Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-01 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Sunday 02 February 2003 00:54, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: Dbian was used to control a hydroponics experiment on board of a shuttle > back in 1997; see http://www.debian.org/News/1997/shuttle1 . Yeah, and that was what made bruce perens, leave his studio. -- "Dismiss the weak and inferior, embr

RE: shuttle disaster

2003-02-01 Thread David Pastern
i'm sure I read somewhere only 2 or 3 days ago (from slashdot news...) that they were using Debian GNU Linux...either way it's very sad :( Dave -Original Message- From: Will Lowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, 1 February 2003 5:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Pastern Subj

Re: list delay

2003-02-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:18:30AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Which is why many Canadian stores dealing with American currency advise > customers that they would be usually further ahead to use debit or > credit cards and hopefully take advantage of the card issuer's bulk > currency exchange rat

Re: gcc not working

2003-02-01 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Albert Knox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030202 13:57]: > the messages: > - configure > > checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create >executables. next step (or may previous step), what are the out

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #381

2003-02-01 Thread Sigmund Svertingsson
-Don Spoon- wrote: First, my appologies for any confusion I may have generated on my previous post. Setting up for demand dialing and controling when you kick it off (bootup or manually via PON) are two different things. No problem. I happened to have RTFM on that one and was not confused.

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 13:55, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 07:56:04AM +1100, David Pastern wrote: > > My deepest commiserations to the US, NASA and all families involved over the > > space shuttle Columbia tragedy. I believe that they were using Debian GNU > > Linux for the first t

Debian install failure: gettext-base was corrupt

2003-02-01 Thread glen martin
I'm getting an error during initial base install from a CD image, "file: ... /gettext-base_0.10.40-5_i386.deb was corrupt" CD is debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso, built with jigdo, which claims it is good. I've changed just about anything I could possibly change, and keep getting the same error. In

Re: list delay

2003-02-01 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 01:00, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:57:09PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > That's almost funny. Around here, Canadian coins (quaters, dimes, > > nickels, pennies) are treated as equal to US coins by people and > > cashiers. (vending machines won'

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-01 Thread Will Lowe
> > space shuttle Columbia tragedy. I believe that they were using Debian GNU > > Linux for the first time onboard the shuttle :-( > > My understanding is that it was Red Hat. Either way, not the most If Debian was involved, it wasn't the first time. Debian flew on the space shuttle in 1997:

Re: Mplayer - Divx avi videos run too fast!

2003-02-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:58:40PM +0800, Elijah wrote: > I've been using mplayer for awhile now using my mpegs but it seems divx > video runs faster than audio could finish. I've tried -autosync 1 > and things started to slow down a bit for a few seconds, later on video > starts to run ahead f

Re: CD Burner and ide-scsi emulation

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
I usually do it by adding "append="hdd=ide-scsi" to the /etc/lilo.conf right after going to /dev/ then do "MAKEDEV -v scd0". Then reboot and run xcdroast. Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: list delay

2003-02-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:57:09PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > That's almost funny. Around here, Canadian coins (quaters, dimes, > nickels, pennies) are treated as equal to US coins by people and > cashiers. (vending machines won't take Canadian, though) I can't > speak for the local b

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 07:56:04AM +1100, David Pastern wrote: > My deepest commiserations to the US, NASA and all families involved over the > space shuttle Columbia tragedy. I believe that they were using Debian GNU > Linux for the first time onboard the shuttle :-( My understanding is that it

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 15:17, Gary Turner wrote: > I run X with icewm. No KDE or Gnome. What would be the advantage(s) of > adding one of these facilities? > -- > gt [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Well, you order it from the 'Society of Hardware and Information > T

Re: postgreSQL install - user password

2003-02-01 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Kevin Coyner said... > > As I dig through the docs, I find that I need to su postgres in order to > create other users. Problem is that if I su postgres, I get queried for > a password. I've tried the obvious, including nothing, but haven't got > in as postgres yet. su to root

Re: vim ":make" -- "unmatched `" error

2003-02-01 Thread Vineet Kumar
* will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030201 20:11]: > i'm in vim, i'm editing like a madman (nothing else explains it) > and i write out my changes > > :w > > and then i do a make: > > :make > > which displays > > <== blank line, here> > Unmatched `. >

Re: CD Burner and ide-scsi emulation

2003-02-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:11:27PM +0100, Peppe wrote: > Be always sure you DON'T have compiled your kernel with the > ATAPI CDROM support... So this means not to include ide-cd module? How does one get to the second, non-burner CD ROM? -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud D

Re: CD Burner and ide-scsi emulation

2003-02-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 09:24:57PM +0100, Thomas Nyman wrote: > Am an old SuSEr that has just switched to Debian. Can someone give me a > helping hand getting hy hdc cd-rom burner working with ide-scsi emulation SuSE does it differently than every other distro? -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: setting content-description in mutt

2003-02-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.02.0345 +0100]: > No. The problem with outhouse is that it doesn't do what the MIME > headers say. The band-aid is to not use MIME. Hence the > pgp_create_traditional option. I prefer the longer-term solution of > not using broken s

postgreSQL install - user password

2003-02-01 Thread Kevin Coyner
I've been using MySQL but have been wanting to give postgreSQL a try, so I apt-get installed it today. The install went smooth and automatically created a user postgres for me. As I dig through the docs, I find that I need to su postgres in order to create other users. Problem is that if I su po

Mplayer - Divx avi videos run too fast!

2003-02-01 Thread Elijah
Hi again! I've been using mplayer for awhile now using my mpegs but it seems divx video runs faster than audio could finish. I've tried -autosync 1 and things started to slow down a bit for a few seconds, later on video starts to run ahead from audio. Video and sound is not synching right.

RE: Debian CD Install Problems

2003-02-01 Thread David Turetsky
I just ran across that too (with r1), but I'm at a loss to tell you exactly how it occurred. At some point in my trying to fix problems, I invoked the dialog you reference and obligingly gave the answers it suggested. That's an error point. You should not be in that dialog. While I am unable to suc

Re: gcc not working

2003-02-01 Thread Albert Knox
the messages: - configure checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables. - config.log configure:937: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works configure:953: gcc -o conftestconftest.c 1>

Debian CD Install Problems

2003-02-01 Thread Paul M Foster
I purchased the Debian 3.0r1 CDs from Cheapbytes recently, and have been unable to install from them. I had a similar thing happen with the 3.0 CDs. Here's what happens: Debian boots from the first CD, asks questions as usual, then asks for all the CDs to scan them. It builds the list of packages

Re: list delay

2003-02-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 07:36:00PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: | On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | "At present, SPI cannot accept donations in Canadian currency due to the | reluctance of U.S. banks to deal with Canadian funds. SPI is currently | evaluating the possibility of ope

vim ":make" -- "unmatched `" error

2003-02-01 Thread will trillich
i'm in vim, i'm editing like a madman (nothing else explains it) and i write out my changes :w and then i do a make: :make which displays <== blank line, here> Unmatched `. all up-to-date <== blank line, again>

Re: install ant package

2003-02-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 06:42:46PM -0500, Titus Barik wrote: | Hi, | | I'm running Debian testing. I'd like to install the ant package without | installing Samble VM, as I am already using the Sun JDK 1.4 compiler. | How can I accomplish this? I assume the problem is dependency resolution. You h

Re: One NAT'ed machine fails.

2003-02-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 04:59:08PM -0800, nate wrote: | ECN is, off the top of my head, some modern method for detecting | congested network pipes, Correct. It stands for "Explicit Congestion Notification". | it is incompadible with some routers or ip stacks on some systems | preventing communi

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread Gary Turner
nate wrote: >Gary Turner said: >> I run X with icewm. No KDE or Gnome. What would be the advantage(s) of >> adding one of these facilities? > >a more integrated "experience". Generally a more consistant look & >feel between the apps. File managers with a good deal of mime types >configured so yo

Re: Using VIA C3 and Woody?

2003-02-01 Thread Erik Steffl
Bill Moseley wrote: I want to build a very quiet and stable machine. Anyone using a VIA C3 based system with Woody? If so, what motherboard are you using? Any hardware issues? not sure which chipset it will be, some chipsets have problems with IDE, namely audio cd ripping, I know mine has

Re: XFree86 display problems

2003-02-01 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Chad Johnson wrote: > /var/log/XFree86.0.log, a line towards the very end states that "Primary > Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (EE) No devices detected" - which seems kind of This is normal, they all say pci, even for agp > odd, since my card uses an AGP slot (GeForce 4 Ti4600). th

XF86Config and Gidday

2003-02-01 Thread Sid Blackley
hello list, The mail I recieved on subscribing said "submissions by you will be returned" so I am testing yet another ambiguity discovered on the Debian Highway. To actually use the BW,, Having used to upgrade a Debian 2r2 floppy boot,, I am left with a 10mm/.5"sq graphic in Windowmaker that mov

PPC apt-get upgrade failed

2003-02-01 Thread John Dalbec
Unpacking konqueror failed because it was unpacked before kdebase-libs, and the old kdebase-libs (2.2.2-14) shares a file with the new konqueror package (2.2.2-14.2). I imagine this is a bug in the dependency information for the security updates rather than a bug in apt and/or dpkg. I fixed my sys

XFree86 display problems

2003-02-01 Thread Chad Johnson
When I boot into Debian, it tries to start a desktop (I believe I have it set to gdm), but the screen just flashes a few times and then gives me an error message and tells me to look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log. I tried using startx to no avail (it exhibited similar behavior - the screen just fl

Re: netdev watchdog eth0 transmit timed out

2003-02-01 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:01:28PM -0800, Alvin Oga spake thus: > > On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Sam Varghese wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > g'day all, > > > > i've just set up a debian box for use as a server, using

Re: setting content-description in mutt

2003-02-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:16:06PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | Also, does the above possibly give more of a clue to Outlook Express | readers, who receive GPG signed email in two attachments to an empty | message? No. The problem with outhouse is that it doesn't do what the MIME headers say.

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:39:32 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked at syphleed(not claws) about a year ago or so..I vaguely remmeber > it not having many IMAP features. haven't tried the claws one. Not > restricted to console, I did an apt-cache search syphleed and came up with >

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:39:32 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Lamb said: > > Have you taken a look at Sylpheed-claws? > I looked at syphleed(not claws) about a year ago or so..I vaguely remmeber > it not having many IMAP features. haven't tried the claws one. Not > restricted t

Re: Trouble Starting up

2003-02-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:26:33AM -0700, Benjamin Meakin wrote: > Hello, > While installing the packages for debian I get an error message that > says: > Errors encountered while processing: > cxref What is the result of running "apt-get install cxref"? > I also run in to trou

Re: QT Libraries, help needed

2003-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 09:53:58PM +0100, Peppe wrote: > Hi, > I have problems with the QT libraries: > > But > 1) gcc doesn't compile ANY qt-based program, like even tutorials O_O > 2) the binary compiled on another system doesn't start... Are you using qmake? Or your own method. Are you using s

Re: gcc not working

2003-02-01 Thread nate
Albert Knox said: > hi! i'm trying to compile a program from sources, but when I type > "./configure" it says that gcc is not working. The package is installed. > What can be the problem? programs that use configure usually generate a config.log look at that log to see what it says nate --

Re: bad dynamic tag

2003-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 04:17:14AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > I've had trouble booting since I installed woody a couple > of months or so ago (kernel 2.2.20 #1), but things have > become so bad recently that I'm hoping I might get some > help from you kind folks. (I've found correspondence a

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread nate
Jamin W. Collins said: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 04:54:02PM -0800, nate wrote: > TMK, it has it. At least I haven't found anything I needed that it > doesn't have. ok > >> be able to view multiple folders at once(to see which has new mail), > > You can configure multiple mailboxes in mutt and i

Re: gcc not working

2003-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:48:27PM -0300, Albert Knox wrote: > hi! i'm trying to compile a program from sources, but when I type "./configure" it >says that gcc is not working. The package is installed. What can be the problem? A micrometeorite destroyed one or two bites on your hard drive! :) A

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-02-01 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:15:15AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Embarassed. Part of the problem was a defective ink cartridge. > > lp /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps > > is now ok. But termial problem persists. lp printtest prints nothing > and generates the error_log previously

Re: Secure Relaying -- a start

2003-02-01 Thread Ed Lawson
will trillich wrote: yep. try uncommenting one of them (if it happens to refer to /etc/exim/passwd then you need to set that up properly to match) OK. I now get the right responses from the EHLO command to show authentication. Must have uncommented the client set before. Duh. Now to set up

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:39:32PM -0800, nate wrote: > I did an apt-cache search syphleed and came up with nothing, is it not > part of woody? sylpheed - Light weight e-mail client with GTK+ sylpheed-claws - Bleeding edge version of the Sylpheed mail client -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSC

Re: How I partitioned my harddrive

2003-02-01 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Hi Karsten, I have a perhaps stupid question with an obvious answer (but not so evident to me): During the installation process of a Debian system, I don't remember ever being prompted a question asking me in what partition I wanted to install anything except / , so I figure that this redistributio

gcc not working

2003-02-01 Thread Albert Knox
hi! i'm trying to compile a program from sources, but when I type "./configure" it says that gcc is not working. The package is installed. What can be the problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread nate
Steve Lamb said: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 16:54:02 -0800 (PST) > "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> be able to view multiple folders at once(to see which has new mail), > > [Snip a bunch of stuff] > > Sorry to drop in in the middle and if this has been answered, ignore > me, > most people do. Ha

Re: cdrecord: What does "BURN-Free is OFF" mean?

2003-02-01 Thread David Purton
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:57:27AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > I notice a slight difference in the messages from cdrecord when I > write using these: The newer, non-working writer messages contain an > extra message "BURN-Free is OFF" What does this mean and does it > have anything to do with th

Re: twiki installation

2003-02-01 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had some problems setting up twiki for Debian. I switched to moin instead. - - Ryan On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:26:23PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Anyone out there use twiki? how do you do the initial configuration?? > (like, setting the webmaster

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 04:54:02PM -0800, nate wrote: > full IMAP support - TMK, it has it. At least I haven't found anything I needed that it doesn't have. > be able to view multiple folders at once(to see which has new mail), You can configure multiple mailboxes in mutt and it will let you

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 16:54:02 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > be able to view multiple folders at once(to see which has new mail), [Snip a bunch of stuff] Sorry to drop in in the middle and if this has been answered, ignore me, most people do. Have you taken a look at Sylpheed-

Re: netdev watchdog eth0 transmit timed out

2003-02-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Sam Varghese wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > g'day all, > > i've just set up a debian box for use as a server, using woody. > everything has gone well apart from this message which keeps coming > through every now and then: > > netdev wa

Re: One NAT'ed machine fails.

2003-02-01 Thread nate
Bill Moseley said: > www.lego.com.http: S [ECN-Echo,CWR] 632915726:632915726(0) win 5840 1460,sackOK,timestamp 55056307 0,nop,wscale 0> (DF) 15:47:19.784555 > bumby.41055 > www.lego.com.http: S [ECN-Echo,CWR] 632915726:632915726(0) > win 5840 (DF) that kernel on the client there has ECN support

Re: supported hardware

2003-02-01 Thread nate
james leclair said: > Hello, > Can anyone suggest a modem i should consider for installation on our woody > 3.0_r1 boxes? any external, serial-port based USR modem should work wonderfully, of course the Courier line is probably the best :) (~$300/ea though) external modems are usually best becau

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread nate
Hugh Saunders said: > > what do you want to do that mutt cant? full IMAP support - be able to view multiple folders at once(to see which has new mail), e.g. I monitor 16 different email accounts from 1 account at the moment. I have about 45 other email accounts that I can monitor in addition by

bind9 and microsoft issues

2003-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
Hi all, I keep getting flooded with messages like Jan 31 17:30:14 polaris named[232]: client 207.46.150.12#32645: query (cache) denied Jan 31 17:30:14 polaris named[231]: client 207.46.150.12#32645: query (cache) denied Jan 31 17:30:14 polaris named[232]: client 207.46.150.12#32645: query (cache)

Re: list delay

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:59:59 +1100 bob parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may be due to circumstances at the time. I've been subscribed for a few > months now and I find that my messages are returned at any time between a > minute and a couple of hours maximum. Possible postfix problem

netdev watchdog eth0 transmit timed out

2003-02-01 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 g'day all, i've just set up a debian box for use as a server, using woody. everything has gone well apart from this message which keeps coming through every now and then: netdev watchdog eth0 transmit timed out i used the 2.4 kernel which came with

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 04:53:37PM -0500, Mike M wrote: > What email clients and browsers do you use? Window Manager -> blackbox Browser -> Phoenix, Dillo (depending on the situation) Mail Client -> mutt -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: list delay

2003-02-01 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: "At present, SPI cannot accept donations in Canadian currency due to the reluctance of U.S. banks to deal with Canadian funds. SPI is currently evaluating the possibility of opening an account in a Canadian bank. " :/ Then again, i've always been

Re: Configuration centralizing tool sought - yupp

2003-02-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > There are not things you should package. It's a one-off that you, > as a capable sysadmin ;), should be able to write in less time as > it took for you to compose this message. and i'd make the script check the Master release directory and

Re: Setting up the mail program

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:03:18 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once again, have a properly configured MTA (mail transport agent) like > exim running. eximconfig will set exim up for you by asking a few > questions. I never understood why people insist on a fully qualified MTA (o

Re: supported hardware

2003-02-01 Thread Lee W
Hi James, IMHO your best bet would be a serial-port (RS232) external modem, the majority of internal modems are winmodems so probably won't work. If you definately need an internal one I have had success with the Hayes/Zoom V.92 modems (Lucent chipset), not sure if they are available where you ar

Re: CD Burner and ide-scsi emulation

2003-02-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Thomas Nyman wrote: > Hi > > Am an old SuSEr that has just switched to Debian. Can someone give me a > helping hand getting hy hdc cd-rom burner working with ide-scsi emulation collection of cdrw stuff http://www.Linux-1U.net/CDRW ( look for the kern

One NAT'ed machine fails.

2003-02-01 Thread Bill Moseley
I have A SuSE machine running as a NAT machine. On the internal LAN is a Windows machine, and two Debian testing/unstable machines (one is a laptop). The desktop Debian 'bumby' works fine most of the time, although I noticed that I could not reach (at my son's request) lego.com. I thought it wa

Re: install ant package

2003-02-01 Thread Gregor Anders
Titus Barik schrieb: Hi, I'm running Debian testing. I'd like to install the ant package without installing Samble VM, as I am already using the Sun JDK 1.4 compiler. How can I accomplish this? Thanks in advance, what about using dpkg --force-depends, i think this one should help. see dpkg --f

Re: CD Burner and ide-scsi emulation

2003-02-01 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm running kernel 2.2.20 and I have ide-scsi It is a loadable module. It should be visible as a file in /lib/modules//scsi/ide-scsi.o You don't need to move to kernel 2.4.x for this, but there may be other reasons to move that apply to you and not to me. If ide-scsi.o does not show up using locat

install ant package

2003-02-01 Thread Titus Barik
Hi, I'm running Debian testing. I'd like to install the ant package without installing Samble VM, as I am already using the Sun JDK 1.4 compiler. How can I accomplish this? Thanks in advance, -- Titus Barik [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

supported hardware

2003-02-01 Thread james leclair
Hello, Can anyone suggest a modem i should consider for installation on our woody 3.0_r1 boxes? Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Configuration centralizing tool sought

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030201 17:51]: > Right. But I gave up on it when I fough 30 minutes this morning on > reading in a file formatted like this: > > \s+ > > with a while loop: > > while read user filename; do > echo "$user : $filename" > done < thefile > > this is supposed

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:11:51PM -0800, nate wrote: > Mike M said: > > > What email clients and browsers do you use? > > my mail client is squirrelmail(webmail). at work I started with > netscape 4 for mail then moved to mozilla once it got stable enough > for use. console email clients don't see

Re: kernel 2.4.20-686 installation

2003-02-01 Thread Herbert Xu
Simon Tod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Setting up dash (0.4.1) ... > dpkg: error processing dash (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error > exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > dash > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code > (1) The

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-02-01 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Quoting Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:17:12PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > I have some more info about my problem that might be useful. > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 > ... > > Would this indicate a hardware problem? O

Re: i2c and lm_sensors

2003-02-01 Thread David Z Maze
karrottop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to get im_sensors running on my debian box, but I am getting > some opposition. First of all, I do have my kernel source, and it is > symlinked to /usr/src/linux. but for some reason when I go to where i2c > installed from apt get /usr/src/modu

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-02-01 Thread nate
sean finney said: > right, but if they're storing a passphraseless key on another machine to > which someone else has root, that someone else now has access to your > machine too. if that's your root key... yes thats a good point, forgot about that. I can't remember the last time I had access to

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread nate
Mike M said: > What email clients and browsers do you use? my primary browser is phoenix 0.5. I also make use of mozilla 1.0 and opera 6.11. usually to reduce the risk of lost data during browser crashes. my mail client is squirrelmail(webmail). at work I started with netscape 4 for mail then mo

help please ! -> need PM1564U3 controller to run under 2.4.x kernel.......

2003-02-01 Thread Courtney Thomas
Greetings and Appreciation, [to all who've recently assisted] I need to install said scsi controller but Adaptec has drivers [AFAIK] only for 2.2.x kernels. If you've determined how to succeed in this please point the way. BTW, I already have Tekram and DPT controllers running on this system an

Re: CD Burner and ide-scsi emulation

2003-02-01 Thread Peppe
Be always sure you DON'T have compiled your kernel with the ATAPI CDROM support... once you have disabled this, and enabled SCSI support, SCSI emulation support your drive should be autodetected in /dev/scdX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: CD Burner and ide-scsi emulation

2003-02-01 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday 01 February 2003 22:21, Thomas Nyman wrote: > I tried to enable ide-scsi emulation but it doesnt work..there is no such > module found. I installed woody basically with defaults...so I'm kind of > lost as to what to do. The only thing I can think of right now is that you're running an

QT Libraries, help needed

2003-02-01 Thread Peppe
Hi, I have problems with the QT libraries: I need to use a QT-based toolset built by some friends. It is build for qt3-mt and I got these packages: ii libqt3 3.0.3-20020329 Qt GUI Library (runtime version). ii libqt3-dev 3.0.3-20020329 Qt GUI development files ii libqt3-mt 3.0

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread Mike M
On Saturday 01 February 2003 15:53, nate wrote: > Gary Turner said: > > I run X with icewm. No KDE or Gnome. What would be the advantage(s) of > > adding one of these facilities? > I used to use KDE back before it hit 1.0, used it for a year or 2, > up until ~1.1 or so maybe in early 1999 then I

Re: CD Burner and ide-scsi emulation

2003-02-01 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Hmm... dunno if that =scsi part works. I've always used =ide-scsi. This loads the module for me automagically. The module should be (for 2.4 kernels) /lib/modules/2.4.??/kernel/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.o If the module really isn't found, try installing the kernel-image appropriate for your system

Re: Books

2003-02-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 04:18:42PM -0800, Daniel L. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Anybody got some recommendations for Debian books - books that have good > coverage of Debian-specific topics like APT and MODCONF? The Debian project website documentation page: http://www.debian.org/doc/

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-01 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 07:56:04AM +1100, David Pastern wrote: > My deepest commiserations to the US, NASA and all families involved over the > space shuttle Columbia tragedy. I believe that they were using Debian GNU > Linux for the first time onboard the shuttle :-( i've been watching the live

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-02-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:17:12PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > I have some more info about my problem that might be useful. > > I booted up off of disk 1 of my Woody installation CDROM set. > My root partition is /dev/sda2, so I entered the following at > the "boot:" prompt ... > > rescue root

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-02-01 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:57:08PM -0800, nate wrote: > will trillich said: > > > at what point are the passphrases required? if passwordless > > login/scp is the objective, where are the passphrases used? > > ssh-agent is designed to prompt you for your passphrase, then > it stores it in memory,

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-02-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:26:26PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... ... > > mount -o remount,rw / > > Well, that didn't work, either. Here's the error: > > EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option 0 > mount: / not mounted already, or bad option I think you us

Re: CD Burner and ide-scsi emulation

2003-02-01 Thread Thomas Nyman
Hi I tried to enable ide-scsi emulation but it doesnt work..there is no such module found. I installed woody basically with defaults...so I'm kind of lost as to what to do. --On lördag, februari 01, 2003 22.08.30 +0100 Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 01 February 2003 21:

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 07:56:04 +1100, David Pastern wrote: > I believe that they were using Debian GNU Linux for the first time onboard > the shuttle :-( No, this time it was Red Hat; see http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-31-016-26-NW-RH-PB . Debian was used to control a hydro

bad dynamic tag

2003-02-01 Thread David Jardine
I've had trouble booting since I installed woody a couple of months or so ago (kernel 2.2.20 #1), but things have become so bad recently that I'm hoping I might get some help from you kind folks. (I've found correspondence about such a problem in debian list archives, but no solution.) The ke

Re: CD Burner and ide-scsi emulation

2003-02-01 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday 01 February 2003 21:24, Thomas Nyman wrote: > Am an old SuSEr that has just switched to Debian. Can someone give me a > helping hand getting hy hdc cd-rom burner working with ide-scsi emulation You just have to use the kernel parameter "hdc=scsi" (add it to your append line in lilo.co

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-02-01 Thread nate
will trillich said: > at what point are the passphrases required? if passwordless > login/scp is the objective, where are the passphrases used? ssh-agent is designed to prompt you for your passphrase, then it stores it in memory, and automatically 'inputs' it when you connect. That is until you l

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread nate
Gary Turner said: > I run X with icewm. No KDE or Gnome. What would be the advantage(s) of > adding one of these facilities? a more integrated "experience". Generally a more consistant look & feel between the apps. File managers with a good deal of mime types configured so you can click/double c

re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-01 Thread David Pastern
My deepest commiserations to the US, NASA and all families involved over the space shuttle Columbia tragedy. I believe that they were using Debian GNU Linux for the first time onboard the shuttle :-( Dave W Pastern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: initrd -- what exactly is it?

2003-02-01 Thread Matt Price
I just want to thank everyone for all your explanations -- it's been very helpful! Moving on to newer problems now, but it's always great to have things explained to you! matt On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:34:59PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Matt" == Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-01 Thread will trillich
[OP] >> + Users may be real users on the server. --- Are there good reasons >> against this? On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:07:41PM -, Colin Ellis wrote: > I'm not sure why you feel the need to create user accounts on the machine > itself. It seems a bit of a security nightmare to me. Vmailmgr

Re: OpenOffice 1.0.2 font ugliness

2003-02-01 Thread Matt Price
> > Well, 'exceeding ugly' is quite a subjective statement so I can't be sure > what you see. Perhaps you are talking about the fact that we reverted back > to the internal libfreetype used in OOo instead of the Debian version, due > to many problems experienced by users? This is documented in

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