Re: gnu make files

2001-10-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 10:50:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > here's a question I can't seem to find an answer to.. > why does GNU make automatically compile .cpp files, but with .cxx > files I have to explicitly add a g++ line in the make file? "man make": -p Print the data base (r

What's the file system of root.bin?

2001-10-31 Thread Yuwen Dai
Hi, Dear All I want to create rescue diskette from the Debian official CD-rom. I found that rescue.bin is msdos system, however, I could not figure out the file system of root.bin. I tried ext2, minix, msdos, fat. All wrong. Any idea? Thank you in advance. Best regards, Dai Yuwen _

Re: Debugger DDD with gdb

2001-10-31 Thread Aaron Brashears
As has been pointed out, your problem description isn't very clear. There could be a lot of reasons for 'failure.' To answer your other question - I like both insight and ddd. I don't know if insight will work with the debian stable distribution. On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:37:05PM -0500, [EMAIL P

Re: Epson Stylus Color 880

2001-10-31 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Alberto Cortés: > > I'm trying to use an Epson Stylus Color 880 with lpr (1:0.48-1) and > magicfilter (1.2-39). > > I'm not sure what filter to use, i have tried with these: > /etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > /etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > /etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED

gnu make files

2001-10-31 Thread xucaen
here's a question I can't seem to find an answer to.. why does GNU make automatically compile .cpp files, but with .cxx files I have to explicitly add a g++ line in the make file? xuc

Re: DHCP and Adelphia Cablemodem (dhcpcd)

2001-10-31 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Michael Patterson wrote: > ---snip---< > Also, ifconfig doesn't show eth0. When I was running DHCP-client, eth0 did > show up, but without an IP address (not even 0.0.0.0, which is what I was > lead to believe would happen). > This is not good. No dhcp client will work if the NIC isn't there!

Epson Stylus Color 880

2001-10-31 Thread Alberto Cortés
I'm trying to use an Epson Stylus Color 880 with lpr (1:0.48-1) and magicfilter (1.2-39). I'm not sure what filter to use, i have tried with these: /etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/magicfilter/StylusColor-generic-fil

Re: Apt dependency problem

2001-10-31 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:09:40PM +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote: You didn't break anything.. it's a fundamental change in the setup and these sometimes need a little help. > Does anybody have a clue on how to fix this? Very much appreciated! $ apt-get install libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debia

Re: allowing root X apps

2001-10-31 Thread Marc Wilson
I meant cdrecord of course, sorry for any confusion. Does something called "cdroast" even exist? On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:24:32PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 07:24:21PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > > If root has to run the GUI file a bug against it. > > Well, cdroast

Re: field width with dpkg -l

2001-10-31 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:52:24PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: | Michael P. Soulier wrote: | | > Beyond stretching my terminal to it's maximum possible width, is there a | > way to control the field width of the display from dpkg -l? | > | > ie. | > [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dpkg -l "nets

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-10-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:45:43PM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > does anyone know anything about core dumps? i've got a program that's > bombing out and i have no idea why? it's producing a core dump, but > it's all greek to me. Please set your mailer/editor linewrap t

Re: X with ssh cannot open display

2001-10-31 Thread nate
Jan Ulrich Hasecke said: > Hi! > > I fear this is a faq. > > It is said that ssh tunnels the x-connection and that all you have > to do is: > > To login with > % ssh -X -l username host try using -v for verbose. it will tell you if X forwarding was accepted by the remote host or not. it can also t

Small bug in Abiword

2001-10-31 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
After doing a dist upgrade to unstable, my Abiword is now at 0.9.4. What an improvement. I'm able to open all sorts of MS .doc docs.(unfortunately my friends don't have any desire to use a free alternative to MS Word). The bug I found is that the documentation, The User Manual, is

Re: Shell Scripting Question

2001-10-31 Thread Sunny Dubey
> Use another loop: > > for $fruit in `cat fruits`; do > while [ -z $ANS ]; do > echo -n "Do you like $fruit" > read ANS > done > done hey, thanks for the code above :) It works, I just needed to add a unset ANS above the while [ blah blah ] line thanks S

Re: Small bug in Abiword

2001-10-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 07:28:24PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After doing a dist upgrade to unstable, my Abiword is now at 0.9.4. > What an improvement. I'm able to open all sorts of MS .doc > docs.(unfortunately my friends don't have any desire to use a free > al

menu trouble

2001-10-31 Thread Kevin C. Smith
When doing: #update-menus I got the following error: Cat components.menu: No such file or directory Also during a: #apt-get upgrade I got: no title found for directory (package name) (for every package installed with with menu entries). Attempted to look at the bug report page, however it appear

Why messages sent by cron delay one day?

2001-10-31 Thread Yuwen Dai
Hi, All This is my crontab: # Mirror the hard disk at 1:47 AM every day 47 1 * * * /usr/local/sbin/disk-mirror.sh This is the head of message sent by cron: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 01 01:47:01 2001 Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "upgrade" vs "dist-upgrade"

2001-10-31 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 17:57, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Mike Fontenot wrote: > > Is my interpretation correct, or have I misunderstood > > the man page? (My main concern is that I don't want to > > accidentally upgrade to woody). > > You are mostly correct. IIRC, if the package structure ch

Unidentified subject!

2001-10-31 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
does anyone know anything about core dumps? i've got a program that's bombing out and i have no idea why? it's producing a core dump, but it's all greek to me. -- ) ,_),_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ) | |(_)(_ |\ ( \_, ___ |

Re: XFree86 Upgrade

2001-10-31 Thread nate
Marcel Figuerola Estrada said: > Does anyone know how to upgrade XFree86 in Debian Potato to version > 4.x.x without upgrading to Woody? a quick search reveals: http://kebo.vlsm.org/debian-extra/dists/potato/xfree4/ there was a debian developer(the official one i think) that used to have po

Printing: use of lpf (filters) w/ Postscript printer?

2001-10-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
I was having problems printing from my desktop -- Debian/Sid, lprng. Playing with my /etc/printcap, I found that a vastly simplified setup (no filters) appears to work, at least for postscript inputs, where the lpf filtered version doesn't. Printing under the printcap entry 'lp-old' below causes t

ISA AWE64 not detected

2001-10-31 Thread Chris Keelan
I have a Soundblaster AWE64 which was detected automatically by Mandrake. Now I'm running Woody and I can't get the card detected. pnpdump finds a bunch of listings but pnpprobe gives me "no cards found". I've been through the mini-HOWTO, edited my isapnp.conf and even get some confirmation mes

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-10-31 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:02:32AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > I chose Debian because of the GNU aspect, out of sheer orneryness > when everyone was telling me to take the easy route with Mandrake, > Red Hat, or SuSe, and because i liked the name. Not really > sensible reasons I would agree! (

Re: PATH variable--where is it?

2001-10-31 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 12:00:40AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > So this /etc/login.defs defines PATH provided by login. Then > /etc/profile is persed by shell and export new path, if it is defined. > > Deeper question is "What is a PATH before login?" > > Specifically, What is PATH for /etc/rcS.d/

Re: DHCP and Adelphia Cablemodem (dhcpcd)

2001-10-31 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:50:27AM -0700, Michael Patterson wrote: > > Yesterday I finally got my cable modem (Adelphia). Hooked it up to windows, > and it worked wonderfully. I was told that, in general, Adelphia doesn't > change the IP information, and it would be safe to copy it to the Debian >

Re: paperfile & groff

2001-10-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:29:44PM -0700, Mike Fontenot wrote: > When I first executed groff, it said "Can't open > file /etc/papersize". I recently made groff depend on libpaperg, which should ensure that this file exists. Installing libpaperg should fix the problem for you. -- Colin Watson (gr

Re: New ssh v2 and authentication

2001-10-31 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Tom Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That did the trick! The worst part about it is there's no mention of > > this in the man page. It talks about using identity.pub as default but > > nothing about specifying a different file. > > > SYNOPSIS > ssh-add [-lLdD] [file ...] > > DESCRI

Re: Help! Printer prints only 1 PS page

2001-10-31 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Sebastian Canagaratna: > Hi: > > I recently installed a Deskjet890C printer. When I latex a file > using xemacs and send it to a networked printer, the postscript > file prints fine. WHen I try the same thing on my local > Deskjet890C only the 1st page prints. > > I am using Wood

Re: New ssh v2 and authentication

2001-10-31 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Bill Wohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm a bit confused by the fact that OpenSSH now defaults to using > > > version 2. How do I use ssh-agent as I have in the past to do > > > password-less logi

Re: field width with dpkg -l

2001-10-31 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:52:24PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > This should do it: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ COLUMNS=255 dpkg -l 'netscape*' | grep ^i Cool, thanks. I'll look at --get-selections as well, as suggested by the other helpful person. :) Mike -- Michael P. Souli

Re: field width with dpkg -l

2001-10-31 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
How about runnin it as "COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l 'netscape*' |grep ^i" instead? Jeremy On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:41:49PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. > > Beyond stretching my terminal to it's maximum possible width, is there a > way to control the field wid

Re: "upgrade" vs "dist-upgrade"

2001-10-31 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Mike Fontenot wrote: > Is my interpretation correct, or have I misunderstood > the man page? (My main concern is that I don't want to > accidentally upgrade to woody). You are mostly correct. IIRC, if the package structure changes, e.g. some packages get split up and others are added, then "upg

Re: field width with dpkg -l

2001-10-31 Thread Craig Dickson
Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Beyond stretching my terminal to it's maximum possible width, is there a > way to control the field width of the display from dpkg -l? > > ie. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dpkg -l "netscape*" | grep ^i > ii netscape-base- 4.77-2 Popular World-Wide-Web b

Re: Debian as multimedia system - startup and shutdown

2001-10-31 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 17:43, David Roundy wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:29:49PM +0200, Meir Kriheli wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm setting up a computer as a multimedia center using Debian (Sid). > > > > The machine is connected to the TV for display and to the receiver for > > sou

Re: field width with dpkg -l

2001-10-31 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:41:49PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. > > Beyond stretching my terminal to it's maximum possible width, is there a > way to control the field width of the display from dpkg -l? > > ie. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dpkg -l "net

Re: Power off at Shutdown

2001-10-31 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > i am trying to understand which option(s) to select (or deselect) when i > build a new kernel (2.4.12). i have set the following with no luck: Try 2.4.13, this seems to be a bug that has been in the kernel since 2.4.10. The apm code changed in th

field width with dpkg -l

2001-10-31 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. Beyond stretching my terminal to it's maximum possible width, is there a way to control the field width of the display from dpkg -l? ie. [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dpkg -l "netscape*" | grep ^i ii netscape-base- 4.77-2 Popular World-Wide-Web browser software (bas

Re: Patches applied to stock kernel to make deb kernel image

2001-10-31 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Adam Warner, > > > make dep > > > make bzImage > > > make modules > > > make modules_install > > > make install > > > > We have "make-kpkg" for such tasks. Makes your life easier. > > I can't imagine how it could be easier than my current setup but I'll > look into it. make-kpkg clean &&

gnome/xchat font problems

2001-10-31 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hi again, I was just wondering; when I go to use certain fonts in XChat, I get this error (most notably with the 'schumacher-clean' font: <--- Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 ---> Any idea what to do? Im guessing this will be a universal prob

ooops.. I think I messed something up...

2001-10-31 Thread Rune Elvemo
I think it was like 14 days back in time, I had this thought that I should give Debian/Woody (also known as testing) a go. So I added the right stuff to my sources.list, did a "apt-get update", then a "apt-get upgrade". I HAD seen before there was a "dist-upgrade" paramam as well. But with my bad

Re: libexpat1 (1.95.2-2.1) broke PHP4

2001-10-31 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Makaveli: > I don't know exactly where to post this, so forgive if this is the wrong list. > > I did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade today. After this my PHP4 package > didn't work correctly anymore. > When I run a PHP4 script on the console I got the following error: > php4: erro

Re: DHCP and Adelphia Cablemodem (dhcpcd)

2001-10-31 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Michael Patterson: > > Yesterday I finally got my cable modem (Adelphia). Hooked it up to windows, > and it worked wonderfully. I was told that, in general, Adelphia doesn't > change the IP information, and it would be safe to copy it to the Debian > box. So I wrote down the information

Re: "upgrade" vs "dist-upgrade"

2001-10-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:47:21PM -0700, Mike Fontenot wrote: > Is my interpretation correct, or have I misunderstood > the man page? (My main concern is that I don't want to > accidentally upgrade to woody). You are correct. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorist

Kde

2001-10-31 Thread Denis
Molto lieto di parlare con voi. Salve, mi chiamo Denis, ho installato da poco Linux nel mio pc, ho scelto la distribuzione Debian 2.1. Ho installato il sistema operativo senza però l'interfaccia grafica. Ora, terminata la configurazione di rete, modem, scheda video, ho deciso di montarvi

"upgrade" vs "dist-upgrade"

2001-10-31 Thread Mike Fontenot
The names of the apt commands "upgrade" and "dist-upgrade" sound like they differ according to whether or not the updating is within the current distribution (e.g., potato), or from one distribution to another (e.g., potato to woody). I've seen postings in which this view was stated, and not chal

Re: Launching URL from Gnome-terminal

2001-10-31 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:14:38 -0800, "Karsten M. Self" wrote: [snip] > Incidentally, how do you invoke the control center independent of GNOME? > I use WindowMaker, and don't care for GNOME, but prefer Galeon for my > browser. Certain configs must be done through GNOME rather than Galeon. Should

Re: Launching URL from Gnome-terminal

2001-10-31 Thread Craig Dickson
Karsten M. Self wrote: > Incidentally, how do you invoke the control center independent of GNOME? > I use WindowMaker, and don't care for GNOME, but prefer Galeon for my > browser. Certain configs must be done through GNOME rather than Galeon. You mean from a console window, independent of GNOME

Re: [OT] Mutt Configuration

2001-10-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:16:06PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:14:18PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > | On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:54:55AM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > | > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) babbled: > | > > I'm trying to make mutt so that it would u

X11 && console font problems

2001-10-31 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Hi there, On my system, when sometimes browsing the web, the single quote (') is displayed as a square. Anyone know why this happens sometimes? Also, in Mutt, the only font that will work with the threading is 'fixed'. All the other ones produce garbled arrows i.e. '|*>' or 'NR>'. Any idea wha

paperfile & groff

2001-10-31 Thread Mike Fontenot
When I first executed groff, it said "Can't open file /etc/papersize". It still printed, but the paging on multi-page documents wasn't right. I found a line in my /usr/share/groff/font/devps/DESC file that said "paperfile /etc/papersize", but there was no file "papersize" under /etc (or anywhere

Help! Printer prints only 1 PS page

2001-10-31 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I recently installed a Deskjet890C printer. When I latex a file using xemacs and send it to a networked printer, the postscript file prints fine. WHen I try the same thing on my local Deskjet890C only the 1st page prints. I am using Woody, and the filters I have tried are dj550c-filter

Re: Launching URL from Gnome-terminal

2001-10-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:46:34AM -0800, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:04:17AM -0600, David Rose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > > That said... how does one change the default browser for gnome-terminal > > > links > >

Re: Kernel documentation/book

2001-10-31 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:37:52PM +0200, Jean-Sylvestre Gakwaya wrote: > Does someone has a good reference about a book/ full documentation about > Kernel > (Linux point of view) which explains things clearly and in a didactical way ? 1) Understanding the Linux Kernel http://www.oreilly.com/catal

Re: Minimized windows do not display icons under Sawfish

2001-10-31 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 07:31:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:13:55PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > | > > Since changing from WindowMaker to Sawfish, minimized | > > windows do not display icons. | > | > Good... then sawfish is working properly. | >

Re: Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior

2001-10-31 Thread Anthony Liu
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 03:21:48PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > 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

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-10-31 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Ian Balchin: > Will stay in console mode until I find an old computer at an > auction with some memory inside. Plenty to learn. I thought that > one could have the mouse in midnite commander like in the old dos > pctools, but probably not. > > Will have go at the printing problem t

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

2001-10-31 Thread Anthony Liu
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:01:59PM +0100, Sándor Bárány wrote: > 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. Not on mine, but upgrade to at least 2.4.14-pre3 anyway: the kswapd prob

Re: Font in XFree86-4.x.x

2001-10-31 Thread Harald Iwe
"Daniel T. Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Check the resolutions output for your screen # via xdpyinfo (i.e. mine's > 116x117 dots per inch at 1600x1200 on an 18" viewable screen). You may > need to pass in the option to ignore EDID values in your XF86Config-4. > > --- > Dan Chen

Re: New ssh v2 and authentication

2001-10-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Oleksandr Moskalenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011030 17:34]: > I use the same setup. In my authorized_keys2 I only have my sshd > machine's public key (cut and paste from id_rsa.pub in its entirety). > Then I copied both id_rsa and id_rsa.pub to ~/.ssh on my remote machine. > It is maybe wrong to c

Re: screen rocks (was Re: potato on 486)

2001-10-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011014 01:03]: > > "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > > Karsten> $ man screen $ screen -x > > Ok, Thanks. I looked up "man screen", but couldn't find anything. -x > seems to be what I was looking for. > > I am still not quite sure how you allow d

Re: Debugger DDD with gdb

2001-10-31 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 13:37:05 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed DDD, and it looks neet, however when I am stepping > thru a simple program it fails on an ifstreem. That's not a very clear description of your problem. I guess you're trying to step into a function call to

something wrong with my fonts

2001-10-31 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi, Since I fixed my problem with the fonts in RealPlayer 8 I get a different fonts when I start gimp from the xterm then when I start it from the menue (gnome or blackbox). This doesn't apply only to gimp - I get the same effect with gnumeric, gcalc, dia, gnp, etc. The menue-bar is just

Re: Minimized windows do not display icons under Sawfish

2001-10-31 Thread descdata
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:13:55PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Since changing from WindowMaker to Sawfish, minimized > > windows do not display icons. > > Good... then sawfish is working properly. > > > Are others showing icons properly? Is this one of this, slip a line into > > t

Re: DDD with gdb Answer

2001-10-31 Thread Danie Roux
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:17:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hmmm.. how do I get color syntax to work in vim 5.6.070-1?? > (I figure if I ask, I'll figure it out. ;-) I highly suggest getting vim 6. Try people.debian.org/~wakkerma for the debs. But you get it to work by putting this in

DDD with gdb Answer

2001-10-31 Thread xucaen
Hi all... somehow just asking the questions enables me to figure out the answers! ;-) I had thought that in DDD, File=>Open also changed into directory but it does not. That's why the input failed. it couldn't find the file. It's working now that I run DDD from current directory.(instead of fro

Re: 100hz in Xfree86-4.1?

2001-10-31 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Victor Julien ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > As you can see it is ignoring the EDID, but to no effect. > Thanks for any suggestions, if you still have some. Well, the only other suggestion is to use xvidtune and fiddle with modeline until you get the desired refresh rate. Note that you

Re: Debugger DDD with gdb

2001-10-31 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. > > I have installed DDD, and it looks neet, however when I am stepping > thru a simple program it fails on an ifstreem. This same executable does not > fail when run from xterm. > > Is there an option that I missed to tell DDD not to

Re: XF86Setup for woody?

2001-10-31 Thread George Karaolides
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, D. wrote: > > > > Best regards, > > George if when you did the dist-upgrade you got > > xfree4.1.x do a apt-get install xserver-xfree86 > > Then do a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > that should bring up a set of configuration screens > > for XFree86-4 > > HTH > > Don

RE: Merry Christmas!

2001-10-31 Thread Frederico . S . Muñoz
> Okay, I claim to be geeky, but I've missed it. Huh? 31 in Octal == 25 in Decimal :) Cheers, fsm > > -Original Message- > From: Peter Hugosson-Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 31 October, 2001 09:32 AM > To: Debian user list > Subject: OT: Merry Christmas! > >

Re: 100hz in Xfree86-4.1?

2001-10-31 Thread Victor Julien
So i guess there is nothing left to do but filing a bugreport to Nvidia? On Wednesday 31 October 2001 18:35, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > > Victor Julien wrote on Wed Oct 31, 2001 um 12:21:02PM: > > I tried your suggestion, but it doesn't work. I starting to get the > > feeling that the nvidi

Re: XF86Setup for woody?

2001-10-31 Thread Brian Nelson
George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, D. wrote: > > > > Best regards, George if when you did the dist-upgrade you got > >xfree4.1.x do a apt-get install xserver-xfree86 Then do a > >dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 that should bring up a set of > >configuration scre

libexpat1 (1.95.2-2.1) broke PHP4

2001-10-31 Thread Makaveli
I don't know exactly where to post this, so forgive if this is the wrong list. I did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade today. After this my PHP4 package didn't work correctly anymore. When I run a PHP4 script on the console I got the following error: php4: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: about the gcc-3.0 package..

2001-10-31 Thread Brian Nelson
Rune Elvemo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I downloaded the gcc-3.0 i386 package (to do a little check), it could > seem like it would add a file called "gcc-3.0" in /usr/bin. (using > debian woody here) Anyone who could confirm whether this is true? > > If so I guess I could safely install gcc-3.

Debugger DDD with gdb

2001-10-31 Thread xucaen
Hi all. I have installed DDD, and it looks neet, however when I am stepping thru a simple program it fails on an ifstreem. This same executable does not fail when run from xterm. Is there an option that I missed to tell DDD not to fail when opening input files? Or is there a better graph

Re: Patches applied to stock kernel to make deb kernel image

2001-10-31 Thread Morbo
Hi, I havn't been able to compile or install a 2.4.x kernel at all for my system would just reset itself when trying to boot. I have posted several messages regarding this to this list, but havn't got any answers. So I'm wondering whether I'm the only one with such problems. Maybe you have an id

Re: 100hz in Xfree86-4.1?

2001-10-31 Thread Victor Julien
Hi Dima, Thanks for the suggestion, i tried it using: Option "IgnoreEDID" "boolean" Disable probing of EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) from your monitor. Requested modes are compared against values gotten from your monitor EDIDs

funny ps output (resolution)

2001-10-31 Thread Jonathan B. Leffert
I had a question regarding why I was seeing {netlink_unicast} {netlink_unicast_R__ver_netlink_unicast} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.4.13 does not match kernel data. {netlink_unicast} {netlink_unicast_R__ver_netlink_unicast} Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map does not match kernel d

Re: XFree86 Upgrade

2001-10-31 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Does anyone know how to upgrade XFree86 in Debian Potato to version 4.x.x without upgrading to Woody? Marcel Yes, at http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ and follow the instructions. More usefull unofficail apt-sources: http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/ Frank --

RE: Merry Christmas!

2001-10-31 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Okay, I claim to be geeky, but I've missed it. Huh? > Because Oct 31 = Dec 25 31 in Octal is 25 in Decimal...horribly bad math pun. Hurt whoever wrote it. 8:o) -- Baloo

Re: 100hz in Xfree86-4.1?

2001-10-31 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Victor Julien wrote on Wed Oct 31, 2001 um 12:21:02PM: > I tried your suggestion, but it doesn't work. I starting to get the feeling > that the nvidia driver (the commercial one), doesn't work as it should. When Yes, the non-free driver requires many special requirements to be met, so

[OT] Re: Merry Christmas!

2001-10-31 Thread DvB
"Brooks R. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, I claim to be geeky, but I've missed it. Huh? > > > Why do we geeks celebrate Christmas today? > Because Oct 31 = Dec 25 > Oct=October=Octal (base 8); Dec=December=Decimal (base 10) If you convert the octal number 31 to base 10, you

Re: DHCP and Adelphia Cablemodem (dhcpcd)

2001-10-31 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:50:27AM -0700, Michael Patterson wrote: > > Yesterday I finally got my cable modem (Adelphia). Hooked it up to windows, > and it worked wonderfully. I was told that, in general, Adelphia doesn't > change the IP information, and it would be safe to copy it t

Re: about the gcc-3.0 package..

2001-10-31 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:47:02 +0100 (CET), Rune Elvemo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded the gcc-3.0 i386 package (to do a little check), it could > seem like it would add a file called "gcc-3.0" in /usr/bin. (using debian > woody here) Anyone who could confirm whether this is true? It doe

Re: about the gcc-3.0 package..

2001-10-31 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:47:02PM +0100, Rune Elvemo wrote: > I downloaded the gcc-3.0 i386 package (to do a little check), it could > seem like it would add a file called "gcc-3.0" in /usr/bin. (using debian > woody here) Anyone who could confirm whether this is true? > Yes, you a

Re: Latest GnuCash for potato?

2001-10-31 Thread Brian Nelson
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue Oct 30 19:23:39 2001 Brian Nelson wrote... > > "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Are ther any .debs avaialable for the latest version of GnuCash, > >>for a potato based system? > > Why even bother to run potato if you want to instal

RE: Merry Christmas!

2001-10-31 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Okay, I claim to be geeky, but I've missed it. Huh? -Original Message- From: Peter Hugosson-Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 31 October, 2001 09:32 AM To: Debian user list Subject: OT: Merry Christmas! Why do we geeks celebrate Christmas today? Because Oct 31 = Dec 25

Re: 100hz in Xfree86-4.1?

2001-10-31 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Victor Julien ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, > > I tried your suggestion, but it doesn't work. I starting to get the feeling > that the nvidia driver (the commercial one), doesn't work as it should. When > I use the modeline tool to generate a modeline it does work with the nv > driv

Re: IMAP...

2001-10-31 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > that's not the case with cyrus, right? at least I see no cyrus*-ssl > packages. I still need to tunnel it via stunnel or something like > that... I believe packages are still of Cyrus 1.5.x, which needed stunnel or similar for SSL support. Cyrus 2.0.

Screen res; modelines; XF86 ???; ATI 3DPro Turbo

2001-10-31 Thread Gianguido Cianci
hi, I am wondering if anybody can help: It's my 1st time installing Linux and I am having problems... I have reached a point where the size o fthe screen fits well on the monitor by tweaking the monitor settings. Now my problem is that the resolution is too low. SO how do I find what res I am at

DHCP and Adelphia Cablemodem (dhcpcd)

2001-10-31 Thread Michael Patterson
Yesterday I finally got my cable modem (Adelphia). Hooked it up to windows, and it worked wonderfully. I was told that, in general, Adelphia doesn't change the IP information, and it would be safe to copy it to the Debian box. So I wrote down the information, moved the cable modem over to my debia

Re: Launching URL from Gnome-terminal

2001-10-31 Thread Craig Dickson
Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:04:17AM -0600, David Rose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > That said... how does one change the default browser for gnome-terminal > > links > > to something other than Mozilla (as it is on my boxen)? > > I would assume this is one of the gn

Re: X with ssh cannot open display

2001-10-31 Thread Jan Schlesner
Hi, what is with the sshd_config on the remote host. Perhaps the remote host doesn't permitted X11 forwarding. I think the default value for X11Forwarding in the sshd_config is 'no'. Jan On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:10:41PM +0100, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > To login with > % ssh -X -l username h

Re: changing to Debian from Mandrake

2001-10-31 Thread DvB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'll have to find a package that has a new dependency vs what the old, > installed package has and try it... > > If 'upgrade' doesn't do this, you will end up with a non-working program. > Don't you agree ?? > As I said, if a currently installed package requires a

Re: X with ssh cannot open display

2001-10-31 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I fear this is a faq. Umpf! Sorry. Its vica versa. I can shh -X from a potato-box to a woody-box but not from the woody-box to the potato-box. Sorry for that juh -- Auf die FDP ist Verlass http://www.sudelbuch.de/2000/2214.html

Re: lost sysvinit! What to do? [FIXED]

2001-10-31 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Ok, sorry for the alarm. Got it working. I had copy update-rc.d from another box, and put it in /usr/sbin. Then I just downgraded dpkg and installed sysvinit again... J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: apt-get & firewall

2001-10-31 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Davi Leal wrote: > The X.X.X.5 host is behind the firewall. Why pointing apt-get to > ftp.de.debian.org raises a "Connection time out" message after > Login-Connecting successfully?. The "Packages" file is not downloaded ftp.de.d.o has been flaky for me for as long as I remem

lost sysvinit! What to do?

2001-10-31 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Er... Hello. I did a very stupid thing... Removed sysvinit from a potato box, and now dpkg doesn't run anymore: ~# dpkg --force-depends --unpack /export/jeronimo/sysvinit_2.78-4.deb dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH. dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. NB: root's PATH should u

RE: Returning system to vanilla Woody

2001-10-31 Thread Kris Huber
Reading the how-to on apt-get may provide some help. I think you need the apt package from sid to use the /etc/apt/preferences file described in Chapter 3 of http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/. I have only read about this, so take it for what it's worth. -Kris -Original Message--

Re: installing on local hard drive, without boot floppies ?

2001-10-31 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:51:29PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > I want to install on a local drive, without rebooting with boot floppies > (I want to keep the system running, while installing to a new drive). I > can use debootstrap to set up a chroot, but how can I find out what > other t

Re: automate maildelivery

2001-10-31 Thread Stephen Ryan
On 31 Oct, proftpd wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to have my linuxbox sending me the /var/log/messages file on a > regular bases. > > Creating the syslog correct is not the problem, neither to run cron. > But how do i produce the mail including the attachment? > > Many thanks > > markus > > M

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