Re: Wajig toupgrade reports stuff that wajig upgrade doesn't upgrade!

2001-07-20 Thread Graham Williams
> Received Fri 20 Jul 2001 10:35pm +1000 from Colin Watson: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I now use Graham Williams wajig shell script as a front end to apt, > > >mostly because of the extra facilities it provides an easy interface > > >to. > > > ... > > >e2fsprogs 1.18-3

Re: I need some help.

2001-07-20 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 12:02:51PM +0300, Mounes Kayyali wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I have server, and I host many sites. I need a web based email interfaces > that can be installed for each site separately and I can as administrator > limit the accounts that can be opened for each site also the site

Exim & fetchmail & procmail ...

2001-07-20 Thread Cam Ellison
I looked at what I sent, and half the message is missing. Sorry about that -- I'm still trying to get used to using emacs with mutt. Here's another go at displaying fetchmailrc: poll "mail.dccnet.com" protocol auto username "camellison" password "xx" set syslog mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d

Re: MUA with html support

2001-07-20 Thread Duncan Watson
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:45:04AM +0200, Andy Mott wrote: > Heya > > I'm not quite sure how 'pretty' you want, but when I installed the > mime-support package, it added something so that mutt fires up lynx when > I read HTML messages. > > IIRC, this is all handled in /etc/mailcap and /etc/mime.

Re: fetchmail, mutt, masqmail

2001-07-20 Thread Paul Wright
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:40:16 +0200, Dieter wrote: > This sounds smart, small and fast - since Heather told me to use a > lot of customized fetchmail-scripts. > > Can you tell me (newbie) how to configure and command masqmail to read > and send mails while on a dialled-in-connection (pppd, pop3, s

Enlightenment menu icon size

2001-07-20 Thread David Purton
Is there a way to globally shrink icons in the enlightenment menus? cheers dc Today people in droves hurry up past Heumoz to Villars on the road to the ski hills, so they can rush down them as fast as possible, so they can hurry up again

RE: apt-get question.

2001-07-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> BTW Is there a way to build debian pakages manually, I > mean I rather download the files (diff, dsc > orig.tar.gz ...using any ftp client into local and > build it. > sure, how do you think we do it? dpkg-source -x foo.dsc cd foo-version dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc # make sure you in

Re: Can't play audio CDs

2001-07-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
Are you able to play any sounds at all? If not, you'll need to add yourself to the 'audio' group. I suspect that you may be running into permissions problems even if you can play other sounds: ensure that your drive /dev/hdc is owned by group cdrom and add yourself to that group as well. (Remember

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-20 Thread Francois Gouget
On 17 Jul 2001, Brian May wrote: [...] > I have heard though, that NFS uses RPC, and RPC doesn't do anything > this sophisticated. Rather, if the server doesn't respond in time, the > client sends the request again. > > This is OK for requests like "read file", which don't affect the state > of th

Re: [OT] IP to phone

2001-07-20 Thread André Dahlqvist
oivvio polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any IP-to-telephone services that will work with debian? Speekfreely comes to mind: http://www.speakfreely.org/ gphone is an application for this too, and it's available in Debian. I have tried neither of those though, -- André Dahlqvist

Eterm's terminfo entry

2001-07-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
I am experiencing some frustration at the hands of the Eterm terminfo entry. I have a sid system, which uses Eterm 0.9.1. This version of Eterm sets $TERM to Eterm, and a termcap file is included in /usr/share/doc/eterm/Eterm.tcap. I've compiled this file with tic and installed it correctly. Et

RE:pcsnd driver and Pentium

2001-07-20 Thread Andrew Agno
Matteo Semplice writes: > Ok, so does anyone have any experience out there? Yes, I've used it on a pentium class machine running a 2.2 series kernel. It was on Redhat, though. Assuming you have the latest pcsnd driver, you can just run the patch on the kernel (it may screw up some files if yo

apt-get question.

2001-07-20 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I am struggling to build deb package from source but failed. I am quite new to apt so, for example I would like to build kdebase from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/dists/stable/main/source I have added the line deb-source ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/d

pcsnd driver and Pentium

2001-07-20 Thread Matteo Semplice
Hi everyone, I am trying the pcsnd driver patch (from ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/people/dwmw2/pcsp/) on my Pentium 100MHz laptop. It is supposed to provide some basic sound through the PC speaker for those that think that their box is too old to deserve a sound card... (Running potato on 2.

Re: Wajig toupgrade reports stuff that wajig upgrade doesn't upgrade!

2001-07-20 Thread Graham Williams
Yes, that's an error in my comparison of versions. I'll fix it soon (I think there's a dpkg-compare-version script somewhere otherwise I'll grab to code from dpkg or apt). Thanks for giving wajig a try. All comments/suggestions most welcome. Received Fri 20 Jul 2001 10:35pm +1000 from Colin Watso

Re: [OT] IP to phone

2001-07-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya oivvio i am digging into the same thing... ( haphazardly looking ) - am calling uk from california... expensive... - issues - "pay" another party to get to use their service to get "free intenrational phone calls" ... ( watch out for all the silly restrictions

Re: PhpMyAdmin and PHP4...

2001-07-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: PhpMyAdmin and PHP4... Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:12:22PM -0400 In reply to:Aaron Traas Quoting Aaron Traas([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > OK, I'd like to run PhpMyAdmin, but it seems to require PHP3 to be > installed, and satisfying this dependency also requires removing PHP4

Re: NE2000-compatible network device

2001-07-20 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Cameron Matheson (on Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:06:02PM -0600): > since it's ISA, you'll have to provide the IO address, and optionally > the IRQ. Here's my line from /etc/modules: > > ne io=0x260 irq=9 well, except that this should be only 'ne' in modules, and then a separate file, /etc/mo

Re: MUA with html support

2001-07-20 Thread Mark Jaroski
> So I am looking for either a super duper lynx-like tool that can render > html attachments pretty and colorful or a new MUA that has similiar > features. I do it with a combination of a line in my muttrc and a couple of lines in my /etc/mailcap first put this line in /etc/mailcap: text/html;

Re: MUA with html support

2001-07-20 Thread Andy Mott
Heya I'm not quite sure how 'pretty' you want, but when I installed the mime-support package, it added something so that mutt fires up lynx when I read HTML messages. IIRC, this is all handled in /etc/mailcap and /etc/mime.types, and mutt just picks the info from there. If lynx is ggod enough,

MUA with html support

2001-07-20 Thread Duncan Watson
Hi all, I am a current mutt/fetchmail user and have been for two years or so. I use Linux at home and at work and keep about 630MB of mail in various maildirs. I use mail to keep all sorts of notes and crap as well. Overall I love mutt and am greatly attached to many little features of it, BUT

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

2001-07-20 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:15:00AM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: > 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

Re: dselect trying to remove lots of stuff

2001-07-20 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:14:07PM -0400, Anthony Fox wrote: > Seems I wasn't careful enough when using dselect. I have been trying > to remove the gnome libs and binaries that I don't use on my system. > Somehow, I must have selected the wrong package for purging. Dselect > now wants to remove f

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Richard Black wrote: > > The xfree86 packages have been changed to not accept tcp connections > > at all by default. Check out the "-nolisten" option in your xserver > > manual page. > > Okay thanks! > > But...how do I use xauth? I have tried doing what what suggested in t

Re: Remote file systems

2001-07-20 Thread Hereward Cooper
try copying them to /etc/init.d/ that should work, i had to do that. Hereward On Friday 20 July 2001 19:45, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently installed Debian on a Dell laptop I have here. It has > largely gone according to plan (laptops are never straight forward!). > The > proble

Re: openssh

2001-07-20 Thread Craig Holyoak
On 20 Jul 2001 15:06:44 -0600, Phil Reardon wrote: > What package holds the deb for openssh? Does anything need to go into > /etc/apt/sources.list to get this for potato? deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free apt-get install ssh -- Craig Holyoak [EMAIL

Re: problem with menuconfig and ide controllers...

2001-07-20 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:59:30PM -0700, Carl Fenley wrote: > However, both the cdm640.c and the cmd646.c source files came with the the > current version of my kernel-source (2.2.12). ^^^ That is not a current version at all. I recommend you to get a m

Re: openssh

2001-07-20 Thread Ari Pollak
The ssh and related packages are openssh. -- ___ ___ / _ | / _ \ Ari Pollak - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.aripollak.com / __ |/ ___/ /_/ |_/_/ Old poets never die, they just ride off into the sonnet.

RE: openssh

2001-07-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Jul-2001 Phil Reardon wrote: > What package holds the deb for openssh? Does anything need to go into > /etc/apt/sources.list to get this for potato? > package name is ssh. It is hosted on the non-us debian servers. A quick search on debian.org for non-us should find the apt line for yo

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
See also gpasswd(1). It's cake. Vineet * Martin F. Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010716 17:58]: > also sprach Nathan Weston (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:17:40PM -0400): > > I want to give my user account access to cdrom, audio, etc without doing > > chmod a+rw on the relevant files. > > /etc/group des

Re: System halt on low power

2001-07-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Adam Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll bet there is a very easy answer to this, so here goes. > > I have a laptop on a LAN which should be on all the time. HOWEVER, our >power grid has been known to have trouble, so if the AC should go and the >batter gets

Re: kdm and /etc/security/group.conf

2001-07-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mario J. Barch?in Molina ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010716 15:05]: > Hello you all folks! > > In /etc/security/group.conf I have the follwing line inserted: > > *; tty* & !ttyp* ; * ; Al-2400 ; floppy, cdrom, console, audio > >this allows that each uses that logs in in my system by

Re: openssh

2001-07-20 Thread Terry Warner
The package for openssh is just ssh if you have the default potato lines in your sources.list just apt-get install ssh :) Hope that helps Terry On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:06:44PM -0600, Phil Reardon babbled: > What package holds the deb for openssh? Does anything need to go into > /etc/apt/

Re: openssh

2001-07-20 Thread David J. Roundy
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:06:44PM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote: > What package holds the deb for openssh? Does anything need to go into > /etc/apt/sources.list to get this for potato? ssh. You will need a sources.list line for non-us. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 19, Richard Black did write: > Joost Kooij wrote: > > > Generally, don't use xhost, it is not safe. Instead use xauth. > > But...how do I use xauth? I have tried doing what what suggested in the man > page ie variants of > > xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth

openssh

2001-07-20 Thread Phil Reardon
What package holds the deb for openssh? Does anything need to go into /etc/apt/sources.list to get this for potato?

I need some help.

2001-07-20 Thread Mounes Kayyali
Dear Sir, I have server, and I host many sites. I need a web based email interfaces that can be installed for each site separately and I can as administrator limit the accounts that can be opened for each site also the site administrator can open accounts for his own users as many as the server ad

Re: ipmasq ipchanis; newbie question

2001-07-20 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Robert Matijasec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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

RE: System halt on low power

2001-07-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Jul-2001 Adam Bell wrote: > I'll bet there is a very easy answer to this, so here goes. > > I have a laptop on a LAN which should be on all the time. HOWEVER, our > power grid has been known to have trouble, so if the AC should go and the > batter gets low, I would like the c

Re: Remote file systems

2001-07-20 Thread David McBride
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Keith O'Connell wrote: >Hi, > >I have recently installed Debian on a Dell laptop I have here. It has >largely gone according to plan (laptops are never straight forward!). >The >problem came when I tried to share some directories.

System halt on low power

2001-07-20 Thread Adam Bell
I'll bet there is a very easy answer to this, so here goes. I have a laptop on a LAN which should be on all the time. HOWEVER, our power grid has been known to have trouble, so if the AC should go and the batter gets low, I would like the computer to do an orderly system halt before

dselect trying to remove lots of stuff

2001-07-20 Thread Anthony Fox
Hi, Seems I wasn't careful enough when using dselect. I have been trying to remove the gnome libs and binaries that I don't use on my system. Somehow, I must have selected the wrong package for purging. Dselect now wants to remove from my system, among other packages, XFree86 and KDE. I don't

Re: logrotate error: unexpected text

2001-07-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
Your Mail-Followup-To header is broken; please fix it. You probably want to set the "from" variable in your .muttrc . the broken header reads as follows: Mail-Followup-To: kevin, debian-user@lists.debian.org Vineet pgpEZ1YYb2vGA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Remote file systems

2001-07-20 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I have recently installed Debian on a Dell laptop I have here. It has largely gone according to plan (laptops are never straight forward!). The problem came when I tried to share some directories. It seems that unlike other machines I have installed Debian on, the laptop does not load at boot

Re: logrotate error: unexpected text

2001-07-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Kevin C. Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010715 11:59]: > Anyone know how to fix this? > > Logrotate produces the following error message. > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate > error: /etc/logrotate.conf:9 unexpected text. > > I haven't touched the logrotate.conf, so it's the standard one. You must have

PhpMyAdmin and PHP4...

2001-07-20 Thread Aaron Traas
OK, I'd like to run PhpMyAdmin, but it seems to require PHP3 to be installed, and satisfying this dependency also requires removing PHP4. Is it safe to install and ignore the dependencies? If so, how do I tell apt-get to ignore the dependencies? Thanks! --Aaron

Re: system logs

2001-07-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've decided to have a look at /var/log which over the months >has become quite large. The man page for syslog.conf and >/etc/syslog.conf I basically understand, but I can't find any >config file which relates to the savelog program, y

Re: KDE Games

2001-07-20 Thread dude
On 20 Jul 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > PATH is a shell variable. You can see it by typing 'echo $PATH' at the > shell. Debian includes /usr/games in the path by default, so maybe you > don't have the kde games installed? no, i can see the games in /usr/games and can run them i

Re: Where is the kernel source?

2001-07-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply, but the package you mentioned doesnt contain >the source either. Yes, I know I could get 2.2.18, but the point is that I >want to get the source of the kernel that I installed from the Debian >CDs. It seems to me

Re: lprng for a home computer

2001-07-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On 21 Jul 2001, Marshal Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I run a laptop (PowerBook Prismo) and have a USB HP Printer attached >to it, which works, thanks to the great work at HP. (Too bad there are >no debs, but recompiling gs wasn't that hard.) > >I'm hardening my computer, since I have and ISDN

Re: Again NE2000 network device

2001-07-20 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Björn Fischer (on Fri, 20 Jul 2001 06:03:25PM +0200): > it is me again, trying to start the "ne" module. Now the module is actually > trying to start, but alway quits with the message "Resource or device busy". > I started the ne module with the following parameters: > > modprobe ne io

Re: Again NE2000 network device

2001-07-20 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:58:56AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:03:25PM +0200, Bj?rn Fischer wrote: | > Hello, | > it is me again, trying to start the "ne" module. Now the module is actually | > trying to start, but alway quits with the message "Resource or device bu

Re: system logs

2001-07-20 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:09:32PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > Can someone please explain how/where savelog operates from? grep -r savelog /etc/cron* Cheers, Joost

Re: running out of room on root system

2001-07-20 Thread Andy Saxena
The following will definitely help; execute as root. # runlevel N 2 [might not be 2 for you] (log out of any X sessions, because in the next step you will change your runlevel to the single mode) # telinit 1 (make your changes now.) # exit [or] telinit 2 [should put you back into the normal ru

Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Corel Linux

2001-07-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
She responded to one of my messages asking why I was sending her email! I suggested that she should read the unsubscribe information which is appended to all messages on this list. On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:18:06PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > you have a interesting way of putting it > >

Re: Again NE2000 network device

2001-07-20 Thread idalton
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:03:25PM +0200, Bj?rn Fischer wrote: > Hello, > it is me again, trying to start the "ne" module. Now the module is actually > trying to start, but alway quits with the message "Resource or device busy". > I started the ne module with the following parameters: > > modprobe

Re: Emacs on vt420 (was: Re: EDITOR)

2001-07-20 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:47:44AM -0500, Charles Sebold wrote: > On 29 Tammuz 5761, Stephen Rueger wrote: > > > Ack. Since I installed an old DEC VT420, which doesn't like emacs, I'm > > forced to use vi instead, although I don't want to :-) > > Details? I have used it on vt420's. I usually ha

Re: KDE Games

2001-07-20 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, PATH is a shell variable. You can see it by typing 'echo $PATH' at the shell. Debian includes /usr/games in the path by default, so maybe you don't have the kde games installed? Cameron Matheson On 20 Jul 2001 12:50:49 -0400, dude wrote: > > > Here the deal > > I have installed kde de

Re: NE2000-compatible network device

2001-07-20 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, since it's ISA, you'll have to provide the IO address, and optionally the IRQ. Here's my line from /etc/modules: ne io=0x260 irq=9 Cameron Matheson On 20 Jul 2001 12:58:15 +0200, "Fischer, Björn" wrote: > Hi, > I am quite a newbie to either Linux (I'm "playing" with Suse Linux for about

KDE Games

2001-07-20 Thread dude
Here the deal I have installed kde desktop (very nice) but when i i try to run a game its says executable not found what i have found is that any game in /usr/games is not recongized by the kde-desktop I was told that it means that the PATH is not set correctly Where would i find this PATH

system logs

2001-07-20 Thread john gennard
I've decided to have a look at /var/log which over the months has become quite large. The man page for syslog.conf and /etc/syslog.conf I basically understand, but I can't find any config file which relates to the savelog program, yet files.0 and .x.gz have been created in /var/log. I have little

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

2001-07-20 Thread Mike Dresser
"Dan Berdine (by way of Dan Berdine )" wrote: > My favorite place to look for bash questions is > http://www.linux.com/howto/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/, and info on your > question is on > http://www.linux.com/howto/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/variables2.html > I downloaded the .tar.gz that's referenced on the w

Re: Undelivered mail...help!

2001-07-20 Thread Glyn Millington
Adam Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, so I don't know what I've done, but I have like 30 or 40 > messages in /var/spool/mail/new which were undeliverable due to a typo in > exim.conf. This is now fixed, but exim seems to have given up on > delivering them. What do I do? > Adam, D

Emacs on vt420 (was: Re: EDITOR)

2001-07-20 Thread Charles Sebold
On 29 Tammuz 5761, Stephen Rueger wrote: > Ack. Since I installed an old DEC VT420, which doesn't like emacs, I'm > forced to use vi instead, although I don't want to :-) Details? I have used it on vt420's. I usually have to do this in .emacs, though: (enable-flow-control-on "vt420") ; or what

Re: installing kernel-debs

2001-07-20 Thread Jor-el
Joerg, Of course, it would be good if I had included the link too, wouldnt it? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=105964&repeatmerged=yes Regards, Jor-el On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jor-el wrote: > Joerg, > > By a coincidence, I had opened a bug yesterday on this very >

Re: Where is the kernel source?

2001-07-20 Thread aidanc
Or better yet, if you don't want to upgrade to 2.4.x, 2.2.19 is available as a .deb file. Aidan On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:31:15 Nathan E Norman wrote: > 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

Re: embarrassing X question (PARTIAL FIX)

2001-07-20 Thread Richard Black
Joost Kooij wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: > For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and > display stuff on mine!  This started happening last week (with, > possibly, the changes to gdm...) > > I have tried many different things. 

Forwarding X11 through ssh with iptables

2001-07-20 Thread Martin Sanborn
Perhaps someone with some experience can suggest the answer to my problem. I have a number of linux boxes, each with its own network connection. I am installing iptables on each of the machines to limit outside access to each (due to the physical location of the machines, I cannot simply make a

Re: X windows /Gnome

2001-07-20 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 12:57:39AM -0700, Ramachandran Chidambaram wrote: > I did exactly as you suggested but not successful.Let > me give the feedback to help solve this. > While installing from CD, the parameters are:-Debian > Task installer fully installed {which includes X > window sys complet

Re: Again NE2000 network device

2001-07-20 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Björn Fischer wrote: > Hello, > it is me again, trying to start the "ne" module. Now the module is actually > trying to start, but alway quits with the message "Resource or device busy". > I started the ne module with the following parameters: > > modprobe ne io=

lprng for a home computer

2001-07-20 Thread Marshal Wong
Hello, I run a laptop (PowerBook Prismo) and have a USB HP Printer attached to it, which works, thanks to the great work at HP. (Too bad there are no debs, but recompiling gs wasn't that hard.) I'm hardening my computer, since I have and ISDN connection which is can be always on. I only have th

Re: Where is the kernel source?

2001-07-20 Thread Jor-el
Nathan, Thanks for the reply, but the package you mentioned doesnt contain the source either. Yes, I know I could get 2.2.18, but the point is that I want to get the source of the kernel that I installed from the Debian CDs. It seems to me that if I cant find the source to that anywhere, t

setquota

2001-07-20 Thread shyamk
Dear Members , I tried : [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]setquota -u User1 /hell_filesystem 100 200 200 300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root] #Syntax : #setquota [-u|-g] [-n] [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]vi /etc/fstab #now I change things to : LABEL=/hell_filesystem /hell_filesystem

Re: installing kernel-debs

2001-07-20 Thread Jor-el
Joerg, By a coincidence, I had opened a bug yesterday on this very topic. Here is the link which also contains the maintainer response. Regards, Jor-el On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hello list > > I have, in the last few weeks, compiled a lot of kernels (with > make-kpkg

Re: delegating NS control of subdomain to another BIND

2001-07-20 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Jeremy T. Bouse (on Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:15:34AM -0700): > In this example you would need to have both NS and A records > in mydomain.org which relate to subdomain.mydomain.org for instance > (*Disclaimer: I'm writing this off the cuff of my sleeve not from a > current zone config

Again NE2000 network device

2001-07-20 Thread Björn Fischer
Hello, it is me again, trying to start the "ne" module. Now the module is actually trying to start, but alway quits with the message "Resource or device busy". I started the ne module with the following parameters: modprobe ne io=0x260 irq=9 The io and irq are the ones windos promted when having

Re: X question

2001-07-20 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:40:16PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: | 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 :). If it is a keymap thing and

Re: EDITOR

2001-07-20 Thread Mark Jaroski
Henk Janssen wrote: > I'm sorry if I appear to be a nitwit; but I'm rather fond of AE. Now I have > this itsipitsy problem (so do you now by the way). My Balsa broke. As a > result to that I've looked into MUTT as it goes around here on a regular > basis... But I have a HUGE problem with VI(M) as

Re: exacutables on nfs mounts

2001-07-20 Thread Andrew Dixon
Jor-el wrote: > > 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. > That was it. I just remounted it with "defaults" instead of "rw" and it'

Re: EDITOR

2001-07-20 Thread Ian
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 05:21:38PM +0200, Henk Janssen wrote: > From: "Guy Geens" > > > > > It's very hard to be a Linux user and avoid vi completely. :) > > I'm sorry if I appear to be a nitwit; but I'm rather fond of AE. Now I have > this itsipitsy problem (so do you now by the way). My Balsa b

Re: EDITOR

2001-07-20 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 05:21:38PM +0200, Henk Janssen wrote: > From: "Guy Geens" > > > > > It's very hard to be a Linux user and avoid vi completely. :) Ack. Since I installed an old DEC VT420, which doesn't like emacs, I'm forced to use vi instead, although I don't want to :-) > I'm sorry if

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:04:09PM -0400, Mike wrote: [snip] | This might be a kinda dumb question, but does X need to be running on the | remote machine? I've tried having X running on the remote machine, but it | hasn't seemed to make a difference. X must be running on the local side, obviously

Re: EDITOR

2001-07-20 Thread Michael Perry
Quoting Henk Janssen on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 05:21:38PM +0200: > From: "Guy Geens" > > > > > It's very hard to be a Linux user and avoid vi completely. :) > > I'm sorry if I appear to be a nitwit; but I'm rather fond of AE. Now I have > this itsipitsy problem (so do you now by the way). My Balsa

Re: EDITOR

2001-07-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 17:21:38 +0200, Henk Janssen wrote: > As a result to that I've looked into MUTT as it goes around here on a > regular basis... But I have a HUGE problem with VI(M) as it is to much, > just like emacs. Is there an alternative? Quoting the mutt manual: 6.3.39. edit

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

2001-07-20 Thread Andrew Agno
Dan Berdine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (by way of Dan Berdine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) writes: > > > > 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? You can also buy the O'Reilly *sh books (depending

EDITOR

2001-07-20 Thread Henk Janssen
From: "Guy Geens" > > It's very hard to be a Linux user and avoid vi completely. :) I'm sorry if I appear to be a nitwit; but I'm rather fond of AE. Now I have this itsipitsy problem (so do you now by the way). My Balsa broke. As a result to that I've looked into MUTT as it goes around here on a

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

2001-07-20 Thread Dan Berdine
On Friday 20 July 2001 12:40 am, Mike Fedyk wrote: > 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 l

[OT] IP to phone

2001-07-20 Thread oivvio polite
Hi. I've been doing some transatlantic phone calls lately and plan on doing a lot more. Even though phone rates have droped a lot in Sweden the last years my phone bill is bound to get rather high. Are there any IP-to-telephone services that will work with debian? o -- oivvio polite cell +

Re: Linux and wireless pcmcia

2001-07-20 Thread Michael Perry
Quoting Nico De Ranter on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:58:08PM +0200: > Howdy, > > I'm trying to get my wireless pcmcia card (Lucent Technologies, > Orinico RangeWaveLAN Turbo 11MB Silver) to work on a desktop PC > with a Texas Instruments PCI1410 cardbus controller runnign kernel 2.4.6. > Unfortunatel

Re: delegating NS control of subdomain to another BIND

2001-07-20 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Martin F. Krafft was said to been seen saying: > ... and i really thought i was down with BIND8/9... > > i can't seem to find a solution to the following problem: > (sorry for the sizely post...) > > mydomain.org is handled by ns{1,2}.mydomain.org. > so ns1.mydomain.org has a zone for mydomain.or

Re: Linux and wireless pcmcia

2001-07-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any idea whether there is anything special needed to get > wireless pcmcia to work? You _do_ have pcmcia-cs installed, right? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Sitting watching the railroad tracks rust

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 19, Joost Kooij did write: > The xfree86 packages have been changed to not accept tcp connections > at all by default. Check out the "-nolisten" option in your xserver > manual page. I don't think this holds for potato. I'm pretty certain I never explicity re-enabled it on

Linux and wireless pcmcia

2001-07-20 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I'm trying to get my wireless pcmcia card (Lucent Technologies, Orinico RangeWaveLAN Turbo 11MB Silver) to work on a desktop PC with a Texas Instruments PCI1410 cardbus controller runnign kernel 2.4.6. Unfortunately the system insists on seeing my card as "anonymous memory". Any idea whethe

Re: How do you get rid of gnome?

2001-07-20 Thread Danie Roux
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:43:34AM -0400, Anthony Fox wrote: > > Since I use KDE2x exclusively now, I would like to get rid of the > gnome desktop from my system. I run unstable. I still use some apps > that depend on gnome libs like xmms. How do I get rid of just the > packages that comprise t

Re: Scanner + printer choice

2001-07-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
I haven't done anything scanner-wise yet, but I just got an HP Laserjet 1200se, which is doing great: 1200dpi, postscript compatible, parallel or USB (haven't bothered with the USB). Running under potato 2.2r3, I use lpd and magicfilter; I modified psonly600-filter by changing all instances of 600

Re: compiling in non-standard features

2001-07-20 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:05:29PM +0200, Florian Kessler wrote: > here a more general question: > what?s the best way to compile a package in debian with non-standard > features? in my case i need sasl-support in postfix? How? If postfix uses ./configure, you can go into the source package's debi

Re: Thin-X-Client-Laptop

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:14:54AM +0100, Matteo Semplice wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > > > Hi folks - thanks for all of your hints regarding my problem. > > I think I am close to the solution - maybe you can help me again? > > > > >I want to run X-Applications on

How do you get rid of gnome?

2001-07-20 Thread Anthony Fox
Since I use KDE2x exclusively now, I would like to get rid of the gnome desktop from my system. I run unstable. I still use some apps that depend on gnome libs like xmms. How do I get rid of just the packages that comprise the gnome desktop? Or, is there a task package that would take care of

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

2001-07-20 Thread nico de haer
Hi, make your link look like this: cdrom --> scd0 HTH, Nico de Haer - Original Message - From: Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 1:51 PM Subject: Cannot play Audio Cds but Data cds fine... > Hi, > Can anyone help me with this problem: > I have an IDE cdwrite

Re: rtl8139.c - compile problems for cardbus driver module

2001-07-20 Thread nico de haer
Hi, I myself compiled the carbus stuff you talked about one for my laptop. I'm writing from memory here, and thats known to be less than perfect ;P but it will point you in the right direction 1) Get the sourcecode for the PCMCIA package, and compile this on your system 2) Install the new pcm

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