ipac-ng: is anybody using it?

2003-06-12 Thread Jürgen A . Erhard
And does nobody but me hate the rules.conf syntax? Apparently, I'm the only one who can't stomach "ipac~i" being output and "ipac~o" being input, right? I filed a bug on it, but it was closed... now I wonder whether I should bother reopening it at all. Bye, J PS: I want to use it, but frankly,

Re: How does Linux shutdown?

2003-06-12 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:03:50PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > I am curious about how Linux does the shutdown. The kernel send > the TERM signal to all processes when the shutdown is initiated. But > does the kernel wait for the every pr

Re: web server behind a nat box not coming out

2003-06-12 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:41:09PM -0400, Sebastien G wrote: > I have one gateway/nat (freebsd 4.8R) which I setup to be the gateway You want the mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://www.freebsd.org/support.html) unless you're using Debian FreeB

Re: fstab Mystery

2003-06-12 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:05:17PM +0200, Mark Annandale wrote: > Hi Guys > > This is an extract from my /etc/fstab - > "/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs,ro,noauto,users,exec,uid=mark,gid=mark 0 0". > > As user mark I cannot open this folder, but can as root. The installation is a > hd install from a

Re: console cursor

2003-06-12 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:41:57PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Brian Potkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030611 16:25]: > > echo -e '\033[?17;0;64c' > > > > which I tested and there is now a nice magenta block cursor on one of my > > virtual consoles. If in your reading you come across how I could ge

Htpasswd help?

2003-06-12 Thread Miranda, Joel Louie M
Im trying to make a shell script but I could not get this one done. Im using htpasswd to generate a file, user and password. Here is my syntax.. - web:/var/www-development/genpass# htpasswd -cd site.pass cust pass Usage: htpasswd [-cmdps] passwordfile username htpa

Kernel 2.4.20 with skas crashes with user-mode-linux

2003-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I've recently updated an AMD Duron machine to the new debian unstable kernel (I've installed the debian unstable kernel-sources-2.4.20 version -8 package, patched that with the debian skas kernel patch, and compiled it manually with my usual .config). The box ran fine, I started a uml in

Runaway processes-Native Posix threading Library-Old linux threads

2003-06-12 Thread SRIKANTH NS
Hi All, I had an experience today. I opened www.kumudam.com (an Indian vernacular language site) using opera7.11 in RH7.3 (Celeron 900 MHz, 128 MB RAM with IceWm desktop, not the KDE) with the fonts ( kumudam.ttf) installed. The site did not open fully and there was lot of disk thrashing going

Re: floppy device deleted

2003-06-12 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please learn to quote if you expect anybody else to wade though this thread to help. Top posting is considered harmful. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:06:35PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Thank you, I did

Re: openwebmail: Concerns about modifying perl

2003-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 08:01:21PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > OK, for some reason I got a little creeped out by this instruction > from the current version of openwebmail (2.01-3)...during > installation, it spat this out: > > Please modify /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/DB_File.pm by adding > > $

Re: ACPI HOWTO (draft #2)

2003-06-12 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030612 09:00]: > Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For those who are interested I've got my second draft of an ACPI HOWTO > > online. > > > > http://xtrinsic.com/geek/articles/acpi.phtml > > > > Please feel free to let me know if you th

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-12 Thread Richard Heycock
gimv is very good. It supports a slide show as well. gimv -wd in the directory does the job. rgh On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:36, Nick Hastings wrote: > * David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030612 08:55]: > > I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I > > would like to vie

Re: tomcat problems

2003-06-12 Thread Richard Heycock
I'm fairly sure you will need to have the sdk not just the jre as tomcat needs to compile the jsp to a servlet. You might also like to check that the JAVA_HOME environment variable is set (and don't forget to export it!) and that 'java' is in the path. rgh On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:39, Harshu wro

RE: Htpasswd help?

2003-06-12 Thread Miranda, Joel Louie M
Got it -b -Original Message- From: Miranda, Joel Louie M Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Htpasswd help? Im trying to make a shell script but I could not get this one done. Im using htpasswd to generate a file, user and password. Here is my syntax..

Console password generator

2003-06-12 Thread Miranda, Joel Louie M
Hello, Im not sure if debian package has a password generator. Do we have one? I think I saw one but I couldn't figure where. It's a console password generator. Thanks, Louie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Htpasswd help?

2003-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:35:36PM +0800, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: > Im trying to make a shell script but I could not get this one done. > Im using htpasswd to generate a file, user and password. > > Here is my syntax.. > > - > web:/var/www-development/genpass# htpasswd -cd si

Re: Console password generator

2003-06-12 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> Im not sure if debian package has a password generator. > Do we have one? I think I saw one but I couldn't figure where. > try apt-cache search password generator. i don't have access to my debian box rite or else i would have given u the output. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Htpasswd help?

2003-06-12 Thread gaumer
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 00:35, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: > Im trying to make a shell script but I could not get this one done. > Im using htpasswd to generate a file, user and password. > > Here is my syntax.. > > - > web:/var/www-development/genpass# htpasswd -cd site.pass cust

Re: Console password generator

2003-06-12 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 04:24:42PM +0800, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: > Im not sure if debian package has a password generator. > Do we have one? I think I saw one but I couldn't figure where. "apt-cache search password generat" reveals the existence of a few of them. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-12 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Rodrigo Agerri wrote: That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 17:44, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: Anyhow, my second question is this: is there a better way to find those "--- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---" than by going into the dreaded dselect? I think that if you get into dep

Re: Console password generator

2003-06-12 Thread Massimiliano Ferrero
Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: Hello, Im not sure if debian package has a password generator. Do we have one? I think I saw one but I couldn't figure where. It's a console password generator. passwdgen pwgen I use the second one with with -s (secure) option. Massimiliano -- Massimiliano Ferrero M

Re: Console password generator

2003-06-12 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 10:24, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: > Im not sure if debian package has a password generator. > Do we have one? I think I saw one but I couldn't figure where. Package: makepasswd Description: Generate and encrypt passwords Generates true random passwords by using the /dev/r

Re: [OT] Printer Languages

2003-06-12 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:50:19 +0200, Kirk Strauser wrote: >> Have you noticed any performance improvement? I've recently been profiling a PS/PCL printer from windows (so shoot me :) and there's about a 40% reduction in transmitted print job size using PostScript rather than PCL. -- Stephen Patte

Re: System freeze after random program crashes associated with kernel oops

2003-06-12 Thread Kristoffer Erlandsson
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:12:48PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:43:55AM +0200, Kristoffer Erlandsson wrote: > [...] > > | Western Digital IDE ATA-100 60GB 7200RPM 2MB cache (WD600BB) (Running > | one ntfs partition and one ext2 with the operating system in quest

RE: Console password generator

2003-06-12 Thread Reckhard, Tobias
> passwdgen > pwgen > > I use the second one with with -s (secure) option. And I prefer apg, for another option. Cheers, Tobias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Xwindows on Dell Precision M50

2003-06-12 Thread dhobner
I am going to send this out for help one more time. -Original Message- From: dhobner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Xwindows on Dell Precision M50 I am stuck. Has anyone successfully installed Xwindows on a Dell Precision

/etc/profile and X

2003-06-12 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, Yes, I searched through the archives and read some of the comments. However, they don't tell me exactly what's going on... /etc/profile is read by a login shell, and not by starting an xterm. Of course, so far, so good... However, when I log in to X, doesn't xdm/kdm/gdm run a login shel

Re: Re: Kernel penguin logo?

2003-06-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Joel Konkle-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Benedict Verheyen wrote: >> Yesterday, i compiled my own kernel and specified vesa frame buffer >> support. Then i set vga= in the lilo.conf where >> is a decimal mode specified >> in the ker

IBM Serveraid 5i

2003-06-12 Thread Deb
Hi Everyone, I am new to debian so please excuse me if I ask stupid questions. I have been trying to install Woody on an IBM xSeries 345 server. It has a Serveraid 5i raid controller and this is the thorn in my side. I downloaded the 2.4.18-bf2.4_scsi_and_bcm5700_preload_floppy-1440.bin image to

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-12 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:22, Jeff Ali wrote: > I didn't realize I was joining such a cool and active list so now I > must find a way to keep the emails organized. > > Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so that > all the mail I receive from debian-users list gets put in

xfree modules

2003-06-12 Thread LeVA
Hi! There is a section named Modules in the XF86Config-4 file. Has somebody a howto, or doc page where is some explanation about the modules? For example "dbe" "ddc" "vbe" "dri" "extmod" "glx" "pex5" "record" "xie" "xtrap" "speedo" "type1" "GLcore" "bitmap" "dbe" "ddc" "freetype" "int10" "vbe" etc

Re: Xwindows on Dell Precision M50

2003-06-12 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 06:57:42AM -0400, dhobner wrote: > I am going to send this out for help one more time. > > -Original Message- > From: dhobner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Xwindows on Dell Precision M50 > > >

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:50:49PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:22, Jeff Ali wrote: > > Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so that > > all the mail I receive from debian-users list gets put in a folder. > > I was going to set up the filter based

Recompile Debian Woody Kernel

2003-06-12 Thread tt tt
Are there any beginners guides to recompiling the kernel - specifically for woody?   ThanksYahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience

Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

2003-06-12 Thread Jon Haugsand
RedHat has the directory /etc/cron.hourly, but this is not present in debian. Why is that? Should think that clock synchronization is needed. Especially since most computer clocks drift with at least 5 second every day. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UN

Re: Question about command-line aptitude 0.2.11.1

2003-06-12 Thread Joey Hess
Ron Johnson wrote: > This is on a mixed sarge/sid system. > > ~# aptitude install base-config > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information... Done > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > bluefish gaim gedit gnome-spell libgtks

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-12 Thread stan
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:41:26PM +0100, David selby wrote: > I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I > would like to view them full screen scaled to the screen size and idealy > flick through them. > > I have tried various apps xzgv,gphoto, konqueror etc but I ne

Re: IBM Serveraid 5i

2003-06-12 Thread Deb
Hello all I just got it working :-) http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf/bootbf2.4.isoThis iso did the trick Thanks Deb - Original Message - From: "Deb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:30 PM Subject: IBM Serveraid 5i > Hi Everyone, > > I am n

Re: Jerky Screen Saver

2003-06-12 Thread debian_newbie
Sorry for taking so long to respond. Yes, Euphoria also does the same thing. Except it is even worse. Euphoria has an 18 second delay between jerks (movements). I also noticed that I have a lot of screensaver names listed but they don't work. So now I'm thinking that I'm missing some package. On

using Drac (or equiv) with Courier-IMAP, Exim

2003-06-12 Thread Rich Johnson
Hi folks-- Does anyone have experience using drac with courier-imap and exim? Or, is there some other recommended solution to allow relaying from imap clients. I'm not thrilled with the prospect of patching and recompiling courier-imap. I'd much rather rely on the prepackaged .debs. (Debian

Re: Recompile Debian Woody Kernel

2003-06-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:03:44 +0100 (BST) tt tt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any beginners guides to recompiling the kernel - specifically > for woody? http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: /etc/profile and X

2003-06-12 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 12 June 2003, 01:10 PM +0200): > Yes, I searched through the archives and read some of the comments. > However, they don't tell me exactly what's going on... > > /etc/profile is read by a login shell, and not by starting an xterm. Of > cours

Re: Recompile Debian Woody Kernel

2003-06-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/06/03 14:03), tt tt wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:03:44 +0100 (BST) > > Are there any beginners guides to recompiling the kernel - specifically for woody? > This is not woody specific but an excellent guide nontheless: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/tutorials/kernel-pkg/index-kernel

Shell script or Perl?

2003-06-12 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, In what situation does ppl normally use shell script and when when will ppl use Perl? How about their performance like speed and also the ease of programming? -- Edwin ERTW Lau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Question about command-line aptitude 0.2.11.1

2003-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 20:36, Joey Hess wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > This is on a mixed sarge/sid system. > > > > ~# aptitude install base-config > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree > > Reading extended state information... Done > > The following packages are unused an

Re: Recompile Debian Woody Kernel

2003-06-12 Thread David Sudjiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can take a look at my "log" file :-) June 11, 2003 - - * Install debian (no update) - make some necessaary changes # apt-get install vim # alias vi=vim * Update kernel 2.4.18 from CD - install gcc compiler # apt-get install gcc

Wrong address on reply (on debian maillist)

2003-06-12 Thread David Sudjiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear All, I'm new on debian lists and I'm using pine455. When I replied from [EMAIL PROTECTED], why does my pine always reply to sender and not to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tricks? thx .dave Peace was the way. -- Kirk, "The City on the Edg

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-12 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Thursday 12 June 2003 15:40, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:50:49PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:22, Jeff Ali wrote: > > > Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so > > > that all the mail I receive from debian-users list gets

Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

2003-06-12 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:08:43PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: > RedHat has the directory /etc/cron.hourly, but this is not present in > debian. Why is that? Because it's generally not necissary. > Should think that clock synchronization is needed.

help! root partition problems

2003-06-12 Thread Richard Heycock
Hi, I just ran grub-install on my root partition and not my boot partition, which added an x86 boot sector to the front of this partition. Doh. The underlying file system is reiserfs. I have tried dd'ing (after dd'ing the whole thing to a backup file) the 512 bytes from an existing reiserfs parti

Re: Forcing gcc to 2.95

2003-06-12 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm not an expert with pinning rules, but there are two obvious > problems: > > 1. There are a lot of related packages that don't start with 'gcc'. For > example, g++. So you might need more rules. > I don't have g++ installed so this is not a prob

Are there bugs in mkboot? Need another pair of eyes.

2003-06-12 Thread Chris Metzler
Hi. I posted this a week and a half ago and didn't see much response, so I figured I'd try one more time before filing bugs on debianutils. Hi. mkboot (part of the debianutils package) appears to be bugged to me, both in use and in looking at the code. But I've looked in BTS and in /usr/share

apache isn't working

2003-06-12 Thread Mark E . Haase
hey all i just installed 3.0 on a power mac 5400. i can use lynx to view the server's pages when i'm at the console, but i can't reach it from anywhere else. not even from within my LAN. any ideas why? i cleared all the ipchain rules (i'm behind a nat router and plan on using ftp/http only) bu

Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

2003-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:08:43PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: > RedHat has the directory /etc/cron.hourly, but this is not present in > debian. Why is that? Probably because the main motivation for /etc/cron., as I understand it, is to make it possible to include crontab fragments in packages, an

cdrecord: Cannot open SCSI driver

2003-06-12 Thread Jon Haugsand
Trying to get my cd writer to run. After installing cdrecord, I tried: cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you ar

Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

2003-06-12 Thread christophe barbe
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:08:43PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: > RedHat has the directory /etc/cron.hourly, but this is not present in > debian. Why is that? No idea but can't you use /etc/cron.d/ ? > Should think that clock synchronization is > needed. Especially since most computer clocks dr

Re: [OT] 4-way split screen on Dell laptop 8000

2003-06-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 04:02:33PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins insinuated: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:45:22PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:00:45PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins insinuated: > > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:43:14PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > > > > > My main pr

Re: [OT] 4-way split screen on Dell laptop 8000

2003-06-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 04:32:28PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:43:14PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > | My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't even > | gotten X up yet), the screen is normal for the top quarter, and then > | redraws itself

Re: Shell script or Perl?

2003-06-12 Thread Jake Johnson
Hi Edwin, It all depends on the level of difficulty the problem is and how well you know shell scripting vs. perl. I would recommend using perl script if you need to massage files and need advanced features in your program, otherwise I would stick to a shell script that is small and fast. Good Luc

Re: Shell script or Perl?

2003-06-12 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Chun Kit Edwin Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 12 June 2003, 09:48 AM -0400): > In what situation does ppl normally use shell script and when > when will ppl use Perl? How about their performance like speed and also > the ease of programming? Use what you're comfortable with,

Re: Shell script or Perl?

2003-06-12 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:48:31AM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: } In what situation does ppl normally use shell script and when } when will ppl use Perl? How about their performance like speed and also } the ease of programming? You probably didn't know it, but this is a good way to sta

Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

2003-06-12 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Paul Johnson >> Should think that clock synchronization is needed. > > Of course. That's why the chrony package exists. Red Hat handles NTP > in the worst possible way I can imagine. This you probably know better than I, but to RedHat's defense, the task I included into cron.hourly was entire

Re: Shell script or Perl?

2003-06-12 Thread John Hasler
Edwin writes: > In what situation does ppl normally use shell script... When portability and robustness are important. > ...and when when will ppl use Perl? When the problem is more complex and speed is important. > How about their performance like speed... Perl is faster. > ...and also the e

Partially broken tasksel after dist-upgrade

2003-06-12 Thread Andrew A. Raines
Unfortunately, I didn't find chapters 5 & 6 of the Debian Reference Manual before I tried to upgrade my machine from a 3.0 instal to testing. Now I'm having problems. Although, I've done `apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' before and it's worked great. Maybe APT's been reworked since I did

scsi prob after compiling custom kernel

2003-06-12 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, Today I compiled a custom kernel on this computer; kind of to make the computer boot a bit faster, but I don't see that much difference - more memory is freed though Anyway, I've got this problem: the scsi is not loaded correctly; Using the manual loading from /usr/share/doc/HOWT

Re: [OT] 4-way split screen on Dell laptop 8000

2003-06-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > yes, indeed! wonderful! by passing video=vga16:off to LILO, i've > successfully turned the framebuffer off. woo-hoo! > > so, i decide to put that in my lilo.conf ... so i do, and run lilo, > and i get the error: > > Unrecognized token "video" at or above line 105

Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

2003-06-12 Thread Jon Haugsand
* christophe barbe >> Should think that clock synchronization is >> needed. Especially since most computer clocks drift with at least 5 >> second every day. > > I don't see how this is related to the hourly cron. Well, on my RedHat systems I found it simplest to run 'ntpdate -u SERVER; hwclock --

ispell dictionary is missing

2003-06-12 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
The dictionary is missing for my ispell... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ispell testing Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/default.hash It can't open it because it doesn't exist! I scanned through the man pages for ispell but they all seemed to suggest that the dictionaries should already be there...the only fil

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-12 Thread Jeff Ali
What I ended up doing was just filtering based on contents. If an email has "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in it then it goes to my debian list folder under my main mailbox. This works fine, so far. Thanks for the help. Jeff Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:50:49PM +0300, Aryan Ameri

Re: Re: Shell script or Perl?

2003-06-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Jake Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Edwin, >It all depends on the level of difficulty the problem is and how well you >know shell scripting vs. perl. I would recommend using perl script if you >need to massage files and need advan

Re: [OT] 4-way split screen on Dell laptop 8000

2003-06-12 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:22:59AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > yes, indeed! wonderful! by passing video=vga16:off to LILO, i've > successfully turned the framebuffer off. woo-hoo! > > so, i decide to put that in my lilo.conf ... so i do, and run lilo, > and i get the error: > > Unrecognize

Graphical sftp

2003-06-12 Thread R.Stepanyan
Hello everybody, I am looking for a graphical frontend for scp and/or sftp. All I found on the Internet (freashmeat&goole) is either not supported anymore (like gsftp) or java-based and very unstable (j-ftp). Does anyone has any experience with this kind of things? Any piece of advice is apprecia

Re: help! root partition problems

2003-06-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:05:09 +1000 Richard Heycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just ran grub-install on my root partition and not my boot partition, > which added an x86 boot sector to the front of this partition. Doh. The > underlying file system is reiserfs. I have tried dd'ing (after dd'ing

kernel install wiped out lilo!

2003-06-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
In my ongoing quest to put Debian on this Dell Inspiron 8000, I recompiled the kernel and disabled framebuffer support (so the screen doesn't go all wacky). I hadn't seen some of the options presented me by the install menu when i did dpkg -i kernel-image-.deb -- i have a windoze and redhat partit

Re: ACPI HOWTO (draft #2)

2003-06-12 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Thanx for the HOWTO. It looks great to me. Just a side question. Is ACPI stable now? Coz a while ago it was broken I think. How well is it now? Edwin Lau On June 12, 2003 03:43 am, Nick Hastings wrote: > Hi, > > * Martin Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030612 09:00]: > > Emma Jane Hogbin <[E

Kernel Security Update / Mondo Rescue kernel

2003-06-12 Thread moseley
Sorry, but I'm still not clear. I'm running stable, but I build my 2.4.20 Kernels from kernel.org, and I apply the XFS patch from SGI's site. The security announcement said: For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems are fixed in the 2.4.20 series kernels based on Debian sources. So

Re: [OT] Printer Languages

2003-06-12 Thread Alan Shutko
Stephen Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've recently been profiling a PS/PCL printer from windows (so shoot > me :) and there's about a 40% reduction in transmitted print job size > using PostScript rather than PCL. What about print time? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the

Re: Shell script or Perl?

2003-06-12 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Weier O'Phinney writes: > One aspect of [Perl] I particularly like is that it is also very > portable: I don't have to worry about which shell is available on which > system... On Unix and Linux conservatively-written POSIX sh scripts are more portable than Perl. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PRO

How to stop booting into KDE environment

2003-06-12 Thread dhobner
I am very new to Linux. Is there a way to reboot without going directly into the KDE windows environment? My mouse is not working so when I get into KDE environment I cannot bring up a window as far as I know. Dan Hobner NTC-OIS Lockheed Martin Information Systems Bldg E1-2 464 407-306-1529 [EMA

Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

2003-06-12 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 05:03:31PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: > This you probably know better than I, but to RedHat's defense, the > task I included into cron.hourly was entirely my own. > > Chrony accesses the Internet, but I am confined behind a restrictive > firewall. We have our own ntp ser

Installation with LVM

2003-06-12 Thread tallison
Is there anyway that we can install Debian with LVM on the partitions during the installation, rather than doing it after the fact? It's impractical to install and then try to convert everything to an LVM system. Any suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

2003-06-12 Thread John Hasler
Jon Haugsand writes: > Chrony accesses the Internet, but I am confined behind a restrictive > firewall. We have our own ntp server running somewhere. Chrony connects to whatever NTP server you tell it to connect to. Just edit /etc/chrony/chrony.conf and put your local one in the "server" line. -

Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

2003-06-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Aryan Ameri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030612 05:24]: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:22, Jeff Ali wrote: > > I didn't realize I was joining such a cool and active list so now I > > must find a way to keep the emails organized. > > > > Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so that

Re: Sort by Thread in Evolution?

2003-06-12 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 18:19, Kent West wrote: Playing with Evolution; hopefully this goes out as plain text. Anyone know how to sort messages by thread in Evolution? I've really gotten spoiled to that feature in Mozilla Mail. View->"Threaded Message List" (Make sure th

Re: [OT] 4-way split screen on Dell laptop 8000

2003-06-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 12 Jun 2003 05:29:32PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld insinuated: > Hi, > > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > yes, indeed! wonderful! by passing video=vga16:off to LILO, i've > > successfully turned the framebuffer off. woo-hoo! > > > > so, i decide to put that in my lilo.conf ... so i do, and run

Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

2003-06-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:03:31 +0200 Jon Haugsand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chrony accesses the Internet, but I am confined behind a restrictive > firewall. We have our own ntp server running somewhere. You can set up ntp to use a time server inside the firewall, the same as it would use a pu

Re: Question about command-line aptitude 0.2.11.1

2003-06-12 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks. > > However, one thing puzzles me: bluefish, gaim, gedit, logjam & pan > are "terminal" packages. I.e., nothing depends on them. > > What happened is that they depend on gnome-spell, so when I > removed it, these other packages were also removed

extra mouse buttons

2003-06-12 Thread gerard
I have an IntelliMouse or whatever its called. But there are extra buttons on the left and right of the mouse. Does anyone know where I can map them so that I can use them? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wrong address on reply (on debian maillist)

2003-06-12 Thread iain d broadfoot
* David Sudjiman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm new on debian lists and I'm using pine455. > > When I replied from [EMAIL PROTECTED], why does my pine always > reply to sender and not to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tricks? because the email was sent From: the sender, not from the list. th

Re: TCPd and Xinetd....

2003-06-12 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
RB said on Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:15:21PM -0400: > I'm planning on switching a server of mine from inetd and > tcpd over to xinetd. I'm wondering if there is any benefit to > using tcpd with xinetd? > It looks to me that xinetd combines the features of inetd and > tcpd into one process. This s

Re: /etc/profile and X

2003-06-12 Thread Craig Dickson
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > 1) In $HOME/.bashrc (this could be in the profile somewhere; I don't >manage a large system), I set and export any environment variables I >need in my login shell. > > 2) In $HOME/.bash_profile, I have the following lines at the top of the >file: >

Re: kernel install wiped out lilo!

2003-06-12 Thread Andrés Roldán
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my ongoing quest to put Debian on this Dell Inspiron 8000, I > recompiled the kernel and disabled framebuffer support (so the screen > doesn't go all wacky). I hadn't seen some of the options presented me > by the install menu when i did dpkg -i ker

Re: ACPI HOWTO (draft #2)

2003-06-12 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:51:29AM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Thanx for the HOWTO. It looks great to me. Just a side question. > Is ACPI stable now? Coz a while ago it was broken I think. How > well is it now? I'm not sure what you mean by "stable" and "broken". In my mind it depend

Re: Question about command-line aptitude 0.2.11.1

2003-06-12 Thread Joey Hess
Ron Johnson wrote: > > > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > > > bluefish gaim gedit gnome-spell libgtkspell0 logjam pan > > However, one thing puzzles me: bluefish, gaim, gedit, logjam & pan > are "terminal" packages. I.e., nothing depends on them. > > What happened is th

Re: kernel install wiped out lilo!

2003-06-12 Thread Andrew A. Raines
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now, upon restarting, i can't boot in without a rescue disk! > before lilo even shows up, i get a screen of cascading 0 1 0 1 > 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1s that just go on forever. Boot with that rescue disk and mount your system under /mnt. T

Re: Graphical sftp

2003-06-12 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- R.Stepanyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 12 June 2003, 05:36 PM +0200): > I am looking for a graphical frontend for scp and/or sftp. > All I found on the Internet (freashmeat&goole) is either not supported > anymore (like gsftp) or java-based and very unstable (j-ftp). Ummm... gftp s

Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

2003-06-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Kevin McKinley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can set up ntp to use a time server inside the firewall, the same as it > would use a public server (just in case you didn't know that already). Also note that a lot of the network routers that I've run across act as NTP servers. Their accuracy, o

Re: How to stop booting into KDE environment

2003-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:12:20PM -0400, dhobner wrote: > I am very new to Linux. Is there a way to reboot without going directly > into the KDE windows environment? My mouse is not working so when I get > into KDE environment I cannot bring up a window as far as I know. Press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and y

Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?

2003-06-12 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Jon Haugsand said on Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 05:18:43PM +0200: > * christophe barbe > >> Should think that clock synchronization is > >> needed. Especially since most computer clocks drift with at least 5 > >> second every day. > > > > I don't see how this is related to the hourly cron. > > Well, on

Re: cdrecord: Cannot open SCSI driver

2003-06-12 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:18:32 +0200 Jon Haugsand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Trying to get my cd writer to run. After installing cdrecord, I > tried: > > cdrecord -scanbus > Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot

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