apt & source.list

2001-01-31 Thread Sean Bybee
Well after about a year or so of fooling around with Mandrake, I decided to get my feet wet with Debian. Anyway, I downloaded the binary-1 and binary-2 iso’s and I have a few questions about apt and source.list. Two of the lines on the list are: Deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ -

Re: how to stop gdm?

2001-01-31 Thread sachinsah
Hello, I solved this same problem using linuxconf. it has option in booting whether to use text mode / graphical mode. I don't know what it exactly does but must be restricting the runlevel to text. Sachin On Tue, 30 January 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > I recently installed

Re: email server

2001-01-31 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Mike Egglestone (on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:51:25PM -0800): > Can someone point me to where I can find out > how to setup my linux box as an email server? i assume you mean as a POP3 server, i.e. where people can download their mail from. i'd suggest qpopper and you can find a little bit

email server

2001-01-31 Thread Mike Egglestone
HI.. Can someone point me to where I can find out how to setup my linux box as an email server? Thanks Mike

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread Casey Webster
if they are .deb's, you can dpkg -i package.deb as for yur browser, apt-get install communicator-smotif-476 apt-get install mozilla apt-get install lynx pick the one you like best. -Casey On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:03:15AM -0200, hzi wrote: > Good people of the community- > > Why on God

staroffice problems

2001-01-31 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I've installed staroffice, and it tries to start (little initialization window pops up).  But then it quits, and says "Aborted."  That isn't real descriptive, so I can't figure out what's wrong.  Any one else with these troubles?   Cameron Matheson

Re: hd failure (maybe), please adivse

2001-01-31 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:14:35PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > > Hi all! > > > I have 2 hard drives in my computer: > > o an 8GB Quantum Bigfoot that came with the computer, Win98 > preinstalled (/dev/hda) > > o a 10GB Maxtor that I bought ~1 year later and installed myself > (/dev/hdc) > >

No acceleratin in new X!

2001-01-31 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I can't figure out my 3d here, I've had it working before, but after I formatted I've been having confusing problems with it.  I have no configuration, but I'm using the tdfx module with the 2.4 kernel (which I assume is working correctly).  When I start x with 'startx', it reports th

Re: apache/php + apxs?

2001-01-31 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:06:50PM -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > To get apxs you need to install apache-dev so if i've done apt-get install apache-dev then i've got an apxs-enabled apache server? if so, how can i confirm that? if not, what else is needed? -- See, if you were allowed to

Re: are apt/sources.list http: and ftp: same?

2001-01-31 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:08:56AM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > At 03:05 PM 01/30/2001 -0600, will trillich wrote: > >from what i recall of an identical thread frmo a coupla months > >ago, the main difference is that ftp has a bit of overhead when > >starting up any particular transfer. where ht

Re: hd failure (maybe), please adivse

2001-01-31 Thread Mircea Luca
D-Man wrote: > > Hi all! > > I have 2 hard drives in my computer: > > o an 8GB Quantum Bigfoot that came with the computer, Win98 > preinstalled (/dev/hda) > > o a 10GB Maxtor that I bought ~1 year later and installed myself > (/dev/hdc) > > I also have a DVD-ROM (/dev/hdb) and a Zip dri

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:14:00PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:03:15AM -0200, hzi wrote: > > Good people of the community- > > > > Why on God' s green earth didn't developers ever think of end users > > when they made dselect? > > I simply can't understand why it doesn'

RE: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread Alec Clews
Maybe you should use 'dpkg ' in this situation.   Yes deselect is awkward   And I'm using Windows 2K and MS Outlook :-(((   -Original Message-From: hzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, 1 February 2001 15:03To: debian-user@lists.debian.orgSubject: Dselect - a diffi

hd failure (maybe), please adivse

2001-01-31 Thread D-Man
Hi all! I have 2 hard drives in my computer: o an 8GB Quantum Bigfoot that came with the computer, Win98 preinstalled (/dev/hda) o a 10GB Maxtor that I bought ~1 year later and installed myself (/dev/hdc) I also have a DVD-ROM (/dev/hdb) and a Zip drive (/dev/hdd) On /dev/hdc I have

Re: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread ktb
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:03:15AM -0200, hzi wrote: > Good people of the community- > > Why on God' s green earth didn't developers ever think of end users when > they made dselect? > I simply can't understand why it doesn't accept a simple path (e.g., > /cdrom/debian/potato) to some fi

Re: Microsoft Scroll Mouse

2001-01-31 Thread D-Man
In /etc/X11/XF86Config change the mouse protocol to "MS IM" (or something like that, I'll check my config once I get back to my computer) and add the line ZAxisMapping 4 5 to the pointer section. This causes the wheel to be translated to button 4 and button 5 events. (of course, it is then u

Re: Netscape 6 for Linux?

2001-01-31 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:46:29AM -0200, hzi wrote: | Hi- | | I read somewhere (actually, a Brazilian Linux magazine) that Netscape 6 demands 32.5Mb with just *one* page open! | Pure bloatware. To be avoided. | I don't know about this, but I am using Netscape 6 on my Win2k box at work

Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

2001-01-31 Thread hzi
Good people of the community-       Why on God' s green earth didn't developers ever think of end users when they made dselect?     I simply can't understand why it doesn't accept a simple path (e.g., /cdrom/debian/potato) to some files I burned on a CD! Is there any easy way? Any documenta

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-31 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:20:03AM +0100, Martin Albert wrote: | On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andrea Vettorello wrote: | > P.S. If all fails, why not spend 10 bucks to buy a cheap OEM | > Logitech wheel > mouse (i became addicted to that darn wheel), so i | > could give you my > configuration that can conf

modules quit loading automatically all of the sudden

2001-01-31 Thread Daniel Barclay
I have a strange problem. All of the sudden, various modules don't load when I boot (sound modules for a basic SoundBlaster and ftape). I haven't been messing with my configuration. Things worked last time I booted a couple of days ago. Any ideas what might have changed? What I might have c

Re: Netscape 6 for Linux?

2001-01-31 Thread hzi
Hi-       I read somewhere (actually, a Brazilian Linux magazine) that Netscape 6 demands 32.5Mb with just *one* page open! Pure bloatware. To be avoided.       Henry L.   ps: yes, this is from Outlook. Migrated from RH to Debian, and uh, RH was easier...

Re: Swapper trouble?/Biosupdate solved the problem!!!

2001-01-31 Thread Henk Janssen
Solved it...Biosupdate did it. Exuse me for beeing ignorant! Gr.   - Original Message - From: Henk Janssen To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:36 AM Subject: Swapper trouble? Hai, have a question. I was subscribed; too much m

Re: Toy Story

2001-01-31 Thread John Griffiths
>buzz, rex and bo). Actually sid is permanently (?) going to be the >name for unstable (quite fitting). There are a few names left from Toy >Story 1 (e.g., etch) and a bunch of new ones available from Toy Story >2, unless Debian heads in a different direction. > Nah, Toy Story 3 will be out b4 t

Re: how to stop gdm?

2001-01-31 Thread Paul B. Bertrand
Remove gdm and task-helix-gnome. Task-helix-gnome is an empty package that is dependent on the helix-gnome packages; installing task-helix-gnome forces the helix-gnome packages to be installed to satisfy the dependencies. Removing any one of the task installed packages forces the removal of th

Re: how to stop gdm?

2001-01-31 Thread David Z Maze
jdls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: j> I recently installed helix-gnome and would rather not have gdm load j> auto- matically. With xdm I could just remove xbase, then xdm so j> prevent it from starting but with gdm, dpkg would not allow it not j> unless I remove task-helix-gnome :( what can I do? R

Re: apache: AddDefaultCharsetName "invalid command"

2001-01-31 Thread hogan
I found when I recently installed Apache, I had to go into configuration file and uncomment all the modules the default configuration quoted.. Ie. It used directives it had commented out the loading of the modules for. - Original Message - From: To: "debian-user" Sent: Thursday, Februar

Re: Toy Story???

2001-01-31 Thread hogan
> And wondering what came before HAMM and what comes after SID - the > DEBIAN way??? > (For those who don´t know: hamm - slink - potato - woody - sid) Zurg! :)

sound card is off line

2001-01-31 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I installed the helix gnome package from the helixcode site as an upgrade to the gnome package that came with debian potato. I won't say that it has exactly broken things, but things have gotten weird. In particular my sound card no longer works, launching XMMS or Realplayer gives the error messa

Re: [PLUG] xdm delays

2001-01-31 Thread mike polniak
MaD dUCK wrote: > > now, there is ':' in there, but that shouldn't mean that it needs a > font server, right? anyway, i am postponing this email to restart xdm > now that i have commented the first three lines... > > ... back... but that did not fix the problem... it is still asking for > a conne

Re: Toy Story

2001-01-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
I recall seeing somewhere that it will be sarge (before hamm there were buzz, rex and bo). Actually sid is permanently (?) going to be the name for unstable (quite fitting). There are a few names left from Toy Story 1 (e.g., etch) and a bunch of new ones available from Toy Story 2, unless Debian

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-31 Thread Martin Albert
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > I'm not sure whether this has been tried yet > When I upgraded to X4.0.2, I did lose the cursor (it was moving but > invisible). Turned out the xserver was not upgraded, so it was still using > the xserver-svga 3.3.6, instead of using xserver-xfree86.

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-31 Thread Martin Albert
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > As someone else suggested, try stopping gpm before launching X or trying to > configure X (via some graphic configuration utility that right now i don't > remember the name, where is dexter =). I don't think, that is hte problem. The mouse moves, jus

Re: how to stop gdm?

2001-01-31 Thread David B . Harris
To quote [EMAIL PROTECTED], # Hello, # # I recently installed helix-gnome and would rather not have gdm load auto- # matically. With xdm I could just remove xbase, then xdm so prevent it from starting but with gdm, dpkg would not allow it not unless I remove task-helix-gnome :( what can I do? Rem

Upgrading to Woody

2001-01-31 Thread Benjamin Pharr
About a week ago I did a "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" in order to move from potato to woody. When some of the packages were installing I got an error. I figured some of the packages were just broken so I gave it a few days. Today I went back and typed: apt-get clean apt-get update apt-get -f i

Re: NIS - shadow configuration on potato not working.

2001-01-31 Thread Brian May
> "Paul" == Paul Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I can ypcat all of the other maps, except for shadow. (This Paul> is expected as there is some encryption happening.) I need Paul> to have an /etc/shadow file on the client. If I shift a Paul> user to the end (after the

Re: how to stop gdm?

2001-01-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
update-rc.d -f gdm remove On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:24:31PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I recently installed helix-gnome and would rather not have gdm load auto- > matically. With xdm I could just remove xbase, then xdm so prevent it from > starting but with gdm, dpkg would not

Re: Cannot get iptables to work in 2.4.1 and compiling question.

2001-01-31 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > > I get the error "command not found" when I type "iptables". I know I > compiled every "net" option in the kernel (choosed y). What am I > doing wrong? Not much to go on, I know

Re: mysql-server problems

2001-01-31 Thread Jens Gecius
Marcin Kurc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have mysql-server 3.23.31-1 installed and it is not accepting any tcp > connections. > The config is alright, set to accept tcp on 3306. It worked with earlier > versions, > but now it shows that mysqld is running on port 0. Did you check o

HELP with Voodoo Banshee

2001-01-31 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi everybody Could someone please help me to install and configure Voodoo Banshee video card and XWindows I have XFree86-3.3.6 and kernel 2.2.16 installed It absolutely does not work on my machine and does Xwin does something strange to the video card, X even screws-up character generator (I do

Re: update-menus not working?

2001-01-31 Thread ktb
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:12:25AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. > > I've added new menu files to /etc/menu but > update-menus doesn't see them. I got this to > work with one menu file I added, but I've added > three more since and they don't show up. > here's one that I am trying to get to wor

Memory upgrade and kernel panic

2001-01-31 Thread tjm
Hello. Has anyone come across anything like this before. The system is a perfectly running Debian 2.2r2 with an AMD K6-2 500mhz with 256M mem (two 128M sdrams). I swapped out the two sdrams and installed one 256M sdram. The bios sees the memory OK and starts the boot process. Linux evidently s

Re: keyboard bell on console

2001-01-31 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:27:47PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > How do you disable the keyboard bell at the console (not in X)? I have > debian on my laptop and I have a fetish for tab-completion. It can get > a little embarassing on airplanes with the bell ringing constantly. > The bash man pa

Re: How to convert graphics formats

2001-01-31 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Imagemagick Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei

Re: getting aliases in mutt

2001-01-31 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 08:07:11PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > This (from mutt's manual) doesn't work for me: > > In addition, at the various address prompts, you can use the tab character to > expand a partial alias to the full alias. If there are multiple matches, mutt > will bring up a

Achtung !!! über 1200 Handylogos und ca. 1700 Klingeltöne !!!

2001-01-31 Thread logogratis
Kennt Ihr das auch?(Rufen Sie 0190xxx an um das Handylogo oder den Klingelton zu bekommen.) Da bezahlt man schonmal so 2- 3 DM für eine einzige Auswahl. Das gibt es bei uns nicht!.Wir haben uns gedacht das geht auch anders und möchte euch hier eine Kollektion von ca 1200 Handylogos und über 17

Re: Newbie vs Printer Setup

2001-01-31 Thread Erik Steffl
> Ahmad-Tijjani Sambo wrote: > > I am a newbie with two Linux boxes. One has RedHat on which I could > setup the printer with printtool. > > The second box has Debian (Storm Linux) that I got off a magazine CD. > Unfortunately I cannot find anything along the lines of printtool for > easy set-up

Swapper trouble?

2001-01-31 Thread Henk Janssen
Hai, have a question. I was subscribed; too much mail; Newbie trouble   Could anybody indicate where i might locate the problem or even better find the solution?First I thought is was my kernel compiling & installing. But I'm quit sure that that isn't the problem (however..)   Hardware spec.A

Re: xmcd as non-root user

2001-01-31 Thread Amal Phadke
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:18:21AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After a dist-upgrade, xmcd will no longer run unless I am logged in > as root (I am running testing). I used to be able to run it as a user. > When I start it from a shell, I get the following message: > >xmcd Fatal Err

Re: Bash Scripting

2001-01-31 Thread John Hasler
D-Man writes: > If he wants to start with bash he can. I think bash scripting is harder > than python though. Poor shell programming is quite easy. Good shell progamming is harder than good Python programming. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Exploring Windows CE filesystem from Debian/Linux

2001-01-31 Thread David B . Small
So I've got an old Windows CE Palm Size PC. Wouldn't be my first choice of organizers, today, but I have it. When connecting to an MS box, I can run "ActiveSync" to explore the files on the PDA, and sync up tasks, appointments, contacts, etc. with my desktop PIM (eg, MS Outlook) Question is: has

Re: mod_auth_pam

2001-01-31 Thread Brian May
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> shadow sucks. I use Kerberos or LDAP whenever I can. Both >> protocols lend themselves much better to PAM-integration, btw. Ben> That's the most ignorant statement I have seen in awhile. So I agree. The implication (admittedly

Re: mysql-server problems

2001-01-31 Thread John Griffiths
i may be missing something.. but what are you trying to talk to it with? At 10:29 AM 1/31/2001 -0500, Marcin Kurc wrote: >I have mysql-server 3.23.31-1 installed and it is not accepting any tcp >connections. >The config is alright, set to accept tcp on 3306. It worked with earlier >versions, >b

Re: Cannot get iptables to work in 2.4.1 and compiling question.

2001-01-31 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:49:25AM -0500, seg wrote: > Hi, > > I get the error "command not found" when I type "iptables". I know I > compiled every "net" option in the kernel (choosed y). What am I doing > wrong? Not much to go on, I know Installing iptables -package might help... --

apache: AddDefaultCharsetName "invalid command"

2001-01-31 Thread kmself
I'm getting the following error from 'apachectl configtest' under 'testing': [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root]$ apachectl configtest Syntax error on line 133 of /etc/apache/srm.conf: Invalid command 'AddDefaultCharsetName', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the serv

Re: Cannot get iptables to work in 2.4.1 and compiling question.

2001-01-31 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "seg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hi, # # I get the error "command not found" when I type "iptables". I know I compiled every "net" option in the kernel (choosed y). What am I doing wrong? Not much to go on, I know You need to get the "iptables" package as well; the 'iptables' command d

Re: How to convert graphics formats

2001-01-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
You need to install (or re-install) imagemagick, which includes convert. Bob On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 07:04:43PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I used to have a program called convert which changed, e.g. pcx to xpm > or whatever. It seems to have disappeared and I can't find it on the > debian

Toy Story???

2001-01-31 Thread Norman Schmidt
Hi! Just watching a DivX of Toy Story 2 - and ROTFLBTCASTCIIHO. (OK, I admit - it´s Windows Media Player on a W2k system, but next to it there´s a potato firewall, and in the cellar there are trhree more of em.) And wondering what came before HAMM and what comes after SID - the DEBIAN way??? (Fo

Re: How to convert graphics formats

2001-01-31 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 07:04:43PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I used to have a program called convert which changed, e.g. pcx to xpm > or whatever. It seems to have disappeared and I can't find it on the > debian site. > > Anyone know where it's gone? Same place it's always been, as part of

Re: keyboard bell on console

2001-01-31 Thread Amal Phadke
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:27:47PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > How do you disable the keyboard bell at the console (not in X)? I have > debian on my laptop and I have a fetish for tab-completion. It can get > a little embarassing on airplanes with the bell ringing constantly. > > Thanks, > Bria

Re: [PLUG] xdm delays

2001-01-31 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach gabriel rosenkoetter (on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 06:51:31PM -0500): > xfs is the X Font Server, and you most definitely need it, though > you shouldn't have to use RPC to get it from localhost... you > should get it via standard IPC channels... have a look at your > xf86config and related stuf

RE: How to convert graphics formats

2001-01-31 Thread Alex Swavely
Not sure where it's gone, but take a look at the ImageMagick utilities. Many little utilities to do the same thing. Info can be found at: http://www.simplesystems.org/ImageMagick/ and it's included by all distributions which include Enlightenment, as it requires IM. > -Original Message---

Re: getting aliases in mutt

2001-01-31 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 08:07:11PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > This (from mutt's manual) doesn't work for me: > > In addition, at the various address prompts, you can use the tab character to > expand a partial alias to the full alias. If there are multiple matches, mutt > will bring up a

RE: How to convert graphics formats

2001-01-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Jan-2001 Anthony Campbell wrote: > I used to have a program called convert which changed, e.g. pcx to xpm > or whatever. It seems to have disappeared and I can't find it on the > debian site. > the imagemagick collection has great tools for many image manipulations, including format change

Re: Apache manual

2001-01-31 Thread hogan
> right now, and some of it's beginning to sink in! boy, there's > not much you CAN'T do with apache and perl... ! Death to IIS/ASP! ;-)

does anyone here use update-menus?

2001-01-31 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. I've added new menu files to /etc/menu but update-menus doesn't see them. I got this to work with one menu file I added, but I've added three more since and they don't show up. here's one that I am trying to get to work, this is /etc/menu/jed: ?package(jed):needs="text" \

Re: [PLUG] xdm delays

2001-01-31 Thread MaD dUCK
found the problem and am now questioning the sanity of the world. so i started portmap to see if it fixed it. no, it did not. but the requests were for port 111, so portmap had to be involved. then i noticed this font server thing again, and restarted xfs once portmap was running... and wham - pro

Re: i can not get any mailing list items

2001-01-31 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:42:35PM +0100, Matthias Wieser wrote: > I am not getting any mailing list items anymore. > Should i file a bug report or whatelse should I do. > where do i have to file a bug against? > I guess, it is not listarchives. > (or does something else not work for me) > Like

Re: uh, how to create a mailbox in mutt?

2001-01-31 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:30:07AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > uh, I keep getting this error "/var/spool/mail/han: no such file or > directory (errno 2) > > plus all my mails from an imap server (via fetchmail) disappeared...are they > unrecoverable now? > /var/spool/mail is actually a lin

Re: xdm delays

2001-01-31 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Erik Steffl (on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:55:08PM -0800): > I had the same problem (the same symptoms) and IIRC it was fixed by > commenting out the font server line (I do not run font server): > > # FontPath "unix/:7100"# local font i am not using any of

Re: [PLUG] xdm delays

2001-01-31 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach gabriel rosenkoetter (on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:53:47PM -0500): > Um, well, NIS/YP *always* uses portmap. That's how RPC services work. thought so... > ... but you don't want to be a YP client, and you should be able to > tell xdm this somehow. > > What starts xdm? Something in rc? Ther

Re: After Monday's little X issue....

2001-01-31 Thread David Z. Maze
Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RP> I'm going to start waiting till the evening to do apt-get RP> dist-upgrade on my testing boxen. So did anything break today? If you want a distribution that you know will work, you should run stable. While testing contains things that are believed to

Re: Problem with spanish characters in terminal

2001-01-31 Thread MH
> "AM" == Aldo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AM> Thanks. It worked. However, even when less doesn't complain, AM> it also doesn't show the spanish characters, just something AM> like and invered or , etc. Put PAGER=/usr/bin/less LESSCHARSET=latin1 export PAGER LESSCHARS

Why am I logged out??

2001-01-31 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi all Hmm, when I am idle for, say, more than half an hour, I am automatically logged out of gnome. Why could that be? Is there a daemon running, looking for idle users and kick them out of the system? Or is it a problem with Xscreensaver? Gnome? Anything else? Thanks for helping me joerg -- D

Fonts

2001-01-31 Thread mgriffa
Hi I've just installed potato r2 in a notbook and my proxy. I really don't like the default fonts (or those I managed to install). How could I get more pretty fonts, like in standard RH or SUSE installations? NOTE: maybe I messed up, as I had some trouble getting things done with dselect.

updating packages

2001-01-31 Thread mgriffa
Hi! I've got a notebook presario 1245, and a pcmcia net adapter. I need to update the pcmcia modules (I guess, as i had the same problem with suse 7) in order to make work the net adapter. I guess that if the updates of pcmcia stuff was available on suse will be on debian... My ques

NIS - shadow configuration on potato not working.

2001-01-31 Thread Paul Schulz
Greetings, Does anyone have shadow passwords working under NIS? on a default potato install? I have two freshly squeezed potato boxes, on which I am trying to set up NIS (server, client). I have followed the setup documentation (which is good) '/usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz' except that sh

Re: [PLUG] xdm delays

2001-01-31 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach gabriel rosenkoetter (on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:08:09PM -0500): > Is your xdm built with debugging flags? If not, rebuild it, and run > it under gdb. No, wait, screw that, strace it (you'll want to spit > that to a file... use the -o option) and see what the hell its doing > in all that ti

Re: No Cursor In X in Two Months - Maybe I quit

2001-01-31 Thread Nate Amsden
> hammack wrote: > > Can anyone help > My cursor is not working. Sometimes I have a one square inch white > cursor and some times I don't. Note the confi files below for > gpm.conf and XF86Config. At the recommendation of someone I commetted > out the lines in XF86Config and got the big cur

tar - explicit spanning

2001-01-31 Thread Adam Blomberg
Good evening, I'm trying to figure out how to use tar (preferrably with gzip) to create a tarball which creates a new file when each .tar (or better yet, each tar.gz) reaches a size of 2.2 Gbytes. Essentially, I want to archive a large directory into 2.2 Gbyte tarballs which are "spanning" in

Microsoft Scroll Mouse

2001-01-31 Thread Zac Epkes
Sorry, I have a microsoft intellimouse and cant get the scroll button to work... any ideas? thnX - Zac

how to stop gdm?

2001-01-31 Thread jdls
Hello, I recently installed helix-gnome and would rather not have gdm load auto- matically. With xdm I could just remove xbase, then xdm so prevent it from starting but with gdm, dpkg would not allow it not unless I remove task-helix-gnome :( what can I do? Hoping for some kind of advice. Than

Re: New locale environment variables in woody

2001-01-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 30 Jan 2001 17:17:07 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Slaved off of 'LANG', AFAIK Thanks -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

radius

2001-01-31 Thread Cristian Fatu
i whant to install the radius on my computer but i dont know. Cant somebody help me?

fvwm-common in testing

2001-01-31 Thread Andy Fraser
I am trying to upgrade to testing. The only problem I know about yet is that the fvwm-common package doesn't install. It complains about "trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/keyboard.xpm'". I use dselect. Here is the complaint in full: 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 t

Re: apt-get segfaulting

2001-01-31 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:41:52PM +, Tiarnan O Corrain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Now a new difficult rears its ugly head. Apt-get is segfaulting under > > > the new kernel. When I try (for example) > > > apt-get install mpg123, the > > > program segfaults immediately. Ditto with

Re: mutt -- slow on send

2001-01-31 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:20:59PM -0500, Vinod Kurup ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:51:14PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I'm noticing in the past 24-48 hours that Mutt seems to have turned into > > a dog on 'send'. There's a noticeable delay -- call it 2-3 seco

Log Files

2001-01-31 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
How do I get rid of huge files in /var/log like `xdm.log' and `nmb', and/or prevent them from accumulating in the first place? Can/must I just delete or clear them every so often? Please smack me if this is a FAQ, but I couldn't find it anywhere. \\// | R | T R | L B | //\\ ~ Michael Abraham Shu

Canon USB

2001-01-31 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi,   I've recently aquired a Canon D660U USB Scanner wich works great, BUT not with Linux. I did not bother to check this because at the time i worked with Windows 2000 Professional. Does anyone know of an effort to support this or other _Canon_ USB Scanners in Linux ? Canon itself seems ve

Re: Debian installation screens (cont)

2001-01-31 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is also a make mirror command. But I'm not a developer. It doens't matter, configure it to use the anonymous rsync ('config' file). > I have a mirror here but I need to know what dirs are necessary to > compile t

Re: perl / cgi

2001-01-31 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
put print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; on top of your script, and you should be able to start working. hope this helps. pietro.

Re: OT: new Nvidia drivers released

2001-01-31 Thread Philippe Marzouk
Le lun, 29 jan 2001 17:59:04, Romain Lerallut a écrit : > > Hi all ! > > I saw a post questioning about Nvidia drivers,and debs.I have not seen > any > .debs of Nvidia's drivers, but the new tgz ones from www.nvidia.com > work > like a charm. (new = January 18th 2001) > > INCLUDING WITH KERNEL 2

Re: update-menus not working?

2001-01-31 Thread Joost Witteveen
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:12:25AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > is /etc/menu/jed: > > ?package(jed):needs="text" \ > section="Apps/Editors" \ > title="jed" \ > command="/usr/bin/jed" Looks fine to me. Do you hava a `jed' package installed (does `dpkg -l j

bad package

2001-01-31 Thread Simeon Simes
hi there I'm trying to remove a package that I installed by mistake if I try and remove it I get The following packages will be REMOVED: hbf-kanji48 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 19 not upgraded. 44 packag

Re: Firewall/Networking Problem

2001-01-31 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I read in a howto (can not remember which), that you also need a script. I do not know if this is needed for Debian systems, or if it is primarily needed for firewall setups. Anyway, here are the important lines. I put it in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/masq_on #!/bin/sh depmod -a modprobe ip_masq_ftp

Re: XFree86 4.02 eating CPU

2001-01-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Jan 2001, Reine Johansson wrote: > Hi! > > Just upgraded to XFree86 4.02 (with a little trouble) on my woody-box (Linux > 2.4.1). > > After using it a while I noticed that while playing a mp3 and scrolling the > Netscape-window the sound from the mp3 got distorted. I thought this was very >

libc6 died on undefined symbol: __aurbrk

2001-01-31 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Debianers, Yesterday I encountered a very strange problem: I compiled a kernel and unfortunately specified the wrong target for make-kpkg: I used make-kpkg binary, which resulted in error messages because of filling up my /usr partition completely. I found out about the error, deleted direct

Re: apt downgrade?

2001-01-31 Thread Andreas Rath
Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2001 01:39 schrieb J. Davis: > I recently switched to unstable to get xfree-4 but now I'm paranoid > about apt-getting broken packages. Can I simply switch my sources list > to testing without loosing xfree-4 etc. or are there other > considerations? i have the same proble

Re: Need to Fill in Missing ML Postings

2001-01-31 Thread John Bacalle
* John Bacalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010130 05:27]: > I have a gap in the list from 8 January to 15 January. I would > appreciate it if someone (who also uses mbox format for their mailboxes) > would help me fill in those missing days. > > Note: I need mbox format. If you are using mutt it's eas

Re: mutt -- slow on send

2001-01-31 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I recently found that exim was taking a long time to accept messages, and traced it back to a bogus `search' entry in /etc/resolv.conf. After commenting out the entry, all is well again. The entry had been in place for two years... no idea why it suddenly became a problem. On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 a

RE: Compiling a kernel for another machine

2001-01-31 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, has anyone an idea how to cross compile a kernel, so to compile a kernel for a ppc on an i386? Just curius. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 30-Jan-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I know this is possible (I even vaguely remember seeing it menti

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