Re: exim error?

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 07:38:19PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker scribbled... > On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 18:59, Jason Majors wrote: > > I'm using mutt 1.3.27i and exim 3.34-1. When I try to send any mail, local > > or remote, using mutt I get this message: > > Error sending message, child exited 1 (). > >

Debian newgroup

2002-01-23 Thread Scott Henson
I heard a few days ago on the list that debian had a newsgroup. I was wondering what server this was on. Also on a side note I was wondering if there was a program within debian thats like a journal where I could write stuff down and have it encrypted. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "E

Re: Postfix set limit of user mail

2002-01-23 Thread Rupa Schomaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- # postconf | grep -i size bounce_size_limit = 5 header_size_limit = 102400 mailbox_size_limit = 5120 message_size_limit = 1024 (these are all defaults) For documentation, look at: /usr/share/doc/postfix*/examples/sample-local.cf.gz for mailbox size

X Crashing when switching to virtual console

2002-01-23 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I am running testing and when I switch over to TTY1 (or any virtual console for that matter) from X, X nearly always crashes and restarts gdm. Has anyone had this happen to them and does anyone know how to keep it from happening? Thanks in advance. Ben Pharr [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpEiP7G1qgtL.pgp

Re: initrd and kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-23 Thread Rupa Schomaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The benefit is for Herbert and people with out-of-the-ordinary > setups. By using an initrd Herbert can make one kernel package for > the repository and it will be able to boot my system regardless of my > disk controller and

Re: persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-23 Thread Rupa Schomaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Disks : > > Western Digital WD400BBRTL > 40GB, 7200 rpm, Ultra ATA 100, 8.9 ms seek time, 2MB buffer, $130 I'd go with this one given the set you list. > Western Digital WD180ABRTL-120 > 18GB, 5400 rpm, Ultra ATA 100,

Re: ** ARGH **

2002-01-23 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 08:37:22PM -0500, Timothy C. Fanelli wrote: | ok - for the record -- I AM STILL ON THIS LIST Ok, it's not fun when the unsubscription mechanisms don't work; but in the meantime file all list mail to the bit-bucket! -D -- Religion that God our Father accepts as pure

Re: smart-hosting through unlisted smtp server

2002-01-23 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:39:17PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: | Hey people. | | I'm using exim as my mail server, and I'd like to use the mail server | on my firewall/router to relay mail for my internal network. The only | problem is the fact that the hostname of my firewall/router does no

Re: where does s10 come from in ifconfig?

2002-01-23 Thread nate
> sl0 Link encap:Serial Line IP > inet addr:192.168.0.1 P-t-P:192.168.0.2 > Mask:255.255.255.0 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST > MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 > overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:140 errors:0 dropped:0 o

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-23 Thread Dan Griswold
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The LaTeX "center" environment follows that style too (FWIW). (I > don't believe it is possible to have only part of a line be in a > center environment. Nope, I just tried it. \begin{center} starts a > new paragraph (or at least a line)) > The \tabular e

Postfix set limit of user mail

2002-01-23 Thread wang
HELLO! How can i set the limit of user mail at /var/spool/mail Because i have some message at th log to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=local, delay=1, status=bounced (cannot access mailbox /var/mail/webmaster for user webmaster. error writing mes

Re: latex packages

2002-01-23 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
I would check the catalouge on-line at www.ctan.org, under 'Graham Williams's catalogue.' I would assume a package installed version could get old pretty quickly. But, obviously it is better than nothing if you don't have constant web access. As for which Debian package has it, I would guess tet

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Thanks for those two suggestions; I _REALLY_ appreciate them. Will research them both. -- Cheryl

Re: latex packages

2002-01-23 Thread Richard Otte
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:22:27PM +1100, Graham Williams wrote: > The geometry package is often the right way to go. Also, have a look > at > > /usr/share/doc/texmf/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html > > for a list of many LaTeX packages. I don't have the file catalogue.html in the above direc

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, John Griffiths wrote: > C'mon guys, play nice > > what program to use? how to stop it, how to start it, how to specify where > the output can be found, reasonable answers to reasonable questions. Well, yeah, this really is the kind of information I was hoping to get! I'm not

Re: latex packages

2002-01-23 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on Wed, 23 Jan 2002 01:05:25PM -0800, Richard Otte insinuated: > > Nori, > > I saw a recent message about not displaying the page number on the first > > page of a Latex document. What interested me is that you said you > > start every .tex file off wi

RE: Broadcasting Solution...

2002-01-23 Thread Charles
I have published multiple radio stations from a single box using 22khz stereo @ 24kbps per stream, this would be a encoder box, the audio card was an antex studio 2000 which is a multi channel card, it was not to hard to make linux drivers but this hardware is windows pnp I was able to have

RE: Broadcast Solution Request

2002-01-23 Thread Charles
I have published multiple radio stations from a single box using 22khz stereo @ 24kbps per stream, this would be a encoder box, the audio card was an antex studio 2000 which is a multi channel card, it was not to hard to make linux drivers but this hardware is windows pnp I was able to have 3 cards

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-23 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:25:16PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > >> I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and > >> convert it to an audio file on my computer. > > > >You could try connecting the cassete deck to input of your soundcard :) > > > >- Adam >

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-23 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:25:16PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > >> I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and > >> convert it to an audio file on my computer. > > > >You could try connecting the cassete deck to input of your soundcard :) > > > >- Adam > > C'mon gu

Re: MIME Decoding command-line tool?

2002-01-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been receiving MIME encoded messages in the mail from > someone. These are base64 encoded and I'm having trouble extracting > them. Is there a good command-line tool for doing this? 'munpack' from the mpack package. Peter

Re: Majordomo, exim, web?

2002-01-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > my crack at moving stuff off of yahoo... > - i assum those "readers that posts thru web interface" > are those using yahoo mail or hotmail etc..etc.. Nope. Yahoo! Groups has a webboard interface. I suggested hotmail and yahoo mail, but was fai

smart-hosting through unlisted smtp server

2002-01-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I'm using exim as my mail server, and I'd like to use the mail server on my firewall/router to relay mail for my internal network. The only problem is the fact that the hostname of my firewall/router does not exist in DNS, so the smart-hosting fails. Is there a way to tell my local

Re: exim error?

2002-01-23 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 18:59, Jason Majors wrote: > I'm using mutt 1.3.27i and exim 3.34-1. When I try to send any mail, local > or remote, using mutt I get this message: > Error sending message, child exited 1 (). > > When I use mail on the command line, I get no error, but the mail is never > del

Re: newbie question

2002-01-23 Thread NOEL BALANSAG
thanks all. __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeing new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-23 Thread John Griffiths
>> I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and >> convert it to an audio file on my computer. > >You could try connecting the cassete deck to input of your soundcard :) > >- Adam C'mon guys, play nice what program to use? how to stop it, how to start it, how to spec

Re: where does s10 come from in ifconfig?

2002-01-23 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just upgraded to Woody this A.M., and was feeling like pretty hot stuff. My dsl was humming at 9MB/min throughput and installation and configuration happened pretty much like it's supposed to--a few broken depends, nothing bad. When I went back to try t

Kmail

2002-01-23 Thread Richard Beri
I am using woody and the Kmail that comes with woody, and I notice that I cannot change the font size in the body of an email (the message body) it is stuck on 10points which is straining my eyesight. Every other font is adjustable exept this one. Is there any way to change this? Default wood

Re: Emacs HTML modes

2002-01-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>"Michael" == Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Michael> Normally the font-lock faces are set during > Michael> initialization of emacs, either from default values or from > Michael> the user's ~/.emacs file (like in my case).

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-23 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 08:51:49PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and > convert it to an audio file on my computer. You could try connecting the cassete deck to input of your soundcard :) - Adam

Re: newbie question

2002-01-23 Thread Acheron
There's a few different methods: 1) remove the gdm package if you won't use it at all. - apt-get remove gdm I believe 2) Remove the link from the /etc/rcX.d directory that starts gdm, where X is your default runlevel (likely 5) 3) Change your default runlevel in /etc/inittab to a level that

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Jason Majors wrote: > If you have a line in on your sound card, you can use it. Well, yes, I do have a line in and I do know how to use it, but I don't know how to bring the audio into a file on my computer.

Broadcast Solution Request

2002-01-23 Thread Jenner Almanzar
Hello everyone! This is what i got in mind: Since we know that we can put more than one sound card (device) in one computer, and each RS (radio station) that we broadcast through a server has a domain name (example: http://dr.radio.com:), i though to set up a server with at least 4-5 sound

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
> I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and > convert it to an audio file on my computer. > Thanks. If you have a line in on your sound card, you can use it.

exim error?

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
I'm using mutt 1.3.27i and exim 3.34-1. When I try to send any mail, local or remote, using mutt I get this message: Error sending message, child exited 1 (). When I use mail on the command line, I get no error, but the mail is never delivered. It worked fine until a few days ago. I haven't done a

from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and convert it to an audio file on my computer. Thanks. -- Cheryl

Re: GS/GV problem...

2002-01-23 Thread Andrew Nesbit
Mark Ferlatte wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:18:56PM +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote (1.00): Error: /invalidfont in findfont I'm running unstable, with GNU GhostScript 6.51. Any help in getting this to work would be appreciated. Do you have the gsfonts package installed? Aha! That corr

Re: Big Brother deb?

2002-01-23 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Chapman, Matt wrote: > Anyone know of a place I can get the latest big brother deb for sparc or even > intel? > > -Matt Chapman Big Brother is not packaged for Debian anymore. Try spong, which can inter-operate with Big Brother and seems to work much better. Simo

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 07:33 AM +, Alan Chandler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 21 January 2002 10:08 am, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Karsten M. Self [2002.01.21.0229 +0100]: > ... > > > > > Note too, from a system manage

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:08 AM +0100, martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Note three, that the FHS _doesn't_ proscribe inclusion of additional > > mount points, directories, etc., at root (/). It merely speaks to those > > directories which are required or optional. > > section 3.1

Re: GS/GV problem...

2002-01-23 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:18:56PM +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote (1.00): > Error: /invalidfont in findfont > > > I'm running unstable, with GNU GhostScript 6.51. Any help in getting > this to work would be appreciated. Do you have the gsfonts package installed? M

Broadcasting Solution...

2002-01-23 Thread Jenner Almanzar
Hello everyone! I'm trying to find a cost-effective solution for a broadcast service i'm providing, so i need your help to figure this out. This is what i got in mind: Since we know that we can put more than one sound card device in one computer, and each RS (radio station) that we broadcast throu

Catastrophy: most programs don't start anymore!

2002-01-23 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, Sorry, if this comes thru twice: My impression is, that my first attempt to mailing it to the list failed. (It didn't show up and my local MTA - exim - isn't working any more.) As my problem is *very* serious I try it a second time without use of my local MTA.) I have suddenly and unexpectedl

Re: latex packages

2002-01-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Nori Heikkinen: >anyone know where to get extra LaTeX packages? The drug store? Sorry, I couldn't help it. Steve -- An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin pgpuFiqAboHBZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

** ARGH **

2002-01-23 Thread Timothy C. Fanelli
ok - for the record -- I AM STILL ON THIS LIST

Re: Thanks!

2002-01-23 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 19:58, Bill Benedetto wrote: > I'd just like to thank the Debian community in general and this > list in particular. > > I learn something new every week here. > > And when I experience problems, invariably the issue has already > been rasied on this list and the solution pr

Big Brother deb?

2002-01-23 Thread Chapman, Matt
Anyone know of a place I can get the latest big brother deb for sparc or even intel? -Matt Chapman

GS/GV problem...

2002-01-23 Thread Andrew Nesbit
I cannot read any PostScript files. Whenever I try to load a document into gv I get an error from GhostScript: Error: /invalidfont in findfont I'm running unstable, with GNU GhostScript 6.51. Any help in getting this to work would be appreciated. TIA -Andrew

Re: latex packages

2002-01-23 Thread Graham Williams
Received Thu 24 Jan 2002 12:12pm +1100 from martin f krafft: > also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.24.0203 +0100]: > > copying the list because i don't know, and i certainly didn't write it > > myself. i just have it, and i find that explicitly setting the > > margins gives muc

Re: Help with mailbox deletion

2002-01-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:43:10AM -0800, Brian Schramm wrote: > > The permissions are set to rw at my user name > and group name. The ls -l is this: > > -rw---1 bschramm bschramm 121180 Feb 14 > 2001 Busness_letters~ > -rw---1 bschramm bschramm 361620 Jul 11 > 2001 Busnes

Re: latex packages

2002-01-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.24.0203 +0100]: > copying the list because i don't know, and i certainly didn't write it > myself. i just have it, and i find that explicitly setting the > margins gives much better results -- i hate those huge top margins, > too. anyone kno

Re: latex packages

2002-01-23 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 23 Jan 2002 01:05:25PM -0800, Richard Otte insinuated: > Nori, > I saw a recent message about not displaying the page number on the first > page of a Latex document. What interested me is that you said you > start every .tex file off with some material, that includes: > > \usepackage{geom

Re: passwd

2002-01-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.24.0138 +0100]: > I have written a script perl(not very perlich ;-)) which install > n accounts but I have encountered few problems: /usr/bin/newusers don't reinvent the wheel... > A question: what is the use of "mkpasswd" in debian (potato

Re: newbie question

2002-01-23 Thread Brian Clark
* Jason Majors ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 23. 2002 19:28]: [...] > Or remove the link to it in /etc/rc2.d/SXXgdm (where XX is some > number, probably 90 or 99). The last option will keep it from > starting, without removing it from your system (in case you want it > later). FYI, there is a tool fo

Re: where does s10 come from in ifconfig?

2002-01-23 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:54:04 -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > >Will somebody please come forward and point out whatever stupid thing I >did to get here. Then please show me the simple way home. >sl0 Link encap:Serial Line IP > inet addr:192.168.0.1 P-t-P:192.168.0.2 Mask:255.255.25

Re: newbie question

2002-01-23 Thread Nathan
> I did it by doing 'apt-get remove gdm' as root. But you could also just > modify the gdm start file /etc/init.d/gdm (I think). > Or remove the link to it in /etc/rc2.d/SXXgdm (where XX is some number, > probably 90 or 99). > The last option will keep it from starting, without removing it from you

Re: newbie question

2002-01-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:16:28PM -0800, NOEL BALANSAG wrote: > hi all. > > im just a newbie, both to unix and linux. > > i installed gdm, and now, when debian boots, it boots > in graphical mode. > > how do i set it so i can make it boot on text mode? i > want to start x windows via startx, n

Re: newbie question

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
> hi all. > > im just a newbie, both to unix and linux. > > i installed gdm, and now, when debian boots, it boots > in graphical mode. > > how do i set it so i can make it boot on text mode? i > want to start x windows via startx, not whenever i > boot. I did it by doing 'apt-get remove gdm' as

newbie question

2002-01-23 Thread NOEL BALANSAG
hi all. im just a newbie, both to unix and linux. i installed gdm, and now, when debian boots, it boots in graphical mode. how do i set it so i can make it boot on text mode? i want to start x windows via startx, not whenever i boot. tia. __ Do

SOME ITEMS THAT YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN OR BE ABLE TO ADVISE ME ON

2002-01-23 Thread kriss rolo
These are the items that iam interested in selling.. Could you help me with some details on the goods, history, origin etc. are these worth anything and if so who would i contact with regards to selling them? and the best way to sell them ie auction etc APOLOGISE IF YOU HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED THIS

Re: multiple words as single variable in bash?

2002-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:15:31AM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: > Of course, that was the first thing that came to mi mind, too. But > it didn't work -- unfortunately I can't give you more details as it > was a friend's script, yet I couldn't stop thinking about it. I can't really help unless yo

Re: lock all consoles except for 7

2002-01-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:23:37PM -0500, dman wrote: > I may just have to learn screen :-). Now that you mention it, screen probably would be the easiest way to accomplis what you want to do... -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius I

passwd

2002-01-23 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I have written a script perl(not very perlich ;-)) which install n accounts but I have encountered few problems: 1 "useradd" works fine except for the password (not encrypted) 2 "mkpasswd" look nice but /etc/shadow doesn't like it's encrypted passwords ? 3 "makepasswd" create passwords

Re: lock all consoles except for 7

2002-01-23 Thread CaT
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:23:37PM -0500, dman wrote: > I may just have to learn screen :-). I was about to recommend that. It's really useful and it'll allow you to look at your tails from anywhere, so long as you can log in. Also, you can lock screen. :) (dunno how secure that is though) -- S

Webmin on Debian

2002-01-23 Thread techlists
I have installed Webmin through the tar ball and haven't had any problems. But with a new server, which I installed woody, I used apt to install it. But, although I look in dselect and the modules are added, they don't show up in webmin. Should I just install the tarball instead of the apt pa

Re: lock all consoles except for 7

2002-01-23 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:12:01PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:39 PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:47:10PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | > | on Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:24:27PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > | > |

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:48 PM +0100, martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.1919 +0100]: > > My point is, it's a stupid design decision that (thankfully) is being > > corrected, but MS isn't the only group of people guilty of this

Re: Xf86 4.1.0.1 configuration problem

2002-01-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:43:48PM -0500, Conor McCutcheon wrote: > I still am having some inexplicable difficulties though. I have a very > poor monitor, only capable of 640x480 at 8bpp (better than a herc mono > though), and I cannot compel X to use that and only that resolution > without it doi

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:31 AM +0100, martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.0121 +0100]: > > You know, MS isn't the only one that does this... the Linux SCSI > > implementation would assign /dev/sda to the lowest SCSI ID on the cha

Re: multiple words as single variable in bash?

2002-01-23 Thread andrej hocevar
Of course, that was the first thing that came to mi mind, too. But it didn't work -- unfortunately I can't give you more details as it was a friend's script, yet I couldn't stop thinking about it. I thought maybe one could change the meaning of the spaces, e.g. by assigning something to IFS? Even

Re: lock all consoles except for 7

2002-01-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:39 PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:47:10PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | on Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:24:27PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > | > > | > Is there a way to lock all consoles except for 7? 'vlock -a' will >

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-23 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Moments before I was going to downgrade back to X3, I got X4 working... sort-of. I finally got rid of the pixel lines and black screens with random white pixels by setting changing colour depth. The colour depth that gave those problems is 16. At 24, X could not find any working screen modes. At 1

Re: Xf86 4.1.0.1 configuration problem

2002-01-23 Thread cmm37
> > Have you tried: > > apt-get install xserver-xfree86 > > XFree86 version 4.x uses a new modules-based one-size-fits-all xserver. > It's possible you're using a card-specific xserver from the 3.x series, > which may or may not work with the 4.x series. > I am certain that I am using xfree86 4

Samba question on support of Win2000

2002-01-23 Thread hanasaki
Anyone know what the following error means? I know the Win client is asking for something that Samba cant do but will this result in corruption of data? smbd/service.c:make_connection(239) couldn't find service is <=== the line just ends -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spam : def: It's not kos

Re: Xf86 4.1.0.1 configuration problem

2002-01-23 Thread csj
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 23:43:48 -0500 Conor McCutcheon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:25:45PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 08:23:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I am trying to get X configured and started on my woody box, but I > > > can

Re: multiple words as single variable in bash?

2002-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:49:54PM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: > Quite self-explanatory -- how to make a string of space-separated > words act like a single variable, e.g. first argument being the > recipient and the second the message or similar? Quote them. Use double quotes if you want param

multiple words as single variable in bash?

2002-01-23 Thread andrej hocevar
Quite self-explanatory -- how to make a string of space-separated words act like a single variable, e.g. first argument being the recipient and the second the message or similar? Thank you, andrej

Re: kernel support for RealTek NIC's

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
> I've been trying to set up a small home LAN (just two > boxes) with the addition of a SmoothWall firewall. I > think I've enough gen to make a fair go at it, but I > just can't get 2.2.19 kernels to enable support for > RealTek RTL-8139 Fast Ethernet Adapters, and can't > understand why. You hav

Re: installing woody

2002-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:00:33PM -0500, sam wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > Depends, really, how badly broken it is. If it's not too bad then > > upgrades are much easier than fresh installs. What's gone wrong with it? > > > > The installation process automatically wipes th

kernel support for RealTek NIC's

2002-01-23 Thread john gennard
There has been a recent thread regarding the above which I had hoped would solve my problem. It hasn't. I've been trying to set up a small home LAN (just two boxes) with the addition of a SmoothWall firewall. I think I've enough gen to make a fair go at it, but I just can't get 2.2.19 kernels to

strange font problem in kde-2.2.2: can't change fixed-width fonts

2002-01-23 Thread James D. Freels
I am using a current Debian/Sid. With or without "anti-aliasing fonts "enabled, I cannot change fixed-width fonts from the control center. When I click "choose" in that category of the control center->look and feel->fonts, the screen garbles up, and will not allow me to do anything from the con

Re: Xf86 4.1.0.1 configuration problem

2002-01-23 Thread Conor McCutcheon
> Check out the video card's memory / memory setting. It sounds like X is > trying to give you a display that will "fit" within the memory limits of > the card. I have no video card memory settings. But the video card is supposed to support modes up to 1024x768 at 256, which is far more than th

Festival: volume broken again ?

2002-01-23 Thread Romain Lerallut
Hello, I use festival 1.4.2-2 , and I have a problem with volume. It's waay too low. The fixes I found in the BTS and the website FAQ don't seem to work: $ cat /etc/festival.scm (set! default_after_synth_hooks (list (lambda (utt) (utt.wave.rescale utt 1.5 t $ file /usr/lib/festival/si

Re: installing woody

2002-01-23 Thread sam
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:14:02AM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: > > I have a broken (or at least bent) Debian2.2r2 on my personal box. When I > > install woody on the same partition that now holds my 2.2r2, would it be > > best > > to format the part

Thanks!

2002-01-23 Thread Bill Benedetto
I'd just like to thank the Debian community in general and this list in particular. I learn something new every week here. And when I experience problems, invariably the issue has already been rasied on this list and the solution provided. You have saved me untold hours. Thanks! - Bill +=+=+=+

Re: ppp connection

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
> > I am trying to get a friend's Potato R3 install to connect to his ISP so we > > can download and install a version of X that will work. > > I ran pppconfig and entered the information correctly, but pppon fails to > > connect. > > I set up wvdial and ran it. It will connect and even get an IP a

Re: New woody machine, can't ssh to it.

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
> look this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] # ssh -1 localhost > Permission denied. > > but... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] # ssh -2 localhost > Password: > > I'm using OpenSSH_3.0.2p1 from woody. > > In Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:10:38 -0500 > Acheron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > First, is the ssh daemo

Re: New woody machine, can't ssh to it.

2002-01-23 Thread Daniel Cordeiro
i have this problem too... look this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] # ssh -1 localhost Permission denied. but... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] # ssh -2 localhost Password: I'm using OpenSSH_3.0.2p1 from woody. In Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:10:38 -0500 Acheron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, is the ssh daemon ac

Re: ppp connection

2002-01-23 Thread ben
On Wednesday 23 January 2002 11:16 am, Jason Majors wrote: > I am trying to get a friend's Potato R3 install to connect to his ISP so we > can download and install a version of X that will work. > I ran pppconfig and entered the information correctly, but pppon fails to > connect. > I set up wvdial

Re: regarding duplicate messages

2002-01-23 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, dman wrote: > Regarding duplicate messages on debian-user, here is the relevant > portion of the headers from a recent one : > > > Received: from murphy.debian.org ([216.234.231.6]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu > (PMDF V5.2-32 #40294) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PRO

WINE cannot find dll

2002-01-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
For the most part, I try to avoid anything to do with M$ Windows. Unfortunately, I don't always get my 'druthers (as Ii'l aaabner would say). I have gone back to school to get a second (more useful) degree in CompSci. All of my programming classes will be using M$ products. Since I am the prima

Re: Xf86 4.1.0.1 configuration problem

2002-01-23 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Conor McCutcheon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you, that has made my xserver at least find a functioning display. I still am having some inexplicable difficulties though. I have a very poor monitor, only capable of 640x480 at 8bpp (better than a herc mono though), and I cannot compel X to us

ppp connection

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
I am trying to get a friend's Potato R3 install to connect to his ISP so we can download and install a version of X that will work. I ran pppconfig and entered the information correctly, but pppon fails to connect. I set up wvdial and ran it. It will connect and even get an IP address for the ppp c

Re: installing woody

2002-01-23 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 06:14, sam rosenfeld wrote: > I have a broken (or at least bent) Debian2.2r2 on my personal box. When I > install woody on the same partition that now holds my 2.2r2, would it be best > to format the partition first? Or are there better ways of handling the > installation?

Re: Majordomo, exim, web?

2002-01-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya paul my crack at moving stuff off of yahoo... - i assum those "readers that posts thru web interface" are those using yahoo mail or hotmail etc..etc.. on my debian boxes... - exim and mailman is "debianized" and works in general - i d/l compiled mj/sendmail

Re: RPM [was Re: Certification?]

2002-01-23 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 23-Jan-02 by martin f krafft: >>> no. but debian is enough of a clean Linux to make either be a perfect >>> certification for it. both certs require knowledge of RPM though (as >>> well as DEB). >> >> Ouch. Would be nice if RPM didn't suck harder than CAB... > > not entirely true, RPM

Re: installing woody

2002-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:14:02AM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: > I have a broken (or at least bent) Debian2.2r2 on my personal box. When I > install woody on the same partition that now holds my 2.2r2, would it be best > to format the partition first? Or are there better ways of handling the > i

Re: emacs not using auto-fill-mode

2002-01-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Montag, 21. Januar 2002 21:39 schrieben Sie: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:47:10 +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > >Am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2002 19:53 schrieb Gary Turner: > >> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:18:33 +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > >> >Hi list! > >> > > >> >I have > >> >(auto-fill-mode 1) > >> >in m

Majordomo, exim, web?

2002-01-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
I'm in an interesting position where I need to move a mailing list from Yahoo. The users on the list are currently fed up with Yahoo attaching huge ads to every message, it's unreliability and ever-changing TOS. I got volunteered to take on this project. Is there a majordomo package or a majordo

Re: kmail and links

2002-01-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2002 21:24 schrieb Ron Johnson: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:18:18 +0100 Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi again > > > > How can I tell kmail to open links in konqueror? I don't find an option > > for thi in the preferences menu. > > > > thanks > > > > joerg > > In

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