Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Christoph Simon
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 20:38:49 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > - It attempts to replace, not augment, an existing, established, > viable, useful, and effective standard. This is almost always a bad > idea. The far better tack: provided augmented functionality. If > your solution

Re: DHCPXX kernel 2.4.14 reiserfs potato/testing

2001-12-24 Thread David Z Maze
Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LH> I installed a a base fileserver this morning using Potato Reiser boot LH> floppies. Huh? (Potato's initial release long predates the reiserfs fad; potato doesn't natively support the 2.4 kernel, so you either need a moderately-patched system or a pa

Re: DHCPÂ   kernel 2.4.14 reiserfs potato/testing

2001-12-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Lance Hoffmeyer: > I installed a a base fileserver this morning using Potato Reiser boot > floppies. Everything went fine. I am on a DHCP system and during > installation the IP addr was assigned and I had internet access. I > installed the rest of the files using Debian/testing. I cr

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 08:57:27PM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > dman writes: > > Personally it is the emacs-centric interface. > > What is emacs-centric about (N)ext, (P)revious, (U)p, (S)earch, and ENTER? How about the fact that NPU have no relationship to your _own_ path thro

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 02:44:17AM +0100, Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 03:07:41PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > ... > > I ***DESPISE*** info. The pinfo alternative helps somewhat, but the > > basic concept still sucks. It should be scrapped for a searcha

networking interfaces map-scheme

2001-12-24 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am having problems getting ipmasq working with 2.4.14 kernel and iptables so I wanted to created two interfaces for one of my machines until I get ipmasq working properly. One interface is a standalone for internet use One interface is masq'd for testing if Ipmasq is working In /etc/network/i

DHCP  kernel 2.4.14 reiserfs potato/testing

2001-12-24 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I installed a a base fileserver this morning using Potato Reiser boot floppies. Everything went fine. I am on a DHCP system and during installation the IP addr was assigned and I had internet access. I installed the rest of the files using Debian/testing. I created 5 10G partitions and installed

Re: Move from RedHat to Debian

2001-12-24 Thread Craig Dickson
D. wrote: > I do not agree with the general consensus that the > Debian installation is that hard. No it does not see > how much disk space you have like Mandrake and then > install what it thinks that you need, it leaves that > up to you. It's not that the Debian installation process is hard, b

Re: Move from RedHat to Debian

2001-12-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-Dec-2001 Petre Daniel wrote: I'll probably try a "spare" machine using debian, and see how that goes. Thanks > > The debian installation process can be diffucult for a newbie,but if > you > take it easy and open your eyes you can end up with

Re: Move from RedHat to Debian

2001-12-24 Thread Petre Daniel
The debian installation process can be diffucult for a newbie,but if you take it easy and open your eyes you can end up with a nice debian machine.. At 07:36 PM 12/24/01 -0800, D. wrote: I do not agree with the general consensus that the Debian installation is that hard.  No it does not see how mu

Re: Move from RedHat to Debian

2001-12-24 Thread D.
I do not agree with the general consensus that the Debian installation is that hard. No it does not see how much disk space you have like Mandrake and then install what it thinks that you need, it leaves that up to you. Don --- "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED M

Re: .fetchmailrc problems

2001-12-24 Thread Jijo Jose A
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 07:44:52PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I made the following entry in my .fetcmailrc : > poll pop3.eth.net proto POP3 user username password mypass > > This leads to an error : > fetchmail :Command not supported . Valid list of commands : UIDL , > ... > fetchmail

Funny fonto after X4

2001-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
I get funny console when I have X4 in VT7. Bottom of small letter Y is cut as well as many other fonmts on console seems loosing bottom part. I use tdfx card. I can recover after X4. Just annoying but nothing serious. Any idea for avoiding this ? Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread John Hasler
dman writes: > Personally it is the emacs-centric interface. What is emacs-centric about (N)ext, (P)revious, (U)p, (S)earch, and ENTER? I use both info and Emacs and don't find info Emacs-like at all when not run from inside Emacs. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wis

Re: how to store static data in a multi-thread program?

2001-12-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 01:55, Andrew Makhorin wrote: > I've got a multi-thread program (in C) running under Debian/GNU Linux. > And I need to store a pointer somewhere in a system place related to an > particular thread in order to pass it to other routines running in the > same thread. In other words

Re: https with galeon/mozilla

2001-12-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 19:57, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 07:12:46AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: >> >> Had posted this problem and got some pointers. Am back with some >> questions. Kindly bear with me. >> >> I have installed mozilla 0.9.6-8 on my woody machine

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 02:44:17AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: | On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 03:07:41PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | ... | > I ***DESPISE*** info. The pinfo alternative helps somewhat, but the | > basic concept still sucks. It should be scrapped for a searchable | > format based

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-24 Thread Bud Rogers
50. Typical North American mongrel, which is to say profoundly mixed, mostly western European ancestry. Husband and father, scouter, ham. Amateur philosopher in the true meaning of both. Closet linguist. I love to read, mostly speculative ficition. I like most kinds of music but especiall

Re: https with galeon/mozilla

2001-12-24 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 07:12:46AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > Had posted this problem and got some pointers. Am back with some > questions. Kindly bear with me. > > I have installed mozilla 0.9.6-8 on my woody machine and galeon 1.0-2. > Everything works fine except that I c

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 03:07:41PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: ... > I ***DESPISE*** info. The pinfo alternative helps somewhat, but the > basic concept still sucks. It should be scrapped for a searchable > format based on HTML, XHTML, or preferably something like DocBook > capable of creating

https with galeon/mozilla

2001-12-24 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hello, Had posted this problem and got some pointers. Am back with some questions. Kindly bear with me. I have installed mozilla 0.9.6-8 on my woody machine and galeon 1.0-2. Everything works fine except that I cannot access the sites supporting https, like secure login at yahoo mail. I have inst

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:47:41PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 06:37:25PM +0100, Martin Emrich wrote: > > | When newbies ask something, they are often asked to RTFM... > > | > > | But where do I find the Information ? Very often, neiter

Re: boot floppy doesn't work

2001-12-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya david i don't know if the cp trick will work or not.. or if oyu figured out your dd problems.. ( i havent tried "cp" ) to make a bootable floppy.. dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.x of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 if you didnt compile that kernel yourself or if / is different than wher

Re: Playing cds in SId

2001-12-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 18:02, Brian Nelson wrote: > Henrik Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 17:03, Henrik Enberg wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I just upgraded to sid from potato and can no longer play

Re: Sendmail Help

2001-12-24 Thread nate
> Could someone offer some help as to what sendmail is having > troubles with? > Dec 24 17:25:27 linux1 sendmail[20429]: RAA20429: > Authentication-Warning: linux1.jdweb.com: nfurman owned process > doing -bs thats just informational. you can turn this off by editing the Privacyflags in sendmai

Re: damn, damn, damn installation!!

2001-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 11:24:22PM -0500, Luiz Afonso B de Campos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear Sirs > > > > I had nearly installed GNU Linux Debian 2.2 potato version when in the > step of installation "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules" the > machine did stopped when I typing in

Re: debian 2.1 -> 2.2 upgrade woes

2001-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 07:30:11AM -0600, Pete Templin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I did a live upgrade (production server, company doesn't have funds for a > development or transition server) on a box from Debian 2.1 to Debian 2.2, > and reminded myself why I don't like to upgrade boxes. I'v

Re: Playing cds in SId

2001-12-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Henrik Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 17:03, Henrik Enberg wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I just upgraded to sid from potato and can no longer play cds as a > >> regular user. I am in both the audio and cdrom grou

Re: Playing cds in SId

2001-12-24 Thread Henrik Enberg
Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 17:03, Henrik Enberg wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I just upgraded to sid from potato and can no longer play cds as a >> regular user. I am in both the audio and cdrom groups, which was >> sufficient on potato, but no go. What am

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:07:41 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: >on Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 06:37:25PM +0100, Martin Emrich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: >> Hi All ! >> >> When newbies ask something, they are often asked to RTFM... > >I consider this acceptable only IITTNTRFMTFR [1] > Thanks, Karsten. Wh

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Monday 24 December 2001 12:37, Martin Emrich wrote: > Hi All ! > > When newbies ask something, they are often asked to RTFM... > > But where do I find the Information ? Very often, neiter #man > foo nor the contents of the /usr/doc/foo are very helpful. > Where is aditional documentation usually

selam 2

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Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
22, er, 32, er, 33 year old (how'd that happen?) WM. In the heart (pit?) of the Silicon Valley right now, a stone's throw from one of the first Internet nodes (SRI). Not likely to be found at this particular ICBM coordinate set much longer, though I'm likely to remain in northern California. Use

Re: init

2001-12-24 Thread csj
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 06:28, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 12:52:40AM -0500, Brian Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm sure I missed this memo, but why is init suddenly showing in > > the process list as `init [2] --init'? Ie., with the spaces and > > --init

Re: Playing cds in SId

2001-12-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 17:03, Henrik Enberg wrote: > > Hi, > > I just upgraded to sid from potato and can no longer play cds as a > regular user. I am in both the audio and cdrom groups, which was > sufficient on potato, but no go. What am I missing? Probably the right group owner of your cdro

Re: OT: which worm is this?

2001-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:29:27PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 12:21:41PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:39:59PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > | > > | > I have a friend who uses windows and aol. Yesterday he fell for th

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, yugami wrote: > www.linuxdoc.org > www.linuxnewbie.org Also http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/ (Debian-specific) Faheem.

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 06:37:25PM +0100, Martin Emrich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All ! > > When newbies ask something, they are often asked to RTFM... I consider this acceptable only IITTNTRFMTFR [1] > But where do I find the Information ? Very often, neiter #man foo nor > the contents o

Playing cds in SId

2001-12-24 Thread Henrik Enberg
Hi, I just upgraded to sid from potato and can no longer play cds as a regular user. I am in both the audio and cdrom groups, which was sufficient on potato, but no go. What am I missing? Henrik -- Will the highways on the Internet become more few? -- George W. Bush

artsd high CPU utilization spikes

2001-12-24 Thread list3
Hi. For the last couple of days I've experienced high CPU utilization spikes from /usr/bin/artsd. The CPU utilization would jump up to 75% every 10 or 15 secs. I never saw anything like it before. It freezes up everything I do. Killing it solves all latency problems. I have libarts 2.2.2-9.

Re: Move from RedHat to Debian

2001-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 09:27:31AM -0800, Rodney D. Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Are there any guides, etc, in the moving from RedHat over to Debian? > > I'm using RH 6.2, but am seriously looking at leaving that distro. My own solution

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-24 Thread Nic Strong
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 16:54, Brian Nelson wrote: > > No matter what OS platform you have to use for your job, there is no > excuse to ever use a broken MS mailer. Hopefully no one on this list is > ignorant enough to argue that any MS mailer is even halfway decent or > acceptable to use. You can

Re: Debian Standard Time ?

2001-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 02:24:04PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How do you change system date for debian . Debian shows me 7:06 PM , > when it actually is 2:25 PM . I think they start off from GMT , but , > why this absurdity ? Win98 shows it right (well at least he is

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > also sprach Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.24.0101 +0100]: > > > > Sure, and someone else can answer them. Besides, when's the last > > > > time a question was

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-24 Thread Petre Daniel
I have to use windows cause i have a crappy winmodem,but as soon as a new release of debian will appear i'll burn the cds and put a nice deb server at home.. yeah,outlooku is crap.Eudora is very nice,The Bat and Pegasus too..Calypso also.. c yah. At 04:51 AM 12/25/01 +0800, csj wrote: On Monday 24

Sendmail Help

2001-12-24 Thread Nick Furman
Could someone offer some help as to what sendmail is having troubles with? This is the log file from a message sent to a local user on the SMTP server (linux1) The incoming mail server is white, which is refusing connections from linux1. Dec 24 17:25:27 linux1 sendmail[20429]: RAA20429: Authenti

Re: init

2001-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 12:52:40AM -0500, Brian Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm sure I missed this memo, but why is init suddenly showing in the > process list as `init [2] --init'? Ie., with the spaces and --init > > This is on woody. My potato system isn't like this, so I was wondering

Re: OT: which worm is this?

2001-12-24 Thread Brian Nelson
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 12:21:41PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:39:59PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > | > > | > I have a friend who uses windows and aol. Yesterday he fell for the > | > hoax that says the long-filename

Re: C++: istream_iterator has no component named operator!=.

2001-12-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > int main() > > > { > > > ifstream input("main.cc"); > > > istream_iterator iter1(input), iter2, eof; > > > iter1 = find(iter1, iter2, "main()"); > > > iter2 = find(iter1, eof, "}"); > > > > These are your problem. If

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Linda Laubenheimer
Alec wrote: > > Try typing "info:/" into konqueror. This will give you something to read > until 2003. Otherwise, RTFM is sometimes accompanied by DAFS (Do a f* > search), which should be directing you to, say, > http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.os.linux.misc > with all google's searc

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-24 Thread Rachel Andrew
Quite radical. I'm just curious. I've never used Windows for Net access (browsing, email, etc.) Is the One Microsoft Way really the only way? I've heard / read there are non-Outlook options like Eudora, I use Eudora on doze and have been doing for the last 5 years. In that time I've never h

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Brian Nelson
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 06:37:25PM +0100, Martin Emrich wrote: > | Hi All ! > | > | When newbies ask something, they are often asked to RTFM... > | > | But where do I find the Information ? Very often, neiter #man foo nor > | the contents of the /usr/doc/foo a

Re: OT: which worm is this?

2001-12-24 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 12:21:41PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:39:59PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > | > I have a friend who uses windows and aol. Yesterday he fell for the | > hoax that says the long-filename support files are a virus and removed | > i

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-24 Thread csj
On Monday 24 December 2001 04:37, Geoff Ludwiczak wrote: > 17, male, english, still going to high-school, learning how to do > things the "debian way", hacking C programs, writing php, and > learning more about computers in general > > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 08:20:32PM +, Aniartia wrote: > > 2

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-24 Thread csj
On Monday 24 December 2001 11:19, Brian Nelson wrote: > > it happens quite a bunch as some of the most capable debianers are > > unfortunately stuck with jobs that force them to use windoze > > machines. > > Assuming most of us live in so-called "free" countries, we are free > to get another job th

Re: what happened to SysRq as kernel option?

2001-12-24 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Pollywog wrote: > I was unable to use SysRq and I discovered that it is not an option in the > 2.4.16 or 2.4.17 kernels, or is it? I am unable to find it though it is > still in the Documentation directory in the kernel sources. I ran 'make > config' and did not see it. You

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-24 Thread Pollywog
It was said on this list: Assuming most of us live in so-called "free" countries, we are free to get another job then. Or, lobby to change the brain-damage policies at their work. I can't imagine anyone wanting to work for a company that forces their workers to use broken, dangerous software.

Re: apt-get source?

2001-12-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > I did the apt-get source and it dropped the source in my current > directory. When I go to configure it doesn't build, missing > "/root/qt/debian/objprelink" and it doesn't get auto-configured to match > the paths etc of my pre-packaged version.

Re: kylix2 enterprise won't launch SOLVED

2001-12-24 Thread Thomas Kral
YES NOW IT WORKS Well my mistake of course, there were two libs affected by the patches concerned /lib/libc-2.1.3.so, and /lib/libdl-2.1.3.so I forgot about the latter. I should have really dpkg -i'ed the whole package I have built not just the files of ./i386-linux/libc6/lib reported as differen

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Brian Nelson wrote: > > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > also sprach Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.24.0101 +0100]: > > > Sure, and someone else can answer them. Besides, when's the last > > > time a question was asked by a Microsoft mailer user or an html > > > poste

what happened to SysRq as kernel option?

2001-12-24 Thread Pollywog
I was unable to use SysRq and I discovered that it is not an option in the 2.4.16 or 2.4.17 kernels, or is it? I am unable to find it though it is still in the Documentation directory in the kernel sources. I ran 'make config' and did not see it. thanks -- Andrew

Re: OT: which worm is this?

2001-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:39:59PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have a friend who uses windows and aol. Yesterday he fell for the > hoax that says the long-filename support files are a virus and removed > it. Today he saw that many copies of a gential enlargment spam > message we

Re: Where to slice a 2 gig drive ?

2001-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 02:41:15AM +, Frank Copeland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 22 Dec 01 23:44:12 GMT, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:39:39PM -0500, lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >> Ok..I'm fairly new to linux and extremely new to debian (was mandrake > >

Re: C++: istream_iterator has no component named operator!=.

2001-12-24 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > What am I doing wrong? > Summary: > > Breakpoint 1, main () at main.cc:15 > 15 for (; iter1 != iter2; iter1++) cout << *iter1; > (gdb) p iter1 != iter2 > Structure has no component named operator!=. > (gdb) AFAIK iterators aren't pointers

Re: X unstable with S3 server - fonts broken with SVGA server

2001-12-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Wookey wrote: Hi, At home I have a potato box. It's an x86 PC, P233MMX, 96Mb RAM, all pretty conventional except that the primary HD and floppy channels are dead (free motherboard :-) so they are served via an isa multi IO card. I can't get X to work reliably. The video card is a 'Diamond stea

Re: Anyone know what has happened to uk.debian.org

2001-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:04:06PM +, David Goodenough wrote: > It seems to have vanished. The FTP and HTTP servers both seem to be > down. Is this planned downtime or just a feature of the Christmas > break? Looks like it's back now. That machine has been a bit flaky for a long time (disk s

Re: Move from RedHat to Debian

2001-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 09:27:31AM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Are there any guides, etc, in the moving from RedHat over to Debian? > > I'm using RH 6.2, but am seriously looking at leaving that distro. I don't know of any, but, if you feel like writing up your experiences after you've done i

Re: Plip problems: do I need NFS server?

2001-12-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 03:36, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to set up plip on my desktop and laptop. Plip now runs, but > I'm not sure how to continue. > > I'm working through the NFS Howto, with moderate success only. Anything > else I should be reading? > > Question: is it essential to ha

pcmcia on woody (kernel 2.4.16) linksys pcmlm56

2001-12-24 Thread java guru
Hi., I am having problem with my linksys pcmlm56 pcmcia card getting setup and recognized. There is no trace of card in dmesg. Pardon me as I am novice for pcmcia, but how exactly its supposed to work ? My system seems to have problem loading i823*.o complaining something.. I appreciate any

Webalizer check only 1 dir

2001-12-24 Thread Dan Harik
Guys maybe i was blind reading the manual, i yes sorry in advance i have a site and bunch of dirs(so many that i don't know how many) the look like this www.eztatic.com/dir1 www.eztatic.com/dir2 www.eztatic.com/dir3 i want to make stats only for say www.eztatic.com/dir3 , but in

Re: upgrading woes (xfree and python)

2001-12-24 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:08:59PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: | Thus spake dman: | > What you want to do is install "python2.2" and "python1.5" and let | > "python-base" be removed. All python packages are versioned now (eg | > python1.5-tk and python2.2-tk), and also an unversioned package is | >

Webmin .debs

2001-12-24 Thread Adahma
I was previously running an older .88 version of Webmin that I had installed from source back when I was running Potato. I am now running Sid, and decided that since the debs always seem to be quite current for webmin, I would kill the old source install, and run with the Debian pkgs. I've now in

Re: Move from RedHat to Debian

2001-12-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Dec-2001 Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Rodney D. Myers: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Are there any guides, etc, in the moving from RedHat over to Debian? >> >> I'm using RH 6.2, but am seriously looking at leav

Re: Move from RedHat to Debian

2001-12-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Dec-2001 Craig Dickson wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > >> Are there any guides, etc, in the moving from RedHat over to Debian? >> >> I'm using RH 6.2, but am seriously looking at leaving that distro. > > I don't know of any proper documenta

Re: upgrading woes (xfree and python)

2001-12-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake dman: > What you want to do is install "python2.2" and "python1.5" and let > "python-base" be removed. All python packages are versioned now (eg > python1.5-tk and python2.2-tk), and also an unversioned package is > provided that just depends on the default versioned one (currently for

Re: how to prevent ppp to write nameserver entries to /etc/resolv.conf (SOLVED)

2001-12-24 Thread San Segkhoonthod
I just found it in pppconfig script, pretty easy, and thanks anyway. san On Tue, 2001-12-25 at 01:42, San Segkhoonthod wrote: > hi, > I'm setting up caching-only and I think it maybe better to prevent ppp > do that. But I don't know how. Anyhelp will be appriciated. > thanks, > san > >

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 06:37:25PM +0100, Martin Emrich wrote: | Hi All ! | | When newbies ask something, they are often asked to RTFM... | | But where do I find the Information ? Very often, neiter #man foo nor | the contents of the /usr/doc/foo are very helpful. Where is aditional | documenta

Re: upgrading woes (xfree and python)

2001-12-24 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: | My apt-sources is pointing to woody (upgrading from potato). | Problem #2: I'd like to install python 2.2 but apt-get wants to also | remove python1.5.2 which I want to retain. How can I have both on the | system at the same time? (I

how to prevent ppp to write nameserver entries to /etc/resolv.conf

2001-12-24 Thread San Segkhoonthod
hi, I'm setting up caching-only and I think it maybe better to prevent ppp do that. But I don't know how. Anyhelp will be appriciated. thanks, san

Re: upgrading woes (xfree and python)

2001-12-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Rick Pasotto: > My apt-sources is pointing to woody (upgrading from potato). > > Problem #1: I did 'apt-get install xfree86-common xserver-common' and > now X won't run because it can't find the config file. Where is the > configurator program? XFree86 -configure (as root) will give you

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-12-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 08:40, yugami wrote: > I had issues untill i changed the access to /dev/scd0, you need access to > both scd0 and sr0 for most applications. > > - Original Message - > From: "Patrik Modesto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "debian" > Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 2:57 PM

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-24 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 10:19:41AM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: | martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > also sprach Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.24.0101 +0100]: | > > Sure, and someone else can answer them. Besides, when's the last | > > time a question was asked by a Micro

Re: Move from RedHat to Debian

2001-12-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Rodney D. Myers: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Are there any guides, etc, in the moving from RedHat over to Debian? > > I'm using RH 6.2, but am seriously looking at leaving that distro. I haven't seen any guides, but this may give you a starting point - it's a

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 06:37:25PM +0100, Martin Emrich wrote: > When newbies ask something, they are often asked to RTFM... > > But where do I find the Information ? Very often, neiter #man foo nor > the contents of the /usr/doc/foo are very helpful. Where is aditional > documentation usually i

Re: new kernel option

2001-12-24 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Bonjour: Thanks for your messages: let me be more specific. I am trying to build a 2.2.19 kernel with the Debian kernel-package for a Tow Processors AMD computer with an RTL8139 ethernet card. The Mafile (`make menuconfig') chooses as pre-config file the file arch/i386/defc

Re: .fetchmailrc problems

2001-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Not that I know the answer... On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 07:44:52PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I made the following entry in my .fetcmailrc : > poll pop3.eth.net proto POP3 user username password mypass > > This leads to an error : > fetchmail :Command not supported . Valid list of comma

Re: Move from RedHat to Debian

2001-12-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Are there any guides, etc, in the moving from RedHat over to Debian? > > I'm using RH 6.2, but am seriously looking at leaving that distro. I don't know of any proper documentation addressing precisely that issue. I moved from Red Hat 6.2 to Debian over a year ago. It w

Re: Can't remove some packages

2001-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 07:14:37AM -0800, vIR_uS wrote: > i've got following problem: You should be asking these on debian-user, not debian-dpkg (which is a list for the development of the base package manager). I've redirected the thread. > when I try to remove wdm and gdm, I get a post-install

Re: .fetchmailrc problems

2001-12-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I made the following entry in my .fetcmailrc : > poll pop3.eth.net proto POP3 user username password mypass > > This leads to an error : > fetchmail :Command not supported . Valid list of commands : UIDL , > ... > fetchmail : fetching 94 mails for username > fe

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread yugami
www.linuxdoc.org www.linuxnewbie.org the documentation for various packages is on the website for those packages - Original Message - From: "Martin Emrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 12:37 PM Subject: Where do you RTFM ? > Hi All ! > > When newbies ask some

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Lev Lvovsky
linuxdoc.org for whole documentation groups.deja.com for specific questions (this list posts to usenet as muc.lists.debian.user methinks) -lev On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Martin Emrich wrote: > Hi All ! > > When newbies ask something, they are often asked to RTFM... > > But where do I find the Infor

Re: Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Alec
On Monday 24 December 2001 12:37 pm, Martin Emrich wrote: > Hi All ! > > When newbies ask something, they are often asked to RTFM... > > But where do I find the Information ? Very often, neiter #man foo nor > the contents of the /usr/doc/foo are very helpful. Where is aditional > documentation usua

Where do you RTFM ?

2001-12-24 Thread Martin Emrich
Hi All ! When newbies ask something, they are often asked to RTFM... But where do I find the Information ? Very often, neiter #man foo nor the contents of the /usr/doc/foo are very helpful. Where is aditional documentation usually installed ? Or do you know a good "getting-documentation-howto

Re: C++: istream_iterator has no component named operator!=.

2001-12-24 Thread Alec
On Monday 24 December 2001 11:37 am, Brian Nelson wrote: > Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What am I doing wrong? > > Summary: > > > > Breakpoint 1, main () at main.cc:15 > > 15 for (; iter1 != iter2; iter1++) cout << *iter1; > > (gdb) p iter1 != iter2 > > Structure has no compo

Move from RedHat to Debian

2001-12-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there any guides, etc, in the moving from RedHat over to Debian? I'm using RH 6.2, but am seriously looking at leaving that distro. Thanks - -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Member of Digital Freedom Alliance Amateur: KG6ANXGMR

Re: C++: istream_iterator has no component named operator!=.

2001-12-24 Thread Shaul Karl
> Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What am I doing wrong? > > Summary: > > > > Breakpoint 1, main () at main.cc:15 > > 15 for (; iter1 != iter2; iter1++) cout << *iter1; > > (gdb) p iter1 != iter2 > > Structure has no component named operator!=. > > (gdb) > > > > Full detai

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.24.1754 +0100]: > You can use mutt in cygwin, or Mozilla Mail if you have read/write access to the system... i know companies that operate on terminal server principle, or that lock down workstations to the point of no return. still, i even wor

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-24 Thread Brian Nelson
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.24.1619 +0100]: > > In my not so humble opinion, anyone that is spineless enough to put up > > with working in a forced MS environment is not worth listening to, and > > therefore I choose to ignore

Re: C++: istream_iterator has no component named operator!=.

2001-12-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What am I doing wrong? > Summary: > > Breakpoint 1, main () at main.cc:15 > 15 for (; iter1 != iter2; iter1++) cout << *iter1; > (gdb) p iter1 != iter2 > Structure has no component named operator!=. > (gdb) > > Full details: > > $ cat main.cc >

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.24.1619 +0100]: > In my not so humble opinion, anyone that is spineless enough to put up > with working in a forced MS environment is not worth listening to, and > therefore I choose to ignore them. i don't want to be on the side arguing for wi

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