Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 09:08:22PM -0700, Kapil Khosla wrote: > Hi, > Is there a program / utility in Linux to find out the information of a > remote host by telling its IP address. I am interested in knowing the > hostname, possibly location (server),of a remote machine whose IP > address is know

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-28 Thread Elizabeth Barham
There is nmap which tries to guess the operating system plus some other things. If you are running those machines and want to found out how things are going, you might consider installing the snmp daemon on them and querying to from remote using the snmp tools. Elizabeth "Kapil Khosla" <[EMAIL P

Re: How was the slink --> potato switch? How will be potato --> woody? When?

2002-04-28 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Josip Rodin wrote: > When you install from scratch you lose the configuration file changes on the > old installation. It is not a problem, since most of the configs are default anyway. > Set the debconf level to critical and you'll only get the most important > questions. May I know how/ what/

Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-28 Thread Kapil Khosla
Hi, Is there a program / utility in Linux to find out the information of a remote host by telling its IP address. I am interested in knowing the hostname, possibly location (server),of a remote machine whose IP address is known to me, Thanks Kapil See Dave Matthews Band live or win a signed gu

Re: Home brew

2002-04-28 Thread j y
I'm just a novice with Linux-better with hardware, I guess. I put together a Athlon 900Mhz machine and I only run Linux on it. It wouldn't be hard to install XP, but I'm anti Microsoft. (a former Mac user) I had little problem putting together/selecting the components. Try computergeeks.com they

Re: stumped on xfonts-terminus

2002-04-28 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:16:24PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > But on a 14 inch 1600x1200 screen it's too small. Can anyone > recommend any good fixed-width fonts which are available in > large sizes? (truetype/bitmap/whatever) I've searched and > searched and can't find something I like.

dynamically generated files

2002-04-28 Thread Scott Henson
I need something that dynamically generates files on the file system. Much like cgi. I need it to just happen when a program accesses the file. It will only be reading said file not executing it. Anyone have any ideas on how to do this on a woody system with ext3 fs? Thanks -- -Peace kid Sc

Re: apt did not isntall, cant find it on my hard drive

2002-04-28 Thread ben
On Sunday 28 April 2002 06:21 pm, Ted Goodridge, Jr wrote: > I installed debian recently, and I cannot find apt on my hard drive > (need to install more packages). Using find found its conf files, but > no executable. > > Sorry for replying off list, I hit reply and with most lists I'm on that > s

xdvi won't display small caps from postscript fonts

2002-04-28 Thread Richard Cobbe
Evening, all. I just noticed some odd behavior from the xdvi in woody; it doesn't seem to display small caps from postscript fonts correctly. The following LaTeX file demonstrates the problem nicely: % \documentclass{article} \usepackage{palatino} \begin{document} THIS IS ALL

Re: lame and Debian packages

2002-04-28 Thread Karsten Heymann
* stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020429 03:28]: > I need to be able to encode files from DC's to MP#'s (yes I know there > are problems with this format. > > I found the lame source on SourceFoorge (what a great resource!), and > when I unpacked it, I discovered that it had a debbian subdorectory. > So

Re: apt did not isntall, cant find it on my hard drive

2002-04-28 Thread Mark
On Sunday 28 April 2002 06:21 pm, Ted Goodridge, Jr wrote: > I installed debian recently, and I cannot find apt on my hard drive > (need to install more packages). Using find found its conf files, but > no executable. > > Sorry for replying off list, I hit reply and with most lists I'm on that > s

Re: apt/dpkg problem

2002-04-28 Thread Peter Parkes
Thanks for your help, guys, but I think that I have fixed things. I seem to have got things working by using the backup.1 as the status file. I know that this might leave my system thinking that things are installed when they are not (and vise-versa) but I figure that I can work through the diff an

apt did not isntall, cant find it on my hard drive

2002-04-28 Thread Ted Goodridge, Jr
I installed debian recently, and I cannot find apt on my hard drive (need to install more packages). Using find found its conf files, but no executable. Sorry for replying off list, I hit reply and with most lists I'm on that sends back to the list. Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: how to create a link of another directory in home directory ...2

2002-04-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 08:39:02PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin Eric G. Miller quotation: > > > > And, in the context of using "ln", your point is? > > That question is unanswerable, because it contains a faulty assumption. And the faulty assumption is? The OP was asking about linking t

Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Noah Sombrero quotation: > > on a promise 66 card. Don't know why potato > thinks it is e. Is it possible that woody thinks it > is something else? dmesg | grep ^hd -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's mor

Re: Mozilla Mail

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Carlos Sousa quotation: > > When the time came for me to see this particular light, and establish > the mail setup you so aptly describe, all my explorations of Mozilla led > me to give up on it, as it *insists* on fetching email from a pop/imap > server (at least for versions up to 0.9.8,

Re: how to create a link of another directory in home directory ...2

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Eric G. Miller quotation: > > And, in the context of using "ln", your point is? That question is unanswerable, because it contains a faulty assumption. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way

Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:21:06PM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:10:05 -0400, you wrote: > > >Did you install a new kernel when you upgraded to woody? woody should > >boot with same kernel you had with potato. > > You mean I can't use the new 2.4 line? Naw, that can't be

Re: Re: Hard Discs and Virtual Memory ...

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Soul Computer quotation: > > I will word wrap manually by pressing . I > apologize for any problems Earthlink's Webmail may > have cuased everyone. Please configure it to do proper quoting. If it can't, complain to customer service. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws

Re: lame and Debian packages

2002-04-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 07:41:57AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin> Generally speaking, do as little as possible as root. You > Colin> don't need root privileges to build Debian packages at all; > Colin> just install fa

Re: Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:53:14PM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 14:35:48 -0700, you wrote: > > >Not just to you but Debian is cautious when it comes to Kernel upgrade. > >Changing sources.list does not upgrade kernel from 2.2 to 2.4. > > > >It requires you to install and at th

Re: apt did not install

2002-04-28 Thread ben
On Sunday 28 April 2002 04:07 pm, Ted Goodridge, Jr wrote: > Apt is nowhere on my hard drive... find / -name apt doesn't find an > executable. > ted, first off, it's generally considered not only impolite but also unproductive to reply off-list to issues raised on the list. in general, unless yo

Re: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock...

2002-04-28 Thread Marcin Fusinski
Greetings Donald, On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > I have a couple of friends that had similar problems & complaints. In > one case the "sr" block device was not being loaded, and in the second > case the "scd0" was not sym-linked to the "sr0" device. In both cases > they got the

pppd mulfunction ???

2002-04-28 Thread Debian User
Please help. First I should mention that I'm using 2.2.19 version of kernel. Use pon command to dial out. I have problems with pppd daemon configured in /etc/ppp/options as follows asyncmap 0 crtscts lock modem netmask 255.255.255.0 noipdefault -vj lcp-echo-interval 30< 1) disabled sti

Re: Reading to turn computer into internet router for modem

2002-04-28 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I do just what you're asking about. You should use your linux box as the gateway machine. You could use your windows box as the gateway if you use winroute but it sux rox. I had files corrupted when I FTP'ed through a winroute gateway. What you do is use one of the network addresses that is

Re: apt did not install

2002-04-28 Thread ben
On Sunday 28 April 2002 03:44 pm, Ted Goodridge, Jr wrote: > For some reason apt did not install...I don't know why. Am I going to > have to reinstall the system? > a bit more specific information about your situation would go a long towards enabling others to help you. precisely what is it that

Re: Reading to turn computer into internet router for modem

2002-04-28 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Michael W. Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-29 00:31]: >I am trying to figure out how to create an internet router for two >computers. One is a linux and the other is a windows 98. I just want >to be able to have access to the internet on either at any time. >Could someone please direct me

Re: ethernet problem, driver or hardware

2002-04-28 Thread ben
On Saturday 27 April 2002 06:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've only just gotten this system onto the network (after 4 months (that > long?!) of trying). The probem of the past was my borked ethernet card. > It has just been replaced (warranties are good for something), but now I > have a possi

apt did not install

2002-04-28 Thread Ted Goodridge, Jr
For some reason apt did not install...I don't know why. Am I going to have to reinstall the system? Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lame and Debian packages

2002-04-28 Thread marshal
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:08:36AM +0900, Colin> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > "stan" == stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> stan> I found the lame source on SourceFoorge (what a great stan> resource!), a

Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > will just display EUR instead of either the euro sign or the > ring-with-four-dashes sign (what is that anyway?) in different places. The currency symbol "ยค"? -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to create a link of another directory in home directory ...2

2002-04-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:42:06AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin Eric G. Miller quotation: > > > > Some might argue that hard links are a bad thing and should be > > avoided. > > Others might point out that there is at least one hard link to EVERY > file that appears in a directory listing

Reading to turn computer into internet router for modem

2002-04-28 Thread Michael W. Cole
I am trying to figure out how to create an internet router for two computers. One is a linux and the other is a windows 98. I just want to be able to have access to the internet on either at any time. Could someone please direct me to what I should be reading to learn how to do this? Thank you,

Re: Re: Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Noah Sombrero
>Anyway, I can assure you this initrd scheme and highly modular >pre-packaged 2.4 kernel-image need steap lerning curve. It was tough >on me. > Thanks for your useful advice. Gleason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: pgaccess and latin1

2002-04-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 12:49:18PM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > Hi Eric, > > "Eric G. Miller" writes: > > >> I am trying out postgresql and pgaccess. I have a charset problem with > >> pgaccess. When I insert data with pgaccess I cannot insert german > >> umlauts. Typing a-umlaut end up in

Re: Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:53:14PM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 14:35:48 -0700, you wrote: > > >Not just to you but Debian is cautious when it comes to Kernel upgrade. > >Changing sources.list does not upgrade kernel from 2.2 to 2.4. > > > >It requires you to install and at th

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-28 Thread Dave Carrigan
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Then, my mail filters filter the spam based on the color. I have yet to > > find any false positives at yellow and above, so my comfort level is > > getting close to bit-bucketing orange and red, and rejecting yellow with > > a message that it's flagg

Re: pppd and reconnect ?!?

2002-04-28 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Do you mean put "persist" in /etc/ppp/options? Thats what I would do. -- Arthur H. Johnson II Catechist, St John Catholic Church, Davison MI USA President, Genesee County Linux Users Group Debian GNU/Linux Advocate On 28 Apr 2002, David Bell wrote: > There should be a persist option in pppcon

Re: simple dpkg & compile from source question

2002-04-28 Thread craigw
On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 12:31:50PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * craigw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020428 09:31]: > > a-ha. Thank you. I've been wondering about that. You see, the manpage > > for dpkg lists a -R flag twice, and I find it very confusing. First is > > this one: > > > > -R | --recursive >

Re: Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 14:35:48 -0700, you wrote: >Not just to you but Debian is cautious when it comes to Kernel upgrade. >Changing sources.list does not upgrade kernel from 2.2 to 2.4. > >It requires you to install and at the same time configure few things. >Mostly initrd related staff. did apt-ge

Re: PCI IDE controller - how to make it work?

2002-04-28 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:59:07PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > I just got PCI IDE controller and have troubles making it work with > linux (2.4.18). > > the docs in linux/Documentation/ide.txt say that linux will probe for > ide devices that have device files in /dev or that I can force it to

RE: simple dpkg & compile from source question

2002-04-28 Thread justin cunningham
Thanks for the replies. Package: qmailadmin_0.45-1_i386.deb built from qmailadmin-0.45.tar.gz. Current build: qmailadmin-1.0.2.tar.gz This was pulled down from apt source and built by a friend of mine last year and is running on my mta. I've set up all other qmail/vpopmail packages and they'r

Re: courier-imap and windows mail client

2002-04-28 Thread Brian Nelson
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 04:21:43PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > I just install courier-imap on my system to let my dad receive mail on > | > it. The documentation is exceedingly sparse. I couldn't even find > | > an

Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:21:06PM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:10:05 -0400, you wrote: > > >Did you install a new kernel when you upgraded to woody? woody should > >boot with same kernel you had with potato. > > You mean I can't use the new 2.4 line? Naw, that can't be

Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:10:05 -0400, you wrote: >Did you install a new kernel when you upgraded to woody? woody should >boot with same kernel you had with potato. You mean I can't use the new 2.4 line? Naw, that can't be right. Maybe I can't be trusted will all this new complicated stuff, spose?

Re: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock...

2002-04-28 Thread Donald R. Spoon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcin Fusinski) wrote: Greetings! I forgot to add that CDRW burns just fine (readable) CDs - the only porblem is with mounting... If anyone knows what causes those probs, please let me know. Thanks. Regards, Martin, I have a couple of friends that had similar problems

Re: uname -a (whats that `unknown`) ?

2002-04-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, (reply only to debian-user) Please do not reply to unrelated topic. Start your thread by sending new message. :) On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:43:38AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > myapp:~# uname -a > Linux myapp2 2.2.19pre17 #1 Tue Mar 13 22:37:59 EST 2001 i686 unknown > myapp:~# > > Hi

uname -a (whats that `unknown`) ?

2002-04-28 Thread louie
myapp:~# uname -a Linux myapp2 2.2.19pre17 #1 Tue Mar 13 22:37:59 EST 2001 i686 unknown myapp:~# Hi i was just wondering what's this "unknown" part on the kernel? is it possible to change it? thanks, louie... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-28 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:41:37PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:10:10PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 06:44:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > This wasn't my problem, it was that of Matijs van Zuijlen. I hope you > > > don't mind me cc'in

Re: jigdo-file for Linux won't run on FreeBSD

2002-04-28 Thread ben
perhaps you don't have linux-compatibility compiled into your kernel. On Sunday 28 April 2002 10:58 am, Steve Brown wrote: > Hello all, > I'm trying to download the Debian CD image with jigsaw-download (jigdo > http://home.in.tum.de/~atterer/jigdo/jigdo-bin-0.6.5.tar.bz2 as per > instructions at j

Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:35:55AM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: > Booting from floppy or hd, stock kernel or handrolled, > this is as close as I can get in booting woody: > > Request-Module[block-major-33]:Root fs not mounted > VFS: cannot open root device "2109" or "21:09" > Please append correct

Re: pppd and reconnect ?!?

2002-04-28 Thread David Bell
There should be a persist option in pppconf that'll do this. On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 13:36, MiB wrote: > Hi > > Woody starts my dsl-connection at boot, but after 24H my isp disconnects > and I have to reconnect with "pon dsl-provider". Is there a way to do > this automaticaly?? -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: problem with Nethack 3.4.0

2002-04-28 Thread Peter De Wachter
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 03:16:17PM -0400, Glenn Becker wrote: > When I start Nethack in console, the basic movement commands h j k and > l, etc, are being interpreted as the corresponding '#' commands ... e.g. > #h #j #k #l. So that when I try to move using the 'j' command, for > example, the game

Re: printing problems

2002-04-28 Thread dman
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 11:41:00PM -0700, David Smead wrote: | Thanks for the Cups suggestion. I've now spent a little time evaluating | that pathway. It smells a little like bait and switch. I understand what you are saying, but only if I stop at the drivers that EasySoft ships with CUPS. You

Re: simple dpkg & compile from source question

2002-04-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* craigw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020428 09:31]: > a-ha. Thank you. I've been wondering about that. You see, the manpage > for dpkg lists a -R flag twice, and I find it very confusing. First is > this one: > > -R | --recursive > (recursively install all debs in dir & subdirs) > > Okay, makes

Re: courier-imap and windows mail client

2002-04-28 Thread dman
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 04:21:43PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > I just install courier-imap on my system to let my dad receive mail on | > it. The documentation is exceedingly sparse. I couldn't even find | > any mention of where it expects the folders to b

Re: Will Gnome 2.0 make it inot Woody?

2002-04-28 Thread craigw
On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 01:42:43PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:54:19PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:36:38AM -0400, stan wrote: > > > > Just curiosn > > > > > > I doubt it. If the projections hold

problem with Nethack 3.4.0

2002-04-28 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi - I wasn't sure whether it would be better to send this to nethack.org or to the Debian list ... anyhoo ... When I start Nethack in console, the basic movement commands h j k and l, etc, are being interpreted as the corresponding '#' commands ... e.g. #h #j #k #l. So that when I try to move us

Re: Easy creation of input forms & reports for PostgreSql?

2002-04-28 Thread Larry Holish
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 09:47:52AM -0400, stan wrote: > I want to create a few databases to manage household inventory, music > collection etc. I plan on using Postgres for this. > > I was wondering if there were any easy tools to generate the user front > ends (like forms in Oracle), and reports

Problem with nut and Cyberpower 1250AVR

2002-04-28 Thread Bill Bell
Hello all, I have a Cyberpower 1250AVR connected to /dev/ttyS1 on my up-to-date Sid maching running nut. When I run "/etc/init.d/nut start" the shell just hangs with- Starting Network UPS Tools: I need to break out with to get back to the shell. Then I get the remaing- Starting Network UP

Re: Will Gnome 2.0 make it inot Woody?

2002-04-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:54:19PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:36:38AM -0400, stan wrote: > > > Just curiosn > > > > I doubt it. If the projections hold, it won't be released until after > > woody, and the GNOME 2 people have

Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:10:10PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 06:44:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > This wasn't my problem, it was that of Matijs van Zuijlen. I hope you > > don't mind me cc'ing your message back to the list so that he can see > > it. > > > > I'

pppd and reconnect ?!?

2002-04-28 Thread MiB
Hi Woody starts my dsl-connection at boot, but after 24H my isp disconnects and I have to reconnect with "pon dsl-provider". Is there a way to do this automaticaly?? thx a lot regards MiB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Does libqt3 refers to kde3

2002-04-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:19:46PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi Colin! Best cc me if you want me to respond - I just read this list in the mbox archives on master. > On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > [...] but KDE3 > > will not make it into woody at this stage. > > What's the reaso

Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:13:23 -0700, you wrote: >On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 01:35:55AM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> Booting from floppy or hd, stock kernel or handrolled, >> this is as close as I can get in booting woody: >> >> Request-Module[block-major-33]:Root fs not mounted >> VFS: cannot open

Re: Re: Hard Discs and Virtual Memory ...

2002-04-28 Thread Soul Computer
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 19:44:22 -0700 (PDT) Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please turn your word wrap on. == I will word wrap manually by pressing . I apologize for any problems Earthlink's Webmail may have cuased everyone. ->Scwa

jigdo-file for Linux won't run on FreeBSD

2002-04-28 Thread Steve Brown
Hello all, I'm trying to download the Debian CD image with jigsaw-download (jigdo http://home.in.tum.de/~atterer/jigdo/jigdo-bin-0.6.5.tar.bz2 as per instructions at jigdo homepage and debian.org). I'm running FreeBSD 4.5., and I'm a newbie to Debian (not yet installed) It unpacks fine and jigd

Re: Mozilla Mail

2002-04-28 Thread craigw
On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 12:28:29PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently using Mozilla for mail and news. I have the pop3 client > placed in the account settings and it all works fine, but what I want to > do is use fetchmail to gather my mail so as I get my pop3 mail, my > syst

Re: lame and Debian packages

2002-04-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:08:36AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "stan" == stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > stan> I found the lame source on SourceFoorge (what a great > stan> resource!), and when I unpacked it, I discovered that it had > stan> a debbian subdorectory. So

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 25)

2002-04-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.18 on a Debian 2.2r6 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. Changes in this release: + added: acpid + added: jfsutils + added: raidtools2 + updated: pcmcia-cs (3.1.29-4 -> 3.1.33-

Re: XFree 4.1.0.1 debian/testing keyboard freeze problem

2002-04-28 Thread craigw
What kind of keyboards are you guys using? Are they USB keyboards? On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 10:51:04PM +1000, mobtek mobtekl wrote: > On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 12:22:47 +0200 > Bart Matthaei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> banged a keyboard: > > I'm using XFree86 4.2.0 on sid and I get the exact same thing, does you

Re: simple dpkg & compile from source question

2002-04-28 Thread craigw
On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 01:51:39AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * craigw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020426 20:19]: > > > > I don't think you need to build your own to accomplish this. > > > > dpkg -i -R /usr/local package.deb > > > > should install 'package' in /usr/local > > > > If I am wrong please

Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread craigw
On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 01:35:55AM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: > Booting from floppy or hd, stock kernel or handrolled, > this is as close as I can get in booting woody: > > Request-Module[block-major-33]:Root fs not mounted > VFS: cannot open root device "2109" or "21:09" > Please append correct

Re: lame and Debian packages

2002-04-28 Thread marshal
> "stan" == stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: stan> I found the lame source on SourceFoorge (what a great stan> resource!), and when I unpacked it, I discovered that it had stan> a debbian subdorectory. So here is the question. as root, try, from the source packaged base directory

lame and Debian packages

2002-04-28 Thread stan
I need to be able to encode files from DC's to MP#'s (yes I know there are problems with this format. I found the lame source on SourceFoorge (what a great resource!), and when I unpacked it, I discovered that it had a debbian subdorectory. So here is the question. How do I take advantage of th

Re: Mozilla Mail

2002-04-28 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 12:28:29 +0100 "Keith O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... what I want to do is use fetchmail to gather my mail so as I get > my pop3 mail, my system mail and my mail generated from within the > local network all in one client Ah, another follower of the One True Path..

Re: courier-imap and windows mail client

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Jamin W. Collins quotation: > > And for those of you that may claim Linux is too difficult to understand > for most users. My mother made the switch a while back. She's in her > 50's and happily running Debian. My experience is the same. And, if they're using Linux, you don't have to ha

Re: Memory strange behaviour

2002-04-28 Thread Willy Sutrisno
* Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > RedHat hasn't shipped a 2.4.10 kernel for 7.2. As of last Friday the > latest they'd shipped was a 2.4.9 with a ton of backports by Alan Cox, > including VM fixes. Yes, you are right, it is not 2.4.10. I have recall wrongly. > However, the real answer

mac powerbook installation question

2002-04-28 Thread jason kahn
hello i am new to debian and want to install v. 2.2r5 on my macintosh g3 powerbook "wallstreet" from a set of bootable cd's i purchased. i have read the installation manual several times but it is not clear to me how i can boot from the cd's i have. there are files for "dists" ".disk" and "ins

Re: Java problem

2002-04-28 Thread Mental
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 08:05:10PM +0200, Jesper Holmberg wrote: > > > * On Sat Apr 27, Dale Hair wrote: > > You might try the latest version. I'm using j2re1.3_1.3.1_i386.deb with > > no problems. > > I use the latest versions: mozilla-browser_0.9.9-6_i386.deb >j2sd

Re: how to create a link of another directory in home directory ...2

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Eric G. Miller quotation: > > Some might argue that hard links are a bad thing and should be > avoided. Others might point out that there is at least one hard link to EVERY file that appears in a directory listing. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: h

Re: courier-imap and windows mail client

2002-04-28 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 10:23:51 -0400 "Shawn McMahon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin Patrick Kirk quotation: > > > Lookout/Lookout Express (never!) > > Not very Pc to ask but why not? Its probably the one that your Dad > > will find easiest and that means a lot. > > Why not remove the lock

Re: courier-imap and windows mail client

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Patrick Kirk quotation: > > Lookout/Lookout Express (never!) > Not very Pc to ask but why not? Its probably the one that your Dad > will find easiest and that means a lot. Why not remove the lock from his front door? He'll find that easiest... Intentionally getting a family member hoo

Re: lease line

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Oi Yan quotation: > > Anyone can explain to me the different between T3 and DS3? Yes; your telephone company. > and suggest the website to me about lease line Your telephone company's web site. Or Google. STFW. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: h

Re: USB in woody

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Joachim Fahnenmueller quotation: > > you will get more and better answers if you post in English. Or, alternately, post in German on the German list. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to

Re: Memory strange behaviour

2002-04-28 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 10:00:25 -0400 "Shawn McMahon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin Willy Sutrisno quotation: > > > > > What version of RedHat? With what kernel? > > I was using RedHat 7.2, the kernel should be 2.4.10 > > RedHat hasn't shipped a 2.4.10 kernel for 7.2. Perhaps the author w

Re: Memory strange behaviour

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Willy Sutrisno quotation: > > > What version of RedHat? With what kernel? > I was using RedHat 7.2, the kernel should be 2.4.10 RedHat hasn't shipped a 2.4.10 kernel for 7.2. As of last Friday the latest they'd shipped was a 2.4.9 with a ton of backports by Alan Cox, including VM fixes.

Re: OT: MP3 streams sought

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin martin f krafft quotation: > > so what i am really looking for is some MP3 broadcast station out > there which plays psychedelic and progressive rock from the sixties > and early seventies, maybe even a little new age. bowie, floyd, yes, STFW. -- Shawn McMahon| McMah

Re: "keyboard: unknown e1 escape sequence"

2002-04-28 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 01:10:55 -0400 "Paul Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm using a Logitech iTouch cordless keyboard and I keep getting > messages to the console saying "keyboard: unknown e1 escape sequence" > .. they're driving me crazy, as it is extremely anonying when I'm

Easy creation of input forms & reports for PostgreSql?

2002-04-28 Thread stan
I want to create a few databases to manage household inventory, music collection etc. I plan on using Postgres for this. I was wondering if there were any easy tools to generate the user front ends (like forms in Oracle), and reports for this? If so, are the available as Debian packages? -- "Th

ethernet problem, driver or hardware

2002-04-28 Thread seneca-cunningham
I've only just gotten this system onto the network (after 4 months (that long?!) of trying). The probem of the past was my borked ethernet card. It has just been replaced (warranties are good for something), but now I have a possibly not hardware problem. Simply stated, after this system is online

Re: XFree 4.1.0.1 debian/testing keyboard freeze problem

2002-04-28 Thread mobtek mobtekl
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 12:22:47 +0200 Bart Matthaei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> banged a keyboard: I'm using XFree86 4.2.0 on sid and I get the exact same thing, does your system seem to slow down alot before hand? I changed the kernel from 2.4.13 to 2.4.18 and the slowdown problem isn't there now (go figur

Re: alpha-release of a bug-report & some questions

2002-04-28 Thread John Habermann
Here is a copy of /etc/apt/sources.list. I run unstable and although I am in Australia often find that it is quicker to run it of the main US servers which is why they are the uncommented ones. If you want to get your system to woody (ie testing) just uncomment the lines pointing to testing and

Re: printing problems

2002-04-28 Thread marshal
> "David" == David Smead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> I have three printers - a 300 dpi HP LaserJet III, a 600 David> dpi HP LaserJet 4, and a 1200 dpi HP 8100 DN with duplexer. David> The later printer is used for data sheets, manuals, and David> catalogs, printed on 11

Re: version 4 of X installation

2002-04-28 Thread HdV
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Jonathan David Pearce wrote: > Just installed xserver-xfree86 and chose to manage my XF86Config-4 file > using debconf. I went through the configuration process and tried to > startx. Now I get > > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration > > Fatal server error

Re: bind9 reloading a million times

2002-04-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.28.1329 +0200]: > It's been a while since I did any serious work with bind, but it sounds > like something is killing named. but named is not being killed. it's reloading... but: i found the problem just because i happened to get onto the syste

Re: Debian's position on MP3 encoders?

2002-04-28 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 27 Apr 2002 22:01:14 -0500 "Shyamal Prasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now if I can ask one more quetion: what's a good jukebox? I have about > 180 CDs I want to rip and be able to managed. Jamin, what did you feed > those play lists into? Well, I like to keep my ripped CDs organized in the

Re: bind9 reloading a million times

2002-04-28 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 28 April 2002 06:08 am, martin f krafft wrote: > every now and then, my bind logs are filled with hundreds and > thousands of the following: > > general: info: loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf' > > one every second, producing 200kb of logging data or more. It's been

Mozilla Mail

2002-04-28 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I am currently using Mozilla for mail and news. I have the pop3 client placed in the account settings and it all works fine, but what I want to do is use fetchmail to gather my mail so as I get my pop3 mail, my system mail and my mail generated from within the local network all in one cli

bind9 reloading a million times

2002-04-28 Thread martin f krafft
hi there, every now and then, my bind logs are filled with hundreds and thousands of the following: general: info: loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf' one every second, producing 200kb of logging data or more. i have no clue how this happens or why this happens, so i'd appreciat

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