Re: any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?

2002-01-09 Thread Andrew Nesbit
Joel Mayes wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lamport's _LaTeX: A Document Preparation System_ and _The LaTeX Companion_ are good (the first is more of an introduction, the second a reference book). Also check out http://www.tug.org/

Re: Configuring X on Potato r3 for an on-board Mercury(810) Display

2002-01-09 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 08:00:55 +0530, shyamk wrote: >I am having problem in >configuring X on Potato r3 for an on-board Mercury(810) Display. >I get only 8bpp while Win98 is crystal clear.I am sulking because >I want to shift completely to Debian , even the pictures. >As you can guess , the list of

Re: Configuring X on Potato r3 for an on-board Mercury(810) Display

2002-01-09 Thread Craig Dickson
Gary Turner wrote: > The i810(e) is not supported in potato. More specifically, it is not supported in XFree86 3.3, which is the version in Potato -- although I understand that it should be possible to obtain an i810 X server from Intel to plug into XFree86 3.3, at which point it should work. If

Confusion about X in woody

2002-01-09 Thread Randy Orrison
I installed Potato from CDs, and have since done an apt-get dist-upgrade to woody, and have been following woody since (with apt-get upgrade and install as needed when new packages arrived). I've recently noticed that I appear to be using X version 4.1, as shown by this partial output from dpkg -l

Re: postfix dependancies

2002-01-09 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 10:23 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > samba requires logrotate > logrotate requires mailx > mailx requires mail-transport-agent > exim provides mail-transport-agent > > That's why. > > postfix also provides mail-transport-agent, and postfix conflicts with > exim. So if you in

Re: postfix dependancies

2002-01-09 Thread Ax
Dne st 9. leden 2002 09:19 Dougie Nisbet napsal(a): > Ah, I understand now. Is there anyway to examine dependancies without > using apt-get install? dselect Ax -- Vaclav Hula [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~ax There's long way fr

Re: postfix dependancies

2002-01-09 Thread Craig Dickson
Ax wrote: > Dne st 9. leden 2002 09:19 Dougie Nisbet napsal(a): > > Ah, I understand now. Is there anyway to examine dependancies without > > using apt-get install? > > dselect Or simply view the file /var/lib/dpkg/available, and search for "Package: postfix" (or whatever package you want to loo

Re: postfix dependancies

2002-01-09 Thread Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 3:36 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > Ax wrote: > > Dne st 9. leden 2002 09:19 Dougie Nisbet napsal(a): > > > Ah, I understand now. Is there anyway to examine dependancies without > > > using apt-get install? > > > > dselect > > Or simply view the file /var/lib/dpkg/available

Re: any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?

2002-01-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello, > > I am very new to LaTex. Is there any good books or documents recommended > for me? Any recommends highly appreciated. :-) If you have installed LaTeX and it's documents on your system, go to /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/general/ There you f

ntpd does not work

2002-01-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I have several computers running ntpd, but on one computer it does not work. At first, that computer has 4 ntpd processes in stead of 1: (output ps aux) USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 21748 0.0 38.9 3972 3964 ?SL Jan03 0:26 /us

Re: kernel-package and moving the old vmlinuz

2002-01-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Shaul" == Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shaul> Next I installed kernel-image-2.2.20_custom.2.0_i386.deb and got both Shaul> vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old pointing to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20. Yet Shaul> /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz states that Shaul> Normally, that is only

Re: ntpd does not work

2002-01-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi sebastiaan the ntp.conf file is different for your local ntp server vs clients syncing to your local ntp server kill ntp daemon than kill all the pending ntp jobs.. and restart it and see where the problem is maybe the reason for the failures is in the /var/log/ntpstats or /var/log/* f

Play VCD on computer

2002-01-09 Thread alfons1
Hi Is there a way to play Vcd on computer without DVD drive ? Thanks and regards,   Alfons

Re: partition resize

2002-01-09 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
As far, as I know, parted works only on ext2fs and I need to make one of my reiserfs partition smaller in order to make /var bigger Mirek Yes you can, You can try good old partition-magic (commercial product), or GNU parted apt-get install parted (on sid at least) or see

MS Exchange IMAP durch Linux iptables FW mit NAT?

2002-01-09 Thread Andreas Rabus
Grüß Gott, folgendes kleines Problem: LAN mit M$ Exchange --- Firwall Linux -- DMZ -- Cisco -- Internet 10.0.0.x Die FW macht (S|D)NAT für das Lan, nimmt ePost auf einer extra IP (auf eth0:3) entgegen (SMTP) und leitet an den Exchange Server weiter. Wenn ich von außen per IMAP auf den Exchange

Re: any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?

2002-01-09 Thread MH
> "Sebastiaan" == Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sebastiaan> Hi, Sebastiaan> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Patrick Hsieh wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am very new to LaTex. Is there any good books or documents >> recommended for me? Any recommends highly appreciated. :-)

Re: "screen" will not read /etc/profile

2002-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:35:47PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > See the man page, and the examples in > /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files. > > Hmm, that's strange, I found the above reference in > /etc/skel/.bashrc, but did not find an examples directory > in /usr/share/doc/bash. Odd

Re: problems with apt overwriting installs and with trafstats, debian-unstable

2002-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:17:39PM -0800, Teunis Peters wrote: > I hope this is the right place to ask, I'm not really sure so if anyone > can help, please??? > > I've been using debian-unstable due to requiring lots of current software > but have run into a couple of problems: > > some packages

Re: postfix dependancies

2002-01-09 Thread Martin Würtele
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:19:59AM +, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > Ah, I understand now. Is there anyway to examine dependancies without using > apt-get install? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -p postfix | grep Depends Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libdb3 (>= 3.2.9-1), libgdbmg1, netbase, adduser, debco

How to find millions of Movies and Pictures? Just use...

2002-01-09 Thread Sandra Manton
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xterm and the backspace key, the saga continues.

2002-01-09 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hey, A few months ago I noticed that _something_ had changed on my Debian installation that caused xterms not to react on my backspace key as one would expect. With a lot of tuning, help from friends, reinstalling and dpkg-reconfigure'ing I managed to fix this, and for a while my backspace acted

Re: any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?

2002-01-09 Thread G. Soyez
There is also a doc file in Postscript : "A not so short introduction to LaTeX 2e" (the file is called lshort.ps), which is quite a good introduction. Gregor On Merkidi 09 Djanvî 2002 05:09, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello, > > I am very new to LaTex. Is there any good books or documents recommende

VFS

2002-01-09 Thread wang
Hello: Help me pleale. i want to instsll Debian 2.2r4 but something happen MY PC: Acer altos 1100 scsi:AIC 7800 sys how me when booting : partition check Sda:sda1 S

Fetting lird (Intrared control) working?

2002-01-09 Thread Stan Brown
I havve installed the lircd packagem and the lircd modules package. I let the later compile the modules, and guess at configuration setings. I am runing a custom 2.4.17 kernel, and have a Haupanage (sp) WinTV card installed, and working, that came wth an ifrared remote control. What I'm trying to

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Re: HOT GAY SEX!

2002-01-09 Thread Penguin
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Re: Question about IP masqing

2002-01-09 Thread Dave Price
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:49:55PM -0600, Michael Jinks wrote: > I'm not sure. The freshmeat guys (or whomever) might have just been > guessing based on contextual clues, like ident checks failing, or > ftp connections switching to "passive". Without knowing the context > it's hard to say for sur

Re: HOT GAY SEX!

2002-01-09 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-01-09 13:01]: >Do they use Debian? The site www.xpays.com is running Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) on FreeBSD. (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.xpays.com) Thorsten -- Unterschätze nie die Macht dummer Leute, die einer Meinung sind. - Kurt Tuchol

ext3 vs xfs

2002-01-09 Thread Edward Kear
I just received a 160 gb hard drive that I plan to partition as one big partition and mount as /home/public on the family file server (woody). Most of the files in this directory are mp3, mpg, avi, etc. I've constructed a 2.4.16 kernel with the required ide patch and patched it to support xfs.

Re: HOT GAY SEX! do they use LaTeX ? ;-)

2002-01-09 Thread Xavier Hubin
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 13:18, Thorsten Haude wrote: > Hi, > > * Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-01-09 13:01]: > >Do they use Debian? > > The site www.xpays.com is running Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) on FreeBSD. > (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.xpays.com) > > Thorsten I hope they use

Re: ntpd does not work

2002-01-09 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi sebastiaan > > ntp wont sync if its more than a few minutes off > - each client need to first run "ntpdate -s ntp.chello.nl" > This is a problem: 45 min off > you'd want to have more than one ntp server... and probably add a peer ntp >

adding menu items

2002-01-09 Thread Kari Ruohonen
Hi! I have tried to add items to the Debian menu system with no luck. I have read the man pages and the docs as well as browsed the discussion groups. I have tried to add a 'menu' file to both ~/.menu and /etc/menu and run 'update-menus' both as a user and root. Nothing happens. Also, the response

I'm missing from kdm portraits at startup

2002-01-09 Thread Dougie Nisbet
I did 'usermod -u 501' dougie to change my UID from 1000. When I logged out and in again, I'm no longer a picture on the kdm login screen. root is there, and all the other users, but I'm missing. I can't figure out where kde stores this list. I can still log in no problem, but I'm a bit puzzled

Re: I'm missing from kdm portraits at startup

2002-01-09 Thread Karsten Heymann
* Dougie Nisbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020109 14:06]: > I did 'usermod -u 501' dougie to change my UID from 1000. When I > logged out and in again, I'm no longer a picture on the kdm login > screen. root is there, and all the other users, but I'm missing. I > can't figure out where kde stores this l

can not install 2.2r4

2002-01-09 Thread wang
Hello: Help me pleale. i want to instsll Debian 2.2r4 but something happen MY PC: Acer altos 1100 scsi:AIC 7800 sys how me when booting : partition check Sda:sda1 S

Re: ht0 freezing computer IDE tape

2002-01-09 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I guess I will try to emulate scsi using ide-scsi? from dmesg: ide-tape: Dumping ATAPI Identify Device tape parameters ide-tape: Protocol Type: <6>ATAPI ide-tape: Device Type: 1 - <6>Streaming Tape Device ide-tape: Removable: Yes ide-tape: Command Packet DRQ Type: <6>Accelerated DRQ ide-tape: Com

Re: ht0 freezing computer IDE tape

2002-01-09 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I guess I will try to emulate scsi using ide-scsi? from dmesg: ide-tape: Dumping ATAPI Identify Device tape parameters ide-tape: Protocol Type: <6>ATAPI ide-tape: Device Type: 1 - <6>Streaming Tape Device ide-tape: Removable: Yes ide-tape: Command Packet DRQ Type: <6>Accelerated DRQ ide-tape: Co

exim mrtg

2002-01-09 Thread c
can anyone plz point me to a source of mrtg scripts/source for exim monitoring..or a howto many thanks c^

Re: any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?

2002-01-09 Thread Jason Healy
At 1010596167s since epoch (01/08/02 23:09:27 -0500 UTC), Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello, > > I am very new to LaTex. Is there any good books or documents recommended > for me? Any recommends highly appreciated. :-) I've never read the "official" Lamport books, but I own and love "A Guide to

Fatal server error: Number Nine I128 and XF86 4.1.0

2002-01-09 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I am having a fatal server error with XFree86 4.1.0 with my Number Nine Imagine I128 Card. The specifications of the card are: Chip Set Cirrus CL-GD5424 Memory 512 RAMDAC Cirrus Logic Built-in 15/16/24-Bit DAC (6-Bit wide-loop) Attached G

bringing out variable

2002-01-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I wrote a little bash script, but I ran into a problem: I need to export a variable out of the bash scipt into the shell. Shortly, it comes to this: #!/bin/sh # DISPLAY=:1 export DISPLAY When I execute this script, the value is set correctly in the script environment, but after execution 'e

Re: adding menu items

2002-01-09 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:58:58PM +0200, Kari Ruohonen wrote: > Hi! > I have tried to add items to the Debian menu system with no luck. I have > read the man pages and the docs as well as browsed the discussion groups. > I have tried to add a 'menu' file to both ~/.menu and /etc/menu and run > 'u

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0519 +0100]: > orange:~> dpkg -l "*xserver*" | grep "^ii" > ii xserver-common 4.1.0-11 files and utilities common to all X > servers > ii xserver-common 3.3.6-42 files and utilities common to > XFree86 3.x X > ii xserver-mach

Re: Fatal server error: Number Nine I128 and XF86 4.1.0

2002-01-09 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > > I am having a fatal server error with XFree86 4.1.0 with my > Number Nine Imagine I128 Card. > > Section "Device" > ### Available Driver options are:- > ### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False", > #

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brenda J. Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0422 +0100]: > In what file do you have LC_TIME="en_US"? It doesn't seem to > be propagating to your environment. it's supposed to be in /etc/environment btw... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ ec

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brenda J. Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0444 +0100]: > Can you run dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86? That > will guide you through reconfiguring your X server (ie > rewriting your XF86Config file) (this was Martin's > suggestion a few emails back). XF86 3.3.6 comes with

Re: bringing out variable

2002-01-09 Thread Jor-el
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Sebastiaan wrote: > > #!/bin/sh > # > DISPLAY=:1 > export DISPLAY > > > When I execute this script, the value is set correctly in the script > environment, but after execution 'echo $DISPLAY' still results the old > value. I have also tried 'set DISPLAY', without succes. Any

Re: Apache virtualhosts with different user

2002-01-09 Thread Berthold Cogel
Gabor Gludovatz wrote: > > Hello, > > if I define 'user' in virtualhost section of apache's httpd.conf, then my > cgi scripts will be running as 'user' if suexec has been set up correctly. > It's okay. But how can I tell apache to run the whole virtualhost as > 'user'? Including accessing html fi

Re: bringing out variable

2002-01-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Jor-el wrote: > In order to do what you want, you need to use the 'source' builtin > function of bash (man bash and search for 'source filename'). The > alternative syntax for 'source' is to use '.' in place of the word > 'source' . > That was the missing piece. Tha

is it possible to downgrade from woody

2002-01-09 Thread Nantenaina Tianarivo Ulrich
I was playing with mt test machin. and I've tried to upgrade my debian on this machine from a potato to a woody. But after the upgrade,I found out that some of my application don't work anymore. As, we are many to work on this machine, I'd like to go back to my last version. My questions are :

Re: Apache virtualhosts with different user

2002-01-09 Thread Gabor Gludovatz
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Berthold Cogel wrote: > > if I define 'user' in virtualhost section of apache's httpd.conf, then my > > cgi scripts will be running as 'user' if suexec has been set up correctly. > > It's okay. But how can I tell apache to run the whole virtualhost as > > 'user'? Including acce

hdparms & new system

2002-01-09 Thread Stan Brown
I've gt a new modern mtherboard, and an IBM drive in a system I just built. I thought I'd play around with hdparm, and tweak up the disk preformance. I've got a custom compiled 2.4.17 kernel. Much to my supris, virtually everything I tried came back as not available. Are ther kernel patches, or

Re: OT: xargs & vi

2002-01-09 Thread Keith G. Murphy
martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0231 +0100]: > > | echo .muttrc | vim - > > > > ls .muttrc | xargs vim > > aha, the '-' is the problem. > > > I didn't think that would work (once I straightened out my > > understanding of the stdin stuff), but it does.

Re: hdparms & new system

2002-01-09 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Much to my supris, virtually everything I tried came back as not available. > Are ther kernel patches, or something that I need to apply to get DMA, and > 100Meg transfer speed working? Supposedly your new motherboard has a specific chipset that was not c

Squirrelmail question

2002-01-09 Thread Ágics Balázs
Hi all, I have a problem with sqmail. If I attach a file before I select address from addressbook, than when I go back from address selecting the attached file dissappeard. Is this normal or nat? Thanks for help Balazs -- http://www.mailbox.hu

dnscache and dnscachex (djbdns)

2002-01-09 Thread Américo Rocha
Hi all Can someone point the differences between a local dns cache and an external dns cache ? I configured an external dnscache on Interneal IP 192.168.0.12 that accepts queries of all my 192.168.0.* network. Could the same be accomplished by a local dns cache ? I'm getting a a little conf

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-09 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:23:16AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0118 +0100]: | > (I can't filter on IPs anyways since 99.99% of my mail comes out of | > pony-express.cs.rit.edu due to my .forward file there, if you use | > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" it

keymap problem??

2002-01-09 Thread c
Hi all I have a problem that has bugged me for some timeand i cant work out the cause. I have one machine that when i connect to it remotely does not allow the use of certain control characters.this is most noticable with the pgup and pgdn keys plz help c^

cursor style

2002-01-09 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, how do I change the cursor style in the console, eg. like an underscope vs. a solid block? Thanks, andrej

Re: Hairy lilypond compile problem

2002-01-09 Thread David Roundy
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:18:45PM +0800, csj wrote: > Using a brute-force dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot on the lilypond > source package results in a build failure. The last three lines of > stdout show: > > bison -d parser.yy > mv parser.yy.tab.h out/parser.hh > make[2]: Leaving directory `/xa

Re: MS Exchange IMAP durch Linux iptables FW mit NAT?

2002-01-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Andreas Rabus wrote: > > > Grüß Gott, > > folgendes kleines Problem: > I know nothing, NOTHING! It seems you have some kind of IMAP problem? If you post in English you might be able to get some help. Otherwise try [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I

Client is not authorised to connect to server

2002-01-09 Thread Rachel Andrew
Hi after upgrading my woody box to kernel 2.4.16 I now cannot run any x applications from a terminal window, having su'd to root while logged in as my user. I get a message 'Cannot connect to X Server: 0.0' I can connect if I start X with startx when logged in from the shell, but if X is start

Unhappy ntpd

2002-01-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
I logged in this morning to discover syslog full of ntpd[179]: recvfrom() fd=6: Connection refused entries. This server is configured to reference four time sources. Is there any way to determine which one is refusing connections? (Other than remove one from ntp.conf, wait to see if the errors s

Re: Play VCD on computer

2002-01-09 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:42:53AM +0200, alfons1 wrote: | Hi | Is there a way to play Vcd on computer without DVD drive ? | Thanks and regards, Yep -- xine. Works great thought the picture is a bit small, but don't use esd for sound (very choppy when I tried it). (I should also mention that I o

Re: bringing out variable

2002-01-09 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:47:47PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: | Hi, | | I wrote a little bash script, but I ran into a problem: I need to export a | variable out of the bash scipt into the shell. Shortly, it comes to this: | | #!/bin/sh | # | DISPLAY=:1 | export DISPLAY | | | When I execute this

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

2002-01-09 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:56:45PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: | Lo, on Monday, January 7, dman did write: | > Have you read "The Hobbit"? Do you remember what Treebeard told Bilbo | > about his name? | | (Actually it was _The Two Towers_, and it was Merry & Pippin, not Bilbo, Oops. It's been

Re: Unhappy ntpd

2002-01-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dave telnet ntp_sever ntp do that to each ntp server...from each client box or write an itty-bitty expect script ??? or check the log files... it should tell you which ip# is refusing the connections /var/log/{messages,syslog} /var/log/xntp ( as defined in /etc/ntp.conf )

Re: cursor style

2002-01-09 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:33:44PM -0200, andrej hocevar wrote: > Hello, > how do I change the cursor style in the console, eg. like an > underscope vs. a solid block? I think you have to enable this facility in the kernel. Search for `cursor' in Documentation/Configure.help of the kernel source

Re: hdparms & new system

2002-01-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi stan if the motehrboard sees the disks during bootup...you should be okay... you can download the latest hdparm from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/utility-patches/ be sure to turn on dma mode hdparm -d1 /dev/hda - lots of options to play with... to

Re: partition resize

2002-01-09 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 11:40, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > As far, as I know, parted works only on ext2fs I think reiserfs has its own tools to accomodate the larger partition space. -- Meir Kriheli > and I need to make one of my reiserfs partition smaller > in order to make /var bigger > >

Re: OT: xargs & vi

2002-01-09 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 09 Jan 2002 09:01:45AM -0600, Keith G. Murphy insinuated: > martin f krafft wrote: > > so, to close this thread: find . -name Root | vim > > > Not so fast! Using vim 5.3, I get: > > ls my.txt | vim > Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal > Empty buffer > Vim: Error reading input, ex

How to fix? 9 Jan 04:02:27 ntpdate[4633]: no server suitable for synchronization found

2002-01-09 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
"ntpdate time" is giving the the following error. "time" is my server running ntpd from woody. --- The ntpd on the machine "time" is storing the following in syslog: Jan 9 10:01:58 portal ntpd[32724]: ntpd 4.1.0 Sat Dec 15 09:33:44 UTC 2001 (2) Jan 9 10:01:58 portal ntpd[32724]: s

Re: partition resize

2002-01-09 Thread Seth Delackner
> On Wednesday 09 January 2002 11:40, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > > As far, as I know, parted works only on ext2fs I don't know if the gnu documentation is correct, but it claims that parted works on ext2fs, fat and fat32, with the option of growing or shrinking and copying them all. But no, I don't

Re: ext3 vs xfs

2002-01-09 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:22:49AM -0500, Edward Kear wrote: > > Anyone have any thoughts on which file system to use? ext3 or xfs? > The decision is arbitrary, really. It sounds like the fs will not be heavily loaded, so you don't care about any performance issues. You just need the thing to

Re: How to fix? 9 Jan 04:02:27 ntpdate[4633]: no server suitable for synchronization found

2002-01-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya hanasaki what's in your ntp.conf file on time.hanaden.com ?? thanx alvin http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/NTP On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > "ntpdate time" is giving the the following error. "time" is my server > running ntpd from woody. > > --- > The ntpd on th

Re: cursor style

2002-01-09 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2002.01.09 19:33, andrej hocevar a écrit : > Hello, > how do I change the cursor style in the console, eg. like an > underscope vs. a solid block? > > Thanks, > > andrej > extract of linux/Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt: To get normal blinking underline, use: echo -e '\033[?2c' To get bli

pkg hell with pidentd

2002-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I seem to have found a problem when attempting to remove pidentd, but wanted to run it by the list befor bugging it. # dpkg -P pidentd dpkg: error processing pidentd (--purge): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should r

Re: Unhappy ntpd

2002-01-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:54:00AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > telnet ntp_sever ntp I wouldn't expect that to work (and a quick test looks like it doesn't). NTP is UDP-based, not TCP. > or check the log files... it should tell you which ip# is > refusing the connections > /var/log/{messages,

How do tell if X is using acceleration...?...

2002-01-09 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
I am thinking that my machine is not using acceleration. It is an athlon 600 with a voodoo3500. Graphics seem to be slow and take the CPU to over 75%. This even happens when moving an opaque window. My XFConifg-4 file is pasted below. Could someone help me with understanding what could be

Re: keymap problem??

2002-01-09 Thread Jeff Green
I have a problem that has bugged me for some timeand i cant work out the cause. I have one machine that when i connect to it remotely does not allow the use of certain control characters.this is most noticable with the pgup and pgdn keys Same here, and with delete, home, and e

Re: Anyway to emulate IE?

2002-01-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:11:20PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Did you read the original post? The guy wants to test a site that uses > some Microsoft specific tags in an HTML-like document. Sending MSIE's > user agent string won't allow Opera to suddenly understand these tags. I almost sent

turning off port 143

2002-01-09 Thread Serge Rey
i'm working on a sid/woody box, postinstall, and i see through netstat that this box is listening on port 143. i've turned off system wide fetchmail, and have dug through rcS.d, rc2.d and inetd.conf, but can't figure out what is running on that port. can anyone point me in the right direction? th

Re: dnscache and dnscachex (djbdns)

2002-01-09 Thread dsr
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:16:23PM +, Am?rico Rocha wrote: > Can someone point the differences between a local dns cache and an > external dns cache ? Yes. I still think you ought to read the web pages again and perhaps ask on the djbdns mailing list. > I configured an external dnscache on

~Maildir and /var/spool/mail/$USER

2002-01-09 Thread Américo Rocha
Hi all I have a serious problem with my portato box I'm running Maildir, wich is configured to deliver mail to ~/home/Maildir. But somehow, some messages, are still being delivered to /var/spool/mail/$USER. I *don't* even have exim running Does someone have some tip to so9lve this weirdness?

Re: turning off port 143

2002-01-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Serge Rey wrote: > i'm working on a sid/woody box, postinstall, and i see through netstat > that this box is listening on port 143. i've turned off system wide > fetchmail, and have dug through rcS.d, rc2.d and inetd.conf, but can't > figure out what is running on that por

Re: Confusion about X in woody

2002-01-09 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Randy Orrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I installed Potato from CDs, and have since done an apt-get dist-upgrade to woody, and have been following woody since (with apt-get upgrade and install as needed when new packages arrived). I've recently noticed that I appear to be using X version 4.1,

Re: pkg hell with pidentd

2002-01-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:57:04 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Preparing to replace pidentd 3.0.7-3 (using > .../pidentd_3.0.12-4_i386.deb) ... > Can't locate DebianNet.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 > /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/loca

Re: ~Maildir and /var/spool/mail/$USER

2002-01-09 Thread dsr
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:43:33PM +, Am?rico Rocha wrote: > > Hi all > > I have a serious problem with my portato box > > I'm running Maildir, wich is configured to deliver mail > to ~/home/Maildir. But somehow, some messages, are still > being delivered to /var/spool/mail/$USER. I *don't*

Re: turning off port 143

2002-01-09 Thread Serge Rey
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 06:41:19PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Serge Rey wrote: > > > i'm working on a sid/woody box, postinstall, and i see through netstat > > that this box is listening on port 143. i've turned off system wide > > fetchmail, and have dug through rcS.d

Re: routing help on dual homed box

2002-01-09 Thread Serge Rey
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:57:19PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 07 January 2002 2:57 pm, Serge Rey wrote: snip > > thanks for the tips. with these and alan's suggestions i've got it > > working now. > > > > one thing i noticed is that

Re: teTeX: cannot setup

2002-01-09 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 07/01/02, Alec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 07 January 2002 08:35 am, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > ncurses screen entitled 'teTeX setup utility', which says > > "Could not find app-default file for xdvi" > > and exits. > > If purging and reinstalling tetex-bin doesn't fix the proble

Re: Mozilla 0.9.7-2 quits on back button

2002-01-09 Thread Kent West
Michael D. Crawford wrote: Today when reading Slashdot, and following links to other pages, then pressing the back button to return to slashdot, Mozilla 0.9.7-2 from Sid (PowerPC) suddenly quits. I only noticed this today, and haven't updated for a few days. Mike I think the 0.9.7 series

mutt weirdness: >> "Move read messages to /home/astartoth/Mail/~/Maildir? ([n]/y):"

2002-01-09 Thread Américo Rocha
duh! Move read messages to /home/astartoth/Mail/~/Maildir? ([n]/y): what's this ? any ideas ? using qmail, procmail and mutt. i think it's procmail related here's the .rc file PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin: MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir LOGFILE=$HOME/Maildir/.l

CDs y manuales de Debian

2002-01-09 Thread Carlos Parra
Estamos interesados en instalar en uno de los PCs de la empresa Debian GNU/LINUX 2.2 (Potato) Release 4. (un programador nos ha dicho que es el que nosotros necesitamos, pero no puede ayudarnos todo lo que quisiéramos). Hemos hecho un primer intento de instalación de Debian pero nos encontramos p

Re: shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access....

2002-01-09 Thread Guy Geens
> "Alexander" == Alexander Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexander> shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot Alexander> access parent directories: No such file or directory This either means your current directory has been deleted, or you don't have permissions to rea

Freedb-submissions with jack

2002-01-09 Thread Samuli Suonpaa
Has anyone tried submitting entries to freedb with jack? I just don't seem to able to do it. I almost filed a bug against jack, but decided to play safe and post a question instead. When trying to submit, I just get some python errors, like the following two: $ jack -m This is jack 2.99.7 (C) 200

Re: AIPTEK PenCam USB and linux

2002-01-09 Thread Patrik Modesto
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:27:16AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Patrik Modesto wrote on Mon Jan 07, 2002 um 09:13:43PM: > > Hi, > > I just got %subj%. It's working fine under W2k but under Linux I can't > > make it work. I have Debian Woody on 2.4.16 kernel, Video4linux is > > compiled

Re: I'm missing from kdm portraits at startup

2002-01-09 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 1:13 pm, Karsten Heymann wrote: > * Dougie Nisbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020109 14:06]: > > I did 'usermod -u 501' dougie to change my UID from 1000. When I > > logged out and in again, I'm no longer a picture on the kdm login > > screen. root is there, and all the other

Re: ext3 vs xfs

2002-01-09 Thread Dave Carrigan
Edward Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just received a 160 gb hard drive that I plan to partition as one > big partition and mount as /home/public on the family file server > (woody). Most of the files in this directory are mp3, mpg, avi, etc. > > I've constructed a 2.4.16 kernel with the r

Re: exim mrtg

2002-01-09 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:39:00PM -, c wrote: | | can anyone plz point me to a source of mrtg scripts/source for exim | monitoring..or a howto | | many thanks | | c^ | hello, from what i remember, after i installed mrtg via apt, there was an examples section that gave some scripts to

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