Re: mpg321 on ntfs

2002-10-31 Thread Leonardo Canducci
>The version of the NTFS driver that you are using doesn't support >mmaped files. Since NTFS support is currently sketchy at best, this >doesn't suprise me much. Newer kernel versions _might_ fix it, or >might not. You may want to look around for Linux NTFS driver specific >changelog/notes... th

Re: deleting directory

2002-10-31 Thread Kim Christiansen
rm -rf directory is definately way to go ... though before you press enter count to 5 and ensure you haven't typed rm -rf / (potential to say goodbye to everything ) If unsure try rm -rif /path/directory at least you may save yourself a small heartache. cheers >>> "Oyvind A. Holm" <[EM

Re: OT:Re: lsmod question (was....Sound issues using 2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs and SB Live! 5.1)

2002-10-31 Thread nate
Shawn Lamson said: > > I thought that Linus was quoted as saying that the function of the kernel > should not be to pass messages to modules. That it should > interact directly with hardware. (obviously I am not quoting here). ie. > the kernel _should_ be monolithic. Why are they going to > "m

Re: Debian GNU/LInux 3.0 - Win4Lin 4.0

2002-10-31 Thread John
nate wrote: Bob Nielsen said: I've used both. VMware ran pathetically slow on a K6-350 with 128 MB, while Win4Lin was at least as fast as running it natively. However, not all apps run with Win4Lin and I didn't find anything I couldn't use with VMware. I'm sure with a faster machine (and a

OT:Re: lsmod question (was....Sound issues using 2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs and SB Live! 5.1)

2002-10-31 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip >If it can be compiled into the kernel it will >be on my systems. Which makes me sad to see that future linux >kernels will be module-only. snip I thought that Linus was quoted as saying that the function of the kernel should not be to pass messag

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi paul On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > I also bounce mail based on the following DNSBL zones with great success. > > relays.ordb.org (tested open relays) > orbs.dorkslayers.com (Dorkslayer's RBL) > relays.visi.com (More tested open relays) > postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org (Any site tha

Re: deleting directory

2002-10-31 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > can an entire directory be deleted without deleting its contents first? if > so how? > ian > Hi, Don't forget about looking at the manual for the rm command. # man rm Cheers, Mike - This mail sent through IMP:

Re: deleting directory

2002-10-31 Thread Oyvind A. Holm
On 2002-10-31 22:18-0800 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 10:09:10PM -0800, ian wrote: > > can an entire directory be deleted without deleting its contents first? if > > so how? > > rm -r > > BE CAREFUL! I'm sure a few people can tell horror stories of having > to rebuild a box eithe

Re: deleting directory

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 10:09:10PM -0800, ian wrote: > can an entire directory be deleted without deleting its contents first? if > so how? rm -r BE CAREFUL! I'm sure a few people can tell horror stories of having to rebuild a box either they or some other adminluser did rm -rf / and toasted a

Re: Debian GNU/LInux 3.0 - Win4Lin 4.0

2002-10-31 Thread nate
Bob Nielsen said: > I've used both. VMware ran pathetically slow on a K6-350 with 128 MB, > while Win4Lin was at least as fast as running it natively. However, not > all apps run with Win4Lin and I didn't find anything I couldn't use with > VMware. I'm sure with a faster machine (and a lot of m

Re: Source questions

2002-10-31 Thread nate
C. Brewer said: > 1)Is it required to make .debs out of these for total integration with > apt/dpkg? And if so, having never done any package building whatsoever, > is this something that any user can easily learn? if you want apt/dpkg to recognize this software you will need it in packaged form

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:08:07PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > I am looking to start using a spam filter on my mail. I was wondering > if anyone on this list had opinions/suggestions on the best one to use. Personally, I use spamassassin, and I have it set up using dman's solution as a filter t

Source questions

2002-10-31 Thread C. Brewer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just noticed when cleaning out my home directory that I still have builds of qt-3.0.5 and kde 3.03 which I built using another distro, optimized for my particular machine. My question is this: 1)Is it required to make .debs out of these for total

Re: X causes system 'black screeen of death'

2002-10-31 Thread nate
DeanFujioka said: > Hi All, > > When I boot my new install of Woody, I can see boot messages until it > loads gdm, then the screen goes black. At this point I can't press the > Numlock key to get the light to go on/off. I can't change terminals > either (Alt+Ctrl+F2), Alt+F4, etc. you don't in

Re: lsmod question (was....Sound issues using 2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs and SB Live! 5.1)

2002-10-31 Thread nate
Andy said: > A side question if you don't mind. > It is my understanding that people use modules > to make a lighter/smaller kernel. Is that correct? > Other reasons? some things cannot be compiled into the kernel, or cannot be easily compiled into the kernel. examples are nvidia drivers,

X causes system "black screeen of death"

2002-10-31 Thread DeanFujioka
Hi All, When I boot my new install of Woody, I can see boot messages until it loads gdm, then the screen goes black. At this point I can't press the Numlock key to get the light to go on/off. I can't change terminals either (Alt+Ctrl+F2), Alt+F4, etc. The only way I can get to a login prompt

Re: deleting directory

2002-10-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 10:09:10PM -0800, ian wrote: > can an entire directory be deleted without deleting its contents first? if > so how? > ian rm -rf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian GNU/LInux 3.0 - Win4Lin 4.0

2002-10-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:56:58PM -0800, nate wrote: > fritz said: > > Hello world, > > > > using Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, which works great, we have to use one > > business-application which is only available as Windows-programm. Trying > > wine and Cross-Over , both programms are unable to run our

lsmod question (was....Sound issues using 2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs and SB Live! 5.1)

2002-10-31 Thread Andy
A side question if you don't mind. It is my understanding that people use modules to make a lighter/smaller kernel. Is that correct? Other reasons? I have compiled kernels 30 times or so and most of the time I have no modules loaded. (maybe because I am clueless?) Are modules supposed to

Re: deleting directory

2002-10-31 Thread Oyvind A. Holm
On 2002-10-31 22:09-0800 ian wrote: > can an entire directory be deleted without deleting its contents first? if > so how? rm -rf directory Mvh ~ +, Øyvind _~ +)+ ' |/ _

Re: Debian GNU/LInux 3.0 - Win4Lin 4.0

2002-10-31 Thread nate
fritz said: > Hello world, > > using Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, which works great, we have to use one > business-application which is only available as Windows-programm. Trying > wine and Cross-Over , both programms are unable to run our application, > we are now testing Win4Lin 4.0. Unfortunately "netr

deleting directory

2002-10-31 Thread ian
can an entire directory be deleted without deleting its contents first? if so how? ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian GNU/LInux 3.0 - Win4Lin 4.0

2002-10-31 Thread John Griffiths
My understanding was that "unsupported" distros could still use wn4lin but had to patch and compile the kernel themselves. Might be worth slipping a case of beer to someone in your local LUG if you're uncomfortable doing that. John At 05:48 AM 11/1/02 +0100, fritz wrote: Hello world, us

Debian GNU/LInux 3.0 - Win4Lin 4.0

2002-10-31 Thread fritz
Hello world,   using Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, which works great, we have to use one business-application which is only available as Windows-programm. Trying wine and Cross-Over , both programms are unable to run our application, we are now testing Win4Lin 4.0. Unfortunately "netraverse" does no

Re: Installing Gnome2, how?

2002-10-31 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Not only gnome-utils but I also get the xscreensaver-gnome package dependency too. Not sure if anyone else faces the same prob Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: gnome: Depends: gnome-utils (>= 1.106) but it is not going to be installed Depends: xscreensaver-

Re: Sound issues using 2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs and SB Live! 5.1

2002-10-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Wolftales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-31 14:57:19 -0800]: > > I am trying to troubleshoot why I do not have sound on my system > (specific info below). I have had this hardware configuration working > before, using a customer kernel and frozen at the time. > [...] > sandbox:~# insmod emu10k1 > Us

Re: running rsh and ssh?

2002-10-31 Thread Bob Proulx
R Ransbottom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-31 16:39:09 -0500]: > The default installation of ssh seems to want to replace rlogin > outright. I want to run ssh/ssl beside rlogin and then phase rlogin out. > How to? rlogin and rsh can be 'alternative' programs. Short answer, install rsh-client and

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 21:08, Scott Henson wrote: > I am looking to start using a spam filter on my mail. I was wondering > if anyone on this list had opinions/suggestions on the best one to use. > I am using Evolution as my mail client, and postfix/woody on my mail > server. I looked on line for

Re: How to format and partitionate a disk?

2002-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another question. I have a box with SuSE left and want to upgrade it > to debian. The box has now two hds and I want to keep the second drive > for the time beeing and after the new system is alive and kicking I will > format it. What do I need to do to ge

Re: biff replacement

2002-10-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Justin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-30 13:34:34 -0500]: > > Does anyone know of a good replacement? I would like to be notified > of new mail but biff does this in a very inelegant way. For example, > if I am in vi it will spam my screen. Also, when I get new mail biff > only lets me know w

Re: Strange nis / services problem - any thoughts?

2002-10-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-29 22:49:48 -0500]: > I just recently converted over to using nis to deliver my /etc/passwd > and /etc/group data on my home lan. All has been working fine with that Okay. > for a few weeks, so I decided last night to convert over to having my > workstati

Re: Installing Gnome2, how?

2002-10-31 Thread Colin Walters
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 01:33, Magnus Therning wrote: > I want to install Gnome2! I understand it's supposed to have hit > unstable as of last Sunday, but I don't seem to be able to install it. I > am running a stable/testing system, but with Sid pinned to 50. > > The usual command line doesn't seem

Re: woody ignores my .emacs

2002-10-31 Thread Henrik Enberg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Henrik Enberg wrote: > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have been using a .emacs file for a while and would like to keep on >> > doing so. With my new Woody install emacs appears to be ignoring it. I >> > have tried emac

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread bob
Scott Henson wrote: I am looking to start using a spam filter on my mail. I was wondering if anyone on this list had opinions/suggestions on the best one to use. It's low tech, but I've set about 2 dozen conditions in a Mozilla message filter and trap 99% of spam in my Trash folder for ready d

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread Oyvind A. Holm
On 2002-10-31 18:21-0800 Alvin Oga wrote: > On 31 Oct 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > > I am looking to start using a spam filter on my mail. I was > > wondering if anyone on this list had opinions/suggestions on the > > best one to use. > > see the postfix section w/ spamassassin > http://www.L

Re: How to format and partitionate a disk?

2002-10-31 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:28:54AM +0100, Mariano Kamp wrote: > Ok, but I don't intend to format a second drive during the installation > process, because it is the backup of the data I want to use. > I was looking for the something like: > format /dev/hda6 and use reiserfs You'll still p

X - AdiProvista VD-484 and S3Virge GX/2

2002-10-31 Thread Kim Christiansen
Hi all, Am having difficulties configuring the above into a Potato box. I believe the card isn't the problem (ie 525 on the list in xconfigure) 4Mb Card I believe hsync = 30 - 54 vsync = 50-60 If anyone can point me somewhere it would be a great help- cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: best way to have gcc-3.2 on woody?

2002-10-31 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:02:45PM +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Hello. > > In order to correctly build the cvs version of MPlayer, I've been told I > need to use gcc-3.2, which is currently in unstable. > > My question, then, is: what is the best (as in "most debian compliant") way > to install

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya scoot see the postfix section w/ spamassassin http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/antispam.gwif.html c ya alvin - but i say run your own mta... to do all your own filtering before it even hits your mailbox On 31 Oct 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > I am looking to start using a spam filt

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Hello Scott, On Oct 31, Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | new abyssian filter technique : Bayesian? -Jason -- Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wonka.hampshire.edu/~jason GPG key - 0EFB1DFE You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers.

SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread Scott Henson
I am looking to start using a spam filter on my mail. I was wondering if anyone on this list had opinions/suggestions on the best one to use. I am using Evolution as my mail client, and postfix/woody on my mail server. I looked on line for some documentation on how to use spamassassin on my wood

Re: biff replacement

2002-10-31 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 01 November 2002, 01:15 AM +): > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:34:34PM -0500, Justin Miller wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of a good replacement? I would like to be notified of new mail > > but biff does this in a very inelegant way. For

Re: PS 2 Wheel Mouse Problem

2002-10-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
You may have accidentally installed GPM and did not configure /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 accordingly. Despite other posters despise GPM, I love it. All you have to do is to let the X read from repeater. See my document at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-install.en.html#s3.3 On Fri,

Re: alsaplayer problems

2002-10-31 Thread W. Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H. S. Teoh wrote: > [Please Cc: replies to me, I'm not subscribed to debian-user] > > I'm having problems using alsaplayer. For some reason, everything works > perfectly as root, but when I try to run it under a non-root user, it > fails with the fol

Re: Filing bugs against b.d.o's install of debbugs?

2002-10-31 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:12:38AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:50:21PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:55:39PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > The bugs.debian.org pseudo-package, please. > > > > Bug filed, and looks fixed, but bug still open...

Re: biff replacement

2002-10-31 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:34:34PM -0500, Justin Miller wrote: > > Does anyone know of a good replacement? I would like to be notified of new mail > but biff does this in a very inelegant way. For example, if I am in vi it will > spam my screen. What about a sound? A "boing"-type think: End of

Re: Filing bugs against b.d.o's install of debbugs?

2002-10-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:50:21PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:55:39PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > The bugs.debian.org pseudo-package, please. > > Bug filed, and looks fixed, but bug still open... > > Am I able to close it with ###[EMAIL PROTECTED]? Technically yes,

RE: Fetchmail / exim / courier imap

2002-10-31 Thread W. Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > I fixed the problem of mails not arriving in my Maildir, they were ending > up in /var/spool/exim/input with the error, > > /home/matt/Maildir is not a regualr file. - Frozen > > I had a .forward file in my home folder wit

Re: bc

2002-10-31 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Oleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK I would like to know how this monstrosity made it into Debian Stable: > > $ whatis bc > bc (1) - An arbitrary precision calculator language > $ bc > bc 1.06 > Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is fr

Re: add users

2002-10-31 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Rob" == Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rob> On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:04:48PM +0200, dizma wrote: > >> I've just finished with the new machine configuration. I there > >> a simple way to move the existing user from the

Re: Woody Installation Problem

2002-10-31 Thread Levi Waldron
On October 31, 2002 02:13 pm, Joe Riel wrote: > I had tried that, but there was, alas, no option for multi-CD. > I have no idea how many packages might be broken. apt-get install dpkg-multicd (I think this should be in the dselect tutorial section of the debian install manual but it isn't - I

Re: add users

2002-10-31 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Rob" == Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:04:48PM +0200, dizma wrote: >> I've just finished with the new machine configuration. I there >> a simple way to move the existing user from the old machine to >> the new one? Rob> You could cut

Re: best way to have gcc-3.2 on woody?

2002-10-31 Thread Rick Macdonald
I installed gcc (g++ and g77) 3.2 last week or so. I added sarge to my sources.list, then ran apt-get update, then installed al the 3.c ompiler packages, then removed sarge from sources.list and ran apt-get update again. I do this often, sometimes even from sid. When I run the apt-get install I

Keyboard Problem in X

2002-10-31 Thread _ _
The backspace key does not work in X. On start up, the xserver reports: Error loading keymap /var/tmp/server-0.xkm Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap How can I fix it? Thanks. -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Person

Re: autodns-dhcp

2002-10-31 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Don, 2002-10-31 um 21.05 schrieb Pete Clarke: > Hi there guru's! :-) > > I have switched from Suse & Redhat linux to Debian, and have to say that I > love it! > > I have not learnt so much about Linux until I started with Debian, and I > cannot stop - it's great (gotta love apt-get!). > > Any

Re: PS 2 Wheel Mouse Problem

2002-10-31 Thread Shawn Lamson
you wrote it yourself but it says "Generated by dexconf" at the top? What I did was remove those lines saying ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION and END... then I removed all references to the "Generic Mouse" even in the "Server Layout" section. And I made a Option "SendCoreEvents""true" e

Re: Sound issues using 2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs and SB Live! 5.1

2002-10-31 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Don, 2002-10-31 um 23.57 schrieb Wolftales: > Hi, > > I am trying to troubleshoot why I do not have sound on my system > (specific info below). I have had this hardware configuration working > before, using a customer kernel and frozen at the time. > > The errors are similar to the problems I

Re: How to format and partitionate a disk?

2002-10-31 Thread Mariano Kamp
Jamin, thanks for your help. > > What do I need to do to get the drive formated and to install a > > journaled file system? > > Use a boot kernel that supports the file system you're after. The bf2.4 > kernel supports ext3. Ok, but I don't intend to format a second drive during the installat

Re: Sound issues using 2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs and SB Live! 5.1

2002-10-31 Thread Shawn Lamson
you can try downloading and compiling the driver from Creative http://www.americas.creative.com/support/files/download.asp?Centric=107&OS=12&descID=346 = Shawn Lamson Debian Gnu\Linux Sid Kernel 2.4.19-custom XFree86 Version 4.2.1 __ Do you Yah

Re: for tecnical linux users

2002-10-31 Thread Russell
messmate wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:34:56 +1030 > Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | On 0, David Pastern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > messmate said on 30 October 2002 7:52 PM > | > > | > >Hi experts, > | > >I have a little pb with un update I made of my BIOS. > | > >Bi

Sound issues using 2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs and SB Live! 5.1

2002-10-31 Thread Wolftales
Hi, I am trying to troubleshoot why I do not have sound on my system (specific info below). I have had this hardware configuration working before, using a customer kernel and frozen at the time. The errors are similar to the problems I had using the stock kernel 2.4.18 & 2.4.19 as well for debian

Re: How to format and partitionate a disk?

2002-10-31 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 31 Oct 2002 23:25:48 +0100 Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > did I get it right that there is no tool available at installation > time to partitionate a hard drive? No, you can partition and create a file system on the new partitions during the installation process. IIRC, the option

Re: LVM & fsck

2002-10-31 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 29 October 2002 8:05 am, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > How do you fsck a logical volume? > By fsck'ing the underlying partition(s) as usual? The Logical Partition, not the physical one. - -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

How to format and partitionate a disk?

2002-10-31 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi, did I get it right that there is no tool available at installation time to partitionate a hard drive? --- Another question. I have a box with SuSE left and want to upgrade it to debian. The box has now two hds and I want to keep the second drive for the time beeing and after the new sy

Re: Corrupt console-data_1999.08.29-24_all.deb file

2002-10-31 Thread Roland Gropmair
Seems I have to answer my question myself: I found the problem - quite simple: I repartitioned the system, and it worked. The mistake was: the partition (maybe root?) was too small... ;-) Greetings, Roland --- Roland Gropmair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I tried to install woody on i38

amibcp > 7.51.03

2002-10-31 Thread Robert Rakowicz
Hi, I search for amibcp Utility better than 7.51.03. Google give me some goals becouse only 7.51.03 and older version ;( Pozdrawiam/Gruß/Regards Robert Rakowicz -- Robert Rakowicz E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:www.rjap.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: running rsh and ssh?

2002-10-31 Thread Craig Dickson
R Ransbottom wrote: > My first concern is what to run on win98se that will handle > ssl and provide good terminal emulation, and samba. (I don't > know much about windows or its culture.) What to run? Do a Google search for "PuTTY SSH Windows". PuTTY is a nice, free terminal emulator for Window

running rsh and ssh?

2002-10-31 Thread R Ransbottom
At work we've been running a linux network for the past six years. This is a isolated network. Everything is linux except for three machines. One dual boots win98se to run a payroll program. One mostly runs in win98se to run a credit card processing program. One runs SCO to handle a

Re: transferring files via floppy

2002-10-31 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 06:04:00PM +0100, messmate wrote: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:02:05 -0500 > Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | fdformat does a low-level format of your floppy. You still need to add a > | filesystem. You might want to try superformat from the fdutils package > | (which adds

Re: automating the lbdb queries?

2002-10-31 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:40:02PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > both these methods work with aliases perfectly, now I would like them > to do the same thing with the query_command. > > i.e.: > > starting mutt from the command line as > mutt pan > > should execute > lbdbq pan >

Re: PS 2 Wheel Mouse Problem

2002-10-31 Thread P. M. Wright
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 14:12, Christian Banik wrote: > Dear Debian Users, > > i've got problems with my wheel mouse. I wrote the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file > myself (no concept of some of the entries there)in parts. > It worked 2 weeks very good, but now the mouse arrow freeze after 30 seconds

Re: Filing bugs against b.d.o's install of debbugs?

2002-10-31 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:55:39PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:18:35AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > It doesn't propigate the repeatmerged variable correctly. > > > > If I go to [1], and click on the libc6[2] bug that I filed, it doesn't have > > repeatmerged=no in the U

Re: New on Debian

2002-10-31 Thread Charles Baker
--- Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Don, 2002-10-31 um 03.45 schrieb debianoverdunes: > > Hello out there¡ > > > > Being new to debian makes me ask some boring > questions but I fel > > like walking over dunes in the sahara. How do I > suppose to get into my > > debian system

Re: debian versus ms1998

2002-10-31 Thread nate
John said: > October 31st 2002 > > I am currently an MS Windows 98 user, but am very interested in Linux > since seeing a programme about it on the BBC World Service a few weeks > ago. > > A simple question I would like answered please. > > Is debian an alternative to MS Windows or complimentary t

autodns-dhcp

2002-10-31 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there guru's! :-) I have switched from Suse & Redhat linux to Debian, and have to say that I love it! I have not learnt so much about Linux until I started with Debian, and I cannot stop - it's great (gotta love apt-get!). Anyway, this message does actually have a point to it. I have a home n

Re: debian versus ms1998

2002-10-31 Thread Ray
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:57:12PM -0800, John wrote: > October 31st 2002 > > I am currently an MS Windows 98 user, but am very interested in Linux since > seeing a programme about it on the BBC World Service a few weeks ago. > > A simple question I would like answered please. > > Is debian an

Re: debian versus ms1998

2002-10-31 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:57:12 -0800 John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am currently an MS Windows 98 user, but am very interested in Linux > since seeing a programme about it on the BBC World Service a few weeks > ago. > > A simple question I would like answered please. > > Is debian an alternat

Re: best way to have gcc-3.2 on woody?

2002-10-31 Thread Ray
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:02:45PM +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Hello. > > In order to correctly build the cvs version of MPlayer, I've been told I > need to use gcc-3.2, which is currently in unstable. > > My question, then, is: what is the best (as in "most debian compliant") way > to install

debian versus ms1998

2002-10-31 Thread John
October 31st 2002 I am currently an MS Windows 98 user, but am very interested in Linux since seeing a programme about it on the BBC World Service a few weeks ago. A simple question I would like answered please. Is debian an alternative to MS Windows or complimentary to it?Can they work to

Re: bc

2002-10-31 Thread N. Thomas
* Oleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-31 08:37:00 -0500]: > 6.2/0.3 > 20 By now, many others have set you straight about the scale variable. I just wanted to let you know that invocated bc with the "-l" switch will set the scale to 20, and load some math functions as well. Unless you have a good rea

Re: Testing LDAP nameservice

2002-10-31 Thread nate
Andreas Eichner said: > > Hi guys, > > I've just installed and configured LDAP as nameservice to (partially) > replace my /etc. > > But now I want to know if it is really used instead of the /etc flat > files. Does anyone know how I can find it out? simplist way i can think of: remove the 'files'

Re: PS 2 Wheel Mouse Problem

2002-10-31 Thread nate
Christian Banik said: > Dear Debian Users, > > i've got problems with my wheel mouse. I wrote the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > file myself (no concept of some of the entries there)in parts. > It worked 2 weeks very good, but now the mouse arrow freeze after 30 > seconds under X11. I've added my XF86 C

Re: cannot start mysql

2002-10-31 Thread nate
i-cable said: > dear sir >i am a new user in debian, i was install mysql in ".deb" > and, .../safe_mysqld & -- .../mysql -u root > > " ERROR 2002: Can't connet to local Mysql server through socket > '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'(111)" that doesn't give anyone enough information to help so

Need correct working PAL modeline for TV-OUT with Savage 4 Chip onAsus L3800C compatible

2002-10-31 Thread Martin Schlegel
Hi all, with the following modelines in Debian Woody with XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 on Savage4 Video adapter with driver module savage_drv.o version 1.1.16 I recognized a strange syncing problem. It looks like a virtual line. The top half of the screen seems to entwined against the bottom half of th

Re: Woody Installation Problem

2002-10-31 Thread Joe Riel
>Maybe that CD has errors on it. You can check it by mounting it, going to >the directory where it's mounted, then > >md5sum -c md5sums.txt > >No output = good, error output=bad Thanks, I'll try that. >If so you'll need to get a new cd or install those packages from http or ftp. > > >> I then

PS 2 Wheel Mouse Problem

2002-10-31 Thread Christian Banik
Dear Debian Users, i've got problems with my wheel mouse. I wrote the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file myself (no concept of some of the entries there)in parts. It worked 2 weeks very good, but now the mouse arrow freeze after 30 seconds under X11. I've added my XF86 Config file, perhaps you see m

Re: woody ignores my .emacs

2002-10-31 Thread Henrik Enberg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have been using a .emacs file for a while and would like to keep on > doing so. With my new Woody install emacs appears to be ignoring it. I > have tried emacs -q, emacs -debug-init because of some bug>, emacs -no-site-file, have added (setq > inhibit-

alsaplayer problems

2002-10-31 Thread H. S. Teoh
[Please Cc: replies to me, I'm not subscribed to debian-user] I'm having problems using alsaplayer. For some reason, everything works perfectly as root, but when I try to run it under a non-root user, it fails with the following: Unavailable hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S16_LE SUBF

Re: increase FD (file descriptors) in Debian 3.0 !

2002-10-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Huy T.Q" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Debian Users, > > I am use Squid on Debian 3.0 and I only saw 1024 FD (file > > descriptors) in my Squid when system starting. > > Can i increase FD number in Debian ? > > Thank

Woody Installation Problem

2002-10-31 Thread Levi Waldron
> with various tasks selected. While unpacking stuff from > CD 3 and error occurred: Maybe that CD has errors on it. You can check it by mounting it, going to the directory where it's mounted, then md5sum -c md5sums.txt No output = good, error output=bad If so you'll need to get a new cd or

Re: MUD Shell ... ?

2002-10-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 31 October 2002 09:50, Soul Computer wrote: > It would seem to me that Debian could have a > Shell that looked and acted an awful lot like a > MUD created, with applications representing > spells and objects being added with processes > representing the player characters. The > directo

Problems with SMTP AUTH using sendmail

2002-10-31 Thread Stefan-W. Hahn
Hi, I'm using Debian R3.0 with ii sendmail 8.12.3-4 ii libsasl7 1.5.27-3 trying to connect my provider Puretec (1&1) Germany via SMTP AUTH. To configure sendmail for this I put following in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc: FEATURE(`authinfo')dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`PLAIN LOGIN') define(`

Re: MUD Shell ... ?

2002-10-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:50:32AM -0800, Soul Computer wrote: > It would seem to me that Debian could have a Shell that looked and > acted an awful lot like a MUD created, with applications representing > spells and objects being added with processes representing the player > characters. The dire

Re: mpg321 on ntfs

2002-10-31 Thread Mark Ferlatte
begin Leonardo Canducci quote on Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:20:17PM +0100: > I tried using strace, and I think this could be the error. from ntfs I > get: > ... > old_mmap(NULL, 1034240, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 5, 0) = -1 ENODEV (No > such device) > ... > when playing the same file from ext3 I get: >

MUD Shell ... ?

2002-10-31 Thread Soul Computer
It would seem to me that Debian could have a Shell that looked and acted an awful lot like a MUD created, with applications representing spells and objects being added with processes representing the player characters. The directories would represent rooms in the game. Any thoughts on this? ->Scw

Re: Backup - USBLink External Hard Drive (40 GB)

2002-10-31 Thread Guy Durand
Andy Saxena wrote: Has anybody had any luck with the Buslink L40 40 GB External Hard Drive or similar piece of hardware? It seems there is a requirement for a driver for this apart from the usual USB kernel modules. -Andy You might want to take a look at this page. If you look aat the out

Status of Gnome 2?

2002-10-31 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
I seem to have Gnome 2 now more or less working, thanks to the help of Mark Roach's advice yesterday (Tip of the Hat, sir!) That said, I'm wondering... How much of Gnome 2 is on Debian so far - the whole kit and kaboodle, or the core sections to provide the environment, with the rest to follow wh

Re: transferring files via floppy

2002-10-31 Thread messmate
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:02:05 -0500 Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:57:16AM +, john gennard wrote: | > Formatting a floppy with 'fdformat' and the using 'dd' appears to | > put something on the floppy, but then trying to mount it on Woody | > keeps giving the 'w

Re: for tecnical linux users

2002-10-31 Thread messmate
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 23:25:09 -0600 "steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Is your keyboard port damaged by any chance? Maybe it has a lot of dust | in it and is not making proper contact. Just an idea I had. Thanks for the suggestion; but NO. Tryed with 2 other keyboards: same result. Removed par

Re: for tecnical linux users

2002-10-31 Thread messmate
Hi, On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:34:56 +1030 Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 0, David Pastern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > messmate said on 30 October 2002 7:52 PM | > | > >Hi experts, | > >I have a little pb with un update I made of my BIOS. | > >Bios is a AWARD and did a flash update, a

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