Re: question

2001-07-21 Thread John
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 10:36:20AM -0700, John Matters wrote: > i am having a problem. my mouse is not responding at all. When my brother > left (he installed and configured everything) it was working, and then it > just stopped suddenly. its not that the mouse is not plugged in or anything >

[OT] NFS question

2001-07-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
How are the permissions of an NFS mount determined ?? I've got two directories I'm mounting via NFS and they're "acting" the same. When they're not mounted, they're both owned by hall.users. When they're mounted, they're owned by amy.hall. amy and hall are both users on the system. The group "use

Helvetica disappeared from KDE!

2001-07-21 Thread Geoffrey Romer
I was in the process of trying out some new desktop environments. I had been playing with KDE for a while with no ill effects, and then logged out to try Gnome. Due to the awful performance of nautilus, which started by default, I uninstalled nautilus (apt-get uninstall nautilus). This took task-

Re: running out of room on root system

2001-07-21 Thread Paul Campbell
Sorry GuyMike's way worked fine first time > > "Mike" == Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > "Paul" == Paul Campbell wrote: > > Paul> hard drive partitions > > Paul> hda1 root 50meg > Paul> hda2 swap 100meg > Paul> hda3 usr 2 gig > Paul> hda5 home 2 gig > Paul> hda6 fat32 sto

Press Release

2001-07-21 Thread Sugarpine . Sierra . West
For Immediate Release Incline Village, Nevada Contact Corporate Communications www.sugarpinellc.com Sugarpine Sierra West, LLC is proud to announce 4 additional services, Sports Memorabilia, Hair Raisers, Financial Services and Worlds-Best-4 the worlds largest virtual shopping mall featuring ove

Press Release

2001-07-21 Thread Sugarpine . Sierra . West
For Immediate Release Incline Village, Nevada Contact Corporate Communications www.sugarpinellc.com Sugarpine Sierra West, LLC is proud to announce 4 additional services, Sports Memorabilia, Hair Raisers, Financial Services and Worlds-Best-4 the worlds largest virtual shopping mall featuring ove

Re: Where do I find NAT for IPTABLES?

2001-07-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Where do I find NAT for IPTABLES? Date: Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:43:23AM +0200 In reply to:Daniel Mashao Quoting Daniel Mashao([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is it an option that I need to make a module or insert in the kernel? In > which part of the kernel setting is NAT mentione

kernel config: pcmcia and network device support?

2001-07-21 Thread Gladimir
I'm probably just looking for a 'shove' here, but I'm having a problem determining which network driver to build into my kernel. Note: My networking is operating fine with whatever the default settings for kernel-2.2.19pre17 'compact' happen to be. I have a 3Com 3C589C Etherlink III pc card in my

Where do I find NAT for IPTABLES?

2001-07-21 Thread Daniel Mashao
Is it an option that I need to make a module or insert in the kernel? In which part of the kernel setting is NAT mentioned? If all I want is just a simple setting so that I can use my networked computer to surf the net what should my iptable look like? Where should it be kept? HELP /--

kde2 is running 1600x1200

2001-07-21 Thread Markus Hansen
hi my debian gnu/linux 2.2 potato uses kde2 only with 1600x1200 display. everything is small and bad to read, so i would like to change solution to 1024x768, but how can i do that? thanks for help markus

Re: Soundblaster 16

2001-07-21 Thread Markus Hansen
Thank you bob, i said i dont know whether it works as root, but as user it doesnt. but as the person before you wrote i think it would be possible that this would be(root sound, user no sound) but i dont know anyway, also not how to find out. i tried your lines, but i was unshure what exactly to d

re re soundblaster sb16

2001-07-21 Thread Markus Hansen
if i only could play sound if i am root: how can i find out? how do i play an mp3 in the rootconsole? with mp3blaster for example? and how do i find other mp3 audioand mpeg1 video player? markus > Many SB16 cards can be configured to select PnP or a fixed IRQ. If > yours has that capability, yo

Re: Keeping kernel compilation options

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:31:01PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > What is the recommended way to keep your responses to the > kernel configuration options when using the debian kernel > package tools? Use kernel-package to build your kernels. It saves your .config in /boot/config- so you always knw

Re: Newbie question - XFree86 configuration - (not sure if this is the right list)g

2001-07-21 Thread Robin Gerard
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:21:10PM -0700, Alexandre Dornback wrote: > > Newbie alert. I'm new to linux and am having issues. > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > > Please HELP... What am I missing? > This is during initial configuration after installation rebo

Re: What's happened to the task- packages?

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:22:35AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:15:55PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:10:23AM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > > What's happened to the task- packages? > > > > > > Suddenly task-c-dev and the other programmin

Re: Exim & fetchmail & procmail ...

2001-07-21 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/20/01 20:51:35 -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > 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 "camelli

Keeping kernel compilation options

2001-07-21 Thread Ross Boylan
What is the recommended way to keep your responses to the kernel configuration options when using the debian kernel package tools? I built a 2.4.2 kernel, and would now like to build 2.4.6. I'm concerned that simply copying the .config file (name is from memory) is risky because options may get

Re: What's happened to the task- packages?

2001-07-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:15:55PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:10:23AM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > What's happened to the task- packages? > > > > Suddenly task-c-dev and the other programming-related task packages > > are listed as 'obsolete' on my system. Have the

Re: Driver Update Disk

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:36:06PM -0400, Manoj Jose wrote: > 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?.. Try asking that question on debian-boot@lists.debian.org, where the people who know about th

Re: dist-upgrade from potato to woody

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:17:27PM +0100, Graham Ward wrote: > I just tried to upgrade my system from potato to woody. I believe > these are the correct steps: > > (1) replace "potato" with "woody" everywhere in /etc/apt/sources.list > > (2) apt-get update > > (3) apt-get dist-upgrade. >

hylafax

2001-07-21 Thread Matt Fair
Hello, I setup HylaFAX-server, and it is running. I also added a faxmodem to /dev/ttyS0 with faxaddmodem. It detected a class 1 modem and created a file called config.ttyS0. The problem I have is when I try to send a fax to that computer, I dial the number that the modem is hooked up to, but

Re: dselect: improper dependancy resolution behavior?

2001-07-21 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 10:34:15AM -0700, Gladimir wrote: > > I am hand selecting my packages, but I am having a problem with libncurses4 > and libncurses5. Until I know more about this, I suppose it won't harm > anything to just install both versions. However, if I try to remove > libncurses4,

Newbie question - XFree86 configuration - (not sure if this is the right list)

2001-07-21 Thread Alexandre Dornback
Newbie alert. I'm new to linux and am having issues. _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Please HELP... What am I missing? This is during initial configuration after installation reboot. I clicked YES to "Do you want to create the XFree86 configuration file?" If t

Re: [users] Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-21 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:06:20PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:31:54AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > | * Mark Wagnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010709 15:31]: > | > Do you mean "with" or "without"? I'm a little confused. Mutt has some > | > option to change the from header for outboun

modem troubles

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
hi all, i got an external modem, it's working fine on my laptop on ttyS0, but when i hook it up to a particular desktop machine (486DX2-66), it's behaving weirdly. i tried using wvdialconf and minicom, knowing that the modem is at ttyS0. furthermore, setserial configures it fine: embryo:/dev# se

Re: question

2001-07-21 Thread dude
What kind of mouse, what kind of desktop? On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, John Matters wrote: > Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:36:20 -0700 > From: John Matters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: question > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > i am having a problem. my

Re: [OT} Linux and reiserfs

2001-07-21 Thread MaX in the FaX
Frank Zimmermann wrote: MaX in the FaX wrote: Or you can find them here, worked very smooth for me: yes, but the number of drivers is very poor (1 disk vs 4 disks). ciao, MaX _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com addres

dist-upgrade from potato to woody

2001-07-21 Thread Graham Ward
Hi all, I just tried to upgrade my system from potato to woody. I believe these are the correct steps: (1) replace "potato" with "woody" everywhere in /etc/apt/sources.list (2) apt-get update (3) apt-get dist-upgrade. When I do step (3), I see (among other things) the message W

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread Dan Berdine
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > I want a new machine, and for fun and education I am going to build > it from scratch. I have pretty much decided on an Athlon 1.2GHz. I > will run a small partition with Windows Me on it, but it will > predominantly be up in

XftConfig docs

2001-07-21 Thread Philipp Lehman
Maybe I'm searching in the wrong places, but I can't find any docs describing format/syntax of the XftConfig files. Any pointers? -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

configuring cups

2001-07-21 Thread Phil Reardon
I understood cups had a script or gui for configuring cups, but I can't find one. Was I wrong? How can I configjure cups for my HP deskjet 840C? TIA, PCR

Re: Building kernel in new dir.

2001-07-21 Thread Dana J. Laude
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:29:05PM -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm working on building a new kernel (just realized my newly 'bought' debian > 2.2r3 has kernel 2.2 not 2.4 for some reason). Currently, the kernel is in > /boot but i thought i'd install the new one in /usr/src/linux as i'm tol

Can run testing with slow net connect?

2001-07-21 Thread David A. Rogers
I've got a 56k modem on my home machine. Is it feasible/reasonable for me to run testing on this machine? I've got 2.2r2 CDs. Any guesstimates as to how long it will take for the initial upgrade to testing? TIA, dar

Re: url-escaping a string in a shell script.

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 05:27:49PM +0200): > Of course, if you want to fake the behaviour of webbrowsers, avoid all > standards like the plague. Certain browsers will escape all characters > when sending a request to the server. Why do you think that .asp sites > regularly ha

Re: obtaining the absolute path of a shell script within itself

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Leonard Stiles (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 05:45:57PM +0200): > abspath=$(cd ${1%/*} && echo $PWD/${0##*/}) man, i *could* have figured that out myself. beautuitous, as i like to say thanks! martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> m

Re: "No such file or directory" - huh?!

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:34:48PM +0200, Gary Jones wrote: > ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ./firewall > bash: ./firewall: No such file or directory > ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ./hostname.sh > ash-ock:/etc/init.d# more ./firewall > #! /bin/sh > # Script to control packet filtering. > [snip] > > What's going on?

Re: "No such file or directory" - huh?!

2001-07-21 Thread Tim Moss
Gary Jones wrote: Okay, now I'm /really/ confused! Who nicked my firewall script?! Have a read of this (some snipped for brevity): ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ls -la total 60 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 21 19:26 . drwxr-xr-x 40 root root 3072 Jul 21 19:24 .. -rw-r--r--

Re: Exim & fetchmail & procmail ...

2001-07-21 Thread Cam Ellison
This probably made no sense to anyone. Sorry for wasting the bandwidth -- unbeknownst to me, the first message never made it. * Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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

"No such file or directory" - huh?!

2001-07-21 Thread Gary Jones
Okay, now I'm /really/ confused! Who nicked my firewall script?! Have a read of this (some snipped for brevity): ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ls -la total 60 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 21 19:26 . drwxr-xr-x 40 root root 3072 Jul 21 19:24 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

Re: MUA with html support

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:16:55PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote: | 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. | | Ov

Re: MUA with html support

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:56:31AM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote: | > 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; /usr/bin/links -dump '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text;

Re: Hardware Question

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:06:29PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: | On 2001-07-21 13:17:14, Adam Bell wrote: | | > What I would like to do is have one box, running Debian, which has a | > constant routable IP (via cable or some other sort-of high speed protocol) | > and a normal domain name. | |

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: | Hi, | | I want a new machine, and for fun and education I am going to build it | from scratch. I have pretty much decided on an Athlon 1.2GHz. I will run | a small partition with Windows Me on it, but it will predominantly be up |

Re: it keeps crashing

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:00:52AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: | On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:43:39AM +0200, Guy Geens wrote: | > > "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > Martin> instead, it keeps crashing on me... kernel panic in pid 0 | > Martin> "process swapper." howev

Re: [users] Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-21 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:31:54AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * Mark Wagnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010709 15:31]: | > Do you mean "with" or "without"? I'm a little confused. Mutt has some | > option to change the from header for outbound mail. I don't use it, so | | (judicious use of hedgeclippers

Re: Hardware Question

2001-07-21 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2001-07-21 13:17:14, Adam Bell wrote: > What I would like to do is have one box, running Debian, which has a > constant routable IP (via cable or some other sort-of high speed protocol) > and a normal domain name. You could have someone serve dns for your domain, ideally you would want som

Re: Debian books

2001-07-21 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:45:10AM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: > "Running Linux" for instance, tells you that to configure your TCP/IP > address, you should modify the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 file. At least on my > Debian box, that's completely wrong - I don't even have an rc.d > directory, let alone an

Re: question

2001-07-21 Thread Ari Pollak
Since I assume you're talking about X, are you sure you're using the right mouse protocol (e.g. ExplorerPS/2..)? Is it a USB or PS/2 mouse? On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 10:36:20AM -0700, John Matters wrote: > i am having a problem. my mouse is not responding at all. When my brother > left (he instal

Re: Hardware Question

2001-07-21 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:17:14PM -0400, Adam Bell wrote: > What kind of hardware, and in what configuration, would be best to throw > at this problem? What I'm assuming is that I'll need an interface for the > modem, an interface going into a hub, and interfaces for all the clients. > Is the

Re: MTAs: rejecting senders with exim and delivering responses to rejected senders

2001-07-21 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:57:23PM +0200, Hans Wilmer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having some trouble setting up my MTAs. The situation is as > follows: > > > Server: provides dial-up connection to ISP, runs qmail > qmail sends any non-local mail using smtp.SoftHome.net > as remote SMTP s

Re: Building kernel in new dir.

2001-07-21 Thread Adam Bell
Er, I don't know if you want to do what you think you want to do. :) To answer your original question, no you found the only one, but what _really_ matters is where lilo thinks the kernel is. Wherever you put it and your system map (also generated when you compile the kernel) make sure to edit /e

Re: Wherer is dselect putting the kernel-source_2.4.6.deb

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:14:31AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I have been having problems getting a new kernel compiled. I have > already posted a query about whether dpkg or make-kpkg is broke in > testing with no response. I downloaded a raw linux-2.4.6.tar.gz from > kernel.org, put it in /usr/s

question

2001-07-21 Thread John Matters
i am having a problem. my mouse is not responding at all. When my brother left (he installed and configured everything) it was working, and then it just stopped suddenly. its not that the mouse is not plugged in or anything like that. I did get it to respond once, but the second that i moved

dselect: improper dependancy resolution behavior?

2001-07-21 Thread Gladimir
I am hand selecting my packages, but I am having a problem with libncurses4 and libncurses5. Until I know more about this, I suppose it won't harm anything to just install both versions. However, if I try to remove libncurses4, the dependancy resolution also forces the removal of nvi. It is my

agpgart, mga and Matrox G400 woes: resolution

2001-07-21 Thread Jim McCloskey
I'm following up on my own post of a day or two ago, because a Google search suggests that the problem I asked about is quite a common one. It was this: under X 4.0.3 (debian testing) I couldn't get hardware acceleration enabled for my Matrox G400. The problem was that the kernel module `agpgart'

Netscape wrapper

2001-07-21 Thread Jor-el
Hi, I have to use a (closed-source) proprietary solution call Aventail connect to VPN to work. On Linux, I have to prefix every command I run with the command "avconnect" - for example : avconnect telnet . This has the effect of socksifying (or whatever the right term is for VPN), the soc

Building kernel in new dir.

2001-07-21 Thread R1nso13
I'm working on building a new kernel (just realized my newly 'bought' debian 2.2r3 has kernel 2.2 not 2.4 for some reason). Currently, the kernel is in /boot but i thought i'd install the new one in /usr/src/linux as i'm told its more of a "standard" directory for kernels. I know there's a symbo

Hardware Question

2001-07-21 Thread Adam Bell
So I'm interested in setting up a small LAN, basically. What I would like to do is have one box, running Debian, which has a constant routable IP (via cable or some other sort-of high speed protocol) and a normal domain name. This will act as a mail server, samba server, FTP server, and i

Re: NE2000-compatible network device

2001-07-21 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
its ne not ne2k. The modules ne will work on pci devices, but I think the ne2k-pci will not work on isa. Its very likelly that U have ne on your system as it is a very common and therefore comes withmost installations. under debian ne.o is in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/net where 2.4.5 is you

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want a new machine, and for fun and education I am going to build it >>from scratch. I have pretty much decided on an Athlon 1.2GHz. I will run >a small partition with Windows Me on it, but it will predominantly be up >in Debian. >

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.0.3.3 on Debian

2001-07-21 Thread Andy Chan
Anyone know how to install ASE 11.0.3.3 on Debian ? I wanna use ASE on Debian, not on the Redhat.   Best Regards, Andy

Wherer is dselect putting the kernel-source_2.4.6.deb

2001-07-21 Thread John Foster
I have been having problems getting a new kernel compiled. I have already posted a query about whether dpkg or make-kpkg is broke in testing with no response. I downloaded a raw linux-2.4.6.tar.gz from kernel.org, put it in /usr/src/linux and tried to compile with make-kpkg buildpackage. I have nev

Re: Newly compiled kernel will not boot

2001-07-21 Thread Radar
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:44:22AM -0400, Steve Gran wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:29:13 Radar wrote: > > I'm trying to boot a newly compiled 2.4.6 kernel in "potato" using the > > updated > > packages at people.debian.org/~bunk. After following steps outlined in a > > few > > kernel compile t

Re: Newly compiled kernel will not boot

2001-07-21 Thread Howard Baker
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:29:13AM -0500, Radar wrote: > I'm trying to boot a newly compiled 2.4.6 kernel in "potato" using the updated > packages at people.debian.org/~bunk. After following steps outlined in a few > kernel compile tutorials, I arrive at the same results, LILO says: > uncompressin

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread Michael Perry
Quoting Joost Kooij on Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 05:43:06PM +0200: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > > I thought I would consult here as to the motherboard that will give the > > least compatibility problems with the various chip sets available and > > for on-board sou

Re: obtaining the absolute path of a shell script within itself

2001-07-21 Thread Leonard Stiles
"Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how can i obtain the absolute path of the script within itself, > > echo `pwd`/$0, > > returns a POSIX-valid path like > /home/madduck/edu/swat/../../bin/myscript > > but this method only works for relative paths. if i call myscript as > /home/m

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > I thought I would consult here as to the motherboard that will give the > least compatibility problems with the various chip sets available and > for on-board sound. I've yet to hear any bad stories about motherboards for athlon cp

Cannot load kde panel

2001-07-21 Thread Anthony Fox
Hello, This morning, I updated my kernel to 2.4.7. I rebooted and attempted to log into a kde session. The panel (kicker) attempted to start up and aborted. I cannot get a panel running. My .xsession-errors is as follows: _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root DCOP

Re: Newly compiled kernel will not boot

2001-07-21 Thread John Foster
> > > > For my p166, I chose pentium pro / Pentium II. --- I think you need to select 586 not PII as your CPU.

Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I want a new machine, and for fun and education I am going to build it from scratch. I have pretty much decided on an Athlon 1.2GHz. I will run a small partition with Windows Me on it, but it will predominantly be up in Debian. I thought I would consult here as to the motherboard that will gi

Re: url-escaping a string in a shell script.

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 05:07:23PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 03:53:58PM +0200): > > You read the wrong rfc, the above characters are all allowed in http. > > Try it again, using spaces, '%', '#' and some control characters. > > Those will be escap

Re: pcsnd driver and Pentium

2001-07-21 Thread Matteo Semplice
An update: I tried pretty much all Debian packages that play RAW or WAV files and sinthetizers. The only good result is with "saytime", that says the current time throug /dev/audio (minor 4). Now, when I load the pcsnd module I get a message in kern.log saying Jul 21 16:20:23 d6r2 kernel: PCSP on

Re: url-escaping a string in a shell script.

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 03:53:58PM +0200): > You read the wrong rfc, the above characters are all allowed in http. > Try it again, using spaces, '%', '#' and some control characters. > Those will be escaped. The restricted set of characters consists of dig­ its,

MTAs: rejecting senders with exim and delivering responses to rejected senders

2001-07-21 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, I'm having some trouble setting up my MTAs. The situation is as follows: Server: provides dial-up connection to ISP, runs qmail qmail sends any non-local mail using smtp.SoftHome.net as remote SMTP server The remote SMTP server accepts mail only when envelope-sender

Re: [OT] Perl: exec and $variables

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:31:58PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:46:25PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:04:40PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > > my $BEGINREGEX = "sprintf(\"^\$\")"; > > > > Please tell us what you're trying to accomplish firs

Re: dselect trying to remove lots of stuff

2001-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:14:07PM -0400, Anthony Fox wrote: > KDE. I don't want these packages to be removed. Is there some way > that I can make dselect forgot about previous selections? That is, is > there some way for dselect to just start over? Not that I know too much about dselect, if yo

Re: DVDs

2001-07-21 Thread Hereward Cooper
On Saturday 21 July 2001 14:20, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:02:04AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > > Through fortuitous means, I just acquired a DVD player! > > > > I've looked at the DVD HOWTO and it recommends a whole bunch > > of software from the LiVID project. > > > > Is any o

Re: [OT] Perl: exec and $variables

2001-07-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
eval() doesn't do what you want - it *executes* code, as opposed to substituting values for variables. Try something like: my $template = '^$'; my $no = 99; my $bla = $template; $bla =~ s/%no%/$no/g; You can get fancy too, if you want: $replace{no} = 99; $bla =~ s/%(.+?)%/$replace{$1}/g; now

RE: Debian books

2001-07-21 Thread Kurt Lieber
> Can someone tell me what they consider to be a good up to > date Debian book for a beginner, one that doesn't assume that > the reader has a background in Unix or DOS? Is there such a book? As a couple of people have mentioned already, most of the good documentation is online. Some folks als

Re: ipmasq ipchanis; newbie question

2001-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:09:04PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > You can use any private ranges from 192.168.x.x > I think 10.0.0.x > is an another available range > Someone could correct me on this.:) Yes but more precisely, private network can use any of: Class A: 10.0.0.0 with ne

Re: DVDs

2001-07-21 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:02:04AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > Through fortuitous means, I just acquired a DVD player! > > I've looked at the DVD HOWTO and it recommends a whole bunch > of software from the LiVID project. > > Is any of this software packaged up for Debian/unstable anywhere? > > I

Re: Debian books

2001-07-21 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:14:25AM -0400, alex wrote: > Can someone tell me what they consider to be a good up to date Debian > book for a beginner, one that doesn't assume that the reader has a > background in Unix or DOS? Is there such a book? I wouldn't worry about getting a Debian-specific bo

Re: Debian books

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:14:25AM -0400, alex wrote: > Can someone tell me what they consider to be a good up to date Debian > book for a beginner, one that doesn't assume that the reader has a > background in Unix or DOS? Is there such a book? Most of the interesting literature is available onl

Re: video drives

2001-07-21 Thread Kyle Girard
Your video card is supported by Xfree86.  If your using Xfree86 3.3.x  use the XF86_SVGA sever with the tvga8900 driver  if you using the XFree 4  use the "trident" driver. I got this info from here http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/Status33.html#33 Kyle On 07 Aug 2001 22:22:41 +0900, Outa

obtaining the absolute path of a shell script within itself

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
hi, in a shell script, $0 contains the name of the script as it was called. i.e. ./myscript ../../myscript /home/madduck/bin/myscript. how can i obtain the absolute path of the script within itself, given this information. one possible solution is echo `pwd`/$0, which returns a POSIX-val

DVDs

2001-07-21 Thread Bek Oberin
Through fortuitous means, I just acquired a DVD player! I've looked at the DVD HOWTO and it recommends a whole bunch of software from the LiVID project. Is any of this software packaged up for Debian/unstable anywhere? I don't mind building it by hand, but not if there's packages out there. I

Re: video drives

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:22:41PM +0900, Outa wrote: > I need drives to install the graphical mode but so hard to find this driver > .. > I don't know where? the video card is trident cyber blade i1 > .. comes together compaq presario 1600 xl 258... > I'll hope for one solution Yo

Re: url-escaping a string in a shell script.

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:43:38PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > in fact, this doesn't seem to work at all: > > fishbowl:~> echo '$1$19496519$xnqy/01WTA6pfhLBqZT13.' | \ > perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp; print uri_escape($_), "\n"' > $1$19496519$xnqy/01WTA6pfhLBqZT13. > > what am i doing wron

Re: url-escaping a string in a shell script.

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:11:06PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:56:26PM +0200): > > perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp; print uri_escape($_), "\n"' > > > > A little scriptlet to do the same: > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > use URI::Escape; > >

Re: url-escaping a string in a shell script.

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:56:26PM +0200): > perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp; print uri_escape($_), "\n"' in fact, this doesn't seem to work at all: fishbowl:~> echo '$1$19496519$xnqy/01WTA6pfhLBqZT13.' | \ perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp; print uri_escape($_), "\n"' $1$19496

Re: Newly compiled kernel will not boot

2001-07-21 Thread Steve Gran
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:29:13 Radar wrote: > I'm trying to boot a newly compiled 2.4.6 kernel in "potato" using the > updated > packages at people.debian.org/~bunk. After following steps outlined in a > few > kernel compile tutorials, I arrive at the same results, LILO says: > uncompressing the ima

Newly compiled kernel will not boot

2001-07-21 Thread Radar
I'm trying to boot a newly compiled 2.4.6 kernel in "potato" using the updated packages at people.debian.org/~bunk. After following steps outlined in a few kernel compile tutorials, I arrive at the same results, LILO says: uncompressing the image. Ok...booting the kernel - and nothing. It just han

solution

2001-07-21 Thread Markus Hansen
hi i have a display solution of 1600x1200 but i want 1024x768 but i dont know how to change it using debian gnu/linux potato 2.2 and kde2 markus hansen

video drives

2001-07-21 Thread Outa
I need drives to install the graphical mode but so hard to find this driver .. I don't know where? the video card is trident cyber blade i1  .. comes together compaq presario 1600 xl 258... I'll hope for one solution no more thanks for the attention...   send reply for this adress

Debian books

2001-07-21 Thread alex
Can someone tell me what they consider to be a good up to date Debian book for a beginner, one that doesn't assume that the reader has a background in Unix or DOS? Is there such a book? Where are the books about Debian? I found dozens of up to date books for RedHat and just one out of date book

Re: dselect trying to remove lots of stuff

2001-07-21 Thread dude
> > 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, XFr

Re: url-escaping a string in a shell script.

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:56:26PM +0200): > perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp; print uri_escape($_), "\n"' > > A little scriptlet to do the same: > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use URI::Escape; > chomp, print uri_escape($_), "\n" while (<>); almost, except that an input of "$

Re: dselect trying to remove lots of stuff

2001-07-21 Thread Danie Roux
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:14:07PM -0400, Anthony Fox wrote: > > 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

Re: Repeat: Problem with Postgresql database

2001-07-21 Thread p
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:04:01PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: [snip] > > problem is that the postgresql database says that my username does not > > exist in the pg_shadow file any more. I thought that this was a problem > > that > > the users did not transfer so I created another user with th

Re: [OT] Perl: exec and $variables

2001-07-21 Thread Sven Burgener
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:46:25PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:04:40PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > my $BEGINREGEX = "sprintf(\"^\$\")"; > > Please tell us what you're trying to accomplish first. It is unclear > what assumptions you are making. What I want is the

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