Re: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Matthew Bryant Baxa
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:26:26PM -0700, Dumb wrote: > I don't really have an answer, but sometimes on my machine I have to hold the > button for like 5 seconds before it shuts off, and at other times it just > shuts > off with no problem. It very likely could be a BIOS issue. It sounds like on

Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-05 Thread Mircea Luca
"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: > > > "Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: > > > > > > At startup, I get the following message: > > > > > > Configuring network interfaces: /etc/network/interfaces: option without > > > interface > > > > > > > The module for the NIC

Corrupted partions?

2001-04-05 Thread SoftHome
I am trying to load windows on a separate partition so my 4 year old can play a Blue's Clues game he received as a present. Everytime I try to format the partition with the window's setup, the format program dies at the end and says there is something wrong with the partition. So I booted back i

Re: where is libnewt0 ?

2001-04-05 Thread Thomas Wegner
Hi Colin! On 04-Apr-2001 Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I wanted to upgrade from potato to woody. So I led apt-get downlaod >>the >>required packages but the download stopped at the last 2 packages >>(libnewt0_0.50.8-2 and libnewt_dev_0.50.8-2) because of missing these >>files in

Re: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Dumb wrote: > > I don't really have an answer, but sometimes on my machine I have to hold the > button for like 5 seconds before it shuts off, and at other times it just > shuts > off with no problem. I don't have an answer either, but I have had interesting experiences wrt auto power off. Wind

Re: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:28:33PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > So you could try: > - compiling your own 2.2 kernel > - upgrading to a 2.4 kernel Here's a fairly painless idea. If you're using the stock debian kernel-image, add a line to your /etc/lilo.conf: append="apm=on" and run "lilo" a

Re: dist-upgrade to woody

2001-04-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Patrick Mauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Help. . I wasn't sure which list to send this to, since this > is a user question, but from what I understand, woody is a > debian-devel issue. Hopefully no one kills me for posting to both > > I have potato installed on my machine. When I upgraded

Re: [attn] non-us.debian.org ... security is Down

2001-04-05 Thread Rob VanFleet
Other Non-US mirrors are listed here: http://www.debian.org/misc/README.non-US Ironically enough, there is a United States mirror. -Rob On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:11:34PM -0500, Nathan wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:37:18PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 April 2001 19:22, John

Re: dist-upgrade to woody

2001-04-05 Thread Greg Gilbert
* Olaf Meeuwissen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Patrick Mauro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Did something similar over the weekend (reinstall potato base, > dist-upgrade to testing and then install task-x-window-system). > The thing is that xserver-xfree86 does *neither* create a config > file *

Maildir performance with IMAP ?

2001-04-05 Thread Eugene van Zyl
Hi, Can anyone tell me wether there's a noticable performance hit when using IMAP with maildirs vs the flat file formats? Read the UW-IMAP docs which indicated that this was the case - anyone with experience that can comment? Plan to use Exim with either courier-imap or uw-imap (debian version p

Re: ResiserFS?

2001-04-05 Thread Brian May
> "Adam" == Adam Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> OK, so I get the digest version of this list, which has the nasty Adam> habit of leaving some messages out sometimes. I missed the recent Adam> messages about ReiserFS. Could anyone give me a recap of what that Adam> w

Re: ResiserFS?

2001-04-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Brian May wrote: > I have heard rumours of it causing data corruption on 2.4.x kernels, > including 2.4.3. That's interesting. Where did you hear about the corruption under 2.4.3? > I have never had a problem with it myself though... I haven't had any problems with it either, but I haven't touc

probleme de carte graphique

2001-04-05 Thread aajc
J'ai installe debian2.2 sur PC mais mon port de carte graphique n'est pas PCI ; C'est une carte ATI rage 128 . La configuration, du coup, ne se fait pas et je n'ai pas accés à gnome . J'ai assayé d'installer Xfree86 pour trouver un autre moyen d'environnement graphique mais une ligne du pro

Re: SMTP transaction error

2001-04-05 Thread garyjones
Am Wed, 04 April 2001 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > My problem is that fetchmail won't deliver. [...] > I'm sure I've got some simple thing - as likely as not in another > program such as exim - badly configured, and I'm sure someone > out there can guess what it might be. > > Perhaps the follow

Re: GLUG: Maildir performance with IMAP ?

2001-04-05 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Thu 2001-04-05 (08:48), Eugene van Zyl wrote: > Can anyone tell me wether there's a noticable performance hit when > using IMAP with maildirs vs the flat file formats? > > Read the UW-IMAP docs which indicated that this was the case - anyone > with experience that can comment? Sam Varshavchik (

Re: Keyboard lockup

2001-04-05 Thread Andre Berger
* Casey Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010405 09:10 +0200: > LILO comes up and I hit Enter to boot linux. The boot process proceeds > in the normal fashion. No error messages, everything is fine. Then > the GDM login box comes up so I can log in to X. At this point the >

[OT] AMD Athlon fan

2001-04-05 Thread jh
Hello all. I am setting up an AMD Athlon box and have a question about the cpu fan. There is no brand name info on the fan box but the unit itself says it is an ARX. My question concerns how the heatsink side mounts to the processor. There seems to be white paper on that side that is really stuc

Broken Fujitsu 95 compiler...

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten Bolding
Yesterday I upgraded my system with the result my Fujitsu 95 compiler does not work. When I run a freshly compiled program I get: gotm_prod_FUJITSU: error while loading shared libraries: /opt/FFC/lib/libfj9i6.so.1: undefined symbol: fstat Now my question where can 'fstat' have gone Karsten --

Re: Keyboard lockup

2001-04-05 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
4 PM Subject: Re: Keyboard lockup > * Casey Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010405 09:10 +0200: > > LILO comes up and I hit Enter to boot linux. The boot process proceeds > > in the normal fashion. No error messages, everything is fine. Then > > the GDM login box comes

Re: RFC: Removing SVGA support from Ghostscript packages

2001-04-05 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:35:14PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > I think it'd be really nice if you could get framebuffer support, since > svga doesn't even relate to most of my systems anyway :) Right, that would be a nice replacement to svga support. I am looking into it. Thanks Torste

testing upgrade now problems with X

2001-04-05 Thread Rob Zietlow
I just upgraded to testing. I rebooted, and then logged in fine. Now when I try and start X I get this error message. X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or Directory), aborting. giving up Xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3):

Re: Saving some real radio file

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:56:06AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I want to save some real files, but this option is not allowed when you > run real player, is there any way of doing it? I figure dumping or > piping it, what would be the way of calling the executable for r

cd music can not play, need help

2001-04-05 Thread eric
Mircea Luca wrote: "Price, Tim" wrote: I'm not Jeff either, but have you considered catting you /dev/sndstat? This often contains a clue as to what is misconfigured! Good luck -tim Dear Tim or any linux -debian expert: I tried cat /dev/sndstat, but get cat: /dev/sndstat: No suc

Re: IMAP server recommendations ?

2001-04-05 Thread Nathan Ollerenshaw
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Eugene van Zyl wrote: > Hi, > > Any recommendations for a IMAP server (on Debian 2.2)? IMAP4.7c (I > think this is UW IMAP?) On Solaris, I've had a great amount of success with the Courier-IMAP suite. Courier-IMAP only uses Maildirs, which is a newer mailbox storage format tha

Re: qpopper weirdness

2001-04-05 Thread Nathan Ollerenshaw
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > hey, > i am using qpopper for pop3 access. one of my users hasn't been > reading mail in two weeks, and now her mailbox is 16Mb. that's not a > lot, no. however, she uses microcrap software, which is not succeeding > at downloading whereas a direct POP3 intera

Re: Maildir POP3 server

2001-04-05 Thread Nathan Ollerenshaw
http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/ Courier-IMAP contains a POP3 server, which works rather well. On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > hey, > anyone know of a POP3 server capable of serving out of $HOME/Maildir/ > and which isn't part of qmail? > > martin; (greetings from the heart

Re: qpopper weirdness

2001-04-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Nathan Ollerenshaw (on Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:45:18AM +0100): > Yeah, qpopper does that. Try running it in "server" mode (I forget the > correct switch) or switch to cucipop which doesn't play around with the > mailbox so much. tried both, but with no success. so i ended up converting the

Re: Maildir POP3 server

2001-04-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Nathan Ollerenshaw (on Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:48:14AM +0100): > Courier-IMAP contains a POP3 server, which works rather well. yes, however i ended up with spop3d because Courier-POP3 is in unstable and given that i just don't want to deal with the implications, i refrain from using anythi

RE: testing upgrade now problems with X...solved somewhat

2001-04-05 Thread Rob Zietlow
Ok. I have figured it out, for the server. I had to link my X server to /etc/X11/X but now xdm is acting funky. xdm will only bring up a login prompt after I login as root, and then close the X session. Any ideas as to what would be causing this, and how to resolve it? -Original Message

OT: PHP3 vs PHP4

2001-04-05 Thread Petr Danek
Hi list, is it posible to have both PHP3 and PHP4 installed from binary debs on the same machine ? Thanks Petr

vim & tab & space

2001-04-05 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Hi, This is not really debian topic, but since I got the idea from dpkg-scanlibs thread from debian-devel two months ago. In vim, what is the setting to use tab for indent and space for alignment? I couldn't figure it out since vim always try to use tab instead of space. e.g. when I use ts=4, s

problems with lstat and fstat from libc6 (2.2.2-4)

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten Bolding
Earlier today I wrote about a broken Fujitsu F95 compiler. I did a bit more testing: First I did: strings libc.so.6 | grep fstat and got fstatfs fstatvfs __fstatfs64 fstatvfs64 fstatfs64 __fstatfs __fstatvfs64 fstat failed I wonder what this means Then I did a strace on an old an

Re: cd music can not play, need help

2001-04-05 Thread eric
Dear Shawn: it still did not work after apt-get remove autofs Shawn Garbett wrote: I haven't gotten my soundcard working, but I've gotten the cd player happy to the point it thinks it's squirting data to the soundcard. I was getting read errors trying to play cd music initially. Got r

pon / pppd

2001-04-05 Thread redgirl
Hi, I have an embarrassing problem with pon. It dials, negotiates and then exits on NO CARRIER. I've set up the connection with pppconfig, using CHAT authenitcation. It seems not to start pppd, because ifconfig doesn't mention ppp0, and ping doesn't work. I had it working before a system overh

install loop

2001-04-05 Thread Ari Sigurðsson
hi, in was installing with rescue disk because my system was broken, I am now able to boot with lilo but I always get Debian Configuration and I want to configure the system myself or use existing configuration as much as possible. But debian config. won't let me exit or finish, it goes in loop! h

Re: [OT] AMD Athlon fan

2001-04-05 Thread Bob Brown
The Athelon cpu runs very hot. I had one on an Asus MB that toasted the whole shooting match cause the fan (came with the cpu in OEM packaging) broke off the socket and melted down the cpu. I have since taken to installing monster fans and heat sinks. That works fine. When in doubt, throw i

telnetd slow to respond

2001-04-05 Thread Bill Fowler
I'm having difficulty telnetting into my system. It appears that I get a connection right away, but it takes a long time to receive the login prompt and often I don't receive a prompt at all. Any advice would be appreciated. Bill

Debian GNU Linux Bible ?release date?

2001-04-05 Thread Abner Gershon
Amazon has a book listed, "Debian GNU Linux Bible", as not yet published but availability expected in Febuary 2001. Does anyone have any knowledge about when this is to be published and what if any version of Debian distro will accompany book. Thanks. __

RE: telnetd slow to respond

2001-04-05 Thread Jason P. Holland
This is normally associated with DNS problems. check and make sure you have /etc/resolv.conf setup correctly. Also, if you need a static entry or two, add them to /etc/hosts. Jason > > I'm having difficulty telnetting into my system. It appears > that I get a > connection right away, but it ta

Re: pon / pppd

2001-04-05 Thread John Hasler
redgirl writes: > I have an embarrassing problem with pon. Post /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp/peers/provider, and the output of the plog command. Munge passwords. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: vim & tab & space

2001-04-05 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:37:58PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > Hi, > > This is not really debian topic, but since I got the idea from dpkg-scanlibs > thread from debian-devel two months ago. > > In vim, what is the setting to use tab for indent and space for alignment? I > couldn't figur

Re: Webcam in potato (stable)

2001-04-05 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (09/03/01 21:06), Keith Johnson wrote: > I have a cpia compatible webcam connected to my parallel port and I > have downloaded webcam from stable. > > Problem is, it does not work, and I don't know where to even begin > sorting it out. > > Running the webcam program results in the following: >

Re: [OT] AMD Athlon fan

2001-04-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 08:37:08AM -0400, Bob Brown wrote: > The Athelon cpu runs very hot. I had one on an Asus MB that toasted the > whole shooting match cause the fan (came with the cpu in OEM packaging) > broke off the socket and melted down the cpu. I have since taken to > installing mons

Re: Debian GNU Linux Bible ?release date?

2001-04-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:36:50AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > Amazon has a book listed, "Debian GNU Linux Bible", as > not yet published but availability expected in Febuary > 2001. Does anyone have any knowledge about when this > is to be published and what if any version of Debian > distro wil

Re: telnetd slow to respond

2001-04-05 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Yup I think the telnetd tries to do a reverse lookup on the incoming telnet session. Adding your ip address and machine name to the hosts file of the machine you are telneting to will speed it up a lot. Same thing applies to proftpd so maybe its a function of the inetd super server ? Pat On

x-server crash

2001-04-05 Thread SallyPrkr
Dear All I have tried to install debian 2.2 r2 and got installed it up to text mode. I have tried to get the x-server going with XF86 config. My card is a SiS6326 card with 8mb and keeps coming up with X11TransSocketunixconnect:can't connect:errno=111 Can you help me so I can get the graphics

RE: telnetd slow to respond

2001-04-05 Thread Martin Marconcini
Indeed. You need either a properly reverse zone nameserver or add the entries to hosts file. Martin. > -Original Message- > From: Patrick Colbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 10:57 AM > To: Jason P. Holland; 'Debian User list' > Subject: Re: telnetd slow to r

Re: x-server crash

2001-04-05 Thread Peter Millard
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 3:03 PM Subject: x-server crash > Dear All > > I have tried to install debian 2.2 r2 and got installed it up to text mode. I > have tried to get the x-server going with > XF86 confi

Has no one gotten LDAP authentication working?

2001-04-05 Thread Mullins, Ron
Seriously, has no one setup the libpam-ldap in Debian? Just some working config files to enlighten me as to the little thing I haven't gotten right would be splendid. You don't have to talk to me, you don't have to be my friend...I won't come to your house and drink your beer if you respond. Promi

Re: vim & tab & space

2001-04-05 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Eric G. Miller say > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:37:58PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > This is not really debian topic, but since I got the idea from dpkg-scanlibs > > thread from debian-devel two months ago. > > > > In vim, what is the setting to

Insert module at startup

2001-04-05 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'd like to insmod the netatalk module at startup. I'd be grateful to know how to do this. "alias net-pf-5 appletalk" in /etc/modules.conf doesn't seem to be the debian way... Regards Rory

Re: apache+cgi+php+ssi

2001-04-05 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hi, We have a problem with ftp transfers, when I try to upload or download information to a web site a lot of information the transfer breakdown just say connection closed. I'm use wu_ftp as my ftp server on my linux box and as client I try with gftp and ncftp and nothing. I'm trying to upload a lo

connecting adsl on startup

2001-04-05 Thread f1k
I installed the pppoe 2.8 debian package and configured it with adsl-setup. I can connect to my ISP with adsl-start. Now I want to have the connection starting at boot time. There are two ways: 1. I put the following script in /etc/init.d #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/adsl-start and made a symlink to it i

Re: vim & tab & space

2001-04-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > Once upon a time, I heard Eric G. Miller say > > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:37:58PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > This is not really debian topic, but since I got the idea from > > > dpkg-scanlibs > > > thread from debian-devel two mon

Unidentified subject!

2001-04-05 Thread Denis Kosygin
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DefaultColorDepth with acroread and netscape

2001-04-05 Thread Carl Greco
Setting the DefaultColorDepth to 24 causes acroread to segfault and netscape to display toolbar icons in black/white. All other apps are OK. With DefaultColorDepth set to 16 all is well with acroread and netscape. Is this a know problem? Is there a fix without upgraded XFree86? System software

suggestions for a console clock app . . .

2001-04-05 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Has anyone got a URL for the debs for a console clock app? I'm thinking xdaliclock sort of thing, but not under X: using the whole screen is important . . . . . so "while [ : ]; do date; done" wouldn't be helpful. . :-) cheers! jc

networking - slip attachments

2001-04-05 Thread Ted Gervais
Hello All.. I have another question on networking and this time it has to do with installing a slip link using 'slattach'. I can sit on a command line and type: 'slattach -s 38400 -p slip /dev/ptypf & ifconfig sl0 44.135.34.209 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 44.135.34.255 route add -net 44.13

Re: Insert module at startup

2001-04-05 Thread David Z. Maze
Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RCL> I'd like to insmod the netatalk module at startup. RCL> I'd be grateful to know how to do this. Just add 'netatalk' to /etc/modules. RCL> "alias net-pf-5 appletalk" in /etc/modules.conf doesn't seem to RCL> be the debian way... That line doesn

Re: DefaultColorDepth with acroread and netscape

2001-04-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Carl Greco wrote: > > Setting the DefaultColorDepth to 24 causes acroread to segfault and > netscape to display toolbar icons in black/white. All other apps are > OK. > > With DefaultColorDepth set to 16 all is well with acroread and > netscape. Is this a know problem? Is there a fix without u

Re: x-server crash

2001-04-05 Thread D. Hoyem
During installation did the installation program identify your video card and set up x for you? If so then to startx just type startx --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear All > > I have tried to install debian 2.2 r2 and got > installed it up to text mode. I > have tried to get the x-server going

can not access cd drive

2001-04-05 Thread eric
Dear experts: not only music can not access ( canot scan) but also regular iso9660 disk cannot be access at all( wrong fs type), but it did can record cd, it seem it recognize the drive as scsi but not ide please help sincere and thanks in advance eric

Re: RFC: Removing SVGA support from Ghostscript packages

2001-04-05 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:47:16AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Hi *, > > Just wanted to ask if anybody is still using the libsvga support of the > Debian GS packages. I really would like to get rid of that ugly hack > and if nobody speaks up one of the next uploads will have svga supp

Re: Saving some real radio file

2001-04-05 Thread Mike McGuire
> > I want to save some real files, but this option is not allowed when you > > run real player, is there any way of doing it? I figure dumping or > > piping it, what would be the way of calling the executable for real > > player from command line? > > Not for streaming realaudio files (*.ra). Mo

Adore Linux virus

2001-04-05 Thread Shawn Garbett
There's a new virus in town. Here's the news for the mouthpiece of Bill himself: http://www.allnetdevices.com/wired/news/2001/04/05/motorola_set.html It mentions an adorefind program, has anyone run this under Debian? Are there any recommended package upgrades to prevent these latest rounds of

Adding to the Debian-Blackbox Menu

2001-04-05 Thread William Leese
I was wondering if it is possible to add your own entries to the 'Debianized' Blackbox menu. I wish to run some applications with certain parameters and sometimes i wish to add some of the executables i compiled from source. I've tried editing /etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu but any changes i ma

Re: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
With an ATX computer (almost all new computers are ATX and have ATX power supplies, ATX cases, and ATX mainboards) the power button is connected to the mainboard instead of the power supply. This gives the operating system the ability to do things like sync the disks before the power actually cut

Re: Adding to the Debian-Blackbox Menu

2001-04-05 Thread Glyn Millington
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering if it is possible to add your own entries to the > 'Debianized' Blackbox menu. I wish to run some applications with > certain parameters and sometimes i wish to add some of the executables > i compiled from source. I've tried editing >

Re: Adore Linux virus

2001-04-05 Thread Tyrin Price
* Shawn Garbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05Apr01 13:17 -0400]: > There's a new virus in town. Here's the news for the mouthpiece of Bill > himself: > > http://www.allnetdevices.com/wired/news/2001/04/05/motorola_set.html > It mentions an adorefind program, has anyone run this under Debian? Are > the

Re: Adding to the Debian-Blackbox Menu

2001-04-05 Thread Alan Chen
Try this http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ Basically, you need to add a .menu file to your home directory. There may also be documentation in /usr/doc/menu of your system. --- William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if it is possible to add your own entries

Re: Saving some real radio file

2001-04-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike McGuire wrote: > > > > I want to save some real files, but this option is not allowed when you > > > run real player, is there any way of doing it? I figure dumping or > > > piping it, what would be the way of calling the executable for real > > > player from command line? > > > > Not for str

Re: suggestions for a console clock app . . .

2001-04-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > Has anyone got a URL for the debs for a console clock app? > I'm thinking xdaliclock sort of thing, but not under X: using the whole > screen is important . . . > > . . so "while [ : ]; do date; done" wouldn't be helpful. . :-) some creative use of banner might be

Re: [OT] AMD Athlon fan

2001-04-05 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:31:21AM -0600, jh wrote: | Hello all. I am setting up an AMD Athlon box and have a question about the | cpu fan. There is no brand name info on the fan box but the unit itself | says it is an ARX. My question concerns how the heatsink side mounts to the | processor. Th

Re: fetchmail Hangs on First and Only 1st Try

2001-04-05 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, John Bacalle wrote: > RE: fetchmail 5.3.3 ; InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 ; AT&T Worldnet > > I have an odd problem fetching mail on the _first try_, and fetchmail > hanging at the sign-off stage of the process. Try disabling all sort of "auto" detection and telling fetchmail exac

i have a problem with making a .deb file

2001-04-05 Thread Christian SPENER
i made a deb file from tar.gz file, did everything like in the new maintainer guide. it is easy cause the programm is a kdevelop programm, so it uses automake conf etc. everything workes, only the binary goes to /bin not to /usr/bin when i look into into the deb file, under CONTENTS there are thi

Virtuel desktop and resolution change

2001-04-05 Thread Kresten Kjeldgaard
Hi i hope somebody can help me with an annoying problem Im running SID and enlightenment + gnome on XFree86 4.02. And i would like to be able to change the resolution without getting a virtuel desktop that's larger than the resolution (its annoying how it slides arround when the mouse gets to the

Linux Virus

2001-04-05 Thread Shawn Garbett
Whoops,  using a Microsoft Windows box with Netscape here at work, ugh. Had to fight the @[EMAIL PROTECTED] box just to give me the correct URL: http://www.msnbc.com/news/554789.asp Tyrin Price wrote: * Shawn Garbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05Apr01 13:17 -0400]:There's a new virus in town. Here's

Dselect ing

2001-04-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- --- Begin Message --- Hi there. Installing new packages via dselect doesn't work anymore for me but I have no idea were to start looking for clues, so I just post the output, with a few comments. I can provide further information if necessary. -- I already selected some packages and went f

Re: Problems with syslog

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:50:58AM +0200, Ilja Kamps ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm having all syslog messages on my console, this is rather annoying, > it happend after I switched to single user mode, in wich I killed > syslog and a few other programs so I could umount and fsck /var/, > after sw

getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-05 Thread Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm
I was wondering if there was some way to get the files in /bin for debian unstable x86 I seem to have unfortunately deleted these in a rather unfortunate accident. This basically makes the system unusuable? Anyone have a nice little tar ball or perhaps a good guide for getting them again? I trie

RE: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Martin Marconcini
> no effect. You will have to hold down the power button for 5 seconds to Sorry, I believe this is unimportant, but it's normally 4 seconds on all ATX motherboards. Regards, Martin.

Re: Linux Virus

2001-04-05 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
http://www.securityfocus.com/ there's a link on the main page regarding latest linux worm and http://www.sans.org/y2k/adore.htm -thx, robt Shawn Garbett wrote: > > Whoops, using a Microsoft Windows box with Netscape here at work, > ugh. Had to fight the @[EMAIL PROTECTED] box just to give me

Re: First boot sector doesn't have a valid LILO signature

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:26:31AM -, Ari Sigurðsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > computer won't boot after some hard disk failure, I can mount and see > files and I'm booting with disk and trying to run lilo again but I > get, First boot sector doesn't have a valid LILO signature It's not cl

Sawfish WM Config crashes

2001-04-05 Thread Chris Knight
Howdy, When I try to configure Sawfish in Gnome Control Center, the window hangs. I can click on 'Appearance' and nothing shows in the config window, and then if I click on another option 'Meta' for example, the window stops responding and I have to kill it. Currently I have sawfish-gnome installe

Re: Errors writing to /tmp

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:44:02AM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > > > The only time this happened to me was when the partition that contains > > /tmp was almost full. You could be running out of inodes, also. > > What does df

Re: DefaultColorDepth with acroread and netscape

2001-04-05 Thread Carl Greco
Setting DefaultColorDepth to 32 seems to solve the problem. Thanks Erik. Erik Steffl said on April 5, 2001 at 09:57 (-0700) >Carl Greco wrote: >> >> Setting the DefaultColorDepth to 24 causes acroread to segfault and >> netscape to display toolbar icons in black/white. All other apps are >> OK

Bag'o'tools for saving RealAudio streams

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:04:16AM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:56:06AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I want to save some real files, but this option is not allowed when you > > run real player, is there any way

[OT] greek character in xfig?

2001-04-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
Sorry for the somewhat off-topic post. Anybody know how to generate a greek character (specifically, a lower-case lambda) in xfig? Thanks. -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology (Soon: Asst Profes

Re: pasting text into bash without use of mouse

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 06:47:53AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 04 April 2001 09:41, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Is there a way to copy or paste text into bash without the use of > > > a mouse? I'm thinking of a text file "file.txt" which

Re: can not access cd drive

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:09:06AM -0600, eric ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear experts: > > > not only music can not access ( canot scan) but also regular iso9660 > disk cannot be access at all( wrong fs type), but it did can record cd, > it seem it recognize the drive as scsi but not ide Ch

Re: SMTP transaction error

2001-04-05 Thread Brett Carlane
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Wed 04 Apr: > reading message 1 of 4 (2238 octets) > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused > fetchmail: POP3> QUIT > fetchmail: POP3< Sebastiaan wrote: > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop3.web.de > fetchmail: Query status=10 > fe

Give me my econ-gnome-ical text mode back!

2001-04-05 Thread Kevin Stokes
I've actually gotten far enough with Debian that I have Gnome up and running, and have gotten to play the squash-bill-gates game, thanks to ya'll. However, when I booted Linux this morning, my nice text login was gone, and instead a graphical login was presented.This is nice and all, but m

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-05 Thread Roberto Diaz
> People need to express their views in other situations--when a site > decides to *use* mail-abuse.org and block mail from dynamic sites. > Is Debian doing anything like this? Could you please tell me if we have some mailing list ready to organize some kind of struggle against this kind of insani

Re: [OT] greek character in xfig?

2001-04-05 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Try Text, Select Text Font from the choices at the botoom, and from the choices select Greek. The letter l should give you the lower case lambda. Hope this helps. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810 > Sorry for the somewhat off-topic post. Anybod

RE: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-05 Thread Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm
>= Original Message From Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >I was wondering if there was some way to get the files in /bin for debian >unstable x86 I seem to have unfortunately deleted these in a rather >unfortunate accident. This basically makes the system unusuable? Anyone

Re: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86

2001-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:09:43PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was wondering if there was some way to get the files in /bin for > debian unstable x86 I seem to have unfortunately deleted these in a > rather unfortunate accident. This basically makes the system >

Re: Give me my econ-gnome-ical text mode back!

2001-04-05 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: > > Also, the chair in front of the Linux machine is uncomfortable . . . I laughed out loud when I read this. I thought you were going to ask the list to address an ergonomics situation . . . -- steve

Re: Give me my econ-gnome-ical text mode back!

2001-04-05 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, On Thu, Apr 05, 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: > I've actually gotten far enough with Debian that I have Gnome up and > running, and have gotten to play the squash-bill-gates game, thanks to > ya'll. > > However, when I booted Linux this morning, my nice text login was gone, > and instead a g

K-Jofol plugin for XMMS

2001-04-05 Thread Ray Percival
I can not get this to compile I have xmms-dev but it is still complaing about missing files. I'm trying it with .95 and am going to try .94. If any one has it working or better yet know where to get debs for it please let me know how. Thanks Ray.

Re: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
Martin Marconcini wrote: > Sorry, I believe this is unimportant, but it's normally 4 seconds on all ATX > motherboards. I once read it was 5 seconds, but I've never actually timed it myself.

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