Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-10 Thread cr
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:05, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 22:49 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: > >>If you have and ext3 that you want to revert to ext2, you can just: > >> > >>tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdXX > >> > >>-Roberto > > > > Out of curiosity, w

Re: Just got CDs, boot, oops...

2003-10-10 Thread cr
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:04, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > KRF wrote: > > Just got my 7 CDs in the mail and have a dedicated PC to learn Debian on. > > I downloaded the entire manual and have good intentions to go through > > the install step by step, totally unlike my usual method of learning by > > rap

Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???

2003-10-10 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 19:13, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > $ mplayer proprietary.rm -oa pcm -oafile=open.wav Slight bugfix, I think that last command should be '-oafile open.wav' without the = sign. > How do you do that for video files? My school does some courses over > the web with streaming vi

Re: installing oracle9i

2003-10-10 Thread Louie Miranda
So in that case, i no longer need any apps or services running just my X-Windows? Or i still need to install some java applications so it can run smoothly?. -- - Louie Miranda http://www.axishift.com - Original Message - To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:10 PM

Re: LI Hang, recovery??

2003-10-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 05:34 GMT, Christof Hurschler penned: > I didn't get chroot to work because I wasn't using chroot correctly, > so thanks for the full command line on that. I think that will be > something usefull to know in the future. > > Chris > I copied it from some notes I keep for m

Re: mutt: how to forward envelope From?

2003-10-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 03:22 GMT, Paul Johnson penned: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:59:23AM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> I think you're looking for the following, which I found through the >> help dialog from the inbox screen: >> >> b

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 06:59 GMT, cr penned: > > Thanks everybody for your input. > > As it happens, all my partitions are ext2 at the moment (except for > some FAT16's but we needn't go into that ;) > > I'm contemplating swapping some of 'em to ext3, I was just wondering > if the pluses outwei

Maintaining many backported sources (was Re: spamassassin vs. html emails)

2003-10-10 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Thursday 09 October 2003 21:51, Vineet Kumar wrote: > That way, you know exactly which packages are being upgraded to > unofficial versions. Sometimes, with large collections of backports, > it becomes more difficult to track which packages come from where, > and which are required for what. I

Re: mutt: how to forward envelope From?

2003-10-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:32:00AM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Maybe I'm totally misunderstanding you, but what you're describing > sounds like purposely spoofing your From. There's a big difference > between pushing a mail along to another reci

Re: To be safe don't use shift key...

2003-10-10 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Friday 10 October 2003 00:57, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Is that a license for us to copy something not worth copying? Or could it be a threat to make all non-supported OSes circumvention devices and thus illegal? -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Internet cafe software suggestions

2003-10-10 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Hi, I'm setting up linux based (yeah!) Internet cafe, can anyone suggest some kind of software to manage access for the users? Many thanks -- Grzesiek Sedek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Splitting attachments into separate emails

2003-10-10 Thread Johann Spies
I administer 3 email servers which use spamassassin. We are testing the service with about 110 users whose email are scanned by SA. My arrangement with them is to send me either spam that scored too low or false positives as attachments with either "spam" or "ham" in the Subject-line. What I wan

Evolution and IMAP

2003-10-10 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I'm not sure if I found a bug or if I just overlooked a check-box: I just started to try out evolution as a mail client, and I found out that the details of mails in my IMAP-folders are not shown in the overview (such as Subject, From: and date). In fact, I just see a list of empty li

Re: Best Nics.

2003-10-10 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:40:29 +0100 Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 06:25:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 17:20, David Palmer. wrote: > > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 08:19:17 -0400 > > > Johann Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Thursda

configuring icons on kwin (for non kde applications)

2003-10-10 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi 2 kde questions: 1. Is there a way to configure kde to use custom icons for non-kde applications? many applications (probably don't have an icon resource) showing as the default "X" icon when running. can I change that? 2. I've almost gave up on this one, but does anybody knows if there's a w

Re: Fetchmail error

2003-10-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 00:22:41 -0400, Naitik Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've been using fetchmail for about a week now, and it was working > fine until yesterday, now one of my pop accounts dies after doing the > following: > > 6.2.4 querying pop.mail.yahoo.c

Re: BUG in package, what to do?

2003-10-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:09:41PM +0200, A. Loonstra wrote: > > How long would it take, normally? > > There is no normal when it comes to bugfixes. Depends on how trivial > or non-trivial the bug is. If it's something like a packaging bug, > usually ne

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-10 Thread Tim Connors
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 10 Oct 2003 01:39:18 -0600: > There was a link to an article on slashdot today comparing various > journaling FSes. Apparently (I just read the comments, not the actual > article, like the typical /. reader), ext3 is pretty much el crapola > com

Re: Dependency trouble after installing backport

2003-10-10 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Fre, 2003-10-10 um 05.31 schrieb Pigeon: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:47:49PM +0200, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Hello Ron, > > > > Am Don, 2003-10-09 um 12.24 schrieb Ron Rademaker: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I've installed a backport of exim4 for woody (because I want to use xasm > > > and xas

Help inserting soundcore.o in kernel 2.4.21

2003-10-10 Thread David Palmer.
Hey you guys, I need some help here from the gurus. I've found that kernel 2.4.21 has no soundcore.o, at least after googling it seems to be a general problem. I posted a message to the users list about it last night, but I haven't got any help. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I clean a dirty journal??? I can't startup my machine... On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:05:24PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 22:49 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: > > > > >If you have and ext3 that you want to revert to ext2, you can just: > >

Re: Best Nics.

2003-10-10 Thread Allan Wind
I am using a 3Com (Broadcom) 3C996B-T without issues on an Athlon and it was surpringly affordable for a 32/64 bit, 33/66/100/133 MHz card (http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?tab=prodspec&sku=3C996B-T&pathtype=purchase). /Allan -- Allan Wind P.O. Box 2022 Woburn, MA 01888-0022 USA s

[OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hey all, this is kind of off-topic, but i figured this is the community most likley to have dealt with this sort of thing in the past, and be opinionated about it. i've been editing a lot of code over the past few months that was originally saved to disk with hard tabs for indenting. i can't wor

/dev/audio: No such device, do I have to recompile kernel?

2003-10-10 Thread Erik Jälevik
I am a Debian newbie and I'm trying to get a Soundblaster PCI128 (CT4810) working. I'm running Debian 3.0 with kernel 2.2.20. I have added the relevant users to the audio group but I keep getting "No such device" errors when trying: cat /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav > /dev/audio I have searched the h

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-10 Thread José Salavert Torres
El Viernes, 10 de Octubre de 2003 15:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > How can I clean a dirty journal??? > I can't startup my machine... Well I have done: tune2fs -O as_journal /dev/hdxx Now everithing goes properly, It seems that the ext3 , is not that safe. Another tip is that my system mount

Re: Question about bash read function and matching ESC

2003-10-10 Thread HdV
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to match the ESC key in bash. The code below works as > intended when I try to match a 'normal' key like 's' or so. But it will > not for the escape key. This makes me expect this has something to do > with the high-bit stuff, but I

kde toolbars doesn't show properly

2003-10-10 Thread José Salavert Torres
After upgrading kde to unstable, the toolbars doesn't show properly, they are low-edge-cutted and I cannot see the entire icons. Has anyone experienced this problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-10 Thread Daniel B.
Paul Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:31:08PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > I wonder what the legal ramifications are, as well as wondering how > > likely it would be that teergrubing would result in retaliation that > > would

Re: man dangling symlink question

2003-10-10 Thread Daniel B.
"Monique Y. Herman" wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 15:57 GMT, Daniel B. penned: > > "Monique Y. Herman" wrote: > >> > >> Subject: Re: man dangling symlink question > > > > Well, I guess that's better than "man dangling from high bridge on > > fraying rope" ... > > > >:-) > > > > > > Daniel > >

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-10 Thread Daniel B.
"Monique Y. Herman" wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 19:15 GMT, Rob Dupuis penned: > > Hi All. > > > > My one of my hard drives has a whole load of errors on it. ...> > Um, you do realize that if the hard drive is causing fsck to blow > chunks, it's because the hard drive is defective and needs

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-10 Thread Daniel B.
"Monique Y. Herman" wrote: > ... > > If you already have it booted up, I believe that > tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 > will totally disable any automatic checking of the drive in the future. Doesn't that just prevent checking a filesystem that appears to be clean? Once a filesystem is known to have erro

Re: Grub, latest adventure

2003-10-10 Thread J Y
Hi, This is my latest menu 1st. It doesn't work. Mostly I just boot whatever I want from floppy. SuSE (the 1st entry titled "linux" does boot) Maybe windows does now too. I haven't checked that since my most recent editing. I did enter "grub" at a terminal window, and when I typed "root (' th

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:33:24AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2001may/gee20010511005839.htm ? Nice logo...where's the content? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admi

RE: Screen resolution with onboard graphics card

2003-10-10 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> -Original Message- > From: Aaron Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 2:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Screen resolution with onboard graphics card > > > Hi all, > I am trying to run debian on a machine with an onboard > graphics processor. > W

apt-get install xfce4 or kde fails

2003-10-10 Thread Johan Van den Neste
what exactly does this mean? can I do something to fix it? Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not y

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Nori Heikkinen wrote: hey all, this is kind of off-topic, but i figured this is the community most likley to have dealt with this sort of thing in the past, and be opinionated about it. i've been editing a lot of code over the past few months that was originally saved to disk with hard tabs for in

Why "X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting." when in "script" command subshell?

2003-10-10 Thread Daniel B.
I get: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. if I try to run "startx&" from inside subshell created by the "script" command? Why is that? (Is something about the subshell necessarily different such that startx can't run? Or is startx confused (is there a bug)?) Thanks, Danie

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-10 Thread Daniel B.
Paul Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:33:24AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > > http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2001may/gee20010511005839.htm ? > > Nice logo...where's the content? What do you mean? I get a page with an article start

Re: /dev/audio: No such device, do I have to recompile kernel?

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Erik Jälevik wrote: I am a Debian newbie and I'm trying to get a Soundblaster PCI128 (CT4810) working. I'm running Debian 3.0 with kernel 2.2.20. I have added the relevant users to the audio group but I keep getting "No such device" errors when trying: cat /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav > /dev/audio Tw

[OT] Segfaulting tutorial program

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Debianites, I recently posted this to wx-users, but am not getting any help there. I thought I might ask since the problem is actually occuring in a system library. I am running Sid, and have all the necessary librarys and -dev pacakges installed. The segfault occurs at some point during the wxFil

Re: BUG in package, what to do?

2003-10-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:38:41PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:09:41PM +0200, A. Loonstra wrote: | > How long would it take, normally? | | There is no normal when it comes to bugfixes. Depends on how trivial | or non-trivial the bug is. It also depends on opinions wit

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Mental Patient
Nori Heikkinen wrote: hey all, this is kind of off-topic, but i figured this is the community most likley to have dealt with this sort of thing in the past, and be opinionated about it. i've been editing a lot of code over the past few months that was originally saved to disk with hard tabs for in

Re: [SOLVED]squirrelmail and exim send problem

2003-10-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 02:58:56AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:35:47AM +1300, Edward Murrell wrote: | >> On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 02:02, Benedict Verheyen wrote: | >> > When i try the smtp method i get this as error message: | >> > | >> > 2003-10-09 14:27:33 rejected

Re: To be safe don't use shift key...

2003-10-10 Thread csj
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:57:50 -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > ...or else the riaa might sue you. > > > > > > http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/10/08/bmg.protection.reut/index.html > > > > quote from article: "Computers running Linux a

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:48:34AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i've been editing a lot of code over the past few months that was > originally saved to disk with hard tabs for indenting. i can't work > with hard tabs, and so managed to reformat the entire thing to use > spaces (basically a "s,^I

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:44:14AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: [...] > >now it's time to check it into CVS. i don't want every single line > >to show up as different just because of tab characters, so i need > >to find a good solution on how to transform my indents back

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:06:07PM -0400, Mental Patient insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: [...] > >now it's time to check it into CVS. i don't want every single line > >to show up as different just because of tab characters, so i need > >to find a good solution on how to transform my indents back i

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:48:34AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | hey all, | | this is kind of off-topic, but i figured this is the community most | likley to have dealt with this sort of thing in the past, and be | opinionated about it. | | i've been editing a lot of code over the past few month

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Daniel B. wrote: The Linux kernel has had and still has a number bugs that can corrupt the filesystem data on an IDE disk, especially when using DMA. **Rob: If you are using IDE disks (if you don't know that you have SCSI disks, you most surely have IDE disks), you should immediately disable DMA.

Re: BUG in package, what to do?

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:38:41PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:09:41PM +0200, A. Loonstra wrote: | > How long would it take, normally? | | There is no normal when it comes to bugfixes. Depends on how trivial | or non-trivial the bug is. It

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Mental Patient wrote: I've done this with mixed results. In general if you're going to work on projects, its a good idea to come up with your format conventions first. :) However, sometimes you just inherit code and really there isnt much you can do about it. Its right up there with cuddled els

Remapping the keyboard

2003-10-10 Thread Holger Brandsmeier
I'm searching for a way to create my own keyboard layout. I need some german keys, but I also want the advatage from the english keyboard, which is really good for coding. So I thought I might programm a third function for the keys. - first function is the key itself - second function is shif

bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt

2003-10-10 Thread David Morse
I apt-got xfstt in order to use bitstream-vera-sans-mono in emacs and xterm, however, now I get strange, broken behavior. Running "xlsfonts" gets me, among other things: -ttf-bitstream-vera-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal-roman-0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 This makes no sense for a number o

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Mental Patient
Nori Heikkinen wrote: right, that would have been nice ... but, as you say, i just inherited this one. not much i could have done about setting conventions first. For things like indenting, etc, you could always adjust what you have your tabstop set to. what i have my tabstop set to doesn't ma

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now it's time to check it into CVS. Here's what I do in similar situations. Do a diff between your work file and the latest in CVS with diff -cb (or diff -ub, according to preference). The -b ignores changes in whitespace. Then get a fresh copy of t

Problems booting 2.4.22 - hangs at "ifstate"

2003-10-10 Thread Cam Ellison
Custom kernel 2.4.22 seems to boot fine up to the point where it deals with the usb hotplug script, where there are a couple of segfaults, but it gets past that, and then hangs at: Cleaning: /etc/network/ifstate /etc/network/interfaces is set up to auto lo, eth0, & eth1. eth0 is static (lan) and

mounting nfs via internet

2003-10-10 Thread Gerard Ceraso
I am trying to mount an nfs partition via the internet. On the one side there is a firewall so I need to know the ports that I need to open. I am assuming the nfs port which I think is 2401 the mountd which is 718 and 721 and then portmapper which I think is 111. Is there anything else, are those t

Re: apt-get install xfce4 or kde fails

2003-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:15:02PM +0200, Johan Van den Neste wrote: > what exactly does this mean? The packages are buggy. > can I do something to fix it? Welcome to unstable ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

How do I prevent User 'A' from seeing User 'B' /home contents

2003-10-10 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi all, I need to know how to change permissions of each user so that they only see their own home directory. As I write this i'm thinking that I have to change the groups they are in, is that correct? Any additional advice or correction is appreciated. mw its okay to cc: me directly -- To UNSU

Re: /dev/audio: No such device, do I have to recompile kernel?

2003-10-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Erik Jälevik (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am a Debian newbie and I'm trying to get a Soundblaster PCI128 > (CT4810) working. I'm running Debian 3.0 with kernel 2.2.20. I have > added the relevant users to the audio group but I keep getting "No > such device" errors when trying: > > cat

What holds up a package in incoming?

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I was browsing incoming.debian.org and saw kernel-source-2.6.0-test6 has been in there 04 October. Why has it not come through yet? What holds up a package like that for almost a week? Just wondering. -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Transfer of files from laptop to desktop

2003-10-10 Thread David Z Maze
Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a work laptop running Win2000 that has a large number of files I > would like to transfer to my home Linux desktop. What would be the > easiest way to do this? Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/), which gives you a familiar bash shell under

Problems with jigdo

2003-10-10 Thread TEETER,VINCE (HP-USA,ex1)
Hello There has got to be a better way. I'm sure some doc, somewhere explains why the jigdo I downloaded doesn't work, but who can spend the time wading through all that. Many of us here at HP would really like to see Debian replace the commercial versions of Linux, but the download and installa

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:48:34AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > is there some way to open the file in emacs (in which i assumer it was > originally written; i use vim) and run it through a re-indentder with > hard tabs on? or could i do this in vim? In case this was not mentioned... Also for y

Re: How do I prevent User 'A' from seeing User 'B' /home contents

2003-10-10 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
chmod 700 /home/* On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:53:46AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi all, > I need to know how to change permissions of each user so that > they only see their own home directory. As I write this i'm thinking > that I have to change the groups they are in, is that correct?

X: No screens found

2003-10-10 Thread Giannakis Eleftherios
Hello everybody, I've got a Fujitsu-Siemens laptop with S3 twister graphics adapter(with shared memory). I can't start the X environment with gdm display manager. The error message is "No screens found". If anybody has the same laptop and can send me the XFree86config file I would be grateful!!!

Re: Best Nics.

2003-10-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 06:08, David Palmer. wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:40:29 +0100 > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 06:25:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 17:20, David Palmer. wrote: > > > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 08:19:17 -0400 > > > > Jo

Re: Spamassassin and whitelists

2003-10-10 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Thursday 09 October 2003 23:31, Danilo Raineri wrote: > I tried with > > whitelist_from[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf, then in > ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, and eventually with > > all_spam_to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > in both of them, but with no effect.

Galeon 1.3.9 problems with forms, fine with Mozilla

2003-10-10 Thread Neilen
Hi. I am having problems with almost any site that uses forms and/or javascript when I use galeon. An example site which exhibits this problem is http://www.xe.com/ucc/. It seems that galeon somehow mangles the data that is retured to to webserver when a form is submitted, and I typically get an

Another notch on Debian's belt!

2003-10-10 Thread Rthoreau
It looks like Linux Journal has announced their readers award, and Debian Gnu/Linux came out on top as favorite distro. http://pr.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=785&mode=thread&order=0 I was expecting Mandrake or Gentoo or something. I know that this doesn't add up to a good sample group.

Re: To be safe don't use shift key...

2003-10-10 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:30:57AM -0500, Rthoreau wrote: > > Also if your in the mood for a little shopping you could also buy this > on Ebay. Its a bug for those who really, really want to know. Thats > right you can bid on a real dead bug. > > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11994 Per

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-10 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:09:24PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:31:08PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > I wonder what the legal ramifications are, as well as wondering how > > likely it would be that teergrubing would result in retaliation that > > would saturate my b

Re: mutt: how to forward envelope From?

2003-10-10 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:22:35PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:59:23AM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > I think you're looking for the following, which I found through the help > > dialog from the inbox screen: > > > > b bounce-message remail a mess

Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt

2003-10-10 Thread David Z Maze
David Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I apt-got xfstt in order to use bitstream-vera-sans-mono in emacs and > xterm, however, now I get strange, broken behavior. Running > "xlsfonts" gets me, among other things: > > -ttf-bitstream-vera-bitstream vera sans > mono-medium-r-normal-roman-0-0-0-0-

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 11:28, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:06:07PM -0400, Mental Patient insinuated: > > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > [...] > > >now it's time to check it into CVS. i don't want every single line > > >to show up as different just because of tab characters, so i need > >

Re: What holds up a package in incoming?

2003-10-10 Thread David Z Maze
Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was browsing incoming.debian.org and saw kernel-source-2.6.0-test6 > has been in there 04 October. Why has it not come through yet? What > holds up a package like that for almost a week? Just wondering. Packages that are new to Debian need to be

Re: Transfer of files from laptop to desktop

2003-10-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 12:37, David Z Maze wrote: > Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a work laptop running Win2000 that has a large number of files I > > would like to transfer to my home Linux desktop. What would be the > > easiest way to do this? > > Install Cygwin (http:/

Re: Problems with jigdo

2003-10-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:04:59AM -0700, TEETER,VINCE (HP-USA,ex1) wrote: > Hello > > There has got to be a better way. I'm sure some doc, somewhere explains why > the jigdo I downloaded doesn't work, but who can spend the time wading > through all that. Many of us here at HP would really like

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Nori Heikkinen
dman, you rock as usual. on Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:33:17PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:48:34AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > | hey all, > | > | this is kind of off-topic, but i figured this is the community most > | likley to have dealt with this sort of th

Re: [solved] System refuses to load uhci instead of usb-uhci

2003-10-10 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Just to point this out: /etc/modules decides which modules are loaded on boot, /etc/modutils/several_files decide about modules loaded on demand, i. e. when some program tries to access a device. See also man update-modules . On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 05:21:40PM -0400, Lou Losee wrote: > Never mind

Re: mutt: how to forward envelope From?

2003-10-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 02:01:04PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:22:35PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:59:23AM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > I think you're looking for the following, which I found through the help > > > dialog from the inbox s

Re: Evolution and IMAP

2003-10-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 10:44 GMT, Joerg Johannes penned: > Hi everybody > > I'm not sure if I found a bug or if I just overlooked a check-box: I > just started to try out evolution as a mail client, and I found out > that the details of mails in my IMAP-folders are not shown in the > overview (suc

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 11:09 GMT, Tim Connors penned: > > Not a case of ext3 being crap, a case of ext3 with journalled *data* > being crap. Quite a nice allrounder with the other two ext3 options > set. And you get the same problems with all other fses when their > equivalent of journalled *data*

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 14:50 GMT, Daniel B. penned: > "Monique Y. Herman" wrote: >> ... >> >> If you already have it booted up, I believe that tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 >> will totally disable any automatic checking of the drive in >> the future. > > Doesn't that just prevent checking a filesystem that

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 16:26 GMT, Nori Heikkinen penned: > > but (a) this is Java code; and (b) indent looks like it has so many > tweakable options that to find every single preference the original > coder used would take way too much reformatting, checking in, diffing >=2E.. i'd just like to tur

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 16:40 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: > > Another way is to *always* run your source files (and have your > colleagues do the same) through indent before committing changes. Of > course, everyone needs to use the same options. This ensures > consistent formatting, regardless

Multi-headed X servers for multiple local users

2003-10-10 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi folks! I have only one computer, and I'm usually stuck to it always. But then, my girlfriend needs to get some work done every now and then too... The appartment is small, and I have the hardware for a thin client, but another mini-tower is just too large... We're trying to live in here as

dselect conflicts (was: Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400)

2003-10-10 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Matthias Hentges > > Check the following settings in make menuconfig: Thank you. I solved the problem by moving USB from modules to kernel. I guess I could tweak some settings in /etc/modules or something. > I personally prefer GDM, but KDM is nice,too. Thanks. My current problem took

Cell Modem and Linux

2003-10-10 Thread Bill Moseley
Anyone have information on using a cell modem with linux? It's not for a desktop (i.e. not pcmcia). What kind of drivers are needed, if any? Thanks, -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: apt-get install xfce4 or kde fails

2003-10-10 Thread Johan Van den Neste
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 17:47, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:15:02PM +0200, Johan Van den Neste wrote: > > what exactly does this mean? > > The packages are buggy. > > > can I do something to fix it? > > Welcome to unstable ... > uhuh. fun :-) just checked at bugs.debian.org

Re: What holds up a package in incoming?

2003-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 02:22:33PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I was browsing incoming.debian.org and saw kernel-source-2.6.0-test6 > > has been in there 04 October. Why has it not come through yet? What > > holds up a package like that for almost

Re: mutt: how to forward envelope From?

2003-10-10 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > I've noticed when you forward a message in mutt, it strips off the > very first header, the envelope From. Is there a way to change this? Hi, I do not know for sure if I am pointing to the same header you mean ... but let us see: For example the orig

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-10 Thread Daniel B.
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Daniel B. wrote: > > The Linux kernel has had and still has a number bugs that can corrupt > > the filesystem data on an IDE disk, especially when using DMA. > >... > > Daniel > > While DMA related corruption may be the problem in Rob's case, I believe > most of the pro

ProFTPd over NAT

2003-10-10 Thread Greg Bolshaw
Hello Bit of a strange problem. I'm running ProFTPd + inetd on a machine with a private IP address (10.0.0.1). The router forwards all incoming traffic from the public IP to the private IP. When I FTP to the server over the Internet, it connects fine. As soon as I list the current directory,

Re: ProFTPd over NAT

2003-10-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:29:27 +0200 Greg Bolshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bit of a strange problem. > I'm running ProFTPd + inetd on a machine with a private IP address > (10.0.0.1). The router forwards all incoming traffic from the public IP to > the private IP. > When I FTP to the server o

Weather Stations

2003-10-10 Thread Bill Moseley
Actually, there's two parts. First we need a machine to collect data from an inexpensive weather station and then copy (ftp/scp) the data to some location every so often. Any suggestions for weather stations (a piece of equipment, not an online "station") that a linux box can talk to? I ass

Re: ProFTPd over NAT

2003-10-10 Thread Greg Bolshaw
Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:29:27 +0200 > > Greg Bolshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bit of a strange problem. > > > > I'm running ProFTPd + inetd on a machine with a private IP address > > (10.0.0.1). The router forwards all incoming traffic from the public IP > > to the private

Re: ProFTPd over NAT

2003-10-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:48:02 +0200 Greg Bolshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a hardware router doing the NAT, I'm not use iptables locally. Oh. Uhm, odd. Most hardware routers normally catch FTP and modify it accordingly. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your s

Switching from RH 7.3 to Debian 3.0r1

2003-10-10 Thread Curtis
I've downloaded the debian isos, burning them afterwards, but before I take the plunge into switching, is there anything to prepare? This is my first time switching distros on a computer. Any pitfalls to avoid. By the way, I wanted to do a netinstall, so I only have to use the first cd. -Na

windows NT

2003-10-10 Thread Ef Reb
Hi,   Will Debian run on Windows NT 4? I’ve an intel 233 processor. If so which version.   thanks

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