Re: Installing Debian

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 21:00, John Lynch wrote: > Hello everyone --big snip-- > I would appreciate it a lot if someone was able to give me easy to > understand instructions. or a website with easier instructions if no-one can > be bothered. If you go to www.debian.org and look around for a whi

Re: Installing Debian

Hi John, John Lynch wrote: > I just read the Debian installation manual. And most of it went over my > head. I have never used a Linux OS before, and I don't know THAT much about > computers, however I am learning. Debian is a wonderful Linux distribution, but it far from the easiest to install f

Re: tomcat

Marcelo da Silva Leal wrote: > > Hello, > I was reading documentation about tomcat, and one worker (tomcat instance) > for application... but i´m confusing. > I need to make some scripts, and one of them, is for to add one more context > (application). The question is: I don´t know what files sh

strange behavior of executables

Hello All: I have been coming across a strange behavior with a compiled FORTRAN program. I use g77 to compile it (version doesn't matter) and when I try to run the executable on some machines it works fine. On other machines, it stops with a segfault immediately. The two machines are both runn

Re: Installing Debian or Linux

Thanks a lot Matthew and everyone else. okay, here's another 2 questions. What is the best Linux OS to install for a newbie, and it still connects to the net and has Windows XP as the default OS? and also, Would 1 gig be enough to practice installing Debian (or another Linux OS) on? thanks

Installing 'unofficial Testing CD's'

Dear all - I would like to make a nice 'lean and mean' install on an old laptop (Tecra 8000 w. 128Mb RAM). I have found the resource for the 'unofficial Testing CD's' on: http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#testing and learned that I could use CD3 to get going with kernel 2.4 and Reiser. Problem is

Re: Need some sound advice - SB Live!

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Bill Moseley wrote: > Argh! - HOWTO overload. > > I've got a Sound Blaster Live Value. I'm running Debian Testing. I've > build my own kernel 2.4.17 from kernel-source package. I did build the > emu10k1 module. I ran modconf and selected emu10k1. emu10k1 loads fine > with

Reading PGP with GPG

I used to have this IDEA GPG plugin which I believed allowed me to read PGP encrypted mail. I vaguely remember the idea package getting thrown out with the bathwater some time back. Now a friend has sent me mail encrypted with PGP, and I'm getting this: gpg: cipher algorithm 1 is un

Re: Installing Debian or Linux

> What is the best Linux OS to install for a newbie, and it still > connects to > the net and has Windows XP as the default OS? Tbe best? Umm, that's strictly opinion. IMHO, the easiest is hardly over the best. Just because Mandrake and RedHat are easy to install doesn't mean that they are the be

Re: Installing Debian or Linux

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 00:32, John Lynch wrote: > Thanks a lot Matthew and everyone else. > > okay, here's another 2 questions. > > What is the best Linux OS to install for a newbie, and it still connects to > the net and has Windows XP as the default OS? > > and also, Would 1 gig be enough to p

Re: power off again sorry i missed the previous one

> append="apm=on" > How would one do this in grub? Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live

Re: Installing Debian or Linux

timothy the *poor* speller spake: > Tbe best? Umm, that's strictly opinion. IMHO, > the easiest is hardly over the best. That doesn't even make sense!!! Brain panic! *#7293>#4/2019.? Time to shutdown... (==timothy==) "Live to learn. Learn to love. Love to live." -- me

How to install a new kernel when your / partition is neary full?

Hi, I am now on a 2.2.18 kernel (in sid already) and I'd like to upgrade to a 2.4.x but unfortunately I have a small (~100 Mb) / partition when I started out and it's already quite full. Upgrading via the usual manner with apt-get and friends didn't do the job (and screwed things up quite a bi

.htaccess does not work under /var/www/

Hello list, I made a very simple .htaccess file under /var/www, which is the default DocumentRoot in the apache of Debian, but it doesn't work. However, if I put it under ~/public_html/, it works! Is there any configuration problem? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG public key http://pah

ProFTPD + authentication via PostgreSQL under SID - not working

Hello everybody, my system is as follows Kernel: 2.4.18 Debian ver.: SID ProFTPD: proftpd-pgsql-1.2.4+1.2.5rc1-2 (apt-get'ed) PostgreSQL: 7.2 (self compiled) The problem is that, even though I have a *correctly* configure mod_sql and postgres database, proftpd is unable to authenticate via pos

Re: spammers are killing me

also sprach Bruce Burhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.20.0521 +0100]: > Would you mind explaining what the above means > to us lesser mortals, Martin? > `We are not all Gurus, you know.. i'll try... it's the log written by postfix, my mail transfer agent. > postfix/smtpd[6023]: connect

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:25:50PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Galeon, in full screen tabbed mode, with *no* window manager, would be > my first choice. You need a window manager for Galeon fullscreen. If you get to a login screen, input moves to it. After you've logged in, you loose keyboard

sony clie 320 with gnome-pilot

anyone successfully gotton a clie synced with gnome-pilot via usb cable...I've read thru alot of docs tring to get it to work .. ..the device is recognized by the kernel and is connect via ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1 depending on wether its used via cold/hotsync .. and the ttys exist ..any thoughts,

Re: .htaccess does not work under /var/www/

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 15:16, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello list, > > I made a very simple .htaccess file under /var/www, which is the default > DocumentRoot in the apache of Debian, but it doesn't work. > > However, if I put it under ~/public_html/, it works! > Is there any configuration problem?

Re: Need some sound advice - SB Live!

High, ok, please wrap your lines at 72 chars. On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Bill Moseley wrote: > Argh! - HOWTO overload. > > I've got a Sound Blaster Live Value. I'm running Debian Testing. I've > build my own kernel 2.4.17 from kernel-source package. I did build the > emu10k1 module. I ran modconf

Re: How to install a new kernel when your / partition is neary f

> > I have /usr, /var, /home etc mounted on different partitions. One obvious way > would be to shrink other partitions and grow /, but I don't want to do that, > at > least not yet before taking a look at other (better) options. > > Therefore, I am just wondering whether there is any suggestion

Re: power off again sorry i missed the previous one

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:03:47AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > > append="apm=on" > > > > How would one do this in grub? Add an apm=on argument to the "kernel" command. Here's an entry from my /boot/grub/menu.1st: title Linux/Stable 2.4.18 (devfs) root (hd0,2) kernel --type=biglinux /vmlinu

Re: power off again sorry i missed the previous one

> Add an apm=on argument to the "kernel" command. Thanks Eric. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I

Re: How to install a new kernel when your / partition is neary f

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: I have /usr, /var, /home etc mounted on different partitions. One obvious way would be to shrink other partitions and grow /, but I don't want to do that, at least not yet before taking a look at other (better) options. Therefore, I am just wondering whether there is

Thank you all! (Was: Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces))

Thank you all! Now it works. * Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020320 09:25]: ... > C="$A $B" -- Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CAU-University Kiel, Germany Registered Linux User #221014 (http://counter.li.org)

Re: How to install a new kernel when your / partition is neary full?

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 15:15, LUK ShunTim wrote: > Hi, > > I am now on a 2.2.18 kernel (in sid already) and I'd like to upgrade to a > 2.4.x > but unfortunately I have a small (~100 Mb) / partition when I started out and > it's already quite full. Upgrading via the usual manner with apt-get and

Re: File permissions on nfs mounted directory (Woody)

> "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 05:20:29PM +0100, Alexis Kotte Dave> wrote: >> movemail: Permission denied for /var/mail/kotte Dave> What does `ls -l /var/mail/kotte` show as the file's owner? Dave> File permissions acro

Shutdown - Problems: Cannot umount /

I have installed Woody with Kernel 2.4.17. Whenever I do a shutdown or reboot, there are the following messages: Unmounting local filesystems...umount2: Device or ressource busy umount: devpts: not found umount: /dev/pts: illegal seek umount2: Device or ressource busy umount: /: device busy done.

Re: strange behavior of executables

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 14:30, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > > Hello All: > > I have been coming across a strange behavior with a compiled FORTRAN > program. > > I use g77 to compile it (version doesn't matter) and when I try to run the > executable on some machines it works fine. On other machines, it

pam_cracklib.so

Is anyone suggessfully using the pam_craclib.so module in a passwd stack? Did you have to set up a dict file or something to get it to work? If so, please give instructions. Simply putting it in a passwd stack is causing my passwd changes to fail. (Running sid.)

openldap question

Hello List i have already used apt-get install libapache-auth-ldap and i used the .htaccess to restrict access permission so that,i made a config for .htaccess ###BEGIN .htaccess AuthLDAPAuthoritative on AuthLDAPUrl ldap://192.168.20.220/ AuthLDAPBindDN cn=root2,dc=localhost AuthLDAPBindPassw

A openldap question!!!

Hello List i have already used apt-get install libapache-auth-ldap and i used the .htaccess to restrict access permission so that,i made a config for .htaccess ###BEGIN .htaccess AuthLDAPAuthoritative on AuthLDAPUrl ldap://192.168.20.220/ AuthLDAPBindDN cn=root2,dc=localhost AuthLDAPBindPass

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

on Wed, Mar 20, 2002, Danie Roux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:25:50PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Galeon, in full screen tabbed mode, with *no* window manager, would be > > my first choice. > > You need a window manager for Galeon fullscreen. If you get to a login

Debian and PDAs.

Okay, well the taking on of a potentially huge project has kind of clued me in to the fact that I would probably benefit hugely from a laptop-type aparatus. Problem is (just trust me on this one), carrying around a laptop is less than optimal. Having an additional shoulder bag is at this point

Re: Need some sound advice - SB Live!

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:44:23PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > I think I need soundcore, but I'm not clear what kernel config I should > use to build it. I'm not clear if I need ALSA or OSS in addition. > > fgrep SOUND /boot/config-2.4.17 | grep -v ^# > CONFIG_SOUND=y Thats why you dont h

Re: Installing Debian or Linux

Hi Personally I would recommend SuSE for a complete Linux/Unix newbie. It has a very easy install with good hardware autodetection and has probably the best manuals I have ever seen with a Linux distribution. Its probably the easiest distro to get you up and running with say KDE, printing and an

Specific Installing Debian GNU/Linux question

Hello everyone I have a specific question for installing Debian GNU/Linux. What is the swap partition and is it neccessary in a dual boot system? I found a HOWTO with easy english, but some things still go over my head. _ MSN Phot

Re: .htaccess does not work under /var/www/

--- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I made a very simple .htaccess file under /var/www, > which is the default DocumentRoot in the apache of > Debian, but it doesn't work. > > However, if I put it under ~/public_html/, it works! > Is there any configuration problem? If you add somethi

la philosophie...

From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2002 17:13:57 -0800 Bonjour, je suis passionné par la philosophie, la connaissance de soi et la spiritualité, un site a vivement attiré mon attention et je tenais à vous en faire part ... www.revue3emillenaire.com merci de me dire ce que vous en pe

Re: Installing Debian or Linux

The Wise Pat Colbeck said: Hi Personally I would recommend SuSE for a complete Linux/Unix newbie. It has a very easy install with good hardware autodetection and has probably the best manuals I have ever seen with a Linux distribution. Can you download SuSe for free over the internet? And als

How can I find out what package contains the Gnome dictionaty aplet?

Somewhere along the line, one of my dslect upgrades must have removed the Gnome dictionary aplet, but I cna't seem to find it in the dselect list. Is there a tool that I can use to search the avaialble packages & see what package conyains this? Thanks. -- "They that would give up essential lib

Re: xawtv and fullscreen

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:28:22PM +, Alan James wrote: > 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

Re: Specific Installing Debian GNU/Linux question

- Original Message - From: "John Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:24 AM Subject: Specific Installing Debian GNU/Linux question > Hello everyone > > I have a specific question for installing Debian GNU/Linux. > > What is the swap partition and is it necces

Re: Installing Debian or Linux

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:41:51PM +1100, John Lynch wrote: > Can you download SuSe for free over the internet? > And also, can u install it in a dual boot system with the linux partition > having 1 gig? Yes you can install it via FTP see: http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/lmuelle_suselinux_interne

Re: How can I find out what package contains the Gnome dictionaty aplet?

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 23:52, stan wrote: > Somewhere along the line, one of my dslect upgrades must have removed the > Gnome dictionary aplet, but I cna't seem to find it in the dselect list. > > Is there a tool that I can use to search the avaialble packages & see > what package conyains this?

Re: How can I find out what package contains the Gnome dictionaty aplet?

The search pages of debian.org: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=bin%2Fgdict&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386&directories=yes ==> gnome-utils Christophe On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 06:52:34AM -0500, stan wrote: > Somewhere along the line, one of my dslect upgra

Re: How can I find out what package contains the Gnome dictionaty aplet?

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 06:52:34AM -0500, stan wrote: > Somewhere along the line, one of my dslect upgrades must have removed the > Gnome dictionary aplet, but I cna't seem to find it in the dselect list. > > Is there a tool that I can use to search the avaialble packages & see > what package con

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Re: xawtv and fullscreen

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 07:07:38AM -0500, stan wrote: > Soes this thread imply that xawtv, in full screen mode, is able to > automagicly swtich X > resolutinos such that it does give "full screen", instead of just centering > the TV image > on the display with a black border around it? Yes it

Re: pam_cracklib.so

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:07:16AM -0800, David Wright wrote: > Is anyone suggessfully using the pam_craclib.so module in a passwd > stack? Did you have to set up a dict file or something to get it to > work? You do have to install some wordlist package, such as wenglish, to get it to work. See

Re: X doesn't redisplay on return from console

Derek Loree, Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:50:49PM -0800: > 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 > displayin

RE: A openldap question!!!

No wonder it doesn't work, first of all you DENIED everyone and ALLOW nobody. Also, your AuthLDAPUrl is incorrect. I don't understand why you are log in as admin to do basic authentication. You don't need that, and if you really have to login as admin encrypt your password. btw AuthLDAPAuthoritativ

Major confusion re: dosemu; please help

First of all, let me clarify that I'm not running under X since I'm blind. I have made several attempts over the last few months to get dosemu up and running and, despite having read the accompanying docs ad infinitum ad nauseum I am still confused. If somebody could help me with this, even offlist

Re: PDF

curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the best tool for editing and creating pdf files? For creating pdf files, I've always used ghostscript. Ghostscript comes bundled with a shell script to make pdf files from postscript (ps). (ps2pdfXX - where XX is a very of pdf, such as 13 [1.3]).

Re: backing up /etc

- Original Message - From: "Alvin Oga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Shri Shrikumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian users" Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 2:48 AM Subject: Re: backing up /etc > > hi ya > > assuming oyu have a different disk mounted as /mnt/backup > ( never backup important

Re: A openldap question!!!

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 05:03:48PM +0800, axacheng wrote: > ###BEGIN .htaccess > AuthLDAPAuthoritative on > AuthLDAPUrl ldap://192.168.20.220/ > AuthLDAPBindDN cn=root2,dc=localhost > AuthLDAPBindPassword cc4f4 > AuthType Basic > > > order deny,allow > deny from all > require user cc4f4 > > > #

Re: Debian and PDAs.

Erin Lewy, Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 05:46:05AM -0500: > > So-- does anyone here have a PDA and if so what kind and how has your > luck been as far as being able to synch it and whatnot? > Erin, I have been looking for the ultimate cell/pda combination for a while. the answer depends on where yo

ls

why i can't ls with colors in my Eterm terminal??? i did put LS_COLORS, OPTIONS, and nothing... when i log in suse linux, slackware, redhat, it works... in my terminal not thanks!

Re: Installing Debian

John Lynch wrote: So, I am asking if someone wouldn't mind giving me EASY to understand instructions [for installing Debian], in "easy english" as someone I know always says. The only way to really make it easier is to eliminate the variables (floppy vs hard drive vs CD installation, etc).

Re: temporary ethernet card

Paul F. Pearson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >This sounds like it probably reduces to a newbie question... > True. > 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 dialu

Shift+PageUP and DOWN

ok!!! the ls i fix it! was a alias to --color option... but now, the question is: why my Shift+PageUP and PageDOWN don't work??? thanks again

Re: How can I find out what package contains the Gnome dictionaty aplet?

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:36:35AM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: > On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 23:52, stan wrote: > > Somewhere along the line, one of my dslect upgrades must have removed the > > Gnome dictionary aplet, but I cna't seem to find it in the dselect list. > > > > Is there a tool that I can us

Re: A openldap question!!!

Forwarded by axacheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Original Message --- From:axacheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kurc, Marcin A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:29:06 +0800 Subject: Re: A openldap question!!! U R GOD!! THAN

Upgrade to kernel 2.4.* on woody - easy?

Hello, I want to upgarde to a 2.4.* kernel on my woody system. Is this is a startightforward re-compile with relevant kernel source or are there things I need to watch out for? Many thanks, Martin

Re: Linux on Palm m125

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:31:19PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > 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 m

Re: ls

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:33:44AM +, Marcelo Leal wrote: > why i can't ls with colors in my Eterm terminal??? > i did put LS_COLORS, OPTIONS, and nothing... > when i log in suse linux, slackware, redhat, it works... in my terminal > not Try ls --color If that works define a alias for ls.

Re: Losing time !

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 04:05:55PM -0600, Greg Murphy wrote: > Greetings, > > My computer for some reason seems to be losing time at a rate of about 20 > minutes per 10-15 hours. I was under the impression that linux keeps track of > the time from clock cycles. I have not rebooted my machine in

apt-get reinstall?

Hi, Is there an easy method to re-install a package? I rebooted my machine and apache is segfaulting right as it starts up. Other applications are running fine, even Tomcat which taxes memory. Any ideas on how to diagnosis this or any ideas on how to re-install? Thank you, Elizabeth

Re: Upgrade to kernel 2.4.* on woody - easy?

Martin Edward John Waller wrote (on 20 Mar 2002 at 15:03): > I want to upgarde to a 2.4.* kernel on my woody > system. > Is this is a startightforward re-compile with > relevant kernel source or are there things I need > to watch out for? It was pretty painless for me. I started with the kernel-

Re: Need some sound advice - SB Live!

At 11:04 AM 3/20/2002 +, Alan James wrote: >On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:44:23PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: >> >> I think I need soundcore, but I'm not clear what kernel config I should >> use to build it. I'm not clear if I need ALSA or OSS in addition. >> >> fgrep SOUND /boot/config-2.4.1

Re: tomcat

thanks, but i have this problem: i have one file, that have five columns: host virtual-host app port context each app can to have any contexts... context1, context2, contextn... i need one script to read this file, and create three configuartion files: mod_jk.conf, worker.properties and se

Re: ls

High, On 20 Mar 2002, Marcelo Leal wrote: > why i can't ls with colors in my Eterm terminal??? > i did put LS_COLORS, OPTIONS, and nothing... > when i log in suse linux, slackware, redhat, it works... in my terminal > not > Does 'ls --color=auto' work? Ok, then put this in your ~/.bashrc (if

Re: sony clie 320 with gnome-pilot

"David H. Askew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > anyone successfully gotton a clie synced with gnome-pilot via usb > cable...I've read thru alot of docs tring to get it to work .. > > ..the device is recognized by the kernel and is connect via ttyUSB0 and > ttyUSB1 depending on wether its used via

Re: GL Screensaver problems

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 05:56:01PM +, Ross Burton wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Debian Sid and am having problems with the GL > screensavers. I have a nVidia GeForce2 MX and the latest (2813?) > drivers compiled. > > If I run "atlantis" from a terminal it runs fine, accelerated. If I run >

Re: Attn. Accounting/President

[wrapped for your viewing pleasure] On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:08:56PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My name is Aaron Welch . I am Vice-President and Co-Founder of The > Source-Funding Group. After visiting your website and researching ^

Re: dosemu

I installed dosemu on my potato box to try to help Cheryl, but it did not give me any man or info pages. Who maintains dosemu, anyway? Phil Reardon > I've tried doing this several ways; my most recent, which I realize isn't > totally accurate, was to put '/dev/hda2" under the hdimage entry in t

Re: Performing new sets on HDs ... 'hdparm'

On 3/19/02 4:58 PM, "HostMaster of NullZone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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

Unidentified subject!

>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 20 11:15:23 2002 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:15:23 -0500 From: "Anthony R. J. Ball" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: wait issues killing apt-get Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii C

Re: apt-get reinstall?

Hi! apt-get --reinstall install EG - Original Message - From: "Elizabeth Barham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:33 PM Subject: apt-get reinstall? > Hi, > > Is there an easy method to re-install a package? I rebooted my machine > and apache is segfaulting

Re: Debian and PDAs.

> Of course, in this ideal world, I'd also have to be using Windows, > because all of the synching and other packages I am seeing on Debian's > servers seem to ME to be specific for Palms. The handspring visors, and quite a few other PDA devices use the PalmOS. Sync software cares what OS th

Re: Shutdown - Problems: Cannot umount /

> I have installed Woody with Kernel 2.4.17. Whenever I do a shutdown or > reboot, there are the following messages: > > Unmounting local filesystems...umount2: Device or ressource busy > umount: devpts: not found > umount: /dev/pts: illegal seek > umount2: Device or ressource busy > umount: /: dev

Re: apt-get reinstall?

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:33:59AM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Hi, > > Is there an easy method to re-install a package? I rebooted my machine > and apache is segfaulting right as it starts up. Other applications > are running fine, even Tomcat which taxes memory. > > Any ideas on how to diag

Re: apt-get reinstall?

also sprach Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.20.1633 +0100]: > Is there an easy method to re-install a package? I rebooted my machine > and apache is segfaulting right as it starts up. Other applications > are running fine, even Tomcat which taxes memory. apt-get install --reinstall

Re: spammers are killing me

* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020319 19:48]: > it's either too late in the night or here's something going on. > IP=3D195.226.187.154, postfix 1.1.3-1 on debian woody, port 25, > mailhost for 27 domains, otherwise closed relay. > > now i find this in the logs: > > postfix/smtpd[6023]: co

Galeon PSM

What is PSM for Galeon (mozilla?)? When trying to reach a secure sight I'm informed that this must be installed. The download is a whole bunch of files tarred together. I'm unsure how to proceed. Should I just copy the whole tree I downloaded into my mozilla tree (the directories and file names

Re[2]: Network Card error

Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 7:36:28 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> When I would connect another PC (running Windows) to eth1, I would >> get errors: > Well, maybe that is your problem. Are you using the proper > cable for direct connections: a cross-over cable? I bought a crossover cable specifically f

Re: apt-get reinstall?

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:33:59AM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Is there an easy method to re-install a package? 'apt-get --reinstall install '. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Abiword hangs. Have somebody else experienced this?

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 11:22, Preben Randhol wrote: > 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. > I'm seeing the same on my

Re[2]: Installing Debian

Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 10:23:52 PM, Matthew Dalton wrote: > You could try an internet install, but I doubt you'll be able to get > your system connected to Telstra Cable without a working system first, > so it's kind of a chicken-egg problem. I just wanted to point out.. I'm on Telus ADSL and I

Re: Attn. Accounting/President

Rob Weir wrote: > > [wrapped for your viewing pleasure] > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:08:56PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > My name is Aaron Welch . I am Vice-President and Co-Founder of The > > Source-Funding Group. After visiting your website and researching >

Re: How to install a new kernel when your / partition is neary f

> > That's what I really want to find out :-). A couple of years ago, even a 50 > Mb / > partition seemed OK. IIRC, with debian 1.3 it was just a 3 or 4 floppy > install. > > From what I gather, when you install a new kernel image using apt-get, the > old > one is kept (which is a sensible dec

xscreensaver not working in KDE

I have XScreensaver setup as my screensaver for KDE and Gnome. On Gnome, it works fine. But, on KDE, it works infrequently on my desktop machine and never works on my laptop (which gets connected to two separate networks throughout the day). Any ideas? -- Darryl L. Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vis

Re: dosemu

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:08:17AM -0700, Phil Reardon wrote: > I installed dosemu on my potato box to try to help Cheryl, but it did not > give me any man or info pages. Who maintains dosemu, anyway? > I went here - http://www.debian.org/devel/people Looks like - Xu, Herbert ?<[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re[2]: Network Card error

Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 7:36:07 PM, Crispin Wellington wrote: > No answers to your problems specifically, just some general advice. > Try not to compile your ethernet drivers into the kernel statically. Thanks. I'll give that a shot if something specific doesn't appear in the list. I don't plan

apache seg faulting (was: Re: apt-get reinstall?)

Thanks EG for that timely reply. Using EG's advice, I re-installed apache-perl, apache-common, libc6 and any other libraries ldd shows apache depends upon. I also installed libc6-dbg in hopes of watching apache execute and seeing where it fails. But so far, none of these have proved directly benef

RE: dosemu

Try, http://packages.debian.org/stable/otherosfs/dosemu.html Cheers, Andrew -Original Message- From: Phil Reardon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:08 AM To: Cheryl Homiak; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dosemu I installed dosemu on my potato box to

Re: Galeon PSM

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 08:32:11AM -0800, Michael Montagne wrote: > What is PSM for Galeon (mozilla?)? > When trying to reach a secure sight I'm informed that this must be > installed. The download is a whole bunch of files tarred together. I'm > unsure how to proceed. Should I just copy the who

Re: Abiword hangs. Have somebody else experienced this?

Link M Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 20/03/2002 (18:39) : > Are you running the CVS version of abiword? I know that unstable has a > cvs version, but i'm not sure about testing. The best work around i've > found is to either manually install abiword 0.9.4 which is a stable > release, or use s

RE: apt-get reinstall? (additional question)

Is there a way to tell re-install to reinstall all dependencies? -Mike _ Michael D. Marziani Systems Administrator -Original Message- From: me& [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:21 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; Elizabeth Bar

tiny mouse howto - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

Hi there, I have just seen that some people have problems with the combination of gpm, XFree86 and the mouse wheel support for X11. It has taken a while until I found out what to do. I have a cordless Logitech wheel mouse and now all works. gpm settings in /etc/gpm.conf: device=/dev/psaux resp

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