Re: Boot prompt fails to show "other"

2001-01-28 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Kent West wrote: > > When I boot up and press the left Shift key, followed by TAB, the only > option listed is "Linux". This is despite the fact that I have Win95 on > another partition, and that I've configured /etc/lilo.conf to see it, > and have run "lilo", which reports "Adding Linux* / Adding

Re: keyboard bell

2001-01-28 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:33:03PM -0600, Lee Teague wrote: > Hi All, > > Just a quick question, and hopefully a quick answer :) > > what's the best way to change the keyboard bell volume? I know it can be done, > because KDE and Gnome both have an application to do so. Now I'm using > icewm, n

Information about your web hosting - KEY CODE: ELC0456

2001-01-28 Thread Chris.Kesler
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keyboard bell

2001-01-28 Thread Lee Teague
Hi All, Just a quick question, and hopefully a quick answer :) what's the best way to change the keyboard bell volume? I know it can be done, because KDE and Gnome both have an application to do so. Now I'm using icewm, nd I can't figure out a way to change the volume or pitch or anything. I'd

Re: Ethernet Card

2001-01-28 Thread kmself
Please set your mailer to wrap at 72 characters. Paragraphs are also useful. on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 10:36:17AM -, Henry Gomersall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a D-Link DFE-520TX ethernet card connecting me, via a cable > modem to the internet. I wish to install debian over the intern

Re: Compiling PCMCIA support (2.2.18/Potato)

2001-01-28 Thread kmself
on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 09:31:21PM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:07:20PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:28:50PM +0100, Philipp Schulte ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:16:33PM -0800,

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-28 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 08:41:16PM -0800, hammack wrote: > Problem: I cannot get a cursor in X with my PS/2 generic mouse. I do get a > cursor in the Text mode and can cut and paste between VC's. In X I can click > in the window and get menus to pop up and occasionally I will lite up a > butt

Re: lost access to cdrom

2001-01-28 Thread Vinod Kurup
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:23:33PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:46:14PM -0500, Vinod Kurup wrote: > > > Try changing /dev/cdrom to be in the cdrom group. > > > > # chown root.cdrom /dev/cdrom > > you normally can't change the group of a link, it has no meaning. >

Re: spellcheck

2001-01-28 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 04:06:25PM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi to all! > > Does exist any spellcheck which work while you are typing? > I use ispell-mode to do that in emacs. Johann. -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336 "Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the L

Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-28 Thread hammack
Problem:  I cannot get a cursor in X with my PS/2 generic mouse.  I do get a cursor in the Text mode and can cut and paste between VC's.  In X I can click in the window and get menus to pop up and occasionally I will lite up a button all in the blind.    Below are the two configurations tha

Re: X troubles (serious) with testing/woody

2001-01-28 Thread David B . Harris
To quote RAccess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # P.S. As topic indicates, this is a woody/testing box. Unless I'm mistaken, you can use the "task-x-window-system" package to install X. Since you've uninstalled everything, this is probably your safest bet. Keep in mind there are, as of yet, no GUI tools to

X troubles (serious) with testing/woody

2001-01-28 Thread RAccess
Hello. Today I ran apt-get update; apt-get -u upgrade and found that new X is out. "Yay!", I said. :) I ran the complete upgrade. About 13 packages were kept back, so I sequentially upgraded them too. Now I closed X and reconfigured it. Now when I run 'startx' this is what happens: X: cannot stat

Re: So close, yet so far....

2001-01-28 Thread John Foster
Stefan Srdic wrote: > > I'm in the middle of compiling the new 2.4.0 kernel. However I'm running > into some minor problems when attempting to compile the new kernel > modules. When I try to compile the kernel modules I get a weird error > and a sudden exit. ---

How to manage file /etc/modules; What process?

2001-01-28 Thread John Foster
I have changed the kernel modules several times and in looking over the various files that are used when the kernel boots..I noticed the the file /etc/modules has not changed since I installed the system Dec.18,2000. It seems that this should be altered as the kernel gives a lot of boot messages in

Re: CVSup(it) for Debian?

2001-01-28 Thread John Travis
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 18:40:57 -0800, you wrote: >Then look at apt-move. Use normal 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' >on the 'main' machine, when done, use 'apt-move update'. Depending on >where you tell apt-move to put its things, you can have a local mirror >(usually of just the packages you

Re: Compiling PCMCIA support (2.2.18/Potato)

2001-01-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:07:20PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:28:50PM +0100, Philipp Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:16:33PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > I was somewhat surprised to see that there were no PC

So close, yet so far....

2001-01-28 Thread Stefan Srdic
I'm in the middle of compiling the new 2.4.0 kernel. However I'm running into some minor problems when attempting to compile the new kernel modules. When I try to compile the kernel modules I get a weird error and a sudden exit. I've pipe the standard output of my compiling attemp and attached it

Re: Can't samba print to nt-shared printer on NT domain

2001-01-28 Thread Kent West
Carel Fellinger wrote: On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:45:18PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Marcin Kurc wrote: put it in your princap lp|remote-smbprinter:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :if=/usr/local/samba/bin/smbprint: and modify

Re: du and df not in sync?

2001-01-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the du and df report quite a different amounts of data on my root > >partition: > >jojda:/home/erik# du -s -h -x / > >110M/ > >jojda:/home/erik# df -h > >FilesystemSize

Re: CVSup(it) for Debian?

2001-01-28 Thread brian moore
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:56:05PM -0600, John Travis wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:52:58 +0400, you wrote: > > :cvsup of FreeBSD is much like Debian's apt-get. you can either get the > source > :or the .deb package to install. > : > :your friend doesn't need to get the whole shebang just to i

bounce queue printing - how?

2001-01-28 Thread Kent West
I'm printing to an HPLJ2100 printer hanging off an NT box; therefore I'm having to print to it via samba. The only way I've gotten this to work is to modify my /etc/printcap so that the if= line points to a smbprint script. This works fine, except that it removes magicfilter from the equation.

Re: How to start debugging printer hookup?

2001-01-28 Thread Christopher R. Barry
--- Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My system indicates all the relevent usb *.o module files are loaded. > ^^^ > OOps, you have USB printer. First question is can you print text to > printer using its device name. No, I can not. __

Re: Can't samba print to nt-shared printer on NT domain

2001-01-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:45:18PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Marcin Kurc wrote: > > > put it in your princap > > > > lp|remote-smbprinter:\ > > :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ > >:if=/usr/local/samba/bin/smbprint: > > and modify the at

Re: Compiling PCMCIA support (2.2.18/Potato)

2001-01-28 Thread kmself
on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:28:50PM +0100, Philipp Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:16:33PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > I was somewhat surprised to see that there were no PCMCIA modules > > included with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel package. Where do I get P

Screwed with HDparm a little bit too much

2001-01-28 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
Ok everyone. A response to this would definitely be appreciated. I was messing with the different HD Parm settings one day to see if I could get better thouroughput. I started to run a Bonnie++ test to see if my tweaking was doing any good. It stopped in the middle of the test and gave me a

kernel packages

2001-01-28 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I am running Debian 2.2.2r plus 2.2.17 kernel. I want to study about compiling kernels, so that I have to apt-get install (from Debian University): a) kernel-source-2.2.17 b) bin86 c) kernel-package d) task-c-dev e) libncurses5-dev f) task-tcltk-dev while apt-get install a)-c) went fine, ap

Re: CVSup(it) for Debian?

2001-01-28 Thread John Travis
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:52:58 +0400, you wrote: :cvsup of FreeBSD is much like Debian's apt-get. you can either get the source :or the .deb package to install. : :your friend doesn't need to get the whole shebang just to install debian. one :only needs 5 diskettes and the base install file and ju

installation help

2001-01-28 Thread David Kaleta
Hi, I recently downloaded the latest CD image for Debian. I am able to boot off of the CD I made with it. The problem I am having is trying to install the kernel and system. I have a Cyrix 686 computer. I disabled the caches as recommended. It is telling me that it cannot find the rescue.b

/etc/netgroups format.

2001-01-28 Thread Paul Schulz
Quick questions regarding /etc/netgroups and nis. In a previous life (using solaris) it was possible to have a netgroup file like.. 8<- hostgroup1 (host1,,) (host2,,) hostgroup2 (host3,,) (host4,,) allhosts @hostgroup1 @hostgroup2 8<---

Re: How to start debugging printer hookup?

2001-01-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
> My system indicates all the relevent usb *.o module files are loaded. > ^^^ OOps, you have USB printer. First question is can you print text to printer using its device name. Osamu -- + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + Fing

Re: How to start debugging printer hookup?

2001-01-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
What print filter are you using? apsfilter should work. If you are using printtool in testing, it needs lprng. printtool does nothing if used with lpr. Osamu On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:21:06PM -0800, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > Okay, when on my system I do "$ lpr -Plp0 test.ps" and nothing

anacron problem

2001-01-28 Thread Tommy Wu
My machine running with Debian/GNU Linux 2.2r2 (plus kernel 2.4.0, reiserfs). But I've some problem with anacron now. Everyday anacron will launch a daily process, it work fine before, but (I think this month began), this daily process won't run successful, I found some backgroun

Re: Boot prompt fails to show "other"

2001-01-28 Thread Bill Bell
Quoting Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When I boot up and press the left Shift key, followed by TAB, the only > > option listed is "Linux". This is despite the fact that I have Win95 on > > another partition, and that I've configured /etc/lilo.conf to see it, > and have run "lilo", which repo

Re: Can't samba print to nt-shared printer on NT domain

2001-01-28 Thread Kent West
Marcin Kurc wrote: put it in your princap lp|remote-smbprinter:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :if=/usr/local/samba/bin/smbprint: and modify the attached smbprint OK, this worked. Now there's just a couple of minor little iss

Re: Can't samba print to nt-shared printer on NT domain

2001-01-28 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Kent West, > I have an HP Laserjet 2100 hanging off the NT box, and it is shared so > that EVERYONE has PRINTING access. I have never actually tried this myself, but it might help if you checked out /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/examples/printing/smbprint which seems to do what you're after.

How to start debugging printer hookup?

2001-01-28 Thread Christopher R. Barry
Okay, when on my system I do "$ lpr -Plp0 test.ps" and nothing happens, it is probably not actually NOTHING that happens. That is, some of the things that are supposed to happen probably happen, but other things do not. How do I figure out what things that are supposed to be happening _are_ happeni

Re: CD-RW support

2001-01-28 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 17:19:24 -0600 "Dr. Aldo Medina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glenn Becker wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to make use of the second CD drive (CD-RW) in my Dell Dimension > > XPS T700r. Here is what I added to my /etc/fstab file: > > > > /dev/cdrom2 /cdrom2

Re: debian install

2001-01-28 Thread Bob Underwood
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, EuphoriaDJ wrote: > So should I go back to Corel which I got rid of because I did not see the > advantage to learning another packager, OR > should I try debian both have software I like and deb will most likily to be > able to upgrade to X 4.0 and 2.4 kernel > heck deb is us

Re: Moving from kernel 2.2 to 2.4

2001-01-28 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Alec, Quoth Alec Smith, > I understand a large portion of the kernel 2.4 networking code was updated > and/or completely replaced. Under 2.2 I have ipchains configured to do > basic masquerading for my local LAN. Is there a straightforward guide which > describes how to do masquerading and

Re: pop before smtp - solution

2001-01-28 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Erich Birngruber, > After installing qmail (but without Maildirs!), i am looking for a package > or a method to do pop (or imap!) before mail can be sent via smtp! There are a few solutions for pop before smtp list on www.qmail.org. The one involving PAM sounds like it should work for a deb

Debian Testing distro problems

2001-01-28 Thread William Shui
Hi, I have recently upgraded my potato to testing. A strange thing happened. It appears that after 1 or 2 days of uptime, when I'm idle (either in a x environment or in a console). The output of "whoami" would be, "you do not exist, go away!" I could not even lo

Can't samba print to nt-shared printer on NT domain

2001-01-28 Thread Kent West
Either the HOWTOs aren't covering this, or I'm not getting it. I've got two machines: one is running WinNT and is attached to an NT domain on my university campus. The other is a Debian Woody box, also attached to the campus network (but of course, not validating off the NT domain). I have a

Re: apt-get feature question

2001-01-28 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth David B. Harris, > Since it's generally very unsafe to install testing/unstable binaries on > a Potato system(or mixing binaries of any of the distributions, for that > matter), I'd like to amend this suggestion to the following: > > 'apt-get install unstable foo' > > Compiles package (the

Shell script

2001-01-28 Thread William Leese
Hi, i'm trying to write a simple script that will do several things: 1) merge 3 files in a predefined order 2) replace a few words in one of the files to be merged, the values with which the words will be replaced must be given(/requested). 3) output the file to a specified filename. having l

Re: Kernel compiling questions....

2001-01-28 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Stefan, Quoth Stefan Srdic, > My goal is to compile a kernel which performs greatly but is also very > small with only the basic requirements compiled into the kernel and > everything else compiled as modules. Sometimes the way the system is set up makes it a little redundant to compile thing

Re: sb module

2001-01-28 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Thank you very much for the help!!! Marcelo On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:27:53AM +0100, Martin W?rtele wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 09:20:57PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Each time I want to listen music in my CDrom I need to load the sb > > module typing (as root) "modpr

Re: can't ssh into box anymore

2001-01-28 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
It seems like there just was an update of the ssh package from the sequrity team, which supposedly fixes the problem. Regards -- ## Torbjörn Pettersson # Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vattugatan 5

Boot prompt fails to show "other"

2001-01-28 Thread Kent West
When I boot up and press the left Shift key, followed by TAB, the only option listed is "Linux". This is despite the fact that I have Win95 on another partition, and that I've configured /etc/lilo.conf to see it, and have run "lilo", which reports "Adding Linux* / Adding Windows". Here's my li

Re: sb module

2001-01-28 Thread Martin Würtele
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 09:20:57PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > Each time I want to listen music in my CDrom I need to load the sb > module typing (as root) "modprobe sb" at the command line. I would like > to load this modlule at startup as a normal user. I think that this can be

apt-get segfaulting

2001-01-28 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hey All, many thanks to those who gave advice on installing kernel 2.4 on my laptop. Turned out the problem was that I hadn't set the processor type in the kernel configuration... Now a new difficult rears its ugly head. Apt-get is segfaulting under the new kernel. When I try (for example) a

sb module

2001-01-28 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! Each time I want to listen music in my CDrom I need to load the sb module typing (as root) "modprobe sb" at the command line. I would like to load this modlule at startup as a normal user. I think that this can be done using a script. What kind of script? Thanks in advance for the help! M

Re: CD-RW support

2001-01-28 Thread Casey Webster
afaik, you cant mount a cd-r in read-write mode (until someone implements packet writing like adaptec's DirectCD anyway). To write to the CD-r(w) use a program like cdrecord or cdwrite. For help on configuring scsi emulation (assuming your cd-r is IDE), look at the archives for this list, there i

Re: CD-RW support

2001-01-28 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Glenn Becker wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to make use of the second CD drive (CD-RW) in my Dell Dimension > XPS T700r. Here is what I added to my /etc/fstab file: > > /dev/cdrom2 /cdrom2 iso9660 defaults,rw,user,noauto 0 > 0 > > This lets me *access* the drive ok, bu

Re: CD-RW support

2001-01-28 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
On January 28, 2001 05:58 pm, Glenn Becker wrote: > This lets me *access* the drive ok, but when I try to mount it I get > the familiar > > mount: block device /dev/cdrom2 is write-protected, mounting > read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on > /dev/cdrom2, or too many mounted

Re: nfs-common

2001-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 07:11:26PM +, Colin Watson wrote: >:It could be someone trying an NFS exploit against your system, though >:potato systems shouldn't be vulnerable to it. > >I'd s/could\ be/IS/; Fair point - I wrote that, then saw the /bi

CD-RW support

2001-01-28 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi, I'm trying to make use of the second CD drive (CD-RW) in my Dell Dimension XPS T700r. Here is what I added to my /etc/fstab file: /dev/cdrom2 /cdrom2 iso9660 defaults,rw,user,noauto 0 0 This lets me *access* the drive ok, but when I try to mount it I get the famili

wow.. whole heap of upgrades

2001-01-28 Thread John Griffiths
ok i go away for a week and every part of my LAMP's setup is being replaced... can't see a mention on Debian News can i ask what the bug was? thanks John

Re: du and df not in sync?

2001-01-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the du and df report quite a different amounts of data on my root >partition: >jojda:/home/erik# du -s -h -x / >110M/ >jojda:/home/erik# df -h >FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on >/dev/hda4

Re: Moving from kernel 2.2 to 2.4

2001-01-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Alec, anyway take a look on http://www.sentry.net/~obsid/IPTables/rc.scripts.dir/current/rc.firewall.iptables and http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/ Seeya At 20:31 28/01/2001 -0200, you wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 17:24:25 -0500 Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand a large

Re: galeon..

2001-01-28 Thread Frank Copeland
On 28 Jan 01 18:49:02 GMT, Rob VanFleet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The people you really need to talk to are the galeon developers (or at >least whoever packages the deb's for it). If they're packaging a deb >for Potato and making it depend on X4, it seems they are obviously out >of touch with D

Re: du and df not in sync?

2001-01-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Olof Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't know the answer to this question for sure but in UNIX in general you >can have files with "holes" in them. If you create a file and move the file >position pointer 2 billion steps forward and write one byte your file wi

Re: Hi, how can I disalow ping request on my domain / ip apache web server ?

2001-01-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Willi Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >to deny icmp (ping to say it your words :)) requests >add an ipchain rule similar to this one: > >$IPCHAINS -A input -p icmp -s $REMOTENET -d $REMOTENET -j DENY >(denieing icmp requests from the internet) Never *EVER* do this

Re: Moving from kernel 2.2 to 2.4

2001-01-28 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 17:24:25 -0500 Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand a large portion of the kernel 2.4 networking code was updated > and/or completely replaced. Under 2.2 I have ipchains configured to do > basic masquerading for my local LAN. Is there a straightforward guide w

Moving from kernel 2.2 to 2.4

2001-01-28 Thread Alec Smith
I understand a large portion of the kernel 2.4 networking code was updated and/or completely replaced. Under 2.2 I have ipchains configured to do basic masquerading for my local LAN. Is there a straightforward guide which describes how to do masquerading and firewalling with 2.4 after moving up

Re: lost access to cdrom

2001-01-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:46:14PM -0500, Vinod Kurup wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 03:47:59PM -0500, serge delorme wrote: > > > > As root it's ok but as "user" I can't access the drive even if: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /dev/scd0 > > brw-rw2 root cdrom 11, 0 jui 5 20

debian-user´Ô ¾È³çÇϼ¼¿ä?

2001-01-28 Thread OnLine Korea
¢Ä ¿À´ÃÀÇ À¯¸Ó ÇѸ¶µð ¢Å   "Dad, I don't want to go to school today.," said the boy.  "Why not, son?"  "Well, one of the chickens on the school farm died last week and    we had chicken soup for lunch the next day. And three days ago    one of the pigs died and we

Re: restart pcmcia with apm

2001-01-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:53:29PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > is there a debian standard way to stop the pcmcia subsystem when > the apm system goes into suspend mode, and to start it up again when > apm resumes? I don't know of it is debian-specific but there is a way. If you have installed pcmci

Re: renaming files

2001-01-28 Thread Moritz Schulte
brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > for name in *.mp3; do > > newname=$(echo "$name" | sed -e 's/[ "\(\),]//g') > > echo "Moving \"$name\" to \"$newname\"" > > mv -i "$name" "$newname" > > done > > Oh, goodness, that looks complex. > > % rename 's/[ ,"()]/_/g' *.mp3 Why do it the

Re: galeon..

2001-01-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
* David B . Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010128 12:10]: > To quote Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Isn't galeon just a "front-end" for mozilla ?? If so, the memory leak > # will likely still be there. By the way, you do know that galeon > # *requires* mozilla to be installed, right ?? > > A

restart pcmcia with apm

2001-01-28 Thread MaD dUCK
is there a debian standard way to stop the pcmcia subsystem when the apm system goes into suspend mode, and to start it up again when apm resumes? or should i cook something up with shell-scripts? where do i hook these in? [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PR

Re: lost access to cdrom

2001-01-28 Thread Vinod Kurup
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 03:47:59PM -0500, serge delorme wrote: > > As root it's ok but as "user" I can't access the drive even if: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /dev/scd0 > brw-rw2 root cdrom 11, 0 jui 5 2000 /dev/scd0 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /dev/cdrom > lrwxrwxrwx1 ro

Where does the ghostscript init string go?

2001-01-28 Thread Christopher R. Barry
Okay, I think the reason why my Epson Stylus Color 880 isn't working with its USB hookup might be due to: http://www.linux-usb.org/FAQ.html#sh3 They write: Q: My Epson printer doesn't print anything. A: Many Epson printers (the 740 does not) need a special set of characters sent to the print

Re: renaming files

2001-01-28 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:12:53PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: > "oj ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a bunch of files (*.mp3) that have spaces and characteres > > such as: ", ( ,_. I would like to remove all the spaces and > > characteres and leave them as: xshkjds_jskdjks_jsdj.mp3. >

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #267

2001-01-28 Thread Neil Youngman
> Subject: Re: ttyS3 permissions > Date: 28 Jan 2001 10:29:46 -0600 > From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Neil Youngman writes: > > Ouch, that's nasty. Is there a workaround other than adding something to > > the crontab to fix it? > > In my experience the o

RE: du and df not in sync?

2001-01-28 Thread Olof Edlund
Hi, I don't know the answer to this question for sure but in UNIX in general you can have files with "holes" in them. If you create a file and move the file position pointer 2 billion steps forward and write one byte your file will be reported as 2 gig big, but it will in fact be a lot smaller. Th

Re: du and df not in sync?

2001-01-28 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # du reports 110M in / filesystem and df reports 649M used - that's # quite a difference. I have just ran apt-get clean (before that df # reported 97% used on /), is it possible that df does not use up to date # info? Is there anything I need to do before

cups doing something when nothing is printed

2001-01-28 Thread Erik Steffl
from time to time I see cupsd and admin.cgi (I guess that's cupsys web administration cgi) high in the top list even though I don't print anything, the admin page (localhost:631) is not open in any browser. is that something suspicious or is that normal? TIA erik

Re: Gathering mail from multiple POP servers

2001-01-28 Thread will trillich
Samuel Hathaway wrote: > > Will, > > Thanks so much for the detailed information. I will set this up when I get a > chance. (hah) > > > there's an awful lot you can do with all these -- it's kinda > > like killing a mosquito with a nuclear bomb... > > It certainly looks that way! > > Actually,

getting started with compiling java - please help

2001-01-28 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Hi debian-users, For the time being I would like to compile some kind of HelloWorld application, be it with gcj, jikes or kjc. All of the three give me error messages, and I have no idea how to fix them. Here they are: with gcj: /usr/lib/crt1.o: In function `_start': /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text

lost access to cdrom

2001-01-28 Thread serge delorme
I changed my cdrom drive for a cd-rw, recompiled the kernel for scsi-emulation, linked the new device with /dev/cdrom. At boot-up: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: SONY Model: CD-RW CRX160ERev: 1.0e Type: CD-ROM

pop before smtp

2001-01-28 Thread Erich Birngruber
I'd like to correct my previous mail: I am looking for a solution that a client hast to authenticate via pop or imap before he can send email via smtp. At the moment I just switched from exim to qmail, but i miss the log analyzing tool from exim. On the other hand, qmail seems to be more secure and

du and df not in sync?

2001-01-28 Thread Erik Steffl
the du and df report quite a different amounts of data on my root partition: jojda:/home/erik# du -s -h -x / 110M/ jojda:/home/erik# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 1.0G 649M 331M 67% / /dev/hdb6 4.6G 1.3G 3.0G 30% /usr /d

making keys work in editors under xterm

2001-01-28 Thread Xucaen
Hi all I use ae, and also jed under xterm. is there a way to make the "delete", "insert", "home", "end" keys to work? Is there a way to cut or copy text from xterm and paste into another xterm or into another application netscape? and vice versa? thanks!! xucaen ___

Re: PyORBit vs. ORBit-Python

2001-01-28 Thread Roland Mas
Roland Mas (2001-01-28 16:25:48 +0100) : > Consequently, I'm looking for comments. Are there PyOrbit users out > there? Are there any people depending on it being PyOrbit and not > ORBit-Python? [...] > If noone raises their hand, I'll probably upload a new python-orbit > package in a few

Kernel compiling questions....

2001-01-28 Thread Stefan Srdic
I got the source, I've read some of the kernel documentation, now its time to compile this thing. I've got a few questions though. Currently I'm running Debian 2.2 with Helix Gnome and XFree86-4.0.2. I'm running this self-modified distro on a Asus K7M mobo with an Athlon 550Mhz cpu/128MB of RAM.

Re: 3c509 with 2.4.0 kernel and sid (solved)

2001-01-28 Thread Bill Bell
Hello, I found that by recompiling the kernel with the 3c509 as a module and loading the 3c509.o, all networking is back up. Thanks everyone for the ideas. -- Bill C.R.E.A.M. Dark Angel Quoting Bill Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello Sebastiaan, > > I have the 3c509 driver compiled into the k

login widget / xdm -> wmaker delay

2001-01-28 Thread MaD dUCK
hi, i start xdm as the last init script in runlevel 3 and i am presented with the login widget. first of all, is there a way to change this? i love the simple one debian provide, but on my 1024x768 screen, it fills up more than half - and i'd much rather have it be really small for optical reasons.

Re: Magic cookies and running programs under X as root

2001-01-28 Thread A+B Frank
Terry Carney wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 > > > > I guess tonight I finally want to get around to figuring out how to

cursor disappears

2001-01-28 Thread MaD dUCK
hey, i am using vim-5.6.70 as comes with potato and i am experiencing some peculiarities when starting vim (or vi, but not mutt or other curses programs) on the console. namely, my cursor disappears during the vi/vim session and doesn't come back to the console until i issue 'reset'. not even loggi

RE: USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?

2001-01-28 Thread Christopher R. Barry
--- Thomas Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Christopher > > On 28-Jan-2001 Christopher R. Barry wrote: > > > lp0 :\ > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ > > :lp=/dev/usb/lp0:\ > > :if=/usr/share/apsfilter/bin/apsfilter:\ > > > I try to print with the command > > > > $

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-28 Thread Ralf Batri
Please ignore, testing stuff .

Re: Howto (re)enable dead keys?

2001-01-28 Thread MH
> "EMW" == Ernst Martin Witte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EMW> How can I enable dead keys in XF86? Not disabling them ;-) EMW> work very well. If I use startx, dead keys are disabled. If EMW> I use kdm, dead keys work in the login dialog, but after EMW> login, my dead keys ar

Re: apt-get

2001-01-28 Thread Mircea Luca
Shel Johnson wrote: > > What are the server's URL I could put in my source.list??.. It appears Stormix > Technologies is about to go belly up and I need to add the Debian's > addresses.. > > Shel http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors

Re: boot disk..

2001-01-28 Thread Mircea Luca
Roberto Diaz wrote: > > > > > > > > It's called mkboot.It is part of debianutils package. > > > > I was a little bit confused with its man page.. so mkboot wont touch my > hard disk? do I understand well? > > Regards > > Roberto No it won't unless you give it the -i option.Don't give the -i a

Re: galeon..

2001-01-28 Thread Roberto Diaz
> The people you really need to talk to are the galeon developers (or at > least whoever packages the deb's for it). If they're packaging a deb > for Potato and making it depend on X4, it seems they are obviously out > of touch with Debian. I think so... anyway... I've decided to keep using Mozil

Re: using urlview with mutt

2001-01-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Daniel de los Reyes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010128 13:02]: > I just installed urlview and added > > macro index \cb |urlview\n > macro pager \cb |urlview\n > > to my .muttrc but I can't see anything special happening when there is a URL > in a message. > How is this supposed to work? You have to

Re: using urlview with mutt

2001-01-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Did you press ^B (Control-B) ??? On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:56:32PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > I just installed urlview and added > > macro index \cb |urlview\n > macro pager \cb |urlview\n > > to my .muttrc but I can't see anything special happening when there is a URL > in a message.

Re: galeon..

2001-01-28 Thread Rob VanFleet
The people you really need to talk to are the galeon developers (or at least whoever packages the deb's for it). If they're packaging a deb for Potato and making it depend on X4, it seems they are obviously out of touch with Debian. -Rob On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:47:25PM +0100, Roberto Diaz wro

Re: galeon..

2001-01-28 Thread Roberto Diaz
> My apologize; you're right. It's not for stock Potato, though, the > dependencies for the Potato Galeon .deb looks like XFree 4.0.1 was > installed(search google, or add deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ > xf401_potato/i386/ to your sources.list). Yes this is the problem.. anyway I prefer t

Re: galeon..

2001-01-28 Thread Roberto Diaz
> AFAIK, one needs the mozilla rendering engine installed first. It is installed... Regards Roberto Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://vivaldi.dtts.net Powered by ddt dynamic DNS Powered by GNU running on a Linux ker

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