Re: Installing kernel-image-2.4.17-k7

At 12:04 PM 02/27/02 -0800, Stan Kaufman wrote: >I just installed 2.4.17 on a new woody box, which involved an upgrade from the >2.2.14 potato system my floppy install disks created. The kernel-image package >provided clear notice during installation that the bootloader needs to be >altered >in or

Re: question about Acrobat

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > hmm, why not do what you can to avoid using an application from a house > > that, singlehandedly, led to the wholly unecessary incarceration of a > > proven advocate of free access to information. Fair point, but acrobat supports searching and xp

kde on sid won't install

I have a hard time believing that a package as important as kde being broken wouldn't generate a flood of bug reports. What am I doing wrong? # apt-get install kde Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have re

procmail. query use of trailing :

Hi, Why should i, or why should I not, use the trailing : in the first line of a procmail recipe? I know this is to do with a lockfile, but do not understand the whys and wherefores of same. :0: * ^TOscuba scubafile :0 * ^From.*peter * ^Subject:.*compilers petcompil both examples from man pro

Re: apt logs

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:43:24 -0800 Richard Wurdack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Me too. > > Having recently started using Linux, I'd like to see a log of what files > were put where, deleted, or changed. It's sort of frustrating to run > apt-get, have it put 4MB of new stuff on the disk, and not

Re: gconv-modules??

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:20:05 +0100 Elias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Estoy intentando instalar GNOME y cada vez me da más problemas. Según > apt-get check no puedo instalar "libgtk1.2" porque el paquete > "gconv-modules" no está instalado. ¿De donde me bajo ese paquete? No lo > encuentro. (let

VRML browser

Good afternoon, I'm looking for some good VRML browser under linux. In school I have lessons from Multimedia and virtual reality. I'm supposed to write interactive(javascritp driven) multiuser virtual world. Is it possible to do this tasks on linux? I dont want to install windows just for thi

RE: mouse problems after switching to Woody

I think the germane point is that not having the mouse work "right out of the box" is a pretty lame and frustrating problem. My first crack at installing linux (potato, 2 months ago) went incredibly smoothly on a 6 year old machine with a patchwork of weird drives and hardware. I was really imp

Turning on kernel debugging.

Other than compiling in debugging support: # # Kernel hacking # CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM=y CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y # CONFIG_DEBUG_IOVIRT is not set CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y # CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is not set CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE=y What d

exim and printer second try

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:33:47PM -0800, paul wrote: I have debian potato 2.2. The printer will not work. at the command line it will print with cat filename > /dev/lp0. No cr, no lf. windows text file will print ok. The culprit seems to be exim which was sending all print jobs to my isp, i

emacs20 installation

Hi, woody updated to 5 mins ago, trying to apt-get install emacs20: symonds:/etc# apt-get install emacs20 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: emacsen-common The following NEW packages will be installed: emacs20 emacsen

Re: Can't access www

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Alan James wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:59:02AM +, Martin Price wrote: > > > > Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try them tonight when I get home (I too > > am an NTL sufferer - I feel your pain). > > Then its ntls fault. must be. > > look here for the alternate

Galeon and Nautilus stopped working

A couple evenings ago I did an sid update and went along with the nautilus-1.1. The install went fine, the results seemed pretty cool except for a few probs with things that didn't show up in the browser, but it seemed okay. The next update, I suddenly found all the nautilus-1.1 under "obsolete"..

Re: using Woody vs testing

At 03:32 PM 2/27/02, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:18:23AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > What happens to testing when woody becomes stable? Some time before woody becomes stable, it will be frozen and a new name will be assigned to testing. testing will go on receiving packages

RE: backup with tar --newer

hi ya there is "tar --newer" too that does incremental backups presumably from the last time it ran with that option c ya alvin http://www.Linux-Backup.net On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: > Sure does > check -g option, incremental ... >

Re: Bastille on Debian?

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:22:39AM -0600, Lance Heller wrote: > > What magic, if any, must be worked to have Bastille run on Debian? apt-get install bastille -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Verify bounce-debian-user-digest=steidler=mchsi.com@lists.debian.org for tony@lockergnome.com

Thanks for the note, Your email has been received, though it hasn't yet been delivered. In order for your email to be delivered, you'll need to reply to this message. This strict filtering protocol arose as the result of a recent exponential increase in junk email in my inbox. Your reply to thi

Strange Problem accessing Web Sites

Hi there, I'ved noticed that when I'm using Debian "woody" certain web sites that are available in my Mandrake Linux install, simply fail to resolve. Examples include: - http://navigation.realnames.com - http://www.crucial.com Like I said these servers resolve in MDK, but have been un

Re: procmail. query use of trailing :

Ian Balchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Why should i, or why should I not, use the trailing : in the first > line of a procmail recipe? > > I know this is to do with a lockfile, but do not understand the whys > and wherefores of same. http://www.iki.fi/era/procmail/mini-faq.html Take

Re: Mounting an NTFS drive/directory

mkdir /foo/bar chmod 444 /foo/bar mount -t ntfs /dev/hd?? /foo/bar And its that simple. Rememebr its read only... On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 17:15, Bodnyk, Bruce W wrote: > What syntax of the mount command would allow be to > mount a shared NTFS directory on Linux. I'm assuming > this is possible! >

Re: Installing kernel-image-2.4.17-k7

"Bill Moseley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 12:04 PM 02/27/02 -0800, Stan Kaufman wrote: > >I just installed 2.4.17 on a new woody box, which involved an > >upgrade from the 2.2.14 potato system my floppy install disks > >created. The kernel-image package provided clear notice during > >install

Re: Advice on HTML book

David Gardi wrote: [snip] http://www.w3c.org/TR/html4/ has always been a sufficient reference for me; books always seemed like a bit of a waste of money. The spec is not a good way to learn the basics of html, but if you can put together a basic page already then I don't see the need for a book

xdm, wmaker, and 'unstable'

After installing both xdm and wmaker under 'unstable' I have some problems. I boot up into xdm and after logging in, a default window manager isn't started (in this case wmaker). Any idea how to convicne xdm to start a default window manager? --

Re: VRML browser

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:06:58 +0100 Mirek Dobsicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I'm looking for some good VRML browser under linux. In school I have > lessons from Multimedia and virtual reality. I'm supposed to write > interactive(javascritp driven) multiuser virtual world.

Re: procmail. query use of trailing :

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Ian Balchin wrote: > Hi, > > Why should i, or why should I not, use the trailing : in the first > line of a procmail recipe? > > I know this is to do with a lockfile, but do not understand the whys > and wherefores of same. > > :0: > * ^TOscuba > scubafile > > > :0 > * ^F

AutoCAD (or similar) for Debian/Linux?

Hi, For some reasons, in a near future i'll have to run AutoCAD in my home machine. I am asking if anyone has success running AutoCAD (through wine?) or any CAD system capable of opening AutoCAD files. Any version of AutoCAD starting from R14, I'm a great newbie in the CAD world, and I do not

Re: exim and printer answers

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:41:41AM -0800, paul wrote: > I hope this answers the questions. > Printer is hplaserjet4plus I think there are versions of this printer that are capable of doing Postscript them selves. Does this printer has the Postscript addon? Or do you have the full HP name for it?

Re: CUPS Problem

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:45:58PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > Hi all, > > I have installed CUPS from the stable distro onto my machine. When I > point my browser at http://localhost:631/ I can see the printer info > pages and docu and all that, but http://localhost:631/admin asks for a > username a

gnome icons wont change in woody - only one icon

hello, i think i remember seeing someone with the same problem on a debian list, but i've searched lists.debian.org and didn't find it! forgive me please for the re-post. at home, i'm running woody. ever since the dist-upgrade, gmc no longer lets me choose different icons... all the icons i have

Re: kde on sid won't install

On Wednesday 27 Feb 2002 9:36 pm, David Wright wrote: > I have a hard time believing that a package as important as kde being > broken wouldn't generate a flood of bug reports. What am I doing wrong? You are not checking the BTS ? You are not reading debian-kde ? Seriously though, the thing that

Re: Strange Problem accessing Web Sites

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 05:28:11PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote: | Hi there, | I'ved noticed that when I'm using Debian "woody" certain web sites that are | available in my Mandrake Linux install, simply fail to resolve. Examples | include: | |- http://navigation.realnames.com |- htt

RE:Strange Problem accessing Web Sites

I would guess that ECN might be turned on: % cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn To turn it off, use: % echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn For info on ECN: http://www.icir.org/floyd/ecn.html and of course, Google. Andrew.

Re: Problem with ATI Rage 128 Pro TF

On Wednesday 27 February 2002 07:42, Bill Triplett wrote: > am not an expert, but barring the lack of any other useful advice to > your question, it looks to me like the Rage 128 Pro TF chipset (from > lspci) is not listed in the supported chipsets in the logfile. Check the > XFree86 website and se

Re: mouse problems after switching to Woody

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:20:41PM -0500, Stephen Ryan wrote: ... > Well, without knowing exactly what your problem is, most of the fixes > have been the same - remove gpm because it gets in the way (having both > X and gpm trying to access the mouse simultaneously is bad karma) and Well, this was

Re: Strange Problem accessing Web Sites

Hi Andrew, Thanks!!! That did the trick (although I did change the "1" to a "0"). Ah, I feel much better - today I had to reboot into Mandrake just so that I could view a web site. :-\ Thanks, Tim On Wednesday 27 February 2002 07:13 pm, Andrew Agno wrote: > I would guess that ECN mi

Re: Strange Problem accessing Web Sites

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timothy R. Butler writes: > I'ved noticed that when I'm using Debian "woody" certain web sites that are > available in my Mandrake Linux install, simply fail to resolve. Examples > include: > >- http://navigation.realnames.com >- http://ww

gnome icons wont change in woody - only one icon - bug 103102 - closed

- Forwarded message from "Jason M. Harvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Jason M. Harvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: gnome icons wont change in woody - only one icon X-PGP-fingerprint: 1024D/90414D8C: E48B F669 C1A3 7FB7 FE3C A74A 80CB 48FF 9041 4D8C X-O

Re: Sound after restarting from win$$

Have you added your sound driver to /etc/modules? --- Axel Minck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > After restarting from windoze (I know, it's bad but > I am forced to use > it for my work) to linux I have no sound. > Has someone a solution to avoid turning off the > computer before starting

Re: really stuffed up news system!!!!!!!

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:28:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. > Now I have really stuffed up my news system. :( Haven't we all sometime:) > Iniatially my potatoe box had the dialup utilities selected by > tasksel all installed. But there seemed to be no news reader. ... > 5. When I no

2.2r5 Kernel Module Install Failure

Early in the 2.2r5 installation (from CD) I get to the step "Configure Device Driver Modules" - I highlight "fs" and press Enter - I highlight "binfmt_aout" and press Enter and the following errors appear: /lib/modules/2.2.19/fs/binfmt_aout.o: unresolved symbol do_truncate /lib/modules/2.2.

Re: dhclient losing it's ip after time...

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 01:02:53PM -0500, D. Clarke wrote: | That's right, I don't get a DHCPACK when ipmasq is started. | | I just get | | DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 24.226.1.41 port 67 | over and over again, until i drop the masq, then i get an ACK no problem. Either open up port 67 (UDP, I think,

Re: can't detect network card

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:34:30PM -0500, debianlist wrote: | hI: | In installation, Debian can not detected my pci network card. how can i get it to work? First figure out what card it is. Then google to find out what driver it requires. Then run 'modconf' and select the module. Then edit

Re: which module i should select

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:22:28AM -0500, debianlist wrote: | HI: | In the installation, which module should i select for my Linksys Fast Ethernet 10/100 networkcard(NC100 V2.1) Plug "linksys nc100" into google. It will tell you "tulip". (I know because I looked yesterday, and then mailed t

Re: question about Acrobat

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:24:15AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > > > hmm, why not do what you can to avoid using an application from a house > > > that, singlehandedly, led to the wholly unecessary incarceration of a > > > proven advocate of free access to information. > > Fair point, but acroba

Re: AutoCAD (or similar) for Debian/Linux?

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Juari Ritter [iso-8859-1] Müller wrote: [...] > success running AutoCAD (through wine?) or any CAD > system capable of opening AutoCAD files. You may want to check QCad: http://www.qcad.org There is also a Debian package. Greetings, Tad

Re: AutoCAD (or similar) for Debian/Linux?

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:43:18PM -0300, Juari Ritter Müller wrote: > > Hi, > > For some reasons, in a near future i'll have to run > AutoCAD in my home machine. I am asking if anyone has > success running AutoCAD (through wine?) or any CAD > system capable of opening AutoCAD files. There's a

Re: hardware quote comments?

I'm a little behind here due to an old procmail recipe I had forgotten about, but I wanted to reiterate and expand on something Mr. Wehland writes about: On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:26:15PM -0600, Matt Wehland wrote: > At 11:29 AM 2/25/02 -0800, you wrote: > Save some money and buy the biggest/be

Strange E-mail Headers

Hi all, I've been paranoid after reading about people relaying through your e-mail server and spamming other systems. I've tried to lock down my system to keep that from happening. Today I got 2 email with these headers and I'm wondering if I didn't catch all the opennings. Tony Steidler-Dennis

re: can't detect network card

hallo, 1) maybe it could use ne2kpci? I have used it for my tplink card. 2) I know ifup can use : iface eth:0 inet dhcp my question is how can i use ifconfig to bring dhcp up? On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:34:30PM -0500, debianlist wrote: | hI: |

driver ac'97 in intel 815E chipset?

I use woody,but i can't hear mp3 in woody,because my ac'97 can not be drivered. how to driver the ac'97 in my intel 815E chipset? Eric.He

/tmp size

I recently discovered that /tmp on my machine is rather small, around 50mb. I was trying to use xcdroast, but was unable to extract an audio cd to /tmp because it wasn't big enough. This is strange, because I probably have 50gb empty on my hard drive. I'm wondering if /tmp is a separate partitio

woody - no installation candidate..

Title: woody - no installation candidate.. Hi all, I've noticed that ever since I have upgraded to woody, a lot of packages aren't available to be installed. Such as, mysql. Package mysql has no installation candidate. Is this an issue with woody, is there a way I can resolve it ? Thanks

Re: Strange E-mail Headers

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 07:03:49PM -0800, Tim Grogan wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been paranoid after reading about people relaying through your e-mail > server and spamming other systems. I've tried to lock down my system to > keep that from happening. Today I got 2 email with these headers and I'

Re: AutoCAD (or similar) for Debian/Linux?

hi ya there is linuxcad.com and a gazillion more stuff to checkout ( easier to just get autocad and be 100% sure it works right ) - some can only read *.dwg files - linuxcad can read/write *.dwg and *.dxf files http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/CAD/cad.txt c ya alvin On Thu, 28

Re: Strange E-mail Headers

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 07:03:49PM -0800, Tim Grogan wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been paranoid after reading about people relaying through your e-mail > server and spamming other systems. I've tried to lock down my system to > keep that from happening. Today I got 2 email with these headers and I'

Re: Anyone using distributed-net?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Bu I found neither a way to look up my e-mail, nor the links to the > non-profit voting system... > > Is the README file outdated? Try: To get your password, go to statsbox and click

Re: /tmp size

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 07:36:24PM -0800, Richard Otte wrote: > I recently discovered that /tmp on my machine is rather small, around > 50mb. I was trying to use xcdroast, but was unable to extract an audio > cd to /tmp because it wasn't big enough. This is strange, because I > probably have 50gb

Re: /tmp size

Richard Otte wrote: > > I recently discovered that /tmp on my machine is rather small, around > 50mb. I was trying to use xcdroast, but was unable to extract an audio > cd to /tmp because it wasn't big enough. This is strange, because I > probably have 50gb empty on my hard drive. I'm wonderi

Re: Strange E-mail Headers

On 2002.02.28 03:03 Tim Grogan wrote: Hi all, I've been paranoid after reading about people relaying through your e-mail server and spamming other systems. I've tried to lock down my system to keep that from happening. Today I got 2 email with these headers and I'm wondering if I didn't catch

Re: exim and printer answers

[ not really replying to myself, but reacting to requested config files received by direct email ] On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:46:56AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:41:41AM -0800, paul wrote: ... > > #PRINTCAP > > # Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of > >

Re: Strange Problem accessing Web Sites

Timothy R. Butler writes: > "1" to a "0"). Ah, I feel much better - today I had to reboot into Oops. Glad you caught that--too much typing, too little thinking. Andrew.

Re: /tmp size

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 07:36:24PM -0800, Richard Otte wrote: > I recently discovered that /tmp on my machine is rather small, around > 50mb. I was trying to use xcdroast, but was unable to extract an audio > cd to /tmp because it wasn't big enough. This is strange, because I > probably have 50gb

RE:/tmp size

Richard Otte writes: > I recently discovered that /tmp on my machine is rather small, around > 50mb. I was trying to use xcdroast, but was unable to extract an audio > cd to /tmp because it wasn't big enough. This is strange, because I > probably have 50gb empty on my hard drive. I'm wonderi

Re: /tmp size

First of all: check out the "df" command. Then check out "mount". Both have manpages which should be on every newbie's reading list. Chances are, yes, /tmp is a separate partition, but it's easy to see for yourself. Meanwhile, I don't use xcdroast much but can't it be configured to extract to

Re: driver ac'97 in intel 815E chipset?

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Eric.He wrote: >I use woody,but i can't hear mp3 in woody,because my ac'97 can not be drivered. >how to driver the ac'97 in my intel 815E chipset? You might try saying M to Intel ICH (i8xx) audio support What is the output of the lspci command? If it lists VIA for the soun

Re: /tmp size

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:35:00PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote: > > No, it is not your swap partition, your swap partition won't show up in > your file lists. It is also within the realm of possibility that /tmp is a tmpfs filesystem if this is a newish box. Which means that it's potentially store

Re: trouble withscp solved:

I was making this more complicated than necessary. Only one of the hosts is remote, but I hadn't seen an example like this in the scp info. All I had to do was scp [filename] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:filename The comments about the two remote hosts made me realize that I hadn't tried just putting down th

Re: Strange Problem accessing Web Sites

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 05:13:20PM -0800, Andrew Agno wrote: > I would guess that ECN might be turned on: > % cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > To turn it off, use: > % echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > > For info on ECN: > http://www.icir.org/floyd/ecn.html > and of course, Google. [ that's

rcS

hallo, I can not understand line 41 in /etc/init.d/rcS: [ ! -f "$i" ] && continue all files under /etc/rcS.d are symbolinks. and [ ! -f "$i" ] equals false. so is this line yet necessary here ? Mit freundlichen Gruessen R

IMP on upgrade to Woody

  Hi,   I just recently upgraded my server from stable to testing. I have sucessfully installed imp on potato machines before, but when I go to install imp on woody, I get errors when the horde package tries to configure. Has anyone tried to run imp on woody with success? I'm not sure how to

Re: dhclient losing it's ip after time...

Now I remember, read documentation and its example. of ipmasq package. It answeres your question. If you are on woody, my stronger script example in /usr/share/doc/ipmasq may also help *) Cheers On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 01:02:53PM -0500, D. Clarke wrote: > That's right, I don't get a DHCPACK when

Re: rcS

Ren Weili wrote: > > hallo, > I can not understand line 41 in /etc/init.d/rcS: > > [ ! -f "$i" ] && continue > > all files under /etc/rcS.d are symbolinks. > and [ ! -f "$i" ] equals false. > > so is this line yet necessary here ? > The comment

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