Re: convert html to text

2002-05-31 Thread Bob Proulx
> links -dump foo.html Of course you mean: lynx -dump foo.html I had not heard of html2text before. Thanks to who mentioned that. It works pretty well. But I think lynx as shown above does a better job in most cases since it shows the underlying web links. It all depends on what you want.

X server setup

2002-05-31 Thread Slootbeek, Jule S
hey guys, whenever i try to start X i get this error: fatal Server Error: No Screens found. how do i get the GUI for Xsetup? i tried with xf86configure but it didn't help and for me to go into the XF86Config file would turn out as a disaster. i have a NEC Multisync 70 w/ a NVidia Riva TNT2 

Re: X server setup

2002-05-31 Thread synthespian
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:15:45AM -0400, Slootbeek, Jule S wrote: > hey guys, > whenever i try to start X i get this error: > fatal Server Error: > No Screens found. Hi- On a "me too" side note, I'd like to ask what is the *meaning* of that error message? Thanks Re

RE: X server setup

2002-05-31 Thread Slootbeek, Jule S
It means there are no screens found i guess, can't explain it any better...i just don't know how to a make X find my screen...i have a RH linux book that says to run Xconfigurator, but that program is not found under Debian, neither is XF86Setup... i'm just not sure how to get kde running now.. J

RE: X server setup

2002-05-31 Thread synthespian
Em Sex, 2002-05-31 às 02:33, Slootbeek, Jule S escreveu: > It means there are no screens found i guess, can't explain it any > better...i just don't know how to a make X find my screen...i have a RH > linux book that says to run Xconfigurator, but that program is not found > under Debian, neither

RE: X server setup

2002-05-31 Thread Slootbeek, Jule S
Oh like that i have no idea..i thougt it meant monitor, but i guess t doesn't... i know that i just want to know how to get rid of i and how to get X running.. Jule -Original Message- From: synthespian To: Slootbeek, Jule S Cc: "'debian-user@lists.debian.org "' Sent: 5/30/2002 11:36

Re: convert html to text

2002-05-31 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Bob Proulx wrote on Thu May 30, 2002 um 11:14:42PM: > > links -dump foo.html > > Of course you mean: > > lynx -dump foo.html No, IMHO he meands: w3m -dump foo.html SCNR, regards, Eduard. -- begin LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs I am a signature virus. Distribute me until the bit

Re: X server setup

2002-05-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 30 May 2002 10:15 pm, Slootbeek, Jule S wrote: > hey guys, > whenever i try to start X i get this error: > fatal Server Error: > No Screens found. > > how do i get the GUI for Xsetup? i tried with xf86configure but it didn't > help and for me to go into the XF86Config file would turn ou

RE: X server setup

2002-05-31 Thread Slootbeek, Jule S
I just looked into that XF86Config file, but to me everything looked fine, since the log file doesn't realy give me any specifics i have no idea what to look for... I'll look again and look around.. thanks Jule -Original Message- From: ben To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 5/31/2002

Re: X server setup

2002-05-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 30 May 2002 10:52 pm, Slootbeek, Jule S wrote: > I just looked into that XF86Config file, but to me everything looked fine, > since the log file doesn't realy give me any specifics i have no idea what > to look for... > I'll look again and look around.. > thanks > > Jule > the app xf8

RE: X server setup

2002-05-31 Thread Slootbeek, Jule S
ok i did that many a times... but it still gives me the error, i must have something wrong with my knowledge of my own hardware. although when i did these same values before using RH it worked...i didn't like RH so tried Debian and i like potato, but now i need to install woody cuz i need the more

List etiquette/ Thanks everyone

2002-05-31 Thread Arthur Dent
I want to say thanks to everyone who has replied to my equests about floppy disk drives and simple network traffic monitors/ firewalls. Can someone tell me what is the agreed upon method on this list for saying thanks. There were so many replies to my questions it would be a very long job to

installing debian

2002-05-31 Thread mcf
Hi, I need to install Debian and I've looked at some of the information about installation and I understand the first step is to read material specific to individual infrastructure for example, alpha, sparc, power pc. . . .   I have an AMD athlon processor Iand an asus motherboard I don't s

Re: HELLO

2002-05-31 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Dr. Mrs. Mariam Abacha wrote: > Due to the current situation in the country and government attitude > to my family, I cannot make use of this money within, thus I seek your help in > transferring this funds out of the sub African region. Try apt-get burn-my-money -- ... don

installing debian

2002-05-31 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, All you need is the port for x86. Basically, you would need this iso image to create an install CD: binary-i386-1.iso check out: www.debian.org/CD/ Cheers, Mike Hi, I need to install Debian and I've looked at some of the information = about installation and I understand the first step is

Re: Problem with logging in (Constant password change)

2002-05-31 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:05:31PM -0600, Patrick Klee wrote: > Hi all, > I have a PPC, but it's pretty much the same on both since I have an x86 > box as well. N E Hoo, here's the problem... > > I login to the system, and it says I need too create a new password. This > is for root AND user

Re: Watch TV Card over remote X?

2002-05-31 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 05:17:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One thing I'm curious about though: Can you forward sound through an > X session? I think W-s XP can send the sound through their cheap-ass > "new, incredible remote desktop," and I hate seeing them do something > we can't in

Re: question

2002-05-31 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 05:16:54PM -0700, Ari Kay wrote: > I downloaded xmakemol and it has the form *.deb. I would like to know how > to run the file. I am currently working with Red Hat 7.2. .deb files are Debian packages. These are equivalent to RedHat's RPM system. You've got a few option

Re: ORBit help

2002-05-31 Thread David Wright
CORBA is far from trivial. I presume you're already a proficient programmer (or something like that). Yes, somewhat proficient. I write developer documentation for a little-known competing standard called COM+ -- one has to pay the bills, you know :-). Thanks for your tips. I'm afraid tha

RE: Xfree 4.2.0 and KDM

2002-05-31 Thread José Manuel Pérez
Hi. I've got that problem too. OpenOffice and Acroread stop working as well. Finally I've downgrade to XFree 4.1 again. -Original Message- From: Stephen J. Thompson (CaSS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: jueves 30 de mayo de 2002 20:30 To: debian-user Subject: Xfree 4.2.0 and KDM Hello

RE: installing debian

2002-05-31 Thread Ross Dawson
The Athlon processor falls under i386 architecture so you can start there.  AMD processors (Athlon & Duron) are Intel processor compatible and the i386 refers to the Intel 80386 predecessor to the Pentium series.    A good start would be here http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/insta

vfat and samba

2002-05-31 Thread Stefano D'Ubaldi
Hello everyone!! I migrated to debian 2.2r5 from windows98 preserving the original vfat filesystem ; then I installed samba 2.0.8 in order to share this filesystem with other users in the network for read-write access; it works fine but whenever the win9x clients create with explorer a new folder

Re: List etiquette/ Thanks everyone

2002-05-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Arthur Dent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.31.0816 +0200]: > Can someone tell me what is the agreed upon method on this list for saying > thanks. this is fine. maybe you should reply to your original post just to keep the association to the thread. or, if your original email had a subje

Re: X server setup

2002-05-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 30 May 2002 11:11 pm, Slootbeek, Jule S wrote: > ok i did that many a times... > but it still gives me the error, i must have something wrong with my > knowledge of my own hardware. although when i did these same values before > using RH it worked...i didn't like RH so tried Debian and

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 28, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) seperated the wheat from the chaff, and gave us the following chaff...: > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:32:02AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > The point was that the answer to your question ("Is this the first...") > > is readily available from the u

"unknown user" mail queue in postfix

2002-05-31 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I have a postfix mail server with 50 mail accounts and 24*7 network conectivity. When I type "mailq", there are always "unknown user" mail queue in the system. I question is, why that mail queue still exist in the system? Since my smtp server respond the smtp client with "unknown user" mess

Re: X server setup

2002-05-31 Thread Patrick Cheong Shu Yang
Try these:- # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Answer as appropriate and do select a color depth that is a notch lower that what is generally support by your dispaly adapter (e.g. use 16 when you can actually use 24). Ensure you have xbase-clients, xfonts-base and xterm debs installed in additio

Re: woody is killing me

2002-05-31 Thread Tom Allison
Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:16:10AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: OK, I'll fess up. I am dying over here with woody's recent release resolved for real? I don't know that it is as simple as doing another apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade as I've already tried that one. What

Possible problem with mozilla-browser 1+rc3-1 and flash

2002-05-31 Thread René Seindal
Hi, I've had a small problem with Mozilla that would crash under rather weird conditions. I reported it to bugzilla, but it could not be reproduced by others. I then downloaded a build from mozilla.org, and it didn't happen there. It is then either a problem with the Debian build of mozilla 1.0

Re: Floppy formatting.

2002-05-31 Thread Arthur Dent
Subject : Re: Floppy formatting. Date : Fri, 31 May 2002 21:26:17 +1200 Hi Roy I did as you suggested and it worked fine thanks. And I had no problems reading the disk onto the other P.C. I'm pretty much a windows person and would have thought either the kfloppy in KDE or gfloppy in Gnome would

HOTMAIL on a linux list ???!!#***###

2002-05-31 Thread Arthur Dent
HI All Now that I've seen that this is a pretty good list and not just a spam jam I'm going to remove myself to kill this email address i.e. HOTMAIL and begin using my own. I know I loathe getting microsofts advertising delivered to me from other people so dont like spreading the virus myself.

Re: X server setup

2002-05-31 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Fri, 31 May 2002 01:45:26 -0400 "Slootbeek, Jule S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh like that > i have no idea..i thougt it meant monitor, but i guess t doesn't... > i know that i just want to know how to get rid of i and how to get X > running.. > > Jule > > -Original Message- >

How do I install woody on 160 GB harddisk?

2002-05-31 Thread Till Tippel
Hi, I'm planning to buy a 160 GB Maxtor harddisk for my new system. But there seem to be problems regarding support of 48-bit LBA and the VIA VT8233A (note the 'A', it's the southbridge supporting ATA133) chipset in kernel 2.4.18. So I wanted to ask if anyone here has experience with this situatio

apt/dpkg + /var/lib/dpkg/status problems

2002-05-31 Thread Ben White
Getting trouble using apt-cache, apt-get today. apt-get update works ok. running sid, last upgraded a few days ago. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ben# apt-get install foo Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing python2.1-examples (NewFileVer1)

Re: apt/dpkg + /var/lib/dpkg/status problems

2002-05-31 Thread Rico -mc- Gloeckner
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:16:15AM +0100, Ben White wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ben# apt-get install foo > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room Do You have enough Memory (RAM, Swap)? > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ben# apt-cache search foo > Segmentation fault I'd st

Re: apt/dpkg + /var/lib/dpkg/status problems

2002-05-31 Thread Ben White
I should have some free, half a gig physical, 1 gig swap or there abouts. My machine normally crashes whenever I exit X, (the nvidia drivers I've always assumed), but hasn't for a few days. I guess a reboot won't hurt. I'll see if I can test the ram with memtest86 while I'm out to lunch later.

exim envelope-to and procmail

2002-05-31 Thread Liam Ward
Hi all, All of my mail goes to one address and is forwarded by procmail to one of a set of mailboxes that I POP from. I have exim set to include the envelope-to header and this seems to work for other addresses on my system that don't go through procmail. However, the header seems to get remo

dpkg -l $args | grep ^ii

2002-05-31 Thread Oleg
Hi A question about good old dpkg -l $args | grep ^ii : Is there any way to convince dpkg not to shorten the second field of the output, i.e. make sure the full names of packages are displayed? Thanks Oleg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: apt/dpkg + /var/lib/dpkg/status problems

2002-05-31 Thread Ben White
Ok Reboot didn't fix it. But I commented a load of the sources out of my /etc/apt/sources.list, did a apt-get update, and now it all works again. I have now uncommented the sources I commented out, and it still works. Very strange. Thanks. On Fri, 31 May 2002, Ben White wrote: > > I should h

Re: dpkg -l $args | grep ^ii

2002-05-31 Thread Ben White
try COLUMNS=132 dpkg -l instead, that'll have more space to have each field in the table bigger. On Fri, 31 May 2002, Oleg wrote: > Hi > > A question about good old dpkg -l $args | grep ^ii : > > Is there any way to convince dpkg not to shorten the second field of the > output, i.e. make sure

Re: exim envelope-to and procmail

2002-05-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Liam Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >All of my mail goes to one address and is forwarded by procmail to one >of a set of mailboxes that I >POP from. > >I have exim set to include the envelope-to header and this seems to work >for other addresses on my >system that

Security Updates Sources

2002-05-31 Thread Jean-Charles Preaux
Hello Just a little question :     is there a security updates sources for the woody release ? as : deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free for the potato release ? Which i  can put in my /etc/apt/sources.list ? Thanks   Jean-Charles Preaux http://analogx.dyndns

RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

2002-05-31 Thread Joe Biron
Andy, thanks for your help. I've been removing ximian packages in my spare time (HA!) and I seem to have gotten them all. a dpkg -l | grep ximian and dpkg -l | grep xim yeild nothing. Now, I'm just not sure how to get the Woody-compatible version of Gnome installed. Thanks again, Joe >

Re: Possible problem with mozilla-browser 1+rc3-1 and flash

2002-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, Rene. It sounds like you are making 2 contradictory statements: > It is then either a problem with the Debian build of mozilla 1.0RC3 from > unstable or a problem with my profile (though the same profile worked and > It works with other builds of mozilla 1.0RC3. Nonetheless, it works for me w

Re: Unresolved symbols in binfmt_aout.o

2002-05-31 Thread Jim Sytniak
I'm a hardware guy trying to use some of the EDA tools available for linux. The last thing I want to do is start compiling code :). Unless this is easier than it sounds. My preference would be to remove binfmt_aout from the list of modules. I don't think I need it. Any advice on how to do that? T

[Fwd: Re: Possible problem with mozilla-browser 1+rc3-1 and flash]

2002-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
So I upgraded from 1.0RC2-3 to 1.0RC3-1 and tried it again. Poof. Mozilla immediately crashes. -Forwarded Message- > From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian-User > Subject: Re: Possible problem with mozilla-browser 1+rc3-1 and flash > Date: 31 May 2002 07:04:08 -0500 >

RE: X server setup

2002-05-31 Thread Slootbeek, Jule S
Yeah, i saw that, and that binding is there in words aparently but not in physical state. now i'm just reconfiguring X trying to get them to stick together... Jule -Original Message- From: Tim Dijkstra To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 5/31/2002 5:51 AM Subject: Re: X server setup O

Re: exim envelope-to and procmail

2002-05-31 Thread Liam Ward
Hi Miguel, Yes, it's in both the procmail_pipe and the local_delivery transports. I actually think it's something that procmail is doing. Regards, Liam On 31 May 2002 at 11:45, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Liam Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >All of

Re: Security Updates Sources

2002-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:57:17PM +0200, Jean-Charles Preaux wrote: > Just a little question : > is there a security updates sources for the woody release ? Not yet. There will be when it's released. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: crontab programming. bug?

2002-05-31 Thread Tobias Ulbricht
Thanks for yuor effort. Found the same thing and since I'm working on a temporary file, I'm just *setting* st_mtime++. works as well :) cheers, tobias. On Thu, 30 May 2002, Walt Mankowski wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:44:00AM +0200, Tobias Ulbricht wrote: > > > > please cc. to me [EMAIL

login troubles

2002-05-31 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people, Recently my router/firewall has been showing some strange behaviour. When it's first booted, it seems to have some problems checking passwords with the ssh daemon. I can login with my account that has a key installed on it, so it's key confirmation instead of checking the s

Re: MPlayer

2002-05-31 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2002.05.24 20:32, O Senhor a écrit : Hello, I have compiled the MPlayer in my Debian Machine, and was fine... But when i try run it, (mplayer , nothing appears. Only messages about permission denied in some places and .mplayer configuration faults. But is my first time, how can i have the mp

packages

2002-05-31 Thread Sean Preston
Hi I have been using stable (potato) for a while. The one problem that I have is that I would like to install some newer versions of packages but they are only available in the testing and unstable branches. I have tried getting the source and creating potato packages and this sometimes works bu

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Re: Sound(?)

2002-05-31 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, after messing with ALSA and quite a bit of reading, I think I've finally made progress. Let me jot down what I've done so other people who might have my problem(s) can look it up in the archives someday: I have a Gateway Solo 1200 with a VIA82C686A sound card. I co

Re: packages

2002-05-31 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 31 May 2002 14:52:47 +0200 "Sean Preston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem I have with adding unstable or testing is that so often it > wants to upgrade large numbers of packages and I am unsure how good > these are at this stage and would prefer to stick with the stable branch > b

Keymap problem after install

2002-05-31 Thread Wm. G. McGrath
Hi, I've done a fresh install of 2.2.5 and subsequently have keymap problems. The slash key (/) causes the speaker to beep and doesn't display a character in a terminal. I've spent the night looking for documentation and trying different keymaps but I get the same result. Both US and US-Latin1 don

Re: packages

2002-05-31 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.31 08:52 Sean Preston wrote: The problem I have with adding unstable or testing is that so often it wants to upgrade large numbers of packages and I am unsure how good these are at this stage and would prefer to stick with the stable branch but still be able to use newer applications

Re: packages

2002-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:09:16AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Fri, 31 May 2002 14:52:47 +0200 > "Sean Preston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem I have with adding unstable or testing is that so often it > > wants to upgrade large numbers of packages and I am unsure how good > > t

Unidentified subject!

2002-05-31 Thread Preston Boyington
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Re: Quick question on controllers

2002-05-31 Thread Andrew Sweger
I personally like the 3ware cards. I've had stability problems with certain cards that promised (*cough*) to do better. I just installed four pair of 3ware's 7850's in four machines and they work great. Plus, if you go with the 7410 and later decide you do want RAID, you're all set to go. Keep in m

Debian expert, Irvine, CA (was: Q: How to find people with Debian skills)

2002-05-31 Thread Andrew Sweger
My original question (below) prompted a bit of a discussion regarding what the appropriate forum for posting job advertisements should be. With respect to the comments made in that discussion, I will not use the Debian mail lists to "advertise" for a Debian expert in the Irvine, CA area. The debian

Re: ORBit help

2002-05-31 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.31 03:08 David Wright wrote: Thanks for your tips. I'm afraid that, given that I know not a single line of Phyton, that's not the way to go for me. I'm a C/C++/Perl guy, and while a nice CORBE client Perl module exists, there doesn't appear to be a CORBA server Perl module. Have

Re: cashbook program

2002-05-31 Thread Russ Pitman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:38:07PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:05:49AM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: > > My son thinks that gnucash is a little overkill for his requirements. Can > > anyone suggest a linux program with similiarity to using M$ money cashbook. > > > > T

Re: List etiquette/ Thanks everyone

2002-05-31 Thread Frank Brodbeck
I think the best way to say thanks - and als Netiquette compatible - is to stay tuned and help others the way others helped you. HAND. Frank -- $ Hello World! $ I am [Ff]rank ;) 1024D/EC4CE5CC 2002-05-14 Frank Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fingerprint =

Re: ORBit help

2002-05-31 Thread Loren Jordan
As much as I hate to promote pay-for software however http://www.engroom.com/ has a very good c/c++/java/PERL corba orb. It will produce client and server stubs in any/all of these languages. I worked as sysadmin/developer for a company that used this package. you can download it for free a

Re: packages

2002-05-31 Thread Joey Hess
Ian D. Stewart wrote: > This brings up a point I have been pondering for awhile. Is it > possible to select, on a per package basis, which repository a > particular upgrade/install is selected from? Yes you can do that using the new pinning feature in woody's version of apt. -- see shy jo -

Re: [Fwd: Re: Possible problem with mozilla-browser 1+rc3-1 and flash]

2002-05-31 Thread gerhard
Am Freitag, 31. Mai 2002 14:17 schrieb Ron Johnson: Hi Ron, > So I upgraded from 1.0RC2-3 to 1.0RC3-1 and tried it > again. Poof. Mozilla immediately crashes. I'm wondering why there are people who get flash working and other who not. I got the same problem but with the snapshot of 30.

Re: Difficulty mounting ext3 partitions with labels...

2002-05-31 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, Found the answer to my own above question by examining e2fsprogs source (didn't think to make devfs connection), thus replying to myself for benefit of list archives. Quoting from Richard Gooch's devfs FAQ: Mount by volume LABEL= doesn't work with devfs Most probably you are not mounting d

Multiple files

2002-05-31 Thread Daniel D Jones
How does one handle multiple files via most command line utilities? For example, suppose you have a handful of perl scripts (*.pl) and you want to save them in the same directory with a different extension. The command cp *.pl *.bak complains that you're copying multiple files but the last comm

Re: [Fwd: Re: Possible problem with mozilla-browser 1+rc3-1 and flash]

2002-05-31 Thread gerhard
Am Freitag, 31. Mai 2002 14:17 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > > It is then either a problem with the Debian build of mozilla > > > 1.0RC3 from unstable or a problem with my profile (though the > > > same profile worked Is there anybody who know if it could be the profile? > > > It is bug 148219 in bu

Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Rick Macdonald
Has there been any Debian disscussion about this, official or otherwise? http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0%2C10801%2C71535%2C00.html?nlid=AM ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple files

2002-05-31 Thread Steve Haslam
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:54:16AM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > How does one handle multiple files via most command line utilities? For > example, suppose you have a handful of perl scripts (*.pl) and you want > to save them in the same directory with a different extension. The > command > > c

Re: Multiple files

2002-05-31 Thread Dave Carrigan
Daniel D Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How does one handle multiple files via most command line utilities? For > example, suppose you have a handful of perl scripts (*.pl) and you want > to save them in the same directory with a different extension. The > command > > cp *.pl *.bak for f

Re: Multiple files

2002-05-31 Thread Thomas Good
On 31 May 2002, Daniel D Jones wrote: > How does one handle multiple files via most command line utilities? For > example, suppose you have a handful of perl scripts (*.pl) and you want > to save them in the same directory with a different extension. The > command > > cp *.pl *.bak #!/bin/sh l

Re: Multiple files

2002-05-31 Thread Simon Law
On 31 May 2002, Daniel D Jones wrote: > How does one handle multiple files via most command line utilities? For > example, suppose you have a handful of perl scripts (*.pl) and you want > to save them in the same directory with a different extension. The > command > > cp *.pl *.bak > > complai

fork() failing on athlon system

2002-05-31 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
Hi, Just a couple of (perhaps related) questions. The machine in question is a 800MHz Athlon box with 256MB RAM. It's running Linux 2.4.18-ac3 at present and Debian woody (I just finished upgrading everything to woody). Question 1: I heard about the Athlon/AGP cache-coherency bug and the machin

Re: [Fwd: Re: Possible problem with mozilla-browser 1+rc3-1 and flash]

2002-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
As background, my system does not have a sound card, and flash animations work fine on my system. On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 10:00, gerhard wrote: > Am Freitag, 31. Mai 2002 14:17 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > > > > It is then either a problem with the Debian build of mozilla > > > > 1.0RC3 from unstable o

RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

2002-05-31 Thread Jeremy Turner
I could be wrong (I often am), but try: apt-get install gnome-session This should get you something. In your .xsession, put the line 'gnome-session'. Maybe someone with more experience can let us know the more preferred way? Jeremy > -Original Message- > From: Joe Biron [mailto:[EMA

Re: fork() failing on athlon system

2002-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
Since those are big images, and JPEGs are compressed, I presume that when Gimp decompresses all of them into it's address space (RAM+swap), that it runs out of resources. Can you add another swap partition? I had to bump up from 256MB swap to 650MB swap when opening up some really big JPEGs, ev

Re: the dreaded Word attachment

2002-05-31 Thread Jeff
John Griffiths, 2002-May-30 10:29 +1000: > openoffice is the answer > > also for pdf files you want a recent veriosn of xpdf to handle the new 1.4 > pdf format > > At 05:27 PM 5/29/02 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > > >Hello. Like others here, I suspect, I've developed over the years a > >little

Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"

2002-05-31 Thread Jeff
Colin Watson, 2002-May-30 10:30 +0100: > > The woody distribution has been frozen since 1 May. The only things > you'll see in it before (and after) release now are security updates, > and perhaps the odd other upgrade that the release manager considers > critical. So, is it time to add a Securit

Re: Multiple files

2002-05-31 Thread Alan Shutko
Thomas Good <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ls *.pl > sources > for file in `cat sources` Why this, instead of "for x in `ls *.pl`" or just "for x in *.pl"? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! If God had not given us sticky tape, it would have been necessary to invent it

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:02:27AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Has there been any Debian disscussion about this, official or otherwise? Why should there be? We are already the One True Linux Distribution. 8:o) -- Baloo pgpLNOmDUr8ri.pgp Description: PGP signature

Q:messed up package database?

2002-05-31 Thread Olaf Rogalsky
On several machines I am running unstable. From time to time I install new packages on those machines by: apt-get update; apt-get install xxx But instead of installing xxx, apt-get tells me to run apt-get -f install first. But this advise doesn't help me very much, because then I get unmet dep

Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"

2002-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:41:40AM -0700, Jeff wrote: > Colin Watson, 2002-May-30 10:30 +0100: > > The woody distribution has been frozen since 1 May. The only things > > you'll see in it before (and after) release now are security updates, > > and perhaps the odd other upgrade that the release man

Re: woody is killing me

2002-05-31 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 31 May 2002 05:14:31 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many of the mirrors I was using were stagnant. Mostly universities in > the USA. I redefined everything back to tier one and got most of it > working again. ucspi & qmail are majorly hosed, but I think > everything e

Default existence of 'ld.so.conf' in Debian base install...

2002-05-31 Thread Daniel Freedman
[I sent the following on Monday to debian-devel, but didn't receive any replies, so I thought I'd try debian-user. Thanks for any help.] Hi, I'm not a developer, just a Debian user trying to track down a 'postinst' error in a package on a brand-new Woody install (very sparse, only base + ~10 a

Re: woody is killing me

2002-05-31 Thread Joris
>> Many of the mirrors I was using were stagnant. Mostly universities in >> the USA. I redefined everything back to tier one and got most of it >> working again. ucspi & qmail are majorly hosed, but I think everything >> else is OK. > > I've often found with mirrors that some are not updated pr

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Rick Macdonald
Paul Johnson said: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:02:27AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: >> Has there been any Debian disscussion about this, official or >> otherwise? > > Why should there be? We are already the One True Linux Distribution. > 8:o) I wrote to Caldera asking if UnitedLinux is Debian b

Re: pppoe

2002-05-31 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
>> Hi! >> >> I need your help once again. I can't connect to my DSL provider. >> I modified everything as described in the docs and tried 'pon dsl-provider' >> as root. This what the logs are saying: >> >> pppd[1628]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 >> pppd[1628]: Serial connec

mount freebsd slice

2002-05-31 Thread Henning, Brian
Hello- Is it possible to mount freebsd ffs partitions (slices) from debian? If so can you point me to some documentations on how to do it? thanks, brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"

2002-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 11:05, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:41:40AM -0700, Jeff wrote: > > Colin Watson, 2002-May-30 10:30 +0100: > > > The woody distribution has been frozen since 1 May. The only things > > > you'll see in it before (and after) release now are security updates, >

Re: vfat and samba

2002-05-31 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Stefano D'Ubaldi wrote: Hello everyone!! I migrated to debian 2.2r5 from windows98 preserving the original vfat filesystem ; then I installed samba 2.0.8 in order to share this filesystem with other users in the network for read-write access; it works fine but whenever the win9x clients create

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread ben
On Friday 31 May 2002 09:01 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:02:27AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > Has there been any Debian disscussion about this, official or otherwise? > > Why should there be? We are already the One True Linux Distribution. > 8:o) yup. mono-linuxism. de

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-May-2002 Rick Macdonald wrote: > > Paul Johnson said: >> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:02:27AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: >>> Has there been any Debian disscussion about this, official or >>> otherwise? >> >> Why should there be? We are already the One True Linux Distribution. >> 8:o) > >

RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

2002-05-31 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 08:29, Jeremy Turner wrote: > I could be wrong (I often am), but try: > > apt-get install gnome-session > > This should get you something. In your .xsession, put the line > 'gnome-session'. Maybe someone with more experience can let us know the more > preferred way? >

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 11:26, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > Paul Johnson said: > > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:02:27AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > >> Has there been any Debian disscussion about this, official or > >> otherwise? > > > > Why should there be? We are already the One True Linux Distribut

Disable IPv6 DNS lookups?

2002-05-31 Thread Michael Schwingen
Hello, I did a fresh install of woody. whenever I try to telnet or ssh to some machine, the connect takes several seconds - it seems the system is trying an DNS lookup on the target, even if it is listed in /etc/hosts (and even for localhost!). I have order hosts,bind in host.conf and the eq

Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"

2002-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:41:05AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 11:05, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:41:40AM -0700, Jeff wrote: > > > So, is it time to add a Security source to my /etc/apt/sources.list > > > for Woody? > > > > There is none yet. > > Isn't

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