Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-04 Thread Brian Nelson
Stig Brautaset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > Hi Ben! > > > > Thanks for your reply! > > > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, ben wrote: > > > > > [...] > > > i agree. the purpose of a boycott is to disempower. adobe have shown that > > > they don't deserv

Re: Newbie question : gnome, bash, and ppp

2001-12-04 Thread Gong Zeng
Actually, I did both, i.e. adding the non-root user to both 'dialout' and 'dip'. The problem is still there. Could it be that I should not add the non-root user to the group manually and I should do it thru pppconfig instead? I couldn't test it out now as I'm using a windowz machine. GZ Jo

Re: Building Samba 2.2.2 on Potato (SWAT problems)

2001-12-04 Thread John Griffiths
tried logging into SWAT as root? At 01:24 AM 12/5/01 -0400, William Cooper wrote: >Hello all, >I'm trying to build Samba 2.2.2 on Potato (I need the pdc functions >for a demonstration of Linux replacing Win NT/2K), but I keep running >into a problem. I cannot get SWAT to authenticate any users

Building Samba 2.2.2 on Potato (SWAT problems)

2001-12-04 Thread William Cooper
Hello all, I'm trying to build Samba 2.2.2 on Potato (I need the pdc functions for a demonstration of Linux replacing Win NT/2K), but I keep running into a problem. I cannot get SWAT to authenticate any users to log in. I know that there is no problem with the user name and password, becaus

getting kde desktop with xterm

2001-12-04 Thread Jason Currey
I am running kde on my machine and I can successfully telnet to other machines. I can then successfully run up an xterm export DISPLAY='mymachine':0.0 xterm and run kde applications konqueror however I want to be able to get the remote desktop in a single kde frame. Does anyone know how to

printer prints on shutdown/boot

2001-12-04 Thread DvB
I haven't been able to get my printer working with the last couple kernels but both of them were custom compiled so I assumed it was something I didn't include in the kernel. Today, however, I installed my new CD-RW drive and happened to leave the printer on when I shut the computer down and reboo

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-04 Thread Brenda J. Butler
> I was getting no reaction from the modem with a command sent as an > echo. Neither did I succeed in either sending anything from > minicom, what I mean is that I could not even type an AT command > to send in minicom, nothing would appear on the screen from the > keyboard. Ah, maybe you have

Re: fsck and ext3

2001-12-04 Thread DvB
"Paul 'Baloo' Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, DvB wrote: > > > Special (device/socket/fifo) inode 590029 has non-zero size. FIXED > > You run licq, I take it? It creates a fifo in ~/.licq that doesn't seem > to be clean. > Nope... I run gaim but not licq. fsck also

Re: ... new machine to install Linux ...

2001-12-04 Thread Michael D. Crawford
- Do you know a reseller who sells machine with a Linux operating system already installed. You'll find a list of vendors that sell pre-installed systems at: http://www.linux.org/vendors/systems.html and a general hardware list at http://www.linux.org/hardware/index.html However, if there is

Site Name Change Softlandindia.com

2001-12-04 Thread Murali Kumar
Dear Sir / Madam We have changed our domain name from softlandindia.com to softlandmark.com due to technical problems beyond our control. We greatly regret any inconvenience caused to all our visitors and friends. We humbly request you to bear with us and assure to all that everything else woul

Re: global environment variables?

2001-12-04 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:56:26AM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:51:32PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: | > | > | No, if you are running gdm and GNOME then it's ~/.gnomerc -- this is | > | the right file for your personal setu

Woody: crafty bug

2001-12-04 Thread Alec
Hi Where do I report silly bugs like the one below? The package wouldn't even get installed: Somebody wrote "cp * file" in a script?! Alec - $ apt-get install crafty Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following N

Re: Newbie question : gnome, bash, and ppp

2001-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Gong Zeng writes: > thanks for your tips, all of them worked except for the dialing out part. > I have included the non-root user to the 'dialout' group as you mentioned This is incorrect. You need to add the non-root user to the 'dip' group (pppconfig can do that). You will need to log out and

Re: Usenix LISA 2001

2001-12-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 05:28:24PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > i'll be the guy with the long hair, black laptop case, and denim jacket. Yeah, I'm sure that'll narrow it down. Bwa ha ha ha ha. -- G. Branden Robinson| The software said it required Debian GNU/Linux

Driver in boot floppy for install?

2001-12-04 Thread Graham Williams
I'm installing Debian from CD-ROM (2.2r2 since that's what I have lying around). The hard disk is a RAID array (Adaptec 2100s). I've the driver for it from adaptec for kernel 2.2.19 (and the CD-ROM has 2.2.18pre21 kernel but the driver seems okay?). During a clean install I need to load the dri

Setting up diald, DNS, netatalk, routing

2001-12-04 Thread Paul E Condon
I have a small LAN; two Linux boxes and two Macs. One of the Linux boxes is used as a workstation, and one is used to provide common services. The services are ppp, printing, backup, etc. I have had it working for about a year. Now I am working on converting the Linux boxes from Red Hat to Debian.

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates? -- nope

2001-12-04 Thread mdevin
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:28:07PM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> Don't know why you are getting them, but I have this in .procmailrc which > >> weeds duplicates pretty effectively. > >> > >> # Nuke duplicate messages > >> :0 Wh: msgid.lock > >> | $FORMAIL -D 81

Re: CUPS

2001-12-04 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:59:33AM +0100, Jens Luedicke wrote: | hi ... | | CUPS doesn't print german umlauts. Is there a way | to solve this? (either true umlauts or valid replacements) What does it do then? THe only potential problem I can think of is if you are taking a file in iso-8859-2 enc

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-04 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi Ben! > > Thanks for your reply! > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, ben wrote: > > > [...] > > i agree. the purpose of a boycott is to disempower. adobe have shown that > > they don't deserve a position of any esteem in the free system that linux > > ex

Re: connections

2001-12-04 Thread Michel Loos
On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 22:40, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I know that wu-ftpd has a bad reputation in many quarters for > security, but I still don't know exactly how or why the thing below is > happening. > > I have /etc/hosts.deny set to: > >ALL: ALL > > and /etc/hosts.allow set to: > >

Re: Galeon and java (was: Re: Anyone successful with Sun's Java 1.3.1_01?)

2001-12-04 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:22:01PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:27:43AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: | > | I think Scott was asking about the Java plugin for Galeon that runs | > | application/x-java-vm types. | > | > Yes, and this p

Re: Usenix LISA 2001

2001-12-04 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:34:46PM -0800, martin f krafft wrote: > okay, so that didn't work. i suggest tomorrow, 12:30-12:45 south side > of the conference (by the piano). i'll be wearing my debian shirt. it > would be nice if you would confirm your intended presence. mostly because i had spotty

Re: woody and mozilla 0.9.5

2001-12-04 Thread Timo Boewing
I had similar symptoms with a non-deb mozilla as of version 0.95. I recommend to install 0.96 (if not available as .deb) from mozilla.org directly. Between 0.95 and 0.96 about 1500 bugs have been wiped out. Give it a try, not only it is noticeably more performant than the 0.95. hth, Timo

Re: Newbie question : gnome, bash, and ppp

2001-12-04 Thread Gong Zeng
Hi, thanks for your tips, all of them worked except for the dialing out part. I have included the non-root user to the 'dialout' group as you mentioned (I double check by checking /etc/group) but the problem remains the same: there's a flash on the modem and that's it. The other thin

Re: Help Please! end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (flopp), sector 0

2001-12-04 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > adding a buynch of packages, which unfortunatley I don't remeber all of, it > started giving the error in the subject line every 5 minutes or so. > > This makes this machine almost unusable on the local console! > > Has anyone else seen this, can they tell

Re: Catch 22 ~ base-config & console-data

2001-12-04 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, tabanna wrote: > How can I cut out from this circle, and Fix matters ? Try: dpkg -i console-data* base-config* Oki

connections

2001-12-04 Thread Jim McCloskey
I know that wu-ftpd has a bad reputation in many quarters for security, but I still don't know exactly how or why the thing below is happening. I have /etc/hosts.deny set to: ALL: ALL and /etc/hosts.allow set to: ALL: LOCAL, .foobar.edu But beside scores of messages in the logs like:

Re: fsck and ext3

2001-12-04 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, DvB wrote: > Special (device/socket/fifo) inode 590029 has non-zero size. FIXED You run licq, I take it? It creates a fifo in ~/.licq that doesn't seem to be clean. -- Baloo

Re: Galeon and java (was: Re: Anyone successful with Sun's Java 1.3.1_01?)

2001-12-04 Thread Bill Wohler
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:27:43AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > | I think Scott was asking about the Java plugin for Galeon that runs > | application/x-java-vm types. > > Yes, and this plugin is part of the 'j2sdk1.3' package available from > the given URL of

Re: Catch 22 ~ base-config & console-data

2001-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:49:11PM +, tabanna wrote: > 1) when I try I get error that > base-config is not completed. > 2) when I try I get error that > console-data is not completed So 'dpkg --configure base-config console-data'. -- Colin Watson [

Re: transfering linux system to another hard drive

2001-12-04 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "speakup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:29 PM Subject: transfering linux system to another hard drive > I apologize for the cross-post, but I'm trying to get info as soon as

Re: Weird e-mail headers

2001-12-04 Thread Jesper Holmberg
* On Tue Dec 04, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: > My e-mail headers are being displayed in Mutt like so: > > X-Sieve: cmu-sieve 1.3^M > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR December 4, 2001^M If you're using fetchmail to retreive your e-mail, yo

Fwd: beta software in debian releases?

2001-12-04 Thread Kurt Lieber
Right after I sent this I realized the answer was probably on debian.org. Specifically, the Debian Developer's Reference Guide, section 5.6 http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-archive.en.html#s5.6 If I'm reading it correctly, once Woody is frozen, that only means that new packag

Re: xterm background color

2001-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:37:25PM -0500, Titus Barik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In Blackbox, both the xterm and xterm (unicode) terms have a black > background. I recently switched to WMaker, and now the xterm background > is white, while the xterm (unicode) is black. How do I make them both > h

Re: Catch 22 ~ base-config & console-data

2001-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:49:11PM +, tabanna ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Can someone please help me ~ I am getting error message that > my base-config is not OK because console-data is not configured > { which I have tried to do in KDE control center} > > 1) when I try I get error that

CUPS

2001-12-04 Thread Jens Luedicke
hi ... CUPS doesn't print german umlauts. Is there a way to solve this? (either true umlauts or valid replacements) Furthermore, how can I set wider margins when printing text-only using the CUPS lpr? -- Jens Luedicke [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup vs package manager

2001-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:33:39PM +0200, Juha Mäkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > Especially given a partial backup, involving, f.ex. X. > > > If I upgrade X with apt-get or dselect, but things go > > > wrong and I restore my backup - how do I put package > > > mabager back on track .

Re: Catch 22 ~ base-config & console-data

2001-12-04 Thread Michael Wagner
On Tuesday, 04. Dec. 2001 at 20:49:11, tabanna wrote: > Can someone please help me ~ I am getting error message that > my base-config is not OK because console-data is not configured > { which I have tried to do in KDE control center} > > 1) when I try I get error that > base-config is n

beta software in debian releases?

2001-12-04 Thread Kurt Lieber
I did an apt-get upgrade the other day on one of my woody boxes and was surprised to see that PHP has been upgraded to 4.1.0RC2. Is it normal behavior to include beta software in testing? What happens if Woody gets frozen before 4.1.0 is released? Will Woody then be stuck with an RC version o

DRM and multiple X sessions ?

2001-12-04 Thread briand
I'm running 2 X sessions, his and hers ;-), and I've noticed that DRM can only be enabled for one of them, the one which was started first. Is this a bug ? Brian

Re: transfering linux system to another hard drive

2001-12-04 Thread Jens Gecius
Janina Sajka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You should not think in terms of transferring your linux. The linux > operating system itself should be reinstalled. That's plainly not true! Why re-doing everything that was already accomplished? There are several ways to do this, I already mailed this

Re: transfering linux system to another hard drive

2001-12-04 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi Cheryl, Transferring a Linux system is in my experience as simple as copying the contents. 1. Boot up with a boot disk 2. Mount the source partitions of your failing drive under /src/ (ie /src/var, /src/usr, ... if you have split up your Linux tree in partitions) and the destination pa

Re: sysvinit caused this?

2001-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:39:37AM -0800, Shawn Lamson wrote: > /etc/init.d/rc: 2: command not found What do the lines containing "/etc/init.d/rc" in /etc/inittab look like? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fsck and ext3

2001-12-04 Thread DvB
I took the advice of someone on this list (I think) and re-enabled the max-mount-count option on my ext3 partitions. When I upgraded this machine to 2.4.16 from 2.4.12-ac3 and rebooted, the mount count had been exceeded and fsck ran, outputting the following: Special (device/socket/fifo) inode 590

Re: Radeon 7500 XFree86 support.

2001-12-04 Thread csj
On Saturday 01 December 2001 00:09, Karsten Heymann wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for the delay: > > * csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011127 11:48]: > > ... > > Does this mean you've got XVideo (Xv) going on your Radeon VE? I'm > > curious what the output of the following commands is on your > > system: (1) xvi

Re: X11: could not open default font 'fixed'

2001-12-04 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 12:10, Johann Spies wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:52:55PM +0100, Jean-Philippe Gu?rard wrote: > > Le 2001-12-04 16:23:39 +0200, Johann Spies écrivait : > > > I am trying to install X11 on a machine in preparation to > > > show linux to other users. At the moment

Re: sysvinit caused this?

2001-12-04 Thread Michael Wagner
On Tuesday, 04. Dec. 2001 at 11:39:37, Shawn Lamson wrote: > if i let it boot, log in as root, and issue > #/etc/init.d/rc 2 > everything runs fine... Hello Shawn, in line 19 of the script there is: # debug=echo Uncomment this and look in your syslog file, because it's possible, that the err

Re: files in /etc/pcmcia/ip-up.d are ignored

2001-12-04 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:00:36PM +0100, Karsten Heymann wrote: > while trying to find out why masqmail does work when going online via > modem and fails when using ethernet i found out that for network cards > /etc/pcmcia/ip-up.d apparently is ignored (I put an 'touch /tmp/alive' > into /etc/pcmc

Re: DVD player

2001-12-04 Thread Walter Hofmann
Christian Schoenebeck schrieb am Monday, den 03. December 2001: > Hi! > > Are there packages for viewing video DVDs? I haven't > found some. You should consider adding deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. This server has plenty of DVD players and oth

Re: evolution and debian

2001-12-04 Thread adcarlson
As a suggestion, after having the experience of trying to get evolution up and working last night (stil not quite successful), there are a number of dependencies to the evolution DEB file (which is supposed to be for Potato?) that appear only in Testing/Woody and Unstable/Sid. In short, you'll pro

xterm background color

2001-12-04 Thread Titus Barik
In Blackbox, both the xterm and xterm (unicode) terms have a black background. I recently switched to WMaker, and now the xterm background is white, while the xterm (unicode) is black. How do I make them both have a black background? Also, things like vim, when run from the Menu, also have a white

Re: Usenix LISA 2001

2001-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.04 19:13:25+0100]: > calling out to the debianers who are attending LISA 2001. whoever's > interested, i'll be sitting around the couch area on the southside of > the atlas foyer of the convention center today when lunch starts. i > realize that this i

Re: backup vs package manager

2001-12-04 Thread Juha Mäkinen
> > Especially given a partial backup, involving, f.ex. X. > > If I upgrade X with apt-get or dselect, but things go > > wrong and I restore my backup - how do I put package > > mabager back on track ...? > > > > Or, do I backup just /home and leave all other stuff > > in the Hand Of God and Pac

elisp question: how to override minor mode key maps?

2001-12-04 Thread Britton
There's gotta be something better than this (which still isn't right, because it changes the map for all View buffers and not just *Help* buffers, and needs to use the not-really-public view-mode-map): ; View-quit seems to get made a bit wonky by "*Help*" being in ; same-window-buffer-names, and

KDE Login problems

2001-12-04 Thread Jeff Vincent
Hey all, I have two machines running Debian (woody - testing) and both are seemingly up-to-date. One was installed by me, the other by my co-worker. They both have kdm as the desktop (or is it display?) manager and kde installed. On his machine however, when attempting to log into an X session

Re: good book

2001-12-04 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Just C/C++ I usually mix them together. For GUI is more suitable C++ and I'm used to write my action rutines in C Mirek Dobsicek ps: maybe I need to get rid of this bad habbit of mixing Preben Randhol wrote: Mirek Dobsicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/12/2001 (19:04) : Hi, I'm

Re: X11: could not open default font 'fixed' (solved or fixed :))

2001-12-04 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 07:10:05PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: After installing xfs, xfs-tt and xfstt I found that some xfonts-* packages were not installed. Installing them solved the problem. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stelle

Re: transfering linux system to another hard drive

2001-12-04 Thread Janina Sajka
Cheryl: You should not think in terms of transferring your linux. The linux operating system itself should be reinstalled. Your data and configuration files, on the other hand, should be transferred. The best mechanism is likely some kind of temporary storage device, and an upload to someplace

Rãspuns: Restriction ssh access (woody)?

2001-12-04 Thread Petre Daniel
if i recall correct you add in /etc/hosts.deny a line "ALL: ALL" and in /etc/hosts.allow lines with the ips allowed and the services they can access,like "sshd: 194.112.102.3, 193.230.167.22, 212.155.,217." and "in.telnetd: server.host.com, 198.204.22.4, 140.24." or "in.pop3d: ALL" and stuff.. t

Catch 22 ~ base-config & console-data

2001-12-04 Thread tabanna
Can someone please help me ~ I am getting error message that my base-config is not OK because console-data is not configured { which I have tried to do in KDE control center} 1) when I try I get error that base-config is not completed. 2) when I try I get error that console-data is n

Re: ... new machine to install Linux ...

2001-12-04 Thread Brian Nelson
Laurent Fawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > I am interested to buy a new machine to install Linux on it, so my > questions are the next ones: > > - Do you know a reseller who sells machine with a Linux operating system > already installed. I don't know of any *good* vendors with a n

transfering linux system to another hard drive

2001-12-04 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I apologize for the cross-post, but I'm trying to get info as soon as possible; even if somebody has just seen this on one of these lists and can steer me toward the correct archive it would be appreciated. My hard drive with linux is failing; I have just obtained a 20gig drive which will have both

Re: Mounting vfat filesystem via NFS

2001-12-04 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 05:10:11PM +0100, Sven Garbade wrote: | Hi all, | | maybe this is not Debian specific and so OT. I want to mount read/write | (on my Debian Potato box) a vfat-Filesystem via NFS from a SUSE-Linux | Box. Mounting is ok (via mount ~/labor), but the owner and group of the | mo

Re: Mail client with SMTP AUTH?

2001-12-04 Thread Brian Nelson
Nathan Weston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, My school just switched to a new mail server, and without > warning began requiring SMTP authentication to send mail off > campus. I've been using KMail which doesn't seem to support this. > > At the moment I have Sylpheed installed, but it's eve

Re: Mail client with SMTP AUTH?

2001-12-04 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:15:31AM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: | Hello, | My school just switched to a new mail server, and without warning | began requiring SMTP authentication to send mail off campus. I've | been using KMail which doesn't seem to support this. | | At the moment I have Sylpheed i

Re: Gnus and IMAP on Debian?

2001-12-04 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Miller) writes: > > "Brian" == Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Try: > > > (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.iupui.edu")) > > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods > > '((nnml "") > > (nnimap "imap1.iupui.edu" >

files in /etc/pcmcia/ip-up.d are ignored

2001-12-04 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi, while trying to find out why masqmail does work when going online via modem and fails when using ethernet i found out that for network cards /etc/pcmcia/ip-up.d apparently is ignored (I put an 'touch /tmp/alive' into /etc/pcmcia/ip-up.d/test but /tmp/alive wasn't created when I plugged in my

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates?

2001-12-04 Thread Empty One
I realise this may be a little late, it being the fourth and all, but i'm a behing in reading the list. Are you sure you aren't leaving the origional message on the server? I know that with some mail programs, every time you scan the server for new messages, it keeps adding the message, and leavi

Re: Galeon and java (was: Re: Anyone successful with Sun's Java 1.3.1_01?)

2001-12-04 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:27:43AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: | I think Scott was asking about the Java plugin for Galeon that runs | application/x-java-vm types. Yes, and this plugin is part of the 'j2sdk1.3' package available from the given URL of a blackdown mirror. If you're not sure gale

Re: good book

2001-12-04 Thread Preben Randhol
Mirek Dobsicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/12/2001 (19:04) : > Hi, > I'm about to buy the book Professional Linux Programming -- by Neil > Matthew and Richard Stones. Which programming language do you want to use? -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ --

Re: sysvinit caused this?

2001-12-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 17:42:43 -0800 > From: "Karsten M. Self" > Subject: Re: sysvinit ? caused this > on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 06:27:01AM -0800, Shawn > Lamson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > i did an apt-get upgrade and wound up with a new > > sysvinit > > sysvinit 2.84-1 > > now when i

... new machine to install Linux ...

2001-12-04 Thread Laurent Fawer
Hello, I am interested to buy a new machine to install Linux on it, so my questions are the next ones: - Do you know a reseller who sells machine with a Linux operating system already installed. - Do you know a constructor who gives a CD with all Linux drivers to installs. - Is it possible to

Mail client with SMTP AUTH?

2001-12-04 Thread Nathan Weston
Hello, My school just switched to a new mail server, and without warning began requiring SMTP authentication to send mail off campus. I've been using KMail which doesn't seem to support this. At the moment I have Sylpheed installed, but it's even uglier than most GTK programs (dons flame suit).

Re: Radeon 7500 XFree86 support.

2001-12-04 Thread Karsten Heymann
* Ax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011130 13:08]: > Dne so 24. listopad 2001 10:37 Karsten Heymann napsal(a): > > > I don't have a Radeon card (yet) but I was just looking up info about > > > it on the XFree lists and it appears that support for it is only in > > > the XFree CVS right now. It should be incl

Re: Radeon 7500 XFree86 support.

2001-12-04 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi, sorry for the delay: * csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011127 11:48]: > ... > Does this mean you've got XVideo (Xv) going on your Radeon VE? I'm > curious what the output of the following commands is on your system: > (1) xvinfo | grep Adaptor # xvinfo | grep Adaptor Adaptor #0: "ATI Rage128

Help Please! end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (flopp), sector 0

2001-12-04 Thread Stan Brown
This is driving me nuts! I have a machine (potato + Progeny + 2.4 kernel). Some time back after adding a buynch of packages, which unfortunatley I don't remeber all of, it started giving the error in the subject line every 5 minutes or so. This makes this machine almost unusable on the local con

Re: pon: unwanted SIGHUP after connect

2001-12-04 Thread John Hasler
tom schuetz writes: > I just upgraded my kernel from 2.2.17 to 2.4.9. > Pon used to work; now it works and...immediately hangs up. Did you upgrade ppp as well? 2.4 kernels require 2.4 pppd. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Usenix LISA 2001

2001-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
hi folks, calling out to the debianers who are attending LISA 2001. whoever's interested, i'll be sitting around the couch area on the southside of the atlas foyer of the convention center today when lunch starts. i realize that this is a short-notice, and i'll happily schedule another time, once i

Re: help with zgv e svgalib

2001-12-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Aldo Maggi([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > my distro is woody - video card matrox mill g200 agp > i am trying to utilize programs written for svgalib > my problem is that when i run > zgv -j photo.jpg > i do not get any error but the photo does not show up and the screen > remains d

good book

2001-12-04 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Hi, I'm about to buy the book Professional Linux Programming -- by Neil Matthew and Richard Stones. I'd like to learn programming under linux (some basic skills I already have) and then develop Gnome (oaf) application. But the Gnome is now going to its version 2, so is this book good choice? S

Re: Help:Problems with routing - DNS problem

2001-12-04 Thread Jarkko Niemi
> whatever address on the internet from my client, BUT... the client is > unable to resolve the names (I can ping 195.110.96.65 but not > www.dada.it). > What should I do? Have you defined nameservers (DNS)? At /etc/resolv.conf you should have something like this: nameserver 123.123.123.123 names

Re: upgrading debian

2001-12-04 Thread Tobias Wolter
On 2001-12-04T11:37:58 +, Reena Mahbubani wrote: > In order to put a newer version of debian linux on my system, do I have to > remove the other version? Nope. When the new stable is out, there'll be new source media (whether it be LAN, FTP, CD-Images, whatever). Connect to the net and hit a

matter with driver compilation ...

2001-12-04 Thread spear
Hi there ! Am trying to install a Netgear FA311 ... 1) Have been downloading the "natsemi.c" and "pci-scan.c" required files ... 2) Installed the kernel headers Here's the point of the procedure where it fails : > Compile both the driver file and pci-scan.c using the compile-command at the > bot

problems with gnome-terminal...

2001-12-04 Thread Más
Hi everybody!! After some upgrading to my system, which now is a nice mixture of stable, testing and unstable (sic!) I found that my gnome-terminal (most probably from unstable) does not work anymore!! It fails with the following message: GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics

woody and mozilla 0.9.5

2001-12-04 Thread Aldo Maggi
i am running woody a week ago i upgraded to mozilla 0.9.5 making use of the deb pkg in woody. three times, while searching in googles and in debian site, mozilla froze everything, the keyboard included. i waited a quarter of an hour but i did not have other chance but reset the box. is that a bug

jslaunch and sound card game port

2001-12-04 Thread Aldo Maggi
i am running woody i would like to make use of jslaunch as a last resort possibility to have a clean shutdown. i went into the man and twickled with options but no joystick button is catched by jslaunch --showbuttons the joystick is connected through the game port of my sound card sb 16 pnp my soun

Re: X11: could not open default font 'fixed'

2001-12-04 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:52:55PM +0100, Jean-Philippe Gu?rard wrote: > Le 2001-12-04 16:23:39 +0200, Johann Spies écrivait : > > I am trying to install X11 on a machine in preparation to show linux to > > other users. At the moment I am stuck with the error message in the > > subject-line on Wo

Runlevel Scripts

2001-12-04 Thread Shane Hornibrook
Listers, Would someone mind sending me a directory listing of all startup symlinks for each runlevel for a basic potato installation? I seem to have *cough* misplaced *cough* a symlink or twenty. ;) (e.g. ls -al /etc/rc*.d/S* ) Thank you kindly, --Shane Shane Hornibrook

help with zgv e svgalib

2001-12-04 Thread Aldo Maggi
my distro is woody - video card matrox mill g200 agp i am trying to utilize programs written for svgalib my problem is that when i run zgv -j photo.jpg i do not get any error but the photo does not show up and the screen remains desolately black i looked int zgv and libvga.conf manuals but could

Re: nfs woes

2001-12-04 Thread Jason Pepas
> 1. What good does the first line in /etc/export do? > 192.168.0.2 is 10 Mb and is only used for getting the > kernel, not its root fs, so it does not need this one > I thought this too, but as I remember it, it simply didnt work when I would comment out the first line. I am away from the machin

Re: apt-get

2001-12-04 Thread Tobias Wolter
On 2001-12-04T16:46:26 +, Davi Leal wrote: > excalibur:~# apt-get update > Get:1 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main Packages [824kB] > Err ftp://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main Packages > Connection timeout > Get:2 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main Release [95B] > Err ftp://ftp.de.debia

Selecting paper tray for HP 2100TN with lprng

2001-12-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've got an HP 2100TN and need to allow the users to select which paper tray it prints from. It's got a JetDirect card, but the printer's internal queue is being fed by an lprng queue. What do I need to do to get this working properly? (Or, in the likely case that this is a case to RTFM, which F

Re: Galeon and java (was: Re: Anyone successful with Sun's Java 1.3.1_01?)

2001-12-04 Thread DvB
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think Scott was asking about the Java plugin for Galeon that runs > application/x-java-vm types. I wasn't successful in downloading the > plug-in either due to Galeon javascript bugs. Worse, > http://home.netscape.com/plugins/jvm.html is broken e

Re: evolution and debian

2001-12-04 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 16:00, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > invoking Evolution from the shell I get the same message plus the following: > > "evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on wombat: > (IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0)" The normal cause is that bonobo-conf is not ins

pon: unwanted SIGHUP after connect

2001-12-04 Thread tom schuetz
I just upgraded my kernel from 2.2.17 to 2.4.9. Pon used to work; now it works and...immediately hangs up. Here is the relevant /var/log/messages bit: Dec 3 20:52:25 finster chat[212]: send (ATDT222^M) Dec 3 20:52:25 finster chat[212]: expect (CONNECT) Dec 3 20:52:25 finster chat[212]:

upgrading debian

2001-12-04 Thread Reena Mahbubani
Hi, In order to put a newer version of debian linux on my system, do I have to remove the other version? And How do I completely remove the other version of linux without getting rid of my other OS's like WinNT and Win98? Thanks! Reena Mahbubani Co-Op, Bell Mobility, Technology Development E

Re: Creating boot, install, similar system disks

2001-12-04 Thread David Z Maze
Otis Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OW> I wanted to know if Debian, 2.2.19 allowed the user to create OW> system disks directly from the installed OS instead of having to OW> download them from the web? Being new to Linux I decided to check OW> first. Any assistance you can provide will be apprec

Re: Any known problems with PHP4 in Woody?

2001-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
* jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.02 19:40:06-0800]: > What's the difference between this and building using ./configure and make > install? I was able to successfully build with configure and make, but I > did have to change a few things ... Does the dpkg-buildpackage way make it > so I don't

Re: Generating C++ documentation in LaTeX Format

2001-12-04 Thread David Z Maze
Francois Fayard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FF> I need to document a lot of C++ code in LaTeX. What kind of tools FF> are available for that. I'm thinking of both scripts that creates FF> a LaTeX file from a C++ code (To start the documentation), or FF> a LaTeX style. There are a couple of options

Re: Weird e-mail headers

2001-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:26:42AM -0500, Jason Rashaad Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Not sure how to phrase this > > My e-mail headers are being displayed in Mutt like so: > > X-Sieve: cmu-sieve 1.3^M > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: daily AMANDA MAIL R

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