X_version_set.tgz (Superprobe)

2003-07-04 Thread Yildiz, Murat
Hi , I need the file X_version_set.tgz and cannot get it through our proxy from ftp://ftp.XFree86.org/pub/XFree86/current/binaries Where else can I download it? Murat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cannot mount cdrom if I use GRUB

2003-07-04 Thread gaspard
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Marino Fernandez wrote: > This must be a very simple and dumb problem, but I cannot figure it out. > > If I boot with LILO, I can mount my CD/DVD w/o any problem. > If I boot with GRUB I get an error message that says that my /dev/dvd is not a > valid block device (same wit

KDM problems (unstable)

2003-07-04 Thread David Corbin
Here's my setup - I run KDE w/KDM on machine B. Machine A is configured to run "X -query B". It worked fine for a long time, where I would get a KDE background with the KDM login screen. B is running unstable, and A isn't. Now, some weeks ago, and I update B and then suddenly, no KDM. All I

Re: GRUB problem

2003-07-04 Thread cr
On Thursday 03 July 2003 05:51, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030629 19:28]: > > Yes, I did that. It produced a floppy which, when booted off, just says > > 'GRUB' and hangs. > > Does it hang, or is that a grub prompt you're seeing? It won't go to a > menu. You'll have to type

Re: Kernel Modules

2003-07-04 Thread Alexander Meyer
On Don, 3 Juli 2003 13:43:24 -0500, Abrasive wrote: > Okay, once again I'm having trouble installing a display driver: Intel 845-G > I downloaded the drivers from http://www.intel.com > And after unpacking the tarball, I run ./install.sh > Everything runs fine until it needs to compile a new agpart

newbie: error smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported

2003-07-04 Thread mario eugster
Hi I know the topic has been discussed more than one time, I also found quite a lot og information but no of them could solve it. I try to connect to as MS windows shared folder using samba. I installed my system using kernel 2.4 and added in the driver module section support for smbclient. After

Very big files with tar

2003-07-04 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I'd like to do a backup to another partition using tar. Here are about 9GB data to be saved. After a while tar complaints about a to big output file (i think max size is around 2GB). Is there a way to split the output in more files? cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: weird tcpdump dependency on libaviplaydha

2003-07-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.03.2026 +0200]: > My next suspicion is that although tcpdump itself is fine, libpcap > may be screwy. I have libpcap0.7 0.7.2-1 here. You got it. Now either my libpcap got trojaned, or corrupted. How can I find out? The MD5sum is different, th

Re: Very big files with tar

2003-07-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:50:52PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > I'd like to do a backup to another partition using tar. Here are about 9GB > data to be saved. After a while tar complaints about a to big output file (i > think max size is around

Re: Very big files with tar

2003-07-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 04 July 2003 12:50, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > I'd like to do a backup to another partition using tar. Here are > about 9GB data to be saved. After a while tar complaints about a to > big output file (i think max size is around 2GB). Is there a way to > split the output in more fil

Need a quick one-liner

2003-07-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I have some data files in the following format: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ... I need to sum up the second column, so the result is 32 (in this case). Any ideas? thanks, joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance

Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

2003-07-04 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
I'm looking for a bootable rescue CD-ROM with some Linux-based OS on it (preferrably Debian). It should include utilities like fdisk and mkfs, parted, grub, bash (please, no ash!), vim, ssh and a reasonable ftp (what about ncftp) client. lynx, X are nice, but not a requirement. It should be capabl

Re: Very big files with tar

2003-07-04 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Friday 04 July 2003 13:14, Joerg Johannes wrote: > On Friday 04 July 2003 12:50, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'd like to do a backup to another partition using tar. Here are > > about 9GB data to be saved. After a while tar complaints about a to > > big output file (i think max size

Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

2003-07-04 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sebastian" == Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sebastian> I'm looking for a bootable rescue CD-ROM with some Sebastian> Linux-based OS on it (preferrably Debian). It should Sebastian> include utilities like fdisk and mkfs, parted, grub, Sebastian> bash (please, no

Re: Need a quick one-liner

2003-07-04 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:51:34PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > I have some data files in the following format: > > 1 2 3 4 > 5 6 7 8 > 9 10 11 12 > 1314 15 16 > ... > > I need to sum up the second column, so the result is 32 (in this

Re: Need a quick one-liner

2003-07-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 04 July 2003 14:49, Seneca wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:51:34PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > I have some data files in the following format: > > > > 1 2 3 4 > > 5 6 7 8 > > 9 10 11 12 > > 13 14 15 16 > > ... > > > > I need to s

Re: Need a quick one-liner

2003-07-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:51:34PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi everybody > > I have some data files in the following format: > > 1 2 3 4 > 5 6 7 8 > 9 10 11 12 > 1314 15 16 > ... > > I need to sum up the second column, so the resu

Re: Need a quick one-liner

2003-07-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:51:34PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: >> I have some data files in the following format: >> >> 12 3 4 >> 56 7 8 >> 910 11 12 >> 13 14 15 16 >> ...

sources.list question

2003-07-04 Thread Wm . G . McGrath
Howdy all, I'm setting up my sources.list file again looking for faster, closer mirrors. I've used netselect to find the best urls for my location and setup, and have put together a comparitively small list of mirrors on which to base the file. Ok so I've done that. Now I'd like to test each lin

Joseph P Shanley is out of the office.

2003-07-04 Thread jpshanle
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Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

2003-07-04 Thread Kent West
"Sebastian" == Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sebastian> I'm looking for a bootable rescue CD-ROM with some Sebastian> Linux-based OS on it (preferrably Debian). It should Sebastian> include utilities like fdisk and mkfs, parted, grub, Sebastian> bash (please, no ash!

APT error

2003-07-04 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi i tried to upgrade my system with # apt-get dist-upgrade after it downloaded all files i got this error: E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libpam0g What does that mean? cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Annoyed about M$ Windows? Don

Re: sources.list question

2003-07-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 06:04:45AM -0700, Wm. G. McGrath wrote: > I'm setting up my sources.list file again looking for faster, closer > mirrors. I've used netselect to find the best urls for my location > and setup, and have put together a comparitively small list of > mirrors on which to base the

Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

2003-07-04 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Friday 04 July 2003 13:36, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > I'm looking for a bootable rescue CD-ROM with some Linux-based OS on it > (preferrably Debian). It should include utilities like fdisk and mkfs, > parted, grub, bash (please, no ash!), vim, ssh and a reasonable ftp (what > about ncftp) client.

Re: HowTo for Gnome2??

2003-07-04 Thread John W. M. Stevens
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:13:24PM -0500, Todd Pytel wrote: > I backed up my sources.list, OK . . . > changed it to unstable, "It"? Did you mean the APT::Default-Release value? > did an apt-get update, apt-get install gnome-core, OK. > and then restored the old sources.list. There isn't a c

Re: Dual head text console / X HOWTO sought

2003-07-04 Thread Yann Droneaud
pigeon wrote: > I have two graphics cards, a SiS 6326 PCI card and a Radeon 7500 AGP > card. Having just acquired a second monitor, I am keen to set up a > dual head system capable of the following configurations: > > 1) Dual head text console. A keystroke combination switches the focus > of the

Re: HowTo for Gnome2??

2003-07-04 Thread John W. M. Stevens
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:52:50PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > John, > > I installed straight to testing (but using a stable netinstall CD) a > couple months ago. When gnome2 into was released into it from unstable a > couple weeks ago I ran into similar issues. I am looking forward to > watc

Re: OT: Limit on maximum # of threads in Linux?

2003-07-04 Thread Yann Droneaud
holger rauch wrote: > Hi! > > I tried the following test program with various 2.4.x und 2.2.x kernels and > noticed that it doesn't *seem* to be possible to create more than 1021 > threads. I changed "ulimit -u" from within bash before running the thread > test program, I modified a setting in th

RE: Very big files with tar

2003-07-04 Thread Stephen Mayes
** This email is subject to a disclaimer at the bottom of the message - please make yourself aware of its contents before reading the email ** The responses give

Re: Logrotate postscript not able to find just-compressed log

2003-07-04 Thread Ian Stevens
> If this is the case, will I have to compress the just-rotated > logfile in the postrotate script if I want to copy a compressed file? The answer is probably "yes". The following rule works on an uncompressed file: /var/log/phantom/phantom.log { daily missingok rotate 52

APT Serious Bug

2003-07-04 Thread Guilherme Viebig
I´m using Debian 3.0 kernel 2.4.19bf24 When I try to update my system with apt I get this error message E: Internal error. could not immediate configuration (2) on libpam-modules Now my apt is bugged. Any hints ? Thanks Guilherme B. Viebig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help

2003-07-04 Thread Antonio Rodr008
Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, testing in hdb. Then hda died, so I removed it, and put hdb as hda. So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere it has written hdb, but hdb doesn't exist anymore. I have got in using the rescue CD woody cd 1, booting with rescue

Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

2003-07-04 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: >Any comments? What do you use? I've been looking at Timo's Rescue CD, http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/ The author himself say that it has involved to a "debian on cd"-system, so it may be what you're looking for. BTW, I've been thinking about puttin

Re: APT Serious Bug

2003-07-04 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Friday 04 July 2003 16:47, Guilherme Viebig wrote: > I´m using Debian 3.0 kernel 2.4.19bf24 > > When I try to update my system with apt > > I get this error message > > E: Internal error. could not immediate configuration (2) on libpam-modules > > Now my apt is bugged. > > Any hints ? > LOL. I

Radeon 9000 Pro and Framebuffer

2003-07-04 Thread Jan Tammen
Bonjour. Trying to set up the framebuffer with my Radeon 9000 Pro on a 2.5.69 Kernel (Debian sid). But it seems the framebuffer can not be initialized, as the resolution does not change. Kernel-config: # # Graphics support # CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y # # Console displ

Newbie to spamassassin- How to make it learn?

2003-07-04 Thread SRIKANTH NS
Hi Disgusted with the amount of spam received, I installed Spamassassin2.54 and configured it, It works properly for the past one month. I use fetchmail to receive mail and invoke sylpheed to read them from /var/spool/ mail/ srikanth folder and the spam goes to "caughtspam " file in my home directo

Re: Debian and S3 ProsavageDDR KM 266

2003-07-04 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 15:06, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > A month ago I had debian stable (woody) installed on my XPC which has > the ProSavageDDR (savage8) onboard with the via chipset. I used apt > pinning to get the unstable XFree86 4.2 (seems like that's in testing > now) package xserver-xfree86. I comb

Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help

2003-07-04 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, testing in hdb. > Then hda died, > so I removed it, and put hdb as hda. So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere > it has > written hdb, but hdb doesn't exist anymore. I h

Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help

2003-07-04 Thread Antonio Rodr
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > > Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, > > testing in hdb. Then hda died, so I removed it, and put hdb as hda. > > So now the kernel goe

Re: APT Serious Bug

2003-07-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 05:10:50PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > On Friday 04 July 2003 16:47, Guilherme Viebig wrote: > > I´m using Debian 3.0 kernel 2.4.19bf24 > > > > When I try to update my system with apt > > > > I get this error message > > > > E: Internal error. could not immediate conf

Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help

2003-07-04 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:39, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > > Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, testing in hdb. > > Then hda died, > > so I removed it, and put hdb as hda. So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere

Re: finding an iso for net-install w/ reiserfs disk support

2003-07-04 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 22:48, Justin Bauer wrote: > I'm setting up a new computer, and thought it would be nice to use a minimal > cd rather than the normal disks. I'll be running sid, but I don't care > whether the cd is for stable or testing, just as long as it will > format/install onto reiserfs

Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help

2003-07-04 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 11:49, Antonio Rodr wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > > > Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, > > > testing in hdb. Then hda died, s

Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help

2003-07-04 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:49, Antonio Rodr wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > > > Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, > > > testing in hdb. Then hda died, s

Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help

2003-07-04 Thread Antonio RodrP
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:53:16 -0400 Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 11:49, Antonio Rodr wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 > > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > > > > Hi all, I ha

Update cd image for Woody?

2003-07-04 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hello! Is there any cd image available with all the updates made since the initial release (security stuff mainly)? I have made Woody cds, and I want to update a non-broadband machine with the security updates without hogging a modem for several hours (expensive!) TIA, -- \\// Peter - http://www

Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help

2003-07-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Antonio Rodr008 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 16:54]: > Can some point to the needed changes? I would like to avoid a whole > new installation. Boot with the rescue disk, and edit /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/ftab replacing every hdb with hda. Run /sbin/lilo after that, and everything should be okay

Re: xterm configuration

2003-07-04 Thread Paladin
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 18:43:44 -0700 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For xterm, use one of the fixed fonts. They all have the > line-drawing characters. If you're running xterm AA'd, you're > SOL unless you're up to building it yourself. You have to have > at least patchlevel 175 of x

Re: new debian box reboots itself?

2003-07-04 Thread i'll teach you to turn away .
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JH> i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > ok, color me confused. my new machine (which is not primary yet) > rebooted by itself tuesday morning around 3:50am. it was a software JH> Was it a clean or an unclean reboot? If you have "reboot" in the lastlog, J

Re: HowTo for Gnome2??

2003-07-04 Thread Todd Pytel
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 08:10:37 -0600 "John W. M. Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:13:24PM -0500, Todd Pytel wrote: > > I backed up my sources.list, > > OK . . . > > > changed it to unstable, > > "It"? Did you mean the APT::Default-Release value? I guess so - I don

Re: Very big files with tar

2003-07-04 Thread Todd Pytel
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:50:52 +0200 Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to do a backup to another partition using tar. Here are about > 9GB data to be saved. After a while tar complaints about a to big > output file (i think max size is around 2GB). Is there a way to split > the

Re: hda died, moved hdb... SOLVED

2003-07-04 Thread Antonio Rodr
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 10:55:02 -0500 Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:49, Antonio Rodr wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 > > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > > > > Hi all, I had in m

Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help

2003-07-04 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, Antonio RodrP wrote: > Well, I used grub from a boot floppy, and there I never put menu.1st. I used to > enter it by hand. Back then I would put > root (hd1,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 > boot Try kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 root=/dev/hda1 boot Also, change every hdb to hda in

Re: new debian box reboots itself?

2003-07-04 Thread Joey Hess
i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > but lastlog doesn't show anything about 'reboot', 'down' or > 'crash'. it only shows ports & such. Sorry, I tend to forget that there's an actual lastlog program. I was referring to the last program which should show that information. -- see shy jo p

USB works partially

2003-07-04 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! USB support is working because I'm using both a ps2 and a usb mouse (HP Omnibook XT1000 laptop), but: - -running (as root) usbview it says it cannot access /proc/bus/usb/devices - -running "gphoto2 --auto-detect" doesn't find the camera. "gp

Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

2003-07-04 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 15:40:18 +0200, Kent West wrote: > I use Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.org). As I wrote in my original email, Knoppix seems to fight with a chrooted lilo. Don't know why though... -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into Sebastian | your ~/.signa

Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

2003-07-04 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 14:50:08 +0200, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > LNX-BBC, http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ Thank you! Just being downloaded... > PS: If you send the FSF $120 to join up as an associate member they send > you a very useful little business card. That's a little bit beyond my current budget, but

Re: Automount

2003-07-04 Thread JZidar
Thanks for the link. Since I am a newbie, could you please explain how do I apply a patch to the kernel? I'm very familiary with kernel compiling. Thanks again. Zee - Original Message - From: "Mario Vukelic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 0

Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

2003-07-04 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:29, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 15:40:18 +0200, Kent West wrote: > > > I use Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.org). > > As I wrote in my original email, Knoppix seems to fight with a chrooted > lilo. Don't know why though... > > -- > Best Regards, | Hi!

Re: hda died, moved hdb... SOLVED

2003-07-04 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:45:30 -0400 Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all of you. Finally got it. Small how to for future reference. > Steps: > 1. Boot with the installation CD (any should work, I used #1). > 2. Press F3 for information about possibilities (may be skipped?) > 3. ty

Re: Update cd image for Woody?

2003-07-04 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 16:48:03 +0100 (CET) Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > Is there any cd image available with all the updates made since the > initial release (security stuff mainly)? I have made Woody cds, and I > want to update a non-broadband machine with the security upd

wireless tcp/ip multi-line telephone solutions w/ answering machinesand VRU

2003-07-04 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Anyone know of hardware / software (prefer free) for: wireless telephone tcp/ip with a gateway to the POTS multi-line w/ digital answering machines - stores to disk web interface for management and voice mail listening programable VRU (java prefered o

Re: hda died, moved hdb... SOLVED

2003-07-04 Thread Antonio Rodr>
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 13:19:06 -0400 Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:45:30 -0400 > Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks to all of you. Finally got it. Small how to for future > > reference. Steps: > > 1. Boot with the installation CD (any should wor

Re: USB works partially

2003-07-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Joan Tur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 18:54]: > - -running (as root) usbview it says it cannot access /proc/bus/usb/devices > - -running "gphoto2 --auto-detect" doesn't find the camera. "gphoto2 > - --list-ports" shows the usb port either. Sounds like you didn't mount the "usb proc filesystem"

Re: Update cd image for Woody?

2003-07-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 19:25]: > I haven't tried this, but I wonder if it would be possible to rsync that > against a local copy of Woody 3.0, and avoid downloading the whole CD. Use jigdo, which downloads only files, which have not allready downloaded (or which can't be fou

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Re: HowTo for Gnome2??

2003-07-04 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 08:10:37 -0600 "John W. M. Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If you're absolutely opposed to any unstable packages, then I >> guess you're screwed. That's what you get for running testing. > > What, are you saying that I'm less likely to get screwed by running > experime

Re: what is bf2.4, actually?

2003-07-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Colin Watson [Thu, Jul 03 2003, 02:44:18PM]: > When you see "bf2.4" in a kernel package's version number, it indicates > the fairly stripped-down kernel that's installed by default when you Sorry, "stripped-down" is just wrong wording here. It has more drivers that the actuall "2.2.x-

Re: HowTo for Gnome2??

2003-07-04 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 05:00:13 +0200, Michael Heironimus wrote: > Is anybody keeping score on how many different and unrelated font > configuration systems we have now? Ermm... XF86Config... and fontconfig. What else? >> 2) The Gnome Settings Daemon was not installed, and it repeatedly >>compl

Re: Very big files with tar

2003-07-04 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 20:57, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:50:52PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > > I'd like to do a backup to another partition using tar. Here are about > > 9GB data to be saved. After a while tar complaints about a to big output > > file (i think max size is ar

Compiling kernel with patches

2003-07-04 Thread Christophe Courtois
I'd like to add debianlogo (from sarge ; as a first patch before trying something else) to my 2.4.21 kernel. The command line is : nice -n 19 fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=.ccs.25+debianlogo --revision 1 --added-patches=debianlogo kernel_image ...but it does not seem to work (still t

Re: HowTo for Gnome2??

2003-07-04 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:44:02PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 05:00:13 +0200, Michael Heironimus wrote: > > > Is anybody keeping score on how many different and unrelated font > > configuration systems we have now? > > Ermm... XF86Config... and fontconfig. What else? I

Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

2003-07-04 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 16:00:24 +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > You can check out the Superrescue from the Kernel distri mirrors > (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/v2) > > Its RedHat based... but pretty useful. Thank you, I'll try it out! -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature v

Re: USB works partially (user won't access usb)

2003-07-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Joan Tur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 20:12]: > > Sounds like you didn't mount the "usb proc filesystem". Add "none > > /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0" to your /etc/fstab, enter "mount > > /proc/bus/usb" and try again. > Thanks, that has worked fine ;) Your are welcome. > But now I'm able o

Re: Update cd image for Woody?

2003-07-04 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 19:39:08 +0200 Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 19:25]: > > > I haven't tried this, but I wonder if it would be possible to rsync that > > against a local copy of Woody 3.0, and avoid downloading the whole CD. > > Use

Re: Where to set moz GUI font?

2003-07-04 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Thanks to Benedict Verheyen and Andrew Schulman for their answers. I wonder what I am doing wrong, because both methods work only partially in my case (Sarge system + mozilla from Sid!). The results were as follows: a) the .gtkrc approach: this changes the fonts in, e.g., gtk-gnutella, but has

Re: Update cd image for Woody?

2003-07-04 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 05:15, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 19:39:08 +0200 > > Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 19:25]: > > > I haven't tried this, but I wonder if it would be possible to rsync > > > that against a local copy of

Re: Compiling kernel with patches

2003-07-04 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 20:32:38 +0200 Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to add debianlogo (from sarge ; as a first patch before trying > something else) to my 2.4.21 kernel. The command line is : > > nice -n 19 fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=.ccs.25+debianlogo > --r

The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTo forGnome2??)

2003-07-04 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Chris, I am interested in learning Debian and contributing to the community. I feel I am somewhat GNU/Linux savy, though I am a neophyte when it comes to Debian. Perhaps my newness can bring out some confusion that people who are more established in the system such as yourself may not notice.

Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTofor Gnome2??)

2003-07-04 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 14:06:37 -0600 Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dependancies don't matter in testing, and maybe testing should have a > disclaimer "It's probably broken, but we don't want to hear about it > because it wasn't for sale yet anyway." I thought that was what unstable w

Re: suggestions for a good MTA?

2003-07-04 Thread Tom Anderson
Thanks to everyone who pointed out that exim (exim4, in this case) is actually able to handle everything I wanted. In the end, the headers_rewrite option at the transport level was able to handle the bulk of the changes. I still had to use the rewrite section to globally munge the envelope FROM e

Re: Where to set moz GUI font?

2003-07-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Thanks to Benedict Verheyen and Andrew Schulman for their answers. > I wonder what I am doing wrong, because both methods work only > partially in my case (Sarge system + mozilla from Sid!). The > results were as follows: > > a) the .gtkrc approach: this changes the fonts in, e.g., >gtk-gnut

local mirror based on APT source.list format?

2003-07-04 Thread Daniel B.
For maintaining a local partial Debian mirror, is there any tool that takes an APT-style sources.list file as the specification of things to mirror? And does it download packages _before_ you decide to install them (as opposed to archiving packages after downloading them on demand)? What I'd l

Evolution shell error

2003-07-04 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I thought I would give Evolution a try just to see what it was like. I installed it and ran it. It came up with the first screen of setup information, but I was called away and selected "Cancel" and it closed down cleanly. I came back 10 mins later and ran evolution again, but this time I got

Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTo for Gnome2??)

2003-07-04 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 02:06:37PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > Unfortunatly for a Debian neophyte like myself your descriptions seem > to be contrary on some points to the statements describing the > packages found here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. I may be > misunderstanding the las

Re: Where to set moz GUI font?

2003-07-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
> So, there seems to be some mix-up in moz 1.3 between the "GUI" and > the "content". Is this a bug? Am I the only one to experience his? Does your userChrome.css also include the following lines at the top? /* * Do not remove the @namespace line -- it's required for correct functioning */ @nam

Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

2003-07-04 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:36:48PM +0200, after much thought, Sebastian Kapfer spake thus: > > I'm looking for a bootable rescue CD-ROM with some Linux-based OS on it > (preferrably Debian). It should include utilities like fdisk and mkfs, > parted,

Re: Newbie to spamassassin- How to make it learn?

2003-07-04 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Friday 04 July 2003 9:34 am, SRIKANTH NS wrote: > Hi > Disgusted with the amount of spam received, I installed > Spamassassin2.54 and configured it, It works properly for the past one > month. I use fetchmail to receive mail and invoke sylpheed to read > them from /var/spool/ mail/ srikanth fold

Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTo for Gnome2??)

2003-07-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:13:10PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 02:06:37PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > > If the rules for testing is that it's ok to stick the engine in > > without a carburetor or exhaust system because they will go in > > sometime down the line before

Re: Update cd image for Woody?

2003-07-04 Thread Peter Karlsson
Kevin McKinley: > CD #1 of Woody 3.0r1 is available here (among other places): > ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-iso/ I don't want to update to 3.0r1 cd images, I want an update cd (3.0->current) to be used in *addition* to the current set. Basically something with everything from security.debian.

Re: Cannot mount cdrom if I use GRUB

2003-07-04 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Friday 04 July 2003 5:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Marino Fernandez wrote: > > This must be a very simple and dumb problem, but I cannot figure it out. > > > > If I boot with LILO, I can mount my CD/DVD w/o any problem. > > If I boot with GRUB I get an error message that

cd recording

2003-07-04 Thread James LeClair
Can anyone suggest a package for converting video to mpeg-1? And while were at it, what do woody users prefer for burning: music compositions, vcd, iso etc...? Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTo for Gnome2??)

2003-07-04 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:40:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:13:10PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > IIRC, there was an indication a while back that Gnome2 was being > > manually forced through into Testing. > > No, it's not. I sit corrected then. > The com

Re: local mirror based on APT source.list format?

2003-07-04 Thread Allister McRae
read into the dpkg and apt-get (maybe even apt-* files). There must be a way with those...you can do almost anything like you describe once you figure em out :) Cheers, Allister At 06:08 PM 7/4/2003 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: For maintaining a local partial Debian mirror, is there any tool that ta

Re: Repartitioned, now can't mount root

2003-07-04 Thread Ryan Heise
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:03:11PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 20:18, Ryan Heise wrote: > > > > When you "failed to mount" what command line or arguments did > > > you use? What's "-t XXX", etc.? > > > > I didn't use -t, just: > > > > mount /dev/hda1 root Strange

grep-dctrl

2003-07-04 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hi, I installed mysql-server on my server, and now I want to install lynx and/or ntpclient. This gives an error: kain:/var/log/apache# apt-get install lynx Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: lynx 0 packages upgraded, 1 n

Re: local mirror based on APT source.list format?

2003-07-04 Thread Daniel B.
Allister McRae wrote: > > read into the dpkg and apt-get (maybe even apt-* files). There must be a > way with those...you can do almost anything like you describe once you > figure em out :) Last I knew, apt-get didn't have any mirroring capability like I described. Do you know of some changes,

Re: grep-dctrl

2003-07-04 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:30:14AM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 112550 > package `grep-dctrl': > error in Version string `': version string has embedded spaces > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) I fixed it: Tha

MIDI Converter

2003-07-04 Thread Bill Webster
I have a need to convert several songs that are currently in the midi format and I need to ultimately put them onto a music CD. Can someone give me a clue as to how I can go about this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

pptpd help

2003-07-04 Thread C. R. Oldham
Greetings, Sorry about the crosspost--the machine in question is running testing, but there isn't much traffic on the testing list... I'm trying to setup pptp from a Windows XP machine to a Debian server. Both machines are on private networks, with the Internet in between. I got things working

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