Re: apache-2.0.42 in debian3.0

2002-10-01 Thread damar thapa
Hi, Yes, it is listening at port 80, at least as per httpd.conf. Thanks. Damar Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > damar thapa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> but when I try "mozilla localhost" or "mozilla ipAdress", I get >> connection refused message. > > > Does apache listen on port 80? > > C

Foomatic and CUPS

2002-10-01 Thread Bill Wohler
I was under the impression that one could simply install foomatic and then CUPS would then be able to present the available printers and drivers to the user. CUPS would then call foomatic-configure on behalf of the user to automatically put together a ppd file. This isn't the case. I

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-10-01 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:11:26 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, it's longer ago I wanted to install a package from source. I > don't remember what kind of source-tarball I installed by using > auto-apt, but it was a developer version, the newest available. Ok, but learn

Re: apache-2.0.42 in debian3.0

2002-10-01 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
damar thapa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but when I try "mozilla localhost" or "mozilla ipAdress", I get > connection refused message. Does apache listen on port 80? Ciao! juh -- Heinrich und Daniel http://www.sudelbuch.de/2001/20010217.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-e0ff

2002-10-01 Thread nate
ThanhVu Nguyen said: > In my /etc/syslog, I have these lines ... not really sure what they mean > or how to fix it looks like it may be related to this: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/binfmt-support.html if your not encountering any problems while using your system those messages are

modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-e0ff

2002-10-01 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
In my /etc/syslog, I have these lines ... not really sure what they mean or how to fix it Oct 1 06:55:24 HaLong modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-e0ff Oct 1 06:55:24 HaLong modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-e0ff Oct 1 06:57:11 HaLong modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate

Re: st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes ... Help!

2002-10-01 Thread nate
testuser said: > Evening all, > I've been getting this error whenever I run a backup using bru, tar or > dump. This happens regardless of destination media. I've tested backing > up to hard disk, remote DAT DDS-3 tape drive and the local internal > Seagate STD224000N DAT DDS-3 tape drive and all g

Re: Loading kernel modules

2002-10-01 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Bill Wagner said... > But one thing that is really getting me is that this kernel > module is not getting loaded when the machine comes up. > > At least in a RH based distro, I would typically have an entry like this > in my /etc/modules.conf: > > alias eth0 eepro100 > > And th

apache-2.0.42 in debian3.0

2002-10-01 Thread damar thapa
Hi, I am compiling apache-2.0.42 under debian3.0. I did the followings: 1../configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --enable-module=so 2.make 3.make install 4./usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start All aboves go fine with no error messages, and /usr/local/apache2 dir

newbie....Konqueror not launching properly sometimes

2002-10-01 Thread Andy
I have not done much research on this problem because I simply starting using galeon which is nice. But I do like to browse my directories with Konqueror but it is always giving me grief. Anyone care to help? This happens quite frequently. KDE 2.2.2 Woody 2.2.20 on Thinkpad a21e andy@debian:

Re: KDE2 helloworld.cpp

2002-10-01 Thread John Batistic
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 12:58, John Batistic wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 22:58, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:51:12PM +1200, John Batistic wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 21:42, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > Keep it simple and realize that this level of 'make' use is not all

st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes ... Help!

2002-10-01 Thread testuser
Evening all, I've been getting this error whenever I run a backup using bru, tar or dump. This happens regardless of destination media. I've tested backing up to hard disk, remote DAT DDS-3 tape drive and the local internal Seagate STD224000N DAT DDS-3 tape drive and all give the same error. Syst

Re: Loading kernel modules

2002-10-01 Thread nate
Bill Wagner said: > Of course I can always recompile my kernel and build that kernel module > straight in, but I'm just curious what people normally do in this > situation. I am not normal, most people would consider me an extremist when it comes to my kernels to answer your question thou

Re: Boot procedure loops

2002-10-01 Thread Barney Wrightson
Rox de Gabba wrote: > Hey, i downloaded a boot cd and the install procedure got into a loop > right at the first question (Choose language - after choosing a language > it just keeps asking the question over and over again.) First i thought > it was a hardware compatibility problem (an old pent

Loading kernel modules

2002-10-01 Thread Bill Wagner
One of my boxes uses the eepro100 kernel module for its network interface. As I migrate more from Red Hat based boxes, the more I like Debian. But one thing that is really getting me is that this kernel module is not getting loaded when the machine comes up. At least in a RH based distro, I wou

Re: VIA KT8266A + VIA VT8233A w/ AC97 sound

2002-10-01 Thread nate
D. Nathan Cookson said: > 2 - Does anybody have a good walkthrough for getting sound working, well, > with the on board sound? In this case the board is a MSI K7T266-Pro 2A > board. This probably isn't what your looking to hearing, but I'll say it anyways since I am an owner of 2 similar VIA b

VIA KT8266A + VIA VT8233A w/ AC97 sound

2002-10-01 Thread D. Nathan Cookson
I have used four Linux distributions in the past. SuSe, Red Hat, Mandrake and Debian (Woody). I have recently built a new machine and first attempted Red Hat 7.3 on the machine, because I have found that out of the box its ipchains rules form a good foundation to write additional rules on, and

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-01 Thread nate
Russell said: > Rick wrote: > Start off simple. Just get console apps working first, then install console doesn't get enough exposure. nowadays most anyone cares about is getting X running with their KDE3 or GNOME2. kinda sad, the console offers a lot of power, I remember back when I used slack

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-01 Thread Russell
Rick wrote: > > This will be my last post to the Debian users list. I want to thank everybody > for all their help, and patience. However I would like to say a little > something as well: > > Debian is supposedly a great OS, it is configurable, custimizable, and > powerful, but Debian is ultim

Re: Console vga mode

2002-10-01 Thread Robert Epprecht
> Sometimes I'd like to have the old 80x25 screens back, how? "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Try vga=ask and then use 'scan' as the option, I think it will try a bunch >> of stuff and give a list, just try each one. >> >> Mine was 4 I think. I do not get any other choices for 8

Text console flicker during kernel load

2002-10-01 Thread Neal Pollock
I've convinced my brother to try Debian and just set it up on his PC. Unfortunately, from the time that lilo passes control onto the kernel until the display manager login appears, the screen flickers on and off continuously. It stays on for about 1/3 of sec and then goes off for a 1/3 of a sec.

Re: Why mailing-lists? Usenet have been invented, I hear. ;-)

2002-10-01 Thread Tom Cook
Oh, man, I thought this thread was dead... On 0, Peter Whysall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > thread about the structure of the list itself, namely the use of > > reply-to headers. Instead of responding materially to my points, one > > poster, for example, made mention of my use of Outloo

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
Carel: OK! I ran ls -l... with these results: mail0 datedrafts 0 inbox 840 sentmail 1613trash I looked in the trash directory and there was nothing there. But this looks like it is giving me what is in /home/userme, no

Re: Stall on postinst of zope-zwiki_0.9.9-2_all.deb, please help

2002-10-01 Thread Joey Hess
Package: zope-zwiki Version: 0.9.9-2 Ken Causey wrote: > I'm having a problem installing zope-zwiki_0.9.9-2_all.deb from > testing. Once it get's done with the postinst step it stalls. > + return 0 > + test true = true The package needs to call the db_stop command here. > + /etc/init.d/zope

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
Carel, ls -1 /var/mail/userme ~userme/mail gives me a list of what is in /home/userme/Mail nothing like a number indicating how many mails, etc. Same same when i do ls -1 /var/mail/userme /home/userme/Mail and ls -1 /var/mail/userme /var/mail/userme I was mistaken about the permissions for /va

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:45:37PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: ... > One other thing: I noticed the word 'smarthost' in the log file > entries you posted on this. Does you use a smarthost or not? nah, that was an example log snipped from *me*, not from Michael -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUB

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
Shyamal, Thank you for responding, I am really not "Up and Running yet," and since we are talking about the likelyhood of my box being badly configured, I would rather not post the DNS name yet (and I keep the thing off-line 99% of the time anyway), no offense please! I am reasonably sure they a

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 17:45, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Rick wrote: [snip] > > it is too bad some of the corporate "customer comes first" mentality didn't > > get into Debian. I donated $4 to Debian, more then many can claim, I guess I > > got EXACTLY what I paid for. Good luck

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
Hello, now Stephen and Carel, I checked again and /var/mai/userme is user userme group mail the settings for /etc/exim/exim.conf are: Local_delivery driver = appendfile group = mail mode = 0660 mode_fail_narrower = false envelope_to_add = true return_path_add = true file = /var/spool/mail/${loc

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
Stephen, These are the settings I have in Kmail (I have tried multiple variations) name: userme location: /var/mail/userme checked: Procmail locfile /var/mail/userme.lock I also tried: location: /home/userme/Mail and Mail/ nada Best Wishes! Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Michael" == Michael Olds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Anyone have an idea as to what I should dig into next to Michael> get this up? Hi Mike, Could you share the DNS name used for the MX record with us (i.e the world known email address served by this exim host)? If you'd p

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michael Olds said: > Stephen, > Thank you for this reply. Answers to your questions below your questions: > ls -l /var/mail/$USER will tell you if there's any mail there (if it > has a nonzero size, you do.) If there's mail there, then the problem > is the setup of y

Re: Is anyone able to compile kernel 2.4.19 from source?

2002-10-01 Thread Steve Cooper
>From David De Graff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:21:06PM >-0700: > As noted in earlier posts, awk fails with a segfault on make menuconfig when > trying to compile kernel-source-2.4.19. > > I've posted several times on this problem, and have tried all suggestions > given so f

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:05:03AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > user root? Gid? e bit? Are You using maildirs? > I think even for maildirs the owner of /var/mail/userme should be userme Moreover when the owner is root, it's highly unlikely that a mer userme will be able to read it. So ch

Re: Cannot find Ncurses when I run "make menuconfig"

2002-10-01 Thread Steve Cooper
>From Steve Waterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 07:27:44AM -0500: > apt-get install libncurses5-dev > > On Wednesday 25 September 2002 06:02, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > > I tried "make menuconfig" with 2.4.29 and it says: > > *** > > jsaham

Re: Little automount problem (caused by konqueror!)

2002-10-01 Thread D. J. Bolderman
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, D. J. Bolderman wrote: Ok guys, after hours of searching&looking (and ofcourse screwing up my nis/nfs installation) I finally have things up and running again. I also found out that my automount problem is caused by konqueror ! I'm using kde3.0.3, and when I click on the "hom

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michael Olds said: > > > I have Exim set up. I believe it is set up properly as I used the > > > defaults mostly. I can send mail from my Linux box, but I cannot > > > receive mail, either internally or from the outside. The log > > > indicates that mail is being > >

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
Stephen, Thank you for this reply. Answers to your questions below your questions: -Original Message- From: Stephen Gran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 6:16 PM To: Debian-User@Lists. Debian. Org Subject: Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

Re: What's my dynamic IP address

2002-10-01 Thread Andre Berger
--bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline * Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-10-01 20:46 -0400: > As the subject says: Where do I find my IP address after I connect to my > ISP with a dial-up account? I am guessing that it is somewhere in >

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:02:00PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: ... > You say you've used the defaults during exim install/setup. Did you > choose the "Internet site" or "Satellite" or... > > So "Internet" or what was the #1 choice. yep, that's "Internet site". The proper general choice for what

Re: ASUS motherboard

2002-10-01 Thread Steve Cooper
>From Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:19:04PM -0700: > > Has anyone any experience of the ASUS P4 S533 motherboard under > Debian? > > In particular, I've been trying to reassure myself that the onboard > LAN controller is supported, and have wandered all over the n

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michael Olds said: > Hello, > > Exim on Woody > > Trying again here, I posted on Friday afternoon and by Saturday I knew there > wasn't a hope of my request for help being seen. > > At this point I have again run out of possible solutions: > > I have Exim set up. I

RE: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-01 Thread David Sanders
I'd rather have a strong user community than a slick config tool anyday. Mandrake is "easier" for some, but you may not learn as much in the process. Debian __is__ a great OS for those who want to dive into Linux and learn! David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandersweb.net > From: Rick >

RE: Console vga mode

2002-10-01 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Try vga=ask and then use 'scan' as the option, I think it will try a bunch of stuff and give a list, just try each one. Mine was 4 I think. Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: Robert Epprecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 2 October 2002 7:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's my dynamic IP address

2002-10-01 Thread David Z Maze
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As the subject says: Where do I find my IP address after I connect to my > ISP with a dial-up account? I am guessing that it is somewhere in > 'proc', but I haven't figured out where. You should be able to find your current IP address(es) by running /sb

Re: authentication problem (PAM?)

2002-10-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Alex Malinovich said: > On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 12:04, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Alex Malinovich said: > > > I'm not sure if this is really the culprit, but all fingers seem to > > > point this way. I just did an update (using experimental, yes

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
Carel, No problem replying off list, and thank you for replying, period, I have two machines one Windows 2000 Pro and one Linux. I will answer your questions, below your questions below: [ sorry for sending this offlist too, but as you have email problems I'm not s

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-01 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:36:54PM -0400, Rick wrote: > I donated $4 to Debian, more then many can claim, I guess I > got EXACTLY what I paid for. Good luck to all of you, and thanks again. > Sounds like you got a bargain. I bet that you used the download version of Mandrake. How much did yo

Re: What's my dynamic IP address

2002-10-01 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 at 8:48pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: :As the subject says: Where do I find my IP address after I connect to my :ISP with a dial-up account? I am guessing that it is somewhere in :'proc', but I haven't figured out where. '/sbin/ifconfig' should report it, I think. Patrick -- Patr

Re: What's my dynamic IP address

2002-10-01 Thread Shawn Lamson
i use ifconfig ppp0 and then grep it for the IP line and cut for the address... this will only work obviously if you are using point to point protocol... try it! Shawn --- Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As the subject says: Where do I find my IP address after I connect to > my > ISP

What's my dynamic IP address

2002-10-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
As the subject says: Where do I find my IP address after I connect to my ISP with a dial-up account? I am guessing that it is somewhere in 'proc', but I haven't figured out where. -- Marc Shapiro "If you drink melomel every day, [EMAIL PROTECTED]you will

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
[ sorry for sending this offlist too, but as you have email problems I'm not sure list trafic will reach you. If it does, pray tell and I wil adjust ] On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:47:48PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: ... > I have Exim set up. I believe it is set up properly as I used the defaults

Linux Progress Patch problems

2002-10-01 Thread Steve Cooper
Hi, I've successfully applied the LPP before. But this time around it isn't working for me. The symptom is that I see the Debian graphical screen at bootup, but it freezes with no progress indicated and with two LED's on my Microsoft keyboard flashing. To get more info I removed the redirectio

Re: Motherboards

2002-10-01 Thread Steve Cooper
>From Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 07:32:27PM -0400: > >I'm looking for information on P4 motherboards and chipsets for Woody? [snip] > Well, I don't know about motherboards, but as for chipsets-- avoid any > and all SiS chips. I have the SiS 730s chipset in my compu

Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
Hello, Exim on Woody Trying again here, I posted on Friday afternoon and by Saturday I knew there wasn't a hope of my request for help being seen. At this point I have again run out of possible solutions: I have Exim set up. I believe it is set up properly as I used the defaults mostly. I can

RE: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-01 Thread David Pastern
Rick, I honestly empathise with your points. Many of them I have stated myself. Most I do *gasp* agree with. A few points though: 1. Debian is not an easy distribution to work with - i'm finding this out myself. And i've semi-used rh on and off since rh 5.2. It's only since i've started usi

RE: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-01 Thread deFreese, Barry
O.K., I know that this could go on ad finitum but I had to chime in. Debian was actually the first Linux distro I ever installed ( on a B&W Macintosh no less and I'm a PC guy!! :-) ). Aside from some frustrations with yaboot the installation was smooth. Had some XServer problems and recieved he

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-01 Thread jeff
you seek balance my bro. it's understandable. pick a distro and go with the flow. don't be to quick to point out the 'flaws'... i've been using debian for 2 years now with nothing but demented hardware.. it all works. and yes, there is a lot of toil and sweat i had to put in to it. but the experi

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 15:45, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > it is too bad some of the corporate "customer comes first" mentality > > didn't get into Debian. I donated $4 to Debian, more then many can > > claim, I guess I got EXACTLY what I paid for. Good luck to all of you, > > and thanks again

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-01 Thread nate
Rick said: > > The Real Problem With Debian is that it is MANUAL. Everything must be > done manually, now although there may be a script or two to ease things > along, these often DON'T WORK. while I am not famillar with your specific circumstances I do consider this "manual" approach a str

Re: Console vga mode

2002-10-01 Thread Jeff
Robert Epprecht, 2002-Oct-01 22:18 +0200: > My Debian woody system boots into a 80x30 console. > Sometimes I'd like to have the old 80x25 screens back, how? > > I have tried booting with vga=normal and vga=ask (and then '0') > but it does not change anything. > > How do I switch to 25x80? > > T

Re: CD R/W

2002-10-01 Thread Peter Whysall
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 00:05, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:32:27PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:58:27AM +0200, Olivier Esser wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I've a CD burner which is identified by the kernel at boot time as something like >"ATAPI CD R/W".

Mounting SCSI Emulated CD-RW

2002-10-01 Thread BOND ISCT
Dear helpers, I compiled the 2.4.18 kernel using scsi emulation, scsi generic support and scsi CDROM support, iso9660 etc. I boot from the floppy and assume that , there is no need to pass any commands at the linux prompt at the boot time. =

Re: woody xmms problems

2002-10-01 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Mike" == Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> Do you mean /dev/cdrom, or the mount-point that you'd Mike> normally use for mounting a data CD? If I point it to Mike> /dev/cdrom, it figures out all of the track information, and Mike> the counter runs, as though it w

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-01 Thread Alex de Landgraaf
Dear Rick, To bad Debian didn't work for you, but everyone should understand that Debian isn't made for John Doe, it's (generally) made for the powerusers/developers who want complete control over their systems. It is easy to say Debian doesn't work, but be honest and say that it doesn't work f

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-01 Thread Shyamal Prasad
This is so much like a troll, but I can't resist ;-) (no offense meant Rick, I understand you mean well and were not trolling). "Rick" == rspillan writes: Rick> The Real Problem With Debian is that it is MANUAL. One of the real strengths of Debian (applies to Slackware too) is th

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-01 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Rick wrote: > Debian is supposedly a great OS, it is configurable, custimizable, and > powerful, but Debian is ultimately misleading for many people. Debian is an > OS that may be used on a server, or a developer's computer, so he can really > feel the balls in his system, bu

Re: ext2 ext3 ?

2002-10-01 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Gerard" == Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gerard> I did 'mkinitrd /lib/modules/2.4.18-386' and I have got Gerard> strange things on my screen but it doesn't work. Don't worry too much about it. Forget mkinitrd unless you really, really know what you are doing ;-) The reas

Re: kpilot, korganizer, and libpisock4

2002-10-01 Thread Charles Lewis
Apparently there is already a bug or two filed on this already (for sid...I think it may be in potato and woody). The interesting thing is that there IS a package libpisock8. I wonder if the package manager for kpilot and korganizer needs to update the dependency. chas Charles Lewis wrote: >

Stall on postinst of zope-zwiki_0.9.9-2_all.deb, please help

2002-10-01 Thread Ken Causey
I'm having a problem installing zope-zwiki_0.9.9-2_all.deb from testing. Once it get's done with the postinst step it stalls. I'm not sure how to go about debugging this. I changed the first line of /var/lib/dpkg/info/zope-zwiki.postinst to #! /bin/sh -x to see if I could figure out what is g

The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-01 Thread Rick
This will be my last post to the Debian users list. I want to thank everybody for all their help, and patience. However I would like to say a little something as well: Debian is supposedly a great OS, it is configurable, custimizable, and powerful, but Debian is ultimately misleading for man

Re: CD R/W

2002-10-01 Thread Gerard Robin
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:32:27PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:58:27AM +0200, Olivier Esser wrote: > Hello! > > I've a CD burner which is identified by the kernel at boot time as something like >"ATAPI CD R/W". I have no idea how to use it to burn CD. Do I need a driver

Re: ext2 ext3 ?

2002-10-01 Thread Gerard Robin
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 04:36:43PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:24:49 + Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:03:16AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > > > > Besides the tune2fs command you need to update /etc/fstab and change > > >

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-10-01 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Dienstag, 1. Oktober 2002 22:11 schrieb Gerhard Gaussling: > How can I directly see that I have to do with a _base_ -package, > like libc6 or coreutils? .. that I have to deal with a a _base_ -package... sorry about my broken english :-( regards gerhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Console vga mode

2002-10-01 Thread Robert Epprecht
My Debian woody system boots into a 80x30 console. Sometimes I'd like to have the old 80x25 screens back, how? I have tried booting with vga=normal and vga=ask (and then '0') but it does not change anything. How do I switch to 25x80? Thanks a lot, Robert. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: dist-upgrade problem with conflicting packages coreutils and shellutils

2002-10-01 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Montag, 30. September 2002 23:08 schrieb Faheem Mitha: > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:26:04 +0200, Gerhard Gaussling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > debian:/usr/src# apt-get remove coreutils > > [...]You are about to do something potentially harmful > > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I s

Danke für Deine Hilfe

2002-10-01 Thread Jasmina Richter
Gruess Dich, nun habe ich mich doch in eine Kontaktdatenbank eingetragen. Wenn Du Recht haben solltest, bin ich nicht mehr lange so einsam. ...und kann meine sexuellen Phantasien ausleben. Schau Dir mal den Eintrag an, ob er so OKI ist und schreibe mir Deinen Eindruck. http://jassiemau

I cannot post with my regular address

2002-10-01 Thread icosahedron
[I apoligise for any formatting problems this message may have in advance.] For the past month I have been unable to post to the list from my regular email address. I sent a message to the listmaster address a couple weeks ago, but have received no reply. Does anyone know why I cannot post messag

Re: Mozilla 1.0.1 builds for Woody?

2002-10-01 Thread David P James
Ross Burton was roused into action on 10/01/02 08:49 and wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 13:45, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > >>>I use mozilla-snapshot by adding this to my sources.list: >>> >>>#testing mozilla >>>deb http://pandora.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./ >>>deb-src http://pandora.debian.org/

Re: error upgrading woody to sid (passwd)

2002-10-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sebastian Schinzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I have trouble upgrading from woody to sid: > > The error after #apt-get dist-upgrade is: > > > Preparing to replace passwd 2902-12 (using > .../passwd_1%3a4.0

Re: Samba 'security=domain' help

2002-10-01 Thread nate
tony mollica said: > Hello. I'm trying to put my user directories from an nt > network(domain) on a Debian box with Samba 2.0.7 and soon to > have quota support. I would like the domain server to supply > the password support and I have the 'security', 'password server' > and 'encrypt passwords'

Re: woody xmms problems

2002-10-01 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 01 October 2002, 12:03 PM -0700): > * Matthew Weier O'Phinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 2. In XMMS, do a CTRL-L (or use the menu to specify a "Location"), > > and type "/cdrom" > > and that's it. > > Do you mean /dev/cdrom, or th

Re: Why mailing-lists? Usenet have been invented, I hear. ;-)

2002-10-01 Thread Peter Whysall
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 19:25, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On 01 Oct 2002 18:23:40 +0100 Peter Whysall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Terseness is not always bad. I always try to respond to a politely > > asked, well-structured question in kind; I personally think that people > > who post only lin

Re: woody xmms problems

2002-10-01 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Matthew Weier O'Phinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 1. DO NOT mount the audio cd (you'll get an error, anyways Yup. This I know. > 2. In XMMS, do a CTRL-L (or use the menu to specify a "Location"), > and type "/cdrom" > and that's it. Do you mean /dev/cdrom, or the mount-point t

Re: error upgrading woody to sid (passwd)

2002-10-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:56:34PM +0200, Sebastian Schinzel wrote: > This bug seems to be reported at: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=162097&repeatmerged=yes > Its from 09/23 and for me it sounds that they fixed it. It hasn't been fixed yet: the bug is still open. Cheers, -

error upgrading woody to sid (passwd)

2002-10-01 Thread Sebastian Schinzel
Hi! I have trouble upgrading from woody to sid: The error after #apt-get dist-upgrade is: Preparing to replace passwd 2902-12 (using .../passwd_1%3a4.0.3-3_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement passwd ... dpkg: error pr

Re: woody xmms problems

2002-10-01 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 01 October 2002, 11:10 AM -0700): > So I've discovered a new problem in my latest Woody installation. It > seems that xmms can't play audio cds (I have the correct plugins to the > best of my knowledge; libcdread.so and libcdaudio.so) How do

Samba 'security=domain' help

2002-10-01 Thread tony mollica
Hello. I'm trying to put my user directories from an nt network(domain) on a Debian box with Samba 2.0.7 and soon to have quota support. I would like the domain server to supply the password support and I have the 'security', 'password server' and 'encrypt passwords' variables set. The daemons

Re: Why mailing-lists? Usenet have been invented, I hear. ;-)

2002-10-01 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 01 Oct 2002 18:23:40 +0100 Peter Whysall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terseness is not always bad. I always try to respond to a politely > asked, well-structured question in kind; I personally think that people > who post only links to documentation are basically insulting people's > intellige

woody xmms problems

2002-10-01 Thread Mike Pfleger
Hello. So I've discovered a new problem in my latest Woody installation. It seems that xmms can't play audio cds (I have the correct plugins to the best of my knowledge; libcdread.so and libcdaudio.so) and also insists on using OSS as it's output plugin. If I try to get it to use ESD, it gives

Re: shrink partition with fdisk

2002-10-01 Thread Guy Geens
> "Brian" == Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> Hello, I just used resize_reiserfs to shrink a reiserfs Brian> partition. It worked fine, and df is reporting the device size Brian> that I expected. However, fdisk still reports the old size. How Brian> can I shrink the partition i

Quota

2002-10-01 Thread Jeremy D. May
serendipity:/# setquota -u kj 5 5 0 0 /dev/sda2 serendipity:/# quota kj Disk quotas for user kj (uid 1001): none why is it setting them but then telling me that the where not set ?? Jeremy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: mgetty hangs machine

2002-10-01 Thread Guy Geens
> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: martin> i don't think this makes sense and would like to change it. do martin> you have suggestions on how to go about preventing mgetty from martin> freezing the machine in case of a disconnected modem? Most likely a hardware problem

kpilot, korganizer, and libpisock4

2002-10-01 Thread Charles Lewis
kpilot and korganizer both have dependencies on libpisock4 which "does not appear to be available", on sid (or anywhere for that matter) and it has been this way for some time now. Anyone know anything about this? chas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: galeon and its problems (was: tabbed browsing as 'zilla's default)

2002-10-01 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-10-2002 16:07]: > (b) keyboard control; i am failing to switch to the next tab with > ctrl-right and ctrl-left, and i can't close tabs with ctrl-w. > furthermore, i want to make ctrl-n bring up a new tab. Galeon without a mouse is li

Boot procedure loops

2002-10-01 Thread Rox de Gabba
Hey, i downloaded a boot cd and the install procedure got into a loop right at the first question (Choose language - after choosing a language it just keeps asking the question over and over again.) First i thought it was a hardware compatibility problem (an old pentium 220) but then i tried i

RE: Why mailing-lists? Usenet have been invented, I hear. ;-)

2002-10-01 Thread Peter Whysall
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 06:47, Josh Rehman wrote: > I agree with Jerry. Consider that as a new user of this list, I began > with a post asking about ext3. I found the responses to be overall very > helpful, although at first rather terse. Encouraged, I responded to a Terseness is not always bad. I

Re: Bugzilla setup

2002-10-01 Thread Guy Geens
> "Robert" == Robert Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> installed, and mysql-server, but when I try to install Robert> bugzilla I get: Setting up bugzilla (2.14.2-0woody1) ... DBI-> connect(;localhost;3306) failed: Access denied for user: Robert> 'root@localhost' (Using password: YES)

Re: CUPS & HP OfficeJet R45

2002-10-01 Thread Jeff
Pierre THIERRY, 2002-Oct-01 17:41 +0200: > I continued trying to see why cups is unable to set to device of my > printer to parallel:/dev/lp0, and tried > > $ cat > /dev/lp0 > -bash: /dev/lp0: No such device > > I've parport and parport_pc loaded as modules... And i'm in the lp > group. > > Con

Re: galeon and its problems (was: tabbed browsing as 'zilla'sdefault)

2002-10-01 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 06:44, martin f krafft wrote: > It's a cool browser, light and fast. And nevertheless, I am having > problems with it (version from sarge). From what I can tell right now, > the only things that keep me from letting galeon replace opera on my > various desktops are: > > (

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