Re: no incoming mail

2002-09-20 Thread Lars Jensen
Local mail is coming in, but no mail is coming in from the outside. My mail.log and mail.err are both empty. What is MTA? Thanks, Lars. On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, nate wrote: > Lars Jensen said: > > I just installed sid, and configured mail setup with exim. In doing so, I > > chose setup option (1)

Re: no incoming mail

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Lars Jensen said: > I just installed sid, and configured mail setup with exim. In doing so, I > chose setup option (1) "Internet Site", and went with all the > defaults. Outgoing mail works fine, but no mail is coming in. > > Is there something else beyond exim I need to enable/configure in order

no incoming mail

2002-09-20 Thread Lars Jensen
I just installed sid, and configured mail setup with exim. In doing so, I chose setup option (1) "Internet Site", and went with all the defaults. Outgoing mail works fine, but no mail is coming in. Is there something else beyond exim I need to enable/configure in order to allow mail to come in?

Re: ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 21 September 2002 12:47 am, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Michael Olds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020920 15:08]: > > OK I think I know what will do it. Go to modconf which is the module > > installation dialog you saw when installing, go to scsi modules and find > > the ide-scsi module which shoul

Re: i810 and X (and automatic power-down)

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Jeff Cours said: > Hi, everyone - > (--) I810(0): Chipset: "i810" > (--) I810(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xE000 > (--) I810(0): IO registers at addr 0xE600 > (EE) Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such device) > (**) I810(0): Will alloc AGP framebuffer: 16384 kByte > > I've verified that /de

OT: Re: thin client

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Ron Johnson said: > Note, though, that whether it's vnc or an x-server running on > win32, it's still won't be a thin client. I guess it really depends on what your perception of thin client is, the company i work for competes with VNC, Exceed, Metaframe, Citrix etc..and these software packages

Re: hosts.deny a directory???

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Kenward Vaughan said: I consider reinstalling the system, or can I tell how clean things > are in some way to assess what the hell is going on? > if it were my system it would be a case for a reinstall. but I would not reinstall until I was able to track down the source of the problem(disk, contr

Re: [OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

2002-09-20 Thread DvB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-20 16:50:14 -0500]: > > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:20:21 -0600 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > > > > > unless I under-read the man page, can't do wild-card history searc

Re: how to unwrap M$ self extracting .exe?

2002-09-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 12:30:50PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Just curious, here we have a MS executable > http://members.fortunecity.com/d140738/M3-E.exe > that I remember contains a excel file that I can deal with with > gnumeric, etc. But now that I have removed M$ from my system, how to > d

Re: how to unwrap M$ self extracting .exe?

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Dan Jacobson said: > Just curious, here we have a MS executable > http://members.fortunecity.com/d140738/M3-E.exe > that I remember contains a excel file that I can deal with with > gnumeric, etc. But now that I have removed M$ from my system, how to > deal with the MS self extracting exe, as I b

Re: Preventing apt-get from removing pkgs while installing others

2002-09-20 Thread Travis Crump
David De Graff wrote: > I'm trying to install gcc-3.2 from unstable on a box that's running woody, > and am running into trouble with apt-get trying to remove packages that need > to remain in place. > > See the session text below: > > root:/usr/bin# apt-get -t unstable install gcc-3.2 > Reading

Preventing apt-get from removing pkgs while installing others

2002-09-20 Thread David De Graff
I'm trying to install gcc-3.2 from unstable on a box that's running woody, and am running into trouble with apt-get trying to remove packages that need to remain in place. See the session text below: root:/usr/bin# apt-get -t unstable install gcc-3.2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Depend

Re: how to unwrap M$ self extracting .exe?

2002-09-20 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 00:30, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Just curious, here we have a MS executable > http://members.fortunecity.com/d140738/M3-E.exe > that I remember contains a excel file that I can deal with with > gnumeric, etc. But now that I have removed M$ from my system, how to > deal with the

how to unwrap M$ self extracting .exe?

2002-09-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
Just curious, here we have a MS executable http://members.fortunecity.com/d140738/M3-E.exe that I remember contains a excel file that I can deal with with gnumeric, etc. But now that I have removed M$ from my system, how to deal with the MS self extracting exe, as I believe it is. -- http://jid

Re: hosts.deny a directory???

2002-09-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:53:49PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:41:16PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > In today's system upgrade I got the following immediate message: > > > > ... > > Preconfiguring packages ... > > egrep: /etc/hosts.deny: Is a directory > > fgrep:

Re: hosts.deny a directory???

2002-09-20 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:41:16PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > In today's system upgrade I got the following immediate message: > > ... > Preconfiguring packages ... > egrep: /etc/hosts.deny: Is a directory > fgrep: /etc/hosts.deny: Is a directory > ... > > 'Tis true, and at least one other

Re: gtk-gnutella

2002-09-20 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:49:59PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Hi, tried setting this up and am not clear on what it requires from > my network to function properly. > > I have a continuous stream of "host not found" errors as it goes > ripping through DNS entries. And nothing is connecting af

i810 and X (and automatic power-down)

2002-09-20 Thread Jeff Cours
Hi, everyone - I have two questions. First the big one. I'm trying to get X working with an i810 chipset and seem to be having some problems with agpgart. Distribution is woody stable. This seems to be the the important message from the log: (--) I810(0): Chipset: "i810" (--) I810(0): Linear

Re: getting a new package into next stable revision?

2002-09-20 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 04:04:03PM -0500, DvB wrote: > What are the chances of libfox1.0 getting into the next stable revision > and who would one contact about this? From what I understand, not likely. Either teach them how to use apt pinning, or get them to retrieve the source from testing, an

hosts.deny a directory???

2002-09-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
In today's system upgrade I got the following immediate message: ... Preconfiguring packages ... egrep: /etc/hosts.deny: Is a directory fgrep: /etc/hosts.deny: Is a directory ... 'Tis true, and at least one other /etc file is now a directory ( /etc/passwd- ). The hosts.deny directory contains

python configuration error in Sid

2002-09-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Well, I guess complacency isn't too bright while living with Sid... While running an upgrade,the python package balked with the following message: ... Setting up python2.2 (2.2.1-12) ... Compiling python modules in /usr/lib/python2.2 ... 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Sorry: TypeErro

Re: Slow printing through CUPS

2002-09-20 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 20 September 2002 09:39 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I'm using CUPS to print to a network printer attached to a Windows 2000 > box. All printing is done via SMB. The big problem is that when I'm > printing from one of my Debian machines, the

69 packages not fully installed or removed ###

2002-09-20 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, I did a dist-upgrade overnight, and continued this morning after timing out, only to get "69 packages not fully installed or removed". I'm now trying '- f dist-upgrade --fix-missing' but is there not a way to correct this via dpkg ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: thin client

2002-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 09:45, nate wrote: > Chavdar Videff said: > > I am interested in configuring two machines to use thinclient. > > I installed the new Debian 3.0 on my machine. On the second machine my > > colleague has a running Windows 98. I would like to allow my colleague > > use certain

RE: Loving

2002-09-20 Thread Veronica Flowers
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How can I get graphing in Gnumeric?

2002-09-20 Thread Dan Griswold
I'm stumped. I know that Gnumeric supposedly has graphing capability. I know that this capability is dependent on guppi-gnumeric, a virtual package that on my box (running Sid) points to libguppi16. I have version 1.1.7-1 of Gnumeric installed, and version 0.40.3-1.1 of libguppi16 installed. Inde

Re: ssh method in sources.list

2002-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 02:58, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 09:40, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 23:25, Debian wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:20:42PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 21:19, Egor Tur wrote: > > > > > Hi Folks! > >

Re: Unrecognized RAM

2002-09-20 Thread nate
David De Graff said: > Nate, > > Thanks for the help. > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem:905748 460160 445588 0 78244 317964 > -/+ buffers/cache: 63952 841796 > Swap: 2048248 02048248 > >

Re: Kernel upgrade on remote server -- DONE

2002-09-20 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 22:07, nate wrote: > David De Graff said: > > Wow. > > > > After remembering that both ReiserFS and DAC960 support are built into > > the kernel now, I decided to take a chance and do this: > > > > apt-get -t testing install kernel-image-2.4.19-686 > > > > After carefully fol

Re: Unrecognized RAM

2002-09-20 Thread David De Graff
- Original Message - From: "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 7:07 PM Subject: Re: Kernel upgrade on remote server -- DONE > > Now I just need to figure out why the OS still doesn't recognize the full > > 1GB of RAM in the machine - I wond

Re: Kernel upgrade on remote server -- DONE

2002-09-20 Thread nate
David De Graff said: > Wow. > > After remembering that both ReiserFS and DAC960 support are built into > the kernel now, I decided to take a chance and do this: > > apt-get -t testing install kernel-image-2.4.19-686 > > After carefully following the package's config instructions (displayed > autom

Re: Kernel upgrade on remote server -- DONE

2002-09-20 Thread David De Graff
Wow. After remembering that both ReiserFS and DAC960 support are built into the kernel now, I decided to take a chance and do this: apt-get -t testing install kernel-image-2.4.19-686 After carefully following the package's config instructions (displayed automatically), I rebooted and the box ca

gtk-gnutella

2002-09-20 Thread Tom Allison
Hi, tried setting this up and am not clear on what it requires from my network to function properly. I have a continuous stream of "host not found" errors as it goes ripping through DNS entries. And nothing is connecting after about 10 minutes. I have quite the firewall under this set up, bu

Re: dselect fails to install mozilla-browser after upgrade to woody

2002-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:28:09PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:17:22PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: > > + db_go > > + echo 'GO ' > > + local 'IFS= > > ' > > + local _LINE > > + read -r _LINE > > + RET=question skipped > > + return 30 > > dpkg: error processing mozilla-b

Re: getting a new package into next stable revision?

2002-09-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 20 September 2002 14:10, nate wrote: > debian, traditionally has been very strict with what new packages are > available in the new revisions of stable. > basically unless it fixes a security hole, hard drive corruption, or complete package breakage it will not happen. You need to int

Re: dselect fails to install mozilla-browser after upgrade to woody

2002-09-20 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:17:22PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: I think your debconf database is broke in someway. Running the script "/usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl" may help. You could ask debconf package maintainer. In past he has sometimes asked for copies of broken databases first. These are lo

Kernel upgrade on remote server

2002-09-20 Thread David De Graff
Hi, I've been digging through the docs and mail lists for info on Debian and conventional kernel upgrade methods, and haven't yet been able to put together a clear list of steps to do what I need. The server to be upgraded is running bf-2.4.18, and its memory config only recognizes the first 900

Re: ATI RAGE IIC & XFree86 4.1.0-16 & problems

2002-09-20 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Egor Tur wrote on Saturday, September 21st 2002 at 00.20 h (+0300): > Hi Folks! > I have ati rage iIIc graphics controller, 2M memory. I use "ati" > driver. Now I have only 800x600 resolution & 24 bit depth. I want to > use 1024x768 resolution. How can I possibly do it? I try this > resolutio

Re: /etc/aliases

2002-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-20 06:24:10 -0400]: > The head of the file says it was generated by exim, which I > thought I purged and replaced with postfix. I made some changes > to the file... The head of the file is a comment put there by exim. Since exim is the first to get ins

Re: ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michael Olds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020920 15:08]: > OK I think I know what will do it. Go to modconf which is the module > installation dialog you saw when installing, go to scsi modules and find the > ide-scsi module which should have a plus beside it. Select it and click ok. > You should be ask

Re: [OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

2002-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-20 16:50:14 -0500]: > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:20:21 -0600 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > > > unless I under-read the man page, can't do wild-card history searches. For the record I did not write that. csj <[EMAI

ssh `known_hosts' worry

2002-09-20 Thread Jim McCloskey
I run woody, up to date with security fixes. The OpenSSH client and server programs are installed. In $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts, there is an entry for a site that I know for certain that I have never accessed (a university in the UK that I have absolutely no connection with). How could such an ent

sqwebmail renders internal server error when accessed

2002-09-20 Thread jcunningham
I'm not currently subscribed so please reply to the emailaddress. i don't know why sqwebmail is not accessable. i followed the readme and added the setenv sqwebmail_templatedir to /adir/mywebmail and copied the html templates there. chmod 755 && chown root.www-data /adir/mywebmail chmod 755 /ad

Re: Restricted / Secure VI (or vi-alike editor)

2002-09-20 Thread Mark Janssen
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 18:05, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > > "Mark" == Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mark> Most importantly is the 'only editing files specified on the > Mark> commandline' and 'no shell escapes whatsoever'. > > How about the `rvim' command from the `vim' pack

Re: dselect fails to install mozilla-browser after upgrade to woody

2002-09-20 Thread Levi Waldron
On September 19, 2002 08:44 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:07:51PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: [snip] > To get more info on what is happening, put "set -x" on the second line of > /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-browser.postinst and on second line > of /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozill

RE: ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread Michael Olds
Alan, OK I think I know what will do it. Go to modconf which is the module installation dialog you saw when installing, go to scsi modules and find the ide-scsi module which should have a plus beside it. Select it and click ok. You should be asked if you want to remove it, etc. Best Wishes! Mike

Re: [OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

2002-09-20 Thread DvB
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:20:21 -0600 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > unless I under-read the man page, can't do wild-card history searches. I haven't tried this, but you might be able to remap emacs' regexp-isearch-backward to something that doesn't r

Re: Debian and APM

2002-09-20 Thread Peter Christensen
On Friday 12 July 2002 14:05, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 11/07/02 Raffaele Sandrini did speaketh: > > Hi > > > > How can i configure my system to do basic APM things like suspend the > > screen after 10 min and the HDD after 20 min etc. > > > > Naturally APM has to be enabled in the kernel :-)

Re: [OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

2002-09-20 Thread csj
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:20:21 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > > > > > I'm curious. In what packages can you find these commands? > > > > apt-cache show mozilla-browser > > > I think he was looking for 'type' and 'command', not 'mozilla'. > > Oh, okay. I parsed the grammer the

Re: ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 20 September 2002 10:03 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > Why not remove it from the /lib/modules tree and watch the startup > sequence carefully for an error message? This isn't the "nice" way, > but it might be your only way. I doubt it'll render your system > unusable, really! Did that a

Re: Building a full audio/video system based on debian

2002-09-20 Thread csj
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:07:46 -0700 Tim Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently, on Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:34:00PM -0700, nate wrote: > > Hanasaki JiJi said: > > > Any input on what to use for hardware and capture / playback > > > software? > > > > > > I am hoping for only open source. I kn

Re: sid's libc

2002-09-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.20.2304 +0200]: > is there an outlook of when sid's libc will finally make it to sarge? > currently, sarge is in a rather frozen state because of this missing > dependency? this ain't no rant, really just a quest for information. nevermind,

Re: Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-20 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Is there any alternative to NFS that I can use to mount my home > directory on my server? coda is pretty good, though setting it up makes NFS look trivial I'm afraid. The main thing I like about coda is that it is highly resistant to transient n

Re: sid's libc

2002-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:04:40PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > is there an outlook of when sid's libc will finally make it to sarge? It just went in today (along with some 500-odd other packages ... upgraders beware). -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] --

ATI RAGE IIC & XFree86 4.1.0-16 & problems

2002-09-20 Thread Egor Tur
Hi Folks! I have ati rage iIIc graphics controller, 2M memory. I use "ati" driver. Now I have only 800x600 resolution & 24 bit depth. I want to use 1024x768 resolution. How can I possibly do it? I try this resolution with other depth (8, 16, 15) & I hav only black screen. I find DOCs & FAQs in

Re: netinstall ISO

2002-09-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.20.2311 +0200]: > Do any of the net-install CDs support a connection through PPPoE? My > DSL provider forces me to use it. I have a Debian system up (Potato > upgraded to track testing about a year ago) now, but am looking at the > possib

Re: getting a new package into next stable revision?

2002-09-20 Thread nate
DvB said: > What are the chances of libfox1.0 getting into the next stable revision > and who would one contact about this? > > The reason I'm asking is that one of my co-workers has a project on > sourceforge that uses the libfox UI library. Apparently, he's been > getting a lot of complaints fro

Re: netinstall ISO

2002-09-20 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:56:34PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: > > a simple search through debian's webpage would get you right to it: > http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > enjoy, > tal. > Do any of the net-install CDs support a connection through PPPoE? My DSL provider forces me to use it. I h

sid's libc

2002-09-20 Thread martin f krafft
is there an outlook of when sid's libc will finally make it to sarge? currently, sarge is in a rather frozen state because of this missing dependency? this ain't no rant, really just a quest for information. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.

Re: ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.20.2253 +0200]: > Yes I know I can do that - I was looking for where ide-scsi gets > loaded during the boot sequence Why not remove it from the /lib/modules tree and watch the startup sequence carefully for an error message? This isn't the "n

getting a new package into next stable revision?

2002-09-20 Thread DvB
What are the chances of libfox1.0 getting into the next stable revision and who would one contact about this? The reason I'm asking is that one of my co-workers has a project on sourceforge that uses the libfox UI library. Apparently, he's been getting a lot of complaints from Debian users about

Re: debian-xemacs-version: Symbols' value as variable is void

2002-09-20 Thread Glyn Millington
Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 3. Installed 21.4.6 from my cd, checked o the compile options used by the >>debian compilers - saved the list as a file. > > Do I need to make this file into a executable file (like a script?) Oh no! Use it to till you what options to feed to co

Re: netinstall ISO

2002-09-20 Thread jeff
>a simple search through debian's webpage would get you right to it: >http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > >enjoy, >tal. heysoos marimba! it works! THANKS! cool web site btw... :-D take it easy... long live the swirl! lol.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 20 September 2002 9:09 pm, Michael Olds wrote: > Alan, try > > rmmod [option] modules > Yes I know I can do that - I was looking for where ide-scsi gets loaded during the boot sequence > > Can you tell us what message you are getting that makes you think this is > loaded or interferin

RE: ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread Michael Olds
Alan, try rmmod [option] modules System administration command. Unload a module or list of modules from the kernel. This command is successful only if the specified modules are not in use and no other modules are dependent on them. Can you tell us what message you are getting that makes you th

Re: ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 20 September 2002 7:33 pm, Amir Tal wrote: > On Friday 20 September 2002 21:26, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Can someone explain how ide-scsi gets loaded? > > > > I have done grep -r ide-scsi * on /etc and its not reported (and > > therefore in particular /etc/modules or /etc/modutils have n

Re: debian-xemacs-version: Symbols' value as variable is void

2002-09-20 Thread Josef Oswald
HI :-) Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Now, just in case _some-one_ does read this: > > Josef, > > Alas I cannot answer you question. This is just to suggest that you > might get a response on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I've got XEmacs 21

Re: ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread Amir Tal
On Friday 20 September 2002 21:26, Alan Chandler wrote: > Can someone explain how ide-scsi gets loaded? > > I have done grep -r ide-scsi * on /etc and its not reported (and therefore > in particular /etc/modules or /etc/modutils have no reference to it). > > But loaded it certainly is - although a

Re: config files and packages

2002-09-20 Thread Jeff Cours
Amir Tal wrote: > a small peice of advice : > BACKUP ! No arguments here - anywhere under /etc, RCS is my friend. :-) - Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-20 Thread Joseph Dane
Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes. AFS allows for NFS-like connectivity and mounting (some large > universities use it for home directories). AFS servers and clients > are available in Debian (though I've never gotten around to setting > one up). I have. it was not simple, and not

ide-scsi

2002-09-20 Thread Alan Chandler
Can someone explain how ide-scsi gets loaded? I have done grep -r ide-scsi * on /etc and its not reported (and therefore in particular /etc/modules or /etc/modutils have no reference to it). But loaded it certainly is - although an lsmod shows it loaded but not being used by anything. The pro

Re: config files and packages

2002-09-20 Thread Amir Tal
On Friday 20 September 2002 20:58, Jeff Cours wrote: > Debian wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:33:56AM -0700, Jeff Cours wrote: > >>Can I just edit files under /etc as > >>necessary? What happens to them when I upgrade > > > > Simply put. Yes you can. And yes apt is smart enough. > > Great

Re: config files and packages

2002-09-20 Thread Jeff Cours
Debian wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:33:56AM -0700, Jeff Cours wrote: > >>Can I just edit files under /etc as >>necessary? What happens to them when I upgrade > > Simply put. Yes you can. And yes apt is smart enough. Great - thanks! Let the editing begin! - Jeff Cours -- To UNSUBSC

Re: netinstall ISO

2002-09-20 Thread Amir Tal
On Friday 20 September 2002 20:17, jeff wrote: > could you point me to that 138 mb install disc? i've been looking > for that and haven't been able to track it down! it's my favorite > install method and has worked for me every single time. i lost the > URL. > > thanks!!! a simple search through

Re: MS WINWORD and WINE problems....

2002-09-20 Thread Jeremy Tan
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:07:12 -0700 (PDT), Irvin Temp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > "The Disk is full or too many files are open. > > (C:\Windows\..\Templates\Normal.dot)" > Hello, Here is how i got file saving in Word 2000 to work in wine. Change the value of "ole32" from "builtin, native"

Re: config files and packages

2002-09-20 Thread Debian
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:33:56AM -0700, Jeff Cours wrote: > Apologies in advance for a very much newbie question. I'm trying to > make the transition from Mandrake to Debian (stable right now, with > plans to track testing once I get stable working). There are a bunch > of things that Mandrak

config files and packages

2002-09-20 Thread Jeff Cours
Apologies in advance for a very much newbie question. I'm trying to make the transition from Mandrake to Debian (stable right now, with plans to track testing once I get stable working). There are a bunch of things that Mandrake auto-configured that I'm going to have to configure manually with

Re: netinstall ISO

2002-09-20 Thread jeff
could you point me to that 138 mb install disc? i've been looking for that and haven't been able to track it down! it's my favorite install method and has worked for me every single time. i lost the URL. thanks!!! -jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: samba-tng and openldap

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Quenten Griffith said: > I installed that package from the source I made of openldap per your > instructions. I wish to thank you for your great how to on this and all > the work you put in to it. Some reason I still get that error though. > This box had been upgraded to testing so I may wipe it

Re: samba-tng and openldap

2002-09-20 Thread Quenten Griffith
I installed that package from the source I made of openldap per your instructions. I wish to thank you for your great how to on this and all the work you put in to it. Some reason I still get that error though. This box had been upgraded to testing so I may wipe it and start it all over aga

Re: samba-tng and openldap

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Quenten Griffith said: > That is what I was going by was your howto word for word and I get that > error did you install the libldap2-dev package? if you built ldap from source as in my instructions you'll need the libldap2-dev package from the sources you built, not from the debian archives, th

Re: Building a full audio/video system based on debian

2002-09-20 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:38:10AM -0700, nate wrote: > Tim Moss said: > > > I'm not sure if there's any issues with using a 2.2.x kernel but I have a > > Radeon 7500 with XFree 4.2 (on kernel 2.4) and it works great. It's > > extremely fast and stable and completely open source. > >

Re: samba-tng and openldap

2002-09-20 Thread Quenten Griffith
That is what I was going by was your howto word for word and I get that error nate wrote: >Quenten Griffith said: > > >>Hello any here been able to compile the newist cvs of samba-tng with >>ldap support, I have openlap installed from source, and I am trying to >>install samba-tng using debia

Re: samba-tng and openldap

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Quenten Griffith said: > Hello any here been able to compile the newist cvs of samba-tng with > ldap support, I have openlap installed from source, and I am trying to > install samba-tng using debian/rules binary command from the source but > get this error check out my HOWTO on openldap, it incl

Slow printing through CUPS

2002-09-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'm using CUPS to print to a network printer attached to a Windows 2000 box. All printing is done via SMB. The big problem is that when I'm printing from one of my Debian machines, the speed is absolutely horrible. Approx 3 - 5 MINUTES per page. When printing from a Windows box, I get about 3 - 5

Re: Building a full audio/video system based on debian

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Tim Moss said: > I'm not sure if there's any issues with using a 2.2.x kernel but I have a > Radeon 7500 with XFree 4.2 (on kernel 2.4) and it works great. It's > extremely fast and stable and completely open source. yeah so the big question for me would be does it work as well(or close) on a 2

Re: initrd problems

2002-09-20 Thread Tim Olsen
I think I figured it out. mkinitrd only works with Debian kernel sources. (bug 149236) -Tim On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:44:07AM -0400, Tim Olsen wrote: > > I am having problems setting up an initial ramdisk for my kernel. I > get the following message during boot: > > RAMDISK: Couldn't fin

Re: Building a full audio/video system based on debian

2002-09-20 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:34:00PM -0700, nate wrote: > Hanasaki JiJi said: > > Any input on what to use for hardware and capture / playback software? > > > > I am hoping for only open source. I know that leaves NVidia out due to > > the closed drivers. How about ATI? > > just becau

samba-tng and openldap

2002-09-20 Thread Quenten Griffith
Hello any here been able to compile the newist cvs of samba-tng with ldap support, I have openlap installed from source, and I am trying to install samba-tng using debian/rules binary command from the source but get this error hecking for ber_bvfree in -llber... no checking for ldap.h... yes

Re: netinstall ISO

2002-09-20 Thread Amir Tal
On Friday 20 September 2002 18:45, Scott Henson wrote: > I was looking today at the net install ISOs on d.o I noticed that there > were several different ISOs I could choose from. Anyone have any spefic > advice on which one is best. Thank you. > Scott Henson depends on the internet connection

Re: debian-xemacs-version: Symbols' value as variable is void

2002-09-20 Thread Glyn Millington
Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now, just in case _some-one_ does read this: Josef, Alas I cannot answer you question. This is just to suggest that you might get a response on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got XEmacs 21.4.9 running here. I acheived this by 1. Pointing sources list at a

netinstall ISO

2002-09-20 Thread Scott Henson
I was looking today at the net install ISOs on d.o I noticed that there were several different ISOs I could choose from. Anyone have any spefic advice on which one is best. Thank you. Scott Henson -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

initrd problems

2002-09-20 Thread Tim Olsen
I am having problems setting up an initial ramdisk for my kernel. I get the following message during boot: RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. I used make-kpkg to build my kernel from a stock 2.4.19 source tree: make-kpkg --initrd -rev custom.2 kernel_image Here's m

Re: Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-20 Thread Ulf Rompe
"Charlie Grosvenor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any alternative to NFS that I can use to mount my home > directory on my server? If you have enough space on your client machines there are always the distributed filesystems: OpenAFS, CODA, Inter-Mezzo. They keep your filesystem on both

Re: security.debian.org in /etc/apt/source.list

2002-09-20 Thread alnesbit
[snip] > for a short > time debian did maintain a 'testing' security update site at > security.debian.org (I think it started after the semi-recent SSH stuff > that came out), but I don't know if they still are doing it(I would expect > them to not be doing it). That would explain my confusion a

Re: security.debian.org in /etc/apt/source.list

2002-09-20 Thread nate
> If I'm running Debian testing, and if security updates aren't really > applicable to a testing/unstable system, then is there any point in > having > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb no, since 'stable' and 'testing' are different trees. for a short tim

Re: Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-20 Thread nate
Jason Healy said: > I didn't see the original post; do you know why the NFS connection hangs? > Could it be lock-related? > usually is..at least in my case rpc.statd dies(though does not exit) which prevents things from being able to lock files until I issue a /etc/init.d/nfs-common restart na

Re: email clients

2002-09-20 Thread David P James
Jamin W.Collins was roused into action on 09/19/02 23:33 and wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 23:19:10 -0400 David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >>Yes there is: >>http://www.geocities.com/pratiksolanki/#network > > > Have you tried it? That site suggests the same thing as this site: >

Re: Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-20 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Charlie Grosvenor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 20 September 2002, 02:28 PM +0100): > On Mon 09/09/2002 at 20:43 I posted a message to this mailing > lists subject "NFS Mounted Home Directories Machine Keeps Locking Up". > Despite doing what people recommend I am still having the

Re: Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-20 Thread Jason Healy
At 1032550101s since epoch (09/20/02 09:28:21 -0400 UTC), Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > On Mon 09/09/2002 at 20:43 I posted a message to this mailing > lists subject "NFS Mounted Home Directories Machine Keeps Locking Up". > Despite doing what people recommend I am still having the problems (I

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