Re: Advice for fetchmail & exim config

2001-12-29 Thread P Prince
Hey, If you're on a workstation, you probably don't need to be [or IMO, shouldn't be] running an MTA at all. You can install ssmtp and fetchmail/getmail, and may find that you no longer need an MTA at all. ssmtp is a replacement for sendmail that uses your ISP's smarthost to send all mail sent u

Re: Linksys router DHCP dhclient hostname

2001-12-29 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 10:27, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > No, the actual name is a single word with no spaces. > > send hostname "Linux" > > Lance > > On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 09:34, Casper Gielen wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 04:53:17PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > > I am using a Linksys rou

Re: how experimental is 1394 these days?

2001-12-29 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: > Santa brought us a MiniDV camcorder for Christmas, and I'm interested in > using linux to do some basic digital video editing (home videos, soccer > games, stupid stuff like that) > > I know IEEE 1394 support is still experimental, but my question is, ho

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2001-12-29 Thread Craig Dickson
William T Wilson wrote: > But then no one derives any real > benefit from having 0x37 placed at offset 0. That depends what memory address 0 is used for in the target platform. It may be a significant thing to the CPU, or to some memory-mapped peripheral, and therefore to the kernel. This is one

Re: "C" Manual

2001-12-29 Thread Craig Dickson
Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > I've seen a DOS programming book by Schildt that had void main() all > over the place, among the other things. That was 10 years ago, so I > (thankfully) can't remember those other things, nor the title of the > book. I learned C before Schildt started publishing (AFAIK),

Re: Advice for fetchmail & exim config

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 07:45:06PM -0800, scott worley wrote: | Hi, | | I seem to be one of those people you can't understand unix e-mail | configuration no matter how much I read, books, HOW-TO's etc. | | Trying to setup fetchmail & exim. ... | for exim all i did was add: | smarthost: ... |

Cant kill .deb package after wood upgrade

2001-12-29 Thread hanasaki
I upgraded to woody and have a package that wont die. I cant remove it or reinstall it. Help please. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[46]~ dpkg --purge --force-all snort (Reading database ... 29348 files and directories currently installed.) Removing snort ... /etc/init.d/snort: var: command not found dpkg:

Re: CD-ROM mount problems

2001-12-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 09:10:39PM -0600, shock wrote: > * Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > > Does the required device exist? > > > > man MAKEDEV > > cd dev; ./MAKEDEV [ -n ] [ -v ] update > > # ls -al /dev/cdrom > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 3 Dec 29 20:53 /dev/c

apt expectations

2001-12-29 Thread Jim McCloskey
I have a system that is mostly debian testing. But I have apt set up so that apt-get update fetches information about both the testing(woody) and unstable(sid) archives. I have /etc/apt/preferences set up thus: Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian

how experimental is 1394 these days?

2001-12-29 Thread Kurt Lieber
Santa brought us a MiniDV camcorder for Christmas, and I'm interested in using linux to do some basic digital video editing (home videos, soccer games, stupid stuff like that) I know IEEE 1394 support is still experimental, but my question is, how experimental? Is anyone using it (especially f

Re: upgrading xfree86

2001-12-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Deva Seetharam wrote: Hi All, i am new to debian. i custom built the kernel version 2.2.19 for a SMP (dual pentium) machine and installed debian. i have a matrox g450 video card. as i understand, this card is supported only by xfree86-4.1.0. But, the potato has only xfree86-3.3.6. So, i am wo

Advice for fetchmail & exim config

2001-12-29 Thread scott worley
Hi, I seem to be one of those people you can't understand unix e-mail configuration no matter how much I read, books, HOW-TO's etc. Trying to setup fetchmail & exim. localhost user name is : localuser ISP e-mail account is [EMAIL PROTECTED] .fetchmailrc is: poll mail.isp.net proto apop:

gtk-config --version 1.2.9 but 1.2.10 is found

2001-12-29 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
How do I correct this error? I searched but all of the libgtk are 1.2.9 and not 1.2.10. Lance

Re: CD-ROM mount problems

2001-12-29 Thread Michael D. Schleif
"Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, shock wrote: > > > * Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > > > > Does the required device exist? > > > > > > man MAKEDEV > > > cd dev; ./MAKEDEV [ -n ] [ -v ] update > > > > # ls -al /dev/cdrom > > lrwxrwxrwx1 ro

Re: CD-ROM mount problems

2001-12-29 Thread Michael D. Schleif
shock wrote: > > * Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > > Does the required device exist? > > > > man MAKEDEV > > cd dev; ./MAKEDEV [ -n ] [ -v ] update > > # ls -al /dev/cdrom > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 3 Dec 29 20:53 /dev/cdrom -> sr0 > > # ls -al /dev/sr0 >

Re: CD-ROM mount problems

2001-12-29 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, shock wrote: > * Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > > Does the required device exist? > > > > man MAKEDEV > > cd dev; ./MAKEDEV [ -n ] [ -v ] update > > # ls -al /dev/cdrom > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 3 Dec 29 20:53 /dev/cdrom -> sr0 > > # ls

Re: CD-ROM mount problems

2001-12-29 Thread shock
* Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Does the required device exist? > > man MAKEDEV > cd dev; ./MAKEDEV [ -n ] [ -v ] update # ls -al /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 3 Dec 29 20:53 /dev/cdrom -> sr0 # ls -al /dev/sr0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 4 Dec 13 19:

Re: CD-ROM mount problems

2001-12-29 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Does the required device exist? man MAKEDEV cd dev; ./MAKEDEV [ -n ] [ -v ] update shock wrote: > > * David Gardi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > shock wrote: > > > > >I've recently trashed a RH6.2 machine in favor of Debian Woody. > > >This is an all SCSI machine, with a

Re: CD-ROM mount problems

2001-12-29 Thread shock
* David Gardi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > shock wrote: > > >I've recently trashed a RH6.2 machine in favor of Debian Woody. > >This is an all SCSI machine, with a Plextor CD-RW. When I mount any CD, > >I get the following: > > > ># mount /cdrom > >mount: /dev/cdrom is not a block device >

RE: auto-mounting /cdrom

2001-12-29 Thread Mike Kuhar
To use automount/autofs, you must build the support into your kernel, then install the autofs package. Although it doesn't act exactly like you discribed. If you put a cd into the drive, nothing will happen until the first time you access it. It'll stay mounted till a timeout is reached, then um

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2001-12-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 16:39:48 -0800 (PST), "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > For a good explanation of how C++ took all the problematic issues of C and > > added new sources of errors, see http://www.elj.com/cppcv3/. > > Hah!

galeon 1.0.2 raising windows

2001-12-29 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
I got galeon 1.0.2 in today's unstable and it has this /tremendously/ obnoxious behavior. Any window that was opened with a link target () will automatically raise itself when it gains the focus. A R G H. Mozilla proper does not have this behavior. Is anyone else seeing that? I can't get to th

Re: gdm bug #126936 -- any workarounds?

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 06:07:24PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: | I upgraded my laptop, which is running sid, this morning, and in the | process removed my ability to log into my gnome session. My symptoms | are exactly the same as those listed in #126936, and after a few hours | spent pok

gdm bug #126936 -- any workarounds?

2001-12-29 Thread ozymandias G desiderata
I upgraded my laptop, which is running sid, this morning, and in the process removed my ability to log into my gnome session. My symptoms are exactly the same as those listed in #126936, and after a few hours spent poking at various setuid and setgid binaries on my system, I still have no idea what

again CD-burning probs

2001-12-29 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi everybody, my CD-burner again is bad behaving. It irreproducably stops burning processes with medium errors at different parts of the CD-Rs. Today, the first CD-R was burnt 100 % (17 audio tracks). The next was interrupted after 65 %, the second after 64 %, the third after 80 %, the fourth af

Re: nvidia driver and refresh rate

2001-12-29 Thread Jeff
Am?rico Rocha, 2001-Dec-29 20:33 +: > > Hi all > > I just compiled the latest nvidia driver and the lastest nvidia_glx. > > I could get all of it to work, except for a detail, wich is very > important: the refresh rate. > > These driveres work perfectly and provide 3D acceleration , but whe

unresolved symbols

2001-12-29 Thread lab rat
I know this may be a stupid question, but I'm trying to install a netgear ma401 802.11b card on my laptop. But after following the install it says that the drivers have unresolved symbols. What are unresolved symbols? lab __ Do You Yahoo!? Send you

Museum

2001-12-29 Thread Sherlock Holmes
Visit The World's Most Famous Address! The Sherlock Holmes Museum 221b Baker Street, London England http://www.sherlock-holmes-museum.org.uk/happynewyear.html A Happy New Year to all our visitors, old and new! Please see our Victorian New Year Greetings Card that we have made especially for yo

Re: Ess1888 kernel driver?

2001-12-29 Thread Calyth
Thanks for the tip... it was more of an i/o and irq problem than kernel or alsa anyways. I finally manage to get it working =) Calyth

Re: CD-ROM mount problems

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 07:02:13PM -0600, shock wrote: | * Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: | # ls -al /dev/sr0 | | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 13 19:32 /dev/sr0 -> scd0 | | how do i know what its numbers are? do i need to delete it and recreate | it? /dev/sr0 is a symlink

Re: Want custom Deb distro

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 11:44:08AM +1100, Penguin wrote: | I only have a 56K modem and its just impossible for me to sit there and | download all this myself, constantly redialling after my pathetic TWO isp | providers keep cutting me off, one is down and so use the other... then get | cut off

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2001-12-29 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > about C++ (and C) and I don't think I can take it any longer. "Be > like me, use a language with imperceptible market penetration." I Why does market penetration matter? It's like saying Windows is superior because everyone uses it; but if you bel

Re: CD-ROM mount problems

2001-12-29 Thread shock
* Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, shock wrote: > > > I've recently trashed a RH6.2 machine in favor of Debian Woody. > > This is an all SCSI machine, with a Plextor CD-RW. When I mount any CD, > > I get the following: > > > > # mount /cdrom > > moun

Re: CUPS, SAMBA and Windows

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 01:30:02AM +0100, Jens Müller wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > | Is then | > | | > | printing = cups | > | | > | still correct? | > | > Yes. | | OK. | | Set it, tried it, doesn't work ... | | Any other idea? You made the share writable, and you insta

Re: dpkg upgrade error

2001-12-29 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:25:39AM -0700, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: > > When I looked at the preinst script, it seemed to be choking because > > /usr/share/doc/libdb2-util wasn't a soft link. I think it may not > > have even existed. I created a t

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2001-12-29 Thread Alec
On Saturday 29 December 2001 04:55 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > That language shootout didn't really mean much. Not the shootout specifically, but simple benchmarks can mean something. Depends on who you ask. If you are doing numerical analysis, like me, or artificial neural networks, or genetic

Re: CD-ROM mount problems

2001-12-29 Thread David Gardi
shock wrote: I've recently trashed a RH6.2 machine in favor of Debian Woody. This is an all SCSI machine, with a Plextor CD-RW. When I mount any CD, I get the following: # mount /cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom is not a block device /cdrom, through /etc/fstab, points to /dev/cdrom: # cat /etc/fstab

Re: CD-ROM mount problems

2001-12-29 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, shock wrote: > I've recently trashed a RH6.2 machine in favor of Debian Woody. > This is an all SCSI machine, with a Plextor CD-RW. When I mount any CD, > I get the following: > > # mount /cdrom > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a block device > > /cdrom, through /etc/fstab, point

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2001-12-29 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote: > For a good explanation of how C++ took all the problematic issues of C and > added new sources of errors, see http://www.elj.com/cppcv3/. Hah! More like this: "For a vivid example of how much free time ivory tower academics have to weep and moan ab

CD-ROM mount problems

2001-12-29 Thread shock
I've recently trashed a RH6.2 machine in favor of Debian Woody. This is an all SCSI machine, with a Plextor CD-RW. When I mount any CD, I get the following: # mount /cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom is not a block device /cdrom, through /etc/fstab, points to /dev/cdrom: # cat /etc/fstab | grep cdrom /de

Re: CUPS, SAMBA and Windows

2001-12-29 Thread Jens Müller
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Is then > | > | printing = cups > | > | still correct? > > Yes. OK. Set it, tried it, doesn't work ... Any other idea?

Want custom Deb distro

2001-12-29 Thread Penguin
Hello, Debian community! Thanks thanks thanks for all your responses to my other posts. I am learning much more like this than my Bachelor of Computer Science trash! :-P And I am in my final terms... ahem. What I would like to know now is this: I see from the list of distributors of Debian CDs

Re: CUPS, SAMBA and Windows

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 01:07:03AM +0100, Jens Müller wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > | I can print from Linux (well, the lpr program is not there ...). | > | > cupsys-bsd | | Is then | | printing = cups | | still correct? Yes. -D -- If you hold to [Jesus'] teaching, you

Re: using tail in a pipe and script

2001-12-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Eric G. Miller [2001.12.30.0056 +0100]: > Somewhat analogous, but a pipe is a stream of bytes that is not exactly > analogous to passing by value, because if the program needs to move > around in that byte stream, it still must copy the data... i give you that. i was thinking of it mo

Re: CUPS, SAMBA and Windows

2001-12-29 Thread Jens Müller
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | I can print from Linux (well, the lpr program is not there ...). > > cupsys-bsd Is then printing = cups still correct?

Re: "1" Key not working

2001-12-29 Thread Gary Turner
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 17:22:08 -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 10:25:27 -0800, John wrote: > >>On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:41:37AM +0100, D.J. Bolderman wrote: > >Use dumpkey. Apropos keymap will lead you to a bunch of FMs to FR. I >hope you understand them better than I do . > >gt

Re: using tail in a pipe and script

2001-12-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 00:14:30 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Eric G. Miller [2001.12.29.2350 +0100]: > > C always uses pass by value, C++ can do both. But, what does that > > have to do with shell scripts and pipes? > > C can pass by reference, no? No. C always

Re: CUPS, SAMBA and Windows

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:23:45PM +0100, Jens Müller wrote: | I am using cupsys 1.1.12-3 and samba 2.2.2-2. | | I set up my printer (HP DJ 840 C, USB) using CUPS. | | I can print from Linux (well, the lpr program is not there ...). cupsys-bsd | I set the following in smb.conf: | | | [printer

Re: using tail in a pipe and script

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 12:14:30AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach Eric G. Miller [2001.12.29.2350 +0100]: | > C always uses pass by value, C++ can do both. But, what does that | > have to do with shell scripts and pipes? | | C can pass by reference, no? No, but it can fake it good

Re: Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 ...

2001-12-29 Thread adcarlson
Hmm...I've noticed this error too in instances when its been time for e2fsck to run during boot-up. IIRC, it even predates my 2.4 series kernel use...i.e. I think it occurred under 2.2.17. LILO version related?--not sure of that either. But what I can say is that I've never seemed to have the er

Re: "1" Key not working

2001-12-29 Thread Gary Turner
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 10:25:27 -0800, John wrote: >On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:41:37AM +0100, D.J. Bolderman wrote: >> Op za 29-12-2001, om 01:49 schreef Thomas Deselaers: >> > On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 01:42:06AM +0100, D.J. Bolderman wrote: >> > > My "1" key (above the "q") doesn't work anymore after

Re: using tail in a pipe and script

2001-12-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Eric G. Miller [2001.12.29.2350 +0100]: > C always uses pass by value, C++ can do both. But, what does that > have to do with shell scripts and pipes? C can pass by reference, no? think about it: i pass by value when i pipe into a program, and i pass by reference when i tell that sa

Re: trident: incredibly crappy sound

2001-12-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.30.0002 +0100]: > > by now, i have two of those SiS chipset pieces of crap under my > > control... but what do you do if someone offers a $300 computer with > > 1.8GHz, 1Gb RAM, 16x CD-RW, DVD, and a 60Gb Hdd??? > > FWIW the recent (and even not so rece

Re: trident: incredibly crappy sound

2001-12-29 Thread Ray
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 08:05:19PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > by now, i have two of those SiS chipset pieces of crap under my > control... but what do you do if someone offers a $300 computer with > 1.8GHz, 1Gb RAM, 16x CD-RW, DVD, and a 60Gb Hdd??? FWIW the recent (and even not so recent) Si

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2001-12-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
For a good explanation of how C++ took all the problematic issues of C and added new sources of errors, see http://www.elj.com/cppcv3/. -- Eric G. Miller

Re: using tail in a pipe and script

2001-12-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 20:08:06 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.29.1955 +0100]: > > Check out the differences in pass by value / pass by reference in c > > and c++ > > not bad. an interesting comparison! C always uses pass by val

Re: passwd error

2001-12-29 Thread hanasaki
I once had this problem when I was using shadow passwds and manualled added/deleted a line from /etc/passwd. Add the user back in manually to the passwd file and then use the command line tools to delete him/her Kevin wrote: the other day i added a user, then removed it right after. passwd

passwd error

2001-12-29 Thread Kevin
the other day i added a user, then removed it right after. passwd worked when i added this user but after removing it, it stopped working. bash-2.00# passwd passwd: Critical error - immediate abort im not out of diskspace ii login 2902-8 System login t

Re: "C" Manual

2001-12-29 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 03:54:59PM +0100, Henrik Enberg wrote: > | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | > I have "The Complete C++ Reference" by Schildt, and it includes a good > | > reference of the standard libraries as well as explaining the > | > l

Re: "C" Manual

2001-12-29 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Henrik Enberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have "The Complete C++ Reference" by Schildt, and it includes a good > > reference of the standard libraries as well as explaining the > > languages. > > You should not use books by Schildt. See the term

CUPS, SAMBA and Windows

2001-12-29 Thread Jens Müller
I am using cupsys 1.1.12-3 and samba 2.2.2-2. I set up my printer (HP DJ 840 C, USB) using CUPS. I can print from Linux (well, the lpr program is not there ...). I set the following in smb.conf: [printers] comment = All Printers browseable = yes path = /tmp printable = yes publi

/lib/modules/`uname -r`_[0-9]* ???

2001-12-29 Thread martin f krafft
can't say when this started, but what the heck are directories like 2.4.17+time_3573 and 2.2.20-compact_2169 doing in /lib/modules??? 2.2.20-compact isn't even install (2.4.17+time *is* my kernel image), and i remember deleting the 2.2.20-compact directory when done with the installation. the only

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2001-12-29 Thread Craig Dickson
Alec wrote: > > You say that as if C were merely an 'unreal' C++, which is just not > > true. They are two different languages, though obviously C++ is a > > derivative of C. > > With minor exceptions, a valid C program is also a valid C++ program > (See appendix B, chapter B.2.2 of "The C++ Pro

Re: Configuration!

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:44:54PM +0100, Martin Wackenhut wrote: | Hi folks, | | after setting up LFS I am switching back to a distribution. | In comparison to SuSE I miss some configuration tool like Yast. | Could not find any hint in the docs about that. | I know about dselect and apt. | | So

Re: Cannot play audio CDs

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:29:23PM +0100, Simonyi Andras wrote: | Hello, | I recently ugreded from Potato to Woody, and I've just noticed that I | can no longer play audio CDs in the CD Rom drive. More specifically, any | CD program I start seems to behave normally, I'm able to select a track, | "p

Configuration!

2001-12-29 Thread Martin Wackenhut
Hi folks, after setting up LFS I am switching back to a distribution. In comparison to SuSE I miss some configuration tool like Yast. Could not find any hint in the docs about that. I know about dselect and apt. So is there anything like Yast around in Debian? Short answer is sufficient. Thanx

nmbd problem?

2001-12-29 Thread Russ Cook
Attached is an excerpt from the syslog of one of my Debian boxes. It is the gateway for my home LAN, consisting of two Debian boxes and two Windows boxes. P633 is one of the Windows boxes. Can anyone tell me what the syslog excerpt indicates? Dec 29 06:28:04 p75 nmbd[11564]: connect from p633 De

Re: How do I stop X

2001-12-29 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, eric k. wolven wrote: > Dennis: > > Try commenting out xdm on its init level...rc2, if I'm not mistaken... Uninstalling xdm also seems to work. A happy new year, Kerstin -- Dr. Kerstin Hoef-Emden Gyrhofstr. 15 Universität zu Köln

Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 ...

2001-12-29 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
Hi, I'm using Woody, kernel 2.4.17 and lilo 22.1-6. My worries are the warnings (se below) I got after installing the new kernel. Prior that, I had some, and probably still have, partition table problems caused by PQ Magic on one of my disks. (I swap OS disks). My question is; does this have to

Cannot play audio CDs

2001-12-29 Thread Simonyi Andras
Hello, I recently ugreded from Potato to Woody, and I've just noticed that I can no longer play audio CDs in the CD Rom drive. More specifically, any CD program I start seems to behave normally, I'm able to select a track, "play" (that disk is revolving and the time is counted on the display of the

Re: auto-mounting /cdrom

2001-12-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.29.2205 +0100]: > autofs? it seems to be the solution, and i knew about that. but i got confused: during the installation of debian, when configuring pcmcia cdrom, i was asked whether i wanted to automatically mount when inserted. now that i t

Re: How do I stop X

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 04:37:52PM -0800, Dennis Krinke,,, wrote: | >To understand _why_ this stops gdm from starting on boot read up on | >how SysV init works. | | OK, I browsed man sys(8) init. | That did help a little. | Perhaps that plus other reading and more time | will help more... Here's

Re: "C" Manual

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 02:19:26PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > | See the term bullschildt in the jargon file. | > | > I just did, on ESR's web site. It's not in the 'jargon' package. | | The term was added to the Jargon File in version 4.2.2. The |

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:23:24PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 11:13:32AM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: | > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:12:54PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | > > | > > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy | > > # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy | > > # mount -t au

Re: auto-mounting /cdrom

2001-12-29 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake csj: > On Saturday 29 December 2001 11:09, martin f krafft wrote: > > yo! > > > > i've seen it done before, but i can't remember how. i believe it was > > a gnome feature, but there's got to be a way to do this underneath > > any desktop environment... when i insert a CDROM, i want it to

Re: How to delete Exims' queue

2001-12-29 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello. > > In past my host was open relay - people from company want to snend emails > from home -my mistake - and a lot spammers put through my host a lot of > mails. When I have closed open relay a lot of frozen mails stayed in my exim > queue and staying there

playing quicktime movies (raw format)

2001-12-29 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ Is there a special package I need to have xanim play quicktime movies? I write out a quicktime movie using either raw, jpeg, or yuv2 using libquicktime4linux. If I display that movie on sgi, it displays fine. If I run qtinfo or qtdump, it correctly groks the file. However, xanim: % xani

Re: New release of dillo

2001-12-29 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, csj wrote: > On Saturday 29 December 2001 06:59, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > The funny thing about dillo is that people frequently say "... Dillo > > ... faster than Mozilla ..."  But, it isn't true!  I've observed > > that, on my machine, Mozilla actually accesses and rende

nvidia driver and refresh rate

2001-12-29 Thread Américo Rocha
Hi all I just compiled the latest nvidia driver and the lastest nvidia_glx. I could get all of it to work, except for a detail, wich is very important: the refresh rate. These driveres work perfectly and provide 3D acceleration , but when i use a higher resolution, let's say 1024x768, the monit

xscreensaver

2001-12-29 Thread Rick Pasotto
Something in my recent upgrades resulted in /usr/lib/xscreensaver no longer being in the search path for xscreensaver so it can no longer find superquadrics. Instead I get a display of the search path. 1) Where is this search path set? At compile time? 2) Where is the list of modules in the gnome

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

2001-12-29 Thread Ian Balchin
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 11:13:32AM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:12:54PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > > > > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy > > # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy > > # mount -t auto /dev/fdo /floppy > ^ > Make sure you typed ze

Re: How do I stop X

2001-12-29 Thread Dennis Krinke,,,
Thanks to all that responded. dman wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:35:26PM -0800, Dennis Krinke,,, wrote: | I would like to change configuration | so that I boot into a console, | rather than to X-windows graphical login. | | I tried changing /etc/inittab line 5 from | id:5:initdefault:

Re: All Debian CDs..

2001-12-29 Thread csj
On Sunday 30 December 2001 02:28, dman wrote: > The only http and/or ftp site I know of is linuxiso.org, but I don't > know if they have source cds. > > Instead just read (some of) the docs on cdimage.debian.org and rsync > an image. linuxiso.org is more of a file redirection service. -- Sir Isa

Re: "C" Manual

2001-12-29 Thread Bob Hilliard
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | See the term bullschildt in the jargon file. > > I just did, on ESR's web site. It's not in the 'jargon' package. The term was added to the Jargon File in version 4.2.2. The version of dict-jargon in potato is based on jargon 4.0. Jargon 4.3.0 is in d

Re: easter eggs

2001-12-29 Thread Nori Heikkinen
(speaking of which, the best part of the xroach manpage is this: BUGS As given by the -roaches option. Default is 10. :) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-- -http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/daily.html

Re: Threading Mail

2001-12-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.29.2003 +0100]: > That's the detail I decided to pass over. 10 desktops seems indecent. I > can't see what applications you would run in 10 desktops that can't be > done in 2 desktops and 10 (powershell/konsole) tabs. Personally I want > the CLI stuff

Re: easter eggs

2001-12-29 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 29 Dec 2001 10:01:21AM +0100, marTin insinuated: > but yes, this provides for great phun: > > # ln /usr/games/xroach /usr/bin/X11/xwauth > # cat << EOF >> ~user/.xsession > > # important addition: don't remove or your harddrive will fail! > (while true; do sleep $RANDOM; \ >/usr/bin/X

Re: "C" Manual

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:50:22PM -0500, Daniel Freedman wrote: | On Fri, Dec 28, 2001, dman wrote: | > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:31:36AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: | > | Gary Turner muttered: | > | > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:11:33 -0500, Phil Beder wrote: | > | > | > | > >Where can I find a goo

Cannot remove cocoon-lib and gtk-engines-*

2001-12-29 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, when I try to remove cocoon-lib I get this errormessage (Lese Datenbank ... 122806 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.) Entferne cocoon-lib ... dpkg (Unterprozess): pre-removal script kann nicht gestartet werden: Keine Berechtigung dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von cocoon-lib

Re: using tail in a pipe and script

2001-12-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.29.1955 +0100]: > Check out the differences in pass by value / pass by reference in c > and c++ not bad. an interesting comparison! -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [E

trident: incredibly crappy sound

2001-12-29 Thread martin f krafft
by now, i have two of those SiS chipset pieces of crap under my control... but what do you do if someone offers a $300 computer with 1.8GHz, 1Gb RAM, 16x CD-RW, DVD, and a 60Gb Hdd??? anyway, both are equipped with the SiS 630 chipset, and both "feature" the SiS 7018 audio controller (it's just no

Re: Threading Mail

2001-12-29 Thread csj
On Saturday 29 December 2001 06:55, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > i find the tabs rather confusing. but then again, my desktop is > > > simply four xterms (10 desktops thereof), and i usually don't > > need > more... > >  > > I suppose you're talking about programs that require user > > interaction (for

Re: using tail in a pipe and script

2001-12-29 Thread hanasaki
Check out the differences in pass by value / pass by reference in c and c++ David Z Maze wrote: Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LH> I am trying to write a script and I need to remove the top 3 lines of a LH> file. I thought tail would be the tool for the job. LH> LH> The script is

OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2001-12-29 Thread Alec
On Saturday 29 December 2001 01:13 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > wsa wrote: > > As others have said stear clear of OS specific topics... > > Even if you want to start using OS specific stuff later on i think it's > > best to start out with real C++. > > You say that as if C were merely an 'unreal' C++

Re: using tail in a pipe and script

2001-12-29 Thread David Z Maze
Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LH> I am trying to write a script and I need to remove the top 3 lines of a LH> file. I thought tail would be the tool for the job. LH> LH> The script is: LH> LH> enscript -1 -r -M Letter -p outputfile $1 LH> LH> I need tail to take off the top 3 line

Re: New release of dillo

2001-12-29 Thread csj
On Saturday 29 December 2001 06:59, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > The funny thing about dillo is that people frequently say "... Dillo > ... faster than Mozilla ..."  But, it isn't true!  I've observed > that, on my machine, Mozilla actually accesses and renders every page > I tried more quickly than D

Re: Ess1888 kernel driver?

2001-12-29 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2001-12-28 15:59:25, Calyth wrote: > I know it's kind of silly that I asked here, but my laptop uses ESS1888 > as the sound chip, but I cannot find the kernel driver. Can someone > unravel this for me? Install alsa which support it via es18x (if I recall correctly). /Allan -- Allan M. Wind

Re: auto-mounting /cdrom

2001-12-29 Thread csj
On Saturday 29 December 2001 11:09, martin f krafft wrote: > yo! > > i've seen it done before, but i can't remember how. i believe it was > a gnome feature, but there's got to be a way to do this underneath > any desktop environment... when i insert a CDROM, i want it to be > available without havi

Re: Where did my memory go?

2001-12-29 Thread David Z Maze
Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> Here is the output of 'top' on my system : J> J> 23:52:59 up 23 days, 13:21, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 J> 22 processes: 21 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped J> CPU states: 0.6% user, 0.4% system, 0.0% nice, 99.1% idle J> Mem:

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

2001-12-29 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:43:26PM -0500, dman insinuated: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 09:34:35AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > | OK, Pietro, Martin, > | > | I use console mode, but always shut down via 'poweroff'. I likely removed > | the disc and put it safely in its box before not doing a sync or umou

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