Re: dnscache and local network

2001-12-13 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 11:41:20PM +] Rocha : > would want all the computers in my intranet, accessing a tinydns > server to resolve their hostnames, skipping the hosts file There is a small nifty caching DNS utility called as 'pdnsd' which can save DNS records back onto your hard disk

Fonts->Rectangles,Install with separate controller.

2001-12-13 Thread Adam Bogacki
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:46:14AM +1300 or thereabouts, Adam Warner wrote: .. > > > Sounds like it's a file! > > > cd /usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/ > > > And there will hopefully be a file called run-gnome-font-install > > > > > Yep - as noted above, it exists in the file directory but

custom initrd kernel

2001-12-13 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: I have been having a problem successfully compiling and booting custom initrd kernels. The reason I need to make a custom kernel at all is that I have a keyspan 49W USB to serial converter and the stock Debian 2.4.16 kernel does not include the firmware for licensing reasons (but the

Re: Printing HOWTOs a problem. Newbie #61

2001-12-13 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:26:55 +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: >Hi, > >I print out some of the HOWTOs for reading. > >say ... > >$ zless /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Net-HOWTO.txt.gz | pr -o4 | lpr > >After a few pages the printing suddenly slips down the page and is then across >the tear li

Re: Printing HOWTOs a problem. Newbie #61

2001-12-13 Thread Brenda J. Butler
Ian, > After a few pages the printing suddenly slips down the > page and is then across the tear line of the continuous > stationary that I use. Not sure what you mean by "suddenly"... it seems a problem of this sort should happen gradually unless the paper is slipping in the printer. > This h

Re: Fwd: Debian Won't Install! (System Locks Up)

2001-12-13 Thread Kent West
Mark Seven Smith wrote: In the installation [of Potato], the install program that comes up is a simple text-based interface, with scrolling lists and such. But if I try to scroll the lists, the whole computer bombs--it just locks up. It is very strange; the keyboard wont' work, the RESET swi

Re: an XFree86 problem, an xscreensaver problem, followed by an Enlightenment problem

2001-12-13 Thread David Z Maze
Seneca Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SC> 2. As root, I do not have the authority to start or chang any SC> screensaver settings, however when I am an ordinary user, I SC> have the authority to start and change the screensaver SC> settings. The first time I used the screensaver

Re: AppleTalk not up! Child exited with 1.

2001-12-13 Thread btt
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 05:29:13PM +0100, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > my netatalk wount run properly on my linux server > > kernel 2.2.13 (i know its old, but token ring requires it) > netatalk 1.4b2+asun2.1. Appletalk user binaries > > i get this message : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/init

Re: Latest GnuCash .debs

2001-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 04:52:23PM -0800, Charles Baker wrote: > > | Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but fixes/improvements developed in > | unstable take two weeks to get into testing. Anything that is broken > | in unstable usually gets fixed very rapidly. I

missing charsets warning, what causes this?

2001-12-13 Thread dman
When I run a GTK+ app from a shell, I get output like the following : Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation Gdk-WARNING **: ISO10646-1 Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 Gdk-WARNING **: JISX0208.1983-0 Gdk-WARNING **: KSC5601.1987-0 Gdk-WARNING

Fwd: Debian Won't Install! (System Locks Up)

2001-12-13 Thread Mark Seven Smith
I originally posted this to the debian-boot list, but I guess there isn't as much traffic there, so I am now forwarding it to this list. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! -- Forwarded Message -- From: Mark Seven Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject:

Re: cdrecord problem

2001-12-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 07:45:54PM -0600, shock wrote: > I just did apt-get install cdrecord. I have an all-SCSI system, so my > SCSI driver is compiled into the kernel. Following is the problem I'm > experiencing: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# cdrecord -scanbus > Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

compiling kernel under unstable/testing (3.0)

2001-12-13 Thread Thomas Richter
Hi, after upgrading an unstable release this week and building a 2.4.16 kernel the following error occured: error: undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .data.exit later I messed up the machine, so here are the things I've written down or can remember: net.o and char.o whe

Re: Weird problem installing Debian

2001-12-13 Thread Jason M. Harvey
the 3com i had was given to be by a friend. he told me to use irq=7, which i did need. that is true... that was the big hurdle that i had when i tried to get it working also, i can't guarentee that irq7 is what you want - he used that floopy/3com software (dos-based) to set the irq. i've never

Re: gimp 1.2/unstable

2001-12-13 Thread Jens Gecius
Jens Gecius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can't I somehow say "Well, take up to 700M from RAM, then file"? That > would be decent. Or something like "take 70% of available ram". Yeah, found it - tile cache size seems to be the setting I need. Now it works. Thanks for the hints. -- Tschoe,

Error accessing cdrom device

2001-12-13 Thread Eric Brooks
Hi. I recently installed Alsa and I am working through getting sound running. I can read data off my CDROM just fine. When I try to play music off the CD I get the error: "Error accessing cdrom device. Please check to make sure cdrom drive support is compiled into the kernel, and that you have p

quick redir question

2001-12-13 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi, two debian boxes A and B. (both 2.2.19) i want to redirect FTP connections on box A to the FTP port on box B. assuming i have trans-proxy enabled in kernel, can i do this with ipchains and the REDIRECT parameter? as far as i can see that oly redirects to ports on the *same* box. if not,

Re: gimp 1.2/unstable

2001-12-13 Thread Jens Gecius
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 08:28:37PM -0500, Jens Gecius wrote: > | Hi folks! > | > | I just started scanning a couple of negatives at 1600dpi and am trying > | to work with them in the gimp. > | > | Unfortunately, I don't see the gimp being nice to memory. I have

NIS broken in debian 2.2?

2001-12-13 Thread Brent Kearney
Greetings, I'm running the 'woody' distro on a PC with Linux 2.4.12-ac6. I installed the 'nis' debian package, and followed the nis.debian.howto that comes with that package. The setup went smoothly, and ypbind was able to contact the NIS server. ypcat works. However, NIS users are unable t

Re: gimp 1.2/unstable

2001-12-13 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 08:28:37PM -0500, Jens Gecius wrote: | Hi folks! | | I just started scanning a couple of negatives at 1600dpi and am trying | to work with them in the gimp. | | Unfortunately, I don't see the gimp being nice to memory. I have 1G on | board, a 768M swap partition, and /tmp

cdrecord problem

2001-12-13 Thread shock
I just did apt-get install cdrecord. I have an all-SCSI system, so my SCSI driver is compiled into the kernel. Following is the problem I'm experiencing: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or d

Re: gnomecc capplets (II)

2001-12-13 Thread Simon Wong
On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 12:07, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi to all, > almost one week ago I sent the email below to the list without any response. > May be this time I'll be more lucky! Why don't you try the Ximian users list? They've been helpful to me in the past. > > Thanks in advance for

Re: Linux 2.4.14 and Integrated IPtables?

2001-12-13 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi, There is a package called iptables in woody / sid that you need to install to be able to make use of it. HTH, Shri On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 23:57, Bender, Jeff wrote: > > I just recently upgraded my kernel to Linux 2.4.14 with the IPTables > compilied into the kernel. Supposedly it comes in

gimp 1.2/unstable

2001-12-13 Thread Jens Gecius
Hi folks! I just started scanning a couple of negatives at 1600dpi and am trying to work with them in the gimp. Unfortunately, I don't see the gimp being nice to memory. I have 1G on board, a 768M swap partition, and /tmp has another 950M free. Alls available (swap actually was never used). Now

Re: GnomeICU, Gaim, Gabber and alike

2001-12-13 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, I can't be for sure (i don't use icq), but I know that jabber changed some icq stuff, and gaim did too (it says to use the oscar plugin i believe...). Sorry i'm so vague, but hopefully that's a start. Cameron Matheson On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 10:31, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, >

Re: Latest GnuCash .debs

2001-12-13 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 04:52:23PM -0800, Charles Baker wrote: | Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but fixes/improvements developed in | unstable take two weeks to get into testing. Anything that is broken | in unstable usually gets fixed very rapidly. Yes, but also remember that (in theory at lea

gnomecc capplets (II)

2001-12-13 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi to all, almost one week ago I sent the email below to the list without any response. May be this time I'll be more lucky! Thanks in advance for the help, Sincerely Marcelo On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 07:51:53PM -0200, chiappa wrote: > Dear debianers, > > after installed the last version of t

Re: Weird problem installing Debian

2001-12-13 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I've gotten this problem many times w/ the Etherlink III. For some reason the card doesn't seem to work w/ debian's factory kernel in PnP mode. I hate PnP anyway, so I disable that (there's a utility to do this on 3com's site. Cameron Matheson On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 03:30, Andrew Pritchar

Re: [kmail] yes, it's stuffed

2001-12-13 Thread Andrew Thorne
- Original Message - From: "Alec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Daniel Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Cc: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 8:47 AM Subject: Re: [kmail] yes, it's stuffed > On Wednesday 12 December 2001 07:50 am, Dan

Re: Latest GnuCash .debs

2001-12-13 Thread Charles Baker
--- Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found .debs of the latest GnuCash at > www.gnucash.org, but no discussion > of what version of Debian they are for. > > Any chance these will work on woody? > > -- > Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 843-745-3154

configuring my network settings

2001-12-13 Thread spongyboy
Hello. I am brand new to this. When replying to me, you may write me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and share your ideas about my problem. I have a c309 ether net card. This is hooked up to a hub. The hub goes into a fire wall box. The fire wall box is what is attached to a d s l modem. But the linux b

Re: php4 parameter problems

2001-12-13 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, in this case, I can get $test_par. My problem is, if I just use "test.php?test_par=aaa" to get the parameter value or "test.php?111+222+333" to get argument values, they are ok if they do not both appear in the url. But if they both exist in the url, say, test.php?111+222+&test_parm=valu

Re: Powerchute APC software for potato

2001-12-13 Thread nate
> I managed to get this running under Mandrake by using the Redhat > rpm, but under potato I get the following error: > > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version > of RPM error: PowerChutePlus-4.5.3-1_RedHat.i386.rpm cannot be > installed > > I'm used to Powerchute and

Re: Linux 2.4.14 and Integrated IPtables?

2001-12-13 Thread nate
> > I just recently upgraded my kernel to Linux 2.4.14 with the > IPTables compilied into the kernel. Supposedly it comes integrated > into the kernel. I looked everywhere for the iptables binary and > couldn't find it. I did a 'find / -name iptables' and even an > 'updatedb' then 'locate iptabl

ACPI (was: Re: system hang while using Gimp aggressively)

2001-12-13 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 22:25, Matt wrote: > As for your freezing problem, if you're running ext2 or some other > filesystem that gets damaged (sometimes) when you don't shutdown, try > installing ACPI for your system power button. This way, if X freezes > you can press the power button and your sy

Linux 2.4.14 and Integrated IPtables?

2001-12-13 Thread Bender, Jeff
I just recently upgraded my kernel to Linux 2.4.14 with the IPTables compilied into the kernel. Supposedly it comes integrated into the kernel. I looked everywhere for the iptables binary and couldn't find it. I did a 'find / -name iptables' and even an 'updatedb' then 'locate iptables'. No bin

Re: No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-13 Thread csj
On Friday 14 December 2001 04:31, Brian Nelson wrote: > There's no need to install libguppi13 unless you really want to use > the gnucash deb in unstable.  It's just as easy to built your own > deb, which will link gnucash against whatever libguppi/libgal/etc you > have on your system.  That way yo

Re: Printing HOWTOs a problem. Newbie #61

2001-12-13 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:26:55AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | Hi, | | I print out some of the HOWTOs for reading. | | say ... | | $ zless /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Net-HOWTO.txt.gz | pr -o4 | lpr | | After a few pages the printing suddenly slips down the page and is | then acro

an XFree86 problem, an xscreensaver problem, followed by an Enlightenment problem

2001-12-13 Thread Seneca Cunningham
These are three problems that occured in relatively quick succession in the listed order: 1.XFree stopped using its global xinitrc file. It used it a few times, then I changed it from using xserver-vga16 to xserver-svga. Any way to get my computer to start using it again? 2.

Re: auto laptop interfaces [ was: apt-get update: Could not connect...]

2001-12-13 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:30:09PM -0800, Greg Wiley wrote: | On Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:58 PM, dman wrote: | | > The only problem left (for me) is : how can it automatically | > determine whether or not to use DHCP (that is, is the link from home | > or not). I don't think that can be aut

dnscache and local network

2001-12-13 Thread Américo Rocha
Hi all, I'm quite a newbie using djbdns.. What i want, is a simple setup: i want all the computers resolving names, on my computer, wich is connected to the internet, and running dnscache. Then o would want all the computers in my intranet, accessing a tinydns server to resolve their host

Re: cdrdao question

2001-12-13 Thread csj
On Friday 14 December 2001 05:51, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > can I use cdrdao to make an identical copy of a vcd cd > and dvd cd ? Simple answer: no. Qualified answer: another program uses it as a backend. Check out: http://vcdimager.org. You can even apt-get the second part of the URL from uns

Re: Mail problem

2001-12-13 Thread dman
(sorry for the bad quoting, I seem to have missed the beginning of the thread) | =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=F6geli_Marc?= said: | I use Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 and the Exim MTA. The problem is that | every e-mail I send to my server ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) stays in my

Re: auto laptop interfaces [ was: apt-get update: Could not connect...]

2001-12-13 Thread Martin Emrich
If anyone is interested - This is my Script to do this job (I've linked it into rc2.d/): (Sorry for the german messages) it detects if my LAN PC Card is plugged in, and if it is, is sets up the network to my Linux Router at home. It also restores the resolv.conf file, because dhclient overwrit

Re: auto laptop interfaces [ was: apt-get update: Could not connect...]

2001-12-13 Thread Greg Wiley
On Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:58 PM, dman wrote: > The only problem left (for me) is : how can it automatically > determine whether or not to use DHCP (that is, is the link from home > or not). I don't think that can be automated (GPS ;-)?). What I > really need to do is configure dhcpd at h

Re: Mail problem

2001-12-13 Thread Paul Mackinney
nate muttered: > =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=F6geli_Marc?= said: > > Hi everybody > > > > I use Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 and the Exim MTA. The problem is that > > every e-mail I send to my server ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) stays in my > > "incoming" folder at "/var/spool/exim". Shouldn't this e-mail be > > forwardet to

Re: Printing HOWTOs a problem. Newbie #61

2001-12-13 Thread Greg Wiley
On Thursday, December 13, 2001 2:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I print out some of the HOWTOs for reading. > > say ... > > $ zless /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Net-HOWTO.txt.gz | pr -o4 | lpr > > After a few pages the printing suddenly slips down the page and is then across > the tear l

Re: computer hangs, how do I go about diagnosing?

2001-12-13 Thread nate
> It is a sid install, on newish hardware (athlon 1.4G) with a 2.4.14 > kernel. I updated to latest sid yesterday. newish as in brand new? has the system run anything else before the problems occur with no problems ? > Could someone clue me in on this, or at least point me towards > other trou

Re: Consensus on best tools to convert LPs&tapes to CDs ?.............

2001-12-13 Thread csj
On Thursday 13 December 2001 11:01, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hi ! > > > What is the collective experience of Debian users regarding the > > conversion of LPs, reel-to-reel tapes and cassette tapes to CDs ? > > I recently used gramofile which is very nice: it detects track > boundaries and can filte

Re: Sending mail from bash scripts

2001-12-13 Thread nate
> Is there any easy way to send a message complete with subject and > body from a bash script? I want to run something simple from cron, > but can't seem to get the format down just right... > what about echo "my message" | mail -s "my subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED] many of my bash scripts output

Re: Sending mail from bash scripts

2001-12-13 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 05:46:05PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote (1.00): > Is there any easy way to send a message complete with subject and body from > a bash script? I want to run something simple from cron, but can't seem to > get the format down just right... mail -s "My subject" [EMAIL P

Re: AGP speed?

2001-12-13 Thread nate
> What's the story hrere? Do I need to tweak some config file to get > this utilized? Both in X, and in frambuffer, are of interest to me > > The card's are Radeon LE's, if it matters. first, track down the drivers and see if they support 4X mode. not all of the drivers do. nvidia drivers have

Powerchute APC software for potato

2001-12-13 Thread Dougie Nisbet
I managed to get this running under Mandrake by using the Redhat rpm, but under potato I get the following error: only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM error: PowerChutePlus-4.5.3-1_RedHat.i386.rpm cannot be installed I'm used to Powerchute and quite like it.

sendmail & BCC all outbound messages

2001-12-13 Thread nate
i coulda sworn i have seen this somewhere. im trying to configure a sendmail system(debian woody) to cc/bcc/copy *all* outbound messages to a certain email address. at first i thought it was the MeToo option but that doesn't seem to be the right one. running searches i can't find what im looking f

Sending mail from bash scripts

2001-12-13 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Is there any easy way to send a message complete with subject and body from a bash script? I want to run something simple from cron, but can't seem to get the format down just right...

Re: system hang while using Gimp aggressively

2001-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Reavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 08:44:54 -0500, Paul Reavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was working on some large (600dpi) images with lots of layers in the > > > Gimp, and had bumped up its image cache to 256MB to reduce > > >

Re: vim, remote (ftp) editing

2001-12-13 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:47:52PM -0800, Richard Weil wrote: | Does anyone have experience with the new vim 6.0 (in | testing) feature of being able to edit a file via ftp? | I invoke the command per the documentation, but | instead of simply using ftp, it appears to use rcp | and/or ssh, which is

Printing HOWTOs a problem. Newbie #61

2001-12-13 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, I print out some of the HOWTOs for reading. say ... $ zless /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Net-HOWTO.txt.gz | pr -o4 | lpr After a few pages the printing suddenly slips down the page and is then across the tear line of the continuous stationary that I use. This has happened on

Re: system hang while using Gimp aggressively

2001-12-13 Thread Matt
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace didn't work, neither did cntrl-alt-delete. In > general these both work. I'm using gnome-panel, enlightenment, and a > fair pile of stuff - it's my work/development machine. So narrowing > this down is hard. See my other post - I'm getting crashes besides the > gimp, so now thi

Re: emu10k1 troubles...

2001-12-13 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
To a previous question about /dev, I don't usually use devfs on this machine but to findout what the kernel was seeing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ ls /mnt/sound/ dsp dsp1 midi mixer Now to see what of this is really in /dev: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ ls -l /dev/{dsp,dsp1,midi,mixer} ls: /dev/midi:

Re: kernel suddenly not linking

2001-12-13 Thread Brian Warkentin
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Sven Schumacher wrote: > You wrote: > > Ach. Looks like I'm not the only one. > > > > I gather that the linker is is now less forgiving. > > > Oh thanks... I hoped for this message... since hours I tried to compile, > thought even, that I try to use a broken module, but it

Re: auto laptop interfaces [ was: apt-get update: Could not connect...]

2001-12-13 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:51:19PM -0800, Greg Wiley wrote: | On Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:26 PM, dman wrote: | | > Usually this means your network interface isn't up. (like if I turn | > on the laptop, but forget to "sudo ifup eth0" first) | | In case you're interested, here's a strategy

Re: cvsup GUI mode bug? - no GUI in GNOME 1.4 . . .

2001-12-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:30:04PM -0700, Jeff Vincent wrote: > > With the -g option ommitted, it seems to spin for a bit when running > 'cvsup' and then quits. I see NO GUI whatsoever, no errors, it just > doesn't do anything. There may be something else I don't understand or > is missing from

cdrdao question

2001-12-13 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, can I use cdrdao to make an identical copy of a vcd cd and dvd cd ? Thanks, = S.KIEU http://shopping.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Shopping - Free CDs for thousands of Priority Shoppers!

kernel compilation novice

2001-12-13 Thread Thomas Kral
Hello deb comunity, I have just compiled my first custom kernel image using kernel package while sticking to the instructions found in /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz Generally success, it boots and works, however I wish to have answered a few questions. a) instruction says to use fakeroot t

cvsup GUI mode bug? - no GUI in GNOME 1.4 . . .

2001-12-13 Thread Jeff Vincent
I'm running on Debian (woody-testing) and trying to use cvsup and cvsupd to keep two systems sync'd. I have never used either before so I don't fully understand everything yet. I got the server up (I thought) , but I couldn't get the client to pull the stuff. Finally, I saw some reference to the

Re: kernel suddenly not linking

2001-12-13 Thread Sven Schumacher
You wrote: > Ach. Looks like I'm not the only one. > > I gather that the linker is is now less forgiving. > Oh thanks... I hoped for this message... since hours I tried to compile, thought even, that I try to use a broken module, but it looks just like your error. I compiled 2.4.16 several times

Re: Kmail bug

2001-12-13 Thread Wayne Sitton
At the advice of a different user I upgraded to the kmail from unstable. It seems there is A bug in the earlier version of Kmail that was discussed on the Kmail user list. Since upgrading I have not had the problem. Wayne On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 19:52, George Dancheff wrote: > I guess that there

Re: Changing the mail spoolfile

2001-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
mdevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have changed where procmail puts mail for each user with the following > settings in /etc/procmailrc: > PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin > MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # all mailboxes are in mail/ > DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox > LOGFILE=/dev/null > SHELL=/bin/sh > > So

Re: auto laptop interfaces [ was: apt-get update: Could not connect...]

2001-12-13 Thread Greg Wiley
On Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:26 PM, dman wrote: > Usually this means your network interface isn't up. (like if I turn > on the laptop, but forget to "sudo ifup eth0" first) In case you're interested, here's a strategy to configure laptop ethernics automatically--even if you have a hardware

Re: Sharing dotfiles between diverse accounts

2001-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have about four completely different login accounts that I use > regularly. They may as well be in separate universes; one is on my > laptop, for example, while another will let me log in on most of the > machines on the main MIT campus (with a fairly

vim, remote (ftp) editing

2001-12-13 Thread Richard Weil
Does anyone have experience with the new vim 6.0 (in testing) feature of being able to edit a file via ftp? I invoke the command per the documentation, but instead of simply using ftp, it appears to use rcp and/or ssh, which isn't setup on the server I'm ftp'ing into. Is there some Debian default w

Re: tin and the resolver..

2001-12-13 Thread Greg Wiley
On Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the problem is that despite the fact I have the > correct order in /etc/host.conf (host,bind) and all the entries in > /etc/hosts properly configured in every machine on my network tin tries to > query the dns for my local nntp se

Re: No GnuCash in woody?

2001-12-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > The gnucash package is a mess due to the rapidly changing libs in its > > dependencies. ATM, you'd need to pull down the source from unstable > > and build it against the libraries on your system (the deb in unstable > > is un

Re: Weird problem installing Debian

2001-12-13 Thread Steve Kieu
> It's got a 3Com Etherlink III card in it. Not a bad > card, well supported. The The best way I think is, you should compile your own kernel and modules, for your cards. First of all examine the current situation by looking at the log some where or the console when you try to insert the modules

Re: apt-get update: Could not connect...

2001-12-13 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:49:50PM -0500, Rudolf Dovicin wrote: | Hello. | When I want to update Packages.gz files by "apt-get update", | I can see messages like: | | Could not connect to http://ftp ... | Err http://ftp ... | Something wicked happend resolving 'ftp ... | Err http://ftp ... Us

slrn + leafnode in the same host

2001-12-13 Thread Roberto Diaz
Hi! I am having troubles in my local network.. I was using slrn to read my news the nttp server was configured in another machine (all are debian-potatos) I dont remember to have been done something special and all was working very nicely.. but today I have installed another leafnode for my laptop

tin and the resolver..

2001-12-13 Thread Roberto Diaz
I am trying to use tin for my laptop in my local network (I havent a local dns working for it) the problem is that despite the fact I have the correct order in /etc/host.conf (host,bind) and all the entries in /etc/hosts properly configured in every machine on my network tin tries to query the dns

globbing and comments in /etc/apt/preferences

2001-12-13 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Hi, I have two questions related to file pattern matching and specifying comments in /etc/apt/preferences 1) I would like to pin all jed packages so that they don't get upgraded because I made som personal modifications to them. Those packages are jed, jed-common, jed-sl and xjed. I thought I

Re: Consensus on best tools to convert LPs&tapes to CDs ?.............

2001-12-13 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi ! > What is the collective experience of Debian users regarding the > conversion of LPs, reel-to-reel tapes and cassette tapes to CDs ? I recently used gramofile which is very nice: it detects track boundaries and can filter ticks and cracks from LP sources. The author loves his user interf

Re: program balks at 3.9GB file

2001-12-13 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi ! > > > lav2wav +p /xb/base/input-20011207-1948.avi | mp2enc -o audio.mp2 > > >INFO: Norm set to PAL > > > **ERROR: Error opening /xb/base/input-20011207-1948.avi: File too > > > large **ERROR: EOF in WAV header > > > **ERROR: failure reading WAV file > > Let me see. I tried something like

Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

2001-12-13 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:46:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I've just installed wood on a machine with an ATI Radeon LE video card. The > I built a new kernel (2.4.16) using kernel-package. > > First I tried enabling the framebuffer Radeon support in the kernel, but > the results w

Re: kernel suddenly not linking

2001-12-13 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Brandon N wrote: > > --- Greg Wiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all- > > > > I have successfully built the 2.4.16 kernel several > > times but suddenly cannot. I am running an up-to- > > date Woody and am wondering if some recent package > > update(s) might be the pro

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-13 Thread ben
On Thursday 13 December 2001 07:03 am, dman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:30:33AM -0800, ben wrote: > | i'm still getting this: > | > | Received: from ben by localhost with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) > > This is normal and expected. The Received: headers are there so that > you can track

Re: kernel suddenly not linking

2001-12-13 Thread Brandon N
--- Greg Wiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all- > > I have successfully built the 2.4.16 kernel several > times but suddenly cannot. I am running an up-to- > date Woody and am wondering if some recent package > update(s) might be the problem. Does anyone have > any idea what would cause the

Re: system hang while using Gimp aggressively

2001-12-13 Thread Paul Reavis
Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 08:44:54 -0500, Paul Reavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was working on some large (600dpi) images with lots of layers in the > > Gimp, and had bumped up its image cache to 256MB to reduce > > swapping. In the middle of a large copy, it froze x an

Re: Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-13 Thread David Z Maze
Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MC> If I think this is what you want then all you would be is on the MC> server that is exporting the NFS shares, remove 'no_root_squash' MC> from the /etc/exports file on the shares you want to export That doesn't solve the problem of user A poking at user B

computer hangs, how do I go about diagnosing?

2001-12-13 Thread Paul Reavis
My computer is experiencing intermittent hangs. Generally I'm doing something in X, but I really have no idea what the real pattern is. I left my machine on last night and it hung overnight. I suspected hardware, but ran cpuburn (`burnK7`) for almost two hours with no trouble, and then ran a full

Re: Printing to HP Laserjet 1100

2001-12-13 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 04:37:01PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 10:31, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > > Hi all, > > > >I have a HP Laserjet 1100 printer. It works ok with magicfilter. > >In the Debian machine with magicprinter, it prints about 2 pages > > per minute. > >

Re: Kmail bug

2001-12-13 Thread George Dancheff
I guess that there is something wrong with your inbox file(s), cd $HOME/Mail mv inbox inbox.bak touch inbox Then fire up your KMail and it will load both inbox and inbox.bak so you can select & move your stuff from inbox to inbox.bak within KMail. It should be correct now. --- Jose Manuel Pere

apt-get update: Could not connect...

2001-12-13 Thread Rudolf Dovicin
Hello. When I want to update Packages.gz files by "apt-get update", I can see messages like: Could not connect to http://ftp ... Err http://ftp ... Something wicked happend resolving 'ftp ... Err http://ftp ... but I can browse on these servers by lynx. Where is a problem? My /etc/apt/app.con

Re: Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-13 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 04:13:56PM +, Mark Cooke wrote (1.00): > If I think this is what you want then all you would be is on the server that > is exporting the > NFS shares, > remove 'no_root_squash' from the /etc/exports file on the shares you want to > export This doesn't actually gain

Re: Printing to HP Laserjet 1100

2001-12-13 Thread Michel Loos
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 10:31, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > Hi all, > >I have a HP Laserjet 1100 printer. It works ok with magicfilter. >In the Debian machine with magicprinter, it prints about 2 pages > per minute. >Using the driver that came with it, in a machine with other Pseudo-OS >

Re: Gericom Laptop: X Problem with the Screensetting

2001-12-13 Thread Wayne Sitton
I have an Asus laptop with the same problem. X and sis630 don't work very well together. The best way to do this is by recompiling the kernel and enable the framebuffer. Once that is done add to your lilo.conf vga=791 remember to run lilo before you reboot you should be able to 1025x768x32 and

Re: Win2000 , Debian Dual Boot

2001-12-13 Thread Paul Mackinney
I've had great success using the Windows NT/2000 boot mechanism. Windows seems to like it and Linux doesn't complain. 1. Configure LILO to install the boot block to the beginning of the root partition instead of the master boot record. For example, if root is /dev/hda5, you'd use: root=/

Re: Re:_spurious_8259A_interrupt:_IRQ7_??

2001-12-13 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
8259 is an PIC ( peripheral interrupt controler ). Its responsible by telling the cpu ( with apropriate information ) that some hardware ( HD, kyb, network adapter etc) is needing cpu attention for some data transfer/information processing. On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Wayne Topa wrote: > Stan Brown([E

Re: moving to Debian

2001-12-13 Thread Matt Greer
On Thursday 13 December 2001 01:25 am, Kurt Lieber wrote: > >This would > > require unstable sources in my source.list file, right? > > No -- you'd need testing sources in your sources.list file. Oops, that's what I meant :) > Honestly, I'd recommend skipping testing and going straight to unstabl

Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371

2001-12-13 Thread Didier Malenfant
Input us the Mpeg Layer 1/2/3 and it's enabled. Output, i've tried both liboss and libesd because some people were saying that liboss is locked by the Gnome Sound Manager sometimes. -D On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 05:38, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Didier Malenfant wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18

libXext.so.6 problems in sid

2001-12-13 Thread Matt
Hello, After a package update on my sid system the other day I suddenly started getting errors having something to do with libc6 with many of my programs. Anyone else? As I'm not too familiar with this kind of problem, I was wondering if someone could help me figure it out and possibly fix it. O

Re: kernel suddenly not linking

2001-12-13 Thread Greg Wiley
Ach. Looks like I'm not the only one. I gather that the linker is is now less forgiving. -g - Original Message - From: "Greg Wiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 9:34 AM Subject: kernel suddenly not linking > Hi all- > > I have successfully built the 2

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