Re: debian boot disks?

2001-05-23 Thread ktb
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:16:02AM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > hey all, > so i tried for the first time to pull up a system without any cdrom, > just boot disks, and a locally mirrored debian distribution on FTP. > i got three disks, resuce, boot, and drivers_1. rescue seems to be the > only bootable

Re: About PGP signatures

2001-05-23 Thread Paul Wright
On 24 May 2001 11:12:27, Craig wrote: > > FWIW, I'm using Evolution 0.10, and I have no problem reading PGP > signatures from mutt users. > I am using mhn/exmh and have no problems with mutt PGP sigs. I had been unaware that any MUA had problems with mutt sigs. -- Paul T. Wright <[EMAIL PRO

Help installing Debian-LINUX

2001-05-23 Thread Smruti Jena
Hello I am a new user of LINUX, & want to install Debian-LINUX in my system. I already have windows-98 in my system. I have a 20GB hard disk partitioned into 4 Drives. I want to install LINUX in one of my pre-exixting partitions(e,g : D/). How can I do it? Can I install it in D:\ without distu

Re: your mail

2001-05-23 Thread Paul Wright
I had responded to the earlier post by Jenner, but I seem to be expiriencing random mail loss (see my post "Re: Missing mail..." to help" > JA> Hi everybody! > JA> > JA> I just install Debian on my computer and as soon as it reboot it display > me this: > JA> FA1: > > This happened to me when

debian boot disks?

2001-05-23 Thread MaD dUCK
hey all, so i tried for the first time to pull up a system without any cdrom, just boot disks, and a locally mirrored debian distribution on FTP. i got three disks, resuce, boot, and drivers_1. rescue seems to be the only bootable one, and i get to a lilo prompt with options "linux", "floppy0", "re

Re: Kernel 2.4.4 doesn't boot

2001-05-23 Thread Benjamin Black
> I've installed the new kernel-image-2.4.4-686 package on my sid system, > with this lilo entry: > >image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.4-686 >label=2.4.4 >initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.4-686 >read-only > > Trying to boot this kernel hangs hard right after it prints `starti

Missing mails

2001-05-23 Thread Paul Wright
Hi all, Starting a few days ago, I've encountered some mysteriously disappearing mail. Twice today I've posted to the list and had my posts go MIA. Yesterday, mail to a friend dissapeared into the aether (ether?) I'm wondering if there may be a problem with my MTA setup, the list, or if it's

Re: turning off exim on port 25

2001-05-23 Thread Bryan Walton
Thanks to Tod and Eric for their ideas on how to make Exim quit running on port 25 and only listen on localhost. Here is what I did. I edited my exim.conf file and added the following: local_interfaces = 127.0.0.1 Thanks again! Bryan On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:43:39PM -0700, Eric N. Valor wro

Mouse problems in woody-X4

2001-05-23 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
I have just upgraded from potato to woody and my X4 mouse cursor never changes from the regular pointer -- regardless of links, xterm windows, etc. Can anyone help? -- Jonathan Daugherty Dept. of Computer Science / Student Technology Support The University of Georgia

Re: [users] Can't set xterm resources for root

2001-05-23 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Ross Boylan (on Wed, 23 May 2001 07:51:04PM -0700): > Thank you; it worked. But why is it necessary to do this? well, Xresources isn't read every single time you start an xterm (a watch stat on the file will confirm this), so it's buffered. xrdb (x read database) updates the cache.

Kernel 2.4.4 doesn't boot

2001-05-23 Thread Miles Bader
[Er, sorry about the earlier mis-sent message...] I've installed the new kernel-image-2.4.4-686 package on my sid system, with this lilo entry: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.4-686 label=2.4.4 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.4-686 read-only Trying to boot this kernel hangs h

Re: [users] Can't set xterm resources for root

2001-05-23 Thread Ross Boylan
Thank you; it worked. But why is it necessary to do this? > also sprach Ross Boylan (on Mon, 21 May 2001 08:26:32PM -0700): > > Or perhaps it stems from the fact that I su to root? I'm running > > under gdm. For example, my USER variable is still set to my original > > name after the su. > >

HomePNA

2001-05-23 Thread Duncan Findlay
I was wondering if ethernet by phoneline was supported (HomePNA 2.0) or if anyone knew of any plans for developing a driver for it. I'm looking to network my 2 computers, and phoneline seems to be the most feasible (as far as cost goes) Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

postfix weirdness

2001-05-23 Thread MaD dUCK
dudes, i set some domain names up such that host.aaa.com points to host.dyn.bbb.com (CNAME). furthermore, host.dyn.bbb.com's MX is set to mail.bbb.com. on mail.bbb.com, there is a postfix running with an entry in the virtual map for host.aaa.com to point to a local user. mail.bbb.com allows relay

Samba won't start

2001-05-23 Thread D-Man
I have 2 Debian machines with samba installed. On one machine it works (except for the printers, I'll figure that out later) and on the other [sn]mbd won't start. I need to get samba running so a windows machine with a printer can read a couple files and print them >From /var/log/smb : [2001/05

Kernel 2.4.4 doesn't boot

2001-05-23 Thread Miles Bader
I've installed the new kernel-image-2.4.4-686 package on my sid system, with this lilo entry: -- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. --Nietzsche

Re: apt-get question

2001-05-23 Thread Jorge Santos
Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, I want apt-get to get some packages from unstable (using > something like apt-get install postgresql/unstable), but for all the > other packages I want the versions in testing (so that doing an > 'apt-get install postgresql install the version from

Re: About PGP signatures

2001-05-23 Thread Craig Holyoak
On 23 May 2001 19:57:17 -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Supporting RFCs is fine and should be encouraged, but from what I've > seen there is not another mail reader in existance that can verify > mutt's attached signatures. FWIW, I'm using Evolution 0.10, and I have no problem reading PGP signat

oops

2001-05-23 Thread HAL 9000
Two friends and I spent four hours last Saturday installing the Debian packackage. (A beautiful spring day in Wichita Kansas.) When we couldn't get the installer to recognise my CD-ROM drive probably because it is plugged into my sound blaster card instead of the I/O port as the software prob

Grafting directories with mkisofs?

2001-05-23 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, Could you please tell me what is wrong with the following script : #!/bin/sh mkisofs -AArchive-22-05-2001/AI-1 -P"B Thomas" -hide-rr-moved -J -R -r \ -x ai/areas -x ai/lang -o ai1.iso \ ai \ areas/=ai/areas/0.doc \ areas/=ai/areas/file_ext.txt \ areas/=ai/areas/readme.txt \ areas/=ai/are

patched rescue disk mount readonly / dell 2550

2001-05-23 Thread Emil Pedersen
Hello. I've tried (and more or less suceded) in making a set of installation disks that will function on Dell PowerEdge 2550 (perc3/di chip). I started with the disk images for dell 2450 found on http://www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html compiled a new kernel (2.2.19 + aacraid + PERCID

Re: About PGP signatures

2001-05-23 Thread Benjamin Black
> I noticed that there are several members PGP-signing their postings. > However, > the signature is MIME-formatted and appears as an attachment in my mail > client, > Netscape Messenger. Because there is no built-in PGP function, I am > forced to > copy/paste the message to TkPGP to verify it. *Bu

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
If you don't keep an eye out, the penguins WILL kill without regard to humanity! Always watch the penguins, always. . . On Wednesday 23 May 2001 16:11, Tomaas Ortega wrote: > Is it just me or does it all sound like we are getting involved in some > mass slaughter of children and parents > > :) >

Re: opengl (mesa) compiling problem.

2001-05-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:05:10PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: > > the Mesa-prefixes have been dropped to make it easier to port > > applications to MesaGL. > > I compile with, for example: > > gcc -Wall -o gluttest gluttest.c -lGLU -lglut -lGL -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib > > -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lXmu > > Tha

Re: turning off exim on port 25

2001-05-23 Thread Eric N. Valor
I believe it uses port 25 to talk even internally. What you can do, short of using an IPChains/Tables rule to deny external port 25 traffic, is to set the "local_interface" option in exim's config file. Set it to only lo and it'll only talk to the loopback device internally. For more info

Re: [users] Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:23:13AM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Tue, 22 May 2001 11:29:18PM -0700): > > No. Your memory's going to be released. But your files might be > > scrambled. I would *not* 'kill -9' my mysqld server. > > one of the reasons why i wouldn't run

Re: Odp: XDM or GNOME???

2001-05-23 Thread Francisco M. Neto
» ahoj disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > thanks a lot for help! > i installed gdm and deinstalled xdm, and now it says : starting gdm display > manager, and this gnome login window goes out. so i think in that phase > everything went good. I'm glad you've got it. > but ive got some question

Re: Font Problems in Sid...

2001-05-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:33:08AM -0400, Daniel Katz wrote: > "Eric G. Miller" writes: > > > For a couple days now I've been experiencing alot of problems related to > > fonts in X. It must be related to recent upgrade of X or related font > > libraries. Certain font requents seem to be killin

turning off exim on port 25

2001-05-23 Thread Bryan Walton
This may be a better question for another list. I am building a firewall for my home LAN. I have exim configured for local delivery only (the only thing I want it to do is move email from root to another userid). Even though I have configured exim for only local delivery, the exim daemon is still

Re: About PGP signatures

2001-05-23 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:51:18PM +0100, Eddy Young wrote: > copy/paste the message to TkPGP to verify it. *But* the signature is > separated > from the message; so, how do I actually verify the > message? What you're supposed to be able to do is save the attached signature to a file (say 'foo.si

Re: About PGP signatures

2001-05-23 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:43:47PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > get a real mail client that supports RFCs. the relevant RFC is 2015 > > i reccommend mutt Supporting RFCs is fine and should be encouraged, but from what I've seen there is not another mail reader in existance that can verify mutt'

Re: About PGP signatures

2001-05-23 Thread Ethan Benson
get a real mail client that supports RFCs. the relevant RFC is 2015 i reccommend mutt On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:51:18PM +0100, Eddy Young wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that there are several members PGP-signing their postings. > However, > the signature is MIME-formatted and appears as an attach

About PGP signatures

2001-05-23 Thread Eddy Young
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I noticed that there are several members PGP-signing their postings. However, the signature is MIME-formatted and appears as an attachment in my mail client, Netscape Messenger. Because there is no built-in PGP function, I am forced to copy/paste

Re: a rather simple question

2001-05-23 Thread Philipp Bliedung
thanks a lot! philipp Eric Richardson wrote: > 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 tol

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Tomaas Ortega
Is it just me or does it all sound like we are getting involved in some mass slaughter of children and parents :) Tomaas Ortega "Hey, does anybody else hear that giant sucking sound? That's my will to live" www.dematerialised.com - coming soon www.dematerialised.com/zeitgeist/ - Original

Re: your mail

2001-05-23 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Wed, 23 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jenner Almánzar wrote: JA> Hi everybody! JA> JA> I just install Debian on my computer and as soon as it reboot it display me this: JA> FA1: This happened to me when i upgraded the cpu in my box and accidentaly overclocked it, if you machine is overclocked, you

Re: announce galeon-0.10.6 unofficial package

2001-05-23 Thread joost witteveen
> > http://christophe.barbe.online.fr/debian/ > What apt says: I use wget, and the installed galeon works! Thanks christophe barbe! -- joostje

Re: Firing on all CPUs

2001-05-23 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:27:03PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I can not tell program name by memory but there are one cpu load program > in X (in potato) which display SMP load properly. It's the one with all > information shown as horizontal bar graph with red/green/yellow for each > cpu load/mem

Re: apt-get offline

2001-05-23 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:34:20AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Sorry, I did not express myself clear enough. This sed thing changes > every line in the "wget-script" script. This, I did easily with emacs > (while sed is much more elegant). My problem is: I do not want to do > hundreds of > mv p

Re: fvwm2

2001-05-23 Thread joost witteveen
Je 2001/05/23(3)/11:05, Joerg Johannes montris sian geniecon skribante: > Hi List > > Using sid in the most recent version with XFree4.0.3, I just switched to > the good old fvwm I used to have in SuSE times (I never liked KDE and > Gnome). > > 1.) .Xresources. Well, the problem I have is: when s

inputrc, bis

2001-05-23 Thread Pierre Hyvernat
Hi, I posted the message some days ago, but didn' get any answer... I hope insisting won't seem too rude. There some points I don't quite get in the inputrc file. If anybody could enlighten me, I would greatly appreciate... (Or maybe, just send an example of real working, "complex" inputrc file...

Re: Need a file - /etc/network/interfaces

2001-05-23 Thread Benjamin Black
> > Could someone please email me a copy of the above file that is setup to > > use eth0? > just do 'man interfaces'. And dont forget to add a lo as well. speaking of which, can someone explain how Debian decides which dhcp client to use to configure an interface, given that the interface is se

[no subject]

2001-05-23 Thread Jenner Almánzar
Hi everybody!   I just install Debian on my computer and as soon as it reboot it display me this: FA1:   What can i do?   jenner   Internet & TelecomunicacionesCalle Padre Emiliano Tardif No.36, Evaristo MoralesSanto Domingo, Dominican RepublicOffice (809) 541 5652Cell Phone (809) 222 5053E-m

Re: file types

2001-05-23 Thread Matthias Richter
Andrew D Dixon wrote on Wed May 23, 2001 at 03:30:09PM: > I've got a device file /dev/lcd of type "c": > > bash-2.03# ls -ld /dev/lcd > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 156 Apr 8 2001 /dev/lcd > ^ > > This file controls the lcd on the front of my box. I can print text to > the

Current software RAID information

2001-05-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
The Software-RAID HOWTO at linuxdoc.org is dated Jan 19, 2000. Is there a more recent version available anywhere? If not, how does the current 2.4 implementation of RAID-1 compare to its RAID-0 on performance? Based on the year-old information in the HOWTO, I expect it to be worse, but by how mu

Re: Font Problems in Sid...

2001-05-23 Thread Benjamin Black
> > P.S. Anybody know a good introduction for beginners to this whole area > (i.e., fonts, character sets, and graphical displays)? > read XWindow-Overview-HOWTO and XWindow-User-HOWTO /ben -- |_|_ | _ _ |_ PGP public key: http://www.wilykit.com/wilykit.key |_) . |_)|(_|(_ |\

One For The Record Books

2001-05-23 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, This is just a little rave about the "customer service" that you get when you "buy" a Debian GNU/Linux distribution. At 16:29:21 (EST) on Wed, 23 May I posted a question "file types" to the list because I had a problem getting the LCD on the front of my box working. I thought it was a tou

Re: make bzdisk | what filesystem?

2001-05-23 Thread David Z. Maze
Willi Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: WD> What filesystem does 'make bzdisk' create on a floppy? WD> Can't seem to mount that floppy-disk. Tried several filesystem types WD> without success. IIRC, it doesn't create any filesystem at all; it writes the kernel image directly on to the floppy using

Re: printer problem

2001-05-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: printer problem Date: Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:23:54PM -0500 In reply to:Thomas H. George Quoting Thomas H. George([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Trying to make printer (brother HL-730 on parallel port) work from > debian linux 2.2.19: > > lp testtxt > > and from Abiword in xim

Re: First step with Mutt

2001-05-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:41:14AM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > >on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:17:22PM +, Victor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Could someone show me how I could configure e.g. exim to reach my ISP and > >> my > >> smtp and pop3 s

file types

2001-05-23 Thread Andrew D Dixon
HI All, I've got a device file /dev/lcd of type "c": bash-2.03# ls -ld /dev/lcd crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 156 Apr 8 2001 /dev/lcd ^ This file controls the lcd on the front of my box. I can print text to the lcd like so: #echo "foo" >/dev/lcd I just put Debian on th

Mini Debian?

2001-05-23 Thread Tommy Johnson
Does anyone know where I can find the mini-deb distro that was used by CLUE at http://www.linux.ca/library/linux/minideb.shtml ?? It is no longer on the website for download... Thanks   Tom

Re: Newbie floppy disk access question

2001-05-23 Thread francisco m . neto
» Abner Gershon disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > I am trying to load a tar file driver from floppy > disk. There is a file "floppy" in my root directory. > This is empty. How do I find the file on my floppy disk? It's not a file. It's a directory you should mount the floppy to: mou

Re: Missing gnumeric dependency?

2001-05-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 13:57:48 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > - and, if I did, would dpkg just put it back when the next revision of > > > gnumeric gets installed? > > Indeed. > Any way to avoid that? No; it's simply a part of the gnumeric package. Better file a bug report so the next revisi

making completion work the same in emacs shell mode as from xterm

2001-05-23 Thread Britton
emacs completion seems to behave differently than it does from an xterm. Aliases are ignored, and command lines apps completion works differently. Is there a way to emacs to let the ordinary bash completion happen, or come as close as possible to this? Thanks, Britton

FYI: KDE printing through CUPS

2001-05-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay, A little while ago I asked how you go about getting KDE to print through CUPS. I got no replies, so I guessed that no one knew. Well I've now discovered how. KDE (like other things such as samba) reads the printer configurations out of /etc/printcap If you initially had lpr or lprng or simila

Re: fvwm2

2001-05-23 Thread d1temp
On 23 May, Joerg Johannes wrote: > 4.) the background and mouse pointer. The background (and the > mouspointer) fvwm2 uses are just the same as in the gdm login screen. I > tried to set a pixmap for the background, but xsetroot seems to accept > only black/white xbm's. I remember from SuSE times

Re: root owner (or group) of lot of files in ~erik?

2001-05-23 Thread Erik Steffl
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:54:42PM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I have just found out that ~erik/.Xauthority is owned by root and I > > cannot access my X server (I couldn't run any X applications). > > You every symlink or hardlink this to y

Re: [users] Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 23 May 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Andrei Ivanov (on Tue, 22 May 2001 10:31:26PM -0500): > > scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 2 4876 tty1 DMay10 0:00 > > /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin > > this is a straight-forward failure of the linux kernel. it's a dead I believe this was

make bzdisk | what filesystem?

2001-05-23 Thread Willi Dyck
What filesystem does 'make bzdisk' create on a floppy? Can't seem to mount that floppy-disk. Tried several filesystem types without success. TIA, Willi -- ...is a registered (#210445) user of:Debian 2.2r3 GNU/Linux icq# 49564994###AIM: wdyck###GnuPG-Key: 1024D/8BFCA69B Fingerprint:

Multiple mixers setting

2001-05-23 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, I am searching for a solution for the following problem: I have two /dev/mixer - one for my TV card, one for my normal SBLive! soundcard. It seems that only the settings for /dev/mixer1 are saved and loaded by aumix. Are there any ideas how to save and load them for both mixers? Sometimes my

RE: Need a file - /etc/network/interfaces

2001-05-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-May-2001 Scott Fraser wrote: > Afternoon All, > > Could someone please email me a copy of the above file that is setup to > use eth0? > > I forgot to email myself a copy of one from home for a box I am setting > up today. > just do 'man interfaces'. And dont forget to add a lo as well.

Re: Need a file - /etc/network/interfaces

2001-05-23 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:19:16AM -0700, Scott Fraser wrote: > Afternoon All, > > Could someone please email me a copy of the above file that is setup to > use eth0? > > I forgot to email myself a copy of one from home for a box I am setting > up today. > > Cheers and Thanx in advance, > Scott

Re: announce galeon-0.10.6 unofficial package

2001-05-23 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:49:26PM +0200, christophe barbé wrote: > i all, > > I've made a debian package for galeon 0.10.6. > This package is build against sid (aka unstable)(should certainly rebuild > against other debian dists). > It requires a patched version of mozilla 0.9. > I've rebuild the

Need a file - /etc/network/interfaces

2001-05-23 Thread Scott Fraser
Afternoon All, Could someone please email me a copy of the above file that is setup to use eth0? I forgot to email myself a copy of one from home for a box I am setting up today. Cheers and Thanx in advance, Scott -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Scott Fraser

Re: Newbie floppy disk access question

2001-05-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:20:42AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > I am trying to load a tar file driver from floppy > disk. There is a file "floppy" in my root directory. > This is empty. How do I find the file on my floppy disk? You need to mount the floppy. /floppy is an empty directory (not a f

Re: Newbie floppy disk access question

2001-05-23 Thread Willi Dyck
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:20:42AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > I am trying to load a tar file driver from floppy > disk. There is a file "floppy" in my root directory. > This is empty. How do I find the file on my floppy disk? This is not a floppy file. It is an empty directory, mostly used to m

Re: opengl (mesa) compiling problem.

2001-05-23 Thread Jan Krupa
On 19 May 2001, Felix Natter wrote: > Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I would like to use the mesa (opengl) library in C or C++. > > > > I installed (debian2.2 potato) > > mesa-glide2 3.1-17 > > mesa-widget 3.1-17 > > mesademos > > > > or tried (instead) > > mesa-dev > > mesag3 >

Re: Problems installing postfix

2001-05-23 Thread Willi Dyck
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:00:22PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > jennyw wrote: > > Is this normal? I tried installing exim and sendmail instead, but the > > same thing results. Do I have to do something special to get the spool > > files created? Do I have to do something special to get the post

Re: IDE CD Burner

2001-05-23 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Andreas Tscharner wrote: AT> Hello World, AT> AT> Does anyone know a CD burner for IDE CD burnder drives? I know there is AT> this "trick" to emulate an IDE burner as a SCSI, but I want a native IDE AT> burner. edit the lilo.conf and add in 'append' 'hd?=ide-scsi' .. where ?

Re: lilo difficulties - ADDENDUM

2001-05-23 Thread Paul Wright
Hello, I sent a reply to your message about your LILO problem, but my MTA was misconfigured at the time (I was playing around with sendmail... lesson learned) and I'm unsure if it was sent. So, here I'll sumarize: The LILO start message "LI" indicates that either the file /boot/boot.b is miss

Fetchmail/MTA and received date

2001-05-23 Thread jennyw
I just downloaded a bunch of messges using fetchmail and noticed that (of course) the received date on all the messages is the same.  I realize this is probably not just a fetchmail thing but partly an MTA thing, too, but is there a way to get the MTA to set the received date to be the recei

Re: fvwm2

2001-05-23 Thread Sean Morgan
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:37:29AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Joerg Johannes wrote: > > 3.1) the menus (general). I have poked around in the reades, and read a > > lot about "hook files". I did not quite understand how to use them. I > > understood it in so far, that it is not very smart to have a

Newbie floppy disk access question

2001-05-23 Thread Abner Gershon
I am trying to load a tar file driver from floppy disk. There is a file "floppy" in my root directory. This is empty. How do I find the file on my floppy disk? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auction

Christian Meder?

2001-05-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
Has anyone seen or heard from Christian Meder? The last message I can find from him anywhere, including deja/Google, was 31 Aug 2000. I'm curious because the lclint package, which he maintains, in Debian is _WAY_ old and I really wish someone would install a newer version... Thanks... -- -

warning compiling kernel

2001-05-23 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
Im sorry the exact message is: Clock skew detected. your build may be imcomplete. sorry

Re: IDE CD Burner

2001-05-23 Thread David Z. Maze
Andreas Tscharner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AT> Does anyone know a CD burner for IDE CD burnder drives? I know there is AT> this "trick" to emulate an IDE burner as a SCSI, but I want a native IDE AT> burner. I don't believe there is one; you need to use the IDE-SCSI emulation layer, and then us

warning compiling kernel

2001-05-23 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
Just for checking this isn't a big thing the following warning was reported after make menuconfig clock sweap detected. You configuration may be imcomplete whats this ? is it harmfull? thanks

Re: root owner (or group) of lot of files in ~erik?

2001-05-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Joel Mayes wrote: > > The Eric Comspiracy strikes again -- quote 1. You must be an Eric You may match on first, last, or middle name(s). We're not orthography bigots, if you're an Erik or Erich or Eirik you are also eligible. We're not sexists either, so Ericas and Erikas are als

Re: boot disk

2001-05-23 Thread ktb
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:27:23PM +0200, Theo Bierman wrote: > hi anyone know where i can get a boot disk to install debian from I would start with the installation instructions on the website - http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/#new-inst kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has beco

Re: fvwm2

2001-05-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Joerg Johannes wrote: > > Hi List > > Using sid in the most recent version with XFree4.0.3, I just switched to > the good old fvwm I used to have in SuSE times (I never liked KDE and > Gnome). > > 1.) .Xresources. Well, the problem I have is: when starting emacs from > the fvwm-mennu, it starts

IDE CD Burner

2001-05-23 Thread Andreas Tscharner
Hello World, Does anyone know a CD burner for IDE CD burnder drives? I know there is this "trick" to emulate an IDE burner as a SCSI, but I want a native IDE burner. Thanks in advance Andreas -- Andreas Tscharner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Debian Reinstall

2001-05-23 Thread Eric Richardson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 09-May-2001 Ronan O'Sullivan wrote: > > Hi there, > >I am wondering is there anyway to save your current installed > >packages information and when you reinstall for apt or dselect to > >know what packages to install or remove to restore your system to

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2001-05-23 Thread Theo Bierman
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Re: Problems installing postfix

2001-05-23 Thread jennyw
That worked! What's the reason for this, though? I mean, why does mutt expect a file that's not there? Thanks! Jen - Original Message - From: "ktb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 9:33 PM Subject: Re: Problems installing postfix > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:21:10PM

Re: Font Problems in Sid...

2001-05-23 Thread matlads
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:33:08AM -0400, Daniel Katz wrote: > P.S. Anybody know a good introduction for beginners to this whole area > (i.e., fonts, character sets, and graphical displays)? check out 1. http://people.redhat.com/~mgalgoci/fonts/fixing.html 2. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:35:37PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > doesn't take long). IIRC one reason an application is zombie is that its > parent waits for return value (which is sort of held by zombie, waitin > for parent to process the info or something like that). You've got it backwards. You g

Re: [users] Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> also sprach Andrei Ivanov (on Tue, 22 May 2001 10:31:26PM -0500): > > scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 2 4876 tty1 DMay10 0:00 > > /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin > > this is a straight-forward failure of the linux kernel. it's a dead > process, it doesn't listen to anything anymore. there

Re: Adding a kernel entry for grub (analogy to running lilo step?)

2001-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
D-Man wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:22:10AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > | > | As a longtime LILO user, I'm a bit perplexed faced with the large > | amount of docs concerning grub. When I compiled a new kernel and > > You found a large amount of docs? Lucky you ;-). I didn't think

boot disk

2001-05-23 Thread Theo Bierman
hi anyone know where i can get a boot disk to install debian from -- Theo Bierman Customer Implementation Team UUNET S.A., a WorldCom Company Tel: +27 11 235-6621 Fax: +27 11 235-6501 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Customer Service Centre: 08600 UUNET / 08600 88638 http://www.uunet.co.za

Re: [users] Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: md> also sprach Andrei Ivanov (on Tue, 22 May 2001 10:31:26PM -0500): >> scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 2 4876 tty1 DMay10 0:00 >> /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin md> this is a straight-forward failure of the linux kernel. it's a dead md> p

Re: Adding a kernel entry for grub (analogy to running lilo step?)

2001-05-23 Thread D-Man
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:22:10AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: | | As a longtime LILO user, I'm a bit perplexed faced with the large | amount of docs concerning grub. When I compiled a new kernel and You found a large amount of docs? Lucky you ;-). I didn't think there was a whole lot of d

creating a custom kernel without installing

2001-05-23 Thread Charles Lewis
I'm wanting to use mkboot to create a boot disk with a custom kernel so that I can use that kernel image to create a bootable cd. 1. How do I use make-kpkg to create a kernel image without actually installing it on my system? 2. How do I handle modules? 3. What is the easiest way to generate a bas

Re: Increasing PPP Dialup connection timeout

2001-05-23 Thread John Hasler
Scott writes: > Anyway, it seems that in Linux, pon quits before it could really > connect. So, instead of pon giving up in a minute or so, I'd like to > increase that timeout. Edit /etc/ppp/peers/provider. Replace connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider" with connect "/usr/sbi

PCI/ATI Radeon ?

2001-05-23 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Has anyone been able to use a PCI ATI Radeon card (as opposed to AGP)? I am using Woody and XFree 4.03. The docs at xfree.org say ATI Radeon chips are supported. I run xf86cfg and a gray screen appears in 1600x1200 resolution. There are no dialog boxes or configuration buttons, just a gray s

Is potato compatible with ATA-100 disks ???

2001-05-23 Thread Andreas Berglund
Is potato compatible with ATA-100 disks ??? (My kernel is 2.2pre18) -- MVH Andreas Berglund Företagsdata i Åhus AB Tel:044-289465 Fax:044-242550 http://www.fdab.se http://www.torget.fdab.se

Re: [users] Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Tue, 22 May 2001 11:29:18PM -0700): > No. Your memory's going to be released. But your files might be > scrambled. I would *not* 'kill -9' my mysqld server. one of the reasons why i wouldn't run mysql for any reason in the world! unless you don't need a true data

Adding a kernel entry for grub (analogy to running lilo step?)

2001-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
As a longtime LILO user, I'm a bit perplexed faced with the large amount of docs concerning grub. When I compiled a new kernel and wanted LILO to know about it, I'd edit /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo again to update the boot sector. Since grub knows about filesystems, do I need to do a similar upd

Re: Sendmail Security Violation?

2001-05-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Mike D., Thanks for answering my question and satisfying my curiosity. I had noticed the 'BAD' in the message id, but didn't give it too much thought because I knew it was random characters. I have a look at the logcheck.violations file and maybe check out those manpages to get a bette

Re: [users] Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Andrei Ivanov (on Tue, 22 May 2001 10:31:26PM -0500): > scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 2 4876 tty1 DMay10 0:00 > /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin this is a straight-forward failure of the linux kernel. it's a dead process, it doesn't listen to anything anymore. there is no way yo

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