Strange KDE Problems

2001-10-14 Thread Nathan Weston
I am running debian unstable. I just dist-upgraded tonight, and all of a sudden KDE won't start. KDM comes up fine, I login, and then X crashes and I end up back at the KDM login. My .x-session-errors contains something along the lines of: /etc/kde2/kdm/Xsession: /usr/bin/ssh-agent kde2: no suc

Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-14 Thread Emil Pedersen
Ron Farrer wrote: > > #include > > I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is > there any gotchas for doing one over the other? You will have to set the IO to different addresses for the cards,

Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Damon Muller wrote: > > Quoth Ron Farrer, > > I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was > > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is > > there any gotchas for doing one over the other? > > I find that's it's easier to use two different c

Re: Dillo (Web-Browser Recommendation)

2001-10-14 Thread Erik Steffl
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 08:53:33PM +0200, "Jürgen A. Erhard" ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I have seen the recurring threads about web-browsers, so I looked at > > Dillo again. (Have watched it on and off since the very first > > versions, then c

Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-14 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:44:52PM -0700] Ron Farrer : > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? > Is there any gotchas for doing one over the other? None at all, AFAIK. I am using an Intel Ether Pro+ and an RTL 8029A on the router. The LAN consists of machines ha

Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-14 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 01:06:29PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: | Quoth Ron Farrer, | > I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was | > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is | > there any gotchas for doing one over the other? | | I find t

Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-14 Thread john
Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Ron Farrer, > > I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was > > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is > > there any gotchas for doing one over the other? > > I find that's it's easier to use two different card

Re: what's the name of kernel made by make-kpkg?

2001-10-14 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:28:36PM -0400, Jason Boxman wrote: | On Sunday 14 October 2001 10:12 pm, Yuwen Dai wrote: | > Hi, All | > | > The version of my kernel source is 2.2.19. I want to make a custom kernel | > by the command: | > | > make-kpkg --reversion custom.1 kernel_image | > | > I exp

Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-14 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Ron Farrer, > I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is > there any gotchas for doing one over the other? I find that's it's easier to use two different cards (not just different brands, b

Re: Network Card diagnostics

2001-10-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:16:32PM -0400, Scott Henson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 02:18:33PM -0400, Scott Henson > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > I have a computer that has an on-board network card that doesnt > > > seem to be working properly. We already took

Re: gnome sound

2001-10-14 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 02:13:30AM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > okay, i've had it.. gnome just completely froze my system.. i had to > unplug it! just because i had mpg321 running in the background.. i have > no idea why that is, it works beautifully in kde but idon't like kde as > much as i do gnom

Re: GCC and Palm SDK configuration problem

2001-10-14 Thread Akintayo Holder
Dave Carrigan wrote: You need to use the -palmos3.5 switch to your command line. That makes gcc add all of the extra includes that are appropriate to the 3.5 sdk. In addition, I would recommend that you use the 4.0 sdk (in which case you would use -palmos4.0). You can still target 3.5 (or even 2

dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-14 Thread Ron Farrer
#include I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is there any gotchas for doing one over the other? TIA, Ron -- Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgprVNANKEkhk.pgp Description:

Re: X upgrade failure

2001-10-14 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Stephen Gran: > Hello all, > I'm having a problemthat I just saw the other day. I just upgraded X to > 4.1.0-7 I believe, and it fails on startup. I get the error "no such > file or directory" when it looks for ~/.xsession, and I remeber seeing > that this is related to a line in one o

Re: what's the name of kernel made by make-kpkg?

2001-10-14 Thread Jason Boxman
On Sunday 14 October 2001 10:12 pm, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Hi, All > > The version of my kernel source is 2.2.19. I want to make a custom kernel > by the command: > > make-kpkg --reversion custom.1 kernel_image > > I expect there will be a kernel named vmlinuz-2.2.19-custom.1 in the > `/boot' direct

Re: Filter of KMail

2001-10-14 Thread Liu Tao
Now I have eanbled the filter :) When I go into the filter rules dialog, the "Filter Criteria" , "Filter Actions" and "Advanced Options" boxes are disabled. I press the "New" button on the left bottom corner and make a new filter, but they are still disabled. Then I notice if I make two filter

RE: Network Card diagnostics

2001-10-14 Thread Scott Henson
> on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 02:18:33PM -0400, Scott Henson > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I have a computer that has an on-board network card that doesnt > seem to be > > working properly. We already took it in to be serviced once(we have a > > warentee), but the service people took for a few ho

what's the name of kernel made by make-kpkg?

2001-10-14 Thread Yuwen Dai
Hi, All The version of my kernel source is 2.2.19. I want to make a custom kernel by the command: make-kpkg --reversion custom.1 kernel_image I expect there will be a kernel named vmlinuz-2.2.19-custom.1 in the `/boot' directory. But its name is still vmlinuz-2.2.19. Do I misunderstand

X upgrade failure

2001-10-14 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I'm having a problemthat I just saw the other day. I just upgraded X to 4.1.0-7 I believe, and it fails on startup. I get the error "no such file or directory" when it looks for ~/.xsession, and I remeber seeing that this is related to a line in one of the new configutration files. ~/.

Re: changing mutt index entry of message based on header

2001-10-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:43:24PM +0200, martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > is it somehow possible to tell mutt to display messages with a certain > header in a different color? let's say i want all messages with a > header like "X-Rainbow: something" to be displayed in Red... is this >

Re: Dillo (Web-Browser Recommendation)

2001-10-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 08:53:33PM +0200, "Jürgen A. Erhard" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have seen the recurring threads about web-browsers, so I looked at > Dillo again. (Have watched it on and off since the very first > versions, then called "gzilla"). > > Installed 0.6.1...

Re: Network Card diagnostics

2001-10-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 02:18:33PM -0400, Scott Henson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a computer that has an on-board network card that doesnt seem to be > working properly. We already took it in to be serviced once(we have a > warentee), but the service people took for a few hours and when

Re: Debian books

2001-10-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:53:46AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly for > Debian instead of just general linux? My experience is there is no such. The O'Reilly book (McCarty) is a disappointment. There

Re: application menu won't launch

2001-10-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 06:19:46PM +0800, Paolo Falcone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What common program makes the application menu launch in windowmaker, > blackbox, afterstep, etc? After doing some admin tasks as root, when I > restarted windowmaker it the application menu failed to launch, leav

Help!

2001-10-14 Thread Jason Van Muyden
I am looking for someone that is very good in Linux. I need this person to setup a Linux network router box with 1 nic card and 1 wireless 2.4 Ghz card by lucent, so that the traffic can pass from the wireless card to the wired card. It needs to have a firewall and a routing table that is eases to

Screwed up fonts

2001-10-14 Thread Sean Middleditch
Hello! I had a nice working font setup in Linux, things looked great in GNOME. I ran debfoster (I think that's what it was) and something I took out also fscked up my fonts. I've gotten things back to a reasonable setup, but I can tell the default fonts are still a lot uglier than they used to

Re: Matrox G450

2001-10-14 Thread Jason Boxman
On Sunday 14 October 2001 08:53 pm, Abner Gershon wrote: > I have a Matrox G450 AGP video card and will be > attemptint to install 2.2r3 Potato shortly. Is it > possible to get a graphical user interface working > with this video card and 2.2r3? Will I need additional > driver or patch? Thanks. Wi

Re: Is initrd useful/necessary with a custom kernel?

2001-10-14 Thread Paolo Falcone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >My question is am I missing anything by cutting out the initrd phase of >boot? None at all. Unless you plan to run Linux on your ram disk. Paolo Falcone __ www.edsamail.com

Matrox G450

2001-10-14 Thread Abner Gershon
I have a Matrox G450 AGP video card and will be attemptint to install 2.2r3 Potato shortly. Is it possible to get a graphical user interface working with this video card and 2.2r3? Will I need additional driver or patch? Thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Mak

Unidentified subject!

2001-10-14 Thread Abner Gershon
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Re: Compiling openssh from source

2001-10-14 Thread Matt Wehland
At 11:42 AM 10/14/01 -0500, Colin Watson replied: You need to look in the pool, not dists/unstable. Thanks I see it now, I was trying to use the package_name+version, looking at the sources.gz file, I noticed that its just the package name, openssh. When I now try apt-get -b source ope

Command line wrappers?

2001-10-14 Thread Jorge L. deLyra
Hi, Free-BSD seems to have two very useful and equivalent programs, called "fep" and "ile", to wrap emacs-style or vi-style command-line editing and tcsh-style history mechanisms around any command-line driven program. You use them on the command line like in order to interact comforta

Re: GCC and Palm SDK configuration problem

2001-10-14 Thread Dave Carrigan
You need to use the -palmos3.5 switch to your command line. That makes gcc add all of the extra includes that are appropriate to the 3.5 sdk. In addition, I would recommend that you use the 4.0 sdk (in which case you would use -palmos4.0). You can still target 3.5 (or even 2.0) devices with the 4.0

gnome sound

2001-10-14 Thread Frank Preut
okay, i've had it.. gnome just completely froze my system.. i had to unplug it! just because i had mpg321 running in the background.. i have no idea why that is, it works beautifully in kde but idon't like kde as much as i do gnome but this sound issue is really bugging me.. what is it in gnome tha

Re: Lock ups with kernel 2.4.10 & 2.4.12

2001-10-14 Thread Dmitriy
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 02:46:33PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Morgan Terry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > I know this probably isn't debian related, but I figured I'd ask > > here anyway. My system is locking solid whenever I either (a) > > exit X windows, or (b) switch to a VT from X

Re: debian-wisdom

2001-10-14 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Sun, 2001-10-14 at 18:54, dman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 12:45:05AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > | Previously dman wrote: > | > Related to that, is SSL support for galeon/mozilla packaged for Debian > | > now? > | > | Has been for some time now. > > Which package(s)? Galeon gives n

Re: debian kernel packages and modules

2001-10-14 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 01:47:29PM -0700, Charles Baker wrote: | Okay, here's my debian-newbie question for the week. | When installing a stock debian kernel package, how do | I get and install the modules that match that kernel | w/o killing off the modules that match my old kernel. | The particul

Re: debian-wisdom

2001-10-14 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 12:45:05AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: | Previously dman wrote: | > Related to that, is SSL support for galeon/mozilla packaged for Debian | > now? | | Has been for some time now. Which package(s)? Galeon gives no response when trying an https URL, and I didn't see any

maildir : mutt and fetchmail

2001-10-14 Thread dman
Ok, now I'm using maildir for my folders. For some reason, though, mutt shows most messages as having a size of 0. Why might this be? Also, is it possible for fetchmail to retrieve from a maildir folder? The server reports Server ESMTP (PMDF V6.0-24#36986) when telneting to port 25. I trie

Re: mozilla ssl doesn't work!

2001-10-14 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Alexander N Gould wrote: > When I click on https links in mozilla 0.9.4 from sid, nothing happens! > The libnss3 package is installed and up to date. Any ideas? Thanks. Install mozilla-psm? -jwb

mozilla ssl doesn't work!

2001-10-14 Thread Alexander N Gould
When I click on https links in mozilla 0.9.4 from sid, nothing happens! The libnss3 package is installed and up to date. Any ideas? Thanks. -- "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I

Re: How to make on board VIA VT82C686B sound chip work?

2001-10-14 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Ian Patrick Thomas: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 05:31:23PM +0300, Antti Tolamo wrote: > > At 17:03 14.10.2001, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > > >On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 01:54:54PM +0300, Antti Tolamo wrote: > > > > > > > I hope this helps, > > > > > > > > Antti > > > > > > > > My PGP public k

Re: debian-wisdom

2001-10-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously dman wrote: > Related to that, is SSL support for galeon/mozilla packaged for Debian > now? Has been for some time now. > Any reason for using mailman for the list but pipermail for the > archives? IMO mailman makes really nice archives. pipermail is the mailman archiving backend. W

Re: Added SCSI card, need to load module

2001-10-14 Thread tim haegele
On Sunday, 14. October 2001 23:43, you wrote: > On Sun Oct 14 16:33:36 2001 tim haegele wrote... > > >On Sunday, 14. October 2001 21:18, Stan Brown wrote: > >> I just mved a SCSI card from one Debian machine (stable +2.4.9 kernel) > >> to another. It uses the aic7xxx Adapatec driver module. > >> >

Re: debian-wisdom

2001-10-14 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 09:56:51PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: [ list at https://lists.madduck.net/mailman/listinfo/debian-wisdom ] Any reason for using https instead of http? Related to that, is SSL support for galeon/mozilla packaged for Debian now? I saw some old messages in archives about

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-10-14 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:05:26AM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: | Hi, | | I recently upgraded to Vim 6.0 on a mostly-testing system, and seem | to have lost the ability to access Vim help. I caught part of a Vim | 6.0 thread on here some weeks ago, but don't recall whether this was | addressed. | |

Re: GCC and Palm SDK configuration problem

2001-10-14 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 19:27:20 -0400, Akintayo Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > thanks!. > the -I switch works, but is there a way to do it without specifying each > directory. Not that I'm aware of. Typically, if header files are structured like this, the easy way to handle includes

Re: rsa authentication with ssh - fixed

2001-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 06:06:13PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. > > I copied my $HOME/.ssh/identity.pub key to a remote machine, and installed > it as $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys on that machine. However, when I try to login > via ssh, I get queried for my password on tha

rsa authentication with ssh

2001-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I copied my $HOME/.ssh/identity.pub key to a remote machine, and installed it as $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys on that machine. However, when I try to login via ssh, I get queried for my password on that machine instead of the rsa passcode. I'm already using this key on my r

x would not start after updat

2001-10-14 Thread rene koopal
Hi, With my last update with apt-get , xwindows 4.1.0-7 was installed om my system running woody. however the system will not startx I guess it has something to do with the mga sever (for a g450) Is is posible with apt-get to switch back to the previous xfree 4.0.X version somehow many than

Re: GCC and Palm SDK configuration problem

2001-10-14 Thread Akintayo Holder
Eric G. Miller wrote: On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:44:16 -0400, Akintayo Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] In the latter case I tried m68k-palmos-coff-gcc -Wall -g -IDIR '/usr/m68k-palmos-coff/include/PalmOS/Core/System/' -IDIR '/usr/m68k-palmos-coff/include/PalmOS/Core/Hardware/' -c -o h

installs while removing

2001-10-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. When I do an apt-get remove on some packages, why does apt try to install new packages? Example... tigger:~# apt-get --purge remove scm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: bonobo gconf libbonobo2 lib

Re: GCC and Palm SDK configuration problem

2001-10-14 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:44:16 -0400, Akintayo Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > In the latter case I tried > m68k-palmos-coff-gcc -Wall -g -IDIR > '/usr/m68k-palmos-coff/include/PalmOS/Core/System/' -IDIR > '/usr/m68k-palmos-coff/include/PalmOS/Core/Hardware/' -c -o hello.o > hello.c

Isa PnP and 2.4

2001-10-14 Thread Akintayo Holder
Hi, This is more of an annoyance than a problem, but has anyone else had any problems with isapnp devices since upgrading tto 2.4. I found that my isapnp modem would not work after bootup, eventhough it worked with 2.2. The modem only worked after running isapnp manually, which is supposed t

Re: ext3 patch for kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-14 Thread Russ Cook
Without subscribing to the recommended newgroup, can you synopsize the benefits that ext3 brings over ext2? Thanks, Russ On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Hi there, > > No, ext3 is not yet ready for 2.4.12. > This is mainly because Linus changed a whole bunch of stuff in the

Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-14 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 14 October 2001 9:25 pm, Jason Boxman wrote: > On Sunday 14 October 2001 04:02 pm, Jason Boxman wrote: [snip] > > Someone mentioned trying an IRQ priority scheduler or something. A > > google search turned this up, which appears to be on the money: > > This program is in the "hwtools" pa

GCC and Palm SDK configuration problem

2001-10-14 Thread Akintayo Holder
Hi, I am trying to install the PalmOS 3.5 SDK on debian. And I am running into a problem I cannot figure out from the gcc docs. The headers files in the palm SDK are arranged in a hierarchy e.g PalmOS.h, Core/System/SystemPublic.h etc. But the files reference each other as though there are a

RE: Debian books

2001-10-14 Thread Brad R
I have also used the Debian GNU/Linux Bible and would rate it about the same as Emerson. If you use it for taking your first steps in Linux, I suggest using the Linux CD included with it, at least initially. There are a few areas that are unclear. If you are comfortable at a command prompt and s

Re: No luck with getting xdm to work

2001-10-14 Thread Ian Thomas
--- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My last guess, are these the apropriate > permissions for tmp? > > > > drwsrwsrwt > > > > Maybe the necessary tmp file cannot be > created due to these permissions. > > Any more ideas? > > > > No, that is not the correct permiss

Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??

2001-10-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011013 19:40]: > How do you read your own e-mail? Do you pop it from somewhere to the > local box, or do you use fetchmail or maildrop or one of their relatives > to dump it into the local mail spool? > > Fetchmail and etc need a local MTA running because that's

debian kernel packages and modules

2001-10-14 Thread Charles Baker
Okay, here's my debian-newbie question for the week. When installing a stock debian kernel package, how do I get and install the modules that match that kernel w/o killing off the modules that match my old kernel. The particular kernels are 2.2.18pre21 and 2.4.6-6 . = - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hacki

changing mutt index entry of message based on header

2001-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
is it somehow possible to tell mutt to display messages with a certain header in a different color? let's say i want all messages with a header like "X-Rainbow: something" to be displayed in Red... is this possible? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailt

Re: How to make on board VIA VT82C686B sound chip work?

2001-10-14 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 05:31:23PM +0300, Antti Tolamo wrote: > At 17:03 14.10.2001, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > >On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 01:54:54PM +0300, Antti Tolamo wrote: > > > > > I hope this helps, > > > > > > Antti > > > > > > My PGP public key: > > > http://linux.tola.org/~chicken/antti_pg

Re: Debian books

2001-10-14 Thread Serge Rey
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 02:59:59PM -0500, Emerson Falcon wrote: > > > Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly for > > > Debian instead of just general linux? > > I have a book called Debian Unleashed that is excellent. Although, I > > bought it some time ago and it

Unidentified subject!

2001-10-14 Thread ralf . jasch
- original Nachricht On Sunday, 14. October 2001 21:18, Stan Brown wrote: > I just mved a SCSI card from one Debian machine (stable +2.4.9 kernel) to > another. It uses the aic7xxx Adapatec driver module. > > How do I tell the ntarget machine to load this module on boot now? use

Re: Added SCSI card, need to load module

2001-10-14 Thread tim haegele
On Sunday, 14. October 2001 21:18, Stan Brown wrote: > I just mved a SCSI card from one Debian machine (stable +2.4.9 kernel) to > another. It uses the aic7xxx Adapatec driver module. > > How do I tell the ntarget machine to load this module on boot now? use "modconf" or write the modulname into

Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-14 Thread John Hasler
Jason Boxman writes: > Someone mentioned trying an IRQ priority scheduler or something. A google > search turned this up, which appears to be on the money: > http://www.best.com/~cae/irqtune/ toncho/~ apt-cache search irqtune hwtools - Collection of tools for low-level hardware management -- J

Re: ext3 patch for kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-14 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi there, No, ext3 is not yet ready for 2.4.12. This is mainly because Linus changed a whole bunch of stuff in the VFS layer in the kernel in 2.4.10 and as a result the ext3 patch for 2.4.10 was/is a little buggy ( = read: don't use it unless you've got backups). They've therefore tracked the ac

Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-14 Thread Jason Boxman
On Sunday 14 October 2001 04:02 pm, Jason Boxman wrote: > On Saturday 13 October 2001 05:54 pm, csj wrote: > > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my meager > > 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process ppp traffic > > becomes so abysmal I even get disconnec

Unidentified subject!

2001-10-14 Thread ralf . jasch
- original Nachricht > Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: lynx-ssl > > Version: 2.8.4.2-1 > > > > Does the following a lynx bug or is there a way to get lynx behave like > > other browsers? > > It could be a Lynx bug, certainly. Whether or not one should > dub

Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-14 Thread csj
On Sunday 14 October 2001 19:54, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > > >> I get similar problems when burning CDs, though I've had it > > happen with > > [...] > > > >  try nice when using the bzip2 (or whichever program causes > > problem) > > This so

Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-14 Thread Jason Boxman
On Saturday 13 October 2001 05:54 pm, csj wrote: > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my meager > 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process ppp traffic > becomes so abysmal I even get disconnected. I'm glad I'm not alone. I have an old school 486 with a 5

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-10-14 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi, I recently upgraded to Vim 6.0 on a mostly-testing system, and seem to have lost the ability to access Vim help. I caught part of a Vim 6.0 thread on here some weeks ago, but don't recall whether this was addressed. When I try to access Help I get the following: "help.txt.gz" [readonly][no

Re: ext3 patch for kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Rajesh Fowkar wrote on Sun Oct 14, 2001 um 10:37:14PM: > There is no patch for 2.4.12 for ext3 on the main site. Yes. > Is ext3 included in linus's kernel in 2.4.12 ? No. If I get the point of ext3-discussion correctly, Linus' modifications in the kernel break to much stuff in ext3 e

Re: debian-wisdom

2001-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
one last thing: the list is of course archived: http://lists.madduck.net/pipermail/debian-wisdom/ let's go! -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] i have the power to channel my imagination into ever-

Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-14 Thread csj
On Sunday 14 October 2001 06:13, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, csj wrote: > > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my > > meager 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process > > ppp traffic becomes so abysmal I even get disconnected.

Re: Lock ups with kernel 2.4.10 & 2.4.12

2001-10-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Morgan Terry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I know this probably isn't debian related, but I figured I'd ask > here anyway. My system is locking solid whenever I either (a) > exit X windows, or (b) switch to a VT from X (i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F2), > or (c) the console blanker comes on. I have this

debian-wisdom

2001-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
hi, every now and then, discussions on debian-.* appear, which don't have anything to do with debian. even worse, sometime, these messages deal with micro$oft or other topics that make us feel uneasy (substitute adjective of choice if desireable). the reasons for that are simple: debian-.* mailing

Re: debug messages while logged out

2001-10-14 Thread Gary Turner
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 19:51:50 -0700, you wrote: >On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 06:41:57PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: > > > >> There are no background tasks running. At least non that I know about. > >Ah, that's where you're wrong... you have PostgreSQL installed and >running. That cruft is telling you t

Unidentified subject!

2001-10-14 Thread ralf . jasch
- original Nachricht On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Tony wrote: > > Potato 2.2.19 Linux only box. I'm having a problem with the dates. > $date Sun Oct 14 03:58:09 EST 2001 <- is tomorrow $date -u Sat Oct 13 > 17:59:40 UTC 2001 <- is correct have checked the date in the BIOS is > ok. have

root can start x-programs on user-login

2001-10-14 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, since a recent upgrade in woody I can start x-apps when I su in a shell. I thought this should be impossible by default. What have I done? Where can I disable this? Ciao! juh -- Muss ich, oder läuft die EXPO auch ohne mich? http://www.sudelbuch.de/2000/2531.html

Added SCSI card, need to load module

2001-10-14 Thread Stan Brown
I just mved a SCSI card from one Debian machine (stable +2.4.9 kernel) to another. It uses the aic7xxx Adapatec driver module. How do I tell the ntarget machine to load this module on boot now? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. --

Re: obtaining makemap [postfix]

2001-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
* Darren Wyn Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.13 21:33:36+0100]: > Where do I find 'makemap' to use with Postfix ? What package ? it's called postmap for all tables other than the alias table, for that you use the postalias command. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.

Re: Debian books

2001-10-14 Thread Emerson Falcon
> > Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly for > > Debian instead of just general linux? > > > > > I have a book called Debian Unleashed that is excellent. Although, I > bought it some time ago and it came with 2.1. See if there is a new edition > for 2.2. Thi

Dillo (Web-Browser Recommendation)

2001-10-14 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Hi folks, I have seen the recurring threads about web-browsers, so I looked at Dillo again. (Have watched it on and off since the very first versions, then called "gzilla"). Installed 0.6.1... and I'm *sooo* satisfied with this! So satisfied in fact, I really *have* to recommend it to y'all. I

Re: What .deb Package contains apache.pm???

2001-10-14 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 12:28:52PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > Did you search for apache.pm or Apache.pm? It should be the latter > --REPLY--- > This is the result of my search: > > /usr/lib/perl5/SOAP/Tran

Gnome MC keybindings

2001-10-14 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hi... I am using vanilla Gnome from Woody. Here is my question: I used to multi-select non-contiguous files in GMC by holding the CTRL key while clicking the files, but now it seems not to work anymore (only the SHIFT key will select contiguous files). Anyone knowing what's happening? Thanks a l

Re: Debian Mailman broken and undocumented

2001-10-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Glenn Murray wrote: > I downloaded and installed Mailman from Debian from potato stable. > There seems to be no Debian readme for this package. > It's broken, too: From the Mailman site I learned to > add a ScriptAlias and Exec lines to httpd.conf (the >

Re: What .deb Package contains apache.pm???

2001-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 12:28:52PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > 2. In the past I have seen links for all of perl in /etc/alternatives/. > They are not there in this recent installation. No, they've gone in woody. They caused too many problems. > This is a new install from the woody disks currently

Re: Thanks (Re: JPEG or GIF background in fvwm?)

2001-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 01:51:00PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Other suggestions were display, wmsetbg, esetroot, and chbg. These > might work, as well, but, since I already have xv I will stick with it. Bear in mind that xv is being removed in the next release of Debian, as it turned out that w

Network Card diagnostics

2001-10-14 Thread Scott Henson
I have a computer that has an on-board network card that doesnt seem to be working properly. We already took it in to be serviced once(we have a warentee), but the service people took for a few hours and when we picked it up they said it was a software problem and propmtly charged us $40 for a fal

Re: Command line wrappers?

2001-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 02:50:13PM -0200, Jorge L. deLyra wrote: > Free-BSD seems to have two very useful and equivalent programs, > called "fep" and "ile", to wrap emacs-style or vi-style command-line > editing and tcsh-style history mechanisms around any command-line driven > program. You u

Re: Debian books

2001-10-14 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:53:46AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly for > Debian instead of just general linux? > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: System freeze

2001-10-14 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:09:45 +0200, Oliver Korff writes: >> Run memtest86 for a night or somesuch. > >It didn't take the night, the second test showed the bad ram. >!AAAggghhh! > >Before I'm going to have a screwdriver session I wanted to say: "thanx" (and >I was so shure, because I tested t

XFree864 config question

2001-10-14 Thread Stan Brown
I'm seting up an old HP Vectra to run stable. Superprobe reports the following: First video: Super-VGA Chipset: S3 Trio64 (Port Probed) Memory: 1024 Kbytes RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) What dr

Debian Mailman broken and undocumented

2001-10-14 Thread Glenn Murray
I downloaded and installed Mailman from Debian from potato stable. There seems to be no Debian readme for this package. It's broken, too: From the Mailman site I learned to add a ScriptAlias and Exec lines to httpd.conf (the latter unacceptable to Apache) and run mailman/bin/newlist. The newlist

Thanks (Re: JPEG or GIF background in fvwm?)

2001-10-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
Jussi, Thank you. Your method, using xv, works just fine. I had looked into xsetroot, but it seems to only work on bitmaps. When I tried xloadimage, it wanted to convert my .jpeg files to B/W. Since I already have xv I tried your method and it does just what I need it to do (now that I found t

Re: What .deb Package contains apache.pm???

2001-10-14 Thread John Foster
Alson van der Meulen wrote: > Did you search for apache.pm or Apache.pm? It should be the latter --REPLY--- This is the result of my search: /usr/lib/perl5/SOAP/Transport/HTTP/Apache.pm /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0/Apache.pm /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0/Bu

Re: Can I force ftp to use passive mode?

2001-10-14 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm behind a firewall, that requires that ftp be run in "passive" mode. > While this s easy enough to do with the -p option, I would like to be able > to set some system wide configuration, or environmnet variable, so that all > users get this as the defaul

Re: bad performance on playing video

2001-10-14 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I use Xine to play VCD, DVD and other video files, the audio performance > is good, but the performance is awful, lots of lag. My CPU is PIII 1G, > 764Mb ram, and AGP card with 4Mb ram. So I don't think my hardware is not > powerful enough to play vid

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