Re: Disabling USB devices?

2003-09-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Phil Edwards wrote: A machine is running sid with a 2.4.20 kernel, and has some very power-hungry USB devices plugged into it. The devices themselves don't have power switches, but we'd really like to be able to turn them off and save power. Why not just unplug them? We could, but the physical ar

Re: Problem Installing exim

2003-09-28 Thread Russell Shaw
ARYAN AMERI wrote: Hi there: I am running a mixture of sarge/sid and am trying to install exim. apt-get install exim seems to fetch and install it OK, but it is not able to set it up, I receive the following error message: **

deb from source

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I'm trying to build gtk2.0-dbg .deb from source. I downloaded: gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz then: tar -xzvf gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz gunzipgtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz patch -p0 < gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff cd gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig ~/SRC/GTK2/gt

Re: deb from source

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:26:13PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: I'm trying to build gtk2.0-dbg .deb from source. I downloaded: gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz then: tar -xzvf gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz gunzipgtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.di

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
David Z Maze wrote: Jon Haugsand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: My Dell Latitude needs XFree 4.3, but I'm not sure how to get it for my Woody laptop. IMHO, you'll run into too many problems if you try to go the backport route; lots of things depend on the X libraries (which, fundamentally, haven't ch

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Jon Haugsand wrote: * Russell Shaw # XFree86 4.3: deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/woody/experimental/ ./ (i have sources for "testing" distro too) apt-get update apt-get install -t testing xfree86-common xbase-clients xserver-xfree86 xlibs xserver-xfree86 xlibs Readi

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Jon Haugsand wrote: ... E: Sorry, broken packages I think by setting up apt-get "pinning" or something, these dependancies can be downloaded and installed automatically. However, i haven't figured that out, so i resolve these problems manually (it doesn'

Re: deb from source

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 12:19:42AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: Colin Watson wrote: That's a ... convoluted (and wrong) way to extract a source package. Remove that gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig directory, and try this instead: dpkg-source -x gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc I thought there w

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 19:18, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:08:56PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Ron Johnson said on Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:16:22PM -0500: With tight budgets and tight schedules, I've *never* seen a project rewritten. Rewriting from scratch is d

Re: [OT] open source distribution

2003-08-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Hopefully a (quick) question...if I make a product which is open source I don't have to *distribute* the product, do I? If GPL code is *in* your program, you need to make the source available to whoever buys your product. With less restrictive (LGPL) licences and shared run-

Re: Sound Blaster Audigy and ati radeon 9800 not seen by kernel 2.4.18

2003-08-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Antonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a sound blaster audigy card and an ati radeon 9800, none of them seem to be visible to the kernel 2.4.18 (woody source) that I compiled. According to what I have seen, emu10k1 should work with this card, but insmod is not working for the reason that the car

Re: Hot-plugging USB storage devices.

2003-08-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Iain Georgeson wrote: Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: --- Iain Georgeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: I would prefer it each device was always mounted in the same place - /camera for the camera and /keychain for the keychain, for example. Is there any way of doing this with usbmgr o

Re: X problems with unstable

2003-08-31 Thread Russell Shaw
R Ransbottom wrote: In installing xserver-common (4.2.1-10) on unstable I get a note: Note: not updating /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config; file does not exist. This is followed by xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-10) noting: Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; file does not exist. Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Re: CUPS

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Tom Allison wrote: I need some help. I've been posting all over the internet about a CUPS problem I have and searching the docs/google for about five days straight. Well, almost, I sleep and do other things but I think I've logged about 20 hours so far. Why is it that when there is a problem w

Re: ide-scsi CDRW and a real SCSI CDROM

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm running `unstable' on a system with a Samsung IDE CDRW and a Panasonic SCSI CDROM. I've followed various instructions culled from mailing lists, HOWTOs, etc., but I'm still having problems with getting the two to play nicely together. If I enable ide-scsi for the CDRW, I c

Re: Some odd comments and questions for all

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Joris Lambrecht wrote: Hello, I've been re-installing Debian after an over-courages attempt at getting used to Windows, again. I'm really pleased with what has changed in the meantime. The 2.4.21 kernel is really something to keep a good eye one and Gnome2.2, slurp. Mozilla-xft package ! Greaaat!

Re: font fix found, but how to make it stick?

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all, I have an old X client that requests this font: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-* ( /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/helvB12.pcf.gz ) Unfortunately, iso10646 encoding causes this client to show only boxes. I've found that I can fix it by manually

Re: CUPS admin web site errors

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Kevin McKinley wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 16:23:36 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been staring at this for a while yet and haven't found anything to help me here. google.com shows me that this happens with a lot of people out there (or has in the past) but I haven't found anythin

Re: Dual Parallel Ports and a PLX 9052 chip

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Jody Grafals wrote: I just bought cheepy PCI dual Parallel Port card with a PLX 9052 chip for my home linux server so I can add a second printer and a Old school Connectix Web Cam but I can not get it working. I already have a Zip drive and a printer working with the onboard parallel port with k

Re: cups install problem

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Tom Allison wrote: Well, I tried a purge and reinstall of cups on my server. This is one of the many problems I'm seeing. I also ran into a wonderful conflict between hpjis (something like that) and it's foomatic-db-hpjis cousin. They appear to have a circular dependency upon each other and I

Re: Print packages.

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
David Palmer wrote: Hello, Which is the more stable/ efficient Debian print package? Printtool or Cups? Regards, I've used cups with epson stylus colour inkjets and lexmark postscript laser printers. Works flawless (testing distro). http://www.linuxprinting.org/ http://www.cups.org/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: cups install problem

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Tom Allison wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Tom Allison wrote: Well, I tried a purge and reinstall of cups on my server. This is one of the many problems I'm seeing. I also ran into a wonderful conflict between hpjis (something like that) and it's foomatic-db-hpjis cousin. They appear

Re: ide-scsi CDRW and a real SCSI CDROM

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-09-01T11:12:07Z, Russell Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The real scsi will appear under sdxx such as sda1. Except that it doesn't. In fact, it's not even detected in dmesg. What I've done so far: 1) Added this to my grub boot parameters:

Re: Mozilla and Print

2003-09-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 10:09, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:54:11AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:28:22PM -0400, Rodrigo Gesswein wrote: Hello! I have installed Debian 3.0r1 and Mozilla 1.4, but when I

Re: Print packages.

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
David Palmer wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 21:47, Russell Shaw wrote: David Palmer wrote: Hello, Which is the more stable/ efficient Debian print package? Printtool or Cups? Regards, I've used cups with epson stylus colour inkjets and lexmark postscript laser printers. Works flawless (te

Re: font fix found, but how to make it stick?

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm... While I was considering editing the binary font file (helvB12.pcf.gz), I noticed a different font file in the same location: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/helvB12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz After some inspection, it would seem that many fonts default to iso10646, but als

Re: Configuring HP Inkjet Printer

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
bob parker wrote: I've just installed a HP 3325 printer. I configured it using cups after downloding and compiling the latest hpijs driver (1.4.1). It's printing OK, from web pages at least, but my problem is that it is doing it at maximum resolution. Because I got this little cheapie just so

/dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 shouldn't it blindly copy the text to the port and return immediately? (it hangs) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:39, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 shouldn't it blindly copy the text to the port and return immediately? (it hangs) That depends, in some cases that could work unless you have a printer like hp deskjet 710, 72

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: I'm not sure if this will do what you expect (I'm not behind a Debian box now so I cannot check) but why don't u try: cat file.txt > /dev/lp0 ?? That hangs the same way too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:51, Russell Shaw wrote: Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:39, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 shouldn't it blindly copy the text to the port and return immediately? (it hangs) That depend

Re: Voodoo Graphics still supported?

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
markus koller wrote: Hi, I've got an old Voodoo1 (Diamond Monster 3D) and I'd like to use it with X4.2. It worked without problems with X3.3 and Mesa, but I can't figure out how to get it to work again. I googled around a bit, and got only more confused, so I thought maybe I'd find help here. XFree

Re: cups install problem

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Tom Allison wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Tom Allison wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Tom Allison wrote: Well, I tried a purge and reinstall of cups on my server. This is one of the many problems I'm seeing. ... I finally got it. And it was brain dead simple. After I removed the rouge libr

Shared library versions

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, How do programs determine what version of a shared (.so) library they get when run? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shared library versions

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Russell Shaw said on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:42:43PM +1000: Hi, How do programs determine what version of a shared (.so) library they get when run? They use whatever version they are linked against. Sometimes they are linked against libfoo.so, which is a symlink to the

Re: Shared library versions

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Mark Ferlatte wrote: Russell Shaw said on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:42:43PM +1000: I'm tracking down a bug in xgettext (from gettext 0.12.1): Doesn't matter now. Had old versions in /usr/local ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-03 Thread Russell Shaw
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:19:39AM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:44:43AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..2 reason diesel-electric locomotives are popular; they are about as clean as your average power utility, and they dont put hea

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
TR wrote: ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head I use Woody with a backported X 4.3.0. My Radeon 7500 works fine. I haven't tried it with the standard woody X though. I have a Radeon 9800 (128mb ddr), no luck in finding what would work for it. Does anyone know of any developments? I'm using a radeon 7000

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5array as boot drive

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Derek Chew En-Hock wrote: Hi Everyone, been using Debian for about 7 months now and loving every minute of it... so far, I managed to install Debian on more than 10 machines (some my own, some in the office and some for friends whom I'm trying to encourage to use Linux) and so far besides some qui

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:27:36PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: You would need to setup a /etc/apt/preferences file, add testing to yor sources.list, and use pinning. Even so libc6 (upgrade) will be a depend on anythig from Testing. For what you want, it may be safer/easier to

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Jon Haugsand wrote: * Russell Shaw E: Sorry, broken packages I think by setting up apt-get "pinning" or something, these dependancies can be downloaded and installed automatically. However, i haven't figured that out, so i resolve these problems manually (it doesn't happen

Re: CUPS alternative?

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Christoph Simon wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:53:24 -0400 Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are there any workable alternatives to CUPS? Any alternatives that folks actually RECOMMEND using? It would be great to run a somewhat leaner print system... lpd or lprng are still the best solutions. T

Re: Linux permissions and which(1)

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Bill Moseley wrote: I was looking at the source code to the which(1) command (apt-get source which = which-2.14 ). As you might imagine, which(1) prepends the path to a name, checks if it exists and then checks if it's executable by the current process (your uid). In the which package is a fil

Re: OT: Howto get assembly of linux or windows executables ?

2003-09-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Elizabeth Barham wrote: Joris writes: I'm currrently learning assembly and I'd like to get more used to it - is there a way to get to see the assembly of a compiled program, what program(s) do I need for that gcc is able to show the assembly it generates with the -S option and leaves the result i

Re: Which release

2003-09-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Mario Vukelic wrote: On Fre, 2003-09-05 at 19:53, Joey Harrison wrote: My preference would be to have the most recent packages, but also somewhat tested, so should I use testing? I'v run stable, testing and unstable. In you case, I would start with stable. Most software in Linux is so mature th

Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian Users! I use make-kpkg to create a new kernel-image for Knoppix and install it using dpkg. The install will go all the way except for a Failed-config because he is trying to create an initrd.img on /boot and cannot because there is no /etc/fstab around. There won't

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

2003-09-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Jon Haugsand wrote: * Russell Shaw Hmm, I still have problems: apt-get install -t testing xfree86-common xbase-clients xserver-xfree86 xlibs Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Sorry, xfree86-common is already the newest version. Sorry, xbase-clients is already the newest

Re: deb from source

2003-09-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:19:49AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: Ok, i started again, but i still get the md5sum error. Could the downloaded debian package be in error? With the errors you're getting, this seems unlikely. I've downloaded it twice from the bottom of

Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thanks Russell! I did not know about the reference you quoted. But... I did not explain well enough! I do NOT want to remove the kernel-image package because it will remove my kernel which works very well. I just want "him" not to try to reinstall, because it is already insta

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Please help. I tried to upgrade my system, after a long period of stable operation. During the upgrade attempt, use apt-get dselect-upgrade, Zope failed to upgrade, due to pre remove script failure. Zope is currently installed at 2.3.3-1 level, trying to upgrade to 2.6.1-10. It

Re: how to fix broken package

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
john john wrote: Hi, I messed up my xserver-xfree86 package. I had already installed this package and then I had some X driver issues so I went into the directories, and deleted a couple of files ie. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules stuff. You probably broke another package. dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/modules

Re: how to fix broken package

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: john john wrote: Hi, I messed up my xserver-xfree86 package. I had already installed this package and then I had some X driver issues so I went into the directories, and deleted a couple of files ie. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules stuff. You probably broke another package. dpkg -S

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Russell, I did as you suggested, but it made no difference in the errors I received. I scripted the output of apt-get, which I have compressed and attached. Can you make sense of this? The errors seem to occur in /usr/lib/python1.5/* and /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/* Thanks for a

CUPS print scaling

2003-03-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When i do: lp vimqrc.pdf then the text is cut off around the margins (a two page pdf file). The CUPS ppd is set up for A4 pages on an epson stylus 400 colour printer. The file is from here: http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/vimqrc.pdf Is there a way to adjust the margins or scale a job before

Re: Installing default printer

2003-03-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Lindsay Yardley wrote: G'day All, I would like to install my printer using the default debian utilities (lpr, lpd) without using tasksel as this installs 100Mbs+ of "stuff". Would some kind soul point me in the right direction please as I'm googled out. Printing is a bigger area than it should be;)

Re: Networking troubles with multiple nics

2003-03-30 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:56:15 -0600 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.1.1 <-- network 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.252 broadcast 192.168.1.3 auto eth2 iface eth2 inet static addre

Re: Font problem after updating to XFree86 4.3.0

2003-03-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Terry Milnes wrote: I can no longer use XFree86 as the fonts are rendered as long non readable fonts. I have tried to just use TrueType fonts but X complains about font fixed. This font is located in the misc fon directory. Is there anyway to get XFT2 to alias fixed as Courier New? If not, how d

Missing package on mirror

2004-01-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I did: apt-get update from unstable, then: apt-get install php4-pgsql It gives: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded php4-pgsql 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 554 not upgraded. Need to get 38.3kB o

Re: mozilla lockup

2004-01-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Dave Howorth wrote: I've been running mozilla on woody for quite a while now without any problems, but it's just started locking up for no apparent reason and I'm looking for help to fix it. It starts normally and I can browse web pages or view mail but when I try to view the source of a page or to

Re: problem with two same 3c905c-tx ethernet cards, but no problem with only one

2004-01-09 Thread Russell Shaw
vincent de bossoreille wrote: I am configuring my firewall under Debian .0r2 kernel 2.4.18 When it is only one card intalled, I can go the Web and surfing as I want, and so on. for that, the module is 3c59x into the kernel and PPPs modules (using pppoe protocol) for the ADSL modem Fast 908 with eth

Re: Kernel Problem: cs5530_set_xfer_mode(UDMA2)

2004-01-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Kevin Boergens wrote: Hi! I've got a nasty problem with my kernel (2.4.18-bf2.4) on Woody I discussed a long time about it in de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware, but no solution was found, maybe someone over here can help, it looks like a Debian problem: My southbridge is a National Semiconductor C

Re: Re: Missing package on mirror

2004-01-09 Thread Russell Shaw
> On 2004-01-09, Russell Shaw penned: >> Hi, I did: apt-get update from unstable, then: >> >> apt-get install php4-pgsql >> > [snip] >> >> What do i do now? >> > > Wait. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202393 >

Apache

2004-01-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I just installed apache-1.3 from debian-unstable. In /etc/httpd.conf, i put: ServerName 192.168.0.1. When i put http://192.168.0.1/ in mozilla, the address isn't found. What should i check now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: downloading mail?

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
0debian user wrote: I have a PPP dialup (56k modem) account to the net and get a dynamic IP. I am not always connected. I would like to be able to send mail outside (i can send mail locally fine) to other domains besides my localhost. Ideally I could send message and they would be queued and au

Re: Apache

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Nitebirdz wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:08:55PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I just installed apache-1.3 from debian-unstable. In /etc/httpd.conf, i put: ServerName 192.168.0.1. When i put http://192.168.0.1/ in mozilla, the address isn't found. What should i check now? Russell, Ther

Ifup/ifdown

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, In /etc/network/interfaces (debian-unstable), i have: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 netstat -rn gives: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask

Re: kernel 2.4.8 doesn´t recognize a 80GB disk

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Julio León wrote: I´ve recently bought a seagate ST380011A 80GB ( 7200 rpm ) and installed it in my AMD K7 ( Athlon ) 2.0 GHz and re-installed debian pre3.0 ( hsu from june 2002 ) using the bf24 option - kernel 2.4.8 - but it didn´t recognize the disk partitions. Actually, linux identifies the H

Re: localhost -> /etc/hosts?

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael B Allen wrote: Doesn't Debian have an /etc/hosts file? SquirrelMail needs to resolve 'localhost'. What's the correct way to do this on Debian? In /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.1 mypc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: How to find new url's for sources.list?

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Greg Madden: On Saturday 10 January 2004 04:04 pm, tripolar wrote: Recently when doing apt-get update I get failures from deb http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib I chose that mirror when I did the install because it is

Re: Ifup/ifdown

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Akira Kitada wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:37:42PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, In /etc/network/interfaces (debian-unstable), i have: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 How do i get

Re: Woody/stable: kernel-source-* kernel-headers-* ?!? Confused.

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
s. keeling wrote: Could someone please 'splain to me what goes with what here? I've updated to 3.0r2. The plan so far is: (i) Install kernel-image-2.4.18-686 (ii) Go for updated kernel sources and re-build. I see there's kernel-source-2.4.18 and: kernel-headers-2.4.18 - Header files relat

Re: localhost -> /etc/hosts?

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael B Allen wrote: Michael B Allen wrote: Doesn't Debian have an /etc/hosts file? SquirrelMail needs to resolve 'localhost'. What's the correct way to do this on Debian? In /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.1 mypc Ok. Strange my install didn't have it. Creating it was enough

Re: Ifup/ifdown

2004-01-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael D Schleif wrote: Russell Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:01:11:14:37:42+1100] scribed: netstat -rn gives: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U40 0

Re: Ifup/ifdown

2004-01-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Matt Perry wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Russell Shaw wrote: The problem is that when i put http://127.0.0.1/ or http://192.168.0.1/ into mozilla, it goes thru the dialup isp instead of going direct to my own system. It seems more like a mozilla problem. In mozilla: Edit|Preferences...|Advanced

Re: Apache

2004-01-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Wayne Topa wrote: Russell Shaw([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Nitebirdz wrote: I think some confusion comes from mozilla 1.2.1. When i enter http://127.0.0.1/, then a dialog says: "connection refused when attempting to connect to 211.27.82.52". This happens when i

Re: switching from woody to unstable/testing

2004-01-12 Thread Russell Shaw
Goran Christiansson wrote: Dear All, I am a newbie to Debian, and I ran into problems today. I did just like it says here below, but when I reboot I do not come further than "LI" of "LILO". After googleing a bit I found that this was a "well known" problem, and that it can be solved using a boot d

Re: OT: Why the net Sucks: Stonehenge

2004-01-13 Thread Russell Shaw
Nano Nano wrote: Watching a program on PBS, I decided I wanted to read about Stonehenge. Off to google, I go, searching for "Stonehenge". Didn't like the results. Tried Google directory, Yahoo, and Teoma: didn't like any of them. The experience I wanted was a deep, rich, complete, authoritativ

Re: problem switching from stable to testing...

2004-01-13 Thread Russell Shaw
enantiomer wrote: I have recently made the switch over to debian (woo hoo!) and am definitely a newbie. I noticed that when using the apt utilities like apt-get and apt-cache, much of the software that I want just isn't available in stable (stable worked fine though). so i moved over to testing b

Re: kernel upgrade help (newbie)

2004-01-13 Thread Russell Shaw
James F. Green wrote: I installed woody from a downloaded CD image (I only downloaded the first CD, not the whole set) but alas no support for my network card. After searching Usenet I found that 2.4.21 or higher has support for my hardware. So I seem to need to upgrade my kernel in order to get m

Re: hard drive install

2004-01-13 Thread Russell Shaw
Gary Thibeault wrote: Hello and thanks for the free download of Debian 3.0 r2. I'm a newbie who's interested in trying linux and I can't seem to find details on how to install the OS from the iso to the hard drive as I have no cd-rom. Can you help? ... thanks in advance...Gary PS:If the in

Mozilla on local server

2003-06-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I'm using mozilla to get email from the ISP pop3 account and make posts using its own smtp. Now i set up fetchmail, exim, and procmail to deliver to the mozilla ~/Mail/Inbox, but mozilla doesn't show when mail has arrived. What's a good way for setting up mozilla like this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Activating vim color?

2003-06-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Steve Lamb wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:37:45 -0400 The default setting for 'background' is "light". If you use a terminal with a dark background, also run :set bg=dark Now if only there was a way to get the same color set between vim and gvim. That always boggled me. I haven't installed

Re: release source code

2003-06-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Fabio Miranda Hamburger wrote: Hi, I would like to know Where Can I get the linux debian source code? All I can see are binaries. I need the full directory in a ftp serfver (ej: ftp.debian.org) apt-cache search kernel-source By the way, I have found Linux instalation annoy, so much warning and exp

Re: simple bash loop problem ...

2003-06-29 Thread Russell Shaw
David selby wrote: Hello, I am writing bash a bash & sed script, it has been going suprisingly well. I need a loop to count 9 times & the variable n to the count .. for n=1 to 9 next kind of thing, but this is not BASIC !! My best guess is declare -i n=1 while [ $n < 9 ]; do . n=$((n+

Using XFree86 4.3 server in /usr/local

2003-08-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I'm using mostly "testing" and have XFree86 4.2.1 installed via apt-get. If i compile XFree86 4.3 from source, what's the easiest way to find all the compile options suitable for it to work well in a debian system, yet have it installed in /usr/local? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Controlling which modules are loaded at boot

2005-07-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Doofus wrote: Dell Inspiron sarge/2.4.27 Not strictly a laptop question this, but... The last time I spent my quality time playing with debian this subject mostly came down to the contents of /etc/modules. I've just compiled a new kernel and although it's highly modular and I've emptied /etc

Re: Issues with CD burning (invalid CDs)

2005-07-21 Thread Russell Shaw
S. Massy wrote: Hi all, I have a Toshiba Satellite 1110 (which comes with a cd-r/w burner) with which I have burnt countless CDs in the past without so much as the shadow of a problem. Now, however, things have changed for the very worse... Are you burning at a speed that matches the disc? -

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