Re: EnableHiMem for Memory == exactly 1GB?

2004-07-02 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 05:31:11PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > For 1-2 GB machines there is also a patch that gives you a 2GB-2GB > memory split which allows you to use up to two GB without highmem (not > sure where the exact limit is). The upside is no memory remapping on But without this patch

Re: Re: Re: program starts with 3 threads

2004-07-02 Thread jono
Mark Pictor wrote: Mmm, think I heard something about this. Expect - as in tcl, right? I think that the debian version of tcl is compiled with a unusual option which causes it to always have several threads. I didn't know that it cause instabilities; how I heard about it was that a script was fa

/dev2/root still mounted after boot

2004-07-02 Thread Bill Greganti
Hi All, I've been running a Debian Woody server for web and mail for a couple years, so I have _some_ general troubleshooting knowledge, but this problem has me stumped. Some background... I recently ordered a dedicated server (from ServerBeach) do to some web hosting on. The initial Debian Wo

Re: Creating own installer images

2004-07-02 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:05:55 BST, =?iso-8859-1?q?Thomas=20Adam?= writes: >> I need to create special Debian installer images, as we have machines >> here with Promise PDC20378 S-ATA RAID controllers and need to install >> Woody on them. The driver for this controller was opensourced, but >> i

Other key combos for Multi_key

2004-07-02 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Currently, I can type the ä character like this: <"> <"> I would like to configure an additional combination: How to do that? (I know that the above combo produces æ, but I intend to configure more combinations so that I can still produce æ.) Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-02 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the pointers though - and when I figure out how to scroll > back through screens scrollback buffer, I might even use that more > often. At least, it's useful to run stuff on remote hosts, so solved a > real problem there... Hit Ctrl-A ESC,

Re: NFS mount very very slow

2004-07-02 Thread Tom Allison
James Sinnamon wrote: Dear list subscribers, For the record, the problem is now fixed and nfs works very well. On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:25 pm, James Sinnamon wrote: At first I thought my command: mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs ... had failed. It seemed to have hanged. I tried to kill

Re: multimedia keys

2004-07-02 Thread stderr
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:20, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I've a Gericom Blockbuster m2040 XL notebook. On the > front side of the case there are some multimedia buttons > like the play or forward button for the controll of audio/ > video programs. > Unfortunately, these buttons don't wor

Re: OpenOffice Window Values Location

2004-07-02 Thread stderr
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 05:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know where OpenOffice stores the default locations and sizes > of the windows it opens upon startup? > > For some reason, something got messed up in my installation of > OpenOffice, and now when it opens a document, the window i

Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

2004-07-02 Thread Tom Allison
Tadeusz Bak wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Tom Allison wrote: Portmapper sits on one port, but it's redirecting the nfs connection all over the place. I can't seem to nail it down to one set of ports. The rpc services called by portmaper can be binded to specific ports, see man pages for details. To

Boot to console

2004-07-02 Thread Glenn Meehan
Hi, How do I make my system boot to a text based login instead of a gui log in window? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

2004-07-02 Thread Tom Allison
Tadeusz Bak wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Tom Allison wrote: Portmapper sits on one port, but it's redirecting the nfs connection all over the place. I can't seem to nail it down to one set of ports. The rpc services called by portmaper can be binded to specific ports, see man pages for details. To

Re: Boot to console

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Glenn Meehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How do I make my system boot to a text based login instead of a gui log > in window? echo false >> /etc/X11/default-display-manager -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" --

Re: Boot to console

2004-07-02 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
By changing the default runlevel. Read man init and edit /etc/inittab. Good luck! > Hi, > > How do I make my system boot to a text based login instead of a gui log > in window? > > Thanks > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Re: aol art files:

2004-07-02 Thread Bettyeanthony
How do I get the message re: Deleting Art Files off my computer.  How do I delete the files?

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 14:17:46 +1000, Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have no idea how to make a nice session with pretty themed panels! I highly recommend reading this article: http://www.igs.net/~tril/fvwm/ . It may or may not help you with your problem; but it is very entertaining

Re: Boot to console

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By changing the default runlevel. Read man init and edit /etc/inittab. No! (And I refer you to my previous post in this thread). This "changing run-level" nonsense is what gets a lot of people that have converted from RH/SuSE/Mandrake t

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I highly recommend reading this article: > http://www.igs.net/~tril/fvwm/ . It may or may not help you with your > problem; but it is very entertaining, explains many of the good points > of fvwm and provides many sample configurations. http://www.xwi

Re: /dev2/root still mounted after boot

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Bill Greganti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..snip..] > # cat /etc/fstab: > > /dev/hda3 / ext3errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 0 1 > proc/proc procdefaults 0 0 > /dev/hda2 noneswapsw0 0 >

Re: gimp dependency problems in Sid

2004-07-02 Thread Ricky Clarkson
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:11:53 -0400, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So looks like gimp-data is newer and gimp is not. How do I get around > this problem: Downgrade gimp-data or maybe newer gimp is yet to come? I just installed gimp 2.0.2-3 from sid, and it installed gimp-data 2.0.2-3 also. I

Re: gimp dependency problems in Sid

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Ricky Clarkson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:11:53 -0400, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > So looks like gimp-data is newer and gimp is not. How do I get around > > this problem: Downgrade gimp-data or maybe newer gimp is yet to come? > > I just installed gimp 2

Port forwarding on a NAT firewall

2004-07-02 Thread Antony
Hi all, If I have a router running iptables with NAT for a private IP network, there are two options if I want to have a public email server on the private network... 1) Set up an email server on the router that relays all mail to the private server.2) Port forward (DNAT) port 25 to the private se

keyboard (console?) problem

2004-07-02 Thread Johannes Resch
hi, i want to setup a german keymap (using the "nodeadkeys"-variant) on a daily updated debian unstable system (debian kernel 2.6.6-2-686). when trying to install the keymap, this error message is displayed: pluto:/# install-keymap /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/mac-usb-de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap

Re: keyboard (console?) problem

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Johannes Resch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i already did "dpkg-reconfigure -plow console-common" a couple of times, Although they do the same thing, you should also: dpkg-reconfigure console-data -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor"

Re: Port forwarding on a NAT firewall

2004-07-02 Thread Ricky Clarkson
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:43:58 +0100 (BST), Antony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Set up an email server on the router that relays all mail to the > private server.2) Port forward (DNAT) port 25 to the private server. > > I don't like port forwarding, as it's always seemed like a kind of bodge, > b

Re: Boot to console

2004-07-02 Thread Kent West
Glenn Meehan wrote: How do I make my system boot to a text based login instead of a gui log in window? If you're wanting to make the change permanent, "apt-get [--purge] remove ?dm", where ? is w, x, k, or g, depending on which login manager you have installed. If you're just wanting to make a t

ssh mystery

2004-07-02 Thread Antony
Hi all, I'm having an odd problem ssh'ing into a box. It has a public IP address, and is behind an ADSL router (Amigo CA8XR). Here's the odd bit: hotbox:~# netstat -a Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State t

Re: Boot to console

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're just wanting to make a temporary change, I put the line "exit > 0" as the first executable line in /etc/init.d/?dm. /etc/init.d/xdm is the controlling script, which reads /etc/X11/default-display-manager to ascertain which DM to run -- change

Re: Boot to console

2004-07-02 Thread Lynch
there is a stupid but more user friendly way # apt-get install rcconf # rcconf unselect xdm gdm or kdm, then reboot On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 19:07, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Glenn Meehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How do I make my system boot to a text based login instead of a gui

Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

2004-07-02 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 05:10:10 +0200, Tom Allison wrote: > Portmapper sits on one port, but it's redirecting the nfs connection all > over the place. I can't seem to nail it down to one set of ports. The only way I can think of sorting this out would be to allow any packets between the server and

kimberlite config: what gives?

2004-07-02 Thread mixo
While trying to setup a node with: /usr/lib/kimberlite/bin/member_config I got the following reponse: ++ Cluster Member Configuration Utility Version: 1.1.0 Bui

Re: Boot to console

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > there is a stupid but more user friendly way > > # apt-get install rcconf > # rcconf "user-friendly" is a relative term. YMMV, TMTOWTDI, HTH, HAND. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor"

xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-02 Thread jack kinnon
Hi folks, Is Xfree86 4.4.0 available for Debian stable? If so, how do I download a copy? Cheers __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: kimberlite config: what gives?

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- mixo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What gives? (/usr/lib/mon/alert.d# ln -s `which diskutil` > /usr/lib/kimberlite/bin : solves the problem) Was there a question in that fluff of information? Either way, such "fixes" require that you submit a bug [1,2], making sure that someone has not done

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- jack kinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > Is Xfree86 4.4.0 available for Debian stable? If so, > how do I download a copy? Read this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/debian-x-200403/msg03376.html (and follow-ups) -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http

Re: Boot to console

2004-07-02 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
OOPS, wasn't aware of that! But you are of course absolutely right. I guess that was some old Slack leftover in my head (/me slaps himself on the head).. Hmm although I do use Debian for over 4 yrs ofso :). OOPS :) Pim > --- "Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> By changing t

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:42:31AM -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote: > Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:21:41 -0500, cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Someone told me today at lunch that what with my "wierd obsession", as > > > he called it, to perhaps g

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:01:32PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Does this exist? > > Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant? > I can't really understand what you want, but could it be multi-gnome-terminal (although latest version of gnome terminal also has tabs, but not as good).

Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

2004-07-02 Thread tallison
> On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 05:10:10 +0200, Tom Allison wrote: >> Portmapper sits on one port, but it's redirecting the nfs connection all >> over the place. I can't seem to nail it down to one set of ports. > > The only way I can think of sorting this out would be to allow any > packets between the ser

Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But I'm wondering what it is that I'm missing. > Is this the difference between kernel and user nfs servers? > Are there some args to pass at modprobe time? Not in terms of options -- NFS configuration is done in the userland level usually. -- Thomas Adam = "

Re: Recommendations on SCSI controller for Debian desktop

2004-07-02 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:45:00PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: > I was looking into replacing the hard disk on my debian box with a 36GB > 15k Fujitsu SCSI disk. I was hoping that by doing this I would be able > to reduce boot times and increase system responsiveness. I would like to > hear abo

viewing chm files

2004-07-02 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm looking for a Debian package (Sarge) to view M$ chm files? Thank you. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: viewing chm files

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Christian Christmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a Debian package (Sarge) to view > M$ chm files? http://xchm.sourceforge.net/index.html -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette

Re: viewing chm files

2004-07-02 Thread Bryan Shake
Christian Christmann wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a Debian package (Sarge) to view M$ chm files? Thank you. Christian This should work for viewing .chm files, don't think it allows editing though. # apt-get install xchm chmlib -Bryan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: viewing chm files

2004-07-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:08:44PM +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a Debian package (Sarge) to view > M$ chm files? > Hi Christian, not sure but in sid, there is this: Running: apt-cache show xchm Package: xchm Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 520 Maint

Original packages & dependencies

2004-07-02 Thread v . demartino2
Just a case of mine! Under debian testing I have installed the texlive version of tetex (I mean the tetex version coming with www.tug.org DVD) because is more updated than the boxed tetex deb stuff. Now if I try to install lyx via apt-get debian looks for dependencies (tetex) and doesn't find the

Re: viewing chm files

2004-07-02 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:08:44PM +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a Debian package (Sarge) to view > M$ chm files? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search xchm xchm - Compiled HTML Help (CHM) file viewer for X works great. Sven -- It ain't so bad bein' alone if you k

Re: Boot to console

2004-07-02 Thread Kent West
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you're just wanting to make a temporary change, I put the line "exit 0" as the first executable line in /etc/init.d/?dm. /etc/init.d/xdm is the controlling script, which reads /etc/X11/default-display-manager to ascertain whi

Re: Original packages & dependencies

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just a case of mine! > Is there any way to tell apt-get to install the package and to find the > missing files in another dir? I'm not quite sure what you're asking here... there is no package called 'tetex', only 'tetex-base': [EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]$ apt-rdepen

Re: Boot to console

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my /etc/rc2.d there are scripts for both "xdm" and "kdm" (having both > packages installed). So I'm confused that you say that "xdm" is the > controlling script; it seems to me that "kdm" (or "gdm", or "wdm") could > just as accurately be labeled as

How do I get rid of the mutt mail headers?

2004-07-02 Thread Jake Johnson
Hi, I am trying to get rid of the mutt mail headers. I don't like it that I have to page through so much text just to read the email. Please note that it is not the verbose headers either. -- Jake Johnson http://www.plutoid.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Visual C++?????

2004-07-02 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: > To be a professor and have tenure in a institution of higher learning > one usually must have a Ph.D. or at least a masters unless the school > in question sucks; That takes a min of around 8 years. > > So its a safe bet that the professor, even if he may

Re: Visual C++?????

2004-07-02 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-30, Sam Halliday penned: > Stephen Le wrote: >> Being educated does not make you a good teacher. > > yes, but it doesn't make you an idiot either. Idiocy and ignorance are two different things. Being educated doesn't eliminate the possibility that you're also an idiot. -- monique -

Re: sh scripting framework project?

2004-07-02 Thread Alexis Huxley
> I have a few scripts I've written, that each have various levels of > reporting errors. > > I'd like to unify the error reporting, and initialization as much as > possible. > > The thing is, I'd rather work with a project than roll my own. Take a look at ADE (http://dione.no-ip.org/~alexis/sof

ATI + LCD Monitor - refresh rate problem

2004-07-02 Thread Moshe Bergman
Hello, I've been trying to get linux to run properly for a week or two, so far i've managed to install ATI drivers, however I still have one problem - refresh rate. On windows my monitor runs fine on 75hz, Hsync: 79.9 and Vsync: 75. However, on Linux, it does not seem to matter what i enter on

cron messages re exim?

2004-07-02 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Can somebody give me a clue as to what the following messages mean and what I'm supposed to do about them? thanks. Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry >/dev/null; fi failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry:

Re: Re: aol art files:

2004-07-02 Thread Plantons
how do I delete aol art files

Re: ATI + LCD Monitor - refresh rate problem

2004-07-02 Thread jr jrockys2
Have you tried with dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and set the new parameters? On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 17:40:25 +0200, Moshe Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I've been trying to get linux to run properly for a week or two, so far > i've managed to install ATI drivers, however I st

Re: ATI + LCD Monitor - refresh rate problem

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Moshe Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > On windows my monitor runs fine on 75hz, Hsync: 79.9 and Vsync: 75. > However, on Linux, it does not seem to matter what i enter on > XF86Config-4, the monitor is still set to 60hz. So edit the config file by hand, you'll lose support from

Re: How do I get rid of the mutt mail headers?

2004-07-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Jake Johnson: > > I am trying to get rid of the mutt mail headers. I don't like it > that I have to page through so much text just to read the email. > Please note that it is not the verbose headers either. ignore * unhdr_order * unignore \ from: \ subject: \ date: \ ... h

Re: cron messages re exim?

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can somebody give me a clue as to what the following messages mean and > what I'm supposed to do about them? > thanks. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248622 -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazett

Re: Re: aol art files:

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how do I delete aol art files 'man rm' (although in your case, liberal use of 'dd' on a certain /dev/ device would not go amiss) :) -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazett

Is this possible?

2004-07-02 Thread cecil
Can you install debian by detting up a single boot floppy? Have it boot, setup pcmcia, and then use a pcmcia network card to do a net install? Cecil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is this possible?

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you install debian by detting up a single boot floppy? > Have it boot, setup pcmcia, and then use a pcmcia network card to do a > net install? Sure! How do you think the rest of us installed debian? You literally just have to follow the instructions on

signature check failed

2004-07-02 Thread Richard Wilbur
I've been trying off and on to install Debian Woody from CD base + network apt (under dselect) on a different machine (it doesn't work, yet). I have had good luck downloading and rotten luck installing packages downloaded. With recent availability of more package updates my current count

Re: Disabling autoloading of oss sound modules using kernel-2.6.6 and discover2

2004-07-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 12:49:21AM +0100, Mark C wrote: | Hi, | | I've just upgraded my kernel in unstable to 2.6.6, and it's working | great, apart from it loads both the oss kernel drivers and the alsa | drivers, using discover for hardware detection. | | I've done some googling, and can seem

Re: How do I get rid of the mutt mail headers?

2004-07-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:54:19 -0600, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Incoming from Jake Johnson: > > > > I am trying to get rid of the mutt mail headers. I don't like it > > that I have to page through so much text just to read the email. > > Please note that it is not the verbose headers

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-07-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Adam On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 15:41, Adam Funk wrote: > I just did an apt-get upgrade and it kept a lot of packages back. > I tried to apt-get install a few of them and it threatened to remove > packages I need. So I tried apt-get install back> and it thinks it can do it: > > !root! /home/ad

Re: restartd (resurrecting dead daemons)

2004-07-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:51:23PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | On Thu, Jul 01 at 02:46PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | > On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > > restartd. | > | > aha. not available for woody, but it's available for sarge... | | > [hmm -- must look in

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Adam > > !root! /home/adam # apt-get upgrade dist-upgrade should be used here. > Sometimes in these situations I do a > apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade > (more on I'd advise people learn how to 'snip' replies in future

Re: Original packages & dependencies

2004-07-02 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 17:14:07 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Under debian testing I have installed the texlive version of tetex (I > mean the tetex version coming with www.tug.org DVD) because is more > updated than the boxed tetex deb stuff. > > Now if I try to install lyx via apt-get debian lo

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:31:44PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | On Thu, Jul 01 at 05:59PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: | > --- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > #!/bin/bash | > > /etc/init.d/some-daemon-here restart | > | > Better to use 'invoke-rc.d' here: | > | > invoke-rc.d

Re: ATI + LCD Monitor - refresh rate problem

2004-07-02 Thread Moshe Bergman
Isn't that just edits the XF86Config-4? i tried fglrxconfig they all just change that file. And like I said, I tried changing it manually to every value possible... I forgot to add, I am trying 75hz with 1280x1024 Moshe Bergman jr jrockys2 wrote: Have you tried with dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree

dselect won't show newer version, apt does. (was Re: gimp dependency problems in Sid)

2004-07-02 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Thomas Adam_, on 07/02/04 07:42,typed: --- Ricky Clarkson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:11:53 -0400, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So looks like gimp-data is newer and gimp is not. How do I get around this problem: Downgrade gimp-data or maybe newer gimp is ye

Re: Custom Debian distro

2004-07-02 Thread Soumyadip Modak
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:00:16 +0200 Johann Spies wrote: >Look at the package dfsbuild (Debian from Scratch). > >Regards >Johann Thanks a lot for the info -- Soumyadip Modak [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://free.hostdepartment.com/s/soumyadip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Ctrl + Shift + A doesn't work correctly

2004-07-02 Thread Ralph Katz
On 07/01/04 23:20, Tom Allison wrote: I noticed that the Ctrl + Shift + A option under Thunderbird is supposed to select an entire thread. This doesn't seem to work correctly. It does nothing. Alt + A does select everything. Under my WindowMaker WM I can run Ctrl+Shift+M to maximize a window, s

Re: copyright?

2004-07-02 Thread sanaz
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Out of the office Dear Sir or Madam, I am out of the office until July 2nd, 2004. If you have any enquiries or questions please contact my colleague Mondi Hottas Tel: +49 69 17 00 20 13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you and best regards Sanaz Shahverdi -- Schierke P

moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-02 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I've got an installed Debian system which I want to move to RAID-1. I've installed raidtools2 and have a properly configured kernel running, eg everything is statically compiled in, not as modules. I was able to move all the partitions to the proper md-devices without problems but for t

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:46:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | > | problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at | > | a time, gets dozens of "une

Lost lilo.conf vga setting on 2.6 upgrade

2004-07-02 Thread Bill Moseley
Under my 2.4 kernel I used vga=0x317 which was a nice small console font. Now with 2.6 vga=ask and then using "scan" I don't have that choice any more (screen is blank if I use vga=0x317). Why do I not have that mode any more? The other interesting thing is in 2.6 my mouse moves *much* fas

dual boot xp/debian on raid0

2004-07-02 Thread jfqb
I want to install debian on asus p4p800, with e1000, and ichr5 chipset raid0 on sata. I have tried two weeks ago. I installed with kernel-2.4.23 and patchs iswraid,libata. (sorry, I don't remember version's patchs). But the system fall down, when I run on XP, Linux fall donw. I'm using

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Re: How do I get rid of the mutt mail headers?

2004-07-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Jon Dowland: > On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:54:19 -0600, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Incoming from Jake Johnson: > > > > > > I am trying to get rid of the mutt mail headers. I don't like it > > > that I have to page through so much text just to read the email. > > > Pleas

Re: signature check failed

2004-07-02 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Richard Wilbur (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've been trying off and on to install Debian Woody from CD base + > network apt (under dselect) on a different machine (it doesn't work, > yet). I have had good luck downloading and rotten luck installing > packages downloaded. With recent av

Re: ATI + LCD Monitor - refresh rate problem

2004-07-02 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Ehm... If I remember correctly The optimal refreshrate for any LCD is 60 Hz. No need to go higher. It might damage your screen if you go to far, and it will give you **worse** image than on 60. 60 is the optimized refresh rate. Forget the whole refresh-rate discussion on CRT screens. LCD is a

Re: Lost lilo.conf vga setting on 2.6 upgrade

2004-07-02 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bill Moseley (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Under my 2.4 kernel I used > >vga=0x317 > > which was a nice small console font. > > Now with 2.6 vga=ask and then using "scan" I don't have that choice > any more (screen is blank if I use vga=0x317). Probably missing Framebuffer support.

Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

2004-07-02 Thread Ernest Johanson
Been following this thread and understand that the goal is to configure a firewall to control access to the ports used for NFS. If so, then suggest the following: #!/bin/sh NFSPORTS=`rpcinfo -p | awk '/tcp/||/udp/ {print $4}' | sort | uniq` for PORT_NUM in $NFSPORTS do iptables -A INPUT -j

Re: How do I get rid of the mutt mail headers?

2004-07-02 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:38:03AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Here's another goodie for the OP: > > # Show documentation when pressing F1 > # > macro generic "!zless /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz\n" "Show Mutt > documentation" > macro index"!zless /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.g

Re: Other key combos for Multi_key

2004-07-02 Thread Travis Crump
Kai Grossjohann wrote: Currently, I can type the ä character like this: <"> <"> I would like to configure an additional combination: How to do that? (I know that the above combo produces æ, but I intend to configure more combinations so that I can still produce æ.) Kai You can t

Re: How do I get rid of the mutt mail headers?

2004-07-02 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-02, s. keeling penned: > > Very true. Sometimes though, with programs so rich in configuration > options as is mutt, it's nice to see examples of usage of all the > players at once. Last week, I spent some time fiddling with a nugget > I found on Usenet and managed temporarily to royal

Re: ATI + LCD Monitor - refresh rate problem

2004-07-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 04:03, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Ehm... If I remember correctly > > The optimal refreshrate for any LCD is 60 Hz. No need to go higher. It > might damage your screen if you go to far, and it will give you **worse** > image than on 60. 60 is the optimized refresh r

Re: moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-02 Thread Nate Duehr
Robert Waldner wrote: However, when I boot with "Linux root=/dev/md3 ext3" it can't find a valid ext3/ext2/reiserfs superblock on md(9,3). There's a couple lines right before that that tell me that md is autodetecting RAID arrays (can't copy/paste that for obvious reasons). Any hints/pointer

Re: Port forwarding on a NAT firewall

2004-07-02 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-02, Antony penned: > Hi all, > > If I have a router running iptables with NAT for a private IP network, > there are two options if I want to have a public email server on the > private network... 1) Set up an email server on the router that > relays all mail to the private server.2) Por

X won't start until mouse moved

2004-07-02 Thread chris dumont
Hi, This happens on system boot. If just X is stopped and started there is no problem. This might (I can't say for sure) have begun when I switched to a 2.6 kernel and devfs. A solution would be great but even suggestions on avenues to explore would be welcome. Thanks, Chris D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: dselect won't show newer version, apt does. (was Re: gimp dependency problems in Sid)

2004-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 12:44:30PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > dselect shows gimp-2.0.2-2, but "apt-get -s install gimp" shows that > 2.0.2-3 version will be installed. I added a couple of other apt sourced > (one in Germany and one in Neatherlands), and dselect and apt-get still > show the same info

Re: How do I get rid of the mutt mail headers?

2004-07-02 Thread James Richardson
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:38:03AM -0700, Jake Johnson wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to get rid of the mutt mail headers. I don't like it that I have to > page through so much text just to read the email. Please note that it is not the > verbose headers either. in your .muttrc add the following

apt-get source and /etc/apt/apt.conf

2004-07-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I was perplexed by getting older source version(s) of file with "apt-get source gkrellm". I asked a friend and went through: I didn't have any pinning, didn't even know how to pin. However: zen8100a:/etc/apt# cat apt.conf APT::Default-Release "woody"; It appears there's some configuration for

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-07-02 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 18:41, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Adam > > > > !root! /home/adam # apt-get upgrade > > dist-upgrade should be used here. > > > Sometimes in these situations I do a > > apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade >

Re: Disabling autoloading of oss sound modules using kernel-2.6.6 and discover2

2004-07-02 Thread Silvan
> | the auto probing and alowed me to manually select alsa), but short of > | rebuilding the kernel and not building the oss modules, I'm stuck. > | > | Has anyone manged to get this working yet? > > I don't know anything about discover, but you can tell modprobe not to > load a module with an ent

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-07-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 18:41, Thomas Adam wrote: > > > > > > !root! /home/adam # apt-get upgrade > > > > dist-upgrade should be used here. > > > > > Sometimes in these situations I do a > > > apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade > > > > I'd adv

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