Re: trouble dumping whole filesystem to tape /sbin/dump

2002-01-09 Thread James Cameron
Thedore Knab wrote: > /sbin/dump -0ua -f /dev/st0 / -L slash 2>> output.txt > /sbin/dump -1a -f /dev/st0 /usr -L usr 2>> output.txt > The second comand rewrites over the data I recorded with the first > command. Change the first /dev/st0 to /dev/nst0 perhaps. When you use /dev/st0 the device is re

trouble dumping whole filesystem to tape /sbin/dump

2002-01-09 Thread Thedore Knab
Hi, I am trying to use dump to backup some data. I have been using this command: /sbin/dump -0ua -f /dev/st0 / -L slash 2>> output.txt followed by: /sbin/dump -1a -f /dev/st0 /usr -L usr 2>> output.txt When I do a restore -t The second comand rewrites over the data I recorded with the first

Re: Confusion about X in woody

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:24:53PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Note that testing and unstable contain packages for the nvidia drivers > that will download the drivers and create Debian packages out of them. > They're a bit more convenient than messing with the tar.gz's manually. Oh yeah, I've hea

Re: Package Repository

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:49:53AM +, Nicholas Avenell wrote: > Okay, A simple question, for which a simple answer would be appreciated: > > I am looking for a simple, step by set guide to turning a directory > full of .deb files into something I can access with a sources.list entry. > > In t

Re: printing stopped working--any ideas?

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:57:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have one of these printers. The only way I ever got > it working was using gimp-print(?) and CUPS. lpr and > all of that wouldn't work. Also with this setup the > quality was awful. It would only do greyscale. When I >

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-09 Thread Calyth
Perhaps it's time to get to Woody? IMO rpm system sucks dependencies are never correct. Debs never have the same problem. Linux have another problem in itself... no decently good office suite. Calyth

Re: Play VCD on computer

2002-01-09 Thread crispin
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:37:38PM +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: > > > > > > > Yep -- xine. Works great thought the picture is a > > bit small, but > > > don't use esd for sound (very choppy when I tried > > it). (I should also > > > mention that I only tried it once on one vcd) > > > > I use mpla

Re: can't load library 'libXm.so.0'

2002-01-09 Thread Shaya Potter
On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 18:18, a wrote: > i have Debian 1.2 and installed lesstif and compiled nedit but can't run it. > nedit complains: wow! 1.2 is ancient. It's so old, I was a developer back then :) > > can't load library 'libXm.so.0' > > although libXm.so.0 is in /usr/X11R6/lib i'm guessin

Re: Play VCD on computer

2002-01-09 Thread Steve Kieu
> > > > Yep -- xine. Works great thought the picture is a > bit small, but > > don't use esd for sound (very choppy when I tried > it). (I should also > > mention that I only tried it once on one vcd) > > I use mplayer. Very sweet xv accelerated fullscreen > output. I had no luck with xine t

boot-floppy

2002-01-09 Thread sina
Dear engineer:   I download the file boot-floppies_2.2.26.deb but I don't know how to use it, I want to install debian in a notebook from floppy (as the notebook has no CD-ROM) does the file I download right? Could you tell me?   Thank you!   Kevin YangInformation System Dept.Hyatt Regency T

Re: Exim Adding "Sender" Header

2002-01-09 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:13:13PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: | When I send e-mail from my Debian box, Exim is adding a Sender header on | the way out. You're not trusted, so exim reports who you "really" are and allows you to forge From: anyways. | I tried adding my username to trusted_users i

Re: Play VCD on computer

2002-01-09 Thread crispin
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:50:25AM -0500, dman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:42:53AM +0200, alfons1 wrote: > | Hi > | Is there a way to play Vcd on computer without DVD drive ? > | Thanks and regards, > > Yep -- xine. Works great thought the picture is a bit small, but > don't use esd for s

Re: mutt weirdness: >> "Move read messages to /home/astartoth/Mail/~/Maildir? ([n]/y):"

2002-01-09 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:26:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:16:39PM -0500, dman wrote: | > | > BTW, What's with this ~/Maildir thing I keep seeing mentioned? Where | > did that come from? | | Maildir is an alternative method of storing mail invented by djb and

Re: OT: xargs & vi

2002-01-09 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:11:56PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.1716 +0100]: | > hosing up the telnet session, yes. i would guess. but using vimm | > 6.0.93 locally, i get the same results and error messages inputting to | > vim from s

Re: GDM and ESD not exitting cleanly

2002-01-09 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:11:38PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: | Thus spake dman: | > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:29:05PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: | > | Thus spake dman: | > | > On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:04:11PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: | > | > | > | Similar issues with xnumlock - no longer sta

Re: How do tell if X is using acceleration...?...

2002-01-09 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
I have looked at the log files. What am I looking for that will indicate accelerated or not accelerated? What do I need in my Xconfig file to tell X to do hardware acceleration? Thanks. Adam Majer wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:20:42AM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: I am thinking that

Re: mail server

2002-01-09 Thread Craig Dickson
David B Harris wrote: > Second, I recommend Exim :) It's well-maintained, it's the default MTA, > and it's easy to set up. However, don't expect a magic wand. When I say > "easy to set up", I'm comparing it to other MTAs with similar > functionality I think Postfix is no harder to set up than Exi

Does (woody) lynx's INCLUDE user configuration works for you?

2002-01-09 Thread Shaul Karl
Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001) libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.6b Built on linux-gnu Oct 24 2001 22:07:28 The following INCLUDE lynx facility does not work for me. Does it work for you? If yes do email me (in private) yours /etc/lynx.cfg and the user file that is included. I hop

Re: mail server

2002-01-09 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 17:39:31 -0800 "Paul A. Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to put a REALLY small email server up at work using > Debian( I have a RH box I've put together but I like ... the feel of > this list/ what it says about Debian vs what I've encountered with RH > ). I ha

Re: Package Repository

2002-01-09 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:49:53 + Nicholas Avenell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a simple, step by set guide to turning a directory > full of .deb files into something I can access with a sources.list > entry. > > In this case, /var/cache/apt/archives/. While the other suggestion

Re: altgr rebinding--any problems with this method?

2002-01-09 Thread Gary Turner
On Sat, 05 Jan 2002 14:07:21 -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >I want the right alt to be and not . The plan is to bind > to the left MSstartmenu key (keycode 125) and bind to the >right alt key (keycode 100). Is there a problem with this idea? > >If my reading of man pages is right, I need to do the

Re: Swap not starting

2002-01-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:14:00 -0600, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a quad-cpu machine running a 2.2.19 kernel with the following > lines in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/sda7 noneswapsw,pri=10 0 0 > /dev/sdb7 noneswapsw,pri=10

Re: Confusion about X in woody

2002-01-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:52:55AM +, Randy Orrison wrote: > > I figured that the two v 3.3.6 packages (note that I've added the "-v3" > > to the appropriate line, that was quite confusing for a while) were > > obsolete, and deleted them (while X was no

Re: kernel compiling fails on sounddriver

2002-01-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > Also, it's usually advisable to use the debian kernel packages rather > > than the kernel.org sources. > > I see no reason to prefer the debian-packaged kernel sources. They > usually differ only in very minor ways, adding a few

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 09/01/02 Robert L. Harris did speaketh: > Debian: > Server Oriented > > RedHat: > Desktop Oriented Wow, I have three Debian desktops and one Debian server. I don't see how Debian is not desktop oriented too. Hell, at least the complex desktop apps install 10 times easier than crawling

mgp fonts jagged after woody/sid upgrade

2002-01-09 Thread James Cameron
Under potato, mgp (magicpoint presentation tool) was able to show nicely shaped adobe-utopia fonts. On woody/sid the edges are quite jagged. What's caused this? ii mgp1.09a-5MagicPoint- an X11 based presentation tool ii xfonts-100dpi 4.1.0-9100 dpi fonts for X ii

Re: OT: xargs & vi

2002-01-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:11:56 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > any form of 'vim -' will read the data to be edited from stdin, not the > filenames, so it's not appropriate. > > and even though i swear it worked, > > command | vim > > just dies with > > Vim: Warning: I

Re: X locks up - more info

2002-01-09 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:41:17PM -0800, Michael Dickey wrote: > More observations: when this happens, fonts are all messed up - > larger > than they should be, and parts of them are missing. When I telnet > to the computer, XFree86 is consuming ~99% CPU resources, however > even after I kill al

Re: ht0 freezing computer IDE tape

2002-01-09 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:34:05AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > I guess I will try to emulate scsi using ide-scsi? If you want to try ide-scsi, with lilo add: append="hdd=ide-scsi" to /etc/lilo.conf and then run lilo. After you reboot, the tape drive should be /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0. Do

Re: Hairy lilypond compile problem

2002-01-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 12:18:45 +0800, csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using a brute-force dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot on the lilypond > source package results in a build failure. The last three lines of > stdout show: > > bison -d parser.yy > mv parser.yy.tab.h out/parser.hh > make[2]: Leaving

Re: mail server

2002-01-09 Thread Paul A. Thomas
> is nowhere near the complexity of sendmail, phew.

Bug in buildd for all except ix86 and sparc?

2002-01-09 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Hey all, I seem to be having a problem that is buildd specific. I uploaded my package (ax25-apps-0.0.5-5) from ix86 after fixing problems on the non ix86 archs (working on merulo). It builds fine on merulo manually (with debuild) but dies when the build daemon tries with a 'cannot run configure.

Re: mail server

2002-01-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Paul A. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > I would like to put a REALLY small email server up at work using Debian > ( I have a RH box I've put together but I like ... the feel of this list > / what it says about Debian vs what I've encountered with RH ). > I had heard about Sendmail and ha

Re: mail server

2002-01-09 Thread ben
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 05:39 pm, Paul A. Thomas wrote: > I would like to put a REALLY small email server up at work using Debian > ( I have a RH box I've put together but I like ... the feel of this list > / what it says about Debian vs what I've encountered with RH ). > I had heard about Sen

re can't ping outside own network on ns1 (resolved)

2002-01-09 Thread justin cunningham
The isp was making changes-- problem resolved.

Re: How do tell if X is using acceleration...?...

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Majer
Hi, On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:20:42AM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > I am thinking that my machine is not using acceleration. It is an > athlon 600 with a voodoo3500. Graphics seem to be slow and take > the CPU to over 75%. This even happens when moving an opaque > window. My XFConifg-4 fil

Re: mail server

2002-01-09 Thread Sam Varghese
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:39:31PM -0800, Paul A. Thomas wrote: > Which, if any, Linux based Email server applications require the least > tuning to get operational? Or are they all fairly 'configurable' and > thus time consuming? And of those recommended should we avoid any due > to illogical se

Re: mail server

2002-01-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Paul A. Thomas wrote: > I had heard about Sendmail and have visited their web site, however did > not see anything approaching a quick and dirty method to get up and > running. Actually didn't see a manual at all. I presume the man page > within the application itself would b

Re: poppassd

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Micah Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.10.0127 +0100]: > Potato has 1.2-14 as its latest for poppasswd... I agree that > v1.8-ceti would be a better solution, especially considering the > security issues you cited. What does it take to get this version into > the security updates?

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.2344 +0100]: > Pretty b0rken ATM: stable is way too old for many uses, c.f. debian ;) > Bottom line: they both suck, although in different ways. www.microsoft.com might be able to help ;^> -- martin; (greetings from the h

mail server

2002-01-09 Thread Paul A. Thomas
I would like to put a REALLY small email server up at work using Debian ( I have a RH box I've put together but I like ... the feel of this list / what it says about Debian vs what I've encountered with RH ). I had heard about Sendmail and have visited their web site, however did not see anything a

Re: xterm and the backspace key, the saga continues.

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:47:15AM +0100, Sander Smeenk wrote: > Hey, > > A few months ago I noticed that _something_ had changed on my Debian > installation that caused xterms not to react on my backspace key as one > would expect. > > With a lot of tuning, help from friends, reinstalling and >

Re: Package Repository

2002-01-09 Thread ben
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 04:49 pm, Nicholas Avenell wrote: > Okay, A simple question, for which a simple answer would be appreciated: > > I am looking for a simple, step by set guide to turning a directory > full of .deb files into something I can access with a sources.list entry. > > In this c

Exim Adding "Sender" Header

2002-01-09 Thread Benjamin Pharr
When I send e-mail from my Debian box, Exim is adding a Sender header on the way out. I tried adding my username to trusted_users in /etc/exim/exim.conf, but Exim dies saying it can't find that user. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Ben Pharr

Re: Confusion about X in woody

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:52:55AM +, Randy Orrison wrote: > I figured that the two v 3.3.6 packages (note that I've added the "-v3" > to the appropriate line, that was quite confusing for a while) were > obsolete, and deleted them (while X was not running). Ha! xdm wouldn't > start! I put t

Re: Package Repository

2002-01-09 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:49:53AM +, Nicholas Avenell wrote: > I am looking for a simple, step by set guide to turning a directory > full of .deb files into something I can access with a sources.list entry. 1. apt-get install apt-move 2. edit /etc/apt-move.conf 3. apt-move update or apt-move

Re: pkg scripts/dependency issues

2002-01-09 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* 'cduck' Chris Grierson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > what my real concern is, is whether or not my entire system is mangled > because of situations like this -- i generally have my systems installed > via snagging a list of packages from one machine and installing them all > at the same

Package Repository

2002-01-09 Thread Nicholas Avenell
Okay, A simple question, for which a simple answer would be appreciated: I am looking for a simple, step by set guide to turning a directory full of .deb files into something I can access with a sources.list entry. In this case, /var/cache/apt/archives/. it's currently set up as an nfs share acc

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status parse error

2002-01-09 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 11:51:33 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there any way i can get /var/lib/dpkg/status to re-write itself? > i'm getting a parse error on a line number where i don't see any > noticable errors, which is preventing the use of dpkg. Oh, right, I forgot to say - check /var

ProFTPd + mod_LDAP + OpenLDAP

2002-01-09 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
Today I compiled ProFTPd with support for mod_ldap (authenticating against OpenLDAP). I set up proftpd.conf as per the documentation and authentication was still failing. After examining the log files for ProFTPd, I noticed that it was attempting to lookup various attributed in the LDAP server af

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status parse error

2002-01-09 Thread David B Harris
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 11:51:33 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there any way i can get /var/lib/dpkg/status to re-write itself? > i'm getting a parse error on a line number where i don't see any > noticable errors, which is preventing the use of dpkg. Nope, sorry :| However, most parse erro

Re: Problems using Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical

2002-01-09 Thread Paul A. Thomas
> Is there someone out in the world who has experienced the same problems > (perhaps with another Logitech Cordless keyboard)? I picked up their 'freedom' model two weeks ago for my desk at work. ( normal RF mouse and keyboard: not optical ) I've noticed it causing the prompt to jump up one line

Re: Problems using Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical

2002-01-09 Thread Paul A. Thomas
> Is there someone out in the world who has experienced the same problems > (perhaps with another Logitech Cordless keyboard)? I picked up their 'freedom' model two weeks ago for my desk at work. ( normal RF mouse: not optical ) I've noticed it causing the prompt to jump up one line when typing

Re: poppassd

2002-01-09 Thread Micah Anderson
Potato has 1.2-14 as its latest for poppasswd... I agree that v1.8-ceti would be a better solution, especially considering the security issues you cited. What does it take to get this version into the security updates? A bug filed? Micah On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, Steve Mickeler wrote: > > I'm using

Re: kernel compiling fails on sounddriver

2002-01-09 Thread Craig Dickson
Brian Nelson wrote: > That's an upstream kernel source problem, which I think is supposed to > be fixed in 2.4.17. It isn't, at least not completely. There have been several reports on this list of people failing to build 2.4.17 with similar errors. The problem appears to be highly dependent on t

pkg scripts/dependency issues

2002-01-09 Thread 'cduck' Chris Grierson
i know for sure that when j2sdk1.3 was installed the first time, it did not create the link in /usr/lib/mozilla for the java plugin. purging that package (j2sdk1.3), and reinstalling it resulted in the missing link (no pun). i am assuming this could have been the case because mozilla was not inst

Re: Problems using Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical

2002-01-09 Thread Pete Ryland
I also have a problem with my logitech gear. I have a cordless kb/mouse for my laptop, and the (2-button) touchpad does not work if I don't have the other mouse plugged in (with the imps2 proto that I have to use to get the scroll thing working that is - with ps2 proto it works ok, but no scrolly

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-09 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 09 Jan 2002 02:50:00PM +0100, marTin insinuated: > first, you might just as well > > apt-get remove --purge xserver-common cool. now i have no x at all. i tried reinstalling that, and installing xserver-mach64 ... hm. blank screen. how to proceed? > then, you have a Mach64 card if

Re: kernel compiling fails on sounddriver

2002-01-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Kurdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > My debian woody is now working a few weeks. Some things don't work > yet. Like my sound. Most describings say to compile my kernel with the > new soundmodule enabled. I downloaded the latest stable kernel on > kernel.org > So far, I untar in /usr/src/l

Re: How to get networking working for windows 2000 within vmware??

2002-01-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am unclear what settings within windows 2000 i should be inputting. This isn't on topic in d-u, since vmware is a commercial product and is not packaged for debian. Try contacting vmware's tech support instead. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Problems with VIA 8233 Audio

2002-01-09 Thread Aaron Isotton
Hi, I have a Gigabyte KT7VXE motherboard with integrated AC97 audio. As far as I know, the chip is a VIA 8233. Actually, I am not sure that that one is the audio chip, but I know that I have it on my mb and it is one of the available ones in alsa; so I think it is quite probable that it is th

[FIXED] /var/lib/dpkg/status parse error

2002-01-09 Thread ben
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 11:51 am, ben wrote: > is there any way i can get /var/lib/dpkg/status to re-write itself? i'm > getting a parse error on a line number where i don't see any noticable > errors, which is preventing the use of dpkg. i've fixed this using a gzipped dpkg.status from /var/

Re: Unhappy ntpd

2002-01-09 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 15:40, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I logged in this morning to discover syslog full of > > ntpd[179]: recvfrom() fd=6: Connection refused > > entries. This server is configured to reference four time sources. > Is there any way to determine which one is refusing connections? >

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-09 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Robert L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > I'm starting a "Debian Vs Redhat" comparision. Oh no, not another distro war... > Debian: > Server Oriented > Integraged software install/update tool (apt) [a version is available for > redhat > but requires considerable time

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Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-09 Thread Alec
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 04:25 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > > RedHat: > > No pre-installed install/update tool (apt) > > in fact, if you want to use the update service, you'll pay! > autorpm Never used it myself, but it is said to provide functionality similar to apt. You can ftp updates

Re: exim mrtg

2002-01-09 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, i've just added a little something on my site that tells how i set up mrtg to graph exim stats. hopefully it's somewhat correct... if anyone notices anything wrong, please tell me. if this doesn't work for you, at least it may give you an idea. here's a link to the page... if that doesn't w

Re: mutt weirdness: >> "Move read messages to /home/astartoth/Mail/~/Maildir? ([n]/y):"

2002-01-09 Thread dsr
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:16:39PM -0500, dman wrote: > > BTW, What's with this ~/Maildir thing I keep seeing mentioned? Where > did that come from? Maildir is an alternative method of storing mail invented by djb and first supportd by qmail; procmail, maildrop, exim, postfix and several other p

Re: Problems using Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical

2002-01-09 Thread thyrinn
I have a cordless logitech keyboard and mouse. I do sometimes get the unknown e1 error too. Also in the last week the keyboard has stopped working in X. Mouse kept working fine but I couldn't type, couldn't ALT CTRL F1 or ALT CTRL Backspace out. I had to ssh from another PC and kill X. -S

Re: Hairy lilypond compile problem

2002-01-09 Thread csj
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 07:36:43 -0800 David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:18:45PM +0800, csj wrote: > > Using a brute-force dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot on the lilypond > > source package results in a build failure. The last three lines of > > stdout show: > > > >

Re: "screen" will not read /etc/profile

2002-01-09 Thread Bill Goudie
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:35:47PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:01:39AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > > I have set some aliases in /etc/profile, but > > when I enter "screen" and create a new "screen" session, > > it does not work, I am afraid screen will not read /et

Re: Ext3 and Woody

2002-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake William P Martin: > If I install woody or sid for that matter and use the ext3 ata100 disks can I > upgrade the kernel to 2.4 with ext3. Is there something I have to build into > the kernel specifically? > > Thanks > WP ext3 support - use one of the newer 2.4 kernels. Steve pgpPHrq

Xlib errors

2002-01-09 Thread Pollywog
When I stop an X session, I find errors on the console that look like this: Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". I ran glxinfo and I get this: lilypad:/home/pollywog#glxinfo name of display: :0.0 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on di

can't ping outside own network on ns1

2002-01-09 Thread justin cunningham
Hi, I don't understand why I cant ping outside my own network on my primary nameserver. I called the isp and according to them there's no problem with connectivity (they always say that). I also have a web, mail and db server (all running potato) all of which I can reach the outside but not the p

Problems using Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical

2002-01-09 Thread Sven Schumacher
Hi debian-user@lists.debian.org, Hi Folks, sine Christmas I own a Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical and nearly everything is fine. Mouse and keyboard work. But sometimes I got the following: keyboard: unknown e1 escape sequence keyboard: unknown e1 escape sequence keyboard: unrecognized scanco

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-09 Thread ben
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 12:46 pm, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I'm starting a "Debian Vs Redhat" comparision. At this point I just have > the ball rolling. Many other people showed interest so I'm throwing this > out for public addition/correction. (We use Solaris systems so the > SYSV/BSD is

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-09 Thread DvB
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > RedHat: > Bug tracking system is not available for searching While I get the impression that debian's bug system is more open and more widely used, Red Hat does in fact have one at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ which, as you might gue

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-09 Thread Michael Jinks
The /etc/rc.d/ construction is, AFAIK, a beast of Red Hat origin. Recent version (starting with 7.x, maybe?) symlink /etc/rc.d/init.d and the various rc#.d directories directly into /etc as a convenience for people who are used to the more traditional SysV layout, but functionally it's always been

Re: poppassd

2002-01-09 Thread Steve Mickeler
I'm using poppassd v1.8-ceti from http://www.ceti.com.pl/~kravietz/prog.html It doesnt suffer from any of the problems you described below. 1) I cant use an old password, only the current password will work to change the password 2) It is PAM aware 3) It supports MD5 I also make sure that

Re: postfix dependancies

2002-01-09 Thread Joey Hess
Craig Dickson wrote: > I don't see anything in the dpkg man page showing a command to do > this from dpkg, oddly. There is dpkg -I, but you have to download > the .deb first for that; dpkg doesn't seem to have an option to > display a package's record from /var/lib/dpkg/available. dpkg -p -- see

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.2217 +0100]: > Ok then. When talking about locations of files, paths (/etc/init.d/ > vs /etc/rc.d/*) what term would be correct? strictly speaking, /etc/rc.d/* is the proper SysV way, but these days even RedHat uses /etc/{init,rc?}.d

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.2146 +0100]: > Debian: > Server Oriented not necessarily... it's pretty alround if you ask me. and so is redhat, > Publicly available 3 tier development cycle (dev, test, production) > Publicly available bug archive for testing an

Re: ~Maildir and /var/spool/mail/$USER

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Américo Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.1843 +0100]: > I'm running Maildir, wich is configured to deliver mail > to ~/home/Maildir. But somehow, some messages, are still > being delivered to /var/spool/mail/$USER. I *don't* even > have exim running we can attack this step-wise:

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-09 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok then. When talking about locations of files, paths (/etc/init.d/ vs /etc/rc.d/*) what term would be correct? Thus spake Alec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wednesday 09 January 2002 03:46 pm, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > RedHat: > > > System layout is BSD > > Nay. IMHO, "SysV layout" ref

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-09 Thread Alec
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 03:46 pm, Robert L. Harris wrote: > RedHat: > System layout is BSD Nay. IMHO, "SysV layout" refers to a bunch of symlinks that are called with "start" or "stop" arguments, while "BSD layout" refers to some sort of unified script. I prefer the former and, AFAIK, b

Re: OT: xargs & vi

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.1716 +0100]: > hosing up the telnet session, yes. i would guess. but using vimm > 6.0.93 locally, i get the same results and error messages inputting to > vim from stdin. i can't reproduce your conclusive results on my > machine, martin

gatos drivers for rage mobility p (dell latitude)

2002-01-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi guys and gals, I have a Dell Latitude CPx H500GT with (reportedly) a ati rage mobility p in it. I was told I could get hardware scaling with the gatos driver, and wanted to know what people here think before I went on a possibly useless mission to install them manually... Do the driver exist

poppassd

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
alright, my users don't know how to do shell, and they can't change passwords. now, i just upgraded to squirrelmail (upgraded because i had IMP before, barf!), which has a plugin to change the password. it's TLS encrypted, so not too much of a problem, but in testing out poppassd, the underlying pa

Re: printing stopped working--any ideas?

2002-01-09 Thread thyrinn
I have one of these printers. The only way I ever got it working was using gimp-print(?) and CUPS. lpr and all of that wouldn't work. Also with this setup the quality was awful. It would only do greyscale. When I hooked the same printer to a Win9x computer with the Canon drivers it printe

kernel compiling fails on sounddriver

2002-01-09 Thread Kurdt
Hi My debian woody is now working a few weeks. Some things don't work yet. Like my sound. Most describings say to compile my kernel with the new soundmodule enabled. I downloaded the latest stable kernel on kernel.org So far, I untar in /usr/src/linux, do a make menuconfig (or make xconfig),

Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-09 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm starting a "Debian Vs Redhat" comparision. At this point I just have the ball rolling. Many other people showed interest so I'm throwing this out for public addition/correction. (We use Solaris systems so the SYSV/BSD is a valid point) Please feel free to add on, but lets keep the jokes

Playing WMA audio streams

2002-01-09 Thread Coen De Roover
Hi, Is there a program that's capable of playing continuous WMA audio streams ? Thanks in advance, Coen De Roover

How to get networking working for windows 2000 within vmware??

2002-01-09 Thread Walter Tautz
I am unclear what settings within windows 2000 i should be inputting. I had a look at the smb.conf file vmware manages and it has entries like: lsof -i: vmware-nm 1486 root7u IPv4 1710 UDP 172.16.61.1:netbios-ns vmware-nm 1486 root8u IPv4 1715 UDP 172.16.61.1:ne

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake martin f krafft: > folks, sorry if i am posting this here, but i am sort of clueless, and > i'd love some advise from you wise people! > > i have this AMD Thunderbird 1.3 GHz machine with 512Mb of SD-RAM, a 1Gb > swap partition on a 20Gb 5400 seagate IDE drive. that's quite powerful, >

Re: printing stopped working--any ideas?

2002-01-09 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 20:14, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Luke Call: > > When I say "nothing happens", I mean that no print jobs begin, the > > printer (which works under Win2k, sigh) makes no sound, there is nothing just a question: did it ever work under anything besides w2k ? Odds are

TLS-enabled LDAP debs?

2002-01-09 Thread Drew Raines
Has anyone created TLS/SSL-friendly debs for libpam-ldap, libnss-ldap, libldap2, et al? I'd like to not reinvent the wheel if someone's already done this. -- Drew

segfault on one debian, but not on the other ?

2002-01-09 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi ! I have problems compiling & running a program on one of my debian/testing systems. I have two machines: 1) "Eddie", a not-very-up-to-date woody machine (Athlon) with new libc6 2) "Zaphod", a very old woody P100 system. Last dist-upgrade was in september, I think... The program is "sampeg3"

Re: problem with printer

2002-01-09 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:19:05PM -0500, Linwood Johnson wrote: | Have tried several times to clean my Cannon printer and although it | prints in black and write, it does not print in color. I bought a new | color cardrige and the color still does not come out right, the red | shows just a slight

Re: GDM and ESD not exitting cleanly

2002-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake dman: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:29:05PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > | Thus spake dman: > | > On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:04:11PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > | > | Similar issues with xnumlock - no longer starts when the user logs in. > | > | I have selected the Debian option - it

Re: mutt weirdness: >> "Move read messages to /home/astartoth/Mail/~/Maildir? ([n]/y):"

2002-01-09 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 06:29:59PM +, Américo Rocha wrote: | Move read messages to /home/astartoth/Mail/~/Maildir? ([n]/y): | | what's this ? any ideas ? When you leave your $spoolfile (your inbox, usually /var/mail/$USER) mutt asks you if you want to move the messages you have read into $

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