Re: list delay

2003-02-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:20:46PM -0900, Andy wrote: > > OTOH there's no argument that the debian list server is probably in > > need of an upgrade. I've no idea what they've got right now, but I'm > > sure donations will be accepted :-) > > WellI will be the first to step up to the plate!

Re: Transfering my system to a new disk (was: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.)

2003-02-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:29:53AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:59:28PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > > > > > > [ ... ] > > > > > > So ... now that things are sort of back to normal, my question > > > is this: what cause

Deboostrap error

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
I've encountered this error sometime when installing debian woody from cd5 and cd1, I don't know what exactly caused this mess everytime I install the base tars after unpacking it. Bug? Those cd's used to work just fine before but right after getting experienced in linux and deciding to add more

application level packet dumper sought

2003-02-01 Thread martin f krafft
tethereal has the -V flag, which causes it to print the packet stack for received packets. that's really cool, except at times i am only interested in one particular OSI layer (usually #7). i am going to file a wishlist bug against tethereal to support this (e.g. -V7 to print the trace for layer 7

Trouble Starting up

2003-02-01 Thread Benjamin Meakin
Hello, While installing the packages for debian I get an error message that says: Errors encountered while processing: cxref I also run in to trouble when I try to start gnome. I can not get gnome to function properly. The images are distorted, the desktop does not fit to screen,

Re: LaTex editor

2003-02-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:35:36PM -0800, Virgil wrote: > True...but I do not believe you'll find the latest version 1.2.2 as a > debian package. Last time I checked, the deb package is quite outdated > (1.16?). You can however install from source. See www.lyx.org Believe it :-) lyx: Installed:

Re: Samba + LDAP

2003-02-01 Thread Mark Taylor
nate wrote: > I reccomend samba-tng over samba for PDC stuff, the -tng branch is much > more advanced, has more features(more PDC-like) then samba(in general) > though it's been a while(march 2002) since I last tried samba as a PDC > > nate I used to be a big fan of samba-tng too! but actually s

Re: application level packet dumper sought

2003-02-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.01.0923 +0100]: > in the mean time, do you know of another tool that can do what i want? ngrep seems to handle layer 7 in the default configuration. i'd still be interested in a tool that can output e.g. only layer 4 information. -- Please

Jpilot sync problems

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
After upgrading pilot-link and jpilot I've been getting these errors: Syncing on device /dev/pilot Press the HotSync button now pi_bind Inappropriate ioctl for device Check

Re: Quicky about acroread...

2003-02-01 Thread Gary Turner
JOSEPH A NAGY JR wrote: >On 01 Feb 2003 00:12:27 -0600 > DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>If you decide to do this, You should probably make sure you install >>it >>in /usr/local which is, AFAIK, the designated place to put apps that >>you >>don't install with the package management system. >

Re: LaTex editor

2003-02-01 Thread Glyn Millington
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Emacs... what else is there? (ducks) Xemacs!! or for something lighweight, Jed/Xjed Glyn -- Debian Home http://www.debian.org Debian Planet http://www.debianplanet.org/ For the children http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/ In a hurry??

Heavy harddrive use after startup

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
I am wondering if anyone else experiences this, I had thought it was a gnome problem, but am no longer using gnome. About 5 minutes after I boot up, the harddrive goes crazy for about 3-5 minutes slowing everything down, and I was wondering if anyone has any idea what might be causing it. I run,

Re: Quicky about acroread...

2003-02-01 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Saturday 01 February 2003 09:54, Virgil wrote: > --- ZephyrQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I haven't found a .deb for acroread, Acrobat's linux version of > > their > > .pdf reader. Does one exist? > > I've dled the tarball, but can I install it without screwing > > something > > in my

Re: LaTex editor

2003-02-01 Thread Alaa The Great
On 31 Jan 2003 16:50:08 -0500 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm surprised nobody mentioned TeXmacs if you are running X (also a > requirement for LyX, btw, so if you are a fan of a strictly text > (and maybe SVGAlib or FrameBuffer,) then emacs or vi, or maybe even > ae, are appropri

Re: Fun sound problem

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030130 09:02]: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:47:12PM -0800, Eric Nelson wrote: > > Nice board, have you tried the alsa website for drivers? > > Erf. I was hoping for the simplicity of using OSS. My understanding > is that ALSA is Not Trivial to use, requiring A

Re: Jpilot sync problems

2003-02-01 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday 01 February 2003 18:10, Elijah wrote: > After upgrading pilot-link and jpilot I've been getting these errors: > > > > Syncing on device /dev/pilot > Press the HotSync button now > ***

Sound problems

2003-02-01 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello all, Troubles with sound this time. I did a new installation with debian. I installed the x-server without a gui, added the line deb http://devel-home.kde.org/~nolden/kde stable main to my sources.list I run apt-get update, apt-get install kdm KDE 3.1 was installed with all pack

Re: Jpilot sync problems [SOLVED]

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 18:14, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Saturday 01 February 2003 18:10, Elijah wrote: > > After upgrading pilot-link and jpilot I've been getting these errors: > > > > > > > > Syncing on device /dev/pi

Re: freeze-ups

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030130 16:07]: > Jeremy Wilkerson wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I recently installed Debian on my computer, but I have never used a > >Unix OS before. I installed version 3.0 rev 1 for i386. My computer > >is a Pentium II 400. Occasionally KDE totally freezes up on m

Re: Sound problems

2003-02-01 Thread Duncan Baynes
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 09:32 pm, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello all, > > Troubles with sound this time. > I did a new installation with debian. I installed the x-server without a > gui, added the line deb http://devel-home.kde.org/~nolden/kde stable main > to my sources.list > > I run apt-get

Re: apache-dev dependencies bug?

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 04:13:30AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > I've tried to install apache-dev on woody with apt-get and I've got this > error: > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > apache-dev: Depends: libdb2-dev (>= 2.7.7-2.1) but it is not going to > be installe

Re: Heavy harddrive use after startup

2003-02-01 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:36:16 +0100 Rohan Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am wondering if anyone else experiences this, I had thought it was a > gnome problem, but am no longer using gnome. > > About 5 minutes after I boot up, the harddrive goes crazy for about 3-5 > minutes slowing everyth

Re: Sound problems

2003-02-01 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
kdemultimedia packages weren't installed yet, I thougt this was a standard package, Set aRts soundserver, sound runs well now and indeed, XMMS crashses :( That's a pity, it looks better than noatun. Is there a way to use XMMS and sound in KDE? HTH, Willem-Jan Op zaterdag 1 februari 2003 11:54

RE: Dual Lilo boot with Debian and RedHat

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Ellis
The easiest way to handle dual boots of linux is to create separate lilos for each distro. Set one lilo write to the mbr and the other to write to the start of it's own partition. For example: Set Debian's lilo to write to mbr. Set up lilo to boot redhat's root on /dev/hda2. Set up Redhat's li

A more detailed posting ....

2003-02-01 Thread Dave Selby
I re-configured my computer and installed 2 copies of woody on different partitions, all AOK. One for experimenting on, the other for work and serious stuff. I enabled dial on demand, and generally set up the system. I then tryed to udate my system via apt-get. To start with there were 88 upgra

Re: Setting up the mail program

2003-02-01 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-02-2003 07:33]: > My understanding is that entries in /etc/ppp/ will automagically start > and stop the fetchmail daemon when it's installed systemwide. I am running fetchmail on a system that has no direct connection to the internet so I am perhaps not able

Re: Sound problems

2003-02-01 Thread Johan Ehnberg
try 'apt-get install xmmsarts' Never used it myself, though. hth, /johan Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: kdemultimedia packages weren't installed yet, I thougt this was a standard package, Set aRts soundserver, sound runs well now and indeed, XMMS crashses :( That's a pity, it looks better than noat

Re: Sound problems

2003-02-01 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:25:37 +0100 Willem-Jan Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kdemultimedia packages weren't installed yet, I thougt this was a standard > package, Set aRts soundserver, sound runs well now and indeed, XMMS crashses > :( That's a pity, it looks better than noatun. > > Is ther

gnomemeeting/kde madness

2003-02-01 Thread Alain Van der Eycken
Greetings List, I'm using debian sarge, and am trying to install gnomemeeting using apt-get Apt-get however insists on deleting everything related to kde before it wants to install the necessary libs for gnomemeeting. What's this for madness then ? Can't i have both gnome and kde living happily

Re: Heavy harddrive use after startup

2003-02-01 Thread Robert Ewald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Am Samstag, 1. Februar 2003 10:36 schrieb Rohan Nicholls: > I am wondering if anyone else experiences this, I had thought it was a > gnome problem, but am no longer using gnome. > > About 5 minutes after I boot up, the harddrive goes crazy for abo

Re: LaTex editor

2003-02-01 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:28:22AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > lyx: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 1.2.2-1 > Version Table: > 1.2.2-1 0 > 50 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages > > If you need to install it into stable, I think you nee

Re: Setting up the mail program

2003-02-01 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-02-2003 07:28]: > I think even you can agree, though, that it's really annoying when > someone asks a question that is either currently being discussed or is > in the last three months of archives and thus is still timely and yet > easy to google. site:lists

Re: gnomemeeting/kde madness

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:14:00PM +0100, Alain Van der Eycken wrote: > I'm using debian sarge, and am trying to install gnomemeeting using apt-get > Apt-get however insists on deleting everything related to kde before it wants > to install the necessary libs for gnomemeeting. This is due to the

RE: A more detailed posting ....

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Ellis
Try downloading the 4 deb packages manually via ftp or standard web browser. Check the integrity of the download using the md5sums. If the download works ok then try installing them manually with dpkg -i This will determine whether it is apt or the particular packages that are at fault. If this

Re: apache-dev dependencies bug?

2003-02-01 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 13:06, Colin Watson wrote: > Actually, 2:2.7.7.0-7 is greater than 2.7.7-2.1. apt-get is behaving > wackily. Does 'apt-get -f install' clear anything up? If not, you could > try dselect. Thanx, apt-get -f didn't solved it but it went ok with dselect. is there a way to fix apt

Re: Sound problems

2003-02-01 Thread Duncan Baynes
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:55 pm, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > try 'apt-get install xmmsarts' > Never used it myself, though. > > > hth, > /johan > unfortunatly xmms seems to crash when I have xmmsarts installed. I have problems with programs like winex and mplayer if arts is enabled so I just don't both

Re: gnomemeeting/kde madness

2003-02-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:27:02 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:14:00PM +0100, Alain Van der Eycken wrote: > > I'm using debian sarge, and am trying to install gnomemeeting using > > apt-get Apt-get however insists on deleting everything related to kde > > before it wants t

Re: problems getting started

2003-02-01 Thread Kent West
Benjamin Meakin wrote: Hello, I just installed debian on my system and I am having trouble getting gnome to work properly. Gnome starts up but the desktop does not fit to screen, random icons appear in the middle of the screen,and various other odd problems. If anybody could tell me how to go abo

Re: not quite the regular sources.list problem

2003-02-01 Thread Kent West
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:05:04PM -0800, lenny bruce wrote: I've found a lot of support regarding a sources.list problem that apparently is fairly common but isn't the problem I have... I picked some bad sources and entered the deb lines incorrectly before I figured out the correct way to d

setting content-description in mutt

2003-02-01 Thread martin f krafft
When I sign a message with mutt and GPG, the GPG signature's MIME part is introduced like so in the message source: Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline A friend using Ximian Evolution can sign his emails with the following MIME header: Content-Type: applicat

Building an IMAP server

2003-02-01 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi! Currently I'm trying to figure out what software to use best to set up an IMAP server for the company I'm working at. I'll be using Debian Woody for the server, and the following requirements and suppositions are given: + about 60--100 users + Mail must be saved on the server, not on the cl

Configuration centralizing tool sought

2003-02-01 Thread martin f krafft
Hi all, I am in search for a tool that does the following. - According to a list of users, the tool goes and finds a particular file relative to the user's home directory. Let's say this file is called foo.rc. If the user list consists of {bob, jane, bill}, then the tool would go and find

RE: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Ellis
I have used a combination of courier imap, vmailmgr, and qmail with great results for performance and reliability. All of these are easy to set up and will allow you your pop3 and imap configurations. I'm not sure about exim with maildir. I'm not a great fan of exim for anything more than simple

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hans Wilmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.01.1408 +0100]: > Currently I'm trying to figure out what software to use best to set up > an IMAP server for the company I'm working at. I'll be using Debian > Woody for the server, and the following requirements and suppositions > are given: c

Re: Configuration centralizing tool sought

2003-02-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.01.1457 +0100]: > Or if someone more capable on perl than I (i.e. > 0) could whip that > out of his/her pocket for my perusal. I'll package it and give credit > in return. if there is someone, please speak to me before as i have a couple of

Error setting dma to hd

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
I could set other parameters but dma doesn't seem to work anymore: --- valhalla:/etc/sysconfig# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdb1: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Invalid argument using_dma= 0 (off) -

RE: Configuration centralizing tool sought

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Ellis
Maybe a mixture of cvs and .login could do this? -Original Message- From: martin f krafft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 February 2003 13:58 To: debian users Subject: Configuration centralizing tool sought Hi all, I am in search for a tool that does the following. - According to a

Re: Configuration centralizing tool sought

2003-02-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am in search for a tool that does the following. > >- According to a list of users, the tool goes and finds a particular > file relative to the user's home directory. Let's say this file is > called foo.rc. If the user

Re: Configuration centralizing tool sought

2003-02-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.01.1528 +0100]: > Maybe a mixture of cvs and .login could do this? I was thinking about that, but that's overkill. Aside, it requires users to checkin, and it requires me to configure the CVS tree properly wrt permissions... PS: I'd appreciate

OT Help with Mozilla

2003-02-01 Thread bob parker
I'm in the middle of using ncftp to download Knoppix iso - 700meg. As a consequence Moz keeps timing out while I attempt to access other site I regularly use. Is it possible to increase the time out delay in Mozilla? How? Thanks Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Configuration centralizing tool sought

2003-02-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.01.1528 +0100]: > There are not things you should package. It's a one-off that you, > as a capable sysadmin ;), should be able to write in less time as > it took for you to compose this message. Well, not if I am lazy... I have a shel

Re: Heavy harddrive use after startup

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030201 12:33]: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:36:16 +0100 > Rohan Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this also and believe that it is updatedb (used by locate) > running in the background. I hardly ever turn my box off but if I do > the next day after I boot

Re: Setting up the mail program

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:22:17PM +0100, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > I try to search in all the usual places before asking questions and > can find most answers. Sometimes digesting the information > or asking the right question is a problem. For instance I have > started reading a c++ book. On page

kernel 2.4.20-686 installation

2003-02-01 Thread Simon Tod
Wishing to upgrade my kernel on woody to 2.4.20 I ran the apt-get install line at the top of the attached file and everything else is what followed. Apart from the fact the download was painfully slow everything seemed to be going alright... I don't have a initrd=/initrd.img' in my image=/vmlinuz

Re: RAM upgrade ignored or kernel panic arises on Thinkpad T22

2003-02-01 Thread debian
it happened to me once (IBM p200mhz), but when I replaced my old simms at 70ns with 80ns (the new ones had more memory), I had to set that up at startup not via system and all worked. R> >I tried it, a couple of times to be sure, but , NO, it does not solve >the problem. Thanks, though. V. >---

Re: if you could have just one dead tree book

2003-02-01 Thread mtsouk
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote: > Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:51:11 -0600 > From: Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: if you could have just one dead tree book > Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:05:20 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > At

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-02-01 Thread mtsouk
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Jason Pepas wrote: > Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:58:50 -0600 > From: Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Backup Consensus? > Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:11:41 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-02-01 Thread Thomas H. George
Embarassed. Part of the problem was a defective ink cartridge. lp /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps is now ok. But termial problem persists. lp printtest prints nothing and generates the error_log previously reported. printtest is a one line of plain text in a file produced by vi.

Re: Heavy harddrive use after startup

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
> I guess it is anacron or cron. > Look in your /etc/cron.daily: all these scripts are executed once a day, if > you have anacron running. It updates your htdig, locate, man-db, etc. > indexes. If you don't need a certain index just remove the executable bit > from the files or disable anacron i

Re: freeze-ups

2003-02-01 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 21:55, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > * Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030130 16:07]: > > Jeremy Wilkerson wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >I recently installed Debian on my computer, but I have never used a > > >Unix OS before. I installed version 3.0 rev 1 for i386. My computer > > >is a

Dependency problems with the g++ package

2003-02-01 Thread Peppe
Hi =) this is my problem: Enterprise:~# apt-get install g++ [cut] Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: g++: Depends: g++-3.2 (>= 1:3.2.2-0pre2) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages Enterprise:~# ok so let's see what's wrong: Enterprise:~# ap

Re: Error setting dma to hd

2003-02-01 Thread Calber Chainy
Before activating DMA you should check some things. See if your hard drive supports dma hdparm -i /dev/hda /dev/hda: Model=ST360021A, FwRev=3.19, SerialNo=3HR0YT2A Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 Buff

Re: kernel 2.4.20-686 installation

2003-02-01 Thread Peppe
The Kernel installation didn't succedd try this: -remove all the packages you downloaded with the kernel apt-get remove dash (you should have removed ^^ ) apt-get install ash(seems to be a good replacement to dash that is what broke your setup) apt-get etc. kernel [Cut] -- To UNS

Re: Quicky about acroread...

2003-02-01 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:31, JOSEPH A NAGY JR wrote: > On 01 Feb 2003 00:12:27 -0600 > DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >If you decide to do this, You should probably make sure you install > >it > >in /usr/local which is, AFAIK, the designated place to put apps that > >you > >don't install with

Re: Quicky about acroread...

2003-02-01 Thread Dave Steinberg
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, JOSEPH A NAGY JR wrote: > On 01 Feb 2003 00:12:27 -0600 > DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >If you decide to do this, You should probably make sure you install it > >in /usr/local which is, AFAIK, the designated place to put apps that > >you don't install with the package

List of users from a certain group

2003-02-01 Thread Calber Chainy
Hello list, I have a group of users in my system just for mail, the name of that group is "correo". My question is, how do I obtain a list of users from this group? Thanks a lot. Chainy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-02-01 Thread Bill Moseley
On 1 Feb 2003, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > # On the local host : > ssh-keygen -t dsa -f id_dsa > # When prompted for a password, just press 'enter'. > scp id_dsa.pub [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ I would strongly recommend using a good pass phrase and ssh-agent. If someone gets your password less priva

Helvetica Printer Fonts & HP 1100 (again)

2003-02-01 Thread Bill Moseley
[Sending again -- in hope someone can help] I have a testing/unstable machine with CUPS and a non-postscript printer (HP LaserJet 1100). When I print a calendar with Jpilot the fonts are really poor quality. The fonts look like an old dot matrix -- like it's about 50dpi. And indeed when I cre

Re: Sound problems

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* Duncan Baynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030201 13:55]: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:55 pm, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > unfortunatly xmms seems to crash when I have xmmsarts installed. > > I have problems with programs like winex and mplayer if arts is enabled > so I just don't bother and run kde with it di

Help debugging package problems (again)

2003-02-01 Thread Bill Moseley
[I'm sending this again -- Debian is a package system and I think understanding this is importnat. I hope someone can help explain this.] >From Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 06:46:04 -0800 (PST) I'm running a mix of testing/unstable. $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release "testing"; APT::Cache-L

updatedb running as user nobody

2003-02-01 Thread Bill Moseley
The cron.daily/find script runs with -localuser=nobody, but files in my accounts are then not indexed. If on this system it's not a problem that people see file names of all files is there any reason not to run updatedb as root? -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: cdrecord freezes when burning data

2003-02-01 Thread Richard Otte
Pigeon, Is there a command one can type to determine what type of chipset or motherboard I have? I tried looking at dmesg and didn't see anything useful. The machine is an old pentium II Dell that looks to have (from dmesg) a 447 MHz CPU with bus speed of 99.4 MHz. Thanks, Ric On Fri, Jan 31,

Re: Configuration centralizing tool sought

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
> Well, not if I am lazy... I have a shell script like that, but I want > a perl version. I don't believe in shell anymore, and I have too > little time to learn Perl... > I am not sure why you have lost faith in shell scripting, besides the language being horribly ugly, and useless for complic

Re: kernel 2.4.20-686 installation

2003-02-01 Thread Simon Tod
I've just tried this... I 'purged' the files that didn't compile, then I try to run apt-get -t testing install ash and it tries to install dash as well, but fails giving me this error message. What's going on?! ~# apt-get install -t testing ash Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependenc

Re: Samba + LDAP

2003-02-01 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Great! So what am I supposed to do? I don't see a tng branch in debian's distros. So are you suggesting I download it from, say, samba? The main thing is that I need a samba package with LDAP built in. Curtis On Friday, Jan 31, 2003, at 16:30 US/Pacific, nate wrote: Curtis Vaughan said: So, j

Re: List of users from a certain group

2003-02-01 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:38:02PM +0100, Calber Chainy wrote: > I have a group of users in my system just for mail, the name of that > group is "correo". > > My question is, how do I obtain a list of users from this group? how about grep ^correo /etc/group hth sean msg27919/pgp

Re: Error setting dma to hd

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 00:20, Calber Chainy wrote: > Before activating DMA you should check some things. > > See if your hard drive supports dma > > hdparm -i /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > > Model=ST360021A, FwRev=3.19, SerialNo=3HR0YT2A > Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpd

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-01 Thread Sean
I've currently got this setup on my home firewall box. Granted, I have far fewer than 60-100 users, but that's largely irrelevant as far as the setup goes. I'm running Debian(sid) on a 500MHz Alpha workstation, using courier-imap for IMAP, exim for MTA, and spamassassin for anti-spam. Authenticati

Photo archiving software?

2003-02-01 Thread Neal Lippman
Wondering if anyone has any suggestions for photo indexing and archiving software - something like (what I have been told) iPhoto does on the Mac. I have boxes full of old photos, and would like to scan them all in for storage; I need something that will handle that sort of task, including indexin

Re: List of users from a certain group

2003-02-01 Thread Calber Chainy
Ok, I was creating users using useradd -g instead of useradd -G, therefore they were not added in the file /etc/group. Thanks for the help. Chainy. El sáb, 01-02-2003 a las 17:10, sean finney escribió: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:38:02PM +0100, Calber Chainy wrote: > > I have a group of users i

Re: Configuration centralizing tool sought

2003-02-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Rohan Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.01.1703 +0100]: > I am not sure why you have lost faith in shell scripting, besides the > language being horribly ugly, and useless for complicated development > (which it is not meant, nor designed for, so fair enough:)), but perl is > notori

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 01 Feb 2003, Hans Wilmer wrote: > + about 60--100 users Piece of cake on anything better than a Pentium MMX200. > + Mail must be saved on the server, not on the clients. > + Users should be able to create folders and subfolders to store their > mail. IMAP will do this. > + Exim should b

Re: Samba + LDAP

2003-02-01 Thread nate
Curtis Vaughan said: > Great! So what am I supposed to do? > I don't see a tng branch in debian's distros. So are you suggesting I > download it from, say, samba? > The main thing is that I need a samba package with LDAP built in. there used to be a samba-tng package, i guess it's gone now. I hav

Re: updatedb running as user nobody

2003-02-01 Thread nate
Bill Moseley said: > If on this system it's not a problem that people see file names of all > files is there any reason not to run updatedb as root? security reasons I'm sure. to minimize effects of buffer overflows for the program(I think usually the buffer overflow would be in the locate comman

hdparm -d1: Operation not permitted

2003-02-01 Thread Mark
I'm trying to turn on dma on my dvd drive so that when I play dvds the movie plays real smooth. When I run 'hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd' I get this output: /dev/dvd: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) I get the same output when I do 'hdp

Re: Transfering my system to a new disk (was: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.)

2003-02-01 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [ ... ] > > Gack! > > How old is the drive? Any chance the issue is termination or a > misconfigured jumper? You're using an Adaptec 2940? I'll check the jumper later, when I open up my box. Yes, I believe it's a 2940 > [ ... ] > > Lloyd Zusman

Re: Quicky about acroread...

2003-02-01 Thread Andy
> The only annoying thing in my case is that the "license" text continue > to pop up every time I invoke it (once per session)...I suppose once > can probably turn this off by looking at the appropriate configuration > file. I haven't done it. I tried figuring this out a while ago. There is a ver

Re: Dependency problems with the g++ package

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 03:23:49PM +0100, Peppe wrote: > Enterprise:~# apt-get install libstdc++5-dev > [cut] > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > libstdc++5-dev: Depends: libc12-dev but it is not installable Please check the bug tracking system's records for libstdc++5

Re: kernel 2.4.20-686 installation

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 03:29:10PM +0100, Peppe wrote: > The Kernel installation didn't succedd try this: > > -remove all the packages you downloaded with the kernel > > apt-get remove dash (you should have removed ^^ ) > apt-get install ash(seems to be a good replacement to dash that i

Re: Samba + LDAP

2003-02-01 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Well, I'm not certain whether I should use Samba-tng or the samba sid release, which apparently has ldap compiled in. So, is LDAP built into samba-tng Whereas sid is the unstable release, what should I be concerned about? Curtis On Saturday, Feb 1, 2003, at 08:45 US/Pacific, nate wrote: Curtis

Re: List of users from a certain group

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 06:33:48PM +0100, Calber Chainy wrote: > Ok, I was creating users using useradd -g instead of useradd -G, > therefore they were not added in the file /etc/group. In general, I suggest using adduser on Debian rather than useradd. useradd is the low-level tool; adduser is the

Re: Samba + LDAP

2003-02-01 Thread nate
Curtis Vaughan said: > Well, I'm not certain whether I should use Samba-tng or the samba sid > release, which apparently has ldap compiled in. > So, is LDAP built into samba-tng > Whereas sid is the unstable release, what should I be concerned about? try them both ..they are probably of equal qual

Re: setting content-description in mutt

2003-02-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, martin f krafft said: > When I sign a message with mutt and GPG, the GPG signature's MIME part > is introduced like so in the message source: > > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > Content-Disposition: inline > > A friend using Ximian Evolution can sign his

Re: ppp on demand trouble

2003-02-01 Thread Donald Spoon
Sigmund Svertingsson wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Here is a bit more detail: Machine "Return" (it lives in my air conditioning return ducting at the end of the hallway) is my gateway to the outside world (via my dial-up ISP). My ISP gives me a dynamic IP address. I'm pretty

Re: Transfering my system to a new disk (was: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.)

2003-02-01 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Quoting Lloyd Zusman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [ ... ] > > Well, I'm using LILO. I want to create a proper rescue disk, > and I used the mkboot utility to do so. It told me that it created > a proper disk, but when I tried to boot off of it, I got a kernel > panic with a message that stated that th

Re: CD-writer is not recognized as a scsi device

2003-02-01 Thread Ruediger Noack
Vera Friederichs wrote: Ruediger Noack wrote: sg 24068 0 (autoclean) sr_mod 11832 0 (autoclean) ide-scsi7680 0 cdrom 28960 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod] scsi_mod 80600 3 (autoclean) [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]

Re: hdparm -d1: Operation not permitted

2003-02-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Mark [Sat, Feb 01 2003, 11:54:42AM]: > Google was of little help, steering me to think that the support for > my ide controller might not have been built into the kernel. I am > running an newer motherboard: abit at7 max. It uses the kt333 chipset.

Re: Quicky about acroread...

2003-02-01 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 16:45, ZephyrQ wrote: > I haven't found a .deb for acroread, Acrobat's linux version of their > .pdf reader. Does one exist? I realize it isn't free, but I also > cannot get xpdf and/or ghostview to deal with passworded pdf files (as > sent to me by my wife's student loan peopl

Re: Upgrading to KDE 3.1

2003-02-01 Thread mtsouk
After doing what you have kindly said, I got the following: debian:~# apt-get upgrade -s Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: arts: Depends: libarts1

Nautilus unable to show desktop

2003-02-01 Thread franck routier
Hi, When I open a gnome session, I get messages from nautilus telling me that : "/home/username/ is not valid location" "/home/username/.desktop is not valid location" I think it might come from gnome-vfs, but don't really know... Any hint ? Thanks, Franck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

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