Re: mutt/fetchmail config

2001-03-09 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:18:53AM -0500, mike polniak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Tristan wrote: > > I have been using mutt and procmail for a few weeks now, but have > > noticed that once fetchmail gets my mail from my ISPs POP3, mutt show > > all the new messages (or maybe i am hallucinating),

Re: Considering switching to debian

2001-03-09 Thread kmself
on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:39:35PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:04:15PM -0800, Jim Richardson wrote: > > : 1) How "good" is laptop support ? apm, pcmcia, etc > > This is kernel stuff, what are you looking for the Distro to do > to/with it. I

Re: Sometimes sound problem >> SOLVED

2001-03-09 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
--- Nuhn Yobiznez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > >My problem seems to be that when I ran dselect > last > week on my testing (home) box last week from testing > (please, no flames. I admit that I know what i have > done and that I play in dangerous waters), after a > reboot I lost SOM

secure copy without user input

2001-03-09 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi... I would like to be able to run a crontab where I could "scp" some files to a remote locationbut so no user input for passwords is needed... Could some point me to where I could find info on how to do this? Thanks for your time! Mike

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:48:46PM -0800, MikeF ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:33:40PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > I'm switching to mutt right now. I've got to get off netscape, because > > it has crashed a couple times, and once just before I was going to reply > > to a

ipchain and init.d

2001-03-09 Thread Jack
A short question: where could I put these commands, to be run at the boot time: ipchain -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQ echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Thanks, Jack

Re: apt-get -b source xmms error

2001-03-09 Thread Bill Wohler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > Have you installed all the packages mentioned in the Build-Depends: line > of the .dsc that apt downloaded (it'll be in the directory above the > unpacked xmms-1.2.4 source directory)? Colin, Thanks for the tip. Is there a good document that introduces

${shlibs:Depends} problem

2001-03-09 Thread scud
Hi everybody, when I try to build any debian package the ${shlibs:Depends} statement in control file seems not to work. The place in "Depends:" line, where the xlib,... should be listed, is free. dh_shlibdepends and dh_gencontrol are present in "rules" file. I'm working with debian potato.

Webcam in potato (stable)

2001-03-09 Thread Keith Johnson
Hello, I have a cpia compatible webcam connected to my parallel port and I have downloaded webcam from stable. Problem is, it does not work, and I don't know where to even begin sorting it out. Running the webcam program results in the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo webcam video4linux web

emacs memu bars in linux console

2001-03-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Can we use emacs menu bars on the top of screen in Linux console? Buffers Files Tools Edit Search Mule Help I know these works as menu in X, but what does it do in console??? Should I close it with "meta-x menu-bar-mode" since it is not doing anything and eating precious screen. Osamu - Is

Re: sound in potato

2001-03-09 Thread Marc Shapiro
john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks about playing CDs: > I added my user to audio and cdrom groups and then installed cdcd, cda > and xmcd to see if any was suitable for my needs (at this stage just > playing my C&W CD's). I have KDE1.1.2 on this box and kscd is also > installed. > Although I h

Re: Need Window Manager recommendation

2001-03-09 Thread Glenn Becker
Thanks for this recommendation. I just downloaded the uwm/ude combination and it is indeed awesome! Glenn Becker Online Producer, Community SCIFI.COM At 9:42pm on Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:21:39PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > Eric Richardson wrote

Re: koffice as root only SOLVED

2001-03-09 Thread David Purton
found a bit from google - running kbuildsycoca as a user seems to have fixed the problem. On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, David Purton wrote: > > Hi I installed some of the debs from koffice, just to see what they were > like, but I can only run them as root. > > NB I'm not running KDE so I realise that

${shlibs:Depends} problem

2001-03-09 Thread scud
Hi everybody, when I try to build any debian package the  ${shlibs:Depends}  statement in control file seems not to work. The place in "Depends:" line, where the xlib,... should be listed, is free. dh_shlibdepends and dh_gencontrol are present in "rules" file.  I'm working with debian potato. Tryi

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:41:38PM -0800, Michael Epting wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:21:32PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > > > > abook package where? > > In unstable, at least, it's in main/Mail. Just apt-get install abook. > > I took my Outlook Express (sorry!) address book and pulled it in

Re: colors in gvim

2001-03-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Dear debianers > > I am using the vim-gtk plus vim-rt packages. Although I was able to > change the font using by gvim, I don't > know how change the background and foreground colors. I think that it is a > matter of put > something in /etc/gvimrc, like I done for

koffice as root only

2001-03-09 Thread David Purton
Hi I installed some of the debs from koffice, just to see what they were like, but I can only run them as root. NB I'm not running KDE so I realise that this could be a problem kword and kspread run fine as root but when I try to run them as a normal user I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: AWE64 Configuration...

2001-03-09 Thread Erik Steffl
not sure if this is what you're looking for but I'd suggest alsa. it's the wave of the future (well, it looks like it will be included in kernel sooner or later), it works fine with awe64 (I have the same card + alsa). it is getting fairly stable, in fact they just jumped to 0.5 to 0.9 seeing tha

Re: colors in gvim

2001-03-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 05:47:45PM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Dear debianers > > I am using the vim-gtk plus vim-rt packages. Although I was able to > change the font using by gvim, I don't > know how change the background and foreground colors. I think that it is a > matter of put > s

Re: make lilo

2001-03-09 Thread destruss
Thanks kmself I loaded bin86 ( I thought I needed binutils) and that did take care of that error. Now it complains it can't find linux/config.h . Does this mean it requires a linux kernel compilation to compile itself? TIA Dean On 9 Mar 2001, at 16:40, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Fri, Ma

Installing Linux

2001-03-09 Thread Andrew
Hi. I am getting ready to install Linux and are considering the way's to install it. I am wondering if I can start the installation system and tell it to download the packages,etc by ftp. If I can, please tell me what I need and how to do it. Thanks. A. Breeden __

Installing Linux

2001-03-09 Thread Andrew
Hi. I am getting ready to install Linux and are considering the way's to install it. I am wondering if I can start the installation system and tell it to download the packages,etc. If I can, please tell me what I need and how to do it. Thanks. A. Breeden _

Re: Debian and slow modems

2001-03-09 Thread D. Hoyem
I did this at work and there is a error in this email the archive said to try echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipt4/tcp_sck not what I had sorry for the confusion. Don --- "D. Hoyem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have used Slackware, Mandrake, and Corel Linux and > the modem was set to 115200, and no proble

Compiling the DFE 530tx+ driver

2001-03-09 Thread Arlo White
I'm still trying to install that DFE 530tx+ Dlink driver.  I unpacked the .deb kernel-headers file and it created: /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.12 I symlinked /usr/src/linux > kernel-headers-2.2.12 but afterwards when I tried the compile command again:gcc -DMODVERSIONS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -W

Wrong Mouse Driver

2001-03-09 Thread Phil Reardon
Perhaps I selected the wrong driver for my mouse when I installed potato. It is a Logitech Mouseman serial mouse on com3, but the middle mouse key does not work at all. How can I fix this?

Re: manually installing mozilla plugins

2001-03-09 Thread Dave Carrigan
Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've tried everything but stand on my head and my not so humble opinion is > that plugins in Mozilla are broken for the moment. The do seem to be broken for you :-( However, with my recent mozilla build 2001030608, java and shockwave work. Acrobat

Re: Mozilla 0.8-Special setup required?

2001-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I dl the 0.8 build, untarred and zipped it to /usr/local/share/mozilla >than ran /usr/local/share/mozilla/mozilla to get it started. I get lot's >of error message and changing themes crahses it cold. They couldn't have >released this as is, so it's me. What

Re: installing communicator

2001-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
Cam Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Eric Richardson wrote: >> I looked in the non-free area of the archives and would like to install >> communicator 4.76. >> I found an archive communicator-base-476_4.76-1.deb and nethelp smotif >> ... >> >> How do I apt-get it? >> >> apt-get install communi

Re: apt-get -b source xmms error

2001-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >dpkg-shlibdeps -Tdebian/substvars \ > -dDepends `find /usr/src/xmms-1.2.4/debian/xmms/usr/bin -type f >! -name gnomexmms -perm +111` \ > `ls -1 /usr/src/xmms-1.2.4/debian/xmms/usr/lib/*.so.*` \ > -dRecommends `find /usr/src/x

Re: apt-get -b source xmms error

2001-03-09 Thread Bill Wohler
Tommi Komulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:30:26PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > > When I tried `apt-get -b source xmms' (from sid) on a woody system, > > I get the following error. What am I doing wrong, or it the xmms > > package? > > My guess is that you need

Re: Two kernel processes started ?!!

2001-03-09 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 05:12:45PM -0500, Balbir Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > Strangely my debian sometimes starts two of each of the kernel processes (as > can be seen in the attached pstree and ps awx outputs) . Could you please > explain or give pointers to info, on why this is

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Michael Epting
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:21:32PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > > abook package where? In unstable, at least, it's in main/Mail. Just apt-get install abook. I took my Outlook Express (sorry!) address book and pulled it into (Windows) Netscape 4.76, then copied it over here to Debian. I think there

Re: make lilo

2001-03-09 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 03:54:55PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Received this error in trying to make lilo: > make: ld86:command not found > make: *** [temp2.ing] error 127 > > I've tried installing most current libutils, > locales, and libc6. Tried lilo 21.7 and 21.6 >

Re: apt-get source -b build directory

2001-03-09 Thread John Galt
apt-get source downloads to pwd. I tripped on it a few times myself... On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Bill Wohler wrote: > I just tried `apt-get source -b xmms' and the package was downloaded > and built in /etc. Why there? Wouldn't it be better to do it in > /usr/src? > > If I can't change Debia

Re: apt-get source -b build directory

2001-03-09 Thread Bill Wohler
"Michael J. Micek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:33:25PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > > I just tried `apt-get source -b xmms' and the package was downloaded > > and built in /etc. Why there? > > pwd D'oh! RTFM. I see it now. Thanks. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: can't install new kernel

2001-03-09 Thread John Galt
Did you rerun lilo? On 9 Mar 2001, Arkaitz wrote: >Hi, > >I used kernel-package to build a new 2.4.2 kernel package for my woody >machine, and installed it ok. The problem is that if I do "uname -r", it >still says that the kernel version is 2.2.17. >I think everything is configured ok, in lilo.

Re: how do you find out what your sound card is

2001-03-09 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, hanasaki wrote: >The person that sold the system to me said its a soundblaster on board.. >there is no bios setting with any info... it worked under win 95/98 > >1.how does one find out what is installed? lspci or pnpdump >2. if it is a sound blaster, what insmod will make it

Re: high load average

2001-03-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 03:25:24PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > The clarification is given in the O'Reilly citation. Runnable > processes, not waiting on other resources, I/O blocking excepted. Excellent - thanks! -- Linux will do for applications what the Internet did for networks.

VMWare & 2.4 (was Re: can't install new kernel)

2001-03-09 Thread Arkaitz
Thanks to all that answered! The problem was that lilo was writing the new config to a partition while the computer was using the MBR to boot. Anyway, the machine running woody is actually VMware, and I get no problem with kernel 2.2.17, but it does a "kernel panic" when trying to mount the root fi

Re: manually installing mozilla plugins

2001-03-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:07:56PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just tried this. No work. Still no java console, and Mozilla asks me > to download the --ing plugin. I've tried everything but stand on my head and my not so humble opinion is that plugins in Mozilla are broken for the mome

ESD question

2001-03-09 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, After I 'apt-get upgrade'-ed yesterday, sound stopped working. I tried some different things, and then found that esd wasn't working (if I `killall esd` sound works great). I was wondering if anyone's experienced this before Thanks Cameron Matheson

Building Xfree 4.0.3 source package on potato (debconf problem?)

2001-03-09 Thread Arcady Genkin
I've been trying to compile my own X4.02 debs using "apt-get source". The problem is that xfree v4.0.2 has libglide2-dev libglide3-dev as build dependencies. I was able to build the .deb's for the libglib, BUT, they won't install because my debconf is too old for them (they want debconf (>= 0.3.74

Re: high load average

2001-03-09 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:27:50AM -0600, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:55:10PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:21:07AM -0600, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > You have the notation correct, but load ave

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread MaD dUCK
> > Believing this to be true, I installed the abook package a while back. > > However, I have been unable to locate a shred of documentation on how > > mutt and abook work together. Any hints on where to look? abook package where? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \_

Re: installing communicator

2001-03-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Cam Ellison wrote: > > Eric Richardson wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I looked in the non-free area of the archives and would like to install > > communicator 4.76. > > I found an archive communicator-base-476_4.76-1.deb and nethelp smotif > > ... > > > > How do I apt-get it? > > > > apt-get install commu

Re: installing communicator

2001-03-09 Thread Cam Ellison
Eric Richardson wrote: > > Hi, > I looked in the non-free area of the archives and would like to install > communicator 4.76. > I found an archive communicator-base-476_4.76-1.deb and nethelp smotif > ... > > How do I apt-get it? > > apt-get install communicator??? > Unless things have changed,

Re: compiling the kernel

2001-03-09 Thread Cam Ellison
Thomas Delany wrote: > > Re 3) I don't have a lot of experience with this as I've usually just let > the Debian install procedure set up the hard disk for me. As far as > partitioning the drive goes, Linux has an fdisk utility that is sort of the > counterpart of the MS-DOS / Windows fdisk utili

Re: installing communicator

2001-03-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Ray Percival wrote: > > Go to the package search page and do a search it will give you > the righ name. apt-get install netscape will work but might > give you more than you want. Didn't know there was a package search page. Thanks! Eric :-) > > -- Original Message --

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:48:04PM -0800, Michael Epting wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:22:37PM -0800, brian moore wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:17:06PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > Does mutt have any address book support? Autocompletion would be really > > > > yes. either the int

Re: Mozilla 0.8-Special setup required?

2001-03-09 Thread Frank Copeland
On 9 Mar 01 14:51:26 GMT, Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I dl the 0.8 build, untarred and zipped it to /usr/local/share/mozilla >than ran /usr/local/share/mozilla/mozilla to get it started. I get lot's >of error message and changing themes crahses it cold. They couldn't have >released t

Where'd the Linux modem compatibility database go?

2001-03-09 Thread Richard Cobbe
Hello, all. A friend has expressed some interest in installing Linux, so I was going to point him to some web pages listing compatible hardware. I wanted to supply him with the URL to the Linux modem compatibility database, http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html, but this is no longer valid.

Re: installing communicator

2001-03-09 Thread Ray Percival
Go to the package search page and do a search it will give you the righ name. apt-get install netscape will work but might give you more than you want. -- Original Message -- From: Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 15:16:46 -0700 >

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Michael Epting
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:22:37PM -0800, brian moore wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:17:06PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Does mutt have any address book support? Autocompletion would be really > > yes. either the internal one, or using an external database. Believing this to be true, I in

Re: Two kernel processes started ?!!

2001-03-09 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Balbir Thomas (on Fri, 09 Mar 2001 05:12:45PM -0500): > Strangely my debian sometimes starts two of each of the kernel > processes (as can be seen in the attached pstree and ps awx > outputs) . Could you please explain or give pointers to info, on why > this is happening ? maybe i am

Re: Tasklist broken in gnome-panel_1.3.1-1

2001-03-09 Thread Michael Epting
FYI, I received this from the gnome-panel maintainer: ME> Has perhaps tasklist_applet moved to another package ... Yes and no, now the tasklist applet isn't a binary but a library/plug-in file. To solve the problem quickly, install the libpanel-applet-dev package. This is fixed inthe -2 release

Re: apt-get source -b build directory

2001-03-09 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:33:25PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > I just tried `apt-get source -b xmms' and the package was downloaded > and built in /etc. Why there? Wouldn't it be better to do it in > /usr/src? apt-get source downloads the source to the current directory. You happened to be

Re: apt-get source -b build directory

2001-03-09 Thread Michael J. Micek
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:33:25PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > I just tried `apt-get source -b xmms' and the package was downloaded > and built in /etc. Why there? pwd > Wouldn't it be better to do it in /usr/src? > > If I can't change Debian policy, how can I configure apt-get to > down

Re: What kernel module for "Sound Max Digital Audio"?

2001-03-09 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: computer with integrated AC'97 "SoundMax" using either OSS or alsa> (Now, does this mean I'm going to have to temporarily move a Windows drive into the box to test the sound [to make sure it's not a "win- soundsystem, like a "win-modem" or "win-printer"]? Yuck!) With gre

Re: apt-get -b source xmms error

2001-03-09 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:30:26PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > When I tried `apt-get -b source xmms' (from sid) on a woody system, > I get the following error. What am I doing wrong, or it the xmms > package? My guess is that you need the gettext -package installed to get xmms properly built

apt-get source -b build directory

2001-03-09 Thread Bill Wohler
I just tried `apt-get source -b xmms' and the package was downloaded and built in /etc. Why there? Wouldn't it be better to do it in /usr/src? If I can't change Debian policy, how can I configure apt-get to download and build in /usr/src? Assuming, of course, that someone convinces me

apt-get -b source xmms error

2001-03-09 Thread Bill Wohler
When I tried `apt-get -b source xmms' (from sid) on a woody system, I get the following error. What am I doing wrong, or it the xmms package? Making all in po /etc/xmms-1.2.4/po make[3]: Entering directory `/etc/xmms-1.2.4/po' PATH=../src:$PATH : --default-domain=xmms --direc

apt-get source compile and install

2001-03-09 Thread Bill Wohler
OK, so I have the following in /etc/apt/apt.conf to automatically compile a source package: Apt { Get { Compile "true"; }; }; Is there any way to get `apt-get source' to install the .deb that is built? Then, `apt-get source' will be equivalent (and a

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:17:06PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Does mutt have any address book support? Autocompletion would be really yes. either the internal one, or using an external database. > nice too. Does mutt or gnus have that? depends on what you mean. auto address completion? sure

Re: compiling the kernel

2001-03-09 Thread Thomas Delany
Re 3) I don't have a lot of experience with this as I've usually just let the Debian install procedure set up the hard disk for me. As far as partitioning the drive goes, Linux has an fdisk utility that is sort of the counterpart of the MS-DOS / Windows fdisk utility (check the man page / documen

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
Does mutt have any address book support? Autocompletion would be really nice too. Does mutt or gnus have that? Mike NOTE: please remove "mikef-linux-x86" from the last couple email messages from me to reply.

Two kernel processes started ?!!

2001-03-09 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, Strangely my debian sometimes starts two of each of the kernel processes (as can be seen in the attached pstree and ps awx outputs) . Could you please explain or give pointers to info, on why this is happening ? balbir thomas PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ?S 0:10 init

Re: Mozilla 0.8-Special setup required?

2001-03-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > claiming this to be "beta" software yet. Since you say that "changing > themese crashes it cold", I assume you mean that it is able to do most > other things? I've been using it happily for some time, but then, I don't Well, as I replied on the list earlier, it took me

installing communicator

2001-03-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I looked in the non-free area of the archives and would like to install communicator 4.76. I found an archive communicator-base-476_4.76-1.deb and nethelp smotif ... How do I apt-get it? apt-get install communicator??? Thanks, Eric

Sometimes sound problem

2001-03-09 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
Hi all, My problem seems to be that when I ran dselect last week on my testing (home) box last week from testing (please, no flames. I admit that I know what i have done and that I play in dangerous waters), after a reboot I lost SOME sound. By that I mean that most applications (xmms, gnom

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:42:28PM -0500, Peter Kovacs wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:48:46PM -0800, MikeF wrote: > > Back to mutt and friends: > > Are there any utilities that will scan a mbox and delete messages older than > > a relative date in the past? Say, 30, 14 or 7 days? Maybe it ca

make lilo

2001-03-09 Thread destruss
Received this error in trying to make lilo: make: ld86:command not found make: *** [temp2.ing] error 127 I've tried installing most current libutils, locales, and libc6. Tried lilo 21.7 and 21.6 no dice. Do I need as86 or what? TIA Dean

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:48:46PM -0800, MikeF wrote: > Back to mutt and friends: > Are there any utilities that will scan a mbox and delete messages older than > a relative date in the past? Say, 30, 14 or 7 days? Maybe it can move them > over to another mbox hierarchy for archive... Any ideas

Upgrade to Perl 5.6 broke my Apache.

2001-03-09 Thread MooBob
I'm running a 'testing' distro system. I recently upgraded the perl package to 5.6, and now Apache won't start because of perl problems. Here's the error message: leid:~> apachectl configtest [Fri Mar 9 15:22:01 2001] [error] Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i38

apt-get question

2001-03-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I loaded standard potato. During installation I did some apt-get setup. The setup put a line like the following sources.list: deb cdrom:... three lines, one for each cd deb ftp:/... potato main non-free contrib deb-src ...potato/non-US and two other lines. The distro comes with the fo

Re: Tasklist broken in gnome-panel_1.3.1-1

2001-03-09 Thread Dave Carrigan
Michael Epting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After today's upgrade, the Gnome Tasklist no longer works (segfault when > you try to add it to the panel). The reason is fairly obvious, it > seems: tasklist-applet is no longer present in the gnome-panel deb. If > you check the buglist this morning,

Re: vi/emacs: Loging shell command and output

2001-03-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Sorry, I am using different teminal this time. (windoze) > I also found that "export term=xterm" stops autocolor-ls to producing > escape sequences. Recorded text after this is printable. This may be bogus statemeent but setting term to proper mode shall stop autocolor-ls to producing color. I

Re: Booting past 1024?

2001-03-09 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:48:35AM -0800, Peter Welte wrote: > Hey... > im installing Debian on a system that has a 30 GB > hard drive, and the first 10 GB is used by NTFS (which > i cant delete). If i install Debian past 8 GB, and > lilo on the mbr, is it true that lilo wont be able to > start l

Re: vi/emacs: Loging shell command and output

2001-03-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
True. less -r is good one. (8 bit clean/damb, I use it for reading Japanese too) I also found that "export term=xterm" stops autocolor-ls to producing escape sequences. Recorded text after this is printable. Thanks. Osamu On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:07:37PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Osamu

Re: Booting past 1024?

2001-03-09 Thread Ron Peterson
Peter Welte wrote: > > Hey... > im installing Debian on a system that has a 30 GB > hard drive, and the first 10 GB is used by NTFS (which > i cant delete). If i install Debian past 8 GB, and > lilo on the mbr, is it true that lilo wont be able to > start linux? > if so... i can still make a /

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread MikeF
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:33:40PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > I'm switching to mutt right now. I've got to get off netscape, because > it has crashed a couple times, and once just before I was going to reply > to a long message. THAT scared me, that's for sure! Oh, BTW. I've already switched fr

colors in gvim

2001-03-09 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Dear debianers I am using the vim-gtk plus vim-rt packages. Although I was able to change the font using by gvim, I don't know how change the background and foreground colors. I think that it is a matter of put something in /etc/gvimrc, like I done for the fonts. I looked in the man pages and o

Re: Printer recommendations

2001-03-09 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:43:29PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: | On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:52:00AM -0800, Chad Maine wrote: | > http://www.linuxprinting.org has collected stats on this subject. Should | > give you a list of printers to choose from based on how well they work in | > linux, if at al

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 05:33:34PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > mutt: didn't look very much, so don't know. > > It is very nice, let's you do a lot of things, and is compatible with balsa > (which is just a frontend to libmutt anyway). > > That said, use procmail for mail

Re: can't install new kernel

2001-03-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 07:51:28PM +0100, Arkaitz wrote: > I used kernel-package to build a new 2.4.2 kernel package for my woody > machine, and installed it ok. The problem is that if I do "uname -r", it > still says that the kernel version is 2.2.17. > I think everything is configured ok, in lilo

Debian and slow modems

2001-03-09 Thread D. Hoyem
I have used Slackware, Mandrake, and Corel Linux and the modem was set to 115200, and no problem with downloads. Now that I have graduated to Debian, and to be truthful, have done a couple of reinstalls, I was getting timed out on apt-get. I posted to this list and it was suggested to lower my se

Re: Mozilla 0.8-Special setup required?

2001-03-09 Thread J. Bruce Fields
> I dl the 0.8 build, untarred and zipped it to /usr/local/share/mozilla > than ran /usr/local/share/mozilla/mozilla to get it started. I get lot's > of error message and changing themes crahses it cold. They couldn't have > released this as is, so it's me. Not necessarily; last I heard, I don't t

Re: can't install new kernel

2001-03-09 Thread Anthony Fox
Arkaitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used kernel-package to build a new 2.4.2 kernel package for my > woody machine, and installed it ok. The problem is that if I do > "uname -r", it still says that the kernel version is 2.2.17. I > think everything is configured ok, in lilo.conf the default /

Re: vi/emacs: Loging shell command and output

2001-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Nice thing about this is that this set terminal w/o color support so my >aliased color "ls" can print without escape sequence. "script" >suggested by others was good but it also recorded all these color escape >sequences. Try reading script's output file wit

Re: libperl

2001-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
Sergio Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can anyone tell me where I can find the file libperl.so.5.6 ?? > >Please reply to my address, because I'm not in the list. The package libperl5.6 in testing/unstable. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: Re: missing char-major-10-135

2001-03-09 Thread brian moore
(wonders why debian-user was copied on the reply, when I didn't post there... but what the hell, since you seem to think it's crucial for the whole world to see) On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:25:08PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach brian moore (on Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:31:53AM -0800): > > Are

Re: Fwd: Re: missing char-major-10-135

2001-03-09 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach brian moore (on Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:31:53AM -0800): > Are you [EMAIL PROTECTED] obviously not. > Temporary? No, the mail was sent to an address at rr.com, why would it > go to madduck.net? > > > the worst - i think i even received this message at one point. what's > > going on??? >

Re: Mozilla 0.8-Special setup required?

2001-03-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
Forrest English wrote: > do you have permissions on the directory? I granted everyone and their grandmother directory access and it works better, But it still has a tendency of disappearing without warning. It took me three attempts to change the default font. Finally doing it while online and on

/usr/share/wallpaper, where to!?

2001-03-09 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi all To which package has/did that directory belong? I while ago, after I did a apt-get upgrade, all my wallpapers in helixgnome disappeared. I thaught that my config files got mangled, or summin, but today I checked it out, and the wallpaper dir has vanished! Ideally, I'd like to get it back

can't install new kernel

2001-03-09 Thread Arkaitz
Hi, I used kernel-package to build a new 2.4.2 kernel package for my woody machine, and installed it ok. The problem is that if I do "uname -r", it still says that the kernel version is 2.2.17. I think everything is configured ok, in lilo.conf the default /vmlinuz image is a link to the 2.4.2 imag

Re: Mozilla 0.8-Special setup required?

2001-03-09 Thread Forrest English
do you have permissions on the directory? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use" -Fugazi On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jonathan Gift wrote: > hi, > > I

Re: exim filters

2001-03-09 Thread benalb
Cuando: mié, 07 de mar de 2001, a las 11:54:08 -0500 Quien: Mike Que: Re: exim filters >personal > > is a shorthand for > >$header_to: contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > > The very first line there is where this fails when dealing > with this list. The To: line does *not* cont

Re: AWE64 Configuration...

2001-03-09 Thread James K. Wiggs
Follow-up to my recent post about problems with this AWE64, I just noticed something very odd. There are *2* sound files under /proc! bash-2.03$ ls -ld /proc/[a-z]* -r--r--r--1 root root0 Mar 9 10:28 /proc/bigphysarea dr-xr-xr-x3 root root0 Mar 9 10:2

Re: Considering switching to debian

2001-03-09 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:04:15PM -0800, Jim Richardson wrote: > I am currently using SuSE (6.4 and 7.0 on various machines) but am getting fed > up with the name mangling suse performs on packages. For some reason, the > package names follow the 8.3 msdos naming convention, as if that wasn't bad

Re: compiling the kernel

2001-03-09 Thread Thomas Delany
Re: 1) The file System.map is created in the /usr/src/linux subdirectory. 2) Looks like you have a hard disk that has > 1024 cylinders. Go to the /etc subdirectory. Edit the file lilo.conf and add the line: lba32 to the file somewhere. (You'll need to be logged in as root, or use the su

Re: vi/emacs: Loging shell command and output

2001-03-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Looks like emacs can do it. How about _vim_? I got following messagei from Eric Hanchrow: Osamu> I can use ... Control-U Meta-! in emacs to record shell Osamu> output but they do not record shell prompt nor shell Osamu> command itself. "M-x shell" Runs a shell within Emacs. Everything yo

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