Re: Sound Blaster 16 PnP

2001-05-29 Thread Robert Cymbala
Hi: I use Sound Blaster AWE64 and found this one to be very helpful: "Configuring Sound in Debian GNU/Linux" http://www.tux.org/~tbr/sound-debian/ Last modified 02/27/01 05:43:01 Ted Ruegsegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's very recent and is more up-to-date than some of the HOWTOs

Re: downloading source code

2001-05-29 Thread mdevin
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 10:04:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > All, > > The Debian FAQ suggests the command 'apt-get source ' to download > source code for a particular package. > > When I try this, apt-get advises me that I need source lines in my > sources.list file. > > What would be

Memory figures

2001-05-29 Thread N. Raghavendra
Hi debian-user, Recently I added a 64 MB DIMM to a machine with 128 MB RAM, making a total of 192 MB. The funny thing is that if I do 'free' on the machine it says something like total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:192896 98172 94724

windowmaker themes

2001-05-29 Thread Renai LeMay
is there a package for unstable containing windowmaker themes? I was using fvwm but have recently acquired a large amount of ram Renai

Re: woody/sid questions (was: Re: ximian 1.4 and woody)

2001-05-29 Thread christophe barbé
It's this day take a good start for me. You have updated a lot of packages that is one drawback of using sid. It's the price for uptodate packages. For libgal6, I've seen this problem, moreover libgal-data conflicts with it. I don't know what the solution here (I imagine updating all packages requ

/etc/mail/nsswitch.conf (and /etc/mail/service.switch*)

2001-05-29 Thread Andrew Pollock
Are these used by sendmail or are they there for demonstration purposes? I'm running 8.11.3+8.12.0.Beta7-8, and it's doing some kooky stuff with respect to DNS resolution and mail delivery. It's swearing black and blue that a domain isn't resolving so it's queuing it, but I can resolve it by hand.

mico: where are the examples?

2001-05-29 Thread Erik Steffl
I have just re-installed the mess of a mico (how is one supposed to know which packages are needed? and which are for which version?) and suddenly the examples that used to be under /usr/share/doc/mico (or some other mico doc directory) are gone. Are the examples/docs for mico packaged or are the

fail_delay

2001-05-29 Thread Marco Herrn
Hello, [please cc to me as I am not subscribed] though I have the line FAIL_DELAY 0 in /etc/login.defs, it takes a second after a failed login to try it again. How can I cange this behaviour to get rid of this delay? Thanks in advance Marco -- Marco Herrn http://www.herrn.ch.vu

Re: "Held Back"

2001-05-29 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:42:27PM -0700, Jim Darrough uttered: > What does it mean when you run apt-get install, download several files, > and then during the install, some of the files are listed as "held back"? > What this basically means, is that some packages are being 'held' by either dpkg

Re: windowmaker themes

2001-05-29 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:06:11PM +1000, Renai LeMay uttered: > is there a package for unstable containing windowmaker themes? I was using > fvwm but have recently acquired a large amount of ram > Bah, WindowMaker doesn't use _that_ much RAM. :-) $ apt-cache search windowmaker | grep theme them

Re: root via ssh / why su - ?

2001-05-29 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:26:06AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > If you've got a PalmPilot, etc., there's a wonderful utility called STRIP > (Secure Tool for Remembering Important Passwords) that does just this. It > stores and categorizes passwords in an encrypted (either DES or IDEA, > dependin

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-29 Thread Colin Watson
Lance Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:54:15AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> Andy Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >I just installed Debian potato >> >> Put these lines in /etc/apt/sources.list: >> >> deb http://non-us.debian.org/ unstable non-US/main non-US

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-29 Thread Colin Watson
Andy Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I tried inserting the lines into /etc/apt/sources.list and then did [...] >Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: >ssh: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2) but 2.1.3-10 is to be installed > Depends: libssl0.9.6 but it is not going to

compiling apache

2001-05-29 Thread Martin KC Lam
Hi, It happened that I wanted to compile the latest version of apache (1.3.20) My box has apache 1.3.9 installed with apt-get and I am afraid that installing from source will break things up. Can anyone kindly give me some pointers on how to do it in the 'debian' way? Should I first generate a .d

Re: woody/sid questions (was: Re: ximian 1.4 and woody)

2001-05-29 Thread Colin Watson
vester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-my cool blackbox desktop won't load anymore...i suppose it is because the >command xsetbg got lost somewhere along the way of upgrading to >unstable...i've been browsing through dselect for some time now, to no >avail. does anyone know what package provides for t

XEmacs broken in testing since yesterday?

2001-05-29 Thread Henrik Grotjahn
Hello, I am running "testing" and I do "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" once in a while. So I did yesterday. Some packages were downloaded and upgraded, on of them was XEmacs. But I got this message: ,[ hoenn:~# apt-get dist-upgrade ] | Reading Package Lists... Done | Building Depende

installing Window Manager

2001-05-29 Thread spider
i wanted to run SAWMILL as window manager (im not using ximian so i couldnt install sawfish) on gdm. i did: update-alternatives --config x-window-manager and then i chose SAWMILL as the window manager from the list. BUT: i thought i should edit a file, particularly .xinitrc or .xsession... i

Re: installing Window Manager

2001-05-29 Thread Joel Mayes
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:25:36PM +0200, spider wrote: > i wanted to run SAWMILL as window manager (im not using ximian so i couldnt > install sawfish) on gdm. > > i did: > update-alternatives --config x-window-manager > > and then i chose SAWMILL as the window manager from the list. > > BU

Re: dselect/apt-get: corrupted dependencies?

2001-05-29 Thread Berthold Cogel
Berthold Cogel wrote: > > Hello! > > Last weekend I tried to update my system (stable/testing/unstable). > After I resolved all dependency problems with dselect I called 'apt-get > dselect-upgrade' to install all the packages. I got a lot of messages > about unmet dependencies. All of them covere

Re: Memory figures

2001-05-29 Thread Dmitry Astapov
NR> memory should be at most 46 MB, and not 98 MB as 'free' NR> says. In fact, figures you provided show that only 20M are used. Find some reading about how VM subsystem works, or just take a loot on second line of 'free' output, the one with "+/- buffers" in it. Amount of "used" memory in the

Re: dselect won't install gnucash

2001-05-29 Thread Mark P. Esplin
> Sounds like you've upgraded bits of your system to unstable at some > point, since libguile9 and guile1.4 are only in unstable (and so I > imagine that packages in stable won't have depended on them). What > does your /etc/apt/sources.list say? What does dselect complain about > if you try to p

Re: compiling apache

2001-05-29 Thread ktb
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 06:13:00PM +0800, Martin KC Lam wrote: > Hi, > > It happened that I wanted to compile the latest version of apache (1.3.20) > My box has apache 1.3.9 installed with apt-get and I am afraid that > installing from source > will break things up. > > Can anyone kindly give me

LM-sensors discontinued.

2001-05-29 Thread Christoph Simon
I just tried to visit the homepage of lm-sensors, but found out that it is being discontinued. Anybody knows about the future of this package? Somebody will take it over or is there an alternative? Thx. -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .

Re: XEmacs broken in testing since yesterday?

2001-05-29 Thread Colin Watson
Henrik Grotjahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am running "testing" and I do "apt-get update && apt-get >dist-upgrade" once in a while. So I did yesterday. Some packages were >downloaded and upgraded, on of them was XEmacs. But I got >this message: [...] >| Sorry, but the following packages have unm

Re: [Kris.VanHeurck@siemens.atea.be: i810 chipset on potato]

2001-05-29 Thread Derya PALANCI
Sorry for old wrong mail.. :(( Dear Jim, I did the same thing you said because i had the same problem... But my debian couldnt find Glibc_2.0 package... I couldnt find anywhere so i decided to ask. Do you remember where did you fing it ? Intel's rpm requires that file... Any idea? Thanks in adva

Re: LM-sensors discontinued.

2001-05-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Christoph Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just tried to visit the homepage of lm-sensors, but found out that > it is being discontinued. Anybody knows about the future of this > package? Somebody will take it over or is there an alternative? I'm missing something. Looking at what I have fo

Re: LM-sensors discontinued.

2001-05-29 Thread Christoph Simon
On 29 May 2001 08:30:31 -0600 "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Christoph Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I just tried to visit the homepage of lm-sensors, but found out that > > it is being discontinued. Anybody knows about the future of this > > package? Somebody will take it

Re: [Kris.VanHeurck@siemens.atea.be: i810 chipset on potato]

2001-05-29 Thread Derya PALANCI
Dear Paul You wrote to Kris " > > You should upgrade the entire distribution to Woody. Do the following: > " Do i have to upgrade to woody? Cant i just use the potato and configure my x server with a i810 chipset? I've downloaded the rpm from the intel's site. Now i'm downloading the "glibc" bu

Customizing the console key map?

2001-05-29 Thread Paul D. Smith
Is there any "approved" way to create customizations for the console key maps? There appears to be some kind of include functionality, so it seems to me that the package should be able to support customization files which are separate from the "main" files, and construct a local customized map whi

Re: XEmacs broken in testing since yesterday?

2001-05-29 Thread Henrik Grotjahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: Hello, > >| Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > >| xemacs21-bin: Depends: xemacs21-support (= 21.4.1-2) but 21.1.10-4 > >| is to be installed > >| Depends: xemacs21 (= 21.4.1-2) > >| E: Sorry, broken packages > >

Re: Setting the time with Samba

2001-05-29 Thread Tony Crawford
Andrew Pollock wrote (on 27 May 2001, at 17:17): > Sorry if my problem was not clear... > > The Windoze box is reporting a totally different time to what's on the > Linux box when I use the net time command. (a) 'net time \\server' doesn't *set* the time. That's why Mike pointed out the /set /y

Connect to serial device?

2001-05-29 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'd like to connect to a multi-port UPS module via a serial port on my linux box. I have connected to the UPS module successfully using a Windows box and the HyperTerminal program (on COM1). What program would I use on my Linux box? Would I use /dev/ttyS0? Thanks for any help. Rory

Re: Connect to serial device?

2001-05-29 Thread ANDREW PERRIN
Yes, if it's com1: it's generally /dev/ttyS0. Try using minicom as a terminal emulator. - Andrew J. Perrin - Assistant Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 2759

freenet behind a gateway/firewall

2001-05-29 Thread Michael Soulier
Hey people. I was thinking of trying the freenet package, after reading so much about it. It sounds like a great idea. I'm wondering though, if I'll need to play with my firewall rules to make it work. I'm assuming that active connections are made from outside, so yes, but I want to make

modversions.h

2001-05-29 Thread Robert Voigt
I thought if I compile the kernel with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y it puts modversions.h in /usr/include/linux, but it didn't. Why? I want to compile a kernel module that looks for modversions.h. Sorry if this was answered before but the archive search doesn't work.

ifconfig/carrier

2001-05-29 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
Hey there, I got up today morning just to find out that my network quit, the problem was most likely network card going bad over night, it went away after i changed the nic in my linux machine, but i would still like to get to the root of the problem. The card was 3c900/EtherLink XL PCI, i haven'

Re: modversions.h

2001-05-29 Thread ktb
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 06:35:54PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > I thought if I compile the kernel with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y it puts > modversions.h in /usr/include/linux, but it didn't. Why? > > I want to compile a kernel module that looks for modversions.h. > > Sorry if this was answered before

Emacs browse-url.el and galeon or skipstone browsers?

2001-05-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
There is currently a proliferation of Mozilla-based browsers (e.g. galeon and skipstone) which I'd like to switch to, but I won't without being able to use Emacs' browse-url. It's just too convenient. I have tried to use them with browse-url with the following results: skipstone: (setq brow

Re: ifconfig/carrier

2001-05-29 Thread ktb
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:41:51AM -0500, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > Hey there, > > I got up today morning just to find out that my network quit, the problem was > most likely network card going bad over night, it went away after i changed > the > nic in my linux machine, but i would still like

Linux debian

2001-05-29 Thread Jenner Almánzar
Hi!   My name is Jenner, i'm new in the linux world and i really need some help. I have the GNU Linux Debian 2.1, i'm right now partitioning a 40Gb. disk and the system tells me that i cannot boot from the hard drive 'cause this distribution of linux only supports 1024 cylinders from hard di

Re: Linux debian

2001-05-29 Thread Leonard Leblanc
Hello, Sounds to me like you are trying to dual-boot with another os (correct me if i'm wrong). You have to make sure that your linux partition is in the first 1024 cylinders or you won't be able to boot from it. Also, check out the following link for information on your network card. http://lhd

Re: Emacs browse-url.el and galeon or skipstone browsers?

2001-05-29 Thread Dave Carrigan
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > galeon: > >(setq browse-url-netscape-program "galeon") > > clicking on a URL brings up a new browser each time, not > recycling the initial browser. This was talked about a bit in galeon-user. Based on my own findings, it seems that gal

--look like my video card is flawed...in answer to blurry text on monitor...

2001-05-29 Thread Walter Tautz
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Steve Cooper wrote: > Rick Commo wrote: > > > > is the video card that is sending faulty signals? or > > > is it the monitor. The monitor is a Mag MXP17F about 6 years old. > > > Any thoughts? Is there someway I can definitely confirm that the > > > monitor is faulty or the

What is wrong with the Debian Mailing List archives search page?

2001-05-29 Thread John Foster
What is wrong with the Debian Mailing List archives search page? I ahve been tryiong for several hours to search these archives and I keep getting the error message "You have to search for something." Whats that all about??? John

Re: Linux debian

2001-05-29 Thread D-Man
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:51:11PM -0400, Jenner Almánzar wrote: | Hi! | | My name is Jenner, i'm new in the linux world and i really need some | help. I have the GNU Linux Debian 2.1, i'm right now partitioning a | 40Gb. disk and the system tells me that i cannot boot from the hard | drive 'cause

Re: Emacs browse-url.el and galeon or skipstone browsers?

2001-05-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Dave Carrigan wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > galeon: > > > >(setq browse-url-netscape-program "galeon") > > > > clicking on a URL brings up a new browser each time, not > > recycling the initial browser. > > This was talked about a bit in galeon-user. >

Re: modversions.h

2001-05-29 Thread Robert Voigt
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 18:43, ktb wrote: > A search at - > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > shows that modversions.h is in the kernel-headers package. Do you have > that installed? I don't know for sure that will get you were your > going. Of course I have the kernel-source package insta

woody+php3+php-nuke

2001-05-29 Thread Wayne Sitton
I had php-nuke up and running on Debian stable with php4. Because of another program I wanted to run, I had to upgrade to woody first it un-installed my php4, in dselect when I tried to re-install it it complains about the version of apache-commons...?(why?) so, I installed php3, but when I go to

Re: Linux debian

2001-05-29 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:22:06PM -0400, D-Man uttered: > 2.1 (aka Slink) is very old. I recommend getting 2.2r4 (aka Potato) ^ That looks like a thinko, too me. The current release of potato is 2.2

Re: Customizing the console key map?

2001-05-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Customizing the console key map? Date: Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:00:13AM -0400 In reply to:Paul D. Smith Quoting Paul D. Smith([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is there any "approved" way to create customizations for the console key > maps? Way back when John Fist was writing 'The L

pdf optmizer

2001-05-29 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm trying to use the pdfopt utility that came with gs-aladdin but whenever I try it I get: ~$ pdfopt alphabet.pdf alphabet.opt.pdf Error: /invalidfileaccess in (w) Operand stack: --nostringval-- --nostringval-- (alphabet.opt.pdf) Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2

Re: modversions.h

2001-05-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: modversions.h Date: Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:28:56PM +0200 In reply to:Robert Voigt Quoting Robert Voigt([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tuesday 29 May 2001 18:43, ktb wrote: > > A search at - > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > > shows that modversions.h is in the

Re: Linux debian

2001-05-29 Thread D-Man
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:38:51AM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: | On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:22:06PM -0400, D-Man uttered: | > 2.1 (aka Slink) is very old. I recommend getting 2.2r4 (aka Potato) | ^ | That looks like a thinko, too me. The cur

Bootable CD image

2001-05-29 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I created a Potato 2.2.rev3 Image yesterday and was trying to create a bootable CD with it. When reading up on creating this bootable CD all literature mentions using dd to copy a bootable floppy to the image directory before running mkisofs. I was trying to use file from the debian installati

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-29 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:54:46PM -0600, ray p wrote: > Also I don't know > how hard or easy to bring the version of SSH from Woody to Potato > but that would give you SSH2. It's very easy, just add an unstable (for sid, or testing for woody) deb-src line as already mentioned in this thread and d

Re: Customizing the console key map?

2001-05-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Customizing the console key map? Date: Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:36:16PM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Subject: Customizing the console key map? > Date: Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:00:13AM -0400 > > In reply to:Paul D

php4 and woody

2001-05-29 Thread Wayne Sitton
Why that when I upgraded to woody did it un-install my php4? When I go to dselect now, it complains about apache, what's the deal? php3 installs fine, but now I can't get php3_mysql to connect to mysql correctly. wayne

Re: Customizing the console key map?

2001-05-29 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: wt> Quoting Paul D. Smith([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Is there any "approved" way to create customizations for the console key >> maps? wt> Way back when John Fist was writing 'The Linux Gazette" he had a wt> nice column on how to make a cudtom key

Re: Linux debian

2001-05-29 Thread Paul Wright
On Tue, 29 May 2001 12:51:11 EDT, Jenner wrote: > Hi! > > My name is Jenner, i'm new in the linux world and i really need some = > help. I have the GNU Linux Debian 2.1, i'm right now partitioning a = > 40Gb. disk and the system tells me that i cannot boot from the hard = > drive 'cause this dist

Re: php4 and woody

2001-05-29 Thread Colin Watson
"Wayne Sitton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Why that when I upgraded to woody did it un-install my php4? > >When I go to dselect now, it complains about apache, what's the deal? Because Apache is very picky about having all the modules that depend on it compiled against roughly the same version. I

RE: php4 and woody

2001-05-29 Thread techlists
O.K. so why does the php3 mods refuse to talk to mysql? Wayne -Original Message- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Colin Watson Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 1:44 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: php4 and woody "Wayne Sitton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: woody+php3+php-nuke

2001-05-29 Thread Claus Divossen
Wayne Sitton wrote: > > I had php-nuke up and running on Debian stable with php4. > > Because of another program I wanted to run, I had to upgrade to woody > > first it un-installed my php4, in dselect when I tried to re-install it > it complains about the version of apache-commons...?(why?) > s

Documentation on SSL CA

2001-05-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 16:13:17 +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Everybody can form his/her own CA. It's not that hard[1]. > [1] ... though IMHO badly documented. Have you had a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ospkibook/ ? Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

RE: woody+php3+php-nuke

2001-05-29 Thread Wayne Sitton
Yes is I installed php3-mysql 3.0.18-12 Wayne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Claus Divossen Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 2:02 PM To: Wayne Sitton Cc: debian-user Subject: Re: woody+php3+php-nuke Wayne Sitton wrote: > > I had php-nuke up and

RE: woody+php3+php-nuke

2001-05-29 Thread Wayne Sitton
>From all the errors I'm looking at the error is that the php3-mysql module is not talking to mysql, I can't tell if this is because php3-mysql Doesn't work with the version of mysql that is in woody, or what. Should I just download the php4 source and compile it manually? Wayne -Original Me

Compile vs. Apt-get(was woody+php+php-nuke)

2001-05-29 Thread Wayne Sitton
I have a question reguarding the debian process. I don't mind compiling packages on my own, but since I like using, and keeping my system up to date, using apt/deselect, I don't want to get away from that. So, if I compile some of the packages on my own, will that be recognized by apt/dselect? In o

Re: pdf optmizer

2001-05-29 Thread Alan Shutko
Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to use the pdfopt utility that came with gs-aladdin > but whenever I try it I get: There are a number of bugs in pdfopt (upstream) which have not yet been solved. This one can be fixed by editing the script to remove -dSAFER

Booten.

2001-05-29 Thread Jörn Bahlmann
Hallo Ich bin ein Neuer Debian User und ich habe da eine Frage wenn ich boote Startet immer Meine X Oberflaeche, ich moechte das abschalten aber in den Buechern wo ich es gelesen habe steht es nicht drin. Aber eins muss ich sagen Debian ich echt gut bei Suse hat man den Verdacht ob es von MS

Re: Qt2-gl - help!

2001-05-29 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ >-- On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 02:42:07PM +0200, % wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:57:34AM +0100, Cliff Rowley wrote: > > Whilst trying to compile and install the CVS version of KMail (apparently > > with IMAP support) last night, I installed the Qt2 and kde dev > > packages. The only prob

Windowmaker Menu

2001-05-29 Thread Lorens Kulla
I am rather new to Debian, and Linux as well. I am trying to convert the family over from Bill and Company. In an effort to customise wmaker I seem to have screwed up the menu/application launcher. Now when you right click on the desktop, all that comes up is the application header bar. With no

Re: php4 and woody

2001-05-29 Thread Kurylo
Unlike php4, to get php3+mysql to work you have to edit the php3.ini file. php3.ini is in /etc/php3/apache/ I believe its the Dynamic Module section you have to edit - there is a line to uncomment to load the mysql module. Its rather silly you have to do this, but thats the way the package is

XFree864.0.2

2001-05-29 Thread Robin Gerard
Hello, With potato2.2r0 I have installed successfuly XFree864.0.2, X runs rather well (not very well ...) but after having shutdown linux reboot and the process stop at the command: "starting X font server : xfsFontcacheInitialize:hi 1048576 , lo=786431 , bal 70" and nothing else to do end the

Re: Customizing the console key map?

2001-05-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Customizing the console key map? Date: Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:36:24PM -0400 In reply to:Paul D. Smith Quoting Paul D. Smith([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > %% Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > wt> Quoting Paul D. Smith([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > >> Is there any "a

Re: Booten.

2001-05-29 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 29 May 2001 22:14:55 +0200, Jörn Bahlmann wrote: > Hallo Ich bin ein Neuer Debian User und ich habe da eine Frage wenn ich > boote Startet immer Meine X Oberflaeche, ich moechte das > abschalten aber in den Buechern wo ich es gelesen habe steht es nicht drin. > Aber eins muss ich sagen Debian ic

Re: Booten.

2001-05-29 Thread Daniel Wagner
Jörn Bahlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo Ich bin ein Neuer Debian User und ich habe da eine Frage wenn > ich boote Startet immer Meine X Oberflaeche, ich moechte das > abschalten aber in den Buechern wo ich es gelesen habe steht es nicht > drin. Aber eins muss ich sagen Debian ich echt gu

Re: Windowmaker Menu

2001-05-29 Thread Craig Holyoak
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Lorens Kulla wrote: > I am rather new to Debian, and Linux as well. I am trying to convert > the family over from Bill and Company. In an effort to customise wmaker > I seem to have screwed up the menu/application launcher. Now when you > right click on the desktop, all tha

Re: Qt2-gl - help!

2001-05-29 Thread Bruce Sass
Somethings not right here... On Tue, 29 May 2001, Michael O'Brien wrote: > >-- On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 02:42:07PM +0200, % wrote: > > The latest QT2 is compiled with GL support by default, thus obsoleting > > qt2-gl. > > I have the following installed: > > ii libqt22.3.0-f

Re: Compile vs. Apt-get(was woody+php+php-nuke)

2001-05-29 Thread Dave Carrigan
"Wayne Sitton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, if I compile some of the packages on my own, will that be recognized by > apt/dselect? > In other words if I complie php4 manually, then later on I use dselect to > add a package that requires php4, will apt/dselect recognize that I already > have i

Re: Qt2-gl - help!

2001-05-29 Thread Cliff Rowley
Funny you should say that, I have no qt-gl libs either... Cliff Rowley The reader this message encounters not failing to understand is cursed. - while (!asleep) { code(); }

apcupsd: How to make the shutdown?

2001-05-29 Thread John Plate
Hi I've tried to make apcupsd (version 3.6.2) do the shutdown of the server when power fails. It didn't work. The status reported seems ok, though. I've tried a lot of different combinations of options, but apcupsd does not invoke /usr/sbin/powersc (except during INIT) at all. This is how the dae

Re: root via ssh / why su - ?

2001-05-29 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Alex Suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there such a utility for a Linux system? I'm in need of one. I currently > save some of my passwords (no root passwords, sorry) in a -rwx-- file :) Have a look at gpasman: $ apt-cache show gpasman Package: gpasman Priority: optional Section: non-U

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-29 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello. Sorry to intrude, but I have a question that's somewhat related to this thread. You just mentioned your .Xmodmap file that you've been using for X. What keyboard are you using? I have a PC-104 kbd, and I have been trying to bind the windoze and menu keys to be Mod3 and Mod4 modifiers, re

Re: apcupsd: How to make the shutdown?

2001-05-29 Thread iehrenwald
On Tue, 29 May 2001, John Plate wrote: > Hi > > I've tried to make apcupsd (version 3.6.2) do the shutdown of the > server when power fails. It didn't work. The status reported seems ok, > though. I gave up on apcupsd for my BackUPS Pro 1000 and switched to nut. It works well for me. To get

gtk-themes not working

2001-05-29 Thread vester
hi, it's me again...i still haven't figured this one out: problem is that apparently gtk themes aren't working anymore. that is, only those using pictures, because the colour scheming seems to work correctly. gtk-theme-switch crashes when i attempt to install new themes that use pictures...but si

Re: What is wrong with the Debian Mailing List archives search page?

2001-05-29 Thread ktb
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:21:23PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > What is wrong with the Debian Mailing List archives search page? I ahve > been tryiong for several hours to search these archives and I keep > getting the error message "You have to search for something." Whats that > all about??? You

CPU speed

2001-05-29 Thread Renai LeMay
can anyone tell me the best way to check CPU speed on a 2.0.36 kernel? I tried dmesg but it didn't give me any details about cpu... Renai

Re: /etc/mail/nsswitch.conf (and /etc/mail/service.switch*)

2001-05-29 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2001, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > Subject: /etc/mail/nsswitch.conf (and /etc/mail/service.switch*) > > > > Are these used by sendmail or are they there for demonstration purposes? > > They are indeed used, and should mirror your /

*** Newbie Question About PostgreSQL ***

2001-05-29 Thread Arcadio A. Sincero Jr.
Hello list, I'd like to set up Postgresql so that users can have "read-only" access to a database. Right now, I only know how to set it so a user can have all or nothing access by adding something like the following in the pg_hba.conf file: localmydbcryptusers.mydb And put the names

Re: CPU speed

2001-05-29 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Renai LeMay wrote: RL> can anyone tell me the best way to check CPU speed on a 2.0.36 kernel? RL> RL> I tried dmesg but it didn't give me any details about cpu... try cat or less /proc/cpuinfo, it's been awhile since i had 2.0 on my machine but if i remember right, it should

Re: CPU speed

2001-05-29 Thread deb-user
Am 30. May, 2001 schwäzte Renai LeMay so: > can anyone tell me the best way to check CPU speed on a 2.0.36 kernel? > > I tried dmesg but it didn't give me any details about cpu... Check out /proc/cpuinfo. Don't have any 2.0.x boxen on the air anymore, but I think that was available before. ciao

Re: CPU speed

2001-05-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
cat /proc/cpuinfo -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Wed, 30

Re: *** Newbie Question About PostgreSQL ***

2001-05-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
You should look through the PostgreSQL documentation. But basically, you manage users using SQL: CREATE USER foo WITH PASSWORD bar; GRANT READ ON table TO foo; REVOKE DELETE ON table FROM foo; -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Sendmail aliases error

2001-05-29 Thread Oki DZ
Richard A Nelson wrote: > add this to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc: > define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN', `')dnl I see, thanks a lot. BTW, I think sendmail.mc is too baroque for me. (sendmailconfig is more bearable :-) Oki

Re: *** Newbie Question About PostgreSQL ***

2001-05-29 Thread Arcadio A. Sincero Jr.
But that only defines permissions on the individual tables of the database. I'm trying to set permissions on the database itself. Specifically I'm trying to prevent users from being able to do CREATE TABLE but still be able to do SELECTs. - Arcadio - Original Message - From: "Andrew Perr

Re: Linux debian

2001-05-29 Thread Rafael Sasaki
I have a Realteck too. Mine is one RTL8029 PCI and works fine with the ne driver. I couldn`t make it work with the ne-pci, but i have no problem with ne.   Rafael Sasaki     - Original Message - From: Jenner Almánzar To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.

re: CPU speed

2001-05-29 Thread Renai LeMay
in some cases catting this file did not produce any information. Anything else? And offtopic, but is there an equivalent file in FreeBSD? On Wednesday 30 May 2001 10:56, Andrew Perrin wrote: > cat /proc/cpuinfo > > -- > Andre

fonts for epic4/third-eye osiris theme

2001-05-29 Thread Debian User
I'm looking for some pointers to finding a good font to use with Eterm that will correctly show ansi graphics. I'm using the std 7x14 font in bold. It looks fairly decent in 1600x1200 but doesn't handle the ansi graphics. Any ideas? Regards, Bill

re: CPU speed

2001-05-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
What cases? -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Wed, 30 May 2

"AT keyboard not present?"

2001-05-29 Thread Jean Abercrombie
Hello, all -- I have one more question and as usual, would be very grateful for any help. I am currently using kernel 2.2.14 because I can't load up anything newer. The 2.4.x kernels give me an error message on load "AT keyboard not present" and, of course, I then can't use my keyboard. I checke

firewall log message question

2001-05-29 Thread will trillich
when i was out of town last week, and nobody was at the house, i get this log message from logcheck reflecting some firewall block-- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: server 05/23/01:13.02 system check From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 13:02:02 -050

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