Hugh Saunders wrote:
> I use a debian woody box as a dialup router for a small LAN it is not
> practical to leave the link up 24-7 but sometimes when i am not at
> home it would be usefull to get data from a machine that is at home.
> is there a simple way to configure it so that when the modem[int
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:57:37AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > Actually, if we're getting really specific, the natives call
> > "or-eh-gun" home.
>
> My point exactly. This is why anyone actually from Oregon shouldn't be
> insulting others' pronunciations, because they can't even pronounce the
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:21:31PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Evolution & Sylpheed are good GUI mail clients. I use mutt, a
> console/curses client.
I use mutt too; and what email client can I use to complement mutt? I
mean, the one that can read mutt's mailboxes. I have tried Mozilla mail;
Bruce Park wrote:
Hello debian users,
Can anyone tell me which one of these two desktop is better? I've been
using gnome eversince I've been using linux and I am told that KDE is a
better desktop by people yet they can't give me a solid reason as to why
it is better.
bp
_
Hi all,
I've been using fvwm2, and it has tons of configuration options,
which i find hard to master.
What are some good window managers that are even more light weight,
have less options (simpler to configure), and work well?
I'm into functionality more than flashness.
A large desktop that use
Hi,
Here is the situation: the hard drive LED is flashing every 2 seconds,
I don't which process is causing it, or if it's a kernel thread doing
swapping or something. So how can I find out? "top" doesn't seem to
answer that question. (Note that a disk intensive program is not
neccesarrily
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:23:52AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> 2.) How do I find out what resolution mode X is running in (i.e. 640x480,
> 800x600, etc.)?
xwininfo, and then click on the root window (the desktop, that is).
> 3.) How do find out where programs are installed?
> I ran "dpkg
"Michael Zedler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to get quotas up and working.
> ...
> quota and quotarpc are started on startup. Unfortunately it tells me
> quotaon: can't find //quota.group on /dev/sda2 [/]
> quotaon: can't find //quota.user on /dev/sda2 [/]
See
http://bugs.debian
"Jim" == Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jim> Browsers are still so much the weak link in the Linux chain.
Hmmm...I've been using Mozilla 1.0 in Debian Woody for several months
now, and I've had no complaints at all (except for some funny stuff
installing java support, but it ha
Hi,
Does dump only work on ext2/3 filesystems?
DESCRIPTION
Dump examines files on an ext2/3 filesystem and determines which
files need to be backed up.
What makes it so?
Thanks in advance,
Oki
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dave mallery wrote:
>
> hi list!
>
> there's a saying that all people are in two groups:
>
> those who have done an rm -R * in root
> and those who have not done it yet.
>
> last evening, i joined the former group after six years of linux and a
> lifetime of computing...
It takes a bit of cond
Karsten M. Self wrote:
> I've seen cards in various states:
>
> - Hung but fully resettable -- both X11 and console can be used again.
>
> - Hung, resettable in graphics mode only -- a X11 session can be
> started, but console mode is fuxnored. Generally I'll start an X
> session to
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:01:15AM +0800, Patrick Cheong Shu Yang wrote:
>
> I had to re-compile the kernel to map the RAM above 1GB. Are there plans
> to include kernels compiled/built for the enterprise in mind...this
> would surely help in making Debian the choice of distribution when it
> come
* Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I need to install a webmail in a Debian GNU/Linux box for use with:
> - Qmail;
> - IMAP;
> - Maildir;
> - Accounts in MySQL;
> - Preferible in Perl.
It's written in C not in Perl, but you might want to
Hi,
okidz@okidz:~$ date
Mon Oct 21 09:25:54 WIT 2002
What is "WIT" short for...?
My tzconfig was set for "Asia/Jakarta".
Where can I find all the possible values for the time zones output by date
command?
Thanks in advance,
Oki
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Patrick Cheong Shu Yang said:
> Hi all,
> Thoughts anyone?
my most immediate thought is my belief that anyone who runs such
a server should be running a self compiled kernel anyways. every
system I deploy goes with a very custom kernel with many patches
depending on the kind of hardware and what
All,
That is exactly what I didbut that would not be what a SysAdm would
want...he/she would want to just select an 'enterprise' kernel from the
package list.
One has to bear in mind that not all SysAdm know how to re-compile a
kernel...and using kernel-package to do it...:-P
If the Debian
Hello,
I have these partitions on xfs
/boot : 50Mbs
/ : 5 gigs
and
/home on reisefs ,
How do I schedule a fsck on everything on the next reboot? Xfs and
reiserfs are pretty good, I never had problems with them but since I
have been using this sytem for so long, I think it's a good ide
> "Robert" == Robert Mosher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Robert> I was recently convinced that I should give emacs a try, only to
Robert> find that the left windows key is the only META key. This tends
Robert> to make for some rather uncomfortable key combinations.
You will probably need to us
I just got an ATI Radeon 7500 card with dual outputs (DVI-I and VGA). My
search of the Xfree86 site, various newgroups, etc, turns up conflicting
information regarding the status of this card.
The only driver referenced on the XFree site is the ATI site, which does
not list any radeon cards as sup
On 0, Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 06:17:55PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> > Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> >
> > >>On a sidenote: java is not bad for such type of games too with the added
> > >>advantage of being crossplatform. Also, a lot of games already
> "Charles" == Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
Charles> How do you create an 'origin' for the /root/deb repository ?
Charles> His there any other way to tell /etc/apt/preferences/ to take
Charles> into consideration the local repository ?
You can try using the release la
On 0, Michael Heironimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:12:24PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> > I need to have a little daemon wich runs as root and receaves commands wich
> > it executes and then
> > sends back the reult code of the commands. It should be very simple
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:01:15AM +0800, Patrick Cheong Shu Yang wrote:
>
> I had to re-compile the kernel to map the RAM above 1GB. Are there plans
> to include kernels compiled/built for the enterprise in mind...this
> would surely help in making Debian the choice of distribution when it
> come
> "Carlos" == Carlos A P Gomes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Carlos> I've been looking for a way to improve the quality of my code,
Carlos> making it more readable and understandable and easier to mantain
Carlos> embeding in it some documentation. I think the answer is
Carlos> literate programmi
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On Sunday 20 October 2002 13:36, Bruce Sass wrote:
> >
> > Whether LyX:File->Build-Program generates a file set that adheres to
> > GNU standards is something you would have to check for as the last
> > part of the build procedure.
>
> please oh pl
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Hi Everybody,
First off, let me say that I thouroughly enjoy reading this list every
evening. And I will also take the opportunity to introduce myself properly:
My Name is Nicolaus, and I am a dabbler in many things, but master of very
few, or none.
Hi Faheem
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 01:48, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> On 19 Oct 2002 21:44:22 +0200, Neilen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm using preview-latex, and xemacs from sid, and I just recently split
> > the document I'm using into multiple files. I'm using \include to pull
> > al
Hi all,
It's been awhile since I last wrote to the list. Anyway, let's get down
to it...
I work at a securities firm (securities as in stock market). Most, if
not all, of our backoffice systems run on Linux (some M$, Solaris and
HP-UX). The majority of the Linux installs are RH 7.x whilst the
re
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On Monday 21 October 2002 12:30 am, Gerard Robin wrote:
> Hello,
> I send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], (with mutt or xemacs)
>
Are you sure that the directors in exim.conf is sending this to the correct
transport?
what does
exim -bt [EMAIL PROTEC
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 02:28:55AM -0700, Debian User wrote..
> Would anyone happen to know of a ready made backup (tar) script for a
> debian box, something that I could tell to backup to another drive, and
> make full copies with incremental updates throughout the week. Would be
> nice
This is not a complete solution, but the Date::Manip module in perl has
some of this in it - you can get, for example, "today - four weeks".
ap
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On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 09:35:39PM +0100, Paul Lewis wrote:
> The second source package has failed during ./configure when trying to
> find gnomeconf.sh. I am using the Gnome desktop so I cannot really tell
> why - apart from the fact that gnomeconf.sh does not exist.
There is a /usr/lib/gnomeCo
Eric G. Miller wrote:
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 11:48:41PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 11:32:31AM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
Then you've got the people from Mass. that think Worcester is
pronounced "woo-ster" instead of "wur-ses-ter"! Clearly, that place
name has th
One of the standards for qmail and imap:
http://inter7.com/sqwebmail/
On 20 October 2002 15:20, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi all,
> I need to install a webmail in a Debian GNU/Linux box for use with:
> - Qmail;
> - IMAP;
> - Maildir;
> - Accounts
Thanks that did it.
On 2002.10.20 02:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not sure but I believe you should verify that /etc/modutils/sb has
the correct entries and then run update-modules.
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I've just upgraded my binaries
and now when I run ANT or Java I've got this error message
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Unable to load native library: /home/pac/jdk1.3.1_02/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol
__libc_wait, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with
+link tim
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 08:09:57PM -0400, Bruce Park spake thusly:
> Hello debian users,
>
> Can anyone tell me which one of these two desktop is better? I've been
> using gnome eversince I've been using linux and I am told that KDE is a
> better desktop by people yet they can't give me a solid
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:06:42AM -0500, Robert Ames wrote:
> Hello,
> I downloaded the stable release of Debian (Woody) via jigdo. I downloaded all 7 iso
>images. Each time, it reported that the checksums were correct.
>
> When I went to install, I got the message from CD 1 that the file
>/ins
* Jason Pepas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Interesting. What is in /lib/modules//drivers/scsi?
> >
> > Cam
>
> (pts/0)jason@marsala:/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs/kernel/drivers/scsi$ ls
> AM53C974.o cpqfc.o gdth.o pci2220i.o sg.o tmscsim.o
> a100u2w.o dtc.oimm.o
Hello,
I downloaded the stable release of Debian (Woody) via jigdo. I downloaded all 7 iso
images. Each time, it reported that the checksums were correct.
When I went to install, I got the message from CD 1 that the file
/instmnt/pool/main/m/modconf/modconf_0.2.43_all.deb was corrupt. In case th
Hi List,
I used to run a small all-purpose server with a suse distro. A week ago
the harddisk crashed so I set up a whole new system with debian. I have
almost all services I used to run working on debian, but some users on
the old system had cronjobs installed, and I just can't seem to find the
f
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 09:41:38AM -0500, Charles Blair wrote:
>In the "unstable" distribution, libc6 and libdb1-compat depend
> on each other.
Necessarily so, yes.
> Is there any way to install them using dpkg?
dpkg -i libc6_2.3.1-1_i386.deb libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb
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In the "unstable" distribution, libc6 and libdb1-compat depend
on each other. Is there any way to install them using dpkg?
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