Re: help

2003-08-16 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 06:41:04AM -0300, leandro limeira wrote: > I used gnuplot with "filled curves", but now I am using gnuplot-3.7.1 and > is not possible use "filled curves" style. I did not remember the version > that a used before. Gnuplot doesn't do that by nature... it's a patch. Googl

Re: Woody Stable Kernel

2003-08-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello W.D. McKinney (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Just loaded up Woody on a Compaq server and I have > # uname -r > 2.4.18-bf2.4 > > I assume from the Security updates there should be a updated kernel ? > Yet using : > > /etc/apt/sources.list > [...] > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/up

Re: Woody Stable Kernel

2003-08-16 Thread W.D. McKinney
Excellent. Thanks. On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 23:15, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > W.D. McKinney (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Just loaded up Woody on a Compaq server and I have > > # uname -r > > 2.4.18-bf2.4 > > > > I assume from the Security updates there should be a updated kernel ? >

getting dpkg's source code

2003-08-16 Thread Zhi Wen Huang
I am wonder if I can get dpkg's source to install dpkg on RedHat. I just need dpkg to try something small. Thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody Stable Kernel

2003-08-16 Thread Stephane
Le Sat, 16 Aug 2003 09:15:25 +0200 Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > Hello [snip] > The installation kernel is not known to the package management. Do > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 > This will install the latest version which should be > kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4_2.4.1

Re: [Veering OT] RE: Panda antivirus?

2003-08-16 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi, I was just suggesting clamav because it is *free* software, while Panda is apparently not. I prefer to use free alternatives if possible for everything. Pim > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 17:04, Pim Bliek | PingWings wrote: >> What about clamav? Try apt-get install clamav and see how that works ;)

Re: kde does not start any more

2003-08-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 14 August 2003 7:48 pm, juerg maier wrote: > Hi > > spent quite some time looking for help on the web but all tipps and > tries do not help. > > I somehow broke my kde installation. Now removing and reinstalling does > not help, neither the tipps written out in xsession-errors. > I have

Re: NVIDIA driver (nvidia-kernel-source)

2003-08-16 Thread Michael Bonert
I'm still having some problems and I think it lies somewhere with the module configuration. Screen capture from 'startx': ---SNIP--- (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:debug_xform.o": No symbols found Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/mo

Re: NVIDIA driver (nvidia-kernel-source)

2003-08-16 Thread Engosh
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 05:14:55 -0400 (EDT) Michael Bonert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still having some problems and I think it lies somewhere with the > module configuration. > > Screen capture from 'startx': > ---SNIP--- > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" > Skipping > "/usr/X1

Re: Woody Stable Kernel

2003-08-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Stephane (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Le Sat, 16 Aug 2003 09:15:25 +0200 > Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > >> The installation kernel is not known to the package management. Do >> apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 >> This will install the latest version which should

Re: exim does not add domain to outgoing addresses...

2003-08-16 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Freitag, 15. August 2003 23:41 schrieb Sven Clasen - Hacki: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:02:35PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am running a exim on my host silverboxy. I have an alias file, which > > contains e.g. > > > > testmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > When I send now a m

Re: exim does not add domain to outgoing addresses...

2003-08-16 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Freitag, 15. August 2003 23:39 schrieb Sven Clasen - Hacki: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:02:35PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am running a exim on my host silverboxy. I have an alias file, which > > contains e.g. > > > > testmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > When I send now a m

Re: telnet localhost slow, telnet 127.0.0.1 ok

2003-08-16 Thread RUPERT LEVENE
Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 12:25:16AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> If I run telnet localhost 22 then I have to wait 15-30 seconds >> before it connects; with telnet 127.0.0.1 22 it connects at once. I >> have the same results using other open ports. >>

Re: Anti-aliased fonts in galeon/mozilla/epiphany

2003-08-16 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday 16 August 2003 05:11, Jeff Schwaber wrote: > I'm trying to get rid of anti-aliased fonts in the various mozilla-based > web browsers that come with gnome, and I've been pretty unsuccessful. > There's a page for Mandrake describing how to set the minimum size for > anti-aliasing in /usr/

Re: Graphical units conversion program?

2003-08-16 Thread stan
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:33:38PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Why would you want a graphical units program? What would it so that > 'units' doesn't do? I'm not attacking you: as the maintainer of units I > honestly want to know. A valid question. I like unts. But I'm asking as my wife prefers

Re: exim does not add domain to outgoing addresses...

2003-08-16 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:02:35PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > I am running a exim on my host silverboxy. I have an alias file, which > contains e.g. > > testmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When I send now a mail to testmail, The To: field looks like > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > without

Lost /etc/init.d/mysql

2003-08-16 Thread Friedrich-Daniel Möller
Hi Folks, I accidently deleted my /etc/init.d/mysql from Woody. I didn't find a way to reinstall this one file. Could someone please be that nice and send it to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

apt-get dist-upgrade problem

2003-08-16 Thread ZekeVarg
I just ran dist-upgrade on my sid-box and I got problems with: python2.3-glade2, python2.3-gnome2, python2.3-gtk2 & python2.3-pyorbit and got a suggestion to run #apt-get -f install to fix it. This is the output of #apt-get -f install after I accept the install of the above packages. (Reading dat

Re: Happy Birthday to Debian :-)

2003-08-16 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 10:07:02AM +1200, Haralambos wrote: > > > Hi Ian, > > you read this list @ all nowadays? > > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/print/4959/ > > Thanx. :-) Nice reading, ;-) Happy Birthday! Many thanks to the community, :-) > (I am on Red Hat 9.0 for now, as I suf

Re: Remote Filesystem Administration

2003-08-16 Thread Friedrich-Daniel Möller
  "Todd Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Newbie question,   It would seem that the best way to do this would be to remove the K20ssh script from /etc/rc1.d and replace it with the S20ssh script from run level 2.  When I tried this, h

Re: Woody Stable Kernel

2003-08-16 Thread Stephane
Le Sat, 16 Aug 2003 11:36:07 +0200 Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > Recent packages are not affected by the ptrace bug. This was corrected > with version kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4_2.4.18-5woody1_i386.deb (DSA > 311-1). OK this sounds good to me. But I'm wondering something else now:

Re: Lost /etc/init.d/mysql

2003-08-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hallo Friedrich-Daniel Möller (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I accidently deleted my /etc/init.d/mysql from Woody. I didn't find a > way to reinstall this one file. Could someone please be that nice and > send it to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also get the deb package, extract it to some dir

Re: Win machine cannot print to a linux printer (cups)

2003-08-16 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dissabte 16 Agost 2003 01:21, en Bijan Soleymani va escriure: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 07:48:54PM +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > > And raw jobs are available in cups... > > This might not help you with this problem, but... > > I had a winprinter with fla

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 22:21, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 21:05, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:43:24PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > > > I want to locate an editor that will run on Linux that will handle .pdf > > jpeg or tiff, you edit jpeg or tiff directly (usi

Re: Win machine cannot print to a linux printer (cups)

2003-08-16 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 07:48:54PM +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hallo! > > I cannot print from a windows computer to a printer shared using cups. > Security is set in samba to "user", user name & pwd are the same in both > computers and the XP co

Suggestion for Common Third Party Install system

2003-08-16 Thread Edward Murrell
Recently, I have been working over strategies for Linux on the desktop. In particular, I've been comparing usability of system administration tasks to Windows 2K/XP and Mac OS X, the main contenders on the desktop. System administration tasks are done by almost everybody who owns a computer. It's

Re: Lost /etc/init.d/mysql

2003-08-16 Thread Friedrich-Daniel Möller
Thanx for the advice. It perfectly worked. "Andreas Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can also get the deb package, extract it to some dir with dpkg -x > and copy the missing init script to /etc/init.d. > > best regards > Andreas Janssen > >

Re: Suggestion for Common Third Party Install system

2003-08-16 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday 16 August 2003 14:48, Edward Murrell wrote: > The 'Applications' folder is accessible from the users Control panel as > a special directory, allowing write access with sudo and the root > password. The folder itself would most likely sit in somewhere like > /usr/local/Applications/. Thu

Re: Woody Stable Kernel

2003-08-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Stephane (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Le Sat, 16 Aug 2003 11:36:07 +0200 > Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > >> Recent packages are not affected by the ptrace bug. This was >> corrected with version >> kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4_2.4.18-5woody1_i386.deb (DSA 311-1). > > OK this

Re: Graphical units conversion program?

2003-08-16 Thread John Hasler
> I like unts. But I'm asking as my wife prefers GUI based programs on her > Gnome desktop. Units has a menu entry: selecting it should pop up an xterm with units running in it. It would be trivial to write a GTK front-end, but I don't see much point in doing so. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Named Pipes

2003-08-16 Thread moseley
I wanted to use a named pipe to provide random images. I know I can use a program in a loop writing to the pipe, but that means starting the program initially (from say a init.d or xdm startup script) where it sits blocked until read from. Question: Is there a way in Linux to have the action

Re: telnet localhost slow, telnet 127.0.0.1 ok

2003-08-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rupert> Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 12:25:16AM +0100, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Running strace telnet localhost 22 shows that it's trying to >>> resolve the hostname localho

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade problem

2003-08-16 Thread Edward Murrell
Since they're not crucial packages (by crucial, I mean things like bash, and init), I would suggest forcing the removal of all of them, and then apt-get the new ones. Edward On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 23:21, ZekeVarg wrote: > I just ran dist-upgrade on my sid-box and I got problems with: > python2.3-g

Re: Suggestion for Common Third Party Install system

2003-08-16 Thread Edward Murrell
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 00:53, Nicos Gollan wrote: > This sounds awfully like an extended version of stow. It'd be nice to see > that. Hmm, having looked up stow, I see what you mean. The only thing is that stow, as far as I can tell, tries to do it for everything, which apt/dpkg already does bett

Hardware

2003-08-16 Thread Henk Vuijk
Hello, I have to buy soon a new komputer and I wonder if Debian support: - the S-ATA standard for hard disks - are there drivers for Videocards with the ATI 9000 and 9200 chips Sorry to bother you, but I cannot find a friendly list to check these things and the HOW-TO's do not answer my questio

Re: net install with eepro100 / 845G

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:45:53 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > The 2.4.18 bf24 kernel has the eepro100 driver build in. The modular > kernels need eepro100 in /etc/modules. Or modprobe it manually and > restart networking to avoid needing to reboot. Perhaps you're thinking of anothe

dualboot xp debian with grub

2003-08-16 Thread claus larsen
hello. I have 2 computers with windows XP and redhat, booted with grub. I want to install debian on both machines, booted with the existing grub. How do i do that? Regards Claus _ Get your spam-free, Linux email now --> http://www.Lin

Re: Hardware

2003-08-16 Thread Edward Murrell
Generally, anything that the Linux kernel supports, Debian supports. However, SATA support last time I checked was non-existant in Linux/Debian. Blame the manufactures. As for ATi. Go with nVidia, same yourself the pain. Edward On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 01:38, Henk Vuijk wrote: > Hello, > > I have

Re: kernel-package system: install a boot block using the existing/etc/lilo.conf?

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:36:17 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > > A longer answer is that writing a new boot block with the existing > > lilo.conf would simply re-write the current boot sector, which would > > boot the old kernel. > > Are we talking about the same question? At the poi

Re: Hardware

2003-08-16 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:36:28AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote: > Generally, anything that the Linux kernel supports, Debian supports. > > However, SATA support last time I checked was non-existant in > Linux/Debian. Blame the manufactures. > > As for ATi. Go with nVidia, same yourself the pain.

Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 13 Aug 2003 18:25:16 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4. Proceed with installing the rest of the packages I need. Of >course, I have a list of such packages, since I make regular >backups, including a "COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l > package.lis" and >scp it to another machine.

Re: NVIDIA driver (nvidia-kernel-source)

2003-08-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:53:13AM +0200, Engosh wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 05:14:55 -0400 (EDT) Michael Bonert wrote: > > > I'm still having some problems and I think it lies somewhere with the > > module configuration. > > > > Screen capture from 'startx': > > ---SNIP--- > > (==) Using config

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-16 Thread John Foster
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 21:51, John Foster wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 21:05, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:43:24PM -0500, John Foster wrote: I want to locate an editor that will run on Linux that will handle .p

Re: getting dpkg's source code

2003-08-16 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:56:41AM -0700, Zhi Wen Huang wrote: > I am wonder if I can get dpkg's source to install dpkg on RedHat. I just need > dpkg to try something small. > I believe you can get the tar ball and the .dsc file from any Debian mirror under debian/pool/main/d/dpkg. I am not s

Re: kernel-package and grub

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:42:07 +0200 Engosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Is there any way to update grub menu.lst when installing a kernel > package made by kernel-package (I mean as it does whith lilo)? http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html#GRUB-KERNEL-PKG Kevin

Re: Inspiron laptop, framebuffer console

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:42:56 -0400 Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks- > > I finally got a framebuffer console to actually WORK on my Inspiron > 4100 with its GeForce2 GO under Sarge 2.4.21 by compiling with only > VESA framebuffer and 16-color VGA framebuffer support in the kernel. >

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:59:32AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > > I would be happy to find a way to download .pdf files & convert them > to html... You mean, like say: pdftohtml - Translates pdf documents into html format Description: Translates pdf documents into html format Translates pd

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:59:32AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I would be happy to find a way to download .pdf files & convert them to > html...that way I could Any special reason you can't just open them in , e.g. Acrobat Reader, then Select All, Copy, and Paste into any editor you like? -- Ca

Re: telnet localhost slow, telnet 127.0.0.1 ok

2003-08-16 Thread RUPERT LEVENE
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rupert> Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 12:25:16AM +0100, > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> Running strace telnet localhost 22 shows that

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

2003-08-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 02:57:45AM +0900, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 22:45:24 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > I do, for a few things. I only discovered it after I'd been using > > Subversion for a while, so perhaps I can provide some contrast to > > the numerous svn-only users abov

Re: Named Pipes

2003-08-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:24:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wanted to use a named pipe to provide random images. I know I can use > a program in a loop writing to the pipe, but that means starting the > program initially (from say a init.d or xdm startup script) where it > sits bl

Re: Hardware

2003-08-16 Thread Rob Weir
[Please don't top quote! It makes your message harder to read, especially in long threads.] On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:36:28AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote: > Generally, anything that the Linux kernel supports, Debian supports. > > However, SATA support last time I checked was non-existant in > L

Re: linux 2.4.21 on stable (was: Re: booting 2.4 kernel on old PC)

2003-08-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Marco Franzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hi, > > > Would it be possible that the 2.4 kernel has dropped support for a > > chipset that worked in in the 2.2 kernel? Should I file a bug report? > > Digging on kernel.org I found that this is likely a bug, which was > fixed in the officia

Re: Lost /etc/init.d/mysql

2003-08-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 12:38:23PM +0200, Friedrich-Daniel M?ller wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I accidently deleted my /etc/init.d/mysql from Woody. I didn't find a way to > reinstall this one file. Could someone please be that nice and send it to me > at [EMAIL PROTECTED] In future, you can either pur

EnsonIQ 1370, KDE, USB Mouse?

2003-08-16 Thread griffisb
Hey all, I've been running Mandrake 9.1 on my desktop since it came out, then removed it and installed SuSE. Wanted to try Debian, did a clean install on Debian Stable last night. Install went pretty well, the desktop is up, network works, X is configured. Question one is: how to I specif

gnome-core OR gnome-panel but not both??

2003-08-16 Thread David Morse
In Sarge: "apt-get install gnome-panel" wants to uninstall gnome-core, and vice versa. And I need gnome-core as a prerequisite for gnome-media, without which I get no mixer applet (boo hoo). Without gnome-panel, I get no panels whatsoever, thus definately no mixer applet. I'm something of a ninn

Re: bug in libc6

2003-08-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 03:38:37PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 12:54:40PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > | Is it fair to assume that by the time this version of libc6 occurs > | in a stable release, old commercial apps will run, or will they have > | to be recompiled

Re: 'apt-get update' crashes

2003-08-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:30:10PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 12:15:42AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > > I have both stable and unstable in my sources.list, for and for about > > the last week, apt-get update keeps failing with the following error: > > > > Reading Pac

Re: Subscription attempt

2003-08-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 05:15:14PM +0300, Ogulla, Alphonse wrote: > Subscribed! > Any ideas on how to take out the disclaimer attached to all outgoing mail by > an exchange creature? > Two dashes on the last line had a zero effect. The proper signature seperator is two dashes and a space, then a n

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-16 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:56:15PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:22:52PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > You know, I've been wondering about this for quite sometime. > > > > What are the tradeoffs between these two scenarios? > > > >fetchmail -> exim -> procma

Re: EnsonIQ 1370, KDE, USB Mouse?

2003-08-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >I've been running Mandrake 9.1 on my desktop since it came out, >then removed it and installed SuSE. Wanted to try Debian, did a >clean install on Debian Stable last night. > >Install went pretty well, the desktop is up, netwo

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-16 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 the mental interface of John Foster told: > I want to locate an editor that will run on Linux that will handle .pdf > flie format. I really am only interested in one with a WYSIWYG GUI > frontend. I just tried kile & it seeems to be partially there but does > not appear to

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-16 Thread John Foster
Carl Fink wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:59:32AM -0500, John Foster wrote: I would be happy to find a way to download .pdf files & convert them to html...that way I could Any special reason you can't just open them in , e.g. Acrobat Reader, then Select All, Copy, and Paste into any ed

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-08-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:26:29PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Mensaje escrito por Bob Proulx el 14/08/2003 1:54: > >For my own backports I have been changing the debhelper version > >dependency in the debian/control file to specify the woody version. I > >have not backported debhelpe

ISA network cards

2003-08-16 Thread jleclair
Can anyone assist me installing a d-link 220 isa nic? The OS is woody, and the platform is intel 486. The install routine doesnt see the card. Have also tried a few modules but no auto-probing was successful. Guess I have been spoiled with PCI plug n play! A nod to a good link with documentatio

Re: gpilotd / gnome-pilot issues

2003-08-16 Thread karrottop
Ok, I added myself to dialout, but being as I do not use ppp at all to connect its a rather odd group to be added to...but I did already have permissions set up so that I could access the device, Jpilot was working. I notice that lately it has been crashing almost always as soon as I hit the sync

xterms with invisible fonts...

2003-08-16 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello in the meantime in managed to set up a somehow working X setup, there are still some glichtes running around... the xterm still shows white on white an empty screen, but there is a shell in it... typing blindly and hoping, yields a result: the command respond, even better: a cut&paste wo

Re: ISA network cards

2003-08-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:32:27PM -0300, jleclair wrote: > > Can anyone assist me installing a d-link 220 isa nic? The OS is woody, and > the platform is intel 486. The install routine doesnt see the card. Have > also tried a few modules but no auto-probing was successful. Guess I have > been spo

Re: ISA network cards

2003-08-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello jleclair (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Can anyone assist me installing a d-link 220 isa nic? The OS is woody, > and the platform is intel 486. The install routine doesnt see the > card. Have also tried a few modules but no auto-probing was > successful. Guess I have been spoiled with PCI p

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-08-16 Thread Travis Crump
Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:26:29PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: Mensaje escrito por Bob Proulx el 14/08/2003 1:54: For my own backports I have been changing the debhelper version dependency in the debian/control file to specify the woody version. I have not backported d

CUPS fails outside of Gimp. HP1200 LJ

2003-08-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
My printer stopped printing yesterday and I can't figure out what happened from debugging output from CUPS. In most cases there is no apparent indication of any problem. What appears logged is cupsysd reporting seeing a Trailer and EOF, and announcing that the job is complete. The LaserJet 1200

Re: Win machine cannot print to a linux printer (cups)

2003-08-16 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 08:05:17PM +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Es Dissabte 16 Agost 2003 14:47, en David Fokkema va escriure: > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 07:48:54PM +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > >

Re: CUPS fails outside of Gimp. HP1200 LJ

2003-08-16 Thread toovey1
List: I am trying to use your program bootcd to create debian system fully bootable from dvd. After several hours of tweaking it passes all tests without error. I am using standard debian unstable kernel 2.4.21 with initrd. After burning to DVD and attempting to boot I receive "unable to

emacs & spell checking broke

2003-08-16 Thread Rodney D. Myers
A quick question concerning emacs & spell checking. I have emacs20/emacs21 installed, and aspell, aspell-bin, aspell-en, to work with sylpheed. Since aspell, evidently supersedes ispell, now emacs does not spell check, complaining about not finding ispell. What are my options to getting emacs to

bootcd program

2003-08-16 Thread toovey1
List: I am trying to use your program bootcd to create debian system fully bootable from dvd. After several hours of tweaking it passes all tests without error. I am using standard debian unstable kernel 2.4.21 with initrd. After burning to DVD and attempting to boot I receive "unable to

Debian and Emacs

2003-08-16 Thread Afra
Hi, I am using Debian unstable with Emacs. I edit files via Tramp, so I can SSH into the developmental servers and edit files through there. However, every so often, Emacs locks up for a few seconds with en error such as this: auto-saving : opening output file no such file or directory /home/rlb/

Re: Hardware

2003-08-16 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:36:28AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote: > > As for ATi. Go with nVidia, same yourself the pain. I would point out that while "My ATI 9000 isn't working" has come up a few times on the list recently, "My NVidia isn't working" comes up all the time. With NVidia you have a

Help needed with ethernet configuration - dhclient seems to ignore DHCPOFFER

2003-08-16 Thread Komáromi Eszter
I use SMC EtherEZ (8416) card on i486, Woody, kernel 2.4.18. ISA, pnp is disabled and the driver (smc-ultra) loads fine. The problem is, while I got several DHCPOFFERs, I never get an IP address. Here're a few lines from my daemon.log while dhclient is running: Aug 16 12:40:21 teknoc dhclient-2.

Re: Named Pipes

2003-08-16 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:24:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wanted to use a named pipe to provide random images. I know I can use > a program in a loop writing to the pipe, but that means starting the > program initially (from say a init.d or xdm startup script) where it > sits block

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

2003-08-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:43:00 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > [tla] > > > Another, perhaps less useful feature is symlink versioning. > > > Subversion (and CVS) don't have this, and it's not targeted for > > > pre-1.0, either. > > > > Does it also support hardlinks (i.e. a file that has several > >

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:44:59AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > Sorry, I should have mentioned that these are various types of FORMS > that need to be filled > out and either faxed or mailed (US Postal). My goal is to be abel to > fill them out using the > keyboard & mouse...if possible. When I t

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-16 Thread David Monarres
On Friday 15 August 2003 06:43 pm, John Foster wrote: > I want to locate an editor that will run on Linux that will handle .pdf > flie format. I really am only interested in one with a WYSIWYG GUI > frontend. I just tried kile & it seeems to be partially there but does > not appear to have a WYSIW

extension "XFree86-DRI" missing

2003-08-16 Thread Micha Feigin
I am running Xfree86 4.3 from the unofficial packages by Daniel Stone. When running matlab, and displaying graphics I get the following message: Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0" I am not sure what kind of images produce this, since its not completely consistent for some reas

wflogs - wrong filter expression

2003-08-16 Thread Micha Feigin
I get a daily message from cron daily stating that : /etc/cron.daily/wflogs_report: /usr/bin/wflogs: error: wrong filter expression. run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/wflogs_report exited with return code 1 I tried running the script myself and didn't get any errors. It is settup by debconf to produce ema

Re: telnet localhost slow, telnet 127.0.0.1 ok

2003-08-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rupert> Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rupert> Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 12:25:16AM +0100, >> >> [EMAIL P

snort - ip in report don't appear in log

2003-08-16 Thread Micha Feigin
I get a daily report from snort which claims all sort of ICMP Destination Unreachable (Communication Administratively Prohibited) and (spp_portscan2) Portscan detected from 132.66.40.250: 21 targets 21 ports in 1 seconds The IPs appearing in this report don't apear in any of the /var/log/{messages|

Re: Named Pipes

2003-08-16 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:24:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wanted to use a named pipe to provide random images. I know I can use > a program in a loop writing to the pipe, but that means starting the > program initially (from say a init.d or xdm startup script) where it > sits bl

Re: Help needed with ethernet configuration - dhclient seems to ignore DHCPOFFER

2003-08-16 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:03:36PM +0200, Komáromi Eszter wrote: > I use SMC EtherEZ (8416) card on i486, Woody, kernel 2.4.18. ISA, pnp is > disabled and the driver (smc-ultra) loads fine. The problem is, while I got > several DHCPOFFERs, I never get an IP address. Here're a few lines from my > d

Re: Hardware

2003-08-16 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:01:15PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:36:28AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote: > > > > As for ATi. Go with nVidia, same yourself the pain. > > I would point out that while "My ATI 9000 isn't working" has come up a > few times on the list recently, "My NV

Web script

2003-08-16 Thread Reaz Baksh
Hell Can some one help me with some information?   I’m looking for a script that will allow me to get web pages, and then copy some of the information from them, then create a new page with the information I pulled.   I saw one that used, I think, RSS but I lost it.   Thanks Reaz

Re: exim does not add domain to outgoing addresses...

2003-08-16 Thread Rainer Dorsch
I need to add: testmail is not a local user. It is just an entry in the /etc/aliases (which is used as an addressbook for all users on the system). How do I tell exim to _only_ use domainnames instead of hostnames? I think that would solve my problem completely. Thanks, Rainer -- Rainer Dors

fetchmail error

2003-08-16 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi deb-users, could anyone point me in the right direction. pop3 server->fetchmail->sendmail->pop3 client (evolution) Fetchmail issues an SMTP error and cant continue getting the rest of my email. ---error--- Aug 16 18:13:02 debian fetchmail[1383]: reading me

Konqueror pull down menus pull down a little too slow

2003-08-16 Thread J F
Konqueror pull down menus pull down a little too slow. Is there a way to speed it up? Usually there is a way to remove animation. Thanks in advance, J ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! -- To UNSUBSCR

airo problem

2003-08-16 Thread Nathan Michaels
I have a cisco/aironet 340 pci carrier for a pcmcia card that's giving me issues. I installed woody on a Pentium II/300 with this card. I then installed the pcmcia-cs package and wireless-tools from stable (pcmcia-cs from the woody r1 cd and wireless-tools from a mirror). Now when I modprobe

Re: telnet localhost slow, telnet 127.0.0.1 ok

2003-08-16 Thread RUPERT LEVENE
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rupert> Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rupert> Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> On Sat,

Re: Named Pipes

2003-08-16 Thread moseley
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:16:04PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:24:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I wanted to use a named pipe to provide random images. > Do you have a particular task in mind? If so, maybe someone knows of an > alternative way without de

rpc.statd message on syslog...

2003-08-16 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
Hello, I run nfs-kernel-server on some boxes running sid & I noticed the following message on syslog : [rpc.statd] statd running as root. chown /var/lib/nfs/sm to choose different user Creating a nfs user or something & chowning that dir to him should make things a little more secure or I should

Reports from the 10th Birthday Party Zurich/Switzerland

2003-08-16 Thread martin f krafft
Fellow Debian-Geeks, I tore my ligaments this afternoon playing volleyball, but the doctor seemingly didn't understand when she called me crazy to go to a party. Well, I did -- on crutches -- and I am glad I did. In the hope that other sites will share a short report of their event, I am herewith

Re: ATI Radeon 9000 question

2003-08-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Hi, I installed sid a few months ago with the experimental X4.3 and gor my Radeon 9000 Pro working well in 2D, but never got 3D working for OpenGL. Then a few weeks ago, my hard disk had problems and my root partition was unbootable. I downloaded the Knoppix CD to use as a rescue disk (and to tr

Re: Hardware

2003-08-16 Thread Edward Murrell
Repeat after; *sits in the corner repeating "Do not post at 2:30am after coming down off a caffiene buzz. Do not post..."* Seriously though. While ATi has drivers, they don't appear to work for the full range of OpenGL functions. To my understanding, they have a bunch of patents, some not owned by

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