Re: APCUPSD doesn't shutdown machine

2001-09-15 Thread Dean A. Roman
Lindsay Allen wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Dean A. Roman wrote: > > > >I've had a similar problem. Switched to nut, and that seems to be > > >working just fine for me. I have a Smart-UPS 620 with smart cable. > > > > I haven't received any reply from the apcupsd debian developer. > > Does anyone

Unstable -> Testing

2001-09-15 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
A while ago I had to set myself up a little low-priority router. Now, being the irresponsible person I am, I just had to install unstable to get a few toys testing was missing at the time. :) Has anyone had experience with what kinds of issues I might run into moving from unstable->testing? From wh

uptime

2001-09-15 Thread will trillich
$ uptime 12:44am up 365 days, 1:31, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01 break out the root beer! :) -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #78 from USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Do you want to track the ERROR MESSAGES WHEN STARTING "X" (using startx) but the screen scrolls by too fast... and then you'r

Moving Debian to another disk...

2001-09-15 Thread Antropov Anton
Hello! I need to move installed (and set up) "stable" debian from ide hard disk to scsi one. I moved partitions, and all is ok - I'm booting from IDE disk with root partition mounted on scsi. But! I can't boot from scsi! I tried to use lilo in different ways with no effect. How should I do it? Pl

RE: uptime

2001-09-15 Thread Antropov Anton
I drink to you! :) And to Linux! -Original Message- From: will trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 11:45 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: uptime $ uptime 12:44am up 365 days, 1:31, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01 break out th

Re: uptime

2001-09-15 Thread David Nusinow
On Friday 14 September 2001 10:45 pm, will trillich wrote: > $ uptime > 12:44am up 365 days, 1:31, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, > 0.01 > > break out the root beer! > > :) Since I don't have root on your machine, I'll just break out the beer ;-) - David "legal to drink as of two days a

Joystick on pci sound cards ...

2001-09-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
I've tried getting the joystick port on both a hoontech yamaha compatible card and now a hercules cs46xx card which is supposedly supported by the cs461x joystick port module. I can never get it to work. Anyone have any pointers? I've checked the kernel docs and google for anything of relevance

Re: uptime

2001-09-15 Thread Jason Boxman
On Saturday 15 September 2001 01:45 am, will trillich wrote: > $ uptime > 12:44am up 365 days, 1:31, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01 > > break out the root beer! > > :) You da man. (I bet you just jinxed it and the power just went out such that the UPS couldn't hold out, right? ;) )

Re: uptime

2001-09-15 Thread Craig Dickson
will trillich wrote: > $ uptime > 12:44am up 365 days, 1:31, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01 > > break out the root beer! Congrats! I think I'll show this to a few Windows users. My machines are rarely up for more than a month or two at a time due to my addiction to kernel updates.

tar copying problems for "/" to "/mnt"

2001-09-15 Thread Rino Mardo
i have a big enough hd to play with xfs or jfs so whenever there are new patches that would arrive i copy my "/" (i'm using only one partition) to "/mnt" which points to my spare partition. to do this i use tar with the commands: cd /; tar cf - / | (cd /mnt; tar xf - ) this works fine but i get

Re: uptime -more

2001-09-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya will - donno what happened... i hit the wrong key.. re-editing again congrats on your long uptime.. i have a few servers up over a year and some approaching 2 yrs... some are too old that it rolls over and started from "zero" day uptime and for even longer uptimes... ( 1300+ days )

Newbie dselect questions

2001-09-15 Thread rikiwarren
I'm still struggling with dselect. I think I've done something horribly wrong. How do I make sure that everything is installed properly? My system seems to have stopped asking me configuration questions. How do I make sure things are configured properly? I'd like to run a woody system with kde

Re: mozilla support for Java?

2001-09-15 Thread Brian May
> "Marc" == Marc Becher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marc> ho, you can download j2sdk1.3 (for example) at Marc> blackdown.org. For me this works fine and also the plugin Marc> for mozilla (depends on mozilla-version, some like java and Marc> some do not). You should have java-

Solved my kernel problems

2001-09-15 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, As I said in another message, I have been able to solve my kernel 2.4.9 compilation problems on woody. That was a thing of a missing symlink. But I wasn't able to solve my module problems on woody. Yesterday I formatted everything and installed a fresh sid from a clean potato instalation

Re: Is there any ftpd support file large than 2GB ?

2001-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:06:38AM +0800, Tommy Wu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > >As title... > >I've tested proftpd, wu-ftpd, ftpd in woody. All of them can't handle >file large than 2GB. > >My system running kernel 2.4.9-xfs, glibc 2.2.4. I can create a file >lar

Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem

2001-09-15 Thread Wasim Ahmed
Hello, On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:08:55PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I'm trying to setup printing in woody using lprng. checkpc -f-V gives > me the following:ecking 'status.lp' file > checking 'status' file > checking '/var/log/lp-errs' file > checking '/var/log/lp-acct' file > Warning - lp

Fonts in KDE2.2

2001-09-15 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, I've installed KDE2.2 on sid. The first time I run it, it apperes the setup wizard, and everything looks fine. But when I restart it, I get very weird fonts. I go to the control center to change them, but I only get three fonts: bitstream charter, courier and another one I don't remember n

[Fwd: RMMODing a console font]

2001-09-15 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Debian was easily installed on my Gateway Solo 3500 laptop, with ATI Mach64 Rage Mobility graphics card. The best VGA console fonts are obtained by # insmod atyfb providing slim 80x30 fonts in the text console. However Xwindows does not stabilize subsequently with this driver active, AND # rmmod

Re: networking trouble

2001-09-15 Thread Robert Schweikert
Shaul Karl wrote: > > 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 t

Adaptec 1542 with slink/potato?

2001-09-15 Thread John Conover
Anyone using an Adaptec 1542 with slink/potato? CD work OK? Thanks, John -- John ConoverTel. 408.370.2688 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 631 Lamont Ct. Fax. 408.379.9602 http://www.johncon.com/ Campbell, CA 95008 Cel. 408.772.7733

Re: how to mail an attachment from a script

2001-09-15 Thread Christoph Simon
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 21:24:04 -0700 (PDT) "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 15-Sep-2001 dman wrote: > > > > I need to set up a script to be run by crontab. This script needs to > > mail a (html) file as an attachment. How can I do this? I know mutt > > has a '-a ' argumen

Re: networking trouble

2001-09-15 Thread Richard Hector
Robert Schweikert wrote: > > Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > When using pppconfig I selected DHCP for dynamic IP-addresses. I also > > > tried setting "ipcp-accept-remote" and "ipcp-accept-local" which > > > according to the man page for pppd allow the resetting of the > > > ip-addresses according to t

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

2001-09-15 Thread Richard Hector
Peter Christensen wrote: > > I installed both Linux 2.1 (kernel 2.1.121 shows up in a message at > startup time) and Netscape 4.75 from CDs. Two things: AFAIK Debian 2.1 should have installed kernel 2.0, so it sounds like you may not be using Debian, so this list may not be ideal. Do you know w

Preload modules from a floppy, woody

2001-09-15 Thread afa
--- -->> FREE Perl CGI scripts add WEB ACCESS to your POP email accounts! -->> Download today!! http://www.adjeweb.com --- Hello I'm trying to install Woody on a

Re: Voodoo3 on potato with X 3.3.6

2001-09-15 Thread Richard Hector
Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > 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 p

OT(?) Where has www.scyld.com gone?

2001-09-15 Thread Tony Crawford
And/or where is Donald Becker's NIC driver work now? Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --

mail direct to Internet

2001-09-15 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
On laptop from Home, my mail is sent through Netscape Messenger to smtp.rcn.com, with rcn.com my IP. RCN.COM does not accept smtp from other domains. With laptop at work I have a LAN gateway to the Internet, and should be able to send mail directly from the laptop. But how should Messenger + exim

Re: mail direct to Internet

2001-09-15 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > On laptop from Home, my mail is sent through Netscape Messenger to > smtp.rcn.com, with rcn.com my IP. RCN.COM does not accept smtp from > other domains. > > With laptop at work I have a LAN gateway to the Internet, and should be > able to sen

Linux + Digital Cameras

2001-09-15 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, does anyone have any NEGATIV experience with digital cameras that should be connected to Linux via a USB interface? The reason I am asking this question: I would like to buy a Pentax Optio Digital Camera. As usual, the manufacturer state only some infos regarding Myrcosoft and MacOS --

ide zip drive problem with 2.4.9 ?

2001-09-15 Thread Rino Mardo
is there a known problem with the kernel-2.4.9 and ide zip drives? i have this ide zip drives which i can use without problems with the stock kernel that comes with debian2.2r0. as soon as i updated the kernel to 2.4.9 i'm getting this during boot: ide-floppy driver 0.97 hdd: No disk in drive hd

Re: Exim delivery to a maildir (or just use procmail?) questions

2001-09-15 Thread Ramin Motakef
Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I've got courier-imapd installed and configured. > > How do I get exim to deliver all localy generated mail to stay in the > standard mail spool for the system but all other mail which is coming in > through fetchmail to go into a maildir so I

Re: Adaptec 1542 with slink/potato?

2001-09-15 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- John Conover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-15 11:50): > Anyone using an Adaptec 1542 with slink/potato? > > CD work OK? I have that card in my firewall machine, running potato, and it works fine. I used the boot floppies to install from though (I installed from the net because my potato CD 1

major problems (was:Re: fetchmail)

2001-09-15 Thread Frank Zimmermann
I apologise for my late response but i was quite busy and the about what happend in the Us i couldn't get myself on the PC to solve my little problem. But today I thought it's time to do so. I found out that I have multiple problems that seemed to have appeared suddenly. It's the fetchmai problem

Slackware / Dragon Linux

2001-09-15 Thread shyamk
I am having a version of Slackware called Dragon Linux. As per the manuals , you can have it on a Windows partition . I installed it in E:\Dragon Linux\ from the Cd Then I went to MSDOS mode and run the setup file as mentioned by them. I got into Dragon Linux (the Login prompt , etc.) I was aske

Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem

2001-09-15 Thread Dale Morris
I'm still trying to get my printer working, not much luck. When I run dmesg it shows: PCI: Using IRQ router default [1022/7006] at 00:00.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initia

Re: Linux + Digital Cameras

2001-09-15 Thread Philippe Marzouk
Le sam, 15 sep 2001 15:34:34, Lukas Ruf a écrit : > Dear all, > > does anyone have any NEGATIV experience with digital cameras that should > be > connected to Linux via a USB interface? > > The reason I am asking this question: I would like to buy a Pentax Optio > Digital Camera. As usual, the m

menu

2001-09-15 Thread Roger Keays
Hi, Does anybody know how to use the menu package to remove complete subtrees from the menu? Also, I've had some strange outputs from editting /etc/menu-methods/translate_menus... substitute section->section Apps/Math Apps/Trash endtranslate Update-menus[3592]: key=Apps/Math match=Apps/Math

Re: Newbie dselect questions

2001-09-15 Thread David Roundy
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 04:38:36PM +0900, rikiwarren wrote: > > I'd like to run a woody system with kde 2.2 added from sid. What's the > proper way to do this? Should I just go ahead and move everything to sid? I > seem to be having a lot of trouble using dselect, as it often wants to > delete

Re: major problems (was:Re: fetchmail)

2001-09-15 Thread Frank Zimmermann
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > With respect to startx, > check for a .xsession files in your /root/ and /home/user/ folders. > You may be missing /home/user/.xsession > See > /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/examples/xsession > > MarvS > Sorry i did not include any error messages. It

Re: Linux Administration ?'s

2001-09-15 Thread Bob Hilliard
on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:04:03AM -0700, Stephen Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED] m) wrote: > I am relatively new to Linux, and have a class that I am required to be > a Linux Administrator for. I need to know some of the basic questions > to ask in order to be effective. I am using Linux Mandrake. Thanks

Re: Fonts in KDE2.2

2001-09-15 Thread Thomas Apel
On Saturday, 15. September 2001 12:09, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > I've installed KDE2.2 on sid. The first time I run it, it apperes the > setup wizard, and everything looks fine. But when I restart it, I get > very weird fonts. I go to the control center to change them, but I > only get thre

Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem

2001-09-15 Thread Ron Farrer
Dale Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm still trying to get my printer working, not much luck. When I run > dmesg it shows: > > PCI: Using IRQ router default [1022/7006] at 00:00.0 > isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... > isapnp: No Plug & Play device found > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 > Based

Re: how to mail an attachment from a script

2001-09-15 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 08:25:33AM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: | On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 21:24:04 -0700 (PDT) | "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > On 15-Sep-2001 dman wrote: | > > | > > I need to set up a script to be run by crontab. This script needs to | > > mail a (html) file a

Re: uptime

2001-09-15 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach will trillich (on Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:45:15AM -0500): > $ uptime > 12:44am up 365 days, 1:31, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01 piper:/var/log# uptime 16:58:42 up 854 days, 11:46, 67 users, load average: 0.05, 0.05, 0.01 titan:~# uptime 11:06am up 1556 day(s), 4:30, 113 use

New book [was Installed netscape, but how do I start it?]

2001-09-15 Thread Wendell Cochran
> ... a few weeks ago bought Peter Norton's _Complete Guide to >Linux_, but am finding it not too helpful at this point. (The book was >on sale, remaindered, I guess not a big seller!) Karsten, I will check >out the books that you recommended. See also _The Linux Cookbook_ by Michael Stutz (2001

Re: mutt and vi

2001-09-15 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Fri, 14 Sep 2001 06:46:35PM -0500): > Is autocmds a vi thing or a mutt thing? neither. it's vim. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- anyone around? -- no, we're all irr

Re: major problems (was:Re: fetchmail)

2001-09-15 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
The XF86Config serving Root must then be in /root Copy it to /etc/X11/XF86Config for use by other users. MarvS >Frank Zimmermann wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > > > With respect to startx, > > check for a .xsession files in your /root/ and /home/user/ folders. > > You

mutt & send hook

2001-09-15 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, I have got the following in my muttrc : set default_hook="~C %s" send-hook ! ^(howtos|linux-india|debian-user|ilug-goa|icewm) "set editor='/usr/local/bin/rajeshsign.sh'" send-hook ^(howtos|linux-india|debian-user|ilug-goa|icewm) "set editor='/usr/local/bin/lostsign.sh'"

quick perl check

2001-09-15 Thread Adam McDaniel
Hey...i think i've found a slight issue/bug with the testing version of perl, but I need someone running stable to run this command: # dpkg -S ioctl.ph Actually, now that I think about it, anyone running either stable OR testing if you could run that command and dump the output that would help me

CDROM with device file system.

2001-09-15 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
My ATAPI CDROM drive /dev/hdc is fine, provided the devfsd daemon is not implemented during bootup. If /dev/hdc mounting is attempted AFTER devfsd is called, the mount fails. Insights? MarvS

Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem

2001-09-15 Thread Dale Morris
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Ron Farrer wrote: > Perhaps try something simple, such as: > echo test > /dev/lp0 results of that command are: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$echo test > /dev/lp0 bash: /dev/lp0: Permission denied

Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem

2001-09-15 Thread Ron Farrer
Dale Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > results of that command are: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$echo test > /dev/lp0 > bash: /dev/lp0: Permission denied What does this command show: ls -l /dev/lp* Ron pgpj5ZdQUbhps.pgp Description: PGP signature

Error message at boot time

2001-09-15 Thread Keith O'Connell
I have an old 400 Mhz Pentium, that I want to use as a firewall. It has 80Mb ram and a 6Gb disk. Now I understand that this is easily ample for the task. It only has one network card in it at the moment, but that card seems to generate this message at boot time. None of the other computers running

Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem

2001-09-15 Thread Dale Morris
> > > results of that command are: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$echo test > /dev/lp0 > > bash: /dev/lp0: Permission denied > > What does this command show: > ls -l /dev/lp* Ron, it shows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ls -l /dev/lp* crwxr-x---1 root lp 6, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp0 crw-rw

Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem

2001-09-15 Thread Ron Farrer
Dale Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ron, it shows: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ls -l /dev/lp* > crwxr-x---1 root lp 6, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp0 > crw-rw1 root lp 6, 1 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp1 > crw-rw1 root lp 6, 2 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp2

Re: CDROM with device file system.

2001-09-15 Thread Ross Burton
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 16:39, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > My ATAPI CDROM drive /dev/hdc is fine, > provided the devfsd daemon is not implemented during bootup. > If /dev/hdc mounting is attempted AFTER devfsd is called, > the mount fails. Insights? Under devfsd the mount point will be /dev/ide/... R

Re: mutt & send hook

2001-09-15 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:10:14PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: | Hi, | | I have got the following in my muttrc : | | set default_hook="~C %s" | send-hook ! ^(howtos|linux-india|debian-user|ilug-goa|icewm) | "set editor='/usr/local/bin/rajeshsign.sh'" | send-hook ^(howtos|linux-india|de

Re: CDROM with device file system.

2001-09-15 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 05:02:50PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: | On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 16:39, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: | > My ATAPI CDROM drive /dev/hdc is fine, | > provided the devfsd daemon is not implemented during bootup. | > If /dev/hdc mounting is attempted AFTER devfsd is called, | > the mount

Re: dpkg

2001-09-15 Thread Jakob B. Jensen
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 05:56:38PM -0500, Stathy G. Touloumis wrote: > What is 'start-stop-daemon'? When I try to install a package using dpkg I > get this error. > > > dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH. > dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. > NB: root's PATH should usu

Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem

2001-09-15 Thread Dale Morris
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ls -l /dev/lp* > > crwxr-x---1 root lp 6, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp0 > > crw-rw1 root lp 6, 1 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp1 > > crw-rw1 root lp 6, 2 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp2 > > Did you attempt my previous command as root or a

Which are the network .deb-s of Debian GNU/Linux ?

2001-09-15 Thread shyamk
I understand that there are certain .deb-s that : 1) make your Linux box a router (I want him\her to at least identify on being ping-ed by others on the network , and accept telnet and ftp connections) . 2) that get on with the basic bit of networking., DHCP,DNS ,Samba,etc. What are the .deb-s

Re: tar copying problems for "/" to "/mnt"

2001-09-15 Thread Jakob B. Jensen
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 01:08:29PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: ... > partition) to "/mnt" which points to my spare partition. to do this i > use tar with the commands: > > cd /; tar cf - / | (cd /mnt; tar xf - ) > > this works fine but i get this timestamp messages: > > tar: Archive contains futur

Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem

2001-09-15 Thread Ron Farrer
Dale Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I do that I get the following: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dlm lp > The user `dlm' is already a member of lp. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > that's what's so frustrating.. Does it give the same error if you do: echo test > /dev/lp0 as root? If so, then printer supp

Re: Which are the network .deb-s of Debian GNU/Linux ?

2001-09-15 Thread Jakob B. Jensen
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:45:03PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I understand that there are certain .deb-s that : > 1) make your Linux box a router (I want him\her to at least identify on being > ping-ed > by others on the network , and accept telnet and ftp connections) . ... First off, as

Re: Exim delivery to a maildir (or just use procmail?) questions

2001-09-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 08:48, Ramin Motakef wrote: > Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ok, I've got courier-imapd installed and configured. > > > > How do I get exim to deliver all localy generated mail to stay in the > > standard mail spool for the system but all other mail whi

Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem

2001-09-15 Thread Dale Morris
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Ron Farrer wrote: > Dale Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > When I do that I get the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dlm lp > > The user `dlm' is already a member of lp. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > that's what's so frustrating.. > > Does it give the same error if yo

postgresql/horde/imp problem on woody (was Re: testing)

2001-09-15 Thread Martin F Krafft
guten abend! also sprach Gerhard Kroder (on Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:04:32PM +0200): > you should convert to testing, maybe... just kidding. But: on testing > postgres runs quite well, too. Currently as of 7.1-4 i am running testing. i constantly get /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance: /etc/pos

Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem

2001-09-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 12:51, Dale Morris wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Ron Farrer wrote: > > > Dale Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > When I do that I get the following: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dlm lp > > > The user `dlm' is already a member of lp. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > t

Re: Fonts in KDE2.2

2001-09-15 Thread Julio Merino
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 05:02:49PM +0200, Thomas Apel wrote: > On Saturday, 15. September 2001 12:09, Julio Merino wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've installed KDE2.2 on sid. The first time I run it, it apperes the > > setup wizard, and everything looks fine. But when I restart it, I get > > very weir

Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem

2001-09-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 12:56, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 12:51, Dale Morris wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Ron Farrer wrote: > > > > > Dale Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > > When I do that I get the following: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dlm lp > > > > The user

Re: gnumeric needs libgdk_imlib.la

2001-09-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:07:54 -0400, Mark Copper wrote: > I am running dpkg-buildpackage on "unstable" Gnumeric sources. Make > exits with error saying that it cannot find /usr/lib/libgdk_imlib.la. Check the debian/control file. It states the build dependencies, including libgnome-dev which in

Re: uptime

2001-09-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > will trillich wrote: > > > $ uptime > > 12:44am up 365 days, 1:31, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01 > > > > break out the root beer! > > Congrats! I think I'll show this to a few Windows users. Hmm. We had an NT swerver with about

.m2v files which format ?

2001-09-15 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, My friend has got a CD on which he has got some mpeg files and some files are in .m2v format ? Which format is this ? It also looks to be a video file from its size. Has anybody come across this format ? Which player can play these files ? I tried mplayer but it does not play them. Has anybod

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

2001-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:57:57PM -0400, Peter Christensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks for all the suggestions! I really am trying to learn the > basics of Linux, a few weeks ago bought Peter Norton's _Complete Guide > to Linux_, but am finding it not too helpful at this point. (The bo

Re: mutt & send hook

2001-09-15 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
dman saw fit to inform me that: >On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:10:14PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: >| >| -- >| rajeshsign.sh is : >| >| INFILE=$1 >| echo -en "\n\n\n" >> $INFILE >| cat $HOME/.rajeshsign >> $INFILE >| fortune -s

Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem: SOLVED!!

2001-09-15 Thread Dale Morris
Yep, reconfiguring the kernel made a big difference, printer is printing a test page right now. I'm using the cups printing system along with turboprint. It seems to work thanks again for the help! dale

Re: epson stylus 600 setup problem

2001-09-15 Thread Carlos Sousa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ls -l /dev/lp* crwxr-x---1 root lp 6, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp0 crw-rw1 root lp 6, 1 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp1 crw-rw1 root lp 6, 2 Jul 5 2000 /dev/lp2 Did you attempt my previous command as root or as a normal user?

Re: uptime

2001-09-15 Thread dman
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 01:45:41PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: | * Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: | > will trillich wrote: | > | > > $ uptime | > > 12:44am up 365 days, 1:31, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01 | > > | > > break out the root beer! | > | > Congrats! I t

Re: uptime

2001-09-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > $ uptime > > > 12:44am up 365 days, 1:31, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01 > > > > > > break out the root beer! > > > > Congrats! I think I'll show this to a few Windows users. In the mid-80's we ran IBM 3090 mainframes. Big Iron. On

Re: postgresql/horde/imp problem on woody (was Re: testing)

2001-09-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
Martin F Krafft wrote: >i am running testing. i constantly get > > /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance: /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env: > +No such file or directory > >from cron. > >postgresql is installed, standard woody package. absolutely no >databases are defined yet, i j

Re: .m2v files which format ?

2001-09-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010915 12:10]: > Hi, > > My friend has got a CD on which he has got some mpeg files and some files > are in .m2v format ? Which format is this ? It also looks to be a video > file from its size. Has anybody come across this format ? Which player can > play thes

logrotate still not workin

2001-09-15 Thread nate
i sent this once, and didn't see a reply, i have some followup info to the original message. I changed /etc/logrotate.conf : /var/log/radacct/ras-ca/detail { size=1k create 0664 root adm rotate 10 postrotate /etc/init.d/radiusd restart

Re: Unstable -> Testing

2001-09-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeremy Nickurak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010914 22:40]: > A while ago I had to set myself up a little low-priority router. Now, > being the irresponsible person I am, I just had to install unstable to > get a few toys testing was missing at the time. :) doh! You should have used pin priorities in /e

Re: tar copying problems for "/" to "/mnt"

2001-09-15 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >cd /; tar cf - / | (cd /mnt; tar xf - ) > >this works fine but i get this timestamp messages: > >tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2001-09-16 20:33:45 One problem with this command is it will copy /mnt to /mnt/mnt to /mnt/mnt/mnt The -l option

Re: quick perl check

2001-09-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Adam McDaniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010915 08:39]: > Hey...i think i've found a slight issue/bug with the testing version of perl, > but I need someone running stable to run this command: > > # dpkg -S ioctl.ph > > Actually, now that I think about it, anyone running either stable OR testing > if

Re: Exim delivery to a maildir (or just use procmail?) questions

2001-09-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michael Heldebrant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010914 18:08]: > Ok, I've got courier-imapd installed and configured. > > How do I get exim to deliver all localy generated mail to stay in the > standard mail spool for the system but all other mail which is coming in > through fetchmail to go into a mail

Re: logrotate still not workin

2001-09-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 15:12, nate wrote: > i sent this once, and didn't see a reply, i have some > followup info to the original message. > > I changed /etc/logrotate.conf : > /var/log/radacct/ras-ca/detail { > size=1k > create 0664 root adm > rotate 10 > postrotate >

Re: quick perl check

2001-09-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
nujoma:~> dpkg -S ioctl.ph perl-5.005: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/asm-alpha/ioctl.ph perl-5.005: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/asm-mips/ioctl.ph nujoma:~> cat /etc/debian_version 2.2 nujoma:~> uname -a Linux nujoma 2.2.19pre17 #1 Sat Jun 30 15:49:52 EST 2001 i586 unknown ---

apt-proxy error

2001-09-15 Thread David Mohr
Hi everyone, I have a big problem with apt-proxy. I just installed it for the very first time, tried to get it working but get the following error in the log file: -- Sun Sep 16 00:39:55 CEST 2001 Request /debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/Release rcmd

apt-proxy error

2001-09-15 Thread David Mohr
Hi everyone, I have a big problem with apt-proxy. I just installed it for the very first time, tried to get it working but get the following error in the log file: -- Sun Sep 16 00:39:55 CEST 2001 Request /debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/Release rcmd

OT: [jays@panix.com: [free-sklyarov] Please make stable NON-US homes for strong crypto projects (fwd)]

2001-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
This is peripherally related to Debian. Those with an ability to do so, please act. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Praying for the victims. --- Begin Message --- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 00:32:12 -0700 From: John Gilmore <[EM

Speeding up GPG

2001-09-15 Thread Casper Gielen
Hi, I've set up to use GPG, it seems to work fine. However loading a signed message takes annoyingly long, 10 to 20 seconds. As I get quite a lot of mail, much of which is signed this is a pain in the butt. I'm on a PIII500 so processor speed is probably not the bottleneck. I suspect it's connectin

Re: .m2v files which format ?

2001-09-15 Thread Casper Gielen
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 01:07:45PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > Has anybody comeacross this file format ? > > > > 'fraid I have no fish for this request, but here's a fishing rod: > > Package: file Then here is a net: eckage: bitcollider Status: install ok installed Priority: optional

isdn on woody?

2001-09-15 Thread Martin F Krafft
hi, our ISDN router for a local network is running potato, and i'd really like to update it to woody. however, i can't afford to lose the ISDN capabilities... are there reports about woody and german ISDN? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|

Re: quick perl check

2001-09-15 Thread Jakob B. Jensen
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:37:50AM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: > Hey...i think i've found a slight issue/bug with the testing version of perl, > but I need someone running stable to run this command: > > # dpkg -S ioctl.ph > > Actually, now that I think about it, anyone running either stable OR t

how to extract attached files after they have been moved to /~/mbox?

2001-09-15 Thread jdls
Hi, Help! I've moved an important message with an attachment to /~mbox without saving the attachment! now I can't go back and try to get it since it's now in ascii format and I basically don't know how to extract it or pipe it out in binary format... Thanks!

RE: how to extract attached files after they have been moved to

2001-09-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Sep-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Help! I've moved an important message with an attachment to /~mbox without > saving the attachment! now I can't go back and try to get it since it's now > in ascii format and I basically don't know how to extract it or pipe it out > in binary form

Re: "ifup eth0" works only once

2001-09-15 Thread Marco Franzen
On Fr, 14 Sep 2001 17:18:28 -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > It's most likely pump. You were absolutely right, thanks! Nothing wrong with my config or driver. I simply installed the package dhcp-client over my existing configuration, and it worked immediately with no additional change. I di

apt-proxy error

2001-09-15 Thread David Mohr
Hi everyone, I have a big problem with apt-proxy. I just installed it for the very first time, tried to get it working but get the following error in the log file: -- Sun Sep 16 00:39:55 CEST 2001 Request /debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/Release rcmd

Lyx and ispell problems.

2001-09-15 Thread Kamil Kisiel
I have recently installed the Lyx 1.1.6fix3 package from Debian/Unstable and I am having some problems using the spellchecker feature. Whenever I try to use the spellchecker from the "edit" menu I get an error message saying the ispell-process has died and that I probably do not have the diction

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