Re: Palm & pi_bind (????)

2002-10-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 07:10:45AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've restored my woody installation (which included a working jpilot through the >irda device of my portable as /dev/ircomm0) to move from ext2 to reiserfs. > Now, syncing my Palm with jpilot on /dev/ircomm0 (it works via minic

Palm & pi_bind (????)

2002-10-16 Thread vdemart
I've restored my woody installation (which included a working jpilot through the irda device of my portable as /dev/ircomm0) to move from ext2 to reiserfs. Now, syncing my Palm with jpilot on /dev/ircomm0 (it works via minicom, I can connect to my provider!), it doesn't work any longer and the

Re: OpenOffice

2002-10-16 Thread Patrick Lane
I tried installing fonts as root with the oopadmin tool. Before I even started root had fonts in all the openoffice programs. After installing the fonts, my user still does not have any fonts. I don't know what gives =( --Patrick On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 22:39, Jeff wrote: > Patrick Lane, 2002-Oct-

Re: p2p programs

2002-10-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 02:52:40AM +0200, Gytis wrote: > So , could all of you share your opinions about p2p software under > linux? I'm interested in kazaa and winmx networks ( edonkey for me works > fine under mldonkey). I don't use KaZaA, I get bad vibes from it. Might try apt-cache search

Installing php4-domxml fails due to missing zendapi

2002-10-16 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Wierd dependency - zendapi-20010901 does not look like a Debian product name. php4-domxml depends on zendapi-20010901 zendapi-20010901 does not appear to be available I'm at a loss here - has anyone any idea on what I can do about this? Thanks in advance. -- Patrick GSM: 07876 560 6

Re: Simple HTTP Server Recommendation

2002-10-16 Thread Mike Thompson
Boa - Small footprint, easy setup. On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 02:41:55PM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > Team: > > I need to put up a simple, HTML-only site. No database/CGI/anything. > > Apache looks like overkill. > > Can you recommend a nice, compact, efficient alternative? > > TIA > > ma

Re: Blender (non-non-free) packages

2002-10-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 05:33, Alvaro Figueroa wrote: > It's probably a bit too soon, but does anyone knows if there are debian > packages for the recently gpl'ed Blender? > > Even non-free packages won't do me mutch good... I'm a debian-sparc > user. not just yet. Compiling it is a real he

Re: [OT]: Sort-of. What's the best way to "contribute"

2002-10-16 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 06:10, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On Wednesday 16 October 2002 14:58, deFreese, Barry wrote: > > Since my posts usually get ignored we'll see what happens with this one. > > :-) > > > > Since I don't have a great deal of money yet (When I win the lottery I > > promise to se

system test

2002-10-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya - i just did a random tst for 24hrs - for those looking to "tweek" the maximum performace out of the disks - all systems are indentical - asus a7m266-vm motherboard - 4 of the systems are amd xp-1700, one each of xp-1800 and xp-1900 - all systems are 512MB DDR except first one - all test

Re: kernel need to be reconfigured for Zip drive ?

2002-10-16 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Hello, I finally got it to work ... by enable SCSI disk support on the kernel (sr_mod), then the device becomes /dev/sda4. I never thought of this since the drive I have is not SCSI. I did try to recompile kernel with ide-floppy but same result, it doesn't work either. Now that it works .. I a

How do I roll back to XFree86 3.x in Debian?

2002-10-16 Thread J Fields
How do I roll back to (old version) XFree86 3.x in Debian? Is there a command I have to run or a file I have to edit? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenOffice

2002-10-16 Thread Jeff
Patrick Lane, 2002-Oct-16 20:33 -0700: > Hello All, > > Recently, all of my OpenOffice applications seem to have lost their > fonts. What I mean by this, is that all text in the applications is > missing. Menu text, text typed in by a user...ALL TEXT. It's odd. This > happened a couple of days ag

Re: Installing QuakeForge?

2002-10-16 Thread Jeff
Edward Guldemond, 2002-Oct-16 23:35 -0400: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:56:21PM -0700, nate wrote: > > there is no quakeforge package in any of the 3 main debian distros > > that i can find(stable,testing,unstable). where did you get the package? > > perhaps it was built for debian 2.1 or 2.2 or m

Re: postgresql TCP problem

2002-10-16 Thread Arash Bijanzadeh
I solved it Thanks a lot! Arash On Monday 14 October 2002 11:42, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:13:07AM +0330, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote: > > I need to connect to postgresql through TCP socket but there is a > > problrm with authontication when I am trying "psql aDatabase > > someU

Re: Trouble installing Debian 3.0 on P166 system

2002-10-16 Thread nate
Denver Coneybeare said: > > I am having a strange problem installing Debian 3.0 on an old P166 > computer. The installation goes smoothly but after it reboots > something goes wrong. After running fsck I get the message > > "Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference..." I h

Trouble installing Debian 3.0 on P166 system

2002-10-16 Thread Denver Coneybeare
I am having a strange problem installing Debian 3.0 on an old P166 computer. The installation goes smoothly but after it reboots something goes wrong. After running fsck I get the message "Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference..." and then it just stays there. If I p

Re: Best plotting software/R

2002-10-16 Thread Lars Jensen
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > I used R for my thesis in astrophysics, it is a really good system, and > well package in Debian too (r-base etc). It is a huge statistics 1) Can I produce plots from the command line with R? 2) Is it reasonably easy to use for simple x-y plots? Th

Re: Info on Permissions

2002-10-16 Thread irvine
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:59:40PM -0400, lameth wrote: > Does anyone have a link for a How-to on permissions. I understand the > need for them and the idea behind them but what I want is a "Everything > you wanted to know about permissions but were afraid to ask" type > document. Coming from w

Re: Galeon

2002-10-16 Thread Rupert
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:20:03 +0700 Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, if Galeon is set to start without the main menubar, how can I get it > back? You can use the keyboard shortcut if there is one. It's Control-Shift-M on my galeon. Rupert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gdm, log in as root? - solution and new questions

2002-10-16 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:13:13 +0530 Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oki DZ wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:00:33AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > >>and yes, is there any method of changing the display manager? say > >from >gdm to wdm to xdm to kdm etc? > > > > I belie

Re: gdm, log in as root? - solution and new questions

2002-10-16 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
Oki DZ wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:00:33AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > >>and yes, is there any method of changing the display manager? say from >>gdm to wdm to xdm to kdm etc? > > > I believe the program is called update-rc.d. > (Assuming that apt-get doesn't remove any of the dm

Re: Info on Permissions

2002-10-16 Thread Larry Holish
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:14:18PM -0500, Larry Holish wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:59:40PM -0400, lameth wrote: > > Does anyone have a link for a How-to on permissions. I understand the > > need for them and the idea behind them but what I want is a "Everything > > you wanted to know abo

Re: Galeon

2002-10-16 Thread Oki DZ
Excuse me, forget my questions; the settings are in Preferences/Windows. BTW, if Galeon is set to start without the main menubar, how can I get it back? TIA, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MySql module won't load in Apache (DebianLinux)

2002-10-16 Thread david hong
i didn't try the deb packages for apache+mysql+php. but i did install & compile from source in woody machine, and it works. On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 21:01:55 -0700 (PDT), nate wrote > Chip Rose said: > > > Does anyone have a clue about what I'm *TRYING* to convey?? > > Thanks/Chip Rose > > no bu

Re: Info on Permissions

2002-10-16 Thread Larry Holish
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:59:40PM -0400, lameth wrote: > Does anyone have a link for a How-to on permissions. I understand the > need for them and the idea behind them but what I want is a "Everything > you wanted to know about permissions but were afraid to ask" type > document. Coming from w

Re: MySql module won't load in Apache (DebianLinux)

2002-10-16 Thread nate
Chip Rose said: > Does anyone have a clue about what I'm *TRYING* to convey?? > Thanks/Chip Rose no but I think i can help did you install php3-mysql? check the php config file to be sure the module is loading(I haven't used php3 in a long time, but for php4 this is in /etc/php/*/php.ini) us

Re: Netscape 7.0 won't run----Rrevisited.

2002-10-16 Thread nate
lameth said: > Okay I downloaded that package. Now when I run ./netscape-installer I > get this error message: > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 > default:/home/lameth/netscape-install# ./netscape-installer > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to

MySql module won't load in Apache (DebianLinux)

2002-10-16 Thread Chip Rose
I'm running Woody, with MySQL, PHP3,and Apache all installed from the CD. Apache document root works fine, and php3 is fine also. I uncommented the following lines in /etc/apache/httpd.conf LoadModule php3_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp3.so AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 AddType applic

Re: Netscape 7.0 won't run----Rrevisited.

2002-10-16 Thread lameth
nate wrote: >lameth said: > > >>Sorry I let this thread die but I got busy and couldn't respond. >> >>To recap; >> >>I downloaded and unzipped the netscape 7.0 tarball to >>/home/lameth/netscape-installer. When I ran the command >>./netscape-installer I recieved the following error message; >>

Re: Customised Apache+PHP under control of Debian

2002-10-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:38:11AM +0200, Ambrus Csaba wrote: > I would like to install Apache with static customised (I mean compiling > from source code because having not default config parameters (from > deb-source))PHP module. And keep them security up-to-date by cron daemon > with deb-src

Galeon

2002-10-16 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'd like to start Galeon without any toolbar or menubar; I have tried to toggle them off via the View menu and then exited. When Galeon gets started again, the toolbars get displayed again. Are there any command line options that I can set? TIA, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Knoppix & DemoLinux

2002-10-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:54:03PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > Windows advocates complain that there's no innovation coming out of > Linux. When they can manage to run their OS on a CD, I'll believe them > :-}. Hmm. I wonder where windows folks think the icon bar next to the start button came f

Re: Installing QuakeForge?

2002-10-16 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:56:21PM -0700, nate wrote: > there is no quakeforge package in any of the 3 main debian distros > that i can find(stable,testing,unstable). where did you get the package? > perhaps it was built for debian 2.1 or 2.2 or maybe...debian 2.0 > > nate I downloaded the sourc

OpenOffice

2002-10-16 Thread Patrick Lane
Hello All, Recently, all of my OpenOffice applications seem to have lost their fonts. What I mean by this, is that all text in the applications is missing. Menu text, text typed in by a user...ALL TEXT. It's odd. This happened a couple of days ago and I'm just now getting around to trying to fix

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-10-16 Thread Jason Pepas
> OT: What is up with NVidia's drivers? They seem to enjoy bringing my > machine down every few hours, especially if I actually make use of the > hardware accleration. Not only do they lock up my machine, but they > also seem to cause spontaneous reboots! I've spent ages trying to find > what e

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-16 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
jeff wrote: > Jason Stechschulte wrote: > >> I know there are a lot of programmers on this list, so I'm hoping >> someone might be kind enough to help me. I already am a so so >> programmer. I'm comfortable using Perl and PHP and I have a little >> experience in C/C++. >> I'm now thinking of t

Re: p2p programs

2002-10-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:13:36PM -0500, Gerald Livingston wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 02:52:40 +0200 Gytis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So , could all of you share your opinions about p2p software under > > linux? I'm interested in kazaa and winmx networks ( edonkey for me > > works fine unde

Re: mrtg w/LoadMIBs option

2002-10-16 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:49:03PM -0700, nate wrote: > WorkDir:/home/mrtg/public_html/squid/ > LoadMIBs: /usr/lib/squid/mib.txt Mine looks like: loadMIBs: /usr/local/squid/etc/mib.txt ^lower-case I'm not quite sure... but it's worth trying, I guess. Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Manual install/configuration

2002-10-16 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:04:35AM +0100, snowch wrote: > I am new to Debian. Does debian have the ability to be manually configured > in such a way, or is most of the install configuration taken place via. a > graphical installer? The configuration files, mostly, reside in /etc/* also. You ca

Gnome2; scroll-bars, 2-byte fonts

2002-10-16 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Would it be possible to set Gnome2 apps' scroll-bar at the left side of the windows? And also, how about having 2-byte fonts in Gnome2? Is it an option in Gnome2? TIA, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best plotting software?

2002-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not tried this, but the description seems to help in the > situations you have outlined: > > brahman:~# apt-cache show gri > Package: gri > Maintainer: Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Description: a language for scientific illustra

Re: Installing QuakeForge?

2002-10-16 Thread nate
Edward Guldemond said: > Hello fellow Debian users, > I am having a problem with installing QuakeForge Debian packages > on my system. I try installing the packages, and they complain that they > cannot find the quake-game package. Doing an "apt-get install > quake-game", I get the followi

Re: DMA on the ASUS TUA266

2002-10-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya marin from your list of .config options -- i'd say you need to turn on the ali option in your kernel > # CONFIG_AEC62XX_TUNING is not set > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 is not set > # CONFIG_WDC_ALI15X3 is not set turn this puppy on ... vi .config ... CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15

Re: Lite On 40x Burner

2002-10-16 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:58:09PM -0500, Steven Isaacson wrote: > Has anyone had success using a Lite On 40/12/48(LTR40125S) burner with cdrecord and > debian? I was looking around and couldn't find any definative answer. I realize you've already bought the Plextor (good drive), but thought I'd

DMA on the ASUS TUA266

2002-10-16 Thread Martin Strauss
Hi all, I've got an ASUS TUA266 mobo (ALi Alladin Pro 5 chipset, ALi M1651 North Bridge, ALi M1535D+ South Bridge, ALi M5229 IDE), and I can't get DMA to work on my drives: bruce:~# hdparm -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_d

AbiWord

2002-10-16 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, How do you set AbiWord so that it uses the fonts served by the font server only? Thanks in advance, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: openldap problem with testing

2002-10-16 Thread nate
Quenten Griffith said: > > I tried doing it one at a time and then I get the same error diffrent > line > > slapadd: could not add entry dn="o=mystikalphoenix,c=us" (line=10) so you had 1 file with this: dn: o=mystikalphoenix,c=us objectClass: organization o: mystikalphoenix and did slapadd -l

Network startup on IBM Thinkpad

2002-10-16 Thread Neal Lippman
, ds, iThanks to all who responded with info to my question regarding the correct drive for a Linksys PC-Card 10/100 NIC for IBM Thinkpad. As best as I have figured out from the various responses coupled with online sources, the correct driver is the axnet_cs driver. Interestingly, this driver do

Re: openldap problem with testing

2002-10-16 Thread Michael Heironimus
Entries in an LDIF file are separated by blank lines, so removing them would definitely cause strange results. Are you able to start the server? If so, do you get the same error trying to import with ldapadd? -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Installing QuakeForge?

2002-10-16 Thread Edward Guldemond
Hello fellow Debian users, I am having a problem with installing QuakeForge Debian packages on my system. I try installing the packages, and they complain that they cannot find the quake-game package. Doing an "apt-get install quake-game", I get the following: Package quake-game has no a

Re: Error installing Debian 3.0

2002-10-16 Thread Barney Wrightson
Ivens Porto wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install Debian 3.0 but the kernel locks up during > installation. > > The machine is an AMD Athlon MP 2000, with an Asus A7M266-D motherboard > and chipset AMD 760MPX. > > When I try to install using kernel 2.4, I boot the instalation with the > bf2

Re: Netscape 7.0 won't run----Rrevisited.

2002-10-16 Thread nate
lameth said: > Sorry I let this thread die but I got busy and couldn't respond. > > To recap; > > I downloaded and unzipped the netscape 7.0 tarball to > /home/lameth/netscape-installer. When I ran the command > ./netscape-installer I recieved the following error message; > ./netscape-installer-b

Re: Netscape 7.0 won't run----Rrevisited.

2002-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:54:31PM -0400, lameth wrote: > Sorry I let this thread die but I got busy and couldn't respond. > > To recap; > > I downloaded and unzipped the netscape 7.0 tarball to > /home/lameth/netscape-installer. When I ran the command > ./netscape-installer I recieved the fo

Re: Install, apt-get questions

2002-10-16 Thread J Fields
"Jamin W.Collins" wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:16:50 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've been downloading the > > 7 CD debian-30r0-i386-binary-*.iso > > for days now using windows jigdo-lite.bat . > > After I got disk 3 burned, I decided > > to install and not wait days for the > > ot

Re: Info on Permissions

2002-10-16 Thread Shawn Lamson
for a free one just try $info ls and $info chmod they contain a lot of information; unfortunately not on what the effects of what you do are, but it is a starting point and you can then look up terms you don't understand on google or other search engine. Other than that just about any basic *nix

Re: p2p programs

2002-10-16 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 02:52:40 +0200 Gytis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone > > So , could all of you share your opinions about p2p software under > linux? I'm interested in kazaa and winmx networks ( edonkey for me > works fine under mldonkey). I used lopster as an alternative to winmx,

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-10-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:19:02PM +0200, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: > If you changed the kernel you need to remake and install the drivers > again. The commercial driver has never failed me. I would never concider > using the free ones. Opengl support is much much better with the > commerci

Re: Best plotting software?

2002-10-16 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 03:37:01PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > > > Sadly, the best approach for doing that sort of thing I've found has > been to take the array of data and write a Perl script that spits out > a PostScript file. gnuplot is just okay for what it does, but even

Info on Permissions

2002-10-16 Thread lameth
Does anyone have a link for a How-to on permissions. I understand the need for them and the idea behind them but what I want is a "Everything you wanted to know about permissions but were afraid to ask" type document. Coming from windows I find myself woefully ignorant on this subject. -- T

Re: php not working

2002-10-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:58:02AM -0400, James Hughes wrote: > LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so Er, of course. Loading the php module would probably help too:) -rob msg07495/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Creative Nomad jukebox

2002-10-16 Thread iain d broadfoot
Gytis wrote: > hi everyone > > Anyone got experience with Creative Nomad jukebox ( 6gb)? If someone go > it working , please share your thoughts :) My system is woody 3.0 with > 2.4.19 kernel :) > thanx > > libnjb.sourceforge.net download, compile, follow instructions. also grab GNOMAD fro

Netscape 7.0 won't run----Rrevisited.

2002-10-16 Thread lameth
Sorry I let this thread die but I got busy and couldn't respond. To recap; I downloaded and unzipped the netscape 7.0 tarball to /home/lameth/netscape-installer. When I ran the command ./netscape-installer I recieved the following error message; ./netscape-installer-bin: error while loading s

p2p programs

2002-10-16 Thread Gytis
Hi everyone So , could all of you share your opinions about p2p software under linux? I'm interested in kazaa and winmx networks ( edonkey for me works fine under mldonkey). I used lopster as an alternative to winmx, but now it can't get conected to winmx redirect servers, and normal winmx s

Creative Nomad jukebox

2002-10-16 Thread Gytis
hi everyone Anyone got experience with Creative Nomad jukebox ( 6gb)? If someone go it working , please share your thoughts :) My system is woody 3.0 with 2.4.19 kernel :) thanx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: openldap problem with testing

2002-10-16 Thread Quenten Griffith
I tried doing it one at a time and then I get the same error diffrent line slapadd: could not add entry dn="o=mystikalphoenix,c=us" (line=10) I go into VI and go to line 10 and VI tells me I only have 9lines which is true. So the first blank line would be line 10 and that is where slapdadd is e

Re: 3.0:Switching Video Card Drivers

2002-10-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
nate wrote: >Scott Henson said: > > > >>NO >> >>If you do it this way the next time you upgrade xfree86 your changes will >>get over written. It is safer to use the debconf interface to do it. >> >> > > >I hope not.. I've been running woody for over a year and have gone >through severa

Blender (non-non-free) packages

2002-10-16 Thread Alvaro Figueroa
It's probably a bit too soon, but does anyone knows if there are debian packages for the recently gpl'ed Blender? Even non-free packages won't do me mutch good... I'm a debian-sparc user. -- Alvaro Figueroa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: openldap problem with testing

2002-10-16 Thread nate
Quenten Griffith said: > I am trying to import my database with a fresh install of openldap from > testing and I get an error that it can't parse line 4 when I do a > slapadd -l basic.ldif. Line 4 is a blank line, so i removed all the blank > lines and then it complains about it can't parse line 5

Re: Reply to "Whinge"

2002-10-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"RavynNiteshade" == RavynNiteshade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RavynNiteshade> I personally hope that the developers aren't as RavynNiteshade> closed-minded as you are making yourself RavynNiteshade> appear,and at least take my suggestions as exactly RavynNiteshade> that,sug

openldap problem with testing

2002-10-16 Thread Quenten Griffith
I am trying to import my database with a fresh install of openldap from testing and I get an error that it can't parse line 4 when I do a slapadd -l basic.ldif. Line 4 is a blank line, so i removed all the blank lines and then it complains about it can't parse line 57 and the file only has 56 line

Manual install/configuration

2002-10-16 Thread snowch
I've been using a few different linux distros and have also recently tried OpenBSD. One of the things I like about OpenBSD is that the install is very basic, and most of the post install configuration is performed by manually editing files in /etc/* . The reason I like this is because I know

Re: /etc/network/*.d

2002-10-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jerome" == Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jerome> May be I have to rephrase my question ? I notice that Jerome> Woody introduced in the directory `etc/network' four Jerome> subdirectories: `if-down.d', `if-pre-up.d', Jerome> `if-post-down.d' and `if-up.d' Jer

Re: deleted /tmp directory...can't login at all now!!!

2002-10-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nothing special in /tmp mkdir /tmp chmod 1777 /tmp restart X11 ( xfs in particular ) -- reboot might be simpler for ya --- hint ... do do anything as root... when doing regular work c ya alvin On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, root wrote: > > Can someone help me recover here? > > I "meant" to

Re: deleted /tmp directory...can't login at all now!!!

2002-10-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 03:54:03PM -0800, root wrote: > I "meant" to do this: rm -r /tmp/* > but instead I deleted the whole /tmp directory > and now when I enter my user name and password > I get thrown back to the graphical login screen. Reboot, give lilo "linux single." You'll have to remoun

Re: Knoppix & DemoLinux

2002-10-16 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:51:44PM -0700, Jeff wrote: > > "the heathen", I love it! > > I must say that I've done quite a few demo's with Knoppix when folks > pop in and ask, "Hey, what are you using there?". I also get > questions when I pull my laptop out of my bag, open the lid and start > t

Re: install cd hanging at boot on checking partitions

2002-10-16 Thread shaulka
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:15:09PM -0700, Kendall Shaw wrote: > Hi, > > Using isolinux woody cd, the boot hangs after: > > something ttyS01 something > > If I boot with bf24 to use a 2.4 kernel, it hangs after: > > hdc: something 70324/16/63 > ... > /dev/ide/something same as hdc [PTBL] 429

deleted /tmp directory...can't login at all now!!!

2002-10-16 Thread root
Can someone help me recover here? I "meant" to do this: rm -r /tmp/* but instead I deleted the whole /tmp directory and now when I enter my user name and password I get thrown back to the graphical login screen. I am using Debian Woody and would appreciate any help because I am clueless on how

Printing fonts from browser

2002-10-16 Thread David Sanders
I successfully installed truetype fonts for X. They appear on the screen fine and I can print them via ghostscript. But when I print a web page containing the fonts from Mozilla/Galeon, generic fonts are substituted. Surely it must be possible. How do I enable it? -- David Sanders [EMAIL PROT

Re: 3.0: Creating Boot CD

2002-10-16 Thread geno
You are probably correct; however I have no such problems under MS Windows and few under SuSE 8.1. geno - At 03:36 PM 10/16/2002 -0700, you wrote: >hi ya > >its not that debian or its app that is fussy.. > >its more that the floppy is a bad/cheap quality... >( get a

Re: GUADAGNARE DAVVERO, LEGGI E CAPIRAI!!!!

2002-10-16 Thread René Seindal
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:16:26PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 01 January 1970 1:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > FAI ATTENZIONE PERCHE' CON QUESTO SISTEMA GUADAGNI DAVVERO ! > > (se il messaggio vi e' arrivato piu volte scusate ma, …leggetelo…..) > >

install cd hanging at boot on checking partitions

2002-10-16 Thread Kendall Shaw
Hi, Using isolinux woody cd, the boot hangs after: something ttyS01 something If I boot with bf24 to use a 2.4 kernel, it hangs after: hdc: something 70324/16/63 ... /dev/ide/something same as hdc [PTBL] 4298/255/63 (The actual cylinder counts are different than I print above). Now, I don

xdm: getting back to chooser with ctl-alt-backspace

2002-10-16 Thread David Gaudine
I have this line in inittab: 7:5:respawn:/usr/X11/R6/bin/X -indirect daisy I have these lines in Xaccess on the same system: daisy daisy CHOOSER dewey daisy huey The system has xdm installed, but I changed Xservers to not put a prompt on the local system. This basically works, I can log in to

Re: Anyone using Debian for Graphic Design or CAD?

2002-10-16 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 October 2002 10:25 pm, csj wrote: > For old-fashioned *WYSIWYG* Desktop Publishing, I'd recommend KWord as > soon as the Debian maintainers come out with an officially unstable KDE > 3 release. Put these in your /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: spamassassin + exim

2002-10-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:52:56AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good way to integrate spamassassin with exim? > > I tried the instructions at > http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim3_spamassassin.html > to use it as a transport filter, but I just "unexpected EOF du

Re: Printing with CUPS

2002-10-16 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 October 2002 8:04 pm, John Lord wrote: > Next thing to check? Whats the device uri in /etc/cups/printers.conf I have an epson 80 under cups - here is mine DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 - -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGI

RE: Newbie question - Serial Ports

2002-10-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya "setserial -options /dev/ttyS0" is good for mucking around with /dev/tty* c ya alvin and nope... i dont have nike shoes :-) > > Is there a good utility to "test" a serial port and also see how it is > configured? The digi driver was supposed to build dpa and ditty, two > specific

Re: How do I start a X session on another machine

2002-10-16 Thread David Gaudine
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Andrew Lindley wrote: > I went for option 2 - ssh. I can ssh between the 2 hosts but the > $DISPLAY variable does not get set on the server machine. I have > ssh_config on both sides defaulting to ForwardX11=yes and can see the > x11_get_proto line if I give ssh the -vv

Re: [OT]: Sort-of. What's the best way to "contribute"

2002-10-16 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 18:10, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On Wednesday 16 October 2002 14:58, deFreese, Barry wrote: > > Since my posts usually get ignored we'll see what happens with this one. > > :-) > > > > Since I don't have a great deal of money yet (When I win the lottery I > > promise to se

Re: [OT]: Sort-of. What's the best way to "contribute"

2002-10-16 Thread p
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 02:58:57PM -0700, deFreese, Barry wrote: > Since my posts usually get ignored we'll see what happens with this one. :-) > ...probably due to list volume or your posts being apolitical or not- related to beer. (muhahaha.) > Since I don't have a great deal of money yet (

Re: Newbie question - Serial Ports

2002-10-16 Thread Grant Edwards
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > If I run stty /dev/ttyD000 -a I do get a bunch of output > including the buad rate (9600), however most of the other > output I don't understand. man stty It explains what all that output means. > Is there a good utility to "test" a serial port and also s

Re: 3.0: Creating Boot CD

2002-10-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya its not that debian or its app that is fussy.. its more that the floppy is a bad/cheap quality... ( get a better quality floppy and/or floppy drive and those ( floppy disk creation problems will go a way have fun alvin On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, geno wrote: > During the initial setup procedu

Re: (no subject)

2002-10-16 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 October 2002 5:59 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you write lots of text with no whitespace it is almost impossible for anyone to read and understand what your problems are. Leave a bit of space between paragraphs and then someone c

Re: [OT]: Sort-of. What's the best way to 'contribute'

2002-10-16 Thread nate
deFreese, Barry said: > Since my posts usually get ignored we'll see what happens with this one. > :-) > > Since I don't have a great deal of money yet (When I win the lottery I > promise to send big checks to Debian and Samba!! :-) ) what is the best > way to contribute to the open source communi

RE: Newbie question - Serial Ports

2002-10-16 Thread deFreese, Barry
Never mind, I'm an ignorant newbie and forgot to update the inittab file with mgetty for the ports. Sorry, Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-616-4005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster." Jerry Gregoire

Re: mail server of a sorts

2002-10-16 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 October 2002 3:56 pm, Kevin Coyner wrote: > Is it possible to do the following, or is there a better way ... > > Objective: setup a spare box that downloads mail for me and my family > from various POP3 servers. DL'd mail gets scanned

RE: URL forwarding

2002-10-16 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Price, Erik wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Sebastiaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 12:14 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: URL forwarding > > > My current situation is that I own a domain, say > > mydomain.

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-16 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 09:04, Jens Grivolla wrote: > David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As to why involve exim? You need an MTA installed for cron, etc, > > anyway, so it may as well be exim.. And, although I've never tried to > > set up fetchmail, some have said it was a wee bit more compl

Re: spamassassin + exim

2002-10-16 Thread Iain.
Gottfried Szing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i would suggest to replace the spamassassin with spamc/spamd. spamd is a > daemon which runs in the background and spamc controls the daemon. I've got a couple of problems with spamd. First is that it doesn't appear to start correctly if I'm offline.

3.0: Creating Boot CD

2002-10-16 Thread geno
During the initial setup procedure, Debian seems to be extremely fussy about permitting the creation of boot floppies and equally fussy about booting from those it does create. Is there a way to burn a more reliable boot CD instead? Thanks. geno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [OT]: Sort-of. What's the best way to "contribute"

2002-10-16 Thread burningclown
Barry - I'm in a similar situation, I guess. I too have been hanging around Sourceforge, but in my case have hooked onto a couple of projects, even if I feel I can't contribute what I want to contribute, yet - in the hope that it will push me where I want to go. In my case, I'm trying to we

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