make-kpkg modules_image question

2002-01-19 Thread Kurt Lieber
I just compiled a new kernel and realized that I forgot to include ppp support in the kernel. Rather than recompiling a new custom kernel, can I just make-kpkg clean, make menuconfig and make-kpkg modules_image to compile ppp kernel support as a module? Assuming so, what do I then need to do t

Re: can't get realtek NICs to work.

2002-01-19 Thread seg
"i only use 2.2 kernels..rt8139 works good :)" I know :( With 2.2.20 kernel everything works fine, but no go with 2.4.17. I don't remember with which 2.4 kernel, but I got them to work, needed to reinstall system. Wish iptables would work 2.2.x kernels - Original Message - From: "

Re: iptables in potato

2002-01-19 Thread Acheron
Theres no package for netfilter in stable, however a build from source is fairly trivial. The source for the iptables tools can be had at http://netfilter.samba.org There are packages in testing / unstable, btw. As far as syntax goes, they are fairly similar, though some modifications will of

Re: another exim question

2002-01-19 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 January 2002 1:05 am, Ken Weingold wrote: > Please excuse this if it should be obvious, but I have been playing > around so much that I can't find this. Is there one simple setting in > exim.conf that will allow me to receive mail for all

Re: dumb icon question

2002-01-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:32:24PM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > | Help ... I'm about to go insane. > | > | Running XFCE, love it, and want to find icons for guiTAR and gps (the > | process manager). When I iconify a window the correct icon appears, so

Re: Emacs HTML modes

2002-01-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Michael" == Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> So, the proper way to handle this is to customize the psgml Michael> faces then? I'm trying to reinstall psgml now, but my Michael> connection to the debian servers isn't that great right Michael> now. I've really got to g

Re: dselect

2002-01-19 Thread Asura
> > Why in back ground. APT system run by dselect > > Pet peeve: apt has nothing to do with the questions that are asked while > upgrading packages. > > > asks question unless you set "debconf" to assume yes to all etc. > > Even then you'll have to pass dpkg special options to force what it does

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

2002-01-19 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 20 January 2002 1:01 am, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > The short answer is: > > # cd /path/to/old/directory > # find . -depth -print0 | afio -p -xv -0a /mount/point/of/new/directory > > Now for the long answer. The candidates are: What about rsync -- Alan - [EMAIL P

Re: can't get realtek NICs to work.

2002-01-19 Thread nate
> > Just installed a debian system. Used a CD to boot and downloaded > the files > from the net afterwards. Installation went well, NIC where working > fine. Since I want to use iptables, I need a 2.4.x kernel. Compiled > a new one, with support for 8139 realteks, the NICs I have. which 2.4.x ker

can't get realtek NICs to work.

2002-01-19 Thread seg
Just installed a debian system. Used a CD to boot and downloaded the files from the net afterwards. Installation went well, NIC where working fine. Since I want to use iptables, I need a 2.4.x kernel. Compiled a new one, with support for 8139 realteks, the NICs I have. Everything seems to work fi

iptables in potato

2002-01-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. So, I have a potato firewall currently running 2.2.12 and using an ipchains firewall script. I just built a 2.4.17 kernel for it. I want to use the stable Debian release for that particular box, but the iptables tool does not appear to be available in potato (according to an a

fetchmail -> procmail -> spambouncer -> sendmail problems

2002-01-19 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to set up a Debian woody system to replicate what I've had working on a HP-UX box for several years. Here is how it goes. I use fetchmail to retireve email from several different POP accounts. Fetchmail then invokes procmail, via the .forward file. Procmail uses the spambouncer recipies

Re: dumb icon question

2002-01-19 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Kevin C. Smith wrote: | Help ... I'm about to go insane. | | Running XFCE, love it, and want to find icons for guiTAR and gps (the | process manager). When I iconify a window the correct icon appears, so | I know there on the system somewhere. I've search, explored, and hunted

dumb icon question

2002-01-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Help ... I'm about to go insane. Running XFCE, love it, and want to find icons for guiTAR and gps (the process manager). When I iconify a window the correct icon appears, so I know there on the system somewhere. I've search, explored, and hunted but I can not find them. Looked in: /usr/X11R6/i

Re: SuSE7.2 -> Debian?

2002-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:26:31 -0800 Klaus Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way (for a beginner!) to convert a SuSE7.2 system, used as a > router, to a Debian system? My way, when converting from Mandrake: Tar up /home & /etc directories. FTP them to another computer. Inst

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:40:06PM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: > I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- > from math programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the > problem is one in which the 'make' closes with errors that list > dependencies it could not

Re: semi-ot: learning python

2002-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:35:42AM -0500, Greg Fischer wrote: > I'd like to learn python. I know a bit of C++ as a result of taking a > course. Once I get started programming, I generally enjoy it, but when > I don't have any definite problem to solve, I have problems motivating > myself. So...

Re: How old is a package

2002-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:40:50PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > How can we tell how old is a package without looking into changelog? > > $ apt-cache policy > $ apt-cache show > etc. does not show date information :-( That's true. You could look at the dates displayed by 'ar tv foo.deb', which wil

Re: problems with apt-get ---> Evolution

2002-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:52:42PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 14:10, johan boeckx wrote: > > I have problems with apt-get, namely he blocks the dist-upgrade since > > some packets show independencies. The independencies occurs around > > evolution, namely unmet dependencies

Re: dselect

2002-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:38:59AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:36:08AM -0700, Asura wrote: > > One more question, if you don't mind (being a newbie) > > how can I run dselect install in the background? > > Why in back ground. APT system run by dselect Pet peeve: apt has

Re: removing directories in /usr/share/doc/

2002-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:28:10AM -0800, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > is it completely safe to simply 'rm -rf' certain directories in > /usr/share/doc? Current Debian policy contains a clause designed to allow people to do this without breaking things, although you may find that some packages don't c

Re: Configuring remote xdm

2002-01-19 Thread Terry Carney
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Tim Grogan wrote: > Hi, being a relative newbie with Debian I'm looking for some help. I'm > running woody 2.2.20 and KDE. Does anyone have a step-by-step guide on > setting up xdm to support remote x-windows sessions or that can point me in > the right direction. I've foun

Configuring remote xdm

2002-01-19 Thread Tim Grogan
Hi, being a relative newbie with Debian I'm looking for some help. I'm running woody 2.2.20 and KDE. Does anyone have a step-by-step guide on setting up xdm to support remote x-windows sessions or that can point me in the right direction. I've found a how-to that is geared for Redhat but of cour

Re: Emacs HTML modes

2002-01-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 19/01/02 Manoj Srivastava did speaketh: > Yes. Font-lock variables not being picked up by psgml. Font > lock vars are semi static, SGML tags are created by parsing > the DTDs. Hence, psgml does not use font lock (making sure the > keywords were sane would be hard for SGML/XML). Hence,

Re: gnome-session fails

2002-01-19 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 07:37:19PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Marcelo Chiapparini: > > Hi! > > > > I've just installed potato 2.2r4 in a new system. After installed the gnome > > stuff (task-gnome-desktop) and after created a /etc/X11/XF86Config file > > with > > anXious, I can't l

Re: .xinitrc not used in Woody?

2002-01-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:48:35 +1100, Douglas Hespe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something odd here: > > I upgraded to Woody using dselect and everything went swimmingly. > I then added in the X11 stuff (version 4, not the old 3.3.6) ran startx > and again everything looked good. Even after rebooti

Re: semi-ot: learning python

2002-01-19 Thread Jeremy Whetzel
Greg Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to learn python. I know a bit of C++ as a result of taking a > course. Once I get started programming, I generally enjoy it, but when > I don't have any definite problem to solve, I have problems motivating > myself. So... > > What should I d

another exim question

2002-01-19 Thread Ken Weingold
Please excuse this if it should be obvious, but I have been playing around so much that I can't find this. Is there one simple setting in exim.conf that will allow me to receive mail for all my addresses from different domains? I can only receive for one right now. All the others get bounced

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

2002-01-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, The short answer is: # cd /path/to/old/directory # find . -depth -print0 | afio -p -xv -0a /mount/point/of/new/directory Now for the long answer. The candidates are: cp: Traditionally, cp was not really a candidate since it did not derenference symbolic lin

Re: Emacs HTML modes

2002-01-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Michael" == Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> I reported them ages ago. Michael> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=123335&repeatmerged=yes Yes. Font-lock variables not being picked up by psgml. Font lock vars are semi static, SGML tags are cr

.xinitrc not used in Woody?

2002-01-19 Thread Douglas Hespe
Something odd here: I upgraded to Woody using dselect and everything went swimmingly. I then added in the X11 stuff (version 4, not the old 3.3.6) ran startx and again everything looked good. Even after rebooting to get the new 2.4.17 kernel to be used things still looked good. But, after turning

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:44:48 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:37:26PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > | On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:52:25 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | > Those processes are blocked on IO or something. Thus it is the > | > _kernel_ its

Re: gnome-session fails

2002-01-19 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Marcelo Chiapparini: > Hi! > > I've just installed potato 2.2r4 in a new system. After installed the gnome > stuff (task-gnome-desktop) and after created a /etc/X11/XF86Config file with > anXious, I can't load the gnome desktop. I get: > > ~$ gnome-session > /dev/dsp: Permission deni

SuSE7.2 -> Debian?

2002-01-19 Thread Klaus Neumann
Hi, Is there a way (for a beginner!) to convert a SuSE7.2 system, used as a router, to a Debian system? Cheers, Klaus

Re: *SOLVED* (Was: Mozilla fonts huge--'File' menu item takes up most of screen)

2002-01-19 Thread Simon Law
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: > And I heard Miquel van Smoorenburg exclaim: > > > > Daniel> When I start up Mozilla, the fonts are *huge*. I'm running at > > > Daniel> 1600x1200, and the 'File' menu item takes up the majority of > > > Daniel> the screen (nice scaling, by

Re: Init scripts

2002-01-19 Thread dman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 07:03:16PM -0500, Timothy C. Fanelli wrote: | Anyone out there have experience with GNU/Hurd? No spare hardware to play :-(. Try the hurd list. -D -- In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place f

*SOLVED* (Was: Mozilla fonts huge--'File' menu item takes up most of screen)

2002-01-19 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
And I heard Miquel van Smoorenburg exclaim: > > Daniel> When I start up Mozilla, the fonts are *huge*. I'm running at > > Daniel> 1600x1200, and the 'File' menu item takes up the majority of > > Daniel> the screen (nice scaling, by the way--not a bit blocky : ). > If you have TrueType fonts defin

Re: Init scripts

2002-01-19 Thread Timothy C. Fanelli
Excellent - thank you much... I'm gunna try those kernel opts now, and hopefully that'll fix my problem and I won't need dhcpcd anymore -- Just for the record, dhclient would execute without errors, but would not remain resident - although I never checked the log. Anyone out there have experience

Re: fetchmail

2002-01-19 Thread Ken Weingold
On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 12:20 , dman wrote: fetchmail does not deliver mail. It hands it off to some other MTA/MDA for delivery. If you specify an MDA, then it pipes the message to it. If not it tries to connect to port 25 on localhost and give it to the MTA running on your local m

Re: fetchmail

2002-01-19 Thread Ken Weingold
On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 07:08 , Dougie Nisbet wrote: I could be wrong, but I think fetchmail can have a config file that over-rides parameters on the command line. Do you have an /etc/default/fetchmail file? Is there anything in there that conflicts with your command line? I have

Re: fetchmail

2002-01-19 Thread Ken Weingold
On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 06:13 , Dougie Nisbet wrote: On Saturday 19 January 2002 10:21 am, Ken Weingold wrote: I don't have one. From what I understood, if I specify everything I need on the command line, I don't need one. Most people probably run it using a control file. How ab

3c59x & voodo3 problems solved (was Re: 3dfx voodoo3 problem)

2002-01-19 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! some time ago I wrote to this list regarding two problems, which are fixed now: 1) I installed potato 2.2r2 (kernel 2.2pre18) in a new system and the module 3c59x wasn't work. Because I planned to upgrade to 2.2r4 later I decided to follow the advice I received from this list and installe

Re: What is "OT:"

2002-01-19 Thread Kent West
Pete Ryland wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:56:56PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:47:39AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: What "OT:" means seems to be known to many, but I haven't aclue. Please enlighten me. OT = Off Topic

Hep, please, I;v messed up lprng

2002-01-19 Thread Stan Brown
In atempting to reconfigure lprng, Ive maanged to really muck thigs up. Here is what I did. 1, Went inot dselect, and removed lprng. 2. Manually deleted /etc/lprng 3, Using dselect reinstalled lprng. Unfortunaely, at this point in time, I'm getting error esages about lprng.conf not existing. I'v

Re: apt errors

2002-01-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 04:05:24PM -0500, icewind0 wrote: > Hello. I'm trying to do an apt-get dist-upgrade. I get the error below. > I did the apt-get update before this and I got errors when it came to > the security updates section. What is going wrong and how do I fix this? > > Reading Package

Re: Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

2002-01-19 Thread ben
On Saturday 19 January 2002 02:49 pm, dman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:50:53PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > | I have set up a printer using CUPS called "laser". Its actually a > | Brother Laser printer connected to a windows machine across my network. > | It works great from within KDE

Newbie-Question: awk: How does this wonderfull tool work?

2002-01-19 Thread a . maresch
Hi there! At the very moment I am trying to write a shell-script. It should encrypt (with gpg) a file, forward it to an editor and then encrypt it again. So far, this works. But there is an annoyance: When re-encrypting the file (I store it on a temporary file), gpg asks for an user ID. My plan

question on printing with CUPS

2002-01-19 Thread Palfalvi Richard
HI! I have the following situation/problem: I want to print via CUPS to a central printer server in my LAN (CUPS is installed on client and the server, cups-daemon is running on both machines) The thing is everthing seems to be installed correctly. I use CUPS together with the http://www.turbopr

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

2002-01-19 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:56:37PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | dman | | This is my ~/.muttrc | | As you can see I have used "subscribe" that generates the | Mail-Followup-To header. I see my header with the list and with my | own address as you pointed out, but cannot see where that comes | from

Re: Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

2002-01-19 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:50:53PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | I have set up a printer using CUPS called "laser". Its actually a Brother | Laser printer connected to a windows machine across my network. It works | great from within KDE. | | However, I have installed lyx - to try it out.

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-19 Thread dman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:37:26PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: | On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:52:25 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Those processes are blocked on IO or something. Thus it is the | > _kernel_ itself that is stuck, which is why SIGKILL has no effect. | > When a process is ex

Re: Trying to setup modules with modconf

2002-01-19 Thread dman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:39:56PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm following the online FAQ on building my own kernel, so far I've dpkg | --install'd my custom kernel after a make menuconfig, and am now at the | part where I'm suppose to run /usr/sbin/modconf to setup what modules I | want to

Re: /etc/resolve.conf

2002-01-19 Thread ben
On Saturday 19 January 2002 01:17 pm, Alan & Kerry Shrimpton wrote: > Hi, > > I am a real newbie and just joined this list. I decided to try Debian > 2.2.19 but finding it a bit hard to configure everything. When I first > installed it, no cards were detected. Since then I have been able to load

Re: my ximian gnome screws up window placement

2002-01-19 Thread camilo
Thanks adam, actually, it was the WM... it was using enlightenment, i switched to sawfish, and all is good now. :) - Camilo On 18 Jan 2002, at 17:57, Adam Majer wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:44:09PM -0800, Camilux wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I apt-get'ed ximian gnome a while ago, i got 1 faile

Re: Questions about parted

2002-01-19 Thread Seneca Cunningham
As I previously wrote: > Matthias Wieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2002 03:29 schrieb Seneca Cunningham: > > > I am want to resize all of my partitions, and from what I have read, parted > > > is a way to do it. I originally tried the version in potato, but it didn't > >

Re: apt errors

2002-01-19 Thread ben
On Saturday 19 January 2002 01:05 pm, icewind0 wrote: > Hello. I'm trying to do an apt-get dist-upgrade. I get the error below. > I did the apt-get update before this and I got errors when it came to > the security updates section. What is going wrong and how do I fix this? > [snip] sounds like you

Re: Memory recognition problem / large mem

2002-01-19 Thread Noah Massey
--begin quoted message from dman, > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:54:04PM -0500, Noah Massey wrote: > | --begin quoted message from dman, > > | > On my system I have 256MB real RAM. > | > > | > It shows a total of only 249MB. dmesg shows : > | > > | > $ dmesg | grep Memory > | > Memory: 255676k

Re: What is "OT:"

2002-01-19 Thread Noah Massey
--begin quoted message from Ron Johnson, > On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:34:17 -0800 (PST) Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:56:56PM -0200, Jeronimo > [snip] > > I use wtf when I don't understand an acronym...l

Re: How old is a package

2002-01-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can we tell how old is a package without looking into changelog? > > $ apt-cache policy > $ apt-cache show > etc. does not show date information :-( AFAIK, the only place package date information is stored is in the changelog. Unfortunately, there

Re: problems with apt-get ---> Evolution

2002-01-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On 19 Jan 2002 21:51:45 +0100, johan boeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have problems with apt-get, namely he blocks the dist-upgrade since > some packets show independencies. The independencies occurs around > evolution, namely unmet dependencies with libgal 18. From some reason he > alway

Re: Init scripts

2002-01-19 Thread Brian Nelson
"Timothy C. Fanelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > D -- > > dhclient worked great for me too until I upgraded the kernel to a custom > 2.4.17... I'm wondering if maybe it's got something to do with that I > compile the network device driver into the kernel instead of as a module > like it is in t

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-19 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Give examples: What did you try to install? Debian package (apt-get) or source (make)? What error message did you get? -- Joachim Fahnenmüller Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik Herder-Gymnasium Kattowitzer Straße 52 51065 Köln

Re: /etc/resolve.conf

2002-01-19 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Saturday 19 January 2002 02:17 pm, Alan & Kerry Shrimpton wrote: > My windows machine is connected to the Internet via dialup. My Linux > machine is on the network. It can dual boot windows or Linux. Using > dselect I have set up the access but when I do the update I get errors like > Co

Re: Init scripts

2002-01-19 Thread dman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 03:33:56PM -0500, Timothy C. Fanelli wrote: | D -- | | dhclient worked great for me too until I upgraded the kernel to a custom | 2.4.17... I'm wondering if maybe it's got something to do with that I | compile the network device driver into the kernel instead of as a module

Re: Cinalerra

2002-01-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:04:06AM +0800, csj wrote: > Maybe you can try using ffmpeg to convert the DivX to MPEG. ffmpeg will > produce a non VCD-compliant MPEG stream which you can then make > compliant using a combination of mpgtx (to demultiplex or split the MPEG > into its component audio and

Re: a latex-widths question

2002-01-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 20:02:48 -0100, andrej hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've seen some LaTeX discussions here, so just a quick question: > how do I tell LaTeX that a box should have the width of a certain > word? (Precisely, I mean a real box; a rectangle of given > dimensions.) In the ca

/etc/resolve.conf

2002-01-19 Thread Alan & Kerry Shrimpton
Hi, I am a real newbie and just joined this list. I decided to try Debian 2.2.19 but finding it a bit hard to configure everything. When I first installed it, no cards were detected. Since then I have been able to load modules to get my sound card to work but can't seem to get my network runnin

apt errors

2002-01-19 Thread icewind0
Hello. I'm trying to do an apt-get dist-upgrade. I get the error below. I did the apt-get update before this and I got errors when it came to the security updates section. What is going wrong and how do I fix this? Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following NEW packages wil

Re: NIST time

2002-01-19 Thread Paul Mackinney
Sam Varghese declaimed: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:41:38AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Sam Varghese writes: > > > ntpdate always complains that it cannot find the time servers. > > > ... How did you find them? I went to Google and found a list right away. Since I'm not a server w/100s of client

problems with apt-get ---> Evolution

2002-01-19 Thread johan boeckx
I have problems with apt-get, namely he blocks the dist-upgrade since some packets show independencies. The independencies occurs around evolution, namely unmet dependencies with libgal 18. From some reason he alway wants to install libgal 18, with message "trying to overwrite `/usr/share/gal/

Re: help installing printing-system ...

2002-01-19 Thread Palfalvi Richard
I solved this problem in the meanwhile !! :-)) a variable was set wrong during the installation process yours, Richard Palfalvi Richard wrote: > > Hi guys out there! > > I need some help on getting started my printer, a CANON-S450-inkjet. > > situation: > > I want to install a central

Re: need help on printing-system ...

2002-01-19 Thread Palfalvi Richard
Hi out there! I solved most of the problem in the meanwhile :-))) it was an error during the installation of the turboprint-system: a variable was set wrong, I did'nt realize that, and therefore it was setup for the LPR/LPRNG-spooling-system and not for cups. The variable TP_CUPS has to be set to

Trying to setup modules with modconf

2002-01-19 Thread debian
I'm following the online FAQ on building my own kernel, so far I've dpkg --install'd my custom kernel after a make menuconfig, and am now at the part where I'm suppose to run /usr/sbin/modconf to setup what modules I want to have loaded on boot. But when I tried to run it as root without any argume

How old is a package

2002-01-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
How can we tell how old is a package without looking into changelog? $ apt-cache policy $ apt-cache show etc. does not show date information :-( -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debi

Re: undefined reference to __ctype

2002-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:09:27 -0300 Mike G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all! > I'm trying to compile a program and I get undefined reference to > __ctype > on the isdigit() function, it on woody machine. Any one got this ever? any > idea? > > thanks in advance Are you including all hea

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:52:25 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:15:49AM +0800, csj wrote: > | On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:42:40 -0600 > | Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | > on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:33:25PM +0200, Ian Balchin insinuated: > | > > I locked

Re: Init scripts

2002-01-19 Thread Timothy C. Fanelli
D -- dhclient worked great for me too until I upgraded the kernel to a custom 2.4.17... I'm wondering if maybe it's got something to do with that I compile the network device driver into the kernel instead of as a module like it is in the 2.2.20 kernel? So how do I tell ifup/ifdown to use dhcpcd

Re: Init scripts

2002-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:49:22 -0500 (EST) "Timothy C. Fanelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey All -- > > Ok, so I'm a debian-newbie... switching over on my laptop from Slackware, > mainly because I want to start playing with the GNU/Hurd and I needed a > cross compiler. I've been interested in l

Re: undefined reference to __ctype

2002-01-19 Thread dman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:09:27PM -0300, Mike G wrote: | Hi all! | I'm trying to compile a program and I get undefined reference to | __ctype on the isdigit() function, it on woody machine. Any one got | this ever? any idea? What's the code and what are the compiler options? $ cat foo.c #inclu

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-19 Thread ben
On Saturday 19 January 2002 10:52 am, dman wrote: [snip] > > Those processes are blocked on IO or something. Thus it is the > _kernel_ itself that is stuck, which is why SIGKILL has no effect. > When a process is executing in its own space, the kernel can kill it > and clean up the pieces. When t

Re: Init scripts

2002-01-19 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:49:22PM -0500, Timothy C. Fanelli wrote: > Can anyone either point me in the direction of, or send and explanation > of, the init scripts and what they do? Start with /etc/init.d/README and "man init". There are further pointers in those docs. To find out which script

Re: Init scripts

2002-01-19 Thread dman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:49:22PM -0500, Timothy C. Fanelli wrote: | Hey All -- | | Ok, so I'm a debian-newbie... switching over on my laptop from Slackware, | mainly because I want to start playing with the GNU/Hurd and I needed a | cross compiler. I've been interested in learning Debian for a w

Re: What is "OT:"

2002-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:34:17 -0800 (PST) Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:56:56PM -0200, Jeronimo [snip] > I use wtf when I don't understand an acronym...like so > ``wtf wtf`` on a cl ;-) is it packaged? -- +

Re: Problem with email

2002-01-19 Thread Brian Schramm
I have just the all: paranoid in the host deny file. I have nothing in the hosts.allow file. Brian --- Cam Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Brian Schramm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have my machine setup to work on the local > network > > in fact I put a all:all in the hosts.allow fi

Re: semi-ot: learning python

2002-01-19 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:35:42AM -0500, Greg Fischer wrote: > I'd like to learn python. I know a bit of C++ as a result of taking a > course. Once I get started programming, I generally enjoy it, but when > I don't have any definite problem to solve, I have problems motivating > myself. So...

undefined reference to __ctype

2002-01-19 Thread Mike G
Hi all! I'm trying to compile a program and I get undefined reference to __ctype on the isdigit() function, it on woody machine. Any one got this ever? any idea? thanks in advance

Re: fetchmail

2002-01-19 Thread ben
On Saturday 19 January 2002 06:58 am, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Saturday 19 January 2002 11:21 am, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > * Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > > On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 01:38 , Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > > >What is in your ~/.fetchmailrc? > > > > > > I don't

Re: dselect

2002-01-19 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > One more question, if you don't mind (being a newbie) > > how can I run dselect install in the background? > > I'm using 'dselect install &' but it keeps prompting me to hit 'Y' > to confirm... and so it stops b/c I can't hit Y since its in the > background. > > Any h

Re: uniprint for usb printer

2002-01-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
I have vague memory on uniprint. On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:48:16PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > From www.linux-usb.org I learned that I must send a string of control > characters to my Epson StylusColor 860 to wake it up in usb mode and > that this can successfully be done with uniprint

Re: problems with apt-get ---> Evolution

2002-01-19 Thread Scott Henson
On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 14:10, johan boeckx wrote: > > > I have problems with apt-get, namely he blocks the dist-upgrade since > some packets show independencies. The independencies occurs around > evolution, namely unmet dependencies with libgal 18. From some reason he > alway wants to install lib

Init scripts

2002-01-19 Thread Timothy C. Fanelli
Hey All -- Ok, so I'm a debian-newbie... switching over on my laptop from Slackware, mainly because I want to start playing with the GNU/Hurd and I needed a cross compiler. I've been interested in learning Debian for a while, and since Debian has the cross compiler pre-packaged, I figured nows a g

Re: dselect

2002-01-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Ommm. On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:36:08AM -0700, Asura wrote: > One more question, if you don't mind (being a newbie) > how can I run dselect install in the background? Why in back ground. APT system run by dselect asks question unless you set "debconf" to assume yes to all etc. This is dangerou

Re: Memory recognition problem / large mem

2002-01-19 Thread dman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:54:04PM -0500, Noah Massey wrote: | --begin quoted message from dman, | > On my system I have 256MB real RAM. | > | > It shows a total of only 249MB. dmesg shows : | > | > $ dmesg | grep Memory | > Memory: 255676k/262080k available (k kernel code, 6016k reserved

Re: What is "OT:"

2002-01-19 Thread Charles Baker
--- Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:56:56PM -0200, Jeronimo > Pellegrini wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:47:39AM -0500, Wayne > Topa wrote: > > > > What "OT:" means seems to be known to many, > but I haven't a > > > > clue. Please enlighten me. > > > > >

Re: Digestive mode

2002-01-19 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 04:16:13PM +0100, Marvin Massih wrote: > English: > > Is there an opportunity of getting the mails as one big message per day? > I have a limit of 500 messages... > > German: > > Kann ich meine Debian-Mails auch als eine groe (einmal tglich) kriegen? > Ich habe ein Limit

Re: lost X-windows

2002-01-19 Thread Cam Ellison
* sam rosenfeld ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How can I reinstall my X without going through the entire installation process > again? (Debian2.2r2) Startx is gone and using a command line entry of "X" > yields the following response: > > X: cannot read /etc/X11/X symbolic link (Invalid argument

Re: Memory recognition problem / large mem

2002-01-19 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:54:04PM -0500, Noah Massey wrote: > 2.4.16-k7 shows: > Memory: 897676k/917504k available (815k kernel code, 19440k reserved, 233k > data, 212k init, 0k highmem) > > 2.2.20 shows: > Memory: 970628k/983040k available (1756k kernel code, 412k reserved, 10092k > data, 152k

Re: Problem with email

2002-01-19 Thread Cam Ellison
* Brian Schramm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have my machine setup to work on the local network > in fact I put a all:all in the hosts.allow file > Please don't do that. Leave it blank. You may be on dialup, which limits your exposure, but it is not good practice, and it won't help. What is

problems with apt-get ---> Evolution

2002-01-19 Thread johan boeckx
I have problems with apt-get, namely he blocks the dist-upgrade since some packets show independencies. The independencies occurs around evolution, namely unmet dependencies with libgal 18. From some reason he alway wants to install libgal 18, with message "trying to overwrite `/usr/share/gal/htm

lost X-windows

2002-01-19 Thread sam rosenfeld
How can I reinstall my X without going through the entire installation process again? (Debian2.2r2) Startx is gone and using a command line entry of "X" yields the following response: X: cannot read /etc/X11/X symbolic link (Invalid argument), aborting. I'd try to troubleshoot the problem, bu

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