Re: About a laptop

2001-09-25 Thread Jeff Lessem
In your message of: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:06:19 EDT, you write: >On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:38:31AM -0700, Lucho Debianero wrote: >| Im planning to buy a dell inspiron new 8100, anybody >| knows if there is any problem with woody specially >| with the internal-pci modem and ethernet? > >Do you have

Jave in Konqueror

2001-09-25 Thread Liu Tao
Hi I am using kde2.2.1 in sid and my web browser is konqueror. I installed jdk package, and enabled java and javescript globally in konqueror. Then I opend chat.yahoo.com, but I can't enter a chat room. Konqueror shows "Loading applet", then nothing happend. Does someone could chat in yahoo

Re: TSR

2001-09-25 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. Does this mean , that once I switch my machine that is running a > TSR , the TSR is gone ? I guess that for all programs , a shutdown or > poweroff , stops the process. Correct. > 2. One of my friends said that if a TSR hits the machine , you mig

Woody install over PPP: How?

2001-09-25 Thread Lars Jensen
How do I install woody over a ppp connection? I've got the three floppies: rescue root drivers The installation goes fine until the installer asks where to find the base system. What do I do at this point? I have looked around on the debian ftp site, and I don't see any base.tgz or anything like

deadlock

2001-09-25 Thread shyamk
Please clear these two doubts of mine : 1. When does a deadlock happen on a Unix/Linux system ? 2. What is a deadlock ? Thanks, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam

apt-get install mozilla---locale problem

2001-09-25 Thread Alan E . Davis
I have seen some traffic about this problem. This is the message I get: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-browser.postinst: line298: 6563 Segmentation fault regxpcom >/dev/null 2>/dev/null I tried several ways to bring locales up to date, including editing the /root/.bashrc, running l

X default font: 'fixed'

2001-09-25 Thread Bob Frankstein
I have installed woody. After this I did: apt-get install x-window-system apt-get install xlibs-dev Then when I try to run X it says it can't find default font: 'fixed' I had fixed this before without altering any fonts.dir or fonts.alias files. What do I need to do? My XF86Config-4 file has li

Re: deadlock

2001-09-25 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please clear these two doubts of mine : > 1. When does a deadlock happen on a Unix/Linux system ? > 2. What is a deadlock ? Deadlock isn't a Unix/Linux concept, it's a programming concept. It happens when you have two processes or threads and two re

Re: X default font: 'fixed'

2001-09-25 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:57:11 -0700, Bob Frankstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed woody. After this I did: > > apt-get install x-window-system > apt-get install xlibs-dev > > Then when I try to run X it says it can't find default font: 'fixed' > > I had fixed this before without

Getting Sound to work

2001-09-25 Thread Steven Farrier
I am trying to esd sound to work on my computer but I just can't do it. I can get genertic beeps on the command line but that is it. In windows it says I have a ES1869 audiodrive. I have read the soundblaster module is supposed to be for that but installation failed. I have tried echo asdfdaf

Java in Konqueror

2001-09-25 Thread Liu Tao
Hi I am using kde2.2.1 in sid and my web browser is konqueror. I installed jdk package, and enabled java and javascript globally in konqueror. Then I opend chat.yahoo.com, but I can't enter a chat room. Konqueror shows "Loading applet", then nothing happend. Does someone could chat in yahoo wi

Re: i810 & XFree 3.3.6 & kernel 2.4.x

2001-09-25 Thread Vittorio
Emil Pedersen [24/09/01 13:15 +0200]: > Vittorio wrote: > > > > Under potato and kernel 2.2.19 I have been able to compile the Intel > > module agpgart.o for i810 (downloaded from Intel site) and make it work > > with XFREE 3.3.6. > > > > Now with the new kernel 2.4.9 (which I compiled to tailor

apt-get problem with testing

2001-09-25 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi ! my youngest dist-upgrade gave me the following error: Entpacke Ersatz-xlibs ... dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb (--unpack): versuche »/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults« zu überschreiben, welches auch in Paket tgif ist I removed tgif, now everyt

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-25 Thread xio
I second this. Also, I bet you any O'Reilly book that quite a few people on this list can write a more flexible solution than Norton Ghost with just the standard UNIX tools (and Perl maybe) :) P.S. even 'cp /dev/hda ' works great On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:25:59PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Su

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:32:09PM -0400, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 24 September 2001 04:11 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:50:32AM +0200, oivvio polite ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > I might soon have to set up some 20 - 30 boxes supporting s

Re: 2.4.10, problems?

2001-09-25 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:36:32 -0400, Terry Warner wrote: >I was wondering if anyone was having problems with 2.4.10? On a UP machine or SMP machine. I'm kind of curious before I possiably upgrade (and if anyone is using ext3 with 2.4.10 if they are having problems too) I tried to upgrade from 2.

install package from an user

2001-09-25 Thread LAMIRAULT Nicolas
hello, when i use RedHat, i install some applications from the source file (tar.gz) in my home directory. Is it possible with Debian to install in my home directory some debian package (.deb) ? -- Nicolas LAMIRAULT

Re: OT: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?

2001-09-25 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:18:43PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:31:18AM -0400, Rob Ransbottom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > > Just a thought and matter of taste, but... > > > > You may also embed commands near the st

Re: Sys Admin guide specific to Debian?

2001-09-25 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:05:58AM -0500, Larry Holish wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:34:49AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > > I'm a Linux beginner with Debian installed. I'm looking for a beginner's > > guide to System Administration and I'm wondering if there might not be one > > particular

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

2001-09-25 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:28:12PM -0400, Stephen Ball wrote: > I just caught hold of this thread so sorry if this fix has been mentioned but > has anyone suggested the Multi_Key? You can setup Xmodmap to configure a key > as the multi_key, right now I'm using the righthand tux (windows) key. W

ipmasqadm portfw

2001-09-25 Thread will trillich
i used to have this working like a champ, but now it folds its arms and laughs and evil laugh-- we're trying to establish port forwarding so that a box internal on our lan (192.168.1.2) can serve requests through the firewall, from 'out there'. # ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L [PUBLIC_IP]

mozilla install broken?

2001-09-25 Thread Joe Barnett
Hi there, I'm trying to install the latest mozilla packages (0.9.4) in SID on my unstable box, and I'm getting errors in the postinstall script. to be more specific, the regxpcom process segfaults. I had these packages installed, but something got mucked up with them so i apt-get remove --purge

RE: ipmasqadm portfw

2001-09-25 Thread NORMAND Jacques
Pehaps I will tell non-senses but potato run a 2.2 kernel (2.2.17 in your case). So the tool for that kind of tricks is ipchains, isn't it? ipmasqadm is for kernel serie 2.0 no ? hope it helps jacques -Message d'origine- De : will trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi 25 sept

Mail Server

2001-09-25 Thread Wyatt Rowe - O.S.N.
I have a client running Debian 2.1 which they are using for their Mail and Internet Server. I need to implement a monitoring and tracking solution on this server and would like to ask if there is a recommended package / solution for this on Debian Linux. If not please advise on a good packag

Re: [NuBe:] frozen keyboard

2001-09-25 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- Andrew Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-25 01:10): > Yesterday, I was updating a fresh install to testing. When asked what to > do about the newer config files, I made the fool-hearted assumption that > since it was a brand new install with all defaulted configurations, that > these newer

Re: What VPN is recommended? SMOOTHWALL

2001-09-25 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:47:17PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > b) what vpn solution or approach would you recommend anybody here know about 'smoothwall'? a friend of mine keeps raving about it... http://www.smoothWall.org/ -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #7 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :

Re: Java in Konqueror

2001-09-25 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! There's a similar discussion on this list at the moment and we said that maybe one just needs j2re1.3: >The only Java package I have installed is the j2re1.3 package from >blackdown.org. They have apt-getable deb packages. Hmm, maybe you could just write a little mail to the list if it also

Re: What VPN is recommended? SMOOTHWALL

2001-09-25 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:41:44AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:47:17PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > > b) what vpn solution or approach would you recommend > > anybody here know about 'smoothwall'? a friend of mine keeps > raving about it... > > http://www.smoothW

Re: mozilla install broken?

2001-09-25 Thread Danie Roux
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:21:19AM -0700, Joe Barnett wrote: > > > Hi there, I'm trying to install the latest mozilla packages (0.9.4) in > SID on my unstable box, and I'm getting errors in the postinstall > script. to be more specific, the regxpcom process segfaults. > > I had these packages i

Re: 2.4.10 and apm !

2001-09-25 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 25-09-01 at 12:11 jc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > what happened to apm support on 2.4.10 > apm -S does not work anymore :( > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] +and h

Re: Getting Sound to work

2001-09-25 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Original Message - From: "Steven Farrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 8:26 AM Subject: Getting Sound to work > I am trying to esd sound to work on my computer but I just can't do it. > > I can get genertic beeps on the command line but that is it. > > In wi

Re: ALERT: Not able to compile with gcc

2001-09-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 23:04:36 +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Since 3 weeks i am not able to caompile anthing biger (eg. QT, KDE ...). > After some compilieing time (10 mins) the system hangs up compleetly!!! No user-level task should be able to hang your system completely (except if you all

Re: 2.4.10, problems?

2001-09-25 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:15:44AM +0200 or thereabouts, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:36:32 -0400, Terry Warner wrote: > > >I was wondering if anyone was having problems with 2.4.10? On a UP machine > >or > SMP machine. I'm kind of curious before I possiably upgrade (and if a

Apt and MS Proxy server

2001-09-25 Thread Stuart_Luscombe
Hi all, I am trying to run apt through my companies MS proxy server but I'm not having much success. I have read the man pages for apt and apt.conf, and added a line to my apt.conf along the lines of http::Proxy {"http:///luscombes:@msproxy:80/";}; but it still will not connect any id

Re: horrible harddrive performance

2001-09-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:44:10PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > > Which kernel is running on this system? Sorry if my idea has nothing to do > with your trouble. But i had a similar problem with my new Abit mainboard. > And i used a board with ALI15x bevore too. How i know the ALI15x chipset > is suppo

libc6 upgrade question

2001-09-25 Thread Gerald Richter
Hello Debusers! I'm running a potato 2.2.19-pre17 installed reiserfs-patch... OK kernel compiled OK installing reiserfsprogs caused a dependency-problem requiring libc6 >=2.2.7, currently installed libc6: 2.1.3-xy. The reiserprogs did install though... so I guess I will experience problems withou

Re: 2.4.10, problems?

2001-09-25 Thread xio
Do you know if it is possible to patch the standard debian 2.4.9 kernel-source package to 2.4.10? I would like to use the standard debian mechanism of compiling and installing a kernel but I am not sure if that's possible for 2.4.10 at this time. Thanks for your time! On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 06:

Re: Apt and MS Proxy server

2001-09-25 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have read the man pages for apt and apt.conf, and added a line to my > apt.conf > along the lines > of http::Proxy {"http:///msproxy:80/";}; this is my (working) apt.conf line: Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy.my-company.com:8080";; so you probably have to write

Re: Apt and MS Proxy server

2001-09-25 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:37:22PM +0100 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I am trying to run apt through my companies MS proxy server but I'm not > having much success. > > I have read the man pages for apt and apt.conf, and added a line to my > apt.conf > along

Re: 2.4.10, problems?

2001-09-25 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 25-09-01 at 13:38 xio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > Do you know if it is possible to patch the standard debian > 2.4.9 kernel-source package to 2.4.10? I would like to use the standard > debian mechanism of compiling and installing a kernel but I am not sure >

sig 11

2001-09-25 Thread Bas van Gils
Hi everyone, I have a sig-11 problem. Now, I know that this usually means: broken RAM. However, I don't think that's the problem with me. Recently, my PC started showing `strange behavior'. So, I went to the computerstore (those of you familiar with it: Com4 in Tilburg, The Netherlands). They to

Re: debian on abit be6

2001-09-25 Thread smokez
james terris wrote: I have an Abit BE6 motherboard with a Celeron 300A CPU and 6 hard drives and I was wondering if there was a way that I could install debian and have it automatically recognize all four ide channels. I was able to install it and have it recognize the first two channels but I'm

Re: sig 11

2001-09-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 14:40:33 +0200, Bas van Gils wrote: > I have a sig-11 problem. Now, I know that this usually means: broken RAM. That the most common cause. There are however many other potential causes; see http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11 for the list. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new s

Re: 2.4.10, problems?

2001-09-25 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:56:37 +0200, Bostjan Muller wrote: >No problem, do not have to patch, you can use the plain vanilla 2.4.10 and than >use kernel-package tools to create .deb with the kernel image and modules >(source.deb creatin does not seem to work with latest kernel-package). ACK. I can

Re: deadlock

2001-09-25 Thread Ricardo Diz
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 6:34 Subject: deadlock > Please clear these two doubts of mine : > 2. What is a deadlock ? I'll answer this one first since it makes more sense. A deadlock can be defined as blocking stage that process

Re: Word-wrapping text editor

2001-09-25 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
"V. T. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want a terminal based text editor that does word-wrap rather than just > wrapping in the middle of a word when it gets to the end of a line. "Joe" > seems to do this. Can emacs or vi be made to do this? When Emacs wraps your text in the middle of a

Re: Linuxification of DOS text files

2001-09-25 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
"V. T. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the program to run to convert DOS text files to Linux text files, > and vice versa. I.e., replace 0D 0A with 0A. tr -d '\r' If you also want to convert between CP437 and Latin-1, try "recode".

Re: CD Burner Permissions

2001-09-25 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which is all as it should be, on the face of it. The fact that the > burner is the only thing on the SCSI bus means that it should be > /dev/sg0, no? Or perhaps I'm still not getting it - I'm kind of tired > and not thinking perhaps as straight as I sho

Re: 2.4.10, problems?

2001-09-25 Thread xio
Thanks for the answers! :) On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:09:34PM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:56:37 +0200, Bostjan Muller wrote: > > >No problem, do not have to patch, you can use the plain vanilla 2.4.10 and > >than > >use kernel-package tools to create .deb with the ker

Re: CD Burner Permissions

2001-09-25 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Michael Heldebrant: > On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 20:35, Stephen Gran wrote: > > Thus spake Nathan E Norman: > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:02:00AM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:28:57AM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > > From /etc/fstab: > > > > > /dev/scd0

Re: Mail Server

2001-09-25 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Wyatt Rowe - O.S.N. wrote: > I have a client running Debian 2.1 which they are using for their Mail and > Internet Server. >I need to implement a monitoring and tracking solution on this server and >would like to ask if there is a recommended package / solution > for this o

Re: Linuxification of DOS text files

2001-09-25 Thread d . l . whiteley
On 25-Sep-2001 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > "V. T. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What is the program to run to convert DOS text files to Linux text >> files, >> and vice versa. I.e., replace 0D 0A with 0A. > > tr -d '\r' > > If you also want to convert between CP437 and Latin-1,

X Font problem

2001-09-25 Thread Liu Tao
Hi I am using kde2.2, after installed xfonts-intl-chinese, the characters showed on my screen became very not smooth. So I removed xfonts-intl-chinese, but the problem still exists. I think perhaps there are wrong settings in fonts files, but I am not familier with fonts configuration. How can I

Re: OT or relevent?

2001-09-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 07:29:37PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:46:09 -0400, Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Lee Elliott wrote: > > > Just read this. > > > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21830.html > > > > > > LeeE > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: OT: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?

2001-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:36:14AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:18:43PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Is there a setting which allows a tab to indent by 4 chars, but leaves > > tabstops at 8 chars, where most apps seem to expect to find them? 'set softtabstop=4' >

Re: install package from an user

2001-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:40:19AM +0200, LAMIRAULT Nicolas wrote: > when i use RedHat, i install some applications from the source file > (tar.gz) in my home directory. > Is it possible with Debian to install in my home directory some debian > package (.deb) ? You can unpack a .deb with 'dpkg -x

Re: install package from an user

2001-09-25 Thread David Z Maze
LAMIRAULT Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NL> when i use RedHat, i install some applications from the source NL> file (tar.gz) in my home directory. Is it possible with Debian to NL> install in my home directory some debian package (.deb) ? Not really. But nothing's stopping you from taking

Re: dynamic ip addresses

2001-09-25 Thread Carlos Sousa
I sent out an earlier message about setting up ddclient, but since no one responded I'm assuming no one uses this particular program. So here's a more general question. Do any of you have dynamic ip addresses and have something running to assign a static hostname, so the system can be connected

Re: Apt and MS Proxy server

2001-09-25 Thread Stuart_Luscombe
-- Forwarded by Stuart Luscombe/COSS/CCenter on 25/09/2001 16:04 --- (Embedded image moved to file: pic12486.pcx) Stuart Luscombe (Embedded image moved to file: pic19290.pcx) 25/09/2001 16:05 (Embedded image moved to file: pic05348.pcx) Sent by: Stua

Re: testing: package xlibs conflicts with xmcd

2001-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:01:53PM -0500, DvB wrote: > Just ran an apt-get -u upgrade and pulled the new X packages from > testing. When It came time to upgrade xlibs, I got the following: [...] > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to over

locking console under screen

2001-09-25 Thread Gerald Richter
Hello all, as the subject says... but when you authenticate aourself with the password, the opened multiple logins are lost, and cant be accessed anymore. is there a way to obtain posession of a stranded bash again, by binding it to a tty again? thanks, Gerald.

Re: vob -> avi/mpeg ?

2001-09-25 Thread vob2avi
hello Jean thank you very much for your hint :-) transcode works really fine for my task see you erasmo > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 21 18:02:18 2001 > Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:59:54 +0200 > From: Jean-Michel Kelbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTEC

ext3 on install

2001-09-25 Thread Adam McDaniel
Heya.. I'm curious if anyone here has any knowledge of Debian, in any future release, will prompt the user to install an ext3 filesystem during the initial install. Ofcourse, im not 100% familair with the status of ext3, but is it even at that stage of production right now? inquiring minds want

Re: X default font: 'fixed'

2001-09-25 Thread dman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:57:11PM -0700, Bob Frankstein wrote: | I have installed woody. After this I did: | | apt-get install x-window-system | apt-get install xlibs-dev | | Then when I try to run X it says it can't find default font: 'fixed' dpkg -l \*xfonts\* Make sure you have the necessar

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-25 Thread Rob Ransbottom
I've been running a small business network on about 16 linux machines and 1 mswindows machine since 1995. At that time I found NIS' special /etc/passwd entries to be a great aggravation. Ordinary passwd utilities, like adduser, would choke on them. Perceiving a lack of server power, I set up a

Re: Getting Sound to work

2001-09-25 Thread dman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:26:35PM -0700, Steven Farrier wrote: | I am trying to esd sound to work on my computer but I just can't do it. | | I can get genertic beeps on the command line but that is it. | | In windows it says I have a ES1869 audiodrive. | | I have read the soundblaster module is

How to fix corrupted download

2001-09-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Is there an easy way to force apt to download a deb again? I seem to have got a corrupted one: (Reading database ... 131943 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xfonts-75dpi 4.1.0-5 (using .../xfonts-75dpi_4.1.0-6_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xfonts-75dpi ... d

Re: Word-wrapping text editor

2001-09-25 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:25:48PM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: | "V. T. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > I want a terminal based text editor that does word-wrap rather than just | > wrapping in the middle of a word when it gets to the end of a line. "Joe" | > seems to do this. Ca

port 443 problem?

2001-09-25 Thread Eric Boo
Hi all, I'm using SID. I installed apache-ssl and even though it loaded without any error messages, i realized that netstat -an|grep 443 gives nothing. ps aux shows that gcache is running. So i purged it and install apache + mod-ssl. Port 80 works but netstat -an|grep 443 still gives nothing. No

Re: ext3 on install

2001-09-25 Thread Craig Dickson
Adam McDaniel wrote: > I'm curious if anyone here has any knowledge of Debian, in any future > release, will prompt the user to install an ext3 filesystem during > the initial install. > > Ofcourse, im not 100% familair with the status of ext3, but is it even > at that stage of production right n

Re: Mail Server

2001-09-25 Thread Greg Wiley
On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 5:33 AM, Wyatt Rowe - O.S.N. wrote: > [...] please advise on a good package / solution to monitor > and track a Mail / Internet server that runs on Debian 2.1. What do you mean by "monitor and track?" Do you want an application or system monitor to assist with te

Re: locking console under screen

2001-09-25 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 05:18:41PM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote: > as the subject says... > but when you authenticate aourself with the password, the opened > multiple logins are lost, and cant be accessed anymore. so you're saying, each time you logon to the machine you get kicked out of all your o

Re: How to fix corrupted download

2001-09-25 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:04:44AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: | Is there an easy way to force apt to download a deb again? I seem | to have got a corrupted one: | I think it's just my download, not the version on the server, that's corrupt. You could remove the local copy and see if that does it

Re: How to fix corrupted download

2001-09-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:04:44AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Is there an easy way to force apt to download a deb again? Yup. > I seem to have got a corrupted one: > > (Reading database ... 131943 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace xfonts-75dpi 4.1.0-5 (using >

Re: How to fix corrupted download

2001-09-25 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Is there an easy way to force apt to download a deb again? I seem to have > got a corrupted one: > > (Reading database ... 131943 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace xfonts-75dpi 4.1.0-5 (using > .../xfonts-75dpi_4.1.0-6_all.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement xfon

core dump

2001-09-25 Thread Robert Epprecht
Sorry for the very basic question: To adapt a program to Debian the author needs a core dump. He says the program *will* crash on Debian when started. But since I switched to Debian I didn't see any crashes :-) Is core dumping enabled by default on potato, and where can I configure that? Where w

Newbie Questions, Performance and security...

2001-09-25 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there! I'm fairly new to linux and debian, and would like to know a few things... I have a couple of redhat internet servers, but I like debian concept and package management so much that I would like to start using debian for servers... I have used debian distro (libranet) for quite a while

AW: [NuBe:] frozen keyboard

2001-09-25 Thread Tobias Lauszat \(Mailinglisten...\)
I agree! The same probleme, the same solution. Another possibility could be the X-Server. Greets SirToby, the 3rd > -Ursprungliche Nachricht- > Von: Sean Quinlan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Sean > Quinlan > Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. September 2001 11:33 > An: debian-user@lists

Two ethernet cards, one IP?!?

2001-09-25 Thread George Karaolides
Hi all, I have an Intel Nightshade server motherboard installed in an Intel server case, running Debian 2.2r3 (potato). Its on-board Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 ethernet card works fine on its own. When I install an Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 PCI card and configure two ethernet interfaces, the P

Re: How to fix corrupted download

2001-09-25 Thread ktb
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:04:44AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Is there an easy way to force apt to download a deb again? I seem to have > got a corrupted one: > > (Reading database ... 131943 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace xfonts-75dpi 4.1.0-5 (using > .../x

Re: core dump

2001-09-25 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> To adapt a program to Debian the author needs a core dump. > He says the program *will* crash on Debian when started. > But since I switched to Debian I didn't see any crashes :-) > > Is core dumping enabled by default on potato, and where > can I configure that? the command to use is ulimit, w

Re: ext3 on install

2001-09-25 Thread DvB
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam McDaniel wrote: > > > I'm curious if anyone here has any knowledge of Debian, in any future > > release, will prompt the user to install an ext3 filesystem during > > the initial install. > > > > I haven't been paying terribly close attention

source.list error recovery

2001-09-25 Thread Jacques Normand
I've just played with some unstable packages lists and it doesn't behave like I want. Is there any way to downgrade all packages to the latest avaibled in the corrected sources.list. I mean a softer way than a reinstall ;-) Jacques

RE: Two ethernet cards, one IP?!?

2001-09-25 Thread Theo Zourzouvillys
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I have an Intel Nightshade server motherboard installed in an Intel > server case, running Debian 2.2r3 (potato). > > Its on-board Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 ethernet card works fine on > its own. > > When I install an Intel EtherExpress Pro 100

Re: Fax / Modem question.

2001-09-25 Thread csj
On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 11:29, Kieren Diment wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the right forum, to ask this, but here goes. > > I'm happily using mgetty to send faxs out, but I need to receive the > occasional fax as well. I can't have the modem auto-answer, as this > would disrupt the separate voic

[OT] folder-hook mutt question

2001-09-25 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi mutt users, the following command doesn't work folder-hook debian-user set index_format="%3C %s" I get "%s: unknown variable" when accessing the debian-user folder. Any ideas? Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: mozilla questions

2001-09-25 Thread csj
On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 07:13, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > I use Mozilla 0.9.4 and I have no problem pulling up my hotmail inbox > (other than it being slow, which is not abnormal, and there's nothing > but spam in it, also normal). > > Make sure you (the original poster) have the package mozilla-p

Re: How to fix corrupted download

2001-09-25 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:21:17AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:04:44AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Is there an easy way to force apt to download a deb again? > > Yup. > > > I seem to have got a corrupted one: > > > > (Reading database ... 131943 files and director

Re: [OT] folder-hook mutt question

2001-09-25 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-25 18:20): > Hi mutt users, > > the following command doesn't work > > folder-hook debian-user set index_format="%3C %s" > > I get "%s: unknown variable" when accessing the debian-user folder. > > Any ideas? A fairly common problem... :)

Re: core dump

2001-09-25 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 06:18:46PM +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote: | Sorry for the very basic question: | | To adapt a program to Debian the author needs a core dump. | He says the program *will* crash on Debian when started. | But since I switched to Debian I didn't see any crashes :-) If it didn'

Re: [OT] folder-hook mutt question

2001-09-25 Thread Sławomir Ładygin
Dnia 25-09-01 19:08 Viktor Rosenfeld napisał(a): > the following command doesn't work > > folder-hook debian-user set index_format="%3C %s" > > I get "%s: unknown variable" when accessing the debian-user folder. Hi! Try: folder-hook debian-user 'set index_format="%3C %s"' Regards, Sl

Re: amd / radeon users, attention.

2001-09-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi jeff (and nicole), it was definitely working, but i was using a generic AGP port driver. i just noticed that 2.4.10 has support for KT266 agp, (as well as radeon frame buffer). i'm now getting about 800 fps on gears at 24 bpp. at 16 bpp color depth, i'm getting over 1100 fps. YEAH :

RE: Two ethernet cards, one IP?!?

2001-09-25 Thread George Karaolides
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Theo Zourzouvillys wrote: > > I have an Intel Nightshade server motherboard installed in an Intel > > server case, running Debian 2.2r3 (potato). > > > > Its on-board Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 ethernet card works fine on > > its own. > > > > When I install an Intel EtherEx

Re: ext3 on install

2001-09-25 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:39:35AM -0500, DvB wrote: > Of course, once ext3 is in the standard kernel, one need only create the > journal file (plus one or two other tweaks like disabling ext2 fsck), > reboot (assuming even that's necessary) and, voila!, one's ext2 > filesystem automagically become

Re: [OT] folder-hook mutt question

2001-09-25 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Thanks to Sean and Sawomir for their quick reply. It works now. Ciao, viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: Changing default console keymap

2001-09-25 Thread Guy Geens
> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: Karsten> How do you make it ***stay*** changed. Do dpkg-reconfigure console-common, and select the keymap you want. (Or select NONE to keep the upgrades from touching it.) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL

Re: Two ethernet cards, one IP?!?

2001-09-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
Well, although this is not really a solution to the problem, you can easily get round the problem with a simple firewall. I don't know the exact commands for a 2.2 kernel - I've only really ever learnt the 2.4 netfilter stuff, but basically, you should be able to specify both destination addresses

Re: ext3 on install

2001-09-25 Thread Craig Dickson
Adam McDaniel wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:39:35AM -0500, DvB wrote: > > Of course, once ext3 is in the standard kernel, one need only create the > > journal file (plus one or two other tweaks like disabling ext2 fsck), > > reboot (assuming even that's necessary) and, voila!, one's ext2 > >

latest unstable, lots of crashing galeon

2001-09-25 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
apt-get upgrade this morning, upgraded a lot of GNOME stuff. Now galeon crashes a lot. Anyone else seeing this suddenly? -jwb

Handling with BASH variables

2001-09-25 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi, I have a problem with bash vars. For my KDE copileing stuff i have made some files wich contain the "configure" command so that i can easily alter it and that i can remember wich options i used. E.g. there is a file "conf_kdelibs" the file contais that line: ./confugure --prefix=/opt/kde --

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