Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:33:45AM +0700, Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > I usually try to track down process relationships with 'pstree', then > > try killing related process with 15, 1, 2, and, if all else fails, 9. > > killall -9 would be much more efficient, r

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-22 Thread Oki DZ
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > I usually try to track down process relationships with 'pstree', then > try killing related process with 15, 1, 2, and, if all else fails, 9. killall -9 would be much more efficient, right? > True unkillable zombies are rather rare. Usually, it's pretty difficult; ev

Re: Problems installing postfix

2001-05-22 Thread ktb
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:21:10PM -0700, jennyw wrote: > Does the default installation of postfix work out of the box? I tried > apt-get install postfix and then apt-get install mutt. I run mutt and it says: > > /var/spool/mail/user: No such file or directory (errno = 2) This is a mutt thing.

Re: modutils

2001-05-22 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Oki DZ said: > "Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: >> What version of modutils are you using? > > ii modutils 2.3.11-13.1Linux module utilities. ,[ /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes ] | Current Minimal Requirements | | | Upgrade to at *l

Problems installing postfix

2001-05-22 Thread jennyw
Does the default installation of postfix work out of the box?  I tried apt-get install postfix and then apt-get install mutt. I run mutt and it says:   /var/spool/mail/user: No such file or directory (errno = 2)   Is this normal? I tried installing exim and sendmail instead, but the same thi

Re: modutils

2001-05-22 Thread Oki DZ
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > What version of modutils are you using? ii modutils 2.3.11-13.1Linux module utilities. Running on stable Debian. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux bdg 2.4.4 #6 Fri May 4 11:53:01 JAVT 2001 i686 unknown Oki

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:31:26PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 'm running a 2.4.3 kernel with 2.2.1 glibc. Every now and then > unkillable > processes popup on my system (usually something that didnt shut down > properly). It was xemacs once (and a ton of different processes

Re: moving partitions to another hard drive

2001-05-22 Thread ktb
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:07:10PM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote: > ok, I have asked this question before, in a slightly different form, but I > couldn't find it in the archives, > > say I had two IDE hdd's, hda and hdb. > > say that hda was composed of a swap partition and /. > > how would I create

moving partitions to another hard drive

2001-05-22 Thread Renai LeMay
ok, I have asked this question before, in a slightly different form, but I couldn't find it in the archives, say I had two IDE hdd's, hda and hdb. say that hda was composed of a swap partition and /. how would I create a situation where all my data and my swap partition was on hdb instead of h

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-22 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Andrei Ivanov wrote: AI> 'm running a 2.4.3 kernel with 2.2.1 glibc. Every now and then AI> unkillable AI> processes popup on my system (usually something that didnt shut down AI> properly). It was xemacs once (and a ton of different processes that it AI> runs), which prevente

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-22 Thread ktb
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:31:26PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > 'm running a 2.4.3 kernel with 2.2.1 glibc. Every now and then > unkillable > processes popup on my system (usually something that didnt shut down > properly). It was xemacs once (and a ton of different processes that it > runs), whic

Unkillable process

2001-05-22 Thread Andrei Ivanov
'm running a 2.4.3 kernel with 2.2.1 glibc. Every now and then unkillable processes popup on my system (usually something that didnt shut down properly). It was xemacs once (and a ton of different processes that it runs), which prevented me running xemacs again as that user. Now it's mozilla .9. I

Re: lm-sensors

2001-05-22 Thread David Z Maze
Jonathan Daugherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JD> I'd like to install a wm app on my box, but I need the lm_sensors JD> modules to be installed. I got the source, built the debs, and JD> install them all, but now I can't find the lm_sensors modules JD> they're referring to. Can anyone help me ge

Re: need help with ALSA / soundcard

2001-05-22 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, That fixed the one problem, but I have one more. When I try to compile programs that use alsa (such as alsaplayer or esd), it gives me a bunch of errors about not knowing the alsa variables (here's an excerpt): alsa.c:98: invalid use of incomplete typedef `snd_pcm_hw_params_t' alsa.c:99: in

Re: modutils

2001-05-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:29:05AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > If I did "depmod -a" then /lib/modules/2.4.4/modules.dep would become 0 > in size. What version of modutils are you using? noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public

weird routing problem??

2001-05-22 Thread Tom Hoover
My network at home is setup as follows: Internet | | (external NIC) | ariel | | (192.168.1.10) | | (192.168.247.10) <--- (two internal NICs) | |

Re: lilo difficulties - ADDENDUM

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:27:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > Postfix quoting and trim quotes, please, Glenn. > > Ya, sorry. I fritzed. No excuse. > > > You have to re-run 'lilo' for changes to take effect. Have you? > > Sure did. I am still getting the

Re: modutils

2001-05-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:29:05AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > If I did "depmod -a" then /lib/modules/2.4.4/modules.dep would become 0 > in size. > > Pretty interesting... if modules.dep's size is 0, then no module could > be loaded. > What could be the cause? > I have reinstalled modutils two

modutils

2001-05-22 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, If I did "depmod -a" then /lib/modules/2.4.4/modules.dep would become 0 in size. Pretty interesting... if modules.dep's size is 0, then no module could be loaded. What could be the cause? I have reinstalled modutils two times (yes, I'm desperate), but the same thing happens. Oki

Re: lilo difficulties - ADDENDUM

2001-05-22 Thread burningclown
Hi, > Postfix quoting and trim quotes, please, Glenn. Ya, sorry. I fritzed. No excuse. > You have to re-run 'lilo' for changes to take effect. Have you? Sure did. I am still getting the continuously-output "LI" running down the screen. I'm tempted to go with grub, but would *like* to know wha

Re: lilo difficulties - ADDENDUM

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:34:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > IOn Tue, 22 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > When I booted up today I got the by-now-famous "LI" hanging lilo ... I > > used my rescue disk to get into my system. When I updated, lilo was

Re: Am I being scanned ?

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:08:06PM -0500, Balbir Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > My tcplogd reports are starting to look like this : > > May 22 18:09:06 mandelbrot tcplogd: port 1884 connection attempt from > +outpost.zedz.net [194.109.206.210] > May 22 18:09:06 mandelbrot tcplogd: port

Re: XDM or GNOME???

2001-05-22 Thread francisco m . neto
» spider disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > i installed potato on my machine, and i had XDM as the window manager. First thing: XDM is NOT a window manager. It's a display manager, which manages authentication and commands run by the user who is logging in through it. > i wanted to switch to

lm-sensors

2001-05-22 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Hello, I know this is an old topic, but I missed the posts -- I'd like to install a wm app on my box, but I need the lm_sensors modules to be installed. I got the source, built the debs, and install them all, but now I can't find the lm_sensors modules they're referring to. Can anyone help me

Re: dual NICs

2001-05-22 Thread Oki DZ
John Galt wrote: > Wrong! eth0:1 and eth0:0... _Never_ say something's impossible... Especially when it is on _Linux_. Oki

Re: dif version of debian ??

2001-05-22 Thread D. Hoyem
Dan, Do some reading on the Debian web site, they explain it fairly well. 2.2r2 is the Version called Potato, and 2.2r3 is the updated Potato. Woody is the next version on the Table but is considered stable, but not rock hard. HTH Don --- Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All >

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-22 Thread Oki DZ
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > Has cpbk any advantages over mirrordir or rsync? It's easier to use. If you know how to use cp, then you'd know how to use cpbk. Oki

Re: lilo difficulties - ADDENDUM

2001-05-22 Thread burningclown
I should add that I changed the first line to boot=/dev/hda1 as soon as I posted this. But it seems to have changed nothing. Glenn IOn Tue, 22 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > When I booted up today I got the by-now-famous "LI" hanging lilo ... I > used my rescue disk to get into

Re: new wmaker clutter

2001-05-22 Thread Joey Hess
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > That's the "language button" or something like that. I don't know, I > don't use it my self (and it shouldn't really pop up like that). I > wonder what you did to get it to show up. You can make it go away > using the Inspector (Attributes on the window menu). I

Re: need help with ALSA / soundcard

2001-05-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:36:12AM +0200, vester wrote: > modprobe snd-seq-oss says: > /lib/modules/2.4.4/misc/snd-seq-oss.o: init_module: Device or resource > busy > Hint: insmor errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, > including invalid IO or IRQ parameters > > alsamixer says: > >

lilo difficulties

2001-05-22 Thread burningclown
Hi, When I booted up today I got the by-now-famous "LI" hanging lilo ... I used my rescue disk to get into my system. When I updated, lilo was one of the packages that was upgraded, so I thought "ah, perhaps that'll fix it." So I tried powering down and booting back up. This time, I got "LI"s re

Am I being scanned ?

2001-05-22 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, My tcplogd reports are starting to look like this : May 22 18:09:06 mandelbrot tcplogd: port 1884 connection attempt from +outpost.zedz.net [194.109.206.210] May 22 18:09:06 mandelbrot tcplogd: port 1885 connection attempt from +outpost.zedz.net [194.109.206.210] May 22 18:09:07 mandelbrot tcp

XDM or GNOME???

2001-05-22 Thread spider
i installed potato on my machine, and i had XDM as the window manager. i wanted to switch to GNOME, so i put: exec gnome-session in my .xinit file (/etc/X11/xinitrd/.xinit --- i hope its the right path...) 1. did i do the right thing??? i mean is it the right file? 2. there is this GNOME p

Re: logitech mouseManPlus and fourth button: how to make it work?

2001-05-22 Thread stimpy
On (15/05/01 21:46), Erik Steffl wrote: > is there any way to get the fourth button (on the side of the logitech > mouseMan with wheel) working? It does not work at all - not even with > xev. I had a similar problem getting my new-fangled optical wheel mouse to work (it has two extra buttons on

Re: Proposal: Weekly Debian user FAQ.

2001-05-22 Thread Graham Williams
I've just caught up on some of the discussion on debian-doc re a Debian FAQ. For my own purposes I generally grab tidbits of information from debian-user and debian-devel etc, plus my own experiences in installing debian, and record them in a document that I also happen to convert to HTML. It's n

printer problem

2001-05-22 Thread Thomas H. George
Trying to make printer (brother HL-730 on parallel port) work from debian linux 2.2.19: lp testtxt and from Abiword in ximian gnome desk top. Compiled the kernel with parallel printer support and autoprobe. cat testtxt > /dev/lp0 works. On advice from ximian gnome chat group ran apt-get

Re: secure X terminal? (was: 12 box network...)

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:35:28PM -0700, Chris Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On an only slightly related note, has anyone some experience with > secure X terminals? The i686 box on my desk is noisy. I would like to > replace it with an X terminal, but the X connection must be secur

Re: Postfix upgrade frustration

2001-05-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > Tracking woody upgraded postfix today, and its postinst went > right into reconfiguration (asking me what kind of email site I > was running, etc) and broke my setup. > > I can't seem to tweak it correctly. > > I send email directly but retrieve through a POP server (I'm > behind a

Re: Help, web browse problem.

2001-05-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:23:40PM +0100, mr matsui wrote: > I've got a problem where I cannot browse the web. I use a number of ISPs and > this problem occurs only for 1 of the ISP ( my main account). Using this > problem ISP I can still ping and resolve domain names, ftp and even telnet > to port

Re: ascii \177 char in filename

2001-05-22 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 07:09:43PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:23:37PM -0700, Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm writing a script that will clean up netatalk shared files from their > > flaws from MacOS. > > > > I have come accross a little

Re: Booting under a user login

2001-05-22 Thread Andre Berger
* Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-05-23 00:07 +0200: > Yes, but you know, with 64 MB of memory, choosing kdm (and kde as a desktop) > StarOffice runs very slowly. It's OK here (P133MMX, 64 MB RAM). Maybe you have some demons running you don't need? > For my experience on my laptop I prefere to

Re: mutt mailing-list conf

2001-05-22 Thread Andre Berger
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-05-23 00:06 +0200: > Hi everyone. > I have a question about formatting mailinglists with mutt. > > Mutt does alright displaying correctly set up threads but > when on a list with many Outlook users it gets a bit > confused since threads as RE: [bl

Re: First step with Mutt

2001-05-22 Thread Andre Berger
* Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-05-23 00:07 +0200: > But I understand that Mutt is only a mere reader and in its documentation I > haven't found any clue on how to set it up in order to receive & send the > mail. There's also a patched version of Mutt around that's also able to do NNTP (News

Re: First step with Mutt

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:17:22PM +, Victor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm accustomed to use graphic email reader such as kmail or balsa. > > Now I find very interesting the opportunity of adopting a console email > reader such as Mutt in terms of memory requirements, quickness and > flex

Re: monitor display is getting blurry...what could be the problem?

2001-05-22 Thread Steve Cooper
Rick Commo wrote: > > is the video card that is sending faulty signals? or > > is it the monitor. The monitor is a Mag MXP17F about 6 years old. > > Any thoughts? Is there someway I can definitely confirm that the > > monitor is faulty or the videocard. Can I focus the monitor? > > It's most likel

Re: Makeing telnet avalible

2001-05-22 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Assuming you have the telnetd package installed, the telnet server can be enabled/disabled using the 'update-inetd' command. For example: update-inetd --enable telnet update-inetd --disable telnet What it's doing is editing /etc/inetd.conf, which you can also do manually. See 'man update-inetd' f

Re: need help with ALSA / soundcard

2001-05-22 Thread vester
i think i am almost there...i basically did what you suggested, now modprobe snd-card-ymfpci modprobe snd-pcm-oss work fine, but modprobe snd-seq-oss says: /lib/modules/2.4.4/misc/snd-seq-oss.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: insmor errors can be caused by incorrect module parameter

secure X terminal? (was: 12 box network...)

2001-05-22 Thread Chris Majewski
On an only slightly related note, has anyone some experience with secure X terminals? The i686 box on my desk is noisy. I would like to replace it with an X terminal, but the X connection must be secure (I type various root passwords and stuff into this box). I'm thinking about a quiet d

Re: mount/umount hangs after I messed with /etc/mtab

2001-05-22 Thread Chris Majewski
Fixed in kernel 2.4.3 (broken in 2.4.2). -chris Chris Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Turns out the loop device is broken in kernel 2.4.*, and when I tried > to mount it, the mount hung, causing a lock that prevented other > mounts/umounts from happening. > -chris

Help, web browse problem.

2001-05-22 Thread mr matsui
I've got a problem where I cannot browse the web. I use a number of ISPs and this problem occurs only for 1 of the ISP ( my main account). Using this problem ISP I can still ping and resolve domain names, ftp and even telnet to port 80 on internet hosts. When I use lynx to browse a web sits the dom

Re: a rather simple question

2001-05-22 Thread Eric Richardson
Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > hi > > I have jdk-1.1.8-3 installed right now. I want to update to jdk-1.2.2 so > I got the tar.gz file. > Now my question: how can I _replace_ the old by the new? > For jdk-1.1.8-3 I uesed apt-get and it told me to get the jdk-1.1.8-3 > tar.gz file and installed i

Re: Debian-unstable?

2001-05-22 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 22 May 2001 22:37:45 +0200, Kristian Rink wrote: > (*) I am seeing that there are 'woody' - and 'sid' - trees on the Debian > ftp servers. So, what is the 'current' working 'unstable'-tree of Debian? Sid is unstable, woody is testing. I.e., stuff goes into sid and if there are no problems for

Re: dif version of debian ??

2001-05-22 Thread Chris . Kulish
Welcome convert, I recently converted from SuSE as well. Versions Anything with 2.2r* is the potato version (currently the stable) Woody is the test version (meaning that it is currently under test and has no show-stopping bugs in the packages that they are aware of). Currently has no versi

Re: Problem w/Netscape and repartitioning for Woody

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:10:00AM -0400, Marc Shapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Let me explain what I have done, so far. Then I will explain my > problems. > > I want to set up separate partitions on my box for tracking Woody > (Testing). So far, I have created a new partition for / (/dev/h

First step with Mutt

2001-05-22 Thread Victor
I'm accustomed to use graphic email reader such as kmail or balsa. Now I find very interesting the opportunity of adopting a console email reader such as Mutt in terms of memory requirements, quickness and flexibility. But I understand that Mutt is only a mere reader and in its documentation I

Re: restoring tarred backup

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:10:36AM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a backup of a functioning Woody system on a CD. I used a script > that was on the list a week back or so. I modified it and it backed up > all directories except proc and tmp. I need to restore my syst

Re: NW Driver - Porting from RedHat to Debian, Kernel-2.2 to 2.4

2001-05-22 Thread Colin Watson
NewBie Debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, I am porting a Network driver from Redhat 6.2 to Debian. And also >from kernel2.2 to 2.4. Since the GCC is not changed till RH6.2 version, >I need to change only the kernel 2.2 to 2.4 changes. > >I followed the following links to port kernel2.2 to kerne

Re: Booting under a user login

2001-05-22 Thread Victor
Yes, but you know, with 64 MB of memory, choosing kdm (and kde as a desktop) StarOffice runs very slowly. For my experience on my laptop I prefere to start StarOffice by means of startx putting these two lines in .xinitrc: icewm # a much ligther window manager than any gnome or kde /home/user/

Re: broken man pages

2001-05-22 Thread Colin Watson
Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've got a problem with my man pages. For some reason the permissions >are wrong and it can't create a temporary file. > >stiq:~# man man >man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied >stiq:~# That suggests that /tmp, or whatever your $TMPDI

RE: Lilo and removable device (LS120)

2001-05-22 Thread Michael Ring
>Problem:>This floppy should boot a second machine that has no floppy>drive but a ls120 ide floppy. This second system is not>running linux (yet). The floppy inserted in the ls120 drive>is recognized as /dev/hdb .>>If the second machine had a floppy device, then I would use>this lilo.conf to

mutt mailing-list conf

2001-05-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everyone. I have a question about formatting mailinglists with mutt. Mutt does alright displaying correctly set up threads but when on a list with many Outlook users it gets a bit confused since threads as RE: [blah] AW: RE: blah are quite common. Should I write a script to correct thes

Debian-unstable?

2001-05-22 Thread Kristian Rink
Hello, dear fellow-GNU/Linux-users... :) Being into Debian for quite some time (and pretty happy with it), even by now I wanted to give a try to the more 'current' tree of the Debian system, and so I am thinking about getting Debian-unstable onto my box... which leaves me with a few questions, eve

Re: Netscape and Flash problem

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:54:02AM +0200, Timeboy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > I installed flash for netscape, but netscape hangs by using flash! My suggestion is to get a different browser (galeon, konqueror, or mozilla are strongly recommended), disable flash in it, and get a freestandi

dif version of debian ??

2001-05-22 Thread Dan Christensen
Hi All Im thinking about changen to debian from SuSE, so i started to get this list, but now im more in dubt about the way debian works and who many dif version ther are, i seen versions like 2.2.r2 2.2.r3 woody and the list go on. is ther a place to get the info on the versions and what the di

Re: mail > news Gateway + 'X-No-Archive: yes' Stripping?

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:14:13AM -0400, John Bacalle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self [20010521 13:09]: > > My understanding is that linux.debian.user is deprecated in favor of > > muc.lists.debian.user. > ^^^ > > (I've been meaning to look up what this stands for?) Guessing:

Postfix upgrade frustration

2001-05-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Tracking woody upgraded postfix today, and its postinst went right into reconfiguration (asking me what kind of email site I was running, etc) and broke my setup. I can't seem to tweak it correctly. I send email directly but retrieve through a POP server (I'm behind a firewall so incoming connec

Re: new wmaker clutter

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:05:49PM -0400, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In windowmaker 0.65.0-1, I am seeing some new oddities on the title > bar. Most annoying is a button just to the left of the minimize > button labeled with an 'E'. It doesn't seem to do anything. Languages. In WPr

a rather simple question

2001-05-22 Thread Philipp Bliedung
hi I have jdk-1.1.8-3 installed right now. I want to update to jdk-1.2.2 so I got the tar.gz file. Now my question: how can I _replace_ the old by the new? For jdk-1.1.8-3 I uesed apt-get and it told me to get the jdk-1.1.8-3 tar.gz file and installed it. How can I replace this version by the

Re: broken man pages

2001-05-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:06:50PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > stiq:~# man man > man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied > stiq:~# man cannot write to $TMPDIR (or /tmp if $TMPDIR isn't set). Permissions should be 1777 on /tmp. noah -- _

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netscape problem -> xserver crash

2001-05-22 Thread a . gun
hi all i have a problem with netscape 4.77 and my Xserver i use woody X 3.3.6 Xserver S3 and communicator 4.77 i surf ... and suddenly Xserver is hanging up... 99% cpuload from XF86_S3 the problem was the same with potato 2.2r3 new installed on my old system (upgraded from hamm -> slink->potato

Re: [users] Maildir protocaol spec?

2001-05-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Eugene van Zyl (on Tue, 22 May 2001 12:50:47PM +0200): > Where can I get a document describing the maildir format? The short > page on Dan Bernstein's site is informative but I doubt complete, I > can figure out how to read and mark messages to ./cur from ./new but > nought is said abou

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-22 Thread Mark Weinem
On Sun, 20 May 2001, D-Man wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:10:58PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > | some mailreader enable you to 'kill the thread' so you'll never > | see messages in threads that do not interest you. I've heard that > | this works really well in gnus. netscape has these fea

Re: new wmaker clutter

2001-05-22 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Hello, That button is a hidden features (or annoying features if you like) in windowmaker. It is a language switch button for switching between xkb keymap. You can turn it on or off in the windowmaker preference tab #5, Miscellaneous Ergonomic Preference, with the check box on the lower right corn

Re: new wmaker clutter

2001-05-22 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In windowmaker 0.65.0-1, I am seeing some new oddities on the title bar. > Most annoying is a button just to the left of the minimize button > labeled with an 'E'. That's the "language button" or something like that. I don't know, I don't use it m

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-22 Thread Kai Weber
+ Karsten M. Self : > > Where did you get your .deb's from? The links on the website seem to be > > dead! > > > > Craig > > Mozilla I'm getting through the standard Debian packages. > > Galeon I downloaded from ftp.sourceforge.net: > > ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/galeon/ > >

broken man pages

2001-05-22 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, I've got a problem with my man pages. For some reason the permissions are wrong and it can't create a temporary file. stiq:~# man man man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied stiq:~# Any ideas? Thanks, Andy

gnome development

2001-05-22 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I would like to compile "gbonds", a GPL US bond management system, from snaught.com/gbonds on Debian potato. The requirements are libgnome 1.2.x, gtk+ 1.2.7 and libxml 1.8.x and gnome-print 0.25. I installed libgnome-dev which installs libgtk1.2-dev and I also installed libxml-dev. All this we

Re: Missing gnumeric dependency?

2001-05-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:57:40PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 17:13:33 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > unable to open module file: > > /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_python.so: > > undefined symbol: _Py_NoneStruct > > Hmm... 0.47 is quite old; I'd recomm

cubase/sb64 audio prob

2001-05-22 Thread Alec Tappenden
I can record audio into cubase ok, but when I play it back, eventhough master graphic shows audio output, I get no speaker output. Midi no problem, audio record/playback ok outside cubase.  Hope you can help. Alec.

RE: problem using Wacom tablet with XFree 4.0.3

2001-05-22 Thread Thomas Wegner
Hi Bas! On 19-May-2001 Bas van der Peet wrote: > Hi. > I'm having problems getting my Wacom Intuos USB graphical tablet to > work > with XFree 4.0.3. > I have uses the howto as my guide and I got it to work with gpm but > when > running X I get a lot of these errors in the logfile: I don't kno

Re: Kernel Modules

2001-05-22 Thread Eric Richardson
John Tatum wrote: > > Just call me Mr. Newbie. This is my first Debian box and I have reached > the limits of my current knowledge. > > I am looking for info on how to configure kernel modules. I presume > there is a howto somewhere, but I can't seem to find it. > Look in /lib/modules/ for the

Re: Did Stormix go out of business ?

2001-05-22 Thread Lambrecht Joris
as far as i know, Stormix has been decommissioned ... try http://www.progeny.com "Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have tried to reach the company but the number is disconnected. I thought >they still had product in stores. Ar

Re: need help with ALSA / soundcard

2001-05-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 08:33:21PM +0200, vester wrote: > modprobe gives me a Can't locate module output to all three of them... > Run depmod -a, followed by modprobe -l to list the available modules. If you don't see the right modules, you'll have to rebuild them. What I normally do is get the

Re: need help with ALSA / soundcard

2001-05-22 Thread vester
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:57:40PM +0200, vester wrote: > > i'm using a vaio notebook with a yamaha ymf-754 soundcard on > > debian/testing. i compiled the > > kernel with CONFIG_SOUND CONFIG_SOUND_OSS and CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI as > > modules (i know that the last one is the correct module for my

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-22 Thread Sean Morgan
First of all, let me apologize to everyone on the list for knocking the signal/noise ratio out of whack, I'll stop saying inflamitory things after this post. >If you are going to have to foot the financial burden for even a small network >using Microsoft products (you said 12) the cost is rather

Re: need help with ALSA / soundcard

2001-05-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:57:40PM +0200, vester wrote: > i'm using a vaio notebook with a yamaha ymf-754 soundcard on > debian/testing. i compiled the > kernel with CONFIG_SOUND CONFIG_SOUND_OSS and CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI as > modules (i know that the last one is the correct module for my soundcard,

Re: Does Debian change permissions automatically??

2001-05-22 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
--- Iwan Mouwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As a regular user (not root) I want to be able > to do a 'tail -f > > > /var/log/messages' whenever I dialup my ISP. > This is all set up fine > > > but there is a recurring permissions problem: > every time I reboot, > > > *something* changes the

new wmaker clutter

2001-05-22 Thread Joey Hess
In windowmaker 0.65.0-1, I am seeing some new oddities on the title bar. Most annoying is a button just to the left of the minimize button labeled with an 'E'. It doesn't seem to do anything. Only a bit less annoying is how it adds [1], [2], etc after the title of windows, such as xterms, which I

need help with ALSA / soundcard

2001-05-22 Thread vester
i'm using a vaio notebook with a yamaha ymf-754 soundcard on debian/testing. i compiled the kernel with CONFIG_SOUND CONFIG_SOUND_OSS and CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI as modules (i know that the last one is the correct module for my soundcard, because it worked with my old suse system) and succesfully load

Re: Kernel Modules

2001-05-22 Thread Andrew D Dixon
John Tatum wrote: > I am looking for info on how to configure kernel modules. I presume > there is a howto somewhere, but I can't seem to find it. http://www.linuxdoc.org this is where all of the general GNU/Linux docs live and for Debian specific documentation check out the Debian Documentatio

NW Driver - Porting from RedHat to Debian, Kernel-2.2 to 2.4

2001-05-22 Thread NewBie Debian
Hi, I am porting a Network driver from Redhat 6.2 to Debian. And also from kernel2.2 to 2.4. Since the GCC is not changed till RH6.2 version, I need to change only the kernel 2.2 to 2.4 changes. I followed the following links to port kernel2.2 to kernel2.4. But the driver does not work. Can I disc

problem: The system will be rebooted because of error 101!

2001-05-22 Thread paolo pedaletti
Ciao, I have received 3 mails such these in few weeks: Subject: is going down! Message-Id: <20010520182136.B643B59@> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 20:21:36 +0200 (CEST) From: root (root) Status: RO Content-Length: 50 Lines: 1 The system will be rebooted because of error 101! Info: # uname -a Linux

Re: Does Debian change permissions automatically??

2001-05-22 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
Hello, might help to take a look in the file /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd. Might be, you have another mechanism of rotating the logs. Armin

Re: heads-up (and a chance to object) on expect packages

2001-05-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 15:32:57 -0700 (+), Mike Markley wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm planning to drop the two separate expect packages (expect5.24 and > expect5.31) and create a single "expect" package with the current version. > An automated upgrade path will be provided. > > Nothing depends on

apache question, LocationMatch directive

2001-05-22 Thread Adam Shand
hey. i'm trying to password protect a wiki site, or rather i don't want to password protect it yet, but i want to make sure that i know how to if i ever need to resist an attack on the site. i only want to password protect the normally open "edit" ability, i still want people to be able to view

Re: newbie DHCP & TCP questions

2001-05-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:28:45PM -0700, Scott Frankel wrote: > > I'm setting up a dual-boot Debian Linux | MacOS PowerBook. It's connected > to a LinkSys Cable/DSL Router, supporting DHCP. After configuring the > router, > the MacOS side works flawlessly. But there's no joy yet on the linux

Makeing telnet avalible

2001-05-22 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi It seems (to me) that deaufultly telnet server is disaabled in Debian. How can i set it up? 1. With the root user enabled? 2. Without the root user enabled? Thanks alot cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For encrypted Mail get my Public Key from "search.keyserver.net

Re: Kernel Modules

2001-05-22 Thread Frank Zimmermann
John Tatum wrote: > > Just call me Mr. Newbie. This is my first Debian box and I have reached > the limits of my current knowledge. > > I am looking for info on how to configure kernel modules. I presume > there is a howto somewhere, but I can't seem to find it. > > Specifically, I am trying t

Re: DVD's

2001-05-22 Thread glynis
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 06:39:40AM +, Jens Luedicke wrote: > whats the current state of development regarding > debian packages for watching DVD's? i couldn't use the debian packages, since the encrypted dvd plugin isn't exactly distributable with debian, so i built xine from source and added

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