Re: re-using cached .deb files on new installation

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
Have you looked at apt-move perchance? I ended up finding out about it AFTER I had already written a few Perl scripts to locally mirror sid for me (and had download about 2 GB of data), but I'm sure it could prove useful to you if you haven't gone to these extremes yet. :) (I keep 3 computers updat

Re: Forte Agent look-alike MUA

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
You use Agent as your mail reader?! :) With that out of the way though, I can happily report that Agent works flawlessly under Wine. I've been using it for months now with not a single hiccup. Actually, the "mundane" tasks of compacting the database, etc, actually run FASTER in Linux than in Windo

Re: pid of a script?

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 19:53, Christian Jaeger wrote: > (Or use perl, there you can use flock() on a lockfile, no need for pids.) If you want to go that route but don't want to bring Perl into it, just use lockfile. -Alex signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: sound is really soft

2002-02-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Jason Stechschulte wrote: > the noise. Since I can't seem to remember to turn down the speakers > before rebooting, is there something I can do about this behavior? Turn down the volume in Windows. -- Baloo

Re: Problem installing Intel 810 video under debian

2002-02-17 Thread Gary Turner
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:36:23 -0500, Rahul Agarwal wrote: >Hello, > >I spent this weekend trying to setup my new linux box using debian. Well >I ran into a lot of problems biggest of which I haven't been able to >solve until now - i810 motherboard which has integrated video and sound. >Apparently,

RE: Problem installing Intel 810 video under debian

2002-02-17 Thread Rahul Agarwal
Hey Craig, Thanks for you reply. Yes I am using potato. Would you really recommend using Woody for a novice? What kind of problems could I run into. Also do I need to rebuild the system for istalling Woody or it can be installed over potato. Once again thanks for your help Rahul -Original Me

Using Unix with NT mounting NT

2002-02-17 Thread Rodney Agha
I am having troubles mounting a NT work station It can ping this station perfectly, but is not mounted for backups, how would be the correct way to mount an NT workstation on a unix box?? would it be a samba config?

Re: Problem installing Intel 810 video under debian

2002-02-17 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Rahul Agarwal quotation: > I spent this weekend trying to setup my new linux box using debian. Well > I ran into a lot of problems biggest of which I haven't been able to > solve until now - i810 motherboard which has integrated video and sound. > Apparently, there is no built in support f

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
dman wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 11:43:34AM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > | Rodney Agha wrote: > | > > | > -- > | > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > | Can we have this added to the TOP of each message? Peo

Re: Problem installing Intel 810 video under debian

2002-02-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rahul your best bet is to d/l and install xfree-4.x ( XF86_SVGA or XFree86 ) - turn on i810/i815 and AGPGART kernel options too if you are unlucky nd trying to make xfree-3.x.x with the onboard i810 chipset you're gonna have gazillion problems ( nothing to do with debian) the

Re: re-using cached .deb files on new installation

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
I have also had similar thoughts. One solution is to nfs mount /var/cache/apt/archives from the first machine as /var/cache/apt/archives on the second machine. Then when apt checks for a package in its archives it finds it already there, and you only need to download each .deb once for each machi

sound is really soft

2002-02-17 Thread Jason Stechschulte
I finally decided to give up trying to get my integrated intel 82801ba/bam ac'97 working, so I threw in a Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI card I have. After recompiling the kernel to add support for the ensoniq card, I finally have sound. But I have to turn my speakers almost all the way up to hear it.

Re: OT: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:27:08PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:09:06PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > > > Tony Crawford wrote: > > > > > > > > Tom Cook wrote (on 18 Feb 2002 at 10:41): > > > > > > > > > [You should be more optimistic.] There is no

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-02-17 Thread dman
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 11:43:34AM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: | Rodney Agha wrote: | > | > -- | > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Can we have this added to the TOP of each message? People just seem to | ignore the

Problem installing Intel 810 video under debian

2002-02-17 Thread Rahul Agarwal
Hello, I spent this weekend trying to setup my new linux box using debian. Well I ran into a lot of problems biggest of which I haven't been able to solve until now - i810 motherboard which has integrated video and sound. Apparently, there is no built in support for the motherboard from either deb

Oferta 6 CDs Macromedia

2002-02-17 Thread Macromedia
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re-using cached .deb files on new installation

2002-02-17 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm sure this is a FAQ, so URLs are welcome. I'm going from Potato -> Sid (over and over, to learn about installing). I'm using the diskette boot method and then a network install. Boot, install Potato base system. apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade update sources.list and repeat for Woody, a

Re: booting with no keyboard or moue - frying mb

2002-02-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hiya tom humm... donno... i've plugged and unplugged various mouse and kbs all the time into lots-o-mbs and machines and have not yet fried any mb... ( guess i can consider myself lucky... on the other hand by tweeking XFConfig... i have fried a monitor :-) ... nice smoke test..smells for

KDE-Debian HowTo for KDE2 & Debian3=Woody X86. Ver 0.27

2002-02-17 Thread tluxt2
The new updated version can be found here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2002/debian-kde-200202/msg00167.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com

Forte Agent look-alike MUA

2002-02-17 Thread Gary Turner
Somewhere in my reading, I ran into a reference to a mail reader that emulates the Agent UI, and now I can't find it. I've been using Agent for the last 2 years, feel comfortable with it, and would like to keep the feel as I migrate mail functions to Linux. Does anyone know the app, and is it pac

Re: OT: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
"Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:09:06PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > > Tony Crawford wrote: > > > > > > Tom Cook wrote (on 18 Feb 2002 at 10:41): > > > > > > > [You should be more optimistic.] There is no interest here in > > > > ridiculing anyone, even less someone who formula

Re: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-17 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.17 16:50:32 +0100 Wendell Cochran wrote: Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 03:52:42 +0100 Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > > > and here is really no interest in ridiculing anyone and less someone who would formulate constructively his criticism and suggestions ... >> i really really do

Re: OT: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:09:06PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > Tony Crawford wrote: > > > > Tom Cook wrote (on 18 Feb 2002 at 10:41): > > > > > [You should be more optimistic.] There is no interest here in > > > ridiculing anyone, even less someone who formulates his > > > criticisms and suggestion

update:Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Thanks to everybody who helped. I did install ddt-client and register accounts on both machines, but don't seem to be able to get that working yet. However, both ssh and scp work beautifully between the two machines just using ip addresses. The ppp is probably not static but can be found out easily

Re: pid of a script?

2002-02-17 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 11:30 Uhr +1030 18.02.2002, Tom Cook wrote: until [ -z `ps ax | grep $SCRIPT_PID` ] What about until kill -0 $SCRIPT_PID 2>/dev/null; do ? (Or use perl, there you can use flock() on a lockfile, no need for pids.) chj

Re: cvs question

2002-02-17 Thread Charles Baker
<> > > > > I moved the source to a different machine where I > had > > set up a new repository. I edited the headers of > the > > files that had been checked in before, deleting > the > > expanded $ID$ information. I then proceeded to do > a > > standard ``cvs import`` of my project. I then > chec

Re: OT: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
Tony Crawford wrote: > > Tom Cook wrote (on 18 Feb 2002 at 10:41): > > > [You should be more optimistic.] There is no interest here in > > ridiculing anyone, even less someone who formulates his > > criticisms and suggestions constructively. > > > > Here endeth the lesson. ;-) > > How much is l

Re: Problem with postfix relaying

2002-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.02.18.0103 +0100]: > > I have brackets around this in my main.cf. I do not know if this > > is your problem, but this line is all I needed to do: > > > > relayhost = [my.isp.mail.server.com] > > Brackets are not necessary, so that's not the problem. Are

Re: ARUGENT HELP!!

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 18:29, Tom Cook wrote: > > > God that scares me silly, every time I do it... > > It does? I don't even bother typing it anymore. I've got a script set up > to do it all for me, with not a single bit of error checking... :) Just > remember, rescue

Re: Need some help with hardware

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
> Thomas Martens wrote: > > Hey there > > i am going to buy some new servers, but on the server i need a > raidcontroller where the disk are going to work as are mirror, but i > have tryed with the, promise fast traks 1++ tx2, but that don´t work, > > so my question is, what raidcontroller can r

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
Rodney Agha wrote: > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can we have this added to the TOP of each message? People just seem to ignore the bottom... While we're at it, how about setting the 'Reply-To' header to

sendmail / mail account

2002-02-17 Thread Rodney Agha
Using sendmail for a lan, I'm noticed that everone on the lan email address has included "mail" in their acount as in [EMAIL PROTECTED] now is [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Is there a way to get is back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?

Re: Help! I have deleted my "startx"-File!

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
"Donald R. Spoon" wrote: > > Andreas Maresch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Today I have made a _BIG_, thumb newbie-error: I have deleted my "startx" > > -file! > > I have potato 2.2.19pre9 with kde 2.0.1, no modifications. > > My X-server is XF86_SVGA. > > > > Is there a fast meth

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Re: pid of a script?

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
"ah." wrote: > > I was wondering how to find out the pid of a (bash) script. > Suppose it's called SCRIPT. Issuing pidof SCRIPT echoes nothing, > yet ps x shows the pid of it something like /bin/bash ./SCRIPT. > But then pidof "/bin/bash ./SCRIP" again does nothing. Simply > saying pidof bash give

Re: OT: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-17 Thread Tony Crawford
Tom Cook wrote (on 18 Feb 2002 at 10:41): > [You should be more optimistic.] There is no interest here in > ridiculing anyone, even less someone who formulates his > criticisms and suggestions constructively. > > Here endeth the lesson. ;-) How much is less than no interest? SCNR (BTW I'd gue

Re: HELP with samba/ linking Nt machine

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'm afraid you're going to need to be a bit more specific than that. Does the Unix machine even know that the NT box is on the network at all? (i.e. can you ping it by name?) What all have you tried to connect with? smbclient? What type of authentication are you using? We need details. :) -Alex O

Woody + Alsa and ESS1869, the saga continues

2002-02-17 Thread Phillip Remaker
Alright, I'm getting closer. Recap: I managed to build a custom kernel with enough hooks to re-load my ethernet module (only took 10 attempts!) I found that to get the RTL 8139 modules to work I needed to prompt for experimental parts of the 2.2.x kernel to get RTL8139 support, and to check off

Re: potato version of galeon?

2002-02-17 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:31:06PM -0600, will trillich wrote: | what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed? Why do you want to stick with potato? If you're installing galeon, it must be a workstation, not a server, so what's wrong with woody/sid? It is much easier ("possible" is a b

Re: python-gtk in woody

2002-02-17 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 06:43:51PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: | On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:33:22PM -0500, dman wrote: | > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:00:18PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: | > | Why do 'apt-get install' and 'apt-cache show' give different results? | > | > 'apt-cache show' will show th

Re: ARUGENT HELP!!

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 18:29, Tom Cook wrote: > God that scares me silly, every time I do it... It does? I don't even bother typing it anymore. I've got a script set up to do it all for me, with not a single bit of error checking... :) Just remember, rescue root=/dev/hda1 is your friend. :) And w

HELP with samba/ linking Nt machine

2002-02-17 Thread Rodney Agha
does anyone know how to mount an nt machine onto samba unix ? Nt machine can see the unix box, but unix cannot see the nt ?

Re: booting with no keyboard or moue

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
John Hasler wrote: > > Elizabeth Barham writes: > > I don't understand how it could possibly cause hardware damage. > > He means that unplugging the keyboard with the power on can cause damage. > He's right, though I have never personally seen it happen. Yes, hot-plugging PS/2 devices is a well

Re: Problem with postfix relaying

2002-02-17 Thread Jeff
Sebastiaan, 2002-Feb-17 22:08 +0100: > > relayhost = smtp-server.austin.rr.com > I have brackets around this in my main.cf. I do not know if this is your > problem, but this line is all I needed to do: > > relayhost = [my.isp.mail.server.com] Brackets are not necessary, so that's not the problem.

Re: iptables port fowarding?

2002-02-17 Thread Michel Loos
Em Dom, 2002-02-17 às 20:55, Rick Pasotto escreveu: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:43:25AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:37:08AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > How do I port forward with iptables? With ipchains the command was: > > > > > > ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp

Re: iptables port fowarding?

2002-02-17 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 06:55:08PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:43:25AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:37:08AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > How do I port forward with iptables? With ipchains the command was: > > > > > > ipmasqadm portfw

Re: ARUGENT HELP!!

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
ben wrote: > > On Saturday 16 February 2002 09:31 am, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2002 16:38 schrieb Ben Collins: > > > When you boot Linux, edit the file /etc/lilo.conf. At the end, add these > > > lines: > > > > > > other=/dev/hda1 > > >label=windows > > > > I th

Re: Actualized PostgreSQL 7.2 packages?

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > On 16 Feb 2002, Guille -bisho- wrote: > > > There are RPM packages but no debs even in unstable, and I need some of > > the new features. :( > > Compilation of the tarballs from www.postgresql.org worked on my machine > and I am running an alpha, which freq

Re: 486SX success whit slink.

2002-02-17 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 16:51, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Is it possible to clean the MBR of my hard disk after that I have put > > lilo into ? > > (I read that it was impossible but perhaps there is a trick ...?) > > It's not really possible to 'clean' the MBR... But you can just install > some oth

Re: OT: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 18:11, Tom Cook wrote: > Here endeth the lesson. ;-) One can't help but be educated by reading this list... :) While I'm not a "native" English speaker per se, I'm about as close as one can get, and I still consider myself educated by that post! :) -Alex signature.asc Des

Re: slrn + slrnpull

2002-02-17 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > I installed slrn and slrnpull for offline mail reading. There is no > way that the default installation works even when debconf has asked > all the relevant questions. Sorry for the bitch, but a whole Sunday > has evaporated. An install for a dialup offline newsreader should be > somethi

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2002-02-17 Thread Rodney Agha

Re: Linux and Win2k Servers

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 17:39, Tom Cook wrote: > mount -t smb //win2k/path /mnt/win2kpath ITYM -t smbfs Either way, it doesn't get much easier than this. And if you really MUST have a GUI you can use Konqueror under KDE (Though I find it buggy as hell) or xsmbrowser under Gnome. (My choice.) -Ale

a2ps - landscape

2002-02-17 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, a2ps is a very handy utility indeed. I just ran into a problem though. I wanted to print some text with *very* long lines. I expected to make better use of the page by printing in landscape mode (with the -r option). But then the unpleasant surprise: while the page indeed was printed in lands

Re: OT: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
Wendell Cochran wrote: > > Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 03:52:42 +0100 > Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > > > > > and here is really no interest in ridiculing anyone and less someone > > > > > who would formulate constructively his criticism and suggestions ... > > >> i really really don't w

Re: Trend VirusWall

2002-02-17 Thread C-Cose Masters
Greetings, On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 06:44, François Chenais wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:59:30 -0500 > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > François Chenais wrote: > > > I just try to run rpm -i vmware.rpm and I have the same error. > > > > > > error: cannot open Packages index using db3

Re: cvs question

2002-02-17 Thread Matthew Dalton
Charles Baker wrote: > > Are there any cvs guru's on the list? I had some files > that had previously been checked into cvs. There were > also some files in the same project which had not been > checked in ever. > > I moved the source to a different machine where I had > set up a new repository.

Need some help with hardware

2002-02-17 Thread Thomas Martens
Hey there   i am going to buy some new servers, but on the server i need a raidcontroller where the disk are going to work as are mirror, but i have tryed with the, promise fast traks 1++ tx2, but that don´t work,   so my question is, what raidcontroller can run mirror under debian?     tha

Re: iptables port fowarding?

2002-02-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:43:25AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:37:08AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > How do I port forward with iptables? With ipchains the command was: > > > > ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $extip $port -R $intip $port > > What I have in my f

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2002-02-17 Thread Rodney Agha

Re: Mouse Jumps Sometimes

2002-02-17 Thread dman
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 03:07:01PM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: | I'm not using gpm. | My XF86Config-4 has this | | Section "InputDevice" | Identifier "Configured Mouse" | Driver "mouse" | Option "CorePointer" | Option "Device"

Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

2002-02-17 Thread dman
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:12:48PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: | On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 11:14:36PM +0100, Gr?gory Kar?kinian wrote: | > Hello, | > | > Thank you guys, that's exactly the answer i needed :). I can't compile a | > kernel on this machine (it's a 486 @ 66 mhz.. Slow even to untar :p). |

Re: python-gtk in woody

2002-02-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:33:22PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:00:18PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > | On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 11:55:42AM -0500, dman wrote: > | > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:36:37AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > | > | Any chance of installing python-gtk in woody? I

Re: potato version of galeon?

2002-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 16:40, Osamu Aoki wrote: > (If it is not a production server, I recommend you to upgrade system to > the "testing". If it is a server, why install X or galeon, anuyay.) Good point. Personally, I think Woody's been ready for your average desktop user for months. I use sid ex

Re: Linux and Win2k Servers

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
Martin Wuertele wrote: > > 3>> When this is done, will logging on to the linux box also give me > > access to my network resources on the win2k server? (assuming a working > > samba config) > > on the command line with smbclient you can do so, tough not very > comfortable... you propably want to

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
Rob Ransbottom wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > > | I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX > | (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) > | before they go to the rubbish. > | I wanted install the minimum of linux for the mail > | (exim

cvs question

2002-02-17 Thread Charles Baker
Are there any cvs guru's on the list? I had some files that had previously been checked into cvs. There were also some files in the same project which had not been checked in ever. I moved the source to a different machine where I had set up a new repository. I edited the headers of the files that

Re: strange entry in /etc/init.d

2002-02-17 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Andreas Goesele wrote: > I found this strange as I thought for bash one would write It is not a bash file, it is used by pam_env and contains lines with a simple key=value syntax. > Is it possible that some package would add such a line to my > /etc/environment? What package could that

strange entry in /etc/init.d

2002-02-17 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, unexpectedly I found my LANG locale env variable change. I took a look into /etc/environment and found as last entry: LANG=C I found this strange as I thought for bash one would write export LANG=C (or LANG=C and then export LANG) and my own entry export [EMAIL PROTECTED] wasn't changed.

Re: error during testing upgrade destroyed partition

2002-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, (CC to debian-user@lists.debian.org) On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 11:30:16PM +0100, Harald Schmid wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:40:27 Osamu Aoki wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:21:04PM +0100, Harald Schmid wrote: > >> during an upgrade of testing I had kernel panic which completely > >> des

Re: libmng dependency tangle

2002-02-17 Thread Rich Johnson
Martin Wuertele wrote: > Hi Rich! > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Rich Johnson wrote: > > > (Reading database ... 22636 files and directories currently installed.) > > Unpacking libmng (from .../libmng_0.9.3-0.potato.3_powerpc.deb) ... > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cache/apt/archives/libmng_0.9.3-0

Re: potato version of galeon?

2002-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:31:06PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed? > i've got potato(stable) set up including >deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free > (all one line) in my /etc/apt/sources.list but of cou

Re: postgres upgrade for dummies? [solved]

2002-02-17 Thread Andreas Goesele
Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Switch back to the pg_hba.conf file you used with 6.5. 7.1 has a new > > authentication method "peer" which 6.5 doesn't understand and which 7.1's > > default configuration employs IIRC. > > Thi

Re: Help! I have deleted my "startx"-File!

2002-02-17 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Andreas Maresch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Today I have made a _BIG_, thumb newbie-error: I have deleted my "startx" -file! I have potato 2.2.19pre9 with kde 2.0.1, no modifications. My X-server is XF86_SVGA. Is there a fast method to regain the deleted file? Or can anybody post it for me?

Re: cdrecord can't find scsi modules

2002-02-17 Thread csj
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:46:43PM -0500, James Hughes wrote: [sssnip] > Well, recompiling the kernel without ide/atapi support did the trick. > And adding hdb=ide-scsi (as well as hdc=ide-sci) to the kernel command > line. And moving the /dev/cdrom simlink to /dev/scd8. Also, linking > /dev/cdr

Re: Help! I have deleted my "startx"-File!

2002-02-17 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:31:23 +0100 Andreas Maresch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Today I have made a _BIG_, thumb newbie-error: I have deleted my "startx" > -file! I have potato 2.2.19pre9 with kde 2.0.1, no modifications. > My X-server is XF86_SVGA. > > Is there a fast method to regain t

Re: libmng dependency tangle

2002-02-17 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Rich! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Rich Johnson wrote: > (Reading database ... 22636 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking libmng (from .../libmng_0.9.3-0.potato.3_powerpc.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/libmng_0.9.3-0.potato.3_powerpc.deb (--unpack): > t

Re: Help! I have deleted my "startx"-File!

2002-02-17 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Andreas! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Andreas Maresch wrote: > Today I have made a _BIG_, thumb newbie-error: I have deleted my "startx" > -file! > I have potato 2.2.19pre9 with kde 2.0.1, no modifications. > My X-server is XF86_SVGA. > > Is there a fast method to regain the deleted file? > Or can a

Re: potato version of galeon?

2002-02-17 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi will! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, will trillich wrote: > what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed? > (basically same inquiry as before, but with a more pertinent > subject line and a bit more elaboration on the details:) > > i've got potato(stable) set up including > > deb http:

Gnome reconfiguration question

2002-02-17 Thread stan
I'm setting up a woody machien for my wife. She's going to use Gnome, and I had sent a fair amount of time configuring her desktop for her. Today she aske me to make things bigger (fonts ets.) and the best way I and the best way I could figure out to do that, was o lower the resolutin. So I cahn

libmng dependency tangle

2002-02-17 Thread Rich Johnson
I tried installing mozilla with disastrous results. It refused to install because of the libmng dependency shown below. Now KDE refuses to start up due to Why won't apt-get/dpkg acknowlege the already installedpackage libmng1 (v 1.0.3-3)? Why won't "dpkg --purge libmng" remove an uninstalled p

Re: potato web browsers

2002-02-17 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, February 17, will trillich did write: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:35:01AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Galeon should work with no problems on a Potato system. I had it running > > for a couple of weeks on my desktop before I upgraded to sid. I've run > > it on a P133 with 40 m

Re: error during testing upgrade destroyed partition

2002-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:21:04PM +0100, Harald Schmid wrote: > Hi debian developpers, Well, this should have been to debian-user@lists.debian.org Let's move to there. (Sounds like pcmcia-cs issues discussed in debian-user@lists.debian.org recently.) > during an upgrade of testing I had kernel

screen real estate [was Re: A question about LCD flat panel displays]

2002-02-17 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:13:11PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > I have a 15" and 17" TFTs at work. For me 15" is not enough scren real > estate to use X, so that box runs in 1024x768 framebuffer console. The > only problem with that is that it's noticeably slow in high-colour > (> 256) modes; on

Help! I have deleted my "startx"-File!

2002-02-17 Thread Andreas Maresch
Hi! Today I have made a _BIG_, thumb newbie-error: I have deleted my "startx" -file! I have potato 2.2.19pre9 with kde 2.0.1, no modifications. My X-server is XF86_SVGA. Is there a fast method to regain the deleted file? Or can anybody post it for me? Thank you in advance Andreas PS: Please do

potato version of galeon?

2002-02-17 Thread will trillich
what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed? (basically same inquiry as before, but with a more pertinent subject line and a bit more elaboration on the details:) i've got potato(stable) set up including deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non

D-Link DWL-520 Wireless?

2002-02-17 Thread Norman Walsh
Does anyone know if there are drivers for the D-Link DWL-520 Wireless PCI Adapter? A quick Google didn't turn up anything useful...alas. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Someone has changed

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 20:26, Martin Wuertele wrote: > and even sftp which works as a command line ftp program but uses the ssh > tunnel I believe gftp (ftp client for gtk) also supports sftp -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

Re: Problem with postfix relaying

2002-02-17 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Jor-el wrote: > Hi, > > In my current setup, my MUA talks directly to the smtp server of > my ISP to send mail. I wanted to change that to where it would send mail > to an smtp server running on my machine (postfix) which would then relay > it to my ISP's smtp ser

Problem with postfix relaying

2002-02-17 Thread Jor-el
Hi, In my current setup, my MUA talks directly to the smtp server of my ISP to send mail. I wanted to change that to where it would send mail to an smtp server running on my machine (postfix) which would then relay it to my ISP's smtp server. Unfortunately, for some reason, postfix seems t

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Thanks to everybody for warning me about the dangers of telnet and ftp; I did sort of know this, but wasn't sure what to do about it. -- Cheryl

slrn + slrnpull

2002-02-17 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, I installed slrn and slrnpull for offline mail reading. There is no way that the default installation works even when debconf has asked all the relevant questions. Sorry for the bitch, but a whole Sunday has evaporated. An install for a dialup offline newsreader should be something that the in

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Osamu! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > For ssh use package name "ssh" (openSSH version). > > For ftp, use wu-ftp or pro-ftp if you do not know too much like me. > There is more users for these. But merely transferring files, there is > a command called "scp" in ssh package. and ev

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 20:14, Mario Vukelic wrote: Correcting myself, oh well > Does the remote (friends') box have a dynamically assigned IP (probably, > when it's on PPP)? Then you need a way to find out the current IP when > you want to log in. I.e., you call your friends and you want them to >

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:09:03PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Thanks for the info. Actually, I worded it poorly; of course i know the > difference between ftpd and telnetd; I meant the difference between > different server packages in these two categories. At least for ftp > servers, there are s

Re: hdis: was; ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, actually, apt-get install dhis didn't get me anything. Neither did a package search at www.debian.org; neither did a search of my /var/lib/dpkg/availble file. The website, however, does exist! -- Cheryl

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 19:37, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I am working on a computer for friends and want to be able to login to it > once they take it home so i can fix things at a distance if they have a > problem. I haven't found a howto that covers this, but if there is one > please steer me to it an

Re: A question about LCD flat panel displays

2002-02-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I'm contemplating purchasing an LCD flat panel disply for use on the new > Debain woody workstation I am building for my wife. ITYM TFT. > Having never used one of these before, and since they are failry expensive, > I thought I would ask some advice of

Re: postgres upgrade for dummies?

2002-02-17 Thread Andreas Goesele
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Switch back to the pg_hba.conf file you used with 6.5. 7.1 has a new > authentication method "peer" which 6.5 doesn't understand and which 7.1's > default configuration employs IIRC. This helped. Thanks. But now I have a new problem: The encodin

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Thanks for the info. Actually, I worded it poorly; of course i know the difference between ftpd and telnetd; I meant the difference between different server packages in these two categories. At least for ftp servers, there are several. I guess it's time to learn about communicating with ssh. --

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