Re: Can't remove Gnus! Help!

2003-01-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Curtis" == Curtis Dean Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Curtis> Hello! Curtis> I am trying to remove Gnus from my Woody (x86). The response from Curtis> dpkg -r gnus is: >> dpkg -r gnus Curtis> (Reading database ... 155492 files and directories currently installed.) Curtis> Re

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:04:06 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. I would prefer to stay with Debian packages. I presume you mean either in testing or stable? Unstable has... {grey@teleute:~} apt-cache show squirrelmail Package: squirrelmail Priority: optional Section: web

Re: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-15 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Michael Kahle wrote: > Now I am installing Debian Woody. A fresh install. I cannot find how > during the installation to setup software RAID. Anyone know? If I'm remembering right, you can't do this for a Raid5 array.(is this still true?) I just did this on a Raid1 fresh

Re: Compiling new kernel modules

2003-01-15 Thread Russell
Alex Malinovich wrote: I've been rolling my own kernel using make-kpkg and the other wonderful tools we Debianites have at our disposal for over a year now, yet something just occured to me. Is it possible to compile individual kernel modules outside of the actual kernel compilation? I still have

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.16.0716 +0100]: > Actually, no, I hadn't. My apologies. Odd considering that > I submitted the original bug. I've not gotten any updates to > that bug in my mailbox so I had falsely presumed there had been > none. It doesn't ma

Re: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-15 Thread Russell
Michael Kahle wrote: I just got the cable and adapters I need to bring life back into Geocentric.(1) 6x '80 to 68pin' SCSI adapters and a arms length SCSI 68pin round cable to tie them all together. I must say, I pray too little. I mount the 6 drives into the IBM Z-Pro chassis. Route the cable

Compiling new kernel modules

2003-01-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've been rolling my own kernel using make-kpkg and the other wonderful tools we Debianites have at our disposal for over a year now, yet something just occured to me. Is it possible to compile individual kernel modules outside of the actual kernel compilation? I still have the full source director

java on woody

2003-01-15 Thread GavLac
Hi everyone, which is the best java plugin for my woody? The official from java.sun.com or the blackdown java plugin. I wanna use for example http://go.icq.com with my mozilla and I wanna use stablely Thanx Leslie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-15 Thread Michael Kahle
I just got the cable and adapters I need to bring life back into Geocentric.(1) 6x '80 to 68pin' SCSI adapters and a arms length SCSI 68pin round cable to tie them all together. I must say, I pray too little. I mount the 6 drives into the IBM Z-Pro chassis. Route the cables, attach the adapters

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 06:56:24 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you read the second message to that bug? Actually, no, I hadn't. My apologies. Odd considering that I submitted the original bug. I've not gotten any updates to that bug in my mailbox so I had falsely presum

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.16.0232 +0100]: > Did you check the bugs Database? > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=174262 Did you read the second message to that bug? Commenting that line doesn't do it for me. Leaving that line in produces empty pag

Really, really nice monitor

2003-01-15 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
No - I haven't seen one, nor heard of one. I had a client today ask me if there are graphic cards and monitors available on the 16:9 proportions, as is the digital tv and plasma screen format. I honestly haven't heard or seen any, and thought I'd throw the question out here in case someone has seen

Re: USB Mouse Dead [Woody 2.0r1]

2003-01-15 Thread jvarney
Shyamal>>apt-get install hotplug works like a dream if your kernel is good (and 2.4.18-k7 is what I'm using). << I'm not sure hotplug will help (and I'm loathe to bring in unstable packages into stable) because after I read your message I tried removing/inserting the mouse. System reports USB devi

Re: cron-apt: how can I configure the time it is started

2003-01-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-15 23:45:44 +0100]: > > can anyone explain to me where and how I can configure the time, > cron-apt is launched to run its jobs? Edit /etc/cron.d/cron-apt and change the time. 0 4 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/cron-apt && /usr/sbin/cron

Minimal Woody Installation Disk and Serial Console

2003-01-15 Thread Martin McCormick
I am using the Serial console method of installing Woody on a new, or at least, new to me, Dell system. For those who haven't done this, you just insert the Debian boot CD and boot the system but type the following where most people just hit Enter: linux console=ttyS0,9600n8 and

broken FTPStats?

2003-01-15 Thread D. Clarke
Hi, Anybody have any luck with the ftpstats program? ( it comes with proftpd-common ) I'm using woody I've tried reinstalling the package I've tried piping to the app, and redirecting to the app and no matter what I do I get "There was no data to process" even though my xferlog is 500K in size.

Re: How to set colors of ls listings?

2003-01-15 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:55:19AM -0800, Adam wrote: > I have changed the background color of my gnome-terminals and > now the colorized text from ls is ugly and hard to read. How > can I change these colors? try man dircolors :) once you know WHAT to look for, the battle is half over

Re: never mind last 2 questions

2003-01-15 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:28:46AM -0800, Adam Kao wrote: > I got my last two questions answered on IRC. you might share them with us just in case someone here is looking for them, too. :) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown D

Re: Emacs installed, why?

2003-01-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 06:58:22PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 02:35:23 + > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's gettext-el. Remove it and you should be cured. > > Odd. I wonder how that got in there as I'd never install it manually. :/ > Thanks for finding

Re: exim and pipe aliases?

2003-01-15 Thread Robert L. Harris
This hit the nail on the head. Only one problem now. If I save an email to a "file" and do a: cat |/usr/local/bin/pager as user "nomad" it works great. If I set this to use user nomad and try to run it my logs show: - syst

Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

2003-01-15 Thread will trillich
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? like this--local users are listed by login (mailbox) name; remote users are [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Emacs installed, why?

2003-01-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 02:35:23 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's gettext-el. Remove it and you should be cured. Odd. I wonder how that got in there as I'd never install it manually. :/ Thanks for finding that. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your s

Re: TAKE YOUR FUCKING SHIT OUT OF MY COMPUTER ARSEHOLES

2003-01-15 Thread Russell
arid zona research wrote: Don't tell me, tell M$ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re-init X11

2003-01-15 Thread Russell
Hi, After i've modified /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, is there a way to make the X system re-read it without having to exit out of X? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Emacs installed, why?

2003-01-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 05:47:23PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:15:22 -0700 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > > On first pass it would seem that almost any upgrade in unstable would > > want to upgrage at least one package and therefore it must just be > > missing from

TAKE YOUR FUCKING SHIT OUT OF MY COMPUTER ARSEHOLES

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Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Shyamal" == Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shyamal> startx runs ~/.xinitrc if there is such a file, but Shyamal> otherwise runs xinit. This basically results in the Shyamal> executions of the files in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ where Shyamal> your ~/.xsession file gets

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:28:17PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not .xsession ... I > >don't know why it used to work. Maybe you had a symlink in place at one > >point? > > man startx: > [...] > > Note that in the Debian

Re: how to set my email address on outgoing mail?

2003-01-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Richard" == Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> Lo, on Wednesday, January 15, Adam did write: >> On my ISP shell account I can set my email address in Emacs >> when using RMAIL but this doesn't work on my Debian box, is >> this exim's doing? Richard> I don'

Re: Emacs installed, why?

2003-01-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:15:22 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > It does seem strange that there is no line saying, "The following > packages will be upgraded". Was that just missed in the cut-n-paste? > But it is important information. Yes, I stopped the cut and paste that the impo

Re: exim and pipe aliases?

2003-01-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Robert" == Robert L Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> I'm trying to create and alias as such: Robert> robert-pager: | /usr/local/bin/Pager.pl 6787586413 Robert> I execute newalias and send an email to "robert-pager" and Robert> I get this in my /var/log/exim/mainlog:

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> and nothing else - should I just use .xinitrc instead then? >> And why has .xsession suddenly starting playing around? Colin> To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not Colin> .xsession ... I don't k

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:12:22 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.15.2029 +0100]: > > before I discovered this workaround for my situation I was forced to use > > php 4.0.x in order to avoid this message. > It works fine with 1.2.6. Why

Re: USB Mouse Dead [Woody 2.0r1]

2003-01-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jim" == jvarn359 writes: Jim> 2. The CD installs 2.2 kernel by default. So then I used the Jim> debian 2.4 kernel from dselect and compiled a new kernel in Jim> the debian way from the sources on the CD. In the new kernel Jim> made sure USB was included. I can strongly reco

Re: exim wierdness

2003-01-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Rohan" == Rohan Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rohan> qualify_domain = informaat.nl which I have now commented Rohan> out, and ... This one is not a real problem, particularly if you don't mind email from your system going out with local domains set to informaat.nl. Also, take

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not .xsession ... I don't know why it used to work. Maybe you had a symlink in place at one point? man startx: [...] Note that in the Debian system, what many people traditionally put in the .xinitrc file should go in

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-15 Thread nate
martin f krafft said: > It works fine with 1.2.6. Why would it not with 1.3.2? PHP was not > updated. maybe it's a bug, I had the same problem back with 1.2.0rc I think around 12/01, worked fine in php 4.1.x and 4.0.x, but the next release it broke on 4.1.x(latest at the time I think). Took abou

Re: Window Manager doesn't start

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: > To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not .xsession ... I > don't know why it used to work. Maybe you had a symlink in place at one > point? I don't know if that's true - I don't have an .xinitrc, just an .xsession, and startx does T

Re: DNS hosting

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Kevin Smith said: > Same goes this end, if you want a thirdendary/slave DNS I can add this > in for you. Like the spelling? ;) > > Regards, There's actually a word for this - tertiary. But I do love the invent-a-word approach. It's a lot of fun. -- -

PGI (piggy)

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Peterson
Has anyone on the list used PGI before? I'm running into some issues and was wondering if anyone here might be able to help. Thanks in advance, Dan __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Lewis
Have you got your scanner working yet? I have just managed to get my HP scanner working within the last hour. The only serious thing I needed to do was edit two files in /etc/sane.d The first was dll.conf where I rem'd out all the entries except net and hp the second was hp.conf where I made a

Re: how to set my email address on outgoing mail?

2003-01-15 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, January 15, Adam did write: > On my ISP shell account I can set my email address in Emacs when using > RMAIL but this doesn't work on my Debian box, is this exim's doing? I don't think so; I'm able to configure my outgoing email address successfully using VM, XEmacs, and Debia

Re: Installing on flatpanel

2003-01-15 Thread Tim
What options are on the menu? You could also try linux mono Please reply to the list for google's sake! Omnecide wrote: i ran that and it brought me to a menu to select video mode. which should i select. - Original Message - From: "Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: Can't remove Gnus! Help!

2003-01-15 Thread John Hasler
Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnus.prerm and remove the offending line. Then run 'dpkg -r gnus' again. And file a bug report. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

apt-get install libc6 but want non-latest version

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
It seems if I want to get any new things from sid over my modem, I will have to get a new libc6. This shouldn't be too big: # apt-get install libc6 The following extra packages will be installed: libc6-dev locales Need to get 9348kB of archives. After unpacking 279kB will be used. Do you want to

Re: Non-US characters in mutt summaries

2003-01-15 Thread Michael Wardle
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 08:53, Dave Sherohman wrote: > To make matters even more fun, I have some older > messages from this same person in which mutt displays the non-US > characters properly in all places; his User-Agent headers are > identical before and after the change, but viewing the raw messa

dist-upgrade better than "freshen my sid CDs"

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
Summary: "freshen my sid CDs" probably worse than "get fresh CDs" or "dist-upgrade via apt-zip". Recently I posted on http://lists.debian.org/deity/2003/deity-200301/author.html about ideas for modem users on how to freshen their sid CD set: 1. not like apt-zip, which is gets fresh versions of wha

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.15.2029 +0100]: > For me, the resolution was to use mod_php instead of using php as a cgi(which > is the reccomended configuration for SM according the last docs I saw, I use > 1.2.9). Though last I checked the debian version also used mod_php. There >

Problems trying to install MythTV

2003-01-15 Thread stan
I had looked around a while back ro a TiVo like solution using my Debian machine, but did not find one. Today while browsing Slashdot, what do I find, but a pointer to something called MythTV, and it has .debs! Wonderful. Unfortunatley, I can't seem to get it installed :-( Sorry, but the followi

Re: DNS hosting

2003-01-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kevin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.15.2009 +0100]: > Same goes this end, if you want a thirdendary/slave DNS I can add this in > for you. Like the spelling? ;) Yeah, that's really funny. -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (www.mutt.org) can handle this automatically. .''`. ma

Re: debian lockup, fsck fail ....

2003-01-15 Thread Dave Selby
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 9:57 pm, nate wrote: > Dave Selby said: > > Are the above lost files ? If so how do I know what is what and how do I > > put them back ? > > they are lost data, could be portions of files. very difficult to > determine what is what, you can try to cat them and if they

cron-apt: how can I configure the time it is started

2003-01-15 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, can anyone explain to me where and how I can configure the time, cron-apt is launched to run its jobs? Thanks for any hint! wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf http://www.lpr.ch Wanna know anything about raw ip? Join [EMAIL PROTECTED] on http://www.rawip.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: framebuffer sizing again

2003-01-15 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:57:27PM -0500, R Ransbottom wrote: > I am trying to set the console screen size to 25 x 80 > on Debian 3.0. I really don't care whether I am using > the framebuffer device or not. > > I would like an easy generic solution. One that will work > on various machines. Pre

Re: Amavis should scan only mail for existent users (Exim)

2003-01-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Mike Mimic wrote: 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 i

Re: dpkg/apt problem: /var/lib/dpkg/status bad!

2003-01-15 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
NO! Nate's advice is not for good. This is definitely so called Dynamic MMap error, this week mentioned at least thrice in this list, find solution in archive. Hint: in your /etc/apt/apt.conf fill in: APT::Cache-Limit 25165824; that solves the problem. Vlada On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 23:00, nate wrote:

Re: Big difference in antialiasing

2003-01-15 Thread Craig Dickson
Narins, Josh wrote: > From: Craig Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:51 PM > > [snip] > > Display resolution has, of course, been increasing gradually for years. > Eventually we'll reach a point where the jaggies recede into > near-invisibility. At that poi

Re: need some readline tricks [my part is SOLVED!]

2003-01-15 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 03:08:15PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > 20.12.2002 22:26:16, andrej hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Besides, how do I represent function keys? > > I think, they are represented just like cursor keys. > Unfortunatly (to my knowledge, which may well be incomplete), t

DPKG suggestion

2003-01-15 Thread Narins, Josh
Ok, there was a thread [1] on curiosa that had lots of talk about old computers (low ram) running dselect and dpkg, and how it could be _interminable_. Several people suggested solutions in the thread, I am not qualified to comment [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-curiosa/2003/debian-curiosa-20

RE: Big difference in antialiasing

2003-01-15 Thread Narins, Josh
From: Craig Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:51 PM [snip] Display resolution has, of course, been increasing gradually for years. Eventually we'll reach a point where the jaggies recede into near-invisibility. At that point, there will be much less need for

exim and pipe aliases?

2003-01-15 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm trying to create and alias as such: robert-pager: | /usr/local/bin/Pager.pl 6787586413 I execute newalias and send an email to "robert-pager" and I get this in my /var/log/exim/mainlog: 2003-01-15 17:01:09 18Yvav-0001i8-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transp

Packages for Debian 3.0 (Alpha 9)

2003-01-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared some packages that update some packages that are not or only in an older version in Debian 3.0r1. Please read [1] for more information (and read the FAQ before sending mails to me). I try my best to avoid problems with both installing these packages on Debian 3.0 and upgrading with

Re: dpkg/apt problem: /var/lib/dpkg/status bad!

2003-01-15 Thread nate
Magnus Therning said: > Can I somehow recreate it? I get the following errors: > > # apt-get update > [..] > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing libgnomeprintui-0 (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status > E: Th

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-15 Thread Peter Johnson
Try it on a different client. I found the same issue but only with older browsers. On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 04:51, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Thomas R. Shemanske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.15.1805 >+0100]: > > > ERROR > > > You must be logged in to access this page. > > > > When you

Re: debian lockup, fsck fail ....

2003-01-15 Thread nate
Dave Selby said: > Are the above lost files ? If so how do I know what is what and how do I > put them back ? they are lost data, could be portions of files. very difficult to determine what is what, you can try to cat them and if they are text files you may be able to determine what file it cam

framebuffer sizing again

2003-01-15 Thread R Ransbottom
I am trying to set the console screen size to 25 x 80 on Debian 3.0. I really don't care whether I am using the framebuffer device or not. I would like an easy generic solution. One that will work on various machines. Preferably without kernel compiles and without knowledge of what video card i

Non-US characters in mutt summaries

2003-01-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm having some trouble with display of non-US characters in some areas in mutt, specifically the 'from' field in the message list display and in the message info bar at the bottom of the viewer. In both places, I'll get "=?iso-8859-1?q?B=F6...". Within the headers and body of the message in the

Re: Big difference in antialiasing

2003-01-15 Thread Craig Dickson
Brian Nelson wrote: > I find that, for well-designed fonts, the jaggies are not an issue. Fonts specifically designed for pixel-oriented displays (such as Microsoft's Georgia and Verdana) certainly are much more readable on screen at small sizes than traditional print fonts such as Times or Helve

dpkg/apt problem: /var/lib/dpkg/status bad!

2003-01-15 Thread Magnus Therning
Can I somehow recreate it? I get the following errors: # apt-get update [..] Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing libgnomeprintui-0 (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The package lists or status file could no

debian lockup, fsck fail ....

2003-01-15 Thread Dave Selby
My woody ext2 totaly locked up, my win modem was dialing (I suspect the driver) while I did a search on kmail for an e-mail :( .. well I guess nothings perfect ... I tried ctrl-alt-del ctrl-alt-f1,2,3 ... all dead. I had to power down and re-boot. On re-boot the system ran fsck which bommed ou

rage128 doesn't work with kernel 2.4.20

2003-01-15 Thread Janis Hagelberg
hello! i've tried to install the kernel 2.4.20, but since then i couldn't use x-win anymore. and understand what the kernel message i've found in syslog, about r128_ccc_indirect means. specially the buffer owned by 0. i'll be glad if sombody could explain me what's wrong. j. boot-up, syslog: J

Re: Sendmail hangs at startup

2003-01-15 Thread nate
Riccardo Gusso said: > > Where could the cause of the problem be? most often in my experience the case of sendmail hanging on boot is it cannot resolve the host name(s) it is responsible for. Check sendmail's configuration(/etc/mail) and be sure your name resolution is working. if your NIC isn't a

DocBook with MathML in debian/testing - doesn't work :-(((

2003-01-15 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I'm not able to process succesfully a DocBook with MathML equation into the PDF file. To be sure that the XML source is correct, I've just downloaded the http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/docbook/docbook-testdocs-1.1.tar.gz test documents, and tried to process: $ db2pdf mathm

hppa 712 booting network lifimage

2003-01-15 Thread jacek
Hi, So, I try to boot my hp 712/60 over bootp I've installed rarpd, bootps, all seems good. I downloaded some lifimages from http://pateam.esiee.fr/cd-images/lifimages/ I start the boot, I can change the boot parameters with isl, the kernel and initrd are transferred and activated, I have the famo

Re: DNS hosting

2003-01-15 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:46:17PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > I've been happy with Granite Canyon (http://soa.granitecanyon.com/). > Their Public DNS Service offers both primary and secondary DNS free of > charge to anyone who asks. They solicit donations to cover > maintenance and administration

Re: Big difference in antialiasing

2003-01-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: > >> Richard Beri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > 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 somet

Sendmail hangs at startup

2003-01-15 Thread Riccardo Gusso
Hello, during the boot my sid hangs for some minutes starting sendmail; then it completes the boot without error messages or warning, and sendmail works correctly. I have noticed that when sometimes the ethernet card is not seen by the kernel at the startup (it happens sometimes, I don't know why

Re: How Can I Switch to System-V ?

2003-01-15 Thread Richard Kreuter
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:36:16AM +0100, Alberto Cabello Sanchez wrote: > > Where could I find information about BSD and SisV (no AIX or > Solaris or Linux or ...) and their differences ? There's a pretty comprehensive paper describing several systems for managing services at http://people.debia

Can't remove Gnus! Help!

2003-01-15 Thread Curtis Dean Smith
Hello! I am trying to remove Gnus from my Woody (x86). The response from dpkg -r gnus is: # dpkg -r gnus (Reading database ... 155492 files and directories currently installed.) Removing gnus ... install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. dpkg: error processi

Re: mutt 1.5.3 test package

2003-01-15 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:31:38PM -0500, Jason McCarty wrote: > > I'm interested in testing your package, but the URL you gave 404's. Is > there another address I can get the package at? > It is in unstable. Josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: DNS hosting

2003-01-15 Thread Jack O'Quin
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:57:34AM -0500, Vivek Kumar wrote: > > I am looking for some reliable company for our dns server > > hosting. I am facing problems with the current company, their > > one of the server is always down and second server is down off > > and on. Suggest me if you know of so

Re: apt-get debconf

2003-01-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 06:52:13PM +, Joao Paulo Serrachinha wrote: > I read somewhere that there are ".deb" packages like OpenOffice 1.0.1, > Mozilla 1.0.2 created by people that we can trusth, for Debian Woody. http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/mirrors.html ... for instance; Google w

Re: RFC: an introduction to configuring sawfish

2003-01-15 Thread Adam Kao
Here is my reply to the previously forwarded email feedback. --- Start of forwarded message --- Thank you for your email. May I post your email on my website? I wish to record contributions and show critiques so that future reviewers can read what has been said and express agreement o

RE: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-15 Thread Narins, Josh
Geek elitism _exists_solely_to_destroy_ Geek elitism We are obviously making geek elitism _so_ attractive that everyone wants to become one of the "geek elite" Which will make the term meaningless, and end geek elitism forever. Now, elitism based on something unchangeable and uncontrollable, (e.g

Re: RFC: an introduction to configuring sawfish

2003-01-15 Thread Adam Kao
Here is the reply to my reply to the previously forwarded message. --- Start of forwarded message --- hi > May I post your email on my website? I wish to record contributions > and show critiques so that future reviewers can read what has been > said and express agreement or disagreeme

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-15 Thread nate
martin f krafft said: > after the upgrade to squirrelmail 1.3.2, users can't log in anymore. all > they see is the message > > ERROR > You must be logged in to access this page. > > upon entering the correct user and password. there are no bugs about this, > and i have no idea where to start th

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

2003-01-15 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Janis Hagelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 15 January 2003, 11:46 AM +0100): > no, usbdevfs is disabled in the kernel. it seemed very experimental, and i > didn't read the doc. > > i'll rebuild the kernel with it enabled. Before you go to that effort, try doing the following as r

[Fwd: Re: RFC: an introduction to configuring sawfish]

2003-01-15 Thread Adam
Here is an email feedback that was intended to go to the list. There is a new version of my webpage at http://www.ideogram.com/do-nothing/sawfish.html with many changes, major one being split into two versions, one for Unix experts and one for novices. Adam --- CAiRO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: S

Re: File rights

2003-01-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:15:46AM -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Can some kind soul please point me to the documention area(s) that will > let me understand file/directory rights per user? I've trying to use > WINE, and install some Windoze programs - and I can't get user access to > create the

Re: opera or other fast browser

2003-01-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 06:57:12PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote: > Hi, > > I'm installing Debian on an old machine. Therefore, I need a fast browser. > > So, I thought Opera could be a good idea. But I can't find a package > including it (at least not bin/opera). > > Is there a debian package fo

Re: DNS hosting

2003-01-15 Thread Kevin Smith
Same goes this end, if you want a thirdendary/slave DNS I can add this in for you. Like the spelling? ;) Regards, Kevin - Original Message - From: "will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 5:55 PM Subject: Re: DNS hosting > On Tue, Ja

Re: IMP breaks after security update

2003-01-15 Thread Marcus Schopen
Hi, Marcus Schopen wrote: > > Hi, > > after updating my IMP (woody) I get the following error: > > Parse error: parse error in /usr/share/horde/imp/lib/db.pgsql on line > 197 > Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output > started at /usr/share/horde/imp/lib/db.pgsq

Re: SCO-ANSI emulation via telnet

2003-01-15 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:54, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way I can get sco-ansi terminal emulation in a telnet session? > > Thank you for any hints, Use a telnet programme that emulates a sco-ansi terminal. Crispin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed messag

Re: apt-get debconf

2003-01-15 Thread Joao Paulo Serrachinha
I read somewhere that there are ".deb" packages like OpenOffice 1.0.1, Mozilla 1.0.2 created by people that we can trusth, for Debian Woody. Thanks Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:39:14PM +, Vanilla wrote: Please can anyone give me a bigger list, for my sources.list. I o

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-15 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 12:34, Paul Johnson wrote: > If none of this makes sense to you, you probably shouldn't be calling > yourself a geek and should sell your computer and switch to WebTV or > something a little less fun. Humour can stay, but geek elitism must die. (That goes for all elitist geek

Re: listing intstalled packages and their origin

2003-01-15 Thread Jason McCarty
Willem wrote: > Hi, > > There are several ways to get a list of the packages which are installed > but i haven't been able to figure out if it i possible to list the dist they're from > stable, testing or unstable. > Is there a command for this or could i pipe dpgk -l through something else > to

(OT, Long) Very strange behaviour with real W2k file sharing, solvedby using Samba.

2003-01-15 Thread Mike Dresser
We have a group of W2k machines that have CADD software installed on them. In particular, we use a program called I-DEAS, currently at version 9. This software is installed and runs locally, and accesses our part datafiles off a network drive mapped to T: Under NT 4.0 on the client, this worked.

Re: opera or other fast browser

2003-01-15 Thread Kevin Smith
Hi, Just download the Linux version from here : http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=linux&session= Just select the option deb and QT Static. I have it installed on my Debian 3.0 PowerPC and it works a treat. I bought a licence to (upgrade infact) for $15. Very easy to install to,

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

2003-01-15 Thread Janke Dávid
I've looked at the downloadable file. It not only contains drivers for linux, but for all OSes. The linux driver is source code. David - Original Message - From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:24 AM Subject: Re

idesk fonts problem

2003-01-15 Thread willem
hi, Yesterday is wtiched to SID completely, was running a mix of testing and SID before, and installed idesk. Followed the manual...and the examples that come with the package but whatever i do i get the message : 'Can't find font: tahoma'. I've also added a few truetype fonts, including tahoma, f

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