Re: restricting what gets logged to syslog (SOLVED)

2003-05-31 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 12:24, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > I use courier for pop3/imap and it likes to log each and every login and > logout which is fine by me but all of it goes into syslog as well as > mail.info and fills up my logcheck email with a lot of noise. > > I would like this stuff to go jus

Re: moving root (/) to new drive...

2003-05-31 Thread Thomas Elsen
Jeff Hahn wrote: I'm clearly missing a step here, any help would be appreciated... copy drive to new partition, edit /etc/fstab. Once I copy drive contents to a new partition, I am unable to get a clean boot using the new partition as root even when booting from the install cd in rescue mode. Ap

Re: /etc/profile no longer used

2003-05-31 Thread moseley
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 11:28:09AM +0200, Etienne Perron wrote: > Thanks Leandro, > but that's not the problem. My problem is that even bash is no longer > using /etc/profile. I have specified a PATH in /etc/profile, but bash > gets another PATH from somewhere else (don't no from which file)... >

moving root (/) to new drive...

2003-05-31 Thread Jeff Hahn
I'm clearly missing a step here, any help would be appreciated... copy drive to new partition, edit /etc/fstab. Once I copy drive contents to a new partition, I am unable to get a clean boot using the new partition as root even when booting from the install cd in rescue mode. Apparently there is

Re: Anti Open Source Psyops / "Mind Tweakers"? (they'll never believe we're really aliens dept)

2003-05-31 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 01:23:29AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Think about it. You might be next! They will try to make you believe > that what is said in this message cannot be reality. You may think this > is a joke eMail, but it is not. It resembles reality in some regard -- > you must

Re: Problems installing Netscape in unstable distro

2003-05-31 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
> I usually use Konqueror or Mozilla, but today I was having a lot of > problems with no W3C-compliant web sites, and I wondered if using Netscape > instead I had a chance to see them a little "better". Do you think it could > be so, or would they look like as in Mozilla? It is a partial solution.

Re: OT: The Hurd

2003-05-31 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:14:44PM -0500, Kent West wrote: ... > I've wiped the drive and started over, and started a new, much cleaner > document. It can be found at > http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/A_Beginners_Second_Attempt_to_Install_the_Hurd.html looking at your scribbles, I noticed that one

restricting what gets logged to syslog

2003-05-31 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi All, I hope that someone can help me with this annoying problem that I am having. I use courier for pop3/imap and it likes to log each and every login and logout which is fine by me but all of it goes into syslog as well as mail.info and fills up my logcheck email with a lot of noise. I would

woody 2.4 kernel netinstall and NIC autodetect?

2003-05-31 Thread Steinar Bang
Previously, when I've done potato netinstalls, I've been using the compact floppy set. This kernel has always autodetected NICs. Last week I tried using a CD with the 2.4bf netinstall, to install on an Compaq^H^H^H^H^H^HHP with two builtin Broadcom 5700 NICs, and one extra e100-based NIC. The Br

Re: libc6 with NTPL support?

2003-05-31 Thread Diego Calleja García
On Sat, 31 May 2003 02:22:22 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. *sight* :) BTW, i found that someone played with it; look at http://ijuz.uugrn.org/nptl-0.40/ He says it breaks portmapper and i noticed galeon randomly crashes, but X, icewm, etc *seems* to work fine. -- To U

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 18:05, wa dea wrote: > hi, > > I hope this is not OT; I've lurked for a bit and this looks like the place > to be. > > I've been playing with Debian for the last few weeks and was looking for > some help getting started. > > I come from a M$ backgound with a total *nix exp

ayttm/sid: modules have moved again

2003-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you're running the current ayttm in sid, you need to change your modules path in ~/.ayttm/prefs to /usr/lib/ayttm . This is not correctly documented, I'll be submitting a bug about this shortly. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :

Re: Test the network

2003-05-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 01:00, Piero wrote: > I believe I have, after many pains, istalled the network. Does this mean: you installed linux? you can connect to the internet with a modem? or an ethernet connection? > But I have not > installed X window. ok, you need to install some packages for thi

Re: GNOME applets not appearing in menu

2003-05-31 Thread Etienne Perron
Hi, I had the same problem. The applets don't give an error message, but simply don't show in the panel. Solution: The Gnome Tasklist is too wide and is set on fixed size. So there is simply no space for the applets. Edit the properties of the Tasklist and reduce Horizontal size. In addition, act

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 02:02:49AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > I know KDE's file browser knows how to figure it out, but I'm not sure > what it is using to do so. would make sense to use /etc/magic but i bet it doesnt. -- Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: /etc/profile no longer used

2003-05-31 Thread Etienne Perron
Thanks Leandro, but that's not the problem. My problem is that even bash is no longer using /etc/profile. I have specified a PATH in /etc/profile, but bash gets another PATH from somewhere else (don't no from which file)... Any new ideas? Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > On Fri, 3

Re: ATI Radeon opengl problem

2003-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 09:35:59PM +, Gabor Szekelyhidi wrote: > I have an Abit KT7 which uses the VIA Apollo KT133 chipset. Should I > conclude that this is definitely the problem and there is nothing to do > about it, or is there some way in whic

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:05:53PM -0400, wa dea wrote: > Are there any basic text based tools, like old DOS file managers, for > navigation or inspection? (I'm trying not to think like DOS, but it's > my native language and I'd like to start without

Re: more problems because of this testing mess

2003-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 03:49:35PM -0400, stan wrote: > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: > > Could some kind soul tell me how to fix this? Umm, apt just

Anti Open Source Psyops / "Mind Tweakers"? (they'll never believewe're really aliens dept)

2003-05-31 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Happy un-halloween. The truth is out there -- apt-get into it, local shadow repositories potentially excepted. There _are_ organized groups of individuals who are actively attempting to dismantle or disrupt LUG's, and to discourage Linux advocates. They may attempt to discourage LUG's from forma

Re: Problems installing Netscape in unstable distro

2003-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 11:43:41PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > No, in Netscape 4.xx a webpage might look different than in Mozilla, but > in Netscape 6 and Netscape 7, it would look just like Mozilla shows it. To clarify my prior post, I don't consi

Re: Problems installing Netscape in unstable distro

2003-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 09:08:50PM +0200, Sara Gil Casanova wrote: > I usually use Konqueror or Mozilla, but today I was having a lot of problems > with no W3C-compliant web sites, and I wondered if using Netscape instead I > had a chance to see them

AIC7xxx drivers Thunder K7x Pro

2003-05-31 Thread Paul Matuszewski
Hi all, newbie here. I've installed plenty of non-scsi systems.. but one of the first systems that i am isntalling is not working 'out of the box' per say. It is a thunder k7x pro w/ the adaptec aic-7902W scsi chip onboard I'm trying to get it to work.. but am having a miserable time. Are there

Re: allow ftp but not ssh?

2003-05-31 Thread Royer Kerwin
hi, you can use iptables for taht, but i think the simplest and more secured is to change the user shell to /bin/false Le ven 30/05/2003 à 17:53, Grzesiek Sedek a écrit : > Hi, > what is the best/easiest way to do it? > Thanks! -- Royer Kerwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: kernel 2.5.69 won't boot

2003-05-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya what filesystem is your / partition ?? - is it ext2 or ext3 or ?? - does the kernel you're booting support ext3 if needed ?? from lilo.conf, you're trying to boot the default /vmlinuz kernel ... - make sure it supports ext3 or reiserfs or whatever is used fo

Re: How do I install KMess?

2003-05-31 Thread Donald Spoon
peted wrote: I am trying to install kmess_1.2.1-1_i386.deb. How do I install it? When I try apt-get install Kmess, I get a message about it being in the database but no available version and that it may have been mentioned in a dependecy... etc.. I downloaded it from SourceForge.net and saved

Re: How to play doom?

2003-05-31 Thread Kent West
Mark Par wrote: Hi, When I start lxdoom (lxdomm -iwad AXE.WAD) I get a message like this LxDoom v1.4.4 (http://lxdoom.linuxgames.com/) Z_Init : Allocated 6016Kb zone memory found AXE.WAD IWAD found: AXE.WAD IWAD tag not present: AXE.WAD I even tried to use the file boomlump.wad that is included

Re: Help with mixed versions, please

2003-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 04:46:42PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > read on how to work with Linux fails because of other distros > proprietary changes. Debian seems to be the most "Linux-like" of the > distributions, and the community support, an

How do I install KMess?

2003-05-31 Thread peted
I am trying to install kmess_1.2.1-1_i386.deb. How do I install it? When I try apt-get install Kmess, I get a message about it being in the database but no available version and that it may have been mentioned in a dependecy... etc.. I downloaded it from SourceForge.net and saved it to a dire

kernel 2.5.69 won't boot

2003-05-31 Thread Mr and Mrs John D Jones III
ok we installed 2.5.69 and on boot we get these errors VFS: cannot open root device "344" or hdb4 please append a correct "root=" boot option kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on hdb4 this is the boot part of our lilo.conf: # Kernel command line options that apply to all installed imag

How to play doom?

2003-05-31 Thread Mark Par
Hi, When I start lxdoom (lxdomm -iwad AXE.WAD) I get a message like this LxDoom v1.4.4 (http://lxdoom.linuxgames.com/) Z_Init : Allocated 6016Kb zone memory found AXE.WAD IWAD found: AXE.WAD IWAD tag not present: AXE.WAD I even tried to use the file boomlump.wad that is included in the distribu

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 11:19:39PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Fri, 30 May 2003 20:59:33 -0400 > Lou Losee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >A rather decent generl purpose one (with a Debian slant even) is the > > >"Linux Cookbook": > > > > > > http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=

execution expired

2003-05-31 Thread Jeff Elkins
When doing an apt-get install, I'm getting what appears to be a new message: Reading package fields... Done Reading package status.. Done Then comes: execution expired I don't recall seeing this before. The command seems to complete normally. Was this here all along and I missed it, or is some

Re: Why "./configure" script of some projects doesn't work in Debian

2003-05-31 Thread CaT
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:10:10PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > Also, you have to realize that half (I'm being charitable) of the developers > you'll be downloading from have a lot of hard-coded paths in their configure > scripts. Get used to specifying lots of "--with-foo=/usr/include/foo" > opt

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 30 May 2003 20:59:33 -0400 Lou Losee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >A rather decent generl purpose one (with a Debian slant even) is the > >"Linux Cookbook": > > > > http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=30712288&loc=106 > > http://www.nostarch.com/lcbk.htm > > > This is a good rec

Re: Why "./configure" script of some projects doesn't work inDebian

2003-05-31 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 21:59, Hamid wrote: > Hi > I am using Debian for a month now and I used to have RedHat 8.0 > In RedHat, I could download a tar ball of a project (say, KDevelop > snapshots) and use provided ./configure script to compile the > application and use it. > But in Debian, I am hav

Re: Why "./configure" script of some projects doesn't work inDebian

2003-05-31 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-05-31T01:59:21Z, Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My question is : should I tweak all the ./configure files to make them > find my libraries or Have you installed the "-devel" version of the various packages you mention? For example, "libqt3-dev" will *probably* have the missing

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Kevin Ruml
This should do the trick (and then some ;-) ): http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html Have fun! Don't look back. Kevin -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? __ D

Re: Why "./configure" script of some projects doesn't work in Debian

2003-05-31 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 09:59:21PM -0400, Hamid wrote: > I am using Debian for a month now and I used to have RedHat 8.0 In > RedHat, I could download a tar ball of a project (say, KDevelop > snapshots) and use provided ./configure script to compile the > application and use it. > > But in Debian,

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 21:00, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 21:24, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:05:58PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > "info" is the new, "preferred" documentation reader. > > > > Only if you believe what the GNU Project tells you. :) This is a go

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

2003-05-31 Thread Jerry Quinn
Bill Moseley writes: > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:51:38PM -0400, Jerry Quinn wrote: > > > That's one. You don't have to go out of your way in the simple case > > to get dnsmasq to forward dns requests upstream. It also incorporates > > /etc/hosts into its cache. > > Just so I'm clear, th

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

2003-05-31 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
The views seem to be gone.. in sawfish-ui add more "workspaces" this will get more desktops. still wondering if its normal behavior and a enhancement to sawfish or i broke something. Jeremy Brooks wrote: On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 20:32, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: Just did a dist-upgrade on sarge and gn

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 21:24, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:05:58PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > "info" is the new, "preferred" documentation reader. > > Only if you believe what the GNU Project tells you. :) This is a good > idea some of the time but not universally ... > > --

Why "./configure" script of some projects doesn't work in Debian

2003-05-31 Thread Hamid
Hi I am using Debian for a month now and I used to have RedHat 8.0 In RedHat, I could download a tar ball of a project (say, KDevelop snapshots) and use provided ./configure script to compile the application and use it. But in Debian, I am having hard times with this type of approach. For exampl

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:05:58PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > "info" is the new, "preferred" documentation reader. Only if you believe what the GNU Project tells you. :) This is a good idea some of the time but not universally ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6 with NTPL support?

2003-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 11:23:33PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, i'm running debian sid up-to-date; i was wondering if the libc6 > 2.3.1-17 libc6 package has the latest NTPL changes needed to get the > maximum performance with threads in the 2.5 development kernel. No. Cheers, -- Colin

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

2003-05-31 Thread Jeremy Brooks
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 20:32, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > 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 I'm having a similar problem - the sawfish config tool is now missing from the g

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Lou Losee
Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 07:16:34PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: What sort of reference are you looking for, general command line tools? Something else? Not sure what you mean here, but if you give some more info I'm sure plenty of folks here have their favorite references

Re: Help with XMMS radio, specifically KPFB

2003-05-31 Thread Pamela Hair
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 18:35, Aryan Ameri wrote: > wma ? I would like to be able to listen radio stations which broadcast > in wma. I guess you probably use mplayer, but how did you integrate it > with your browser? > > And also about ra, I have realplayer installed, and it works for playing >

Re: ATI Radeon opengl problem

2003-05-31 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 30 May 2003 the mental interface of Gabor Szekelyhidi told: Hi, > Hello, > > I just put an ATI Radeon (QD according to X) into my computer, and OpenGL > doesn't seem to work. Everything points to it working, the programs start, > but the screen remains black. I tried some games (armaget

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 07:16:34PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > What sort of reference are you looking for, general command line > tools? Something else? Not sure what you mean here, but if you give > some more info I'm sure plenty of folks here have their favorite > references :-) A rather decent

Re: Help with XMMS radio, specifically KPFB

2003-05-31 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Saturday 31 May 2003 02:01, Dale Hair wrote: > On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 12:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Silly question 3 of 3: XMMS used to come up with KPFB in the > > playlist, and it would work! Now after tweaking and geeking and > > getting XMMS to actually play CD ROMs for the first time,

Re: TFTP Server

2003-05-31 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Mike Maki said on Fri, May 30, 2003 at 12:50:31PM -0700: > I can connect to the server but if I try to get or put a file I get "Error > code 2: Access violation" Have you looked at the -c option? FYI, I do this: in.tftpd -s -u tftpd /tftpboot and put everything in /tftpboot. Everything is own

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 17:45, Mike Maki wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "wa dea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 3:05 PM > Subject: horse at the gate > > > snip > > > > Are there any basic text based tools, like old DOS file managers, for >

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Mark Roach
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:05:53PM -0400, wa dea wrote: > When wandering around how can I distinguish filetypes? Is there a good > reference? apt-get install file then run "file filename" for detailed info. for simpler things, try 'ls --color' this will hilight normal files/directories/executa

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Kent West
wa dea wrote: hi, I hope this is not OT; I've lurked for a bit and this looks like the place to be. This is the place. I've been playing with Debian for the last few weeks and was looking for some help getting started. I come from a M$ backgound with a total *nix experience as a "Well" user som

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

2003-05-31 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:08:24PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: [...] > installed. AFAIk, the lpr command is present in cups without having > cupsys-bsd, using 'lpr ' with a properly configured cups printer nope, lpr and lpd are the only purposes of the cupsys-bsd package, they are not in the cupsy

Re: Help with XMMS radio, specifically KPFB

2003-05-31 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 12:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Silly question 3 of 3: XMMS used to come up with KPFB in the playlist, > and it would work! Now after tweaking and geeking and getting XMMS to > actually play CD ROMs for the first time, I've lost the radion station. > I've tried searching for

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Mike Maki
- Original Message - From: "wa dea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 3:05 PM Subject: horse at the gate snip > > Are there any basic text based tools, like old DOS file managers, for > navigation or inspection? (I'm trying not to think like DOS, bu

Re: more problems because of this testing mess

2003-05-31 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 30 May 2003 17:54:21 -0400 Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Chris Metzler wrote: >> .. . .which are not depended on by anything in testing. I don't know >> why libparted1.4 and libparted1.6 are both in testing right now, >> because libparted1.4 looks like it isn't used by anything

Re: FW: going from ethernet to ppp only

2003-05-31 Thread Donald Spoon
drew cohan wrote: Sorry about the HTML email from before. -Original Message- From: Drew Cohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: going from ethernet to ppp only Hi, I’ve set up a machine with woody using an ethernet card and now

Re: sndconfig problems: sound only works until reboot

2003-05-31 Thread Donald Spoon
Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody, I don't know wether this is important so to be sure I send this. In an old email I found somebody suggesting lspci; Here is the output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: OPTi Inc. 82C701 [FireStar Plus] (rev 32) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: OPTi Inc. 82C700 (rev 31) 00:0a.0 CardBus

horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread wa dea
hi, I hope this is not OT; I've lurked for a bit and this looks like the place to be. I've been playing with Debian for the last few weeks and was looking for some help getting started. I come from a M$ backgound with a total *nix experience as a "Well" user some 18 years ago. I'm having trouble

Re: more problems because of this testing mess

2003-05-31 Thread Travis Crump
Chris Metzler wrote: .. . .which are not depended on by anything in testing. I don't know why libparted1.4 and libparted1.6 are both in testing right now, because libparted1.4 looks like it isn't used by anything in testing, and actually conflicts with the version of parted that's currently in tes

FW: going from ethernet to ppp only

2003-05-31 Thread drew cohan
Sorry about the HTML email from before. -Original Message- From: Drew Cohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: going from ethernet to ppp only Hi,   I’ve set up a machine with woody using an ethernet card and now that particular ma

going from ethernet to ppp only

2003-05-31 Thread Drew Cohan
Hi, I've set up a machine with woody using an ethernet card and now that particular machine will be moved to a location with only dialup access. I've removed the NIC and I've got PPP working fine using an internal modem. I'd like to know how to properly transition the setup from Ethernet to PPP

libc6 with NTPL support?

2003-05-31 Thread aradorlinux
Hi, i'm running debian sid up-to-date; i was wondering if the libc6 2.3.1-17 libc6 package has the latest NTPL changes needed to get the maximum performance with threads in the 2.5 development kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: more problems because of this testing mess

2003-05-31 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 30 May 2003 15:49:35 -0400 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dpkg: regarding .../libparted1.6-0_1.6.5-1_i386.deb containing > libparted1.6-0: > libparted1.6-0 conflicts with libparted > libparted1.4 provides libparted and is installed. > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/li

keyboard in X

2003-05-31 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, There were some threads recently on keyboard layouts in X, but they do not quite describe my problem. I don't understand: xmodmap, XKB? What is the difference and how do I know which one I use? I did dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and wanted the following: us keyboard layout without

Re: terms of legal remittance [8 days left].

2003-05-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 04:22:11PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >The following are demanded, debian-boot unsubscription as previously > >specified [I note that all other lists have been unsubscribed]. Public > >list apology from c j. Watson. No further libelous statemen

Re: Problems installing Netscape in unstable distro

2003-05-31 Thread David Z Maze
Sara Gil Casanova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I usually use Konqueror or Mozilla, but today I was having a lot of problems > with no W3C-compliant web sites, and I wondered if using Netscape instead I > had a chance to see them a little "better". Do you think it could be so, or > would they l

Re: Test the network

2003-05-31 Thread David Z Maze
Piero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe I have, after many pains, istalled the network. But I have > not installed X window. How can I test if it works? ping? Apply DNS using 'host'? Look at a Web page using lynx or w3m? FTP? Connect to an arbitrary TCP port using 'nc' from the netcat pa

Re: Test the network

2003-05-31 Thread Donald Spoon
Piero wrote: I believe I have, after many pains, istalled the network. But I have not installed X window. How can I test if it works? (My box is connected to my Isp line through a Nat box that cotains a dhcp server). Thanks, Piero. Ping some sites outside your local network. This will probabl

Re: Help with mixed versions, please

2003-05-31 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Hello Everybody, On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 01:12, Paul Johnson wrote: > Try using the update option in the menu. dselect's also pretty > cumbersome to deal with in general, I strongly reccommend aptitude > now. I installed aptitude, and ran it. It mentioned a few packages that had updates waiting.

Re: Set hw clock to local time instead of UTC?

2003-05-31 Thread John Hasler
Paul Mackinney writes: > Why doesn't 'apropos UTC' find this? The option is documented in the rcS > man page. Apropos searches only the "short description" that follows the name. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problems installing Netscape in unstable distro

2003-05-31 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Friday 30 May 2003 22:08, Sara Gil Casanova wrote: > Hi! > > I usually use Konqueror or Mozilla, but today I was having a lot of > problems with no W3C-compliant web sites, and I wondered if using > Netscape instead I had a chance to see them a little "better". Do you > think it could be so, or

ATI Radeon opengl problem

2003-05-31 Thread Gabor Szekelyhidi
Hello, I just put an ATI Radeon (QD according to X) into my computer, and OpenGL doesn't seem to work. Everything points to it working, the programs start, but the screen remains black. I tried some games (armagetron for example) and some simple pyopengl programs. Without DRI it works, just slowly

Problems installing Netscape in unstable distro

2003-05-31 Thread Sara Gil Casanova
Hi! I usually use Konqueror or Mozilla, but today I was having a lot of problems with no W3C-compliant web sites, and I wondered if using Netscape instead I had a chance to see them a little "better". Do you think it could be so, or would they look like as in Mozilla? In case the answer to the

Re: allow ftp but not ssh?

2003-05-31 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi, > What I'm after is disabling ssh access for ftp users. > I did it by adding AllowUsers users in sshd_conf. > > Any other ways to do it? Yup, hand out "/bin/false" as shell and add that to /etc/shells (perhaps depending on the ftp server in use? anyone for an ftp server with virtual users?)

Test the network

2003-05-31 Thread Piero
I believe I have, after many pains, istalled the network. But I have not installed X window. How can I test if it works? (My box is connected to my Isp line through a Nat box that cotains a dhcp server). Thanks, Piero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: KernelCompileFailure

2003-05-31 Thread David Z Maze
(Please don't top-post; it makes it harder to follow what's going on in the thread.) Tommy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I ran the debianized clean and make > make-kpkg clean > make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image > and the kernel header files are > > ii kernel-headers 2.4.20-8 Header fil

TFTP Server

2003-05-31 Thread Mike Maki
I can't seem get the TFTP sever to work? I'm using tftpd-hpa 0.28-2 I'm starting the server with in.tftpd -l /tmp seems to start OK. I see an in.tftpd process. I can connect to the server but if I try to get or put a file I get "Error code 2: Access violation" /tmp is world readable and I placed

more problems because of this testing mess

2003-05-31 Thread stan
I was trying to get around the current problems with the "tsting" version by apt-get install by hand, since I can't run apt-get dist-upgrade or dselect. On 4 of the 6 machines I've go I didn't screw anything up doing this. However on my wifes amchine (naturaaly :-(). I did: dpkg: regarding .../li

Re: how to get serial console for single user bootup

2003-05-31 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 08:01:49PM +0200, Stefan Wuerthner wrote: > Unfortunately if I boot cmd=single (e.g. single user), nothing happens > (no output in my terminal session). > > How can I resolve this? pass console=ttyS0 to the kernel (or ttyS1, or whatever serial port you want to use) noah

Re: fwbuilder-doc useless

2003-05-31 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Had you bothered to contact the maintainer first or checked on any open bugs regarding this before making a rant on -devel? No, because I am the maintainer and haven't heard anything form you and the fact you posted this clearly shows that you were unaware of the 2 bugs already opened regar

Re: Perl in testing?

2003-05-31 Thread Travis Crump
Bill Moseley wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:31:25AM -0400, stan wrote: I've got a "testing" machine that I'm using in production 24/7 (yes, I've heard the speech on that). One of the things that it does is run a perl daemon that uses the perl hi res time functions. I'm trying to get the machine

Re: cdrom symlink won't stay linked to /dev/cdrom1

2003-05-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Nicos Gollan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030530 10:58]: > On Friday 30 May 2003 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This is silly question 1 of 3. Every time I restart, the /dev/cdrom > > symlink "magically" gets remapped to /dev/cdrom0. Which is the wrong > > device, so I su and delete it and make a ne

Re: Set hw clock to local time instead of UTC?

2003-05-31 Thread paul
Vineet Kumar declaimed: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030530 10:28]: > > Silly question 2 of 3: Now that my dual boot is working again, I'd like > > the time to be correct when I run Windows. I know that during > > installation I can tell the system that the hw clock should be local >

Re: cdrom symlink won't stay linked to /dev/cdrom1

2003-05-31 Thread paul
Nicos Gollan declaimed: > On Friday 30 May 2003 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This is silly question 1 of 3. Every time I restart, the /dev/cdrom > > symlink "magically" gets remapped to /dev/cdrom0. Which is the wrong > > device, so I su and delete it and make a new symlink pointing to > > /

make deb system to ignore a conflict?

2003-05-31 Thread Ferenc Engard
Hi all, I want to install two pop3 servers on my machine, because I want to serve pop3s with one, and pop3 with another. I can make it manually with dpkg --force-conflicts. The problem is that in this state of packages apt refuses working as it detects this conflict. How can I tell to the package

mac-fdisk problem

2003-05-31 Thread Francis Maier
Anyone seen this problem? I'm trying to install Debian on a beige (OldWorld) PowerMac G3. I have OSX on the first partition, OS9 on the second partition, a third small HFS partition for BootX, and then free space. In partitioning my free space with mac-fdisk, I created a swap partition (/dev/

imp3 not in sarge?

2003-05-31 Thread Talon
Hi, I noticed today that imp3 is missing from sarge. Still exists in sid. Any ideas why? Thanks Mike - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: allow ftp but not ssh?

2003-05-31 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
> > Hi, first a little list etiquette: please do not start a new thread by > replying to someone else and erasing their subject. > Sorry for that - pressed that send button too quick! > Are you talking about incoming or outgoing? Either way, the surefire way > is to just not install ssh. if jus

Re: Set hw clock to local time instead of UTC?

2003-05-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030530 10:28]: > Silly question 2 of 3: Now that my dual boot is working again, I'd like > the time to be correct when I run Windows. I know that during > installation I can tell the system that the hw clock should be local > time, but can't seem to find out

how to get serial console for single user bootup

2003-05-31 Thread Stefan Wuerthner
Hi, I just tried to use the serial console on my Netwinder under Debian. After editing inittab and securetty, serial works fine on standard (multiuser) bootup. Unfortunately if I boot cmd=single (e.g. single user), nothing happens (no output in my terminal session). How can I resolve this? St

Re: Set hw clock to local time instead of UTC?

2003-05-31 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 30 May 2003 10:08:40 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Silly question 2 of 3: Now that my dual boot is working again, I'd like > the time to be correct when I run Windows. I know that during > installation I can tell the system that the hw clock should be local > time, but can't seem to fin

Re: cdrom symlink won't stay linked to /dev/cdrom1

2003-05-31 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Friday 30 May 2003 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is silly question 1 of 3. Every time I restart, the /dev/cdrom > symlink "magically" gets remapped to /dev/cdrom0. Which is the wrong > device, so I su and delete it and make a new symlink pointing to > /dev/cdrom1, and then I reboot and

Re: Problem Booting After Install

2003-05-31 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 30 May 2003 12:47:35 -0400 "Scott MacMaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, makes me wonder why they use lilo in the installation program for > Debian. I wonder that as well. > The first step, fdformat /dev/fd0, worked ok. However, the next step > didn't, mjfs -t msdos /dev/fd0. I g

Help with XMMS radio, specifically KPFB

2003-05-31 Thread paul
Silly question 3 of 3: XMMS used to come up with KPFB in the playlist, and it would work! Now after tweaking and geeking and getting XMMS to actually play CD ROMs for the first time, I've lost the radion station. I've tried searching for URLs on the web, but nothing I add to the playlist works. XMM

Set hw clock to local time instead of UTC?

2003-05-31 Thread paul
Silly question 2 of 3: Now that my dual boot is working again, I'd like the time to be correct when I run Windows. I know that during installation I can tell the system that the hw clock should be local time, but can't seem to find out to switch it now. Doesn't seem to be covered in the docs for da

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