Re: [PLUG] SHA utility (found it!)

2002-03-16 Thread Sam
Sandy and Steve, thanks for your responses. I noticed that I don't have sha1sum in Debian. Dunno why. I did find an implementation of SHA-1 in RFC 3174, so I used that. Sam On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Sandy Herring wrote: > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Steve Beattie wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 05:27:

Re: OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??

2002-03-16 Thread Craig Sampson
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:50:25 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) Will the kernel be able to see a 20-100 GB drive if the >BIOS > can't see it ? Last time I checked, the kernel >wasn't > bothered by the BIOS's limitations, but last time I >checked, > a ten

Re: VERY VERY VERY OT: On Censorship.

2002-03-16 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi, Beware, all that tread below enter... The OT Zone. > Ha! You've got that right :-) Of course in the context it probably > includes all forms of what Fundamentalist Christians define as paganism. > That is, to them, anything not within their narrow minded view of their > god is pagan or

Re: booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI

2002-03-16 Thread Simon Hepburn
Matt Garman wrote: > The problem is, my system still boots from SCSI. I have a Abit KT7 > motherboard. It's bios options allow specifying of three boot > devices. I have Floppy, CDROM and IDE-0 (in that order). SCSI (among > others) is one of the boot options, but I *don't* have it selected >

Re: OT: Microtel computer PCI modem

2002-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 12:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:55:48AM -0500, alex wrote: > > > > I'm interested in the Walmart/Microtel computers that come without > > software but I'm wondering about their PCI modem. > > > > I understand that some PCI modems can be adapted

Re: Debian newbie wants to know if this is a good place to ask questions?

2002-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 23:33, Gary Turner wrote: > On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 05:08:02 -0500, Hugh wrote: > > >I just switched from Red Hat and I wonder if this list is the right one > >to ask simple questions in? > >If not sorry for wasting your time > > Absolutely! This is the place. One caveat, thou

Re: OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??

2002-03-16 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:50:25 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > > I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only >notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in >it, but am wondering about the ability of this old machine to handle the >huge hard

Re: OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??

2002-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 22:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only > notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in > it, but am wondering about the ability of this old machine to handle the > huge hard dr

Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread wells
So I have been running Debian for a month now after jumping ship from Red Hat and I'm trying to devise a solid method of maintaining my system. What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling from source? Moreover, what's the difference? I see apt-get, dselect, dpkg-- wh

Re: booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI

2002-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 21:59, Matt Garman wrote: > > Okay---at this point I've rebooted my computer probably 50 times over > the last three days. I'm trying to install a new IDE hard drive and > have it run off of an IDE PCI controller. Everything that could go > wrong has, short of data loss (so

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:38:57 -0800 wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling from > source? apt-get or dselect... or aptitude, or gnome-apt... or deity... it's a matter of personal preference > Moreover, what's the difference? I see

Re: 3c5x9setup: EEPROM rewritting

2002-03-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:01:55PM +0100, Rudolf Divicin wrote: > Hello GNU users. > > I have rewritten content of EEPROM of my 3c509B card (3Com ethercard) > by utility 3c5x9setup. > This utility has no man page and in help "3x5x9setup -h" is not that > before using this operation source file sh

Re: SSH 2 slower than 1?

2002-03-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:17:28PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 15-Mar-2002 Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > Does anyone have idea why, after dist-upgrading my 486/25 router from > > stable -> testing, ssh'ing in takes massively longer than before? > > > > ssh2 is more computationally in

Re: Woody ISO's ?

2002-03-16 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, stan wrote: > Since I can't seem to get the Woody floppies to offer me the choice of > resierfs, I thoght I'd try a CD install. > > Where can I find an ISO? You build it (it's faster than downloading the entire monster, plus you get more choice as to what's on it). More info

Re: Debian newbie wants to know if this is a good place to ask questions?

2002-03-16 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Gary Turner wrote: > Absolutely! This is the place. One caveat, though; be sure to do your > homework before asking, be specific in your question, and include the > relevant info that the gurus need in order to help. If you haven't > RTFM'd, someone is likely to jump down y

Re: Woody ISO's ?

2002-03-16 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Saturday 16 March 2002 01:47, stan wrote: > Since I can't seem to get the Woody floppies to offer me the choice of > resierfs, I thoght I'd try a CD install. > > Where can I find an ISO? The full set of 8 can be ordered from www.cheapbytes.com -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL

Unidentified subject!

2002-03-16 Thread Pev
I can't boot my new kernel 2.4.10, the boot process looks like : LILO Loading Linux ... Uncompressing Linux ... Ok booting the kernel and then nothing else ! thanks for help.

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-03-16 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Pev wrote: > I can't boot my new kernel 2.4.10, the boot process looks > like : > > LILO Loading Linux ... > Uncompressing Linux ... Ok booting the kernel > > and then nothing else ! Check the LILO documentation just to make sure this isn't some bizarre bug you have to work a

Re: directPC vs Starband (slightly off topic)

2002-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 11:04, dave mallery wrote: > hi > > i will be forced to go to one of the satellite providers shortly. > > if you are using either or the above (or some other service) > i would greatly appreciate some feedback. i am in a totally remote > location. is there a problem with

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-16 Thread I.J.W. Wever
you wrote: >so the subjective opinion of he who does the work is the only >one that counts. Which boils down to: complain and if you're complaint isn't handled: remove the package? I think there should be one other side to this issue: if the package doesn't suffer from the removal of the offensi

noise when using esd

2002-03-16 Thread Preben Randhol
I have set up esd on a machine that has a via868 soundcard. I compiled the latest alsa driver. The sound works nicely without any problem. Even having several programs playing sound at the same time works (which was the reason I started using esd, so that galeon would stop hanging every time it cam

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread Joerg Jaspert
wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling > from source? If you know the package name -> apt-get install package. Search for with apt-cache search. >From the frontends dselect is the best, and for dist-upgrades only use dselect, not

apt-get & /etc/apt/preferences oddities

2002-03-16 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi all! On a system, I'm running Debian Linux Testing (AKA Woody). I also have some IPv6-enabled packages installed via some additional lines in my /etc/apt/sources.list, which is: | # Main Debian Sources: | deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib | deb http://ft

Re: php4 session_start cont.

2002-03-16 Thread Volker Schlecht
* Kurc, Marcin A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020315 22:06]: > session_start(); > session_register("test_var"); > $test_var = "test variable"; [...] > ?> > so up to this point everything is OK; now I follow the hyperlink Ever tried doing the following: > session_start(); session_register("test_va

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 13:19, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling > > from source? > > If you know the package name -> apt-get install package. > Search for with apt-cache search. To clarify for wells

Help! apt-get fails on /var/lib/dpkg/status

2002-03-16 Thread Jason Wood
Hi, I am running Debian unstable/testing, last updated a few days ago. After running dselect upgrade today, whenever I try to install something using apt-get I get the following error : Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) E: The package lists

Re: OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??

2002-03-16 Thread Graham/Aniartia
On Saturday 16 March 2002 4:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only > notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in > it, but am wondering about the ability of this old machine to handle the > huge ha

COL. HASSAN LUMUMBA (rtd)

2002-03-16 Thread COL. HASSAN LUMUMBA \(rtd\)
FROM: COL.HASSAN LUMUMBA (RTD) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. Dear Friend, SEEKING FOR IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. It is my pleasure to request your assistance on this business proposal which if pursued to its conclusion, will be of immense benefit to both of us. This request may seem stra

Re: booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI

2002-03-16 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 01:39:02AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 21:59, Matt Garman wrote: > > > > Okay---at this point I've rebooted my computer probably 50 times over > > the last three days. I'm trying to install a new IDE hard drive and > > have it run off of an IDE PCI co

Newbie - Internet Install help

2002-03-16 Thread Ronald Castillo
Hello..   I am new to the Linux world.  I want to install Debian Linux but I have some questions, and I would really appreciate it if you could help me:   I have a CD of the Debian 2.1 (Slink) distribution.  Is there any way I can just install a base system and download the rest of the

Newbie - Internet install help 2

2002-03-16 Thread Ronald Castillo
Hello..   I am new to the Linux world.  I want to install Debian Linux but I have some questions, and I would really appreciate it if you could help me:   I have a CD of the Debian 2.1 (Slink) distribution.  Is there any way I can just install a base system and download the rest of the

Re: noise when using esd

2002-03-16 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:56:07PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > I have set up esd on a machine that has a via868 soundcard. I compiled > the latest alsa driver. The sound works nicely without any problem. Even > having several programs playing sound at the same time works (which was > the reason

Unidentified subject!

2002-03-16 Thread ravi kiran
i need to unpack some .tgz's. can you please let me know what is a .tgz or where can i find the info about .tgz's and how to unpack them. regards krishnaprasad [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

RE: Newbie - Internet install help 2

2002-03-16 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi Ronald! Ronald Castillo wrote: > I am new to the Linux world. I want to install Debian Linux but I > have some questions, and I would really appreciate it if you could > help me: First, please stop sending HTML formatted mails to this list and choose the plain-text format instead (in Outlook,

RE: tgz (was: Unidentified subject!)

2002-03-16 Thread Julian Mehnle
ravi kiran wrote: > i need to unpack some .tgz's. can you please let me know what is a > .tgz or where can i find the info about .tgz's and how to unpack them. .tgz = .tar.gz $ man tar $ tar -rtfm -xvzf foobar.tgz ...and please stop sending HTML formatted mails to this list. Julian Mehnle.

Re: apache restart

2002-03-16 Thread Angus D Madden
timothy bauscher, Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 05:23:54PM -0500: > Strange apache behavior: > > I modified the DirectoryIndex variable to > include index.php and index.cgi. > > Then i entered "apache restart" at the command > line. It seemed to restart, but the change didn't > take affect. I also tried

Mutt and Time

2002-03-16 Thread Me
Hi, I would like to know how to display time in a column beside the date for my mailboxes. Thanks R.Pac

Re: Newbie - Internet install help 2

2002-03-16 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 03:27:59PM +0100, Ronald Castillo wrote: > Hello.. > > I am new to the Linux world. I want to install Debian Linux but I have > some questions, and I would really appreciate it if you could help me: > > I have a CD of the Debian 2.1 (Slink) distribution. Is there any w

Re: Emacs question

2002-03-16 Thread Me
Le 13/03/02 à 18:08, Dan Griswold a écrit: Dan> Try putting the following in your .Xdefaults file: Dan> Dan> Emacs*menubar*Background: #9F9FB5 Dan> Emacs*menubar*Foreground: DarkBlue Dan> Dan> fin du message de Dan Griswold Thanks all folk, I've have already written

Re: kernel boot problem

2002-03-16 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi, hope you can boot with your previous kernel or from disk. If so, look for error messages in the log files: /var/log/dmesg, kern.log or syslog. HTH, Joachim On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 06:21:54PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can't boot my new kernel 2.4.10, the boot process looks > like :

GnuCash vs MoneyDance vs Kapitol

2002-03-16 Thread hanasaki
Yup a new one for $35 that is Linux only. Thoughts? www.thekompany.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature

RE: Newbie - Internet install help 2

2002-03-16 Thread Ronald Castillo
Thanks a lot for your help!! I'll give a try to what you are suggesting me. About the HTML emails.. I hadn't noticed I had that set up, but now they are configured as plain text. Thanks for warning me. And, about the CCs.. I had forgotten that I can get replies just by emailing the mailing li

Re: Newbie - Internet install help 2

2002-03-16 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 04:15:48PM +0100, Ronald Castillo wrote: > Thanks a lot for your help!! I'll give a try to what you are suggesting > me. > > About the HTML emails.. I hadn't noticed I had that set up, but now > they are configured as plain text. Thanks for warning me. > > And, about th

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance vs Kapitol

2002-03-16 Thread timothy bauscher
> Yup a new one for $35 that is Linux only. Thoughts? > > www.thekompany.com quote: "Our goal is to provide developers with powerful, easy-to-use tools for creating equally powerful and useful software for the world's leading open-source operating system, Linux" i thought glade was easy enough.

Re: Emacs question

2002-03-16 Thread Henrik Enberg
Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le 13/03/02 à 18:08, Dan Griswold a écrit: > Dan> Try putting the following in your .Xdefaults file: > Dan> > Dan> Emacs*menubar*Background: #9F9FB5 > Dan> Emacs*menubar*Foreground: DarkBlue > Dan> > Dan> > fin du message de Dan Griswol

Changing from a PS/2 mouse to a USB mouse?

2002-03-16 Thread stan
I'm finally installing my wife's new woody workstation this weekend. Much to my chagrin, I find out that the cable from the IR mouse reciever is not long enough to reach from the computer (on the left of the desk) to where the mouse needs to be (on the right). Fortunately the LCD display has built

Re: TV over LAN?

2002-03-16 Thread Samuli Suonpaa
Thomas Hessling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry if I made a mistake here, I'm not that familiar with the matter. > I just wrote how I accomplish it. If I ssh to another machine and start > mozilla for example, it does only work if I add the remote machine to my > xhosts list. Try 'ssh -X' nex

Re: booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI

2002-03-16 Thread Richard Weil
There's been a few threads about the Promise ATA133 controller in the past week. You can boot of the disks attached to the controller. Assuming you have nothing on the ide disks, here are the basic steps: 1. Attach the ide disk(s) to a controller your current kernel supports, probably the ide con

Re: Woody ISO's ?

2002-03-16 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, stan wrote: > > > Since I can't seem to get the Woody floppies to offer me the choice of > > resierfs, I thoght I'd try a CD install. > > > > Where can I find an ISO? > > You build it (it's faster than downloading the entire

Re: Changing from a PS/2 mouse to a USB mouse?

2002-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Mar-2002 stan wrote: > I'm finally installing my wife's new woody workstation this weekend. > > Much to my chagrin, I find out that the cable from the IR mouse reciever is > not long enough to reach from the computer (on the left of the desk) to > where the mouse needs to be (on the right).

Re: Changing from a PS/2 mouse to a USB mouse?

2002-03-16 Thread Jeff
stan, 2002-Mar-16 10:53 -0500: > I'm finally installing my wife's new woody workstation this weekend. > > Much to my chagrin, I find out that the cable from the IR mouse reciever is > not long enough to reach from the computer (on the left of the desk) to > where the mouse needs to be (on the righ

RE: Changing from a PS/2 mouse to a USB mouse?

2002-03-16 Thread adam
once you have your usb kernel support (usbcore and usb-mouse i think), you made need to to a ./Makedev for "mice" which'll be created in /dev/input. Then you need to tell gpm / X (i also had to tell them to use imps2 instead of ps2 as protocol - but I think that's for the wheel ?). It's been a whil

smart array 5i (compaq ml 370) and potato

2002-03-16 Thread Fabrice Rafart
Hello, I have some problems for install a potato debian (2.2.19pre17) on a compaq proliant ML370 G2 with smart array 5i option. http://www.compaq.fr/produits/serveurs/proliant/proliantml3702.asp http://www5.compaq.com/products/quickspecs/10890_div/10890_div.HTML It's seem that smart array 5i is

Re: Changing from a PS/2 mouse to a USB mouse?

2002-03-16 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi there, The first thing I did, was to upgrade the kernel to Woody's latest 2.4.x release, and thus get the latest USB support. I then went through a simple process of adding the following lines to /etc/init.d/gpm: insmod input insmod usbcore insmod usb-uhci insmod hid Th

Re: OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??

2002-03-16 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 22:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only > > notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in > > it, but am wondering about th

Re: SSH 2 slower than 1?

2002-03-16 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Adam Majer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:17:28PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > On 15-Mar-2002 Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > > Does anyone have idea why, after dist-upgrading my 486/25 router from > > > stable -> testing, ssh'ing in takes massively long

Re: Screen-free Linux?

2002-03-16 Thread csj
Two replies cut'n'pasted into one: (Post 1) On 15 Mar 2002 11:08:48 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > csj writes: > > What I'm looking for is a species of Linux that lets users interact > > with the computer without the use of a monitor. > > No need for a special Linux distribution.

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-16 Thread csj
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:24:52 -0600 Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vineet> If a simple change can make it more appropriate for his > Vineet> daughter and daughters around the world, great! If everyone > > Not at the expense of freedom of speech. Some of my neighbors > in

Re: SSH 2 slower than 1?

2002-03-16 Thread Greg Norris
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:03:03PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Set cipher to blowfish (or none, if you're running it over trusted > network), remove compression. Debian's ssh package is compiled without support for cipher=none. You can rebuild it if you really want that, of course...

Re: VERY OT: On Censorship.

2002-03-16 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 15 March 2002 22:29, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > For gods sake please drop it. This has NOTHING to do with debian in > any sense, so please take it else where. I agree, this has nothing to do with Debian, but it's SO FUNNY !! :) -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' -

Re: VERY OT: On Censorship.

2002-03-16 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 15 March 2002 22:55, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > [ argument snipped ] > > You know Manoj, I've come to believe that "moral majority" people, > even if they look decent and clueful otherwise, are simply incapable > of understanding this ki

Re: Is the list broken?

2002-03-16 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 15 March 2002 21:49, stan wrote: > I've posted 3 messages today, and have yet to see any of them come > back. > > If anyone sees this, could they email me? > > Thanks. I see it and CC'd to you to avoid any possible problem in the list. I guess it's on fire due to the current thread on "

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread dave mallery
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, wells wrote: > So I have been running Debian for a month now after jumping ship from Red > Hat and I'm trying to devise a solid method of maintaining my system. > > What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling from > source? > > Moreover, what's th

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance vs Kapitol

2002-03-16 Thread Neal Lippman
On Saturday 16 March 2002 10:15, hanasaki wrote: > Yup a new one for $35 that is Linux only. Thoughts? > > www.thekompany.com Well, I decided to buy Kapitol about 1.5 years ago, when it was first announced. I did this because Quicken is basically the only application that I use at home that req

RE: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-16 Thread Dave Scott
Ok, I tried to install SquirrelMail but didn't have too much luck. All I got were failed dependencies left and right. I had to manually download a bunch of them. I am stuck now with SquirrelMail telling me that I don't have Perl installed, even though I do. I'm guessing I need the newer version

smtp authorization w/ exim

2002-03-16 Thread Cam
Hey, My Yahoo! account now requires me to authorize when sending messages (LOGIN or PLAIN), anyway, I'm trying to setup exim so that i can send messages w/ it (right now i'm doing this w/ kmail), but so far no luck... here's what I've done: #i just uncommented the 'authenticate_hosts' line an

Re: Screen-free Linux?

2002-03-16 Thread jerry
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 08:58:20 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You might check festival: > > http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ > > and/or: > > http://www.leb.net/blinux/ > > Would you happen to know how to interface festival with, say, > emacspeak? From reading the documen

biggest, newest IDE disk stuck in PIO mode; because no BIOS support? [dsb]

2002-03-16 Thread Daniel Barclay
I've been having trouble using hdparm to speed up one of my disks. I suspect it's because I had to disable the disk in my BIOS so the BIOS wouldn't hang when booting. Has anyone seen this problem or does anyone know how to fix it? Would the "-ide" version of the 2.2.19 kernel packge help with

Problems building xv

2002-03-16 Thread stan
OK, xv is well and truly gone from the woody binary distribution. Unfortunately, it's a MUST HAVE for me. So I thought, this is no problem, went and grabed the source tarball, and prepated to build it. no such luck :-( Here's the tail end of the build: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/sr

RE: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-16 Thread timothy bauscher
> I try to install Perl 5.6.1-7 but get all kinds of conflicts with Perl > 5.005 Why do you need Perl? That doesn't make any sense. It is written in PHP4... apt-get install squirrelmail (==timothy==)

RE: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-16 Thread Dave Scott
I dunno, that's what it keeps telling me. I installed PHP4 though, but it still tells me I need perl here is the error message. Apt-get install squirrelmail Yeilds: CLOUD:/usr/lib/cgi-bin# apt-get install squirrelmail Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package squ

Re: Screen-free Linux?

2002-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 18:58, csj wrote: > Two replies cut'n'pasted into one: > > (Post 1) > On 15 Mar 2002 11:08:48 -0600 > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > csj writes: [snip] > sound-card plus speaker/headset setup". In other words: a computer whose > parts you can assemble from the

server error

2002-03-16 Thread john gennard
I've just re-installed Potato 2.2 r4 (following changes to hard disks) -this is something I have not done for a long time as I don't have crashes. Now I have a problem not encountered before. When trying to 'startx', I get the following error message:- Fatal server error: could n

Re: smtp authorization w/ exim

2002-03-16 Thread Martin Hermanowski
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:15:52PM -0700, Cam wrote: > Hey, > > My Yahoo! account now requires me to authorize when sending messages > (LOGIN > or PLAIN), anyway, I'm trying to setup exim so that i can send messages > w/ it > (right now i'm doing this w/ kmail), but so far no luck... here's wha

Re: can't boot my new kernel 2.4.10 [was: Unidentified subject!]

2002-03-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:25:15AM +0100, Pev wrote: > I can't boot my new kernel 2.4.10, the boot process looks > like : > > LILO Loading Linux ... > Uncompressing Linux ... Ok booting the kernel > > and then nothing else ! Did you compile the new kernel yourself? If so, you may not have config

Re: smtp authorization w/ exim

2002-03-16 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:15:52PM -0700, Cam wrote: > Hey, > > My Yahoo! account now requires me to authorize when sending messages > (LOGIN or PLAIN), anyway, I'm trying to setup exim so that i can send > messages w/ it (right now i'm doing this w/ kmail), but so far no > luck... here's what I

How to Setup TV-Card using XawTV?

2002-03-16 Thread debian2002
HI: I try the apt-get install xawtv and everything goes well (configuration...etc).But when the program scan the stations, there is no station. I am sure the hardware and cable are well connnect and I am in Canada using cable TV. I think maybe there is something more to do?not just the tv prog

Re: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:58:55AM -0800, Dave Scott wrote: > Ok, I tried to install SquirrelMail but didn't have too much luck. > > All I got were failed dependencies left and right. I had to manually > download a bunch of them. > > I am stuck now with SquirrelMail telling me that I don't have

Re: server error

2002-03-16 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 08:26:32PM +, john gennard wrote: >I've just re-installed Potato 2.2 r4 (following changes to hard disks) -this >is something I have not done for a long time as I don't have crashes. Now >I have a problem not encountered before. > >When trying to 'startx', I get the fol

Re: server error

2002-03-16 Thread timothy bauscher
> When trying to 'startx', I get the following error message:- > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' Try this: cd /etc/X11/fonts/misc; mkfontdir (==timothy==)

Re: OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??

2002-03-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 01:32:27AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > 2) Should I be worried about the heat of a 7200 RPM drive ? > >This box has nothing more than the power supply fan, and > >the CPU fan to keep things cool. Also, the HD cage of this > >case is really tigh

RE: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-16 Thread Dave Scott
Yeah, I'm using Potato. Is it a good idea to upgrade to Woody even if this is for a business? I tried apt-get -f install It dosent find anything to install I then tried apt-get -f install perl , Yeilds: CLOUD:/tmp/apt-get -f install perl Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree.

Re: server error

2002-03-16 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 08:26:32PM +, john gennard wrote: > I've just re-installed Potato 2.2 r4 (following changes to hard disks) -this > is something I have not done for a long time as I don't have crashes. Now > I have a problem not encountered before. > > When trying to 'startx', I get th

RE: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-16 Thread timothy bauscher
> Yeah, I'm using Potato. > > Is it a good idea to upgrade to Woody even if this is for a business? > > I tried apt-get -f install Depends. I think that woody is just as stable (if not more so) than RedHat, but I use potato for my server. Woody is best for a desktop OS. As far as the -f option go

Re: VERY OT: On Censorship.

2002-03-16 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Daniel Toffetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Friday 15 March 2002 22:55, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > [ argument snipped ] > > > > You know Manoj, I've come to believe that "moral majority" people, > > even if they look decent and cl

How to use SquirrelMail?

2002-03-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
Below I've outlined what I'd like to do, but I'm not sure if SquirrelMail will do this. I easily installed apache and SquirrelMail, but I haven't installed an IMAP yet. Here's what I do now: - run fetchmail to grab mail from a few different mail servers for deposit locally for a few different

OT: Wireless NIC to NIC; need WAP?

2002-03-16 Thread Kent West
I've got two Debian (Sid) boxes in different parts of the house. Can I put in a wireless NIC into each one of them, and them talk to each other, or must I have a Wireless Access Point as an intermediary? Also, as long as I'm on the subject. Typically I'd buy some name brand I'm more familiar w

Printing through Samba

2002-03-16 Thread Tib
I've got a linux box setup on the same network as a windows 2000 box which has a shared printer (lexmark z32). I've searched the list archives and found reference to 'smbprint' and other things but nothing real helpful on how to set this up. I could not find smbprint at all even though I have a

KDE startup hangs and commits suicide

2002-03-16 Thread Steffen Evers
Hi! After updating a woody machine my KDE does not work any longer. It hangs on the second phase (system services) during init and dies finally with the following error message in the .xsession_errors file: kdeinit: Shutting down running client. - It looks like dc

RE: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-16 Thread timothy bauscher
> Maybe my sources.list file just dosen't have the package in it because > I > get this when using apt-get install squirrelmail. > > CLOUD:/usr/lib/cgi-bin# apt-get install squirrelmail > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Package squirrelmail has no available versio

Re: Problems building xv

2002-03-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Stan" == Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stan> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/pd/xv/xv-3.10a/tiff' Stan> cc -O -DDOJPEG -Ijpeg -DDOTIFF -Itiff -DDOPDS -c xv.c Stan> In file included from xv.c:11: Stan> xv.h:119: conflicting types for `sys_errlist' Stan> /usr/in

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"csj" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: csj> Where can I find this package. Is it in non-free? Most regulars of the mailing lists know by now that I can't spell. ;-) __> apt-cache show display-dhammapada Package: display-dhammapada Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 2

Re: How to Setup TV-Card using XawTV?

2002-03-16 Thread nate
> HI: >I try the apt-get install xawtv and everything goes well > (configuration...etc).But when the program scan the stations, there is no > station. I am sure the hardware and cable are well connnect and I am in > Canada using cable TV. the tuner module is probably not loaded. i am using xa

What kernel (not the version!) gets installed

2002-03-16 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
Hi, I'm wondering what kernel gets installed when installing (simple method) Debian from cd. I.e where it resides on the cd. Is it the 'linux' in /install or the one in the image /boot/rescue.bin? Or where might I find information on this? Thanks, Pontus

Re: biggest, newest IDE disk stuck in PIO mode; because no BIOS support? [dsb]

2002-03-16 Thread nate
> Any ideas how to get Linux and my 45GB disk to use DMA mode (besides > upgrading my aging machine, of course)? > > keep in mind you may not WANT dma. DMA is turned off for a reason by default, it has trouble with some configrations. VIA chipsets is one of those configs. ALI chipsets may have s

NIS on debian?

2002-03-16 Thread camilo
Hello! Does anybody have any good links where i could learn how to setup NIS on a potato box? Something that covers the downloading of the packages with APT, then the configuring of the yp files, etc... thanks! Camilo -- "Tu es

Re: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-16 Thread Angus D Madden
Dave Scott, Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:58:55AM -0800: > Ok, I tried to install SquirrelMail but didn't have too much luck. > > All I got were failed dependencies left and right. I had to manually > download a bunch of them. > > I am stuck now with SquirrelMail telling me that I don't have Perl > i

Re: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-16 Thread Angus D Madden
Jerome Acks Jr, Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 04:13:56PM -0500: > Looking at squirrelmail dependencies, I don't see a lot of testing > version numbers listed. You could try installing squirrelmail source > and compiling it yourself. SquirrelMail depends on php4, perl, and debconf. Their dependencies a

Re: REMOVE ME FROM ALL MAIL LISTS

2002-03-16 Thread John Lord
Hi Sebastiaan On 14-Mar-02, you wrote: > High, > Read very carefully: this is only displayed in every message once: >> > -- >> > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > (or twice by the time this arrives) Bu

Re: How to use SquirrelMail?

2002-03-16 Thread Angus D Madden
Rick Macdonald, Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 03:05:45PM -0700: > > Here's what I do now: > > - run fetchmail to grab mail from a few different mail servers for deposit > locally for a few different users. > - some local users running Windows/Netscape get their mail from my > machine; I run qpopper f

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