Re: line width +

2002-05-01 Thread j y
I changed the character width on the webmail I use to 72. Let me know if this is acceptable. Sorry if it was causing problems. Also as I've been following some of the responses: many winmodems can now be used with Linux. I don't have the site that supplies that info at my fingertips but if someone

Re: SIOCADDRT : No such device

2002-05-01 Thread David Smead
You'll have to put a driver for your nic in /etc/modules. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 2 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have a similar porblem. > I have upgraded it to 2.4.18 from the source code www.kernel.org. > And when I do ifconfig eth0, I ge

route goes on reboot ?

2002-05-01 Thread Kapil Khosla
Hi, In my current configuration , I have to do an ifconfig eth0 IP addr and route commands everytime I reboot. The problem is on reboot, all these settings "vanish" and I have to give these commands again. I sort of know that these have to be put in some /etc/rc** but am not sure which file do I

Re: Compunding the problem

2002-05-01 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, David Smead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I put off configuring the xserver until I had ssh installed and configured > - perhaps I'm paraonoid from the days that a X screw-up would lock the > keyboard and force a reboot by pulling the power cord. > > Then I used anXious to config X and it de

Re: SIOCADDRT : No such device

2002-05-01 Thread Kapil Khosla
>I have a similar porblem. >I have upgraded it to 2.4.18 from the source code >www.kernel.org. >And when I do ifconfig eth0, I get No such device. >Is there a way to do it ? Well, Thanks to Elizabeth..I made this work under my current kernel version. The problem as Elizabeth mentioned was that

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-01 Thread ben
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 08:17 pm, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > Or, better yet, mail the winmodem back to Wal-Mart, with a "thanks > > anyway, bought a Courier v.Everything external on eBay for $20 instead." > > Better still, purchase a better modem at

Re: SIOCADDRT : No such device

2002-05-01 Thread dkotian3
Hi, I have a similar porblem. I have upgraded it to 2.4.18 from the source code www.kernel.org. And when I do ifconfig eth0, I get No such device. Is there a way to do it ? Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks and Regards Deepak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote "Kapil Khosla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: safe load average

2002-05-01 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 10:15:36PM -0400, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > After the sound of my system thrashing being a better alarmclock than > the conventional variety, I started checking my system's load average > (among other things) periodically. From what I saw in uptime, my average > load averag

Compunding the problem

2002-05-01 Thread David Smead
I put off configuring the xserver until I had ssh installed and configured - perhaps I'm paraonoid from the days that a X screw-up would lock the keyboard and force a reboot by pulling the power cord. Then I used anXious to config X and it decided I need the mach 64 server, so I let the beast run

Re: Installing Potato or Woody?

2002-05-01 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
me& wrote: > if one would need to install a production server would he choose Potato or > Woody? I have nothing against installing Potato but what bothers me is > ipchains and the relative old kernel. Do I need to be worried about future > packages, who can be interesting, who will not being able

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-01 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote: > Or, better yet, mail the winmodem back to Wal-Mart, with a "thanks > anyway, bought a Courier v.Everything external on eBay for $20 instead." Better still, purchase a better modem at WalMart, put the sound card claiming to be a modem in the modem box, an

Re: Digital camera usb and Debian

2002-05-01 Thread Craig Dickson
Quenten Griffith wrote: > Anyone have any experince with Debian or Linux in general on how to hook > up a digital camera to it through the USB port and to be able to pull > the pics off of the compact flash card. The camerea I just got is the > Minolta Dimage S404 if it matters by the camera. Or

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-01 Thread dman
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 08:37:15PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: | begin alex quotation: | > | > Most of the difficulties were with the winmodem. Some could not get the | | IMHO, this shouldn't deter anybody. This is a good enough price on | these systems that you can pitch the winmodem in the t

Re: SCSI Tape Device

2002-05-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 05:20:05PM -0700, curtis wrote: > There have been some good posts concerning SCSI device modules that > have helped me try to correct my problem, but nonetheless, I'm still stuck. > > Ok, here is more information. > > When I was using kernel 2.2.xxx my SCSI tape drive wo

Woody Release questions...

2002-05-01 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
When woody is officially "released", does that mean it will eventually be called "stable"?? If so, does that mean that having "testing" in my sources.list will actually try to grab packages from the next release? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: how to configure adsl?

2002-05-01 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 20:51, andrej hocevar wrote: > Hello, > I'm helping a friend configure his first Debian/Linux box. He's got adsl > access to the internet but I don't really know what it is -- if I'm not > mistaken, he needs kernel 2.4 with pppoe support and the pppoe programs > (pppoe, pppoec

Re: Konqueror takes forever to load

2002-05-01 Thread craigw
On Wed May 01, 2002 at 09:00:34PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > dman wrote: > > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 07:38:40PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > > | I normally use Mozilla for the web and a shell for local file browsing > > | on a Gnome desktop(up to date testing system), but occasionally I want >

Both kernels are installed. s/lilo/grub/g (Re: cannot upgrade kernel 2.4.16 -> 2.4.18)

2002-05-01 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 15:29, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Greetings, Karl. > > You recall that, upon discovering that the network was down after > I upgraded from kernel 2.2.20 to 2.4.18-586tsc, I rebooted from floppy and > installed kernel 2.4.16-586tsc (the only other suitable alternati

safe load average

2002-05-01 Thread Seneca Cunningham
After the sound of my system thrashing being a better alarmclock than the conventional variety, I started checking my system's load average (among other things) periodically. From what I saw in uptime, my average load average tends to range from 1.0 to 3.0, with occasional spikes up to 6.75 (which

diald extreme slowness

2002-05-01 Thread Matt Garman
I'm running Debian "potato" as my firewall/lan gateway/diald server. The box is running diald 0.99.1-1. Diald works almost as expected (connects to the Internet, hangs up after timeout). Diald dials and gets PPP up and running rather quickly. However, the connection that triggered diald has to

Re: can't compile my QT3 programs

2002-05-01 Thread craigw
Not sure how helpful this will be, as I installed qt-3 from source, but when you install something called libqt3-dev, I would certainly expect it to contain some libs! On my box I have libqt1g-dev which was installed from the deb package, and it placed all the relevant files in a directory named /

Re: how to configure adsl?

2002-05-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
ADSL doesn't necessarily require pppoe. It depends on how the ISP has configured their system. In my case, I was given a static IP and all I needed to do was configure networking to use this IP with my ISP's gateway and DNS. With dynamic IPs, I believe some use DHCP instead of pppoe. I don't th

Re: "Provides: foo" doesn't satisfy "Depends: foo"

2002-05-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:42:00AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > So, if I've installed libgd1-noxpm, which "Provides: libgd1", at version > 1.8.4-16, that satisfies analog's dependency on "libgd1 (>= 1.8.4-7)". > Right? Nope. dpkg doesn't handle versioned provides - a long-standing deficiency, but qu

Re: Digital camera usb and Debian

2002-05-01 Thread Quenten Griffith
Thanks that did it Pedro Díaz Jiménez wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > If your camera uses the usb mass storage standard you should have no problem > with it (just recompile your kernel, insmod usb-storage and voila!, you have > a new scsi device representing the flash

[Fwd: SCSI Tape Device] -- Forget it

2002-05-01 Thread curtis
Forget my post. It's now working! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Konqueror takes forever to load

2002-05-01 Thread Travis Crump
dman wrote: On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 07:38:40PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: | I normally use Mozilla for the web and a shell for local file browsing | on a Gnome desktop(up to date testing system), but occasionally I want | to use Konqueror for one reason or another. The problem is that it | ta

Re: rlogin without a password

2002-05-01 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Dougie Nisbet quotation: > This used to be a piece of cake, but now in the Brave New SSH world, it's a > right royal pain. All I want to do, is switch on my laptop, and remsh to my > server, without specifying a username or password. Can I do this with ssh, > and if not, how do I install

how to configure adsl?

2002-05-01 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, I'm helping a friend configure his first Debian/Linux box. He's got adsl access to the internet but I don't really know what it is -- if I'm not mistaken, he needs kernel 2.4 with pppoe support and the pppoe programs (pppoe, pppoeconf, ...). Is there basically anything else? Thank you, andr

Re: Digital camera usb and Debian

2002-05-01 Thread David Bell
Hi, I use gphoto2 for this purpose on my Olympus D-460 camera. It works quite well. Hope this helps! Quenten Griffith said: > Anyone have any experince with Debian or Linux in general on how to > hook up a digital camera to it through the USB port and to be able to > pull the pics off of the comp

Re: Xpdq trouble

2002-05-01 Thread marshal
> "DSC" == DSC Siltec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DSC> Please cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSC> Hi, I have woody and KDE. I'm trying to get PDQ, especially DSC> XPDQ, up and running. DSC> I tried to install PDQ from Dselect, and that didn't seem DSC> to work. What do you

Re: Digital camera usb and Debian

2002-05-01 Thread Pedro Díaz Jiménez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If your camera uses the usb mass storage standard you should have no problem with it (just recompile your kernel, insmod usb-storage and voila!, you have a new scsi device representing the flash memory in the camera). If not, try gphoto (www.gphoto.

"Provides: foo" doesn't satisfy "Depends: foo"

2002-05-01 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, (I'm not currently subscribed to debian-user, please Cc: me on replies.) On a box I administrate, I want to run analog. Analog "Depends: libgd1" to draw graphs: = $ apt-cache show analog |grep Depends Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libgd1 (>= 1.8.4-7), libjpeg62, libpcre3, libpng2

Re: OpenOffice apt install problem

2002-05-01 Thread Alan Shutko
curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS. I wish to add. Whether I try to run openoffice as root or self, I get the > following message: > > /usr/lib/openoffice/program/setup.bin: error while loading shared > libraries: libstlport_gcc.so.4.5: cannot open shared object file: No There is an undecla

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-01 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin alex quotation: > > Most of the difficulties were with the winmodem. Some could not get the IMHO, this shouldn't deter anybody. This is a good enough price on these systems that you can pitch the winmodem in the trash (where it belongs) and throw on a real modem, and not miss the $10 you

Re: debian.org down?

2002-05-01 Thread Cam Ellison
I have not been able to get anything out of kde.debian.net (which is another name for kde.tdyc.com, from my attempt to ping it). I suppose that's because of kde 3.0 coming out. I can get everything else Josh has listed. Cam * Josh Everist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just tried apt-get ins

Re: SIOCADDRT : No such device

2002-05-01 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"Kapil Khosla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I want to set up the route of my newly setup network. I have DEC > 21143 chipsets and I have compiled/insmod the driver but am not sure > if it works as I dont have the networking set up yet. I am working > with Potato 2.2.19 kernel. > Do I need ne

SCSI Tape Device

2002-05-01 Thread curtis
There have been some good posts concerning SCSI device modules that have helped me try to correct my problem, but nonetheless, I'm still stuck. Ok, here is more information. When I was using kernel 2.2.xxx my SCSI tape drive worked. Provided immediately below I am attaching those sections of d

Re: Konqueror takes forever to load

2002-05-01 Thread dman
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 07:38:40PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: | I normally use Mozilla for the web and a shell for local file browsing | on a Gnome desktop(up to date testing system), but occasionally I want | to use Konqueror for one reason or another. The problem is that it | takes 8 or 9 *mi

Re: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-01 Thread dman
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:23:28AM +1000, Wienand Ian wrote: | The latest kernels all recommend swap == 2 * RAM, so I'd increase that swap | partition to at least 400mb 400MB of swap is way too much. I have 256MB swap and 256MB RAM. This gives me 512MB total. I run gnome, galeon, zope, apache

Re: OpenOffice apt install problem

2002-05-01 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 01 May 2002 14:33:05 -0700 "curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I posted this on debian-openoffice, but haven't got a response yet. I > thought maybe someone here might know the answer: I haven't attempted to use the Debian Open Office packages yet, but do infrequently use Open Office

Digital camera usb and Debian

2002-05-01 Thread Quenten Griffith
Anyone have any experince with Debian or Linux in general on how to hook up a digital camera to it through the USB port and to be able to pull the pics off of the compact flash card. The camerea I just got is the Minolta Dimage S404 if it matters by the camera. Or would it be easier to use one of

Re: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-01 Thread Fermín García-Herreros Castillero
It sounds logical, and that's why it was the first thing i thought about. I knew i should had more swap space, and so i tried to add a file and do a mkswap on it, but that wasn't helpful. My swap partition is 128 mb because before upgrading the system RAM, it had only 64 mb. But i don't think i

Re: Installation troubles (Was: [2002-04-30] Release Status Update)

2002-05-01 Thread Joey Hess
Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > * A more grave problem is that, after rebooting, the system > configuration does not work fine: it loops asking again and again > the timezone (after one creates the accounts). Eventually I had to > kill it and to finish by hand. > > The second issue should be

SIOCADDRT : No such device

2002-05-01 Thread Kapil Khosla
Hi, I want to set up the route of my newly setup network. I have DEC 21143 chipsets and I have compiled/insmod the driver but am not sure if it works as I dont have the networking set up yet. I am working with Potato 2.2.19 kernel. Do I need networking setup before I can setup 'route' ? The pro

Re: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wienand Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The latest kernels all recommend swap == 2 * RAM, so I'd increase that swap >partition to at least 400mb You mean the latest kernels from a year ago ;). That swap == 2 * RAM restriction was lifted somewhere during 2.4 (and 2.

Re: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fermín García-Herreros Castillero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When my computer in running under high load, sometimes it's impossible >to me to open certain applications. It appears to occur more often with >galeon, pan and opera (linked). Sounds like memory or CPU

Re: woody install problems

2002-05-01 Thread Bill Morgan
On 5/1/02 6:13 PM, "Erik Steffl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used the woody_netinst-20020215-i386.iso and weverything worked fine > until the point when the basic system configuration started - I believe > that's part of the base, nothing to do with > woody_netinst-20020215-i386.iso itself. >

Konqueror takes forever to load

2002-05-01 Thread Travis Crump
I normally use Mozilla for the web and a shell for local file browsing on a Gnome desktop(up to date testing system), but occasionally I want to use Konqueror for one reason or another. The problem is that it takes 8 or 9 *minutes* to load. If I quit and immediately try to reopen Konqueror th

Re: woody install problems

2002-05-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:13:29PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > the problem is that at the point when the timezone and passwords are > configured the install script (IIRC it was basic-config) went into > neverending loop of configuring the time-zone and passwords over and > over... Yes, this is f

Re: Postgres forms/reports tools?

2002-05-01 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to set up some databases for various personal use (household > itmems, books, music, et all) using porgres for the db. > > This will be done on a woody machine. > > Cany anyone recomend ood tools for dat input forms & reports> I'm thinking > of

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-05-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:20:16PM -0600, Mike Fontenot wrote: > I was trying to follow some advice I got from this newsgroup, > to patch up mozilla so that it would be able to handle java > applets. The advice was to download jre.xpi, and then to > execute the commands: > > "unzip jre.xpi -d $M

Installation troubles (Was: [2002-04-30] Release Status Update)

2002-05-01 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This seems like an excellent opportunity to do final testing of > woody. It would be great for peace of mind to see some successful > installation and upgrade reports. Well, I hope it is the right place to post this. I just made a fr

RE: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-01 Thread Wienand Ian
but when I first see the main window (in Galeon, when i see the utility bar, or in pan, when i see the newsgroup list) the program immediately closes. My system is a K6 (1st version) 233 mhz with 192 Mb of ram, 20 Gb, 128 of swap partition, 3dfx Banshee and two NICs, all of them f

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-05-01 Thread Mike Fontenot
Jamin W. Collins wrote: > The above items are simply environment variables. They are created when > Mozilla is started. They are not permanent. The fact that they aren't > there after a reboot is quite normal, they shouldn't be. What problem are > you experiencing or more specifically, what ar

woody install problems

2002-05-01 Thread Erik Steffl
I used the woody_netinst-20020215-i386.iso and weverything worked fine until the point when the basic system configuration started - I believe that's part of the base, nothing to do with woody_netinst-20020215-i386.iso itself. the problem is that at the point when the timezone and passwords ar

Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-01 Thread Fermín García-Herreros Castillero
Hello. I have a problem with my Gnome-woody that is driving me crazy and i can't find the solution for the problem. When my computer in running under high load, sometimes it's impossible to me to open certain applications. It appears to occur more often with galeon, pan and opera (linked). Th

Re: rlogin without a password

2002-05-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roach, Mark R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >(small time saving tip ssh2 keys go in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2) Even more time saving: the latest ssh puts them all in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, DSA, RSA and RSA1 keys. ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 is still read, ofcourse. Mike

Re: rlogin without a password

2002-05-01 Thread David Z Maze
Dougie Nisbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This used to be a piece of cake, but now in the Brave New SSH world, > it's a right royal pain. All I want to do, is switch on my laptop, > and remsh to my server, without specifying a username or > password. Can I do this with ssh, and if not, how do I i

Re: Re[2]: Anyone using ulogd?

2002-05-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Alan Poulton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wednesday, May 01, 2002, 2:42:15 PM, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > Okay. I lied a bit here. I compiled from source but I used > > dpkg-buildpackage, so it applied the Debian patches. This time I > > compiled just the straight source, without dpkg-buildpack

Re: rlogin without a password

2002-05-01 Thread Roach, Mark R.
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 17:12, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > This used to be a piece of cake, but now in the Brave New SSH world, it's a > right royal pain. All I want to do, is switch on my laptop, and remsh to my > server, without specifying a username or password. Can I do this with ssh, yes you can,

Xpdq trouble

2002-05-01 Thread DSC Siltec
Please cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I have woody and KDE. I'm trying to get PDQ, especially XPDQ, up and running. I tried to install PDQ from Dselect, and that didn't seem to work. I went to the HOWTO, and thence to a PDQ site, and downloaded my printer's setup file. I saved that

Re: debian.org down?

2002-05-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:56:10PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: > Ah, ok. I thought they might be linked somehow into the other dirs, but > I see they are only indirectly referenced via "Packages" et al. I'm sure > though that somewhere recently I saw debs outside the pool dir; perhaps > some arc

rlogin without a password

2002-05-01 Thread Dougie Nisbet
This used to be a piece of cake, but now in the Brave New SSH world, it's a right royal pain. All I want to do, is switch on my laptop, and remsh to my server, without specifying a username or password. Can I do this with ssh, and if not, how do I install old rsh/rlogin on my woody system? Doug

Re[2]: Anyone using ulogd?

2002-05-01 Thread Alan Poulton
Wednesday, May 01, 2002, 2:42:15 PM, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Okay. I lied a bit here. I compiled from source but I used > dpkg-buildpackage, so it applied the Debian patches. This time I > compiled just the straight source, without dpkg-buildpackage and using > the usual ./configure and now ulogd i

Re: Signify Googlebomber (was Re: random signatures in mutt)

2002-05-01 Thread Sam Varghese
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:42:56AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, May 01, 2002, Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > How does one set random signatures in mutt after compilation? I > > looked up on Google and everything I found seems to indicate that it > > only be done by editing c

Re: KDE, Permissions

2002-05-01 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 01:22:25PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > I have KDE, and whenever it starts up, it says it cannot initialize the > > sound, because /dev/dsp returns "permission denied". (I am assuming > > that dev/dsp refers to the DSP on the sound card.) > > > > Likewise, I

Re: can't compile my QT3 programs

2002-05-01 Thread Antoine Schweitzer-Chaput
I actually tried it, but I could't find the 'lib' dir : I installed libqt3-dev from the .deb, and in the docs, they say that QTDIR should be set to /usr/share/qt, but there's no lib directory there, and I didn't manage to find a revelant one On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 23:39, craigw wrote: > On Wed M

Re: Anyone using ulogd?

2002-05-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
I wrote: [snip] > I decided to surrender and use ULOG instead, but now I get > nothing. I've installed the testing "ulogd" package and tried > installing the original source, with the same result, no > output. There's a Debian bug filed against this behavior (#132675 & > #1356688) but I'm not hopef

Re: Signify Googlebomber (was Re: random signatures in mutt)

2002-05-01 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:42:56AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, May 01, 2002, Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > How does one set random signatures in mutt after compilation? I > > looked up on Google and everything I found seems to indicate that it > > only be done by editing c

Re: can't compile my QT3 programs

2002-05-01 Thread craigw
On Wed May 01, 2002 at 11:19:17PM +0200, Antoine Schweitzer-Chaput wrote: > Hi everybody > > I've just installed libqt3-dev in order to learn how to use it. To start > with it, I've followed the tutorials, but when I try to compile with > qmake -projet; qmake; make, the linker can't find libqt (wh

Re: Anyone using ulogd?

2002-05-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jamin W.Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 01 May 2002 14:58:21 -0600 > "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since I got no responses to my query about stopping iptables from > > logging crud to the ring buffer (dmesg output) > > Not sure if this pertains to the dmesg output

OpenOffice apt install problem

2002-05-01 Thread curtis
I posted this on debian-openoffice, but haven't got a response yet. I thought maybe someone here might know the answer: I've been going over the archives, but I can't find the answer to installing OO. I used apt-get and it installed fine with a couple of other required applications. But t

[Fwd: [Fwd: Apt install] in addition] in a futher addition

2002-05-01 Thread curtis
I've been going over the archives, but I can't find the answer to installing OO. I used apt-get and it installed fine with a couple of other required applications. But there is no way to start it. I noticed one person noted that they had to move the .openoffice directory from the /root d

can't compile my QT3 programs

2002-05-01 Thread Antoine Schweitzer-Chaput
Hi everybody I've just installed libqt3-dev in order to learn how to use it. To start with it, I've followed the tutorials, but when I try to compile with qmake -projet; qmake; make, the linker can't find libqt (which is installed). In fact, if I add a -lqt at the end of the commands that make exe

Re: Anyone using ulogd?

2002-05-01 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 01 May 2002 14:58:21 -0600 "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I got no responses to my query about stopping iptables from > logging crud to the ring buffer (dmesg output) Not sure if this pertains to the dmesg output too, but to stop the iptables log entries from spewing out t

Re: kmail and console mailers

2002-05-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Moin, * craigw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-05-01 22:48]: >On Wed May 01, 2002 at 08:24:44PM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: >> >> Ok, so I lied. Mutt knows POP3, but nobody recommends it. >> >I do. I highly recommend it. If you don't have any fancy needs for >> >complicated mail handling. >> So you're t

Re: disk space / where did it go

2002-05-01 Thread Jason Stechschulte
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:36:21PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Check for open files - Unix doesn't actually reclaim the disk space used > by an unlinked file until no programs have it open. Something like lsof > or fuser may help you track this kind of thing down. Thanks!! After reading what you

Anyone using ulogd?

2002-05-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
Since I got no responses to my query about stopping iptables from logging crud to the ring buffer (dmesg output) I decided to give ulogd a try. Unfortunately it logs absolutely nothing but start/stop messages to /var/log/ulogd.log. I know that ulogd used to require a kernel patch, but thought this

Re: debian.org down?

2002-05-01 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Ah, ok. I thought they might be linked somehow into the other dirs, but I see they are only indirectly referenced via "Packages" et al. I'm sure though that somewhere recently I saw debs outside the pool dir; perhaps some archives are not yet using pools? Tim On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 15:43, Colin Wa

Re: kmail and console mailers

2002-05-01 Thread craigw
On Wed May 01, 2002 at 08:24:44PM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: > > >> Ok, so I lied. Mutt knows POP3, but nobody recommends it. > >I do. I highly recommend it. If you don't have any fancy needs for > >complicated mail handling. > So you're the one! I heard somewhere that some guy does this, but >

Re: disk space / where did it go

2002-05-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:27:53PM -0400, Jason Stechschulte wrote: > Is there something else that I'm missing and don't realize? I just > don't understand how there can be such a difference being reported > between the two programs. Check for open files - Unix doesn't actually reclaim the disk s

Re: disk space / where did it go

2002-05-01 Thread Jason Stechschulte
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:52:47PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > The obvious question is: are you missing a directory (perhaps a hidden > one) from the list you passed to du? I don't think so. $ ls -a / . .. bin boot cdrom dev etc floppy home initrd lib lost+found mnt proc root sbi

Re: KDE, Permissions

2002-05-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I have KDE, and whenever it starts up, it says it cannot initialize the > sound, because /dev/dsp returns "permission denied". (I am assuming > that dev/dsp refers to the DSP on the sound card.) > > Likewise, I cannot run Floppy services unless I log in as root. > > Then, too, when I try

KDE, Permissions

2002-05-01 Thread DSC Siltec
Hi -- Please cc: me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have KDE, and whenever it starts up, it says it cannot initialize the sound, because /dev/dsp returns "permission denied". (I am assuming that dev/dsp refers to the DSP on the sound card.) Likewise, I cannot run Floppy services unless I log in as root.

RE: Delay for List Archive

2002-05-01 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| Hi, I am looking for an answer to a query from early April. The list | archive search does not return any hits on any query in April. When do | those messages turn up in the archive? Well, since the archive uses the lists-archives package, IIRC, they should show up overnight. Maybe it's a proble

Re: disk space / where did it go

2002-05-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
The obvious question is: are you missing a directory (perhaps a hidden one) from the list you passed to du? ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [E

Re: debian.org down?

2002-05-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:17:53PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: > Browsing archive.progeny.com (I didn't get far with http.us.debian.org) > shows that the "Packages" and "Release" files are there (which is why > apt-get update works), but there are no debs (so apt-get upgrade > responds with "fil

Re: debian.org down?

2002-05-01 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Browsing archive.progeny.com (I didn't get far with http.us.debian.org) shows that the "Packages" and "Release" files are there (which is why apt-get update works), but there are no debs (so apt-get upgrade responds with "file not found"). The debs are however in the pool directory. My guess(?) is

Re: Office & Groupwise Replacements

2002-05-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 30, 2002, hanasaki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Any input on a Linux Application (pref free and opensource) that Google, generally. If you want to pose a list of possible solutions and ask for benefits/comparative advantage, you'll get further along. > provides either Web, Java Apple

Re: Galeon takes two tries to start

2002-05-01 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 19:52, Roach, Mark R. wrote: > I am running galeon on an old armada laptop. Often when I start galeon > up, it shows up on the screen for a moment, and then disappears. This is > if I run it from the gnome menus. Typically, allthough not always, if I > run it again, it stays u

Re: smb.conf problem

2002-05-01 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 10:18, Martin A. Hansen wrote: Hi I see you have "security = user " in the global settings, but not on share. I you want to use the option "securety = share" then you most likely need to hack the regestry on the winbox. Try to either remove the option "securety = " on the s

Re: ucbmpeg and mpeg_encode (woody)

2002-05-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:49:41PM +0100, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > I did > apt-get install cthumb > > which removed ucbmpeg, which removed mpeg_encode, which is a pain. I've tried > reinstalling ucbmpeg but it says: > > Package ucbmpeg has no available version, but exists in the database. >

Re: "keyboard: unknown e1 escape sequence"

2002-05-01 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 01:55:59 -0400 "Paul Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hmm.. yeah, I get those messages too. What keymap are you using? > That's the file in /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz, right? I remember changing some font related things when the Euro was introduced, but I don't know w

RE: debian.org down?

2002-05-01 Thread Josh Everist
I just tried apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.19 and it didn't work for me with the sources.list file that I was using. the main part of my sources.list contains the following: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable mai

Re: debian.org down?

2002-05-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 07:02:04PM +0200, Matias Hermanrud Fjeld wrote: > Anybody else having problems accessing debian.org? > normal browsing works fine, and apt-get'ing works also... Apparently there've been some problems with Apache going nuts on some of the debian.org machines recently, if you

Delay for List Archive

2002-05-01 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi, I am looking for an answer to a query from early April. The list archive search does not return any hits on any query in April. When do those messages turn up in the archive? Thanks! -- Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: which pkg contains that file

2002-05-01 Thread dave mallery
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Dayalan Manohar wrote: > Hi, > How does one find out which package contains a particular file/command > so that it can then be installed using apt-get ?I want to install pico but > "apt-get install pico" does not seem to work. > Thanks, > Dayalan > apt-get install nano alias

Signify Googlebomber (was Re: random signatures in mutt)

2002-05-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 01, 2002, Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How does one set random signatures in mutt after compilation? I > looked up on Google and everything I found seems to indicate that it > only be done by editing config.h during compilation. > Is there some hack for this? I'm running ve

disk space / where did it go

2002-05-01 Thread Jason Stechschulte
I'm completely stumped by this one. I have a server that is running Potato, and it keeps telling me it is out of disk space. That makes sense when running df: $ df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 182 170 3 98% / /dev

Re: kmail and console mailers

2002-05-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * craigw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-05-01 02:29]: >On Tue Apr 30, 2002 at 11:57:09PM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: >> * craigw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-30 18:25]: >> >On Tue Apr 30, 2002 at 10:36:38AM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: >> >> Mutt can read mboxes, but Mutt cannot 'get' the mail there.

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