Re: Window manager ....

2001-05-30 Thread ktb
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:29:03PM +1000, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone pls tell me how heavier the system resourses > will suffer if I run sawmill wm versus icewm? My box > only 35Mb RAM 100 Mhz CPU, ; icewm is good for all > purpose (gnome compliant, light, nice looking and > configure but

Window manager ....

2001-05-30 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Anyone pls tell me how heavier the system resourses will suffer if I run sawmill wm versus icewm? My box only 35Mb RAM 100 Mhz CPU, ; icewm is good for all purpose (gnome compliant, light, nice looking and configure but not nice with netscape (see my last email :-) ). I have tested wmmaker but

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-30 Thread Renai LeMay
I would suggest that that review is a little old. It only has a very small section on kword, which after all, is currently one of the best Linux word processors out there. If you want my advice (I'm a journalist and sysadmin), Kword is fast, free and approaching stability. It's now useable for

mouseman wheel on X

2001-05-30 Thread tek kno3
Hi all, i'like some help to make the mouseman wheel work on netscape (if it does!?). running potato 2.2.19pre17-ide; XF 3.3.6, enlightenment 16.2, netscape 4.77 i managed ok (Zaxis on XFconfig) to make the wheel work (eg. w/ xterm) but nothing w/ netscape. later included definitions in .Xde

Re: Adding stuff to menus

2001-05-30 Thread Erik Steffl
Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > I have a bunch of programs that I've compiled over time, and I kind of want > to add them to the debian menus. How would I do this? Is this window-manager > specific, or is their a global way to do this? It seems if I do use a window > manager's configurati

Re: The use of source cds.

2001-05-30 Thread Leonard Leblanc
> Dear Debian Group, > > I would like to know exactly what purpose the source cds serve and who would > need to use them. I will only be using Debian for things like word > processing, email, the internet, etcetera and wouldn't be doing any > development or performing any major alterations to the d

Re: Bind stop working right.

2001-05-30 Thread Leonard Leblanc
i had the same problem a little while back if you post your config files, i can check them out... > I have some problems on one server. > > Some times bind doesn't respond any more until it is restarted. > > Then I only see domain traffic outgoing, not incoming and no reponses from > others serve

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-30 Thread Kevin Ross
LinuxPlanet has a side-by-side review of all the word processors for Linux, including: StarOffice 5.2 WordPerfect 9 AbiWord Applix Words Maxwell KWord (part of KOffice, for KDE) The review is at: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1762/1/ -- Kevin

The use of source cds.

2001-05-30 Thread Simmons-Davis
Dear Debian Group, I would like to know exactly what purpose the source cds serve and who would need to use them. I will only be using Debian for things like word processing, email, the internet, etcetera and wouldn't be doing any development or performing any major alterations to the debian distr

crontab running scripts

2001-05-30 Thread André Borman
Hi there, I would like to know how I can get e.g. this crontab entry * * * * * /usr/local/bin/foo -options arg1 arg2 to run right. Foo is a script that calls external programs itself that need the mentioned options and arguments. It seems that when foo is executed, the external programs are n

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mp> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:01:13PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: >> I'll repeat my previous advice: use xkeycaps. >> >> Life is too short to futz with modmap. mp> Yes, well; using xkeycaps doesn't teach me anything, does it? First, as some

Problems with symbolic links under /dev

2001-05-30 Thread Stefan Srdic
I'm running Patato with kernel 2.4.4 (self compiled) and XFree 4.0.2 and the XFce desktop from unstable. I'm having problems with my CD-Burning device. I have compiled ide-scsi support directly into the kernel as well as SCSI CD support, this eliminates the need for any ide-cd drivers to be compi

Re: Netscape problem in debian. Found the cause :-)

2001-05-30 Thread Renai LeMay
no, the newer version of sawmill is called sawfish the new version of icewm is called icewm On Thursday 31 May 2001 11:20, Oki DZ wrote: > Steve Kieu wrote: > > I hope this infomation is usefull for some one using > > icewm like me, and hope that if some one knows the > > better version of icewm

Re: First Debian Install Question

2001-05-30 Thread francisco m neto
» Bill Witherspoon disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > Hi all, > > Can anyone tell me how to re-run the X setup proggy that > you get through dselect? > > I had to pop out of the configurator to install xfonts, and > can't seem to get back into it. (I had to lie and tell it X was > properly configed)

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-30 Thread Alan Shutko
"Steve R. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Corel is selling the whole WordPerfect Office suite, which includes > WordPerfect and Quattro Pro. Note that last I checked, there's no commitment to ongoing support of this product, there was almost no support of WP8, and getting fixes for any nu

Re: Netscape problem in debian. Found the cause :-)

2001-05-30 Thread Oki DZ
Steve Kieu wrote: > I hope this infomation is usefull for some one using > icewm like me, and hope that if some one knows the > better version of icewm and make it to debian package > for potato, it will be great. Thanx. I heard that the newer version of icewm is called sawfish (which is neatl

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-30 Thread Steve R. Hastings
Corel is selling the whole WordPerfect Office suite, which includes WordPerfect and Quattro Pro. http://linux.corel.com/products/wpo2000_linux/index.htm The suite is about $150 a copy. buy.com has a 5-pack which is a better deal, but it is back-ordered. There is also Applix: http://www.v

First Debian Install Question

2001-05-30 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Hi all,   Can anyone tell me how to re-run the X setup proggy that you get through dselect?   I had to pop out of the configurator to install xfonts, and can't seem to get back into it. (I had to lie and tell it X was properly configed).   TIA, Bill

where oh where has my little kernal gone?

2001-05-30 Thread Paul Valley
Hello:         I currently use Debian(I belieave its1.2)that came with corel and must compile sound support in what directory is the kernal it self??     Paul Valley

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:29:57PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:01:13PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > > I'll repeat my previous advice: use xkeycaps. > > > > Life is too short to futz with modmap. > > Yes, well; using xkeycaps doesn't teach me anything, does it? Sure i

Re: One For The Record Books

2001-05-30 Thread Mike
Vinod Kurup wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:10:53PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > i once got an answer that predated my question, but temporal > > displacement notwithstanding, it was attributable to borked > > clock settings. > > I need to get myself one of those temporal displacement machi

Re: Setting up NIS

2001-05-30 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:31:22PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I'm trying to get a NIS domain started and having little luck... I've > followed along through /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz (which is > great to have there!), but it doesn't seem to have worked. > > I started to suspect t

Re: Netscape problem in debian. Found the cause :-)

2001-05-30 Thread p
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:12:25AM +1000, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > Yeah finnally I found the cause that I have complained > about netscape before, that ever you quit netscape by > click File / Exit, Netscape will still remain in > memory (actually still running but no window display). > Always

looking for XMMS 1.2.5-pre1 deb-package

2001-05-30 Thread Thomas Hess
hi, does someone know a location for a XMMS 1.2.5-pre1 deb-package? tom -- Thomas Hess mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printing using CUPS from the command line.

2001-05-30 Thread Mike Cook
You should install the cupsys-bsd package, then cups will print with the lp or lpr commands. Mike On Wednesday 30 May 2001 07:21, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I have to use 'lp' instead of 'lpr' when I use cups. > > Cameron Matheson > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:10:30AM +0200, Alberto

Re: Printing using CUPS from the command line.

2001-05-30 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I have to use 'lp' instead of 'lpr' when I use cups. Cameron Matheson On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:10:30AM +0200, Alberto García wrote: > When I try to print a file from the shell ( lpr file ) the job is queued and > I fail to print, but using startoffice or mozilla, everything I intend to

pseudo-image

2001-05-30 Thread howard n perkins
hi im having problems using the pseudo-image kit install. i get the kit downloaded and umziped and i get the .list files but when i goto make the image file its self and start downloading everything it gets to the readme-non-us and then it says its getting the file and then it just sits ther

Printing using CUPS from the command line.

2001-05-30 Thread Alberto García
When I try to print a file from the shell ( lpr file ) the job is queued and I fail to print, but using startoffice or mozilla, everything I intend to print is printed with absolutley no problems. I´ve checked my printer with lpstat and it "accepts requests", so I am a bit lost (should I say

Fw: Ximian Gnome Problem

2001-05-30 Thread Rafael Sasaki
One server to your sources.list can be: http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main - Original Message - From: "vester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-user" Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:32 PM Subject: Re: Ximian Gnome Problem i had

Re: kernel 2.4.4 and ES1371 soundcard

2001-05-30 Thread Cameron Matheson
> Could you send me the output of lsmod (offline if you prefer). Module Size Used by analog 6816 0 (unused) es1371 25632 2 ac97_codec 8480 0 [es1371] I have ns558 and gameport builtin. Cameron Matheson On Wed, May 30, 200

Setting up NIS

2001-05-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm trying to get a NIS domain started and having little luck... I've followed along through /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz (which is great to have there!), but it doesn't seem to have worked. I started to suspect that things weren't working at step 3.6, starting the server, when it didn'

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:20:42PM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > Edit (or create) /etc/apt.conf and add the following to it: Feh. That should be /etc/apt/apt.conf -Ian

Re: kde.tdyc.com gone?

2001-05-30 Thread Peter Hicks
Thanks. That thread showed up in my mailbox moments after sending my question to the list. On Wednesday 30 May 2001 13:53, DvB wrote: > Peter Hicks wrote: > > I cannot seem to reach this host. Is there another source for the kde > > .debs? > > From will trillich's follow up to the "KDE on stable

USB CD burner recommendations?

2001-05-30 Thread Max Kamenetsky
Hi all! Do you have any recommendations on a fast external USB-based CD burner that works well with the latest kernels (we're running 2.4.5 here)? Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks, Max P.S. Please cc me on replies.

Re: duplicating a partition

2001-05-30 Thread Shaul Karl
> i have ext2 but now i want to switch to reiserfs > i have an empty partition, which is not being used > now, i would like to copy the contents of /dev/hda5 (existing ext2 > partition) to /dev/hda8 (new empty reiserfs partition). but i donot know > what is the best way to do it. > > any hints? >

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:28:16AM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote: > Thanks, it was done. You're welcome. > How can I make apt-get to ask to erase the downloaded debs after install? Edit (or create) /etc/apt.conf and add the following to it: // Things that effect the APT dselect method DSelect {

Sound on X

2001-05-30 Thread Rafael Sasaki
Hi, I`m still trying to tune my machine up, but I`m still having some problems. Now I got one that I could not fix. I have an Ensonic board (es1370). The Gnu/Linux can see it on the boot (dmesg) and it don`t cause any error. I could play any kind of sound in the X, but just as root. Then i adde

Netscape problem in debian. Found the cause :-)

2001-05-30 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Yeah finnally I found the cause that I have complained about netscape before, that ever you quit netscape by click File / Exit, Netscape will still remain in memory (actually still running but no window display). Always like that. The culprit is window manager, not debian itself. For some reas

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi all, > > Just before I found out the apt-get clean I wiped out the > /var/cache/apt/archives/. As it can be expected I badly screwed my apt-get > :) > > How can I bring this back? > > raj > Just create the following and you are set: [01:00:32 tmp]$ ls /var/cache/apt/archives -ld drwxr-

Re: kde.tdyc.com gone?

2001-05-30 Thread DvB
Peter Hicks wrote: I cannot seem to reach this host. Is there another source for the kde .debs? From will trillich's follow up to the "KDE on stable" thread: > has anybody got KDE to work in potato? if so could the apt lines please. # security stuff for potato deb http://security.debi

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
"Rajkumar S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Just before I found out the apt-get clean I wiped out the >/var/cache/apt/archives/. As it can be expected I badly screwed my apt-get >:) > >How can I bring this back? Removing /var/cache/apt/archives should be harmless; can't you just update and continue

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread Rajkumar S.
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives/partial > chmod 755 /var/cache/apt/archives/partial > > touch /var/cache/apt/archives/lock > chmod 640 /var/cache/apt/archives/lock Thanks, it was done. How can I make apt-get to ask to erase the downloaded debs after insta

Re: One For The Record Books

2001-05-30 Thread Robert L. Harris
Not a problem, it's already gone into testing in about 6 months from now. Testing should only take a few weeks and be done about 4 months from now, but with possible governmental beurcacy and corporations interferring it could take a few weeks longer so expect mass production in about 13 years.

Re: Console: weird scrolling

2001-05-30 Thread Imre Vida
> > It would be nice if there was an option to disable that graphic > entirely, or replace it with a user-defined pixmap... read the Framebuffer-HOWTO, Chapter 19 it seems that it's not that easy and at the end you have to recompile the kernel... imre

Re: kernel 2.4.4 and ES1371 soundcard

2001-05-30 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:27:13PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I'm having that same problem. I haven't been able to figure out joystick on > my es1371 w/ any of the 2.4.x kernels (i've tried all the stable ones) That's interesting. What modules do you have that are involved with E

Re: file search in package archives?

2001-05-30 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:04:58PM -0500, DvB wrote: > dpkg -S does this on installed packages but is there a way to search for > a file in packages that aren't installed yet? Does apt store this > information? While not as exact as zgrep'ing the Contents-i386.gz file, as someone else suggested,

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread David Z Maze
Rajkumar S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RS> Just before I found out the apt-get clean I wiped out the RS> /var/cache/apt/archives/. As it can be expected I badly screwed my apt-get RS> :) Why? AFAIK that's pretty much what 'apt-get clean' does too. How do you think APT is broken now? RS> How can

Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:13:45AM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote: > Just before I found out the apt-get clean I wiped out the > /var/cache/apt/archives/. As it can be expected I badly screwed my apt-get > :) > > How can I bring this back? Just do (as root, of course): mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives/p

kde.tdyc.com gone?

2001-05-30 Thread Peter Hicks
I cannot seem to reach this host. Is there another source for the kde .debs?

Re: One For The Record Books

2001-05-30 Thread Vinod Kurup
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:10:53PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > i once got an answer that predated my question, but temporal > displacement notwithstanding, it was attributable to borked > clock settings. > LOL I need to get myself one of those temporal displacement machines. When's that going

Re: apt-get --print-uris in NoLocking mode

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:56:23AM +0200, Santi B?jar wrote: >I try to get a list of all the .deb to be installed (with >--print-uris), but I have to do it like root. I thought that if I add > a "-o Debug::NoLocking=yes" would make it possible to run it like > user. But I get this: > > bas

kernel 2.4.4 and ES1371 soundcard

2001-05-30 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello. Well; I gave in and compiled a 2.4.4 kernel on testing the other day. I set up a bunch of things as loadable modules, including soundcore, es1371, gameport, input, joydev and analog. To my surprise, a module called: ac97_codec was also built, and is depended upon by es1371. This w

Re: file search in package archives?

2001-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >dpkg -S does this on installed packages but is there a way to search for >a file in packages that aren't installed yet? Does apt store this >information? No, but you could download dists/whatever/Contents-i386.gz (or similar for other architectures) every so often

rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/

2001-05-30 Thread Rajkumar S.
Hi all, Just before I found out the apt-get clean I wiped out the /var/cache/apt/archives/. As it can be expected I badly screwed my apt-get :) How can I bring this back? raj

Re: galeon 0.10.6 Packages anywhere ?

2001-05-30 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > download the 0.10.6 source code .tar.gz and do the > > following: > > > > tar -zxvf galeon-0.10.6.tar.gz > > cd galeon-0.10.6 > > ./configure > > Done that, installed tons of .dev (and other) packages, > but whatever I do, it will not get past the ./configure > stage. > > The stage where things

Re: network performance

2001-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
"Alexander Gun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >how can i test my network performance >without copying one file from maschine a to maschine b ? > >i dont want to test my harddrive speed!! Set up a web server on one machine and download several large files simultaneously from it on the other. After eac

Re: Why everything in German?

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:49:17PM -0600, Roberto Magana wrote: > Good Day, has the language of the list being changed to German? If so, > please announce it so I can switch to a list in english. oui, monsieur. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #16 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Why are *.rpm (RED

Re: fetchmail logs

2001-05-30 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:20:20PM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: > I accidently deleted a mail. I would help me a lot if I could recover the > email address of the mail. Does fetchmail keep any logs by default? I > would think so? But can't find them, where can I find them? Oke, I already figured th

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-30 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:01:13PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > I'll repeat my previous advice: use xkeycaps. > > Life is too short to futz with modmap. Yes, well; using xkeycaps doesn't teach me anything, does it? -- Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on earth. Where are they hidin

Re: One For The Record Books

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:56:03PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > 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 getti

Re: oops

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:15:39PM -0600, HAL 9000 wrote: >The next day I was playing with a operational Linux system which would boot > from the hard drive. Since I'm a complete novice at Linux I didn't know even > how to view a directory. I had seen the install done so I thought I'd > re-in

file search in package archives?

2001-05-30 Thread DvB
dpkg -S does this on installed packages but is there a way to search for a file in packages that aren't installed yet? Does apt store this information? I found http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages which works fine but was wondering if there was a way to do it without a net connection. Bein

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
I'll repeat my previous advice: use xkeycaps. Life is too short to futz with modmap. -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>HASMAT--HA Software Methods & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a profes

Re: Jumpstart install of debian?

2001-05-30 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Another solution would be to use cpio to make an archive of the file system and then expand this out onto a clean machine. I recently did this and found it to be relatively painless. I did only use one large partition (well two but I'm not counting the swap ;). On the machine you want to mirror

Re: galeon 0.10.6 Packages anywhere ?

2001-05-30 Thread joost witteveen
> download the 0.10.6 source code .tar.gz and do the following: > > tar -zxvf galeon-0.10.6.tar.gz > cd galeon-0.10.6 > ./configure Done that, installed tons of .dev (and other) packages, but whatever I do, it will not get past the ./configure stage. The stage where things go wrong is: checking

Re: network performance

2001-05-30 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Alexander Gun wrote: >how can i test my network performance >without copying one file from maschine a to maschine b ? bing, ping, sing, depending on what your needs are... >i dont want to test my harddrive speed!! > >is there a tool out? >give me ideas... > > >thanks a lot >

Re: newbie: Help, I'm stuck!

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:45:04AM -0400, Roderick Cummings wrote: > >From: Scott Frankel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Problem 2: dselect config file mulched > > > >I've inadvertantly hoarked whatever shoot-myself-in-the-foot.config > >file it is that controls what the dselect program can access. I c

Re: /etc/rc* and locate

2001-05-30 Thread joost witteveen
> > > I have no > > > program which runs update nightly. > > > > I think you do. see /etc/cron.daily/find > > > Sorry, I didn't know that. Makes the anomaly even more difficult to > understand though Yes. It looks like your updatedb doesn't do what it should do. You could try and remove the file

Re: `who' is broken?

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:56:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i'm running i386 debian unstable. > > the who program is cutting off the locations strangely, as you'll see > below. also when logged in from a dialup with a long reverse > hostname, who will only print part of the first entry a

Re: Newbie questions !

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 04:10:57PM +1000, Steve Kieu wrote: > If I dont want to run for example crond at boot time > how can I disable it? it is not the way to delete the > symlink in /etc/rc.2/ or chmod -x /etc/init.d/crond I > think. update-rc.d crond remove or to have it enabled only

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 03:41:38AM -0600, John Galt wrote: > In vi, :1267 works... Also, for vim, start your editing session right at the exact line you're interested in via vi +1267 filename.here Or, if already editing the file, hop to that line with 1267G You can also

fetchmail logs

2001-05-30 Thread Jeroen Valcke
I accidently deleted a mail. I would help me a lot if I could recover the email address of the mail. Does fetchmail keep any logs by default? I would think so? But can't find them, where can I find them? Thanks -- Jeroen Valcke jeroen@valcke.com ICQ# 30116911 Home

X win sys 4.x and potato

2001-05-30 Thread MRZ
Hi folks. I'm running an install of potato that I want to upgrade to the 4.0 version of X. Someone pointed me to the debs put together by Branden and I've been struggling with this ever since. After scouring the archives I've found a few answers which have moved me ahead somewhat, but I'm now t

cyrus imap sendmail debian

2001-05-30 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
am trying to configure a cyrus imapd with sendmail. I have the Managing IMAP from O'Reilly that I am using to help configure. Does debian sendmail compile with IMAP support? Do I edit the sendmail.cf file to have sendmail route mail to the Cyrus spool? O'Reilly talks about a different CF file

network performance

2001-05-30 Thread Alexander Gun
how can i test my network performance without copying one file from maschine a to maschine b ? i dont want to test my harddrive speed!! is there a tool out? give me ideas... thanks a lot ag -- in a world without fences --- who needs gates ??? _

Re: web management question

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:01:53PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > The directory ~/public_html is made accessible as: > > http://server/~user/ > > ...with the appropriate configuration changes in /etc/apache/access.conf > and /etc/apache/srm.conf. LoadModule userdir_module /usr/lib/a

Framebuffer aty128fb - halfway

2001-05-30 Thread Imre Vida
i compiled kernel-2.2.19 to set up framebuffer dev. during boot up kernel recognizes the card properly and sets the default mode with 80x30 console screen. so far good, however, i would love to use some xxx x yyy console after all this is why i started this job on the first place. so i started to

Re: Using tar saving Disk-space [was: apt-get offline]

2001-05-30 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: >Hi list > >Now that I can transfer my downloaded .debs in a .tar file, I wonder if >I could create this .tar file saving disk space, e.g. in the following >way > > >create a tar file (touch packages.tar?) unnecessary, and in fact will break the script..

Re: VM problem

2001-05-30 Thread D-Man
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:11:26PM +0400, Ilya Martynov wrote: | | BF> Hi, | BF> I have installed the Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r1 on my machine. A few days | BF> after the installation I noticed some strange messages from the kernel | BF> (samples below) concerning the virtual memory (do_try_to_free_p

Re: Jumpstart install of debian?

2001-05-30 Thread Robert L. Harris
This looks like a great start. Thanks Robert Thus spake Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Has anyone got a "scripted jumpstart" to work? I.E., for a very > >standard config things such as keyboard type, packages, etc are > >pre-configured

Re: Jumpstart install of debian?

2001-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone got a "scripted jumpstart" to work? I.E., for a very >standard config things such as keyboard type, packages, etc are >pre-configured and install/configure automatically? You could try this (although I admit I haven't), available in testi

Jumpstart install of debian?

2001-05-30 Thread Robert L. Harris
Has anyone got a "scripted jumpstart" to work? I.E., for a very standard config things such as keyboard type, packages, etc are pre-configured and install/configure automatically? :wq! --- Robert L. Harris

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-30 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:50:44AM -0400, John S. J. Anderson wrote: > Have you tried using a real keysym for the menu key? I don't think > 'Menu' is a real keysym -- try 'Multi-key' or 'Super_R' or 'Hyper_R', > and then bind ModN (where N=(1..5)) to that keysym. > > My Dvorak xmodmap file is at

Re: Some sugestions of cheanges

2001-05-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:04:39AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:14:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 3. In new deb package of apache 1.3.19 every > > configuration is made in one file > > (/etc/apache/httpd.conf). I segest to make it like > > in version 1.3.9 >

Re: VM problem

2001-05-30 Thread Casper Gielen
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:28:18PM +0200, BURLET Frederic wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed the Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r1 on my machine. A few days > after the installation I noticed some strange messages from the kernel > (samples below) concerning the virtual memory (do_try_to_free_pages failed >

Re: the clip in windowmaker

2001-05-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:36:47PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote: > Run the wmpref program, the 7th icon will be "workspace navigation Features > click on this, and there will be two icons down the right hand side of the box > on of these enables/disable the application dock, the other enables/disables >

Re: KDE on stable

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:04:01PM +0100, Ian Lee wrote: > Why does KDE for potato, depend on libssl096? > libssl096 is in woody and sid not potato (according to debian package search). helli-phyno... > has anybody got KDE to work in potato? if so could the apt lines please. # security stuff fo

Re: *** Newbie Question About PostgreSQL ***

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:49:46PM -0400, Arcadio A. Sincero Jr. wrote: > Hello list, wrong list. try pgsql-general@postgresql.org instead. > I'd like to set up Postgresql so that users can have "read-only" access to a > database. Right now, I only know how to set it so a user can have all or >

Re: duplicating a partition

2001-05-30 Thread Dave Carrigan
Amardeep Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have ext2 but now i want to switch to reiserfs > i have an empty partition, which is not being used > now, i would like to copy the contents of /dev/hda5 (existing ext2 > partition) to /dev/hda8 (new empty reiserfs partition). but i donot know > what

Re: firewall log message question

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:30:54AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Am 29. May, 2001 schwäzte will trillich so: > > Security Violations > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > May 23 12:51:01 server kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 > > 192.168.1.62:3 208.33.90.85:13 L=56 S=0x00 I=30114

ssh2 (open ssh) compiled for stable?

2001-05-30 Thread Bryan Walton
I have a firewall running Debian stable that I don't want to upgrade to testing. I see that Open SSH version 2.5.2 is in testing and unstable and that 1.2.3 is the version in stable. Am I correct in thinking that the version for stable available at security.debian.org has the bug fixes backportte

duplicating a partition

2001-05-30 Thread Amardeep Singh
i have ext2 but now i want to switch to reiserfs i have an empty partition, which is not being used now, i would like to copy the contents of /dev/hda5 (existing ext2 partition) to /dev/hda8 (new empty reiserfs partition). but i donot know what is the best way to do it. any hints? thanx, amardeep

Noisy phone line drops connection

2001-05-30 Thread Scott_Patterson
Hello, I've got a noisy phone line at home causing dialup problems. I can now connect successfully by extending the dialup time (chat -t 120...thanks John H.). The problem now is that my connection drops sometimes after I've connected to my ISP. Is there some parameter or option I can set that wo

Re: Can't find ssh [Thanks]

2001-05-30 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Andy Davidson wrote: >Thanks to all who responded. I now have ssh up and running. And I clearly >need to learn more about apt-get and friends. :-) > >Two additional items: one question and one apology. > >The question is: Are the non-USA and non-free packages on the CDs or d

Re: VM problem

2001-05-30 Thread Ilya Martynov
BF> Hi, BF> I have installed the Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r1 on my machine. A few days BF> after the installation I noticed some strange messages from the kernel BF> (samples below) concerning the virtual memory (do_try_to_free_pages failed BF> for...). BF> I have a second distribution on my machine (

Re: VM problem

2001-05-30 Thread BURLET Frederic
On Wed, 30 May 2001, D-Man wrote: > I don't know what causes this, but I have seen it on one of my boxes > -- the i486 with 8 MB RAM (and 32MB swap). I haven't seen it on the > AMD Duron (128MB RAM) > > How much memory do you have on this K6? I have 32MB RAM and 72MB swap. > > (BTW, good job of

Re: VM problem

2001-05-30 Thread D-Man
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:28:18PM +0200, BURLET Frederic wrote: | Hi, | | I have installed the Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r1 on my machine. A few days | after the installation I noticed some strange messages from the kernel | (samples below) concerning the virtual memory (do_try_to_free_pages failed |

Re: xdm and gdm

2001-05-30 Thread Dave Carrigan
Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) Recently I read in this mailing list that to use gdm I have to remove > xdm. Cannot both of them coexist? i.e. both of them are installed. If > yes then what precautions do I have to take? The software itself can coexist, but on Debian gdm conflicts with {w

Re: Ximian Gnome Problem

2001-05-30 Thread vester
i had some problems with ximian too (on woody though) ... for the alternative installation (the apt-get one) have you added the particular ximian server to your sources-list? i don't remember the address but you can find it at ximian.com i remember in the beginning they actually forgot to add th

Qs about Java 2 and potato, also q about Herald installation

2001-05-30 Thread alice
Hi... tried to find this information in the archives first but it looks like the search engine's being a tad misanthropic the last couple of days anyways... my questions... I'm currently running the potato distribution... is Java 2 available for that? How do I tell if I have Java 2 installe

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