Re: hosts.allow

2004-09-24 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Stefan O'Rear (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:46:27AM +0530, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: >> >> I want to add an ip address 203.128.5.100 >> to /etc/hosts.allow , please tel me wat will be the entry.?? > > $ apropos hosts > ... > hosts_access (5) - format of host acces

Small problems with Sarge net-install

2004-09-24 Thread Art Edwards
I have used the Sarge net-install CD to build several machines and I'm pretty impressed. I have one problem that I will state now and a couple of recommendations. I was building a cluster node and did not want a /home directory (mounted from the head node via automount). During the base-config,

smbfs causing kernel hang

2004-09-24 Thread rich lott
Hi I'm desperate to find the right mailing list but I can't find anything on the 'net, the only place I found was a dead sourceforge site. no-one on this list can help and I appreciate that it might not be the right list. I tried the samba list but they told me samba is not smbfs list and I sh

Steven Jones,John Summerfield,Alvin Oga

2004-09-24 Thread g00se
I know that you all have some experience with installing on Dell Optiplex GX. I'm a Debian noob and wondered if one or more of you might be around to give a bit of advice at kernel module configuration time? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Steven Jones,John Summerfield,Alvin Oga

2004-09-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya goose On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, g00se wrote: > I know that you all have some experience with installing on Dell Optiplex > GX. I'm a Debian noob and wondered if one or more of you might be around to > give a bit of advice at kernel module configuration time? think you didnt see the part about

Re: devfs and NVIDIA drivers

2004-09-24 Thread Eduard Bosma
Hi All! Thanks for clearing it up! I've kicked Devfs out of my kernel and everything is working as it should! Eduard On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 22:28, Paul Johnson wrote: > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Eduard Bosma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: Any Softwares related to engineering field available for Debian?

2004-09-24 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 24 September 2004 05:13, Siju George wrote: > Thanks a lot Clifton for the reply! I haven't heard of Octave! i'll > try to find out from net meanwhile if you have helpful links please > post them. > > I heard of a CAD software called BRL-CAD > > http://www.brlcad.com/ > > I also heard it

udev, ide-scsi and cdrom drive

2004-09-24 Thread Chris
Under 2.4 kernel I was using append="ide-scsi=hdc" in lilo and using scsi emulation for xcdroast/grip/etc etc. Now in 2.6 with udev - the cdrom turns up as /dev/sr6 - and mount won't read it. No hdc is present in /dev. I've read a little - and it seems that ide-scsi is no longer recommended - I'

Re: bash profile does not get loaded?

2004-09-24 Thread Arne Götje (高盛華)
On Friday 24 September 2004 14:31, Blake Swadling wrote: > I am running xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 and it was inserted as a > default setting. check that your version of xfree86-common has this. > IF it doesnt you can wither add it or run the script directly from > the Xsession file I have the

Re: Steven Jones,John Summerfield,Alvin Oga

2004-09-24 Thread Mark Lijftogt
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya goose On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, g00se wrote: I know that you all have some experience with installing on Dell Optiplex GX. I'm a Debian noob and wondered if one or more of you might be around to give a bit of advice at kernel module configuration time?

Re: Small problems with Sarge net-install

2004-09-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include > My recommendations are: > > 1. libc6-dev should be part of the standard installation. It includes > all of the standard header files (stdio.h, for example). This depends on _your_ needs! For example, I don't think that the compiler is seen as part of a user-oriented operating system

XMMS freezes - not playing after apt-get upgrade on Testing

2004-09-24 Thread Uwe Dippel
Subject says it. Did my daily dose of upgrade, rebooted, and now XMMS doesn't want to play. At 'play' it keeps at 0:00, but active. Another click on 'play' makes it freeze. It can only be removed with kill then. It uses esd as output plugin; esd works and is running. Yesterday it had been fine.

Re: Mail server in DMZ

2004-09-24 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:20:08 +0200, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Behind it, we have 1 Postfix server w/Courier IMAP and 1 Exchange 5.5 > Server (soon to be moved to another Postfix server). I dunno what IPCop is, but I have postfix and Courier-IMAP in the DMZ. > 2) accept all incoming mail and only

Re: XMMS freezes - not playing after apt-get upgrade on Testing

2004-09-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Subject says it. > Did my daily dose of upgrade, rebooted, and now XMMS doesn't want to play. > At 'play' it keeps at 0:00, but active. > Another click on 'play' makes it freeze. > It can only be removed with kill then. See if other users have the same problem. If not, then the problem is in yo

Re: router problem

2004-09-24 Thread Werner Otto
Hi All, The problem was, I was busy doing an upgrade and CTRL-C'd the operation. This lead to my dhcp not working. I fixed up dhcp and is working fine now. thanks On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:36:24 +0100, robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Werner Otto wrote: > > >Hi All, > > > >I recently bou

sarge install no network

2004-09-24 Thread Frank Kaldewey
Hallo, in sarge install dialog are no network configure options. only option to configure PPP for ISP in woody install dialog are options to load divers and configure network. I install on a Asus P4S8X with Lan on board. Then I disable Lan on board, use a 3con Networkinterface and install again, wi

Steven Jones,John Summerfield,Alvin Oga

2004-09-24 Thread g00se
Yes Alvin - i too would not have chosen a Dell (non-standard hardware etc) but was given the machine as part of a voluntary IT project i'm undertaking. Just installing Woody (although Sarge may only be days away now) for the first time and want to make sure i don't miss any crucial modules. I'm go

Re: Any Softwares related to engineering field available for Debian?

2004-09-24 Thread Blake Swadling
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 18:00, David Goodenough wrote: On Friday 24 September 2004 05:13, Siju George wrote: > Thanks a lot Clifton for the reply! I haven't heard of Octave! i'll > try to find out from net meanwhile if you have helpful links please > post them. octave is very useful and is some

Setting up libxml-libxml-perl (1.56-6)

2004-09-24 Thread Alex C-G
Hi there I keep having a problem whenever I try to set up libxml-libxml-perl: Setting up libxml-libxml-perl (1.56-6) ... update-perl-sax-parsers: Adding Perl SAX parser module info file of XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser... Can't locate loadable object for module XML::LibXML::Common in @INC (@INC contain

Re: sarge install no network

2004-09-24 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Frank Kaldewey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > in sarge install dialog are no network configure options. > only option to configure PPP for ISP Somewhere during the installation you can choose from the main menu to load installer components. Try to load the one for configuring networks. Aft

Re: Any Softwares related to engineering field available for Debian?

2004-09-24 Thread Siju George
Thanks a lot David for suggesting qcad and also mentioning it works best with KDE and that it is available as a debian package! It was new information to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any Softwares related to engineering field available for Debian?

2004-09-24 Thread Siju George
Thanks a lot blake. Do you know some software packages for debian (source is also fine) that helps in plant design & layout! Pipeline designs, Automobile designs. Some that will help in time study calculations. Method Study. etc? regards Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

gnome-python-vfs

2004-09-24 Thread Blake Swadling
I've been having a peek at gdesklets and quite a few are non functional due to missing python bindings for gnome-vfs. anyone know where i might find this mythical beast in unstable? Cheers Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544 Fax: +61 2 6247 3533 Mob

Re: Steven Jones,John Summerfield,Alvin Oga

2004-09-24 Thread Eduard Bosma
Hi, I'm running Sarge on a DELL Optiplex GX150 without ahitch..If you need help, give me a mail... Eduard On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 11:07, g00se wrote: > Yes Alvin - i too would not have chosen a Dell (non-standard hardware etc) > but was given the machine as part of a voluntary IT project i'm unde

Re: XMMS freezes - not playing after apt-get upgrade on Testing

2004-09-24 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:00:31 +0200, Andrew Schulman wrote: > See if other users have the same problem. If not, then the problem is in > your ~/.xmms, which you could remove. No, didn't help. OSS-driver doesn't work, arts does, (plays and shows spectrum) but I have no output (I simply don't run a

Lesstif over VNC a problem?

2004-09-24 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, Needing a quick but decent plotting program while at work, I used VNC to tunnel back home (server running woody). Problem: xmgrace wouldn't show me any menus or dialogs at all. That is, every letter was replaced by a box. Unfortunately, I can't read boxes, certainly not when they all loo

Re: ximian-connector under debian

2004-09-24 Thread Darryl Luff
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 06:14 -0400, Clifton Sluss wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:06:12 -0700, Rich Rudnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --snip-- Have you tried evolution 1.5 and evolution-exchange in experimental? I've been using 1.5 for mail only (not exchange, tho) f

apt problem - ldconfig segmentation fault

2004-09-24 Thread Graham Smith
I tried installing nmap a couple of days ago and ran into a bit of a problem. ldconfig seems to have died with a segmentation fault. In the past when I have had problems with apt they have resolved themselves in a couple of days when a working version of a package appears but this problem isn't

Can't compile apps neither burn with K3B if no-root

2004-09-24 Thread Pau Capdevila
Hello, I have a problem when I try to compile applications. At the configure stage it complains about not bein able to find g++ and so on: () checking for g++... no checking for c++... no checking for gpp... no checking for aCC... no checking for CC... no checking for cxx... no checking for c

Re: sharing a printer with windows

2004-09-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:38:25PM -0300, Andr? Carezia wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:17:28 -0700 > Christian Benito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have small network, two windows 2000 boxes and a debian box. The > > two windows machines share a laser printer that is attached to one of > >

Re: Can't compile apps neither burn with K3B if no-root

2004-09-24 Thread robin
Pau Capdevila wrote: Hello, I have a problem when I try to compile applications. At the configure stage it complains about not bein able to find g++ and so on: () checking for g++... no checking for c++... no checking for gpp... no checking for aCC... no checking for CC... no checking for cxx..

How to set font and size in Eterm

2004-09-24 Thread Prashant Kumar
Hi there Could somebody help me in changing font and font size on Eterm, say I want to use font bitstream charter and size 13 how to do it. I have sarge, kernel 2.6 and eterm is version 9.2 TIA Prashant kumar home page http://home.iitk.ac.in/student/prashkr +---

Re: Apache2 and PHP

2004-09-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 06:48:54PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:23:46 -0400 > JoeHill disseminated the following: > > > > Did you perform the 'a2enmod php4' to enable PHP4 module support > > > on Apache2? If you did there should be the php4.conf and php4.load > > > symlinks und

auth.log webmin[xxx]: Timeout of admin

2004-09-24 Thread Robert S
I've installed webmin 1.16 (from the webmin site) on woody. I have the webmin daemon running but haven't used webmin for several days, but I keep getting these messages in my /var/log/auth.log - which are reported to me by logcheck. Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sep 24 18:28:31 debi

samba versus nfs

2004-09-24 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Hello, If I have a file server that has a samba server installed and is accessed by both linux and WinXP machines do I really need NFS installed and running? My understanding is that samba is more secure than NFS and since one can mount a samba server from a linux machine via mntsamba I am wonderi

Re: samba versus nfs

2004-09-24 Thread Stephen Tait
At 12:58 24/09/2004, you wrote: Hello, If I have a file server that has a samba server installed and is accessed by both linux and WinXP machines do I really need NFS installed and running? My understanding is that samba is more secure than NFS and since one can mount a samba server from a linux ma

modversions.h? Don't have it. Any solution?

2004-09-24 Thread Eric Dickner
Apparently I am not the first person to run into a problem regarding this particular header. A general web search revealed that all sorts of people have tried to compile drivers, found they needed but didn't have this thing, and then proceded to try all sorts of hacks. Are any of these hacks goin

Recording a skype conversation.

2004-09-24 Thread Alex Polite
I've just installed Skype (http://www.skype.com) and it seems to work all right. Now I want to be able to record conversations. If I start a recorder and then try to make a Skype call, the call want go through. Any way of doing this without running artsd or esd? alex -- Alex Polite http://p

Re: Any Softwares related to engineering field available for Debian?

2004-09-24 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Siju >> Do you know some software packages for debian (source is also fine) >> that helps in plant design & layout! Pipeline designs, Automobile >> designs. Kivio, a flowcharting program from the KDE Office Suite. It offers basic flowcharting abilities. Objects are scriptable, a backend p

how to disable /tmp clean on boot

2004-09-24 Thread Vijaya S
Hi all, When Debian is booted i find that /tmp is cleaned.. How do i disabled it? Thanks in advance. Vijaya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE install: unmet dependencies problem

2004-09-24 Thread Noah Durell
Could someone respond to this I am having the same problem. -Noah On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:14:01 -0400, Edward Kamau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > I wanted to install KDE alongside Gnome so I did: > > apt-get install KDE > > After downloading and unpacking close to 300 packages apt-get qui

Partly successful modversions.h hack....

2004-09-24 Thread Eric Dickner
I found a hack that sort of worked...create a file called include/modversions.h: #include This allowed the driver to compile with no problems but upon "insmod" the kernel complained that while it was version 2.4.27 the module had been compiled for version 2.4.18. Where this version could have c

Re: udev, ide-scsi and cdrom drive

2004-09-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Chris([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Under 2.4 kernel I was using append="ide-scsi=hdc" in lilo and using > scsi emulation for xcdroast/grip/etc etc. > > Now in 2.6 with udev - the cdrom turns up as /dev/sr6 - and mount > won't read it. No hdc is present in /dev. > > I've read

Re: modversions.h? Don't have it. Any solution?

2004-09-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Eric Dickner([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Apparently I am not the first person to run into a > problem regarding this particular header. A general > web search revealed that all sorts of people have > tried to compile drivers, found they needed but didn't > have this thing, and t

Re: how to disable /tmp clean on boot

2004-09-24 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Vijaya S (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > When Debian is booted i find that /tmp is cleaned.. > How do i disabled it? Check /etc/init.d/bootclean.sh and /etc/rcS.d/S35mountall.sh. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 ICQ #17079270 Reg

Help: KDE breaks Sid

2004-09-24 Thread Edward Kamau
Posting again in hopes of getting an answer this time hi I wanted to install KDE alongside Gnome so I did: apt-get install KDE After downloading and unpacking close to 300 packages apt-get quit with the following error: --- The following packages have unmet dependencies: kdead

Re: Apache2 and PHP

2004-09-24 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:42:47 +0200 Micha Feigin disseminated the following: > > ie. when I load www.freeyourmachine.org from the Internet or LAN, shows > > 'www.freeyourmachine.org/apache2-default/' in the address field. > > > > I have a feeling I'm doing something terribly wrong. > > > > I bel

Re: how to disable /tmp clean on boot

2004-09-24 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Vijaya >> When Debian is booted i find that /tmp is cleaned.. How do i >> disabled it? Look in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh, towards the end there is an uncommented line like this "rm -f /tmp/.clean /var/run/.clean /var/lock/.clean". Comment it. Do other files other than the dotted files

Re: Your Registration

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Re: how to disable /tmp clean on boot

2004-09-24 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 24 September 2004 07:33, Vijaya S wrote: > Hi all, > > When Debian is booted i find that /tmp is cleaned.. > How do i disabled it? The correct way is to use /var/tmp for temp files instead; /tmp is supposed to be cleaned on boot, /var/tmp is supposed to remain. -- _ _ _ _ _

Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread Thomas H. George
When Sarge is released does Unstable suddenly become Testing or is Testing simply empty until new programs gradually migrate from Unstable to Testing? I have been regularly doing dist-upgrade to Testing regularly for over a year and have been very happy with the results. No significant instab

Re: samba versus nfs

2004-09-24 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 24 September 2004 07:23, Stephen Tait wrote: > At 12:58 24/09/2004, you wrote: > >Hello, > > > >If I have a file server that has a samba server installed and is accessed > > by both linux and WinXP machines do I really need NFS installed and > > running? My understanding is that samba is

Re: How to set font and size in Eterm

2004-09-24 Thread Prashant Kumar
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Prashant Kumar wrote: > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:01:36 -0400 (EDT) > From: Prashant Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How to set font and size in Eterm > Resent-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:34:34 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: [EM

Re: Help: KDE breaks Sid

2004-09-24 Thread Stefaan
/var/cache/apt/archives/kontact-plugins_4%3a3.2.3-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kontactknt.so', which is also in package kontact Anybody have any idea how to fix this. It is a bug in the kontact-plugins package. You can force it to ove

802.11g

2004-09-24 Thread Chris Evans
Back on Debian-user for a bit with some questions. Quick vote of thanks for Debian which fuels my server and firewall in a home office set up. Background: I want to use 802.11g networking at home, sadly it'll mainly be to connect in three Windoze machines, two XP, one W2k. I want to run as s

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weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

2004-09-24 Thread H. S.
Hi, Yesterday, one of the users logged into a KDE session after a long time. As soon as the peripherals started, an error popped up on screen indicating an error and the window also had a backtrace tab. Since that time there is a constant hissing noise coming from the left speaker. Logging the

2.6.8-3 kernel freezes on Inspiron 8100 at isapnp

2004-09-24 Thread Uwe Dippel
(today I'm kind of unlucky with the daily update, it seems: Thunderbird broke, XMMS broke and now:) After the update from 2.6.8-2 (??), but 2.6.8 in any case 2.6.8; the kernel freezes at isapnp. I tried three times (Power-Off); and then booted to 2.6.3; the install-kernel; without any problem. I w

Re: Small problems with Sarge net-install

2004-09-24 Thread Art Edwards
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include My recommendations are: 1. libc6-dev should be part of the standard installation. It includes all of the standard header files (stdio.h, for example). emacs seems to be a failry common user application. During the installation, you wi

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread Zachary Rizer
--- "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When Sarge is released does Unstable suddenly become > Testing or is > Testing simply empty until new programs gradually > migrate from Unstable > to Testing? > > I have been regularly doing dist-upgrade to Testing > regularly for over a > ye

Re: Apache2 and PHP

2004-09-24 Thread Johann Koenig
On Friday September 24 at 09:09am JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/ It looks more to me like it says 'if you get a request for /, forward them to apache2-default instead.' I read nothing in it about re-writing the name. But then again, I use

Re: How to set font and size in Eterm

2004-09-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Prashant Kumar([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Prashant Kumar wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:01:36 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Prashant Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: How to set font and size in E

KDE Startup

2004-09-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm making some minor changes to KDE 3.3. They've been made and tested, so now I need to tell KDM to start the NEW version of KDE. Where are the configuration parameters / startup scripts located to instruct KDM on what to start? Someone else here h

Re: How to set font and size in Eterm

2004-09-24 Thread Zachary Rizer
--- Prashant Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Prashant Kumar wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:01:36 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Prashant Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: How to set font and size in Eterm > > Rese

Re: Apache2 and PHP

2004-09-24 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:35:17 -0400 Johann Koenig disseminated the following: > > RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/ > > It looks more to me like it says 'if you get a request for /, forward > them to apache2-default instead.' I read nothing in it about re-writing > the name. Loo

Re: apt problem - ldconfig segmentation fault

2004-09-24 Thread Joris Huizer
Graham Smith wrote: I tried installing nmap a couple of days ago and ran into a bit of a problem. ldconfig seems to have died with a segmentation fault. In the past when I have had problems with apt they have resolved themselves in a couple of days when a working version of a package appears but

Firefox 'stretched' printing

2004-09-24 Thread Norman Walsh
I mentioned[1] this problem a few weeks ago, in the hopes that someone would be able to tell me how to fix it. A few people replied that they were experiencing the problem, but no suggestions were forthcoming for how to fix it. Is there anyone out there who has had this problem and successfully fi

Keyboard don't run when boot with Debian-Installer release candidate 1 sarge

2004-09-24 Thread dayer
Hi, I have a Packard Bell iGo and I don't know boot correctly. I try start with the command "expert26" for install a kernel 2.6 series, but when I see the screen of select language, the keyboard not go, and I can't write nothing. When I try with "expert" for install a kernel 2.4 series the keyboard

Re: Small problems with Sarge net-install

2004-09-24 Thread Loïc Minier
Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fri, Sep 24, 2004: > My original problem was with md5. Can anyone tell me how to turn on md5 AFTER > installation? bee% grep -i md5 /var/cache/debconf/config.dat Name: console-data/bootmap-md5sum Template: console-data/bootmap-md5sum Name: passwd/md5 Templat

Re: apt problem - ldconfig segmentation fault

2004-09-24 Thread Graham Smith
A re-install seems to have fixed it. Although I have no idea how it broke in the first place. Thanks Joris Huizer wrote: Graham Smith wrote: I tried installing nmap a couple of days ago and ran into a bit of a problem. ldconfig seems to have died with a segmentation fault. In the past when I ha

Setting font in Eterm

2004-09-24 Thread Prashant Kumar
Hi First of sorry for my previous query as a reply for a unrelated thread, this time I am initiating a new thread. I need to chnage font and font size in Eterm, Shift Right click brings a menu for font(1-4), but that does not serve the purpose, what I wanted is how to set these font 1 - 4

Re: KDE Startup - FURTHER INFO ON QUESTION

2004-09-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 September 2004 09:38, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I'm making some minor changes to KDE 3.3. They've been made and tested, so > now I need to tell KDM to start the NEW version of KDE. > > Where are the configuration parameters / startup sc

Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

2004-09-24 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
H. S. >> there is a constant hissing noise coming from the left speaker The first thing you have to do is to get the chassis of the machine earthed properly, either via your power plug or 'crocodile-clipping' a good earth-wire to the chassis. Later you can screw on a pucca earth-

Re: Setting font in Eterm

2004-09-24 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 20:43:16 -0400 (EDT) Prashant Kumar disseminated the following: > I need to chnage font and font size in Eterm, Shift Right click brings a > menu for font(1-4), but that does not serve the purpose, what I wanted is > how to set these font 1 - 4 and their size. Some help wit

Re: Setting font in Eterm

2004-09-24 Thread Peter J Ross
On Saturday 25 Sep 2004 01:43, Prashant Kumar wrote: > Hi > First of sorry for my previous query as a reply for a unrelated > thread, this time I am initiating a new thread. > > I need to chnage font and font size in Eterm, Shift Right click > brings a menu for font(1-4), but that does not ser

Run Application?

2004-09-24 Thread Father Parthenios
Running Unstable, and am stuck with something: In gnome2-user-guide, section 4.6.4, the Run Button is described. What is the command I could run from the command line to run the Run Application Dialog? I am having trouble finding the name of this program. TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

2004-09-24 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Raghavendra Bhat_, on 09/24/04 11:29,typed: H. S. The first thing you have to do is to get the chassis of the machine earthed properly, either via your power plug or 'crocodile-clipping' a good earth-wire to the chassis. Later you can screw on a pucca earth-wire. It is

Re: Run Application?

2004-09-24 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 08:29, Father Parthenios wrote: > Running Unstable, and am stuck with something: > > > In gnome2-user-guide, section 4.6.4, the Run Button is described. > > What is the command I could run from the command line to run the Run > Application Dialog? I am having trouble findi

Re: Setting font in Eterm

2004-09-24 Thread Zachary Rizer
--- Prashant Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > First of sorry for my previous query as a reply for > a unrelated thread, this time I am initiating a new > thread. > > I need to chnage font and font size in Eterm, Shift > Right click brings a menu for font(1-4), but that > does not se

Re: How to remove escape sequences from a existing file

2004-09-24 Thread diego
Perfect, this did the trick!!! I had seen this somewhere, but where?... Thankyou very much, now I can head the following step... El jue, 23-09-2004 a las 07:08, Kevin Mark escribió: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:53:26AM +0200, diego wrote: > > I have a log file with escape sequences like "ESC]00m

Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

2004-09-24 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:48:06 -0400 Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I mentioned[1] this problem a few weeks ago, in the hopes that someone > would be able to tell me how to fix it. A few people replied that they > were experiencing the problem, but no suggestions were forthcoming for > ho

Re: gnome-python-vfs

2004-09-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Blake Swadling: > I've been having a peek at gdesklets and quite a few are non functional > due to missing python bindings for gnome-vfs. > > anyone know where i might find this mythical beast in unstable? No, but this might point out the way: (0) keeling /home/keeling_ apt-cache s

Re: sharing a printer with windows

2004-09-24 Thread J. Hannemann
--- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 21 September 2004 01:17 am, Christian > Benito wrote: > > I have small network, two windows 2000 boxes and a > debian box. The > > two windows machines share a laser printer that is > attached to one of > > them. I'd like to be able to print fro

Re: Lesstif over VNC a problem?

2004-09-24 Thread Thomas Adam
--- David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > box. Unfortunately, I can't read boxes, certainly not when they all look > the same. This is a locale issue. > I further tried to tunnel from my server to my laptop (at home) running > sid, but xmgrace still shows me boxes and it depends on lesstif

Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-24 Thread Josef Oswald
s. keeling wrote on Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:10:06 +0200: > Incoming from Josef Oswald: >> >> looking to set up random sig with SLRN I found this link: >> >> http://lists.infodrom.org/debian-user-de/2001/03/att-0026/01-slrn-random-sig >> >> At the end it says one need to create for each quote a sin

Re: 2.6.8-3 kernel freezes on Inspiron 8100 at isapnp

2004-09-24 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:51:09 +0800, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (today I'm kind of unlucky with the daily update, it seems: Thunderbird > broke, XMMS broke and now:) > After the update from 2.6.8-2 (??), but 2.6.8 in any case 2.6.8; the > kernel freezes at isapnp. I tried three times (P

Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

2004-09-24 Thread Rob Sims
On Friday 24 September 2004 09:49 am, H. S. wrote: > I am not sure this will work since if I boot in Windows the speakers > work perfectly well. It is only if I boot into Debian that the hiss > comes back during the boot process someplace (which as I mentioned is > around when lp0 starts). > Note

Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

2004-09-24 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:48:06 -0400, Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > For a few weeks now I've been getting "stretched" printing from > Firefox. By that I mean that all the text is vertically elongated so > that the page runs off the bottom of the physical paper. > > Printi

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-24 Thread jochen
I had all oss-stuff removed from the kernele and checked the loaded modules via lsmod, all the right modules were loaded. Now that I'm using oss everything is fine. I don't know what the problem was but at least it works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: auth.log webmin[xxx]: Timeout of admin

2004-09-24 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Robert S wrote: > I've installed webmin 1.16 (from the webmin site) on woody. I have the > webmin daemon running but haven't used webmin for several days, but I keep > getting these messages in my /var/log/auth.log - which are reported to me by > logcheck. > > Unusual System

Re: Help: Embedded Debian

2004-09-24 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Stefan Drees wrote: > Hi, > i´m using debian for now two years and i created lots of servers for our > customers. > I also tried to create an very small debian install with postfix, bind, > dhcp, webmin, > squid etc. I was able to cut it down to 100 MB but i want it make small

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:28:22AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote: > No. Unstable (sid) will always be unstable. Testing > becomes the new stable, and then a new testing is born > (etch?). Could you be more precise? What is renamed, what is forked, what is cloned? What properties will hold true aft

Postfix does not start

2004-09-24 Thread Robert Golovniov
Hello, I am trying to set up Postfix on a Sarge system. When I start the server, everything seems to go well, but I cannot telnet to port 25. When I checked mail log, I saw this: localhost postfix[...]: fatal: /etc/postfix/postfix-script: Permission denied Could somebody please tell me what is

A Little Confused

2004-09-24 Thread John Lowell
A little confused by the Debian login process when using a window manager like fluxbox. In the past, I've always started the X window system after a console login and startx after having first written an ~/.xinitrc. I was a little surprized after the Debian installation and the addition of X wi

Re: Parallel port at install

2004-09-24 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:42:10AM +0100, g00se wrote: > >> > If you are installing a stock debian kernel, modprobe lp > should load the appropriate modules. > >> > > That sounds promising, but are you suggesting that i issue that command? And > if so, are you saying i don't then need to explicitl

Re: System user accounts lost after system halt

2004-09-24 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:16:02AM +0800, lianliming wrote: > Hi all, > After a system halt, i find all the users in my system seems been > lost. I can't login in as any id. > I tried to use linux single mode to boot. but after system setup, > the system give me a prompt said "you have no

auctex, C-c C-c calls only latex

2004-09-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Where should the change be made to make auctex-emacs (up-to-date sid) call tex instead of latex? >From the auctex manual: When invoking one of the commands TeX-command-master (C-c C-c) or TeX-command-region (C-c C-r) LaTeX is run on either the entire current document or a given region of it. I hav

Japanese characters in firefox

2004-09-24 Thread ScruLoose
Hi all, I'm trying to get Firefox set up so it'll display Japanese pages properly, but I don't seem to be having any luck. I'm using Firefox 0.9.3 in Sarge. Whenever I view a page with Japanese characters in it, they get represented as a box with a four-character alphanumeric (hex?) code in i

HUB with multiple LANs?

2004-09-24 Thread Curtis Vaughan
If my internal LAN is 10.0.1.x and I attach another LAN - say, 192.168.1.x - to the same HUB will they conflict with one another, or do I have to put the other LAN on another HUB? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wine on Debian

2004-09-24 Thread Phil Bardanes
I'm thinking about trying Wine out on Debian. I've tried it out under a number of other distributions, and it's been a disaster for the most part. However, I've heard a few good things about Debian's Wine being very stable. Any thoughts or recommendations before I dive into it? Most of our Debian

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