Re: sources.list and apt-get question

2001-08-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 05:14:24PM -0700, Rick Commo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After reading Karsten Self's comments on galeon I thought I would give it a > try since Netscape 4.75 is old and *not* impressive. > > Downloaded galeon-0.12.tar.gz and unzipped and untarred it. When I ran > "config

Re: Can't into my server ?

2001-08-25 Thread Tommy Wu
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > What are in /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny? > Moreover: why are you running telnetd? It is an insecure, I found that is a bug for telnetd_0.17-13 this is current in woody apt database. So when anyone new install woody system or running apt-get upgrade,

Re: Installing downloaded .deb files

2001-08-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 02:06:58PM -0700, David Frischknecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I downloaded a .deb file, but I'm having trouble installing it using > apt-get. Could someone help me? Thanks. How to Report Bugs Effectively http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham

Re: Can't into my server ?

2001-08-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 01:13:25PM +0800, Tommy Wu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > >I just install a new woody linux box. >But I found that I can't telnet into this box even in localhost. >I can use any other protocol to this server, like ssh, ftp, www... but >only telnet can't

Re: Help! telnetd not working!

2001-08-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 10:56:03AM -0400, Aaron Traas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just installed debian on a new system today. Everything is working > beautifully, except telnetd. I'm using xinetd (also tried inetd), and > when I attempt to telnet to the machine, it sends me the contents of > /e

Re: adding multiple users, newuser? and vim

2001-08-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 07:29:57PM -0600, Cameron Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 25 Aug 2001 18:19:53 -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Writing TEXT processing script in BASH is just a quick job. For real > > world needs, use AWK (See Karsten's answer to your post), PERL, or PYTHON. > >

Re: newbie APT troubles

2001-08-25 Thread Hamma Scott
I believe the problem is that Evolution is compiled with a later C lib. Most questions I needed answered for apt-get can be found here. http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net Is a good reference too. --- "Avdi B. Grimm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-25 Thread David Purton
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote: > 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

Re: Slash'em

2001-08-25 Thread Mark Seven Smith
Please, list: if somebody asks for a "direct mail" contact assist for their problem, always "CC" to the list as well. I read posts in order to learn; and I would like to know what this is all about (I suspect I will probably have problems along these lines in the near future! :-) > Hi all. > I a

RE: Debian Server Efficiency

2001-08-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Aug-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which is more efficient: > > Using two ethernet cards, each with their own IP address, and each running a > DIFFERENT server application, or ONE card running both? > Hard to answer this. What you are really asking here is if adding a second card will

questions

2001-08-25 Thread James T Prejsnar
Question 1) I'm using DHCP in my home network, and I'm having problems getting the network interface up and running. Can I add the networking interface module for my 3Com card or do I have to rebuild the kernel? I'm seeing error messages about my ethO when my system is booting. Question 2) Whe

Debian Server Efficiency

2001-08-25 Thread JakeCatfox
Which is more efficient: Using two ethernet cards, each with their own IP address, and each running a DIFFERENT server application, or ONE card running both? Thanks, Deven G.

Re: vmware & ip masq

2001-08-25 Thread Titus Barik
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Tupshin Harper wrote: > I'm doing exactly this: debian 2.4.x custom kernel + vmware + masquerading. > > Maker sure that the ipt_MASQUERADE module is loaded, and make sure the > iptables debian package is installed. Done. > Then add an IP address to your ethernet card that i

Re: adding multiple users, newuser? and vim

2001-08-25 Thread Cameron Matheson
On 25 Aug 2001 18:19:53 -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Writing TEXT processing script in BASH is just a quick job. For real > world needs, use AWK (See Karsten's answer to your post), PERL, or PYTHON. Don't forget Ruby :) Sorry, but it's my favorite... i just need to start learning it better Camero

Re: adding multiple users, newuser? and vim

2001-08-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Writing TEXT processing script in BASH is just a quick job. For real world needs, use AWK (See Karsten's answer to your post), PERL, or PYTHON. Besides, Karsten's awk script addresses needs to keep them lower case etc. IF you use BASH, you need to run 'tr' command externally. AWK, PERL, an

Re: Problem with the installaion of debian locking up

2001-08-25 Thread Mark Seven Smith
Sorry Karsten; I meant for this to go to the list, not only to you. (I HATE WINDOWS!!! This is Outlook Express, screwing up on where to send replies...) - Original Message - From: "Mark Seven Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Karsten M. Self" Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 2:06 PM Subje

Re: adding multiple users, newuser? and vim

2001-08-25 Thread Mike Egglestone
Thanks for the script! I'm not good at scripting. I like the bash one. How do I chomp off part of the first name so that the output looks like this: from johnny smith jsmith thanks Mike Quoting Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:38:56PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote

sources.list and apt-get question

2001-08-25 Thread Rick Commo
After reading Karsten Self's comments on galeon I thought I would give it a try since Netscape 4.75 is old and *not* impressive. Downloaded galeon-0.12.tar.gz and unzipped and untarred it. When I ran "configure" it came up with an error saying that I had glib 1.2.7 and needed glib 1.2.8. So I ch

Re: major/minor number listing?

2001-08-25 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, In the kernel documentation (if you compile your own kernel, it's in the Documentation dir of the src, otherwise install the appropriate debian kernel-doc package) there is a file named 'devices.txt' that lists all the major/minor #'s. Cameron Matheson On 25 Aug 2001 20:08:22 -0400, [EMAIL

major/minor number listing?

2001-08-25 Thread R1nso13
is there some website, piece of documentation, or man page w/ a complete (or at least reasonably complete) list of major and minor numbers?

Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with "cramfs: wrong magic"

2001-08-25 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Herbert Xu wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:11:04PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: I tried the -386 kernel package. I no longer get "cramfs: wrong magic". Please give 2.4.8 a go. I installed kernel-image-2.4.9-386_2.4.9-1. This kernel package boots with no problem. Thanks again for sugg

Re: vmware & ip masq

2001-08-25 Thread Tupshin Harper
I'm doing exactly this: debian 2.4.x custom kernel + vmware + masquerading. Maker sure that the ipt_MASQUERADE module is loaded, and make sure the iptables debian package is installed. Then add an IP address to your ethernet card that is on the same subnet as your vmware machine: eg: ifconfig eth

Re: vmware & ip masq

2001-08-25 Thread Tupshin Harper
I'm doing exactly this: debian 2.4.x custom kernel + vmware + masquerading. Maker sure that the ipt_MASQUERADE module is loaded, and make sure the iptables debian package is installed. Then add an IP address to your ethernet card that is on the same subnet as your vmware machine: eg: ifconfig eth

Re: Environment

2001-08-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 11:49:30AM +0200, zolia wrote: > when i "adduser user newgroup", then i need to logout from the first shell > i am in to activate changes. Is there a way to activate without logout? Try 'newgrp '. It only works for that shell, though. -- Colin Watson

Re: hotmail access

2001-08-25 Thread James D Strandboge
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:08:22PM -0400 or thereabouts, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > 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 > You might also try gotmail from

more fun with mutt, locale and perl

2001-08-25 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello. I got the idea from reading the list traffic to use 8-bit ISO-8859-1 instead of 7-bit ascii, but my attempts have apparenly failed. Perhaps someone can set me on the right path with this. I use mutt to read my mail, with the default pager, not less, and constantly see weird character repr

Re: [OT] German-English translation tools

2001-08-25 Thread Hartmut Figge
Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Does anyone know of any free (or at least reasonably cheap) tools to > assist in translation? I'm explicitly *not* looking for a program that > attempts to fully translate texts, but rather something to help with some > of the dirty work as I begin translating some previou

vmware & ip masq

2001-08-25 Thread Titus Barik
Huzza! It's me again. I'm running Woody with a 2.4.6 custom kernel. Here's what I'm trying to do. I have a VMWare host-only network running Windows 98 SE. The virtual machine's IP is 192.168.155.128. The host machine is 128.61.40.17, and is accessed through VMWare Win98 session as 192.168.155.1.

Re: Sendmail and mutt problems

2001-08-25 Thread Craig Holyoak
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Jason Majors wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:04:13AM +1000, Craig Holyoak scribbled... > > Yes, I've thought about exim, and tried it once, but I could never get it > > to masquerade messages properly (I want it to convert my internal address > > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - to my

[OT] raw TCP/IP sockets?

2001-08-25 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello. I've included a snippet of an exchange regarding the "raw TCP/IP socket" issue that Cringley (IIRC) was talking about in that article from a few weeks back. Could someone please comment on whether I've understood this correctly? I never got a reply to my response. >> With the Berkley So

Re: No ide-scsi, no CD-RW

2001-08-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
You need to select and compile the ide-scsi module. Install (if you haven't already) the kernel-headers and kernel-source packages for your kernel version, then: cd /usr/src/kernel-source- make menuconfig and follow the menus, making sure to install SCSI generic and IDE-SCSI as modules. ap

No ide-scsi, no CD-RW

2001-08-25 Thread Andy Davidson
I have been trying to get a cd-rw drive working under Debian (Potato 2.2r3) with no success. I am beginning to suspect I am missing a kernel module, but need advice in any case. When I run xcdroast(0.96e) as root, I get to the setup window. When I check SCSI-IDE Info, I see two SCSI devices (my s

Re: hotmail access

2001-08-25 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:08:22PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > 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 You also need crypto support, which will not be

Re: Sendmail and mutt problems

2001-08-25 Thread Craig Holyoak
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Saturday 25 August 2001 15:50 pm, Craig Holyoak wrote: > > > Received: from localhost ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1]) > > by uq.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA27890 > > for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 06:50:36 +1000 > > (GMT+1000) Date: Sun

Re: Installing downloaded .deb files

2001-08-25 Thread Jordi S . Bunster
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 02:06:58PM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: > Hello, > > I downloaded a .deb file, but I'm having trouble > installing it using apt-get. Could someone help me? Thanks. You shouldn't use apt-get if you already have the file. You should use dpkg -i file.deb

Re: Installing downloaded .deb files

2001-08-25 Thread Shoegoo
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 02:06:58PM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: > Hello, > > I downloaded a .deb file, but I'm having trouble > installing it using apt-get. Could someone help me? Thanks. man dpkg > = > > David A. Frischknecht > http://www.fishnetonline.freeurl.com -- shoegoo "L'ord

Installing downloaded .deb files

2001-08-25 Thread David Frischknecht
Hello, I downloaded a .deb file, but I'm having trouble installing it using apt-get. Could someone help me? Thanks. = David A. Frischknecht http://www.fishnetonline.freeurl.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/m

Re: Sendmail and mutt problems

2001-08-25 Thread Craig Holyoak
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Jason Majors wrote: > I'd suggest switching to exim. It is sooo much easier to configure and manage. > I used to have sendmail headaches all the time, then I tried exim and I've > loved it since. (No I'm not a paid endorser, I just think it's a great > mailer). > > On Sun, Aug

Re: Sendmail and mutt problems

2001-08-25 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 25 August 2001 15:50 pm, Craig Holyoak wrote: > Received: from localhost ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1]) > by uq.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA27890 > for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 06:50:36 +1000 > (GMT+1000) Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 06:50:36 +1000 (GMT+1000) > From: Cra

Sendmail and mutt problems

2001-08-25 Thread Craig Holyoak
I am trying to use mutt to send my email. Sendmail is my mailer. Whenever I try to send a message, I get the error: Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser. I am using unstable (sendmail 8.11.4+8.12.0.Beta16-3). Does anyone know what I need to change? Thanks, Craig

Re:latex docu

2001-08-25 Thread Glen Snyder
A really beautiful app for LaTeX documentation in texdoctk. It provides a centralized menu for all of the documentation and opens all of the documentation files regardless of whether they are tarred, as dvis, etc. I could find documentation there that I didn't even know I had. Unfortunately, texd

Re: xawtv questions

2001-08-25 Thread Timeboy
Yeah! I got it! Cool!! TV is faster now! Perfect! After reading in man XF86Config i only commented out these unusful lines, wrote a new line and my /etc/X11/XD86Config now lokes this: Section "Module" # This loads the DBE extension module. Load"dbe" # Double buffer extension #

Re: Help! telnetd not working!

2001-08-25 Thread bill triplett
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 10:56:03AM -0400, Aaron Traas wrote: > I just installed debian on a new system today. Everything is working > beautifully, except telnetd. I'm using xinetd (also tried inetd), and > when I attempt to telnet to the machine, it sends me the contents of > /etc/issue.net, and th

Re: cfdisk

2001-08-25 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, you've only made the partition, you have no file-system (in other words, it's not ext2 because you have not made it ext2 (altho i would suggest using reiserfs, but that's your decision)). Anyway, try these commands, and then mount it: mke2fs /dev/hda13 e2fsck /dev/hda13 mount /dev/hda13 /mn

Re: update-menus fails for normal user, but not for root

2001-08-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Rich wrote on Sat Aug 25, 2001 um 12:02:16PM: > rm: cannot unlink `/usr/share/applnk/Multimedia/Debian': Permission denied > ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/applnk/Multimedia/Debian/Sound' to > `/home/rich/.kde/share/applnk/Debian/Sound': Permission denied Known bug, should be

Re: Superflous Emacs backup files

2001-08-25 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 25 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: > I noticed that GNU Emacs seems to create tons of files like > .saves-16657-finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE~ in $HOME which don't get > removed. What's the way to prevent this? In my experience, I have seen those files appear only when I close em

Re: X freezes (was XMMS hanging system?)

2001-08-25 Thread Stephen Gran
> Thanks a lot for the link. I am using Kernel 2.4.9 however I have got XFree > 4.0.2. At present I cannot upgrade to 4.1.x. Hence I downloaded the tarball > file from the above link. How should I compile this ? No INSTALL file with > this. Can u help me out ? bunzip2 drm-4.0.x.tar.bz2|tar -xvvf r

Re: xawtv questions

2001-08-25 Thread Timeboy
Hi Matthias! I don't find any error in /var/log/XFree* but in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 there is a bad entry how i think: # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection "extmod" Option"omit xf

Re: swapon and raid systems

2001-08-25 Thread Dave Carrigan
"Cory Snavely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which boot script is that? I can understand the logic of not wanting to swap > on an md device that's getting a RAID resync, but it surprises me that even > non-mirrored swap would be passed over as well. The init scripts in package sysvinit (checkroot

Re: X freezes (was XMMS hanging system?)

2001-08-25 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Stephen Gran saw fit to inform me that: >Oh - a note to others with similar problems - 2.4.9 no longer supports >drm for XFree 4.0.x (only 4.1), so you have to download the drm for 4.0.x >at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/drm-4.0.x.tar.bz2 and >replace the directory drivers/char/drm

cfdisk

2001-08-25 Thread shyamk
I am having a problem with cfdisk . I want it to rearrange the free space into partitions of the type I desire . I get default as "Linux" which does not happen to be the same as "Linux ext2" ."Linux ext2" does not get accepted and it defaults to "Linux" . It means that a comand like : mount

Re: gnuclient & xemacs

2001-08-25 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jonathan David Wheelhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently I upgraded xemacs to xemacs21-gnome-nomule_21.4.3-3 (now it's > 21.4 ie. xemacs21-gnome-nomule 21.4.4-1) on my sid box. It converted > my ~/.emacs to ~/.xemacs/custom.el and ~/.xemacs/init.el. I normally > have xemacs start gnuser

Re: xawtv questions

2001-08-25 Thread Matthias Richter
Timeboy wrote on Sat Aug 25, 2001 at 06:05:34PM: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 15:59:04 +0200, Matthias Richter wrote: > > ** Does "XFree86-DGA" appear in the output of xdpyinfo? > No! /var/log/XFree86.0.log should tell you more about errors X encountered during startup. Is there some error related to DGA

update-menus fails for normal user, but not for root

2001-08-25 Thread Rich
Howdy all, not too long ago, update-menus stopped working for me suddenly... now i just get a long string similar to the following message: rm: cannot unlink `/usr/share/applnk/Multimedia/Debian': Permission denied ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/applnk/Multimedia/Debian/Sound' to `/hom

Re: Remounting / read-only

2001-08-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 07:00:38AM -0500, Jeremy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Howdy group! > > I was wondering how I'm supposed to remount root readonly. From what > I can figure I'm supposed to issue the command "mount -o remount,ro > /", but I only get a "mount: / is busy" message. Do you

Re: allowing users to upload

2001-08-25 Thread Tim Moss
Martin F Krafft wrote: hi, i operate a couple of non-profit servers for friends to host their websites. there is only ssh, no ftp, but most users are mac or windoze, and so they have considerable difficulty uploading, even with the OpenSSL or other comparable scp-featuring packages. i would like

Re: xawtv questions

2001-08-25 Thread Timeboy
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 15:59:04 +0200, Matthias Richter wrote: > ** Hallo Timeboy, > ** Timeboy schrieb am Samstag, den 25. August 2001: > ** > Yes! Just i uncommented this line and made a logout/login to restart > xfree. > ** > But it had no effect. What i have to do, to get DGA support? > ** >

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-25 Thread bedlam
On Fri, 24 August 2001, Donald Becker wrote: > > 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

Remounting / read-only

2001-08-25 Thread Jeremy
Howdy group! I was wondering how I'm supposed to remount root readonly. From what I can figure I'm supposed to issue the command "mount -o remount,ro /", but I only get a "mount: / is busy" message. I've tried it without the comma between remount and ro, and it seems to go through okay, but I'm

Re: allowing users to upload

2001-08-25 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Cliff Sarginson (on Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:43:24AM +0200): > You could use anonymous FTP, set up properly it is quite secure. > Be especially sure that the upload directory has write but NOT read > permissions; otherwise you may find you have become a half-way > house to all sorts of unsav

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-25 Thread bedlam
On Fri, 24 August 2001, Donald Becker wrote: > > 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

Re: Do I need ldso

2001-08-25 Thread John Hasler
Anthony Campbell wrote: > Well, this was why I asked the question originally. Dlocate -s says that > ldso is in the oldlibs section and is optional, yet if you tell apt-get > to remove it you are told it is essential and you have to remove it > explicitly. I don't see how it can be both optional an

Re: Do I need ldso

2001-08-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Aug 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 09:40:06AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Well, this was why I asked the question originally. Dlocate -s says that > > ldso is in the oldlibs section and is optional, yet if you tell apt-get > > to remove it you are told it is esse

Re: latex docu

2001-08-25 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:21:36PM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > 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 t

2.4.9 ppp woes

2001-08-25 Thread Matt Chatterley
Hi all,   I've just installed Woody on Linux box which I've been meaning to reinstall for ages (I used Debian 1.3.1 and 2.0 some time ago, but had been using RH6 until now); this reinstall coincided with the installation of ADSL in my flat -- the new box is intended to handle that connection

Help! telnetd not working!

2001-08-25 Thread Aaron Traas
I just installed debian on a new system today. Everything is working beautifully, except telnetd. I'm using xinetd (also tried inetd), and when I attempt to telnet to the machine, it sends me the contents of /etc/issue.net, and then eats up 99% CPU and just hangs. I don't know what to do. Any help

XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-25 Thread Aaron Traas
I'm running Woody with Xfree86 4, and am wondering what I have to do to get the RENDER extension to work, and thus get KDE to anti-alias fonts. Can someone point me in the right direction? BTW: My graphics adapter is an ATI Rage Mobility Pro, and the system is a Dell Inspiron 7500. --Aaron

Re: [sid] TrueType in XFree86 4.1.0

2001-08-25 Thread Sean
Doesn't running the font server help performance a little? Seems like I remember hearing this somewhere, but I could easily be mistaken. btw ... xfs-xtt works well here on sid. Sean On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 10:04:39 -0500 Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] German-English translation tools

2001-08-25 Thread Calvin Chong
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Perrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 10:03 PM Subject: [OT] German-English translation tools > Does anyone know of any free (or at least reasonably cheap) tools to > assist in translation? I'm explicitly *not* looking for

Re: Superflous Emacs backup files

2001-08-25 Thread Alan Shutko
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I noticed that GNU Emacs seems to create tons of files like > .saves-16657-finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE~ in $HOME which don't > get removed. What's the way to prevent this? Those are session recovery files, so if your emacs crashes, you can do a M-x re

[OT] German-English translation tools

2001-08-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
Does anyone know of any free (or at least reasonably cheap) tools to assist in translation? I'm explicitly *not* looking for a program that attempts to fully translate texts, but rather something to help with some of the dirty work as I begin translating some previously unavailable articles from Ge

Re: [sid] TrueType in XFree86 4.1.0

2001-08-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010825 08:18]: > Are you running xfs-xtt? It's the true type font server for X - > runs seperately from xfs, and is apparently the only thinf that can > correctly interpret true type fonts. If you're running a standalone box, and not 'serving' fonts to other mac

Re: xawtv questions

2001-08-25 Thread Matthias Richter
Hallo Timeboy, Timeboy schrieb am Samstag, den 25. August 2001: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 13:16:59 +0200, Matthias Richter wrote: > > ** DGA means Direct Graphics Access. Do you have a 'load "glx"'-Line in > > ** your XF86Config-4, 'Section "Module"'? > > Yes! Just i uncommented this line and made a l

YACDBP (Yet another cd-burning...)

2001-08-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
Has anyone successfully use gtoaster to copy an audio CD ?? I've tried it a few times and each time, gtoaster reports the burn was successful. It fixates the disc, so that's not an issue. When I try it in my home cd-player (which has always played CDs I've burned okay in the past), it 'reads' the d

Re: xawtv questions

2001-08-25 Thread Timeboy
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 13:16:59 +0200, Matthias Richter wrote: > ** Timeboy wrote on Sat Aug 25, 2001 at 11:33:07AM: > ** > What is DGA support? And why is xawtv running, if it don't know the > ** > framebuffer adress? > ** > ** DGA means Direct Graphics Access. Do you have a 'load "glx"'-Line in >

Re: XFree86\xf86cfg system crash

2001-08-25 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
Hello together, xf86cfg seems to do not work without any parameters. Try using xf86cfg -textmode . It worked fine for me many times. hope it helps Daniel On Saturday 25 August 2001 13:34, Pedro Neves spoke wisely: > Hi: > > I'm having the same problem, and I also don't understand why thy ended

Re: CD not bootable

2001-08-25 Thread Pedro Neves
Hi: normally I boot my Toshiba Satellite with a Windows Startup Disk with CD-ROM support. After it loads, I run the boot.bat inside Install directory on the Debian CD and that's it. Good luck Pedro - Original Message - From: Visvanath Ratnaweera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, A

Re: XFree86\xf86cfg system crash

2001-08-25 Thread Pedro Neves
Hi: I'm having the same problem, and I also don't understand why thy ended with XF86Setup. I read that they're working on a replacement, but until it's available I guess the only thing to do is edit XF86 config manually... Regarding the mouse, there's a document in Xfree86 docs about the mice and

Re: Do I need ldso

2001-08-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 09:40:06AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Well, this was why I asked the question originally. Dlocate -s says that > ldso is in the oldlibs section and is optional, yet if you tell apt-get > to remove it you are told it is essential and you have to remove it > explicitly.

CD not bootable

2001-08-25 Thread Visvanath Ratnaweera
Hi all This must be a pretty standard question but I couldn'f find what I need. I have the Debian 2.2 (Potato) CD's which were the source of quite a few installation. In all those I could boot from the CD. The present candidate, a Toshiba Satellite Laptop with Pentium 266 MMX, refuses to boot f

Re: xawtv questions

2001-08-25 Thread Matthias Richter
Timeboy wrote on Sat Aug 25, 2001 at 11:33:07AM: > What is DGA support? And why is xawtv running, if it don't know the > framebuffer adress? DGA means Direct Graphics Access. Do you have a 'load "glx"'-Line in your XF86Config-4, 'Section "Module"'? > Then: xawtv only runs in mode grabdisplay. Ove

Re: swapon and raid systems

2001-08-25 Thread Cory Snavely
> I have a couple of systems that use kernel RAIDs (specifically, > mirrors). The systems also have regular (non-mirrored) partitions for > swap. When the systems boot, the swap partitions don't get installed. I > have isolated it to the fact that the boot scripts first grep for > "resync" in /pro

Re: apt-get download size

2001-08-25 Thread Mark Robinson
> Hi. I'm running woody and do apt-get upgrade weekly. Why does it sometimes > download something like 24Mb and only use something like 1.5Mb? That is > what is happening today and I've seen it quite often. > > Thanks, > Anita It all depends on how many of the packages have been upgraded in the

Re: allowing users to upload

2001-08-25 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 11:30:32AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > hi, > i operate a couple of non-profit servers for friends to host their > websites. there is only ssh, no ftp, but most users are mac or > windoze, and so they have considerable difficulty uploading, even with > the OpenSSL or othe

Environment

2001-08-25 Thread zolia
Hello, when i "adduser user newgroup", then i need to logout from the first shell i am in to activate changes. Is there a way to activate without logout? Antanas Masevicius Kaunas University of Technology Studentu 48

Re: apt-get download size

2001-08-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 05:31:42AM -0400, Anita Lewis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi. I'm running woody and do apt-get upgrade weekly. Why does it sometimes > download something like 24Mb and only use something like 1.5Mb? That is > what is happening today and I've seen it quite often. Possibl

Re: Problem with the installaion of debian locking up

2001-08-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 01:36:37AM -0700, Mark Seven Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Blank > Problem: Debian CD "B1" bombs either when choosing modules, or before > (can even happen right off the bat, scrolling through the keyboard > selection screen!) > > The suggested way to install Debian i

Re: allowing users to upload

2001-08-25 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 11:30:32AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > hi, > i operate a couple of non-profit servers for friends to host their > websites. there is only ssh, no ftp, but most users are mac or > windoze, and so they have considerable difficulty uploading, even with > the OpenSSL or othe

Re: The Sound of Silence

2001-08-25 Thread harshu
hi, > > So I am using the sbc60xxwdt module. > > The error now is something like "Cannot Open /dev/dsp" and the sound > still does not work. This typically happens when the module is not yet loaded. It also happens if the permissions of /dev/dsp /dev/mixer are not correct. you could change the

xawtv questions

2001-08-25 Thread Timeboy
Hi! Yesterday i tried my first installation of my tv card (BT878) and my first try to run it with xawtv. It seems to be very god. I can watch tv and have a fine result. But there are two warnings if i run xawtv in gnome-terminal: This is xawtv-3.55, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.5) WARNING: Your X

apt-get download size

2001-08-25 Thread Anita Lewis
Hi. I'm running woody and do apt-get upgrade weekly. Why does it sometimes download something like 24Mb and only use something like 1.5Mb? That is what is happening today and I've seen it quite often. Thanks, Anita

Re: Running Dosemu as root

2001-08-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Aug 2001, George Petri wrote: > On Saturday 25 August 2001 13:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I got dosemu1.0.2 and it seems it is now impossible to run it as root. > > Is this true? > > This is a bug and you need to download the source and > > "in src/plugin/coopthreads/coopthreads.h chan

allowing users to upload

2001-08-25 Thread Martin F Krafft
hi, i operate a couple of non-profit servers for friends to host their websites. there is only ssh, no ftp, but most users are mac or windoze, and so they have considerable difficulty uploading, even with the OpenSSL or other comparable scp-featuring packages. i would like to enable user ftp for th

Re: Do I need ldso

2001-08-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Aug 2001, John Hasler wrote: > 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 PROTE

Problem with the installaion of debian locking up

2001-08-25 Thread Mark Seven Smith
Blank Problem: Debian CD "B1" bombs either when choosing modules, or before (can even happen right off the bat, scrolling through the keyboard selection screen!) The suggested way to install Debian is to use the CD's; so bought some, and I can boot from them. However, in the early part, after par

Re: adding multiple users, newuser? and vim

2001-08-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:38:56PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > 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 >

Re: Mp3 on XMMS are faster

2001-08-25 Thread Hereward Cooper
> My xmms plays the mp3 files too fast...i dont know why... > (xmms 1.2.5) > Have you tried to change the output plugin under preferences? Hereward

Re: default browser

2001-08-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:03:20PM -0700, Larry Fletcher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2001, Larry Fletcher wrote: > > 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

Re: The Sound of Silence

2001-08-25 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-25 04:00): > The error now is something like "Cannot Open /dev/dsp" and the sound > still does not work. Add yourself to the audio group like this # adduser curt audio Logout, log in again, and then try your sound, it should work now. Cheers, Sean --

Re: adding multiple users, newuser? and vim

2001-08-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:38:56PM -0700, Mike Egglestone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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

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