Re: Debian way for adding 3rd party fonts?

2002-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 23, 2002, Arne Goetje ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi list, > > is there a Debian way for adding 3rd party (TrueType) fonts when there is > no hint file available? What version of XFree86? For v4, *very* easy: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-XFree86.html v3 and earlier:

Re: Galeon Mail/News ?

2002-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 21, 2002, Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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,

Re: XF4.1 on ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

2002-10-22 Thread Jim McCloskey
inary drivers for the radeon (nightly builds) which are absurdly easy to install (and uninstall when it's time to upgrade): http://dri.sourceforge.net/ The package (at the moment) is: radeon-20021022-linux-i386.tar.bz2 The risk here, of course, is that

Re: aptitude works as root, not with sudo

2002-10-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I get something similar running > > $ sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade > > The update works fine, but the upgrade gets this: > > > Fetched 2287kB in 13s (172kB/s) > > Reading Package Lists

Re: exim configuration

2002-10-22 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
Shyamal Prasad wrote: A 'smarthost' is the term used in an exim configuration where a single SMTP server (the 'smarthost') will accept SMTP connnections from your network or host, and will relay these email onwards with headers that identify you in a manner acceptable to both you and the owner of

how to check md5sums of official debian discs

2002-10-22 Thread Levi Waldron
Naively, I tried md5sum /cdrom/* and it locked my deb3.0 computer hard. (maybe because I had a disc burning in /cdrw simultaneously?) I notice each CD comes with an md5sum.txt with the sums for all files on the disk, how can I use it to make sure each disk is perfect? The debian.org downl

Re: aptitude works as root, not with sudo

2002-10-22 Thread Jeff
Jeronimo Pellegrini, 2002-Oct-22 17:33 -0200: > Hi. > > As the subject says, I've tried aptitude as root (runs perfectly), > and with sudo. When I use sudo, I can't update the package database: > > sudo aptitude update > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading ex

Re: local Mail: naive question

2002-10-22 Thread Jeff
nate, 2002-Oct-22 12:34 -0700: > Jerome BENOIT said: > > In fact I want to fetch my different POP boxes > > to my laptop and still read my email with a Mozilla > > which deals with POP or IMAP stuff: > > so I guess taht I have to install a POP stuff on my laptop. > > Does it sound reasonnable ? > >

Re: exim configuration

2002-10-22 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:08:20PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: the way i look at it is, i am connected to the net. i have dns servers resolving hostnames for me. do i still need something else *on some other machine* to send mails? Only if your ISP won't let you

Re: exim configuration

2002-10-22 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
Stephen Gran wrote: One thing to consider is that when your SMTP demon makes a connection to your recipients mail hub, there is an exchange between the two computers, beginning with your computer saying HELO (or EHLO) and then identifying itself. Many mailservers reject mail if the announced nam

Re: OT: Travel in china (Was:*****SPAM***** We help you to realize the dream of travelling in China)

2002-10-22 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Cooking with debian ... see [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim with both smarthost and direct send

2002-10-22 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
Patrik Modesto wrote: Hi, First: I'm using Debian testing, daily updated as my home PC, exim is setup to send outgoing mail directly to MX record. how did you do this? what is your setup? i had been struggling with this for ages now! Second: Now I need to setup exim to send all mail for some

Re: Lighter window managers

2002-10-22 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 07:36:44PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Personally I prefer the two distinct monitors over xinerama though. I knew we'd bring you to sanity sooner or later. :) -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: exim configuration

2002-10-22 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:08:20PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | i am yet to understand the term smtp smart host. Whether or not to use a smarthost or to make your own host smart is a choice. The "typical home user" will use a smarthost. The smarthost is the h

PHP & APACHE

2002-10-22 Thread dizma
Hm...I don't know if this is a bug but, I put  php3 AddType in php4:   AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3   And now php is working...   rgds dizma  

Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?

2002-10-22 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:52:07PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 22:47, Richard Beri wrote: > > I cannot stop myself from referring to it as deeb-ian. > > > > I think it also has to do with the way I first pronounced it in my head > > when I first read about Debian. Long be

Re: exim configuration

2002-10-22 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
David A. Rogers wrote: For future reference read the Linux Network Administrator's Guide http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/index.html oh sure. i did. thanx for referring this. very informative! Yes your machine could send mail directly. how! that was my question. even after reading the nag chap

kernel upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread Arash Bijanzadeh
Due to some errors I couldn't install kernel 2.4.x directly, so I gotto isntall 2.2.y firt then upgrade to 2.4 . But there is some problems, I can actually install it, but while booting it gives me a lot of warning about read only root and it cann't write the log files and it couldn't find the m

PHP & APACHE

2002-10-22 Thread Nikodim Nikodimov
Hi there, I install apache and php on my woody machine. I would like to start my apache server win PHP support. I uncomment in httpd.conf:   LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so   I restart my apache server...but nothing.   What else shoul I do?   rgds dizma

Re: upgrading to woody

2002-10-22 Thread will trillich
dang, this debian is sooo cool. On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 07:31:51PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:52:03PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > all i can find on debian.org about making the leap is in osamu's > > document at > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/referen

Re: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-22 Thread Levi Waldron
> So, preinstall PCs for people, use Knoppix, or create Live CDs with BootCD > (such as http://asgardsrealm.net/linux/livec1vn) How safe do you think Knoppix is? I would make a pretty bad impression of Linux to my friends if I gave them the demo CD to show them its virtues and it damaged their

Re: xdm config help

2002-10-22 Thread Paul Mackinney
Karl E. Jorgensen declaimed: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 03:20:11PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > There might well be a bug in there somewhere, for the life of me I > cannot see what package owns /etc/X11/default-display-manager - it does > not seem to be managed by [dpkg]. > ... > There seem to

Re: Make Debian better (Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot)

2002-10-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:31:24PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:35:45PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > I don't see why...it takes a few seconds to pass on a bug. > > > > If it only takes a few seconds, then why do you object to being asked to > > do it yourself? ;)

Re: Java Programming Environment

2002-10-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Call me weird, but I have a current preference for twin. It's an > ncurses window manager, in which I have one window running vim, and > another where I run `make`. Of course, I have to switch to X to test > anything graphics wise. vim does col

Re: purge packages already removed

2002-10-22 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
David Z Maze wrote: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On 21 Oct 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: one thing i missed out on was that instaed of purging the packages, i removed them. if i understand correctly, it means that the configuration and other files will be on the system

Re: Java Programming Environment

2002-10-22 Thread Robin
Calber Chainy wrote: Hello List, I wondered if there would be an X programming environment for Java and which packages will I have to install. Thanks a Lot. Chainy. Call me weird, but I have a current preference for twin. It's an ncurses window manager, in which I have one window running

Browser Resources (was Re: Lighter window managers)

2002-10-22 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 11:20, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On 21 Oct 2002 21:44:26 -0400 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Galeon requires the bulk of the mozilla packaging: mozilla-browser, > > because the pertinent parts (ie. Gecko) are not packaged separately as > > yet. Galeon is h

Re: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-22 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 22 Oct 2002 23:15:58 -0400 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's be honest - if users didn't have to work through the install, a > key headache and admitted weakness in Debian would be avoided... So, preinstall PCs for people, use Knoppix, or create Live CDs with BootCD (such as h

Re: Software RAID in Woody --- General Issues

2002-10-22 Thread nate
Lucas Barbuto said: > Hi List, > 1) Question: Is it important to have my boot partition (also my root > partition, I don't have a seperate /boot) as part of an array? If I want > this array for redundancy, I would have thought this was > essential, but it looks like quite a difficult process

Re: F*****g locales ....

2002-10-22 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Andrew Fowler wrote: > Is it just me, or are locales and their setup a serious afterthought on > Linux. I havn't yet met a single distro which can sensibly set up > locales the way I want them. Considering Linux was started by a Fin, > you'd think this would have been sorted

The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-22 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
... is that it doesn't come automatically installed on all new computers - instead, most vendors insist on applying an odd binary pattern on hard drives that they refer to as Windows XP. Let's be honest - if users didn't have to work through the install, a key headache and admitted weakness in Deb

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2002 #230

2002-10-22 Thread Dale K Dicks
> From: Arne Goetje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Debian way for adding 3rd party fonts? > Date: 23 Oct 2002 10:07:23 +0800 > > Hi list, > > is there a Debian way for adding 3rd party (TrueType) fonts when there is > no hint file available? > > Cheers > Arne > >

Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot

2002-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:46:37PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > } Unless some people start a Debian-like project using rpm packages, the > } terraparsecs are going to stay. Imagine the consequences of a Redhat > } 9.0 system you can rpm-get to version 12.0. RPM and an XGUI-based > } installer is

Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot

2002-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:26:29AM +0800, csj wrote: > Unless some people start a Debian-like project using rpm packages, the > terraparsecs are going to stay. Imagine the consequences of a Redhat > 9.0 system you can rpm-get to version 12.0. RPM and an XGUI-based > installer is great for CD-instal

Re: Make Debian better (Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot)

2002-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:59:11PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > I assumed it was a given that a maintainer asking a bug submitter to > take such an active role would provide such guidance as needed. That's my understanding, too. And only one or two maintainers that I've run into seem to follow

Re: Make Debian better (Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot)

2002-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:35:45PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I don't see why...it takes a few seconds to pass on a bug. > > If it only takes a few seconds, then why do you object to being asked to > do it yourself? ;) Because frequently the developer knows what's expected out of the other

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Thin client boxes are attractive since one does not have to deal with > old hardware, failing memory, flaky video cards, hard drives, etc > > I want to build a Debian server and be able to serve 50-100 thin clients over > a 100Mbps LAN. I can b

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2002-10-22 Thread Andrew Ritchie
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Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Metaframe still requires a local CPU to handle display stuff. You > > can't route VGA signals over ATM. > > I did not mean Asynchronous Transfer Mode.. > (not sure if you meant that either...just trying to being clear) > I meant that it was like an A

Re: Java Programming Environment

2002-10-22 Thread John
Calber Chainy wrote: Hello List, I wondered if there would be an X programming environment for Java and which packages will I have to install. Thanks a Lot. Chainy. You may also want to take a look at JEdit - we have some staff that use it and it seems to work quite well as an IDE (inclu

Debian way for adding 3rd party fonts?

2002-10-22 Thread Arne Goetje
Hi list, is there a Debian way for adding 3rd party (TrueType) fonts when there is no hint file available? Cheers Arne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Virus scan again(sid)

2002-10-22 Thread Tom
I use RAV antivirus for *nix made by gecad software seems to work well http://www.gecadsoftware.com/page_rav_linuxmail.php had to pay for it but thats on the companies bill :) - Original Message - From: "Gerald Livingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debuser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednes

Virus scan again(sid)

2002-10-22 Thread Gerald Livingston
What are you sid people using for an MTA meshed virus scanner. I need to set up scanning to protect my mother and brother's winbox because they aren't that net-savvy. I'll be pulling their mail with fetchmail and feeding it through exim/procmail. I was setting up amavis-ng and couldn't get it work

Re: Software RAID in Woody --- General Issues

2002-10-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lucas my raid tests... - pull the cable to the disk ... it should still boot and keep merrily working in degraded mode add a new file or two - put the cables back in and see if it resyncs the new file still not in the other "simulated dead disk"

Re: Problems with internet browsing

2002-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:33:46PM +0200, Ole Gammels?ter wrote: > I have problems connecting the machines to the internet, or more > precisely, they connect fine to the ISP but when I point my browser > to any site nothing happens. Do you have the ipmasq package installed? > I am not a subscribe

make-kpkg not patching kernel

2002-10-22 Thread Geoff Crompton
Hi, I am trying to build a kernel patched with the freeswan kernel patch. I have done this previously on several machines using kernel-package. However, for some reason, it no longer works. I succeeded on doing this on a freshly installed woody laptop. However on that same laptop, after a rei

Re: Networking Help for an Absolute Beginner Please

2002-10-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Thomas" == Thomas H George writes: Thomas> I need basic references to get started. The problem: My Thomas> daughter's company has instructed her to install DSL to Thomas> facilitate working from home when she is on-call. She is Thomas> a system manager for a complex Tandem

Re: keeping a kernel

2002-10-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 17:48, iain d broadfoot wrote: > i have some .deb kernel images, can i back them up and then just dpkg -i > them after a big reinstall? > > thanks, > > iain why not (-: The kernel deb is not tied to any other piece of the system except maybe the support programs (modut

keeping a kernel

2002-10-22 Thread iain d broadfoot
i have some .deb kernel images, can i back them up and then just dpkg -i them after a big reinstall? thanks, iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java Programming Environment

2002-10-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Calber" == Calber Chainy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Calber> Hello List, I wondered if there would be an X programming Calber> environment for Java and which packages will I have to Calber> install. I presume you mean to look for a development environment ("IDE")? I have used X

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Kourosh
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:04:37AM -0800, Andy wrote: > On Monday 21 October 2002 22:36, Tom Cook wrote: > > Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thin client technologyisn't that what you are talking about? > > > > > > I have always wondered.why can't Linux (especially Debian > > >

Re: which half are you in?

2002-10-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.22.0235 +0200]: > > >You need to delete /etc completely over an SSH connection from 4000 > > >miles away, and then restore that from backup in the same SSH > > >connection to fully love UNIX ;^> > > >

Software RAID in Woody --- General Issues

2002-10-22 Thread Lucas Barbuto
Hi List, I'm looking at installing Software RAID on two new servers at work (one web and one db server). I'm really only interested in RAID-1 for it's redundancy, I'm not particularily concerned about performance. I've gone through the Software RAID HOWTO and it seemed fairly straight forward, h

Re: ALSA howto

2002-10-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Theodore Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any guides or howto's available for getting ALSA 0.9.x working > in Debian? (I'm using sid.) /usr/share/doc/alsa-source/README.Debian.gz in the alsa-source package, naturally. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: can't install blackdown java

2002-10-22 Thread Carlos Sousa
On 19 Oct 2002 13:54:19 -0500 Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Colin> Make sure you have 'main' listed as well as 'non-free' for > Colin> the repository from which you got j2re1.3. > > Thank you. Though I'm not the or

Re: Alsa + es1371 + oss

2002-10-22 Thread Cameron Matheson
What config do you need? You can't have OSS and Alsa at the same time, but you can use Alsa's OSS-emulation layer stuff. just load the modules snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss and snd-mixer-oss. Cameron Tom Allison wrote: If anyone has a working configuration of this, please send my way. alsaconf is

RE: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Ross Dawson
Yes The Linux terminal server project has done this http://www.ltsp.org/ If you wanted the cheap option you could use 2nd hand PC's for the X clients or go out and buy 50-100 low end PC's that are suitably compatible with Linux/X. The clients can be pretty much anything over a 486/8M RAM. You

Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot

2002-10-22 Thread Justin F. Knotzke
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:33:52PM -0700, nate wrote: > i haven't tried apt-get for rpm on redhat yet, but I tried it > on suse 7.3 about 4-5 months ago and was dissapointed in it. tried > to do some security updates, some completed fine then it errored > out and refused to continue(or provide any

Re: cups wont print

2002-10-22 Thread Cameron Matheson
I am also having this problem (using sid). Cam Jason Pepas wrote: hello, I recently setup an epson 740 printer using cupsys from unstable. I can send jobs just fine, and cups shows them as "completed", and /var/log/cups/error_log doesn't show any problems. But nothing comes out of the print

Re: potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread D.U.
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:07:00PM -0700, nate wrote: > D.U. said: > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If I comment out eepro from /etc/modules, my box boots up under the 2.4 > > kernels and I can log in. An odd thing I just noticed is there are no > > mod

Re: XF4.1 on ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

2002-10-22 Thread Neal Lippman
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 08:07, Florian Thiel wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:35:47PM +0200, Juergen Stuber wrote: > > Oleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > I've installed Debian on half a dozen different machines, and configuring X > > > has always been the greatest pain. Currently, I'm

Re: PostgresSQL database recovery

2002-10-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 20:06, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > Hi! > > Yesterday my main hd gave up (40gig up in smoke), /usr and /lib was on > another hd so they where saved. > in /lib there seems like the data from my postgressql databas survived, > but now when I have reinstalled and try to access th

Re: dhcp changed hostname!

2002-10-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.23.0010 +0200]: > in my experience it is normal for a dhcp client to change it's > hostname when recieving a dhcp address. it's been a long while > since I used a debian system in a dynamic dhcp enviornment(most of > my enviornments are statically assig

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Russell
Andy wrote: > > I want to build a Debian server and be able to serve 50-100 thin clients over > a 100Mbps LAN. I can build the server but I am at a loss on how to get a > thin client running this way. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Thinclient-HOWTO.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Diskless-root-NFS-HO

Re: dhcp changed hostname!

2002-10-22 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, nate said: > martin f krafft said: > > something just happened that i've never seen before. a client obtained a > > > in my experience it is normal for a dhcp client to change it's > hostname when recieving a dhcp address. it's been a long while > since I used a debia

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Russell
Andy wrote: > > On Monday 21 October 2002 22:36, Tom Cook wrote: > > Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thin client technologyisn't that what you are talking about? > > > > > > I have always wondered.why can't Linux (especially Debian > > > Linux) do the same thing Citrix is doi

Re: potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread Donald R. Spoon
nate wrote: D.U. said: On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I comment out eepro from /etc/modules, my box boots up under the 2.4 kernels and I can log in. An odd thing I just noticed is there are no modules loaded at all. However, I can insmod eepro if I giv

Re: OT: xterm raw input

2002-10-22 Thread Russell
Crispin Wellington wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 21:44, Russell wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm testing out some terminal escape sequences as in: > > http://cns.georgetown.edu/~ric/howto/Xterm-Title/ctlseqs.txt > > Just try typing: echo -ne "\033[2t" into an xterm;) > > > > Anyway, how can i t

Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot

2002-10-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 05:08:12PM -0400, Justin F. Knotzke wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:46:37PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > > It's being done, frighteningly enough. See http://freshrpms.net/ > > According to their examples, being done quite well at that. Surely > there must be lim

Re: looping ogg123 file

2002-10-22 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 04:05, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Any ideas on how to create a loop with ogg123 > so that I can play the same sound file over > and over again? Maybe play it only 3 times? for i in `seq 1 3`; do ogg123 song.ogg; done there might be a small delay inbetween. To get rid of that

Re: Setting console timeouts

2002-10-22 Thread nate
steve said: > I was wondering it there a way to prevent the console from turning the > monitor off? For instance if you want to run a program like iptraf and > leave it running all the time, and always have it within eye sight. could you turn off apm? (boot with lilo option apm=off) I would recc

Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot

2002-10-22 Thread nate
Justin F. Knotzke said: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:46:37PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > >> It's being done, frighteningly enough. See http://freshrpms.net/ > > According to their examples, being done quite well at that. Surely > there must be limitations if RedHat aren't using it themselves?

dpkg: serious warning: files list file mising

2002-10-22 Thread Allan Baker
Hello. I was fooling around with my x setup, first I tried some xsetroot then I decided to try some other window managers, but when I tried to: # apt-get install afterstep Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: imagema

Re: looping ogg123 file

2002-10-22 Thread Claudio Bley
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 22:05, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Any ideas on how to create a loop with ogg123 > so that I can play the same sound file over > and over again? Maybe play it only 3 times? Is the following bash script okay for you? loopOgg() { local -i n=$1; shift; while [ $n -ne 0 ]; d

Re: dhcp changed hostname!

2002-10-22 Thread nate
martin f krafft said: > something just happened that i've never seen before. a client obtained a in my experience it is normal for a dhcp client to change it's hostname when recieving a dhcp address. it's been a long while since I used a debian system in a dynamic dhcp enviornment(most of my envi

Re: potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread nate
D.U. said: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I comment out eepro from /etc/modules, my box boots up under the 2.4 > kernels and I can log in. An odd thing I just noticed is there are no > modules loaded at all. However, I can insmod eepro if I > give it the

Re: Setting console timeouts

2002-10-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:19:51PM -0500, steve wrote: > I was wondering it there a way to prevent the console from turning the > monitor off? For instance if you want to run a program like iptraf and > leave it running all the time and always have it within eye sight. setterm -blank 0 -- To U

Re: Can't mount Debian distro CDROM

2002-10-22 Thread Kent West
Tom wrote: I have purchased a full Debian 3.0 distro and am attempting to install Debian from a Gentoo installation. After placing Disk 1 into my CD read-write drive (TDK Model 32/10/40B) and getting into the base-config dialog, I am informed that the CDROM drive has not been detected. Upon

OT: Capturing video

2002-10-22 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings, I'm looking for a Debian package that would allow me to capture video streams I'm watching. I'm curious about this after watching movie trailer for _The Two Towers_ (it's a Real stream) and wanting to "download" the whole thing so I could show it to others on my home system (which

Setting console timeouts

2002-10-22 Thread steve
I was wondering it there a way to prevent the console from turning the monitor off? For instance if you want to run a program like iptraf and leave it running all the time, and always have it within eye sight. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

exim.conf for the man with two ISPs

2002-10-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
Dear fellas, outgoing mail should be sent thru my ISP's SMTP server, so my exim.conf has smarthost: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = "* ms46.myisp.com bydns_a" end But let's say now I have and an additional ISP that I sometimes connect to, with its different SMTP serv

Re: Need your help,plse?

2002-10-22 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Cyberthor wrote: *Hello Let you know that my pure modem modem with ttyS2 already detected includes bauds but wvdial at text edit said * modem initialized but configuration does not specify a valid phone number , too login name and password ? anyway i t

Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot

2002-10-22 Thread Justin F. Knotzke
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:46:37PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > It's being done, frighteningly enough. See http://freshrpms.net/ According to their examples, being done quite well at that. Surely there must be limitations if RedHat aren't using it themselves? J. -- Justin F. Knotzke [

Re: Setting console timeouts

2002-10-22 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:19:51PM -0500, steve wrote: > I was wondering it there a way to prevent the console from turning the > monitor off? For instance if you want to run a program like iptraf and > leave it running all the time and always have it within eye sight. You probably want t

Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot

2002-10-22 Thread
Gregory Seidman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: >} Unless some people start a Debian-like project using rpm packages, the >} terraparsecs are going to stay. Imagine the consequences of a Redhat >} 9.0 system you can rpm-get to version 12.0. RPM and an XGUI-based >} installer is great for CD-installed s

Re: potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread D.U.
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The release notes didn't say there were any problems going > > from 2.2 to 2.4. What did I forget to do? > > If you modified /etc/lilo.conf to add the new kernel, did you remember to > type "lilo" before rebooting? Not doin

Re: unment dependencies - force?

2002-10-22 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:04:25PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I believe this is because I have a partial testing/woody environment > that I often get errors when trying to configure certain applications > like the following. My question is, what can I do when I get such > errors. Is it advi

Re: getting Maple V5 to run on Sarge

2002-10-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.22.1831 +0200]: > Do you have ldso and libc5 installed? You might also need old X > libraries (xlib6, maybe xpm4.7). my god, you rock! it works. i always thought i needed something -compat. but not, ldso was the bad one. libc5 and xlib6 are nee

aptitude works as root, not with sudo

2002-10-22 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hi. As the subject says, I've tried aptitude as root (runs perfectly), and with sudo. When I use sudo, I can't update the package database: sudo aptitude update Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done Reading Package Lists... Done

Re: I pronounce Debian as "The One": So What?

2002-10-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.22.1903 +0200]: > > "The One True Linux" > > > > So, what? > > "Thuh" or "thee"? "Lin-nix" or "lie-nucks" or "lee-nooks"? Yeah, be a little more precise, man! -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian

dhcp changed hostname!

2002-10-22 Thread martin f krafft
something just happened that i've never seen before. a client obtained a lease through dhcp (ISP is cablecom.ch) and when it finished booting, ot asked "dhcp-321-775 login". the IP it got is 80.218.18.254, which resolves to dclient80-218-18-254.hispeed.ch. /etc/hostname is still as it's always been

Setting console timeouts

2002-10-22 Thread steve
I was wondering it there a way to prevent the console from turning the monitor off? For instance if you want to run a program like iptraf and leave it running all the time and always have it within eye sight. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: unsubscribe coolblade@uswest.net

2002-10-22 Thread Greg Ray
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2002-10-22 Thread Greg Ray
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RE: SiS 630 trouble

2002-10-22 Thread Daniel Fabian
> It sounds like you don't have an X problem, exactly, as you get the > login manager. If X was broken, you wouldn't get that far. It may be > that you have some problem that is supposed to run when you login that > barfs on the framebuffer. Try renaming your .kde directory out of the > way, and

looping ogg123 file

2002-10-22 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Any ideas on how to create a loop with ogg123 so that I can play the same sound file over and over again? Maybe play it only 3 times? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unment dependencies - force?

2002-10-22 Thread nate
Curtis Vaughan said: > I believe this is because I have a partial testing/woody environment > that I often get errors when trying to configure certain applications > like the following. My question is, what can I do when I get such > errors. Is it advisable to force installation? > > Sorry, but th

Re: unment dependencies - force?

2002-10-22 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:04:25 -0700 Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe this is because I have a partial testing/woody environment > that I often get errors when trying to configure certain applications > like the following. My question is, what can I do when I get such > erro

Re: Can't mount Debian distro CDROM

2002-10-22 Thread nate
Tom said: > I have purchased a full Debian 3.0 distro and am attempting to install > Debian from a Gentoo installation. After placing Disk 1 into my CD > read-write drive (TDK Model 32/10/40B) and getting into the base-config > dialog, I am informed that the CDROM drive has not been detected. Upo

Re: Modem Ring Event

2002-10-22 Thread Hugh Saunders
>Tom Cook wrote: > Can it SMS me the DHCP'd address too? You could just use dyndns, then you dont kneed to know the ip address as you can use the hostname. -- hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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