Re: Locale problems on 2.6.2 bootup

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Robert F Merrill: > David Baron wrote: > > >Get error from "locale": Unable to set no such directory. > >Three items: LC_TYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_ALL. > > > >Had not heard of these previously. LANG is the only locale-keyword set in > >env. All the others in shown in the "man" for

Re: cdrecord and kernel 2.4 problem

2004-02-29 Thread John L Fjellstad
What's actually the problem? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: restoring /var/cache/apt/archives contents

2004-02-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Antonio Rodriguez (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have used in the past apt-move to create a local mirror. I usually > like to keep archives with the debs, in case I need to reinstall them > and they are gone from the archives, after being replaced by new > versions. At this point I would

Re: howto serialize tasks in .xsession

2004-02-29 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:09:17AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > ... A better > way is to use a spinlock wrapped around lsof or netstat right after the > gnome-settings-daemon call (note that calling it without any arguments > works at least as well): > > #... > gnome-settings-daemon & > GSDPID=

Re: LILO

2004-02-29 Thread Alexis Huxley
> my lilo seems to be screwed up, it > boots and I get some OS/2 thing, I even tried reinstalling debian from net, > it ejects the disk and reboots and same thing. What do I do? You're not giving potential helpers much to go on! :-) What's in your /etc/lilo.conf? What commands did you run that p

Re: cdrecord and kernel 2.4 problem

2004-02-29 Thread Nejc Novak
John L Fjellstad wrote: What's actually the problem? This is the problem. But i don't know what's wrang. According to the cd-writing howto all modules are loaded properly. But i still get this error. I believe it has something to do with running 2.4 kernel on debian stable. Starting new track

Re: arecord ?

2004-02-29 Thread Alexis Huxley
> I have an ISA card CS4236, using ALSA driver-latest one, which otherwise works > fine, the microphone does work fine, but can't make any sound-recording program > to work with it - ecasound, arecord. > > Both programs generate output, programs end recording fine, but no sound > is recorded. > >

Re: Locale problems on 2.6.2 bootup

2004-02-29 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 01:09 -0700, s. keeling wrote: > If you didn't do it, it's probably coming from /etc/profile Or /etc/environment -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reconfiguring internal clock

2004-02-29 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 09:51:33PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Brian Brazil: > > I believe the relavent file is /etc/adjtime. I was wrong there. Looking at ye olde /etc/init.d/hwclock(first)?.sh it infers that /etc/default/rcS is the file. Debian uses this to overide /etc/adjtime for

RE: Install debian on raid system

2004-02-29 Thread Ron Rademaker
I got it working :) I found a partial open source driver somewhere and used that one with an 2.4.25 kernel. I used the rescue disks from woody (replaced the kernel) and created an initrd procedure to get the thing booted. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Justin Guerin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: cdrecord and kernel 2.4 problem

2004-02-29 Thread Hanno Böttcher
Nejc Novak wrote: John L Fjellstad wrote: What's actually the problem? This is the problem. But i don't know what's wrang. According to the cd-writing howto all modules are loaded properly. But i still get this error. I believe it has something to do with running 2.4 kernel on debian stable.

Re: LILO

2004-02-29 Thread Toshiro
On Sunday 29 February 2004 00:10, MacNean Tyrrell wrote: > my lilo seems to be screwed up, it > boots and I get some OS/2 thing, I even tried reinstalling debian from net, > it ejects the disk and reboots and same thing. What do I do? > > How can I edit LILO or erase the mbr or something so I can

Тамож.Очистка

2004-02-29 Thread "Deльта-Каctомз" Ерохов
Таможенная очистка грузов, полные автомашины. Фрахт: Финляндия - Москва: автомашины 82м3 - 1500, 120м3 - 2100, 150м3 - 3800, контейнеры 20, 40, 40HQ - 1600 Сборные грузы от 0,5 м3 со складов Германии и Финляндии ООО "Дельта Кастомз" предлагает Вам полный комплекс услуг по доставке автомобильным т

networkprinting/cups

2004-02-29 Thread ijbd
Hi, my desktop has an HP-720C, which works fine on cups locally. If I use KDE menu Settings/Printing Manager, I can open a printer wizard offering me all kind of things (to be able to push prints to the LAN I think, I want to pull them from the LAN). Do I need to do something here to make the de

Re: help apt upgrade issue

2004-02-29 Thread Colin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running a debian woody mixing stable and testing and very random few unstable packages with the 2.4.24 kernel. I just did an apt-get -u dist-upgrade and there was a couple upgrades none seemed very significant but it bombed out at the end. Now it bombs out everytime i

Re: Exim4 and Message could not be sent because its size exceeded the server's limit

2004-02-29 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
Its my server that is rejecting it as it is rejecting it the moment I try and send it. Any ideas how I can stop it doing this? Charlie - Original Message - From: "Peter A. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 12:49 AM Subject: Re: Exim4 and Mes

Re: Exim4 and Message could not be sent because its size exceeded the server's limit

2004-02-29 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
Its my server that is rejecting it as it is rejecting it the moment I try and send it. Any ideas how I can stop it doing this? Charlie - Original Message - From: "Peter A. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 12:49 AM Subject: Re: Exim4 and Mes

Re: via-rhine (or rhinefelt) and VT6105/VT6103 driver problems with Debian stable

2004-02-29 Thread Nick Jacobs
I also needed to use the via-rhine driver with Woody. I used the one from the Scyld site. There are some minor things to fix but basically the Scyld driver will solve your problems. To compile a driver, you need to install the kernel headers, using dselect for example. If you have the latest Woody

Re: Can't login to RXVT in X

2004-02-29 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I can log into the console with no problem. The error message I get appears when I try and open a terminal in X. It appears as a seperate pop-up. Lance > * Lance Hoffmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040227 10:15]: > > I upgraded X the other day from Unstable and now > > I cannot open multi-gnome ter

Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird

2004-02-29 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:30:12AM +1000 or thereabouts, Peter A. Cole wrote: > On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:57:01 -0500 > "S.D.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > No it doesn't thread the processes. In other words one can't do anything > > while one is downloading e-mail. The application is locke

Re: howto serialize tasks in .xsession

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 02:09, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 03:50:17PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > } I run a hybrid desktop: gnome-control-center is installed, but not > } metacity. Fluxbox is my WM; but I remove gnome-session as a Session > } Manager so I have No Session Manager

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Re: Fetchmail Query

2004-02-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Peter A. Cole wrote: > Hi again Oliver, > > I've added the first part you suggested above and double checked the readme file to > ensure my syntax was correct, but it's still leaving the message in my mailbox at > the ISP with the same NDR message. 1) Did you recreate the

Re: Backup my Debian woody system

2004-02-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-26, Oliver Fuchs penned: > > > > What I want: I want to know if my backup strategy is working this way > > or if there is a better solution? > > > > So ... any help/advice/documentation is appreciated. > > > > It kind of depends on whethe

[Solved] Re: debuilding gcc-3.3 and doxygen

2004-02-29 Thread csj
On 28. February 2004 at 11:30AM +0100, "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 21:02:41 +0800, csj wrote: > > I see a doxygen *++-related bug, but so far the version of > > doxygen in unstable is still the same as the one in testing. > > Around the time you wrot

Re: Back to woody!

2004-02-29 Thread David
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 03:37:06PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm a relatively new user who has been learning Linux and Debian by experimenting > with a test machine I've set up. Like many newbies, I've gone in over my > head--installing backports, trying my hand at compili

Re: New paradigm for Linux distributions?

2004-02-29 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 15:50, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I posted a small article on a possible future for Linux distributions: > http://ballsome.com > > Thoughts? > Perhaps I'm just dense, but what's new here? To me, Ian's "plan" sounds like a fairly good description of debian with "lets all u

gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread S.D.A.
I'm having some difficulty getting pgp to work with mutt (1.5.6). The problem I'm having is that mutt can't seem to find my keys. I've been reading the Fine Manual, but it doesn't really go into, this is how one does this...for PGP/GPG anyway. FWIW, when I attempt to sign, this is echo'ed " Can't

RE: LILO

2004-02-29 Thread MacNean Tyrrell
I don't think I made a rescue disk. Am I totally screwed? -Original Message- From: Patrick Lesslie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 11:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LILO On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 10:10:29PM -0500, MacNean Tyrrell wrote: > my lilo seems

phpgroupware doesn't install

2004-02-29 Thread Rich Johnson
I just tried installing phpgroupware for the first time. apt-get/dpkg asked all the questions and apparently exited without setting things up. No phpgroupware was added to the MySQL databases. No references to /etc/phpgroupware/apache.conf were added to /etc/apache/httpd.conf What gives? Wher

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 the mental interface of S.D.A. told: > I'm having some difficulty getting pgp to work with mutt (1.5.6). > > The problem I'm having is that mutt can't seem to find my keys. I've > been reading the Fine Manual, but it doesn't really go into, this is how > one does this...for P

Re: LILO

2004-02-29 Thread Kent West
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 10:10:29PM -0500, MacNean Tyrrell wrote: my lilo seems to be screwed up, it boots and I get some OS/2 thing, I even tried reinstalling debian from net, it ejects the disk and reboots and same thing. What do I do? MacNean Tyrrell wrote: I don't think I made a rescue d

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from S.D.A.: > I'm having some difficulty getting pgp to work with mutt (1.5.6). .^^^ pgp or gpg? My mutt is 1.3.28i (Woody). gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.2 > The problem I'm having is that mutt can't seem to find my keys. I've Do you have "gpa"? That's a cute

Re: LILO

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from MacNean Tyrrell: > I don't think I made a rescue disk. Am I totally screwed? No, if you have a bootable CD, you can fix it with that. Boot from it and say "linux single", then fix, run lilo, reboot. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Elimar Riesebieter: > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 the mental interface of > S.D.A. told: > > > I'm having some difficulty getting pgp to work with mutt (1.5.6). > > > > The problem I'm having is that mutt can't seem to find my keys. I've > > been reading the Fine Manual, but it doesn't rea

RE: LILO

2004-02-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello MacNean Tyrrell (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I don't think I made a rescue disk. Am I totally screwed? You can still boot using one of the Debian CDs. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 http

Distributed Jukeboxes for LAN

2004-02-29 Thread Bill Moseley
Just looking for suggestions on a distributed jukebox for mostly audio files for my home lan. There seems to be a few available but wanted to see if anyone here has a favorite. Anyone using http://www.theory.org/software/djukebox/ ? My current setup is a browser setup that runs xmms --enqueue, b

Re: arecord ?

2004-02-29 Thread Florentin Ionescu
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Alexis Huxley wrote : » Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:32:21 + (UTC) » From: Alexis Huxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> » To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] » Subject: Re: arecord ? » Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 04:49:04 -0600 (CST) » Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] » » > I have an ISA card CS4236,

OT: establish private network (no wires)

2004-02-29 Thread Karsten Bolding
Hello I'm seeking advice on a technical matter. I want to establish a private (wireless) network in an area of say 5x5 km2. In this area there are a number of vehicles moving around and each of the vehicles should constantly - every second - be updated about the position of the other vehicles (ob

a good mirror to download sarge

2004-02-29 Thread Didier Caamano
Hello to all: I'm wondering if any of you know a good mirror, preferably from Canada to download sarge, the isos or the network image? if the mirror is in the US I wouldn't mind either. Thank you very much, have a nice day. Didier. -- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up

Re: via-rhine (or rhinefelt) and VT6105/VT6103 driver problems with Debian stable

2004-02-29 Thread Steven Leach
Which Via board are you running? I have two set up, a CL6000 Dual Lan for my server and an M1 as a little desktop cube. Debian 3.0r2 had no problem with the M1 (single ethernet) using the via-rhine driver. On the dual lan, however, only eth0 was recognized. Upgraded to sid (possibly

Re: cdrecord and kernel 2.4 problem

2004-02-29 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 29. Februar 2004 11:43 schrieb Nejc Novak: > Fixating... > WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode. There is no problme. You simulate only the burn process. And the Program says, that some drives don't like this. Try it wi

Re: Kernel 2.6.3 again

2004-02-29 Thread Kai Schindelka
Hello Andreas; Kai Schindelka (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: Ok. My name's not Wes, but I've got some questions anyway. :) Please start your own thread next time instead of answering a message in an existing thread. my apology. I thought it would be the best to keep the topics together, but I have

RE: Sound and Linux Kernel 2.6

2004-02-29 Thread MacNean Tyrrell
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andreas Janssen Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sound and Linux Kernel 2.6 Hello MacNean Tyrrell (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Ok so I have Debian installed, and I like it a

RE: LILO

2004-02-29 Thread MacNean Tyrrell
-Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LILO On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 10:10:29PM -0500, MacNean Tyrrell wrote: >my lilo seems to be screwed up, it >boots and I get some OS/2 thing, I even tri

Re: Kernel 2.6.3 again

2004-02-29 Thread Kai Schindelka
Pigeon wrote: * Is it sufficient, or did I miss something? I would add to Andreas's list: libsysfs and sysfsutils. These were mentioned in a thread Google found for me on lkml, along with procps, as being update candidates for getting rid of the error message "Unknown HZ value! (xx) Assuming 100."

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:27:17PM +0100 or thereabouts, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 the mental interface of > S.D.A. told: > > > I'm having some difficulty getting pgp to work with mutt (1.5.6). > > > > The problem I'm having is that mutt can't seem to find my keys. I've > >

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:36:21AM -0700 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Elimar Riesebieter: > > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 the mental interface of > > S.D.A. told: > > > > > I'm having some difficulty getting pgp to work with mutt (1.5.6). > > > > > > The problem I'm having is that m

Re: OT: establish private network (no wires)

2004-02-29 Thread Brett Carrington
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:54:54PM +0100, Karsten Bolding wrote: > Hello > > I'm seeking advice on a technical matter. I want to establish a > private (wireless) network in an area of say 5x5 km2. In this area there > are a number of vehicles moving around and each of the vehicles should > consta

Re: via-rhine (or rhinefelt) and VT6105/VT6103 driver problems with Debian stable

2004-02-29 Thread Chris Evans
On 29 Feb 2004 at 13:28, Steven Leach wrote: > Which Via board are you running? I believe it is a CL1000 > I have two set up, a CL6000 Dual Lan for my server and an M1 as a > little desktop cube. Aha, you lucky man you! > Debian 3.0r2 had no problem with the M1 (single ethernet) using

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from S.D.A.: > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:36:21AM -0700 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > > > > fwiw, mine isn't (I've been told you probably don't want this) and > > mine works. > > Hm, what entries did you need in your .muttrc? I'm also puzzled as to See my other post in this thread

Re: via-rhine (or rhinefelt) and VT6105/VT6103 driver problems with Debian stable

2004-02-29 Thread Chris Evans
On 29 Feb 2004 at 6:10, Nick Jacobs wrote: > I also needed to use the via-rhine driver with > Woody. I used the one from the Scyld site. There > are some minor things to fix but basically the > Scyld driver will solve your problems. By the time I got Nick's very helpful post I had discovered that

Re: please help apt upgrade issue openoffice locales

2004-02-29 Thread developer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I am running a debian woody mixing stable and testing and very random >> few >> unstable packages with the 2.4.24 kernel. I just did an apt-get -u >> dist-upgrade and there was a couple upgrades none seemed very >> significant >> but it bombed out at the end. Now it b

Re: a good mirror to download sarge

2004-02-29 Thread Lucas Albers
Didier Caamano said: > I'm wondering if any of you know a good mirror, preferably from Canada to > download sarge, the isos or the network image? if the mirror is in the US > I wouldn't mind either. run apt-spy to find fast mirror. install apt-cacher to cache all apt requests. apt-cacher speeds u

Re: New paradigm for Linux distributions?

2004-02-29 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
David Clymer wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 15:50, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I posted a small article on a possible future for Linux distributions: http://ballsome.com Thoughts? Perhaps I'm just dense, but what's new here? To me, Ian's "plan" sounds like a fairly good description of debian with

Problem installing Debian onto Proliant server

2004-02-29 Thread Douglas A. Paquette Jr.
To whom it may concern at Debian,   I have a Compaq Proliant 8000 server with 4 Ultra 320 10k 72.8 gig scsi hard drives.   http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliant8000/   I had a guy from a computer store successfully install debian into my proliant 8000 but ran into some problems

Re: changing to debian from slackware

2004-02-29 Thread Lucas Albers
Joel Kaasinen said: > Hi, > > I have an old dual 133mhz pentium server (64mb ram, ~8Gb scsi harddisk) > with > slackware 9.1 installed. >So now I'm seriously thinking about switching to debian. > > Any tips (I want to keep my config the same and avoid reconffin')? > Differences between debian an

tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I want to tar my whole / directory. I do tar cvfz test.tar.gz / and afterwards trying to untar the directory I receive the error-message: tar::Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory Typing tar tf test.tar the list shows me: / /boot /root [...] I do not understand why tar

Xfree 4.4 is out

2004-02-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Great news! 4.4 version is out. http://www.xfree.org/#newrel Finally my card is there (ati radeon 9800) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Oliver Fuchs: > > I want to tar my whole / directory. > > I do > tar cvfz test.tar.gz / > and afterwards trying to untar the directory I receive the error-message: > tar::Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory Check the manpage. The "f" switch is used to tell tar th

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 the mental interface of S.D.A. told: > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:27:17PM +0100 or thereabouts, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 the mental interface of > > S.D.A. told: > > > > > I'm having some difficulty getting pgp to work with mutt (1.5.6). > > > > > >

Re: tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 29. Februar 2004 20:42 schrieb Oliver Fuchs: > I want to tar my whole / directory. > > I do > tar cvfz test.tar.gz / > and afterwards trying to untar the directory I receive the error-message: > tar::Cannot mkdir: No such file

Re: tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, s. keeling wrote: > Check the manpage. The "f" switch is used to tell tar that the next > parameter is the file to use: > >tar cvzf test.tar.gz / > > Instead, cd to someplace with some space, then run it. Yes, that is right ... my fault. > By default, tar doesn't, so

FYI: Branden's Response to DPL Platform Question

2004-02-29 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I asked Branden Robinson a question about his DPL platform, and got a pretty good response, so I thought I'd post it here. Question: While I am in no 'official' position to request this (I'm just a random interested user), I'd really appreciate you guys including some stuff about the current r

Kmplayer package

2004-02-29 Thread Slaanesh
Hi, Does somebody know if a debian package of kmplayer is available somewhere ? Slaanesh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FYI: Branden's Response to DPL Platform Question

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Joel Konkle-Parker: > > challenges they've had to face. The fact that approximately 6% of our > archive fails to meet bare minimum expectations leads me to believe that > we may want to inaugurate a special process for orphaning such packages. 'Sounds to me like a job for [EMAIL PR

Re: tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Oliver Fuchs: > > So the conclusion would be that trying to tar the / directory I have to cd > into that directory to make it working while with any other directory I can > start the tar-process from where ever I want? The answer should be in the manpage but for what it's worth, I _

Re: FYI: Branden's Response to DPL Platform Question

2004-02-29 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 22:11, s. keeling wrote: --snip -- > That might be a great way to draw in potential maintainers (hey, I'd > read it!), and with %96 good vs. %6 bad, the numbers are promising. > ^^^ You mean from at least 102 % of Debian packages? -:)) Vlada

RE: Sound and Linux Kernel 2.6

2004-02-29 Thread MacNean Tyrrell
Andreas Janssen, thanks so much, best help every. Sound now works. SO happy. Thanks again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem installing Debian onto Proliant server

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:06 am, Douglas A. Paquette Jr. wrote: > To whom it may concern at Debian, > > I have a Compaq Proliant 8000 server with 4 Ultra 320 10k 72.8 gig > scsi hard drives. > > http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliant80

Installation Questions

2004-02-29 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! I'm planing to install Debian on my desktop machine which already has a running Linux. But not Debian which I came to like recently because I use it on my laptop. So here is the question. Is it possible with the debian installer to skip some of the tasks? Especially formatting the partitio

soundcard driver

2004-02-29 Thread john
I'm using Debian 2.2 and kernel 2.2.19 that came with it. I've installed xmcd and it works just fine but I get no sound. I installed alsa-base and added 'alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio' to /etc/modutils/aliases but I still get no sound. All I want to do is play a CD. What else do I need to do?

Re: I've lost my 'k' key, in some apps. - Fixed!

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
This is just one for the archives. Maybe it'll help someone should they run into something like it. The moral is, after installing a kernel package, run modconf! This is in Woody 3.0r2 Incoming from s. keeling: > Incoming from s. keeling: > > This is the kind of thing that annoys the living day

Re: FYI: Branden's Response to DPL Platform Question

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka: > On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 22:11, s. keeling wrote: > > That might be a great way to draw in potential maintainers (hey, I'd > > read it!), and with %96 good vs. %6 bad, the numbers are promising. > > ^^^ > You mean from at leas

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:06:14PM +0100 or thereabouts, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 the mental interface of > S.D.A. told: > > > > Elimar, > > > > Wierd, I don't seem to have an 'options' file. I'll see if it's > > somewhere else. > > Did you install the gnupg package? Th

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:31:09AM -0700 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from S.D.A.: > > I'm having some difficulty getting pgp to work with mutt (1.5.6). > .^^^ > > pgp or gpg? My mutt is 1.3.28i (Woody). gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.2 mutt 1.5.6i (compiled

Re: tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread CW Harris
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:33:48PM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, s. keeling wrote: > > >cd / > >tar cvzf /somewhere/test.tgz . > >cd /somewhere > >tar tvzf test.tgz > > > > Note the "." btw, tarring the whole root dir will tar the entire > > filesystem, inclu

Re: Distributed Jukeboxes for LAN

2004-02-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-29, Bill Moseley penned: > Just looking for suggestions on a distributed jukebox for mostly audio > files for my home lan. There seems to be a few available but wanted > to see if anyone here has a favorite. > > Anyone using http://www.theory.org/software/djukebox/ ? > > My current setu

Re: FYI: Branden's Response to DPL Platform Question

2004-02-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:11:27PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Joel Konkle-Parker: > > challenges they've had to face. The fact that approximately 6% of our > > archive fails to meet bare minimum expectations leads me to believe that > > we may want to inaugurate a special process for

Error

2004-02-29 Thread Pedro M.
Using synaptic appears the next error : perl:warming : setting locale failed. perl: warning:Please check that your locale settings : LANGUAGE = (unset) LC_ALL= (unset) LANG = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" are supporeted and installed on your system. perl: warming : falling back to the satandar locale ("c")

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from S.D.A.: > > Is there a good SxS for this anywhere. Any I'm found, don't really go > through this step x step. I followed one, and it didn't even mention an Ah! "SxS" == "Step by step." See http://codesorcery.net/mutt/mutt-gnupg-howto -- Any technology distinguishable from magic

Re: Error - yet another locale problem. :-(

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Pedro M.: > Using synaptic appears the next error : > > perl:warming : setting locale failed. > perl: warning:Please check that your locale settings : > > LANGUAGE = (unset) > LC_ALL= (unset) > LANG = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > are supporeted and installed on your system. > > perl: w

Help: Battstat

2004-02-29 Thread Ben Hill
Apologies if it's a lame question: I am trying to get battstat showing the correct current battery charge, but it's not picking up any info. I have built ACPI and APM into my 2.6.3 kernel and I'm running Deb 3.0 testing/unstable. This is on a Toshiba Tecra M1 laptop. Cheers, Ben -- To UNSUBSC

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 03:14:42PM -0700 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from S.D.A.: > > > > Is there a good SxS for this anywhere. Any I'm found, don't really go > > through this step x step. I followed one, and it didn't even mention an > > Ah! "SxS" == "Step by step." Yes, (not

Re: CUPS Admin (was Re: [Fwd: Re: No printing at all!])

2004-02-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 22:07, CW Harris wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:54:08PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (27/02/04 13:00), Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 19:18, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > > On (25/02/04 17:23), Alisdair wrote: > > > > Here's the URL for CUPS whe

Re: exim HELO=fully qualified host name?

2004-02-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-02-23 22:24:28 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > That depends on who's mail server you connect to. Some admins require > the HELO parameter to be resolvable, and some even require it to > resolve to the IP of the machine making the connection. They should fix their configuration, then

Re: New paradigm for Linux distributions?

2004-02-29 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 14:19, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > David Clymer wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 15:50, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > > >>I posted a small article on a possible future for Linux distributions: > >>http://ballsome.com > >> > >>Thoughts? > >> > > > > > > Perhaps I'm just den

Re: tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread Travis Crump
Oliver Fuchs wrote: On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, s. keeling wrote: Check the manpage. The "f" switch is used to tell tar that the next parameter is the file to use: tar cvzf test.tar.gz / Instead, cd to someplace with some space, then run it. Yes, that is right ... my fault. By default, tar doesn

debian menu sorting does not work anymore

2004-02-29 Thread Erik Steffl
I added the custom sorting to my debian menu configuration, it used to work but some time ago it stopped working. I have the following in the /etc/menu-methods/menu.h: # item first, submenu later: # sort=ifelse($command, "0", "1" ) ":$title" sort=ifelse($priority, $priority, "99") and here

mozilla freezes on geocities.com?

2004-02-29 Thread Erik Steffl
mozilla seems to be working fairly well but when I went to geocities.com it repeatedly froze - the CPU usage went to 100% and mozilla windows were not updated at all, X window close didn't work, kill -15 worked. not sure what triggered freeze, it wasn't a particular page or action but it w

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2004-02-29 Thread yfcdevos-help
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Lost isa card with Kernel 2.6

2004-02-29 Thread Robert Rati
I just installed the Debian 2.6.3 kernel for i686 machines and my ISA PNP card. I have an old ISA Plug and Play modem that I had working in kernel 2.4, but can't get 2.6 to recognize. With the 2.4 kernel, I was able to disable PNP OS in my Award BIOS, and the 2.4 Linux kernel found the card as ju

Re: Kmplayer package

2004-02-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:51:43PM +0100, Slaanesh wrote: > Does somebody know if a debian package of kmplayer is available > somewhere ? A search at apt-get.org finds three. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UN

Re: mozilla freezes on geocities.com?

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Erik Steffl: > mozilla seems to be working fairly well but when I went to > geocities.com it repeatedly froze - the CPU usage went to 100% and > mozilla windows were not updated at all, X window close didn't work, > kill -15 worked. You're obviously mistaken. I see nothing like

Re: headless firewall application recommendation

2004-02-29 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 00:40, MJ Inabnit wrote: > Greetings: > > I am looking for recommendations for firewall/router software for > Debian. I have looked over several packages, but I feel swamped. I > used an old Woody CD for very basic install, updated kernel and then > upgraded the system to S

Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird

2004-02-29 Thread Peter A. Cole
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:04:46 -0500 "S.D.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah really?! You can read/write an e-mail while Sylpheed is pulling > down mesages? Cool -- not being able to b4 is the primary reason I > left it, for Mozilla. > > I liked it's ability to reply with higlighted materia

Re: Fetchmail Query

2004-02-29 Thread Peter A. Cole
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:37:52 +0100 Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Did you recreate the sendmail.cf file with e.g. sendmailconfig. Yep, I ran sendmailconfig telling it to use the existing files. > 2) No I only have the feature added to my sendmail.mc. There goes that idea :-)

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:00:19PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > See my other post in this thread. They all came from /etc/Muttrc. I would recommend when you make changes to make changes only to your personal ~/.muttrc. Changing the /etc/Muttrc default

sms-gateway

2004-02-29 Thread Ross Tsolakidis
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to send the subject of an email via SMS. Is this possible with any packages thru Debian ? Can anyone direct me to any information about SMS > Email ? Do I require a Mobile Phone company to be part of this process ? Eg, Use their gateway ? Or can I do it all myself

Re: gpg & mutt

2004-02-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:31:09AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from S.D.A.: > > I'm having some difficulty getting pgp to work with mutt (1.5.6). > .^^^ > > pgp or gpg? My mutt is 1.3.28i (Woody). gpg (Gnu

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