Re: Anyone know how to get *bigger* fonts on the console?

2002-09-06 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 06:43:26PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Some of the fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts are quite interesting... > I agree, my favorite console font is "t.pcf.gz" Josh -- Linux, the choice| If we could sell our experiences for what of a GNU

Re: Auto dist-upgrade script

2002-09-06 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 23:53, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > Hi, I've heard people can write some scripts and put it in a cron job > that do a dist-upgrade on their system then send what've been upgraded > to their emails. Can someone share how they did it ? thanks This is my crontab to do nightly mant

Re: hde: lost interrupt + clicking sound = harddisk failing?

2002-09-06 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 20:30, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > I am answering myself because I was wrong. Windows has the clicking > problem too, but it doesn't crash yet. Could this be the heat in the > computer causing the malfunction? > > Edwin Lau Yes, I once scorched a hard drive. It was spiti

Re: Sound problem via8233 chip

2002-09-06 Thread Kent West
Jeff wrote: >A few more notes on my problem (which persists): > >- This is a triple boot system with Win98se and Win2K, using the Win2K > boot loader. I'm aware of issues with sound and other things not > working right when initialized by Windows and rebooted to Linux, so > I've booted from d

Re: Free Cell

2002-09-06 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Marvin J. Kosmal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020906 17:27]: > How do I find and install "FREE CELL"??? Hey, look at that: we gave a man a fish, and now he's hungry again ;-) I don't mean to be rude, Marvin, but please try a few things first before asking on the list "which package contains ?": http

Re: SGML-DTD: to lyx or not to lyx?

2002-09-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Abdul Latip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings: > > I am currently considering to use lyx as a standard > document processor. Unfortunately, it uses "non-free" > packages as well as "Type 3 Fonts" (what's that, btw?). The non-free XForms package will soon be in main, as will Lyx. [Sorry f

Re: How to make kernel-modules-.deb?

2002-09-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Eric" == Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eric> I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom Eric> kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the modules are Eric> compiled and I tried make-kpkg modules-image but no deb file gets Eric> created.

Re: Anyone know how to get *bigger* fonts on the console?

2002-09-06 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:43:48PM -0700, Wade Richards wrote: > Hi, > > I've found a lot of ways to increase the console resolution so that I > can more and smaller characters on the screen. > > However, I want to do the opposite. I've got my 80x30 VGA console output > hooked up to a TV screen

Re: sources.list entries for OpenOffice doesn't work

2002-09-06 Thread John Foster
Roland Wegmann wrote: > > Hello > > I have in mind to install OpenOffice via apt-get. So I tried out the -STUFF SNIPPED- you might try this in your sources.list file deb http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/openoffice testing main co

RE: Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread David Sanders
I just looked at the install manual for Potato, it requires 12MB of memory. However, slink only demands 4MB. -Original Message- From: David Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:08 PM To: Debian Users Subject: RE: Woody on a 486/50 I've just tried booting

RE: Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread David Sanders
I've just tried booting with the debian floppies with the same result. I guess I'll try potato. -Original Message- From: W.D.McKinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 4:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Woody on a 486/50 On (06/09/02 13:43), Bob Nielse

Re: Free Cell

2002-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:26:07PM -0700, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote: > How do I find and install "FREE CELL"??? Try gnome-freecell, in the gnome-card-games package. Or there's ace_freecell in the ace-of-penguins package if you prefer the way that looks. Both of them seem playable enough. -- Colin

Free Cell

2002-09-06 Thread Marvin J. Kosmal
HI How do I find and install "FREE CELL"??? TIA Marvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

stop ML spam

2002-09-06 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I've received a lot of spam from this mailing list. The header is something like the following. Is there any way for postfix headercheck or procmail to stop this? Can someone give me sample headercheck configuration or procmail recipe? Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [

Re: Sound problem via8233 chip

2002-09-06 Thread Jeff
Jeff, 2002-Sep-05 22:15 -0700: > Hey all, > > I've exhausted every resource I know trying to figure this out, but I > haven't yet found resolution. I'm hoping someone here can save my > sanity! > > I have a Soyo MB with the VIA chip set, via8233a for sound. > > I compiled a 2.4.19 kernel wit

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RE: Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread David Sanders
I'm not sure what kind of memory it uses, it is a very old machine. I checked prices on the internet and you can get 128MB of PC100 SDRAM DIMM for about the price of a 4MB 30 pin SIMM (which is probably what it needs). It just doesn't make sense to pay good money to upgrade a 10 year old machin

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2002-09-06 Thread Samuel Li

Re: That thing that annoys me about mutt...

2002-09-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 07:19:21PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Osamu Aoki told: > > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:04:48PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 the mental interface of David Purton told: > > > > When you have seve

Re: Anyone know how to get *bigger* fonts on the console?

2002-09-06 Thread Jeff
Wade Richards, 2002-Sep-06 14:43 -0700: > Hi, > > I've found a lot of ways to increase the console resolution so that I > can more and smaller characters on the screen. > > However, I want to do the opposite. I've got my 80x30 VGA console output > hooked up to a TV screen, and thanks to the low

Re: wrap long lines in .procmailrc

2002-09-06 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sat, 07 Sep 2002, Attila Csosz wrote: > Hi, > > How to wrap long lines in .procmailrc? With \ or pressing simply enter? Hi, see man procmailex Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang-bang fruit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread webmaster
On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 22:45:43 +0200 Mirek Dobsicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 8-§ > I'had the same problem on 8MB laptop 8-§ > David Sanders wrote: 8-§ > > I'm trying to install Woody on a 486/50 with 8MB RAM & SCSI CD/HD. 8-§ > > I boot with a DOS floppy, go to CD:\install and execute boot.

Re: weird but working triple boot with lilo on Woody

2002-09-06 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Benedict Verheyen wrote: > ... > > I put these lines in my lilo.conf > other=/dev/hda1 > label="Win98" > other=/dev/hdb1 > label="WinXp" > > I expected to be able to boot both win os's but it didn't work. When i chose > WinXp it said that that partition wasn't bootable. When i choose Win98, > a

Total hangup when trying xtraceroute

2002-09-06 Thread Pierre THIERRY
I just tried xtraceroute some minutes ago, and the whole system froze... No reaction from any keystroke, or combination of keys. I looked at syslog, but nothing is visible. here are the four last lines before restart : Sep 6 22:15:09 bateleur -- MARK -- Sep 6 22:35:09 bateleur -- MARK -- Sep

wrap long lines in .procmailrc

2002-09-06 Thread Attila Csosz
Hi, How to wrap long lines in .procmailrc? With \ or pressing simply enter? Thanks Attila -- - - Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian 3.0 Linux / 2.2.20 / exim - - PGP key: gpg --keyserver keys.pgp.com --recv-key 0x2cc33acb

Re: boot floppy?

2002-09-06 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "Romuald DELAVERGNE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 5:31 PM Subject: Re: boot floppy? Le 2002.09.05 09:42, axacheng a écrit : > Hello List : > > How do i make a own boot floppy disk that include my SCSI device > an

weird but working triple boot with lilo on Woody

2002-09-06 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi,   i have Debian Woody 3.0 running along Windows 98 en XP. I had installed Win98 first, then woody. Now i installed XP and XP detected Win98, made a menu to boot XP and Win98 and then overwrote the MBR which was expected. No problem since i had made a boot disk in woody so i went back in

Re: GRUB install disk, menu.1st

2002-09-06 Thread Q. Gong
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:03:37 -0400 > From: Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: GRUB install disk, menu.1st > Resent-Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:00:37 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Anyone know how to get *bigger* fonts on the console?

2002-09-06 Thread Wade Richards
Hi, I've found a lot of ways to increase the console resolution so that I can more and smaller characters on the screen. However, I want to do the opposite. I've got my 80x30 VGA console output hooked up to a TV screen, and thanks to the low resolution of a TV, the result is unreadable. I'd li

Re: Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 16:56:03 -0400 "David Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will try making a Debian floppy, if it can be done from Redhat. It can, "dd" is the command you'd want. But, based on the other replies, it looks as like woody wants a minimum of 12 meg for the installation process

RE: Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread David Sanders
Thanks for reply. The machine is so old it won't boot from CD, I tried. I haven't tried making a "Debian floppy". The machine currently has Redhat 5.0 (c. 1997). I installed Redhat with the DOS disk procedure, so that's why I was doing it with Woody. I will try making a Debian floppy, if it c

Re: Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread Ron Farrer
Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:14:23PM -0400, David Sanders wrote: > > I'm trying to install Woody on a 486/50 with 8MB RAM & SCSI CD/HD. > > I boot with a DOS floppy, go to CD:\install and execute boot.bat. > > Everything seems to be working until it outputs

Re: Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread W.D.McKinney
On (06/09/02 13:43), Bob Nielsen wrote: > Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:43:47 -0700 > From: Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Woody on a 486/50 > > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:14:23PM -0400, David Sanders wrote: > > I'm trying to install Woody on a 48

Re: keyboard question

2002-09-06 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jim Lynch said: > I had such good luck with ssh, I'll try again. 8) > > All of a sudden, starting with the installation of woody, my backspace > key is sending a delete, not a backspace. Even when I log in via vnc it > thinks my backspace key is a delete. What did

Re: ssh not working

2002-09-06 Thread Jim Lynch
Thanks for all the tips. I finally got it working by using ssh v2 all the way. For some reason v1 didn't want to work. Jim. Jim Lynch wrote: > > I've never been able to get ssh to work on a Linux box. I just upgraded > to Woody and have tried again. I'm trying to connect to a Red Hat box >

Re: Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
I'had the same problem on 8MB laptop using Debian boot disks for Woody ... not solved Elfi David Sanders wrote: > I'm trying to install Woody on a 486/50 with 8MB RAM & SCSI CD/HD. > I boot with a DOS floppy, go to CD:\install and execute boot.bat. > Everything seems to be worki

Re: Missing modules are working well!

2002-09-06 Thread Glyn Millington
Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Glyn Millington wrote: >> Greetings! Debian Woody (wonderful!!) 2.4.18 compiled by yours >> truly. Since rebuilding the kernel when I boot up I get a long list >> of >> "modprobe can't find" messages. But the modules are there and they >> work,or I wou

Re: Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:14:23PM -0400, David Sanders wrote: > I'm trying to install Woody on a 486/50 with 8MB RAM & SCSI CD/HD. > I boot with a DOS floppy, go to CD:\install and execute boot.bat. > Everything seems to be working until it outputs something like: > RAMDISK: Found compressed imag

keyboard question

2002-09-06 Thread Jim Lynch
I had such good luck with ssh, I'll try again. 8) All of a sudden, starting with the installation of woody, my backspace key is sending a delete, not a backspace. Even when I log in via vnc it thinks my backspace key is a delete. What did I do? Better yet what do I do to fix it.I noticed

Re: VPN beginner -- help!

2002-09-06 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Mike Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I dounloaded 2.2R7 and installed it. (snip) > many sets of documentation indicate that support for this was added to > the kernel, and I shouldn't need to do any patching, etc. Is this true? > Am I missing the

Re: Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread Donald R. Spoon
David Sanders wrote: > I'm trying to install Woody on a 486/50 with 8MB RAM & SCSI CD/HD. > I boot with a DOS floppy, go to CD:\install and execute boot.bat. > Everything seems to be working until it outputs something like: > RAMDISK: Found compressed image at sector 0 > Then it hangs and locks up

Re: Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:14:23 -0400 "David Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install Woody on a 486/50 with 8MB RAM & SCSI CD/HD. > I boot with a DOS floppy, go to CD:\install and execute boot.bat. > Everything seems to be working until it outputs something like: > RAMDISK: Found

systemcheck

2002-09-06 Thread martin f krafft
hi all, is there a suite of programs that can test an x86 system for any errors? memtest86 is a start, but is there something that can do the same for CPU/FPU, motherboard, timer, hdd, etc etc. sort of like the norton utils, but free would be nice! -- martin; (greetings from the h

Re: graphical shutdown

2002-09-06 Thread Carlos A P Gomes
* Petr Vanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-09-2002 15:46]: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:08:06PM -0300, Carlos A P Gomes wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a P100/woody/icewm running fine, but I want to let other people > > use it in my work and I need an easy way to let then turn it off. I know > > about gdm

Re: gtk2 gtk-demo Couldn't Load font Sans 10 falling back

2002-09-06 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Mariano" == Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mariano> Hi, I tried gtk-demo from gtk2 with woody. Unfortunately I get Mariano> the message "Couldn't load font "Sans 10" falling back to "Sans Mariano> 10" two times and then "All font failbacks failed!!!" ... Any Mariano> idea how to

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2002-09-06 Thread Thomas Esbjörnsson
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Re: Missing modules are working well!

2002-09-06 Thread Travis Crump
Glyn Millington wrote: > Greetings! Debian Woody (wonderful!!) 2.4.18 compiled by yours truly. > > Since rebuilding the kernel when I boot up I get a long list of > > "modprobe can't find" messages. > > But the modules are there and they work,or I would not be sending this > ;-) > Of cour

Re: Missing modules are working well!

2002-09-06 Thread Glyn Millington
Nick Traxler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Since rebuilding the kernel when I boot up I get a long list of >> >> "modprobe can't find" messages. >> >> But the modules are there and they work,or I would not be sending this >> ;-) >> >> I suspect that this means that something from my previou

Re: Missing modules are working well!

2002-09-06 Thread Nick Traxler
This one time, at band camp, Glyn Millington said: > > Greetings! Debian Woody (wonderful!!) 2.4.18 compiled by yours truly. > > Since rebuilding the kernel when I boot up I get a long list of > > "modprobe can't find" messages. > > But the modules are there and they work,or I would not be

Re: leafnode cannot find hostname on debian woody (solved)

2002-09-06 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 05 Sep 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > /etc/hosts Hi, I found the answer ... it is a bug in the leafnode version ... I upgraded to 1.9.24 and the problem was solved ... my system settings were o.k., but leafnode in the 1.9.19 version is not able to read the host-name, instead takes the IP ad

Re: woody's kde erratic

2002-09-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.06.2010 +0200]: > As I stated in my post, other users can log in just fine... well, it turned out to be some problem with the files that KDE stores in /tmp. Gosh how I hate bloated products! thanks all... -- martin; (greetin

Re: GRUB install disk, menu.1st

2002-09-06 Thread UnKnown
In the normal instalation you would put de menu.1st under /boot/grub/menu.1st I would try it. Bye te way I have install it under the hard disk and it works pretty well Ceers, rak On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:03:37PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > My grub boot floppy is working great. S

Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread David Sanders
I'm trying to install Woody on a 486/50 with 8MB RAM & SCSI CD/HD. I boot with a DOS floppy, go to CD:\install and execute boot.bat. Everything seems to be working until it outputs something like: RAMDISK: Found compressed image at sector 0 Then it hangs and locks up the machine requiring a CTRL-A

GRUB install disk, menu.1st

2002-09-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
My grub boot floppy is working great. Since menu.1st is a simple text file I can write it myself esily. The question is: where do I put it in the floppy? The floppy was created following the instructions in the grub manual. I haven't wanted to install grub in my hard disk, i am afraid of messing u

Re: graphical shutdown

2002-09-06 Thread Petr Vanek
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:08:06PM -0300, Carlos A P Gomes wrote: > Hello, > I have a P100/woody/icewm running fine, but I want to let other people > use it in my work and I need an easy way to let then turn it off. I know > about gdm and kdm but I'd like to know if there is any other method to >

Re: Problems with esd in Woody?

2002-09-06 Thread Paul Smith
OK, I did that and I was able to do some RP-ing while at the same time playing sample sounds from the Gnome sounds menu (although I usually have these turned off). However, when I looked there it was already selecting ESD--but I had also never run realplayer standalone before and had to set it up

Re: woody's kde erratic

2002-09-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.06.2010 +0200]: > The user that's able is in staff, otherwise they're the same. I'll try > that in a flash though... nope... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; n

security.debian.org and active FTP?

2002-09-06 Thread martin f krafft
anyone have an answer why security.debian.org sends active FTP transfers from a high port rather than port 20? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck "she is absolutely inadmissible into society. many a woman

Re: How to make kernel-modules-.deb?

2002-09-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 04:01:11PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom > kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the modules are > compiled and I tried make-kpkg modules-image but no deb file gets > created. How do

Re: gcc-3.2 on a testing box

2002-09-06 Thread John Schmidt
I installed the modutils from unstable and modconf from testing. Is the likelihood that modutils from unstable should be okay for a testing distribution? The kernel is based on the 2.2compact series from woody. On a different testing box, I am actually building gcc-3.2 from the debian source

Re: cal[2]

2002-09-06 Thread Marvin J. Kosmal
On Friday 06 September 2002 11:05 am, Ron Farrer wrote: > Marvin J. Kosmal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi Gang > > > > > > Why can't I do > > > > apt-get install cal > > > > > > It tells me there is no cal > > > > I thought calendar was a standard function??? > > > > TIA > > > > Marvin > > T

graphical shutdown

2002-09-06 Thread Carlos A P Gomes
Hello, I have a P100/woody/icewm running fine, but I want to let other people use it in my work and I need an easy way to let then turn it off. I know about gdm and kdm but I'd like to know if there is any other method to have a graphical shutdown. -- _ _ _ / _ _ _ __ _ ( (// (()_)

Re: Problems with esd in Woody?

2002-09-06 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:04:07PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > %% "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > kej> Have you told Realplayer to use ESD as output? If not, then > kej> Realplayer and esd will be fighting over the device files... IIRC > kej> esd will use a "timeout", wh

Re: cal

2002-09-06 Thread Craig Dickson
Marvin J. Kosmal wrote: > Why can't I do > > apt-get install cal > > > It tells me there is no cal > > I thought calendar was a standard function??? There is no package called "cal". The cal problem is in the bsdmainutils package. Craig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: woody's kde erratic

2002-09-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.05.1516 +0200]: > Are there any differences in the groups the users are a member of? Maybe > it's a permission thing (on something in /dev/ for example). The user that's able is in staff, otherwise they're the same. I'll try that in a flash t

Re: woody's kde erratic

2002-09-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Simon Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.05.1346 +0200]: > Does your computer know what name it is? Can it resolve > localhost? Can it resolve its own hostname? I know KDE requires the > ability to connect to itself so that may be the issue. As I stated in my post, other users

Re: cal

2002-09-06 Thread Ron Farrer
Marvin J. Kosmal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Gang > > > Why can't I do > > apt-get install cal > > > It tells me there is no cal > > I thought calendar was a standard function??? > > TIA > > Marvin Try: `apt-get -f install bsdmainutils` HTH, Ron -- Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <

Missing modules are working well!

2002-09-06 Thread Glyn Millington
Greetings! Debian Woody (wonderful!!) 2.4.18 compiled by yours truly. Since rebuilding the kernel when I boot up I get a long list of "modprobe can't find" messages. But the modules are there and they work,or I would not be sending this ;-) I suspect that this means that something from my

Re: cal

2002-09-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 06 September 2002 10:56, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote: > Hi Gang > > > Why can't I do > > apt-get install cal > > > It tells me there is no cal > > I thought calendar was a standard function??? > > TIA > > Marvin $ auto-apt search bin/cal usr/sbin/callback comm/mgetty usr/X11R6/bin/calc

Re: ssh not working

2002-09-06 Thread Craig Dickson
Jim Lynch wrote: > I've never been able to get ssh to work on a Linux box. I just upgraded > to Woody and have tried again. I'm trying to connect to a Red Hat box > with ssh. I generated a key and I have the identity and identity.pub > files in .ssh on the Debian system. I logged in to the Re

cal

2002-09-06 Thread Marvin J. Kosmal
Hi Gang Why can't I do apt-get install cal It tells me there is no cal I thought calendar was a standard function??? TIA Marvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gcc-3.2 on a testing box

2002-09-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 06 September 2002 06:48, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I am nervous about the removal of modutils and modconf and the update > of binutils libc6 libc6-dev libgcc1 locales. Will this mess up my > current testing development enviroment or are the dependencies such > that things will just

Re: ssh not working

2002-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:41:22PM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote: > I've never been able to get ssh to work on a Linux box. I just upgraded > to Woody and have tried again. I'm trying to connect to a Red Hat box > with ssh. I generated a key and I have the identity and identity.pub > files in .ssh on

ssh not working

2002-09-06 Thread Jim Lynch
I've never been able to get ssh to work on a Linux box. I just upgraded to Woody and have tried again. I'm trying to connect to a Red Hat box with ssh. I generated a key and I have the identity and identity.pub files in .ssh on the Debian system. I logged in to the RedHat system and placed the

Re: That thing that annoys me about mutt...

2002-09-06 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Osamu Aoki told: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:04:48PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 the mental interface of David Purton told: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > When you have several address in the To: or Cc: fields of a message

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Re: How to make kernel-modules-.deb?

2002-09-06 Thread Eric Richardson
Oliver Fuchs wrote: > On Thu, 05 Sep 2002, Eric Richardson wrote: > > >>Hi, >>I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom >>kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the modules are >>compiled and I tried make-kpkg modules-image but no deb file gets >>created.

Re: X hanging the whole system at startup

2002-09-06 Thread Kent West
Mariano Kamp wrote: > Hi, > > I installed woody and after booting the machine x hangs the whole > machine (at least numlock doesn't work anymore). Is there anyway to > interrupt the startup procedure to prevent x from starting? At the "boot:" prompt, enter something like "linux single" to star

Re: That thing that annoys me about mutt...

2002-09-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:04:48PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 the mental interface of David Purton told: > > > Hi all, > > > > When you have several address in the To: or Cc: fields of a messages > > that is being composed, they don't wrap, so you can't quickly just >

Re: Modules - unstable? -newbie

2002-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 04:52:54PM +0200, Setyo Nugroho wrote: > I just configured sound modules, such as soundcore etc. The audio works > fine. The same audio modules were added into /etc/modules, so that > these modules wil be loaded every time the system is booted. > After rebooting, the modu

Re: Modules - unstable? -newbie

2002-09-06 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Setyo Nugroho said: > Am happy to have woody installed, after moving from suse. > One thing which makes me grabbling for quite sometime. It may take > sometime to understand the whole scene behind debian and its power. > Nevertheless I still trust this debian more than

Re: Weird fluxbox menus

2002-09-06 Thread Craig Dickson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Look at /etc/menu-methods/fluxbox and compare it to > /etc/menu-methods/blackbox. I hadn't bothered looking at that, but I figured it was something the Debian maintainer was doing. > Then beat yourself with a trout for using fluxbox instead of blackbox (-: Why? Fl

Re: How to make kernel-modules-.deb?

2002-09-06 Thread Eric Richardson
Oliver Fuchs wrote: > On Thu, 05 Sep 2002, Eric Richardson wrote: > > >>Hi, >>I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom >>kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the modules are >>compiled and I tried make-kpkg modules-image but no deb file gets >>created.

Re: Boot Disk Issues Newbie need Help

2002-09-06 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2002.09.06 04:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Hi: > > I made a boot floppy by #cp /vmlinuz /dev/fd0 > My current vmlinuz is a 2.4.18 kernel that boots fine from the HD. > Don't use 'cp' but 'cat' or 'dd'. The kernel must be writed at the begining of the disk. #cat /vmlinuz /dev/fd0 sho

Re: USB gamepads

2002-09-06 Thread Jason Healy
At 1031279082s since epoch (09/05/02 21:24:42 -0400 UTC), Robin wrote: > I was wondering how I'd go about setting up a gravis gamepad to work > with snes9x or xmame (or for controlling the cursor on screen...) I have two gravis gamepads working with snes9x. You have to use the "joydev" and "joy

Re: Debian and perl module locations

2002-09-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:26:41PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:12:01AM -0400, stan wrote: > > I'm trying to port a perl script to a Debian unstable machine. It uses a > > module called Proc-ProcessTable. I looked in dselect to see if there was a > > .deb for this, but d

Re: boot floppy?

2002-09-06 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2002.09.05 09:42, axacheng a écrit : > Hello List : > > How do i make a own boot floppy disk that include my SCSI device > and Network device modules > Make your kernel with your SCSI device and Network device (built-in the kernel, not in modules) Then: cat /usr/src/linux/arch/i38

Contacto y apoyo

2002-09-06 Thread Jose Guaman
Riobamba, septiembre 6 del 2002   Compañer@s     DEBIAN   Presente.-   Reciba nuestros cordiales saludos de parte de Asociación de Mujeres Indígenas de Chimborazo “La Minga”, deseamos que tenga tengan éxitos en los trabajos en beneficio del pueblo, nuestro objetivo es mejorar las condiciones de v

Modules - unstable? -newbie

2002-09-06 Thread Setyo Nugroho
Am happy to have woody installed, after moving from suse. One thing which makes me grabbling for quite sometime. It may take sometime to understand the whole scene behind debian and its power. Nevertheless I still trust this debian more than other popular distros. I just configured sound modules,

Re: PAM use by non root applications

2002-09-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:34:08PM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: | Does Woody allow non-root id applications to to PAM auth? Yes. No. It depends. Which PAM module are you trying to use? You can't use pam_unix *if* you use shadow passwords *and* the non-root user does not have permission to read

Re: postfix bouncing

2002-09-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:08:35PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | I am trying to send mail to a localhost installation of postfix. ... | Mail is rejected at the localhost smtp server with the following | in /var/log/mail.log: ... | (Name service error for tacocat.net.sea.mail.core.tacocat.net:

gtk2 gtk-demo Couldn't Load font Sans 10 falling back

2002-09-06 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi, I tried gtk-demo from gtk2 with woody. Unfortunately I get the message "Couldn't load font "Sans 10" falling back to "Sans 10" two times and then "All font failbacks failed!!!" ... Any idea how to solve this? I've seen some messages about something similar, but it didn't seem to be relat

Re: Screen blanking on logout

2002-09-06 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:43:06PM +0200, Ian Johannesen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:14:02PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi Raffaele, > > [...] > > > I did not find an option wich lets getty blank the screen so wich are my > > options to get that feature? write a script wich firstl

Re: X hanging the whole system at startup

2002-09-06 Thread Jeff
Mariano Kamp, 2002-Sep-06 18:00 +0200: > Hi, > > I installed woody and after booting the machine x hangs the whole > machine (at least numlock doesn't work anymore). Is there anyway to > interrupt the startup procedure to prevent x from starting? > > I am also wondering what the reason for t

Re: wheel-scrolling in acrobat reader 5.0.5

2002-09-06 Thread Matthias Czapla
> Jamin W.Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (on Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:43:57 -0500) > > > Have you tried xpdf? Is there something particular to AR > > that you need that isn't provided by xpdf? I think xpdf cant show the table of contents like AR does in the left column "Bookmarks". And whats

X hanging the whole system at startup

2002-09-06 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi, I installed woody and after booting the machine x hangs the whole machine (at least numlock doesn't work anymore). Is there anyway to interrupt the startup procedure to prevent x from starting? I am also wondering what the reason for that is? Issuing startx by hand does work. Does an

gcc-3.2 on a testing box

2002-09-06 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I am running a testing box and would like to try out gcc-3.2 which is in unstable. I have created an apt-preferences file with the appropriate information and updated my sources.list to include unstable. As a check I ran: golden:/home/jas# apt-get install -s -t unstable gcc-3.2 Reading

Re: unix2dos equivalent?

2002-09-06 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 06:52:52AM -0400, D.U. wrote: > What is the debian eqivalent of dos2unix and unix2dos? Others have already showed that they are available. If you want to use something else, you can use something like recode - a very powerful piece of software. apt-get install recode "

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Re: pppoe on Debian -- Modem hangup FIGURED OUT!

2002-09-06 Thread Slaven Peles
On Friday 30 August 2002 05:23 pm, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > > You mean, when you deactivate ppp_on_boot (by moving or removing > > > /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot) and reboot your system, the _exact_ same error > > > (messages) occur? > > > > No, I don't deactivate ppp_on_boot. Here is what happens

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