Re: public lending right

2002-11-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:05:11PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Acroread is broken in sid, currently. I'd love to see something that > works as well as acroread is supposed to, with a mozilla plugin, but > isn't acroread. Is xpdf still a bit gimpy or is it a suitable > replacement, now? If it is

Re: Elementary Woody Firewall with DSL.

2002-11-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:31:25PM -0800, Jeff wrote: > Dan.Hunt, 2002-Nov-06 23:15 -0600: > > > > After basic Woody install, with nothing extra at first. > > I upgrade the Kernel to a stock 2.4.?? > > and > > Is there was a way to install a 2.4 kernel right from the c.d.? > > If you have the f

Re: X - window manager - desktop

2002-11-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:46PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > Paul, I too find having a desktop unnecessary. I do prefer using the > command line most of the time because it's quicker. By the time I reach for > my mouse, I've already wasted a good second when I could have type 5 or > more charac

Re: Anyone gotten PHP4 working under unstable?

2002-11-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:18:29PM -0500, Mike wrote: > Things just got stranger. It's working now. Sort of. If I access the file > as http://localhost/~mike/date.php3 it still gives me the same error (not > being parsed). But if I access it as > http://rez.homelinux.org/~mike/date.php3 it

Re: Help! IBM xSeries 360

2002-11-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:19:47PM -0500, Kimsey-Hickman, Brian wrote: > That would be the Woody 3.0r0 running the 2.2.20 kernel. Sorry, I should > have mentioned that. As it worked out I was able to get the installation to > work using the floppy disks under > /dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:28:34PM -0800, Jeff wrote: > > > > > > emacs asks for the "encryption key", so I enter the passphrase, > > > because if I hit "return to ignore" is see the scrambled data. After > > > entering the passphrase, emacs reports "Searching for program: no such > > > file or d

Re: Booting Linux from windows 2000

2002-11-08 Thread Scott Henson
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 14:18, Pigeon wrote: > It is true that Windoze doesn't like changes to the MBR. To hack the > Win98 MBR I had to include code to put the original MBR back after the > hack had done its work, then make Windoze reinstall the hacked version > after it had done its check. That rel

Re: Sound problems in Gnome

2002-11-08 Thread Hubert Chan
> "A" == A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: A> When I run Gnome I get some sound problem, for example: A> tony@debian:~$ saydate A> sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy A> tony@debian:~$ You can try using esddsp. Run "esddsp saydate". This forces the program to use e

Re: eth0 is not found after recompile of 2.4.19 kernel

2002-11-08 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Joris" == Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Joris> My first issue is that after recompiling the latest 2.4.19-kernel Joris> the NiC does work but i cannot obtain a DHCP lease anymore, Joris> despite all my efforts with ifconfig, dhclient, ifup, ifdown Joris> ... it's imposi

Re: Sound problems in Gnome

2002-11-08 Thread Steven Yap
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 22:39, Vladimir Chalupecky wrote: > To tell the truth, I don't understand the reason why I can't > have this gnome sound server and xmms and other apps > working at the same time? Could anyone explain this? Because software mixing of multiple sound streams in the sound card d

Re: systemwide fetchmail

2002-11-08 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:38:22AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > is not there a way in which i can ask the fetchmail daemon to look for > > .fetchmailrc files in different user directories? > > - sandip > > Sadly, no. This is the difference

Re: Sound problems in Gnome

2002-11-08 Thread Vladimir Chalupecky
The fix is very simple - just disable the sound server in gnome. You will miss those amazing event sounds, but xmms and just anything else will work. I had the same problem. To tell the truth, I don't understand the reason why I can't have this gnome sound server and xmms and other apps working at

true type fonts

2002-11-08 Thread lostbear
Hi folks, I have been trying to setup truetype fonts on my box. I did find good doc when I searched on google and did follow the instructions to the dot. save for the simple fact that /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype is a link to /usr/share/fints/ttfonts I am not sure as to how to verify if al

Re: gpg key signing protocol question

2002-11-08 Thread Michelle Storm
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 06:32:01PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:22:40PM -0500, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.07.1327 -0500]: > > > If I don't though, gpg won't go look it up. Is this normal? Anyone > > > know the fix

Re: systemwide fetchmail

2002-11-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > is not there a way in which i can ask the fetchmail daemon to look for > .fetchmailrc files in different user directories? > - sandip Sadly, no. This is the difference between system-wide and per-user jobs. Can you imagine the overhead if fe

Re: problem with XFree86 in testing

2002-11-08 Thread Vladimir Chalupecky
I don't think that the missing mode lines might cause the problem. In my XF86Config-4 I don't have any either and everything works fine. But the fact is, that you are apparently using an LCD monitor on a Laptop and that may make the issue completely different. However, do you really have Explorer

Re: problem with XFree86 in testing

2002-11-08 Thread Caitrin Torres
On Thursday 07 November 2002 02:38 am, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Quick guess is that it sounds like mode line for the default > resolution is wrong - can you try other resolutions and see if any > of them work? I ended up going back to the packages from stable, but I took a look at my XF86Config-4 f

Re: Why does gdm override umask setting?

2002-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Jack O'Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-08 23:13:49 -0600]: > > This is frustrating, because putting "umask 002" in ~/.profile or > ~/.bash_profile has no effect under gdm. /etc/profile doesn't seem to > run, either, or it would fix this problem. Why not? Neither Gnome nor KDE seem to run tell

Re: systemwide fetchmail

2002-11-08 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 07:43:33AM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > >hello all! > > > >when i boot up my system, it shows a message that reads - systemwide > >fetchmail not configured. > > > The only thing you have to do to get what you want is to create the > /etc/fetch

Re: restarting all services

2002-11-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
- Original Message - From: "Lance Hoffmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 23:03 Subject: restarting all services > How can I restart all services without rebooting? > > Lance > I normally 'telinit 2' which restarts everything at the same lev

Re: networking woes with 2.4 kernel

2002-11-08 Thread Jeff Cours
It definitely looks like a problem with IRQ mis-assignment. The 2.4.18 kernel puts eth0 at IRQ 19, and USB at 20, 21, and 22. Windows puts eth0 at IRQ 11 and USB at 10 and 11. I'm not sure where the 2.2 kernel puts USB (it panicked when it detected ext3), but from the boot messages it puts eth0

Re: restarting all services

2002-11-08 Thread Allan Wind
On 2002-11-08 23:03:22, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > How can I restart all services without rebooting? Review /etc/init.d or rc2.d if you prefer, then execute the scripts associated with a service with the argument restart. I would do something along these lines: for f in /etc/init.d/*; do echo $f r

Why does gdm override umask setting?

2002-11-08 Thread Jack O'Quin
I finally figured out why my umask gets set to 022 when I log in with gdm, and not 002, the value I get when loggin in over a virtual console or telnet session. /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome checks the UMASK definition in /etc/login.defs, while ignoring "USERGROUPS_ENAB yes" in the same file. This is

restarting all services

2002-11-08 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
How can I restart all services without rebooting? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cups gets page sizes wrong

2002-11-08 Thread David Purton
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 03:05:59PM +1100, Russell wrote: > > In /etc/cups/lpoptions i have: > Default Stylus400 pagesize=a4 page=a4 pageregion=a4 thanks, but no good - makes no difference dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
- Original Message - From: "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 22:16 Subject: Re: recover ext3 deletion On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:58:52PM -0800, nate wrote: >> I too am very bad at backing up my personal data, I do back it up >> but i

Re: cups gets page sizes wrong

2002-11-08 Thread David Purton
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 08:11:54PM -0800, nate wrote: > David Purton said: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to get cups to print using the correct pages sizes. > > > These values (in points I assume) match exactly what the printer > > manual suggests, but fail completely to be what cups is using as

Re: apt-get perl mods?

2002-11-08 Thread cmustard
Hey Tom, Yes, i do use cpan but there are a number of things i don't like about it. One is that it always looks for the newest versions of things ( whether you wan't them or not) A recent example is i tried to install the `libwww' perl library via cpan for 3 days with tons of errors and dependancy

Re: CUPS, what's wrong?

2002-11-08 Thread Graeme Tank
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 02:30:21PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Calber Chainy said: > > Hello list: > > > > I wanted to have a print server and heard of cups. > > > > I want to have remote control of the server and heard i could do it easily using > > cups and a navig

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:58:52PM -0800, nate wrote: > I too am very bad at backing up my personal data, I do back it up > but its not often(maybe once or twice a year). Now that I have a DAT > drive I may start doing it more often though. If you're bad at making backups, or don't have the means

Re: cups gets page sizes wrong

2002-11-08 Thread nate
David Purton said: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to get cups to print using the correct pages sizes. > These values (in points I assume) match exactly what the printer > manual suggests, but fail completely to be what cups is using as per the > above imageable area data. > > How can I make cups use the d

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread nate
Rick Macdonald said: > Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current > directory? That would probably have saved this poor fellow as he may have > seen that he was not in /floppy as he thought. it does, unless you changed the default behavior. on every debian system I have used

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread nate
Jeff Cours said: > systems. Windows gets partway there with the trash can, I guess, but it KDE and Gnome have trashcans.. and the windows recycle bin/trash doesn't protect against deltree /y or del from the command prompt(last I checked which I admit was years ago since on every windows box I u

Re: cups gets page sizes wrong

2002-11-08 Thread Russell
David Purton wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get cups to print using the correct pages sizes. I'm running testing and using an hp laserjet 6l with the pcl-6 gimp-print driver. The values for page sizes / imagable area / etc in the ppd file all appear to be correct, but when I print a test page for cup

Re: users still logged in

2002-11-08 Thread nate
Matthew Daubenspeck said: > After having a mess of connection problems that caused my ssh sessions to > drop, I noticed that the 'w' command still thinks there are users logged > in that I know are not. check the process table to see if shells for those ttys are still open. e.g. [aphro@portal:~

users still logged in

2002-11-08 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
After having a mess of connection problems that caused my ssh sessions to drop, I noticed that the 'w' command still thinks there are users logged in that I know are not. How can I fix it? msg11870/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

cups gets page sizes wrong

2002-11-08 Thread David Purton
Hi, I'm trying to get cups to print using the correct pages sizes. I'm running testing and using an hp laserjet 6l with the pcl-6 gimp-print driver. The values for page sizes / imagable area / etc in the ppd file all appear to be correct, but when I print a test page for cups, it gives this (my

Re: disable auto logoff

2002-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Aravind Vinnakota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-08 19:09:58 -0500]: > I am logging into the machine using my user account and my home > directory mounts from the NFS server when I login. The problem now > is, when I leave the system logged on for a while, the system is > actually getting logged off,

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Harvey Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-08 21:45:40 +]: > > Oh my. I cannot believe what I did. > > # rm -rf * > > I've been digging around and stumbled across recover, but seem unable > (?) to get it to work, though I have ext3, not ext2 on the drive. http://www.gnu.org/software/fil

Re: X - window manager - desktop

2002-11-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 08 November 2002 19:08, David Z Maze wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:46PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > >> Now for my next question, do desktops such as gnome and kde require a > >> specific version of window manager? > > > > Not that I kno

Re: X - window manager - desktop

2002-11-08 Thread David Z Maze
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:46PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: >> Now for my next question, do desktops such as gnome and kde require a >> specific version of window manager? > > Not that I know of. I've heard rumors that KDE only really works well with kw

Sound problems in Gnome

2002-11-08 Thread A R
When I run Gnome I get some sound problem, for example: tony@debian:~$ saydate sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy tony@debian:~$ Only cdplay seems to work fine, xmms gives also trouble, complains. However, if I logout and get back right away through kde or any other win

Re: XML::Simple

2002-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:15:13PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > What is the package for XML::Simple? > > Obvious choice would be: libxml-simple-perl > > but it mentioned XML::Parser and said nothing about XML::Simple... Your obvious choice is correct. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

XML::Simple

2002-11-08 Thread Tom Allison
What is the package for XML::Simple? Obvious choice would be: libxml-simple-perl but it mentioned XML::Parser and said nothing about XML::Simple... -- Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:14:38AM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: > Nope. I get lots of inodes from July (?), the partition is unmounted, but > not for long - got to get on with it haven't I? Price of an education > and all that. Been there, done that. It's never fun. Can I suggest using revision c

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:43:21PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current > directory? That would probably have saved this poor fellow as he may have > seen that he was not in /floppy as he thought. Surely it is relatively easy to change th

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:14:38AM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: > Nope. I get lots of inodes from July (?), the partition is unmounted, but > not for long - got to get on with it haven't I? Price of an education > and all that. Strange but an advance, it would seem, on what recover gave you. Hop

Re: unclean netsaint removal [SOLVED]

2002-11-08 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "Benedict Verheyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 1:07 AM Subject: unclean netsaint removal > Hi, > > i installed and afterwards purged netsaint/unstable. However, it didn't > want to go cleanly :-) A

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Harvey Kelly
Nope. I get lots of inodes from July (?), the partition is unmounted, but not for long - got to get on with it haven't I? Price of an education and all that. Thanks anyway, Harvey On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:27:58AM +, Brian Potkin wrote: > As far as I am aware debugfs can cope with an ext3

Re: Noob -- static IP when booting from floppy?

2002-11-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Dan Gapinski said: > Hello, > > if I change the ip address using ifconfig, I seem to lose it & go back > to DCHP when I reboot. What do I edit to make my ip static? /etc/network/interfaces > Can I also check on services (named, httpd, postfix) to make sure that > th

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Rick Macdonald
Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current directory? That would probably have saved this poor fellow as he may have seen that he was not in /floppy as he thought. > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:45:40PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> Oh my. I cannot believe wh

Re: X - window manager - desktop

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:46PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > So window manager is optional but not really necessary? Optional but rather necissary. > Now for my next question, do desktops such as gnome and kde require a > specific version of window manager? Not that I know of. -- .''`.

Re: Best way to implement php4.2 (or sablotron libraries) on testing

2002-11-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michelle Murrain said: > Hi folks, > > I need a suggestion. I've got a box running testing, which has the php > version 4.1.2. Just about everything with that is OK - except for the > xslt support. I *need* the xslt module of version 4.2.3, because of > the improved su

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Jeff Cours
nate wrote: I have no suggestions other then do backups, but I feel your pain. There are methods that can be implimented in linux to help restore files(try searching freshmeat for undelete) but last I looked they required the methods to be implimented at the time of the deletion. You know, it'd

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:45:40PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: > Dear All, > > Oh my. I cannot believe what I did. > > # rm -rf * > > Whilst in my /home directory - I thought I was in /floppy. > > I've been digging around and stumbled across recover, but seem unable > (?) to get it to work,

Re: procmail slow email delivery

2002-11-08 Thread Richard Otte
Hi, I ran eximconfig and created a new /etc/exim/exim.conf file. With this things are working, in that mail is not handled twice by exim, and there is no long delay before I get my email. A few weeks ago I did a dist-upgade to testing, and now think that I should have run eximconfig then. I'm s

disable auto logoff

2002-11-08 Thread Aravind Vinnakota
Hi all, I am using Debian 3.0 on a x86 machine. I am logging into the machine using my user account and my home directory mounts from the NFS server when I login. The problem now is, when I leave the system logged on for a while, the system is actually getting logged off, thus preventing me from

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread nate
nate said: > Harvey Kelly said: > but making sense of the data is entirely different. Recovering hundreds or > thousands of blocks of data doesn't do me much good if files are split up > in different blocks/(inodes), and some inodes may have bits of more then > one file. I forgot to mention but

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread nate
Harvey Kelly said: > And I'm back at the prompt, with nothing recovered as I can tell. > Please, where am I going wrong? In addition to losing everything (no > back-ups, I know, I know), a 3,000 word essay due in Monday has been lost. hate it when that happens ..I've tried to do the same after

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Harvey Kelly
Damn. I'm starting the blasted essay again. Thanks to Craig too. Harvey Mark Ferlatte wrote: begin Harvey Kelly quote on Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:05:10PM +: Do you think I should start writing to essay again - or would it be possible to convert the partition to ext2, and use recover?

Need recomendations for a good sound card

2002-11-08 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I need some advise. I'm sick of trying to make my SBLive!Value play midi (without timidity). over the years, I sometimes succeeded and sometimes not. I'm looking for a descent card that is well supported. Any ideas? thanx -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Problems with new X 4.2

2002-11-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:14:13PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 02:39:17 +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:08:49AM +, Pigeon wrote: > >> Compiled v4.2 of X today. > > > >I'm wondering why you don't just use the Debian source package .

eth0 is not found after recompile of 2.4.19 kernel

2002-11-08 Thread Joris Lambrecht
// Please reply to all ... Hello people and experts :-) Some issues while trying to get an it-is-all-on the motherboard solution to work with linux. The board in question is an Abit AT7 MAX (not a MAX2) wich uses the KT333 chipset together with some Realtek-chips to make an all-in solution. The

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Craig Dickson
Harvey Kelly wrote: > Do you think I should start writing to essay again - or would it be > possible to convert the partition to ext2, and use recover? Or am I > just being overly hopeful? You're being overly hopeful. If it were that easy, recover would have worked. (Converting from ext3 to ex

Re: alsa: no device

2002-11-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:37:54PM +0100, Thaden wrote: > I'm running debian sarge, and after reading a good many google hints, > faqs, etc (also the bit on linuxorbit.com) i still can't get alsa to > play any sound. > alsa starts up well at boottime, but any application using alsa quits > with err

Re: sound enhancing software?

2002-11-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:13:55PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > Hello all, > > I was wandering, what sound enhancing software are available for linux? I > hate to make the comparison with Windows but one of the reasons why I keep > it is because of soundblaster live's audio hq and sound mixer. 'a

Re: multi-TB diskarrays ???

2002-11-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:22:21PM -0800, Derek Gladding wrote: > Personally, I use ext3 for simplicity's sake (only ~300G of disc to worry > about), but there is a big performance price to pay for that simplicity. I've > never used any of the others, but I get the general impression (from commen

Re: gpg key signing protocol question

2002-11-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:22:40PM -0500, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.07.1327 -0500]: > > If I don't though, gpg won't go look it up. Is this normal? Anyone > > know the fix for this? I've poked around and prodded the options in > > my mu

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Mark Ferlatte
begin Harvey Kelly quote on Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:05:10PM +: > Do you think I should start writing to essay again - or would it be > possible to convert the partition to ext2, and use recover? Or am I > just being overly hopeful? Sorry man, I suspect that you're hozed. Something that yo

Re: Promise RAID install problems

2002-11-08 Thread Peter Karlsson
Eduard Bloch: > Not true, there are lots of boards with Highpoint controllers. I've learned to loathe Highpoint controllers from other machines I've been working with, but perhaps support has been improved since (that was in 2000). > Thanks for reminding me, I have just updated the Woody Preload

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Harvey Kelly
Hiya, Do you think I should start writing to essay again - or would it be possible to convert the partition to ext2, and use recover? Or am I just being overly hopeful? And yeah, point taken about backing up. Harvey Craig Dickson wrote: Harvey Kelly wrote: Oh my. I cannot believe what

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Craig Dickson
Harvey Kelly wrote: > Oh my. I cannot believe what I did. > > # rm -rf * > > Whilst in my /home directory - I thought I was in /floppy. > > I've been digging around and stumbled across recover, but seem unable > (?) to get it to work, though I have ext3, not ext2 on the drive. I don't thin

Re: Bayesian Mail Filter

2002-11-08 Thread Craig Dickson
Richard Kimber wrote: > On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:28:48 +1100 > "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have been using bmf to filter spam, for about a week now. It is > > superb. I know I am still receiving spam, but I don't care as I don't > > have to sort through heaps of crap anymo

recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Harvey Kelly
Dear All, Oh my. I cannot believe what I did. # rm -rf * Whilst in my /home directory - I thought I was in /floppy. I've been digging around and stumbled across recover, but seem unable (?) to get it to work, though I have ext3, not ext2 on the drive. I run as root: recover -a Scanning d

Re: networking woes with 2.4 kernel

2002-11-08 Thread Jeff Cours
Donald R. Spoon wrote: I took a peek at your "troubleshooting.txt" file and it seems to me that when you tried inserting the 8139too module in step 24 it suceeded, but the IRQ of 19 is a bit "weird"to me. Just for grins, and to complete all the basic stuff, could you check in your BIOS and ma

Re: Bayesian Mail Filter

2002-11-08 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:28:48 +1100 "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been using bmf to filter spam, for about a week now. It is > superb. I know I am still receiving spam, but I don't care as I don't > have to sort through heaps of crap anymore. > > Credit where credit is

Re: linux support/services

2002-11-08 Thread j2
> 1. Has anybody been doing or thinking of doing something similiar? www.experts-exchange.com maybe? Been around since '95 or so? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Promise RAID install problems

2002-11-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Peter Karlsson [Fri, Nov 08 2002, 08:46:23PM]: > > these are really bad cards to use with under Linux. > > I noticed that. The problem is that it is hard to get motherboards with > other built-in RAID controllers... :-/ Not true, there are lots of boards with Highpoint controllers. T

linux support/services

2002-11-08 Thread Andreas
Dear debian-users, I've been thinking for a while now about doing something worthwhile with my spare (IT) time: Offering free Open Source/Linux support in my city. (To help people with moving to Open Source etc.) Support would be via email, telephone and even site visits. (and bigger projects co

Re: Anyone gotten PHP4 working under unstable?

2002-11-08 Thread Mike
Things just got stranger. It's working now. Sort of. If I access the file as http://localhost/~mike/date.php3 it still gives me the same error (not being parsed). But if I access it as http://rez.homelinux.org/~mike/date.php3 it works. Is this a "feature" of Apache and/or PHP4? -- Mike We

Re: X - window manager - desktop

2002-11-08 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 08 November 2002, 01:01 PM -0500): > >From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: X - window manager - desktop > >Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 23:06:00 -0800 > > > >On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:35:33AM -0500, Bruce Park

Noob -- static IP when booting from floppy?

2002-11-08 Thread Dan Gapinski
Hello, if I change the ip address using ifconfig, I seem to lose it & go back to DCHP when I reboot. What do I edit to make my ip static? Can I also check on services (named, httpd, postfix) to make sure that they start automatically too? Many thanks, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Trashed partition table

2002-11-08 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 08:49:07PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > 08.11.2002 18:01:57, Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I installed some other OS and id overworte the MBR, to make a long > >story short, I booted with ethe second woody disc and went for the > >rescue opti

Re: public lending right

2002-11-08 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 8, 2002 04:48 am, Chris Lale wrote: > 4. What printed documentation might be included in the form of a booklet? > - Installation Manual (from Debian Web site). > - Documents from the Newbiedoc Project at Sourceforge. > - Other suggestions please? I think a printed and bound copy of the

Re: Trashed partition table

2002-11-08 Thread Michael Naumann
08.11.2002 18:01:57, Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >I installed some other OS and id overworte the MBR, to make a long >story short, I booted with ethe second woody disc and went for the >rescue option at which point I was surprised to find out that fsck >claimed one of the par

Re: Promise RAID install problems

2002-11-08 Thread Peter Karlsson
nate: Thanks for your reply. > these are really bad cards to use with under Linux. I noticed that. The problem is that it is hard to get motherboards with other built-in RAID controllers... :-/ > it looks to only support raid0, Too bad, the only reason I use RAID is to do mirroring. Anyway, I

Re: installing window managers ...

2002-11-08 Thread daves selby
On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 11:31 pm, you wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:44:53PM +, daves debian wrote: > > I can configure extra session types via KDE controll centre. > > They then come up on the KDM graphical menu for login. > > > > On red hat I then modified > > /etc/X11/xdm/Xsessi

Installing KDE=crashing Gnome?

2002-11-08 Thread DSC Siltec
Hi -- I have an interesting problem: (1) I had Woody / KDM / (KDE/Gnome/TWM). I decided to upgrade KDE, since the old version crashed anyhow on my own user name. (2) I deinstalled KDE (3) I upgraded Woody to Sid. (meanwhile using Gnome and KDM) (4) I installed KDE 3.0.4 through dselect.

Re: parted - compilation problems - solved

2002-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 06:09:04AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 04:58, Colin Watson wrote: > > $ grep-available -P uuid [...] > Don't have grep-available It's in the grep-dctrl package, one of the ones I install on any Debian system I find myself running. -- Colin Watson

Re: "heavy lock contention"?

2002-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:17:06PM -0800, John Joe wrote: > sorry this is not Debian question, but could you > kindly explain "heavy lock contention", and especially > the "heavy" in it? Actually it looks like a homework question to me, like the "wire-level" one a day or two ago. I don't know abo

Re: dockable apps for icewm?

2002-11-08 Thread Jens Grivolla
"Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:00:25PM +0100, Jens Grivolla wrote: > > Does anybody know of such applets? > > There aren't any applets; icewm's architecture is radically different > from e.g. Gnome. > > Much of the "lightness" in icewm comes from th

Re: "heavy lock contention"?

2002-11-08 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 23:17:06 -0800 (PST), John Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >sorry this is not Debian question, but could you >kindly explain "heavy lock contention", and especially >the "heavy" in it? > >The standard piped streams, while safe and reliable, >leave much to be desired in terms of

Re: listmaster helps not, maybe you will

2002-11-08 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:41:30 +0100 (CET), Masta Dry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How will you ever be able to help anyone, if you only >receive posts which >> are replies to your posts ? >> >> Matt > >I read the postsings at google groups. >I am a total newbie in debian. >The activity is pretty h

Re: Booting Linux from windows 2000

2002-11-08 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:45:40 -0500, Gleef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:56:48PM +0100, Bruno BEAUFILS wrote: >> >> I know that this question is not specially relevant to debian, but I >> do not know where to ask it anywhere else :-( >> >> I want to boot a bunch of dual-bo

RE: Help! IBM xSeries 360

2002-11-08 Thread Kimsey-Hickman, Brian
That would be the Woody 3.0r0 running the 2.2.20 kernel. Sorry, I should have mentioned that. As it worked out I was able to get the installation to work using the floppy disks under /dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21 on the debian-30r0-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso image. I installed the

Best way to implement php4.2 (or sablotron libraries) on testing

2002-11-08 Thread Michelle Murrain
Hi folks, I need a suggestion. I've got a box running testing, which has the php version 4.1.2. Just about everything with that is OK - except for the xslt support. I *need* the xslt module of version 4.2.3, because of the improved support for the sablotron libraries. I'm trying to figure out

Re: parted - compilation problems solved

2002-11-08 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 05:05, you wrote: > Have you done an 'apt-get build-dep parted'? When I tested it, it > wanted to install "libncurses5-dev libreadline4-dev libreiserfs0.3-0 > libreiserfs0.3-dev uuid-dev" so uuid-dev is probably what you are > looking for... apt-get build-dep .. got nowhere but

Re: parted - compilation problems - solved

2002-11-08 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 04:58, Colin Watson wrote: > $ grep-available -P uuid > Package: uuid-dev > Priority: extra > Section: devel > Installed-Size: 104 > Maintainer: Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: i386 > Source: e2fsprogs (1.29+1.30-WIP-0930-2) > Version: 1.2-1.29+1

Re: networking woes with 2.4 kernel

2002-11-08 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Jeff Cours wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it's a simple matter of the ethernet card's module. I went through the installation process again last night and kept a written log: Any other suggestions? I

Re: Kernel crash after floppy mount - help needed

2002-11-08 Thread nate
Scott Ehrlich said: > Here's what happens. > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address > 0028 I've had this problem several times before, and every time it's been the result of bad memory. I reccomend getting memtest86 and running it on your system but only test 1

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