Re: dh_help

2002-05-23 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 03:51:58PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi, > > excuse me, everyone. I read it too quickly. "dh_dhelp" is what > is attempting to be executed and it is found in package "dhelp". > > My question about the easiest way to find which package supplies > a certain command sti

Re: Debian laptop (vendors)

2002-05-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:17:02AM -0700, Walter Reed wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 06:26:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On 23/05/02 Bill Wohler did speaketh: > > > > > No idea on whether IBM will install Debian for you. I installed Debian > > > on my Thinkpad T20 without much fu

Re: lost route (network unreachable)

2002-05-27 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:04:03AM -0500, DvB wrote: > For a few days now, I haven't been able to reach a few of the servers on > my network. Every time I try to connect to one, I get an error that > includes the message "network is unreachable." > When I run netstat -r, all the hosts that I can't

Re: bad dist-upgrade - starting over

2002-05-27 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 06:49:31PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:52:36PM +0200, Eric Smith wrote: > > Unfortunately on the way from potato to sid, my upgrade froze on > > one of the main lib6 packages. Now I have a really disturbed > > package database. > > > > I don't

Re: Woody: make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

2002-05-28 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:53:04AM -0400, David Jackson wrote: > Jeff -- > Thanks for you reply. > > > > According to /etc/locale.gen this is the command to build locales. > (and it worked) > > dpkg-reconfigure locales > > David > > > Just a quick question on a related matter. I have been

Re: Fonts using various screen resolutions

2002-05-28 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:50:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have been doing a lot of reading on de-uglifying fonts on X. I have > installed truetype fonts, worked on xfs, tried different configurations in my > applications. > > In the end it worked quite well, but nowhere nea

Re: problem with sound...

2002-05-28 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:45:07PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Here's what is says for my sound card: > > > >Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio > >Controller (rev 40) > > Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 1200 > > Flags

Re: 'debian' submenus have disappeared from my KDE menu

2002-05-28 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:18:04AM +0200, I.J.W. Wever wrote: > This morning I learned the hard way why one should alias 'rm' to 'rm -i'. Opinions will wary, but that is not necessary. Besides, it will get you into the habit of depending on "-i" as a check of last resort. If you were on another ma

Re: synaptic ???

2002-05-28 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 08:40:27PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Anybody used synaptic on debian to manage rpm's? > > It is a graphical/x app that must run as root -- and, by default, root > cannot run x apps ;< > Eh? I run X apps all the time. Heck, I can even run KDE/ Gnome as root. As

Re: lost route (network unreachable)

2002-05-29 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:42:39AM -0500, DvB wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:04:03AM -0500, DvB wrote: > > > The "H" flag indicates that the route is to a specific host. Obviously, > > 255.255.255.255 is not a valid host address. Interesting reply line. Stop the blatant plagiarism! :-} > >

Re: Woody: make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

2002-05-29 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:43:51PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Just a quick question on a related matter. I have been using this > > machine for a while now. $LANG was always set to C. > > C is the same as POSIX and the same as unset which is to say you get > traditional sort order. Things are s

Re: synaptic ???

2002-05-29 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 11:39:35PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Andy Saxena wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 08:40:27PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > > > > Anybody used synaptic on debian to manage rpm's? > > > > > &g

Re: lost route (network unreachable)

2002-06-01 Thread Andy Saxena
es which network it is on. Also you should normally have a "default" entry. All network destinations that don't have a route indicated in the previous entries are routed through this gateway. "Default" is the fallback entry. By the way, unless your computer is on the same

Re: Remote admin of intermittently-connected machine?

2002-06-01 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:07:05PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Since I set up a Debian/GNU Linux box for a couple of friends, I find > myself having to administer it remotely. Which is OK, as I did install > ssh on it. > > But the box is only connected to the internet via a pay-as-you-go > d

Re: Gaah! KDE madness!

2002-06-01 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 05:56:49PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote: > On Saturday 01 June 2002 04:00 pm, Andy Saxena wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 10:15:16AM -0500, Peter Clark wrote: > > > root--I'm sending this, obviously. The second thing is that the fonts are > > &

Re: convert html to text

2002-06-01 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:31:30PM -0700, ben wrote: > On Thursday 30 May 2002 04:26 pm, Seneca wrote: > > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:53:20PM -0700, ben wrote: > > > i seem to remember somebody mentioning an app or script that converts > > > html to text. i've searched the archives but can't find a

Re: Man page output

2002-06-01 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:53:50PM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > >Is there an easy way to output man pages without all of the underlined > >text? I want to redirect man page output to text type files, but all > >of the files include squares or ^H^H^H all over the place

Re: [SOLVED!] Re: lost route (network unreachable)

2002-06-04 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 09:42:54AM -0500, DvB wrote: > Michel Verdier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > > > I tried running route add -host hostname.mydomain.com (though I have no > > > idea if that's supposed to work or not) and get the following: > > > >

Re: Man page output

2002-06-04 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 10:01:20PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 10:54:22PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:53:50PM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > > Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > > >Is there an easy way to outpu

Re: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

2002-06-04 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:03:19AM -0400, Joe Biron wrote: > Andy, thanks for your help. I've been removing ximian packages in my > spare time (HA!) and I seem to have gotten them all. a > > dpkg -l | grep ximian > > and > > dpkg -l | grep xim > > yeild nothing. Now, I'm just not sure how to

Re: New woody install - INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS"

2002-06-04 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:15:24PM -0400, Matt Miller wrote: > I just installed woody (from a pile of 1.4M floppies) onto my circa 1994 > Intel 486. When trying to boot off the hard drive or off my boot floppy > everything looks fine until > > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" > INIT: Ente

Re: partition problem

2002-06-09 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 08:30:54PM -0500, Henning, Brian wrote: > Hello- > I am trying to use grub to boot my debian parition and it will not recognize > /vmlinuz . This partition is ext2 on partition 8. The funny thing is when i > did the install I did it on partition 12. I have a few other operat

Re: Debian Potato i386 newtork woes

2002-06-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 03:28:55PM -0700, Larry Smith wrote: > I'm unable to find a driver that will load, that is > supposed to work with my SMC model 8216C internet > card. The drivers all abort indicating a possible > address or irq error. > > I've tried: > smc-ultra (Used to work on a RedHa

Re: autodetect floppy filesystem type

2002-06-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:26:53AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Jun 17, 2002, Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:59:56PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > > I have a question about "floppies". First, quaint, aren't they? OK, > > > In /etc/fstab

Re: erratic mouse with xfree86 4.1.0?

2002-06-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 05:21:18PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:13:16PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: > | > "Derrick" == Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > Is gpm running? If so, that is going to cause problems. > | > | Ah ha

Re: Amazing init problem

2002-06-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 02:49:37AM +0200, Hern?n Cervantes wrote: > I having a amazing problem with the init program > (/sbin/init). I'm using the Woody (almost upgrade) > Debian version, I compiled the Linux kernel version > 2.4.18 with APM support, ACPI support and Wireless > support (three indep

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