Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-26 Thread Erik Steffl
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: ... > The problem isn't just vi, though. _Most_ Unix commands are based on > mnemonic, consonant-heavy, abbreviations: ls, cd, rm, mv, ll, who, vi, > ps, mutt, df Most of these are balanced between left and right > hands, leading to good natural rhythems, many are ba

Re: kernel compile problems

2001-12-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 10:53:06PM -0500, Sean Johnson wrote: > The current binutils in sid is fine for compiling 2.4.17 (latest 2.4.x stable > kernel). It's not binutils that have the problem... it's the kernel. Use a 2.4.17 or later kernel if you want to avoid the error showing up most of the

sound blaster

2001-12-26 Thread Mike Atamas
Im having lots of problems trying to configure my soundblaster live. I tried to use Alsa but it told me my card wasnt found. That is strange since mandrake and redhat detected my card, and so does windows. I tried to install the soundcore module which told me I had unresolved symbols. Then I tried

Re: sound blaster

2001-12-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Mike Atamas wrote: > Im having lots of problems trying to configure my soundblaster live. I > tried to use Alsa but it told me my card wasnt found. That is strange since > mandrake and redhat detected my card, and so does windows. I tried to > install the soundcore module whic

Re: ssh and X

2001-12-26 Thread Jens Müller
Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Jens Müller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Since upgrading to Woody, X forwarding over ssh does not work any > > longer, which is a bad thing, since I cannot run X programs as > > super-user now. > > Check that you allow X11 forwarding and roo

Is there mutt browseable Maildir solution?

2001-12-26 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I am running Debian 3.0(woody) with mutt, courier-imap and postfix with Maildir. Everything is working well, but I can't find the solution for mutt to browse Maildir subfolders. Any solutions? -- -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info

Don't replace manpages_1.46-1_all.deb (for SPARC)

2001-12-26 Thread Yury Lyakh
-- venus:~# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 10 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/330kB

Re: Is there mutt browseable Maildir solution?

2001-12-26 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:25:17PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello list, > > I am running Debian 3.0(woody) with mutt, courier-imap and postfix with > Maildir. Everything is working well, but I can't find the solution for > mutt to browse Maildir subfolders. Any solutions? Press the 'c' butto

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-26 Thread Ted Harding
On 26-Dec-01 Karsten M. Self wrote: > The problem isn't just vi, though. _Most_ Unix commands are based on > mnemonic, consonant-heavy, abbreviations: ls, cd, rm, mv, ll, who, vi, > ps, mutt, df Most of these are balanced between left and right > hands, leading to good natural rhythems, many

Debian issue's and problems

2001-12-26 Thread gizim69
i came to try Debian because i have heard soo many good things about this distro. Well i have come to find that it is FALSE! r. Potato is the most broken release i have ever seen the most simple packages are broken all to hell. I get this when startx X connection to :0.0 broken i had problems in

ppp problems

2001-12-26 Thread Dan Pomohaci
Hi, I'm using Debian Woody (kernel 2.2.20 and ppp version 2.4.1). I tried to connect to my ISP but until now I had no success. I have an external modem and I used pppconfig (chat protocol) to set the connection parameters. After I run the command: pon myprovider the modem find my ISP but after fe

Re: ssh and X

2001-12-26 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On 25 Dec 2001, Jens Müller wrote: > Since upgrading to Woody, X forwarding over ssh does not work any > longer, which is a bad thing, since I cannot run X programs as > super-user now. Ssh tunnels X, if you start it with option -X (at least under potato). Best wishes, Kerstin -- Dr.

Using Archives

2001-12-26 Thread Stephen Brown
Hi All Rx following email ls -l latest BEGIN---cut here-- total 7 -rw-rw1 list list 1589 Dec 19 00:59 186927 -rw-rw1 list list 2323 Dec 19 01:02 186928 -rw-rw1 list list 1554 Dec 19 01:05 186929 END---

Re: Don't replace manpages_1.46-1_all.deb (for SPARC)

2001-12-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:51:54AM +0300, Yury Lyakh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > -- > venus:~# apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0

Re: Debian issue's and problems

2001-12-26 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i came to try Debian because i have heard soo many good things about this > distro. > Well i have come to find that it is FALSE! > > r. Potato is the most broken release i have ever seen > the most simple packages are broken all to hell. > I get this when startx > >

Re: Debian issue's and problems

2001-12-26 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > i came to try Debian because i have heard soo many good things about this > distro. > Well i have come to find that it is FALSE! > > r. Potato is the most broken release i have ever seen > the most simple packages are broken all to hell. > I get this when startx

Re: ssh and X

2001-12-26 Thread Jens Müller
Kerstin Hoef-Emden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Since upgrading to Woody, X forwarding over ssh does not work any > > longer, which is a bad thing, since I cannot run X programs as > > super-user now. > > Ssh tunnels X, if you start it with option -X (at least under potato). I did slogin -X l

Re: ssh and X

2001-12-26 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
On 26 Dec 2001, Jens Müller wrote: > > Ssh tunnels X, if you start it with option -X (at least under potato). > > I did slogin -X localhost, but the X programms I start hang (without > any output on the console). You've got the impression that it tries to tunnel X11 but somehow something doesn'

Re: Is there mutt browseable Maildir solution?

2001-12-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.26.0925 +0100]: > I am running Debian 3.0(woody) with mutt, courier-imap and postfix with > Maildir. Everything is working well, but I can't find the solution for > mutt to browse Maildir subfolders. Any solutions? are you trying to view the c

Re: ssh and X

2001-12-26 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, Kerstin Hoef-Emden said: > > On 26 Dec 2001, Jens Müller wrote: > > > > Ssh tunnels X, if you start it with option -X (at least under potato). > > > > I did slogin -X localhost, but the X programms I start hang (without > > any output on the console). > > You've g

problems with eth0 set-up

2001-12-26 Thread Rachel Andrew
Hi I'm a bit puzzled here. I have a new box here that I am installing Debian on. I'm going to put Woody on it but have a Potato disc that I am using to set up a bare bones system and once I get onto the network I will dist-upgrade to Woody. However, I am using a Netgear FA310TX PCI card of t

Re: Shell script for clients email broadcast..

2001-12-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Petre Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.26.1255 +0100]: > I need a script that if run,checks all /home accounts and put them like > [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the .forward of my email-broadcast-account. are they all in /home/ ? grep \/home\/ /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f

Re: User process killer script..

2001-12-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Petre Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.26.1334 +0100]: > Ok,i promise next year i'll take a look on the many shell scripting > tutorials,but until then i need a script that checks periodically for > processes belonging to users not presently logged in and kills them.Like > someone

Re: ssh and X

2001-12-26 Thread Jens Müller
Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debugging (strace xlogo) showed a problem with .Xauthority on the remote > machine. I tried removing that file manually (since I knew it would be > recreated) and logged out and in again it worked! > > If you still encounter the problem let me know, m

Re: problems with eth0 set-up

2001-12-26 Thread Rachel Andrew
further to that last email, I just did: route and while localnet appears immediately, the default gateway takes about 5 minutes to appear. When it does appear it looks correct (as compared to my other box with a similar configuration) however I still have no access into or out of this box.

Re: Problem with LDAP client GQ

2001-12-26 Thread jan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Pat, I had similar problem in past ... but they were caused by messed local resolver my system wasn't able to resolve 'localhost' to IP, /etc/hosts looks fine but it still wasn't working I gues that it was trying to ask remote DNS server and if ther

Re: Debian issue's and problems

2001-12-26 Thread k l u r t
On Monday 24 December 2001 04:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i came to try Debian because i have heard soo many good things about this > distro. > Well i have come to find that it is FALSE! > > r. Potato is the most broken release i have ever seen and how may have you seen? > the most simple p

dhelp_parse

2001-12-26 Thread Rick Pasotto
Recent upgrades using apt-get show many lines of the form: dhelp_parse: no title found for directory misc What is this from and do I need to do something to correct it? -- Our doctrine is based on private property. Communism is based on systematic plunder, since it consists in handing over to o

Fidonet support on dial-in

2001-12-26 Thread Russell Coker
How popular is Fidonet support in Debian? Of the people who use it, is it most desired to have a Fido program be spawned with stdin/stdout/stderr pointing to a serial port or is it more desired that the Fido software be accessed by rsh/ssh connection to a Fido server machine? I'm going to add

Re: ppp problems

2001-12-26 Thread David Gardi
Dan Pomohaci wrote: Hi, I'm using Debian Woody (kernel 2.2.20 and ppp version 2.4.1). I tried to connect to my ISP but until now I had no success. I have an external modem and I used pppconfig (chat protocol) to set the connection parameters. After I run the command: pon myprovider the modem f

Re: Debian issue's and problems

2001-12-26 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >i came to try Debian because i have heard soo many good things about this >distro. >Well i have come to find that it is FALSE! > >r. Potato is the most broken release i have ever seen >the most simple packages are broken all

Re: Re: Don't replace manpages_1.46-1_all.deb (for SPARC)

2001-12-26 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Karsten M. Self wrote: >on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:51:54AM +0300, Yury Lyakh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrot= >e: >>=20 >>=20 >> -- >> venus:~# apt-get dist-upgrade >> Reading Package Lists... Done >> Building Dependency Tree... Done >> Calculating Upgrade... Done >>

My gpm does not start sometimes

2001-12-26 Thread shyamk @ eth . net
What I am thinking is maybe I can get the /etc/init.d/gpm restart repeated somehow . I am still confused . I shall be grateful , if anybody could guide me as to the cause of this gpm problem. Warm Regards. -- ([EMAIL PROTECTED])--(=)--(Shyam)--- "Beauty lies in

My gpm does not start sometimes

2001-12-26 Thread shyamk @ eth . net
What I am thinking is maybe I can get the /etc/init.d/gpm restart repeated somehow . I am still confused . I shall be grateful , if anybody could guide me as to the cause of this gpm problem. Warm Regards. -- ([EMAIL PROTECTED])--(=)--(Shyam)--- "Beauty lies in

How do you map shell commands to keys in mutt ?

2001-12-26 Thread shyamk @ eth . net
I want to make my own shell scripts (mail related) , and map some keys in mutt to call these from my mutt. Please suggest as to how I can go about this. Warm Regards. -- ([EMAIL PROTECTED])--(=)--(Shyam)--- "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder." If you believe me then

Re: man v. info

2001-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 03:02:25PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 12:51:09PM -0600, Colin Watson > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Come up with examples and send patches. That'll achieve results much > > faster than anything else I can think of. > > Specific instructions on

Re: Man deprecated, Info not there, -doc package? (was Re: Where do you RTFM ?)

2001-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 02:26:56PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 08:07:40AM -0600, Colin Watson > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > No, usually what's happened in these cases is that the man page is in > > the main package while the info pages are in a separate -doc package >

Re: How do you map shell commands to keys in mutt ?

2001-12-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach shyamk @ eth . net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.26.1637 +0100]: > I want to make my own shell scripts (mail related) , > and map some keys in mutt to call these from my mutt. > Please suggest as to how I can go about this. rtfm: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-3.html#macro -- m

Re: man v. info

2001-12-26 Thread Michael Mauch
Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 06:32:31PM -0800, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Carl Fink wrote: > > > > > BTW, for HTML docs, put them all in *one* file with hyperlinks. There is > > > no > > > meaningful advantage to cutting it into twenty pieces, and it mak

create VCDs?

2001-12-26 Thread Carl Fink
Well, I tried to RTFM. I checked packages.debian.org. I checked freshmeat.net. I checked sourceforge.net. I searched archives of this list. Is there any program to create Video CDs (VCDs) from an AVI file under Debian? I'm using Potato (technically, I'm using Progeny Newton with lots of Potato

Help with onboard RAID.

2001-12-26 Thread Dan S.
Hi, I have a Microstar motherboard(K7TPro-RU) with onboard RAID. I'm trying to figure out how to get it to work with Debian/sid. The RAID controller is an onboard Promise 20265R (possibly a FastTrak chip) (See http://support.promise.com/Linux/Default.htm) (http://www.msicomputer.com/product/deta

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-26 Thread Dan S.
white male, 30 with too many years of school under my belt. MSc. in Marine Biology working on getting an independant web development company started. No kids. Volunteer designer for a Renaissance Faire. SCUBA, PERL, PHP, and am aiming to learn C++ soon. Started using LINUX for analysis of my t

?Finish install with serial port modem?

2001-12-26 Thread DTi4565459
I've installed rescue, root, and 4 modules on laptop. Now, it prompts me for base floppies. I would prefer to dial up and finish that way. 1. Is it possible? 2. How to exit the install program and get a command prompt? 3. What dialup software comes with debian? 4. I assume that if I can connect w

change ethernet to ppp, routing

2001-12-26 Thread otte
I just got a linux machine that is configured to use the ethernet card, but I want to connect to the ethernet with ppp. I believe I've configured ppp fine, but perhaps not. I seem to connect, but can't ping or connect to anything. When I look at /var/log/messages, I find the following message, wh

cdrecording

2001-12-26 Thread David Gardi
Hello people, I' using cdrecord 1.10-2.2, and when I record audio cds, I am able only to speed at 1x. My recorder is a 4x capable drive, and if I try and record at a higher speed, the audio plays back faster than it should. Data cds work as expected. I did not have this problem with previous ve

2.2.19/raidtools2 not cooperating

2001-12-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm setting up a potato system to boot off a software RAID, using a 2.2.19 kernel and raidtools2. The kernel was built with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y CONFIG_MD_MIRRORING=y CONFIG_MD_RAID5=y which should be the appropriate settings. It's currently installed on a single disk and I'm trying to use the t

Re: 2.2.19/raidtools2 not cooperating

2001-12-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I'm setting up a potato system to boot off a software RAID, using a > 2.2.19 kernel and raidtools2. The kernel was built with Did you apply the RAID 0.9 patches to 2.2.19? raidtools2 is for RAID 0.9, and that is not shipped with 2.2.x... -- "One di

Re: 2.2.19/raidtools2 not cooperating

2001-12-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:51:26PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > I'm setting up a potato system to boot off a software RAID, using a > > 2.2.19 kernel and raidtools2. The kernel was built with > > Did you apply the RAID 0.9 patches to 2

Re: Plip problems: do I need NFS server? -SOLVED

2001-12-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Dec 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Tue, 2001-12-25 at 05:24, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > Got that on my desktop; neither will install properly on my laptop, for > > some reason, but the desktop can presumably act as server and allow > > transfer in both directions? > > > That's t

python2.1 and MySQLdb

2001-12-26 Thread Rick Pasotto
I just apt-get upgraded my python and the MySQLdb module now gives the following error: Python 2.1.1 (#1, Nov 11 2001, 18:19:24) [GCC 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from MySQLdb import * Traceback (most recent call

Re: change ethernet to ppp, routing

2001-12-26 Thread John Hasler
Ric writes: > localhost pppd[538]: not replacing default route to eth0 [192.168.1.1] You have set up a default route to the Internet via your ethernet card. You don't need it: all it does is stop pppd from creating the route you do need. Delete it. > localhost pppd[538]: Cannot determine etherne

Re: change ethernet to ppp, routing

2001-12-26 Thread k l u r t
On Wednesday 26 December 2001 11:06 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just got a linux machine that is configured to use the ethernet card, but > I want to connect to the ethernet with ppp. I believe I've configured ppp > fine, but perhaps not. I seem to connect, but can't ping or connect to > any

Re: dhelp_parse

2001-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:24:27AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Recent upgrades using apt-get show many lines of the form: > > dhelp_parse: no title found for directory misc > > What is this from and do I need to do something to correct it? See http://bugs.debian.org/118600. You don't need to wo

Re: 2.2.19/raidtools2 not cooperating

2001-12-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Is the kernel-patch-2.2.10-raid package good for 2.2.19 also or do I > need to download the patch from elsewhere? Get the 2.2.19 or 2.2.20 ones. They are in unstable/testing. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring

Re: Don't replace manpages_1.46-1_all.deb (for SPARC)

2001-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:51:54AM +0300, Yury Lyakh wrote: > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/manpages_1.46-1_all.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man8/ld.so.8.gz', which is also in > package libc6 As Karsten said, it's been reported a few times. I believe '

Re: ssh and X

2001-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 08:07:13PM +0100, Jens M?ller wrote: > Since upgrading to Woody, X forwarding over ssh does not work any > longer, which is a bad thing, since I cannot run X programs as > super-user now. > > Does anyone know what has changed? Are you using openssh, ssh-nonfree, or ssh2 (b

Re: change ethernet to ppp, routing

2001-12-26 Thread John Hasler
klurt writes: > you need to use PPPoE I think that he intended to write "I want to connect to the Internet with ppp" rather than "I want to connect to the ethernet with ppp". -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

installation problem -cannot detect hard drive correctly

2001-12-26 Thread Aldous B Bernardo
hi I am using Libranet Linux 1.82 which was based on debian 2.2. My problem is that in installation it cannot detect my hard drive correctly. The cfdisk reports the size of my drive incorrectly. I have a 40 gig Maxtor hd. te cfdisk version is 2.10d. I can't get past the hard drive partitioning

Re: 2.2.19/raidtools2 not cooperating

2001-12-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:22:44PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Is the kernel-patch-2.2.10-raid package good for 2.2.19 also or do I > > need to download the patch from elsewhere? > > Get the 2.2.19 or 2.2.20 ones. They are in unstable/

How X keyboard maps work in Deb

2001-12-26 Thread Greg Wiley
Does Debian put the 'kbd' file in /etc/X11? Is it even needed under Debian or is some other mechanism used to do keyboard mapping? If it turns out that I need the file, what package contains it? I have been informed that I need this file to solve an application problem (described below) but befo

[Fwd: Re: Debian issue's and problems]

2001-12-26 Thread Kent West
--- Begin Message --- > > > >in /user/bin/dpks > > > X has always been somewhat problematic to get installed. I'm > confused by > what you mean when you say "in /user/bin/dpks"; this doesn't make > sense; > perhaps you could clarify? > It said there were to many errors in /usr/bin/dpks tha

Woody isos..

2001-12-26 Thread Petre Daniel
Uhm,my t1 seems pretty clear these days so i'm thinking to download the woody images. So i need as many mirrors as you do know,i will try them out and download the isos as soon as i can. Thank you and a Happy New Year to all of you man and women,newbies and wizards,mice and cats ;-)) Petre L.

connecting to a debian box with networking via dchp

2001-12-26 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I set up the networking for a Debian box via dchp. The setup asks for a host and that is all. No domain name was asked for. The internet link is running, but how do I connect to the box via ssh from outside? I've looked at various bits of documentation including the DCHP howto, but t

Re: create VCDs?

2001-12-26 Thread csj
On Wednesday 26 December 2001 11:51, Carl Fink wrote: > Well, I tried to RTFM. I checked packages.debian.org. I checked > freshmeat.net. I checked sourceforge.net. I searched archives of > this list. > > Is there any program to create Video CDs (VCDs) from an AVI file > under Debian? I'm using

How to automount as a specific user

2001-12-26 Thread Kent West
I'm trying to convert my Mom to using Debian over Win95, but until I can get her a non-Win-printer, she'll probably bounce back and forth between the two. Accordingly, I've set her up to use Mozilla/Mozilla Mail in both environments. I've set up the Linux side to point to the Mozilla data dir

Re: cdrecording

2001-12-26 Thread csj
On Thursday 27 December 2001 12:29, David Gardi wrote: > Data cds work as expected. I did not > have this problem > with previous versions of cdrecord. So the question is: How do I > write audio cds > at 4x and have not accelerated playback? Maybe you should use cdrdao (Debian package available).

Re: change ethernet to ppp, routing

2001-12-26 Thread Ric Otte
Yep, I did mean to write that I want to connect to the Internet with ppp, instead of "I want to connect to the ethernet with ppp". Basically I'm wanting to use the machine at home instead of my office. I'm sorry for the confusion. SO, if I need to delete the default route to the internet via

Re: How to automount as a specific user

2001-12-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to convert my Mom to using Debian over Win95, but until I can > get her a non-Win-printer, she'll probably bounce back and forth between > the two. > > Accordingly, I've set her up to use Mozilla/Mozilla Mail in both > environments. I've set up t

Re: ssh and X

2001-12-26 Thread Jens Müller
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 08:07:13PM +0100, Jens M?ller wrote: > > Since upgrading to Woody, X forwarding over ssh does not work any > > longer, which is a bad thing, since I cannot run X programs as > > super-user now. > > > > Does anyone know what has ch

Re: man v. info

2001-12-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:31:12PM +0100, Michael Mauch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 06:32:31PM -0800, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Carl Fink wrote: > > > > > > > BTW, for HTML docs, put them all in *one* file with hyper

printcap(5) and other poorly formatted manpages (was Re: man v. info)

2001-12-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:38:20PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 03:02:25PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 12:51:09PM -0600, Colin Watson > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Come up with examples and send patches. That'll achie

Re: Don't replace manpages_1.46-1_all.deb (for SPARC)

2001-12-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:23:43AM -0600, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:51:54AM +0300, Yury Lyakh wrote: > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/manpages_1.46-1_all.deb > > (--unpack): > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man8/ld.so.8.gz', whic

Threading Mail

2001-12-26 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
I ran apt-get install mutt in hopes of setting up a mail box with threading for this list. There does not seem to be any POP3 connection in the application as downloaded. Any suggestions? Tom George

Re: How to automount as a specific user

2001-12-26 Thread Kent West
Brian Nelson wrote: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Windows partition needs to be mounted. I can automatically mount it during bootup by putting an entry in the fstab /dev/hda1 /home/novie/Win95 vfatdefaults,rw,user,auto 0 0 but that causes the resulting mount point to

ISDN Fritz!X USB TA and Debian

2001-12-26 Thread Patrik Modesto
Hello, is anyone using Fritz!X USB TA ISDN modem? I bought one a week ago, and can't make it dialing under Debian Woody. Under W2k it works fine. What i've done: - install USB - compile fxusb from ftp.avm.de/cardware ... and make it loading when modem is pluged in - install ipppd, pppcapiplugin,

RE: New user question

2001-12-26 Thread justin cunningham
Hi, I'm new to debian too but not windows so: 1. Typically you'd want to install windows 'first' before linux to avoid lilo being blown away by the windows installer. 2. If your installing win 98 or me the fat32 is appropriate and optional in win2k but ntfs is its and xp's native filesystem AND

CD RW problems

2001-12-26 Thread Steve Knight
Hi, I'm having problems with my HP CDWriter 9100i and am not sure if it's the drive/Debian/cdrecord/SCSI emulation or a problem with my media so any help would be appreciated. After I burn the isofs to the CD-ROM or CD-RW the volume is sometimes mount-able sometimes not. Even if it is mount-able

Re: CD RW problems

2001-12-26 Thread Petre Daniel
isos for windows or linux isos? At 07:41 PM 12/26/01 +, Steve Knight wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with my HP CDWriter 9100i and am not sure if it's the drive/Debian/cdrecord/SCSI emulation or a problem with my media so any help would be appreciated. After I burn the isofs to the CD-ROM o

Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Vaughan, Curtis
I am wondering what other Debian Users recommend for an email client program.   First, let me state the needs of our company.  We are currently very MS based at present.  The goal has been set to slowly move over to Linux.  Debian has been chosen, as it is the most stable that I am aware

Re: printcap(5) and other poorly formatted manpages (was Re: man v. info)

2001-12-26 Thread John Hasler
Karsten M. Self writes: > My concern was whether or not I should post my revised manpage to the > bugtracking system itself. You should. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: CD RW problems

2001-12-26 Thread Steve Knight
I use 'mkisofs' under Debian. __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

Re: Threading Mail

2001-12-26 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:09:24PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: | I ran apt-get install mutt in hopes of setting up a mail box with | threading for this list. There does not seem to be any POP3 connection | in the application as downloaded. Any suggestions? www.mutt.org There is a good m

Re: User process killer script..

2001-12-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:34:53AM -0800, Petre Daniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok, i promise next year i'll take a look on the many shell scripting > tutorials, ...see also the -Key HOWTO, and the Spacing-After-Punctuation Mini-HOWTOs. > but until then i need a script that checks periodic

Re: How do you map shell commands to keys in mutt ?

2001-12-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:07:14PM +0530, shyamk @ eth . net ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I want to make my own shell scripts (mail related) , > and map some keys in mutt to call these from my mutt. > Please suggest as to how I can go about this. E.g.: pipe message through a program: ## Bin

Re: Threading Mail

2001-12-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:09:24PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I ran apt-get install mutt in hopes of setting up a mail box with > threading for this list. There does not seem to be any POP3 connection > in the application as downloaded. Any suggestions? $ apt-

RE: which worm is this?

2001-12-26 Thread justin cunningham
Helping friends out with computers is tough stuff-- support can become an endless topic therefore I suggest promoting self help 'first' then, if that fails ask questions. Anyways: 1. the 'virus': always look at http://www.symantec.com/avcenter. Use their search here http://www.symantec.com/avc

Re: Don't replace manpages_1.46-1_all.deb (for SPARC)

2001-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:04:50AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:23:43AM -0600, Colin Watson > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > As Karsten said, it's been reported a few times. I believe 'dpkg -i > > --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/manpages_1.46-1_all.deb' is >

Re: ssh and X

2001-12-26 Thread Jens Müller
"Jens Müller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just see that maybe Debian Bug 125642 is my problem. It is my problem. I deleted config, removed and re-installed ssh, changed one option in the config file (X forwarding) and restarted ssh. X forwarding now works.

Re: Debian issue's and problems

2001-12-26 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 03:28:44AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i came to try Debian because i have heard soo many good things about this > distro. > Well i have come to find that it is FALSE! > > r. Potato is the most broken release i have ever seen > the most simple packages are broken all

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian issue's and problems]

2001-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:59:02AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >in /user/bin/dpks > > > > X has always been somewhat problematic to get installed. I'm > > confused by > > what you mean when you say "in /user/bin/dpks"; this doesn't make > > sense; > > perhaps you coul

Re: Using Archives

2001-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:18:29PM +1100, Stephen Brown wrote: [...] > Rx - > > File latest/186927 is currently not available. > N.B. Filenames are case sensitive! > > --- > > How do I use archives? I'm

Email client programs (w/o html formatting - sorry)

2001-12-26 Thread Vaughan, Curtis
I am wondering what other Debian Users recommend for an email client program. First, let me state the needs of our company. We are currently very MS based at present. The goal has been set to slowly move over to Linux. Debian has been chosen, as it is the most stable that I am aware of. Of cou

Re: printcap(5) and other poorly formatted manpages (was Re: man v. info)

2001-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:59:58AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:38:20PM +, Colin Watson > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Do use the bug tracking system. In the case of printcap(5), a bug > > should be filed against the three packages that contain it (lpr, > > lprng

Re: man v. info

2001-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:52:33AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:31:12PM +0100, Michael Mauch > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I think a decent search facility is a must for more in-depth > > documentation. If I _know_ that I want to use newwin(3), I can easily > > type

Re: Email client programs (w/o html formatting - sorry)

2001-12-26 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Vaughan, Curtis wrote: > I am wondering what other Debian Users recommend for an email client > program. > > First, let me state the needs of our company. We are currently very MS > based at present. The goal has been set to slowly move over to Linux. > Debian has been chose

Re: Threading Mail

2001-12-26 Thread Sam Varghese
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:00:53PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:09:24PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > | I ran apt-get install mutt in hopes of setting up a mail box with > | threading for this list. There does not seem to be any POP3 connection > | in the application as

RE: Email client programs (w/o html formatting - sorry)

2001-12-26 Thread Vaughan, Curtis
One of the reasons is monetary. Why pay MS for what is already out there, and works just as well? The other reason is example. We know of another company that is totally Linux-based and has no problems. They can work not just at work, but also from home or from any computer anywhere through a

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Brian Nelson
"Vaughan, Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am wondering what other Debian Users recommend for an email client > program. Ooooh, I like a flamewar. > First, let me state the needs of our company. We are currently very MS > based at present. The goal has been set to slowly move over to Li

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 03:25:09PM -0500, David Teague wrote: > I LIKE emacs. We were using vi as our only text editor with System V > machines in the late 80s. I found and installed Emacs, within one > week everyone on my faculty was using emacs. Given a 1980s-era vi, I'd probably have gone for e

RE: Email client programs (w/o html formatting - sorry)

2001-12-26 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Vaughan, Curtis wrote: > One of the reasons is monetary. Why pay MS for what is already out there, > and works just as well? > The other reason is example. We know of another company that is totally > Linux-based and has no problems. They can work not just at work, but als

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