Re: KDE 3.x

2003-08-19 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Jens Wannenmacher wrote: Hi, does anyone know how to install KDE 3.x on sarge (2003-07-27)? I can't find any backport for the testing tree... Thanks and regards Jens Here's how I'd do it: vim /etc/apt/sources.list :1,$ s/testing/unstable/g :wq apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade :) The pin

Re: APT::Cache-Limit 16777216 still needed?

2003-08-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
Greg> It is needed. If you have a ba-zillion deb and deb-src lines and all Greg> three/four Debian tick-marks. (stable, testing, unstable, experimental). I see. Can one tell what APT::Cache-Limit value is without resorting to the source? apt-config dump doesn't tell default values. Would adding

Re: Bug#205997: /usr/bin/apt-get: package's new versions ignoredafter failed config

2003-08-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
Just curious, is it best that apt-get, aware that there is a newer version of a program, still no questions asked, just tries again to install the old stuck version --- would any variation in that behavior have any even wishlist merit? > "M" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> On

backing out from apt-get postinst failures

2003-08-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
Just curious. If a $ apt-get install some_package gets stuck in some bug in /var/lib/dpkg/info/some_package.postinst what is the proper way to back out until a newer version is available? At this point restoring ones system to the previous state is now beyond the ability of apt-get and will take

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Mark
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:33:03PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > This makes a lot of sense. I mean if the FSF hired you to write a > GPL program, they wouldn't want you to release a proprietary version of > it after you quit working for them. > Why would they care? They would have their GPL

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Mark
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:45:51PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > From what I've read on the FSF website their position is that they won't > accept any submissions unless they are: > a) public domain > b) copyright released to the FSF > > I don't know the specifics I haven't given them code, t

Re: Q3Demo Segfault

2003-08-19 Thread Stephane
Le 18 Aug 2003 23:19:26 -0500 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 22:20, Lucas J Barbuto wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > Obviously not a big deal, but I'd really like to run q3demo. It's been > > working OK previously (a couple of weeks ago), but recently it's been > >

Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise)

2003-08-19 Thread cr
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:40, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:12:01 -0500 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Rob VanFleet) wrote: > > Congratulations, you just joined the 10% of the net (not faulting those > > who aren't native english speakers) that actually *does* spell "whining" > > right

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread cr
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 12:51, Alex Malinovich wrote: (snip) > > IANAL, but this is how I've understood the law and, in particular, how > my former employer would most certainly interpret it. I've just realised what IANAL means."I am not a lawyer". I thought it meant "I am not a LIAR".

Installed packages in dependency tree ?

2003-08-19 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, I'd like to have a view of the installed packages - in some kind of dependency tree. I know I can use dpkg -l but it only lists the packages alphabetically :-/ I'm just asking out of curiosity - I'd like to be able to have an overview :-) Thanks for your help, Joris __

Merging CD-Images

2003-08-19 Thread Jens Michael Wannenmacher
Hi, I want to upgrade from sarge to sid and I have disks 1-8 dated 2003-07-27 and disks 9-11. Could this be a problem when I make the upgrade using apt-get dist upgrade? Thanks and regards Jens __ Die sicherste Form der Kom

Installing rox under stable ?

2003-08-19 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, I want to install rox - but it looks like it requires GTK+ (www.gtk.org) (or 2.0.x or later) Libxml2 (xmlsoft.org/) Shared MIME info (www.freedesktop.org) (??) Could somebody tell me how I could get these under stable ? Thanks for any help, Joris ___

Re: Merging CD-Images

2003-08-19 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
> I want to upgrade from sarge to sid and I have disks 1-8 dated 2003-07-27 > and disks 9-11. > Could this be a problem when I make the upgrade using apt-get dist > upgrade? Maybe I am interpreting your question wrongly, but are you saying you are going to upgrade from CDROM? If you havew a broadb

Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise)

2003-08-19 Thread Mark
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:21:58PM +1200, cr wrote: > > Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there for 30+ > years), but I've heard it used all the time here in New Zealand, I thought it > was a Kiwi-ism. > Whinge has been in common usage for as long as I can recal

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 02:53, cr wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 12:51, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > (snip) > > > > > IANAL, but this is how I've understood the law and, in particular, how > > my former employer would most certainly interpret it. > > I've just realised what IANAL means."I am

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 00:50, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:51:00PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > (Thankfully it was all a dirty hack so I don't > > have to worry about ever writing something that bad again. :) > > The will

Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise)

2003-08-19 Thread Dave Howorth
cr wrote: Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there for 30+ years), but I've heard it used all the time here in New Zealand, I thought it was a Kiwi-ism. Mark wrote: Whinge has been in common usage for as long as I can recall here (UK). Probably the thing to do is fo

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread cr
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 20:43, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 02:53, cr wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 12:51, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > (snip) > > > > > IANAL, but this is how I've understood the law and, in particular, how > > > my former employer would most certainly

Re: Problem with X

2003-08-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Hooman (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > --- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> However, If you didn't do it, please first try to >> turn off the Kernel >> framebuffer option as Stephane already proposed. >> Many nvidia cards >> won't work if it is activated. > > How exactly shou

Problem (Bug?) Compiling PHP4

2003-08-19 Thread Lucas J Barbuto
Hi List, Trying to compile PHP4 on Woody, using the deb-src package php4-4.1.2. When I try to add, --with-java=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.3 to COMMON_CONFIG in php4-4.1.2/debian/rules then issue: -- dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b Everything proceeds fine through the autoconf stage and starts compiling until I ge

Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise)

2003-08-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 04:50, Dave Howorth wrote: > cr wrote: > >>Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there for 30+ > >>years), but I've heard it used all the time here in New Zealand, I thought it > >>was a Kiwi-ism. > > Mark wrote: > > Whinge has been in common usa

Re: possible to extract .cab files under linux?

2003-08-19 Thread Lukasz Szift Hejnak
I was seeking a way to extract cab files too and found two 1) you can get your self any bootable win disk and use it's tools (boot it with cd access and then exec win98/extract.exe), but then again if you don't have any 'fat' partitions, all you will be able to access is a floppy, for some it's e

Re: Re: Merging CD-Images

2003-08-19 Thread Jens Michael Wannenmacher
>> I want to upgrade from sarge to sid and I have disks 1-8 dated 2003-07-27 >> and disks 9-11. >> Could this be a problem when I make the upgrade using apt-get dist >> upgrade? >Maybe I am interpreting your question wrongly, but are you saying you are >going to upgrade from CDROM? If you havew a

[Woody] Rescue/boot floppy for custom 2.4.21 kernel?

2003-08-19 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello all, I have a laptop computer and I would like to install Debian Woody on it. The only one hard disk is fillen by a Windows 2000 NTFS partition (the main operating system onto this laptop), and I do not have any right to resize it. I have found the TopologiLinux distribution : http://topolo

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:23:04PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I just realized that I've never heard of a hard drive defragmenter > for Linux (ext2/ext3). Do I really live under a rock, or are they > really not used? If not, why? My understandi

Re: possible to extract .cab files under linux?

2003-08-19 Thread Damien Solley
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 19:11, Lukasz Szift Hejnak wrote: > I was seeking a way to extract cab files too and found two > > 1) you can get your self any bootable win disk > and use it's tools (boot it with cd access and then exec win98/extract.exe), > but then again if you don't have any 'fat' partit

ip changed after sometime using dhcp

2003-08-19 Thread jqdkf
Hi, I'm using DHCP to connect to the network, and I use ssh to contral another machine. The problem is, my ip address is always changing. This makes my ssh die. I wonder if it is because of my configure file is not correct or is the common way of DHCP. By the way, I have never changed the default

Re: Re: Q3Demo Segfault

2003-08-19 Thread Damien Solley
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 14:41, Lucas J Barbuto wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Thanks for your prompt reply. > > On Monday 18 Aug 2003 23:19:26 -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I don't have the demo, but I just tried running the full version of q3a > > and it started up just fine. > > Yeah, there's a point

Edimax CardBus CIS problem

2003-08-19 Thread debjan debian
Hello! - Please mail any help or ideas to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Contents: A) My Problem B) My System C) Symptoms D) Program Outputs E) Syslog F) Configuration G) What I tried -- A) My Problem I try to run an Edimax cardbus fast ethernet card with David Hinds pcmcia package. I

Re: ip changed after sometime using dhcp

2003-08-19 Thread Damien Solley
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 20:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using DHCP to connect to the network, and I use ssh to contral > another machine. The problem is, my ip address is always changing. This > makes my ssh die. I wonder if it is because of my configure file is not > correct or is th

Re: [Woody] Rescue/boot floppy for custom 2.4.21 kernel?

2003-08-19 Thread jqdkf
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:57:41AM +0200, Sylvain Briole wrote: > > I have run the compilation like this : > make dep;make clean;make;make zImage > > I obtain : > > [...] > Root device is (7, 7) > Boot sector 512 bytes. > Setup is 4804 bytes. > System is 1450 kB > System is too big. Try using bz

Re: ip changed after sometime using dhcp

2003-08-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/08/03 18:15), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm using DHCP to connect to the network, and I use ssh to contral > another machine. The problem is, my ip address is always changing. This > makes my ssh die. I wonder if it is because of my configure file is not > correct or is the common way of

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:50:36AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Not sure if that's an (well-deserved) insult (against my pathetic > library), or praise (at pointing out the library) or both. :) Either > way, I agree completely. :) You know, it neve

Re: [Woody] Rescue/boot floppy for custom 2.4.21 kernel?

2003-08-19 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello jqdkf, > I think you should use make bzImage to get a compressed one. I have met > the same problem before. But I don't know why. I have also tried this possibility. I quote my original mail : >> So, I have tried it with make bzImage : >> >> [...] >> Root device is (7, 7) >> Boot sector 51

Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise)

2003-08-19 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:21:58PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:40, Chris Metzler wrote: > > > > The word "whinge," meaning "to moan fretfully," actually predates > > the word "whine." > > Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there for 30+ > years), bu

Re: ip changed after sometime using dhcp

2003-08-19 Thread jqdkf
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:49:27AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > It sounds as though the lease times on the DHCP server are not long enough. > > A simple solution is to use a static IP address but this will depend on > your ability to manually assign an IP address at the server end. > > HTH > >

Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise)

2003-08-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:31:39AM +0100, Mark wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:21:58PM +1200, cr wrote: > > Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there > > for 30+ years), but I've heard it used all the time here in New > > Zealand, I thought it was a Kiwi-ism. > >

Re: backing out from apt-get postinst failures

2003-08-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:40:17PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Just curious. If a > $ apt-get install some_package > gets stuck in some bug in /var/lib/dpkg/info/some_package.postinst > what is the proper way to back out until a newer version is available? Usually, edit the postinst script until

Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise)

2003-08-19 Thread Geoff Thurman
Concise Oxford Dictionary gives whinge as (dialect or Australian) and tracks it back through Old English and Old High German to a probable root in the Germanic hwinisojan. Geoff On Tuesday 19 August 2003 10:50 am, Dave Howorth wrote: > cr wrote: > >>Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (thoug

Re: raid question

2003-08-19 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:18:39PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > A side-effect of using RAID-1 (mirroring) is that the partitions > can be accessed individually. This can be useful in case of emergency, > but you would not normally want to do this as your mirrors will get out > of sync. S

Re: [Woody] Rescue/boot floppy for custom 2.4.21 kernel?

2003-08-19 Thread jqdkf
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:54:47PM +0200, Sylvain Briole wrote: > > > I think you should use make bzImage to get a compressed one. I have met > > the same problem before. But I don't know why. > > I have also tried this possibility. > I quote my original mail : > > >> So, I have tried it with ma

Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise)

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:31:39AM +0100, Mark wrote: | On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:21:58PM +1200, cr wrote: | > | > Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived | > there for 30+ years), but I've heard it used all the time here in | > New Zealand, I thought it was a Kiwi-ism.

Re: raid question

2003-08-19 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hi Alvin, On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:08:42PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > I do not want to boot of it. > > okay... another step in raid-land for a later day to setup I actually got it wrong in my original post: the first disk is on hdb. hda is a little disk that gets booted (boot and / are mou

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:53:24PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:22:33AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > but then the Envelop/Deliverd-TO header got mangled at my IPS and hence > > meaningless:(, and now I've to rely on (incomplete) Received headers. > > Can't yo

woody, libc6-2.3 and kernel 2.4.18

2003-08-19 Thread Gregory Soyez
Hi all, just installed woody on my laptop. Things went fine and I installed the kernel 2.4.18, but it seems that the 'sis900' driver (network card) works only properly with the kernel 2.4.21. Since I cannot configure the network, it downloaded the kernel package and its dependences from another

ppp connection speed

2003-08-19 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
Just configured ppp and established a connection using pon. ifconfig ppp0 shows device ppp0 is up and running but with no indication of the negotiated bandwidth. How can I establish the speed in Kbps at which I'm connected? -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

exim configuration, second router not used

2003-08-19 Thread Geoff Crompton
Hi All, I've got the following routers configured in my exim.conf file: smarthost: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = "* fermi.bjh bydns_a" lookuphost: driver = lookuphost transport = remote_smtp end This is on a laptop. When the laptop is in the office, t

Re: ip changed after sometime using dhcp

2003-08-19 Thread Rex Chan
> It sounds as though the lease times on the DHCP server are not long enough. > > A simple solution is to use a static IP address but this will depend on > your ability to manually assign an IP address at the server end. > > HTH > > Clive Well, one of my friends had the same problem, he wrote a

Re: Kopete: How to use more like ayttm

2003-08-19 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 18 August 2003 22:42, Paul Johnson wrote: > Yeah, I just discovered that. Now how do I get it to stay on ICQ > instead of just yoyoing as fast as the server lets it? What version are you running? 0.6.2 from debian packages should in theory be fine (and works for me), 0.7.0 had a passwo

Re: Kopete: How to use more like ayttm

2003-08-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 02:22:33PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Monday 18 August 2003 22:42, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Yeah, I just discovered that. Now how do I get it to stay on ICQ > > instead of just yoyoing as fast as the server lets it? > > Wh

Re: Kopete: How to use more like ayttm

2003-08-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 08:30, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 02:22:33PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > On Monday 18 August 2003 22:42, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Yeah, I just discovered that. Now how do I get it to stay on ICQ > > > instead of just yoyoing as fast as the server lets i

From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO-2

2003-08-19 Thread Valter G. Nogueira Jr.
I am following the From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO-2 along with Pocket-Linux-Guide, but I am unable to execute some exercises.   From-PowerUp asks to   1. Hexedit unios - but the link is broken 2. Install lilo on a floppy disk   The second is step is acomplished by Pocket-Linux, but when I

Re: Turn on the service

2003-08-19 Thread Adam Garside
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:50:17AM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Unfortunatly I have to say that I know a few who _are_ technical and > very apt windows users but they couldn't figure out pscp or psftp... > They wanted CuteFTP to work because despite their prowess in DOS

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-19 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 03:29:12PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > (FYI, FWIW) I do have one way of implementing such a kludge > (system-wide) documented at > http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin Oh, I like that. Thanks! (BTW I get 403 "Access forbidden" on the li

Re: Q3Demo Segfault

2003-08-19 Thread Peter Whysall
on Tue, Aug 19, 2003, Lucas J Barbuto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi List, > > Obviously not a big deal, but I'd really like to run q3demo. It's been > working OK previously (a couple of weeks ago), but recently it's been > segfaulting. I suspect some package was upgraded (I dist-upgrade almost

How to specify composite sync for aty128fb on kernel cmd line?

2003-08-19 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, I want to use the frame buffer console in high resolution on my linux machine. Since i also want to connect an old SUN monitor, i need to enable csync. This works fine, if i use fbset: # fbset 1280x1024-75 -csync high But since i need this setting already at boot time, i want to specify

Re: woody, libc6-2.3 and kernel 2.4.18

2003-08-19 Thread Johann Koenig
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:51:20 +0200 Gregory Soyez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > just installed woody on my laptop. Things went fine and I installed > the kernel 2.4.18, but it seems that the 'sis900' driver (network > card) works only properly with the kernel 2.4.21. > Since I cannot co

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Paul Smith
%% Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Actually this would not be a problem since the FSF never "hires" >> anyone to write code with that kind of employment contract. >> Whenever you write GNU code it's always copyright to you: before >> the FSF will accept it as part of GNU you

Re: Bizarre one-way network disconnection

2003-08-19 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 03:34, Mark wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 05:39:05PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > > > > when eth0 goes unresponsive, I can ping 10.x.x.x addresses just fine, > > even ones across our router. [...] > > I guess the first question is what has changed or have you changed? > >

Re: bug in libc6

2003-08-19 Thread Norman Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | If you need to continue running a old, old, commercial, proprietary app | that requires an old version of libc (or anything else, really), you can | install it into it's own little chroot containing wh

exim 4 configuration (rewriting outgoing email)

2003-08-19 Thread Magnus Therning
Is there a way to do rewriting for all users on a system without having to add a line in /etc/email-addresses for each user? E.g.: In /etc/email-addresses I currently have:

ALS-100 Sound Card and Sid

2003-08-19 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
During a recent upgrade to Sid, my old ESS-Solo1 sound card died. I do not think that the upgrade broke the card. I rummaged through my junk box and came up with an Avance Logic ALS-100. After finding out that sndconfig 0.7 is broken, I went back to sndconfig 0.68. Sndconfig wants to install

Re: latest gcc

2003-08-19 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:10:14 +0200, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote: > Dear list, > I have the following questions: > > Does the latest gcc/g++ (I think 3.3) exists for Debian woody? If yes, > where can I find the deb files? You might try http://www.apt-get.org/. There are no official Debian packages

Re: Again with the nvidia...

2003-08-19 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 05:40:09 +0200, Bradley Alexander wrote: > Option "NoRenderAccel" "on" > > to the device section of XF86Config-4. I did this and thought I had the > problem licked. But alas, I got bitten again. > > Any other wisdom on how to beat this other than tearing Gnom

Re: That movie

2003-08-19 Thread MSN Hotmail
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Re: That movie

2003-08-19 Thread MSN Hotmail
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Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, John Foster wrote: > I have been at this for a while (since the early 90's) & I have yet to > need to run any kind of defrag utility on any Linux distro. > I did not see what is the reason for you considering this...but I > strongly advise against it. If you are having some pr

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-19 Thread Robert Storey
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 03:03:36 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:23:04PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > I just realized that I've never heard of a hard drive defragmenter > > for Linux (ext2/ext3). Do

gonvert for Debian

2003-08-19 Thread stan
I asked about this package a while back, and I would still like to use it on my Debian machines. is there a .deb available? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Frankli

Re: new kernel won't boot - operator error 101

2003-08-19 Thread Lou Losee
You may get better response by posting to Debian-knoppix. Later, Lou * Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-19 01:49]: > I thought I knew what I was doing. > > I finally compiled a new kernel, and copied it into my /boot > partition, and edit my /etc/lilo.conf, to point to the new kernel

Content violation (¥D¦®or¤º®eorªþ¥[ÀÉ®× ¤£³Q±µ¨ü)

2003-08-19 Thread dgBAS_mGWin
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Virus found in the message

2003-08-19 Thread virusnotify
Scanner: MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.0 Problem description: Email data: MessageID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Subject: Re: Wicked screensaver Scanning part [] Scanning part [wicked_scr.scr] Attachment validity check: passed. Virus identity found: W32

Debian policy, major change ?

2003-08-19 Thread Stephane
Next debian stable to be released on 1st december: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200308/msg00010.html I would love to hear some comments :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

MS uses sendmail (still!) (was Re: That movie)

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
How do you like those auto-generated messages from Hotmail? Never mind that, just look at the received headers. Microsoft uses sendmail because Exchange really isn't good enough :-). Naturally that also implies that Windows isn't good enough (because they're not running sendmail on Windows). T

X fonts pblm

2003-08-19 Thread Josh
hi i can't solve my X fonts pblm :/ it seems i'm using 75dpi fonts instead of the 100 dpi ones. i tried to install xfs, i read the xfs man page for configuring /etc/X11/fs/config file but same pblm ... i can't get my 100 dpi fonts to work. any help will be greatly appreciated =) thks ! i

Re: exim 4 configuration (rewriting outgoing email)

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:58:07PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: | Is there a way to do rewriting for all users on a system without having | to add a line in /etc/email-addresses for each user? As long as the rewriting is regular. (ie not unique for each user) | E.g.: In /etc/email-addresses I c

RE: Printing help, please.

2003-08-19 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi all, I received a suggestion to run 'cupstestppd and to check printcap. The result from cupstestppd was a blank line on screen and no activity from the printer. Printcap returned some info about my printer but I have no idea where to add a call to /var/run/cups/printcap, I couldnt find any info

Re: ALS-100 Sound Card and Sid

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:01:23AM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: | During a recent upgrade to Sid, my old ESS-Solo1 sound card died. I do not | think that the upgrade broke the card. I rummaged through my junk box and | came up with an Avance Logic ALS-100. After finding out that sndconfig 0.

Re: Joining a windows domain from behind a debian NAT box

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:45:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Well, no - the debian machine is hooked directly up to the external network. | (It's on the same network as the Windows Domain Controller.) You'll probably need to set up samba on the debian box and figure out how to configure it

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--IiVenqGWf+H9Y6IX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:48:24AM +0100, Mark wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:45:51PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > >=20 > > From what I've read on the FSF

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--ABTtc+pdwF7KHXCz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:06:30AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 23:19, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > Of course there are. They protect the pe

Re: Debian policy, major change ?

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 04:51:42PM +0200, Stephane wrote: | Next debian stable to be released on 1st december: | | http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200308/msg00010.html | | I would love to hear some comments :) Here's the comments: It's about time. (rat

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--gE7i1rD7pdK0Ng3j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:43:21AM +0100, Mark wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:33:03PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > >=20 > > This makes a lot of sense. I me

Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise)

2003-08-19 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:21:58 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there for > 30+ years), but I've heard it used all the time here in New Zealand, I > thought it was a Kiwi-ism. It may be a kiwi-ism; no idea. But all my Engli

Re: net install with eepro100 / 845G

2003-08-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin McKinley wrote: > 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 another module, or another k

Re: Problem with X

2003-08-19 Thread Hooman
--- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Hooman (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > --- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >> However, If you didn't do it, please first try to > >> turn off the Kernel > >> framebuffer option as Stephane already proposed. > >> Man

Re: startx doesn't work

2003-08-19 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Leandro Patrón Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030819 06:13]: > I installed debian for first time. After configured it, I typed "startx" > and I had a fatal error. (attached) No, it's not attached. > How can I do for fix it? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. If this doesn't work, ask again, and

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Alan Shutko
Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From what I've read on the FSF website their position is that they won't > accept any submissions unless they are: > a) public domain > b) copyright released to the FSF Yes. But as I mentioned in my previous post, when you sign the FSF copyright assi

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Alan Shutko
"Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not quite: it's true that they won't accept XEmacs code due to copyright > issues, but I don't think it's a matter so much of XEmacs saying they > won't do it, as that in the XEmacs code it's not clear who has copyright > and tracking down all the people

Problems with KPPP

2003-08-19 Thread Sara
Hi! I'm trying to use my laptop with an external modem, but kppp doesn't work. I know the modem is OK, because I'm using it right now with my old computer. I'm running a Debian "mixed", mostly unestable (in case that info is useful) and on starting kppp the modem is recognized. The problem is

Mach64 framebuffer on a 2.2.25 kernel

2003-08-19 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I have an old Pentium 90 that I use as a router/etc machine between my intranet and the cable tv network. It has an integrated Mach64 graphics card, on which I am trying to run a framebuffer. I am using a 2.2.25 kernel, mostly because 2.2 has worked great so far, and 2.4 is bigger (it only

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:03:13PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > You can apply this to any case where the employee is writing software > in their spare time which is very similar to what they're doing at > work. That doesn't matter. If the employer doesn't like the employee's performance, th

Knoppix - observations

2003-08-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
I downloaded the Knoppix CD. Booting with it gets: 1. It does find everything, but not perfectly, e.g. the X screen. 2. I have a slowmodem to get onto the internet and for some reason I had to manually fill in the /etc/resolve.conf for anything to be found. Restoring a partition with it: 1. What a

iptables loggin problem

2003-08-19 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hello, I have the following rules for my forward chain: Chain FORWARD (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere schamper.ugent.be tcp dpt:netbios-ssn DROP tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:135 DROP

kernel-source-2.6.0-test2 and isapnp configuration.

2003-08-19 Thread Shaul Karl
I can not see the configuration files that are mentioed in kernel-source-2.6.0-test2/Documentation/pnp.txt. As a result, I can not configure the isa pnp cards in the way I want them to be. In praticular, should /driver be under the root fs or is it to be found in /proc? If it is under /root,

bootdisk

2003-08-19 Thread john gennard
Some time ago someone posted a step by step response on how to created a floppy boot disk which contained lilo. I always boot from floppies without lilo, and now need to create one with lilo - I could do it if I had lilo which allowed me to boot from a harddisk, but I don't. I've searched the arch

Re: raid question

2003-08-19 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:54:47PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:18:39PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > > > A side-effect of using RAID-1 (mirroring) is that the partitions > > can be accessed individually. This can be useful in case of emergency, > > but you would

Re: Problem with X

2003-08-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Hooman (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Thanks a lot. Finally, I could boot with Gnome or any > other Windows manager. Now I have another problem(s). > First, when I want to login as root from login screen, > the system doesn't let me in and issues an error > message. Why is that? I tried oth

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 10:34:35AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:03:13PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > >=20 > > You can apply this

How to upgrade kernel and another question about nvidia driver

2003-08-19 Thread Hooman
Hello everybody, I just made my X-server work with the help of some people in the list. Now I have other questions. I have installed woody on my machine and I think the kernel version is 2.2.20. Now here are the questions: 1. What is the latest stable kernel? 2. Where can I get it and how should I

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