Re: package installing

2002-04-03 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 23:57, fti International wrote: > What is the command that you can type at shell to invoke > the program that presents you the option of choosing > Simple and Advanced installation methods for packages? > > I know "apt-setup" and "modconf" will do apt and moudle > (re)congf

Re: package installing

2002-04-03 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 12:57, fti International wrote: > What is the command that you can type at shell to invoke > the program that presents you the option of choosing > Simple and Advanced installation methods for packages? > > I know "apt-setup" and "modconf" will do apt and moudle > (re)congf

package installing

2002-04-03 Thread fti International
What is the command that you can type at shell to invoke the program that presents you the option of choosing Simple and Advanced installation methods for packages?   I know "apt-setup" and "modconf" will do apt and moudle (re)congfiguratons, so I guess there should be a program  to do wh

Re: [OT] Proper gcc -march for Athlon/Duron CPU?

2002-04-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 08:43:46AM -0500, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > So I've been using -march=k6 instead; but, then I noticed in my latest > kernel recompilation that it was compiling with i686 when I chose > Athlon/Duron in the config. Bah. That's what it's supposed to do. The first gcc that sp

Re: Please Help! Can't install packages!

2002-04-03 Thread Kent West
Anthony R. J. Ball wrote: So... who do I have to sleep with to get a response? :) This is really a problem, and I have no idea how to track it down... On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:44:07PM -0500, Anthony R. J. Ball wrote: When I try to install packages I get the messages below. If I reboot I

Re: [Users] [OT] Gnome icon usage on a web page

2002-04-03 Thread Dan Mills
I believe (but I'm not terribly certain) that the stock GNOME icons (from gnome-libs) are LGPL, with individual apps' icons being GPL. The Ximian GNOME graphics are under the Ximian Logo License, and may not be redistributed without Ximian GNOME. -Dan On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 21:04, James D Strandb

Re: Mutt and vim just will not play nice for me :-(

2002-04-03 Thread Matthew Dalton
Patrick Kirk wrote: > > In .muttrc I have this: > set editor="vim -c 'set filetype=mail'" # Must wrap mail > > Has anyone got this combo working right? Because mutt won't wrap at > all. I just use: set editor="vim -c 'set tw=72 expandtab'" (in my .muttrc, of course) Matthew -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Please Help! Can't install packages!

2002-04-03 Thread Anthony R. J. Ball
So... who do I have to sleep with to get a response? :) This is really a problem, and I have no idea how to track it down... On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:44:07PM -0500, Anthony R. J. Ball wrote: > > When I try to install packages I get the messages below. > If I reboot I can install package

Re: Help Problems with mga_hal

2002-04-03 Thread Kent West
icewolf wrote: Hello can some one plz reply to this asap thx, ok i have problems running startx anytime i try to run it it displays a error mga_hal its for the matrox g series i have no clue what to do i have configured x i dont know if i have installed woody correctly, its so frustrat

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Re: Mutt and vim just will not play nice for me :-(

2002-04-03 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:08:39AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: | Hi all, | | When I post from mutt, my mails are really ugly because I can't get | it to text wrap. | | In .vimrc I have the setting: | au FileType mail set tw=70 fo=tcrq2 nomodeline I have this. It's the same, with a bit more fanci

Re: Disk rescue tools?

2002-04-03 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Thanks for the input. I'll add it to my arsenal. As it turns out, I just had to restore the mbr and everything's good. Bob Quoting Crispin Wellington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > A neat rescue bootable cdrom: > > http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ > > I have used rip before,

Re: unsubsribe!!!

2002-04-03 Thread Crispin Wellington
unsubsribe hey? ^^^ ||| Complete with three exclamation marks! Why can't people ever read the bottom of every single mail message?? On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 23:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: Disk rescue tools?

2002-04-03 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 08:53, Greg C. Madden wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 13:16, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > This may be addressed somewhere, > > but my only access right now is my > > palm handheld. > > > > Are there any utilities in debian to > > attempt data recovery on a hard > > drive? > > > >

Re: post logs

2002-04-03 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 10:52, Joe Wise wrote: > In reviewing my post logs for my mail server I cam across the following > > Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [207.105.42.71] > > I am 207.105.42.71 By "I am 207.105.42.71" Do you mean you, your desktop machine, you your mail server

apt

2002-04-03 Thread fti International
I initially configured apt to install packages in Advanced way, but I found out that there are too many packages to choose and the navigation scheme is too much text.    My question is:  how do I (or can I) to reconfigure apt to install packages in Simple way?    I tried the command "tasks

Re: linux PPP in minicom

2002-04-03 Thread Oki DZ
On 04/03 18:36 Chitra Krishnamurthy wrote: I used the following AT commands, in "minicom" and I got the following results with the results : ATZ~ OK ATM0L0 OK ATDT0,172315 CONNECT 31200 /ARQ /V34 /LAPM /V42BIS Annex Command Line Interpreter * Copyright (C) 1988, 1999 Bay Networks Checking author

Help Problems with mga_hal

2002-04-03 Thread icewolf
Hello can some one plz reply to this asap thx,   ok i have problems running startx anytime i try to run it it displays a error mga_hal its for the matrox g series i have no clue what to do i have configured x i dont know if i have installed woody correctly, its so frustrating thanks   Ross  

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Re: Logitech Quickcam

2002-04-03 Thread Andrew Agno
Sridhar M.A. writes: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 06:46:58PM -0800, Andrew Agno wrote: >> Yes, the pwc, I think. I've gotten it recognized using on testing, >> with hotplug and 2.4.18 installed. I have yet to actually do anything >> with it. >> > Can you elaborate a bit? I m

post logs

2002-04-03 Thread Joe Wise
In reviewing my post logs for my mail server I cam across the following   Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [207.105.42.71]   I am 207.105.42.71   Can anyone tell me what this is saying to me?   Thanks,      

Re: Logitech Quickcam

2002-04-03 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 06:46:58PM -0800, Andrew Agno wrote: > > Yes, the pwc, I think. I've gotten it recognized using on testing, > with hotplug and 2.4.18 installed. I have yet to actually do anything > with it. > Can you elaborate a bit? I might have missed it during make m

Re: Logitech Quickcam

2002-04-03 Thread Andrew Agno
Jens Gecius writes: > Try package vgrabbj. It might work, although, no promises. I had > reports of quickcam-users who got it to work (not with 2.4.18, > though). > > Isn't there a kernel-module (non-third-party)? Yes, the pwc, I think. I've gotten it recognized using on testing, with hotp

Re: debian

2002-04-03 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:45:09AM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin quoting what Mark Janssen said on Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:57:30AM > +0200: > > > > Maybe we should make a wav/mpg/ogg file like the old linus.wav file: > > > > My name is and I pronounce debian as debian :) > > You could g

[SOLVED] Re: Problems upgrading Python in Sid

2002-04-03 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> > Both apt-get upgrade and apt-get --ignore-hold upgrade give "The > > following packages are kept back". Nothing is upgraded. > > Debian now has a dependency package called python which depends on > the current default version of python and replaces python-base. Your > problems are due to the fa

Re: Logitech Quickcam

2002-04-03 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:15:38PM -0500, Jens Gecius wrote: > > Try package vgrabbj. It might work, although, no promises. I had > reports of quickcam-users who got it to work (not with 2.4.18, > though). > Installed that and it did not work. Some error. Will debug later. BTW, th

Re: Use of dpkg --get-selections and --set-selections

2002-04-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Key is "do not upgrade SSH and blow-up upgrade." On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:43:12AM +1000, John F wrote: > We have a situaution where we want to ensure that a server has a certain > list of packages installed. It can have extra packages, but it _must_ > have the list we specify on it. > >

[OT] Gnome icon usage on a web page

2002-04-03 Thread James D Strandboge
I am developing a web page for a company, and one of the people at that company asked if some of the gnome icons could be used on the site (eg as a link). This site has nothing to do with gnome, free software or software in general-- it is for a training company. I know many of the icons are GPL'

newly installed "addressbook" problem

2002-04-03 Thread Tomasz Kosinski
I just installed addressbook on my testing system, and I get the following error message when trying to start: tk>: addressbook & [1] 4357 tk>: Error in startup script: can't read "index": no such variable (reading value of variable to increment) invoked from within "incr index" (file

Re: Debain admin book?

2002-04-03 Thread Angus D Madden
Grant Edwards, Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 08:56:26PM -0600: > > I'm looking for a good source of info that's specific to Debian > systems. Something I can hand to an experienced Unix/Linux > administrator who hasn't done Debian stuff before. > How about "Linux Administration Handbook" by Evi Nemeth.

Use of dpkg --get-selections and --set-selections

2002-04-03 Thread John F
Hi all, We have a situaution where we want to ensure that a server has a certain list of packages installed. It can have extra packages, but it _must_ have the list we specify on it. Can I use dpkg -get-selections > a.file and then edit it to only include the install and deinstall lines for

Re: Mutt and vim just will not play nice for me :-(

2002-04-03 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 07:52:37PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: >Patrick Kirk([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> Hi all, >read it on the list? In mutt, all mail appears to have been wrapped. I suspect the problem only arises with replies to messages and that new messages get a nice form

gnome terminal problem

2002-04-03 Thread dave mallery
hi been working on my neat woody-gnome system today... (it finally is unstuck) prompt>gnome-terminal gnome-terminal: relocation error: gnome-terminal: undefined symbol: zvt_term_set_meta_use_high_bit that's all she wrote dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 5

Re: Logitech Quickcam

2002-04-03 Thread Jens Gecius
"Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am running woody with kernel 2.4.18. I could get the above camera to > work under linux fairly easily by compiling the 3rd party kernel module > mod_quickcam.o. I can see the image either with gqcam or xawtv, but the > colours are not correct. I tried

Re: Devel Package Question

2002-04-03 Thread christophe barbé
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:46:26PM -0500, Sunny Dubey wrote: > heya > > I have two questions about devel* packages > > First, are only header files included within a devel package?? or is actual > source in them too?? dev packages contains only header, static library and .so link to dynamic lib

Re: Disk rescue tools?

2002-04-03 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Thanks for the replies. I've got a minimal system going and I'm checking out some windows progs I've found. I'll file these for later use. Bob Quoting "Greg C. Madden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 13:16, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > Are there any utilities in debian to > > attempt da

Re: XFree86 problems

2002-04-03 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 03 April 2002 16:53, Fanch wrote: > I have now tried to install Debian 3 times without succes on an i586 > which has run RedHat6.2 until I began my Debian experiments... > > I have 2 good years experience with Linux through RedHat and have no > problems with the course of the install.

Re: Mutt and vim just will not play nice for me :-(

2002-04-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Patrick Kirk([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi all, > > When I post from mutt, my mails are really ugly because I can't get it > to text wrap. > > In .vimrc I have the setting: > au FileType mail set tw=70 fo=tcrq2 nomodeline > > It was provided by wayne Topa. > > In .muttrc I h

Re: Disk rescue tools?

2002-04-03 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 13:16, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > This may be addressed somewhere, > but my only access right now is my > palm handheld. > > Are there any utilities in debian to > attempt data recovery on a hard > drive? > > Sometime between midnight and 10am, > while powered off, the W98 box >

Re: Disk rescue tools?

2002-04-03 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Bob Thibodeau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > Sometime between midnight and 10am, > while powered off, the W98 box > at work lost its primary partition. While *powered off*??? That usually means a) peecee was hit by lightning and is fried, or b) disk is dead. By "lost its primary partit

Re: ATA Raid

2002-04-03 Thread Petro
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 12:15:07PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Jeff J. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020403 08:13]: > > I am looking for an ATA/100 or 133 RAID controller that fulfills these > two requirements: > > Operates in a 66mhz PCI slot. > > Is (well?) supported by Debian. > > Somewhere in the $20

Logitech Quickcam

2002-04-03 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I am running woody with kernel 2.4.18. I could get the above camera to work under linux fairly easily by compiling the 3rd party kernel module mod_quickcam.o. I can see the image either with gqcam or xawtv, but the colours are not correct. I tried changing the different controls under gqcam wi

Re: Problems upgrading Python in Sid

2002-04-03 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> | It seems that python has some kind of dependency problem which > | prevents me to purge python1.5-base and to upgrade some other > | packages. I keep them on hold by now. > | Here is what I see in dselect. If I try either to purge > | python1.5-base or to upgrade the packages that are on hold,

Re: Mutt and vim just will not play nice for me :-(

2002-04-03 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 12:35:11PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: >* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020402 23:11]: >> Hi all, Mine searches for ~/.vim/plugins.*.vim I put your changes in there and I'd appreciate if you caould say if it works or if I'm just banging keys for the sake of it. Is whet

Disk rescue tools?

2002-04-03 Thread Bob Thibodeau
This may be addressed somewhere, but my only access right now is my palm handheld. Are there any utilities in debian to attempt data recovery on a hard drive? Sometime between midnight and 10am, while powered off, the W98 box at work lost its primary partition. I'm reinstalling on a spare drive r

Re: Problems upgrading Python in Sid

2002-04-03 Thread Simon Hepburn
Daniel Toffetti wrote: > Both apt-get upgrade and apt-get --ignore-hold upgrade give "The > following packages are kept back". Nothing is upgraded. Debian now has a dependency package called python which depends on the current default version of python and replaces python-base. Your problems are

Re: bash newbie : no such file or directory problem

2002-04-03 Thread Waldemar Gorus
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:44:30 + Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to construct an automated bash find->delete script to clear > out 3 file share processing areas on our server. > > I call the script using the following sytax: > ./deleter.sh /dir 5 > with the ide

Re: Restore CD image equiv.

2002-04-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.03.1936 +0200]: > > or you could tar up the root directory except for /dev and /proc and > > provide a boot disk to untar it onto a disk on which you created > > partitions all from a boot disk. after untaring you only need to > > recreate /dev and insta

FW: syslog

2002-04-03 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
Did you build the kernel on your own or got it from somewhere? Just disable the multicasting & mroute support in your kernel configuration. If you have "/sbin/mrouted" installed on your system, delete the appropriate package. -Ramesh | Apr 2 15:01:51 kurdtje kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= | MAC=01:00:5

Re: ATA Raid

2002-04-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Jeff J. wrote on Wed Apr 03, 2002 um 03:32:07PM: > The box will also have Windows on it.. Gonna try to get a dual-boot > XP/Debian on a RAID0 array. Not sure if LILO will be able to deal with > that, but Ill work something out. It works (including LILO and syslinux) with boot-floppies

Icecast Server

2002-04-03 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Does any one have a step by step guide to configuring IceCast etc on a debian (testing) box? Cheers, Andrew "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Devel Package Question

2002-04-03 Thread Sunny Dubey
heya I have two questions about devel* packages First, are only header files included within a devel package?? or is actual source in them too?? Secondly, what dictates where these files go?? why are KDE's headers directly in /usr/include and yet libkmid's in /usr/include/libkmid ?? thanks f

XFree86 problems

2002-04-03 Thread Fanch
I have now tried to install Debian 3 times without succes on an i586 which has run RedHat6.2 until I began my Debian experiments... I have 2 good years experience with Linux through RedHat and have no problems with the course of the install. Every thing seems to be running as expected until I reac

Re: ATA Raid - hw

2002-04-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jeff for a list of supported "ide chipsets" http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html for the ret of the hw lists http://www.1U-Raid5.net/HW/hw.txt some who have done a sw vs hw raid comparason say that sw raid is just as good for their app... and save the costs of the $200 o

Re: PS/2 mouse erratic in X and more

2002-04-03 Thread Kent West
lasse wrote: simular problem.. My problem, is that when i move the mouse fast, it klicks, and it's not me klicking. this happends on both my testing and sid. The mouse dont act like this in FreeBSD. -snip-XF86- Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard"

Re: To Debian experts

2002-04-03 Thread Peter Whysall
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 21:02, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Rather than recreate it, copy it from another machine. If it helps > mine is attached. It won't match your system perfectly but it didn't > match mine either when I copied it from another machine yet everything > seems to work. That said, I _ne

Re: mail client and maildir

2002-04-03 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Karsten Heymann quotation: > * Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020403 21:06]: > > * Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020402 22:17]: > > > Is that any mail client that supports maildirs, other than Mutt > > > of course? > > > > I know of at least gnus, and there's a patch for pine, which, IIRC,

Re: Mutt and gpg

2002-04-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 03 Apr 2002, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Matthew Daubenspeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020403 08:14]: > > I just got mutt working properly with gpg thanks to the archives. Does mutt > > have to include the signature as an attachment, or can it do it in-line in > > the message itself? > > pgp_crea

Re: syslog

2002-04-03 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Mit, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:18:31 +0200, Pauwel Demeyer wrote: > hello hiho, > Apr 2 15:01:51 kurdtje kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= > MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:e0:0c:c6:13:f4:08:00 SRC=10.95.3.82 ^^

Re: Mutt and vim just will not play nice for me :-(

2002-04-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020402 23:11]: > Hi all, > > When I post from mutt, my mails are really ugly because I can't get it > to text wrap. > > In .vimrc I have the setting: > au FileType mail set tw=70 fo=tcrq2 nomodeline > > It was provided by wayne Topa. > > In .muttrc I have thi

cd-rom Help!!!

2002-04-03 Thread fti International
Dear All,   I am tring to install Debian on an old pc (486).   The BIOS on the old pc does not allow me to boot from cd-rom anddoes not recognize the existence of thecd-rom drive.  It does not allow me to specifiy the cd-rom on the BIOS setup menu.  There are two IDE adapters (0 and 1) withma

Re: ATA Raid

2002-04-03 Thread Jeff J.
The box will also have Windows on it.. Gonna try to get a dual-boot XP/Debian on a RAID0 array. Not sure if LILO will be able to deal with that, but Ill work something out. Jeff J. - Original Message - From: "Vineet Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 3:15 PM

syslog

2002-04-03 Thread Pauwel Demeyer
hello every 2 minutes, I get the following message displayed in my terminal, and also in the syslog: Apr 2 15:01:51 kurdtje kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:e0:0c:c6:13:f4:08:00 SRC=10.95.3.82 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=30985 PROTO=2 And it keeps repeating.

Re: ATA Raid

2002-04-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeff J. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020403 08:13]: > I am looking for an ATA/100 or 133 RAID controller that fulfills these two > requirements: > > Operates in a 66mhz PCI slot. > > Is (well?) supported by Debian. > > Somewhere in the $200 range would be nice. Does such a thing exist? > I know ther

Re: To Debian experts

2002-04-03 Thread Patrick Kirk
Its a stinker isn't it! Happened to me and I spent ages trying this and that and failing. My mistake was to think that dir was a directroy. Its a file in the info directory that says " This is the file .../info/dir, which contains the topmost node of the Info hierarchy. The first time you i

Re: RANT: debian-announce and razor-report

2002-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:45:12AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Vipul's Razor works fine when used as a part of spamassassin's scoring > mechanism. Dunno. When Razor started hitting cron messages from myself to myself, I gave up on it as any kind of reliable metric. SpamAssassin works pretty well

Re: I hate printers

2002-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 20:56, Tom Allison wrote: > I have tried repeatedly to get the lpr & /etc/printcap configured to > print correctly. The closest I can get is to have the stupid computer > come back and say that it can't find the printer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am using a D-Link DL713P as t

Re: xlib problem

2002-04-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Apr-2002 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello! > > sometimes I get the message "locale 'en_US.ISO-8859-1' not supported by Xlib" > > how can I fix it? > > Thanks! > edit /etc/locale.gen and add 'en_US ISO-8859-1' then run locale-gen as root. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PS/2 mouse erratic in X and more

2002-04-03 Thread Brian W. Carver
Oops. Forgot to CC this to the list: "Brian W. Carver" wrote: > Thank you very much. The PS/2 mouse now works after I did this in bash: > > apt-get remove gpm > > The mouse started working in X immediately. > > It was then much easier to try to deal with my screen resolution problem. > > It seem

xlib problem

2002-04-03 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello! sometimes I get the message "locale 'en_US.ISO-8859-1' not supported by Xlib" how can I fix it? Thanks! Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim and DoD - ipv6 dns lookup

2002-04-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Markus Grunwald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020403 10:33]: > Hi ! > > In the last days, I were configuring my dial on demand (DoD) ppp daemon. > It's working nearly fine and the past messages about exim were > interesting. I used some info from there, but now I have a new problem: > > marvin is my mai

Re: alternative to tarballs

2002-04-03 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:42:45PM +0800, Aldous B Bernardo wrote: > Hi, Is there an alternative to using tarballs? Something like > make-kpkg for the kernel. Im having some trobles installing some of my > tarball since it doenst update the dpkg database. Im having some > difficulties looking for s

Re: mail client and maildir

2002-04-03 Thread Karsten Heymann
* Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020403 21:06]: > * Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020402 22:17]: > > Is that any mail client that supports maildirs, other than Mutt > > of course? > > I know of at least gnus, and there's a patch for pine, which, IIRC, is > included if you apt-get source pine. Also,

Re: Mutt and gpg

2002-04-03 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
At 10:41 AM 4/3/2002, you wrote: >* Matthew Daubenspeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020403 08:14]: >> I just got mutt working properly with gpg thanks to the archives. Does mutt >> have to include the signature as an attachment, or can it do it in-line in >> the message itself? > >pgp_create_traditional

Re: IPV6 things...

2002-04-03 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Markus Grunwald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi! > > I would like to say a few words about ipv6 handling of some few > programs. > > Are YOU using ipv6 ? No ? Well, me neither. It's a nice thing and I will > use it if I have to, but up to now, everything here is ipv4. > > Some programs

Re: IPV6 things...

2002-04-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Markus Grunwald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020403 10:32]: > Hi! > > I would like to say a few words about ipv6 handling of some few > programs. > > Are YOU using ipv6 ? No ? Well, me neither. It's a nice thing and I will > use it if I have to, but up to now, everything here is ipv4. Well, yes, actua

Re: New Install

2002-04-03 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 3 Apr 2002, Irish, Jon D NCCIM wrote: > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > --_=_NextPart_001_01C1DB29.61700D40 > Content-Type: text/plain > > I am a newbie to Debian, and I am runnin

re:PS/2 mouse erratic in X and more

2002-04-03 Thread lasse
simular problem.. My problem, is that when i move the mouse fast, it klicks, and it's not me klicking. this happends on both my testing and sid. The mouse dont act like this in FreeBSD. -snip-XF86- Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver

Re: RANT: debian-announce and razor-report

2002-04-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul 'Baloo' Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020403 07:58]: > OK, to whomever piped the latest message on debian-announce through > razor-report, I wish to officially declare you a moron. SpamAssassin is your friend: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-97.0 required=5.0 tests=RAZOR_CHECK,A_FROM_IN_AUTO_WLIS

Re: Problems upgrading Python in Sid

2002-04-03 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Both apt-get upgrade and apt-get --ignore-hold upgrade give "The following packages are kept back". Nothing is upgraded. > Make that what error messages does apt-get --ignore-hold upgrade give > > it's getting late over here, time to go to bed. Have a good night. > > What error messages do

Re: Mutt and gpg

2002-04-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Matthew Daubenspeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020403 08:14]: > I just got mutt working properly with gpg thanks to the archives. Does mutt > have to include the signature as an attachment, or can it do it in-line in > the message itself? pgp_create_traditional > > Can it also verify signatures th

To Debian experts

2002-04-03 Thread FFF
Hi, How can I fix this ? It happens after installing, in the middle of Textutils configuration sequence. 'Setting up Textutils (2.0-12) install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory dpkg: error processing Textutils (--configure) sub-process post-installation script ret

Re: mail client and maildir

2002-04-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020402 22:17]: > Is that any mail client that supports maildirs, other than Mutt > of course? I know of at least gnus, and there's a patch for pine, which, IIRC, is included if you apt-get source pine. Also, I just found out that GNU mailx does support maildir. I'm sure

exim and DoD - ipv6 dns lookup

2002-04-03 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi ! In the last days, I were configuring my dial on demand (DoD) ppp daemon. It's working nearly fine and the past messages about exim were interesting. I used some info from there, but now I have a new problem: marvin is my mailserver and gateway. It is running exim. When I connect to smtp on m

IPV6 things...

2002-04-03 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi! I would like to say a few words about ipv6 handling of some few programs. Are YOU using ipv6 ? No ? Well, me neither. It's a nice thing and I will use it if I have to, but up to now, everything here is ipv4. Some programs (I only know ssh and exim but I bet there are more...) are "ready for

Re: RANT: debian-announce and razor-report

2002-04-03 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > OK, to whomever piped the latest message on debian-announce through > razor-report, I wish to officially declare you a moron. > I agree, but that's what's kept me from using it (Vipul's Razor, I assume you mean): what keeps morons from doing this and causing a bunc

Re: not so stuck

2002-04-03 Thread dave mallery
hi again i have finally slashed my way back to a gnome desktop. many thanks for your patient understanding. dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\

Re: alternative to tarballs

2002-04-03 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:42:45PM +0800, Aldous B Bernardo wrote: > Is there an alternative to using tarballs? Something like make-kpkg > for the kernel. Im having some trobles installing some of my tarball > since it doenst update the dpkg database. Im having some > difficulties looking

Re: Restore CD image equiv.

2002-04-03 Thread csj
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:44:25 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.02.1710 +0200]: > > Well, you could use Ghost or DriveImage. [snip] > or you could tar up the root directory except for /dev and /proc and > provide a boot disk

Re: Tekram 315U PCI

2002-04-03 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! Have you ever compiled a kernel yourself? Cheers, Stephan On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 22:49:59 +0200 "Dan Christensen,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > Im having som problems with sub, i have dl the driver from tekram, bu it > only a .c and a .h files, ant i dont know how to compile the

Re: New Install

2002-04-03 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:05:31AM -0600, Irish, Jon D NCCIM wrote: > I am a newbie to Debian, and I am running into a problem with the initial > install. I am trying to install on a Compaq Deskpro EN system. This box has > an integrated Intel PRO/100 VM nic. That nic was a pain to get going with

Re: New Install

2002-04-03 Thread Kent West
Irish, Jon D NCCIM wrote: I am a newbie to Debian, and I am running into a problem with the initial install. I am trying to install on a Compaq Deskpro EN system. This box has an integrated Intel PRO/100 VM nic. Debian does not list this adapter in the install routine. Intel's web site does hav

Re: Debian boot without X?

2002-04-03 Thread Kent West
Mathias Vingaard wrote: Hello. I have just installed my debian. While I experiment with different configurations I would like to boot up without X. Is there a text file I can edit in order to disable automatic start up of X? You can either: 1) remove/purge the offending login app (gdm, xdm,

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2002-04-03 Thread Lucas Cleeve
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Mutt and gpg

2002-04-03 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I just got mutt working properly with gpg thanks to the archives. Does mutt have to include the signature as an attachment, or can it do it in-line in the message itself? Can it also verify signatures that are not attachments (such like those sent from windows MUA's) but are included in the me

ATA Raid

2002-04-03 Thread Jeff J.
I am looking for an ATA/100 or 133 RAID controller that fulfills these two requirements:Operates in a 66mhz PCI slot.   Is (well?) supported by Debian.   Somewhere in the $200 range would be nice.  Does such a thing exist?  I know there is very little official support for Debian from various

New Install

2002-04-03 Thread Irish, Jon D NCCIM
Title: New Install I am a newbie to Debian, and I am running into a problem with the initial install. I am trying to install on a Compaq Deskpro EN system. This box has an integrated Intel PRO/100 VM nic. Debian does not list this adapter in the install routine. Intel's web site does have Linu

Re: Alternate size display with ls -l?

2002-04-03 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 April 2002 06:09 am, stan wrote: > Is there some way I can get ls to report sizes in say M, or K? Greetings: My favorite is 'ls -sh > Lists.txt'. You don't need to use the > symbol, it just takes the output and dumps it into the

Re: alternative to tarballs

2002-04-03 Thread Brian Nelson
"Aldous B Bernardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Is there an alternative to using tarballs? Something like > make-kpkg for the kernel. Im having some trobles installing some of > my tarball since it doenst update the dpkg database. Im having some > difficulties looking for some deb packages t

RANT: debian-announce and razor-report

2002-04-03 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
OK, to whomever piped the latest message on debian-announce through razor-report, I wish to officially declare you a moron. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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