Re: 2.4.15 is out (and so is 2.5.0!)

2001-11-23 Thread joel_mayes
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 12:23:12PM -0800, Chris Majewski wrote: > Is there a mailing list that that will do nothing but notify me of new > kernel releases? > > -chris > Why not go to freshmeat and subscribe to the linux project, you'll get an email whenever a new version is released, and you can

Re: ObElitist (was Re: Virus incident)

2001-11-23 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:07:22 -0800, you wrote: > Karsten, you obviously have too much time on your hands. For which I am eternally grateful. gt Yes I fear I am living beyond my mental means--Nash

Problem with StarOffice

2001-11-23 Thread Denis
Magellano:/bin# so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-it.bin /n error: wrong glibc version, you need 2.1.1 Magellano:/bin# Magellano:/# vi /etc/debian_version 2.1 "glibc" there isn't in my Debian cd. What can i do?

[up5a@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de: a probably FAQuestion]

2001-11-23 Thread Branden Robinson
This person needs some help with his laptop and X. Can someone help him out, please? -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Please do not look directly into [EMAIL PROTECTED] | laser with remaining eye. http://people.debian.org/~bra

mozilla from sid on woody?

2001-11-23 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, having moved to woody, I wanted to get a new galeon installation. I temporarily set my sources.conf to sid and started the installation process. But this got stuck while trying to configure mozilla-browser: Setting up mozilla-browser (0.9.6-2) ... /usr/bin/update-mozilla-chrome: line 41: 202

Re: Misc topics (was Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD)

2001-11-23 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 06:51:16PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > ... I'd prefer a modularized, single-app approach to the monolithic > design of OpenOffice. Actually I understand OpenOffice is decomposing the monolithic StarOffice 5x model into single apps. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PR

Problems after upgrade to woody

2001-11-23 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, I finally upgraded to woody and mostly everything went smoothly or I could solve them myself. But two problems I couldn't figure out myself: 1) I have my xserver up and running. But dpkg tells me that it isn't able to configure a bunch (12) of xservers. Just one server as an example: Settin

Misc topics (was Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD)

2001-11-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 04:59:12PM -0800, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:40:37PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:12:17AM -0800, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:04:32PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: <.

Re: 8 python packages held back by apt-get on woody

2001-11-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Nov-2001 Carlos Sousa wrote: > My daily dist-upgrade has recently started holding back 8 python > packages (listings below). I usually investigate and resolve these > issues so as to have as clean a woody system as possible, but trying to > install one of the packages (idle) makes apt-get

Re: ObElitist (was Re: Virus incident)

2001-11-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 03:30:24PM -0800, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > in light of recent responses relative to exclusionary notions, vis-a-vis > the elitism of debian, i would like to draw attention to the primary > reason of my own personal choice of debian. i choose debian because i > believ

8 python packages held back by apt-get on woody

2001-11-23 Thread Carlos Sousa
My daily dist-upgrade has recently started holding back 8 python packages (listings below). I usually investigate and resolve these issues so as to have as clean a woody system as possible, but trying to install one of the packages (idle) makes apt-get want to uninstall 53 packages, including s

Framebuffer AVI player?

2001-11-23 Thread Stan Brown
This weekennds project (well one of thme), is to prototype a VCR like system, using my Debian system. Ultimately I will have a more powerful system to run this on, but i think I can get the concepts straight with this one. So, I now have vcr working and capturing files, which I can play back with

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-23 Thread Petro
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:40:37PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:12:17AM -0800, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:04:32PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:38:11PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tty1-6 screwed up

2001-11-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 07:03:21PM +, Neil Booth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Shaul Karl wrote:- > > > I do not know what gone wrong. > > > > As for having a vt reset without rebooting, try issuing a reset command > > (reset) after logging in. Ignore the fact that you might not see this > >

Re: grep regex

2001-11-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Emil Pedersen wrote: > > "Schnorbus, Patrick" wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > may you help me? i need a regex for grep, to find lines containing NOT: > > ^192.168 > > 212.23.138 > > Hi. > > The '-v' flag "inverse" the meaning of grep, letting lines _not_ > matching regexp through. > > grep -

Getting vcr compiled on stable?

2001-11-23 Thread Stan Brown
Has anyone managed to get vcr http://www.stack.nl/~brama/vcr compiled on a Debian STABLE machine? I'm trying to build it on a potato + Progeny + 24. kernel machine, and i'm going around in circles (- It requires libavifile. which I have both managed to compile from source _and_ find precompiled .

rsync debian cd images

2001-11-23 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hello, I have installed several times debian via the net, and I thought it was time to burn me a cd with the stable on it. So I downloaded the pseudo image kit from the site, and completed the tasks upto the rsync task. I'am behind a proxy server, so I : 00:36:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pseudo-image

Re: tar conflicts with cpio

2001-11-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 15:30, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> >> On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: >> > What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by >> > extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between >>

Re: Cahnging default vi?

2001-11-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan Brown) writes: > One of my potato + progeny machies seems to heve elvis as the default for > vi. After a few days of being anoyed by it's aberent non standard behabior, > I'm ready to change to something else (vim perhaps ?0 ( or the real thing > if the FreebSD vi has been

Re: tar conflicts with cpio

2001-11-23 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 15:30, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by > > extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between > > cpio and tar: in my experience they are ortho

Re: tar conflicts with cpio

2001-11-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by > extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between > cpio and tar: in my experience they are orthogonal or at least > complementary. Why do they now conflict? >

Re: tar conflicts with cpio

2001-11-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by > extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between > cpio and tar: in my experience they are orthogonal or at least > complementary. Why do they now conflict? >

RE: Auto starting iptables

2001-11-23 Thread Stefan Srdic
-- From: Tzafrir Cohen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 12:23 PM To: Lance Levsen Cc: John Mautz; debian-firewall@lists.debian.org; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: Auto starting iptables On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Lance Levsen wrote: > make

bash/read built-in function

2001-11-23 Thread martin f krafft
can someone shed some light on this, please? (indented to facilitate reading) bash-2.05$ bash --version GNU bash, version 2.05.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. bash-2.05$ dpkg -l bash | grep bash ii bash 2.05-10The GNU Bourne A

tar conflicts with cpio

2001-11-23 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between cpio and tar: in my experience they are orthogonal or at least complementary. Why do they now conflict?

Re: 2.4.15 is out (and so is 2.5.0!)

2001-11-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 12:23:12PM -0800, Chris Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a mailing list that that will do nothing but notify me of new > kernel releases? http://www.kernel.org/ -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you unde

potato ver 2.2 r0

2001-11-23 Thread Edgar Brito
Hello friends I would llike you send me by mail two files: root.bin and rescue.bin. I need this files to install linux in my computer. I can not make thw two disks with each file avery one in order to be able to install linux. I do not have newer version of Debian that is why I want files in versio

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-23 Thread Quietman
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 08:36:21PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > But no one wants to read newbie questions. So why are they > appropriate if no one wants to read them? Why wouldn't you want to read newbie question? How are the newbies going to learn to if they can't ask someone with more knowledge

Re: WYSIWYG Html editor recomendation...

2001-11-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 23 Nov 2001, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hello there! Can some one recomend me a good WYSIWYG editor that will > work with debian testing? I would like to find something that will let > me create tables and forms with all the possible html controls... amaya. When the right way is the only way.

Re: ObElitist (was Re: Virus incident)

2001-11-23 Thread Quietman
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:12:19PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > There are a number of skills which help in tackling this stuff. Basic > intelligence and a willingness to learn help a lot. I try not to be > unintentionally rude, or intentionally rude without a reason. But an > ability to take

Re: WYSIWYG Html editor recomendation...

2001-11-23 Thread Cam Ellison
I'm hardly an expert, but amaya seems to work pretty well. I'm using in testing. Cam * Alexander Wallace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello there! Can some one recomend me a good WYSIWYG editor that will > work with debian testing? I would like to find something that will let > me create ta

Re: 2.4.15 is out (and so is 2.5.0!)

2001-11-23 Thread Cam Ellison
This would obviously be a burden... <;-) * Chris Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > OK, thanks. But.. then I still have to remember to read slashdot > regularly.. > > chris > > On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > > On 23 Nov 2001, Chris Majewski wrote: > > > > > Is

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-23 Thread Dave Carrigan
Rich Puhek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2) The Tivo probably has hardware dedicated to the specific purpose of > video processing (a FPGA/CPLD type device, or maybe even an ASIC), where > as your PC has to make do with a general-purpose microprocessor. Yes, according to http://tivo.samba.or

Re: Cahnging default vi?

2001-11-23 Thread JFahnenmueller
The default vi is determined by the symlink /etc/alternatives/vi (e. g., on my system pointing to /bin/elvis-tiny). If you type vi, the system executes /usr/bin/vi. That is, however, a symlink to /etc/alternatives/vi, which is... -see above. Regards, Joachim Fahnenmüller

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-23 Thread Rich Puhek
nate wrote: > > Dave Carrigan said: > > "Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> I know the Tivo doesn't have much horse power. They are case in > >> point for a design which is just fast enough. They appeared to > >> have spared every expense. It is an awesome unit. Just saying, I >

WYSIWYG Html editor recomendation...

2001-11-23 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there! Can some one recomend me a good WYSIWYG editor that will work with debian testing? I would like to find something that will let me create tables and forms with all the possible html controls... Thanks!

gpm

2001-11-23 Thread j
ave. did anyone else had problems with gpm from sid ? It works fine in X-Window (via dev/psaux not gpmdata!) Nov 22 20:24:06 eee /usr/sbin/gpm[215]: imps2: PS/2 mouse failed (3 button) init Nov 22 20:24:06 eee /usr/sbin/gpm[215]: oops() invoked from gpm.c(1019) Nov 22 20:24:06 eee /usr/sbin/gpm

Re: 2.4.15 is out (and so is 2.5.0!)

2001-11-23 Thread Chris Majewski
OK, thanks. But.. then I still have to remember to read slashdot regularly.. chris On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On 23 Nov 2001, Chris Majewski wrote: > > > Is there a mailing list that that will do nothing but notify me of new > > kernel releases? > > I think it's cal

Re: when was the package updated last (oon my machine)?

2001-11-23 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 03:55:45AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > is there any way to figure out when was a package updated on my > system? or even history of updated? > > I mean I can check the changelog to see when the package itself was > last updated but I am interested in information about w

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-23 Thread nate
Dave Carrigan said: > "Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I know the Tivo doesn't have much horse power. They are case in >> point for a design which is just fast enough. They appeared to >> have spared every expense. It is an awesome unit. Just saying, I >> don't think they have a 6

Re: dma_int errors

2001-11-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Coen De Roover: > Hello, > > I'm frequently getting these errors. > Is there anything that can be done about it and is it potentially > dangerous ? > > Nov 23 14:03:00 pinky kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > Nov 23 14:03:00 pinky kernel: hda: dm

Re: bug in dynamic link libraries???

2001-11-23 Thread Xucaen
I'm running debian stable release, no modifications or changes. I haven't even compiled the kernal because it runs awesome the way it installed. thanks! --- Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 08:08:30PM -0500, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all. does anyone know wh

Re: Pre-install: hardware and kernel query

2001-11-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Brian Clark: > Greetings, > > It's been a long time since I've attempted to run Debian on my > workstation. The last time was around slink frozen I think. Wasn't my > time.. > > First, I have a feeling I'm going to burn for this one, but.. why is > Debian (all versions?) not running 2.

Re: When a server goes down....

2001-11-23 Thread nate
Keith OConnell said: > What I want to know is how to break and remount the NFS directories > from the workstations once the server is back up. So far the only > thing I can do is to reboot each workstation, and I am sure that > there must be a better way than that! try mounting with the option of

Maildrop permission problems

2001-11-23 Thread Sam Varghese
I have been trying to get a script to run on a server which runs potato. I've checked the script using perl -cw and it checks out okay. The script has been put in /usr/local/bin and to test it out I have created a user called testuser. In this user's home directory I have made a forward file con

Re: emacs related

2001-11-23 Thread Brian Nelson
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:49:36PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:53:50PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > > Or you can: > > > > (setq-default tab-width 4) > > I've found that this isn't always enough. If you wan

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-23 Thread Dave Carrigan
"Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know the Tivo doesn't have much horse power. They are case in point for a > design which is just fast enough. They appeared to have spared every > expense. It is an awesome unit. Just saying, I don't think they have a > 600MHz processor ... Could

Re: 2.4.15 is out (and so is 2.5.0!)

2001-11-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 23 Nov 2001, Chris Majewski wrote: > Is there a mailing list that that will do nothing but notify me of new > kernel releases? I think it's called Slashdot. -- Baloo

My mouse buttons stopped working

2001-11-23 Thread Mikael Gustaf Claesson
Hi. I'm running unstable, and the mouse buttons on my USB mouse just stopped working. I suspect it could have something to do with the newest version of gpm, but I'm not sure. I have gpm set up so that I can use my PS/2 mouse and my USB mouse at the same time, and the PS/2 mouse buttons still work

Re: 2.4.15 is out (and so is 2.5.0!)

2001-11-23 Thread Chris Majewski
Is there a mailing list that that will do nothing but notify me of new kernel releases? -chris Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 04:17:48AM -0800, Dmitriy wrote: > > One question, why is it called 2.4.15-greased-turkey instead of just > > 2.4.15 (the version)? >

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-23 Thread Mike Frisch
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 02:17:02PM -0500, Paul McHale wrote: > Does this assume the encoding is all done in software? I would guess a > hardware assisted MPEG encoder would require much less. But I have NO idea > about this. I am just curious. > > I know the Tivo doesn't have much horse power.

For those who haven't seen it on /.

2001-11-23 Thread Mike Pfleger
This pointed out to me this morning; a Woody freeze update from debian-devel-announce: (sorry abt the formatting; X cut&paste...) --- Hello world, We're almost into the last week for uploads of base packages. If there're outstandin

Re: sender line in outgoing mail

2001-11-23 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Serge Rey wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 11:16:18AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > It has been pointed out to me that while my "from" line when sending with > > Pine and exim on my debian system is correct, my sender line says "debian > > userCherylHomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-23 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 02:17:02PM -0500, Paul McHale wrote: > > According to Tom's Hardware, realtime MPEG4 encoding requires > > about a 600mhz > > P3. > > Does this assume the encoding is all done in software? I would guess a > hardware assisted MPEG encoder would require much less. But I hav

Re: Turning on CAPS Lock by default

2001-11-23 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
> Oh sorry!!! > > I did mean Num Lock! > And as you said it doesn't matter what I set it to in the BIOS. > setleds +num , setleds +caps see man setleds -- I am Martin Kacerovsky, student of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the Charles University in Prague, in the Czech Republic,

Re: Samba printing problem

2001-11-23 Thread dman
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 06:54:24PM +, Pollywog wrote: | Hello, | | I am trying to print from a laptop to my desktop (printer is connected to | the desktop) printer using Samba, but although the laptop appears to send | the print job to the desktop normally, the printer does not print and my

Re: sender line in outgoing mail

2001-11-23 Thread Serge Rey
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 11:16:18AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > It has been pointed out to me that while my "from" line when sending with > Pine and exim on my debian system is correct, my sender line says "debian > userCherylHomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED]". Where is this "debian user" > coming fron and

Re: emacs related

2001-11-23 Thread Brian Nelson
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:49:36PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:53:50PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > > Or you can: > > > > (setq-default tab-width 4) > > I've found that this isn't always enough. If you wan

Re: Dial up internet provider in Greater Hartford area?

2001-11-23 Thread mark
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 09:46:39AM -0800, Abner Gershon wrote: > My current free subscription to MSN will expire > shortly. I was never able to connect using Linux > through that service and obviously they would provide > no support to me. Can anyone recommend a dial up > internet service provider

Re: going back to Xfree86 3.x in unstable

2001-11-23 Thread David Z Maze
Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ES> How do I go back to the previous version as the new Xfree ES> dont support some old monitor that I am using? What you really care about is the X server. For hardware that isn't supported by XFree86 4.x, unstable/testing includes the X server from XFree86

Re: Auto starting iptables

2001-11-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Lance Levsen wrote: > make an iptables script in /etc/init.d/iptables > chmod 755 this file > > run $ update-rc.d iptables defaults 10 (not sure about this > syntax, read the manpage.) Note, however, that this script will be called again before you shut down the computer (sin

Re: Samba printing problem

2001-11-23 Thread Cam Ellison
* Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to print from a laptop to my desktop (printer is connected to > the desktop) printer using Samba, but although the laptop appears to send > the print job to the desktop normally, the printer does not print and my > samba log has thi

RE: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-23 Thread Paul McHale
> According to Tom's Hardware, realtime MPEG4 encoding requires > about a 600mhz > P3. Does this assume the encoding is all done in software? I would guess a hardware assisted MPEG encoder would require much less. But I have NO idea about this. I am just curious. I know the Tivo doesn't have m

Need rescue.bin and root.bin for Debian 2.2 r0

2001-11-23 Thread Edgar Brito
Hello Friends from Debian i got Debian 2.2 r0 Potato but I can´t get rescue.bin and root.bin from this CD. I would like you send me rescue.bin and root.bin for this version: 2.2 r0 Potato in order I can install my linux. Thank you. This is my mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] o [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Edg

Re: tty1-6 screwed up

2001-11-23 Thread Neil Booth
Shaul Karl wrote:- > I do not know what gone wrong. > > As for having a vt reset without rebooting, try issuing a reset command > (reset) after logging in. Ignore the fact that you might not see this > command while you keying it in. Thanks, but I'd already tried that. No luck; it stays in gr

Samba printing problem

2001-11-23 Thread Pollywog
Hello, I am trying to print from a laptop to my desktop (printer is connected to the desktop) printer using Samba, but although the laptop appears to send the print job to the desktop normally, the printer does not print and my samba log has this: [2001/11/23 18:37:35, 0] printing/printing.c

ssh and scp loging : please help

2001-11-23 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
I am not getting anything in syslog :( How can I record ssh login / logout / bad passwd How can I record all scp ops and bad passwds Thanks,

Re: emacs related

2001-11-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:49:36PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:53:50PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Or you can: > > (setq-default tab-width 4) I've found that this isn't always enough. If you want a real tab, you usually have to get emacs to call the tab-to-tab

Re: Turning on CAPS Lock by default

2001-11-23 Thread Morbo
Oh sorry!!! I did mean Num Lock! And as you said it doesn't matter what I set it to in the BIOS. Balazs - Original Message - From: "Dave Sherohman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 17:24 Subject: Re: Turning on CAPS Lock by default > On Fri, Nov 23

Re: sender line in outgoing mail

2001-11-23 Thread Cam Ellison
* Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It has been pointed out to me that while my "from" line when sending with > Pine and exim on my debian system is correct, my sender line says "debian > userCherylHomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED]". Where is this "debian user" > coming fron and how do I get rid of

docs for booting linux from flash?

2001-11-23 Thread Kurt Lieber
I'm considering building a couple of appliance-type devices running Linux and utilizing a flash device instead of a hard drive or CD. I've never delved into read/writing to flash before -- can anyone recommend some reading to learn more about it? Either hardware-specific (such as what hardware

Re: 2.4.15 is out (and so is 2.5.0!)

2001-11-23 Thread Cam Ellison
* Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ebian.org > X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/182249 > X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Precedence: list > Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --=-PD2M6+75HY67arPjkCBh > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Linus mu

Dial up internet provider in Greater Hartford area?

2001-11-23 Thread Abner Gershon
My current free subscription to MSN will expire shortly. I was never able to connect using Linux through that service and obviously they would provide no support to me. Can anyone recommend a dial up internet service provider in the Hartford, CT area that is relatively Linux friendly?

Re: df and ext3

2001-11-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Curtis Hogg: > This was a rather lengthy thread on the ext3-users mailing list (more than > once, one thread started by me). The issue is indeed with the 'auto' > fstype, and setting the fstype to 'ext3' in your /etc/fstab will fix the > problem. One of the main reasons for using type

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-23 Thread Mike Frisch
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 08:39:25AM -0800, Mark Lanett wrote: > According to Tom's Hardware, realtime MPEG4 encoding requires about a 600mhz > P3. So an Athlon 1.2 would definitely be sufficient. > An array of high speed disks is going to be noisy. Two quiet IDE hard drives would not be noisy. Y

Re: how to put package on hold using command line tools?

2001-11-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 01:39:43AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 03:08:30PM +0100, Alexander Steinert wrote: > > > Nevertheless you can file a bug against dpkg. > > > (See 'apt-cache show bug'.) > > > > Better, see reportbug. bug hasn't really been mai

Re: grep regex

2001-11-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 02:33:31PM +0100, Schnorbus, Patrick wrote: > may you help me? i need a regex for grep, to find lines containing NOT: > ^192.168 > 212.23.138 grep -v '^192\.168' | grep -v '212\.23\.138' or: grep -v '\(^192\.168\|212\.23\.138\)' -- Colin Watson

sender line in outgoing mail

2001-11-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
It has been pointed out to me that while my "from" line when sending with Pine and exim on my debian system is correct, my sender line says "debian userCherylHomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED]". Where is this "debian user" coming fron and how do I get rid of it? Thanks.

Re: When a server goes down....

2001-11-23 Thread dman
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 04:39:07PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: | Hi, | | I have a debian machine that serves up files to two other debian | machines via NFS mounts. If, as has happened recently, the server is | rebooted the other machines keep generating the error message saying | that the nfs m

Re: Radeon 7500 XFree86 support.

2001-11-23 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 07:27:47PM -0800, Dmitriy wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 06:31:11PM -0500, Diarmuid Drew wrote: > > I'm new to 3D, just upgraded my tseng ET6000 to a Radeon 7500. > > > > I'd like to get XFree86 4.1.0 to work, 2D would be nice, 3D would be > > "better > > t

apt-get: how to download multiple files at a time

2001-11-23 Thread Horacio de Oro
Hi! Anyone know if would be possible to configure apt-get to download multiple file at a time (it does that if are file from different servers). Thanks! Horacio de Oro ADN S.R.L. Córdoba - Argentina

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-23 Thread Mark Lanett
According to Tom's Hardware, realtime MPEG4 encoding requires about a 600mhz P3. An array of high speed disks is going to be noisy. I'd look at the Tivo's hardware list first, if you can't do it with equivalent hardware then the software is the problem. ~mark

When a server goes down....

2001-11-23 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I have a debian machine that serves up files to two other debian machines via NFS mounts. If, as has happened recently, the server is rebooted the other machines keep generating the error message saying that the nfs mount is missing, and keep on doing this even after the server is back up. Wh

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-11-23 Thread Glyn Millington
"Karsten M. Self" writes: >> If you are into Emacs you might, later want to look at Gnus, a >> newsreader which also handles mail really well - especially useful for >> dealing with lots of mail from mailing lists etc. > > Heard that it's another good & powerful mail handler. Yes - it was an expe

Re: Turning on CAPS Lock by default

2001-11-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 01:57:44AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 08:18:33AM +0100, Morbo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Is there a way to have CAPS Lock turned on in all VCs and perhaps telnet > > sessions by default? > > I believe this is a BIOS setting. I've often seen

Woody Upgrade REMOVED sysvinit and util-linux.

2001-11-23 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
This is the message that apt-get dist-upgrade gave me: WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! sysvinit util-linux (due to sysvinit) should i install back sysvinit and util-linux after the upgrade or can i ju

Re: Antigen found Aliz.4096.Worm (Norman,Sophos) virus

2001-11-23 Thread John Hasler
Matt Fair writes: > I am unsure why this virus is sending out as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? It isn't. It is sending out as 'Antigen': that is, no domain. Your MTA doesn't like that, and appends your domain before delivering to you. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmw

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-23 Thread Mike Frisch
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 10:38:40AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I would like to build a TVIO like Personal Video Recorder using a Debian > Linux machine. > > What hardware (in addition to the basic computer) will I need? WinTV card? > Special Video car dor TV out? You will need a supported TV tune

Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-23 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Friday 23 November 2001 07:38 am, Stan Brown wrote: > What hardware (in addition to the basic computer) will I need? WinTV card? > Special Video car dor TV out? > > Obviosly I will need a failry fast machine, I'm Planing somehting like a > 1.2GHZ Athalon, and lots (40 -> 120G) of disk space. I w

Re: Default folder

2001-11-23 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-11-23 14:22]: >I'm using mutt to deal with the lists I've subscribed to. > >I'd like to have the folder folder I receive my personal mail >($HOME/IN.personale) to be automatically opened when I start Mutt. > >What should I do? mutt -f Thorsten -- They t

Re: Woody & autofs - exactly

2001-11-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya david ... yes... "users" must know what they are doing ... ls -la /autof/* should work too...but you do have ot wait for timeouts if any of the automounted servers are down.. using symlinks to a user directory, ( preferable access mode) will work too ...subject to nfs timeouts for any se

Re: Antigen found Aliz.4096.Worm (Norman,Sophos) virus

2001-11-23 Thread Matt Fair
Nevermind, I think I know now, as explained in a previous email. Thanks, Matt On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 09:34, Matt Fair wrote: > I am unsure why this virus is sending out as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? I > have a debian mail server running sendmail and a debian client work > station. > Matt > > On Thu,

Re: Fw: Re: Cool info i found

2001-11-23 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
Hello Carl Fink, Once you wrote about "Re: Fw: Re: Cool info i found": CF> > No, because then we'd be disrupting any innocent bystandards. Get me a CF> > list of any admins for gmx and it's hosting services. I'll have a talk CF> > with them. CF> Note that a DOS attack on the actual sender would

Re: Antigen found Aliz.4096.Worm (Norman,Sophos) virus

2001-11-23 Thread Matt Fair
I am unsure why this virus is sending out as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? I have a debian mail server running sendmail and a debian client work station. Matt On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 04:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Antigen for Exchange found whatever.exe infected with Aliz.4096.Worm > (Norman,Sophos) v

Re: usb mass storage problem

2001-11-23 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
You did not say whether you had compiled SCSI (disk) support into your kernel. You need to do this even if you have no scsi card to enable the usb mass storage stuff CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m CONFIG_SCSI=m Also, when I mount my usb storage devices, I just mount it as /dev/sda1 with an auto f

Re: ObElitist (was Re: Virus incident)

2001-11-23 Thread Richard Seymour,,,
Karsten M. Self wrote: Here's my line, usually given offlist: Post your request in an open, coeherent, and legible manner. That (That would be "coherent", right?) means grammar, spelling, using that pesky shift key (but not the one labled SHIFT LOCK), and attending to issues lik

Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-23 Thread Stan Brown
I would like to build a TVIO like Personal Video Recorder using a Debian Linux machine. What hardware (in addition to the basic computer) will I need? WinTV card? Special Video car dor TV out? Obviosly I will need a failry fast machine, I'm Planing somehting like a 1.2GHZ Athalon, and lots (40 -

Re: cvs : access denied

2001-11-23 Thread Preben Randhol
franck routier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 23/11/2001 (13:42) : > Hi, > > I have just installed cvs on my sid box via pat-get install cvs. > > It created that directory in /var/lib/ : > > drwxrwsr-x4 root src30 nov 22 13:29 cvs > > I did : > adduser myuser src > > But when

Re: Woody & autofs

2001-11-23 Thread David Berard
Hi, On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi david > > your /etc/auto.master says to use /autofs as the mount point > ... > > /autofs /etc/auto.test > > your /etc/auto.test says that you will be autmounting > the remote filessytem crir-a136.univ-savoie.fr:/da

Re: cvs : access denied

2001-11-23 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , November 22, franck routier did write: > Hi, > > I have just installed cvs on my sid box via pat-get install cvs. > > It created that directory in /var/lib/ : > > drwxrwsr-x4 root src30 nov 22 13:29 cvs > > I did : > adduser myuser src > > But when I try 'cvs -d/v

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