Re: Yet Another X question

2001-05-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:51:02PM -0500, Rob Zietlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just installed Debian on my system. Because I wanted a new version of > Window maker, I didn't install an X-window manager. I compiled Window maker > and all that good jazz. I ran all the setups, Now when I log

Re: [users] dns/named log message "learnt"?

2001-05-14 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach will trillich (on Sun, 13 May 2001 11:34:21PM -0500): > May 13 15:37:16 server named[16551]: ns_forw: > query(mail2.something.com) NS points to CNAME (rain.something.com:) > learnt (CNAME=11.22.33.44:NS=55.66.77.88) > > what does that translate to, in newbiespeak? my first

Halfway broken mount halfway solved

2001-05-14 Thread Astrogeek
First, a great big "Thanks!" to Karsten (who has helped me before under a different identity long ago) for getting the information about the floppy onto the list. I was going to skip removing the floppy from fstab since I figured it shouldn't make a difference, seeing how it was hard-disk partiti

wmaker/x scripting

2001-05-14 Thread MaD dUCK
hi, i use Alt-F[0-9] to navigate between my WindowMaker workspaces. I have my opera browser (h. opera!) on workspace 9 and it's bound there (i never close it anyway). now i would like to write a function which will open a url in opera ("opera " either starts opera, or passes the request to a ru

Re: TuxTops Amethyst (Compal N20U OEM) lockups, video/APM suspected

2001-05-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:05:47AM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > Previously posted to debian-laptop, no responses yet. Problems continue > after latest updates, seems to be display related as leaving system > powered on w/ X off has yet to crash. Slightly updated. >

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-14 Thread hzi
"Steve R. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am a huge fan of the HP inkjet printers (and I'm eagerly waiting > for drivers as good as the ones for Windows). http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! "The Computer made me do it." BTW

Re: the new pppconfig and some errors

2001-05-14 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
May 11, 2001 at 09:32, ragOO : > Where am I going wrong ? Am I missing something ? > Answering my own post... John Hasler, the maintainer of pppconfig helped me off-list in getting this fixed. Since this post, he has released two successive versions which has addressed this problem. The problem

{latex,sgml,xml} packages for creating resume?

2001-05-14 Thread David Monarres
I know that this isn't neccesarily debian specific, but I was looking for a dtd or latex package that I could use to create a resume. I know that it is probably true that everybody uses word proccessors for this type of task, but I have been writing papers with latex for the past year and it just l

Re: {latex,sgml,xml} packages for creating resume?

2001-05-14 Thread Martin Würtele
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:25:23PM -0700, David Monarres wrote: > I know that this isn't neccesarily debian specific, but I was looking for a > dtd or latex package that I could use to create a resume. I know that it is > probably true that everybody uses word proccessors for this type of task, > b

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-14 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Mon, 14 May 2001 15:43:08 + hzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe the Debian community sorely needs a hand from a guru, in order > to make HP printer work on Debian, without resorting to CUPS or any > other "older" solution. Epson, Japan, have written a driver for many of their print

Disk mirroring

2001-05-14 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'd like to mirror the harddisk of my running system to another disk. What is the best route to do it? What I have in mind is to mount the second disk under /mnt and then copy all the files into it. Can rsync do it? Of course, I'd like to do it periodically; every night at 11:59, for example.

linux FOREVER!

2001-05-14 Thread MaD dUCK
just wanted to share: a production system of mine (very very important actually): i use rsync, i specify .. accidentally as opposed to . i use the --delete flag --> /etc/* recursively gone. AAH but: i have a week-old backup. i am ssh'd into the thing. no problems though

Re: [users] Disk mirroring

2001-05-14 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Oki DZ (on Mon, 14 May 2001 01:37:26PM +0700): > I'd like to mirror the harddisk of my running system to another disk. > What is the best route to do it? What I have in mind is to mount the > second disk under /mnt and then copy all the files into it. Can rsync do > it? Of course, I'd l

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-14 Thread Martin Würtele
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:37:26PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > I'd like to mirror the harddisk of my running system to another disk. > What is the best route to do it? What I have in mind is to mount the > second disk under /mnt and then copy all the files into it. Can rsync do > it? Of course, I'd like

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya best way ??? raid1 mirroring... ( assumes same/identical partition sizes ) - anything you put on disk1 will get mirror'd to disk2 - - if you accidentally erase /foo.txt ... it gets erased on disk2 too ... ( i see no point to that ...but... some folks like i

Re: who gets this bug, pppconfig or ash?

2001-05-14 Thread Gregory T. Norris
D'oh! My error. I have ppp setup to swap /etc/resolv.conf versions, but I'm not using the "usepeerdns" option, which is where the "echo -e" comes into play. In any event, it's probably not worth filing a bug over since John says he's fixed it in pppconfig. Cheers! On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:29:

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:05:42AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > manually ( via cron ) backing up disk1 to disk2... is a good thing... > > depending on what you want on the backup disks... tar is better ??? > tar zcvf /mnt/backup_disk/backup.$date.tgz /etc /root /home Agree. One neat option o

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2001-05-14 Thread mec
Cześć Używam na swoim komputerze RH ale chciałbym dowiedzieć się dużo na temat pakietów Debiana lub coś w stylu porównania RPM i DEB. Czy możecie mi podać adresy www gdzie można znaleźć pełną informację o działaniu DEB ?   Za wszelkie info wielkie dzięki. Pozdrawiam Łukasz Pachciarek    

Pakiety Debiana

2001-05-14 Thread mec
Cześć Używam na swoim komputerze RH ale chciałbym dowiedzieć się dużo na temat pakietów Debiana lub coś w stylu porównania RPM i DEB. Czy możecie mi podać adresy www gdzie można znaleźć pełną informację o działaniu DEB ?   Za wszelkie info wielkie dzięki. Pozdrawiam Łukasz Pachciarek

Re: [users] testing upgrade stallout

2001-05-14 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Sun, 13 May 2001 11:09:13PM -0500): > Unfortunately, running 'apt-get -f install' doesn't seem to fix the > problem. i believe that i had the same problem when i did the same. i can't remember, but i think apt-get -f install fixed it. and if it didn't there is alw

Re: ftp.isc.org refusing connections

2001-05-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:59:30PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > Thought I would download the latest bind sources. ftp.isc.org is refusing > connections. Are they down or has my reputation preceeded me? >From www.isc.org: ISC's FTP server is temporarily unavailable. We regret any inconvenience th

Re: smtp-refuser with sendmail problem

2001-05-14 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> > i have sendmail set up and use smtp-refuser. But my sendmail reports: -> > -> > May 13 13:50:38 work sendmail[4414]: twist localhost to /usr/sbin/smtp-refuser /usr/lib/smtp-refuser/fuckoff-svfsun -> > May 13 13:50:38 work sendmail[4414]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 25: twist_option: dup:

Re: Unable to connect to X Server

2001-05-14 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:04:15AM -0300, Arlequ?n wrote: > Another thing.. > when I start running xf86Config, when it's goning to enter graphic mode it > says > "Unable to comunnicate with X Server!" > and throws this error Try xf86config (note the capitalization). It's a text-mode configuration

Re: Yet Another X question

2001-05-14 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:51:02PM -0500, Rob Zietlow wrote: > I just installed Debian on my system. Because I wanted a new version of > Window maker, I didn't install an X-window manager. I compiled Window maker > and all that good jazz. I ran all the setups, Now when I login to xdm > (remotel

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Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-14 Thread V.Suresh
Did you try Linux 1 at lilo prompt? That worked for me. ;-) Once upon a time, Shirmay Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And typed: >Hi, We use Debian Gnu/Linux 2.1. The root password is lost(yes we are kicking >ourselves). I've tried to boot into the single user mode by typing linux >s

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2001-05-14 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello, I was reading an article in Linux Journal on booting with GRUB. It looked very interesting and I thought: "Why not give it a try" There is one feature in GRUB that I like, that is, you can browse with your arrow keys to select the OS you want to boot. I don't think this exists in LILO. T

Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:17:06AM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > Did you try Linux 1 at lilo prompt? That worked for me. ;-) only `Linux init=/bin/sh' will work on debian, as debian configures init to spawn sulogin when entering single user mode, or if any severe failure occurs in the boot process.

problemas al ejecutar las x, cursor del raton es una caja

2001-05-14 Thread jfgn
Hola, buenos dias. En mi estacion de trabajo mantengo las dos versiones de debian paralelamente y he instalado en la stable xfree3.3.6 y en la inestable las xfree 4.0.3. Tengo una matrox g200 de 8mb, 320mb de ram, 8gb disco duro, placa assus a7v y un athlon a 700. Pues la incidencia que no enc

perl: bad interpreter

2001-05-14 Thread Florian Petri
Hi! I have got a problem with perl and one skript... --- bash --- nuntius:~/dynip-client$ ll dynip-client.pl -rwxr-xr-x1 flop flop 1463 May 14 10:01 dynip-client.pl nuntius:~/dynip-client$ ./dynip-client.pl bash: ./dynip-client.pl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory nunti

Normal usr can not runn Star Office 5.2 with debian potato..

2001-05-14 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I now faced another problem with star office 5.2; before in slackware I can install it using the /net opetion and install for each user separately. Now I can not do that , no matter what I tried, it still gives the message Aborted after running for a while . The installation is okay both the s

Re: perl: bad interpreter

2001-05-14 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:15:12AM +0200, Florian Petri wrote: > Hi! > > I have got a problem with perl and one skript... [..] > nuntius:~/dynip-client$ ./dynip-client.pl > bash: ./dynip-client.pl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory [..] > --- ./dynip-client.pl --- > #!/usr/bin/perl That

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-14 Thread Oki DZ
Martin Würtele wrote: > to copy a filesystem to another you can use cpio: > this will copy you entire rootpartition to /mnt: > find / -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt It would be great if the copying is done incrementally (copy the newer files only). Oki

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-14 Thread Oki DZ
Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > best way ??? > > raid1 mirroring... ( assumes same/identical partition sizes ) > - anything you put on disk1 will get mirror'd to disk2 > - > - if you accidentally erase /foo.txt ... it gets erased on disk2 > too ... ( i see no poin

Re: woody release date

2001-05-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:25:35PM -0400, Stuart Krivis wrote: > I've always wondered why Debian has such trouble with releases. The > RedHat clones put stuff out regularly. Yeah, I know, Debian actually > wants things to _work_. :-) But FreeBSD also does a better job at new > releases, and Free

Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:04:14AM +0100, Gordon Hart wrote: > In case you don't know, the 'man' command tries to find a manual page > for whatever you throw at it.. as does 'info' I find info to be decidedly clumsy. apt-get install pinfo for a much nicer interface (or use the info browser in emac

Re: {latex,sgml,xml} packages for creating resume?

2001-05-14 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:25:23PM -0700, David Monarres wrote: > I know that this isn't neccesarily debian specific, but I was looking for a > dtd or latex package that I could use to create a resume. I know that it is > probably true that everybody uses word proccessors for this type of task, >

GRUB bootloader

2001-05-14 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello, I was reading an article in Linux Journal on booting with GRUB. It looked very interesting and I thought: "Why not give it a try" There is one feature in GRUB that I like, that is, you can browse with your arrow keys to select the OS you want to boot. I don't think this exists in LILO. T

Re: NP RAM

2001-05-14 Thread N. Raghavendra
Hi, We are buying some computers in our office, and one vendor's quote said that the memory was "NP" SDRAM. I had asked here a few days ago about "NP" RAM: what it is and how it relates to ECC RAM. Many thanks to Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who replied

Re: GRUB bootloader

2001-05-14 Thread Ilya Martynov
GS> Hello, GS> I was reading an article in Linux Journal on booting with GRUB. It looked GS> very interesting and I thought: GS> "Why not give it a try" GS> There is one feature in GRUB that I like, that is, you can browse with your GS> arrow keys to select the OS you GS> want to boot. I don't th

Re: woody release date

2001-05-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:06:59PM -0600, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Carl Fink wrote: [big cut] > > it will be at least *two years* before I can install using dpkg/apt.) > > I seriously doubt that Woody is two years away . . . So do I, but unstable is Sid. -- Carl

Re: GRUB bootloader

2001-05-14 Thread punt45ACP
Your bios definitely supports it, as otherwise you couldn't be able to boot Debain. You mentioned it's installed after tyhe 8GB point, so you should be safe. A pretty good alternative I use (DOS/W98/OS2/Debian) is BootMagic from PowerQuest. With BootMagic you can (amoung other things) specify w

Re: ftp.isc.org refusing connections

2001-05-14 Thread Bud Rogers
On Monday 14 May 2001 03:01, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:59:30PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > > Thought I would download the latest bind sources. ftp.isc.org is > > refusing connections. Are they down or has my reputation preceeded me? > > From www.isc.org: > > ISC's FTP serv

Re: apt-get trouble

2001-05-14 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:25:12AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: >> I'm have a heck of a time with apt-get following a manual install of >> perl-5.6.1. [...] >> debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine >> return at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Ba

Re: Normal usr can not runn Star Office 5.2 with debian potato..

2001-05-14 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > I now faced another problem with star office 5.2; > before in slackware I can install it using the /net > opetion and install for each user separately. Now I > can not do that , no matter what I tried, it still > gives the message Aborted after runn

X setup, continued.

2001-05-14 Thread David Underwood
Thankyou kindly Cameron. Indeed XF86-SVGA was not intalled. So far so good. Two more problems have arisen since that I cannot seem to get a handle on. 1. I actually have a desktop diplayed now. Unfortunately unless I manually set the resolution to "640x480", by editing XF86config, only the top l

Re: GRUB bootloader

2001-05-14 Thread Moritz Schulte
Goeman Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, [Problems with Grub] > I am using GRUB version 0.5.93.???, is it perhaps possible that this > version of GRUB does not support large drives? Should I instead use > GRUB version 0.5.96.1 as mentioned in the article? I suggest to install a newer vers

sources.list file

2001-05-14 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello, Can somebody tell me what is wrong with the following entries in my sources.list file deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org stable non-US deb http://security.debian.org/stable/updates main contrib non-free I get the following e

Printing with the Gimp

2001-05-14 Thread Victor
I've installed the Gimp 1.1 under debian 2.2r3 and set my printer up by means of magicfilter. Now, I'm at a loss for printing with Gimp. When I ask Gimp to print, it shows a menu in which the buttons "File*" and "setup" are present. Because I don't want to print to a file I choose setup and I'm

ADSL, routing, firewall question

2001-05-14 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Hi A friend of mine asked me to set up a firewall with an old P90 he had for spare when his ADSL connection was installed. Last week the cable guy came and then we spent some time setting things up in a preliminary fashion. The ISP normally provides a fixed IP number (yes!) and I thought a stand

RE: Is Nvidia Geforce supported on potato?

2001-05-14 Thread Wayne Brown
Yes it is, you will need Xfree ver 4.0 from XFree.org and the nvidia drivers for linux from the nvidia site. You would be better off installing X4 from debs if possible though, this will prevent problems in future. (Unlike me! I used the install scripts from Xfree.org) Regards Wayne. -Origin

Re: sources.list file

2001-05-14 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:40:04PM +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello, > > Can somebody tell me what is wrong with the following entries in > my sources.list file > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free Looks ok - and works for me. > deb http://non-us.debian.or

Re: X setup, continued.

2001-05-14 Thread Craig Holyoak
> 1. I actually have a desktop diplayed now. Unfortunately unless I > manually set the resolution to "640x480", by editing XF86config, only > the top left corner of the desktop is displayed. > > from XF86config > > Section "Screen" > Driver "svga" > Device "NVIDIA Riva TNT2 (generic)

Ximian evolution unable to lock /var/spool/mail/xxxx

2001-05-14 Thread franck routier
Hello, I try to use evolution mail reader (and more) on a sid box. Each time I try to check my mail,I go this message : Error while performing operation : unable to create lock file for /var/spool/mail/ : access denied (error message might not be accurated, I translate it from french) My m

Re: Printing with the Gimp

2001-05-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:15:06PM +, Victor wrote: > I've installed the Gimp 1.1 under debian 2.2r3 and set my printer up by means > of magicfilter. > > Now, I'm at a loss for printing with Gimp. When I ask Gimp to print, it shows > a menu in which the buttons "File*" and "setup" are presen

Re: X setup, continued.

2001-05-14 Thread AtiZ
> You can also switch between resolutions using Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Plus and > Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Minus. Is there some similar way to change the color depth (with some keyboard shortcuts), or the only way is to kill the server an then restart it in the desired color depth? And another question, is the c

Re: {latex,sgml,xml} packages for creating resume?

2001-05-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:43:59AM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:25:23PM -0700, David Monarres wrote: > > > I know that this isn't neccesarily debian specific, but I was looking for a > > dtd or latex package that I could use to create a resume. I know that it is ... > If

apt-move question

2001-05-14 Thread Yuri Leikind
Hi all, I have set apt-move to move and store all downloaded and cached packages in a separate directory. I noticed that apt-move doesn't work with non-native packages, like, say, ximian gnome or kde for potato, which are not officially in the distribution. It just "skips" them. Is there a way

Re: X setup, continued.

2001-05-14 Thread Ilya Martynov
A> Is there some similar way to change the color depth (with A> some keyboard shortcuts), or the only way is to kill the A> server an then restart it in the desired color depth? AFAIK it is not possible to chanage color depth. At least with keyboard shortcuts. A> And another question, is the col

Re: Program to convert binary stream to ASCII

2001-05-14 Thread Lars Knudsen
Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > My dad started a new project at work, which they will be using Linux for. He > came to me and asked me if Linux had a program to convert a binary stream to > ASCII characters. A co-worker of his told him that UNIX had a native utility > to do this (but he co

Re: Ximian evolution unable to lock /var/spool/mail/xxxx

2001-05-14 Thread Martin Fries
Hi, perhaps something is wrong with the filepermissions for /var/spool/mail/xxx. It should be owned by the user and he needs read/write. Martin franck routier wrote: > > Hello, > > I try to use evolution mail reader (and more) on a sid box. > > Each time I try to check my mail,I go this messa

Re: {latex,sgml,xml} packages for creating resume?

2001-05-14 Thread Alan Shutko
David Monarres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know that this isn't neccesarily debian specific, but I was looking for a > dtd or latex package that I could use to create a resume. FWIW, I didn't like any of the resume packages and built my own up in the article cls, with a bit of hand-formatting

Re: joe and -backpath

2001-05-14 Thread Manuel Reiter
Hi again, > > I went all the way with it - > > scab:~$ ll -d .joe_bak/ > > drwxrwxrwx2 kent kent 4.0k May 11 07:10 .joe_bak/ > > > > > > Still get - > > Could not make backup file. Save anyway (y,n,^C)? > > > > I'm clueless. It shouldn't have to be executable a

Re: apt-get trouble

2001-05-14 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 14 May 2001, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > 5.6.1 on the other hand dies at *complile-time* (ie. irregardless of > the argument) with: > > Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine return at /tmp/goto line 3, near > "&foo }" > Execution of /tmp/go

ISO or RAW ?

2001-05-14 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello, This is probably a stupid question. I want to burn CD's, I have the CD images in .raw format. How do I convert them to .iso file formats? Can I simple change the extension to .iso? In fact, do I have to convert them form .raw to .iso? I am planning to use xcdroast to burn the CDs. Gree

Re: ISO or RAW ?

2001-05-14 Thread ktb
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:02:34PM +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello, > > > This is probably a stupid question. > > I want to burn CD's, I have the CD images in .raw format. > How do I convert them to .iso file formats? Can I simple change the > extension to .iso? > In fact, do I have to conv

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-14 Thread evan . day
> Hi, > > I'd like to mirror the harddisk of my running system to another disk. > What is the best route to do it? What I have in mind is to mount the > second disk under /mnt and then copy all the files into it. Can rsync do > it? Of course, I'd like to do it periodically; every night at 11:59,

/var partition damaged

2001-05-14 Thread Christoph Groth
Hello all, While booting yesterday my potato system once again the the mount count was exceeded and I realized that there are serious problems with my /var partition: After booting in single user mode e2fsck had to delete a lot of files (lost+found contains 42M of stuff!). Luckily, my system work

IP Alias

2001-05-14 Thread Michael Goodman
How do you assigned an IP Alias to a nic card at boot? I tried adding it to /etc/network/interfaces but it doesn't work. Thanks.

Hylafax probs

2001-05-14 Thread Victor
I've just installed Hylafax under potato. When I've launched faxsetup the program has complained about the absence of the courier definition under /usr/share/enscript/afm, while there are many afm files under that directory. I've tried to add the line "FontDir: /usr/share/enscript/afm" and now

Re: Printing with the Gimp

2001-05-14 Thread Victor
Well, Ethan, I tried the same solution and it worked but, let's face it, it's a somewhat makeshift solution! Is there anyone out there able to give the right hint? Vittorio On Monday 14 May 2001 12:44, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:15:06PM +, Victor wrote: > > I've insta

Re: GRUB bootloader

2001-05-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:00:35PM +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote: > I am using GRUB version 0.5.93.???, is it perhaps possible that this version > of GRUB does not support large drives? > Should I instead use GRUB version 0.5.96.1 as mentioned in the article? I recommend the version from sid. It has

Re: {latex,sgml,xml} packages for creating resume?

2001-05-14 Thread David Z. Maze
David Monarres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DM> I know that this isn't neccesarily debian specific, but I was DM> looking for a dtd or latex package that I could use to create a DM> resume. I have my resume in SGML; links to the DTD and DSSSL stylesheets I use with Jade are at http://www.mit.edu/~

3c509B driver, trouble configuring

2001-05-14 Thread Mithras
Yesterday I ran the 3c5x9cfg utility to turn off PnP, as the Ethernet HOWTO recommended. My card is now seen by Windoze as 'in Legacy mode', good, but when I run modconf my situation hasn't improved since I first tried to configure this driver, before I ran 3c5x9cfg. Here's a transcript of my lat

kernel rebuild w.o./ purging 3rd-party modules?

2001-05-14 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anybody know how to do kernel rebuilds in such a way that existing 3rd-party kernel modules (ie those not included in the kernel src tree) aren't removed from /lib/modules/... ? -chris

Re: IP Alias

2001-05-14 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Michael Goodman was said to been seen saying: > How do you assigned an IP Alias to a nic card at boot? I tried adding it to > /etc/network/interfaces but it doesn't work. Thanks. > Have you tried the following? It works fine on my gateway machine that has eth0 and eth0:1 - eth0:4 confi

"keyboard: Unknown e1 escape sequence"

2001-05-14 Thread Eric Mak
Hi all, I'm using a Logitech I-touch cordless keyboard and moust combo and every so often I get the above error message superimposed on the console... it's driving me nuts. What's the cause (and fix?) for this problem? Thanks very much in advance, Eric

2.4.2 + imm.o

2001-05-14 Thread Krzys Majewski
I'm finding the OS really sluggish when using my parport zip100 drive (imm driver). This is a 2.4.2 kernel. Here's what happens when I modprobe parport_pc: May 14 08:41:24 mi kernel: 0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes May 14 08:41:24 mi kernel: 0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 9 May 14 08:41:24 mi ker

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

2001-05-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:58:45PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: > What are the "D"s next to some addresses but not others in this mailq > output: > 0m 2.3K 14wrw8-0003EP-00 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > D [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [...] > D [EMAIL PROTECT

System not Detecting Control Characters

2001-05-14 Thread Ben Pharr
I have a freshly installed 2.2r3 system that is working quite nicely with one exception. It appears not to be detecting control characters. For instance, ^C will not kill the current process and ^D will not log me out. In the case of the ^C, it is printed on the screen. With ^D nothing happe

how to find out what ip to use

2001-05-14 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
hi. Im installing a new linux based system in a computer. I would like to know how I can find out what ip address to use without having to talk with the network administrator. Also what would he do to find out what ip address I am suppose to use. Clumsy, I tried several ip adresses with ifconfig,

Re: Debian help

2001-05-14 Thread Iñigo Lekanda Irabien
Hello Alex, I don't know solution (more about David Whedom's solution). I find one workaround: Get the first CD of Potato (f.example: 2.2r3). Install the system from this CD. Add to APT the CD's of woody. Run: "apt-cdrom add" This with all you have of woody. Now upgrade your syste

Re: [users] dns/named log message "learnt"?

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:08:41AM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach will trillich (on Sun, 13 May 2001 11:34:21PM -0500): > > May 13 15:37:16 server named[16551]: ns_forw: > > query(mail2.something.com) NS points to CNAME (rain.something.com:) > > learnt (CNAME=11.22.33.44:NS=55.66.77.8

Re: linux FOREVER!

2001-05-14 Thread idalton
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:52:37AM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > just wanted to share: > a production system of mine (very very important actually): > i use rsync, i specify .. accidentally as opposed to . > i use the --delete flag > --> /etc/* recursively gone. > AAH > > but: i

Re: {latex,sgml,xml} packages for creating resume?

2001-05-14 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:15:39AM -0400, David Z. Maze wrote: > I have my resume in SGML; links to the DTD and DSSSL stylesheets I use > with Jade are at http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/projects.html. The end > result is visible at http://web.mit.edu/resume/. Shouldn't the second link be http://web.

Re: how to find out what ip to use

2001-05-14 Thread Hall Stevenson
> hi. Im installing a new linux based system in a computer. I > would like to know how I can find out what ip address to use > without having to talk with the network administrator. Also > what would he do to find out what ip address I am suppose to > use. Clumsy, I tried several ip adresses with i

Re: Copying one hard drive to another

2001-05-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:06:17PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I need to copy everything from hard drive to another. I'm assuming this is > done w/ dd, but I need to be sure. Could someone give me an example of how to > copy /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1? mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt cd find -x

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-14 Thread badoual loic
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:22:56PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Martin Würtele wrote: > > to copy a filesystem to another you can use cpio: > > this will copy you entire rootpartition to /mnt: > > find / -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt > > It would be great if the copying is done incrementally (copy the newer > f

Saved mail viewer

2001-05-14 Thread csj
I'm looking for a stand-alone text viewer that filters out the mail headers in saved mail, basically a prettifier. Is there such an animal? -- Say I have: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 13 07:22:57 2001 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Received: from mx3-12.mindga

newbie-Xsetup

2001-05-14 Thread Chris Parker
Trying to set up X.  What video card to use for Intel 82810.  Not listed in lineup.  This is under potato.  I am running a hp 6830 with the I810 chip.  Onboard vid/sound.  Any suggestions will be apreciated.  Also mouse is configed but under x it will not work!

Re: ISO or RAW ?

2001-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:02:34PM +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote: > I want to burn CD's, I have the CD images in .raw format. > How do I convert them to .iso file formats? Can I simple change the > extension to .iso? > In fact, do I have to convert them form .raw to .iso? If you use command line cdre

XFree86

2001-05-14 Thread rattalinux
hello people, i need to configure the X-windows. i try with XF86Setup but i don't configure the mouse, how i do? thank, Ratta. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: ISO or RAW ?

2001-05-14 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > I want to burn CD's, I have the CD images in .raw format. > > How do I convert them to .iso file formats? Can I simple > > change the extension to .iso? > > In fact, do I have to convert them form .raw to .iso? > If you use command line cdrecord, you can use both extensions. > If you use some G

Re: Ximian evolution unable to lock /var/spool/mail/xxxx

2001-05-14 Thread Dominique Deleris
franck routier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I try to use evolution mail reader (and more) on a sid box. > > Each time I try to check my mail,I go this message : > > Error while performing operation : > unable to create lock file for /var/spool/mail/ : access denied > > (error m

Re: Diagrams with Dia: Help!

2001-05-14 Thread Andrzej Swedrzynski
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I've never used dia, so this probably of no use to you... If you > don't mind not having a GUI, and you want to make graphs rather > than pie charts, try "gri" (http://gri.sourceforge.net). Well, I use dia for UML and ERD diagrams, not graph or c

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
badoual loic wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:22:56PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > Martin Würtele wrote: > > > to copy a filesystem to another you can use cpio: > > > this will copy you entire rootpartition to /mnt: > > > find / -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt > > > > It would be great if the copying is do

problem after I install ximian-gnome 1.4

2001-05-14 Thread Felix Yuen
hi all, after I install the ximian-gnome, I got a problem, I can't start the x-window, when I check the file .xsession-errors, it said that the file libgnomecanvaspixbuf.so.1 is missing, which package contain this file, i can't find it, can anyone please tell me, thank you very much. -- best

Re: Saved mail viewer

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Carrigan
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for a stand-alone text viewer that filters out the mail > headers in saved mail, basically a prettifier. Is there such an animal? perl -ne 'print if /^$/ .. /^From /' saved_mail_file -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! The LOGAR

Viewsonic monitor compatibility?

2001-05-14 Thread Abner Gershon
I need to buy a couple of monitors and specifically I am considering the Viewsonic EF70. Does anyone have experience using this monitor with Debian and X windows? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auct

Re: {latex,sgml,xml} packages for creating resume?

2001-05-14 Thread David Z. Maze
Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BP> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:15:39AM -0400, David Z. Maze wrote: DZM> I have my resume in SGML; links to the DTD and DSSSL stylesheets I use DZM> with Jade are at http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/projects.html. The end DZM> result is visible at http://web.mi

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