Re: Chart drawing soft ?

2002-04-05 Thread James D Strandboge
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 20:01, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > Hi all ! > > I would like to know what are the tools available out there to make > some fancy network drawings. I like dia. It is great with UML and I have used it with networking diagrams. Jamie Strandboge -- Email:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: wipe off hard disk?

2002-04-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya fti no... if one wanted to ... you can always recover data from the disk if you have the time and $$$ ... that you really wanna see whats on it - get a sledge hammer to make "glass pieces" for the fun of it.. and than melt it back to molten glass .. than you are 99%

dpkg database repair

2002-04-05 Thread Terry Hancock
Hi, Apt-get and dpkg work so well I hardly ever have to think about how they work. Unfortunately, this means I'm pretty clueless when something does go wrong. I have two computers which apparently have damaged dpkg systems -- the status or package databases seem to be corrupted or destroyed. Fo

Re: hardware recommendations for a linux-based PVR

2002-04-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:22:26PM -0500, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I'm looking to build a near-silent, linux-based PVR. (TiVo-like device) > > Because of my desire for silence, I'd like to use a low power CPU, such as a > VIA C3 or even a Transmeta Crusoe that will allow me to cool it passively.   >

Re: Getting Handspring Pilot Setup

2002-04-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 02:23:36AM -0500, james martinez wrote: > Ok yet another problem with getting my Visor to sync. had it working > and then I had to change to kernel 2.4.18 to get the new Nvidia video > card to work. But now my visor will not sync anymore. One thins when I > compiled the new

hardware recommendations for a linux-based PVR

2002-04-05 Thread Kurt Lieber
I'm looking to build a near-silent, linux-based PVR. (TiVo-like device) Because of my desire for silence, I'd like to use a low power CPU, such as a VIA C3 or even a Transmeta Crusoe that will allow me to cool it passively.   This means I need a hardware encoder and decoder. That's where things

wipe off hard disk?

2002-04-05 Thread fti International
As follow-up to my previous posted question. I have two moer questions for everyone.   1.  Do the existing non-linux partition on hard disk affect the linux partition during the installation?   2.  Nomatter what the answer for 1 is,  is there a way to "wipe off"     the hard disk?  I men

printing off the internet

2002-04-05 Thread Riggit510
Can you help me,  it's been months sence I have been able to print off the Internet. I can only print from word. Can you Help?

2.4.19-pre-5 not working

2002-04-05 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
i dont know if this is debian-specific but it seems that i am the only one with this problem(i think). i looked at lkml but it seems that they dont have any problems with pre5. when i boot to pre5, it doesnt boot with devfs=mount, but it boots with nomount. is this a devfs problem? or debian? im r

Question concerning MTAs and Databases.

2002-04-05 Thread Petro
Does anybody know of an MTA, plugin, or package that uses a database (Preferbly Mysql) for storage? -- Share and Enjoy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Chart drawing soft ?

2002-04-05 Thread tom poe
Hi: I like xfig. at: http://www.xfig.org/ On Friday 05 April 2002 17:36, Grant Edwards wrote: > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:01:00PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > I would like to know what are the tools available out there to make > > some fancy network drawings. > > I like sketch: sketch.sou

Re: unsubscribe -all

2002-04-05 Thread Greg Ray
Yea I would say that switching to mac comment was a real good comeback considering macs are pcs and they can run the linux kernal. - Original Message - From: "Petro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Shawn McMahon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:49 PM Subject: Re: unsubscrib

Re: unsubscribe -all

2002-04-05 Thread Petro
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 08:47:41AM -0800, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin quoting what Dennis Doeve said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:39:54PM > +0200: > > > No, thanks, I don't want to unsubscribe. > But I agree that you should. While you're at it, you should probably > remove Debian, too. > In fact

Re: Chart drawing soft ?

2002-04-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:01:00PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > I would like to know what are the tools available out there to make > some fancy network drawings. I like sketch: sketch.sourceforge.net It doesn't come with pre-draw clip-art, though. -- Grant Edwards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

SOLVED: X broken after sid update, Matrox driver error

2002-04-05 Thread Paul Mackinney
Simon Hepburn declaimed: > Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > After apt-get dist-updating to the latest version of sid last night > > (approx 2002-04-03 23:00 PST), I can't start X-windows. > > > Anyone else having problems? Should I report a bug? > > Well, is this is a matrox bug or an X bug ? I would

Re: Chart drawing soft ?

2002-04-05 Thread Steve Juranich
Check out xfig. It has some library junk you can get for it for just this kind of thing. 'apt-get install xfig'. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http:/

Re: Debian boot without X?

2002-04-05 Thread Jason Chambers
Why not disable xdm from running by using rcconf, or removing the xdm package if you're not using it for a while. However shutting down xdm using CTRL-R and then running startx does work on my system without any tampering... Ken Sear wrote: If you boot to the xdm login window, don't login bu

Chart drawing soft ?

2002-04-05 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I would like to know what are the tools available out there to make some fancy network drawings. I don't need an engineery tool to document the inner details of a complex network, think of just something to make pretty drawings for a tutorial or the like. It should have a palette of n

Re: confused: primary and extened partition

2002-04-05 Thread Seneca Cunningham
lilifan2 wrote: > Almost all books and docs say that primary partitions can > "contain" extended partitions. And they can. My system has 4 primary and 4 extended partitions, with the extended partitions contained in hd3. > 1. I don't think primary partitions > can physically contain extended pa

Forcing broken essential packages to install

2002-04-05 Thread FFF
Hi, I'm trying to finish my configuration and when setting is configuring some essential packages locales and sendmail, it exits with error "tr : command not found" and "sort:command not found" I've inspected those files and they belong to textutils, which is apparently correctly installed, the st

Re: this list or another

2002-04-05 Thread Chris Jenks
At 04:50 PM 4/5/02, Patrick Kirk wrote: Which is a long way of saying that there are not any other debian-lists that will meet your needs... Didn't there used to be a digest version of this list? IIRC there used to be. I don't think I've seen anything about it for a while though. If it is st

what happened to mysqld?

2002-04-05 Thread Rick Pasotto
I upgraded the testing mysql-server package today and now mysql won't run. /usr/sbin/mysqld is listed in the md5sums but not in the list of files. It is no longer on my system. HELP! -- "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills, that would not be so violent and bloody a measure as it w

Re: Help I've deleted everything unde /var/cache/apt

2002-04-05 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Craig Dickson wrote: > It's a better idea to only clear out packages that are old enough that > you're unlikely to need them again. I like to keep the current version > and one previous version in case a new version doesn't work well. The > attached script maintains /var/cache/

Re: Samba as PDC

2002-04-05 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:21:59 -0800 curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > 1. Can the Samba server be configured to force users to periodically > change their passwords? Don't think so. Just a lng shot in the dark: if you're using shadow passwords on the unix accounts in the Samba server,

confused: primary and extened partition

2002-04-05 Thread lilifan2
Hello,   Almost all books and docs say that primary partitions can "contain" extended partitions.      1.   I don't think primary partitions can physically contain extended parttitions, b/c we can set up only one primary partition as 20mb and  only one extended partition 30 mb which is large

Re: this list or another

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin quoting what Patrick Kirk said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:50:13PM +0100: > > Which is a long way of saying that there are not any other debian-lists > that will meet your needs... Which sounds like an itch to me. He should start a list. If other people want that kind of list, he'll get s

Re: ALSA problems

2002-04-05 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 12:29:20 +0200 Alexander Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have tried to install kernel 2.5.7 and am trying to use > ALSA here. I have a Creative Vibra 16C (SB compatible). Now > ... > way' is here? Should I install the alsa-base or stuff? Do I > still need alsa-source or an

Re: woody vs unstable

2002-04-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 01:45:11AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Florentin Ionescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can anybody please clarify for me - is "woody" identical with > > "testing" or "unstable" ? To be precise: potato -> stable (at this moment) woody -> testing (at this momen

Re: What happened to anXious?

2002-04-05 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 5 Apr 2002, Steve Juranich wrote: > What happened to anXious? I can't find a package for it anywhere. > > Now that it's gone, is there another easy-to-use X configurator out there? > For some reason, xf86config won't do the right thing. I'm running sid with a > 2.4 kernel and XFree86 4.1.

Xemacs Problem: Key-binding

2002-04-05 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I am using woody with the lates xemacs21. When I edit html files, and try to complete with C-c / to give the I get the message: No such face: font-face-keyword-face. When I type M-x sgml-insert-end-tag it works erratically. Sometime it works , sometimes it does not. I do not ha

Re: woody vs unstable

2002-04-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Florentin Ionescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anybody please clarify for me - is "woody" identical with > "testing" or "unstable" ? potato -> stable woody -> testing sid-> unstable > If woody is not identical with unstable can anybody please > paste to me the correct lines for "unsta

Re: debian on old notebook

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin quoting what Karsten M. Self said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:46:43AM -0800: > > - Thinkpad P-133 64 MiB 2GB: networking is borked, Debian > half-installed, no data. Hardware's nice. BIOS config is Legacy MS > Windows only. BIOS config stuff should work on a Legacy DR-OpenDOS

Re: debian on old notebook

2002-04-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> That is too much money for a very old laptop. I just picked up a p100 with > 1.2GB HD and 40MB RAM. This is terribly slow, but usable in light x duty. > You might consider searching around for a pentium or better for your $100. > Ebay is a good place to start if you don't have a good comp

Re[2]: dhcpd.conf

2002-04-05 Thread Alan Poulton
Friday, April 05, 2002, 10:04:00 AM, Brian W. Carver wrote: > # Here's where you set up your range of Dynamic IP Addresses. I set mine > # for 10 because I don't honestly think I'll have more than 10 computers > # hooked up. It is in this range that your Laptop will have an IP Address > # of. You

woody vs unstable

2002-04-05 Thread Florentin Ionescu
Can anybody please clarify for me - is "woody" identical with "testing" or "unstable" ? If woody is not identical with unstable can anybody please paste to me the correct lines for "unstable" from sources.list ? Thank you, Florentin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: debian on old notebook

2002-04-05 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 April 2002 10:49 am, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > i486 at 66Mhz, 8MB RAM, 500MB HDD >ooop, mistake, right prize is $100 > > Right now this notebook luckly run W95(really good usable), so I hope it > > can run few consoles at good speed. >

Re: xemacs on debian = horked

2002-04-05 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"David" == David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Xemacs (xemacs21-21.4.6-7) on Debian appears to be David> completely horked. There are tons of bug reports going David> back over 2-1/2 years, many without so much as an initial David> reply from the maintainer. Many a

Re: xemacs + xml -> error on sid

2002-04-05 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"David" == David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> I am running the latest xemacs on sid David> (xemacs21-21.4.6-7). Whenever I open a .xml or .htm file, David> my screen splits, with the lower half going to an *SGML David> LOG* buffer, which reports "External entity do

Re: Off topic - XML Book?

2002-04-05 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"infotechsys" == infotechsys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: infotechsys> Hi, Can anyone recommend a good book to learn XML? I infotechsys> would like it to be neutral of any language. Thanks. infotechsys> Wayne I can't recommend a specific book, but look online, for example at htt

gnome-gv / libscrollkeeper error with sid

2002-04-05 Thread Klaus Rechert
Hi all anyone got this error ? scrollkeeper-update: relocation error: /usr/lib/libscrollkeeper.so.0: undefined symbol: xmlLoadExtDtdDefaultValue happens while install/upgrade/remove thx klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: shell quoting woes

2002-04-05 Thread jereme
Hi, [snips:] Steve Juranich wrote: > I don't think this is a quoting problem. The problem is your hash mark. > Remember that's a comment character, so you'll need to escape it (put a \ in > front). > > Try something like this: > > nmblookup -R $(eval echo "$username\#03") -U $nbns This wor

Re: Debian boot without X?

2002-04-05 Thread Ken Sear
If you boot to the xdm login window, don't login but key and hold ctrl then key r (those two keys in sequnce) you will go to the command line login, and login. My machine will not allow me to startx after that, and I have to reboot. I havn't figured out how to get it to do that yet. Maybe so

Re: this list or another

2002-04-05 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 20:11, adam wrote: > Hi all, [snip] > Now, I'm not criticising this list (debian-user), but I find myself deleting > messages from this list that I haven't even had time to read the subject of > ! So I'm wondering if anyone knows of a debian-user/admin list that runs the > sam

Re: re-post: gnome terminal woe

2002-04-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 01:32:01PM -0700, dave mallery wrote: > hi > > there was a new gnome-terminal in this morning's 20mb of apt-get. > however, it is still broken: > > prompt>gnome-terminal > gnome-terminal: relocation error: gnome-terminal: undefined symbol: > zvt_term_set_meta_use_high_bit

Re: shell quoting woes

2002-04-05 Thread Steve Juranich
I don't think this is a quoting problem. The problem is your hash mark. Remember that's a comment character, so you'll need to escape it (put a \ in front). Try something like this: nmblookup -R $(eval echo "$username\#03") -U $nbns I don't think it's necessary to use the '\" stuff. Good l

Re: Help I've deleted everything unde /var/cache/apt

2002-04-05 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Steve Juranich quotation: > I'm pretty sure that apt-get (or maybe apt-cache) does this for you with the > 'autoclean' argument. Not according to its man page, as at least two people have already observed in this thread. Craig pgpMWXlpepcvL.pgp Description: PGP signature

shell quoting woes

2002-04-05 Thread jereme
Hi All, I am having trouble getting a script to produce a quoted string for interpretation by another command. I often have to start VNC sessions from my workstation to some user's Windows machine, since my users all roam between many sites and machine, I have taken to querying ou

Re: Samba as PDC

2002-04-05 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* curtis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Here's three question about configuring Samba as a PDC. > > 1. Can the Samba server be configured to force users to periodically > change their passwords? Not according to smbpasswd(5). > 3. This question may be unrelated to Samba. We have a mixed en

sbpcd cdrom driver

2002-04-05 Thread fti International
Hello All,   Where can i get a sbpcd cd-rom driver?   I'm trying Red Hat, it asks me for this driver during installation. -Cong

Samba as PDC

2002-04-05 Thread curtis
Here's three question about configuring Samba as a PDC. 1. Can the Samba server be configured to force users to periodically change their passwords? 2. I have put this question out before but no one provided an answer, but maybe this time. I remember once talking to MS about CALs for NT Ser

Re: xemacs on debian = horked

2002-04-05 Thread Dan Griswold
I have found Xemacs to be rock solid on Debian. I've run it on Potato, Woody, and Sid. When something has gone wrong, it's usually been another package. And I strongly suspect that most of those bug reports refer to old versions. Maybe this means there's a problem with the bug reporting system (I'm

re-post: gnome terminal woe

2002-04-05 Thread dave mallery
hi there was a new gnome-terminal in this morning's 20mb of apt-get. however, it is still broken: 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 woo

xemacs on debian = horked

2002-04-05 Thread David Wright
Xemacs (xemacs21-21.4.6-7) on Debian appears to be completely horked. There are tons of bug reports going back over 2-1/2 years, many without so much as an initial reply from the maintainer. Many appear to cover very simple but very annoying issues. What's going on? Is this package orphaned? A Lin

Re: debian on old notebook

2002-04-05 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 07:04:52PM +0200, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: >Hi all, > >I have few question. Most of time I'm at college and twice a months >I go home for a weekend. I dont have computer at home, and sometimes >I need to continue at my work (coding and writing articles in VIM). > >I'd like to b

Re: xemacs + xml -> error on sid

2002-04-05 Thread Henrik Enberg
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> uninstall the psgml package. > > $ dpkg -s psgml > Package: psgml > Status: purge ok not-installed > Priority: optional > Section: text > > Thanks for trying, but that's not it. It is. There are no other packages for (X)Emacs that behave that way. It m

Re: Re[4]: FQDN hostname

2002-04-05 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 05 Apr 2002 7:11 pm, Alan Poulton wrote: > Thursday, April 04, 2002, 10:43:10 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > > It seems to me it might be useful for you to take a step away from the > > problem and realise three things. > > > > 1) Its not your computer but each interface that has an IP addres

Re: xemacs + xml -> error on sid

2002-04-05 Thread David Wright
> uninstall the psgml package. Ah, I see. psgml appears to be a seperate package for emacs, but included in the xemacs package. Is there some one I can disable that mode for xemacs? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Mutt and GPG

2002-04-05 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:27:28PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I am trying to setup Mutt so that it automatically retrieves keys from a > keyserver is it is not listed in my public key. So far, I have the > following in my .muttrc: > > set pgp_getkeys_command="gpg --recv-keys --keyserver w

Re: debian on old notebook

2002-04-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 05, 2002, Mirek Dobsicek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I have few question. Most of time I'm at college and twice a months > I go home for a weekend. I dont have computer at home, and sometimes > I need to continue at my work (coding and writing articles in VIM). > > I'd li

Re: xemacs + xml -> error on sid

2002-04-05 Thread David Wright
> uninstall the psgml package. $ dpkg -s psgml Package: psgml Status: purge ok not-installed Priority: optional Section: text Thanks for trying, but that's not it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xemacs + xml -> error on sid

2002-04-05 Thread Henrik Enberg
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am running the latest xemacs on sid (xemacs21-21.4.6-7). Whenever I open > a .xml or .htm file, my screen splits, with the lower half going to an > *SGML LOG* buffer, which reports "External entity doc not found". Then it > says "(1) (error/warning) Err

Re: .bashrc goofiness.

2002-04-05 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 11:26, Steve Juranich wrote: > When I log in to my user account, bash is not reading my .bashrc. I've > checked > the permissions and ownership. It's all as it should be. However, when I > log > in as root, the /root/.bashrc is getting evaluated. > > Does anybody know w

Re: .bashrc goofiness.

2002-04-05 Thread Robert_L
On Friday 05 April 02:26, Steve Juranich wrote: > When I log in to my user account, bash is not reading my .bashrc. I've > checked the permissions and ownership. It's all as it should be. However, > when I log in as root, the /root/.bashrc is getting evaluated. > > Does anybody know what's going

Re: CIPE or other options

2002-04-05 Thread curtis
In addition to CIPE as an option, what do people know and think about S/WAN? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SOLVED IT! Permissions and scsi cdrom?

2002-04-05 Thread dave mallery
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I found the answer! > Sg0 sg1, etc. for generic scsi, which get used somehow but aren't actually > linked to scd0 and scd1 or /cdrom etc., has permissions that don't allow you > to > access them as a user. since sg0 and sg1 etc. don't belong to the cdrom

Mutt and GPG

2002-04-05 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I am trying to setup Mutt so that it automatically retrieves keys from a keyserver is it is not listed in my public key. So far, I have the following in my .muttrc: set pgp_getkeys_command="gpg --recv-keys --keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net %r > /dev/null 2>&1" Am I missing something? I grabbed a

.bashrc goofiness.

2002-04-05 Thread Steve Juranich
When I log in to my user account, bash is not reading my .bashrc. I've checked the permissions and ownership. It's all as it should be. However, when I log in as root, the /root/.bashrc is getting evaluated. Does anybody know what's going on? Thanks. -

RE: this list or another

2002-04-05 Thread adam
I think that those who "can't even pay attention to the unsubscribe instructions at the end of each email" are generally those who subscribe and want to leave as soon as they realise what they've subscribed to (we have them on the HPUX list too), but the majority of these people don't ever post que

xemacs + xml -> error on sid

2002-04-05 Thread David Wright
I am running the latest xemacs on sid (xemacs21-21.4.6-7). Whenever I open a .xml or .htm file, my screen splits, with the lower half going to an *SGML LOG* buffer, which reports "External entity doc not found". Then it says "(1) (error/warning) Error in `post-command-hook' (setting hook to nil):

Re: this list or another

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin quoting what adam said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 09:11:25PM +0200: > > I'm a member of an hpux sysadmin mailing list - what I really like about it > is that there is a strict policy : "---> Please post QUESTIONS and SUMMARIES > only!! <---" (automatically added to the end of each post). It wo

this list or another

2002-04-05 Thread adam
Hi all, I'm a member of an hpux sysadmin mailing list - what I really like about it is that there is a strict policy : "---> Please post QUESTIONS and SUMMARIES only!! <---" (automatically added to the end of each post). It works really well - 95% of summaries posted ( http://www.dutchworks.nl/htb

Re: What happened to anXious?

2002-04-05 Thread nate
> What happened to anXious? I can't find a package for it anywhere. > > Now that it's gone, is there another easy-to-use X configurator out > there? For some reason, xf86config won't do the right thing. I'm > running sid with a 2.4 kernel and XFree86 4.1. I have an ATI Radeon > 7200, and rad

Re: dhcpd.conf

2002-04-05 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin quoting what Brian W. Carver said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:04:00AM -0800: > > Here's my dhcpd.conf. I wanted my IP addresses to start with 192.168.0.1 and > go > up from there. I wonder if that is part of the problem (described below)? Wait a minute; your server is 192.168.0.1, and yo

Re: Help I've deleted everything unde /var/cache/apt

2002-04-05 Thread Steve Juranich
I'm pretty sure that apt-get (or maybe apt-cache) does this for you with the 'autoclean' argument. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washin

Re: debian on old notebook

2002-04-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Right now this notebook luckly run W95(really good usable), so I hope it > can run few consoles at good speed. > just consoles and just text editing (not write code, compile, debug) you should be fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

What happened to anXious?

2002-04-05 Thread Steve Juranich
What happened to anXious? I can't find a package for it anywhere. Now that it's gone, is there another easy-to-use X configurator out there? For some reason, xf86config won't do the right thing. I'm running sid with a 2.4 kernel and XFree86 4.1. I have an ATI Radeon 7200, and radeon.o is in

Re: USB Mass Storage in 2.4.18-686

2002-04-05 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Thomas Shemanske quotation: > I use this sandisk reader on 2.4.18 without a problem, but it is not a > stock kernel. I build my own kernels too, but I couldn't get the SDDR-31 to work on 2.4.18 at all, although with essentially the same kernel configuration, it works beautifully on eithe

Re: Help I've deleted everything unde /var/cache/apt

2002-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 05:39:36PM +0100, Pat Colbeck wrote: > I diodn't intend to delete the thing in the first place ! I was > playing with apt-proxy and got interupted by someone and did an rm -Rf > in the wrong console. > > Never mind I know someone who did that in the root directory of the >

Re: Help I've deleted everything unde /var/cache/apt

2002-04-05 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Paul 'Baloo' Johnson quotation: > In the future, if you're just trying to clean out the package cache that > apt keeps, try apt-get clean. It's a better idea to only clear out packages that are old enough that you're unlikely to need them again. I like to keep the current version and one

Re: multimedia keyboard

2002-04-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Patrik Modesto wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 03:48:50PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to ask if is it good idea to buy a multimedia keyboard? > > Can the extra keys be used in X as they are in windoze? (eg. slide > > volume in xmms ... etc.) > > I have some Logit

Re: amazon search with konqueror shortcuts

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:28:48PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi list > > In opera, there is a search field, which loads amazon.com (or .de for me) > with a search for the given words. > I know that in konqueror in the "enhanced browsing" options, one can define > such shortcuts. What I woul

Re: mail client and maildir

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:24:21PM -0800, Jeff wrote: > Is that any mail client that supports maildirs, other than Mutt > of course? I seem to remember that KMail uses a Maildir-ish format...I switched to mutt a while back tho, so I'm not sure. -rob -- I did not vote for the Australian governme

Re: alternative to tarballs

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 07:59:31AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > 2. Install packages in /usr/local using 'make install' and then use >equivs to let the packaging system know you've installed a package >manually. If you're doing this, I highly recommend using GNU Stow (packaged for debian, o

Re: PS/2 mouse erratic in X and more

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:51:15PM +0200, 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 "Input

Re: Xemacs error message

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 12:32:01AM -0800, Sam wrote: > I use Xemacs version 21.4. Everytime I start it, I get the message > "No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default..." > Why is this and how can I fix it? > Thanx, > Sam I think /etc/mailname is generated by your MTA. If you're running exim, then e

Re: Debian on PS2 with 2.5" IDE raid??

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:16:25PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > I'd like to install Debian on Sony PS2 with 2 2.5" IDE disks as software > raid disk array. Is it possible? Is there anyone having experience? [Disclaimer: I've never tried this, nor thought about it before, but here goes...] I'm su

Re: is 2.2r6 iso available?

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 06:14:10PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello, > > Is there official 2.2r6 iso available? > > Where to download? http://cdimages.debian.org would be the place to look. -rob -- I did not vote for the Australian government. pgpVfGOtOih3g.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian on old notebook

2002-04-05 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
>>Or should I forget it and save $10? ooop, mistake, right prize is $100 You will find the machine extremely slow, compiling anything will take forever. Kernel compiles in about a day on one of those. Sure you won't be doing it, but I just wanted to show you the whole situation. If you can

Re: Debian boot without X?

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:07:16PM +0200, 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? One of the most u

Re: Optimisations for gcc

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 07:21:19PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Thanks to all. Putting them in /etc/profile was the easiest way to make sure > it worked for everyone on the system. > > One thing to remember is that some things don't like being optimised; glibc and gcc come to mind. Apparently

Re: Please Help! Can't install packages!

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Weir
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 packages for about 10 minutes till > the problem rears its ugly head once again. It seems to be a > problem in the default CHLD handler, b

Re: debian on old notebook

2002-04-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Apr-2002 Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > Hi all, > > I have few question. Most of time I'm at college and twice a months > I go home for a weekend. I dont have computer at home, and sometimes > I need to continue at my work (coding and writing articles in VIM). > > I'd like to buy some old noteboo

Re[4]: FQDN hostname

2002-04-05 Thread Alan Poulton
Thursday, April 04, 2002, 10:43:10 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > It seems to me it might be useful for you to take a step away from the > problem and realise three things. > 1) Its not your computer but each interface that has an IP address That makes sense when I pause to think about it. =] As fo

Re: dhcpd.conf

2002-04-05 Thread Brian W. Carver
Mostly solved; thanks so much for the help so far: For the benefit of those who search the archives, here's what got me partially on the web: (Problems and questions follow) Here's my dhcpd.conf. I wanted my IP addresses to start with 192.168.0.1 and go up from there. I wonder if that is part o

Re: KDE3 and Woody

2002-04-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Apr-2002 Patrick Schnorbus wrote: > Is Woody going to use KDE3 or do I need an upgrade to Sid? > KDE3 will likely not end up in woody. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB Mass Storage in 2.4.18-686

2002-04-05 Thread Thomas Shemanske
You should probably also have scsi-generic loaded as a module modprobe sg You could install the package scsiadd, then run scsiadd -s to scan the scsi devices. On occasion (no idea why), I suddenly needed to mount sdb1 instead of sda1. I use this sandisk reader on 2.4.18 without a problem, but

Re: USB Mass Storage in 2.4.18-686

2002-04-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> ># lsmod grep 'usb\|scsi' > usb-storage _ _ _ _ _ _48000 _ 0 _(unused) > scsi_mod _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 84984 _ 2 _[sd_mod usb-storage] > usbcore _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _48192 _ 0 _[uhci usb-storage] > > ... usb-storage is unused though, as if the kernel can't find the > device - which I guess is what the origi

2 apt questions about the mirror archives

2002-04-05 Thread Scott Henson
I have been using a script to update my machine every few days to keep it up to date. The only problem is that lately I have been noticing that none of my packages have been updating. I thought that maybe this was a result of non-us to main change over, but it doesnt make sense. When ever I woul

Re: SOLVED IT! Permissions and scsi cdrom?

2002-04-05 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I found the answer! Sg0 sg1, etc. for generic scsi, which get used somehow but aren't actually linked to scd0 and scd1 or /cdrom etc., has permissions that don't allow you to access them as a user. since sg0 and sg1 etc. don't belong to the cdrom group either, this doesn't help any. I changed my pe

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2002-04-05 Thread Grégory Karékinian
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