RE: Upgrading to a SMP kernel ?

2002-11-04 Thread W.D.McKinney
Thanks Nate. Does Debian package the whole kernel, headers , etc. like this ? Been running SuSE for a long time and I'm moving to Debian. Hope these questions are not bugging you :-) Dee -Original Message- From: nate [mailto:debian-user@;aphroland.org] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 10:

Re: gnome2 + enlightenment

2002-11-04 Thread iain d broadfoot
Travis Crump wrote: iain d broadfoot wrote: is there any way to make enlightenment block off part of the screen for the gnome-panel? yeah, i know i should be using a different combo, but i like e. iain Just out of curiosity, does enlightenment otherwise work with Gnome 2? Is this a major

Re: Upgrading to a SMP kernel ?

2002-11-04 Thread nate
W.D.McKinney said: > I have a dual PIII server I need to get both processors working. > I am installing Woody now, and wondering how to upgrade to a SMP > kernel when I'm done here ? I am not an expert at all with Debian > but it seems there are good tools to use with .deb . looks like the easiest

Re: deleting directory

2002-11-04 Thread Kim Christiansen
Ooops, Apoligies... Ignore the -f (like the rest of the discussion ... my mistake was meant to be -ri ;) Thanks >>> Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/01/02 06:24pm >>> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:36:46PM +0800, Kim Christiansen wrote: > If unsure try rm -rif /path/directory -ri, surely?

Re: creating /dev/hd[m-t]

2002-11-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:54:09PM -0500, Sven Heinicke wrote: > With woody, I got a system with 20 IDE drives (5 IDE cards). The kernel > in finding all of them but /dev/MAKEDEV seems to only know how to make > up to /dev/hdl: > > ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdl > ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdm > ./MAKEDEV: do

Upgrading to a SMP kernel ?

2002-11-04 Thread W.D.McKinney
I have a dual PIII server I need to get both processors working. I am installing Woody now, and wondering how to upgrade to a SMP kernel when I'm done here ? I am not an expert at all with Debian but it seems there are good tools to use with .deb . Thanks ! Dee W.D.McKinney (Dee) Alaska Wireles

Re: Stuck with Netscape 4.7X: How to switch?

2002-11-04 Thread Brian Nelson
Abdul Latip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi: > > I am currently using Netscape 4.7X as one of my mailer. > > - May I know why Netscape packaging is discontinued? I didn't know it was, but there are a few good reasons: it's non-free, obsolete, and buggy. > - I would like to switch to Mozilla or

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Re: cannot mount nfs partition,...

2002-11-04 Thread cmustard
>mUs said: > >> It appears to me that my problem is on the client side but it won't be the >> first time if i am wrong. > >is there any firewall between you and the openbsd box? sounds like >a firewall is preventing the connection > >a debian 3.0 NFS client(client ONLY) should show this when >you r

Re: XFree86 4.2 update howto?

2002-11-04 Thread David Z Maze
Haralambos Geortgilakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I solve the folloing error message? > > (none):/home/haralambos# synaptic > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Read the Remote-X-Apps mini-HOWTO, e.g. http://www.tldp.org/HO

Re: Wish us all luck...

2002-11-04 Thread Brian Nelson
"Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > XFree86 4.2 has moved to testing - should be okay, but this is where we > find out... That's nothing. XF86 4.2 has been packaged and tested by a lot of people several months before it even made it to unstable. Just wait until glibc 2.3 hits testing.

Re: cvs: two repositories

2002-11-04 Thread Robert Epprecht
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:15:53AM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: >> I'm developping a program which I would like to put somewhere on >> the net like savannah or sourceforge. As I am on a slow modem >> connection I would prefer to keep my local cvs reposito

Re: eth1 module does not exist

2002-11-04 Thread nate
Jim Bowering said: > If I do modprobe ne irq=9,io=0x300 will that do it, or do I add eth1 to > the command? How about the hardware address? if those are the correct settings (irq is 9 and io is 0x300) and the module your loading is compadible with your card you should see some messages on the c

Re: eth1 module does not exist

2002-11-04 Thread Jim Bowering
On Monday 04 November 2002 08:40 pm, nate wrote: > Jim Bowering said: > > I recently installed Libranet (2.0) with the satisfaction of returning > > to Debian. I was impressed with the way it set up networking on my > > ne2k-pci adaptor. The problem is, i can't apply the ne driver to my > > ISA n

Problem with INET6

2002-11-04 Thread Žiga Dolher
Hi I have an problem with the protocol IPv6. I can't install it. I don't know, or I have the wrong rpm or I don't know. The message that show's to me is: Configuring sit0 sit0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device No support for INET6 on this system. socket: Address family not

Re: tftpboot.img

2002-11-04 Thread Aaron David Vose
Heh, yeah. That's pretty hard core ;) On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Jason Pepas wrote: > > etherboot is for creating floppies... > > etherboot can also make bootroms. > > check out http://www.rom-o-matic.net/ > > if your sun has a bootrom slot, and the controller is supported by etherboot, > and you can

Re: Strange problem w/Ripping CDs

2002-11-04 Thread Pigeon
- Original Message - From: Jack Pistachio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Strange problem w/Ripping CDs > The ide-cd module isn't even loaded in the kernel. I'm > using ide-scsi and the scsi cdrom modules, etc. /dev/cdrom > points to /dev/scd0, which mounts fine as the cdrom. > Everyt

Re: eth1 module does not exist

2002-11-04 Thread nate
Jim Bowering said: > I recently installed Libranet (2.0) with the satisfaction of returning to > Debian. I was impressed with the way it set up networking on my ne2k-pci > adaptor. The problem is, i can't apply the ne driver to my ISA nic > because there doesn't seem to be an eth1 device. > > I'

Re: cannot mount nfs partition,...

2002-11-04 Thread nate
mUs said: > It appears to me that my problem is on the client side but it won't be the > first time if i am wrong. is there any firewall between you and the openbsd box? sounds like a firewall is preventing the connection a debian 3.0 NFS client(client ONLY) should show this when you run rpcinfo

eth1 module does not exist

2002-11-04 Thread Jim Bowering
I recently installed Libranet (2.0) with the satisfaction of returning to Debian. I was impressed with the way it set up networking on my ne2k-pci adaptor. The problem is, i can't apply the ne driver to my ISA nic because there doesn't seem to be an eth1 device. I've searched the list but hav

Re: tftpboot.img

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
> etherboot is for creating floppies... etherboot can also make bootroms. check out http://www.rom-o-matic.net/ if your sun has a bootrom slot, and the controller is supported by etherboot, and you can find someone with an eeprom burner, you should be good to go. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRI

[Very OT, local political parody, probable Terrorist links] Re: Microsoft'splans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread John
Be very careful to only use little words. Pictures would help. I can imagine the text: See Bob compute. Compute, Bob, compute. See Bob install! Oh no, Bob wrote his own software! See Bob cry. See Bob go overseas and become a permanent resident of Ireland. See Australia get poorer! See the

Re: No longer able to use eth0 with 2.4.19

2002-11-04 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Darryl" == Darryl L Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Darryl> On 2002.11.04 10:17 Johann Spies wrote: Darryl> Thanks for the info, but I'm not sure how to proceed. I've Darryl> never in the past had to modify Darryl> /etc/modules.conf. Instead, I've used modconf to ensure

Re: cvs: two repositories

2002-11-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:15:53AM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > I'm developping a program which I would like to put somewhere on > the net like savannah or sourceforge. As I am on a slow modem > connection I would prefer to keep my local cvs repository and sync > the public one from time to tim

cannot mount nfs partition,...

2002-11-04 Thread mUs
I am having a problem (client side, debian woody 3.0 kernel 2.4.18) mounting a nfs partition from a openbsd server. mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to send showmount -e reveals that the partition is ready to be mounted from the server. I have put the proper entry in /etc/fstab on t

Re: choice of software

2002-11-04 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 04 November 2002, 09:07 PM -0600): > > I've had problems running console-based music programs -- starting new > > programs and processes tends to interrupt music output, which I find > > annoying. If you're using a graphical environment, I highly

Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-04 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 01:28, Bob Proulx wrote: > Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-04 18:58:41 +1300]: > > > kosuke9026 0.0 0.9 14460 4932 ? D 00:16 0:00 xmms > > > > The state ``D'' means uninterruptible. > > Any idea why? Blocked waiting for I/O perhaps? A DMA event that ha

Re: gnome2 + enlightenment

2002-11-04 Thread Travis Crump
iain d broadfoot wrote: is there any way to make enlightenment block off part of the screen for the gnome-panel? yeah, i know i should be using a different combo, but i like e. iain Just out of curiosity, does enlightenment otherwise work with Gnome 2? Is this a major irritant or something

Re: tftpboot.img

2002-11-04 Thread Aaron David Vose
netboot is for intel comps only... i need somthing for a sparc.. etherboot is for creating floppies... my sun doesn't have a floppy, hence the netboot... I guess it just isn't somthing a person can do. On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Jason Pepas wrote: > > Is there a boot image that's around 64k? > > netBS

Re: Mozilla craches new libc6

2002-11-04 Thread Marc Wilson
I'm sure someone's probably already pointed this out, but in case they haven't... On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:00:09PM +0100, Marcel Lemmen wrote: > As promised my problem with newest libc6 version... It's not libc6... > java_vm: relocation error: > /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/java2/lib/i386/libjav

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-04 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:51, Michael Naumann wrote: > > If you want unbreakable encryption, you must go for a program able to > handle a "One Time Pad" and you must only use each Pad once. > No not really. Text encrypted with a one time pad decrypts to every possible text if and only if the encrypti

Stuck with Netscape 4.7X: How to switch?

2002-11-04 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi: I am currently using Netscape 4.7X as one of my mailer. - May I know why Netscape packaging is discontinued? - I would like to switch to Mozilla or Galleon. I am aware that there is no problem to migrate my 100Mbytes mailfolders. Unfortunately, I still have no idea on how to use a spel

Re: VCD creation

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
On Sunday 03 November 2002 08:18 pm, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > Is it possible to create a VCD from a '.mpg' or '.avi' with some > program(s) available as Debian packages? I'm running sid here. I've > figured out how to BURN VCD's that come in bin/cue format, but I don't > know how to turn a

Re: My first Linux crash

2002-11-04 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andrew" == Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> FWIW, I'm skeptical of Nate's claim that excessive I/O Andrew> errors must bring down the system. I'm certainly not a Andrew> kernel hacker, but I see no reason why the kernel couldn't Andrew> do what it does in othe

Re: choice of software

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
> I've had problems running console-based music programs -- starting new > programs and processes tends to interrupt music output, which I find > annoying. If you're using a graphical environment, I highly recommend > xmms -- it's fairly lightweight, there are a number of different panel > applets

RE: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Righto, I will email Senator Richard 'ludite' Alston and ask him to clarify the Australian Governments position this matter. Are there any questions you would like me to ask him, or information, or urls I should bring to his attention ? Matt > -Original Message- > From: David Pastern

Re: tftpboot.img

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
> Is there a boot image that's around 64k? > netBSD has a two stage system where a 64k boot image is > loaded. This image then loads the kernel/rootfs over > NFS. > > Is there such a thing for debian? > > If anyone could help, i'd really appreciate it. > > ~Aaron Vose > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sounds l

Re: netscape

2002-11-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:36:23PM -0200, Galileu Paulo wrote: > Hi guys: > > I am new to Linux and I have had some sort of problems I could not find the > way out. I am using Debian 2.2r5 in an old brave Pentium 166. Here are the > problems: > > 1- I could not run Netscape. I installed the syste

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 01:17:28PM +1100, David Pastern wrote: > Yes my comments were a rant if you want to look at that (hell I think I > actually said that in the post in jest). If you want to call it fanatacism > so be it. It's people that sit on their bums and cop it sweet and don't > complai

Re: DoE software?

2002-11-04 Thread Jeff Maxson
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:16:09PM -0500, Jeff Maxson happened to mention: > > no, not dept. of Energy, but design of experiments. Are there any > decent GPL'ed programs out there that would be somewhat analagous to > Modde or SAS-JMP? I realize that is asking quite a bit, but if there > is a si

Re: galeon --server

2002-11-04 Thread Paul Smith
%% Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> These methods all look at different startup files. Startx will >> typically read ~/.xinitrc. XDM will read ~/.xsession. And GDM will >> read ~/.gnomerc (if you're using a Gnome desktop). rw> XDM and GDM seem to read my ~/.xsession just fine.

DoE software?

2002-11-04 Thread Jeff Maxson
no, not dept. of Energy, but design of experiments. Are there any decent GPL'ed programs out there that would be somewhat analagous to Modde or SAS-JMP? I realize that is asking quite a bit, but if there is a simple-ish one out there that can handle the smaller/less complex datasets/designed ex

Re: Locale to have the ISO 8601 date format?

2002-11-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 20:56:06 -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > dpkg-reconfigure locales, select the local you want, and try it again. > Set LC_TIME to that locale, and it should work. Thanks, this works. BTW, how about an iso8601 alias for en_DK or something like that? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL

RE: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread David Pastern
Matthew Joyce said on 11/5/02 10:09 AM >Perhaps people will start to use the existing cpus for longer, and >recycle older ones, distributed processing etc, instead of feeling they must >upgrade their hardware because there is an upgrade available. >However, emailing all my friends and family and

Re: netscape

2002-11-04 Thread Russell
Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Galileu Paulo said: > > Hi guys: > > > > I am new to Linux and I have had some sort of problems I could not find the > > way out. I am using Debian 2.2r5 in an old brave Pentium 166. Here are the > > problems: ... > Ctrl-Alt-F(1-6) will get you

Re: netscape

2002-11-04 Thread nate
Galileu Paulo said: > Hi guys: > 1- I could not run Netscape. I installed the system completely and later I > installed nestscape-base-4 with all the packages recommended by dselect. > However, the icons on the desktop that should point to the browser do not > work. I tried the command "netscape-r

Re: Locale to have the ISO 8601 date format?

2002-11-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Vincent Lefevre said: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 20:32:50 -0500, David P James wrote: > > However I did get an answer eventually and it turns out to be contained > > in a locale created as a bit of a joke - en_DK - English Denmark! > > I've juste generated it with > >

Re: galeon --server

2002-11-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:14:09PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > %% "Keith O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ko> Now I'm not just confused, I'm concerned. > > You haven't given us (and no one that I've seen has asked) the most > important bit of information for answering your question: >

gnome2 + enlightenment

2002-11-04 Thread iain d broadfoot
is there any way to make enlightenment block off part of the screen for the gnome-panel? yeah, i know i should be using a different combo, but i like e. iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netscape

2002-11-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Galileu Paulo said: > Hi guys: > > I am new to Linux and I have had some sort of problems I could not find the > way out. I am using Debian 2.2r5 in an old brave Pentium 166. Here are the > problems: > > 1- I could not run Netscape. I installed the system completely a

tftpboot.img

2002-11-04 Thread Aaron David Vose
I have a sun4c (Sparc Station 1) and would like to install debian over a network. I set up a rarp server, and a tftp server. These fucntion correctly. My problem is that the boot image provided by debian (tftpboot.img) is too large for my sun to handle. The file is around 3M which is absolutly ab

Re: netscape

2002-11-04 Thread Russell
Galileu Paulo wrote: > > Hi guys: > > I am new to Linux and I have had some sort of problems I could not find the > way out. I am using Debian 2.2r5 in an old brave Pentium 166. Here are the > problems: > > 1- I could not run Netscape. I installed the system completely and later I > installed ne

Re: Locale to have the ISO 8601 date format?

2002-11-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 20:32:50 -0500, David P James wrote: > However I did get an answer eventually and it turns out to be contained > in a locale created as a bit of a joke - en_DK - English Denmark! I've juste generated it with localedef -c -i en_DK /usr/share/locale/en_DK (I hope this is

Re: testing vs. unstable

2002-11-04 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "Gregory Seidman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian users list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:42 PM Subject: testing vs. unstable > I've been using unstable, but I think I want to downgrade to testing. I > (foolishly) went ahead and upgrad

netscape

2002-11-04 Thread Galileu Paulo
Hi guys: I am new to Linux and I have had some sort of problems I could not find the way out. I am using Debian 2.2r5 in an old brave Pentium 166. Here are the problems: 1- I could not run Netscape. I installed the system completely and later I installed nestscape-base-4 with all the packages rec

Re: Locale to have the ISO 8601 date format?

2002-11-04 Thread David P James
Vincent Lefevre was roused into action on 2002-11-04 14:22 and wrote: What locale should I use to have the ISO 8601 date format? I asked this a while ago and became very frustrated when there was no obvious locale supporting the international standard of -mm-dd. However I did get an answe

Re: Making a java 1.4.1 deb

2002-11-04 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "mdevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: Re: Making a java 1.4.1 deb >>Yeah, It is a bit dissapointing that you can get rpms much earlier than >>debs. >> >>It seems as though you are

Newer version of subfig package in tetex-extra

2002-11-04 Thread Neilen
Hi. I see that the version of the subfig package included with tetex-extra is very old (1995), while there seems to be a new version available, with significantly enhanced functionality. Does anyone know when/if the new version will be packaged? In the mean time, what would be the best way to in

Re: copying files

2002-11-04 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 05 November 2002 12:54 am, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Tuesday 05 November 2002 12:26 am, Richard Kimber wrote: > > Is there a program that will copy files from one directory to another, > > but which will avoid overwriting files with the same

Re: Weird problem with self-compiled kernel

2002-11-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:03:09PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:39:54PM +0100, Patrick Brunier wrote: > > Everything works fine. But the problem is that I can't connect to > > certain sites. Eg. When I type "lynx www.openoffice.org" he tries to > > make a http conne

Re: copying files

2002-11-04 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 05 November 2002 12:26 am, Richard Kimber wrote: > Is there a program that will copy files from one directory to another, but > which will avoid overwriting files with the same name by automatically > creating a unique filename in the second

RE: Thread Stealing (was: Installing debian via network)

2002-11-04 Thread Joyce, Matthew
The information below should be sent as a separate email to users when they sign up. Full marks for clarity. Matt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bob@;proulx.com] > Sent: Monday, 4 November 2002 5:01 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Thread Stealing (was: Ins

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Nick Traxler
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:43:17PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > > I know for a fact that parted can resize a ro-mounted partition, because > > I did it once to shrink the root partition. (To make room for a swap > > partition.) > > did you know you that linux supports swap files as well as swap par

Re: html as background

2002-11-04 Thread Steve Cooper
>From Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 09:13:20AM -0600: > This is what I am trying to do-- but automatically from a console. > Galeon will save as *.ps file. But does w3m,links, or wget save as > *.ps file? How can I write a script (bash, perl) to go to a website > an

Re: xserver-xfree86 and GeForce 2 MX 400

2002-11-04 Thread Joshua Lee
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:01:49PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > The problem is, all I've found so far on the web is info suggesting that > the "natural" resolution for this card is 2048 x 1536 @ 75 Hz. What I need > is a way to translate this information into refresh rates. > > The screen is a "Pl

Re: Debian GNU/LInux 3.0 - Win4Lin 4.0

2002-11-04 Thread Steve Cooper
>From fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:48:16AM +0100: > 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

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:19:31PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I'm in a bit of a bind. I need to resize the root partition on one of my > systems that doesn't have a floppy drive. The only thing that I have > that I can boot from is a CD-ROM drive. I found a rescue floppy that had > parted inst

rpc: can mount nfs partition

2002-11-04 Thread mUs
I am having a problem (client side, debian woody 3.0 kernel 2.4.18) mounting a nfs partition from a openbsd server. mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to send showmount -e reveals that the partition is ready to be mounted from the server. I have put the proper entry in /etc/fstab on t

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:01:41PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > On November 4, 2002 06:03 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Here is the script for VIM which automate GNUPG. > > Thank you for all the advice! I went with the GPG in vim - since it's easy > as well, I figured I might as well use the stro

copying files

2002-11-04 Thread Richard Kimber
Is there a program that will copy files from one directory to another, but which will avoid overwriting files with the same name by automatically creating a unique filename in the second directory, or is this something I need to program for myself? Thanks, - Richard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: XFree86 4.2 update howto?

2002-11-04 Thread Joshua Lee
For running X programs such as synaptic as root, as a regular user type in "xhost local:root" then su to root and run it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: creating /dev/hd[m-t]

2002-11-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:54:09PM -0500, Sven Heinicke wrote: > With woody, I got a system with 20 IDE drives (5 IDE cards). The kernel > in finding all of them but /dev/MAKEDEV seems to only know how to make > up to /dev/hdl: > > ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdl > ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdm > ./MAKEDEV: do

Re: Thread Stealing (was: Installing debian via network)

2002-11-04 Thread Joshua Lee
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:55:43PM -, Pigeon wrote: > of OE which to me is the single most important feature a mail client can > offer: the ability to automatically dial up, send any outgoing mail, > receive any incoming mail and immediately hang up. This MINIMISES time > spent CLOCKING UP PHON

Re: cvs: two repositories

2002-11-04 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 04 November 2002 11:15 pm, Robert Epprecht wrote: > I'm developping a program which I would like to put somewhere on > the net like savannah or sourceforge. As I am on a slow modem > connection I would prefer to keep my local cvs repository

Re: random crashing of a Debian machine - where to go?

2002-11-04 Thread John
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.04.1218 -0500]: i am going to run memtest86 now. for any other hints i'd be greatly appreciative! affirmative. memory errors. let's see if crucial meets up to their warranty promises. thanks to anyone who sp

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-04 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 4, 2002 06:03 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Here is the script for VIM which automate GNUPG. Thank you for all the advice! I went with the GPG in vim - since it's easy as well, I figured I might as well use the strong encryption. That's cool that vim also has a built-in encryption featur

Re: ssh port forwarding of IMAP connection

2002-11-04 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 14:28, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Monday 04 November 2002 12:54 pm, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > I can't help you with your apache problem but have you thought of trying ssh? > > Get putty from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ which is an > ssh client (

XFree86 4.2 update howto?

2002-11-04 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi All, I am new to Debian & am trying to figure out a few things. How do I solve the folloing error message? (none):/home/haralambos# ./synaptic bash: ./synaptic: No such file or directory (none):/home/haralambos# synaptic Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not auth

Re: speaking of pterm bugs...

2002-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:21:35PM +, Jason Lunz wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > What version of pterm is this? Upstream fixed a similar bug with VT100 > > line drawing characters on 2002/10/21. > > ah, right. unstable's pterm does fix it. sorry, I thought I had the > newest one installed

Re: choice of software

2002-11-04 Thread Johannes Zarl
On Monday 04 November 2002 23:05, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > +evolution -- non-free client from ximian. Offers calender, etc.(a > > bit like outlook on windows) > > As Matthew Weier O'Phinney notes, Evolution is one of the Gnome email > clients - there are a number depending on the scale of program

xserver-xfree86 and GeForce 2 MX 400

2002-11-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
Finally, after over 7 months, I get my Profile 4 WITH a working DVD drive and I'm having a devil of a time getting an X server working. Turns out that only version 4.2.1 supports the GeForce 2 MX 400 graphics card from NVidia, but I can't get it to configure so the screen is not multiply overlappe

cvs: two repositories

2002-11-04 Thread Robert Epprecht
I'm developping a program which I would like to put somewhere on the net like savannah or sourceforge. As I am on a slow modem connection I would prefer to keep my local cvs repository and sync the public one from time to time, bundling some related commits in one upload. How can I do that? Robe

RE: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Perhaps people will start to use the existing cpus for longer, and recycle older ones, distributed processing etc, instead of feeling they must upgrade their hardware because there is an upgrade available. However, emailing all my friends and family and trying to explain TCPA to them and ask them

Re: gnucash won't create config file--SOLVED

2002-11-04 Thread uzoma nwosu
Wow, I feel so stupid. I assumed that I would have to generate some freaky file to this work. Thank you to the tip. Uzoma On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 05:56:06 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 16:00:46 -0500 > uzoma nwosu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is very strange

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:57:08PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > Is there a simple way to encrypt a single text file on my system, so that it > can only be viewed if you know the password? I want to securely store my > online username/passwords, bank card PINs, etc that I'm always forgetting. Her

Re: exim mailserver

2002-11-04 Thread ZZ
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:15:29PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > ZZ wrote: > > Maybe I've figured this out, today I found sslwrap which can ssl-ify my > > smtp connection if I can get that password authentication stuff to work. > > The info in /usr/share/docs/exim/ does talk about it, but not muc

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-04 Thread Michael Naumann
04.11.2002 22:57:08, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a simple way to encrypt a single text file on my system, so that it >can only be viewed if you know the password? I want to securely store my >online username/passwords, bank card PINs, etc that I'm always forgetting. > Ver

[samba/winbind/nss] Does not resolve host names

2002-11-04 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
Hello List, I'm quite desperate with my Samba installation. Samba can resolve Windows hostnames without any flaw, but I can't get /etc/nsswitch.conf to cooperate with Samba... My installation: * samba & winbind unmodified from Woody, nmbd & winbindd running. * nmblookup and wbinfo -h _can_ resol

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
> I know for a fact that parted can resize a ro-mounted partition, because > I did it once to shrink the root partition. (To make room for a swap > partition.) did you know you that linux supports swap files as well as swap partitions? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
On Monday 04 November 2002 03:57 pm, Levi Waldron wrote: > Is there a simple way to encrypt a single text file on my system, so that > it can only be viewed if you know the password? I want to securely store > my online username/passwords, bank card PINs, etc that I'm always > forgetting. > > -Lev

Re: exim mailserver

2002-11-04 Thread ZZ
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:38:16PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 04 November 2002 7:41 pm, ZZ wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:56:10AM -0500, ZZ wrote: > > > > But this is only half of the deal. I can't send email from my email >

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Nick Traxler
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:19:31PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I'm in a bit of a bind. I need to resize the root partition on one of my > systems that doesn't have a floppy drive. The only thing that I have > that I can boot from is a CD-ROM drive. I found a rescue floppy that had > parted inst

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Alex Malinovich said: > I'm in a bit of a bind. I need to resize the root partition on one of > my systems that doesn't have a floppy drive. The only thing that I > have that I can boot from is a CD-ROM drive. I found a rescue floppy > that had parted installed and trie

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-04 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Levi" == Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Levi> Is there a simple way to encrypt a single text file on my system, Levi> so that it can only be viewed if you know the password? I want to Levi> securely store my online username/passwords, bank card PINs, etc Levi> that I'm always for

Re: gnucash won't create config file

2002-11-04 Thread csj
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 16:00:46 -0500 uzoma nwosu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is very strange to me. I'm using Sarge (updated biweekly). I > apt-get gnucash from testing and it installs fine, however, it puts > out this error started: > > $ gnucash > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/etc/gn

parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'm in a bit of a bind. I need to resize the root partition on one of my systems that doesn't have a floppy drive. The only thing that I have that I can boot from is a CD-ROM drive. I found a rescue floppy that had parted installed and tried using mkisofs to convert it to a CD image, but it doesn't

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-04 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2002.11.04 16:57 Levi Waldron wrote: Is there a simple way to encrypt a single text file on my system, so that it can only be viewed if you know the password? I want to securely store my online username/passwords, bank card PINs, etc that I'm always forgetting. You can use GnuPG to encrypt t

Re: choice of software

2002-11-04 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:19, Johannes Zarl wrote: > On Monday 04 November 2002 21:38, james leclair wrote: > > Hello, > > Hello, too;-) > > > We currently run a variety if Debian products in the mail and file > > serving areas. Now we are investigating the possiblity of running Debian > > product

Re: Converting router from W2K to Debian

2002-11-04 Thread Aaron Hall
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Alex Malinovich wrote: [snip] > 2) Get DNS set up. I used to have two zones. theloveshack.local for my > internal DNS, and the-love-shack.net for my external DNS. I'd like to > consolidate these into one. However, since my NS is the registered NS for > my domain, I don't want

encrypting a single file

2002-11-04 Thread Levi Waldron
Is there a simple way to encrypt a single text file on my system, so that it can only be viewed if you know the password? I want to securely store my online username/passwords, bank card PINs, etc that I'm always forgetting. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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