Re: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:42:20PM -0600, Dan Griswold wrote: > Alas, it did not. > > I can still mount and access the drive. But I cannot eject, either by > software or hardware. > > I've also tried the eject command. No luck. Don't mean to ask a stupid question, but you *are* unmounting the dr

Re: 2.4.0-test12kernel problem

2000-12-13 Thread Henry House
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:30:41AM +, Pollywog wrote: > Is anyone else having problems with the latest test kernel > (2.4.0-test12)? > Every time I compile it and reboot, I get errors about the system map > not matching the kernel. > I don't have this problem with the test11 kernel. Are you ru

Re: Netscape gets killed w/o intervention

2000-12-13 Thread Chris Gray
> S Salman Ahmed writes: > "AR" == A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AR> Does anybody have any idea what could be the reason of AR> Netscape getting killed w/o any apparent reason? It is AR> happening frecuently later, some times while I type some AR> message, which is anno

Re: Filenames

2000-12-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 06:20:05AM +0100, Patrick Schnorbus wrote: > Hey folks... > > i´ve just a little question! > > I´ve installed xfstt. Now i want to use some TrueType Fonts but theses a > problem. Most of them have capital letter filenames (TRUETYPEFONT.TTF) > but i need them as 'truetype.

2.4.0-test12kernel problem

2000-12-13 Thread Pollywog
Is anyone else having problems with the latest test kernel (2.4.0-test12)? Every time I compile it and reboot, I get errors about the system map not matching the kernel. I don't have this problem with the test11 kernel. thanks -- Andrew

Re: Debian & Apt-get

2000-12-13 Thread Seung-woo Nam
Hi: man apt-get (shows you apt-get manual. Try to get yourself familiar with man pages. They look extremely boring but very useful.) Most of the time, for installing new packages, you can use 'apt-get install packageame'. Seung-woo Nam - Original Message - From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Filenames

2000-12-13 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
Hey folks... i´ve just a little question! I´ve installed xfstt. Now i want to use some TrueType Fonts but theses a problem. Most of them have capital letter filenames (TRUETYPEFONT.TTF) but i need them as 'truetype.ttf' Do you know a tool for this? TIA Patrick

Re: sndconfig [was Re: Debian is not for me]

2000-12-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 09:36:20AM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > At 08:27 PM 12/13/2000 -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Try an apt-get source from woody. > > Pehaps can work. > > NOO > > download the .deb's seperately from debian.org and use dpkg > > eg: > > #

Re: apt-get sources.list

2000-12-13 Thread N. Raghavendra
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:23:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > deb http://www.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > when I use apt-get says there is no such file or directory. Hello, Here is the relevant line from my sources.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable

Debian & Apt-get

2000-12-13 Thread Chris
Hello, I have installed the base Debian system and am now installing additional items. I plan to use the apt-get, but there appear to be a lot of options for using it. In addition, there appear to be other commands such as apt-cache. Does any one know how I can get a listing of the commands and t

Re: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-13 Thread Dan Griswold
> "Criggie" == C Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Criggie> Under Block Devices < > Include IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY support Criggie> (I called it by the wrong name sorry) Heres the help for Criggie> it: Criggie>x CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY: snip Criggie> Then reboot, and

Re: exim

2000-12-13 Thread A R
Carel Fellinger wrote:Aha bingo, found the culprit, and it's me again:) Fetchmail as e precursion > checks that the sending host is how he claims to be, or something similar, > and mtiwgwc27.worldnet.att.net is not the same as the mailserver he is > talking to (postoffice.worldnet.att.net) so he

Re: bash system startup files

2000-12-13 Thread hansen
what works for me is put the line . ~/.bashrc in ~/.profile On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:20:44PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. new user here.. I'm looking to set an > alias in bash for all users. I tried to edit > bash.bashrc, and ~/.bashrc but this doesn't work. > of course, when I run a seconda

Re: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-13 Thread C. Falconer
At 06:26 PM 12/13/00 -0600, you wrote: You're right. I want to eject the disk, whether that's by hardware button or software utility. Other features work fine. I've tried (in configuring the kernel) IDE floppy, but I can find no option for "IDE Removable." Where is that located. Under Block Dev

Re: apt-get sources.list

2000-12-13 Thread Monte Milanuk
Well... This is what I have in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. FWIW, I wonder why you ar adding anything to the file. The first section in the file already has the necessary entries already made, just commented out. Just delete the '#' and save the file, and do an 'apt-get update'. deb http:

Re: Sparc Ultra 5 XConfig?

2000-12-13 Thread Nate Duehr
Thanks Ben! I was just thinking I should have cross-posted to debian-sparc as I was reading through the archives and seeing your sage advice scroll by! Thanks for the quick reply... we'll get him up and running. (He'll be Debian convert #3 for the company and there's only about 7 or 8 Linux-head

Re: Search

2000-12-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
Go to http://www.debian.org/Bugs and you can search by the package name (or other criteria). On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:35:51PM +0100, dude wrote: > > Ok, i've tried reading the help > > but i still dont understand where exactly i > > so a search or how i do a search for a bug. > > as far as i

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
As long as the subject came up, I have burned a few audio cd's from mp3 files and on each some of the tracks were truncated (I didn't try to overburn or anything like that). One track only had the end of the file and several had just the beginning, while most were complete. I used the following s

bash system startup files

2000-12-13 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. new user here.. I'm looking to set an alias in bash for all users. I tried to edit bash.bashrc, and ~/.bashrc but this doesn't work. of course, when I run a secondary shell it works fine, but I want to alias to take effect right when I user logs on. *sigh* it's late... i think I need sle

Re: Sparc Ultra 5 XConfig?

2000-12-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:50:34PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > > So I'm looking for a working XF86Config file for a fairly recent Ultra 5 > with the Mach64 X server. Anyone have one? > /usr/doc/xserver-mach64/examples/XF86Config.SPARC Use that and edit it where the Xkb stuff is for your particu

ld.so error message

2000-12-13 Thread losthalo
I have recently recompiled my 2.0.36 kernel, and since then have experienced the following problem: at some point after booting up the machine (the amount of time before it happens varies), I get an error message regarding the dynamic linker on the command line. The machine will not execute any fur

Sparc Ultra 5 XConfig?

2000-12-13 Thread Nate Duehr
Ugggh. I convinced a friend to load Potato on his Sparc Ultra 5 with Debian instead of another (ahem) unnamed Linux distro. We're a little screwed up though. We think we answered some of the setup questions wrong in anXious and messed up his X config. (anXious seems very i386-centric...) anXio

uninstalling X

2000-12-13 Thread Ken Weingold
I have totally lost patience with the numerous problems running X, though I have set it up numerous times in the past. I installed X through tasksel, so it installed EVERYTHING. Can I reverse that? I want to totally start again. Maybe from the source like I always did in the past. On a side no

Search

2000-12-13 Thread dude
Ok, i've tried reading the help but i still dont understand where exactly i so a search or how i do a search for a bug. as far as i can tell, i look fo rthe package that i think has the bugand thenn see if it has been mentioned please explain this if i am wrong thank

Re: Help msg: modprobe can't locate ppp-compress

2000-12-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:06:53PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed in my daemon and sysylog that when logged in through pon and a > dial up account which is functioning fine that I have the following msg > repeated: > > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp-compress-21 > mod

Seeking help with Tyan Thunder onboard LSI SCSI

2000-12-13 Thread Flashback Max
I'm sorry to have to ask buit this is the first scsi system I've ever had and it's been a chore to get it this far, it's been one of those weeks folks. I'll have alot of boring technical stuf below here and alot of questions I'm afraid. Happy holidays to everyone while I have your attention for a s

using an Iomega parallet port tape drive

2000-12-13 Thread John Anderson
I have an Iomega parallel port drive model no. ditto easy 3200. I have added support into the kernel for parallel port devices, ftape, ztape, etc. When I try to write to the tape I receive the following message: kerr:~# tar cf /dev/qft0 home tar: /dev/qft0: Cannot open: Device not configured tar

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-13 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
sorry, i haven't done testing like that. it tends to get expensive since whether i'm successful or not, it's another disk. :) i recently burned a bunch of mp3 cd's. here's the sizes: 696132 /data/MP3/1disk 644108 /data/MP3/2disk 701736 /data/MP3/3disk 693132 /data/MP3/4disk 695516 /data/

Re: Help msg: modprobe can't locate ppp-compress

2000-12-13 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Take a look in /etc/modutils/aliases, there should be some entries similar to the following: alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate If they aren't there, add them and then run /sbin/update-modules. If they're presen

I'm Confused with SBLive!

2000-12-13 Thread Javier Sieben
Hi! I tried to install the emu10k1 module from ALSA. Having any troubles with it, I deinstalled it. When I read that the final kernel (version 2.2.17) had these module in it, I download, compile and install it with the modules. But I can't use audio. The kernel starts and don't install the module

Re: postfix: local mail goes to relayhost!

2000-12-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:01:36AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > mydestinations = jojda, localhost, jojda.2y.net That should be mydestination. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.

Re: Resolving http addresses

2000-12-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
Do you have your ISP's nameserver entered in /etc/resolv.conf? On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:20:29PM -0700, Clayton Stapleton wrote: > I have a problem when I enter a URL (http://www.google.com/) or others > my system does not resolve the address. I have looked at > /var/log/messages and it shows tha

Re: [OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?

2000-12-13 Thread David A. Rogers
The last Mandrake install I did ticked me off. Potato was just released and I thought I'd give it a try. Have since made Debian my permanent distribution of choice. dar On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a signigicant increa

Fwd: Re: Debian is not for me

2000-12-13 Thread Clayton Stapleton
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Debian is not for me Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:43:25 -0700 From: Clayton Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks for the help SOUND is now working. Looking at /proc/pci showed that es1371 was included so that running modprobe es1371 did instal

Resolving http addresses

2000-12-13 Thread Clayton Stapleton
I have a problem when I enter a URL (http://www.google.com/) or others my system does not resolve the address. I have looked at /var/log/messages and it shows that the pppd connection is made with the IP and DNS addresses show. This work before I reinstalled Debian but now it just hangs. Any help w

Re: Sound Card Blues

2000-12-13 Thread David A. Rogers
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all > I have potato 2.2 installed on my system, I also have a Sound Blaster awe > 1024 card. A friend debian-user very kindly gave me a hand recompiling the > kernel to get the Sound Blaster drivers installed (this was magic as far as I > remem

Re: Missing crypt in Pine compile?

2000-12-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 at 19:40:17 -0500, Dwight Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Looks like it needs an -lcrypt there next to -lncurses, at least > > assuming that you have libc6-dev installed. (I doubt you'd have got that ^ > > far if i

Re: cron vs anacron

2000-12-13 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > there is a version of cron (don't remember the name) that runs > everything that should have been run but wasn't (because system was > down) right after the system starts, that might make anacron obsolete. fcron, but it doesn't do ALL that Debian's cron

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:47:30PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > It did, but it's corrupt. There's a "--configure" option to dpkg, but then > it complains that it's already installed and configured. Either delete or rename XF86Config and run 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' > > Dex

Re: [OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?

2000-12-13 Thread Ignasi Tura
> > Hi folks, > > > > I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a signigicant increase > > in posts in the last few weeks. Yes, I noticed it so. I usually go to geocrawler.com to read debian-user archives. There is there a top ten mailing list. Since August we were the third (SuSE Linux-

Re: cron vs anacron

2000-12-13 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:38:37PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > Does cron work correctly in a system which is powered down periodically, > like a pc at home? If it does, why does anacron exist? It doesn't, which is why anacron exists. By "doesn't", the usual problem is that if you h

Re: Missing crypt in Pine compile?

2000-12-13 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >My Pine compile attempt is showing: > > > >cc-g -DDEBUG -DLNX -DSYSTYPE=\"LNX\" -DMOUSE -o pine addrbook.o > [...] > >os.o date.c ../pico/libpico.a ../c-client/c-client.a -lncurses `cat > >../c-client/L

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
Perfect. Thank you. Thus spake David Z. Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ES> you need to reconfigure the package, I am not sure which one, probably > ES> xserver-xfree86, and I am not sure how exactly > > With "dpkg-reconfigure packagename". > > -- > Dav

Re: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-13 Thread Dan Griswold
> "Criggie" == C Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Criggie> At 12:09 AM 12/13/00 -0600, you wrote: >> Eric G . Miller wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:28:08PM -0600, Dan Griswold wrote: Hi all, I have an internal IDE/ATAPI ZIP 100 in my box. I can mount, r

Re: cron vs anacron

2000-12-13 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:38:37PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > Does cron work correctly in a system which is powered down periodically, > like a pc at home? No. cron starts jobs at a specified time. > If it does, why does anacron exist? See above. anacron c

Re: cron vs anacron

2000-12-13 Thread Erik Steffl
if the system is down while something was scheduled to run, it will not run. there is a version of cron (don't remember the name) that runs everything that should have been run but wasn't (because system was down) right after the system starts, that might make anacron obsolete. and you are

RE: cron vs anacron

2000-12-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Dec-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > Does cron work correctly in a system which is powered down periodically, > like a pc at home? If it does, why does anacron exist? > cron runs jobs at certain times. So, the cron.daily scripts are set to run at 2 in the morning. If your machine

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Erik Steffl
I am quite sure it can be reconfigured, I am quite sure that one of the programs that I upgraded said that I can reconfigure it later but I dodn't remember which one it was nor how todo it. just read the docs, it has to be there. --reinstal (apt-get) might help, it reinstalls package that i

Re: Debian checks filesystems at every boot

2000-12-13 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:28:49AM +0100, Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:25:51PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:29:23PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:35:28PM +0100, Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL >

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread David Z. Maze
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ES> you need to reconfigure the package, I am not sure which one, probably ES> xserver-xfree86, and I am not sure how exactly With "dpkg-reconfigure packagename". -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical

Re: Missing crypt in Pine compile?

2000-12-13 Thread Colin Watson
Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My Pine compile attempt is showing: > >cc-g -DDEBUG -DLNX -DSYSTYPE=\"LNX\" -DMOUSE -o pine addrbook.o [...] >os.o date.c ../pico/libpico.a ../c-client/c-client.a -lncurses `cat >../c-client/LDFLAGS` >../c-client/c-client.a(osdep.o): In function `c

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
It did, but it's corrupt. There's a "--configure" option to dpkg, but then it complains that it's already installed and configured. Dexter was remvoed why? Robert kThus spake Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > you need to reconfigure the package, I am not sure which one, probably > xserve

Re: How to configure mutt

2000-12-13 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 12:13:46AM +, Max Moritz Sievers wrote: > I read the man-page but didn't find it. When I start KMail I can > configure a pop3-account and a smtp-server. How can I do this for mutt? The usual way to use mutt is to use it together with fetchmail. That means you get you

Re: Compiling stuff

2000-12-13 Thread W. Paul Mills
See comments inserted below. Peter Hugosson-Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I've just put my brave hat on and compiled my kernel for the first : time. Thanks to Robert Guthrie and his tip to use kernel-package, : and KMDWAF, everything just worked first try! : I do have a couple of question

Problems with Konqueror in potato

2000-12-13 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hello, I installed some weeks ago kde2 without problems...but early by a strange reason...konqueror browser didn't work. Whe I try to open any location appear a message like this: Unable to open HTML-Text file. I reinstalled konqueror via apt-get remove ; apt-get install but didn't work -- Rogel

cron vs anacron

2000-12-13 Thread chiappa
Hi! Does cron work correctly in a system which is powered down periodically, like a pc at home? If it does, why does anacron exist? Thanks in advance! Marcelo -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 13-Dec-2000 Time: 21:35:40 This message was sent by XFMail --

apt-get sources.list

2000-12-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to configure my sources.list file but am having difficulty finding out what URI to put in. This is what I have so far deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (2814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _P

Re: exim

2000-12-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:52:22PM -0500, A R wrote: > Carel Fellinger wrote: > > Here I am attaching an attempt without success to fetch mail > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail -v -v -k > fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying postoffice.worldnet.att.net (protocol POP3) at Tue, > 12 Dec 2000 19:40:42 -0500 (

Re: [OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?

2000-12-13 Thread D-Man
> > >Also I upgraded to RH7 =p. (What vendor would be so stupid > >as to use an incomplete compiler that is totally incompatible with > everything?) > > The type of vendor sellling to people who don't compile stuff. > Maybe they did it as an experiment, perhaps one day they wi

Re: How to configure mutt

2000-12-13 Thread Ken Weingold
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000, Max Moritz Sievers wrote: > Hello, > I read the man-page but didn't find it. When I start KMail I can > configure a pop3-account and a smtp-server. How can I do this for mutt? Go to www.mutt.org. The manual is online and has all the information you need. -Ken -- [EMAIL

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Erik Steffl
you need to reconfigure the package, I am not sure which one, probably xserver-xfree86, and I am not sure how exactly but check the docs for apt-get and dpkg, you need to run one of them using --config or something like that. I think it should create XF86Config-4 by default, at least dexter di

How to configure mutt

2000-12-13 Thread Max Moritz Sievers
Hello, I read the man-page but didn't find it. When I start KMail I can configure a pop3-account and a smtp-server. How can I do this for mutt? Regards, Max Moritz Sievers

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
I did. That complains that XF86Config exists. I remove it, and run "dexconf". Taht runs for 2 seconds then creates a file that reads from teh "debconf database", no user input. That's the problem. I put a bad value inthe deb conf database and need to reconfigure. Robert Thus spake Erik

Re: how to fake from address in an email

2000-12-13 Thread John Stevens
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:39:08PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Leen Besselink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > We need to send out an email response from a CGI when someone places an > > > order, but we want to set the from address to something other than the > > > user/machine where the CGI i

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Erik Steffl
there was another post today saying it was replaced by something, dexconf? or something like that, seach the archives (it was posted today ot yesterday) erik "Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > I'm trying to reconfigure X on my laptop as I put in a bad value durring > last upgrade. I go to

Re: how do I enable dmfe when compiling new kernel

2000-12-13 Thread Erik Steffl
seach for dmfe.c in dirver/net/Makefile, you'll find that it is compiled if CONFIG_DM9102 is set. Then (in kernel source root): find . -name Makefile -print|xargs grep CONFIG_DM9102 and you'll find that ./drivers/net/Config.in says: if [ "$CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL" = "y" ]; then tristat

Re: Netscape gets killed w/o intervention

2000-12-13 Thread Kent West
A R wrote: Does anybody have any idea what could be the reason of Netscape getting killed w/o any apparent reason? It is happening frecuently later, some times while I type some message, which is annoying. Using communicator 4.75 I see the same thing with Mozilla M18-3 on my office machine.

Re: MP3 players

2000-12-13 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
brian moore wrote: > > > The Pjbox does. Works great. You can get one from thinkgeek: they're a > > > > Yes, the pjbox is nice. Unfortunately ThinkGeek won't ship outside the > > US. And with the current rate Euro/Dollar it costs a fortune, too. > > Hrrrm.. you sure they won't? http://www.th

Re: how to fake from address in an email

2000-12-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Leen Besselink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We need to send out an email response from a CGI when someone places an > > order, but we want to set the from address to something other than the > > user/machine where the CGI is running. How to do this with the various > > email packages? Currentl

latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm trying to reconfigure X on my laptop as I put in a bad value durring last upgrade. I go to run "dexter" and it can't find it. I do a "dpkg -L xserver-common" and it doesn't show dexter in there anymore. Has it been moved? I checked the packages list on debian.org and it still shows it in x

Re: sndconfig [was Re: Debian is not for me]

2000-12-13 Thread John Griffiths
At 08:27 PM 12/13/2000 -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Try an apt-get source from woody. > Pehaps can work. NOO download the .deb's seperately from debian.org and use dpkg eg: #dpkg -i sndconfig.deb it might have some dependencies but it'll tell you so keep

Re: bash tries to execute not existing binaries

2000-12-13 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hell, * Cajus Pollmeier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > Not a big problem, but I'd like to know if there is a better solution for > that: > > I had a self compiled binary "/usr/local/bin/blah". Another version of this > binary is in "/usr/bin/blah". The bash path is set to take the one fro

Re: cron/at question.

2000-12-13 Thread Hans
At 11:48 PM 12/13/00 +0100, Leen Besselink wrote: >> Should have given you an example of what I am doing. Here it is >> >> # at 23:17 >> warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh >> >/usr/local/bin/radio 104 > >Maybe this command runs sub commands and that's why radio doesn't show up >?

Re: how do I enable dmfe when compiling new kernel

2000-12-13 Thread Jens Lauterbach
I'm using make menuconfig and thats working fine, but I cant find dmfe under the netcard drivers, all though I can find the file /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/drivers/net/dmfe.c So its there, so how do I include it, when I'm compiling. with potato, 2.2.17-compact it works fine! what is wrong??

Re: cron/at question.

2000-12-13 Thread Leen Besselink
> Should have given you an example of what I am doing. Here it is > > # at 23:17 > warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh > >/usr/local/bin/radio 104 Maybe this command runs sub commands and that's why radio doesn't show up ? Looks like it's something you made, so probably a shell s

Re: sndconfig [was Re: Debian is not for me]

2000-12-13 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Try an apt-get source from woody. Pehaps can work. On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 02:21:23PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: sndconfig [was Re: Debian is not for me] > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:21:23 -0800 > X-Ma

Re: cron/at question.

2000-12-13 Thread Hans
Should have given you an example of what I am doing. Here it is # at 23:17 warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh >/usr/local/bin/radio 104 > job 18 at 2000-12-14 23:17 # When the clock turns 23:17 #ps aux root 885 0.0 1.3 1576 824 tty1 T 22:53 0:00 aumix root 890 0.

bash tries to execute not existing binaries

2000-12-13 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi! Not a big problem, but I'd like to know if there is a better solution for that: I had a self compiled binary "/usr/local/bin/blah". Another version of this binary is in "/usr/bin/blah". The bash path is set to take the one from /usr/local first, executing it works fine. After deleting /usr

Re: Signal 11 when using 'ps'

2000-12-13 Thread Colin Watson
Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Gary Hennigan writes: > >gh> "Ed Cogburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>> >>>> >>>> This is what I get with an strace on ps: >>>> >>>> >gh> [snip] >>>> o

Re: sndconfig [was Re: Debian is not for me]

2000-12-13 Thread mcclosk
|> 1 Compile sound into a new kernel |> 2 Get sndconfig and xplaymidi from the woody section of the debian.org. |> |> sndconfig is the same tool that you have on RHL. Does anyone know if sndconfig can be used on potato systems, or is there a library incompatibility? The download page doesn't sugg

Re: how do I enable dmfe when compiling new kernel

2000-12-13 Thread Erik Steffl
use make-kpkg, read the docs (it's quite simple). at one point it asks you to configure kernel - do it by run make config (command line), make menuconfig (ncurses required, text based gui), make xconfig (x windows interface, I think you need tk and wish for this). there you have a chance to decid

debian 2.2_r2 cds

2000-12-13 Thread CaT
hey there folks. I just grabbed the iso's of these babies for my laptop so I can loopback mount them (and install them on other pcs). anyhow, on bootup when they get loopback mounted I got the following error: Invalid session number or type of track ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1 IS

Re: how to fake from address in an email

2000-12-13 Thread Leen Besselink
> We need to send out an email response from a CGI when someone places an > order, but we want to set the from address to something other than the > user/machine where the CGI is running. How to do this with the various > email packages? Currently using exim, but may switch to postfix or > sendmail

how to fake from address in an email

2000-12-13 Thread debuser
We need to send out an email response from a CGI when someone places an order, but we want to set the from address to something other than the user/machine where the CGI is running. How to do this with the various email packages? Currently using exim, but may switch to postfix or sendmail. Thanks,

how do I enable dmfe when compiling new kernel

2000-12-13 Thread Jens Lauterbach
hi I'm about to recompile my potato 2.2.17 kernel. But how do I include dmfe (netcard driver) so I can load it as a module??? thanks in advance --- Jens Lauterbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roskilde University

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-13 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi Jörg! Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that pdflatex cannot include pictures (they are ok., latex > --> xdvi shows them...). Do I have to include them in a special > format (I tried .bmp, .png, .ps as input; latex --> dvi makes it > all, but pdflatex just leaves space...)

RE: cron/at question.

2000-12-13 Thread Leen Besselink
> Fine, so where can I find it? If I run radio straight from the command > prompt ps and ps aux will list a pid for radio. If I run radio via cron/at > there is no pid when I do ps or ps aux. In fact, there is no pid for > anything at the time cron/at executes radio. You'd expect at least > somethi

Re: cron/at question.

2000-12-13 Thread Erik Steffl
Hans wrote: > > At 12:48 PM 12/13/00 -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> Three questions: > >> > >> 1) both cron and at seem to run programs in the background. However there > >> is no pid when I do a ps aux, so how do I stop a job from running? > > > >if a program is running, it will have a pi

Re: cron/at question.

2000-12-13 Thread Leen Besselink
> Three questions: > > 1) both cron and at seem to run programs in the background. However there > is no pid when I do a ps aux, so how do I stop a job from running? Well, they don't get run immediatly ofcourse, only when it's time, you can try to kill them then, but best is to make changed to yo

RE: cron/at question.

2000-12-13 Thread Hans
At 12:48 PM 12/13/00 -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> Three questions: >> >> 1) both cron and at seem to run programs in the background. However there >> is no pid when I do a ps aux, so how do I stop a job from running? > >if a program is running, it will have a pid Fine, so where can I find

Re: Debian is not for me

2000-12-13 Thread Nick Croft
1 Compile sound into a new kernel 2 Get sndconfig and xplaymidi from the woody section of the debian.org. sndconfig is the same tool that you have on RHL. Lotsa luck Nick

Re: New documentation for Debian available

2000-12-13 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, How this can be integrated in Debian FAQ ou Debian FAQ-O-MATIC? On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:44:25PM -0600, David A. Rogers wrote: > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:44:25 -0600 (Central Standard Time) > From: "David A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User List > Subject: New d

RE: cron/at question.

2000-12-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> Three questions: > > 1) both cron and at seem to run programs in the background. However there > is no pid when I do a ps aux, so how do I stop a job from running? if a program is running, it will have a pid > 2) can cron or at jobs be run as one-liners? Eventually I want to write a > perl of

configuring diald with ppp (out of the box)

2000-12-13 Thread CND OConnor
Hi, I just recently installed diald on my debian box (running latest woody and 2.4 test kernel) for the first time but I haven't been able to get it to run yet. The only error message generated is a ppp connect script failed which the diald gui package will display if you attempt to establish the

cron/at question.

2000-12-13 Thread Hans
I played around with cron and at last night and successfully started radio with it (yeah, right, a US$1000 clock radio :-) Three questions: 1) both cron and at seem to run programs in the background. However there is no pid when I do a ps aux, so how do I stop a job from running? 2) can cron or a

Re: X or Window Maker?

2000-12-13 Thread Ken Weingold
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000, Chris Gray wrote: > > Ken Weingold writes: > > kw> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >>> > >>> On 13-Dec-2000 Ken Weingold wrote: > The mouse in X is REALLY slow. The mouse properties in the Window > Maker preferences don't

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Re: New documentation for Debian available

2000-12-13 Thread David A. Rogers
Done. On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Ray Percival wrote: > I do tend to be something of a license snob. Take a look at > www.opencontent.org. I know O'Reilly has used this for several of their > books. All in all what you have planned looks very good. This could really > help. > > -- Original Messa

Re: X or Window Maker?

2000-12-13 Thread Chris Gray
> Ken Weingold writes: kw> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >>> >>> On 13-Dec-2000 Ken Weingold wrote: The mouse in X is REALLY slow. The mouse properties in the Window Maker preferences don't seem to do anything. Is this a problem of X

Help msg: modprobe can't locate ppp-compress

2000-12-13 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I noticed in my daemon and sysylog that when logged in through pon and a dial up account which is functioning fine that I have the following msg repeated: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp-compress-21 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp-compress-26 modprobe: modprobe: Can't

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