Re: Why do I need to be a %^#$# programmer to use Linux?

2002-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-19 16:44:27 -0700]: > as someone else pointed out you can redirect the output which is the > easiest method, I do it this way: > > rpm --rebuild filename.src.rpm >&/tmp/rebuild.log > > (you won't see anything on the screen until the command completes) If you wa

Re: user infos

2002-09-20 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Florian Struck wrote: > Hi im just trying to figure out how to change the "from" part of a locally > sent email. > The domain part i set up when i install exim so no problemo (lets say > my.domain.net) but now i have a user lets say he is called "testuser", now > when that

Re: No X after upgrade Potato -> Woody

2002-09-20 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Dear all - > > I have just taken the dive and decided to upgrade (my Dell Latitude Cpi > 330) to Debian Woody. > > After the process was completed, I was no longer taken into Gnome after > a boot, but ended at the console login prompt without er

Re: business propose

2002-09-20 Thread John Manko
Ryan Yu wrote: >Dear Sir or Madam, >This is Ryan/Jane of XDK Communication Equipment Co., LTD >in China.. My company is a hi-tech enterprise specializing > in the R&D, manufacture, sales and after-service of >optic fiber telecommunication products as follows: >1.Active components: all kinds of

Re: ssh method in sources.list

2002-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 23:25, Debian wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:20:42PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 21:19, Egor Tur wrote: > > > Hi Folks! > > > How write the ssh method in sources.list correctly? > > > > What do you mean? > > I think he is asking for a method

Re: How to get $DISPLAY

2002-09-20 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:50:42PM -0700, nate wrote: > > you THINK you have it installed but it is not :) (glad you posted the > output). the first 2 letters rc means the package is removed but the > configuration files are still there(which can be removed with dpkg --purge) > This is probably n

Re: wmaker: create a new desktop from the shell

2002-09-20 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2002.09.18 01:09, martin f krafft a écrit : > also sprach Romuald DELAVERGNE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.16.1345 > +0200]: > > To create a new Desktop from the shell, perhaps it is possible to patch > > > the config file "~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMState" (Don't start Window Maker > > with '--no-po

Re: ssh method in sources.list

2002-09-20 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 09:40, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 23:25, Debian wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:20:42PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 21:19, Egor Tur wrote: > > > > Hi Folks! > > > > How write the ssh method in sources.list correctly? > > >

Re: IP datagram analyzer

2002-09-20 Thread Pat Colbeck
Ethereal is excellent, its decodes are often better than those with comercial products such as Sniffer Pro in that they get updated quicker as new standards emerge. It can import file from most of the other network analyzers too. The VOIP decodes in Ethereal are absolutely brilliant. The only t

thin client

2002-09-20 Thread Chavdar Videff
I am interested in configuring two machines to use thinclient. I installed the new Debian 3.0 on my machine. On the second machine my colleague has a running Windows 98. I would like to allow my colleague use certain applications running on my server side without quitting her Windows session. I

Re: business propose

2002-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 03:53:43AM -0500, John Manko wrote: > Ryan Yu wrote: [spam snipped] > give me a break! Ah, so you just had to quote the whole spam back to us in case we hadn't seen it the first time? *sigh* Please don't do that ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: thin client

2002-09-20 Thread Adam Galant
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Chavdar Videff wrote: > I am interested in configuring two machines to use thinclient. > I installed the new Debian 3.0 on my machine. On the second machine my > colleague has a running Windows 98. I would like to allow my colleague use > certain applications running on my

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No fonts problem in open office

2002-09-20 Thread franck routier
Hi, I have a problem with open office showing no font in its user interface (menus, dialog boxes, ...) making it unusable. The installed version is openoffice.org 1.0.1-5 in unstable plus gnome2 from experimental (yes I know all that is expected to blow up !) One hint, that might be related, wh

Restricted / Secure VI (or vi-alike editor)

2002-09-20 Thread Mark Janssen
Hi List. I'm looking for a vi like editor that has the same features as the rvi from the 'operator shell'. I have that version working on my AIX systems, but since it's really old (obsolete) code (93 and before) it's hard to get it to work on HP-UX 11 (11.0 and 11i) and Linux. Does anyone know a

/etc/aliases

2002-09-20 Thread Tom Allison
I have a file: /etc/aliases that has me a bit confused as to it's care and maintenance. The head of the file says it was generated by exim, which I thought I purged and replaced with postfix. I made some changes to the file... I am not getting errors that the aliases file is newer than the

Re: /etc/aliases

2002-09-20 Thread Adam Galant
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Tom Allison wrote: > I have a file: /etc/aliases that has me a bit confused as to it's > care and maintenance. > > The head of the file says it was generated by exim, which I > thought I purged and replaced with postfix. I made some changes > to the file... > > I am not

Re: ssh method in sources.list

2002-09-20 Thread Gottfried Szing
Am Fre, 2002-09-20 um 09.58 schrieb Adrian von Bidder: > To my knowledge, although Release files are signed, packages are not, > and not even the Release file signatures are usually checked. > > :-/ > > So, theoretically, the need for trusted downloads exists today. Or the > need for the securi

Re: /etc/aliases

2002-09-20 Thread Tom Allison
Adam Galant wrote: > On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Tom Allison wrote: > > >>I have a file: /etc/aliases that has me a bit confused as to it's >>care and maintenance. >> >>The head of the file says it was generated by exim, which I >>thought I purged and replaced with postfix. I made some changes >>to

(no subject)

2002-09-20 Thread SyLamypie
Hi, Sorry to bother you for a what may be a silly question? Although my UNIX skills are not basic at all, I do have a simple question regarding the installation of Debian. Can it be installed onto a Windows 98 PC, and how does Debian affect the current O/S? I am a bit cautious to installing a

Re: (no subject)

2002-09-20 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi It cannot be installed on the same partition as WIndows98. You need to free up some disk space (3 or 4 GB would be fine initially if you just want to play with Debian). You can use programs like Partition Magic to shrink your Windows98 partition if you currently have only a single partition

Re: (no subject)

2002-09-20 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Regarding installing Debian on a Win98 machine... If you have enough free space on your Windows drive you can use a partition resizing tool like GNU parted to resize your fat partition, then add in the necessary Linux partitions. (There are several filesystems you can choose from to install L

[was: (no subject)] linux installation on a win98 box

2002-09-20 Thread Adam Galant
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry to bother you for a what may be a silly question? There are no silly questions, there are however silly answers ;-) > Can it be installed onto a Windows 98 PC Yes. You need to install it on a separate partion however, if your win98

debian on sparc

2002-09-20 Thread Kevin Coyner
I recently received an old Sun SparcStation 20 that I'd like to load up with Debian. I've been running Debian Woody on my i386 and went looking for Woody for the Sparc, but am only finding Potato. Am I just looking in the wrong places, or is Debian for a Sparc a version behind the i386's. Than

Re: debian on sparc

2002-09-20 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20-09-2002 13:48]: > I recently received an old Sun SparcStation 20 that I'd like to load up > with Debian. I've been running Debian Woody on my i386 and went looking > for Woody for the Sparc, but am only finding Potato. Am I just looking > in the wrong place

Re: debian on sparc

2002-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:46:35AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I recently received an old Sun SparcStation 20 that I'd like to load up > with Debian. I've been running Debian Woody on my i386 and went looking > for Woody for the Sparc, but am only finding Potato. Am I just looking > in the wron

Re: debian on sparc

2002-09-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:46:35AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I recently received an old Sun SparcStation 20 that I'd like to load up > with Debian. I've been running Debian Woody on my i386 and went looking > for Woody for the Sparc, but am only finding Potato. Am I just looking > in the w

Re: traceroute

2002-09-20 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 08:03:56PM +0100, john gennard wrote: | I still have problems trying to configure a home network. Thinking | traceroute might shed some light on this, I ran the program and got | the following error messages:- | | a. From box 4 to 5 where ping works but not telnet | | t

Re: Moving mailboxes in Postfix

2002-09-20 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:27:37PM -0700, nate wrote: | | I may be missing something, but from what I know, postfix doesn't | store mail(other then the mail queue), if your referring to moving | a mail account from 1 system to another, and how easy it is, that | entirely depends upon the kind of

Re: fstab user mount SOLVED

2002-09-20 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 06:27:48PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: | I guess you have to type entire pathname. | | If I am in /mnt | | I cannot type 'mount cdrom' | I must still type mount /mnt/cdrom | | Lance | That is quite strange if it solved your problem. You should be able to do /mnt $

Investment Advice

2002-09-20 Thread Dr. Ego Bia
PLEASE DUE TO THE CONFIDENTIAL NATURE OF THE TRANSACTION I STRONGLY ADVICE THAT YOU USE THIS EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INSTEAD OF THE MINISTRY ADDRESS BECAUSE OF SECURITY REASONS THOUGH IT IS BLOCKED FOR NOW. DR. EGO BIA MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM (NNPC) LAGOS. E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Attn: Presi

Re: modprobe can't locate /dev/lp1 ..

2002-09-20 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 12:04:23AM -0500, John Manko wrote: | If the kernel autoloader for modules is set to yes, and I compile IDE | and IDE-SCSI as modules, will the autoloader load IDE or IDE-SCSI on | boot. That is, if nothing is specified in /etc/modules.conf | | I'm thinking I have to ex

Re: CDRecored problems -Teac cd-w54e

2002-09-20 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Hmm you are on 1.1B and I am on 1.0A. How do i upgrade the firmware? I have no access to dos/win. Just Lin df does not reveal the drive as mounted. lsof doesnt show anything using the /dev/scd0 Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 19

Re: Network lost after softboot

2002-09-20 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 05:49:26PM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: | I run sid and recently upgraded my kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.4.18. When I | first installed sid (with kernel 2.2.19), my network card, a | | 3Com Etherlink 10/100 (3c905c) | | was immetiately recognized. I did a kernel upgrade from | t

Updated: St. gravy

2002-09-20 Thread Baker, Doug
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Re: /etc/sources.list question

2002-09-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joyce, Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.17.0327 +0200]: > On my laptop, when I am at home, I would like to use the Debian CDs 1-7, > however at work I would prefer to use the mirrors at the local uni. > > Is there anyway to set which are my preferred sources or source order ? Jus

Re: No fonts problem in open office

2002-09-20 Thread Donald R. Spoon
franck routier wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with open office showing no font in its user interface > (menus, dialog boxes, ...) making it unusable. > > The installed version is openoffice.org 1.0.1-5 in unstable plus gnome2 > from experimental (yes I know all that is expected to blow up !)

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Mailman doesn't send mails, qrunner locked

2002-09-20 Thread Maria Garcia Suarez
Hi there! I have Debian Woody with postfix. Some days ago I installed Mailman 2.0.11 but I couldn't make it work. It doesn't send a single mail but keeps them at /mailman/qfiles with locks at /mailman/locks. I've tried many solutions (I even contacted the maintaner of the packet who recommended

xconsole problem

2002-09-20 Thread Anand Parikh
I am running Debian Linux 2.2r6. When I try to open an xconsole from the menu, it opens up with the message: "Couldn't open xconsole" With help from linux newsgroups, I did the following: As root: rm /dev/xconsole mknod -m 666 /dev/xconsole p As user: xconsole -file /dev/xconsole 2>&1 & kill -SI

Re: email clients

2002-09-20 Thread DvB
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Second, Is there someway to modify Mozilla to over-ride it's mail client > to start $MAIL_CLIENT when prompted. > (Ctrl-M, mailto:$links...) Known issue. See mozilla bug 56478: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56478 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: How to request specific IPaddress with DHCP?

2002-09-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach mdevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.18.0143 +0200]: > I just thought that there was a way to refuse to take a certain > IPaddress and thereby force the server to issue a new one. However, I > could only see how to reject all responses from a certain server and not > individual IPaddre

Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-20 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
Hi On Mon 09/09/2002 at 20:43 I posted a message to this mailing lists subject "NFS Mounted Home Directories Machine Keeps Locking Up". Despite doing what people recommend I am still having the problems (I must admit it doesn't seem to happen as often but it is very annoying). Is there any

Re: debian-xemacs-version: Symbols' value as variable is void

2002-09-20 Thread Josef Oswald
Now, just in case _some-one_ does read this: As no answer was given here, I figured to download and install Xemacs compiled for my box. Got me xemacs-21.4.9, but configure finished with a error just as well ( /lib-src/DOC no such file..) Searched of course on google but didn't find a clue either.

Re: thin client

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Chavdar Videff said: > I am interested in configuring two machines to use thinclient. > I installed the new Debian 3.0 on my machine. On the second machine my > colleague has a running Windows 98. I would like to allow my colleague > use certain applications running on my server side without quit

Re: Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Charlie Grosvenor said: > Hi > On Mon 09/09/2002 at 20:43 I posted a message to this mailing > lists subject "NFS Mounted Home Directories Machine Keeps Locking Up". > Despite doing what people recommend I am still having the problems (I > must admit it doesn't seem to happen as often but it

Re: ssh method in sources.list

2002-09-20 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Egor Tur said: > Hi Folks! > How write the ssh method in sources.list correctly? > Thanx. I did this once for boxes on my LAN, but it won't work for public mirrors, because it relies on having matching passphrase-less keypairs for root. Make a key for root, d

Re: Why do I need to be a %^#$# programmer to use Linux?

2002-09-20 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Samstag, 14. September 2002 01:08 schrieb Colin Watson: > > However, when I try to create the packages it fails trying to > > include some functions from asm/io.h and asm/pgtable.h. > > Both those files are in the libc6-dev package, which you should > install if you want to compile pretty much

security.debian.org in /etc/apt/source.list

2002-09-20 Thread alnesbit
If I'm running Debian testing, and if security updates aren't really applicable to a testing/unstable system, then is there any point in having deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free in

Re: Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-20 Thread Jason Healy
At 1032550101s since epoch (09/20/02 09:28:21 -0400 UTC), Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > On Mon 09/09/2002 at 20:43 I posted a message to this mailing > lists subject "NFS Mounted Home Directories Machine Keeps Locking Up". > Despite doing what people recommend I am still having the problems (I

Re: Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-20 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Charlie Grosvenor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 20 September 2002, 02:28 PM +0100): > On Mon 09/09/2002 at 20:43 I posted a message to this mailing > lists subject "NFS Mounted Home Directories Machine Keeps Locking Up". > Despite doing what people recommend I am still having the

Re: email clients

2002-09-20 Thread David P James
Jamin W.Collins was roused into action on 09/19/02 23:33 and wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 23:19:10 -0400 David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >>Yes there is: >>http://www.geocities.com/pratiksolanki/#network > > > Have you tried it? That site suggests the same thing as this site: >

Re: Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Jason Healy said: > I didn't see the original post; do you know why the NFS connection hangs? > Could it be lock-related? > usually is..at least in my case rpc.statd dies(though does not exit) which prevents things from being able to lock files until I issue a /etc/init.d/nfs-common restart na

Re: security.debian.org in /etc/apt/source.list

2002-09-20 Thread nate
> If I'm running Debian testing, and if security updates aren't really > applicable to a testing/unstable system, then is there any point in > having > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb no, since 'stable' and 'testing' are different trees. for a short tim

Re: security.debian.org in /etc/apt/source.list

2002-09-20 Thread alnesbit
[snip] > for a short > time debian did maintain a 'testing' security update site at > security.debian.org (I think it started after the semi-recent SSH stuff > that came out), but I don't know if they still are doing it(I would expect > them to not be doing it). That would explain my confusion a

Re: Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-20 Thread Ulf Rompe
"Charlie Grosvenor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any alternative to NFS that I can use to mount my home > directory on my server? If you have enough space on your client machines there are always the distributed filesystems: OpenAFS, CODA, Inter-Mezzo. They keep your filesystem on both

initrd problems

2002-09-20 Thread Tim Olsen
I am having problems setting up an initial ramdisk for my kernel. I get the following message during boot: RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. I used make-kpkg to build my kernel from a stock 2.4.19 source tree: make-kpkg --initrd -rev custom.2 kernel_image Here's m

netinstall ISO

2002-09-20 Thread Scott Henson
I was looking today at the net install ISOs on d.o I noticed that there were several different ISOs I could choose from. Anyone have any spefic advice on which one is best. Thank you. Scott Henson -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: debian-xemacs-version: Symbols' value as variable is void

2002-09-20 Thread Glyn Millington
Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now, just in case _some-one_ does read this: Josef, Alas I cannot answer you question. This is just to suggest that you might get a response on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got XEmacs 21.4.9 running here. I acheived this by 1. Pointing sources list at a

Re: netinstall ISO

2002-09-20 Thread Amir Tal
On Friday 20 September 2002 18:45, Scott Henson wrote: > I was looking today at the net install ISOs on d.o I noticed that there > were several different ISOs I could choose from. Anyone have any spefic > advice on which one is best. Thank you. > Scott Henson depends on the internet connection

samba-tng and openldap

2002-09-20 Thread Quenten Griffith
Hello any here been able to compile the newist cvs of samba-tng with ldap support, I have openlap installed from source, and I am trying to install samba-tng using debian/rules binary command from the source but get this error hecking for ber_bvfree in -llber... no checking for ldap.h... yes

Re: Building a full audio/video system based on debian

2002-09-20 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:34:00PM -0700, nate wrote: > Hanasaki JiJi said: > > Any input on what to use for hardware and capture / playback software? > > > > I am hoping for only open source. I know that leaves NVidia out due to > > the closed drivers. How about ATI? > > just becau

Re: initrd problems

2002-09-20 Thread Tim Olsen
I think I figured it out. mkinitrd only works with Debian kernel sources. (bug 149236) -Tim On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:44:07AM -0400, Tim Olsen wrote: > > I am having problems setting up an initial ramdisk for my kernel. I > get the following message during boot: > > RAMDISK: Couldn't fin

Re: Building a full audio/video system based on debian

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Tim Moss said: > I'm not sure if there's any issues with using a 2.2.x kernel but I have a > Radeon 7500 with XFree 4.2 (on kernel 2.4) and it works great. It's > extremely fast and stable and completely open source. yeah so the big question for me would be does it work as well(or close) on a 2

Slow printing through CUPS

2002-09-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'm using CUPS to print to a network printer attached to a Windows 2000 box. All printing is done via SMB. The big problem is that when I'm printing from one of my Debian machines, the speed is absolutely horrible. Approx 3 - 5 MINUTES per page. When printing from a Windows box, I get about 3 - 5

Re: samba-tng and openldap

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Quenten Griffith said: > Hello any here been able to compile the newist cvs of samba-tng with > ldap support, I have openlap installed from source, and I am trying to > install samba-tng using debian/rules binary command from the source but > get this error check out my HOWTO on openldap, it incl

Re: samba-tng and openldap

2002-09-20 Thread Quenten Griffith
That is what I was going by was your howto word for word and I get that error nate wrote: >Quenten Griffith said: > > >>Hello any here been able to compile the newist cvs of samba-tng with >>ldap support, I have openlap installed from source, and I am trying to >>install samba-tng using debia

Re: Building a full audio/video system based on debian

2002-09-20 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:38:10AM -0700, nate wrote: > Tim Moss said: > > > I'm not sure if there's any issues with using a 2.2.x kernel but I have a > > Radeon 7500 with XFree 4.2 (on kernel 2.4) and it works great. It's > > extremely fast and stable and completely open source. > >

Re: samba-tng and openldap

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Quenten Griffith said: > That is what I was going by was your howto word for word and I get that > error did you install the libldap2-dev package? if you built ldap from source as in my instructions you'll need the libldap2-dev package from the sources you built, not from the debian archives, th

Re: samba-tng and openldap

2002-09-20 Thread Quenten Griffith
I installed that package from the source I made of openldap per your instructions. I wish to thank you for your great how to on this and all the work you put in to it. Some reason I still get that error though. This box had been upgraded to testing so I may wipe it and start it all over aga

Re: samba-tng and openldap

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Quenten Griffith said: > I installed that package from the source I made of openldap per your > instructions. I wish to thank you for your great how to on this and all > the work you put in to it. Some reason I still get that error though. > This box had been upgraded to testing so I may wipe it

Re: netinstall ISO

2002-09-20 Thread jeff
could you point me to that 138 mb install disc? i've been looking for that and haven't been able to track it down! it's my favorite install method and has worked for me every single time. i lost the URL. thanks!!! -jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

config files and packages

2002-09-20 Thread Jeff Cours
Apologies in advance for a very much newbie question. I'm trying to make the transition from Mandrake to Debian (stable right now, with plans to track testing once I get stable working). There are a bunch of things that Mandrake auto-configured that I'm going to have to configure manually with

Re: config files and packages

2002-09-20 Thread Debian
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:33:56AM -0700, Jeff Cours wrote: > Apologies in advance for a very much newbie question. I'm trying to > make the transition from Mandrake to Debian (stable right now, with > plans to track testing once I get stable working). There are a bunch > of things that Mandrak

Re: MS WINWORD and WINE problems....

2002-09-20 Thread Jeremy Tan
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:07:12 -0700 (PDT), Irvin Temp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > "The Disk is full or too many files are open. > > (C:\Windows\..\Templates\Normal.dot)" > Hello, Here is how i got file saving in Word 2000 to work in wine. Change the value of "ole32" from "builtin, native"

Re: netinstall ISO

2002-09-20 Thread Amir Tal
On Friday 20 September 2002 20:17, jeff wrote: > could you point me to that 138 mb install disc? i've been looking > for that and haven't been able to track it down! it's my favorite > install method and has worked for me every single time. i lost the > URL. > > thanks!!! a simple search through

Re: config files and packages

2002-09-20 Thread Jeff Cours
Debian wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:33:56AM -0700, Jeff Cours wrote: > >>Can I just edit files under /etc as >>necessary? What happens to them when I upgrade > > Simply put. Yes you can. And yes apt is smart enough. Great - thanks! Let the editing begin! - Jeff Cours -- To UNSUBSC

Re: config files and packages

2002-09-20 Thread Amir Tal
On Friday 20 September 2002 20:58, Jeff Cours wrote: > Debian wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:33:56AM -0700, Jeff Cours wrote: > >>Can I just edit files under /etc as > >>necessary? What happens to them when I upgrade > > > > Simply put. Yes you can. And yes apt is smart enough. > > Great

ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread Alan Chandler
Can someone explain how ide-scsi gets loaded? I have done grep -r ide-scsi * on /etc and its not reported (and therefore in particular /etc/modules or /etc/modutils have no reference to it). But loaded it certainly is - although an lsmod shows it loaded but not being used by anything. The pro

Re: Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-20 Thread Joseph Dane
Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes. AFS allows for NFS-like connectivity and mounting (some large > universities use it for home directories). AFS servers and clients > are available in Debian (though I've never gotten around to setting > one up). I have. it was not simple, and not

Re: config files and packages

2002-09-20 Thread Jeff Cours
Amir Tal wrote: > a small peice of advice : > BACKUP ! No arguments here - anywhere under /etc, RCS is my friend. :-) - Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread Amir Tal
On Friday 20 September 2002 21:26, Alan Chandler wrote: > Can someone explain how ide-scsi gets loaded? > > I have done grep -r ide-scsi * on /etc and its not reported (and therefore > in particular /etc/modules or /etc/modutils have no reference to it). > > But loaded it certainly is - although a

Re: debian-xemacs-version: Symbols' value as variable is void

2002-09-20 Thread Josef Oswald
HI :-) Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Now, just in case _some-one_ does read this: > > Josef, > > Alas I cannot answer you question. This is just to suggest that you > might get a response on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I've got XEmacs 21

Re: ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 20 September 2002 7:33 pm, Amir Tal wrote: > On Friday 20 September 2002 21:26, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Can someone explain how ide-scsi gets loaded? > > > > I have done grep -r ide-scsi * on /etc and its not reported (and > > therefore in particular /etc/modules or /etc/modutils have n

RE: ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread Michael Olds
Alan, try rmmod [option] modules System administration command. Unload a module or list of modules from the kernel. This command is successful only if the specified modules are not in use and no other modules are dependent on them. Can you tell us what message you are getting that makes you th

Re: ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 20 September 2002 9:09 pm, Michael Olds wrote: > Alan, try > > rmmod [option] modules > Yes I know I can do that - I was looking for where ide-scsi gets loaded during the boot sequence > > Can you tell us what message you are getting that makes you think this is > loaded or interferin

Re: netinstall ISO

2002-09-20 Thread jeff
>a simple search through debian's webpage would get you right to it: >http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > >enjoy, >tal. heysoos marimba! it works! THANKS! cool web site btw... :-D take it easy... long live the swirl! lol.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: debian-xemacs-version: Symbols' value as variable is void

2002-09-20 Thread Glyn Millington
Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 3. Installed 21.4.6 from my cd, checked o the compile options used by the >>debian compilers - saved the list as a file. > > Do I need to make this file into a executable file (like a script?) Oh no! Use it to till you what options to feed to co

getting a new package into next stable revision?

2002-09-20 Thread DvB
What are the chances of libfox1.0 getting into the next stable revision and who would one contact about this? The reason I'm asking is that one of my co-workers has a project on sourceforge that uses the libfox UI library. Apparently, he's been getting a lot of complaints from Debian users about

Re: ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.20.2253 +0200]: > Yes I know I can do that - I was looking for where ide-scsi gets > loaded during the boot sequence Why not remove it from the /lib/modules tree and watch the startup sequence carefully for an error message? This isn't the "n

sid's libc

2002-09-20 Thread martin f krafft
is there an outlook of when sid's libc will finally make it to sarge? currently, sarge is in a rather frozen state because of this missing dependency? this ain't no rant, really just a quest for information. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.

Re: netinstall ISO

2002-09-20 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:56:34PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: > > a simple search through debian's webpage would get you right to it: > http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > enjoy, > tal. > Do any of the net-install CDs support a connection through PPPoE? My DSL provider forces me to use it. I h

Re: getting a new package into next stable revision?

2002-09-20 Thread nate
DvB said: > What are the chances of libfox1.0 getting into the next stable revision > and who would one contact about this? > > The reason I'm asking is that one of my co-workers has a project on > sourceforge that uses the libfox UI library. Apparently, he's been > getting a lot of complaints fro

Re: netinstall ISO

2002-09-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.20.2311 +0200]: > Do any of the net-install CDs support a connection through PPPoE? My > DSL provider forces me to use it. I have a Debian system up (Potato > upgraded to track testing about a year ago) now, but am looking at the > possib

ATI RAGE IIC & XFree86 4.1.0-16 & problems

2002-09-20 Thread Egor Tur
Hi Folks! I have ati rage iIIc graphics controller, 2M memory. I use "ati" driver. Now I have only 800x600 resolution & 24 bit depth. I want to use 1024x768 resolution. How can I possibly do it? I try this resolution with other depth (8, 16, 15) & I hav only black screen. I find DOCs & FAQs in

Re: sid's libc

2002-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:04:40PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > is there an outlook of when sid's libc will finally make it to sarge? It just went in today (along with some 500-odd other packages ... upgraders beware). -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] --

Re: Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-20 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Is there any alternative to NFS that I can use to mount my home > directory on my server? coda is pretty good, though setting it up makes NFS look trivial I'm afraid. The main thing I like about coda is that it is highly resistant to transient n

Re: sid's libc

2002-09-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.20.2304 +0200]: > is there an outlook of when sid's libc will finally make it to sarge? > currently, sarge is in a rather frozen state because of this missing > dependency? this ain't no rant, really just a quest for information. nevermind,

Re: Building a full audio/video system based on debian

2002-09-20 Thread csj
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:07:46 -0700 Tim Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently, on Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:34:00PM -0700, nate wrote: > > Hanasaki JiJi said: > > > Any input on what to use for hardware and capture / playback > > > software? > > > > > > I am hoping for only open source. I kn

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