Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 00:11, Brian McGroarty wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:37:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 23:32, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:25:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:03:55PM +0200, Roberto Sa

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE UNSTABLE: Terminal text stops functioning

2003-07-22 Thread Adam Warner
Hi Geordie Birch, > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 06:14:01PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: >> I wrote: >> >> > The bug is most likely caused by initscripts, sysvinit or sysv-rc. If >> > you have upgraded you may wish to downgrade/wait for a fix before >> > rebooting, especially if your computer doesn't aut

Re: help apache-ssl does not show any pages

2003-07-22 Thread Ivan Wills
Ivan Wills wrote: Hi I have installed the apache-ssl package but every time I try to connect to it I get an error. In my browser if I try to connect to the server I get a message about the ssl certificiate not being signed by a recoognised authority (which is fine as it was created during the in

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE UNSTABLE: Terminal text stops functioning

2003-07-22 Thread Adam Warner
Hi Geordie Birch, >> > The bug is most likely caused by initscripts, sysvinit or sysv-rc. If >> > you have upgraded you may wish to downgrade/wait for a fix before >> > rebooting, especially if your computer doesn't automatically boot into >> > X. >> >> I have confirmed that downgrading to initsc

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE UNSTABLE: Terminal text stops functioning

2003-07-22 Thread Geordie Birch
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 06:45:26PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: > Hi Geordie Birch, > > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 06:14:01PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: > >> I wrote: > >> > >> I have confirmed that downgrading to initscripts_2.85-4.1_all.deb > >> sysv-rc_2.85-4.1_all.deb and sysvinit_2.85-4.1_i386.d

Re: i810 problem

2003-07-22 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Mon Jul 21, 2003 at 07:46:35PM -0700, J. Smith wrote: > i have i810 board and Debian 3.0, but X does not work, > below is output by xinit: [...] > (EE) Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such device) [...] > modprobe: Can't locate module i810 > [drm] failed to load kernel module "i810" > (II)

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-22 Thread cr
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 17:37, Sharninder Singh-662 wrote: > > Do you suspect there could be a long enough delay between releasing > > the alleged infractions and producing a clean kernel that fully > > changing OSes could make sense, however? > > like u said .. if worst comes to worse. either ppl

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE UNSTABLE: Terminal text stops functioning

2003-07-22 Thread Adam Warner
Hi Geordie Birch, > FWIW, I have version 2.85-5 of initscripts, sysvinit, and sysv-rc > installed and am not having any problems re. terminal output. Upon standard bootup into a terminal it appears that output ceases before the INIT: Entering Runlevel : 2 message but will start up again if the ke

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-22 Thread Louie Miranda
These are good docs, really appreciate it a lot. Specially im new w/ encryption. I have generated the keys and.. webdev:~# gpg --list-keys /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg pub *** sub *** I wonder whats the sub ? I also see other users have gnupgpid: x9374483 (whatever) I

Re: mkboot

2003-07-22 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:49:00PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > I have now worked out the answer to this and feel a bit silly.(doh!) What is the answer? -- Rudy Gevaert[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web pagehttp://www.webworm.org GNU/Linux user and Savannah hac

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-22 Thread Louie Miranda
I mean, for ex this one. > GPG/PGP ID: 26384A3A > Fingerprint: D9FF DF4A 2D46 A353 A289 E8F5 AA75 DCBE 2638 4A3A Is this different from the one that i generated? -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: "Louie Miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Je

RE: help apache-ssl does not show any pages

2003-07-22 Thread Francisco Castellon
Isnt ssl by default 443? Why wouldn't it work on port 443? Did you have something else running that was using that port? -Original Message- From: Ivan Wills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:23 AM To: Debian-user Subject: Re: help apache-ssl does not show any pages

SSL

2003-07-22 Thread Francisco Castellon
Hi Sam:   I am wanting to be able to use SSL on my current apache installation (version 1.3.26). However I was doing some reading on the web (and obtained feedback from the list on a previous email) and found quite a few ways to go about installing SSL support on apache. There is:   - m

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-22 Thread cr
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 18:42, cr wrote: > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 17:37, Sharninder Singh-662 wrote: > > > Do you suspect there could be a long enough delay between releasing > > > the alleged infractions and producing a clean kernel that fully > > > changing OSes could make sense, however? > > >

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-22 Thread Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D.
I would have to actually see the output of gpg --list-keys to definitively answer but... 1) be wary distributing any information related to private keys. So you probably shouldn't show anybody the output of --list-secret-keys... 2) "fingerprints" are distillation of some large amount of

Re: mkboot

2003-07-22 Thread Keith O'Connell
> > I have now worked out the answer to this and feel a bit silly. > What is the answer? This is a bit odd. Posting a question, then having to supply the answer :-) Ii seems to be that mkboot does not deal with the initrd component of the kernel, and so when you boot a floppy that has b

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-22 Thread Richard Downer
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:11:11 +0200, Leif B. Kristensen wrote: > However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name > such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names? Most Perl packages in Debian are named based upon the CPAN package name. Some examples: DBD::Pg -

Re: kernel-source-2.4.20-bf2.4 ?

2003-07-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * martin f krafft [Tue, Jul 22 2003, 08:15:35AM]: > 2.4.20-8 is the revision. I would like to know which revision the > kernel on the LT2003 CDs are. RTF Changelog.Debian.gz, should not be THAT complicated. MfG, Eduard. -- Zugschlus: Du untertreibst mal wieder maßlos. Alfie: so bin

137GB HD limit?

2003-07-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Is there a 137GB HD limit in linux kernel? It looks like I can only access about that much of 250GB SATA (Serial ATA drive). googled & searched lkml but found nothing conclusive, there are some emails about problems with 137+ GB HDs. Anybody knows what's going on? BTW this is on debian un

Re: kernel-source-2.4.20-bf2.4 ?

2003-07-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * martin f krafft [Tue, Jul 22 2003, 08:20:25AM]: > > If the kernel is installed and running, would "uname -r" get what you > > need? Or if not installed, would running dpkg --contents on the .deb > > and seeing what the /lib/modules/xxx directory name is do it? > > It's installed, bu

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE UNSTABLE: Terminal text stops functioning

2003-07-22 Thread Geordie Birch
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:17:50PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: > Hi Geordie Birch, > > > FWIW, I have version 2.85-5 of initscripts, sysvinit, and sysv-rc > > installed and am not having any problems re. terminal output. > > Upon standard bootup into a terminal it appears that output ceases before

Re: 137GB HD limit?

2003-07-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 03:53, Erik Steffl wrote: >Is there a 137GB HD limit in linux kernel? It looks like I can only > access about that much of 250GB SATA (Serial ATA drive). > >googled & searched lkml but found nothing conclusive, there are some > emails about problems with 137+ GB HDs

bash: trap, logout signal ?

2003-07-22 Thread David selby
Hello ... My ppp link is dial on demand. At present I have /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot to start it. This is OK but if online I have to su and poff to kill the link once started, so I can use the phone, or wait 5 mins for it to drop. My wife struggles with this. I cannot use fluxbox docapps, or KDE to

Re: Resolving hostnames using DHCP

2003-07-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:43:40AM +1000, Michael Wardle wrote: > Add the following lines to /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf: > ddns-update-style interim; > option domain-name-servers ; > > Add the folling lines to /etc/bind/named.conf: > zone ".in-addr.arpa" I

Re: 137GB HD limit?

2003-07-22 Thread Nick Hastings
* Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030722 18:13]: > Is there a 137GB HD limit in linux kernel? It looks like I can only > access about that much of 250GB SATA (Serial ATA drive). > > googled & searched lkml but found nothing conclusive, there are some > emails about problems with 137+ GB HDs

Re: mouse pointer does not show

2003-07-22 Thread Marvin Aguero
OK Guys, My mouse is finally working thanks to Hurbert Chan who gave me trick that made the difference. All I had to do was to include the SWCursor option in the XFConfig86-4 in the section for the video card. My thanks are extensive to all of you who replied to my message. -Marvin PS. More qu

Re: Linux commands

2003-07-22 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >> >> Alan, I think you posted this to the newsfeed only, so people on the >> debian-user mailing list would never see it (at least it isn't showing >> up in the archives). I notice >> >> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.3 (Linux) >> >> in your headers. linux.debian.u

Re: RealPlayer on Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Andreas Janssen wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> Always start by checking the debian archive using apt-cache search >> . >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search realplayer >> realplayer - Real Player (installer) >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show realplayer > [...] >> Filename: d

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-22 Thread Paul Talacko
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:43:12AM +0100, Richard Downer wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:11:11 +0200, Leif B. Kristensen wrote: > > However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name > > such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names? > > Most Perl packages in D

Re: mouse pointer does not show

2003-07-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:41:03PM -0600, Marvin Aguero wrote: > BTW, what does Debian mean? I looked for it in the dictinary and > couldn't find it. It's formed from the names of Ian Murdock, who founded Debian, and his wife Debra. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-intro.en.

Re: RealPlayer on Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:30:25PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> Always start by checking the debian archive using apt-cache search > >> . > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search realplayer > >> realplayer - Real Player (installer) > >>

Graphic boot...

2003-07-22 Thread Vittorio
I've tailored my 2.4.20 kernel quitting the boxed 2.4.18-bf24. Now at boot time I don't have that nice graphical penguin and a graphical display any longer as with the previous kernel. How could I set lilo (or the kernel?) to have that penguin at boot time? Ciao Vittorio pgp0.pgp Descripti

Re: Graphic boot...

2003-07-22 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Vittorio wrote: > I've tailored my 2.4.20 kernel quitting the boxed 2.4.18-bf24. Now at > boot time I don't have that nice graphical penguin and a graphical > display any longer as with the previous kernel. > Have you got the framebuffer enabled in your kernel config? Rus --

First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread Jianan Huang
Hi folks, This is my first mail from my first Linux installation. It means I have got Debian GNU/Linux, X-Window and Mozilla all running. I feel good. There re some fine tuning to be done. 1) xdm-log showed an error msg about not being able to open Xwrapper.config because it was not found. Thi

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE UNSTABLE: Terminal text stops functioning

2003-07-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since upgrading to the latest unstable I have discovered that after my >startup reaches "Setting up X socket server directory ..." that I get no >further output at the terminal. I have confirmed this on two different >computer

Re: RealPlayer on Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:30:25PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > And before I get even more emails about this: looks like the realplayer > package has also been removed from Sid. Really? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show realplayer Package: realp

Web based LDAP address book editing?

2003-07-22 Thread Randy Orrison
I'm looking for a simple and straightforward way to set up and edit an LDAP address book (general purpose shared company contacts). Is there such a beast out there that anyone can recommend? (I've done some apt-cache searching, and looked around on freshmeat, but didn't find anything.) Thanks

Re: Graphic boot...

2003-07-22 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
That comes with framebuffer support, which you select under "Console drivers". It's experimental, so you have to select "Code maturity level options" - "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" right at the beginning of the configure options. Then, in the "Console drivers" section:

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-22 Thread Rich Johnson
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 12:32 AM, Brian McGroarty wrote: SCO has made no claims against the 2.2 kernels. If worst comes to worst and SCO finally show some incriminating code in 2.4, stepping back to 2.2 until the relevant bits are purged from 2.4 is all anyone should need to do to cover the

Re: RealPlayer on Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
That remarkable Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:47, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:30:25PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > And before I get even more emails about this: looks like the realplayer > > package has also been removed from Sid. > > Really? Actually if you try to install it,

Re: RealPlayer on Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:30:25PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> And before I get even more emails about this: looks like the realplayer >> package has also been removed from Sid. > > Really? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show realplayer [realplayer package informat

Re: Web based LDAP address book editing?

2003-07-22 Thread Randy Orrison
John Cuson wrote: just found this ... http://ldapweb.sourceforge.net/ additionally, mark wilcox's fine wrox book "implementing ldap" pretty well documents the construction of such a beast using perl cgi scripts. Thanks! The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-22 Thread John Hasler
Rich Johnson writes: > I guess I'll be going back to 2.2 until this nonsense blows over Just because SCO has made some unsubstantiated claims? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: RealPlayer on Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:47:33AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:30:25PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > And before I get even more emails about this: looks like the realplayer > > package has also been removed from Sid. > > Really? Yes, really. 'apt-cache show' is not

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-22 Thread Kent West
Rich Johnson wrote: [SCO claims you Linux kernel 2.4 contains their intellectual property and must be licensed] I guess I'll be going back to 2.2 until this nonsense blows oversigh. Well if you're going to be that easy to push over . . . I have undeniable proof that my intellectual prope

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread John Foster
Jianan Huang wrote: Hi folks, This is my first mail from my first Linux installation. It means I have got Debian GNU/Linux, X-Window and Mozilla all running. I feel good. There re some fine tuning to be done. 1) xdm-log showed an error msg about not being able to open Xwrapper.config because

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread Kent West
John Foster wrote: Jianan Huang wrote: Hi folks, This is my first mail from my first Linux installation. It means I have got Debian GNU/Linux, X-Window and Mozilla all running. I feel good. There re some fine tuning to be done. 1) xdm-log showed an error msg about not being able to open Xwra

Help needed with router vs Apache problem

2003-07-22 Thread Daniel Lesage
Hi all. I just finished setting up my LAN behind a DLink DI-704P router. Everything works fine outbound, but I'm unable to route inbound connections to my Debian web/ftp/mail server. I have Apache listening on port 81 (port 80 is blocked by my provider). Other computers on the LAN can connect t

Re: RealPlayer on Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:08:26PM +0100, Rodrigo Agerri wrote: > Actually if you try to install it, you will see that the package was in the database > but is not available anymore. > > You can install it from Marillat mirrors though. > > deb htt

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:26:49AM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > I guess I'll be going back to 2.2 until this nonsense blows > oversigh. Why bother? Unless you're a corporate site, I really wouldn't worry about it (otherwise consult a lawyer).

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-22 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 08:26, Rich Johnson wrote: > I guess I'll be going back to 2.2 until this nonsense blows > oversigh. This is terrorism (literally). They can't do much, but maybe they can scare you into doing it to yourself. Check this out: http://www.cybersource.com.au/users/conz/li

Re: /proc/partitions does not match /dev

2003-07-22 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian P. Flaherty) writes: > Today I built my own kernel 2.4.21 and when I run lilo, I get the > following message: > > Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure. >Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disk' -> '/dev/hda' >The kenrel

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread John Hasler
Kent West writes: > Sounds like what you want is an autodialer. Not having to use dial-up > anymore (Yea! for cable modems! Woot!), I'm not familiar with them, but > the command "apt-cache search dial|more" turned up "diald" which looks > like it might be what you want. He just needs to run pppcon

Re: Loading drm

2003-07-22 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 03:30:09 +0200, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: >> The minus sign doesn't mean "not installed". It means "not loaded". >> Anyway, agp_try_unsupported isn't a silver bullet. If there's a working >> patch as Roberto described, then use that. > > Do I 'have' to have a 2.4.2x kernel to a

Re: SSL

2003-07-22 Thread David Z Maze
Francisco Castellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please configure your mailer to send only plain text, not HTML.) > I am wanting to be able to use SSL on my current apache installation > (version 1.3.26). However I was doing some reading on

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030722] Jianan Huang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 2) I have to open a Bash window to 'pon' before entering Mozilla and leave > Mozilla to do a 'poff'. Can these be done from within Mozilla? Do : $ zcat /usr/share/doc/ppp/README.Debian.gz | more and find the lines

Re: strange ifconfig output

2003-07-22 Thread Nicolas
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 00:16, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 12:20, Nicolas wrote: > > I have a working ethernet card on a router with strange output. It has > > no TX paquets and a lots of errors. I tried to change the NIC ant PCI > > socket. I event switch the two interfaces (eth0

Re: SMTP AUTH with Postfix and SASL

2003-07-22 Thread Harley Peters
Jan Tammen wrote: Bonjour. I am trying to setup SMTP AUTH with Postfix and SASL on Debian unstable. So far I got these packages installed: postfix 2.0.13-1 postfix-tls 2.0.13-1 libsasl2 2.1.12-1 libsasl2-dev 2.1.12-1 libsasl2-modules 2.1.12-1 sasl2-bin2.1.12-1

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:26:49AM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > > I guess I'll be going back to 2.2 until this nonsense blows > oversigh. For a business, I'd just check to be sure that 2.2 will be okay for your needs. But I wouldn't step back to 2.2 until SCO actually makes the claims publi

Re: mouse pointer does not show

2003-07-22 Thread Charles-Roberts
Marvin Aguero wrote: OK Guys, My mouse is finally working thanks to Hurbert Chan who gave me trick that made the difference. All I had to do was to include the SWCursor option in the XFConfig86-4 in the section for the video card. My thanks are extensive to all of you who replied to my message.

Re: Problem with apt

2003-07-22 Thread Michael Ward Cole
I am using debian, linux kernel 2.4.21, unstable. I recently updated my system applications and have developed a problem with all the applications that use debconf because debconf won't configure. The debconf version is 1.3.4. The other applications are dependent on this. If I try to remove debc

How to view FAX in M$ generated .FXO format

2003-07-22 Thread Lance Heller
How can a FAX generated by a M$ product as a .FXO file be viewed. Imagemagick, netpbm, and OpenOffice1.1 don't appear to handle it. TIA Lance -- Lance Heller | ATD Software Engineer |

Re: Problem with apt

2003-07-22 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
> I am using debian, linux kernel 2.4.21, unstable. > I recently updated my system applications and have developed a problem > with all the applications that use debconf because debconf won't > configure. The debconf version is 1.3.4. The other applications are > dependent on this. If I try to r

Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, I was just wondering if it is considered fairly safe to install the new kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-1-386 package in unstable.. I'd really like to help test the new kernel but I don't really have the time to rebuild my system if it screws up. If I install the 2.6.0 test kernel can it be adde

Re: Graphic boot...

2003-07-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.22.1530 +0200]: > How could I set lilo (or the kernel?) to have that penguin at boot > time? Configure the kernel to use a console framebuffer. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Linux Commands

2003-07-22 Thread Alan Connor
In response to: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: Linux commands Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >> >> Alan, I think you posted this to the newsfeed only, so people on the >> debian-user mailing list would never see it (at least it isn

Re: webmin-quota fails

2003-07-22 Thread Robert C. Mosher II
I tried both the testing and unstable versions. Testing gives the exact same error. Unstable gives this: HTTP/1.0 500 Perl execution failed Server: MiniServ/0.01 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:40:04 GMT Content-type: text/html Connection : close Error - Perl execution failed Undefined subroutine &mou

specifying geometry in GNOME

2003-07-22 Thread ScruLoose
Hi all, I'm trying to set up a couple of programs to be launched when I log in to Gnome. I'm running gnome 1.4 on woody. So I added Licq and gbuffy into Sessions -> Startup Programs in the Gnome control center, and they both start at login. Now, Licq remembers its window size and position, so w

Re: webmin-quota fails

2003-07-22 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Robert C. Mosher II wrote: > I tried both the testing and unstable versions. Testing gives the exact > same error. Unstable gives this: > > HTTP/1.0 500 Perl execution failed Server: MiniServ/0.01 Date: Tue, 22 > Jul 2003 12:40:04 GMT Content-type: text/html Connection : clos

OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

2003-07-22 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody. I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of my laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how much time I have left until I have to shutdown or running to the nect power jack. I know there exists a kde applet which does this job, but I

Re: configuring DHCLIENT-2.2.x

2003-07-22 Thread Lars Unin
A network install is how I installed Debian in the first place, THAT WORKED. Its inside woody that it doesn't. I followed the full instructions at http://WWW.DEBIAN.ORG/releases/stable/i386/ ch-install-methods.en.html#s-boot-drive-files basically you download the disk images leave 'em o

Re: Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Swingley
Leo, * Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul-22 07:42 AKDT]: > Anyone have experience wrt the reliability of this test kernel? I've been running 2.6.0-test1 (custom compiled by me for my hardware) for 8 days on my workstation. It does a fair amount of http / php / mysql stuff, as well a

printer

2003-07-22 Thread Bdhrt
Have a windowsxp2003---cannot get Lexmark printer to print

Re: webmin-quota fails

2003-07-22 Thread Robert C. Mosher II
No, I didn't. Now that I have I first get the message 'Quotas inactive.' When I click on the link to 'Enbable Quotas' I get this error message. Failed to turn on quotas : quotaon: using /home/quota.group on /dev/hda8 [/home]: Invalid argument quotaon: Maybe create new quota files with quotacheck(8

can't configure authentication in exim

2003-07-22 Thread Francesc Oller
Hi all! I'm trying to configure exim 3.35 as relying to a outgoing smarthost which uses PLAIN AUTH. Lines from /etc/exim/exim.conf (transport, router and client authentication respectively): #--- # This transport is used for delivering messages over SMTP connections. remote_smtp: d

Re: OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

2003-07-22 Thread David selby
Joerg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody. I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of my laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how much time I have left until I have to shutdown or running to the nect power jack. I know there exists a kde applet whic

Re: Some shell's problem

2003-07-22 Thread David selby
James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: Hi, I am a chinese user. If i want to use xcin(one input chinese characters XIM server), I need to open a konsole and type the following command: export LANG=zh_TW.Big5 env|grep LC I have tried to add the above command in ~./bashrc and ~/.profile, but when i start kde aga

Re: Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Geordie Birch
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:42:38AM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > If I install the 2.6.0 test kernel can it be added to grub just like > any other kernel image so I can boot back into my 2.4.20 kernel if it > turns out not to work? Yes. > Anyone have experience wrt the reliability of > this te

mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Seems like such a simple little thing. Yes, I know that this is not really on-topic. However, when I am reading long emails, it would really be nice to use the mouse wheel to scroll down the page, just as I do with webpages. I'm running mutt in rxvt, if that matters. I asked this in mutt-users.

Re: How to view FAX in M$ generated .FXO format

2003-07-22 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:23:48AM -0400, Lance Heller wrote: > > How can a FAX generated by a M$ product as a .FXO file be viewed. > Imagemagick, netpbm, and OpenOffice1.1 don't appear to handle it. You could run 'file whatever.fxo' and see whether it is encoded as a group 3 or group 4 fax file

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Seems like such a simple little thing. > > Yes, I know that this is not really on-topic. > > However, when I am reading long emails, it would really be nice to use > the mouse wheel to scroll down the page, just as I do with webpages. mutt doesn'

Re: Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Chris Anderson
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:37, Christopher Swingley wrote: > Leo, > > * Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul-22 07:42 AKDT]: > > Anyone have experience wrt the reliability of this test kernel? > > I've been running 2.6.0-test1 (custom compiled by me for my hardware) > for 8 days on my work

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:16:04PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: [...] } However, when I am reading long emails, it would really be nice to use } the mouse wheel to scroll down the page, just as I do with webpages. I actually read the mutt user list and saw the messages fly by on the topic toda

Re: Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On July 22, 2003 12:33 pm, Chris Anderson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:37, Christopher Swingley wrote: > > Leo, > > > > * Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul-22 07:42 AKDT]: > > > Anyone have experience wrt the reliability of this test kernel? > > > > I've been running 2.6.0-test1 (cu

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Gregory Seidman (Tue 22 Jul 02003 at 03:38:18PM -0400): > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:16:04PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > [...] > } However, when I am reading long emails, it would really be nice to use > } the mouse wheel to scroll down the page, just as I do with webpages. > >

Install problem

2003-07-22 Thread Philip Juels
Hi all, I'm attempting to install version 3.0r1 on an AlphaServer 800 via ftp and when I get to the Base installation it bombs out complaining it couldn't download the libpcre3 package. I'm booting off the rescue and root floppies. Help? Thanks, Philip Juels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCR

corrupted dpkg?

2003-07-22 Thread Sridhar Srinivasan
Hi, I was upgrading mozilla on my Debian unstable box when the power went and my box crashed. On rebooting, it turns out my filesystem was messed by and required manual fsck'ing. Now whenever I try to install/upgrade anything, my dpkg is complaining about mozilla and doesn't let me do anything

Re: printer

2003-07-22 Thread Chris Anderson
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Have a windowsxp2003---cannot get Lexmark printer to print Perhaps try a windows list then -Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:23:45PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: [...] } OK, I have created a standalone ~/.Xdefaults, including *only* your } suggestion; and, I have added your two (2) bind's to ~/.muttrc. } } I am not sure about xrdb; but, I did /etc/init.d/kdm restart -- is it } the same? I

Re: Kernel 2.6.0test1 Mini-HOWTO

2003-07-22 Thread Micha Feigin
I am using 2.5.75 and am guessing that 2.6.0-test1 should be about the same. The sysfs doesn't hurt 2.4 kernels and is not actually needed. I am mounting it through automount, and even without it I only needed it for the cpufreq access. The sysfs gives access to the kernel data structures for users

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
"Jianan Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hi folks, > > This is my first mail from my first Linux installation. It means I have got > Debian GNU/Linux, X-Window and Mozilla all running. I feel good. There re > some fine tuning to be done. > 4) Is there

nvidia graphics cards

2003-07-22 Thread James LeClair
Hello. I'm doing a reinstall on my system. Went to install my graphics card and discovered that my unofficial source for nvidia debs wasn't available anymore. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I was under the impression that there aren't nvidia sources available as debs in the offici

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Gregory Seidman (Tue 22 Jul 02003 at 04:39:52PM -0400): > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:23:45PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > [...] > } OK, I have created a standalone ~/.Xdefaults, including *only* your > } suggestion; and, I have added your two (2) bind's to ~/.muttrc. > } > } I am

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:01:43PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: [...] } Yes, I figured out the xrdb -load idiom; and, I also corrected my use of } -title to -name. } } Yet, it still does *not* work in pager ;< } } What else need I do? Hm. Does it work in the index? If you hit : and scroll th

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
"Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Bah dum ba... > > 1st: A problem with this list is its huge signal to noise ratio. > If you don't have an answer to give jokes are less than helpful. > > 2nd: Louie, the answer to your question is: > W

Re: nvidia graphics cards

2003-07-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, James LeClair wrote: > Hello. I'm doing a reinstall on my system. Went to install my graphics card > and discovered that my unofficial source for nvidia debs wasn't available > anymore. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I was under the > impression that th

Re: corrupted dpkg?

2003-07-22 Thread Kent West
Sridhar Srinivasan wrote: Hi, I was upgrading mozilla on my Debian unstable box when the power went and my box crashed. On rebooting, it turns out my filesystem was messed by and required manual fsck'ing. Now whenever I try to install/upgrade anything, my dpkg is complaining about mozilla and

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-22 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:20:58AM +, Jianan Huang wrote: > Hi folks, [Questions 1, 2 and 4 snipped] > 3) Font size of characters in text windows such as Bash, Xterm etc. are too > small. How to adjust them ? As far as an Xterm is concerned you could create (if it does not already exist) $

Re: corrupted dpkg?

2003-07-22 Thread Sridhar Srinivasan
Kent West wrote: Sridhar Srinivasan wrote: Hi, I was upgrading mozilla on my Debian unstable box when the power went and my box crashed. On rebooting, it turns out my filesystem was messed by and required manual fsck'ing. Now whenever I try to install/upgrade anything, my dpkg is complaining

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > "Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >> 2nd: Louie, the answer to your question is: >> > > What do you do when you switch systems? E.g. I heve > done the key-gen thing and all, but now I want to gen > a new Debian Sarg

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