Re: Difference between APT pin and dpkg hold

2001-12-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:27:12PM +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > What is the difference between pinning a package (as described in the > APT HOWTO), and setting the ``hold flag'' using dpkg? pin decides priority of archived packages against installed one. hold just hold installed package. > Do A

Re: How to capture start up messages?

2001-12-12 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 23:53, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:35:46AM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > > > How can I do this? > > > > $ less /var/log/dmesg > > Same problem, only contains kernel messages. Those produced during init > ain't there. :( Check your /var/log/syslog --mik

No text in gnome printing

2001-12-12 Thread Simon Wong
Hi all. I'm hoping someone here can help me as I've had no luck so far. Anything I try and print through the gnome print architecture has no text. The preview shows no text and neither does the output. I am using Debian with the following package versions: ||/ Name Version +++-==

Re: How to capture start up messages?

2001-12-12 Thread martin f krafft
sorry if this is out-of-sequence, and i can't verify it since my systems have been up too long, but try adding this local7.* /var/log/boot.log to you syslog.conf, then kill -HUP the process and see if it works. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the

Re: Homework

2001-12-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:45:33PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > 1. RTFM (Read The Friendly Manual) > > 2. Search the {archives | HOW-TOs} > > 3. Ask your local {Linux | Unix} guru (if you have one) > If people see man, /usr/share/doc/, pointers to previous posts and > similar resources mentio

Re: gnumeric, rxvt hang because of fontpath

2001-12-12 Thread briand
> "Craig" == Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Craig> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 282 ?S 0:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt --port 7100 --daemon --user nobody >> >> Does xfstt, see above count ? Craig> It ought to. Craig> Try this. As root, run "netstat -anp --tcp"

Re: Newbie comments & queries (numlock)

2001-12-12 Thread Gary Turner
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 21:22:29 -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: >On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:15:35AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 03:58:05PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: >> > Karsten M. Self wrote: Thank you, Brenda. That is the most cogent, concise, and readable explanation I'v

Re: apt-get source problem

2001-12-12 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > $ apt-get source php4/testing > > should work, but doesn't. It says "unable to find a source package > for php4/testing" ... > > I'm looking at the pool directory and the source for 4.0.100 (the > version in testing) is there ... so you could a

php4 parameter problems

2001-12-12 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I have a testing url like: http://host.domain.com/test.php?111+222+&test_par=aaa&; then in test.php, I can get 111 as argv0 222 as argv1 &test_par=aaa& as argv3 but I can't get the value of $test_par, which should be aaa I found when I get the php4 source and compile myself, it is ok. Bu

Re: Need help w/ dhcpd and shared-network option . . .

2001-12-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, As previous poster said "what is your Debian box's config" Please post output of "ifconfig" command together with "/etc/network/interfaces". Also state "potato" or "woody". Cheers :-) On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:25:52PM -0700, Jeff Vincent wrote: > There are no other routers between the su

kernel: Cannot find map file; 2.4.13

2001-12-12 Thread Mike McNally
make config/menuconfig/xconfig make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.4.13 cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/map edit lilo.conf lilo reboot failure... dozens of failures (sysmap error) So which of these processes creates t

php parameter problems

2001-12-12 Thread pahud
Hello, I have a testing url like: http://host.domain.com/test.php?111+222+&test_par=aaa&; then in test.php, I can get 111 as argv0 222 as argv1 &test_par=aaa& as argv3 but I can't get the value of $test_par, which should be aaa I found when I get the php4 source and compile myself, it is ok. Bu

Re: apt-get source problem

2001-12-12 Thread Patrick Hsieh
This is cool! Back to apt-cache, can I specify a release name and query the version number of a specific package? like apt-cache -t stable show php4 But seems apt-cache does not provide -t. > Thus spake Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > $ apt-get source php4/testing > > > > should

Programming man pages.

2001-12-12 Thread Ted Roden
Hi everyone. I apologize for such a silly question. I can't seem to find which package contains the man pages for basic programming functions like stat and sprintf etc. I was thinking perhaps it is gcc-doc, but it claims: The following packages will be REMOVED: g++ g++-2.95 gcc gcc-2.95 libs

Re: What happened to compose? Yet more information

2001-12-12 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:52:12AM -0500, dman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:38:06PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > | We found this this morning: > | > | In bash type Ctrl-v Ctrl-. "e and then get ë. > > Do you have bash (readline) in "vi" mode or "emacs" mode? In vim I > can type ^V to esc

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Didier Malenfant
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 23:16, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible that you haven't created your audio devices? Example: > > # cd /dev > # ./MAKEDEV audio > > other than that you should be fine... > > Cameron Matheson Nope, audio seems like it's there ok: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -

Re: How to capture start up messages?

2001-12-12 Thread John Covici
I have always thought that Debian should take a trick from Redhat i.e. the initscripts are executed in such a way that the standard output and error go to something called boot.log -- e2fsck seems to have been an exception, but it would really be nice if Debian did this as well. On 12 Dec 2001, Mi

proper set-up of xconsole ?

2001-12-12 Thread briand
I've noticed that the default persmissions on xconsole are : ~ $ ls -l /dev/xconsole prw-r-1 root adm 0 Dec 11 22:52 /dev/xconsole When I start xconsole in my xsession file it can't access xconsole. What is the proper way to set permissions. Should I make interested us

space usage misreported?

2001-12-12 Thread Adrian Bolzan
Hello, This is the first post to the list so if I am out of line just let me know. We have a small problem here. When using 'df -h' we receive the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 1.4G 757M 577M 57% / /dev/sda5 1.8G 1.7G 1

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-12 Thread Jérôme-Georges-Michel BENOIT
Thanks you very much for your advice. > do you have a real smp kernel installed? Good question ;-) I guess that I have installed Debian in the basic way: 1] how can I check this point ? 2] may I configure some files ? 3] may I build a new kernel ? Thanks, Jerome BENOIT

Re: apt-get and/or dpkg problem

2001-12-12 Thread Alexander Dreweke
hi But how can that be? After i've switched on my computer the first and only thing i've started was apt-get distupgrade (so i dont't think there is another apt/dpkg/dselect/aptitude/etc running [ps -aux atleast doesn't show any). And many packeages before and after the mozilla-package were su

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-12 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 23:53, Didier Malenfant wrote: > Nope, audio seems like it's there ok: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/audio > crw-rw1 root audio 14, 4 Nov 30 2000 /dev/audio Hi, Do you have /dev/dsp too? The only reason i ask is that './MAKEDEV audio' makes many de

Re: Programming man pages.

2001-12-12 Thread Erik Steffl
Ted Roden wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > I apologize for such a silly question. well, if you can't find an answer then it's not silly to ask... > I can't seem to find which package contains the man pages for basic > programming functions like stat and sprintf etc. > > I was thinking perhaps it

Re: Help with SB Live and digital out--LONG

2001-12-12 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 December 2001 9:01 pm, Brad Cramer wrote: > I have asked this before and still can't get the problem fixed so here we > go again. > System specs: ... > SB Live 5.1 sound card > Running Debian Sid with alsa 0.9.0beta10 compiled from source

Re: Programming man pages.

2001-12-12 Thread Ted Roden
> > there you go, you know how to fish now (for a very specific fish only, > but hope it will help anyway). > Thank you so much, I found it. And fishing is fun. -Ted.

Re: gpm config difficulties

2001-12-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 04:38:49AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Does /var/log/dmesg indicate the PS/2 mouse port was detected? > > > > -- > > Jerome > > > As a matter of fact dmesg does not indicate that a PS/2 mouse port was > detected. I am not sure why this is, be

Re: kernel: Cannot find map file; 2.4.13

2001-12-12 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Mike McNally ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > make config/menuconfig/xconfig > make dep > make bzImage > make modules > make modules_install > > cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.4.13 > cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/map > edit lilo.conf > lilo > reboot > failure... do

how to print dilbert comics

2001-12-12 Thread dman
Sometimes I'd like to print a dilbert comic and share with someone who wouldn't go look on the web. Galeon does a good job of loading the image and displaying it on-screen, but when I print it comes out a little too wide and gets cut off on the right (us-letter paper). I can print to a file, but

debian firewall and screen noise

2001-12-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
I run debian as my firewall. After @HOME -> @ATTBI.COM transition of my ISP, I started to get some weired packets. More annoyingly, any funny packets log shows up on screen. ICMP comming with wrong address to route seems to be one I can not get it quiet. Somehow my old IP (used at @HOME) get pa

Re: Exim and its periodic calls to internet - A few questions

2001-12-12 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 December 2001 10:49 am, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > I usually use kmail for my e-mail, but I have exim installed too. I mean to > learn about it some day. I'm getting some puzzling internet connections > that appear to be initiated by exim, bu

[slightly OT] How the heck can the private LAN make DNS requests behind a proxy?

2001-12-12 Thread Calyth
I'm planning to set up a proxy, and I'll have to get the standard services (HTTP, FTP, POP), and SOCKS on the firewall. I'm just wondering how the heck the machines inside can get DNS requests if they need to have a DNS resolved? Do I have to setup a DNS for that purpose? Calyth

Re: [slightly OT] How the heck can the private LAN make DNS requests

2001-12-12 Thread nate
> I'm planning to set up a proxy, and I'll have to get the standard > services (HTTP, FTP, POP), and SOCKS on the firewall. I'm just > wondering how the heck the machines inside can get DNS requests if > they need to have a DNS resolved? Do I have to setup a DNS for that > purpose? i would highly

Re: debian firewall and screen noise

2001-12-12 Thread nate
> Does anyone have way to stop overwriting console screen? i very rarely see the console of my firewalls..but you may want to look at /etc/syslog.conf daemon.*;mail.*;\ news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\ *.=debug;*.=info;\ *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole that may be

Re: space usage misreported?

2001-12-12 Thread nate
> Hello, > > where did the other 1.6GB go? did you delete a buncha stuff? in many cases deleted data is not actually freed up until the process that was using the data exits. one quick way to be sure all processes exit cleanly is to go to runlevel 1 and back to runlevel2 (init 1). you'll need co

Re: debian firewall and screen noise

2001-12-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:31:16AM -0800, nate wrote: > > > Does anyone have way to stop overwriting console screen? ... > you may want to look at /etc/syslog.conf ... # NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably # busy site.. # > daemon.*;mail.*;\ > news.c

Re: proper set-up of xconsole ?

2001-12-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:54:16PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've noticed that the default persmissions on xconsole are : > > ~ $ ls -l /dev/xconsole > prw-r-1 root adm 0 Dec 11 22:52 /dev/xconsole > > When I start xconsole in my xsession f

Anyone else having problems with file uploads and PHP4?

2001-12-12 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, Sometime after an upgrade, file uploads seem to have died with PHP4 (for me). Is anyone else having problems? I've upgraded all the way to 4.1-2 to try and shake the problem without success. The configuration file has the option switched on. Just wondering if it's "me" or PHP in general...

mysteriously locked terminal

2001-12-12 Thread asl
I am using potato. When I press Control-X Control-S (yes, it's from emacs), I got my terminal locked (at least that's how i see it). What actually happened? And how can I get my terminal 'back'.

Re: mysteriously locked terminal

2001-12-12 Thread asl
It seems control-S is sending a stop signal. What should I do to restart? - Original Message - From: "asl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:22 PM Subject: mysteriously locked terminal > I am using potato. > When I press Control-X Control-S (yes, it's from ema

Re: mysteriously locked terminal

2001-12-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:22:32PM +0900, asl wrote: > I am using potato. > When I press Control-X Control-S (yes, it's from emacs), > I got my terminal locked (at least that's how i see it). > What actually happened? And how can I get my terminal 'back'. CONTROL-S locks screen CONTROL-Q unlocks

Re: mysteriously locked terminal

2001-12-12 Thread Steffan Baron
Try Ctrl-Q and you should be back . Gruss Steffan On Wed, Dec 12, 2001, asl wrote: > >I am using potato. >When I press Control-X Control-S (yes, it's from emacs), >I got my terminal locked (at least that's how i see it). >What actually happened? And how can I get my terminal 'back'. > > >

Re: mysteriously locked terminal

2001-12-12 Thread asl
- Original Message - From: "Osamu Aoki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "asl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:23 PM Subject: Re: mysteriously locked terminal > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:22:32PM +0900, asl wrote: > > I am using potato. > > When I press Control-X Cont

Re: Patititioning hard drive

2001-12-12 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 01:14, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Hmm. More like 5MB for /boot and 10GB for /. Ooops. Of course. My multi-partition setup confused me > A separate partition for > users' data may not be a bad idea, but if you do regular backups that > doesn't really matter. Don't know, does

Re: mysteriously locked terminal

2001-12-12 Thread Andrew Nesbit
asl wrote: - Original Message - From: "Osamu Aoki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "asl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:23 PM Subject: Re: mysteriously locked terminal On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:22:32PM +0900, asl wrote: I am using potato. When I press Control

Re: Network Card Modules

2001-12-12 Thread Keith O'Connell
Noah Meyerhans wrote: > You need the natsemi module. It is not included with kernel 2.2.x > If you're running kernel 2.4.x, just add support for the National > Semiconductor DP83810" chipset in your kernel config. Thank you - That will do the trick I expect --

Re: how to print dilbert comics

2001-12-12 Thread Erik Steffl
dman wrote: > > Sometimes I'd like to print a dilbert comic and share with someone who > wouldn't go look on the web. > > Galeon does a good job of loading the image and displaying it > on-screen, but when I print it comes out a little too wide and gets > cut off on the right (us-letter paper).

Re: Patititioning hard drive

2001-12-12 Thread dgabi
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:14:32 -0600 Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When your system switches from reading in a binary from /bin to > writing a pid file in /var, obviously, there'll be head movement. > If /bin sits on one end of the disk, and /var on another, there'll > be more head mov

SMP: MTRR problem (Compaq ML-370 BIOS bug)

2001-12-12 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Hello: I have just compiled a 2.2.19 kernel for a Compaq ML370 with SMP support remotely (because it is a debian :-). I have read: http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/Configure.help-2.2 http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/proliantml370/description2.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMP-HO

Re: how to print dilbert comics

2001-12-12 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 01:13:09 -0500, dman wrote: > >Sometimes I'd like to print a dilbert comic and share with someone who >wouldn't go look on the web. > >Galeon does a good job of loading the image and displaying it >on-screen, but when I print it comes out a little too wide and gets >cut off on

Re: space usage misreported?

2001-12-12 Thread ben
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:26 pm, Adrian Bolzan wrote: [snip] > When using 'df -h' we receive the following: > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 1.4G 757M 577M 57% / > /dev/sda5 1.8G 1.7G 104M 95% /var > /dev/sda6 610M

Re: Patititioning hard drive

2001-12-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Does these aregument below true for highly on-memmory cached file system like Linux? It aint DOS. Also modern HDD comes with quite a bit of memory and optimized firmware to reduce headmovement. I wonder ... :-) Single drive is worse than multi drive, I agree. Cheers On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 1

X display managers: xauth problems, can't login, connection refused

2001-12-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
Keywords: xauth Xauthority wdm xdm gdm kdm MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE Client is not authorized to connect to Server I'm using wdm as a local X display manager under Sid/i386. Following a recent update, I'm no longer able to log in as either an unprivileged user or root. On properly authenticating to the

Re: Kmail bug

2001-12-12 Thread Jose Manuel Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Mar 11 Dic 2001 22:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > I upgraded to woody, and now when I use KMail to download my email, it > doesn't show the headers correctly, most email show "No Subject" and sender > "unknown" But if I look at the headers in vi

Kernel compilation error.......

2001-12-12 Thread C
Hi there I recently upgraded my machinevia apt.this included a glibc6/-dev upgrade amongst other things. now when compiling a kernel...even one known to previously compileit fails at this point every time drivers/net/net.o(.data+0xd4): undefined reference to `local symbols in

Re: Kernel compilation error.......

2001-12-12 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
well I had trouble like those some times, and I assume that is something related with a misconfigured kernel configuration file. I reinstalled the source ( lazy ) and reconfigured the kernel to compile, and everything went just fine. On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, C wrote: > Hi there > > I recently upgra

Re: Fwd: Gnome panel fonts replaced by rectangles.

2001-12-12 Thread Adam Bogacki
Adam, your solution (link below) states ... "Greg reports his problems were fixed by adding "/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts" to the "@default_paths" of "/usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/run-gnome-font-install" and then running "sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgnomeprint-data.postinst configure"

Compilation error under debian

2001-12-12 Thread François
Hello Look at this error while trying to build openh323 1.7.4 uder debian woody gcc version 2.95.4 any idea ? Thanks François Francois : make Created dependencies. set -e; make -C src optdepend; make -C samples/simple optdepend; make[1]: Entering directory `/disks/opt/OPENH323/ope

php4 url parameters and arguments problem

2001-12-12 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I have a testing url like: http://host.domain.com/test.php?111+222+&test_par=aaa&; then in test.php, I can get 111 as argv0 222 as argv1 &test_par=aaa& as argv3 but I can't get the value of $test_par, which should be aaa I found when I get the php4 source and compile myself, it is ok. Bu

[kmail] yes, it's stuffed

2001-12-12 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi all, I'm getting a great many messages telling me that kmail and knode are both stuffed in 2.2.2-5. By simple empirical evidence, this appears to be correct; however I did not compile 2.2.2-5 myself (it was sponsored), so it may be a bad compile/upload on that person's behalf. I need to upload

Re: debian firewall and screen noise

2001-12-12 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anyone have way to stop overwriting console screen? I've heard/seen that 'dmesg -n1' works for this. -- Justin R. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> View my website at http://codesorcery.net Please encrypt email using key 0xC9C40C31 pgp348htiUPo9.pgp

Re: Kernel compilation error.......

2001-12-12 Thread Dragos
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 01:38 pm, C wrote: > Hi there > > I recently upgraded my machinevia apt.this included a glibc6/-dev > upgrade amongst other things. > now when compiling a kernel...even one known to previously > compileit fails at this point every time > > drivers/n

Re: [OpenH323]Compilation error under debian

2001-12-12 Thread François
Sorry all, a pb between gcc3 and gcc 2.95.4. don't acte ! François On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:40:25 +0100 François Chenais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Look at this error while trying to build openh323 1.7.4 uder debian woody > gcc version 2.95.4 > > > any idea ? Th

Re: php4 url parameters and arguments problem

2001-12-12 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 14:37, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello, > I have a testing url like: > http://host.domain.com/test.php?111+222+&test_par=aaa&; > > then in test.php, I can get > 111 as argv0 > 222 as argv1 > &test_par=aaa& as argv3 > > but I can't get the value of $test_par, which should

Re: Kernel compilation error.......

2001-12-12 Thread C
I have tried with same options as installed kernelalso with kernels .14 and .16 sourcealso got another person to check...see i wasnt madlol.. this is why i think it might be the C libs c^ - Original Message - From: "J.A.Serralheiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "C" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Kernel compilation error.......

2001-12-12 Thread G. Soyez
Hi CraigT On Merkidi 12 Decimbe 2001 12:38, C wrote: > Hi there > > I recently upgraded my machinevia apt.this included a glibc6/-dev > upgrade amongst other things. > now when compiling a kernel...even one known to previously > compileit fails at this point every time > > driv

Re: Kernel compilation error.......

2001-12-12 Thread Dragos
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 03:19 pm, C wrote: > I have tried with same options as installed kernelalso with kernels .14 > and .16 sourcealso got another person to check...see i wasnt > madlol.. > this is why i think it might be the C libs > > c^ > > - Original Message - >

Re: Logwatch anyone using it on Debian?

2001-12-12 Thread Michael Wagner
On Dienstag, 11. Dez. 2001 at 23:31:59, Josef Oswald wrote: >I have one more question though: > >I would like to move part of my Debian-Linux onto another HDD, I got 3 >Disks on my system, ( and one more Linux-Installation which I could >use to transfer Debian) is there somewhere a How-to or other

Re: Building Samba 2.2.2 on Potato (SWAT problems)

2001-12-12 Thread Bill Cooper
Hello, I got it working. I scrubbed the Samba binary and source code directories and re-installed from a freshly pulled down source with the same ./configure parameters like before ad it works. No idea what caused it the first time. I have tried re-compiling a few times and it works flawless

purging swap disk

2001-12-12 Thread Brian Stults
Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the program, the swap space still appears to be occupied. It's mostly an annoyance, and probably doesn't affect anything. However, it seems that perhaps it would b

Ghostscript fonts missing

2001-12-12 Thread Milo Thurston
Hello, I'm running Debian 3.0, and have run into a problem when viewing ps files with gv. This is typical: Error: /invalidfont in findfontGNU Ghostscript 6.51: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Operand stack: elvetica Font Helve

Re: Fwd: Gnome panel fonts replaced by rectangles.

2001-12-12 Thread Adam Warner
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 01:26, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Adam, > > your solution (link below) states ... > > "Greg reports his problems were fixed by adding > "/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts" to the "@default_paths" of > "/usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/run-gnome-font-install" > and then runnin

Upgrading to Woody and Config'ing

2001-12-12 Thread Ian Chilton
Hello, ** I am not subscribed to the list, so please CC replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** I have just been given remote access to a box I am going to use as a server. It has Debian 2.2 (stable) installed. (It's a Sun Ultra 1 (sparc64)). What I want to do is the following: - Remove unwanted pack

Re: purging swap disk

2001-12-12 Thread Steffan Baron
One possible way to achieve this is to do a 'swapoff' followed by a 'swapon' . ;) Gruss Steffan On Wed, Dec 12, 2001, Brian Stults wrote: > >Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like >win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the >program, t

Q: Does an "on screen keyboard" exist for *nix?

2001-12-12 Thread Andreas Maresch
Hallo there! I want to create a _very_ secure environment (in my case: an encrypted disk to store all my passwords. The creation of a encrypted disk is very easy. But i miss a secure way to enter the password). Since key loggers become more and more common passwords typed in via keyboards are

Consensus on best tools to convert LPs&tapes to CDs ?.............

2001-12-12 Thread Courtney Thomas
Good Morning ! What is the collective experience of Debian users regarding the conversion of LPs, reel-to-reel tapes and cassette tapes to CDs ? I'm running Debian-2.4.6 if it makes any difference. Shared experience appreciated, Courtney

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-12 Thread Aaron Traas
I don't know how to answer the question you asked, but there is something you need to consider. Assuming you have an Athlon of the Thunderbird core or later, you have: 128K of L1 cache 256K of L2 cache Most CPU's use an inclusive cache mechanism. What this means is that all data s

Re: purging swap disk

2001-12-12 Thread Casper Gielen
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:50:43AM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like > win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the > program, the swap space still appears to be occupied. It's mostly an > > -Brian Wha

Where is my "tilde" ?

2001-12-12 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hello List After latest sid update (yesterday), I remarked that I cannot access the "tilde" symbol in xterms and other programs under X any more. I am using a german keyboard layout, and I usually get the tilde hile pressing AltGr + ClosingSquareBracket on american keyboard (Just left of the en

Re: YMH OPL3-SA2 and ALSA. Comments?

2001-12-12 Thread DvB
Angelo Cano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 03:42:11PM -0600, DvB wrote: > [snip] > > In light of all the trouble I've been having with the current OSS driver > > (I finally got all the modules to load manually, but I still can't get > > the master-volume/treble/bass mixer ch

Re: Q: Does an "on screen keyboard" exist for *nix?

2001-12-12 Thread Wayne Sitton
There has to be some, the Linux on handhelds uses on-screen keyboards. If you can't find a full program, you could goto handhelds.org and get the source from either familiar or intamate. And then just port it over Wayne On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 15:08, Andreas Maresch wrote: > Hallo there! > > I

2.4.XX Kernels and testing

2001-12-12 Thread Nicholas . Rohozen
Hi Everyone!! I used the unofficial reiserfs boot disks to install debian on my system and I want to upgrade my kernel to 2.4.16, I took a look at my /usr/src directory and there was nothing there so I downloaded the tar ball and untarred it into /usr/src/ so then I went into the linux folder th

Re: Logwatch anyone using it on Debian?

2001-12-12 Thread Josef Oswald
Michael Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Dienstag, 11. Dez. 2001 at 23:31:59, Josef Oswald wrote: > >>I have one more question though: >> >>I would like to move part of my Debian-Linux onto another HDD, I got 3 >>Disks on my system, ( and one more Linux-Installation which I could >>use to t

Re: Kernel compilation error.......

2001-12-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 14:21:53 +0100, G. Soyez wrote: > It seems that the bug comes from the binutils package and can be solved by > downgrading binutils. No it doesn't. The bug is in the kernel sources, and older versions of binutils just happened not to fail on it whereas the newer one does.

Mutt "From Address"

2001-12-12 Thread Titty Jacob
Hi All, Just see the from address of this mail. It gives the "To Address" as the from address. How shall I configure mutt to put 'my from address' as my from address. Tt.

Re: [slightly OT] How the heck can the private LAN make DNS requests behind a proxy?

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:07:27AM -0800, Calyth wrote: | I'm planning to set up a proxy, and I'll have to get the standard | services (HTTP, FTP, POP), and SOCKS on the firewall. I'm just wondering | how the heck the machines inside can get DNS requests if they need to | have a DNS resolved? Do I

Netmasks unmasked (was Re: Need help w/ dhcpd )

2001-12-12 Thread Brandon N
Subnet masks: If you take an IP address, such as 192.168.1.10, it has two parts, a subnet, and a host, how do you know where one ends and the other begins? The subnet mask IP subnet mask subnet host 192.168.10.10 255.255.255.0192.168.10.010 192.168.10.10 255

Re: Mutt "From Address"

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 09:07:55PM +0530, Titty Jacob wrote: | Hi All, | | Just see the from address of this mail. From: Titty Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | It gives the "To Address" as the from address. It looks correct to me. | How shall I configure mutt to put 'my from address' as | my f

Re: Dual Processor machine

2001-12-12 Thread MH
> "Jérôme-Georges-Michel" == Jérôme-Georges-Michel BENOIT <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> writes: Jérôme-Georges-Michel> Thanks you very much for your advice. >> do you have a real smp kernel installed? Jérôme-Georges-Michel> Good question ;-) Jérôme-Georges-Michel> I guess that I

Re: apt-get source problem

2001-12-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:13:50AM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote: > Thus spake Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > $ apt-get source php4/testing > > > > should work, but doesn't. It says "unable to find a source package > > for php4/testing" ... > > > > I'm looking at the pool directory

Re: Mutt "From Address"

2001-12-12 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Titty Jacob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Just see the from address of this mail. It gives the "To Address" as > the from address. How shall I configure mutt to put 'my from address' > as my from address. Mutt does this based on the value(s) in $alternates, as well as your $index_format. F

Re: apt-get source problem

2001-12-12 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I think that the -t flag works for getting source as well. Have a > > look at the man page. > > It didn't. I tried that and thought I mentioned it in my email ... > that bit seems to have been omitted. My bad. Ah, yeah, didn't see that ment

Re: Mutt "From Address"

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:53:06AM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote: | Thus spake Titty Jacob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | | > Just see the from address of this mail. It gives the "To Address" as | > the from address. How shall I configure mutt to put 'my from address' | > as my from address. | | Mutt d

emu10k1 troubles...

2001-12-12 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I'm having weird problems with sound using the emu10k1 module. The system bell is coming out through the speakers, but other sound (xmms, gcd, etc..) seems to play (ie no complaints about devices, visualization shows levels) but no sound comes out. Adjusting mixer levels affects the system b

Re: how to print dilbert comics

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:53:15AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: | dman wrote: | > | > Sometimes I'd like to print a dilbert comic and share with someone who | > wouldn't go look on the web. | > | > Galeon does a good job of loading the image and displaying it | > on-screen, but when I print it comes

Re: purging swap disk

2001-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:50:43AM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like > win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the > program, the swap space still appears to be occupied. It's mostly an > annoyance, and probab

Re: 2.4.XX Kernels and testing

2001-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:06:35AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I used the unofficial reiserfs boot disks to install debian on my > system and I want to upgrade my kernel to 2.4.16, I took a look at my > /usr/src directory and there was nothing there so I downloaded the tar > ball and untarr

Re: how to print dilbert comics

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:56:58AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 01:13:09 -0500, dman wrote: | | >Sometimes I'd like to print a dilbert comic and share with someone who | >wouldn't go look on the web. | > | >Galeon does a good job of loading the image and displaying it | >on-scree

Re: Patititioning hard drive

2001-12-12 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Mario Vukelic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 01:14, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > Hmm. More like 5MB for /boot and 10GB for /. > > Ooops. Of course. My multi-partition setup confused me > > > A separate partition for > > users' data may not be a bad idea, but if you d

Re: Upgrading to Woody and Config'ing

2001-12-12 Thread Paolo Falcone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ian Chilton wrote: >Hello, > >** I am not subscribed to the list, so please CC replies to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** >I have just been given remote access to a box I am going to use as a >server. It has Debian 2.2 (stable) installed. (It's a Sun Ultra 1

Re: purging swap disk

2001-12-12 Thread Paolo Falcone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Stults wrote: >Is there a way to purge the swap disk? When I run something like >win4lin, it can sometimes take up a lot of disk swap. When I close the >program, the swap space still appears to be occupied. It's mostly an >annoyance, and pro

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