Re: Maybe a corny idea ...

2002-05-18 Thread Elizabeth Barham
--- Soul Computer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe this is a bad idea, but I thought that > since Linux is the original multi-user, > multitasking operating system for the PC, it > could be used to do some really neat stuff. What > I had in mind for those of you who could afford > it was the pur

Spamassassin with cyrus 1.5.x

2002-05-18 Thread Jean-Michel Besnard
Hi, I used spamassassin with postfix/procmail before but since I moved to another delivery system (Cyrus )I cant get it working anymore. I use postfix with cyrus for delivery with ldap : Postfix -> cyrus -> mailbox I have tried this schema Postfix -> procmail -> cyrus -> mailbox so that spamassa

Spamassassin with cyrus 1.5.x

2002-05-18 Thread Jean-Michel Besnard
Hi, I used spamassassin with postfix/procmail before but since I moved to another delivery system (Cyrus )I cant get it working anymore. I use postfix with cyrus for delivery with ldap : Postfix -> cyrus -> mailbox I have tried this schema Postfix -> procmail -> cyrus -> mailbox so that spamassa

[SOLVED] Re: Character Set trouble + KDE setup games

2002-05-18 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 02:13:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:04:17PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I am seeing the ? character instead of actual accented characters in > > mail I get, even if it has > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Yo

plptools & the Revo/(Diamond Mako)

2002-05-18 Thread Brian
Has anyone used plptools, (p3nfsd and/or ncpd) to mount their Psion Revo to their Linux box via the serial cable? Do I need to transfer a file to the Revo first? I tried the nfsc5.opl, but the Psion reads it as a text file. The compiled version is not recognized either. What are the steps t

Re: Problem with iptables and 2.4.17

2002-05-18 Thread T .
Nick, Can you please forward the URL for this tutorial? Or, if its a .tar on your drive, would you mind sending it direct to me? regards, T. On Sat, 18 May 2002 13:02:28 +1000 Nick Croft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Norman, > > I've taken my advice from a tutorial by Daniel Robbins, publ

NIS su - joe su: Autentication service cannot retrieve authntication info. (Ignored)

2002-05-18 Thread Christian Jönsson
I am trying to set up NIS on my Debian Woody SPARC systems. Following nis.debian.howto using shadow passwords I end up with this problem. I cannot login on any virtual console on a NIS client host. If I login as root on the NIS client host, and try su - joe (assuming joe is in the NIS master host

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-18 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi Cam, Ok, set up a POP server on your own box, and create accounts for these people. Get them to log into your POP server with emails that you've sent there from mutt. Hopefully they'll be rejected and then you can see from the logs which you'll now have access to what the error responces are.

[no subject]

2002-05-18 Thread Christian Geier
hi, when I start my potato for intel I gett this message: "Starting NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Function not implemented mountd". rpcinfo does not show any nfs lines, either, and so I cannot access the machine via nfs. What can I do about it? Anyone encoutered this problem before? thanks f

Re: NIS su - joe su: Autentication service cannot retrieve authntication info. (Ignored)

2002-05-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Following nis.debian.howto using shadow passwords I end up >with this problem. I cannot login on any virtual console on >a NIS client host. > >If I login as root on the NIS client host, and try su - joe >(assuming joe is

Adding a second network card

2002-05-18 Thread Vinai Kopp
Hi, I have a stupid problem: the box I am running has a ethernet card with the Via-Rhine chipset. No Problem. Now added a realtek chipset card. Now how do I add the driver module? Do I have to compile a new kernel? Is there a deb package I can simply reconfigure or install? Or do I have to ge

Re: Adding a second network card

2002-05-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vinai Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.18.1213 +0200]: > I have a stupid problem: the box I am running has a ethernet card with the > Via-Rhine chipset. No Problem. > Now added a realtek chipset card. Now how do I add the driver module? run 'modconf' and add it. -- martin;

Re: woody installation problem

2002-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:27:41PM -0700, Andrew Sweger wrote: > Ditto. I have consistently encountered this error with the 20020416 > netinst image for the last week or so. At first, I thought it was a bad > installer. However, I also get the error "Malformed Release" when using > the 20020215 net

Re: NIS su - joe su: Autentication service cannot retrieve authntication info. (Ignored)

2002-05-18 Thread Christian Jönsson
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 10:04:37AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Following nis.debian.howto using shadow passwords I end up > >with this problem. I cannot login on any virtual console on > >a NIS client host

Re: Adding a second network card

2002-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 05:18, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Vinai Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.18.1213 +0200]: > > I have a stupid problem: the box I am running has a ethernet card with the > > Via-Rhine chipset. No Problem. > > Now added a realtek chipset card. Now how do I add the dri

Re: problems with cyrus (sid) on woody

2002-05-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 06:35:26PM +0200, Xingyu Zhu wrote: sorry for reacting so slowly, it's been a busy week. > Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > >I simply installed woody and added sid's cyrus21* packages. Trying to > >run cyradm or `nc localhost imap' gives me `badlogin:...plaintext or > >cram-m

Re: problems with cyrus (sid) on woody

2002-05-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:44:04PM +0200, Kerstin Espey wrote: sorry for reacting so slowly. > ... > > I simply installed woody and added sid's cyrus21* packages. Trying to > > That's what I did. After that, I had to edit /etc/imapd.conf and create a > password with saslpasswd2 for the admin (

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-18 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:32:05AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Many times, people using mutt, for example, do PGP signatures > which will often cause their messages to show up to OE users > as a blank e-mail (1) with two attachments. One attachment is > a text file containing their message. The

apic error on dual Celeron with Abit BP6

2002-05-18 Thread Frank Brodbeck
Hello fellows, I hope, I am right here with my problem. I'm using Debian unstable i386 on my dual Celeron 533 with a Abit BP6 Board and I am quite new to smp. I have here these really annoying APIC error on CPUn: 0n(0n) broadcasting over my consoles. As a matter of fact it's not only annoying me.

Re: Adding a second network card

2002-05-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.18.1300 +0200]: > Doesn't this presume that he is running a pre-built kernel? I > know that Linux would shrug it's shoulders if I tried to install > the 8139 driver, since I haven't compiled it in my custom kernel yes, and i was assuming he is

Re: apic error on dual Celeron with Abit BP6

2002-05-18 Thread Sean
There is no fixing the problem, the BP6 put the missing SMP functionality of the Celeron processor into the motherboard's chipset, which causes some strangeness. (at least, that's as far as I understand) I have an identical board and procs, and when I had Linux on it (it has since become the wifey

Re: Identical installations on several machines

2002-05-18 Thread Alexander Steinert
> A# dpkg --get-selections > selections If you want removed/purged packages on A to be removed/purged on B: A# dpkg --get-selections \* > selections Stony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NIS su - joe su: Autentication service cannot retrieve authntication info. (Ignored)

2002-05-18 Thread Christian Jönsson
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:22:36PM +0200, Christian J?nsson wrote: > On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 10:04:37AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Following nis.debian.howto using shadow passwords I end up > > >wit

Re: X forwarding dead in Sid

2002-05-18 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On 2002-05-16 22:27 +, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using X forwarding between my 2 Sid computers for a while now > with no problem. However, at some point since my last update (about 3 > weeks ago) X forwarding over SSH seems to have died. I run ssh with the > -X opti

Re: apic error on dual Celeron with Abit BP6

2002-05-18 Thread Frank Brodbeck
Sorry I forgot to inform you about my kernel (d'oh!) I'm running a 2.4.18 Kernel, I think should be late enough, the oldest mail I found about this topic has been from 1999... But thanks for you suggestion anyway. Frank. -- Frank Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpcHRxd8ulZx.pgp Description: PGP sig

Aladdin eTrust USB?

2002-05-18 Thread martin f krafft
hi folks, i have a couple of Aladdin eTrust USB keys/dongles and rather than throwing them out, i'd prefer to make use of them for SSH and PGP identities. problem is that i can't seem to get them recognized (bloody proprietary crap!). this is syslog upon USB-connecting them: kernel: hub.c: USB new

Re: NIS su - joe su: Autentication service cannot retrieve authntication info. (Ignored)

2002-05-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:22:36PM +0200, Christian J?nsson wrote: ... > > Check /etc/pam.d/su and /etc/pam.d/login etc > > Will do that then. > > > Perhaps you have only pam_pwdb loaded; I don't think it uses > > getpwnam() but rather reads /etc/passwd directly, which > > isn't going to work. Yo

Re: ps/2 mouse flickering on toshiba - xfree 4.1.0-16

2002-05-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 May 2002, Vasco Figueira wrote: > Hi all, > > When recently upgraded from potato to woody, wich means xfree 3.x to > 4.x, I have occasionaly some problems with my external (ps/2) mouse. > > I have a Toshiba Satellite 4070, and the mouse is a Microsoft > Intellimouse 1.2A, PS/2 compatible. X

Re: Software RAID question

2002-05-18 Thread Robert Webb
Thank ya Alvin for all the help. By what youi wrote the first time I was not clear on wether or not you knew I did not have a hardware controller. But the built in kernel raid is what I was talking about. Thanks for the additional info it will help a lot. Robert Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya robe

Re: Converting incoming image attachments

2002-05-18 Thread Alan Shutko
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At work, I keep receiving bmp attachments from our clients. These are > annoying because they're big and my mailer won't display them inline. > I'd like to convert them automatically to pngs before they hit my > mailer. I ended up writing something mysel

urgent! where to install .h files

2002-05-18 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'm trying to install a perl module called Gnokii, which requires one first to compile the gnokii program. I can compile gnokii ok. However, when I try to make the Gnokii module, I get the following error: GSM.xs:17: gsm-common.h: No such file or directory GSM.xs:18: gsm-api.h: No

Re: urgent! where to install .h files

2002-05-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-May-2002 Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I'm trying to install a perl module called Gnokii, which requires one > first to compile the gnokii program. > > I can compile gnokii ok. However, when I try to make the Gnokii module, > I get the following error: > GSM.xs:17: gsm-common.h: No suc

Directory sizes in mc

2002-05-18 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! In Midnight Commander there is a menu option "Command-Show Directory Sizes" which shows the actual size of the directories in the "Size" column of the panel. I would like to know if there is some way of doing this a permanent behaviour. I tried changing the Listing Mode to User Defined

Alsa 0.9 rc-1-2 with emu10k1 -> noise

2002-05-18 Thread Jord Swart
All, Everything seem to be working perfectly (almost). Somehow as soon as some sound is made, it produces a lot of noise. I have no idea where it comes from or how I can turn it off. I've been playing with the mixer settings but it will not help. Anyone experiences here, or some suggestions? Sec

Re: mixture of regular debian libs and ximian gnome libs

2002-05-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:43:49AM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote: > Well it seems that by installing ximian gnome I installed a mixture of > incompatible libs, ( just found out this evening as I wanted to > install various *-dev libs.) > > Now how can I solve this situation? Uninstall all the Ximia

Re: bug and gnupg

2002-05-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:44:06AM -0300, Marcelo Leal wrote: > Hello, > > Anybody knows about one popper that do authentication in mysql server, > or pam, and works with maildir? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$]apt-cache search maildir pop3 courier-pop - POP3 daemon with PAM and Maildir support If you

nfs daemon

2002-05-18 Thread Christian Geier
hi, when I start my potato for intel I gett this message: "Starting NFS kernel daemon: nfsdnfssvc: Function not implemented mountd". rpcinfo does not show any nfs lines, either, and so I cannot access the machine via nfs. What can I do about it? Anyone encoutered this problem before? thanks f

Re: exim and dialups

2002-05-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:52:15PM +0100, Simon Callan wrote: > Is there anything I can do to stop this, or should I change to > sendmail, which I previously had working perfectly. In case it help, I > enclose a copy of my exim.conf file. Not really a solution, more another way of looking at it...

Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:56:29PM -0400, Mike Frisch wrote: > Can somebody recommend a decent GUI front-end for writing CD audio to > CD-R? Essentially a wrapper for cdrecord and some utility to convert There are lots. Some of the ones I've tried are: xcdroast, gcombust and gtoaster. I keep com

Re: cfingerd always hangs

2002-05-18 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:00:24PM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > [snip] > Also, I wonder whether someone could try to finger > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see whether the problem is specific to > this particular host. I would appreciate it. Works fine for me. I got your name and public key back. --

conserving power with your desktop

2002-05-18 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, The problem is simple. I want to enable my desktop to go into a suspend mode when it is not being used, and then wake up when I press any key on the keyboard. I do have some APM parameters enabled in my customized kernel, and I have often seen the log message "kernel: apm: suspend was vetoed

Re: NIS su - joe su: Autentication service cannot retrieve authntication info. (Ignored)

2002-05-18 Thread Robert Rakowicz
Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > I am trying to set up NIS on my Debian Woody SPARC systems. > > Following nis.debian.howto using shadow passwords I end up > with this problem. I cannot login on any virtual console on > a NIS client host. > > If I login as root on the NIS cli

Locale setting on my console to see Japanese character

2002-05-18 Thread Deepak Kotian
Hi,   I have all the locales on my machine. locale -a shows it. I have set the LANG as japanese, but when I do "ls -l" at command prompt on a directory. I do not proper Japanese character in the time stamp column of the output. It is not English. It seems the terminal is not able to display

Re: Adding a second network card

2002-05-18 Thread Vinai Kopp
Hello and thanks for your replies! Yes, your assumption was right martin, the machine is running a stock kernel and modconf worked fine.Greetings, Vinai --On Samstag, 18. Mai 2002 14:09 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: also sprach Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.

wchar_t , when should one use ?

2002-05-18 Thread Deepak Kotian
Hi,   When should one use wchar and when should one use char. I have heard lot about UNICODE. But what is the real need of wchar_t type ?   Actually, I have many read many files through a C program and it has Japanese text as well. What is advisable to use. Should it be fgetws or fgets, will

Re: wchar_t , when should one use ?

2002-05-18 Thread Craig Dickson
Deepak Kotian wrote: > When should one use wchar and when should one use char. I have heard > lot about UNICODE. But what is the real need of wchar_t type ? The first thing to understand is that Unicode can be encoded in a few different ways (and for the most part, it is easy to transform one enc

Re: wchar_t , when should one use ?

2002-05-18 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:33:50AM +0530, Deepak Kotian wrote: > Hi, > > When should one use wchar and when should one use char. I have heard > lot about UNICODE. But what is the real need of wchar_t type ? > > Actually, I have many read many files through a C program and it has > Japanese text

Re: wchar_t , when should one use ?

2002-05-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:20:31PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > Deepak Kotian wrote: > > > When should one use wchar and when should one use char. I have heard > > lot about UNICODE. But what is the real need of wchar_t type ? ... > Linux itself doesn't have any C functions; it's just the kernel.

Re: Not-So-Ancient History (was Re: Maybe a corny idea ...)

2002-05-18 Thread Soul Computer
On 17 May 2002 21:04:09 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 20:05, Soul Computer wrote: > Maybe this is a bad idea, but I thought that > since Linux is the original multi-user, > multitasking operating system for the PC, it Fat chance. MP/M (the multi-user variant

Re: Maybe a corny idea ...

2002-05-18 Thread Soul Computer
n Fri, 17 May 2002 22:40:39 -0700 (PDT) Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Soul Computer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe this is a bad idea, but I thought that > since Linux is the original multi-user, > multitasking operating system for the PC, it > could be used to do some reall

Re: Line wrapping with mutt/emacs (was Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express))

2002-05-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020516 18:05]: > Lo, on Thursday, May 16, Cam Ellison did write: > > set editor="emacs '+/^$' \"set textwidth=70\"" > I'm not entirely sure what the '+/^$' means---is this perhaps a Mutt > thing? No, it's a vim thing. > The `set textwidth=70' is almost certai

Re: Not-So-Ancient History (was Re: Maybe a corny idea ...)

2002-05-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Soul Computer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020518 13:21]: > On 17 May 2002 21:04:09 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 20:05, Soul Computer wrote: > > Maybe this is a bad idea, but I thought that > > since Linux is the original multi-user, > > multitasking operating s

Re: Maybe a corny idea ...

2002-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 15:27, Soul Computer wrote: > n Fri, 17 May 2002 22:40:39 -0700 (PDT) Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- Soul Computer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe this is a bad idea, but I thought that > > since Linux is the original multi-user, > > multitasking

Re: Print font in mozilla

2002-05-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 17, 2002, Mike Fontenot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I followed some advice I got on this mailing list, to > increase the font size in mozilla (for the headings, etc), > by changing the DPI setting under view->preferences->font. > (I changed DPI from 96 to 192, and I like the results

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

2002-05-18 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 01:04:19AM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > The reason most people > > suggest 72 is that traditionally, terminals are 80 characters wide, and > > 72 leaves enough room to be quoted with "> " four times. > > Alt

loopback absent in routing table

2002-05-18 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
Long story short: a friend began the setup of a debian box for me (i'm a little overbusy with work and a very long commute), wasn't familiar with debian, never seemed to "get it," eventually gave up in frustration. So, i'm now trying to decipher the setup of a box with stable r 6 installed. We h

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Character Set trouble + KDE setup games

2002-05-18 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:16:58PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Then I read the KDE docs, and attempted to reset the default LANG in > the control center. However, C was the only choice it would show me. > Even after all the steps below, and restarting KDE, this is still the > only choice. > > The

Re: Not-So-Ancient History (was Re: Maybe a corny idea ...)

2002-05-18 Thread Paul Scott
Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Soul Computer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020518 13:21]: > >>On 17 May 2002 21:04:09 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 20:05, Soul Computer wrote: >> >>>Maybe this is a bad idea, but I thought that >>>since Linux is the original multi-user, >>

Re: Not-So-Ancient History (was Re: Maybe a corny idea ...)

2002-05-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
I guess Soul Computer<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uses some web mail interface his ISP provides at their SUN server (reading from mail header). his quoting is confusing to me too. Maybe it is ISP's falt. I would recommends "Soul Computer" to start using real MUA on Linux :) On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 02:51

Re: conserving power with your desktop

2002-05-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andy Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.18.2029 +0200]: > I do have some APM parameters enabled in my customized kernel, and I > have often seen the log message "kernel: apm: suspend was vetoed" > generated every 30 minutes when I am not using the computer. it's vetoed because some sc

Re: loopback absent in routing table

2002-05-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Judith Elaine Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.18.2325 +0200]: > Looking at the output of route, we note that there is no entry for > destination 127.0.0.0 nor any entry for Iface=lo. > > We tried the command > $ route add -net 127.0.0.0 > and got the error > SIOCADDRT: i

abcde rips to wav, then hangs

2002-05-18 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i'm trying to use abcde to convert my cds to mp3s. i haven't done this in about a year, but last spring it worked fine on this box. haven't changed anything but the versions of abcde and its components have changed as i've been updating (running a potato-woody hybrid, heavy on the latter). with O

Re: cron entries missing in /etc/init.d and /usr/sbin/cron (potato)

2002-05-18 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:32:14AM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: > What happened to cron? None of the cron services are running. Man cron > says do /etc/init.d/cron start but cron is only found in the following > files. Dpkg says cron isn't installed; I can grab it with apt but 1. why > is it m

Re: Debian packages MD5 sums

2002-05-18 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:26:52AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 08:19:29PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > Since the Packages.gz has md5sums for the entire package, one scheme > > would be to download this file from a trusted source, like the main > > Debian website, and then

Re: Stopping spam

2002-05-18 Thread Jason R . Mastaler
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I won't email someone who uses TMDA. If they really want my mail > then they'll accept it. :-) The TMDA user might say the opposite -- if your message is important, surely you'll take the time to reply to a confirmation request. It's only a one-time, 2-key seq

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-18 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
May 9, at 09:45, dman sent through the Star Gate: >Whenever a library goes through a major incompatible revision, debian >keeps both around as separately named packages designed to co-exist. That by itself is a good enough reason for me to try Debian. I tried as a newbie to upgrade some packages

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 16, 2002, Matt Garman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:58:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > when all I use X for is to hold a dozen xterms, and then use them to > > > hold non-X programs (ftp in one, mutt in another, links, vim, and a few > > > other programs).

KDE3 and Wine

2002-05-18 Thread Michel Loos
Is there any chance that libarts1 can work together with libarts ? KDE3 depends on libarts1, Wine depends on libarts Or can wine work with libarts1 ? Michel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

building a bootable iso woody image using floppy images

2002-05-18 Thread Ted Goodridge, Jr
How can I build a bootable cd image with the 4 *.bin files for alpha... (root, rescue, drivers 1 and 2). I want to do a net install but have had trouble with floppies... Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Input Devices for Disabled (was: Maybe a corny idea ...)

2002-05-18 Thread Elizabeth Barham
--- Soul Computer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had not thought of that. Incidently, I was > corrected on Linux being the first Unix clone for > the PC. In any event, the use for this device > would seem to be endless. I had thought it would > be a cool way for Linux to compete with Windoze > a

Debian on an old system

2002-05-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
I was approached today by a guy wanting me to write an inventory control/work order system to use in his muffler shop and used car dealership. The problem being, the computers that he has available are 2 486s and a Pentium Pro. Obviously, he's not going to be getting a worthwhile graphical app runn

versions

2002-05-18 Thread Jisv
This seems like a stupid question, but if I download the current stable version - potato?, does that use the 2.4.18 kernel and xf86 4.xx? I have done a bit of reading and I seem to think it uses older software? Perhaps I'm wrong though. I currently use Mandrake 8.2 and think I'd like to replace it

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Character Set trouble + KDE setup games

2002-05-18 Thread Ross Boylan
At 05:31 PM 5/18/02 -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:16:58PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Then I read the KDE docs, and attempted to reset the default LANG in > the control center. However, C was the only choice it would show me. > Even after all the steps below, and restartin

Re: Network problem/question.

2002-05-18 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
May 9, at 18:26, tony mollica sent through the Star Gate: >Hello. I have a mixed network of Linux (Debian) and windows >machines in the arrangement below. > ___ __ __ >| || || | >--->|router || Linux||switch|---(192.168.x.x network) >

Re: building a bootable iso woody image using floppy images

2002-05-18 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I build a bootable cd image with the 4 *.bin files for alpha... > (root, rescue, drivers 1 and 2). I want to do a net install but have > had trouble with floppies... The short answer is "isomarkboot". Check out the script from debian-cd:

Re: versions

2002-05-18 Thread jeff
Jisv wrote: > > This seems like a stupid question, but if I download the current stable > version - potato?, does that use the 2.4.18 kernel and xf86 4.xx? > I have done a bit of reading and I seem to think it uses older software? > Perhaps I'm wrong though. I currently use Mandrake 8.2 and think

are there bootable net install alpha woody isos?

2002-05-18 Thread Ted Goodridge, Jr
I posted a question a lil while ago about making an iso, unfortunately that requires a working *nix install, and I only have windows up currently. Are there such iso's available? Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

att and cable modem

2002-05-18 Thread Deva Seetharam
hi all i run debian kernel 2.4.18 on a ibm t22 notebook. i am trying to connect to att cable-modem using the intel ethernet card. i have pump as the dhcp client. i dont have dhcp-client installed. my /etc/network/interfaces has the entry: iface eth1 inet dhcp when i do a ifup eth1

Re: are there bootable net install alpha woody isos?

2002-05-18 Thread Michael D. Crawford
> I only have windows up Does anyone know whether it would be possible to use the tools that create an iso under Cygwin on Windows? If this were explicitly supported it would likely help a lot of people. http://www.cygwin.com/ - a Free Software *nix environment for Windows. Mike -- Michael D

Re: att and cable modem

2002-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 21:04, Deva Seetharam wrote: > hi all > i run debian kernel 2.4.18 on a ibm t22 notebook. i am trying > to connect to att cable-modem using the intel ethernet card. > > i have pump as the dhcp client. i dont have dhcp-client installed. > > my /etc/network/inte

Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-18 Thread Daniel D Jones
Can someone give me a hint or a pointer to info on troubleshooting fonts under xf86? Running xf 4.1.0.1 under testing. I have only a few fonts available: Bitstream Charter, Courier, Courier 10 pitch, three varieties of Lucidux and Utopia. There are 1879 files located in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dp

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 18:24, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I was approached today by a guy wanting me to write an inventory > control/work order system to use in his muffler shop and used car > dealership. The problem being, the computers that he has available are 2 > 486s and a Pentium Pro. Obviously,

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-18 Thread Alan Shutko
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was approached today by a guy wanting me to write an inventory > control/work order system to use in his muffler shop and used car > dealership. We have clients running inventory, provisioning and billing software on 486s, with 10 or so active user

[OT] UPS signaling cable

2002-05-18 Thread csj
I'm planning to replace my borked el-cheapo UPS. Can somebody recommend a widely available brand that comes with a Linux-compatible signaling cable? From my limited web research it appears that not all signaling cables are the same. A note from one manufacturer's site, for example, reads in part:

Re: plptools & the Revo/(Diamond Mako)

2002-05-18 Thread csj
On Fri, 17 May 2002 23:45:50 -0700 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone used plptools, (p3nfsd and/or ncpd) to mount their Psion Revo > to their Linux box via the serial cable? I used to mount my Psion. Now I just use plpftp, which is faster. Note that mounting a Psion can take *sever

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 22:05, Alan Shutko wrote: > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was approached today by a guy wanting me to write an inventory > > control/work order system to use in his muffler shop and used car > > dealership. > > We have clients running inventory, provis

Re: Debian on an old system

2002-05-18 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I had Slackware installed on a 486/100 box running as a web server for a while. I think it had 16 MB of ram. It worked OK. I could run X on it, but the GUI wasn't terribly responsive. For comparison, at Geonex Verde we wrote a bunch of curses applications on Sun 3/160's that were 16 MHz 6802

Re: att and cable modem

2002-05-18 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 May 2002 07:29 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 21:04, Deva Seetharam wrote: > > hi all > > i run debian kernel 2.4.18 on a ibm t22 notebook. i am trying > > to connect to att cable-modem using the intel ethernet card. > >

Re: versions

2002-05-18 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Thus spake Jisv last Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:05:58AM +0100: > > This seems like a stupid question, but if I download the current stable > version - potato?, does that use the 2.4.18 kernel and xf86 4.xx? > I have done a bit of reading and I seem to think it uses older software? > Perhaps I'm wrong

Re: [OT] UPS signaling cable

2002-05-18 Thread Cam Ellison
I have an APC Back-UPS 650 Pro. Works like a charm. I don't use the Linux driver that is supplied, because apcupsd works better. Gives you more information than you probably want to know. I get in excess of 50 minutes out of it, with the monitor on but blanked. Cam * csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED])