Using netselect, a list of mirrors

I am interested in using netselect to find the mirror site to use for the most socially responsible downloading of debian packages. The lists of mirrors that I have found are cluttered with html formatting tags that make them neat to read in a browser, but unsuitable for input to netselect. Is ther

Re: locale error messages

Hi, Did you do the locale-gen thing on your machine? Take a look at /etc/locale.gen and edit it as appropriate, then run locale-gen. This might solve your problem --- vachi From: Titus Barik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: locale error messages Date: Fri, 11 Jan

Re: (OT-ish:) procmail eating messages -- why?

sorry to respond to my own post, but i forgot something. when procmail sinks the message i'm getting, it seems to generate this blank, no-header, zero-size, from-me (by the 'F' flag in mutt), subjectless email, dated Jan 01. no idea where this comes from but it seems to be related. thanks again.

(OT-ish:) procmail eating messages -- why?

my previous posts got lost in a thread above, i think, so i'm rephrasing the question as it now stands: trying to implement spamassassin with procmail, i installed the former, and then put the following in the latter, as directed: :0f | /usr/local/bin/spamassassin -P (i'd tried it without the -P

little procmail help please...

Hi all, I am a little new to procmail and I have a small problem with my mail system. I have my mail spool on another box and I mount the directory when I start up my better box... The questions is: How can I filter the mail spool with procmail everytime I run my mail software so that then my

Re: gphoto2 with USB digital camera problem

Craig Dickson wrote: > Robert A. French wrote: > > > Using a standalone reader for whatever media your camera uses (eg > > CompactFlash) is one option... > > Yes, I've been reading up on that this morning. Looks like the SanDisk > SDDR-31 CF reader would work well, and it's not expensive. Then I

Re: X Configuration in Woody

On 01/10/02 20:36:22 -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote: > If you don't have a XF86config-4 file you don't have a complete Xfree > 4.x install. It seems to me when I did this I had a mix of Xfree ver 3 & > 4, no XF86config-4 just an XF86cconfig file. I can't remember exactly > how I fixed this but maybe u

Re: list all packages that are installed

Thanks to all. I've got more than one way of getting my list. But now I have another question: Where is this information stored on my computer? Since I am somewhat paranoid about things, what assurance do I have that the information returned by these invocations of dpkg reveal correctly the actual

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 January 2002 10:09 pm, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > On Friday, January 11, 2002 at 11:44 AM dman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:27:39PM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: [snip] > Hahahahaha. You are obviously not old enough to remember t

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

Have you tried cp -r path/dirname newpath ? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Programming

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:35:11PM -0800, Tim locke wrote: > not access denied errors. I need to copy a > subdirectory > located in a public directory to my home directory...I > can copy the files one by one but I'd rather copy the > whole subdirectory itself to my home directory... Have you tried

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

On Friday, January 11, 2002 at 11:44 AM dman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:27:39PM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > | 2. I have always had problems at the start remembering keyboard > | commands on ANY wordprocessor / editor that I have ever tried. > | VI/VIM has been especially perplexing b

Re: Debian on Lindows ?

Hi Joris and all Is there a reason we couldn't do something to Debian that would allow it to use libriaries from Lindows to run Windows binaries? I will use Wine before I'll dump Debian David On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, wrote: > Hello Debianites, > > Personally i've grown attached to the Debian

Re: proxy for apt-get? NOONE?

Hi Greg, > Why not try a script like this: Ui, pretty complicated, I prefer apt-get --just-print dist-ugrade :-) > export http_proxy=http://192.168.2.64:8080/ > export ftp_proxy=http://192.168.2.64:8080/ But this really worked! Thanks! So I understand even less why the same option in apt.conf.d

locale error messages

After doing a recent dselect upgrade, I'm noticing the following when trying to view man pages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man ls (null): can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct Reformatting ls(1), please wait... The man page seems to load fine, however. Also, I noticed some perl wa

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

not access denied errors. I need to copy a subdirectory located in a public directory to my home directory...I can copy the files one by one but I'd rather copy the whole subdirectory itself to my home directory... __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video

Re: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:08:22AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > While using fetchmail all goes OK until reaching message 91 and then > > 'reading message No 91' > SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error > fetchmail: socket error while fetching from (my isp) > fetchmail: Query status=2 (

Re: list all packages that are installed

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 January 2002 08:31 pm, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:58:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > 'COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l > foo' >> >> radical. thanks. > > Personally, I would just do dpkg --get-selections. While th

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

Only thing I would add is that it would be really nice to be able to get this to print properly. I broke my Debian box yesterday playing around with a couple of testing/unstable packages, so I'm stuck on this NT box for a few days. Have a Winprinter too, so that is a pita, but I'll live with

Re: list all packages that are installed

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:58:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > 'COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l > foo' > > radical. thanks. > Personally, I would just do dpkg --get-selections. -- Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Engineering meets art in the parking lot and thi

Re: OT [was:Re: Question about kernel naming scheme]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 January 2002 06:50 pm, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:53:00PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > ++ > > > > | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

Tim locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to copy a whole subdirectory to another > subdirectory...possible? (i.e. cp /home/user1/file > /home/user2/file) as a regular user. ^ If you're getting access denied errors, you probably don't have write permission

Re: list all packages that are installed

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 January 2002 05:58 pm, Stephen Rueger wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:41:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > A problem with this is that even if COLUMNS is a huge value (from > > a very large xterm window, for example), 'dpkg -l

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

Tim locke wrote: > I need to copy a whole subdirectory to another > subdirectory...possible? (i.e. cp /home/user1/file > /home/user2/file) as a regular user. How about cp -r? Or better yet: cp -a. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpVrzdPt

Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

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Re: Printing problems

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:08:44PM -0800, Jeff wrote: > and the printer prints, but not the text. The output has words > that look like the filter or enscript calls, e.g. > '%%BoundingBox...' and '/.notdef' and '%!PS-Adobe-3.0' These are post script things. Your printer doesn't understand th

Re: Sound card worked, now it doesn't

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:07:17PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I installed Potatoe, the sound card worked perfectly. I set it up so my > user worked fine. I upgraded to woody, and still the user sound worked fine. > I upgraded to 2.4.17, now root can do sound, but the user cannot. >

Re: xinetd /etc/host.deny ALL:PARANOID

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:47:27PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: [ martin didn't write this, chris wagner did ] > > Come on... there are only 4 ip numbers in a /30!!! The only > > conceivable use for a /30 is as a point-to-point. /29 maybe for cable > > modem LANs... /30s are also used when a

Re: Video card help, urgent pls

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 08:25:35AM +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if the card S3 ProSavage KM133 is > supported by XFree86 and if yes how or which > documentation for setting it up; Thanks alot I had Savage2k chipset - it sukx bad. Replaced with Radeon and works perfectly

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

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:18:21PM -0800, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > Adam wrote: > > > BTW, what release are you installing? stable? testing? > > I installed "Woody" at the advice of the list, previously; > since it was possible that the console problem had been > fixed. I've heard on the Red H

OT [was:Re: Question about kernel naming scheme]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:53:00PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > ++ > | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| > | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | > |

Re: spamassassin/procmail generating blank message

okay, thanks for the explanation. makes more sense now. i've fixed the recipe (added that -P flag on the end), but am still getting these senderless, headerless, Jan 01 blank messages ... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-- -http://www

Re: list all packages that are installed

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:08:49 -0800 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I get a list of all the debian packages that are installed > on my computer? Many solutions have been suggested, here's another. It will end up listing only the package names, nothing else. Useful for when you go

Re: NE2000 ISA

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:24:36PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > the fine manual. If not, you'll need the config utility (IIRC > ne2k's weren't pnp, even the ne2k+ that claimed to be, so > fscking around with isapnp won't get you anywhere). Not being pnp, make them easier to install IMHO. I had

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Printing problems

I'm having some trouble. This used to work, and all-of-a-sudden it isn't now. I have a woody/2.4.16 system with an HP Deskjet 952C on the parallel port. I use LPRNG and MAGICFILTER with the dj690c-filter, and this has worked fine in the past. I've done a few apt-get update/upgrades since last I

Sound card worked, now it doesn't

When I installed Potatoe, the sound card worked perfectly. I set it up so my user worked fine. I upgraded to woody, and still the user sound worked fine. I upgraded to 2.4.17, now root can do sound, but the user cannot. I compiled the sound driver into the kernel, and like I said root works fin

Re: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error

* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:08:22AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: >> While using fetchmail all goes OK until reaching message 91 and then >> >> 'reading message No 91' >> SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error >> fetchmail: socket error while fetchi

Re: Installing on PowerMac unsuccessful

* Tobias Welti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-01-10 10:28 -0500: > I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 r3 on my Apple Powerbook 5300cs. I've > got a free fast internet connection, so I'm trying to boot the powerbook > with the rescue floppy provided on the net. But there's one big problem: > The Powerbook

Re: make-kpkg and root_cmd from ~/.kernel-pkg.conf not working?

On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: > What am I doing wrong? It is only used for the buildpackage target, AFAIK. Read the docs... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie

Re: list all packages that are installed

Paul E Condon wrote: > How can I get a list of all the debian packages that are installed > on my computer? > > I see lots of stuff about getting a list of all the packages that are > available. But thats not what I'm asking. > > I know its there, because dselect somehow maintains it little > sy

Re: DSL router and networking - Help!

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 08:29:40PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Pro I intend removing the second card on the Linux box since the STP can > be plugged into my hub. What I would like to do is to continue using the > networking I have already setup for file sharing and printing (though > there will

Re: linuxconf can not work

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 January 2002 04:09 pm, ben wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2002 01:28 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > Ron Johnson writes: > > > There's also "broken" like, what if I was using linuxconf to configure > > > certain things. Then, when I reboot, cer

Re: list all packages that are installed

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:41:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2002 05:22 pm, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > Lo, on Friday, January 11, Paul E Condon did write: > [snip] > > dpkg -l > A problem with this is that even if COLUMNS is a huge value (from > a very large xterm window, for

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 06:27:13PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 10 January 2002 05:37 pm, Alec wrote: > > If RPM is good, why did Debian project feel compelled to create dpkg? > > dpkg was created back in the early days. Either RPM wasn't written > yet, or wasn't the most popular packa

Re: apt-get update

> Running apt-get update today, a number of packages were updated. However, a > number of source sites gave me the following error: > > Failed to fetch http://[site name] > sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > > I don't know whether this information is relevant, but most of the

Determining FQDN (was Re: Yow, Madduck!)

Lo, on Thursday, January 10, dman did write: One minor nit to pick from an otherwise very good explanation (and I wouldn't bother, except that I've been bitten by this before). > This directive tells exim to use that name as the hostname in the SMTP > greeting (HELO/EHLO) instead of that report

Re: list all packages that are installed

Richard Cobbe wrote: > (Just out of curiosity, is the COLUMNS trick documented anywhere? I > couldn't find it in any of the obvious manpages: dpkg(8), bash(1), > environ(7).) Yes, it actually is in the bash manpage: Simple Commands A simple command is a sequence of optional variable

Re: list all packages that are installed

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 January 2002 05:22 pm, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Friday, January 11, Paul E Condon did write: [snip] > dpkg -l > > although you may need to set the COLUMNS variable to a larger number in > order to prevent some of the fields from getti

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 WordStar sure was the best. Banged out many a term paper on a KayPro II... Some free advice: - - links is better than lynx. Supports frames. - - The big thing I like GUIs for is for xterms. Have as many open on your screen at once, resize them,

Re: Debian on Lindows ?

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:13:55AM -0500, Alec wrote: > Joris, you want to switch to a proprietary platform just to get your scanner > to work?! I understand that Lindows will cost $99 (I'm not sure what they are > going to do about GPL in their code) Firstly, Lindows is likely to be killed The

Re: list all packages that are installed

Lo, on Friday, January 11, Paul E Condon did write: > How can I get a list of all the debian packages that are installed > on my computer? > > I see lots of stuff about getting a list of all the packages that are > available. But thats not what I'm asking. > > I know its there, because dselect s

list all packages that are installed

How can I get a list of all the debian packages that are installed on my computer? I see lots of stuff about getting a list of all the packages that are available. But thats not what I'm asking. I know its there, because dselect somehow maintains it little symbols on each package line in its disp

Re: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:08:22AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | While using fetchmail all goes OK until reaching message 91 and then | | 'reading message No 91' | SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error | fetchmail: socket error while fetching from (my isp) | fetchmail: Query status=2 (

Re: list all packages that are installed

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:08:49PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: | How can I get a list of all the debian packages that are installed | on my computer? dpkg -l \* | grep "^ii" -D -- "GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions." --Do

Re: cvs no space left on device

Lo, on Friday, January 11, Kendall Shaw did write: > "Brenda J. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is this a remote cvs repository? Maybe the remote machine > > ran out of scratch space. > > Yes, it's a remote repository. I'll see if that's it. That's almost certain to be it. In my ex

Re: Yow, Madduck!

also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.2336 +0100]: > Right (though I feel that "SMTP clients incapable of SMTP" are just > plain wrong). However the ISP can restrict the hosts (ips) it allows > the bad FQHNs from to be just the IPs it offers to customers. yes, that's a good way to do i

Re: spamassassin/procmail generating blank message

also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.2314 +0100]: > - the :0f bit says "Consider the pipe as a filter." > - so, on the next line, it is piped to /usr/local/bin/spamassassin. > - this processes it. the spamassassin manpage -- which, having rtfmed > *before* posting, as i do

Re: Yow, Madduck!

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:38:07PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.1859 +0100]: | > Actually, you're kinda lucky that achilles.net accepted the forwarded | > message since the headers indicate that an unknown hostname was in the | > HELO. They could

LVM - pvcreate error

I tried LVM today, but didn't get very far. I've used fdisk to set the partition type, and tried to pvcreate it. But I get an i/o error. What have I done wrong? This is on an up to date woody system. Dougie - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk -l .dev.hdc1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdc Disk

Re: linuxconf can not work

On Friday 11 January 2002 01:28 pm, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > There's also "broken" like, what if I was using linuxconf to configure > > certain things. Then, when I reboot, certain things aren't started > > correctly. > > Then linuxconf is badly broken. i used, then tossed, li

Re: spamassassin/procmail generating blank message

on Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:47:26PM +0100, marTin insinuated: > also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.2155 +0100]: > > :0f > > | /usr/local/bin/spamassassin > > rtfm installation and manpage: > >-P Normally SpamAssassin will write the rewritten message >to the mail sp

LVM - pvcreate error

I tried LVM today, but didn't get very far. I've used fdisk to set the partition type, and tried to pvcreate it. But I get an i/o error. What have I done wrong? This is on an up to date woody system. Dougie - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk -l .dev.hdc1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdc Di

SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error

While using fetchmail all goes OK until reaching message 91 and then 'reading message No 91' SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error fetchmail: socket error while fetching from (my isp) fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) and then it fetchmail terminates. Since each message up to 91 h

Re: SHUTDOWN: Re: Scheduled downtime for murphy.debian.org(lists.debian.org)

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Adam Heath wrote: > Well, it's that time. I'm leaving to go to the colo where murphy is located. > I'll be shutting it down from there. This is the warning about it's > shutdown. It's been back up for 30m now.

make-kpkg and root_cmd from ~/.kernel-pkg.conf not working?

Although I have root_cmd := fakeroot in ~/.kernel-pkg.conf, make-kpkg complains and exit with need root priviledges make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 1 What am I doing wrong? -- Shaul Karl email: shaulka(at-no-spam)bezeqint.net Please replace (at-no-spam) with an at

Re: spamassassin/procmail generating blank message

also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.2155 +0100]: > :0f > | /usr/local/bin/spamassassin rtfm installation and manpage: -P Normally SpamAssassin will write the rewritten message to the mail spool by default. The -P parameter will cause it to pipe the output

Re: Yow, Madduck!

also sprach Volker Gerstenkorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.1843 +0100]: > Advanced users also need Received: headers to track down spammers. Bad > luck if an open relay doesn't log IP addresses of senders. so then you take the relay's IP and blacklist them with rfc-ignorant.org or any of the R

Re: Yow, Madduck!

also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.1859 +0100]: > Actually, you're kinda lucky that achilles.net accepted the forwarded > message since the headers indicate that an unknown hostname was in the > HELO. They could have denied it just as martin's system did to your > debian box. (I ass

Re: Yow, Madduck!

also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.1700 +0100]: > Nex the system web30.achilles.net received the message vis ESMTP from > a host who said it was 'seal' in the EHLO command, but whose IP is > 209.151.2.114 which resolves to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I > didn't think the "@" was legal in a hos

Tomcat update -> failure

Problem with Apache(1.3.22)+Tomcat(3.3) after update: I have a working 2.2.17 system, and am running Apache+Tomcat. Having not used it for awhile, or updated in 4-6 months, I did an apt-get install" of tomcat and apache, to get the most current versions. It did an update, and now it is broken.  -

Re: proxy for apt-get? NOONE?

Hi Sander, > > > But the cache _does_ work. Proof: > > > hamster:~>telnet proxy 3128 > > > Trying 192.168.96.3... > > > Connected to proxy.int.radiomaranon.org.pe. > > > Escape character is '^]'. > > This only proofs the proxy takes connections, Correct. But I assure you that it does work,

Re: spamassassin/procmail generating blank message

> :0f > | /usr/local/bin/spamassassin Not sure, but try | /usr/local/bin/spamassassin -P Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://spiegl.de, http://radiomaranon.org.pe PGP/GPG: see headers o

Re: Error: Can't open display: 10.65.64.65:0.0, why? SOLVED

> Thanks for the answer but i solved the problem > just adding the "-X" parameter to the ssh command and > not exporting the DISPLAY variable. nice for my needs. Great...as long as you don't touch "xhost" :-) Andy. -- Dr. Andy Spiegl, Radio Marañón, Jaén, Perú E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

also sprach nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.0152 +0100]: > i also don't like that packages install all to /usr/local. i can see > how ports would do this but i would expect software installed via > sysinstall to go to /usr i wouldn't, but its about as useful a discussion as which whisky is be

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

Adam wrote: > BTW, what release are you installing? stable? testing? I installed "Woody" at the advice of the list, previously; since it was possible that the console problem had been fixed. I've heard on the Red Hat list, people that said they would rather be using Debian, but that their vid

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

also sprach Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.1802 +0100]: > Won't say screw RedHat the Co., however. Thankful for them for doing > much of the pioneering work for the community (and maybe some grata > for forcibly dragging us in the future like libc6). Sure they do make > rough

Re: /etc/environment, and xdm/login/pam

also sprach Brenda J. Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.1803 +0100]: > Maybe I happen to have the "in-between" distro that has the "new" > /etc/environment, before they started sourcing /etc/environment > from /etc/X11/Xsession (I'm guessing that they might have > changed the system to do this

Re: Is anyone using woody in a production environment?

also sprach Brooks R. Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.1700 +0100]: > | 3) We build the Debian packages from testing on stable. > > IMO not a good idea... dependencies, dependencies, dependencies. > You'll end up basically upgrading to woody anyway, just do it to start > with. disagreed.

Re: linuxconf can not work

Ron Johnson writes: > There's also "broken" like, what if I was using linuxconf to configure > certain things. Then, when I reboot, certain things aren't started > correctly. Then linuxconf is badly broken. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: 2 questions: Sylpheed & Mozilla

On Friday 11 January 2002 12:19, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 21:07, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > The Sylpheed question is rather easy, I hope. > > How do you uninstall it? Just delete directories? > > How did you install it? If from source, there is probably a "uninstall" > target in

Video card help, urgent pls

Hi, I would like to know if the card S3 ProSavage KM133 is supported by XFree86 and if yes how or which documentation for setting it up; Thanks alot = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own!

Re: cdrecord blank causes system block

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 06:24:13PM +0100, David Gardi wrote: > Hi people, > I own a Philips CDRW 16x10x40. Things seem to be working normally (more > or less) apart from one strange problem. > > When I do Ex. cdrecord blank=all > The blanking process starts, and completes ok, but during the blank

Re: 2 questions: Sylpheed & Mozilla

Curtis Vaughan wrote: > The Sylpheed question is rather easy, I hope. > How do you uninstall it? Just delete directories? How did you install it? If you used a .deb package, then dpkg -P sylpheed should do the trick. If you compiled it yourself, and installed it with "make install", then yo

spamassassin/procmail generating blank message

i've installed spamassassin, and stuck the following recipes in my ~/.procmailrc file: :0f | /usr/local/bin/spamassassin :0: * ^X-Spam-Flag: YES $MAILDIR/junk/ and haven't seen any spam yet, but it's only been up for a few minutes. what i *have* been getting is a ton of messages -- about one

DSL router and networking - Help!

I have just signed up for a wires-only adsl account with Eclipse internet in the UK. For those of you not from the UK, wires-only has only recently been introduced here and involves the telecoms company (BT) switching on ADSL at the exchange. The user is required to purchase the modem and microfilt

Re: tricky debian woody update problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 .raw & .iso mean the same thing... On Friday 11 January 2002 02:32 pm, Alan Chandler wrote: [snip alot] > > At the moment the only thing I can think of doing is to download a testing > CD image from somewhere and make a CD-R of it - then re-install th

Re: gphoto2 with USB digital camera problem

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:15:08PM -0600, Thomas Hallaran wrote: > did you make sure that whatever usb chipset module you need is insmoded > and did you add "none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0" to your fstab > file and mount. My coolpix 990 wokrs great. > Actually, I was trying to mount t

SHUTDOWN: Re: Scheduled downtime for murphy.debian.org(lists.debian.org)

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Adam Heath wrote: > Brainfood is scheduling downtime for murphy.debian.org(which is also > lists.debian.org, and runs all the mailing lists), to do a disk upgrade. This > is just the addition of a new drive, with no copying of the existing data. We > expect downtime to be mi

Re: gphoto2 with USB digital camera problem

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:43:25AM -0500, mikepolniak wrote: > > > I went through the same with a Canon Powershot s100. I used > > as a reference. I > > stopped when I couldn't find a gphoto2 gui deb (gtkam, gnocam). > > > > I'm waiting for th

tricky debian woody update problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a server running debian woody and I normally use dselect to decide which packages to install. I hadn't updated it since about July last year and I came along to install razor which was shown on the debian web site under "testing". In order

Re: Error: Can't open display: 10.65.64.65:0.0, why? SOLVED

Thanks for the answer but i solved the problem just adding the "-X" parameter to the ssh command and not exporting the DISPLAY variable. nice for my needs. cheers On Friday 11 January 2002 15:02, Andy Spiegl wrote: > > I need to use an X application from my server, > > for these task i am doing

Re: 2 questions: Sylpheed & Mozilla

On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 21:07, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > The Sylpheed question is rather easy, I hope. > How do you uninstall it? Just delete directories? How did you install it? If from source, there is probably a "uninstall" target in the source directory. cd /your/sylpheed/source/dir; make uninsta

Re: NE2000 ISA

* arief muLya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > The problem is, I can't just modprobe the module. They says if it's an > ISA NE2000 Card, I need to give the right IO and IRQ setting when I > modprobe/insmod the module. Your best bet is to get a different NIC and throw ne2k away (yes, I kn

Re: NE2000 ISA

On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 10:27, arief muLya wrote: > Dear all, > > > Newbie question here. > I manage to install debian-potato 2.2r4 on a 486 PC, by removing the > harddisk to a better machine. And then after get installed, I moved the > harddisk back to the 486. > > At the 486, I've installed a

2 questions: Sylpheed & Mozilla

The Sylpheed question is rather easy, I hope. How do you uninstall it? Just delete directories? Mozilla: Earlier I asked about how to make Mozilla my default browser. Ok, I got that to work, but now I have different problem. Say, for example, I have a hyperlink in a letter. If I tap on it, M

Re: Question about kernel naming scheme

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 January 2002 01:44 pm, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:26:24PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote (1.00): > > So... anyone know what tsc means? > > Time Stamp Counter. An instruction was added in the Intel Pentium line > called R

Re: partition resize

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:29:18AM +0200, Meir Kriheli wrote: > On Tuesday 08 January 2002 22:52, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > > Hi all, > > i have woody box with reiserfs > > i made some mount points as > > > > /usr > > /home > > /boot > > /temp > > /var > > > > all mount points are on reiser, only /va

Re: Play VCD on computer

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:38:58AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:36:30 -0500 > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are unofficial .debs of mplayer packaged by developer Marillat > (http://marillat.free.fr). you should not use any packaged version of mplayer for the following

Re: Question about kernel naming scheme

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:26:24PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote (1.00): > So... anyone know what tsc means? Time Stamp Counter. An instruction was added in the Intel Pentium line called RDTSC, which you can use for high resolution timing, performance monitoring, etc. >From what I can tell, if you h

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