moving from ext2 to reiserfs

2002-03-22 Thread Ronneil Camara
Hi guys, I've got 2.2.20 kernel installed and running. I'm planning to convert my ext2 to reiserfs. What would be the best approach to this? Thanks. Neil

Compacting evolution mail folders

2002-03-22 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I am using Evolution 1.0.2 on a PowerPC Macintosh running sid. I subscribe to a lot of mailing lists, and have my mail sorted into a couple dozen mail folders. I'm using real folders here, not the virtual ones. Periodically, I delete all the mail from most of the mailing list folders (because I

Re: ftp behaving strangely

2002-03-22 Thread Manoj Mathew
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 04:49:24PM -0500, Jason Stechschulte wrote: > We have a server that has been running ftpd for quite a while now. This > week for some reason we can only ftp to it using passive mode. If we > try to access it without using passive mode we get this: > > ftp> ls > 200 PORT c

Re: Packages providing a daemon/service and configuration

2002-03-22 Thread timothy bauscher
> for i in `find . -type f -name S90telnetd` ; do > mv $i `echo $i | sed s/S90telnetd/K90telnetd` ; > done > > There is probably a much easier way of doing it than that, but it > works, and this is my opinion, after all. update-inetd --disable telnet just did it today, found it in the *upda

How install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-

2002-03-22 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
= A penny more. Should we, the people, be sincere about wanting a real peace on Earth, we would spend at least a penny more on active promotion of peace, than what we spend on the military. Anon. Modelling the Future http://homepages.about.com/hearthstone/ecosusworld.html ___

How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-ROM drive?

2002-03-22 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
Sorry about the previous incomplete message! I understand that there is a way of installing some files on the DOS partition, and that I could install the rest with the dial-up connection. But - would some kind soul either - give me a "cook book" recipe, - or guide me through the installation

Re: Packages providing a daemon/service and configuration

2002-03-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 15:23:45 +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > > The current behaviour is far more sensible to a non-expert user than > the opposite behaviour, where he installs (say) apache, then bombards > the list with messages with the subject 'broken apache - doesn't > start' so that he can be tol

Re: Dual boot default and Compatibility

2002-03-22 Thread Fabian Dortu
>Hello all, > >Well, I've partitioned my harddrive with Partition Magic. >And I am currently downloading Mandrake GNU/Linux, because of >everyone's advice. > >NOW I know this is for DEBIAN GNU/Linux BUT I have to ask in here >(because I don't want to be added to yet another mailing list) and I >fig

Ctrl-arrows?

2002-03-22 Thread Craig Dickson
My Debian setup doesn't seem to understand some key combinations, such as CTRL-arrows. The console and X behave a bit differently, interestingly. In console mode, LEFT and CTRL-LEFT do exactly the same thing; both generate ESC [ D. In X, LEFT generates that same sequence, but CTRL-LEFT does nothing

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

2002-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 13:04, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Mar 18, 2002, Jean-Marc V. Liotier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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

Re: How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-ROM drive?

2002-03-22 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 14:32, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: > Sorry about the previous incomplete message! > I understand that there is a way of installing some > files on the DOS partition, and that I could install > the rest with the dial-up connection. > But - would some kind soul either - giv

Re: moving from ext2 to reiserfs

2002-03-22 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 13:27, Ronneil Camara wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've got 2.2.20 kernel installed and running. I'm planning to > convert my ext2 to reiserfs. What would be the best approach to > this? The easiest way would be to convert it to ext3 instead. Use kernel 2.4.17 use tune2fs -j /deb/

Re: Woody Kernel 2.4.16-586 : modprobe: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20020321.log Read-Only file system

2002-03-22 Thread Frank Hart
* Charlie Grosvenor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > When ever I start my machines I get the following message > appearing on the screen over and over again. > >modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-1 >modprobe: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20020321.log

Re: Desperately trying to understand dselect (seeming inconsistency)

2002-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:11:53AM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: > -snip- > > It's a long-standing bug in dselect, and has been fixed in CVS. The fix > > didn't make it in time for woody, but will be in dpkg 1.10 in woody+1. > > And sometime soon in unstable ? After the woody release. -- Colin Wat

Re: Installation of JDK

2002-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:51:22PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > as root: > > cd /usr/lib/ > ls libstdc++* | grep so > > For me this brings up: > > libstdc++-3-libc6.1-2-2.10.0.so > libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 > libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 > libstdc++.so.3 > libstd

Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome

2002-03-22 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 08:04, stan wrote: > I have a woody machine with sound working for things like mp4blaster, > xwatv, etc. > > However, even though I have "use sound" check in Gonems configuratior, I'm > not geting it's sounds. > > Sugestiosn Try starting esound as a daemon process. Make sur

Re: Compacting evolution mail folders

2002-03-22 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Are you emptying the trash? -- Arthur H. Johnson II Catechist, St John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Davison MI USA President, Genesee County Linux Users Group Debian GNU/Linux Advocate On 22 Mar 2002, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I am using Evolution 1.0.2 on a PowerPC Macintosh running sid

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-22 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 10:47:20PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > cdda2wav and cdparanoia both run fine to extract the tracks of a CD-audio > what is the advantage to use one rather than another ? > TIA for an advice. cdda2wav is faster and works best with very clean CDs. cdparanoia does

Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome

2002-03-22 Thread stan
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 07:22:16PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 08:04, stan wrote: > > I have a woody machine with sound working for things like mp4blaster, > > xwatv, etc. > > > > However, even though I have "use sound" check in Gonems configuratior, I'm > > not geting

Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome

2002-03-22 Thread stan
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 07:22:16PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 08:04, stan wrote: > > I have a woody machine with sound working for things like mp4blaster, > > xwatv, etc. > > > > However, even though I have "use sound" check in Gonems configuratior, I'm > > not geting

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-22 Thread Davor Balder
Hi Michael! I'm not sure whether there is much on the net regarding Debian vs. Suse or RedHat or Mandrake(the list goes on...)... If I was you, I would concentrate on ease of upgrade (as mentioned before by someone, apt-get), Debian policy (things are where they should be, Debian Manifesto (wh

WindowMaker Keybindings

2002-03-22 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hey all, I would like to use WindowMaker, but would also like to configure keybindings. As you know, with Debian's streamlined menu system, there is no way to customize keybindings through WPrefs since it prompts with an error about another program controlling the menu system. Does anyone know h

Re: unsubscribe accts@tlmbangladesh.org

2002-03-22 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:53:46AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: >On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:55:26AM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: >> Its guys like this that led me to add this to my .forward. > >Damn, this is a great list! I'd started wondering about setting up a >scorefile in .forward for exim and p

Re: PDF

2002-03-22 Thread Davor Balder
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:48:10PM +0100, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:43:56 -0800 > curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is the best tool for editing and creating pdf files? > > Strange that noone suggested pdfLaTeX yet... best to create pdf. > BTW: You

ps2epsi

2002-03-22 Thread Malte Thoma
My (sid) Version of ps2epsi produces corrupted postscript code, is there a solution for this problem? Greetings, Malte

OT: where to post kernel bug

2002-03-22 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, I think i found a bug in the recent kernel series but i am not sure where the best place is to post it. Do i need to subscribe to the kernel ml and post it there or is it better to contact the author of the code directly (the bug is in the ide-scsi code), or is there some sort of a bug trac

GMT-Bug solved ... BUT

2002-03-22 Thread Malte Thoma
It's not a GMT bug but a Bug in 'gv' gv -v gv 3.5.8 (debian) ghostview shows the correct output. The same gv version (without the 'debian') on a SuSE Linux works correct , any Ideas? Greetings, Malte

GMT- Bug?

2002-03-22 Thread Malte Thoma
Hallo, my GMT3.4 Version seems to be buggy. The 'pstext' command in the following script prints only ONE (the last) text and not all while the same script on a SuSE Linux with the same debian version gives the corect output. Any Ideas? Malte #!/bin/bash

Re: configuring ext3

2002-03-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 03:32:45PM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Should I have done symlink??? Any comment? I thought I made > > /sbin/fsck.ext3,ext2 as the same size as /sbin/fsck.ext3 ??? why??? > > I have the same hardlinks and I never did this

Re: unsubscribe accts@tlmbangladesh.org

2002-03-22 Thread Patrick Kirk
Please don't use my previously sent .forward as is. It will cause ALL mail to you to be queued by exim. I had just added delphi forums to the spam list and left a syntax error in. The correct file is attached - and yes - sorry for sending attachments. In my defence they are small but very

Re: Installing Debian or Linux

2002-03-22 Thread Davor Balder
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:52:03AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 05:32:12PM +1100, 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

[no subject]

2002-03-22 Thread Gustavo Sales
Hi, I have a i810 card and use Debian GNU?linux Potato with kernel 2.4.x(agpgart module compiled) and XFree86 4.2. When I try to start the X I receive a message like this: Less than 6MB AGP memory. In var/log/message I see that agpgart reserves 3MB for AGP memory, and cause this, I think that

Re: ftp behaving strangely

2002-03-22 Thread Jason Stechschulte
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 05:03:01PM +1100, Manoj Mathew wrote: > Is anything running on port 20? what does netstat -at say? Without an active ftp connection (I changed ip): $ netstat -at Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Addres

Re: Almost there!

2002-03-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "John Bruner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:54 AM Subject: Almost there! > Hi, > > I have received help getting this far, but now am stuck. > > On my Mac IIfx, I can get to the configuration screen. I tell the > installer which keyboard

Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome

2002-03-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome > On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 07:22:16PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 08:04, stan wrote: > > > I have a

Re: GMT-Bug solved ... BUT

2002-03-22 Thread John Kuhn
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:42:23AM +0100, Malte Thoma wrote: > It's not a GMT bug but a Bug in 'gv' > > gv -v > gv 3.5.8 (debian) > > ghostview shows the correct output. > > The same gv version (without the 'debian') on a SuSE Linux works correct > , any Ideas? I have GMT 3.4 (and gv) on bot

Re: DRI not enabled - Why?

2002-03-22 Thread Bill Triplett
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 10:39:49PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > I was running a custom 2.4.13, but someone mentioned it might be a > kernel thing, so I upgraded to a custom 2.4.18. Is agpgart support for your chipset compiled in or as a module? Also, is the r128 drm support is

Re: fstab mounted windows shares

2002-03-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian List" Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:33 AM Subject: fstab mounted windows shares > Question: > > In order to mount at boot windows shares I have the following fstab entry: > > //Server/sharename/home/Servershares

RE: WindowMaker Keybindings

2002-03-22 Thread Wayne Brown
> -Original Message- > From: Rohan Deshpande [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 March 2002 12:40 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: WindowMaker Keybindings > > > Hey all, > > I would like to use WindowMaker, but would also like to configure > keybindings. As you know, with

Linux & DSL

2002-03-22 Thread Bodnyk, Bruce W
I finally got my DSL line at home and want to configure potato as a router for my home network. Reading the "DSL Howto for Linux" document it appears that I need to a PPPoE client as my DSL provider "Verizon" uses pppoe. I have a couple of questions though that hopefully someone can answer. 1. Whi

newbie iso question

2002-03-22 Thread DrWebPat
Hello. I am brand new to this list and also Debian (woo!). I have a question. I have downloaded all the .raw files from ftp and I'm wondering how I go about getting those to make a cd image. I can do it in linux (mdk 8.0) or windows (xp). Thanks, Pat

Re: checkpoint fw1 on debian

2002-03-22 Thread Robert Waldner
(first of all: please learn how to quote properly, http://got.to/quote and/or http://learn.to/quote are reasonable starting points) On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:07:07 CST, "Ronneil Camara" writes: >Ok. I've finally setup my debian. > >I got one question though. I have with me a SP5 and the command on

Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome

2002-03-22 Thread stan
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:28:25PM -, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian User List" > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:51 AM > Subject: Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome > > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 07:22:16PM +0800, Crisp

Tripwire won't install

2002-03-22 Thread Juhan Kundla
Heips! I had the following error while installing tripwire on my debian woody box. I have never had any problems with apt-get or debian packages, so i am kind of lost now. Is it a bug? What should i do to debug this error? Setting up tripwire (2.3.1.2-3) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/tripwire.postinst:

Re: looking for "dialog" examples

2002-03-22 Thread Marcelo Leal
hello, do you found the examples??? i saw some ones in /usr/share/doc/dialog/examples... but i don't know how i put them in my scripts... the gauge by example, how i execute my script and call it for provide feedback to user thanks!!! On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 10:35, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > He

Re: configuring ext3

2002-03-22 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:33:43AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 03:32:45PM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Should I have done symlink??? Any comment? I thought I made > > > /sbin/fsck.ext3,ext2 as the same size as /sbin/f

oafd? Should it stay runing after you logout?

2002-03-22 Thread stan
In poking around in the provess table of one of my woody machines this morning, I found a copy of oafd runing for all users that have loged inot a Gnome session since boot. Is this normal? None of these users was loged into a Gnome session at the time. -- "They that would give up essential liber

Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, Over the comming months I am starting a "teach-your-self" program. I am learning more of linux than just a desktop. I have a small lan at home for my wife, daughters and myself. The three of them use WinXP, and I have a desktop of myown running stable and a file server for all of us, also runn

What is the difference between Gnome and Ximian?

2002-03-22 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
If I install Woody, it appears that I get an installation of Gnome. I am also not able to get Ximian Gnome to install on Woody. (Using either of the two methods -- script and *.deb packages). What is the difference between the Woody supplied Gnome and Ximian Gnome? Randy

Re: How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-ROM drive?

2002-03-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "Mr. Jan Hearthstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 6:32 AM Subject: How to install Debian on NEC Versa 6030X with NO floppy, nor a CD-ROM drive? > Sorry about the previous incomplete message! > I understand that there is a way of ins

Re: GMT-Bug solved ... BUT

2002-03-22 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:42:23AM +0100, Malte Thoma wrote: > It's not a GMT bug but a Bug in 'gv' > > gv -v > gv 3.5.8 (debian) > > ghostview shows the correct output. > > The same gv version (without the 'debian') on a SuSE Linux works correct > , any Ideas? No idea what's going on. But th

apt-get and debian 2.2

2002-03-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Now that 2.2 is out, should we be changing our apt-get lines if we have been running the testing version? I don't quite yet want to run sid.

Unable to use kpilot

2002-03-22 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I tried this morning to sync my Palm Pilot (which I hard reset and plan to use with Linux) using kpilot on my KDE desktop. However, whenever I run hot sync, the palm waits and waits and then says it lost the connection with the desktop. But, when I do the same using gnome-pilot, the sync works wit

dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem

2002-03-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I got an email from dosemu's maintainer, Herbert Xu, telling me to check the permissions of /var/lock. when I do "ls -l" it says: "total 0" and still says that when ai do "chmod 1777 /var/lock". However, if I do "ls -l /var" for "lock" it says 'drwxr-xr-x". i have /var on a separate partition. Shou

Re: DRI not enabled - Why?

2002-03-22 Thread jeff
2 things i just found out... 1) make sure (obviously) that DRI is compiled in your kernel... 2) and this was a REAL silly one on my part...DUH it was so easy...make sure that you're X server is using the newer version (XF86Config-4) config file! or else it will continue to use the old one (withou

Re: boot problem

2002-03-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:22, Michal Novotny wrote: > I have a real problem booting my Debian. > I just upgraded all packages (running dselect). > Now what I get after reboot is (last lines): > > request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 > Please

Re: Kerberos

2002-03-22 Thread dinni bartholomew
I am trying to install MIT kerberos5 on potato... The reason that i am trying to build it from source is because when i try to use apt-get to install it, it cries about a glibc dependancy... Big Picture... This machine needs to be a client to a Kerberos server that i already have. This kerberos se

RE: Desperately trying to understand dselect (seeming inconsistency)

2002-03-22 Thread Michael Marziani
Many thanks for clearing that up. -Mike _ Michael D. Marziani Systems Administrator -Original Message- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:31 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Desperately trying to und

Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome

2002-03-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:31 PM Subject: Re: Sound works, but not for Gnome > On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:28:25PM -, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Yes, if I run esd as root before loging in as a normal user

Re: Compacting evolution mail folders

2002-03-22 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Mike, I have this problem also. I found that Evolution does not compact the files it uses for storage. I resorted to deleting some of the files and allowing Evolution to re-create them. I have attached a script that does this... Randy On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 23:33, Michael D. Crawford wrote:

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread stan
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:39:21PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > Over the comming months I am starting a "teach-your-self" program. I > am learning more of linux than just a desktop. I have a small lan at home > for my wife, daughters and myself. The three of them use WinXP, and I > have

Re: xpm4g

2002-03-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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) $ apt-get install lyx That will download lyx, libforms0.89, etc...

permit_naked_ip_address dangerous! (was: spammers are killing me)

2002-03-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.21.0743 +0100]: > postfix/smtpd[6023]: connect from host074125.arnet.net.ar [200.45.74.125] > postfix/smtpd[6023]: 6937F1673D: client host074125.arnet.net.ar[200.45.74.125] > postfix/cleanup[6024]: 6937F1673D: message-id=3D<[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| 1: I have a 133MHz pentium, 1Gb disk and 32Mb ram. I want to use this |as a firewall. | | 2: Also an 400MHz AMD K6-2, 6Gb disk and 80Mb ram. This is to be a |name server and an email server | | Neither of them will have X on them, so what I need to know is; | a: they are not up to

3D Modeller -- No Blender...

2002-03-22 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hi again, I was just wondering if anyone had any recommendations for 3D modellers in linux, since Blender is dead (hopefully GPL'd!). But, for the time being, if anyone could suggest replacement programs in apt for Blender, that would be nice for the time being :). Sincerely, Rohan

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:39:21PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Neither of them will have X on them, so what I need to know is; > a: they are not up to the tasks > b: they are just up to the tasks > c: they are easily up to the tasks The lesser of the two machines is ea

Re: dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem

2002-03-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:13 PM Subject: dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem > I got an email from dosemu's maintainer, Herbert Xu, telling me to check the > permissions of /var/lock. when I do "ls -l" it says: "tot

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On 22 Mar 2002, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > Over the comming months I am starting a "teach-your-self" program. I > am learning more of linux than just a desktop. I have a small lan at home > for my wife, daughters and myself. The three of them use WinXP, and I > have a desktop of myown

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
- Original Message - From: "Keith O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:39 PM Subject: Are these machines up to it? > Hi, > > Over the comming months I am starting a "teach-your-self" program. I > am learning more of linux than just a desktop. I have a small l

dosemu: com ports; /var/lock

2002-03-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Ok, I finally got the permissions for /var/lock to change; I did it by changing the permissions for the partition then rebooting then changing them for /var/lock. My other pardirectories in /var have stayed with the same partitions as they haed before. However, the number after the permission lette

Re: Kerberos

2002-03-22 Thread David Z Maze
dinni bartholomew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to install MIT kerberos5 on potato... *prods around* Oh, that doesn't actually seem to be in non-US for stable; we just have a local build in these parts. Heimdal *does* appear to be in there, though, and should probably work for you fo

Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter Card

2002-03-22 Thread Leonard Monk
Userhelpers, I am about to assemble a new PC with an ASUS P4T-E motherboard and a Maxtor 7200RPM 80GB ATA hard drive that came with a "free" Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter Card (in addition to other, irrelevant goodies that I won't mention, as I don't want anyone to salivate), and I would like

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread David Z Maze
Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I now have come by two old machines that I want to employ, but > before I throw mt self at it, I want to know if they are up to the > task, and also if they are, will they likley remain suitable for the > tasks as new versions of software are released >

Re: apt-get and debian 2.2

2002-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:04:17AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Now that 2.2 is out, should we be changing our apt-get lines if we have been > running the testing version? I don't quite yet want to run sid. 2.2 has been out for over a year and a half. I doubt you need to change anything if it's b

Re: cdda2wav or cdparanoia ?

2002-03-22 Thread csj
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:47:20 + Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > cdda2wav and cdparanoia both run fine to extract the tracks of a CD-audio > what is the advantage to use one rather than another ? > TIA for an advice. cdparanoia has more error-checking options

Re: Window Manager Probs *sigh*

2002-03-22 Thread csj
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 06:46:58 -0800 (PST) SJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm really not sure what I did wrong, but... > > After doing an apparently clean install of debian linux on a > new system, Gnome does not come up Window Maker does. I > know we installed Gnome but it's not even in the

Bastille, ssh bug?

2002-03-22 Thread Richard Weil
I ran Bastille and selected the option to disable rsh. I then tried ssh shortly afterward and had a problem; I got a "no permissions error". I looked at ssh and saw that no user or group had any permissions for ssh. Thinking it might have been related to the Bastille set-up, I looked and saw that r

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:39:21PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: > 1: I have a 133MHz pentium, 1Gb disk and 32Mb ram. I want to use this >as a firewall. We have a similar box as a firewall (doing NAT), and there are 10 others behind it. No problem with it. It can easily do the task (really!)

dosemu: com ports: /var/lock

2002-03-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Ok, I restored everything as before as far as the partition permission and /etc/fstab and rebooted to be sure, then used "chmod a+rw /var/lock". That worked. The output of "ls -dl lock" is now drwxrw-rw- 2 root root" etc. I relogged in. Ran dosemu as me wit the debugging option. Still no com ports

Re: dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem

2002-03-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Cheryl Homiak([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I got an email from dosemu's maintainer, Herbert Xu, telling me to check the > permissions of /var/lock. when I do "ls -l" it says: "total 0" and still says > that when ai do "chmod 1777 /var/lock". However, if I do "ls -l /var" for > "l

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Keith O'Connell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > Over the comming months I am starting a "teach-your-self" program. I > am learning more of linux than just a desktop. I have a small lan at home > for my wife, daughters and myself. The three of them use WinXP, and I > have a d

RE: newbie iso question

2002-03-22 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-unix You can do either on linux or windows. If Windows - rename the file as .iso and select the input from .iso image. The above FAQ should answer all your questions. Cheers, Ramesh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installation notes - Debian 2.2

2002-03-22 Thread Peter Whysall
[Now that I'm subscribed on d-u, I'm reposting this as I'd really like feedback that I can reply to - I might have made some bonehead remarks here :-)] I've installed Debian. Rescue + root, plus the base2_2.tgz on a CD. Not once, but twice. On the laptop, and on the desktop machine - and I'm cons

network configuration??

2002-03-22 Thread Michael Griffis
I am new to linux and rather ambitiously installed Woody on my Fujitsu laptop with good results. However every time I reboot I am asked to choose a network environment and the only option is to set a new environment and enter a new IP. I use DHCP so I don't enter an IP and everything seems to wor

RE: sound question

2002-03-22 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
I documented my sound experiences with alsa here: http://panuganty.tripod.com/debiantips/sound.htm The AC97 Audio controller is pretty standard. It should be fairly easy to setup. -Ramesh -Original Message- From: Malte Thoma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:5

RE: Time Zone

2002-03-22 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
Use tzconfig. If you still have a problem, you may have to run "hwclock --systohc" (use --utc option if required) -Ramesh -Original Message- From: Eduardo Gargiulo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:46 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Time Zone Hi a

promise 66 ide adapter cards

2002-03-22 Thread Noah Sombrero
Potato had a special version for ide adpater cards. It looks like woody does not yet. I get about half way into the boot process and the woody kernel stops just about where it is recognizing the hard drives attached to the card. Looks ominous. Is woody going to support these cards? Gleason

IBCS and Recent Debian Releases

2002-03-22 Thread Mike Barton
Has anyone got IBCS working with a recent Debian release & kernel 2.2.20? I've got 2.2r5 loaded and need this functionality for Informix databases. Seems like the deb is lost in space. I'd appreciate any pointers. Thanks.

RE: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread dave mallery
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > | 1: I have a 133MHz pentium, 1Gb disk and 32Mb ram. I want to use this > |as a firewall. > | > | 2: Also an 400MHz AMD K6-2, 6Gb disk and 80Mb ram. This is to be a > |name server and an email server > | > | Neither of them will have X on th

Installation Notes

2002-03-22 Thread Peter Whysall
[Now that I'm subscribed on d-u, I'm reposting this as I'd really like feedback that I can reply to - I might have made some bonehead remarks here :-)] I've installed Debian. Rescue + root, plus the base2_2.tgz on a CD. Not once, but twice. On the laptop, and on the desktop machine - and I'm cons

Re: moving from ext2 to reiserfs

2002-03-22 Thread Phillip Deackes
On 22 Mar 2002 15:38:16 +0800 Crispin Wellington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The easiest way would be to convert it to ext3 instead. > > Use kernel 2.4.17 > use tune2fs -j /deb/hdX to convert to ext3 > Much easier and IMHO (Ive used both reiserfs and ext3 extensively) > better. If anything goes

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 08:39, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > Over the comming months I am starting a "teach-your-self" program. I > am learning more of linux than just a desktop. I have a small lan at home > for my wife, daughters and myself. The three of them use WinXP, and I > have a desktop of

Re: 3D Modeller -- No Blender...

2002-03-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Mar-2002 Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hi again, > > I was just wondering if anyone had any recommendations for 3D modellers > in linux, since Blender is dead (hopefully GPL'd!). But, for the time > being, if anyone could suggest replacement programs in apt for Blender, that > would be nice for

vim help file "Error detected while processing BufRead Auto Commands for "*.gz""

2002-03-22 Thread John F Davis
Hello Debian Unstable intel I have the latest vim. When I try to issue the :help command I get the following error: Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.gz": E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off E434: Can't find tag pattern Hit ENTER or type command to continue

Re: boot problem

2002-03-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:16, Michal Novotny wrote: > Something else, there is in /boot/config-2.4.17-386 line: > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513=y > that is my IDE controller > > but there is too: > CONFIG_IDE=m > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=m > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=m > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y You have two options.

su won't work at the far end of the tunnel?

2002-03-22 Thread will trillich
some ssh settings must be off, here. i can't "su" to root when logged in via ssh on our private tunnel...? i've got two debian/potato firewalls running remote intranets -- one at home, say 1.2.3.4, and one at the office, say 2.4.6.8: at home i use 192.168.1.* for my intranet address space. at the

Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-22 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:09:07 +1100, you wrote: >If I was you, I would concentrate on ease of upgrade (as mentioned before by >someone, apt-get), Apt-get is a great tool, however it insists on installing everything in /usr. Which means that it is difficult to make use of extra hard drives. G

mistake: apt-get and debian 2.2

2002-03-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I knew there was something strange about this! I didn't register the 2.2; Herbert xu's email said on the bottom: "debian 2.2 is out". Well it has been for quite some time, but I just registered debian being out with a new version and jumped to the conclusion (quite a jump!) that 3.0 was out! Sorry!

Re: xterm defaults

2002-03-22 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:01:52PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > how can I change the default colors for xterm?. I need that the command > "xterm" open a xterminal with the desired colors, instead using "xterm -bg > color", for example. I didn't find this information in the man

Re: acentuacao..

2002-03-22 Thread francisco m neto
Olás, > acentuar no console > acentuar no X > > how-to?? > > > ja sei, que preciso carregar uma fonte q suporte acentos, configurar > meu mapa de teclado.. > > Mas, onde eu configuro essa fonte, e qual fonte eu uso?? > o mapa de teclado onde eu configuro.. e qual o similar ao us+ > no

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