Re: burning CDs, or, Ah, now ESR's rant makes sense . .

2004-03-18 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 18 March 2004 01:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Anyway, thanks for the pointer to k3b; it looks like it might work; > > I'll give it a spin and report back. > > Nope: > > /usr/bin/mkisofs: Resource temporarily unavailable. cannot fwrite 32768*1 Go the k3b site (linked from KDE-apps.

Re: apt cache

2004-03-18 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Enrique Samson Jr. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > how do i specify the URI for sources.list when i would like it to > contain my apt cache from an updated knoppix3.3 hd-install in another > partition? Would it be right to write "deb > file:/var/cache/apt/archives testing"? Apt needs some a

Re: subnet seen on intranet

2004-03-18 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:11:21PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > i have a network i use for code development branching off of > the corporate intranet. the topology is: > > +---+ +-+ > | 192.168.1.100 |---| 192.168.1.1 | > +-

[SOLVED] Re: [Sid] mozilla-firefox 0.8-4

2004-03-18 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Uwe Dippel wrote: > RTFA. [A = Archive] Sorry, I didn't have time, and to be honest: where is that? > I got it back up and running using a workaround from the debian bug list: > > cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components/ > cp libgklayout.so libgklayout.so.old > cp /usr/lib/mozilla/components/li

Re: how to shape incoming traffic on specific port?

2004-03-18 Thread Tauber, Mathias Mailing
Sergey V. Spiridonov schrieb: Hi, I need to limit incoming traffic on the specific port (I experimented with ssh). Outgoing traffic can me easely limited with tc, but I have problems with incoming traffic. I tried to drop some packets, but after this ssh stop working at all. Is there any standard

Re: s3 virge

2004-03-18 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
> -Original Message- > From: Ted Parks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 20:39 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: s3 virge > > > I am using an s3virge card on a machine I am trying to configure with > Debian Woody. I have tried to set up the card several ways, includi

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [Sid] mozilla-firefox 0.8-4

2004-03-18 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:31:45 +0100, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: >> RTFA. [A = Archive] > > Sorry, I didn't have time, and to be honest: where is that? Exactly 8 threads down. > My wife already wrote that she tried it and now has her "Lieblingsbrowser" > back - and I tried and can confirm it. It i

Kernel 2.6.3 i810fb Block Cursor

2004-03-18 Thread Patrick Beard
Hi, I've been using the i810fb in kernel 2.6.x with no problems on sarge. Below is the append line I used in Lilo; video=i810fb:vram:2,xres:1024,yres:768,bpp:16,hsync1:30,hsync2:55,vsync1 :50,vsync2:85,accel,mtrr (note: The hsync and vsync are not the actual values. I'm not at my system and can't r

Re: Graphical resolution changer for Xfree86?

2004-03-18 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Mike Fedyk wrote: > Haim Ashkenazi wrote: >> Mike Fedyk wrote: >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I was reading some reviews of other distributions, and they had a >>>graphical "control panel" that allowed you to change your resolution >>>without restarting X11. >>> >>>Does Debian have anything like that? >>

cron

2004-03-18 Thread Jordi Carrillo
Hi all, I've made a simple backup script with tar. In one of the lines I have: tar -czvf backup.tar.gz dir1/ dir2/ dir3/ So If I run this script it goes perfectly. The problem is that if I put it in cron it only catches the first dir, i.e, dir1/. I don't know why it doesn't take dir2 and dir3. Ob

2.6.4 on shutdown

2004-03-18 Thread David Baron
1. A whole bunch of ppp1 not configured messages without \n. Duh--aint no such animal. Should be a simple fix somewhere :-) 2. Umount errors: /dev/root.old not found /initrd illegal seek (this should be long gone. Is initrdtools broken?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Graphical resolution changer for Xfree86?

2004-03-18 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was reading some reviews of other distributions, and they had a > graphical "control panel" that allowed you to change your resolution > without restarting X11. There is xrandr, but it's a command line program. Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: New Debian Installer... Grub problems...

2004-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:17:10PM -0500, +* A Death *+ wrote: > Well the new installer seems to work great ... except its doing > nothing for me since the boot loader isnt working... Please report problems with the new installer to debian-boot rather than debian-user. Except: > When the current

Re: burning CDs, or, Ah, now ESR's rant makes sense . . .

2004-03-18 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
Kent West says: > > I'd be thrilled if anyone could tell me how to get eroaster to see my > burner, or alternatively, to point me to a relatively intuitive burner > application. although I am not a KDE user, I installed K3b. It is very good and intuitive burner application. you can check a sc

Re: burning CDs, or, Ah, now ESR's rant makes sense . .

2004-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:45:19AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 18 March 2004 01:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > Anyway, thanks for the pointer to k3b; it looks like it might > > > work; I'll give it a spin and report back. > > > > Nope: > > > /usr/bin/mkisofs: Resource temporarily

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-18 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alright, I got it sorted out. I'm now using the nnml backend. Here's > what fixed mail for me... I don't think it's necessary to switch to nnml. Everything should work with nnfolder, too. > First, had to tell procmail to spew at another directory. T

Mozilla error on latest upgrade with unstable

2004-03-18 Thread Henry Hollenberg
I am now getting an error when I attempt a text search using CTRL-F in mozilla: XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: chrome://global/content/finddialog.xul Line Number 1, Column 9: ey.value; ^ Mozilla debian 1.6-3 Mozilla 1.6 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20

Ext3 Journal problem

2004-03-18 Thread John Stevenson
I just noticed that one of my hard drives was no longer mounting. When looking through the output of dmesg, I saw the following output kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,68), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data m

AW: DNS query

2004-03-18 Thread Simmel
>>and that the name server is used by checking that /etc/nsswitch contains >>the entry >> hosts: files dns >mine has this line too (wish I had a clue what it means) Pretty simple, it means that the /etc/host is checked first before consulting the name server, which is actually the norma

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AW: community internet cafe with gnome

2004-03-18 Thread Simmel
Andy M wrote: > I plan to put up a small webpage dedicated for this community effort. Is > there a place to post 'linux success stories' somewhere? > > Andy Well, there might be a page which came to my mind, e.g. www.tldp.org looks a little bit oldfashioned, but has got good material on it :-)

Re: how to shape incoming traffic on specific port?

2004-03-18 Thread David Clymer
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 19:18, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: > Hi, > > I need to limit incoming traffic on the specific port (I experimented > with ssh). Outgoing traffic can me easely limited with tc, but I have > problems with incoming traffic. I tried to drop some packets, but after > this ssh stop

k3b and kde 3.2

2004-03-18 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I used k3b for quite a while but upgraded last night to kde 3.2 (previously 3.1.5) now I can not burn any files and receive a error prompt which I pasted below. I used k3b 0.10.3 from official apt-get repositories but tried as well to install a more recent version of k3b but encountere

Re: k3b and kde 3.2

2004-03-18 Thread Bruce Miller
On March 18, 2004 08:18, Martin Wegmann wrote: > Hello, > > I used k3b for quite a while but upgraded last night to kde 3.2 > (previously 3.1.5) now I can not burn any files and receive a error > prompt which I pasted below. > I used k3b 0.10.3 from official apt-get repositories but tried as > well

libc confilcts with apt-get install

2004-03-18 Thread Harland Christofferson
i tried to install package bind9 using apt-get install. the result is: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: bind9: Conflicts: bind but 1:8.3.3-2.0woody2 is to b

Re: X-problems with a sony multisync 17se

2004-03-18 Thread David
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:36:57PM -0600, David wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:28:47PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have serious problems to start the X with my sony multisync 17se. > My monitor is a Sony Multiscan 15 sf2 > I had a lot of identical blackouts when I was upgrading XF

Re: burning CDs, or, Ah, now ESR's rant makes sense . .

2004-03-18 Thread Larry Geralds
/usr/bin/mkisofs: Resource temporarily unavailable. cannot fwrite 32768*1 [snip other stuff about k3b not working] Sorry if I missed something in this thread. But I think the work around for this is to turn off write-at-once in the k3b dialog that pops up when one starts a burn. -- To UNSUBSCRI

AW: subnet seen on intranet

2004-03-18 Thread Simmel
So I understand you right, your main problem is samba, or why did you mention it in the last line??? To make your box completly unavailable to any host, yes, you'll need a firewall, whether on the box you'd like to hide, or use an older machine with 2 nics as a small firewall e.g. like www.ipcop.o

Re: Graphical resolution changer for Xfree86?

2004-03-18 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 22:02 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>I was reading some reviews of other distributions, and they had a > >>graphical "control panel" that allowed you to change your resolution > >>without restarting X11.

2.6.4 initrd umount problem workaround

2004-03-18 Thread David Baron
It is apparently a timing problem for whatever reason. I changed /etc/rcS.d/S05initrd-tools.sh to do a "lazy" umount and it seems OK. After bootup, there is no /initrd in /etc/mtab. The line will read, for now: umount -l /initrd || exit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Mouse behavior with kernel 2.6.X ( running 2.6.4 and 2.6.3 on another machine)

2004-03-18 Thread n.v.t n.v.t
Hi, I'm struggling witht his for a while. I have been running 2.6. But I don't like the mouse behavior at all. It's *to* fast compared to 2.4. How can I get the 2.4 mouse behavior back? Joe Ps: Please CC me. I'm not subscribed. ;=) _

read ms-access .mdb files

2004-03-18 Thread Rajesh Menon
hi - anyone here tried to open/read .mdb files? im on debian sid with openoffice 1.1, and the mdb-tools utilities (the manpages of which aren't too descriptive.) i noticed a page returned by google describing how to install and run everything from src, but i wanted to make sure before i did all tha

Re:k3b and kde 3.2

2004-03-18 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 18 March 2004 15:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > dpkg -i k3b_0.11.5-1_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 123358 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace k3b 0.10.3-5 (using k3b_0.11.5-1_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement k3b ... > dpkg: error processing k3b_0.

RE: Debian (Woody) Problem With startx

2004-03-18 Thread Roland Dunn
Thanks to everyone for all their help. What fixed it in the end was: "update-alternatives --config x-session-manager" and choosing GNOME. Great, thanks one and all. -Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 March 2004 22:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Installing from testing on stable - will it be stable after a new release ?

2004-03-18 Thread peteredhair
I'm using apt-get to install packages from the testing distribution. Everything installs and runs ok. What i'm wondering is when the testing distro and all it's packages turn into stable will i be able to "convert" all the packages i've installed on my system from testing into stable ? If so ho

Mails to MMS

2004-03-18 Thread swisscom-mobile
Das Versenden oder Beantworten eines MMS per E-mail ist nicht möglich. Sind Sie Kunde von Swisscom Mobile? Dann versenden Sie mit dem MMS Composer Ihre MMS vom Internet: <<>>. Viel Spass mit MMS von Swisscom Mobile! L'envoi d'un MMS ou d'y répondre n'est pas possible par le biais d'un e-mail. E

Re: K3b mkisofs failing under 2.6.4

2004-03-18 Thread Curt Howland
One last comment on this for now. I removed this file: /lib/modules/2.6.4-1-686/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.ko moving it to a safe place in case this didn't work. On boot, as should be obvious, the module was not loaded. During XF86 initialization, the internal nVidia agp driver started jus

Re: Mouse behavior with kernel 2.6.X ( running 2.6.4 and 2.6.3 on another machine)

2004-03-18 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello n.v.t n.v.t (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm struggling witht his for a while. I have been running 2.6. But I > don't like the mouse behavior at all. It's *to* fast compared to 2.4. > How can I get the 2.4 mouse behavior back? If you use a PS2 mouse, remove the InputDevice "Generic

Re: Installing from testing on stable - will it be stable after a new release ?

2004-03-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/03/04 10:05), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using apt-get to install packages from the testing distribution. > Everything installs and runs ok. > > What i'm wondering is when the testing distro and all it's packages turn into stable > will i be able to "convert" all the packages i've inst

Question

2004-03-18 Thread Smoketr341
I have a Maxtor 5000 and baught a new computer.  Can't get it to work on my new Latitude.  It keeps making a beeping tune type of noise.  HELP

Re: read ms-access .mdb files

2004-03-18 Thread David Piniella
Rajesh Menon wrote: hi - anyone here tried to open/read .mdb files? im on debian sid with openoffice 1.1, and the mdb-tools utilities (the manpages of which aren't too descriptive.) i noticed a page returned by google describing how to install and run everything from src, but i wanted to make sure

Latest Kernel Supporting iMac?

2004-03-18 Thread Ed Sutherland
I'm considering moving from YDL -- great Mac hardware support, dinosaur-like update schedule -- to Debian. Questions -- What is the latest kernel that supports iMac hardware? Is it best to download and burn a Debian ppc distro or use the net-install? Thanks. Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Looking for nice, small display manager

2004-03-18 Thread Wilko Fokken
Herewidth testifying: My favorite WM (so far) is 'icewm-gnome'. It's main assets to me: - it is small, clean and fast - it's panel shows up to 3 little graphical squares showing system activities: a) system load b) LAN load c) onlin

IMAP problems

2004-03-18 Thread Dafydd Blaidd
Greetings, I am having a whale of a time getting IMAP to work. I am using Sendmail 8.12.11 and Cyrus 2.1.16. I can telnet to my server on port 25 and everything works fine but if I try it on port 143 I get the following: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character

IMAP problems

2004-03-18 Thread Dafydd Blaidd
Greetings, I am having a whale of a time getting IMAP to work. I am using Sendmail 8.12.11 and Cyrus 2.1.16. I can telnet to my server on port 25 and everything works fine but if I try it on port 143 I get the following: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]

Re: Success or failures with Mailman 2.1.4 on woody

2004-03-18 Thread Matt Perry
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Andy Firman wrote: > I did Mailman 2.1.4 from a backport. It was not that hard. Meaning that you created the backport? If not then this won't help. I'm looking for instances of successes or failures of running Mailman 2.1.4 installed from the source tarball not a debian

Re: how to shape incoming traffic on specific port?

2004-03-18 Thread Sergey Spiridonov
David Clymer wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 19:18, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: I need to limit incoming traffic on the specific port (I experimented with ssh). Outgoing traffic can me easely limited with tc, but I have problems with incoming traffic. I tried to drop some packets, but after this ssh

Stopping GNOME Launching on Reboot

2004-03-18 Thread Roland Dunn
Hi, Having typed: "update-alternatives --config x-session-manager" and choosen GNOME, GNOME now starts up on reboot. I'd like it not to so that I can type "startx" when I want it to go into GNOME. How can I force it not to launch GNOME on reboot? Cheers Roland. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Latest Kernel Supporting iMac?

2004-03-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/03/04 10:52), Ed Sutherland wrote: > I'm considering moving from YDL -- great Mac hardware support, > dinosaur-like update schedule -- to Debian. Questions -- > > What is the latest kernel that supports iMac hardware? > Is it best to download and burn a Debian ppc distro or use the > net-

Re: Looking for nice, small display manager

2004-03-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Wilko Fokken: > Herewidth testifying: My favorite WM (so far) is 'icewm-gnome'. > > It's main assets to me: > [snip] > If anybody knows a usefull configuration program, this nice WM would iceconf, icemc, icepref. Try "apt-cache show icepref" -- Any technology distinguishable fro

Re:Mouse behavior with kernel 2.6.X ( running 2.6.4 and 2.6.3 on another machine)

2004-03-18 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 18 March 2004 17:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 'm struggling witht his for a while. I have been running 2.6. But I don't > like the mouse behavior at all. It's *to* fast compared to 2.4. How can I > get the 2.4 mouse behavior back? and another thing. It takes a lot of mousing around

Re: Stopping GNOME Launching on Reboot

2004-03-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Roland Dunn: > > Having typed: "update-alternatives --config x-session-manager" and > choosen GNOME, GNOME now starts up on reboot. I'd like it not to so that > I can type "startx" when I want it to go into GNOME. How can I force it > not to launch GNOME on reboot? That's gdm, and y

Re: cyrus fun

2004-03-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Mauricio wrote: Has anyone successfully installed cyrus in a debian machine, being able then to imap through ssl to it? If so, could you give me some hints regarding configuration (like /etc/imapd.conf, and any required changes to /etc/inetd.conf. After all, how is it being loaded?), layo

Re: cyrus fun

2004-03-18 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:29:06PM -0500, Mauricio wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed cyrus in a debian machine, > being able then to imap through ssl to it? If so, could you give me > some hints regarding configuration (like /etc/imapd.conf, and any > required changes to /etc/ine

Re: Stopping GNOME Launching on Reboot

2004-03-18 Thread Kent West
Roland Dunn wrote: Hi, Having typed: "update-alternatives --config x-session-manager" and choosen GNOME, GNOME now starts up on reboot. I'd like it not to so that I can type "startx" when I want it to go into GNOME. How can I force it not to launch GNOME on reboot? Gnome starts? Or gdm starts,

Re: IMAP problems

2004-03-18 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:23:42AM -0500, Dafydd Blaidd wrote: > I am having a whale of a time getting IMAP to work. I am using > Sendmail 8.12.11 and Cyrus 2.1.16. I can telnet to my server on port 25 > and everything works fine but if I try it on port 143 I get the > following: > > Tr

Re: libc confilcts with apt-get install

2004-03-18 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Thursday, 18 March 2004, Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: >i tried to install package bind9 using apt-get install. the result is: > >Reading Package Lists... >Building Dependency Tree... >You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: >Sorry, but the following

Re: 2.6.4 on shutdown

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
"David Baron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. A whole bunch of ppp1 not configured messages without \n. Duh--aint no > such animal. Should be a simple fix somewhere :-) > > 2. Umount errors: > /dev/root.old not found > /initrd illegal seek (this should be long gone. Is initrdtools broken?) With

NIS Client Problem

2004-03-18 Thread Roland Dunn
I'm trying to join a Debian(Woody) machine to a NIS network. I'm getting the "YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound" error on startup. Is there any logfile I can look into to try to debug this? Any routines I can try to see how /etc/init.d/nis or /usr/sbin/ypbind is trying to find the NIS server?

Re: IMAP problems

2004-03-18 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 17:10, Dafydd Blaidd wrote: > Greetings, > I am having a whale of a time getting IMAP to work. I am using > Sendmail 8.12.11 and Cyrus 2.1.16. I can telnet to my server on port 25 > and everything works fine but if I try it on port 143 I get the > following: > > Tryin

Re: gnus losing mail?

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Alright, I got it sorted out. I'm now using the nnml backend. Here's >> what fixed mail for me... > > I don't think it's necessary to switch to nnml. Everything should > work with nnfolder, too. Actuall

Re: burning CDs, or, Ah, now ESR's rant makes sense . . .

2004-03-18 Thread Kent West
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:54:55PM -0600, Kent West wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | >On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:23:27PM -0600, Kent West wrote: | >| Now Eric S. Raymond's rant about the (un)usability issues in Linux | >| (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/l

Re: libc confilcts with apt-get install

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > bind9: Conflicts: bind but 1:8.3.3-2.0woody2 is to be install

Re: Mouse behavior with kernel 2.6.X ( running 2.6.4 and 2.6.3 on another machine)

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
"n.v.t n.v.t" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm struggling witht his for a while. I have been running 2.6. But I > don't like the mouse behavior at all. It's *too* fast compared to > 2.4. How can I get the 2.4 mouse behavior back? In what situation are we talking about? In games, in X, with gpm.

RE: Stopping GNOME Launching on Reboot

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Kahle
Hi Roland, On Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:59 AM Roland Dunn wrote: > Having typed: "update-alternatives --config > x-session-manager" and choosen GNOME, GNOME now > starts up on reboot. I'd like it not to so that > I can type "startx" when I want it to go into > GNOME. How can I force it not to

Re: IMAP problems

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Dafydd Blaidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am not confident of my configuration of either Cyrus or Sendmail to use > IMAPD. Any help would be appreciated. If you're not bound to Cyrus or sendmail for other reasons, I strongly recommend uw-imapd and exim4 instead. uw-imapd just works, and exi

Re: Stopping GNOME Launching on Reboot

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
"Roland Dunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having typed: "update-alternatives --config x-session-manager" and > choosen GNOME, GNOME now starts up on reboot. I'd like it not to so that > I can type "startx" when I want it to go into GNOME. How can I force it > not to launch GNOME on reboot? If y

Re: libc confilcts with apt-get install

2004-03-18 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Thursday, 18 March 2004, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Reading Package Lists... >> Building Dependency Tree... >> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: >> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet depen

Re: burning CDs, or, Ah, now ESR's rant makes sense . . .

2004-03-18 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: Add dev=ATAPI in there : # cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> sudo cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus 0,0,0 0) 'SONY' 'CD-RW CRX216E ' 'PD01' Removable CD-ROM So my command to burn the ISO should be: cdreco

Re: Stopping GNOME Launching on Reboot

2004-03-18 Thread Richard Hoskins
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Incoming from Roland Dunn: >> >> Having typed: "update-alternatives --config x-session-manager" and >> choosen GNOME, GNOME now starts up on reboot. I'd like it not to so that >> I can type "startx" when I want it to go into GNOME. How can I force it >>

Re: ide-scsi emulation not working

2004-03-18 Thread H. S.
Enrique Samson Jr. wrote: 1) Make a file (I called it cdrw) in /etc/modules that loads proper it's /etc/modutils Yes, you are right. That was a mistake on my part. Apologies. ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: burning CDs, or, Ah, now ESR's rant makes sense . . .

2004-03-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Kent West: > Kent West wrote: > > >Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > >>Add dev=ATAPI in there : > >> # cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus > > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> sudo cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus > >>0,0,0 0) 'SONY' 'CD-RW CRX216E ' 'PD01' Removable > >>

[Sid] gnucash 1.8.8-5

2004-03-18 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Hi group/list, my wife has since yesterday: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnucash Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Backtrace: In unknown file: ... ?: 37 (begin (if # #) (make-modules-in # full-name)) ?: 38* (if (or # #) (try-load-module name)) ?: 39 [try-load-m

Re: Installing Win4Lin On Sarge

2004-03-18 Thread Chris Gray
Thanks for your response: I was able to get Win4Lin installed today and will be writing up a 'newbie' howto later. I use Debian Sarge installed with the newest (final) installer. The use of Grub instead of Lilo made this project MUCH less of a hassle IMHO. Here's the run-down of what I had to do

Debian Install (Sid)

2004-03-18 Thread Krikket
I've played with a bunch of Debian variations, and have come to the conclusion that I want a Debian (sid) install on my system. I'll skip the details on the varients I've played with (and the pluses and minuses) (unless someone actually wants those details), and proceed to the main question that I

RE: Stopping GNOME Launching on Reboot

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Kahle
On Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:12 PM, Richard Hoskins wrote: > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Incoming from Roland Dunn: >>> >>> Having typed: "update-alternatives --config x-session-manager" and >>> choosen GNOME, GNOME now starts up on reboot. I'd like it not to so that >>> I can t

Re: Stopping GNOME Launching on Reboot

2004-03-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Richard Hoskins: > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Incoming from Roland Dunn: > >> > >> Having typed: "update-alternatives --config x-session-manager" and > >> choosen GNOME, GNOME now starts up on reboot. I'd like it not to so that > >> I can type "startx" when I wan

Re: OT: help with mawk

2004-03-18 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi ghcbc, VARIABLENAME=$(mawk 'whatever') . BTW: Your syntax seems strange to me. AFAIK it should be something like mawk '/pattern/ {action}' (see man mawk). On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 07:19:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing a shell script to process a dir tree looking fo

Re: Debian Install (Sid)

2004-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:34:14PM -0500, Krikket wrote: > I've played with a bunch of Debian variations, and have come to the > conclusion that I want a Debian (sid) install on my system. I'll skip the > details on the varients I've played with (and the pluses and minuses) > (unless someone actua

Re: libc confilcts with apt-get install

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what i ended up doing was: > > dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.5-11. > 5_i386.deb > > somehow, that _seems_ to have fixed it. i can run apt-get -f install > now and it does not complain (part of it's complaint was to

Conflicting Packages: Developing an OpenGL app.

2004-03-18 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
Hi, I am trying to develop this game under Debian Woody 3.0r2 (very cutomized though) using plib and the OpenGL libraries. To run the application I need mesag3. The thing is that when I do an "apt-get install mesag3" (using the unstable releases) apt tells me that it needs to get rid of the fol

Re: Debian Install (Sid)

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Krikket <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've played with a bunch of Debian variations, and have come to the > conclusion that I want a Debian (sid) install on my system. Given that it tends to live up to it's (unstable) name, why? Seriously, what is in sid that you want that bad that you cannot get

Re: Installing Win4Lin On Sarge

2004-03-18 Thread glenn
Cool - A readme would indeed be a cunning plan - I remember being all at sea when I tried, & found little in the way of help or assistance. Very frustrating for a while. I use vmware now - no where near as fast, but... On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 05:32, Chris Gray wrote: > Thanks for your response: >

Re: libc confilcts with apt-get install

2004-03-18 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Thursday, 18 March 2004, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> what i ended up doing was: >> >> dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.5-11. >> 5_i386.deb >> >> somehow, that _seems_ to have fixed it. i can run apt-

Re: burning CDs, or, Ah, now ESR's rant makes sense . . .

2004-03-18 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 18 March 2004 01:09 pm, Kent West wrote: >Kent West wrote: >> Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: >>> Add dev=ATAPI in there : >>># cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> sudo cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus >>> 0,0,0 0) 'SONY' 'CD-RW CRX216E ' 'P

Re: Debian Install (Sid)

2004-03-18 Thread Kirk Lowery
Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] You don't. There is no installer. You upgrade to it after you already have a working Debian system and have a good idea at just the kind of hairy stuff you're going to run into when you move to sid. Just stick to stable and use backports. Actually, I just did it.

Re: burning CDs, or, Ah, now ESR's rant makes sense . . .

2004-03-18 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:03:07PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Nonetheless, it _looks_ like k3b has found the burner, but I'll have to > risk burning a coaster to find out. ...use a CD-RW? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C6

Re: Debian Install (Sid)

2004-03-18 Thread Kent West
Krikket wrote: Given: One computer, and the ISO's (well, at least the first iso) downloaded and burned onto the CD, how the frell do I install sid? I've heard people say how wonderfull the installer is, but as far as I can tell, after asking a few basic questions, it drops you into a ash shell. I

Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been Distro hopping for the last few weeks and am very impressed with the Debian system. It's probably going to become the distro on all my machines very shortly. I'm going to be running Woody on one machine and Sarge on another for testing pu

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the procedure for this type of an upgrade? IOW, what > commands would be given to apt to move the machine to the next > version? Had you searched the archives, you would not have had to wait for me to tell you to update your sources.list t

Text console corruption

2004-03-18 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, as of today I have been having some text console corruption issues, basically, the console comes up with nothing but colorful vertical lines and it doesn't change no mather what I do, well actually I can get different useless patterns after booting X :-). Nevertheless, I can login blindly a

Re: Text console corruption

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, as of today I have been having some text console corruption > issues, basically, the console comes up with nothing but colorful > vertical lines and it doesn't change no mather what I do, well > actually I can get different useless patterns after b

Re: Text console corruption

2004-03-18 Thread James Tappin
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:35:25 -0600 Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, as of today I have been having some text console corruption > issues, basically, the console comes up with nothing but colorful > vertical lines and it doesn't change no mather what I do, well > actually I can get

USB: KDE faster than GNOME faster than TERMINAL ??!!

2004-03-18 Thread Christophe Combelles
Something very strange : I have done a test with a small USB1 memory key (i-stick). I copy a 1.9 MB file from the hard drive to the USB mass storage device, with three different methods: 1) from KDE with Konqueror : 7s (~280 ko/s) 2) from Gnome with Nautilus: 30s (~60 ko/s) 3) from the console w

Re: crontab jobs not running?

2004-03-18 Thread Martin Dickopp
Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just did this by su'ing as user "jortega" and running 'crontab -e' to > enter the following lines: > > 35 20 * * * /bin/echo "testing" > /tmp/testing > 35 20 * * * /bin/date > /tmp/time What happens if you specify `* * * * *' (i.e. every minute) as time s

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-18, Michael Satterwhite penned: > > I've been Distro hopping for the last few weeks and am very impressed > with the Debian system. It's probably going to become the distro on > all my machines very shortly. > > I'm going to be running Woody on one machine and Sarge on another for > test

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Sometime after that, I'll want to upgrade from Woody to Sarge on my >> base machine; a few months after that, I'll consider moving my test >> machine to Sid. > > I'm no expert, but I think this is not quite right. > > At the moment, Woody = stable

Re: Apache questions.......

2004-03-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-15, Ralph Crongeyer penned: > Hi all, > > There are two Apache packages in Sarge, apache and apache-ssl. But > there is also a libapache-mod-ssl package > > Apache-ssl works in encrypted mode fine, however I can't get it to use > mod_php4, which I need. Apache is able to use mod_

Re: ipopd and "unknown authorization state command"

2004-03-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Matthijs wrote: > I think I've got a good reason to use ipopd instead of qpopper: > When I use the webmail client (squirrelmail) on the machine, all mail > is transfered to an IMAP account. At some point however, I want to POP > all my mail (including the mail in the IMAP acco

iptables and snort

2004-03-18 Thread Col @ Home
Hi,Am trying to set up a firewall on a Debian linux machine using iptables. Newto linux, can anybody point me in the direction ofa good guide to configuring a firewall using iptables?I also want to get snort and acidlab going. Any help on that would beappreciated as well.I am a bit paranoid

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