Re: Can't compile VIM

2001-09-19 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, Dale Morris said: > I'm using potato with all recent upgrades and security fixes. I'm trying > to compile vim 6.0av and I receive the following error message when I > run make: > objects/os_unix.o: In function `mch_set_shellsize': > objects/os_unix.o(.text+0x1b4c): un

Can't compile VIM

2001-09-19 Thread Dale Morris
I'm using potato with all recent upgrades and security fixes. I'm trying to compile vim 6.0av and I receive the following error message when I run make: objects/os_unix.o: In function `mch_set_shellsize': objects/os_unix.o(.text+0x1b4c): undefined reference to `term_set_winsize' collect2: ld return

Re: Procmail Recipes on old messages?

2001-09-19 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:03:41 EDT, Jason Rashaad Jackson writes: >OK. I have successfully gotten procmail up and running on my local host, a >nd it's happily filtering incoming mail. This is great for new stuff, but >what about all the old messages in my spoolfile that have piled (and piled >and

using pipe in .forward with Exim

2001-09-19 Thread Jason Majors
I use exim for my mailserver and its .forward file to do my delivery. I have this at the end of my .forward file: # The rule to go to the inbox. ###

Re: apache config broken

2001-09-19 Thread John Griffiths
At 08:44 PM 9/19/01 -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: >On Thursday 20 September 2001 05:02 am, John Griffiths wrote: > >> [Thu Sep 20 07:59:11 2001] [alert] apache: Could not determine the server's >> fully qualified domain name, using 192.168.0.3 for ServerName > >Have you set ServerName in httpd.conf? >

kde font problem

2001-09-19 Thread Jason Pepas
I seem to be having a problem with fonts in kde. I had a certain selection of fonts available in kde. then i installed a package of fonts with apt. then I saw a completely different set of available fonts in kde - ie, all the previously available fonts were no longer available. But the new pa

Re: rm & download

2001-09-19 Thread Richard Hector
Hereward Cooper wrote: > > > One way you can try is with a tool called 'wget'... except replace rtsp and > > pnm with http. Realistically though I think that > > you're not going to get the actual rm file itself... but it might work > > Nah, wget doesn't recognize the protocol. The realplayer sy

Re: PS/2 mouse, what device?

2001-09-19 Thread dman
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:28:52PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: | Hi all, | | This should be easy, but I can't get it: | | My keyboard is on /dev/psaux. Where will my ps2 mouse be? What kernel and what options? I have kernel 2.4.8 with devfs, and my mouse happens to be in the USB port right now. A

Re: Woody install from the net

2001-09-19 Thread dman
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:00:41PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: | What would be the easiest way to install Woody (or unstable for that | matter) from the web? Download the potato boot stiffies, then apt-get | dist-upgrade (after changing the sources.list of course)? Yep. BTW, your clock is a bit behi

Re: bash prompt

2001-09-19 Thread dman
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 06:33:09PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: | Quick question: the following bash prompt puts the current machine name | in the xterm (gnome-terminal) title bar, but also causes long lines to | wrap incorrectly. Instead of moving down a line, the wrap over-writes | the exis

Re: what's the name?

2001-09-19 Thread dman
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:05:12PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: | I thought somewhere I heard the name "sid" . | Is that going to be used anywhere? Sid is too unstable for a release name. Just look at how he goes off on those poor toys ;-). -D

Re: Why do I have ^M's after my mailheaders?

2001-09-19 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 09:15:33PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: | Suddenly, all mail I get has ^M's after the header. | | Which means my filtering breaks, and I get a lot of emails in my inbox. | | What could have caused it? Exim? I upgraded an hour ago. Something got 'doze-style (or SMTP-style) lin

Re: fbset

2001-09-19 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:23]: [...] > > for. However, fbset 1024x760-60 works just fine. Am i just feeding the ^^^ 1st clue! If fbset works then you must not be using the vesa

Re: QT & KDE install problems

2001-09-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Matt Buckland wrote: > I am not completely new to Linux but have not previously used Debian. > It's taken me about three days to get X working but now that's > complete I need to get KDE working. > > When I try installing the deb files I get hundreds of dependancy > problem

Re: uptime

2001-09-19 Thread John Galt
Scyld. Two-kernel-monte. Becker's had the setup to do it for about a year, but I think it resets uptime... On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, dman wrote: >On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 05:16:37AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: >| also sprach Jason Boxman (on Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:22:26PM -0400): >| > Dude, what kern

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-19 Thread dman
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:04:53AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:29:53AM +0800, csj wrote: | > On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 05:31, Nathan E Norman wrote: | > | > > Interesting ... I chose the menu key for my Multi_key :) | > > | > > keycode 0x75 = Multi_key | > > | > > h

Re: Centralizing apt-get downloads

2001-09-19 Thread Richard Hector
[sorry Dave - sent this to you by mistake] Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:17:19AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > My question is this: effectively, each time they upgrade, I'm downloading > > three copies of each package separately. Is there a relatively easy way to > > arch

Re: pon

2001-09-19 Thread John Hasler
gerard robin writes: > "pon" is a very simple script: > exec /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1;-provider} > I think that the script : > exec /usr/sbin/pppd call provider > would work too. 'exec /usr/sbin/pppd call provider' would always use the connection named 'provider'. Pppconfig allows you to create a

floppy install

2001-09-19 Thread Tom Allison
I have an old 486DX50 with 16MB of RAM in it and I want to install Debian on it. Here's the catch: I have no CD-ROM. I have a super old BIOS so it can't see anything over ~120MB of disk - the real 1024 block problem!!! I have to install from floppy with aspirations that I can use the 3com 3c90

Re: pon

2001-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:11:25AM +, gerard robin wrote: > "pon" is a very simple script: > > exec /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1;-provider} > > I think that the script : > > exec /usr/sbin/pppd call provider > > would work too. > > can someone explain me the meaning of ${1;-provider} Here, i

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-19 Thread John Hasler
Tim Moss writes: > Well then, don't forget to count how many of the Outlook messages were > sent by viruses and not actual people. Are you saying viruses can't use Debian? Wouldn't that violate the DFSG? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: kernel compile step 1

2001-09-19 Thread San Segkhoonthod
you can either install kernel-source-2.x.x packages or go get it from http://www.kernel.org/pub. san On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 07:21, jjheuring wrote: > > Could someone tell me where the is? > > I did 'apt-get install kernel-package'. Shouldn't it now be in > the /usr/src dir ? That's empty for me.

Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

2001-09-19 Thread David Roundy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 12:54:07AM +0200, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Julio Merino wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > SOORY, this is completly offtopic... > > > > Well, I've to write a large, large document. I've think to use LaTeX, but > > I don't think it will be a good choice, b

Re: apache config broken

2001-09-19 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 20 September 2001 05:02 am, John Griffiths wrote: > [Thu Sep 20 07:59:11 2001] [alert] apache: Could not determine the server's > fully qualified domain name, using 192.168.0.3 for ServerName Have you set ServerName in httpd.conf? -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> They have awakened

Re: pon

2001-09-19 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, gerard robin wrote: gr> hello, gr> sorry for this silly question, gr> gr> "pon" is a very simple script: gr> gr> exec /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1;-provider} gr> gr> I think that the script : gr> gr> exec /usr/sbin/pppd call provider gr> gr> would work too. gr> gr> can someo

Linksys Network Anywhere driver

2001-09-19 Thread Green, Aaron
Anyone got this ethernet card to work in Linux? I'm using the NC1000 v2 (that's close enough). And I'd also love to know just how comprehensive dselect is. I mean, when I look at xfree86 4.1 on the web, it has the package dependencies listed, but then those packages also have dependencies.

ReiserFS revisited

2001-09-19 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hey, I'm soon to redo my home ADSL gateway/firewall/muckaround box and wanted to toy with ReiserFS. What's the status of ReiserFS Debian bootdisks? Where's the latest greatest unofficial ones obtainable from? There's some dated stuff on Debian Planet saying that it's still a bit dodgey, but I do

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bob Koss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010919 16:07]: > I have a Debian stable system, but I'm thinking unstable might be in my > future. > > This morning I thought I'd perform the simple task of compiling pan from > cvs. > > Trying to do the autoconf / make thing led me to install several packages, > w

Re: Ctrl-4 exiting

2001-09-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010919 14:22]: > Robert Kerr wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I have some interesting behavior with an application I'm working on. When > > I type Ctrl-4 in the window, it kills the application. I'm wondering what > > symbol Ctrl-4 sends to my program, and how to find th

Re: Procmail Recipes on old messages?

2001-09-19 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Jason Rashaad Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > OK. I have successfully gotten procmail up and running on my local > host, and it's happily filtering incoming mail. This is great for new > stuff, but what about all the old messages in my spoolfile that have > piled (and piled and piled)

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-19 Thread David Z Maze
Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BK> I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my BK> /etc/apt/sources.list file. BK> BK> I did an 'apt-get update'. But when I attempt to do an 'apt-get BK> upgrade', I get the following error: BK> BK> 45 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove a

Re: Debian's default MTA + MDA

2001-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:52:40PM +1000, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > It's exim. The only way to find this out is really to look through the > > list of MTAs (that is, packages providing mail-transport-agent) and see > > which one has the highest priority. (exim is 'Priority: imp

Re: video players

2001-09-19 Thread p
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:22:37PM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:37:51PM +, p wrote: > > pardon my asking, but how, exactly, does xmms work? (i type, "xmms" > > in a console, get the xmms "skin," click the ">" ("play") button, > > and select my *.mpg. the "skin" a

Re: X Treminal

2001-09-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 02:24:59PM -0600, Higher Source ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi! > been looking in the documents but don't find the related info. > > I want to set up a server that will provide X Terminal/distress Pardon?

kernel compile step 1

2001-09-19 Thread jjheuring
Could someone tell me where the is? I did 'apt-get install kernel-package'. Shouldn't it now be in the /usr/src dir ? That's empty for me. I've read the various README's at /usr/share/kernel-package and they had some other suggestions as to where I might want to unpack the kernel but I don't se

Re: OT: DSL Providers

2001-09-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:18:03AM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > good morning: > > this is slightly off topic, but here goes. > > i got a notice from my dsl provider (verio/best) yesterday that they were > selling my account to earthlink (a

OWN YOUR OWN SPORTSBOOK AND CASINO!

2001-09-19 Thread mervinsmith
Title: Untitled Document YOUR OWN INTERNET SPORTSBOOK & CASINOFOR $16,500!!! Internet Empire Entertainment. Has assembled and packaged the most cost effective turnkey program for you. The online gaming industry is expected to surpass 10 billion dollars in wagering by the year 2002. Let Interne

Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9(it was a fight but sucessful)

2001-09-19 Thread D. Hoyem
I would like to thank everyone that responded to this. After a couple of failures I am running kerel-2.4.9. What I wound up doing was to make xconfig and use the config-2.4.9-586 file that I had and change the usb from module to built in and everything seemd to work. No Kernel Panics so I'm upi

apache config broken

2001-09-19 Thread John Griffiths
hi, having trouble getting apache going we've got a fixed IP on a cable pppoe connection a netgear cable router is doing NAT and port forwarding, i can ssh onto the box from here (work) the apache box has been assigned 192.168.0.3 and is respionding to it but when i try to start apache I get:

Re: Procmail Recipes on old messages?

2001-09-19 Thread Jim Crilly
On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 17:03, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: > OK. I have successfully gotten procmail up and running on my local host, and > it's happily filtering incoming mail. This is great for new stuff, but what > about all the old messages in my spoolfile that have piled (and piled and > p

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-19 Thread Mike Alborn
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:55:53PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: *snip* > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. > > I did an 'apt-get update'. But when I attempt to do an 'apt-get upgrade', I > get the following error: > > 45 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed,

pon

2001-09-19 Thread gerard robin
hello, sorry for this silly question, "pon" is a very simple script: exec /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1;-provider} I think that the script : exec /usr/sbin/pppd call provider would work too. can someone explain me the meaning of ${1;-provider} -- Gerard

Re: Well that didn't work - Upgrading Woody from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9

2001-09-19 Thread John Griffiths
At 10:41 PM 9/19/01 +0200, Frank Preut wrote: >On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:39:42AM -0600, John Purser wrote: >> I ran: >> apt-get update >> apt-get upgrade >> apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-686 did you run #apt-get dist-upgrade ?

perl problem after woody upgrade

2001-09-19 Thread John Griffiths
Hi, all just pushed a machine up to woody, all went suprisingly smoothly, kernel upgrade to 2.4 was much ebtter than last time i tried it. but when i apt-get I get a weird perl error, as below: - apt-get install apache Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Th

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-19 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:55:53PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > I have a Debian stable system, but I'm thinking unstable might be in my > future. > [snip] > > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. > > I did an 'apt-get update'. But when I attempt to do an 'apt-

Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

2001-09-19 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > SOORY, this is completly offtopic... > > Well, I've to write a large, large document. I've think to use LaTeX, but > I don't think it will be a good choice, because it's html output is > really poor (am I wrong?). > > I'm looking for some l

Re: what's the name?

2001-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:05:12PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > I thought somewhere I heard the name "sid" . > Is that going to be used anywhere? It already is, for unstable. Testing will get a new name after this release, and sid will stay as unstable. -- Colin Watson

bash prompt

2001-09-19 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Quick question: the following bash prompt puts the current machine name in the xterm (gnome-terminal) title bar, but also causes long lines to wrap incorrectly. Instead of moving down a line, the wrap over-writes the existing line of text. Anyone have a solution? Here's the prompt string:

named bogus loopback

2001-09-19 Thread Bill Wohler
My log file has started filling up with the following messages: Sep 19 14:03:42 gbr named[333]: ns_resp: query(clay-courts.bzam.com) Bogus LOOPBACK A RR (localhost:127.0.0.1) learnt (A=localhost:NS=65.201.216.121) Sep 19 14:03:42 gbr named[333]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on loc

MBR not being read.

2001-09-19 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi People, Got a weird one here... I've been setting up a new box and swapping things over from my existing computer. On this computer the windows drive is hda and linux is on hdb and hdd Previously, using LILO writing to the MBR on hda was fine. However, in the process of setting up the new box

euro symbol and debian sid

2001-09-19 Thread tim
hello all this really drives me crazy... I cant figure out how to get full euro support in X and console. I am already using -15 fonts and locale.gen is set to "[EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15". if I "export $LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-15" in xterm and start kword from there I have the euro but not when

Re: video players

2001-09-19 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:37:51PM +, p wrote: > pardon my asking, but how, exactly, does xmms work? (i type, "xmms" > in a console, get the xmms "skin," click the ">" ("play") button, > and select my *.mpg. the "skin" and console just "stare" (and must be > laughing at me, secretly). what

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1495

2001-09-19 Thread Dmitriy
WTF is "application/ms-tnef" ??? [-- Attachment #2: winmail.dat --] [-- Type: application/ms-tnef, Encoding: base64, Size: 3.7K --] [-- application/ms-tnef is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --] -- GPG key-id: 1024D/5BE3DCFD Dmitriy CCAB 5F17 A099 9E43

Re: watch out for email "PRINT Summary Report"

2001-09-19 Thread Greg Wiley
On Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > nasty auto-running email -- look out, those of you who read using > microsoft email readers: i strongly recommend that if you get a > message entitled "PRINT Summary Report" from SOMEONE YOU DO NOT > KNOW, delete it instead of v

Re: video players

2001-09-19 Thread Hereward Cooper
> pardon my asking, but how, exactly, does xmms work? (i type, "xmms" > in a console, get the xmms "skin," click the ">" ("play") button, > and select my *.mpg. the "skin" and console just "stare" (and must be > laughing at me, secretly). > I think you need a xmms plugin to do anything other

Re: OT: watch out for email "PRINT Summary Report"

2001-09-19 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 15:58, will trillich wrote: > nasty auto-running email -- look out, those of you who read using > microsoft email readers: i strongly recommend that if you get a > message entitled "PRINT Summary Report" from SOMEONE YOU DO NOT > KNOW, delete it instead of viewing it.

Re: sendmail or perl: which is the bad one..

2001-09-19 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 01:56:40 +0200, Robert Waldner writes: >On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:04:40 EDT, Richard A Nelson writes: >>On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: >Yup, perl is to old to understand character classes >> >>> sendmail is "8.11.3+8.12.0.Beta7-8". >> >>I corrected that problem in a la

Re: Related to: Re: general ups experience

2001-09-19 Thread Emil Pedersen
> Ugh, i would think the best way to find out what kind of cable it uses, is > to take the cable and a multimeter, and figure it out :) > > ofcourse, if you dont have a cable, there IS a chance that you might be Ofcourse this was the case :-) If I had the "original" cable I could have used tha

Procmail Recipes on old messages?

2001-09-19 Thread Jason Rashaad Jackson
OK. I have successfully gotten procmail up and running on my local host, and it's happily filtering incoming mail. This is great for new stuff, but what about all the old messages in my spoolfile that have piled (and piled and piled) up while I've been fiddling with procmail? Is there any way

Re: what's the name?

2001-09-19 Thread Mike Egglestone
I thought somewhere I heard the name "sid" . Is that going to be used anywhere? Mike Quoting Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:41:33AM +0200, oivvio polite wrote: > > Also sprach Steve Kowalik: > > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:24:15PM -0400, Jeff Maxson uttered: > >

stable -> testing

2001-09-19 Thread Bob Koss
I have a Debian stable system, but I'm thinking unstable might be in my future. This morning I thought I'd perform the simple task of compiling pan from cvs. Trying to do the autoconf / make thing led me to install several packages, which required even more packages. I through up my hands when I

Re: Well that didn't work - Upgrading Woody from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9

2001-09-19 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 11:39, John Purser wrote: > Hello, > > I ran: > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-686 > > At this point I got a warning to add this line to my /etc/lilo.conf > initrd=/boot/initrd > > I did and ran: > > lilo > apt-get install kernel-imag

Re: debian runlevels revisited

2001-09-19 Thread Alexander Poslavsky
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:31:54 -0700 (PDT) "'cduck' Chris Grierson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Alexander Poslavsky wrote: > > > Hi, > > speaking of runlevels, is there a tool like ntsysv on debian (except for > > ksysv which > > I do not really like, I prefer st console-base

Re: Well that didn't work - Upgrading Woody from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9

2001-09-19 Thread Stephen Gran
It looks to me like you might have just chosen the wrong processor option - this happened to me when I forgot to set it for a K6 family chip. It hung in exactly the same place. Do you have a boot disk so you can recover? Hope so. If you can, all you should have to do is recompile for the proces

Re: Well that didn't work - Upgrading Woody from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9

2001-09-19 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:39:42AM -0600, John Purser wrote: > I ran: > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-686 > > At this point I got a warning to add this line to my /etc/lilo.conf > initrd=/boot/initrd > > I did and ran: > > lilo > apt-get install kernel-ima

Re: view package contents w/o installing

2001-09-19 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:27:36AM -0500, DvB wrote: > Is there any way to see what files are in a package without having to > install it first? > > I can't find this functionality on packages.debian.org and, IMHO, it > would be useful if it were present. Would it be that hard to implement > thi

mutt and utc / gmt

2001-09-19 Thread p
debs, is there a way to indicate in mutt that the email time is utc/gmt? (my office doze-heads freak-out at some of the "odd" office hrs i appear to keep.) ia, t. bentley taylor //

Re: Maintaining woody/sid mixtures

2001-09-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Richard Hector ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010917 03:31]: > Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > If you don't need to custom-compile one (which it sounds like is the > > case) simply select kernel-image-2.4.9 for installation from dselect, > > and follow its guidelines to ensure that you have the proper modutil

Re: mutt and SSL/imap on testing

2001-09-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010916 14:27]: > * Daniel de los Reyes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010916 07:23]: > > When I try to open an imap mailbox using ssl mutt complains about SSL > > not being available. Is it not compiled in in testing? > > Any clue about what I could be doing wrong > > I op

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-19 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Tim Moss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well then, don't forget to count how many of the Outlook messages were > sent by viruses and not actual people. That'd be what, about 90%? ;) (couldn't resist...) Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on earth. Where are they hiding? "Yashar" -C

Re: Minicom only works suid root -SOLVED

2001-09-19 Thread John Hasler
Anthony writes: > I have no idea how all this happened, nor do I understand why /dev/ttyS0 > had originally got incorrect permissions while /dev/ttyS1, etc, were > correct. Pppd once had a bug that caused it to fail to restore the permissions on the serial port. I thought it was fixed long ago, t

Re: debian runlevels

2001-09-19 Thread 'cduck' Chris Grierson
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:22:30AM -0700, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: > > with the systems we have here at work, telinit'ing to 1 then 5 > > hangs the system at the nfs-kernel-server rc script (nfsd), > > presumably because the portmapper is stopped,

Re: cd-rom went into hiding using ide-scsi

2001-09-19 Thread Alexander Poslavsky
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:52:17 -0500 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:36:17AM +0300, Alexander Poslavsky wrote: > > Hi, > > does anybody know how to find my ide-scsi devices? They seem to be lost. > > But ([EMAIL PROTECTED]:root)# cat /proc/scsi/scsi give

Re: video players

2001-09-19 Thread p
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:51:26PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:48:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > what good video players are there in linux? i've been playing around > > with Xine but it's messed up, sometimes i can get .mpg files to

Re: Well that didn't work - Upgrading Woody from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9

2001-09-19 Thread Mike Alborn
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:14:40PM -0600, John Purser wrote: > Thanks for responding. > > No, I don't have a boot floppy though I think I might be able to make one > from the installation CD's. Do you know the partition where your root filesystem is located? If you do, you can boot the in

Re: Ctrl-4 exiting

2001-09-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Robert Kerr wrote: > > Hi, > I have some interesting behavior with an application I'm working on. When > I type Ctrl-4 in the window, it kills the application. I'm wondering what > symbol Ctrl-4 sends to my program, and how to find that out. X windows: check the docs and config of your window

Re: view package contents w/o installing

2001-09-19 Thread David Z Maze
dvanbalen writes: DvB> Is there any way to see what files are in a package without having to DvB> install it first? If you already have the .deb file, you can run 'dpkg --contents file.deb'. But probably downloading is the harder part in the general case; I don't know of a good way to see what

Re: view package contents w/o installing

2001-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:27:36AM -0500, DvB wrote: > Is there any way to see what files are in a package without having to > install it first? 'dpkg -c foo.deb' > I can't find this functionality on packages.debian.org and, IMHO, it > would be useful if it were present. Would it be that hard to

Re: SUID

2001-09-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:08:45AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 06:54, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:35:11AM +0800, csj wrote: > > > On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 03:15, Jason Healy wrote: > > > > At 1000834035s since epoch (09/18/01 13:27:15 -0400 UTC), Ian Marlier >

OT: watch out for email "PRINT Summary Report"

2001-09-19 Thread will trillich
nasty auto-running email -- look out, those of you who read using microsoft email readers: i strongly recommend that if you get a message entitled "PRINT Summary Report" from SOMEONE YOU DO NOT KNOW, delete it instead of viewing it. i just received an email, subject line Subject: FW: PRIN

offtopic: which text language to use?

2001-09-19 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, SOORY, this is completly offtopic... Well, I've to write a large, large document. I've think to use LaTeX, but I don't think it will be a good choice, because it's html output is really poor (am I wrong?). I'm looking for some language that allows me to convert it to LaTeX and html, and

Re: ALSA and debian testing with kernel 2.4.6

2001-09-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Gael PEGLIASCO ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hello, > > I've tried to compile ALSA source package on a debian testing and 2.4.6 > kernel. It's seems that's the modules are not installed under > /lib/modules/2.4.6/kernel/drivers/sound, but under > /lib/modules/2.4.6/misc, as if it was for a

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-19 Thread Tim Moss
Also, a more fair count would associate senders with user-agents ... if I send 100 emails with mutt, and 10 other users send 10 emails each with Outlook, which is more popular? (From a number of users standpoint, Outlook should be the answer). Your script doesn't account for this. Well then,

amaya crashes and has a bug in filebrowser

2001-09-19 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, I recently discovered amaya again and installed it on current woody. It could be a nice tool, but it crashes often and had a weird bug in the filebrowser. When I try to open a file not all folders are displayed in the file-browser. Is amaya 5.1 still kind of beta or do I miss something. Ci

Re: Lookup during intensive IO

2001-09-19 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: > Coud this mean, it is enable by default? Check with "hdparm /dev/hda" Walter

Re: Network Stalls

2001-09-19 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Leigh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:07]: > > > > I believe this is because of the Direcpc satellite and latency. The local > > network has no problems. Here is what will happen. > > > > I start a download of 100K or larger and the network will sta

Re: SUID

2001-09-19 Thread csj
On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 06:54, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:35:11AM +0800, csj wrote: > > On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 03:15, Jason Healy wrote: > > > At 1000834035s since epoch (09/18/01 13:27:15 -0400 UTC), Ian Marlier > > > wrote: > > > > I feel like an idiot asking this, but how

Re: Minicom only works suid root -SOLVED

2001-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 08:35, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 19 Sep 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:51:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59

Ctrl-4 exiting

2001-09-19 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi, I have some interesting behavior with an application I'm working on. When I type Ctrl-4 in the window, it kills the application. I'm wondering what symbol Ctrl-4 sends to my program, and how to find that out. Does anyone have any pointers on the matter? thanks -- -bob Remember the... th

RE: what's the name?

2001-09-19 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> I relly like > the little > green fellows that gets "saved" by Buzz Lightyear in the first > movie. Don't > remember their name though. Those would be L.G.M.s (Little Green Men), you should watch the Buzz Lightyear Cartoon. I and my four-year-old son love it. Brooks

Well that didn't work - Upgrading Woody from 2.2.19 to 2.4.9

2001-09-19 Thread John Purser
Hello, I ran: apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-686 At this point I got a warning to add this line to my /etc/lilo.conf initrd=/boot/initrd I did and ran: lilo apt-get install kernel-image2.4.9-686 And rebooted. Now it hangs during boot with this message: VFS:

view package contents w/o installing

2001-09-19 Thread DvB
Is there any way to see what files are in a package without having to install it first? I can't find this functionality on packages.debian.org and, IMHO, it would be useful if it were present. Would it be that hard to implement this?

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1495

2001-09-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't know if the digest shows this, but individual messages have the following footer added: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:30:11AM +0200, Victor Desa wrote: > Please, take me out from t

Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:01:45AM -0500, DvB wrote: > oivvio polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well not exactly dominating. Maybe not secretly either. But it sounded good. > > This oneliner from the department of utterly useless info tells it all: > > > > agrep "^User-Agent: ,^X-Mailer: "

Re: Related to: Re: general ups experience

2001-09-19 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:58:14PM +0200, Emil Pedersen wrote: > I got an APC UPS (don't recall the exact model) with a serial > connection. What kind of cable should be used (straigt, crossed or > special)? I _GUESS_ nothing will burn if I try the wrong type, but if I > knowing the cable to be t

Re: OT(?) Where has www.scyld.com gone?

2001-09-19 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Tony, Saturday, September 15, 2001, 2:21:05 PM, you wrote: TC> And/or where is Donald Becker's NIC driver work now? TC> Tony I usually fetch them if needed from http://www.scyld.com/page/support/network/ I toke a few seconds to resolve the IP, maybe you DNS has timeouts. In this case tr

Re: Vmware

2001-09-19 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:27:07AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach Adam McDaniel (on Tue, 18 Sep 2001 03:17:24PM -0600): > > I'm not sure exactly as to what vmware requires in terms of headers,.. > > often i have no problem when building it except under 2.4.7. If you > > could send me

Re: fbset

2001-09-19 Thread Wayne Topa
dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > According to the docs, lilo can't handle hex numbers. The docs say > you need to convert it to decimal first, then put the decimal number > in lilo.conf. (I use grub and it handles hex numbers fine) Yes, I read that too. So much for the docs..

Gnome window manager -claims it is running enlightenment but ...

2001-09-19 Thread Walter Tautz
it is running blackbox even though it thinks the current window manager (from the view of the control center) is enlightenment. Note /etc/x-window-manager points to blackbox. blackbox is a socalled noncompliant window manager and I get warned about it and moreover the windows can't be activated wh

Re: rdate can't connect socket

2001-09-19 Thread Bob Hilliard
Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16/09, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > | This has worked consistently for a long time, but for the past > | week or two it returns: > | rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection refused > | > | This message returns almost instantly - too qu

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