acrobat reader as netscape plugin

2001-01-23 Thread user list
I would like to use the acrobat reader as a plugin for Netscape. I have placed nppdf.so in the /usr/lib.../plugins directory with the other plugin. When I plugins using About plugins, it tells me that the plugin is where I want it, but that it is not enabled. Am I doing this correctly? If I am,

mkisofs

2001-01-23 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I'm trying to make an iso of a directory structure on my hard drive using mkisofs. I have Rock Ridge and Joliet enabled (along with a few other things), but it gives me an error saying the files with the same name, but in different directories have the same Rock Ridge name. Then it says "Unab

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-23 Thread Brian May
> "Brendan" == Brendan Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brendan> As far as I know they've been allowed in courier for a Brendan> while. In mutt you can press to descend Brendan> subfolders and to open a mailbox. or maybe it's Brendan> the other way around - I haven't tested

Sending mail from behind firewall

2001-01-23 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hello, I am behind a firewall here at work and using Exim as my MTA. Most of the time (like 95%), I can send messages fine and they get delivered OK. However, the other 5% of the time Exim gives me the error message: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:13:03AM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > I'm trying to make an iso of a directory structure on my hard drive using > mkisofs. I have Rock Ridge and Joliet enabled (along with a few other > things), but it gives me an error saying the files with the same name, but > in d

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-23 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 12:31 AM 1/23/01 , you wrote: <0880.0002>>60b7b4e.jpgmail\attach\Re mkisofs.ems <0880.0002>> Re mkisofs.ems OK, fair enough, I removed the Joliet flag, gave it a try, and I still have the same errors. Anybody else? Ben Pharr <>

Re: Still need help and Sorry to Kmself (xdm problems)

2001-01-23 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> okay to answer your questions, first xdm starts up upon booting. I |> get a login screen with spaces for user name and password. I can |> type in the information and the computer appears to accept the |> information, goes black for a second or two as though it's about to |> show me my desktop,

Re: debian init.d scripts

2001-01-23 Thread kmself
on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:04:19PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hey, > i am new to debian - done redhat and suse and am now finally with what > truly seems to be the best distro. honestly, it was a pleasure to > install debian and using it is fabulous too for i *hate* that > redhat/

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Matt Miller wrote: > How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I > must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. > > Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package- > by-package examination, what can be done to detect this pote

Debian Newbie

2001-01-23 Thread Vittorio De Martino
I've been using RedHat 6.2 and 7.0 for about a year and now I think I'm ready to have a go at some other Linux distro. Being fascinated by Debian stability and real "Open Source" nature I put the following straightforward preliminary questions: Migrating to Debian potato can I have a USB workin

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
Martin Fluch wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Matt Miller wrote: > > > How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I > > must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. > > > > Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package- > > by-package examination,

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Martin Fluch wrote: > > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Matt Miller wrote: > > > > > How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I > > > must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. > > > > > > Short of running dselect (or st

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-23 Thread Brian May
> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ethan> why are you enabling both Rock Ridge and joliet? joliet is Ethan> a MS extension for long filenames, Rock Ridge is an Ethan> extension for long names and sane permissions. you only Ethan> need Rock Ridge. Rock ridg

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-23 Thread Brian May
> "Benjamin" == Benjamin Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Benjamin> OK, fair enough, I removed the Joliet flag, gave it a Benjamin> try, and I still have the same errors. Anybody else? I assume you have enough disk space required for temporary files? 1. Try the verbose flag. 2. I

Re: Still need help and Sorry to Kmself

2001-01-23 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:52:57AM +0800, Tim&Pep ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > First: my apologies to kmself. I guess I didn't realize I was sending to > > you rather than the list. I hope I haven't used up your good will. Of _course_ not. *that* happened a long time ago Rick Moen's got

Re: Debian Newbie

2001-01-23 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:04:30AM +0100, Vittorio De Martino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've been using RedHat 6.2 and 7.0 for about a year and now I think I'm ready > to have a go at some other Linux distro. Being fascinated by Debian > stability and real "Open Source" nature I put the foll

Re: Skipstone, Galeon, in potato?

2001-01-23 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:45:39AM +, Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:56:35 + (UTC), Pollywog said: > > > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:51:33 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > > > > > > > > Yeah. I'm running Woody on my desktop, thought I'd stick to

monitoring tools

2001-01-23 Thread Jose Manuel Murillo
Hello, I am looking for some tool to monitor the memory and cpu load of the running processes. I usually use the "top", but I would like to know if there is some that can show me the data of a specific process. I would also like it to keep those data in "logs" form. Does somebo

Re: package holding doesn't work in dselect

2001-01-23 Thread garyjones
At Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:34:15 -0800 , "Cameron Matheson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I wanted to install wmaker for my newly compiled X4, but I can't because = >it requires me to install xfree86-common and xlib6g. This won't do, so = >I put those two packages on hold, but then it comes up with t

Perlscript

2001-01-23 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I'm having a hard time getting grips of Perlscript, does anyone know of a REALLY good resource for this scripting language ? I know matt's but it is lacking feedback on a number of things.   anyone ?   THank You,   Joris

Re: Problems installing Netgear FA311 Ethernetcard.

2001-01-23 Thread hogan
> Enable the National Semiconductor (natsemi.c) ethernet driver in the kernel > under network devices. Install the new kernel, then add a line to > /etc/network/interfaces for eth0. Boot back up and it should be > working. Promise it'll work, I just got through doing it. So does newer kernel ha

RE: has debian-user dried up?

2001-01-23 Thread Joris Lambrecht
400 over the weeken :) Nothing wrong with your mailfilters i hope ... -Original Message- From: Jonathan D. Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 8:44 PM To: Debian User List Subject: Re: has debian-user dried up? On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:36:39PM -0700, Dean Al

Re: archive for old debs?

2001-01-23 Thread garyjones
At Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:58:24 + , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:58:12PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >>> On 22-Jan-2001 Lance Simmons wrote: >>> > Where can I find old versions of debs? [snip] >>> When a package is

RE: Compiling X4.0.2

2001-01-23 Thread Joris Lambrecht
now we're at it, where does one get the Debian Packaged distribution for Xfree86 4.0.2 ? -Original Message- From: David B. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:05 AM To: Cameron Matheson Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Compiling X4.0.2 To quote

Re: logrotate source?

2001-01-23 Thread Remco van de Meent
Ken Weingold wrote: > This looks like an interesting tool and I would like to check it out > on our OpenBSD box. Does anyone know about a source tarball for it? > This may sound stupid, but I am not sure what to do with the tarball > available from the Debian site. :-/ I looked at the Makefile and

Re: Modem - need instruction or specification

2001-01-23 Thread kmself
on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:19:53AM +0100, Pablo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I just buy an external modem TWINCOM 14.4/DF (I know it's slowly but need an > external modem only for mail), without power adapter. > I'm looking for an instruction or technical specification. Can anybody help

Re: lightweight caching www proxy

2001-01-23 Thread kmself
on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:42:29PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, I'm looking to set up a caching www proxy on my dialup machine. > > Can anybody recommend a lightweight option here? > > I looked at squid, but it seems a bit of an overkill for what I want. Define your n

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2001-01-23 Thread biglig
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Re: DHCP questions for dispose5@hotmail.com

2001-01-23 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:17:12AM -, Dis Pose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm not subscribed to the list, so please cc me on any replies. > > I'm a current dialup user, changing to DSL imminently. I also have a > LAN Masqueraded behing that connection and plan to continue that. > > My (new

Re: lightweight caching www proxy

2001-01-23 Thread David Purton
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:42:29PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > Hi, I'm looking to set up a caching www proxy on my dialup machine. > > > > Can anybody recommend a lightweight option here? > > > > I looked at squid,

Re: How to clone a system easily?

2001-01-23 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:41:43PM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > Thanks, > but I want a real /total clone; all updates, configurations, links, files, > etc. Not just a similar fresh install. > In the previous mail you said, that you want to upgrade aour mothermoard, then you just need to plug

Re: archive for old debs?

2001-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 at 00:24:41 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:58:24 + , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin > Watson) wrote: > >hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>they just go away to > >> > >>http://archive.debian.org > > > >No, that's only old versions of the entire distr

Netscape /etc/resolv.conf problem

2001-01-23 Thread TimeBoy
Hi! I have no /etc/resolv.conf on my harddisk. Can you give mi an example how /etc/resolv.conf has to look like? TimeBoy

Re: Perlscript

2001-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm having a hard time getting grips of Perlscript, does anyone know of >a REALLY good resource for this scripting language ? >I know matt's but it is lacking feedback on a number of things. I'm afraid I don't know of a good resource, but I can warn you

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
Matt Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I >must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. > >Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package- >by-package examination, what can be done to detect this potential >

RE: Perlscript

2001-01-23 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Thanks, for the tip but i'm using it for studying purposes only. I'm aware of Matt's Scripting flaws (ref. Formmail), To bad but he's the only resource on perlscript out there, although ... I found a mailinglist on www.asplists.com wich covers asp/perlscript I'm working on a Document that will sim

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-23 Thread Robert Waldner
>I'm trying to make an iso of a directory structure on my hard drive using >mkisofs. I have Rock Ridge and Joliet enabled (along with a few other >things), but it gives me an error saying the files with the same name, but >in different directories have the same Rock Ridge name. Then it says >

Re: The "debian" way (was: kernel-source-2.2.18pre21)

2001-01-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Jan 2001, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Advantages of using make-kpkg > -- -- - - > > I have been asked several times about the advantages of using > the kernel-package package over the traditional Linux way of hand > compiling k

Re: debian init.d scripts

2001-01-23 Thread Steve R. Hastings
This is explained on the following web page: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch10.html#s-sysvinit I am new to Debian, but as I understand it, Debian is working to reduce the number of scripts that you have to edit. The scripts reference configuration files (in /etc). You don't edit the

Re: archive for old debs?

2001-01-23 Thread garyjones
At Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:14:02 + , Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 at 00:24:41 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> At Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:58:24 + , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin >> Watson) wrote: >> >>http://archive.debian.org >> > >> >No, that's only old versions o

Re: Skipstone, Galeon, in potato?

2001-01-23 Thread Jared Johnson
hi, i maintain some unofficial galeon packages; however, as of late, there have been quite a few problems which i'm now recovering from with the archive they are mirrored on and the macine they're built on and so forth. drop me an email if you'd like me to let you know when the sid packages ar

Compiling debian sources always fails

2001-01-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've just tried to compile the debian source file for qmail. It fails with a fatal error: "unable to find user alias". This has happened with other source files as well. Anyone know what is wanted here? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book revie

Re: Problems installing Netgear FA311 Ethernetcard.

2001-01-23 Thread Philippe Marzouk
Le mar, 23 jan 2001 09:19:09, hogan a écrit : > > Enable the National Semiconductor (natsemi.c) ethernet driver in the > kernel > > under network devices. Install the new kernel, then add a line to > > /etc/network/interfaces for eth0. Boot back up and it should be > > working. Promise it'll wo

Re: Compiling debian sources always fails

2001-01-23 Thread Alex Pennace
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:30:08AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've just tried to compile the debian source file for qmail. > It fails with a fatal error: "unable to find user alias". > This has happened with other source files as well. At some point base-passwd got rid of the assignments for

odbc connection problem with postgresql

2001-01-23 Thread mlennert
Hello, I'm running postgresql 7.0.3-4, on debian unstable, and I have trouble to connecting databases via odbc. I use unixodbc 2.0.3-1, and I can see the data source in the DataManager, but when I try to connect I get the following error: '[unixODBC]Could not connect to the server; Could not co

Re: Boot on raid1 did it work for you ??

2001-01-23 Thread Joerg Huber
Hi Knud, do you have your boot image on the raid disk? The image should reside in the /boot - directory and this directory has to be on a separate partition. Lilo cannot boot from a raid partition. The /boot partition could be very small, I choose 25 MB. That's enough for a lot of images. Hope t

Re: Installing / applying Mozilla themes?

2001-01-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 05:57:23PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Um. How are you installing the themes? I was at Themes.org and selected the Gold theme download and Moz picked it up, downloaded it and installed it. Later I moved the skins directory under package/chrome to another place

Re: Netscape /etc/resolv.conf problem

2001-01-23 Thread TimeBoy
Hi! I´m new in the debianworld and need a god email program, but don´t know one. I need a program that is able to sort incomming mails by mailadress and put the mails into different directorys. Is there any software on the 9-CD set of debian potato 2.0 who is great for this job? I would be afraid

Re: Debian Newbie

2001-01-23 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Il Tuesday 23 January 2001 08:59, kmself@ix.netcom.com ha scritto: > > on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:04:30AM +0100, Vittorio De Martino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've been using RedHat 6.2 and 7.0 for about a year and now I think I'm > > ready to have a go at some other Linux distro. Being fas

Re: Netscape /etc/resolv.conf problem

2001-01-23 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:26:47 +0100, "TimeBoy" writes: >Hi! > >I´m new in the debianworld and need a god email program, but don´t know one. >I need a program that is able to sort incomming mails by mailadress and put >the mails into different directorys. Is there any software on the 9-CD set >of deb

Re: has debian-user dried up?

2001-01-23 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Il Tuesday 23 January 2001 09:22, Joris Lambrecht ha scritto: > 400 over the weeken :) Nothing wrong with your mailfilters i hope ... > > -Original Message- > From: Jonathan D. Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 8:44 PM > To: Debian User List > Subject: Re: ha

Re: Netscape /etc/resolv.conf problem

2001-01-23 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, TimeBoy wrote: -|Hi! -| -|I have no /etc/resolv.conf on my harddisk. Can you give mi an example how -|/etc/resolv.conf has to look like? -| -|TimeBoy -| domain my.isp.com nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy Where xxx is primary IP and yyy. is second

Re: Netscape /etc/resolv.conf problem

2001-01-23 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I have no /etc/resolv.conf on my harddisk. Can > you give mi an example how /etc/resolv.conf > has to look like? search your-isp's-domain.com nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx *** Replace the first "xxx" sequence with your ISP's primary DNS server's IP address. Replace the s

Re: Sound problem

2001-01-23 Thread Richard Black
Have you checked the permissions on /dev/dsp (e.g. can you play sound under root, but not a normal user?)? You need to make sure you have right access. In debian this is normally done by making users members of the audio group cheers Richard ngillm - Nathan Gillmore wrote: > Hello all, I'm ha

Re: Still need help and Sorry to Kmself

2001-01-23 Thread
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:52:57AM +0800, Tim&Pep ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > First: my apologies to kmself. I guess I didn't realize I was sending to > > > > you rather than the list. I hope I haven't used up your good will. > > Of _course_ not. > > *that* h

Re: Sending mail from behind firewall

2001-01-23 Thread Hall Stevenson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL > FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=4319: > host ausmtp02.au.ibm.com [202.135.136.105]: 501 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender domain must exist > > I understand the STMP server at the other end is > trying to auth my IP address which doesn't

Re: debian init.d scripts

2001-01-23 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 10:59:01PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: :The system boots through single user on its way to the default runlevel, :I think (and may be wrong at this). Quite right, Debian relies on this more than other systems I've managed. "mountall.sh" amd "ifupdown" for example a

Re: php4 will not handle *.php3 files? (potato)

2001-01-23 Thread Arnout Engelen
|> Shouldn't the Debian package php4_4.0.3pl1-0potato1.deb |> handle *.php3 files? I solved this by putting the following line in /etc/apache/httpd.conf: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3 just above AddType application/x-httpd-php .php -- __

Re: apache: no permission to access netsaint cgi's?

2001-01-23 Thread Arnout Engelen
|> > I'm trying to get netsaint running. I've got: |> > |> > 1. a standard apache install from the latest binary (unstable) deb. |> > |> > 2. a netsaint install from the latest netsaint binary (unstable) debs, |> > including netsaint-plugins and netsaint-plugins-extra. |> > |> > I didn't make ch

This is too strange.

2001-01-23 Thread Bill Shui
Hi, I have been running Debian Testing for the last few days. Just a few minutes ago, I have noticed that I could no longer log in as any user. That is, I cannot even log in as root from the console. The system was not connected to the net. Luckily, I have one root shell

Re: acrobat reader as netscape plugin

2001-01-23 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:13:02PM -0700, user list wrote: > I would like to use the acrobat reader as a plugin for Netscape. I > have placed nppdf.so in the /usr/lib.../plugins directory with the > other plugin. When I plugins using About plugins, it tells me that > the plugin is where I want it,

Re: Control CPU fan's speed

2001-01-23 Thread Lars Knudsen
Nate Amsden wrote: > > Arcady Genkin wrote: > > > > So I got this new motherboard (ASUS CUSL2-C), and I hear that one of > > the Windows utilities that come with it can control CPU fan's speed. > > I thought that it would be very nice (I have no way of checking), > > since the native Intel's fan o

Re: Compiling debian sources always fails

2001-01-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Jan 2001, Alex Pennace wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:30:08AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've just tried to compile the debian source file for qmail. > > It fails with a fatal error: "unable to find user alias". > > This has happened with other source files as well. > > At some

base.tgz internals / config question

2001-01-23 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I working up a custom, configurable, but non-interactive install, using an NFS root boot disk. The question is how does the base system know it is unconfigured and is there anything non obvious that goes on during "configure base system"? I untarred base.tgz into my nfsroot directory, booted

Re: archive for old debs?

2001-01-23 Thread sena
On 23/01/2001 at 02:59 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The source should be in CVS or whatever is used, then? > I really don't know, but isn't it likely that the package maintainer likes to keep an archive of all versions released?? Just a thought... Reagrds, sena... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Boot on raid1 did it work for you ??

2001-01-23 Thread Knud Sørensen
Hi No, the /boot - directory is on my / partition. I will try you suggestion soon. Right now my main problem is that when I make a rescue from a floppy. I have to run fsck manually on /dev/md0 then after a reboot i have to run fsck again. It is like /dev/md0 is not properly unmounted ???

Re: Netscape /etc/resolv.conf problem

2001-01-23 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 01:26:47PM +0100, TimeBoy wrote: > Hi! > > I´m new in the debianworld and need a god email program, but don´t know one. > I need a program that is able to sort incomming mails by mailadress and put > the mails into different directorys. Is there any software on the 9-CD set

Re: upgrade kernel / alsa

2001-01-23 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have the 2.2.17-ide kernel with alsa-ide packages > installed to handle sound, > and I am thinking of upgrading to 2.2.18-ide. > What would be the best way to do this ? Install kernel-image-2.2.18-ide, then alsa-modules-2.2.18-ide. After you know it works, you can r

esd, alsa, and 2.4

2001-01-23 Thread Richard Black
Hi all I have recently (last night) upgraded my debian system to the alsa 0.5.10a-2 and to 2.4 and am now having a bit of a problem with my sound (which use to be fine with 2.2.17). The sound card module is snd-cs461x.o. These are the syptoms: 1) xmms runs when I am root...but doesn't use esd.

Re: Compiling X4.0.2

2001-01-23 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # now we're at it, where does one get the Debian Packaged distribution for # Xfree86 4.0.2 ? I can't remember off the top of my head, by all you need to do is add a line to your /etc/apt/sources.list . Search Google for "deb http://people.debian.org/~c

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-23 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Benjamin Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I'm trying to make an iso of a directory structure on my hard drive using # mkisofs. I have Rock Ridge and Joliet enabled (along with a few other # things), but it gives me an error saying the files with the same name, but # in different directorie

RE: Compiling X4.0.2

2001-01-23 Thread Joris Lambrecht
that would be http://people.debian.org/~branden/woody BUT this is a pre-lease version that was distributed there temporarly. I'm looking for the real thing. That's in the dists/pool but i'm not sure on how to get it out of there with dselect and/or apt. Greets, Joris -Original Message-

Re: Debian Newbie

2001-01-23 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Vittorio De Martino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I've been using RedHat 6.2 and 7.0 for about a year and now I think I'm ready # to have a go at some other Linux distro. Being fascinated by Debian # stability and real "Open Source" nature I put the following straightforward # preliminary que

Re: This is too strange.

2001-01-23 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Bill Shui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # You don't exist, go away! # # I have checked my /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files. # they are in the right format. I don't know what's going on, but if you reboot, you can get into a shell by adding "init=/bin/bash" as a parameter to your kernel. For inst

Re: apache: no permission to access netsaint cgi's?

2001-01-23 Thread Lance Simmons
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:03:04PM +0100, Arnout Engelen wrote: > It's a symlink problem. /usr/lib/cgi-bin/netsaint is a symlink to > /usr/lib/netsaint/cgi-bin, and apache doesn't like that. > > You should > a) remove the symlink > b) move the actual directory to where the symlink first was > c

SMP under Debian

2001-01-23 Thread Henk Janssen
I'm not able to find the module for SMP in the debian dist potato Can you tell me where to find it? P.s. I'm a Newbie!

[OT] Re: Perlscript

2001-01-23 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm working on a Document that will simply be a basic tutorial on > how to do your first steps into perlscript. Written by a newbie for > another newbie. This will probably be published at > http://perlsc

new hd install

2001-01-23 Thread Matt Chipman
Hi all a few questions rolled into one! I have a new hd 30 gig to replace my old 17. I want to keep everything as it is without having to setup configs etc agan for things like mail and apache. How do i swap hdisks, (i have a buyer for my 17) ?? I also have encrypetd passwords so creating new

certification

2001-01-23 Thread Howell Caton
Does anyone know how soon we might expect a certification program for Debian Linux. Certification is a good way to assure prospective employers that you know your stuff. Thanks!

RE: [OT] Re: Perlscript

2001-01-23 Thread Joris Lambrecht
No, i'm not :) It's something very nice, new to activestate perl. Besides javascript, vbscript you now have perlscript. There are numerous advantages for using this. The number one plus for me is that i only have to learn perl/perlscript and not javascript/perl or any of the other combinations. T

RE: Sound problem

2001-01-23 Thread ngillm - Nathan Gillmore
Yes, sorry I forgot to mention this, but I first tried adding my user to the audio group, and that didn't work. I then tried playing sounds as root and that didn't work either, still same "can't open /dev/dsp" msg that I got as the user. Thanks anyway Richard, good suggestion! -Original Mess

RE: SMP under Debian

2001-01-23 Thread Burns, Brad
Title: RE: SMP under Debian As far as I can tell, there is no specifically designed SMP kernel-image-* packages.  What you're going to have to do is get the kernel source (apt-cache search kernel-source) of your choice and rebuild the kernel yourself and include SMP support.  It might seem dau

Re: certification

2001-01-23 Thread arthur
LPI certification covers Debian. Its what we support at our shop. Arthur H. Johnson II Systems Engineer The Linux Box [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxbox.nu On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Howell Caton wrote: > > Does anyone know how soon we might expect a certification program for > Debian Linux. > Ce

Re: certification

2001-01-23 Thread Ray Percival
IMHO, If you have the knowledge and are doing the certs to impress employers do the Red Hat cert. I say this because that is the name most of them are going to know. Then get the job and do whatever you want to because most of them won't know a Debian box from a Red Hat box. At work now I have

minicom

2001-01-23 Thread Xucaen
Hi all. Has anyone installed the deb package minicom? I can't seem to find where the config file (if it has one). It tries to access ttyS3 but I don't have ttyS3, so I need to change where it looks for the modem. also, where can I find info on its command line parameters? I'm going to poke around

Re: archive for old debs?

2001-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
sena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 23/01/2001 at 02:59 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> The source should be in CVS or whatever is used, then? > >I really don't know, but isn't it likely that the package maintainer likes >to keep an archive of all versions released?? I know I do; I keep all the

Re: minicom

2001-01-23 Thread Frank Rocco
Did you try minicom -s HTH Frank - Original Message - From: "Xucaen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 9:57 AM Subject: minicom > Hi all. > Has anyone installed the deb package minicom? > I can't seem to find where the config file (if it > has one). It tries to a

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2001-01-23 Thread frocco
Did you try minicom -s HTH Frank

Re: [OT] Re: Perlscript

2001-01-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 03:26:03PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > There are numerous advantages for using this. The number one plus for me is > that i only have to learn perl/perlscript and not javascript/perl or any of > the other combinations. This is great when developing on IIS with perl > ins

Re: minicom

2001-01-23 Thread Xucaen
No, I did not. what does -s do? I could find any documentation. thanks!! --- Frank Rocco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you try minicom -s > > HTH > > Frank > > - Original Message - > From: "Xucaen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 9:57 AM > Subject: min

RE: [OT] Re: Perlscript

2001-01-23 Thread Joris Lambrecht
indeed, that link and i believe one other does not work, in fact documentation on perlscript is that sparse i'm writing my own. However, you can learn it fast by converting javascript/vbscript you know to perlscript code. javascript/vbscript in asp does response.write ("blah") perlscript d

Re: minicom

2001-01-23 Thread Frank Rocco
It should bring up the configuration screen. I'm new to minicom also, but believe this is the switch. Frank

Re: Sound problem

2001-01-23 Thread Vinod Kurup
Hi Nathan, when you do 'lsmod', are your modules listed? It sounds like things were working when you set it up but then stopped working after reboot. That makes me think that your startup files weren't told about the new modules. I'm not familiar with modconf, so maybe that does it for ya, but

RE: certification

2001-01-23 Thread Holp, John Mr.
test message -Original Message- From: Ray Percival [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 9:46 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; Howell Caton Subject: Re: certification IMHO, If you have the knowledge and are doing the certs to impress employers do the Red Hat cert

apt-get problem (package list corrupted !)

2001-01-23 Thread Knud Sørensen
When i run apt-get update i get a Segmentation fault. The last thing i see is Reading Package lists ... 0% I think my package list is corrupted. How does i reconstruct it ?? Knud

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Bob Hilliard
Matt Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I > must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. > > Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package- > by-package examination, what can be done to detect this po

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RE: Sound problem

2001-01-23 Thread ngillm - Nathan Gillmore
Hiya Vinod, Thanks for the suggestion. Here is what I get when I do an lsmod: Module Size Used by cs4232 2948 1 uart401 6404 1 [cs4232] ad1848 16964 1 [cs4232] 3c59x 20512 1 So the modules are getting

Re: new hd install

2001-01-23 Thread Andreas Boman
There is a mini-howto for this here: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html Andreas On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:18:31 +1100 Matt Chipman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > a few questions rolled into one! > > I have a new hd 30 gig to replace my old 17. I want to keep

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #221

2001-01-23 Thread Fraser McAninch
hello all, Just a quick reminder not to post attachments to the list. If you would like to offer an attachment to the group at large - just send a note asking for people to contact you directly if they are interested.

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