XFree 4.2.1-2 20021008045526 broke all 3d games

2002-10-09 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Hello, the newest XFree 4.2.1-2 20021008045526 in Sid seems to break all my 3d games like Quake3, UT2002, RTCW ... anyone else faces similiar situation ? Just want to make sure it's not only me who has the prob. I am running kern 2.4.19 , Nvidia gf2 with the 3213 driver -- ThanhVu Nguyen

"apt-get install gnome2 gdm2" and typo errors ...

2002-10-09 Thread Dan Hunt
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen of the Debian list! I chose to follow the directions on: http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html For my woody installation. I love gnome so I thought I would give gnome2 a go. Here is what I got: 17 packages not fully installed or removed. Setting up bug-buddy (

Re: MUA that supports MH-folders?

2002-10-09 Thread Jens Grivolla
Gerald Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My gripe is that you cannot associate an account to a specific > folder. You can, with the freshly released sylpheed-claws 0.8.5 :-) Ciao, Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: MUA that supports MH-folders?

2002-10-09 Thread Jens Grivolla
"Jack O'Quin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [switch to Gnus] > Gnus is a very complicated beast. It runs under emacs (or xemacs), so > you have to learn all that, too. I don't recommend it unless you need > heavy-duty mail-handling and are willing to spend some time learning > to use it. But, it

Re: Euro symbol

2002-10-09 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Olivier Esser wrote: > The Euro symbol does not work in KDE application altough I have > specified ISO-8859-15 as the default font set. Also the symbol oe (o > and e together, this is a symbol used in French) is missing. All this > work fine in emacs. Hi again, edit your

Re: MUA that supports MH-folders?

2002-10-09 Thread Jens Grivolla
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A simple shell script could use 'find' to get the filenames of all your > stored messages under ~/Mail (or wherever you keep it) and pipe them > through procmail to store them in your new mailboxes in whatever format > you like. That's what I did when I

Re: Euro symbol

2002-10-09 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Olivier Esser wrote: > The Euro symbol does not work in KDE application altough I have > specified ISO-8859-15 as the default font set. Also the symbol oe (o > and e together, this is a symbol used in French) is missing. All this > work fine in emacs. Hi again, edit your

Re: MUA that supports MH-folders?

2002-10-09 Thread Jens Grivolla
Gerald Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jens Grivolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been using sylpheed but would like to change because of a few > > small inconveniences (e.g. no freely editable "From:", seemingly > > messed up line wrap in sylpheed claws, ...) > > > > However,

Re: BS changed to give ^? instead of ^H?

2002-10-09 Thread Paul Smith
%% Isaac To <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Paul" == Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> If I use bash and C-q BS, or emacs -q -nw to start it within the Paul> terminal and use C-q BS, it shows that they key typed is ^? and Paul> not ^H as it should be. it> Who say it "sh

Re: unable to open X window on machine

2002-10-09 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, David Cureton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > Firstly I must confess, I have not spent much time trying to sort this o > ne > out. However, I have the latest stable Debian installed in my machine running > KDE desktop. However I find that I am unable to cause other machines

Re: Can't access 1 IP address on Lan

2002-10-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya curtis what is the output of root# route -nv root# ifconfig -v root# ipchains -L root# ping 10.0.1.1 ( a local ping of itself should always work even w/o a cable ) am assuming you didn't manually turn off ping replies on the one host am also assuming you tried swapping the c

CD-R not mounting

2002-10-09 Thread Marcus
Running Debian 3.0 I've added the appropriate "hdc=ide-scsi" option to grub.conf, but the CD drive still won't mount. It seems that setup did not add ide-scsi to the modules? Or are they in the kernel already? Can anybody tell me how you would add the appropriate driver config? It seems in Debia

Re: Can't access 1 IP address on Lan

2002-10-09 Thread David Cureton
I would check the route table. Sounds like you can only reach your mail server because it is probably your default route. Just a thought Cheers David On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:16, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Strangest thing. > > Our network is 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0 > I can access any addre

unable to open X window on machine

2002-10-09 Thread David Cureton
Hi all, Firstly I must confess, I have not spent much time trying to sort this one out. However, I have the latest stable Debian installed in my machine running KDE desktop. However I find that I am unable to cause other machines on the network to open an X window on my machine by sett

Re: [~OT] procmail recipe local lockfiles

2002-10-09 Thread Glyn Millington
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > anyone have any opinions / dogma to share on the use or omission of > the second colon? Below is a snip from the procmail mini-faq 8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<-- Under Unix and other multitasking operating s

Re: postfix: very long startup time (few minutes)

2002-10-09 Thread Kourosh
Could it be that somewhere in the script is a FQDN, possibly that of your machine, and that the delay is a DNS lookup that times out? Do you have localhost and your machines domain name in the hosts file to avoid unneccesary DNS lookups? Regards. Kourosh On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:09:00PM -0

Re: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123 install fails

2002-10-09 Thread Chris McCormick
At 01:22 10/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: >My apologies if I'm rehashing a previously discussed issue. > >I just tried to upgrade my nvidia TNT2 drivers using nvidia_glx-1.0.3123 >and nividia_kernel-1.0.3123. Make install went fine for nvidia_glx but >when I tried to make install nividia_kernel I re

NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123 install fails

2002-10-09 Thread lameth
My apologies if I'm rehashing a previously discussed issue. I just tried to upgrade my nvidia TNT2 drivers using nvidia_glx-1.0.3123 and nividia_kernel-1.0.3123. Make install went fine for nvidia_glx but when I tried to make install nividia_kernel I received the following message: In file incl

Re: Euro symbol

2002-10-09 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Olivier Esser wrote: > The Euro symbol does not work in KDE application altough I have > specified ISO-8859-15 as the default font set. Also the symbol oe (o > and e together, this is a symbol used in French) is missing. All this > work fine in emacs. Hi, first install th

Re: postfix: very long startup time (few minutes)

2002-10-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Sunday, 06 October 2002, 08:43 PM -0700): > >> for some reason the postfix thatkes a LONG time to startup (during >>boot). any ideas why? It seems like it's getting worse over time. >> >> this is on debian unstable

Re: BS changed to give ^? instead of ^H?

2002-10-09 Thread Isaac To
> "Paul" == Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> If I use bash and C-q BS, or emacs -q -nw to start it within the Paul> terminal and use C-q BS, it shows that they key typed is ^? and Paul> not ^H as it should be. Who say it "should be" ^H? Even the default text console

Re: Permanently establishing an entry in the routing table?

2002-10-09 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time William C Brennan said... > > What is the "standard" way to permanently add a route to luke's routing > table, > so I don't have to manually do it after booting? It must be obvious, > but I can't seem to find this documented anywhere. man interfaces For the static method, use

Re: Permanently establishing an entry in the routing table?

2002-10-09 Thread nate
William C Brennan said: > What is the "standard" way to permanently add a route to luke's routing > table, so I don't have to manually do it after booting? It must be > obvious, but I can't seem to find this documented anywhere. on a debian system i would make a script and call that script fro

BS changed to give ^? instead of ^H?

2002-10-09 Thread Paul Smith
Did something change "recently" regarding how backspace is handled in xterms? Maybe it was a terminfo change, and not X related? _Something_ is different; in the last couple of months I've had a problem where my backspace key is sending a ^? instead of a ^H. I can't figure out _where_ this is h

IMP / Horde / php / Pear / MySQL

2002-10-09 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I while back I attempted to install IMP webmail, however I got into an awful mess with mysql passwords and eventually gave up. Has anyone managed to get the latest IMP version (www.horde.org/imp) working on Debian ? Can anyone give me some advice as the sequence of installing all the various co

Permanently establishing an entry in the routing table?

2002-10-09 Thread William C Brennan
Title: Permanently establishing an entry in the routing table Folks, I'm connecting a small network for the first time.  My setup is simple:     |    |    |    |     Internet --- |  chad  |

Re: sound is being played too fast?

2002-10-09 Thread p
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:02:53PM -0500, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > hi > [snip] > > and how do i get rid of that annoying 'beep' whenever i mistype? > > > :o) > > martin > > // in x: xset b off kthxbye. b. // -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: cdparanoia & cdrom as user

2002-10-09 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Dale" == Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> I forgot to list that one. Dale> dale@meridian:~$ ls -l /dev/sg0 Dale> crwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 21, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sg0 Hmm. OK, you say that cdparanoia works as root, so can you run, as root, "cdparanoia -v 1 1.wav" and see what th

Re: browsing MIME type application/gzip files

2002-10-09 Thread Alan Graham
That is the problem, I configure the mime type to use helper zless or gunzip etc but it is not working. AG -- Alan Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 09 October 2002, 12:58 PM +1000): > I am having trouble viewing gzipped files - typically those in > /usr/share/doc > (MIME type appl

Re: Postfix routing restrictions

2002-10-09 Thread Curtis
Despite your recommendations, I think it is still relaying. I can't be certain because it will take some time before i will receive the letter I sent through the server as it is so backed up. But the message was not rejected. Here are some settings which maybe conflict with your suggestions. But

Re: Mutt and mailboxes

2002-10-09 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:33:29PM -0400, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > I actually do all this, too (except the squirrelmail part -- I just use > mail2web with the IMAP options for web access). It *is* a beautiful > setup -- can't recommend it highly enough! > If you have no trouble trusting

Re: is mount /var/something -o remount -f dangerous ?

2002-10-09 Thread nate
Thedore Knab said: > I hate to be a nervous nut but, > mount /var/mail -o remount -f according to the mount manpage in stable: -f Causes everything to be done except for the actual system call; if it's not obvious, this ``fakes'' mounting the file system.

Re: [~OT] procmail recipe local lockfiles

2002-10-09 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 09 October 2002, 08:47 PM -0400): > i was helping a friend set up procmail the other day, and he asked > about the final colon (local lockfile) on the recipes. i told him i'd > never used them (well, have on some recipes, haven't on other

Re: Postfix routing restrictions

2002-10-09 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 09 October 2002, 04:38 PM -0700): > Anyone know what I need to do to stop my postfix server from routing > email from non-users. You need to set the following: smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_unknown_client r

Re: MUA that supports MH-folders?

2002-10-09 Thread Jack O'Quin
Jens Grivolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have been using sylpheed but would like to change because of a few > small inconveniences (e.g. no freely editable "From:", seemingly > messed up line wrap in sylpheed claws, ...) > > However, I have been unable to import my Folders into any

Re: MUA that supports MH-folders?

2002-10-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 15:01, Jens Grivolla wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using sylpheed but would like to change because of a few > small inconveniences (e.g. no freely editable "From:", seemingly > messed up line wrap in sylpheed claws, ...) > > However, I have been unable to import my Fold

Re: files contained by a package that is not installed

2002-10-09 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:22:59AM +0200, Claudio Bley wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 04:33, Diego Biurrun wrote: > > The problem is that sometimes there is no web browser or net connection > > available and I just prefer working from the command line. apt-file > > almost fulfills my needs, but it

Re: cdparanoia & cdrom as user

2002-10-09 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 20:53, Hubert Chan wrote: > I found that cdparanoia wants to access /dev/sg0 as well as /dev/scd0, > so make sure that you have permissions for that too. I forgot to list that one. dale@meridian:~$ ls -l /dev/sg0 crwxrwxrwx1 root cdrom 21, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev

Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

2002-10-09 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:29:58AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > For details, please read my original posting. Here's the situation in > brief: > Deliver local mail to users in such a way that they can run their > procmail recipes. For e.g., if a user gets all the mail about cron jobs, > he shoul

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-09 Thread Chris McCormick
At 17:54 9/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: >On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 08:16, Chris McCormick wrote: > > >So your package system has libc6 marked as installed but /lib/libc.so.6 > > >is not there. Is that correct? > > > > No, it has /lib/libc.so.6 but it's just a previous version. > > > > I gu

Re: cdparanoia & cdrom as user

2002-10-09 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Dale" == Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> I have a problem on a new installation trying to use abcde or Dale> XMMS. It seems that cdparanoia cannot access cdrom as user but Dale> can as root. I'm baffled because I can mount a data cdrom OK. My Dale> device is a scsi CDRW. I

Re: Unable to use network card with 2.4.19

2002-10-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Darryl" == Darryl L Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Darryl> AH! I'm not building my own kernel, instead using the Darryl> kernel-image package and the associated PCMCIA Darryl> package. I'm hoping not to have to build a kernel if I can Darryl> help it. ;) You certainly sh

Re: Looking for a special type of editor

2002-10-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kent> A sysadmin friend of mine asks the following: Kent> Anyone ever heard of an application that does the Kent> following... Kent> You know how some text editors will number the lines? Well Kent> I need an editor that wi

Re: using LDAP as a configuration/user management backend

2002-10-09 Thread Hubert Chan
> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> only way I can think of to have seperate users is to set the 'mail >> only' accounts to have a shell of /dev/null. Or perhaps something >> else like /usr/local/bin/bash, and only make /usr/local/bin/bash >> available on those

Re: dial-in server

2002-10-09 Thread Joey Quevedo
Oki wrote: >What do you have in /etc/ppp/options? I leave mine as is-default config. Should I change it? >How do you set your /etc/ppp/options.ttyS? I set mine with :. Both in the same network of course. In relation with this, can I set the assignment of IPs to be handled automatically. In my

Re: "Kept back" packages?

2002-10-09 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:13:22PM -0400, Try KDE wrote: > When I do a "apt-get upgrade", there are a lot of packages "kept back". > How can I find out why they are kept back, and how to "unleash" them? # apt-get dist-upgrade Packages are kept back when a new package would need to be installed

"Kept back" packages?

2002-10-09 Thread Try KDE
Hi, I have a pre-woody installation: # uname -a Linux bigbird 2.4.18IP #1 Sat May 4 18:39:41 EDT 2002 i586 unknown unknown GNU/Linux # apt-get -v apt 0.5.4 for linux i386 compiled on Aug 19 2001 01:02:26 When I do a "apt-get upgrade", there are a lot of packages "kept back". How can I find o

[~OT] procmail recipe local lockfiles

2002-10-09 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i was helping a friend set up procmail the other day, and he asked about the final colon (local lockfile) on the recipes. i told him i'd never used them (well, have on some recipes, haven't on others; haven't noticed a difference) and have never noticed a difference. the procmailrc(5) manpage "hi

Re: dial-in server

2002-10-09 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:39:20AM +0800, Joey Quevedo wrote: > How could I correct the PPP problem? What do you have in /etc/ppp/options? The following is mine: asyncmap 0 crtscts lock hide-password modem debug proxyarp How do you set your /etc/ppp/options.ttyS? It should be "local IP: remote I

Re: utility to get daily NIC input/output total throughput

2002-10-09 Thread Tony Wasson
> > Is there any command line utility to get daily total ethernet > > inbound/outbound throughput? I'd like to generate a monthly report with > > shell script. Any suggestion highly appreciated. Take a look at iog. It's perl, so you can do as you wish with the data... http://packages.debian.org/

cdparanoia & cdrom as user

2002-10-09 Thread Dale Hair
I have a problem on a new installation trying to use abcde or XMMS. It seems that cdparanoia cannot access cdrom as user but can as root. I'm baffled because I can mount a data cdrom OK. My device is a scsi CDRW. I installed with 2.4.18bf2.4 and network install. dale@meridian:~$ cdparanoia 1

Re: dial-in server

2002-10-09 Thread Joey Quevedo
Oki wrote: >Try to connect using HyperTerm, and see whether you could get the login: prompt. If you could, then the problem is in the PPP settings. I've tried the HyperTerm and login prompt appears. How could I correct the PPP problem? Joey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Can't access 1 IP address on Lan - Recap

2002-10-09 Thread Tony Wasson
> By the way, I still can't ping one IP address from a Debian computer > within my LAN. > This data (except IP address) is exactly the same as on another Debian computer, but it >pings 10.0.1.1 no problem. I would try running tcpdump and pinging 10.0.1.1 on your working machine. You should see an

Re: Strange behaviour with accented characters

2002-10-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jorge Santos said: > Hello, when I do a 'su -' to root I get '?' instead of accented > characters when doing, for example an 'ls'. This only happens with > 'su -', not with regular logins nor with 'su' (without the '-'), it > also appear to be independent of the shell

Re: dial-in server

2002-10-09 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:32:37PM +0800, Joey Quevedo wrote: > 1. I'm using a W2K dial-up client, it doesn't connect to the dialin server. Try to connect using HyperTerm, and see whether you could get the login: prompt. If you could, then the problem is in the PPP settings. Oki -- To UNSUBSC

Re: MUA that supports MH-folders?

2002-10-09 Thread Gerald Livingston
On 10 Oct 2002 00:01:46 +0200 Jens Grivolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using sylpheed but would like to change because of a few > small inconveniences (e.g. no freely editable "From:", seemingly > messed up line wrap in sylpheed claws, ...) > > However, I have been unable

Re: MUA that supports MH-folders?

2002-10-09 Thread Craig Dickson
Jens Grivolla wrote: > I have been using sylpheed but would like to change because of a few > small inconveniences (e.g. no freely editable "From:", seemingly > messed up line wrap in sylpheed claws, ...) > > However, I have been unable to import my Folders into any of the MUAs > that claim to s

Re[2]: utility to get daily NIC input/output total throughput

2002-10-09 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello "Joris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, How to reset the TX/RX value of ifconfig output? Why is it smart to save the count to /etc/init.d/networking before resetting? Can you give an example? On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 21:46:19 +0200 "Joris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any command line utility

Re: X with NVidia: "(EE) No devices detected"

2002-10-09 Thread Issac Trotts
It turns out that I had the wrong version of the kernel module (NVdriver) and NVidia GLX module. The version I had was 1.0-1541 but I needed 1.0-3023. I still don't know why it worked the first time... Earlier, I didn't believe the GLX message that only mentioned boards up to GeForce3, but not

inode missing

2002-10-09 Thread Michael Olds
I always suspected as much...but what does this mean? I have downloaded and installed the partimage package, and this is the first screen to greet me: Missing Inode...shall it create? I am running Debian Woody with Ext3 fs. This is the downloaded package not the one that comes with stable. I ha

Re: Nothing prints anymore!

2002-10-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > > Check under /var/log - there's lpr.log, and lprng may write to syslog or > > additional ones as well. I'm not sure, since I use CUPS here. > > /var/log/lpr has a size of 0 > > > If so, try ps ax - do you see an lpr(ng) process? If not, it's n

Postfix routing restrictions

2002-10-09 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Anyone know what I need to do to stop my postfix server from routing email from non-users. Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mozilla add-ons

2002-10-09 Thread David Grant
Is there a nice way to install Mozilla add-ons, like MozGest, BannerBlind, EasySearch, and EnigMail, on a Debian system? Has anyone out there created any unofficial deb packages? Thanks, -- David Grant M.A.Sc. Candidate a-Si and Integrated Circuits Group University of Waterloo (

Proftp broke anyone? Help fixing?

2002-10-09 Thread Jeff Utter
Hey there my proftpd setup just broke all the sudden today (or maybe yesterday) in debian unstable. It seemed to be working fine.. and i went to login today, and it says there's no user.. i check the log, and it says "no such user as 'username'" i really dunno what's up, i checked my

Re: Unable to use network card with 2.4.19

2002-10-09 Thread Jeff
Darryl L. Pierce, 2002-Oct-09 17:52 -0400: > On 2002.10.09 16:33 Jeff wrote: > >> You still need CONFIG_FILTER for the socket support, and > >> CONFIG_PACKET, for the client to work. > > > >Darryl, > > > >I'm replying to this message since I inadvertantly deleted your > >response asking where to s

Re: Are the experimental GNOME2 debs any good?

2002-10-09 Thread Jorge Santos
Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le mer 09/10/2002 à 19:48, Jorge Santos a écrit : > > What about: > > > > apt-get -t experimental install gnome2 > > ReRead the thread and you will find from me: > > " ... or use the gnome2 meta package (apt-cache > show gnome2) but this

Re: Euro symbol

2002-10-09 Thread Jean-marc Harang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le Jeudi 10 Octobre 2002 00:04, Olivier Esser a écrit : > The Euro symbol does not work in KDE application altough I have > specified ISO-8859-15 as the default font set. Also the symbol oe (o > and e together, this is a symbol used in French) is miss

Re: Are the experimental GNOME2 debs any good?

2002-10-09 Thread Christophe Barbé
Le mer 09/10/2002 à 19:48, Jorge Santos a écrit : > What about: > > apt-get -t experimental install gnome2 ReRead the thread and you will find from me: " ... or use the gnome2 meta package (apt-cache show gnome2) but this package is not always uptodate and you can't decide to install

Upgrade unstable to kde3?

2002-10-09 Thread Robert L. Harris
Anyone seen a howto on upgrading a debian unstable system to kde3 cleanly? :wq! --- Robert L. Harris DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one els

Re: Mozilla (Galeon) and gtk themes?

2002-10-09 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 07:08, Henrik Enberg wrote: > Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there any way of getting Mozilla to use the same gtk theme as the > > rest of my Gnome desktop? > > No, according to the galeon dudes, Gecko doesn't expose the > scrollbar enough to do that.

Re: Are the experimental GNOME2 debs any good?

2002-10-09 Thread Jorge Santos
christophe barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:33:33PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote: > > The problem with using gnome2 out of experimental is that unlike a staging > > aera you get all the experimental stuff not related to gnome (unless you > > tweak apt). > > To be c

is mount /var/something -o remount -f dangerous ?

2002-10-09 Thread Thedore Knab
I hate to be a nervous nut but, Is it dangerous to remount a drive using this command on a ext3 filesystem ? mount /var/mail -o remount -f If it is dangerous, what can I do to fix it ? Here is what I did: I shutdown all the processes. postfix imap cron atd Then I chan

Re: Windows Domains? (was: getting a 3C905B network card

2002-10-09 Thread Kent West
Erik Price wrote: > Thanks very much for the explanation of how that works. I think that > my problem happened because when I restarted the machine and booted > into Linux, I manually assigned myself a static IP address that had > been formerly provided for me by DHCP. Still shouldn't have matte

Re: Problems with PPP under Linux 2.4.19

2002-10-09 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > --0-1690367834-1034174371=:44987 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > > Hi fellow debian users. > > I recently compiled Linux 2.4.19 on my linux workstation. But when I try to connect >to my ISP i encounter prob

Re: I accidentally deleted the root superuser How to reinstall

2002-10-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021009 15:26]: > First off the search facility does not seem to be working at Debian.org > just now, so I could not check there...I did check the mail archives but > they also seem to be handicapped. Oh Well! > Here's the problem... > I wanted to try some new ins

Strange behaviour with accented characters

2002-10-09 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, when I do a 'su -' to root I get '?' instead of accented characters when doing, for example an 'ls'. This only happens with 'su -', not with regular logins nor with 'su' (without the '-'), it also appear to be independent of the shell used and the terminal emulator used (it also happens in

amavis-ng + exim setup problems

2002-10-09 Thread Gerald Livingston
Installed amavis-ng and did the configs for exim. Everything works fine (using ~/.procmailrc for final delivery) with the amavis stuff commented out. However, when I uncomment my amavis sections in /etc/exim/exim.conf I get the following error (and no mail delivery): 2002-10-09 17:08:02 Exim co

MUA that supports MH-folders?

2002-10-09 Thread Jens Grivolla
Hi, I have been using sylpheed but would like to change because of a few small inconveniences (e.g. no freely editable "From:", seemingly messed up line wrap in sylpheed claws, ...) However, I have been unable to import my Folders into any of the MUAs that claim to support MH (such as balsa, tkr

Euro symbol

2002-10-09 Thread Olivier Esser
The Euro symbol does not work in KDE application altough I have specified ISO-8859-15 as the default font set. Also the symbol oe (o and e together, this is a symbol used in French) is missing. All this work fine in emacs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Proftp broke anyone? Help fixing?

2002-10-09 Thread Jeff Utter
Hey there my proftpd setup just broke all the sudden today (or maybe yesterday) in debian unstable. It seemed to be working fine.. and i went to login today, and it says there's no user.. i check the log, and it says "no such user as 'username'" i really dunno what's up, i checked my

Re: Unable to use network card with 2.4.19

2002-10-09 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2002.10.09 16:33 Jeff wrote: > > You still need CONFIG_FILTER for the socket support, and > > CONFIG_PACKET, for the client to work. > > Darryl, > > I'm replying to this message since I inadvertantly deleted your > response asking where to set these config attributes. > > I don't recall for

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2002-10-09 Thread Kim Blom
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I accidentally deleted the root superuser How to reinstall

2002-10-09 Thread John Foster
First off the search facility does not seem to be working at Debian.org just now, so I could not check there...I did check the mail archives but they also seem to be handicapped. Oh Well! Here's the problem... I wanted to try some new installation techniques doing them completely off the internet.

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2002-10-09 Thread Eline Tuijn
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2002-10-09 Thread Eline Tuijn
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Gdk-WARNING

2002-10-09 Thread David Sanders
I have the following warning littering my .xssesion-errors file: Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library How do I fix that? David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandersweb.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: How to virus-check cyrus-imap mailboxes

2002-10-09 Thread D. J. Bolderman
On Wed, 09 Oct 2002, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > Has anybody tried clamscan yet ? After I installed it, together with > > oavupdate, it doesn't seem to work. oav-update retrieves the latest > > virus definitions from the net, but clamscan doesn't seem to like that > > file. For example, when I exec

Re: Apache mod_ssl problem. Don't get https...

2002-10-09 Thread Justin Ryan
Hello Marc, Unfortunately, I beleive this is due to a problem with Apache's handling of the global server configuration when Virtual Hosts are defined - if there are Virtual Hosts, the default site is the first listed host (not the globally configured server). Seems funky, but you just need to c

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2002-10-09 Thread Orosz Gabor
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Re: Looking for a special type of editor

2002-10-09 Thread Issac Trotts
I've had a lot of problems with CVS. If you're just dealing with one file, you might try RCS. If you're doing a project with several files, I recommend aegis by Peter Miller. aegis ensures that any change made to the main repository doesn't break your program. CVS allows you (or someone else

sound is being played too fast?

2002-10-09 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi i have cs4232 sound setup, but the sound is being played a wee bit to fast in mpg123 and xmms ? how can i confirm and adjust this? and how do i get rid of that annoying 'beep' whenever i mistype? :o) martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Unable to use network card with 2.4.19

2002-10-09 Thread Jeff
Jeff, 2002-Oct-09 11:33 -0700: > Darryl L. Pierce, 2002-Oct-09 13:53 -0400: > > > > On 2002.10.09 12:54 Marcelo Ramos wrote: > > >El(On) Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:59:35 -0400 > > >"Darryl L. Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió(wrote): > > > > > >> I've had on again/off again problems with my laptop and

Funziona Davvero!!!

2002-10-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vorresti Davvero Guadagnare con Internet? Bene, la prima cosa da fare è salvare su disco questa pagina per averla a portata di mano anche se il tuo PC non è connesso a Internet, poi copia tutto in Word o in Blocco Note e stampalo, così lo potrai leggere con più attenzione. Qu

Re: Windows Domains? (was: getting a 3C905B network card

2002-10-09 Thread Erik Price
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nonetheless, that shouldn't be an issue. Your Windows side should be > unaffected by anything you do on the Linux side, and your Linux side > does not need to play with the Domain, inasmuch as you can set it up > to > let you log in locally, without

Re: Unable to use network card with 2.4.19

2002-10-09 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2002.10.09 14:33 Jeff wrote: > > I'm not running a DHCP server. I'm using pump to configure my NIC > via > > DHCP. And, this problem *never* existed before I installed the > 2.4.19 > > kernel. > > You still need CONFIG_FILTER for the socket support, and > CONFIG_PACKET, for the client to work.

Re: ISPs are blocking port 445?

2002-10-09 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:22:43PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > I know it's rather silly to reply on your on post, but I did some more > research... It seems that our M$ using friends have some problems. > Win2k/XP have a filesharing protocol on 445, and because most users of > M$ products are so

Re: Looking for a special type of editor

2002-10-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 12:23, Kent West wrote: > > I am beta testing an application, and I need an easy way of recording (and > timestamping) everything I do. Any ideas? store the config/source code/etc in cvs. Lets you roll back a version, give a special name to a version, etc. -- To

Re: Looking for a special type of editor

2002-10-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:23:32PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > A sysadmin friend of mine asks the following: > > Anyone ever heard of an application that does the following... > > You know how some text editors will number the lines? > Well I need an editor that will add a time stamp at the

Re: utility to get daily NIC input/output total throughput

2002-10-09 Thread Joris
> Is there any command line utility to get daily total ethernet > inbound/outbound throughput? I'd like to generate a monthly report with > shell script. Any suggestion highly appreciated. you could use 'ifconfig', but then it would be smart to edit /etc/init.d/networking to save the count before

Re: Offsite backup

2002-10-09 Thread nate
Curtis Vaughan said: > I was wondering what options there are for maintaining offsite backups? I designed such a system at my previous company. It consisted of special backup servers(4U, P3-800, 256MB ram, 220GB raid 10 HD), rsync, and ssh. I tied em together with a very custom script which did

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