Re: newline in terminal??

2001-10-29 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hey again, > > ASDF JLK; > > This bug is really annoying me. I use the terminal just like everyone > else and having my text be rewritten over as I type is just plain > annoying. Anyone discovered a solution yet? I've got a question for yo

Re: PATH variable--where is it?

2001-10-29 Thread Gary Turner
Tnx Matt, You get the credit, only because you beat San & Edward by 2 and 13 min respectively. This looks to be just what I need. Presumeably I can define CLASSPATH and PYTHONPATH et al. in the same file. tnx agn gt On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:52:11 -0600, you wrote: >On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:1

Re: Annoying Mozilla behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Colin Watson, > The mozilla in Debian stable and testing is really rather old. Let's > hope we can get a new release out sometime soon and finally kill M18. It's actually very easy to get and install the nightly builds into /usr/local. If you want to actually use mozilla as your day-to-day

Re: Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Rick Pasotto, > I normally run junkbuster and it looks like this somehow confuses 0.9.5. > What happens is that the wrong page gets loaded. The URL window shows > the correct address but the actual page seems to come from somewhere > random in the cache. Today I tried to access www.linuxworl

Re: PATH variable--where is it?

2001-10-29 Thread the Edward Blevins
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:11:38PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > I give up. This is making me nuts. Where is the path variable stored? > I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile. It's not > there. I can export path= for that session on that console, but I can't > locate the glo

Re: PATH variable--where is it?

2001-10-29 Thread Matthew Garman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:11:38PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > I give up. This is making me nuts. Where is the path variable stored? > I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile. It's not > there. I can export path= for that session on that console, but I can't > locate the glo

Re: PATH variable--where is it?

2001-10-29 Thread San Segkhoonthod
/etc/profile is the global, I beleive. san On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 10:11, Gary Turner wrote: > I give up. This is making me nuts. Where is the path variable stored? > I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile. It's not > there. I can export path= for that session on that console

Re: OT: impact on performances of (kernel + XFREE)

2001-10-29 Thread Matthew Garman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:35:15PM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: > In such a context, how much do a modern kernel and Xfree pair "impact" > on overall performance? In other words, of 1000 CPU clock cycles, how > many would be spent executing actual application code in the CPU, and > how many for all

PATH variable--where is it?

2001-10-29 Thread Gary Turner
I give up. This is making me nuts. Where is the path variable stored? I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile. It's not there. I can export path= for that session on that console, but I can't locate the global. echo $PATH or env shows me the value just fine. I've pored over

Re: best ac kernel for ext3

2001-10-29 Thread Hall Stevenson
* DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011029 21:09]: > > I'm thinking about just downloading and compiling an ac kernel to > get ext3 but Alan's latest sound like they've got some issues. Any > ideas as to which one I should run? 2.4.9 with the official ext3 patch is working fine here... > Also, has Linus

Re: Creating new kernel with initrd?

2001-10-29 Thread Timothy Webster
I did that as part of the debian kernel image 2.4.12-k6 install. -tim. thanks -- Original Message -- From: "D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:31:14 -0800 (PST) >Did you add initrd=/boot/initrd to lilo.conf. >That should be the first line

Re: woody stable?? when?

2001-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 07:04:50PM -0600, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:51:51PM +, Keith Willoughby wrote: > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:50:42PM +0100, Martin Kacerovsky wrote: > > > > You are quite not conc

Re: Optimizing FTP

2001-10-29 Thread nate
Casper Gielen said: > Hi there, > I'm maintaining an FTP server however I'm not very pleased with the > performance. It's a 100Mbit connection (half duplex) to a PIII-500 > with 400 MB RAM and 240G software RAID1 running glftpd on a 2.4.13 > kernel. top doesn't reveal any obvious problems, the proc

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:47:31AM +0100, Marko Djukic wrote: | > > there is no /home//.xsession-errors file... | > | >How about /var/log/XSession*? | | nope, no xsession error log file to be found anywhere... just looks like | xsession doesn't start at all... | | i get the command line login

Re: IMAP...

2001-10-29 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Kurt Lieber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > IMAP does NOT encrypt passwords. A couple of clarifications. IMAP can operate over SSL (it's called IMAPS on TCP port 993 instead of 143), and a good portion of the mail clients that support IMAP will support IMAPS. Also, depending upon the server

Re: Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Keith Willoughby
Gordon Paynter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been noticing this for awhile (Moz 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5) and I > found yesterday from the nice mozilla folks on IRC that this is a > known falut with junkbuster. > > Apparently, junkbuster doesn't handle HTTP 1.1 connections and "keep > alive" conn

Re: Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 07:30:30PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I recently upgraded from Mozilla 0.9.2 to 0.9.5 and today I discovered > an annoying bug. > > I normally run junkbuster and it looks like this somehow confuses 0.9.5. > What happens is that the wrong page gets loaded. The URL window s

Re: Sharp printer support in Linux

2001-10-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 11:41:52AM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: | I have a Sharp AL 1041 printer at office. | Anyone knows if this printer works with Linux? I don't, but linuxprinting.org might. Is it a PostScript printer? If so, then it works. If it has a parallel port

Re: Japanese fonts in X

2001-10-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 01:56:27PM +0200, Jörg Johannes wrote: | Hello List | | I have installed a potato box for a friend. She would like to use japanese | fonts in GNOME, so I have installed the xfonts-intl-japanese | and xfonts-intl-japanese-big packages, selected "japanese" on gdm login, but

Re: Creating new kernel with initrd?

2001-10-29 Thread D.
Did you add initrd=/boot/initrd to lilo.conf. That should be the first line after default=Linux. --- Timothy Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Upgrading to 2.4.12-k6 with initrd works fine. > > Using kernellab I create a new kernel 2.4.12-ac6. > cp /boot/config-2.4.12-k6 > /var/state/kernella

Re: Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Gordon Paynter
On Monday 29 October 2001 16:30, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I normally run junkbuster and it looks like this somehow confuses > 0.9.5. What happens is that the wrong page gets loaded. [snip] > Setting the proxy to 'direct internet connection' solved the problem. I've been noticing this for awhile (Moz

Re: newline in terminal??

2001-10-29 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rohan Deshpande) writes: > Hi everyone, > > I was just wondering why this is happening: > > When I am typing in a terminal, i.e. a long directory, at the end of the > terminal's width, the text does not start on a new line. It just > overwrites what text is already on screen;

Re: woody stable?? when?

2001-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:51:51PM +, Keith Willoughby wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:50:42PM +0100, Martin Kacerovsky wrote: > > > You are quite not concrete(factual) ;-) > > > > Nobody can be. The response to "when will the next Debian releas

Re: Segmentation fault

2001-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:54:17PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > On Monday 29 October 2001 20:38, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > $ strace man foo > > Hi again, > > here the output of "strace man ls" [...] > and here the output of "man -d ls" Hi Raffaele, If you tell me the version number of

Re: PA-RISC / hppa installation & maturity information?

2001-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:09:27PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > A friend has stumbled across an HP 9000D330 system, 128MB, 12GB, three > disks, and he's interested in running Debian/Woody on it. I've poked > around debian.org looking for some basic getting-started and > installation instruction

Re: Annoying Mozilla behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 04:20:38PM -0800, Greg Wiley wrote: > I like Mozilla a bunch but it has an annoying behavior that deserves a > wishlist bug unless it's due to my own stupidity: > > It doesn't remember the last page position when returning via "back". > That is, it always returns to the top

Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Rick Pasotto
I recently upgraded from Mozilla 0.9.2 to 0.9.5 and today I discovered an annoying bug. I normally run junkbuster and it looks like this somehow confuses 0.9.5. What happens is that the wrong page gets loaded. The URL window shows the correct address but the actual page seems to come from somewher

Re: 2nd core pointer speed settings in XFree4

2001-10-29 Thread Aniartia
On Monday 29 October 2001 12:28, you wrote: > this option won't work on my USB tablett but also not with my PS/2 > Mouse. Mh, what am I doing wrong... It might be that it won't work :(.. from the XF86Config-v3 man pages:        Resolution count                sets the resolution of the device in c

Re: IMAP...

2001-10-29 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Monday 29 October 2001 11:19 am, Alexander Wallace wrote: > I understand Imap encripts passwords right? and I should use it instead of > pop? IMAP does NOT encrypt passwords. It has one (minor) security advantage over POP3 in that it only sends your password once to establish a connection, a

Re: cproto.deb for potato not available?

2001-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:12:39PM -0700, Kris Huber wrote: > I'm wondering if a 'cproto' debian package is available for the Linux 2.2 > kernel. I see one under 'unstable' but from what I read, application > binaries need to be compiled for the kernel you are running. No, there's no kernel depen

Re: newline in terminal??

2001-10-29 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hey again, ASDF JLK; This bug is really annoying me. I use the terminal just like everyone else and having my text be rewritten over as I type is just plain annoying. Anyone discovered a solution yet? Thanks, Rohan * Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Rohan

Annoying Mozilla behavior

2001-10-29 Thread Greg Wiley
I like Mozilla a bunch but it has an annoying behavior that deserves a wishlist bug unless it's due to my own stupidity: It doesn't remember the last page position when returning via "back". That is, it always returns to the top of the previous page whenever I hit the "back" button rather than r

IMAP...

2001-10-29 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hi there.. I have task-imap installed using apt-get... Is there anything I need to do to be able to use it? I'm trying to get my email using evolution from another machine, and nothing happens, not even an error, but If i use pop it does work and retrieve my email... Is there something extra I need

cproto.deb for potato not available?

2001-10-29 Thread Kris Huber
I'm wondering if a 'cproto' debian package is available for the Linux 2.2 kernel. I see one under 'unstable' but from what I read, application binaries need to be compiled for the kernel you are running. Cproto has been around for several years; I'm surprised it's not there (so I suspect I'm wron

Re: Woody and X not liking xhost +

2001-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:54:14PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please set your mailer to send text rather than HTML, particularly to list or Usenet posts. Thank you. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: Woody and X not liking xhost +

2001-10-29 Thread Hanasaki JiJI
Ah.. Does this hold true even though all activity is taking place on the same host and IP and physical box? Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:17:13PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am running woody and have two shells open in X. One is su'ed to roo

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread Henryx
On 29 Oct 2001 23:42:14 +1300 Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you uninstall gdm / kdm / xdm ("dpkg -r gdm xdm kdm") you will get > the login prompt and be able to log in, then go 'startx' to start an > Xsession. If don't change the line id:5:initdefault: in id:2:initdefault: i

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:10:56PM +0200, George Karaolides ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Greg Madden wrote: > > > More wasted bandwidth, > > > > No, it didn't deny intrance it redirected you to a site that suggests > > you download a MS product., while suggesting MS was

Re: XFree4.1 freeze with black screen

2001-10-29 Thread Jens Gecius
"Morbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody know where to start looking, if > X just freezes the whole machine on starx with a black screen? > I had to reset. Just had that problem yesterday after activating twinview. Turned out to be a crash of xfree (based on an oops of nvidia-driver).

Re: 2nd core pointer speed settings in XFree4

2001-10-29 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 23:30, Aniartia wrote: > > I duno about tablets but in mice > Option "Resolution" "{number}" > works well for me, T-ball at 255 & mouse at 130.. T-ball nice n' fast, mouse > nice n' slow ;) > > Ani Hello Ani, this option won't work on my USB tablett but also not with my P

Re: unwanted console messages

2001-10-29 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Adam John Henry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > My virtual consoles are being bombarded with spam from my firewall, > and I wish to stop it. Editing '/etc/syslog.conf' doesn't do the > trick, however, and I'm curious what other program is printing these > messages. > > Only my active console g

Re: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12

2001-10-29 Thread The Doctor What
* Doc - KD4E ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011026 23:39]: > I ran "grub-install /dev/hda" and got this ... > > (fd0) /dev/fd0 > (hd0) /dev/hda You must not have DEVFS like I do. > > So I edit it changing the following: > > #kopt=root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=ext > > Aren't these commented-out? How can they c

Re: What to install now that Progeny is gone?

2001-10-29 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:40:47PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | So, here's the question. Given that I want to build machines with fairly | moder user interafaces (read that as some recent version of Gnome) on these | new machines, and that I really just followed the cookbok deirections on | upgradi

Re: Segmentation fault

2001-10-29 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Monday 29 October 2001 20:38, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:36:17PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I can't use man anymore. On every manpage i get a segmentation fault. > > Im using the 2.4.13-ac4 kernel. > > any hints? > > $ str

Re: Woody and X not liking xhost +

2001-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:17:13PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am running woody and have two shells open in X. One is su'ed to root > and has the display variable set correctly and exported. The other is a > common user id that has done xhost +. > > When I run an X pro

Re: Woody and X not liking xhost +

2001-10-29 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:17:13PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJI wrote: | I am running woody and have two shells open in X. One is su'ed to root | and has the display variable set correctly and exported. The other is a | common user id that has done xhost +. | | When I run an X program from the su'ed s

Xstartup, non-zero status

2001-10-29 Thread John Lord
Hi again, Sorry if this message appears more than once, the original was bounced back to me, unable to send. I have managed to boot into the login screen with kdm and when I complete the login, the desktop starts to load then I get the following error message: startup program /usr/X11R6/lib/kd

unwanted console messages

2001-10-29 Thread Adam John Henry
My virtual consoles are being bombarded with spam from my firewall, and I wish to stop it. Editing '/etc/syslog.conf' doesn't do the trick, however, and I'm curious what other program is printing these messages. Only my active console gets these messages. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks --

Re: 2nd core pointer speed settings in XFree4

2001-10-29 Thread Aniartia
On Monday 29 October 2001 11:24, Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing wrote: > Hello, > > Today I installed an USB graphic tablet under Sid w/ XF86 v4. I > installed the tablet as second USB mouse device and it works well in X > so far (okay, with no pressure sensitivity, but anyhow...). The problem > ist that

libdetect/kudzu/etc?

2001-10-29 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, RedHat and Mandrake have a wonderful program called Kudzu which does a quick hardware check on bootup for new hardware and attempts to configure it. Very handy! Does anything like this exist for Debian unstable? I have a quick hunt around packages.debian.org and found libdetect, which is the

Xstartup, non-zero status

2001-10-29 Thread John Lord
Hi again, Sorry if this message appears more than once, the original was bounced back to me, unable to send. I have managed to boot into the login screen with kdm and when I complete the login, the desktop starts to load then I get the following error message: startup program /usr/X11R6/lib/kd

2nd core pointer speed settings in XFree4

2001-10-29 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
Hello, Today I installed an USB graphic tablet under Sid w/ XF86 v4. I installed the tablet as second USB mouse device and it works well in X so far (okay, with no pressure sensitivity, but anyhow...). The problem ist that the pen is slightly too fast. I use GNOME and there I can set the speed of

RE: Random mysql index corruption on Dell Poweredge 2450

2001-10-29 Thread Atul Mukker.
I would recommend you to immediately move to 1.18 megaraid driver. Do you still see the issue? Thanks Atul Mukker Software Engineer II LSI Logic Corporation RAID Storage Adapters Division 6145-D Northbelt Parkway Norcross GA-30071 770-326-9187, 770-246-8765(Fax) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HTTP: w

Re: No boot after reinstall

2001-10-29 Thread Hans
Hello Bob, Thanks for the hint. You made my day. I took my Potato discs, booted with rescue root=/dev/hda3 and got into Linux. Then I ran install-mbr /dev/hda3 and it reinstalled the MBR. Holding down the shift key now lets me choose which partion I want to boot (choice between 1FA). I haven't go

Creating new kernel with initrd?

2001-10-29 Thread Timothy Webster
Upgrading to 2.4.12-k6 with initrd works fine. Using kernellab I create a new kernel 2.4.12-ac6. cp /boot/config-2.4.12-k6 /var/state/kernellab/config/config-`uname -n`-2.4.12 create a new kernel install it added ext2 to /etc/mkinitrd/modules use mkinitrd Everything should be good, right? I can

hp deskjet 940c

2001-10-29 Thread amael
hello debian! i just got a hp deskjet 940c printer and plugged it into my computer (usb worked seamlessly) i alread printed .ps files and stuff, so basically the printer works. yet, the quality is not very good. i've been told that the official hp drivers work pretty well, however they want you

Re: GPG keyring selection

2001-10-29 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Justin R. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I think you may want to try the "gnupg-ring:" prefix. I gave this a shot, but no luck there. So I experimented and found that you need to do this: no-default-keyring keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg key

usbmgr just beeps in unstable

2001-10-29 Thread mallum
Has anyone had any luck with usbmgr ? When it starts up it just beeps twice and me and then exits. I cant seem to get any verbose/error info from it neither. It does however appear to load the relevant usb modules ( uhci, hid and mounsedev ) before exiting. I running unstable with a 2.4.10-ac

Re: Installing source code: debian/rules

2001-10-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Ingo Hohmann wrote: > Hi there, > > when compiling a very large program, it would come in handy > to stop the compiling process, and start it again later. > The make system should be able to just start again where I > stopped, but how do I tell debian/rules to not start over >

Installing source code: debian/rules

2001-10-29 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi there, when compiling a very large program, it would come in handy to stop the compiling process, and start it again later. The make system should be able to just start again where I stopped, but how do I tell debian/rules to not start over again at configuring? And, how do I give configure

Re: woody stable?? when?

2001-10-29 Thread Keith Willoughby
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:50:42PM +0100, Martin Kacerovsky wrote: > > You are quite not concrete(factual) ;-) > > Nobody can be. The response to "when will the next Debian release > happen" has always been "when it's ready". Is there a definition of "r

Re: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12

2001-10-29 Thread csj
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 01:11, eDoc wrote: > "linux-2.4.12.tar.gz" is in /usr/src and I tried to run "make-kpkg" > there. No go. If indeed "linux-2.4.12.tar.gz" is already in /usr/src, you could try: cd /usr/src tar xzvf linux-2.4.12.tar.gz cd linux-2.4.12 make-kpkg buildpackage --rootcmd fake

RE: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12 -- Inching Closer

2001-10-29 Thread Glen S Mehn
Did you 'make config' first? (or make menuconfig, etc?) Otherwise, you are almost 100% sure to end up with an unusable kernel... Also, with these options, in `make config`, you can press the `?` key (no quotes) and it'll tell you what you need to do. I *highly* suggest your installing at least th

Re: Being cracked? (need help on apache log files)

2001-10-29 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > Looks like a harmless attempt, because it tries to open M$ files. If this > goes on and on you might want to block acces from that host. Perhaps a > previous user of your ip had a warez ftp server and people try to login to > download stuff. Look from where

Re: XFree4.1 freeze with black screen

2001-10-29 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
> Does anybody know where to start looking, if > X just freezes the whole machine on starx with a black screen? > I had to reset. Once a long time ago I had X freezing problems. They were solved by turning down a bit my configuration for my graphics adapter's scan frequencies. Aparantly I pushed

Re: Debian dedicated server provider ?

2001-10-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > Looking to lease a dedicated server to run Debian. > > I see leasing companies mainly offering Redhat Linux, but I'd prefer Debian. > > Recommendations sought/welcomed... Thanks. > I use Linux Labs out of Atlanta, GA, USA. Very professional and cluef

Re: mouse doesn't work with xdm

2001-10-29 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi Karsten, Cameron, Once upon a time Karsten M. Self spoketh thus: > on Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 07:16:14PM +0200, Ingo Hohmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've got a little problem with my mouse: After getting rid of gpm my mouse works now on /dev/psaux, 3 buttons and wheel!

Re: update-menus for user?

2001-10-29 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:30:21PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: > > Nothing went wrong actually. I just had to remove > > ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu, then the menus generated by > > update-menus appeared but this has the downside that now I > > can'

Kernel 2.4.12 ISAPNP

2001-10-29 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I am playing around with the isapnp in a 2.4.12 kernel. I am trying to get an ESS1868 sound card like magic without the isapnp deb. I found a web site that describes the set up in a 2.4.5 kernel at http://www.netspace.net.au/~bmiller/linux/ess1868-2.4.html. I tried it with my

Debian dedicated server provider ?

2001-10-29 Thread Darren Wyn Rees
Looking to lease a dedicated server to run Debian. I see leasing companies mainly offering Redhat Linux, but I'd prefer Debian. Recommendations sought/welcomed... Thanks. -- Darren Wyn Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PA-RISC / hppa installation & maturity information?

2001-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
A friend has stumbled across an HP 9000D330 system, 128MB, 12GB, three disks, and he's interested in running Debian/Woody on it. I've poked around debian.org looking for some basic getting-started and installation instructions for the Debian hppa port, but can't find anything. I'd appreciate poin

Re: best ac kernel for ext3

2001-10-29 Thread Matthew Sackman
I'm using 2.4.13 with the latest patch for the linus tree (actually for 2.4.13-pre something - fix the reject yourself). I'm using it on three machines here and havn't had a problem - but then I've not ever had any real swap problems at all with the 2.4 trees. Matthew On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:

2.4.13 kernel issue? /dev/null flags reset to 600

2001-10-29 Thread Sándor Bárány
After upgrading to 2.4.13 I recognised some programs are complaining about /dev/null. And yes, /dev/null flags were changed to crw--- , again and again. It turned out that happens every morning when my cron.daily scripts run. And more specifically it happens every time when: 1. sensord (versi

Re: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12 -- Inching Closer

2001-10-29 Thread eDoc
> the kernel source directory should contain a listing of files that looks > something like this: (it'll change slightly, based on where you got your > kernel source from): > > COPYINGMAINTAINERS README.Debian arch include kernel net > CREDITSMakefile REPORTING-BUGS dr

Re: ldso part 2

2001-10-29 Thread Greg Wiley
On Saturday, October 27, 2001 4:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I gave removing > > ldso a shot on a non-critical testing machine. > > [...] > > Today's upgrade put ldso right back on. > > [...] > > Now orphaner says, again, that nothing > > depends on ldso and that it may be safely > > removed. > T

Re: Segmentation fault

2001-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:36:17PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi, > > I can't use man anymore. On every manpage i get a segmentation fault. What version of man-db? Post the end of an strace (as Karsten said) as well as the output of 'man -d '. -- Colin Watson

What to install now that Progeny is gone?

2001-10-29 Thread Stan Brown
I've bult several machines in the past few months by: 1. Installing an absolute minimum potato release. 2. Folowing the Progeny "Upgrade to Progeny web page" 3. Installing the 24. kernel packages 4. Building a custom 2.4 kernel. This has worked extremely well for me, as it gives me a nice set of

Re: XFree4.1 freeze with black screen

2001-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 07:02:33PM +0100, Morbo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anybody know where to start looking, if > X just freezes the whole machine on starx with a black screen? > I had to reset. Server? Video card? /var/log/XFree86*.log -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.ne

Re: Segmentation fault

2001-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:36:17PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I can't use man anymore. On every manpage i get a segmentation fault. > Im using the 2.4.13-ac4 kernel. > any hints? $ strace man foo Post the last hundred or so lines of output. *Not* the who

Success with winex?

2001-10-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Has anyone been able to compile transgamings' winex from CVS? My compile bombs out here: gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -g -O2 -Wall -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fPIC -D__WINE__ -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/X11R6/include -o ddraw/hal.o ddraw/hal.c In file included from ddraw/hal.c:20:

[phil@mail.brainlink.com: Not configuring]

2001-10-29 Thread Branden Robinson
Would someone like to help this gentleman out? -- G. Branden Robinson|The errors of great men are Debian GNU/Linux |venerable because they are more [EMAIL PROTECTED] |fruitful than the truths of little http://people.debian.org/~branden

RE: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12 -- CORRECTION

2001-10-29 Thread Glen S Mehn
One thing to know about unix is that, basically, everything is a file. It seems odd that /usr/src/linux would end up being a regular (non-dir) file, but.. Whatever. it's fixed now. I've moved the discussion off of the three lists that you posted to, and put it just on 'debian-user'. It could just

Re: IMPORTANT: security hole in colorize in unstable

2001-10-29 Thread Gergely Nagy
My bad. I screwed up fakeroot on my system, hence the bad ownerships. Fixed package will be in incoming within a few minutes. pgphYxeHN31Er.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12 -- CORRECTION

2001-10-29 Thread eDoc
> You need to untar the source: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# tar -xvzf > After that, change the directory name to 'linux', so that your uncompressed, > untarred sources are in /usr/src/linux: The usr/src/linux directory that was missing before has been created, apparently for some reason a reboo

IMPORTANT: security hole in colorize in unstable

2001-10-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, I just noticed that version 0.3.0-2 of the colorize package (the one in unstable; the testing version is OK) has all of its files owned by user/group 1004. I filed a critical bug, #117572, against the package. * To see if you are affected: ls -l /usr/bin/colorize * If this has use

Re: best ac kernel for ext3

2001-10-29 Thread Craig Dickson
DvB wrote: > I'm thinking about just downloading and compiling an ac kernel to get > ext3 but Alan's latest sound like they've got some issues. Any ideas as > to which one I should run? Also, has Linus given any kind of timeframe > for adding it to the official kernel? (other than "soon," that is

Re: update-menus for user?

2001-10-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:30:21PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: > Nothing went wrong actually. I just had to remove > ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu, then the menus generated by > update-menus appeared but this has the downside that now I > can't add my own customizations with hotkeys etc. throu

Re: Get vesafb to work (was: nvidia-drivers in testing)

2001-10-29 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:55:02PM +0100, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: | "Daniel T. Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Rumours are that vesafb works just fine, though. | | Ok, I compiled a new kernel 2.4.12, disable rivafb and enable | vesafb. All problems with the new nvidia-drivers seems to b

Re: How do I know whether I've got the "potato" or "woody" versions of debian?

2001-10-29 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 01:17:04AM -0500, Rupert Heesom wrote: | On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 06:42, D. wrote: | > If when you log into Debian you go to eeh console mode | > instead of xdm, the last line that you see before the | > prompt is which version of Debian your running. | | Well, I don't get any

Re: X/testing crappy?

2001-10-29 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:35:31AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.28 11:57:47-0500]: | > Isn't this awesome? In bash you can type "set -o vi" or | > "set -o emacs" to change the readline mode. The default is emacs. | > This could be set in ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_p

Woody and X not liking xhost +

2001-10-29 Thread Hanasaki JiJI
I am running woody and have two shells open in X. One is su'ed to root and has the display variable set correctly and exported. The other is a common user id that has done xhost +. When I run an X program from the su'ed shell I get an errot "cannot connect" It looks alot like it would if I

best ac kernel for ext3

2001-10-29 Thread DvB
I'm thinking about just downloading and compiling an ac kernel to get ext3 but Alan's latest sound like they've got some issues. Any ideas as to which one I should run? Also, has Linus given any kind of timeframe for adding it to the official kernel? (other than "soon," that is :-) TIA

XFree4.1 freeze with black screen

2001-10-29 Thread Morbo
Does anybody know where to start looking, if X just freezes the whole machine on starx with a black screen? I had to reset. Many thanks in advance! regards, Balazs

Re: GPG keyring selection

2001-10-29 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Corey Halpin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anybody know how gpg selects which of the keyring files you > specify to it to attempt to write to? This from the man page: --keyring file Add file to the list of keyrings. If file begins with a tilde and a slash,

Re: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12

2001-10-29 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake eDoc: > > you need to, as in the documentation, run make-kpkg from the top-level > kernel > > directory, which will depend on where you put your kernel source. This is > typically > > either /usr/src/linux or /usr/src/kernel-source- > > glen > > kernel-source? You mean "linux-2.4.12.ta

Re: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12

2001-10-29 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:11:58PM -0500, eDoc wrote: > > you need to, as in the documentation, run make-kpkg from the top-level > kernel > > directory, which will depend on where you put your kernel source. This is > typically > > either /usr/src/linux or /usr/src/kernel-source- > > glen > > kern

RE: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12

2001-10-29 Thread Glen S Mehn
Hey doc: I think we were all assuming a slightly higher level of linux-ness than you've got. I'd highly, highly suggest that you read all the docs online before you go into kernel compilation, particularly the ones about lilo (or grub) and booting to an alternate kernel-- you'll really want to be

GPG keyring selection

2001-10-29 Thread Corey Halpin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Does anybody know how gpg selects which of the keyring files you specify to it to attempt to write to? When I put "keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg" at the bottom of my ~/.gnupg/options fi

Re: Recognizing Kernel Update to 2.4.12

2001-10-29 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
* eDoc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) babbled: > > Somewhere folks are assuming that I am taking a step that they have not > explicitly stated and thus the creation of the critical kernel-source in the > necessary format in the necessary location is not happening. okay. the following steps assume that linux

Optimizing FTP

2001-10-29 Thread Casper Gielen
Hi there, I'm maintaining an FTP server however I'm not very pleased with the performance. It's a 100Mbit connection (half duplex) to a PIII-500 with 400 MB RAM and 240G software RAID1 running glftpd on a 2.4.13 kernel. top doesn't reveal any obvious problems, the processor is mostly idle, most mem

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