Re: wine and IE

2003-02-19 Thread Gary Turner
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 03:07:59PM -0600, DvB wrote: >> I've never done this, but I've seen it done (with me own eyes! :-) I >> don't think it worked as well as the native Linux browsers and probably >> would crash as soon as it started doing its Direct-X crap but, for your >>

Re: cache for packages

2003-02-19 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:43:02PM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I have four or five machines running linux on our local network. Can > someone point me to the easy instructions for setting up a cache of > packages on one system, so that if packages are already on a local > machine, they won't be

Test (ignore safely)

2003-02-19 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Hi, This is just a test message, you can ignore it safely. Sorry to disturb. Regards, Ismael -- Ismael Valladolid Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://es.geocities.com/ivalladt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Loging to Debian Linux via SSH

2003-02-19 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * alef-forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030220 08:52]: > Hello debian-user, > > please help. > > I have a server running on Debian Linux. > When I'm trying to login via SSH it takes a lot of time. > > I enter username This puzzles me; what ssh client are you using? Sounds

how do i patch a freeswan kernel?

2003-02-19 Thread thing
whats the sequence of commands to patch please? Thing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SOLVED] Re: DRI not enabled - Why?

2003-02-19 Thread Kent West
Some months ago I posted asking why DRI wasn't working on my system with a Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS (as reported by lspci) card. Everything looked fine. Just now I found this information at https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xfree86-list/2001q3/74.html: >It is critically important to eve

cache for packages

2003-02-19 Thread Alan E . Davis
I have four or five machines running linux on our local network. Can someone point me to the easy instructions for setting up a cache of packages on one system, so that if packages are already on a local machine, they won't be ftped again? It's a tribute to Debian GNU/Linux that, running sid

Re: use of spamassassin and razor

2003-02-19 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:44:55PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 06:34:26PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > frankly, i do not understand how to use spamassassin and razor. > > > > or how exactly does it do the job. i just want the spam to be marked and > > pushed to a sp

Re: phoenix java plugin - installed, but not installed

2003-02-19 Thread Geordie Birch
said Sandip P Deshmukh (on 2003-02-20), > i recently downloaded phoenix tar ball (binary files) and expanded it in > my home directory. > what do i need to do to get java going? several sites seem to run > tickers etc using java. $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/phoenix/plugins/ total 1460 -rw-r--r--1

Re: use of spamassassin and razor

2003-02-19 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 06:55:29AM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 06:34:26PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > i have recently installed spamassassin and razor, hoping it will reduce > > my spam burden. > > Don't bother with those tools. Spambayes[1], the new kid on the bloc

some apps are too big on my fujitsu

2003-02-19 Thread Xavier Barnabe-Theriault
Hello On a fujitsu p-2120 running testing, the gui to load files on xmms and the gv postscript viewer are way too big compared to a simple but obediant xterm. I thought it was first related to fonts, but after having played w/gtkrc, I affected ... fonts ! not the overwhelming size of boxes. More

Re[2]: Loging to Debian Linux via SSH

2003-02-19 Thread alef-forum
Hello Colin, Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 3:36:58 PM, you wrote: CW> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:20:26PM +0100, alef-forum wrote: >> I have a server runnig on Debian Linux. >> When I'm trying to login via SSH it takes a lot of time. CW> What architecture? CW> -- CW> Colin Watson

RE: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-19 Thread Carlo U. Segre
done that, no difference. The debconf manual states that when you run dpkg-reconfigure debconf, it will always ask the questions. This is abnormal behavior... Thanks Carlo On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Narins, Josh wrote: > Sounds like your debconf priority got set to "critical" ? > > Try > > dpkg-re

Re: [OT] How fast are scanners nowadays?

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 06:44:03AM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > Sorry for this grossly OT post. I'd like to scan a whole lot of > documents and run them through OCR. Last time I checked scanning a > page of text took something like two minutes. This is way to slow for > my purposes. I'd need somethi

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 03:07:59PM -0600, DvB wrote: > I've never done this, but I've seen it done (with me own eyes! :-) I > don't think it worked as well as the native Linux browsers and probably > would crash as soon as it started doing its Direct-X crap but, for your > purposes, it would probab

bogomips ?

2003-02-19 Thread Egor Tur
Hi. A little question: programme `linux_logo' show 1264.84 Bogomips Total on my system, but `bogomips' - 634.00 BogoMips. Why do these values be different? Thanx. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-19 Thread Dai Yuwen
sean finney wrote: > heya, i have it running fine, and i'm > > balthasar[~]00:13:09$ uname -a > Linux balthasar 2.4.19 #1 Sat Nov 16 15:49:07 EST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux > > but i believe i've had it working on 2.4.18 as well. i believe you > just need more modules installed. here's

Re: use of spamassassin and razor

2003-02-19 Thread Alex Polite
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 06:34:26PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > i have recently installed spamassassin and razor, hoping it will reduce > my spam burden. Don't bother with those tools. Spambayes[1], the new kid on the block, uses a statistical approach and is IMHO a lot better. alex Footno

Re: phoenix java plugin - installed, but not installed

2003-02-19 Thread CaT
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:45:38AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > what do i need to do to get java going? several sites seem to run > tickers etc using java. http://mozilla.weebeastie.net/ and change .mozilla to .phoenix (I think - don't use phoenix myself). -- "Other countries of course, bea

Re: Nvidia and X

2003-02-19 Thread Steve Webster
Jonah Sherman wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 07:33:33AM +, Steve Webster wrote: I compiled a new kernel, 2.4.18, for ACPI and nvidia drivers. All went well, eventually. After updating my XF86Config-4 I tried re-starting x-windows. All I got was a black screen, no flashes of color, nothin

[OT] How fast are scanners nowadays?

2003-02-19 Thread Alex Polite
Sorry for this grossly OT post. I'd like to scan a whole lot of documents and run them through OCR. Last time I checked scanning a page of text took something like two minutes. This is way to slow for my purposes. I'd need something that works with the speed of a photocopier. An alternative would b

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-19 Thread sean finney
heya, i have it running fine, and i'm balthasar[~]00:13:09$ uname -a Linux balthasar 2.4.19 #1 Sat Nov 16 15:49:07 EST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux but i believe i've had it working on 2.4.18 as well. i believe you just need more modules installed. here's an edited output of my lsmod, ma

phoenix java plugin - installed, but not installed

2003-02-19 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all i recently downloaded phoenix tar ball (binary files) and expanded it in my home directory. so, now there is /home/sandip/phoenix/phoenix executable. and it runs fast. when i visited some sites that needed java plugin, i installed it from the dialogue box that came up. it showed instal

Re: packages with configuration prompt twice

2003-02-19 Thread Daniel B.
Joey Hess wrote: > > Daniel B. wrote: > > * debconf/showold: true > > This is your problem. You should dpkg-reconfigure debconf and turn it > off. (or 'echo set debconf/showold false | debconf-communicate') Are you sure? When I run "dpkg-reconfigure debconf", the third menu screen says: Deb

Re: Emacs and shell display

2003-02-19 Thread Nick Willson
On 2003-02-19 21:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> When I run a shell in emacs shell > >> > >> I get this garbled output... > >> > >> [mbfurry@EULER:~$ lss > > > > If this only occurred for ls, I'd suggest telling us what "lss" i

Re: Replicating a system... sort of

2003-02-19 Thread nate
Paul M Foster said: > I'm attempting to set up a replacement system for the one on my desk. > (When done, I'll swap them out.) This gets awfully tedious when I have to > pick every package in dselect. My current desktop is a Woody, but the > system I'm setting up is testing. > > I have a list of pa

Re: How to duplicate a CD?

2003-02-19 Thread Sharninder
> I posted this a few months agoa, and got an answer involving > cdparnoia, and cdrecord. But I sem to have lost the emails, and I > can't seem to get the mailing list archive search engine to find > it :-( > read from /dev/cdrom and pipe the output to mkisofs ... or use cdparania to create wav f

USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-19 Thread Dai Yuwen
Hi, All I've a 64M USB flash disk. I searched the internet, and did the following steps: 1. plug USB disk into my PC 2. modprobe sg usb-storage Then I tried to mount it: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt But a messages said `/dev/sda1 is not a valid block device'. Then I checked this file: 3. cat /pro

Re: Debian on an iMac

2003-02-19 Thread Jeff Elkins
I found the ports page and that led me to lots and lots of info. If anyone has some experience with gotchas, I'd appreciate hearing them. Jeff On Wednesday 19 February 2003 5:13 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: >Next week I'll be picking up a iMac/DVD-RAM/256Mb/20GbHD on which I'd like > to install Debia

Replicating a system... sort of

2003-02-19 Thread Paul M Foster
I'm attempting to set up a replacement system for the one on my desk. (When done, I'll swap them out.) This gets awfully tedious when I have to pick every package in dselect. My current desktop is a Woody, but the system I'm setting up is testing. I have a list of packages that I put on every syst

Re: ppp server for debian

2003-02-19 Thread nate
shr-heng said: > hi. > excuse me , if i want to set " ppp server " in the debian system, > where i can get the "ppp server" software. I use portslave.. it's a PPP server with radius support. works well. another option is to use mgetty. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ppp server for debian

2003-02-19 Thread Jason Clarke
I used this for my dial in server. http://www.swcp.com/~jgentry/ J - Original Message - From: shr-heng To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:57 PM Subject: ppp server for debian hi. excuse me , if i want to set " ppp server " in the debian system, where i can get

Re: Explorer-type file manager

2003-02-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 04:45:04AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:57:09AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > However, applications built for either desktop environment can > > *typically* be run without *running* the desktop environment -- it just > > means you have

Re: ppp server for debian

2003-02-19 Thread Russell Shaw
shr-heng wrote: > hi. > excuse me , if i want to set " ppp server " in the debian system, > where i can get the "ppp server" software. apt-cache search ppp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Group ID

2003-02-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael Wardle wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2003 08:14, Russell Shaw wrote: I set them all to my own user:group, but mozilla seems to have some 'stuck' settings. I found a useful command is: ps -eo pid,user,euser,fuser,group,egroup,fgroup,cmd Ah! So you're trying to set the correct

Debian on an iMac

2003-02-19 Thread Jeff Elkins
Next week I'll be picking up a iMac/DVD-RAM/256Mb/20GbHD on which I'd like to install Debian Sid to dual-boot with OS 9x. If at all possible, I'd prefer a minimal install that I can enhance with apt-get/dselect, etc. A network install is fine too, since this box will be connected to a fast DSL

unsubscribe

2003-02-19 Thread wjyyoon
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Re: Safety of Upgrading Unstable

2003-02-19 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Nelson wrote: > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I've been following debian-devel and debian-user looking for > >> problems people have had with upgrading unstable and haven't seen that > >> many (a few regarding kde / libfam issues). > > > > This is probably the best way to f

ppp server for debian

2003-02-19 Thread shr-heng
hi.     excuse me , if i want to set " ppp server " in the debian system, where i can get the "ppp server" software. thanks   dale

How to duplicate a CD?

2003-02-19 Thread stan
I posted this a few months agoa, and got an answer involving cdparnoia, and cdrecord. But I sem to have lost the emails, and I can't seem to get the mailing list archive search engine to find it :-( So, how can I duplicat an audio CD? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary

Re: Issue mounting NFS directory

2003-02-19 Thread Ian Melnick
There could be a better way of doing this, but what seems to work is just stopping the nfs-kernel-server service, moving all files in /var/lib/nfs/ to a different directory, touching rmtab and restarting nfs-kernel-server. exportfs -a and restart the autofs service on the client. -- To UNSUBSCRI

I can't run vertex0.1.10-1

2003-02-19 Thread 江世楨
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Re: Mozilla & Adobe's SVG viewer

2003-02-19 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 07:46:54PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Last I knew, the Adobe plugin was only for Windows and only worked with > MS IE. Has that changed? There is one for Linux (the libs' extension is .so). I think it is supposed to be working; question is, on what Mozilla? Oki --

Re: Mozilla & Adobe's SVG viewer

2003-02-19 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:47:12AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I downloaded the Adobe SVG viewer plugin. Currently, I'm using > Sid's Mozilla snapshot. The plugin doesn't work. Question is: is it > really not working for mozilla-snapshot? I'm just want to make sure. Last I knew, th

Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...

2003-02-19 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:08:07PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > On February 19, 2003 12:22 pm, DvB wrote: > > I usually set up cron jobs to remind me of recurring things (man > > crontab). This, of course, only works if the computer is turned on when > > the reminder time comes around, but you just

Re: Emacs and shell display

2003-02-19 Thread fbrian
> On Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> When I run a shell in emacs shell >> >> I get this garbled output... >> >> [mbfurry@EULER:~$ lss > > If this only occurred for ls, I'd suggest telling us what "lss" is an > alias for, however control characters (as shown by the

Re: Emacs and shell display

2003-02-19 Thread fbrian
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 08:30:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> When I run a shell in emacs shell >> >> I get this garbled output... >> >> [mbfurry@EULER:~$ lss >> [0m [01;34mDocuments [0m [0mRMAIL [0m[0merrors [0m > > > Don't use colors in your prompt or with ls. Alternatively: us

Re: File systems -- reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-19 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Daniel B. said... > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > ...(see this page, > > http://www.zip.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html, for full info), etc, > > ... > > Is anyone else having trouble accessing that page (unknown host)? The host should be www.zip.com.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: how to reject all connections? [was: Re: IP's]

2003-02-19 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
>> If you needed to specify the network address of all hosts, it would take >> the form 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0, which I believe can be written as 0.0.0.0/0 for >> short (please confirm this before using it). > > Yes, that sounds right. ipchains also accepts 0/0. I haven't used iptables, but I assume it

Re: new kernel, new problems

2003-02-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Simon Tod wrote: Thanks. Got the cpu speed bit solved. Looking through the PCMCIA HowTo I've checked to see that /etc/pcmica/config, /etc/default/pcmcia and /etc/init.d/pcmica are the same under both kernels. My new kernel is missing the line serial_cs 4384 0 (unused) from ls

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Leo Spalteholz wrote: On February 19, 2003 02:39 pm, Daniel B. wrote: Levi Waldron wrote: On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... Are you using DMA? ... I didn't do anything outside of a normal stock installation to turn DMA support on or off. The

Re: Group ID

2003-02-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael Wardle wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2003 08:14, Russell Shaw wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:04:25AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: If i had to regenerate a config file that a program uses, is it possible to detect what GID the program uses if it is se

Re: svg to eps

2003-02-19 Thread Oki DZ
Sorry, Squiggle has a print menu that, naturally, can print the displayed image to a ps file. Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mozilla & Adobe's SVG viewer

2003-02-19 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Yesterday I downloaded the Adobe SVG viewer plugin. Currently, I'm using Sid's Mozilla snapshot. The plugin doesn't work. Question is: is it really not working for mozilla-snapshot? I'm just want to make sure. Thanks in advance, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: [HELP] keyboard dont work with netbeans

2003-02-19 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi, Some java Runtime's have a problem with the numlock key being on - try switching that off. HTH, Shri On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 15:07, Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote: > I installed netbeans, and other softwares that use netbeans as their basis > (sun one studio, forte for java) and all of it kills

svg to eps

2003-02-19 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'd like to insert svg images into a LaTeX document. Currently, I use Squiggle to export the images into jpeg files. By jpegtopnm test.jpeg | pnmtops -rle -dpi 300 > test.eps, I can get the eps file. Unfortunately, the process loses the 'vectorish' information; meaning, the resulting images ca

Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...

2003-02-19 Thread Jason Bleazard
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:22:12 DvB wrote: I usually set up cron jobs to remind me of recurring things (man crontab). This, of course, only works if the computer is turned on when the reminder time comes around, but you just mentioned "being logged on." Or you could have it send you an e-mail. -

unusual log entry(0.0.0.0 connecting to me?)

2003-02-19 Thread nate
saw this in my log report this morning... Feb 19 02:55:28 penguin postfix/smtp[9542]: warning: host blackhole.go-fishing.co.uk[0.0.0.0] greeted me with my own hostname penguin.linuxpowered.net Feb 19 02:55:28 penguin postfix/smtp[9542]: warning: host blackhole.go-fishing.co.uk[0.0.0.0] replied to

Issue mounting NFS directory

2003-02-19 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello, all I have a couple of computers linked through NIS/NFS, using the automounter for mounting home directories. The power failed this afternoon, but all the computers are fine except for one. One computer cannot properly mount the exported home directories. The automounter does not error, how

Re: File systems -- reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-19 Thread Jorge Santos
Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Daniel B. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030218 21:25]: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > ... > > > My pick of ext3 was the fact that all the tools that work with ext2 > > > work just as readily with ext3. I was also able to convert within a > > > few minutes from

Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...

2003-02-19 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Dave Selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030220 08:52]: > I need an application to remind me when certain events are due, ie wifes > birthday etc !!, > > I have tried korganiser, which has an alarm facility to flash a warning on > the screen. This is AOK if the system is up and I am logged on as

Re:Problem with X86Config

2003-02-19 Thread intrance
First of all you have to load every time you boot the module of nvidia.If you don't want to do this every time you write the name of the module in the /etc/modules.After you install the nvidia_kernel and the nvidia_GLX the system does load this modules every time you boot. Second you must find

Re: cdrecord image

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Wardle
On Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:07, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > In order to write files to a burner I issue the following command: > mkisofs -R -J /directory/with/files | cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -v - > > However, I can't figure out how to issue the command to write an *iso > image to a writable CD. Can an

Re: cdrecord image

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:07:47PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > In order to write files to a burner I issue the following command: > mkisofs -R -J /directory/with/files | cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -v - > > However, I can't figure out how to issue the command to write an *iso > image to a writable CD.

Re: pcmcia + apm = no suspend

2003-02-19 Thread Tom Allison
nate wrote: Tom Allison said: I have an IBM A21m, if it matters. I have a thinkpad T20, and suspend works fine on it with both network and power connected. Not sure how your trying to suspend(I haven't read the thread), but what I do is su to root and issue a apm -s I use the buttons. B

OpenOffice - critical crash

2003-02-19 Thread Tom Allison
I just ran into a problem with a file on my disk. I was writing it up from scratch, but now if I try to open it, X-Server crashes and I have to login again. I didn't think such problems were possible. Has anyone else seen this? Any suggestions on what to do? I can open it one another machine,

mutt compressed folders support ???

2003-02-19 Thread Michael D. Schleif
[1] Is mutt in stable (v1.4i) ``compiled with compressed folders support (by running the configure script with the --enable-compressed flag)''? [2] How does this work? I see these: open-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -cd %f > %t" close-hook \\.gz$ "gzip -c %t > %f" append-hook \\.gz$

Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...

2003-02-19 Thread DvB
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on Wed, 19 Feb 2003 02:36:29PM -0600, DvB insinuated: > > 0 12 */1 * * if [ birthday ]; then birthday | mutt -i - -s > birthday > > so if there's any output from the birthday program, it will be sent to > you every day at high noon. > That might ac

Re: *tex: personal ls-R being owned by root

2003-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 07:44:20PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > What disturbs me is that > > fishbowl:~> ls -l ~/etc/texmf/ls-R > -rw---1 root root 1147 2003-02-09 23:25 ls-R > > it is owned by root:root. What the heck? What's root doing in my > homedirectory? root should h

Re: nparted? gzigzag?

2003-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:27:50PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > what happened to those two packages? http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt is always the first point of reference here: NB: The 'Reason' is an abbreviation, check any referenced bugs for more details. Keys: o ROM == R

Re: Can't launch Tuxracer since dist-upgrade a while back

2003-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:16:57AM -0800, nate wrote: > try doin a > > dpkg -L tuxracer > > (or whatever the package name is) > > to see where the file(s) may be located at, odd that it wouldn't be in > the PATH though. Games are often in /usr/games, including tuxracer (for the last two and a h

Mozilla and Enigmail

2003-02-19 Thread will
Has anyone had success with getting enigmail (enigmail.mozdev.org) and mozilla working? I have had enigmail working on RedHat and Mandrake fairly successfully (ie. stable) but whenever I try to decrypt a message using the enigmail/mozilla, mozilla exists with no error messages. This is a pain.

Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...

2003-02-19 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:30:55PM +, Dave Selby wrote: > I need an application to remind me when certain events are due, ie wifes > birthday etc !!, > > I have tried korganiser, which has an alarm facility to flash a warning on > the screen. This is AOK if the system is up and I am logged on

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-19 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On February 19, 2003 02:39 pm, Daniel B. wrote: > Levi Waldron wrote: > > On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > >... > > > Are you using DMA? > > > > ... I didn't do anything outside of a > > normal stock installation to turn DMA support on or off. > > The Linux kernel and some

cdrecord image

2003-02-19 Thread Curtis Vaughan
In order to write files to a burner I issue the following command: mkisofs -R -J /directory/with/files | cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -v - However, I can't figure out how to issue the command to write an *iso image to a writable CD. Can anyone help me? Curtis Vaughan North Pacific Corporation Tel: (425)

Re: packages with configuration prompt twice

2003-02-19 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel B. wrote: > * debconf/showold: true This is your problem. You should dpkg-reconfigure debconf and turn it off. (or 'echo set debconf/showold false | debconf-communicate') -- see shy jo msg31757/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: new kernel, new problems

2003-02-19 Thread Simon Tod
Thanks. Got the cpu speed bit solved. Looking through the PCMCIA HowTo I've checked to see that /etc/pcmica/config, /etc/default/pcmcia and /etc/init.d/pcmica are the same under both kernels. My new kernel is missing the line serial_cs 4384 0 (unused) from lsmod. Under the ker

Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...

2003-02-19 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 19 Feb 2003 02:36:29PM -0600, DvB insinuated: > Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On February 19, 2003 12:22 pm, DvB wrote: [...] > > I like the sounds of the birthday app! > > Problem with the birthday app (for me, anyway) is that it only > appears to give reminders when you lo

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-19 Thread Daniel B.
Levi Waldron wrote: > > On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote: > >... > > Are you using DMA? > > ... I didn't do anything outside of a > normal stock installation to turn DMA support on or off. The Linux kernel and some IDE controllers don't work together, and can cause several f

Re: Group ID

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Wardle
On Thursday, February 20, 2003 08:14, Russell Shaw wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:04:25AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: > >>If i had to regenerate a config file that a program uses, is it > >> possible to detect what GID the program uses if it is set from > >> within the pr

Re: Wierd XEmacs problem.

2003-02-19 Thread Alan Shutko
Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a problem here, on X Window C-/ works just fine as undo, but in > the console it just inserts an /, the funny thing is this, when I type > C-h k C-/ I get: I have a feeling that C-/ can't be represented in ASCII... anyone remember the rules, offha

Re: packages with configuration prompt twice

2003-02-19 Thread Daniel B.
Joey Hess wrote: > > Daniel B. wrote: > > All. (Everything that I've installed recently and that has interactive > > configuration has prompted twice.) > > What does 'debconf-show debconf' say? # debconf-show debconf * debconf/priority: low * debconf/frontend: Dialog * debconf/showold: true #

Re: mailman permissions weirdness.

2003-02-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.19.1850 +0100]: > Yep, you're exactly right. IIRC, all of the CGI binaries in > /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin are 2755 root:list. wow, so they are... thanks, that clears it all up. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .'

nparted? gzigzag?

2003-02-19 Thread martin f krafft
what happened to those two packages? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The pgp.net ke

Re: LPI Certification (revisited)

2003-02-19 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi, Hi I just took part one (101) out of curiosity when they gave the exam for free at the recent linux world. Part one isn't good for anything by itself, you need to complete one + two for the basic level of certification, but I'm still pretty much a newbie in a lot o

Wierd readline/inputrc problem.

2003-02-19 Thread Jorge Santos
I have a problem with programs that use libreadline, the thing is I want to bind C-/ to undo, as in XEmacs, so I created the following .inputrc in my home: # This file controls the behaviour of line input editing for # programs that use the GNU Readline library. Existing # programs include FTP, B

Wierd XEmacs problem.

2003-02-19 Thread Jorge Santos
I have a problem here, on X Window C-/ works just fine as undo, but in the console it just inserts an /, the funny thing is this, when I type C-h k C-/ I get: / runs `self-insert-command'

Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...

2003-02-19 Thread DvB
Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On February 19, 2003 12:22 pm, DvB wrote: > > I usually set up cron jobs to remind me of recurring things (man > > crontab). This, of course, only works if the computer is turned on when > > the reminder time comes around, but you just mentioned "being lo

Re: Problem with X86Config

2003-02-19 Thread Kent West
Cory Pender wrote: I've been trying to get into xstart I assume you mean "startx". for the past 2 days now, but when I go in the X86Config Log is telling me I have problems with the resolution telling me that I have insuffiencent memory. I edited XF86Config in /etc/X11 Rather than editin

Re: Safety of Upgrading Unstable

2003-02-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 10:56 PM 2/18/2003 -0500, Mark wrote: >> I installed unstable about a month ago and have had nothing but good >> times. I've been following debian-devel and debian-user looking for >> problems people have had with upgrading unstable and haven't seen

Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...

2003-02-19 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 19, 2003 12:22 pm, DvB wrote: > I usually set up cron jobs to remind me of recurring things (man > crontab). This, of course, only works if the computer is turned on when > the reminder time comes around, but you just mentioned "being logged > on." apt-get install anachron the anachro

Re: Best WWW browser..

2003-02-19 Thread p
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:00:32AM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > > Hi Yall & Kevin, > > I am on Netscape 7.0.1 & like it very much. > > There is no .deb file, but the installer rocks. > > >ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape7/english/7.01/unix/linux22/sea/netscape-i686-pc-linux-gn

Re: Safety of Upgrading Unstable

2003-02-19 Thread Brian Nelson
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've been following debian-devel and debian-user looking for >> problems people have had with upgrading unstable and haven't seen that >> many (a few regarding kde / libfam issues). > > This is probably the best way to find out if something is broken in

Re: Where does "dpkg -l" reads package info?

2003-02-19 Thread Travis Crump
David Z Maze wrote: "Yildiz, Murat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: and run apt-setup and let read all 8 cd's but it seems it doesn't write available and status files again. The canonical way to do this is to run 'apt-get update', hit 'u' in aptitude, or select "update" from dselect's main menu.

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 06:38, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:07:35PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > } With the correct patch, yes? Without the patch pointed to here, VMware > > } refuses to recompile its modules. > > > > Er, no. I am running VMWare 3.2, unpatched, on a 2.4.20 k

Re: Explorer-type file manager

2003-02-19 Thread Geordie Birch
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:57:09 -0500 Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > like Phoenix and Skipstone (which utilize GTK+). But I have yet to > utilize a good *graphical* file manager that didn't come with a DE; for > the most part, I've been doing without one, but I can also see your

Re: postfix problem

2003-02-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:02:05PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:26:04PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:07:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > To me, your description sounds as if the problem is with the editor > > > (perhaps nvi), not postfix

Re: Best WWW browser..

2003-02-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:10:14AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable (woody) and am currently using Galon for > web-surfing. However, it seems to break on some sites - they seem to be > moaning about Frames support mostly. Shouldn't happen. Ch

Re: Can't launch Tuxracer since dist-upgrade a while back

2003-02-19 Thread nate
David Bruce said: > I've been happily running Sid on two desktops for over a year. I recently > dist-upgraded my home machine when KDE 3.1 started filtering into stable. > I didn't remove KDE 2.2 beforehand, if it matters. After the upgrade, > KDE seems to be fine (lost KMail like everyone el

Re: XFree 4.2.1-5 ATI Rage 128 missing symbols

2003-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 06:58:49PM +0100, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > Quoting Jean-Marc Liotier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Now my question : when will a version of XFree equal or posterior to > > 4.2.1-11 hit Sid ? Is there somewhere I can find it even before ? > > I tried to have a look in incoming

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