Dialout for "normal" users

2002-12-05 Thread Christian Banik
Dear Debian Users, how can i enable "normal" users to dialout, for example with wvdial ? I configured KDE ---> System ---> User Manager ---> Groups/dialout but it still don't work. I used pppconfig (with "pon") and even tried to dialout with Kppp. No reaction. What else can i do Thank you very

Re: mozilla 1.2.1 packages

2002-12-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 18:33, Takuo KITAME wrote: > 2002年12月06日(金)の04時24分に Vineet Kumar 曰く: > > Hello Takuo, > > > > The following is from a thread on debian-user this morning. We would > > appreciate any light you can help shed on this subject. > > > > * Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021205

Re: Why make-kpkg? What and Where is apt-src?

2002-12-05 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Thomas H. George,,, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021206 11:45]: > > and then copying the new bzImage to /boot, running lilo and rebooting. > One set of instructions seems to indicate I can still use this approach > using apt-src after I have downloaded pcmcia-cs.tar.gz to /usr/src and > unpack

Re: Debian Menus no longer come up

2002-12-05 Thread Caleb Walker
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 22:39, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 01:14, Caleb Walker wrote: > > I do not know what has happened but I no longer have my debian menus. I > > have uninstalled and reinstalled the menu package to no avail. The last > > thing that I have done is install the Ba

Re: Debian Menus no longer come up

2002-12-05 Thread Caleb Walker
cwalker@butthead:~$ update-menus sh: line 1: /usr/bin/dpkg: Permission denied Somewhere in input file: Indirectly used, but not defined function: "userprefix" /etc/menu-methods//gtk-menu: Aborting Update-menus[4863]: Script /etc/menu-methods//gtk-menu returned error status 1. cwalker@butthead:~$ O

after upgrade to 2.4.10, it mop out my x and pppoe

2002-12-05 Thread eric
Dear linux users: after I use apt-get dist-upgrade and put kernel image to 2.4.20 it mop out my x config which is autoconfig by progeny 1.0 and pppoeconf no more work, say can detect my eth0 but no reponse from isp(ofcourse that is not true, that's why i still can use windowxp communicate with

Re: Debian Menus no longer come up

2002-12-05 Thread Shawn Lamson
On 05 Dec 2002 22:14:41 -0800 Caleb Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not know what has happened but I no longer have my debian menus. I > have uninstalled and reinstalled the menu package to no avail. The last > thing that I have done is install the Bastille Hardening Script. Does > any

Re: Debian Menus no longer come up

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:14:41PM -0800, Caleb Walker wrote: > I do not know what has happened but I no longer have my debian menus. I Is menu installed? -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than

Re: ipchains DENY question

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:36:09PM -0800, nate wrote: > If you try to inquire about every blocked packet on > your firewall, someday you may be spending all your free time doing it. Not to mention making you look like an idiot to your ISP's support staff and make them live in fear of having to sit

Re: LIrc & Linux 2.4.20

2002-12-05 Thread Eduard Titov
Hello Andreas, Friday, December 6, 2002, 3:36:25 AM, you wrote: AE> Hi List, AE> I tried to use the lirc-modules-source package with linux-2.4.20 but I AE> can't get it compiled using "make-kpkg modules_image" on my Woody box. AE> With 2.4.18 it works fine. The "make-kpkg kernel_image" and "m

Re: Software CPU cooling - apm / acpi

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 08:18:40PM +0100, Olivier Guyotot wrote: > hi, > I would like to cool my CPU in the same way CPUIdle does it under > windows : using the Hlt instruction when the CPU is idle. Linux does this by default. Please don't assume that Linux repeats the same broken mistakes Windo

Re: Debian Menus no longer come up

2002-12-05 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 01:14, Caleb Walker wrote: > I do not know what has happened but I no longer have my debian menus. I > have uninstalled and reinstalled the menu package to no avail. The last > thing that I have done is install the Bastille Hardening Script. Does > anyone have any ideas abo

Re: dist-upgrade (potato->woody): how to get X back up?

2002-12-05 Thread nate
will trillich said: > attached is the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file (sorry for the size)... hope > it sheds some light on this. i'd love to get X working > again. (why was it so easy in potato? was i just lucky?) sounds to me like /dev/mouse doesn't point to your mouse device. this is a very common

Debian Menus no longer come up

2002-12-05 Thread Caleb Walker
I do not know what has happened but I no longer have my debian menus. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the menu package to no avail. The last thing that I have done is install the Bastille Hardening Script. Does anyone have any ideas about this? Thanks in advance, Caleb Walker -- To UNSU

Re: grub question - please help

2002-12-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
Try line 7 without the leading /: kernel vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda4 ro The vmlinuz in / is just a symlink to the real file and is not needed. On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:47:48AM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > Hello folks, > > I'm having a difficult time loading the linux partition in grub.

RE: EXIM relay for specific users

2002-12-05 Thread Andrew R Reid
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Olds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 4 December 2002 12:10 AM > To: debian-user List > Subject: RE: EXIM relay for specific users > I don't know about the SSL part, but I'll save you the royal pain in > the ass associated with exim and pa

grub question - please help

2002-12-05 Thread Bruce Park
Hello folks, I'm having a difficult time loading the linux partition in grub. I'm going to do the best that I can to explain what I understand and what I don't. I'm currenty using 2.4.-18-bf2.4 kernel. I am also using a floppy to test this. I have NOT loaded this into the MBR. Instead, the Lilo

Re: Power Point reader

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:37:30AM -0500, stan wrote: > What tool can I use to view poer point file? openoffice.org (yes, that's really the name of the package) -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do

Re: dist-upgrade (potato->woody): how to get X back up?

2002-12-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:08:50PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:38:04AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > and then i do > > > > XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new > > > > just like it says, and the bilge-plate bitmap pattern comes up > > (the generic X backgr

Re: file system

2002-12-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:12:54PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > I need some help regarding file system in Linux. Currently, I have four > partitions on my hard drive. I will use Grub's notation for representing an > IDE primary-master hard drive > > hd0,0 - Windows (NTFS

Re: file system

2002-12-05 Thread David Cureton
I note that the kernel is trying to load /dev/hda4 as the root partition. I'm not familiar with the grup notation but is: hd0,3 => hda3 or hda4. Cheers David On Friday 06 December 2002 15:12, Bruce Park wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > I need some help regarding file system in Linux. C

Re: apt-get update then apt-get upgrade, remaining a lots package not install

2002-12-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
I suspect there is some missing dependency problem. Unfortunately apt-get isn't very good about identifying the specifics of these. You might try 'apt-get dist-upgrade' or use dselect. On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:35:41PM -0700, eric lin wrote: > Dear advance linux user: > > under choice of sour

Re: clearing the screen

2002-12-05 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 05 Dec 2002, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: > How do I set it up in bash, so that when I logout it > will clear the screen first? > Hi, I did this in my ~/.bash_profile: alias exit="clear;exit" Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get update then apt-get upgrade, remaining a lots package not install

2002-12-05 Thread nate
eric lin said: > Dear advance linux user: > > under choice of source as test, I type apt-get update try apt-get dist-upgrade nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:10:42PM +, Stig Are M. Botterli wrote: > > I had kernels bigger than 1 MB - no problem. > > It would help if you remember what things you configured as modules. > > Unfortunately, I don't. Wait, are you trying to boot a kernel that doesn't have ext3 compiled in on a

Re: blackdown java

2002-12-05 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:48:18 -0500 Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 08:57:19AM +0100, Wojtek Piecek wrote: > | > | On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:14:46PM +, Tom Badran wrote: > | > | >Then install : j2re1.3 j2sdk1.3 if using woody, or j2re1.4, j2sdk1.4 i

Re: 2.5.50 kernel compilation problem

2002-12-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:53:40AM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | >On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:01:26AM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: | >| Hi all | >| I've been trying to compile the 2.5.50 kernel and after _many_ | >| configuration changes (to make it comilable) I've

Re: file system

2002-12-05 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 23:12:54 -0500 "Bruce Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > I need some help regarding file system in Linux. Currently, I have four > partitions on my hard drive. I will use Grub's notation for representing an > IDE primary-master hard drive > > hd0,0

apt-get update then apt-get upgrade, remaining a lots package notinstall

2002-12-05 Thread eric lin
Dear advance linux user: under choice of source as test, I type apt-get update progeny:/home/fsshl# apt-get update Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages Hit http://http.us.debi

Re: Re: blackdown java

2002-12-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 08:57:19AM +0100, Wojtek Piecek wrote: | | On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:14:46PM +, Tom Badran wrote: | | >Then install : j2re1.3 j2sdk1.3 if using woody, or j2re1.4, j2sdk1.4 if | >using unstable. 1.3 wont work on stable, although it will probably | >install, and i do

Re: Cups

2002-12-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:54:00AM +, sdownes wrote: | Struggling with Cups. | | It is installed with apt-get | I can print a test page OK from Cups | I can print through cups from my windows box | Cups is updating /etc/printcap when I modify the printer Cups can be configured to do that be

Re: printer does not print characters at the beginning of the line fully

2002-12-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:49:46PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | hello all | | i have come back with printing problem. | | when i write a text file with vi and do cat filename | lpr, i realize | that characters in the beginning of the line disappear from the | printout. I've seen this happen

file system

2002-12-05 Thread Bruce Park
Hello Debian users, I need some help regarding file system in Linux. Currently, I have four partitions on my hard drive. I will use Grub's notation for representing an IDE primary-master hard drive hd0,0 - Windows (NTFS) hd0,1 - boot (ext 2) hd0,2 - swap (swap) hd0,3 - root

Re: ifconfig

2002-12-05 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Peter" == Peter van Oene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> 1: DHCP doens't work. I have used etherconf to set them to Peter> auto and also ran dhclient (i don't seem to have dhcpcd). Peter> Ethereal displays no packets at all leaving the interface Peter> (bootp requests etc)

Re: I did a dumb thing ... (apt-get/postgres related)

2002-12-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:48:41PM -0600, Hank Marquardt wrote: > My first apt-get upgrade that bumped postgres to 7.3 didn't auto update, > so I was futzing with a manual upgrade and it wasn't working, so since I > had a recent dump of the data and it's not a production machine (it's my > workstat

Re: Fake start-stop-daemon called, doing nothing--Wha???

2002-12-05 Thread ZephyrQ
Thank you, the moving the .REAL command fixed it. I was able to configure my printer Now I have to start tracking down little problems...like my audio and upgrading the kernal so I can use the latest nvidia drivers... On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 14:05, Joey Hess wrote:

Re: ifconfig

2002-12-05 Thread Peter van Oene
At 07:37 PM 12/5/2002 +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: Can you please post your /etc/network/interfaces file? Thanks madmac I can't post the file at the moment (without undue strain), however, all that resides in it is below -- auto lo eth0 eth1 iface lo inet loopback

Re: Doing an "apt-get --purge remove" after an earlier "remove"?

2002-12-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:50:44PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:14:01AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > >> dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove the-package which > >> isn't installed. > >> > >> ... and none of the remai

Re: Complete Re-Install (was Re: Doing an "apt-get --purge remove" after an earlier "remove"?)

2002-12-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:38:45PM -0600, Jeremy Turner wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 12:56, Colin Watson wrote: > > Oh, both post-removal scripts and conffiles, yes. Post-removal scripts > > often purge configuration files that aren't managed by dpkg. > > > > The full details of purging are in t

Re: cluster: rsh vs. ssh

2002-12-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:38:07PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * sean finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021205 11:06]: > > wow, i didn't know they had that option! i remember discussing this > > with some folks on the netbsd mailing list a while back, and the general > > consensus was that "it would be

Why make-kpkg? What and Where is apt-src?

2002-12-05 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
I am struggling to get my wireless lan up and running using Actiontec USB transmitters. To this end I changed all my sources from stable to testing and ran apt-get -f install linux-wlan-ng. Now I am awash with instructions for setting up modules, for installing pcmcia-cs and rebuilding my ker

X (Svirge GX/2 Or Monitor)? problem

2002-12-05 Thread Kim Christiansen
Hi, I have been trying every where but keep hitting dead ends for the past 4 - 5 months... in other areas on web etc (Hack, hack, hack) (I accept I don't know what I'm doing but I posted a log file below) I have an ADI Provist monitor CD 484 (Which I can't find any specs for ... So how can I

Re: several packages failing -- is debconf broke?

2002-12-05 Thread John covici
on Thursday 12/05/2002 Joey Hess([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > John covici wrote: > > debconf (developer): <-- [11;80][10;1800]VERSION 2.0 > > dpkg: error processing foomatic-bin (--configure): > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20 > > > debconf (developer): <

perl problem: looking for Gtk::CList

2002-12-05 Thread dave mallery
hi i have gathered in as many "libgtk-perl" modules as i can find. i need a CList for some work i am doing... can't find it. even on cpan. i would really appreciate some pointers. thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (debian testing & woody) PO Box 520 .~._ Rama

I did a dumb thing ... (apt-get/postgres related)

2002-12-05 Thread Hank Marquardt
My first apt-get upgrade that bumped postgres to 7.3 didn't auto update, so I was futzing with a manual upgrade and it wasn't working, so since I had a recent dump of the data and it's not a production machine (it's my workstation) I tried using uninstalling the package (dpkg -r) and reinstalling b

RE: unsubscribe

2002-12-05 Thread Joyce, Matthew
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Re: kernel-headers & custom kernels

2002-12-05 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:27:01PM -0500, Edward Guldemond wrote: > You can just use the headers from the kernel-source package. The headers > are in /usr/src/kernel-source-X.X.XX/include well that's only partially true though. if any thing changes those headers (like updating the kernel source

Re: Re: Re: Re: Realtek NIC and Modem trouble.

2002-12-05 Thread Mike Russell
Thanks Ill do that. It should work, Its the same card that use to work for me with any driver when I had the machine. -Original Message- From: "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:22:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Re: Re: Realtek NIC and Modem troubl

Re: Re: Re: Realtek NIC and Modem trouble.

2002-12-05 Thread nate
Mike Russell said: > Thanks, After downloading your file and using the extra include flags it > compiled the module fine. rtl8139 driver works better than the other > driver but still does not work at full speed. Im using wget downloading a > 550mb ISO as a test. With rtl8139 driver it is about 9

Re: Re: Re: Realtek NIC and Modem trouble.

2002-12-05 Thread Mike Russell
Thanks, After downloading your file and using the extra include flags it compiled the module fine. rtl8139 driver works better than the other driver but still does not work at full speed. Im using wget downloading a 550mb ISO as a test. With rtl8139 driver it is about 900 k/s - 1.1 mb/s. Th

Re: slowwww IMAP

2002-12-05 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Justin Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 05 December 2002, 05:32 PM -0600): > In any case, I'm trying to find a way to make my IMAP access faster. > I've considered converting to Maildir format but can't find an easy way > to convert my existing mailboxes. I've also evaluated moving

Re: Doing an "apt-get --purge remove" after an earlier "remove"?

2002-12-05 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:14:01AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> >> [ ... ] >> >> dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove the-package which >> isn't installed. >> >> ... and none of the remaining pieces of "the-package" are removed. > > Then ther

Re: apt-get install -f fail, please help

2002-12-05 Thread Bruce Sass
did you do # apt-get update before the upgrade, and what is the output of: # cat /etc/{debian_version,apt/sources.list} -- On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, eric wrote: > Dear Bruce or any linux er: > > Hi Bruce, thanks your reply and hint, it work most of it , > except > progeny:/var/cache/apt/archives#

Re: clearing the screen

2002-12-05 Thread Gleef
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:40:19PM -0800, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: > How do I set it up in bash, so that when I logout it > will clear the screen first? In your home directory, have a shell script named ".bash_logout" with the "clear" command in it. Best of Luck, -Gleef -- -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: mozilla 1.2.1 packages

2002-12-05 Thread Takuo KITAME
2002$BG/(B12$B7n(B06$BF|(B($B6b(B)$B$N(B04$B;~(B24$BJ,$K(B Vineet Kumar $B[)$/(B: (B> Hello Takuo, (B> (B> The following is from a thread on debian-user this morning. We would (B> appreciate any light you can help shed on this subject. (B> (B> * Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTE

Re: ipchains DENY question

2002-12-05 Thread nate
John Conover said: > > Does anyone have any idea what the following in syslog means: > > Dec 5 14:58:01 themachine kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=0 > 0.0.0.0:65535 0.0.0.0:65535 L=40 S=0x00 I=55674 F=0x T=64 (#8) > > What's PROTO 0, IP address 0.0.0.0? proto 0 is IP (check /etc

floppy icon disappeared

2002-12-05 Thread Cyberthor
Hello before floppy icon work good at xwindow of gnome at desktop then 2 days ago it disappeared after boot up after update wvdial and libwvs files installed so one more of setserial need to install from floppy disk cuz i get d/l of files at winx9 into floppy disk then i moved disks m

Re: [OT] spam advice

2002-12-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > at the bottom of many spam-type emails there is a get out clause or > something to remove my name from the database. Surely clicking on this > link/sending an email to the adress specified simply verifies that your > address is valid? > > Is it adviseable to attempt to

ipchains DENY question

2002-12-05 Thread John Conover
Does anyone have any idea what the following in syslog means: Dec 5 14:58:01 themachine kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=0 0.0.0.0:65535 0.0.0.0:65535 L=40 S=0x00 I=55674 F=0x T=64 (#8) What's PROTO 0, IP address 0.0.0.0? Thanks, John BTW, its a ppp dialup c

Re: [OT] spam advice

2002-12-05 Thread nate
Hugh Saunders said: > hello, > > at the bottom of many spam-type emails there is a get out clause or > something to remove my name from the database. Surely clicking on this > link/sending an email to the adress specified simply verifies that your > address is valid? > > Is it adviseable to attempt

Re: clearing the screen

2002-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:49:47PM -0600, Justin Ryan wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:43, Simon Law wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:40:19PM -0800, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: > > > How do I set it up in bash, so that when I logout it > > > will clear the screen first? > > > > Use the .bas

Re: apt-get install -f fail, please help

2002-12-05 Thread eric
Dear Bruce or any linux er: Hi Bruce, thanks your reply and hint, it work most of it , except progeny:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back abiword apache apache-common apmd apt ash autoin

Re: clearing the screen

2002-12-05 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:49:47PM -0600, Justin Ryan wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:43, Simon Law wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:40:19PM -0800, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: > > > How do I set it up in bash, so that when I logout it > > > will clear the screen first? > > > > Use the .bas

Re: clearing the screen

2002-12-05 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:43:46PM -0500, Simon Law wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:40:19PM -0800, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: > > How do I set it up in bash, so that when I logout it > > will clear the screen first? > > Use the .bash_logout file to declare what you want to do when > loggin

Re: Re: Realtek NIC and Modem trouble.

2002-12-05 Thread nate
Mike Russell said: > Yes, I disabled both onboard serial ports and the modem is now working > fine. I got the network driver but it dosnt compile. Ive put up the output > of the compiling to: http://midgedog.orcon.net.nz/compilelog.txt do you have the headers installed for your kernel? I don't use

Re: BIND9 DDNS features

2002-12-05 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 21:53, Expert User wrote: > Has anybody successfully used the DDNS features of bind9? > > I am trying to setup bind 9, and a dhcp server which can update the DNS > records when there is a new host connected to network... > > I went through all the docs but was not able to ge

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2002-12-05 Thread Jose Sanchez
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Re: Need help installing from floppy/ls-120 to Thinkpad R31

2002-12-05 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 03:46, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > Hello to all: > > Whenever I boot from a rescue disk created with Potato or Woody, then > switch to the root disk, I constantly get an end_request error. > > I've tried every configuration I can think of, including: > > - Switching disable/ena

Re: clearing the screen

2002-12-05 Thread Justin Ryan
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:43, Simon Law wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:40:19PM -0800, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: > > How do I set it up in bash, so that when I logout it > > will clear the screen first? > > Use the .bash_logout file to declare what you want to do when > logging out. Unles

Re: clearing the screen

2002-12-05 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:40:19PM -0800, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: > How do I set it up in bash, so that when I logout it > will clear the screen first? Use the .bash_logout file to declare what you want to do when logging out. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

clearing the screen

2002-12-05 Thread Dominic Iadicicco
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Re: Optical Mouse only moves fast

2002-12-05 Thread Marcin Fusinski
Greetings! On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Troy Alexander wrote: > It is a PS/2 Mouse and I am using imps/2 in the > XF86Config-4 file. Have you tried other protocols? I use ExplorerPS/2 with my optical mouse (4 buttons, 2 wheels, cheapo A4tech stuff) - works very well. Good luck. -- === Marcin Fusinski

slowwww IMAP

2002-12-05 Thread Justin Ryan
Hiya Debian-users, On my mail server running Debian Woody with UW-IMAP and Sendmail, I've got ~200M of mail archived into several mbox folders in ~/Mail that I check both with IMAP and with mutt. As the folders have gotten larger, access has slowed significantly. I beleive part of this was due t

Re: grub configuration

2002-12-05 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:45:37 -0500 "Bruce Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > I just wanted to make sure that my menu.lst looks good for grub. I wouldn't > want it to fail and not be able to load any operating system. I have two > questions in the comments so please be sur

after install and remove norton security in xp, the site can notbe access even in linux platform, please help

2002-12-05 Thread eric
Dear linux users: After I install norton security in my xp machine, my ie6 can not access the site I originally can access, then I immediately remove it, then try again, I still can not access that site so I change machine to linux,-netscape7 , try again, I still can not access that site whic

Re: Re: Realtek NIC and Modem trouble.

2002-12-05 Thread Mike Russell
Yes, I disabled both onboard serial ports and the modem is now working fine. I got the network driver but it dosnt compile. Ive put up the output of the compiling to: http://midgedog.orcon.net.nz/compilelog.txt ~Mike -Original Message- From: "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Where to view bootup info ? dmesg ??

2002-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:42:49PM +0100, freek stelpstra wrote: > Doesn't "dmesg | less" solve this? Top posting blows. Don't do it. > On Thursday 05 December 2002 18:24, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:33:52PM -0900, Andy wrote: > > > Is EVERY single message/text that scrolls by

[OT] spam advice

2002-12-05 Thread Hugh Saunders
hello, at the bottom of many spam-type emails there is a get out clause or something to remove my name from the database. Surely clicking on this link/sending an email to the adress specified simply verifies that your address is valid? Is it adviseable to attempt to use these measures to be remov

Re: gpm crazy

2002-12-05 Thread Gregory Seidman
Dominic Iadicicco sez: } Ok I've installed gpm and when I try to use the mouse } the concole goes crazy. It starts printing new line } and the screen jumps from black to white and back to } black again. Sounds like you either have the wrong mouse device or the wrong mouse type. What kind of mouse

Re: gpm crazy

2002-12-05 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:53:52PM -0800, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: > Ok I've installed gpm and when I try to use the mouse > the concole goes crazy. It starts printing new line > and the screen jumps from black to white and back to > black again. > > Any suggestions? apt-get remove gpm gpm cause

Re: Fake start-stop-daemon called, doing nothing--Wha???

2002-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
ZephyrQ wrote: > >I try to run that command, but get an error: > > > > Warning: Fake start-stop-daemon called, doing nothing It sounds to me like you got a debian system installed that has the fake start-stop-daemon command used by debootstrap when bootstrapping the system. That is supposed to b

Re: several packages failing -- is debconf broke?

2002-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
John covici wrote: > debconf (developer): <-- [11;80][10;1800]VERSION 2.0 > dpkg: error processing foomatic-bin (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20 > debconf (developer): <-- [11;80][10;1800]VERSION 2.0 > dpkg: error processing locales (--configu

gpm crazy

2002-12-05 Thread Dominic Iadicicco
Ok I've installed gpm and when I try to use the mouse the concole goes crazy. It starts printing new line and the screen jumps from black to white and back to black again. Any suggestions? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable.

Re: Clock running slow - followup

2002-12-05 Thread David Cureton
A, the mist clears. That may be the source of my troubles some time back. NTP _had_ been working flawlessly for many years, then all of a sudden it stoped working properly on both of my machines. Exact symptoms that Bill is describing. Thinking back I had started using the ide-scsi on b

grub configuration

2002-12-05 Thread Bruce Park
Dear Debian users, I just wanted to make sure that my menu.lst looks good for grub. I wouldn't want it to fail and not be able to load any operating system. I have two questions in the comments so please be sure to read them. I've got four partitions on my primary IDE hard drive hd0,0 - Window

Re: RealPlayer

2002-12-05 Thread Curtis Vaughan
That installed it, but there is no sound. I tried switching from built-in sound system to old OSS drivers, but no go. Any ideas? Curtis Raph HP wrote: Hello, Will RealPlayer work on an iBook? And, if so Well, I downloaded the yes, it does, and really good bin file for installat

Optical Mouse only moves fast

2002-12-05 Thread Troy Alexander
I have Switched to a Micro Innivations Optical mouse and now I am having a strange problem. Things kinda work (buttons, Wheel exc..) but I can only move the pointer if I move the mouse quickly. Slow movements don't corespond to any pointer movement. It is a PS/2 Mouse and I am using imps/2 in th

Re: apt-get install -f fail, please help

2002-12-05 Thread eric
after no-debsig it still have error : Calling dpkg with the following arguments... /usr/bin/dpkg --unpack /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.2.1-3_i386.deb (Reading database ... 53728 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.2-11progeny1 (using .../xlibs_4.2.1-3_i38

Re: Software CPU cooling - apm / acpi

2002-12-05 Thread Olivier Guyotot
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include * Olivier Guyotot [Thu, Dec 05 2002, 08:18:40PM]: hi, I would like to cool my CPU in the same way CPUIdle does it under windows : using the Hlt instruction when the CPU is idle. As far as I know, it's possible to achieve this under linux with apm or acpi, but I ha

Re: kernel-headers & custom kernels

2002-12-05 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:41:29PM +0100, Aedificator wrote: > If a make a custom kernel using the kernel-package, do I have to rebuild > also the kernel-headers? If this is true, how do I do it? Or is it good > enough to install the old ones, provid that I only recompiled my old kernel? You can j

Re: apt-get install -f fail, please help

2002-12-05 Thread Hubert Chan
> "eric" == eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: eric> Dear linux users: eric> I meet following origin Signature check failed . problem eric> when I use apt-get install -f eric> Calling dpkg with the following arguments... eric> /usr/bin/dpkg --unpack /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-libs-data_

Re: Determining the usefulness of compression

2002-12-05 Thread Craig Dickson
Pigeon wrote: > I think the point re WAVs is that gzip and its kin don't compress them > very well so you waste a lot of cpu and get something that if you're > lucky is 90% of the original file size. I think there's a program > called 'flac' that will compress them to around 60-70% of original > s

Re: Realtek NIC and Modem trouble.

2002-12-05 Thread nate
Mike Russell said: > Modem is internal 3com USR Sportster 56k ISA jumpered to com3 IRQ 4 Only > hardware thats in the system is the RTL8139, Geforce Card, Modem, sound is > the onboard sound. I have used RTL8139's from when the 2.4 kernel started I disable the onboard VIA sound that chip is a pi

Re: gpm

2002-12-05 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:20:23PM -0800, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: > I installed gpm with dselect and I didn't configure it > right so I then uninstalled it with gpm. I wan't to > reinstall it again but I can't find it anymore in > dselect. Does anyone know where it went or where it > is? I've tr

Re: Realtek NIC and Modem trouble.

2002-12-05 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Mike Russell wrote: > Modem is internal 3com USR Sportster 56k ISA jumpered to com3 IRQ 4 > Only hardware thats in the system is the RTL8139, Geforce Card, Modem, sound > is the onboard sound. I have used RTL8139's from when the 2.4 kernel started > on a heap of machines and h

Re: Mozilla and java plug-ins

2002-12-05 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:14:01PM +, florian florian wrote: > Please help me with this little problem, in a great OS like Debian.In > mozilla browser some pages doesn't work when find application java.For egg. > the error message is > application/x-java -vm can viewed only with appropriate p

Re: Where to view bootup info ? dmesg ??

2002-12-05 Thread freek stelpstra
Doesn't "dmesg | less" solve this? On Thursday 05 December 2002 18:24, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:33:52PM -0900, Andy wrote: > > Is EVERY single message/text that scrolls by during boot up logged > > into /var/log/dmesg ??? > > No. It's a known issue though. > > -rob -- To UNS

Re: help configuring my monitor resolution...

2002-12-05 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Pigeon wrote: > "Barely usable"? 800x600 on a 21" screen sounds great to me! :-) > > Pigeon I've seen people here running windows at 640x480 on a 19" monitor. Not sure how anyone gets anything done at 640x480, let alone wasting that much screen real estate :) I prefer 1600x1

kernel-headers & custom kernels

2002-12-05 Thread Aedificator
If a make a custom kernel using the kernel-package, do I have to rebuild also the kernel-headers? If this is true, how do I do it? Or is it good enough to install the old ones, provid that I only recompiled my old kernel? Zee Thanks to all of you, guys! Debian rocks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Complete Re-Install (was Re: Doing an "apt-get --purge remove"after an earlier "remove"?)

2002-12-05 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 12:56, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:27:21AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-05 16:57:23 +]: > > > Then there's nothing more to do. The "purge" step only makes a > > > difference if the package has a post-removal sc

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