potato question

2001-05-20 Thread Chris
HAD POTATO but tried to upgrade to kernel 2.4.4-686.  Sys is a celeron 700 on a i810 board running 191mem with dozeme on 1st partition and ?2r3 on second.  Used apt-get kernel-image-2.4.4-686 to get kernel and then thought configed.  When reboot got a kernel panic.BOOT=?. Things missing! how

Anyone with a HP Laser Jet 1220 printer/scanner/copier

2001-05-20 Thread mdevin
Has anyone got this or knows about it? It looks as though it is postscript and the scanner part will work with linux using a command line program called ptal-hp. Has anyone set up this beast and knows if it involves any headaches? Thanks Mark.

Re: kde_gnome

2001-05-20 Thread Joel Mayes
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 07:21:04PM -0500, Karshi Hasanov wrote: > > Can you help me to setup KDE or Gnome as a default panel when I run > "startx". > This is my first time I am using Debian(Woody), and don't understand how > "startx" works. > > Thanks > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: small partitions are faster?

2001-05-20 Thread Joel Mayes
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:07:48AM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: > hello. I have a 20 gbyte fujitsu. My bios didnt recognize the disk as a 20 > gbyte so I jumpered the drive to 2gbyte to trick the bios. ( this model > can do that). I boot on MS-DOS and then use loadlin to load boot linux. > I made

dpkg -l

2001-05-20 Thread harsha
hi, dpkg -l showed the following. snip... pi xserver-common 4.0.2-13 ii xserver-common 3.3.6-38 how do i resolve this. would appreciate some help. regards harsha --

pump / resolv.conf troubles

2001-05-20 Thread Matthias Pfisterer
Hi, I have a problem with pump. Generally, it works fine, but it doesn't write the search directive in resolv.conf correctely. I get: aphrodite:/home/matthias# pump -s Device eth0 IP: 192.168.128.150 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Broadcast: 192.168.128.255 Network: 192.16

Re: lprng problem. Problem Solved :-)

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Joel Mayes wrote: > > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:17:18AM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2001 00:22:35 Joel Mayes wrote: > > > Thanks to everyone who responded, both on and off list, > > > I've installed CUPS and everything is now A-KO > > > > Did you happen to use the debian packa

Re: Netscape , problem again...!

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Steve Kieu wrote: > > Hi, > Any one noticed the problem if using Netscape 4.77 > (not sure for older version) browse this page > > http://download.cnet.com/ > > And sometime Netscape doesn't not display anything > after loading a page for a while, for example if type > > http://www.slackware.co

nis +

2001-05-20 Thread Roderick Cummings
I am trying to learn how to admin nis and nis+. I found the nis package in debian, but does debian have an nis+ package? If not are there nis+ packages else where? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.co

Re: dbootstrap

2001-05-20 Thread Leen Besselink
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone know where the source for dbootstrap lives. I wanted to > take a look at it and find out what it actually does but I haven't been > able to find it. > > thanks, > Andy > In bootfloppies maybe ??? Dunno > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: apache doubt

2001-05-20 Thread V.Suresh
I have set the permissions to rw for all. Still I can't. Where is the Options Indexes specified? Can't find it in httpd.conf. My DocumentRoot is /myweb. It contains a index.html, with rw permissions for all. Once upon a time, Rolf Schillinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And type

Re: Modem

2001-05-20 Thread V.Suresh
Try minicom to detect your modem first. What have you given as modem in wvdial.conf? Once upon a time, Phillip Grigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And typed: >I am using wvdial to dial out. When I run the program, it states that >"the modem is not responding". Do I have to load any modu

Abiword and ttf

2001-05-20 Thread Hans
Who succeeded in getting Abiword to recognize TrueType fonts? Their FAQ says to symlink fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype to /usr/share/abisource/fonts/. I did that but it won't fly. (Using Woody with Abiword 0.7). --Hans

for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Hans
I still don't understand the proper syntax for this: I want to process multiple files, e.g. symlinking a bunch or converting graphics. for i in *;do 'ln -s $i /home/newdir/$i';done won't work. Could someone please explain the rules for doing stuff like this, e.g. when to use quotes and what quo

OT: An overlooked bastion for MS?

2001-05-20 Thread Krisno Pryosusilo
I have been told at a couple of game development sites that I frequent, that Linux is being considered *in the future. The two sites are http://www.targetware.net and http://www.wwiionline.com. The former cites marketing info suggesting that writing a Linux port would be unprofitable, while the l

Re: Abiword and ttf

2001-05-20 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:04:42AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Who succeeded in getting Abiword to recognize TrueType fonts? Their FAQ > says to symlink fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype to > /usr/share/abisource/fonts/. I did that but it won't fly. (Using Woody with > Abiword 0.7). --Hans Better t

Kernel images

2001-05-20 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi gents, I run woody. At this time i compile the kernel by myself. Yesterday i saw in dselect that there are many kernel images avalible. But they are all 2.2.x kernels and only one, the 2.4.0-test1 from the 2.4.x series. Now my question is: Why aren't there all the newer images? Does Debian no

Re: What's up with the list?

2001-05-20 Thread Aldo Maggi
* sabato 19 maggio 2001, alle 19:20, John Willey scrive: > Now, I appreciate seeing the word "die" and "Outlook" in the same > sentence as much as the next guy, but why are all the messages on > this list suddenly in German? > as from yesterday evening it is the same for me:-( aldo -- altra e

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I still don't understand the proper syntax for this: I want to process > multiple files, e.g. symlinking a bunch or converting graphics. > > for i in *;do 'ln -s $i /home/newdir/$i';done > > won't work. This tries to execute the _command_ 'ln -s $i /home/newd

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Kevin Ross
> for i in *;do 'ln -s $i /home/newdir/$i';done > won't work. You're close. Get rid of the quotes. -- Kevin

Re: List errors?

2001-05-20 Thread Sven Hartge
You wrote: > Is it just me, or is the normal English debian-user mailing list > getting messages from the German debian-user list? No. Someone misconfigured his mail2news gate and is sending ALL postings to DE.comp.os.unix.linux.* to debian-user. The "someone" is a customer of thur.de, which h

pam_condev.so

2001-05-20 Thread Mao's Brüderle
Hi! I get the following errors and can't find anything about them on the web etc..: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_condev.so : cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_condev.so I'm running unstable with 2.4.5-pre1 Thanks! Eamon

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Hans wrote: > > I still don't understand the proper syntax for this: I want to process > multiple files, e.g. symlinking a bunch or converting graphics. > > for i in *;do 'ln -s $i /home/newdir/$i';done you got some responses already but here's some more info: to see how quotes work: exp

Re: Kernel images

2001-05-20 Thread Herbert Xu
Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run woody. At this time i compile the kernel by myself. Yesterday i saw in > dselect that there are many kernel images avalible. But they are all 2.2.x > kernels and only one, the 2.4.0-test1 from the 2.4.x series. > Now my question is: Why aren't

Re: nautilus 1.0.3-2 won't start

2001-05-20 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Erik Steffl wrote: > Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > > > hi > > > > I apt-get nautilus from unstable and the installation went without any > > errors, but when I try to start it I get this error message: > > > > nautilus: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared > > object file: canno

Newbie question - Java install

2001-05-20 Thread Norman Beresford
Hi all Excuse me if this is the wrong place to ask, but it seemed to be the closest thing to a debian newbie list that I could find! I've got a problem with an install of the Sun Java SDK on my debian box. I ftp'd the bash script install from Sun, and ran it. The whole thing seemed to go well,

Re: Newbie question - Java install

2001-05-20 Thread Ilya Martynov
NB> This gave me the following error code: NB> /usr/local/jre/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error in loading shared NB> libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No NB> Such file or directory. NB> Following some advice from someone else I tried to Locate the file, but

Re: Abiword and ttf

2001-05-20 Thread Hans
At 10:28 AM 5/20/01 +0200, Dr. Guenter Bechly wrote: >Hi, > >On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:04:42AM +0200, Hans wrote: >> Who succeeded in getting Abiword to recognize TrueType fonts? Their FAQ >> says to symlink fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype to >> /usr/share/abisource/fonts/. I did that but it wo

modprobe / modutils problems...

2001-05-20 Thread vester
hi all! i just compiled kernel-2.4.4 and it boots without any problems, but modprobe is never able to locate my modules. after i compiled the kernel i also ran 'make modules' and 'make modules_install' the modules do exist and are working, because i can insert them with insmod when i am in the s

cups and deskjet 840c

2001-05-20 Thread Mao's Brüderle
Hi! Has anyone had any experience with cups and the deskjet 840c?! As I understood from cups.org, this printer is supported, although "mostly". When I open "http://localhost:631/admin";, I get "this file contains no data". The other sections of this interface are also empty.

Re: nis +

2001-05-20 Thread Martin Würtele
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 03:29:48AM -0400, Roderick Cummings wrote: > I am trying to learn how to admin nis and nis+. I found the nis package in > debian, but does debian have an nis+ package? If not are there nis+ packages > else where? i don't know, just be aware that even in 2.4 the nis+ kerne

Re: Abiword and ttf

2001-05-20 Thread Martin Würtele
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:04:42AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Who succeeded in getting Abiword to recognize TrueType fonts? Their FAQ > says to symlink fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype to > /usr/share/abisource/fonts/. I did that but it won't fly. (Using Woody with > Abiword 0.7). --Hans if you add th

Re: iptables and kernel 2.4 etc

2001-05-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: iptables and kernel 2.4 etc Date: Sat, May 19, 2001 at 05:15:17PM +0930 In reply to:David Purton Quoting David Purton([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, > > > I just upgraded to kernel 2.4.4 and I'm now trying to return my computer > to some state of normality. > > after fi

Re: [users] Re: opera

2001-05-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: [users] Re: opera Date: Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:20:04PM -0400 In reply to:MaD dUCK Quoting MaD dUCK([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > also sprach Stephen E. Hargrove (on Fri, 18 May 2001 07:03:42PM -0500): > > i'm running woody and have it installed: > > that's probably the pro

Re: My favorite German post

2001-05-20 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Sat, 19 May 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > actually I think it's a combined english german message, it starts > with english then drifts into german, here's the same message divided > into english and german parts (using !): > > Re: Outlook, die! Schweinepest des Internets der (male), d

Re: cups and deskjet 840c

2001-05-20 Thread Joel Mayes
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 02:03:09PM +0200, Mao's Br?derle wrote: > Hi! > > Has anyone had any experience with cups and the deskjet 840c?! As I > understood from cups.org, this printer is supported, although "mostly". > When I open "http://localhost:631/admin";, I get "this fil

misc questions about inputrc

2001-05-20 Thread Pierre Hyvernat
Hi, Following the discussion some time ago (how to get PageUp go through history commands starting with what is currently on the command line), I decided to look at some thinks I could do with the inputrc files. My first thing was to add something to get Suppr to work correctly in xterm. The prob

Anyone with SMC EZ Card NIC running Kernel 2.4.4

2001-05-20 Thread mdevin
I noticed that the rtl8139 driver is no longer in the kernel config options and now the driver for this card seems to be called 8139too I compiled a module for 8139too when I compiled my 2.4.4 kernel. However, when I try to connect with my ADSL modem, the kernel freezes and I have to press the res

lynx, X, cut/paste???

2001-05-20 Thread Pierre Hyvernat
Hi! I am using lynx (I am also trying w3m, but I haven't got used to it yet...) in X when I don't want to launch Mozilla or Netscape (and sometimes even if one of them is aleady running!) It looks like I can't always cut or paste text in it. Fo example, if I find some text on a web page I wan't t

en_GB locale problem

2001-05-20 Thread Cliff Rowley
Greetings, I'm usually more keen to solve a problem myself before asking for help, but I feel I am a little out of my depth. I've not been using Linux very long, being used to using FreeBSD. After realising that my system was using a US locale, I changed it to use en_GB by using the following in

Re: My favorite German post

2001-05-20 Thread Gary L. Dolan
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:12:53PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > actually I think it's a combined english german message, it starts > > with english then drifts into german, here's the same message divided > > into english and german

logging to active console is driving me crazy

2001-05-20 Thread mdevin
I have a iptables firewall with 2.4.4 kernel. I have it log packets that are illegal etc. How do I stop these logs from being displayed on the active console. I am running potato with Adrian Bunk's stuff for 2.4 kernel support. Here is what my /etc/syslog.conf has in it. auth,authpriv.*

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I still don't understand the proper syntax for this: I want to process > multiple files, e.g. symlinking a bunch or converting graphics. > > for i in *;do 'ln -s $i /home/newdir/$i';done Other people have explained about the quotes, but for this specific case y

Mozilla .9 (was Re: Netscape , problem again...!)

2001-05-20 Thread au516
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:54:32AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Mike, currently playing with Mozilla 0.9, waiting for 1.0 Is it just my imagination or has the 'Block this image from loading' feature disappeared between .8 and .9 If so, this is disappointing :/ Is there any way to find

Re: nis +

2001-05-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi Roderick, > I am trying to learn how to admin nis and nis+. I found the nis package in > debian, but does debian have an nis+ package? If not are there nis+ packages > else where? There are unofficial nisplus packages available if you put the following lines in your sources.list. deb http:/

Re: nis +

2001-05-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Martin Würtele wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 03:29:48AM -0400, Roderick Cummings wrote: > > I am trying to learn how to admin nis and nis+. I found the nis package in > > debian, but does debian have an nis+ package? If not are there nis+ packages > > else where? > > i don't know, just be aw

Re: logging to active console is driving me crazy

2001-05-20 Thread Gordon Hart
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 04:51:03AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Everything else is commented out. Even commented out the following > lines: > # Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in. > # > #*.emerg* > > So what gives? How do I stop this logging to th

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi Hans, Hans wrote: > I still don't understand the proper syntax for this: I want to process > multiple files, e.g. symlinking a bunch or converting graphics. > > for i in *;do 'ln -s $i /home/newdir/$i';done > > won't work. Several folks have already suggested, that you just need to get rid

Re: modprobe / modutils problems...

2001-05-20 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:56:54PM +0200, vester wrote: [...] > what about modprobe though? i checked the version and it it 2.4.2 -- does > that mean i can only load kernel 2.4.2 modules? > > i am using debian testing, modutils 2.4.2 is the newest version ii modutils 2.4.6-3 Lin

Re: nautilus 1.0.3-2 won't start

2001-05-20 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi, I managed to to get one step further in compiling nautilus ... But what does that mean? checking for GNOME - version >= 1.2.8... yes checking for additional GNOME modules... *** gnomecanvaspixbuf library is not installed configure: error: *** GNOME 1.2.8 or better is required. I have

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Martin Fluch
> Several folks have already suggested, that you just need to get rid of > the '' quotes. However, if some files have spaces in their file name, > you actually do need quotes, like this. > > for i in *; do ln -s "$i" "/home/newdir/$i"; done > > This makes sure that the filename $i and the

Re: Abiword and ttf

2001-05-20 Thread Hans
Could you please explain what aspects of xfs you had to tweak? I have xfs installed. --Hans At 01:01 PM 5/20/01 +0200, Martin Würtele wrote: >On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:04:42AM +0200, Hans wrote: >> Who succeeded in getting Abiword to recognize TrueType fonts? Their FAQ >> says to symlink fonts in

Ben at okstate.edu?

2001-05-20 Thread Bud Rogers
Strictly speaking this is OT for the list. I beg everyone's indulgence. I'm pretty sure I have seen a regular on this list or one other whose name is Ben who has both an acm.org and an okstate.edu address. I would like to get in touch with that Ben off list. I don't have either address in my

How to use debian lists

2001-05-20 Thread Thomas H. George
I have gotten some excellent answers to my questions and picked up useful information from other user's questions and answers but I'm swamped! Often I am away from my computer for several days and return to find 1,000+ messages. It takes a long time to download and delete them much less scan

Re: stopped working in X

2001-05-20 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > After I yesterday updated some packages to be able to install > KDE base from unstable, my key seems to have stopped > working properly. It used to work in most places, but now it > does some really weird things in several programs (most notabl

Re: lynx, X, cut/paste???

2001-05-20 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Pierre Hyvernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > I am using lynx (I am also trying w3m, but I haven't got used to it > yet...) in X when I don't want to launch Mozilla or Netscape (and > sometimes even if one of them is aleady running!) > > It looks like I can't always cut or paste text in it.

Language

2001-05-20 Thread Stefano Canepa
Hi all, what is the official language of debian-user? I thought it was english. Stefano -- Stefano Canepa e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Via Coni Zugna 4/4 - 16164 - Genova

Re: Multi-platform software development

2001-05-20 Thread Karl Philipp
Hi, I'm in the need of developing a multi-platform system. Can anyone give me a hint of which tool's (libraries) to use? I'd like to develop applications for linux(es), unix(es) and windows. I'm even about to pay a little amount of money for it. Oh, I'm talking about GUI objects ( I think C++ w

Re: potato question

2001-05-20 Thread V.Suresh
Try the X4. Mostly it works. With kernel 2.4.x, your chances of getting X increase. I didn't do it the proper way, but somehow managed to get it. With 2.2.18, installed X from .tgz files, xf86config. Then booted thru 2.4.0, startx worked. Again booted thru 2.2.18, still startx worked. So,

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-20 Thread Joel Mayes
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:14:16AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I have gotten some excellent answers to my questions and picked up > useful information from other user's questions and answers but > > I'm swamped! > > Often I am away from my computer for several days and return to find > 1,0

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I still don't understand the proper syntax for this: I want to process >multiple files, e.g. symlinking a bunch or converting graphics. > >for i in *;do 'ln -s $i /home/newdir/$i';done ^^^ ^^^ You need grave

Re: logging to active console is driving me crazy

2001-05-20 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Fri, 18 May 2001 13:51:03 you wrote: > I have a iptables firewall with 2.4.4 kernel. I have it log packets > that are illegal etc. How do I stop these logs from being displayed > on the active console. I am running potato with Adrian Bunk's stuff > for 2.4 kernel support. > > Here is what

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 20 May 2001, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I still don't understand the proper syntax for this: I want to process >>multiple files, e.g. symlinking a bunch or converting graphics. >> >>for i in *;do 'ln -s $i /home/newdi

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread mark
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 06:13:07PM +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2001, Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Sun, 20 May 2001, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I still don't understand the proper syntax for this: I want to process > >>multiple files, e.g. symlink

small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread joe golden
I am trying to switch our small (12 machine) NT network over to Linux. Some of the main computer applications at our school are web browsing , word processing and spreadsheets (MS Internet Explorer, Word and Excel). I am running Linux debian 2.2.18pre21 and just updated last week. Netscape ma

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Martin Fluch wrote: > > Of course, some people argue, that spaces in filenames is a Bad > > Thing(tm), but I fail to see why. > > Could exactly this be the reason, why spaces in filenames are considered > as a bad thing, since they easily lead into trouble? But, this trouble is easily avoided wi

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I personally like Mozilla a lot better than Netscape, and if you're looking for something w/ quick load times, use galeon. It uses the gecko rendering engine, and it has a pretty slick interface. StarOffice probably would be the best solution for your office replacement. It also has a brows

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread Forrest English
i think star office is going to be your best bet as far as word proccessing and graphing goes. though, koffice might work, i havn't used it in a long time, and it seemd nice enough then, so it might work for you now. might want to think of using one of the newer mozilla builds. they're fast enou

Re: Newbie question - Java install

2001-05-20 Thread V.Suresh
I have copied the Contents-i386 file into my root dir, have uncompressed it. Hence, whenever I want to find which package a specific file belongs to, I just do grep Contents-i386. That will show all packages that contain that file. Hope this helps. Once upon a time, Norman Beresfo

Re: Language

2001-05-20 Thread V.Suresh
English of course, and the German &*)(&**^ thing has obviously frustrated you as well as many of the listers. Now it's fixed, and everybody is :-). The moral is, when there is something in the line of spam, it's better to remain silent, and let the thing die down (it will, soon). Else,

Re: [users] Re: opera

2001-05-20 Thread csj
On 19 May 2001 13:20:04 -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Stephen E. Hargrove (on Fri, 18 May 2001 07:03:42PM -0500): > > i'm running woody and have it installed: > > that's probably the problem - since i am running woody on one machine > where it works, and potato on the one where it doesn't.

List broken?

2001-05-20 Thread csj
Is it just me? I have been receiving an inordinate amount of German language mail.

Web server

2001-05-20 Thread N. Raghavendra
Hi, We are moving our web server to a new machine. How much memory do people advise for a web server? Also I'd be happy to get information and pointers on security. Many thanks, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra| GnuPG signed/encrypted mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]| w

Re: [users] Re: opera

2001-05-20 Thread Forrest English
On 21 May 2001 01:14:59 +0800, csj whispered to the router: !! Maybe you should just follow the Debian motto. When in doubt, recompile. i thought that was slackware's motto -- Forrest English http://truffula.net/~forrest "America is at that akward stage, it is too late to work within the

Re: Language

2001-05-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello, "V.Suresh" wrote: > > English of course, and the German &*)(&**^ thing has obviously > frustrated you as well as many of the listers. Now it's fixed, and > everybody is :-). The moral is, when there is something in the line > of spam, it's better to remain silent, and let the thin

Re: My favorite German post

2001-05-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sat, 19 May 2001, John Willey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think I learned something from the recent German crossover on this >list. This message was especially useful: > >Re: Outlook, die Schweinepest des Internets > >My German is terrible/nonexistent, but I like to think that this translat

Re: Multi-platform software development

2001-05-20 Thread George Dancheff
http://gcc.gnu.org --- Karl Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > >I'm in the need of developing a multi-platform > system. > >Can anyone give me a hint of which tool's > (libraries) to use? I'd like to > >develop applications for linux(es), unix(es) and > windows. > >I'm even about to pay

Fwd: Re: Configuring Networking - Newbie - solved

2001-05-20 Thread Bob Underwood
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Configuring Networking - Newbie - solved Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 11:52:43 -0400 From: Bob Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this turned out to be a compatibility problem. originally, i had cards using the rtl8139 and tulip modules. i replaced

Two Problems

2001-05-20 Thread Sidney Brooks
I have just installed Potato and have two problems. 1) I have configured my printer with magicfilterconfig. When I try to print,as I did with an earlier version of Debian, e.g. pr /etc/printcap |lpr, it does not work. I get: lpr:connect: Connection refused jobs queued; but cannot start daemon

Re: Two Problems

2001-05-20 Thread D-Man
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:12:02AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: | 2) My second problem is one that my ISP administrator cannot solve. | Until last summer, I could get onto the internet with any version of | linux that I tried. Typical of what I get now is what I get with | wvdial (same thing happen

Re: cups and deskjet 840c

2001-05-20 Thread Mao's Brüderle
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 09:15:27PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 02:03:09PM +0200, Mao's Br?derle wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Has anyone had any experience with cups and the deskjet 840c?! As I > > understood from cups.org, this printer is supported, although "mostly". > >

Re: My favorite German post

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > actually I think it's a combined english german message, it starts > > with english then drifts into german, here's the same message divided > > into english and german parts (using !): > > > > Re: Outlook, d

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Steffl
"Thomas H. George" wrote: > > I have gotten some excellent answers to my questions and picked up > useful information from other user's questions and answers but > > I'm swamped! > > Often I am away from my computer for several days and return to find > 1,000+ messages. It takes a long time to

Re: HELP!!! Installing Debian

2001-05-20 Thread Jan Enning
Well I've got a 'solution' :-) The reason I didn't use any floppy is simple because they are most of the time broken, old, etc...not very reliable. But if you don't have any bandwidth, stick with the floppy :-) I downloaded the complete Debian ISO and burned it on a CD, then bought a crappy ATA 50

Re: cups and deskjet 840c

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Mao's Brüderle wrote: > > Hi! > > Has anyone had any experience with cups and the deskjet 840c?! As I > understood from cups.org, this printer is supported, although "mostly". > When I open "http://localhost:631/admin";, I get "this file > contains no data". The other secti

how to recover damaged tar files?

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Alvarez
Hi, when trying to decompress a tar file I get this error. Can someone tell if there is a way to fix it or is the file lost? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -ixvf backup.tar BACKUP/ BACKUP/Rik/ BACKUP/Rik/Rogelio.doc tar: Skipping to next header BACKUP/Rik/xp-50/5,svq tar: Skipping to next header tar:

Best way to move to 2.4 kernel?

2001-05-20 Thread S.
I am running an ASUS P2B-DS based MB with dual Pentium III 500 and 512 Meg RAM. I switched from RedHat to Debian about two months ago (on this and all of my other machines). I have been very pleased with Debian (2.2r3). It is becoming apparent that I should switch to the 2.4 kernel for better SMP

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-20 Thread D-Man
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:10:58PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: | it is much easier to handle it when you thread the articles. some | mailreader enable you to 'kill the thread' so you'll never see messages | in threads that do not interest you. I've heard that this works really | well in gnus. netsc

Re: Best way to move to 2.4 kernel?

2001-05-20 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:23:44PM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I am running an ASUS P2B-DS based MB with dual Pentium III 500 and 512 Meg > RAM. > > I switched from RedHat to Debian about two months ago (on this and all > of my other machines). I have been very pleased with Debian (2.2r3).

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Martin Fluch wrote: > > > > Of course, some people argue, that spaces in filenames is a Bad > > > Thing(tm), but I fail to see why. > > > > Could exactly this be the reason, why spaces in filenames are considered > > as a bad thing, since they easily l

Re: Two Problems

2001-05-20 Thread Sidney Brooks
So far no luck. Neither lpd nor minicom is present on my official three disk set of Potato. I tried replacing ATZ with ATX3, they both dial and connect but never get on the internet. I have the same problem of not getting connected with gnome-ppp and kpp.

error in newaliases

2001-05-20 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I cannot seem to get sendmail running on my laptop. If I run sendmailconfig I get some errors. First thing that goes wrong seems to be newaliases. If I run that manually i get: Cannot open hash database /etc/mail/aliases.db: Invalid argument WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/mail/aliase

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread D-Man
| On Sun, 20 May 2001, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: | > And-I-have-yet-to-see-somebody-who-replaces-all-spaces-with-dashes-or-dots. Check the archives for python-list@python.org (aka comp.lang.python). Tim Peters (and others) routinely close their posts with a long sentence using dashes instead of spac

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread D. Hoyem
For Word Processing what about Word Perfect 8? There is a Linux version and it is free, I'm not sure that it will work on Debian though. Its a tar.gz file, not sure about the depends. --- joe golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to switch our small (12 machine) NT > network over to Lin

Re: Two Problems

2001-05-20 Thread D-Man
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:00:34PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: | Neither lpd nor minicom is present on my official three disk set of Potato. !? Are you sure? http://packages.debian.org/stable/comm/minicom.html For print spooling there is a choice: http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/lpr.htm

Re: Best way to move to 2.4 kernel?

2001-05-20 Thread David Steinberg
On 20 May 2001, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > My question to the group is this. Which Debian release should I use - > Potato with modification for 2.4 or Woody? I want as stable a machine > configuration as I can get while settling on the 2.4 kernel. I just upgraded from 2.2.18 to 2.4.4 a couple of d

Network printing HP 840C over Samba

2001-05-20 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay all. I've been setting up a linux gateway for a friend who has got a DSL connection and three windows me boxes in a home network. Everything has gone smoothly with Debian Woody and a freshly compiled 2.4.4 kernel and data transfer rates have risen by three fold due to having a linux gateway in

Re: Abiword and ttf

2001-05-20 Thread matlads
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:45:47PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Could you please explain what aspects of xfs you had to tweak? I have xfs > installed. --Hans http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/ Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Web server

2001-05-20 Thread Matthew Sackman
Depends dramatically on what you want to do with it, how many clients you've expecting to have and the general design of your site. If you arn't running much on that machine (no X) then you should be able to get away with 64MB of RAM for even very popular sites. However, if your site uses a lot o

Re. Two Problems

2001-05-20 Thread Sidney Brooks
I do have the package lpr. I am sure that I do not have minicom nor lpd. I used two methods to verify this, apt-get and reading the disks in Windows.

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