Re: ¿¬¶ôÁÖ¼¼¿ä

2001-09-19 Thread john
This seems to be a warez site, with lots of S/N for M$ products. I reported them to the M$ piracy people. Why don't some of you do the same ? I hate spammers!

Re: Vmware

2001-09-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:21:14PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > try first compiling the 2.2 kernel with SMP support. 2.2 needed that > for vmware to work. 2.4 works fine without it. I have never had any problems with vmware and a non-SMP 2.2 kernel.

Mutt and Fcc

2001-09-19 Thread Rob Hudson
Is there a way to edit the Fcc (where the file gets written to on send) similar to how you edit the To and Cc lines? Thanks, Rob Random Quote: Why do programmers get Halloween and Christmas mixed up? Because OCT(31) == DEC(25)

Re: Mutt and Fcc

2001-09-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:37:36PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > Is there a way to edit the Fcc (where the file gets written to on > send) similar to how you edit the To and Cc lines? Once you have finished editing the body of your mail message, you are returned to the compose menu. The following op

Re: Minicom only works suid root

2001-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I have to have minicom setuid root, even though I have added myself to > > the dialout group, which according to the man page should allow access > > to serial port devices. Any suggestions for what

Simple keyboard question

2001-09-19 Thread Karsten Bolding
Once there was a program called kbdconfig (or at least very similar) - now what is the way to change the keyboard layout - i.e. force an native Italian laptop keyboard to act like an US one. Karsten -- ** Karsten Bolding,

Re: Mutt and Fcc

2001-09-19 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:37:36PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > Is there a way to edit the Fcc (where the file gets written to on > send) similar to how you edit the To and Cc lines? Alt-F -- John__ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnumeric-helpfile missing

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:05:47PM +, Johann Spies wrote: > I am running woody and calling the "help" function ends in a complaint > that lynx could not find /usr/share/gnome/help/gnumeric/C/index.html. > > I have search for this file in Contents.gz, but could not find it. > > Is this a bug?

Re: dselect trying to remove lots of stuff

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:14:07PM -0400, Anthony Fox wrote: > > Hi, > > Seems I wasn't careful enough when using dselect. I have been trying > to remove the gnome libs and binaries that I don't use on my system. > Somehow, I must have selected the wrong package for purging. Dselect > now wants

Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
I want to get the CPU's model and speed without rebooting. /proc/cpuinfo (to me anyway) is useless. Unless someone knows how to convert: vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) To a PIII/450? -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Ador

Re: Urgent! everything is Connection refused!

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
Wild shot: Are your proxies configured? On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:39:50AM -0700, Matheson Cameron wrote: > Hey, > > I'm kind of in a fix at work here. I installed debian > at home, and i brought the machine in here at work, > but i can't connect to any ftp sites. I've configured > everything f

Re: locale help

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:54:27AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > Apparently I need to set the variables LANGUAGE, LC_ALL and LANG for locale. > How can I do it? I am running potato 2.2r3 + ximian_Gnome. > > Thanks in advance for the help! > Marcelo > -- > Marcelo Chiapparini > DFT-I

Re: Mutt Question

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
D. On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:17:11AM -0400, Todd V . Rovito wrote: > I have procmail set up to filter my mail into folders for the list > servers I belong to. Some days I just don't have the time to read > the mail in that particular folder (or list server), I would like to > be able to perform

Samba mount and lots of files

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
I ran into a funny one today. If I mount a share a on a Windows 2000 server, with mount -t smbfs, it mounts successfully. Except that I can only see 380 of the files in the share. There are over 8000 files in there! If I use smbclient, I can see them all. So what's wrong with smbmount? (I'm runn

Running SuperProbe: Can't open /dev/console?

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
I ran SuperProbe, as root and with X killed, and I got the error: "Can't open /dev/console" Why would that be? -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix

Re: apt cache/archive

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
Just put the files in the other machines directory. Works like a charm (did 3 PC'S like this). On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:27:07AM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > Hi all. > > I'd upgraded some pakages in potato. Those .deb files are stored > in my /var/apt/cache/archive directory. Can I u

Re: A good c++ mailing list

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:41:12PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:24:27PM -0400, dude wrote: > | > | Does anyone know of a good c++ mailing list (for beginners,) > > "C++" and "beginner" don't belong in the same sentence :-). (Read: > C++ is big, complex and makes you deal with

Re: I want to play xtux...

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
Yes, install the -dev version of xpm. On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:40:19PM -0500, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Hi! > I want to play xtux on my potato box, but when I make the source it say: > xpm.h: no such file or directoy, > I try to installl xpm4.7 package with apt-get but it seems that I ha

Re: diagram maker

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
Dia. Very good. On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:24:20PM -0500, Matt Fair wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a good diagram/flowchart designer out there > for linux? > Matt > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Woody install from the net

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
What would be the easiest way to install Woody (or unstable for that matter) from the web? Download the potato boot stiffies, then apt-get dist-upgrade (after changing the sources.list of course)? -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix

PS/2 mouse, what device?

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
Hi all, This should be easy, but I can't get it: My keyboard is on /dev/psaux. Where will my ps2 mouse be? -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix

Re: cvs permissions

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:50:19PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: ... > so i would like to change configuration remotely, and currently, i > rsync the /etc trees to a local directory, update, then rsync back. > however, this requires a lot of discipline, and is not a viable method > with multiple

Re: How do you get rid of gnome?

2001-09-19 Thread Danie Roux
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:43:34AM -0400, Anthony Fox wrote: > > Since I use KDE2x exclusively now, I would like to get rid of the > gnome desktop from my system. I run unstable. I still use some apps > that depend on gnome libs like xmms. How do I get rid of just the > packages that comprise t

Postgres Version in 2.2r3

2001-09-19 Thread bob parker
Could anyone let me know what version of postgres comes with 2.2r3 please. I've tried the obvious postgres -v, psql -v to no avail. Thanks Bob Parker __ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://d

debian runlevels revisited

2001-09-19 Thread Alexander Poslavsky
Hi, speaking of runlevels, is there a tool like ntsysv on debian (except for ksysv which I do not really like, I prefer st console-based) AP -- Back when I was a boy, we carved our own IC's out of wood.

minicom and hyperterminal

2001-09-19 Thread Alexander Poslavsky
Does anybody know the difference between minicom and hyperterminal settings? I have to acces our phone-system, with a text-terminal, I used to use hyperterminal until I ditched windows. But with minicom I can't get in. In hyperterminal it is just basic, call the number, give the password blind

Re: what's the name?

2001-09-19 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:24:15PM -0400, Jeff Maxson uttered: > > slink, potato, woody...what's going to be the name of the next "testing"? > Buzz, Rex, Bo, Hamm, Slink, Potato, Woody. At the moment, it's dubbed 'woody+1', but I doubt that will stick. :-) --

Linux Expo on the Philippines

2001-09-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, are there some people around who live on the Philippines? I have received an offer for the Debian Project to give a talk about Debian and run a booth to demonstrate the our free operating system at the conference taking place on November 5th. I don't know of any developer we have on the Phil

Re: Vmware

2001-09-19 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 01:27, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach Adam McDaniel (on Tue, 18 Sep 2001 03:17:24PM -0600): > > I'm not sure exactly as to what vmware requires in terms of headers,.. > > often i have no problem when building it except under 2.4.7. If you > > could send me the o

Re: PS/2 mouse, what device?

2001-09-19 Thread akarthikeyan
Danie Roux wrote: > Hi all, > > This should be easy, but I can't get it: > > My keyboard is on /dev/psaux. Where will my ps2 mouse be? > > -- > Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Centralizing apt-get downloads

2001-09-19 Thread der.hans
Am 18. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Andrew Perrin so: > I have a home setup with a DSL line coming in to one debian box, then two > other debian boxen connecting to it via ipmasq. Each box is set up to do > an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on a periodic basis for security and > up-to-dateness reasons. >

kernel compile

2001-09-19 Thread pink panther
Hi, I compiled a new kernel for my potato (thanks fro the help about as86). During the compilation I got an error which contained : signal11. My first question: what is this signal 11 mean? Then I tried it again, this time successfully. I installed the new kernel but when I restarted my PC

MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-19 Thread oivvio polite
Well not exactly dominating. Maybe not secretly either. But it sounded good. This oneliner from the department of utterly useless info tells it all: agrep "^User-Agent: ,^X-Mailer: " user|perl -ne 'chomp;/.+?: (.?.?.?[^\d,\(,\[,\/]{1,14}).*/; $o=$1; $o=~s/ //g;print "$o\n";'|sort|uniq -dc|sort -

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1495

2001-09-19 Thread Victor Desa
Please, take me out from this mailing list... I did this operation 5 yet throught your web site, and I don't understand why I steel receive it !! Victor. > -Message d'origine- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : mercredi, 19. septembre 2001 09:37 > À :

Re: PS/2 mouse, what device?

2001-09-19 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
>My keyboard is on /dev/psaux. Where will my ps2 mouse be? I always found my ps2 mouse on /dev/psaux However, on many systems you would have /dev/mouse which is a symlink to whatever real device your mouse is on. Try following /dev/mouse if you have one. Best regards Johnny :o)

Re: what's the name?

2001-09-19 Thread oivvio polite
Who gets to wote, developers, users, Rush Limbaugh? I relly like the little green fellows that gets "saved" by Buzz Lightyear in the first movie. Don't remember their name though. Also sprach Steve Kowalik: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:24:15PM -0400, Jeff Maxson uttered: > > slink, potato, woody

Re: Problems with communicator v4.77

2001-09-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 15:38:17 -0400, Eric Whitestone wrote: > I've installed communicator 4.77. Through a Debian package? > When I try to run netscape, it gives me this error: > $ /usr/bin/X11/netscape: /usr/lib/netscape/netscape: No such file or directory > > When i go to usr/local/ne

Re: Postgres Version in 2.2r3

2001-09-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 00:16:38 -0700, bob parker wrote: > I've tried the obvious postgres -v, psql -v to no avail. dpkg -l 'postgres*' will inform you that it is 6.5.3. A version of 7.1 built for potato is available from http://people.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql/potato.html HTH, Ray -- POPU

Re: shell script kommands

2001-09-19 Thread Herbert Xu
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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[]." or yo

Re: Linux Expo on the Philippines

2001-09-19 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
I can refer you to the Philippine Linux Users' group, since I'm also a member there. We have a sizeable amount of developers using GNU/Linux in the Philippines, particularly in the academe, medical profession as well as in ISPs. I'll post another reply once PLUG confirms. Paolo Alexis Falcone

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-19 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake oivvio polite on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:27:27AM +0200: > Well not exactly dominating. Maybe not secretly either. But it sounded good. > This oneliner from the department of utterly useless info tells it all: lol ! Somebody's overdosing on SlashDot :-) Romain -- If you're going to d

Re: kernel compile

2001-09-19 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Check for any faulty hardware. Signal 11 is usually prompted when there's faulty hardware onboard. Paolo Falcone pink panther wrote: >Hi, > >I compiled a new kernel for my potato (thanks fro the help about as86). >During the compilation I got an error which contained : signal11. > >My first q

Re: Postgres Version in 2.2r3

2001-09-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
bob parker wrote: >Could anyone let me know what version of postgres >comes with 2.2r3 please. >I've tried the obvious postgres -v, psql -v to no >avail. SELECT version(); potato (2.2) contains PostgreSQL 6.5.3 -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of W

more detailed URL (was Re: OT: new M$ worm)

2001-09-19 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:06:16PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: | never seen something quite like this before: W32/Nimda Here's a URL with a bit more detail on how the worm works : http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2001/01-022.htm -D

Re: kernel compile

2001-09-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:08:08 +0200, pink panther wrote: > My first question: what is this signal 11 mean? Most likely, it indicates bad or badly configured (e.g. overclocked) hardware. See http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11 . HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he ha

Related to: Re: general ups experience

2001-09-19 Thread Emil Pedersen
... > > > > What kind of brands/models would you recommend with serial support? > > I've got an APC running perfectly with the free apcupsd. If you want > more info, mail me privately and I'll respond when I'm at home and can > read you the model number. Jumping in on this, please forgive me.

Re: Minicom only works suid root

2001-09-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:51:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I have to have minicom setuid root, even though I have added myself to > > > the dialout group, which according to the man pag

printers

2001-09-19 Thread Michael Ward Cole
I have two parallel ports and have parport and parport-pc modules installed into linux 2.2.19pre17. I get messages on boot up that the two ports are identified but it gives me an instruction to use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. The only file procfs on my system is a header file

Re: what's the name?

2001-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:41:33AM +0200, oivvio polite wrote: > Also sprach Steve Kowalik: > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:24:15PM -0400, Jeff Maxson uttered: > > > slink, potato, woody...what's going to be the name of the next > > > "testing"? > > > > Buzz, Rex, Bo, Hamm, Slink, Potato, Woody. > >

ALSA and debian testing with kernel 2.4.6

2001-09-19 Thread Gael PEGLIASCO
Hello, I've tried to compile ALSA source package on a debian testing and 2.4.6 kernel. It's seems that's the modules are not installed under /lib/modules/2.4.6/kernel/drivers/sound, but under /lib/modules/2.4.6/misc, as if it was for a 2.2 kernel. Is it normal ? I'have also compiled my kernel mod

Re: PS/2 mouse, what device?

2001-09-19 Thread David Z Maze
Danie Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DR> This should be easy, but I can't get it: DR> DR> My keyboard is on /dev/psaux. Where will my ps2 mouse be? AT and PS/2 keyboards don't have device files in /dev to my knowledge. /dev/psaux has always been for PS/2 mice. -- David Maze [EMAIL PR

Re: what's the name?

2001-09-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:24:15PM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: > > > slink, potato, woody...what's going to be the name of the > > next "testing"? > > Sarge AFAIK. Not sure if it's official, but heard it from > several differnt sources. And when it's time to get a new release done, we'll hear "Move

Re: Centralizing apt-get downloads

2001-09-19 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:17:19AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > My question is this: effectively, each time they upgrade, I'm downloading > > three copies of each package separately. Is there a relatively easy way to > > archive the files locally and

debconf reconfiguration

2001-09-19 Thread elawson
I upgraded debconf and now it seems broken. I believe this was caused by selecting the wrong option during upgrading as there was some comments on this in the past. Anyway, my question is how does one reconfigure debconf after installation? TIA Ed Lawson

Re: Minicom only works suid root

2001-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Sep 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:51:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I have to have minicom setuid root, even though I have added myself to > > > >

evaluation of pam_env.so through su

2001-09-19 Thread Christian Kesselheim
Salut! Does anybody know about the integration of pam into su? I've some problems concening pam_env.so during an execution of su ("su - mfeichtn", p. exmpl.): All settings inside /etc/environment and /etc/security/pam_env.conf seems to be ignored, no variable is set after finishing the password

Open Office 632 or 638 will not install on Woody since last upgrade-any ideas?

2001-09-19 Thread John Foster
I had version 632 of Open Office running on my Debian Woody Linux test box, using KDE 2.2. I decided KDE was not ready for my type of usage (too slow) so I installed Gnome and Enlightenment which I had previously run with no problems with open Office 632. Now I have removed Open Office since it qui

Re: Minicom only works suid root -SOLVED

2001-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Sep 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:51:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I have to have minicom setuid root, even though I have added myself to > > > >

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-19 Thread DvB
oivvio polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well not exactly dominating. Maybe not secretly either. But it sounded good. > This oneliner from the department of utterly useless info tells it all: > > agrep "^User-Agent: ,^X-Mailer: " user|perl -ne 'chomp;/.+?: > (.?.?.?[^\d,\(,\[,\/]{1,14}).*/; $

Re: Centralizing apt-get downloads

2001-09-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:51:26PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > Do you know how to to build the Release files? I cannot do a fresh > install from my partial mirror because debootstrap barfs on > dist/sid/main/Release. Weird... I don't use a Release file at all and apt just skips it: Get:1 ht

Re: debconf reconfiguration

2001-09-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:01:52 -0400, elawson wrote: > Anyway, my question is how does one reconfigure debconf after installation? dpkg-reconfigure -plow debconf HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that

CPU Overclocking and Kernel compile on ASUS - fault found

2001-09-19 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Martin Schulze saw fit to inform me that: >Overclocking Tips. Rajesh Fowkar is looking for advice on >[13]overclocking an Asus motherboard and Celeron CPU. Seems that the >machine has some issues with compiling a kernel. Thanks Martin for highlighting my problem in the Debian Weekly News. I got

xterminal login to gdm server not permitted by Xlib?

2001-09-19 Thread Walter Tautz
i.e. X-terminals Xlib: connection to "full-hostname:0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Xlib: connection to "full-hostname:0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Xlib: connection to "full-hostname:0.0" refused by server Xli

Printer problem

2001-09-19 Thread root
I can print with pr |lpr. I have downloaded the browsers, Netscape 6 and Opera 5, as well as Star Office. On none of these can I print using the printer button. It seems unlikely that all are flawed so I must assume that something is wrong with my configuration. If somebody knows how to get my

Re: Minicom only works suid root -SOLVED

2001-09-19 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 08:35, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 19 Sep 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:51:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > I have to have m

wma files and player

2001-09-19 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, Is there any player under Linux which can play .wma audio files ? Is there a plugin in xmms for that ? Thanks in advance. -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By: Debian GNU/Linux : [Linux One Stanza Tip] From : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LOST #069-**< Sub : Learn

Re: Mutt Unread Mail

2001-09-19 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 07:22, Danie Roux wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:37:28PM +0100, Paul Clark wrote: > > I am learning to use Mutt. I cannot find a way to jump to unread > > messages across my many mail folders. I know works > > within folders but that means I have to try every folder to f

Re: OT: getservbyname and getservbyport

2001-09-19 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Fri, 2001-07-27 at 05:27, Danie Roux wrote: > If I was to change > > sp = getservbyname ("ftp", "tcp"); > > to > > sp = getservbyport (21, "tcp"); > > It should work right? Because it isn't. And I need this to work for a boot > stiffy I'm building. Does quoting the 21 help at all? --mike

Re: debconf reconfiguration

2001-09-19 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 08:01, elawson wrote: > I upgraded debconf and now it seems broken. I believe this was caused by > selecting the wrong option during upgrading as there was some comments on > this in the past. > Anyway, my question is how does one reconfigure debconf after installation? > TIA

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:29:53AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 05:31, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > Interesting ... I chose the menu key for my Multi_key :) > > > > keycode 0x75 = Multi_key > > > > here are key combinations that I know of: > > > Do you by chance know how to pro

P3 patch for woody

2001-09-19 Thread Doug Fields
Hello all, I am interested in using the kernel-patch-2.2.19-p3 with my SMP P3 boxes. However, I would like to get some opinions on it's stability and reliability. I ask this especially in light of the patch's duplication of stuff which is already in the 2.2.19 kernel. When applied, the CPU sel

Re: Woody install from the net

2001-09-19 Thread Bruce Best \(CRO\)
I did a network (ftp) install directly to Woody, with no problems. Just follow the instructions at http://cdimage.debian.org/ch11.html, but substitute /dists/testing/main/disks-/current/ instead of /dists/stable/main/disks-/ to obtain the boot disks. The file install.bat should be

Re: Minicom only works suid root

2001-09-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:57:06PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 19 Sep 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > group ownership: > > > > $ ls -l /dev/ttyS0 > > crw-rw1 root dialout4, 64 Jul 5 2000 /dev/ttyS0 ... > A good suggestion and in fact I found that the permiss

Re: windows 2000 DHCP servers

2001-09-19 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 16:57, David L. Nicol wrote: > > we have windows 2000 DHCP servers, and the potato installation > disks will not obtain configuration information from them. > > The redhat install disks do, though. > Are the redhat disks using pump? I'm not sure what dhcp client is on the

Re: rdate can't connect socket

2001-09-19 Thread Bob Hilliard
Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16/09, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > | 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 qu

Gnome window manager -claims it is running enlightenment but ...

2001-09-19 Thread Walter Tautz
it is running blackbox even though it thinks the current window manager (from the view of the control center) is enlightenment. Note /etc/x-window-manager points to blackbox. blackbox is a socalled noncompliant window manager and I get warned about it and moreover the windows can't be activated wh

Re: fbset

2001-09-19 Thread Wayne Topa
dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > According to the docs, lilo can't handle hex numbers. The docs say > you need to convert it to decimal first, then put the decimal number > in lilo.conf. (I use grub and it handles hex numbers fine) Yes, I read that too. So much for the docs..

Re: Vmware

2001-09-19 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:27:07AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach Adam McDaniel (on Tue, 18 Sep 2001 03:17:24PM -0600): > > I'm not sure exactly as to what vmware requires in terms of headers,.. > > often i have no problem when building it except under 2.4.7. If you > > could send me

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

2001-09-19 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Tony, Saturday, September 15, 2001, 2:21:05 PM, you wrote: TC> And/or where is Donald Becker's NIC driver work now? TC> Tony I usually fetch them if needed from http://www.scyld.com/page/support/network/ I toke a few seconds to resolve the IP, maybe you DNS has timeouts. In this case tr

Re: Related to: Re: general ups experience

2001-09-19 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:58:14PM +0200, Emil Pedersen wrote: > I got an APC UPS (don't recall the exact model) with a serial > connection. What kind of cable should be used (straigt, crossed or > special)? I _GUESS_ nothing will burn if I try the wrong type, but if I > knowing the cable to be t

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:01:45AM -0500, DvB wrote: > oivvio polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well not exactly dominating. Maybe not secretly either. But it sounded good. > > This oneliner from the department of utterly useless info tells it all: > > > > agrep "^User-Agent: ,^X-Mailer: "

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1495

2001-09-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't know if the digest shows this, but individual messages have the following footer added: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:30:11AM +0200, Victor Desa wrote: > Please, take me out from t

view package contents w/o installing

2001-09-19 Thread DvB
Is there any way to see what files are in a package without having to install it first? I can't find this functionality on packages.debian.org and, IMHO, it would be useful if it were present. Would it be that hard to implement this?

Well that didn't work - Upgrading Woody from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9

2001-09-19 Thread John Purser
Hello, I ran: apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-686 At this point I got a warning to add this line to my /etc/lilo.conf initrd=/boot/initrd I did and ran: lilo apt-get install kernel-image2.4.9-686 And rebooted. Now it hangs during boot with this message: VFS:

RE: what's the name?

2001-09-19 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> I relly like > the little > green fellows that gets "saved" by Buzz Lightyear in the first > movie. Don't > remember their name though. Those would be L.G.M.s (Little Green Men), you should watch the Buzz Lightyear Cartoon. I and my four-year-old son love it. Brooks

Ctrl-4 exiting

2001-09-19 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi, I have some interesting behavior with an application I'm working on. When I type Ctrl-4 in the window, it kills the application. I'm wondering what symbol Ctrl-4 sends to my program, and how to find that out. Does anyone have any pointers on the matter? thanks -- -bob Remember the... th

Re: Minicom only works suid root -SOLVED

2001-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 08:35, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 19 Sep 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:51:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59

Re: SUID

2001-09-19 Thread csj
On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 06:54, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:35:11AM +0800, csj wrote: > > On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 03:15, Jason Healy wrote: > > > At 1000834035s since epoch (09/18/01 13:27:15 -0400 UTC), Ian Marlier > > > wrote: > > > > I feel like an idiot asking this, but how

Re: Network Stalls

2001-09-19 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Leigh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:07]: > > > > I believe this is because of the Direcpc satellite and latency. The local > > network has no problems. Here is what will happen. > > > > I start a download of 100K or larger and the network will sta

Re: Lookup during intensive IO

2001-09-19 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: > Coud this mean, it is enable by default? Check with "hdparm /dev/hda" Walter

amaya crashes and has a bug in filebrowser

2001-09-19 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, I recently discovered amaya again and installed it on current woody. It could be a nice tool, but it crashes often and had a weird bug in the filebrowser. When I try to open a file not all folders are displayed in the file-browser. Is amaya 5.1 still kind of beta or do I miss something. Ci

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-19 Thread Tim Moss
Also, a more fair count would associate senders with user-agents ... if I send 100 emails with mutt, and 10 other users send 10 emails each with Outlook, which is more popular? (From a number of users standpoint, Outlook should be the answer). Your script doesn't account for this. Well then,

offtopic: which text language to use?

2001-09-19 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, SOORY, this is completly offtopic... Well, I've to write a large, large document. I've think to use LaTeX, but I don't think it will be a good choice, because it's html output is really poor (am I wrong?). I'm looking for some language that allows me to convert it to LaTeX and html, and

Re: ALSA and debian testing with kernel 2.4.6

2001-09-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Gael PEGLIASCO ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hello, > > I've tried to compile ALSA source package on a debian testing and 2.4.6 > kernel. It's seems that's the modules are not installed under > /lib/modules/2.4.6/kernel/drivers/sound, but under > /lib/modules/2.4.6/misc, as if it was for a

OT: watch out for email "PRINT Summary Report"

2001-09-19 Thread will trillich
nasty auto-running email -- look out, those of you who read using microsoft email readers: i strongly recommend that if you get a message entitled "PRINT Summary Report" from SOMEONE YOU DO NOT KNOW, delete it instead of viewing it. i just received an email, subject line Subject: FW: PRIN

Re: SUID

2001-09-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:08:45AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 06:54, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:35:11AM +0800, csj wrote: > > > On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 03:15, Jason Healy wrote: > > > > At 1000834035s since epoch (09/18/01 13:27:15 -0400 UTC), Ian Marlier >

Re: view package contents w/o installing

2001-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:27:36AM -0500, DvB wrote: > Is there any way to see what files are in a package without having to > install it first? 'dpkg -c foo.deb' > I can't find this functionality on packages.debian.org and, IMHO, it > would be useful if it were present. Would it be that hard to

Re: view package contents w/o installing

2001-09-19 Thread David Z Maze
dvanbalen writes: DvB> Is there any way to see what files are in a package without having to DvB> install it first? If you already have the .deb file, you can run 'dpkg --contents file.deb'. But probably downloading is the harder part in the general case; I don't know of a good way to see what

Re: Ctrl-4 exiting

2001-09-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Robert Kerr wrote: > > Hi, > I have some interesting behavior with an application I'm working on. When > I type Ctrl-4 in the window, it kills the application. I'm wondering what > symbol Ctrl-4 sends to my program, and how to find that out. X windows: check the docs and config of your window

Re: Well that didn't work - Upgrading Woody from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9

2001-09-19 Thread Mike Alborn
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:14:40PM -0600, John Purser wrote: > Thanks for responding. > > No, I don't have a boot floppy though I think I might be able to make one > from the installation CD's. Do you know the partition where your root filesystem is located? If you do, you can boot the in

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