Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-14 Thread Travis Crump
Alex Malinovich wrote: How can I set the effective UID for a shell script? I've got a script which checks if xscreensaver is running and if not, starts it and then activates it. However, the script always gets run as root (it's being run as an APM script). This doesn't work if I'm logged in as my

Re: Erratic mouse in tty

2002-05-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert Mosher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020514 18:42]: > Changing the type to imps2 fixed it! Didn't know that was even an option > since I've couldn't find a list of mouse types. Though for future > reference it can be found in the gpm info file under Server Invocation, > Mouse Types. Also '/usr/sb

Re: Debian and old EGCS compilers

2002-05-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > The sysadmin really likes debian. So, I have the following questions. > > 1) Is there an egcs-2.91.66 binary for Debian? > If there is it would be in the slink era. > 2) Are there any obvious issues with replacing gcc 2.95.4 with > egcs-2.91.66? I suppose another translation of this questi

Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
How can I set the effective UID for a shell script? I've got a script which checks if xscreensaver is running and if not, starts it and then activates it. However, the script always gets run as root (it's being run as an APM script). This doesn't work if I'm logged in as myself since xscreensaver w

Re: IRC

2002-05-14 Thread Mike Frisch
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 19:05, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > Why limit yourself to Gnome when all the good IRC clients will run in an > xterm? I highly suggest taking a look at ircii and bitchx. Don't forget about Epic (http://www.epicsol.org). It's an ircii derivative, but has some better feature

Re: word format

2002-05-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-05-15T03:46:45Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I was e-mailing a resume and the person could not open file. He said to > use word format. I wrote my resume in Microsoft works and then saved in > my documents and the e-mail him for AOL with attachments. If you could > tell me what I did w

Re: creating an executable

2002-05-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
n Tue, 2002-05-14 at 22:37, Justin News wrote: > I do get a "hello" file with 755 permissions so everything looks fine. > However, when i try to run the program i get the error msg saying: > > bash: hello: command not found > > > Has anyone else come across this problem? Am I missing a library

word format

2002-05-14 Thread ALL37
I was e-mailing a resume and the person could not open file.  He said to use word format.  I wrote my resume in Microsoft works and then saved in my documents and the e-mail him for AOL with attachments.  If you could tell me what I did wrong I would appreciate it.  Thank you

Re: Shell script anomaly

2002-05-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 22:06, Craig Dickson wrote: > I cannot reproduce your symptoms. Whether I type your code in at the > shell prompt or run it in a script, it always behaves correctly. > > You don't say what shell you're using (or what version); my tests were > performed using the version of ba

Re: Config Network Printing

2002-05-14 Thread dman
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 06:55:05PM -0700, Tim Grogan wrote: | Hello all, | | I've researched all the lists and how-to's and have gotten thoroughly confused. | I've also loaded lpr, lprng, printtool and numerous other programs trying to | to configure a printer, so I'm asking all the print experts

Re: Shell script anomaly

2002-05-14 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure that I might be missing something obvious here, but after a few > hours I still haven't figured it out. I'm writing a script to detect > whether xscreensaver is running and activate it if it is. If not, it > launches the daemon first and

Re: Woody on Toshiba Tecra 9100

2002-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:08:39AM -0500, hanasaki wrote: > Anyone get this to work and have tips? I can't get the darn thing to > boot the ISO's and don't know if the CArdbus?PCMCIA? is supported. I had problem booting Toshiba windows system CD on one Toshiba note I have. I ended up booting wit

Re: Shell script anomaly

2002-05-14 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Sean 'Shaleh' Perry quotation: > I could be wrong but I think the if is checking whether ps returned > successfully or not. I don't think so. It should be checking the return code of the final command in the pipe, which in this case is grep. Craig pgppIOVwsLwO9.pgp Description: PGP sig

Re: gij

2002-05-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:24:35AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Setting up gij-3.0 (3.0.4-8) ... > update-alternatives: unknown argument `\' That would be bug #145507. Replace the double backslash in /var/lib/dpkg/info/gij-3.0.postinst with a single backslash if you want a workaround. -- Colin Watson

Re: frustration with dselect automatic package selection

2002-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:53:53AM -0400, Federico Grau wrote: > Hello debian folk, > > I occasionally use dselect because it has some niceties which apt-get does not > have... however the firt time I run it, it has the "default package selection" > already set to install?! Is there a way to tell

Re: Shell script anomaly

2002-05-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2002 Alex Malinovich wrote: > I'm sure that I might be missing something obvious here, but after a few > hours I still haven't figured it out. I'm writing a script to detect > whether xscreensaver is running and activate it if it is. If not, it > launches the daemon first and then activa

Re: Shell script anomaly

2002-05-14 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Alex Malinovich quotation: > I'm sure that I might be missing something obvious here, but after a few > hours I still haven't figured it out. I'm writing a script to detect > whether xscreensaver is running and activate it if it is. If not, it > launches the daemon first and then activates

Re: [guy-nils@barak-online.net: new in debian need help]

2002-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Please post these to the debian-user mailing list. I recommend you to read http://www.debian.org On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:53:57PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > - Forwarded message from Guy Nils <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > please if you can tell my > > 1)can i install "debian sendmail"on

Re: Debian and old EGCS compilers

2002-05-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Tue, 14 May 2002 17:21:01 -0700 "John Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Debian system with gcc 2.95.4. However, I need egcs-2.91.66 (egcs > 1.1.2 release). There is a egcs 1.1.2 source package within Debian, under the name of egcs1.1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netfo

problems with phppgadmin

2002-05-14 Thread John Foster
Below is a message that I just started getting when I try to log in to PhpPgadmin this happened after my last update of woody. I did upgrade apache and postgres. However all of my other applications seem OK. The error is in the fram when it calls for left.js --should this be left.php??? Not Found

Re: Problem with cups (cupsd and admin.cgi hang)

2002-05-14 Thread David Roundy
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:29:26AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > [Please don't send user-specific problems to debian-devel.] > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 11:46, Michael Schwind wrote: > > i have Problems when i want to add a Printer, the command line tool and the > > web > > interface will not work.

Re: Not Realtek! (was Re: good choice of network card?)

2002-05-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-05-15T00:10:16Z, Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On a server I'd side with you. At home, where it's hard to push my card > much beyond a million or bits a second... I guess it depends on your setup. I have several mixed-OS workstations hanging off a FreeBSD NIS/NFS server.

Shell script anomaly

2002-05-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'm sure that I might be missing something obvious here, but after a few hours I still haven't figured it out. I'm writing a script to detect whether xscreensaver is running and activate it if it is. If not, it launches the daemon first and then activates. From the command line, the following retur

Re: woody eterm - unable to handle images for background

2002-05-14 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:39:40PM -0400, Laurence J. Lane wrote: | On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:11:40PM -0400, Jason M. Harvey wrote: | | [ second reply, on list ] | | > Eterm: Error: Unable to load image file "tile/nebula.jpg" -- No loader | > available for that file format | | That tells the

Re: Netscape Browser Masquerade

2002-05-14 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Muchos gracias. Exactly what I am looking for. -- Arthur H. Johnson II Catechist, St John Catholic Church, Davison MI USA Debian GNU/Linux Advocate, Window Maker Advocate President, Genesee County Linux Users Group IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED],#windowmaker IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED],#debian YIM: arthu

gij

2002-05-14 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I tried to install gij-3.0, and I had the following: okidz:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i gij-* (Reading database ... 61960 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gij-3.0 1:3.0.4-8 (using gij-3.0_1%3a3.0.4-8_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gij-3.0 ... Se

Re: cisco vpn client?

2002-05-14 Thread Robert Rakowicz
"Roach, Mark R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > Has anyone had any luck using the cisco vpn client? > > I have tried on kernel 2.4.16 and 2.4.18(after changing get_fast_time to > do_gettimeofday) and have the same problem on both, the tunnel appears > to be established, but the cipsec0 interfa

Config Network Printing

2002-05-14 Thread Tim Grogan
Hello all, I've researched all the lists and how-to's and have gotten thoroughly confused. I've also loaded lpr, lprng, printtool and numerous other programs trying to to configure a printer, so I'm asking all the print experts for some advise. I'm running woody 2.2.20 and want to print to an hp l

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 18:13, Alex Hunsley wrote: > Scott Henson wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 15:13, Alex Hunsley wrote: [snip] > > cat /proc/interrupts > > Thanks. > My irqs show as follows: > >CPU0 > 0:1556068 XT-PIC timer > 1: 18 XT-PIC k

Re: Erratic mouse in tty

2002-05-14 Thread Robert Mosher
>* Robert Mosher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020514 15:50]: >> I am trying to get my mouse to work in both X and the ttys. Originally the >> mouse worked fine in the ttys, and in X it would move about erratically, >> and click randomly. I fixed this by changing the Device to /dev/gpmdata, >> and changing

Re: woody eterm - unable to handle images for background

2002-05-14 Thread Laurence J. Lane
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:11:40PM -0400, Jason M. Harvey wrote: [ second reply, on list ] > Eterm: Error: Unable to load image file "tile/nebula.jpg" -- No loader > available for that file format That tells the full story: no loader is available for that image format. CVS imlib2's loaders and

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
I ran into that one also. The file should be named "menu.lst" (lowercase L) not "menu.1st" (one). Depending on font, it can look practically the same. Bob On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:11:43PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > I am trying to install grub on my system so I can try out the GNU/HURD, > bu

[Fwd: problems with pon]

2002-05-14 Thread Jeffrey Chimene
Of course, it's also possible that Your're Not Connected In The First Place! Which I would have noticed had I read the log more closely... Can you connect using a modem program? I used seyon to see the initial dialog. That may provide some clues. Hi! at home I am runnin woody, and use pon to c

Re: bastille deb (testing) hosed?

2002-05-14 Thread Bob Bernstein
> On Tue, 14 May 2002, "cj" == Colin Watson wrote: cj> The maintainer just mailed me to say that a new package cj> is available, and he'd like you to test it out. Only one perl booboo remains: "Using Tk user interface module. "Only displaying questions relevant to the current configurat

Re: problems with pon

2002-05-14 Thread Jeffrey Chimene
Hi: It's possible that a domain name search isn't including localhost. To prove this, start your browser and connect to http://64.28.67.150 If this works, DNS isn't. I added the line "search localhost" to my /etc/resolv.conf. The problem is that pppd rewrites this file each time a connection's ma

Debian and old EGCS compilers

2002-05-14 Thread John Richardson
Hello, I have a Debian system with gcc 2.95.4. However, I need egcs-2.91.66 (egcs 1.1.2 release). I have downloaded egcs-2.91.66 and have attempted to compile the source. "Make all" gives me large numbers of errors related to objects that are part of various libraries. I have a software distrib

Re: Not Realtek! (was Re: good choice of network card?)

2002-05-14 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Kirk" == Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kirk> At 2002-05-13T22:51:12Z, "Jamin W. Collins" Kirk> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Personally, I'm partial to the Realtek based cards (used >> frequently on inexpensive cards). The cards are fairly generic >> and ver

Re: coloured console

2002-05-14 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:20:04AM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: | Can anyone remind me which package to install to get my console to colour code | things? Currently it's all white text... | | (Tried googling and apt-cache search with no luck.) | | thanks | lex | | hello, take a look in your ~/.

Re: installed kernel source but still no modversions.h!

2002-05-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:21:22PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > Alex Hunsley wrote: > > > > I'm trying to compile the 3c90x netcard driver from 3com. > > First time I try, I get this: > > > > 3c90x.h:22: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory > > In file included from /usr/include/linux/s

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-14 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 19:13, Alex Hunsley wrote: > Scott Henson wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 15:13, Alex Hunsley wrote: > > > > > Thanks for this useful info! > > > How did you set the IRQ for the card? The 3c90xcfg.exe (dos config util) > > > > His mobo had the different pci slots hard

Re: installed kernel source but still no modversions.h!

2002-05-14 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Hunsley wrote: > > > > I'm trying to compile the 3c90x netcard driver from 3com. > > First time I try, I get this: > > > > 3c90x.h:22: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory > > In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:13, > >

Re: Woody Release questions...

2002-05-14 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Vineet Kumar quotation: > In my tests (and Osamu backed this up with a transcript of his testing > session) the apt pins can only refer to 'stable' 'testing' 'unstable', > not 'potato' 'woody' 'sid'. Part of the problem was that people who want > to stick with woody after the release is th

coloured console

2002-05-14 Thread Alex Hunsley
Can anyone remind me which package to install to get my console to colour code things? Currently it's all white text... (Tried googling and apt-cache search with no luck.) thanks lex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: installed kernel source but still no modversions.h!

2002-05-14 Thread David Z Maze
Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to compile the 3c90x netcard driver from 3com. > First time I try, I get this: > > 3c90x.h:22: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory > In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:13, > from 3c90x.h:36, >

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-14 Thread Alex Hunsley
Scott Henson wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 15:13, Alex Hunsley wrote: > > > Thanks for this useful info! > > How did you set the IRQ for the card? The 3c90xcfg.exe (dos config util) > > His mobo had the different pci slots hard coded to IRQs so I just moved > the sound card. > > > doesn't le

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.14 17:19 Vineet Kumar wrote: * Alex Hunsley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020514 13:27]: > General question: under debian, can I find out what IRQs are assigned to what > devices? cat /proc/pci (not debian-specific; should work on any linux with a /proc filesystem and pci support) /proc/inte

Re: Erratic mouse in tty

2002-05-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert Mosher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020514 15:50]: > I am trying to get my mouse to work in both X and the ttys. Originally the > mouse worked fine in the ttys, and in X it would move about erratically, > and click randomly. I fixed this by changing the Device to /dev/gpmdata, > and changing gpm's

Re: IRC

2002-05-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on. On Tue, 14 May 2002, Keith O'Connell wrote: > I am curious to take a look at IRC, something I have never taken much > interest in before. As I use exclusively Gnome, I was wondering if > people could make a suggestion

Re: 'cannot locate module ip_tables': iptables 1.2.6a; debian unstable; custom kernel 2.4.18;

2002-05-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* lists ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020514 15:58]: > using the ncurses > # make menuconfig > from the kernel source directory, > > Networking Options -> > [*] Network packet filtering (replaces ipchains) > > > is checked. That's the one that looks like the one I want. and it > doesn't allow module ins

Re: journaling filesystem

2002-05-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Eduardo Gargiulo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020514 13:09]: > Hola a todos. > > Necesito saber que pasos deberia seguir para montar algunas particiones > con reiserfs (supongo que es el journaling filesystem que adoptaria > debian) a partir de una instalacion limpia de potato o woody, es decir, > que p

Re: ipmasqerade

2002-05-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Daniel D Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020514 13:02]: > I'm setting up a machine to work as NAT/gateway/proxy server for my home > lan. I compiled the kernel and included NAT and the various network > components as part of the kernel rather than as modules. I then > installed ipmasq. > > NAT cert

modprobe segfaults

2002-05-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people, I just raised a bug report for this, but I thought someone might have seen this already. For some reason when I "modprobe autofs", modprobe segfaults. If I "insmod" it instead it loads fine and all is well. Has anyone seen this behaviour? Thanks, Mike -- Micha

Re: libglib

2002-05-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Debian User ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020514 14:21]: > Hi! > To run xmms I need libglib 1.2.2 installed, it doesn't work with higher > ones and I can only find 1.2.7 in the package list. Where can I get > 1.2.2 ? thanx for answering shimova What version of xmms? potato, woody, sid? Why did 'apt-g

Re: journaling filesystem

2002-05-14 Thread Federico Grau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 08:46:24PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > Hola a todos. > > Necesito saber que pasos deberia seguir para montar algunas particiones > con reiserfs (supongo que es el journaling filesystem que adoptaria > debian) a partir de u

Re: Sendmail: How to get at the envelope in Procmail?

2002-05-14 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Carel Fellinger wrote: > I'm not sure I understand the setup, so I may be way off here. > > The best solution is to have your IPS (or who ever fills that mailbox) > add a Delivered-To header with the envelop To header. It's my mail server, so I control it. Your suggestion so

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-14 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:35:37PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > > > >> The image goes in /boot/grub and is a ".xpm.gz" file. > > > > > > > > I didn't know GRUB supported a graphical menu -- if it really does, > > > > how do I enable it? > > > > > > The

Re: Can't get my Radeon VE to work!

2002-05-14 Thread David Wright
> Anyway, here's what I need. I need a person with a simlar setup to send me > the output of 'lsmod' and a copy of their /etc/X11/XFree86-4 file. I will be > very appriciative of anybody who can help. # lspci ... stuff ... 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon VE QY #

problems with pon

2002-05-14 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! at home I am runnin woody, and use pon to connect to my ISP. Now I have a problem: I cannot connect to my ISP. Something is going worng when the connection is established, but I don't know what. The problem is the same if I use PAP or CHAT to talk to the ISP. Now the funny thing: If I use W

PCMCIA CD-Rom

2002-05-14 Thread Mark Lucas
I've just setup Storm Linux 2000 on my old Toshiba Laptop, all went well except that the machine can now not find the PCMCIA CD Rom drive it installed from! PCMCIA is working fine because I can connect to my network through my PCMCIA ethernet card. When I plug in the CD Rom drive though (a TEAC CD

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-14 Thread Andrew Agno
> Thanks for this useful info! > How did you set the IRQ for the card? The 3c90xcfg.exe (dos config util) In general, one can change the IRQ by assigning one in the BIOS. Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Can't get my Radeon VE to work!

2002-05-14 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Not sure exactly where the problem might be from what you're describing however I do know the Radeon VE support in XF4.1 is limited (I have one as well) and that the better support for any Radeon chipset video card is in XF4.2 which isn't quite ready yet as the X Strike Force team work on X

Re: Can't get my Radeon VE to work!

2002-05-14 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 16:08, Steve Juranich wrote: > I'm sure I'm not the only person out there with a Radoen VE. I'm running on > an > Athlon XP 1700, with sid (xfree 4.1) . Currently my system is "serviceable", > but I'm getting a lot of junk on the screen when I run galeon or acroread > (x-di

Re: Woody Release questions...

2002-05-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020514 14:10]: > To the point, however, I would think the simplest way to stick with > Woody as it moves from testing to stable would be for your apt.sources > to reference it as "woody" rather than as "testing". This way, you > always run the latest woody packa

Re: Fw: Nvi saved the file compi

2002-05-14 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:12:37PM +, Vittorio wrote: > What the hell should I do to delete this annoying message, relentlessly > sent to my mailbox? > > Vittorio > > - Forwarded message from Nvi recovery program <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nvi recovery program

Re: WMaker Menu

2002-05-14 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 06:51:37AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: ( ... ) > On one machine I decided to strick out on my own for managing my menu. > Well, I don't like that idea anymore. Is there something that I can > do to restore the Debian provided Packages? It's OK if this means the > comple

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Alex Hunsley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020514 13:27]: > General question: under debian, can I find out what IRQs are assigned to what > devices? cat /proc/pci (not debian-specific; should work on any linux with a /proc filesystem and pci support) good times, Vineet -- Currently seeking opportunitie

'cannot locate module ip_tables': iptables 1.2.6a; debian unstable; custom kernel 2.4.18;

2002-05-14 Thread lists
hello everybody, I have been lurking on this & the laptop lists awhile in preparation of installing debian over my red hat partition, which I did last weekend. It's debian 'unstable' and kernel 2.4.18 custom-compiled with help at an installfest to get X running on my Sony PKG-FX370K laptop. W

Erratic mouse in tty

2002-05-14 Thread Robert Mosher
I am trying to get my mouse to work in both X and the ttys. Originally the mouse worked fine in the ttys, and in X it would move about erratically, and click randomly. I fixed this by changing the Device to /dev/gpmdata, and changing gpm's repeat type to raw. (As I understand it, this causes gpm to

Re: My ThinkPad is dead after Woody upgrade

2002-05-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
(Thomas is the author of tpctl, Debian maintainer and allround guru!) Thomas - have you any ideas? On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:08:13 -0400 (+), Tom Allison wrote: > Pavel Epifanov wrote: > >Hi All, > > > >I've had my IBM ThinkPad model 380Z dead (laptop not going thru POST, > >suspicion > >is

Re: Netscape Browser Masquerade

2002-05-14 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, May 14, Arthur H. Johnson II did write: > > My bank's online account program only works with netscape classic, but > recently they decided to only allow Red Hat 6.1 machines to access the > program because they can "support" that version of Linux. In other words, > instead of sup

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-14 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 15:20, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Tuesday 14 May 2002 16:51, Scott Henson wrote: > > > My friend was having a problem with a 3com 3c905C-TXM which is the same > > card I have and mine was working just fine. I came to the conclusion > > that the interrupt handler on the card wa

Re: dpkg-reconfigure won't ask me about XXX?

2002-05-14 Thread Paul Smith
%% Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> How can I change the settings for this configuration value, and why >> doesn't dpkg-reconfigure ask me about it? rw> Have you tried 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow ssh'? The -plow tells rw> deboconf to ask questions with priority 'low' or greater. Cert

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-14 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 15:13, Alex Hunsley wrote: > Thanks for this useful info! > How did you set the IRQ for the card? The 3c90xcfg.exe (dos config util) His mobo had the different pci slots hard coded to IRQs so I just moved the sound card. > doesn't let me change the IRQ, just see what it is

Re: frustration with dselect automatic package selection

2002-05-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.14 14:32 David Roundy wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:53:53AM -0400, Federico Grau wrote: > > When I install a system (especially servers), I tend to choose the > task-sel path and unselect everything, with the goal of getting the most > minimal installation as possible. Then as I n

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:35:37PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > >> The image goes in /boot/grub and is a ".xpm.gz" file. > > > > > > I didn't know GRUB supported a graphical menu -- if it really does, > > > how do I enable it? > > > > The graphical stuff requires a patch that was done by somebody

Re: x-terminal-emulator & xterm [SOLVED]

2002-05-14 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:41:28PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > 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 shou

Re: x-terminal-emulator & xterm [SOLVED]

2002-05-14 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:49:36PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * 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, technical

Re: IRC

2002-05-14 Thread David Bell
Xchat is a very nice GUI IRC client. bitchx, epic and irssi are good console clients. :) On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 10:47, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I am curious to take a look at IRC, something I have never taken much > interest in before. As I use exclusively Gnome, I was wondering if peop

Re: frustration with dselect automatic package selection

2002-05-14 Thread Craig Dickson
begin David Roundy quotation: > I know this isn't an answer to your question, but my recommendation would > be to try aptitude. It's much easier to use (at least for me) than > dselect, and doesn't always want to install suggested packages (unless you > tell it to). I also like aptitude. Its U

Can't get my Radeon VE to work!

2002-05-14 Thread Steve Juranich
I'm sure I'm not the only person out there with a Radoen VE. I'm running on an Athlon XP 1700, with sid (xfree 4.1) . Currently my system is "serviceable", but I'm getting a lot of junk on the screen when I run galeon or acroread (x-displays on R also hose me up). Sometimes the junk will disappe

woody eterm - unable to handle images for background

2002-05-14 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello list, i just upgraded my woody box for the first time in about two weeks. for some reason, eterm is no longer able to display a background image, and Esetroot is also unable to set background image. i've tried different deb's of eterm that i have (sid's and even potato's), and Esetroot still

libglib

2002-05-14 Thread Debian User
Hi! To run xmms I need libglib 1.2.2 installed, it doesn't work with higher ones and I can only find 1.2.7 in the package list. Where can I get 1.2.2 ? thanx for answering shimova -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Woody Release questions...

2002-05-14 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Vineet Kumar quotation: > Many people have been asking how to just stick > with woody: they want to run a stable release but have been running > woody because potato grew so many cobwebs. The Mixed Metaphor Police would like to inform you that cobwebs do not grow. Potato may have grown mo

Re: IRC

2002-05-14 Thread Gary Turner
On Tue, 14 May 2002 16:47:12 +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: >Hi, > >I am curious to take a look at IRC, something I have never taken much interest >in before. As I use exclusively Gnome, I was wondering if people could make a >suggestion as to their favourite "gnome" based clients, that can be fo

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-14 Thread dman
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:54:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | A certain other major distro (which I'll leave unnamed, but it starts | with an 'R' and rhymes with 'edhat') symlinks /boot/grub/menu.lst to | /boot/grub/grub.conf. I suppose it makes the file more obvious for | newbies, but it s

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-14 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 14 May 2002 16:51, Scott Henson wrote: > My friend was having a problem with a 3com 3c905C-TXM which is the same > card I have and mine was working just fine. I came to the conclusion > that the interrupt handler on the card was fried. Basically it was > sharing an interrupt with the

Re: IRC

2002-05-14 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On 2002-05-14 16:47 +, Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am curious to take a look at IRC, something I have never taken much > interest in before. As I use exclusively Gnome, I was wondering if people > could make a suggestion as to their favourite "gnome" based clients,

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-14 Thread Alex Hunsley
Scott Henson wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 06:46, Alex Hunsley wrote: > > > > > > Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > > > * Alex Hunsley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020513 17:08]: > > > > Btw Tom, which driver are you using for that 3c905C-TX? > > > > > > You should use the (unfortunately named) 3c59x.o for t

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:54:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A certain other major distro (which I'll leave unnamed, but it starts > with an 'R' and rhymes with 'edhat') symlinks /boot/grub/menu.lst to > /boot/grub/grub.conf. I suppose it makes the file more obvious for > newbies, but it s

Re: IRC

2002-05-14 Thread Peter Whysall
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 16:47, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I am curious to take a look at IRC, something I have never taken much > interest in before. As I use exclusively Gnome, I was wondering if people > could make a suggestion as to their favourite "gnome" based clients, that can > be fo

journaling filesystem

2002-05-14 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hola a todos. Necesito saber que pasos deberia seguir para montar algunas particiones con reiserfs (supongo que es el journaling filesystem que adoptaria debian) a partir de una instalacion limpia de potato o woody, es decir, que paquetes deberia actualizar y cual es el procedimiento a seguir. Si

Re: Not Realtek! (was Re: good choice of network card?)

2002-05-14 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 14 May 2002 09:36:11 -0500 "Kirk Strauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wouldn't wish a Realtek on anyone, particularly if the host machine is > destined to be any kind of a server at all. From an older copy of the > 8139 Linux driver source: Which version of the kernel source are you refer

Re: frustration with dselect automatic package selection

2002-05-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:53:53AM -0400, Federico Grau wrote: > When I install a system (especially servers), I tend to choose the > task-sel path and unselect everything, with the goal of getting the > most minimal installation as possible. Then as I need packages I will > apt-get them as needin

cron entries missing in /etc/init.d and /usr/sbin/cron (potato)

2002-05-14 Thread justin cunningham
What happened to cron? None of the cron services are running. Man cron says do /etc/init.d/cron start but cron is only found in the following files. Dpkg says cron isn't installed; I can grab it with apt but 1. why is it missing 2. if the cron package wasn't installed why do I have cron directori

Re: frustration with dselect automatic package selection

2002-05-14 Thread David Roundy
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:53:53AM -0400, Federico Grau wrote: > > When I install a system (especially servers), I tend to choose the > task-sel path and unselect everything, with the goal of getting the most > minimal installation as possible. Then as I need packages I will apt-get > them as nee

ipmasqerade

2002-05-14 Thread Daniel D Jones
I'm setting up a machine to work as NAT/gateway/proxy server for my home lan. I compiled the kernel and included NAT and the various network components as part of the kernel rather than as modules. I then installed ipmasq. NAT certainly seems to be working. Machines with a 192.168.1.? IP are ab

Re: installed kernel source but still no modversions.h!

2002-05-14 Thread Alex Hunsley
Alex Hunsley wrote: > > I'm trying to compile the 3c90x netcard driver from 3com. > First time I try, I get this: > > 3c90x.h:22: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory > In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:13, > from 3c90x.h:36, > from 3c90x

installed kernel source but still no modversions.h!

2002-05-14 Thread Alex Hunsley
I'm trying to compile the 3c90x netcard driver from 3com. First time I try, I get this: 3c90x.h:22: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:13, from 3c90x.h:36, from 3c90x.c:1: so I remembered I need to inst

snort-mysql and xml output

2002-05-14 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I have a Woody system with snort-mysql 1.8.4beta1-2 installed. My snort.conf contains (among others) the following lines: === output alert_fast: alert output xml: alert, file=/perl/snort.pl protocol=http host=localhost port=80 === I can call http://localhost/perl/snort.pl and OK, but

Re: problems with cyrus (sid) on woody

2002-05-14 Thread Kerstin Espey
... > I simply installed woody and added sid's cyrus21* packages. Trying to That's what I did. After that, I had to edit /etc/imapd.conf and create a password with saslpasswd2 for the admin (cyrus in my case.) And I did need one more file in /etc, but I don't know the name of that file at the

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