Serial mouse detection/configuration problems

2001-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm helping a friend with a Debian install / box cannibalization project. Problem right now is the mouse. It's worked intermittently, but isn't responding right now. I'm suspecting the PS/2 -> Serial converter itself is bad. I've tried reading raw serial devices (cat /dev/ttyS[0123]), but no da

Re: nvidia-glx won't install

2001-06-16 Thread Jonathan David Wheelhouse
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:14:51PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 12 Jun 2001, Anthony Fox wrote: > > "Jonathan David Wheelhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > An apt-get update & dist-upgrade got the newer nvidia-kernel-src and > > > nvidia-glx-src packages(1.0.1251-1). I ran the bu

Re: Gnucash 1.6 dependency bug

2001-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
Oleksandr Moskalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tried installing gnucash 1.6 from unstable and found out that >it depends on libgwrapguile0 whereas there is only libgwrapguile1 in the >distribution. It leaves me confused and wondering as what could be done >to remedie this problem. You s

Can't install or purge emacs20

2001-06-16 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, emacs20 seems to be broken in unstable . It can't be purged . Gives the error : Removing emacs20 ... emacs-remove emacs20 remove/ada-mode: Purging byte-compiled files for flavour emacs20 rmdir: `/usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/ada-mode': No such file or directory remove/liece: Handling removal of

sawfish, testing, unstable

2001-06-16 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hello. For some time now, I have wanted/needed to upgrade to testing (woody). What has held me back principally is the absence of a version of sawmill/sawfish in the testing branch of the distribution tree. This is the window-manager that I use; I am very fond of it and don't want to have to manag

mozilla 0.9.1 hangs?

2001-06-16 Thread Brian May
Hello, Sometimes when I configure Mozilla to use a proxy server, it just hangs during downloads. Other programs work fine (eg. w3m and netscape) with the same proxy settings (squid and/or wwwoffle server). Sometimes it comes up with a message "Resolving host " (or similar), but I know that DNS i

Re: USB modules

2001-06-16 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Mike Pfleger wrote: > Hello. > > I have just compiled a 2.2.18 kernel w/crypto modules, and am now trying > to get USB working. I have dug around on the debian site, and various > other sites, trying to find an answer as to why I can't install the > input.o > module. Apparently I've done somet

prevent logrotate

2001-06-16 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, how can I prevent logrotate to gzip specific directory's in /var/log? I tried to add an entry to /etc/logrotate.conf: /var/log/iptraf { nocompress } but with no effect. What should it be? Thanks in advance, Sebastiaan -- NT is the OS of the future. The main engine is the 16-bit

Re: sawfish, testing, unstable

2001-06-16 Thread chamster
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:35:57PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > So the solution I am currently contemplating is: (i) upgrading to the > version of apt in testing (so as to have the `preferences' utility > especially), (ii) upgrading selectively to testing, and then (iii) > installing the version o

Trying to Install Debian

2001-06-16 Thread webmaster
I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 2180CDT laptop. I have 2.2r2 CDs. I have created Linux ext2 and swap partitions using PartitionMagic. I can' boot from the CD. I have tried booting in DOS and typing D:\install\boot.bat and that didn't work Can anyone help?

Re: [users] Re: fetchmail question

2001-06-16 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Alex Suzuki (on Sat, 16 Jun 2001 08:42:37AM +0200): > Do I just have to add this at the end of the line? > options keep uidl precisely. did you 'man fetchmailrc' ? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROT

Re: lp0 on fire

2001-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
David Raeker-Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was printing a rather large label job from a local debian machine to a >remote debian machine that has an old dot matrix printer attached to it. >After about 10 minutes of printing to the remote printer, the message "lp0 >on fire" popped up on the r

Re: lp0 on fire

2001-06-16 Thread John R Lenton
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:13:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >In newer kernels this message reads lp1 reported invalid error status >(on fire, eh?). that should read 'older newer kernels' or something. It means 2.2.x. (in 2.4.x people returned to sanity and put it back) -- John Lenton (

Re: xemacs 21.4.1-2 forces DNS lookup

2001-06-16 Thread Guy Geens
> "Andreas" == Andreas Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andreas> After upgrading to xemacs 21.4.1-2 on debian woody xemacs Andreas> won't start without network (DNS) any more. This is Andreas> espacially annoying since I have an autodial connection to Andreas> the net. Try changing the line

Re: /bin/sh for all users?

2001-06-16 Thread Guy Geens
> "Dragos" == Dragos Delcea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dragos> I know that, but I'm courious: why /etc/passwd didn't came Dragos> with /bin/false as default setting (I'm talking about system Dragos> accounts that really don't use/need the shell) There are some programs which rely on the fact

isdnutils + dynamic dns (ms-get-dns in ipppd(8))

2001-06-16 Thread Felix Natter
hi, For everyone who wants to use ms-get-dns with ipppd, here is my bug-report against isdnutils and the response I got (from Paul Slootman): Subject: Re: Bug#81411: ipppd and dynamic dns > In my opinion there should be support for the ipppd-option > "ms-get-dns" (see ipppd(8); this is probably

tmpfs cleanup (was: Re: Grub: Does it allow for modularized kernel fs)

2001-06-16 Thread Guy Geens
> "Herbert" == Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Herbert> Actually, I use LVM and initrd-tools together and it does Herbert> work. You need to use the provided scripting mechanism to Herbert> mount tmpfs on /etc in order to run vgscan/vgchange. Great! I'm going to try that some time. No

Re: Is debian-user-digest working?

2001-06-16 Thread Guy Geens
>>> Chris Kenrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wondered: Chris> Is debian-user-digest broken, or is there a problem (mail Chris> gateway issue?) on my end? Note that debian-user mails get Chris> through to me fine. Debian-devel-digest is gone as well. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EM

Re: lp0 on fire

2001-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
John R Lenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:13:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >>In newer kernels this message reads lp1 reported invalid error status >>(on fire, eh?). > >that should read 'older newer kernels' or something. It means >2.2.x. (in 2.4.x people returne

Re: Can't install or purge emacs20

2001-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >emacs20 seems to be broken in unstable . It can't be purged . Then you should file a bug on emacs20. See http://bugs.debian.org/, and/or use the reportbug package. >Even dpkg --force-all --purge does not work. Any idea how this could be forced >as it inte

XFree4 for potato?

2001-06-16 Thread Attila Csosz
Hi, Is there anywhere (URI) XFree4 for potato? Thanks Attila -- -- - Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian 2.2 Linux / 2.2.13 / qmail - - My PGP key: gpg --keyserver keys.pgp.com --recv-key 0x2cc33acb -

Re: Trying to Install Debian

2001-06-16 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 06:21:34PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 2180CDT laptop. Laptops are notably strange, have you tried making the boot floppies? A quick look on the web shows that this Toshiba model doesn't seem to boot from CD, see: http://www.

simple routing question

2001-06-16 Thread Jonathan Lupa
I have the feeling that I just can't do what I want, but I figured I'd ask to be sure... I have a host with a static IP in the 10.10.8.* network. The router for that network is 10.10.8.254. There is another router 10.10.6.1, which can be reached through 10.10.8.254. What I would like to do is:

php4 not working

2001-06-16 Thread Suresh Kumar R
Hello, I installed php4 on my potato system and is not working in the sense, when I call a php4 file, the browser gives download option instead of rendering it on screen. Php3 was working fine but for some applications I upgraded it to php4 and I am in trouble now. My version of php4 is 4.0.3

funny apache behaviour

2001-06-16 Thread Suresh Kumar R
Hello, I installed php4 with apache in my potato machine and now index.php3 is taken only if we append a / to the path's end. For example if I type http://localhost/webmail/ it works but it will not if I type it as http://localhost/webmail. BTW, I was trying to install imp. Any ideas? Thank y

Re: [SLOVED, sort of] kernel 2.4 and cs4232 [semi-urgent]

2001-06-16 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, Machine one: I forgot to copy over the isapnp.conf from the machine I did get working, oops. Perviously I didn't need the isapnp stuff. Machine two: not a cs4232, but an ac97. Still not working, but I haven't RTFM'd yet. -Jon

Re: php4 not working

2001-06-16 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
> I installed php4 on my potato system and is not working in the sense, > when I call a php4 file, the browser gives download option instead of > rendering it on screen. > > Php3 was working fine but for some applications I upgraded it to php4 > and I am in trouble now. Look for the line

Getting Mutt to view jpg files

2001-06-16 Thread mdevin
How do you set up Mutt so that you can view jpg attachments. For some reason, I can view html - (mutt fires up lynx for me) and I can view pdf (mutt fires up xpdf for me), but even though I have gtksee installed I can't seem to view the jpg attachments. How do I config mutt so that it will view j

Re: debian and ISDN

2001-06-16 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:12:48AM +0200, Gabriel Verhooghe wrote: > I looked at the /var/log/isdn/isdnlog file. I found > some strange calling attempts in the Netherlands > Jun 14 22:54:06 tei 120 calling +31 /191011, Netherlands with +31 > 54663/69936, Geesteren Ov Time:Thu Jun 14 20:50:00

Re: Video shutdown instead of xscreensaver

2001-06-16 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 06:55:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > I put this line in .xinitrc > > xset dpms 300 360 480 ... > Sometimes it doesn't work and I have to go to another terminal and then back > to terminal 7 where X is. I don't know what that is. I think I started > having this

delete n files in a directory

2001-06-16 Thread Mário Henrique Cruz Tôrres
Good morning everyone. I wan't know if can I delete the first 200 files ( in alphabetical order ) in a directory wich have 300 files ? I'm using bash shell. Thank's a lot MArio H.C.T.

Re: delete n files in a directory

2001-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
=?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E1rio?= Henrique Cruz =?iso-8859-1?Q?T=F4rres?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Good morning everyone. I wan't know if can I delete the first 200 >files ( in alphabetical order ) in a directory wich have >300 files ? ls -1 | head -200 | xargs rm Be careful, though. Loo

Re: Getting Mutt to view jpg files

2001-06-16 Thread Martin Würtele
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 11:08:05PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do you set up Mutt so that you can view jpg attachments. For some > reason, I can view html - (mutt fires up lynx for me) and I can view pdf > (mutt fires up xpdf for me), but even though I have gtksee installed I > can't see

Re: Getting Mutt to view jpg files

2001-06-16 Thread Matthias Richter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sat Jun 16, 2001 at 11:08:05PM: > How do you set up Mutt so that you can view jpg attachments. You'd better set up mailcap (metamail) correctly so any MUA can view jpg attachments. > For some reason, I can view html - (mutt fires up lynx for me) and I > can view pdf (m

Re: [users] delete n files in a directory

2001-06-16 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Mário Henrique Cruz Tôrres (on Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:08:14AM +): > Good morning everyone. I wan't know if can I delete the first 200 > files ( in alphabetical order ) in a directory wich have > 300 files ? ls -1 | head -200 | xargs echo rm when you made sure that the command lin

Re: FAQ? Resync /var/lib/dpkg/status?

2001-06-16 Thread Shaul Karl
> Debian Users; > > Hi, I'm new to Debian, I've been using Unix for 18 years. As such, I > have a package-management question which may very well be a FAQ. > > I don't see any documentation (FAQ or otherwise) of resolving > package-management issues, so this is my only forum. > > I am "Linux de

syslog - curious entries

2001-06-16 Thread Debian User
/var/log/syslog includes some entries that have me wondering. First, I see this line as the third entry after a reboot: Jun 16 07:06:34 debian kernel: Cannot find map file. Second, several lines down I have the following three lines. I'm assuming the lines are related, and the third of these li

Re: lp0 on fire

2001-06-16 Thread John R Lenton
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 10:41:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Do let the FAQ maintainer know, then. According to the feedback section, > his address is Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I'll wait for 2.4.7 :/ -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: It is through symbols that m

Re: delete n files in a directory

2001-06-16 Thread John R Lenton
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 10:08:14AM +, Mário Henrique Cruz Tôrres wrote: > Good morning everyone. I wan't know if can I delete the first 200 > files ( in alphabetical order ) in a directory wich have > 300 files ? > I'm using bash shell. you can use xargs (as you've been told already),

Re: HELP: All Fonts in X are gone

2001-06-16 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Friday 15 June 2001 15:45, Willi Dyck wrote: > As far as your fonts are concerned, do you use KDE and have changed the > "Style settings" in the KDE Control Center? I don't know exactly if this > is your problem but when I change my Style settings and login > again, my font settings are "broken

how to find a package that provides ____._____

2001-06-16 Thread rich
Howdy all, I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect how do I find out which .deb package provides these? Thanks in advance, Rich

Re: [users] how to find a package that provides ____._____

2001-06-16 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach rich (on Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:00:49AM -0500): > I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect how do I find > out which .deb package provides these? fishbowl:~# dpkg -S libXt.so.6 libX11.so.6 xlibs: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 xlibs: /us

[slightly OT] 486 50mhz 16ram 258mb HD

2001-06-16 Thread Brendon
I was wondering if i should even try to do something with this machine. currently i have one desktop computer and one laptop, which i plan on putting in a network so i can use internet (via a cablemodem) on both machines. should i even bother trying to put such a low end machine to use as a gat

Re: [slightly OT] 486 50mhz 16ram 258mb HD

2001-06-16 Thread Sebastiaan
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Brendon wrote: > I was wondering if i should even try to do something with this machine. > currently i have one desktop computer and one laptop, which i plan on putting > in a network so i can use internet (via a cablemodem) on both machines. > > should i even bother trying

Re: [slightly OT] 486 50mhz 16ram 258mb HD

2001-06-16 Thread Brendon
> > should i even bother trying to put such a low end machine to use as a > > gateway, firewall or webserver? if so would debian run on it, or should i > > look for a single floppy solution (and if so which one, where do i look)? > you will be surprised to see what an old machine is capable of. I

Re: sawfish, testing, unstable

2001-06-16 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:15:19AM -0700, chamster wrote: > I did this a while back and don't remember having any problems. I don't > think there are dependencies with GNOME via sawfish. There is a > sawfish-gnome version, but that wouldn't pertain to you. Yes, indeed. That did the trick for me as

Re: RADIUS Proxy

2001-06-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Furman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am hoping someone can help me out with RADIUS. What radius server are you running (radiusd -v) ? Mike.

Linux Install

2001-06-16 Thread Shyam Ramachandran
Can I install Linux Debian in Compaq Presario Pentium II, 128 MB Ram

Re: XFree4 for potato?

2001-06-16 Thread Kent Pirkle
Yes, you can find the instructions here: http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/xf403_potato/READ.THIS On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:14:50PM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anywhere (URI) XFree4 for potato? > > Thanks > Attila > > -- > ---

Re: [slightly OT] 486 50mhz 16ram 258mb HD

2001-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 05:57:05PM +0200, Brendon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ah, that's good to hear. one question though: how large should the swap > partition be.. ? i usually use one that is slightly larger than my RAM but > with only 16 to begin with i'd think i'd need about 50mb swap. Si

Re: Linux Install

2001-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:18:00PM -0400, Shyam Ramachandran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can I install Linux Debian in Compaq Presario Pentium II, 128 MB Ram Probably, though you're providing nowhere near sufficient information to answer the question. The level of system support you'll get depe

Samba and 2k

2001-06-16 Thread Daniel Jones
I'm running Samba 2.2 under Debain unstable as a PDC. I have a Win98 machine logging into the PDC just fine. I can also see the Linux box in Network Neighborhood and access the shares. I have a second machine on the same network running Win2k. The Win2k machine does not see the Linux box in Net

Re: security updates running sid

2001-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
"Brad Cramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What line should I put in my sources.lits file in order to get security >updates for sid? Do they come from the stable tree? No, they just go straight into unstable. You shouldn't need to do anything special. -- Colin Watson

Re: unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 04:51:35PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm running mostly testing with some unstable under linux 2.2.19 (hand > rolled, of course) on an IBM ThinkPad i1476 (Type 2611). Since a few > weeks, my machine completely locks up at unpredicta

Re: IP Masqing question II

2001-06-16 Thread Chris Spencer
On Friday 15 June 2001 22:44, will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:36:54AM -0400, Ed Lawson wrote: > > I installed the ipmasq package rather than using home rolled scripts and > > the issue remains: the desktop machines cannot access ceertain websites > > (linuxtoday) nor certain web

Re: XFree4 for potato?

2001-06-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: XFree4 for potato? Date: Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:14:50PM +0200 In reply to:Attila Csosz Quoting Attila Csosz([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > Is there anywhere (URI) XFree4 for potato? I have this in sources.list # Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 - XFree86 Version 4.0.3 deb http:/

Re: Is debian-user-digest working?

2001-06-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Is debian-user-digest working? Date: Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 10:57:11AM +0200 In reply to:Guy Geens Quoting Guy Geens([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >>> Chris Kenrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wondered: > > Chris> Is debian-user-digest broken, or is there a problem (mail > Chris>

Re: [users] Also...

2001-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:40:31PM +0200, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Adri (on Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:31:34PM +0200): > > Any similar utility under Debian? > > nope, and that's why debian is so good. Wrong: $ apt-cache show linuxconf Package: linuxconf Priority: o

NETSCAPE 6 PROBLEM!

2001-06-16 Thread Angel Parra
The question is, Were are my plugins??? I Have install the tar.gz version of netscape 6 on my debian 2.2, but if I look for plugins (about:plugins) it didn' t recognize anyone. I supouse that it's an enviroment problem, but I need help Thank all for tour help

NFS sharing /usr

2001-06-16 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi all- I'm NFS sharing /usr from one box to a number of other, with the aim of having only to do one apt update to the server machine (when I finally get my 28.8 modem working ... :-) and so as not to waste disk space on the client machines. I'd just like to know what anyone else in this situati

Re: 2.4 kernel and 4GB+ of RAM

2001-06-16 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Adam Shand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > ... > * In the new 2.4 kernels can a single process address more then 2Gb of >RAM? More then 4Gb of RAM? > > * Is this architecture dependent? If so what are the differences. 64 vs 32 bit. Not being a kernel hacker I can't tell you which

Network Help

2001-06-16 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I know this is a Debian news group, but the networking stuff should be Linux platform independant. Right? We just had a new Intel Itanium IA64 file server installed at the office. I installed TurboLinux ( O/S came with system ). The system is on a closed/secure LAN. When I log into the system,

Re: NFS sharing /usr

2001-06-16 Thread Jonathan Matthews
From: nico de haer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What would happen if you 'just' installed a deb on all pc's ? worst case: > they write the same file to /usr a few times. Best part: all pc's fix their > own /etc and related stuff. (do note: this is an idea, not something i've > tried) Well, ideally I'

Re: 2.4 kernel and 4GB+ of RAM

2001-06-16 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:53:37PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Adam Shand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > ... > > * In the new 2.4 kernels can a single process address more then 2Gb of > >RAM? More then 4Gb of RAM? > > > > * Is this architecture dependent? If so what are the

Re: Network Help

2001-06-16 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:55:33PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > I know this is a Debian news group, but the networking stuff > should be Linux platform independant. Right? > > We just had a new Intel Itanium IA64 file server installed at the > office. I installed TurboLinux ( O/S came wit

Re: [slightly OT] 486 50mhz 16ram 258mb HD - Kernel Panic

2001-06-16 Thread Brendon
after inserting the rootdisk i receive the following error message: [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] [me=0xa6,sc=340,#f=194,fs=44860,fl=101811,ds=19927266,de=61894,data=19931136,se= 52701,ts=-1458993024,ls=2013,rc=0,fc=4294967295] Transaction block size = 512 K

Re: NETSCAPE 6 PROBLEM!

2001-06-16 Thread Brendon
On Saturday 16 June 2001 19:43, Angel Parra wrote: > The question is, > Were are my plugins??? > > I Have install the tar.gz version of netscape 6 on my debian 2.2, the tar.gz version? If you're trying to install netscape 6.0x then i *strongly* urge you to download 6.1 instead, it's far, f

unsuscribe

2001-06-16 Thread JFLANCE

Re: Video shutdown instead of xscreensaver

2001-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:42:56AM -0300, Pedro Zorzenon Neto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Please CC reply copies as I'm not a subscriber of this list. > > Hi, > > When I don't move the mouse or type for some minutes, xscreensaver runs. > > How can I change this? I'd like that my monitor turns o

Compiling problems with woody and pointers

2001-06-16 Thread Brendan O'Connor
Hello! I'm trying to compile a liboe, an outlook-mailbox converter (http://www.gpl.no/liboe), and get dozens of these same errors: src/liboe.c:132: invalid operands to binary != src/liboe.c:141: invalid operands to binary + The related code for these two: int oe_readmessage(oe_data *data,

Re: Compiling problems with woody and pointers

2001-06-16 Thread Brendan O'Connor
Also -- I"m running a fully updated woody, with gcc 3.0, glibc 2.2. On Saturday 16 June 2001 14:12, Brendan O'Connor wrote: > Hello! > > I'm trying to compile a liboe, an outlook-mailbox converter > (http://www.gpl.no/liboe), and get dozens of these same errors: > > src/liboe.c:132: invalid opera

Re: Getting Mutt to view jpg files

2001-06-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 06/16/01 15:31:25 +0200, Matthias Richter wrote: [..] > You'd better set up mailcap (metamail) correctly so any MUA can > view jpg attachments. [..] I had a similar situation this morning. I discovered that I didn't have an /etc/mailcap file. I had to install the mime-support package to get o

apache & apache-ssl upgrade mess

2001-06-16 Thread Erik Steffl
I have apache-ssl installed (and working) but now the apt-get wants to uninstall it and install apache instead. there is a conflict: apache-ssl requires apache-common (>= 1.3.19-1), apache-common (<< 1.3.20) but it also tries to install apache-common 1.3.20-1. This part is fairly clear - I'll

packages depending on guile

2001-06-16 Thread Erik Steffl
it looks like there's more and more packages depending on guile in one way or another and they are not installable: gnucash conflicts: [-] libguppi11 (>= 0.35.5) [-] libgwrapguile1 scwm conflicts: [-] libguile6 (>= 1:1.3.4-2) [-] libguile6 these problems are quite old - does

Re: Help setting DISPLAY to an ipmasq'd machine.

2001-06-16 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Yes, you're doing it wrong. > > 1.) You don't need two ssh sessions; just one, from xserver_machine to > work_linux_box: > ssh -C -X work_linux_box from xserver_machine > > 2.) When you set the display to ipmasq_box:0.0, you're asking the remote > host to display

Exim und Rewriting Rules

2001-06-16 Thread Thomas Wegner
Hi! Eine Frage zu Exim. Wie muss ich die Rewrting Rules gestalten, um Mails, die in meiner lokalen Domain (*.kosmos) kursieren so zu belassen und Mails die nach draußen gehen über das Ergebnis eines lookups in der Absender- und Replyadresse umzuschreiben? Zur Zeit werden über meine Rewriting Rule

Re: [slightly OT] 486 50mhz 16ram 258mb HD

2001-06-16 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:37:48AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 05:57:05PM +0200, Brendon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | | > ah, that's good to hear. one question though: how large should the swap | > partition be.. ? i usually use one that is slightly larger than my RAM

Re: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0

2001-06-16 Thread Frans Schreuder
Thanx for the reply. FYI: the raidtab file is /etc/raidtab (and also /etc/raid/raidtab) Raidtab: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level0 nr-raid-disks2 persistent-superblock1 chunk-size8 device/dev/hdb1 raid-disk0 device

Re: Init not behaving the way man says it does?

2001-06-16 Thread Craig McLean
Ok so the rc script explains why not all of the S/K entries get run on runlevel changes. My next question: The init man page says all of the processes in the same process group as init that aren't also in the next run level should get a SIGTERM and a SIGKILL signal killing them. This doesn't see

Re: 2.4 kernel and 4GB+ of RAM

2001-06-16 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010616 14:03]: > > Note that 2.4 kernels die (after 14 days uptime here) with "out of > memory". I wouldn't use a 2.4 kernel for a production machine until > that is fixed. I've used every release of 2.4.x, including numerous -ac versions, and have *never* se

Re: Samba and 2k

2001-06-16 Thread John
On Friday 15 June 2001 23:53, Daniel Jones wrote: > I'm running Samba 2.2 under Debain unstable as a PDC. I > have a Win98 machine logging into the PDC just fine. I can > also see the Linux box in Network Neighborhood and access > the shares. I have a second machine on the same network > running

Re: Samba and 2k

2001-06-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Just guessing here: 1. W2K has NetBIOS, but not over TCP/IP. 2. Your W2K user lacks proper permissions on the Samba side. 3. W2K security is preventing you from seeing samba. W2K security seems distinctly tighter than NT 4, annoyingly so. 4. W2K thinks it is PDC and refuses to play with Samba. 5.

Re: Samba and 2k

2001-06-16 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 06:06:35PM -0500, John wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2001 23:53, Daniel Jones wrote: > > I'm running Samba 2.2 under Debain unstable as a PDC. I > > have a Win98 machine logging into the PDC just fine. I can > > also see the Linux box in Network Neighborhood and access > > th

Re: Samba and 2k

2001-06-16 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 16-06-01 at 19:00 Daniel Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ [...] > //Name or //a.b.c.d in My Computer. Attempts to have 2k log [...] Do you mean \\SERVER\SHARE or did you actually try //SERVER/SHARE ? The first is correct, the second fails since it is inco

Re: 2.4 kernel and 4GB+ of RAM

2001-06-16 Thread John
> Note that 2.4 kernels die (after 14 days uptime here) with "out of > memory". I wouldn't use a 2.4 kernel for a production machine until > that is fixed. Ive never had a memory problem with a 2.4 kernel. I actually ran a machine with NO powersupply fan (it had burnt out) for about 6 months befo

Re: Network Help

2001-06-16 Thread John
On Saturday 16 June 2001 12:55, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > I know this is a Debian news group, but the networking stuff > should be Linux platform independant. Right? > > We just had a new Intel Itanium IA64 file server installed at the > office. I installed TurboLinux ( O/S came with system ).

Creating Source Packages

2001-06-16 Thread Jason Ferguson
I need help with creating source packages (but with a twist). Heres the situation. I want to create i686 replacement packages for my machine. So, using gnomeicu as an example, here's what I did: apt-get source -d gnomeicu dpkg-source -x gnomeicu...dsc cd gnomeicu Now, the standard way to bui

Re: Help setting DISPLAY to an ipmasq'd machine.

2001-06-16 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Yes, you're doing it wrong. > > 1.) You don't need two ssh sessions; just one, from xserver_machine to > work_linux_box: > ssh -C -X work_linux_box from xserver_machine > > 2.) When you set the display to ipmasq_box:0.0, you're asking the remote > host to display

Logging

2001-06-16 Thread Reza
Hi everybody, I need a little bit help I wondered if someone is doing ftp, or trying to sh me, can I see the logging? and also if someone's trying to packet me, would it be log? if yes, can anyone let me know? thank you Regards, Reza __ Do You Yaho

Does anybody run plex86 on Debian

2001-06-16 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello, I was wondering if anybody is running plex86 under Debian? I have a current sid system running, but there is no package. I've compiled from sources, but have problem starting a VM. Seems like bochs can't find a vga font and is panicking. Any success stories? Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld

Video problem

2001-06-16 Thread Mirentchu.ETCHETO
Subject: Video problem   I can't use the program X. When I do the command : X 1>/tmp/me.out 2>&1I have the following message: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed.When I do the command: xviddetectIt answers that I have not the right driver for my video card.When I do the commant: lspciI can

Telnet responses problem

2001-06-16 Thread Ken Ng
Dear Sir !   I update Kernel 2.4.5  ,  but  telnet responses very slow ...   Please help me   E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Video problem

2001-06-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 04:47:13PM +0200, Mirentchu.ETCHETO wrote: > I can't use the program X. > When I do the command : X 1>/tmp/me.out 2>&1 > I have the following message: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed. You should start X with the command "startx", not "X". You might want to read the

Debian at Flying J

2001-06-16 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, My question's near the end of the bottom of this post (it's quite obviously marked), sorry for not being more to-the-point, but I thought my fellow debian-folk would be interested by this. I recently (Three days ago) acquired a job at Tons Services (the Telecommunications division of Flying

Testing: dpkg - multiple istallation attempts

2001-06-16 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, I recently upgraded my laptop to Testing. Took a while to remove Ximian and fix up XFree86 - still have problems with the Touchpad. Whenever packages are installed (Aptitude, apt-get, dpkg) there is an attempt to install GMC, Xserver-common and Xserver-xfree86. Aptitude states that they are h