Re: VIM features

2002-01-06 Thread Paul Mackinney
Wichert Akkerman declaimed: > Previously Caleb Shay wrote: > > I second this. For example, at the bottom of /etc/vim/vimrc there are > > several lines commented out "as they cause vim to behave a lot different > > from regular vi". However, as was pointed out below, vim is NOT the > > default vi

RE: [OT] Compaq bios

2002-01-06 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Henrik Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A somewhat offtopic question, does anyone know how to turn of PnP in a Compaq Presario (5900T) bios? It is doing bad stuff to my ethernet card. Henrik -- This is from my rather senile memory . I don't have a Compaq here, but I recall seeing somethi

Re: Booting a (network) machine that has no kbd and no monitor attached.

2002-01-06 Thread Matt Chipman
> for the initialization scripts and to the kernel? Are there any boot > parameters that should be passed to the kernel about the lack of > kbd/monitor? I am aware to the fact that the BIOS setting should > probably be changed too. Yet I hope it would be the easier part. Is Yep, just make sure

setting up pcmcia modem

2002-01-06 Thread Calyth
After installing potato, it seems that something is modifying the inittab and configuring it with a certain line. S:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS3 The problem is that my serial takes ttyS0 and irda takes ttys1, then the modem should take ttyS2, and the second problem is that every 5 minutes init w

RE: Gnome & GDM - root login?

2002-01-06 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Michael Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Seems a silly question, but... Just installed Gnome & GDM on my son's computer along with a lot of the Debian-junior packages. Now I find that I cannot login as root - I always get the message "The system administrator is not allowed to login from this

Still can't install :-(

2002-01-06 Thread Penguin
I am still having problems installing Potato. I always use `simple' install mode and not select X, so I can install the unofficial XFree 4.x debs from someone who is listed in Debian (http://people.debian.org/~someone) I think... anyway I tried listing all the packages at once on the command lin

Re: woody & ext3

2002-01-06 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 January 2002 02:06 am, François Chenais wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to install my woody with ext3. > Must I install it ext2 and transform to ext3 or > is there any way to get install disk using ext3 ? > > >

How to start OSS/Commercial Automatically + upgrade LD

2002-01-06 Thread Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999
Hello all, I've installed debian and have to say I feel quite a bit more at home with Debian than any other Linux system I've used. I am a NetBSD user for the mostpart. I have a few questions, first off how can I run the soundon command to start up OSS automatically at bootup? Second I'm run

Re: Booting a (network) machine that has no kbd and no monitor attached.

2002-01-06 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 January 2002 12:13 am, Shaul Karl wrote: > I am setting up a machine that will be connected to the local network > and will not have a monitor nor a keyboard attached to it. > I have a debian machine acting as my home lan server/firewa

Re: routing help on dual homed box

2002-01-06 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 January 2002 3:47 pm, Serge Rey wrote: > hi, > ... [snip] > i'm wondering if this is a routing problem? this is what the routing > table looks like for box C: [snip] > any clues as how to debug this further would be most appreciated. Wh

Re: Still can't install :-(

2002-01-06 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 06 January 2002 9:07 am, Penguin wrote: > I am still having problems installing Potato. I always use `simple' install [snip] > > I am still having problems installing Potato. I always use `simple' install Posting the same text twice will not

Re: How to start OSS/Commercial Automatically + upgrade LD

2002-01-06 Thread Brian Nelson
Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all, > > I've installed debian and have to say I feel quite a bit more at home > with Debian than any other Linux system I've used. I am a NetBSD user > for the mostpart. > > I have a few questions, first off how can I run the soundon

OT: no mail from the list

2002-01-06 Thread Gary Turner
>From ~2300 CST 1/4/02 until ~0230 CST 1/6/02 I received less than 10 messages from this list. All of them were 20 to 36 hours old. I have no messages dated 1/5/02. Is this a local disturbance in the fabric of the universe, or have others experienced this? gt Yes I fear I am living beyond my me

Re: OT: no mail from the list

2002-01-06 Thread Pauwel Demeyer
Well, I was asking me the same yesterday. Having asked a friend who neither received any e-mail from the list, I supposed it was or no-one willing to send something to the list , or the list that was down 'till yesterday eve.. Gary Turner wrote: From ~2300 CST 1/4/02 until ~0230 CST 1/6/02

Re: Signatures

2002-01-06 Thread Imre Vida
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:39:59PM -0700, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > > > I've also heard from several people that my sigs are coming across as > > broken or invalid. Not sure why this is, they _do_ appear valid to me > > here virtually always. it should, shouldn't it? after all you should have the

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-06 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 05 Jan 2002 10:07:43PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > RTFM: > man procmail > http://spamassassin.taint.org/ > http://spamassassin.taint.org/dist/README so of course, having written this, and having rtfm'ed myself, now i have a question ... from http://spamassassin.taint.org/dist/REA

Re: Gnome & GDM - root login?

2002-01-06 Thread Dave Price
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:46:30PM -0500, Michael Dickey wrote: > Seems a silly question, but... > Just installed Gnome & GDM on my son's computer along with a lot of the > Debian-junior packages. Now I find that I cannot login as root - I always get > the message "The system administrator is not

Debian and Redhat on the same PC

2002-01-06 Thread dx
Hi, I am newbie Linux user. I just like to know how can I install Debian and Redhat on the same PC. I already installed Redhat using Grub, but Debian is using LILO. And how do you make/allocate partitions for both of them without stepping on each other? Thanks in advance, dexter

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-06 Thread Erik Steffl
Gary Turner wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:28:46 -0500, dman wrote: > > >On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:39:09PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > >| On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 17:34:00 -0600 (CST), Richard Cobbe wrote: > >| > > >| >Lo, on Thursday, January 3, Erik Steffl did write: > >| > > >| >> what's the di

Re: i386-none not in remapping table

2002-01-06 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
David Raeker-Jordan wrote: >I have an unstable system with a 2.2.19 kernel. I am trying to compile a >2.4.17 kernel, but I get the following error when I run "make-kpkg clean" > >claire:/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/linux# make-kpkg clean >dpkg: warning, architecture386-none' not in remapping table >

Re: Starting gnome by default?

2002-01-06 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi! > >Well, i fixed my X problems, and i was happily browsing/using my newly >installed Ximian Gnome... alas, when i rebooted, it again overrided >everything, left me at a graphical login prompt again (argh!), and after >logging it, it leaves me at a simple afterstep

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-06 Thread Erik Steffl
dman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:10:56PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > | Richard Cobbe wrote: > | > > | > Lo, on Thursday, January 3, Erik Steffl did write: > | > > | > > what's the difference? the point is you can assign almost anything to > | > > anything, and yet there is no segfault -

need email removed

2002-01-06 Thread Jeremy Vaught
Hello, I have been receiving list information at a number of email accounts. Some were deleted and so in the absence of those accounts they are sent to my admin account. Now I don't know the accounts that were deleted so I can't remove them from the lists. Can you tell me all the accounts that a

Re: Booting a (network) machine that has no kbd and no monitor attached.

2002-01-06 Thread Tom Allison
Shaul Karl wrote: I am setting up a machine that will be connected to the local network and will not have a monitor nor a keyboard attached to it. What changes, if any, should be made to the Debian software in order for such machine to be able to boot without complaining about the missing keyb

Re: Local imap from remote pop

2002-01-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I have accounts on several servers at my hosting service. I normally > read my mail via ssh and elm. I would like to download my mail via POP > and read it off a server in my house using IMAP. > > Is it possible to do what I want, and can you tell

Re: Squirrelmail with uw-imapd

2002-01-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Chapman, Matt wrote: > Hi, > > I can not seem to get squirrelmail to accept my username and password with > uw-imapd... Tried to switch to cyrus-imapd and still no difference. > I see you already got some answers to this. For future reference, it is a good idea to look at /va

Re: i NEED THE AUREAL AU8830 DRIVER

2002-01-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
You also need to unstick your caps lock key. Go to http://www.braincells.com/open/ for a debianized version of the drivers. I just built a new package from the sourceforge CVS earlier today. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's a girl! See the pictures - http://www.braincells.com/shailaj

Re: pine?

2002-01-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Michael Jinks wrote: > Further down there are more errors as a result of pine not being built. > > So, missing libraries maybe, or a version mismatch of some kind? > Now might be a good time for me to plug my unofficial binary package of pine 4.43. It's available from http://

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-06 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 04 Jan 2002 08:27:13PM -0800, Paul E Condon insinuated: > Where is there a HOWTO or tutorial on using available tools (e.g. > procmail) to filter spam? Is it something that the "unwashed masses" > like myself can learn to do? RTFM: man procmail http://spamassassin.taint.org/ http://spamas

Users activity logging..

2002-01-06 Thread Petre Daniel
i'm wondering if there is a software that would log everything a user types,does,accesses,somewhere in a safe location.. thanx Petre L. Daniel,System Administrator Canad Systems Pitesti Romania, http://www.cyber.ro email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+4048220044 +4048206200

Re: Opera and anti-aliasing fonts

2002-01-06 Thread shock
* mikepolniak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > You will need qt and the dynamic -linked version of opera. > beautiful. thanks! -- ) ,_),_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ) | |(_)(_ |\ ( \_, ___ | http://www.exitwound.org

Re: Matrox drivers + XFree86 package

2002-01-06 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:23:35PM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote: > I have a Matrox G200 card, and I'd like to use Matrox's drivers (which > I've had success with in the past). Unfortunately, I can't use the > binary version, since I run sid and XFree86 is at version 4.1.0.1, which > is not compat

GDM and ESD not exitting cleanly

2002-01-06 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello listers, I have just decided to give GDM a try on a box running Woody. I have found oddly, that esd no longer exits when the user does. Before I used GDM, when the user logged out of their X session (which was started by startx) esd died neatly for them. If I switch to VT, I can log in and

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-06 Thread nate
> How can I find out what part of X is causing this > problem? All of the bug reports of similar problems > buggy driver. i have the same problem on some systems. i just don't switch back to text mode. workaround would be to try to find an updated driver or use another video card(i highly reccom

Help removing failed package

2002-01-06 Thread Stan Brown
Im seting up a new "testing: machine. I sat down and worked through dselect to select all the packages I wanted. Now I have one (trafstats) that is stuck in limbo. dselect shows it sa stae "C", and it makes the install step fail. I tried doing a dpkg -r trafstats, but that also fails. How can I

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 20:17:08 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:43:55AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > | dman wrote: > | > | > However the thing to remember about macros is that they are textual > | > substituation. It is effectively the same thing as writing the >

Re: Starting gnome by default?

2002-01-06 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Camilo: > Hi! > > Well, i fixed my X problems, and i was happily browsing/using my newly > installed Ximian Gnome... alas, when i rebooted, it again overrided > everything, left me at a graphical login prompt again (argh!), and after > logging it, it leaves me at a simple afterstep/w

Re: Neighbor Table Overflow & Errno:111?

2002-01-06 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Michael Dickey: > On Friday 04 January 2002 11:24 am, Doc wrote: > > ts.debian.org > > Precedence: list > > Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Can someone explain what the error "neighbor table overflow" > > signifies, please? > > I recently had this message many times on two wood

Re: scam warning (FW: IMPORTANT)

2002-01-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:32:38PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:50:58AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 05:26:37PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > | > Received: from vmsmx.rit.edu ([64.110.64.19]) > |

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:13:00PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: | I have just upgraded X from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the upgrade, I | changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the screen consisted | of vertical lines running down my display, the top of the lines were 1 pixe

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-06 Thread Jason Wood
On Friday 04 January 2002 10:13 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > I have just upgraded X from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the upgrade, I > changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the screen consisted > of vertical lines running down my display, the top of the lines were 1 > pixel in

Re: [OmniBook] Neighbor Table Overflow & Errno:111?

2002-01-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 05 Jan 2002, David Jardine wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:22:10PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Jan 2002, Chris Hanson wrote: > > >Can someone explain what the error "neighbor table overflow" > > >signifies, please? > > > > ARP cache table full. See

Re: Did something break with gnome 1.4?

2002-01-06 Thread darrell
UNSURE IF IT IS RELATED FIX? i had to run gdmconfig and add a parameter to the debian window manager script, in the call to Xsession Xsession wmaker or in your case Xsession enlignmxx (i dont know the name of the enlightenment program) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I did an apt-get

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-06 Thread Joel Mayes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Where is there a HOWTO or tutorial on using available tools (e.g. procmail) to > filter spam? Is it something that the "unwashed masses" like myself can learn > to do? > apt-get install spamassian then

Re: ? .bashrc and .bash_profile and PATH

2002-01-06 Thread MH
> "Paul" == Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I am setting up a new potato system. I am interested in Paul> initializing environment variables, in particular PATH. I Paul> see as the second line in both .bashrc and .bash_profile, Paul> the line: Paul> # see /

Re: Matrox drivers + XFree86 package

2002-01-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:23:35 -0500, "Justin R. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a Matrox G200 card, and I'd like to use Matrox's drivers (which > I've had success with in the past). Unfortunately, I can't use the > binary version, since I run sid and XFree86 is at versio

Re: ? .bashrc and .bash_profile and PATH

2002-01-06 Thread Jeremiah Mahler
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:13:10PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am setting up a new potato system. I am interested in initializing > environment > variables, in particular PATH. I see as the second line in both .bashrc > and > .bash_profile, the line: > > # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/s

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-06 Thread darrell
you are running an X display manager that automatically restarts the x server after it is taken down with alt-ctrl-backspace, so to solve this you have to kill the x display manager, then reconfigure x, then start the x display manager, you probably are using gdm (gnome display manager) but it

Re: gcc oddities : why would this compile?

2002-01-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:41:13 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have both gcc 2.95.4 and gcc 3.0.2 installed. Both of them compiled > this C program (this is the entire thing) : > > --- > int > main() > { > puts( uname() ) ; > return 0 ; > } > --- > > Why does

Re: problems copying audio cd w/ cdrecord and cdrdao

2002-01-06 Thread Dave Price
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:02:27PM +0100, Thomas Kral wrote: > Hello, > > I have problems creating audible audio cd's on my SONY CD-RW CRX160E, ATAPI > CDROM drive. > > When burnt with either (A) cdrecord or (B) cdrdao, it just cannot be played > back in my stereo, it just scans no tracks and w

Re: ? .bashrc and .bash_profile and PATH

2002-01-06 Thread Dave Price
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:13:10PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > Where are the examples? Where is other docs about user space > initialization? Here is mine: # ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells. # Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi

Apache and PHP

2002-01-06 Thread Zdzislaw A. Kaleta
I had instaled the last packages of apache and php (debian unstable). When in /usr/lib/apache/1.3 is a libphp4.so from 4.1.1 package the apache server won't start with the info: "/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 171: 11601 Segmentation fault $HTTPD /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

Dual head with two cards?

2002-01-06 Thread William Burrow
Is it technically possible to construct a dual head machine by using two video cards (say a PCI and AGP card)? Any tips where to look? -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 23:50:04 -0600, Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > >He did define a string. In C++ there are 3 ways of defining a string > >(in C there are 2). There is "char[]", "char*" and "std::string". > Isn't 'char*' redundant, since an array var is a pointer by definition?

Re: ? .bashrc and .bash_profile and PATH

2002-01-06 Thread tearn55
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:13:10PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > > # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples > > But on my newly installed system, there is no "examples/" directory at > /usr/share/doc/bash/ > there is only some residue from a debian install. > Where are the e

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:27:13PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: | Where is there a HOWTO or tutorial on using available tools (e.g. | procmail) to filter spam? Is it something that the "unwashed masses" | like myself can learn to do? If you would like, I can send you what I have. I made a script I

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:50:04PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:28:46 -0500, dman wrote: | >On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:39:09PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | >| On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 17:34:00 -0600 (CST), Richard Cobbe wrote: | >| >Lo, on Thursday, January 3, Erik Steffl did write:

Re: [OmniBook] Neighbor Table Overflow & Errno:111?

2002-01-06 Thread Robert Rakowicz
lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > >From: "Doc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Can someone explain what the error "neighbor table overflow" > >signifies, please? > > > >Also, what about errno: 111? (from X11transSocket UNIX Connect) > > > > Not sure what "neighbor table overflow" i

Re: Opera and anti-aliasing fonts

2002-01-06 Thread mikepolniak
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 22:09:40 -0600 shock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've finally become enamored with KDE's anti-aliasing fonts. they look > great in konqueror. opera, however, seems to use it's own font scheme. > does anyone know what needs to be done to make opera use the > anti-aliasing font

Re: Gnome & GDM - root login?

2002-01-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 20:46:30 -0500, Michael Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems a silly question, but... > Just installed Gnome & GDM on my son's computer along with a lot of the > Debian-junior packages. Now I find that I cannot login as root - I always get > the message "The system admini

Re: apt-get, dpkg coruption

2002-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:36:37PM -0600, Jon Cris Wade wrote: > Well, somehow, my dpkg database, or files or something got totaly > corupted. When I go to install any package, it says > > (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing tcsh_6.10-0.2_sparc.deb : > files list file for package 'gdm'

Re: diddlebug

2002-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:58:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I understand that Debian created Diddlebug the Palm Pilot application. As an organization, we don't develop for the Palm, although we have one or two packages related to Palm development. The author of Diddlebug happens to be a D

HOWTO->rsync usage.......

2002-01-06 Thread Courtney Thomas
Greetings ! I wish to "mirror" a HD for hardware redundancy using rsync. I've just installed a new HD. What do I need to do to prepare it for use with rsync ? What command is appropriate to exactly mirror the original HD ? I've also not used SSH before. What is required to enable this capabi

Re: Gnome & GDM - root login?

2002-01-06 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Michael Dickey wrote: >Seems a silly question, but... >Just installed Gnome & GDM on my son's computer along with a lot of the >Debian-junior packages. Now I find that I cannot login as root - I always get >the message "The system administrator is not allowed to login from this >screen" I can

Re: configuring php3/apache /apt-get

2002-01-06 Thread Earl F Hampton
On Friday 04 January 2002 14:53, johan30 wrote: > hi, > > I work on debian unstable and there is being installed apache and php3 with > apt-get. I wanted to ask if somebody know an explenation (webpage or > something is ok for me) how to configure httpd.conf in function for php3 ? > > Thx a lot gr

Re: Gnome & GDM - root login?

2002-01-06 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:46:30PM -0500, Michael Dickey wrote: | Seems a silly question, but... | Just installed Gnome & GDM on my son's computer along with a lot of the | Debian-junior packages. Now I find that I cannot login as root - I always get | the message "The system administrator is not

Re: ? .bashrc and .bash_profile and PATH

2002-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:13:10PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > But on my newly installed system, there is no "examples/" directory at > /usr/share/doc/bash/ > there is only some residue from a debian install. > Where are the examples? Where is other docs about user space > initialization? Inst

Re: Booting a (network) machine that has no kbd and no monitor attached.

2002-01-06 Thread Earl F Hampton
On Friday 04 January 2002 16:13, Shaul Karl wrote: > I am setting up a machine that will be connected to the local network > and will not have a monitor nor a keyboard attached to it. > What changes, if any, should be made to the Debian software in order > for such machine to be able to boot withou

Re: vga Font in xterms

2002-01-06 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi! On 2001.12.22 14:07 Thomas Augenstein wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:17:10PM +0200, Neilen Marais wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$ rxvt -fn vga > rxvt: can't load font "vga" > > like I used to, and see the rude reply . > $ grep vga /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir vga11x19.pcf.gz vga

Re: Multiple workspaces with Sawfish and Gnome, session management and navigation

2002-01-06 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi On 2002.01.01 19:17 Imre Vida wrote: Hi. > 2) Keybindings to take me to each workspace directly. I can't help you with session managment but the later is very easy to do: you have to configure sawfish "Bindings" part I think for a default setup, if you left double click you get the main men

Re: Need Help to Program Text Draw Utility

2002-01-06 Thread Imre Vida
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:12:26AM +0100, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > Hi all! > > I searched the web and asked in some lists. > > But it seems that there is no Linux-utility to draw simple > ascii-figures (lines, text, rectangles, circles) with > cut/copy/paste-capacity in textmode. it's not exa

Re: DWN:Pinnign Unstable and APT::Default-Release.

2002-01-06 Thread Imre Vida
> > i tried to use what you suggest > > but apt complains about garbage in /etc/apt/apt.conf > > and indeed the option (Default-Release) you suggest is not > > among those listed there. > > Although this option (-t, --target-release, --default-release) is > mentioned in apt-get's manpage it doe

Re: Sendmail Question

2002-01-06 Thread nate
> Hi Everyone! > > I've recently downloaded the stable version of Debian 2.2. I am > replacing some servers that have Debian 2.1 (and an older version > of Sendmail). Does anyone use Sendmail with the new Debian > version? I'm trying to get my sendmail to pay attention to my > /etc/mail/a

cdrecord no longer works in DAO mode

2002-01-06 Thread Max Smolens
Hi everyone, Although it has worked fine in the past, I'm now having trouble getting cdrecord to record an audio CD in DAO mode. Note that the same tracks record perfectly in TAO mode and data CDs also work fine. I'm using kernel 2.4.17, but the problem is the same under 2.4.14 and possibly earli

Re: Installing Woody via adsl

2002-01-06 Thread Coen De Roover
Hi, I have a cable connection which uses DHCP and it has caused me several problems in the past. I always had to resort to downloading a complete ISO of an installation cd, install and update after having set up networking. This might not be necessary anymore. Maybe the following extract from the

Re: debbugs-el not working

2002-01-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> When I do > M-x debian-bug, > then enter j2re1.3, normal and "test" > (or anything else, doesn't matter), > I get > Signaling: (void-function mail-header-end) > > Any clue someone? Yeah. It needs to load sendmail.el. M-x load-library [RET] sendmail [RET] Sorry about that. Peter

altgr rebinding--any problems with this method?

2002-01-06 Thread Gary Turner
I want the right alt to be and not . The plan is to bind to the left MSstartmenu key (keycode 125) and bind to the right alt key (keycode 100). Is there a problem with this idea? If my reading of man pages is right, I need to do the following: loadkeys keycode 100 = alt loadkeys key

ht0 freezing computer IDE tape

2002-01-06 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am using kernel 2.4.16 and have IDE TAPE built into the kernel. At boot I get a lot of info concerning the tape drive but when I attempt to write to the tape drive it locks the entire system up and I have to press the reset key (something like tar -zcpvf /dev/ht0 / as an example-not the actual co

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-06 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:28:46 -0500, dman wrote: >On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:39:09PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >| On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 17:34:00 -0600 (CST), Richard Cobbe wrote: >| > >| >Lo, on Thursday, January 3, Erik Steffl did write: >| > >| >> what's the difference? the point is you can assign

ISDN problem with kernel 2.4.16

2002-01-06 Thread Jochen Kronjäger
Hi all, after installing testing (woody) with kernel-image 2.4.16, isdn shows strange behaviour (it still works perfectly with my old 2.2.17 kernel). # isdnctrl dial ippp0 successfully connects to my ISP, accoring got the logs, and I can even ping some remote server. Everything seems fine. As s

OT: Cache Server side-effects

2002-01-06 Thread Kent West
The university where I work is how I get access to the internet. Over the Christmas holidays I noticed that my attempts at upgrading my Debian box via apt-get suddenly went from a process that took roughly four hours to taking four days. What is going on?! Then yesterday I learned that the uni

Re: resuming apt-get downloads

2002-01-06 Thread Helios de Creisquer
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:42:15AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:21:31PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:08:13PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > > This isn't true. APT's HTTP method has always used the HTTP/1.1 Range: > > > header to attempt to resum

Re: trident: incredibly crappy sound

2002-01-06 Thread Martin \"matlads\" Atukunda
Hi I've got the same card #lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630 Host (rev 21) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02) Subsystem: Silicon Int

Re: Installing Woody via adsl

2002-01-06 Thread Stephen P Williams
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:00:57PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:05:46PM +0100, Antonio wrote: > | Is there a way to net-install Woody (or sid) via ADSL? I don't have a direct > | ethernet connection, but installing via ADSL would solve me a couple of > | problems. > > Yes. ADLS

Re: OT: Asian spam procmail recipies and a sig trap

2002-01-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
2 comments: #1. 7-bit asian coding Does this really catch CJKV(Chinese-Japanese-Korean-Vetonamese) Spams in all coding schemes. It looked like unless coding schime uses high bit characters, it does not seem to catch coding scheme like 7-bit JIS which comes with a lot of ESC codes. They should h

Re: Help with Japanese Printing.

2002-01-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:20:42AM -0500, Sebastien Leclair wrote: > I've been going crazy trying to setup japanese printing on > my box. I am running potato, nearly all upgraded. I have ... You seem to be ahead of me on Japanese [* 1]. ;) Right place to ask this question on Japanese in Englis

Re: HOWTO->rsync usage.......

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Courtney Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.0200 +0100]: > I've just installed a new HD. What do I need to do to prepare it for use > with rsync ? > > What command is appropriate to exactly mirror the original HD ? assuming mount-points /new and /old, rsync will mirror like this:

What part of XFree86 causes major display problems?

2002-01-06 Thread Seneca Cunningham
I have just upgraded XFree86 from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the upgrade, I changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the screen consisted of vertical lines running down my display, the top of the lines were 1 pixel in width and the bottom width was 3 pixels, with 2 wide black hor

Re: /lib/modules/`uname -r`_[0-9]* ???

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.05.1433 +0100]: > If you install the same kernel version several times, kernel-package > tries to move the old modules out of the way. (The installation script > should ask you whether you want that.) > > (Normally, I don't use that option and del

Re: Virus ?

2002-01-06 Thread shyamk @ eth . net
But , for at least 2 months after the dual-boot installation .. the E: and F: did show up.They did the vanishing act only after my friend (who I said can be trusted) did his. Thanks and Regards, Shyam Stan & Julie Rock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Personally I think its something else. Its se

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:27:13PM -0800, Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: <...> > Where is there a HOWTO or tutorial on using available tools (e.g. > procmail) to filter spam? Is it something that the "unwashed masses" > like myself can learn to do? Google wi

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.0746 +0100]: > so why can't i do: > > orange:~# apt-get install spamassassin/unstable > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package spamassassin/unstable > > ? am i doing it wrong? (curren

kupdated eats 40% of CPU on woody and everything freezes.

2002-01-06 Thread ae roy
Every so often, maybe twice a minute I'm experiencing that my whole system freezes, everything stops for 1-2 seconds, there is no reaction from mouse or keybord. I notice that when this happens, I see with 'top' that 'kupdated' eats about 40% of my amd duron 850 CPU, I think this is my problem, any

Re: gcc oddities : why would this compile?

2002-01-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 21:41:13 -0500, dman wrote: > Why does this compile without any errors? (no options were given to > gcc) Because you didn't request relevant warnings like -Wimplicit (included in -Wall), which would have given you foo.c: In function `main': foo.c:4: warning

Re: Debian and Redhat on the same PC

2002-01-06 Thread Davor Balder
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:17:52AM -0500, dx wrote: > Hi, > > I am newbie Linux user. > I just like to know how can I install Debian and Redhat > on the same PC. I already installed Redhat using Grub, > but Debian is using LILO. And how do you make/allocate partitions > for both of them without s

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-06 Thread Martin Würtele
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:46:30AM -0600, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > orange:~# apt-get install spamassassin/unstable > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package spamassassin/unstable > > ? am i doing it wrong? (currently running potato) first you

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-06 Thread pauwel
right command is apt-get -t unstable install spamassassin pauwel Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sat, 05 Jan 2002 10:07:43PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: RTFM: man procmail http://spamassassin.taint.org/ http://spamassassin.taint.org/dist/README so of course, having written this, and

Re: ? .bashrc and .bash_profile and PATH

2002-01-06 Thread Martin \"matlads\" Atukunda
hi you might want to check out the package sysprofile (apt-get install sysprofile) but it is only available for testing and unstable. generally though you can set PATH in /etc/profile for all users to use when they log in. hth -- M. On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:13:10PM -0800, Paul E Condon de

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-06 Thread MH
> "Nori" == Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Nori> from http://spamassassin.taint.org/dist/README: " On Debian, Nori> you can apt-get it from unstable, thanks to Duncan Findlay." Nori> debian confirms this at Nori> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/interprete

Re: Total lockups - could it be my ISP?

2002-01-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Jan 2002, ben wrote: > On Friday 04 January 2002 10:46 am, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 04 Jan 2002, ben wrote: > > > On Friday 04 January 2002 02:46 am, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I only have Linux at present, though I'm planning to play with FreeBSD. > > > > Oddly enough, the problem

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