Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-28 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 23:56, Levi Waldron wrote: > I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few > minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of > directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each > input file, the output f

New (unofficial) NQC package with LegoUSB support

2003-01-28 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
I created a new nqc package with support for the USB IR tower of the Lego Mindstorms set. The apt-getable repository can be accessed with the following lines in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://people.debian.org/~rafael/legousb ./ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~rafael/legousb ./ The

Re: Tips for moving to XEmacs

2003-01-28 Thread Glyn Millington
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Argh, how many times have I attempted this move! > > I'd like to make a push to move to XEmacs as my main editor (from a > Windows editor Program File Editor). It's hard to move to a new editor > with a large learning curve when there's work to be done.

Re: Tips for moving to XEmacs

2003-01-28 Thread Glyn Millington
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to make a push to move to XEmacs as my main editor (from a > Windows editor Program File Editor). It's hard to move to a new editor > with a large learning curve when there's work to be done. Good plan! I noted at least one reference to a .ema

Re: Migrate from RedHat to Debian

2003-01-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:20:23AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:44:10PM +, Jimbo De La Fuente wrote: > > > How long are Debian-releases supported > > Depends, but looking at the Debian news page, 2.2 (potato) was released > back on [15 Aug 2000]. There were se

Re: apt-get problem

2003-01-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:31:45PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:36:53PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: [snip good advice] > cd /var/cache/apt/archives > dpkg --force-overwrite -i kdelibs-dcop_4%3a3.1.0+rc6+kl-3_i386.deb > dpkg --force-overwrite -i libkdefx4_4%3a3.1.0+rc6+k

Help Please :: Kernel Upgrade Problems with Booting from Raid HPT370

2003-01-28 Thread Aaron
Hi All I run an ABIT KT7A-Raid Mainboard with two Segate 40gig disks connected and striped with raid0. I have recently installed debian from the 3.0 ISO using the 2.4.18-bf24.4 Kernel. The system works fine, but of course I am not satisfied with the kernel, and I wish to configure and upg

Re: Trouble with Permissions after move to new hard drive.

2003-01-28 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Rusty Minden said: > OK I did a real dump thing. I moved a friends computer files to a > new hard drive with a different partitioning setup. As root > everything seems to work, but as a user I can not log into an X > session I get a flicker then back out to kdm. I pr

Re: alsa and saving mixer settings

2003-01-28 Thread Roman Joost
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:06:43PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > Unfortunately, I find that the first time I want to play anything, I > have to open a mixer (I use gmix), which then sets the levels, before I > can hear anything. > > Anybody else experience this or know of a way around it

Re: Gnome 2 problems

2003-01-28 Thread Roman Joost
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:34:28PM -0500, Brad Cramer wrote: > Anyone have any ideas what is wrong? Yeh.. i know it. I went through hell before installing gnome from sid ;) You have to remove all the experimental packages first. This means all libglib, libfam ... all things. Maybe it was a difficu

Re: Cdrecord and audio cd

2003-01-28 Thread Roman Joost
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:15:44PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Is there something that I have missed while creating an audio cd? Why > does not linux sense the audio cd, while both doze and regular cd > players do? Have I missed some module/switch/incantaion that needs to be > loaded/given/chanted

Trouble with Permissions after move to new hard drive.

2003-01-28 Thread Rusty Minden
OK I did a real dump thing. I moved a friends computer files to a new hard drive with a different partitioning setup. As root everything seems to work, but as a user I can not log into an X session I get a flicker then back out to kdm. I probably messed up a permission when using the cp -a comm

Re: good GUI file manager in woody

2003-01-28 Thread Torrin
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:18:42AM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > I'm looking for a good multipane GUI file manager for woody, preferably > with ftp support I prefer gmc, but alas, no ftp support. apt-get install gmc -- http://torrin.dyndns.org http://www.torrin.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: home lan, modem sharing, etc.

2003-01-28 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Vikki Roemer said: > Hi! > So I have several questions: > Can I set up modem sharing with a minimum of hassle for my parents > when they go to use it and for free? How? Sure. There is a package called diald that is designed for this, although I have heard mixed repor

Re: XFree86 from testing

2003-01-28 Thread Jaque Moreau
Nicos Gollan schrieb im Artikel <20030128204037$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Some stuff was moved to a new package "coreutils". It's nothing to worry > about, just a rearrangement. Thank you. I am feeling much calmer now :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again)

2003-01-28 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi there, Your fdisk doesn't show the last ext3 partition, therefore your partition table is messed up (nothing new in that). Gpart seems to think that there're two other partitions apart from the ones being detected by fdisk i.e. one partition more than what you suggested in your earlier mail

Re: perldoc bug?

2003-01-28 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jason Pepas said: > hmm... > > (pts/4)jason@marsala:~$ perldoc -f sin > No documentation found for "perlfunc". > > hrmm... > > (pts/4)jason@marsala:~$ dpkg -l | grep perl > ii libft-perl 1.2-13.1 Perl module for the FreeType library > ii libperl5.6 5.

Re: perl-doc package bug?

2003-01-28 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jason Pepas said: > hello, > > I think there might be a bug with the perl-doc package in the testing branch. > > (pts/4)root@marsala:/var/cache/apt/archives$ apt-get install perl-doc > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following NE

Re: instructions for setting up sound?

2003-01-28 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:39:16PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > > Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > >Can anyone point me to instructions for setting up audio that > > >addresses kernel messages such as: > > > > > >modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0

Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31

2003-01-28 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:14:10PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 09:32, George Georgalis wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:36PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: >> >On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:59:47PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote: >> >> On my system, date -d returns "invalid date"

Re: Samba home share

2003-01-28 Thread snooker tb
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Very strange problem. All of my samba shares from a single server are available except my home share. Although I can mount it, there is nothing in the share. If, however, I go to the server and look in my home directory, all files are there. Any ideas? Curtis It is a

Re: HDD general (was: RE: HDD clicking)

2003-01-28 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:40:16PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:49:29PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > > How do I calculate the difference in "cost to hard drive wear > > and tear from a single spin-up" to the cost of letting it run for a > > length of time? > > If it'

Re: Debin Help

2003-01-28 Thread Gary Turner
jmullin wrote: >I have been trying for a year to get a Debian distro set up on my >computer. At the NYC Linux World Expo, the was a Debian booth and I >bought the lates Debian CD but when I tried to load it BANG no good. No >that the release was no good just it got a littel complicated. Igot as

Re: Missing a PERL module called 'concat'

2003-01-28 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:54:20PM -0600, Keith Steensma wrote: > I've installed a very minimum Debian 'testing' system. > > I trying to run a perl script that uses a 'concat' function. I can't > find it as a built-in function of the language nor can I find it in the > Debian packages list. >

home lan, modem sharing, etc.

2003-01-28 Thread Vikki Roemer
Hi! I'm working on setting up a LAN here at home. I have 2 computers here, 1 running Windows ME (within the next few weeks I'll be reinstalling ME (it's that time of the year) and then I'll also be trying to dual-boot ME and Libranet)-- my parents' computer-- and my Linux box, which I'm dual-booti

Trying to build Phoenix

2003-01-28 Thread David P James
I've been trying to build Phoenix from source and have run into a bit of a snag. I want to build it with QT support, which is fine, as there is an option to do this. The problem is when I attempt to build I get this error: ... checking for moc... moc checking for main in -lqt... yes checking Qt

Re: good GUI file manager in woody

2003-01-28 Thread Jeff
John Griffiths, 2003-Jan-29 10:18 +1100: > g'day guys. > > I'm looking for a good multipane GUI file manager for woody, preferably > with ftp support > > or would I be better off dedicating a workspace and arranging konq windows? > > (konq does upload right?) Take a look at Filerunner. I use

Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-28 Thread Travis Crump
Levi Waldron wrote: I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each input file, the output file should have the same name except

Re: Missing a PERL module called 'concat'

2003-01-28 Thread David Z Maze
Keith Steensma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I trying to run a perl script that uses a 'concat' function. I can't > find it as a built-in function of the language nor can I find it in > the Debian packages list. > > The error is - > Undefined subroutine &main::concat called at ./mbox2maildir.pl li

Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-28 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Tue 28 Jan 2003 17:56:51 +(-0500), Levi Waldron wrote: > I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few > minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of > directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each > input file,

Re: Tips for moving to XEmacs

2003-01-28 Thread David Z Maze
"Charlie Reiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:15 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Tips for moving to XEmacs >> $ dpkg -l | grep emacs >> ii emacsen-common 1.4.15 Comm

Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]

2003-01-28 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Tue 28 Jan 2003 16:13:56 +(+), Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:50:12PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > OT: so where's the lexicon that relates quid, guinea, bob, > > shilling, pence, pound and so forth, for the ignorant > > north-americaner? :) > > OK, Just to make things mor

Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]

2003-01-28 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Tue 28 Jan 2003 16:48:04 +(-0600), Nathan E Norman wrote: > > How the hell do I type a euro character? :-) You'd need iso-8859-15 encoding (locale en_US@euro perhaps?). Euro is 0xA4 which is ¤ (looks like a twinkly star) in iso-8859-1. Hopefully there's a suitable compose sequence if you

Re: I810 video problems

2003-01-28 Thread Gary Turner
Cory Rudder wrote: >I have a problem with X on my computer. I have an intel i810 board, with >debian 3.0r1 , and xfree86 4.1.0. >when I start X it tries to work then the server crashes. The error is >"modprobe: Can't locate module "i810"" \n [drm] failed to load kernel module >"i810". Modprobe do

Wake up a monitor?

2003-01-28 Thread Robert L. Harris
I've got power saving on my monitor enabled, it works very well. Only one problem. When I turn it on it takes 15 mins or so to warm up again. This is a pain when I have 5 mins check mail on the way to work, etc. etc. Is there a way to remotely turn the monitor back on? A cronjob running a

Re: apt wickened up: Unable to purge package gdm2 !

2003-01-28 Thread David Z Maze
michaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I upgraded to Gnome2 for woody on i386 and decided at one point to > purge gdm2. Well there was this warning 'directory /etc/gdm/ > not empty so not removed', leaving it half-configured. There are several states a package can be in. "Half-configured" is, I be

Re: Qmail (was Mailman problems)

2003-01-28 Thread Paul Mackinney
Derrick 'dman' Hudson declaimed: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:03:58AM -0900, Andy wrote: snip... > Personally I am opposed to qmail, mainly for reasons outlined here : > http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html > http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html > however if you want to

Re: Tips for moving to XEmacs

2003-01-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bill" == Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill> - How do I get my button 4 and 5 to scroll (the mouse wheel Bill> works in other programs)? In your ~/.emacs: (require 'mwheel) (mwheel-install) I'm not attempting to answer your other questions since they seem to have be de

perldoc bug?

2003-01-28 Thread Jason Pepas
hmm... (pts/4)jason@marsala:~$ perldoc -f sin No documentation found for "perlfunc". hrmm... (pts/4)jason@marsala:~$ dpkg -l | grep perl ii libft-perl 1.2-13.1 Perl module for the FreeType library ii libperl5.6 5.6.1-7Shared Perl library. ii libperl5.8 5.8.0-14

Re: I810 video problems

2003-01-28 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
I think enabling agpgart and i810 support in the kernel should solve your problems. I'm currently running kernel 2.4.20 and all versions of XFree86 (stable, testing, unstable) work pretty fine. Try compiling the kernel with support for i810 and agpgart, or install the kernel using apt: apt-get ins

Re: Communicator removed from Testing?

2003-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
> Does anyone know why Netscape Communicator has been dropped from > Testing? NS is horribly out of date, and NS6 and up have some serious issues added in. Mozilla is it's codebase, so Debian takes out the middle man. > Does Mozilla email load the Communicator mail files ok? If Netscape does it

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-28 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:47:38AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:22, Pigeon wrote: > > > > Couple of suggestions: > > - might be an idea to save /var as well > > - if you're into kernel customising, make sure you have a rescue > > kernel with built-in support for all your critic

Re: good GUI file manager in woody

2003-01-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:05:36PM +1100, Russell wrote: > >(konq does upload right?) > > apt-get install gnome-commander/testing > > Don't get the one from stable because the > one in testing has much more implemented. I prefer to do: # apt-get install -t testing gnome-commander Since gnome

Re: Tips for moving to XEmacs

2003-01-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
For Perl, definitely install and use cperl-mode, which will let you do lots of work with brace matching and indenting. I like syntax highlighting, but you can always turn it off by not invoking global-font-lock-mode. Best, Andy

Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]

2003-01-28 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Charlie Reiman said: > "#" has several names but most will be lost on non-techies. I'm not even > sure why we call it the pound symbol since we Americans usually abbreviate > pounds (the unit of weight) with the equally cryptic "lbs." Comes from the latin libra, which

Re: partition table incorrect/ fdisk messed up?

2003-01-28 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:50:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have remade a partition table before from a printout after losing it. The > > data was still there. > > Something is nagging me about this remaking the partition table. I'm not > positive, but I think it is important to reb

Re: Missing a PERL module called 'concat'

2003-01-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
Where is the "concat" function supposed to come from? The error you reference means that, on line 31 of the script, you call a function called "concat". Perl assumes that unqualified function names are in the main namespace, which is why it looks for &main::concat : & refers to a function, main to

perl-doc package bug?

2003-01-28 Thread Jason Pepas
hello, I think there might be a bug with the perl-doc package in the testing branch. (pts/4)root@marsala:/var/cache/apt/archives$ apt-get install perl-doc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: perl-doc 0 packages upgraded,

Re: Debin Help

2003-01-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:40:51PM -0500, jmullin wrote: > I have been trying for a year to get a Debian distro set up on my > computer. At the NYC Linux World Expo, the was a Debian booth and I > bought the lates Debian CD but when I tried to load it BANG no good. Debian gives you control. So

Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]

2003-01-28 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:48:04PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > The '#' has a crapload of names: some I know are [...] > 4) "octothorpe"; I guess this is the typographical name or something. > I even used to know _why_, but I'm too lazy to look it up. In a book I have, it gives '#' a meaning o

Re: Alas and alack.

2003-01-28 Thread Gary Turner
Bob Paige wrote: >> I'm a big Linux fan because of usability, extensibility, flexibility, >> and security issues. I believe that the different mechanisms >> available with GNU software, especially the Debian GNU/Linux way, >> lends itself well to dealing with these issues. But not even Debian

Re: I810 video problems

2003-01-28 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Cory Rudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030129 09:22]: > I have a problem with X on my computer. I have an intel i810 board, with > debian 3.0r1 , and xfree86 4.1.0. > when I start X it tries to work then the server crashes. The error is > "modprobe: Can't locate module "i810"" \n [drm] failed to

Re: Debin Help

2003-01-28 Thread Kent West
jmullin wrote: I have been trying for a year to get a Debian distro set up on my computer. At the NYC Linux World Expo, the was a Debian booth and I bought the lates Debian CD but when I tried to load it BANG no good. No that the release was no good just it got a littel complicated. Igot as f

Re: recurring costs of computer hobby (was: Re: Mysterious disk activity)

2003-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:41:16AM -0800, nate wrote: > > Your electric bills my be outrageous... > > If I were in california I'm sure they would be! Not really, Oregon got stuck with thier price increase. Oregonians saw thier bills raise between 33% and 310%, which is why we're all wondering,

Re: Samba home share

2003-01-28 Thread Kent West
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Very strange problem. All of my samba shares from a single server are available except my home share. Although I can mount it, there is nothing in the share. If, however, I go to the server and look in my home directory, all files are there. What's the relevant portion

Re: Install problems: 3.0r1/i386 and Realtek 8319 network card

2003-01-28 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 06:46:13AM -0500, Mike M wrote: > On Monday 27 January 2003 05:47, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > > I want to install Debian over the network. I downloaded the 2 'vanilla' > > boot floppies, rescue.bin and root.bin, and booted with those. They > > have kernel 2.2.22, and they did

Re: Finding the correct list to ask Questions

2003-01-28 Thread Kent West
Aaron wrote: Hi All, I have just subscribed to this list. I want to know if this would be the correct list to post my question regarding /dev/ataraid & Kernel upgrade issues to 2.4.20 before I post my question. If not which list should I subscribe to? Just trying to practise good net etiquett

Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]

2003-01-28 Thread Kent West
Charlie Reiman wrote: "#" has several names . I like hash because then the omnipresent "#!" becomes the hash-bang, or shebang for short. I've heard "#!" referred to as splat-bang; I kind of like that. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: module installation for Intel on-board NIC

2003-01-28 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Kenn Murrah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030129 09:45]: > I 'm trying to install Debian woody > on a Dell PowerEdge... all looks good except the NIC ... instructions seem > to be for Red > Hat 7.x only, about which it says, "There is native driver support for the > integrated Intel 10/100/1000 NIC.

Re: good GUI file manager in woody

2003-01-28 Thread Russell
John Griffiths wrote: g'day guys. I'm looking for a good multipane GUI file manager for woody, preferably with ftp support or would I be better off dedicating a workspace and arranging konq windows? (konq does upload right?) apt-get install gnome-commander/testing Don't get the one from stab

Re: Gnome2 / Apt messed up

2003-01-28 Thread karrottop
Well, I got my apt sources taken care of by, as you said, deleting my cd entries and then running apt-cdrom. Unfortunately I still can not get gnome removed. How would I be able to completely remove gnome and then reinstall? Does anyone know what packages have to go...so far by doing apt-get rem

Re: apt wickened up: Unable to purge package gdm2 !

2003-01-28 Thread michaw
First to add, please cc me. Tried to move on hoping to make up for the lost hourshowever, indeed this seems to be something serious. Apt/itude _hangs_ at the half configured 'gdm2', terminating any pending installations. I'm not able to proceed. Ack ! Anyway got some things cleared: 1

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Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:56:51PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few > minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of > directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each > input file,

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Re: hostnames for dhcp clients with bind

2003-01-28 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Stefan Radomski wrote: > Hi there, > > I managed to set up a dhcp server to hand out ip addresses to clients, > now I want these clients to get a hostname depending on their MAC > address to be resolved by bind. > > Has anyone successfully set up such a configuration and can give me a > quick ove

Re: fonts in tables

2003-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 06:45:39PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Are you sure it's the CSS part that's not supported? Absolutely. Go hit http://www.org/ if you don't believe me. > I could be that and aren't supported by w3m and > that's why you're not seeing the styling. I tried to install

Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:56:51PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: | I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few | minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of | directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each | input file,

Re: PGP Signatures

2003-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:50:06PM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > But the senders public key must be retrieved from a key-server and added > to your own key-list before an automated check is possible. > mess-mate Unless you've set your gnupg to automagically grab public keys from the keyserver for you

apt wickened up: Unable to purge package gdm2 !

2003-01-28 Thread michaw
Hello List ! Usually apt/itude works without problems here. But this time seems i kicked it really bad :| I upgraded to Gnome2 for woody on i386 and decided at one point to purge gdm2. Well there was this warning 'directory /etc/gdm/ not empty so not removed', leaving it half-configured. Sin

RE: Tips for moving to XEmacs

2003-01-28 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Tips for moving to XEmacs > > > > Argh, how many times have I attempted this move! > > I'd like to make a push to move to XEmacs as my main edi

Re: Alas and alack.

2003-01-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bob" == Bob Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> I know through apt-get (or wajig) you can automatically Bob> download and install the latest updates, but I would like to Bob> see a system that automatically notifies you (via email?) Bob> when such an update results in new

Re: Upgrading to KDE 3.1

2003-01-28 Thread Cam Ellison
* Alan Chandler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 28 Jan 2003 7:39 pm, Jeetu Golani wrote: > > Hey ppl, > > > > I have KDE 3.0.4 running at the moment, had installed the debs of this. I > > wanna upgrade to KDE 3.1. I've read that an apt-get upgrade doesn't do the > > trick an

Debin Help

2003-01-28 Thread jmullin
I have been trying for a year to get a Debian distro set up on my computer. At the NYC Linux World Expo, the was a Debian booth and I bought the lates Debian CD but when I tried to load it BANG no good. No that the release was no good just it got a littel complicated. Igot as far a Debian loadi

Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]

2003-01-28 Thread Steve Juranich
On 28 January 2003 at 16:13, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > misleading answer. Puzzles me a bit - I thought # was an American > symbol anyway - does it just have two American names, one of which is > better at crossing oceans? (Because "pound" is heavy, and sinks?) I think the official name

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

2003-01-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"will" == will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: will> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:41:38PM -0800, Paul Johnson will> wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:45:21AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor >> wrote: > man update-rc.d >> >> No, wrong. Just rename the file. update-rc.d

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-01-28 Thread Peter Jenke
Am Son, 2003-01-26 um 19.43 schrieb 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 b

Tips for moving to XEmacs

2003-01-28 Thread Bill Moseley
Argh, how many times have I attempted this move! I'd like to make a push to move to XEmacs as my main editor (from a Windows editor Program File Editor). It's hard to move to a new editor with a large learning curve when there's work to be done. I edit mostly C and Perl code. I'm looking for t

oops (was Re: Alas and alack.)

2003-01-28 Thread Glenn English
> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 12:26, Bob Paige wrote: > > I would like to see a system that > > automatically notifies you (via email?) when such an update results in > > new packages being installed. > > > > Ideas? > > How about a cron job that runs apt-get --upgrade --dry-run? That, if I read the

Samba home share

2003-01-28 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Very strange problem. All of my samba shares from a single server are available except my home share. Although I can mount it, there is nothing in the share. If, however, I go to the server and look in my home directory, all files are there. Any ideas? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-28 Thread Levi Waldron
Never mind, I finished the task. I just first copied all the files into one directory using: find . -name *.jpg -print | xargs -i cp \{\} all/ Then wrote (modified, actually) a shell script to run imageinfo on a bunch of files with a different output file each time: #!/bin/bash # run imag

Re: Checking exim config

2003-01-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Rus" == Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rus> Hi, I've made some changes to my exim config and am trying to Rus> work out if exim can test the config before I HUP it. I found Rus> lots of testing things in the man page but couldn't find Rus> quite what I was looking for.

Missing a PERL module called 'concat'

2003-01-28 Thread Keith Steensma
I've installed a very minimum Debian 'testing' system. I trying to run a perl script that uses a 'concat' function. I can't find it as a built-in function of the language nor can I find it in the Debian packages list. The error is - Undefined subroutine &main::concat called at ./mbox2maildir.p

Re: Migrate from RedHat to Debian

2003-01-28 Thread John Hasler
tallison writes: > stable comes less than once a year from my limited experience. But I > think you can still get packages from some very old releases. But I do > not know if they are actually maintained for security updates and such (I > suspect not). Potato (the Stable release before Woody, th

Re: gvim / vim -g WON'T WORK

2003-01-28 Thread Torrin
> E25: GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time > > What does it mean ? How can it be solved ? > I'm not somebody who thinks every prog should be > graphical but it's easier to have more than one file > open so I can view them at the same time If should install vim-gtk if you want to use

Re: Install problems: 3.0r1/i386 and Realtek 8319 network card

2003-01-28 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 06:46:13AM -0500, Mike M wrote: > On Monday 27 January 2003 05:47, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > > I want to install Debian over the network. I downloaded the 2 'vanilla' > > boot floppies, rescue.bin and root.bin, and booted with those. They > > have kernel 2.2.22, and they did

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Re: need help in installing nic drivers

2003-01-28 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:11:48PM -0600, Kenn Murrah wrote: > I just purchased a Dell server with the intention of installing Debian woody > on it ... all looks good except the NIC ... instructions seem to be for Red > Hat 7.x only, about which it says, "There is native driver support for the > in

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Re: need help in installing nic drivers

2003-01-28 Thread nate
Kenn Murrah said: > Feel free, of course, to tell me to RTFM, but please point me the right > direction ... go through the install, during the install it will prompt to add/configure kernel modules, if the e1000 module isn't there then debian doesn't have it. (I wouldn't be suprised if it wasn't

Re: I810 video problems

2003-01-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hiya On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Cory Rudder wrote: > I have a problem with X on my computer. I have an intel i810 board, with > debian 3.0r1 , and xfree86 4.1.0. > when I start X it tries to work then the server crashes. The error is > "modprobe: Can't locate module "i810"" \n [drm] failed to load ke

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good GUI file manager in woody

2003-01-28 Thread John Griffiths
apologies for default stationery on previous message, plaease ignore that. g'day guys. I'm looking for a good multipane GUI file manager for woody, preferably with ftp support or would I be better off dedicating a workspace and arranging konq windows? (konq does upload right?)

Re: gvim / vim -g WON'T WORK

2003-01-28 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Hi Joris, an 'apt-get install vim-gtk' should solve that! Cheers, Bruno. On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 15:16, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > When I try to run gvim I get this error: > > > E25: GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time > > What does it mean ? How can it be solved ?

good GUI file manager in woody

2003-01-28 Thread John Griffiths
g'day guys. I'm looking for a good multipane GUI file manager for woody, preferably with ftp support or would I be better off dedicating a workspace and arranging konq windows? (konq does upload right?) WARNING - This email is confidential and may contain copyright material. If you are not

RE: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]

2003-01-28 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: Pigeon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 8:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?] > > I tend to use terms like "quid" or "pound" because I still expect > pound (£) signs to be turned int

Re: partition table incorrect/ fdisk messed up?

2003-01-28 Thread Matt Price
hey anita, htanks for the advice. I'm gonna buy a new hard drive (I wanted one anyway, copy all the data over, then try your method. I guess I"m a bit queasy about your method b/c I don't have proper backups. very cool ikdea. m On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:50:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot

good GUI file manager in woody

2003-01-28 Thread John Griffiths
apologies for default stationery on previous message, plaease ignore that. g'day guys. I'm looking for a good multipane GUI file manager for woody, preferably with ftp support or would I be better off dedicating a workspace and arranging konq windows? (konq does upload right?) --

Re: Install problems: 3.0r1/i386 and Realtek 8319 network card

2003-01-28 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:32:01PM +0100, Conrad Newton wrote: > >From Anand Buddhdev on Monday, 2003-01-27 at 11:47:07 +0100: > > I want to install Debian over the network. I downloaded the 2 'vanilla' > > boot floppies, rescue.bin and root.bin, and booted with those. They > > have kernel 2.2.22,

Re: gvim / vim -g WON'T WORK

2003-01-28 Thread James Tappin
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:16:30 -0800 (PST) Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I try to run gvim I get this error: > > > E25: GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time > > What does it mean ? How can it be solved ? > I'm not somebody who thinks every prog should be > graphical b

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