Re: [xine] No NAV button

2002-11-10 Thread Travis Crump
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 22:23:29 -0500, Travis Crump wrote: xine-dvdnav 0.9.8 isn't compatible with xine 0.9.13. If you look at the messages that spew out when you start xine you will notice it complain about an input plugin api mismatch. Upgrade xine-dvdnav to the uns

[OT] Re: World Higher Ed: Gender Balanced True Govt(s) OutgrowingMostly-Monogendermt(s)

2002-11-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 13:50, John wrote: > > > I refer you to "Sex and Politics in Australia" by H.M. Revelman where it > is explained in very simple terms how striving for gender equal > representation in government is actually non-democratic Thats assuming Australia is a democracy. Which it

Re: Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!

2002-11-10 Thread Pigeon
On 10 Nov 2002 18:48:44 -0600, Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I can boot using my install CD, unpack the .deb manually and copy *.so >> to /usr/lib. But of course ldconfig is broken too, so I can't tell the >> machine its libraries are back. >>

Re: Looking to switch to debian...

2002-11-10 Thread vanillicat
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:59:02PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: > Big question here--NVidia drivers. Does Debian handle them well? I've installed them several times now, and have yet to run into any problems. Debian has nvidia package as well to track them, as mentioned. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Problem with DRI and ati 128 card

2002-11-10 Thread Dave North
The recent update on sarge to xfree86 4.2 (I hope I got that right) broke DRI on my ati 128 card. I was able to fix this by replacing the two new files /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/r128_dri.so and /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o with the older ones from woody. I have no idea what package i

Re: repost - anybody knows power-point substitute?

2002-11-10 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:28:16PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > >I have been able to open up "most" Powerpoint presentations with Open > >Office here, but it isn't 100% perfect. OpenOffice seems to do a decent > >job on M$ Office files. I have no problems at all on M$Word or Excel. > > > > y

Re: [xine] No NAV button

2002-11-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 22:23:29 -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > xine-dvdnav 0.9.8 isn't compatible with xine 0.9.13. If you look at the > messages that spew out when you start xine you will notice it complain > about an input plugin api mismatch. Upgrade xine-dvdnav to the unstable > version(0.9

maxtrox fb issue

2002-11-10 Thread Tom Vier
i mentioned this on debian-alpha, but no reply. has anyone seen this on any other arch? i have a REALLY weird fb issue. tty2 (or vc2, whatever you want to call it) is screwed up. 1, 3, 4, etc. all work. but, when i switch to 2, my monitor says invalid sync. this is from a fresh boot, before runnin

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-10 Thread Jeff
Rob Weir, 2002-Nov-10 16:08 +1100: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 01:11:34AM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: > > Additionally, you need to set the encryption type, i.e. with: > > M-x set-variable RET crypt-encryption-type RET > > (C-h will show you help at this point) > > "gpg" RET > > then: > > M-x cryp

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-10 Thread Jeff
Gerald Livingston, 2002-Nov-08 22:54 -0600: > > I went googling and found a utility I had set up when I was first > playing with slackware years ago. It's called safedelete and creates a > "trashcan" like wrapper around 'rm'. I don't see it packaged anywhere > and the .rpm's I found while goggling

Re: file encryption

2002-11-10 Thread Jeff
Oleg, 2002-Nov-10 22:11 -0500: > Hi > > How can I encrypt a file in a PLATFORM-INDEPENDENT manner using a password so > that I can decrypt it later using the same password (e.g. on a different UNIX > or Windows/Cygwin machine)? > > Thanks > Oleg I just learned how to do this using gpg: $ gpg

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-10 Thread Jeff
Rob Weir, 2002-Nov-09 18:14 +1100: > 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 "S

Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-10 Thread Jeff
Christian Jaeger, 2002-Nov-10 01:11 +0100: > Additionally, you need to set the encryption type, i.e. with: > M-x set-variable RET crypt-encryption-type RET > (C-h will show you help at this point) > "gpg" RET > then: > M-x crypt-rebuild-tables > > Well, but I then get "Wrong type argument: stringp

DCOP problems... Kicker won't start at kdelaunch

2002-11-10 Thread pontus.edvardsson
Hi, I'm just returning (home) to Debian after a fieldtrip with Gentoo... I heard it should've been highly optimized, but what good is that when it crashes all the time?! :) Sadly something is broken on my system... I kind of noticed late last night that the GUI (in opera) started to act funny,

Re: Fik question about Debian source packages

2002-11-10 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 10:59:58 +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Read the FAQ: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-sourcepkgs > http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-sourcebuild > Grabbed. >Yes, you downloaded the right files. > Cool. Thanks! >

[OT] Re: World Higher Ed: Gender Balanced True Govt(s) OutgrowingMostly-Monogendermt(s)

2002-11-10 Thread John
I refer you to "Sex and Politics in Australia" by H.M. Revelman where it is explained in very simple terms how striving for gender equal representation in government is actually non-democratic and in fact is an artifact of the Multi-National Corporations Marketing Departments. It leads to the

World Higher Ed: Gender Balanced True Govt(s) Outgrowing Mostly-Monogendermt(s)

2002-11-10 Thread Higher Ed on True Government(s)
Concerned World Citizen, Student, Educator, Office-Holder and Activist: (This and similar messages are being shared by email and/or fax among female and male students, faculty, staff, activists, citizens and gender balanced officeholders, in over 80 institutions and at least 45 countries, who are

Re: repost - anybody knows power-point substitute?

2002-11-10 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 12:09:35AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 23:58, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > hello all, > > > > i am unable to find a utility that can handle ms powerpoint > > presentations. anybody who knows any solution? > > ppthtml - A program for converting Micros

Re: repost - anybody knows power-point substitute?

2002-11-10 Thread Alvin Oga
another one http://www.mew.org/mgp/ c ya alvin On 11 Nov 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > ppthtml - A program for converting Microsoft Power Point Files .ppt > kpresenter - a presentation program for the KDE Office Suite > and from gnome.org agnubis, but I cant seem to find it packaged in > debian

Re: repost - anybody knows power-point substitute?

2002-11-10 Thread John Griffiths
>I have been able to open up "most" Powerpoint presentations with Open >Office here, but it isn't 100% perfect. OpenOffice seems to do a decent >job on M$ Office files. I have no problems at all on M$Word or Excel. > you don't have to have a full version of office, MS do make "viewers" availa

Re: X 4.2 & virtual terminals

2002-11-10 Thread Mark Copper
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, nate wrote: > Mark Copper said: > > I think I've seen this question here lately but haven't been able to > > locate it. Sorry. > > > > I just upgraded to testing to get X 4.2 because it supports my card. Now > > X starts fine but (1) I can't cltrl-alt Fx to a virtual termina

Re: execute command from HTML page

2002-11-10 Thread Barney Wrightson
Matthias Hentges wrote: Am Mon, 2002-11-11 um 00.06 schrieb Hugh Saunders: hello, i have had major hassle attemting to use diald [wvdial works fine but diald does not] so, i want to create a simple html page to serve with apache so that machines on my network can click on one of two links 1: dia

Re: repost - anybody knows power-point substitute?

2002-11-10 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all, although i am getting increasingly comfortable with linux - and i thank this wonderful group for all the help - one problem still remains. off and on, i keep getting microsoft attachments. i have found suitable programs for msword and msexcel. however, i am st

RE: repost - anybody knows power-point substitute?

2002-11-10 Thread Andrew R Reid
Try OpenOffice Check out http://linux-debian.de/openoffice/install_build_howto.html -Original Message- From: sandip [mailto:deshmukh@;escortsmumbai.com] Sent: Monday, 11 November 2002 2:59 PM To: Debian User Subject: repost - anybody knows power-point substitute? hello all, although i

Re: repost - anybody knows power-point substitute?

2002-11-10 Thread Travis Crump
Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all, although i am getting increasingly comfortable with linux - and i thank this wonderful group for all the help - one problem still remains. off and on, i keep getting microsoft attachments. i have found suitable programs for msword and msexcel. however, i am st

Re: repost - anybody knows power-point substitute?

2002-11-10 Thread Scott Henson
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 23:58, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all, > > although i am getting increasingly comfortable with linux - and i thank > this wonderful group for all the help - one problem still remains. > > off and on, i keep getting microsoft attachments. i have found suitable > program

Re: file encryption

2002-11-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 10:11:29PM -0500, Oleg wrote: > Hi > > How can I encrypt a file in a PLATFORM-INDEPENDENT manner using a password so > that I can decrypt it later using the same password (e.g. on a different UNIX > or Windows/Cygwin machine)? gpg -c, --symmetric Encrypt with s

repost - anybody knows power-point substitute?

2002-11-10 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all, although i am getting increasingly comfortable with linux - and i thank this wonderful group for all the help - one problem still remains. off and on, i keep getting microsoft attachments. i have found suitable programs for msword and msexcel. however, i am stuck in case of ms powerpoi

Re: Unknown HZ value! (0) Assume 100.

2002-11-10 Thread Patrick Hsieh
> > in this case, I guess the kernel found HZ=100 is defined in the config file > but actually the HZ value in the system was 0. Hence it complained. > > It seems to be a harmless message, but very annoying. Is there any reason > why the kernel maintainers keep to print the message since it is not

Re: X 4.2 & virtual terminals

2002-11-10 Thread nate
Mark Copper said: > I think I've seen this question here lately but haven't been able to > locate it. Sorry. > > I just upgraded to testing to get X 4.2 because it supports my card. Now > X starts fine but (1) I can't cltrl-alt Fx to a virtual terminal, (2) > /etc/init.d/xdm stop not only kills X

Re: OT: awk problem

2002-11-10 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, it doesn't help...I tried putting it in a file - same exact problem. > I assume you ran it with mawk? (/usr/bin/awk links to > /etc/alternatives/awk which links to /usr/bin/mawk on my system). Yes. I have two architectures running and both worked fin

Re: signature in mutt

2002-11-10 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 11:04:53AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 03:42:29PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > earlier i had a .signature file that put my name etc in the e-mails. > > then i thought of adding a tagline to my messages and changed .muttrc > > to "fortune |". s

Re: OT: awk problem

2002-11-10 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 11:04:26PM -0500, Neal Lippman wrote: > No, it doesn't help...I tried putting it in a file - same exact problem. > I assume you ran it with mawk? (/usr/bin/awk links to > /etc/alternatives/awk which links to /usr/bin/mawk on my system). Have you tried running it through gaw

Re: Linux installs but does not "see" NIC

2002-11-10 Thread Kent West
John Foster wrote: I have been unable to connect to any Debian sites to finish the installation. I "think" its a dns issue but I am not sure. BTW: I use a static IP address not a DHCP server and I connect via my own IP service provider via DSL to the net. The network was finally configured using

Re: Knoppix-Piggy and Debian installer

2002-11-10 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 22:07, Gerald Livingston wrote: > On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 21:52:01 -0500 > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This one time, at band camp, Mark L. Kahnt said: > > > You and me both fumbling at this - my hope was that there was > > > something I was overlooking - maybe

Re: Linux installs but does not "see" NIC

2002-11-10 Thread John Foster
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions!!! Turns out this is a hardware issue. It seems that when I installed the disks with Debian already installed from my old box and it ran superbly I did not really look into the bios setup carefully. The 2.4.19_custom kernel was compiled to run with everythin

Re: systemwide fetchmail

2002-11-10 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:52:32AM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: > > Sandip> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:38:22AM -0500, Stephen Gran > Sandip> wrote: > >> This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > is not > >> there a way in wh

Re: file encryption

2002-11-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 11:11, Oleg wrote: > Hi > > How can I encrypt a file in a PLATFORM-INDEPENDENT manner using a password so > that I can decrypt it later using the same password (e.g. on a different UNIX > or Windows/Cygwin machine)? OpenSSL. Its cross platform. try: openssl enc -h Kind R

Re: OT: awk problem

2002-11-10 Thread Neal Lippman
No, it doesn't help...I tried putting it in a file - same exact problem. I assume you ran it with mawk? (/usr/bin/awk links to /etc/alternatives/awk which links to /usr/bin/mawk on my system). nl On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 22:53, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > It works for me although I did place your scri

Re: broadcom netXtreme gigabit ethernet module

2002-11-10 Thread Allan Wind
On 2002-11-10 21:35:45, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I checked google, asus.com and broadcom.com with no luck. Not sure > where else to dig as this is relatively new. Wondering if some other > driver is capable of working at the 100M level as I don't really need > the 1G speed since the other end of the

Re: OT: awk problem

2002-11-10 Thread Elizabeth Barham
It works for me although I did place your script into a file and ran it as: awk -f neals-script.awk /etc/services { if (index($0,"@") == 0 && index($0,"--none---") == 0) { if(substr($0,1,1) == "#") { print $0; } else { TMP = $1"\t\t"$2"\t\t#";

Re: Unknown HZ value! (0) Assume 100.

2002-11-10 Thread Patrick Hsieh
> > I don't know. But the HZ value is set in /etc/login.defs, in my case > like this: > > ENV_HZ HZ=100 > > > Also, quoted from 'man login.defs': > > ENV_HZ (string) > This parameter specifies a value for an HZ environ� > ment parameter. Example usage is: > >

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

2002-11-10 Thread Johannes Berth
* Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Now, what can I do about the C shell and the Korn shell? Are those > also not free? http://www.kornshell.com/ http://web.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: no login console ?

2002-11-10 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sunny" == Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sunny> hey ladies How can I have my system not prompt me for a Sunny> user name and password when connect to a computer through Sunny> serial console ?? Sunny> Basically, I'd like to be ablet to connect via serial Sunny> c

Re: [xine] No NAV button

2002-11-10 Thread Travis Crump
Vincent Lefevre wrote: With xine, I don't have a NAV button, though I think I've installed all the necessary packages: ii libdvdcss2 1.2.1-1A portable abstraction library for DVD decry ii libdvdnav1 0.1.3-1The DVD navigation library ii libdvdread20.9.3-2Simp

Re: Looking to switch to debian...

2002-11-10 Thread ZephyrQ
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 09:22, Rob Weir wrote: > > I'm coming from SuSE 8.0 and have been increasingly frustrated with the > > direction SuSE is going (first installed SuSE 5 years ago) and several > > have suggested that Debian was the way for me to go. I am looking for > > the following: > >

Re: no login console ? (sorry if repeat)

2002-11-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:58:33PM -0500, Sunny Dubey wrote: > hey ladies Who? Your second post. > How can I have my system not prompt me for a user name and password when > connect to a computer through serial console ?? > > Basically, I'd like to be ablet to connect via serial console, and be

OT: awk problem

2002-11-10 Thread Neal Lippman
Sorry for another OT post here, but this is the best place I've found for linux knowledge even when not debian specific. I am trying to write a short awk script to process my /etc/services file into a format that the utilities supplied with yp/nis can correctly handle. What I need to do is to pars

Re: Unknown HZ value! (0) Assume 100.

2002-11-10 Thread nate
Patrick Hsieh said: > Hello list, > > I began to see this message when I type ps in Debian woody kernel 2.4.16. > I searched the google and was noticed that it could be a bug in libproc. > Is it true? Any way to fix this problem? > not really a bug, just a harmless message. I first enocuntered th

X 4.2 & virtual terminals

2002-11-10 Thread Mark Copper
I think I've seen this question here lately but haven't been able to locate it. Sorry. I just upgraded to testing to get X 4.2 because it supports my card. Now X starts fine but (1) I can't cltrl-alt Fx to a virtual terminal, (2) /etc/init.d/xdm stop not only kills X but it also kills any furthe

file encryption

2002-11-10 Thread Oleg
Hi How can I encrypt a file in a PLATFORM-INDEPENDENT manner using a password so that I can decrypt it later using the same password (e.g. on a different UNIX or Windows/Cygwin machine)? Thanks Oleg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

no login console ?

2002-11-10 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey ladies How can I have my system not prompt me for a user name and password when connect to a computer through serial console ?? Basically, I'd like to be ablet to connect via serial console, and be given a root prompt first thing. Thanks in advance for any help Sunny Dubey -- To UNSUBSC

no login console ? (sorry if repeat)

2002-11-10 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey ladies How can I have my system not prompt me for a user name and password when connect to a computer through serial console ?? Basically, I'd like to be ablet to connect via serial console, and be given a root prompt first thing. Thanks in advance for any help Sunny Dubey -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Knoppix-Piggy and Debian installer

2002-11-10 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 21:52:01 -0500 Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Mark L. Kahnt said: > > You and me both fumbling at this - my hope was that there was > > something I was overlooking - maybe filtering or firewall (I've > > tried this with every part of thos

Re: Knoppix-Piggy and Debian installer

2002-11-10 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Mark L. Kahnt said: > You and me both fumbling at this - my hope was that there was > something I was overlooking - maybe filtering or firewall (I've tried > this with every part of those shut off) or even some sort of > management setting on how much bandwidth I can br

Re: Qt compiling problem

2002-11-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 04:13, Jhon Doe wrote: > I don't know the rules of this mailing list, so I assumed that it would be more >kindly to send the code > and error files separate. So I have attached main.cpp, Makefile, book.ui, book.pro >and the error msg as > error.msg. I played with y

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broadcom netXtreme gigabit ethernet module

2002-11-10 Thread Kevin Coyner
Trying to figure out what module driver to use during installation for an ASUS P4PE motherboard that has a built-in Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet. I checked google, asus.com and broadcom.com with no luck. Not sure where else to dig as this is relatively new. Wondering if some other driver

LaTeX and loops

2002-11-10 Thread Paul M Foster
Anyone who knows how to do loops (like for loops) in LaTeX, could you please contact me offlist? (This is way too esoteric for anyone else to be interested.) Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Knoppix-Piggy and Debian installer

2002-11-10 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 19:09, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Mark L. Kahnt said: > > On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 17:44, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > ulimit -a show anything? What size is the file when it dies? > > > > That's part of it, nothing locally really seems to show anywhere as >

[xine] No NAV button

2002-11-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
With xine, I don't have a NAV button, though I think I've installed all the necessary packages: ii libdvdcss2 1.2.1-1A portable abstraction library for DVD decry ii libdvdnav1 0.1.3-1The DVD navigation library ii libdvdread20.9.3-2Simple foundation for readin

Re: Unknown HZ value! (0) Assume 100.

2002-11-10 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Patrick" == Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> Hello list, I began to see this message when I type ps in Patrick> Debian woody kernel 2.4.16. I searched the google and was Patrick> noticed that it could be a bug in libproc. Is it true? Patrick> Any way to fix

Easy way to modify Knoppix?

2002-11-10 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I'd like to put Knoppix on a rewritable CD so I'd be able to upgrade (and even change it) without wasting the CD -- but the image is too bug (700 Mb will fit on my CD-Rs, but not on my CD-RW disks). So I thought I would mount the compressed image, chroot into it, and use dpkg to change it.

Re: ASUS P4B533 Motherboard

2002-11-10 Thread Kourosh
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:54:58AM +1100, Graham Williams wrote: > Received Sun 10 Nov 2002 10:53am +1100 from Graham Williams: > > Received Sun 10 Nov 2002 8:08am +1100 from Bill Moseley: > > > > > At 07:22 AM 11/10/02 +1100, Graham Williams wrote: > > > > ... Debain 3.0 on an ASUS P4B533 based

Re: Unknown HZ value! (0) Assume 100.

2002-11-10 Thread Patrick Hsieh
I saw this on linux-kernel mailing list. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-21/0756.html So what can I do for my Debian woody? -- Patrick Hsieh<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Pubilc Key at http://www.ezplay.tv/~pahud/pahudatezplay.pubkey MD5 checksum: b948362c94655b74b33e859d58b8de9

Re: modprobe is automatically calling ifup/ifconfig. Why?

2002-11-10 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Joe" == Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joe> Actually, this is happening before /etc/rcS.d/S39ifupdown Joe> gets run. In fact, I've pretty much traced it down to Joe> /etc/rcS.d/S20modutils. Joe> I can also repeat this from the command line like so: Joe> joesla

Re: POSIX shell

2002-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-10 19:41:08 -0500]: > This one time, at band camp, Bruce Park said: > > What exactly is a POSIX shell? > It is a shell that complies with the Portable Operating System Interface > - basically, system calls, expected behaviors and that sort of thing. > Make

Re: Howto add a crontab job ?

2002-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Joyce, Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-11 10:47:51 +1100]: > > > I have put this in using crontab -e so that all the info is there when > > > I do my next edit: > > > #minute (0-59) > > > #|hour (0-23) > > > #|| day of the month (1-31) > > > #|| | mon

Re: Securing debian

2002-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Joyce, Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-11 10:03:10 +1100]: > At the moment I have to ask for ports to be opened on our networks router, > and they are not really happy with me going back to them again and again, > asking for new ports to be opened. > > Should I ask for all access control to b

Re: Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!

2002-11-10 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can boot using my install CD, unpack the .deb manually and copy *.so > to /usr/lib. But of course ldconfig is broken too, so I can't tell the > machine its libraries are back. > > Please can someone tell me how to do ldconfig's job by hand... Try using the

Re: POSIX shell

2002-11-10 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Bruce Park said: > What exactly is a POSIX shell? > > bp It is a shell that complies with the Portable Operating System Interface - basically, system calls, expected behaviors and that sort of thing. Makes it easier for programmers to write cross-platform programs. G

Re: aptitude not working after using alien

2002-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-10 14:54:11 -0500]: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >Yes. But if the package has already been uninstalled then you can't > >purge it. You must install it again and then remove it using purge. > > Sure you can, I just tried it. I did dpkg -l | grep ^rc, picked a

POSIX shell

2002-11-10 Thread Bruce Park
What exactly is a POSIX shell? bp _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

2002-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-10 16:33:19 -0500]: > > After doing some research, I found out that ash is a clone of a bourne > shell from BSD. Yes. But it is a modern clone and has all of the modern features and is very standards conforming. But it is not the old Bourne shell. > I w

Unknown HZ value! (0) Assume 100.

2002-11-10 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I began to see this message when I type ps in Debian woody kernel 2.4.16. I searched the google and was noticed that it could be a bug in libproc. Is it true? Any way to fix this problem? My system info: # uname -a Linux luke 2.4.16 #7 SMP Thu Dec 13 09:09:23 CST 2001 i686 unknown #

Re: execute command from HTML page

2002-11-10 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mon, 2002-11-11 um 00.06 schrieb Hugh Saunders: > hello, i have had major hassle attemting to use diald > [wvdial works fine but diald does not] > so, i want to create a simple html page to serve with apache so that machines on my >network can click on one of two links > 1: dialup -execute wvdi

Re: Knoppix-Piggy and Debian installer

2002-11-10 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Mark L. Kahnt said: > On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 17:44, Stephen Gran wrote: > > ulimit -a show anything? What size is the file when it dies? > > That's part of it, nothing locally really seems to show anywhere as > being a problem, and the stuff I've dug into for some info

Re: WordPerfect 8.0 or WordPerfect Office 2000

2002-11-10 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi All & Karsten, who responded to my call for help. Thanx guys :-) H :-) "Our products just aren't engineered for security."-- Brian Valentine, senior vice president in charge of Microsoft's Windows development team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Securing debian

2002-11-10 Thread Chris Cioffi
Joyce, Matthew wrote: Should I ask for all access control to be removed from the ip address of the box, and then secure the box within debian, or is it well worth having that extra level of security on the router ? It is worth the security of the router. Unless you are very very very sure t

Re: RFC: Caps Lock

2002-11-10 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-11-10 17:36]: >I want to get my caps lock key a new purpose (because I absolutely >despise the current one) and want to hear your opinion about it. Thanks to all who answered! Thorsten -- Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom

Re: Disk boot failure

2002-11-10 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 09:35:27 +0100, Martin Juhlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Normally (at least on my floppy) don't know if inserted the cable >upside-down in the connection on the motherboard or in the floppy drive. Just >try to flip one-by-one and see if any of the four combination work. >

Re: Securing debian

2002-11-10 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:03:10AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Hi, > > I work with a network, which is part of a much bigger network. The big > network is managed by someone else. > > I am setting up a debian box, it will eventually do mail and web stuff for > us. > > At the moment I hav

Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!

2002-11-10 Thread Pigeon
I've been stupid... My gcc broke, giving me unresolved-symbol linker errors eg. about atexit in crt1.o when compiling a hello-world. I guessed this was due to me "dpkg -i"ing libc6-2.2.5 and overriding dependencies cos I was fed up. So I thought I'd uninstall it and reinstall my original one (2.0

RE: Howto add a crontab job ?

2002-11-10 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> on Sun, Nov 10, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > > > > > I use crontab -e to edit my personal crontab. The format > that you > > > are > > > looking for is: > > > > > > > > > * * * * * \n > > > > > > The first star is the minutes

Re: procmail slow email delivery

2002-11-10 Thread Ric Otte
Shyamal, Among other very useful things, you wrote: > This is the key part. Your mail is being delivered to ric@otte, and > I'm guessing this is fetchmail. But "otte" is not a local domain, so > it is being sent to your smart host. My question would be: where > exactly did you ask fetcmail to drop

Re: ATI video All-In-Wonder & TV

2002-11-10 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Egor Tur wrote: Hi. I have ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X based on bt829 chip. What driver should I use in order to see TV? I have 2.4.19 kernell. Who have such card and who use TV? I try GATOS but it do not work in my. Does BTTV driver work with this chip? Thanx. Well, I h

Re: RFC: Caps Lock

2002-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 10, 2002, Thorsten Haude ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I want to get my caps lock key a new purpose (because I absolutely > despise the current one) and want to hear your opinion about it. > > There are several options: > - a second ctrl key > - make a Modn key from the OS key,

Re: WordPerfect 8.0 or WordPerfect Office 2000

2002-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 11, 2002, Haralambos Geortgilakis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi All, > > anyone hereabouts have joy getting either or both of these old beasts of > verbal burden up & running on Debian 3.0? > > If so, any trix for one new to Debian & whose old Tux trix fail Possibly at R

Re: Howto add a crontab job ?

2002-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 10, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > > > I use crontab -e to edit my personal crontab. The format that you are > > looking for is: > > > > > > * * * * * \n > > > > The first star is the minutes: every 5 minutes would be 0-

Re: Howto add a crontab job ?

2002-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 10, 2002, Cameron Hutchison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Once upon a time W.D.McKinney said... > > Hi Chris, > > > > Thanks. man crontab doesn't tell me what the syntax is for a "every 5 > > minute" > > job though, and that's what I need. Any other ideas ? > > man 5 crontab > > This

Re: /dev/hda gone missing with kernel 2.4.19 when CMD680 detected?

2002-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 09, 2002, Graham Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm installing Debian 3.0 on a new machine with a 80GB IDE recognised > as /dev/hda. I've upgraded to kernel-image-2.4.19-686 as we've added > another IDE card to the machine (a CMD680). Now when it boots (using > Grub) the boot st

Re: signature in mutt

2002-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 09, 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hello all! > > mutt manual is proving difficult for me to digest. so i have to > trouble fellow users. > > earlier i had a .signature file that put my name etc in the e-mails. > then i thought of adding a tagline to my messages

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

2002-11-10 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 04:33:19PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > anything that differs from the real shell. Now, what can I do about the C > shell and the Korn shell? Are those also not free? pdksh is a free Korn shell. I've heard that it's not 100% compatible, but it's close enough that IBM uses it

execute command from HTML page

2002-11-10 Thread Hugh Saunders
hello, i have had major hassle attemting to use diald [wvdial works fine but diald does not] so, i want to create a simple html page to serve with apache so that machines on my network can click on one of two links 1: dialup -execute wvdial 2: hangup -kill pppd is this possible to do simply? tha

Securing debian

2002-11-10 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hi, I work with a network, which is part of a much bigger network. The big network is managed by someone else. I am setting up a debian box, it will eventually do mail and web stuff for us. At the moment I have to ask for ports to be opened on our networks router, and they are not really happ

Re: Knoppix-Piggy and Debian installer

2002-11-10 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 17:44, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Mark L. Kahnt said: > > That is what I've been doing, but not a single additional data byte ever > > comes, with wget or ftp reget or whatever else. While I've had this > > problem with http transfers in the past on som

Re: ASUS P4B533 Motherboard

2002-11-10 Thread Graham Williams
Received Sun 10 Nov 2002 10:53am +1100 from Graham Williams: > Received Sun 10 Nov 2002 8:08am +1100 from Bill Moseley: > > > At 07:22 AM 11/10/02 +1100, Graham Williams wrote: > > > ... Debain 3.0 on an ASUS P4B533 based machine. ... > > > > ... Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 installed just fine (booted

Re: X: warning; process set to priority 0 instead of requested priority-10

2002-11-10 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Rupert wrote: On 10 Nov 2002 22:40:41 +0100 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I run startx, this warning pops up before X starts: X: warning; process set to priority 0 instead of requested priority -10 Why? I think it's because you're not running as root. If

Re: X: warning; process set to priority 0 instead of requested priority-10

2002-11-10 Thread Kent West
Rupert wrote: On 10 Nov 2002 22:40:41 +0100 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I run startx, this warning pops up before X starts: X: warning; process set to priority 0 instead of requested priority -10 Why? I think it's because you're not running as root. If you were to launc

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