Microphone!

2001-11-06 Thread Reza
Hi.. I want to know what's the device name for Microphone in Linux? Becasue I just had it, and couldn't get it work.. Thank you Reza __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-06 Thread Steve Kieu
>> > 16 Mb RAM should be enough to run Linux without > X Windows, but it is just enough to run linux and > X Windows. If you try to run any sizable applicaton > alongside X Windows you will run into swapping > problems. Just want to add a comment, I just installed debian for my friend in a Pent

Re: Help: Load win2k with lilo 21.7-5

2001-11-06 Thread iehrenwald
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Liu Tao wrote: > I want to load win2k, using lilo 21.7-5, how to edit /etc/lilo.conf? Add a line like : other = /dev/discs/disc0/part4 label=win2k Replace /dev/discs... with the device that Win2K is installed on. Run lilo to set the configuration. Reboot and you should be

Re: IRQ conflict on ethernet cards - a solution

2001-11-06 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Eric Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > According to Oleksandr Moskalenko on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:05:43PM -0500: > > > > > Eric, I had such a problem and solved it by changing the IRQ on a 3Com > > card. Their diagnostics and install floppy works wonders in most cases. > > Have you tried t

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-06 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:24:13AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > Last night I went through the info documentation system > which i thought would be a good start. Then read and > played with the ls command. I uncommented the lines in > the .bashrc in root to give me colours for ls. I must also As a

Re: mp3 encoder?

2001-11-06 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Andy" == Andy Hartford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andy> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 01:00:12PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker Andy> wrote: >> Try using Ogg Vorbis. Andy> Well, I'm trying to use GDAM (Geoff & Dave's Audio Mixer) Andy> which only seems to work with mp3s. They lis

Help: Load win2k with lilo 21.7-5

2001-11-06 Thread Liu Tao
I want to load win2k, using lilo 21.7-5, how to edit /etc/lilo.conf? Thanks Liu Tao

Help: Load win2k with lilo 21.7-5

2001-11-06 Thread Liu Tao
I want to load win2k, using lilo 21.7-5, how to edit /etc/lilo.conf? Thanks Liu Tao

Re: kernel .config

2001-11-06 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 06 November 2001 04:30 pm, Richardson, Martin wrote: > Greetings everybody, > is there a template or a default .config for > compiling a Debian kernel from source, keeping the binary's defaults. What > I mean to say is, when I run make xconfig/menuconfig, is there a

Re: Graphing and Gnumeric

2001-11-06 Thread Shaya Potter
No it's not (at least I believe). It's the fact that it needs guppi 0.40 and that hasn't been packaged yet, as we only have .35 it won't work shaya On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 21:32, dman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 06:21:01PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > | "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: cpio causes shoe-shinning on my tape drive

2001-11-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya andrew tape devices are slow... stick the "buffer" program in between so that the tape will always have data ready to write find ... | buffer | cpio ... - that usually made my tapes whine constantaly w/o interruptions c ya alvin On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi Al

Unicode XTerm: how to change font?

2001-11-06 Thread Arne Goetje
Hi, I can display japanese characters in UXTerm, but not chinese ones properly. How can I change the font to disply chinese ones and which fonts are suitable for that? I'm running sid, is there already a font for displaying chinese unicode in terminals? What type of font is in the unifont packag

Re: new to the list - XFree86 on Woody problems

2001-11-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Rachel Andrew wrote: Hi I'm new to the list and am having problems with the XFree86 set up in Woody. I recently upgraded from Potato to Woody and have also grabbed the KDE2.2 packages from Sid but I'm having trouble getting the x-server up and running. Rachel I used "XFree86 -c

Re: Graphing and Gnumeric

2001-11-06 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 06:21:01PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: | "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Does graphing work in Gnumeric? If so, what magic incantation have I | > forgotten? When I press the graph button in gnumeric 0.74-0.1, nothing | > interesting happens. In previo

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-06 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:44:47PM +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: | | Hi all, | | Yes I put this question as I saw a lot kernel image Karsten gave some good rules of thumb. I currenlty have 2.4.10 on my desktop and 2.4.13 on my employer's laptop. I haven't had any problems (other than my mis-configu

Re: Graphing and Gnumeric

2001-11-06 Thread Brian Nelson
"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does graphing work in Gnumeric? If so, what magic incantation have I > forgotten? When I press the graph button in gnumeric 0.74-0.1, nothing > interesting happens. In previous versions this brought up a non-working > dialog, but still no graphs.

Re: some questions (after a HD crash)

2001-11-06 Thread lloyder
Hello Ben et all, As Ben identified, now way, way, way out in left field: You are very right, my bad... I have no idea what is in the xbox. I meant the other gaming new gaming system that I am not excited about, the Nintendo "GAMECUBE". Best regards, Lloyd - Original Message - F

Re: Frequent problems with non-us ??

2001-11-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Daniel Toffetti wrote: Hi all ! I'm having problems when doing 'apt-get update' using the mirror ftp://non-us.debian.org woody/non-us Should I keep trying, are there other mirrors, anything else ? Thanks ! Daniel I have no problems using: http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non

Re: kernel .config

2001-11-06 Thread Andy Hartford
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:30:25PM +1100, Richardson, Martin wrote: > Greetings everybody, > is there a template or a default .config for > compiling a Debian kernel from source, keeping the binary's defaults. /boot/config-2.4.12-686 on my machine. kernel version and arch wo

Re: wu-ftpd exploit?

2001-11-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Banshee wrote: A little while ago when I was running wu-ftpd there was people from all around the world connecting to my FTP (originaly it was only meant for a few people I know from a small IRC server.) So I changed the password for the account and then they started to login as root. That's w

RE: Problems with 2 netgear cards?

2001-11-06 Thread Matthew Walkup
Hrm, unfortunately i get the error: Cannot send dump request: Connection refused When running those commands, which seems to be a problem when RTNETLINK is not configured in the kernel. The tech with route access has left for the day, so i cant recomplie so maybe this will help: [EMAIL PROTE

Graphing and Gnumeric

2001-11-06 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
Does graphing work in Gnumeric? If so, what magic incantation have I forgotten? When I press the graph button in gnumeric 0.74-0.1, nothing interesting happens. In previous versions this brought up a non-working dialog, but still no graphs. I have Guppi installed. I know Gnumeric can graph, in

Re: IRQ conflict on ethernet cards - a solution

2001-11-06 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
* Eric Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) babbled: > > I solved the problem soon after sending the email by disabling > irq 10 in the bios, then one card caught irq 9 and the other 4 - > I thought there was meant to be some science in this stuff ;) there is. bios almost always wins, especially when it

kernel .config

2001-11-06 Thread Richardson, Martin
Greetings everybody, is there a template or a default .config for compiling a Debian kernel from source, keeping the binary's defaults. What I mean to say is, when I run make xconfig/menuconfig, is there a template with the Debian binary default options set? This will just m

Re: Problems with 2 netgear cards?

2001-11-06 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 17:16, Matthew Walkup wrote: > There seems to be a problem when running multiple netgear cards in the same > machine. eth0 seems to run fine, but eth1 does not work Link lights > are on, and the cables have been checked/replaced. I have four tulips in my machine and it

Cant login

2001-11-06 Thread John Lord
Hello, I have installed KDM and cant login. I now have the problem that I think I saw mentioned somewhere recently. That is when I select a user in the login GUI and select the session, it takes a server restart before the keyboard is recognised. Then when I have entered my password I just end u

Problems with 2 netgear cards?

2001-11-06 Thread Matthew Walkup
There seems to be a problem when running multiple netgear cards in the same machine. eth0 seems to run fine, but eth1 does not work Link lights are on, and the cables have been checked/replaced. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping -dv 192.168.0.194 PING 192.168.0.194 (192.168.0.194): 56 data bytes 92

Re: IRQ conflict on ethernet cards - a solution

2001-11-06 Thread Eric Smith
According to Oleksandr Moskalenko on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:05:43PM -0500: > > Eric, I had such a problem and solved it by changing the IRQ on a 3Com > card. Their diagnostics and install floppy works wonders in most cases. > Have you tried that one? This is the way that I've seen advised on t

Xscreensaver-GL (sid) and nvidia

2001-11-06 Thread Josh Morris
Without launching into a flame war about the virtues of open source drivers for video cards, has anyone else had problems with the xscreensaver-GL package and the nvidia driver (build 1541)? The GL screensaver (any of them) will work the first time, but will not thereafter. I don't see any error me

Multiple SCSI Drives

2001-11-06 Thread Steven Nichols
I have a question about using more than one SCSI disk wil ext2 file systems on them. It has been my experience with m68k Mac's that the system will hang after a while when it has to deal with more than one SCSI disk. It doesn't seem to matter what kind of Mac I am using. The results are the

Re: Files unavailable in packages (unstable)

2001-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 06:17:11PM -0500, August Logan Bear Jr . wrote: > Why are there some packages which won't install because they are > dependant on unavailable packages? Because it's unstable. :) > Should a bug report be done for these? Yes please. Check that bug reports haven't already b

Re: Giram on Testing - stack trace

2001-11-06 Thread Mike Pfleger
Here is the spew from a stack trace: povray include path: '(null)' '/usr/bin/giram: fatal error: Segmentation fault /usr/bin/giram (pid:13016): [E]xit, [H]alt, show [S]tack trace or [P]roceed: S #0 0x401876ec in g_on_error_stack_trace () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 #1 0x4018760e in g_on_erro

Re: NS4.78, symlinks and plugins

2001-11-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 04:19:25PM +0100, Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed Netscape 4.78 in /usr/lib/netscape/478 (downloaded > from netscape.com and installed it like the previous (debian) version), > and all is working fine except the plugins. When I run > '/

Files unavailable in packages (unstable)

2001-11-06 Thread August Logan Bear Jr .
Why are there some packages which won't install because they are dependant on unavailable packages? Should a bug report be done for these? Logan Bear

errors with db2html or sgmltools --backend=html

2001-11-06 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I am trying to learn to write and format DocBook XML documents. I want to write a programmers manual for ZooLib (http://zoolib.sourceforge.net/ So far I've succeeded in creating a small docbook xml file that includes another file as an entity, and in validating the file, but I can't create an H

Re: Where is Majordomo?

2001-11-06 Thread nate
Guido Gloede said: > Hi, > I couldn't find a debian majodomo package. Is it removed? Please > point me to a debianized m. i believe it was remvoed back in debian 2.1 or maybe 2.2. there was some security issues with it and the license prevented the debian developers from fixing it. i have switc

Giram on Testing

2001-11-06 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello. I just tried this Giram thing, which is supposed to be a (somewhat GIMP-like) GUI front end to POVRay. It segfaults and dies with just about everything I try. I did an apt-get upgrade yesterday. Has anyone else seen this? The backtrace via gdb indicated something to do with libglib-1.2.

Re: ssh x-forwarding

2001-11-06 Thread nate
xbud said: > I ssh to a remote machine and I can't seem to forward any X windows > to my local display. I have enabled X-Forwarding in the > sshd_config file on the remote box. I always get the following > error. > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > rxvt: can't open di

Re: ssh x-forwarding

2001-11-06 Thread Bill Wohler
xbud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I ssh to a remote machine and I can't seem to forward any X windows to my > local display. I have enabled X-Forwarding in the sshd_config file on the > remote box. I always get the following error. You need to set the configuration on your *local* machine,

Re: Random mysql index corruption on Dell Poweredge 2450

2001-11-06 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:01:36PM -0500, Atul Mukker. wrote: > I would recommend you to immediately move to 1.18 megaraid driver. > Do you still see the issue? No: it seems to be fixed now, thank you very, very much. I waited a little to post the answer to give the machine a little time to stre

Cannot bring up 2nd NIC two times in a row on DHCP.

2001-11-06 Thread Hanasaki JiJI
I have the following in my interfaces file of a firewall. eth0 is the external NIC and eth1 is the internal NIC. I am getting DHCP addys from my provider. The following list of commands hangs: * ifup eth0 * ifup eth1 * ifdown eth1 eth0 * ifup eth1 The following works ok: * i

Re: debian install

2001-11-06 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > hello: > > i got the following error while trying to install debian in the dselect stage: > > E: Internal Error, couldn't configure a pre-depend. Some errors occurred > while unpacking. I'm going to configure the pa

Re: How do I configure eth1 on bootup?

2001-11-06 Thread Andrew Agno
Phillip Deackes writes: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:30:26 -0800 (PST) > Andrew Agno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Check out /etc/network/interfaces. You need something like: > > auto eth1 > > iface eth1 inet static > > address 192.168.1.1 > > auto lo eth0 > auto eth1 > > # The l

debian install

2001-11-06 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: i got the following error while trying to install debian in the dselect stage: E: Internal Error, couldn't configure a pre-depend. Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may be result in duplicate errors or errors caused

Re: How do I configure eth1 on bootup?

2001-11-06 Thread Kurt Lieber
If you're using static IP addressing, you need to define the netmask, network, broadcast and gateway addresses as well. Here's an example form one of my machines: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.1.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.1.1.0 broadcast

Re: v2.4.14 kernel compile problem

2001-11-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 06:42:23AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 02:11:52PM +0800, Patrick Cheong Shu Yang wrote: > > Another one of those release many and release quick again > > > > Uuughh... > > > > I remember someone once said regarding the impending release o

Re: How do I configure eth1 on bootup?

2001-11-06 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:30:26 -0800 (PST) Andrew Agno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check out /etc/network/interfaces. You need something like: > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet static > address 192.168.1.1 > > Also check out 'man interfaces' Thanks, Andrew. I get the interface up, but without

Re: X on a G3 desktop

2001-11-06 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:15:34PM -0800, Steven Nichols wrote: > I am running version 2.2.17 on a beige G3 desktop. I cannot get the X > server, xf68_fbdev, to start properly. It partly draws the screen with > garbage on the bottom. The keyboard and mouse seem to work, but this is > hard to

Re: imap server

2001-11-06 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I need to throw up an IMAP server for my mother in law. I'm looking for > a package (sid compatable) that'll take 2 mins to configure and 0 > maintenance. uw-imapd - remote mail folder access server for Pine and others IMAP (the Interactive Mail A

XTerm not showing input

2001-11-06 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I recently installed the latest woody on my machine (133MHz Pentium, Imagine Number Nine I-128 card). I had an .xinitrc which was working fine before the new installation. Now, for some reason the XFree86 server does not work ( it complains about something in the I-128.o driver) and I hav

Re: trying to boot an Imac into debian....no success

2001-11-06 Thread Georg Koss
As I'm new to the list first a friendly hello to all readers! On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:56:17PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: Sorry, I didn't get the original mail. > > On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Walter Tautz wrote: Besides Sebastiaans hint with debian-powerpc-list "and" archives, if reading the archive

Re: some questions (after a HD crash)

2001-11-06 Thread Anthony Liu
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:30:35PM +, Ross Burton wrote: > On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 15:12, Anthony Liu wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 07:29:17PM +0100, Fredrik Jagenheim wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:05:44AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > GTX (?) disks are widely reported to h

X on a G3 desktop

2001-11-06 Thread Steven Nichols
I am running version 2.2.17 on a beige G3 desktop. I cannot get the X server, xf68_fbdev, to start properly. It partly draws the screen with garbage on the bottom. The keyboard and mouse seem to work, but this is hard to verify since the display is messed up. Has anyone out there ever got X

Re: [typo@netcabo.pt: X upgrade broke NVIDIA binary driver]

2001-11-06 Thread Dominique Deleris
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 13:27:19 -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Branden> Can someone who uses NVIDIA's binary-only drivers with Debian's X Branden> packages help this guy out? Pedro, You should download NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-.tar.gz from NVidia's website (http://www.nvidia.c

Re: trying to boot an Imac into debian....no success

2001-11-06 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Walter Tautz wrote: > Having difficulty getting it to work. I.e the yaboot step > with ofboot does not succeed when the computer boots. > Note the machines have MacOS9 on them. Perhaps it can > be put into the bootloader. I must confess I know nothing > little about Ma

Re: R4eading audio CD tarcks to the hard disk

2001-11-06 Thread David Z Maze
Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> What tool do I need to read the tracks of an audio CD, and writing SB> them to a file on the hard disk? Probably something along the lines of cdparanoia. If what you're actually doing is creating a bunch of Vorbis[1] files, you might find a tool like abc

Re: (no subject)

2001-11-06 Thread Thomas Hallaran
How about www.php.net check out the installation instructions. Tom Hallaran Informatics Washington University Genome Sequencing Center 314-286-1114 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i am woundering what it will take for me to be able to offer hosting with the >

Re: copying/cloning root partition

2001-11-06 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Monday 05 November 2001 15:55, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to clone the root partition of a > Debian Linux installation. The installation is pretty small > and hosted on a small, PC-104 based system that has only a > root partition and runs without swap. I would like to

debian install

2001-11-06 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: i got the following error while trying to install debian in the dselect stage: E: Internal Error, couldn't configure a pre-depend. Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may be result in duplicate errors or errors caused

PPP stops passing data after 100kb

2001-11-06 Thread Jeff Lessem
I am having a very strange problem, which I am having a very difficult time diagnosing. I recently migrated my PPP server (5 dialin lines) from an old Pentium 100 to not quite so old dual PII. I certainly won't say the two setups are "identical", but they are similar---I pretty much just copied /

Re: util-linux

2001-11-06 Thread P Kirk
> > I would suggest installing info, and then just not use it. > info is a default part of Debian and at it's latest version on my system. The problem is that the install-info script doesn't work.

(no subject)

2001-11-06 Thread JonDGr8
i am woundering what it will take for me to be able to offer hosting with the ability to use the php language. I work for a hosting company and i am i charge of finding out what we need to be able to offer this service. any information you can give me would be awesome. even just a web site would

ssh x-forwarding

2001-11-06 Thread xbud
I ssh to a remote machine and I can't seem to forward any X windows to my local display. I have enabled X-Forwarding in the sshd_config file on the remote box. I always get the following error. _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 rxvt: can't open display :0 If I do an xhos

trying to boot an Imac into debian....no success

2001-11-06 Thread Walter Tautz
Having difficulty getting it to work. I.e the yaboot step with ofboot does not succeed when the computer boots. Note the machines have MacOS9 on them. Perhaps it can be put into the bootloader. I must confess I know nothing little about Mac hardware. These Imacs are circa 1998. -walter ps. the

[typo@netcabo.pt: X upgrade broke NVIDIA binary driver]

2001-11-06 Thread Branden Robinson
Can someone who uses NVIDIA's binary-only drivers with Debian's X packages help this guy out? -- G. Branden Robinson|I am sorry, but what you have Debian GNU/Linux |mistaken for malicious intent is [EMAIL PROTECTED] |nothing more than

Re: util-linux

2001-11-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 04:04:08PM -0800, P Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > My system can't install new software beause it can't update util-linux. The > problem is a script called install-info which seems to be trying to install > info. At first it was saying install-info: failed to lock dir for editi

R4eading audio CD tarcks to the hard disk

2001-11-06 Thread Stan Brown
What tool do I need to read the tracks of an audio CD, and writing them to a file on the hard disk? The long term goal is to play them from the hard disk vua my sound card, and to write them to writable CD's -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Char

Re: v2.4.14 kernel compile problem

2001-11-06 Thread Andreas Schmidt
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:53:51AM -0600, John Patton wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 02:11:52PM +0800, Patrick Cheong Shu Yang wrote: > > Another one of those release many and release quick again > > > > Uuughh... > > > > I remember someone once said regarding the impending release of 2.4.0

Re: imap problems

2001-11-06 Thread P Kirk
I did what you suggest and after 4 days it seems safe to say that it works. Many thanks. - Original Message - From: "Daniel Sand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "P Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian user" Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 7:36 AM Subject: Re: imap problems > Re, > > P Kirk wr

Re: Right way of installing woody?

2001-11-06 Thread Mark Lanett
> Hi, > . > > which seems to me to be wrong. Why would I want a new package with an old > > config file? > Cause you are satisfied with the options you've set up and you don't want to > set it up again. But this was a vanilla potato being upgraded to woody. I changed nothing. I expect tha

Re: Perl threading on potato

2001-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 05:28:05PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 11:02:37AM -0500, Timothy Burt wrote: > > I'm using debian unstable, which means perl 5.6.1, so my system is a bit > > The machine in question is relied upon by several people for a living, > so I'd rather

Re: Debian 2.0 Packages

2001-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 03:42:46PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am realy urgend need the some old packages from the old debian 2.0 > distribution. But I had it not found on your ftp-server and the mirrors. > Where can I dowload it ? archive.debian.org is currently down, but you can find a m

Re: Virus in win boot sector

2001-11-06 Thread ben
this is what the f-secure site says about the chipaway virus: F-Secure Virus Descriptions NAME:   Chipaway     There is no virus known by this name to     F-Secure anti-virus products. However, this

Re: Where is Majordomo?

2001-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 04:12:03PM +0100, Guido Gloede wrote: > I couldn't find a debian majodomo package. Is it removed? It was removed because it contained security problems which its licence didn't allow us to fix. See this post to debian-security-announce: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sec

Re: ide-scsi kernel crashes

2001-11-06 Thread Matt Fair
I fixed it, all I needed to do is to call 'hdparm -d0 /dev/hdd', this turned off the cd-r DMA. Matt Matt Fair wrote: Yes I have ide-cd built into the kernel and ide-scsi a module installed. My lsmod: Module Size Used by sr_mod 13112 0 (autoclean) sg 27716 0 ide-scsi 7424 0 scsi_mod 88920 3 [

Installing grub directly to a file

2001-11-06 Thread csj
I want to burn grub, along with a kernel, onto a cdrom. My present system has been to install grub to a floppy, make changes to that floppy, and finally "dd" the floppy to a file, which I then set as the boot image in cdrecord. Is there a way to install grub direct to a floppy image file produc

Re: Virus in win boot sector (solved)

2001-11-06 Thread Marcel Figuerola Estrada
All you who answered were right it was the BIOS virus detection feature. I've had to disable it to prevent the virus message to appear every time I boot Marcel - Original Message - From: "Paul 'Baloo' Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marcel Figuerola Estrada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "

Re: Virus in win boot sector

2001-11-06 Thread John
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 07:17:54AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Marcel Figuerola Estrada wrote: > > > Since I recently installed Woody, when I instruct LILO to start > > windows, it appears a message from ChipAway virus which says that > > there's a boot virus. I cannot

Rsync stats.....(what is speedup?)

2001-11-06 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I have an output after my rsync command finishes. speedup is 1943747.0 (or some number) What does speedup mean? What does it measure? Thanks for your help!! Mike

Re: IRQ conflict on ethernet cards

2001-11-06 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Eric Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a RealTek and a 3com card which are both sharing the same irq > viz. /proc/interrups: > > I did all I could on the simplistic CMOS that I have but I cannot > allocate IRQ specifically to ports. I also ran the reltek dos > diagnostics and setting ut

Re: ide-scsi kernel crashes

2001-11-06 Thread Matt Fair
Yes I have ide-cd built into the kernel and ide-scsi a module installed. My lsmod: Module Size Used by sr_mod 13112 0 (autoclean) sg 27716 0 ide-scsi 7424 0 scsi_mod 88920 3 [sr_mod sg ide-scsi] parport_pc 11976 0 (unused) parport 15008 0 [parport_pc] My computer reconizes my two cd drives as s

Re: programming

2001-11-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:17:15PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > | * J.A.Serralheiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > | > so, there is no way to know in advance the length of a string unless you > | > have an identifier, or constant for it. > | > | Q

Re: IMAP security

2001-11-06 Thread Tarjei Huse
> Meaning? Cyrus worked around the Mozilla problem? Meaning, when you do this, you get: - inbox - somefolder - somefolder instead of: - inbox | - somefolder etc. T > > Tarjei Huse wrote: > > > Hi, > > > >> Does cyrus have the "all folders show up under INBOX" problem as courier > >> d

cpio causes shoe-shinning on my tape drive

2001-11-06 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi All, I'm trying to switch to cpio to make backups of my system but I'm getting really bad results. When I create a tar archive: #tar -cv --file /dev/nst0 /home the tape starts spinning and everything chugs along just fine. On the other hand, when I try to make a cpio archive

Re: Perl threading on potato

2001-11-06 Thread larstiq
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 11:02:37AM -0500, Timothy Burt wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 03:28:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using debian unstable, which means perl 5.6.1, so my system is a bit The machine in question is relied upon by several people for a living, so I'd rather keep it

Re: problems with kernel compile on 2.2.20

2001-11-06 Thread Bryan K. Walton
That did it! Thanks Mike! -Bryan On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 10:42:18AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > > > I am trying to compile a 2.2.20 kernel using the kernel-source in > > > make[2]: as86: Command not found > > You need bin86, which provides as86. >

Print font size (fixed-width)

2001-11-06 Thread David Harrigan
Hello, Using lpr is there anyway to set the size of the font used for printing - don't care about the type, just the size. I want to reduce the size from 10 to 8 for example (or even make it bigger - oh, the choices I face...) Anything in printcap/magic-filter etc? that I could use. Using woody

Re: imap server

2001-11-06 Thread Robert L. Harris
apt-get install is alot easier, especially when it comes to keeping it up to date and insync with libraries etc. Thus spake Hanasaki JiJI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > You asked for easy :) Just download it, Sourcforge, and compile. > > Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > Hmm, appears as though it's o

Re: imap server

2001-11-06 Thread Robert L. Harris
Erf, I forgot to add, can it do SSL Imap? or encrypted somehow? She'll be accessing the server over the 'Net. Thus spake Hanasaki JiJI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Courier > > Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > > > I need to throw up an IMAP server for my mother in law. I'm looking for > >a package (s

Re: imap server

2001-11-06 Thread Robert L. Harris
Hmm, appears as though it's out of sync on the mirrors right now in Sid. I'll give it a try in a couple hours. Thus spake Hanasaki JiJI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Yup. It does IMAP over SSL . I just used it to send this email. There > is an MTA too but I use Exim. > > Robert L. Harris wrote:

Re: imap server

2001-11-06 Thread Hanasaki JiJI
You asked for easy :) Just download it, Sourcforge, and compile. Robert L. Harris wrote: Hmm, appears as though it's out of sync on the mirrors right now in Sid. I'll give it a try in a couple hours. Thus spake Hanasaki JiJI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Yup. It does IMAP over SSL . I just used it

util-linux

2001-11-06 Thread P Kirk
Hi all, My system can't install new software beause it can't update util-linux. The problem is a script called install-info which seems to be trying to install info. At first it was saying install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file. Now I've manually created a /usr/info/dir and i

Re: Perl threading on potato

2001-11-06 Thread Timothy Burt
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 03:28:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed perl-5.005-thread, and this by itself is useable, but > when trying to use Thread; with /usr/bin/perl, Thread can not be found > (duh, it is in i386-linux-thread, and not i386-linux). > The other way around, /usr

Re: imap server

2001-11-06 Thread Hanasaki JiJI
Yup. It does IMAP over SSL . I just used it to send this email. There is an MTA too but I use Exim. Robert L. Harris wrote: Erf, I forgot to add, can it do SSL Imap? or encrypted somehow? She'll be accessing the server over the 'Net. Thus spake Hanasaki JiJI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Courie

Re: imap server

2001-11-06 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 15:43, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I need to throw up an IMAP server for my mother in law. I'm looking for > a package (sid compatable) that'll take 2 mins to configure and 0 > maintenance. > > Any thoughts on a preference? Yes I can go look up all the servers but >

Re: imap server

2001-11-06 Thread Hanasaki JiJI
Courier Robert L. Harris wrote: I need to throw up an IMAP server for my mother in law. I'm looking for a package (sid compatable) that'll take 2 mins to configure and 0 maintenance. Any thoughts on a preference? Yes I can go look up all the servers but I'm looking for opinions on whats

imap server

2001-11-06 Thread Robert L. Harris
I need to throw up an IMAP server for my mother in law. I'm looking for a package (sid compatable) that'll take 2 mins to configure and 0 maintenance. Any thoughts on a preference? Yes I can go look up all the servers but I'm looking for opinions on whats fast/easy and 0 maint. Robert :

Re: problems with kernel compile on 2.2.20

2001-11-06 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > I am trying to compile a 2.2.20 kernel using the kernel-source in > make[2]: as86: Command not found You need bin86, which provides as86. apt-get install bin86 Hope this helps, Mike

Re: IMAP security

2001-11-06 Thread Hanasaki JiJI
Meaning?  Cyrus worked around the Mozilla problem? Tarjei Huse wrote: Hi, Does cyrus have the "all folders show up under INBOX" problem as courierdoes with netscape and mozilla? Appearantly this is a result of theclient not the server? If cyrus doesn't how do they get around it?

problems with kernel compile on 2.2.20

2001-11-06 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I am trying to compile a 2.2.20 kernel using the kernel-source in unstable and using kernel-package. I am compiling on a laptop running aen up-to-date testing distribution of Debian. After unpacking the source, and running make menuconfig, make dep, make-kpkg clean, I then run: make-kpkg --revisi

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