Re: newbie network config

2004-02-15 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 15 February 2004 01:28, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ah. OK. Is all this listed someplace and I somehow overlooked it? F10;help; user manual - scroll down to the section on searching -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: help with 2.6.2 ide-cd, ide-scsi & xine

2004-02-15 Thread stephen parkinson
Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 03:56:43PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 15:33, stephen parkinson wrote: sussed it, diabled ide-cd-options line saying ignore hdc, hdd 2.6.2 - xine and sound now happy Can you be more specific about what you

Holy Shee-it

2004-02-15 Thread Nano Nano
http://infoworld.com/article/04/02/13/HNlinuxoffice_1.html That's a wierd story. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rejecting viruses the Right Way[tm]

2004-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: I'm not big on enforcing smarthosts. For one thing, my upstream couldn't run a mail server if it's life depended on it. So why eliminate small but working sites from being able to mail, forcing them to forward everything through broken sites? Because the large upstream tha

Re: URGENT -- Apt-get fiasco

2004-02-15 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 15 February 2004 06:49, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > [Using Xandros 2.0/Debian] > > This morning I noticed that I could no longer install anything from Xandros > Networks. I drew the conclusion that I had been pushing the envelope to the > breaking point, installing from all s

Kernel 2.4.24 MD5Sum mismatch

2004-02-15 Thread Lorenzo Rossi
Hi, I tried to install the kernel 2.4.24 sources but I get back the following error: europa:~# apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.24 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: kernel-source-2.4.24 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0

logging stdout && stdin

2004-02-15 Thread Na Zo
Hi! Is there any way to log into a file by an interactive program the stdout and the stdin? I tried out tee, screen, and script, but didn' t find the solution. By that interactive program i' d like to log all characters on the console. For example "program | tee file" will log only the stdout,

Re: Software modem

2004-02-15 Thread Troy Truchon
Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:16:03 -0800, > Troy Truchon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I was wondering if there was a way to use a sound card as a modem >> under gnu/linux (with a dongle or something connecting the phone line >> to the line in/ou

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:53:56AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:54:53AM +, Steve Hargreaves ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > OK - I admit it. I've been working with computers for over 20 years > > (IBM mainframe, mini, micro(or PC as they are c

Re: URGENT -- Apt-get fiasco

2004-02-15 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 15 February 2004 09:49, you wrote: > Dear Alan and friends: > > Thanks so very much for troubleshooting my situation. In brief: > Lets do this via the list - not in private e-mail. I don't have all the answers and I am about to go out for the day, so others may need to get involved (a

Exim4 Sender Address Rewriting

2004-02-15 Thread Peter A. Cole
Hi all, I've just set up my mail server of sorts here which is running Debian Sarge with Exim4, Fetchmail, Procmail, and QPopper. All my packages are up to date as of today. I'm trying to set it up so I can send internal mail without going via my ISP and external mail with address rewriting going

k3b: unable to find cdrecord executable

2004-02-15 Thread Midnight
I've installed k3b on my machine and every time I start k3b up, it gives me an error message: "unable to find cdrecord executable". I undoubtedly have cdrecord installed on my machine. ls -al cdrecr* in /usr/bin provides the following output: -rws--x---1 root cdrom

gdb 6.0 (unofficial) backport from unstable to testing available?

2004-02-15 Thread Holger Rauch
Hello! I'm running Debian testing with kernel 2.6.2. When debugging programs with gdb 5.3, I get the following error messages: (gdb) r Starting program: /home/holgi/sara4-stuff/sas/xmlmodule/test-progs/sqltok+xqueryconv-test/tam_select-test_mg Error while reading shared library symbols: Cannot fi

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 09:33:18PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Please be explicit in what commands you are issuing, and what results > > > you are seeing. > > > > > > > Simply typing dwww at the promp line open the browser in that site. > > Or if I select dwww from > > Applications -->>

Something horribly broken in Sid's debconf

2004-02-15 Thread Nano Nano
I just noticed that in debconf questions I can't arrow up/down, but I can tab and enter. I tried rolling back to the previous version of debconf but that didn't fix it. This repros on 2 PCs. I tried rolling back gettext/whiptail/libnewt that got updated in Sid a couple days ago -- no joy. I

Re: k3b: unable to find cdrecord executable

2004-02-15 Thread Midnight
Voila indeed. Thanks Joan, I followed your advice and the problem is solved :) Cheers Midn On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:14:24 +0100 Joan Tur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *This message was transferred with a trial version of > CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 >

Re: Something horribly broken in Sid's debconf

2004-02-15 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 03:23:56AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > I just noticed that in debconf questions I can't arrow up/down, but I > can tab and enter. I tried rolling back to the previous version of > debconf but that didn't fix it. This repros on 2 PCs. > > I tried rolling back gettext/whipt

Re: xmms/kde

2004-02-15 Thread Midnight
Jeff, For what it's worth, I found your message helpful and informative. > That is all, sorry for intruding. Feel free to intrude again :) Cheers Midn _ Cut out the middle man with Dial Direct Insurance, click here

Re: cdparanoia & a song in negative space

2004-02-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:39:56AM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > "6[-1:30]-6[-0:02]". does anyone know how i can trick cdparanoia to do > this, or know of another program/bit of code that would comply? thanks. File a bugreport. In the meantime, rip the whole CD, or a part thereof,

Re: logging stdin && stdout

2004-02-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 08:21:59AM +0100, Na Zo wrote: > Is there any way to log into a file by an interactive program the stdout and the > stdin? I tried out tee, screen, and script, but didn' t find the solution. By that > interactive program i' d like to log all characters on the console. For

cyrus21: password and login shell?

2004-02-15 Thread Bengt Thure'e
Hej, I have just installed and started to verify my Sarge installation, and to my surprise I found (or rather "John" did) that cyrus has a password and seems to be a login account. Seems to be the same in both Sarge as well as in Woody. Is this correct, or have I missed something (which I think

Re: ADSL ISP in UK

2004-02-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/02/04 00:28), Pigeon wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:28:26 + > Subject: Re: ADSL ISP in UK > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:12:09PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > ADSL Guide > > gave Metronet (which I think is pay-as-you-go) a

How to boot installed Debian system with Promise FastTrak 376?

2004-02-15 Thread Danny
Hello list, Yesterday I installed Debian 3 on my system with Promise FastTrak 376 controller with the help of the site: http://www.antgel.co.uk/compsci/linux/promise_raid.shtml Now comes my problem: My system doesn't boot! Grub showed only a Grub prompt. My Debian 3 (Woody) installation is on sd9

Re: compiling the kernel

2004-02-15 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Brian wrote: > I want to be able to turn some options off and on in the kerenl so how > do i compile the kernel in a debian system??? > > > Thanks > Brian Look at this site: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/ It has a very comprehensive explanation on how to compile your own kernel the Debian way.

Re: apt-proxy without inetd

2004-02-15 Thread Benedict Verheyen
>- Original Message - >From: "Rob Weir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 6:54 AM >Subject: Re: apt-proxy without inetd > Hi, > > is it possible to run apt-proxy without inetd? > I'm not using inetd or xinetd and would like to keep it that way. >>

Unknown scancode e064

2004-02-15 Thread Jose Alfredo Canizo Rincon
Hello everyone. I have the following problem when installing Debian Woody: the installation works properly until the computer reboots, after installing the base system. Then I get the message unknown scancode e064 every time I press a key. It is strange, as the keyboard works perfectly when s

Re: What's the easiest way to move some files in a directory tree?

2004-02-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Conrad Newton] > If you use a slightly different version (note the trailing /) > > rsync -azv --exclude '*.flac' old-directory/ new-directory Oooh, nifty. I never realised you could get this effect with just a trailing /. I'd always used 'old-directory/*' for this purpose, which is less than

Re: linphone in debian

2004-02-15 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 08:42:13AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Has anyone used linphone in this list that would care to share > h(i,e)(s,r) experiences? > It doesn't seem that it is packaged for debian by any official > mantainer, is it? My experience of linphone is limited to registering w

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2004-02-15 Thread Ricardo Ramirez
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Win4Linux for Debian?

2004-02-15 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: May I ask if Win4Linux works in Debian? If so, how well does it work? Thank you. Benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Move FAT32 partition to linux

2004-02-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Bill Moseley] >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 758 6088603+ b W95 FAT32 > /dev/hda224022432 249007+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda322802401 979965 83 Linux > /dev/hda4

Re: Win4Linux for Debian?

2004-02-15 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
I'm using Win4Lin for more than 2 years, it's great! I can recomend it, but read carefully conditions of use [e.g. it's for emulating W9x so far, can use IPX only etc.] and think twice about your needs. People from NeTraverse [Leo Reiter, Amanda Owens & all] are very friendly, their support is quic

Re: jabber server howto

2004-02-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 04:14:10PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: I want you to know Paul that I appreciate your help. For example, I didn't know about this site for the jargon. That is already a good new thing. Thanks. AR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

[Fwd: Re: Win4Linux for Debian?]

2004-02-15 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
Sorry, I send the answer to Benjamin only, so I fwd it to the list Vlada -Forwarded Message- > From: Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Win4Linux for Debian? > Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:33:12 +0100 > > On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 14:

Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Tim Otten
The other day, I did something really stupid. I started a download with BitTorrent, and, half-way through, deleted the file it was downloading. The file still existed because the torrent client had it open. I could use 'lsof' to get an inode number -- but I needed some way to get access to that no

RE: eth0/eth1 which one?

2004-02-15 Thread Shaddy.Baddah
> Shaddy just rejoiced over my response (see ``purity -p > nerd|grep ^100'') ;-), and felt an irresistible compulsion to rephrase > it. Besides, s/he has other problems like replying both to me and the > list, and [1]TOFU, besides being rude. > > [1] http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html > I since

Re: sarge installer successes?

2004-02-15 Thread Steven Leach
Please write to the debian-boot list and describe the problems you've had, they love install reports :-) When I tried the Beta 2 a week or two ago, I tried (as per the instructions on the debian-installer website) to file a bug report. Fill out template (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-instal

Debian's Perl installation

2004-02-15 Thread kynn
Here are a couple of posts that I recently found while reading Usenet news. I have myself run into similar problems/questions as the author describes, so I thought I'd re-post them here. (BTW, the few replies the OP received are not helpful.) kj P.S. please cc me in your replies. ===

Re: mapping mouse buttons

2004-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:19:33PM -0500, Anthony R. J. Ball wrote: > I have been looking around with no luck. > > Is it possible to map extra mouse buttons, like buttons > 6 and 7, to keycodes? > > For instance, map button 6 to alt-tab? imwheel can do this. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons

Re: ssh -X from A through B to C

2004-02-15 Thread Cristian Gutierrez
Mark Gillingham wrote: > >On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 12:36 AM, Cristian Gutierrez wrote: >% ssh -X -v web2.mydomain.org /usr/X11R6/bin/xcalc >[...] >Error: Can't open display: As someone else already pointed out in answer on this thread, you may be missing the xbase-clients package, whi

Re: Holy Shee-it

2004-02-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:21:30AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > http://infoworld.com/article/04/02/13/HNlinuxoffice_1.html > > That's a wierd story. Not from IBM's perspective. Reminiscent of the OS/2 for Windows 2.1 product, which pulled me out of Windows into alternatives. Kenward -- In a co

Re: Does dpkg -l refer only to installed, as opposed to available, packages?

2004-02-15 Thread David
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 12:12:38PM -0800, C. Chad Wallace wrote: > Mario Vukelic wrote: > >On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 03:24, Colin Watson wrote: > It says the same for me in the man page for dpkg-query(8), but when I do > a dpkg -l, all the packages listed are either 'ii' (meaning selected and > inst

Re: Rip DVD audio: TOC for CD?

2004-02-15 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 05:26:28PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 07:26:26AM -0800, Bill Moseley said > > 2) If I extract audio into a large wav file is there a tool that would > > allow me to set track locations when burning the audio? In other words, > > anyone know of a (GUI?)

Re: mozilla bugs: The BTS is vary difficult to use at present.

2004-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 05:54:38PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote: > I was just reporting a bug about mozilla-browser and I was swamped > with 426 outstanding bugs. There are many more if you look at othe > mozilla pkgs. I should read all of these every time a report a bug > and to be honest I didn't.

Re: gdb 6.0 (unofficial) backport from unstable to testing available?

2004-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:12:07PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > Since gdb 6.0 has not yet officially made it into testing due to some > dependency problems, where can I find a backported version of gdb 6,0 > to Debian testing so that I can debug my program using gdb 6.0? Backports from unstable to

kernel 2.6.2: no arp replies with Intel Etherexpress 100 -> no connection; works fine with 2.4.23

2004-02-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, OS is Debian Woody + backports (mainly backports.org). This machine has 2 NICs. It does IP masquerading for the internal LAN. eth0 is a Broadcom 4400 onboard interface (on Asus P4PE). Kernel module is b44. It is used by pppoe to connect to my ADSL provider. eth1 is an Intel Etherexpress 100

Re: sarge installer successes?

2004-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:42:03AM -0500, Steven Leach wrote: > When I tried the Beta 2 a week or two ago, I tried (as per the > instructions on the debian-installer website) to file a bug report. > > Fill out template > (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template) > chec

Re: modules

2004-02-15 Thread cdummy
Thanks o lot. I see discover running. I'll try installation without discover and with discover. Since I'm running SCSI/IDE system I'll compile drivers form my controllers to kernel. No initrd needded Thanks Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 11:15:34AM -0500, cdummy said Hello. I'm new

Re: Rip DVD audio: TOC for CD?

2004-02-15 Thread csj
On 14. February 2004 at 7:26AM -0800, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I know how to rip to audio from a dvd using mplayer. Here's > one way: > > mplayer -quiet -ao pcm -aofile a.wav -vo null -vc dummy dvd:// > > I have two questions: > > 1) I assume that there's some type o

Re: aol art files:

2004-02-15 Thread Mkrista8765
can you please remove all art files for me please it is really slowing my computer down or how do i find the art files and delete them?  Thank you  

Re: apt-proxy without inetd

2004-02-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:05:14PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen said > >- Original Message - > >From: "Rob Weir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 6:54 AM > >Subject: Re: apt-proxy without inetd > > Hi, > > > > is it possible to run apt-proxy with

logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
Hi all! I've looked in the logrotate man page, /usr/share/doc/logrotate (not much there), and google, and I can't seem to find the answer to these questions: 1) I'd like to have the option of never deleting the backups for certain files. The 'rotate' keyword doesn't seem to do this for me, since

Re: Linux Compatibility Issue

2004-02-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-14, Abdul Latip penned: > Hello: > > Once in a while, users are asking me about the compatibilty problem of > Linux. They reasoning that M$Office can be installed anywhere like > Win98, WinME, WinNT, et. al. Whereas it is hard to install a RedHat > package into Debian, and so on. > Actu

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:44:03 +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:16:54AM +0100, Thorsten Haude said >> * s. keeling wrote (2004-02-09 06:44): >> >Just because it doesn't mention kde 3.x doesn't mean it's obsolete. >> >> The book is 20 years old! There wasn't even an X Window to sp

Modifying pdf metadata

2004-02-15 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello all, Does anyone know of a utility that can update the document fields / xml info (or create it) in a pdf file? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge installer successes?

2004-02-15 Thread Steven Leach
Hmm. Your message was a multipart/alternative message, one part plain text, the other part "text/enriched", which seems to be a strange pseudo-HTML kind of thing (RFC 1896). The bug tracking system's logic follows the MIME specification and takes the last part it understands. Unfortunately, it tho

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:20:55AM -0500, Tim Otten wrote: > The other day, I did something really stupid. I started a download with > BitTorrent, and, half-way through, deleted the file it was downloading. > > The file still existed because the torrent client had it open. I could use > 'lsof' to

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:40:06AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:48:58PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Mike writes: > > > I don't think the 80286 has a memory management unit > > > > It does, but the architecture is different. A 286 won't run Linux. > > Are you sure? I

Re: aol art files:

2004-02-15 Thread John Hasler
Mkrista8765 writes: > can you please remove all art files for me please it is really slowing my > computer down or how do i find the art files and delete them? Thank you find / -name '*.art' -exec rm \{\} \; -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To U

Re: jabber server howto

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 08:52:43AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I want you to know Paul that I appreciate your help. For example, I > didn't know about this site for the jargon. That is already a good new > thing. Thanks. No problem, glad to help

Re: Rejecting viruses the Right Way[tm]

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:48:02AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Because the large upstream that can't do a decent job of running a > smarthost also can't do a decent job of policing their network or shutting > down spammers on their network. The b

Real Time Clock won't boot

2004-02-15 Thread Michael West
When I compile the Real Time Clock into my kernel I cannot complete the boot process and login. This is true in single user mode. Strangly, most of the boot process completes. The hang appears to be in the /etc/rcS.d scripts. The last message to the screen is "WARNING: n

Re: Holy Shee-it

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:21:30AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > http://infoworld.com/article/04/02/13/HNlinuxoffice_1.html > > That's a wierd story. Yeah, no kidding. I've gone and posted that up on my website...that's just bizarre. http://ursine.ca/

Re: ADSL ISP in UK

2004-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:31:53PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (15/02/04 00:28), Pigeon wrote: > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:28:26 + > > Subject: Re: ADSL ISP in UK > > > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:12:09PM +, Clive Menzi

Re: Something horribly broken in Sid's debconf

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 03:23:56AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > I just noticed that in debconf questions I can't arrow up/down, but I > can tab and enter. I tried rolling back to the previous version of > debconf but that didn't fix it. This repros on

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-15 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: > I think the 286 extended the concept of far pointers somehow to extend > the addressing range to 16 megs and make it a bit more like a proper MMU, > but you were still limited to 64k blocks. Sort of. The 286 had a truly brain-damaged segmentation scheme. It did run protected-mod

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:20:55AM -0500, Tim Otten wrote: > The other day, I did something really stupid. I started a download with > BitTorrent, and, half-way through, deleted the file it was downloading. > Is it possible to access the file using a

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

2004-02-15 Thread Antony Gelberg
Please don't CC me. It's in my sig and it's list policy. On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:21:40PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 02:24:28AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > I came in a bit late here. Have a look on my site - > > http://www.antgel.co.uk/compsci/linux/promise_raid.sht

Re: cdparanoia & a song in negative space

2004-02-15 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Jan Minar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JM> On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:39:56AM +, i'll teach you to turn away. >> "6[-1:30]-6[-0:02]". does anyone know how i can trick cdparanoia to do >> this, or know of another program/bit of code that would comply? thanks. JM> File a bugreport. heh. t

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Martin Dickopp
Tim Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The other day, I did something really stupid. I started a download with > BitTorrent, and, half-way through, deleted the file it was downloading. > > The file still existed because the torrent client had it open. I could use > 'lsof' to get an inode number -

Re: Real Time Clock won't boot

2004-02-15 Thread John Hasler
> The last message to the screen is "WARNING: no network interfaces found" > which is what I get when mounting samba shares I am mounting at boot. This means that the _next_ service is hanging. Sounds like a hwclock problem. Try upgrading util-linux. If that fixes it file a bug. -- John Hasler

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:41:41AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:20:55AM -0500, Tim Otten wrote: > > The other day, I did something really stupid. I started a download with > > BitTorrent, and, half-way through, deleted the file it was downloading. > > > Is it possible to

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Joey Hess
Monique Y. Herman wrote: > 3) Permissions. The logrotate app is only executable by root on my box. > I'm trying to imagine the situation in which giving a normal user access > to logrotate would hurt anything, as long as logs have appropriate > permissions. Could the paranoid among us speak up an

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Martin Dickopp: > Tim Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The other day, I did something really stupid. I started a download with > > BitTorrent, and, half-way through, deleted the file it was downloading. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > echo This is a test. > t.txt > [EMAIL PROTECTED

downloading dependency files

2004-02-15 Thread lsrwein
I've recently installed spamassassin on debian stable using a backport. spamassassin_2.63-0.backports.org.1_all.deb. Got the following dependency errors: *** dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of spamassassin: spamassassin depends on libhtml-parser-

Building packages from source with my options

2004-02-15 Thread dana sibera
Is there some central way in debian to build source packages with certain compiler options forced on? I have a few PPC machines here, PPC601 to be precise, and those CPUs have quite a few instructions left over as part of the POWER chips that they derived from; instructions that no other PPC ch

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Tim Otten
> (1) debugfs(8) or equivalent Ah! debugfs looks perfect. I probably couldn't have added an entry for the file (because the filesystem was mounted, and the man page doesn't say whether it's safe to edit a live filesystem), but the 'dump' command worked fine in a test that I just did. > (2) inject

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

2004-02-15 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 05:17:39PM +0100, Danny wrote: > Hi Antony, > > you are the man, which saved me! Install with the help of your webpage was > easy and fast and the installer detected my harddisk (no raid). But now > after reboot, I can't boot. Grub crashes and showed only the Grub prompt at

Re: Something horribly broken in Sid's debconf

2004-02-15 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:38:23AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 03:23:56AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > I just noticed that in debconf questions I can't arrow up/down, but I > > can tab and enter. I tried rolling back to the previous version of > > debconf but that didn't

Re: Building packages from source with my options

2004-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 06:19:55AM +1100, dana sibera wrote: > Is there some central way in debian to build source packages with > certain compiler options forced on? Try pentium-builder. Despite the name, it can be used for other processors too. This isn't really a general way to build source p

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

2004-02-15 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:42:56PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Please don't CC me. It's in my sig and it's list policy. It's your fault. Your mail includes the header: Mail-Followup-To: Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] which makes Mutt's list-reply function add

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:11:18PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > However, that's just standard *nix filesystem behaviour. You can rm > 'til the cows come home, but as long as one symlink to the data > remains, the data remains as well. Hard link not symlink :) Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROT

Re: downloading dependency files

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:00:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there an easier way to go about collecting dependencies? Use apt instead of trying to do it by hand. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` prou

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:03:06PM -0500, Tim Otten wrote: > file (because the filesystem was mounted, and the man page doesn't say > whether it's safe to edit a live filesystem), but the 'dump' command worked > fine in a test that I just did. It's not. You did it the most right way. -- Jan Min

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-15, Joey Hess penned: > > Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> 3) Permissions. The logrotate app is only executable by root on my >> box. I'm trying to imagine the situation in which giving a normal >> user access to logrotate would hurt anything, as long as logs have >> appropriate permissions

Re: cdparanoia & a song in negative space

2004-02-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:22:53PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > yeah, ripping the whole cd just doesn't see the negative space. i > don't even know how they recorded this, let alone how i can get it off They probably used a microphone? Seriously, this might be yet another

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:20:26PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-15, Joey Hess penned: > > That would be a violation of debian policy, and is not the case on any > > of my systems. > > > > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 33K Oct 9 2002 > > /usr/sbin/logrotate* > > Well, Bas

Re: Ext3 journaling errors

2004-02-15 Thread GCS
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 06:16:07AM +, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Feb 14 00:23:12 herby kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device > Feb 14 00:23:12 herby kernel: hda4: rw=0, want=1940101904, limit=24418800 > Feb 14 00:23:12 herby kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device >

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-15 Thread Steven Leach
On Feb 15, 2004, at 1:39 PM, John Hasler wrote: Pigeon writes: I think the 286 extended the concept of far pointers somehow to extend the addressing range to 16 megs and make it a bit more like a proper MMU, but you were still limited to 64k blocks. Sort of. The 286 had a truly brain-damaged seg

Re: downloading dependency files

2004-02-15 Thread lsrwein
Paul Johnson writes: On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:00:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easier way to go about collecting dependencies? Use apt instead of trying to do it by hand. *** Yes, but I want to install an unstable package on stable de

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 11:16, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Hi all! I've looked in the logrotate man page, /usr/share/doc/logrotate > (not much there), and google, and I can't seem to find the answer to > these questions: > > 1) I'd like to have the option of never deleting the backups for certain >

Re: downloading dependency files

2004-02-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:02:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Paul Johnson writes: > > >On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:00:34PM -0600, > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Is there an easier way to go about collecting dependencies? > > > >Use apt instead of trying to do it by hand. Slightly

Re: Building packages from source with my options

2004-02-15 Thread dana sibera
On 16/02/2004, at 6:32 AM, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 06:19:55AM +1100, dana sibera wrote: Is there some central way in debian to build source packages with certain compiler options forced on? Try pentium-builder. Despite the name, it can be used for other processors too. This isn

Re: [Repost] F-prot update cron script fails

2004-02-15 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Hello VSJ, Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 3:38:58 PM, you wrote: V> Unfortunately, this doesn't work, I get an e-mail twice a day with the V> following subject: V> "Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> root if [ -x /usr/lib/f-prot/tools/check-updates ]; V> then /usr/lib/f-prot/tools/check-updates -cron -quie

Re: cdparanoia & a song in negative space

2004-02-15 Thread David T-G
crank -- ...and then i'll teach you to turn away. said... % ... % yeah, ripping the whole cd just doesn't see the negative space. i % don't even know how they recorded this, let alone how i can get it off Strange indeed. Like Jan, I'm interested in your results (my little collection com

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-15 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Rob Weir wrote (2004-02-15 07:44): >On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:16:54AM +0100, Thorsten Haude said >> * s. keeling wrote (2004-02-09 06:44): >> >Just because it doesn't mention kde 3.x doesn't mean it's obsolete. >> >> The book is 20 years old! There wasn't even an X Window to speak of! > >I

Re: logrotate: three questions

2004-02-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-15, Colin Watson penned: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:20:26PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On 2004-02-15, Joey Hess penned: >> > That would be a violation of debian policy, and is not the case on >> > any of my systems. >> > >> > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 33K Oct 9 2

Gnus not including text in follow-up

2004-02-15 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Have been trying to use Gnus. When trying to F (follow up quoting message), I get: run-hooks: Symbol's function definition is void: turn-on-mime-edit Checked my .emacs.el etc, but I really have no idea about what to look for or where. Any tips welcome. -- Lean

Re: downloading dependency files

2004-02-15 Thread lsrwein
Osamu Aoki writes: Hi, On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:02:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson writes: >On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:00:34PM -0600, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Is there an easier way to go about collecting dependencies? > >Use apt instead of trying to do it by hand. S

Re: Debian and Gigabyte m/b GA-6BXDU

2004-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 09:31:24PM +1100, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > Hi there, > > I had a gigabyte motherboard, GA-6BXDU - rev1.3, dual PIII 500 with scsi > 50pin and 80pin on board. To boot from cd-rom, this m/b only support > cd-rom boot via scsi, it wont allow me to boot ide cd-rom, that is wh

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