Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-24 Thread Paul Mackinney
Karsten M. Self muttered: > on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:17:32AM +1000, Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to remember a trick (probably in O'Reilly's _UNIX Power > Tools_) for removing files by inode... Arg. In my first System V admin class, the instructor showed us how to specify the

default browser

2001-08-24 Thread Larry Fletcher
How do I change the default browser from konqueror back to lynx or netscape? What happened is I installed konqueror to see what it looked like and now when I try to view an attachment in mutt I get an error that says "sh: konqueror: command not found." It seems like the answer would be archived s

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-24 Thread Donald Becker
On 24 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 24 August 2001, Donald Becker wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:50:25PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 so I would have support for the > > > > netgear

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-24 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:54:18PM -0400, Donald Becker wrote: > > However, it is > > > behaving strangely. I repeatedly get the error message: > > > > > > eth1: Something Wicked Happened! 18000 > > Hmmm, the Rx status steck overflowed. > I don't see this with my driver release. > This is very

Re: File Types/Handlers

2001-08-24 Thread John
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:41:20PM +, Kurt Dresner wrote: > I can't seem to get the changes in the gnome control panel to hold. I'd > like double-clicking on an mp3 in gmc to play the mp3 in xmms, and I'd like > to be able to open realplayer documents by double-clicking on them in gmc as >

Re: Magic SysRq key

2001-08-24 Thread Dmitriy
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 10:12:06AM +0700, A. Didit Mifanto wrote: > Dear Debian User: > > What is the meaning of Magic SysRq key in the kernel hacking config? > See your linux-src-root/Documentation/sysrq.txt Hope that helps. > Thanks > > Didit > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Magic SysRq key

2001-08-24 Thread Tim Moss
A. Didit Mifanto wrote: Dear Debian User: What is the meaning of Magic SysRq key in the kernel hacking config? Thanks Didit http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/sysrq.txt "It is a 'magical' key combo you can hit which kernel will respond to regardless of whatever else it is doin

Re: caps lock...num lock...whatever...

2001-08-24 Thread ktb
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:06:25PM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: > > ok, even stupider. I meant num lock, not caps lock. how do you turn on > num lock by default? This is a hack I like. Got it from the archives a while back - Create ~/.Xmodmap - ! redefines numeric keypad to be used without NumLoc

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-24 Thread bedlam
On Fri, 24 August 2001, Donald Becker wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:50:25PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 so I would have support for the > > > netgear fa311 NIC, specifically the natsemi driver. >

Magic SysRq key

2001-08-24 Thread A . Didit Mifanto
Dear Debian User: What is the meaning of Magic SysRq key in the kernel hacking config? Thanks Didit

The Sound of Silence

2001-08-24 Thread Curt Howland
Please reply by email too, since the digest is a pain to read. Thanks. I finally got the modules somewhat resolved. The manual says "Sound Blaster compatable card", but when I try to use the "sb" module it chokes on IRQ conflict. So I am using the sbc60xxwdt module. The error now is something li

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-24 Thread Donald Becker
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:50:25PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 so I would have support for the > > netgear fa311 NIC, specifically the natsemi driver. You didn't need to upgrade your kernel. http://www.scyld.c

Re: X freezes (was XMMS hanging system?)

2001-08-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Karsten M. Self: > on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 09:22:57AM -0400, Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm still trying to chase down some freezes on my box. For sake of > > clarity, I'll try to give the relevant details all at once. About a > > week and a half ago, I

Re: caps lock...num lock...whatever...

2001-08-24 Thread shyamk
BTW what is /dev/null all about ? Thanks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam "Quality can Never be Quantified . It exists by itself and Quantity might hand it an untimely demise if blown out of the very fragile proportions that constitute it ." - Original Message - From: "Dave Sherohman" <[EMAIL

newbie APT troubles

2001-08-24 Thread Avdi B. Grimm
Ok, bear with me, I'm new to the Debian thing. Just dist-upgraded my Progeny system for the first time. Lots of yummy new software, no problems. But now, I want to get some other new packages, and upgrade some that dist-upgrade didn't. For example, I want Evolution. Seems Evolution is only

Re: Running remote X apps

2001-08-24 Thread Duncan Watson
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 07:48:43PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:16:42PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote: > > :ssh is not an option as the hosts I actually need to use don't have ssh and > :I am not an admin on all of them. > > That sucks :( [snip] > :I need to get tcp

Re: [sid] TrueType in XFree86 4.1.0

2001-08-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Marcin Juszkiewicz: > > Hi all > > Someday I installed XFree86 4.1.0pre taken from Branden Robinson > homepage. Later 4.1.0 came to unstable.. but the problem still exist... > > I lost TrueType fonts support in X. I have 'Load "freetype"' in > XF86Config-4, TTFs in /usr/lib/X11/

Re: latex docu

2001-08-24 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:21:36PM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > I'd like to learn LaTex. therefore I wnted to read the Latex docu > under /usr/share/doc/texmf/general/latex2e.dvi.gz. Konqueror can't According to xdvi's man page, it should be able to open this file directly: If a file

Re: AW: Modprobe Issue 2

2001-08-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: AW: Modprobe Issue 2 Date: Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:08:29PM -0400 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How can I tell ModProbe what IRQ my network card is on when I try to add the > eepro100 module? >From the wording of most

Re: apt-get cannot get any files (404)

2001-08-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: apt-get cannot get any files (404) Date: Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:15:54PM -0500 In reply to:Bud Rogers Quoting Bud Rogers([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Friday 24 August 2001 15:43 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > > when I try to update the system I get 404 for all files, anybody

Re: hotmail access

2001-08-24 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:09:58PM +, joe golden wrote: > What the heck do i need to get kde to get in to hotmail??? > You need a web browser. apt-get install konqueror noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key:

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-24 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:50:25PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 so I would have support for the > netgear fa311 NIC, specifically the natsemi driver. However, it is > behaving strangely. I repeatedly get the error message: > > eth1: Something Wicked Happened!

netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-24 Thread bedlam
I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 so I would have support for the netgear fa311 NIC, specifically the natsemi driver. However, it is behaving strangely. I repeatedly get the error message: eth1: Something Wicked Happened! 18000 I've looked at the website www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html and t

works now... WAS: Re: apt-get cannot get any files (404)

2001-08-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > On 24 Aug 2001 15:01:38 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > > > On 24 Aug 2001 13:43:16 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > when I try to update the system I get 404 for all files, anybody knows > > > > what's the problem? The update of pac

adding multiple users, newuser? and vim

2001-08-24 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi I have a txt file in this format: joe blow john smith john doe I would like to use "newusers" to add about 500 accounts to my system, but how do I quickly make the txt file look like this: joe_blow:password:1001:1001:,,,/home/joe_blow:/bin/bash john_smith:password:1002:1002:,,,/home/john_smi

Re: how to use BTS for install disks

2001-08-24 Thread Chris Tillman
> To make *my* matters worse, my card (a vanilla Realted-8139 > based PCMCIA card, whose manufacturer has not even included > its name on the package) is not supported with the standard > pcmcia-cs package. On the other hand, recompiling a new 2.4.9 > stock kernel with in-kernel PCMCIA support

Re: dual boot from two hdd

2001-08-24 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >Hello >How can I boot my system with dual boot like having >windows in one harddisk and linux on another harddisk. >How to configure my lilo. please help me to solve this problem. >Thankz >V.Suryanarayan Install windows first. Install Debian on the other drive

Re: play audio cd with normal user

2001-08-24 Thread Timeboy
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:02:49 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ** On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:57:03PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > ** > But you need to give your CD player the permission to read from > /dev/hdc. So > ** > you can change the permissions for /dev/hdc or add the users to the > group d

Re: Post Installation of a booter

2001-08-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 24 Aug 2001 19:46:32 -0400, alex wrote: > I plan to install 4 Linux systems but don't want to install a boot > loader (LILO or GRUB) with any of the systems but instead rely on boot > floppies because I always had reliable performance with floppies in the > past. However, LILO or GRUB is more

Re: File Manager for wmaker

2001-08-24 Thread Sean Morgan
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:01:27 -0700 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:28:33AM -0500, usucapiao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi i would like to know any url of a good file manager for wmaker...i > > use gmc, but dont like it...if somebody can help me thanks!!! > > bash?

Re: Help - Large Files Support

2001-08-24 Thread Federico 'Derfel' Stella
* giovedì 23 agosto 2001, alle 16:30, Indraneel Majumdar scrive: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:25:00PM +0200, Federico 'Derfel' Stella wrote: > > Check headers in /usr/include/linux/. > > If UTS_RELEASE in version.h is 2.4.x you have nothing to do. > I am running unstable (upgraded from potato via w

Re: apt-get cannot get any files (404)

2001-08-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 24 Aug 2001 15:01:38 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > On 24 Aug 2001 13:43:16 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > when I try to update the system I get 404 for all files, anybody knows > > > what's the problem? The update of package list works fine but when it > > > s

Re: Running remote X apps

2001-08-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:16:42PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote: :ssh is not an option as the hosts I actually need to use don't have ssh and :I am not an admin on all of them. That sucks :( You can run sshd on a high port as joe_user, if you configure the client to accept that weirdness. But cl

Post Installation of a booter

2001-08-24 Thread alex
I plan to install 4 Linux systems but don't want to install a boot loader (LILO or GRUB) with any of the systems but instead rely on boot floppies because I always had reliable performance with floppies in the past. However, LILO or GRUB is more convenient and faster so I would like to at least g

Tip for reading CD / Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Timeboy
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:45:57 -0400 (EDT), Andrew Perrin wrote: > **I've posted some tips on how I've got CD writing working on my debian > ** machine, in the hopes they may be vaguely useful to others. My specific > ** desire was to be able to switch between audio cd playing (which, as far as > *

[sid] TrueType in XFree86 4.1.0

2001-08-24 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Hi all Someday I installed XFree86 4.1.0pre taken from Branden Robinson homepage. Later 4.1.0 came to unstable.. but the problem still exist... I lost TrueType fonts support in X. I have 'Load "freetype"' in XF86Config-4, TTFs in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType and mkttfontdir in /usr/local/bi

Re: lilo and 2 ide master and 4 scsi disks

2001-08-24 Thread Timeboy
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:49:04 +0200, Johan Groth wrote: > **Greetings all, > ** I have a problem with lilo that I can not solve. I had a nice system > ** with 1 ide hd (an ibm which contain win2000) and 4 scsi hd (all contain > ** linux). Lilo is installed on hda everything is well. I added anot

Re: woody install/openssh/sshd issue

2001-08-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 03:34:19PM -0700, stefani patricia banerian wrote: > i finally decided to try out woody, so installed on a machine. > > i am having difficulties with sshd. i can use ssh to connect to remote > servers, i cannot connect to the new (woody) machine via ssh. a look at > my au

woody install/openssh/sshd issue

2001-08-24 Thread stefani patricia banerian
hi. i finally decided to try out woody, so installed on a machine. i am having difficulties with sshd. i can use ssh to connect to remote servers, i cannot connect to the new (woody) machine via ssh. a look at my auth.log tells me: Aug 23 17:13:22 vandana sshd[4932]: fatal: get_sock_port: get

Re: apt-get cannot get any files (404)

2001-08-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > On 24 Aug 2001 13:43:16 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > when I try to update the system I get 404 for all files, anybody knows > > what's the problem? The update of package list works fine but when it > > starts doenloading packages all I see is 404, here's what it lo

lilo and 2 ide master and 4 scsi disks

2001-08-24 Thread Johan Groth
Greetings all, I have a problem with lilo that I can not solve. I had a nice system with 1 ide hd (an ibm which contain win2000) and 4 scsi hd (all contain linux). Lilo is installed on hda everything is well. I added another ide hd (also an ibm) and all of a sudden the only thing lilo prints af

RE: Do I need ldso

2001-08-24 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Try removing it! It askes you to EXPLICITLY say yes I want to remove it. > -Original Message- > From: Anthony Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 24 August, 2001 12:16 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Do I need ldso > > > Deborphan says there is nothing d

latex docu

2001-08-24 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Hello, I'd like to learn LaTex. therefore I wnted to read the Latex docu under /usr/share/doc/texmf/general/latex2e.dvi.gz. Konqueror can't open the file and the only way I've been able to read it so far is to copy it to my home directory, unzip it and read display the .dvi file. But I don't be

Re: Running remote X apps

2001-08-24 Thread Duncan Watson
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:54:05PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > Sounds like you've checked everything I would, any reason not to use > ssh which does automatic forwarding of X (well if it's config'ed to > else "ssh -X "). > > Given the private numbers I'm assuming you trust the loca

Re: apt-get cannot get any files (404)

2001-08-24 Thread Bud Rogers
On Friday 24 August 2001 15:43 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > when I try to update the system I get 404 for all files, anybody knows > what's the problem? The update of package list works fine but when it > starts doenloading packages all I see is 404, here's what it looks like: I get lots of Error

hotmail access

2001-08-24 Thread joe golden
What the heck do i need to get kde to get in to hotmail??? i'm running 2.2.19 pre 17 #1 testing branch and have the following installed kdebase 2.1.1.0-10 kdebase-crypto 2.1.1.0-3 kdebase-libs 2.1.1.0-10 kdelibs3-crypto 2.1.2-1 Joe Golden The Stevens School of Peacham thestevensschoolofpeacham.c

Re: AW: Modprobe Issue 2

2001-08-24 Thread JakeCatfox
How can I tell ModProbe what IRQ my network card is on when I try to add the eepro100 module? Thanks, Deven

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
My $0.02 on make-kpkg, for one off kernels on my home machine I prefer the old fasioned/standard way of make bzImage. I have a lot more control over the build process that way. for kernels that will be distributed to many machines make-kpkg r0ckz. -jon

Re: Running remote X apps

2001-08-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, Sounds like you've checked everything I would, any reason not to use ssh which does automatic forwarding of X (well if it's config'ed to else "ssh -X "). Given the private numbers I'm assuming you trust the local net and wan't to avoid the encryption overhead, but seems worth a shot. -Jon

Re: libao0, libao2: conflict, cannot dist-upgrade

2001-08-24 Thread Erik Steffl
David Z Maze wrote: > > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ES> there is a problem with libao2 trying to overwrite a library that > ES> libao0 also provides > > (Report a bug through the Debian bug-tracking system! See > http://bugs.debian.org/ for some details. It'll be far more likely t

Re: apt-get cannot get any files (404)

2001-08-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 24 Aug 2001 13:43:16 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > when I try to update the system I get 404 for all files, anybody knows > what's the problem? The update of package list works fine but when it > starts doenloading packages all I see is 404, here's what it looks like: > > jojda:/home/erik# apt-

Re: Do I need ldso

2001-08-24 Thread John Hasler
Aquila writes: > ... the one in the (obsolete) ldso package is an old version (1.9.11?) > and is for libc5... The most recent version of the ldso package is also 'Priority: optional'. The libc5 package depends on it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

apt-get cannot get any files (404)

2001-08-24 Thread Erik Steffl
when I try to update the system I get 404 for all files, anybody knows what's the problem? The update of package list works fine but when it starts doenloading packages all I see is 404, here's what it looks like: jojda:/home/erik# apt-get update && apt-get -f dist-upgrade Hit http://non-us.deb

File Types/Handlers

2001-08-24 Thread Kurt Dresner
I can't seem to get the changes in the gnome control panel to hold. I'd like double-clicking on an mp3 in gmc to play the mp3 in xmms, and I'd like to be able to open realplayer documents by double-clicking on them in gmc as well. I try to make the changes, but "try" and "apply" are not an opt

Re: vmware: can't ping host

2001-08-24 Thread Titus Barik
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Jason Majors wrote: > > Windows. However, I can ping the virtual machine from the host. What did > > I break? The correct answer to this question is that I'm a moron. I'm supposed to ping 172.16.66.1 NOT my real host IP (128.61.40.17) to get access to the machine. Why is it

Re: vmware: can't ping host

2001-08-24 Thread Jason Majors
I run VMWare here at work on Debian. I set up my networking as Bridged. I don't remember exactly, but I think Host Only won't let you out to the network. Try bridged mode and see if you can connect out from your VM. And make sure you have win98's networking installed correctly (but you probably do)

Re:DRI

2001-08-24 Thread arf
ah, I forgot something: the ac Kernels still support XFree 4.0. Give it a try! Eamon Roque

vmware: can't ping host

2001-08-24 Thread Titus Barik
Okay, I probably screwed something up again, so if you guys could help out it would be great. So I installed VMware today using the .tar.gz file available from their website, extracted, ran ./vmware-install and installed to /usr/local. I selected all the defaults during the install otherwise exce

apt-listchanges not running

2001-08-24 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi, After an upgrade, apt-listchanges isn't running on a dist-upgrade. I am using the latest everything from unstable. /etc/apt.conf.d/20-apt-listchanges contains the following. DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs { "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10"; }; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-lis

Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Andrew Perrin wrote on Fri Aug 24, 2001 um 03:24:08PM: > It simply didn't work, so I made the (probably wrong) assumption that > ide-scsi was incompatible with audio cd playing. Immediately upon > switching back to ide-cd, audio cd's worked fine, so I figured I'd solved > the problem. S

Re: Multiple X servers?

2001-08-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, August 24, Karsten M. Self did write: > on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:49:36AM -0500, Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Lo, on Friday, August 24, Karsten M. Self did write: > The gconf bug has been a recurring one in 0.11 and 0.12 releases. I'm > clean with 0.11.5, if yo

Re: File Manager for wmaker

2001-08-24 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
usucapiao saw fit to inform me that: >Hi i would like to know any url of a good file manager for wmaker...i >use gmc, but dont like it...if somebody can help me thanks!!! >Jo?o Laureano Leme >Cuiab? - Brazil Have a look at rox-filer. It is really good. I am using it for last 2 months now along w

Re: Java apt sources link for woody & potato

2001-08-24 Thread David Nusinow
Thanks Wayne, I've been looking for those for a while now. One more step on my road to re-establishing my debian box to its former glory! - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 24 August 2001 11:44 am, Wayne Topa wrote: > Just found the apt sources link for the Blackdown Java pac

Re: X and -nolisten tcp

2001-08-24 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have the following in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc: > > exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp > > When I run nmap, I get this for X: > > 6000/tcp openX11 > > Is that unusual? I had thought since I specified nolisten the tcp port > would

Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Andrew Perrin wrote on Fri Aug 24, 2001 um 09:45:57AM: > > > desire was to be able to switch between audio cd playing (which, as far as > > I could tell required that I NOT be using ide-scsi) and cd-rw burning > > What is your problem with i

Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Andrew Perrin wrote on Fri Aug 24, 2001 um 09:45:57AM: > desire was to be able to switch between audio cd playing (which, as far as > I could tell required that I NOT be using ide-scsi) and cd-rw burning What is your problem with ide-scsi? I replaced ide-cd with ide-scsi in all my kerne

Re: File Manager for wmaker

2001-08-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:01:27AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:28:33AM -0500, usucapiao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi i would like to know any url of a good file manager for wmaker...i > > use gmc, but dont like it...if somebody can help me thanks!!! > > bash

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-24 Thread Greg Wiley
On Friday, August 24, 2001 1:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I can more easily revert back to my old kernel without a .deb, because > the old kernel is still there, ready to be used. Whenever I build a > kernel, I keep the old one around for a while > > Lastly, and most importantly, the resultin

Re: in its place

2001-08-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: in its place Date: Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:00:15PM +0200 In reply to:andrej hocevar Quoting andrej hocevar([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > hello > > > so you'll probably suggest to run fetchmail for the thing it's supposed to > do -- retreiving mail. and reading it peacefully of

Re: Gnome panel + sawfish = very slow ?

2001-08-24 Thread Neil Booth
Jim McCloskey wrote:- > It works well for me. > > I'm running X 4.0.3 from testing, and version 0.99 of sawfish from > testing. Version 1.0.55 of gnome-panel, also from testing, Hi Jim, It's a little weird. If I start panel in my .xsession before sawfish, everything is snappy like you'd expec

Re: xawtv probs....

2001-08-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:51:52AM +0200, Matthias Richter wrote: h strange situation just deblocked and i have again an image tryed fullscreen mode with the fulllscreen line in the config file... bit still have the smallish image with a big black border. anyways that not so dramatic,

Re: Do I need ldso

2001-08-24 Thread Aquila
On 24 Aug 2001 12:37:27 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 06:15:42PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Deborphan says there is nothing dependent on ldso but it is nevertheless > > classified as essential. > > You only need ldso if you want to be able to use code which is lin

Re: Where's Woody?

2001-08-24 Thread Jason Majors
There are many docs, including a few install walkthroughs at http://www.debian.org/doc/ and http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/#new-inst On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:34:12PM -0600, John Purser scribbled... > I was trying to download the Woody CD images and can't find them. I saw > on > a post a

Re: Adsl at start...

2001-08-24 Thread Aquila
Just put a script in /etc/init.d/ that brings up the connection if the parameter is "start" and brings down the connection if the parameter is "stop", then symlink appropriate entries in your run level directories (/etc/rcN.d) or use the "update-rc.d" script. Aq. On 24 Aug 2001 10:06:30 -0500, us

Re: Running remote X apps

2001-08-24 Thread Duncan Watson
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:19:20AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > Check your /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc file. > If it has a line that contains "-nolisten tcp", remove that chunk. > No go. I changed that line and restarted X. Hell I even rebooted and no luck. Same responses. /Duncan > On Fri, Aug

Java apt sources link for woody & potato

2001-08-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Just found the apt sources link for the Blackdown Java packages. Thought this might be of interest as I have only seen tgz links on the list. Woody deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian \ woody non-free Potato deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/jav

Sendmail DNS Problem???

2001-08-24 Thread Chad Morgan
I'm a newbie to sendmail and am installing for the first time. When sending a message to an account on the server I have no problem. But when I send to an external account I get a host name lookup failure. The domain I'm sending to doesn't matter because all the ones that I've tried has failed. Th

X and -nolisten tcp

2001-08-24 Thread Brian Stults
I have the following in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc: exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp When I run nmap, I get this for X: 6000/tcp openX11 Is that unusual? I had thought since I specified nolisten the tcp port would not be open. Also, how can I check to be sure it is not li

Re: NVidia GeForce2 MX

2001-08-24 Thread Aquila
You should really compile your own nvidia drivers (apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src) instead of using nv. It REALLY makes a difference to your performance. Aq. On 23 Aug 2001 07:05:51 -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: > I have the same card, run KDE, with no problems. I also choose the

Re: xawtv probs....

2001-08-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:51:52AM +0200, Matthias Richter wrote: > fullscreen = 768 x 576 # This is for PAL, NTSC is different IIRC. yup added, couldn't check since i still have no image... :( > Have you already shuffled your cards once or twice? This often makes the > BIOS reassign the IRQs. I r

Where's Woody?

2001-08-24 Thread John Purser
I was trying to download the Woody CD images and can't find them. I saw on a post a few minutes ago that there might not be such a thing and that I'll have to upgrade Potato to get there from here. Good enough but would someone please point me to a decent "How To" to get me started? I'll write b

Re: Quake3 hangs after GL Initialisation

2001-08-24 Thread Aquila
Have you tried running without sound? You should also try killing esd and any other processes using up your /dev/dsps. If sound init fails Q3 does hang after switching resolution, so I think sound is your problem. Aq. On 24 Aug 2001 04:36:20 -0700, Herbert Pirke wrote: > Hi, > > I have a woody/s

Re: Sound Card [the saga continues]

2001-08-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 24 Aug 2001 13:43:38 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can try to enable the sound card, but for some odd reason, whenever > I do and I'm using my laptop's battery, Debian freezes after about 10 > seconds. Does anyone know why this is happening? I might be able to > get sound to work in Debian

Re: rmagic and woody

2001-08-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 24 Aug 2001 14:10:23 -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > I am using analog and rmagic to run web stats here. I just upgraded to > woody from potato. Now I cannot get rmagic to install. Here is the > error I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/bin# apt-get install rmagic > Reading Package Lists... Done >

Re: Need advice on Upgrade Apache apache-dev_1.3.9-13.2.deb

2001-08-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 24 Aug 2001 09:44:52 +0800, Kennice Low wrote: > Hi mike, > Thank you for your help on the previous email. > I would like to upgrade apache using debian package. > > 1)I think I make a mistake on the path setting for sources.list: > should be : > deb file:/var/ftp/debian potato main > instead o

Re: X Display errors

2001-08-24 Thread Duncan Watson
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:28:12AM -0400, David Z. Maze wrote: > The Debian packaging of XFree86 4.x by default disables connections > via TCP, which means that xhost will never have any effect, and you'll > never be able to connect to the machine by using 'hostname:0.0' as the > display name. T

Re: File Manager for wmaker

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:28:33AM -0500, usucapiao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi i would like to know any url of a good file manager for wmaker...i > use gmc, but dont like it...if somebody can help me thanks!!! bash? ;-) There's a WINGS-based filemanager called FSViewer, if you want the Wi

Re: DISPLAY and multiple ssh connections

2001-08-24 Thread Jason Majors
> Is there a command line switch to tell vim to not try and use the gtk > portions? Emacs does a similar thing (tries to use X) to me if I forget > the -nw switch on it. I'm guessing it's a default to try and be the > most resource hungry editor it can be ;>. No. The switch is to go gui. And

Re: Running remote X apps

2001-08-24 Thread Jason Majors
Check your /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc file. If it has a line that contains "-nolisten tcp", remove that chunk. On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:14:44AM -0700, Duncan Watson scribbled... > I am having problems running apps on other machines that need to use my > display. I suspect that X is not configur

Re: sid images

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 01:46:20PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all. > > Where can I find the iso images of debian unstable? No such beast, unless someone's got unofficial ISOs stashed someplace. Install Potato base system, modify your /etc/apt/sources.list files, and

devfsd 'n halt

2001-08-24 Thread Daniel Wagner
hello. i've experienced a strange behaviour when shutting down my machine, when the devfsd runs, cause devfsd stop-script is excecuted after the TERM all KILL all script, so that there's no devfsd anymore which could be stopped. has anybody the same problem? cya, Daniel -- Life is a sexually

Re: mutt quickies

2001-08-24 Thread Miguel Griffa
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:35:32AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:19:12PM -0300, Miguel Griffa scribbled... > > 1) How do I tell mutt to not go to /var/spool/mail/me and to start > > opening ~/Mail/mbox > in your ~/.muttrc (or ~/.mutt/muttrc ...my choice) add the line

Running remote X apps

2001-08-24 Thread Duncan Watson
I am having problems running apps on other machines that need to use my display. I suspect that X is not configured to listen to the right kind of sockets or something. Here is the scenerio, my machine name is pandora, ip 10.1.2.1. I telnet into bravado (another linux machine) and check my DISP

Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
Well, you're the second person who's said exactly that - all I can say is that when I tried, I couldn't get cda to play an audio cd on /dev/scd1 (the ide-scsi device) but it immediately worked on /dev/hdc when I removed the modules. I will now try again and report back as to whether my hack was ent

rmagic and woody

2001-08-24 Thread Brian Schramm
I am using analog and rmagic to run web stats here. I just upgraded to woody from potato. Now I cannot get rmagic to install. Here is the error I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/bin# apt-get install rmagic Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be instal

fetchmail can't resolve (some) domains

2001-08-24 Thread p
debs, my fetchmail can't resolve some domains from this list. (then i have to use netscape's mail client to "clear" the pop timeout "jam.") how should i handle this situation? ia, t. bentley taylor. //

RE: can't ping isp

2001-08-24 Thread Jochem Vaartjes
Maybe your default gateway has not been set. try route add default gw my.router.host.name J. -Original Message- From: p [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 2:49 PM To: debs Subject: can't ping isp debs, i can ping my lan and router, but i can't get out (from the

Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Andrew Perrin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've posted some tips on how I've got CD writing working on my debian > machine, in the hopes they may be vaguely useful to others. My specific > desire was to be able to switch between audio cd playing (which, as far as > I could tell required that I NO

Re: Multiple X servers?

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:49:36AM -0500, Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Lo, on Friday, August 24, Karsten M. Self did write: > > > --kunpHVz1op/+13PW > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Wh

Re: DISPLAY and multiple ssh connections

2001-08-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Jason Majors wrote: > > > > This wouldn't bother me too much, but the app that complains is vim. > > > Not the gui version, the console version. I have version 5.8.007-4 instal > > led > > > of vim-rt and vim-gtk. I can't install just vim, because it conflicts with > > > vim-gtk, which for the mos

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