fontconfig doesn't read local configuration

2003-02-06 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I was trying to configure fontconfig so that it will read the local configuation file (/etc/local.conf) where I have a font path to /usr/local/share/fonts and all my "local" fonts are at /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/microsoft/*.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/arphic/

monitor locks up when exiting X

2003-02-06 Thread Elijah
My monitor powers down (led turns yellow) whenever I ctl+alt+F* or from ctl+alt+backspace and from rebooting or shutting down, I get no messages from shutting down because my screen is black and the LED seems to indicate that it turned itself off. X works fine but exiting it kinda makes me worr

Re: AARRGGHH: Samba + WinXP Home

2003-02-06 Thread cynthia
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 04:08 am, David Purton wrote: ; ; Hi, ; ; We Just bought a new server at work and its running linux + samba. ; ; Most seems to run fine, except I can't make the WinXP boxes remember ; their passwords for reconnecting to shares at login. ; ; What do I need to set in eit

sed help

2003-02-06 Thread Geengun Guim
Hi? Elie De Brauwer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] helped me before. but I cannot touch with him.why. so ask you please help me The identity is not www but the first +- simbol. c:\tmp\mbc+-www.mbc.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-cgi.cgi c:\tmp\mbc+-cs.mbc.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-cgi.cgi c:\tmp\mbc+-cdi.kbs.co.kr+-cg

Re: Vim error

2003-02-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:21:55PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: | I am using vim from unstable on my sarge (mainly) system. Since this | evening, I am not able to get the help command to work from within vim. | | When I give the command help in vim, I get the following message: | | "help.txt.gz"

Re: partitioning hard drive & /usr is already 96% full

2003-02-06 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:35, Hans Wilmer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:41:55AM -0900, Andy wrote: > > > > > Question for the list: > > What is the lists advice in managing my /usr partition > > so it does not completetly fill up and cause problems in the future? > > Make it 2 GB as a minim

Re: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030206 20:02]: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Frank's quite correct: there's no particular reason why xdm should be > > reinstalled on upgrade, and you'll be told about it if for some bizarre > > reason this is going to happen. > > Ah good, tha

Re: Installing Non-Debian Programs w/out Apt -- what effect?

2003-02-06 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:48:47PM -, Colin Ellis wrote: > General Rule - anything not part of the distribution, compile from source > and use the installation prefix of /usr/local/ > > This will keep your custom installation separate from the distribution and > give you an easy upgrade route

Re: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread Gary Turner
David Turetsky wrote: > David Turetsky wrote: > [...] > How do I abort the startup of x? > > Kent West > > At the LILO: prompt, enter "linux single". [...] David Turetsky > > YES!!! Thank you. Now I can go on to experiment with corrections to > my XF86Config file [...]

Re: kernel compile failure

2003-02-06 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:30:20PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:08:03PM -0800, Torrin wrote: > > I'm having trouble compiling kernel 2.4.20 on my woody system. I'm > > using gcc version 2.95.4 > > > > I issue the command . . . > > su -c "make-kpkg ke

Re: KDE 3.1 in sid

2003-02-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:30:31PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Btw, is kde3.1 already in sid? I thought when I did my upgrade kde > would be upgraded, but nothing happend... Give it time for the dependancies to work out. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and

Re: spaces in filenames

2003-02-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:11:26PM -0500, Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote: > However, some of the files have spaces in the names, like "My File.html" > How do I get $doc to have the correct file name? Quote the filename. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'`

Re: Sylog Error Messages

2003-02-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:19:33PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > It's from scanner.abuse.blueyonder.co.uk, in fact. I guess this is the > original poster's ISP; certainly it seems highly unlikely to be > malicious. By the kind of activity and the hostname, I'd say just reject unversially on this on

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-06 Thread DvB
"James Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Famine victims OK, but nobody has mentioned the people living in > poverty in America. Boost welfare, more education funding, subsidise > pay rises for the lowest paid workers... ooops, America's budget all > gone ;-) > Of course! If we spent that

Re: kernel compile failure

2003-02-06 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:08:03PM -0800, Torrin wrote: > I'm having trouble compiling kernel 2.4.20 on my woody system. I'm > using gcc version 2.95.4 > > I issue the command . . . > su -c "make-kpkg kernel_image" > > After compiling some files it always ends up with an error like . . . > > gc

Re: *.wma

2003-02-06 Thread DvB
"Sergey A. Ovchar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 18:13:38 +0100 > Johannes Zarl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Are you sure, you have libavcodec0 and w32codecs installed? The > > appropriate codec is in either of them. There is no dependency from > > mplayer to it, so

Re: shuttle disaster (space elevators)

2003-02-06 Thread Gary Turner
John Hasler wrote: >Paul E Condon writes: >> It is not hard to compute the tension in a space elevator ribbon. (It >> would be a fair question for a final exam in an undergraduate mechanics >> course.) It depends on position along the ribbon, on the Earth >> parameters (size, rate of rotation, et

Re: Downgrading to xfree86 3.x

2003-02-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:02:59PM -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > I have an old VLB video card (ATI Graphics Ultra Pro). It does not > appear to be supported in xfree86 4.x. How do I downgrade to xfree86 > 3.x in woody? apt-get install xserver-mach32 xserver-common-v3 Debian's 3.x and 4.x versi

Kernel 2.4 problems on K7

2003-02-06 Thread Scott Nanni
I am sure I am not the only one, as I have heard quite a bit about this but I am just gonna throw this one out there... I have tried several 2.4 kernels, debian stock 2.4.16-k7, 2.4.18-k7 as well as custom kernels 2.4.16, 2.4.18, 2.4.19 from kernel.org If I load my usb (usb-ohci) or alsa sou

Re: twiki installation

2003-02-06 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
Nope I run testing/unstable. If you're scared I guess that makes me certifiable :) - Ryan On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:13:06PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > do you run woody? moin wanted to install a huge number of upgrades, > including (I think) a new gcc... I was scared to do it. > matt > On Sat,

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-06 Thread Craig Dickson
James Hughes wrote: > Since you're talking about audio degradation issues, one thing I've > always wondered is how much and what kind of loss is there (if any) > when unencoding from [.ogg]|[.mp3] to .wav? I would think none. Lossage happens during encoding, not decoding, as long as you're deco

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:14:11PM -0600, DvB wrote: > Of course, this isn't necessarily an easy thing to do in many places > where most of the growth has happened according to current zoning > standards (like the southern US). I'm so glad that Portland realises it's way behind the game when it co

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:55:27AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Can you imagine a 100 or a 1000 of these things? > > Yes, but why would you need that many? "From now until March 31, you and a friend fly for $39 each way from Portland to Earths orbit on Horizon Airlines..." -- .''`. Baloo

phoenix hangs on ctrl-u

2003-02-06 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Hey all: I'm not entirely sure what to do about this problem. Phoenix used to allow me to view the source of a page using control-u. Now whenever I use the shortcut the browser hangs (doesn't allow me to minimize the window, open any menus, etc). I thought maybe it was because I had an incompatibl

Re: lm_sensors

2003-02-06 Thread Jsen
* Hugo Graumann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:00:17AM +0100, mess-mate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:42:11 -0700 > > Hugo Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > | * On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:19:45PM -0500, karrottop ([EMAIL PROT

Re: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > Frank's quite correct: there's no particular reason why xdm should be > reinstalled on upgrade, and you'll be told about it if for some bizarre > reason this is going to happen. Ah good, thanks for the clearing up what Frank was implying. So if package a

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:41:35 -0600 "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm surprised. What didn't work? I'm using the stable versions of > courier-imap and squirrelmail and having no discernible problems. Pretty much anything. It would get the lovely "Got 80k+ while allocating on

Re: sudden sound troubles

2003-02-06 Thread James Hughes
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:25:29PM -0600, Steve Johnson wrote: > What's your modules.conf look like? # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore # ALSA portion alias snd-card-0 snd-card-maestro3 # OSS/Free portion alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias s

Re: *.wma

2003-02-06 Thread Sergey A. Ovchar
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 18:13:38 +0100 Johannes Zarl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you sure, you have libavcodec0 and w32codecs installed? The > appropriate codec is in either of them. There is no dependency from > mplayer to it, so it isn't installed by default. Which package contains theese

Re: CUPS password?

2003-02-06 Thread stan
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:08:41PM -0700, Andreas J Guelzow wrote: > stan wrote: > > >On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:33:40PM -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > > > >>On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:18, stan wrote: > >> > >>>I've got CUPS installed on my Debian machine from .debs. When I try to go > >>>to the

kernel compile failure

2003-02-06 Thread Torrin
I'm having trouble compiling kernel 2.4.20 on my woody system. I'm using gcc version 2.95.4 I issue the command . . . su -c "make-kpkg kernel_image" After compiling some files it always ends up with an error like . . . gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 4 make[1]: *** [i

Re: CUPS password?

2003-02-06 Thread Andreas J Guelzow
stan wrote: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:33:40PM -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:18, stan wrote: I've got CUPS installed on my Debian machine from .debs. When I try to go to the damin section of the web interface, I'm prompted for a username password pair. Where do I

Re: lm_sensors

2003-02-06 Thread Hugo Graumann
* On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:00:17AM +0100, mess-mate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:42:11 -0700 > Hugo Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | * On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:19:45PM -0500, karrottop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > | > > | > I am re-posting this because

Re: Downgrading to xfree86 3.x

2003-02-06 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 06 February 2003 05:02 pm, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > I have an old VLB video card (ATI Graphics Ultra Pro). It does not > appear to be supported in xfree86 4.x. How do I downgrade to xfree86 > 3.x in woody? > > TIA, > Jeffrey I use 'dselect' to remove/purge all the xfree86 ver 4 pack

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-06 Thread James Hughes
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:22:03AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Jack Pistachio wrote: > > > Well, I'm actually not sure I need to. I'm making a cd for > > my brother to use on his mp3 capable DVD player. I assumed > > that the player wouldn't be able to handle ogg encoded > > files. Perhaps I'

Re: Downgrading to xfree86 3.x

2003-02-06 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:02:59PM -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > I have an old VLB video card (ATI Graphics Ultra Pro). It does not > appear to be supported in xfree86 4.x. How do I downgrade to xfree86 > 3.x in woody? Looking at the readme (README.ati.gz) for X 4.2, your video card appears to

RE: Plagiarism Monitor S/W

2003-02-06 Thread David Turetsky
Sounds like a task for Perl Go to your bookstore and browse through 'Perl Cookbook', published by O'Reilly to get some ideas You might also pose that question to a Perl user group. Someone(s) will have done something close to your requirement -- David -Original Message- From: Abdul Lat

Re: CUPS password?

2003-02-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:18:13PM -0500, stan wrote: > I've got CUPS installed on my Debian machine from .debs. When I try to go > to the damin section of the web interface, I'm prompted for a username > password pair. > > Where do I look for this config? > If you don't want to login as root, a

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:58:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: This latter is the one I use with my Epson 860 without having errors you report. > *PPD-Adobe: "4.3" > *%PPD file for CUPS/GIMP-print. > *%Copyright 1993-2001 by Easy Software Products, All Rights Reserved. > *%This PPD file may

Downgrading to xfree86 3.x

2003-02-06 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
I have an old VLB video card (ATI Graphics Ultra Pro). It does not appear to be supported in xfree86 4.x. How do I downgrade to xfree86 3.x in woody? TIA, Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: partitioning hard drive & /usr is already 96% full

2003-02-06 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:41:55AM -0900, Andy wrote: > > Question for the list: > What is the lists advice in managing my /usr partition > so it does not completetly fill up and cause problems in the future? Make it 2 GB as a minimum; that you'll need more than 4 GB is unlikely for quite some t

SCSI messages

2003-02-06 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, dmesg prints out, amongst others, a number of messages like that, as I just discover: sym53c1010-33-0-<0,0>: ordered tag forced. This seems to concern /dev/sda, which is an IBM DCAS-34330. What does the system want to tell me with these messages? Is there some problem with command queuein

Re: CUPS password?

2003-02-06 Thread stan
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:33:40PM -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:18, stan wrote: > > I've got CUPS installed on my Debian machine from .debs. When I try to go > > to the damin section of the web interface, I'm prompted for a username > > password pair. > > > > Where d

Re: shuttle disaster (space elevators)

2003-02-06 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > It is not hard to compute the tension in a space elevator ribbon. (It > would be a fair question for a final exam in an undergraduate mechanics > course.) It depends on position along the ribbon, on the Earth > parameters (size, rate of rotation, etc. )... In particular th

OT: Plagiarism Monitor S/W

2003-02-06 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi: Sorry, this is not so related to Debian. I am just wondering if there exists a script/ software that compares similarities between two files. It should be more sophisticated than "comm" and "diff". Someone would like to use that script for screening student assignments. Prefarable, if it co

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-06 Thread James Buchanan
Famine victims OK, but nobody has mentioned the people living in poverty in America. Boost welfare, more education funding, subsidise pay rises for the lowest paid workers... ooops, America's budget all gone ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: CUPS password?

2003-02-06 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:18, stan wrote: > I've got CUPS installed on my Debian machine from .debs. When I try to go > to the damin section of the web interface, I'm prompted for a username > password pair. > > Where do I look for this config? /etc/cups/cupsd.conf Andreas -- Andreas J. Guelzow

Re: CUPS password?

2003-02-06 Thread Kent West
stan wrote: I've got CUPS installed on my Debian machine from .debs. When I try to go to the damin section of the web interface, I'm prompted for a username password pair. Where do I look for this config? Your root username/password should do the trick. I'm not sure what it would take to de

autopoint?

2003-02-06 Thread stan
I'm trying to build Ardour, I've downlaoded the source from CVS. It seemd to need something called autopoint. Where can I get this for Debian? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -

Re: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread John Hasler
Bill Moseley writes: > I assume because x-window-system depends on xdm? x-window-system is a dummy package which serves no purpose once the packages it depends on are installed. Remove it. > Or if xdm was updated in a apt-get dist-upgrade? Apt won't reinstall it if it has been removed. -- John

Re: shuttle disaster (space elevators)

2003-02-06 Thread Paul E Condon
Joyce, Matthew wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul E Condon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 7 February 2003 9:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: shuttle disaster (space elevators) Ray wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2003 11:55, John Hasler wro

Re: CUPS password?

2003-02-06 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:18:13PM -0500, stan wrote: > I've got CUPS installed on my Debian machine from .debs. When I try to go > to the damin section of the web interface, I'm prompted for a username > password pair. > > Where do I look for this config? It's root and root password Stephen Rü

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-06 Thread DvB
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:41:19AM -0600, DvB wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:36:45 +, > > > Pigeon wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > Personally, I think that the space programme in its current > > > > state of d

Ardour debs?

2003-02-06 Thread stan
I discoverd Ardour today, courtesy of a Slashdot post. Looks like just what I need. Anyone have a line on debs for it? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -

CUPS password?

2003-02-06 Thread stan
I've got CUPS installed on my Debian machine from .debs. When I try to go to the damin section of the web interface, I'm prompted for a username password pair. Where do I look for this config? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Help with ALSA setup

2003-02-06 Thread Chris Mitchell
Hi all, I may have made a mistake in choosing ALSA sound instead of OSS on my woody box... I just installed the first thing that said "sound drivers" in dselect and I heard later that ALSA has a reputation for being, er, non-trivial to get working... But hey: in for a penny, in for a pound.

RE: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread David Turetsky
>>> David Turetsky wrote: I finally have a partially working x configuration, but clearly my keyboard is not being properly recognized, and my mouse is not being recognized at all. I would like to stay at the command line prompt to fix the config files, but my system automatical

Re: LTSP & TFTP on Woody

2003-02-06 Thread sdownes
Original Message --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable sdownes wrote: > I've installed the Linux Terminal Server .debs on my file server & I'm=20 > trying to run an old machine fro

Re: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:16:16PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:33:57PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > You can also probably remove the xdm package, but again I think it might > > > also get reinstalled on update. > > > > W

Re: Installing Non-Debian Programs w/out Apt -- what effect?

2003-02-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:20:34PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > And, while I'm on it -- once a program is packaged (like Open Office) and is > in unstable, is there any general rule of thumb for how long it takes to go > to testing and finally to stable? -> testing: once all its dependencies are

RE: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, David Turetsky wrote: > >My keyboard is dysfunctional under x so any remedy must be to trap >the system at the command line before x windows starts. How can I do >this? Oh, sorry, I missed that point. Kent West's response to boot into single user mode would be th

Re: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:33:57PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > You can also probably remove the xdm package, but again I think it might > > also get reinstalled on update. > > Why would it ? Is that a rhetorical question? I assume because x-window-

Re: lm_sensors

2003-02-06 Thread mess-mate
Hi, On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:42:11 -0700 Hugo Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | * On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:19:45PM -0500, karrottop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > | > I am re-posting this because I was made aware I sent it as a reply to | > another post. Sorry about that, so without further

RE: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread David Turetsky
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, David Turetsky wrote: I finally have a partially working x configuration, but clearly my keyboard is not being properly recognized, and my mouse is not being recognized at all. I would like to stay at the command line prompt to fix the config files, but my system a

Re: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:33:57PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > You can also probably remove the xdm package, but again I think it might > also get reinstalled on update. Why would it ? Frank > -- > Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with

RE: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread David Turetsky
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:08:11 -0500, David Turetsky wrote: [...] but my system automatically starts up gdm How do I abort the startup of x? >>> Julián Hernández Gómez: update-rc.d -f gdm remove >>> David Turetsky: Yes, but how do I get in to do that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-06 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-06 02:29]: >- double-click a URL in some text in xterm >- move to mozilla >- click in the Location box >- move hand keyboard to type ^U to clear >- move hand back >- middle click to paste > >I'm sure someone will point out an easier way. - double-cl

Re: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, David Turetsky wrote: > I finally have a partially working x configuration, but clearly my > keyboard is not being > > properly recognized, and my mouse is not being recognized at all. I > would like to stay > > at the command line prompt to fix the config files, but my syst

Re: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread Kent West
David Turetsky wrote: I finally have a partially working x configuration, but clearly my keyboard is not being properly recognized, and my mouse is not being recognized at all. I would like to stay at the command line prompt to fix the config files, but my system automatically starts up gdm

Re: shuttle disaster (space elevators)

2003-02-06 Thread Paul E Condon
Ray wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2003 11:55, John Hasler wrote: Mike M writes: Can you imagine a 100 or a 1000 of these things? Yes, but why would you need that many? how many different airports do we have now? seems like 1000 would be normal to low. Would it be possi

RE: Rescuing an old RISC6000

2003-02-06 Thread Narins, Josh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes, Thursday, February 06, 2003 3:00 AM > > At office I'm trying to "rescue" an old IBM risc 6000 - > 7012/320 workstation doomed to elimination. > > Is there anyone in this list able to tell me if I can install > debian ppc on it and - booting from diskette - what > ar

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-06 Thread nate
Hans Wilmer said: > Well, I'd like to use LDAP to have a global address book for users, as a > first step. If I only could get it to work, LDAP could be used to > authenticate mail-users. > > But lacking something else, I would set up users with adduser, though not > create home directories and ha

Re: 2.4.18 netfilter NAT problem

2003-02-06 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:50:24AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > The server is a smal woody box with kernel 2.4.18 and an iptables > configuration for firewall and NATting the other two home computers to > access the net thru my ADSL connection. > > The problem is that a natted connection hangs aft

Re: spaces in filenames

2003-02-06 Thread Travis Crump
Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write a script where I can get the names of files in a directory. Normally this is easy, like this: for doc in `ls /var/www/htlml/files` do echo $i done However, some of the files have spaces in the names, like "My File.html" How d

Re: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread Julian Hernandez
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:08:11 -0500, David Turetsky wrote: [...] > but my system automatically starts up gdm > >How do I abort the startup of x? update-rc.d -f gdm remove HTH Julián Hernández Gómez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-06 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:02:09AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: Alchemists had three generally accepted > goals: the transformation of base metals into gold, the > discovery of a universal solvent, and the discovery of 'the > elixir of life' . Like scientists today, they looked

Re: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:08:11PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > I finally have a partially working x configuration, but clearly my > keyboard is not being > > properly recognized, and my mouse is not being recognized at all. I > would like to stay > > at the command line prompt to fix the conf

Re: Problems downloading Knoppix

2003-02-06 Thread csj
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:39:34 -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > > On February 4, 2003 08:13 am, bob parker wrote: > > Well I just completed downloading Knoppix using my steam > > powered dial up connection. > > > > I started on 27 January. Wow, that's fast. I need a little under a month to download a 70

Re: samba plus nfs, or only samba - 3 pcs

2003-02-06 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:06:19PM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > i have my debian box acting as a server and a gateway for my lan. i had > a "multi-booting" pc on the lan, which i just upgraded the hardware on. > this will be my son's windoze box. right now i am running samba between > the two. n

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-06 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:34:16PM -0800, nate wrote: > > What's the better way to go when building a new server? Should I start > > with 2.x or stay at 1.5? > > If it were me, I would use 1.5. See my other posts with the maintainer > of the cyrus 2 packages for debian for why. It really depends

Re: spaces in filenames

2003-02-06 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Sheldon Lee-Wen said... > Hi, > >I'm trying to write a script where I can get the names of files in a > directory. Normally this is easy, like this: > >for doc in `ls /var/www/htlml/files` > do > echo $i > done > > However, some of the fi

Re: 82845G Graphics Controller

2003-02-06 Thread Janke Dávid
http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel845g/linux.htm There's no 82845G graphics support in any stable version of Debian, nor in stable version of XFree86. XFree86 4.3.0 will first include support for this card (in the rewritten i815 driver). Bu

Re: CRASHING HARD DRIVE

2003-02-06 Thread Bradley M Alexander
I would set up some kind of backup strategy. I know its almost too late in the game to bring that up, but you may still be able to pull it off. That said, what I would suggest to make a rebuild easier, would be to capture the following: Capture your package list: dpkg --get-selections >

Re: knowledge

2003-02-06 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:07:27PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Existence is a trinity of three equivalent aspects: matter, > motion, and consciousness. None of these three can exist > without the other two. All matter is in motion and has > consciousness. Matter is composed of primordial atom

How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread David Turetsky
I finally have a partially working x configuration, but clearly my keyboard is not being properly recognized, and my mouse is not being recognized at all. I would like to stay at the command line prompt to fix the config files, but my system automatically starts up gdm   How do I abo

Re: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

2003-02-06 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:35:25PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > > What is the appropriate nomenclature for logical/entended partitions in > fstab and elsewhere > > For example, hde1 (or hda1) is the base partition. If I use an extended > partition, is that hde2 or what > I might be able to re

Re: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-06 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 04:12:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 12:09, Pigeon wrote: > [snip] > > What do you think of the Culture economy? All work is done by > > machines, which are designed to work properly and last for millennia - > > fully upgradeable, of course. So no-one

Re: modem / pon / serial problems

2003-02-06 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:19:36PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:14:36PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > So I have resorted to a VILE HACK. The main box exports its /etc via > > NFS to the modem box. A script in the modem box's /etc/ppp/ip-up.d > > then copies the modem box's

Re: LTSP & TFTP on Woody

2003-02-06 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
sdownes wrote: > I've installed the Linux Terminal Server .debs on my file server & I'm > trying to run an old machine from it. I have got the DHCP working & the > terminal is finding its address & asking for the kernel but then nothing. > > I've installed TFTP & it is in inetd.conf & services b

Re: c program chart, scheme, plan

2003-02-06 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:28:18AM +0300, Andrei Smirnov wrote: > Hi all! > And, in general, what tools, editors, other things you are using > to facilitate c (or other languages) development ? I use RHIDE, which is a clone of the Borland Turbo C DOS environment. For this you need to download rhid

Re: spaces in filenames

2003-02-06 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Sheldon Lee-Wen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 06 February 2003, 01:11 PM -0500): > Hi, > >I'm trying to write a script where I can get the names of files in a > directory. Normally this is easy, like this: > >for doc in `ls /var/www/htlml/files` > do >

RE: CRASHING HARD DRIVE

2003-02-06 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: CRASHING HARD DRIVE > > > Hi All, > I know that this has been discussed before so I > apologize for asking again. I believe that my hard > drive is

Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-06 Thread Kent West
Hal Vaughan wrote: Actually, I should have asked this with the question. The game is Enigma, and I found the binaries on mirrors, but the game is listed on the Debian website. It doesn't show up when I apt-cache search enigma. Is that because I'm using stable and it's in testing or unstable

Re: KDE 3.1 in sid

2003-02-06 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:06:27PM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 06 February 2003 05:17, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:45:54AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > KDE starts drifting into sid! .debs at 11:00 (-0100).

CRASHING HARD DRIVE

2003-02-06 Thread D.
Hi All, I know that this has been discussed before so I apologize for asking again. I believe that my hard drive is on its last leg. Can I do a quick and dirty bzip2 / and will that bzip2 by drive so that I can copy it to another, then do the bunzip2? I'm looking for a easy solution, I can re-

Re: Lordsutch Netinst cd's still being maintained?

2003-02-06 Thread ppp
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:33:02PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > I don't know if it is maintained or not, but there is no real need to > update it. Since it is a net install it will always update your system > as soon as you give it a chance. > > I use the LordSutch CD, and it will offer to a

dangling DCOP files in Woody, KDE 2.2.2

2003-02-06 Thread Michael Jinks
Hi all. I help support a research group in which several not-too-savvy users run on KDE. Since converting their machines from Mandrake to Debian/Woody, they've started having problems with .DCOP* files being left behind in their home directories after they log out of their KDE sessions, with the

Re: spaces in filenames

2003-02-06 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 11:11, Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote: > Hi, > >I'm trying to write a script where I can get the names of files in a > directory. Normally this is easy, like this: > >for doc in `ls /var/www/htlml/files` > do > echo $i > done > > However, som

RE: Installing Non-Debian Programs w/out Apt -- what effect?

2003-02-06 Thread Colin Ellis
General Rule - anything not part of the distribution, compile from source and use the installation prefix of /usr/local/ This will keep your custom installation separate from the distribution and give you an easy upgrade route later on. If the program needs it's own shared libraries then don't fo

Re: [OT] USB -> Ethernet adapters

2003-02-06 Thread Jacob S .
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:12:50 -0500 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:20:48PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > > Looking at the device compatability list on www.linux-usb.org it > > looks like these adapters are supported fairly well. I was wondering > > though if an

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