Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-18 Thread Kent West
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: I'm down to looking at a rebuild, which I am really, really loathe to do, since that's the solution in the Microsoft world and isn't supposed to be the solution for Linux, but unless one of you gurus can help me fix this, it's the only solution I have left. cd /v

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Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-18 Thread Kent West
Update: I'm confident the problem is not in the individual packages that won't install/uninstall. The problem must be in dpkg/debconf/apt/etc. Kent West wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: I'm down to looking at a rebuild, which I am really, really loathe to do, since that's the solution in th

Re: Dual head howto?

2002-03-18 Thread Simon Hepburn
It's just a simple typo. See my comments below. Post again if you still have problems. Paul Mackinney wrote: > My config file is below, comments very welcome. > > #XF86Config-4, Monitor, Device, Screen & Layout section, comments > #omitted. Note that I usually run my Art Media (Trinitron clone)

Re: How to use SquirrelMail?

2002-03-18 Thread Ian Duggan
> I don't understand if IMAPs role is simply to serve up the mail to the > remote client and allow deleting, moving to other folders, etc, or if it > will want to replace my existing steps of fetchmail/procmail. Think of IMAP as like POP, but leaving everything on the server. IMAP is just for ser

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Re: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread stan
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 06:32:27PM +, Martin Edward John Waller wrote: > stty erase > On every other machine, every time I log in? I think not. What I'm looking ofr is how to change this brain dead default on the Debian machines, once and for all. -- "They that would give up essential lib

Re: How to use SquirrelMail?

2002-03-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Ian Duggan wrote: > > > I don't understand if IMAPs role is simply to serve up the mail to the > > remote client and allow deleting, moving to other folders, etc, or if it > > will want to replace my existing steps of fetchmail/procmail. > > Think of IMAP as like POP, but leav

Bug in php4-cgi-mysql package?

2002-03-18 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear List - I tried to install (apt-get install) php4-cgi-mysql on my Woody system. I get the following errors: Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The followi

slightly OT: making donation to debian using paypal or such.

2002-03-18 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi All, just wondering if it was / would be possible to make donations to debian using Paypal or something like that making it a lot easier for people who are not US based to make donations. Regards, Shri Shri Sh

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-18 Thread Matt Stump
You misunderstand my point. I really don't care if someone wished to read Mein Kampf, or any other trash for that matter. That isn't the point. My point is that I don't want *my* tax dollars to pay for it. I'm not saying, it's not your tax dollars it's OUR tax dollars. and just to let y

Re: Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Pac wrote: > Le 18/03/02 à 12:31, Scott Henson a écrit: > > Scott> xine-ui The best I have seen yet for linux. In my opinion it is as > Scott> good as the Windows Media player. I havent used a Mac since middle > Scott> school so I dont know there(I am currently a c

Re: command line php

2002-03-18 Thread Angus D Madden
Erik van der Meulen, Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 08:47:30PM +0100: > Hi Listpeople - I would like to execute a php script from crontab. > Some Suse users told me they have a /usr/bin/php which allows for > just that. > I have tried to find a package in Debian which brings this, but > have not been able t

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Re: Help!!!Can't get X running with Radeon7000pci or Voodoo3 2000 agp

2002-03-18 Thread Simon Hepburn
Glen Snyder wrote: > (WW) TDFX: Chipset "Voodoo3" in Device section "Card0" isn't valid for > this driver Looking at your log file it seems X is grinding to a halt because it does not recognize the chipset "Voodoo3" in your Device Section. Try deleting this line so that X4 can probe for your ch

Re: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-18 Thread Geoff D
--- Kevin Strong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian > system using the root > password but I can login using other users logins. > Is there anything I can > do to regain the ability to login as root other than > rebuilding the > server.Thanks for the

Re: command line php

2002-03-18 Thread Volker Schlecht
> Some Suse users told me they have a /usr/bin/php which allows for > just that. > I have tried to find a package in Debian which brings this, but > have not been able to locate it. > > Any ideas? Thanks a lot. php4-cgi is probably the package to go for, it contains /usr/bin/php4. regards, Volk

Re: [OT] Redefinition of Black Market [was Re: Screen-free Linux?]

2002-03-18 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 20:42, Ron Johnson wrote: > Apparently so. It's been 60ish years since WW2, the economy still > functions, and taxes aren't confiscatorialy high (yet), so for us, > the underground (or black) market is in stolen property, etc. If you sell me a piece of kit you very legally

Re: How to use SquirrelMail?

2002-03-18 Thread Ian Duggan
> OK, I'm getting close. > > I now have fetchmail handing mail off to smail/procmail as before, but > added a procmail rule for a particular account to go into a maildir format > for courier-imap, which I now have installed. > > I think the only think missing is how SquirrelMail and IMAP get con

Re: PCMCIA, Token Ring and newer kernels

2002-03-18 Thread Mike Phillips
Bob, > For a number of other reasons I'd like to go to 2.4.10 ... any experience on > the TR PCMCIA out there ?? > > Than you. Bob Alexander > It all works fine using the token ring pcmcia drivers in the kernel. The latest drivers are in fact better as they do away with the need for the config.

Re: Help!!!Can't get X running with Radeon7000pci or Voodoo3 200

2002-03-18 Thread Glen Snyder
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, timothy bauscher wrote: > Try this as root: > > mv /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config.SAVE > cp -f /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > > Hope that helps. > > (==timothy==) Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately it didn't work. I've tried several combinations, as

xpm4g

2002-03-18 Thread Gerard Robin
hello, dpkg -i libforms0_89.deb give me the message: libforms0_89 depends on xpm4g can someone tell me where I can download xpm4g (I try to install the package lyxdeb) TIA -- Gerard

Re: svgatextmode and ATI rage 128 video cards

2002-03-18 Thread Curt Daugaard
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 01:21:50PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > Sorry I wasn't clearer. I don't want to give up accelerated video > > under X which I would have to do if I go the fb route, as I > > understand it. But maybe I'm missing something. > > If you think that using framebuffers for

Problems with gdmconf

2002-03-18 Thread Cam Ellison
I have had my kids' box up and running for a while now (woody), but inexplicably have run into a problem with gdm. I have them set up to use KDE, but the Kicker panel inexplicably loads and then disappears. In attempting to fix this, I went into gdmconf. When fiddling around there, I turned

High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Marziani
I recently started with a new company and they are using lots of Linux systems, mostly RedHat and SuSE. We are in the middle of upgrading a bunch of the machines and I very much want to figure out a way to present Debian to them as an option. From having used many Linux distributions extensively,

Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-18 Thread John Lynch
From: Pac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user Subject: Re: Movies, MPEG, and DVDs Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:45:15 +0100 Le 18/03/02 à 12:31, Scott Henson a écrit: Scott> xine-ui The best I have seen yet for linux. In my opinion it is as Scott good as t

Re: command line php

2002-03-18 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:47:30 +0100 Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Listpeople - I would like to execute a php script from crontab. > Some Suse users told me they have a /usr/bin/php which allows for > just that. > I have tried to find a package in Debian which brings this, but

Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-18 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 18 2002, Kent West wrote: > This did allow me to purge the offending packages. However, it has not > solved the problem. (...) The problem seems to be with the packaging infra-structure. Can you reinstall dpkg, apt, debconf, apt-utils etc? This might perhaps help yo

Re: How to use SquirrelMail?

2002-03-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Ian Duggan wrote: > > > OK, I'm getting close. > > > > I now have fetchmail handing mail off to smail/procmail as before, but > > added a procmail rule for a particular account to go into a maildir format > > for courier-imap, which I now have installed. > > > > I think the on

Re: How to use SquirrelMail?

2002-03-18 Thread Ian Duggan
> Ah, it _just_ started working! but I'm afraid I didn't notice what I might > have done to fix it. It may have been as simple as renaming ~/maildir to > ~/Maildir. Yup. This is what did it. :) -- Ian ~~ Ian Duggan

Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:31:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > This problem goes back about 4 months; I've posted a few times and > gotten some valuable responses, but nothing that's helped. > > My problem is that once when trying to uinstall gdm the process was > halted mid-stream. Ever since the

Re: Glibc 2.2

2002-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 12:23:13PM -0500, Bodnyk, Bruce W wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get the latest version of glibc (2.2) which > apparently is needed for the latest version of XFree86? You should get the version of XFree86 4 which is built for Debian stable instead. You can find it at

Re: [OT] Redefinition of Black Market [was Re: Screen-free Linux?]

2002-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 16:24, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 20:42, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Apparently so. It's been 60ish years since WW2, the economy still > > functions, and taxes aren't confiscatorialy high (yet), so for us, > > the underground (or black) market is in stole

Re: xpm4g

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
> hello, > dpkg -i libforms0_89.deb > give me the message: > libforms0_89 depends on xpm4g > can someone tell me where I can download xpm4g > (I try to install the package lyxdeb) > TIA > -- > Gerard http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xpm4g.html Google is your best friend (==timoth

sources.list

2002-03-18 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
What should a standard testing machine's /etc/apt/sources.list file look like? I just upgraded from potato and am getting some errors on all of the "security" sources that are listed.

debianized vim

2002-03-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Woody/testing After installing vim with apt-get, I find that the debianizations that have been done cause sections of my .vimrc, built up over time on several different platforms to be unusable. I don't really know exactly what these do, some are borrowed from .vimrcs of others more knowle

Re: Problems with gdmconf

2002-03-18 Thread Simon Hepburn
When you reinstalled gdm did you remove it or purge it beforehand ? You need to purge to remove all the old configuration settings. Given that your kids are running kde you might be better off installing kdm. If you get back to where you were orginally i.e your only problem is kicker dying, debi

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

2002-03-18 Thread Petro
These days I'm completely behind on my email, so please excuse the late response. On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:34:52AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > 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 di

Internet access problem

2002-03-18 Thread Darren Walker
Hello Debian, I have recently installed Debian onto an old P75 of mine and am using it as an internet sharing server I am using a modem connection and using firewalling with masquerading I am also running exim and squid the problem is that it connects and masquerades without any problems cli

Re: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread Corey Halpin
> > stty erase > > > > On every other machine, every time I log in? .profile anyone?

Re: debianized vim

2002-03-18 Thread Ben Collins
> Conflicting code: > augroup gzip > " Remove all gzip autocommands > au! Remove all this junk, vim has this built-in now. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
>I know what sets Debian apart and why RPM > is > ineffective etc, etc. But, I am interested in finding industry > sources > and/or extremely technical/powerful write-ups on what sets Debian > apart, > and the inadequacies of the other distros. Linux Magazine ( http://www.linux-mag.com/ ) wrote a

Re: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
> > > On every other machine, every time I log in? I think not. > > > > > > What I'm looking ofr is how to change this brain dead default on > the > > > Debian > > > machines, once and for all. > > > > uhh, couldn't you just put it in a shell script? > > You still don't understand. The rest of the

Re: sources.list

2002-03-18 Thread Charles Baker
--- Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What should a standard testing machine's > /etc/apt/sources.list file look > like? I just upgraded from potato and am getting > some errors on all of the > "security" sources that are listed. > <> IIRC, the security sources only apply to sta

Re: sources.list

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
> What should a standard testing machine's /etc/apt/sources.list file > look > like? I just upgraded from potato and am getting some errors on all of > the > "security" sources that are listed. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing

Re: debianized vim

2002-03-18 Thread dman
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 06:14:19PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: | Setup: Woody/testing | | After installing vim with apt-get, I find that the debianizations that | have been done cause sections of my .vimrc, built up over time on | several different platforms to be unusable. | | I don't really know

Re: debianized vim

2002-03-18 Thread Seneca Cunningham
news [EMAIL PROTECTED]; on behalf of; Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Setup: Woody/testing > > After installing vim with apt-get, I find that the debianizations that So, vim 6. > have been done cause sections of my .vimrc, built up over time on > several different platforms to be unusable. [...]

Re: sources.list

2002-03-18 Thread Charles Baker
> --- Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What should a standard testing machine's > > /etc/apt/sources.list file look > > like? I just upgraded from potato and am getting > > some errors on all of the > > "security" sources that are listed. > > > <> > > IIRC, the security source

Re: Internet access problem

2002-03-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 11:07, Darren Walker wrote: > > Hello Debian, > > I have recently installed Debian onto > an old P75 of mine and am using it as > an internet sharing server > > I am using a modem connection > and using firewalling with masquerading > > I am also running exim and squid >

Re: sources.list

2002-03-18 Thread timothy bauscher
>Dang is the list slow :) > > Thanks for the help. This list used to be very fast, usually 5 minutes or less. I still haven't heard any good explanations as to why it is taking up to 2 hours to deliver some emails. IIRC, i think that emails in Germany are taking up to 5 hours. (==timothy==)

can't boot; was: Re: booting from PCI IDE card rather than SCSI

2002-03-18 Thread Matt Garman
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 06:46:34AM +, Simon Hepburn wrote: > Matt Garman wrote: > > > The new problem, though, is now my SCSI CD-ROMs don't work. The hard > > drives work fine. The SCSI device driver *is* recognizing the SCSI > > CD-ROMs. However, I can't mount any /dev/scdx device. > > Do

Re: Problems with gdmconf

2002-03-18 Thread Cam Ellison
* Simon Hepburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When you reinstalled gdm did you remove it or purge it beforehand ? You need > to purge to remove all the old configuration settings. Given that your kids > are running kde you might be better off installing kdm. If you get back to > where you were or

Re: Iptables keeps logging to console (eventhough of "dmesg -n 1")

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 11:18, Karo Salminen wrote: > Greetings, > > I (and one other fellow too) have suffered of the problem which is iptables' > logging related. > Iptables keeps logging to the local console eventhough I have typed "dmesg -n > 1". Dmesg's manual says the following: > > "For ex

Re: slightly OT: making donation to debian using paypal or such.

2002-03-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.18.2214 +0100]: > just wondering if it was / would be possible to make donations to > debian using Paypal or something like that making it a lot easier > for people who are not US based to make donations. no, not yet. i think that paypal was

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-18 Thread Tom Cook
Drew Raines wrote: > > Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I know this is probably not the place for this question, but there seem > > to be a lot of mutt users here. > > There's also a lot of mutt users on the mutt-users list. > > > I have made the plunge, ditched netscape as my MUA and have

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-18 Thread Tom Cook
Pat Colbeck wrote: > > Hmm > > Try this : > > mutt -n -f ~/Mail/foobar > > where foobar is a mail spool > > This will bypass all the mutt config files un case they are causing the > problem. Does the index work then ? Nope. I gather the fact that I am using IMAP is significant... Tom -- To

Re: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-18 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Matthew Twomey wrote: > 1. Boot up from some other media that has it's own root partition and get > to a shell. I'm not sure what specifically Debian has for this, but > basically any Linux boot disk set will do. I think Debian's rescue disk will do this. If not, tomsrtbt wi

changed network config

2002-03-18 Thread Yang Shouxun
Dear Debian Users, I'm using Debian GNU/Linux unstable. Recently I move to a new place and the ethernet configuration changed as a result. I manually edited all the files. It works fine except that each time when pcmcia service starts, the IP address, network mask and other things are of the

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