Re: Exim dress rehearsal

2003-09-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Joyce, Matthew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030929 17:06]: > > I'm just configuring an Exim setup and I want to test it. > > I do not want to change my MX records yet, but I want to be sure it will > accept email and relay it properly. > Is there anyway to do this ? > Are there any tools to analyse exi

Re: How to have Exim send to another Exim server before bouncing?

2003-09-30 Thread Paul Mackinney
Ian Melnick declaimed: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to get mailman working right. We have separate machines for > web and email, and in order to use mailman's web management tools, it > needs to be installed on the web server. Don't have the option of > putting a webserver on the email machine - lo

Re: vim: available colors?

2003-09-30 Thread Paul Mackinney
Monique Y. Herman declaimed: > I'm mucking with syntax highlighting in vim (specifically, I like dark > backgrounds, but the red (for strings) and the blue (for comments) are > almost impossible for me to read). > > How do I know which color names are available for a given colordepth? I > assume

Re: Realtek RTL 8139C and Linux Kernel 2.4.22.

2003-09-30 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 04:35, uGAH man wrote: > > /proc/pci (kernel 2.4) > > > > Bus 0, device 9, function 0: > > Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > > RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 16). > > IRQ 10. > > Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.

Appearance of xterm in xdosemu?

2003-09-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
Where does xdosemu set the appearance of the xterm it uses? I want to make it larger and also make it a normal subshell to prevent the appearance being messed up. But I can't see where the characteristics of this xterm are set. AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using L

Re: kde package installation???

2003-09-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:15:56PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Jordan Haddow wrote: > > > Anyways, I was just installing Debian (unstable) and everything has been > > > going fine, until I tried to install KDE. For some reason the KDE packages > > > are all messed up. They

Re: vim: available colors?

2003-09-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:10:00AM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I'm mucking with syntax highlighting in vim (specifically, I like dark > backgrounds, but the red (for strings) and the blue (for comments) are > almost impossible for me to read). Have you tried ':set background=dark'? That's us

Re: How do you know if it works in Linux?

2003-09-30 Thread David Palmer
Here are all the details. In regional Australia, we encounter problems that our city counterparts never experience. If a phone line happens to go over an electric fence and that fence gets turned on, it creates an electric field and everybody drops a connection except me. I've had one of these f

Re: Javascript in Moz/Galeon/unstable

2003-09-30 Thread David Palmer
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 12:13, Neilen wrote: > Hi. > > I regulary use www.xe.com/ucc to check currency exchange rates. > Recently, however, it always claims that I did not fill in the required > fields when I request a conversion. > > I then tried several other currecy conversion sites, and no

Does debian support PCCard-SCSI Adapters?

2003-09-30 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, is anybody aware whether Debian supports PCCard-SCSI Adapters like Adaptecs APA-1460 and APA-1480 (alternatives?)? In the kernel sources, I do not find anything regarding APA-Cards, just AHA-152x (is this really a PCCard???). Has anybody any negativ experienes with PCCard-SCSI Adapte

Re: Getting Radio/TV on Debian.

2003-09-30 Thread Stephan Balmer
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:20:15PM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: > Russ Pitman wrote: > > Stephan Balmer wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:27:17PM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: > > > > Having been given Radio/TV card and finding it is working, I have had no > > > > success so far installing it in my

Re: vim: available colors?

2003-09-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:10:00AM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: I'm mucking with syntax highlighting in vim (specifically, I like dark backgrounds, but the red (for strings) and the blue (for comments) are almost impossible for me to read). Have you tried ':set background=

howto/faq: installing & configuring debian on old hardware

2003-09-30 Thread matt wilkie
Hi, Can anyone direct me to a faq or howto on installing and configuring debian for end users on quite old hardware? Old means 486 and early pentiums (<200mhz). I have a few old beasts in my basement I want to pass on to people who don't know much about computers, so simplicity and usability is k

Re: Different images on Root Window with Xinerama?

2003-09-30 Thread John Spray
Bill Moseley wrote: Anyone know how I can put different image on each screen of my root window? I've tried the display command but my image just gets tiled across all monitors: $ display -window root foo.png My experience with the nvidia driver's equivalent function to xinerama is that what

Re: Different images on Root Window with Xinerama?

2003-09-30 Thread David Z Maze
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using Icewm on Sid and running Xinerama. > > Anyone know how I can put different image on each screen of my root > window? My understanding is that, since you're using XINERAMA, you only have one screen, end of story. > I've tried the display comma

Re: Question about ~/.xsession

2003-09-30 Thread David Z Maze
Jaque Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to the Debian reference Debian uses both ~/.xsession and > ~/.xinitrc for setting up an X-environment. > > I use wdm as display manager and need a personal PATH. > > If I set it up in ~/.xsession it works as desired but if I now login on > a ter

Re: about lilo

2003-09-30 Thread David Z Maze
Sidney Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please help me to understand lilo. If one loads lilo on the root > sector of a partition, does this mean that it has no affect on the > MBR? Yes. > Exactly, what does it do when it is on a partition? When the MBR picks a partition, the "standard" thin

Eric A Hagglund and Thomas Whalen please fix your email

2003-09-30 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
If either of you gentlemen are reading this, you submitted bugs against webmin but I can't respond because mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] respectively is bouncing. Please fix the problem or use an alternative address. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> La Salle Debain - h

Reiserfs and flies >2G

2003-09-30 Thread stan
What version of Debian do I need to be running to get a version of Reiserfs that will corectly support files >2G? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To U

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

2003-09-30 Thread Kyle Loree
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:05, Tom wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:11:49PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > hi ya > > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > > * Kyle Loree ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030929 08:58]: > > > > > > > > > > the other system is at

exim: pipe delivery process timed out

2003-09-30 Thread Michael D Schleif
Sadly, for the last three days, although swen is starting to abate, I have encountered a new email malady ;< # sudo exim -bV Exim version 3.36 #1 built 26-Aug-2003 22:39:06 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2002 [1] Generally, I receive between 2,000 and 3,000 emails per day, and pri

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-09-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:51:35 -0700, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > For example, I'd like to map ^J to gq} to warp a paragraph -- and it > I'd like it to work in editing or command/normal mode. I'd also like to > start in insert mode, I think. I might like ^A and ^E for start and en

Re: about lilo

2003-09-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:22:51PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > Please help me to understand lilo. If one loads lilo > on the root sector of a partition, does this mean that > it has no affect on the MBR? Exactly, what does it do > when it is on a partition? Presumably, it specifies > the kernel

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-30 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:11:04AM +0800, csj wrote: > At Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:43:35 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > As with most questions, ask google. There are numerous sites > > and hardware compatability lists that have been created. It is > > a good idea to check the hw compatability lists first

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-30 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:27:01PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:52:12AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:26:32AM +1200, cr wrote: > > > > I appreciate that dselect is only part of the install process, albeit the > > > > largest p

Re: vim: available colors?

2003-09-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:49:58 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:10:00AM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> I'm mucking with syntax highlighting in vim (specifically, I like dark >> backgrounds, but the red (for strings) and the blue (for comments) are >> al

unable to lookup notebook-johannes via gethostbyname()

2003-09-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everyone. What does this warning message mean: unable to lookup notebook-johannes via gethostbyname() It happens when I use sudo. The background: I have got a static IP from my university, and I have entered it into /etc/network/interfaces. I have also put my hostname (notebook-johannes) in

Re: Reiserfs and flies >2G

2003-09-30 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimarts 30 Setembre 2003 16:39, en stan va escriure: > What version of Debian do I need to be running to get a version of Reiserfs > that will corectly support files >2G? I've been using Reiser for over 2 years and I've always been able of writing

Re: Reiserfs and flies >2G

2003-09-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:39:07 -0400, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > What version of Debian do I need to be running to get a version of Reiserfs > that will corectly support files >2G? > Those are some really big flies!!! Er, sorry. Couldn't resist. I'm afraid I don't know the answer =/ --

harddisk too slow

2003-09-30 Thread Rui Nóbrega
Title: Message I've installed Debian Woody on my laptop, an Acer Aspire 1601. After some configuring and player with boot parameters, all is working smoothly with the exception of disk access. It takes a long time to copy large files from diferent directories or partitions.   I had the same

Re: harddisk too slow

2003-09-30 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Rui Nóbrega wrote: > I've installed Debian Woody on my laptop, an Acer Aspire 1601. After some > configuring and player with boot parameters, all is working smoothly with > the exception of disk access. It takes a long time to copy large files from > diferent directories or pa

divine question

2003-09-30 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello I tried to setup divine to be able to use 2 diff. networks, but I don't know what to change in etc/divine.conf the examples looks like that: #10.0.0.2/24:10.0.0.1|10.0.0.3:10.0.0.1:resolv.conf.default:10.0.0.1:3128::Home #160.45.45.167/23:160.45.44.1:160.45.44.1:resolv.conf.mathe:http-pr

deselect has no multicd option

2003-09-30 Thread Scott
Greetings: I'm obviously new at dselect. I got through it OK on an install but on a restart, I'm fuzzy. I went to choose sources (wanted to add a CDROM set). The dselect for beginners document says to use multi_cd for an access method. My dselect has no such option. Should it? How do I get i

rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

2003-09-30 Thread shorton
Greetings: Another RH to Debian convert question... I'm used to rpm but clueless about apt, etc. I've mostly gotten the hang of dselect I think. Can someone tell me the equivilant these commands, and/or what to run to get the desired result: rpm -qa = show all packages installed? rpm -q --wha

problem with 2.2.25

2003-09-30 Thread Michael Flaig
Hi Debian Users :) I discovered a Problem on one of my machines. The machine runs 2.2.25 compiled with make-kpkg It has UW-SCSI and an IBM Harddisk of 9 GByte capacity. Sep 30 16:41:49 mx3 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Sep 30 16:41:49 mx3 kernel: 08:01: rw=0, want=1241513985, li

Re: Very slow CD burning

2003-09-30 Thread Dan Bowtell
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 21:07, Pigeon wrote: > > lspci gives me the following information: > > > > 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus > > Master IDE (rev 06) > > > > Based on that I enabled CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y. > > Looks good to me. > > > I also had

Re: harddisk too slow

2003-09-30 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimarts 30 Setembre 2003 17:10, en Rui Nóbrega va escriure: > I've installed Debian Woody on my laptop, an Acer Aspire 1601. After some > configuring and player with boot parameters, all is working smoothly with > the exception of disk access. It ta

upgrade a packge

2003-09-30 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi there, I need help to upgrade a certain package. I used following command: apt-get upgrade perl Once I do this it gives me a list of packages and goes back to the prompt. I see perl-base in the list. Can I upgrade single package ?? There is sendmail also in the list so if I upgrade all the pack

Re: harddisk too slow

2003-09-30 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, Since this is an IDE-drive we're talking about all you need to do is enable the UDMA modus for that harddrive. You need to run - with root privileges - "hdparm -c1 -d1 /dev/hda". You should however first test your harddrive so you can see the difference. Run - again with root privileges - "hdp

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-30 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, I have to admit that I don't know squat about Slackware. I have never used it, apparantly it's pretty good though. A friend of mine says it's "the only Linux he'll ever use" but I wouldn't count too much into that - he also said that "Windows is going to be the only OS I'll ever use" about two

postfix pop-before-smtp problem

2003-09-30 Thread Hans Steinraht
hi, I'm trying to get pop-before-smtp getting to work with postfix. Following the instructions in /usr/share/doc/README.Debian I edited main.cf like this: mynetworks=127.0.0.0/8 smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,reject_non_fqdn_recipient,check_client_access hash:/var/lib/pop-befo

Re: upgrade a packge

2003-09-30 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, You can easily upgrade single packages - if you would've read the apt-get output more thoroughly you would have probably tripped over this: XXX is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 100 not upgraded. Which means that if you want to upgrade one single p

Re: unable to lookup notebook-johannes via gethostbyname()

2003-09-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:03:03PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: | Hi everyone. | What does this warning message mean: | | unable to lookup notebook-johannes via gethostbyname() | | It happens when I use sudo. | The background: I have got a static IP from my university, and I have | entered it in

Re: upgrade a packge

2003-09-30 Thread Simon Tod
--- Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I need help to upgrade a certain package. I used > following command: > apt-get upgrade perl > Once I do this it gives me a list of packages and > goes back to the > prompt. I see perl-base in the list. > Can I upgrade single package ?? T

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-30 Thread Mike Mueller
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 02:05, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Seems > like about the only way we're going to get a reasonable handle on this > barring ISPs refusing to carry executables in email format. Hear! Hear! No more attachments - period. I'll settle for elimination of any known sort of ex

Re: vim: available colors?

2003-09-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:04:22PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:49:58 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:10:00AM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> I'm mucking with syntax highlighting in vim (specifically, I like dark > >> b

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

2003-09-30 Thread Angus D Madden
shorton, Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500: > > Can someone tell me the equivilant these commands, and/or what to run > to get the desired result: > > rpm -qa = show all packages installed? Use one of: dpkg -l dpkg --get-selections > > rpm -q --whatprovides = tell me what package pr

Re: deselect has no multicd option

2003-09-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scott wrote: Greetings: I'm obviously new at dselect. I got through it OK on an install but on a restart, I'm fuzzy. I went to choose sources (wanted to add a CDROM set). The dselect for beginners document says to use multi_cd for an access method. My dselect has no such option. Should it? Ho

vim and french accents

2003-09-30 Thread Luc Lefebvre
Hi, I have been using vim on woody without any trouble . I now also have Libranet installed on another machine and even though I copied over my .vimrc and set LANG and LC_ALL to "C" in both cases I can't get all of the accents to work . Any clues as to where I should look, typing locale gives

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

2003-09-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
shorton wrote: Greetings: Another RH to Debian convert question... I'm used to rpm but clueless about apt, etc. I've mostly gotten the hang of dselect I think. Can someone tell me the equivilant these commands, and/or what to run to get the desired result: rpm -qa = show all packages installed?

Re: upgrade a packge

2003-09-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Vivek Kumar wrote: Hi there, I need help to upgrade a certain package. I used following command: apt-get upgrade perl Once I do this it gives me a list of packages and goes back to the prompt. I see perl-base in the list. Can I upgrade single package ?? There is sendmail also in the list so if I u

Re: vim: available colors?

2003-09-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:04:22PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: | On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:49:58 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: | > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:10:00AM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: | >> I'm mucking with syntax highlighting in vim (specifically, I like dark | >> b

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 10:59, Martin Jungowski wrote: > Hi, > > I have to admit that I don't know squat about Slackware. I have never > used it, apparantly it's pretty good though. A friend of mine says it's > "the only Linux he'll ever use" but I wouldn't count too much into that > - he also said

Re: postfix pop-before-smtp problem

2003-09-30 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 30. September 2003 18:02 schrieb Hans Steinraht: > Following the instructions in /usr/share/doc/README.Debian I edited > main.cf like this: > > mynetworks=127.0.0.0/8 I think this means 127.0.0.0 - 127.0.0.255, it works if you send Mails

Re: vim: available colors?

2003-09-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:53:45 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > Those look like encoded ANSI escape sequences: > /usr/share/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.txt.gz may be of some help. > Thank you! I'll take a look. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:11:16PM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote: > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 02:05, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Seems > > like about the only way we're going to get a reasonable handle on this > > barring ISPs refusing to carry executables in email format. > > Hear! Hear! No more a

Re: vim: available colors?

2003-09-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:42:07 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > In that case, you need to put "set background=3Ddark" in your vimrc to > correct the problem. The thing is, vim has no way of knowing whether > your terminal (or xterm) has a white or black background. Sinc

Re: Question about ~/.xsession

2003-09-30 Thread Jaque Moreau
>> I want ~/.xinitrc (and only ~/.xinitrc) to be executed if I use a >> display manager and ~/.xsession only to be executed if I use startx. > > So my understanding of how those files are typically used is that > xinit (and hence startx) uses .xinitrc, and display managers use > .xsession. So you

Re: evolution fonts

2003-09-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 15:17, Ashish Ariga wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 16:13, Micha Feigin wrote: > > How do I change the fonts for evolution? > > There seem to be options only for the message fonts, but I want to change > > the folder and subject list fonts. I tried from the gnome-control center

Re: cdparanoia + ide-scsi = no usable drive?

2003-09-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:06:14PM +0800, csj wrote: | At Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:27:30 -0400, | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | [...] | | > Is cdparanoia not compatible with ide-scsi for some reason? | > (why?) | > | > What is a good solution? (IOW, what do you do, or what do you | > suggest?) |

Re: cdparanoia + ide-scsi = no usable drive?

2003-09-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:27:01AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: | On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:27:30PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > Is cdparanoia not compatible with ide-scsi for some reason? (why?) | | Works fine here... I have four optical drives in this box, all controlled | by ide-scsi,

Re: cdparanoia + ide-scsi = no usable drive?

2003-09-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:32:52PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: | On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:27:30PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > However, cdparanoia reports the following : | > | > Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface | > No generic SCSI device

cannot find libncurses

2003-09-30 Thread Reaz Baksh
Hello I don't know if this has been asked before, as I searched the list and found nothing close to this problem but I'm hoping this is the right forum to ask. Problem: I'm trying to upgrade my Kernel from 4.2.20 to 4.2.22. I am doing this the long way not through Dpkg or apt-get. When I type 'm

netenv and environment variables

2003-09-30 Thread Micha Feigin
Netenv was lately upgraded but now I have problems with exporting variables such as proxy settings (http_proxy and ftp_proxy). Earlier version made a link to the active settings file so that it could be sourced from bashrc but this is no longer done. How is this supposed to be done now? Another pro

diff arguments for building diff for dpkg-source

2003-09-30 Thread Micha Feigin
I am trying to build my own version of a package and I am trying to reuse the existing package files since I don't know how to create them myself. Currently I am trying to build the diff for the source trio (orig.tar.gz/diff.gz/.dsc). The problem is that using the standard diff arguments diff -ruN

Re: vim: available colors?

2003-09-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:48:19PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: | On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:42:07 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: | > | > In that case, you need to put "set background=dark" in your vimrc | I used to have that set, and I distinctly remember having a reason

can't boot stock kernel-image-2.4.22

2003-09-30 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi :) i've been using my own compiled kernels for the last couple of years. After getting somewhat tired of compiling them, i tried the stock kernels. But they just won't boot, looping with a message like (it doesn't log the message): "insmod: can't find module /lib/module/2.4.22-1-k7/kernel/net/

Re: Problems with kernel: no sound, printer, cdwriter

2003-09-30 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, First of all, you wanna try ALSA for your soundcard. Download the packages alsa-driver, alsa-lib and alsa-utils from alsa-project.org. Compile them, install them and then load the module. AFAIK, the proper module for the Audigy soundcards is either emu10k or snd-emu10k. And SCSI Emulation can

Re: cannot find libncurses

2003-09-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 13:45:38 -0400, Reaz Baksh wrote: > When I type 'make menuconfig' I get the following: > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status You need to have the ncurses development files installed; "apt-get install li

Re: cannot find libncurses

2003-09-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:45, Reaz Baksh wrote: > Hello > Any help or instructions to just go away would be really appreciated. Here try this on for size: http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/DebianKernelBuilding Hope that helps... -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://w

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 11:41, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:11:16PM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 02:05, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Seems > > > like about the only way we're going to get a reasonable handle on this > > > barring ISPs refusing to car

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2003-09-30 Thread XDebian
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Re: cannot find libncurses

2003-09-30 Thread Mental Patient
Reaz Baksh wrote: Hello I don't know if this has been asked before, as I searched the list and found nothing close to this problem but I'm hoping this is the right forum to ask. Problem: I'm trying to upgrade my Kernel from 4.2.20 to 4.2.22. I am doing this the long way not through Dpkg or apt-ge

Re: postfix pop-before-smtp problem

2003-09-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:02:11PM +0200, Hans Steinraht wrote: | I'm trying to get pop-before-smtp getting to work with postfix. I recommend using SMTP AUTH instead. It's more reliable, for one thing. | Following the instructions in /usr/share/doc/README.Debian I edited main.cf | like this: |

Re: postfix pop-before-smtp problem

2003-09-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:56:09PM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote: | Am Dienstag, 30. September 2003 18:02 schrieb Hans Steinraht: | > Following the instructions in /usr/share/doc/README.Debian I edited | > main.cf like this: | > | > mynetworks=127.0.0.0/8 | | I think this means 127.0.0.0 - 127.0.0.255,

Re: cannot find libncurses

2003-09-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Reaz Baksh (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Problem: > > I'm trying to upgrade my Kernel from 4.2.20 to 4.2.22. I am doing > this the long way not through Dpkg or apt-get. > When I type 'make menuconfig' I get the following: > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lnc

Re: cannot find libncurses

2003-09-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:45:38PM -0400, Reaz Baksh wrote: > When I type 'make menuconfig' I get the following: > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses You need to install libncurses5-dev. In order to build things against a library rather than simply running them,

Re: vim and french accents

2003-09-30 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:07:52PM -0400, Luc Lefebvre wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using vim on woody without any trouble e gives the circonflexe accent on the e for example>. I now also have > Libranet installed on another machine and even though I copied over my > .vimrc and set LANG and LC_A

Re: diff arguments for building diff for dpkg-source

2003-09-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:35:11PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > I am trying to build my own version of a package and I am trying to > reuse the existing package files since I don't know how to create them > myself. > Currently I am trying to build the diff for the source trio > (orig.tar.gz/diff.gz

NFS version 3?

2003-09-30 Thread stan
How new a version of Debain do I need toprovide NFS V3 services? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

RE: cannot find libncurses

2003-09-30 Thread Reaz Baksh
> -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Janssen > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: cannot find libncurses > > Hello > > Reaz Baksh (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Problem: > > > > I'm trying to

RE: cannot find libncurses

2003-09-30 Thread Reaz Baksh
>-Original Message- >From: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:54 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: cannot find libncurses >On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 13:45:38 -0400, Reaz Baksh wrote: >> When I type 'make menuconfig' I get the following

Re: Problems with kernel: no sound, printer, cdwriter

2003-09-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Martin Jungowski (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > And SCSI Emulation can not be compiled as a module. I tried that, for > some weird reason it did not work. It has to be compiled into the > kernel, not as module. IDE SCSI Emulation _can_ be compiled as a module. lsmod on my system says: [..

Re: NFS version 3?

2003-09-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 14:26:26 -0400, stan wrote: > How new a version of Debain do I need toprovide NFS V3 services? NFSv3 should work fine with Debian 3.0 (stable, woody). It might be necessary to build a recent 2.4.x kernel from source though. HTH, Ray -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Po

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Niekel
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:29:32PM -0400, Angus D Madden wrote: > > rpm -q --whatprovides = tell me what package provided program > > If the package is not installed, you can grab the Contents-$arch.gz file > from one of the debian servers and use zgrep to see what package owns > what file.

Re: Apt-get removing perl libraries

2003-09-30 Thread Josh Metzler
On Monday 29 September 2003 05:57 pm, Victor Cain wrote: > I'm running Debian SID and normally update packages daily. The last update > removed ten perl libraries and about 90 other packages dependent on them. > > I have two questions: Is there any thing I can do to fix this, or is it > something

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Pigeon said on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:53:43PM +0100: > A point about USB and modems is that USB is fast enough to make it > possible to implement an external winmodem. It may well be > safer/cheaper to use an RS232 modem with an RS232-to-USB converter. > (having found one of those that's supported

Re: Reiserfs and flies >2G

2003-09-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
stan said on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:39:07AM -0400: > What version of Debian do I need to be running to get a version of Reiserfs > that will corectly support files >2G? woody with a 2.4 kernel image. I'm using woody with 2.4.21, and it has worked great. Many 14GB+ files here. AFAIR, 2.4.18 (th

Re: NFS version 3?

2003-09-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
stan said on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:26:26PM -0400: > How new a version of Debain do I need toprovide NFS V3 services? woody has NFSv3. NFS is provided by the kernel server, so you'll need to use a 2.4 kernel to get it to work. M pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Explanation of package list at www.debian.org. (solved)

2003-09-30 Thread Jimmy Johansson
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:12:34PM +0200, Jimmy Johansson wrote: > > Hi, I have a quick question about the package list (stable) at > > www.debian.org. > > > > Some packages have a red "label", security, behind them. Does this mean > > that this package

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

2003-09-30 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:59:14 +0200 Chris Niekel wrote: > > I once grabbed a function from somewhere: > packageof() { > [ $# = 1 ] && w3m -dump "http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?> > } > > This allows you to do "packageof hello". I very much doubt that. At least, not until you

kernel-package build, is this a problem

2003-09-30 Thread stan
This doesn't look so good. I just donwloaded a new kernel 2.4.22 source tarbal, did a : make menuconfig make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image and when I went to dpkg -i the resultant .deb, I got the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# dpkg -i ker*22*deb Selecting previ

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-30 Thread Daniel B.
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > alex wrote: > ... > > > Is there something that prevents manufacturers from clearly stating that > > a product is fully suitable for Linux? It's done for MS Windows. Is > > this some kind of legal or technical issue, or is it some kind of > > 'business arrangement'? >

pango error installing gaim

2003-09-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i used to have gaim on my system, and i need it back for work -- but i need version 0.70 out of unstable, the one that supports the yahoo protocol. on a different (but similar) debian system, a month ago or so, i was able to simply apt-get install gaim -t unstable and voilŕ, magic, it worked. f

Re: Problems with IMAP

2003-09-30 Thread Wilfried Essig
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 06:02, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > What is giving me the problem is this: > > smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, check_sender_access > hash:/etc/postfix/access, permit_tls_clientcerts, > reject_unauth_destination, reject All postfix-smtpd are using this line(s

Re: diff arguments for building diff for dpkg-source

2003-09-30 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Micha Feigin wrote: > Currently I am trying to build the diff for the source trio > (orig.tar.gz/diff.gz/.dsc). The problem is that using the standard diff > arguments diff -ruN doesn't work. dpkg-source -x returns an error for > the diff line (the first one in the file) and for the file dates

Verbose Debian Linux Mail Server Walkthrough

2003-09-30 Thread Darik Horn
I am working on the Verbose Debian Linux Mail Server Walkthrough, a document that precisely describes how to add such a thing to a Microsoft Windows domain. http://www.vanadac.com/~dajhorn/projects/lmsw/ It is currently a draft, but it should be helpful. Feedback, as always, is welcome. -- T

Access fat-partition as user?

2003-09-30 Thread ZekeVarg
Hi! I have a windows-partition (/dev/sda1) I want to access from debian but can only do it as root (su). I tried to chmod it to "754" so user could access it but it doesn't change the permision on it. -- Cattle die, kinsmen die, thyself too soon must die, but one thing never, I ween, will

modprobe

2003-09-30 Thread Victory
My system complain at reboot time "modprobe:modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135" Look at /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modutils/arch/i386 and found the entry like this: alias char-major-10-135 rtc.   I did comment it out, but did not help. Anyone had an idea ???   Regards, Victor    

Re: postfix pop-before-smtp problem

2003-09-30 Thread Wilfried Essig
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 18:02, Hans Steinraht wrote: > smtpd_recipient_restrictions = > permit_mynetworks,reject_non_fqdn_recipient,check_client_access > hash:/var/lib/pop-before-smtp/hosts,check_relay_domains > > After restarting Postfix all looks fine but by receiving the first email > Postfix sta

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