Re: XFree86 4.0.3 configuration

2001-07-13 Thread florentin ionescu
Sorry for the inconvenience but I am used Hotmail web-mail because can't use pine, have no X server running! I attached the original question please Thank you. From: Bek Oberin To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.3 configuration Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 13:18:13 +1000

"man" command made easy?

2001-07-13 Thread john smith
Hi, I was just wondering...I don't know if this topic is for this list but...is there a book or link somewhere that gives easier examples of how to do the correct syntax for "man" something. This probably won't be any problems to you unix gurus out there but if I wanted to do something and I d

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:13:38PM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:58:59PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:16:33PM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > > [snip] > > > I took a look at this, where the virtual consoles are created, and see > now > > >

Re: [OT] job title

2001-07-13 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach D-Man (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:26:51PM -0400): > Haha! That's good (although I am not familiar with german culture to > appreciate the connotations it may have). It makes it sound like you > are a powerful magician or something ;-). or an excorcist :) martin; (greetings

Re: support for video card

2001-07-13 Thread Bek Oberin
Amit Uttam wrote: > tell me how to install this video card so that i can run > xwindows or something so that at least i can use my debian os > because the command line thing is confusing Can I quote this in my sig? Pretty please? bekj -- : Usual state: (e) None of the above. : [EMAIL PROTECT

support for video card

2001-07-13 Thread Amit Uttam
Hi, I am a newbie that is tryting to experiment with debian/linux/GNU. So I ordered the 2.2r potato release so that I could install it on my HP Pavillion XH226 laptop. This laptop has system configuration that is given below. I first formatted my hard drive then I created two partitions, a fat32 fo

Re: XFree86 4.0.3 configuration

2001-07-13 Thread Bek Oberin
florentin ionescu wrote: [-- text/html is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --] Please post in plain text. HTML isn't standard for this list at least. bekj -- : Usual state: (e) None of the above. : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : What we can easily see is on

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-13 Thread David J. Roundy
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:58:59PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:16:33PM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > [snip] > > I took a look at this, where the virtual consoles are created, and see now > > how both my problem were caused. Somehow one of the init.d scripts (I > > t

XFree86 4.0.3 configuration

2001-07-13 Thread florentin ionescu
Hello , I upgraded to Woody/Testing and implicit to XFree86 4.xx.  Now, my problem is that I can't configure the  XF86Config anymore.(ATI Xpert98 video card, I never had problem with it before.)  The file XF86Config-4 I generated with "XFree86 -configure" (because the one generated with XF86Setu

Re: Selecting windows manager. Video card. Help.

2001-07-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:32:55PM -0400, Raul T Rodriguez wrote: > 1. I can't remember what's the command (script) to select the default > windows manager. Can someone remind me? $ update-alternatives --config x-window-manager > 2. What's the needed module for video card GA-6VX7B-4X? I can't get

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:16:33PM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: [snip] > I took a look at this, where the virtual consoles are created, and see now > how both my problem were caused. Somehow one of the init.d scripts (I > think it was kdm itself) didn't return, so init didn't finish reading > thr

Re: Netscape Plugins

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:36:14PM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > > I'm sync'd to Unstable as of a few days ago. But this is a > problem that's stayed there through many upgrades of Netscape. > > It won't recognize plugins. > > I have installed RealPlayer via the debian package and it kept > telli

Re: Repeat: Problem with Postgresql database

2001-07-13 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:43:05AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > I tryed that. I can get in by the postgres user but cannot > create a user from there. It does not give me an error message > but does not create the user eather. if you can get into the database as user postgres from the command l

Netscape Plugins

2001-07-13 Thread Bek Oberin
I'm sync'd to Unstable as of a few days ago. But this is a problem that's stayed there through many upgrades of Netscape. It won't recognize plugins. I have installed RealPlayer via the debian package and it kept telling me it wasn't installed but then I installed it via the "click here" you g

Re: DocBook User Documentation

2001-07-13 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:07:36PM -0400, David H. Silber wrote: > Greetings, > > I would like to use DocBook to create the documentation for a project > I'm working on (see signature) but have been unable to find instructions > for generating various formats of output. hey, dbcoder looks interes

Re: The format (or lack thereof) of the list...

2001-07-13 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:01:39PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > Here's what I do (lots of > irrelevant options snipped): > > -- > # work-around broken mailing list software > set ignore_list_reply_to = yes > > set forward_format = "FW: %s" > >

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:56:03PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > > Hi (Jim and D): > > Some further notes. The dist-upgrade seems to get stuck trying > to install libc6-dev2.2.3-5 ( it seems to think that > this depends on libc62.2.1 ) but this is not available in testing: > > trying to

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-13 Thread David J. Roundy
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:14:53PM -0400, Jeld The Dark Elf wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:31:08AM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > > Hello all. I recently ran into a strange (to me, at least) problem on my > > debian computer at home. All of the virtual consoles are here. I can > > still us

rfc-ignorant.org (WAS Re: damn. so much for MAPS)

2001-07-13 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:53:55PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > > at first, i am looking for other interested parties with the > capacities to help out. then, maybe we can find some true believing > company that will help us towards replacing MAPS. it's got to stay > free, after all... I alre

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-13 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi (Jim and D): Some further notes. The dist-upgrade seems to get stuck trying to install libc6-dev2.2.3-5 ( it seems to think that this depends on libc62.2.1 ) but this is not available in testing: trying to overwrite /usr/bin/rpcgen which is also in package netbase dpkg-deb: subprocess paste k

Re: Well I don't know for sure ...

2001-07-13 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:00:51PM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > will trillich wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:56:44PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:57:42AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > > > > > > i must say, that was the best laugh i've had in a looong

Re: damn. so much for MAPS

2001-07-13 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:53:55PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/13/0513251 > > i have already started setting up my own RBL domain at > rbl.madduck.net. the resources are *not* enough to host for hundreds, > [...] > > thoughts, ideas? i've been follow

Re: CVS breaks Makefile -- SOLVED

2001-07-13 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:35:37AM -0700, der.hans wrote: > Am 13. Jul, 2001 schwäzte will trillich so: > > > how can i do that with > > # perl > > $VERSION = '$some-magic-CVS-incantation$'; > > OK, you've got single-quotes here again. You'll need those or $Revision > becomes a variable t

Re: AMD T-Bird + Potato = ?

2001-07-13 Thread Roland Krocin
T-birds run very well on linux in general. Im running a 1.1ghz SDR and a 1.4ghz DDR with not a single issue. Watch out for the heat though - Original Message - From: "Case, Benjamin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 4:09 PM Subject: AMD T-Bird + Potato = ? > How w

Re: LILO question

2001-07-13 Thread Mannequin*
"mjevans1983011" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Duh; sorry I forgot about this... I don't know if you can get away with > doing this the easy way. > > Ok first stage, Lilo is installed on /dev/hda so it's in the MBR. Second > you need to make /dev/hdb1 ACTIVE. If you do not know how to do this r

Error compiling kernel 2.4.6 with kernel-package

2001-07-13 Thread Jan Tammen
Hi, I'm trying to compile kernel version 2.4.6 with the latest 'kernel-package' [7.50]. Here's the program's output: tarawa:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg kernel_image [compiling fine ... snipped] install: cannot stat `debian/README.Debian': No such file or directory debian/tmp-source/usr/share/doc/ker

Re: dpkg problem

2001-07-13 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:02:03AM -0700, David Fuchs wrote: > Joost Kooij wrote: > >Don't use dpkg for this directly, use dselect, the proper frontend. > > Alright, sir, I believe we're vitiating the goal of this mailing > list. It would be wonderful if you could back up the monomaniacle >

Re: ISOs for Debian PPC and x86

2001-07-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
Start reading at http://cdimage.debian.org/ have fun. Vineet * Patrick Klee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010702 14:34]: > Hi, > How do I make ISOs for Debian Potato on PPC and x86 architecture? > Can someone point me to a HOWTO or does someone know how to do it? > > Cheers, > Patrick > > > --

Packages for Galeon???

2001-07-13 Thread jim_harritt
Any idea when galeon 0.11.1 and mozilla 0.9.2 will be rolled into the unstable release? I have picked up: galeon0.11.1-1 mozilla 0.9.1-4 mozilla-browser 0.9.1-4 mozilla-browser-cvs 0.0.20010710.01.trunk mozilla-chatzilla

Re: linksys nc100 problem. modversions.h not found.

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:27:11PM -0700, crombie wrote: | hi, | | attempting to install linksys nc100 ethernet card on I haven't heard of the nc100 yet, but ... | debian potato. when compiling using that long gcc | command, | | gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet | -Wall -

RE: LILO question

2001-07-13 Thread mjevans1983011
Duh; sorry I forgot about this... I don't know if you can get away with doing this the easy way. Ok first stage, Lilo is installed on /dev/hda so it's in the MBR. Second you need to make /dev/hdb1 ACTIVE. If you do not know how to do this read 'man fdisk'. You only need to make it active, not o

Re: [OT] job title

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 01:21:39AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: | also sprach D-Man (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 07:06:05PM -0400): | > | > "Rechnerbeschwoerer" | > | > So what's the literal translation? | literally, this is the "incantation" or "conjuration" of computers... Haha! That's good (a

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:34:59AM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: | Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > ray p wrote: | > | > > Or better yet get putty. It supports SSH 2 with public key | > > authentication. And is small enough that you can put a key the | > > client and the scp and sftp (FTP

Re: damn. so much for MAPS

2001-07-13 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Jason Thomas (on Sat, 14 Jul 2001 10:06:48AM +1000): > make is so other can automatically mirror it easily, that would probably > take the load off of your resources. well, sure thing, but if such a project starts (freerbl.org btw), then we would still want it to be centralized so that

Re: damn. so much for MAPS

2001-07-13 Thread Jason Thomas
make is so other can automatically mirror it easily, that would probably take the load off of your resources. On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:53:55PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/13/0513251 > > i have already started setting up my own RBL domain at > rbl.ma

Re: linksys nc100 problem. modversions.h not found.

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Again Crombie My bad. The package you need to get is the kernel-headers package, not the kernel-source, for that file. Still, you might wanna check out the kernel-source anyway. Sorry 'bout that! Jim Richards o _ _ _

Re: linksys nc100 problem. modversions.h not found.

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:27:11PM -0700, crombie wrote: > hi, > > attempting to install linksys nc100 ethernet card on > debian potato. when compiling using that long gcc > command, > > gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet > -Wall -Wstrict -prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c > '[ -f

Selecting windows manager. Video card. Help.

2001-07-13 Thread Raul T Rodriguez
1. I can't remember what's the command (script) to select the default windows manager. Can someone remind me? 2. What's the needed module for video card GA-6VX7B-4X? I can't get a good resolution despite automatic recognition of card by installer (XF86Configure). 3. For AC' 97 sound card? Tha

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-13 Thread Stig Brautaset
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ray p wrote: > > > Or better yet get putty. It supports SSH 2 with public key > > authentication. And is small enough that you can put a key the > > client and the scp and sftp (FTP tunnled through SSH) client on ~2 > > floppies It can be run from the flopp

Re: Problems with ATI Rage 128 RF video card (signal 11, symbols)

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello Dark Elf, I have some suggestions that might work. I didn't really see an unresolved symbol problem myself, but maybe I missed it. I'm running unstable myself, so your package may be a little differently named depending on what version of debian you're using. But I would sugg

linksys nc100 problem. modversions.h not found.

2001-07-13 Thread crombie
hi, attempting to install linksys nc100 ethernet card on debian potato. when compiling using that long gcc command, gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall -Wstrict -prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c '[ -f /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ] && echo -DMODVERSIONS` i get errors w

Re: [OT] job title

2001-07-13 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach D-Man (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 07:06:05PM -0400): > | > "Rechnerbeschwoerer" > > So what's the literal translation? that's almost difficult. german is agglutenating, as you all know. so the word above is a combination of two words, "rechner" and "beschwoerer" (the 'oe' is really an o-U

Re: missing consoles

2001-07-13 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:31:08AM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > Hello all. I recently ran into a strange (to me, at least) problem on my > debian computer at home. All of the virtual consoles are here. I can > still use ctrl-alt-[1-7], but there are no login prompts (although gpm > still work

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:46:24PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > Either set up a DNS server for your local network > or add some entries to /etc/hosts. sendmail likes > to be able to resolve its IP address into an FQDN > and will bitch if it can't. Sorry to go off on a tangle, but how is all this

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 06:49:43PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: | Hi: | | I am trying to upgrade testing on my second machine (apt-get | update; apt-get dist-upgrade) but it aborts. So I first tried to | install debconf ( apt-get install debconf ) and I get: | | Extra Packages to be in

Re: Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 06:49:43PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > > I am trying to upgrade testing on my second machine (apt-get > update; apt-get dist-upgrade) but it aborts. So I first tried to > install debconf ( apt-get install debconf ) and I get: > > Extra Packages to be in

Re: Building an SRPM on Debian?

2001-07-13 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
2 things you can do: 1. Read the .spec file and applie the patches in the order they are mentioned there. 2. Run /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb --initdb ( or whereever debian puts it ) and try to rpm again :) On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:14:50AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > I have an SRPM that I need to bui

Re: [OT] job title

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:19:01AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: | also sprach Joost Kooij (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:51:14PM +0200): | > "Rechnerbeschwoerer" So what's the literal translation? | cool beans! i'll write that. and if everything fails, you'll hire me, | right? Sure . -D

Re: Exim as a LAN mail server [possibly-OT]

2001-07-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:43:05AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: ... > and would relay(?) messages to the correct SMTP server depending on > the From: header in the message. I'm no mail nor exim guru, so be warned:) I never did this my self, but while reading in the manual I thought the following could b

Re: xfce, can't open display

2001-07-13 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
Try to run xfce_setup then startx. You are not supposed to run startxfce directly. On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:39:09PM +0200, Daniel Laska wrote: > Hi! > As a debian-beginner i managed to confuse my system! > I did this: As I wanted to use xfce, i typed: apt-get update with woody (i > once had po

Re: Exim as a LAN mail server [possibly-OT]

2001-07-13 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Howdy folks, > > I'm setting up a small (2-3 workstations, one server, all debian) > network at home, and I'm trying to implement an idea that I had > for the mail system. My apologies if i

Re: Problems with ATI Rage 128 RF video card (signal 11, symbols)

2001-07-13 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
Hmmm... It doesn't look like it bails out on your video... How did you install X? On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:34:31AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:04:10AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for th

Re: apt-get/dselect-problem

2001-07-13 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:38:47PM +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote: > > If you do not want to update all packages, put the ones that you do > > not want to upgrade on hold. If you want to track only a few packages, > > put everything on hold first and then unhold the few. > > Hm, I yust wanna u

Testing upgrade: Potentially harmful(?) problem

2001-07-13 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I am trying to upgrade testing on my second machine (apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade) but it aborts. So I first tried to install debconf ( apt-get install debconf ) and I get: Extra Packages to be installed: libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-target-perl libmime-base64-perl libper

Re: xdm server

2001-07-13 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:44:58PM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > Hi all. > > I want to configure my xdm server to show login window in > linux network clients. What files should I edit in server > to do that, and in the clients to startx login again xdm server? > The general idea is:

nullmodem connection

2001-07-13 Thread Rainer Hahnekamp
Hello everybody, To make the install of the Linux packages at my ThinkPad (no cdrom or internet connection, only floppy drive) more comfortable I decided to connect the ThinkPad to my PC over a nullmodem connection. My question: What is the easiest way to do this? I have already installed the

Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?

2001-07-13 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:53:37PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > D-Man wrote: > > > Sure it's a "flaw" : suppose someone creates an executable trojan in > > "the current directory" named 'cd'. If '.' is the first thing in the > > path you will execute the trojan rather than the usual /bin/cd. >

Re: [OT] job title

2001-07-13 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:51:14PM +0200): > "Rechnerbeschwoerer" cool beans! i'll write that. and if everything fails, you'll hire me, right? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "

Re: xdm server

2001-07-13 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:44:58PM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > I want to configure my xdm server to show login window in > linux network clients. What files should I edit in server > to do that, and in the clients to startx login again xdm server? Look into /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess. You

damn. so much for MAPS

2001-07-13 Thread Martin F. Krafft
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/13/0513251 i have already started setting up my own RBL domain at rbl.madduck.net. the resources are *not* enough to host for hundreds, but in the light of MAPS being sucked into capitalism, i'd be interested in starting a separate project. you know, CDDB v

Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?

2001-07-13 Thread Craig Dickson
D-Man wrote: > Sure it's a "flaw" : suppose someone creates an executable trojan in > "the current directory" named 'cd'. If '.' is the first thing in the > path you will execute the trojan rather than the usual /bin/cd. s/cd/ls/g for a better argument. cd is a shell builtin; there is no /bin/c

Re: avoid isdn log on the screen

2001-07-13 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:37:28PM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: > How can be avoid a message on the screen: > > 'isdn_net: ipp0 connected' > 'isdn_net: local hangup ippp0' > > It is very disturbing when I write a mail , this message become in the editor. Have you tried typing ctrl-L? in many situa

Re: [OT] job title

2001-07-13 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:32:15PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > now i am trying to type up my vita and i can't find a good job title > for this. i tried "Computertechnischer Berater," but that sounds > awkward. and i don't want to include any english words, such as > computer support technician

test, please ignore

2001-07-13 Thread Brendon Leese
test

Re: Unable to delete file

2001-07-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:17:34PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote: > How is that possible? > > I thought running fsck would help, but it didn't. > > Any ideas? I'm completely stuck now and I've never seen anything like > this before. Have you tried lsattr?

RE: Unable to delete file

2001-07-13 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
Try running "lsattr /usr/share/doc/tk8.2/copyright" and see if the file has the immutable bit set. If it does, "chattr -i" will remove it. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Message- From: Kelly Corbin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 4:18 PM T

Re: mutt package missing mailcap?

2001-07-13 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:47:33PM -0700, Andy Davidson wrote: > I installed mutt using apt-get and have it up and running. Version is 1.2.5i. > > But there does not seem to be any mailcap or mime.types files. Can someone > point me in the right direction as to what I did wrong or more importantl

Re: new.net tlds, resolve.conf, squid

2001-07-13 Thread Joost Kooij
[please hit enter after +/- 70 characters] On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:36:56PM -0600, ray p wrote: > I'm trying to set up my Woody box to see the TLDs served by new.net's > root servers to do this I added the line "search new.net" to my > /etc/resolve.conf now I can ping the servers on the new tlds

Re: Unable to delete file

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:17:34PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade to the unstable release and have hit a major snag. > > Doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' fails with the following message: > > Unable to update link /usr/share/doc/tk8.2/copyright : > Operation not permitted > >

Re: SID out of Date ??

2001-07-13 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
"Case, Benjamin" wrote: > > That makes complete sence. Is 3/10 ancient times as far as SID is concerned > ? I just want to work with the 2.4 kernel, some Xfree 4 stuff, and I know > that there are SID level dependancies that I will need to meet for those. > This is just temporary until my DSL come

Unable to delete file

2001-07-13 Thread Kelly Corbin
I'm trying to upgrade to the unstable release and have hit a major snag. Doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' fails with the following message: Unable to update link /usr/share/doc/tk8.2/copyright : Operation not permitted I've tried to delete/chmod/chown it as root to no avail; I still get the 'Op

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-13 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:20:53PM +0200, "J?rgen A. Erhard" wrote: > > "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joost> If you do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use the > Joost> dpkg available packages database. > > Bullshit. (Sorry, but I even did an strace on

Re: AMD T-Bird + Potato = ?

2001-07-13 Thread Anthony Fox
"Case, Benjamin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How well does the 2.2.19pre17 kernel in Potato? Should I prepare for > any know issues ? I just got a new system with an AMD tbird 1ghz, > and 512mb DDR. I used potato with a 2.2.17 kernel with a 900Mhz Athlon. Worked fine for me. As does 2.4.6. -

AMD T-Bird + Potato = ?

2001-07-13 Thread Case, Benjamin
How well does the 2.2.19pre17 kernel in Potato? Should I prepare for any know issues ? I just got a new system with an AMD tbird 1ghz, and 512mb DDR. ben

Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:57:14PM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote: | The Redhat machine I use at work seems to include ./ in the PATH | variable, I can always run executables from my current directory | without using ./ like on my home debian system. This has always seemed | more convenien

Sound Card Woes

2001-07-13 Thread Jay Latham
Some history on the card. The card is a SB Live value edition that originally came in a Gateway 2000 computer that I bought 2 years ago. I have since turned this box into my server/router running Debian. But before I did that I had installed a number of distros on it (RedHat, Suse, Mandrake...) an

Re: SID out of Date ??

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:46:58PM -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote: | That makes complete sence. Is 3/10 ancient times as far as SID is March is ancient in OSS terms. | concerned ? I just want to work with the 2.4 kernel, some Xfree 4 | stuff, and I know that there are SID level dependancies that I w

./ in PATH, always bad?

2001-07-13 Thread Dan Berdine
The Redhat machine I use at work seems to include ./ in the PATH variable, I can always run executables from my current directory without using ./ like on my home debian system. This has always seemed more convenient to me and I wondered why Debian doesn't do this until I read that it is consi

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-13 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , July 13, John S. J. Anderson did write: > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:31:23 -0500 (CDT), Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> said: > > Richard> I'm a fan of VM, because I'm used to the Emacs keybindings, > Richard> and it's the only MUA I've found which lets you edit messages > R

Re: .bashrc

2001-07-13 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:24:22AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: > On Thursday, July 12, 2001 8:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke: > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:20:52AM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > > > [...] having a problem with .bashrc. It works fine as > > > root but does not get executed wh

RE: SID out of Date ??

2001-07-13 Thread Case, Benjamin
That makes complete sence. Is 3/10 ancient times as far as SID is concerned ? I just want to work with the 2.4 kernel, some Xfree 4 stuff, and I know that there are SID level dependancies that I will need to meet for those. This is just temporary until my DSL comesso I am d/l all of SID to have

RE: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-13 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
Either set up a DNS server for your local network or add some entries to /etc/hosts. sendmail likes to be able to resolve its IP address into an FQDN and will bitch if it can't. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Message- From: Mike Pfleger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [very very OT] noisy power supply

2001-07-13 Thread Rich Puhek
Man... keep that fan blowing, and hard. If the fan is making machanical noise, replace it. If you're not brave enough to slice the "warranty void if removed... no user servicable parts inside..." sticker on the PS, replace the entire power supply. If the noice is coming from the air movement, make

Re: SID out of Date ??

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:53:45PM -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote: | > I am currently d/l all the SID Cd images from | > ftp://ftp.uni-bremen.de/pub/mirrors/debian_cdimages/debian-unofficial/sid/ | > . | > I noticed that they are all dated 3/10/2001. How far behind will these | > discs be ? They'll

Re: RAM size. [OT]

2001-07-13 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
okay, correct me if im wrong. When we are brought up, some are better for electronics, some for programming. Meaning that good programmers make good programs on every architecture. Why should decent schools stick to 68k amiga? thorough time, I learned that good programming practice doesnt constrain

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-13 Thread Erik Steffl
Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm personally using a combination of fetchmail-ssl, procmail, and kmail. > Handles everything I need it to, and a lot more! > > > - Must be able to handle multiple IMAP-based accounts. (not necessarily > > on

Re: Problem upgrading testing: Perl may be unconfigured ..

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:28:17PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Jim: > > I spoke too soon ( my machine is very slow: 66MHz ). I did get > the same error message as before when I tried what you suggested, > but it did not abort. It did install the debconf package and > now

Re: hp5l paraport print insanity

2001-07-13 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:12:18PM -0400, Theodore Knab wrote: > Thanks to my HP5l parallel printer, I very close to entering a parallel state > of consciousness. > > My dilema: > > The printer prints fine in ASCII text mode. > > I am under the assumption that there is something wrong with my /

Re: More SID CD Image questions.

2001-07-13 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 02:56 p.m. 13/07/01 -0500, Case, Benjamin wrote: OK.. I am d/l all of the SID CD's from ftp://ftp.uni-bremen.de/pub/mirrors/debian_cdimages/debian-unofficial/sid/ . Would it be possible to mount those images without burning them to CD. If so, how would I do that ? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-13 Thread Paul Mackinney
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:51:20PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:10:01PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: > > > Try dig -x 192.168.1.45 > > Hi Jim. > > OK. Here's the spew: > > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 55359 > ;; flags: q

More SID CD Image questions.

2001-07-13 Thread Case, Benjamin
OK.. I am d/l all of the SID CD's from ftp://ftp.uni-bremen.de/pub/mirrors/debian_cdimages/debian-unofficial/sid/ . Would it be possible to mount those images without burning them to CD. If so, how would I do that ? ben

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-13 Thread pmackinney
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:10:01PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:40:49AM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:32:35PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > > > Can you resolve 192.168.1.45 into a fully qualified > > > domain name? > > > > Errr... excuse the

SID out of Date ??

2001-07-13 Thread Case, Benjamin
> I am currently d/l all the SID Cd images from > ftp://ftp.uni-bremen.de/pub/mirrors/debian_cdimages/debian-unofficial/sid/ > . > I noticed that they are all dated 3/10/2001. How far behind will these > discs be ? > > ben

Re: Installing Java

2001-07-13 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:41:40PM -0300, Juan wrote: | HI, | | Which packages will I have to install to run & compile Java? And run Java | Server Pages? kaffe might be enough. There are different versions and vendors of Java interpreters so it depends on which one you want. Most aren't DFSG f

Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

2001-07-13 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:10:01PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: > Try dig -x 192.168.1.45 Hi Jim. OK. Here's the spew: ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 55359 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;4

Re: Floppy Installs

2001-07-13 Thread Cam
Hey Joost, Thanks for the info. Guess we gotta start digging out the floppies with my university essays on them. CM On July 13, 2001 03:39 pm, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:02:46PM -0400, CM wrote: > > Do I need to have all of the base-*.bin floppies to get the floppy > > inst

Installing Java

2001-07-13 Thread Juan
HI, Which packages will I have to install to run & compile Java? And run Java Server Pages? Thanks. Juan José Velázquez Garcia Web Development www.htmlspider.com.br

Re: Floppy Installs

2001-07-13 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:02:46PM -0400, CM wrote: > Do I need to have all of the base-*.bin floppies to get the floppy install > going? If you want to install the base system from floppies, then yes. If you can install the base system over the network, then no. You can find the installation ma

Re: Problem upgrading testing: Perl may be unconfigured ..

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:23:00PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > I am running the unstable Debian. I tried upgrading ( apt-get > update; apt-get dist-upgrade ) and it seems to abort somewhere > along the way with: > >Perl may be unconfigured ( can't modigy goto in lvalue subro

Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system

2001-07-13 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:00:22PM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > My suggestion is, use dselect to choose what program to install (dselect will > check for dependencies) use "apt-get dselect-upgrade --print-uris to get the > list of package to download with windo~1. A good idea. But apt-get wi

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