Re: redirect of "ls --color" causes problems

2003-01-26 Thread Lukas Ruf
* Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-26 08:29]: > * David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030125 20:14]: > > So while bash and zsh have aliases, you can't actually do much with > > them. > What's the problem with tcsh? alias ls '/bin/ls --color=auto --classify -F \!*' works perfectly. wbr,

give cdrom source more priority in apt-get

2003-01-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
Assuming $ apt-cache policy twlog twlog: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.3-2 Version Table: 1.3-2 0 500 http://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw sid/main Packages 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux SID _Sid_ - fsn.hu unofficial i386 Binary-4 (20021010)] unstable/main Packages How can I

Re: Galeon scrollbar resembling the one in Mozilla

2003-01-26 Thread Christopher Nehren
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 01:17, Yuhanes Tjandra wrote: > Hi, > > there is a mini-HOWTO that might answer your question. > > Here is the link: > >http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=544&page=1 Indeed, I followed (as per the instructions of

Re: snmpd's

2003-01-26 Thread David Bell
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 17:36, Jason Clarke wrote: > Basically I want it for internal graphing (mrtg) of various interfaces (wifi > / ethernet) so I don't want to spend much time configuring the snmpd. > > So far with my fiddling, I've not been able to get ucd-snmpd working :-/ I've just recently i

Re: installing a patch

2003-01-26 Thread nate
Emma Jane Hogbin said: > Preamble: > My system adminstrator for our debian servers says he's installed a patch > I need for a specific piece of software. For some reason it doesn't work. > (I emailed it to him as an attachment from mutt, it's a .gz.0 file.) The > install didn't "fail", but the patc

Re: fonts in tables

2003-01-26 Thread Robert Land
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:52:46PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:30:03PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > > Intention is to define font-bold _only_ for > > one column in a table. > > This may be a question that webdesign-L could help you with. However, I'd > recommend tryi

Re: apt-get

2003-01-26 Thread Travis Crump
Barry Pollock wrote: You wil have to create a Packages file and a Release file and a Package file. You can simply download the package and do a dpkg -i p`fullpagagename' . The Release file and Package file are optional. A minimally functional Packages file can be created by running 'dpkg-sca

Re: shared or static qt?

2003-01-26 Thread nate
N.D.O said: > What is shared or static QT and what is the differance? the most common app I know that uses shared or static QT is opera.. static QT = when the app has the QT library built into the app itself, this can improve compadiblity on systems that may not have the exact version of QT that

Re: Galeon scrollbar resembling the one in Mozilla

2003-01-26 Thread Yuhanes Tjandra
Christopher> I have Galeon from sid (although I've tried the one in Christopher> woody which shows the same thing), and I would like to Christopher> change the main vertical scrollbar to be something other Christopher> than the default one it installs on Debian. Hi, there is a mini-HOWTO that mi

Re: OT -- gentle makefile assistance?

2003-01-26 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:27:15PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > My solution was to use a dummy .$(SCRIPT)-run.stamp file - and use the > timestamp on this file to remember when $(SCRIPT).sql was last run: > > #/usr/bin/make -f > SQLFILES = fns.sql person.sql dates.sql > STAMPFILES = $(SQLFILE

Re: mkreiserfs

2003-01-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
ah! I thought of that and made a partition but forgot to reboot after making it so that was the reason it wasn't working thanks, leo On January 26, 2003 08:33 pm, nate wrote: > Leo Spalteholz said: > > Hi, > > I was just trying to make a reiserfs partition on my new drive > > but I kept gettin

Which Tape Backup package, mt-st?, etc.

2003-01-26 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Team: I have a single system with 38 gb of disk that's about 1/2 full. It has a DDS-3 12/24 gb tape-backup on it. I have confirmed it's working (via tar, then a restore to a different location, and a file-compare). What packages do you folks recommend for a single-system? There are about a ha

Re: locale and localedef

2003-01-26 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 18:18, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Two machines walk into a bar. Both have woody installed but one is stable > and the other is unstable. ... > > Woody stable installs fr_CA locale beautifully with: > apt-get install locales > dpkg-reconfigure locales (choose fr_CA)

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:32:19PM -0800, Grant Bowman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a place where a general consensus has been reached on exactly > what is necesary to backup a Debian system? I'm sure this has been > asked and answered many times before, so I am looking for URLs to where

Re: mkreiserfs

2003-01-26 Thread nate
Leo Spalteholz said: > Hi, > I was just trying to make a reiserfs partition on my new drive but I kept > getting the following error > pherthyl:/home/leo# mkreiserfs /dev/hdb2 2 that makes a reiserfs filesystem, not a partition use cfdisk to make the partitions, thats an easy to use tool in

not quite the regular sources.list problem

2003-01-26 Thread lenny bruce
I've found a lot of support regarding a sources.list problem that apparently is fairly common but isn't the problem I have... I picked some bad sources and entered the deb lines incorrectly before I figured out the correct way to do these things... but apt and dselect won't forget every mistake I

Re: apt-get

2003-01-26 Thread Barry Pollock
You wil have to create a Packages file and a Release file and a Package file. You can simply download the package and do a dpkg -i p`fullpagagename' . On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:08:43PM -0600, N.D.O wrote: > > I understand the apt-get , the thing is

i845

2003-01-26 Thread tec
To run Linux on a i845 you will need at least: XFree86 4.2.99.3 or later linux-drm-4.2.0-kernelsource.tar.gz from http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh latest kernel headers that you can get latest kernel binary binutils coreutils libc6 stat dash cramfsprogs initrd-tools deb-hel

Re: apt-get problem

2003-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:36:53PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > While trying fix some broken packages, I ran apt-get -f install from my > terminal...after all packages were downloaded, I got the following > error(s): > > etched 49.1MB in 19m6s (42.8kB/s) >

installing a patch

2003-01-26 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Preamble: My system adminstrator for our debian servers says he's installed a patch I need for a specific piece of software. For some reason it doesn't work. (I emailed it to him as an attachment from mutt, it's a .gz.0 file.) The install didn't "fail", but the patch doesn't work. The system admini

Re: apt-get

2003-01-26 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:08:43PM -0600, N.D.O wrote: > I understand the apt-get , the thing is how do i add a source to the > sources.list so that debian will know where to find something and it will > know where to find, lets say opera, just giving an example. Add the specific package, like thi

Re: Hard Disk Partition Recovery

2003-01-26 Thread Barry Pollock
Keep in mind that dos 6.22 is only a 16 bit system and linux is 32 bit so if a 32 bit system writes to the partition table a 16 bit system may not be able to access the boot secter. keep in mind that dos can only read 2 partitions from the primary and linux can read 4 On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Mass

Re: Initrd diskless boot

2003-01-26 Thread Jameson C. Burt
The power supply is external, the size of a large eraser, in the middle of a cord like || house-connection--|power-supply|diskless-workstation || where "--" represents a foot (30cm) of cord. The power-supply say

mkreiserfs

2003-01-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, I was just trying to make a reiserfs partition on my new drive but I kept getting the following error pherthyl:/home/leo# mkreiserfs /dev/hdb2 2 <-mkreiserfs, 2002-> reiserfsprogs 3.6.3 mkreiserfs: Guessing about desired format.. mkreiserfs: Kernel 2.4.19-k7 is ru

Re: Content-Length header (Was: Some myths regarding apt pinning)

2003-01-26 Thread Isaac To
> "Bob" == Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I know. But then, there is no "standard" anyway, so that can't be >> said to be "required". For me as long as my tools happily read them >> it's okay. Bob> Perhaps no standard. But if you don't escape them somehow then t

Re: apt-get problem

2003-01-26 Thread Barry Pollock
I would do the following. remove the package kdelibs-bin from /var/lib/dpkg/status making sure that I have a copy of the original file. then make the same query to apt-get and see if it overwrites the files causing the problem. remember that you may have the same problem if you try to reinstall kde

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Re: apt-get

2003-01-26 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:08:43PM -0600, N.D.O wrote: > I understand the apt-get , the thing is how do i add a source to the > sources.list so that debian will know where to find something and it will > know where to find, lets say opera, just giving an example. Take a look at sources.list(5) --

Re: Is there a way to force apt/dpkg to rebuild the menu in X ?

2003-01-26 Thread Barry Pollock
I found that some times you have to do some strange things with complicated packages like x and emacs. first of all make a copy of the /var/lib/dpkg/status package and make it think that the paackages haven't been installeed ever by removing all of the packages out of the status file. that is, the

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-01-26 Thread Hubert Chan
> "J" == J H M Dassen (Ray) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> I'd draw them in xfig, export as encapsulated postscript and use J> includegraphics on the eps. Actually, if you export as "Combined PS/LaTeX", it can used LaTeX to typeset the text part of the figure. And if you set the "special" fl

shared or static qt?

2003-01-26 Thread N.D.O
What is shared or static QT and what is the differance? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: motherboard choice

2003-01-26 Thread mobtek mobtekl
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:47, Kevin Coyner banged a keyboard: Kevin, much thanks for that, I wanted to get a board that I can put a 3+Ghz (putting a 2.8 in this one) chip in later on so wanted to go for this board, now I will [:P cheers Peter van der Male > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:17:19AM +1

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-01-26 Thread Steve Juranich
On 26 January 2003 at 13:43, Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i won't waste my time with it if i have to do it all in postscript, > but i was wondering if there were a LaTeX package out there for making > pretty FSA diagrams easily. you know, a few labelled circular nodes, > with label

Re: Bad Magic

2003-01-26 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:31:50PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > What does this mean? not sure but if my comp said that, id get some coffee or go to bed [is 1:58 localtime] -im sure some kernel-hackers will come up with some more helpful suggestions! hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

apt-get

2003-01-26 Thread N.D.O
I understand the apt-get , the thing is how do i add a source to the sources.list so that debian will know where to find something and it will know where to find, lets say opera, just giving an example. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: motherboard choice

2003-01-26 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:17:19AM +1100, mobtek mobtekl wrote.. > Hi all, looking at motherboards for a new system, anyone installed > debian on a box with an ASUS P4PE i845PE P4 motherboard? Yes. I installed Debian 3.0 on an Asus P4PE with the 845PE chipset back in Nov/Dec on my son's

Re: [OT] question regarding sort(1)

2003-01-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 14:12, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030126 11:22]: > > > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 11:40, Steve Juranich wrote: > > > > On 26 January 2003 at 10:37, > > > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > What I want, tho

Bad Magic

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Allison
What does this mean? I'm failing at the beginning of a boot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Auto password assignment

2003-01-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Ian Melnick wrote: > > I have a script for generating certain types of user accounts for my > network. I want to assign random initial passwords to every new user, > that they can change on their own later. I decided to generate them with > makepasswd. The question is, how can I tell passwd to use

Re: motherboard choice

2003-01-26 Thread mobtek mobtekl
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:38, mess-mate banged a keyboard: > P4T533-R asus yeah different chipset, its an 850E not an 845PE chipset so doesn't mean debian will install on my board [;P Anyone installed on an i845 chipset board? -- -- "For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest." or -- "Sono ka

Re: [gcompris-devel] compiling gcompris

2003-01-26 Thread bruno
Well, you need the intltool to be installed. For libtool, you have perhaps also it missing but never saw this missing. On my Mandrake : rpm -qa | grep intl intltool-0.22-1mdk Bruno. Le dim 26/01/2003 à 20:19, Giuseppe Sacco a écrit : > [I am not subscribed to either gcompris-devel nor debian-u

Auto password assignment

2003-01-26 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello, everyone I have a script for generating certain types of user accounts for my network. I want to assign random initial passwords to every new user, that they can change on their own later. I decided to generate them with makepasswd. The question is, how can I tell passwd to use this passwor

Re: Can not get UDMA-100 working...

2003-01-26 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, mess-mate wrote: > Hi, > > On 26 Jan 2003 21:21:04 +0100 > Dominique Deleris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | Hello, > | > | The background: I have recently bought a new Seagate Barracuda V > | disk (60 Gb), which is UDMA-100 capable. Since my motherboard > | (Asus CUV4X)

Re: Hard Disk Partition Recovery

2003-01-26 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:58:31AM +0530, Jeetu Golani wrote: > Hello guys, > > Someone I know recently got his partition table destroyed by misusing Norton's > Rescue. Anyways, I was able to recreate his partition table using gpart and > Fdisk and Debian's installable CD. The partitions are Win

Re: Hard Disk Partition Recovery

2003-01-26 Thread Massimiliano Ferrero
I can't figure out that how I can see everything fine under Linux but not under DOS.how do I get things working correctly?? Any ideas would be appreciated. Had a similar problem some times ago: after removing a boot loader (system commander lite) I found my C: drive was not accessible anymo

scsi HD install Problem

2003-01-26 Thread Mikkel
Hi How do i install Debian on my scsi HD? Thanks Mikkel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CPU usage on debian (was: Re: Memory usage on debian)

2003-01-26 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:19:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 07:37, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:03:10AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 21:42, Pigeon wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:20:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > >

Packages for Debian 3.0 (Alpha 11)

2003-01-26 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: compiled kernel problems with ide-scsi and modversions.h(gave-up).

2003-01-26 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
It seems that nothing helps. I'll have to recompile the kernel without ide-cdrom and hope that modversions.h will suddenly appear. thanx On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 17:53, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > Hi > > I'm having problems with the new kernel I've compiled on woody. I've > used the 2.4.8 source and pa

can't make kernel for win4lin

2003-01-26 Thread John Griffiths
G'day guys, trying to compile a kernel with win4lin patches everything seems fine until halfway through the boot when it starts complaining about not being to access modules.dep can anyone think of anything obvious i should be doing to avoid this? thanks John ___

snmpd's

2003-01-26 Thread Jason Clarke
Apart from the net-snmpd / ucd-snmpd. Can anyone recommend a fire and go snmpd for debian? Basically I want it for internal graphing (mrtg) of various interfaces (wifi / ethernet) so I don't want to spend much time configuring the snmpd. So far with my fiddling, I've not been able to get ucd-snmp

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-01-26 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:43:53PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i won't waste my time with it if i have to do it all in postscript, > but i was wondering if there were a LaTeX package out there for making > pretty FSA diagrams easily. you know, a few labelled circular nodes, > with labelled arro

how to apt-get the smaller Packages.bz2s?

2003-01-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
I notice there are Packages.bz2 and Packages.gz on the mirrors. How to tell 'apt-get update' to get the smaller .bz2s? -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

locale and localedef

2003-01-26 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Two machines walk into a bar. Both have woody installed but one is stable and the other is unstable. ... Woody stable installs fr_CA locale beautifully with: apt-get install locales dpkg-reconfigure locales (choose fr_CA) locale-gen Woody unstable does not. After going thr

Re: Can not get UDMA-100 working...

2003-01-26 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:29:30PM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > | I use a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel, in which I have activated the > | Promise PDC202XX support. I have also chosen the "Boot off-board > PDC202xx is a RAID controller ! So long as I know when working in raid1 > every HD must have his own ca

Re: ports puzzle

2003-01-26 Thread nate
csj said: > So it seems something called portmapper isn't getting > restarted. Should it be started in the place? Is this a security > issue? Or should I just ignore the whole thing? I noticed this on one of my debian boxes I was securing last week, it looks like portmap is started in /etc/rcS.d,

Re: AMD processor

2003-01-26 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 16:02, Raymond Gree wrote: > Donald Spoon wrote: > > > Kent West wrote: > > > >> raymond gree wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I have an AMD2100 on my mother board, I would like to know if there > >>> is an advantage to use the K7 kernel. I tried to install it but did > >>

Re: Hard Disk Partition Recovery

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Jeetu Golani wrote: > > Hello guys, > > Someone I know recently got his partition table destroyed by misusing Norton's > Rescue. Anyways, I was able to recreate his partition table using gpart and > Fdisk and Debian's installable CD. The partitions are Win95 Fat32 (LBA) > partitions. I've setup t

Re: AMD processor

2003-01-26 Thread Kent West
Raymond Gree wrote: I have done the apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-K7 and added the initrd=/initrd.img (see below) but when I login the systel displays 2.4.18-bf24 is there a way to check which kernel I am running? Thanks Raymond image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only initrd=/ini

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-26 Thread Jason McCarty
Hans Wilmer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:18:46PM -0500, Jason McCarty wrote: > > > > Well, it does :) What is the difference between 'cached' and > > > 'buffers'? I wanted to know that since long, but never found out. > > > > Well, after digging through the kernel sources (such fun!), I th

Re: AMD processor

2003-01-26 Thread Raymond Gree
Donald Spoon wrote: Kent West wrote: raymond gree wrote: Hi, I have an AMD2100 on my mother board, I would like to know if there is an advantage to use the K7 kernel. I tried to install it but did not succeed. is there a procedure to so this kernel upgrade ? Thanks Raymond I would assum

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-01-26 Thread Douglas Hespe
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:28:10PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 13:43:53 -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > i won't waste my time with it if i have to do it all in postscript, > > but i was wondering if there were a LaTeX package out there for making > > pretty FSA diag

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-26 Thread Grant Bowman
Is there a place where a general consensus has been reached on exactly what is necesary to backup a Debian system? I'm sure this has been asked and answered many times before, so I am looking for URLs to where this has been discussed in the past. I apologize in advance, but I'm not a subscriber o

Re: Can not get UDMA-100 working...

2003-01-26 Thread mess-mate
Hi, On 26 Jan 2003 21:21:04 +0100 Dominique Deleris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hello, | | The background: I have recently bought a new Seagate Barracuda V | disk (60 Gb), which is UDMA-100 capable. Since my motherboard | (Asus CUV4X) is only UDMA-66 ready, I have also bought a Promise IDE | co

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-01-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 13:43:53 -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i won't waste my time with it if i have to do it all in postscript, > but i was wondering if there were a LaTeX package out there for making > pretty FSA diagrams easily. you know, a few labelled circular nodes, > with labelled arrows

ports puzzle

2003-01-26 Thread csj
When I run "nmap" and "rpcinfo" after a fresh boot, I get the following values: # nmap localhost Starting nmap V. 3.10ALPHA4 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Interesting ports on beta (127.0.0.1): (The 1599 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 9/tcp

Re: How to determine why a package is "held back"?

2003-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:35:00AM -0500, stan wrote: > I've got 2 differnt "testing' machines that should be set up in a very > similar fashion (mine which I tend to test things on first, and my wife's, > which I ry to keep _very_ stable). > > Latley when I do apt-gte update ; apt-get dist-upgrad

Re: "debian rookie" trying to get his bearings...

2003-01-26 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "David" == David Z Maze writes: > > David> "Jeff Hahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm setting up a "test" debian server (contemplating a move of > >> several redhat boxes) > > >> One quick question to get me going a little b

Re: Sun java in testing

2003-01-26 Thread Douglas Guptill
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:44:05PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I am trying to install drawboard (http://drawboard.souceforge.net) in my > home network as trial before making it accessible to the outer world. But > when I run > "java -cp ." as indicated the response from the system is "unk

apt-get problem

2003-01-26 Thread Trey Sizemore
While trying fix some broken packages, I ran apt-get -f install from my terminal...after all packages were downloaded, I got the following error(s): etched 49.1MB in 19m6s (42.8kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 159964 files and directo

Re: Sun java in testing

2003-01-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030126 11:13]: > I am trying to install drawboard (http://drawboard.souceforge.net) in my > home network as trial before making it accessible to the outer world. But > when I run > "java -cp ." as indicated the response from the system is "unknown > opti

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-26 Thread Bruce Sass
Missed one... ++ | | | Recommended | | | User type | Criteria | Debian | Note | | | | Flavor |

Re: CD-ROM

2003-01-26 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:18:15AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > OK, I'm getting more than a little frustrated. > > I am constantly getting CD-Record errors when I try to create ANY kind of > CD. > > Can someone please provide any suggestions on what to check/test/do. > > It worked very nicely fo

Re: phoenix and java?

2003-01-26 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:11:28PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:14:21PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:27:55PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > > Is there a way to add java support to Phoenix by using debian packages? I > > > did a quick google and c

Re: big problem with libc6 install

2003-01-26 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 02:09:52PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:35:43PM -, Alberto Rodriguez wrote: > > I have a host with debian woody. It was a few time that I didn?t upgrade the >packets. with apt-get I tried upgrade packets but this failed. > Ooooh, ouchy. That's

Re: Mailman problems

2003-01-26 Thread Ed Lawson
Andy wrote: Can anyone else comment about Mailman working with an Exim MTA? Since I asked the first question due to problems, let me say that although the lists did not have a large number of subscribers, I had used mailman and Exim under potato without any problems and with minimal change

Can not get UDMA-100 working...

2003-01-26 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hello, The background: I have recently bought a new Seagate Barracuda V disk (60 Gb), which is UDMA-100 capable. Since my motherboard (Asus CUV4X) is only UDMA-66 ready, I have also bought a Promise IDE controller (Ultra 133TX2). Now the problem: 8 times out of 10, when booting the system, my dri

Re: Mailman problems

2003-01-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Andy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030126 10:39]: > > > I am running a server using woody with Exim as MTA and am having > > > troubles getting mailman to function. The web interface works and > > snip > > > What else is needed or is something broken here? > > > > When I had problems getting Mailman to g

Re: [OT] question regarding sort(1)

2003-01-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030126 11:22]: > > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 11:40, Steve Juranich wrote: > > > On 26 January 2003 at 10:37, > > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > What I want, though, is a straight, dumb ASCII sort based on each whole > > >

Re: Intel extreme graphics

2003-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:12:14PM +0100, Janke Dávid wrote: > Hi all! > > Has anybody experience with intel extreme graphics (I845G/I845GE), and > XFree86? > I'm going to by a motherboard and an ASUS P4GE-V would be a godd choice for > me. > > David http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.h

Re: devfs newbie questions about mounting

2003-01-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:05:52PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Sunday 26 January 2003 15:32, Dave W wrote: > > What I _did_ try was > > > > mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom > > > > and that still fails. I still have scsi emulation and the like setup so > > I guess perhaps at least THAT little bit has cha

RE: [OT] question regarding sort(1)

2003-01-26 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:03 AM > To: Debian-User > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OT] question regarding sort(1) > > > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 11:40, Steve Juranich wrote: > > On 26 January 2003 at 10:37,

Re: LinkSYS BEFSR41 router

2003-01-26 Thread Paul Mackinney
Antonio Rodriguez declaimed: > I am trying to install drawboard (http://drawboard.souceforge.net) in my > home network as trial before making it accessible to the outer world. But > when I run > "java -cp ." as indicated the response from the system is "unknown > option" > I have installed sun

Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work

2003-01-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.24.2244 +0100]: > /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf > pwcheck_method: PAM If postfix is in a chroot, will that work? What happened to saslauthd? > You can't assign IP address 127.0.0.1 to the loopback adapter, > because it is a reserve

OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-01-26 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i won't waste my time with it if i have to do it all in postscript, but i was wondering if there were a LaTeX package out there for making pretty FSA diagrams easily. you know, a few labelled circular nodes, with labelled arrows running between them? just curious. thanks, -- .~. nor

Re: Hex Editor

2003-01-26 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi, Yup saw quite a few Hex Editors using apt-cache...hadn't tried that but just wanted to know what the general consensus as to the best around is :)will try one of them. Thanks a lot for your help Bye On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 10:47 am, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:05:24P

Re: Mailman problems

2003-01-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike Egglestone wrote: > I've used Debian Woody to setup Mailman with Exim. Seems solid for me. > I like using Exim because its debian's default install. > I prefer to go the "Debian Way" but, you should run whatever your most > comfortable with. Oh, I hesitate to say this because I do not want

Hard Disk Partition Recovery

2003-01-26 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hello guys, Someone I know recently got his partition table destroyed by misusing Norton's Rescue. Anyways, I was able to recreate his partition table using gpart and Fdisk and Debian's installable CD. The partitions are Win95 Fat32 (LBA) partitions. I've setup the Id's on the partitions to ref

Re: [OT] question regarding sort(1)

2003-01-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030126 11:22]: > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 11:40, Steve Juranich wrote: > > On 26 January 2003 at 10:37, > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What I want, though, is a straight, dumb ASCII sort based on each whole > > > line of text, where " " collate

Re: AMD processor

2003-01-26 Thread Donald Spoon
Kent West wrote: raymond gree wrote: Hi, I have an AMD2100 on my mother board, I would like to know if there is an advantage to use the K7 kernel. I tried to install it but did not succeed. is there a procedure to so this kernel upgrade ? Thanks Raymond I would assume there's an advantage,

Re: Galeon scrollbar resembling the one in Mozilla

2003-01-26 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Christopher" == Christopher Nehren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Christopher> Peculiarly enough, I switched between Modern and Classic in Christopher> my Mozilla to no avail, and even switched from Classic to Christopher> Modern to a different theme which I installed as a test Christop

compiling gcompris

2003-01-26 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
[I am not subscribed to either gcompris-devel nor debian-user. Please CC me] Hi All, I am compiling gcompris on a Debian Woody sistem (+ gnome2 from http://people.debian.org/~kov) and I have some problems that I cannot understand. When I try to create the configure script from a CVS snapshot I ge

Re: Mailman problems

2003-01-26 Thread Paul Mackinney
Andy declaimed: > > > I am running a server using woody with Exim as MTA and am having > > > troubles getting mailman to function. The web interface works and > > snip > > > What else is needed or is something broken here? > > > > When I had problems getting Mailman to go on Debian, I ended up > >

Re: "debian rookie" trying to get his bearings...

2003-01-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 20:29, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Every Redhat user asks about chkconfig. Having used Redhat myself I > > [...] > > installing a new package. But on Debian none of that is needed. Not > > Note, though, a mid-sized gotcha: all (well, almost all) the symlink

Re: "debian rookie" trying to get his bearings...

2003-01-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Shyamal Prasad wrote: > There is a common misconception that files in /etc/rc?.d/ must only be > handled via update-rc.d. I'm not sure where that comes from but a > *lot* of people make that assumption. It is a requirement for package postinst scripts, not for users. But for package scripts they

Re: CPU usage on debian (was: Re: Memory usage on debian)

2003-01-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 07:37, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:03:10AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 21:42, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:20:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:21:12PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > [snip] > >

Re: cdrecord and BIG DISKS - Might help someone

2003-01-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 08:50, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 02:45:56AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 23:30, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:43:35PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Where did you get 900MiB CD-Rs? [snip] > > Besides, when I have mo

Re: Content-Length header (Was: Some myths regarding apt pinning)

2003-01-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Isaac To wrote: > > "Bob" == Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bob> And added by any delivery agent delivering mail to an old style > Bob> mail file. It is not just procmail. It is required. > > I know. But then, there is no "standard" anyway, so that can't be said to > be

Re: Galeon scrollbar resembling the one in Mozilla

2003-01-26 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:50:13PM +0100, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > * Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [26-01-2003 02:19]: > > Christopher> I have Galeon from sid (although I've tried the one in > > Christopher> woody which shows the same thing), and I would like to > > Christopher> change the main v

Re: Mailman problems

2003-01-26 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can anyone else comment about Mailman working with an Exim MTA? > > I am about to install a Debian system for a customer to act as a file/print > server but also to run Mailman to blast out newsletters to a mailing list of > > over 5,000 people. Does it matte

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