Re: [OT?] sleep()-problem in perl

2002-11-11 Thread Jörg Johannes
Thanks, Colin. This example shows that sitting down to the computer, knowing not much more than how to 'print "Hello World\n";' and start hacking with a book ("Programming Perl") in your hand is not the best approach to learn programming. One misses by 100% chance such easy, yet important things li

Re: Re: exim, delivery to /home/user instead of /var/mail/user

2002-11-11 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Make sure your pop lines have a "is 'userx' here" line to get the mail >to the right users. It does have such a line. Yet it puts all mail in /var/spool/exim/input. When you are fetching mail for

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 01:28, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > try to print something? > > echo "test" | lpr > > does nothing! Ummm... Should Work (TM). > > > > failing that did you configure magicfilter? or your printcap file? I > > used /sbin/magicfilterconfig and my printer worked like magic(o

Re: true-type and wine

2002-11-11 Thread Douglas Orchard
> do> Has anybody written a Howto or tutorial on setting up the truetype > do> fonts in Debian woody for wine. If not can somebody tell me which > do> packages I should apt-get install? > > Do you have TrueType fonts set up for other apps? No ... I am reading various howto's but they are a

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Travis Crump
Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hp deskjet 710c printer is connec

dhcp-dns problem

2002-11-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've been working on setting up dhcp-dns on my system so that I can get automatic name entries from DHCP. I've run into a problem, however. First, on the DHCP side. Some of the computers on the network have static leases set up so that they'll always get the same IP address. Since installing dhcp-

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on l

Re: Squid, Apache and Apple Browsers

2002-11-11 Thread nate
Mike Egglestone said: > Anyone have similar problems? ideas? you check the squid logs? when you refresh on the macs does it actually send a new request? you try turning off all cache on the browser client? nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Easy way to modify Knoppix?

2002-11-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 11:59:40PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > So... Is there an easy way to do what I'm trying to do? it'd be nice to > have a Debian-based-pocket-Linux-system! :-) Can you see what it's pausing on? About the only thing I've seen cp screw up on is files in /proc, which wo

Re: Squid, Apache and Apple Browsers

2002-11-11 Thread Mike Egglestone
> When a local web page is edited, the mac computers > can see the new changes. > > -- Sorry I have a typo on my last post, It should say ..."mac computers can't see the new changes" Mike - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

Squid, Apache and Apple Browsers

2002-11-11 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I have a woody box running squid, apache. There are OS 9.x imacs on the network which have their browsers set to squid for surfing. (IE 5.1 and netscape 4.x are used) Here's the problem: When a local web page is edited, the mac computers can see the new changes. The refresh button is hit, but t

Re: Why mount -o remount,ro /usr (sometimes) fails after apt-get dist-upgrade?

2002-11-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:56:02AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > As you probably aware of, having a ro /usr and trying to remount it ro > after apt-get upgrade sometimes fails because the device or resource is > busy. > > I heard a possible explanation for this behavior and I was looking for > other

Re: WordPerfect 8.0 or WordPerfect Office 2000

2002-11-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 01:04:20AM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > anyone hereabouts have joy getting either or both of these old beasts of > verbal burden up & running on Debian 3.0? Install the 'wperfect' package. It's only job is to depend on the old old libraries needed to run WordPe

Re: Geforce4 mx440 problem

2002-11-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 08:57:12AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > I remebered earlier posting to the effect that it was necessary to get > the drivers for Gefore4 form nvidia so I downloaded > NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz and NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123.tar.gz and ran tar > xvzf on each of them.

Apache2 (php not working)

2002-11-11 Thread Michelle Storm
Apache2 says it supports PHP (at least on the website), and I have php4 installed. And it was working when I was just using the normal apache server. I was wondering if it's broken and I just haven't found anything saying it isn't fixed.. or if there's some special fix? I have no problem going bac

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows >nomenclature) > > Just a general guess, but:

SOLVED: Re: corrupt root fs

2002-11-11 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Thank you Nate, Sean, and Jason. I remembered that I could get a shell prompt from the Install script by hitting the old Alt-F2, so I booted from my install CD and poked around, and finally deduced I was having scsi bus errors. All I had changed today was I put the cover back on. So I took th

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows >nomenclature) > Just a general guess, but: > apt-get install magicfilter pnm2ppa did that. now, althoug

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) Just a general guess, but: apt-get install magicfilter pnm2ppa -Scott Henson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Debugging sound, where do I start?

2002-11-11 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 02:23:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > another console>. My guess is that this happens when either esd > or arts load their sound managing utilities. > How would I go about tracking down where the problem stems from? My first step would be to determine for

Re: gpg: Can't check signature - is something wrong?

2002-11-11 Thread Jeff
Sandip P Deshmukh, 2002-Nov-12 09:38 +0530: > hello all! > > i often get messages from the list which say begin gpg signature. > > invariably, the second line says can not verify signature. > > is something wrong with my set-up or is it a tampered message? Does the message say that a public key

repost - import a csv file as addressbook for mutt (abook)

2002-11-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all! i could convert my outlook contact folder information into a csv file. it has several fields that are uncommon - spouse's name, etc. now, i have started using mutt and will like to use information in the same file. either as aliases or through abook. i tried abook --convert option b

Re: gpg: Can't check signature - is something wrong?

2002-11-11 Thread Ian Melnick
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:38:27AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > i often get messages from the list which say begin gpg signature. > invariably, the second line says can not verify signature. > is something wrong with my set-up or is it a tampered message? You probably have done this already,

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

2002-11-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Joshua Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-11 16:24:00 -0500]: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 05:32:58PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > The Korn shell is not free. At one time you could buy source from > > AT&T by an anonymous uucp connection for IIRC $300 and we did that. > > The Korn shell *used* to not

Re: gpg: Can't check signature - is something wrong?

2002-11-11 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > hello all! > > i often get messages from the list which say begin gpg signature. > > invariably, the second line says can not verify signature. > > is something wrong with my set-up or is it a tampered message? In order to 'verify' a gpg si

repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all! my umpteen number of attempts to set my printer have been unsuccessful. here is the set-up: computer is running on woody 3.0 hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) i tried reading linuxprinting.org - could not unsderstand much here is w

Re: OpenOffice.org

2002-11-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 11 Nov 2002 at 10:11pm, John Hasler wrote: :Patrick writes: :> The trademark for "OpenOffice" belongs to someone else. Therefore we must :> use "OpenOffice.org" when referring to this open source project and its :> software. : :That will only work if it is being done with the permission of the

Forcing default (StaticGray) visual under XEmacs

2002-11-11 Thread David Z Maze
My desktop machine at home has two video cards and two monitors. The second monitor is old and cheap, and it has a flaky connection on the blue pin which is now pretty toast. To try to hack around this, I set up the second card to run in 8bpp mode with a default StaticGray X visual. This works g

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

2002-11-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-11 21:19:04 +]: > Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The old Bourne shell is not free software. Therefore only commercial > >proprietary systems have it available. > >[...] > >In order to find a Real Thing copy of the Bourne shell you w

Re: Kernel Memory, Poss. Errors (Debian Woody 2.4.18-bf2.4)

2002-11-11 Thread Derek Gladding
On Monday 11 November 2002 08:35 pm, David Lloyd wrote: > Hi There, > > > I am experiencing some strange behaviour with Debian Woody. I have > attached a log as plain text and the output of dmesg. > > I suspect it may be faulty RAM. > > This occurs ONLY when I am in a KDE kdm managed X session and

Kernel Memory, Poss. Errors (Debian Woody 2.4.18-bf2.4)

2002-11-11 Thread David Lloyd
Hi There, I am experiencing some strange behaviour with Debian Woody. I have attached a log as plain text and the output of dmesg. I suspect it may be faulty RAM. This occurs ONLY when I am in a KDE kdm managed X session and press ctrl+alt+f[1-6] to get to a virtual console. It's not always co

Re: Unsuscribe

2002-11-11 Thread Oliver Fuchs
You cannot read ... and you even cannot write. So why I am writing this? Because every time I get one of this dump "ususcribe" messages I have to pay money for it ...and I have to delete you from my folder ... what can be done against such dumpas.* ... I filter them straight to /dev/null ... with

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

2002-11-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-11 21:11:10 +]: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So what is the typical bashinsm we should be really careful? > > The whatever{foo,bar} syntax is very common but a bashism (and zshism). > For example diff -u file.c{.orig,} That is

Re: OpenOffice.org

2002-11-11 Thread John Hasler
Patrick writes: > The trademark for "OpenOffice" belongs to someone else. Therefore we must > use "OpenOffice.org" when referring to this open source project and its > software. That will only work if it is being done with the permission of the trademark owner. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J

Re: CHM and WMV files on debian ?

2002-11-11 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:03:26PM -0800, Derek Gladding wrote: > I can't help with the ".chm" files but I can recommend mplayer to watch the > .wmv files with: > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ and i'd add xine and aviplay, both of which come as standard debian packages and support various

gpg: Can't check signature - is something wrong?

2002-11-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all! i often get messages from the list which say begin gpg signature. invariably, the second line says can not verify signature. is something wrong with my set-up or is it a tampered message? regards, sandip p deshmukh --*** Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the f

Re: Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!

2002-11-11 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:43:10 -0500, Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:29:35PM +, Pigeon wrote: >> On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 07:24:56 +, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >Nah - no luck. Rescue disk has no dpkg. It's the same as the boot >> >image you

Re: CHM and WMV files on debian ?

2002-11-11 Thread Derek Gladding
On Monday 11 November 2002 08:05 pm, B T wrote: > Hi, > > Could you please tell me how I may view windows html help files (with > .chm extension) and windows media video files (with .wmv extension) on > my debian linux. > > sincerely > B Thomas Hi BT I can't help with the ".chm" files but I can r

Re: systemwide fetchmail

2002-11-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:03:57AM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > Yes, adding a 'fetchmail' (possibly with a -d option) at the end will > work. If fetchmail does not run in the background you will > have to wait till it is done to complete your login. did that. by the way, usually when i login and

CHM and WMV files on debian ?

2002-11-11 Thread B T
Hi, Could you please tell me how I may view windows html help files (with .chm extension) and windows media video files (with .wmv extension) on my debian linux. sincerely B Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

OpenOffice.org

2002-11-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Sorry for not threading, but I deleted the post which asked why we can't just call it "OpenOffice." It's a FAQ: http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-other.html#6 The trademark for "OpenOffice" belongs to someone else. Therefore we must use "OpenOffice.org" when referring to this op

Re: exim, delivery to /home/user instead of /var/mail/user

2002-11-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Benedict" == Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Benedict> Hi, i'm trying to install a mail server but i'm stuck Benedict> with exim. I run fetchmail and exim gets the mail from Benedict> fetchmail (running as a daemon). I have 2 users on the Benedict> system and my

Re: OpenOffice.org new unstable packages available for testing

2002-11-11 Thread Miles Bader
Chris Halls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Prerelease packages for OpenOffice.org are now available from the unstable > section of our mirrors (http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/mirrors.html). Can someone tell me _why_ this project uses the name `OpenOffice.org' as a name for their software? W

Re: execute command from HTML page

2002-11-11 Thread John Hasler
Debian User writes: > will try that, am unsure of how to give a lowly user [such as www-data] > enough rights to access wvdial[complains that it cannot acess device > /dev/ttyS1 which is the modem]. Don't use wvdial. Configure ppp with pppconfig and add the user to the 'dip' group (you can do tha

Re: A few more Q. Re: How to install cups?

2002-11-11 Thread nate
infotechsys said: > had two line, one that start with "deb cdrom" and the other > line,for the same cd, "deb-src". Should I add the src line for > each cd I add with apt-cdrom? don't need it. deb-src is for sourcecode, only used when compiling programs. perhaps your CD collection is incomplete,

Re: execute command from HTML page

2002-11-11 Thread Jon-o Addleman
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 09:27:22PM +, Debian User spake thusly: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:44:33PM +1030, Barney Wrightson wrote: > > Actually you wouldn't even need the HTML at all, you could simply > > enter > > the address of the cgi script into your browser and load it to cause > > it >

Re: A few more Q. Re: How to install cups?

2002-11-11 Thread infotechsys
nate wrote: I have never installed woody from the CDs(sofar only installed potato then upgraded to woody). Perhaps you don't have the CD which contains the rest of the packages, or not all of the CDs are cataloged(check /etc/apt/sources.list to be sure all of the CDs you have are listed). When

Re: Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!

2002-11-11 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Instead of using rescue disk you could try tomsrtbt at=20 > http://www.toms.net/rb/. Or make a custom, static version of busybox so that you can do some of the preliminaries. Once you have the target mounted, then you could operate on the dpkg file dir

Re: RFC: Caps Lock

2002-11-11 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, 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, another Modn k

Re: corrupt root fs

2002-11-11 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 05:19:23PM -0800, madmac madmac wrote: > I get timeouts from the Adaptec's SCSI adapters BIOS > routine where it polls it's devices. ack... well it could be faulty hardware, in which case i'd see if i could try different disks on the same adaptor, and the same disks

Re: corrupt root fs

2002-11-11 Thread nate
madmac madmac said: > > 08:01: rw=0, wnat=2, limit=1 > EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock > attempt to access beyond end of device > 08:01: rw=0, wnat=2, limit=1 > EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 maybe the drive is dieing, I think you need

Re: corrupt root fs

2002-11-11 Thread Jason Clarke
> But today the system went Gack(1) - it had a SCSI > error on the console and everything was locked, so I > had to hard-boot, and when it came back up . . . . I've had many a machine go KAZACK! Have you phsyically removed each component of the machine in question and replaced tenderly? > I get

corrupt root fs

2002-11-11 Thread madmac madmac
Ack . . Well, I recently upgraded the kernel my woody box from 2.2.20-compact to 2.4.16-686-smp. It went fine, except I had to run modconf to enable the loading of the 5c59x module. Not big whoop to you gurus, but a first for me . .. But today the system went Gack(1) - it had a SCSI error on

Re: Why mount -o remount,ro /usr (sometimes) fails after apt-get dist-upgrade?

2002-11-11 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-11-2002 18:46]: > if you want to remount /usr read only, and have physical access > to the machine, just going into single user mode and remounting > it should do the trick, and then when you come back up into > multi-user mode /usr will stay ro. I don't min

Gnome Mime Types

2002-11-11 Thread pphilli2
Hi, I've just installed Woody from scratch, and am finding that changes to the File Type handlers section of the Gnome Control Center (e.g. setting up jpeg files to be opened up in GIMP by default) don't seem to flow through to the Gnome file manager. Any clues as to why? The file manager seems

exim, delivery to /home/user instead of /var/mail/user

2002-11-11 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i'm trying to install a mail server but i'm stuck with exim. I run fetchmail and exim gets the mail from fetchmail (running as a daemon). I have 2 users on the system and my /etc/fetchmailrc contains 2 pop lines to check the mail from the users. 1)I run fetchmail in daemon mode as root: root

RE: Trying to do a search on Debian home page.

2002-11-11 Thread Joyce, Matthew
The search feature (far right on horizontal nav bar) of www.debian.org has never worked for me. Matt > -Original Message- > From: infotechsys [mailto:infotechsys@;pivot.net] > Sent: Tuesday, 12 November 2002 8:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Debian-User > Subject: Trying to do a sea

Re: execute command from HTML page

2002-11-11 Thread sean finney
hiyas, just to chime in on this, you should think of the security implications of what you're doing. if you're putting a button on a webpage that re-initializes your net connection, then anyone feeling particularly riley could keep you without an internet connection. instead of apache, i'd rec

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-11 Thread Richard Kimber
On 11 Nov 2002 17:43:04 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Were these the only 2 problems? The only significant ones. I had a problem with the monitor not powering down, which it had done before, but that was easily solved - though I'm not sure why I had the problem at all since I wa

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 17:09, Richard Kimber wrote: > On 11 Nov 2002 16:19:17 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Well, I'm scared, since I don't want to trash X Windows. Other > > than saving copies of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /etc/X11/fs/config, > > are there any other pre

Re: I CANT SEND MAIL TO A DEBIEN LIST [This is the problem]

2002-11-11 Thread raven
- Mensaje Original - Remitente: Jesus Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I send you the message returned. > - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (reason: 550 Host unknown) - Transcript of session follows - 550 5.1.2 <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-11 Thread Richard Kimber
On 11 Nov 2002 16:19:17 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I'm scared, since I don't want to trash X Windows. Other > than saving copies of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /etc/X11/fs/config, > are there any other preparations that I should make before taking > the upgrade plunge?

Re: Easy way to modify Knoppix? [ found it ]

2002-11-11 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Ok, I think I found something (after a few days trying different keywords): http://www.es.gnome.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/gnome-live-cd/doc/modificar_knoppix2.txt?annotate=1.1&cvsroot=GNOME J. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Mozilla icon in titlebar

2002-11-11 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi All & Phil, who typed Once upon a time (mozilla 1.0, I think) the titlebar menu icon (and thus the icon on things like the KDE panel) was a little Mozilla icon. Lately it's reverted to the standard X that gets put on all X11 apps which do not specify their own icon. What do I need t

Mozilla icon in titlebar

2002-11-11 Thread Phil Edwards
Once upon a time (mozilla 1.0, I think) the titlebar menu icon (and thus the icon on things like the KDE panel) was a little Mozilla icon. Lately it's reverted to the standard X that gets put on all X11 apps which do not specify their own icon. What do I need to change to get the little distincti

Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
Moments ago, I did: # apt-get update # apt-get -s -u -t testing upgrade There, I saw that, among the 42 packages to be upgraded since I last did "apt-get -u -t testing upgrade" on 01-Nov, XFree 4.2.1-3 has been migrated down to sarge. Well, I'm scared, since I don't want to trash X Windows. Oth

Re: execute command from HTML page

2002-11-11 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 21:27:22 + Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:44:33PM +1030, Barney Wrightson wrote: > > Actually you wouldn't even need the HTML at all, you could simply > > enter > > the address of the cgi script into your browser and load it to cause >

Re: public lending right

2002-11-11 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 9, 2002 07:35 am, Chris Lale wrote: > Thanks for the encouraging comments Levi. Well, thanks for your efforts! I'd definitely like to keep up with your progress and also do some distribution of a GNU/Linux package to local libraries, friends, etc. I wonder if anyone has put togeth

Re: GLX and undefined references

2002-11-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:38:14PM +0100, Roman Joost wrote: [snip] > gcc lesson06.c -o lesson06 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU -lXxf86vm You probably need to add -lX11 for any X proggy (and maybe others). -- static const char signature[] = "Copyright (c) 2002 Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: A few more Q. Re: How to install cups?

2002-11-11 Thread nate
infotechsys said: > nate wrote: > >>they do not accomplish the same thing, the first command >>will grab cupsys and it's dependencies only, which from what my >>woody system tells me is: >> >>Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libcupsys2 (>= 1.1.13-1), libpam0g (>= >> 0.72-1), libslp1, libstdc++2.10-glib

GLX and undefined references

2002-11-11 Thread Roman Joost
I want to compile a tutorial from gamedev.net -> exactly this link: http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorials/linuxglx/lesson06.tar.gz I get a lot of undefined references like: F86VidModeGetGammaRamp': : undefined reference to `_XReply' /usr/X11R6/lib/libXxf86vm.a(XF86VMode.o)(.text+0x23d8): In function

locales depends on glibc

2002-11-11 Thread Lourens van der Vliet
Hi I have 2 computers with woody installed When I run dselect/install I get the following First computer has locales ver. 2.2.5-11.2 (no problem) Second computer has also locales-2.2.5-11.2 which has dependency problems with glibc-2.2.5-11.2 apparently not found on this computer (and of course

Re: Trying to do a search on Debian home page.

2002-11-11 Thread hugh saunders
11/11/02 21:37:55, infotechsys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So, myquestion is how-come I have to go thru >freshmeat to do a search on debian ? freshmeat prob referred to the debian package search [which works] http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: execute command from HTML page

2002-11-11 Thread Debian User
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:44:33PM +1030, Barney Wrightson wrote: > Actually you wouldn't even need the HTML at all, you could simply > enter > the address of the cgi script into your browser and load it to cause > it > to execute. Provided that apache and user permissions were set up > correctly

RE: obtaining debian woody latest

2002-11-11 Thread Hell.Surfers
I want to download the latest woody [no pun intended], I dont have a cd burner, but I have the bandwidth, could someone tell me about net based install or floppy based, the online installation manual points to one place and the uk ftp site is another and I dont understand. HELP! Regards, Dean.

Re: Trying to do a search on Debian home page.

2002-11-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 15:37, infotechsys wrote: > Hi, > Whenever I try to do a search on Debian I get a > message tell me that the search engine is down. > I went to Freshmeat an did a search on cups > and was taken to a list on debian that showed > all the packages associated with cups. So, my > q

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

2002-11-11 Thread Joshua Lee
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 05:32:58PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > The Korn shell is not free. At one time you could buy source from > AT&T by an anonymous uucp connection for IIRC $300 and we did that. The Korn shell *used* to not be free, now it is, as in beer. You can download it for free but not d

Broken Webmin

2002-11-11 Thread Dan Gapinski
Hello, I am a total noob, but am I the only one who breaks webmin every time they run apt-get? It appears that the current package only works for me if I untar v.1.030 and run the setup.sh script. I also seem to have broken that install by trying to install webmin-apache via apt-get. I loved apt-g

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

2002-11-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The old Bourne shell is not free software. Therefore only commercial >proprietary systems have it available. You won't find it in a Debian >system for this reason. In fact I know not of any free software based >system that ha

Trying to do a search on Debian home page.

2002-11-11 Thread infotechsys
Hi, Whenever I try to do a search on Debian I get a message tell me that the search engine is down. I went to Freshmeat an did a search on cups and was taken to a list on debian that showed all the packages associated with cups. So, my question is how-come I have to go thru freshmeat to do a search

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

2002-11-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 11:41:34AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >By the way, dash will be the POSIX shell in testing/unstable >> >Bashism s

Re: pipe attachments in mutt

2002-11-11 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:12:24AM +, Glyn Kennington wrote: > > Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > Things you can do: If you have any pdf files saved, type `see filename.pdf' > > > > and see what happens. > > > works perfectly! opens xpdf a

Re: A few more Q. Re: How to install cups?

2002-11-11 Thread infotechsys
nate wrote: they do not accomplish the same thing, the first command will grab cupsys and it's dependencies only, which from what my woody system tells me is: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libcupsys2 (>= 1.1.13-1), libpam0g (>= 0.72-1), libslp1, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810), zlib

Re: obtaining debian

2002-11-11 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Another one: Use piggy at http://www.progeny.com/products/enablingtech.html Levi Waldron wrote: On November 11, 2002 11:44 am, james leclair wrote: Hello, could someone please give detailed info on obtaining the latest stable version of woody. Instructions on where to go(FTP preferably)and w

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-11 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 8, 2002 09:09 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > Can I suggest using revision control for important files? That way, you > have a more convenient centrally-located thing to back up (the > repository), and you get the extra benefit of being able to go back and > look at older versions of what you

Re: apt-get

2002-11-11 Thread Ron Sinclair
> Comment out the cdrom devices (put a # in front of the line), add > the appropriate ftp/www locations in your /etc/apt/sources.list > file, and type: apt-get update in a terminal window while connected > to the internet. Thanks for the help...I immediately tried this and now I'm CDROM-free! :o

Re: apt-get

2002-11-11 Thread Ron Sinclair
On Monday 11 November 2002 13:16, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > It is up to you if you want to retain 3 sets of somewhat > duplicative internet sources. I find I have done quite will here > with only one set. Stable doesn't change that frequently, but you > might want to have more than one source if

Re: pipe attachments in mutt

2002-11-11 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 11 November 2002, 05:20 PM +0530): > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:12:24AM +, Glyn Kennington wrote: > > Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > Things you can do: If you have any pdf files saved, type `see filename.pdf' > > > > and see what happ

Debugging sound, where do I start?

2002-11-11 Thread luc.lefebvre
Hi, I am using Debian Woody and I can get sound to work but if I enable sound by loading the modules at boot the sound daemon hangs the box . My guess is that this happens when either esd or arts load their sound managing utilities. I have tried with both ALSA and the kernel sound modules.

Re: apt-get

2002-11-11 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Ron Sinclair wrote: I'm an occasional Libranet user but installed Debian 3.0 a few weeks ago. Everything is fine but was wondering something: when installing via ap-get, the install always defaults to installing from the cdrom device. > -SNIP- < Would I need to comment the cdrom lines?

Re: obtaining debian

2002-11-11 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 11, 2002 11:44 am, james leclair wrote: > Hello, could someone please give detailed info on obtaining the latest > stable version of woody. Instructions on where to go(FTP preferably)and > what exactly to do would be greatly appreciated:). > Thanks, > James Your best options, as I see

Re: broadcom netXtreme gigabit ethernet module

2002-11-11 Thread Roland Penning
Kevin Coyner wrote: 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

Re: networking woes with 2.4 kernel

2002-11-11 Thread Jeff Cours
Shyamal Prasad wrote: "Jeff" == Jeff Cours <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> Could Jeff> someone please point me to where to can I find the Jeff> configuration file that was used to create Jeff> kernel-image-2.4.18-686? If you installed the image, then it should be in /boot/

Re: Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!

2002-11-11 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:29:35PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 07:24:56 +, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Nah - no luck. Rescue disk has no dpkg. It's the same as the boot > >image you get in the Debian 2.1 single CD. Instead of using rescue disk you could try tomsrtb

Re: apt-get

2002-11-11 Thread Chip Rose
On Monday 11 November 2002 01:33 pm, Ron Sinclair wrote: > I'm an occasional Libranet user but installed Debian 3.0 a few weeks > ago. Everything is fine but was wondering something: when > installing via ap-get, the install always defaults to installing from > the cdrom device. > == Comm

apt-get

2002-11-11 Thread Ron Sinclair
I'm an occasional Libranet user but installed Debian 3.0 a few weeks ago. Everything is fine but was wondering something: when installing via ap-get, the install always defaults to installing from the cdrom device. Here's my sources.list: __ deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ -

Re: true-type and wine

2002-11-11 Thread Paul Smith
%% Douglas Orchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: do> Has anybody written a Howto or tutorial on setting up the truetype do> fonts in Debian woody for wine. If not can somebody tell me which do> packages I should apt-get install? Do you have TrueType fonts set up for other apps? If so, I don

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

2002-11-11 Thread pontus.edvardsson
Hi, > From: Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > First off, I wouldn't expect a whole lot of stability running a > development kernel (^: That being said, mtrr is: I wouldn't say that. I've been running dev kernels, including the current config of 2.5.44, for some time, both on Woody and Gentoo wi

Re: A few more Q. Re: How to install cups?

2002-11-11 Thread nate
infotechsys said: > I want to thank the people that replied to this post.I have > a few thing I would like to understand.One person suggest > that I enter this command - > > "apt-get install cupsys" > > and another person suggested that I enter > > "apt-get install cupsys foomatic-db cupsomatic-ppd

Re: Why mount -o remount,ro /usr (sometimes) fails after apt-get dist-upgrade?

2002-11-11 Thread sean finney
hi, On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 05:53:34PM +0100, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > OP mentioned some problems wrt to remounting file-systems. Although > the discussion that followed was very interesting, that issue and > even more so a solution, is unclear to me. > > I had to reboot a system after a security

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