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Re: Postfix options

2002-09-08 Thread David Wright
> Any suggestions on a pop-server? The Cyrus server also offers POP access. Turning it on just requires un-commenting one line in the configuration file. If any user ever requested POP, that's what I would do, but no one has, because... 1) Nearly every popular email client system now supports

Re: gcc version issues

2002-09-08 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Gib Bogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Debian system is 2.4.18, which was built with gcc 2.95.4. I want to > compile some software which apparently requires gcc 2.96 or later. What > should I do? My first thought was simply to install a later version of > gcc, but it occurs to me that

Re: gcc version issues

2002-09-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Sunday 08 September 2002 21:44, Gib Bogle wrote: > My Debian system is 2.4.18, which was built with gcc 2.95.4. I want to > compile some software which apparently requires gcc 2.96 or later. What > should I do? My first thought was simply to install a later version of > gcc, but it occurs to

gcc version issues

2002-09-08 Thread Gib Bogle
My Debian system is 2.4.18, which was built with gcc 2.95.4. I want to compile some software which apparently requires gcc 2.96 or later. What should I do? My first thought was simply to install a later version of gcc, but it occurs to me that this could create problems for me later, for exampl

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Re: ext3 w/Woody 3.0r0?

2002-09-08 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Rob Leachman wrote: > Just wanted to check before I do something wrong... does Woody 3.0r0 > support ext3? I'm told to worry about kernel support, is it in the > distributed "2.2.20-compact #1" kernel? > > Also, while I'm asking these simple questions, I understand the way to > upgrade to ext3

ext3 w/Woody 3.0r0?

2002-09-08 Thread Rob Leachman
Just wanted to check before I do something wrong... does Woody 3.0r0 support ext3? I'm told to worry about kernel support, is it in the distributed "2.2.20-compact #1" kernel? Also, while I'm asking these simple questions, I understand the way to upgrade to ext3 is simply: 1) Add ext3 journal

Re: problems with tux(racer|kart)

2002-09-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, martin f krafft said: > also sprach Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [2002.09.08.2347 +0200]: > > my guess is your opengl settings. If you dont have hardware support > > for opengl it will be a nightmare running such applications > > As I said, I have

Re: List of purged packages?

2002-09-08 Thread Adam Warner
Hi Colin Watson, > OK, you're right that it's not the default state, sorry. That's not the > whole story though: > > $ grep-status -nsPackage -FStatus 'purge ok not-installed' | wc -l > 10312 > > The first word in the Status: line is the "want" status (as the dpkg > sources call it), and

ALSA : /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy

2002-09-08 Thread Pierre THIERRY
I'm trying to have some sound coming out of my machine, but after having a kernel with sound, alsa modules installed, I can't get any sound. Here are the modules loaded : snd-ens1371 9440 1 snd-rawmidi12256 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 3968 0 [snd-rawmid

USB EZ-Link network on Linux-to-Win98?

2002-09-08 Thread Jeff Maxson
Awhile back I got myself an EZ-Link cable from Anchor Chips. Not exactly sure how they work, but it makes the computer at each end of the cable think it is talking to a slave somehow so that they communicate using (I think) ethernet protocol of somekind. Of course, this came with Windows drive

Re: type of file?

2002-09-08 Thread Nori Heikkinen
thanks! on Sun, 08 Sep 2002 09:45:32PM -0400, Sean insinuated: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > file > > On Sunday 08 September 2002 09:29 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > i recall someone on here recently mentioning a simple command to > > determine what type of file somethi

Re: type of file?

2002-09-08 Thread Sean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 file On Sunday 08 September 2002 09:29 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i recall someone on here recently mentioning a simple command to > determine what type of file something is. i can't find it, though -- > can anyone refresh my memory? i promise to

Re: type of file?

2002-09-08 Thread Pierre THIERRY
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Re: type of file?

2002-09-08 Thread Lucas Barbuto
Hi Nori, On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 09:29:09PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i recall someone on here recently mentioning a simple command to > determine what type of file something is. i can't find it, though -- > can anyone refresh my memory? i promise to write it down this time :) file Regar

make-kpkg doesn't parse version correctly ?

2002-09-08 Thread Pierre THIERRY
I've got a very strange error with make-kpkg when trying to build an image a second time. I've already used the woody one on this linux source successfully, so suspected a problem with the sarge I've upgraded to. But I have the same error with woody and sarge kernel-package... I used 7.107 and 8.

type of file?

2002-09-08 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i recall someone on here recently mentioning a simple command to determine what type of file something is. i can't find it, though -- can anyone refresh my memory? i promise to write it down this time :) thanks, -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore

Quotas on Woody

2002-09-08 Thread Lucas Barbuto
Hi List, I've been having real trouble with quotas on Woody. They are working to a degree, I have kernel support, I have the quota files, but I have recurring problems and the gut feeling that things just aren't quite right and I don't trust them to work properly. I'm running Woody with a custo

Re: telnet and old ANSI graphics

2002-09-08 Thread nate
Matthew Daubenspeck said: > Is there a way to get that standard telnet command in a terminal > window to support ANSI graphics? > > I am really embarrassed to mention why :) it doesn't depend upon the telnet command it depends upon the terminal emulator(the "terminal window"). I prefer gnome-term

Re: pop server

2002-09-08 Thread Sean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm currently running courier-imap-ssl and courier-pop-ssl for IMAP and POP3 on a smallish server I have sitting out there in the great beyond, and have had good luck so far. Sean On Sunday 08 September 2002 08:59 pm, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm loo

Re: Postfix options

2002-09-08 Thread Tom Allison
David Wright wrote: > I have written a Debian-centric whitepaper on using Postfix. You can find > it at > http://www.metaconsultancy.com/whitepapers/ > There is also the beginnings of a Cyrus whitepaper, but it isn't anywhere > near finished. Seeing as how we are both in Seattle, though, you cou

HPPA Install Problem with libc6

2002-09-08 Thread Brian Tutor
I am attempting an install on an HP B2600. Due to the USB keyboard/mouse I am installing via the serial interface. I downloaded the Jigdo ISO images (with good checksum verify) and burned CD1. I then booted from it via PALO. The install program comes up and all is well. I set up the partit

Re: Hinting msttcorefonts--any defoma experts?

2002-09-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi again, Rene Engelhard wrote: > [ late answer, I know ... ] > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Paul Smith wrote: > > > There've been bugs opened against the msttcorefonts package for quite a > > > while asking that it be defoma-ized so that the system can actually

Re: pop server

2002-09-08 Thread nate
Tom Allison said: > I'm looking for suggestions on a pop-ssl server. > I'm currently working with postfix and am not really a great > expert on POP. if you use sslwrap you can SSL-enable any POP3 server on the system I've been doing this for years without any trouble, same for IMAP4 servers.

Re: postfix bouncing

2002-09-08 Thread Tom Allison
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > 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

pop server

2002-09-08 Thread Tom Allison
I'm looking for suggestions on a pop-ssl server. I'm currently working with postfix and am not really a great expert on POP. I am looking for something that is relatively simple and straight-forward in it's set-up. Any suggestions? -- Life is just a bowl of cherries, but why do I always get t

telnet and old ANSI graphics

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Is there a way to get that standard telnet command in a terminal window to support ANSI graphics? I am really embarrassed to mention why :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backwards-completion in zsh

2002-09-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.09.0243 +0200]: > If you're in emacs emulation mode ('bindkey -e'), then Ctrl-R does this. > In vi mode you can use ESC /. zshzle(1) lists other keystrokes you can > use if those aren't to your taste. > > (I use bash rather than zsh, but Ctrl-

Re: backwards-completion in zsh

2002-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:09:53AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > does anyone know how i can backwards-complete search the history of > the zsh shell? For example, after calling dpkg-buildpackage and then > dpkg-deb thereafter, how can I enter 'dpkg' and then let the shell > complete (give option

Re: List of purged packages?

2002-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:38:34AM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: > Hi Colin Watson, > > You can set the COLUMNS variable to something large (e.g. 200) to avoid > > this. Alternatively, you can use grep-status from the grep-dctrl > > package, with something like this: > > > > grep-status -nsPackage

Re: problems with tux(racer|kart)

2002-09-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.08.2347 +0200]: > my guess is your opengl settings. > If you dont have hardware support for opengl it will be a nightmare > running such applications As I said, I have no clue about multimedia, please help me further. Where do I

backwards-completion in zsh

2002-09-08 Thread martin f krafft
does anyone know how i can backwards-complete search the history of the zsh shell? For example, after calling dpkg-buildpackage and then dpkg-deb thereafter, how can I enter 'dpkg' and then let the shell complete (give options like tab completion, or a menu) which previous command starting with 'd

Re: List of purged packages?

2002-09-08 Thread Adam Warner
Hi Colin Watson, > On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 04:01:45AM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: >> Is there a way to obtain a straight list of purged packages? > You can set the COLUMNS variable to something large (e.g. 200) to avoid > this. Alternatively, you can use grep-status from the grep-dctrl > package,

Compile libssl from source package

2002-09-08 Thread Robert Ian Smit
Logging into my Sparcstation using ssh is very slow. Thanks to the friendly advise of another Debian/Sparc user I now know this is because of the compile time option used for libssl. Googling around a bit I found out that I have to "rebuild openssl/libssl/libcrypto, adding a -mv8 flag to gcc". I

Re: pppoe not reconnecting if dropped

2002-09-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Ross Tsolakidis said... > Hi all, > > Running Debian Woody on my gateway box at home. > 1 NIC connected to ADSL modem, the other to my network (standard setup). > > I use the debian package to do pppoe, (roaring penguin). > > I seem to be having issues when I drop line sync for

pppoe not reconnecting if dropped

2002-09-08 Thread Ross Tsolakidis
Title: pppoe not reconnecting if dropped Hi all, Running Debian Woody on my gateway box at home. 1 NIC connected to ADSL modem, the other to my network (standard setup). I use the debian package to do pppoe, (roaring penguin). I seem to be having issues when I drop line sync for a long t

Re: i810 video and Debian 3.0

2002-09-08 Thread Peter Whysall
Evan Burkitt wrote: > At 09:09 2002.09.08 +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: > >> On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 07:44, Evan Burkitt wrote: >> > I recently installed version 3.0 of Debian on a Dell GX110, which has a >> > built-in video adaptor based on the Intel i810 controller. I set up >> Xfree86 >> > duri

Re: Hinting msttcorefonts--any defoma experts?

2002-09-08 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, [ late answer, I know ... ] Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Paul Smith wrote: > > There've been bugs opened against the msttcorefonts package for quite a > > while asking that it be defoma-ized so that the system can actually use > > the fonts after they're installe

Re: i810 video and Debian 3.0

2002-09-08 Thread Evan Burkitt
At 09:09 2002.09.08 +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: >On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 07:44, Evan Burkitt wrote: > > I recently installed version 3.0 of Debian on a Dell GX110, which has a > > built-in video adaptor based on the Intel i810 controller. I set up > Xfree86 > > during installation from Debian packa

RE: Serverprobleme ??

2002-09-08 Thread JASSY
Hallo, Du hast Recht,ich hatte Serverprobleme ! Mein Domainserver ist offline !! :-( Keine Ahnung warum!!! Aber ich habe wieder alles im Griff. Die Seite ist jetzt zu erreichen unter : http://erotikpur.yeah.net/ Probier es mal aus und mail mir mal ob das so okay ist. Bis dann

Re: i810 video and Debian 3.0

2002-09-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya evan if after all those kernel checking didnt solve your x11 problem... than you would need to: a. install the silly agp drivers I810Gtt-0.2-4.src.rpm b. install the silly X server for the onboard SVGA i810 chipset XFCom_i810-1.2-3.i386.rpm c. config your XF86Config

Re: X hangs when trying to configure

2002-09-08 Thread Gerard Robin
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 08:01:54PM -0400, Paul Galbraith wrote: > I've tried running xfree86cfg, and XFree86 -configure. Both cause my > screen to go blank, and after several minutes wait, nothing else > happens. I've tried hitting CTRL-ALT-F2 (F3/F4, etc), as well as > CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE and C

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Re: Speller

2002-09-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:46:13AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > On Thursday 05 September 2002 12:16 am, Oki DZ wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any dict's client that works like ispell? > > I mean, an ispell-like program that makes use the dict server. > > > > TIA, > > Oki > > Greetings Oki

Re: problems with tux(racer|kart)

2002-09-08 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
martin f krafft wrote: >hi all, > >could anyone shine some light on why i am having problems with >tuxracer and tuxkart on a Dell Lat. C800 laptop with an 800MHz PIII >and 256Mb of RAM, running sarge with X 4.1.0. the graphics adapter >(Rage Mobility M4) is handled by X's ati/r128 driver after ag

Re: CDRDAO -- can it record iso files?

2002-09-08 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, CDRDAO is for recording bin/cue files. Cdrecord id for burning iso files. Use mkisofs + cdrecord to burn files from a directory, and cdrdao mainly for downloded stuff... Here's my short rundown: mkisofs -r -U -J -f -o cd_image private_collection/ cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -data cd_

Re: Problem with dselect - Debian 2.1

2002-09-08 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 11:34:55AM -0800, Mike Berrisford wrote: > Hello list, i recently installed Debian 2.1 and i'm having a problem > with dselect. > > I'm using the access method apt. > > It tells me i have the source list > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free The

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Alt Tab no longer cycles windows

2002-09-08 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Alt Tab is no longer cycling through the windows in Gnome on Woody Gome with Sawmill. I have checked the configuration and it looks OK. Alt continue to work. Any ideas? thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: no irq for pci nic

2002-09-08 Thread nate
Mark Copper said: > I'm installing stable on an x86 (Celeron). > > My Linksys ethernet card is getting detected, it seems, but is not > getting an IRQ. Lines from dmesg: > > eth0: ADMtec Centaur-P rev 17 at 0xd000, 00:04:5A:7B:16:C2, IRQ 0 > ... > PCI device 'ADMtek Centaur-P' was not assigned an

Re: Screen blanking on logout

2002-09-08 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Friday 06 September 2002 14:43, Ian Johannesen wrote: > > Since I'm using bash2 I normally do > echo 'clear' >> /etc/skel/.bash_logout > > But if you only want it for one local user you could just replace the > above with: > echo 'clear' >> ~/.bash_logout > > .bash_logout is executed when logou

Re: max_loop option not working for autofs

2002-09-08 Thread Charles Lewis
Rainer Ellinger wrote: >Charles Lewis wrote: > > >>Hrm...I guess you mean that I need to create /dev/loop8 thru >>/dev/loop63? I didn't realize I needed to do this. How do I do this? >> >> > >for i in $(seq 8 63) ; do mknod /dev/loop$i b 7 $i ; done >chmod 660 /dev/loop* ; chown 0.disk /dev

Re: serving debian to redhat boxen

2002-09-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >1) export /usr with NFS from my Debian box, and mount it over /usr on the > other linux boxen (only solves development platform maintenance) You really cannot share /usr over NFS between debian boxes right now (dpkg wo

no irq for pci nic

2002-09-08 Thread Mark Copper
I'm installing stable on an x86 (Celeron). My Linksys ethernet card is getting detected, it seems, but is not getting an IRQ. Lines from dmesg: eth0: ADMtec Centaur-P rev 17 at 0xd000, 00:04:5A:7B:16:C2, IRQ 0 ... PCI device 'ADMtek Centaur-P' was not assigned an IRQ It will not be activated M

serving debian to redhat boxen

2002-09-08 Thread Gregory Seidman
I am in the unenviable position of having to support a small (8 machines, 4 Linux and 4 WinXP) network. Worse, at least two of the linux boxen are RedHat and will have to stay that way (due to a lack of comprehension on the part of the higher-ups, i.e. policy). Furthermore, it is necessary that al

Re: fileutils don't have a Debian Sig

2002-09-08 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 03:01:36PM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote: Colin> [snip stuff that to be honest is too vague to comment on ...] >> As I wrote above I wanted to update Progeny-Newton to Debian-Woody >> but in the middle of "apt-g

Re: consistant userid:username setup for system accounts?

2002-09-08 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:24:06PM -0700, nate wrote: > hi > > I have ran accross this a few times in the past but was curious > if there was any effort in Debian 3.0 that goes to assigning a > uid number to the system accounts to keep them consistant accross > installations. Many of the accounts

Re: max_loop option not working for autofs

2002-09-08 Thread Rainer Ellinger
Charles Lewis wrote: > Hrm...I guess you mean that I need to create /dev/loop8 thru > /dev/loop63? I didn't realize I needed to do this. How do I do this? for i in $(seq 8 63) ; do mknod /dev/loop$i b 7 $i ; done chmod 660 /dev/loop* ; chown 0.disk /dev/loop* > Also, what impact on memory will t

qmail - tcprules trouble

2002-09-08 Thread Heilig (Cece) Szabolcs
Hello! I need to enable some IP areas qmail relaying. I tried to alter /etc/tcp.smtp and after that i ran tcprules tcp.smtp.cdb tcp.smtp.tmp < tcp.smtp under the /etc dir. After that i checked the config with tcprulescheck tcp.smtp.cdb and it says: default: allow connection But my tcp.smtp

Re: max_loop option not working for autofs

2002-09-08 Thread Charles Lewis
Rainer Ellinger wrote: >Charles Lewis wrote: > > >>lilo.conf "append = " mem=nopentium max_loop=64", however this does >>not seem to affect anything. >> >> > >And you've created the correlative loop devices in /dev? > > > Hrm...I guess you mean that I need to create /dev/loop8 thru /dev/

Re: Problem with dselect - Debian 2.1

2002-09-08 Thread nate
Mike Berrisford said: > Hello list, i recently installed Debian 2.1 and i'm having a problem with > dselect. > > I'm using the access method apt. > > It tells me i have the source list > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free most likely because you are running a REA

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Re: how to recover from an X lockup

2002-09-08 Thread Peter Whysall
Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya travis > > - try the various(6) consoles > ( Alt-F1 ... alt-F6 ) > > - start X11 from console ( init 3 ) > and you can kill X by control-C on cosole No. This seems to have caused quite some confusion. This is NOT how X is started on a regular Debian install

Problem with dselect - Debian 2.1

2002-09-08 Thread Mike Berrisford
Hello list, i recently installed Debian 2.1 and i'm having a problem with dselect. I'm using the access method apt. It tells me i have the source list deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free However when i run Update, i get the following Get ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/co

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-09-08 Thread Wade Richards
On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 12:19:21 PDT, Alex Withers writes: >On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Nicos Gollan wrote: >As it turns out that was it, in a way. I had a line in my .bashrc that >went like so: PAGER=`which less`. For some reason this would cause a >momentary explosion in the number of "which" processes.

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-09-08 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 08 September 2002 19:24, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We had this on the list some days ago. Run ps ax and see if you've > > got a huge quantity of (defunct) processes. > > I must have missed that thread; what ever became of it? The last thread

problems with tux(racer|kart)

2002-09-08 Thread martin f krafft
hi all, could anyone shine some light on why i am having problems with tuxracer and tuxkart on a Dell Lat. C800 laptop with an 800MHz PIII and 256Mb of RAM, running sarge with X 4.1.0. the graphics adapter (Rage Mobility M4) is handled by X's ati/r128 driver after agpgart and the r128 4.1 DRM mod

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:19:21PM -0700, Alex Withers wrote: > On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > We had this on the list some days ago. Run ps ax and see if you've got a > > huge quantity of (defunct) processes. > > As it turns out that was it, in a way. I had a line in my .bashrc tha

consistant userid:username setup for system accounts?

2002-09-08 Thread nate
hi I have ran accross this a few times in the past but was curious if there was any effort in Debian 3.0 that goes to assigning a uid number to the system accounts to keep them consistant accross installations. Many of the accounts already are(the core ones) but at least in my case I had some tro

Re: Sun4M booting!

2002-09-08 Thread Andreas Obermaier
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:27:11AM -0500, Terry Dabbs wrote: > To the Great Penguin in the sky, > or Pumpkin? > I have purchased what is apparently the "potato" release for sparc. I > acquired two Sparc600LM servers ($27 for the pair!) which are at this > time runnung Sunos 4.1.3, which I am (or w

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-09-08 Thread Alex Withers
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Sunday 08 September 2002 17:33, Alex Withers wrote: > > Hello, I've recently installed Debian 3.0 on a home machine. After > > logging into the machine through xdm I open an xterm with no trouble > > but when I try to spawn another xterm it hangs for

Re: how to recover from an X lockup

2002-09-08 Thread Andreas Obermaier
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:20:31PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > What is the recommended way to recover from an X lockup? Just a little > bit ago, X locked up on me(I was using a GL program and had multiple[2] > X's running) and I tried to get my system back by logging in remotely > and killing

CDRDAO -- can it record iso files?

2002-09-08 Thread Q. Gong
Hi, Is it possible to use CDRDAO to record a directory from a hard disk to a CD-R? Of course, mkisofs can make a iso file for that directory. But I don't know if CDRDAO supports recording iso files. My Samsung CDRW/DVD SM-308B doesn't work with CDRECORD, but CDRDAO. So it's important to know the

Re: Printing problems....help???

2002-09-08 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Matthew Claridge wrote: > Donald R. Spoon wrote: > >> >> In my list of modules, I have the following loaded: >> >> parport >> parport_pc >> lp >> >> Since I don't see any of those in your 'lsmod" results, I would say >> your printer port is not being initialized on boot-up. As a test, try >> t

which app uses what bandwith ??

2002-09-08 Thread Geek Assault
Are there any proggies around that'll show me what bandwith goes to which p= roggie ?? (No, not really the ntop stuff). Something that'll show me what goes to galeon, what to gtk-gnutella, stuff = like that. Does that even exist ?? Nobody seems to have heard about anything like this anyway .. Thx

Re: GRUB install disk, menu.1st

2002-09-08 Thread Q. Gong
On 8 Sep 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > Date: 08 Sep 2002 05:28:23 -0400 > From: Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: GRUB install disk, menu.1st > Resent-Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 04:28:27 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Fri, 2002-09

Re: xmcd, using the speakers to play music cds how?

2002-09-08 Thread Bytor
I can get the sound if I use the headphone jack so I need to go out and get a cable to hook up from the cdrom to my sound card, thanks for the info. I however am still having one problem with xmcd. I can use it and it works great when I am logged in as root, but when I start it as an ordinary

Re: Install system

2002-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
> > - Is there a way to remove packages cleanly with apt? With cleanly I mean > > that when a package is removed also all packages wich the main package depends > > on and wich have no other depenceies are also removed? That would be cool to > > avoid "dead" packages on a system. > > Aptitude doe

Re: Next step in bringing my Woody up to date

2002-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-07 21:45:52 -0400]: > Any more advice? Subscribe to the debian security announce mailing list. Very low volume. When you get an advisory from them that should wake you up that you should run 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade'. The advisory may be on s

Re: Joining Large Files

2002-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Mirek Dobsicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > oops, I tried it on my Sarge box, with own compiled > kernel 2.4.18 and it gave me only 2GB large file. > > What can be wrong? I have no clue. What filesystem are you running? I am using ext3 for the results I posted. Bob msg01254/pgp0.pgp Descript

Re: Joining Large Files

2002-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-08 01:47:11 -0500]: > Would catting it into gzip be okay? As in: > > cat largeFile.* | gzip -c - > x.gz Yes. I assume you mean on a small file only system? Both cat and gzip (gzip > 1.3) know about large files. So this should be good up until the

Gnome sound for multi user computer.

2002-09-08 Thread stan
I have a Debian machine that several pepople use, and I have observed that Gnome sounds only work for the fisrrt user that logs into a Gnome session (using gdm). Trying to figure out whats going on I find that a task called oafd is left runing for that user even after he/she logs out. Looks

Re: Printing problems....help???

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Claridge
Donald R. Spoon wrote: > > In my list of modules, I have the following loaded: > > parport > parport_pc > lp > > Since I don't see any of those in your 'lsmod" results, I would say your > printer port is not being initialized on boot-up. As a test, try to > load each of these modules with "m

Re: Main breakup?

2002-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 06:28:45PM +0100, Matthew Hambley wrote: > So I see but after just spending another 13m on-line just to find out that > a single package needs to be upgraded I am left wondering why all this > discussion hasn't turned into action. Because it's not very obvious how it could

Re: Main breakup?

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Hambley
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Hambley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It strikes me that the 'main' part of the Debian distro is way too big. > > The fact that every user who does an "apt-get update" is pulling well > > over a meg ea

Re: Printing problems....help???

2002-09-08 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Matthew Claridge wrote: > Its funny you should say that because when printtool tries to autodetect > a printer, it says I don't have parallel port modules loaded. > > the output of lsmod looks like this: > > # lsmod > Module Size Used byTainted: PF > Mvnetd

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-09-08 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We had this on the list some days ago. Run ps ax and see if you've > got a huge quantity of (defunct) processes. I must have missed that thread; what ever became of it? I've recently noticed that my server has had a large number of defunct processes on

Re: What program to record from /dev/dsp

2002-09-08 Thread Burkhard Ritter
hallo. you perhabs want to try out ecasound (www.eca.cx). in newer dev versions it supports large files. you might have to compile it yourself as this feature is configured at compile time. ecasound is able to record and convert to wave in one step (you won't need sox), it can even record 'direct

Re: Main breakup?

2002-09-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Matthew Hambley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It strikes me that the 'main' part of the Debian distro is way too big. > The fact that every user who does an "apt-get update" is pulling well over > a meg each time one package in it changes can not be good. It's a waist of > Debians server resourc

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-09-08 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 08 September 2002 17:33, Alex Withers wrote: > Hello, I've recently installed Debian 3.0 on a home machine. After > logging into the machine through xdm I open an xterm with no trouble > but when I try to spawn another xterm it hangs for a few seconds > before spitting out the message:

Re: apm does not suspend

2002-09-08 Thread nate
Andy Saxena said: > Hi, > It's likely that not a lot of desktop users care to put their machine > into suspend, but I am still hoping some of the laptop users can shed > some light on this. > > I have googled around, but haven't seen anything that explains this with > any satisfaction. one thing

Re: Joining Large Files

2002-09-08 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Would catting it into gzip be okay? As in: cat largeFile.* | gzip -c - > x.gz Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-09-08 Thread nate
Alex Withers said: > > Hello, I've recently installed Debian 3.0 on a home machine. After > logging into the machine through xdm I open an xterm with no trouble but > when I try to spawn another xterm it hangs for a few seconds before > spitting out the message: "bash: fork: Resource temporarily

Re: List of purged packages?

2002-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 04:01:45AM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: > Is there a way to obtain a straight list of purged packages? > > The only unsatisfactory way I known of at present is: > dpkg -l '*' | grep -i 'pn ' > > However this cuts off package names. You can set the COLUMNS variable to somet

apm does not suspend

2002-09-08 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I am trying to cut down my electricity bills. I'd like to be able to suspend my desktop when it detects no activity for 30 min. I have the apmd package installed, but I get the message # apm: suspend was vetoed For example, overnight I will have a dozen of these messages on the console. Al

ISDN: Detect MSNs automatically

2002-09-08 Thread Torsten Schlabach
Dear list,   as far as I know there is a mechanism in Euro ISDN (DSS1) that allows a device attached to the ISDN network to automatically detect the MSNs of the trunk it is connected to. At least Siemens Gigaset ISDN DECT base stations support this.   Does anyone know the protocol for t

Re: swap confusion

2002-09-08 Thread Guy Geens
> "Joerg" == Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joerg> ahead and set the priority in /etc/fstab with pri=PRIORITY, but Joerg> wait... the man page tells me that swap priority can have any Joerg> non-negative value, but the above kern.log tells me both Joerg> partitions have a negative

List of purged packages?

2002-09-08 Thread Adam Warner
Hi all, Is there a way to obtain a straight list of purged packages? The only unsatisfactory way I known of at present is: dpkg -l '*' | grep -i 'pn ' However this cuts off package names. Something strange has happened to one of my package databases. It lists 307 packages as being purged. I'd

Re: max_loop option not working for autofs

2002-09-08 Thread Rainer Ellinger
Charles Lewis wrote: > lilo.conf "append = " mem=nopentium max_loop=64", however this does > not seem to affect anything. And you've created the correlative loop devices in /dev? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

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