Re: X not starting properly in woody

2002-03-04 Thread Oki DZ
Xucaen wrote: sits there. I am able to move the mouse pointer and I am able to switch between local terminals so I know the system didn't hang. I get no menus, no xterms, and worst of all: no error messages! Did you take a look at /var/log/XFree86* files? Has the startup script for X changed?

Re: New xawtv system wide config file lives where?

2002-03-04 Thread stan
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:36:17PM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:21:34PM -0500, stan wrote: > > Just did my daily update of my woody machine, and BOOM framebuffer TV > > quit working. > > > > I strongly suspect this is because I let the installer create the > > "new syst

Re: What shows what an uninstalled package does?

2002-03-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:38:48PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Incidentally, if you happen to use dselect (I use dselect with >> apt as a backend), looking through /var/lib/dpkg/available is quite >> informative (especially whe

Re: What shows what an uninstalled package does?

2002-03-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Harry" == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry> What does it mean to use dselect with apt as backend? dselect uses various methods to access lists of new and updated packages. apt serves wonderfully well as the method for dselect -- you get the recommends and suggests han

Re: Java SDK 1.4

2002-03-04 Thread Tom Cook
Oki DZ wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm currently downloading the SDK from Sun. Has anyone been successfully > running it? Was there any problem? > BTW, does the .deb already exist in Blackdown? I tried it out to see if it would not segfault so often, but found that there were binary format incompatibilit

Re: New xawtv system wide config file lives where?

2002-03-04 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:21:34PM -0500, stan wrote: > Just did my daily update of my woody machine, and BOOM framebuffer TV > quit working. > > I strongly suspect this is because I let the installer create the > "new systemwide xawtv file". Silly me, dpkg -L xawtv /. /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/xaw

Re: Netscape - no javascript, no import of certificates - please help!

2002-03-04 Thread Jeff
Andreas Goesele, 2002-Mar-05 04:00 +0100: > A small update to my problem: > > Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have asked about the first half off the problem already some time > > ago: Suddenly it was impossible to enable javascript in Netscape, even > > when I'm on a non-java

Re: Woody / kernel 2.4.17 compiled / sound i810_audio

2002-03-04 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Fran?ois Chenais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020305 15:12]: > in fact, it's the kernel 2.4.14 :-) > > i have install kernel-source an built the kernel with diff?rents > options ! Something strange ? > Sorry nothing strange. Just my little joke about the name of the testing distribution. Nick.

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Re: Woody / kernel 2.4.17 compiled / sound i810_audio

2002-03-04 Thread François
in fact, it's the kernel 2.4.14 :-) i have install kernel-source an built the kernel with différents options ! Something strange ? On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 14:35:23 +1100 Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Fran?ois Chenais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020305 14:14]: > > Hello, > > > > I

Re: apt always upgrade the package that I built :(

2002-03-04 Thread Ionut Georgescu
/etc/apt/preferences apt_preferences (5) - Preference control file for APT Ionut On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:32:05AM +0800, asho wrote: > hello > I have a problem of the apt-get upgrade. > > I built the zsnes of my own by dpkg-buildpackage. > I installed it by dpkg -i zsnes-xxx. > > Now I com

Re: apt always upgrade the package that I built :(

2002-03-04 Thread asho
Thomas J. Hamman wrote: >On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:59:05PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > >>On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:32:05AM +0800, asho wrote: >> >>>I built the zsnes of my own by dpkg-buildpackage. >>>I installed it by dpkg -i zsnes-xxx. >>> >>>Now I commanded the apt-get upgrade, apt showed th

Re: The quest for rodent power

2002-03-04 Thread Harry Putnam
"Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:03:14AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Running woody (testing) >> >> I've been ignoring this issue and working on other things but I really >> miss having my little rodent in text mode. >> >> Its a logitec 3 button ps2,

Re: Woody / kernel 2.4.17 compiled / sound i810_audio

2002-03-04 Thread Nick Hastings
* Fran?ois Chenais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020305 14:14]: > Hello, > > I have installed a kernel 2.4.17 by hand on my woody. Hand on your woody!? -- Debian 3.0 Linux onefish 2.4.18-lavienx #1 Tue Feb 26 17:37:42 EST 2002 i686 unknown

XMMS Effect Plugin Installation... (.deb specific)

2002-03-04 Thread Troy Telford
The problem is simple enough; one I've traditionally solved by compiling XMMS from source & then installing. But I want to find the reason why I can't solve it when I install XMMS from the Debian package(s). I have the QSound plugin for XMMS, named libiq_xmms.so. Normally, it's installed in

Re: apt always upgrade the package that I built :(

2002-03-04 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:59:05PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:32:05AM +0800, asho wrote: > > I built the zsnes of my own by dpkg-buildpackage. > > I installed it by dpkg -i zsnes-xxx. > > > > Now I commanded the apt-get upgrade, apt showed that > > it wanted to upgrade

X not starting properly in woody

2002-03-04 Thread Xucaen
Hi all, I was running a fully updated 2.2r3 system and I dist-upgraded to woody (testing) yesterday. I ran apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade and everything installed without a hitch except one: xdm didn't install and no longer runs when I boot and when I run X I get the grey backgro

Woody / kernel 2.4.17 compiled / sound i810_audio

2002-03-04 Thread François
Hello, I have installed a kernel 2.4.17 by hand on my woody. I have built it with sound module i810_audio but this driver is not full duplex. I know the alsa one is full duplex. Can I install alsa driver using apt-get install ? François

Re: Netscape - no javascript, no import of certificates - please help!

2002-03-04 Thread Andreas Goesele
A small update to my problem: Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have asked about the first half off the problem already some time > ago: Suddenly it was impossible to enable javascript in Netscape, even > when I'm on a non-javascript page. Trying to do it inevitably will > freeze Ne

Re: apt always upgrade the package that I built :(

2002-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:32:05AM +0800, asho wrote: > I built the zsnes of my own by dpkg-buildpackage. > I installed it by dpkg -i zsnes-xxx. > > Now I commanded the apt-get upgrade, apt showed that > it wanted to upgrade my zsnes package!! Edit debian/changelog in the source package and add a

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apt always upgrade the package that I built :(

2002-03-04 Thread asho
hello I have a problem of the apt-get upgrade. I built the zsnes of my own by dpkg-buildpackage. I installed it by dpkg -i zsnes-xxx. Now I commanded the apt-get upgrade, apt showed that it wanted to upgrade my zsnes package!! Why?? The versions of two package are the same. How can I do to stop

Java SDK 1.4

2002-03-04 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm currently downloading the SDK from Sun. Has anyone been successfully running it? Was there any problem? BTW, does the .deb already exist in Blackdown? TIA, Oki

Re: Email Clients

2002-03-04 Thread Rafael Sasaki
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:57:25PM -0500, Bannerman, Israel wrote: > To all: > Are there any linux email clients that will work with an Exchange system? > (supporting Mapi) > I read something about Insight but figured I would get a second opinion. > > Thanks alot, > -Israel > I was looking for a

Re: Everything about Sendmail is Slow

2002-03-04 Thread dman
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:52:56PM -0800, Dave Scott wrote: | Richard, thanks for the help :) | | Ok I did some more testing on it. ... | As far as the "sendmail -bt -d0.13" command. It comes up with a error | half way though that says: "WARNING: local host name (localhost) is not | qualified;

Re: Email Clients

2002-03-04 Thread dman
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:57:25PM -0500, Bannerman, Israel wrote: | To all: | Are there any linux email clients that will work with an Exchange system? | (supporting Mapi) | I read something about Insight but figured I would get a second opinion. I heard that some people, fed up with exchange's b

Re: Mozilla-mailnews 0.9.8-2

2002-03-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 07:24:36AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > >Note: I wasn't the original poster. I only posted that I too had > >problems with Mozilla mail-news (0.98-2). It has nothing to do with the > >horse power of my 'puter (Navigator runs fine). > > I see... > BTW, do

Re: debconf database

2002-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:12:33PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Where is the debconf database? Configurable, but it's in /var/cache/debconf by default. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are debian packages linked against the latest libraries?

2002-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:19:49PM -0800, Liav Asseraf wrote: > I'm not a debian user, but I have a question regarding > the 'testing' and 'unstable' branches. > Are the packages there dynamically linked against the > latest versions of other packages? They're dynamically linked against whatever t

Mozilla & background

2002-03-04 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Would it be possible to send Mozilla mail into the background? I mean, to run it as a server. Then when I need Navigator or Mail, I could just execute Mozilla one more time, but this one would connect to the already running one. This way, I could retrieve mail in the background including

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:10:43PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Chris Jenks wrote: > > > > I thought that the book said the book said that the ultimate question > > is, "what is 6 * 9?" > > That was 6 * 7 (!), No, it _is_ 6 * 9, extracted from arthur's head using scrabble letters. The full que

Re: Any good ftp front end

2002-03-04 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
gFTP is the best. Its interface is similar to WS-FTP or WX-FTP On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 14:17, R.Pac wrote: > > > Hi , > > > can someone give me any good ftp front end > based on gnome or kde library . > > Best Regards > R.Pac > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a s

Re: Kernel-source

2002-03-04 Thread Tim Dijkstra
Florian Struck wrote: > Hi i just saw that there is a kernel-image 2.4.18 available on the servers > but not the source package... > should i change my mirror? Or is that purpose? > Thanx > Florian > > > just download from www.kernel.org.

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-04 Thread Petro
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:08:54PM -0800, Angus D Madden wrote: > Karsten M. Self, Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:28:18AM -0800: > > > > For a fork, I'd suspect you're out of user processes, though checking > > other resource limits (generally memory and filehandles) is > adviseable. > > > > There are

Re: Mozilla-mailnews 0.9.8-2

2002-03-04 Thread Oki DZ
Eric G. Miller wrote: Note: I wasn't the original poster. I only posted that I too had problems with Mozilla mail-news (0.98-2). It has nothing to do with the horse power of my 'puter (Navigator runs fine). I see... BTW, do you have any problem with the mailer? Currently I cannot receive many

New xawtv system wide config file lives where?

2002-03-04 Thread stan
Just did my daily update of my woody machine, and BOOM framebuffer TV quit working. I strongly suspect this is because I let the installer create the "new systemwide xawtv file". Silly me, But I thought it would bin in some obvious place. like say /etc/xawtv. But I can't find it :-( Where is it

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
Richard Hector wrote: > > had to make up an answer, Oops - a question. But it's an answer to "what is the question?" :-) Richard -- I'm currently looking for work; see my Curriculum Vitae here: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~rhector/cv.html

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
Chris Jenks wrote: > > I thought that the book said the book said that the ultimate question > is, "what is 6 * 9?" That was 6 * 7 (!), was after the earth had been destroyed and the mice had to make up an answer, and was rejected as "too literal, too factual". The better solution (but still made

Re: More on RealPlayer and galeon

2002-03-04 Thread stan
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:55:48PM -0500, James D Strandboge wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 10:34, stan wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 09:35:31AM -0500, James D Strandboge wrote: > > > On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 22:18, stan wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:45:24PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:

OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Chris Jenks
At 03:42 PM 3/4/02, Gary Turner wrote: On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 11:22:23 +, Randy Orrison wrote: >On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:03:22AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >| On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:31:55 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >| >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >| >> If you can't get an answer th

Re: latest -ac kernel patch

2002-03-04 Thread Edmund Rochus
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 05:49:49PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 16:06, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 14:59:32 -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > > The point is I would like to apply the latest -ac patch and get it up and > > > running, but since 2.4.19 pre

Re: YaOOQ (Yet another Open Office Question)

2002-03-04 Thread Geoff D
--- John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > Try adding the sources.list line: > > > > deb http://people.debian.org/~nidd/debian/ > unstable/ > > > > and then apt-get install openoffice. That should > work, if you're > > running unstable anyway (and possibly woody, bu

Re: need help setting up SAMBA

2002-03-04 Thread Edmund Rochus
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:33:15PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:13:41PM -0500, Angus D Madden wrote: > > will trillich, Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:27:04PM -0600: > > > i've got SWAT installed in the hopes that it'll help me get > > > samba doing what i want it to do, witho

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-04 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:22:14PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Potkin) writes: > > > The man page for Midnight Commander claims that undeletion is possible > > only with an ext2 file system. Your suggestion to explore whether it > > would deal with ext3 is reasonable but

what is xconsole.real?

2002-03-04 Thread mdevin
I just upgraded to Woody from Potato and I have noticed that there is a symlink in /etc/alternatives which seems to point nowhere. dpkg seems to have created this link: root:~# ls -al /etc/alternatives/xconsole lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 28 Mar 2 23:35 /etc/alternatives/xconsole -> /

Re: cdrom music

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 04 March 2002 10:49 am, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I have come to the conclusion that the reason why I can't mount a > music cd is because the type entry in fstab is iso9660, which is not > the format for a music cd. But what is the correct typ

Re: latest -ac kernel patch

2002-03-04 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 16:06, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 14:59:32 -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > The point is I would like to apply the latest -ac patch and get it up and > > running, but since 2.4.19 pre 1 ac1 I have not been able to aplly the > > patch. > > Fetch the -ac

Re: WodPerfect Office 2000 on Debian

2002-03-04 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Phillip Deackes wrote: I have a copy of Corel's WP Office 2000 which I have never managed to get working on my Debian unstable box. Using some advice I found on the 'net I managed to at least eliminate the fontastic font server errors, but now when I enter 'wordperfect' it tells me it is 'Buildin

Re: Two X questions

2002-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
Kent West wrote: > > Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > 2) Is there a way to connect to a running X session. I can run remote X > > programs through ssh with no problem, but I'd like to have a way to > > actually VIEW a remote X session locally. (i.e. Be able to access my > > currently logged in view o

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-03-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Petro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:48:18PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >> You can keep right on with the `hard guy' routine, but I think its >> only fair to warn you that my whole body is a weapon. Hands >> registered on 3 continents. The last guy that called me a juve

Re: Are debian packages linked against the latest libraries?

2002-03-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:19:49PM -0800, Liav Asseraf wrote: > I'm not a debian user, but I have a question regarding > the 'testing' and 'unstable' branches. > Are the packages there dynamically linked against the > latest versions of other packages? Well, that depends... > For example if I ins

Re: Debian Java SDK

2002-03-04 Thread DvB
Innoxious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the site below one can find a series of '.deb' files related to java > SDK. I'd like to add that ftp site as one of sites in the 'sources.list' > file, but how do I do that? > > ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian/dists/potato/non-free/binary-i386? > de

Re: ALSA or XMMS problem?

2002-03-04 Thread Stefan Bellon
Sebastiaan wrote: > On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Stefan Bellon wrote: > > But I don't get a system beep anymore. Do I have to configure ALSA > > in some way that it generates system beeps as well? In XMMS it > > works fine, but e.g. when pressing Tab in an xterm I used to hear a > > beep when the completio

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-03-04 Thread Petro
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:48:18PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > You can keep right on with the `hard guy' routine, but I think its > only fair to warn you that my whole body is a weapon. Hands > registered on 3 continents. The last guy that called me a juvenile > banterer is pushing up daisies on

Are debian packages linked against the latest libraries?

2002-03-04 Thread Liav Asseraf
Hello, I'm not a debian user, but I have a question regarding the 'testing' and 'unstable' branches. Are the packages there dynamically linked against the latest versions of other packages? For example if I install today the current snapshot of the 'testing' branch. Then for 2 months I don't updat

Debian Java SDK

2002-03-04 Thread Innoxious
In the site below one can find a series of '.deb' files related to java SDK. I'd like to add that ftp site as one of sites in the 'sources.list' file, but how do I do that? ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian/dists/potato/non-free/binary-i386? Thanks in advance -- My Computer's Opinion ~~~

Re: Any good ftp front end

2002-03-04 Thread Bob Underwood
On Monday 04 March 2002 14:33, Bastiaan Naber wrote: > Try deadftp, although it is gnome I find it the > most usefull ftpclient I have found. > > Cheers, > Bastiaan > > On Monday 04 March 2002 20:17, R.Pac wrote: > > Hi , > > > > > > can someone give me any good ftp front end > > based on gnome or

RE: Everything about Sendmail is Slow

2002-03-04 Thread Dave Scott
Richard, thanks for the help :) Ok I did some more testing on it. As far as Ident timing out, I am not sure, but I can assure you no one (unless hacked) has fiddled with our firewall. If I do nslookups on the names of addresses having trouble in the Q, most resolve immedatly but some don't and I

Re: Is the network setup incorrect?

2002-03-04 Thread Ayman Haidar
Once upon a time LPH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > Please pardon my ignorance, I've only been using Libranet 2.0 for only a few weeks ... and just starting to feel comfortable with my ignorance :-) > > I set up the box so that it has an IP address (192.168.x.x) and subn

Re: qmail and single box.

2002-03-04 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 04 2002, Eamon Roque wrote: > Any hints? RTFMs welcome, but which one?! You have to enable (selective) relaying from localhost. See /var/qmail/doc/FAQ, question 5.4. Hope this helps, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Apache on Debian - high loads?

2002-03-04 Thread Petro
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:49:36AM +0200, George Karaolides wrote: > Hi all, > Does anyone have experience of running Apache on Debian successfully with > high loads? Define "High". > I've been asked about the possibility of running a webserver with up to > five thousand concurrent users. I

Re: need help setting up SAMBA

2002-03-04 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:13:41PM -0500, Angus D Madden wrote: > will trillich, Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:27:04PM -0600: > > i've got SWAT installed in the hopes that it'll help me get > > samba doing what i want it to do, without drowing in the dark > > swamp of samba documentation and configurati

Re: Any good ftp front end

2002-03-04 Thread DvB
> On Monday 04 March 2002 20:17, R.Pac wrote: > > Hi , > > > > > > can someone give me any good ftp front end > > based on gnome or kde library . > > apt-get install gftp

debconf database

2002-03-04 Thread Paul Scott
Where is the debconf database? TIA, Paul Scott

Re: latest -ac kernel patch

2002-03-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 14:59:32 -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > The point is I would like to apply the latest -ac patch and get it up and > running, but since 2.4.19 pre 1 ac1 I have not been able to aplly the > patch. Fetch the -ac2 one. Quoting http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-03-02

Re: Powered by Debian logo request

2002-03-04 Thread Craig Dickson
begin sam quotation: > i am currently using Debian, how do i get that offical Powered By > Debian logo to put in my web? You mean, where can you get the .png file with the logo? Find a web site that has one and download a copy. I got mine from: http://people.debian.org/~kitame/ Craig pg

Re: Powered by Debian logo request

2002-03-04 Thread nate
> i am currently using Debian, how do i get that offical Powered By > Debian logo to put in my web? http://www.debian.org/banners/ http://www.debian.org/logos/ nate

Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 11:22:23 +, Randy Orrison wrote: >On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:03:22AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >| On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:31:55 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >| >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >| >> If you can't get an answer there, then the >| >> only answer is "42" >

Re: how to stop kde automatic starting gmc

2002-03-04 Thread Hans Steinraht
well, its very strange. It's like you understand, we start the computer, the kdm login window appears. Next we login, kde is starting and also gmc. I thought it could have to do something with kde's session so we made an .session file trying to overide this, but no result. We like to put gmc on

Re: UID, but no username

2002-03-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hans Gubitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There are no longer usernames on a single machine, but the UID's are ok. >NIS ist still living. I can telnet to a third machine on our net where >everything is fine. >Which services is responsible for showing usernames? If yo

Re: ALSA or XMMS problem?

2002-03-04 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Stefan Bellon wrote: > But I don't get a system beep anymore. Do I have to configure ALSA in > some way that it generates system beeps as well? In XMMS it works fine, > but e.g. when pressing Tab in an xterm I used to hear a beep when the > completion is not unique. > Us

Re: Powered by Debian logo request

2002-03-04 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:05:10PM -0500, sam wrote: > i am currently using Debian, how do i get that offical Powered By Debian logo > to put in my web? http://www.debian.org/logos/

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-04 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Pete" == Pete Harlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pete> Does anyone know how to increase the number of allowed Pete> processes? if you are running a 2.2 series kernel, you have to recompile the kernel after tweaking a header file. it's been a while, but I think you only have to change on

Re: need help setting up SAMBA

2002-03-04 Thread Angus D Madden
will trillich, Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:27:04PM -0600: > i've got SWAT installed in the hopes that it'll help me get > samba doing what i want it to do, without drowing in the dark > swamp of samba documentation and configuration syntax rules. > with zero luck. grab the clue stick, i need it real b

Re: Any good ftp front end

2002-03-04 Thread R . Pac
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 20:33:17 +0100 Bastiaan Naber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try deadftp, although it is gnome I find it the > most usefull ftpclient I have found. > in which package will I find it ? R.Pac

Re: need help setting up SAMBA

2002-03-04 Thread nate
> i've got SWAT installed in the hopes that it'll help me get > samba doing what i want it to do, without drowing in the dark > swamp of samba documentation and configuration syntax rules. > with zero luck. grab the clue stick, i need it real bad! :( > > /etc/xinetd contains: > service swat

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-04 Thread Angus D Madden
Karsten M. Self, Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:28:18AM -0800: > > For a fork, I'd suspect you're out of user processes, though checking > other resource limits (generally memory and filehandles) is adviseable. > > There are hard-compiled limits of 256 user, and 512 system, processes, > in the 2.2.x ke

Powered by Debian logo request

2002-03-04 Thread sam
i am currently using Debian, how do i get that offical Powered By Debian logo to put in my web?

latest -ac kernel patch

2002-03-04 Thread Scott Henson
I know this isnt debian specific or anything, and I was trying to get on the kernel mailing list, but I couldnt figure out how to. That is beside the point though. The point is I would like to apply the latest -ac patch and get it up and running, but since 2.4.19 pre 1 ac1 I have not been able t

Re: suggestion

2002-03-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:53:09PM -0500, Angus D Madden wrote: > ok, how about this: > > #!/bin/bash > echo "I am using the following:" > dpkg -l Yeah, that would work. I'd hate to see what happens if anyone from alt.fan.warlord runs across it, though... -- When we reduce our own liberties to

Re: cdrom music

2002-03-04 Thread David Z Maze
Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have come to the conclusion that the reason why I can't mount a > music cd is because the type entry in fstab is iso9660, which is not > the format for a music cd. No, you just can't mount an audio CD (there's no filesystem on it at all, in the tradit

Re: suggestion

2002-03-04 Thread Angus D Madden
Dave Sherohman, Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:15:41PM -0600: > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:52:31AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > then you can do whatever you think is pertinent in in your > > ~/.signature-debian script. for example: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > echo -n "Note that I use Debian versi

Kernel-source

2002-03-04 Thread Florian Struck
Hi i just saw that there is a kernel-image 2.4.18 available on the servers but not the source package... should i change my mirror? Or is that purpose? Thanx Florian

Re: cdrom music

2002-03-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 04-Mar-2002 Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I have come to the conclusion that the reason why I can't mount a music cd is > because the type entry in fstab is iso9660, which is not the format for a > music cd. But what is the correct type? > > Also, can I have 2 entries for /cdrom? > 1) When you

qmail and single box.

2002-03-04 Thread Eamon Roque
Hi! I'm trying to configure qmail to work with my box at work. It handles local delivery without problems, but, when I fetch mail from my providers, it won't deliver, saying, among other things, that the host that sent the mail is not in it's control/locals file. Any hints? RTFMs welcome, but whi

cdrom music

2002-03-04 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I have come to the conclusion that the reason why I can't mount a music cd is because the type entry in fstab is iso9660, which is not the format for a music cd. But what is the correct type? Also, can I have 2 entries for /cdrom? Thanks

Re: Any good ftp front end

2002-03-04 Thread Bastiaan Naber
Try deadftp, although it is gnome I find it the most usefull ftpclient I have found. Cheers, Bastiaan On Monday 04 March 2002 20:17, R.Pac wrote: > Hi , > > > can someone give me any good ftp front end > based on gnome or kde library . > > Best Regards > R.Pac

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Mar 03, 2002, Balazs Javor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > When I try to ssh from one of my Woody boxes into the other > (using OpenSSH) I am able to connect but I get the following message: > > bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > > The same message then appears each time

need help setting up SAMBA

2002-03-04 Thread will trillich
i've got SWAT installed in the hopes that it'll help me get samba doing what i want it to do, without drowing in the dark swamp of samba documentation and configuration syntax rules. with zero luck. grab the clue stick, i need it real bad! :( /etc/xinetd contains: service swat {

Any good ftp front end

2002-03-04 Thread R . Pac
Hi , can someone give me any good ftp front end based on gnome or kde library . Best Regards R.Pac

Re: suggestion

2002-03-04 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:59:42PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Saturday 02 March 2002 14:52, will trillich wrote: > > short version: > > why not have your .signature reflect which debian you're using? > > I do agree also, BTW how can I display some sort of "Woody/testing" > besides "versio

Re: suggestion

2002-03-04 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 08:11:10PM -0600, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:52:31AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > short version: > > why not have your .signature reflect which debian you're using? > > 1) You simply won't get enough people to change their .sigs to make > this

Re: can't unmout cleanly because of nss-ldap

2002-03-04 Thread Tim Dijkstra
nate wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >> >>All works fine, but if I want to unmount /usr (something that >>happens at reboot or halt) that fails because the device is 'busy'. >>I suspect this has something to do with ldap related libraries that >>are still in memory and live in /usr/lib. Now the question is:

Re: UID, but no username

2002-03-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 04:48:05PM +0100, Hans Gubitz wrote: > > There are no longer usernames on a single machine, but the UID's are ok. > NIS ist still living. I can telnet to a third machine on our net where > everything is fine. > > Which services is responsible for showing usernames? It's l

Re: date user logged in?

2002-03-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 08:17:58PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > Currently, a last on my firewall box shows the "date" user logged in from > yesterday at 06:28. Now, since that's when my crons run, I suspect this box > has not been cracked, but can someone confirm this for me? I don't

Re: SoundBlaster Live!, /dev/audio, and bad sound quality

2002-03-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 01:22:38PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > In general, everything works fine, except that sending .au files to > /dev/audio has really lousy sound quality. You can hear the sound, but > there's a loud hissing or static sound on top of it. I'd guess it's either that the .au i

Re: The quest for rodent power

2002-03-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:03:14AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running woody (testing) > > I've been ignoring this issue and working on other things but I really > miss having my little rodent in text mode. > > Its a logitec 3 button ps2, critter that works in X just fine. > > I can't remember

Re: What shows what an uninstalled package does?

2002-03-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:38:48PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Incidentally, if you happen to use dselect (I use dselect with > apt as a backend), looking through /var/lib/dpkg/available is quite > informative (especially when I am unsure of what I am looking for and > just use the re

Re: can't unmout cleanly because of nss-ldap

2002-03-04 Thread nate
> Hi, > > > All works fine, but if I want to unmount /usr (something that > happens at reboot or halt) that fails because the device is 'busy'. > I suspect this has something to do with ldap related libraries that > are still in memory and live in /usr/lib. Now the question is: How > do I fix this

Re: Installing with a non-standard kernel

2002-03-04 Thread Marco Antonio Vieira Assad
> Hi, > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:35:58PM -0300, Marco > Antonio Vieira Assad wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm not sure if this is the right list for > this > > question, but here it goes: > > > > I'm trying to install debian 2.2r5 in an "Acer > Altos > > 600" server, but I run into a problem.

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