debian: gnome is slower with testing distro

2001-07-19 Thread Brendan J Simon
I've been using testing for a while now on my Apple G4 laptop. I also use some unstable packages but the apt defaults are set to testing. I am using GNOME and Sawmill and I do an apt update/upgrade everyday. In the last month or so I have noticed that GNOME is *really* slow when invoking app

Re: running out of room on root system

2001-07-19 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:00:49PM +0930, Paul Campbell wrote: > First post to this list so bear with me > > hard drive partitions > > hda1root 50meg > hda2swap 100meg > hda3usr2 gig > hda5home 2 gig > hda6fat32storage for transferred win docs etc

running out of room on root system

2001-07-19 Thread Paul Campbell
First post to this list so bear with me hard drive partitions hda1root 50meg hda2swap 100meg hda3usr2 gig hda5home 2 gig hda6fat32storage for transferred win docs etc My problem is a lot of files like to go into root directory. Is there a way to

Re: simple Q a/b '$HOME', etc.

2001-07-19 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:32:41PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 12:21:58AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > > so what is this method of referring to things called? and is there > > somewhere > > i can find a list of all of the "$_" things out there? > > $ set |le

Re: simple Q a/b '$HOME', etc.

2001-07-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 12:21:58AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > so what is this method of referring to things called? and is there somewhere > i can find a list of all of the "$_" things out there? $ set |less will print all environment values and functions. Good luck with linux :-

Re: ipmasq ipchanis; newbie question

2001-07-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:07:12PM -0500, Robert Matijasec wrote: > I am using Debian 2.2 (potato) with ipchains 1.3.9 Yep. Join the club. > I can ping other computers on my network when ipmasq is > disabled. But when it's on I get a operation not permitted > message when I try to ping another m

Re: CRON - Can you make CRON run faster than every minute

2001-07-19 Thread Mike Fedyk
> Thus spake Ian Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hi Debianers, > > > > I need to make CRON run faster than every minute. Every 15 seconds would be > > good. Is this possible ? On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:20:48PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Don't think you can speed it up, but you can have a

simple Q a/b '$HOME', etc.

2001-07-19 Thread R1nso13
i've noticed in a lot of shell scripts for bash items beginning w/ a '$' used to refer to things. for example: i'm pretty sure '$1" refers to any arguments given to the script. so what is this method of referring to things called? and is there somewhere i can find a list of all of the "$_"

Re: exacutables on nfs mounts

2001-07-19 Thread Jor-el
Andrew, This sounds like the noexec flag is in effect. This would prevent executing programs on an NFS mount. Do "mount" and see if the noexec flag shows up as one of the options listed. Regards, Jor-el On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > I've got a perl script here th

Re: CRON - Can you make CRON run faster than every minute

2001-07-19 Thread Robert L. Harris
Don't think you can speed it up, but you can have a script run once a min, sleep 15, run, sleep 15, run, etc. If you ahve to: cron1 * * * * * command cron2 * * * * * sleep 15; command cron3 * * * * * sleep 30; command cron4 * * * * * sleep 45; command which is real ugly, but will w

Re: IPTABLES

2001-07-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > How do i get iptables to log packets that it DROPs? No way directly. When I need log packets I use two nearly identical iptables statements, like so when I block outgoing NetBIOS packets:

Re: asp visual basic on linux

2001-07-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > You might try asp2php, which is supposed to convert visual basic asp to > php. My opinion is that php is superior to asp in almost every respect. That's a highly subjective statement, but

RE:get ip from DHCP server

2001-07-19 Thread Andrew Agno
Phil Reardon writes: > Our mixed windows/linux network got a new router, and now we have > to get our ip addresses dynamically. How do I set things up to use > dhcp during boot up? Use dselect to grab one of the DHCP clients: dhclient and dhcpcd have both worked for me (while pump hasn't). If

Re: fetchmail, mutt, masqmail

2001-07-19 Thread Paul Wright
Hi all, Get rid of fetchmail and use masqmail to fetch your mails as well as to que and deliver them. I do this and have no problems retrieving mail from two different mail servers. Masqmail also supports apop which does not send your mail password unencrypted like pop3 does. You can use au

Re: Where is the kernel source?

2001-07-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:40:24PM -0500, Jor-el wrote: > Hi, > > The kernel image that my system uses appears to be from the > package kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-ide . One would expect that the source > code to this .deb would be found in the corresponding source package - i.e > in kernel-sou

Re: asp visual basic on linux

2001-07-19 Thread Matthew Garman
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:50:20PM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: > Try chilisoft > > Wayne > > On Thursday 19 July 2001 15:48, Matt Fair wrote: > > Hello, > > I have some asp software that is written in visual basic. All I have is > > linux machines for servers and I do not want to get a windows ma

Re: TIME, DATE and CRON... trap for the unwary

2001-07-19 Thread David Z Maze
Ian Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: IP> Hi All, IP> Just came across a point about Time and Date and CRON which could cause a IP> problem for those who are unaware. IP> IP> If you have CRON running and you set back the Date or Time backwards, CRON IP> will not run until at least the old time has

Where is the kernel source?

2001-07-19 Thread Jor-el
Hi, The kernel image that my system uses appears to be from the package kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-ide . One would expect that the source code to this .deb would be found in the corresponding source package - i.e in kernel-source-2.2.18pre21-ide . But it isnt there. www.kernel.org no longer

Re: Gnome under Debian

2001-07-19 Thread Craig Holyoak
On 20 Jul 2001 09:44:28 +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > I was using Gnome from the time I started with Debian, > some 11 months back. I since went on to Helix Gnome and > then Ximian - which I now wish I hadn't. > > When I start up my Ximian desktop, I get multiple copies > of both midnight commander

Help with creating installation CDs

2001-07-19 Thread Giri X
hi I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux on my PC. I wanted to know if i culd burn the images that are in formats like .bin, .exe, .bat and use them for installation. I have access to CD writers only on Windows. The CD writer software is DirectCD. Thanx and Regards Girix Free Software--- cos

Re: X windows /Gnome

2001-07-19 Thread Marshal Wong
Ramachandran Chidambaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed Debian 2.2 from CD. Installation is fine > but X window or Gnome do not get installed. I have > tried number of times the installation with various > parameters. No result. I have Compaq Presario 4840 > series PentiumII 266Mhz, wit

Re: bad net connection in Woody and Sid

2001-07-19 Thread John Hasler
Jeremy writes: > My connection works fine if I use pon, but I prefer wvdial because of the > auto-redial and the visual feedback that I can watch. Installing pppstatus will give you visual feedback, and enabling 'persist' in pppconfig will give you auto-redial. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Da

get ip from DHCP server

2001-07-19 Thread Phil Reardon
HI: Our mixed windows/linux network got a new router, and now we have to get our ip addresses dynamically. How do I set things up to use dhcp during boot up? TIA, PCR

IPTABLES

2001-07-19 Thread dude
How do i get iptables to log packets that it DROPs? thankx

Re: New-to-Debian

2001-07-19 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:52:00PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Sam Varghese muttered: > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:52:53AM +1000, K.P wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I am NEW to the world of Linux and Debian has come higly recommended in > > > > Australia for its versatility. I have not tried

bad net connection in Woody and Sid

2001-07-19 Thread Jeremy
I've had a problem with connecting to the net after upgrading from Potato to Woody or Sid. I use Wvdial to connect to the internet, and when I use it in Potato, it works just fine, but under Woody and Sid, it acts like it's connecting, but if I try to access anything (ssh, lynx, etc) it tells me

Re: burning a data CD under devfs?

2001-07-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > xcdroast and gcombust both fail to create a data CD under devfs > as there are no /dev/sg* device files. > > Does anyone know how to create a data CD under devfs? > > Alternatively, what do I do to turn off devfs (long enough to > burn a CD? rebooting?) Turns out the new kernel I r

Re: gotmail

2001-07-19 Thread Andy Saxena
If you just started getting this error, log into hotmail itself. The interface has changed :). That might explain the problem. -Andy On Thursday July 19 2001 15:36, The Doc wrote: > If anyone out there uses gotmail, have you been getting this error, or one > like it -- and if so, do you know ho

Re: X question

2001-07-19 Thread Andy Saxena
It has to do with keymapping. I am feeling too lazy to look up my notes now, and hopefully somebody will come along to help. In the meanwhile use for Home and for End, if you aren't already :). -Andy On Thursday July 19 2001 14:57, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > > I have upgraded to woody with

Re: PHP4(fixed one problem, now I have another)-SOLVED

2001-07-19 Thread Wayne Sitton
There was a mysql lib that was corupted. I started doing manual quaries on my database and was able to track it down. Wayne On Thursday 19 July 2001 20:23, you wrote: > Wayne Sitton wrote: > > Part of my problem was apache. I had installed apache & php4 before I > > upgraded it to woody. Some

Re: Cannot play Audio Cds but Data cds fine...

2001-07-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Cannot play Audio Cds but Data cds fine... Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:51:45PM +0100 In reply to:Wayne Quoting Wayne([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, Can anyone help me with this problem: > I have an IDE cdwriter > (Ricoh mp7080a) and have succesfully recompiled the kernel w

Re: Soundblaster 16

2001-07-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
Many SB16 cards can be configured to select PnP or a fixed IRQ. If yours has that capability, you should definitely use a fixed IRQ. In my case, I created /etc/modutils/sb with the following line: options io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=330 I then ran 'update-modules' (which creates /etc/mo

Re: X windows /Gnome

2001-07-19 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:13:00AM -0700, Ramachandran Chidambaram wrote: > I installed Debian 2.2 from CD. Installation is fine > but X window or Gnome do not get installed. I have > tried number of times the installation with various > parameters. No result. I have Compaq Presario 4840 > series P

Re: X snapshot at start of X

2001-07-19 Thread Erik Steffl
harsha wrote: > > hi, >I have noticed this wierd thing happening. I am using KDE 2.0 This is what > is happening. > > I start a X session as user foo. > I start another Xsession as user foobar. > > While starting the Xession as foobar. I get a snapshot of the full screen of > session of fo

CRON - Can you make CRON run faster than every minute

2001-07-19 Thread Ian Perry
Hi Debianers, I need to make CRON run faster than every minute. Every 15 seconds would be good. Is this possible ? Thanks Ian

RE: floppy

2001-07-19 Thread Ian Perry
Check the rights of your mount point. Check that the floppy is not write protected. Have you tried a different disk ? Ian -Original Message- From: markus [mailto:markus]On Behalf Of Markus Hansen Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 8:08 AM To: Debian Mailinglist Subject: floppy i dont know w

Re: a 'who called me?' variable?

2001-07-19 Thread Erik Steffl
D-Man wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:51:06AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote: > | Is there an environment variable in bash that can be used to tell where > | bash is running from? For example, is there a variable I can test in > | my .bashrc to tell whether I am running remotly, from a

TIME, DATE and CRON... trap for the unwary

2001-07-19 Thread Ian Perry
Hi All, Just came across a point about Time and Date and CRON which could cause a problem for those who are unaware. If you have CRON running and you set back the Date or Time backwards, CRON will not run until at least the old time has been reached again. A quick reboot solves the problem. Ian

Re: XF86Config-4 files for new Dell Inspiron 4000

2001-07-19 Thread Andrew Over
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:30:07PM -0500, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > This pertains primarily to the Progeny configuration of XFree86 4.0.x when > run on a very recent (last few days) Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. I have the exact same laptop working happily with the 4.1 prerelease available from the X

Re: asp visual basic on linux

2001-07-19 Thread Wayne Sitton
Try chilisoft Wayne On Thursday 19 July 2001 15:48, Matt Fair wrote: > Hello, > I have some asp software that is written in visual basic. All I have is > linux machines for servers and I do not want to get a windows machine just > to run this ASP application. Is there a way were I could get thi

ipmasq ipchanis; newbie question

2001-07-19 Thread Robert Matijasec
I am using Debian 2.2 (potato) with ipchains 1.3.9 attempting to get ip masquerading to work. I can ping other computers on my network when ipmasq is disabled. But when it's on I get a operation not permitted message when I try to ping another machine. So as someone hinted before, this is probab

Re: Cannot play Audio Cds but Data Cds are fine (used to work)

2001-07-19 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/19/01 23:15:43 +0100, Wayne wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone help me with this problem: > I have an IDE cdwriter (Ricoh mp7080a) and have succesfully recompiled the > kernel with scsi emulation etc and can now burn cds. (great) BTW I am running > Potato 2.2.19pre21. Before doing the above audio c

Gnome under Debian

2001-07-19 Thread Sam Varghese
I was using Gnome from the time I started with Debian, some 11 months back. I since went on to Helix Gnome and then Ximian - which I now wish I hadn't. When I start up my Ximian desktop, I get multiple copies of both midnight commander and Netscape opening up. I have looked in every possible locat

Re: New-to-Debian

2001-07-19 Thread Sam Varghese
Sam Varghese muttered: > > The best resource for new users IMHO is Bill McCarty's > > book which is online at: > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html Paul Mackinney wrote: > Thanks, Sam! I'm quickly becoming an Oreilly addict, didn't know they > had a Debian-specific titl

Re: MP3 players

2001-07-19 Thread Craig Holyoak
On 19 Jul 2001 08:37:20 -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:20:44 -0700 > Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > > > > > After reading your mail, I tried each of the output plugins. Only one > > > produced any sound at all and of course

Re: a 'who called me?' variable?

2001-07-19 Thread Craig Dickson
Craig Dickson wrote: > I use the following script, which determines the appropriate value [...] > appropriately [...] Ouch. I really should proofread more carefully. Craig

Re: a 'who called me?' variable?

2001-07-19 Thread Dan Berdine
On Thursday 19 July 2001 04:26 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > Dan Berdine wrote: > > Is there an environment variable in bash that can be used to tell > > where bash is running from? For example, is there a variable I can > > test in my .bashrc to tell whether I am running remotly, from a > > tty, fro

Re: Unrelated question

2001-07-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
Go to http://soa.granitecanyon.com/ and check out FAQ #6 Vineet * Peter Donaldson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010718 22:33]: > Just a quick question not regarding debian. Does anyone know where i can > register a free domain??? > > Thanx > Peter pgpjJmPF41aWq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Cannot play Audio Cds but Data Cds are fine (used to work)

2001-07-19 Thread Wayne
Hi, Can anyone help me with this problem: I have an IDE cdwriter (Ricoh mp7080a) and have succesfully recompiled the kernel with scsi emulation etc and can now burn cds. (great) BTW I am running Potato 2.2.19pre21. Before doing the above audio cds worked fine, now when I put one in to play, sta

Re: another xmms question

2001-07-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
IIRC, there is a "use alternate audio device" setting through which you can specify where to send the output. I can't remember for certain whether this was in the OSS output module config or the crossfade output module plugin (I've used both). If it's not in the config for libOSS.so, you could ins

Practical gnu/linux benchmarks

2001-07-19 Thread csj
Are there any benchmarks around that tell which is the fastest architecture (i386, PPC, etc) running gnu/linux. I'm not talking about MHz or dry stones, but of timings that are of practical use to the typical gnu/linux user. Example: How long does it take to compile the kernel, XFree86 or that beas

floppy

2001-07-19 Thread Markus Hansen
i dont know why, but i dont have any rights to write on my floppy disks, neither superuser or normal, neither on the shell or the window of kde2. can anyone help me plaese? markus

Re: non-US security fixes URL

2001-07-19 Thread Eric N. Valor
Good point. That works nicely - thanks! At 09:57 PM 7/19/2001 +, Thomas Poindessous wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric N. Valor) writes: > I know this doesn't really belong on the security list, but that's where=20 > this thread started. I thought I'd toss in my $.02 and bring attention to=

Re: a 'who called me?' variable?

2001-07-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Dan Berdine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010719 09:11]: > Is there an environment variable in bash that can be used to tell where > bash is running from? For example, is there a variable I can test in > my .bashrc to tell whether I am running remotly, from a tty, from > konsole, an xterm, etc.? I'v

Re: burning a data CD under devfs?

2001-07-19 Thread Craig Dickson
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > xcdroast and gcombust both fail to create a data CD under devfs > as there are no /dev/sg* device files. I've never tried to burn a CD on Linux (my only CD burner is an internal device on my Windows machine, sadly), but don't xcdroast or gcombust support a command line

Re: How do you edit the /etc/hosts with the smtp information - fetchmail problems

2001-07-19 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach D-Man (on Thu, 19 Jul 2001 04:06:17PM -0400): > telnet provides console access to a port. Sure, telnet is a protocol, > but the telnet protocol just negotiates terminal capabilities. If > you're not connecting to telnetd you get no capabilities aside from > sending a character and rec

2.0-kernel box rooted via shell-account

2001-07-19 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I don´t think that there´re many of you who´re stull running slink and/ or 2.0.x.kernels. But, since one of my boxen (which is since physically offline) was r00ted not that long ago, I thought a warning would be due. 2.0.38 and at least 2.2.18[0] - kernels are vulnerable to get r00ted v

exacutables on nfs mounts

2001-07-19 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi All, I've got a perl script here that won't run in my home director (which is nfs mounted) but will run if I put it in a file on the local disk. The /etc/exports file on the server looks like this: /home (rw,no_root_squash) and the /etc/fstab on the client looks like th

Driver Update Disk

2001-07-19 Thread Manoj Jose
Can we update a driver at the time of dabian installation?.. If yes how we can create driver update disk from source files.. Any idea?.. manoj

Re: PHP4(fixed one problem, now I have another)

2001-07-19 Thread Wayne Sitton
Part of my problem was apache. I had installed apache & php4 before I upgraded it to woody. Somehow during the upgrade something must have happened to apache. I uninstalled both apache & php4, the reinstalled both. Not it's reading the php webpages But now it's having problems accessing my my

Apt-get failing packages

2001-07-19 Thread Kevin Cannon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm having problems with apt-get returning error codes... Specifically: "Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, chunk 3. E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29) E: Fail

Re: Audio problems...help!

2001-07-19 Thread Steve Kieu
--- "Rogelio E. Castillo Haro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi! > I just upgrade my debian potato to r3 and my sound > isn't working! > > When I try to hear some mp3 file with xmms, at > console I receive: > /dev/dsp : no such file. > But it is there!!! I suspect the permision of the file try

problem with menuconfig and ide controllers...

2001-07-19 Thread Carl Fenley
My ide controller is a CMD Technology 646U2 DMA controller, but menuconfig will only allow me to select 'CMD640' and 'CMD640 Enhanced'. I have read that the CMD646 driver will support "DMA mode" while the CMD640 driver will only support "PIO" mode. So, I would prefer to use the CMD646 driver even

Cannot play Audio Cds but Data cds fine...

2001-07-19 Thread Wayne
Hi, Can anyone help me with this problem: I have an IDE cdwriter (Ricoh mp7080a) and have succesfully recompiled the kernel with scsi emulation etc and can now burn cds. (great) BTW I am running Potato 2.2.19pre21. Before doing the above audio cds worked fine, now when I put one in to play, sta

Re: New-to-Debian

2001-07-19 Thread Paul Mackinney
Sam Varghese muttered: > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:52:53AM +1000, K.P wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I am NEW to the world of Linux and Debian has come higly recommended in > > > Australia for its versatility. I have not tried it yet and I hope to gain > > > some feedback as to whether Debian is ap

XF86Config-4 files for new Dell Inspiron 4000

2001-07-19 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: This pertains primarily to the Progeny configuration of XFree86 4.0.x when run on a very recent (last few days) Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. The standard configuration for the ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x which is the video driver for the new Dell Inspiron 4000 is incorrect and results

Re: my console.

2001-07-19 Thread Paul Mackinney
Adam Bell muttered: > Might want to try vga=ask first, since it fails softly if it can't > select the mode you ask it for. :/ I use vga=ext on a system that started with the default potato kernel, later upgraded to Woody. Works great. Paul

Re: a 'who called me?' variable?

2001-07-19 Thread Craig Dickson
Dan Berdine wrote: > Is there an environment variable in bash that can be used to tell where > bash is running from? For example, is there a variable I can test in > my .bashrc to tell whether I am running remotly, from a tty, from > konsole, an xterm, etc.? I'v looked at the Advanced Scripti

Re: Help with ESS1888 setup.

2001-07-19 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:57:53PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote: > I am having great problems with configuring my Dell Laptop's sound > card. Perhaps it needs plug-n-play to assign resources to it. > According to Windows95 it is an ESS 1688 Audiodrive > I/O Range 0240 - 024F > 0388-038B

Re: seting up a gateway

2001-07-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010717 13:19]: > I know you will need iptables for a 2.4 kernel (haven't been there > yet). For 2.2 kernels it is as simple as "apt-get install ipmasq" > (which will install ipchains which does the "real" work) and then tell > the others on the LAN to use your IP as th

Re: a 'who called me?' variable?

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:51:06AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote: | Is there an environment variable in bash that can be used to tell where | bash is running from? For example, is there a variable I can test in | my .bashrc to tell whether I am running remotly, from a tty, from | konsole,

Re: Audio problems...help!

2001-07-19 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:34:38 -0500 "Rogelio E. Castillo Haro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just upgrade my debian potato to r3 and my sound isn't working! > > When I try to hear some mp3 file with xmms, at console I receive: > /dev/dsp: no such file. > But it is there!!! From going through t

Re: how-to configure a printer on my potato

2001-07-19 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:57:21PM +0200 or thereabouts, Joost Kooij wrote: [snip] > The differences with cups are that cups implements the functionality of > both the lpd and the filter in one, and that it has a gui for setting > it up and managingthe printer queue. Apart from the gui, it does

Re: [OT] beware citibank!

2001-07-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Noah Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010717 18:49]: > Other than that problem, their online credit card account management > tools has worked very well for me. I think I've tried it in Konqueror, ACtually, I've also been happily using their credit card management features for years as well. This

Re: OT: which journaling file system

2001-07-19 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:31:04PM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: > At 11:47 Uhr +1000 19.7.2001, Steve Kieu wrote: > >I too asked this question ; there are a lot of > >comparison around the net. But not from the benchmark, > >...; just from my experience. I tested all of those. > > > >Reiserfs sti

Re: How do you edit the /etc/hosts with the smtp information - fetchmail problems

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:10:24PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: | also sprach Joost Kooij (on Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:25:30PM +0200): | > telnet 127.0.0.1 25 | > | > or | > | > telnet localhost smtp | | or | | netstat -lAinet | grep smtp | | which is better since it gives a more certain ans

Re: dselect is a liar

2001-07-19 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:45:39PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:06:41PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Add some deb lines that point to mirrors in the USA (or whatever other > > country that doesn't have trouble) to the bottom of > > your sources.list file. > > > > So

Re: fetchmail, mutt, masqmail

2001-07-19 Thread Heather
> Hi, > > due to your hints to a similar question (thanks) two weeks ago I am now able > to send myself (root) a mail - but fetching mails form my ISP does not work. > > I am using fetchmail, mutt as MUA and finally as MTA (I tried many) masqmail. > > My data: > * hostname: boneless > * local m

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread Mike
D-Man wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:25:58PM -0400, Mike wrote: > | D-Man wrote: > | > > | > I would use ssh instead of rlogin if you can. Also, enable the > | > ForwardX11 option in ssh. If you do this then the display will be > | > setup for you and it will be encrypted as well. This is

Re: j2dsk-doc-installer

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:06:47AM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: | Hello. | | I'm running testing, and last night I tried to install j2sdk1.3.1 from | Blackdown. Everything went fine, until apt got to the doc-installer. | It started to unpack the zip, and then dies when it wants to move the | doc di

burning a data CD under devfs?

2001-07-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
xcdroast and gcombust both fail to create a data CD under devfs as there are no /dev/sg* device files. Does anyone know how to create a data CD under devfs? Alternatively, what do I do to turn off devfs (long enough to burn a CD? rebooting?) Thanks, Peter

another xmms question

2001-07-19 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello. Is it possible to have xmms send the OSS output to another device than /dev/dsp? Right now, it seems fight with other apps (which don't have any configurability) for the use of /dev/dsp. I have an es1371 card in my machine, btw. TIA, Mike

X 4.0.3 or higher on potato

2001-07-19 Thread Matthew M Carroll
is there a way to upgrade potato to X 4.1 or 4.0.3 cleanly? I don't have a problem jumping up to woody to get X, but I want to go back to potato. I hope this makes sense. Thanks, Matthew M Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mutt Question

2001-07-19 Thread Todd V . Rovito
I have procmail set up to filter my mail into folders for the list servers I belong to. Some days I just don't have the time to read the mail in that particular folder (or list server), I would like to be able to perform a mass delete in that folder. What keys can I use in mutt to delete all the m

Setting locale failed

2001-07-19 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Dear Debianers, When I apt-get install some packages I get the following message: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en.ISO8859-1" are supported and installed on yo

gotmail

2001-07-19 Thread The Doc
If anyone out there uses gotmail, have you been getting this error, or one like it -- and if so, do you know how to fix it?? Getting hotmail index page... Logging in... Following redirect... Loading mail display... Could not isolate folder index location __

Re: How do you edit the /etc/hosts with the smtp information - fetchmail problems

2001-07-19 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:25:30PM +0200): > telnet 127.0.0.1 25 > > or > > telnet localhost smtp or netstat -lAinet | grep smtp which is better since it gives a more certain answer whether the smtp port is bound to, or not. also, telnet is a protocol, and *if* you te

Re: Urgent! everything is Connection refused!

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:39:50AM -0700, Matheson Cameron wrote: | Hey, | | I'm kind of in a fix at work here. I installed debian | at home, and i brought the machine in here at work, | but i can't connect to any ftp sites. I've configured | everything for the LAN at work, but not everything's

Re: Urgent! everything is Connection refused!

2001-07-19 Thread Leonard Leblanc
>From your reply, I gather that you're not the system administrator. If this is the case then you should talk to him/her and find out if s/he can edit the firewall rules to allow your new box to access the internet. On Thursday 19 July 2001 12:57, Matheson Cameron wrote: > --- Leonard Leblanc

Re: Quick mail delivery question

2001-07-19 Thread Touloumtzis, Michael
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:22:57AM -0400, Adam Bell wrote: > Well, I have hacked the problem, but I would like to know understand a > little better, so here goes: > > I am using exim for LDA (apparently) because I looked in exim.conf and > just changed the delivery location to ~/.inbox and the per

Re: Urgent! everything is Connection refused!

2001-07-19 Thread Danie Roux
Wild shot: Are your proxies configured? On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:39:50AM -0700, Matheson Cameron wrote: > Hey, > > I'm kind of in a fix at work here. I installed debian > at home, and i brought the machine in here at work, > but i can't connect to any ftp sites. I've configured > everything f

X snapshot at start of X

2001-07-19 Thread harsha
hi, I have noticed this wierd thing happening. I am using KDE 2.0 This is what is happening. I start a X session as user foo. I start another Xsession as user foobar. While starting the Xession as foobar. I get a snapshot of the full screen of session of foo. That display lasts about a sec

Re: Emacs + Gnus : how to display bitmaps directly in emacs ?

2001-07-19 Thread Henrik Enberg
Dominique Deleris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am an Emacs addict ;-) and I would like it to display the > images I receive as MIME attachments in my mails. > > Are there any magic lines to put in my .emacs and/or .gnus ? Or > do I have to tweak a .mailcap ? You can't directly in Emacs 20 (The

Re: Urgent! everything is Connection refused!

2001-07-19 Thread Sebastiaan
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Matheson Cameron wrote: > Hey, > > I'm kind of in a fix at work here. I installed debian > at home, and i brought the machine in here at work, > but i can't connect to any ftp sites. I've configured > everything for the LAN at work, but not everything's > happy, here's what

X question

2001-07-19 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I have upgraded to woody with XF86-4 but I noticed that the Home and End keys are not working properly in an X term anymore. Has anyone experienced this too? Thanks in advance, Sebastiaan -- NT is the OS of the future. The main engine is the 16-bit Subsystem (also called MS-DOS Subs

j2dsk-doc-installer

2001-07-19 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello. I'm running testing, and last night I tried to install j2sdk1.3.1 from Blackdown. Everything went fine, until apt got to the doc-installer. It started to unpack the zip, and then dies when it wants to move the doc dir from a tmp dir it's made. It looks in the _wrong_ place, so there's app

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:25:58PM -0400, Mike wrote: | D-Man wrote: | > | > I would use ssh instead of rlogin if you can. Also, enable the | > ForwardX11 option in ssh. If you do this then the display will be | > setup for you and it will be encrypted as well. This is also the | > easiest (onl

Re: a 'who called me?' variable?

2001-07-19 Thread Nikki Locke
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Berdine wrote: > Is there an environment variable in bash that can be used to tell where > bash is running from? For example, is there a variable I can test in > my .bashrc to tell whether I am running remotly, from a tty, from > konsole, an xterm, etc.? I'

Re: a 'who called me?' variable?

2001-07-19 Thread Dan Berdine
On Thursday 19 July 2001 12:10 pm, D-Man wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:51:06AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote: > | Is there an environment variable in bash that can be used to tell > | where bash is running from? For example, is there a variable I can > | test in my .bashrc to tell whe

Urgent! everything is Connection refused!

2001-07-19 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I'm kind of in a fix at work here. I installed debian at home, and i brought the machine in here at work, but i can't connect to any ftp sites. I've configured everything for the LAN at work, but not everything's happy, here's what works: -ping (myself, the lan, and anything on the interne

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