Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:36:21AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 16/02/03 Brian Nelson did speaketh: > > > What if you want to honor a package's "Recommends" field with apt-get? > > That'll take some extra effort that isn't necessary with aptitude. Or > > what if you want to automatically

Re: flex++ and C++ compliance

2003-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:23:16AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I'm trying to determine whether flex++ produces standards-compliant C++. It > seems that it very nearly does, except that /usr/include/FlexLexer.h refers > to std::istream and std::ostream without the std:: prefix. This is as of > 2

Re: FTP active getting blocked

2003-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:22:30PM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > My website host just recently changed its FTP server from Passive to > Active. > > I thought that it would be easy to make the switch on the client side, > but I've run into problems. At first I thought it was my firewall that > w

Re: dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set

2003-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:23:14PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > On February 14, 2003 07:08 pm, you wrote: > > Yes, this is how I eventually managed to get packages from the set but > > wouldn't it have been easier if the dselect's access menu had the > > 'multi cd' option?  Supposedly my 3.0r1 Stab

Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???

2003-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:57:02PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 06:41:28AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > [ snip ] > > > I'm not familiar with XFS, but reiserfs (which I usually use for large > > directories) uses a hash table to store entries. Insertion, deletion,

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 03:21:22PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 17:50:16 -0500 > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At the commnd line it is aptitude search '~d(browser|www)' > > Ah. ~ for where to search, d for descripton, (|) for the grouping and or? Yes. -- Rob

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:22:42PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Surely, you don't have to > > apt-get remove each package? > > Easiest way is to either run debfoster, or purge Qt and

Re: IP Masquerade

2003-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:46:06PM +1100, Russell wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a PC (PC_1) connected to the ISP via dialup ppp (DHCP assigned > address). PC_1 also has an ethernet card: 192.168.0.1 > > Another PC (PC_2: 192.168.0.2) connects to PC_1 via ethernet. > > Can i access my ISPs DNS serv

Re: O_DIRECT to read files

2003-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:57:50PM -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > Hi, > > has anyone used O_DIRECT flag of open to read files bypassing the buffer > cache of the kernel? I am trying to read using this option but the read > command always returns 0, indicating that zero bytes were read. The >

Re: Browsers falling apart

2003-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 07:43:04AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Is there a way to checksum the installed packages? debsums. Not all packages include md5sums though, but if you know a package has not been corrupted (ie not now), debsums can generate them for you. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ftpd-ssl

2003-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:21:59AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > Children's Cancer Institute Australia is the only independent medical > research institute in Australia solely devoted to research into the causes, > prevention and cure of childhood cancer. Our vision is to save the lives of > all c

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2003-02-17 Thread mouah.mouah
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2003-02-17 Thread Walther, Christoph
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2003-02-17 Thread elmacoin-oktatas
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Re: Unresolved symbol umoddi3 in sendmail

2003-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 07:20:23PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:09:03PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:51:25AM -0800, Bruce Pinsky wrote: > > > I've recently installed Debian 3.0 on my SPARC. Initial install went fine > > > however since updating

Re: 16MB not enough to install

2003-02-17 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:49:13AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Hugh Saunders wrote: > >yeah should be possible but slow... cheat; put the disk in another > >machine for installation then put it back. > > Can't. > Notebook. Can. Did. :-) Mine was a Toshiba T1950CT (486DX2/40) with only 8M. Took a

IMAP-SSL

2003-02-17 Thread gabe
Does anyone on this list know which of the IMAP-SSL packages is the best? I'm using sendmail their are a few choices in dselect and wanted to know which was the most stable -- Gabriel Granger +-+ | .~. | | /V

Re: Backup MX server

2003-02-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 02:41:20PM +1100, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: > Can you recommend one that's easy to configure/setup ? Exim or Qmail. Basically configure the MTA to accept for the domain, but don't perform local delivery. You may need to then configure an SMTP route for delivery. -- Jamin W

Re: Help on starting X

2003-02-17 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hi All, > > I've posted a couple of times on this issue... does no one know the > solution to this problem? Or, does no one use the 3dfx Voodoo 5000 card > wih Debian at all? > > I'm running Debian Woody 3.0r1 on a powerpc and get this error when > trying to sta

Re: IP Masquerade

2003-02-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
I supposed you could set something up with ssh, so PC1 tunnels a port to its own DNS port via sshd, but it's going to be significantly harder and less useful than ipmasq. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assist

Re: IMAP-SSL

2003-02-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:10:08PM +, gabe wrote: > Does anyone on this list know which of the IMAP-SSL packages is the > best? I'm using sendmail their are a few choices in dselect and wanted > to know which was the most stable Most stable is a very subjective item, as such opinions will diff

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 16/02/03 Paul Johnson did speaketh: > Well, that's because it also installs reccommends. Some folks prefer > that. Partly, but it's also because it tries to upgrade my whole system, when all I wanted to do was install a single package. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-17 Thread Frank Murphy
> > What is wrong with the following setup for Grub? I always ended up with > > problems booting from hda5, which is not a partition on my system. (hda1 > > is windows, hda2 is swap, hda3 is going to be Sarge, and hda4 is Woody.) > > > > Here's my Grub config: > > > > title Woody install > > ke

php4 dependencies

2003-02-17 Thread Joel Alexandre
hi i'm trying to install php4. when o dp "apt-get install php4" i get the following error: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: php4: Depends: libbz2-1.0 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) but it is not going to be installed Dep

how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
We have a HP laser printer here with a JetDirect server. It's, of course, Windows optimized, so all LPR clients have to suffer from the staircase effect which occurs when the printer needs \r for a line fe

Install Minix from Linux (no Floppy)

2003-02-17 Thread Dieter Schoppitsch
Hi all, sorry, if this mail is (too) off topic. I'd like to install Minix on a free partition on my Toshiba Libretto. Unfortunately the (PCMCIA-)floppy stops when I try to install (regular) from disks. Is there a way to install Minix from Linux (or DOS) without floppy? - and how? Thanks for an

Re: flex++ and C++ compliance

2003-02-17 Thread Gregory Seidman
Rob Weir sez: } On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:23:16AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: } > I'm trying to determine whether flex++ produces standards-compliant } > C++. It seems that it very nearly does, except that } > /usr/include/FlexLexer.h refers to std::istream and std::ostream } > without the std::

Re: 16MB not enough to install

2003-02-17 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hugh Saunders wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:07:13PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > > >>I'm running out of memory and am unable to complete the installation. > >> > >>I thought this could still be done on 16MB of RAM. > > > >yeah should be possible bu

Re: DNS + DHCP

2003-02-17 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How do these two play nice together? > > Do you still need the perl script to do it or have they configured a way > to talk directly (DHCP3, BIND9)? > > I know at one point that there was a perl script that did a nice job > going between the two. But

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2003-02-17 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello, After my upgrade to testing/unstable everything still works fine except my KDE sound. Tried XMMS, this one works fine but there aren't sounds from KDE. When I go to the shell and run commands with arts in it, I still get the message: /usr/bin/artsd: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.17.1511 +0100]: > Since I am not the only one with that problem, I am asking here for > advise on how to solve this the least "hacky" way. Can't I just > apt-get install something to fix it? apsfilter. is there another method, maybe one with

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:11:58PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | We have a HP laser printer here with a JetDirect server. It's, of | course, Windows optimized, so all LPR clients have to suffer from the | staircase effect | which occurs | when the print

Re: my CUPS RUnneth Over!!!

2003-02-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:03:23AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: | I saw on the web that CUPS stands for Can't Usually Print Stuff. Heh. It works well for me though. | Once upon a time, CUPS worked for me. Then I tasted of the fruit of | knowledge, _of Good and Evil_. The Lord doesn't wish His peo

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
I forget who said it, but someone said (if I understood correctly) that aptitude would remove dependencies when a metapackage was selected for deletion. That didn't work for me. I installed the kdelibs metapackage then attempted to delete it --- 'aptitude remove kdelibs' removed the 45Kb metap

Re: IMAP-SSL

2003-02-17 Thread gabe
ah too true silly question !:) its a bit like asking is Windows stable? my answer would be yes provided you leave the machine disconnected from the network and left in the off state only yo be used to prop up my feet while I use my linux box :) Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 a

Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I compiled kde and qt to live in /opt. If I moved /opt to /usr/local/kde31 and made /opt a symlink would this create overhead a human would notice? Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: freeamp problems ?

2003-02-17 Thread Dave Selby
On Monday 17 February 2003 7:32 am, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:24:14PM +, Dave Selby wrote: > > Is anyone else having problems with freeamp ? > > > > I love its user interface but it seems to lock up a lot on my machine > > PIII 700Mhz, debian woody. > > > > I can select a ogg

Re: freeamp problems ?

2003-02-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 17 February 2003 4:26 pm, Dave Selby wrote: >I have run freeamp from xterm, zip new info, just locks, HOWEVER I noticed >that it sometimes freezes at exactly the same time as my modem droppes the >line. Might it be attempting to access a cddb database when the line drops? Jeff Elkins h

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
No, certainly not that a human would notice. It's an interesting question whether there's a measurable delay at all -- I don't know the answer to that one. Another solution, of course, is to put it in a new partition and then mount the partition at /opt. ap --

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 17 February 2003 10:18, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I compiled kde and > qt to live in /opt. If I moved /opt to /usr/local/kde31 and made /opt a > symlink would this create overhead a human would notice? You most probably wouldn't notice,

Re: Sid & KDE 3.1

2003-02-17 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 03:35, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 05:23:07AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 19:39, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:30:44PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > > > Has there been any word on when Sid will have KDE 3.1? > > >

set up a LAN DNS so that it doesn't conflict with external DNSes

2003-02-17 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
Hei, My current setup it, seen from the outside - www.mydomain.com points to a server located at our ISP - xxx.mydomain.com points to our LAN thanks to a redirection using DDNS. - our router redirects requests incoming from the outside to one internal server (let's say 192.168.1.2) >From the insi

Re: Debian unstable: problems during migration from gnome 1.4 tognome 2.2

2003-02-17 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
Solved one problem :) > - lost icons related to file types (all icons are identical on my > desktop and in nautilus, really annoying) I had to install gnome-icon-theme to make this work. Found that on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: unsubscribe still doesnt' work

2003-02-17 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:33:32AM -0800, Fer'had Erdogan wrote: > My last email, I was saying I thought I found the problem but no. I'm > still here, subscribed more than ever. Can the list manager write to me? > Anyone has access to the mysterious list server so that you can just > delete me from

Recompile kernel lost network

2003-02-17 Thread deFreese, Barry
Oh Gods of Debian, I recently built a Dell Lattitude laptop to hopefully start doing development on. Installed Woody with 2.2.20-idepci kernel and everything was working fine. I decide to compile 2.4.18. First time I compiled it, it wouldn't even recognize the 3Com PCMCIA nic. Got that fixed b

X down, other errors after apt-get upgrade

2003-02-17 Thread Paul Mackinney
I was running testing stably for over a year, but a standard apt-get upgrade left things fairly messed up: 1. X won't start from startx, the tail of the X log says: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 3 (No such file \ or directory) Inter

Re: set up a LAN DNS so that it doesn't conflict with external DNSes

2003-02-17 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hei, > > My current setup it, seen from the outside > - www.mydomain.com points to a server located at our ISP > - xxx.mydomain.com points to our LAN thanks to a redirection using DDNS. > - our router redirects requests incoming from the outs

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread nate
Jeff Elkins said: > Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I compiled kde > and qt to live in /opt. If I moved /opt to /usr/local/kde31 and made /opt > a symlink would this create overhead a human would notice? no. i've seen systems with many layers of symlinks and there was no

Re: Recompile kernel lost network

2003-02-17 Thread Jacob S .
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:40:03 -0800 "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh Gods of Debian, > > I recently built a Dell Lattitude laptop to hopefully start doing > development on. Installed Woody with 2.2.20-idepci kernel and > everything was working fine. I decide to compile 2.4.18.

Re: IMAP-SSL

2003-02-17 Thread nate
gabe said: > Does anyone on this list know which of the IMAP-SSL packages is the best? > I'm using sendmail their are a few choices in dselect and wanted to know > which was the most stable sslwrap can SSL-enable any IMAP4 or POP3 server(along with a few other servers e.g. http, nntp). It works

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread nate
martin f krafft said: > Or should I use this "opportunity" to (finally) upgrade to CUPS? not sure what your using now but for me and a few others CUPS on debian woody worked great when printing to a laserjet 4000/M. single or double sided I think, our printers were all black and white. it was rea

ttyp3 & grantpt(5)

2003-02-17 Thread JC Wong
Hi! After dist-upgrade yesterday,I'm having 2 error messages as below everytime I exec Eterm. 1) mesg: /dev/ttyp3: Operation not permitted <-- appear on the Eterm window itself just on top of my bash. 2) Eterm: Error: grantpt(5) failed: No such file or directory <-- appear on my root tail xlog.

RE: Recompile kernel lost network

2003-02-17 Thread deFreese, Barry
>-Original Message- >From: Jacob S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 9:31 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Recompile kernel lost network > > >On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:40:03 -0800 >"deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Oh Gods of Debian, >> >> I r

Journaling filesystems [was: Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???]

2003-02-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 07:42:17PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:57:02PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 06:41:28AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > [ snip ] > > > > > I'm not familiar with XFS, but reiserfs (which I usually use for large > > >

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-17 Thread Andy
On Sunday 16 February 2003 15:47, Greg Norris wrote: > There's no debianized package, but the 3.2 tarball works fine (on sid, > at least). I didn't try to build a package out of it, just pointed the > installer to /opt/vmware. Can you give us more detail? I can't get VMWare to work on Debian woo

Re: my CUPS RUnneth Over!!!

2003-02-17 Thread Paul Mackinney
Derrick 'dman' Hudson declaimed: > | Once upon a time, CUPS worked for me. Then I tasted of the fruit of > | knowledge, > > _of Good and Evil_. The Lord doesn't wish His people to be stupid. > He desires for them to be holy and righteous... > Thanks Derrick, I really enjoyed this off-topic digr

Re: Recompile kernel lost network

2003-02-17 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Barry" == deFreese, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Barry> Oh Gods of Debian, I recently built a Dell Lattitude laptop to Barry> hopefully start doing development on. Installed Woody with Barry> 2.2.20-idepci kernel and everything was working fine. I decide Barry> to compile 2.4.18. Fi

travan ide

2003-02-17 Thread herve
hello i've got a stt28000a seagate travan and i have woody i load ise-scsi module then is recognized , /dev/st0 but when i type : mt -f /dev/st0 status, it returns an I/O error when i remove the cartridge and type ,mt -f /dev/st0 , it returns there is no media (in this case it's a normal behavi

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-17 Thread Gregory Seidman
Andy sez: [...] } I want to try the 30 day trial of VMWare but it won't install. Debian } is not supported by them so I called one of the sales reps at VMWare and } the rep. said "What the heck is Debian?". I explained to him what Debian } was all about and the fact that I can't get VMWare work

RE: Recompile kernel lost network

2003-02-17 Thread deFreese, Barry
>-Original Message- >From: Hubert Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 10:15 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Recompile kernel lost network > > >> "Barry" == deFreese, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Barry> Oh Gods of Debian, I recently built a De

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:58:24 +0100 Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I forget who said it, but someone said (if I understood correctly) that > aptitude would remove dependencies when a metapackage was selected for > deletion. That didn't work for me. I installed the kdelibs metapackage the

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:52:29AM -0900, Andy wrote: > On Sunday 16 February 2003 15:47, Greg Norris wrote: > > There's no debianized package, but the 3.2 tarball works fine (on sid, > > at least). I didn't try to build a package out of it, just pointed the > > installer to /opt/vmware. > > Can

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread Kevin Buhr
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > apsfilter. is there another method, maybe one with less weight? Well, the "ifhp" package contains the "standard" LPRng input filter, assuming you're using LPRng. If you want a dumb filter (one that doesn't make any effort to, say, print PostScript

Re: dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set

2003-02-17 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 17, 2003 03:44 am, Colin Watson wrote: > Are "they"? I was under the impression that dpkg-multicd was all but > unmaintained and that one should use apt instead. You're right - the "latest news" from dpkg-multicd is from Oct 2001. I guess I got the impression it was being worked on f

Enabling frame-buffer support in debian kernel

2003-02-17 Thread Steve Webster
Hello I'm trying to enable frame-buffer support while configuring kernel-source-2.4.18, but all I get is a greyed-out list of choices in xconfig. This is what I've done a) installed kernel-source-2.4.18, kernel-patches for debianlogo and preempt (official debian patches), nvidi

Epson Stylus C82 "Printer not connected", nothing prints

2003-02-17 Thread Ruchira Datta
I have a Debian Gnu/Linux 3.0 box, dual boot with Windows 2000, on which I'm running Cups v. 1.1.15 with gimp-print v. 4.2.5. When I add my Epson Stylus C82, it claims to have added it successfully. The connection was through "Parallel Port #1 (Epson Stylus C82)", since when I booted the parport

muttprint only printing one page

2003-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
hi there, how do i go about fixing a problem i have with muttprint? it will only print one physical page, so if i try to print a document consisting of three pages, with two pages printed onto one, only pages 1-2 will come out, the third just doesn't get printed. i verified with muttprint whether

howto get kdm to (offer) shutdown upon logging out....?

2003-02-17 Thread Walter Tautz
i know that older versions of gdm had this feature I have managed to get sudo to allow me as an ordinary user to do what I want... but there seem to be no obvious way to configure the behaviour of kdm on a per user basis... google search yielded: http://dot.kde.org/998717333/998842727 whic

Re: travan ide

2003-02-17 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting herve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hello > i've got a stt28000a seagate travan and i have woody > i load ise-scsi module then is recognized , /dev/st0 but when i type : > > mt -f /dev/st0 status, it returns an I/O error > > when i remove the cartridge and type ,mt -f /dev/st0 , it returns ther

Re: set up a LAN DNS so that it doesn't conflict with external DNSes

2003-02-17 Thread Kevin Buhr
implement scheme (3) above, what you want is this. In what follows, I'm assuming that xxx.mydomain.com (192.168.1.2) is also the machine running your local DNS service. /etc/bind/named.conf: [ . . . ] // add entries for other zones below here zone "xxx.mydom

cron.daily/exim: "failed to open DB file..." what's this about?

2003-02-17 Thread will trillich
i get this daily in my cron reports--and i'm not sure where to fix it (or if it needs fixing): /etc/cron.daily/exim: failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Invalid argument failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: Invalid argument run-pa

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-02-17T14:11:58Z, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or should I use this "opportunity" to (finally) upgrade to CUPS? I'd suggest CUPS. Once you have it running, you'll probably wish you'd done it earlier. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg31337/pgp0

KERNEL: assertion (newsk->state...) failed

2003-02-17 Thread will trillich
Possible Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Feb 16 16:11:34 server kernel: KERNEL: assertion (newsk->state != TCP_SYN_RECV) failed at tcp.c(2229) Feb 16 16:11:34 server kernel: KERNEL: assertion ((1

Re: network problem: configuration/DNS? cannot access internalmachine using our external IP

2003-02-17 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 16 February 2003 09:20 pm, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 05:39:05PM +0100, Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:10, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > Yes, just stick 'nameserver a.b.c.d' in /etc/resolv.conf where > a.b.c.d is the address of your local nameserver.

Re: set up a LAN DNS so that it doesn't conflict with externalDNSes

2003-02-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-02-17T16:05:48Z, Jerome "Lacoste (Frisurf)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - from my LAN I want that the address xxx.mydomain.com resolves directly > to our server (192.168.1.2). Let's see if I have this straight. For clients on the LAN, `xxx.mydomain.com' should resolve to 192.168.1.2.

Re: Recompile kernel lost network

2003-02-17 Thread Jacob S .
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:41:41 -0800 "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: Jacob S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 9:31 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Recompile kernel lost network > > > > > >On Mon, 17 Feb 200

Re: Epson Stylus C82 "Printer not connected", nothing prints

2003-02-17 Thread tjm3
Ruchira Datta wrote: I have a Debian Gnu/Linux 3.0 box, dual boot with Windows 2000, on which I'm running Cups v. 1.1.15 with gimp-print v. 4.2.5. When I add my Epson Stylus C82, it claims to have added it successfully. The connection was through "Parallel Port #1 (Epson Stylus C82)", since when

Crossword agme for Debain?

2003-02-17 Thread stan
I would like to find one of these for my wie. A google search turns up a couple, but a quick atempt at compiling them on my "testing"machine fails. Cany anyone help out here? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

cdrecord -scanbus fails

2003-02-17 Thread Thomas H. George
It used to work. I have append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. On bootup dmesg|grep hdd shows ide-setup: hdd=ide-scsi ide1: BM-MDA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc DMA hdd: DMA hdd: Norcent RWJ-401S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive I have burnt cd's with the Norcent CD-RW drive in the past. Now, sudden

epson printer dilemma

2003-02-17 Thread James Tappin
I have a dilemma regarding setting up my Epson 640 printer. If I use the magicfilter filterset, I get good fast printing in 360dpi mode, but the 720 and 720x1440 filters don't work. No output appears. On the other hand if I use apsfilter, I have all the resolutions available but the 360dpi mode i

Re: Crossword agme for Debain?

2003-02-17 Thread Glyn Millington
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to find one of these for my wie. A google search turns up a > couple, but a quick atempt at compiling them on my "testing"machine fails. > > Cany anyone help out here? Not if you don't tell us how the compiles failed! What error messages did you ge

Free fonts

2003-02-17 Thread Dustin Norlander
Hello all, I just wanted to let everyone know that I have released a bunch of fonts under the GPL. All the fonts on http://www.cheapskatefonts.com are GPL. The font Dustismo is the most useful as it contains a standard sans-serif as well as a roman typeface.I know bitstream is about to

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 07:32, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 16/02/03 Paul Johnson did speaketh: > > > Well, that's because it also installs reccommends. Some folks prefer > > that. > > Partly, but it's also because it tries to upgrade my whole system, when > all I wanted to do was install a

(1) initrd + aha1542 (2) /etc/mkinitrd/modules

2003-02-17 Thread Shaul Karl
1. initrd + aha1542 I am failing to convert a kernel with aha1542 builtin into an initrd one because of the aha1542 module. Eventually I got initrd to prompt for a shell. Within that shell I was trying to insmod the aha1542 module manually and get: # insmod aha1542=0x134 Using /lib/m

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-17 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:08:48PM -0800, Raju Kurunkad wrote: > Check out rcconf. I found it quite useful for > starting/stopping services at boot. wholly mackerel -- THAT's the tool everybody has been looking for. yes, "mv" is simple but you get this slipmy creepy feeling that something could go

Re: cdrecord -scanbus fails

2003-02-17 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 17 February 2003, 03:38 PM -0500): > It used to work. > > I have append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. > On bootup dmesg|grep hdd shows > > ide-setup: hdd=ide-scsi > ide1: BM-MDA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc DMA hdd:

Re: (1) initrd + aha1542 (2) /etc/mkinitrd/modules

2003-02-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:10:46PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > 1. initrd + aha1542 > I am failing to convert a kernel with aha1542 builtin into an initrd > one because of the aha1542 module. I had a similar problem a while back. IIRC, the aha1542 module requires the isa-pnp module, and the

Re: DNS + DHCP

2003-02-17 Thread tallison
> Quoting Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> How do these two play nice together? >> >> Do you still need the perl script to do it or have they configured a >> way to talk directly (DHCP3, BIND9)? >> >> I know at one point that there was a perl script that did a nice job >> going between the two.

Re: cdrecord -scanbus fails

2003-02-17 Thread Jorge Santos
"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It used to work. > > I have append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. > On bootup dmesg|grep hdd shows > > ide-setup: hdd=ide-scsi > ide1: BM-MDA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc DMA hdd: DMA > hdd: Norcent RWJ-401S, ATAPI CD/DV

Can only use ALSA via OSS emulation layer

2003-02-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
I am using ALSA 0.9.0rc6+2-1 via `alsa-modules-2.4.19-k7' on an Unstable workstation. This worked great until the last day or two, but a recent update seems to have broken my setup (and no, I'm not sure exactly what all I updated - this is an Unstable system in name *and* practice :) ). In a nuts

Re: cdrecord -scanbus fails

2003-02-17 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:36:13PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Monday, 17 February 2003, 03:38 PM -0500): > > It used to work. > > > > I have append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. > > On bootup dmesg|grep hdd shows > > > > ide-setup: hd

Re: passwordless ssh login not working

2003-02-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030215 20:05]: > So, I rename 'identity' to 'id_rsa' and try again... IT WORKS!!! Huh? > The authorized_keys on the host still ends in > '/home/pigeon/.ssh/identity', which doesn't exist on either machine. Well, this is unsurprising. The last field of a public key li

Re: OT: differences between database models

2003-02-17 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
LDAP is an example of a hierarchical database ("upside-down tree"). j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.17.0930 +0100]: >> The topic is about three different database models: the relational, the >> hier

Re: cdrecord -scanbus fails

2003-02-17 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:07:01PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I did not intentionally set DMA on /dev/hdd and I don't know how to turn > it off. Could you tell me how you did this? man hdparm hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

exim vs. mutt: envelope/from/sender ???

2003-02-17 Thread Michael D. Schleif
As some of you know, I am transitioning from netscrape to mutt mua's. I am having some mail sending issues. The host on which the new mail system resides is bragi.private.network. The default exim and mutt installations passed this name onto the internet, whereupon intelligent mail servers reje

RE: Recompile kernel lost network - More information

2003-02-17 Thread deFreese, Barry
>On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:40:03 -0800 >"deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Oh Gods of Debian, >> >> I recently built a Dell Lattitude laptop to hopefully start doing >> development on. Installed Woody with 2.2.20-idepci kernel and >> everything was working fine. I decide to compile 2

Re: Enabling frame-buffer support in debian kernel

2003-02-17 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:51:13PM +, Steve Webster wrote: > I'm trying to enable frame-buffer support while configuring > kernel-source-2.4.18, but all I get is a greyed-out list of choices in > xconfig. > > This is what I've done [...] > d) in /usr/src/linux did "make-kpkg kernel_imag

Re: cdrecord -scanbus fails

2003-02-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:36:13PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: ... > > > I have append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. > > > On bootup dmesg|grep hdd shows > > > > > > ide-setup: hdd=ide-scsi > > > ide1: BM-MDA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS

Re: your mail

2003-02-17 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:36:13PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: [please use a non-blank, meaningful subject line] > After my upgrade to testing/unstable everything still works fine except my > KDE > sound. Tried XMMS, this one works fine but there aren't sounds from KDE. > When > I go to the s

Re: exim vs. mutt: envelope/from/sender ???

2003-02-17 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:21:47PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > As some of you know, I am transitioning from netscrape to mutt mua's. > > I am having some mail sending issues. > > The host on which the new mail system resides is bragi.private.network. > The default exim and mutt install

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