Re: upgrading to woody

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 03 March 2002 08:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi all, I took the plunge and dist-upgraded from potato to woody. > so far so good, except for one thing... where did my X server go?? > My machine boots to a login prompt and startx doesn't

Re: Getting Handspring Pilot Setup

I actually just got it working on woody/testing with Evolution and Gnome-pilot... I'm using devfs so I had some issues with that to resolve as well but once I had them resolved it seem'd to work rather nicely ... Jeremy

Re: Mozilla-mailnews 0.9.8-2

Eric G. Miller wrote: Well, I tried the news part of it, and it went haywire. Appears to be an errant thread stuck in a tight loop. It more or less was working, but had the CPU pegged non stop and wouldn't respond to a maximize window request. I see... I haven't tried the news part. But since

Re: How do I turn off the Virtual Desktop?

John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024" "640x480" "800x600" > Virtual 1024 768 > Viewport0 0 I hope that helped Peak as much as it did

Re: Mozilla-mailnews 0.9.8-2

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: [snip] > BTW, why don't you just run it on the woody machine? Mine is > P233/64MB/IDE; too slow for Mozilla. So I run it on a server machine > (PIII/128MB/SCSI), and have the display on mine. Pretty cool. I like the > themes (I don't us

Re: SoundBlaster Live!, /dev/audio, and bad sound quality

> also sounds horrible, but the same file sounds fine when played with > xanim, esdplay or "play". I actually don't know where "play" came from. IIRC from 'sox' package. -- Alexey "Python is executable pseudocode, Perl is executable line-noise."

Re: ALSA or XMMS problem?

Caleb Shay wrote: > Actually, you DON'T need the aalsa xmms plugin (which is good, since > it's no longer available, AFAIK). If you edit > /etc/alsa/alsa-base.conf there is a line near the top that says > "startosslayer=false". Change that to true and OSS programs just > work automagically. Alr

Re: How do I turn off the Virtual Desktop?

Currently in /etc/X11/XF86Config you have a series of entries along the lines of: Section "Screen" Driver "svga" Device "Generic VGA" Monitor "1" Subsection "Display" Depth 8 ViewPort0 0 Virtual 320 200 EndSubsection EndSectio

Re: upgrading to woody

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:52:17AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi all, I took the plunge and dist-upgraded from potato to woody. > so far so good, except for one thing... where did my X server go?? > My machine boots to a login prompt and startx doesn't exist(??) > I used to have the x serv

Re: Small bug in dh-make-perl? [was dh-make-perl]

> > So apparently the dh-make-perl overlay is causing this error some how. > > I need some of the perl modules installed right now for a school > project so am installing them directly with the CPAN shell, until I > figure out if its my local technique that is the problem. > > I wonder if doing

finding a deb package Re: testing symbolic links

On 04-Mar-2002 Harry Putnam wrote: > Angus D Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Does anyone know a of utility to check if a symbolic link is valid? >> >> I used a program called vpopbull (part of vpopmail package) to send a >> notice to a bunch of users. To my surprise, vpopbull ignored the

Re: What shows what an uninstalled package does?

Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Harry> Yikes.. I guess the name is kind of a giveaway but the definition in > > Harry> the man page doesn't come across as giving that kind of information: > > > > Incidentally, if you happe

Ugly Fonts

Hi all, My XF86Config says: FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/

Apache on Debian - high loads?

Hi all, Does anyone have experience of running Apache on Debian successfully with high loads? I've been asked about the possibility of running a webserver with up to five thousand concurrent users. I would, of course, prefer to do it with Apache on Debian. Would Debian be up to the task? Any

what about /etc/X11/app-defaults?

hallo, there is a infinitive loop symlink called app-defaults, what's about it? Mit freundlichen Gruessen Ren Weili TEL : 0086-21-695-62686 FAX : 0086-21-595-77922 SVW CS *-1

Re: emacs21

On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:31:55 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> If you can't get an answer there, then the >> only answer is "42" > >Oh, thanks, I didn't know about that list. But your reference to "42" >sailed right over my head... "42" is the answer; the

Two X questions

I'm sure that these both have simple answers, but as I really know next to nothing about X I'm left having to ask here. 1) Is there a way to run concurrent X sessions WITHOUT having to be in an X session to start a new one. In case that's not quite clear, Gnome gives you an option to log in as a n

Re: Ugly Fonts

Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, My XF86Config says: FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath"/us

Re: How do I turn off the Virtual Desktop?

> > a. keep hitting "alt +" until it is no longer virtual > I never got this trick to work. Is this behaviour controlled from XF86Config-4? I can't see anything in there that indicates that. I'm using KDE. Might standard KDE key settings be hiding this behaviour? op

SSH key logins, and ftp login

Hi, I've noticed that as soon as I start using ssh keys for an account (generating a ssh2 key, copying public key to remote machine etc.), I can not use the username/password authentication for certain services! I can not ftp into my machine for example. And if I login from a strange PC which ke

Re: OpenOffice [was Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 on Debian]

Hi Phillip, I did some search on OpenOffice... It runs on as little as 32MB of memory (however the more the better)... Heavy window managers may require at least 64MB of RAM... So, I may be wrong about the memory after all... Also, they suggest that problems with menu redraw (and some icons a

help : cups web admin tool not working

Hi, I have a 2.2r3 potato on my K6-2 300 MHz 64 Mb RAM, I installed cupsys and cups-bsd, the z43_drv and other files from linux.printing.org to configure my Lexmark Z43, and it finally works fine now.. :)) But I don't know how to set the default properties of that printer, because the web admin

Re: rc.local equivalent

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 08:39:29PM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > Say, is there a catchall equivalent in Debian of the rc.local file? > Once again I'm trying to interpret a recommendation from the TrinityOS > HOWTO on setting up security. He suggests putting: > > dmesg >> /etc/info/dmesg >

Re: Where do the plugins for galeon live?

--- stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2002-03-03 01:30): > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:38:05AM +0100, Oliver Doepner wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, stan wrote: > > AFAIK galeon uses the mozilla plugins e.g. > > > > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so > > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so >

Re: user xsession or how to start ssh-add

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Balazs Javor wrote: >How do I start ssh-add when X starts to add my key to the agent? >(Agent is already running?) >I've tried to figure out what exactly happens when I do a startx, >and followed several of the config files in /etc/X11/. I think >I generally understood the con

Re: testing symbolic links

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Angus D Madden wrote: >Does anyone know a of utility to check if a symbolic link is valid? You may want to check out a program called readlink. Its probably already on your system. IIRC, its part of the texmf distro. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradis

kernel 2.4 on dell latitude

[please cc me on replies] hi all, i have this dell latitude C610, which runs perfectly fine with debian's stock kernel 2.2.20. however, i need some features from 2.4.x and thus went ahead to install kernel-image-2.4.17-686, which also boots just fine, but which freezes the computer everytime anyt

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

On Sunday 03 March 2002 23:31, Pete Harlan wrote: > > I leave gnomeicu running all the time and my process table get filled > > with defunct gnomeicu processes. I have to stop/restart gnomeicu to get > > rid of them. > > I've had this "fork: ..." message happen when I had only around 300 > processe

Re: esting symbolic links

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:45:09PM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote: > On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Angus D Madden wrote: > > >Does anyone know a of utility to check if a symbolic link is valid? > > You may want to check out a program called readlink. Its probably already > on your system. IIRC, its part of the

Re: 42 (was emacs21)

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:03:22AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:31:55 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: | >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | >> If you can't get an answer there, then the | >> only answer is "42" | >Oh, thanks, I didn't know about that list. But your referenc

Re: is task-x-window-system uninstallable from unstable on alpha?

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 06:31:46PM -0500, Todd Trimble wrote: > Am I missing something, or is task-x-window-system uninstallable on my > alpha (Noname) from unstable? The task-x-window-system package is obsolete. It's been replaced by x-window-system. -- Colin Watson

Introduction to ResumeBank Australia

Title: ResumeBank | The great new way to find your ideal role         Welcome to RésuméBank Australia - www.resumebank.com.au RésuméBank is the great new way to search for your ideal role, and the best t

debian box as digital VCR?

I decided to go for some ATA RAID solution, probably from www.promise.com, for my new home box. While reading around I find that one popular deployment for IDE RAID is video editing. I'm not into that, but I would like to have something like Tivo or ReplayTV. Is anyone on the list using a linux b

Re: upgrading to woody

YOu man need to run: apt-get install xbase-clients xserver-xfree86 Or one or the other. Startx is in xbase-clients. On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 01:20, Greg Madden wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 03 March 2002 08:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hi all, I to

Re: Help with X

Hi! Am Mit, 2002-02-27 um 16.54 schrieb Bannerman, Israel: > Hi, > > I just installed Woody and I am trying to get X started. I am using the > Mach32 driver for the ATI Rage Fury Pro video card I have. But when I try > to startx I get this: > > XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config > (**) stands fo

Re: SSH and apt-get problem

On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 19:44, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > On 3 Mar 2002, Matthew H. Ray wrote: > > > I have a small cluster of Woody machines (fresh install) and I've run > > into problems running apt-get with SSH. While trying to install > > packages on all the machines with dsh, I started getting a

Re: eepro100 with P4 (Gateway E-3600)

On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 19:46, Thedore Knab wrote: > I think that I may have compiled in SMP for the uni-processor (a bad > habit maybe?) . Maybe. I accidentaly did that some time ago. It caused all sort of strange problems with different kernel modules. Not with the eepro100 though. I've never had

Re: Getting Handspring Pilot Setup

Take a look at these sites for help, using them I got my visor to synch via usb w/ jpilot in sid kernel2.2.19 & 2.4.17 http://www.linux.com/howto/mini/Handspring-Visor.html http://usbvisor.sourceforge.net/index.php3 --- james martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok I am running Woody and want

procmail rule for html mail

It seems like this has come up before, but I couldn't turn anything up from searching. Basically, I am looking for a procmail rule that will detect html mail, and pipe it to a script to strip the tags from it, preferably before the other rules are applied, so it still ends up in the proper mailbox

Network initialization pb ?

Hello Using Debian Woody I have something strange at boot time. My network must be configured whith dhcp but nothing happens. When I look in /etc/network/ifstate, I have the line eth0=eth0 I must remove this line un run ifup

Re: debian box as digital VCR?

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:25:14PM +0100, O Polite wrote: > Is anyone on the list using a linux box as a digital VCR? Any > tips. Not me, but there's a HOWTO for it. It's probably on your system right now, but if not you could check www.linuxdoc.org. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: procmail rule for html mail

I remember asking this question before. :-) Here's the rule that I use for stripping html mail. :0f * ^Content-Type: text/html | lynx -dump -force_html -stdin | formail -i "Content-Type: text/plain" This will kill the html, and then continue with your normal filters. Now, if you're

Re: Small bug in dh-make-perl? [was dh-make-perl]

At 07:43 PM 03/03/02 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >I need some of the perl modules installed right now for a school >project so am installing them directly with the CPAN shell, until I >figure out if its my local technique that is the problem. > >I wonder if doing this without dh-make-perl, sort of b

webtrends on debian?

Does anyone have any pointers for getting webtrends up and running on Debian (woody). It seems to need wtrs and wtrs_ui running, both listen of different ports, and 1099. I needed to change the installation script so put put stuff in /etc/rc?.d /etc/init.d instead of the redhat /etc/rc.d/init

Re: rc.local equivalent

"Karl E. Jorgensen" wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 08:39:29PM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > Say, is there a catchall equivalent in Debian of the rc.local file? > > Once again I'm trying to interpret a recommendation from the TrinityOS > > HOWTO on setting up security. He suggests putting:

Re: Several packages fail to install, exit status 10

Oliver Elphick wrote: On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 05:49, Kent West wrote: Removing xdm ... dpkg: error processing xdm (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 10 The exit status is a number returned by a program as a short indication of whether it succeeded (0) or failed

Re: Cannot give access to X-Server to other users on same machine

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 08:19:59PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Same here. Still no answer... :( use sudo, its easier. install sudo, edit /etc/sudoers to make yourself a sudoer. then you can $sudo kreatecd Password: Tada it works. sudo seems to keep the users environment so itll use the u

The quest for rodent power

Running woody (testing) I've been ignoring this issue and working on other things but I really miss having my little rodent in text mode. Its a logitec 3 button ps2, critter that works in X just fine. I can't remember how to tell with no doubt where the mouse is connected. At which device. I re

[Fwd: Re: More on RealPlayer and galeon]

On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 22:18, stan wrote: > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:45:24PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So hw do I make [realplayer] work in Galeon also? > > =20 > > This is what I did: > >=20 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:541]# l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/r

Re: kernel 2.4 on dell latitude

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:39:23AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | i have this dell latitude C610, which runs perfectly fine with | debian's stock kernel 2.2.20. however, i need some features from 2.4.x | and thus went ahead to install kernel-image-2.4.17-686, which also | boots just fine, but wh

Re: procmail rule for html mail

On 2002.03.04 14:23 Timo Benk wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 04:00:13AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > It seems like this has come up before, but I couldn't turn anything up > from searching. Basically, I am looking for a procmail rule that will > detect html mail, and pipe it to a script to strip

RE:Cannot give access to X-Server to other users on same machine

I believe this is because you're trying to access the X server over TCP. Either use ssh -X (with /etc/ssh/sshd_config configured to allow forwarded X connections), or edit /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and remove the option to not listen to tcp. Andrew.

Re: SSH and apt-get problem

* Matthew H. Ray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I have a small cluster of Woody machines (fresh install) and I've run > into problems running apt-get with SSH. While trying to install > packages on all the machines with dsh, I started getting apt-get > problems, so I tried it with just ssh on

a way to limit the MB used for a MYSQL database?

Hello: I would like to limit the space used for a Mysql database, a kind of db hosting, each user can store 5 Mb of space for example, any ideas? thanks! -- Alejandro Diego Garin GNU/Linux user #151577 counter.li.org Running Debian/Sid kernel 2.4.16

Re: Small bug in dh-make-perl? [was dh-make-perl]

"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> So apparently the dh-make-perl overlay is causing this error some how. >> >> I need some of the perl modules installed right now for a school >> project so am installing them directly with the CPAN shell, until I >> figure out if its my loc

Re: procmail rule for html mail

> I remember asking this question before. :-) > Here's the rule that I use for stripping html mail. > :0f > * ^Content-Type: text/html | lynx -dump -force_html -stdin | formail -i "Content-Type: text/plain" Now, if you also want to filter mime, that is more annoying. I use the pro

UID, but no username

There are no longer usernames on a single machine, but the UID's are ok. NIS ist still living. I can telnet to a third machine on our net where everything is fine. Which services is responsible for showing usernames? Hans -- Hans Gubitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: graphical file managers (gmc vs. nautilus)

Sam, Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:13:47AM -0800: > Hi, > I saw the screenshot that you mentioned. It's really nice. Can you tell > me how you get borderless windows in gnome? Also, which mail client do > you use and how do you get those colors in vi/vim while writing mail? > Also please point me to som

FYI: 2.4.19pre1 good for Yamaha opl3sax soundcards

I couldn't help but notice the "opl3sa2 update" in the changelog for 2.4.19pre1 and decided to try it out. I'm pleased to report that, after getting rid of my manual config info in modules.conf, the card is detected and the driver loaded without any trouble... sounds better, too :-)

Re: procmail rule for html mail

Rob VanFleet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems like this has come up before, but I couldn't turn anything up > from searching. Basically, I am looking for a procmail rule that will > detect html mail, and pipe it to a script to strip the tags from it, > preferably before the other rules are

Re: 100dpi vs 75dpi sizes

"Chris Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > could make the window wider, but is there a way to decrease the size > > of these? Looking at the Navigator.ad file is like reading a word > > jumble. > > The font sizes are loaded in the order they appear in > /etc/X11/XF86Co

Re: Setting up a linux network

Camilo Olea wrote: Hello! I want to know, what can i do to have a linux network equivalent to a windows one? This meaning, here at my college, the computer lab network is made of a number of win2k PCs, anyone can sit down at any terminal, login with his user/pass, and the network loads autom

Re: More on RealPlayer and galeon

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:18:36PM -0500, stan wrote: > Hmm, something is still not rigt here. > > I copied that file over, and now about->plugins shows that tyep: Did you copy the .class file to ? If I remember well there is also a class file in the equation. Ionut -- *** * Ionut

Re: SoundBlaster Live!, /dev/audio, and bad sound quality

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Greetings, all. > > New sound card (actually, new computer). It's a SoundBlaster Live!, so > I've compiled in support for the emu10k1 module. > > Up-to-date potato, kernel 2.2.20, SMP. > > In general, everything works fine, except that sending .au fil

Re: Two X questions

Alex Malinovich wrote: I'm sure that these both have simple answers, but as I really know next to nothing about X I'm left having to ask here. 1) Is there a way to run concurrent X sessions WITHOUT having to be in an X session to start a new one. In case that's not quite clear, Gnome gives you a

Re: The quest for rodent power

I've never been able to get gpm working successfully, so I gave up on it. That said, do you get any output if you do an "/etc/init.d/gpm start"? I think there's also some messages it will write in /var/log. Check /var/log/messages, look for a /var/log/gpm, etc. Dunno where the gpm config stuff is

Re: YaOOQ (Yet another Open Office Question)

Brian Nelson wrote: > Try adding the sources.list line: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~nidd/debian/ unstable/ > > and then apt-get install openoffice. That should work, if you're > running unstable anyway (and possibly woody, but probably not potato). - I

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Installing with a non-standard kernel

Hi all, I'm not sure if this is the right list for this question, but here it goes: I'm trying to install debian 2.2r5 in an "Acer Altos 600" server, but I run into a problem. The server has an aic-7899 scsi adapter, and the aic- 7xxx driver in the standard kernel that comes with the distrib

Re: Getting lm-sensors to detect fan speed, etc

On Monday 04 Mar 2002 1:28 am, csj wrote: > > eeprom-i2c-0-50 > Adapter: bt848 #0 Are you sure your mobo supports hardware monitoring ? You don't appear to have any modules loaded for a hardware sensor chip or mainboard interface. What is the output of sensors-detect ? Are you loading your modu

Re: SSH and apt-get problem

--- Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matthew H. Ray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > I have a small cluster of Woody machines (fresh install) and I've > run > > into problems running apt-get with SSH. While trying to install > > packages on all the machines with dsh, I started g

Re: a way to limit the MB used for a MYSQL database?

This question comes up on the mysql list, and one suggestion is to use quotas (user/group) or make disk partitions of the size of your limit. The problem here is if the disk fills up, access to the tables will be limited or not at all. 'Monty' suggests a patch that can be applied to mysql to ret

Installing with a non-standard kernel

Hi all, I'm not sure if this is the right list for this question, but here it goes: I'm trying to install debian 2.2r5 in an "Acer Altos 600" server, but I run into a problem. The server has an aic-7899 scsi adapter, and the aic- 7xxx driver in the standard kernel that comes with the distrib

Re: upgrading to woody.

On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 22:19, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: > newbie here... > > Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way. > If I want to upgrade to woody from potato... > > 1) Change the apt sources.list to point to woody. > 2) dselect and just upgrade all the packages. > If you are useing ds

can't install x server

My debian only runs in text mode. The following message apears on the screen:   _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: can´t connect: errno = 111   My computer:   Athlon 850, 128 MB memory, Motherboard- PChips, Videocard - Sis 630.  

Re: The quest for rodent power

Harry Putnam wrote: Running woody (testing) I've been ignoring this issue and working on other things but I really miss having my little rodent in text mode. Its a logitec 3 button ps2, critter that works in X just fine. I can't remember how to tell with no doubt where the mouse is connected.

Re: upgrading to woody.

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:51:53PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: | On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:19:40PM +1100, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: | > newbie here... | > | > Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way. | > If I want to upgrade to woody from potato... | > | > 1) Change the apt sources.list to

Re: More on RealPlayer and galeon

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 10:34, stan wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 09:35:31AM -0500, James D Strandboge wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 22:18, stan wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:45:24PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > > > > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > So hw do I make [realplay

Re: Installing with a non-standard kernel

Hi, On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:35:58PM -0300, Marco Antonio Vieira Assad wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not sure if this is the right list for this > question, but here it goes: > > I'm trying to install debian 2.2r5 in an "Acer Altos > 600" server, but I run into a problem. > > The server has an a

Email Clients

To all: Are there any linux email clients that will work with an Exchange system? (supporting Mapi) I read something about Insight but figured I would get a second opinion. Thanks alot, -Israel

can't unmout cleanly because of nss-ldap

Hi, I got a strange problem on a set of machines that use ldap queries as authentication. In the file nsswitch.cof they have: passwd: files ldap group: files ldap shadow: files ldap All works fine, but if I want to unmount /usr (something that happens at reboot or halt)

Re: can't install x server

Savio vento wrote: My debian only runs in text mode. The following message apears on the screen: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: can´t connect: errno = 111 This is a generic message that doesn't convey any real information. Above this message is the stuff we need. If you'll scroll up thro

Re: Small bug in dh-make-perl? [was dh-make-perl]

At 07:31 AM 03/04/02 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >On my install, even perldoc was not available. Ya, what's that all about? Is that by design? Is the thinking that the basic perl package is just the binary and the standard modules? Regardless, the perl-base package does include modules and you sh

Re: suggestion

On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:52:31AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > then you can do whatever you think is pertinent in in your > ~/.signature-debian script. for example: > > #!/bin/bash > echo -n "Note that I use Debian version " > cat /etc/debian_version Because /etc/debian_versio

Re: Installing with a non-standard kernel

> Hi, > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:35:58PM -0300, Marco > Antonio Vieira Assad wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm not sure if this is the right list for > this > > question, but here it goes: > > > > I'm trying to install debian 2.2r5 in an "Acer > Altos > > 600" server, but I run into a problem.

Re: can't unmout cleanly because of nss-ldap

> Hi, > > > All works fine, but if I want to unmount /usr (something that > happens at reboot or halt) that fails because the device is 'busy'. > I suspect this has something to do with ldap related libraries that > are still in memory and live in /usr/lib. Now the question is: How > do I fix this

Re: What shows what an uninstalled package does?

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:38:48PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Incidentally, if you happen to use dselect (I use dselect with > apt as a backend), looking through /var/lib/dpkg/available is quite > informative (especially when I am unsure of what I am looking for and > just use the re

Re: The quest for rodent power

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:03:14AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running woody (testing) > > I've been ignoring this issue and working on other things but I really > miss having my little rodent in text mode. > > Its a logitec 3 button ps2, critter that works in X just fine. > > I can't remember

Re: SoundBlaster Live!, /dev/audio, and bad sound quality

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 01:22:38PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > In general, everything works fine, except that sending .au files to > /dev/audio has really lousy sound quality. You can hear the sound, but > there's a loud hissing or static sound on top of it. I'd guess it's either that the .au i

Re: date user logged in?

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 08:17:58PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > Currently, a last on my firewall box shows the "date" user logged in from > yesterday at 06:28. Now, since that's when my crons run, I suspect this box > has not been cracked, but can someone confirm this for me? I don't

Re: UID, but no username

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 04:48:05PM +0100, Hans Gubitz wrote: > > There are no longer usernames on a single machine, but the UID's are ok. > NIS ist still living. I can telnet to a third machine on our net where > everything is fine. > > Which services is responsible for showing usernames? It's l

Re: can't unmout cleanly because of nss-ldap

nate wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >> >>All works fine, but if I want to unmount /usr (something that >>happens at reboot or halt) that fails because the device is 'busy'. >>I suspect this has something to do with ldap related libraries that >>are still in memory and live in /usr/lib. Now the question is:

Re: suggestion

On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 08:11:10PM -0600, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:52:31AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > short version: > > why not have your .signature reflect which debian you're using? > > 1) You simply won't get enough people to change their .sigs to make > this

Re: suggestion

On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:59:42PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Saturday 02 March 2002 14:52, will trillich wrote: > > short version: > > why not have your .signature reflect which debian you're using? > > I do agree also, BTW how can I display some sort of "Woody/testing" > besides "versio

Any good ftp front end

Hi , can someone give me any good ftp front end based on gnome or kde library . Best Regards R.Pac

need help setting up SAMBA

i've got SWAT installed in the hopes that it'll help me get samba doing what i want it to do, without drowing in the dark swamp of samba documentation and configuration syntax rules. with zero luck. grab the clue stick, i need it real bad! :( /etc/xinetd contains: service swat {

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

on Sun, Mar 03, 2002, Balazs Javor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > When I try to ssh from one of my Woody boxes into the other > (using OpenSSH) I am able to connect but I get the following message: > > bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > > The same message then appears each time

Re: Any good ftp front end

Try deadftp, although it is gnome I find it the most usefull ftpclient I have found. Cheers, Bastiaan On Monday 04 March 2002 20:17, R.Pac wrote: > Hi , > > > can someone give me any good ftp front end > based on gnome or kde library . > > Best Regards > R.Pac

cdrom music

I have come to the conclusion that the reason why I can't mount a music cd is because the type entry in fstab is iso9660, which is not the format for a music cd. But what is the correct type? Also, can I have 2 entries for /cdrom? Thanks

qmail and single box.

Hi! I'm trying to configure qmail to work with my box at work. It handles local delivery without problems, but, when I fetch mail from my providers, it won't deliver, saying, among other things, that the host that sent the mail is not in it's control/locals file. Any hints? RTFMs welcome, but whi

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