Re: copying entire hard drive

2003-10-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 at 16:58 GMT, Gerard Ceraso penned: > I have a hard drive that is going bad so I want to copy it from the > old hard drive to the new one, same hd and everything. I was wondering > which was faster doing dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda or mounting each > partition and and just using

Instalación de Paquetes

2003-10-13 Thread Josep Menaig a trois
Hola, me he instalado La debian 3.0 Woody, en principio hice una instalacion sencilla, es decir, in entornos gràficos y sin instalar paquetes. Ahora quiero instalarme las "x" y otras cosas desde los 7 cd´s que me dava la promoción y no se que comandos usar para hacer esto. Soy un principiante e

Completely OT: Romanization of Chiense speech

2003-10-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
I apologize in advance as this is about as OT as you can get, but I've found a great diversity of backgrounds and languages on this list so I'm hoping someone might have more information on this for me as most of the stuff I've found through googling seems to be geared towards linguists and not cas

Re: shell script question

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 11:18:11PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > In the same vein, I'm working through a list of mp3s where some of them need > re-encoding. First, I convert them to wavs with this script fragment: > > mpg123 -b 1 -s "$1" | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - "$2" > > where I feed

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:14:08PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Neal Lippman wrote: > >Now, using either of the above package lists, you can do: > > for pkg in $(cat package-listing-from-xxx); > > do > > apt-get install $pkg; > > done > >which will work although not be th

Re: Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?

2003-10-13 Thread Harald Gutsche
>Is there any relationship between the address returned by malloc(3) and >the physical address of the block of RAM? no relation if you have virtual memory mangement (most linux boxes), this is why it's called virtual. There may be embedded linux variants without virtual memory mangement. >If a i

Re: Splitting attachments into separate emails

2003-10-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:30:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First I was confused by your phrase 'send me .. as attachments' Apologies for not being clear enough. > there are 2 formats that various mailreader use: inline and attachment. So, > you'd have to check for both types and extrac

Re: Installation via HTTP?

2003-10-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/10/03 18:59), Robert Tilley wrote: > How can Debian be installed via HTTP? > > When I install Debian, I get to the point where it asks if I wish to > continue installing via PPP. To my knowledge, PPP is for use with a modem. Answer "No" > How do I continue installation using TCP/IP once

Re: login-delay after boot

2003-10-13 Thread [loonyx | rolf joho]
[loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: my woody-box drives me mad: after boot, wen the login-prompt appears, i can enter a username, but then i have to wait ~4 MINUTES!!! until i can enter my password. it's not that my machine was so superslow ( it worked right on earlier setups). also subsequent logins beha

Re: Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?

2003-10-13 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 13 October 2003 05:05, Kirk Strauser wrote: > Is there any relationship between the address returned by malloc(3) and the > physical address of the block of RAM? Very improbable. You might every once in a while get a return tht matches the physical memory, but in a virtual memory archit

Re: Use of apt-proxy with net install of sarge

2003-10-13 Thread Chris Halls
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:15:54PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > But, I can't figure out what I should tell the netinstall software when it > asks me to specify a mirror. Some particulars of my system: > The url of the host running apt-proxy is cmn.lan.gnu . > A sample line in a using host sources

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim, (was Re: SWEN isn't slowing down)

2003-10-13 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Sunday 12 October 2003 13:28, Paul Johnson wrote: > This howto seems to assume Red Hat, and I've never used exiscan > before. I tried to adapt, but doing so breaks exim. Is there a > howto that doesn't assume a retarded (RPM-based) distro? It was really useful to me, I'm pretty sure my Exim c

Re: Exim4 ACL recipes

2003-10-13 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Friday 10 October 2003 05:11, Steve Lamb wrote: > Does anyone know of any sites out there that have some Exim4 ACL > recipes? Not much really, but only two links that I think I have pointed out before, it's the exiscan homepage: http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/ And then, there's Marc M

Nagios Error CGI

2003-10-13 Thread Geller, Steven
Hi Mailing List!   I have a problem with the installtion and configuration of nagios. I install the nagios 1.1 on a Debian 3.0 with apt-get ( testing) Version nagios-text 2:1.1-1 And apache 1.3.27.0-2     I have read the Documentation and tried it out and I received this error :  

Re: windows NT

2003-10-13 Thread Lajos Mester
On Saturday 11 October 2003 10:08, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 05:47:23PM -0400, Ef Reb wrote: > > Will Debian run on Windows NT 4? I've an intel 233 processor. If so > > which version. > > HAHAHHA! What even makes you think that? Debian is an OS. It > doesn't run on other OS's

Re: login-delay after boot

2003-10-13 Thread Damien Solley
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 18:11, [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: > [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: > > my woody-box drives me mad: > > > > after boot, wen the login-prompt appears, i can enter a username, but > > then i have to wait ~4 MINUTES!!! until i can enter my password. > > it's not that my machine was

Wilber the gimp

2003-10-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody In the gimp documentation directory, there is a thumbnail-sized version of Wilber the gimp. Is there a larger version of this image available (I did not find one on gimp.org)? I'd like to print it to a T-shirt, but scaling it to 15x15 cm makes it rather ugly. Any pointers? thanks

Re: shell script question

2003-10-13 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:30:23 +0100 Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 11:18:11PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > mpg123 -b 1 -s "$1" | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - "$2" > > > > In every case, $1 and $2 are the same, except for $2 I want the output > > filename to have a .wav extens

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Re: Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
begin Kirk Strauser quote from Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 10:05:25PM -0500 > I'm pretty sure that the answer to this is "no", but: > > Is there any relationship between the address returned by malloc(3) and the > physical address of the block of RAM? I'm almost positive that there isn't > - after all,

Re: no volume display in XMMS

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 07:56:59AM -0400, Andrew Schulman said: > I'm just getting to know XMMS, and I like it a lot. But I have one problem: > the volume analyzer and all of the visualization windows all show zero. That > is, I get no volume display. I want a volume display! > > One reason

Re: shell script question

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
begin Jeff Elkins quote from Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 11:18:11PM -0400 > In the same vein, I'm working through a list of mp3s where some of them need > re-encoding. First, I convert them to wavs with this script fragment: > > mpg123 -b 1 -s "$1" | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - "$2" You're not

Re: Installation via HTTP?

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
begin Robert Tilley quote from Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:59:50PM -0400 > How can Debian be installed via HTTP? > > When I install Debian, I get to the point where it asks if I wish to > continue installing via PPP. To my knowledge, PPP is for use with a modem. > > How do I continue installation u

Re: A Selection of XMMS Skins?

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
begin Michael Bonert quote from Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:19:22PM -0400 > Is there an apt package of XMMS Skins? I'm getting sick of the default > one. > > I searched with 'apt-cache search xmms', that, however, didn't find > anything. I then tried googling--that just found me RPMS--yuck! The > a

Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
begin David Morse quote from Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:32:11AM -0400 > I'm using the XFree that comes with the gnome-woody-backport. Can I see > your FontPaths from /usr/X11/XF86Config-4? Also, I have I have FontPath"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" And I installed x-t

Re: bayesian spamassassin throwing error

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
begin Nori Heikkinen quote from Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 08:19:39AM -0400 > hey all, > > recently, i've been noticing that the Bayesian filter in spamassassin > has been acting up. whenever i try to pipe a message to sa-learn > --ham or something, it tells me: > > Cannot open bayes_path /home/nori/.

Re: What is the difference between `Sid' and `unstable' ?

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
begin Jerome BENOIT quote from Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 11:38:37AM +0300 > Thank for the reply. > > > > > > >Apt only knows what it is told about distributions/sources through their > > Release file. My Release file for unstable/main has: > >Archive: unstable > >Component: main > >Origin: Debian >

Re: apt-get problem

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
begin Dany Joly quote from Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 02:14:50PM + > Here are my errors message : > > remove an other package : > > dpkp : serious warning files list file for package 'xfonts-base' missing, > assuming package has > no files currently installed. > 12118 files currently installed.) >

Re: Apt error message

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
begin Michael Montagne quote from Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 08:08:13AM -0700 > I'm getting a new apt error message that seems to be harmless yet i'd > like to understand and fix it. > > W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin > > What is the meaning of this? Are you using pinning with apt? Can yo

Re: ICQ's problem

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
begin James Ng Yuen Sum quote from Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:01:08AM +0800 > Hi, > > When I go to the site http://go.icq.com to use ICQ, I cannot enter my > icq number and password in the box, which is for inputting the icq > number and password. Is there any library or packages needed to be > insta

Re: hotmail refusing connections?

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
begin Rudy Gevaert quote from Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:01:39PM +0200 > Hi, > > I'm using postfix and logcheck reports the following > > Oct 8 22:18:24 schamper postfix/smtp[15999]: connect to > mx4.hotmail.com[65.54.254.151]: Connection refused (port 25) > Oct 8 22:18:24 schamper postfix/smtp[1

Re: What is the difference between `Sid' and `unstable' ?

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
begin Jerome BENOIT quote from Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:42:23PM +0300 > Hello List, > > I have just tried to install vim-gnome (sid): > for that you neede vim 1:6.2 (unstable) > > My point is: if in my `/etc/apt/preference/' file > I ask to fetch the `vim' package from `Sid', > I do not get it wi

Re: Wilber the gimp

2003-10-13 Thread Trevor D. Manning
* Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In the gimp documentation directory, there is a thumbnail-sized > version of Wilber the gimp. Is there a larger version of this image > available (I did not find one on gimp.org)? I have a 1080x902 Wilber that I'd be happy to email you, if that would h

Re: hotmail refusing connections?

2003-10-13 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 06:54:01PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > Are you on a consumer Internet connection? No, I'm on an university network. > Hotmail has been blocking IP > address that are on the DUL (dial-up list, but which now includes home > DSL and cable and presumably ISDN addresses) for

apt

2003-10-13 Thread wjl
Hi group, since today I have a strange behaviour of apt 0.5.14 in unstable: when trying to install a package or doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I get: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Segmentation fault RESULT=139 I'm not sure if this is in the buglist already - th

Re: ICQ's problem

2003-10-13 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
James, you need install the plugin java for your mozilla or netscape. http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialMozillaConfiguration.html Gilberto Em Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:01:08 +0800 James Ng Yuen Sum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Hi, > > When I go to the site http://go.icq.com to use ICQ,

Re: 2.6-tes6 vs 2.6-tes5 about visor

2003-10-13 Thread Greg Norris
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 03:05:04PM -0400, Naitik Shah wrote: > I've been unable to get my Palm Zire 71 working with kernel > 2.6-test6 / test7. Anyone else using a Palm, any palm device > and noticed any such problems? I've reverted back to > test5-mm3 for now, and its working for now! I'm only ab

Re: Wilber the gimp

2003-10-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Monday 13 October 2003 13:18, Trevor D. Manning wrote: > * Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > In the gimp documentation directory, there is a thumbnail-sized > > version of Wilber the gimp. Is there a larger version of this image > > available (I did not find one on gimp.org)? > > I h

Re: bayesian spamassassin throwing error

2003-10-13 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 08:19:39AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: Cannot open bayes_path /home/nori/.spamassassin/bayes R/O: Cannot open bayes_path /home/nori/.spamassassin/bayes R/W: File exists Learned from 0 messages. Cannot open bayes_path /home/nori/.spamassassin/bayes R/W: File exists Can

Re: Instalación de Paquetes

2003-10-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Josep Menaig a trois wrote: Hola, me he instalado La debian 3.0 Woody, en principio hice una instalacion sencilla, es decir, in entornos gràficos y sin instalar paquetes. Ahora quiero instalarme las "x" y otras cosas desde los 7 cd´s que me dava la promoción y no se que comandos usar para hacer

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-13 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote: >> "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a >> > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the password file >> > is >> >

Re: Grub

2003-10-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 20:36:01 -0800, J Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, I booted from the floppy, and I found (with uname -r) that my > computer is running the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel (vmlinuz) with > initrd.img-2.4.18-k7. There is no other initrd in boot so it has

Re: ..cute prompts in debian and knoppix?

2003-10-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 16:08:24 -0400, Naitik Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 09:49:28PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > ..with Red Hat-7.3 thru -9, in /etc/bashrc, I used: > > PS1='\[\033[1;33m\]\u\[\033[1;[EMAIL PROTECTED];32m\

Re: Installing with root fs as reiserfs

2003-10-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 18:44:08 -0400, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 07:28:48PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 13:06:17 -0400, stan wrote: > > > I've done this in the past by downloading some special floppy >

Re: advise about bying ATI Gaphic card - thanx

2003-10-13 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
ok, from the answers I've got and from searching on the web a little more, it looks like there are problems with the drivers supplies by ATI. I'll think I'll stick with Nvidia. at least I'm used to their problems, and I know that for most parts, it works ok (except for some hangs from time to time)

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-13 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:24:54PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote: > >> "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > >> > passwo

Re: bayesian spamassassin throwing error

2003-10-13 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 13 Oct 2003 02:33:28PM +0200, Stephan Seitz insinuated: > Hi! > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 08:19:39AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > >Cannot open bayes_path /home/nori/.spamassassin/bayes R/O: > >Cannot open bayes_path /home/nori/.spamassassin/bayes R/W: File exists > >Learned from 0 messa

Re: Nagios Error CGI

2003-10-13 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
This is a known issue in the configuration of the Nagios package... It among others are currently being worked on to also allow for the Nagios plugins package that I am working on to install properly. Delay on the plugins package has been due to my development machine crashing on me recentl

Re: I can't boot on the Debian I just installed

2003-10-13 Thread ajlewis2
> > You are using the same kernel and initrd.img for Debian as you are for > Mandrake. I guess the boot fails because it can't find the modules it needs > to boot. It is looking for Mandrake stuff on your Debian partition. (Right > partition - wrong kernel and initrd.img) > > The way I do this

Re: Grub

2003-10-13 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 08:36:01PM -0800, J Y wrote: > Hello, I booted from the floppy, and I found (with uname -r) that my > computer is running the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel (vmlinuz) with > initrd.img-2.4.18-k7. There is no other initrd in boot so it has to be > the k7. I have an athlon cpu and chose

vmware with win2k as the guest os

2003-10-13 Thread shane
Hey all, I'm running debian (woody) dual booted with win2k on my work laptop, and I'm trying to set it up so that I can run just debian. I'd rather not boot to windows ever again if I can help it. My solution was to install vmware, and boot win2k whenever I needed to check mail (lotus notes),

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

2003-10-13 Thread Wathen, Metherion
thanks, to all who replied. I did a chmod 700 on the one directory in /home I was most concerned about. I tried chmod 700 /home/* as was suggested by another user but X started acting funny afterwards (prolly cuz the hard drive was full). mw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

RE: woody bf24 problem

2003-10-13 Thread Rui Nóbrega
Just use noapic as a boot parameter when installing and booting Debian. After you install Debian with bf24, you can add the noapic parameter to /etc/lilo.conf. -Original Message- From: Paul William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: sábado, 11 de Outubro de 2003 21:05 To: LeVA Cc: debian-us

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-13 Thread stan
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:31:52AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:14:08PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Neal Lippman wrote: > > >Now, using either of the above package lists, you can do: > > > for pkg in $(cat package-listing-from-xxx); > > > do > > > apt-

Re: Grub

2003-10-13 Thread J Y
Thanks for the support. I think the real issue here is that in using the k7 kernel I have a internet connection issue (again). I guess I just have to sort that out As I said before the SuSE installer automatically configured alot of things in grub, which I copied. I'll try the vga=ask Thanks again

Best way to prune my installation

2003-10-13 Thread Bob Alexander
I have way too many packages installed that I do not really need. I have played with debfoster, orphaner etc ... still quite difficult. Is there a way to say: This is the list of the packages I really need. Keep them and their dependencies and uninstall everything else Thank you for any he

Re: MPC decoder

2003-10-13 Thread Raphaël Berbain
Jose Luis Ayala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi guys! > > I've just found a new sound format for me :) MPC (what seems to come > from "Mousetrack"). > > I'd like to convert this to something more useful for me, like mp3 or > so. I've tried with lame, xmms, madplay... but I wasn't able. > > Does a

Re: Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?

2003-10-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-13T08:01:55Z, Harald Gutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > generally, when using virtual memory, all programs have their own adress > space, which means they all start at the same memory adresses for program, > data, stack etc. So identical programs should run in identical virtual > mem

Re: Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?

2003-10-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-13T08:19:51Z, Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Very improbable. You might every once in a while get a return tht matches > the physical memory, but in a virtual memory architecture this isn't very > likely. Kind of what I thought - any similarities would be purely coincidenta

Re: Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?

2003-10-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-13T08:10:47Z, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kinda tangential, but if you run multiple copies of the same program (== > from the same file on disk), they share memory for the actual code. I wasn't very clear when I wrote that. I was think of a case like: $ gcc -o alloctest

How to make ghostview/ghostscript respect BoundingBox

2003-10-13 Thread Johan Braennlund
Hello all. I have a little problem I've been struggling with for a while. I have some postscript files where I'd like to print only part of the pages. I've edited the boundingbox manually and ghostview displays only the part that I want. However, when I print the whole page is shown. Is there any

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

2003-10-13 Thread Wathen, Metherion
<> Root has the power to view, change, or remove > every user's > > data. The power, but generally not the right. I would be > a very angry > > user if an administrator of a system I worked on did this > type of thing. > > Depending upon the context, I'd either take my dollars > elsewhere (i

Re: Completely OT: Romanization of Chiense speech

2003-10-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 02:49:20 -0500, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I apologize in advance as this is about as OT as you can get, but I've > found a great diversity of backgrounds and languages on this list so > I'm hoping someone might have more infor

Re: shell script question

2003-10-13 Thread David Z Maze
Carlos Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:30:23 +0100 Colin Watson wrote: > >> Here's a little expression that strips off any trailing "." >> from $1 and tacks on ".wav". >> >> "${1%.*}.wav" > > That's much better, no dependency on yet another utility, so more portable >

Re: Programmer for hire

2003-10-13 Thread csj
At Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:20:07 -0400, alex wrote: > > Dominique Devriese wrote: > > Bob Tilley writes: > > > > >I would like to wet my feet in the Open Source pool. Can > > >anyone suggest any needy Projects? I can do C, C++, Pascal, > > >Assembly, etc. and would like to put my talents to work to

Re: HOWTO enter Ctrl-S to BASH from console

2003-10-13 Thread csj
At Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:59:31 +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Here is my somewhat OT question since this is not exactly > Debian but generic BASH question... > > In order to search command history in BASH, I can use Ctrl-R > (reverse incremental search) but so far am unsuccessful in > using Ctrl-S (n

Re: shell script question

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:27:23AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Carlos Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:30:23 +0100 Colin Watson wrote: > >> Here's a little expression that strips off any trailing "." > >> from $1 and tacks on ".wav". > >> > >> "${1%.*}.wav" > > > > T

Problems accessing /. with straw

2003-10-13 Thread iain d broadfoot
for the last week or so, I've been unable to access the slashdot rss feeds using straw - all my other feeds are fine, and I can wget the .rss files manually. is anyone else experiencing this? I'm wary of filing a bug on straw over this, as it's quite possibly something else entirely. cheers, ia

The "Do Not Call Sign" Up Info

2003-10-13 Thread American Profiles Marketing News
Friend, Here is the latest on the Do Not Call (DNC), regulations. As you may be aware, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay of a lower court ruling that deemed the Do Not Call registry unconstitutional. What this means is the FTC will be moving forward to enforce its DNC program.

help with cmi8738 sound card.

2003-10-13 Thread Attila Konietzka
Hi, I got a c-media cmi8738 sound card on my computer as soundcard on board. It is working so far, the only problem i have, and which i want to solve with your help is the mic boost switch. It happens that it's effect is only noticeable on the mic monitoring output, but the record level which i obv

return of DNS problem

2003-10-13 Thread J Y
Hi, After getting grub to work and booting with the k7 kernel rather than the bf2.4 the DNS problem returned..or that's what I think I'm seeing-basically a conection that doesn't work. So I ran plog, I got an exit status 1; I put exit 0 in the 6 scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d Oct 13 12:34:57 deblnx

Re: Splitting attachments into separate emails

2003-10-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 at 08:08 GMT, Johann Spies penned: > >> These 4 options can be sorted out with procmail. I also realized that >> the from: would be from your network and the to: would be you, also >> on your network, so that would differentiate it from other mails >> using procmail. Also, you

Re: shell script question

2003-10-13 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 13 October 2003 4:39 am, Rob Weir wrote: >You're not converting an mp3 to a wav and then back again, are you? Have to, unless you know of a utility that will repair mp3s. I suspect the original encoder was sloppy, but these in particular report garbage in the headers, plus other proble

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* J. Bruce Fields ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031012 19:34]: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote: > > "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > > > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line

Re: HOWTO enter Ctrl-S to BASH from console

2003-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
%% csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> In order to search command history in BASH, I can use Ctrl-R >> (reverse incremental search) but so far am unsuccessful in using >> Ctrl-S (normal incremental search). Your terminal is set for terminal flow control. "Old" terminals allowed you to halt

Re: vmware with win2k as the guest os

2003-10-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 08:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm running debian (woody) dual booted with win2k on my work laptop, and I'm trying > to set it up so that I can run just debian. I'd rather not boot to windows ever > again if I can help it. > > My solution was to install vm

Re: Best way to prune my installation

2003-10-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 09:34, Bob Alexander wrote: > I have way too many packages installed that I do not really need. > > I have played with debfoster, orphaner etc ... still quite difficult. > > Is there a way to say: > > This is the list of the packages I really need. Keep them and their How

Re: openoffice.org1.1-bin: Depends: libfreetype6 (< 2.1.0) but 2.1.4-5 is to be installed +++ E: Sorry, broken packages - LONG

2003-10-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Peter N. Vargo (LTS)([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello (huge) mailing list, hello world :) > > I'm using Woody+backports KDE&X. > > I'm trying to install OpenOffice >= 1.1RC4 - 1.1 final. > I want to use apt-get method. > > But, actually, I can't. > Thats all from me, reports

Re: Group src

2003-10-13 Thread Frank A. Uepping
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > El domingo, 12 de octubre de 2003, a las 19:37, Colin Watson escribe: >> This group owns source code, including files in /usr/src. It can be >> used locally to give a user the ability to manage system source >> code. > > Also, they are given write acc

Re: HOWTO enter Ctrl-S to BASH from console

2003-10-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:40:01PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > %% csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> In order to search command history in BASH, I can use Ctrl-R > >> (reverse incremental search) but so far am unsuccessful in using > >> Ctrl-S (normal incremental search). > > Your termin

Re: Programmer for hire

2003-10-13 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:07:28 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get, dselect, and aptitude answer every but the most casual > user's needs. and synaptic. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: burning from .ogg

2003-10-13 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dilluns 13 Octubre 2003 02:36, en Antony Gelberg va escriure: > Anyone know of an easy way to burn an audio CD from .ogg files, i.e. > without converting them to .wav first. I'm not fussed about a GUI, > infact I'd rather not have one. I haven't tr

Re: Best way to prune my installation

2003-10-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:34:07PM +0200, Bob Alexander wrote: > I have way too many packages installed that I do not really need. > > I have played with debfoster, orphaner etc ... still quite difficult. > > Is there a way to say: > > This is the list of the packages I really need. Keep them an

Re: return of DNS problem

2003-10-13 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hi, After getting grub to work and booting with the k7 kernel rather > than the bf2.4 the DNS problem returned..or that's what I think I'm > seeing-basically a conection that doesn't work. So I ran plog, I got an > exit status 1; I put exit 0 in the 6 scripts in /

Re: HOWTO enter Ctrl-S to BASH from console

2003-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
%% Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: oa> Thanks. Is there any occasion where disabling these makes life oa> easier? Well, it makes life easier if you want to use TTY applications that use those keys for something else... like bash. If course, alternatively you can always rebind the fun

'advanced' printing

2003-10-13 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, Trying to set up my printer I came to scratching my head so much that I'll be bald real soon now. The device in question is a Laserjet 2100 tn, network adaptor and additional paper tray. The problem isn't printing as such -- i had the first test page out in less than five minutes. But I'd

Re: windows NT

2003-10-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031011 02:15]: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 09:23:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > HAHAHHA! What even makes you think that? Debian is an OS. It > > > doesn't run on other OS's, it *is* one. Did you even read the web > > > page (http://debian.org/) to avoid

Re: 'advanced' printing

2003-10-13 Thread duck
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 19:35, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > Hello, > > Trying to set up my printer I came to scratching my head so much that > I'll be bald real soon now. > The device in question is a Laserjet 2100 tn, network adaptor and > additional paper tray. > > The problem isn't printing as

BIOS corrupted by Woody CD2

2003-10-13 Thread Michael Day
I've been having problems attempting to install 'Woody' on my pc by booting from CD2 to install the 'plain vanilla' flavour.  The installation hung approx 30s after the boot prompt.  No disc access, etc.  Eventually, I attempted a restart.  The BIOS appears to have been corrupted, my pc wouldn't

Re: return of DNS problem-pppd daemon

2003-10-13 Thread J Y
Hi, I did not compile the kernel. as I said the bf2.4 kernel was working . I have an athlon cpu and thought I was running with the k7 kernel because that's what I selected during installation. I had been booting with a floppy though so when i got grub working correctly I began using the k7 kern

Re: burning from .ogg

2003-10-13 Thread jaycee . spam-me-rigid
Antony Gelberg had the gall to say: > Hi all, > > Anyone know of an easy way to burn an audio CD from .ogg files, i.e. > without converting them to .wav first. I'm not fussed about a GUI, > infact I'd rather not have one. Here's something I posted to d-u a while back: Fwd: --- A couple of

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > stan wrote: > > How cna I do this? > > > > The machine I want to match is a "testting" machine, that I quit updating > > about a month agao. Still has Gnome 1.4 for instance. > > > > Will this ne a problem? > > > > On source machine: > > dpkg --get-s

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote: > > "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > > > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > I believe that --set-selections only actually has an effect if you do > 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' (or 'dselect install', less circuitously). > 'apt-get upgrade' uses apt's own upgrading logic rather than what you > selected. > > Cheers, Hi Colin and

Re: Splitting attachments into separate emails

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Johann Spies wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:30:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I did not know about the '+' option. That is nice. > > > Now once that is done, you need to determine what to do with the 4 > > mail types: inline forward, attachment forward, inl

Re: windows NT

2003-10-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:12:41PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Please see the advocacy howto and the output of "dict troll". No offense, but most of the "advocates" should be shot. Have you never read COLA? Or slashcrap? -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #92: Stale file handle (next time use

Re: 'advanced' printing

2003-10-13 Thread Alan Shutko
duck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use CUPS and XPP with a Optra T610N. Feed CUPS the PPD and you're > all set. I also recommend CUPS. I use it with a 2100M (just like 2100TN but no network card). Able to control it all. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Magicians do it t

Re: Driver Download and Installation ATI Proprietary Linux Driver 3.2.8 Download--for those interested

2003-10-13 Thread Rob Sims
On Thursday 09 October 2003 07:16 pm, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > Hi yall, > > subject says what wants said. Follow the yellow brick url too > > http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linux&prodType=graphic&prod=productsLINUXdriver&submit.x=18&submit.y=10 I trie

Re: au8820 driver

2003-10-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Marc Loebbers wrote: > Hi, > > I have a au8820 soundcard and i downloaded the driver from > http://src.braincells.com/debian/sid/au88xx/ . > After finally getting 'modversions.h ' i was able to run 'make install-all' > without any error messages. > But still there's no sound...

Re: Splitting attachments into separate emails

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 at 08:08 GMT, Johann Spies penned: > > > >> These 4 options can be sorted out with procmail. I also realized that > >> the from: would be from your network and the to: would be you, also > >> on your network, so that would diffe

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