Re: Global variables

2002-05-31 Thread dman
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:26:21AM -0400, Oleg wrote: | On Saturday 01 June 2002 12:10 am, Maya wrote: | > Thank you for the prompt reply. | > | > Actually what I'd like to know is the following: If '.bashrc' and | > '.profile' are responsible for setting the individual users variables and | > '/et

Re: Debian ports [was: Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"]

2002-05-31 Thread Brian Nelson
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: >> Presumably, woody's release has been delayed for months due to >> problems with hppa while devs tried to find access to an hppa machine >> for testing. > > That's a rather odd presumption. Do you real debian-devel-announce? You > can f

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:35, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:38:22PM -0500, Dale Hair wrote: > > > I once had a power problem, called the power co. to tell them the > > transformer on the pole had a red light glowing, they told me that meant > > the transformer had a problem and t

Re: location of Maildir - /var/mail or ~/Maildir?

2002-05-31 Thread dman
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 02:06:25PM -0500, Roach, Mark R. wrote: | I know this might be a religious matter, but is there a good reason for | maildirs to go in ~/Maildir? DJB thinks that is the only way. | This seems to be the only way courier will | handle things, Yeah, unfortunately. You could

Re: [release+kernel] upgrade headache

2002-05-31 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 03:19:08AM +0100, Tom Barnes-Lawrence wrote: [snip] > After about a page of the kernel bootup messages, I got: > > request_module[block-major-8]:Root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: V

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-05-31 Thread dman
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:31:28PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:54:25PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: | What gets me is RBL bounces provide information on what happened, | give you a URL for more information *and* an email address to bitch | at. Actually, only the decent ma

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-05-31 Thread dman
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:54:25PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: [much snippage] | I went to dsbl.org and found that they tested | positive for multi-hop and unconfirmed for single-hop. Actually, that's not what "unconfirmed" means. "Unconfirmed" simply means that someone who isn't 'trusted' caused t

Re: "mplayer -vo xvidix" problems with sudo

2002-05-31 Thread Oleg
On Saturday 01 June 2002 12:04 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > Could it be the difference in $PATH between the 2 commands? What do you mean? There's only one executable 'mplayer' and only one 'sudo'. I also added /usr/bin/id to the list of commands I can run as root, and it printed "uid=0(root) gid=0(

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Jeff
Paul Johnson, 2002-May-31 20 > ...caught 23 roughly 14" long brook trout last Monday while everone > else was at work... you bastard :-) -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:03:25PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > My co-workers and I have seen (or actually "heard") a lot of this over > the past four or five years. The Gateway computers we purchased came > with Western Digital drives. Accordingly, we've pretty much developed an > attitude agains

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-05-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya paul yes i hit one too many deletes too . at least wasn't too bad of a delete that i could get the email resent... etc - am not as worried about "fat pipe" .. as opposed to accidental deletes... - reporting the spam is where it gets expensive real fast... -- few apps o

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:38:22PM -0500, Dale Hair wrote: > I once had a power problem, called the power co. to tell them the > transformer on the pole had a red light glowing, they told me that meant > the transformer had a problem and they would send someone to look at it. > Two years later I m

Re: Global variables

2002-05-31 Thread Oleg
On Saturday 01 June 2002 12:10 am, Maya wrote: > Thank you for the prompt reply. > > Actually what I'd like to know is the following: If '.bashrc' and > '.profile' are responsible for setting the individual users variables and > '/etc/profile' the global variables, why is it that if I set variables

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:10, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 07:18:49PM -0700, ben wrote: > > > location throughout the history of the equipment failure. also check for > > cell > > phone antennas in the immediate surrounding area. > > So on top of the computer behind the fan hum

Re: fips

2002-05-31 Thread ben
On Friday 31 May 2002 03:49 pm, Dano wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Thinkpad R30 with Windows 98. > When I run fips for install GNU/Debian have the next error: > > --- > ... > > Checking boot sector ... > Error: Number of sector (long) does not match partion info: > 179171

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 07:18:49PM -0700, ben wrote: > location throughout the history of the equipment failure. also check for cell > phone antennas in the immediate surrounding area. So on top of the computer behind the fan hump (Koolance case) isn't a good place to leave my phone charging?

Re: "mplayer -vo xvidix" problems with sudo

2002-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
Could it be the difference in $PATH between the 2 commands? On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 14:38, Oleg wrote: > Hi > > The only way I can get mplayer to work as well as or better than its Windows > counterpart on my hardware is by using "-vo xvidix" option that requires > superuser privileges, so I add

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:54:01PM -0700, ben wrote: > hi frank, first off, you need new friends. second, either your mail--dated > dec 31, 1999--mysteriously took two and a half years to get to the list or > you need to replace that little lithium battery on the motherboard. third, on Or at l

Re: X server setup

2002-05-31 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:15:45AM -0400, Slootbeek, Jule S wrote: > hey guys, > whenever i try to start X i get this error: > fatal Server Error: > No Screens found. Probably something is not well defined for your device or monitor, or you don't have a valid SubSection "Display". Check /var/

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:54:01PM -0700, ben wrote: > On Friday 31 December 1999 04:03 pm, Frank Brodbeck wrote: > > Hello everybody. > > I'm having over here great trouble. The following is my cruel fate: > > > > Everything started a good year ago. It was ca. the start-up of my > > 'Linux-at-home

Re: Debconf problem: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process

2002-05-31 Thread Graham Williams
Received Sat 01 Jun 2002 10:16am +1000 from Joey Hess: > Graham Williams wrote: > > I've got myself stuck somehow with upgrading some packages (am current > > with "unstable"). After a recent apt-get dist-upgrade I now have: > > > > debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is lock

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 07:26:18PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > - its still cheaper/faster in the long run to hit the "delete" key Faster? Yes. Cheaper? There's long shots measured in light-years shorter than that. You think disk space and bandwidth are free? If you've found a place that'

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:54:25PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: > these BLs. I was going to say that any ISP the size of swbell.net would > have a lot of innocents, but a search of the last 4200 posts just finds > me 8-P So bitch at SW Bell to respond faster to spam complaints. Not responding fast

Athlon XP Motherboard Advice Sought

2002-05-31 Thread Simon Read
Folks, I'm considering building an Athlon XP 2100+ based system. I'd like to build it with a 333 MHz Front Side Bus. I'm considering KT333 based motherboards from various manufacturers. I'm especially enamoured with the EPoX 8K3A+. Does anyone out there have any experiences they'd be will

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:41:37AM -0700, Walter Reed wrote: > Um, speak for yourself. Grilling is a year-round thing for some up us > Minnesotan's! Neither rain nor sleet nor snow shall keep us from our appointed > burger filpping... :-) Same here with Oregonians. Who needs a patio cover? Grab

Re: fips

2002-05-31 Thread Kent West
Dano wrote: Hello, I have a Thinkpad R30 with Windows 98. When I run fips for install GNU/Debian have the next error: --- ... Checking boot sector ... Error: Number of sector (long) does not match partion info: 17917130 instead of 17917137 The number of sector in

Re: Global variables

2002-05-31 Thread Maya
Thank you for the prompt reply. Actually what I'd like to know is the following: If '.bashrc' and '.profile' are responsible for setting the individual users variables and '/etc/profile' the global variables, why is it that if I set variables only in the '/etc/profile', thus making them global, th

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:52:42AM -0700, ben wrote: > yup. mono-linuxism. debian is the standard. unitedlinux is a business > venture, that's all. it's like comparing shaolin monks to tele-evangelists. Don't get me started on that Pat Robertson thief...trying to cheat the Red Cross out of money.

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Kent West
ben wrote: On Friday 31 December 1999 04:03 pm, Frank Brodbeck wrote: Hello everybody. I'm having over here great trouble. The following is my cruel fate: My co-workers and I have seen (or actually "heard") a lot of this over the past four or five years. The Gateway computers we purcha

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 20:59, Frank Brodbeck wrote: > I really do like my PC. And I never hit but sometimes hug her :) > > Later on I will go and check my box power supply. I doubt the power supply is the culprit. Most machines with one hard drive and one cdrom should work fine on 250w supply, do

Can't opencrt1.o

2002-05-31 Thread Squirrel
Dear all, I wrote some lines of codes like the following to verify if my gcc could work. "int main() { int a,b; a=a+1; b=a+2; return 0; }" Then I typed "gcc-3.1 t2.c" in and it said "/usr/bin/ld:Can't open crt1.o:no such file or directory..." when I

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-05-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya gary > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > host mail.otherdomain.net [otherip.otherip.otherip.otherip]: 550 > >> > 5.7.1 Mail from myip.myip.myip.myip > >> refused by blackhole site dnsbl.njabl.org > > > >see htt

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 01:03:57AM +0100, Frank Brodbeck wrote: > my harddrive. It was a Quantum Fireball with about 14 GByte of capacity I've never had a Fireball last more than a year, Windows or Linux. > to buy any new until I know where damages came from. Oh, I forgot, > due to power blackout

[release+kernel] upgrade headache

2002-05-31 Thread Tom Barnes-Lawrence
Hi, sorry this is BIG post.Some background first, FWIW: -I installed Debian/Potato back when it was *frozen*, on a newly assembled machine without another OS -before that I'd been using slackware for a few years (on a different, dual-boot machine), installing new stuff from source, and getting thro

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread ben
On Friday 31 May 2002 06:59 pm, Frank Brodbeck wrote: > I really do like my PC. And I never hit but sometimes hug her :) > > Later on I will go and check my box power supply. you haven't been using the same power supply on all of those different machines, so i seriously doubt that the system powe

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Frank Brodbeck
I really do like my PC. And I never hit but sometimes hug her :) Later on I will go and check my box power supply. -- $ Hello World! $ I am [Ff]rank ;) 1024D/EC4CE5CC 2002-05-14 Frank Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fingerprint = 193D 62EC 03A5 1066 A951

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-05-31 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 31 May 2002 14:00:44 -0700, Walter Reed wrote: >On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 05:19:54PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira >wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I have a Debian GNU/Linux potato server with exim configured. >> I received a strange message. What can be wrong? >>

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Frank Brodbeck
Hi Jaye Jaye came to use his tongue on Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:08:43PM -0700 > Cruel fate: this *is* going to be a good story, I'll read on :) Influence of my rpg activities, I guess *s* > > It twanged like the read/write header of the hdd would somehow hang. > > Time to backup what you can and

PPP

2002-05-31 Thread suporte
Hi guys, I'm having some problems with pppd. I'm trying to install 2 servers with a leased line. All signals (DCD, DSR, DTR, CTS and RTS) are up, which indcates that the cables and modems are OK, but I can't ping the remote peer. Here goes my configurations: Server 1: Kernel IP routing table

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Dale Hair
> are you buying all this equipment from the same vendor? maybe the drives are > being stressed in some prior environment. even if different vendors are > involved, they might use the same wholesale supplier. My second thought on this. > what version(s) of linux are you using? the only other t

Re: [Announce] 1.0.0-4 .debs for i386 [solved]

2002-05-31 Thread Florentin Ionescu
Thank you ! For some reason apt-get didn't work for me but downloaded separat and installing it via dpkg -i worked fine and solves the problem on woody. On Fri, 31 May 2002, Paul Scott wrote : » Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 13:22:05 -0700 » From: Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> » To: Debian User » S

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 December 1999 04:03 pm, Frank Brodbeck wrote: > Hello everybody. > I'm having over here great trouble. The following is my cruel fate: Cruel fate: this *is* going to be a good story, I'll read on :) At this time I often switched from lin

Re: Debian ports [was: Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"]

2002-05-31 Thread Paul E Condon
My two comments on this thread: 1. The lack of an official release doesn't seem to have kept users from using Woody. An actual "Official Release" is a nice way to keep the organization organized, and is therefore good. But Debian is such an open organization that i386 users who are impatient, are

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread ben
On Friday 31 May 2002 05:13 pm, Frank Brodbeck wrote: > Hello Ben > ben came to use his tongue on Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:54:01PM -0700 > > > hi frank, first off, you need new friends. second, either your > > mail--dated dec 31, 1999--mysteriously took two and a half years to get > > to the list or

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

2002-05-31 Thread gerhard
Hi Frank, Am Samstag, 1. Januar 2000 01:34 schrieb Frank Brodbeck: > What you got there is a so called tarball. It's a compressed > archive and enclosed are the sources to scribus - in your case. > But this isn't a package neither a debian (deb) nor a Red Hat > package (rpm). > > There are two wa

Re: Global variables

2002-05-31 Thread Oleg
On Friday 31 May 2002 09:09 pm, Maya wrote: > I have removed the '.bashrc' and '.profiles' from all the users > accounts. Now we know where BOFH lives! BTW we are hiring a new sysadmin, send your resume. > Added the necessary modifications in '/etc/profile' including > the variables necessary t

Re: Debconf problem: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process

2002-05-31 Thread Joey Hess
Graham Williams wrote: > I've got myself stuck somehow with upgrading some packages (am current > with "unstable"). After a recent apt-get dist-upgrade I now have: > > debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by > another process > > and the various messages about > >

boot message: insmod problem

2002-05-31 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all. I'm running woody on i386. During boot process, the log shows some errors like that - insmod: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20020531.log Read-only file system insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/net/unix/u

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Frank Brodbeck
Hello Ben ben came to use his tongue on Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:54:01PM -0700 > hi frank, first off, you need new friends. second, either your mail--dated > dec 31, 1999--mysteriously took two and a half years to get to the list or > you need to replace that little lithium battery on the motherbo

Global variables

2002-05-31 Thread Maya
I have removed the '.bashrc' and '.profiles' from all the users accounts. Added the necessary modifications in '/etc/profile' including the variables necessary to configure and compile Qt-3.0.4. But now, when I try to 'echo' some variable, say for instance, 'echo $QTDIR' I get nothing; which indica

Re: Debian ports [was: Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"]

2002-05-31 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Nelson wrote: > Presumably, woody's release has been delayed for months due to > problems with hppa while devs tried to find access to an hppa machine > for testing. That's a rather odd presumption. Do you real debian-devel-announce? You can find out exactly what kept debian from releasing o

Debconf problem: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process

2002-05-31 Thread Graham Williams
I've got myself stuck somehow with upgrading some packages (am current with "unstable"). After a recent apt-get dist-upgrade I now have: debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process and the various messages about Package debconf is not configured yet.

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread ben
On Friday 31 December 1999 04:03 pm, Frank Brodbeck wrote: > Hello everybody. > I'm having over here great trouble. The following is my cruel fate: > > Everything started a good year ago. It was ca. the start-up of my > 'Linux-at-home career' and also the first time, one of my harddrives > died a -

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

2002-05-31 Thread Frank Brodbeck
Hello Gerhard gerhard came to use his tongue on Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 01:11:02AM +0200 > I want to install scribus-0.7.3.tar.gz debian-like. > Is there a way with apt-get? Or should I use checkinstall or alien? > > Any suggestion is appreciate. > What you got there is a so called tarball. It's a c

Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"

2002-05-31 Thread ben
On Friday 31 May 2002 03:27 pm, Brian Nelson wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > > > Fundamentally, Debian is committed to being a multi-architecture system > > for as long as porters are willing to support it. The Project Leader > > posted to debian-devel-announce about

Debian ports [was: Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"]

2002-05-31 Thread Brian Nelson
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's also worth pointing out that the effort that some people see as > being wasted on other ports actually benefits the distribution as a > whole in the long run. For example, somebody complained a while back > about the number of bugs filed because pack

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

2002-05-31 Thread gerhard
Hello Paul, Am Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2002 11:08 schrieb Paul Johnson: > The preferred method would be switch to your favorite place to > compile stuff, and do this > > apt-get -b build-dep pine What did you mean? I get : debian:/usr/local/src# apt-get -b build-dep scribus Reading Package Lists...

RE: Xfree 4.2.0 and KDM

2002-05-31 Thread Stephen J. Thompson
What is the best way to downgrade? Is it to remove all X components and reinstall? or is there an automatic way? Thanks. Regards, Stephen. On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 08:12, José Manuel Pérez wrote: > Hi. > > I've got that problem too. OpenOffice and Acroread stop working as well. > Finally I've do

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread ben
On Friday 31 May 2002 02:52 pm, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 31 May 2002 12:59 pm, ben wrote: > > On Friday 31 May 2002 12:29 pm, Quenten Griffith wrote: > > > And what exactly is LSB? > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > http://people.debian.or

Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Frank Brodbeck
Hello everybody. I'm having over here great trouble. The following is my cruel fate: Everything started a good year ago. It was ca. the start-up of my 'Linux-at-home career' and also the first time, one of my harddrives died a - to me - mysterious death. At this time I often switched from linux to

Re: How do I discover the X version I'm running? [further question]

2002-05-31 Thread Paul E Condon
OK, so I'm really using kernel 2.2.19, but... I have been under the impression that the method of packet filtering/forwarding changed from something called 'ipchains' in 2.2 to something called 'iptables' in 2.4. I see that 'iptables' stuff has been added in various places to my file system, and 'i

Re: decode base64 encoded partial files with mutt?

2002-05-31 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:05:15PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:41:55PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > | On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:01:57PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > | > Hello! > | > i have a guy who doesn't stop to send me the info i need in splitted > | > word documen

XFree 4.2 issues with locale

2002-05-31 Thread Jeff Johnson
So... Being one of those who has an unsupported video card in wody I somewhat boldly installed the unofficial debs from: deb http://chunk.mp3revolution.net/~aaronl/x ./ Everything works great... Except the following: 1.can't run several Gnome apps.(see extended text) 2. No text in the title bar

Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"

2002-05-31 Thread Brian Nelson
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Fundamentally, Debian is committed to being a multi-architecture system > for as long as porters are willing to support it. The Project Leader > posted to debian-devel-announce about porting a couple of weeks ago, and > summed up the issues quite n

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Pollywog
On Fri, 31 May 2002 14:18:44 -0700 > >it was a mild rebuke. things can get quite heated on > this list sometimes. on behalf of people like me, don't let it put > you off. Yeah I felt like I was taken to the woodshed once or twice this week, but I was not put off by it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: How do I discover the X version I'm running?

2002-05-31 Thread David Z Maze
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The "X -version" output contains a line > "Operating System: Linux 2.4.13 i686 [ELF]". That's probably the version of kernel installed on the system the X server was built on. > But when I run "uname -r", I get "2.2.19", and /proc/version contains > "L

fips

2002-05-31 Thread Dano
Hello, I have a Thinkpad R30 with Windows 98. When I run fips for install GNU/Debian have the next error: --- ... Checking boot sector ... Error: Number of sector (long) does not match partion info: 17917130 instead of 17917137 The number of sector in the partition t

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 May 2002 12:59 pm, ben wrote: > On Friday 31 May 2002 12:29 pm, Quenten Griffith wrote: > > And what exactly is LSB? > > [snip] > > > > > http://people.debian.org/~taggart/lsb/ > > > > http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/lsbtest/ > > you see t

Re: Sound (?)

2002-05-31 Thread Oleg
FWIW, I found sndconfig (in Woody) useful. It did everything for me. Oleg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound (?)

2002-05-31 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done most of my experimenting with XMMS, so that's where this question comes from. When you try to use XMMS to play an MP3, what happens? Do you get an error about checking for the correct output plugin? Or does it seem to play but you simply hear no sound? Ken

Re: insmod lt_serial, lt_modem on Acer Extensa 501 Dx

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Scott
Arthur Dent wrote: From: Olivier Crouzet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-laptop Subject: insmod lt_serial, lt_modem on Acer Extensa 501 Dx Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 17:21:37 +0200 Hi, I am trying to get my lt winmodem work under linux. I have compiled my own kernel and made the corresponding

Re: Clear HDD of old OS, etc?

2002-05-31 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 19:28, Dave Price wrote: Use chkdsk, fdisk or pqmagic. they can all format and build new filesystems. Very easy to use to. > Hi, > > I am looking for a quick way to clear an HDD of old data, partitions, > etc. > > I found this on /. thru a google search: > > dd if=/dev/ran

Re: How do I discover the X version I'm running?

2002-05-31 Thread ben
On Friday 31 May 2002 01:54 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: > I ran "X -version" on my Debian system on which I have applied the > "go-woody" script to move from potato to woody. I got a result that puzzles > me. > > The "X -version" output contains a line > "Operating System: Linux 2.4.13 i686 [ELF]". >

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Quenten Griffith
To true, I was misspoken I should not of said "people" like you because it was unfair of me to judge someone just by one post for that I apologize. ben wrote: > On Friday 31 May 2002 01:23 pm, Quenten Griffith wrote: > > You know Ben its people like you that make posting anything to newsgroups >

Re: How do I discover the X version I'm running?

2002-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:54:08PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I ran "X -version" on my Debian system on which I have applied the > "go-woody" script to move from potato to woody. I got a result that > puzzles me. > > The "X -version" output contains a line > "Operating System: Linux 2.4.13 i68

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread ben
On Friday 31 May 2002 01:23 pm, Quenten Griffith wrote: > You know Ben its people like you that make posting anything to newsgroups > unenjoyable. I did go to those links and they don't really give a great > description exactly what it is. Did someone wake up on the wrong side of > the bed or are

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-05-31 Thread Walter Reed
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 05:19:54PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi all, > I have a Debian GNU/Linux potato server with exim configured. > I received a strange message. What can be wrong? > TIA,Paulo Henrique. > > > This message was cre

Re: How do I discover the X version I'm running?

2002-05-31 Thread Oleg
On Friday 31 May 2002 04:54 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: > The "X -version" output contains a line > "Operating System: Linux 2.4.13 i686 [ELF]". Probably means it was compiled for that system. > But when I run "uname -r", I get "2.2.19", and /proc/version contains > "Linux version 2.2.19 ([EMAIL PR

Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"

2002-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 12:06:48PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yes. I've had to do the odd security update of my own packages in the > > past, and I had to build packages for every architecture by hand. > > Finding Debian-administered machines of the ri

Re: insmod lt_serial, lt_modem on Acer Extensa 501 Dx

2002-05-31 Thread Arthur Dent
From: Olivier Crouzet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-laptop Subject: insmod lt_serial, lt_modem on Acer Extensa 501 Dx Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 17:21:37 +0200 Hi, I am trying to get my lt winmodem work under linux. I have compiled my own kernel and made the corresponding kernel-headers packag

Re: How do I discover the X version I'm running?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul E Condon
I ran "X -version" on my Debian system on which I have applied the "go-woody" script to move from potato to woody. I got a result that puzzles me. The "X -version" output contains a line "Operating System: Linux 2.4.13 i686 [ELF]". But when I run "uname -r", I get "2.2.19", and /proc/version con

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Rick Macdonald
Google is so amazing I hardly need to post to lists anymore. Sometimes I try it before looking at man pages. ;-) Entering "lsb" gives this as the first hit: Linux Standard Base Latest Happenings, About the LSB. Specification Proposals The latest draft of various specification proposals are now list

Re: List etiquette/ Thanks everyone

2002-05-31 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> Can someone tell me what is the agreed upon method on this list for > saying thanks. > There were so many replies to my questions it would be a very long > job to reply to everyone individually with thanks, though if thats > how it goes thats what I'll do. I think there is no standard method, I

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Quenten Griffith
You know Ben its people like you that make posting anything to newsgroups unenjoyable. I did go to those links and they don't really give a great description exactly what it is. Did someone wake up on the wrong side of the bed or are you always just completely rude to other people? ben wrote:

Re: [Announce] 1.0.0-4 .debs for i386

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Scott
Florentin Ionescu wrote: Is this a bug please ? How exactly is openoffice to be installed ? I have dpkg -s libgcc => Version: 1:3.0.4-7 installed and on the other hand apt-get instll openoffice.org => openoffice.org: Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:3.1) but 1:3.0.4-7 \ is to be installed Is there any

Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-05-31 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have a Debian GNU/Linux potato server with exim configured. I received a strange message. What can be wrong? TIA,Paulo Henrique. > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). > > A message that you sent could not b

Re: [Fwd: Re: Possible problem with mozilla-browser 1+rc3-1 and flash]

2002-05-31 Thread gerhard
Hi Ron, Am Freitag, 31. Mai 2002 17:27 schrieb Ron Johnson: > As background, my system does not have a sound card, and > flash animations work fine on my system. Now sound is disabled and I'm sure I got the bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58339. Flash animation works now and I co

Re: synaptic ???

2002-05-31 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 22:49, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 11:39:35PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > > Andy Saxena wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 08:40:27PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > > > > > > Anybody used synaptic on debian to manage rpm's? > > > >

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread ben
On Friday 31 May 2002 12:29 pm, Quenten Griffith wrote: > And what exactly is LSB? > [snip] > > > > > > http://people.debian.org/~taggart/lsb/ > > > http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/lsbtest/ > > you see those linky type things? they're actually addresses you can go to on the web. you know what the

Re: Unresolved symbols in binfmt_aout.o

2002-05-31 Thread Shaul Karl
> I'm a hardware guy trying to use some of the EDA tools available for linux. > The last thing I want to do is start compiling code :). Unless this is > easier than it sounds. > > My preference would be to remove binfmt_aout from the list of modules. I > don't think I need it. Any advice on how to

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-May-2002 Quenten Griffith wrote: > And what exactly is LSB? > Linux Standards Base. It is defining what a linux distribution has to have. see http://www.linuxbase.org. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

"mplayer -vo xvidix" problems with sudo

2002-05-31 Thread Oleg
Hi The only way I can get mplayer to work as well as or better than its Windows counterpart on my hardware is by using "-vo xvidix" option that requires superuser privileges, so I added oleg ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/mplayer * to /etc/sudoers. Now "sudo mplayer -vo xvidix file_nam

Re: [Announce] 1.0.0-4 .debs for i386

2002-05-31 Thread Florentin Ionescu
Is this a bug please ? How exactly is openoffice to be installed ? I have dpkg -s libgcc => Version: 1:3.0.4-7 installed and on the other hand apt-get instll openoffice.org => openoffice.org: Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:3.1) but 1:3.0.4-7 \ is to be installed Is there any way around this on woody ?

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Quenten Griffith
And what exactly is LSB? Grant Bowman wrote: > * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020531 10:15]: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Is there a url describing Debian 3.0's conformance with or > > > roadway to conformance with the LSB? > > > > http://people.debian.org/~taggart/lsb/ > > http://people.debian

location of Maildir - /var/mail or ~/Maildir?

2002-05-31 Thread Roach, Mark R.
I know this might be a religious matter, but is there a good reason for maildirs to go in ~/Maildir? This seems to be the only way courier will handle things, but I would like to be able to mount /var/mail from my mail server on my other systems so I can read mail without imap being involved (grep'

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Grant Bowman
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020531 11:47]: > Grant Bowman wrote: > > * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020531 10:15]: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Is there a url describing Debian 3.0's conformance with or > > > > roadway to conformance with the LSB? > > > > > > http://people.debian.org/~t

Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"

2002-05-31 Thread Brian Nelson
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 12:12:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 11:53, Colin Watson wrote: >> > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:41:05AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > > Isn't the issue regarding "a better way to do security releases" >> >

Re: Clear HDD of old OS, etc?

2002-05-31 Thread Joris
>> I am looking for a quick way to clear an HDD of old data, partitions, >> etc. >> > I don't see any mention of removing data for strong security concerns, > so I will assume that you just want to recycle the drive for another > purpose. I would recommend running fdisk, removing the partitions an

Re: [Fwd: Re: Possible problem with mozilla-browser 1+rc3-1 and flash]

2002-05-31 Thread gerhard
Hello Ren, Am Freitag, 31. Mai 2002 19:36 schrieben Sie: > There is some kind of audio wrapper in rc3 that should avoid > hangs if /dev/dsp is already taken and flash wants to access the > audio device. That might be the reason, but unfortunately I don't know how to make shure, that the soundd

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Joey Hess
Ron Johnson wrote: > I also see a lot of " not part of debian base install. > No problem." To my untrained eye, that looks like a dodge No, it's a recognition of a crummy test suite. The lsb does not itself mention, eg, /etc/gettydefs -- which cannot be a part of debian since the gettyps package

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