Info about MPICH

2002-03-19 Thread Kapil Khosla
Hi, I have installed the MPICH libraries which allow us to run MPI programs on multiple nodes. I currently run my MPI programs on only one node as I am not on the network Every time i run my program to simulate more than one node, I have to enter my password.eg mpirun -np 32 a.out means that

Re: nanlei.com

2002-03-19 Thread timothy bauscher
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Need some sound advice - SB Live!

2002-03-19 Thread Bill Moseley
Argh! - HOWTO overload. I've got a Sound Blaster Live Value. I'm running Debian Testing. I've build my own kernel 2.4.17 from kernel-source package. I did build the emu10k1 module. I ran modconf and selected emu10k1. emu10k1 loads fine without errors. I can cp some .wav files to /dev/audi

Re: PDF

2002-03-19 Thread John Griffiths
At 06:36 PM 3/19/02 -0800, Jeff wrote: >curtis, 2002-Mar-19 14:43 -0800: >> What is the best tool for editing and creating pdf files? > I think you guys are going about this the hard way. PDF is a display format, not a layout format. to make pdfs just print your layout fomat to postscript an

Re: PDF

2002-03-19 Thread ktb
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:43:56PM -0800, curtis wrote: > What is the best tool for editing and creating pdf files? > Here is a quick online prog - http://www.ps2pdf.com/convert/convert.htm Maybe not exactly what your looking for but... kent -- To know the truth is to distort the Universe.

Re: spammers are killing me

2002-03-19 Thread Bruce Burhans
- Original Message - From: "martin f krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian users" Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 5:34 PM Subject: spammers are killing me it's either too late in the night or here's something going on. IP=3D195.226.187.154, postfix 1.1.3-1 on debian woody, port 25, mailh

/etc/passwd lookalike for nntpcache

2002-03-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
I'm looking for a utility that will edit an AUTHINFO database so I can create a user file for nntpcache here. -- Baloo

RE: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Panuganty, Ramesh wrote: > Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the > root password but I can login using other users logins. Is there > anything I can do to regain the ability to login as root other than > rebuilding the server.Thanks for the help

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Karsten Heymann wrote: > - use no window manager > - start galeon in fullscreen mode from .xinitrc or .xsession > - map away the F11-Key with xmodmap > - maybe disable C-A-F[1-12] > - maybe disable C-A-Backspace > - disable most mime stuff to prevent the start of externa

Re: Network Card error

2002-03-19 Thread Crispin Wellington
No answers to your problems specifically, just some general advice. Try not to compile your ethernet drivers into the kernel statically. It causes headaches when you want to change an ethernet device or fiddle with debug parameters. Compile a whole bunch of useful ones as modules. Then you can load

Re: Network Card error

2002-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 18:56, Alan Poulton wrote: > Hi list > > I'm really new here, so if I left some information out that would help > you help me, please don't hesitate to ask me for the extra info, and > possibly how to obtain it. This is sort of a two part problem. If the > first part has no

Re: backing up /etc

2002-03-19 Thread Jeff
Shri Shrikumar, 2002-Mar-19 23:26 -: > Hi All, > > > Simple question - is there a way to backup merely the files in /etc that > have been modified. > > Only a dozen or so config files have been modified and it seems a bit of > a waste to backup around 5Mb of config files when the ones that h

Re: uw-imap to courier-imap

2002-03-19 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I just did this very thing on one of my boxes. If you check out some of the exim FAQ's, it has exact examples of how to change to maildir format. http://www.exim.org/FAQ.html If you can't find any answers here, let me know and I can help you through it... At 08:03 PM 3/19/2002, you wrote:

Cups question

2002-03-19 Thread Tib
I tried printing using the smbprint script and it kindof worked. Kindof meaning that it started a print job on my windows2k box and apparently fed it no data, so the printer warmed up and processed an empty job. Anyways, I'm looking into cups but I'm not sure which package to get for how I'm se

Re: PDF

2002-03-19 Thread Jeff
curtis, 2002-Mar-19 14:43 -0800: > What is the best tool for editing and creating pdf files? I've been wondering how to do this myself for awhile, but haven't had the "need" yet to really investigate. So, I haven't done this before. However, a quick look around found these: In Debian Woody:

Re: OT: Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 17:24, Tom Cook wrote: > "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > > > On 19/03/02 Casper Labuschagne did speaketh: > > > > > May I point at the Linux community (for the greater part at least) is > > > racist, bigotted and prejudiced per se. To illustrate my point observe > > > the

Installing Debian

2002-03-19 Thread John Lynch
Hello everyone I just read the Debian installation manual. And most of it went over my head. I have never used a Linux OS before, and I don't know THAT much about computers, however I am learning. That's the reason i want Debian so I can learn even more, well that and it's free and never crash

Re: Help with compiling X 4.2.0

2002-03-19 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 06:20, Matt Jones wrote: > I am trying to compile X so that I can use my Geforce2 video card. > I am running debian 2.2r2 and did a clean install yesterday. > I put the source code on the drive and began compiling. The make World > worked fine, but when I did make Install I r

Re: backing up /etc

2002-03-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya assuming oyu have a different disk mounted as /mnt/backup ( never backup important data to the same hard disk ) # # backup of last 7 days # # adjust days to when the last time you did your manual backups # days=7 ymd=(date +20%y.%m.%d) # mount /dev/hd /mnt/backup find /etc -m

Re: Help with compiling X 4.2.0

2002-03-19 Thread Bill Triplett
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 17:20, Matt Jones wrote: > I am trying to compile X so that I can use my Geforce2 video card. > I am running debian 2.2r2 and did a clean install yesterday. > I put the source code on the drive and began compiling. The make World > worked fine, but when I did make Install I r

Mailing list

2002-03-19 Thread Jennifer Stuart
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RE: Lynx no longer access debian.org

2002-03-19 Thread Wren, Christopher
Hi I thought I would check it our as I am in the uk.. lynx www.debian.org worked fine for me. You might want to try nslookup or dig and see that it is pointing to the same ip. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nslookup www.debian.org Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 Name:www.debian.org Addre

spammers are killing me

2002-03-19 Thread martin f krafft
it's either too late in the night or here's something going on. IP=3D195.226.187.154, postfix 1.1.3-1 on debian woody, port 25, mailhost for 27 domains, otherwise closed relay. now i find this in the logs: postfix/smtpd[6023]: connect from host074125.arnet.net.ar [200.45.74.125] postfix/smtpd[602

Re: Unresolved Symbols in .../binfmt_aout.o

2002-03-19 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 05:17:43PM -0500, Michael Marziani wrote: > Brand new 2.2r5 install. I get this error several times on bootup, and > if I do a depmod -e, I get: > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.19/fs/binfmt_aout.o > depmod: do_truncate Ignore it. I doubt you

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Gustavo Noronha Silva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:33:10 -0600 > Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > Why do you want to advocate running a beta OS on production systems? > > You want your sysadmin to hate you? > what beta OS did he mention? I'll repeat

Re: Trident display card

2002-03-19 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > A friend has a display card identified by lspci as: > > 00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems TGUI 9660/968x/968x > (rev d3) > > I tried the xfree4 "trident" driver, but it didn't display quite right. > (The display was ... um,

wmsetbg and display

2002-03-19 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am trying to run wmsetbg from a console while X is running but I keep getting "could not open display errors". wmsetbg -display localhost:0.0 -e image.gif -w 2 wmsetbg -display localhost:0 -e image.gif -w 2 What am I doing wrong? Lance -- Lance Hoffmey

Re: Help with compiling X 4.2.0

2002-03-19 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 23:20, Matt Jones wrote: > gunzip.c:9: zlib.h: No such file or directory apt-get install zlib1g-dev signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

galeon (Version: 1.2.0-0.1 from unstable) crashes on startup

2002-03-19 Thread Jorge Santos
As the subject states, with the following message: IDN support disabled escape UTF-8 enabled ** ERROR **: Couldn't create the factory! aborting... zsh: 20701 abort (core dumped) galeon Any ideas? Regards, Jorge Santos

uw-imap to courier-imap

2002-03-19 Thread Rikard Florin
Hello, I whish to move from uw-imap to courier-imap, i've read about it's better performance using maildirs etc and it all sounds good. although, i'm a bit unsure about the amounts of work involved in converting... I read in a previous thread regarding changing Exim to Sendmail that Debian was cl

Network Card error

2002-03-19 Thread Alan Poulton
Hi list I'm really new here, so if I left some information out that would help you help me, please don't hesitate to ask me for the extra info, and possibly how to obtain it. This is sort of a two part problem. If the first part has no solution, then I need help with the second part. I'm trying

Re: confused re:server error

2002-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:50:00PM +, john gennard wrote: > On 16th March I posted a request for help on the subject of 'server > error'. I have received no reply (or copy of my email this is > unusual in my experience on this list. Of course I have no right to > expect to be helped, but I d

tomcat

2002-03-19 Thread Marcelo da Silva Leal
Hello, I was reading documentation about tomcat, and one worker (tomcat instance) for application... but i´m confusing. I need to make some scripts, and one of them, is for to add one more context (application). The question is: I don´t know what files should i edit! mod_jk.conf, worker.propertie

Re: changed network config

2002-03-19 Thread Yang Shouxun
Panuganty, Ramesh wrote: > What files did you change? > > /etc/network/interfaces or > /etc/pcmcia/network.opts > > Also look at your /etc/modules Thanks very much to Ramesh, Troy and others responding. I changed /etc/netowrk/interfaces but /etc/pcmcia/network.opts still has the old informatio

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread Brett Parker
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:35:53PM +0100, Karsten Heymann wrote: > Hi, > > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a > little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes > spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example: > > #!/bin/b

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Pete Harlan
You can launch your startup app from /etc/inittab. I used to work for a company that installed kiosks, and this is how we did it. We ran our own app, not a browser, and our X needs were very minimal. No window manager, no windows except our one, no keyboard, no mouse (touchscreen only), etc. Ju

Re: Problems installing gnucash

2002-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 03:20:36PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:23:52AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:50:49AM -0500, stan wrote: > > > dpkg: error processing > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/guile1.3_1%3a1.3.4-2_i386.deb (--unpack): > > > trying to overw

Re: changed network config

2002-03-19 Thread Jeff
Yang Shouxun, 2002-Mar-19 13:48 +0800: > Dear Debian Users, > > I'm using Debian GNU/Linux unstable. Recently I move to a new place and > the ethernet configuration changed as a result. I manually edited all > the files. > > It works fine except that each time when pcmcia service starts, the IP

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread Angus D Madden
Karsten Heymann, Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:35:53PM +0100: > Hi, > > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a > little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes > spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example: > > #!/bin/bash > A=

backing up /etc

2002-03-19 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi All, Simple question - is there a way to backup merely the files in /etc that have been modified. Only a dozen or so config files have been modified and it seems a bit of a waste to backup around 5Mb of config files when the ones that have been modified could easily fit on a floppy along with

Re: OT: Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-19 Thread Tom Cook
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > On 19/03/02 Casper Labuschagne did speaketh: > > > May I point at the Linux community (for the greater part at least) is > > racist, bigotted and prejudiced per se. To illustrate my point observe the > > reaction of extreme disgust and prejudice eminating from the

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:22:02 -0600 ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:41:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > > kiosk style setu

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:35:53 +0100 Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a > little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes > spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example:

RE: checkpoint 4.1 on debian

2002-03-19 Thread Ronneil Camara
Yup, next time guys, I will make it friendlier -> -Original Message- -> From: martin f krafft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 10:26 AM -> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org -> Subject: Re: checkpoint 4.1 on debian -> -> -> also sprach Ronneil Camara <[EMAIL PROTE

Performing new sets on HDs ... 'hdparm'

2002-03-19 Thread HostMaster of NullZone
Hi there, i think its a trivial question for your all but im a bit new at Linux. How can i know if i can set better parametres with 'hdparm' utility on my ide drivers? How can i know if one of my mainboards support it? I know it support UDMA33 (just a PII 400). and .. at least ..., may a

Re: Problems installing gnucash

2002-03-19 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:23:52AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:50:49AM -0500, stan wrote: > > I tried to add gnucash this morning to my woody (with a few unstable bits) > > machine. But I ran inot this: > > > > Unpacking guile1.3 (from .../guile1.3_1%3a1.3.4-2_i386.deb)

Me too --Re: X doesn't redisplay on return from console

2002-03-19 Thread Derek Loree
Hi all, I just got my Gforce2 going (Tux Racer is awesome!), and I have the same problem. If I switch consoles (ctrl-alt-f[1-6]), then switch back to X (ctrl-alt-f7) the display, keyboard and mouse stop responding (never displaying the X console). I can ssh into the machine, kill -9 XFree86 and

PDF

2002-03-19 Thread curtis
What is the best tool for editing and creating pdf files?

Unresolved Symbols in .../binfmt_aout.o

2002-03-19 Thread Michael Marziani
Brand new 2.2r5 install. I get this error several times on bootup, and if I do a depmod -e, I get: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.19/fs/binfmt_aout.o depmod: do_truncate I have no idea what this error means, or what it will end up affecting. The only additional module

Help with compiling X 4.2.0

2002-03-19 Thread Matt Jones
I am trying to compile X so that I can use my Geforce2 video card. I am running debian 2.2r2 and did a clean install yesterday. I put the source code on the drive and began compiling. The make World worked fine, but when I did make Install I recieved the following errors... "... rm -f gunzip.o

FW: power off again sorry i missed the previous one

2002-03-19 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
I have kept my experiences here: http://panuganty.tripod.com/debiantips/boot.htm | -Original Message- | From: faisal gillani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:03 PM | To: list debaun | Subject: power off again sorry i missed the previous one | | | Well guys

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread David Z Maze
Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing > a little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that > includes spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example: > > #!/bin/bash > A="Hello" > B="

FW: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
Won't a simple 'chroot' in the default shell of the user put all other applications inaccessible? I guess you can trim off the menu functions and start panel functions in most of the WMs? -Ramesh | -Original Message- | From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Tuesday, March 19,

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Karsten Heymann wrote: > Hi, > > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a > little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes > spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example: > > #!/bin/bash > A="Hello" > B=

Re: menu

2002-03-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:07:34 -0600 ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:39:18AM +, Marcelo Leal wrote: > > Has anyone a menu script done??? I need do some scripts, and i will have > > to do a nice interface... i thought if somebody have a default one... > > with colors a

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:33:10 -0600 Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Michael Marziani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > I recently started with a new company and they are using lots of Linux > > systems, mostly RedHat and SuSE. We are in the middle of upgrading a > > bunch of the

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 20:35:53 +0100, Karsten Heymann wrote: > A="Hello" > B="Karsten" > C=$A $B > someprog --greeting $C Variable expansion happens first: someprog --greeting Hello Karsten then tokenising, so someprog get three arguments: 1. --greeting 2. Hello

Re: docs material

2002-03-19 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:52:53PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for some readable documentation about > ethernet frame. I've looked at google, but there > is too much of links, and as I'm beginner ... cant choose Must be something wrong with your googling technique..

Re: Problems installing gnucash

2002-03-19 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:23:52AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:50:49AM -0500, stan wrote: > > I tried to add gnucash this morning to my woody (with a few unstable bits) > > machine. But I ran inot this: > > > > Unpacking guile1.3 (from .../guile1.3_1%3a1.3.4-2_i386.deb)

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread ktb
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:35:53PM +0100, Karsten Heymann wrote: > Hi, > > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a > little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes > spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example: > > #!/bin/b

Re: xawtv and fullscreen

2002-03-19 Thread Alan James
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 05:07:01PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > If I'm right, Modelines are not necessary any more with XF86-4.1 . That's right, X now has a set of vesa display modes built in, so you dont need to set up common modes. >So, how can I get this (from the man page): > > Modeline

RE:bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread Andrew Agno
Karsten Heymann writes: > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a > little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes > spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example: > > #!/bin/bash > A="Hello" > B="Karsten" > C=$A $B

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread Craig Dickson
This should work, though I have not actually tried it: #!/bin/bash A="Hello" B="Karsten" C="$A $B" someprog --greeting "$C" pgpiX8Z2JqpWm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:41:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the > bottom with the "

Re: power off again sorry i missed the previous one

2002-03-19 Thread Frank Hart
* faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well guys soory i missed the previous post about how > to power off your system with the halt command using > lilo.conf .. can you repeate it please .. > i tried man lilo.conf but couldent find anything append="apm=on" in your lilo.conf. Try searching

Re: power off again sorry i missed the previous one

2002-03-19 Thread John Harrison
--- faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well guys soory i missed the previous post about how > to power off your system with the halt command using > lilo.conf .. can you repeate it please .. > i tried man lilo.conf but couldent find anything I hope this is what you need: http://www.deb

Verify bounce-debian-user-digest=steidler=mchsi.com@lists.debian.org for tony@lockergnome.com

2002-03-19 Thread Tony Steidler-Dennison
Thanks for the note, Your email has been received, though it hasn't yet been delivered. In order for your email to be delivered, you'll need to reply to this message. This strict filtering protocol arose as the result of a recent exponential increase in junk email in my inbox. Your reply to thi

Re: configuring ext3

2002-03-19 Thread Walter Tautz
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root18968 Mar 10 16:28 /sbin/fsck > -rwxr-xr-x2 root root 100120 Mar 10 16:28 /sbin/fsck.ext2 > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 100120 Mar 10 16:28 /sbin/fsck.ext3 > -rwxr-xr-x1 root r

Re: power off again sorry i missed the previous one

2002-03-19 Thread timothy bauscher
> Well guys soory i missed the previous post about how > to power off your system with the halt command using > lilo.conf .. can you repeate it please .. > i tried man lilo.conf but couldent find anything > > thanks > Faisal As root, edit /etc/lilo.conf and add this to the (probably commented ou

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Kent West wrote: > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the > bottom with the "Start" menu, so it's

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 19, 2002, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. > ICEWM has that menu at the bottom with the

Re: power off again sorry i missed the previous one

2002-03-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 19, 2002, faisal gillani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well guys soory i missed the previous post about how > to power off your system with the halt command using > lilo.conf .. can you repeate it please .. > i tried man lilo.conf but couldent find anything List archives are at http://

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Mar-2002 Kent West wrote: > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the > bottom with the "Start" menu, so it's unsui

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kent> Any suggestions? sawfish. it's small, doesn't have a "start menu" type thing, and I think will place windows for you. it does pop up a menu when a certain key is pressed ("mouse-2"??) on the root window, which could allow for the laun

docs material

2002-03-19 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Hi all, I'm looking for some readable documentation about ethernet frame. I've looked at google, but there is too much of links, and as I'm beginner ... cant choose I need it to my work to school. We have to catch some packets using tcpdump -w file.dat and analyze this file. I have to choose s

confused re:server error

2002-03-19 Thread john gennard
On 16th March I posted a request for help on the subject of 'server error'. I have received no reply (or copy of my email this is unusual in my experience on this list. Of course I have no right to expect to be helped, but I do not recollect an occasion when I have not been. I decided to make

bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi, I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example: #!/bin/bash A="Hello" B="Karsten" C=$A $B someprog --greeting $C Whatever I do now, -

RE: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-19 Thread Michael Marziani
1) Debian is about as far from being a Beta OS as you can get. 2) I am one of 2 sysadmins. I need to convince my boss and co-worker that Debian is the best option. -Mike -Original Message- From: Dimitri Maziuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 10:33 AM To: debian-

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread ktb
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:41:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the > bottom with the "

Re: REMOVE ME FROM ALL MAIL LISTS

2002-03-19 Thread Siward de Groot
Hello, John, John Lord wrote: > Same, done that, recieved Confirmation mail, and replied as above, > result the same. > > > Should neither of these work for you, then please send a detailed > > report of > > exactly what you did that didnt work. > > Right. > I have tried subbing via the web s

Abiword hangs. Have somebody else experienced this?

2002-03-19 Thread Preben Randhol
The abiword hangs after I press space and the aspell spellchecker is invoked. However this only happens on my laptop. On my dekstop it works. They have the same debian Testing with some unstable package installed. There are a bugreports about this in the bug system, but I'm wondering if anybody mi

xawtv and fullscreen

2002-03-19 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list A friend has boorowed me his Hauppauge TV-Card, so I installed xawtv, got everything working, only one thing is not perfect: The man page for xawtvrc(5) shows an example for a modeline to put in the /etc/X11/XF86Config. If I'm right, Modelines are not necessary any more with XF86-4.1 .

Re: Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-19 Thread csj
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:26:15AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > What about creating movies, doing MPEG-2 compression and burning DVD > that will work on "normal" (non-computer) players. > > I understand that this is still an "art". Some standalone DVD players can play VCDs, which can be prod

RE: USB Mouse potato

2002-03-19 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
Check for your mouse' compatibility with the USB in 2.2 kernel. If yes, configure the XF86Config file with Protocol as "IMPS/2". Don't give the protocol as "USB", as documented in some places. -Ramesh -Original Message- From: Matthew Linden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March

RE: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-19 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
-Original Message- From: Kevin Strong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:37 PM To: Debian User (E-mail) Subject: Cannot login using root password Folks, I have a problem. I cannot login to my debian system using the root password but I can login using other users l

power off again sorry i missed the previous one

2002-03-19 Thread faisal gillani
Well guys soory i missed the previous post about how to power off your system with the halt command using lilo.conf .. can you repeate it please .. i tried man lilo.conf but couldent find anything thanks Faisal __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports -

Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Kent West
Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the bottom with the "Start" menu, so it's unsuitable. I tried twm, but I have to manual

Re: Linux on Palm m125

2002-03-19 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:15:53PM +0100, Fran?ois Chenais wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is somebody has installed linux instead of palm OS on > > a palm m125 ? > Not very usefull - a Plam has not the Hardware to run Linux. > The

Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:16:28AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >Your debconf database is broken in some exciting way. Backing up and > >moving aside /var/cache/debconf/config.dat and > >/var/cache/debconf/templates.dat may help, although Joey may have some > >more cunning soluti

Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-19 Thread Kent West
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:31:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote: My problem is that once when trying to uinstall gdm the process was halted mid-stream. Ever since then, several packages refuse to install or uninstall, such as: Setting up man-db (2.3.20-13) ... dpkg: error proce

Re: checkpoint 4.1 on debian

2002-03-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ronneil Camara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.19.1611 +0100]: > has anyone installed checkpoint on debian? procedures please. convert the rpm with alien and install. checkpoint only supports 2.2.14 kernels, so have fun running an insecure kernel. nevertheless: i've had success with 2.2.2

Re: Need dpkg expert

2002-03-19 Thread Kent West
Rogério Brito wrote: On Mar 18 2002, Kent West wrote: This did allow me to purge the offending packages. However, it has not solved the problem. (...) The problem seems to be with the packaging infra-structure. Can you reinstall dpkg, apt, debconf, apt-utils etc? This

Re: temporary ethernet card

2002-03-19 Thread timothy bauscher
> A coworker has offered to loan me two network cards to > copy > the data, which sounds *real cool*. Here're my questions: > > (1) What's involved in adding the network cards to the machines (old > one > runs Potato, new will have Woody) I think you can just run modconf. Make sure you find out

New kernel

2002-03-19 Thread Michael Montagne
I'm upgrading a stock Progeny install on a PentiumII. I just ran apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.16-686 Duriing the install I was told to include a reference to initrd in lilo.conf. Since I'm running GRUB, this is what I added to menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux (kernel 2.4.16) root (hd0,1) kern

Re: DRI not enabled - Why?

2002-03-19 Thread Kent West
Bob Underwood wrote: On Sunday 17 March 2002 21:31, Kent West wrote: Near as I can tell, DIR should work. Below is my XF86Config-4 file, and after that the output of "startx 2> startx.log". What kernel? When I upgrade my kernel from 2.4.17 to 2.4.18, I also lost my DRI with an ATI video

Re: temporary ethernet card

2002-03-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Mar-2002 Paul F. Pearson wrote: > This sounds like it probably reduces to a newbie question... > > I just bought a new computer, and need to transfer a bunch of data onto it > from my old computer. Neither one has an ethernet card (don't need one - I > use dialup). A coworker has offered

Re: DRI not enabled - Why?

2002-03-19 Thread Kent West
Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: Hi Kent, everything you posted looks ok to me. What makes you think DRI _isn't_ enabled? What is the answer if you type 'glxinfo'? Regards, Joachim direct rendering: No

Re: temporary ethernet card

2002-03-19 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > This sounds like it probably reduces to a newbie question... > > I just bought a new computer, and need to transfer a bunch of data onto it > from my old computer. Neither one has an ethernet card (don't need one - I > use dialup). A coworker ha

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Michael Marziani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I recently started with a new company and they are using lots of Linux > systems, mostly RedHat and SuSE. We are in the middle of upgrading a > bunch of the machines and I very much want to figure out a way to > present Debian to them as an op

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