Re: apt and dist-upgrade

2002-11-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:29:46AM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > I just installed a system using the 4 floppies for a compact install (rescue, > root image, and 2 drivers) and did the rest of the install via the net. > > Very nice. > > So, I now have a running woody that I want to upgrade to

Re: dpkg will not remove package

2002-11-16 Thread Dale Miracle
I tried that but I still got the same error. However, since I wrote the message I did some more research. I downloaded the files from debian's package list on their website. I went back because they had a link to proftp's website. When it loaded it resolved to a .uk address. I went to look for

Re: gnome session unusable after sid update!

2002-11-16 Thread Craig Dickson
John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > has anyone else run into a problem with the gnome session login? with > gdm or startx, it gets stuck at the gnome splash screen. it shows no > icons for loading programs like usual. > > logging in with no configs doesn't help either. This has already been discussed

gnome session unusable after sid update!

2002-11-16 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
has anyone else run into a problem with the gnome session login? with gdm or startx, it gets stuck at the gnome splash screen. it shows no icons for loading programs like usual. logging in with no configs doesn't help either. -- }John Flinchbaugh{__ | [EM

Re: dpkg will not remove package

2002-11-16 Thread sean finney
hiya, have you tried using apt? apt is the frontend to the dpkg/deb system that deals with things like dependencies. to completely remove something you can do # apt-get --purge remove packagename and it should detect anything that it would break, and ask you if you want to remove all of that a

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Tim St. Croix
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:17:28 +1100, you wrote: > "remove .sig from messages I am replying to >au BufRead /tmp/mutt* normal :g/^| -- $/,/^$/-1dgg > I got that line about >removing the .sig from someone on here, but it doesn't actually seem to >work... I'm not sure but it looks like you're l

Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

2002-11-16 Thread Joshua Lee
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:50:30AM -0800, Patrick Lane wrote: > Some of us using unstable use it because we have to. That is, we have to > if we want to run Debian. For example, I installed unstable for XF86 > 4.2. w/o it, I had to do a mickey mouse work-around to get my xserver to > start, which t

apt and dist-upgrade

2002-11-16 Thread Doug MacFarlane
I just installed a system using the 4 floppies for a compact install (rescue, root image, and 2 drivers) and did the rest of the install via the net. Very nice. So, I now have a running woody that I want to upgrade to testing. I did an apt-get -s dist-upgrade, and it then said that gozer:/hom

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:25:22AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > If we had a problem with people making money off software, I rather > doubt that Progeny, to name but one, would exist. Much less headed by one of our own... -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian ad

Re: CorelPHOTOPAINT9

2002-11-16 Thread Stéphane
Le Sat, 16 Nov 2002 19:06:28 -0900 Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > I didnt realise photopaint was open source, will have to have a > > look at that, how does it compare to gimp? > > It is not Open Source, hence the EULA, and it runs on a Corel > version of Wine. It is a bitmap editor

dpkg will not remove package

2002-11-16 Thread Dale Miracle
Hello,   I have a package that I can't remove.  I can remove and install other packages but this one isn't co-operating. I have been reading the archived messages and found one that mentions this problem but the link for the original post comes up as a 404 page not found.   What I was doing w

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-16 Thread Tim St. Croix
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:26:46 -0700 (MST), you wrote: >HP just kinda sprung to mind as a Debian friendly entity Oh how I wish that were true! I'd be able to get my HP 3400C scanner working. If HP were truly Debian (or even just Linux) friendly they'd provide specs to Bertrik Sikken ([EMAIL PROT

Re: sid or sarge for wimp user

2002-11-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 06:35:37AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > In December a friend will burn 9 debian CDs for me to upgrade my > poorly networked 'woody of may 02' system. > > Shall I have him burn sid or sarge? > > I'm basically a wimp user but need fresh software so I don't sound too > silly

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:18:11PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - > 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. Try vim: VI iMproved. It has all sorts of nifty extras. > one is managing words towards end of li

Re: mutt: Order single mailbox by author?

2002-11-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:50:12AM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2002-11-16 00:38:51, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Is it possible to get a single email box to sort by author instead of > > threading? > > When interacting with mutt, press 'o' and then you probably want to sort > by from address 'f'. If

Re: CorelPHOTOPAINT9

2002-11-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:27:57AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > Hi debian-users, > is there any site to find the *.deb package > of corelphotopaint9 ? Nope. Go bug Corel if this is a problem for you. In the mean time, try gimp. -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Deb

Re: amavis - which one?

2002-11-16 Thread Gerald V . Livingston II
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 19:04:27 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Coyner said: > > > > I'm setting up clamav and amavis to scan incoming email. > > > > A quick check of apt-cache search amavis gives me several choices: > > > > amavis-exim - Interface between MTA and virus scanner.

Re: dpkg portmap error

2002-11-16 Thread nate
mdevin said: > /var/lib/dpkg/info/portmap.prerm: /etc/init.d/portmap: Permission denied next i would edit that script and remove references to that file and try again nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CorelPHOTOPAINT9

2002-11-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 16 November 2002 03:24 pm, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:15:42PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > http://linux.corel.com/products/pp9/download_instructions.htm > > I didnt realise photopaint was open source, will have to have a look > at that, how does it compare to gim

Re: j2re from blackdown.com and j2se-common

2002-11-16 Thread christophe barbe
Thanks for the help. It's better with main too. Christophe On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 03:03:19AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:47:45PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > > I try to get debs from blackdown.com but all packages depend on > > j2se-common and is not available. >

Re: dpkg portmap error

2002-11-16 Thread mdevin
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 18:16:00 -0800, nate wrote: > mdevin said: > > > /etc/init.d/portmap: No such file or directorydpkg: warning - old > > pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from > > the new package instead ... > > /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: /etc/init.d/portm

Re: amavis - which one?

2002-11-16 Thread nate
Kevin Coyner said: > > I'm setting up clamav and amavis to scan incoming email. > > A quick check of apt-cache search amavis gives me several choices: > > amavis-exim - Interface between MTA and virus scanner. > amavis-milter - Interface between MTA and virus scanner. > amavis-ng - AMaViS "Next Gen

Re: j2re from blackdown.com and j2se-common

2002-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:47:45PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > I try to get debs from blackdown.com but all packages depend on > j2se-common and is not available. > > Where can I get this one ? Add main to that sources.list line as well as non-free. -- Colin Watson

amavis - which one?

2002-11-16 Thread Kevin Coyner
I'm setting up clamav and amavis to scan incoming email. A quick check of apt-cache search amavis gives me several choices: amavis-exim - Interface between MTA and virus scanner. amavis-milter - Interface between MTA and virus scanner. amavis-ng - AMaViS "Next Generation" I'm guessing that ng

j2re from blackdown.com and j2se-common

2002-11-16 Thread christophe barbe
I try to get debs from blackdown.com but all packages depend on j2se-common and is not available. Where can I get this one ? I suspect this package is related to the following lines in the package description : NOTE: You must accept Sun's EULA prior to successfully installing this package

Re: dpkg portmap error

2002-11-16 Thread nate
mdevin said: > /etc/init.d/portmap: No such file or directorydpkg: warning - old > pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from > the new package instead ... > /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: /etc/init.d/portmap: No such file or > directory dpkg: error processing try touc

Re: dpkg portmap error

2002-11-16 Thread Donald R. Spoon
mdevin wrote: I seem to have gotten dpkg into an inconsistent state for the portmap package. I can't install it and I can't remove it either. I have tried the following: apt-get install portmap apt-get -f install portmap apt-get remove portmap --purge apt-get install portmap --fix-missing Shoul

dpkg portmap error

2002-11-16 Thread mdevin
I seem to have gotten dpkg into an inconsistent state for the portmap package. I can't install it and I can't remove it either. I have tried the following: apt-get install portmap apt-get -f install portmap apt-get remove portmap --purge apt-get install portmap --fix-missing Should I manually de

Re: [OT] RFC 822?

2002-11-16 Thread Gerald V . Livingston II
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 17:13:29 -0600 "Gary Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 15:21:03 -0600, Gerald V.Livingston II wrote: > > snip > > >3 to 6 characters using the alphabet only, no numerals, underscores, > >or full-stops then we are looking at (3^26)+(4^26)+(5^26)+(6^26) o

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:03:21PM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: > If I was a company I would certainly be hesitant to do anything with > Debian because it seems to have a problem with people making money off > software. If we had a problem with people making money off software, I rather doubt that Pro

BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) id: 16843009

2002-11-16 Thread Noyan Ilmen
After last "up-date 'n grade" I always get the message: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) id: 16843009 Aborted when I start lyx and load a file or try to resize the window - bad bad bad Please reply to me direct - I don't want to subscribe Noyan -

Re: serial console question

2002-11-16 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:03:15PM -0500, Sunny Dubey wrote: > hey ladies > > what pam files do I have to modify to allow for a simple root shell when > connection via serial console. (and ONLY serial console) > Add the device name to the /etc/securetty file. I don't think that you have to mo

Re: Problems with Net Interface (basic problem)

2002-11-16 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:39:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After this everything works - so my basic question is - how do I get the > NIC settings to be loaded each time I reboot? > Thanks! Edit the /etc/network/interfaces file. To find the format, read the interfaces(5) manual page. -

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-16 Thread John Hasler
Bruce writes: > If I was a company I would certainly be hesitant to do anything with > Debian because it seems to have a problem with people making money off > software. Baffle. One of the most common reasons for packages to be in non-free is that their licenses forbid the making of money from th

Re: APIC error [not so solved]

2002-11-16 Thread iain d broadfoot
Hugh Saunders wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:26:15PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: remove apic with no apic option in lilo. have added append="no apic" to lilo.conf, is that what you meant? will have a look at syslog next time i reboot and see if i still get apic errors. hugh

Problems with Net Interface (basic problem)

2002-11-16 Thread david
I'm relatively new to the whole Debian thing, although I've been a user of Redhat for awhile :) Anyhoo, I've used the webmin tool to setup my eth0 IP address and gateway, but every time I boot up the settings disappear. I'm forced to login and type: ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.21 route add default gw

Re: Re: APIC error [not so solved]

2002-11-16 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:26:15PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > remove apic with no apic option in lilo. have added append="no apic" to lilo.conf, is that what you meant? will have a look at syslog next time i reboot and see if i still get apic errors. hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: CorelPHOTOPAINT9

2002-11-16 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:15:42PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > http://linux.corel.com/products/pp9/download_instructions.htm I didnt realise photopaint was open source, will have to have a look at that, how does it compare to gimp? will take me a while to get the 89.9 MB (94196961 bytes) so i can

Re: CorelPHOTOPAINT9

2002-11-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:27:57AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > Hi debian-users, > is there any site to find the *.deb package > of corelphotopaint9 ? > Is there anyone who's install it without pbs ? > Thanks for your info > mess-mate > http://linux.corel.com/products/pp9/download_instructions.htm

Re: autofs deleted reiserfs (root) partition

2002-11-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-16 13:48:31 -0800]: > I tried intalling autofs to automount cdroms. > I set as the mount point / and the key as cdrom. Hopefully it just mounted the autofs filesystem on top of / and did not actually delete it. Hopefully. When filesystems are mounted on

Re: [Samba] bind failed on port 139 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0.

2002-11-16 Thread Debian User
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:54:20PM -0800, Debian User wrote: > Could this problem be related to password encryption? > My WinMe client cannot browse samba server. okay - got it working. But I must admit my problem solving was rather non-linear... by that I mean that I just experimented and en

serial console question

2002-11-16 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey ladies what pam files do I have to modify to allow for a simple root shell when connection via serial console. (and ONLY serial console) this way I could connect and get # and be happy :^) thanks in advance for any help! Sunny Dubey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: segmentation fault - XEphem

2002-11-16 Thread Glenn Becker
Wayne - > I am running xephem 3.5-2, from testing (I think), and it runs fine. > Suggest you use the CD for the Win version and just get the deb > package. This was a good suggestion, though I have the UNIX CD. :) CD version still works fine on my old laptop, which runs Slackware 8.1. What I d

Logitech trackman mouse configuration question...

2002-11-16 Thread Mailing List Alias
Hello, I just got a Logitech cordless optical trackman for my birthday. I have it working with gpm (and X) as roughly a 3 button mouse, however, the orientation is not very good. For example, when I go "up" with the trackball to move the mouse pointer upwards, it travels roughly 45 degrees to the

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Saturday, 16 November 2002, 01:12 PM -0500): > This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - > > 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. > > > > one is managing words t

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 05:03:34PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > I've used vi for at least 14 years now, I switched to emacs for > "heavy" editing about 10 years ago. But you *must* know vi if you ever > want to be real Unix user. Learn it. You will be rewarded. That is the > only reason I don't u

CorelPHOTOPAINT9

2002-11-16 Thread mess-mate
Hi debian-users, is there any site to find the *.deb package of corelphotopaint9 ? Is there anyone who's install it without pbs ? Thanks for your info mess-mate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: procmail + cron for regular email cleanup?

2002-11-16 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Andy Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Saturday, 16 November 2002, 12:48 PM -0500): > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:04:46PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > -- Chun Kit Edwin Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > (on Friday, 15 November 2002, 12:47 PM -0500): > > > I want to cleanup my se

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-16 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Nicolaus Kedegren wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:36:48AM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: > > I think a much better solution would be for Debian to find a > > multi-national commercial partner to take over non-free before it > > gets dumped... maybe HP. > > This is a typical _d

Re: [OT] RFC 822?

2002-11-16 Thread Gary Turner
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 15:21:03 -0600, Gerald V.Livingston II wrote: snip >If a robot is intent on scanning for >valid addresses and chooses to search only for valid user names from 3 >to 6 characters using the alphabet only, no numerals, underscores, or >full-stops then we are looking at (3^26)+(4^

Re: /dev/ttyUB0 on debian

2002-11-16 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:58:41PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Not sure if this is quite on topic but I have installed bluez from the > debian packages and am running 2.4.19. However I'm having trouble with > hciattach as /dev/ttyUB0 doesn't exist. Also /dev/MAKEDEV ttyUB0 comes > back a

Re: Callback ppp

2002-11-16 Thread Vittorio
Alexey Chetroi [debian-user] <15/11/02 10:21 +0200>: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:45:16PM +, Vittorio wrote: > > > > At work they've installed a callback RAS. > > > > I've read the PPP documentation and had a look at the callback scripts > > that are far from being intuitive and easy to use.

Re: allow users to shutdown

2002-11-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> hello all i know i am asking a basic question. but i could Sandip> not locate the answer on my own. Sandip> i just want to allow a particular user to shutdown the Sandip> system. anyway, control alter delete sequence works for

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:59:17PM -0800, nate wrote: | You can test this by typing several lines, then going back to | command mode () and scroll up and down the file, it will | scroll one line at a time, if it jumps 2-3 lines at once, that is | just 1 really long line. Actually, if you use a ma

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Osamu" == Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Osamu> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:18:11PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh Osamu> wrote: >> >> one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards >> the end of the line, it juts cuts the word. it neither >> hyphanate

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-16 Thread Bruce Sass
On 15 Nov 2002, John Hasler wrote: > Bruce writes: > > I'm worried that if Debian totally ignores the non-free software world, > > it will ignore Debian. > > Do you understand what the non-free archive is? Yes, since Debian 1.3, when I read the Social Contract, saw what was available, then decid

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:05:38AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: | On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:30:09PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:24:27AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: | > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:18:11PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | > no. someone asked me t

Re: [OT] RFC 822?

2002-11-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:45:09AM -0500, Edward Guldemond wrote: | On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 02:48:53AM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: | | > Many ISP's do not bounce mail sent to addresses that do not exist | > because robot software can use that info to build a database of | > valid address

Re: Converting MS Word to postscript

2002-11-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:20:43PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: FYI since you've already solved the problem. | I have tried printing to file from the Windows box, and it ouputs a .prn | file, which is apparently of type: .prn only means "came from a printer driver". It bears no relationship to th

Re: OT: USR Modem troubles

2002-11-16 Thread Hell.Surfers
check capacitors and resistors for faults with multimeter, if you dont have a qualification ill help you,. [sarcasm] you could always get it clean by soaking it in gasoline overnight.[/sarcasm] Regards, Dean. On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 15:41:08 -0600 (CST) Drew Scott Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

autofs deleted reiserfs (root) partition

2002-11-16 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried intalling autofs to automount cdroms. I set as the mount point / and the key as cdrom. After stoping and starting it, the system got stuck with some error (didn't think it was very important at the time so I don't know what it is), so I pressed reset. When it came back up reiserfs replayed

Re: OT: USR Modem troubles

2002-11-16 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
I don't think this is necessarily off topic. I too had the same problem, but it went away when I changed my init string or upgraded the modem's onboard code, I can't remember which. You can test init strings with hyperterm, minicom or other such programs. The atix where x is a number should help

Re: segmentation fault - XEphem

2002-11-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Glenn Becker([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi - > > I can't pinpoint *exactly* when this problem began. I'm running testing > (sarge) with a few unstable packages thrown in. > > Anyway, I installed the commercial/CD package of the XEphem astronomy > program some months ago and h

Re: Weird and insecure su problem: FIXED

2002-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 08:44:43PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:21:00 +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >Unless you're using MD5 passwords, old Unix crypt() has been broken for > >a long time. In any case it's probably not a good idea to spread > >/etc/shadow aroun

Re: Can't get ATI Rage128 to work with XFree86 on Debian

2002-11-16 Thread christophe barbe
There is two part that come from DRI: xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk : the xfree server And the drm kernel module. The message you see is because the kernel module that is shipped with the kernel is not for xfree 4.2.1. You need to rebuild your kernel without any drm stuff and get the kernel module

Debian User

2002-11-16 Thread Gurkan Sengun
Hello fellow Debian users I have started a Debian user worldmap, please take part: http://www.linuks.mine.nu/debian-worldmap/ I am sure there are more Debian Users than Debian Developers (http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.loc) Kind regards, Gürkan -- Hey it compiles, ship it! -- To U

Re: OT: USR Modem troubles

2002-11-16 Thread John Hasler
It's either your modem or your ISPs. Have you called them? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: USR Modem troubles

2002-11-16 Thread nate
Jeff Maxson said: > not against purchasing a new chip and then borrowing a soldering iron if > that would be cheaper... Ideas? > I've used a lot of modems and never had one go bad on me yet(maybe I'm lucky). but it sounds to me that the problem is the line quality. If you can, have the phone com

segmentation fault - XEphem

2002-11-16 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi - I can't pinpoint *exactly* when this problem began. I'm running testing (sarge) with a few unstable packages thrown in. Anyway, I installed the commercial/CD package of the XEphem astronomy program some months ago and have been happily running it since. Last week, however, I started getting

Re: Weird and insecure su problem: FIXED

2002-11-16 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:26:11 +, Glyn Kennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pigeon wrote: >> >And the `not an octal number' error suggest broken permissions somewhere. >> It does, doesn't it? That was Microsoft's fault for their LF/CR line >> break standard. In order to get my Linux box to boo

Re: Weird and insecure su problem: FIXED

2002-11-16 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:21:00 +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:44:56PM +, Pigeon wrote: >> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:05:11 +, Glyn Kennington >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >Check that /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow match the descriptions in `man >> >pa

Re: APIC error [SOLVED]

2002-11-16 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:05:23PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > whats apic? not sure, think its something to do with smp maybe, but whatever it is, it was seriously clogging up my sys log. Is not quite as solves as i thought, with radiator turned off, i still get a few APIC errors in syslog

OT: USR Modem troubles

2002-11-16 Thread Jeff Maxson
Hi all: sorry to bug you all about this, but I thought I would throw it out to those with more experience. I've got a USR external 56K modem...a little Sportster job, I think. Anyway, regardless of whether I boot into Linux or Windows, I have to dial-up anywhere from once to >10 times before I ca

Re: [OT] RFC 822?

2002-11-16 Thread Gerald V . Livingston II
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:18:31 -0500 "Edward Guldemond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:00:17PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II > wrote:> On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:45:09 -0500 > > "Edward Guldemond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 02:48:53AM -0600, G

Can't get ATI Rage128 to work with XFree86 on Debian

2002-11-16 Thread Holger Wiechert
Hi, after a hell of a time trying to get my ATI Rage 128 to work with XFree86 on Debian (Woody), it's time to get help from the outside... I tried the stuff recommended from dri.sourceforge.net (installing the xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk package). As I came closer, it still doesn't work. The current

Re: system will not soft power down

2002-11-16 Thread Wayne Brown
> If you have apm in the kernel and acpi loaded from a module, apm might win > and won't work if your BIOS doesn't support ACPI. Try turning apm=off in > lilo.conf, and loading acpid and the acpi module. > > I'm not sure what the acpi module is called, or whether it comes with the > default

Re: mutt: Order single mailbox by author?

2002-11-16 Thread Andre Berger
* Allan Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-11-16 09:26 -0500: > On 2002-11-16 00:38:51, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Is it possible to get a single email box to sort by author instead of > > threading? > > When interacting with mutt, press 'o' and then you probably want to sort > by from address 'f'. If y

Re: [OT] RFC 822?

2002-11-16 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:00:17PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:45:09 -0500 > "Edward Guldemond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 02:48:53AM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II > > wrote: > > > > > Many ISP's do not bounce mail sent to addresse

Re: instead of xv?

2002-11-16 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 08:02:59AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > What's a simple, command line viewer than I can use instead of xv? i'd reccommend xview for viewing images, and xsetbg for setting your background images. both are provided by the xloadimage package. --sean msg13344/pgp0.p

Re: X 4.2 problems ("out of range") with Matrox G450

2002-11-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 16 Nov 2002 04:44:10 -0500, Mark L. Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Out of range errors - particularly when the monitor is reporting them > too, have to do with monitor scanline settings that the monitor can't > support - being too wide or too tall or too fast for a resolution. The > graphi

Re: Modules Dont Load At Startup

2002-11-16 Thread David Z Maze
"Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is certainly elementary but it baffles me. Although I have > compiled my kernel with module support set to load modules as needed > and run make modules and make modules_install, (Depending on what you're doing, you may find it easier/better

Re: X 4.2 problems ("out of range") with Matrox G450

2002-11-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 13:32:55 +, Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 4.2 working fine with the Matrox 450. The upgrade did break things > at first. For some reason the new config file seemed to be the problem, > and everything worked when I restored the previous one (generated

Re: Mozilla icon in titlebar

2002-11-16 Thread Hell.Surfers
How do you use the icon that comes in the titlebar of mozilla in kde? I have a link set up to a generic [not debian .deb] build of mozilla, actually the mozilla-bin script, I want to use that icon, how do I set it up in the kde icon adding menu, my mozilla is installed in usr/local/mozilla. Reg

Re: Icons on a Blackbox Desktop

2002-11-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Saturday 16 November 2002 06:03, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- lameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > (on Saturday, 16 November 2002, 12:57 AM -0500): > > How do I go about putting program icons on the Blackbox desktop? > > I've used both ROX-filer (there are debian packages listed on its >

Re: Reverse Upgrade

2002-11-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
I assume this was meant for mailing list. On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 06:08:28PM +, Hell.Surfers@*.net wrote: (Just in case you do not like your mail address be posted ...) > why isnt there an option to do this called revertlastver? Why dont you > call it something easier, or put it in a shell

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > hello all > > i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - > 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. > > one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the end > of the line, it juts cuts the word. i

Syncing some flavor calendar and bbdb address book with pilot

2002-11-16 Thread Laura Conrad
I know the demise of ical has been discussed, and I've read the suggestions, and some of them work for just the calendar part, but I still don't have a good one-step solution for getting my pilot synced and backed up. Before I installed Woody, I was using a script which did a syncal to sync my ic

Re: procmail + cron for regular email cleanup?

2002-11-16 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:04:46PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Chun Kit Edwin Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Friday, 15 November 2002, 12:47 PM -0500): > > I want to cleanup my sent mailbox regularly. If any email in > > the mailbox is more than 2 months old, the email shou

Re: [OT] RFC 822?

2002-11-16 Thread Gerald V . Livingston II
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:45:09 -0500 "Edward Guldemond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 02:48:53AM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II > wrote: > > > Many ISP's do not bounce mail sent to addresses that do not exist > > because robot software can use that info to build a database of

Re: printing - from beginning

2002-11-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> echo "SOMETHING" | lpr results in lpr: command not found! Sandip> well i checked with dselect. lpr is not installed. now, i Sandip> think i am getting it slowly. do i have to add either of Sandip> lpr, lpd or lprng packages?

Tom? are you there :-)

2002-11-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Tom, Why your mail address refuse delivary? It bounced when I replied to your another post. It is not kind to use unreachable address while you are asking help, I think. (It may be my ISP's problem as well.) For the record: Your dydns returned janus.tacocat.net as the MX and janus.tacocat.

Re: framebuffer mode?

2002-11-16 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:46:28PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > now, where do i get these different fonts and wehre do i put them? Look for them when you compile your kernel. Using menuconfig, they're in "Console drivers" -> "Frame-buffer support" -> "Select compiled-in fonts" -> "Sparc consol

Re: More microsoft crud

2002-11-16 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Very good article (at least for me, a non tech). Thanks. Russell wrote: http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm enjoy;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with Netgear MA401 wireless card...?

2002-11-16 Thread René Seindal
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:29:53PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:29:09PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > > > eth0: Error -19 reading firmware info. Wildly guessing capabilities... > > eth0: Station identity ::: > > eth0: Looks like an Intersil fir

Re: muttrc parse error - why??

2002-11-16 Thread Jens Kubieziel
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:12:58PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:08:57PM +0100, Jens Kubieziel wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:17:20PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > > When starting mutt, it barfs over the line > > > send-hook "~b [EMAIL PROTECTED]" my_hdr

[OT] RFC 822?

2002-11-16 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 02:48:53AM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > Many ISP's do not bounce mail sent to addresses that do not exist > because robot software can use that info to build a database of > valid addresses at that domain for spamming purposes. Doesn't this break RFC 822? I wou

Re: lilo msg

2002-11-16 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 08:54:20PM -0800, Florentin Ionescu wrote: Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 fn 08: 784 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors fn 48: 13328 cylinders, 15 heads, 63 sectors If i

Re: Modules Dont Load At Startup

2002-11-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 16 November 2002 04:40 am, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > It is certainly elementary but it baffles me. Although I have > compiled my kernel with module support set to load modules as needed > and run make modules and make modules_install, certain modules never > loaded when needed. Fo

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
Brian White wrote: Dropping non-free would not help Debian. Most users and few companies are really concerned with the copyright on the packages they use as long as they get the job done. If you remove those things from Debian, then those users will soon go to a distribution that gives them what

Re: pppd problem

2002-11-16 Thread Christian Mascher
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 02:03:24PM +0100, Emanuele Boieri wrote: > Hello all! > At last I successfully installed my modem (beta) drivers (dawned internal modems) >and the kppp application to get into the internet...BUT, after the number is dialled >it comes up an error: the problem (it says) is

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