Dependency problems

2000-11-15 Thread Casey Henderson
Hi all, I'm having a problem upgrading a couple packages on my system. I am trying to do a dist-upgrade to my Debian box (running woody). The packages in question are libgnomeprint-bin_0.25-0.1_i386.deb libgnomeprint-data_0.25-0.1_all.deb When I try to do the upgrade I get the following erro

Re: mouse problems in 'X'

2000-11-15 Thread Ray Percival
What kind of mouse is it? Is it by chance an Intellimouse? -- Original Message -- From: Virginie-ML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 23:04:31 +0100 >On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:31:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I looked in the archives and

Tools available for..

2000-11-15 Thread Jeff Davis
I am trying to set up a server, and I would like to know about some of the tools I should be using for the following tasks: Bandwidth monitoring/restriction on a per-user basis Traffic (total data transfered per time unit) monitoring/restriction on a per-user basis CPU & RAM would also be nice,

a little too noisy, bye bye

2000-11-15 Thread Moses Wildermuth
Hello %folks, Sorry, this list has a lot of traffic, and most of it is above my head or only for i386 and X4, so I am dropping and just sticking with 68k list. Thanks for your time and hope ya liked my sig at least. I will soon add a pc on a siamese network, but won't be using linux on it. :-{

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 03:16:47AM +, John Carline wrote: > > > >> > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde I'd like to point out here also, that when I tried to uninstall a package, but it failed due to a dependency problem, the first

Squid authentication

2000-11-15 Thread plutoplanet
Hi, I'm trying configure squid to make users authenticate if they try getting to any other sites that I have not specified as ok for all users. But when it goes to authenticate it regects the user name and password and I get the folling error come up in the /var/log/syslog file proxy squid[1284

Re: Who is this virus sender????

2000-11-15 Thread Dean
Come on, lets cut H. C. a little slack. He already e-mailed an explanation and apology. Dean Ray Percival wrote: > > He is stupid but most likely not out to get anyone. This is a melissa variant > basically reads a MicroShaft address book and mails itself out over and over > again. > > ---

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread John Carline
Colin Watson wrote: > John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Robert Guthrie wrote: > >> On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote: > >> > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > >> > > >> > You can do it with awk: dpkg -l | aw

Re: Windowmaker and sound

2000-11-15 Thread Mike
David A. Rogers wrote: > > Does the current version of WindowMaker do sound events? I know earlier > versions did with wmsound. But that was many versions ago and wmsound seems > to be dead. If it does sound now, how do you set it up? There's a package wsoundserver that works for this. I have

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Quietman
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:23:07AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > He means that he sees the following: > > ii ksirc 2.0-final-0.po IRC Client based on QT and KDE > ii ksirtet2.0-final-0.po Tetris and Puyo-Puyo games for KDE > > ... instead of versions 2.0-final-0.potato.3 and 2.

Gnome Web Links

2000-11-15 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I used to use RedHat and Helix Gnome before switching to Debian. In my RH/Helix environment I could drag a web link from mozilla or netscape onto the desktop to create a handy internet link that would bring up netscape when I double-clicked on it and load the referenced page. Since switchin

Dual serial ports on a laptop?

2000-11-15 Thread John Conover
Anyone using a laptop with a dual serial port PCMCIA? I need a brand that works. Thanks, John -- John ConoverTel. 408.370.2688 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 631 Lamont Ct. Cel. 408.772.7733 http://www.johncon.com/ Campbell, CA 95008 Fax. 408.379.9602

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-15 Thread Quietman
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:58:28AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BTW how many of you on this list use multiple oses on your desktop and which > ones do you use and for what purposes. That should be an interesting one...:) Well, due to limited resources I still dual-boot this machine, though I

apt-get upgrade (potato) depmod trouble?

2000-11-15 Thread will trillich
wow. % apt-get update % apt-get -u upgrade The following packages will be upgraded base-config base-passwd bind debconf-tiny dnsutils doc-debian dpkg dpkg-dev make makedev modutils mutt php3-doc php4 procmail talk tcsh tcsh-i18n telnet telnetd xfree86-common xlib6g 22 packages upgraded, 0 ne

Re: How can I force the removal of a package?

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am following unstable and currently have a problem with >9menu_1.4-10_i386.deb. It will neither upgrade with apt nor allow itself >to be removed with either apt or dpkg. > >I get this message: > >dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old pre-removal scri

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-15 Thread Peter Good
Hmm yeah. I could try VMware, have done in the past. But, I have a machine with 64mb ram only, Tie that up with Vmware and flash 5, and things sloow dramatically. Before you say upgrade, think of the cost here, We're technologically disadvantaged in AU hehe. Plus, for some strange reason, even

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-15 Thread John Galt
1) mozilla is virtually indistinguishable from netscape 6 (in fact, early versions of netscape6 installed as mozilla plus a link to the name netscape 2) Netscape 4 is referred to by its minor number--I did a dpkg -l|grep netscape and got ii netscape 4.75-2 Meta package that depend

Re: Postscript printers

2000-11-15 Thread Cory Snavely
When I researched all this several years ago, I found it's not HP's development, it's a PostScript interpreter/raster image processor (RIP) that's OEMed from a company that used to be named Xionics and appears to now be named Oak Technology Products (www.oaktech.com). On their web site you can see

Re: Debian and stormix

2000-11-15 Thread John Galt
If you wish your boxes to converge, sure. Stormix and Debian use different repositories, but the same syntax in sources.list. That, and Stormix uses different distribution names (hail, rain, etc. vice potato, woody, etc.). Basically, if you put Debian sources.list lines in a Stormix box's sourc

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Robert Guthrie wrote: >> On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote: >> > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde >> > >> > You can do it with awk: dpkg -l | awk '{ print $2 " " $3 }' >> >> That

Re: xfree 4: "unknown reason for exeption"; clock problems

2000-11-15 Thread John Galt
You probably wanted [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Who is John Galt? Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld

Re: TNT2 - VIRUS WARNING

2000-11-15 Thread John Galt
I addresed this on vuln-dev a while ago. Look at securityfocus for the message. Basically, a malicious person can use the antivirus programs to smurf an email attack. They're not just annoying, they're dangerous. On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, John wrote: > Frankly i think the bl**dy antivirus messages

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread John Carline
Robert Guthrie wrote: > On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm using this command: > > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > > > > What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care > > > about that

Re: X 4.0.1 fixed font problem

2000-11-15 Thread Corey Popelier
I've found with my friends fresh X4 that still isnt working yet that startx will only run as root, and report this fixed font error as a user. I then assume that xhost + will probably solve this, but until I can figure out a way to make fonts readable I'm just logging in as root. Cheers, Corey J

Re: ppp, must dial 0 before number, how?

2000-11-15 Thread Moses Wildermuth
Hello A.E., >From the desk of Moses Wildermuth. Money Talks Enterprises, http://moneytalks.giftworldnet.com/ On 15-Nov-00, A.E. wrote the following in an email regarding ppp, must dial 0 before number, how?--- > I need to dial 0 to phone out of the building, how to I set up ppp to wait > for a

Re: X 4.0.1 fixed font problem

2000-11-15 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Do you have xutils installed? If not, you may need to install it and run mkfontdir manually in each font directory (or "dpkg-reconfigure xfonts-100dpi ..."). > I just did a new woody install and tried installing X 4.0.1 on it. > When I run startx, X starts up but then crashes with the message: >

Multiple OS'es- Yes.

2000-11-15 Thread Moses Wildermuth
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], >From the desk of Moses Wildermuth. Money Talks Enterprises, http://moneytalks.giftworldnet.com/ On 15-Nov-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following in an email regarding Re: Okay who's this >BTW how many of you on this list use multiple oses on your desktop and which

Re: xlibs 4.0.1-4 version wont install

2000-11-15 Thread Corey Popelier
I've found that for most of the 4.0.1 upgrades, I've had to remove groff + man-db and install them again afterwards because of xlibs. Perhaps a force of some kind would work, I'm not overly concerned by bandwidth hence I do it this way. Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~

Re: Sudden instability: can a faulty mouse cause this?

2000-11-15 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:19:11AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > > > I have a ps/2 mouse which I have used without problems for about a > > > year now. Can a hardware problem on the mouse or the ps/2 por

Re: email

2000-11-15 Thread Chris Gray
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:20:47PM -0800, Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > to have the HOWTOs (BTW, all documentation in debian is in /usr/doc, > in the process of migrating to /usr/local/doc ). You of course mean /usr/share/doc which is now the correct place for documenation to reside. Documentatio

Re: apacheconfig

2000-11-15 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ack apologies to all i hereby any use of this disclaimer made to date on this list and apologise unreservedly John At 05:01 PM 11/15/2000 -0600, will trillich wrote: >On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:00:29AM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: >> WARNING - >>

How can I force the removal of a package?

2000-11-15 Thread Phillip Deackes
I am following unstable and currently have a problem with 9menu_1.4-10_i386.deb. It will neither upgrade with apt nor allow itself to be removed with either apt or dpkg. I get this message: dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old pre-removal script: Exec format error dpkg: warning - old pre-remo

Re: Version Naming Convention

2000-11-15 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:59:09AM -0800, Jonathan Jefferies wrote: > > I am currently running slink, 2.1? I've noted > that there is a 2.2 version out. What is its > designation? Are there any notes/faqs regarding > the differences and whether is worth upgrading. see http://www.debian.

Re: network configuration scripts

2000-11-15 Thread Silver
> the debian way is now to edit /etc/network/interfaces > this is mine (there are 2 network cards in my box) : > > <-- cut here --> > # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) > > # The loopback interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # ADSL interface > auto et

Re: is_a_bug? Re:final help for build php4 with oci8 on debian

2000-11-15 Thread Silver
First making those links is not really clean, you'd better add a line in /etc/ld.so.conf pointing to your directory with the libs in it - if you really need to. (and then run ldconfig -v) Anyway those libs are just needed by Oracle, and the php module, so : just tweak configure and the Makefile fo

Re: network configuration scripts

2000-11-15 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:27:14PM -0600, Keegan Prendergast wrote: >I have my debian linux box setup as a masqing gateway for the rest of > the computers in the house. The problem is, I did it by hand and have not > rebooted since, because i could not figure out where i should put the > comma

Re: apacheconfig

2000-11-15 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:00:29AM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > WARNING - > This email is confidential and may contain copyright material. > If you are not the intended recipient of Capital Monitor's original e-mail, > please notify me by return e-mail, delete your copy of the message, and > ac

Re: update packages without confusing apt

2000-11-15 Thread Silver
If you are just in the process of upgrading the kernel to 2.4 (which is still in pre-test version btw), I would advice you to get the kernel sources (from the unstable source dist), make your own kernel fitted to your needs (make menuconfig) and build a custom kernel package (make-kpkg -rev Custom.

xlibs 4.0.1-4 version wont install

2000-11-15 Thread Victor Torrico
Hi all, Upgraded to the 4.0.1-4 upgrade of X today. xlibs will not install. X Still works OK with 4.0.1-3 version of xlibs and the 4.0.1-4 versions of the other X packages. Here is error message: # apt-get install xlibs Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packa

Re: NEWBIE: unable to read mail

2000-11-15 Thread Virginie-ML
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:43:36AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > I guess this is something elementairy, but after some installs and > different configurations of my mailerdaemon (Postfix), I discovered that I > am unable to read mail with pine (the Inbox keeps standing at 0 messages). > Even

Re: mouse problems in 'X'

2000-11-15 Thread Virginie-ML
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:31:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I looked in the archives and couldn't find the answer to my question. It > is probably there but I just can't get the search string right. Anyway > I've just installed Potato. The mouse works with gpm. The mouse doesn't > work

Re: apacheconfig

2000-11-15 Thread John Griffiths
I'm having this problem too At 02:39 PM 11/15/2000 +, Christopher Clark wrote: >How do i run apacheconfig to load modules? >the --force-modules dosen't seem to work and it always comments out the php4 >module. I uncommented it and restarted apache but it will only run php code >if the file

Re: installing netscape

2000-11-15 Thread Hubert Chan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've searched for "netscape" and "install netscape" in the archives and > I'm not coming up with anything that will help me. I also looked for > "netscape 6.0." I installed a package called "netscape-base" that I can't > find any docs for and don't know what it does

installing netscape

2000-11-15 Thread kbrede
I've searched for "netscape" and "install netscape" in the archives and I'm not coming up with anything that will help me. I also looked for "netscape 6.0." I installed a package called "netscape-base" that I can't find any docs for and don't know what it does. I tried useing the install program

network configuration scripts

2000-11-15 Thread Keegan Prendergast
I have my debian linux box setup as a masqing gateway for the rest of the computers in the house. The problem is, I did it by hand and have not rebooted since, because i could not figure out where i should put the commands =). Should they go in /etc/init.d/networking, or some local init file.

Emacs mode line in alternate frames on Potato

2000-11-15 Thread Daniel P. Katz
Hi. I am using Emacs 20.3 (default install from Potato -- white background, black foreground) and have noticed that whenever I create a new frame, the mode line in that frame is not the traditional reverse video (white on black in my case) but is rather in the same color style as the rest

Re: emails newbie

2000-11-15 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:26:15PM +0100, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > At 12:04 15-11-00 +, you wrote: > >Can anyone help me to configure my box to send and receive email i don't > >know where to start. messed around with exim but seem to have messed it > >up. I really am starting from sc

Re: Who is this virus sender????

2000-11-15 Thread Ray Percival
He is stupid but most likely not out to get anyone. This is a melissa variant basically reads a MicroShaft address book and mails itself out over and over again. -- Original Message -- From: Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:1

Re: Version Naming Convention

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
Jonathan Jefferies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am currently running slink, 2.1? I've noted that there is a 2.2 >version out. What is its designation? potato. The current unstable version is codenamed woody. >Are there any notes/faqs regarding the differences http://www.debian.org/releases/st

Re: email

2000-11-15 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:13:07AM -, debian wrote: > Thanks for that but i am still a little confused. What is the findutils > package and which file in root/bin do I past in the line you gave. > > do the findutils package > > will get you the updatedb function, it is updated 'nightly' > > by

Re: emacs without backup option

2000-11-15 Thread Daniel Freedman
Robert, I think you might be looking for something like: '(setq make-backup-files nil)' This is from memory, but it should provide a starting point. HTH, Daniel > Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:57:51 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (robert_wilhelm_land) > To: debian-user > Subject: emacs withou

X 4.0.1 & i810

2000-11-15 Thread Jim Frey
Hello, I have installed XFree86 4.0.1 on a system with Matsonic MS7012D board with Intel i810 on board. Pentium III 550 Mhz, 128 Mb Sdram. XFree86 4.0.1 was installed with apt-get from the debs in Woody. Dexter produces XF86Config-4 (attached), and XFree86 loads after commenting out the fontpath

Re: mouse problems in 'X'

2000-11-15 Thread Jay Ford
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I looked in the archives and couldn't find the answer to my question. It > is probably there but I just can't get the search string right. Anyway > I've just installed Potato. The mouse works with gpm. The mouse doesn't > work using fvwm. If I move

Version Naming Convention

2000-11-15 Thread Jonathan Jefferies
I am currently running slink, 2.1? I've noted that there is a 2.2 version out. What is its designation? Are there any notes/faqs regarding the differences and whether is worth upgrading. Thanks Jonathan Jefferies --

Re: Debian and stormix

2000-11-15 Thread Phillip Deackes
"Rogelio E. Castillo Haro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > May I use the same sources.lists lines from my debian box to my > stormix > Linux box? Yes. It would be advantageous to also use the stormix lines too. I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list. Obviously if you are using s

mouse problems in 'X'

2000-11-15 Thread kbrede
I looked in the archives and couldn't find the answer to my question. It is probably there but I just can't get the search string right. Anyway I've just installed Potato. The mouse works with gpm. The mouse doesn't work using fvwm. If I move the mouse it flits around the perimiter of the scree

Re: no "/usr/sbin/install-info"

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
eric k. wolven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A problem I am having is in installation of packages. I still have a >number of "broken pkgs" and unconfigured. > >I am getting "/usr/sbin/install-info: no such file or directory" messages. > >I've tried to re-install dpkg_1.7.1 which has the file and it

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-15 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
On MiƩ 15 Nov 2000 11:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to use windows since part of my work is on Lotus Notes development though I boot it inside vmware. I also have an unsupported parallel port scanner :-( Everything else under Linux. > Well it is ok now. But it does teach people not to open

Re: ssh authentication

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >logged as a normal user I would like to open up X-apps requiring root >permissions. As root in root's home directory, make .Xauthority a symbolic link to your normal user's .Xauthority file (or set the XAUTHORITY environment variable to the location of that file). Then yo

Debian and stormix

2000-11-15 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hello, May I use the same sources.lists lines from my debian box to my stormix Linux box? Regards -- Rogelio E. Castillo

Re: update packages without confusing apt

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
Florian Kessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i would like to update to kernel 2.4 within potato. To meet the requirements >listed in in the file changes (kernel documentation), i have to download >some packages. How can i do this without confusing apt? Just download them and install them with 'dpkg

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm using this command: >> dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > >It seems that 'dpkg -l' (without the pattern) lists all installed >packages, so you don't need to filter the installed packages out. That's n

is_a_bug? Re:final help for build php4 with oci8 on debian

2000-11-15 Thread Jaume Teixi
When I compile php4 with: --enable-track-vars \ --with-oci8=/home/oracle/ohome \ --with-openssl=shared \ --enable-versioning And have done follow links: ln -s /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0 /usr/lib/libclntsh.so.8.0 ln -s /home/oracle/ohome/lib/libwtc8.so /usr/lib/libwtc8.so I guet t

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Robert Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm using this command: > > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > > > > What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm using this command: >dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > >and getting this output: > >ii ksirc 2.0-final-0.po IRC Client based on QT and KDE >ii ksirtet2.0-final-0.po Tetris and Puyo-Puyo games for KDE > > >What I'm trying to ge

ghostview fonts problem

2000-11-15 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
After upgrading Xfree to version 4 as per current woody archives, I have tried to clean up the fonts on my system, but I must have trashed something related to ghostscript. I now get this error when trying to print the output of cdlabelgen (quite a simple stuff): GNU Ghostscript: Unrecoverable e

Re: update packages without confusing apt

2000-11-15 Thread Hubert Chan
Florian Kessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but i have both, the isdn and pcmcia packages. However, this question is a > more generally one. > How can i update to a newer version than the one in potato, i.e. lilo (i > need it for booting root-raid) without changing my sources.list and > confusi

Re: DMODVERSIONS causing a lot of problems

2000-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Would someone kindly clarify the aspects of the DMODVERSIONS flag in >the kernel makefile? It inserts versioning symbols into modules so that you can (possibly) run them in kernels other than that which they were compiled against. However, I don't think this is really you

Re: tape is ejected from drive after 10 mins => no unattended backups

2000-11-15 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:27:36AM +0100, Eduardo Fernandez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten, > > Thanks a lot for your reply. This is the output of mt -f /dev/st0 status > just after inserting the tape: > > > drive type = Generic SCSI-2 tape > > drive status = 318767616 > > sense key error

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm using this command: > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > > What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care > > about that and the package name. > > You can do

X 4.0.1 fixed font problem

2000-11-15 Thread debuser
I just did a new woody install and tried installing X 4.0.1 on it. When I run startx, X starts up but then crashes with the message: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I've installed xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-base, xfonts-pex, and xfonts-scalable. Any clues what I'm

Re: fullscreen apps (in X) - windowmanager support?

2000-11-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I don't think that's quite what Hugo was looking for. I've run in to > his problem myself, particularly with the game Maelstrom. Maelstrom > runs at 640x480. Maximizing the window doesn't change that, you merely > get a full-screen black window w

Re: fullscreen apps (in X) - windowmanager support?

2000-11-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 10:22:23AM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:35:12PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > > The best way (as far as I know the only way) to get an app to full > > screen in X, is to drop the resolution

RE: emacs without backup option

2000-11-15 Thread Jay Ford
> > Does someone know which option is regarded to avoid emacs from > > imediately creating a backup file by opening a new or any other file? Put the following in ~/.emacs: (setq make-backup-files nil) ; Never create backup files It works for me.

Re: Sudden instability: can a faulty mouse cause this?

2000-11-15 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:19:11AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > > I have a ps/2 mouse which I have used without problems for about a > > year now. Can a hardware problem on the mouse or the ps/2 port cause > > this? How can I determine the cause?

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Moritz Schulte
Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using this command: > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde It seems that 'dpkg -l' (without the pattern) lists all installed packages, so you don't need to filter the installed packages out. But, this isn't important... > and getting this output:

RE: emacs without backup option

2000-11-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
> Does someone know which option is regarded to avoid emacs from > imediately creating a backup file by opening a new or any other file? > > > I did read the man page, but unfortunatly was not able to find the > appropiate parameter. > I haven't tried it but there is a variable called backup-i

Re: fetchnews running automatically?

2000-11-15 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Stefan Janecek spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:55:11PM +0100: > In a galaxy not too far away, Ekkehard Kraemer spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at > 04:33:27PM +: > > Hello, > > > > does fetchnews install some cron/anacron/etc. script which makes it ^^^

RE: postfix problem with "myorigin"

2000-11-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
> I seem to be having a problem with postfix. It changes the > myorigin variable in the main.cf file. It doesn't matter > what I set it to. When I start postfix, it gets changed > to "localhost". It even got added to the end of the main.cf > file once. Anyone seen this before? How do I mak

ssh authentication

2000-11-15 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
logged as a normal user I would like to open up X-apps requiring root permissions. I was told on this list to use ssh by "ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and creating ~/.ssh/config with the contents: Host localhost User root Compression no I did so and ssh asked for a password. The usual root password wa

DMODVERSIONS causing a lot of problems

2000-11-15 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Would someone kindly clarify the aspects of the DMODVERSIONS flag in the kernel makefile? After not getting the aureal sound driver to install, I'm so unsure about enabling or disabling this feature the next time I have to build a new kernel. Most astonishing is the first output of make: make ins

emacs without backup option

2000-11-15 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Does someone know which option is regarded to avoid emacs from imediately creating a backup file by opening a new or any other file? I did read the man page, but unfortunatly was not able to find the appropiate parameter. Robert

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:58:28AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BTW how many of you on this list use multiple oses on your desktop > and which ones do you use and for what purposes. That should be an > interesting one...:) Home: I occasionally boot Win95 to play games (the only one recently

postfix problem with "myorigin"

2000-11-15 Thread Lewis, James M.
I seem to be having a problem with postfix. It changes the myorigin variable in the main.cf file. It doesn't matter what I set it to. When I start postfix, it gets changed to "localhost". It even got added to the end of the main.cf file once. Anyone seen this before? How do I make it stop do

Re: update packages without confusing apt

2000-11-15 Thread Florian Kessler
Am 15.11.2000 15:28 Uhr schrieb Gianluca Montecchi unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:20:49 Florian Kessler wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> i would like to update to kernel 2.4 within potato. To meet the >> requirements >> listed in in the file changes (kernel documentation), i have to

xfree 4: "unknown reason for exeption"; clock problems

2000-11-15 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.0.1-3 Hi there, after upgrading from 3.3.6 to 4.* my X(Free86) is out of order, i don't get it running any more on my own. I took a look on debian-x mailing list and found one similar problem (Michiel Mieeuwissens's), which ended up (AFAIK) with no solutuon.

Re: fetchnews running automatically?

2000-11-15 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Ekkehard Kraemer spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 04:33:27PM +: > Hello, > > does fetchnews install some cron/anacron/etc. script which makes it > fetch news automatically? I have created a crontab entry which runs > fetchnews every 4 hours, but it seems to me like

Re: e100.o missing modversions.h

2000-11-15 Thread JoshNarins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> This is a 2.2.17 and beyond issue. >> >> In the archives I see where people trying to build arla just >> commented out the -DMOD_VERSIONS compiler flag but >> that doesn't work when trying to build e100-1.3.20, the >> driver for several Int

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-15 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 10:24, David Teague wrote: > MIS managers have a LOT of power. They frequently prohibit > installation of any software by users. AND they are NOT always > prohibited from use of the company systems to mail this list. > > Let's not be quite so tough on them. > There ar

Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Robert Guthrie
I'm using this command: dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde and getting this output: ii ksirc 2.0-final-0.po IRC Client based on QT and KDE ii ksirtet2.0-final-0.po Tetris and Puyo-Puyo games for KDE What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care abou

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-15 Thread Myles Green
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 09:19, David Teague wrote: > However, the suggestion that we use Eudora is probably the correct > thing for any of us that are required use Lose 9x to do. Is that > still free? I remember a freeware 16 bit version I used with MS Lose > 3.1. Is it still available? The

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-15 Thread Kent West
David Teague wrote: However, the suggestion that we use Eudora is probably the correct thing for any of us that are required use Lose 9x to do. Is that still free? I remember a freeware 16 bit version I used with MS Lose 3.1. Is it still available? The old free version was a "lite" version. Q

ramdisk size

2000-11-15 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, if i create a filesystem on a ramdisk for example with mke2fs /dev/ram0 the ramdisk is as big as defined in the kernel. Is there a way to change this size and create a ramdisk /dev/ram0 with 16 MB and at the same time /dev/ram1 with 8MB. Ciao, Timo<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-15 Thread David A. Rogers
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > I would be OK with blocking MS Outhouse, but not Windoze > mail clients in general. Some of us have to use that 'OS' > at work, and those of us with any sense use Netscape or > Eudora (Eudora doesn't work on NT4.0, so it's Netscape in > my case).

Re: emails newbie

2000-11-15 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
At 12:04 15-11-00 +, you wrote: Can anyone help me to configure my box to send and receive email i don't know where to start. messed around with exim but seem to have messed it up. I really am starting from scratch. I can connect to the internet using pon but that's all thanks jm You needs exi

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-15 Thread David Teague
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:27:46PM -0800, Vijay Prabakaran wrote: > > Well I guess some people just have to use windoze. So > > but they DON'T have to use Outlook, if its a corporate mandate you > probably shouldn't even be using corporate mail services

Re: final help for build php4 with oci8 on debian

2000-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:39:23PM +0100, Jaume Teixi wrote: > After doing some improvements, finally I get this errors so its a > libmm11-dev issue.. > as I explained before, I'm on potato, I've compiled libmm11-dev from > source. Could you explain exactly what it is you are doing and w

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-15 Thread David Teague
> From: Vijay Prabakaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list > Yes. Good point. What are people using M$ apps on > Windoze doing on this list anyway. Vijay, Occasionally my Linux box will be down when my Windoze box i

Re: I cannot run latex2rtf

2000-11-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:21:40PM +0100, Nabil Hathout wrote: > Hello, > > Have anyone used latex2rtf (1.8aa) on a potato machine. I have not > been able to make it work. I get the following message, whatever the > file I try to convert. > > stdin:2: Error! Failed fgetpos; main.c (Convert): err

Re: locale (gdk?)

2000-11-15 Thread Johannes Zellner
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 03:23:11AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > Try edit the file /etc/locale.gen, > uncomment the locales you want, and then run localegen as root. thanks. works like a charm. (although it turned to be out to be `locale-gen'). -- Johannes

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