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Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:46:32AM -0500, Todd Pytel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 06:36:56 +0100 > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Waddyaknow (not much, you?). PLIP works. Sorta. > > > > I get some long periods of timeout, but currently have an ssh session

Re: mutt: thread reconstruction?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:49:55AM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:05:37PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > OK, is there a way to do this in bulk, in a way other than simply > > tagging all messages with a common subject as being threaded replies , > > o

Re: Similar app for Disk Catalog?

2003-09-06 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030907] [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's this handly tool: > http://www.rob.cybercomm.nl/diskcat/index.html > I found for windows, is there an app similar to this? It basically scans > cd's, directories for filenames/directories and catalogs them, it then > saves the datab

xf86 3.0, i845, no go

2003-09-06 Thread Joe Paxton
I am using the vesa driver of XFree86 3.0 from experimental with i845 chipset; when doing 'startx', one of two things occurs: either the server aborts, giving a "no screens found" error, or else multiple lines and dots of various colors appear on the screen and the machine locks. I have used debco

IRQ pileup

2003-09-06 Thread Nathan Malmberg
Debian Users, I sent a similar message a few days back, but I don't believe it was ever posted to the list. A second effort... I've been trying to use my PCMCIA wireless network card on my laptop, but whenever I insert the card, I get the message: orinoco_cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use I thin

Re: dhcp/ethernet question

2003-09-06 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:11:47AM -0700, Alice Pinard wrote: > hi, I'm trying to set up a firewall to connect to my cable modem ISP > (comcast) using DHCP ... > I am getting a 'weirdness' and I'm not sure if it's on the DHCP end or the > ethernet end. > > Basically if I do an ifconfig the etherne

Solved: centrino: changing cpu freq

2003-09-06 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Don't know why, but I had to reboot to let cpufreqd + cpudynd work... now it works fine ;) Es Dissabte 06 Setembre 2003 19:19, en Joan Tur va escriure: > Hallo! > > I've purchased an Acer TM290, installed sid, downloade and installed > vanilla kern

Re: woody newbie help

2003-09-06 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 06:10:32PM -0300, mnicolet wrote: > Hello > I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian > distros. But I had no time to go too far. > Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of > > 1) My Debian box has a generic two button serial

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-06 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:57:23AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've just been given a copy of the Farnell Electronics catalogue CD. > > This has the unfortunate design of wanting to install some Windoze > > package

[ANNOUNCE] New ATI drivers available

2003-09-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I just checked out the ATI website, and they have some new linux drivers. The new version is 3.2.5, with versions for Xfree86 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3. I just installed the drivers and built the new kernel module, and I can already see that things have improved (no more segfaults when running fgl_glxgear

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:23:43PM -0400, Johan Kullstam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > > Can anyone advise on starting to use SiD as resource for my Debian > > > Workstation ? Doesn't

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:28:33AM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:57:23AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've just been given a copy of the Farnell Electronics catalogue CD. >

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-06 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: > > In same directory: > > dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc > cd metalog_0.7beta > dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot > cd .. > dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get the foll

Re: Xserver follow-up + thanks!

2003-09-06 Thread Kent West
J Y wrote: I still have an inability to connect to the internet with debian. I can't manually enter my modems port which is /dev/ttyS4. Some of the other distro let me do that. I know this port is not standard, but I didn't know that when I built/put together this computer. You don't mention what

Why held back? Command ...

2003-09-06 Thread hank
I've a bunch of machines on unstable ... one is holding back a lot of stuff on update/upgrade ... is there a command/switch that will tell me what dependency is holding things up? ... I'll just kill it off if it's non critical, as it's holding up postgres, openoffice, php and a bunch of other stuff

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New ATI drivers available

2003-09-06 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 03:08:11 +0200 (CEST), Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just checked out the ATI website, and they have some new linux > drivers. The new version is 3.2.5, with versions for Xfree86 4.1, 4.2, > and 4.3. I just installed the drivers and built the new kernel > modu

Script help

2003-09-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm doing a lot of work with a Sharp Zaurus which requires several re-flashes of the box daily - With my initrd.bin, ssh keys on the Z regenerate with each flash. As a consequence, my host .ssh/known_hosts is frequently outdated and I must edit it to remove references to z,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. I'd

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Russell, The sources.list file was OK, but it referenced a local mirror for apt-move, which wasn't valid yet. I corrected that, and ran 'apt-get update' again, and then ran apt-get install -t testing zope, as you recommend. Attached is that script file. The errors are essentia

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Johan Kullstam wrote: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: Can anyone advise on starting to use SiD as resource for my Debian Workstation ? Doesn't it have to many issues left open, broken dependencies etc. If you have to ask, s

Re: dynamic dns IP assignment from behind router

2003-09-06 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:44:24AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:42:11PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > there's some serious problem with my setup. > > Yup. You've exceeded the functionality of what that little barricade > router can do. Time to get a 486 or Pentium with

Re: dpkg fails after removing some packages

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hello, i reinstalled a local broken server using my own desktop backups. It's a mixed testing/unstable system. All went well but when i tried to remove some packages, something went wrong with dpkg. It seems linked to base-files. dpkg is version 1.10.10, base-files 3.0.10

Re: woody newbie help

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
mnicolet wrote: Hello I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian distros. But I had no time to go too far. Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of 1) My Debian box has a generic two button serial mouse. Using some utility ( don´t remember which one )

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: In same directory: dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc cd metalog_0.7beta dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot cd .. dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get the f

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New ATI drivers available

2003-09-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- "Scott C. Linnenbringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 03:08:11 +0200 (CEST), Roberto Sanchez > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just checked out the ATI website, and they have some new linux > > drivers. The new version is 3.2.5, with versions for Xfree86 4.1, 4.2, >

Re: Why held back? Command ...

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a bunch of machines on unstable ... one is holding back a lot of stuff on update/upgrade ... is there a command/switch that will tell me what dependency is holding things up? ... I'll just kill it off if it's non critical, as it's holding up postgres, openoffice, php a

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-06 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > I've just been given a copy of the Farnell Electronics catalogue CD. > This has the unfortunate design of wanting to install some Windoze > package in order to read the catalogue. > > I suspect that they've used a customised version of some

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-06 Thread Johan Kullstam
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:23:43PM -0400, Johan Kullstam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > > > Can anyone advise on starting to use

apt-get-listchanges/listbugs (was Re: Which release)

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:33:32AM -0700, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 12:46:31 +0200 > "Stefan Waidele jun." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But with debian-unstable the chance of 'getting the workstation hosed' > > during and 'apt-get upgrade' is greater than with d

Re: Unicode: is it safe to use it ?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 07:28:36AM +0200, Xavier Maillard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The only problem is to have a nice font to display the message. For > > example, I use Bitstream fonts. > > Hmm, AFAIK, for me, Bitsream has no way to h

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New ATI drivers available

2003-09-06 Thread TR
On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 20:57:59 -0500 "Scott C. Linnenbringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 03:08:11 +0200 (CEST), Roberto Sanchez > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just checked out the ATI website, and they have some new linux > > drivers. The new version is 3.2.5, with versi

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 11:08:07PM -0400, Johan Kullstam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1. Report this problem to your video card vendor. I don't care if > > you're CTO of IBM or a one-week-temp and Spam-R-Us or Joe's Internet > > Taco Cafe

Re: Script help

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 10:03:09PM -0400, Jeff Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm doing a lot of work with a Sharp Zaurus which requires several > re-flashes of the box daily - With my initrd.bin, ssh keys on the Z > regenerate with each flash. As a consequence, my host .ssh/known_hosts > is

proftp. Accessing an FTP server

2003-09-06 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I've got proftp running and it works great, in fact perfect inside our company LAN. So, I thought everything was perfect. HA! Outside in the real world, I am able (through a terminal session) to ftp in (login and password checked) but I can't do anything. Here as an example is what happens insi

Re: Script help

2003-09-06 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 10:03:09PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I'm doing a lot of work with a Sharp Zaurus which requires several re-flashes > of the box daily - With my initrd.bin, ssh keys on the Z regenerate with each > flash. As a consequence, my host .ssh/known_hosts is frequently outdated

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-06 Thread Travis Crump
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: In same directory: dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc cd metalog_0.7beta dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot cd .. dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get the

Debian HW/Support vendors (was Re: compatibility)

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:18:35AM +0200, J?r?mie MARTIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I want to implement Debian on 6 Intel servers and am looking for > servers that support DEBIAN. I unfortunately do not know who (HP/ IBM/ > NEC???) supports DEBIAN. Could you please help me?? If the quest

Re: Debian Installation Problem

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 05:26:41PM +0800, Nikolai Dobrev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > I try to install Debian 3.1 sorge, but it gaves me that problem : The Sarge installer is experimental and under development. It isn't meant for production use. If you want to install Debian, go to:

Xinerama + triplehead + y = FREEZE; y = ?

2003-09-06 Thread Shaun Crossley
I've got a system with three video cards (all ATIs) running Xinerama, and there are a number of applications which will completely freeze X such that I must do an Alt-SysRq-k to kill all processes on the current virtual terminal in order to return control of the system to me. One such application

Modem strangely answers my phone, when ppp is not connected.

2003-09-06 Thread Alan Davis
When I have killed all pppd, after running poff, when we pick up to answer a phone call, we are getting a modem screech, which we have to physically remove the line to get rid of. I use modem lights to dial in, or alternately pon. Previously, I had configured ppp to "persist" when disconnected; h

Re: keymap

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:08:19PM +0200, Hans Gubitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I try to reconfigure the broken keymap by > install-keymap /usr/share/.. > I get: > > Warning: cannot access console; > deferring until console is accessible. This is a bug that's appeared in some recent up

Re: nfs getattr? (solved)

2003-09-06 Thread Borislav Petkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 September 2003 21:51, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Hi everyone, > i searched the archives to find explanation for the peculiar behavior (i > think) of my nfs server but to no avail, so that's why i'd give it a try > here: I have 2 woody boxes

Re: System is a mess where should I start

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
At the beginning. However, some people suggest starting in the middle, and there's a small but vocal breakaway sect that advocates starting at the end. on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:59:37PM +0200, Paul Frederiks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > ATM my sid box is a mess. Single specific probl

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:34:37PM -0400, David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Joey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am installing Debian on a Internet-capable computer for > > experimentation and a way to continue learning about Linux without > > the limitations of a live CD. Sho

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:53:53PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > The diesel-electrics and fuel-cell busses are taller by about a foot > > and a half due to a very large unit on the roof, but it doesn't seem > > to be an issue since they still come in shorte

Re: ..trundling OT; Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:42:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > The angle of the photo is really bad for identifying the weapon, but > > it looks like an AK-47. Not familiar with H&K to know what they look > > like. > > But the point is that NATO-co

Re: number-up=2, openoffice, and cups

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 02:41:28AM -0400, Matt Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > one more printing problem with cups before I switch to lpr > (hopefully)... I'm having trouble printing multiple pages/printed > page using openoffice. I'm running sid/i386 using CUPS. Normal > printing (1 page/pag

Re: overnet, mldonkey, which one??

2003-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 07:59:08AM +0200, Alfredo Valles wrote: > What about security? How often do I have to expect to be attacked by > a hacker or by an worm? Pretty low thanks to the variety of clients. > And what about the firewall? How difficult

Re: AOL!=USA - was (no subject)

2003-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:02:20PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > And Lithuania? LUOL? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system

Re: You sent potentially unsafe content: Thank you!

2003-09-06 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El viernes, 5 de septiembre de 2003, a las 14:09, Geordie Birch escribe: > Translation: "If you're wondering why we've spammed you, it's because > our methods are coarse and we're not too sure of ourselves." Please. It's very easy for my procmail to filter out this kind of messages. Moveover, it

Re: AOL!=USA - was (no subject)

2003-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 06:10:17AM +0800, Katipo wrote: > I like the internet like that. > It has this tendency to dispense with myths like imaginary lines on maps. > Although in the case of AOL that could definitely be a negative. Right now, I'd like

Re: (no subject)

2003-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 05:18:08AM +0800, csj wrote: > That was my first reaction. But given the OP's rather generic > description of the problem, we could assume s/he was using the > term Control Panel(tm) the way many people use the word > Kleenex(t

Re: (no subject)

2003-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 05:51:50AM +0800, Katipo wrote: > Definitely Windows. Why do AOLers think this is the place to get help with their broken-ass OS? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and

Re: mutt: thread reconstruction?

2003-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:05:37PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > OK, is there a way to do this in bulk, in a way other than simply > tagging all messages with a common subject as being threaded replies , > one-level deep, of a single initial post? I

Re: spamassassin: whitelist_from_rcvd ?!?!

2003-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:17:51PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > SpamAssassin has blocked mail from: > > The EFF > Bruce Schneier, ie the periodic Cryptogram > My ISP (my quarterly invoices) > A computer store I was buying parts from > > SA i

Re: You sent potentially unsafe content: Thank you!

2003-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 10:32:17AM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Please. It's very easy for my procmail to filter out this kind of > messages. Moveover, it's very difficult for my procmail to filter out > *your* replies to this kind of messa

Re: spamassassin: whitelist_from_rcvd ?!?!

2003-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:35:17AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > My suggestion in this case: file a wishlist bug for a user note about > the whitelisted domains to appear during install. I filed a normal bug, since this is definately not a sane de

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 08:35:03AM +0200, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: > That is just contrary from what I have read from various sources. > So let's turn to _the_ source: > > http://www.debian.de/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives#s-testing > and > http://www.debian.de/releases/ > > '[...] we hope that `testi

Debian Installation Problem

2003-09-06 Thread Nikolai Dobrev
Hello, I try to install Debian 3.1 sorge, but it gaves me that problem : Please answer me, thank you 24.Hungarian Prompt:1-24/41, n for next page> 11 Loading Kernel modules [100.0%] Detected module 'isofs' for Linux ISO 9660 Filesystem Driver' Installing Debian instal

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 02:38, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:53:53PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: [snip] > Not really, they sound like they're the identical engine. The > difference is hydraulic and manual transmissions waste serious, >

Re: ..trundling OT; Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 02:40, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:42:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > The angle of the photo is really bad for identifying the weapon, but > > > it looks like an AK-47. Not familiar with H&K to kno

Emacs not creating cvs backups

2003-09-06 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Hi, Using my office computer, while editing files checked out a remote pserver repository, emacs is working as expected, that is, backups are created appending the current repository version as extension, something like: test.c~1.2~ However, using my home computer, and a local repository, backup

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 05:02, Russell Shaw wrote: > If you use a lighter wm such as icewm, then there's no problem at all > with testing. I'd recommend that because there's less changing and less > chance of system breaks as with unstable. You can install single packages > from unstable easily too.

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:44:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > H, I wonder where diesel oil comes from? Ooo, ooo, I know! > Diesel oil comes from the Diesel Oil Fairy, who comes around pumping > it into filling station tanks every night Where

DNS newbie, request for comments

2003-09-06 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Hi, I have set up a DNS server for the first time. I am using bind9 from Debian stable. This is to serve an Intranet, whose users have access to Internet, but the domain used is not registered there (it's only for internal use). I'd like to know about my setup, whether it is correct or I am being

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 08:35, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: > Mario Vukelic wrote: > > [...] > > Avoid testing!! Testing is for testing /the distribution/ and is quite > > fd most of the time, as packages trickle in from unstable in a quite > > random manner. > > [...] > > Unstable is ok, it's not

Re: /home partition

2003-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:36:31AM -0400, alex wrote: > I opted for a separate partition (hda2) for /home during the > installation of Debian and it was duly formatted. However, the > partition doesn't seem to be as performing as a /home directory.

Re: Can't umount SD card (famd)

2003-09-06 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Vendredi 5 Septembre 2003 22:54, Stefan Waidele jun. a déclamé : > > I can't umount a SD card from my drive, famd uses it. > Fam monitors files & directories for changes. > I guess that some application told fam to watch /mnt/carte and > a) did not tell fam to stop watching when it finished or

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Stefan Waidele jun.
Mario Vukelic wrote: On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 08:35, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: Mario Vukelic wrote: [...] Avoid testing!! Testing is for testing /the distribution/ and is quite fd most of the time, as packages trickle in from unstable in a quite random manner. [...] Unstable is ok, it's not so

keymap

2003-09-06 Thread Hans Gubitz
When I try to reconfigure the broken keymap by install-keymap /usr/share/.. I get: Warning: cannot access console; deferring until console is accessible. ??? -- Hans Gubitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 12:46:31 +0200 "Stefan Waidele jun." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But with debian-unstable the chance of 'getting the workstation hosed' > during and 'apt-get upgrade' is greater than with debian-testing, isn't it? So don't do an apt-get upgrade. First install apt-listcha

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:26:16PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > I meant: it's not so much the /upstream/ packages that are unstable, as > only apps that are considered stable by upstream go into unstable. Only packages that are considered by the Debian maintainer go into unstable. It's entirely

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 03:24:38 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Like, say, all those people in the Hindenburg? > > That was a far larger amount of hydrogen wrapped in a highly flammable > material. The design was stupid. Do you not realize that th

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:14:51PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 05:02, Russell Shaw wrote: > > If you use a lighter wm such as icewm, then there's no problem at all > > with testing. I'd recommend that because there's less changing and less > > chance of system breaks as with

Problem compileing

2003-09-06 Thread setty
The error i get is "checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0.3) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! sys. specs Xandros base riped out and did all Deb sources. KDE 3.1.3 some unstable for Pysolseek --- [This E-mail scann

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 13:41, Colin Watson wrote: > The procedures are in place: there's testing-proposed-updates, which can > be used to get critical security fixes autobuilt and into testing. The > manpower to make use of this is what's lacking. Ah, good. Still, to the user of testing it makes n

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 19:58, Nicolas Galler wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 11:30, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 12:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrot

installing dpkg source package on redhat

2003-09-06 Thread John Covici
I am trying to install the dpkg source on a redhat 9 system -- my ultimate goal is to get alien working. I am running into the following error during make: It says no rule to make archtable needed by archtable.h . Now archtable is actually there and archtable.h is not, so what is going on or is

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 13:33, Steve Lamb wrote: > So don't do an apt-get upgrade. First install apt-listchanges and > apt-listbugs. [..] Very good advice, I'd only add to read debian-devel list before upgrading packages. Still, it's a lot of work to do. I ran testing and unstable at some poi

[Initrd][Grub] Kernel panic

2003-09-06 Thread Sylvain Briole
Bonjour à tou(te)s, (message également posté sur fr.comp.os.linux.configuration) Je suis en train de me battre âprement avec Grub et Initrd pour une création de disquette de boot. RTFM : j'ai lu le Disk-Encryption HOWTO, le BootDisk HOWTO, ainsi que le fichier initrd.txt contenu dans la doc du n

Verizon DSL success?

2003-09-06 Thread Michael Dickey
Has anyone had success getting Verizon DSL to work? I did the setup in Windows :( and then rebooted to try w/ Linux. I am running Woody, pppoe, and I ran through the pppoeconf setup. I looked at the connect session with ethereal, and am getting (in this order): PADI PADO PADR PADS PPP LCP config

Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thanks Russell! I did not know about the reference you quoted. But... I did not explain well enough! I do NOT want to remove the kernel-image package because it will remove my kernel which works very well. I just want "him" not to try to reinstall, because it is already installed, except for the i

Verizon DSL success?

2003-09-06 Thread John covici
I use it all the time, but I didn't use the Debian poe package, but the source package from rp-poe which did things a bit differently -- although if you get failure to authenticate it may be your pap-secrets file is incorrect -- the rp-poe uses its own .conf file instead. on Saturday 09/06/2003 Mi

dhclient release and renew.

2003-09-06 Thread Paulo Roberto Lagrotta
Hi all, I would like know if there is a way to have dhclient release and renew for ADSL line. I'm using a machine with dual boot and dhclient is not working for me as it used to. Thanks, Paulo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-06 Thread Russ Cook
Please help. I tried to upgrade my system, after a long period of stable operation. During the upgrade attempt, use apt-get dselect-upgrade, Zope failed to upgrade, due to pre remove script failure. Zope is currently installed at 2.3.3-1 level, trying to upgrade to 2.6.1-10. It is trying to run

Fwd: [Initrd][Grub] Kernel panic

2003-09-06 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello all, Sorry for this message that should be posted onto debian.user.french! Thanks, Eclice. -- Sylvain Briole (a.k.a. Eclice) E-Technik Doktorand / München EMail : sbriole (à) free.fr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Similar app for Disk Catalog?

2003-09-06 Thread desiderata
Hi, There's this handly tool: http://www.rob.cybercomm.nl/diskcat/index.html I found for windows, is there an app similar to this? It basically scans cd's, directories for filenames/directories and catalogs them, it then saves the database into a file for viewing/searching using the tool. Elijah

Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thanks Russell! I did not know about the reference you quoted. But... I did not explain well enough! I do NOT want to remove the kernel-image package because it will remove my kernel which works very well. I just want "him" not to try to reinstall, because it is already insta

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Please help. I tried to upgrade my system, after a long period of stable operation. During the upgrade attempt, use apt-get dselect-upgrade, Zope failed to upgrade, due to pre remove script failure. Zope is currently installed at 2.3.3-1 level, trying to upgrade to 2.6.1-10. It

Re: Similar app for Disk Catalog?

2003-09-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 23:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > There's this handly tool: > http://www.rob.cybercomm.nl/diskcat/index.html > I found for windows, is there an app similar to this? It basically scans > cd's, directories for filenames/directories and catalogs them, it then > saves the

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-06 Thread Todd Pytel
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 06:36:56 +0100 "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Waddyaknow (not much, you?). PLIP works. Sorta. > > I get some long periods of timeout, but currently have an ssh session > into the box. I don't know if this is going to be feasible... > > I've played a tad with

New price list for mp3 player, digital camera, cd/vcd/mp3 player and USB flash drive!

2003-09-06 Thread HY Tech
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Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
> > Reading man dpkg I do not see an option that says: "do > > not try to reinstall the package"... I've missed the start of the thread, so excuse me if this isn't what the OP wants, but setting the package to "hold" should do it, no? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

kernel-2.6 and devfs. Can't open xterm or konsole (kde terminal)

2003-09-06 Thread Anders Ellenshøj Andersen
I am testing kernel-2.6 on unstable on my Asus A1300 laptop. I have everything up and running except konsole/xterm. I can't open an xterm, not even as root. As regular user there is a lot of disk activity and then the terminal window fails to open. I am using devfs compiled into the kernel but

Problems with SSH and X11

2003-09-06 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi, I have two boxes, one with X (black) and one without (rock). I want to run an X Application on rock, but always get the message that it is not possible to connect to the remote xserver. What I do is the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -X rock The authenticity of host 'rock (192.1

Getting Debian to use MD5 and shadow for /etc/passwd

2003-09-06 Thread Sunny Dubey
Hi guys I have a debian woody machine, that doesn't use MD5 nor shadow. So I was wondering how I could get my debian machine to use MD5 and shadow. I know I can't convert passwords from one form to another, but that isn't a problem for me. Thanks for any info!!! Sunny Dubey PS: I am not su

File blocked - ScanMail for Lotus Notes --> Re: Thank you!

2003-09-06 Thread NIS76/HDBInternet/SG
Due to Internet Mail Filtering Policy, the attachment(s) has been removed from this mail. Date: 06/09/2003 11:09:31 PM Subject: Re: Thank you! Virus: Blocked; File: your_document.pif From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: Blocked; Scanned by ScanMail for Lotus Notes 2.

how to fix broken package

2003-09-06 Thread john john
Hi, I messed up my xserver-xfree86 package. I had already installed this package and then I had some X driver issues so I went into the directories, and deleted a couple of files ie. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules stuff. I then did this, apt-get install --purge xserver-xfree86 Anyhow, so I try to reinst

debian/gnome and cmi8738 - no sound! :(

2003-09-06 Thread Alexander Rogg
hello alltogether!! i've got debian 3.0r1 on unstable (via dist-upgrade) and gnome 2.2 installed. my soundcard has a cmi8738 chip on it, but i just can't get it to work :(( the kernel modules cmpci, sound and soundcore are active (modconf), and i have added my user ("alex") to the group "audio"

Re: Getting Debian to use MD5 and shadow for /etc/passwd

2003-09-06 Thread kmark
Hi Sunny, funny you should ask... I looked into this a week ago. dpkg-reconfigure passwd (See ya next time at the nylug list :-)) -Kev On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Sunny Dubey wrote: > Hi guys > > I have a debian woody machine, that doesn't use MD5 nor shadow. So I was > wondering how I could get my debi

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