Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-05-08T01:56:57Z, Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > More RAM perhaps to bring down the swapping load? > I would if I could afford it, I can't even afford to buy lunch, much less > a pair of 16M DIMMs (and that would max out this laptop's memory). The > only memory laying around is p

Urgent Assistance.

2002-05-08 Thread Daniel Kopella
CONFIDENTIAL ATTN: Managing Director Sir, My name is Daniel Kopella. I am a solicitor/notary public, and very active in the legal practice in democratic republic of Congo (Zaire). I am also the in-law to the late president Mobutu Sese-Seko. Because of his involvement in the governance in

iproute usage ???

2002-05-08 Thread Michael D. Schleif
I have some older debian boxen: # ip -V ip utility, iproute2-ss001007 on which simple commands return expected results: ip addr ip route However, I have another box with this: # ip -V ip utility, iproute2-ss010824 No matter what combinations th

Re: Wonky displays with galeon and other apps.

2002-05-08 Thread Steve Juranich
> Since the four apps you mention all use different toolkits, I'd almost > guarantee the problem is video-related. I don't think getting DRI > working would help though. I'd try the vesa driver first (change the > driver entry in XF86Config-4 to "vesa") and see if that works better. Yeah, I was

Re: x-terminal-emulator & xterm

2002-05-08 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:40:26AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Andy Saxena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020505 23:16]: > > Hi, > > > > For some reason, when I invoke x-terminal-emulator, which points to > > xterm, results in different background, foreground, etc. settings than > > if I were to invoke x

Re: Apache?? problem

2002-05-08 Thread David Smead
Larry, Yes, the script works from the command line. As mentioned, it also works as a CGI, but after executing the print command it comes back with an Internal Server Error, code 500. I've since discovered that any or the os. functions also bomb, after they are executed. Even the simple os.syste

porting innd data from SuSE 7.2 to Debian woody

2002-05-08 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I jsut copy the innd data from SuSE 7.2 to Debian Woody. When I restart innd, an error occurred: mis:/home/pahud# tail -f /var/log/news/news.notice May 8 12:47:27 mis innd: SERVER descriptors 1024 May 8 12:47:27 mis innd: SERVER outgoing 1011 May 8 12:47:27 mis innd: /var/lib/news/

Re: arc archiver - where can I find it?

2002-05-08 Thread Ben Harvey
Hello Sorry to dig this up, but I cant find the package that owns arc either. searching for the package that owns that file obviously returns a million results. I know the answer is obvious, I just cant think what it is. Anyone else have experience with Amavis+Exim? did you have to compile every

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 21:32, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2002-05-08T01:56:57Z, Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > More RAM perhaps to bring down the swapping load? > > > I would if I could afford it, I can't even afford to buy lunch, much less > > a pair of 16M DIMMs (and that would max

Re: Urgent Assistance.

2002-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
Oh, no! Will the family of every deposed African despot spam the 'net? On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 20:45, Daniel Kopella wrote: > CONFIDENTIAL > > > ATTN: Managing Director > > Sir, > > My name is Daniel Kopella. I am a solicitor/notary public, and very active > in the legal practice in democr

Re: Woody: apt mysteriously wants to pull in 100 MB from sid. Why?

2002-05-08 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 21:54, Vineet Kumar wrote: > my guess would be that the > package metadata includes a line that says something to the effect of > "Release: testing" instead of "Release: woody", so apt only works with > "testing" because that's what matches. > > I don't think this has changed

Re: Woody: apt mysteriously wants to pull in 100 MB from sid. Why?

2002-05-08 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 02:05, James D Strandboge wrote: > If you put in /etc/apt/preferences just: > Package: * > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 50 > > and have both testing and unstable lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, it > will work as you want. It has worked for more than 1 year with m

Re: Fetchmail + SSH tunnel

2002-05-08 Thread Fredrik Steen
On Wed, 08 May 2002 04:23:34 +0200, Carlos A P Gomes wrote: > Does anybody use fetchmail to get mail through a ssh tunnel? I'm trying > that with no success. [...] Have a look at: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Secure-POP+SSH.html ./fs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: x-terminal-emulator & xterm

2002-05-08 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:41:28AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:40:26AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: [snip] > > It is on some levels; the symlink is dereferenced to get to the actual > > code of the executable. A program can tell how it was called by looking > > at argv[0],

GD.pm and libgd-perl problem

2002-05-08 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi i an upgraded woody installation. i have installed libgd-perl and is trying to run the example from man GD. however, i get this error: Can't locate GD/Image.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1

Re: Debian Driver disk problem

2002-05-08 Thread Theo
Hi, I wasn't on this list before, but I got this e-amil forwarded. That's why the strange quoting ;-). > From: Phydeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Debian Driver disk problem > Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 07:21:37 -0400 > > Recently I have been trying to get Debi

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Re: Mutliple IP addresses on single interface

2002-05-08 Thread Simon Young
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:38:22PM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.0.4 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 192.168.0.0 > broadcast 192.168.0.255 > gateway 192.168.0.2 > > iface eth0:0 inet static >

secure-mcserv & pam_listfile.so

2002-05-08 Thread Stefano Lodi
I am trying to deny access to the secure-mcserv daemon on a per user basis through pam_listfile in Debian 3.0 (Woody). There is a secure-mcservuser file under /etc/ssocket/ which apparently has been put there to the purpose. But it does not seem to be working, e.g., if I list user john in /etc/s

UDMA66 install and network

2002-05-08 Thread Alex Hunsley
Two questions: 1) Yesterday I tried to install Debian 2.2r6 on a box with a UDMA66 drive as the only hard drive. I used the UDMA66 flavour of boot and root floppy disks. The install got past the initial setup, but after reboot (before setting up packages), Linux starting booting (got past Lilo) b

Re: UDMA66 install and network

2002-05-08 Thread Alex Hunsley
Alex Hunsley wrote: > > 2) Can anyone remind me in which file I put "ifup eth0" to ensure my network > card interface comes up automatically at boot? I've already got the right > driver mentioned in /etc/modules I forgot to say - I've also got the requisite line in the interfaces file. All

Re: UDMA66 install and network

2002-05-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:08:04AM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > 2) Can anyone remind me in which file I put "ifup eth0" to ensure my network > card interface comes up automatically at boot? I've already got the right > driver mentioned in /etc/modules /etc/network/interfaces -- Karl E. Jørge

Re: UDMA66 install and network

2002-05-08 Thread Colin Watson
Can't help with the UDMA66 thing, but ... On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:08:04AM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > 2) Can anyone remind me in which file I put "ifup eth0" to ensure my network > card interface comes up automatically at boot? I've already got the right > driver mentioned in /etc/modules

Debian Planet

2002-05-08 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I haven't be able to get a squeak from Debian Planet for about 4 days now. Is anyone else getting it? If not do we know when it is likely to be back? Keith -- Keith O'Connell. Maidstone, Kent. (UK) [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: UDMA66 install and network

2002-05-08 Thread Alex Hunsley
Colin Watson wrote: > > Can't help with the UDMA66 thing, but ... > > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:08:04AM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > > 2) Can anyone remind me in which file I put "ifup eth0" to ensure my network > > card interface comes up automatically at boot? I've already got the right > >

Re: Debian Planet

2002-05-08 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:22:23AM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: | Hi, | | I haven't be able to get a squeak from Debian Planet for about 4 days now. | | Is anyone else getting it? If not do we know when it is likely to be back? | | Keith | | -- | __

Re: Debian Planet

2002-05-08 Thread Mateusz Mazur
Hello. To days ago I have type debian planet url in my browser and I saw some crackers info. Now there is nothing. > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:22:23AM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > | Hi, > | > | I haven't be able to get a squeak from Debian Planet for about 4 days > now. | > | Is anyone else

Re: Installing Debian on notebook failled.

2002-05-08 Thread Tomasz Buchwald
Dnia Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:30:36PM +0200, Mike Hommey napisal(a): :I had the same problem when I installed woody recently. : :Try to get an old (more than a month old) unofficial cdrom of woody and :install the base system with it ; the base system you get via net :install or by getting a fr

Re: Installing Debian on notebook failled.

2002-05-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, 8 May 2002 13:11:34 +0200 "Tomasz Buchwald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dnia Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:30:36PM +0200, Mike Hommey napisal(a): > :I had the same problem when I installed woody recently. > : > :Try to get an old (more than a month old) unofficial cdrom of woody and > :inst

kernel source

2002-05-08 Thread Quenten Griffith
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Qpopper, Exim and MySQL problems

2002-05-08 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I got qpopper and exim MySQL patches to work in Debian GNU/Linux Potato 2.2 (kernel 2.2.19) on a PIII 800 Mhz and 320 Mb RAM. Exim version is 3.12 and qpopper version is 3.1.2-mysql-0.11.2. Yesterday, my machine (with many smtp and pop connectios) but memor

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Tue, 7 May 2002 21:56:57 -0400 "Seneca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would if I could afford it, I can't even afford to buy lunch, much > less a pair of 16M DIMMs (and that would max out this laptop's memory). > The only memory laying around is physically incompatible with my laptop. Where a

Re: apt database problems?

2002-05-08 Thread Simon Young
Hi, It seems I must have posted this to the wrong list. Don't suppose anyone could point me in the right direction? Many thanks, Simon. On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:48:50PM +0100, Simon Young wrote: > > Hi there, > > I have recently installed woody, and everything is going fine except > for o

Re: Kernel compile with additional comments

2002-05-08 Thread Robert
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 06:58 pm, curtis wrote: > So, I'm still at a loss. > > I built the kernel for FreeS/WAN using make-kpkg. Everything in that regard > seem to go fine, as well as the dpkg -install. Now, I didn't add anything > to my kernel. I left it just the way it was, so maybe there was som

Re: kernel source

2002-05-08 Thread shaulka
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:52:31AM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote: > Where does one find the source for the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel? > I believe that it is built from kernel-source-2.4.18-5 $ grep-available -P kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 |head Package: kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 Priority: optional Sectio

Problem with Cups (admin.cgi and cupsd hang)

2002-05-08 Thread Michael Schwind
Hello, i have Problems when i want to add a Printer, the command line tool and then web interface will not work. After pressing the button where you can choose the printer, the admin.cgi hangs with about 30% CPU-Time and cups needs about 60% CPU-Time. While booth are hanging, cups fills then fil

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2002-05-08 Thread Andrew Ritter
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Debian Verification?

2002-05-08 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
One of the coolest things on RPM is the --verify switch. For example, I can check to see if a package's contents have changed. For example, if I run: rpm --verify setup I get the following output: S.5T c /etc/hosts.allow S.5T c /etc/hosts.deny S.5T c /etc/printcap S.5T c /etc/

Re: Debian Verification?

2002-05-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:58:41AM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > Is this possible in dpkg? Can I "verify" debs? I looked through the man > pages and havent seen anything interesting. debsums, although not all packages provide MD5sums files so you'll have to use 'debsums -g' to generate th

cron.hourly message

2002-05-08 Thread Cleber Miranda Barboza
Hello, In the last couple of days the cron daemon has been sendding the follow message: /bin/sh: error in loading shared libraries: /lib/libncurses.so.5: unsupported +version 0 of Verneed record Someone know what can I do for resolve that problem ? -- Cleber Miranda Barboza <[EMAIL PROTEC

Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-08 Thread Kapil Khosla
Hi, I am trying to disable X to start up at boot time and want to type "startx" to enter into KDE which is my default enviornment. I use gdm and want to know 1) Which file actually is responsible for starting up gdm 2) How can I disable gdm to startup 3) I am not able to login as root from gdm.

Asus T9400

2002-05-08 Thread don . nico
I would like to receive news about compatibility of debian Linux with asus laptop and in particular with the T9400 model. If the compatibility has been tried, if possbile, i would also like to receive, or know where to get, infos about installation procedures. Thanks in advance for your help

Re: Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-08 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 08 May 2002 11:13:32 -0400 "Kapil Khosla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Which file actually is responsible for starting up gdm If it's starting on boot, normally a symlink in the appropriate "/etc/rcX.d" directory (where X is the run level in question). > 2) How can I disable gdm t

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-05-08 Thread aek
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Re: Debian Verification?

2002-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > Of course, this doesn't help you if a cracker alters > /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums - but it sounds like 'rpm --verify' has the > same proviso. The debsums(1) man page talks about this under CAVEATS. Another neat trick you can pull if you have the CD you installed from or a l

Re: debian2.2r4 and MatroxMillenniumG450

2002-05-08 Thread Adam Di Carlo
FYI, debian-release is not a list for helping users. Try debian-user or debian-devel. Also, since almost all your problems relate to X11, there's a Debian X11 mail list too, see http://lists.debian.org/>. I'll answer anyhow. "Lars-Eric Gustavsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After these real

Re: Debian Verification?

2002-05-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:10:45PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Of course, this doesn't help you if a cracker alters > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums - but it sounds like 'rpm --verify' has the > > same proviso. The debsums(1) man page talks about this under CAVEATS. > > Anoth

sending mail when connected via different ISPs

2002-05-08 Thread Dougie Nisbet
Setup: Home LAN connected via ISDN router kmail exim When I send e-mail, I can tell kmail to send the mail locally to sendmail, which will queue it up and send it to my ISP. Or I can tell kmail to send it directly to my ISP. The problem is I often want to connect via a d

Need help with install

2002-05-08 Thread ChrisHoover
Hello everyone, I'm needing some help getting debian installed on my computer. I have a 700 MHz celeron system that is on an Intel i810 board. I have tried to install debian on it before and keep running into problems (it does not detect the motherboard correctly so it has problem with the car

Re: Apache?? problem

2002-05-08 Thread Larry Holish
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:40:57PM -0700, David Smead wrote: > Larry, > > Yes, the script works from the command line. As mentioned, it also works > as a CGI, but after executing the print command it comes back with an > Internal Server Error, code 500. > > I've since discovered that any or the

Re: Need help with install

2002-05-08 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 8 May 2002 12:43:49 -0400 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get debian installed? I > know that linux will run because I can install RedHat w/o a problem > (of course, it runs a 2.4.x kernel). I really want to run Debian >

Re: dist-upgrade fails w/ parse error in /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm

2002-05-08 Thread Sebastian Haase
Thanks Joey fro the quick response. [[ I first thought debian-testing would be the better place to post this - but there was no response oh, well ]] *** I'm always very _happy_ when I can help ! ** (By the way: I like 'tgif' ;-) even though it's long ago that I really used it ...) So h

Re: Need help with install

2002-05-08 Thread Ted
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I'm needing some help getting debian installed on my computer. I have a 700 MHz celeron system that is on an Intel i810 board. I have tried to install debian on it before and keep running into problems (it does not detect the motherboard correctly so

Re: Debian Verification?

2002-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:10:45PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > Of course, this doesn't help you if a cracker alters > > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums - but it sounds like 'rpm --verify' has the > > > same proviso. The debsums(1) man page talks about

Re: Fwd: Is it possible to unsubscribe from the debian-users list?

2002-05-08 Thread Rick Younie
Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 08:18:25PM +, Siward de Groot wrote: >> Hi, i saw this on debian-user; forwarding to people that can do >> something about it. >> >> > The listmaster >> > -- >> > To reach a human being answering your mail you may contact the address >>

Re: dist-upgrade fails w/ parse error in /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm

2002-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Package: tgif Version: 4.1.42-1 Sebastian Haase wrote: > 94% [Scanning packages]DEBUG: /var/cache/apt/archives/telnetd_0.17-18_i386.deb > 94% [Scanning packages]DEBUG: > /var/cache/apt/archives/tgif_1%3a4.1.42-1_i386.deb > 94% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/perl5/D

Re: Re: Drop-In Security Queries

2002-05-08 Thread Soul Computer
Uh ... I'm kind of new to Linux. I kind of get the idea, now it would be nice to learn just how to set this up on a linux machine. ->Scwacaac<- Ouch! - My primary computer operating experience\ was on a Honeywell DPS 6 running GCOS Mod 6. == On T

Re: Asus T9400

2002-05-08 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 07:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to receive news about compatibility of debian Linux with asus > laptop and in particular with the T9400 model. If the compatibility has > been tried, if possbile, i would also like to receive, or know where to > get, infos about i

Re: x-terminal-emulator & xterm

2002-05-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) [020508 01:28]: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:41:28AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:40:26AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > [snip] > > > It is on some levels; the symlink is dereferenced to get to the actual > > > code of the executable. A prog

Re: Apache?? problem

2002-05-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* David Smead ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020507 15:22]: > In /var/log/messages I get the following when the error occurs. > > May 7 10:34:10 knuth -- MARK -- > > Any one with clues? The --MARK-- is nothing. Syslog just prints this to your syslog every 20 minutes, by default. The interval can be chang

Re: sending mail when connected via different ISPs

2002-05-08 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:40:01PM +0100, Dougie Nisbet wrote: | My ISP (uklinux) allows me to send mail via their servers when | logged connected from a different ISP, as long as I provide | authorisation. Great. This will be simple. | I can't figure out how to set things up to do this. I

Re: courier-imap and windows mail client

2002-05-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Sorry for not following up faster on this. > Ok, so what is it configured for? mbox format. INBOX = /var/mail/ mailboxes in $HOME (btw this last one can be a cause of slowdowns too. If you have a lot of files in your home directory, it will try and open each one to see if it is a mailbox. Ther

RE: Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-08 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Hi Last time I did the same, I just dpkg -P gdm. Worked for me. /ernst -Original Message- From: Kapil Khosla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 8. mai 2002 17:14 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Disabling startx in gdm Hi, I am trying to disable X to start up at boot time and want

Re: USB & 2. 4 kernels

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:51:57AM -0400, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: > USB modules (for keyboard and mouse (HID devices)) need to be compiled > staticly into the kernel (not loaded as modules) so they are available > at boot time. You can do this with dynamically modules but only if you > run a

Re: Colors in term?

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
[wrapped for your viewing pleasure] On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:52:08AM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: > I have been over the archives, but i cant find an answer to this > one. I am running Testing, and when logging on to the system(s) via > SSH (Using Secure CRT 3.4/VT100 or VT200 with ANSI color) as

Re: apt database problems?

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:48:50PM +0100, Simon Young wrote: > > Hi there, > > I have recently installed woody, and everything is going fine except > for one small problem; I'd like to use LVM (in conjunction with > reiserfs), but I'm having trouble installing the required packages. > > Under po

Re: KMail Crash - Please Help

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:22:10AM -0500, Robert wrote: > On Monday 06 May 2002 11:40 pm, Addis Perez wrote: > > I do not know if there is another way of verifying which packages > > have been installed. Keep in mind, I am using kernel 2.4.17. > Then let me enlighten you ;-) > > dpkg --get-select

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:11:30PM -0500, D. Michael McFarland wrote: > craigw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I did a net install of woody a couple days ago, using a CD I burned > > That's what I probably should have done. > > > I have decided that I will never again touch dselect. Not with a

Re: Wonky displays with galeon and other apps.

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 10:04:21AM -0700, Steve Juranich wrote: > I'm trying to figure out if I have a poorly configured video card (highly > probable) or if the problems that I'm having are actually bugs in the apps > (running sid, so also highly probable). > > The two biggest offenders are Gal

Re: Hauppage WinTV Go -- howto?

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 07:03:21PM +0200, Nik Engel wrote: > Hi Rohan! > > On Sun, 05 May 2002, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > > > I was just wondering if anyone knew how to set up a PCI WinTV card in > > Debian Linux Unstable. Any pointers would be appreciated. > Hm, for me the same, easy task expec

Re: documentation of libraries

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > Hello there, > > I have a happily running debian distribution, but am getting very > confused when trying to install certain software as it claims to be > lacking all sorts of libraries. Are these Debian packages or third party sof

RE: Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-08 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Hi again Sorry about this, but this is not disabelig gdm, it's remowing it. /ernst -Original Message- From: Ernst-Magne Vindal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 8. mai 2002 20:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Disabling startx in gdm Hi Last time I did

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Seneca
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:11:50PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:55:17PM -0400, Seneca wrote: > | On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:03:39PM -0500, dman wrote: > | > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 10:15:36PM -0400, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > | > > | > | So, something I was wondering about woul

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:33:47PM -0400, Seneca wrote: | On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:11:50PM -0500, dman wrote: | > What services is that system running? It sounds like you're trying to | > push the machine way too far. How powerful is it (CPU, RAM)? | | This system is my most powerful one. It'

Re: Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-08 Thread Pollywog
On 2002.05.08 19:02 Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: Hi again Sorry about this, but this is not disabelig gdm, it's remowing it. Go to /etc/init.d/gdm and edit the script by putting exit 0 on a line by itself, after the shebang (after the line with #!/bin/sh) That will disable the script. You can

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Ron
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 14:33, Seneca wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:11:50PM -0500, dman wrote: > > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:55:17PM -0400, Seneca wrote: > > | On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:03:39PM -0500, dman wrote: > > | > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 10:15:36PM -0400, Seneca Cunningham wrote: [snip

How to get xfree86 v4 working after dist-upgrade?

2002-05-08 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I upgraded from potato to woody and now I would like to use the new version 4 x windows software. It seems that it all installed everthing but version 3 is still running when I do startx. I didn't see anything in the release-notes. Other than that the upgrade went well. What is the Debia

Re: Woody: apt mysteriously wants to pull in 100 MB from sid. Why?

2002-05-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:21:07PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 19:56, dman wrote: > > > What if you use "testing" and "unstable" instead of "woody" and "sid" > > in your preferences file? There was some discussion on that recently, > > and some people said using names does

apt-get sources

2002-05-08 Thread Rick Weinbender
Hi, I fairly new to Debian Linux and was wondering if any of you have some alternative apt-get sources for running 'apt-get upgrade'. I'm running stable version 2.2 r3. In my /etc/apt/sources.list is the default: deb http://www.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free Thanks in advance fo

Re: apt-get sources

2002-05-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-May-2002 Rick Weinbender wrote: > Hi, > I fairly new to Debian Linux and was wondering if > any of you have some alternative apt-get sources > for running 'apt-get upgrade'. > I'm running stable version 2.2 r3. > In my /etc/apt/sources.list is the default: > deb http://www.us.debian.org/debi

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Seneca
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:14:04PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:33:47PM -0400, Seneca wrote: > | On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:11:50PM -0500, dman wrote: > > | > What services is that system running? It sounds like you're trying to > | > push the machine way too far. How powerful

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-08 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another frontend to try is 'aptitude'. It's quite nice and (to me) a > lot friendlier than dselect. > Of course, you probably just want to get your system working first;) The easy way, it now seems to me, should be to start from scratch with boot floppies f

Resolved: DHCP/ routing / ADSL - UK

2002-05-08 Thread James Ireson
Well I didn't get any responses but I fixed it myself anyway /etc/network/interfaces auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp hostname weeble up /etc/routes /etc/routes #!/bin/sh route add -host `pump -i eth0 -s|grep Gateway|tail -c 13` eth0 route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw `pump

Unstable becoming outdated

2002-05-08 Thread David Wright
Those of us who use unstable to keep up with the latest packages are being impacted by the woody release delay. Because sid filters into woody, packages considered core to woody are not being updated, even in sid, except to fix RC bugs. This will continue until woody is released, which is looking

Re: apt-get sources

2002-05-08 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 17:03, Rick Weinbender wrote: > Hi, > I fairly new to Debian Linux and was wondering if > any of you have some alternative apt-get sources > for running 'apt-get upgrade'. > I'm running stable version 2.2 r3. > In my /etc/apt/sources.list is the default: > deb http://www.us.de

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Seneca
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:25:47PM -0500, Ron wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 14:33, Seneca wrote: > > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:11:50PM -0500, dman wrote: > > > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:55:17PM -0400, Seneca wrote: > > > | On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:03:39PM -0500, dman wrote: > > > | > On Wed, M

Re: Unstable becoming outdated

2002-05-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-May-2002 David Wright wrote: > > Those of us who use unstable to keep up with the latest packages are being > impacted by the woody release delay. Because sid filters into woody, > packages considered core to woody are not being updated, even in sid, > except to fix RC bugs. This will conti

Re: sending mail when connected via different ISPs

2002-05-08 Thread Dougie Nisbet
> > Great. This will be simple. > It's looking good. Thanks for the tips. If this message works, then it's looking very promising. Dougie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get sources

2002-05-08 Thread Rick Weinbender
Thanks, That answers my question. -Rick Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 08-May-2002 Rick Weinbender wrote: > > Hi, > > I fairly new to Debian Linux and was wondering if > > any of you have some alternative apt-get sources > > for running 'apt-get upgrade'. > > I'm running stable version 2.2 r

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:25:11PM -0400, Seneca wrote: | On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:25:47PM -0500, Ron wrote: ... | > P.S. - Confirmation messages are not a "feature"! | | They are when they meet the teacher's specifications: written in java, | use AWT, are a class, and use buttons, frames, and

OT: real-world programming practices

2002-05-08 Thread Ron
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 16:25, Seneca wrote: [snip] > > P.S. - Confirmation messages are not a "feature"! > > They are when they meet the teacher's specifications: written in java, > use AWT, are a class, and use buttons, frames, and the appropriate > listeners. Each time one comes up in my testing

RE: Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-08 Thread Donald R. Spoon
"Kapil Khosla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am trying to disable X to start up at boot time and want to type "startx" to enter into KDE which is my default enviornment. I use gdm and want to know 1) Which file actually is responsible for starting up gdm 2) How can I disable gdm to startu

S3 Savage 4 and XFree 3.3.6

2002-05-08 Thread Rogerio Acquadro
Hi there! I have a Diamond Stealth with a S3 Savage 4 chipset on it. How do I enable support for hardware acceleration on XFree 3.3.6? I'm currently using SVGA X sever. Thanks Rogerio Acquadro -- /\ | Rogerio Ac

Increasing font size in mozilla

2002-05-08 Thread Mike Fontenot
Has anyone succeeded in getting significantly larger font sizes in (potato's) mozilla? I've looked at the "customizing.html" document referred to in the FAQ, and haven't been able to make sense of that advice. For example, they refer to ".css files in Mozilla's chrome directories...", and I have

Re: Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Kapil" == Kapil Khosla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kapil> Hi, I am trying to disable X to start up at boot time and Kapil> want to type "startx" to enter into KDE which is my default Kapil> enviornment. I use gdm and want to know Kapil> 1) Which file actually is responsible

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Seneca
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:21:11PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:25:11PM -0400, Seneca wrote: > | On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:25:47PM -0500, Ron wrote: > ... > | > P.S. - Confirmation messages are not a "feature"! > | > | They are when they meet the teacher's specifications: writ

Re: OT: real-world programming practices

2002-05-08 Thread Seneca
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:26:51PM -0500, Ron wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 16:25, Seneca wrote: > [snip] > > > P.S. - Confirmation messages are not a "feature"! > > > > They are when they meet the teacher's specifications: written in java, > > use AWT, are a class, and use buttons, frames, and t

install of moz plugins

2002-05-08 Thread Richard Weil
What's the proper way to install a mozilla plugin, like Flash, that obviously isn't packaged? I went ahead and installed the Flash plugin per its instructions, i.e. copying a few files into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Is there a different, more technically correct approach, like installing in /usr/lo

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:32:06PM -0400, Seneca wrote: | On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:21:11PM -0500, dman wrote: | > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:25:11PM -0400, Seneca wrote: | > | On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:25:47PM -0500, Ron wrote: | > ... | > | > P.S. - Confirmation messages are not a "feature"! |

Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-08 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Hi, I've been a loyal Red Hat user for the last 4 or 5 years. Their recent distributions will no longer install on all my computers because they now require more than 16 Meg RAM. I have a few questions: The Debian web site says that Debian will install on 12 Meg RAM. Is that information curren

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