Re: procmail conditions

2001-08-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:54:34PM -0700, Jason Majors ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a way to OR procmail conditions? > I have lots of lines like so: > :0 > * (^From:.*Reel\.com) > /dev/null > :0 > * (^From:.*sonypictures\.com) > /dev/null You want a list processor: :0 * /de

konqueror config error

2001-08-29 Thread Francois Gouget
Hi, Each time I go to Settings/Configure Konqueror I get the following error messages: * "Error - KDE Control Module There was an error loading module 'Settings/FileBrowsing/kcmkonq.desktop' The diagnostic is:" And that's all, it never says what the diagnostic really is. * The

Re: HELP with NFS lossage...

2001-08-29 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 11:33:44PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: :Quick question: : :Did you update the /etc/exports file to allow the hosts to mount and :then run exportfs? yup, other machines mount it fine. The IP block it's exported to covers my whole /16 , I've mounted from machines in th

Re: Looking for a wireless ethernet solution...

2001-08-29 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:20:56PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: :Can you mix and match 802.11(b) gear and expect it to cooperate? Yes, that's the point. Expecting and it actually happenning I've seen a mix of cards talk to Lucent/Oronoco (sp) card, so I'd be optimistic about that. There ar

Re: HELP with NFS lossage...

2001-08-29 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 29 Aug 2001 22:27:23 -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > I'm baffled. > > I have and NFS server (ishmael) which serves /fs/deb as a local > apt-repository amoung other things. It also serves /fs/deb/nfsroot as > a seperate export used as part of my local autoinstaller. > > After makin

Re: XFree86 Configuration Error

2001-08-29 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 30 Aug 2001 12:58:02 +0900, Curt Howland wrote: > > Since the debian-x mailing list explicitly states "no user support > issues", I'll try again here. > > Several applications are failing to display correctly in X11, due to a > problem with the display depths. I have been told I should have a

Re: procmail conditions

2001-08-29 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:03:48PM -0700, Craig Dickson scribbled... > Jason Majors wrote: > > > Is there a way to OR procmail conditions? > > Yes, like this: > > * ^(To|Cc|X-Apparently-To|From):.*@(foo|bar)\.com > $MAILDIR/foo/ This is ORing the contents of a condition. Trying to put the

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-29 Thread bedlam
On Wed, 29 August 2001, "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:07:02AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > > "gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet > > -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c > > '[ -f /usr/include/linux/modver

Looking for a wireless ethernet solution...

2001-08-29 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, I'm looking for a wireless ethernet solution for my home network. I've got: 1 Linux box with two ethernet interfaces as my DSL gateway. 1 Windoze PC 1 Laptop (Windoze/Debian) I currently have the Linux gateway connected to hub and the Windoze PC and laptop go into the hub. Ideally, I'm aft

Re: Re[2]: bbdb-initialize in .emacs

2001-08-29 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Miller) writes: > I'm trying to set up bbdb and am unclear on the process for the > bbdb package. The docs (/usr/share/doc/bbdb/README.Debian) say > that to enable bbdb support, I need to add a call to > bbdb-initialize in my .emacs. So I added I presume someone a

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:07:02AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > "gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet > -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c > '[ -f /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ] && echo > -DMODVERSIONS`" Note btw that

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:28:56PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Like I said, I don't kno why there is no IRQ for the NIC. I've tried > compiling the code you sent me, I'm attaching the output I got back. I used > the command I found in the readme file on the disk. I used the code you > s

Re: procmail conditions

2001-08-29 Thread Craig Dickson
Jason Majors wrote: > Is there a way to OR procmail conditions? Yes, like this: * ^(To|Cc|X-Apparently-To|From):.*@(foo|bar)\.com $MAILDIR/foo/ This means "if the To:, Cc:, X-Apparently-To:, or From: header contains either @foo.com or @bar.com, put the message in $MAILDIR/foo/". Craig

XFree86 Configuration Error

2001-08-29 Thread Curt Howland
Since the debian-x mailing list explicitly states "no user support issues", I'll try again here. Several applications are failing to display correctly in X11, due to a problem with the display depths. I have been told I should have a "display depths" something like this: > xdpyinfo | grep depth

procmail conditions

2001-08-29 Thread Jason Majors
Is there a way to OR procmail conditions? I have lots of lines like so: :0 * (^From:.*Reel\.com) /dev/null :0 * (^From:.*sonypictures\.com) /dev/null and I'd like to make them more like this: :0 * (^From:.*Reel\.com) OR * (^From:.*sonypictures\.com) /dev/null I tried to DeMorganize them like: *

Re: Woody: problems upgrading lately?

2001-08-29 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 29 Aug 2001 21:28:00 -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > bw> No problems here. If you already have a woody system, you don't > bw> need apt-get dist-upgrade. Just apt-get upgrade. > > Neither them work. Sorry, I should have said that. > > Since I'

woody horde/pgsql crisis

2001-08-29 Thread Martin F Krafft
hi all, i am trying to reestablish my postgresql/horde/imp setup, but i am failing. specifically, since postgres for some reason failed to translate my database, i would simply like to create a new one. the horde package includes an sql script for that, and i am supposed to import it with 'psql \i

Re: No Sound

2001-08-29 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 29 Aug 2001 17:22:28 -0400, Eric Whitestone wrote: > I don't have any sound in X yet. When I try to run the mixer it tells > me that my kernel might not be compiled for sound, when I know that it > is. I have sb_lib.o and a couple other files in my > /lib/modules/kernel/sound directory. If anybo

Re: Eating Away Disk Space

2001-08-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 11:00:53PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:29:01PM -0400, Nick Furman wrote: > | I seem to be having something eat away disk space on my primary partition. > | Does anyone have any idea what's going on? > > Karsten posted a neat little sh

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-29 Thread bedlam
On Wed, 29 August 2001, "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:03:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a Linksys Etherfast 10/100, I think it's revision 3, though. All you > > should need to do is enable the driver in the kernel, compile, then, if you > > compile

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:55:00PM -0400, dman wrote: > > Oh, old kernel and new NIC. I had only a rev2.0 NIC back when I was > using kernels older than 2.2.19. My rev4.1 NIC has only been tried > (and worked) with 2.2.19 and 2.4.8. I'm building 2.2.19 for that router now. Cool, I'll try bu

Re: managing /etc/rc?.d

2001-08-29 Thread ktb
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 04:03:47AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > folks, > despite wonderful packages like file-rc, the /etc/rc?.d structure is > damn difficult to maintain, is it not? in fact, here is the only tool > that i miss from my redhat days - some text-oriented tool which let > you specif

Re: Eating Away Disk Space

2001-08-29 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:29:01PM -0400, Nick Furman wrote: | I seem to be having something eat away disk space on my primary partition. | Does anyone have any idea what's going on? Karsten posted a neat little shell script a couple days ago that would list the largest directories in the current

Re: Partitioning after-effects (after the fact)

2001-08-29 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:44:25PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:23:08PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > ... > | In GRUB, you can go into "Edit" mode and specify the root device, > | location of the /boot/grub/menu.1st, etc... It's not a bad idea to > > Before the stage2 has loa

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-29 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:11:46PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: | On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:03:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > I have a Linksys Etherfast 10/100, I think it's revision 3, though. All you | > should need to do is enable the driver in the kernel, compile, then, if you

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-29 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:03:54PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: | On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:12:56PM -0400, dman wrote: | > Interesting. I didn't even look at the disk that came with my new | > card, but my old one had the then-current source on it. I never even | > needed the latest source,

Re: building a simple mysql database accessed thru html

2001-08-29 Thread Akintayo Holder
john smith wrote: Hi, Basically, what I want to do is to create a simple database? or search engine? wherein it would contain a list of all html pages in the computer. there is also a default html home page that has just a search button and a textbox (like google search engine but a LOT simp

Re: Can MSN work on Debian?

2001-08-29 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
:I don't see any reason why he can't. MSN is just another ISP like :Earthlink or Mindspring. Exim will get your email from mail.msn.com and :Konqueror accesses the web just fine. All you need is the MSN DNS IPs :during your setup of your Debian network. Because it's M$ and they break things on pu

HELP with NFS lossage...

2001-08-29 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I'm baffled. I have and NFS server (ishmael) which serves /fs/deb as a local apt-repository amoung other things. It also serves /fs/deb/nfsroot as a seperate export used as part of my local autoinstaller. After making some changes to the installer (don't think I touched anything related, sa

Re: Netscape

2001-08-29 Thread Akintayo Holder
dman wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 05:20:01PM -0400, Eric Whitestone wrote: | Ok, I downloaded what i think to be the latest version of netscape | binaries (glibc2) and installed it. Now, when I try to run the | netscape binary, I get this message: | | ./netscape: error in loading shared librar

Re: managing /etc/rc?.d

2001-08-29 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima (on Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:17:05AM +0800): > Sorry about the brevity of this but: > man update-rc.d thanks, i know about that one, but i don't find it too intuitive to use. especially since i can't see things side by side which helps a lot with runlevels, i find.

Re: managing /etc/rc?.d

2001-08-29 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Martin F Krafft wrote: > folks, > despite wonderful packages like file-rc, the /etc/rc?.d structure is > damn difficult to maintain, is it not? in fact, here is the only tool > that i miss from my redhat days - some text-oriented tool which let > you specify the order and runl

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:03:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a Linksys Etherfast 10/100, I think it's revision 3, though. All you > should need to do is enable the driver in the kernel, compile, then, if you > compile it as a module (I compile it statically), you'll need to make mo

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-29 Thread JakeCatfox
I have a Linksys Etherfast 10/100, I think it's revision 3, though. All you should need to do is enable the driver in the kernel, compile, then, if you compile it as a module (I compile it statically), you'll need to make modules and make modules-install, and modprobe/insmod the module. Turn off

managing /etc/rc?.d

2001-08-29 Thread Martin F Krafft
folks, despite wonderful packages like file-rc, the /etc/rc?.d structure is damn difficult to maintain, is it not? in fact, here is the only tool that i miss from my redhat days - some text-oriented tool which let you specify the order and runlevels of each of the scripts in /etc/init.d. is there s

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:12:56PM -0400, dman wrote: > Interesting. I didn't even look at the disk that came with my new > card, but my old one had the then-current source on it. I never even > needed the latest source, the version that came with whatever kernel I > was running worked fine.

mandb gets stuck!

2001-08-29 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, A few weeks ago, perhaps, I upgraded something on my woody box - and now I can't satisfy the mandb gods. Mandb runs through cron.weekly until I kill it - for a few days. I tried to run it manually to create a db from scratch, but the same thing - it gets stuck. Here's the tail of the lo

Re: Partitioning after-effects (after the fact)

2001-08-29 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:23:08PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: ... | In GRUB, you can go into "Edit" mode and specify the root device, | location of the /boot/grub/menu.1st, etc... It's not a bad idea to Before the stage2 has loaded? How?! | write GRUB to a floppy either... Yes! Always have

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-29 Thread burningclown
Hi, > I recall posting a few direct suggestions that I don't believe were > responded to. These issues can be difficult to resolve. List traffic's > also been high the past couple of days, and I've been thinning out mail > significantly. Yes. I succumbed to the desperation that these things so

Re: Netscape

2001-08-29 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 05:20:01PM -0400, Eric Whitestone wrote: | Ok, I downloaded what i think to be the latest version of netscape | binaries (glibc2) and installed it. Now, when I try to run the | netscape binary, I get this message: | | ./netscape: error in loading shared libraries: libg++.so.

Mutt + Japanese

2001-08-29 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Hi! I'm trying to get mutt set up to send and receive Japanese (iso-2022-jp charset) mail. Right now the machine can read Japanese encoded mail, and can even send Japanese encoded mail (using mule as the editor), but each time I have to change the Content-Type line from charset=us-ascii to charse

Re: OT: alternate .dvi output spec, TeX/LaTeX?

2001-08-29 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 04:19:18PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:02:03PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:19:07PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | > | I'm trying to use TeX in a script. Problem I've got is convincing TeX | > | to put

Eating Away Disk Space

2001-08-29 Thread Nick Furman
I seem to be having something eat away disk space on my primary partition. Does anyone have any idea what's going on? Here is a df log, over the period of about 30 seconds: --> Wed 21:22 on cyan : pwd is ~ tcsh# df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda1

Re: Woody: problems upgrading lately?

2001-08-29 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bw> No problems here. If you already have a woody system, you don't bw> need apt-get dist-upgrade. Just apt-get upgrade. Neither them work. Sorry, I should have said that. Since I've updated last, now if I try "apt-get upgrade" I get: # apt-get

Re: bash: /dev/lp0, /dev/lp1 and /dev/lp2 no such device

2001-08-29 Thread dman
Notice how hard this is to read without any paragraph breaks. Plesae separate paragraphs in the future. On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:30:17PM -0400, John Kittel wrote: | Running IBM PC DOS 7.0 using the word processor | NOTA BENE the EPSON printer on the parallel port | (DOS LPT1) correctly prints

Re: crappy dpkg thing SOLVED. apologies

2001-08-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:43:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Thanks, debian-users for putting up with my half-baked squeakings. I > finally figured out what I was doing wrong, and have wiped the offending > package from my system, unto eternity. Don't keep us all in

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:26:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > The document in Polish doesn't really contain anything useful regarding your > > problem. Basically it just reiterates that packages marked > > "reinstall-required" cannot be handled by dpkg unle

Re: Partitioning after-effects (after the fact)

2001-08-29 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:45:42PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:07:44AM +0800, csj wrote: > | Not quite. It seems that the famed grub command prompt can't handle a > | shifted partition. Remember how grub freaks like to brag about the > | bootloader's ability to arbitrarily load

No Sound

2001-08-29 Thread Eric Whitestone
I don't have any sound in X yet. When I try to run the mixer it tells me that my kernel might not be compiled for sound, when I know that it is. I have sb_lib.o and a couple other files in my /lib/modules/kernel/sound directory. If anybody has any ideas of to where I should start, please let me

Re: RAID1 and ext3???

2001-08-29 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:27:38PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone has issues with RAID1 and ext3 under linux? > I've set up a RAID1 server using linux, and am looking into switching to a > safer file system, however I'm just wondered if there are any issues in > using a file sys

Netscape

2001-08-29 Thread Eric Whitestone
Ok, I downloaded what i think to be the latest version of netscape binaries (glibc2) and installed it. Now, when I try to run the netscape binary, I get this message: ./netscape: error in loading shared libraries: libg++.so.2.7.2: cannot open shared objec. Doesn anybody know what this could mea

Re: Telnet/FTP to local machines [branchoff: Re: rlogin delays]

2001-08-29 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 05:49:59PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: | On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:25:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled... | > No firewall, I can ping them. How do I start the telnet and FTP daemons? | | | Do you have them installed? | FTP is wu-ftpd. or ftp could be proftpd or the

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-29 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:27:27PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: | On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:07:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > In my ongoing effort to put a second NIC in my computer I have purchased a | > new NIC, an EtherFast 10/100 version 5. However, Linux or my box doesn't | > s

Re: Matrox Millenium IIs and XFree86 3.6

2001-08-29 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:37:55AM +1000, Nick Croft wrote: > Ryan, > Look for the line > Driver "mga" > in the > Section "Device" . > I commented this line out to get it working. Since it now works that way, > I haven't looked into the cause of the problem. > > Am sending the enti

Re: Sound Card & Gnome

2001-08-29 Thread Joao Pissarro
Ok Jason, the dpkg -l | grep esound is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep esound ii esound-alsa0.2.17-7 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - Support bi ii esound-common 0.2.17-7 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Common files and [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-b

RAID1 and ext3???

2001-08-29 Thread Sunny Dubey
Hi, Has anyone has issues with RAID1 and ext3 under linux? I've set up a RAID1 server using linux, and am looking into switching to a safer file system, however I'm just wondered if there are any issues in using a file system like ext3 and RAID1 (software mirroring between two hard drives over

Re: Telnet/FTP to local machines [branchoff: Re: rlogin delays]

2001-08-29 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:25:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled... > No firewall, I can ping them. How do I start the telnet and FTP daemons? > > -- Deven > > Do you have them installed? FTP is wu-ftpd. Telnet is telnetd. There's also a telnetd-ssl(?), that is more secure. Be very car

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

2001-08-29 Thread burningclown
Hi, > The document in Polish doesn't really contain anything useful regarding your > problem. Basically it just reiterates that packages marked > "reinstall-required" cannot be handled by dpkg unless you use > --force-reinstreq or whatever. Dead end there :D Wow. Thanks for checking that out! S

crappy dpkg thing SOLVED. apologies

2001-08-29 Thread burningclown
Thanks, debian-users for putting up with my half-baked squeakings. I finally figured out what I was doing wrong, and have wiped the offending package from my system, unto eternity. Embarrassedly, Glenn Becker ++ http://www.burningclown.com "Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All" +

Re: Sound Card & Gnome

2001-08-29 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:11:17AM +0100, Joao Pissarro scribbled... > Thnaks for replying. > > Here are the installed modules, and esound is intalled. > > jpissarro:/home/ct1dbh# lsmod > Module Size Used by > bttv 37116 1 > tuner 2088

Re: Matrox Millenium IIs and XFree86 3.6

2001-08-29 Thread Nick Croft
Ryan, Look for the line Driver "mga" in the Section "Device" . I commented this line out to get it working. Since it now works that way, I haven't looked into the cause of the problem. Am sending the entire XF86Config file separately. Nick

Re: Telnet/FTP to local machines [branchoff: Re: rlogin delays]

2001-08-29 Thread JakeCatfox
No firewall, I can ping them. How do I start the telnet and FTP daemons? -- Deven In a message dated 8/29/01 9:23:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Can you ping them? Do any of the machines have firewall rules that may be blocking traffic? Do the server machines have

Re: networking problem during install

2001-08-29 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:04:51PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Another thought: PCI bus problems? > > Have you tried an alternate card in the box? If everthing outside the > box works, the card(s) work, and the CPU isn't misbehaving, I'd suspect > a mobo/bus problem. No idea how to diagnose

Mutt is skipping some lines of the message

2001-08-29 Thread Jason Majors
Sometimes I get a message and notice that mutt has decided that the first few lines of the message are part of the header. It doesn't happen every time though. Is any one else experiencing this? I'm using 1.3.20-1 (the latest from sid). From: Date: In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Line

Re: kernel 2.4.x

2001-08-29 Thread Akintayo Holder
I know. It is a personal workstation, and I am will fix the problem soon -- Profanity is the one language all programmers know best. Unknown

Re: Partitioning Advice

2001-08-29 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 15:50:21 PDT, Mike Fedyk writes: >On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:49:19PM -0600, John Purser wrote: >> I'm installing Debian Woody as the only OS on an IBM PC with a 20 gig hard >> drive, 192 megs of ram, and two Ethernet cards. This machine will be my >> network gateway and provid

Re: woody: segfaulting all over the place

2001-08-29 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:22:21PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > I suspect that memory words may be stripped accross both modules, so > the error remains at the same address after the swap (in the different > part of the same word). Can you test each module separately? Or put > them in a differen

building a simple mysql database accessed thru html

2001-08-29 Thread john smith
Hi, Basically, what I want to do is to create a simple database? or search engine? wherein it would contain a list of all html pages in the computer. there is also a default html home page that has just a search button and a textbox (like google search engine but a LOT simpler) that users see

bash: /dev/lp0, /dev/lp1 and /dev/lp2 no such device

2001-08-29 Thread John Kittel
Running IBM PC DOS 7.0 using the word processor NOTA BENE the EPSON printer on the parallel port (DOS LPT1) correctly prints a file. Running Debian 2.2r3 on the same PC the command lptest 36 7 > /dev/lp0, /dev/lp1 and /dev/lp2 returns bash: /dev/lp0, /devlp1 and /dev/lp2 no such device. The access

OT: HPLJ4, PCL, specifically tray selection

2001-08-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
Another PITA: I've got a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 4 Printer, it's got a primary and manual feed tray. Question is: how do I indicate a job's supposed to go to the manual-feed tray? I suspect it's a PCL issue. I've found a page with a list of codes that looks promising: http://www.hp.com/c

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:07:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In my ongoing effort to put a second NIC in my computer I have purchased a > new NIC, an EtherFast 10/100 version 5. However, Linux or my box doesn't > see the NIC enough to give it an IRQ number. Everything else seems in order

Re: OT: alternate .dvi output spec, TeX/LaTeX?

2001-08-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:02:03PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:19:07PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | I'm trying to use TeX in a script. Problem I've got is convincing TeX > | to put its output where I want it to. > | > | Anyone got a hint for forcing Te

Re: MPEG video viewer

2001-08-29 Thread Hall Stevenson
* David Frischknecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010829 19:02]: > Hello, > > Does anyone know where I can get a good MPEG video viewer? From what > I've heard, xanim doesn't do justice to MPEGs. Thanks. I downloaded a plug-in to xmms that works quite well. I'm happy with it... Someone else already menti

Re: OT: alternate .dvi output spec, TeX/LaTeX?

2001-08-29 Thread Alan Shutko
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > Anyone got a hint for forcing TeX to create an output DVI file with a > specified name? tex file.tex mv file.dvi realname.dvi AFAIK, that's the only way. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Two is company, three is an orgy.

Re: Partitioning Advice

2001-08-29 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:49:19PM -0600, John Purser wrote: > I'm installing Debian Woody as the only OS on an IBM PC with a 20 gig hard > drive, 192 megs of ram, and two Ethernet cards. This machine will be my > network gateway and provide DNS, DHCP, Web, and database service for my > small netw

Re: OT: alternate .dvi output spec, TeX/LaTeX?

2001-08-29 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:19:07PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | I'm trying to use TeX in a script. Problem I've got is convincing TeX | to put its output where I want it to. | | Anyone got a hint for forcing TeX to create an output DVI file with a | specified name? I was thinking of making a

Re: Old BIOS does not support bootable cdroms

2001-08-29 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:25:38 CDT, ktb writes: >On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:12:17PM -0400, Ken Mead wrote: >> I was given on old P166 and want to put Debian on it however the old BIOS >> does not support bootable cd's. Can someone please point/help me make a >> floppy disk that will allow me to bo

Re: Favorite Debian packages?

2001-08-29 Thread Bud Rogers
I think apt ought to be close to the top of any list. You can change one word in /etc/apt/sources.list, do apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade and walk away while apt gets you a totally new system. I don't know of any other distro or os that can do that. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTE

q ad mp3-software

2001-08-29 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m on a rather slow machine, a Pentium running at 50 MHz. This is just fine for working, and should be reasonably fast for playing mp3´s. With mpg123 (stable) CPU-usage is ~ 70 %, but I get random clicks and other nasty distortions. Ok, renice mpg123 to -3, so it should be served befo

Sound Card & Gnome

2001-08-29 Thread Joao Pissarro
Hello all, I am working with Potato/gnome 1.4, and I am trying to get the sound driver working, with the application sounds of gnome. On the boot, I get: es1371: version v0.22 time 19:13:40 Nov 18 2000 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x02 es1371: found es1371 re

Re: MPEG video viewer

2001-08-29 Thread ray p
http://mplayer.sourceforge.net no debs but there are steps to make your own, debs that is, really nice. On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:34:09PM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know where I can get a good MPEG video > viewer? From what I've heard, xanim doesn't do > justice t

Re: Woody: problems upgrading lately?

2001-08-29 Thread Bill Wohler
No problems here. If you already have a woody system, you don't need apt-get dist-upgrade. Just apt-get upgrade. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're

Creating mutt mailbox aliases

2001-08-29 Thread Jason Majors
How can I create a mailbox alias for mutt? To get to my debian-user mailbox I have to type "c=de" and I'm too lazy for that. (But not too lazy to look for the answer...I just can't find it :). thanks, Jason

RE: Partitioning Advice - Thanks to all

2001-08-29 Thread John Purser
Thanks to all who responded. Looks like I'll be repeatedly installing so your advice will not go to waste. John Purser -Original Message- From: Craig Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 16:02 To: 'Debian users list' Subject: Re: Partitioning Advice Cliff

Re: MPEG video viewer

2001-08-29 Thread Jeff Reed
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 17:34, David Frischknecht wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know where I can get a good MPEG video > viewer? From what I've heard, xanim doesn't do > justice to MPEGs. Thanks. > > = > > David A. Frischknecht > http://www.fishnetonline.freeurl.com > > > __

Re: Do I track "security" apt site in Sid?

2001-08-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:20:05AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 11:36:25AM -0500, Dave Sherohman > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:15:52PM -0400, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Are unstable (sid) security patches posted in the > > > main repo

OT: alternate .dvi output spec, TeX/LaTeX?

2001-08-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm trying to use TeX in a script. Problem I've got is convincing TeX to put its output where I want it to. Anyone got a hint for forcing TeX to create an output DVI file with a specified name? Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't yo

Re: MPEG video viewer

2001-08-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:34:09PM -0700, David Frischknecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know where I can get a good MPEG video > viewer? From what I've heard, xanim doesn't do > justice to MPEGs. Thanks. xine works reasonably well for me, though it's got a fugly UI. -

Re: MPEG video viewer

2001-08-29 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:34:09 PDT, David Frischknecht writes: >Does anyone know where I can get a good MPEG video >viewer? From what I've heard, xanim doesn't do >justice to MPEGs. Thanks. from `apropos mpeg`: gtv (1) - MPEG audio (MP3) and video (MPEG-1) player with GTK+ GUI plaympeg (1)

Re: Old BIOS does not support bootable cdroms

2001-08-29 Thread ktb
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:12:17PM -0400, Ken Mead wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was given on old P166 and want to put Debian on it however the old BIOS > does not support bootable cd's. Can someone please point/help me make a > floppy disk that will allow me to boot my debian cd so I can get this b

Re: Favorite Debian packages?

2001-08-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:05:30PM +0200, Claes Andersson wrote: > Given the huge amount of available packages it is difficult to know if you > have the best subset installed. Perhaps there are some less known "killer > apps" around that many people don't know about. Debian has some great > inve

Re: ipmasqadm portfw and apache

2001-08-29 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:39:21PM -0700, Jason Majors scribbled... > Does anybody have experience with multiple VirtualHost entries? Or know > the > correct format? > I'm doing: > NameVirtualHost domainone > NameVirtualHost domaintwo > NameVirtualHost domainthree > > > ... > > >

Re: How to create a linux cd with graphic support.

2001-08-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:27:34PM -0700, MESQUITA,GIOVANI (Non-HP-Brazil,ex1) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I want create a bootable cd with graphical support, but exist many > questions. > * The CD need run in various video adapters with the resolution > 800x600 pixels, how to

Re: Partitioning Advice

2001-08-29 Thread Craig Dickson
Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > /tmp1 Gig > Too big 250MB Don't some programs use /tmp to store in-progress downloads, and thus would have problems if /tmp weren't big enough? Say, for example, I was downloading a 600MB ISO image. Wouldn't /tmp have to be at least that big for the download to

Re: /dev/log

2001-08-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 04:04:09PM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > Could anyone enlighten me as to what type of file /dev/log is? ls -l > gives the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/include/linux$ ls -l /dev/log > srw-rw-rw-1 root root0 Aug 29 08:54 /de

MPEG video viewer

2001-08-29 Thread David Frischknecht
Hello, Does anyone know where I can get a good MPEG video viewer? From what I've heard, xanim doesn't do justice to MPEGs. Thanks. = David A. Frischknecht http://www.fishnetonline.freeurl.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam

Re: Anyone has gnome-pilot 1.61 (latest) compile with USB?

2001-08-29 Thread Mike Markley
Hmm... I was wondering why development had seemed to have stopped... I wasn't aware of the new webpage. I've been tracking CVS but having issues with building it... now that I'm aware of 0.1.61 I'll update the packages. BTW, please wrap lines at under 80 characters (74 is a good place)... On Wed,

Re: Partitioning Advice

2001-08-29 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 29 Aug 2001 13:49:19 -0600, John Purser wrote: > I'm installing Debian Woody as the only OS on an IBM PC with a 20 gig hard > drive, 192 megs of ram, and two Ethernet cards. This machine will be my > network gateway and provide DNS, DHCP, Web, and database service for my > small network. Not a

Re: /dev/log

2001-08-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi All, >Could anyone enlighten me as to what type of file /dev/log is? ls -l >gives the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/include/linux$ ls -l /dev/log > srw-rw-rw-1 root root0 Aug 29 08

Re: Partitioning Advice

2001-08-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:49:19PM -0600, John Purser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm installing Debian Woody as the only OS on an IBM PC with a 20 gig > hard drive, 192 megs of ram, and two Ethernet cards. This machine > will be my network gateway and provide DNS, DHCP, Web, and database > servi

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