20, Dale Morris did write: > My apologies for posting off topic. I want to bind the Alt key to the Meta > key in Emacs. Is there a simple 'newbie' way to do that? Assuming you mean in X, since this is standard on the console. As MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> suggested, xmodmap

Install help needed/New tulip drivers

2001-01-21 Thread David Kanter
I'd like to install Debian but have a slight problem: my Ethernet card (ADMtek 983) requires the latest tulip drivers. I have a DSL connection with PPPoE. I'd like to install a bare-bones base system and install the remaining components via apt-get. The new drivers are available in rpm format, and

Re: 128-bit encryption netscape

2001-01-21 Thread Diego Biurrun
Don't worry, netscape 4.76 comes with 128-bit encryption. Just type about: into the location and look for "U.S. security". "International security" netscapes come with only 56 (64?) bits of encryption. Diego Biurrun On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:16:59AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey peo

Re: upgrade -1?

2001-01-21 Thread Diego Biurrun
Why not set the packages you do not want upgraded to "=" in dselect and then upgrade? Diego Biurrun On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:18:05AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. What's the accepted way to upgrade everything on your system, > except for an exclusion list? Looking at apt-ge

Re: free memory

2001-01-21 Thread Diego Biurrun
I think the memory the kernel occupies is not counted against the total, since it is not available to any other program. So your total memory is physical memory - kernel memory usage = total available memory Diego Biurrun On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:44:02AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >

Re: 128-bit encryption netscape

2001-01-21 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I have the 2.2_r2 CD's. Netscape 4.75 128bit is on the CD's already. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote: ->Hey people. I'm running netscape 4.75 from t

Re: 128-bit encryption netscape

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Granted, but how do I know this before I install? Should this not be in the description? Mike On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:13:34PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote: > Don't worry, netscape 4.76 comes with 128-bit encryption. Just type about: > into the location and look for "U.S. security". "Int

Re: free memory

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Right. Just seems funny to not include that somewhere. I can get the total from here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dmesg | grep RAM RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size But I just would have figured that total would mean total. ;-) No biggy. Mike On Sun, Jan 21,

Re: 128-bit encryption netscape

2001-01-21 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, January 21, Michael P. Soulier did write: > > Granted, but how do I know this before I install? Should this not be in > the description? > > Mike I'd think so, yes. Log a bug against the netscape package. Richard

PCTEL driver for kernel verions 2.4

2001-01-21 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
For any of you with PCTEL modems, http://www.geocities.com/tom_in_rc/pctel/ pctel-2.4.tar.gz is a driver package for PCTel modems under kernel 2.4 submitted by Thomas Wright,

Re: Understanding Mutt + Fetchmail + Procmail

2001-01-21 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
> Open mutt with "mutt -y" otherwise it will show you your default > mailbox and you'll have to move round the others. Hitting "c" > will move you to the next box with new mail I don't get this. If I start mutt -y I get a list of all the folders I have told mutt that may receive mail. I don't g

Re: anyone using inews?

2001-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am having trouble posting a news article from my home computer over a >ppp connection to my ISP's NNTPSERVER. I can read news fine; it is >only posting with which I am having a problem. > >I believe the problem is that my /etc/news/sys file is not set up >correctly. So

Re: upgrade -1?

2001-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
Diego Biurrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:18:05AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >> Hey people. What's the accepted way to upgrade everything on your >> system, except for an exclusion list? Looking at apt-get -s upgrade, >> I want to exclude a package or two but st

Re: free memory

2001-01-21 Thread Hans Marcus Kruger
On Sunday 21 January 2001 17:27, Michael P. Soulier wrote: but the size of /proc/kcore should be exaclty as big as your memory ls -l /proc/kcore hmk > > Right. Just seems funny to not include that somewhere. I can get the > total from here: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dmesg | grep RAM >

Re: upgrade -1?

2001-01-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey people. What's the accepted way to upgrade everything on > your system, except for an exclusion list? Looking at apt-get -s > upgrade, I want to exclude a package or two but still have the > convenience of upgrade. Is that possible?

Re: problem compiling kernels

2001-01-21 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:10:03PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: :I have just picked up on this thread, so excuse me if I am not answering your :question! : :The Debian way of compiling the kernel is *so* easy. What I do is this: : :Unpack the kernel source into /usr/src :Change the name of the di

Re: help! just upgraded and now can't login!

2001-01-21 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:02:08PM +0800, Tim&Pep wrote: :Hi, : :I'm a Debian newbie. I have just used apt-get to upgrade my system and :now I can't seem to log in at all under X. I can login on one of the :other virtual terminals (or whatever you call that when you press :ctrl-alt F6). What have I

Re: free memory

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:46:28PM +0100, Hans Marcus Kruger wrote: > On Sunday 21 January 2001 17:27, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > but the size of /proc/kcore should be exaclty as big as your memory > ls -l /proc/kcore Yup, that looks good. Thanks. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL

Re: upgrade -1?

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:46:04PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > You can also do this using 'echo foo hold | dpkg --get-selections' > (where foo is the name of a package to put on hold) if you don't like > using dselect. That looks promising. I need to learn more about those options to dpkg.

Re: upgrade -1?

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So apt-get respects the dpkg settings on packages? I really need to learn more about how these tools work together. Mike On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:49:28AM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > Put the packages you don't want to upgrade on hold. The > following script, posted spume tim

Re: help! just upgraded and now can't login!

2001-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:17:15PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:02:08PM +0800, Tim&Pep wrote: > :Hi, > : > :I'm a Debian newbie. I have just used apt-get to upgrade my system and > :now I can't seem to log in at all under X. I can login on one of the > :other virtua

2 kernels on the same machine

2001-01-21 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi, Can I use two kernels (for example 2.4 and 2.2.17) on the same machine? I mean can I use kernel 2.2.17 as the "normal" kernel I boot with and then still compile kernels in the 2.4 version (not for this computer but for others) - or will with cause more problems than it would solve? :) Will the

Re: Understanding Mutt + Fetchmail + Procmail

2001-01-21 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:37:28PM +0100, thus spake Daniel de los Reyes: > > > Open mutt with "mutt -y" otherwise it will show you your default > > mailbox and you'll have to move round the others. Hitting "c" > > will move you to the next box with new mail Sorry - missed copying my first to

Re: 2 kernels on the same machine

2001-01-21 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Philipp Bliedung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hi, # Can I use two kernels (for example 2.4 and 2.2.17) on the same machine? # I mean can I use kernel 2.2.17 as the "normal" kernel I boot with and # then still compile kernels in the 2.4 version (not for this computer but # for others) - or will

Re: Frequent download time outs

2001-01-21 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, I too face many times such problems on my dial up connection. Just yesterday when I tried to download the rpm files of icewm, two of them got downloaded properly but the icewm-common file was just timing out in between. I tried it many times, but could not succeed. Finally a fellow icewm liste

Re: installing a burner

2001-01-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:47:51AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. I just picked up an HP 9150i burner. I currently have an Acer > x40 CD-ROM, and it's /dev/hdd. That means that it's the slave of the second > IDE controller, yes? The burner is an IDE device as well, and I need to

Re: problem compiling kernels

2001-01-21 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:08:43PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > cd /usr/src/linux > sudo make-kpkg clean > sudo make-kpkg kernel_image -revision=custom.1.0 > complains about arch=i386-none in many ways > sudo make-kpkg -arch=i386 -revision=custom.1.0 The difference is very subtle, b

Re: 2 kernels on the same machine

2001-01-21 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:06:05PM +0100, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > Can I use two kernels (for example 2.4 and 2.2.17) on the same machine? Yes, you can. > I mean can I use kernel 2.2.17 as the "normal" kernel I boot with and > then still compile kernels in the 2.4 version (not for this compute

Re: 2 kernels on the same machine

2001-01-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:06:05PM +0100, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi, > Can I use two kernels (for example 2.4 and 2.2.17) on the same machine? > I mean can I use kernel 2.2.17 as the "normal" kernel I boot with and > then still compile kernels in the 2.4 version (not for this computer but > for

Re: problem compiling kernels

2001-01-21 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Ok, now I feel a bit of a fool, this does seem to be a bug either in the kernel source (non-debian), or in the way kernel-package parses v2.4 info. I looked at my last mail and realized I was builing a "test" kernel on an "unstable" system. I logged into my workstation running "stable" with 2.2.

Re: Understanding Mutt + Fetchmail + Procmail

2001-01-21 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:37:28PM +0100 or thereabouts, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > I don't get a message saying if a folder (file) has new mail until I open it > (to late, that is just what I don't want to have to do) > If I press c I get a list of all avaliable folders under $Home/Mail > > H

Re: Forcing modem connection to 57600 bps

2001-01-21 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:27:45PM + or thereabouts, John Carline wrote: > > > > I have the same modem, and was told the the following would give me 56K mode > > ATZ > AT&F0 L3 W2 > AT+MS=12,1,300,56000,0,0,33600 > > > However, since my phone lines are so crummy I have no idea wether or n

out of RAM.

2001-01-21 Thread Dan Brosemer
I have a machine which I don't have access to the console of, which has run almost completely out of RAM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:128268 125532 2736 1020 2620 2592 -/+ buffers/cache

Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

2001-01-21 Thread Arcady Genkin
mike polniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As I wrote in my previous message, ever since I added "cron.!info;" to > > the line that pipes to /dev/xconsole, I am not seeing the exim cron > > notifications any more. > > Did you mean : cron.!=info; ? >^^ Thank yo

Re: Forcing modem connection to 57600 bps

2001-01-21 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 21 January 2001 12:37, Rino Mardo wrote: > Hi. Since the subject is about 56K modems, I'm just wondering how > would one measure the online speed (as opposed to the connect speed)? Have a look at bing. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html All

vi - wraplen found

2001-01-21 Thread Rino Mardo
Well I found the "set wraplen" feature I was talking about in another thread and I checked on what vi clone I'm using. I'm using nvi which I was not aware of since I've been using Debian. Well I think "nvi" is more close to the historical "vi" than "vim" or others. Someone correct me if I'm wron

Re: "netscape-base-4" dependency?

2001-01-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Alex Chamberlain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010121 03:49]: > I'm tearing my hair out trying to get Netscape installed on potato. I > have netscape-base-475 and all its dependencies selected in dselect, > but then dselect says "netscape-base-475 depends on netscape-base-4; > netscape-base-4 does not ap

Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

2001-01-21 Thread mike polniak
Arcady Genkin wrote: > mike polniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > As I wrote in my previous message, ever since I added "cron.!info;" to > > > the line that pipes to /dev/xconsole, I am not seeing the exim cron > > > notifications any more. > > > > Did you mean : cron.!=info; ? > >

Re: vi - wraplen found

2001-01-21 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 21 January 2001 12:47, Rino Mardo wrote: > Well I think "nvi" is more close to the historical "vi" than "vim" or > others. Someone correct me if I'm wrong as looking at vim it seems > it's bloated and it doesn't feel "vi"-like. Comments, suggestions > are welcome for the list members be

kernel-source-2.2.18pre21

2001-01-21 Thread Xucaen
Hi all!! sorry to bother you with this.Do I need to install anything else along with the kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 package besides bin86 and libncurses(for menuconfig)? I just want to make sure I don't miss anything. (e.g. I noticed there is an IDE patch. will I need this?) I'm installing the aur

Re: installing a burner

2001-01-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:47:51AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. I just picked up an HP 9150i burner. I currently have an Acer > x40 CD-ROM, and it's /dev/hdd. That means that it's the slave of the second > IDE controller, yes? The burner is an IDE device as well, and I need to

Re: Install help needed/New tulip drivers

2001-01-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:01:01AM -0600, David Kanter wrote: > I'd like to install Debian but have a slight problem: my Ethernet card > (ADMtek 983) requires the latest tulip drivers. > > I have a DSL connection with PPPoE. I'd like to install a bare-bones base > system and install the remaining

Re: Sound for woody with 2.2.12

2001-01-21 Thread John Galt
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Jonathan Gift wrote: >John Galt wrote: >> > >> >I have in modules: >> >sound >> >uart401 >> >sb io... >> > >> >Missing: >> >mpu... >> >op13... >> >> These mostly deal with midi. mpu is "mpu 401 support (NOT for SB)" which >> is self explanatory why you shouldn't need it, and

Re: Understanding Mutt + Fetchmail + Procmail

2001-01-21 Thread Preben Randhol
Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 21/01/2001 (20:24) : > > MAILPATH='/usr/spool/mail/bfox?"You have mail":/home/bfox/Mail/Inbox?"You > have mail in Mail/Inbox"' You don't need the ?"You have mail" (unless you want some special message) simply set it as: export MAILPATH="/home/username/Mai

Re: 128-bit encryption netscape

2001-01-21 Thread Nate Amsden
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > Hey people. I'm running netscape 4.75 from the security site, which has > 128-bit encryption. I want to upgrade to potato r2 from r1, and it's going to > upgrade netscape. So, how do you tell if the version you're about to upgrade > to has 128 bit encryption sup

Re: installing a burner

2001-01-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010121 10:50]: > Hey people. I just picked up an HP 9150i burner. I currently have an Acer I've got the same one ;-) > x40 CD-ROM, and it's /dev/hdd. That means that it's the slave of the second > IDE controller, yes? Yes, it's the slave device. Wh

Re: vi - wraplen found

2001-01-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Bud Rogers wrote: > > On Sunday 21 January 2001 12:47, Rino Mardo wrote: > > > Well I think "nvi" is more close to the historical "vi" than "vim" or > > others. Someone correct me if I'm wrong as looking at vim it seems > > it's bloated and it doesn't feel "vi"-like. Comments, suggestions > > ar

Licq & KDE2

2001-01-21 Thread William Leese
Though this might not be the right list to post this im quite sure that other people would have run into this also as these two are commonly used. The problem is that i cant seem to get Licq (LicqWharf) to dock into kicker. Even after configuring (with the options --with-kde for both the qt plug

Driver for DSL Modem

2001-01-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
My local telephone company (BellSouth)is offering an attractive deal on DSL service. They will supply a "3COM HOMECONNECT ADSL MODEM PCI" (I think it is model 3CP3617), but they only support Windoze ("support" means they supply a driver). Is anyone successfully using BellSouth DSL servi

Re: kernel-source-2.2.18pre21

2001-01-21 Thread Diego Biurrun
You won't need that IDE patch unless you want to have ultra-ATA 66 or 100 support, I think. You should have everything you need, but do try out kernel-package to build your kernel the debian way. It has been mentioned in a lot of threads lately. Diego Biurrun Xucaen schrieb: > > sorry to bother

Re: mailing list digest splitting

2001-01-21 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hmm, what is the trick to get procmail to work or to debug it? /usr/share/docs/procmail/QuickStart tells me to add |/usr/bin/procmail to .forward for exim systems. However, I get: error in filter file: unknown filtering command "|/usr/bin/procmail" This is my .procmailrc: # comment PATH=/usr/bi

Re: out of RAM.

2001-01-21 Thread Moritz Schulte
Dan Brosemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a machine which I don't have access to the console of, which > has run almost completely out of RAM: > Due (entierly my fault) to a runaway perl script which > (unfortunately) runs as root. > I have an open SSH connection to this machine running

Re: mailing list digest splitting

2001-01-21 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Please ignore my last post. I used to use splitdigest and saved in $HOME/user. procmail saves in $HOME/Mail/user as it should. On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:27:15PM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > :0: > * ^TOdebian-user > | formail +2 -ds >> Today_debian Why do you skip 2 messages? Regards, Mark

Re: Driver for DSL Modem

2001-01-21 Thread Ken Weingold
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001, Bob Hilliard wrote: > My local telephone company (BellSouth)is offering an attractive > deal on DSL service. They will supply a "3COM HOMECONNECT ADSL MODEM > PCI" (I think it is model 3CP3617), but they only support Windoze > ("support" means they supply a driver). > >

Krumbled konqueror kookies (new Sid version ignores cookies!)

2001-01-21 Thread Steve Cooper
I seem to have done one Sid install too many. When I let dselect upgrade my kde packages on Jan. 18th Konqueror stopped handling cookies. It is set to prompt for each requested cookie, but no longer asks me to accept or reject. Sites where a login used to be remember, such as Excite and Yahoo

Re: Dump-terminal

2001-01-21 Thread Nate Amsden
Hans Marcus Kruger wrote: > > As the dump-terminal lacks ability to clear screen and possition the cursor, > I am having some troubles executing lynx in cron-, at-jobs and in scripts in > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d. > Even specifyiong lynx -term=vt100 will not work. Does anyone know a good > work-around, so

Re: Krumbled konqueror kookies (new Sid version ignores cookies!)

2001-01-21 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Steve Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # When I let dselect upgrade my kde packages on Jan. 18th Konqueror stopped # handling cookies. I had the same problem, and I filed a bug report on it. Konqueror uses cookies fine when 'startkde' is running(ie: then entire KDE destop), but not when it's

Re: Driver for DSL Modem

2001-01-21 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # AFAIK, all Linux would need to support is the NIC. Does BellSouth use # pppoe? If so, Roaring Penguin's pppoe for Linux is AWESOME. Painless # install. If indeed it's just a NIC. Sounds like it's an internal(PCI) ADSL modem. Not a standalone box. Da

possible move to unstable..

2001-01-21 Thread Marcial Zamora III
hey all.. I know this mite stir up a great deal of debate, but its not my intention.. Im currently running potato, and thinking bout running unstable.. there are quite a few packages I would like to have in unstable, and I know ahead of time, to successfully install those packages, there are oth

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