Re: building mutt SSL deb package (configure error)

2002-02-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:09:03PM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote: > FYI - Please CC me in reponse, as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks. Please don't crosspost to multiple mailing lists unnecessarily. Follow-up to debian-user. > I am running woody (testing) and trying to get together a mut

Re: gkrellm and imaps

2002-02-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michel Loos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020212 16:47]: > Hi, > > continuing around e-mail applications with imaps:) > Is there any way to use gkrellm with an imaps server ? > Seems the buildin mail application does not work and I was unable to > configure mailwatch for external mailboxes (imap or imaps

via-rhine fails to get Ethernet card address

2002-02-12 Thread Wim van der Meer
I am a new Linux user, and could use some help determining what the problem is with my Corega FEther PCI-TXM card, which has a VIA VT6102 chip. I have Potato installed with the via-rhine module. I have read a whole bunch of manuals, howto's and FAQ's, but I could not find anything that was helpful.

Re: [Slightly OT] Memory reporting

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Cook
Thanks to everyone who suggested mem=224M as a kernel parameter - after botching a grub install on not one but *two* machines consecutively, this works fine. Tom Thomas Cook wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a machine that I'm playing with the memory in. It has 1x128MB, > 1x64MB and 1x32MB sticks in i

Re: Auctex/LaTeX/Emacs problem

2002-02-12 Thread Ryan Claycamp
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:17:40PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > However, it assumes that you've already got basic font locking > > turned on, and the method for doing that differs between the two > > editors: check the manuals for details. (My .

Re: What hppened to vhctime?

2002-02-12 Thread stan
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:48:58AM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > Feb 12, 2002 @07:56:03PM -0500, stan posts : > > > discovered a neat little utility called vcstime. > > > > this does not seem to be in woody. > > Please install the package `console-tools' and you are set. `apt-get > insta

Re: Need help setting up Xserver

2002-02-12 Thread ben
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 05:55 pm, Günter Knab wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 06:06:39PM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: > > I need some help setting up an Xserver on an older Mac. > > *snipped** > > > Does anyone have an XFree86Config for this such a machine? > > There's likely to be other stuff w

Re: failure:

2002-02-12 Thread ben
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 06:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This has happened many times in 1 hour. > The problem oor what is the problem? that's a rather tragic message. do you want to give us a bit more detail so that we might be able to help? ben

Re: Minor, but irritating, symlink problem

2002-02-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Martin Wuertele wrote: > > correct, this was changed in bash, however hitting tab twice appends the / True enough, but I don't like the extra keystroke :). I do feel better now that I know the explanation though. ---

Re: What hppened to vhctime?

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Cook
Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > > Feb 12, 2002 @07:56:03PM -0500, stan posts : > > > discovered a neat little utility called vcstime. > > > > this does not seem to be in woody. > > Please install the package `console-tools' and you are set. `apt-get > install console-tools'. Hehehe... or set PS1

Re: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address...

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Cook
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > Thomas Cook wrote: > > > > I fixed an identical problem recently by getting new RAM - my old stuff > > had gone bad. > > > > apt-get install memtest86 > > I'm using potato, and I can't do the above command successfully. There > is something called hwtools, but the only

Re: Need help setting up Xserver

2002-02-12 Thread G?nter Knab
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 06:06:39PM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: > I need some help setting up an Xserver on an older Mac. *snipped** > Does anyone have an XFree86Config for this such a machine? > There's likely to be other stuff which needs tweaking as well. ... you can't just run XF86Setup from the

failure:

2002-02-12 Thread johnschnit
This has happened many times in 1 hour. The problem oor what is the problem?

Re: Compiling GhostScript - Trying to get my HP OfficeJet to work

2002-02-12 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 04:40:36PM -0600, Jay Mallar wrote: > Boy - I bit off a HUGE chunk here, and I need some help. > > I have an HP OfficeJet T45. From looking around, I found that HP has > provided some drivers, but they depend on GhostScript. I don't know exactly > what version of GhostS

Re: autofs

2002-02-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi mirek, caleb the mount point for autofs should be a directory NOT shared by others... otherwise... some dirs might disappear for a few minutes i like /.autofs for anything autofs related and /.amd for anything amd related and /mnt reserved for users/system to play with /etc/auto.master

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread ben
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:44 pm, Michel Loos wrote: [snip] > > > > Does /usr/share/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz exist? Sounds like a > > strange name... > > Yes it exists: it says you that the program is undocumented :) > not very usefull: kdm as no man documentation anyway > really--no docum

Re: What hppened to vhctime?

2002-02-12 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Feb 12, 2002 @07:56:03PM -0500, stan posts : > discovered a neat little utility called vcstime. > > this does not seem to be in woody. Please install the package `console-tools' and you are set. `apt-get install console-tools'. HTH. -- /(__ __|\ ragOO, VU2RGU<->http://gnuhead.dyndns.or

Re: autofs

2002-02-12 Thread Caleb Shay
Understabable. I've found the autofs documentation to be a bit hard to follow also, but I did eventually figure it out. You can't have a mount point of "/", so use something convenient like "/mnt", however, you can then set up a symlink so that it looks like it's at /. Try this: In /etc/auto.ma

Re: Need help setting up Xserver

2002-02-12 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Rich Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey folks-- > > I need some help setting up an Xserver on an older Mac. > The machine is a stock PowerMac 8500 with 172MB memory and has a clean > woody install. > > Does anyone have an XFree86Config for this such a machine? > There's likely to be othe

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread ben
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:37 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > Does /usr/share/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz exist? Sounds like a > strange name... nope. you're right, damn strange. i've done a bug report. according to dpkg -C, everything is hunky-dory on my box. there was nothing in the previ

Re: LILO other=/dev/hda6 (boot logical partition)

2002-02-12 Thread ben
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:28 pm, Michel Loos wrote: [snip] > > As far as I know Windows can only boot from a primary partition. Since > you have more then 4 partitions some must be secondary partition: you > won t be able to boot windows from them. > I am not even sure that you can toggle the

Re: autofs

2002-02-12 Thread Neal Lippman
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 14:40, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > Hi all, > I feel a bit lost in running autofs. > > I've installed autofs package, compilled autofs4 support into kernel > and hoped that now my /floppy becomes automounted, but no :-(( > > I read man pages from autofs and auto.master, but

What hppened to vhctime?

2002-02-12 Thread stan
I was working on a machine with an older (Progeny) distributuion today, and I discovered a neat little utility calle vcstime. It displays the time on a top line of the virtual consoles. Unfortunately this does not seem to be in woody. What happened to ti? -- "They that would give up essential l

Re: date reset on a /dev/ file

2002-02-12 Thread G?nter Knab
- Forwarded message from Guenter Knab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Sorry for pasting the wrong subject on Wed, 13 Feb 2002 00:25:17 +0100 (CET) On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:10:35AM -0500, dman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:46:01AM +0100, G|nter Knab wrote: > *snipped* Thanks for the explan

Re: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address...

2002-02-12 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Thomas Cook wrote: > > I fixed an identical problem recently by getting new RAM - my old stuff > had gone bad. > > apt-get install memtest86 I'm using potato, and I can't do the above command successfully. There is something called hwtools, but the only binary looks like it's for MS: inneal:~#

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread Michel Loos
Em Ter, 2002-02-12 às 22:37, Ron Johnson escreveu: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:40:34 -0800 > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:08 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:08 -0800 > > > > > > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > how does one go about

gkrellm and imaps

2002-02-12 Thread Michel Loos
Hi, continuing around e-mail applications with imaps:) Is there any way to use gkrellm with an imaps server ? Seems the buildin mail application does not work and I was unable to configure mailwatch for external mailboxes (imap or imaps). Thanks Michel.

Re: [Slightly OT] Memory reporting

2002-02-12 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:51:58AM +1030, Thomas Cook wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine that I'm playing with the memory in. It has 1x128MB, > 1x64MB and 1x32MB sticks in it. When I boot the machine and it does a > memory check it reports 229376 kB OK, but: > > # cat /proc/meminfo > tot

Re: building mutt SSL deb package (configure error)

2002-02-12 Thread Michel Loos
Em Ter, 2002-02-12 às 22:09, Nick Jennings escreveu: > FYI - Please CC me in reponse, as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks. > > Hello, > > I am running woody (testing) and trying to get together a mutt-ssl > package. I have read the README.Debian concerning this in the > mutt package. >

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:40:34 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:08 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:08 -0800 > > > > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > how does one go about repairing a dangling symlink? > > > > > > e.g.: > > > # man kdm > >

Re: LILO other=/dev/hda6 (boot logical partition)

2002-02-12 Thread Michel Loos
Em Ter, 2002-02-12 às 20:34, Jeff escreveu: > Robin Rowe, 2002-Feb-12 11:00 -0800: > > Hi. I need to install Win2k on a PC that has only logical partitions > > available. > > > > /dev/hda1 Linux > > /dev/hda2 Swap > > /dev/hda3 Win2k > > /dev/hda4 Extended > > /dev/hda5 Linux > > /dev/hda6 Win2k (

Re: [Slightly OT] Memory reporting

2002-02-12 Thread nate
> Hi, > > It says I only have (just less than) 64 Meg! Any ideas why? > the kernel is not able to get a reliable report from your BIOS as to how much ram the system has so it plays it safe and sticks to 64MB. you can override this in lilo.conf: append="mem=XXXM" where XXX = amount of ram you

Re: user homedir chroot jail..

2002-02-12 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:23:29AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 04:37:01PM -0800, Petre Daniel wrote: > > how can i deny to a user with shell access the browsing of /home ? > > thanx > > chmod 711 /home > > So they can go into directories they know about, but they wont be a

Re: max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-12 Thread Yven J. Leist
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 17:53, Joey Hess wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hmm. That's great for shell scripts and interactive shells, but what > > about, for example, the number of sendmail children on a box? My problem > > is I have a machine that can handle more than 300 sendmail childre

building mutt SSL deb package (configure error)

2002-02-12 Thread Nick Jennings
FYI - Please CC me in reponse, as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks. Hello, I am running woody (testing) and trying to get together a mutt-ssl package. I have read the README.Debian concerning this in the mutt package. I downloaded the source: # apt-get source mutt Uncommented the

Re: Arbitrarily setting From: header in Mutt

2002-02-12 Thread csj
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 03:37:03PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:22:30AM +0800, csj wrote: [...] > You can edit the headers individually in the screen that appears after > you compose the body but before you actually send (where you can also > add attachments). Now that you ment

Re: mutt address list ?

2002-02-12 Thread Al Nikolov
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:31:09AM -0800, Jeff wrote: > subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the difference with 'list' keyword? And what is 'unsubscribe' for? Thanks for ideas.

Urgent Business Assistance

2002-02-12 Thread SHARI TONYE JACKWILSON
>From the desk of: SHARI JACKWILSON T. TEL/FAX:234-1-7592679 Lagos, Nigeria. REQUEST FOR AN URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP After due deliberation with my colleagues, I have decided to forward to you this business proposal. We want a reliable person who could assist us to transfer

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread ben
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:55 pm, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:00:08PM -0800, ben wrote: > > how does one go about repairing a dangling symlink? > > > > e.g.: > > # man kdm > > man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz is a dangling symlink > > No manual entry for kdm

problems connecting to my Debian pppd server

2002-02-12 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I have 2 Debian 2.2 boxes, one setup as a server the other as a client. I have been able to get as far as PAP authentication. The problem is that the server does not seem to be able to identify it local IP address to the client. Here is my /etc/ppp/peers/server configuration file: # These ar

Re: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:34:56 -0800

2002-02-12 Thread Günter Knab
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:10:35AM -0500, dman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:46:01AM +0100, G|nter Knab wrote: > *snipped* Thanks for the explanation! Now I try to reformulate my question so precise as you answer:) On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 16:38:10 -0800 ben wrote > one if my /dev/ files has a m

[Slightly OT] Memory reporting

2002-02-12 Thread Thomas Cook
Hi, I have a machine that I'm playing with the memory in. It has 1x128MB, 1x64MB and 1x32MB sticks in it. When I boot the machine and it does a memory check it reports 229376 kB OK, but: # cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 63905792 60915712 299

Re: Win95 on Plex86

2002-02-12 Thread Jose
El lun, 11 de feb de 2002, a las 03:25:45 +, Chuck Higgins dijo: > Hi, > > Has anybody got Win95 working on Plex86? > > I've been able to boot-up a floppy image and then run the setup program from > the Win95 CD. It then seems to work at first, doing the system check and > copying installa

Re: OT: Need help from bash experts... bad filename chars -- oopss

2002-02-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya alan yuppers... ooppss... am smoking funny stuff again... ( just woke up ) meant its a pain to save/restore those whacky names on *nix from bash/perl and tar|find vs find|tar makes difference too and win98 wont allow mkdir "foo/tmp" nor "foo\0tmp" as their dirnames at least n

Re: LILO other=/dev/hda6 (boot logical partition)

2002-02-12 Thread Jeff
Robin Rowe, 2002-Feb-12 11:00 -0800: > Hi. I need to install Win2k on a PC that has only logical partitions > available. > > /dev/hda1 Linux > /dev/hda2 Swap > /dev/hda3 Win2k > /dev/hda4 Extended > /dev/hda5 Linux > /dev/hda6 Win2k (new) > > I can't get LILO to boot the second Win2k partition.

Need help setting up Xserver

2002-02-12 Thread Rich Johnson
Hey folks-- I need some help setting up an Xserver on an older Mac. The machine is a stock PowerMac 8500 with 172MB memory and has a clean woody install. Does anyone have an XFree86Config for this such a machine? There's likely to be other stuff which needs tweaking as well. Thanks-- --rich

bootpd trouble

2002-02-12 Thread Ernest Johanson
Hello all, I'm having trouble with a bootpd server I recently migrated to a new box. The old one (potato, kernel 2.2) worked fine. Moved the data to the new box (testing, kernel 2.4) and most of the clients can get their leases. The exceptions are some printers (HP 4000's mostly) that fail. The re

Re: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address...

2002-02-12 Thread Thomas Cook
I fixed an identical problem recently by getting new RAM - my old stuff had gone bad. apt-get install memtest86 Run this over your memory and see if it comes up with any errors. Be warned that it takes a while (I let mine run for an hour or so before giving up because it had topped 1000 errors).

docbook xml to html

2002-02-12 Thread Brandon N
I have written documents in DocBook SGML and converted them to HTML, ps, and text. I'm now trying to use XML instead, as it seems that is what most editors support. I haven't yet figured out how to get them to convert. Has anyone here done it, if so, what is the header for the XML file and wha

Re: How to set mutt's Sender = From header

2002-02-12 Thread csj
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:16:34PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > csj([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I've been banging my .muttrc for over 3 hours now. I now think it might be > > an exim config problem. I've set various combinations of "set envelope_from" > > ~/.in muttrc to no avail

Re: OT: Need help from bash experts... bad filename chars

2002-02-12 Thread Alan Shutko
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and you cannot save/create/restore these files on *nix > -- you'd need some kind of filename mapping Incorrect. You could create every single one of your examples on Unix. The only characters you can't use on Unix are / and \0. You may have to try a

Re: OT: Need help from bash experts... bad filename chars

2002-02-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi romuald the only whacky filenames/directories i was able to create (mkdir) on win98 was... foo tmp space foo'tmp apostrophe foo`tmp back-tick foo$sale foo!tmp foo#tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED] foo%tmp foo^tmp foo(tmp foo)tmp foo[tmp foo]tmp and i think you can play tricks with backspace'd name

Re: Minor, but irritating, symlink problem

2002-02-12 Thread MH
> "Andrew" == Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Andrew> Here it is. I have a symbolic link in my home directory on Andrew> my desktop machine that points to my campus-wide AFS Andrew> space: Andrew> lrwxrwxrwx 1 aperrin aperrin 26 Feb 12 15:53 afshome -> A

phpgroupware postgres

2002-02-12 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I want to start backing up my postgres database for phpgroupware but I am clueless as far as postgressql. Where is the database kept? What extentions or names do I search for to find the databases? Lance -- Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL

Re: language and charset settings

2002-02-12 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.12 20:45:19 +0100 Eric G. Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:23:55PM +0100, Steffen Evers wrote: > Hello, > > does anyone know how to have the charset settings differently than the > language? > > I want to have my applications speaking English, but would like to be > able to dis

Re: xv: vanished from unstable

2002-02-12 Thread stan
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:17:35PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed today that xv is no longer available in unstable. > What is the replacement package ? > There is not one :-( I understand it's a licensing issue, but I assre you I will be building it by hand for all of my machines

Re: sgml or latex?

2002-02-12 Thread darrell dupas
also worth noting is the LaTeX word processor called LyX, which also supports DocBook export and several generic tex styles it can produce pdf and if you export to docbook sgml you can still use those tools too lyx is still a little unstable in woody, if you open the user manual as anyone ot

Re: Mixing Debian releases the easy way - HowTo - questions

2002-02-12 Thread Simon Hepburn
On Tuesday 12 Feb 2002 3:11 am, tluxt wrote: > From the following references section, it seems that the immediately > following procedure might do this, but I have some concerns: > > /etc/apt/apt.conf gets the following line: > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > [Note: On my several mont

Re: HP Photosmart 715 (215) USB digital camera

2002-02-12 Thread David Karlström
I think that you have to set the camera in some special USB-mode (using the setup-menu on the camera). There are two modes, one works, one doesn't... I tried it on mine, and it was detected as a scsi-drive with the correct size. But I couldn't mount it, looks like it's not vfat or something, I'll

Re: dhcp server

2002-02-12 Thread debian
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Martin Wuertele wrote: > > When I restart the dhcp server all machines lose connectivity and need to > > grab another lease. Is there any way to prevent this? > > what are your values for default-lease-time and max-lease-time? i use > > default-lease-time 600; > max-lease-time

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:00:08PM -0800, ben wrote: > how does one go about repairing a dangling symlink? > > e.g.: > # man kdm > man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz is a dangling symlink > No manual entry for kdm Probably worth reporting as a bug - either in kdm itself (if you have it cu

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lndbm

2002-02-12 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 13:36:46 -0600, Jordan Evatt wrote: > A quick search using apt on #debian gave me this: (/usr/include/db1/ndbm.h) > in devel/libc6-dev > Maybe you don't have libc6-dev installed? Check for that first. I have no > way of knowing if you have it installed or not. Thanks for t

Re: fat32 to ext2

2002-02-12 Thread Jordan Evatt
sure. back up everything to a tarball, format, restore. that's all there is to it. - Original Message - From: "Furkan Fidan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:47 PM Subject: fat32 to ext2 > Hi, > is it possible to convert fat32 to ext2 without data loss? >

Re: Minor, but irritating, symlink problem

2002-02-12 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Andrew! On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote: > In december, I upgraded my office machine from debian to woody. A very > small, but nevertheless irritating, thing changed that I can't explain or > change; can anyone offer any wisdom? > so I have to manually enter the / (or an additiona

Re: dhcp server

2002-02-12 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi debian! On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I restart the dhcp server all machines lose connectivity and need to > grab another lease. Is there any way to prevent this? what are your values for default-lease-time and max-lease-time? i use default-lease-time 600; max-lease-ti

Re: Locales and Java

2002-02-12 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
The 're' directory is for the "JRE" (Java Runtime Environment). It is all you need to _run_ java programs. The "sdk" directory is for the "SDK" (Software Development Kit) which is needed only if you want to develop java programs (eg compile from source). | Should I just put the jars into the la

Re: Trend VirusWall

2002-02-12 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
That would probably be the mysterious libdb3 package which I know exists in both woody(testing) and sid(unstable)... Not sure with anything prior to woody, but don't think so... Jeremy On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:29:11PM +0200, Game Wizard wrote: > Hi! > > I tried to install Trend

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address...

2002-02-12 Thread David Chase
Hi all - I just started getting this message recently...nothing on the system has changed (I don't think)...wondering if anyone knows what it could be, or if it's something I need to worry about. What does it mean, anyways?? :) Thanks! -David R. Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: HP Photosmart 715 (215) USB digital camera

2002-02-12 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:02:35PM -0500, christophe barbé wrote: | I missed this thread but if you are looking for a program to use your | digital camera under linux, have a look at gphoto2. | The final gphoto2 release is soon to be releasedi. If your camera is not | yet supported it's time to spe

Re: First boot hangs on PCMCIA services after install

2002-02-12 Thread Tony Crawford
Robert Kausch wrote (on 12 Feb 2002 at 13:44): > Starting PCMCIA services: modules > > and the cursor sits behind modules, and nothing changes. I've > left it for up to 10 minutes, but to no avail. > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I remember that from hamm and potato installations

Minor, but irritating, symlink problem

2002-02-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
In december, I upgraded my office machine from debian to woody. A very small, but nevertheless irritating, thing changed that I can't explain or change; can anyone offer any wisdom? Here it is. I have a symbolic link in my home directory on my desktop machine that points to my campus-wide AFS spac

fat32 to ext2

2002-02-12 Thread Furkan Fidan
Hi, is it possible to convert fat32 to ext2 without data loss? Thanx, _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread ben
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:08 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:08 -0800 > > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > how does one go about repairing a dangling symlink? > > > > e.g.: > > # man kdm > > man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz is a dangling symlink > > No manual ent

dhcp server

2002-02-12 Thread debian
When I restart the dhcp server all machines lose connectivity and need to grab another lease. Is there any way to prevent this?

Summary: max # of processes in debian testing

2002-02-12 Thread debian
The original problem was the process limit in the kernel, which was 512 divided by two for users. The solution was to recompile the kernel. I used the kernel-kpkg package to do this. dpkg-kpkg actually worked. I'm impressed. :) Thanks to all who provided their input and assistance! On Tue, 12 Fe

Re: Arbitrarily setting From: header in Mutt

2002-02-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:22:30AM +0800, csj wrote: | On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:53:29 -0800 | Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > begin csj quotation: | [...] | > > My question: how do I arbitrarily set the From: header in Mutt. I know about | > > stuff like my_hdr and /etc/email-addr

Re: .deb packages from outside debian/dists/ ?

2002-02-12 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:39:23PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Andreas Hetzmannseder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:04:01AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > >> dpkg -i blah.deb > >> [...] > > > > If you decided to uninstall 'blah.deb', wouldn't you run into > > trouble? >

Re: festival and esd [was: mail notification]

2002-02-12 Thread Scott Wehrenberg
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:01:04AM +0100, MH wrote: > Fran?ois> Hello, Do you know if festival run with esd ? > Fran?ois> Thanks > Fran?ois> Fran?ois > > Seemed to be more exactly not running _against_ esd: festival can be set up to run with esd through esdplay

Trend VirusWall

2002-02-12 Thread Game Wizard
Hi!   I tried to install Trendmicro VirusWall for linux. I know they say it's only for redhat or suse but I tried to hack the install script and I get a message that db3 is not found. Now my question is, where do I find that mysterios db3 binary, since I already installed berkeley db v3.   1

Re: which assembler is the best?

2002-02-12 Thread Steve
I don't know much about nasm personally, but gas is the GNU assembler. With very few exceptions all "linux" software is compiled using the GNU tool chain, and gas is a crucial and very "active" part of that toolchain. I have done a fair bit of assembler programming over the years, mainly for em

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:08 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how does one go about repairing a dangling symlink? > > e.g.: > # man kdm > man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz is a dangling symlink > No manual entry for kdm maybe someone deleted the file /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz (

Re: .deb packages from outside debian/dists/ ?

2002-02-12 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:32:38AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Andreas Hetzmannseder quotation: > > > > dpkg -i blah.deb > > > [...] > > > > If you decided to uninstall 'blah.deb', wouldn't you run into trouble? > > > > One may create a 'Packages' file for some extra deb-package: > >

dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread ben
how does one go about repairing a dangling symlink? e.g.: # man kdm man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz is a dangling symlink No manual entry for kdm ben

Re: language and charset settings

2002-02-12 Thread ben
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:23 am, Steffen Evers wrote: > Hello, > > does anyone know how to have the charset settings differently than the > language? > > I want to have my applications speaking English, but would like to be > able to display German Umlaute like ue or oe. This does not work wit

Re: language and charset settings

2002-02-12 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:23:55PM +0100, Steffen Evers wrote: > Hello, > > does anyone know how to have the charset settings differently than the > language? > > I want to have my applications speaking English, but would like to be > able to display German Umlaute like ue or oe. This does not wo

autofs

2002-02-12 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Hi all, I feel a bit lost in running autofs. I've installed autofs package, compilled autofs4 support into kernel and hoped that now my /floppy becomes automounted, but no :-(( I read man pages from autofs and auto.master, but i'm too lame to understand it. Please help me.

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lndbm

2002-02-12 Thread Jordan Evatt
A quick search using apt on #debian gave me this: (/usr/include/db1/ndbm.h) in devel/libc6-dev Maybe you don't have libc6-dev installed? Check for that first. I have no way of knowing if you have it installed or not. - Jordan - Original Message - From: "Erik van der Meulen" <[EMAIL PROTEC

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lndbm

2002-02-12 Thread Erik van der Meulen
G'day all - I am trying to build spamassassin from the source-tar archive on my Potato box (the .deb only works for Woody/Sid). The Perl Makefile.PL reports something like 'looks good', but a consecutive 'make' reports: souterrain:/home/erik/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.01# make cc -Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL

language and charset settings

2002-02-12 Thread Steffen Evers
Hello, does anyone know how to have the charset settings differently than the language? I want to have my applications speaking English, but would like to be able to display German Umlaute like ue or oe. This does not work with the current locale stuff. However, it used to work. When I set LANG=

Re: Arbitrarily setting From: header in Mutt

2002-02-12 Thread csj
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:53:29 -0800 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin csj quotation: [...] > > My question: how do I arbitrarily set the From: header in Mutt. I know about > > stuff like my_hdr and /etc/email-addresses. What I want to know is if > > there's a way to do it so I don

Re: html mode

2002-02-12 Thread Jordan Evatt
my client had it enabled. maybe the smtp relay disabled it for me. oh well. jordan - Original Message - From: "ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:23 PM Subject: Re: html mode > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 06:54 am, Jordan Evatt wrote: > > sorry for those la

LILO other=/dev/hda6 (boot logical partition)

2002-02-12 Thread Robin Rowe
Hi. I need to install Win2k on a PC that has only logical partitions available. /dev/hda1 Linux /dev/hda2 Swap /dev/hda3 Win2k /dev/hda4 Extended /dev/hda5 Linux /dev/hda6 Win2k (new) I can't get LILO to boot the second Win2k partition. It just hangs there with no error message. If I use table=/

Re: How to set mutt's Sender = From header

2002-02-12 Thread Wayne Topa
csj([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I've been banging my .muttrc for over 3 hours now. I now think it might be > an exim config problem. I've set various combinations of "set envelope_from" > ~/.in muttrc to no avail. The Sender: header is still extracted from my > /etc/email-address

First boot hangs on PCMCIA services after install

2002-02-12 Thread Robert Kausch
Hi, This is my first attempt at installing debian on my laptop, previously, only doing redhat71 from a presupplied disk. I'm running the netinstall for potato2.2r4 from http://markybobdeb.sourceforge.net/elf/. I can get all the way through the install, to the reboot point, at which everyth

Re: .deb packages from outside debian/dists/ ?

2002-02-12 Thread David Z Maze
Andreas Hetzmannseder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:04:01AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >> dpkg -i blah.deb >> [...] > > If you decided to uninstall 'blah.deb', wouldn't you run into > trouble? Of what sort? dpkg doesn't need the package file to uninstall an installed pa

RE: Package a single binary.

2002-02-12 Thread Blake Barnett
Title: RE: Package a single binary. Thank you VERY much.. this is exactly what I was looking for. * Blake -Original Message- From: Joey Hess To: Blake Barnett Cc: csj; debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 2/11/02 6:23 PM Subject: Re: Package a single binary. Blake Barnett wrote: >

Re: snort question

2002-02-12 Thread nate
> Hi, I haven't used snort before and wanted to see where the > incoming traffic to my external ip is coming from. Can I do this > with a machine behind the router? I mean, the deb machine is > sitting on a 192x and I want to see the incoming traffic on the > external ip. Is this possible or do

Re: html mode

2002-02-12 Thread ben
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 06:54 am, Jordan Evatt wrote: > sorry for those last few mails i sent in html. i forgot to change my > client's settings :) > > - Jordan haven't seen any html from you. ben

Re: xv: vanished from unstable

2002-02-12 Thread Bill Wohler
Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I noticed today that xv is no longer available in unstable. > What is the replacement package ? gqview to view; gimp to edit. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vot

Re: icewm starts gnome

2002-02-12 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 06:46:45PM +0100, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > [...] > > check ~/.xsession for gnome-relational entries and uncomment them ^ Sorry, of course I mean 'comment out' ...

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