Re: CUPS aith problem

2003-05-27 Thread The darkness within
well i checked groups and root was in there. i tried adding my user account to it and authenticating using my user account and it worked! i still cannot authenticate using root but as long as i can get in it works for me. Thanks alot. Now i just need to figure out how to add my USB printer..

Re: M$ licenses Unix

2003-05-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:50:31AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > Oh, so where do postings to the newsgroup go? They stay in the newsgroup. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian -

Re: How to find version of XFree in Sarge?

2003-05-27 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Jack Dodds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030528 12:41]: > Thanks for the explanation, Wim. I just did a net install of Woody on my > computer, and it's no good if I can't run X! So I'm wondering what > version of XFree86 is in Sarge. > > Is it Sarge that gives you version 4.2.1.1 ? > > If so, wo

Re: how to get MOzilla to print to Cups printer through kprint

2003-05-27 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:06 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: > Jeremy Petzold wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:08 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: > >>Jeremy Petzold wrote: > >>>how can you get mozilla to print to the cups printer I have? be it > >>>through kprint

Re: semi-OT: redhat character encoding

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 19:20, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:13:09PM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > I have a redhat machine (which unfortunately must stay that way for the > > time being) that I often manage remotely from a box running woody. I've > > noticed that whenever I call

PNG -- can't we all just get along?

2003-05-27 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a mostly testing system. When I try to get the latest development stuff for libpng, this happens: # apt-get -du install libpng12-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: imlib-dev kde-designer kdebase-dev kdelibs-dev libkmi

Re: Samba ang Appletalk

2003-05-27 Thread Talon
Quoting "Miranda, Joel Louie M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Have you guys tried that Samba can be seen on Appletalk? I've read this > document on http://mlug.missouri.edu/presentations/20-january-1999.html Its > about Netatalk and Samba, file sharing and printing. I've tried to apt-get > in

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-27 Thread moseley
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:02:48PM -0400, Jerry Quinn wrote: > Hi, all. I have a debian box serving as my firewall/router/dhcp > server. The dhcp does the job fine, except for dns. > > I'd like to have dns lookups work correctly for my internal network. > So is there a simple means of having my

Re: Fwd: Re: Resistance Is Futile.

2003-05-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 09:57:06PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > I thought barratry was like piracy, but done to a ship in harbour as > opposed to on the high seas? That only applies to maritime law. According to the 1913 edition of the Websters Dictionary

Re: migrate to new hardware

2003-05-27 Thread Geordie Birch
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:00:38PM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > This was a headless server, no x11, no sound. > The graphics card is certainly different but it only runs console so..? > > The configuration, was basically a standard install + kernel 4.2.18 compile. > If I am lucky I added most

RE: migrate to new hardware

2003-05-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 00:00, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Mark L. Kahnt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, 27 May 2003 4:05 PM > > To: Debian Users > > Subject: Re: migrate to new hardware > > > > > > On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 23:55, Joyce, Matthew wrote:

RE: ntp synchronisation lost

2003-05-27 Thread Reckhard, Tobias
> I just posted this same question about a week ago actually. I went > through and checked the order of servers in my ntp.conf and found that > the first server on the list was down quite often, so I rearranged my > list of servers. This has cut down on the number of > synchronization lost > messa

Re: An unsubscription FAQ / Rand / informational post

2003-05-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 08:38:48PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Please review the FAQ and let me know if there are any errors, > additions, or corrections. Thanks! Do you mind if I use it as an autoreply in procmail? - -- .''`. Baloo Ursida

Re: blocking icmp...

2003-05-27 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Personally, I'd rather make my presence on the 'net as hard to > discover as possible. If you allow echo requests it's a simple matter > for someone to run nmap, for example, to find out that a particular IP > address is valid. If you block such messages

Re: fried(?) computer hangs on boot

2003-05-27 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Pigeon wrote: > Me, I run with the sides off the case and if I want an estimate of the > CPU temp I stick my hand in and feel the heatsink. I find that if I keep the side off of my case, I get higher CPU temps (lower MB temps). Air flow past the processor is improved by havi

X11: How to export an environment?

2003-05-27 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi, In a shell, it is easy to change the environment by using "export". E.g. switching the "PRINTER" env. Is there a way to do that in X11? E.g. is there a way to print in "galeon", other than using the "lpr -P otherlp" option? regards, -- Abdul Latip -- Angkasa Internet Junior Staff -- ANGIN

Re: Problem Booting After Install

2003-05-27 Thread Scott MacMaster
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install [snip] > >Ok, although I have no idea how I would go about changing this since the > >install program doesn't appear to give me

Re: Belkin CompactFlash reader problems

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin Coyner
--Iys0Un1O+0sigPHU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:07:59PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote.. =20 > When I tried mounting as root via sudo it didn't work (no such > partition, or the

Re: Problem Booting After Install

2003-05-27 Thread Scott MacMaster
I tried typing that command at the boot prompt. However, I received an error message. Could not find kernal image: rescue Any other thoughts? Thanks, Scott MacMaster - Original Message - From: "Gary L. Dolan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Scott MacMaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday,

Re: how to get MOzilla to print to Cups printer through kprint

2003-05-27 Thread Donald Spoon
Jeremy Petzold wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:08 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: Jeremy Petzold wrote: how can you get mozilla to print to the cups printer I have? be it through kprint or directly through cups? I could not find any info on it in mozilla help so I am hoping that one of you may have had

RE: migrate to new hardware

2003-05-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Mark L. Kahnt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 27 May 2003 4:05 PM > To: Debian Users > Subject: Re: migrate to new hardware > > > On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 23:55, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Dear Debain-Users, > > > > > > A while back I used an old p1

Re: Opinions on Lindows Mobile PC

2003-05-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 22:05, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On 27 May 2003 21:06:03 -0400 > "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From what I've seen of the screenshots of the new Debian installer, the > > same structure appears to be planned, which I admit concerns me. It may > > be easier to

AIC 7892 problem

2003-05-27 Thread jason
Hello All, I have some messages in /var/log/syslog & /var/log/messages when i did a backup into tape drive as below: May 28 10:56:40 backupmy kernel: scsi0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x8b May 28 10:56:40 backupmy kernel: scsi0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phas

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-27 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Jerry Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, all. I have a debian box serving as my firewall/router/dhcp > server. The dhcp does the job fine, except for dns. > > I'd like to have dns lookups work correctly for my internal network. > So is there a simple means of having my dhcp clients being a

sarge sawfish gnome - broken on 5/27/2003?

2003-05-27 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Just did a dist-upgrade on sarge and gnome sawfish no longer has the panels / menus on the borders. is it broken in sarge? did i break something? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to find version of XFree in Sarge?

2003-05-27 Thread Jack Dodds
Thanks for the explanation, Wim. I just did a net install of Woody on my computer, and it's no good if I can't run X! So I'm wondering what version of XFree86 is in Sarge. Is it Sarge that gives you version 4.2.1.1 ? If so, would Sid have 4.3 ? Wim De Smet wrote: The XFree86 server gives me

How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-27 Thread Jerry Quinn
Hi, all. I have a debian box serving as my firewall/router/dhcp server. The dhcp does the job fine, except for dns. I'd like to have dns lookups work correctly for my internal network. So is there a simple means of having my dhcp clients being able to have their names resolve to IP's easily (no

Re: how to get MOzilla to print to Cups printer through kprint

2003-05-27 Thread Jeremy Petzold
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:08 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: > Jeremy Petzold wrote: > > how can you get mozilla to print to the cups printer I have? be it > > through kprint or directly through cups? I could not find any info on it > > in mozilla help so I am hoping that one of you may have had an experie

Re: [OT] Can access friend's website, but not ftp

2003-05-27 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > A friend of mine has a web and ftp server setup on his linux box. I can > get to his website fine. > > With ncftp, I get in, but doing an "ls" returns > > connect failed: No route to host. > List failed. > > Using Konqueror, with ftp:/

apt-file update, missing: "URI::_foreign"

2003-05-27 Thread Miranda, Joel Louie M
Hello, I did apt-file update and I encountered this error. web:/etc# apt-file update Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_foreign" (perhaps you forgot to load "URI::_foreign"?) at /usr/bin/apt-file line 189. Any ideas? Thanks, Louie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Listing Package dependencies

2003-05-27 Thread David Z Maze
"Josh Guffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, is there a way to list only the packages with no dependencies? > Or, some other useful way to find packages that got installed because > of other packages that aren't there anymore? If you install packages with aptitude, it will keep track of this f

Samba ang Appletalk

2003-05-27 Thread Miranda, Joel Louie M
Hello, Have you guys tried that Samba can be seen on Appletalk? I've read this document on http://mlug.missouri.edu/presentations/20-january-1999.html Its about Netatalk and Samba, file sharing and printing. I've tried to apt-get install netatalk but errors occurred. web:/etc# apt-get install net

Re: Multiple kernel-header packages?

2003-05-27 Thread David Z Maze
"Jan C. Nordholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can someone point me to a source of information where it is > explained why there is only one kernel-source package (2.4.20) and > ATM two kernel-headers package sets (2.4.20-1, 2.4.20-3)? Trying to > manually compile a module for my 2.4.20 kernel wi

retrieving encrypted mozilla stuff

2003-05-27 Thread Gregory Seidman
I like to use Mozilla's "keychain" and form-filling information, and I also like that it is encrypted. Sometimes, though, I just want to know the password I use for a particular site (e.g. if some site starts acting weirdly and I want to check whether it is the difference between Mozilla and IE tha

Re: Opinions on Lindows Mobile PC

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 27 May 2003 21:06:03 -0400 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I've seen of the screenshots of the new Debian installer, the > same structure appears to be planned, which I admit concerns me. It may > be easier to maintain than boot-floppies, but it will be no easier, > appar

Re: PGP key retrieval in mutt

2003-05-27 Thread Nick Willson
On 2003-05-27 14:47, Nicolas Kratz wrote: > Well, it only retrieves unknown keys. Which usually means a slight delay > while processing a new key, if the key is known, processing is instant. > > If you only want to download selected keys, your best bet is to do it > manually, unless someone comes

integrating samba with existing windows environment

2003-05-27 Thread ike lozada
Hi all,   We would like to setup a samba server and integrate it with an existing windows network. We have been able to install and configure our samba server and our windows clients can browse the shared directory and their private directory but we would like to remove the “annoying”  (connect as

Re: why my exim service can not be launch ??

2003-05-27 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * jojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030528 00:54]: > > Hi , have anybody had met this problem ?? > Why my pc's exim service can not be launch ?? > Why it tips me: exim: neither action flags nor mail addresses given ??? > the attach file is the exim configuration of my pc. thanx ! > ##

gdm, xdm, kdm and wmanager (woody)

2003-05-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What's the way of making gdm and xdm have similar ability as kdm to offer choice of simple window manager or whole desktop environment (kde, gnome)? I have tried wmanager, the info pages are empty. According to the documentation in /usr/share/docs/wmanager by setting some .xinitrc or .xsession it m

Re: Heads Up - Gnome 2.2 moving into Sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 20:56, Travis Crump wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > The subject about says it - was doing an apt-get -s update of Sarge and > > got indications of a large number of parts of Gnome 2.2 entering Sarge. > > If you track Testing, use Gnome, and haven't moved to 2.2 yet, be ready

Re: How to find version of XFree in Sarge?

2003-05-27 Thread Jack Dodds
Thanks for the explanation, Wim. I just did a net install of Woody on my computer, and it's no good if I can't run X! So I'm wondering what version of XFree86 is in Sarge. Is it Sarge that gives you version 4.2.1.1 ? If so, would Sid have 4.3 ? Wim De Smet wrote: The XFree86 server gives me

Re: [OT] Can access friend's website, but not ftp

2003-05-27 Thread nate
Hall Stevenson said: > A friend of mine has a web and ftp server setup on his linux box. I can > get to his website fine. is either machine behind NAT? can you ftp to other machines? e.g. ftp.cdrom.com nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Opinions on Lindows Mobile PC

2003-05-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 19:33, nate wrote: > Kevin McKinley said: > > > Many who are accustomed to Debian forget how hard it can be at first. > > count me as one who will never forget installing debian 2.0 and > wading through dselect for probably 4 hours choosing packages and > resolving dependenc

Re: Heads Up - Gnome 2.2 moving into Sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Travis Crump
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: The subject about says it - was doing an apt-get -s update of Sarge and got indications of a large number of parts of Gnome 2.2 entering Sarge. If you track Testing, use Gnome, and haven't moved to 2.2 yet, be ready to migrate with your next apt-get upgrade. There you go gettin

Re: M$ licenses Unix

2003-05-27 Thread Joris
>> >> http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian - Blackdown Java 1.4.1/gcc3.2 debs >> > >> > BTW -- I installed the Blackdown debs and I still don't have >> > application/x-java-vm handler. Did I miss a step (or something >> > otherwise obvious)? >> >> note that the package on this site are compiled

Re: [OT] Can access friend's website, but not ftp

2003-05-27 Thread Paul
is this ftp site ssl enabled? if so make sure youre using a ssl enabled client secondly, are you behind a firewall, and or does the ftp site allow passive connections? Cuz you may need to connect via passive mode to his ftp site. --- Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of mine h

Re: Where is gtk-config ?

2003-05-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Joerg Johannes([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 19:02, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Hamid([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > Hi > > > I am trying to compile mplayer but it complains about GTK. > > > I have installed the latest gtk package from "unstable

Re: fried(?) computer hangs on boot

2003-05-27 Thread J F
Vikki Roemer wrote: Hi! My computer (running Sarge) overheated and hung the night before last. I didn't realize why it had hung until it had been overheating for a few If you need to cool it down some, slow down the CPU clock in BIOS. Also, slow DRAM timings to largest delay and largest delay for

[OT] Can access friend's website, but not ftp

2003-05-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
A friend of mine has a web and ftp server setup on his linux box. I can get to his website fine. With ncftp, I get in, but doing an "ls" returns connect failed: No route to host. List failed. Using Konqueror, with ftp://his.website.here, I get a login prompt, enter my info, then

RE: Dns prob / resolving..

2003-05-27 Thread Miranda, Joel Louie M
Oh, ic got ur point thanks! I never add the search options on resolv.conf, now I did and I can resolve only by hostname. -- Thanks, Louie -Original Message- From: Haim Ashkenazi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 4:01 PM To: Debian User Subject: Re: Dns prob / resolvin

RE: Renaming multiple extensions-file on unix..

2003-05-27 Thread Miranda, Joel Louie M
Hello, Thanks to everyone for replying. I've tried some of them and they worked fine. How ever I did a search also on google and found a website about renaming some extensions also in batch, here are some of the examples and the url link to it. for file in *.html ; do mv $file `echo $file | sed '

Re: how to get MOzilla to print to Cups printer through kprint

2003-05-27 Thread Donald Spoon
Jeremy Petzold wrote: how can you get mozilla to print to the cups printer I have? be it through kprint or directly through cups? I could not find any info on it in mozilla help so I am hoping that one of you may have had an experience with this. thanks, Jeremy If you have the "cupsys-bsd" pa

Re: Lynx - stop viewing binary files as text

2003-05-27 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Paul wrote: > OMG, youre a savior :) > > Ive been trying to dink with this for a few weeks now, > repeatedly askin about it in linux channels on irc, > and everyone is like man lynx, and i knew it wasnt > something with that.. Heres the line in /etc/mailcap > that was causing

Re: Lynx - stop viewing binary files as text

2003-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:27:19PM -0700, Paul wrote: > OMG, youre a savior :) > > Ive been trying to dink with this for a few weeks now, repeatedly > askin about it in linux channels on irc, and everyone is like man > lynx, and i knew it wasnt something with that.. Heres the line in > /etc/mailc

Re: Lynx - stop viewing binary files as text

2003-05-27 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:27:19PM -0700, Paul wrote: > Heres the line in /etc/mailcap that was causing the error > > application/*; less '%s'; needsterminal That question needs to be removed from the less installation. Why oh why would anyone ever want to install less as the default applicatio

Planning to move my IMAP server off old caldera linux to new debian(knoppix install)

2003-05-27 Thread J F
I am planning to move my IMAP server off my 4 year old caldera linux to new debian (knoppix hard disk install or maybe woody 7 CD install). I want to be able to take advantage of the apt-get method of updating security files and the old machine is really slo anyway. Also, I only have 2 users an

Re: CUPS aith problem

2003-05-27 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 15:00, The darkness within wrote: > i checked both and to the best of my knowlage they bolth seem to be > fine. my system group is set to lpadmin. and the only thing in > pam.d/cupsys is > authrequiredpam_unix.so > account requiredpam_unix.so > > is th

Re: Opinions on Lindows Mobile PC

2003-05-27 Thread nate
Kevin McKinley said: > Many who are accustomed to Debian forget how hard it can be at first. count me as one who will never forget installing debian 2.0 and wading through dselect for probably 4 hours choosing packages and resolving dependencies(my first debian install after using slackware for a

Re: Lynx - stop viewing binary files as text

2003-05-27 Thread Paul
OMG, youre a savior :) Ive been trying to dink with this for a few weeks now, repeatedly askin about it in linux channels on irc, and everyone is like man lynx, and i knew it wasnt something with that.. Heres the line in /etc/mailcap that was causing the error application/*; less '%s'; needsterm

Re: semi-OT: redhat character encoding

2003-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:13:09PM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: > I have a redhat machine (which unfortunately must stay that way for the > time being) that I often manage remotely from a box running woody. I've > noticed that whenever I call up the RH machine's manpages remotely I get > some chara

Used php4 and imap crashes...sort of

2003-05-27 Thread Alexander Portwein
Now that I have php4 and IMAP support up and running, I tried to access my Imap folders with twiggi. To a certain degree this works fine. But after accessing a few folders and opening some mails, but suddenly, out of the blue, cyrus imap crashes and PHP gives me either a.) or b.) as an error Messa

Re: /dev/radio not found, but it is there.......

2003-05-27 Thread ingirafn
Yes, that can be I used 64, I dont have the machine in front of me now, but user and group was right. I'll check it out. Ingi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Radeon 7500 documentation

2003-05-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 23:29, Pigeon wrote: > Hi, > > If anyone has any documentation defining the addresses and functions > of the various registers of the Radeon 7500 - especially those > concerning the setting of pixel clock frequency in text mode - I > would be most grateful if you could email

Re: man, oh man

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 27 May 2003 16:00:23 -0400 Mike M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've installed some minimal stable configurations lately (answered no to > tasksel and dselect during installation of bf24). When I run "man" on the > > minimal system, it's like the output is piped to "more". In a workstat

Re: Mozilla opens full-screen with Xinerama

2003-05-27 Thread Brad Sawatzky
Hi Bill, Try xfwm as your window manager. It's configurable, light-weight and has full xinerama support (unlike most other wm's I've tried). Mozilla works properly on my xinerama setup under xfwm. (Actually the nightlies aren't/weren't built with the xinerama option enabled. The only visible g

Re: initrd and lilo.conf

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 27 May 2003 12:22:54 -0400 "Brian W. Carver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just compiled a custom 2.4.18 kernel for my woody-running laptop. > > I'm new at this and am pretty sure I am about to shutdown and be unable to > > boot back up, because this initrd/lilo stuff has me baffled. P

Re: Installing Debian from Red Hat (without a CD or floppy drive)

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 27 May 2003 01:38:27 -0700 Steve Grabowsku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure this will mean learning about GRUB and/or LILO. Good on ya. Go here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622 Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Opinions on Lindows Mobile PC

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:17:54 -0400 Jeremy Petzold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if your gonna pay for a distro buy libranet. their system does not die if > you apt-get from the main tree...at least that is what they say on > OSNewswhy anyone would pay 60 bucks for a distro when debian is free >

Re: fried(?) computer hangs on boot

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 27 May 2003 20:54:27 +0100 Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Spatially", I guess. It's a tower case, with all expansion card slots > occupied except the bottom one, and it's got nine drives on five > buses, which makes for an entertaining tangle of ribbon cables and > power splitters. T

Re: Where is gtk-config ?

2003-05-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Joerg Johannes wrote: > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 22:41, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > [ could you warp your lines after 72 chars? The fourth is a little > > bit too long; I let it as it was to show the effect ] > > It is set to 78, which should still be in the "green area", and it is the As you s

Re: 2.4.20 kernel for woody

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 27 May 2003 18:03:33 +0200 Steinar Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm attempting to have a very minimal installation of woody on the > machine in question, and would prefer not to install any more packages > than I have to (ie. no development tools). > > Other than this particular wood

Re: 2.4.20 kernel for woody

2003-05-27 Thread Steinar Bang
> Steinar Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does anyone know of a 2.4.20 kernel packaged for woody? Here it is: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2003/debian-security-200305/msg00288.html Thanx to Herbert Xu for pointing me to it! (and of course also for maintaining the package) -

[OT] Radeon 7500 documentation

2003-05-27 Thread Pigeon
Hi, If anyone has any documentation defining the addresses and functions of the various registers of the Radeon 7500 - especially those concerning the setting of pixel clock frequency in text mode - I would be most grateful if you could email it to me, off list. Thanks, -- Pigeon Be kind to pi

Re: Where is gtk-config ?

2003-05-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 22:41, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > [ could you warp your lines after 72 chars? The fourth is a little > bit too long; I let it as it was to show the effect ] It is set to 78, which should still be in the "green area", and it is the default setting in kmail. I have set i

Re: runlevels [was: fried(?) computer hangs on boot]

2003-05-27 Thread Kent West
Vikki Roemer wrote: < snip re: bootscripts freezing the computer > BTW, what do I do once I find the problem script? Just remove the symlink and then use apt to reinstall it after I get the box back up on its feet? (Hopefully apt and dpkg didn't get fried) Depends on what the problem scr

Re: Mozilla opens full-screen with Xinerama

2003-05-27 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:19:38PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:01:26PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > I never know where to ask about problems like this. How do I know if > > it is icewm, mozilla, or Xfree86 that's causing the problem? > > If you change icewm t

Re: man, oh man

2003-05-27 Thread Travis Crump
Mike M wrote: I've installed some minimal stable configurations lately (answered no to tasksel and dselect during installation of bf24). When I run "man" on the minimal system, it's like the output is piped to "more". In a workstation installation machine, running man results in a environment

Re: man, oh man

2003-05-27 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:00:23PM -0400, Mike M wrote: > I've installed some minimal stable configurations lately (answered no to > tasksel and dselect during installation of bf24). When I run "man" on the > minimal system, it's like the output is piped to "more". In a workstation > installat

Re: Restrict user to specific window-manage

2003-05-27 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:21:38PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > Thus spoke David Fokkema: > > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 06:13:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > But a good system is safe enough to be handed over to guests, isn't it? > > Yes, it should be safe enough. But is

Re: /dev/radio not found, but it is there.......

2003-05-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030527 20:55]: > No radio or video device where in the /dev/ folder and I made them by using > mknod c radio 61 81 , something like this, It was created and also a link > /dev/radio to /dev/radio0. Are you sure you used 61? According to /usr/share/linu

Re: M$ licenses Unix

2003-05-27 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:24:14PM +0200, Joris wrote: > > Oh, so where do postings to the newsgroup go? > > they appear on the newsgroup, but don't get posted through to the list. > we don't want to risk a loop in such a high-traffic list Makes sense about the loops. So there may be replies to

how to get MOzilla to print to Cups printer through kprint

2003-05-27 Thread Jeremy Petzold
how can you get mozilla to print to the cups printer I have? be it through kprint or directly through cups? I could not find any info on it in mozilla help so I am hoping that one of you may have had an experience with this. thanks, Jeremy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: dhclient testing

2003-05-27 Thread sdownes
Original Message Hi Steve, I encountered this same problem just a few days ago with Woody/kernel 2.4.20, although I'm ashamed to admit it didn't occur to me to check the DHCP server logs on the gateway machine.I don't know if the fix I found will work for your scenario, b

Re: Where is gtk-config ?

2003-05-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, [ could you warp your lines after 72 chars? The fourth is a little bit too long; I let it as it was to show the effect ] Joerg Johannes wrote: > A short search on > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents > would have turned out: He needs libgtk1.2-dev. > It is always a better

Re: dhclient testing

2003-05-27 Thread Andy Chase
Hi Steve, I encountered this same problem just a few days ago with Woody/kernel 2.4.20, although I'm ashamed to admit it didn't occur to me to check the DHCP server logs on the gateway machine.I don't know if the fix I found will work for your scenario, but here's what I found with kernel

Re: M$ licenses Unix

2003-05-27 Thread Joris
>> > I'm sorry, I understand someone that might need the help of debian-user >> > but not want to deal with the bulk of the email, but I just don't see it >> > as that much trouble to subscribe, post the question and then >> > unsubscribe. >> >> well, I do. among many others, I read the list as a

Re: M$ licenses Unix

2003-05-27 Thread Joris
>> > I'm sorry, I understand someone that might need the help of debian-user >> > but not want to deal with the bulk of the email, but I just don't see it >> > as that much trouble to subscribe, post the question and then >> > unsubscribe. >> >> well, I do. among many others, I read the list as a

Re: Mozilla opens full-screen with Xinerama

2003-05-27 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:01:26PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > I never know where to ask about problems like this. How do I know if > it is icewm, mozilla, or Xfree86 that's causing the problem? If you change icewm to another window manager, does the problem persist? If not, then it's most lik

semi-OT: redhat character encoding

2003-05-27 Thread Rob VanFleet
I have a redhat machine (which unfortunately must stay that way for the time being) that I often manage remotely from a box running woody. I've noticed that whenever I call up the RH machine's manpages remotely I get some character issues, most annoying being the fact that all '-' characters appea

Re: /dev/radio not found, but it is there.......

2003-05-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 14:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, I have a problem I installed debian 3.0 on a 200 mzh pc. > > I have a radiocard which I have used before on linux. > > I had a cdrom and made rescue and root floppys to boot. > > When I had istalled all the drivers needed for the ca

Re: Samba permissions

2003-05-27 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Curtis, > Now, if I add a line "valid users = user1, user2, user 3" then of > course, just they can get in. But that doesn't seem to be the right > solution. The right solution would be to permit only accounting group > > users into the folder. What am I doing wrong? Try "valid users = @a

Font problem - Helvetica either gone or ugly

2003-05-27 Thread Magnus Larsson
Hi! I have a recently installed 3.0 that was dist-upgraded to unstable, and I run gnome 2. I have used Helvetica 10 as theme font for gtk1.2-applications (set with gtk-theme-switch). After installation of gsfonts-x11, this font became ugly and unreadable. After removal of this package (gsfont-x11)

Re: fried(?) computer hangs on boot

2003-05-27 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:51:54PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2003, Pigeon wrote: > > > Me, I run with the sides off the case and if I want an estimate of the > > CPU temp I stick my hand in and feel the heatsink. > > How do you keep the pigeons out? "Spatially", I guess. It's a

man, oh man

2003-05-27 Thread Mike M
I've installed some minimal stable configurations lately (answered no to tasksel and dselect during installation of bf24). When I run "man" on the minimal system, it's like the output is piped to "more". In a workstation installation machine, running man results in a environment similar to r

Re: M$ licenses Unix

2003-05-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 14:50, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:53:33PM +0200, Joris wrote: > > > I'm sorry, I understand someone that might need the help of debian-user > > > but not want to deal with the bulk of the email, but I just don't see it > > > as that much trouble to subscr

Re: dhclient testing

2003-05-27 Thread Andy Chase
Hi Steve, I encountered this same problem just a few days ago with Woody/kernel 2.4.20, although I'm ashamed to admit it didn't occur to me to check the DHCP server logs on the gateway machine.I don't know if the fix I found will work for your scenario, but here's what I found with kernel

Re: M$ licenses Unix

2003-05-27 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:53:33PM +0200, Joris wrote: > > I'm sorry, I understand someone that might need the help of > > debian-user but not want to deal with the bulk of the email, but I > > just don't see it as that much trouble to subscribe, post the > > question and then unsubscribe. > > wel

Samba permissions

2003-05-27 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Wow, I thought I knew Samba permissions, but I guess I don't. Currently, any user that has an account on the Samba server has access to the share "Accounting". So, let's say I have user1, user2, user3, user4 I have added user1, user2 and user3 to the accounting group. user4 is not a member of

Re: Where is gtk-config ?

2003-05-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 19:02, Wayne Topa wrote: > Hamid([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi > > I am trying to compile mplayer but it complains about GTK. > > I have installed the latest gtk package from "unstable". > > It seems that configure script of mplayer is looking for "gtk-c

Re: initrd and lilo.conf

2003-05-27 Thread Mike M
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 14:08, Mark Roach wrote: > I imagine this is because you don't have initrd-tools installed. For > some reason the stock kernel images put this for depends: > Depends: initrd-tools (>= 0.1.40), coreutils | fileutils (>= 4.0), > modutils (>= 2.4.19) > > but when you use make-

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