Re: OT: Fees for the mailing list

2003-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:57:36PM -0500, Kevin McKinley wrote: > I thought you were pulling my leg. > > Somehow I doubt SPI is seeing very many contributions. Well, if someone at SPI took the time to track back the emails and bill the ISPs, they mig

crecord and speed

2003-04-04 Thread chris1622
Hello I've just installed a Plextor PlexWriter (48/24/48) in my old pc with Debian Woody r0, but I can't write. This is how it goes: cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 /root/image.iso Won't work since it gets a loss of streaming, I'm guessing this means that my old (200MHZ) pc can't handle the 24x speed t

Re: Cups problem

2003-04-04 Thread Andy Hurt
Jens wrote: On April 4, 2003 07:24 pm, Andy Hurt wrote: Questions: I am runnning 'unstable' - is there anything printing related that is broken ? Is there anything real obvious here that I am forgetting to do ? I did try all kinds of google searches but haven't come up with anything useful there

Re: What release do I have now?

2003-04-04 Thread nate
Jerry said: > So, I have to do a "apt-get upgrade" to move up to each new release? apt-get update then apt-get upgrade for each minor release(r0, r1, r2..etc) apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade for major releases(2.2->3.0, etc) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: mozilla, utf-8, and Japanese fonts

2003-04-04 Thread Rex Tsai
Stephan Seitz wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using a self compiled mozilla (1.3-3) with mozilla-xft. > > I noticed that some pages with utf-8 and Japanese characters don't > display correctly. Have a look at > http://fsing.fs.uni-sb.de/~stse/manga.html > > I see missing kanji and kana. I can do a copy and

Re: stopping attached files with sendmail

2003-04-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi listas On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > On Fri, 04 Apr 2003, Listas wrote: > > > Anyone here knows how I can stop attached files on email with sendmail? > > if you want to drop mime attachments.. you have several options http://www.linux-sec.net/Mail/AntiVirus/#MIME fo

apt-show-versions Question

2003-04-04 Thread Stephen Hargrove
Based on a recent thread on this list, I've constructed the following bash script: #!/bin/sh # /etc/cron.daily/apt-show-versions: email alerts when new packages # are available # # 2003-03-10, Shaun Crossley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/apt-show-versions -u | /usr/bin/mail -e -s

Re: stopping attached files with sendmail

2003-04-04 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003, Listas wrote: > Anyone here knows how I can stop attached files on email with sendmail? > What do you mean?: stop receiving email with attachments stop sending email with attachments Where do you want this action to take place (only local, ...) One possibility would be to l

Re: Cups problem

2003-04-04 Thread Andy Hurt
Kevin McKinley wrote: On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 22:24:49 -0500 Andy Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I run unstable. I can print like crazy from every program/ console--only the test page won't print [from CUPS Adm]. This is a new dimension. I've heard of people being able to print a test page but nothin

Re: OT: Use of variables in HTML

2003-04-04 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 22:24, Kent West wrote: > Is there a way to use straight HTML or CSS (no perl, php, javascript, > cgi) to create a web page that has variables in it, like so: sort of. you can't substitute straight text, to the best of my knowledge, but you can do images. i'm not sure if thi

Bogofilter configuration

2003-04-04 Thread Kevin McKinley
Until now I've been wearing out the delete key going through my inbox. I finally decided to do something about it, and installed bogofilter. When I looked at /etc/bogofilter.cf, I noticed that every line is commented out. Is this a workable configuration? If not, would someone be willing to reco

Re: OT: Fees for the mailing list

2003-04-04 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:20:01 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, we charge US$1,000 for ads. > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#ads I thought you were pulling my leg. Somehow I doubt SPI is seeing very many contributions. Too bad. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

test

2003-04-04 Thread lucas
testing, 1..,2..,3 Sorry about this, my emails dont seam to be making it on to the list. -- lucas$(lucas at webone.com.au) "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Office soulution

2003-04-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
www.openoffice.org works great. apt-get install ooqstart-gnome <= quick starter from sarge doesnt look like there is a package to install openoffice directly This site lists 7 mirrors for all three current distros (woody, sarge, sid). http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/mirrors.html I pe

Re: Office soulution

2003-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 01:53:33AM +, Jimmy wrote: > whats a good office program, mainly one i can get though > apt-get, i like koffice but i will not let me install it. It needs > to be able to read xls files. openoffice.org and koffice should

Re: test

2003-04-04 Thread lucas
this is just a test too... __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com -- lucas$([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Experience is something you don't get until just after y

OT: Fees for the mailing list

2003-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:40:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since we don't charge for advice here, so you don't need to worry about > money. :) Well, we charge US$1,000 for ads. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#ads I think a similar polic

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:25:04AM -0500, alex wrote: > If you had prior knowledge of the > configuration decisions you must make, wouldn't this improve your chances > at doing it right? But you do! In nine different languages, even! http://www.debi

Re: Why am I no longer receiving the digest?

2003-04-04 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 10:29:31AM +1000, Chris Kenrick wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:41:46PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > Is there some problem with the list servers at the moment? I haven't > > received a debian-user-digest since March 31st. Yet on visiting > > lists.debian.org I see there's be

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-04-04 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 01:26:17PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 12:10, alex wrote: > > > Is that the way it is supposed to be? If it is too easy to install, the system > > can't be much good, right? > > <:-)> > Right on! None of this sissy GUI stuff for me! > > I want a

Re: What release do I have now?

2003-04-04 Thread nate
Jerry said: > Hello, > > I installed Woody, release 3.0r0 from a cd set that I purchased. Then I > installed all of the security updates from: > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free > > So, do I now have release 3.0r1? > > If so, how do I get my Debian to tell me w

Re: Cups problem

2003-04-04 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 22:24:49 -0500 Andy Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Egads--I'm not the only one! > > I have a HP 5L-Parallel, and run unstable. I can print like crazy from > every program/console--it's only the test page that won't print. When I > try to > -- snip -- I've gone to so ma

EMU10K1 OSS Driver problem

2003-04-04 Thread Terry Milnes
Here is my dilemma. I had the EMU10K1 driver working fine until I upgraded to KDE 3.1.1 from Ralf Nolden's repository. Now I get a aRtsMessage that states CPU overload. I have seen a post about normal users not having access to the mixer device.  However, I have tried as root and it still do

Re: PPPOE / ADSL fails

2003-04-04 Thread Andy Hurt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04 Apr 2003 12:04:18 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian P. Flaherty) wrote: Both of you should try adsl-start as an alternative. I had been using pppd at boot-time to get my DSL connection up and it has worked for months. However, about a week ago, it stopped working. I f

What release do I have now?

2003-04-04 Thread Jerry
Hello, I installed Woody, release 3.0r0 from a cd set that I purchased. Then I installed all of the security updates from: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free So, do I now have release 3.0r1? If so, how do I get my Debian to tell me what version it is? -- de

Re: Cups problem

2003-04-04 Thread Andy Hurt
Jens wrote: I am having problems with cups on a system I recently set up. I loaded (apt-get install) cupsys and gs-esp is also loaded. I can open the admin page at http://localhost:631, I can add printers, I can see the cues but any test pages are instantly cancelled. Looking at the erro_log fil

TV Card Needs PowerCycling Occassionally

2003-04-04 Thread Kent West
I have an ATI Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x 4MB All-in-Wonder TV/Video card. For the most part it does fine, but every so often the picture on all the channels and the video input will go snowy; it's almost like in the old days on the manual tuner TVs, when you were trying to watch channel 11 but you wer

OT: Use of variables in HTML

2003-04-04 Thread Kent West
Sorry for being so very Off-Topic, but you folks know _everything_ . . . . :-) Is there a way to use straight HTML or CSS (no perl, php, javascript, cgi) to create a web page that has variables in it, like so: Today's winner is ! Congratulations, ! Sorry, . and then have a separat

Re: Office soulution

2003-04-04 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
www.openoffice.org works great. apt-get install ooqstart-gnome <= quick starter from sarge doesnt look like there is a package to install openoffice directly Jimmy wrote: hey, whats a good office program, mainly one i can get though apt-get, i like koffice but i will not let me install it.

Office soulution

2003-04-04 Thread Jimmy
hey, whats a good office program, mainly one i can get though apt-get, i like koffice but i will not let me install it. It needs to be able to read xls files. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Run a premade script before init and inittab

2003-04-04 Thread Kris
I am trying to make a file system boot completely read-only on the hard drive but have a ramdrive load the / to do this I have a custom scipt that must execute before INIT is this possible and where can I place my custom script to make sure this gets done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Linux gateway + DHCP server setup?

2003-04-04 Thread Subba Rao
On 0, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subba Rao, 2003-Apr-02 18:43 -0500: > > > > Hi, > > > > My system is running Debian 3.0 (Woody) Linux. > > > > I use this Linux system as the gateway for my home LAN. It has 2 interfaces > > eth0 and eth1. > > eth0 - Uses DHCP to connect to the ISP >

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

2003-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 04:20:42AM +1000, bob parker wrote: > The point is that cdrdao requires root priveledge to run, period No, I meant I don't understand why someone would protect cdrao with sudo... - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Speedstream 3060 adsl modem & Tux?

2003-04-04 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi yall, has anyone hereabouts gotten one of these beasties to work with Debian Tux? Efficient networks have Doze drivers up, but nothing for Tuxians Not that Efficient after all ;-) It is most excellent to be online @ speed, but I wanna my Tuxa! Much Googling, has me vexed about this h

Re: THANKS

2003-04-04 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 09:13:16AM +1000, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > G'day All, > A very special THANKS to all those who've helped me get started with > debian. Unfortunately I don't have the time to cope with the quantity of > mail on this list so I'm off to find a quieter one. Thanks again, Glad y

Re: packages.qa.debian.org

2003-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:14:21PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > Where can I find the code used for packages.qa.debian.org? Using CVS: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/qa login [blank password] cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/qa co pts Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Courier, which package to install

2003-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 06:18:23PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:14:08PM +1000, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > > btw, where can I learn more about debconf as there doesn't seem to be a > > man. > > Hmm. I seem to have one: > DEBCONF(8) > debconf - Debian package configuration

Re: Why am I no longer receiving the digest?

2003-04-04 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:41:46PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > Is there some problem with the list servers at the moment? I haven't > received a debian-user-digest since March 31st. Yet on visiting > lists.debian.org I see there's been plenty of traffic. Has anybody > else not received the digest? I'm

Re: Courier, which package to install

2003-04-04 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:14:08PM +1000, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > G'day all, > I want to install Courier mailserver for POP and IMAP behind an already > installed and configured Postfix. Do I apt-get install just courier-imap > and courier-pop or should I install the lot somehow as I want the man

THANKS

2003-04-04 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day All, A very special THANKS to all those who've helped me get started with debian. Unfortunately I don't have the time to cope with the quantity of mail on this list so I'm off to find a quieter one. Thanks again, Lindsay --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus sys

Re: LM-Sensors on an ASUS P4B533

2003-04-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Once you've scoped out the lm-sensors situation, go here for hints on > building that kernel with kernel-package: > > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html > > Kevin I eventally got bored enough to test out what a make-kpkg would do,

Re: LM-Sensors on an ASUS P4B533

2003-04-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Troy Arnold wrote: > > Two: > > > > Is this ASUS P4B533 supported by the i2c/lmsensors found in Sid? > > As the README says, lm-sensors doesn't support /motherboards/, it supports > /chips/. To find out for sure you'd need to look in your motherboard Doh, wrong semantics on m

Re: LM-Sensors on an ASUS P4B533

2003-04-04 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:21:15 -0500 (EST) Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked for various howto's, but they all assume you're running prebuilt > kernels, unfortunately. Once you've scoped out the lm-sensors situation, go here for hints on building that kernel with kernel-package: ht

Re: bash question: reporting a variable named within a variable

2003-04-04 Thread Rob Sims
On Thursday 03 April 2003 08:01 pm, Bob Proulx wrote: > Craig Dickson wrote: > > echo $var=$(eval echo \$$var) > > That works. Personally I prefer to eval the entire line. This way > you only use one layer of processing rather than the two in the above. > > for var in FOO BLAH ; do >

Re: create an image of a partition

2003-04-04 Thread Scott Henson
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 15:50, Rob Benton wrote: > On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 14:21, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030403 15:47 PST]: > > > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:25:47 +0200 > > > Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Does somebody know a better way to

Re: Why des the x window system pacjage depend on xdm?

2003-04-04 Thread Troy Arnold
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:00:39PM -0500, stan wrote: > I'm installing on a sysem with a relativly small hard disk, so I'm trying > to avoid as many unecessary packages as posible. > > I'm using gdm for my display maanger, and I went to dlete xdm in dselect, > and it toldthe that the "x-window-sys

Re: create an image of a partition

2003-04-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030404 12:51 PST]: > On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 14:21, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030403 15:47 PST]: > > > How about tar-ing up the whole partition. I don't know how much space > > &g

Re: gnome2.2.1 for woody in cd...

2003-04-04 Thread Mohammed Sameer
Once upon a time Marcelo Chiapparini wrote @ Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:24:41 -0300 > Hi! > > I am running woody at work and at home, and I want to install the > Jamie Strandboge's backport of gnome2.2.1. At home I have a slow > internet connection, but at work the connection is better. I want to > c

Re: Why des the x window system pacjage depend on xdm?

2003-04-04 Thread Craig Dickson
stan wrote: > I'm installing on a sysem with a relativly small hard disk, so I'm trying > to avoid as many unecessary packages as posible. > > I'm using gdm for my display maanger, and I went to dlete xdm in dselect, > and it toldthe that the "x-window-system" package depended on it. I can see >

Re: LM-Sensors on an ASUS P4B533

2003-04-04 Thread David Z Maze
Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How are you supposed to install the lm-sensors-source when you compile > your own kernels. the resulting file from make-kpkg modules_install > depends on kernel-image-2.4.20. I just --force-depends'd it in, I assume > that's not the proper way. This wo

Re: LM-Sensors on an ASUS P4B533

2003-04-04 Thread Troy Arnold
Interesting... I just battled lm-sensors last night. :) On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:21:15PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > Two questions: > > One: > > How are you supposed to install the lm-sensors-source when you compile > your own kernels. the resulting file from make-kpkg modules_install > depe

Re: aquirrellmail usser autheintication

2003-04-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030404 13:09 PST]: > I just set up a machine for a mail server. I tested it as me, and added > some other users, using adduser. Now I can authticate using my user name, > and password, but the others can't. > > Where should I start checking

Re: Why des the x window system pacjage depend on xdm?

2003-04-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030404 13:02 PST]: > I'm installing on a sysem with a relativly small hard disk, so I'm trying > to avoid as many unecessary packages as posible. > > I'm using gdm for my display maanger, and I went to dlete xdm in dselect, > and

Re: Why des the x window system pacjage depend on xdm?

2003-04-04 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:00:39PM -0500, stan wrote: > I'm using gdm for my display maanger, and I went to dlete xdm in dselect, > and it toldthe that the "x-window-system" package depended on it. I can see > "recomends", but depends? So remove x-window-system, what's the problem? It's not that y

Re: Why des the x window system pacjage depend on xdm?

2003-04-04 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 April 2003 12:00 pm, stan wrote: > I'm installing on a sysem with a relativly small hard disk, so I'm trying > to avoid as many unecessary packages as posible. > > I'm using gdm for my display maanger, and I went to dlete xdm in dselect, >

Re: disable one users email?

2003-04-04 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 22:05, Talon wrote: > Quoting Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > You'll have to read the exim.conf documentation to find out how to > > customize the TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION section and customize the > > local_delivery transport. > > > > Note that these methods w

Re: resizing root partition

2003-04-04 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 04 April 2003, 10:21 PM +0200): > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:04:09PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > -- Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > find usr|cpio -pmd /mnt/newusr > > should be > > cd /usr > find . | cpio -pmd /m

Re: resizing root partition

2003-04-04 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 22:16:15 +0200 Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > >/dev/hdc1 * 1 5817 2931736+ 83 Linux > >/dev/hdc2 57921 581681249925 Extended > >/dev/hdc3 5818

Re: create an image of a partition

2003-04-04 Thread Rob Benton
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 14:21, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030403 15:47 PST]: > > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:25:47 +0200 > > Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Does somebody know a better way to create an image of a existing > > > partition? > > > > >

Re: create an image of a partition

2003-04-04 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 15:25, Roman Joost wrote: > Does somebody know a better way to create an image of a existing > partition? > > I know dd=/dev/hda1 of=windows_partition.img, but the image has a size > of 3 GB. I thought about backup a fresh win98 installation, so i can write > the image back

aquirrellmail usser autheintication

2003-04-04 Thread stan
I just set up a machine for a mail server. I tested it as me, and added some other users, using adduser. Now I can authticate using my user name, and password, but the others can't. Where should I start checking? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither

Why des the x window system pacjage depend on xdm?

2003-04-04 Thread stan
I'm installing on a sysem with a relativly small hard disk, so I'm trying to avoid as many unecessary packages as posible. I'm using gdm for my display maanger, and I went to dlete xdm in dselect, and it toldthe that the "x-window-system" package depended on it. I can see "recomends", but depends?

Re: mount & umount as ordinary user

2003-04-04 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 1:42 am, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time Lukas Ruf said... > > > * Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-02 18:33]: > > > * Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-02 18:28]: > > > > At 2003-04-02T13:30:54Z, Luka

Re: quick question about fvwm 2.4 screen shot

2003-04-04 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 14:14, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. forgive me for asking this, but I saw a > screen shot of fvwm and it had something running > in the lower left corner of the screen. I have > never seen it before and I was hoping someone > might be able to tell me what it is called. It > looks

Re: quick question about fvwm 2.4 screen shot

2003-04-04 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:14:05AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. forgive me for asking this, but I saw a > screen shot of fvwm and it had something running > in the lower left corner of the screen. I have > never seen it before and I was hoping someone > might be able to tell me what it is calle

Re: Sparc Ultra1 Debian 3.0, kernel 2.4.18 builtin lan card problem...

2003-04-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 06:20:33AM -0500, Michael Bevilacqua wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:23:38AM -0500, Greg Morgan wrote: > > Any ideas/thoughts on what's going on? Thanks in advance for any help. > > Does the Openboot screen initally display the hardware address? (mac > hex address) >

Re: resizing root partition

2003-04-04 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:04:09PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > find usr|cpio -pmd /mnt/newusr should be cd /usr find . | cpio -pmd /mnt/newusr or you will get /mnt/newusr/usr/ > What does this do? I've used find before, but I'm not fam

Re: create an image of a partition

2003-04-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030403 15:47 PST]: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:25:47 +0200 > Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does somebody know a better way to create an image of a existing > > partition? > > > > I know dd=/dev/hda1 of=windows_partition.img, but the image has

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-04-04 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 12:10, alex wrote: > Is that the way it is supposed to be? If it is too easy to install, the system > can't be much good, right? <:-)> Right on! None of this sissy GUI stuff for me! I want a *man's* distro: nothing but fdisk and tar and vi! -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROT

Re: resizing root partition

2003-04-04 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:00:03PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > fdisk shows the following info: > > Disk /dev/hdc: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 58168 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > >Device BootStart EndBlocks

packages.qa.debian.org

2003-04-04 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Where can I find the code used for packages.qa.debian.org? Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ip_tables newbie needs help [was "test - please ignore"

2003-04-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ernst-Magne Vindal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030403 02:54 PST]: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030402 09:21 PST]: > > > > > > Is there an easy way to change the rule so I can limit to e.g : > > > one host? > > > one net/subnet > > > or users?

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-04-04 Thread alex
Mr. Baldwin wrote: I think that what most people who clammer for a GUI installer really want is a more easy-to-accomplish installation, not necessarily a graphics-based installation. Of course, I could be wrong. YES That's me. I don't need an X based installer -- just one that can take some of

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-04 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"John" == John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Hmmm, just wrote a 1,600 article in emacs via ssh. John> I'm not using all the navigation aids very well yet but i John> can see where I'm going from here. Heh, hehI can just see you discovering emacsclient, and then

Re: What;s required to get squierrelmail working on Debian?

2003-04-04 Thread stan
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:35:52AM -0800, nate wrote: > stan said: > > > I'll worry about preformance, when I get it working :-) > > > > So, given that I've got the preequistes working, what should I check next? > > check the apache config, at the bottom it should have something > like > > inclu

Re: default run level

2003-04-04 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:26:58AM -0600, Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote: > All, > This is my mistake (as usual ;-). I did not provide enough > information in my post. I need to temporarily disable booting > into a graphical environment (i.e. X) so that I can install > the new Nvidia display driv

Re: Booting to console is a non-event 0r give me back CLI

2003-04-04 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 07:09:46AM +0100, andy denton wrote: > Hello, > > After adding some applications that use elements of > gnome, the boot now > starts xdm directly. Prior to changes the boot started > a console, when > needed the xdm gui could be started using Alt + F7. > I wish to reinstat

Help with DVD/CDRW combo

2003-04-04 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
Hi all, I've changed my CD to Toshiba SD-R1312 DVD/CDRW combo, but I'm not able to find how to set kernel, /dev, etc. Using Sid on Athlon 2000+. Googling didn't help me much. Please, can you give me a clue? Many thanks Vlada -- Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Descriptio

LM-Sensors on an ASUS P4B533

2003-04-04 Thread Mike Dresser
Two questions: One: How are you supposed to install the lm-sensors-source when you compile your own kernels. the resulting file from make-kpkg modules_install depends on kernel-image-2.4.20. I just --force-depends'd it in, I assume that's not the proper way. Two: Is this ASUS P4B533 supported

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-04-04 Thread alex
Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: On Monday 24 March 2003 10:06 am, Larry wrote: I don't condone the outburst, and am not fully tuned in on this incident. I must say, however, that compared to a number of other systems I've worked with, Debian is difficult to get installed and configured. I suspect

quick question about fvwm 2.4 screen shot

2003-04-04 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. forgive me for asking this, but I saw a screen shot of fvwm and it had something running in the lower left corner of the screen. I have never seen it before and I was hoping someone might be able to tell me what it is called. It looks like a neet pager/utility bar.. the link to the scree

Re: resizing root partition

2003-04-04 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 04 April 2003, 07:31 PM +0200): > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:13:20AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > When I originally created my disk partitions, I figured 3GB would be > > plenty for my root partition, and gave the rest of my 30GB

Re: resizing root partition

2003-04-04 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 04 April 2003, 12:40 PM -0500): > On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:13:20 -0500 > Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I originally created my disk partitions, I figured 3GB would be > > plenty for my root partition, and gave

Re: resizing root partition

2003-04-04 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 07:31:51PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:13:20AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > When I originally created my disk partitions, I figured 3GB would be > > plenty for my root partition, and gave the rest of my 30GB disk over to > > my /hom

Re: searching for what package includes a given file

2003-04-04 Thread emorfin
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Benjamin Rutt wrote: > I just successfully used "Search the contents of packages" from > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages to determine what package in > "stable" provides GL/glx.h. > > Is there a way to do that search via command-line tools without > resorting to the web

Re: resizing root partition

2003-04-04 Thread Craig Dickson
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > When I originally created my disk partitions, I figured 3GB would be > plenty for my root partition, and gave the rest of my 30GB disk over to > my /home partition. However, my root now shows 90% usage, and I'd like > to expand it -- or move my /usr area off onto a

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

2003-04-04 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:20, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:42:17AM +1000, bob parker wrote: > > Using a setuid root program (sudo) to avoid having cdrecord or cdrdao set > > up as setuid root just does not any sense to me at all. > > Well, sudo can be used as a means of authenticati

print color ?

2003-04-04 Thread Florentin Ionescu
I just realize that my deskjet 630C printer (identical to Deskjet550) can not print color . The printer configuration was set using lprngtool. Where should I look to correct this ? Thanks && Have a nice day on the planet earth... Florentin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Does anyone know an application that ....

2003-04-04 Thread dave selby
On Thursday 03 April 2003 20:23, dave selby wrote: > Hi all, Now playing with web pages, mozilla composer is great, got hang of > it now. > > I neet an ftp transport program to get my masterpeices from my drive to the > ftp site. Mozilla will do this one page at a time, I need to move > directories

Re: PPPOE / ADSL fails

2003-04-04 Thread ronin2
On 04 Apr 2003 12:04:18 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian P. Flaherty) wrote: > Both of you should try adsl-start as an alternative. I had been using > pppd at boot-time to get my DSL connection up and it has worked for > months. However, about a week ago, it stopped working. I fought with > it fo

stopping attached files with sendmail

2003-04-04 Thread Listas
Anyone here knows how I can stop attached files on email with sendmail? tks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ugly font hell

2003-04-04 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:37:13PM +0200, Roman Joost wrote: > 3. GTK1 applications are defined through ~/.gtkrc configuration file or > "gnomecc". GTK2 has gnome-control-center or kde has kcontrol (or maybe > newer.. don't know - i don't use kde). Ah, this is it. I was using the "URW Gothic" fon

miniwoody install

2003-04-04 Thread Rob Benton
Anyone had success installing the new Miniwoody ? I can get to the initial apt-get install and I keep getting this error: whiptail: error while loading shared libraries: libslang.so.1-UTF8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: resizing root partition

2003-04-04 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:13:20 -0500 Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I originally created my disk partitions, I figured 3GB would be > plenty for my root partition, and gave the rest of my 30GB disk over to > my /home partition. However, my root now shows 90% usage, and I'd

Re: What;s required to get squierrelmail working on Debian?

2003-04-04 Thread nate
stan said: > I'll worry about preformance, when I get it working :-) > > So, given that I've got the preequistes working, what should I check next? check the apache config, at the bottom it should have something like include /etc/squirrelmail/apache.conf (something along those lines) be sure t

Re: resizing root partition

2003-04-04 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:13:20AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > When I originally created my disk partitions, I figured 3GB would be > plenty for my root partition, and gave the rest of my 30GB disk over to > my /home partition. However, my root now shows 90% usage, and I'd like > to exp

Re: default run level

2003-04-04 Thread David Z Maze
(Please set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 characters!) "Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is my mistake (as usual ;-). I did not provide enough > information in my post. I need to temporarily disable booting into a > graphical environment (i.e. X) so that I can instal

CD isos and jigdo

2003-04-04 Thread Luc Lefebvre
Hi, I have been trying now for a while to download Debian isos with jigdo. I read the mini-HOWTO and have tried with woody, sarge, and unstable. The download always fails with the message: Error while reading `woody-i386-1.template' - file will be ignored (Bad file descriptor) Error - templa

Re: time is slipping away

2003-04-04 Thread Mike M
On Friday 04 April 2003 01:57, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ntpdate > 4 Apr 01:56:31 ntpdate[1336]: no servers can be used, exiting Look here www.ntp.org for this http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html then try: $ ntpdate tick.jrc.us or some other server; I used t

Re: PPPOE / ADSL fails

2003-04-04 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Both of you should try adsl-start as an alternative. I had been using pppd at boot-time to get my DSL connection up and it has worked for months. However, about a week ago, it stopped working. I fought with it for a while. Just to see what happened, I tried adsl-start and it worked immediately.

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