Re: Woody: apt mysteriously wants to pull in 100 MB from sid. Why?

2002-05-08 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 7 May 2002, Mario Vukelic wrote: > Also, especially in the release process of woody I find this highly > inconvenient :) I would sleep better knowing that I track "woody", not > "testing", when a new "testing" can pop up over night, and "woody" > suddenly means "stable" I think that third, spe

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-08 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
dman writes: >On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:09:13PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > >I don't know about *install*, but it certainly *runs* (and sometimes >crawls :-)) on 8MB. Linux and low RAM boxes don't get along well. I found that I can run FVWM on a remote box using X-forwarding to a better box

Modules question

2002-05-08 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 8 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > possible, right? Create an hourly cron job that does "rmmod -a", > to eliminate any unused modules. If you do that, do modules get re-inserted as needed? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-08 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:24:39PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: | On Wed, 8 May 2002 19:09:13 -0500 | "Glen Lee Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > What are the main differences between Debian and Red Hat (I'm assuming | > there are a few current or ex-Red Hat users here)? | | The main thi

Re: starting a Debian based company..

2002-05-08 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:44:09PM -0700, faisal gillani wrote: | Well i wana start a company here in pakistan giving | out network salutions to the corporate companies .. | mainly because corporate companies mostly uses M$ | solutions here .. so i was thinking as pakistan is a | developing country

Re: starting a Debian based company..

2002-05-08 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well i wana start a company here in pakistan giving > out network salutions to the corporate companies .. > mainly because corporate companies mostly uses M$ > solutions here .. so i was thinking as pakistan is a > developing country & M$ salution

Re: can't get .shosts authentication to run

2002-05-08 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Just figured it out: I need to set HostbasedAuthentication _and_ UsePrivilegedPort to yes. This way, I can get it to at least try host based auth. Now, I get an error that may actually originate on the server side: --- [...] debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-in

Re: under six inches of water -- a debian tale

2002-05-08 Thread will trillich
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:40:09AM -0400, Robert_L wrote: > On Tuesday 07 May 2002 8:37 am, will trillich wrote: > > > but the debian box, and i swear the cpu fan was under water > > acting as a mini boat-prop, was STILL OPERATING when saturated > > with H2O. > > > > we unplugged it unceremoniousl

starting a Debian based company..

2002-05-08 Thread faisal gillani
Well i wana start a company here in pakistan giving out network salutions to the corporate companies .. mainly because corporate companies mostly uses M$ solutions here .. so i was thinking as pakistan is a developing country & M$ salution are very expensive here .. so companies should benift here

Re: OpenOffice question

2002-05-08 Thread stan
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 07:17:48PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 4 May 2002, stan wrote: > > > I just downloaded the OpenOffice 1.0 installer, and ran it on my woody > > mahcine. I told the installer to put the installation in /opt/OpenOffce. > > > > I looked through the opt/OpenOff

how to use -j DROPLOG in iptables?

2002-05-08 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, When I use -j DROPLOG in iptables, my woody complains: iptables v1.2.6a: Couldn't load target `DROPLOG':/lib/iptables/libipt_DROPLOG.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. Any way to deal with that? -

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-08 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 8 May 2002 19:09:13 -0500 "Glen Lee Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Debian web site says that Debian will install on 12 Meg RAM. Is > that information current? I just finished installing 6 systems (2 P100s and 4 P166s) here. Most had 32 megs of memory, however two did have 16

HELP! Trident 4DWave/SiS 7018/Ali 5451 PCI Audio doesn't work

2002-05-08 Thread Jay Mallar
I've been unable to get my sound card to work, and was hoping for some help. All the devices appear okay, all the modules seem to load, no messages in syslog, but when I: cat sound.au > /dev/dsp it just sits there (until I kill it), and I get no sound whatsoever. Here's all the relavant info I

Re: x-terminal-emulator & xterm

2002-05-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Andy Saxena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020508 18:44]: > Even if an executable can tell whether or not it is being called by a > symlink, why should the xterm binary be coded to disregard the > ~/.Xresources file? Well, technically speaking, xterm never reads the .Xresources file at all. That file is r

Re: x-terminal-emulator & xterm

2002-05-08 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:44:30PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > I am still not certain how this applies to my original question. > > Even if an executable can tell whether or not it is being called by a > symlink, why should the xterm binary be coded to disregard the > ~/.Xresources file? IMHO, i

Re: install of moz plugins

2002-05-08 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 04:56:28PM -0700, Richard Weil wrote: > What's the proper way to install a mozilla plugin, > like Flash, that obviously isn't packaged? I went > ahead and installed the Flash plugin per its > instructions, i.e. copying a few files into > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Is there a

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XFree86 after crash

2002-05-08 Thread Daniel D Jones
I had a brief power fluctuation the other day. Despite being plugged into a cheap UPS (which is going back to the store this weekend), my box reset itself. Boot-up file system check found no errors. However, when I logged in, X would not start. I got errors that sections of my XF86Config fil

Re: reconfigure resolv.conf

2002-05-08 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: Tom Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > I changed the IP-address. of my DNS-server. > > > Now, when I upgrade packages on my client, resolv.conf is > > > changed to the DNS-servers old address. > > > > > > How do I tell apt, the new IP-address? > > >

Re: x-terminal-emulator & xterm

2002-05-08 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:00:14AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > As for taking different actions based on the command by which a program > was called, look at the fsck family, bzless and bzmore, mh's show, next, > and prev, and a lot of other things that show up in find / -type f | > -links 1 =).

Re: OT: real-world programming practices

2002-05-08 Thread Seneca
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:16:57PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:37:20PM -0400, Seneca wrote: > | On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:26:51PM -0500, Ron wrote: > > | > Hey, I wonder if java can use ncurses? > > Do you want to write JNI code (C/C++)? I've heard it's ugly. Java is > a L

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:11:23PM -0500, dman wrote: > > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:32:06PM -0400, Seneca wrote: > > | On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:21:11PM -0500, dman wrote: > > | > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:25:11PM -0400, Seneca wrote: > > | > | On Wed,

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:11:23PM -0500, dman wrote: > Actually, for compilation use jikes. It's written in C++ and is way > sleeker than javac (faster, lighter weight, better error messages). Although, I say from experience, an utter pig to compile. :) gcc takes over 100Mb of memory here to com

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-08 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, May 8, Glen Lee Edwards did write: > Hi, > > I've been a loyal Red Hat user for the last 4 or 5 years. Their recent > distributions will no longer install on all my computers because they now > require more than 16 Meg RAM. I have a few questions: > How well does FVWM run o

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Seneca
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:11:23PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:32:06PM -0400, Seneca wrote: > | On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:21:11PM -0500, dman wrote: > | > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:25:11PM -0400, Seneca wrote: > | > | On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:25:47PM -0500, Ron wrote: > | >

v3tv help

2002-05-08 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Anyone out there have a Voodoo 3500 TV card that they have working? I need some help getting 'TV out' to work. I have tried help on sourceforge but they don't seem to be able to help me. Any help would be appreciated Lance -- Lance Hoffmeyer

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-08 Thread David Smead
Glen, I'm fast becoming an ex RedHat user. RH releases often with lots of bugs. Debian releases aren't frequent, but the testing version is pretty current with other distributions, and at least as good. Debian may be a little harder to configure, but configuration files are not hidden and in gen

Kernel Compiling [HELP!]

2002-05-08 Thread curtis
Ok, here I go again! I am trying to compile a kernel with FreeS/WAN. Here are the procedures I have followed, but after completing them on the reboot my computer starts the loading process and then reboots over and over, ad nauseam. I downloaded FreeSWAN source and kernel-source-2.4.18 add

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-08 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:09:13PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: | Hi, | | I've been a loyal Red Hat user for the last 4 or 5 years. Their recent | distributions will no longer install on all my computers because they now | require more than 16 Meg RAM. I have a few questions: | | The Debian w

Re: install of moz plugins

2002-05-08 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 04:56:28PM -0700, Richard Weil wrote: | What's the proper way to install a mozilla plugin, like Flash, that | obviously isn't packaged? I used gtm (wget) to download the tar, unpacked it in a tmp directory, copied libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer

Re: OT: real-world programming practices

2002-05-08 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:37:20PM -0400, Seneca wrote: | On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:26:51PM -0500, Ron wrote: | > Hey, I wonder if java can use ncurses? Do you want to write JNI code (C/C++)? I've heard it's ugly. Java is a LCD (Lowest Common Demoninator) environment. If not every platform c

Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-08 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Hi, I've been a loyal Red Hat user for the last 4 or 5 years. Their recent distributions will no longer install on all my computers because they now require more than 16 Meg RAM. I have a few questions: The Debian web site says that Debian will install on 12 Meg RAM. Is that information curren

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:32:06PM -0400, Seneca wrote: | On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:21:11PM -0500, dman wrote: | > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:25:11PM -0400, Seneca wrote: | > | On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:25:47PM -0500, Ron wrote: | > ... | > | > P.S. - Confirmation messages are not a "feature"! |

install of moz plugins

2002-05-08 Thread Richard Weil
What's the proper way to install a mozilla plugin, like Flash, that obviously isn't packaged? I went ahead and installed the Flash plugin per its instructions, i.e. copying a few files into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Is there a different, more technically correct approach, like installing in /usr/lo

Re: OT: real-world programming practices

2002-05-08 Thread Seneca
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:26:51PM -0500, Ron wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 16:25, Seneca wrote: > [snip] > > > P.S. - Confirmation messages are not a "feature"! > > > > They are when they meet the teacher's specifications: written in java, > > use AWT, are a class, and use buttons, frames, and t

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Seneca
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:21:11PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:25:11PM -0400, Seneca wrote: > | On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:25:47PM -0500, Ron wrote: > ... > | > P.S. - Confirmation messages are not a "feature"! > | > | They are when they meet the teacher's specifications: writ

Re: Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Kapil" == Kapil Khosla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kapil> Hi, I am trying to disable X to start up at boot time and Kapil> want to type "startx" to enter into KDE which is my default Kapil> enviornment. I use gdm and want to know Kapil> 1) Which file actually is responsible

Increasing font size in mozilla

2002-05-08 Thread Mike Fontenot
Has anyone succeeded in getting significantly larger font sizes in (potato's) mozilla? I've looked at the "customizing.html" document referred to in the FAQ, and haven't been able to make sense of that advice. For example, they refer to ".css files in Mozilla's chrome directories...", and I have

S3 Savage 4 and XFree 3.3.6

2002-05-08 Thread Rogerio Acquadro
Hi there! I have a Diamond Stealth with a S3 Savage 4 chipset on it. How do I enable support for hardware acceleration on XFree 3.3.6? I'm currently using SVGA X sever. Thanks Rogerio Acquadro -- /\ | Rogerio Ac

RE: Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-08 Thread Donald R. Spoon
"Kapil Khosla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am trying to disable X to start up at boot time and want to type "startx" to enter into KDE which is my default enviornment. I use gdm and want to know 1) Which file actually is responsible for starting up gdm 2) How can I disable gdm to startu

OT: real-world programming practices

2002-05-08 Thread Ron
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 16:25, Seneca wrote: [snip] > > P.S. - Confirmation messages are not a "feature"! > > They are when they meet the teacher's specifications: written in java, > use AWT, are a class, and use buttons, frames, and the appropriate > listeners. Each time one comes up in my testing

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:25:11PM -0400, Seneca wrote: | On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:25:47PM -0500, Ron wrote: ... | > P.S. - Confirmation messages are not a "feature"! | | They are when they meet the teacher's specifications: written in java, | use AWT, are a class, and use buttons, frames, and

Re: apt-get sources

2002-05-08 Thread Rick Weinbender
Thanks, That answers my question. -Rick Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 08-May-2002 Rick Weinbender wrote: > > Hi, > > I fairly new to Debian Linux and was wondering if > > any of you have some alternative apt-get sources > > for running 'apt-get upgrade'. > > I'm running stable version 2.2 r

Re: sending mail when connected via different ISPs

2002-05-08 Thread Dougie Nisbet
> > Great. This will be simple. > It's looking good. Thanks for the tips. If this message works, then it's looking very promising. Dougie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unstable becoming outdated

2002-05-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-May-2002 David Wright wrote: > > Those of us who use unstable to keep up with the latest packages are being > impacted by the woody release delay. Because sid filters into woody, > packages considered core to woody are not being updated, even in sid, > except to fix RC bugs. This will conti

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Seneca
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:25:47PM -0500, Ron wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 14:33, Seneca wrote: > > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:11:50PM -0500, dman wrote: > > > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:55:17PM -0400, Seneca wrote: > > > | On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:03:39PM -0500, dman wrote: > > > | > On Wed, M

Re: apt-get sources

2002-05-08 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 17:03, Rick Weinbender wrote: > Hi, > I fairly new to Debian Linux and was wondering if > any of you have some alternative apt-get sources > for running 'apt-get upgrade'. > I'm running stable version 2.2 r3. > In my /etc/apt/sources.list is the default: > deb http://www.us.de

Unstable becoming outdated

2002-05-08 Thread David Wright
Those of us who use unstable to keep up with the latest packages are being impacted by the woody release delay. Because sid filters into woody, packages considered core to woody are not being updated, even in sid, except to fix RC bugs. This will continue until woody is released, which is looking

Resolved: DHCP/ routing / ADSL - UK

2002-05-08 Thread James Ireson
Well I didn't get any responses but I fixed it myself anyway /etc/network/interfaces auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp hostname weeble up /etc/routes /etc/routes #!/bin/sh route add -host `pump -i eth0 -s|grep Gateway|tail -c 13` eth0 route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw `pump

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-08 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another frontend to try is 'aptitude'. It's quite nice and (to me) a > lot friendlier than dselect. > Of course, you probably just want to get your system working first;) The easy way, it now seems to me, should be to start from scratch with boot floppies f

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Seneca
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:14:04PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:33:47PM -0400, Seneca wrote: > | On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:11:50PM -0500, dman wrote: > > | > What services is that system running? It sounds like you're trying to > | > push the machine way too far. How powerful

Re: apt-get sources

2002-05-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-May-2002 Rick Weinbender wrote: > Hi, > I fairly new to Debian Linux and was wondering if > any of you have some alternative apt-get sources > for running 'apt-get upgrade'. > I'm running stable version 2.2 r3. > In my /etc/apt/sources.list is the default: > deb http://www.us.debian.org/debi

apt-get sources

2002-05-08 Thread Rick Weinbender
Hi, I fairly new to Debian Linux and was wondering if any of you have some alternative apt-get sources for running 'apt-get upgrade'. I'm running stable version 2.2 r3. In my /etc/apt/sources.list is the default: deb http://www.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free Thanks in advance fo

Re: Woody: apt mysteriously wants to pull in 100 MB from sid. Why?

2002-05-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:21:07PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 19:56, dman wrote: > > > What if you use "testing" and "unstable" instead of "woody" and "sid" > > in your preferences file? There was some discussion on that recently, > > and some people said using names does

How to get xfree86 v4 working after dist-upgrade?

2002-05-08 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I upgraded from potato to woody and now I would like to use the new version 4 x windows software. It seems that it all installed everthing but version 3 is still running when I do startx. I didn't see anything in the release-notes. Other than that the upgrade went well. What is the Debia

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Ron
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 14:33, Seneca wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:11:50PM -0500, dman wrote: > > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:55:17PM -0400, Seneca wrote: > > | On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:03:39PM -0500, dman wrote: > > | > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 10:15:36PM -0400, Seneca Cunningham wrote: [snip

Re: Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-08 Thread Pollywog
On 2002.05.08 19:02 Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: Hi again Sorry about this, but this is not disabelig gdm, it's remowing it. Go to /etc/init.d/gdm and edit the script by putting exit 0 on a line by itself, after the shebang (after the line with #!/bin/sh) That will disable the script. You can

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:33:47PM -0400, Seneca wrote: | On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:11:50PM -0500, dman wrote: | > What services is that system running? It sounds like you're trying to | > push the machine way too far. How powerful is it (CPU, RAM)? | | This system is my most powerful one. It'

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Seneca
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:11:50PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:55:17PM -0400, Seneca wrote: > | On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:03:39PM -0500, dman wrote: > | > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 10:15:36PM -0400, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > | > > | > | So, something I was wondering about woul

RE: Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-08 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Hi again Sorry about this, but this is not disabelig gdm, it's remowing it. /ernst -Original Message- From: Ernst-Magne Vindal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 8. mai 2002 20:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Disabling startx in gdm Hi Last time I did

Re: documentation of libraries

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > Hello there, > > I have a happily running debian distribution, but am getting very > confused when trying to install certain software as it claims to be > lacking all sorts of libraries. Are these Debian packages or third party sof

Re: Hauppage WinTV Go -- howto?

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 07:03:21PM +0200, Nik Engel wrote: > Hi Rohan! > > On Sun, 05 May 2002, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > > > I was just wondering if anyone knew how to set up a PCI WinTV card in > > Debian Linux Unstable. Any pointers would be appreciated. > Hm, for me the same, easy task expec

Re: Wonky displays with galeon and other apps.

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 10:04:21AM -0700, Steve Juranich wrote: > I'm trying to figure out if I have a poorly configured video card (highly > probable) or if the problems that I'm having are actually bugs in the apps > (running sid, so also highly probable). > > The two biggest offenders are Gal

Re: Installing X on woody

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:11:30PM -0500, D. Michael McFarland wrote: > craigw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I did a net install of woody a couple days ago, using a CD I burned > > That's what I probably should have done. > > > I have decided that I will never again touch dselect. Not with a

Re: apt database problems?

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:48:50PM +0100, Simon Young wrote: > > Hi there, > > I have recently installed woody, and everything is going fine except > for one small problem; I'd like to use LVM (in conjunction with > reiserfs), but I'm having trouble installing the required packages. > > Under po

Re: KMail Crash - Please Help

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:22:10AM -0500, Robert wrote: > On Monday 06 May 2002 11:40 pm, Addis Perez wrote: > > I do not know if there is another way of verifying which packages > > have been installed. Keep in mind, I am using kernel 2.4.17. > Then let me enlighten you ;-) > > dpkg --get-select

Re: Colors in term?

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
[wrapped for your viewing pleasure] On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:52:08AM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: > I have been over the archives, but i cant find an answer to this > one. I am running Testing, and when logging on to the system(s) via > SSH (Using Secure CRT 3.4/VT100 or VT200 with ANSI color) as

Re: USB & 2. 4 kernels

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:51:57AM -0400, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: > USB modules (for keyboard and mouse (HID devices)) need to be compiled > staticly into the kernel (not loaded as modules) so they are available > at boot time. You can do this with dynamically modules but only if you > run a

RE: Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-08 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Hi Last time I did the same, I just dpkg -P gdm. Worked for me. /ernst -Original Message- From: Kapil Khosla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 8. mai 2002 17:14 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Disabling startx in gdm Hi, I am trying to disable X to start up at boot time and want

Re: courier-imap and windows mail client

2002-05-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Sorry for not following up faster on this. > Ok, so what is it configured for? mbox format. INBOX = /var/mail/ mailboxes in $HOME (btw this last one can be a cause of slowdowns too. If you have a lot of files in your home directory, it will try and open each one to see if it is a mailbox. Ther

Re: sending mail when connected via different ISPs

2002-05-08 Thread dman
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:40:01PM +0100, Dougie Nisbet wrote: | My ISP (uklinux) allows me to send mail via their servers when | logged connected from a different ISP, as long as I provide | authorisation. Great. This will be simple. | I can't figure out how to set things up to do this. I

Re: Apache?? problem

2002-05-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* David Smead ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020507 15:22]: > In /var/log/messages I get the following when the error occurs. > > May 7 10:34:10 knuth -- MARK -- > > Any one with clues? The --MARK-- is nothing. Syslog just prints this to your syslog every 20 minutes, by default. The interval can be chang

Re: x-terminal-emulator & xterm

2002-05-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) [020508 01:28]: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:41:28AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:40:26AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > [snip] > > > It is on some levels; the symlink is dereferenced to get to the actual > > > code of the executable. A prog

Re: Asus T9400

2002-05-08 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 07:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to receive news about compatibility of debian Linux with asus > laptop and in particular with the T9400 model. If the compatibility has > been tried, if possbile, i would also like to receive, or know where to > get, infos about i

Re: Re: Drop-In Security Queries

2002-05-08 Thread Soul Computer
Uh ... I'm kind of new to Linux. I kind of get the idea, now it would be nice to learn just how to set this up on a linux machine. ->Scwacaac<- Ouch! - My primary computer operating experience\ was on a Honeywell DPS 6 running GCOS Mod 6. == On T

Re: dist-upgrade fails w/ parse error in /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm

2002-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Package: tgif Version: 4.1.42-1 Sebastian Haase wrote: > 94% [Scanning packages]DEBUG: /var/cache/apt/archives/telnetd_0.17-18_i386.deb > 94% [Scanning packages]DEBUG: > /var/cache/apt/archives/tgif_1%3a4.1.42-1_i386.deb > 94% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/perl5/D

Re: Fwd: Is it possible to unsubscribe from the debian-users list?

2002-05-08 Thread Rick Younie
Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 08:18:25PM +, Siward de Groot wrote: >> Hi, i saw this on debian-user; forwarding to people that can do >> something about it. >> >> > The listmaster >> > -- >> > To reach a human being answering your mail you may contact the address >>

Re: Debian Verification?

2002-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:10:45PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > Of course, this doesn't help you if a cracker alters > > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums - but it sounds like 'rpm --verify' has the > > > same proviso. The debsums(1) man page talks about

Re: Need help with install

2002-05-08 Thread Ted
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I'm needing some help getting debian installed on my computer. I have a 700 MHz celeron system that is on an Intel i810 board. I have tried to install debian on it before and keep running into problems (it does not detect the motherboard correctly so

Re: dist-upgrade fails w/ parse error in /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm

2002-05-08 Thread Sebastian Haase
Thanks Joey fro the quick response. [[ I first thought debian-testing would be the better place to post this - but there was no response oh, well ]] *** I'm always very _happy_ when I can help ! ** (By the way: I like 'tgif' ;-) even though it's long ago that I really used it ...) So h

Re: Need help with install

2002-05-08 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 8 May 2002 12:43:49 -0400 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get debian installed? I > know that linux will run because I can install RedHat w/o a problem > (of course, it runs a 2.4.x kernel). I really want to run Debian >

Re: Apache?? problem

2002-05-08 Thread Larry Holish
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:40:57PM -0700, David Smead wrote: > Larry, > > Yes, the script works from the command line. As mentioned, it also works > as a CGI, but after executing the print command it comes back with an > Internal Server Error, code 500. > > I've since discovered that any or the

Need help with install

2002-05-08 Thread ChrisHoover
Hello everyone, I'm needing some help getting debian installed on my computer. I have a 700 MHz celeron system that is on an Intel i810 board. I have tried to install debian on it before and keep running into problems (it does not detect the motherboard correctly so it has problem with the car

sending mail when connected via different ISPs

2002-05-08 Thread Dougie Nisbet
Setup: Home LAN connected via ISDN router kmail exim When I send e-mail, I can tell kmail to send the mail locally to sendmail, which will queue it up and send it to my ISP. Or I can tell kmail to send it directly to my ISP. The problem is I often want to connect via a d

Re: Debian Verification?

2002-05-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:10:45PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Of course, this doesn't help you if a cracker alters > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums - but it sounds like 'rpm --verify' has the > > same proviso. The debsums(1) man page talks about this under CAVEATS. > > Anoth

Re: debian2.2r4 and MatroxMillenniumG450

2002-05-08 Thread Adam Di Carlo
FYI, debian-release is not a list for helping users. Try debian-user or debian-devel. Also, since almost all your problems relate to X11, there's a Debian X11 mail list too, see http://lists.debian.org/>. I'll answer anyhow. "Lars-Eric Gustavsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After these real

Re: Debian Verification?

2002-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > Of course, this doesn't help you if a cracker alters > /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums - but it sounds like 'rpm --verify' has the > same proviso. The debsums(1) man page talks about this under CAVEATS. Another neat trick you can pull if you have the CD you installed from or a l

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2002-05-08 Thread aek
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Re: Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-08 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 08 May 2002 11:13:32 -0400 "Kapil Khosla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Which file actually is responsible for starting up gdm If it's starting on boot, normally a symlink in the appropriate "/etc/rcX.d" directory (where X is the run level in question). > 2) How can I disable gdm t

Asus T9400

2002-05-08 Thread don . nico
I would like to receive news about compatibility of debian Linux with asus laptop and in particular with the T9400 model. If the compatibility has been tried, if possbile, i would also like to receive, or know where to get, infos about installation procedures. Thanks in advance for your help

Disabling startx in gdm

2002-05-08 Thread Kapil Khosla
Hi, I am trying to disable X to start up at boot time and want to type "startx" to enter into KDE which is my default enviornment. I use gdm and want to know 1) Which file actually is responsible for starting up gdm 2) How can I disable gdm to startup 3) I am not able to login as root from gdm.

cron.hourly message

2002-05-08 Thread Cleber Miranda Barboza
Hello, In the last couple of days the cron daemon has been sendding the follow message: /bin/sh: error in loading shared libraries: /lib/libncurses.so.5: unsupported +version 0 of Verneed record Someone know what can I do for resolve that problem ? -- Cleber Miranda Barboza <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Debian Verification?

2002-05-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:58:41AM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > Is this possible in dpkg? Can I "verify" debs? I looked through the man > pages and havent seen anything interesting. debsums, although not all packages provide MD5sums files so you'll have to use 'debsums -g' to generate th

Debian Verification?

2002-05-08 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
One of the coolest things on RPM is the --verify switch. For example, I can check to see if a package's contents have changed. For example, if I run: rpm --verify setup I get the following output: S.5T c /etc/hosts.allow S.5T c /etc/hosts.deny S.5T c /etc/printcap S.5T c /etc/

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Problem with Cups (admin.cgi and cupsd hang)

2002-05-08 Thread Michael Schwind
Hello, i have Problems when i want to add a Printer, the command line tool and then web interface will not work. After pressing the button where you can choose the printer, the admin.cgi hangs with about 30% CPU-Time and cups needs about 60% CPU-Time. While booth are hanging, cups fills then fil

Re: kernel source

2002-05-08 Thread shaulka
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:52:31AM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote: > Where does one find the source for the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel? > I believe that it is built from kernel-source-2.4.18-5 $ grep-available -P kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 |head Package: kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 Priority: optional Sectio

Re: Kernel compile with additional comments

2002-05-08 Thread Robert
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 06:58 pm, curtis wrote: > So, I'm still at a loss. > > I built the kernel for FreeS/WAN using make-kpkg. Everything in that regard > seem to go fine, as well as the dpkg -install. Now, I didn't add anything > to my kernel. I left it just the way it was, so maybe there was som

Re: apt database problems?

2002-05-08 Thread Simon Young
Hi, It seems I must have posted this to the wrong list. Don't suppose anyone could point me in the right direction? Many thanks, Simon. On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:48:50PM +0100, Simon Young wrote: > > Hi there, > > I have recently installed woody, and everything is going fine except > for o

Re: safe load average

2002-05-08 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Tue, 7 May 2002 21:56:57 -0400 "Seneca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would if I could afford it, I can't even afford to buy lunch, much > less a pair of 16M DIMMs (and that would max out this laptop's memory). > The only memory laying around is physically incompatible with my laptop. Where a

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