login/logout scripting

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
I want to run a certain script when someone logs in (run at user level) and another when they logout. I want them to run no matter what type of login is in progress (shell, ssh, xdm etc). How should I go about this? Is is possible to somehow do it through PAM? Or will I need to run it from a few p

Newbie, configure exim/fetchmail w/ dialup; daemon trouble.

2002-03-26 Thread Barry Mathieu
Hello, With the help of this list, I have successfully upgraded from Potato to Woody! 20 hours on a dialup. However, I am having some troubles with mail handling; exim & fetchmail With Potato, ppp ran as a daemon, fetchmail was configured, and I could issue, "fetchmail" at the command prompt to

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Shawn" == Shawn Yarbrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shawn> I have an x86 server computer containing two network cards: Shawn> eth0 --> 192.168.1.130 eth1 --> 192.168.1.131 Shawn> Both cards work fine alone. As you can see, both cards are Shawn> on the same network. The su

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-26 Thread Jason Healy
At 1017245979s since epoch (03/26/02 22:19:39 -0500 UTC), Crispin Wellington wrote: > Of course theres collisions. But switch <-> Computer has collisions > too. Unless you're running in full duplex (both crossover and switches support this mode, so long as the NIC/switch at each end both support

Re: install cperl-mode for emacs

2002-03-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26/03/02 Henrik Enberg did speaketh: > > > If you're using GNU Emacs you already have it installed. I belive the > > same is true for XEmacs. Put the following in your ~/.emacs.el > >=20 > > (defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode) > > Grab the

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread dave mallery
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, John F wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > >On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:23:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > >>I'm trying to educate some users on the dangers of proprietary file > >>formats. But to make sure I've got my facts right, I need to ask: Is the > >>Rich Text Forma

Re: Swap files on Reiserfs

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 16:53, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > Has any of you installed your swapfiles on reiserfs...? > I have converted all my partitions to reiserfs, and currently the > machine would crash about every week. I don't know for sure whether it > is the source of the problem. I just need an

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 17:56, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Sorry this has nothing to do with Debian, but I'm at a loss as to where > else to ask (if it matters, both machines are running Debian ). > > I am looking to connect two machines, one will be connected to the > outside network, the other connected

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread John F
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:23:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote: I'm trying to educate some users on the dangers of proprietary file formats. But to make sure I've got my facts right, I need to ask: Is the Rich Text Format (.rtf) an open standard? (In other words, can I say s

Re: how to print A1 document ?

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 19:08, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > i have found this program which looks ok: > > apt-get install poster > > :) Cool. I'll check that one out. Crispin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenGL dev & NVIDIA driver

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 02:32, Pac wrote: > Hi all, > > I've installed the NVIDIA driver for my GeForce3 graphic card, they > work perfectly, I see the Nividia's logo at the startup of my > windowmanager. > > I've also installed this packages : > glutg3-dev > xlibmesa3 > > to be able to compile m

Re: [OT]: Recommended Gaming Controller for Linux??

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 08:10, Sunny Dubey wrote: > heya everyone > > I finally got tired of play games on my linux machine with a stupid keyboard. > Sure a keyboard does the job, however the full gaming feel is always lacking > with a real game controller of some sort. I've been looking into pu

Re: Domains/trusts

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 09:09, curtis wrote: > First, the situation. > > Facts: > We have an office in the US running an NT-based network with a few linux > stations. > We have an office in Russia, where they have a peer-to-peer network - > all windows based OSs. > > Goal: > We wish to create a W

Re: using windows key to pop-up KDE menu?

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 09:11, Kurt Lieber wrote: > By default, KDE uses the windows key on keyboards as a meta key, but you > don't seem to be able to use it by itself as an action key. Is there any way > to use it as a regular key? > > What I'd like to do is duplicate the functionality of the w

Re: using windows key to pop-up KDE menu?

2002-03-26 Thread Robert_L
On Tuesday 26 March 08:11, Kurt Lieber wrote: > By default, KDE uses the windows key on keyboards as a meta key, but you > don't seem to be able to use it by itself as an action key. Is there any > way to use it as a regular key? > > What I'd like to do is duplicate the functionality of the window

Re: mutt send folder from field not to field

2002-03-26 Thread Larry Holish
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:49:25PM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > hello, > > i've just noticed something weird, i use mutt, and fcc to sent. when i > view the sent folder, it lists every message as "Jason M. Harvey" (the > From: field) and not the To" field. i've read the man pages, and i'm not >

Re: KDE background program causing X memory leak?

2002-03-26 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 03:05:09PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > I've set up my KDE background to "Background Program", which runs the > command: > > nice -n 19 xplanet --geometry %xx%y -cloud_image ~/.xplanet/clouds_2000.jpg > -projection orthographic -latitude 40 -longitude 250 --output %f.jpg &

Re: 3dfx howto -- whereis?

2002-03-26 Thread Jason Healy
At 1017182369s since epoch (03/26/02 20:39:29 -0500 UTC), Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > I have been looking for a HOWTO 3dfx for x4 and my 2.4.17 kernel. I found > some very old info and a old howto from 1998. Is there something for a > Debian Woody user with the voodoo 3 3000 cards? I don't k

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread Gary Turner
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 20:52:05 -0500, Jason Healy wrote: >At 1017168824s since epoch (03/26/02 14:53:44 -0500 UTC), Shawn Yarbrough >wrote: > >IANAKH (I am not a kernel hacker), but I'll take a shot anyway. It's >been a while since my networking course in college, but here's my >theory (feel fre

Re: simple database?

2002-03-26 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:25:48AM -0600, dman wrote: [snip] > yielded faster responses. However (at the time at least) its locking > was table-level. This means that if someone is updating a row in a > table, then no one else can read any other row in that table. > PostgreSQL had more overhead o

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:23:40AM -0600, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > Postscript is a good standard for distributing documents (not writing in > them). PDF is becoming a standard of sorts. I think it's proprietary, but > well defined and "open for use." Many good tools exist on most major OSes > t

Re: Gnome sound not working, how to troubleshoot?

2002-03-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 07:09:01PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 02:49:40PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 07:22:45PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > I'm seting up 2 machines, both have working sound, using mp3blaster > > > for instance. > > > > > > However niethe

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread Jason Healy
At 1017168824s since epoch (03/26/02 14:53:44 -0500 UTC), Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > What is blowing my mind is that the ping request is actually entering the > system on the wrong interface, presumably because the system is responding > to my switch's ARP query on the "wrong" interface. > > I think

3dfx howto -- whereis?

2002-03-26 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greeting fine peoples: I have been looking for a HOWTO 3dfx for x4 and my 2.4.17 kernel. I found some very old info and a old howto from 1998. Is there something for a Debian Woody user with the voodoo 3 3000 cards? I have attempted to get it fully functional to play TUXracer, but right

Re: Gnome sound not working, how to troubleshoot?

2002-03-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:51:14PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: > On Monday 25 March 2002 22:07, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > Make sure ~/.gnome/sound/system reads: > > > > [settings] > > start_esd=true > > event_sounds=true > > > > Make sure that sound files you are trying to play for the > > different

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Kent West wrote: > Is there a true open standard format, that is easily > created/used/editted on any platform, other than text? (Text (ASCII? - > and what's the difference between DOS ASCII and Windows ASCII, and Text > ASCII, etc?) would be ideal, except for the inability to

Doing the unicode thing

2002-03-26 Thread Chuck Higgins
I was hoping somebody could straighten me out on a couple of points to do with unicode. I've got the core truetype fonts installed, some (all?) of which are unicode fonts, but I've noticed that when I list them with xlsfonts, they show up for all the 8-bit encodings iso8859-* etc, rather than

Re: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-26 Thread Joey Hess
Karsten M. Self wrote: > There's also a question of whether or not such products qualify for the > "Compact Disk" lable under the Phillips standard. Phillips itself > (inventer of the CD) has objected to DeCSS under similar grounds. Well I bought a CD today, which is from one of Sony's labels, an

Re: Swap files on Reiserfs

2002-03-26 Thread Oki DZ
On 03/26 01:44 Michel Clasquin wrote: swap *files*? Are those actually still supported? Yes... dd if=/dev/zero of=/myswapfile bs=1024 count= mkswap /myswapfile swapon /myswapfile What are you trying to do, share swap space with Windows? No, just Linux swapfiles. No, you can't be, that wo

using windows key to pop-up KDE menu?

2002-03-26 Thread Kurt Lieber
By default, KDE uses the windows key on keyboards as a meta key, but you don't seem to be able to use it by itself as an action key. Is there any way to use it as a regular key? What I'd like to do is duplicate the functionality of the windows key in windows -- i.e. have it pop up the main KDE

Domains/trusts

2002-03-26 Thread curtis
First, the situation. Facts: We have an office in the US running an NT-based network with a few linux stations. We have an office in Russia, where they have a peer-to-peer network - all windows based OSs. Goal: We wish to create a WAN through a VPN. Concerns: HOWEVER. I am about to let them

Window Maker Mod1 and Mod2 keys

2002-03-26 Thread Mark
When trying to edit some of my key shortcuts in Wprefs I notice that when I capture an Alt-Tab I get a Mod1 + Mod2 + Tab capture. Where does the Mod2 come from? Many of the shortcuts are Mod1 + not Mod1 + Mod2 + as that all of my captures suggest. Please enlighten me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

mutt send folder from field not to field

2002-03-26 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, i've just noticed something weird, i use mutt, and fcc to sent. when i view the sent folder, it lists every message as "Jason M. Harvey" (the From: field) and not the To" field. i've read the man pages, and i'm not quite sure what option would change the index in that folder, or which forma

[OT]: Recommended Gaming Controller for Linux??

2002-03-26 Thread Sunny Dubey
heya everyone I finally got tired of play games on my linux machine with a stupid keyboard. Sure a keyboard does the job, however the full gaming feel is always lacking with a real game controller of some sort. I've been looking into purchasing some sort of USB based gaming controller for lin

Bootp and IP ranges

2002-03-26 Thread Shem Page
I'm trying to get a bootp server to allocate ip addresses out to devices. I have one for DHCP and now I need one for bootp. I don't want to have to know the mac address of each machine that will request an IP address from the server, but I can't figure out how to avoid it. Can somebody tell me

Re: install cperl-mode for emacs

2002-03-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 26/03/02 Henrik Enberg did speaketh: > If you're using GNU Emacs you already have it installed. I belive the > same is true for XEmacs. Put the following in your ~/.emacs.el > > (defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode) Grab the latest version though. I'm running 4.32 and it's been much improve

Re: vmware pooched by latest dist upgrade.

2002-03-26 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Gary Hennigan") writes: > BTW, did you notify VMWare about this? > The problem is already discussed on the vmware news groups and seemingly has found a solution: - snip - [ header shortened ] From: Petr Vandrovec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: vmw

KDE background program causing X memory leak?

2002-03-26 Thread Brian Nelson
I've set up my KDE background to "Background Program", which runs the command: nice -n 19 xplanet --geometry %xx%y -cloud_image ~/.xplanet/clouds_2000.jpg -projection orthographic -latitude 40 -longitude 250 --output %f.jpg && mv %f.jpg %f at 15 minute intervals. This is similar to the instruc

Re: vmware pooched by latest dist upgrade.

2002-03-26 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sheldon Lee-Wen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I just filed a bug report against this, but the latest upgrade against > unstable causes the thread in vmware that is responsible for handling > disk io to fail, thus vmware fails. The solution is to downgrade your > libc6, libc6-dev and locales ve

Re: rc.local equivalent in Woody?

2002-03-26 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya i'd put it ( hdparm ) into /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh (or create that file ) c ya alvin On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Alan James wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:11:20AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > In my Potato installation, I place a call to hdparm in rc.local. > > > > In my new Woody

Re: What dumps files like magicCfLHA0 into my $HOME?

2002-03-26 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 08:55, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > > lsof -n |grep magic > > Good idea. Will be rather hard to do, though, since it's not my account, > and I doubt the user will notice it or remember to notify me. Still, > I'll try lsof s

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread Brian Nelson
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > also sprach Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.2015 +0100]: > [snip] > > /etc/modules is simply a file listing one module a line to be loaded > > at startup. /etc/init.d/modutils will do the act

vmware pooched by latest dist upgrade.

2002-03-26 Thread Sheldon Lee-Wen
Hi, I just filed a bug report against this, but the latest upgrade against unstable causes the thread in vmware that is responsible for handling disk io to fail, thus vmware fails. The solution is to downgrade your libc6, libc6-dev and locales version to the previous version -3, IIRC. Cheers,

Re: simple exim questions

2002-03-26 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:00:59PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > You could run a pop3 server on your main box and then use whatever > mail client to get mail that way > > We run this sort of setup at work - with exim and cucipop. Our various > windoze boxes then just use the linux box as an smtp se

php and ms access database advice

2002-03-26 Thread justin cunningham
Hello, I've been searching for a solution and this link is the closest I've come (nicely done by the way) though was wondering if someone here had a more efficient execution to recommend. http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/siddarth2228.php3 Currently I have a few perl and php4 scripts writin

Re: Gnome sound not working, how to troubleshoot?

2002-03-26 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 00:07, stan wrote: > > Not certain what special flags ? you want me to give to xmms? If u right click xmms and choose options -> preferences and for the output plugin, select esd. If its not in the list - you will have to isntall one of the xmms plugins HTH, Shri -- --

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Moseley
At 01:05 PM 03/26/02 -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: >The best way to do this is to use the Debian nvidia-kernel-src and >nvidia-glx-src packages in the contrib/x11 section. At least under >testing and woody that's the best way. Ok, I'll look. Then is there something I need to do when building or ins

Re: What dumps files like magicCfLHA0 into my $HOME?

2002-03-26 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 08:55, Crispin Wellington wrote: > lsof -n |grep magic Good idea. Will be rather hard to do, though, since it's not my account, and I doubt the user will notice it or remember to notify me. Still, I'll try -- I did not vote for the Austrian government -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: What dumps files like magicCfLHA0 into my $HOME?

2002-03-26 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 15:15, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > imagemagick perhaps? Do you use that? Only inasmuch as other other progs (gnome?) depend on it. Not knowingly. Anyway, nothing is used on that account that isn't mainstream: Gnome, StarOffice, Gimp, GQview, Galeon, Acroread pretty much s

Unidentified subject!

2002-03-26 Thread neeraja
hi iam not able to install linux through co..iam installing with share to win 98 it is giving problem in mounting GNUlinux partition ie it is not initiolizing.. It is giving error that "unable to handle kernal NULL pointerderefrence at virtual address.." so this is the problem.. neeraja

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread Gary Hennigan
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.2015 +0100]: [snip] > /etc/modules is simply a file listing one module a line to be loaded > at startup. /etc/init.d/modutils will do the actual work of loading > the modules according to this fil

Re: Waking fetchmail (Was: Unidentified subject!)

2002-03-26 Thread Rohan Deshpande
Sorry about the bad subject...wrote the message at school, so I was kinda rushing :(. -Rohan * Chris Hilts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:10:03AM -0500, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > > I was wondering if there was a way to 'wake' my fetchmail daemon to > > fetch from servers.

Re: rc.local equivalent in Woody?

2002-03-26 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:11:20AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > In my Potato installation, I place a call to hdparm in rc.local. > > In my new Woody installation, I cannot find rc.local. > > What is the correct place / file to use for boot-up configuration / > control commands? > I just pu

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
> For a machine that is multihomed (has more than one IP network interface > assigned an IP address), any of the IP addresses for the machine are > valid and equally useable. I think your Linux system is responding in a > reasonable way as both network interfaces are receiving ICMP echo > requests,

Help for: rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(578)

2002-03-26 Thread Thomas K. Burkholder
Hi all- I'm using rsync in a cron job to back up my main debian partition. It looks like this: rsync -avrx // /backroot/ (where / is /dev/hde1 and /backroot is hdg1). When I run the cron job, I get: ... delete_file: rmdir(usr/share/doc/ncurses-base) : Directory not empty rsync: symlink "us

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.2015 +0100]: > >depmod -a is run at every boot. > > I though depmod just when through my list of modules to find the > dependencies -- so that if I say load module modprobe foo it would know to > load module bar first, if foo depended on bar

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Alan Shutko
Christian Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've once used a rtf to latex converter (written on C, running on both > unix and mac, about 4-5 years ago), and it didn't work well at all > especially with german umlauts, some portions of the document were > converted right, others weren't, and the

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Moseley
At 07:09 PM 03/26/02 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: >> 2) When installing the package, is there a way to say, just add this to the >> current list of kernels, but don't rotate the current kernel to .old? > >man kernel-img.conf Thanks. >but i usually just undo the change manually, it's quite easy.

Re: What dumps files like magicCfLHA0 into my $HOME?

2002-03-26 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 07:32:13PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: > All with filenames like magic and contents like > > push graphic-context > viewbox 0 0 26.661 42.525 > affine 0.975207 0 0 0.987654 0 0 > push graphic-context > fill-rule nonzero > clip-rule nonzero > stroke #00 > stroke-miterlim

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Alan Shutko
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a true open standard format, that is easily > created/used/editted on any platform, other than text? Well, it's a Microsoft standard with fairly accessible documentation, though at times it's been hard to get a hold of the documentation associated

OpenGL dev & NVIDIA driver

2002-03-26 Thread Pac
Hi all, I've installed the NVIDIA driver for my GeForce3 graphic card, they work perfectly, I see the Nividia's logo at the startup of my windowmanager. I've also installed this packages : glutg3-dev xlibmesa3 to be able to compile my own OpenGL applications. I can compile but when I try to la

RE: Thanks again!! Now another prob..

2002-03-26 Thread Ronald Castillo
There´s no output.. The error message comes only when I do an "ifdown eth0", "ifdown -a" and when I shutdown or restart my computer. -Original Message- From: Kurc, Marcin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: martes, 26 de marzo de 2002 17:27 To: 'Ronald Castillo' Subject: RE: Thanks again!

Re: misconfigured mailout lists.debian.org

2002-03-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.1805 +0100]: > | postfix/smtpd[1491]: reject_warning: RCPT from unknown[65.125.64.134]: > | 554 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [65.125.64.134]; > | from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 5xx errors are permanent, m

Re: make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.26.1755 +0100]: > Something like: > > --append-to-version modular > > and then would I end up with /lib/modules/2.4.17-modular? 2.4.17modular, but yes, it's correct otherwise. i usually use hostnames appended to the version number... >

FW: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
If you really want the fail-over capability, you should either use a hardware 2-port NIC or have a software program monitor the two cards. In the case of a software program, - assign a different IP to the second NIC card - have a program monitor the M2 registers of the primary

Re: install cperl-mode for emacs

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Moseley
At 06:58 PM 03/26/02 +0100, Henrik Enberg wrote: >If you're using GNU Emacs you already have it installed. I belive the >same is true for XEmacs. Put the following in your ~/.emacs.el > >(defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode) I wonder if that changed with testing. I had potato installed, copied my /

Re: install cperl-mode for emacs

2002-03-26 Thread Henrik Enberg
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see that cperl-mode used to be part of the Perl 5.005 debian package, but > for testing it's in emacs20-el. Is that the correct package to install? > > emacs20-el installs a large collection of files. It's not diskspace I'm > worried about, just the c

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-26 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:29:10AM -0600, dman wrote: | On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:50:06AM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: | | On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:16:01AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | | | | | | On 25-Mar-2002 Rob VanFleet wrote: | | | > Sorry this has nothing to do with Debian, but I'm

Problem with wait/waitpid... can't install packages

2002-03-26 Thread Anthony R. J. Ball
I am trying again, since my last post got lost in a mess of header munge... I recently installed debian, and things were going fine for a few weeks, but now I am having an odd issue that seems to be affecting wait/waitpid. When I try to do an apt-get install my install dies with: Can't i

Re: simple database?

2002-03-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:25:48 -0600, dman wrote: > I couldn't find it recently when I googled, but a while back I read > some articles written by someone at sourceforge. He was describing > the comparision he did of several RDBMSes in the deployment of > sourceforge. http://www.phpbuilder.com/

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread John Kuhn
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:31:45AM -0600, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > I have an x86 server computer containing two network cards: > > eth0 --> 192.168.1.130 > eth1 --> 192.168.1.131 > > This is NOT a router-type computer. It's just a server that I really want > to have on the same network, twice.

RE: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-26 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
it is not difficult to copy the CD, like you said with digital out and in the whole point is to use such tools like cdparanoia to make it easy. I know you can mount a music cd as a file system under BeOS and copy whatever you need. I don't think linux can do it at the time though. There is no way t

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 10:48 Uhr -0600 26.03.2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: OTOH, RTF is substantially better than doc simply be virtue of not being able to host viruses/worms/trojans. Are you sure? I vaguely remember recent 'words' even put active contents into rtf. I've once used a rtf to latex converter (writte

Re[2]: SMC 1211TX

2002-03-26 Thread Alan Poulton
Monday, March 25, 2002, 8:19:49 PM, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > With cards with the RealTek chipsets (as this one is looking at the > driver it spits at me when I try downloading the linux driver for that > card...rtl8139), try rtl8139, then 8139too, and if neither of those > work, try tulip. T

Re: rc.local equivalent in Woody?

2002-03-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Mar-2002 Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > In my Potato installation, I place a call to hdparm in rc.local. > > In my new Woody installation, I cannot find rc.local. > > What is the correct place / file to use for boot-up configuration / > control commands? > make a /etc/init.d/local script (ca

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On 26 Mar 2002, Ross Burton wrote: > On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 16:23, Kent West wrote: > > > Is there a true open standard format, that is easily > > created/used/editted on any platform, other than text? (Text (ASCII? - > > and what's the difference between DOS ASCII and Windows ASCII, and Text >

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:50:06AM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: | On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:16:01AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | | | | On 25-Mar-2002 Rob VanFleet wrote: | | > Sorry this has nothing to do with Debian, but I'm at a loss as to where | | > else to ask (if it matters, both ma

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > I have an x86 server computer containing two network cards: > > eth0 --> 192.168.1.130 > eth1 --> 192.168.1.131 > > Both cards work fine alone. As you can see, both cards are on the same > network. The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. I can disable eit

Re: apt-get reports locale problems?

2002-03-26 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 26 Mar 2002, jennyw wrote: > When I use apt-get, I get messages like: > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), > LC_ALL = (unset), > LC_CTYPE = "", > LANG = "english" > are supported and installed on your system. > perl: warn

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread nate
> eth0 --> 192.168.1.130 > eth1 --> 192.168.1.131 > The kernel seems to pick one of the cards (somewhat arbitrarily) and > starts answering pings to BOTH addresses on the ONE card! Could this be > some kind of ARP bug? I can physically pull the plug out of the other > card (the one that the ke

Re: simple database?

2002-03-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:26:16PM -0800, Petro wrote: | On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:44:25PM -0800, Tom Cook wrote: | > multi-user capabilities, or real scalability. Also PostgreSQL is a | | What is "real" scalability? I've used Mysql on tiny machines | (Tadpole laptop) to dual processor

Strange sound behaviour

2002-03-26 Thread Alberto Vecchiato
I've installed potato on my laptop (NEC VersaNote VX), later upgraded to sid. Trying to get the sound working, I've also upgraded the kernel 2.2.19 to the last release 2.4.18 via dselect using the appropriate debianized kernel image. The audio support is installed as a module in the kernel, and l

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 16:23, Kent West wrote: > I'm trying to educate some users on the dangers of proprietary file > formats. But to make sure I've got my facts right, I need to ask: Is the > Rich Text Format (.rtf) an open standard? (In other words, can I say > something like "Use an open stan

rc.local equivalent in Woody?

2002-03-26 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
In my Potato installation, I place a call to hdparm in rc.local. In my new Woody installation, I cannot find rc.local. What is the correct place / file to use for boot-up configuration / control commands? Regards, Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: apache and zope

2002-03-26 Thread dman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 09:01:49AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: | I've read all the howto's and I can't get it to work. What silly thing | have I overlooked? | | I'm running debian testing. | | httpd.conf has: | | begin httpd.conf extract [snipped] | end httpd.conf extract I d

Re: Mail server is down? hosed?

2002-03-26 Thread dman
Notice what the error message is -- Too many "Received" headers - suspected mail loop and look at the recived headers, the message was looping back and forth between master-tmp.brainfood.com and klecker.debian.org. It really was a mail loop. The only thing that can cause that is a misconfi

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-26 Thread dave mallery
On 25 Mar 2002, Dale Hair wrote: > happened to me. > > Do you have any packages in /var/cache/apt/archives/partial. I had a > problem with packages that would neither install nor could I purge them, > with apt not able to install anything. I worked on it for the better > part of the day to fix it

Re: misconfigured mailout lists.debian.org

2002-03-26 Thread dman
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 04:43:11AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | didn't really know where else to send this, so please excuse... | this: | | postfix/smtpd[1491]: reject_warning: RCPT from unknown[65.125.64.134]: | 554 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [65.125.64.134]; | from=<[EMA

make-dpkg: flavors and external modules

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Moseley
Hello, I've build a very minimal 2.4.17 with not many modules (about 6 total!). I like building in what I need. My old, backup (as far as lilo is concerned) is kernel is 2.2.20 I want to build another 2.4.17 but end up with three kernels. 1) To be able to have more than one 2.4.17 modules tree

Re: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:00:38PM -0500, John Cichy wrote: | Now for the dark side... how hard can it be to connect a digital out on the | cd player to a digital in on a computer and ... Can't be that hard, if you really do have a digital out and digital in. (I don't have any quality sound eq

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:23:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I'm trying to educate some users on the dangers of proprietary file > formats. But to make sure I've got my facts right, I need to ask: Is the > Rich Text Format (.rtf) an open standard? (In other words, can I say > something like "Use

Re: Re[2]: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 07:43:30PM -0500, Sean wrote: | Of course the thing that just baffles my mind during this whole mp3 | nonsense is the fact that an mp3 is _not_ an exact digital copy of the | original. True, but notice too that a CD is not an exact copy of the sound created by the artist.

2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
I have an x86 server computer containing two network cards: eth0 --> 192.168.1.130 eth1 --> 192.168.1.131 Both cards work fine alone. As you can see, both cards are on the same network. The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. I can disable either card with ifdown and sucessfully ping the other card

Re: fetchmail

2002-03-26 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 16:10, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hey Debian'ers! > > I was wondering if there was a way to 'wake' my fetchmail daemon to > fetch from servers. When I type 'fetchmail' while it is in daemon mode, > it says 'fetchmail: no servers specified', even though my > /etc/fetchmailrc co

OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Kent West
I'm trying to educate some users on the dangers of proprietary file formats. But to make sure I've got my facts right, I need to ask: Is the Rich Text Format (.rtf) an open standard? (In other words, can I say something like "Use an open standard format, like .RTF"? Or do I need to say "Use a l

Re: ppp newbie question

2002-03-26 Thread John Hasler
Faisal writes: > Well i am a user of debian potato linux i just made my first ppp script > by pppconfig .. now can you tell me how can i dail my connction & hungup > my connection ? The command pon will bring up the connection. poff shuts it down. gpppon is a GUI wrapper around pon and poff, if

install cperl-mode for emacs

2002-03-26 Thread Bill Moseley
I see that cperl-mode used to be part of the Perl 5.005 debian package, but for testing it's in emacs20-el. Is that the correct package to install? emacs20-el installs a large collection of files. It's not diskspace I'm worried about, just the clutter. Is there a debian way to just install cper

RE: Thanks again!! Now another prob..

2002-03-26 Thread Ronald Castillo
Just to fix a typo.. I wrote on my first email that the error message had been " cat: /var/run/hdclient.pid doesn't exist", but the real message is " cat: /var/run/dhclient.pid doesn't exist". -Original Message- From: Kurc, Marcin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: martes, 26 de marzo de

RE: Thanks again!! Now another prob..

2002-03-26 Thread Ronald Castillo
Thanks for your soon reply. I couldn't understand well what you meant.. When I start the system with my old kernel, there is a /var/run/dhclient.pid file, but when I start it there isn´t such file (I manually checked that).. I could try what you told me, but, could you please tell me mor or less

OT: Just a plug for Debian

2002-03-26 Thread Kent West
I went to SANS about six months ago, and I just now found some notes I took while there. Found an interesting note, and thought I'd share it with other Debian users. Sunday No breakfast. First half of class was techniques for locking down Linux. The instructor obviously wasn't familiar with

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