Training facility

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Re: I want a linux internet connection going thru a win98 box:how??

2002-03-26 Thread Alan Shrimpton
I have this same setup. I'm using my windows98 second edition machine connect to the Internet and it has ICS installed and set up. The Linux box connected using a cross over cable. Sometimes when I start my Mozilla Netscape it will not load the URL I have asked for. If this happens I go on my w

Re: uw-imap to courier-imap

2002-03-26 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Rikard Florin wrote: > I whish to move from uw-imap to courier-imap, i've read about it's better > performance using maildirs etc and it all sounds good. although, i'm a bit > unsure about the amounts of work involved in converting... [snip] The http://www.qmail.org/ page ha

Re: gphoto2 with USB digital camera problem

2002-03-26 Thread Jeff
Craig Dickson, 2002-Mar-24 07:02 -0800: > From the SanDisk web site: > > "Please Note: SDDR-55 is not mass storage compliant (not supported under > Linux)." > > Craig Ah crap! I missed that. Thanks for pointing that out. jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian

apt-get reports locale problems?

2002-03-26 Thread jennyw
When I use apt-get, I get messages like: perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "", LANG = "english" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (

Re: exim: sending to intranet recipients

2002-03-26 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I have mail delivered via a smarthost (mail.com). I have a couple of > people aliases through this account. There is only one email address: I'm gonna venture a guess that you have your local mail server configured so that it accepts all mail for ma

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-26 Thread CaT
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:16:42AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:55:05PM +1100, CaT wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:56:51AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > don't want to use a switch for just two machines, but I am wondering if > > > a crossover cable has any s

Re: Reading .pdf.gz files

2002-03-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:36:30PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > I just noticed that all pdf documentation for the tex packages in > compressed using gzip. Although I found out how to read these (use gv, > in stead of xpdf), I'm wondering why these files are compressed. They > don't seem to g

Re: X doesn't redisplay on return from console

2002-03-26 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 05:52:23PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > it's screen when I do return to vt7. It's just black. So returning > > there (in whatever fashion) does me know good. > > > > So, it's as if the X-server no longer knows to come up for air. Or > > whatever. > Do yo

Re: agpgart: memory for AGP (i810 chipset).

2002-03-26 Thread Gustavo Sales
Em 25 Mar 2002, Vaclav Hula escreveu: >On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 01:38:49AM -0300, Gustavo Sales wrote: >> 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: L

Re: Where I Can Find OpenSSH+OpenLDAP Documents?

2002-03-26 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Simon Tennant wrote: > I've done a quick guide avaliable at http://www.imaginator.com/~simon/ldap/ > > S. Did you look at http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/LDAP-Implementation-HOWTO/index.html That may save you a lot of work...? Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile

Re: What dumps files like magicCfLHA0 into my $HOME?

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
Are there any patterns in the files appearing. Like an app you use that makes them appear? Or are they appearing all the time? You can use lsof to find what programmes have what files open, and this could be used to find the culprit programme, but only *while the programme has the magic files open

Re: ppp newbie question

2002-03-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, faisal gillani wrote: > Well i am a user of debian potato linux > i just made my first ppp script by pppconfig .. > now can you tell me how can i dail my connction & > hungup my connection ? pon and poff, you should add yourself to group dip in /etc/group > also is there a u

Re: dri causing hard lockups?

2002-03-26 Thread Simon Hepburn
Matt Garman wrote: > After installing those unofficial debs, I downloaded and installed the > Matrox g400 series drivers from matrox's website (the filename is > "mgadrivers-2.0.tar.gz"). This installed the following files: > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o (replacing the default

Re: apt-get reports locale problems?

2002-03-26 Thread Simon Hepburn
jennyw wrote: > When I use apt-get, I get messages like: > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), > LC_ALL = (unset), > LC_CTYPE = "", > LANG = "english" > are supported and installed on your system. > perl: warning: Falling back

Re: Problem in installing xlibs.

2002-03-26 Thread Simon Hepburn
Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:12:18AM +, Simon Hepburn wrote: > > xlibs replaces xlib6g. I suspect you are having problems because you are > > using dselect which handles replaces: badly. > > How so? Its handling has always seemed fine to me. Well, I can't give you any conc

Re: Where I Can Find OpenSSH+OpenLDAP Documents?

2002-03-26 Thread Henrik Hempelmann
Emile van Bergen wrote: Hi, On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Simon Tennant wrote: Did you look at http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/LDAP-Implementation-HOWTO/index.html That may save you a lot of work...? yes, this is the common way to hold login data in LDAP, but is there a way to store ssh authoriza

how to print A1 document ?

2002-03-26 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi im making a poster using xfig. the poster size is A1. how can i print the poster on a A4 printer so that the poster is split onto 4 pages of A4 paper? martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to print A1 document ?

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 18:24, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > hi > > im making a poster using xfig. the poster size is A1. how can i print the > poster on a A4 printer so that the poster is split onto 4 pages of A4 paper? This is probably not the best way, or the nicest, or the easiest, so if someone c

Exim - remove many messages

2002-03-26 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
This is really a two part message. The first part is about removing many messages from Exim. How does one do that easily, if one has to have the precise id for each? Secondly, I'd like to make something like the line below work in bash. Exim complains in this case of not finding a message with id

Re: problems with dpkg/deselct installing woody

2002-03-26 Thread Richard Palfalvi
thx Oliver! your suggestion worked perfectly :-))) yours, Richard On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 13:08, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 11:53, Richard Palfalvi wrote: > > > During the installation-process with dselect it run into the following > > error: > > > > Removing gnome-games /var/

Re: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Mar 25, 2002, Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote: > On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 15:54, Markus Grunwald wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > Some time ago, a friend of mine had a problem copying a copy-protected > > CD-Audio. He asked me to help copy it with my linux skills ;) > > > > Well, I couldn't si

Re: Where I Can Find OpenSSH+OpenLDAP Documents?

2002-03-26 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Henrik Hempelmann wrote: > Emile van Bergen wrote: > > > Did you look at > > http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/LDAP-Implementation-HOWTO/index.html > > That may save you a lot of work...? > > yes, this is the common way to hold login data in LDAP, but is there a way > t

Re: how to print A1 document ?

2002-03-26 Thread Martin A. Hansen
this man page is hard to disect aswell! so i have a a1.ps file and want it split in 9 a4.ps files... however, it looks like pstops is meant for the opposite job ? any idea for a line that can help me? :P martin On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:33:03PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Tue, 2002

Re: Exim - remove many messages

2002-03-26 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:43:43AM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Secondly, I'd like to make something like the line below work in bash. > Exim complains in this case of not finding a message with id "-". > > cat /tmp/e | exim -Mrm - > have a look at the xargs program. You should be able t

Re: how to print A1 document ?

2002-03-26 Thread Martin A. Hansen
i have found this program which looks ok: apt-get install poster :) martin On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 12:03:01PM +0100, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > this man page is hard to disect aswell! > > so i have a a1.ps file and want it split in 9 a4.ps files... > > however, it looks like pstops is meant f

Re: how to print A1 document ?

2002-03-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:24:56AM +0100, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > hi > > im making a poster using xfig. the poster size is A1. how can i print the > poster on a A4 printer so that the poster is split onto 4 pages of A4 paper? > apt-get install poster Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoo

chatscript trick to wait for dial tone after 9 is dialed?

2002-03-26 Thread Martin Edward John Waller
Hello, I need to get my ppp to wait for a dialtone after a 9 is dialled. How do I do this? Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chatscript trick to wait for dial tone after 9 is dialed?

2002-03-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:17:53AM +, Martin Edward John Waller wrote: > Hello, > > I need to get my ppp to wait for a dialtone after > a 9 is dialled. How do I do this? I believe you can place a 'W' after the '9' which instructs the modem to wait for dialtone. Alternately you can use a com

Re: chatscript trick to wait for dial tone after 9 is dialed?

2002-03-26 Thread Pat Colbeck
Quick guess A comma "," usually causes a delay in dialing with most modems. If you need a longer delay you can add more commas so for example 9,,,1234567 Pat On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:17:53AM +, Martin Edward John Waller wrote: > Hello, > > I need to get my ppp to wait for a dialtone aft

Re: simple exim questions

2002-03-26 Thread David Purton
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:40:40AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > I too am interested in this set up. How does one set up exim to deliver > mails between two machines with IP's 192.168.0.1 and > 192.168.0.2/3/4/etc? If I do not want to make any one machine in my > network as a smarthost, can exim

Re: Exim - remove many messages

2002-03-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 26, 2002, Rory Campbell-Lange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is really a two part message. The first part is about removing many > messages from Exim. How does one do that easily, if one has to have > the precise id for each? > > Secondly, I'd like to make something like the line be

NNTPCache: nntpcache.access not working as expected

2002-03-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
I'm having difficulty allowing a small collection of newsgroups to be avaliable to the general public. I want to allow the various furry newsgroups, *fur* and yerf*. However, if I specify anything other than * for the group restriction, it disconnects users saying they don't have access. I'm won

RE: chatscript trick to wait for dial tone after 9 is dialed?

2002-03-26 Thread Jonas Persson
If you are using a hayes compatible modem you can use ATS8=VALUE to set the time the modem will pause for each "," char. Command TimeDescription ATS80-255 sec. Pause time (caused by comma) 2 Good luck /Jonas -Original Message- From: Pat Colbeck [mailt

Re: Exim - remove many messages

2002-03-26 Thread Frank Copeland
On 26 Mar 02 10:43:43 GMT, Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is really a two part message. The first part is about removing many > messages from Exim. How does one do that easily, if one has to have > the precise id for each? grep the output from # mailq which leads to... >

Re: PGP & Mutt?

2002-03-26 Thread Federico Grau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:04:09PM -0500, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hey again, > > Thanks for the tips so far, but now when I try to use PGP and mutt, it > keeps saying (for other peoples messages) that it can't verify PGP > because of missing public k

Thanks again!! Now another prob..

2002-03-26 Thread Ronald Castillo
Thanks again for your assistance!! I partially solved my CDrom problem by chmod-ing the /dev/hdb device (adding the user to the cdrom group didn't work). Now, for my ISA sound card to work correctly, I had to compile a new 2.4.18 kernel. Everything went well (by now) except for that my internet

Re: make-kpkg asks an unexplainable question

2002-03-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.0630 +0100]: > martin> make-kpkg clean > martin> make-kpkg binary > > Umm, this is not quite what you call, is it? You mention > append-to-version below, so I suspect that you have a different > command line. And in this ca

Re: Exim - remove many messages

2002-03-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:43:43AM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > This is really a two part message. The first part is about removing many > messages from Exim. How does one do that easily, if one has to have > the precise id for each? I was just doing that very thing about an hour ago, but I

Unidentified subject!

2002-03-26 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hey Debian'ers! I was wondering if there was a way to 'wake' my fetchmail daemon to fetch from servers. When I type 'fetchmail' while it is in daemon mode, it says 'fetchmail: no servers specified', even though my /etc/fetchmailrc contains servers...any tips on how to get it to check email exactl

OT: Just a plug for Debian

2002-03-26 Thread Kent West
I went to SANS about six months ago, and I just now found some notes I took while there. Found an interesting note, and thought I'd share it with other Debian users. Sunday No breakfast. First half of class was techniques for locking down Linux. The instructor obviously wasn't familiar with

RE: Thanks again!! Now another prob..

2002-03-26 Thread Ronald Castillo
Thanks for your soon reply. I couldn't understand well what you meant.. When I start the system with my old kernel, there is a /var/run/dhclient.pid file, but when I start it there isn´t such file (I manually checked that).. I could try what you told me, but, could you please tell me mor or less

RE: Thanks again!! Now another prob..

2002-03-26 Thread Ronald Castillo
Just to fix a typo.. I wrote on my first email that the error message had been " cat: /var/run/hdclient.pid doesn't exist", but the real message is " cat: /var/run/dhclient.pid doesn't exist". -Original Message- From: Kurc, Marcin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: martes, 26 de marzo de

install cperl-mode for emacs

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Moseley
I see that cperl-mode used to be part of the Perl 5.005 debian package, but for testing it's in emacs20-el. Is that the correct package to install? emacs20-el installs a large collection of files. It's not diskspace I'm worried about, just the clutter. Is there a debian way to just install cper

Re: ppp newbie question

2002-03-26 Thread John Hasler
Faisal writes: > Well i am a user of debian potato linux i just made my first ppp script > by pppconfig .. now can you tell me how can i dail my connction & hungup > my connection ? The command pon will bring up the connection. poff shuts it down. gpppon is a GUI wrapper around pon and poff, if

OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Kent West
I'm trying to educate some users on the dangers of proprietary file formats. But to make sure I've got my facts right, I need to ask: Is the Rich Text Format (.rtf) an open standard? (In other words, can I say something like "Use an open standard format, like .RTF"? Or do I need to say "Use a l

Re: fetchmail

2002-03-26 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 16:10, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hey Debian'ers! > > I was wondering if there was a way to 'wake' my fetchmail daemon to > fetch from servers. When I type 'fetchmail' while it is in daemon mode, > it says 'fetchmail: no servers specified', even though my > /etc/fetchmailrc co

2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
I have an x86 server computer containing two network cards: eth0 --> 192.168.1.130 eth1 --> 192.168.1.131 Both cards work fine alone. As you can see, both cards are on the same network. The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. I can disable either card with ifdown and sucessfully ping the other card

Re: Re[2]: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 07:43:30PM -0500, Sean wrote: | Of course the thing that just baffles my mind during this whole mp3 | nonsense is the fact that an mp3 is _not_ an exact digital copy of the | original. True, but notice too that a CD is not an exact copy of the sound created by the artist.

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:23:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I'm trying to educate some users on the dangers of proprietary file > formats. But to make sure I've got my facts right, I need to ask: Is the > Rich Text Format (.rtf) an open standard? (In other words, can I say > something like "Use

Re: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:00:38PM -0500, John Cichy wrote: | Now for the dark side... how hard can it be to connect a digital out on the | cd player to a digital in on a computer and ... Can't be that hard, if you really do have a digital out and digital in. (I don't have any quality sound eq

make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Moseley
Hello, I've build a very minimal 2.4.17 with not many modules (about 6 total!). I like building in what I need. My old, backup (as far as lilo is concerned) is kernel is 2.2.20 I want to build another 2.4.17 but end up with three kernels. 1) To be able to have more than one 2.4.17 modules tree

Re: misconfigured mailout lists.debian.org

2002-03-26 Thread dman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 04:43:11AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | didn't really know where else to send this, so please excuse... | this: | | postfix/smtpd[1491]: reject_warning: RCPT from unknown[65.125.64.134]: | 554 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [65.125.64.134]; | from=<[EMA

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-26 Thread dave mallery
On 25 Mar 2002, Dale Hair wrote: > happened to me. > > Do you have any packages in /var/cache/apt/archives/partial. I had a > problem with packages that would neither install nor could I purge them, > with apt not able to install anything. I worked on it for the better > part of the day to fix it

Re: Mail server is down? hosed?

2002-03-26 Thread dman
Notice what the error message is -- Too many "Received" headers - suspected mail loop and look at the recived headers, the message was looping back and forth between master-tmp.brainfood.com and klecker.debian.org. It really was a mail loop. The only thing that can cause that is a misconfi

Re: apache and zope

2002-03-26 Thread dman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 09:01:49AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: | I've read all the howto's and I can't get it to work. What silly thing | have I overlooked? | | I'm running debian testing. | | httpd.conf has: | | begin httpd.conf extract [snipped] | end httpd.conf extract I d

rc.local equivalent in Woody?

2002-03-26 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
In my Potato installation, I place a call to hdparm in rc.local. In my new Woody installation, I cannot find rc.local. What is the correct place / file to use for boot-up configuration / control commands? Regards, Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 16:23, Kent West wrote: > I'm trying to educate some users on the dangers of proprietary file > formats. But to make sure I've got my facts right, I need to ask: Is the > Rich Text Format (.rtf) an open standard? (In other words, can I say > something like "Use an open stan

Strange sound behaviour

2002-03-26 Thread Alberto Vecchiato
I've installed potato on my laptop (NEC VersaNote VX), later upgraded to sid. Trying to get the sound working, I've also upgraded the kernel 2.2.19 to the last release 2.4.18 via dselect using the appropriate debianized kernel image. The audio support is installed as a module in the kernel, and l

Re: simple database?

2002-03-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:26:16PM -0800, Petro wrote: | On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:44:25PM -0800, Tom Cook wrote: | > multi-user capabilities, or real scalability. Also PostgreSQL is a | | What is "real" scalability? I've used Mysql on tiny machines | (Tadpole laptop) to dual processor

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread nate
> eth0 --> 192.168.1.130 > eth1 --> 192.168.1.131 > The kernel seems to pick one of the cards (somewhat arbitrarily) and > starts answering pings to BOTH addresses on the ONE card! Could this be > some kind of ARP bug? I can physically pull the plug out of the other > card (the one that the ke

Re: apt-get reports locale problems?

2002-03-26 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 26 Mar 2002, jennyw wrote: > When I use apt-get, I get messages like: > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), > LC_ALL = (unset), > LC_CTYPE = "", > LANG = "english" > are supported and installed on your system. > perl: warn

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > I have an x86 server computer containing two network cards: > > eth0 --> 192.168.1.130 > eth1 --> 192.168.1.131 > > Both cards work fine alone. As you can see, both cards are on the same > network. The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. I can disable eit

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:50:06AM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: | On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:16:01AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | | | | On 25-Mar-2002 Rob VanFleet wrote: | | > Sorry this has nothing to do with Debian, but I'm at a loss as to where | | > else to ask (if it matters, both ma

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On 26 Mar 2002, Ross Burton wrote: > On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 16:23, Kent West wrote: > > > Is there a true open standard format, that is easily > > created/used/editted on any platform, other than text? (Text (ASCII? - > > and what's the difference between DOS ASCII and Windows ASCII, and Text >

Re: rc.local equivalent in Woody?

2002-03-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Mar-2002 Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > In my Potato installation, I place a call to hdparm in rc.local. > > In my new Woody installation, I cannot find rc.local. > > What is the correct place / file to use for boot-up configuration / > control commands? > make a /etc/init.d/local script (ca

Re[2]: SMC 1211TX

2002-03-26 Thread Alan Poulton
Monday, March 25, 2002, 8:19:49 PM, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > With cards with the RealTek chipsets (as this one is looking at the > driver it spits at me when I try downloading the linux driver for that > card...rtl8139), try rtl8139, then 8139too, and if neither of those > work, try tulip. T

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 10:48 Uhr -0600 26.03.2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: OTOH, RTF is substantially better than doc simply be virtue of not being able to host viruses/worms/trojans. Are you sure? I vaguely remember recent 'words' even put active contents into rtf. I've once used a rtf to latex converter (writte

RE: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-26 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
it is not difficult to copy the CD, like you said with digital out and in the whole point is to use such tools like cdparanoia to make it easy. I know you can mount a music cd as a file system under BeOS and copy whatever you need. I don't think linux can do it at the time though. There is no way t

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread John Kuhn
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:31:45AM -0600, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > I have an x86 server computer containing two network cards: > > eth0 --> 192.168.1.130 > eth1 --> 192.168.1.131 > > This is NOT a router-type computer. It's just a server that I really want > to have on the same network, twice.

Re: simple database?

2002-03-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:25:48 -0600, dman wrote: > I couldn't find it recently when I googled, but a while back I read > some articles written by someone at sourceforge. He was describing > the comparision he did of several RDBMSes in the deployment of > sourceforge. http://www.phpbuilder.com/

Problem with wait/waitpid... can't install packages

2002-03-26 Thread Anthony R. J. Ball
I am trying again, since my last post got lost in a mess of header munge... I recently installed debian, and things were going fine for a few weeks, but now I am having an odd issue that seems to be affecting wait/waitpid. When I try to do an apt-get install my install dies with: Can't i

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-26 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:29:10AM -0600, dman wrote: | On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:50:06AM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: | | On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:16:01AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | | | | | | On 25-Mar-2002 Rob VanFleet wrote: | | | > Sorry this has nothing to do with Debian, but I'm

Re: install cperl-mode for emacs

2002-03-26 Thread Henrik Enberg
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see that cperl-mode used to be part of the Perl 5.005 debian package, but > for testing it's in emacs20-el. Is that the correct package to install? > > emacs20-el installs a large collection of files. It's not diskspace I'm > worried about, just the c

Re: install cperl-mode for emacs

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Moseley
At 06:58 PM 03/26/02 +0100, Henrik Enberg wrote: >If you're using GNU Emacs you already have it installed. I belive the >same is true for XEmacs. Put the following in your ~/.emacs.el > >(defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode) I wonder if that changed with testing. I had potato installed, copied my /

FW: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
If you really want the fail-over capability, you should either use a hardware 2-port NIC or have a software program monitor the two cards. In the case of a software program, - assign a different IP to the second NIC card - have a program monitor the M2 registers of the primary

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.1755 +0100]: > Something like: > > --append-to-version modular > > and then would I end up with /lib/modules/2.4.17-modular? 2.4.17modular, but yes, it's correct otherwise. i usually use hostnames appended to the version number... >

Re: misconfigured mailout lists.debian.org

2002-03-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.1805 +0100]: > | postfix/smtpd[1491]: reject_warning: RCPT from unknown[65.125.64.134]: > | 554 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [65.125.64.134]; > | from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 5xx errors are permanent, m

RE: Thanks again!! Now another prob..

2002-03-26 Thread Ronald Castillo
There´s no output.. The error message comes only when I do an "ifdown eth0", "ifdown -a" and when I shutdown or restart my computer. -Original Message- From: Kurc, Marcin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: martes, 26 de marzo de 2002 17:27 To: 'Ronald Castillo' Subject: RE: Thanks again!

OpenGL dev & NVIDIA driver

2002-03-26 Thread Pac
Hi all, I've installed the NVIDIA driver for my GeForce3 graphic card, they work perfectly, I see the Nividia's logo at the startup of my windowmanager. I've also installed this packages : glutg3-dev xlibmesa3 to be able to compile my own OpenGL applications. I can compile but when I try to la

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Alan Shutko
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a true open standard format, that is easily > created/used/editted on any platform, other than text? Well, it's a Microsoft standard with fairly accessible documentation, though at times it's been hard to get a hold of the documentation associated

Re: What dumps files like magicCfLHA0 into my $HOME?

2002-03-26 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 07:32:13PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: > All with filenames like magic and contents like > > push graphic-context > viewbox 0 0 26.661 42.525 > affine 0.975207 0 0 0.987654 0 0 > push graphic-context > fill-rule nonzero > clip-rule nonzero > stroke #00 > stroke-miterlim

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Moseley
At 07:09 PM 03/26/02 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: >> 2) When installing the package, is there a way to say, just add this to the >> current list of kernels, but don't rotate the current kernel to .old? > >man kernel-img.conf Thanks. >but i usually just undo the change manually, it's quite easy.

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Alan Shutko
Christian Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've once used a rtf to latex converter (written on C, running on both > unix and mac, about 4-5 years ago), and it didn't work well at all > especially with german umlauts, some portions of the document were > converted right, others weren't, and the

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.2015 +0100]: > >depmod -a is run at every boot. > > I though depmod just when through my list of modules to find the > dependencies -- so that if I say load module modprobe foo it would know to > load module bar first, if foo depended on bar

Help for: rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(578)

2002-03-26 Thread Thomas K. Burkholder
Hi all- I'm using rsync in a cron job to back up my main debian partition. It looks like this: rsync -avrx // /backroot/ (where / is /dev/hde1 and /backroot is hdg1). When I run the cron job, I get: ... delete_file: rmdir(usr/share/doc/ncurses-base) : Directory not empty rsync: symlink "us

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
> For a machine that is multihomed (has more than one IP network interface > assigned an IP address), any of the IP addresses for the machine are > valid and equally useable. I think your Linux system is responding in a > reasonable way as both network interfaces are receiving ICMP echo > requests,

Re: rc.local equivalent in Woody?

2002-03-26 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:11:20AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > In my Potato installation, I place a call to hdparm in rc.local. > > In my new Woody installation, I cannot find rc.local. > > What is the correct place / file to use for boot-up configuration / > control commands? > I just pu

Re: Waking fetchmail (Was: Unidentified subject!)

2002-03-26 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Sorry about the bad subject...wrote the message at school, so I was kinda rushing :(. -Rohan * Chris Hilts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:10:03AM -0500, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > > I was wondering if there was a way to 'wake' my fetchmail daemon to > > fetch from servers.

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread Gary Hennigan
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.2015 +0100]: [snip] > /etc/modules is simply a file listing one module a line to be loaded > at startup. /etc/init.d/modutils will do the actual work of loading > the modules according to this fil

Re: What dumps files like magicCfLHA0 into my $HOME?

2002-03-26 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 15:15, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > imagemagick perhaps? Do you use that? Only inasmuch as other other progs (gnome?) depend on it. Not knowingly. Anyway, nothing is used on that account that isn't mainstream: Gnome, StarOffice, Gimp, GQview, Galeon, Acroread pretty much s

Unidentified subject!

2002-03-26 Thread neeraja
hi iam not able to install linux through co..iam installing with share to win 98 it is giving problem in mounting GNUlinux partition ie it is not initiolizing.. It is giving error that "unable to handle kernal NULL pointerderefrence at virtual address.." so this is the problem.. neeraja

Re: What dumps files like magicCfLHA0 into my $HOME?

2002-03-26 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 08:55, Crispin Wellington wrote: > lsof -n |grep magic Good idea. Will be rather hard to do, though, since it's not my account, and I doubt the user will notice it or remember to notify me. Still, I'll try -- I did not vote for the Austrian government -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Moseley
At 01:05 PM 03/26/02 -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: >The best way to do this is to use the Debian nvidia-kernel-src and >nvidia-glx-src packages in the contrib/x11 section. At least under >testing and woody that's the best way. Ok, I'll look. Then is there something I need to do when building or ins

Re: Gnome sound not working, how to troubleshoot?

2002-03-26 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 00:07, stan wrote: > > Not certain what special flags ? you want me to give to xmms? If u right click xmms and choose options -> preferences and for the output plugin, select esd. If its not in the list - you will have to isntall one of the xmms plugins HTH, Shri -- --

php and ms access database advice

2002-03-26 Thread justin cunningham
Hello, I've been searching for a solution and this link is the closest I've come (nicely done by the way) though was wondering if someone here had a more efficient execution to recommend. http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/siddarth2228.php3 Currently I have a few perl and php4 scripts writin

Re: simple exim questions

2002-03-26 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:00:59PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > You could run a pop3 server on your main box and then use whatever > mail client to get mail that way > > We run this sort of setup at work - with exim and cucipop. Our various > windoze boxes then just use the linux box as an smtp se

vmware pooched by latest dist upgrade.

2002-03-26 Thread Sheldon Lee-Wen
Hi, I just filed a bug report against this, but the latest upgrade against unstable causes the thread in vmware that is responsible for handling disk io to fail, thus vmware fails. The solution is to downgrade your libc6, libc6-dev and locales version to the previous version -3, IIRC. Cheers,

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread Brian Nelson
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > also sprach Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.2015 +0100]: > [snip] > > /etc/modules is simply a file listing one module a line to be loaded > > at startup. /etc/init.d/modutils will do the act

Re: What dumps files like magicCfLHA0 into my $HOME?

2002-03-26 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 08:55, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > > lsof -n |grep magic > > Good idea. Will be rather hard to do, though, since it's not my account, > and I doubt the user will notice it or remember to notify me. Still, > I'll try lsof s

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