Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-05 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Karsten M. Self, > I'd recommend a tool such as Win4Lin over either of the prior > suggestions. You're working from GNU/Linux to a lesser OS. You get > pretty full Win98 support, and the option to administer the box > centrally, without having to suffer through dual boots or reduced > perf

Re: Help! with exim -- freezing mail

2001-09-05 Thread Cam Ellison
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > Having cleared the spool, what's the problem? > > You'd initially written saying you had frozen messages in your queue. > You've deleted your queue, there can be no frozen messages, so what's > going wrong now? > I have it running now, using fetchmail, and exim as a

Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

2001-09-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:07:40PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > >> * You are not expected to understand this. > >> --comment from Unix system 6 source, credited to Lions and Johnson > >> Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who: finger me for GPG key > > > >Since you're such a fan of

Re: is exim the cause for this?

2001-09-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:08:27PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:45:31PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > >Yes. The mail transfer agent used to deliver mail to one of the subscribers > > >of debian-user is buggy; it is sending

Re: eth1 messing up eth0 and routing question

2001-09-05 Thread bedlam
> On 5 Sep 2001 08:29:37 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I can ping outside and inside networks from the router, and I can ping the > >LAN > side of the router from a local computer, but I can't ping outside from the > local computer. > > You need SNAT ("ip masquerading") like this: > >

Re: libxml2

2001-09-05 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Nope. See my earlier message about the different effects using dselect > and using apt have on the status file. > Thanks Gary and Colin. I stand corrected. Since I haven't used dselect for over a year, my status file must be completely out of sync with

Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

2001-09-05 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010905 23:53]: > > Microsoft's mail clients, on the other hand, give you something like > this: > > ___cut_here___ > > > --- Original message --- From: John Galt > > Elm predates any microsoft email product... Try to quote stuff in elm, > the cursor goes to the

Re: thread hijacking [was: shell script for bash]

2001-09-05 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Give it a later number in /etc/rc?.d (probably /etc/rc2.d) than the > sendmail init script. They're started in sequence by /etc/init.d/rc. Hey Colin. Yeah, that was my first thought. It was already S99fetchmail in the rc2.d and rc3.d directories. The

Re: Matrox G450 comments?

2001-09-05 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Thanx to everyone who replied, you've all been *most* helpful. I feel pretty good about going ahead with the G450 at this point, although I'll probably look into the G400 Max as well. Cheers! On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:39:43PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > I need to replace the video card on

Re: Printing go bye-bye

2001-09-05 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Kyle Girard: > nope it's empty > > On Wed, 2001-09-05 at 18:37, W. Paul Mills wrote: > > > > > Anything showing up in /var/log/lp-errs? > > I seem to rememeber having this problem at some point after an upgrade, but unfortunately I can't remember the specifics of how I eventually

Re: thread hijacking [was: shell script for bash]

2001-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:36:48AM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: > Yup; I just hijacked another thread, but my question is related. If I > want to have system-wide fetchmail started with the usual script in: > /etc/init.d/ > but have it wait to make sure that sendmail is actually running before

Re: libxml2

2001-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:45:19PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > But once I installed the -dev via apt-get, "dpkg -l *xml2*" > > _did_ list the file. > > Sorry I didn't make that clear did I? dpkg -l only accepts *installed* > package names. Nope.

Re: is exim the cause for this?

2001-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:27:10AM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > On 2001.09.05 22:55 J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > Yes. The mail transfer agent used to deliver mail to one of the > > subscribers of debian-user is buggy; it is sending error messages to > > people who send mail to debian-user rather than

Re: Debian's default MTA + MDA

2001-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:38:58AM +1000, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > Hello. I am still preparing to install Debian, but I am not sure of > what the default MTA is. I get the impression that it is exim, but I > have not been able to find any definitive answer anywhere in the > Debian Documentation Proje

Re: is exim the cause for this?

2001-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:45:31PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > >Yes. The mail transfer agent used to deliver mail to one of the subscribers > >of debian-user is buggy; it is sending error messages to people who send > >mail to debian-user rather than t

Re: Debian's default MTA + MDA

2001-09-05 Thread dman
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:38:58AM +1000, Andrew Nesbit wrote: | Hello. I am still preparing to install Debian, but I am not sure of what the | default MTA is. I get the impression that it is exim, but I have not been | able to find any definitive answer anywhere in the Debian Documentation | Proje

Re: locales, character sets, the like...

2001-09-05 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:07:58PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Hello, > > 'scuse me, this is irritating me too much at the moment. I did some > research to find it out myself, but clearly didn't look in the right > places, while I can continue looking, maybe someone can save me time > durin

Re: Re: Re: libxml2

2001-09-05 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:45:19PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > > But once I installed the -dev via apt-get, "dpkg -l *xml2*" > > _did_ list the file. > > > > Sorry I didn't make that clear did I? dpkg -l only accepts *installed* > package names.

clara and gimp together?

2001-09-05 Thread Robert Cymbala
Can packages clara (UNIX ocr) and gimp be installed together on the same computer? I can't get clara installed because xlibs conflicts with xlib6g.

REPRESENTACION Y DISTRIBUCION

2001-09-05 Thread Comercializadora Dela-Gilces
SRES. LINUX     ESTAMOS INTERESADOS EN REPRESENTARLOS EN ECUADOR TODA LA LINEA DE PRODUCTOS DE LINUX MANDRAKE, QUEREMOS CERTIFICARNOS COMO INGENIEROS EN ESTA LINEA, PARA PODER DAR SOPORTE A USUARIOS FINALES EN NUESTRO MEDIO.   TENEMOS LAS CLARAS INTENCIONES DE ENVIAR A UN REPRESENTANTE DE NU

Debian's default MTA + MDA

2001-09-05 Thread Andrew Nesbit
Hello. I am still preparing to install Debian, but I am not sure of what the default MTA is. I get the impression that it is exim, but I have not been able to find any definitive answer anywhere in the Debian Documentation Project. How is one supposed to find out this sort of information? And anot

Re: cdrom not valid block device?

2001-09-05 Thread dman
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:08:39PM -0400, Peter Christensen wrote: | Thanks for the help in setting up /etc/fstab. I think I've gotten a | little farther along. I added a line to fstab as follows: | | /dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide | | Now when I type | | mount /cd | | I ge

Re: Printing go bye-bye

2001-09-05 Thread Kyle Girard
nope  it's empty On Wed, 2001-09-05 at 18:37, W. Paul Mills wrote:> > Anything showing up in /var/log/lp-errs? > > >

Re: rawriteNT

2001-09-05 Thread dman
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:41:21PM +, Johan Bengtsson wrote: | Hi! | | I am in the process of installing debian on yet another computer and needed | to make fresh boot and installation floppies. | | rawrite2 suggested is harder for me to use (since I have w2k on the "initial | download" mas

Re: HowTo install X on Woody today - Please help, thanks :)

2001-09-05 Thread tluxt
Thanks again! - A few more questions: (Essentially: x-window-system isn't right?) --- "James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:45:29PM -0700, tluxt wrote: > > --- "James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:52:59AM -0700, tluxt

Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

2001-09-05 Thread dman
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:51:20PM -0600, John Galt wrote: | | Elm predates any microsoft email product... Try to quote stuff in elm, | the cursor goes to the beginning of the text. Don't all editors start with the cursor at the beginning? I used vim in elm before I now use vim in mutt. Regard

cdrom not valid block device?

2001-09-05 Thread Peter Christensen
Thanks for the help in setting up /etc/fstab. I think I've gotten a little farther along. I added a line to fstab as follows: /dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide Now when I type mount /cd I get the following message: mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device I wonder if

Re: Quoting styles

2001-09-05 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:51 pm, John Galt wrote: > Elm predates any microsoft email product... Try to quote stuff in elm, > the cursor goes to the beginning of the text. Another reason I never used elm. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr All things in mode

Re: Sendmail trusted users

2001-09-05 Thread Andrew Pollock
On 06.09.2001 at 02:50:23, Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indeed, it does... > > Do you have > FEATURE(`use_ct_file')dnl # trusted-users > in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc ? Yup. and in sendmail.cf: Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users %[^\#] Troot Tdaemon Andrew

Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

2001-09-05 Thread Craig Dickson
John Galt wrote: > Elm predates any microsoft email product... Try to quote stuff in elm, > the cursor goes to the beginning of the text. Where the cursor starts out is beside the point. What matters is the structure of the message. Most traditional Internet email clients, such as elm or mutt, gi

RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )

2001-09-05 Thread LaGuardia, Kristofer S.
Title: RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire ) I would do that, but there is one main problem that i can't remember if i mentioned way back in the beginning...I have my three hard drives on a Promise UDMA66 card...and my DVD and CD burner are on the motherboard.  So

Re: Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-05 Thread Tupshin Harper
Pretty much all of this is covered in the buzilla write-up for bug 58339. The culprit is the poorly written flash plug-in, the only mystery is why it didn't have this problem in Netscape 4.x http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58339 -Tupshin - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PRO

Snort report questions

2001-09-05 Thread Paul M Foster
See the following message emitted by snort. The 207.* and 206.* addresses below are my ISP nameservers. The 192.* address is my wife's Windows machine on the network. I received the message at my machine. All machines are behind the firewall. Two things are peculiar. First, the destination IP is lo

Re: enlightenment and update-menus

2001-09-05 Thread Adam McDaniel
I've never touched it. This procedure works fine for me. On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:48:28AM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:08:35AM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: > > actually, there's an easier way. > > > > On fresh installations of e, whenever the personal menu is missing

Re: hardware compatibility

2001-09-05 Thread Myke Place
Thomas, Your card is supported by the XF86_Mach64 Server according to http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html Good luck with Debian! --Myke >>> "thomas flynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/05/01 02:59PM >>> hi folks, going to install linux, thinking of trying debian, need to know if my all in ati all

Re: eth1 messing up eth0 and routing question

2001-09-05 Thread bedlam
> >I can ping outside and inside networks from the router, and I can ping the > >LAN > side of the router from a local computer, but I can't ping outside from the > local computer. > > You need SNAT ("ip masquerading") like this: > > if [ -n "$EXTERNAL" ]; then > for ext in $EXTER

Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

2001-09-05 Thread John Galt
Elm predates any microsoft email product... Try to quote stuff in elm, the cursor goes to the beginning of the text. On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Bud Rogers wrote: >On Tuesday 04 September 2001 22:43 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > >> Karsten is using the word as it is commonly used among computer >> profess

Re: is exim the cause for this?

2001-09-05 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: >On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 21:52:30 +0200, Timeboy wrote: >> And the same happens if i write e new mail to debians user-list. Any idea >> why this happens? > >Yes. The mail transfer agent used to deliver mail to one of the subscribers >of debian-user is

Re: Printing go bye-bye

2001-09-05 Thread W. Paul Mills
Anything showing up in /var/log/lp-errs? -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 *

Re: is exim the cause for this?

2001-09-05 Thread Timeboy
On 2001.09.05 22:55 J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > Yes. The mail transfer agent used to deliver mail to one of the subscribers > of debian-user is buggy; it is sending error messages to people who send > mail to debian-user rather than to the adres specified by Debian's mailing > list software for s

Re: Full screen on xine

2001-09-05 Thread csj
On Wed, 05 Sep 2001 19:51:07 + Hereward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am unable to make xine display fullscreen. The "F" key > > does not work > > even with the " -pf" option . Any ideas? > > > regards > > > bt > > > > With the version (0.4) currently available from debi

Post-inst perl error installing .debs

2001-09-05 Thread Firebeam al mare
Hi everybody. I've got a problem while attempting to install some .debs. This is the output I get from dpkg (regarding ifupdown, but it's the same for other packages as well): === BEGIN CUT HERE === Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine return at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near "

Re: Does official redhat 7.1 have any exploit?

2001-09-05 Thread Dmitriy
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:03:55AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > If I did, why would I tell you? Because he desperatly needs to root someone's RH box, and doesn't have any time to search online :-) ? > > Tao Liu wrote: > >I find a machine runs redhat7.1(2.4.2) and telnet. > >Do you know any know

Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

2001-09-05 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: >On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:34:05PM -0600, John Galt wrote: >> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: >> >> >On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:11:03PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:10:27PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: >> >> >

Re: hardware compatibility

2001-09-05 Thread Adam McDaniel
As of a few years ago, ati tv support was pretty much nothing, but now there are several projects that will be able to get your ati card going. The ati all in wonder card has its own package called gatos (http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos) which will probably be your best bet in getting everythin

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )

2001-09-05 Thread csj
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:32:13 -0600 "LaGuardia, Kristofer S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Believe me, I don't want to give up on Debian. I would really really like > to get it up and running. My biggest problem is Win2000 is installed on the > C drive, or first drive, and Debian is installed on

Re: enlightenment and update-menus

2001-09-05 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:08:35AM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: > actually, there's an easier way. > > On fresh installations of e, whenever the personal menu is missing, I just > hit the middle mouse button > Maintenance > Regenerate Menus,... For some > reason the e debs arn't smart enough (?)

Re: is exim the cause for this?

2001-09-05 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hi! > > Since i use exim as MTA there is a very strange thing: Everytime if i make > with Balsa a reply to all i get the following mail into my mailbox. It is > eaqual which mail address of yours i reply. There cames everytime the same > message. Only the subje

Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

2001-09-05 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 05:45 am, Bud Rogers wrote: > Except that in this case we're not talking about a practice that was not > previously common or even not so common. That's not a double negative, it's a brain fart. I meant to say "We're not talking about a practice that was previous

Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

2001-09-05 Thread Craig Dickson
Rob Ransbottom wrote: > If one watches for how misunderstandings occur and expand > one can write so as to minimize them. As someone once said, "You sadist! You're asking people to THINK!" Much as I agree with everything you wrote, I think you're wasting your breath. Written conversation is not

rawriteNT

2001-09-05 Thread Johan Bengtsson
Hi! I am in the process of installing debian on yet another computer and needed to make fresh boot and installation floppies. rawrite2 suggested is harder for me to use (since I have w2k on the "initial download" mashine and booting that one to accept rawrite2 was simply more job than writin

Re: X forwarding problem with SSH.

2001-09-05 Thread Dan Christensen
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "C. Scott Ananian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed a machine from debian unstable a few weeks ago, and I've been > utterly unable to get X forwarding to work when logging into the machine > remotely. I'm having what sounds like the same problem. See bug

Re: Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-05 Thread glynis
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:31:29PM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > are you using kde? I've the same problems with mozilla and netscape 6: > their process are started but nothing shows up! > they work fine in other window manager (wmaker, icewm, etc...) does kde have that sound daemon runn

Re: Probleme mit Sendmail

2001-09-05 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Richard A Nelson wrote: > I see two *BIG* problems with your setup that you'll need to rectify > before we can do much about your sendmail errors: > > 1) Exporting /var > Have you considered the ramifications of this ? What happens > when a client boots up

Re: [Fwd: IDE tape drive]

2001-09-05 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-08-30 at 22:04, greg wrote: > > > Original Message > Subject: IDE tape drive > Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:49:01 -0700 (PDT) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 04:46:54 +0200 > From: Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: de

Re: procmail don't work

2001-09-05 Thread Glyn Millington
Timeboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'ts bad! But i don't know that. In a RadHat book i've read that in > most cases procmail will work automaticly with the installed MTA and > there is no neccessery thing to do. In man procmail i've read that i > need this .forward file if procmail is not

Re: is exim the cause for this?

2001-09-05 Thread ktb
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:52:30PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > Hi! > > Since i use exim as MTA there is a very strange thing: Everytime if i make > with Balsa a reply to all i get the following mail into my mailbox. It is > eaqual which mail address of yours i reply. There cames everytime the same >

locales, character sets, the like...

2001-09-05 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, 'scuse me, this is irritating me too much at the moment. I did some research to find it out myself, but clearly didn't look in the right places, while I can continue looking, maybe someone can save me time during my test week and just point in the right direction? I am trying to figure out

Re: is exim the cause for this?

2001-09-05 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
That isn't from your system... That is because someone is subscribed to the list from an ISP that limits the amount of mail they can receive qnd in this case they're over the limit... Jeremy On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:52:30PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > Hi! > > Since i use exim as M

Re: ownership of target of /dev/cdroms/cdroms0 in devfs

2001-09-05 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:37, Richard Gooch wrote: > > If I then attempt to access the drive, for instance using cdplay, or > > alteri= ng permissions / ownership of the cdrom* symlinks, and _then_ > > restart devfs= d, then the ownership of > > /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd changes to 'ro= ot:cd

CD mount problems (an easy one ?)

2001-09-05 Thread Theodore Knab
Hello, I am having difficulty getting a sony PCGA-CD51/A(PCMIA) to mount. Currently, I am running SID(unstable) on a Sony PCG-SR5K. I am running linux ide1=0x180,0x386 for CD. I have added the following lines to my pcmcia setup: /etc/pcmcia/config ard "SONY PCGA-CD5 CD-ROM" version " ", "Nin

Re: is exim the cause for this?

2001-09-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 21:52:30 +0200, Timeboy wrote: > And the same happens if i write e new mail to debians user-list. Any idea > why this happens? Yes. The mail transfer agent used to deliver mail to one of the subscribers of debian-user is buggy; it is sending error messages to people who sen

hardware compatibility

2001-09-05 Thread thomas flynn
hi folks, going to install linux, thinking of trying debian, need to know if my all in ati all in wonder card is supported, don"t need all features supported, but do need god 2d, possibly 3d, it has 32 megs of ddr memory if that helps. latest version, thanks for your help and reply, tom flynn.

RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3

2001-09-05 Thread LaGuardia, Kristofer S.
Title: RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 How did you do it?  Also, do you have Win2000 on your first drive and then Debian on your second drive? > -Original Message- > From: Rino Mardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:16 AM > To: debian-user@lists.deb

Re: Re: "Folio" file types / AS Physics

2001-09-05 Thread Hereward Cooper
> > Does anyone know how to read a "folio" file under > linux/debian? > > The file extension is a nfo. > tryed out command 'file xyz.nfo' already? Maybe it knows > this type. it comes back with: ### $ file AdvPhySS.nfo AdvPhySS.nfo: data ### Hereward

Re: Re: "Folio" file types / AS Physics

2001-09-05 Thread Hereward Cooper
On 05 Sep 2001, Constantine Karastamatis wrote: > Date: 05 Sep 2001 00:24:55 -0700 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Constantine Karastamatis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: "Folio" file types / AS Physics > > Hereward Cooper: > > I think I found what you ar

Re: "Folio" file types / AS Physics

2001-09-05 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Hereward Cooper wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to read a "folio" file under linux/debian? > The file extension is a nfo. tryed out command 'file xyz.nfo' already? Maybe it knows this type. gk

Re: Woody: problems upgrading lately?

2001-09-05 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-08-30 at 21:55, der.hans wrote: > Am 29. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Paul D. Smith so: > > > I don't really understand some of these messages; for example > > libgtk-perl says it depends on libgtk1.2 >= 1.2.0 but 1.2.10-1 is to be > > installed... well, 1.2.10-1 _is_ >= 1.2.0, isn't it? Perha

Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

2001-09-05 Thread Rob Ransbottom
I agree. See you don't know what part of whose post I agree with. More in readable order follows. On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:53:24PM -0600, John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > In case nobody told you, this is a mailinglist, not usenet.

Re: Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-05 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Stefan Deibel wrote: > Am Sonntag, 2. September 2001 00:39 schrieb Jon Masters: > > On 02 Sep 2001 00:08:12 +0200, Stefan Deibel wrote: > > > However, after upgrading in memory from 128 MB to 512 MB and installing a > > > game from a Linux User CD, Mozilla starts 4 never endin

is exim the cause for this?

2001-09-05 Thread Timeboy
Hi! Since i use exim as MTA there is a very strange thing: Everytime if i make with Balsa a reply to all i get the following mail into my mailbox. It is eaqual which mail address of yours i reply. There cames everytime the same message. Only the subjet in first line is identical whith the subjec

Re: procmail don't work

2001-09-05 Thread Timeboy
On 2001.09.05 18:00 Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > What might help would be knowing how you are calling procmail > when the message is coming in (ie- does it get call'd by the MTA as the > local deliver agent or via .forward)... I'ts bad! But i don't know that. In a RadHat book i've read that in

Re: shell script for bash [Thanx to all who answered me!]

2001-09-05 Thread Timeboy
Whithout Words!

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-05 Thread Rino Mardo
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:16:46PM +1000 or thereabouts, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > No worries here... Using seperate physical drives makes things > > much easier. This will actually be a LILO 'issue', but it can > > handle it just fine. One thing: Install Lilo to your 'fi

Re: X forwarding problem with SSH.

2001-09-05 Thread Adam McDaniel
This may seem like an obvious question, have you a look in the messages/syslog file on the xserver itself? Perhaps its coming across permissional errors. With the xserver running run the command in an shell prompt: $ xhost + That'll disable X security while you debug the issue. One last thing t

Make money at home with your PC

2001-09-05 Thread David
I'll make you a promise.   READ THIS E-MAIL TO THE END!   - follow what it says to the letter -   and you will not worry whether a RECESSION is coming or not, who is President, or whether you keep your current job or not.   Yes, I know what you are thinking. I never responded to one of thes

Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

2001-09-05 Thread ktb
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:27:13PM +0200, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:52:27AM -0500, ktb wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:48:22AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > Bud Rogers wrote: > > > > > > > Except that in this case we're not talking about a practice that was > >

Re: libxml2

2001-09-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > > But once I installed the -dev via apt-get, "dpkg -l *xml2*" > > _did_ list the file. > > > > Sorry I didn't make that clear did I? dpkg -l only accepts *installed* > package names. Yep. You can't u

Re: Re: Full screen on xine

2001-09-05 Thread Hereward Cooper
> > Hi, > > I am unable to make xine display fullscreen. The "F" key > does not work > even with the " -pf" option . Any ideas? > > regards > > bt > > With the version (0.4) currently available from debian you > need to make > sure your videocard/driver supports Xv (Xvideo). In XFree 4.x > (which

Re: Gnome Freeze (me too!)

2001-09-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, dman wrote: > | > What happens if you play an mp3 with xmms? OK, I've tried playing 3 mp3 files. They mostly race through one minute's worth in a few seconds with just noisy static sounds. One of them, if I keep trying, will race part way through and then slow down and play pr

Re: Mozilla is invisible

2001-09-05 Thread Stefan Deibel
Am Sonntag, 2. September 2001 00:39 schrieb Jon Masters: > On 02 Sep 2001 00:08:12 +0200, Stefan Deibel wrote: > > However, after upgrading in memory from 128 MB to 512 MB and installing a > > game from a Linux User CD, Mozilla starts 4 never ending mozilla-bin > > processes but is completely unus

Re: local entry in menu

2001-09-05 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
thanks! that fixed menu entries! > > do you have a Debian package named "mozilla" installed? try: > > ?package(local.mozilla) > > any package prefaced by "local" is considered installed > > (see /usr/doc/menu/html) []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but

Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

2001-09-05 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:52:27AM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:48:22AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Bud Rogers wrote: > > > > > Except that in this case we're not talking about a practice that was > > > not previously common or even not so common. We're talking about a > > >

Re: dominate xdm?

2001-09-05 Thread Erik Steffl
ktb wrote: ... > So I took a look at the XFree86 HOWTO. Found what I was looking for - > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO/x116.html > > Basically what Mr. Raymond says is the last command in the file should > be started with "exec" and not backgrounded with "&" The last command > is t

Re: Re: Re: libxml2

2001-09-05 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > But once I installed the -dev via apt-get, "dpkg -l *xml2*" > _did_ list the file. > Sorry I didn't make that clear did I? dpkg -l only accepts *installed* package names. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ot: vcd's on mtv

2001-09-05 Thread csj
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 15:40:15 + p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > debs, > > mtv plays mpg's, but i can't get it > to play vcd's: > > cannot open cd-rom device: /dev/cdrom > > permission denied > > check env variable mtv vcd device (see > "mtv -h" for help) > > any guidance would be appr

Re: Full screen on xine

2001-09-05 Thread csj
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 01:27:52 -0500 BT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am unable to make xine display fullscreen. The "F" key does not work even with the " -pf" option . Any ideas? > regards > bt With the version (0.4) currently available from debian you need to make sure your videocard/driver

"Folio" file types / AS Physics

2001-09-05 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, Does anyone know how to read a "folio" file under linux/debian? The file extension is a nfo. I needed it as the new AS Physics Course now comes with the text book on a CD. It uses, yes you guessed it, a windows based program, called "Folio Views", and well I don't want to spend any more time u

Re: Re: Re: libxml2

2001-09-05 Thread Hereward Cooper
> > Cool that works! But now comes the question, why didn't > DPKG > > tell me I had -dev, it didn't reported libxml2-dev when I > did a > > "dpkg -l *xml2*, only libxml2? > > dpkg -l doesn't work that way, it only accepts package names. > What you > want to do is > > $ dpkg -l | grep xml2 But

X forwarding problem with SSH.

2001-09-05 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I installed a machine from debian unstable a few weeks ago, and I've been utterly unable to get X forwarding to work when logging into the machine remotely. /etc/ssh_config contains the line 'ForwardX11 yes' and /etc/sshd_config contains the line 'X11Forwarding yes'. ssh to the machine reveals: [

Re: ide problem on potato/2.2.17

2001-09-05 Thread Hamma Scott
I need some more information. If you could please provide the following information: Does this happen at kernel load? What CPU Type/Speed are you using? Hard Drive Manufacturer? Did this happen with 2.2r3? > unfortunately, I had to relalize that my potato box > is making some > trouble: > > Aug

Re: Printing go bye-bye

2001-09-05 Thread Kyle Girard
> > Try - > # kill -9 741I  can kill it no problem but when I restart it I get: /etc/init.d/lpd restart Stopping printer spooler: lpd not running. Starting printer spooler: lpd. > Have you tried clearing the queue with - > # lprm > ?Yep I run it and it just sits there for a while and then re

Re: exim: how to modify the "Sender:" header

2001-09-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Oh, well you need one more config change at the end of /etc/exim.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\ {$value}fail} bcfrF Last option tells which address to rewrite. See manual for details. wrotell envelope fields F rewrite the envelope From field T

Re: local entry in menu

2001-09-05 Thread Touloumtzis, Michael
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:22:22AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > I'm not being able to put a local entry in menu. > I've tried /etc/menu/package, also $HOME/.menu/package without > success. Bellow are the file contents I'm trying: > > /etc/menu/mozilla: > ?package(mozilla):n

thread hijacking [was: shell script for bash]

2001-09-05 Thread Mike Pfleger
* ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "sleep" is what your looking for. "sleep 10s" to wait 10 seconds. > > Take a look at the fetchmail man page. Fetchmail has several exit codes so > you can write your script to say, 'wait 15m when your isp doesn't respond > before trying again' and other fun

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )

2001-09-05 Thread dman
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:32:13AM -0600, LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: | Believe me, I don't want to give up on Debian. I would really really like | to get it up and running. My biggest problem is Win2000 is installed on the | C drive, or first drive, and Debian is installed on the D drive. I

Re: Re: libxml2

2001-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:48:31PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > Cool that works! But now comes the question, why didn't DPKG > > tell me I had -dev, it didn't reported libxml2-dev when I did a > > "dpkg -l *xml2*, only libxml2? > > dpkg -l doesn't

Re: shell script for bash [timeboy@Calculusterix]

2001-09-05 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:09:05PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > > Hi! > > I like to write a litte shell script that first makes a connection to my ISP > and then runs fetchmail. This is no problem for me. But cause it takes some > seconds till the connection to ISP is done, the script needs to wait fo

Re: Debian packaged 2.4.9 kernel prevents internet access to ISPONLY?!?

2001-09-05 Thread Scott L. Patterson
>> I really can't see it being enabled in a stock kernel, but it could >> be ECN I suppose... > > Yes, it actually is enabled in debian's stock 2.4.x kernels... as I > found out a while back after installing 2.4.5 :-) > >> If its enabled I would think a 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn' >>

Re: shell script for bash [timeboy@Calculusterix]

2001-09-05 Thread Jordi S. Bunster
> > Hi! > > I like to write a litte shell script that first makes a > connection to my ISP and then runs fetchmail. This is no > problem for me. But cause it takes some seconds till the > connection to ISP is done, the script needs to wait for 5 or > 10 seconds bevore it runs fetchmail. How can

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