Re: QuickTime

2001-10-14 Thread alephtnull
crossover's quicktime is nice but too expensive...:I can't pay for M$ products that's why i'm using linux... for me, it would be crazy to have an an application more expensive than the OS. at least not in the windows world. -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: Star Office 6

2001-10-14 Thread Richard Hector
Phillip Deackes wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 07:12:06 -0700 > sheine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I changed the permissions and got new troubles. The soa and sop files > > started, but told me that I did not have enough disk memory, when I am > > reasonably sure that I do. The first so file

Re: bad file

2001-10-14 Thread Kevin
its got nothing to do with the attribs or the perms lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on ./guide.it.html and i cant fsck it because im not local and cant go to single user. oh well, thanks for the help > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 08:07:12PM -0700, Kevin wrote: > > [EMAIL

Re: How-to

2001-10-14 Thread alephtnull
in ie...when you have trouble displaying the page try clearing the cache..this usually works...if you want to know if what's happening to your network's connection to the internet you can try "pinging" computers outside your network. windows has a built-in ping program appropriately called "ping.e

Help/Info on E-Mail Headers

2001-10-14 Thread Donald R. Spoon
An earlier post "mail headers - why do they differ? Sam Varghese " caused me to do a bit of investigation here, and I noted the same thing happening on my posts to this group. Since I don't have an MTA setup to pass my E-Mail on to the internet, I use the Road Runner SMTP & POP servers for all my

Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-14 Thread Martin Rowe
On Saturday 13 October 2001 11:13 pm, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, csj wrote: > > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my > > meager 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process ppp > > traffic becomes so abysmal I even get disconnec

Re: How-to

2001-10-14 Thread Gary Turner
Being new to Linux myself, I really wanted to help you out (and scarf a copy of the HOW-TO for myself). Like you, I got no answer when I went calling. Pinging 24.114.171.111, tinyplanet.ca, timed out. So, they must be down. gt On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 00:07:05 -0400, you wrote: >A few weeks back

Re: Can I force ftp to use passive mode?

2001-10-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 08:57:48PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:48:53PM -0400, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I'm behind a firewall, that requires that ftp be run in "passive" mode. > > While this s easy enough to do with the -p op

Re: Help/Info on E-Mail Headers

2001-10-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 01:37:04AM -0500, Donald R. Spoon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > An earlier post "mail headers - why do they differ? Sam Varghese " > caused me to do a bit of investigation here, and I noted the same thing > happening on my posts to this group. Since I don't have an MTA setu

bad performance on playing video

2001-10-14 Thread ad
I use Xine to play VCD, DVD and other video files, the audio performance is good, but the performance is awful, lots of lag. My CPU is PIII 1G, 764Mb ram, and AGP card with 4Mb ram. So I don't think my hardware is not powerful enough to play video. I set up MTRR support. What else should I do to in

problem occured while ripping audio CD

2001-10-14 Thread ad
Something weird happened while I ripping audio CD, such error message shows as below.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ cdparanoia -vsQ -d /dev/cdrom cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) (C) 2001 Monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Xiphophorus Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/

Re: Help/Info on E-Mail Headers

2001-10-14 Thread Antti Tolamo
At 09:37 14.10.2001, Donald R. Spoon wrote: An earlier post "mail headers - why do they differ? Sam Varghese " caused me to do a bit of investigation here, and I noted the same thing happening on my posts to this group. Since I don't have an MTA setup to pass my E-Mail on to the internet, I use

Re: bad performance on playing video

2001-10-14 Thread Keith Willoughby
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use Xine to play VCD, DVD and other video files, the audio performance > is good, but the performance is awful, lots of lag. My CPU is PIII 1G, > 764Mb ram, and AGP card with 4Mb ram. So I don't think my hardware is not > powerful enough to play video. > I set up MT

Re: screen rocks (was Re: potato on 486)

2001-10-14 Thread Brian May
> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: Karsten> $ man screen $ screen -x Ok, Thanks. I looked up "man screen", but couldn't find anything. -x seems to be what I was looking for. I am still not quite sure how you allow different unix users access to the screen though (see ACL command

Re: Software DVD players

2001-10-14 Thread Brian May
> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey W Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeffrey> VideoLAN is great (www.videolan.org) and Xine works well Jeffrey> too (xine.sourceforge.net). Several months ago I tried one of these (sorry, can't remember which one) with a DVD, The Matrix. Every now and again some

Re: bad performance on playing video

2001-10-14 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 2001-10-14 at 15:47, Keith Willoughby wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I use Xine to play VCD, DVD and other video files, the audio performance > > is good, but the performance is awful, lots of lag. My CPU is PIII 1G, > > 764Mb ram, and AGP card with 4Mb ram. So I don't think my

X server working but I can't log in (unstable)

2001-10-14 Thread Aniartia
okay I'm stuck on this one, xdm works great nice log in screen, but when I try to log in I'm just dumped at xdm again, the only error I can find is: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: /usr/bin/ssh-agent x-window-manager: No such file or directory (I get a similar one if I use startx from the cons

Re: X server working but I can't log in (unstable)

2001-10-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 08:15:08AM +, Aniartia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > okay I'm stuck on this one, xdm works great nice log in screen, but when I > try to log in I'm just dumped at xdm again, the only error I can find is: > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: /usr/bin/ssh-agent x-window-ma

Re: Re. Star Office 6

2001-10-14 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:37:55PM -0700, sheine wrote: > Tommi Komulainen wrote: > > > Just a thought, you weren't planning to do anything productive with, or > > did you? If you did, guess you'd better reconsider: [I was referring to StarOffice there] I guess I should've added more smileys th

Re: bad performance on playing video

2001-10-14 Thread Keith Willoughby
Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Poor DVD playback] > My X version is 4.1.0, Good. [...] > (II) S3VIRGE(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) > Screen to screen bit blits > Solid filled rectangles > 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles > Solid Horizontal and

Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Martin Rowe wrote: > > On Saturday 13 October 2001 11:13 pm, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, csj wrote: > > > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my > > > meager 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process ppp > > > traffic becomes

Re: bad file

2001-10-14 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 22:18:55 PDT, Kevin writes: >its got nothing to do with the attribs or the perms > >lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on ./guide.it.html > >and i cant fsck it because im not local and cant go to single user. >oh well, thanks for the help Maybe you don

Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-14 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 02:19:26 PDT, Erik Steffl writes: >Martin Rowe wrote: >> >> On Saturday 13 October 2001 11:13 pm, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, csj wrote: >> > > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my >> > > meager 56K connection stallin

System freeze

2001-10-14 Thread Oliver Korff
Hi, today I come to my home Workstation and its locked up. Thats worring me because it happened two days before at the same time. Research at the web told me there is a bug report out about anacron (but closed). The anacron package was dealt with some days ago, and recently changed. System: ke

Re: System freeze

2001-10-14 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:50:25 +0200, Oliver Korff writes: >today I come to my home Workstation and its locked up. Thats worring me >because it happened two days before at the same time. Research at the web >told me there is a bug report out about anacron (but closed). >The anacron package was de

application menu won't launch

2001-10-14 Thread Paolo Falcone
What common program makes the application menu launch in windowmaker, blackbox, afterstep, etc? After doing some admin tasks as root, when I restarted windowmaker it the application menu failed to launch, leaving me with x-term, rxvt, restart and exit as the only options when I right-click in X. T

Re: System freeze

2001-10-14 Thread Oliver Korff
I think its from the hard-reset I made, to get the system booting. But I will try the memtest, did it some months ago. Oliver -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design somelthing completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -- Mostly Harmless

Re: Kernel 2.4.0-test11 on potato

2001-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 15:15:15 +0200, Marco Heusler wrote: > Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong ? Yes. You are attempting to put a 2.4.x kernel on a potato box. Potato wasn't meant to be able to do that. You need updated packages for that, preferably those from http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/k

Re: apt 0.5.4: preferences file

2001-10-14 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2001-10-13 at 19:27, Bruce Miller wrote: > I put in a lot of effort yesterday studying the man pages for apt and > apt_preferences as well as the APT HOWTO which is buried deep > in the Debian website. > > To no avail. apt turned up its nose at my feeble attempt to write a > preferences

Filter of KMail

2001-10-14 Thread Liu Tao
I installed KMail, but I can't configure it's filters. Which package shall I install to enable kmail's filters? Regards Liu Tao

How to make on board VIA VT82C686B sound chip work?

2001-10-14 Thread Morbo
Hi, The title says it all :) Many thanks in advance! regards, Balazs

missing charsets String FontSet

2001-10-14 Thread Josef Oswald
Hi :-) Sorry to bother again, but when I start XEmacs 21.1.14-mule I get a error Message missing charsets String FontSet no usable Fonts are selected. I tried to search on the Debian Mailing list, but strangely I could not come up with a search result on that topic :-( The problem happens sin

ls sort

2001-10-14 Thread Daniel Jones
I'm going to feel silly if this is as easy as it seems like it should be but after poring over the man pages I can't figure it out. Is it possible to have "ls" display contents with directories listed first, sorted alphabetically, then all other files, also sorted alphabetically? None of the sort

Apt Get Barfs

2001-10-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Dear All I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux. Just tried running ' apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' on my Debain 2.2 r3 system. It updated itself and then it came up with an error message.. "E: The package kernel-image-2.4.9-586 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive

Re: How to make on board VIA VT82C686B sound chip work?

2001-10-14 Thread Antti Tolamo
At 13:40 14.10.2001, Morbo wrote: Hi, The title says it all :) Many thanks in advance! regards, Balazs What you've got? It needs atleast 2.2.19 kernel and you have to enable codec97 and vt82c drivers on your kernel with modconf. Won't work with 2.2.17 for example. I know, I have the c

Re: bad file

2001-10-14 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sunday 14 October 2001 05:26, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 22:18:55 PDT, Kevin writes: > >its got nothing to do with the attribs or the perms > > > >lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on > > ./guide.it.html > > > >and i cant fsck it because im not local and

Re: ls sort

2001-10-14 Thread Jesper Holmberg
Hi Daniel, I don't think this is possible with the the ls options. I use a function specified in my /etc/profile: ll () { ls -l --color=always "$@"|grep ^d |cat ls -l --color=always "$@"|egrep -v "^d|total\ [0-9]" |cat } This works like ls -l, but first gives directories, then other files.

Re[2]: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-14 Thread Søren Neigaard
Saturday, October 13, 2001, 7:21:08 PM, dman wrote: d> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 07:03:50PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: d> | Saturday, October 13, 2001, 5:42:09 PM, dman wrote: d> | | d>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:32:19PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | d>> | Saturday, October 13, 2001, 4:08:53 PM

Re: System freeze

2001-10-14 Thread Oliver Korff
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL > >PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL > >PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL > >PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ > > FWIW, I've tracked such do

Re: X server working but I can't log in (unstable)

2001-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 08:15:08AM +, Aniartia wrote: > okay I'm stuck on this one, xdm works great nice log in screen, but when I > try to log in I'm just dumped at xdm again, the only error I can find is: > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: /usr/bin/ssh-agent x-window-manager: No > such fi

Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > >> I get similar problems when burning CDs, though I've had it happen with [...] > > try nice when using the bzip2 (or whichever program causes problem) > > This sounds more like a problem with the priority of the interrupts. If > you've got an seria

Re: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-14 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 01:09:25PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: ... | Oh... Found out that xserver-xfree86 wasn't installed at all!? Strange | huh? I have had X running, so something must have gone badly wrong | during my apt-get dist-install, I wonder what else is missing. Yeah, that could be a p

PCMCIA under potato

2001-10-14 Thread Vittorio
I've installed and compiled the pcmcia source coming with Bunk's stuff under potato and kernel 2.4.9 (of course enabling pcmcia in the kernel). Then I've installed pcmcia-cs. Now when I start pcmcia service with two cards inserted (a modem and an ethernet card) the answer is as follows: debian:/

Re: X problems

2001-10-14 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 12-10-2001, at 08h 27'18", Kurt Lieber wrote: > I had a similar problem -- check to make sure you aren't also running gpm > (General Purpose Mouse interfaces) It doesn't always play nicely with X. > I know, it was the first think I checked. After that I looked at IRQ. Everything seams fine.

Re[2]: apt-get dist-update problem

2001-10-14 Thread Søren Neigaard
Sunday, October 14, 2001, 2:01:26 PM, dman wrote: d> On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 01:09:25PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: d> ... d> | Oh... Found out that xserver-xfree86 wasn't installed at all!? Strange d> | huh? I have had X running, so something must have gone badly wrong d> | during my apt-get dis

Re: How to make on board VIA VT82C686B sound chip work?

2001-10-14 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 01:54:54PM +0300, Antti Tolamo wrote: > At 13:40 14.10.2001, Morbo wrote: > >Hi, > > > >The title says it all :) > > > >Many thanks in advance! > >regards, > >Balazs > > > What you've got? > > It needs atleast 2.2.19 kernel and you have to enable codec97 > and vt82c

Re: netscape and debian stable

2001-10-14 Thread Jussi Ekholm
Karsten M. Self wrote: > Netscape 4.x sucks. It bites. It blows. It's shit. Ditch it. Netscape generally sucks, bites and blows, yes. But in my experience, Netscape 4.77 has been more stable than other versions. Uh well, personally I use Konqueror, but if I *really* have to, I use Netscape.

application menu won't load - more specifics follow

2001-10-14 Thread Paolo Falcone
After doing some admin tasks as root, when I restarted windowmaker it the application menu failed to load, leaving me with xterm, rxvt, restart and exit as the only options when I right-click in X. The application menu (debian menu) is still present when I use GNOME with sawfish, though. ERR

Re: problem occured while ripping audio CD

2001-10-14 Thread David Z Maze
ad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ad> Something weird happened while I ripping audio CD, such error message ad> shows as below.. ad> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ cdparanoia -vsQ -d /dev/cdrom ad> cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) ad> (C) 2001 Monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Xiphophorus ad> ad> Re

Re: How to make on board VIA VT82C686B sound chip work?

2001-10-14 Thread Antti Tolamo
At 17:03 14.10.2001, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 01:54:54PM +0300, Antti Tolamo wrote: > I hope this helps, > > Antti > > My PGP public key: > http://linux.tola.org/~chicken/antti_pgp.txt I have the following modules listed in modules.dep: /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17

Compiling openssh from source

2001-10-14 Thread Matt Wehland
I want to run a protocol v2 compatible version of ssh on a potato box. I've been told to just compile from source, although I have just added the later binaries and libraries to a system and had it work before. My question is where do I find a debianized openssh source package? It's not availa

lilo-beta package

2001-10-14 Thread Russell Coker
I have created some packages of a beta version of LILO named lilo-beta and lilo-beta-doc. They are available on http://www.coker.com.au/lilo/ for anyone who wants to play with them. At some future time they will be released as regular lilo and lilo-doc packages, but it won't be in time for woo

Pb with burner

2001-10-14 Thread frédérick
I run Debian unstable, kernel 2.4.8 on a Celeron 600 machine (overclocked @810 MHz)with my cd-burner on hdc and it is the only CD-ROM unit. I have the scsi emulation activated, and the burner is on scsi0. I first made it work by using /dev/sr0 as its entry in /dev. But then, I installed the man-pag

Re: PCMCIA under potato

2001-10-14 Thread D.
To find out the information that your looking for try lspci -a and lspci -n HTH Don --- Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've installed and compiled the pcmcia source coming > with Bunk's stuff > under potato and kernel 2.4.9 (of course enabling > pcmcia in the > kernel). Then I've installed p

Is initrd useful/necessary with a custom kernel?

2001-10-14 Thread John Purser
I'm running Woody with a 2.4.10 kernel. When I first upgraded from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9 I had to add a line to lilo.conf telling where the initrd was in order to boot. After reading man initrd and initrd.txt from the kernel documentation it seemed that the initrd was only useful/necessary for creating

What .deb Package contains apache.pm???

2001-10-14 Thread John Foster
I am trying to solve a recent problem that has developed with my Apache server installation. This happed with the last upgrade of testing. My system is now giving me the message below; and a complete disk search shows that there is NO file on the disk named apache.pm. I have no idea what happened.

RE: How-to

2001-10-14 Thread Scott Henson
Thank you so Very much. This is exactly whatI needed. > -Original Message- > From: Stephen Cope [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 3:59 AM > To: Scott Henson > Subject: Re: How-to > > > Try this: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:tinyplanet.ca/pubs/debian

Re: Compiling openssh from source

2001-10-14 Thread Kurt Lieber
I'm running a potato box with the OpenSSH .deb package installed from Woody. It runs great -- no problems whatsoever. So, you may not have to compile from source if you don't want to. On Sunday 14 October 2001 h:33 am, Matt Wehland wrote: > I want to run a protocol v2 compatible version of ssh o

Re: Filter of KMail

2001-10-14 Thread Kurt Lieber
I don't believe there's any separate package necessary to enable KMail's filters. It should be part of the KMail package itself. What do you see when you go into settings --> filter rules? --kurt On Sunday 14 October 2001 h:36 am, Liu Tao wrote: > I installed KMail, but I can't configure it'

Re: XFree86 nolisten option: Debian specific or general?

2001-10-14 Thread Jakob B. Jensen
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:58:53PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've been engaged in an extended offline discussion with an individual > on the topic of running remote X applications under Debian. Getting > beyond security concerns involved, the -nolisten flag of XFree86 is one > of the blocks

Logitech Cordless Trackman Marble FX (USB) 4th button problem

2001-10-14 Thread BAH Huisman
Hi all, I have a (4 day ago freshly installed) debian distribution, dist-upgraded to woody (almost no problems) and with kernel 2.4.12 compiled with the following, (relevant options for this prob only) options compiled in (* denotes that it is compiled as a module): Support for USB* Preliminary U

Debian books

2001-10-14 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly for Debian instead of just general linux?

Re: lynx-ssl: Alert! HTTP 1.0 400 bad request; Not with other browsers (fwd)

2001-10-14 Thread Shaul Karl
--- Forwarded Message Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 15:34:15 +0200 From: Morten Bo Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: lynx-ssl: Alert! HTTP 1.0 400 bad request; Not with other browsers Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is certainly a modified be

Re: Faulty apache configuration problems

2001-10-14 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:51:55PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > > look like some libapache-perl or whatever that package is called is > > missing > = > Thanks but, I am using the apache-perl.deb that has perl statically > l

Re: What .deb Package contains apache.pm???

2001-10-14 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:06:11AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I am trying to solve a recent problem that has developed with my Apache > server installation. This happed with the last upgrade of testing. My > system is now giving me the message below; and a complete disk search > shows that there i

Re: Is initrd useful/necessary with a custom kernel?

2001-10-14 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 09:03:57AM -0600, John Purser wrote: | I'm running Woody with a 2.4.10 kernel. When I first upgraded from 2.2.19 | to 2.4.9 I had to add a line to lilo.conf telling where the initrd was in | order to boot. After reading man initrd and initrd.txt from the kernel | documenta

Re: Debian books

2001-10-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Matthew On Sunday 14 October 2001 3:53 pm, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more > directly for Debian instead of just general linux? There's the O'Reilly one but it's really only for people who are just starting to use Debian ... http://www.sh

Re: X server working but I can't log in (unstable)

2001-10-14 Thread Aniartia
On Sunday 14 October 2001 11:13, Colin Watson wrote: > Are you running unstable? Have you read debian-devel or debian-x > recently? I think so.. and yes I did > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2001/debian-x-200110/msg4.html 'Twas one of the first things I did. Ani

Re: Compiling openssh from source

2001-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 09:33:17AM -0500, Matt Wehland wrote: > I want to run a protocol v2 compatible version of ssh on a potato > box. I've been told to just compile from source, although I have just > added the later binaries and libraries to a system and had it work before. > My question is

Command line wrappers?

2001-10-14 Thread Jorge L. deLyra
Hi, Free-BSD seems to have two very useful and equivalent programs, called "fep" and "ile", to wrap emacs-style or vi-style command-line editing and tcsh-style history mechanisms around any command-line driven program. You use them on the command line like in order to interact comforta

RE: Apt Get Barfs

2001-10-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Oct-2001 Richard Ibbotson wrote: > Dear All > > I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux. > > Just tried running ' apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' on my > Debain 2.2 r3 system. It updated itself and then it came up with an > error message.. > > "E: The package kernel-image-2.4.9

netatalk from source problems

2001-10-14 Thread Brian Boucheron
-- my apologies if this is a duplicate message, it doesn't seem to have gone -- through the first time though...unless there's a 24 hour lag... Hello all -- I'm attempting to build netatalk from its source package, due to the fact that the binary package doesn't seem to support encrypted passw

RE: What .deb Package contains apache.pm???

2001-10-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Oct-2001 John Foster wrote: > I am trying to solve a recent problem that has developed with my Apache > server installation. This happed with the last upgrade of testing. My > system is now giving me the message below; and a complete disk search > shows that there is NO file on the disk name

ext3 patch for kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-14 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, There is no patch for 2.4.12 for ext3 on the main site. http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/ Is ext3 included in linus's kernel in 2.4.12 ? Please cc your replies to me. I am not on the list. Thanks in advance. Peace -- Rajesh http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/* Powered By:

Getting ez-ipupdate to work

2001-10-14 Thread Jason Bleazard
Good Day, Has anyone managed to get ez-ipupdate to successfully update their dynamic DNS information? If so, can you tell me how you did it? My wife and I previously used the services offered by hn.org, but were manually updating the information any time we were assigned a new IP address. ez-ip

Re: bad performance on playing video

2001-10-14 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I use Xine to play VCD, DVD and other video files, the audio performance > is good, but the performance is awful, lots of lag. My CPU is PIII 1G, > 764Mb ram, and AGP card with 4Mb ram. So I don't think my hardware is not > powerful enough to play vid

Re: Can I force ftp to use passive mode?

2001-10-14 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm behind a firewall, that requires that ftp be run in "passive" mode. > While this s easy enough to do with the -p option, I would like to be able > to set some system wide configuration, or environmnet variable, so that all > users get this as the defaul

Re: What .deb Package contains apache.pm???

2001-10-14 Thread John Foster
Alson van der Meulen wrote: > Did you search for apache.pm or Apache.pm? It should be the latter --REPLY--- This is the result of my search: /usr/lib/perl5/SOAP/Transport/HTTP/Apache.pm /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0/Apache.pm /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0/Bu

Thanks (Re: JPEG or GIF background in fvwm?)

2001-10-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
Jussi, Thank you. Your method, using xv, works just fine. I had looked into xsetroot, but it seems to only work on bitmaps. When I tried xloadimage, it wanted to convert my .jpeg files to B/W. Since I already have xv I tried your method and it does just what I need it to do (now that I found t

Debian Mailman broken and undocumented

2001-10-14 Thread Glenn Murray
I downloaded and installed Mailman from Debian from potato stable. There seems to be no Debian readme for this package. It's broken, too: From the Mailman site I learned to add a ScriptAlias and Exec lines to httpd.conf (the latter unacceptable to Apache) and run mailman/bin/newlist. The newlist

XFree864 config question

2001-10-14 Thread Stan Brown
I'm seting up an old HP Vectra to run stable. Superprobe reports the following: First video: Super-VGA Chipset: S3 Trio64 (Port Probed) Memory: 1024 Kbytes RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) What dr

Re: System freeze

2001-10-14 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:09:45 +0200, Oliver Korff writes: >> Run memtest86 for a night or somesuch. > >It didn't take the night, the second test showed the bad ram. >!AAAggghhh! > >Before I'm going to have a screwdriver session I wanted to say: "thanx" (and >I was so shure, because I tested t

Re: Debian books

2001-10-14 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:53:46AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly for > Debian instead of just general linux? > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: Command line wrappers?

2001-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 02:50:13PM -0200, Jorge L. deLyra wrote: > Free-BSD seems to have two very useful and equivalent programs, > called "fep" and "ile", to wrap emacs-style or vi-style command-line > editing and tcsh-style history mechanisms around any command-line driven > program. You u

Network Card diagnostics

2001-10-14 Thread Scott Henson
I have a computer that has an on-board network card that doesnt seem to be working properly. We already took it in to be serviced once(we have a warentee), but the service people took for a few hours and when we picked it up they said it was a software problem and propmtly charged us $40 for a fal

Re: Thanks (Re: JPEG or GIF background in fvwm?)

2001-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 01:51:00PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Other suggestions were display, wmsetbg, esetroot, and chbg. These > might work, as well, but, since I already have xv I will stick with it. Bear in mind that xv is being removed in the next release of Debian, as it turned out that w

Re: What .deb Package contains apache.pm???

2001-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 12:28:52PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > 2. In the past I have seen links for all of perl in /etc/alternatives/. > They are not there in this recent installation. No, they've gone in woody. They caused too many problems. > This is a new install from the woody disks currently

Re: Debian Mailman broken and undocumented

2001-10-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Glenn Murray wrote: > I downloaded and installed Mailman from Debian from potato stable. > There seems to be no Debian readme for this package. > It's broken, too: From the Mailman site I learned to > add a ScriptAlias and Exec lines to httpd.conf (the >

Gnome MC keybindings

2001-10-14 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hi... I am using vanilla Gnome from Woody. Here is my question: I used to multi-select non-contiguous files in GMC by holding the CTRL key while clicking the files, but now it seems not to work anymore (only the SHIFT key will select contiguous files). Anyone knowing what's happening? Thanks a l

Re: What .deb Package contains apache.pm???

2001-10-14 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 12:28:52PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > Did you search for apache.pm or Apache.pm? It should be the latter > --REPLY--- > This is the result of my search: > > /usr/lib/perl5/SOAP/Tran

Dillo (Web-Browser Recommendation)

2001-10-14 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Hi folks, I have seen the recurring threads about web-browsers, so I looked at Dillo again. (Have watched it on and off since the very first versions, then called "gzilla"). Installed 0.6.1... and I'm *sooo* satisfied with this! So satisfied in fact, I really *have* to recommend it to y'all. I

Re: Debian books

2001-10-14 Thread Emerson Falcon
> > Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly for > > Debian instead of just general linux? > > > > > I have a book called Debian Unleashed that is excellent. Although, I > bought it some time ago and it came with 2.1. See if there is a new edition > for 2.2. Thi

Re: obtaining makemap [postfix]

2001-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
* Darren Wyn Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.13 21:33:36+0100]: > Where do I find 'makemap' to use with Postfix ? What package ? it's called postmap for all tables other than the alias table, for that you use the postalias command. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.

Added SCSI card, need to load module

2001-10-14 Thread Stan Brown
I just mved a SCSI card from one Debian machine (stable +2.4.9 kernel) to another. It uses the aic7xxx Adapatec driver module. How do I tell the ntarget machine to load this module on boot now? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. --

root can start x-programs on user-login

2001-10-14 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, since a recent upgrade in woody I can start x-apps when I su in a shell. I thought this should be impossible by default. What have I done? Where can I disable this? Ciao! juh -- Muss ich, oder läuft die EXPO auch ohne mich? http://www.sudelbuch.de/2000/2531.html

Unidentified subject!

2001-10-14 Thread ralf . jasch
- original Nachricht On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Tony wrote: > > Potato 2.2.19 Linux only box. I'm having a problem with the dates. > $date Sun Oct 14 03:58:09 EST 2001 <- is tomorrow $date -u Sat Oct 13 > 17:59:40 UTC 2001 <- is correct have checked the date in the BIOS is > ok. have

Re: debug messages while logged out

2001-10-14 Thread Gary Turner
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 19:51:50 -0700, you wrote: >On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 06:41:57PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: > > > >> There are no background tasks running. At least non that I know about. > >Ah, that's where you're wrong... you have PostgreSQL installed and >running. That cruft is telling you t

debian-wisdom

2001-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
hi, every now and then, discussions on debian-.* appear, which don't have anything to do with debian. even worse, sometime, these messages deal with micro$oft or other topics that make us feel uneasy (substitute adjective of choice if desireable). the reasons for that are simple: debian-.* mailing

Re: Lock ups with kernel 2.4.10 & 2.4.12

2001-10-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Morgan Terry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I know this probably isn't debian related, but I figured I'd ask > here anyway. My system is locking solid whenever I either (a) > exit X windows, or (b) switch to a VT from X (i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F2), > or (c) the console blanker comes on. I have this

Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-14 Thread csj
On Sunday 14 October 2001 06:13, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, csj wrote: > > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my > > meager 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process > > ppp traffic becomes so abysmal I even get disconnected.

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