Re: Docbook, MathML and Debian

2001-07-09 Thread Brian May
> "jdalton" == jdalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jdalton> Does anyone know how to process a docbook article, jdalton> containing MathML, under Debian (please)? No, but if you find out, could you please let me know ? ...so far I have had problems rendering *any* XML Docbooks files

Re: multihomed linux box - dual t1

2001-07-09 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > how does that work though? the rest of the world has to know how to > route to you..without that information i cant imagine a thing in the > world you can do on a server to advertise you :)

Re: Scroll Wheel

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/09/01 16:09:37 -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: > Sorry to intrude, but I couldn't pass this up. I'm running testing > and I'm having trouble getting my USB mouse scroll wheel to be seen. > > I have this setup in my XF86Config-4 file, but nothing seems to > register the scrollwheel. I even tried

can't ssh or telnet to Debian box

2001-07-09 Thread Owen G. Emry
I just set up a new machine and for some infernal reason I can't ssh or telnet to it. Here are the details: -- both machines have static IPs, proper DNS entries, and are up to date with latest Debian potato ssh and telnetd -- new-machine is a fresh vanilla install, running the stock 3.19pre1

Re: Win2K/ linux dual-boot

2001-07-09 Thread Matthew Davidson
There is an excellent GPL'd boot manager called XOSL (http://www.xosl.org). It can install on it's own partition, or your windows partition. It is absolutely brilliant. When you set it up, it presents you with a list of partitions on your machine, you select which ones you want in your boot-up m

Re: multihomed linux box - dual t1

2001-07-09 Thread aphro
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > No workarounds. Policy routing :) how does that work though? the rest of the world has to know how to route to you..without that information i cant imagine a thing in the world you can do on a server to advertise you :) i can't believe this is such a diff

Re: multihomed linux box - dual t1

2001-07-09 Thread aphro
> > hi ya... > > think theres lot's of folks with dual t1... > > for outgoing traffic... think the routing and metrics might work.. yeah all im concerned about is outgoing traffic. > for incoming traffic... we'd need all kidns of whacky work arounds >or an autonmous ip# routable by either

Re: multihomed linux box

2001-07-09 Thread aphro
> > hi ya aphro/phil > > this same almost exact same concept just went thru the firewall > mailing list > - same conclusions... > > their ideas is to let the routers do the NATing > and "Load balance the external routes using EIGRP or OSPF" yeah my routers do NAT already. and i do

Re: multihomed linux box

2001-07-09 Thread aphro
> Generally BGP is the way to do it. BGP is outta the question for me..i asked cisco about that a couple months ago and they said 128MB was minimum for BGP on routers..my routers have 8MB each .. > I think it can but only if your routers send out RIP packets :) If > they don't, can't, or whate

Re: XFree86 Rel. 4.1 Keyboard Configuration (SPARC)

2001-07-09 Thread Guenter Millahn
On Mon, 09 Jul 2001, Theodore Knab wrote: > Hello Mr. XFree86 guru, > > I was wondering where you got XFree86 4.1.0 I can't find it? Sources are available from xfree86.org Branden Robinson maintains unofficial debs for i386, powerpc, alpha, and sparc. To get it, include into your /etc/apt/source

Cannot connect to a website from debian linux box

2001-07-09 Thread Shaji N V
Hi, I am facing a problem in connecting to a website from my linux box. I use dialup connection through my ISP or log on to my work(via dialup). The strange thing is that all machines at work are able to access the website (sun or windows), by my linux box cannot. If I boot the machine in wind

Re: pcmcia nic confuddelment.

2001-07-09 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 13:30, Keith O'Connell wrote: [...] > I get the impression from other messages that laptops are trickier than > desktops to set up with linux. Did I just change the gradient on my > learning curve by taking the laptop on? > > Keith A great source for info is www.linux-lap

Re: Installing on a new system... Is it possible to have the packages I select automatically build from .deb source versions and compiled specifically for my CPU?

2001-07-09 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Monday 09 July 2001 01:51, mjevans1983011 wrote: > I think the topic says most of what I want. > > For the first time in about 5 years I am expecting to get (build for my > self in this case) a new computer system. With modern hardware packages > can be compiled in a length of time where it is

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions Date: Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:15:29AM -0500 In reply to:olgnuby Quoting olgnuby([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Well, any way, it worked, and yes, like you, I maintain both kernels on > the install. Just in case. Don't like to b

Re: PPP dialup utility

2001-07-09 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Monday 09 July 2001 07:09, John Hasler wrote: > Victor writes: > > I thought that the PPP dialup utility resorted to the same definitions of > > PPPconfig, but it doesn't seem to be that way... > > If you by "PPP dialup utility" one of the Gnome applets, probably not. I > haven't looked at that

Re: multihomed linux box - dual t1

2001-07-09 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > hi ya... > > think theres lot's of folks with dual t1... Or dual DSL, or DSL + Cable modem, or dual DSL + Cable modem (like I have at work). > for outgoing traffic... think the routing a

Re: Scroll Wheel

2001-07-09 Thread Craig Dickson
Brian Nelson wrote: > Try this instead: > > Option"Protocol" "IMPS/2" > Option"Buttons" "5" > Option"ZAxisMapping" "4 5" I suppose anything is worth a try, but I don't think the IMPS/2 protocol supports the Intel

Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: > | probably find a specific PPD for your printer (or PS card), which > | would eliminate the conversion to PCL, give you accurate margins, and > | enable any features the printer has (such as paper tray selection). > > That's a nice idea . . . now where do I f

Re: Scroll Wheel

2001-07-09 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:50:29PM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > I have an identical mouse to yours, and an identical setup, except that I > am running the mouse through the USB port directly. I have had the same > problem, of having no wheel support enabled. I have exactly duplicated > the config

Re: Scroll Wheel

2001-07-09 Thread Craig Dickson
Geoffrey Romer wrote: > I have an identical mouse to yours, and an identical setup, except that I > am running the mouse through the USB port directly. I have had the same > problem, of having no wheel support enabled. I have exactly duplicated > the configuration you give below, but it does not w

Re: Synchronizing with a Palm Pilot

2001-07-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
apt-get install kpilot that should take care of what you need to get it running with korganizer. Have you been able to get it to sync/backup to your linux machine at all? what software have you tried? Here's a few bits that might be of interest to you. try, for example, `dpkg -p pilot-link` for mo

Re: two keymaps for two kernels

2001-07-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
Where you have /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz, you could instead create 2 files in /etc/console boottime-.kmap.gz. Then in /etc/init.d/keymap.sh make the followin changes: Add a line near the top, where you see other variable definitions, to define: VERSION=`uname -r` then below, change this lin

Re: Debian/Woody and kernel 2.4.6

2001-07-09 Thread Noah Meyerhans
No, that url is for potato. Woody does not need any special tweaking. There should be no reason for woody to ship with anything other than kernel 2.4.x when it's finally released (except, maybe, for kernel 2.6 coming out by then ;^). noah On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:31:12PM -0700, Vibol Hou wrote

Re: mason firewall building tool

2001-07-09 Thread dude
Im a linux firewall newbie, and i found that using the 2.4 kenel and iptables acutally turned out to be surprisnly easy to make a surprisly stealthy firewall/gateway. let me know if you interested. G On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Peter wrote: > Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 20:21:53 -0400 > From: Peter <[EMAIL

Sony Vaio All-In-Wonder FX series working in Debian?

2001-07-09 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi. I was just wondering if anyone has gotten one of the Sony notebooks at: http://www.sonystyle.com/vaio/fx/ working in Debian. They're the Sony Vaio All-In-Wonder FX series. I'd like to get one of these, but am concerned that it's not listed at the Linux On Laptops site at: http://www.linux-lap

Re: [OT] Port numbers

2001-07-09 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > In what documentation/manpage/whatever can I find a list of ports and > their numbers (like the ports for telnet, http, etc.)? And also I'd > like to know how to see which ports my computer has open. > > -- > Thomas J. Hamman > "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but

Re: multihomed linux box - dual t1

2001-07-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... think theres lot's of folks with dual t1... for outgoing traffic... think the routing and metrics might work.. for incoming traffic... we'd need all kidns of whacky work arounds or an autonmous ip# routable by either isp... - who's writing this howto ??? -- UUnet also has a backup

Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 03:28:10PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: | D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Either the printer has a PS interpreter in it (my LJIIIp has one as an | > add-on card) or you need to convert the PS into its flavor of PCL. | [...] | > I am using CUPS with my printer, and acco

Re: multihomed linux box

2001-07-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya aphro/phil this same almost exact same concept just went thru the firewall mailing list - same conclusions... their ideas is to let the routers do the NATing and "Load balance the external routes using EIGRP or OSPF" search the firewall archives for: http://lists.gna

Re: Installing device drivers

2001-07-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 03:38:33PM -0400, David Meiser wrote: | | > 1. Yes you need to unzip it. If it is a .gz file, use gunzip. If this | >gives you a tar file, 'tar tvf ' will show you what is in | >it, and 'tar xvf ' will extract the files. | | The file I downloaded is actually a .

Re: multihomed linux box

2001-07-09 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > hi. > > i have this setup on 2 machines > > > Machine A > \ eth0 ---> Switch --> Router A(65.xxx.xx.x.x) --> Internet > \ eth1 --> Switch --> Router B (63.xx.x.x.x.x) --> Internet > > Machin

Re: where did my ps and top go?

2001-07-09 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:28:48PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > "Jeffery B Maxson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This past weekend I upgraded to woody using dselect, and everything seemed > >to work out well. However, I seem to be missing some rather important, > >basic stuff now. For example, "t

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:56:20AM -0400, User zos wrote: > Wow...I wish more older people were as tech savvy as you. I haven't been > able to get my mother at age 43 to even adapt to Windows9x. Just bide your time. At 40 my mom didn't touch the audio system as she thought having to select the ra

RE: Debian/Woody and kernel 2.4.6

2001-07-09 Thread Vibol Hou
You'll need these tools: http://people.debian.org/~bunk/ -Vibol -Original Message- From: Central Park [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 4:36 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian/Woody and kernel 2.4.6 Hi, Just a quick question, will Debian/Woody (test

Docbook, MathML and Debian

2001-07-09 Thread jdalton
Does anyone know how to process a docbook article, containing MathML, under Debian (please)? I'm attempting to use sgmltools to write a docbook article with equations marked up in MathML. It appears that the sgmltools which come with Debian do not support MathML. I've seen hints on the web tha

multihomed linux box

2001-07-09 Thread aphro
hi. i have this setup on 2 machines Machine A \ eth0 ---> Switch --> Router A(65.xxx.xx.x.x) --> Internet \ eth1 --> Switch --> Router B (63.xx.x.x.x.x) --> Internet Machine B \ eth0 --> Switch --> Router A (65.xx.x.x.x.x) --> internet \ eth1 --> Switch --> Router B (63.xx.x.x.x) --> internet

Re: applying a patch to nullmailer

2001-07-09 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 08:06:28PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > 1. Early in June, Noah Meyerhans gave me advice on how to make a .deb > using 'apt-get source -b ' in conjunction with 'deb-src http:// > debian. ' in /etc/apt/sources.list. > > 2. I needed to do things that way since the onl

mason firewall building tool

2001-07-09 Thread Peter
hello all i was just wondering if any of you have ever tried using a program / package called mason to build firewalls on debian machines. i'm running 2.2r3 and would like some pointers on getting a decent firewall up using this utility. my other option is direct interaction with ipchains, which

Re: dpkg status file

2001-07-09 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 03:03:07PM -0400, Dale Miller wrote: > I accidentally deleted my status file in /var/lib/dpkg. Is there any way > to rebuld this? That would be quite hard. Instead, just pickup the most recent copy from /var/backups. Cheers, Joost

Re: dpkg problem

2001-07-09 Thread Joost Kooij
[ouch! next time, please hit enter after +/- 72 characters.] On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:08:27AM -0700, David Fuchs wrote: > I've recently installed Debian (Potato) on a personal computer, > and I'm having some difficulty with the package manager (dpkg) that came > with it. The problem came up

BPA

2001-07-09 Thread Peter Donaldson
Anyone here use Telstra BPA and might b able to help me with a prob???   Anyways here's the deal. Yesturday morning my BPA was working fine but when i got home from work nothing!!! not a thing. If i loged on from my Billware box it was fine but my deb box could not log on. I did an ifconfig a

Re: Scroll Wheel

2001-07-09 Thread Geoffrey Romer
I have an identical mouse to yours, and an identical setup, except that I am running the mouse through the USB port directly. I have had the same problem, of having no wheel support enabled. I have exactly duplicated the configuration you give below, but it does not work for me. In particular, my m

Re: USR modem problems

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Garland
- Original Message - From: "Mark Garland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian List" Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 7:34 PM Subject: Re: USR modem problems > I forwarded this installation instruction for a PCI modem: > > > IV. To set Linux to configure the modem upon boot-up. > > There are

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-07-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
Active-mode ftp will not work through a NAT system without some sort of special handling. In a 2.2.x system, this means ip_masq_ftp.o, and in a 2.4.x system, it means ip_conntrack_ftp.o . If you don't have the appropriate handler, you will need to use passive ftp. Also, if you want debian iso imag

Debian/Woody and kernel 2.4.6

2001-07-09 Thread Central Park
Hi, Just a quick question, will Debian/Woody (testing) need any extra updates to compile and use a linux 2.4.6 kernel? I want to use iptables and stuff. Email me directly, as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks in advance Michael __

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-07-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
Are you sure you need passive ftp to fetch an http:// URL? I don't think so... maybe you mean ftp:// ? Vineet * Jenner Almanzar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010702 14:29]: > how can i set ftp mode to passive in order to download > some files from a website? > > i use this command: > > wget > http://216

Re: USR modem problems

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Garland
I forwarded this installation instruction for a PCI modem: IV. To set Linux to configure the modem upon boot-up. There are several options. One method is going to the /etc/rc.d/ directory, and using an editing program such as "jed" edit the rc.local file, and insert setserial /d

Re: apt-get/dselect-problem

2001-07-09 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 07:48:46PM +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've got four Sid-images (from may) and wanted to update some proggies. > But there weren't any updates for gpgme (lobgpgme0) that doesn't installed > a config-file that is needed to compile my mua with gpg-suppo

Tools to monitor drive throughput

2001-07-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I'm looking for tools that will allow me to monitor how much data is read/write from my drives. Realtime and long term graphing tools would be helpful. TIA, Mike

Re: [users] NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-09 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 06:36:08PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > but anyway, a question for all debianers: how do you get the default > permissions back on the / tree? If you have a clean host with very similar filesystem contents, try this: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "find / -regex '/\(mn

Re: Scroll Wheel

2001-07-09 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:47:05PM -0500, DvB wrote: > After I upgraded to woody, my scroll wheel stopped working and, after > fooling around for an hour or so, I figured out that the only thing > amiss was the fact that my XF86Config file had Emulate3Buttons set to > true (commenting this out fix

Re: [OT] Port numbers

2001-07-09 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers and http://www.xploiter.com/security/ports.html These are 2 that I have found useful = Regards- Tim Stetson Whiskey Sour Nuhn O. Yobiznez Licq # 14373626 Why?.Why not?..Why not try?

Re: USR modem problems

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Garland
- Original Message - From: "Jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian List" Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 12:10 PM Subject: USR modem problems > I recently purchased a USR internal 56k PCI modem (model 3CP5610A), but > I've had no luck getting it working on my woody box. In the > instructi

Re: LC_*

2001-07-09 Thread Carsten Lund
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:27:24AM +0200, Jesper Holmberg wrote: > In which file should I put my LC_* statements (e.g. LC_CTYPE=se_SV) so > that they are globally valid? > > TIA > > Jesper > On my system it is in /etc/environment. -- Carsten Lund Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: msttcorefonts package and X fonts?

2001-07-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Geoffrey Romer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: gr> Does anyone know of a workaround to incorporate those fonts into X gr> in the absence of defoma support in-package? I have already done gr> the following: gr> -ensured that the line gr> dir "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" This isn't the p

Re: Scroll Wheel

2001-07-09 Thread Craig Dickson
Jesper Holmberg wrote: > What is the recommended way of adding support for the scroll wheel > (Logitech mouse) under X4.0.3 and Woody? I have the Microsoft Optical Intellimouse (using the USB-to-PS/2 adapter so as not to use up one of my two USB ports) with a wheel plus side buttons; the logic sh

RE: mc (Midnight Commander): View (F3) does not work on a .deb file?

2001-07-09 Thread Marc Wilson
It's because the output from 'file' has changed, and mc is no longer able to parse it. You can diddle /etc/magic to deal with it... look at the bug list for 'file' for details (I don't have the bug number handy). - Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwi

Re: sharing /home and swap space between two Linux systems

2001-07-09 Thread Christoph Schaefer
Salut, On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:59:59PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > I don't know how to tell init where to find the swap. Perhaps > > /etc/inittab tells? > > I was thinking of going back into the installation program and telling it > I wanted to use this partition as a swap space after a

Re: Scroll Wheel

2001-07-09 Thread DvB
Jesper Holmberg wrote: What is the recommended way of adding support for the scroll wheel (Logitech mouse) under X4.0.3 and Woody? TIA Jesper After I upgraded to woody, my scroll wheel stopped working and, after fooling around for an hour or so, I figured out that the only thing amiss w

Re: XFree86 Rel. 4.1 Keyboard Configuration (SPARC)

2001-07-09 Thread Theodore Knab
Hello Mr. XFree86 guru, I was wondering where you got XFree86 4.1.0 I can't find it? I am using potato. I don't know how to setup Woody yet. How do you do it? As for you answer, these docs may help you: You could always connect these people for their config file. http://lists.debian.org/debian

Re: Reiserfs and disk spindown: separate /var partition?

2001-07-09 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 09-Jul 01:51, Christian Jaeger wrote: > At 12:43 Uhr +0200 9.7.2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: > >xfs can put the logfile on another physical disk (I don't think you can > >put it into a file, but only raw partitions). So, get yourself two HD's > >(a big one and a small one), install your system on

LC_*

2001-07-09 Thread Jesper Holmberg
In which file should I put my LC_* statements (e.g. LC_CTYPE=se_SV) so that they are globally valid? TIA Jesper

Testing for Kylix compatibility fails (potato)

2001-07-09 Thread Pete Harlan
Borland's pre-install script for Kylix tests for a libc bug that it claims exists in Potato. I've included the output of its test script below. Does anyone know of a workaround/bugfix? I searched but didn't find anything about this. Presumably it's fixed on Woody/Sid, but I didn't test it there

CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-09 Thread Alan Shutko
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Either the printer has a PS interpreter in it (my LJIIIp has one as an > add-on card) or you need to convert the PS into its flavor of PCL. [...] > I am using CUPS with my printer, and according to the LCD > it is getting PCL data through lp0 even though I sent

Re: Installing device drivers

2001-07-09 Thread David Meiser
1. Yes you need to unzip it. If it is a .gz file, use gunzip. If this gives you a tar file, 'tar tvf ' will show you what is in it, and 'tar xvf ' will extract the files. The file I downloaded is actually a .zip, so I'm good there. However, I'm using Win2K, so getting it onto an ext2

Scroll Wheel

2001-07-09 Thread Jesper Holmberg
What is the recommended way of adding support for the scroll wheel (Logitech mouse) under X4.0.3 and Woody? TIA Jesper

Re: mc (Midnight Commander): View (F3) does not work on a .deb file?

2001-07-09 Thread Shaul Karl
> > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > Trying to View (F3) a deb file from within mc (Midnight Commander) > > gives me a red Error box with the message: `Empty output from child > > filter' > > > > It seems to me that the problem is my respective lines in ~/.mc/bindings: > > > > [13

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-09 Thread Pete Harlan
> The reason why the run levels are specified was to handle cases where > An LSB application may wish to have some kind of daemon which is only > running when X11/xdm is running. > > Now, we could have added yet another level of indirection (in computer I'm probably missing something here, but

msttcorefonts package and X fonts?

2001-07-09 Thread Geoffrey Romer
I've been trying to get anti-aliased fonts working in X, and as part of that effort, I've installed the msttcorefonts package, containing a selection of handy TrueType fonts. Unfortunately, msttcorefonts doesn't use defoma (there's a bug open on that, tho), and consequently I can't seem to access t

Who's got a cheap scanner working?

2001-07-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'd like to add a cheap scanner (probably USB) to my machine, running debian potato. I don't need to do anything fancy, but would like basic scanning to work. It looks like I can get more than enough power from something like the Visioneer Photoport 7700 or the UMAX Astra 3400. Can anyone share suc

applying a patch to nullmailer

2001-07-09 Thread john gennard
1. Early in June, Noah Meyerhans gave me advice on how to make a .deb using 'apt-get source -b ' in conjunction with 'deb-src http:// debian. ' in /etc/apt/sources.list. 2. I needed to do things that way since the only .deb available to me required glibc2.2 which I did not have and to com

Re: apt-get/dselect-problem

2001-07-09 Thread Martin Bretschneider
moin moin der.hans! On Sun, 8 Jul 2001 12:26:25 -0700 (MST) you were able to write: > Am 08. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Martin Bretschneider so: > > > I've got four Sid-images (from may) and wanted to update some > > proggies. But there weren't any updates for gpgme (lobgpgme0) that > > doesn't installe

Re: sharing /home and swap space between two Linux systems

2001-07-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:59:59PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: | On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: | > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:46:50AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: | > | The most obvious problem with this is | > | | > | 1) a) My user id on SuSE is 500. My user id on Debian is 1000. Clearly I | > |

dpkg status file

2001-07-09 Thread Dale Miller
I accidentally deleted my status file in /var/lib/dpkg. Is there any way to rebuld this? Thanks Dale Miller begin:vcard n:Miller;Dale tel;cell:613-720-5907 tel;fax:613-722-7610 tel;work:613-792-4780 x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;;Suite 200 - 1565 Carling Ave ;Ottawa;Ontario;K1Z 8R1;Canada version:

I can't start with mutt

2001-07-09 Thread Krzysztof Mazurczyk
Hi there, Long time I have used M$ OE (till now) but now i'm switching to mutt. But mutt displays after start: /var/spool/mail/myuser is not a mailbox and displays no posts. My mailbox was written by procmail after fetching mail from server. All permissions to dirs and mailbox seems to be set corr

Re: sharing /home and swap space between two Linux systems

2001-07-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:46:50AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > | The most obvious problem with this is > | > | 1) a) My user id on SuSE is 500. My user id on Debian is 1000. Clearly I > | will need to reconcile these. I think I would prefer to change my De

Re: upgrading to kernel 2.4.5

2001-07-09 Thread cprasley
> > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:03:59PM +, Victor wrote: > > > I've a wonderful debian 2.2r3 laptop, almost perfectly set up and > > > working greatly and stable. > > > > > > My simple question is: > > > > > > Is there any advantage to upgrade my box to kernel 2.4.5? > > > > If you're happy w

Re: PS/2 mouse problems

2001-07-09 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
okay , i think you should tell X that the device you are to use is /dev/psaux

Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba

2001-07-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
One alternative is magicfilter: apt-get install magicfilter you can then use magicfilterconfig to set up the printer. It's pretty hard to mess up, and the resulting setup lets you send pretty much anything: text, postscript, dvi, pdf, graphics files, etc., and they are recognized and printed. --

Re: kernel upgrade

2001-07-09 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Rafael Sasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I`m running a box with Debian Potato 2.2r3 and yesterday I did an upgrade > on my kernel to the 2.4.6. > I read the Linux Kernel HOWTO and I think i did every thing writen there. But > when I boot to my new kernel the modules are not find. > I did a make

Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba

2001-07-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:18:06AM -0500, Jorge Santos wrote: | Hello, | | I'm trying to print from my Woody to an HP on a Win9x machine, I | currently can print text (using LPRng and the smbprint script as input | filter) but I'm clueless as to the way to print postcript files. Has | anyone done

Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:35:54AM +0200, christophe barbé wrote: | On machine with only one user, it's a waste of time to return to gdm | to halt your machine. | | gshutdown allows to halt or restart your machine from the gnome session. Only when run as root. I recently noticed that program and

Re: kernel-image

2001-07-09 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:53:32AM +0200, Jesper Holmberg wrote: > I recently installed Potato from discs, and then dist-upgraded to > Woody. Now, I was looking into the subject of kernels, and I find I > have no package named kernel-image, although of course there exists > one (2.2.17 it seems) in

Re: [users] NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-09 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Sun, 08 Jul 2001 04:17:34PM -0400): > I tried, in a subdir of /root, the command > chmod -R o-rwx .* > It changed the permissions on the parent directory, > the parent's parent directory, all the way up. > > Now only root can use my computer. > > Was chmod suppos

Re: [users] Re: [OT] detecting the RAM speed

2001-07-09 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Brian Nelson (on Sun, 08 Jul 2001 09:27:54AM -0400): > Well, I guess one way you could tell would be from the memory chips' > latency. For 133MHz, it would have to be lower than 7.5ns (inverse of > 133MHz) to be able to run. Can memtest86 detect the latency? Or > maybe the latency is

Re: kernel-image

2001-07-09 Thread John Hasler
Jesper writes: > Now, what would I do if I wanted to upgrade the kernel to 2.2.X or > 2.4.X,... Install the kernel-image package of your choice, or install the kernel-source package of your choice, install kernel-package, and compile your own kernel. I suggest the latter. > ...and why don't I ha

kernel upgrade

2001-07-09 Thread Rafael Sasaki
Hi, I`m running a box with Debian Potato 2.2r3 and yesterday I did an upgrade on my kernel to the 2.4.6. I read the Linux Kernel HOWTO and I think i did every thing writen there. But when I boot to my new kernel the modules are not find. I did a make modules and make modules_install and it didn`t

Re: Digital camera and Linux

2001-07-09 Thread Hall Stevenson
> The only major drawbacks to this camera: My biggest complaint about the camera was it's "auto-focus" feature was way too slow. And with the camera being balanced, or not balanced, the way it is, actually pressing the "take a picture" button could often cause the camera to move just ever so sl

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2001-07-09 Thread E-Xpress Compu
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Re: Microsoft Reader... argh!

2001-07-09 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greets, I bit my tongue with this original post.. I just registered for school and sat down with my wonderful councillor to finger out my schedule for the next four+ years of courses. I don't plan to do computers for profit, just kicks (needed for financial aid). As she started quoting of

Re: modem diagnostic?

2001-07-09 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Still can't seem to dial out ... In any case, undo whatever -Running Linux- told you to do (simplest way is to purge and reinstall ppp). Then run pppconfig as root, follow instructions, and try to connect with pon. If you have trouble, run plog and post the ou

kernel-image

2001-07-09 Thread Jesper Holmberg
I recently installed Potato from discs, and then dist-upgraded to Woody. Now, I was looking into the subject of kernels, and I find I have no package named kernel-image, although of course there exists one (2.2.17 it seems) in /boot. Now, what would I do if I wanted to upgrade the kernel to 2.2.X

Re: Apache, mod_auth_pam, pam_krb4, and you

2001-07-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: > The KTH distribution, installed from the following .debs: > > kerberos4kth-dev > kerberos4kth-user > kerberos4kth1 > > On Monday 09 July 2001 11:35, you wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: > > > I'm going slowly insane

Re: windows manager list in KDM

2001-07-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Karsten Heymann wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:00:38PM -0500 or thereabouts, techlists wrote: > > > ... > > > After the update I select to install GDM, to make sure everything is working > > fine. Once installed and after a reboot, GDM comes up and I see in its > > s

Re: creating a local mirror

2001-07-09 Thread Angus D Madden
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:06:51PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > we are using a local debian mirror for several reasons. we let rsync > run on one of the official servers once a week over the weekend, and > still have security.debian.org in the sources.list files on all > workstations. however,

Re: sharing /home and swap space between two Linux systems

2001-07-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:46:50AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: | Dear People, | | I'm planning to buy a new computer and install Debian on it. I haven't got | around to the buying yet, and I had a spare 2 Gig on one of the drives of | my current computer, so I decided to install Debian on it. The i

Re: Digital camera and Linux

2001-07-09 Thread Angus D Madden
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:39:20AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > This made me think the floppy thing was not viable. How does it > work out for you? > I'll put in another recommendation for the Mavica. I bought an ancient Sony Mavica FD-73 about a month ago and it does exactly what I need

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread olgnuby
The following is an excerpt from a message I was going to post the day before I decided to go ahead and make the leap anyway. ;-) -- OK! Deb. You win. Been used to doing things my way all my life and a lot of time's I'm used to doing things other Linux ways. Taking a good laugh at my

Re: [OT] Port numbers

2001-07-09 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
"Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In what documentation/manpage/whatever can I find a list of ports and > their numbers (like the ports for telnet, http, etc.)? /etc/services > And also I'd like to know how to see which ports my computer has open. It think netstat can show you

Re: Internet connection

2001-07-09 Thread Kent West
John Hasler wrote: D-Man writes: Why do you say the [/dev/modem] link is a bad idea (serious question)? Locking. There was a discussion on this a couple of years ago; last I heard, Debian had just about that time become smart enough to check a symbolic link and lock the files appropria

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