Can't create file larger than 1G on console ?

2001-01-23 Thread Tommy Wu
I've try kernel 2.4.0, 2.4.1-pre8 - 10. I can't create file larger than 1G on console (tty1 - tty6 and X11 terminal), but I can create such file from telent. For the same OS, kernel... only a telnet session can create large file more than 1G. Or I switch to single user mode, I can cre

ping must be run as root?

2001-01-23 Thread Andrew Misyura
Hi, when i try to run "ping" (on a fresh Debian 2.2 install) as a non-root user i get "ping must be run as root". What is the reason? I think this has something to do with pam, but i found nothing related to ping in pam's configs. thanks, Andrew

Re: PPP debian Policy?

2001-01-23 Thread John Hasler
Admiral Thrawn writes: > As Far as i can tell a normal user must be part of both DIP and Dialout > groups to dial out and use PPP ? Is there any Funny Reason this is so ? It isn't. A user need only be a member of the dip group in order to bring up a ppp connection with pon or gpppon. A user need

Problems with apt-get and pppd

2001-01-23 Thread Frank Preut
hello everyone, i have two problems with my potato system which _really_ get on my nerves.. 1) i use pon/poff for my dialup connection.. the problem with this is that poff somehow doesn't seem to completely close the connection or something because when i try to re-connect with pon nothin

Re: packages have been kept back?

2001-01-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:52:57PM +1100, hogan wrote: > What's the difference between: > apt-get dist-upgrade > apt-get upgrade > in English? :) w/o looking at the man page ... Upgrade upgrades packages that you have installed. If new dependencies will remove existing packages, install

Re: packages have been kept back?

2001-01-23 Thread hogan
What's the difference between: apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get upgrade in English? :) Does apt-get dist-upgrade do the same as apt-get upgrade and more? ADFH - Original Message - From: "Nathan E Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User Mailing list" Sent: Wednesday, January 24

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, let me comment with my vague memory I hope this may be helpful to you. On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:40:36AM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > OK, fair enough, I removed the Joliet flag, gave it a try, and I still have > the same errors. Anybody else? I had similar problem when making backup

Re: certification

2001-01-23 Thread arthur
LPI covers debian. Arthur H. Johnson II Systems Engineer The Linux Box [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxbox.nu On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, John Galt wrote: > > The week after hell freezes over. I've already suggested it, and was met > by less than gentility. > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Howell Caton wro

miscellianeous questions

2001-01-23 Thread seg
1. How do I delete a user?   2. Running netstat -ta, I found out I have the following services running:    TCP    0    0    *:6000        *:*  TCP    0    0    *:1024        *:*  TCP    0    0    *:sunrpc *:*     What are these services and how do I shut them down (I have commented out

Re: certification

2001-01-23 Thread John Galt
The week after hell freezes over. I've already suggested it, and was met by less than gentility. On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Howell Caton wrote: > >Does anyone know how soon we might expect a certification program for >Debian Linux. >Certification is a good way to assure prospective employers that you

Re: dist-upgrade for unstable

2001-01-23 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Jens, I think this is a pretty normal trend. I updated from stable kde to unstable and looked 'wide eyed' at my apt as it removed everything that was kde and starting pulling down the unstable... I would think that gnome is will suited for unstable too. kde and gnome seem to be the wide ma

Re: Another newbie (problems with installation)

2001-01-23 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Patrick, Wish you would have included a tid-bit of info on your system. Anyway, if you can boot off the CDROM drive (look in your bios settings), then do it. If it boots, then this isn't an issue at all. The debian installer isn't like what you have played with in the past. It will ask real

newbie: getting diskette & sound to work: isapnp?

2001-01-23 Thread will trillich
i've got a floppy drive (3.5) and a sound card (220/5/dma1/dma5) that my potato hasn't yet recognized. what's the procedure for tracking down what i need? if it's "isapnp" then can somebody translate the manpage for isapnp.conf for me? if it's something else, please point the way... thanks! --

Re: Soundcard Problems

2001-01-23 Thread Martin Albert
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Tristan wrote: > I have an ES1869 PnP Audiodrive, IRQ 7 DMA 1 DMA 0. I am having problems > ... > run isapnp, but isapnp doesn't detect my soundcard, and i tried using > sndconfig but it couldn't detect any soundcard either, the soundcard is > part of the motherboard, and i can

Kernel 2.4.0

2001-01-23 Thread Vibol Hou
I get these messages in my kernel log all the time: kernel: reset_xmit_timer sk=ef9e3360 1 when=0x2f40, caller =c0218172 What does it mean? -Vibol

Re: 2.4 kernel, problems shutting down eth0 interface

2001-01-23 Thread David Benfell
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 04:49:28PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > Well, I can't say I've got the same problems. I've been using 2.4.0 > since about test8 on my laptop, with almost complete success WRT PCMCIA. > One difference is that I don't use the PCMCIA modules that ship with the > kernel

Kinda Off Topic, Re: debian init.d scripts

2001-01-23 Thread Curtis Hogg
In the init.d/networking script, for the rp_filter init section... is there a way to make it only set up filtering for certian ipv4 devices? I'm running FreeS/WAN IPsec and it doesn't work if rp_filter is set to 1 for ipsec0 (which it seems to get set to by default)... or can someone point me to a

Re: Installing / applying Mozilla themes?

2001-01-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:33:44PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > What user are you running Mozilla as? root? If not, did you change > permissions on /usr/lib/mozilla/chrome? > > In my case, I did the following: > > - I added a group 'mozchrome' to the system. > - I did a recursive m

Re: debian init.d scripts

2001-01-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:18:53AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Karsten> S is single user. Same as '1'. > > This is not quite right. > > S is the real single-user level. 1 OTOH is used just as a way-station not quite, S is for script that need to be run once per boot. its run on boot rega

Re: yet another sound question

2001-01-23 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 07:05:49PM -0500, Vinod Kurup wrote: > Well, it depends which module works for your sound card. > A quick search of the sound-HOWTO suggests that the > 'sb' driver should work. > > So > $ depmod -a > $ modprobe sb > It worked very well! now I have sound in my potato bo

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-23 Thread Brendan Cully
On Wednesday, 24 January 2001 at 11:09, Brian May wrote: > > "Brendan" == Brendan Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brendan> I'd recommend in 1.3 you switch to IMAP urls, in which > Brendan> case the syntax is imaps://host/ rather than > Brendan> imap://host/. But the old {host

Re: ftpd

2001-01-23 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
the "ftp" at the beginning of the line is the service name as defined in /etc/services...I think someone else already stated that. the "daemon" name or service name to use in your allow/deny files in your case is "in.ftpd". try it again with "in.ftpd" and i'll bet you a brew it'll work! (sam adam

dist-upgrade for unstable

2001-01-23 Thread Jens Gecius
Hi folks! Is there anything going on in unstable? Last weekend I wanted to do a dist-upgrade and it turned out that this would have deleted almost my whole gnome-installation. All the libs, apps and so one would have been deleted. Besides that, also some other apps were affected. Anybody more in

Re: more on memory problem

2001-01-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
Matthew Dalton wrote: > > Mem: 517500K av, 49412K used, 468088K free, 14644K shrd, 22516K buff > > ^^^ > There's your 'free' memory. Line wrapping killed the meaning... 22516K buff <- that's the bit I meant... :/ ^^^

Re: memory problem

2001-01-23 Thread Casey Webster
under top, look at how much of that memory is marked as cached. Linux caches filesystem accesses in memory to speed up access for commonly requested files. This is normal, and if some actual process needs memory, the kernel will give up some of its cache space. -casey On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Ken W

Re: ftpd

2001-01-23 Thread Jeff Weatherford
ok...now i'm even more confused...here is what they say... first of all...a line from my inetd.conf: #:STANDARD: These are standard services. ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ftpd now, tcpdmatch says that there is no process called "ftp in that file..

Re: more on memory problem

2001-01-23 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:15:48PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > If it helps, here is the top readout. There really is not much > running: > > > 6:13pm up 20 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > 27 processes: 26 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-23 Thread Brian May
> "Brendan" == Brendan Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brendan> I'd recommend in 1.3 you switch to IMAP urls, in which Brendan> case the syntax is imaps://host/ rather than Brendan> imap://host/. But the old {host/ssl} should continue to Brendan> work - it's a bug if it doesn

Re: more on memory problem

2001-01-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
If there were a FAQ for this list (is there?), this would be the first question in it. Ken Weingold wrote: > > what happens is that applications > don't release memory when they are done. Ken Weingold also wrote: > 6:13pm up 20 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > 27 processes: 26

Re: yet another sound question

2001-01-23 Thread Vinod Kurup
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:36:10PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > I run potato 2.2r with the 2.2.17 kernel. My motherboard has a built in > Creative Labs VIBRA 16CL sound, which is working under Windows and OS/2. > I would like to put it to work under Debian too. > I did: > > grep CO

Re: package holding doesn't work in dselect

2001-01-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
> Cameron Matheson wrote: > > I wanted to install wmaker for my newly compiled X4, but I can't > because it requires me to install xfree86-common and xlib6g. This > won't do, so I put those two packages on hold, but then it comes up > with the dependancy problem screen, with them re-selected. Why

Re: ftpd

2001-01-23 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
If you don't want inetd to start a service, comment them out of inetd.conf. Also tcp wrappers comes with 2 tools...tcpdchk and tcpdmatch. use them to test and to list your deny/allow policies, respectively, as follows: tcpdmatch 127.0.0.1 tcpchk -v hope this helps! robt Jeff Weatherford wrot

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-23 Thread Brendan Cully
On Tuesday, 23 January 2001 at 18:45, Brendan Cully wrote: > > Brendan> (gdb) b imap_auth_sasl Breakpoint 1 at 0x80a0b3c: file > > Brendan> /usr/devel/cvs/guug/mutt/imap/auth_sasl.c, line 36. > > Brendan> (gdb) r Starting program: /home/brendan/build/mutt/./mutt > > Brendan> Cannot

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-23 Thread Brendan Cully
On Wednesday, 24 January 2001 at 10:28, Brian May wrote: > > "Brendan" == Brendan Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, got it going again, Thanks. > > It looks like the syntax for using SSL has changed though, so I will > have to lookup that again (maybe that was my problem before...). I'd

yet another sound question

2001-01-23 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I run potato 2.2r with the 2.2.17 kernel. My motherboard has a built in Creative Labs VIBRA 16CL sound, which is working under Windows and OS/2. I would like to put it to work under Debian too. I did: grep CONFIG_SOUND config-2.2.17 and obtained the output: CONFIG_SOUNDMODEM=m CONFIG_SOUND=

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-23 Thread Brian May
> "Brendan" == Brendan Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brendan> To browse, I think you should just be able to type c Brendan> - except if you've got a mailbox with new mail filled in Brendan> you'll end up tab-completing instead. To tab-complete you Brendan> need to at least

Re: packages have been kept back?

2001-01-23 Thread RAccess
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:03:58PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > > > What does it mean when I get the following: > > *** > > debian:~# apt-get -u upgrade > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > The following packages hav

Another newbie (problems with installation)

2001-01-23 Thread Patrick Klee
Hi, I have been a Redhat user since 4.2. I now have SuSE 6.4 but don't like it. I have the Debian 2.2r0 CDs that were burnt by a friend but I can't install the OS and kernel, or the base system, also, it has trouble finding the directories and mounting the floppy. Here's the situation: I have

more on memory problem

2001-01-23 Thread Ken Weingold
If it helps, here is the top readout. There really is not much running: 6:13pm up 20 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 27 processes: 26 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 99.6% idle Mem: 517500K av, 49412K used, 468088K fr

memory problem

2001-01-23 Thread Ken Weingold
I have played around and it seems to be more of an issue with the system itself. I am running 2.2r2 with kernel 2.2.18. This is a failrly newly installed system, and what happens is that applications don't release memory when they are done. I thought it was specific to Webtrends Enterprise Repor

Re: Problems installing Netgear FA311 Ethernetcard.

2001-01-23 Thread Stefan Möller
> Enable the National Semiconductor (natsemi.c) ethernet driver in the kernel > under network devices. I tried to compile natsemi.c I received the following error message: natsemi.c: 103 /linux/modversions.h natsemi.c: 124 pci-scan.h natsemi.c: 125 kern_compat.h Do I need the kernel headers for

"You don't exist, go away!" login problems (was Re: This is too strange.)

2001-01-23 Thread kmself
Use a descriptive subject line. Note change. on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:03:11AM +1100, Bill Shui ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I have been running Debian Testing for the last few days. > > Just a few minutes ago, I have noticed that I could no longer log > in as any user. >

Re: lightweight caching www proxy

2001-01-23 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:01:23PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:42:29PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, I'm looking to set up a caching www proxy on my dialup

Re: Debian Newbie

2001-01-23 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:23:42PM +0100, Vittorio De Martino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Il Tuesday 23 January 2001 08:59, kmself@ix.netcom.com ha scritto: > > > > on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:04:30AM +0100, Vittorio De Martino > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've been using RedHat 6.2 and 7.

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2001-01-23 Thread Caoilte O'Connor
First thanks for everyone with suggestions on avoiding rebooting. I've started using reset in the console to make it readable and killall X followed by /etc/init.d/gdm restart as a rather drastic way of getting X working again. I neglected to mention the third killer move my box puts on me tho'.

Re: Installing / applying Mozilla themes?

2001-01-23 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:19:32AM -0600, Nate Bargmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 05:57:23PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > Um. How are you installing the themes? > > I was at Themes.org and selected the Gold theme download and Moz picked > it up, download

Re: Installing Debian on a Mega Raid Controller help!!

2001-01-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Miller, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to install Debian 2.2 Rev2 on a megaraid controller from AMI. > The default kernel freezes when the megaraid driver loads. Try using the 'compact' kernel instead. > I have installed > 2.4.0 onto the Rescue floppy. The problem I have is an

Re: ftpd

2001-01-23 Thread Jeff Weatherford
i tried that fix, and it didn't work (after re-starting inetd)...here is what it saying: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection i even tried to call in.ftpd directly, with no sucess... -jeff At 03:10 PM 1/23/01 -0600, you wrote: On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Jeff Weatherford

Re: packages have been kept back?

2001-01-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:03:58PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > What does it mean when I get the following: > *** > debian:~# apt-get -u upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages have been kept back > task-devel-common > 0 packages upgraded,

PS/2 Keyboard via a serial port.

2001-01-23 Thread Paul Schulz
Greetings, Is there any way of connecting a PS/2 keyboard via a serial port? (I have an adaptor.) Reason.. On a laptop, I have a PS/2 keyboard connected to the PS/2 port, and a PS/2 Mouse (Logitech) connected to a serial port via a D9 to PS/2 adaptor. The mouse needs replacing, and I've looke

Re: packages have been kept back?

2001-01-23 Thread Moritz Schulte
RAccess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What does it mean when I get the following: > *** > debian:~# apt-get -u upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages have been kept back > task-devel-common > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 t

Official CDs to NFS tree???

2001-01-23 Thread R. Ransbottom
I have Official Debian 2.2r2 Intel Binary CDs. The 4 CDs. I'd like to install from my nfs server. What is the approach to take? Thanks, rir

Re: Skipstone, Galeon, in potato?

2001-01-23 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 05:50:52PM +, Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:04:05 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > > Note that while I *really* like the concepts, I find them less usable at > > present than Netscape. > Exactly, it is the same with Opera. I look

Re: ftpd

2001-01-23 Thread Casey Webster
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Jeff Weatherford wrote: > Ok here is one for you: > > I'm running ftp out of inetd (i know...i will write a script to start it in > the correct place soon) I have re-started inetd when ever i change > anything in hosts allow/deny, etc. > Its commonplace to run ftp from

Re: A good multiserver-IMAP mail client

2001-01-23 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:06:05AM -0600, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Hi, I'm looking for a mail client for support IMAP and multi accounts, > Do you know about one? as deb package? In short: mutt Don't forget to reserve some time for configuration, though :) -- Tommi Komulainen

packages have been kept back?

2001-01-23 Thread RAccess
What does it mean when I get the following: *** debian:~# apt-get -u upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back task-devel-common 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. *** What does this mea

ftpd

2001-01-23 Thread Jeff Weatherford
Ok here is one for you: I'm running ftp out of inetd (i know...i will write a script to start it in the correct place soon) I have re-started inetd when ever i change anything in hosts allow/deny, etc. I have installed ftpd: localhost:~# dpkg -l ftpd | tail -1 ii ftpd 0.11-8potato

Re: GD::Image does not support PNG

2001-01-23 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:56:58PM -0200, Fabio Berbert de Paula wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to make the GD Graphics Library works > with PNG format support in my perl scripts. > > The following packages were installed in my Debian > Potato: > > libgd-perl 1.18-2.1 > libgd1g 1.7.3-0.1 > libgd1g

Re: apt-get upgrade missing known things..

2001-01-23 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Hmm, it seems that one system had the lines for woody with http, the other using ftp, otherwise they were both the same. changing to ftp fixed everything; is this correct?? Thanks, Gregory At 09:41 PM 01/21/2001 -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: I have a few systems that I am trying to setup, and

Re: archive for old debs?

2001-01-23 Thread Lance Simmons
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:53:47AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > or http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/ with a mask like libgimp*29*deb , this > is where I had the best luck in such cases. Great! There were scores of hits. Lance Simmons

Re: modeline -> sony A220

2001-01-23 Thread Erik Steffl
1) upgrade to X 4.x, you don't need modelines anymore (in most cases) 2) there are some modeline calculators, use them (search freshmeat etc.) 3) search the web for modelines, I think I've found mine that way... hope this helps a bit... erik Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > > Hi,

Re: filtering in mutt

2001-01-23 Thread matthew
I asked this about a week ago...! The answers were: Use maildrop as your LDA, this will work with IMAP, and replaces the functionality of procmail, but is easier to configure. Matthew It should be noted that on 20 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > > is there a way to filter mail in mutt? i

Kernel problems

2001-01-23 Thread John Kerr Anderson
No matter what I do, I cannot boot my PC off the hard disk. I updated to kernel 2.4 which worked fine until I tried to recompile the kernel again. I made a boot diskette which works fine, although I have the same boot kernel on the hard disk, which won't boot. I receive a message of garbage acro

Re: modeline -> sony A220

2001-01-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > I am trying to run Debian Potato on an AMD K6 with a Sony Trinitron > A220 (http://www.sony.be/wa/showroom/computerapparatuur/monitor.html) > monitor. I was wondering whether somebody could help me with setting > the correct modelines for this monitor. The specs sa

modeline -> sony A220

2001-01-23 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, I am trying to run Debian Potato on an AMD K6 with a Sony Trinitron A220 (http://www.sony.be/wa/showroom/computerapparatuur/monitor.html) monitor. I was wondering whether somebody could help me with setting the correct modelines for this monitor. The specs say 1024 x 768 à 88 Hz

Re: Re: Modem - need instruction or specification

2001-01-23 Thread Paweł Kordys
>Your best bet generally is to go to the manufacturer's site and look for >specs or an online manual. If that fails, but you can find out what >chipset is included, you might find an equivalent modem and study its >docs. Other than the standard Hayes command set, there usually isn't >too much yo

RE: Get a single file from a tar archive?

2001-01-23 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Rob, Try zcat archieve_set file_name, to look at things. Then; tar xzvf archieve_set file_name John -Original Message- From: Rich Puhek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:26 PM To: Rob Hudson Cc: Debian Subject: Re: Get a single file from a tar archive? Rob

Re: (sans sujet)

2001-01-23 Thread David B . Harris
To quote [EMAIL PROTECTED], # je voudrais svp les drivers de la cartes jazzmultimedia rush 3d adrenaline # pour windows # 98 2nd edition # je vous remercis d avance. Cete liste est pour Debian Linux, alors ce n'est pas un place ou vous demand des questions du Windows. David Barclay Harris, C

Re: Compiling X4.0.2

2001-01-23 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # that would be http://people.debian.org/~branden/woody BUT this is a # pre-lease version that was distributed there temporarly. # # I'm looking for the real thing. # # That's in the dists/pool but i'm not sure on how to get it out of there with # dse

Re: Get a single file from a tar archive?

2001-01-23 Thread Rich Puhek
Rob: Try "tar --extract --file= " where is the name of your tar file, and is the name of your desired file. See "info tar" for more details. --Rich Rob Hudson wrote: > Anyone know of a way to do this? > > I need a single file out of a 1.6GB tar archive. It takes a _long_ > time to untar|

Re: new hd install

2001-01-23 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Matt Chipman (on Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:18:31AM +1100): > any pointers from the gods would be much appreciated. as far as i know, you should just be able to mount both hdd's, partition the new one, use tar to transfer the files respectively, install lilo on the new one and boot off. passw

GD::Image does not support PNG

2001-01-23 Thread Fabio Berbert de Paula
Hi, I'm trying to make the GD Graphics Library works with PNG format support in my perl scripts. The following packages were installed in my Debian Potato: libgd-perl 1.18-2.1 libgd1g 1.7.3-0.1 libgd1g-dev 1.7.3-0.1 libpng2 1.0.5-1 libpng2-dev 1.0.5-1 But when I run my script I get this error

Re: newbie ReiserFS question

2001-01-23 Thread Casey Webster
it should be officially supported in all distros when 2.4.1 comes out, but until then you need to obtain the reiserfs patches to the kernel to use it (suse comes preinstalled with a very heavily patched kernel). I run reiserfs on top of LVM on my boxes, and its very nice to be able to resize partit

newbie ReiserFS question

2001-01-23 Thread Frank Rocco
Hello,   I noticed that SuSe supports ReiserFS. Is this also supported by debian?   Thanks   Frank

Re: mailing list digest splitting

2001-01-23 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Mark Mackenzie saw fit to inform me that: >On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:38:30PM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: >> >Why do you skip 2 messages? >> >> In Digest mode you get first 2 messages which are the indexes of all the >> mails in that digest. > >Are you sure? I have '| formail +1 -ds >> user' and

Re: debian init.d scripts

2001-01-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Karsten> S is single user. Same as '1'. This is not quite right. S is the real single-user level. 1 OTOH is used just as a way-station from multiuser to kill all the multiuser services before entering S with clean slate. If you say "init S" in multiuser you will end up with a root password pr

Re: Skipstone, Galeon, in potato?

2001-01-23 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:04:05 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > > > > Well, I installed it and it freaked out my WM. A window kept coming > > up very rapidly, which read "Crash Recovery". > > I had to restart X to get rid of it. I was dead in the water. > > Skipstone or Galeon? IIR

Help setting up AVM b1

2001-01-23 Thread Kaasja
Hello, i'm a linuxnewbie and have installed potato r0. Everything worked fine. But now i want to go into the net and installed an AVM B1 Isa V.3 isdn-cart. IRQ is on 5 and IO on 150. What do i have to do? Please, start at the beginning, because i've never down this befor. Thanks in advance, K

Re: Control CPU fan's speed

2001-01-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Nate> my p3-800 still runs at 50C(AFAIK when its idle, as i can't Nate> query the cpu from linux yet lm_sensors doesn't support the Nate> chip..so 50C is from the bios) I labored under the same misconception until Frodo (author of lmsensors) corrected me. The CPU is very far from idle when you'r

Re: Get a single file from a tar archive?

2001-01-23 Thread Casey Webster
its its a .tar.gz archive, tar zxvf archive.tar.gz path/to/file/in.archive will extract that singular file, and note the extraction will prob take as long as you extracting the entire archive since tar goes through the archive sequentially looking for that file (as if it were really on tape) -C

Get a single file from a tar archive?

2001-01-23 Thread Rob Hudson
Anyone know of a way to do this? I need a single file out of a 1.6GB tar archive. It takes a _long_ time to untar|ungzip the archive. Is there a way to get that one file out if I know the exact name of it? Thanks, Rob

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-23 Thread Brendan Cully
On Tuesday, 23 January 2001 at 17:27, Brian May wrote: > > "Brendan" == Brendan Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brendan> As far as I know they've been allowed in courier for a > Brendan> while. In mutt you can press to descend > Brendan> subfolders and to open a mailbox. or

Re: mailing list digest splitting

2001-01-23 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Mark Mackenzie saw fit to inform me that: >On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:38:30PM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: >> >Why do you skip 2 messages? >> >> In Digest mode you get first 2 messages which are the indexes of all the >> mails in that digest. > >Are you sure? I have '| formail +1 -ds >> user' and

Re: base.tgz internals / config question

2001-01-23 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:08:17AM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: :Hi, :The question is how does the base system know it is unconfigured and :is there anything non obvious that goes on during "configure base :system"? To answer myself, here... if /sbin/unconfigured.sh exists it is called from

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Matt Miller
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:21:14AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Matt Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I > >must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. > > > Get hold of the deborphan package from unstable. It should i

apache-ssl +improved mod_frontpage

2001-01-23 Thread Barry Smoke
I have started a website to collaborate development of both debain, and rpm packages of apache-ssl, and the improved mod_frontpage. Visist http://apache-ssl-fp.arhosting.com Contribute if you can. Barry Smoke

Piranha at all?

2001-01-23 Thread Max Lock
Has anyone tried getting Piranha clustering up and running on Debian at all?... -Cheers Max -- Max Lock, Linux Systems Administrator, TELE2 uk. http://3558031516 Linux like wigwam. No windows, no gates, Apache inside.

Re: Package Garbage Collection

2001-01-23 Thread Matt Miller
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:02:03AM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Matt Miller wrote: > > > How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I > > must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want. > > > I think the problem with an automated grapage collect

RE: [OT] Re: Perlscript

2001-01-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > It's worth noting that $response->write("blah"); is perfectly legal plain > ol' perl too. What does perlscript do that perl doesn't? Nothing. PerlScript exists as an ActiveX plugin on Wind

A good multiserver-IMAP mail client

2001-01-23 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
Hi, I'm looking for a mail client for support IMAP and multi accounts, Do you know about one? as deb package? Regards -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :)

Re: Sound problem

2001-01-23 Thread Vinod Kurup
Hmmm - It looks like you might be missing the 'sound' and 'soundcore' modules. These are the lower level modules used by ad1848 and uart401. Try doing a 'depmod -a'. That sets up the dependencies of the modules, so the kernel knows which modules to load. Then do 'modprobe cs4232'. Since the kernel

Re: minicom solved

2001-01-23 Thread Xucaen
Hi. I can't remember if I tried that or not. I think I must have, or maybe I thought about it, then didn't, ugh.. I've been scatter-brained lately. Well either way I thank you all who have replied. I think I have enough to go with. I have the '-s' parameter to try, and I will definately check man m

Re: DHCP questions for dispose5@hotmail.com

2001-01-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 01:20:21AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:17:12AM -, Dis Pose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm not subscribed to the list, so please cc me on any replies. > > > > I'm a current dialup user, changing to DSL imminently. I also have a >

Re: [OT] Re: Perlscript

2001-01-23 Thread 'Dave Sherohman'
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:16:07PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > indeed, that link and i believe one other does not work, in fact > documentation on perlscript is that sparse i'm writing my own. However, you > can learn it fast by converting javascript/vbscript you know to perlscript > code. Ah,

RE: [OT] Re: Perlscript

2001-01-23 Thread Andrew Perrin
It's worth noting that $response->write("blah"); is perfectly legal plain ol' perl too. What does perlscript do that perl doesn't? -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology Chapel Hill, North Carolina

RE: certification

2001-01-23 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Debian Warriors, I seem to be having trouble using the debian-user@ address but can do a reply to all. At any rate, LPI certification covers all distributions of Linux. That is done by retreating to the least common denominator --- example, to add a new user within the LPI d

Re: minicom

2001-01-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >No, I did not. what does -s do? I could find any >documentation. Hmm? Did you do "man minicom" ? Mike.

Re: minicom

2001-01-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 07:14:49AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > No, I did not. what does -s do? I could find any > documentation. the obligatory "man minicom" works here, so what's up? -- groetjes, carel

weird font error messages

2001-01-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
What is going on with fonts? I am seeing this trying to run a Gtk perl program in woody: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-koi8-r does not seem to be a valid font on your system, falling back to fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-koi8-r does not seem to be a

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #221

2001-01-23 Thread Fraser McAninch
hello all, Just a quick reminder not to post attachments to the list. If you would like to offer an attachment to the group at large - just send a note asking for people to contact you directly if they are interested.

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