Re: Help! Task-ximian-gnome not installing correctly...

2002-03-19 Thread Scott Henson
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 06:30, Camilo wrote: > Hello! > well, after forcing a package to overwrite another with dpkg, apt-get > moved on installing task-ximian-gnome.. until it found this other problem.. > > anyone has had similar issues? how could i search for the file that > guile is asking fo

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

2002-03-19 Thread Simon Hepburn
Matt Garman wrote: > I'm going in circles here. I'm once again stuck. The great thing about being lost is that you get to see twice as many places > In my kernel config, I said "yes" to the "boot offboard controllers > first" (or something to that effect). This is the option whose help >

Re: debianized vim

2002-03-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Thanks posters, removing the gzip stuff solved the problem

Re: Problems with gdmconf

2002-03-19 Thread Simon Hepburn
Cam Ellison wrote: > I removed gdm and all the directories I could find (having neglected to > have apt-get do that). gulp... > About kicker -- with no intervention from me, it is now working again, for > the moment. It has done that intermittent thing before. Bizarre. IIRC kicker caches a lot

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-19 Thread Pat Colbeck
Ohh Sorry but I dont use IMAP with Mutt, well not directly I use fetchmail to pull the mail from my IMAP server to local spools. I would go on over to www.mutt.org and join the mutt user mailing list. The helpfull people there will have a more detailed knowledge of mutt and imap and thus should b

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

2002-03-19 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
martin f krafft wrote: no, not yet. i think that paypal was deemed to expensive and insecure to be officially supported by debian. we're working on a scheme. However, a package gpal does exist. -- AvH

Trident display card

2002-03-19 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, A friend has a display card identified by lspci as: 00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems TGUI 9660/968x/968x (rev d3) I tried the xfree4 "trident" driver, but it didn't display quite right. (The display was ... um, "fragmented", though the mouse cursor moved fine, iirc

ACPI: Two Power buttons?

2002-03-19 Thread Patrik Modesto
Hi, Got a problem. Power button doesn't work. Using ACPI and the same modules that works on other PC (different MB). I found a difference in syslog: Mar 19 09:55:56 modesto kernel: Power Resource: found Mar 19 09:55:56 modesto last message repeated 3 times Mar 19 09:55:56 modesto kernel: ACPI: Sys

kernel don't boot

2002-03-19 Thread Pierre
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: Debain backspace key maping unfriendly

2002-03-19 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
>> 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. I am not *yet* a Debian user. Will be installing woody on sunday. However from my experience with sysvinit ba

Re: kernel don't boot

2002-03-19 Thread Simon Hepburn
You are not giving us a lot to go on !! Could you post your .config ? Also 2.4.10 is pretty old and was known to have problems. What version of debian are you running. If its potato you will need to upgrade quite a few other packages to use a 2.4 kernel. Otherwise apt-get install kernel-source

Problems installing gnucash

2002-03-19 Thread stan
I tried to add gnucash this morning to my woody (with a few unstable bits) machine. But I ran inot this: Unpacking guile1.3 (from .../guile1.3_1%3a1.3.4-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/guile1.3_1%3a1.3.4-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/guile-wm-

Re: Trident display card

2002-03-19 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Hello, > > A friend has a display card identified by lspci as: > > 00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems TGUI 9660/968x/968x > (rev d3) > > I tried the xfree4 "trident" driver, but it didn't display quite right. > (The disp

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

2002-03-19 Thread Simon Hepburn
Something else just occurred to me. You say you are using 2.4.19-pre3. Would that be the same 2.4.19-pre3 that includes the new ide code from 2.5 but does not include the fix for the filesystem corruption it caused in 2.5 ? You may want to go here now: http://lwn.net/2002/0314/kernel.php3 I se

OT: Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-19 Thread Casper Labuschagne
Jaldhar H. Vyas et al wrote: >Subject: Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material >Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> And it is my right to fight tooth and nail to prevent debian >> from sliding into censorship, since that makes debian worse. May I point at the Linux community (for the

Racist remarks

2002-03-19 Thread John Lynch
May I point at the Linux community (for the greater part at least) is >racist, bigotted and prejudiced per se. To illustrate my point observe the >reaction of extreme disgust and prejudice eminating from the average Linux user >when confronted by the following terminology: Windows; Microsoft;

Re: OT: Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-19 Thread Simon Hepburn
Casper Labuschagne wrote: > May I point at the Linux community (for the greater part at least) is > racist, bigotted and prejudiced per se. To illustrate my point observe the > reaction of extreme disgust and prejudice eminating from the average Linux > user when confronted by the following termi

Linux on Palm m125

2002-03-19 Thread François
Hello, Is somebody has installed linux instead of palm OS on a palm m125 ? Thanks a lot François -- Woody 3.0 Linux tanna 2.4.14 #3 SMP Thu Dec 6 14:04:03 CET 2001 i686 unknown

menu

2002-03-19 Thread Marcelo Leal
Has anyone a menu script done??? I need do some scripts, and i will have to do a nice interface... i thought if somebody have a default one... with colors and so on... thanks! -- Marcelo Leal Analista de Suporte Unix Tecnologia em Operação e Redes Cia de Pr

Re: Trident display card

2002-03-19 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:50:58PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > 00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems TGUI 9660/968x/968x > > (rev d3) > > I tried the xfree4 "trident" driver, but it didn't display quite right. > > (The display was

Re: Trident display card

2002-03-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 19/03/02 Hugo van der Merwe did speaketh: > Hello, > > A friend has a display card identified by lspci as: > > 00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems TGUI 9660/968x/968x > (rev d3) Under RedHat 5.1 with XFree 3.3.6, I used the SVGA server for my Trident card, but it was

Re: subscribe

2002-03-19 Thread christophe barbé
Funny, I appreciate the effort ;-) On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 03:04:51PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF

Re: Racist remarks

2002-03-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 19/03/02 John Lynch did speaketh: > Casper, I think you got a bit carried away. No-one can be called a racist > because they don't like "Windows; Microsoft; Bill Gates; Windows 95; > Microsoft Office; Exchange; Microsoft Internet Information Server; Windows > XP; DOS; OS/2; .NET; Visual Basic"

Re: OT: Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 19/03/02 Casper Labuschagne did speaketh: > May I point at the Linux community (for the greater part at least) is > racist, bigotted and prejudiced per se. To illustrate my point observe the > reaction of extreme disgust and prejudice eminating from the average Linux > user when confronted by

Serious bub in zlib library

2002-03-19 Thread Roberto Pereyra
Please read http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/vendors_products_article-4616.html Roberto Pereyra Gualeguaychu Argentina http://www.linux-net.com.ar GnuPG keyID: BB43E337 http://pgp.mit.edu

Re: Serious bub in zlib library

2002-03-19 Thread John Kuhn
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:04:34AM -0400, Roberto Pereyra wrote: > > Please read > > http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/vendors_products_article-4616.html Please read http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-122 John

Re: Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-19 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
What about creating movies, doing MPEG-2 compression and burning DVD that will work on "normal" (non-computer) players. I understand that this is still an "art". Randy

Re: DRI not enabled - Why?

2002-03-19 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Kent, everything you posted looks ok to me. What makes you think DRI _isn't_ enabled? What is the answer if you type 'glxinfo'? Regards, Joachim -- Joachim Fahnenmüller Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik Herder-Gymnasium Kattowitzer Straße 52 51065 Köln

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-19 Thread Drew Raines
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Are you using IMAP? I've seen this happen before. > > Yes, I am. Have you seen anyone fix it before? Please? I've seen it happen with Courier-IMAP during a testing phase, but hasn't happened yet in production. And it was with OE Express, not Mutt. I would

kernel don't boot

2002-03-19 Thread Pierre
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: menu

2002-03-19 Thread ktb
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:39:18AM +, Marcelo Leal wrote: > Has anyone a menu script done??? I need do some scripts, and i will have > to do a nice interface... i thought if somebody have a default one... > with colors and so on... > Look at the package dialog, xdialog, whiptail. You can se

checkpoint 4.1 on debian

2002-03-19 Thread Ronneil Camara
hi guys, has anyone installed checkpoint on debian? procedures please. thanks. neil

Re: Linux on Palm m125

2002-03-19 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:15:53PM +0100, François Chenais wrote: > Hello, > > Is somebody has installed linux instead of palm OS on > a palm m125 ? Not very usefull - a Plam has not the Hardware to run Linux. There was a commercial port, AFAIK you can download a demo version. RTFG (

Re: menu

2002-03-19 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 19 2002, Marcelo Leal wrote: > Has anyone a menu script done??? I need do some scripts, and i will > have to do a nice interface... i thought if somebody have a default > one... with colors and so on... There are a lot of examples in . I know because I needed them s

temporary ethernet card

2002-03-19 Thread Paul F. Pearson
This sounds like it probably reduces to a newbie question... I just bought a new computer, and need to transfer a bunch of data onto it from my old computer. Neither one has an ethernet card (don't need one - I use dialup). A coworker has offered to loan me two network cards to copy the data, w

Re: Racist remarks

2002-03-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.19.1346 +0100]: > > Casper, I think you got a bit carried away. No-one can be called a racist > > because they don't like "Windows; Microsoft; Bill Gates; Windows 95; > > Microsoft Office; Exchange; Microsoft Internet Information Server;

Re: Racist remarks

2002-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:14:27PM +1100, John Lynch wrote: > >May I point at the Linux community (for the greater part at least) is > >racist, bigotted and prejudiced per se. To illustrate my point > >observe the reaction of extreme disgust and prejudice eminating from > >the average Linux user w

Re: Problems installing gnucash

2002-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:50:49AM -0500, stan wrote: > I tried to add gnucash this morning to my woody (with a few unstable bits) > machine. But I ran inot this: > > Unpacking guile1.3 (from .../guile1.3_1%3a1.3.4-2_i386.deb) ... guile1.3 is obsolete, and not part of woody. You seem to have got

XFree86 4.1.0-14 / KDE2 problems

2002-03-19 Thread martin f krafft
does someone have a clue why the presence of the extmod module of XF 4.1.0-14 (woody) causes kde2 to crash the xserver with signal 4 during the initialization of peripherals, as indicated by kde2's funky (?) dialog flashing into my retina? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the

checkpoint fw1 on debian

2002-03-19 Thread Robert Waldner
(sorry, I've accidently deleted the original post and it's not in the archives yet) You should be able to install FW1 on Debian ('t was 2.2r3 when we last had to do that, so YMMV) using the following steps: Needed packages: - alien (for the rpm's) - csh (for FW1s scripts) - tcsh (ditto) - ke

Re: sources.list

2002-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 08:49:10PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck 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. Sample sources.list lines are given a

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Michael Marziani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > 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 op

Re: temporary ethernet card

2002-03-19 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > This sounds like it probably reduces to a newbie question... > > I just bought a new computer, and need to transfer a bunch of data onto it > from my old computer. Neither one has an ethernet card (don't need one - I > use dialup). A coworker ha

Re: DRI not enabled - Why?

2002-03-19 Thread Kent West
Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: Hi Kent, everything you posted looks ok to me. What makes you think DRI _isn't_ enabled? What is the answer if you type 'glxinfo'? Regards, Joachim direct rendering: No

Re: temporary ethernet card

2002-03-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Mar-2002 Paul F. Pearson wrote: > This sounds like it probably reduces to a newbie question... > > I just bought a new computer, and need to transfer a bunch of data onto it > from my old computer. Neither one has an ethernet card (don't need one - I > use dialup). A coworker has offered

Re: DRI not enabled - Why?

2002-03-19 Thread Kent West
Bob Underwood wrote: On Sunday 17 March 2002 21:31, Kent West wrote: Near as I can tell, DIR should work. Below is my XF86Config-4 file, and after that the output of "startx 2> startx.log". What kernel? When I upgrade my kernel from 2.4.17 to 2.4.18, I also lost my DRI with an ATI video

New kernel

2002-03-19 Thread Michael Montagne
I'm upgrading a stock Progeny install on a PentiumII. I just ran apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.16-686 Duriing the install I was told to include a reference to initrd in lilo.conf. Since I'm running GRUB, this is what I added to menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux (kernel 2.4.16) root (hd0,1) kern

Re: temporary ethernet card

2002-03-19 Thread timothy bauscher
> A coworker has offered to loan me two network cards to > copy > the data, which sounds *real cool*. Here're my questions: > > (1) What's involved in adding the network cards to the machines (old > one > runs Potato, new will have Woody) I think you can just run modconf. Make sure you find out

Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-19 Thread Kent West
Rogério Brito wrote: 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

Re: checkpoint 4.1 on debian

2002-03-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ronneil Camara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.19.1611 +0100]: > has anyone installed checkpoint on debian? procedures please. convert the rpm with alien and install. checkpoint only supports 2.2.14 kernels, so have fun running an insecure kernel. nevertheless: i've had success with 2.2.2

Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-19 Thread Kent West
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:31:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote: My problem is that once when trying to uinstall gdm the process was halted mid-stream. Ever since then, several packages refuse to install or uninstall, such as: Setting up man-db (2.3.20-13) ... dpkg: error proce

Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:16:28AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >Your debconf database is broken in some exciting way. Backing up and > >moving aside /var/cache/debconf/config.dat and > >/var/cache/debconf/templates.dat may help, although Joey may have some > >more cunning soluti

Re: Linux on Palm m125

2002-03-19 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:15:53PM +0100, Fran?ois Chenais wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is somebody has installed linux instead of palm OS on > > a palm m125 ? > Not very usefull - a Plam has not the Hardware to run Linux. > The

Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Kent West
Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the bottom with the "Start" menu, so it's unsuitable. I tried twm, but I have to manual

power off again sorry i missed the previous one

2002-03-19 Thread faisal gillani
Well guys soory i missed the previous post about how to power off your system with the halt command using lilo.conf .. can you repeate it please .. i tried man lilo.conf but couldent find anything thanks Faisal __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports -

RE: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-19 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
-Original Message- From: Kevin Strong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:37 PM To: Debian User (E-mail) Subject: Cannot login using root password Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the root password but I can login using other users l

RE: USB Mouse potato

2002-03-19 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
Check for your mouse' compatibility with the USB in 2.2 kernel. If yes, configure the XF86Config file with Protocol as "IMPS/2". Don't give the protocol as "USB", as documented in some places. -Ramesh -Original Message- From: Matthew Linden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March

Re: Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-19 Thread csj
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:26:15AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > What about creating movies, doing MPEG-2 compression and burning DVD > that will work on "normal" (non-computer) players. > > I understand that this is still an "art". Some standalone DVD players can play VCDs, which can be prod

xawtv and fullscreen

2002-03-19 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list A friend has boorowed me his Hauppauge TV-Card, so I installed xawtv, got everything working, only one thing is not perfect: The man page for xawtvrc(5) shows an example for a modeline to put in the /etc/X11/XF86Config. If I'm right, Modelines are not necessary any more with XF86-4.1 .

Abiword hangs. Have somebody else experienced this?

2002-03-19 Thread Preben Randhol
The abiword hangs after I press space and the aspell spellchecker is invoked. However this only happens on my laptop. On my dekstop it works. They have the same debian Testing with some unstable package installed. There are a bugreports about this in the bug system, but I'm wondering if anybody mi

Re: REMOVE ME FROM ALL MAIL LISTS

2002-03-19 Thread Siward de Groot
Hello, John, John Lord wrote: > Same, done that, recieved Confirmation mail, and replied as above, > result the same. > > > Should neither of these work for you, then please send a detailed > > report of > > exactly what you did that didnt work. > > Right. > I have tried subbing via the web s

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread ktb
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:41:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the > bottom with the "

RE: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-19 Thread Michael Marziani
1) Debian is about as far from being a Beta OS as you can get. 2) I am one of 2 sysadmins. I need to convince my boss and co-worker that Debian is the best option. -Mike -Original Message- From: Dimitri Maziuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 10:33 AM To: debian-

bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi, I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example: #!/bin/bash A="Hello" B="Karsten" C=$A $B someprog --greeting $C Whatever I do now, -

confused re:server error

2002-03-19 Thread john gennard
On 16th March I posted a request for help on the subject of 'server error'. I have received no reply (or copy of my email this is unusual in my experience on this list. Of course I have no right to expect to be helped, but I do not recollect an occasion when I have not been. I decided to make

docs material

2002-03-19 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Hi all, I'm looking for some readable documentation about ethernet frame. I've looked at google, but there is too much of links, and as I'm beginner ... cant choose I need it to my work to school. We have to catch some packets using tcpdump -w file.dat and analyze this file. I have to choose s

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kent> Any suggestions? sawfish. it's small, doesn't have a "start menu" type thing, and I think will place windows for you. it does pop up a menu when a certain key is pressed ("mouse-2"??) on the root window, which could allow for the laun

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Mar-2002 Kent West wrote: > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the > bottom with the "Start" menu, so it's unsui

Re: power off again sorry i missed the previous one

2002-03-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 19, 2002, faisal gillani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well guys soory i missed the previous post about how > to power off your system with the halt command using > lilo.conf .. can you repeate it please .. > i tried man lilo.conf but couldent find anything List archives are at http://

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 19, 2002, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. > ICEWM has that menu at the bottom with the

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Kent West wrote: > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the > bottom with the "Start" menu, so it's

Re: power off again sorry i missed the previous one

2002-03-19 Thread timothy bauscher
> Well guys soory i missed the previous post about how > to power off your system with the halt command using > lilo.conf .. can you repeate it please .. > i tried man lilo.conf but couldent find anything > > thanks > Faisal As root, edit /etc/lilo.conf and add this to the (probably commented ou

Re: configuring ext3

2002-03-19 Thread Walter Tautz
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root18968 Mar 10 16:28 /sbin/fsck > -rwxr-xr-x2 root root 100120 Mar 10 16:28 /sbin/fsck.ext2 > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 100120 Mar 10 16:28 /sbin/fsck.ext3 > -rwxr-xr-x1 root r

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

2002-03-19 Thread Tony Steidler-Dennison
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

Re: power off again sorry i missed the previous one

2002-03-19 Thread John Harrison
--- faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well guys soory i missed the previous post about how > to power off your system with the halt command using > lilo.conf .. can you repeate it please .. > i tried man lilo.conf but couldent find anything I hope this is what you need: http://www.deb

Re: power off again sorry i missed the previous one

2002-03-19 Thread Frank Hart
* faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well guys soory i missed the previous post about how > to power off your system with the halt command using > lilo.conf .. can you repeate it please .. > i tried man lilo.conf but couldent find anything append="apm=on" in your lilo.conf. Try searching

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:41:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the > bottom with the "

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread Craig Dickson
This should work, though I have not actually tried it: #!/bin/bash A="Hello" B="Karsten" C="$A $B" someprog --greeting "$C" pgpiX8Z2JqpWm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xawtv and fullscreen

2002-03-19 Thread Alan James
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 05:07:01PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > If I'm right, Modelines are not necessary any more with XF86-4.1 . That's right, X now has a set of vesa display modes built in, so you dont need to set up common modes. >So, how can I get this (from the man page): > > Modeline

RE:bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread Andrew Agno
Karsten Heymann writes: > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a > little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes > spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example: > > #!/bin/bash > A="Hello" > B="Karsten" > C=$A $B

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread ktb
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:35:53PM +0100, Karsten Heymann wrote: > Hi, > > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a > little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes > spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example: > > #!/bin/b

Re: Problems installing gnucash

2002-03-19 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:23:52AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:50:49AM -0500, stan wrote: > > I tried to add gnucash this morning to my woody (with a few unstable bits) > > machine. But I ran inot this: > > > > Unpacking guile1.3 (from .../guile1.3_1%3a1.3.4-2_i386.deb)

Re: docs material

2002-03-19 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:52:53PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for some readable documentation about > ethernet frame. I've looked at google, but there > is too much of links, and as I'm beginner ... cant choose Must be something wrong with your googling technique..

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 20:35:53 +0100, Karsten Heymann wrote: > A="Hello" > B="Karsten" > C=$A $B > someprog --greeting $C Variable expansion happens first: someprog --greeting Hello Karsten then tokenising, so someprog get three arguments: 1. --greeting 2. Hello

Re: menu

2002-03-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:07:34 -0600 ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:39:18AM +, Marcelo Leal wrote: > > Has anyone a menu script done??? I need do some scripts, and i will have > > to do a nice interface... i thought if somebody have a default one... > > with colors a

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:33:10 -0600 Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Michael Marziani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > 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

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Karsten Heymann wrote: > Hi, > > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a > little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes > spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example: > > #!/bin/bash > A="Hello" > B=

FW: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
Won't a simple 'chroot' in the default shell of the user put all other applications inaccessible? I guess you can trim off the menu functions and start panel functions in most of the WMs? -Ramesh | -Original Message- | From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Tuesday, March 19,

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread David Z Maze
Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing > a little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that > includes spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example: > > #!/bin/bash > A="Hello" > B="

FW: power off again sorry i missed the previous one

2002-03-19 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
I have kept my experiences here: http://panuganty.tripod.com/debiantips/boot.htm | -Original Message- | From: faisal gillani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:03 PM | To: list debaun | Subject: power off again sorry i missed the previous one | | | Well guys

Help with compiling X 4.2.0

2002-03-19 Thread Matt Jones
I am trying to compile X so that I can use my Geforce2 video card. I am running debian 2.2r2 and did a clean install yesterday. I put the source code on the drive and began compiling. The make World worked fine, but when I did make Install I recieved the following errors... "... rm -f gunzip.o

Unresolved Symbols in .../binfmt_aout.o

2002-03-19 Thread Michael Marziani
Brand new 2.2r5 install. I get this error several times on bootup, and if I do a depmod -e, I get: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.19/fs/binfmt_aout.o depmod: do_truncate I have no idea what this error means, or what it will end up affecting. The only additional module

PDF

2002-03-19 Thread curtis
What is the best tool for editing and creating pdf files?

Me too --Re: X doesn't redisplay on return from console

2002-03-19 Thread Derek Loree
Hi all, I just got my Gforce2 going (Tux Racer is awesome!), and I have the same problem. If I switch consoles (ctrl-alt-f[1-6]), then switch back to X (ctrl-alt-f7) the display, keyboard and mouse stop responding (never displaying the X console). I can ssh into the machine, kill -9 XFree86 and

Re: Problems installing gnucash

2002-03-19 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:23:52AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:50:49AM -0500, stan wrote: > > I tried to add gnucash this morning to my woody (with a few unstable bits) > > machine. But I ran inot this: > > > > Unpacking guile1.3 (from .../guile1.3_1%3a1.3.4-2_i386.deb)

Performing new sets on HDs ... 'hdparm'

2002-03-19 Thread HostMaster of NullZone
Hi there, i think its a trivial question for your all but im a bit new at Linux. How can i know if i can set better parametres with 'hdparm' utility on my ide drivers? How can i know if one of my mainboards support it? I know it support UDMA33 (just a PII 400). and .. at least ..., may a

RE: checkpoint 4.1 on debian

2002-03-19 Thread Ronneil Camara
Yup, next time guys, I will make it friendlier -> -Original Message- -> From: martin f krafft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 10:26 AM -> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org -> Subject: Re: checkpoint 4.1 on debian -> -> -> also sprach Ronneil Camara <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:22:02 -0600 ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:41:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > > kiosk style setu

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:35:53 +0100 Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a > little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes > spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example:

Re: OT: Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-19 Thread Tom Cook
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > On 19/03/02 Casper Labuschagne did speaketh: > > > May I point at the Linux community (for the greater part at least) is > > racist, bigotted and prejudiced per se. To illustrate my point observe the > > reaction of extreme disgust and prejudice eminating from the

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