emacs -nw and Alt key no longer simulates Esc key...

2001-09-09 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
I upgraded a box from Mandraake 6.x to Debian testing recently and have noticed that when I run GNU Emacs in non-X mode (emacs -nw) the Alt key no longer "maps" to Esc like it used to. My .emacs file hasn't changed. Where can I look to figure out how to fix this? Thanks, Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Za

Re: Re: xserver-S3

2001-09-09 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
There's a work-around in XF86 3.3.x, for I'm also using S3 Trio 3D/2x in one of our workstations running potato. I used xserver-VGA16 to configure it via XF86Setup, then defaulted to xserver-SVGA to run X at 800x600, 32bpp, probed 4MB video ram (anything higher makes the mouse pointer look like

ide-smart and proactive drive monitoring

2001-09-09 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, It just crossed me as being a good idea (tm) to monitor my hard drives in case of imminent failure, and sure enough the ide-smart package exists. Cool. One problem, I have no idea how to read the output: daedalus:/usr/doc/ide-smart# ide-smart /dev/hda Id= 1, Status=41 {PreFailure , OffLine},

Re: some questions

2001-09-09 Thread Patrick Barrett
* Paolo Alexis Falcone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 1.) I partitioned my disk in this scheme: / - 80 MB XFS, /home - 2GB > reiserfs, /var - 1 GB XFS, /usr - 1GB XFS. I prepared another 1 GB XFS > partition supposedly to migrate /tmp, but everytime I login as a normal > user the system can't create

Re: Which mail client to switch?

2001-09-09 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Peter S Galbraith wrote: >> The interface looks nice >> ( http://sylpheed.good-day.net/sylpheed-01.png ) >> Too bad, it isn't in .deb yet. > $ apt-cache show sylpheed > Filename: pool/non-US/main/s/sylpheed/sylpheed_0.5.1-1_i386.deb Oh, it is in the pool; but not listed in potato. regards, --

Re: Debian & Progeny Debian?

2001-09-09 Thread ktb
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:56:14PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > I'm scouting for a Linux distro for a complete newbie who I think will be > interested in Linux. RedHat or Mandrake might be easy to install, but the > mere fact that they ship with a broken compiler that breaks almost anythi

MPEG video trouble Radeon 64 MB DDR

2001-09-09 Thread nick lidakis
System: Tyan Tiger 230 w/dual 1 GHZ P3 512Mb ram 3com NIc 3c590 Ensoniq 1371 soundcard OS's Debian woody, debian SID, win98 SE via moblie rack HD swap Problem: Newly purchased Radeon 64MB VIVO works with openGL with all 3 O

ipmasqadm portfw -a ... stopped working?

2001-09-09 Thread will trillich
we're trying to establish port forwarding so that a box internal on our lan (192.168.1.2) can serve requests through the firewall, from 'out there'. i haven't even done apt-get upgrade lately -- and now ipmasqadm 'portfw' isn't working. (i may have missed a step, but /usr/share/doc/ didn't help ri

Re: Kernel 2.4.x woes

2001-09-09 Thread dman
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 02:09:10AM -0700, der.hans wrote: | Am 08. Sep, 2001 schw?zte Rajesh Fowkar so: | | > What is this initrd ? Why it is required when kernel boots without it ? | | It's required for the kernel-image-2.4.x packages because they're being | built with initrds. Actually, it's be

Re: xserver-S3

2001-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:53:45PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:46:41AM +, gerard robin wrote: > > hello, > > I have a video-card S3 Trio 3D/2X. > > It is in the card list and the package > > xserver-S3 exist in potato, but when > > I install this package I can set up

Re: Debian & Progeny Debian?

2001-09-09 Thread dman
[ wrap you text at around 72 characters, please ] On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:56:14PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: | I'm scouting for a Linux distro for a complete newbie who I think | will be interested in Linux. RedHat or Mandrake might be easy to | install, but the mere fact that they shi

some questions

2001-09-09 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
1.) I partitioned my disk in this scheme: / - 80 MB XFS, /home - 2GB reiserfs, /var - 1 GB XFS, /usr - 1GB XFS. I prepared another 1 GB XFS partition supposedly to migrate /tmp, but everytime I login as a normal user the system can't create temporary files. It works fine with root. I need a big TE

Re: xserver-S3

2001-09-09 Thread Patrick Barrett
* gerard robin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hello, > I have a video-card S3 Trio 3D/2X. > It is in the card list and the package > xserver-S3 exist in potato, but when > I install this package I can set up > correctly xwindow except the form of > the pointer of the mouse. > In the section Chipset

Re: Good mail management techniques?

2001-09-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
Any reason for the CC's on this mail? I'm leaving them intact, though I tend to post directly to list for list responses. on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:18:53PM -0700, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:12:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > . > > The concept you

Re: GUI in Debian 2.2r3

2001-09-09 Thread Patrick Barrett
* Helmut Trinkl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Timeboy wrote: > > >On Saturday Sep 08 15:20 debi narge wrote: > > > >>** Hi guys, > >>** > >>** I recently installed Debian on my computer. The > >>** problem is I can't seem to get the GUI to show up. > >>** > >>** I'm not even sure if I chose to

xsane or xscanimage

2001-09-09 Thread Stewart Jenkins
What is the preferred program to use as a plugin with the Gimp? My "unsupported" scanner seems to be working just fine. Now I want to make it perfect. Thanks for any input. -- Stewart...

Debian & Progeny Debian?

2001-09-09 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
I'm scouting for a Linux distro for a complete newbie who I think will be interested in Linux. RedHat or Mandrake might be easy to install, but the mere fact that they ship with a broken compiler that breaks almost anything is not too comforting (I started with RedHat, and I can't forget the fir

Re: xserver-S3

2001-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:46:41AM +, gerard robin wrote: > hello, > I have a video-card S3 Trio 3D/2X. > It is in the card list and the package > xserver-S3 exist in potato, but when > I install this package I can set up > correctly xwindow except the form of > the pointer of the mouse. > In

Re: Rebuilding debconfdb (config.dat) ? SOLVED

2001-09-09 Thread Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson wrote: My managed to bring my system to a rather unstable state (I'm running Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable...). I think I lost the contents of config.dat, I only had 4 blocks (entries) in it when I discovered it, and I've had problems install

xserver-S3

2001-09-09 Thread gerard robin
hello, I have a video-card S3 Trio 3D/2X. It is in the card list and the package xserver-S3 exist in potato, but when I install this package I can set up correctly xwindow except the form of the pointer of the mouse. In the section Chipset I find s3virge but not s3trio 3D/2X. Can someone tell me i

Re: web stat software

2001-09-09 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Ian Marlier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Anyone have positive experience with web stat software? I'm running > a website and need a way to crunch the apache logs into something > useful... Analog or, as someone else's suggested, webalizer. I use analog and it's fine once you figure o

Re: Good mail management techniques?

2001-09-09 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:12:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: . > The concept you're proposing has some similarities to ideas espoused by > David Gelertner, whose capsule biography will always read "Yale > professor, computer scientist, and victim of the Unabomber (Theodore > Kaczynski)". D

Re: GUI in Debian 2.2r3

2001-09-09 Thread Helmut Trinkl
Timeboy wrote: On Saturday Sep 08 15:20 debi narge wrote: ** Hi guys, ** ** I recently installed Debian on my computer. The ** problem is I can't seem to get the GUI to show up. ** ** I'm not even sure if I chose to install the GUI or ** not. ** ** If I didn't install the GUI, is there

Re: aterm and ~/.Xdefaults

2001-09-09 Thread Arno
> I also tried 'ATerm' in place of 'XTerm', but to no avail. Aterm > remains the default white background and black foregound. try 'Aterm', not 'ATerm' (this works for me). Here's a snip from my ~/.Xresources: Aterm*background: black Aterm*foreground: white Aterm*transpare

Re: Rebuilding debconfdb (config.dat) ?

2001-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson wrote: > My managed to bring my system to a rather unstable state (I'm running > Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable...). > > I think I lost the contents of config.dat, I only had 4 blocks (entries) > in it when I discovered it, and I've had problems installing/updating > progr

Re: Mounting FreeBSD partitions?

2001-09-09 Thread Julio Merino Vidal
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:26:53PM -0500, Jeremy wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering what I need to do to mount FreeBSD partitions. I currently > have the BSD filesystem options enabled in my kernel (2.4.9) as well as being > able to recognize the FreeBSD disklabel partitioning scheme. The comma

Re: Trouble with Gnome

2001-09-09 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Sun, 2001-09-09 at 15:30, Casey Henderson wrote: > Hi all, > I'm running Debian unstable and everything's working good except a > couple small problems. First, when I right-click on the Gnome desktop, > nothing happens. No menu pops up. Thus I cannot create shortcuts to > files or programs.

Re: Tasks in woody

2001-09-09 Thread Patrick Barrett
* Julio Merino Vidal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:08:12PM -0400, Patrick Barrett wrote: > > * Julio Merino Vidal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:47:14PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > > > El Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:40:37PM +0200, Julio M

Trouble with Gnome

2001-09-09 Thread Casey Henderson
Hi all, I'm running Debian unstable and everything's working good except a couple small problems. First, when I right-click on the Gnome desktop, nothing happens. No menu pops up. Thus I cannot create shortcuts to files or programs. Which leads me to my second problem. I have several shortcuts

Mounting FreeBSD partitions?

2001-09-09 Thread Jeremy
Hello, I was wondering what I need to do to mount FreeBSD partitions. I currently have the BSD filesystem options enabled in my kernel (2.4.9) as well as being able to recognize the FreeBSD disklabel partitioning scheme. The command I've used is: mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hda10 /mnt/fr

re: PCMCIA & 2.4.9

2001-09-09 Thread Cédric Paquot
Hi, You need to disable PCMCIA support in the kernel in order to use the pcmcia-cs package instead. Read the doc in the pcmcia-cs package. Ciao. Cédric

Re: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)

2001-09-09 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-09 19:50): > That's exactly the way it is... > I went through all the trouble to get it to work with X 3.3 to find that > it doesn't seem to work the same way with X 4 It should work the same way with X3 as it does with X4. I have used gpm with b

Re: web stat software

2001-09-09 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Ian, Sunday, September 09, 2001, 9:44:27 PM, you wrote: IM> Anyone have positive experience with web stat software? I'm running IM> a website and need a way to crunch the apache logs into something IM> useful... I prefer "webalizer" http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ -- Best regards,

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-09-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:07:50AM -0400, dman wrote: > | | I'm building 2.2.19 for that router now. Cool, I'll try building > tulip in | statically and see if it works. Thanks. > > I'm interested in knowing if that works for you. So you know, it did work. My firewall/router is now runn

Re: Tasks in woody

2001-09-09 Thread Julio Merino Vidal
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:08:12PM -0400, Patrick Barrett wrote: > * Julio Merino Vidal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:47:14PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > > El Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:40:37PM +0200, Julio Merino Vidal dijo: > > > -| On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:26

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-09 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:40:32PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian > unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball > hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-( > > Can anyone recommend a good banner blo

web stat software

2001-09-09 Thread Ian Marlier
Anyone have positive experience with web stat software? I'm running a website and need a way to crunch the apache logs into something useful... Thanks! - Ian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 773 667 9763 (home) 773 844 0105 (cell) Eventually all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. Th

Building a better blockfile (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:40:32PM +0100, Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian > unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball > hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-( > > Can anyone recommen

Re: Newbie : Modem question

2001-09-09 Thread Wasim Ahmed
Hello, On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 06:43:19PM -0400, Narasimhamurthy Giridhar wrote: > hi > I have a ITU V.90 56K modem. I dont know the manf. Is there a driver for > this in Debian ?? Is this an ISA or a PCI card? If a PCI, you could try "cat /proc/pci" which will tell you what PCI hardware you've

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-09 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian > unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball > hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-( > > Can anyone recommend a good banner blocker? I don't want entire > p

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-09 Thread iehrenwald
On 9 Sep 2001, Ross Burton wrote: > I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian 'apt-get install junkbuster' and install the cron files in /usr/share/doc/junkbuster/examples Then read /usr/share/doc/junkbuster/squid.txt

Re: Good mail management techniques?

2001-09-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 10:48:10PM -0700, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 03:32:02PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > First the blue-sky dreams, then the reality: > > DREAMS > I think the real solution is to put mail in a real database; I've read > some discussion t

Re: Tasks in woody

2001-09-09 Thread Patrick Barrett
* Julio Merino Vidal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:47:14PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > El Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:40:37PM +0200, Julio Merino Vidal dijo: > > -| On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:26:52AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > -| > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:22:41

Re: Tasks in woody

2001-09-09 Thread Julio Merino Vidal
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:47:14PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > El Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:40:37PM +0200, Julio Merino Vidal dijo: > -| On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:26:52AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > -| > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:22:41PM +0200, Julio Merino Vidal wrote: > -| to select the

Re: Tasks in woody

2001-09-09 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
El Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:40:37PM +0200, Julio Merino Vidal dijo: -| On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:26:52AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: -| > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:22:41PM +0200, Julio Merino Vidal wrote: -| > > Hi all, -| > > -| > > I've just upgraded to woody from a freshly installed potato syste

Re: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)

2001-09-09 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
El Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:32:22PM +0100, Sean Quinlan dijo: -| * Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-09 18:40): -| > El Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:02:35PM -0500, ktb dijo: -| > -| On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:44:23PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: -| > -| Shut down gpm and see if your m

Re: Tasks in woody

2001-09-09 Thread Hereward Cooper
> Oh, that was a typo error, sorry. But the problem is the same. I use tasksel > to select the tasks, and it doesn't work. The task-x-window-core > (I don't remember it's name exactly) has the same problem, or even > task-kde does not work. > I don't know the insides of this, but maybe this mi

Web banner blocker

2001-09-09 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-( Can anyone recommend a good banner blocker? I don't want entire pages blocked so SquidGuard is an overkill, but t

Re: Tasks in woody

2001-09-09 Thread Julio Merino Vidal
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:26:52AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:22:41PM +0200, Julio Merino Vidal wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've just upgraded to woody from a freshly installed potato system. I run > > tasksel and select some things, but some tasks do not exist. > > > >

Re: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)

2001-09-09 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-09 18:40): > El Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:02:35PM -0500, ktb dijo: > -| On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:44:23PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > -| Shut down gpm and see if your mouse works. > -| # /etc/init.d/gpm stop > -| > -| You might have to poin

Re: Tasks in woody

2001-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:22:41PM +0200, Julio Merino Vidal wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just upgraded to woody from a freshly installed potato system. I run > tasksel and select some things, but some tasks do not exist. > > For example, it compilains about a missing task-common-devel, so I can't >

Re: Mounting a disk using backup superblock (solved now)

2001-09-09 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > >on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:03:08PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger >> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> Hello! >> >> >> >> Below you see a copy of the last thread I'm referring to. My HDD and >> >> especially the superblock no.1 is heavily demaged - but I now have >> man

Re: kernel 2.4.x and unstable

2001-09-09 Thread Ross Burton
On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 15:59, dman wrote: > Add 'devfs=mount' to your kernel command line and try again. Use the > old-dev name for the root= argument though. I'm getting there... devfsd starts and hangs on "Creating extra device nodes...". Looking at the script: for i in `sed -e '/^#/d' $DEVFI

Re: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)

2001-09-09 Thread ktb
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:28:08PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > El Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:02:35PM -0500, ktb dijo: > -| On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:44:23PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > -| > > -| > -- > -| > __ > -| > Daniel de los Reyes > -| > S2-Desarrol

Re: kernel 2.4.x and unstable/ Kernels

2001-09-09 Thread dman
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:46:36AM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: | Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Brian Nelson wrote: [...] | > I have not found any reason to prefer make-kpkg over "make bzImage" and | > manually installing the kernel image. Just to be different : | 1. You won't forg

Re: kernel 2.4.x and unstable/ Kernels

2001-09-09 Thread dman
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:29:36AM -0400, Jason Boxman wrote: | On Sunday 09 September 2001 01:07 am, Nathan E Norman wrote: | > On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 09:42:34PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: | > > Nathan E Norman wrote: | | > | > I maintain (more or less) four boxes ... a celeron (my home machine

Re: Mounting a disk using backup superblock (solved now)

2001-09-09 Thread Stephan Hachinger
>on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:03:08PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Hello! > >> > >> Below you see a copy of the last thread I'm referring to. My HDD and > >> especially the superblock no.1 is heavily demaged - but I now have > managed > >> to e2fsck the partition using

Re: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)

2001-09-09 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
El Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:02:35PM -0500, ktb dijo: -| On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:44:23PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: -| > -| > -- -| > __ -| > Daniel de los Reyes -| > S2-Desarrollo, Grupo S2 -| > Valencia Spain -| > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -| > Powered by Deb

Re: mailq

2001-09-09 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:02:34PM +1000, Davor Balder wrote: > No, it's not a security risk... for the reasons you mentioned... just > edit permissions in usual manner... There is no need to alter permissions to change this behaviour. Setting queue_list_requires_admin to false in /etc/exim.conf

Re: mailq

2001-09-09 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:29:50AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Greetings. > > mailq is linked to exim, so the mailq command is just a shortcut to do a > queue check. Is it a security risk to permit normal users to check the mailq, > because if I try it as a non-root user, I get "p

Re: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)

2001-09-09 Thread ktb
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:44:23PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > -- > __ > Daniel de los Reyes > S2-Desarrollo, Grupo S2 > Valencia Spain > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r3 > __ > Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 1

problem with ppp and 2.4.7

2001-09-09 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi, I just compiled 2.4.7 and everything seems to work just fine - like sound, nfs, usb, etc. But I can't get ppp to work. Everytime I use 'pon' to connect to the internet I get this: Sep 9 14:22:32 laptop pppd[535]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Sep 9 14:22:33 laptop chat[536]: Ca

Re: libterm-stool-perl ????

2001-09-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Julio Merino Vidal wrote on Sun Sep 09, 2001 um 06:53:43PM: > > I'd like to configure debconf to use Dialog instead of Slang to get out > > of this mess, but don't know how... can someone please help me? > > I've the same problem as you :( You can change your debconf interface using: > d

Re: utmp/wtmp problem!

2001-09-09 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 06:51:27AM +, nestea wrote: > hi folks, > > my debian box was newly installed, upgraded to unstable a week ago. i > compiled 2.4.9 kernel yesterday and it works just fine. this morning i login > as root and fire the 'w' command, i got weird result ; > > 14:37:30 u

Re: [OT] impending doom: S1G on sept 8-9

2001-09-09 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:31:30PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > we've had y-2-k, when the first digit rolled over. now we've > got s-1-g where we gain a WHOLE NEW DIGIT. pandelirium shall > ensue -- there will be riots in the streets! the home shopping > channel will stock only batteries! > >

Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)

2001-09-09 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
-- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Desarrollo, Grupo S2 Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r3 __ --- Begin Message --- After an upgrade to Woody and X 4 , and quite a bit of a trouble to be able to get my X bac

Re: libterm-stool-perl ????

2001-09-09 Thread Julio Merino Vidal
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:20:55PM -0400, Aaron Traas wrote: > OK... I'm running a new Woody machine, and someone, somewhere along the > line told me to use Slang for the default configuration interface. > > Unfortunately, this is not working. Everything that wants to use slang > gives me errors a

libterm-stool-perl ????

2001-09-09 Thread Aaron Traas
OK... I'm running a new Woody machine, and someone, somewhere along the line told me to use Slang for the default configuration interface. Unfortunately, this is not working. Everything that wants to use slang gives me errors about not having stool-perl installed. libterm-stool-perl is listed on

Tasks in woody

2001-09-09 Thread Julio Merino Vidal
Hi all, I've just upgraded to woody from a freshly installed potato system. I run tasksel and select some things, but some tasks do not exist. For example, it compilains about a missing task-common-devel, so I can't install c development... It also won't install the x window core, or such things

kde-i18n trouble after upgrade to Woody

2001-09-09 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I have just upgraded to Woody, kde-i18n-es is installed, but in the control panel only English language is available. I have tried mving away my .kde and reconfiguring kde-i18n-es with no luck Any Ideas? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Desarrollo, Grupo S2 Valencia S

POSIX

2001-09-09 Thread Wendell Cochran
Re: dpkg-scanpackages on an official [ "der.hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] Re: how do i setup a maildir structu [ Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] gmix audio level problems [ Craig Holyoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] Re: Good mail management techniques? [ Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: kylix compatibility

2001-09-09 Thread Angus D Madden
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 09:43:27AM -0600, G. Grimestad wrote: > Is the current version of Debian compatible with Borland's Kylix? > > To run lylix_oe on potato, you need a patched version of libc6. I think you can find that by searching this mailing list, or running alien on the rpm provided by

XISP no longer works

2001-09-09 Thread Kent West
I'm pulling from Sid (unstable), and a couple of months ago my XISP dialer stopped working. pon still works fine. I figured I had just been bitten by an unstable bug, and figured I'd ride it out till the fix. I finally check the Bug Tracking System, and I find only two bugs, neither of which se

Re: aterm and ~/.Xdefaults

2001-09-09 Thread ktb
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 07:19:52PM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Aterm doesn't seem to want to read my ~/.Xdefaults file even though its > manpage declares it will. > > Before anyone tells me to try ~/.Xresources, I already have, and xterm > reads ~/.Xdefaults just fine. > > All I have in my ~/.Xd

Re: Urgent: VALinux kernel recompile questions

2001-09-09 Thread Angus D Madden
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 01:13:14AM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Tomorrow I aim to recompile the kernel for a VALinux 2250 Raided server box > running Debian 2.2 if at all possible. I need to recompile the kernel > because of some really odd network interface problems (the two interfaces > o

Re: PCMCIA & 2.4.9

2001-09-09 Thread secher
Ok, seems I fell prey to the thing that irritates me most.. no information..sorry folks. Ok, PCMCIA seems to be compiling fine, as is the kernel. The install goes well, 0 hitches. However, I've noticed one thing, there are *far* fewer modules in /lib/modules/pcmcia than are in the same for th

Re: kernel 2.4.x and unstable

2001-09-09 Thread Ross Burton
On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 15:59, dman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 10:05:33AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > | Yes, it's me again. > | > | Once this is sorted I'll stop bugging you, I promise! > | > | Does the kernel-image for 2.4.x from unstable come with devfsd on? I >

Re: OT - blocking mail from specific email addresses

2001-09-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i would be grateful if any of the assembled could advise me >or point me to docs to find out what syntax to use in the exim.conf >to block email from specific email addresses. Look up "sender_reject". Note that that works

how to make ksymoops log into a read-only filesystem?

2001-09-09 Thread ---
ei, im running 2.4.7 with devfs enabled. i can't seem to make ksymoops log.. these were the errors uon boot time: 'can't locate module: can't log /var/log/ksymoops.*.log, read-only filesystem' is there a workaround for my problem? i read in the docs that ksymoops can't log with devfs because it m

printing on hp610cdjet....

2001-09-09 Thread ---
I have problems using the djet550c filter from magicfilter... how can i make configure it so that it gets to print what is actually the actual page displayed in mutt??? the reason for this is that i cant print forms send to me by other users it gets dropped to the next line.. TIA -- "Just For

Re: newbe-ish question - POSIX ?

2001-09-09 Thread Davor Balder
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:08:48PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is POSIX and what does it entail ? > > Thanks (Sorry for the stupid question) > SK > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi!!! There

Re: dpkg-scanpackages on an official mirror

2001-09-09 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach der.hans (on Sun, 09 Sep 2001 02:24:09AM -0700): > > > Am 08. Sep, 2001 schwäzte Martin F Krafft so: > > > >schwätzte... > > Blöder Tippfehler, gell? :( no stress :) > > well, i know this. but the official mirror's pool/ tree has > > du

Re: mailq

2001-09-09 Thread Davor Balder
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:29:50AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Greetings. > > mailq is linked to exim, so the mailq command is just a shortcut to do a > queue check. Is it a security risk to permit normal users to check the mailq, > because if I try it as a non-root user, I get "pe

newbe-ish question - POSIX ?

2001-09-09 Thread shyamk
What is POSIX and what does it entail ? Thanks (Sorry for the stupid question) SK

Re: devfs

2001-09-09 Thread Eamon Roque
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:37:33AM +0800, --- wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:44:03PM +0200, arf wrote: > > Le Jeudi 6 Septembre 2001 17:33, --- a ?crit : > > > problem: everytime i boot to 24.7. with devfs i have these msgs: > > > > > > can't locate module: /dev/xconsole > > > can't locate mo

mailq

2001-09-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Greetings. mailq is linked to exim, so the mailq command is just a shortcut to do a queue check. Is it a security risk to permit normal users to check the mailq, because if I try it as a non-root user, I get "permission denied". Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROT

Re: gmix audio level problems

2001-09-09 Thread Timeboy
On Sunday Sep 09 12:13 Craig Holyoak wrote: > ** I'm having some strange behaviour with my mixer settings. I'm using gmix > ** under gnome, and have it set to restore mixer settings on startup. This > ** doesn't work - all sound levels are still set to zero. So I added gmix > ** -i to my startup

Re: Can the scsi emulation kill the hard drive?

2001-09-09 Thread Timeboy
On Saturday Sep 08 23:22 Herbert Pirke wrote: > ** I had a similar problem with my debian box a few weeks > ** ago. Unfortunately I forgot the exact message, but > ** there were some unreadable files in /var again. This > ** was just after installing the SCSI emulation for my > ** ATAPI-burner. >

Re: PCMCIA & 2.4.9

2001-09-09 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 09-09-01 at 11:10 der.hans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > > Is PCMCIA not building or are you just not able to use it? If it's the > latter look for some driver with 'serial' in the name. I forget what it is. > modprobe on it and poof things work. > [...] >

Re: Good mail management techniques?

2001-09-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 03:32:02PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm just wondering how people manage their email... > > > > > The main problem I have is that each mailbox/folder/whatever you want to > > call > > it, grows without bounds. I wouldn't mind

gmix audio level problems

2001-09-09 Thread Craig Holyoak
I'm having some strange behaviour with my mixer settings. I'm using gmix under gnome, and have it set to restore mixer settings on startup. This doesn't work - all sound levels are still set to zero. So I added gmix -i to my startup items, and now when I log in, I get an error message saying that e

Re: how do i setup a maildir structure with postfix?

2001-09-09 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 05:42:33PM +0200 or thereabouts, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach Rino Mardo (on Sat, 08 Sep 2001 11:39:54AM +0800): > > the question is: how do i setup a maildir structure in linux with the above > > configuration in mind. > > Maildir uses the directory ~/Maildir/ by d

Re: dpkg-scanpackages on an official mirror

2001-09-09 Thread der.hans
Am 09. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Martin F Krafft so: > also sprach der.hans (on Sat, 08 Sep 2001 01:38:13PM -0700): > > Am 08. Sep, 2001 schwäzte Martin F Krafft so: > >schwätzte... Blöder Tippfehler, gell? :( > well, i know this. but the official mirror

Re: PCMCIA & 2.4.9

2001-09-09 Thread der.hans
Am 08. Sep, 2001 schwäzte secher so: > I have enabled every PCMCIA choice in the kernel after having started > minimally, only those selections which I thought were necessary. > After compile, as per the HOWTO, I built the pcmcia package. > No Joy. > Suggestions? Is there a problem with the 2.4.9

Re: kernel 2.4.x and unstable/ Kernels

2001-09-09 Thread der.hans
Am 08. Sep, 2001 schwäzte Craig Dickson so: > I have not found any reason to prefer make-kpkg over "make bzImage" and > manually installing the kernel image. I've adminned many boxen with almost the same configuration. Also, my firewall has no developer tools. kpkg actually doesn't help me much t

Re: Kernel 2.4.x woes

2001-09-09 Thread der.hans
Am 08. Sep, 2001 schwäzte Rajesh Fowkar so: > What is this initrd ? Why it is required when kernel boots without it ? It's required for the kernel-image-2.4.x packages because they're being built with initrds. Actually, it's because the module for the filesystems are in the initrds and not built

Re: apt-get install stopped working

2001-09-09 Thread der.hans
Am 05. Sep, 2001 schwäzte Oivvio Polite so: > Found it. I'd shot myself in the foot be adding a > /etc/apt/preferences > when I wanted to mix sid and woody and then I didn't remove when > I got tired of the mix. No need to remove it, just stick sid back below 100. ciao, der.hans -- # [EMAIL

Where's the latest stable Pan?

2001-09-09 Thread Brad Rhodes
In the stable section, is an old version of Pan, 0.7.6. In the unstable section is the latest unstable release, 0.10.0.90. Why hasn't Pan 0.7.6 been replaced with a newer stable version? Where are the versions between 0.7.6 and 0.10.0.90? Where can I get a Debian package of the latest stable re

Re: G4 Powerbook

2001-09-09 Thread Florian Kessler
Am 08.09.2001 15:35 Uhr schrieb Bob Koss unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > I'm thinking of buying the Apple G4 Powerbook. Is the PPC distribution > the CD set that I want to buy? Yes! And you want to have a look at: http://www.xiph.org/~jack/ibook/ Florian

update-menus

2001-09-09 Thread Roger Keays
Hi, Is there a way to tell update-menus to ignore a whole subtree of the menu? Perhaps by changing translate_menus? translate_menus seems to do some strange things. For example: substitute section->section Apps/Math Apps/Trash endtranslate But the text is never substituted! Update-menu

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