StarOffice/OpenOffice debs? (was Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.)

2001-09-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:43:48AM +0100, xio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:42:57PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:58:59PM -0400, Rob Ransbottom ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > > > > I hear that Staroffice is going to be a quart

Emacs question

2001-09-27 Thread Josh McKinney
I have what seems like a simple question but has become tough to find an answer. I have been playing around with Emacs for a little while and have noticed one thing thats really bothers me. Why can't I tab(indent) a new line in c-mode? Basically when I open a *.c file and want to indent a line I

Compiling the kernel

2001-09-27 Thread shyamk
I have a new kind of doubt .. Could those in the know of things , please outline how you would compile a kernel (the steps) on a RedHat 7.0 system ? Mr.Bish had done so for a Debian system as a footer on one of his mails . I am having a current requirement .. to disable module version support (&

OT: forking so apache won't wait

2001-09-27 Thread will trillich
debianistas tend to know where to look, so i'm hoping someone will point the way-- i know i've run across it before but when i WANT to stub my toe on it, it's nowhere to be found: HOW can i have apache/web page initiate a process and return quickly to generate a 'processing, hold on' page while th

Re: man-db

2001-09-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:15:03AM +1000, Craig W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I am having problems with man-db, could someone please advise on why this is > happening & any solutions, pointers I can try. > > Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report > /etc/cro

Re: OT: how to deal with old mail

2001-09-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:34:38AM -0800, Christopher S. Swingley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > I've been happily using mutt for several years now, and I've currently > got 415 mbox files (mutt folders) in my ~/Mail directory, consuming > 40 MB of space. In the past when my Mail directory

Re: Galeon crash like hell

2001-09-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 12:41:53AM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am using galeon. After the recent upgrade it seems like > the galeon no longer run java and javascript. And it crashes like > hell when I tries to say access slashdot.org or other

Re: Needing a random number generator for scripting

2001-09-27 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:45:57PM -0500, Jeremy Whetzel wrote: > > I'm in the process of writing up a script that I need to be able to > "randomly" switch around the lines in a text file. (ala a random mp3 > playlist) Would anyone have any suggestions? I was originally thinking > of using a ran

Re: OT: forking so apache won't wait

2001-09-27 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, will trillich wrote: > debianistas tend to know where to look, so i'm hoping someone > will point the way-- > > i know i've run across it before but when i WANT to stub my toe > on it, it's nowhere to be found: HOW can i have apache/web page > initiate a process and return qui

Re: exim rewrite, sorry

2001-09-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
I had similar issue with my machine. If qualify domain is pointing to domain I set up system for it did not work. But using alternative domain name which mach with filter entry activated filter. It looks like in smarthost environment, local mail without domain descrioption always forwarded to ho

Re: Needing a random number generator for scripting

2001-09-27 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:45:57PM -0500, Jeremy Whetzel wrote: > > > > I'm in the process of writing up a script that I need to be able to > > "randomly" switch around the lines in a text file. (ala a random mp3 > > playlist) Would anyone have any sugges

Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:53:11AM +0200, LAMIRAULT Nicolas wrote: > Could i have yours point of view about install of Linux on others > laptops ? Tricky part is PCMCIA. Especially NIC. PCMCIA modules during initialization become daemon before finishing all initialization. So sometimes race con

Re: exim rewrite, sorry

2001-09-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 11:09:15PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I had similar issue with my machine. If qualify domain is pointing to > domain I set up system for it did not work. But using alternative > domain name which match with filter entry activated filter. Oops, many typo and broken English.

Re: Needing a random number generator for scripting

2001-09-27 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On 27 Sep 2001, Jeremy Whetzel wrote: > I'm in the process of writing up a script that I need to be able to > "randomly" switch around the lines in a text file. (ala a random mp3 > playlist) Would anyone have any suggestions? I was originally thinking > of using a random number generator for it,

what's the proper size of the root directory

2001-09-27 Thread Yuwen Dai
Hi, All I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux. My question is what's the proper size of the '/' directory? Of cause, I exclude /usr, /var, /tmp from '/'. I worry about that if the root patition is too small, it won't be compatible with the future version of Debian. Like Redhat, 6.2 said 10

So many package tools, apt, dselect, dpkg, which should I choose?

2001-09-27 Thread Yuwen Dai
Hi, All I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux. I find there're many packages in Debian. I'm confused. In what situation should I choose one? Thank you in advance. Best regards, Dai Yuwen _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explo

Re: what's the proper size of the root directory

2001-09-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:02:56 -, "Yuwen Dai" writes: >I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux. My question is > >what's the proper size of the '/' directory? There is no "proper" size. You can stuff anything anywhere you like, but just for sureness I´d go for at least 100 MB. >Of cause, I e

Re: Speeding up scp (Was: Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.)

2001-09-27 Thread Samuli Suonpaa
Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Samuli Suonpaa wrote: >> $ time scp -c 3des -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero >> >> real 1m28.652s >> user 0m0.050s >> sys 0m0.450s >> $ time scp -c blowfish -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero >> >> real 0m27.329s >> user 0m0.070s >> sys

Re: ESD click problem

2001-09-27 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 03:41, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > I never thought I'd be complaining when I finally got sound > > to work, but I guess I'm not so easy to please... there's a > > tiny problem with esd that I hope someone can help me with. > > > > I'm using Gn

Re: ESD click problem

2001-09-27 Thread christophe barbé
You can perhaps add 'killall esd' in a PreSession script. In fact, Gdm uses an initV kind of startup scripts. /etc/gdm/PreSession /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default /etc/gdm/PostSession /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default Christophe Le jeu, 27 sep 2001 11:11:28, Peter Hugosson-Miller a écrit : > Michael Helde

HELP!!!! my boxen is broken

2001-09-27 Thread Stuart_Luscombe
Help all! Help for a borked boxen! I ran apt-get upgrade to the latest unstable version. All was going ok until the install phase where everything seems to have gone wrong. >From what I can gather, the whole problem seems to lie around libc6, most packages that won't install say something along

Re: OT: forking so apache won't wait

2001-09-27 Thread will trillich
"Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, will trillich wrote: > > > HOW can i have apache/web page > > initiate a process and return quickly to generate a 'processing, > > hold on' page while the process does its processing? > > > > i've got a web page that i launch after ftp-i

Re: more network problems

2001-09-27 Thread Angel Gutierrez
Did you check the gateway? -- Angel Gutierrez Rodriguez, Ph. D. Unit for Cell Biology Wenner-Gren Center P12 Dept. of Biosciences @ NOVUMSveavagen 164 Deja de pensar Karolinska Institutet 113 46 Stockholmsi hicimos bien o mal Halsovagen, 7

Re: Compiling the kernel

2001-09-27 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > I have a new kind of doubt .. > Could those in the know of things , please outline how you would compile a > kernel > (the steps) on a RedHat 7.0 system ? > Mr.Bish had done so for a Debian system as a footer on one of his mails . > > I am having a current requi

moving to reiserfs/libc6

2001-09-27 Thread Gerald Richter
Hello Debusers. As I allready posted before, I'm trying to get a reiserfs to work on a production system. Problem is, that I have to upgrade the libc6 for reiserfsprogs to operate -I guess- because the dependencies say so. The reiserfsprogs did install properly though, just with the remark about a

Re: duplicates in mutt? (was: Deleting duplicate ...)

2001-09-27 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Allan M. Wind (on Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:48:55AM -0400): > :0 Whc: $CACHE_FILE.lock > | formail -D $CACHE_SIZE $CACHE_FILE i know about this, but i was wondering if mutt could do that without having to go via formail/procmail martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)

session management / authentication

2001-09-27 Thread Alexander Steinert
Could you give me hints (URLs, book titles) to inform me about session management / user authentication on a web server? I'm planning a DBMS-backed web app. (using apache, postgresql, python). My current aproach is to use https, let the user auth. himself via password and generate a session id so

Debian From Scratch?

2001-09-27 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Hello: Is there any documentation on how to make a small system? What is the size of the smallest known working Debian system? Is it oke if just deleting the existing packages? thank you, -- Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim - VLSM-TJT - http://rms46.vlsm.org --- Robert T. Kiyosaki is a cruel pathetic Da

mod_python on potato

2001-09-27 Thread Alexander Steinert
Has anyone out there tried to get mod_python to work on a potato server? (Which versions, dependancies?) Stony

Re: JADE Problems

2001-09-27 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to write a DocBook/XML document. I'm using JADE, but I > can't get it working. [...] > After this, I run JADE and I get all this weird errors: > juli:~/Documentos/Treball_de_recerca% jade -t tex -o /tmp/test.tex > principal.xml [...] > jade:E:

Re: Debian From Scratch?

2001-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:19:05PM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > Is there any documentation on how to make a small system? Install a system from scratch and purge everything except essential packages and whatever's required for your system to boot. > What is the size of the smallest kno

Re: what's the proper size of the root directory

2001-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:02:56AM +, Yuwen Dai wrote: > I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux. My question is > > what's the proper size of the '/' directory? > > Of cause, I exclude /usr, /var, /tmp from '/'. I worry about that if the > root patition is too small, it won't be compatible

Re: HELP!!!! my boxen is broken

2001-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:25:08AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Help all! Help for a borked boxen! > > I ran apt-get upgrade to the latest unstable version. All was going ok > until the install phase where everything seems to have gone wrong. Never use 'apt-get upgrade' across different vers

Re: duplicates in mutt? (was: Deleting duplicate ...)

2001-09-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Martin F Krafft wrote on Thu Sep 27, 2001 um 12:50:58PM: > also sprach Allan M. Wind (on Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:48:55AM -0400): > > :0 Whc: $CACHE_FILE.lock > > | formail -D $CACHE_SIZE $CACHE_FILE > > i know about this, but i was wondering if mutt could do that without > having to go via f

Re: So many package tools, apt, dselect, dpkg, which should I choose?

2001-09-27 Thread David Z Maze
Yuwen Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: YD> I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux. I find there're many packages YD> in Debian. I'm confused. In what situation should I choose one? dpkg: to install a .deb file you've already downloaded; to examine information about packages already installed on

Re: So many package tools, apt, dselect, dpkg, which should I choose?

2001-09-27 Thread ktb
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:12:17AM +, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Hi, All > > I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux. I find there're many packages in > Debian. I'm confused. In what situation should I choose one? > > Thank you in advance. Take a look at - http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtool

Re: So many package tools, apt, dselect, dpkg, which should I choose?

2001-09-27 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:12:17AM +, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Hi, All > > I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux. I find there're many packages in > Debian. I'm confused. In what situation should I choose one? Dpkg is the program that actually installs/removes packages; the other programs just

RE: Kernel after dist-upgrade

2001-09-27 Thread Chapman, Matt
Title: RE: Kernel after dist-upgrade No, You have to expressly do a apt-get install kernel-image in order for that to happen. -Matt Chapman # rm -rf /bin/laden -Original Message- From: David A. Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 5:54 PM T

some questions about lilo

2001-09-27 Thread Christian Eckert
Hello, How can I find out whether #lilo# has been installed in the mbr or in a partition's boot block. Is there probably a way to change it without great complications? I read in O'Reilly's online catalog #Learning Debian GNU/Linux# that lilo can only be installed in the mbr resp. in the boot b

Re: HELP!!!! my boxen is broken

2001-09-27 Thread Stuart_Luscombe
Thanks for the advice I tried the apt-get -f install libc6, but I was still getting errors. In the end, I downloaded it from packages.debian.org and ftp'd it down to the machine and then performed a dpkg -i libc6 This seems to have worked a treat and all is working again :) -- Stuart

Re: Emacs question

2001-09-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Probably because c-mode uses the tab key to enforce an indentation style. Try opening a loop in C, then using tab on the next line: it should be indented according to the looping level of the program you're writing. Most programming modes (e.g., perl-mode, cperl-mode) do the same thing to assist wi

Re: Needing a random number generator for scripting

2001-09-27 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 09:00:26AM +0200, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: | On 27 Sep 2001, Jeremy Whetzel wrote: | | > I'm in the process of writing up a script that I need to be able to | > "randomly" switch around the lines in a text file. (ala a random mp3 | > playlist) Would anyone have any suggest

WG: .Xauthority empty

2001-09-27 Thread Mayer, Christian \(Dregis\)
Hi, cannot connect to xserver (4.1.0.5) since upgrade to woody. i deleted .Xauthority and but when it was created again it was empty. Here my .xsession-errors (root): Xsession: unable to launch kde X session; kde not found. Xsession: Falling back to default session. Xlib: connection to ":0.0" re

Re: what's the proper size of the root directory

2001-09-27 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Yuwen Dai wrote: >I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux. My question is > >what's the proper size of the '/' directory? I'd recommend at least 80 MB in / (can hold the compilers, necessary programs plus some temporary space) for the initial install. Then migrate the other partitions (/home, /t

Re: moving to reiserfs/libc6

2001-09-27 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Gerald Richter wrote: >Problem is, that I have to upgrade the libc6 for reiserfsprogs to >operate -I guess- because the dependencies say so. The reiserfsprogs >did >install properly though, just with the remark about a newer libc6 >version required... Are you using potato with 2.4.x? I encounte

Re: Debian From Scratch?

2001-09-27 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
rms46@vlsm.org wrote: >Is there any documentation on how to make a small system? >What is the size of the smallest known working Debian system? >Is it oke if just deleting the existing packages? I once installed a bare-bones debian by just installing the base packages and not inserting any o

Re: Compiling the kernel

2001-09-27 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Could those in the know of things , please outline how you would compile a >kernel >(the steps) on a RedHat 7.0 system ? Recently checked the user's manual on RH7.0 - doesn't mention custom- compiling the kernel. I believe it's the traditional style (make dep, make {me

mixture of potato & testing

2001-09-27 Thread Vittorio
I have an almost pure potato 2.2r3 installation (only 2.4.9 kernel is a stranger!) and now I need to download gimp 1.2 which is part of woody & testing. Issuing 'apt-get install gimp1.2' from woody I see that it requires to download some more new-updated libs and many files for xfree86 4.1.

GeForce3 -- revisited

2001-09-27 Thread uid0
Greetings, I've been trying to get my nvidia geforce3 to work here for quite some time now. I was able to upgrade to the latest release of XFree86, but ti seems like there may be some package problems (?) here's what I have on this machine... unruly:~# dpkg -l | egrep ^'ii xser' ii xserver-com

Re: moving to reiserfs/libc6

2001-09-27 Thread Gerald Richter
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 09:28:07PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > Gerald Richter wrote: > > >Problem is, that I have to upgrade the libc6 for reiserfsprogs to > >operate -I guess- because the dependencies say so. The reiserfsprogs >did > >install properly though, just with the remark abo

Re: OT: forking so apache won't wait

2001-09-27 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 12:44:35AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > debianistas tend to know where to look, so i'm hoping someone > will point the way-- sure :) > i know i've run across it before but when i WANT to stub my toe > on it, it's nowhere to be found: HOW can i have apache/web page > ini

sendmail aliasing to local file doesn't work

2001-09-27 Thread Rokas Ralys
I run Sendmail 8.12 (latest unstable). In aliases file there is line like: mail_address: /tmp/some_file I get errors in /var/log/mail.log like this: Sep 27 15:38:02 w2001 sm-mta[3317]: f8RDbxv5003316: to=/tmp/some_file, ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1/0), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=*f

ntpd

2001-09-27 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi All, I'm trying to run ntpd here to both set the clock and then keep it synchronized with our ntp server. My problem is that ntpd seems to be trying to slew the clock instead of setting it. Here is an example: wolf:/home/andrew.dixon# date Fri Jun 15 03:46:54 EDT 2001 wolf:/home/andrew.dixon#

Fw: Select/copy/paste using keyboard in X

2001-09-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Actually, I would like to be able to cut > and paste, with or without mouse, in different > applications running under KDE. For example, > a line from KWord to a search box at an > internet site up under Netscape. I can cut > and paste from within KWord, and also from > within Netscape; but not

Re: Needing a random number generator for scripting

2001-09-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 09:20:04AM -0400, dman wrote: > | /dev/random gives random bits. I don't know where it is documented. > | There is a system call random() (see man 3 random). You could write a > | wrapper C program to use it in scripts. > > Naw, just use python :-). > > > #!/usr/bin/env

Re: ntpd

2001-09-27 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Well for one thing ntpd will not modify the clock if the time difference is too great... ntpdate does not have this same problem, which is why most people run ntpdate first before starting ntpd as ntpdate will not run after ntpd is running... In your example you show a clock skew

strange X behavior

2001-09-27 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I've noticed a strange X server behavior regarding to Memory utilization. Look at this "ps" output: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 20454 0.0 99.9 204284 4294964944 ? Shttp://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21

Re: ntpd

2001-09-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:44:34AM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: > I'm trying to run ntpd here to both set the clock and then keep it > synchronized with our ntp server. My problem is that ntpd seems to be > trying to slew the clock instead of setting it. Well, yes. That's what ntpd does. First ru

Re: ntpd

2001-09-27 Thread Doug Fields
I'm trying to run ntpd here to both set the clock and then keep it synchronized with our ntp server. My problem is that ntpd seems to be trying to slew the clock instead of setting it. Here is an example: There is no problem; your description of what happens is correct. NTP does not set the

Re: Emacs question

2001-09-27 Thread Ashton Trey Belew
Greetings, On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 12:18:09AM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > noticed one thing thats really bothers me. Why can't I tab(indent) a new line > in c-mode? Basically when I open a *.c file and want to indent a line I hit > tab I am with the previous person, cc-mode wi

Re: ntpd

2001-09-27 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Andrew, On Thursday, September 27, 2001 at 4:44:34 PM, you wrote (at least in part): > Hi All, > I'm trying to run ntpd here to both set the clock and then keep it > synchronized with our ntp server. My problem is that ntpd seems to be > trying to slew the clock instead of setting it. He

Re: strange X behavior

2001-09-27 Thread Aldo Chan
On Thursday 27 September 2001 17:01, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Hi, > I've noticed a strange X server behavior regarding to Memory > utilization. Look at this "ps" output: > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > > root 20454 0.0 99.9 20428

Re: ntpd

2001-09-27 Thread Andrew Dixon
Peter Palmreuther wrote: > > Hello Andrew, > > On Thursday, September 27, 2001 at 4:44:34 PM, > you wrote (at least in part): > > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to run ntpd here to both set the clock and then keep it > > synchronized with our ntp server. My problem is that ntpd seems to be > > trying

Re: ntpd

2001-09-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:41:08AM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: > >From the ntpd(1) man page: >-x Ordinarily, if the time is to be adjusted more than 128 > ms, > it is stepped, not gradually slewed. This option forces Also from the ntpd(1) man page: -g Normall

Re: ntpd

2001-09-27 Thread Alan Shutko
"Jeremy T. Bouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well for one thing ntpd will not modify the clock if the time > difference is too great... Right... some Unix programs get upset by too great a change in time, though I don't know of any major problems. IIRC, ntpd will eventually slew the clo

Another mutt question?

2001-09-27 Thread Josh McKinney
I have a small mutt question. I have my mailing lists I am subscribe to all listed as subscribed in my muttrc and everything. It all seems to work fine with the follow-up-to etc. The problem is that when I open the say 'debian-user' mailbox all the from lines say debian-user. I want it to be ba

installing X

2001-09-27 Thread Hans Steinraht
-- Hi, I'm just new to Debian and installed the potato version from floppy. Next I want to do is installing X. With tasksel I downloaded and installed all the packages. After configuring all with the graphical tool I get the following error: the server for RivaTNT is not installed

vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-27 Thread Wichert Akkerman
vim 6.0 was released yesterday and I just finished the packages for it. Please note however that if you have been using the prerelease packages I made this will be a downgrade (unfortunately I made a stupid mistake in versioning), so you will have to install it manually. You can grab it from htt

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-27 Thread wouter
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > vim 6.0 was released yesterday and I just finished the packages for it. > Please note however that if you have been using the prerelease packages > I made this will be a downgrade (unfortunately I made a stupid mistake > in versioning), so you will

Re: some questions about lilo

2001-09-27 Thread Mike Alborn
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 02:44:50PM +0200, Christian Eckert wrote: > Hello, > > How can I find out whether #lilo# has been installed in the > mbr or in a partition's boot block. Off the top of my head, check /etc/lilo.conf. the "boot=" line will tell you where LILO is installing its boot

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-27 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just use an epoch, please. That's what it's for. No, those package were never uploaded to debian and have always been marked as experimental prereleases and this happens to be one of the bugs present on them. If you don't like that you shouldn't have used thos

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-27 Thread Danie Roux
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:49:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > > > vim 6.0 was released yesterday and I just finished the packages for it. > > Please note however that if you have been using the prerelease packages > > I made this will be a

Re: Another mutt question?

2001-09-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:59:28AM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > I have a small mutt question. I have my mailing lists I am subscribe to all > listed as subscribed in my muttrc and everything. It all seems to work fine > with the follow-up-to etc. The problem is that when I open the say > 'debia

Re: Another mutt question?

2001-09-27 Thread Andras BALI
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:59:28AM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > I have a small mutt question. I have my mailing lists I am > subscribe to all listed as subscribed in my muttrc and everything. > It all seems to work fine with the follow-up-to etc. The problem is > that when I open the say 'debia

Re: mixture of potato & testing

2001-09-27 Thread Harvey Kelly
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:41:20PM +, Vittorio wrote: > I have an almost pure potato 2.2r3 installation (only 2.4.9 kernel is a > stranger!) and now I need to download gimp 1.2 which is part of woody & > testing. > Issuing 'apt-get install gimp1.2' from woody I see that it requires to > dow

HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-27 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear debian-user, i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my system. hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. i've played with this for at least 4 hours now, and am coming to the realization that i definitely need help. my system: athlon 1.3GHz epox 8kha mobo with VIA

Re: install package from an user

2001-09-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010925 07:51]: > 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 debi

OT: screen command

2001-09-27 Thread Stuart_Luscombe
When I am SSH'd into a server and then use the screen command, how do I detach/re-attach the screen if I am in the middle of running a process (apt/vim document etc.). I have read the man file and it talks about 'C-a' commands, but I cannot seem to work these out. I have tried Ctrl+alt, but this

Re: GPM + X

2001-09-27 Thread alephtnull
yes, installing gpm pointing to psaux and editing XF86config file to point to gpmdata does make the mouse work in console (great!) and X (useless) since I can't even control the mouse pointer/buttons (moves to fast and does strange things..) editing gpmconfig doesn't help since I don't know what

Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my > system. > hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. this is nowhere near the 100MB/s that i'm > expecting to get. Why are you expecting 100MB/s? That's the bus maximum bandwidth. It doesn't mean you can phy

Re: Another mutt question?

2001-09-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Josh McKinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010927 09:03]: > I have a small mutt question. I have my mailing lists I am subscribe to all > listed as subscribed in my muttrc and everything. It all seems to work fine > with the follow-up-to etc. The problem is that when I open the say > 'debian-user' mai

Re: GPM + X

2001-09-27 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-27 19:20): > installing gpm pointing to psaux and editing XF86config file to point to > gpmdata does make the mouse work in console (great!) and X (useless) since I > can't even control the mouse pointer/buttons (moves to fast and does strange > th

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:16:33PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:49:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Policy section 4: > > > > epoch > > [...] > > It is provided to allow mistakes in the version numbers of older versions > > of a package [...] > > > > Just use a

Re: Needing a random number generator for scripting

2001-09-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010926 23:14]: > <== randline ==> > #!/usr/bin/perl > ## print 1 randomline from a file > @_=<>; > print $_[rand$#_]; while this one works, the one Martin posted is a better solution. They're both O(n) in terms of time, but Martin's is O(1) wrt spac

Re: OT: screen command

2001-09-27 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-27 19:10): > When I am SSH'd into a server and then use the screen command, how do > I detach/re-attach the screen if I am in the middle of running a > process (apt/vim document etc.). I have read the man file and it talks > about 'C-a' commands,

apt-get failure on perl

2001-09-27 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
i hope someone can point me to a solution on this. i've been chasing it for days with no luck. i have a machine running woody. i hadn't updated it in a while, so a few days ago, i did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade on it. here's the results. any suggestions will be /greatly/ appreciated.

Re: OT: screen command

2001-09-27 Thread David Z Maze
Stuart Luscombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SL> When I am SSH'd into a server and then use the screen command, how SL> do I detach/re-attach the screen if I am in the middle of running SL> a process (apt/vim document etc.). I have read the man file and it SL> talks about 'C-a' commands, but I canno

Re: Fw: Select/copy/paste using keyboard in X

2001-09-27 Thread Erik Steffl
Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > Actually, I would like to be able to cut > > and paste, with or without mouse, in different > > applications running under KDE. For example, > > a line from KWord to a search box at an > > internet site up under Netscape. I can cut > > and paste from within KWord, and

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-27 Thread wouter
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just use an epoch, please. That's what it's for. > > No, those package were never uploaded to debian Ah. That does change things a bit. -- wouter dot verhelst at advalvas in Belgium This is Linux world. O

Re: OT: screen command

2001-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:44:21PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I am SSH'd into a server and then use the screen command, how do > I detach/re-attach the screen if I am in the middle of running a > process (apt/vim document etc.). I have read the man file and it talks > about 'C-a' comma

Re: moving to reiserfs/libc6

2001-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 12:42:11PM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote: > As I allready posted before, I'm trying to get a reiserfs to work on a > production system. > Problem is, that I have to upgrade the libc6 for reiserfsprogs to > operate -I guess- because the dependencies say so. The reiserfsprogs di

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-27 Thread wouter
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Danie Roux wrote: > I just want to know this: > > Do you realise you are talking to > > - a member of the security team > - a member of the Technical committee > - the (I believe) active maintainer of dpkg > - and to boot: The previous leader of Debian? And a senior Debia

Re: Help with install: Woody

2001-09-27 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Lars Jensen wrote: > > How do I install woody over a ppp connection? > > Here's what I've done so far: > First I downloaded the images and created the three installation > floppies, > > rescue.bin, root.bin, drivers.bin. > > The installation goes fine until the installer asks where to find the

Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-27 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear debian-user, > > i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my > system. hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. i've played with this for at least 4 > hours now, and am coming to the realization that i definitely need help. goe

Re: installing X

2001-09-27 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hans Steinraht wrote: > > -- > Hi, > > I'm just new to Debian and installed the potato version from floppy. > Next I want to do is installing X. > > With tasksel I downloaded and installed all the packages. > > After configuring all with the graphical tool I get the following > error: >

Re: ntpd

2001-09-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:49:20 EDT, Alan Shutko writes: >Right... some Unix programs get upset by too great a change in time, >though I don't know of any major problems. I've had kernel-panics when the time was set backwards. >IIRC, ntpd will eventually slew the clock to the correct time, it just

Re: OT: forking so apache won't wait

2001-09-27 Thread Tim Moss
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:44:35 -0500 "will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > debianistas tend to know where to look, so i'm hoping someone > will point the way-- > > i know i've run across it before but when i WANT to stub my toe > on it, it's nowhere to be found: HOW can i have apache/web pag

Re: GPM + X

2001-09-27 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:09:40PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | yes, | | installing gpm pointing to psaux and editing XF86config file to point to | gpmdata does make the mouse work in console (great!) and X (useless) since I | can't even control the mouse pointer/buttons (moves to fast and do

Making a wheel mouse behave

2001-09-27 Thread csj
Is there an option to make the wheel in (what else) a wheel mouse behave like the middle button in a conventional mouse? A "friend" bought an optical mouse which unfortunately has this feature. I know about the chopsticks emulation, but I'm just wondering if instead of senseless scrolling I can get

Re: Fw: Select/copy/paste using keyboard in X

2001-09-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I am not sure why some applications use different > clipboards (buffers)... anybody has explanation? pointer > to docs? How about this, http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html ?? Hall

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