Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scarletdown wrote: On 19 Nov 2003 at 10:37, Scarletdown wrote: On 19 Nov 2003 at 9:48, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Not only that, this is what it says in the release notes: At the current time, the nForce drivers require a 2.4 series kernel. Frm the screen shot, it looks like a 2.2.20 kernel. We

Re: xterm - selecting URL

2003-11-20 Thread Nick Welch
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:24:07AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I miss one thing from gnome. gnome-terminal let me ctrl-click on a url, > and open mozilla. Any other xterm replacements that can do this? > But I don't want to install all the gnome-terminal dependencies if I can > u

Re: Logitech MX310 mouse: Dead extra button?

2003-11-20 Thread Nick Welch
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:01:59PM -0800, Tom wrote: > > Wow, that was something I would have never thought of. However.. no > > dice. xev reports nothing but MotionNotify events, and hexcat'ing the > > device produces the same things when I move the mouse, regardless of > > whether I'm holding t

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 2:01, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Execute the following (this assumes /usr/src/linux points to your > current kernel source): > > cd /usr/src/linux > cp /boot/config-2-4-18- .config > make oldconfig > make dep > > After all that, it should work. That didn't work, because I can

Re: XP doc to Debian printer?

2003-11-20 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:28:42PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:04:04PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > My grandson does homework on an XP laptop which connects to our wireless > > network but all the other computers on the network are Debian. Last > > year we

About packaging front & back-end Apache + mod_accel

2003-11-20 Thread BeerBong
Hello, debian-user, I have a working similar apache front&backend installation powered by mod_accel module on 3 servers. I don't set a object to make a public package for such installation, just want to simplify a upgrading procedure. There are two very simple & stupid scripts for building simpl

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Nick Hastings
* Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031120 15:26]: > On 19 Nov 2003 at 10:37, Scarletdown wrote: > > > > > > On 19 Nov 2003 at 9:48, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > > > Not only that, this is what it says in the release notes: > > > > > > At the current time, the nForce drivers require a 2.4 serie

Re: migration from RedHat to Debian, general question about Debian (dpkg, kernel, config)

2003-11-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:56:58PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > There's the apt-file tool. Just install the apt-file package and read > the manpage. Or dlocate: zsh % dlocate inittab vim: /usr/share/vim/vim61/syntax/inittab.vim base-config: /usr/lib/base-config/99inittab sysvinit: /usr/share/sy

Re: Enterprise Hardware support

2003-11-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/11/03 23:23), Pedro Miguel Ruivo (TRQV-DSI) wrote: > Thanks. > > Did you find anything as doc's and howto's related to debian and Compaq > Servers (DL380 G3 and DL580 G3, Compaq Storage. ? No - afraid not. Briefly I configured the RAID using the proprietry tools from HP - they were pre

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 17:57, Nick Hastings wrote: > > Looks like you need to install the kernel-headers package that goes > which your kernel-image package (assuming you are using a prepackaged > Debian kernel). > > # apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r` > > then make a symlink to /usr/src/li

Re: installed with no X

2003-11-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/11/03 23:41), Thinker wrote: > After installing Debian 3.0r1 "woody" "stable" after rebooting the > machine I get the error message... > > "I cannot start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely > that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X server > output to

dpkg package "stuck"

2003-11-20 Thread David Selby
Hi, My dpkg database seems to be slightly corrupted with respect to the "imgsizer" package If I try to install it I get: debian:/home/web# debian:/home/web# apt-get install imgsizer Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: img

Re: wireless fun ... which hw

2003-11-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya bill On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: > > http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Wireless > > > > and lots of wireless sniffers out there > > - it'd be fun to demo the capturing of emails sent via [insecure] wireless > > There was an article (perhaps posted here on debian-user) about someo

Re: (no subject)

2003-11-20 Thread Ken Gilmour
aha! i found why it sends in html! It replies in the same format as the original sent email :) I have disabled this feature now. On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:20:29 -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I guess it's a losing battle... > > > All my incoming HTML email is captured by spamassassin and routed > to th

Re: unsubscribe

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:46:36PM +0100, L.F. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have sent at least five e-mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > just saying: unsubscribe and I keep receiving hundreds of e-mails. Do they > send me an e-mail to confirm that it is true? I have read that you have to > send the

Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Knut Willy
I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself.   1. Have a Windows-98 PC, which has internet connection.    Do not intend to use Linux on this one.    Afraid of having two operating systems on same machine.   2.  Have a portable Compaq PC, (Windows-95) on which I intend to

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Alexander Rink
On Thursday 20 November 2003 10:40, Scarletdown wrote: > On 20 Nov 2003 at 17:57, Nick Hastings wrote: > > Looks like you need to install the kernel-headers > > package that goes > > > which your kernel-image package (assuming you are > > using a prepackaged > > > Debian kernel). > > > > # apt-get

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 11:00, Alexander Rink wrote: > "apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r`" will fetch that missing files from > a debian server for you. > And that makes for a nice little catch-22 situation. The whole reason I'm doing this is so I can get the nVidia nForce drivers installe

Re: Permissions Issue

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:03:45AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Im running Apache on Debian and hosting a site for a friend. He needed > the ability to ftp files directly onto the server. So what I did was > to add him as a user and mapped the web sites' directory to his h

Re: spam -- but no received: heders?

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:51:00PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 19 November 2003 19:17, Will Trillich wrote: > > Received: from mail by boss.serensoft.com with spam-scanned > > (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMVOt-00034C-00 > > for <[EMAIL PR

sent an invalid ICMP on 2.6.0-test9

2003-11-20 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Hi! My syslog is flooded with the message IP-number "sent an invalid ICMP type 11, code 0 error to a broadcast" brodcast-adress I'm not sure but I think it started when I changed to kernel 2.6.0-test9. I cant find any information on google or on the mailinglist. What is the problem? Can I do anyt

AIDE problem

2003-11-20 Thread Piotr A. Dybczyński
Sorry for repeating my question, but my previous posting became erroneously attributed as the reply to some other one. My problem: I have noticed a strange behaviour if the AIDE filesystem integrity checker. Lately I got a new computer (dual Xeon 3 GHz) and installed Woody with some standard

Re: "Fix your date" error report

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:56:40PM -0500, Haines Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I received the following message: > > > Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:46:06 -0800 > > From: "Carl P. Corliss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > X-Accept-Language: en-us, en > > To: Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Y

Re: X Broken

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:57:41AM -0800, Mark Healey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My X won't work with the default installation. When I boot it tries > to start it and after several attempts I get a message telling me to > look at the log followed by one asking if I want to try automatic > config

Re: spam -- but no received: heders?

2003-11-20 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Thursday 20 November 2003 11:16, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Is there a way to turn this off, BTW?  I find it somewhat annoying. >  I'd prefer just having spam tagged as such, without the extensive > mods. Dunno, but if you turn to Exim4 + exiscan, like I've done, I have found no way to turn it b

Re: sending messages using smbclient

2003-11-20 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mi, den 19.11.2003 schrieb Alex Malinovich um 20:15: > On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 08:24, Jacob S. wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:13:53 +0100 > > Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi everybody > > > > > > How do I send a message to a recpient in my local network using only > > >

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Alexander Rink
On Thursday 20 November 2003 11:12, Scarletdown wrote: > And that makes for a nice little catch-22 situation. > The whole reason I'm doing this is so I can > get the nVidia nForce drivers installed. Without > them, neither of the on-board NICs work (or > the sound for that matter). So there is no

Re: xmms with icewm

2003-11-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:13:27AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > I've noticed that the "show on all desktops" setting in the xmms menu > doesn't appear to work in ice. Anyone know why, and how to fix it? I > can do an Alt-F2, the ice command to show on all desktops, but that only Do you happe

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Knut Willy wrote: > I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. > > 1. Have a Windows-98 PC, which has internet connection. >Do not intend to use Linux on this one. >Afraid of having two operating systems on same machine. Don't ! A save way can be to partition your PC

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread John Peter
Scarletdown wrote: On 20 Nov 2003 at 11:00, Alexander Rink wrote: "apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r`" will fetch that missing files from a debian server for you. And that makes for a nice little catch-22 situation. The whole reason I'm doing this is so I can get the nV

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/11/03 10:42), Knut Willy wrote: > I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. > > 1. Have a Windows-98 PC, which has internet connection. >Do not intend to use Linux on this one. >Afraid of having two operating systems on same machine. If you have a broadband co

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Alexander Rink
On Thursday 20 November 2003 11:33, Alexander Rink wrote: > On Thursday 20 November 2003 11:12, Scarletdown wrote: > > > And that makes for a nice little catch-22 situation. > > The whole reason I'm doing this is so I can > > get the nVidia nForce drivers installed. Without > > them, neither of th

Re: dpkg package "stuck"

2003-11-20 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello David! On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:42:49AM +, David Selby wrote: My dpkg database seems to be slightly corrupted with respect to the "imgsizer" package If I try to install it I get: [...] dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 55249 package `imgsizer': missing vers

Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??

2003-11-20 Thread Vikas B N
Hi All, I have a system running WinXP and Linux. Except for one partition, all others are ext2 partitions. I had to make some space for a FAT32 partition, so wanted to format one of the ext2 partitions to FAT32. So, I booted into linux and used fdisk to delete a partition(hda5). After deleti

Re: Debconf trouble

2003-11-20 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Nick! On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:25:44PM -0800, Nick Willson wrote: Trouble when upgrading sid, suggestions welcome on how to fix. blackbird:~# aptitude dist-upgrade [...] Preconfiguring packages ... debconf: warning: possible database corruption. Will attempt to repair by adding back missi

Re: Help! strange bttv problem

2003-11-20 Thread John Peter
Richard Kimber wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:18:57 +0100 Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi bttv works well for most things with 2.4.22 (at the moment im using bttv 9.11 (development version) from bytesex.org/bttv/ with 2.4.22 to test v4l2 support but otherwise it works well with the i

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
Knut: on Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:42:31AM +0100, Knut Willy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. > > 1. Have a Windows-98 PC, which has internet connection. >Do not intend to use Linux on this one. >Afraid of having two operating sy

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread ben
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:42:31 +0100 "Knut Willy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. fair enough. good luck. > > 1. Have a Windows-98 PC, which has internet connection. >Do not intend to use Linux on this one. >Afraid of having tw

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:42:31AM +0100, Knut Willy wrote: > 3. My intention is to do all downloading on the Win-98 PC, and then > copy everything over to the Compaq, using diskettes. I have done this years ago: I had a small dos partition on the laptop (a i386 with 6mg ram) and copied the li

RE: Enterprise Hardware support

2003-11-20 Thread Pedro Miguel Ruivo (TRQV-DSI)
Thanks, i'll start with that. -Mensagem original- De: Clive Menzies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada: quinta-feira, 20 de Novembro de 2003 09:24 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto: Re: Enterprise Hardware support On (19/11/03 23:23), Pedro Miguel Ruivo (TRQV-DSI) wrote: > Thanks. > > Did

Fwd: Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Clive Menzies
I think this was meant for the list . - Forwarded message from Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > To: Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 03:03:52 -0800 (PST) > Subject: Re: Learning debian Linux > > On 20 Nov 2003 at 10

Re: xmms with icewm

2003-11-20 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Nov 20 at 01:13, Antony Gelberg spoke: > I've noticed that the "show on all desktops" setting in the xmms menu > doesn't appear to work in ice. Anyone know why, and how to fix it? I > can do an Alt-F2, the ice command to show on all desktops, but that only > works for the main window, not t

OT: Flatbed scanner recommendation?

2003-11-20 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Dear all, Well, I guess many of you have been through this, so allthough it may be somewhat OT, I hope it can be enlightening. My father needs a new flatbed scanner, something in the NOK 800 range (that's about USD or Euro 110). He has a workstation running Woody with some backports, so obvio

Re: Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??

2003-11-20 Thread Michael Dominok
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 11:56, Vikas B N wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a system running WinXP and Linux. Except > for one partition, all others are ext2 partitions. > I had to make some space for a FAT32 partition, > so wanted to format one of the ext2 partitions > to FAT32. So, I booted into lin

Re: Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??

2003-11-20 Thread Anita Lewis
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:26:44 +0530, Vikas B N wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a system running WinXP and Linux. Except > for one partition, all others are ext2 partitions. > I had to make some space for a FAT32 partition, > so wanted to format one of the ext2 partitions > to FAT32. So, I booted in

Q about corrupt windoze filesystem

2003-11-20 Thread Bill Benedetto
Hello. This isn't a Debian question, per se, but the depth of knowledge on this mailing list is quite humbling. I have an XP system that had a trojan file/program that I couldn't delete from Windoze. So I booted Knoppix and when Knoppix mounted the local filesystem, it mounted it read-only. Sinc

Fw: Problem with samba & win2k dfs

2003-11-20 Thread Vittorio
- Forwarded message from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:13:49 +0100 To: list debian-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Problem with samba & win2k dfs Absolute newbie, till yesterday I was able to connect my

pppd:Inappropriate ioctl for device

2003-11-20 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, I've got a flatrate DSL connection, and a machine configured as gateway. The gateway is supposed to keep the connection open 24/7, using pppd's 'persist' option. However, the automatic reconnection works only about twice a week. Usually pppd dies, forcing me to log into the gateway and rest

Re: spam -- but no received: heders?

2003-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 02:16:17AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:51:00PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 November 2003 19:17, Will Trillich wrote: > > > Received: from mail by boss.serensoft.com with spam-scanned > > > (Exim

Re: emacs -nw and emacsclient

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:23:56AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 22:23, Matt Price wrote: > > That is, I'd like to have something along the lines of > > "emacsclient -nw" as my default editor. But as far as I can tell this > > option isn't available. Any suggestions? >

Re: severe bug:Failure to start X related to /tmp permissions

2003-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:42:32PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > ls -l /: > drwxr-xr-x root root tmp > > This is the problem. > > It's an extremely severe bug. Not really, it's easily reversible. > Settings that might have influenced this: > Users cannot view each others $HOME directory > '

Re: Q about corrupt windoze filesystem

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:19:19AM -0500, Bill Benedetto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello. > > This isn't a Debian question, per se, but the depth of knowledge > on this mailing list is quite humbling. > > I have an XP system that had a trojan file/program that I > couldn't delete from Windoze.

Re: XP doc to Debian printer?

2003-11-20 Thread David Purton
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:27:27AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:28:42PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:04:04PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > My grandson does homework on an XP laptop which connects to our wireless > > > network but al

Re: dpkg package "stuck"

2003-11-20 Thread David Selby
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello David! On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:42:49AM +, David Selby wrote: My dpkg database seems to be slightly corrupted with respect to the "imgsizer" package If I try to install it I get: [...] dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 55249 package `

Re: installed with no X

2003-11-20 Thread Thinker
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 04:41, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (19/11/03 23:41), Thinker wrote: > > After installing Debian 3.0r1 "woody" "stable" after rebooting the > > machine I get the error message... > > > > "I cannot start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely > > that it is not set

Problems installing ImageMagick devleopment libs

2003-11-20 Thread stan
I need to install the ImageMagick developmnet libs on my testing machine, in order to be able to build a newer version of PerlMahick, but whn I try I see this: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libmagick5-dev: Depends: libmagick5 (= 4:5.4.4.5-1woody1) Depends: libwmf-dev bu

Re: Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??

2003-11-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Anita Lewis wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:26:44 +0530, Vikas B N wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have a system running WinXP and Linux. Except > > for one partition, all others are ext2 partitions. > > I had to make some space for a FAT32 partition, > > so wanted to format

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 12:43, ben wrote: > first, whoever wrote that debian is the best choice for a novice was > smoking out of the wrong end of his pipe. more competent commentators > have said that it's not necessarily the linux to start with, but the one > to end up with. very few tend to go wi

Re: Debian Users...

2003-11-20 Thread Andy Firman
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:19:39PM -0800, Jeff wrote: > Russell Coker, 2003-Nov-20 04:14 +1100: > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:00, Caoilte O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > doesn't fam engage in periodic disk access? i certainly get > > > a lot less when not using kde despite having 256M RAM. >

Re: installed with no X

2003-11-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/11/03 08:14), Thinker wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 04:41, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (19/11/03 23:41), Thinker wrote: > > > After installing Debian 3.0r1 "woody" "stable" after rebooting the > > > machine I get the error message... > > > > > > "I cannot start the X server (your graphical

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:24:57PM -0500, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > Out of personal curiosity, I will be conducting an experiment this > ... > > Two months later, I--like so many others before me--came crawling back > to Debian, my hands weary from long hours spent fighting RPM dependency

backporting question

2003-11-20 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i have a question regarding backporting. On my desktop i use unstable so i have never backported an application. 1. Am i correct that you can backport an app (not all of course) by getting the source from unstable or testing and then compiling and installing it? I don't know the exact instruc

Re: Problems installing ImageMagick devleopment libs

2003-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:25:32AM -0500, stan wrote: > I need to install the ImageMagick developmnet libs on my testing > machine, in order to be able to build a newer version of PerlMahick, > but whn I try I see this: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libmagick5-dev: Depend

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Kurt sys
Christian Schnobrich wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 12:43, ben wrote: first, whoever wrote that debian is the best choice for a novice was smoking out of the wrong end of his pipe. more competent commentators have said that it's not necessarily the linux to start with, but the one to end up with

forcing a popup to KDE and GNOME users

2003-11-20 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Hi, I would like to force a Java popup window to all users who start an Xsession on our Debian boxes. We currently have kde and gnome installed, and neither of them seem to run commands from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (even when the user does not have a .xinitrc). I am having some small success mod

Re: backporting question

2003-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 02:59:11PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > 1. Am i correct that you can backport an app (not all of course) > by getting the source from unstable or testing and then > compiling and installing it? > I don't know the exact instructions to accomplish this. > Would this work:

Creating ICNS files

2003-11-20 Thread Curtis Call
I'm trying to locate a utility on Linux that can convert image files into ICNS format. So far I'm drawing a blank as all editors that save in ICNS format seem to only run on MacOSX. Any ideas? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: OT: Flatbed scanner recommendation?

2003-11-20 Thread Craig H. Anderson
I recently got an Epson Perfection 1660 Photo. The cost for a refurbished scanner was $89 including shipping from Epson. The backend developer has a page at http://www.khk.net/sane/ The driver page is http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-epson.5.html Take a look here also http://www.epkowa.c

Re: Segfaulting WindowMaker

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:00:37PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I had been using Daniel Stone's unofficial Xfree86 4.3 for several > months (which is no longer available). Today I needed to compile > a program for one of my classes which requires that I have the > libxaw7-de

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-20 Thread John Cichy
This is when you find something that you need to run on your RPM based system, you download the RPM and attempt to install it, only to find out you need another RPM (actually a lib from another RPM) you search for the required RPM and download it and attempt the install, only to find out you need a

Re: problems when building a kernel module 'out of the box'

2003-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 02:47:19PM -, Mike at VirginNet wrote: > When I try to install a newly built module, I get the following error :- > > modulename.o: kernel-module version mismatch > modulename.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.18 > while this kernel is version 2.

scripting gnuclient and emacs for mutt [ was: emacsclient -nw]

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:54:48PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > While this doesn't help your actual problem, you should probably be > aware that 'emacs' and 'xemacs' are separate programs, either of which > can run in X or not in X. ('xemacs -nw' works;

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:43:46AM + or thereabouts, ben wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:42:31 +0100 > "Knut Willy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. > > fair enough. good luck. > first, whoever wrote that debian is the best c

antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-20 Thread Stephen
Folks, What antivirus agent have given good results with Stable & Exim3? Anything around that will delete postives before accepting for delivery? This damn Swen virus is giving me lots of sh*t with mixed multi-part alternatives. Alternatively, anyone have good procmail receipes to delete these th

RE: Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??

2003-11-20 Thread Vikas B N
Hi Micheal, > googling for gpart might help. thanks so much for this! Googling for it certainly helped! I'll try this out. -vikas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

installing websphere 5

2003-11-20 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
I'm trying to install websphere 5 on Debian Sid. The installer mainly works but hangs at the "checking rpm database" stage. No problem. I just killed the installer at that point since all the files were in place already. But when I start the websphere app server, the webserver doesn't get starte

Re: Connection refused.. / Could not connect

2003-11-20 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, > I still think this is probaly a trivial problem for someone familiar with > network issues and or Linux, but as a newbie I really don't know what coud be > causing this. I don't think that is it that simple. The only hint is the traceroute output 1 193.29.247.1 (193.29.247.1) 2.094 m

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RE: Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??

2003-11-20 Thread Vikas B N
Hi Anita, > Question: when you used fdisk to delete the partitions, and > then looked at them and you saw that there were missing ones, > did you actually *write* the partition table or did you just > exit? If you didn't write it, then you should be able to > boot as before and fi

scsi emulation for CD burner

2003-11-20 Thread marcos
Hello I'm having big troubles when I try to use my ide CD burner with scsi emulation. (Question #1 : is it true we have to use scsi emulation in order to burn CDs with a IDE cd burner ?) The problems begin when the system tries to load the ide-scsi module (when I manually load it with modprob

Re: Help! strange bttv problem

2003-11-20 Thread Albert Dengg
Hi well, I don't know about xconfig but config/menuconfig leave all options in the config file and just comment out the option that are not set...sot that you should at least see them# When I tried it quickly qith a 2.4.21 source that is lying around on my disc it also sets the CONFIG_VIDEO_BT

RE: Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??

2003-11-20 Thread Vikas B N
Hi Alvin, > if hda5 was your extended partition ... than all subsequent > logical partions will go pooff when you delete the (reference) > extended partition not so, hda5 was the first logical partition inside the extended partition. > as long as oyu didnt write any new dat

Re: scripting gnuclient and emacs for mutt [ was: emacsclient -nw]

2003-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:49:45AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > is it possible in bash to test whether a comand has actually worked? > I feel like I've seen such tests, but I tried one and can't make it > work for me: > > #! /bin/bash > if [ 'gnuclient -q $*' ]; then That's definitely wrong: 'gnu

Re: XP doc to Debian printer?

2003-11-20 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:04:04PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > My grandson does homework on an XP laptop which connects to our > wireless network but all the other computers on the network are > Debian. Last year we were told of an HP generic postscript driver, > installed it in the XP and co

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-20 Thread Robert L. Harris
For home, spam assassin, tell it to tag MS Executables very high (3000) and devnull anything >1000. Professional, so far I like central command's vexira (http://www.centralcommand.com/linux_products.html) They do have a Linux workstation product for $35 which I haven't tried, but the Server ver

Re: Best Current Pratice Postgres upgrade 6.5-->7.2

2003-11-20 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:50:19PM -0800, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > The docs seem to imply that upgrading with this big a jump from > 6.5 to 7.2 is dangerous.even if I do it by hand like so: > > pg_dump mydatabase > dump.mydatabase > destroydb mydatabase > upgrade the database system to 7.2 >

Recovering deleted partitions...

2003-11-20 Thread Vikas B N
Hello All, Thanks for the response to my earlier post. I have downloaded and used gpart as suggested by Michael and Anita. The output of gpart is as follows: ** Error: invalid extended ptbl found at sector(20804175). Begin scan... Possible partition(DOS FA

xemacs colorless in xterm

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, some questios for emacs'ers just recently switched to xemacs from emacs (see recent thread I started, thanks to all for help). For the most part working well, but when run in a terminal (through xemacs-nw or gnuclient -nw) xemacs won't dispay colors. Anyone know if there's a simple

Re: scsi emulation for CD burner

2003-11-20 Thread Alf Werder
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 16:31, marcos wrote: > Hello > > I'm having big troubles when I try to use my ide CD burner with scsi > emulation. > > (Question #1 : is it true we have to use scsi emulation in order to burn > CDs with a IDE cd burner ?) > > The problems begin when the system tries to lo

Re: xmms with icewm

2003-11-20 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 01:13:27 + Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just deleted Gnome and moved to icewm. I realised that I don't really > use any gnome programs, and everything's much slicker now. > > I've noticed that the "show on all desktops" setting in the xmms menu

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-20 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:33:23AM -0500 or thereabouts, Robert L. Harris wrote: Hello Robert, > For home, spam assassin, tell it to tag MS Executables very high (3000) > and devnull anything >1000. Ah SA, too resource intensive for me. > Professional, so far I like central command's vexira > (

mouse will only works in one direction with X+gpm

2003-11-20 Thread Micha Feigin
I configured my logitec usb optical wheel mouse (a lot of words for the standard one ;-) to repeat to X using the raw protocol. The problem is that under X the mouse only works when scrolling down and not when scrolling up. When configured to use /dev/input/mice directly everything works fine, so i

mutt - Getting a list of the number of new messages in each mailbox

2003-11-20 Thread Micha Feigin
Is it possible with mutt to get a list of mailboxes and the number of new messages in each mailbox without resorting to an external script (or is there a script that can already do that?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: problems when building a kernel module 'out of the box'

2003-11-20 Thread Mike at VirginNet
Hi Colin, > > The seemingly obvious would be to change this to :- > > > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4/include/linux/modversions.h -Wall -Wstr ict-prototypes -O2 -m486 -c modulename.c -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4/include > > > >

Re: scripting gnuclient and emacs for mutt [ was: emacsclient -nw]

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:29:39PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:49:45AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > is it possible in bash to test whether a comand has actually worked? > > I feel like I've seen such tests, but I tried one and can't make it > > work for me: > > > > #!

packaging a self compiled program in a .deb file

2003-11-20 Thread Micha Feigin
I want to package a program I compiled in a .deb to enable uninstalling it cleanly later. It seems that alien can convert slackware tgz packages to debs (I tried the other way around and it doesn't seem like there is any extra data except for the program) and I thought that this could be used to do

Re: scripting gnuclient and emacs for mutt [ was: emacsclient -nw]

2003-11-20 Thread Lucas Bergman
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Z Maze wrote: > > > See earlier commentary about XEmacs; gnuclient(1) is the XEmacs > > equivalent to emacsclient, and it does claim to support a -nw > > option. I could see things being unhappy if you set $EDITOR to > > that, but it's easy enough to

pppd boring problem...

2003-11-20 Thread federicobriata
Hi, I get this error after a while with pppd with persist option. I need to kill the pppd and restart it. Any hints would be welcome... Here is a more complete log... rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0xb6 magic=0xf691b01f c0 23 05 06] sent [LCP EchoRep id=0xb6 magic=0xd3b01c00 00 2d 0f 01] Hangup (SIGHUP) M

Re: OT: Flatbed scanner recommendation?

2003-11-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Dear all, Well, I guess many of you have been through this, so allthough it may be somewhat OT, I hope it can be enlightening. My father needs a new flatbed scanner, something in the NOK 800 range (that's about USD or Euro 110). He has a workstation running Woody with s

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-20 Thread BruceG
> Ah OK, I'm looking for OSS solutions tho. I see what's available in > my cache, I just want some recommendations on what people have used > available from the Debian Woody download list. If there are options only > available to testing or unstable users, than I'd appreciate knowing of a > any goo

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