Re: compile src or make .deb pkg?

2004-10-15 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Hey, > So what do you on debian if you want a newer version of a program or a > program that isnt in apt-get's list at all, just go get the src and > compile it? and it should be fine or would this makes things unstable? If at all possible, you should not install anything in non-deb format, un

sendmail problem

2004-10-15 Thread Sebastian Wild
Hi List, I got a little sendmail problem. Set up a sarge box for a customer. Installed sendmail onto it. Now usually I could send mails from the console with it without configuring anything (except network of course *g*) Now on this box it keeps failing :( Error message is: Can't send mail: sendma

Alternative for kiwi syslog daemon and general questions about debian.

2004-10-15 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hi to all! Last weeks i am trying to move as much as possible from windows to linux via the debian way and i like it... But still i have a few questions about installations etc... 1) I am looking for a program that handles my SNMP traps from my switches and routers. I am now using kiwi syslog d

Re: Automating wifi setup

2004-10-15 Thread Francois Cerbelle
Look the package ifplugd it can help you Fanfan -- Les âmes se rencontrent sur les lèvres des amants. [Percy Bysshe Shelley] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Install RPM ?

2004-10-15 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hi! I have 2 programs i really want to install! 1) evolution connector is free now and i want it installed so that i can move from outlook to evolution and connect to my exchange server 2) checkpoint securemote. Is there a possibility to install these RPM's ? Cheers, Philippe Disclaimer

Re: Alternative for kiwi syslog daemon and general questions about debian.

2004-10-15 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 10:13:49AM +0200, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > > > Hi to all! > > Last weeks i am trying to move as much as possible from windows to linux > via the debian way and i like it... > But still i have a few questions about i

space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

2004-10-15 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Is it possible to somehow tell apt to use no more than X MB of space for the archive, or not to keep more than Y versions of any package? I can't find anything about it in apt.conf(5). (Pls CC me on replies, I'm not on the list with this address) cheers+tia, &rw -- -- > Naja, inzwische

Re: Install RPM ?

2004-10-15 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 October 2004 02:09 pm, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > Is there a possibility to install these RPM's ? use alien to convert rpm packages to deb. apt-cache show alien && apt-get install alien rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT --

Has anyone usded gensplash ?

2004-10-15 Thread duzhenhuan
I googled about gensplash installation ,it's almost all about gentoo. Can u give me some instructions on setting up gensplash in Debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: catch-all in /etc/aliases

2004-10-15 Thread James Cummings
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:02:06 +0100, James Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm using debian unstable and exim4 and forwarding a bunch of > mail on for another system using /etc/aliases > > Firstname.Lastname: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Firstname1.Lastname1: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > etc. >

Re: Linux gamers with Matrox cards, speak up please!

2004-10-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:59:24PM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/04/2004 11:30 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > | So can we hear from Matrox users about their experiences? > | Particularly, from Linux gamers? > > I have got a Matrox G40

Re: What means that: FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/. ?

2004-10-15 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:35:59 +0200, Christian Leimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I boot from another system the .dev is gone. > But booting back in the troble maker shows the .dev and with the contents of > an old /dev only null and console and I can not delete this it says it is > in use. If I

Re: kickstart, autoyast or the like for Debian?

2004-10-15 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:58:56 +0200, Jacob Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to create an install script for Debian? > > Just like Red Hat/Fedora kickstart and Suse autoyast. You can try fai (although it's sometimes an overkill) -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- T

Re: Making a Debian Kernel Patch

2004-10-15 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:43:52 +1000, Peter A. Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a bit lost as to how to proceed here, and the dh-kpatches.html file and man > dh_installkpatches are totally confusing me at this point in time. > > I'm trying to find a way to get the Via EPIA kernel

x server configuration problems

2004-10-15 Thread Sebastien Venot
Hello everyone, i m new to Debian. I managed more or less to install debian successfully. My problem is that i cannot change the resolution of my screen.it keeps the size 800x600. i would like to use the resolution 1027x768. I configured many times the x server using the command: dpkg-reconfigure

can't find /dev/dsp ?

2004-10-15 Thread belahcene abdelkader
Hi, I installed the sarge vesrion on my PC, with an isa , ess sound card , the knoppix (RH ) found it without problem, deb-sarge gives the error can't read /dev/dsp ? I checked it , it exists I add also the permission o+rw to /dev/dsp . The sound still not running ? how activate it , please best

Missing ttys with udev

2004-10-15 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi all, I recently switched from devfs to udev. Everything is fine except that I now have no virtual consoles, only X. The device /dev/tty exists as do /dev/vc/tty/*, but there are no symbolic links like /dev/tty0 -> vc/0. Does anyone know what's going on here? I run a home made 2.6.8 kernel,

[no subject]

2004-10-15 Thread P P PRASAD
Dear Sir Can you guide me in following case : We are having a System having 2 HDDs C & D . On C Windows 2000 Server is installed and on D Red Hat 9 is installed. Now D is nearly full. We want to format C and extend it for Linux. My hitch is if I delete partition of C, The system won't boot and I

Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

2004-10-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 10:47:17AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > Is it possible to somehow tell apt to use no more than X MB of > space for the archive, or not to keep more than Y versions of any > package? I can't find anything about it in apt.conf(5). That man page has something

Re: x server configuration problems

2004-10-15 Thread Alexis Huxley
> i m new to Debian. I managed more or less to install debian successfully. > My problem is that i cannot change the resolution of my screen.it keeps the > size 800x600. > i would like to use the resolution 1027x768. > I configured many times the x server using the command: > dpkg-reconfigure xser

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-15 Thread Alan Chandler
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: Just to show its not networking problems, I have resorted to copying the files via scp - even encrypted I am getting about 0.5Mb/se

Re: x server configuration problems

2004-10-15 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Sebastien Venot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041015 18:34]: > Hello everyone, > > i m new to Debian. I managed more or less to install debian successfully. > My problem is that i cannot change the resolution of my screen.it keeps the > size 800x600. > i would like to use the resolution 1027x768. >

[Newbie] ppp: Connection established, but can't ping. How can I get out into Internet?

2004-10-15 Thread F. GEIGER
Dear all, I'm on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) and stuck in the middle: I exec "pon VOL" and get a connection, but no pings do return (100% loss). As a connection has been estblished, I guess the several config files are okay. Therefore I've pasted the output of "netstat -nr", "route", and "ifcon

RE: x server configuration problems

2004-10-15 Thread Rituraj Buddhisagar
I am also facing the same problem. I tried xf86config many times...at the end it asks to write changes to /etc/X11/XF86Config. I did startx but it didn't work. Then I copied XF86Config to XF86Config-4 and it works now. But the resolution is still 800x600 even if I remove all other resolutions exce

Wireless interface not working

2004-10-15 Thread Werner Otto
Hi All, I installed debina on my Dell Latitide D505. I am unable to get my wireless working. Can someone please lead me in the right direction. -- Kind Regards Werner Otto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE:

2004-10-15 Thread Rituraj Buddhisagar
The C and D you are referring to are Drive names given by windows OS to HDDs. If you format C; then windows will be wiped out and while installing Linux on it, you will be given an option to install Boot-loader(like grub or lilo) by which at next boot u can select which linux to boot from 1HDD's or

Re: can't find /dev/dsp ?

2004-10-15 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 October 2004 02:49 pm, belahcene abdelkader wrote: > Hi, > I installed the sarge vesrion on my PC, with an isa , > ess sound card , the knoppix (RH ) found it without > problem, > deb-sarge gives the error can't read /dev/dsp ? I > checked

Re: Missing ttys with udev

2004-10-15 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 October 2004 03:11 pm, Nick Hastings wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently switched from devfs to udev. Everything is fine except that I > now have no virtual consoles, only X. > > The device /dev/tty exists as do /dev/vc/tty/*, but there are no

Re: Missing ttys with udev

2004-10-15 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041015 19:24]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 15 October 2004 03:11 pm, Nick Hastings wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I recently switched from devfs to udev. Everything is fine except that I > > now have no virtual consoles,

Re: power-button >> poweroff

2004-10-15 Thread Rune Maagensen
Tim Ruehsen wrote: You should have ACPI enabled in BIOS and install the packages 'acpid' and 'acpi'. If everything is working correctly, the acpi daemon gets an event, if you press the button. You can configure the wanted behaviour (e.g. calling 'poweroff'). If it doesn't work, try APM (install

Re: Install RPM ?

2004-10-15 Thread Riccardo Tortorici
As someone said to you use alien... I tried to install evolution connector in this way but i had so many problems...my suggestion is to install it from sources and then, eventually, build the deb package. Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: Hi! I have 2 programs i really want to install! 1) evolution

Re: Wireless interface not working

2004-10-15 Thread Ruairi Newman
Hi, Coud we have a little more information? What wireless chipset is in your laptop? What have you tried so far? Are you running stable, testing or unstable? Regards, R. On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:16:58 +0100, Werner Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed debina on my Dell Latitide D50

Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

2004-10-15 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:53:19 +0200, Maurits van Rees writes: >> Is it possible to somehow tell apt to use no more than X MB of >> space for the archive, or not to keep more than Y versions of any >> package? I can't find anything about it in apt.conf(5). >That man page has something that come

Re: Install RPM ?

2004-10-15 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 October 2004 04:12 pm, Riccardo Tortorici wrote: > As someone said to you use alien... > I tried to install evolution connector in this way but i had so many > problems...my suggestion is to install it from sources and then, > eventually,

Re: Install RPM ?

2004-10-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 10:39 +0200, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > > Hi! > > I have 2 programs i really want to install! > > 1) evolution connector is free now and i want it installed so that i can > move from outlook to evolution and connect to my exchange server > > 2) checkpoint securemote.

RE: Install RPM ?

2004-10-15 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
?? When i perform an apt-cache search evolution, i only have "evolution" and "evolution-dev" Where is the debian package for the connector ? Cheers, Philippe. -Original Message- From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 15 oktober 2004 13:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

GAL 2.2 ==> GAL 2.2.3

2004-10-15 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hi, I need to install gal 2.2.3 for a software package. I downloaded gal 2.2.3 and did a ./configure, make and make install...no problems. When i run the configuration of the program that needs 2.2.3 i get: configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 libbonoboui-2.0 >= 2.4.2 gnome-vfs-2.0

Re:

2004-10-15 Thread linux
P P PRASAD wrote: Dear Sir Can you guide me in following case : We are having a System having 2 HDDs C & D . On C Windows 2000 Server is installed and on D Red Hat 9 is installed. Now D is nearly full. We want to format C and extend it for Linux. My hitch is if I delete partition of C, The system w

Upgrade from testing to experimental ?

2004-10-15 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hi, I need to have alot of 'latest' releases, now i am using the testing-debian. Can i change to experimental debian by just chaning my sources.list ? I tried that, changed testing with experimental but i get errors then. What is the right procedure ? Thnx, Phil Disclaimer : This e-mail is

Can't umount / at shutdown

2004-10-15 Thread Pau Capdevila
I've added a probe in the umount rc script to see what's opened just before trying to umount filesystems. I can see the following COMMANDPID USER FD TYPE DEVICESIZE NODE NAME init 1 root cwdDIR3,64096 2 / init 1 root rtdDIR3,64096

can-t openede/dev/dsp

2004-10-15 Thread belahcene abdelkader
thank you for reply Yes I am using 2.6 kernel the strange is that inst162:~# insmod snd-pcm-oss insmod: can't read 'snd-pcm-oss': No such file or directory while the lsmod gives : nst162:~# lsmod |grep os snd_pcm_oss48168 0 snd_pcm85412 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss

RE: Install RPM ?

2004-10-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 13:25 +0200, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > ?? > When i perform an apt-cache search evolution, i only have "evolution" > and "evolution-dev" > Where is the debian package for the connector ? In reply to your other query: I wouldn't goto experimental. That is not what you ar

Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

2004-10-15 Thread chris-usenet
For what it's worth, the answer to the stretched printing appears to be Xprint's default postscript resolution. It's 600x600 and for me, when I reduced it back to the more normal 300x300 the printing problems disappeared. Oh, the file (debian "sarge") is /etc/Xprint/C/print/attributes/document, an

Re: Upgrade from testing to experimental ?

2004-10-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I need to have alot of 'latest' releases, now i am using the > testing-debian. > > Can i change to experimental debian by just chaning my sources.list ? > I tried that, changed testing with experimental but i get errors then. > What

Re: GAL 2.2 ==> GAL 2.2.3

2004-10-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 13:31 +0200, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to install gal 2.2.3 for a software package. > I downloaded gal 2.2.3 and did a ./configure, make and make install...no > problems. > > When i run the configuration of the program that needs 2.2.3 i get: > > co

RE: x server configuration problems

2004-10-15 Thread Rituraj Buddhisagar
Title: RE: x server configuration problems I am also getting the same problem. Getting just 640X480 (I posted earlier to this maillist saying 800x600 sorry I was wrong) I am attaching the logfile herewith after doing the following: X > logfile 2>&1 &     sleep 10     killall X ##

RE: x server configuration problems

2004-10-15 Thread Rituraj Buddhisagar
Title: RE: x server configuration problems I am getting the same problem. Getting just 640X480 (I posted earlier to this maillist saying 800x600 sorry I was wrong) I am attaching the logfile herewith after doing the following: X > logfile 2>&1 &     sleep 10     killall X ##

RE: x server configuration problems

2004-10-15 Thread Rituraj Buddhisagar
Title: RE: x server configuration problems One more this is while doing dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 How do I specify my video card BUS identifier? -Original Message- From: Rituraj Buddhisagar Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 5:59 PM To: 'Nick Hastings'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

2004-10-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 13:15 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For what it's worth, the answer to the stretched printing appears to > be Xprint's default postscript resolution. It's 600x600 and for me, > when I reduced it back to the more normal 300x300 the printing problems > disappeared. > > Oh,

Re: compile src or make .deb pkg?

2004-10-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 10:40 +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > Hey, > > So what do you on debian if you want a newer version of a program or a > > program that isnt in apt-get's list at all, just go get the src and > > compile it? and it should be fine or would this makes things unstable? >

RE: GAL 2.2 ==> GAL 2.2.3

2004-10-15 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hi, I downloaded evolution 2.0.2 and the exchange connector. I am using debian sarge now. How can i upgrade to sid without reinstalling everything ? Phil. -Original Message- From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 15 oktober 2004 14:40 To: DebianUser List Subject: R

ssh tput error 'tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified'

2004-10-15 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I've been having this wierd error message when I ssh into my server: 'tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified' it's repeated about 20 times when I ssh in with a command, e.g. ssh server cat .bashrc or rsync server:/home/matt /home/matt the error doesn't show up when I just ssh

RE: GAL 2.2 ==> GAL 2.2.3

2004-10-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 15:05 +0200, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > > Hi, > > I downloaded evolution 2.0.2 and the exchange connector. > I am using debian sarge now. > How can i upgrade to sid without reinstalling everything ? By reading my 8:30AM (GMT -0400) message I am pasting down below just

vcd/ video dvd howto

2004-10-15 Thread Na Zo
Hi! Could anybody tell me where can i find any information about how to write (copy) a video dvd or cd? I need dvd, but maybe some are interested in cd, maybe the same way. I' ve tried to make an iso with dd if=/dev/sr0 of=isofile , but it made to me always a too large isofile. (about 6- 7 GB, i

disk defragmenting

2004-10-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hello, Is there any defragmenting tool in any distro, and if not why? Thanks!!!

Re: disk defragmenting

2004-10-15 Thread Mike Chandler
On Friday 15 October 2004 06:49 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hello, > Is there any defragmenting tool in any distro, and if not why? Thanks!!! Nope, not needed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel->input

2004-10-15 Thread Paul Akkermans
Hi group,   I am trying to analyse the input layer of the kernel 2.6.7. Can anybody tell me why there is a handler used in the input core(input.c)?   Thanks in advance,   Paul Akkermans

Re: disk defragmenting

2004-10-15 Thread robin
Mike Chandler wrote: On Friday 15 October 2004 06:49 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hello, Is there any defragmenting tool in any distro, and if not why? Thanks!!! Nope, not needed. There are lots of hits on google for this one being: http://www.spinics.net/lists/l

Re: Sarge with lilo?

2004-10-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Preston Boyington wrote: Andreas Janssen wrote: It happens when Grub starts to boot my system. I see the following: root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinz-2.6.8-1-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-386 savedefault boot after that, nothing. Why not boot CD#1 again, do expert, and sele

Re: Firewall in Sarge

2004-10-15 Thread Marc D Ronell
>> "Douglas" == Douglas G Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adi Linden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> In Debian/Sarge, where is the appropriate place for some iptables >> rules to deny access to some local ports? > On my system I put a firewall script in /etc/init.d and have it > l

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-15 Thread Tim Kelley
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:00:18AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > Both you guys have missed my main message - the speed I was talking about > was using SCP - so perhaps its also processors trying to do encrypt the > message. No, that is neglegible, unless this is a 386 or something. > The thro

poll: managing high volumes of list mail effectively

2004-10-15 Thread martin f krafft
I am subscribed to 237 mailing lists and even though my tools are adequate, I still consider them suboptimal since I just hit 'delete' on most threads. I have a server receive all my mail and procmail it into topic folders. From there, five clients use offlineimap to keep a synchronised copy of the

Re: Mouse Scrolling Troubles

2004-10-15 Thread Noah Durell
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 7:41:26 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From: Noah Durell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2004/10/14 Thu AM 09:44:49 EDT > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Mouse Scrolling Troubles > > > > Hello, > > My mouse (Logitech usb optical dell mouse, not

Reclaiming Windows ptn for Linux (was: Re: )

2004-10-15 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from P P PRASAD: > > Can you guide me in following case : > We are having a System having 2 HDDs C & D . On C Windows 2000 Server > is installed and on D Red Hat 9 is installed. Now D is nearly full. > We want to format C and extend it for Linux. > My hitch is if I delete partition of C,

Padlock(ed) on CD/FD Desktop Icon

2004-10-15 Thread Homer Whittaker
I reinstalled, via cable, the latest version of Debian. I use stable, testing, unstable, and of course security. My CD and Floppy desktop icons have a locked padlock icon on them and I can not seem to find out how to unlock the lock. Any help? Homer Whittaker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Firewall in Sarge

2004-10-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 10:43:52AM -0400, Marc D Ronell wrote: > >> "Douglas" == Douglas G Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On my system I put a firewall script in /etc/init.d > > I concur and did the same. That seems to be the default, but I wonder for how long. I don't think I chang

Re: printer won't stop

2004-10-15 Thread CW Harris
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:26:09AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Thursday 14 October 2004 20:10, Jacob S wrote: > [...] > > If I'm not mistaken, you can also delete jobs in the queue using cups' > > web interface (if not a command line tool, as well). > > > > In your web browser, go to http://

reinstall

2004-10-15 Thread Ceritime
I have not long perched a second hand computer witch has windows 98 on it and my partner has wiped of the cd rom drive by accident and i cannot get it back now. How do i get it back could you tell me in English because i don't understand technical?

Re: What means that: FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/. ?

2004-10-15 Thread Christian Leimer
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:35:59 +0200, Christian Leimer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If I boot from another system the .dev is gone. >> But booting back in the troble maker shows the .dev and with the contents >> of an old /dev only null and console and I can not dele

Intel 82865G driver

2004-10-15 Thread Rituraj Buddhisagar
Title: RE: x server configuration problems Can anybody please tell me where to get debian driver for Intel 82865G. The intel site says its supported /tested on RedHat and suse. I am getting following errors when I run the install script   Debian1:~/dripkg# cat dri.log rm -f *.o *.ko d

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-15 Thread Alan Chandler
Tim Kelley writes: On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:00:18AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: Both you guys have missed my main message - the speed I was talking about was using SCP - so perhaps its also processors trying to do encrypt the message. No, that is neglegible, unless this is a 386 or something

RE: reinstall

2004-10-15 Thread Rituraj Buddhisagar
If I understand correctly what you are saying:-   Maybe if the CDROM drive is not connected properly. Shut down the computer; remove power connection; open the lid and then remove the connections going to CDROM(one is power and another is called data-cable) and then connect them again.

Re: reinstall

2004-10-15 Thread Ken Gilmour
Ar Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:27:44 EDT, scríobh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:  I have not long perched a second hand computer witch has windows 98  on it and my partner has wiped of the cd rom drive by accident and  i cannot get it back now. How do i get it back could you tell me in  English because i don't underst

Re: reinstall

2004-10-15 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:27:44 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have not long perched a second hand computer witch has windows 98 on it > and my partner has wiped of the cd rom drive by accident and i cannot get it > back now. How do i get it back could you tell me in English

Re: Combining PDF documents

2004-10-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 08:39:59PM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > Received Thu 14 Oct 2004 7:14am +1000 from Martin Dickopp: > > Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > In Adobe Acrobat, there is the ability to combine PDF documents, inserting > > > document 2 at a given locat

need help

2004-10-15 Thread MARCELLA CHAMBERS
Im having trouble with my proxy connection on my computer can you help? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't umount / at shutdown

2004-10-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pau Capdevila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've added a probe in the umount rc script to see what's opened just >before trying to umount filesystems. I can see the following > >COMMANDPID USER FD TYPE DEVICESIZE NODE NAME >lsof 2401 root1w

Re: poll: managing high volumes of list mail effectively

2004-10-15 Thread Brian Kimball
On Friday 15 October 2004 08:01 am, martin f krafft wrote: > I am subscribed to 237 mailing lists and even though my tools are Holy crap! How much time per day do you spend on all that mail? I'm trying to be as efficient as I can with my 19 mailing lists and I still spend too long on them. th

Re: need help

2004-10-15 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:06:25 -0700, MARCELLA CHAMBERS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im having trouble with my proxy connection on my computer can you help? Call your sysadmin for more instructions. He might also require you to supply information you might've have willingly, purposely withheld earli

Re: Missing ttys with udev

2004-10-15 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 06:41:12PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: | | Hi all, | | I recently switched from devfs to udev. Everything is fine except that I | now have no virtual consoles, only X. | | The device /dev/tty exists as do /dev/vc/tty/*, but there are no | symbolic links like /dev/tty0 ->

Re: Re: can't find /dev/dsp ?

2004-10-15 Thread belahcene
thank you for reply Yes I am using 2.6 kernel the strange is that inst162:~# insmod snd-pcm-oss insmod: can't read 'snd-pcm-oss': No such file or directory while the lsmod gives : nst162:~# lsmod |grep os snd_pcm_oss48168 0 snd_pcm85412 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss

Re: Multiple CD ISO's into single DVD ISO?

2004-10-15 Thread Eric Wagar
> > But, I was not able to find any file like a > .discinfo > > (referenced in above article about which disk, > etc) > > on Debian. > > > > Has anyone been able to do the multi CD's into > single > > DVD? If so, how? > > Well, I don't know about concatenating all the disks > into a single > dv

Re: Upgrade from testing to experimental ?

2004-10-15 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:46:23 +0200, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I need to have alot of 'latest' releases, now i am using the > testing-debian. What exactly do you _NEED_ as opposed to _WANT_ for the latest of everything? > Can i change to experimental d

Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

2004-10-15 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:52:18PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: | | On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:53:19 +0200, Maurits van Rees writes: | >> Is it possible to somehow tell apt to use no more than X MB of | >> space for the archive, or not to keep more than Y versions of any | >> package? I can't find

mozilla-firefox 0.9.3-6 crash

2004-10-15 Thread Frederick B. Henry Jr.
Greetings, I have been experiencing inexplicable, apparently random crashes of mozilla-firefox. At first I believed it to be a javascript issue, but having turned javascript off, I still get the crashes. I'm running unstable, fluxbox wm, nvidia driver. I receive this on the crash: The progr

Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-15 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:30:29AM -0700, Marc Jackson wrote: | Hello, | | I've connected a "j-bod" with to an Alpha running the latest stable | release of Debian linux. I can mount the filesystems as "ufs" in | /etc/fstab, but I can't write to them. | In poking around, it seems as if there is no

Re: poll: managing high volumes of list mail effectively

2004-10-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brian Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.15.1823 +0200]: > > I am subscribed to 237 mailing lists and even though my tools are > > Holy crap! > > How much time per day do you spend on all that mail? Too much. But as I said, I have good tools. For instance, crm114 and a custom neura

Re: mozilla-firefox 0.9.3-6 crash

2004-10-15 Thread Frederick B. Henry Jr.
On Friday 15 Oct 2004 11:36:19 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote: > Greetings, > > I have been experiencing inexplicable, apparently random crashes of > mozilla-firefox. At first I believed it to be a javascript issue, but > having turned javascript off, I still get the crashes. > > I'm runni

Re: can't find /dev/dsp ?

2004-10-15 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 15 October 2004 11:16, belahcene wrote: > thank you for reply > Yes I am using 2.6 kernel > > the strange is that > inst162:~# insmod snd-pcm-oss > insmod: can't read 'snd-pcm-oss': No such file or > directory > Yes, that is strange. > while the lsmod gives : > nst162:~# lsmod |grep os

Re: idotdist service port

2004-10-15 Thread Ali, Mohammed
Hi   Do we know the purpose of the port number TCP  2590 ?   Thanks Mohammed Ali    

Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Eric Wagar
How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems from the initial install? I see a lot of documentation on how to convert, but I'd like to get them running from the beginning. Thanks eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Mike Smith
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:37:22 -0700 (PDT), Eric Wagar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems > from the initial install? I see a lot of > documentation > on how to convert, but I'd like to get them running > from the beginning. > > Thanks > eric > > -- > To

Re: ATI 3D acceleleration and dpkg-divert

2004-10-15 Thread Nicolas de Sereville
Hi! Just for closing this thread. I finally got 3d acceleration and OpenGL working well following the installation method from http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html. Celestia and Tuxracer are running smooth. Thanks to everybody Nico Nicolas de Sereville wrote: Hi

Re: Has anyone usded gensplash ?

2004-10-15 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 09:57, duzhenhuan wrote: > I googled about gensplash installation ,it's almost all about gentoo. > Can u give me some instructions on setting up gensplash in Debian? Myself and others are actually working on a port atm. There's a quick guide on my site *see url below* but its

Re: apache + mass virtual hosting +tomcat please help (resin ??)

2004-10-15 Thread Pritpal Dhaliwal
You can accomplish this with resin. You can tell resin which hosts resin should take care of and which it shouldn't. read some docs and give it a whirl www.caucho.com resin 3.0.9 has been release as GPL. Pritpal Dhaliwal Roozemond, D.A. wrote: Hi, Few virtual sites needs tomcat in order to wor

Re: Wireless interface not working

2004-10-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Werner Otto wrote: > I installed debina on my Dell Latitide D505. I am unable to get my > wireless working. > > Can someone please lead me in the right direction. we'd need more info if we do not have that dell box to do your homework for yoou - what is the output of lsp

can only ping after kernel upgrade

2004-10-15 Thread Bernie Berg
Howdy, I loaded up woody with the bootbf2.4-xfs_with_basedebs.iso netist image yesterday. I then proceeded to upgrade my kernel to 2.4.27. I used apt-get to get the sources, copied the orig config from /boot, ran make oldconfig (used the defaults) and then ran make-kpkg to compile. I then i

Kernel Upgrade

2004-10-15 Thread Johnno
I was trying to update the kernel from 2.2.0 to 2.4.18-1-386 I used apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386 I have tried to install it a few times but still get the some errors when I reboot VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: V

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Eric Wagar wrote: How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems from the initial install? I see a lot of documentation on how to convert, but I'd like to get them running from the beginning. Thanks eric Boot a Knoppix CD and do a "chroot install" -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Descriptio

Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

2004-10-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:33:07PM -0400, Derrick Hudson wrote: > One solution would be to make that directory a separate file system. > Then when the filesystem's space is consumed apt won't be able to > exceed that limit. I wonder how hard apt would crash when it hits the limit. I have hopes tha

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