Re: apt-get problem workaround... is this a bug?

%% Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Looking through the APT bug reports, I think this bug has been fixed in >> apt 0.5.4, uploaded to unstable around Aug 20. >> >> Unfortunately, it still hasn't migrated into testing, and when I tried >> to grab it from unstable it wanted to

how to uninstall compiled programs from src?

hi, just wondering "howto" do the 'proper' way to uninstall useless programs compiled from source... thanks _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Re: msyslog crazy screen output

Thanks, that worked wonderfully. On approximately Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 03:09:50PM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 02:48:58PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > > Sep 12 14:46:10 cy599856-a fetchmail[3374]: reading message 1 of 2 > > (2721 octets) > >

Re: Don't understand Unix timestamps

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:43:02AM +0100, Chris Kenrick wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a bit confused about Unix timestamps on files. In > particular, I want to know what the timestamp on an > 'ls -l' or a 'find . -ls' means. > You can usually get this kind of information from man pages or info docs.

Tar's won't untar ever now in potatoe

I've been downloading lots of tar files with ncftp and mozilla (which im trying to get rid of by downloading netscape), but when i try to untar /gzip them, it tells me : gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors evyerytime

Re: OT: modem suggestions

Jeremy wrote: > > Christopher Mosley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, > > I'm looking for a cheap, internal, ISA or PCI *all* harware modem. > > Any recommendations -- brand/model names appreciated. > > I have a USR 3CP5610A that I love. It works great with any OS I can throw at >

Re: Tar's won't untar ever now in potatoe

Eric Whitestone wrote: > > I've been downloading lots of tar files with ncftp and mozilla (which > im trying to get rid of by downloading netscape), but when i try to untar > /gzip them, it tells me : > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit dela

Re: Voodoo3 on potato with X 3.3.6

Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I've searched the archives, and elsewhere, but all the useful info seems > > >to be about installing with X 4 (which isn't in potato(?)), or on > >redhat, or occasionally on Debian by using redhat packages. > > > >Is there no way to get 3d from this

Re: Voodoo3 on potato with X 3.3.6

>> >Hi all, >> > >> >I've searched the archives, and elsewhere, but all the useful info seems >> >> >to be about installing with X 4 (which isn't in potato(?)), or on >> >redhat, or occasionally on Debian by using redhat packages. >> > >> >Is there no way to get 3d from this card using standard d

Re: apt-get problem workaround... is this a bug?

Am 13. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Paul D. Smith so: > %% Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > js> http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html > > I'm stumped. > > According to the excuses, there's no reason for APT to not be moved to > "testing", as long as it doesn't depend on br

Re: Getting xfree86 4.02 onto an isolated laptop

"David A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have received a hand-me-down laptop - a Thinkpad 365XD with TFT display. > I've got potato on it, but 3.3.6 doesn't work for my display (unless you > count VGA16 yuck!). However, I just found a web site that says that 4.02 > works well on the exac

does and irc-fserver exist under unix/linux??

hello! i am trying to find an fserver to run on an irc channel, and i don't want to install winblows on my machines just to run that... but the only fservers i found are winblows progs i searched on freshmeat and other software compendiums, but couldn't find anything. -- ciao bboett ===

Re: Tar's won't untar ever now in potatoe

On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 03:43, Eric Whitestone wrote: > I've been downloading lots of tar files with ncftp and mozilla (which > im trying to get rid of by downloading netscape), but when i try to untar > /gzip them, it tells me : > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status

Re: sniffers

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 12:32:19PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Alvin Oga, > > just curious is there any free/gpl'd version of the FBIs carnivore > > > > am thinking that when people/managers start to call around for a security > > audit of their computers/networks... that we all have a

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Hi, re. using a Linux box as gateway from a LAN to the Internet: Once you have set up your Internet connection as the default route on the Linux box. You don't say whether you have done this already, or what type of connection you have, so I can't help on this step. Once the default route to

Re: how to uninstall compiled programs from src?

none, del it 1 by 1. louie miranda (axishift.ath.cx) -- Security Is A Series Of Well-Defined Steps chmod -R 0 / ; and smile :) - Original Message - From: "john smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 1:39 PM Subject:

Re: how to uninstall compiled programs from src?

> > just wondering "howto" do the 'proper' way to uninstall useless programs > > compiled from source... IF you still have the source and IF it uses autoconf/automake and IF you can remember how you configured it: configure all-of-the-options-you-gave-it [as root] make uninstall Ross Burton

Re: how to uninstall compiled programs from src?

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:23:43PM +0800, louie miranda wrote: > none, del it 1 by 1. > > > hi, > > > > just wondering "howto" do the 'proper' way to uninstall useless programs > > compiled from source... > > > > thanks Sorry to jump in at this part of the thread. There is no proper way to unins

Re: Installed Woody Package, Killed X

--- Robert Mosher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-13 00:30): > I added the testing sources to my sources.list in order to get a few > packages in woody (mainly vlc-gtk), and in doing so upgrade some X > related packages. Now when I run 'startx' I get this error: > > X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X

Mouse Problems in Debian 2.2r main

Hello. Sorry, I don't speak english very well. I'm a brazilian debian user, and I am with some problems in my mouse configuration. A message has been displayed that not have been possible a connection with mouse server. Please, help me. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eu sou um usuário Debian brasile

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Hi all, at last, I got lame compiling on woody. But I had to use lame-3.87beta. Greater versions than this do not compile. Anoybody got any of them to compile on their machine? Thanks. -- FreeBSD is the power-- Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 18961975 pgpt9lh34FPer.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Got lame compiling

Julio Merino schrieb: > at last, I got lame compiling on woody. But I had to use lame-3.87beta. > Greater versions than this do not compile. > > Anoybody got any of them to compile on their machine? Yep, without any problems. | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# lame | LAME version 3.89 (beta 1, Sep 3 2001)

Re: X4.0 -> X4.1 -> bother

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Adam McDaniel wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:08:39AM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > Hurrah - woody upgraded to X4.1 and now it's broken :( > very easy way to fix this problem. wrong unfortunately :( > > Goto a console, and as root, check to see if you have an /etc/X11/

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Timeboy wrote (on 12 Sep 2001 at 14:10): > Do i become stupid? Or isn't exim an MTA? Sorry that i don't understand > this question. But isn't only a mail that thing, that exim can deliver? > I only can answere: There is a mail to deliver. Maybe you're looking for the -bm option. Look for it in

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Re: X4.0 -> X4.1 -> bother

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Adam McDaniel wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:08:39AM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > Hurrah - woody upgraded to X4.1 and now it's broken :( urg - see bug #107208 :( But, with very few exceptions, it is the compose

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Hi Hendrik! cdrdao-1.1.5 is working! Thank you for your support. In fact the problem was a missing library. in the config.log i've found an error message that the file signal_system.h and others were missing. i searched for the file zcat Contents-i386.gz|grep signal_system.h and then i knew tha

Re: Mouse Problems in Debian 2.2r main

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 05:37:45AM -0300, Mike Maciel wrote: > Hello. > > Sorry, I don't speak english very well. > > I'm a brazilian debian user, and I am with some problems in my mouse > configuration. A message has been displayed that not have been possible a > connection with mouse server. Pl

shell script kommands

Dear Debian Users! Is there a possibility to do this with a bash script? I like to analyze a file like one of this example: line1 line2 line3 line4 line5 line6 line7 Each line of this file i like to put into one variable, so i have 7 variables witch contains ever one line of this file. Cause

Re: exim

On Wednesday Sep 12 23:05 Josh McKinney wrote: > ** > ** Maybe this is what you need. Check out number 2 at this link: > ** > ** http://sysadmin.oreilly.com/news/exim_0701.html Yes, there i found some usful informations. Thanks! Timo -- Wer Käse mag, der futtert auch Füsse! :-)

Re: exim

On Wednesday Sep 12 18:05 Nathan E Norman wrote: > ** cat mailfile | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! This halped me a little bit. And cause i like to use exim for this, now i got it working with this command: cat | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where sendmail is the same like exim -bS i mean.

Re: Mouse Problems in Debian 2.2r main

On Thursday Sep 13 10:37 Mike Maciel wrote: > ** Hello. > ** > ** Sorry, I don't speak english very well. > ** > ** I'm a brazilian debian user, and I am with some problems in my mouse > ** configuration. A message has been displayed that not have been possible a > ** connection with mouse serv

Re: shell script kommands

also sprach Timeboy (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:41:08PM +0200): > Is there a possibility to do this with a bash script? #!/bin/bash cnt=0 while read i; do var[cnt]=$i cnt=`expr $cnt + 1` done echo "there are $i object(s) in array var[]." martin; (greetings from the heart of the su

Re: ATI Rage 128 Pro 4xAGP

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:11:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all! > I've been trying to get my ATI Rage 128 Pro 4xAGP (32MB RAM) to > work with X, but have been unsuccessful. Please, help me... Hi, I have an ATI all in wonder rage 128 Pro AGP (32MB) and it is working fine. What probl

newbie xmms

Hi, Is someone using xmms under woody? I can't make it work. It say: | e164179:~> xmms /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav | | Segmentation fault | | You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit | http://www.xmms.org/bugs and fill out a bug report. What ever is the file I give it, or also

Re: Installed Woody Package, Killed X

--- Sean Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-13 10:30): > ln -s /etc/X11/X /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 Replying to my own post, that should actually be: ln -s /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X doh :) Cheers, Sean -- Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

> I am so new to linux that I really don't know how to > start troubleshooting this problem. When I installed > netscape it created the following directory in /tmp: > > communicator-v475.x86-unknown-linux2.2 > > It was supposed to create a directory called: > communicator-v47x.your_unix_platform

Pasting from Windows into Linux via SSH

Hi all, I have a Debian box that acts as a file and mail server along with a Win2k laptop belonging to my employer. (I work from home). Currently I'm trying to edit a .forward file by adding a score based filter. Its too long to typoe manually but I can't paste it in without the test going all o

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I have a few ssh/scp based problems: 1. I cannot ssh/scp to a remote machine, if the user has an shell that does not allow interactive login (like if he/she has /bin/false for the shell), that is ok for ssh, but scp should still work right? sftp does not work either. Is there a way to mak

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Hi, I try since many days to let my Ethernet card work and I have some problems. Here my configuration : OS : Linux 2.2.18 (Distribution Progeny, version 1) Windows 98 Dual Boot using GRUB Card : D-Link DFE-530TX Rev. A. Module : via-rhine.o Here the command with the as

Re: newbie xmms

Have you only installed woody's xmms or all woodys packages? If you only have xmms, try a dist-upgrade to update all the libraries. I've no problems with xmms on woody. It may also happen that you have kernel missconfiguration problems. HTH On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:21:17PM +0200, Ionel Mugure

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I have the following command in a cron.daily script: rdate time.mist.god This has worked consistently for a long time, but for the past week or two it returns: rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection refused This message returns almost instantly - too quickly, I

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > I am so new to linux that I really don't know how to > > start troubleshooting this problem. When I installed > > netscape it created the following directory in /tmp: > > > > communicator-v475.x86-unknown-linux2.2 > > > > It was supposed to create a directory called: >

Pasting into vim from Win2k via SSH

Hi all, I have a Debian box that acts as a file and mail server along with a Win2k laptop belonging to my employer. (I work from home). Currently I'm trying to edit a .forward file by adding a score based filter. Its too long to typoe manually but I can't paste it in without the test going all o

Re: ATI Rage 128 Pro 4xAGP

Hi I have a similar card in my laptop and it works fine. I'm attaching my /etc/XF86Config-4 file Good Luck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I've been trying to get my ATI Rage 128 Pro 4xAGP (32MB RAM) to work with X, but have been unsuccessful. Please, help me...    --

OT: how to filter maildrops

hi. i have a debian 2.2r0 box and i'm running postfix-20010228-pl04 and procmail. i have configured postfix to deliver mails directly to procmail without requiring a "~/.forward file". everything works fine for a single account sending and receiving mails. what i would like know is receiving mai

Problems compiling modules

Hi all, following your recommendations, I've apt-get the following modules from woody: i2c-source lm-sensors-source lirc-modules-source My kernel is 2.4.9 that I got trought a tar.gz and unpacked in /usr/src/linux-2.4.9 with a symlink to linux. I've also unpacked the above modules, and a

Re: Pasting from Windows into Linux via SSH

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:46:09PM +0100, Patrick wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a Debian box that acts as a file and mail server along with a > Win2k laptop belonging to my employer. (I work from home). > > Currently I'm trying to edit a .forward file by adding a score based > filter. Its too long

Re: Pasting from Windows into Linux via SSH

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Patrick wrote: P> Hi all, P> P> I have a Debian box that acts as a file and mail server along with a P> Win2k laptop belonging to my employer. (I work from home). P> P> Currently I'm trying to edit a .forward file by adding a score based P> filter. Its too long to typoe man

Re: general ups experience

Adam McDaniel wrote: > Im curious on what experience you all have with smart/dumb ups's under linux. I've only ever used serial UPSes made by Cyberpower in dumb mode. A few years back they made a 1500VA model that sold for about $100. I got two of them! One of them keeps my [PIII + 3 internal

DNS problems

Hello! All connections to my machine are delayed. "telnet localhost" takes 20 secs to connect and another 20 secs to display the login. "telnet 127.0.0.1" connects immidiately, but also needs 20 secs to display a login. Seems like some dns-lookup-problem to me. But I can't see anything wrong in m

Re: Pasting from Windows into Linux via SSH

> >We had the same question just a few days back I think. > >:set paste >:help paste > set paste did the trick. Many thanks. I only subscribed a couple of hours ago so missed it before.

Re: ssh/scp and the change of remote shell

also sprach Bostjan Muller (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:47:20PM +0200): > 1. I cannot ssh/scp to a remote machine, if the user has an shell > that does not allow interactive login (like if he/she has /bin/false > for the shell), that is ok for ssh, but scp should still work right? > sftp does not work e

Re: Voodoo3 on potato with X 3.3.6

On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 18:18, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I've searched the archives, and elsewhere, but all the useful info seems > to be about installing with X 4 (which isn't in potato(?)), or on > redhat, or occasionally on Debian by using redhat packages. > > Is there no way to get 3d

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

[ snip ] > I think I just answered my own question! [ snip ] > Peter Christensen Moral: Carefully describing your problem may solve it. The act of writing deters skipping & guessing, aids review, & forces order & logic. That's so even if you don't post the record to the list. It's best to w

Re: Pasting from Windows into Linux via SSH

> if you use the pico, make sure that none of the long lines got autowrapped :) pico -w I like nano myself, search and replace =)

SMTP client with CRAM MD5 support

I'm using qmail on a dial-up computer. My prefered ISP uses authenticated SMTP with CRAM MD5 for outgoing emails. Is there any program which can send all during offline time queued emails to the ISP? Thanks, -- Stefan Karrmann

Re: apt-get problem workaround... is this a bug?

"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > %% Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Looking through the APT bug reports, I think this bug has been fixed in > >> apt 0.5.4, uploaded to unstable around Aug 20. > >> > >> Unfortunately, it still hasn't migrated into testing, and

Using AWE64 on kernel 2.4.9

Can someone give me a hint or hand on building the 2.4.9 kernel to support the AWE64 sound system? -- Darryl L. Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Infobahn Offramp "Yes, Dougal, but you're not like most people..." pgpIbgYQqWHwG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Galeon/Mozilla Woody Debs

Hi On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 01:51:35AM -0500, Nate Custer wrote: > Hey all, > > I just switched to debian from redhat and am looking for a source of > Galeon/Mozilla .debs for woody. > I just upgraded to Woody and in the process had to find a non-ximian version of galeon. After some searching fo

Re: apt-get problem workaround... is this a bug?

%% "der.hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So, I have no idea whatsoever why APT 0.5.4 hasn't migrated into testing >> yet... dh> Does it depend on apt or something that uses apt to get the dh> correct results? No idea... dh> BTW, for the workaround, just taking unstable out of sour

Re: DNS problems

All connections to my machine are delayed. "telnet localhost" takes 20 secs to connect and another 20 secs to display the login. "telnet 127.0.0.1" connects immidiately, but also needs 20 secs to display a login. Sounds to me the reverse mapping is not set up. Which doesn't make sense because

Re: networking trouble

> All, > > Thanks for the help so far. I finally got a chance to work some more on > this, and I have had partial success. To make sure everything was in a > proper state I removed the ppp package and /etc/ppp and then reinstalled > the package. Then I ran pppconfig to get things set up. But no lu

Re: console font problems

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 18:23:42 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bostjan Muller) wrote: SCREEN_FONT=GohaClassic-14 than run (as root) /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh) <- also runs at boot and sets the console fonts. yep works like a charm, only don't issue that command while you're in X makes it all look a

Re: what command in linux such as mem in dos

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, thomas anderson wrote: > is there a command in linux to show a more detailed information on memory > usage and alternatively also cpu usage? currently I use 'ps aux' > but I need > more information... An inci

Re: apt-get problem workaround... is this a bug?

I just asked on debian-devel. -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist

Re: newbie xmms

> Is someone using xmms under woody? > > I can't make it work. It say: > > | e164179:~> xmms /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav > | > | Segmentation fault > | > | You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit > | http://www.xmms.org/bugs and fill out a bug report. > > What ever is the file

Re: Pasting into vim from Win2k via SSH

Sorry for double posting. Outsmarted by mutt :-(

Re: newbie xmms

În data de 13/09/2001, 16:26:30, Hereward Cooper a scris: > > Is someone using xmms under woody? > > > > I can't make it work. It say: > > > > | e164179:~> xmms /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav > > | > > | Segmentation fault > > | > > | You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit > > | h

Re: newbie xmms

#include Ionel Mugurel Ciobîc? wrote on Thu Sep 13, 2001 um 02:21:17PM: > | e164179:~> xmms /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav > | > | Segmentation fault Woody/Sid? There is a faulty alsa plugin package, remove it first. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- begin LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs I am a signa

Re: DNS problems

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:46:49 -0400, Doug Fields wrote: > >>All connections to my machine are delayed. "telnet localhost" takes 20 secs to >>connect and another 20 secs to display the login. "telnet 127.0.0.1" connects >>immidiately, but also needs 20 secs to display a login. > >Sounds to me the re

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Re: Using AWE64 on kernel 2.4.9

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:19:21AM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > Can someone give me a hint or hand on building the 2.4.9 kernel to support > the > AWE64 sound system? I use one myself... The sound section of the kernel is set up like so: CONFIG_SOUND=y # CONFIG_SOUND_BT878 is not set # CON

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

--- Peter Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Ramsey wrote: > > I am so new to linux that I really don't know how to > start > troubleshooting this problem. > When I installed > netscape it created the > following directory in /tmp: > > communicator-v475.x86-unknown-linux2.2 > > It

Re: X4.0 -> X4.1 -> bother

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:38:05PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Adam McDaniel wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:08:39AM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > > Hurrah - woody upgraded to X4.1 and now it's broken :( > > very easy way to fix this problem. > wrong unfortunately :( so

Re: little script for log watching

Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to write a script that would > output to the screen the latest contents of a log, > and continue to do so until I abort the script. No need to write it yourself -- $ apt-cache show console-log Package: console-log Priority: optional Secti

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RE: little script for log watching

> Hi, > > I would like to write a script that would > output to the screen the latest contents of a log, > and continue to do so until I abort the script. > > For example, > I have squid running, and would like to see the latest additions > to the /var/log/squid/access.log as it takes place. > > So

Re: little script for log watching

On Wednesday, September 12, 2001 4:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would like to write a script that would > > output to the screen the latest contents of a log, > > and continue to do so until I abort the script. > No need to write it yourself --

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I've just done an apt-get update & apt-get upgrade for the first time in a week or two (usig woody), and I've lost the fonts that appear on buttons in Netscape, and all the fonts in Mozilla. They're all replaced by strange little symbols, which I assume means the characters is unavailable. All ot

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What is meant by these incessant syslog messages: modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.19/modules.dep What corrective actions are warranted? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understa

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Re: Installing alsa?

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 05:52:04PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering about switching to ALSA. I'm currently using > OSS with a SB16 isapnp. > > So, which will be the "debian" way to go with it? I see > dozens of packages about alsa... alsa-base, alsa-sources... > Which ones s

Re: DNS problems

Am Donnerstag, 13. September 2001 17:36 schrieb Ralf G. R. Bergs: > > I could imagine that this has something to do with the auth/ident daemon > looping. > > The original poster should have a look at their syslog file, if they see > something like "identd disabled due to looping." There is nothing

Re: decompress tgz

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf > > Please help > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Shyam To uncompress: tar zxf file.tgz To view: tar tzvf file.tgz -- Nath

RE: decompress tgz

On 13-Sep-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf > there is a unix command called 'file' it tells you what the contents of a file are believed to be.

Re: Fonts lost in Netscape & Mozilla after apt-get upgrade

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:39:11AM -0700, Gordon Paynter wrote: > I've just done an apt-get update & apt-get upgrade for the first time > in a week or two (usig woody), and I've lost the fonts that appear on > buttons in Netscape, and all the fonts in Mozilla. They're all > replaced by strange lit

Re: Fonts lost in Netscape & Mozilla after apt-get upgrade

> I've just done an apt-get update & apt-get upgrade for the > first time in a week or two (usig woody), and I've lost the > fonts that appear ... They're all replaced by strange little > symbols... > The 100 dpi fonts all appear to be present and correct (the > package is okay). You're one of

Re: decompress tgz

On Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? short for tar.gz. just gunzip it and it will become tar -=greg

RE: decompress tgz

On 13-Sep-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf > tgz -> a gzip'ed tar. Use tar xvf filename.tgz. It is basically a shorthand for .tar.gz. It is from the days when people has to deal with MS D

Re: decompress tgz

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf > > Please help > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Shyam It's a tar gzipped file. Tar does not compress files, it only concatenates

Attn: xfonts package maintainer (was Re: Fonts lost in Netscape & Mozilla after apt-get upgrade)

> I've just done an apt-get update & apt-get upgrade for the > first time in a week or two (usig woody), and I've lost the > fonts ... They're all replaced by strange little symbols, which > I assume means the characters is unavailable. Can the package maintainer comment on this ?? It's becoming f

Re: decompress tgz

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf The .tgz extension means tar compressed with gzip. It is the same as .tar.gz. You can also decompress and untar in one op

Re: decompress tgz

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf The .tgz ending is (to my knowledge at least) just a shorthand writing for .tar.gz, so you can use `tar zxfv file.tgz'. Regards, Stig -

Re: decompress tgz

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? read the manuals.. and use the manpages 'man tar' > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf > > Please help > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Shyam > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRI

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