Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

2003-08-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:44:49PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > 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.

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

2003-08-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:11:57PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: > > Sure. The beautiful thing about arch is that it's designed around > > sets of changesets. Think of a changeset as a super-patch, that > > tracks file renames and symlinks and permissions. > > > There's no real clear

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread cr
On Sunday 17 August 2003 18:38, Jesse Meyer wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Kevin Mark wrote: > > http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=260 > > > > [ SNIP ] > > > > RMS: When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on > > ethical considerations. Today I would recomme

Re: Named Pipes

2003-08-17 Thread René Seindal
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 03:57:28PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 particu

Traditional Install or Knoppix?

2003-08-17 Thread Darryl Barlow
I plan to install Debian unstable on another machine. Whenever I have done this in the past I have started with a Woody install from cd followed by apt-get dist-upgrade which of course works well. However, is there any disadvantage to installing knoppix and then using dist-upgrade? Might save

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 01:38, Jesse Meyer wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=260 > > > > [ SNIP ] > > > > RMS: When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on > > ethical considerations. Today I would recomm

Re: Traditional Install or Knoppix?

2003-08-17 Thread Robert Epprecht
Darryl Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there any disadvantage to installing knoppix and then using > dist-upgrade? KNOPPIX is a wonderful system and it's hardware recognition can help installation a lot. But: it's a mix from stable/testing/unstable and upgrading from it will be difficult

Re: which woody-iso ?

2003-08-17 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:12:08 +0200, Gregory Soyez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi everybody, > >I shall install debian on my laptop and I need ISO CD. Do I really need to >download the 7 ISO for woody or just a few are sufficient ? (I tried to read >the FAQ but it seems to talk about potato!) I

Re: Traditional Install or Knoppix?

2003-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 04:15, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Darryl Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > is there any disadvantage to installing knoppix and then using > > dist-upgrade? > > KNOPPIX is a wonderful system and it's hardware recognition can > help installation a lot. > > But: it's a mi

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:18:08AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=260 > > TRB: What about Debian GNU/Linux, which by default does not install any > non-free software? > > RMS: Non-free programs are not officially considered "part of Debian

Re: Traditional Install or Knoppix?

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:29:42PM +1000, Darryl Barlow wrote: > I plan to install Debian unstable on another machine. Whenever I have done > this in the past I have started with a Woody install from cd followed by > apt-get dist-upgrade which of course works well. However, is there any > disa

Re: Clipboard is bent

2003-08-17 Thread cr
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 00:28, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:16:29PM +1200, cr wrote: > > (Next instalment in the fixing-my-desktop saga) > > Not sure if I should be asking on this list or a Gnome list, > > but can anyone tell me where to start investigating my clipboard

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El domingo, 17 de agosto de 2003, a las 00:18, Kevin Mark escribe: > GNU/LinEx is better because it does not distribute or recommend those > programs. In my humble opinion, "better" is not the most proper word to be used, here. Regards, Ismael -- "Tout fourmille de commentaries; d'auteurs il e

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-08-17 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El domingo, 17 de agosto de 2003, a las 02:45, Rob Weir escribe: > There's a backport of debhelper 4.1.56 available from here: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/BACKPORTS stable main Thanks a lot. I will be trying it soon. > Make sure you check www.apt-get.org to see if someone else has

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-08-17 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El sábado, 16 de agosto de 2003, a las 13:47, Travis Crump escribe: > Wouldn't it be a bug in the package if it build-depended on debhelper 4, > but didn't actually use any features not available in debhelper 3 I suppose that, of course it would. But filing bugs is free (as in beer). ;) Regards,

Re: Traditional Install or Knoppix?

2003-08-17 Thread Darryl Barlow
Hershel, I haven't tried Knoppix to Debian myself, though I have seen a number of relevant posts. Apparently Knoppix is basically Debian unstable. Depending on exactly what the differences are, it may be possible to simply update the sources and do an apt-get upgrade to go to Debian unstable.

Using ClamAV with Spamassassin and exim4

2003-08-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anybody figured out how to run mail through clamav before passing it on to spamassassin using dman's solution? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better thin

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 23:18, Kevin Mark wrote: --snip-- > programs, and their ftp server distributes them. That's why we don't > have links to their site on www.gnu.org. That's both sad and odd. My first ever Linux install was Debian about a year and a half ago. Having been introduced to free sof

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El domingo, 17 de agosto de 2003, a las 05:14, Alex Malinovich escribe: > Oh well, I guess you can't ALWAYS be on top. Are you talking about RMS or about Debian?? ;) Regards, Ismael -- "Tout fourmille de commentaries; d'auteurs il en est grande cherté" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

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

2003-08-17 Thread Wayne Gemmell
I might be way off track here but isn't the point of pdfs that you can't edit them? On Saturday 16 August 2003 22:32, David Monarres wrote: > 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 reall

Adding more loops

2003-08-17 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I've done some googling and can see how I can add more loop devices by updating /etc/lilo.conf. However is there a way I can do it without rebooting? Cheers Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Totally Customizable Technology t:

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

2003-08-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:05:41PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > P.S. pdf is an output format. You can edit pdf directly, but it's kind > of dirty :) It's like instead of using vector graphics software > (sodipodi) or diagram drawing software (dia, v

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:38:39AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=260 > > > > [ SNIP ] > > > > RMS: When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on > > ethical considerations. Today I

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

2003-08-17 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 06:24, Wayne Gemmell wrote: > On Saturday 16 August 2003 22:32, David Monarres wrote: > > 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

raid question

2003-08-17 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hello, I was wondering can I set up raid when a partition is mounted? e.g. hda3 is /home and I want to set up raid1 with hdc3. Can I run mkraid when hda3 is in use? I would use the following raidtab: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks

2 pointers to notice before trying 2.6.0-test2 for the first time.

2003-08-17 Thread Shaul Karl
2 pointers that helped me when trying 2.6.0-test2 for the first time: 1) The 2.6 document drawn up by Dave Jones, http://lwn.net/Articles/39901/. 2) Noticing that 2.6 uses the module-init-tools package. I learned about it only when things didn't work. Hopefully others will be smarter. --

Error when setting path

2003-08-17 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Hi all, When I try to append to my current path I get the following output [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export $PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/bin/ bash: export: `/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/bin/': not a valid identifie

Re: Error when setting path

2003-08-17 Thread Isaac To
> "Wayne" == Wayne Gemmell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wayne> Any ideas?? These are just two of my many attempts, the second Wayne> being as root. As you can see the directory does exist but from Wayne> what I can tell that doesn't matter much. Remember that the shell language is

Re: Error when setting path

2003-08-17 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Hmmm, last thing on my mind... thanks, it works now Wayne On Sunday 17 August 2003 14:15, Isaac To wrote: > > "Wayne" == Wayne Gemmell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Wayne> Any ideas?? These are just two of my many attempts, the second > Wayne> being as root. As you can see the direct

Re: Error when setting path

2003-08-17 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sun Aug 17, 2003 at 02:11:45PM +0200, Wayne Gemmell wrote: > When I try to append to my current path I get the following output > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export $PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/bin/ > bash: export: > `/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bi

Re: raid question

2003-08-17 Thread Edward Murrell
You'd think that since it's a mirror, it would work fine right? Apparently not. Last time I tried this stunt, I nearly toasted 45 GB of data. Edward On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 23:19, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering can I set up raid when a partition is mounted? > e.g. hda3 is /home

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

2003-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 06:32, Shaun ONeil wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 06:24, Wayne Gemmell wrote: > > On Saturday 16 August 2003 22:32, David Monarres wrote: > > > On Friday 15 August 2003 06:43 pm, John Foster wrote: > >[snip] > > fwiw, I used Adobe's Acrobat for windows (the full app, not just

Re: fetchmail error

2003-08-17 Thread Carlos Sousa
On 16 Aug 2003 22:26:31 -0400 Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 18:25, Kevin Mark wrote: > > 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

Any IMAP portal system

2003-08-17 Thread Dasmeet
Hi! Is there any .deb package for PHP based Portal system (scripts) that have IMAP/SMTP, calendar, notebook and other utilities build in to it alongwith other general portal utilities? Any information would be of great help. Thanks Dasmeet -- Domainwala.com Domain Names from $7.99 at http://www.

Re: Any IMAP portal system

2003-08-17 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El domingo, 17 de agosto de 2003, a las 18:55, Dasmeet escribe: > Hi! Is there any .deb package for PHP based Portal system (scripts) that > have IMAP/SMTP, > calendar, notebook and other utilities build in to it alongwith other > general portal utilities? Any information would be of great help.

demande d'emploi / offre de service( en algérie )

2003-08-17 Thread ayoun mohammed ali
Oran algérie le  17/08/2003   Monsieur le directeur   Objet : demande d'emploi / offre de service/représentent/délégué / prospecteur /étude demarché /enquéte /recherche/guide/   J’ignore s’il vous arrive de pourvoir des postes demandant d

demande d'emploi / offre de service( en algérie )

2003-08-17 Thread ayoun mohammed ali
Oran algérie le  17/08/2003   Monsieur le directeur   Objet : demande d'emploi / offre de service/représentent/délégué / prospecteur /étude demarché /enquéte /recherche/guide/   J’ignore s’il vous arrive de pourvoir des postes demandan

Re: Traditional Install or Knoppix?

2003-08-17 Thread Kent West
Darryl Barlow wrote: I plan to install Debian unstable on another machine. Whenever I have done this in the past I have started with a Woody install from cd followed by apt-get dist-upgrade which of course works well. However, is there any disadvantage to installing knoppix and then using dis

Re: Traditional Install or Knoppix?

2003-08-17 Thread Lou Losee
I installed via Knoppix. Things went smoothly and I have had no problems with the apt-get upgrade process. However There are *situations* to think about: - By default the install goes into a single partition. There are howtos to get the /home directories onto another partition, but that

Re: Traditional Install or Knoppix?

2003-08-17 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 08:52:49 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Darryl Barlow wrote: > > >I plan to install Debian unstable on another machine. Whenever I > >have done this in the past I have started with a Woody install from > >cd followed by apt-get dist-upgrade which of course works

Re: raid question

2003-08-17 Thread Shaun Crossley
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:19:04PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering can I set up raid when a partition is mounted? > e.g. hda3 is /home and I want to set up raid1 with hdc3. If what you want to do is mirror an existing hard drive or partition, then yes, it's possible. J

Re: Traditional Install or Knoppix?

2003-08-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:29:42PM +1000, Darryl Barlow wrote: > However, is there any > disadvantage to installing knoppix and then using dist-upgrade? The only version you will able to do that with is sid. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PR

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Tom Massey
* Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-17 15:06]: > RMS: When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on > ethical considerations. Today I would recommend GNU/LinEx, Hmm. I respect Mr Stallman's ethical position, but shouldn't he be a bit more consistent? If he wants to credit GNU

Is this what I think it is? (was Re: demande d'emploi / offre deservice( en algérie ))

2003-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 08:15, ayoun mohammed ali wrote: > Oran algérie le 17/08/2003 > > > > Monsieur le directeur > > > > Objet : demande d'emploi > Did this guy just send us his resume? -- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Is this what I think it is? (was Re: demande d'emploi / offre de service( en alg?rie ))

2003-08-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:37:17AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Did this guy just send us his resume? I think he did. Wow, talk about misguided. I really have to wonder how he came to the conclusion that d-u hired? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EM

sarge(testing) dist-upgrade problem?

2003-08-17 Thread Paul Morgan
I ran an update and started and refused a dist-upgrade this morning. I refused the dist-upgrade because it wanted to remove half my system. Below is output from apt-get update and the first part of the output from apt-get -s dist-upgrade. Anyone know if this is a problem with the distribution? Or

Re: Is this what I think it is? (was Re: demande d'emploi / offre de service( en algérie ))

2003-08-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 08:15, ayoun mohammed ali wrote: Oran algérie le 17/08/2003 Monsieur le directeur Objet : demande d'emploi Did this guy just send us his resume? Unfortunately, Yes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Is this what I think it is? (was Re: demande d'emploi / offre de service( en algérie ))

2003-08-17 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 17 August 2003 16:37, Ron Johnson wrote: > Did this guy just send us his resume? Yep. Well, at least that's a chance to teach SpamAssassin some french ;-) -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: emacs & spell checking broke

2003-08-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:31:48AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > 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,

Re: Is this what I think it is? (was Re: demande d'emploi / offrede service( en alg?rie ))

2003-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:39, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:37:17AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Did this guy just send us his resume? > > I think he did. Wow, talk about misguided. I really have to wonder > how he came to t

print manager - cups

2003-08-17 Thread Richard Lyons
I have a Xerox Docuprint 4512 laser printer, which has worked with various distros of Linux. In some, I have to call it a 4508, as the 4512 driver is absent, and the 4512N doesn't work. It is not a PS printer. Feeling adventurous, I hought i'd try cups with the latest install (unstable-ish)

Re: Traditional Install or Knoppix?

2003-08-17 Thread J.F.Gratton
A friend of mine (newbie) installed Debian by way of knoppix. I didn't know about knoppix so I basically thought that he screwed up BIG TIME on his install. I could not figure why on earth he'd need a logical volume manager, why did he install everything under a single partition, why did his vfat p

'Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.'

2003-08-17 Thread Mark
Hi, Network uses nis for logins. Since last night, logins are no longer possible, although password changes can still be done(!) using yppasswd. Attempting to login on a non-yp-server machine results in 'Login incorrect' at the prompt. Attempting to use passwd at the root prompt on a non-yp-serv

Netbase 4.11 broken on "unstable" ?

2003-08-17 Thread J.F.Gratton
Anyone came across this problem ? When I apt-get dist-upgrade my unstable system, the configuration phase of dpkg hangs while configuring netbase A quick ps -fe | grep netbase shows this : root 29578 29577 9 11:26 pts/300:00:01 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/

XFS problem - kernel 2.6.0-test3

2003-08-17 Thread Paul Miller
Anyone using XFS on the root filesystem with kernel 2.6.0-test3? I compiled the kernel with XFS support (not as a module), and it fails to boot. I receive messages saying that fs type "302" is not recognized and failed to mount root filesystem. A few lines up, the XFS support informational mess

Netbase config hangs : SOLVED

2003-08-17 Thread J.F.Gratton
... I should have thought of going at http://bugs.debian.org/ before asking something here ... For those of you who were stuck with the same problem, see : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=205904 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=205905 And then just relaunch

Re: sarge(testing) dist-upgrade problem?

2003-08-17 Thread Paul Morgan
Fixed it. Ran an upgrade via aptitude which installed a few packages but removed none. Now apt-get dist-upgrade thinks everything's up to date. Must have been some dependency glitch. ..paul ---Original Message--- From: Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 08/17/03 10:21 AM To: [

ACPI sleep - time/date problem

2003-08-17 Thread Paul Miller
I'm trying to get ACPI sleep working on a Dell I8500 laptop. Currently, it will go to sleep, but the time/date also go to sleep. When it wakes up, Linux reports the time/date that it went to sleep. Is there some way to automatically save the time to the hardware clock and restore the time upon w

FIXED: Re: 'Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.'

2003-08-17 Thread Mark
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 04:27:49PM +0100, Mark wrote: > Hi, > > Network uses nis for logins. Since last night, > logins are no longer possible, although password > changes can still be done(!) using yppasswd. > > Attempting to login on a non-yp-server machine > results in 'Login incorrect' at th

Re: Undeleting from a FAT partition

2003-08-17 Thread Neilen
Hi Rob On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 10:21, Rob Sims wrote: > On Thursday 14 August 2003 02:08 am, Neilen wrote: > > Is there any linux based software that can undelete FAT files? I have > > not had much luck searching for "linux undelete FAT" on google. Or does > > anyone have a better idea? > > fsck.

Which kernel for IBM Pentium 133 Laptop

2003-08-17 Thread Bengt Thure'e
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hej, I have now a number of times tried to upgrade my kernel from Woodys stable default 2.2.20 (installed from boot floppies), to a 2.4 version. I have tried with kernel-image-2.4.18-386 (kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-386) as well as kernel-image-2.4.18

Re: Undeleting from a FAT partition

2003-08-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 17 August 2003 6:05 pm, Neilen wrote: [...] > Thanks, this worked a charm. I happened to know the names of the files > I wanted to undelete, since they were just dscf.jpg, etc. But how > could one find out what the possible undeletable files are? It's a very long time ago since I u

INVESTMENT

2003-08-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Attn: Sir/Madam, My name is Mr. Richard Cole chairman of contract award and monitoring committee of the ministry of industry and international trade development ,my duty as empowered by the Mauritius government is to provide the basic amenities, social recreational activities in urban and rural ar

Re: sarge(testing) dist-upgrade problem?

2003-08-17 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 08:21:29 -0400 (GMT) Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fixed it. Ran an upgrade via aptitude which installed a few packages > but removed none. Now apt-get dist-upgrade thinks everything's up to > date. Must have been some dependency glitch. [snip] > 1 packages upgr

Re: INVESTMENT

2003-08-17 Thread Wayne Gemmell
I seem to get one of these everyday these days. I think its an epidemic!! Wayne On Sunday 17 August 2003 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Attn: Sir/Madam, > > My name is Mr. Richard Cole chairman of contract award and monitoring > committee of the ministry of industry and international trade >

dpkg: serious warning

2003-08-17 Thread Hendrik Sirges
Hi, after my system halted while installing some packages dselect -> install puts out the following errormessages: dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `kdebase' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `python

Re: Netbase 4.11 broken on "unstable" ?

2003-08-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 11:30, J.F.Gratton wrote: > Anyone came across this problem ? > > When I apt-get dist-upgrade my unstable system, the configuration phase > of dpkg hangs while configuring netbase > > A quick ps -fe | grep netbase shows this : > > root 29578 29577 9 11:26 pts/300:0

Re: print manager - cups

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:24:08PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > I have a Xerox Docuprint 4512 laser printer, which has worked with various > distros of Linux. In some, I have to call it a 4508, as the 4512 driver is > absent, and the 4512N doesn't work. It is not a PS printer. > > Feeling a

stuck apt-get

2003-08-17 Thread gerard
I did an upgrade on my machine and it keeps getting stuck on Setting up netbase (4.11) ... I did ctrl-C a couple times and it ended it but when I started tit again it still just stuck there. Any ideas? ~gerard signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Netbase 4.11 broken on "unstable" ?

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 11:30:21AM -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote: > Anyone came across this problem ? > > When I apt-get dist-upgrade my unstable system, the configuration phase > of dpkg hangs while configuring netbase > > A quick ps -fe | grep netbase shows this : > > root 29578 29577 9 11:26

Re: INVESTMENT

2003-08-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 12:55, Wayne Gemmell wrote: > I seem to get one of these everyday these days. > I think its an epidemic!! > > Wayne Been forwarded to proper peoples with full headers. > On Sunday 17 August 2003 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Attn: Sir/Madam, > > > > My name is Mr. Ri

Re: Netbase config hangs : SOLVED

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 11:42:15AM -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote: > ... I should have thought of going at http://bugs.debian.org/ before > asking something here ... > > > For those of you who were stuck with the same problem, see : > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=205904 > and > h

Re: stuck apt-get -- Netbase 4.11 Workaround

2003-08-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 13:04, gerard wrote: > I did an upgrade on my machine and it keeps getting stuck on Setting up > netbase (4.11) ... > I did ctrl-C a couple times and it ended it but when I started tit again > it still just stuck there. Any ideas? I edited /var/lib/dpkg/info/netbase.postinst

Re: stuck apt-get

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:04:34PM -0400, gerard wrote: > I did an upgrade on my machine and it keeps getting stuck on Setting up > netbase (4.11) ... > I did ctrl-C a couple times and it ended it but when I started tit again > it still just stuck there. Any ideas? > > ~gerard Actually, this is t

Re: INVESTMENT

2003-08-17 Thread Michael D Schleif
Wayne Gemmell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:08:17:18:55:52+0200] scribed: > I seem to get one of these everyday these days. > I think its an epidemic!! > > Wayne > > On Sunday 17 August 2003 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Attn: Sir/Madam, > > > > My name is Mr. Richard Cole chairman of contract

dualboot

2003-08-17 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

Hard drive space disappearing

2003-08-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
For the last couple of weeks I've been having a problem with my hard drive spontaneously "misplacing" about 20 GB of space of my primary partition. I'll start getting out of disk space errors, do a df, and see that I have something like 200 KB of free space. I'll shut down, reboot, and have 20 GB o

Intel mobo

2003-08-17 Thread bob parker
Hi folks, Anyone have any experience with this board + Debian? Intel D865GBFLK Planning a future system. Thanks Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netbase 4.11 broken on "unstable" ?

2003-08-17 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am So, 2003-08-17 um 17.30 schrieb J.F.Gratton: > When I apt-get dist-upgrade my unstable system, the configuration phase > of dpkg hangs while configuring netbase > Any hindsights will be appreciated :) ps faux shows clearly that it hangs in a grep-command with a missing "which file to grep

Контролируйте Ваш персонал!

2003-08-17 Thread Бизнес-семинары
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Re: print manager - cups

2003-08-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 17 August 2003 7:03 pm, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:24:08PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: [...verbose description of print failure from gimp snipped...] > Well, you speak of at least one application which prints perfectly > normally. So you know there's nothing wrong

xinetd update broke my firewall.

2003-08-17 Thread ZekeVarg
After I ran apt-get dist-upgrade my firewall is totaly out. When booting I see alot of xinetd warnings, but they flash by to fast so I can't read them and at the end there's something about iptables. Tried to look though /var/log to see if I could find anything, but no luck. When checking my firewa

Re: print manager - cups

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:23:10PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sunday 17 August 2003 7:03 pm, David Fokkema wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:24:08PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > [...verbose description of print failure from gimp snipped...] > > > Well, you speak of at least one applicat

Re: stuck apt-get

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 07:32:11PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:04:34PM -0400, gerard wrote: > > I did an upgrade on my machine and it keeps getting stuck on Setting up > > netbase (4.11) ... > > I did ctrl-C a couple times and it ended it but when I started tit again >

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

2003-08-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 17:45:36 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: [...] > Another option would be to create a branch for your home dir and a > branch for your web server. Only have the files you want in each one, > and merge your changes between them. This lets you decide how in sync > you want to keep the

Re: Hard Drive Mirroring

2003-08-17 Thread James Duberg
Vincent Kruger wrote: Hi I would like to mirror a hard drive and have no idea where else to get information from. I've tried google and the other stuff. but nothing... if anyone has any information or manuals please send for me [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks. :D Another idea. Hardware. Works with a

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TRB: What about Debian GNU/Linux, which by default does not install any > > non-free software? > > > > RMS: Non-free programs are not officially considered "part of Debian", > > but Debian does distribute them. The Debian web site describes non-free

Re: INVESTMENT

2003-08-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:35:37 -0500 Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wayne Gemmell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:08:17:18:55:52+0200] scribed: > > I seem to get one of these everyday these days. > > I think its an epidemic!! > > On Sunday 17 August 2003 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >

Re: Hard drive space disappearing

2003-08-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:39:05PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > For the last couple of weeks I've been having a problem with my hard > drive spontaneously "misplacing" about 20 GB of space of my primary > partition. I'll start getting out of disk space errors, do a df, and > see that I have some

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:19:24PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > TRB: What about Debian GNU/Linux, which by default does not install any > > > non-free software? > > > > > > RMS: Non-free programs are not officially considered "part of Debian

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RMS: When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on > ethical considerations. Today I would recommend GNU/LinEx, the > distribution prepared by the government of Extremadura, because that's > the only installable distribution that consists ent

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Stephen Touset
David Fokkema wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:19:24PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TRB: What about Debian GNU/Linux, which by default does not install any non-free software? RMS: Non-free programs are not officially considered "part of Debia

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:26:43 -0400 Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's ironic is that Linex is a Debian derivative. See > http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros#linex So, how many people upon reading this lost a bit of respect because of RMS' obvious zealotry ignor

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Howell Evans
Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:26:43 -0400 Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What's ironic is that Linex is a Debian derivative. See http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros#linex So, how many people upon reading this lost a bit of respect because of RM

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 01:21:53 -0400 Howell Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you didnt know RMS was a zealot and does stuff like this all the time > then you were not paying attention IMHO. You mean much like you CCing people who are clearly reading the list against the standard policies o

Re: No modem beep with pon - solved

2003-08-17 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Shaul Karl wrote: > I guess that a better description for beeps would be all kind of > whistles, doesn't it? I would try to inspect the modem initialization > string and explicitly set the controls of the speaker to on. It could be > that your modem use the PC built in speak

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:23:54PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > Could you elaborate a bit on that? What's the problem with the GNU > _Free_ Documentation License? Other than the ongoing debate on debian-legal about it? Seems some see it as free enough and others don't. Personally, I agree wi

Re: INVESTMENT

2003-08-17 Thread Peter Whysall
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 20:19, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:35:37 -0500 > Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please, be more concise with your attributions and quoting: > > > > > This has to be a first for me in almost 20 years of being online. Someone > playing

kernel 2.6 how-to

2003-08-17 Thread James Horey
Hello, I recently installed kernel-image-2.6-test2 from the debian repository. However, when I try to boot into the 2.6 kernel, I get the following message: Journalled Block Device driver loaded mount: /dev2/root2 is not a valid block device mount: /dev2/root2 is not a valid block device mount: y

Re: Any IMAP portal system

2003-08-17 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:55:50PM +0530, Dasmeet wrote: > Hi! Is there any .deb package for PHP based Portal system (scripts) that > have IMAP/SMTP, > calendar, notebook and other utilities build in to it alongwith other > general portal utilities? Any information would be of great help. Thanks

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