Re: apt-get remove exim .... wants to remove more?

2003-01-14 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 01:38, Andy wrote: > > > > All of those packages depend on a MTA; try "apt-get install qmail." > > > > Apt will be much happier when it realizes that you are merely switching > > > > MTAs. Also, apt will leave your exim config files, so you can merely > > > > "apt-get install

Re: GNU Emacs cut-and-paste broken

2003-01-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:17:37AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2003-01-14T08:30:03Z, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I can cut from Mozilla and paste into GNU Emacs but I cannot cut from GNU > > Emacs and paste into Mozilla. I think it is a problem with Mozilla. > > Unfortunately,

Re: Big difference in antialiasing

2003-01-14 Thread Jörg Johannes
Richard Beri schrieb: Does anyone else find AA fonts annoying? I hate them, sure they "look" smoother, but I find that it just seems blurred and they are hard to read. Makes me feel something is wrong with my eyes. It hurts. Totally agreed. This is one major reason for me not to use gnome.

RE: usb-scanner detected, but nothing about usb in /dev

2003-01-14 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
Do you have usbdevfs enabled in your kernel? j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -Original Message- > From: Janis Hagelberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 5:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: usb-scanner detected,

is there a program that can read dBaseIII files?

2003-01-14 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all i am stuck for good! and i have already done apt-cache search - no use. i need to open a dBaseIII file and convert it into any other more sensible format - xls, inclusive. is there a program that can handle dBaseIII files? -- regards, sandip p deshmukh --*** HOLY MACRO!

Re: md5sum & cmp don't work on wav & avi files

2003-01-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 00:14, nate wrote: > Michael Waters said: > > > Am I going crazy or do I have bad hardware? I can't seem to find any info > > in search engines. Any information would be greatly appreciated. > > sounds like it could be bad hardware. I've never had such a thing happen. > I

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-14 Thread Gary Turner
Gary Turner wrote: >nick lidakis wrote: > >... >>I dont have enough space to hold all the debs. df shows 92% used out >>a 300MB partition. /var seems to be slowly filling up, but what can >>I safely delete from var to trim it down? > >Like you, I made the /var partition to small. Rather than r

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Re: apt-get remove exim .... wants to remove more?

2003-01-14 Thread Andy
> > > All of those packages depend on a MTA; try "apt-get install qmail." > > > Apt will be much happier when it realizes that you are merely switching > > > MTAs. Also, apt will leave your exim config files, so you can merely > > > "apt-get install exim" at the end of your test drive and things sh

Re: problem setting up a local network

2003-01-14 Thread Tommaso Moroni
Hugh Saunders wrote: "a" is 192.168.1.2 which is on another subnet to "B" which appears to be on 192.168.100.1 ?? is B's IPaddr 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.100.1?? That's a difficult question, because actually I've never understood what happens with the ADSL drivers I use! Anyway, when I connect to

Re: md5sum & cmp don't work on wav & avi files

2003-01-14 Thread nate
Michael Waters said: > Am I going crazy or do I have bad hardware? I can't seem to find any info > in search engines. Any information would be greatly appreciated. sounds like it could be bad hardware. I've never had such a thing happen. I tried downloading that WAV file and copied it to 4 diff

Re: problem setting up a local network

2003-01-14 Thread Tommaso Moroni
Colin Ellis wrote: Firstly, your eth0 interface is not configured at all. You will need to load the necessary driver module for the card and edit /etc/network/interfaces to configure it. After this is done correctly you should get it added to your routing table automatically. You will get an en

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-14 Thread Gary Turner
nick lidakis wrote: ... >I dont have enough space to hold all the debs. df shows 92% used out >a 300MB partition. /var seems to be slowly filling up, but what can >I safely delete from var to trim it down? Like you, I made the /var partition to small. Rather than repartition, I made a directo

md5sum & cmp don't work on wav & avi files

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Waters
Hi, I was stress testing an old P233 that I just got when I discovered that md5sum, cmp, and cksum don't seem to work on particular wav & avi files. Does anyone know anything about this? If I use md5sum several times on the same particular file, I get differing sums. If I copy the file to a d

Re: Compressability if ISO images (was Re: ISO image)

2003-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 18:59, Thorsten Haude wrote: > Hi, > > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-15 01:32]: > >Why don't these images compress well? Specifically, I took the > >Knoppix V3.1-2002-12-12-EN iso and gzipped it, but only got 1% > >compression. > > I guess the Knoppix guys alre

Re: Will my fonts ever look good? [SOLVED]

2003-01-14 Thread Bill Moseley
Finally. For the archive, I got help form the XFree86 Fonts list. I have mozilla and mozilla-xft installed. I added this to /etc/fonts/fonts.conf: 15 false and this turned off antialias fonts for the smaller fonts.

Fw: Change in telephone nos of office & residence

2003-01-14 Thread dayal
        Kindly correct your address book as follows   office telephone nos  old    new 2052841    22052841 205284222052842 2052847    22052847 Fax office 2052845   22052845   Residence 2621299

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-14 Thread nick lidakis
David Raeker-Jordan wrote: nick lidakis wrote: I have tried googling and looking at ldp.org for this answer, but I can't seem to find anything relevant. How does one maintain /var? I'm trying to apt-get dist-upgrade my laptop and it's telling me I dont have enough space to hold all the debs. d

Starting bash prompt in vi-command mode

2003-01-14 Thread Jayme Johnston
Does anyone know how to get each bash prompt to start in vi-command mode. bind -V always shows keymap set to vi-insert even when set keymap vi-command is in the the .inputrc --Jayme -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-14 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
nick lidakis wrote: > I have tried googling and looking at ldp.org for this answer, but I > can't seem to find anything relevant. How does one maintain /var? > I'm trying to apt-get dist-upgrade my laptop and it's telling me I dont > have enough space to hold all the debs. df shows 92% used out a 3

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-14 Thread sean finney
heya, On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:06:42PM -0500, nick lidakis wrote: > I have tried googling and looking at ldp.org for this answer, but I > can't seem to find anything relevant. How does one maintain /var? > I'm trying to apt-get dist-upgrade my laptop and it's telling me I dont > have enough spac

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Wardle
Hi Nick On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 15:06, nick lidakis wrote: > I'm trying to apt-get dist-upgrade my laptop and it's telling me I dont > have enough space to hold all the debs. df shows 92% used out a 300MB > partition. /var seems to be slowly filling up, but what can I safely > delete from var to tri

Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

2003-01-14 Thread sean finney
heya, On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:00:35PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote: > All of my entries in /etc/aliases associate one known user with one alias. > What would one alias for many addresses look like? separate them with commas hth sean msg24176/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signa

Debian Potato on PB520 and Linux in general

2003-01-14 Thread John Steven Sobtzak
Hi! I'm a new user trying to feel my way through the installation process. Specifically I'm trying to install Linux on a Mac Powerbook 520 and have a couple of questions that I am hoping someone can help with (i.e. please forward to correct people ;-). Let me start by saying I am NOT a soft

Re: Re-configuring after an install

2003-01-14 Thread sean finney
heya, On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:01:58AM +, Chris Owen wrote: > Thanks Sean that does the trick, and the NIC seems to work OK. Only one > thing though; it keeps coming up with that screen asking me to configure > my network each time I boot, although I have removed the auto eth0 line > fro

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:06:42PM -0500, nick lidakis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have tried googling and looking at ldp.org for this answer, but I > can't seem to find anything relevant. How does one maintain /var? > I'm trying to apt-get dist-upgrade my laptop and it's telling me I dont > ha

Re: Software that can be used with MSN

2003-01-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 21:19, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Once upon a time [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote @ Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:03:23 +1000 > > > Hi all, > > > > I have two questions regarding free software that can be used with MSN: > > > > 1.) What pro

Re: Jigdo files for 3.0r1

2003-01-14 Thread David P James
Tadeusz Bak was roused into action on 2003-01-14 22:31 and wrote: Hi, Can somebody explain this to me please? Woody 3.0r1 has been officially released but jigdo files on us.cdimage.debian.org were last modified in July 2002. So I am confused: are these files for version 3.0r0 or 3.0r1? Thanks for

Re: How have I misconfigured DHCP?

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
As it turns out, Shyamal is right and I must have somehow changed the .config file without actually recompiling the kernel. Recompiling the kernel with CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER made it work fine. (It broke some other things, but that's my fault :)) ap --

how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-14 Thread nick lidakis
I have tried googling and looking at ldp.org for this answer, but I can't seem to find anything relevant. How does one maintain /var? I'm trying to apt-get dist-upgrade my laptop and it's telling me I dont have enough space to hold all the debs. df shows 92% used out a 300MB partition. /var seems t

Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

2003-01-14 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Walt Mankowski wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:09:58PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > What were you expecting? The only way you can suppress each recipient > > from knowing who else is recieving something is using BCC... > > That's not true. Mailing list managers do it (I don't know the > ad

Re: Jigdo files for 3.0r1

2003-01-14 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:31:09PM +1100, Tadeusz Bak wrote: > Can somebody explain this to me please? Woody 3.0r1 has been > officially released but jigdo files on us.cdimage.debian.org were last > modified in July 2002. So I am confused: are these files for version > 3.0r0 or 3.0r1? Thanks for y

Re: gcc-3.2 transition breaks build of KDE packages

2003-01-14 Thread Vikki Roemer
Sorry, wrong list. :( I meant to send it to debian-curiosa. Sorry. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://www.2khiway.net/users/vroemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ "Just because you're not paranoid, that doesn't mean they're not out to get you." (ripped from someo

Re: Software that can be used with MSN

2003-01-14 Thread Mohammed Sameer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Once upon a time [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote @ Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:03:23 +1000 > Hi all, > > I have two questions regarding free software that can be used with MSN: > > 1.) What program can I use as an alternative to MSN messenger? I know there > was so

Jigdo files for 3.0r1

2003-01-14 Thread Tadeusz Bak
Hi, Can somebody explain this to me please? Woody 3.0r1 has been officially released but jigdo files on us.cdimage.debian.org were last modified in July 2002. So I am confused: are these files for version 3.0r0 or 3.0r1? Thanks for your help. -- Tad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 16:39, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:09, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 04:18, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 02:15, Lee W wrote: > > > > > It is also more > > > > > "space appropriate" to do this headless than to go with a separ

Re: gcc-3.2 transition breaks build of KDE packages

2003-01-14 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 07:05:05PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:31:54PM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > >> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 21:54, criggie wrote: Colin> [Where'd this thread come from, by the way,

Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

2003-01-14 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:49:47PM -0600, Pete Templin wrote: > He was referring to MUAs, not MTAs. Sheesh. True, but that's likely the sort of behavior he's seen elsewhere and is trying to duplicate. msg24161/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

2003-01-14 Thread Pete Templin
He was referring to MUAs, not MTAs. Sheesh. Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Walt Mankowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 8:17 PM To: debian-user Subject: Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:09:58PM

Re: minimal impact kernel upgrade

2003-01-14 Thread sean finney
heya, if you're going from one debian-supplied kernel to another, i don't imagine that you'll horribly break anything. worst case scenario, you can tell lilo to boot into linux.old and have your old system back. some stuff i'd hold onto is - your current kernel's config options (/boot/config-2.

Re: apt-get requests glibc-2.2.5-x; won't install it

2003-01-14 Thread kynn
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:13:44 -0500 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:05:02AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I try to install locales using apt-get I get: > # apt-get install locales [snip] > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependen

The "c102" libraries want to kill KDE. How do I protect them?

2003-01-14 Thread Phil Edwards
In order to get a bug fixed, I'm doing an upgrade. Dependencies on dependencies on dependencies have started to pull in a bunch of the *c102 transition libraries... ...which conflict with most everything installed on the system (by design)... ...such as all of KDE: /usr/bin/apt-get -y -d d

Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

2003-01-14 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:09:58PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > What were you expecting? The only way you can suppress each recipient > from knowing who else is recieving something is using BCC... That's not true. Mailing list managers do it (I don't know the addresses of everyone subscribed to

Hallo Aidacara , kennst du mich noch ?

2003-01-14 Thread Sexylady
Hallo Debianuser !   Hehe , ist ganz schöne lange her , aber solltest mich glaube ich noch kennen Ich hab endlich meine Homepage , kannst sie dir ja mal anschauen : http://freundin.126

Re: apt-get remove exim .... wants to remove more?

2003-01-14 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Andy wrote: > > All of those packages depend on a MTA; try "apt-get install qmail." > > Apt will be much happier when it realizes that you are merely switching > > MTAs. Also, apt will leave your exim config files, so you can merely > > "apt-get install exim" at the end of your test drive and thing

Re: Software that can be used with MSN

2003-01-14 Thread Jason Greenwood
For #1 I use AMSN, which is an msn messenger clone. Works perfectly!! It even looks just like the real thingwithout the advertising. Cheers Jason PS I'm using version 0.70 with no problems. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have two questions regarding free software that can be used wit

Re: End and home key on bash in X-window not accepted

2003-01-14 Thread Russell
Florian Sukup wrote: Press Ctrl+ mouse_button_3 (might be 1 or 2, can't remember) over the xterm. Select "application cursor keys". wow! It's working! I added the line *appcursorDefault: true to my /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm and now it's working. Does this have any side effects? I did a s

Re: ISO image

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:03:29PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 21:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:41:50PM -0500, alex wrote: > > > A real beginners question. What is an ISO image? > > > > An ISO image is a file containing an ISO-9660 filesystem. I

Re: Compressability if ISO images (was Re: ISO image)

2003-01-14 Thread Barney Wrightson
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 21:13, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:41:50PM -0500, alex wrote: A real beginners question. What is an ISO image? An ISO image is a file containing an ISO-9660 filesystem. It is, essentially, a bit-for-bit copy of a CD ROM. You c

Re: apt-get requests glibc-2.2.5-x; won't install it

2003-01-14 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:05:02AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > When I try to install locales using apt-get I get: > > # apt-get install locales [snip] > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > locales: Depends: glibc-2.2.5-14.3

Re: Software that can be used with MSN - icq

2003-01-14 Thread Alvin Oga
On 15 Jan 2003, Michael Wardle wrote: > If you're looking for an instant messaging client that you can use to > chat with MSN users, try these: > * MSN Messenger for Linux > - no plugin required > - most similar to MSN Messenger > - > * GAIM >- use the MSN

Re: Re-configuring after an install

2003-01-14 Thread Chris Owen
sean finney wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:36:43AM +, Chris Owen wrote: Thanks, I tried this, and then a screen comes up next time I re-boot asking me to configure my network. After that, however, it bombs out with a "device not found" error, which is quite understandable as it is t

Re: apt-get remove exim .... wants to remove more?

2003-01-14 Thread Andy
> All of those packages depend on a MTA; try "apt-get install qmail." > Apt will be much happier when it realizes that you are merely switching > MTAs. Also, apt will leave your exim config files, so you can merely > "apt-get install exim" at the end of your test drive and things should go > back t

Re: Compressability if ISO images (was Re: ISO image)

2003-01-14 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-15 01:32]: >Why don't these images compress well? Specifically, I took the >Knoppix V3.1-2002-12-12-EN iso and gzipped it, but only got 1% >compression. I guess the Knoppix guys already try very hard to compress what's on the CD. I hear they have 1.

Re: Software that can be used with MSN

2003-01-14 Thread Phil Reynolds
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:03:23AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I have two questions regarding free software that can be used with MSN: > > 1.) What program can I use as an alternative to MSN messenger? I know there > was something called everybuddy (Is that what I should apt-get

can i trust you with this laudable project

2003-01-14 Thread bello afolabi
MR. BELLO AFOLABI INTERNATIONAL TRUST BANK EMAIL:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Attn: THE PRESIDENT / CEO It is with trust and confidence that I make this urgent important proposal to you in view of the fact that you are trust worthy and reliable. Currently I have a business that I think would be of interes

Re: Software that can be used with MSN

2003-01-14 Thread Barney Wrightson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.) Is there a program that will download Hotmail email (I know one version of fetchmail used to have that facility (?)). This will save me going through Hotmail website and will prevent my lovely wife ever booting into windoze again to use Outlook... Oh well, she is learn

Re: Software that can be used with MSN

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Wardle
If you're looking for an instant messaging client that you can use to chat with MSN users, try these: * MSN Messenger for Linux - no plugin required - most similar to MSN Messenger - * GAIM - use the MSN plugin - most popular -

Re: perldoc to manpage

2003-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:17:34AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > how do you convert a perldoc document into a manpage? Use pod2man. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Compressability if ISO images (was Re: ISO image)

2003-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 21:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:41:50PM -0500, alex wrote: > > A real beginners question. What is an ISO image? > > An ISO image is a file containing an ISO-9660 filesystem. It is, > essentially, a bit-for-bit copy of a CD ROM. You can use this

Re: gcc-3.2 transition breaks build of KDE packages

2003-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 07:05:05PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:31:54PM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 21:54, criggie wrote: [Where'd this thread come from, by the way, out of curiosity? -kde?] > > > You're a male - getting girls interested in

pgi help needed

2003-01-14 Thread Dan Peterson
Hi there, I'm using pgi (piggy) to attempt to build my own Debian iso, but I'm running into some problems. Initially, I thought this was related to the build being run on a 'stable' box seeing as how pgi's only available in unstable. So I went through the whole process on a machine running 'unst

Re: Code forks, RH & Debian (was Re: [OT] Process on which processor)

2003-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:56:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 17:50, Colin Watson wrote: > > Be careful of applying the words "older" and "newer" to procps. There > > are two forks of its codebase, and I don't think their version numbers > > track each other. > > > > It woul

perldoc to manpage

2003-01-14 Thread martin f krafft
how do you convert a perldoc document into a manpage? -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (www.mutt.org) can handle this automatically. .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing

Software that can be used with MSN

2003-01-14 Thread dbalder
Hi all, I have two questions regarding free software that can be used with MSN: 1.) What program can I use as an alternative to MSN messenger? I know there was something called everybuddy (Is that what I should apt-get?). 2.) Is there a program that will download Hotmail email (I know one versio

Re: ISO image

2003-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 21:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:41:50PM -0500, alex wrote: > > A real beginners question. What is an ISO image? > > An ISO image is a file containing an ISO-9660 filesystem. It is, > essentially, a bit-for-bit copy of a CD ROM. You can use this

Re: gcc-3.2 transition breaks build of KDE packages

2003-01-14 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:31:54PM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 21:54, criggie wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:10:49 -0500 > > "Hubert Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > criggie> Certainly an OS/2 install could be useful, but the details > > > that criggie> geeks li

Code forks, RH & Debian (was Re: [OT] Process on which processor)

2003-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 17:50, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:32:43PM -0800, nate wrote: [snip] > Be careful of applying the words "older" and "newer" to procps. There > are two forks of its codebase, and I don't think their version numbers > track each other. > > It wouldn't be th

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:26, Peter Johnson wrote: > I am running a 1.4 Athlon and am finding it fantastic. All I would say > is that if you are only going to be running Linux on it avoid XP as the > extra instruction searching will slow down (but this is truly marginal > in the scheme of most deskt

Re: exim wierdness

2003-01-14 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Rohan" == Rohan Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rohan> If I have an email with a '.' in the "localhost" name Rohan> (before the '@') it gives an error that the "localhost" Rohan> name is invalid. Rohan> This does not happen when the "localhost" name has no '.'. You want

Re: Sed or Awk Question

2003-01-14 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > cat testfile | xargs > > You win today's "useless use of cat" award. :) ('xargs < testfile') YAaay I'll put this one up on the mantle with the others! Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

RE: Nvidia source compiling problems

2003-01-14 Thread dbalder
I've got the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src both > in /usr/src. > I've used the following commands (as suggested by > Ochronus somt time ago) > > cd /usr/src/ > tar xvfz nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz > > export KSRC=/usr/src/ > - or - > export KSRC=kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7/ > > export KVERS=2.4.

Re: Sed or Awk Question

2003-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:47:34PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On 14 Jan 2003, Jody Grafals wrote: > > Dose anyone know how to replace a line break with a space using sed or > > awk? > > cat testfile | xargs You win today's "useless use of cat" award. :) ('xargs < testfile') Cheers, -- Colin

Amavis should scan only mail for existent users (Exim)

2003-01-14 Thread Mike Mimic
Hi! I have installed an Amavis system for Exim (amavis-exim). I have configured the Amavis and Exim and now e-mails are scanned and correctly filtered. But there is a problem. Exim now accpets e-mail even for non-existent users. It than scans e-mails and than it refuses them if there is no such

Re: Apt-get funkitude

2003-01-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did I find a bug? > > ursine:~# apt-get build-dep nautilus > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Some broken packages were found while trying to process build-dependencies. > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to

usb-scanner detected, but nothing about usb in /dev

2003-01-14 Thread Janis Hagelberg
hi! i've just bought an epson 1660 scanner, but i can't install it because it's not detected. i've tried to figure out what the problem is, and only found more problems. i use kernel 2.4.18 here is what i found, it really looks strange: syslog: Jan 14 18:54:51 maelwen kernel: usb.c: registered ne

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2003-01-14 Thread dbalder
I've got the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src both > in /usr/src. > I've used the following commands (as suggested by > Ochronus somt time ago) > > cd /usr/src/ > tar xvfz nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz > > export KSRC=/usr/src/ > - or - > export KSRC=kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7/ > > export KVERS=2.4.1

Re: NVidia source compiling problems

2003-01-14 Thread Joris Huizer
> Do you have kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7 installed? I've > never built the > nVidia stuff for use with a precompiled kernel. I've > only done it as > part of compiling my own kernel. At a minimum, I'm > guessing, you need > to install the kernel-headers package that > corresponds to your running >

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-14 Thread Joshua SS Miller
You have to much info for the apt-get cache to handle. Up the size of Cache-Limit. I have my set very high. joshua@sunlap:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release "testing"; APT::Cache-Limit 1000; Apt::Get::Purge; Joshua SS Miller On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 10:02, Robert Ian Smit wrote:

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:09, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 04:18, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 02:15, Lee W wrote: > > > > It is also more > > > > "space appropriate" to do this headless than to go with a separate > > > > traditional box/monitor/keyboard, so long as I

CBC Systems -=- Cheap, Reliable Computers - Locally

2003-01-14 Thread CBC Systems
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Installing on flatpanel

2003-01-14 Thread Omnecide
Im trying to install the stable version of Debian on my MAG innovision flat panel moniter but after it goes to the boot: and i hit enter to begin the install the screen goes black. and just sits there. It runs RH fine wiht no problems. And it is displaying something because if i hookup a nor

Re: Sed or Awk Question

2003-01-14 Thread Mike Dresser
On 14 Jan 2003, Jody Grafals wrote: > Dose anyone know how to replace a line break with a space using sed or > awk? cat testfile | xargs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Web based IM

2003-01-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 13:47, Brian McGroarty wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:44:48AM -0800, Tim Grogan wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > My company has decided to shutdown all IM services on our corporate network. > > Does anyone know of a web based IM that doesn't need a client to connect. It >

Re: NVidia source compiling problems

2003-01-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Joris Huizer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry - because lynx couldn't log in on yahoo.com I > have to reboot in windows to read mail which is why I > didn't add it before. > > > I've got the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src both > in /usr/src. > I've used the following commands (as sugge

Re: minimal impact kernel upgrade

2003-01-14 Thread nate
Simon Tod said: > The current kernel I'm using on my laptop - "unname > -r" gives just 2.4.19 without any extensions (?) - > doesn't support APM. All I'm really interested in > doing is and "apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.19-686" > and following the instructions... BUT how can I do > this without

Re: Adding SCSI Controller, SCSI Tape, and SCSI Disk to 2.2.20-idepci system

2003-01-14 Thread nate
Doug MacFarlane said: > Partition check: > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [557/240/63] p1 p2 < p5 > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0:hdb: set_multmode: status=0x51 { > DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdb: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } > [PTBL] [/240/63] p1 < p5

Re: Web based IM

2003-01-14 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:44:48AM -0800, Tim Grogan wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > My company has decided to shutdown all IM services on our corporate network. > > Does anyone know of a web based IM that doesn't need a client to connect. It > > does

Re: NVidia source compiling problems

2003-01-14 Thread Joris Huizer
Sorry - because lynx couldn't log in on yahoo.com I have to reboot in windows to read mail which is why I didn't add it before. I've got the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src both in /usr/src. I've used the following commands (as suggested by Ochronus somt time ago) cd /usr/src/ tar xvfz nvid

Sound problem after upgrading to testing

2003-01-14 Thread AR
After upgrading to testing from woody, I am unable to hear the sound track in mpg movies in xine, or hear any music in cdrom drive. GnomeCd from gnome2 tells me drive error when I start it with a Cd in the drive. However, I am a member of the cdrom and audio groups. I am kind of clueless here.

Re: Sed or Awk Question

2003-01-14 Thread Jan Trippler
On Die, 14 Jan 2003 at 13:42 (-0500), Jody Grafals wrote: > > Dose anyone know how to replace a line break with a space using sed or > awk? > > for example > > cat > dog > goat > duck > > would become > > cat dog goat duck You don't need to use sed or awk: jan@k500:~/tmp> x=`cat animal

Re: Web based IM

2003-01-14 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Tim Grogan wrote: > Hello all, > > My company has decided to shutdown all IM services on our corporate network. > Does anyone know of a web based IM that doesn't need a client to connect. It > doesn't have to be really fancy. Thanks for your help. > > Tim go.icq.com, if i re

Re: Web based IM

2003-01-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-14T18:44:48Z, "Tim Grogan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My company has decided to shutdown all IM services on our corporate > network. Do you have web access, even via a proxy? If so, then you can run a Jabber client. Then, you can connect to an external Jabber server that hosts AI

Re: Web based IM

2003-01-14 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:44:48AM -0800, Tim Grogan wrote: > Hello all, > > My company has decided to shutdown all IM services on our corporate network. > Does anyone know of a web based IM that doesn't need a client to connect. It > doesn't have to be really fancy. Thanks for your help. If y

Re: On-board lan. SOLVED (at least for ASUS mptherboards).

2003-01-14 Thread Janke Dávid
At last I found out that ASUS provides a linux driver for its on-board broadcom lan. Thanks anyway - Original Message - From: "Mark Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Janke Dávid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 4:26 PM Subject: Re: On-board lan

Fw: On-board lan.

2003-01-14 Thread Janke Dávid
Thanks for the list. There's only a small problem. The on-board lans I mean are 100Mbps cards. David > - Original Message - > From: "Mark Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Janke Dávid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 4:26 PM > Subject:

Re: On-board lan.

2003-01-14 Thread Janke Dávid
Concretely it is a Broadcom 4401 chip. - Original Message - From: "Mark Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Janke Dávid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 4:26 PM Subject: Re: On-board lan. > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 15:41, Janke Dávid wrote: > >

Re: How to make Alt GNU Emacs Meta?

2003-01-14 Thread Pete Harlan
When you do "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86", you have a chance to input keyboard options. Input "altwin:meta_win", which is mentioned in the dialog box that asks for options, to get the "potato" behavior or Alt and Windows keys. HTH, --Pete On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:52:00PM -0500, Richard

Kernel Panic

2003-01-14 Thread Michael
I am having an issue with my SID install. Every once in a while I boot up and during system bootup I get a kernel panic. I then reboot and all is fine, at least for the next week or so. I also dual boot into Redhat and this does not happen on that installation. This is the message on the screen whe

Re: Sed or Awk Question

2003-01-14 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Using awk: cat file | awk '{if(NR==1){printf "%s", $0;}else{printf " %s", $0;}}' Cheers, Bruno. On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 13:42, Jody Grafals wrote: > Dose anyone know how to replace a line break with a space using sed or > awk? > > for example > > cat > dog > goat > duck > > would become >

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