mysql-server broken

2000-12-15 Thread Jens Gecius
Hi folks! This time I really need help on short term. After my last dist-upgrade tonight mysql-server is broken. It always gets an error in the postinst script. I tried to get it manually to work, I tried to dpkg -i the old version (my current version is -8), didn't work. I don't know what to do

everything except for ping in IPmasq

2000-12-15 Thread David Purton
Hi I've sort of got ip masqerading working now, in that I can browse the web, ssh and ftp, etc from masqed machines, but ping does not work :( this was a hassle beacause I was using ping to test and it took me some time to realise that anything was happening at all. when I ping an internet ip ad

gimp1.1 printing solution

2000-12-15 Thread John Dalbec
I got the plugin source from sourceforge and found that I needed to put something like lp,lpr,ps2,,, in .gimp1.1/printrc to get things started. The plugin has a get_printers() function, but lprng's lpstat command doesn't list the printers in the expected format so the function fails

Microtek ScanMaker V310

2000-12-15 Thread John Dalbec
I have potato, kernel 2.2.13, ppSCSI driver patch. I typed 'xscanimage' and tried to do a preview scan. What a noise! I opened the scanner and the light bar was shaking back and forth like it had Parkinson's. I'm concerned this could damage my scanner. Yes, I have done preview scans under another

Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

2000-12-15 Thread Robert W. Rowe
- Original Message - From: "D-Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 11:45 PM Subject: Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian > > Inform Compaq that M$ isn't the only OS vendor. :-) > > I have a Compaq Presario (don't get one, it's bet

burn-shn : an error (fwd)

2000-12-15 Thread Ashby
Don't know if any of you burn shorten, but I am having a problem. Could anyone take a look and give me some advice? Thanks! -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 03:59:55 -0500 (EST) From: Etree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: etree@etree.org Subject: burn-shn : an error Hey Etr

Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

2000-12-15 Thread D-Man
Inform Compaq that M$ isn't the only OS vendor. :-) I have a Compaq Presario (don't get one, it's better to build your own comp from parts) that came with Windows 98 preinstalled. I added RedHat to it (first 5.2 - didn't like my video card, then 6.1 , now 7.0 ). I am planning on installing Deb

Re: Java2

2000-12-15 Thread D-Man
You could try kaffe or gcj. Kaffe is a free JVM implementation and gcj is a Java compiler that can output .class files or native object code. -D On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 19:38:35 Dale Morris wrote: | I downloaded the j2sdk1.3 package from Blackdown, it installed fine, but | doesn't work when I try

Test

2000-12-15 Thread Arlen Carlson
Test --- Arlen Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Your boyfriend takes chocolate from strangers. This message was sent by XFmail (Linux) -o) /\\ _\_v The penguins are coming... the pen

Re: How do I move a filesystem

2000-12-15 Thread Jon Pennington
Denzil Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > How do I go about moving my entire filesystem to > larger hard drive? Start by reading the Hard Disk Upgrade Mini HOWTO ;) http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/ It's all in there, and works with few exceptions. -- -=|JP|=- Jon

Need to reinstall potato

2000-12-15 Thread Tristan
I need to reinstall debian ( i have no problems, just want to reinstall ), and i have debian2.2r0 and i was wondering how i could move /var/cache/apt/archives to another partition so i could just update potato with out having to download all the packages over again (updated packages, misc packages,

How do I move a filesystem

2000-12-15 Thread Denzil Kelly
How do I go about moving my entire filesystem to larger hard drive? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

Re: Konqueror in GNOME, no response to Save Yourself

2000-12-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:06:11PM -0500, Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote: > Hi, > I run the Konqueror browser from KDE2 on a GNOME desktop, and it > seems to work OK (as I expected). A minute or so after startup I get an > error saying 'No response to Save Yourself command', and lets

Re: "Installed size" units?

2000-12-15 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 01:37:20AM +, Rudi Borth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The entries in the alphabetical list of packages include a line > "Installed size" followed by a number but no measurement unit. Are > these meant to be bytes, KB GB or what? ^^ > > P

Re: ssh: localhost: Temporary failure in name resolution

2000-12-15 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:36:17AM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I get "ssh: localhost: Temporary failure in name resolution" with > > ssh_1%3a2.2.0p1-1.1progeny1_i386.deb > ssh-askpass-gnome_1%3a2.2.0p1-1.1progeny1_i386.deb > > but I can ping localhost, and I can still access

Re: Messaggio

2000-12-15 Thread A R
Gerardo wrote: > Potrei gentilmente sapere se esiste un sito dove posso scaricare linux > in floppy disk.Grazie anticipatamente.Gerardo I don't think you can get it on a floppy. Too big. Yo no creo que quepa en un flopy. Demasiado grande.

Re: xdm takes so long to start [was Re: New X Server crashes]

2000-12-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Erik, > > Not sure if this will help at all, but if you are running kde, there may > be a problem with xdm as window manager - I didn't read long on it, but > kde is a "session-manager" and therefore requires I guess kdm to run. > > So, if you are running kde,

gs error - i can't view postscript files

2000-12-15 Thread Timmy Douglas
when i try to open a .ps file with gv or gs, i get this error: GNU Ghostscript 5.10 (1998-12-17) Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details. Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/lib/ghos

Java2

2000-12-15 Thread Dale Morris
I downloaded the j2sdk1.3 package from Blackdown, it installed fine, but doesn't work when I try to setup staroffice. Any suggestions? I'm using debian 2.2 (libranet 1.8.2 that's been apt-get upgraded). I suppose there's some permission somewhere that has to be changed, but I'm not sure where it is

Who managed to use ultrapoint?

2000-12-15 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. Did anyone actually use ultrapoint? There's a sample file that comes with the package, but upt complains about lots of fonts (and the file is in japanese). I've tried to change the file, but upt still complains about UCS fonts missing. README.Debian tells me to edit /etc/vflib3/vfli

gnome-errors

2000-12-15 Thread chiappa
Hello! What is the meaning of the following lines in my .gnome-errors file? Unable to bind port 16001 /dev/dsp: No such device subshell.c: couldn't get terminal settings: Inappropriate ioctl for device Thanks in advance! Marcelo

Re: Continuing sound saga (es1370, etc.)

2000-12-15 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
I created a file called "audio" in /etc/modutils, with the single line "alias sound-slot-0 es1370". No luck, as you predicted. I then extracted a kernel image for my kernel to a separate directory, rmmod'ed sound, soundlow, soundcore, and es1370 (not in that order), copied over fresh versions

Re: Make menuconfig, 2.2.18 and Debian woody - SOLVED

2000-12-15 Thread David Fisher
Just a short note of thanks to all those who pointed out that the missing package was libncurses5-dev. My shiny new 2.2.18 kernel is now compiled and installed. Thanks again. -- David

ssh: localhost: Temporary failure in name resolution

2000-12-15 Thread Andre Berger
I get "ssh: localhost: Temporary failure in name resolution" with ssh_1%3a2.2.0p1-1.1progeny1_i386.deb ssh-askpass-gnome_1%3a2.2.0p1-1.1progeny1_i386.deb but I can ping localhost, and I can still access other machines with ssh. Any ideas? I've just upgraded from potato and its ssh. Andre

Re: mixer defaults

2000-12-15 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Tim" == Anderson, Tim TL33E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> Hi, My sound defaults to a very low level in GNOME for some reason. I Tim> set it to maximum in the GNOME mixer, and saved the settings. This Tim> only seems to save the settings for the mixer program itself though,

"Installed size" units?

2000-12-15 Thread Rudi Borth
The entries in the alphabetical list of packages include a line "Installed size" followed by a number but no measurement unit. Are these meant to be bytes, KB GB or what? Please answer off list directly to me if you can. Thank you. Greetings! Rudi Borth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Ken Weingold wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Ken Weingold wrote: > > > > > > Sorry for the OT, but the only browser I have used in X is Netscape, > > > up to 4.7x. I really pisses me off that they seem to have eliminated > > > the Open button. Does Mozilla, Netscape 6, Ko

Restore the STATUS file

2000-12-15 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all, As i said, i'm new to debian. I tried lots of things. I have done lots of shit with dselect. Is there a command, wich sets the status of the files appropriate to my system. For example i have now lots of deps. The lodaer want that i download 350MB (!) I don't want these files. So perha

Re: Continuing sound saga (es1370, etc.)

2000-12-15 Thread David A. Rogers
Briefly, sound-slot-0 is the kernels "generic" name for a sound card module. Its like "eth0" for ethernet cards. See Debian University for a complete rundown on modules: http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt. What this message says is that the kernel is looking for a sound card to l

Re: Sound not working

2000-12-15 Thread Kelly Corbin
Jon Pennington wrote: Sorry I can't help with your sound issue, but where did you get IDE patches for 2.2.18? The patch I have for 2.2.17 doesn't apply cleanly... Right here: http://www.linux-ide.org/ Hope this helps! Kelly -- -- Kelly Corbin

Re: Sound not working (Solved)

2000-12-15 Thread Kelly Corbin
Hmm, well I compiled it as a module and now my sound works again. It seems that maybe the 2.2.18 kernel only likes the emu10k1 as a module? I've had numerous instances of things not working as modules, but this is the first time I've had something /only/ work as a module. Kelly Kelly Corbin w

Re: fugly (Font is Ugly)

2000-12-15 Thread Henry House
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 03:58:21PM +0100, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote: > I installed Potato on a laptop, and the fonts are mishaped under X. The > fonts are uneven throughout an xterm. All the applications seem to > inherit the same problem. I have played a little with the fontpath in > XF86Config,

Messaggio

2000-12-15 Thread Gerardo
Potrei gentilmente sapere se esiste un sito dove posso scaricare linux in floppy disk. Grazie anticipatamente. Gerardo

Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-15 Thread Ken Weingold
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > Ken Weingold wrote: > > > > Sorry for the OT, but the only browser I have used in X is Netscape, > > up to 4.7x. I really pisses me off that they seem to have eliminated > > the Open button. Does Mozilla, Netscape 6, Konqueror, or any of the > > other l

Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Ken Weingold wrote: > > Sorry for the OT, but the only browser I have used in X is Netscape, > up to 4.7x. I really pisses me off that they seem to have eliminated > the Open button. Does Mozilla, Netscape 6, Konqueror, or any of the > other liked browsers have it? Also, anyone know why it was

mixer defaults

2000-12-15 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Hi, My sound defaults to a very low level in GNOME for some reason. I set it to maximum in the GNOME mixer, and saved the settings. This only seems to save the settings for the mixer program itself though, meaning I have to run the mixer on startup for the settings to actually be applied. Is ther

Sound not working

2000-12-15 Thread Kelly Corbin
I just installed kernel 2.2.18 (with IDE patches) on a Woody box and now my sound is not working. I have a soundblaster Live! My previous kernel was 2.4-test-11 and sound worked fine with the driver compiled into the kernel. I compiled the driver into the 2.2.18 kernel and I can see it loads

Konqueror in GNOME, no response to Save Yourself

2000-12-15 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Hi, I run the Konqueror browser from KDE2 on a GNOME desktop, and it seems to work OK (as I expected). A minute or so after startup I get an error saying 'No response to Save Yourself command', and lets me kill the process. This doesn't affect anything, the browser stays running f

RE: Processed: help

2000-12-15 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
> Subject: RE: Processed: help > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:51:59 - > From: "Martin Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Dear Darren, > > I have purchased 1 copy of Debian potato 2.2r0 official > binary and source > from chee

Re: Debian 2.2: download stops during "apt-get update"

2000-12-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Kelm) writes: > I originally sent this to debian-user, but got no response. Perhaps this is > the more appropriate list. Well, no, not really, but I'll give it a shot. > I am in the process of trying to upgrade my computers to 2.2. My > workstation was running 2.0 and m

fugly (Font is Ugly)

2000-12-15 Thread Matthieu Paindavoine
Hello, I installed Potato on a laptop, and the fonts are mishaped under X. The fonts are uneven throughout an xterm. All the applications seem to inherit the same problem. I have played a little with the fontpath in XF86Config, but that wasn't good enough. Has anyone encountered the same pb befor

Re: Debian problem on UltraSparc

2000-12-15 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 03:09:34PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 02:33:57AM -0800, Joshua Uziel wrote: > > * Tommy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001215 00:56]: > > > 1. I've 1024MB RAM on my box. But when I use kernel 2.2.18, it won't > > > boot correctly except I add a appen

OT - web browsers

2000-12-15 Thread Ken Weingold
Sorry for the OT, but the only browser I have used in X is Netscape, up to 4.7x. I really pisses me off that they seem to have eliminated the Open button. Does Mozilla, Netscape 6, Konqueror, or any of the other liked browsers have it? Also, anyone know why it was taken away in the first place?

Re: Debian problem on UltraSparc

2000-12-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 02:33:57AM -0800, Joshua Uziel wrote: > * Tommy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001215 00:56]: > > 1. I've 1024MB RAM on my box. But when I use kernel 2.2.18, it won't > > boot correctly except I add a append="mem=512m" to let kernel use > > only 512MB. Is there any conf

Re: Sound is working for everything but cds

2000-12-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
My apologies to both of you and to the list for this... I had removed my CD-ROM earlier for use in installing linux on another box, and when I reinstalled it I didn't plug in the cable. I'll just slink back into my cave now Andy ---

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-15 Thread Ernest Johanson
The system uses the underlying user ids to identify files rather than the user names. Run ls -ln to see the ids instead of the names. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, B. Dragoo wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:37:59 -0800 (PST) > From

Re: Digital Photo in Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Scott Patterson
> gphoto vs. photopc (phototk), which is best? Gphoto supports over 100 cameras and is being actively developed. The gphoto development team is actually revising the code to make it VERY modular (a library). This change will make it independent of the interface (ex: GNOME, KDE, tk, curses, etc).

Re: Sound is working for everything but cds

2000-12-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i would've suggested this to, but he did say that CD's played under windows. wouldn't windows need a cable from the CD player to the sound card too? pete On Fri 15 Dec 00, 2:36 PM, Chris Gray said... > > Andrew Perrin writes: > > ap> Okay, I know this is a boring issue, but I've now fi

Re: partitionmagic

2000-12-15 Thread Kelly Corbin
I've used it quite a bit including versions 4 and 6. I have had no problems whatsoever with FATx or EXT2 partitions. EXT2 has been supported since ver. 4. Ver. 6, the current version, is even more robust and offers more error correction ability. Unfortunately it requires 2 boot disks instea

Re: Sound is working for everything but cds

2000-12-15 Thread Chris Gray
> Andrew Perrin writes: ap> Okay, I know this is a boring issue, but I've now finally got ap> sound working okay (as evidenced by the fact that I can play ap> .wav files at will), but I still can't play cds. The cd's ap> spin, and if I plug headphones into the jack in the CD-R

Mail receipts

2000-12-15 Thread Cheng H. Lee
Does anyone know how to configure either exim or mutt so that I can request and receive read receipts for my email? Thanks for any help in advance, Cheng

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-15 Thread B. Dragoo
--- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's perfectly safe to keep those users starting at > 500. Debian > packages that want an id in the 100-999 range will > dynamically allocate > it with adduser, which will never trample over an > existing user, and it > doesn't matter what user id it p

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-15 Thread B. Dragoo
--- Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > uid's 100 - 999 are reserved for the packaging > system/daemons etc. > you won't likely have a problem but it would be > better to migrate to > debian policy anyway. Yeah, that's about how I'm thinking about it, too. Debian goes through so much to

Re: how to fake from address in an email

2000-12-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:39:08PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: ... > If they're using exim it's just a matter of adding a an appropriate > rewrite rule, no need to worry about relaying or anything like that. I > think that when you install exim there's even a nice setup for you > already in /etc/ex

Re: exim

2000-12-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:24:42PM -0500, A R wrote: > Carel Fellinger wrote:Aha bingo, found the culprit, and it's me again:) > Fetchmail as e precursion ... > Same failure after the fix: okee, that's the error we are going to tackle next, but first I would like to know for sure that fetchmail

Re: Signal 11 when using 'ps'

2000-12-15 Thread Chris Gray
> Ed Cogburn writes: ec> Thanks guys for the help. ec> Ok first, my CPU is not overclocked. My hardware is ec> all fairly new though, so I'll list the major components: ec> Athlon "Thunderbird" CPU, 1Ghz You lucky bastard. ec> Fourth, t

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-15 Thread Joey Hess
Ethan Benson wrote: > uid's 100 - 999 are reserved for the packaging system/daemons etc. > you won't likely have a problem but it would be better to migrate to > debian policy anyway. It's perfectly safe to keep those users starting at 500. Debian packages that want an id in the 100-999 range w

Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

2000-12-15 Thread Tom Schuetz
I had Red Hat installed on my Presario as a dual boot system. It had its own hard drive, and worked somewhat, but eventually it flashed the BIOS and the whole motherboard had to be replaced. I was told (tersely) by Compaq Support that Presarios are NOT GOOD with Linux. But, I WANT LINUX. Name

Sound is working for everything but cds

2000-12-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Okay, I know this is a boring issue, but I've now finally got sound working okay (as evidenced by the fact that I can play .wav files at will), but I still can't play cds. The cd's spin, and if I plug headphones into the jack in the CD-ROM drive I hear the music, so I know the player is working fi

Re: more apt-get help please??

2000-12-15 Thread Chris Gray
> Xucaen writes: x> --- Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > Xucaen writes: x> what is the syntax for the sources.list? >>> and what x> is apt.conf used for anyways? >>> >>> $ man 5 sources.list >>> $ man 5 apt.conf >>> >>> Look especially

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-15 Thread B. Dragoo
--- Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > One idea might be to do a search and replace on the > passwd file, placing a > 1 (or 2, etc) in front of the existing user id. That > would necessitate > changing the ids on the user's files. I had a > similar situation and wrote > a Perl sc

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-15 Thread Chris Gray
> Ethan Benson writes: eb> if you extract the home directories after creating the new user eb> accounts they should get the new ownership properly as GNU tar is eb> fairly smart about this sort of thing. Actually, a tar file (according to POSIX) can have the uid only represented

FATAL: file_map_allocate: Exceeded filemap limit

2000-12-15 Thread Florian Kessler
Hi all, what does this error message mean? Thanks, Florian

Re: Which IMAP server to use

2000-12-15 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:03:41PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: I installed it on my test machine, and it couldn't have been easier. Netscape is still bitching because I didn't create a site certificate yet, but it's working. Thanks so much! j > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Juergen Fiedler wrote: [...]

Re: more apt-get help please??

2000-12-15 Thread Xucaen
--- Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Xucaen writes: > x> what is the syntax for the sources.list? > and what > x> is apt.conf used for anyways? > > $ man 5 sources.list > $ man 5 apt.conf > > Look especially at the examples in > sources.list(5). well, there's the catch. I

Re: more apt-get help please??

2000-12-15 Thread Chris Gray
> Xucaen writes: x> --- will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> try >>> http://www.eGroups.com/files/newbieDoc/ >>> >>> the "apt-get-intro.html" file there may be it. >>> that's one i've hobbled together and got mostly >>> good feedback on. it's mostly a

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

2000-12-15 Thread Ernest Johanson
I have seen a situation where a system that began on Slackware was migrated to Debian years ago. Several Debian upgrades have been done since then. There are user ids between 500 and 100 and there hasn't been any problems. Hopefully this isn't an accident going somewhere to happen. One idea might

Re: xdm takes so long to start [was Re: New X Server crashes]

2000-12-15 Thread Erik Steffl
Joey Hess wrote: > > Shao Zhang wrote: > > xdm on my machine(laptop) takes about 50 seconds to start. > > > If no one knows why, then I am going to fire up a bug report against it. > > I've already tracked down this bug and filed a report, so please don't > bother. any news on this? xdm still

purify type of software

2000-12-15 Thread Timothy C. Phan
hi, Is there any 'purify' type of software for Linux? It seems that efence does the work but it does not seem to tell me the non-deallocated memory at the end of the program. THanks! --- Tim

Re: Porting applications to Debian

2000-12-15 Thread D-Man
It would be best to have a system set up to test on, but if it runs on Unix and doesn't do anything that is system/implementation dependent it should work. What they probably really mean is they would like you to create a Debian specific package they can install. This simply means making th

Re: Porting applications to Debian

2000-12-15 Thread Erik Steffl
> Simon Broad wrote: > > I'm pretty new to Linux, but have been asked by a customer to port a > Unix product to Debian. > > This may sound daft to a lot of you, but would I need to port the > product on a Debian box or, as I already have SuSE and RH available > will a port on one of these be OK?

Re: Use of TTY7-TTY12

2000-12-15 Thread Brendan Cully
On Friday, 15 December 2000 at 17:49, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi all > > In the debain sytem the tty7-12 are not used by default. How can i for > example use TTY10 to schow me the messages file. If i log in in an other tty > and type 'tail /var/log/messages > /dev/tty12' then it does show the c

Install newer pakages than the stable release serves

2000-12-15 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all, I use potato. I need to install the newest OT Developpmet pacckage (2.2.2). Potato serves only the 2.0.2 version. I saw that woody has the newest libraries. What is now the uncomplicatest way to get the qt-2.2.2-dev package installed with all depencies and so on? Cheers, Raffaele -- S

Install newer pakages than the stable release serves

2000-12-15 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all, I use potato. I need to install the newest OT Developpmet pacckage (2.2.2). Potato serves only the 2.0.2 version. I saw that woody has the newest libraries. What is now the uncomplicatest way to get the qt-2.2.2-dev package installed with all depencies and so on? Cheers, Raffaele -- Sen

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-15 Thread Erik Steffl
will trillich wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:20:03AM +0100, Manegold wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm wondering what VNC is. According to the package listing it is a > > remote display system. Therefore something like X. > > But what does that mean? Can I use it instead of X? > > Does it need special

Re: partitionmagic

2000-12-15 Thread Ken Weingold
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000, Andy Bastien wrote: > Pending further investigation, we now allege that Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hi! > > I am curious about how does Partition Magic work under Debian ext2 > > filesystem. > > > > It works very well, in my experience. PM doesn't work _in_ linux, but >

Re: Which IMAP server to use

2000-12-15 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > Hi, > > I am planning to switch my private mail server from Redhat to Woody > and at the same time upgrade to a decent IMAP server. But the choices, > the choices! There seem to be courier-imap cyrus-imap and uw-imapd. > I think I heard good things abo

Use of TTY7-TTY12

2000-12-15 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all In the debain sytem the tty7-12 are not used by default. How can i for example use TTY10 to schow me the messages file. If i log in in an other tty and type 'tail /var/log/messages > /dev/tty12' then it does show the changing of messages there but the other tty is blocked because tail is at

JDE install problem on Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Glenn Murray
Hi, I have successfully installed JDE on Win2K but am failing on Debian linux. I have tried two ways: 1. Via the Debian package. I can't find any documentation on what to add to my .emacs, the usual things (load path and require) don't seem to work. 2. "By hand", as worked with Win2K

Re: Using apt-get upgrade-Any way to get list first? Solved!

2000-12-15 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:54:20PM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote: > > If you use APT, you can 'apt-get upgrade -u' which will show you the > packages to be upgraded. You can then say no to continuing and put on hold > anything that you don't want coming down the pipe. You can achieve the same by addi

Re: mouse attention problem

2000-12-15 Thread William Heindl
Hi Pete, Thanks for the reply. > >is gpm running? Yes, like so: /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -l "a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377" > >do you see any gpm messages in /var/log/messages? Unfortunately, no. The only reference I see to the mouse is: "Dec 15 08:05:15 cass16 kerne

auto responder from Simon Broad

2000-12-15 Thread ktb
There is a person who has turned on an auto responder and it is bouncing mail from the list. Maybe you have been told but here is his name and address - Simon Broad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maybe you can take him off the list? Thanks, kent -- "I

Re: password checker

2000-12-15 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:47:16AM -0600, ktb wrote: > I need to check user passwords on a server here at work. I > would like to test it from my Debian box if this is possible. I > searched the archives and packages but didn't find the program > I'm looking for. I'm ru

RE: Processed: help

2000-12-15 Thread Martin Johnson
Dear Darren, I have purchased 1 copy of Debian potato 2.2r0 official binary and source from cheeplinux(uk) and I seem to have a problem with disk 2. It seems that there are many many corrupt packages that wont install. Some of the packages seem to be the following: tetex-

Which IMAP server to use

2000-12-15 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I am planning to switch my private mail server from Redhat to Woody and at the same time upgrade to a decent IMAP server. But the choices, the choices! There seem to be courier-imap cyrus-imap and uw-imapd. I think I heard good things about Courier. Then again, there is a whole HOWTO for Cyrus

Re: partitionmagic

2000-12-15 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > I am curious about how does Partition Magic work under Debian ext2 > filesystem. > It works very well, in my experience. PM doesn't work _in_ linux, but there is a "linux install" option that creates a bootable

password checker

2000-12-15 Thread ktb
I need to check user passwords on a server here at work. I would like to test it from my Debian box if this is possible. I searched the archives and packages but didn't find the program I'm looking for. I'm running potato. Thanks, kent -- "In

Re: Digital Photo in Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Ray Percival writes: > You need to get the 2.2.18 kernel to get the USB backports after > that your best hope is apt-get install gphoto and hope that they > have it right now. > Thanks. gphoto vs. photopc (phototk), which is best? > -- Original Message

Re: remote management

2000-12-15 Thread Bill White
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:32:08 EST, "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Opined: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:51:30PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > :> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > :> :I am managing my server remotely using ssh. If my network connection > :> :goes d

Re: Digital Photo in Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Ray Percival
You need to get the 2.2.18 kernel to get the USB backports after that your best hope is apt-get install gphoto and hope that they have it right now. -- Original Message -- From: Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:44:25 +

Digital Photo in Linux

2000-12-15 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I have bought yesterday a (cheap) digital photo camera. It's an Kodak EZ200 (it uses the USB port). How can I use it under Linux? Thanks. -- Pedro Quaresma de Almeida e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remote management

2000-12-15 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:51:30PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: :> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: :> :I am managing my server remotely using ssh. If my network connection :> :goes down for some reason, I have no control over it, is there a way :> :where I could check to see

Re: I screwed up my apt/dpkg system

2000-12-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:23:12PM -0800, Scott Bronson wrote: > > Why the heck isn't debconf written in C? This happens to me ALL the > time (well, every other month or so). Something as fundamental as > debconf really should not have so many dependencies. > See the debian-boot list where the

Where do I go from here? was: HT configure an IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive?

2000-12-15 Thread Dan Griswold
Seeing as my thread has peetered out, I was wondering if anybody had any ideas of where else I might ask the question. I have searched on Google and Northernlight, and none of the information retrieved there has gone beyond the good suggestions offered here. For those new to this thread, my questi

Network cards

2000-12-15 Thread garyjones
I have seen network cards which plug into the serial or parallel port (I forget which, now). Basically I want to connect a laptop to a network (both of which are running Debian), and a) there is no room to fit a card in inside; and b) the PCMCIA slot seems to be bug^H^Hroken. Does anyone have a

Still no luck with modversions (compiling alsa)

2000-12-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 15 05:59:06 2000 Newsgroups: Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 05:59:06 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: alsa and modutils Fcc: sent-mail In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: partitionmagic

2000-12-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 07:51:06AM -0500, Cory T. Echols wrote: > On 12/15, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hi! > > I am curious about how does Partition Magic work under Debian ext2 > > filesystem. > > > I have used partition magic 4.0 on a limited basis w/ext2 > partitions, and ha

Re: more apt-get help please??

2000-12-15 Thread Xucaen
--- will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try > http://www.eGroups.com/files/newbieDoc/ > > the "apt-get-intro.html" file there may be it. > that's one i've hobbled together and got mostly > good feedback on. it's mostly a > scratch-the-surface > kind of thing, but it might be what you

Re: Kernel patches (Was: make-kpkg question)

2000-12-15 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:50:34PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > you definitely do not want use the patches for 2.2.18 with any > > other kernel, unless you really know what you are doing (you > > would have to make sure that the files that the patch changes > > are unchanged between 2.2.

Porting applications to Debian

2000-12-15 Thread Simon Broad
I'm pretty new to Linux, but have been asked by a customer to port a Unix product to Debian.   This may sound daft to a lot of you, but would I need to port the product on a Debian box or, as I already have SuSE and RH available will a port on one of these be OK?   I'm sure there are many

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