Re: Dual head text console / X HOWTO sought

2003-07-01 Thread David Z Maze
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) Dual head text console. A keystroke combination switches the focus > of the keyboard from one monitor to the other; the usual Alt-F then > switches between VTs on that monitor. > > 2) Dual head, text console and X. The PCI card is used for the text > console

Re: Serial terminal program?

2003-07-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:18:49PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Is there a serial terminal program for Debian? One that will talk out an > RS-232 port? I couldn't seem to find one searching in dselect or > debian.org's online package search. How 'bout minicom, ckermit, or gkermit? noah

Re: Gnome 2 fonts : weird behaviour in SID

2003-07-01 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:57:52PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > I have a small problem in understanding how the fonts work in > Gnome 2.2 : when I set the "Terminal Font" in the "Fonts > preferences", I do not see what impact it has on the desktop. Try to change the Application or Desktop fon

Serial terminal program?

2003-07-01 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Is there a serial terminal program for Debian? One that will talk out an RS-232 port? I couldn't seem to find one searching in dselect or debian.org's online package search. I don't think gnome-terminal or the like can talk to a serial port. Telnet talks to the network. I used to use tip on the o

Re: Automount

2003-07-01 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi! * JZidar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-01 19:13]: > Is there an app or trick that would enable to just pop a cd or floppy in the > drive and use it without the need for mount and unmount every time? Can be > this built-in in the kernel? If you know how to patch compile a kernel you should go f

Re: Odd Firebird Issue

2003-07-01 Thread Andre Berger
--x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * James Lademann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2003-07-01 18:09 -0400: > Hi there, > I recently installed Debian then upgraded to unstable and I'm working on > setting thin

Re: apt-get /sorces.list!

2003-07-01 Thread Rthoreau
After running into this problem, and doing a quick search a debian guru once wisely said that the problem is with the CACHE. The easy method is to make sure you have the file /etc/apt/apt.conf in that file you will need to put this: APT::Cache-Limit 12453561; As far as I have found no one real

Re: Worked around (dirty...) How to apply no-debianized kernel patch to debianized kernel-source?

2003-07-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:31:03AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:53:40AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Sounds like the GFDL. You might want to have a look at debian-legal > > archives on this topic; there are unfortunately various concerns about > > its freeness as fa

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:41:56 +0100 Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:28:32AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > > ITYM 'for file in *'... > > ISTR earlier versions... > flip man! i needed two references to `dict` to read your email. > Guess i should learn some acronyms

Re: make-kpkg: permission denied making modules_image

2003-07-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 11:43:01 -0500 Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I am wondering: what am I doing wrong? I *should* be able to > > compile modules for an existing kernel tree without write privs to > > /usr/src/modules/..., right? > > > Right. > > What is MODULE_

Re: please help me to edit Xconfig!

2003-07-01 Thread Rthoreau
I have a Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400 32mb card that is also a little picky. If you do not have dual monitors I would suggest using debconf to set up the Xconfig file. One thing to remember about this card is it hates the frame buffer, so make sure when you run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 make

Re: PDF viewers capable of high zoom factors

2003-07-01 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:42:15PM +0100, Mark C wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 14:23, Pigeon wrote: > I have a map of the British mainland as a .pdf file. In order to see > > useful local details on it, I want to be able to zoom in by about 50x. > > I have tried xpdf, gv, ghostview and kghostview,

Dual head text console / X HOWTO sought

2003-07-01 Thread Pigeon
I have two graphics cards, a SiS 6326 PCI card and a Radeon 7500 AGP card. Having just acquired a second monitor, I am keen to set up a dual head system capable of the following configurations: 1) Dual head text console. A keystroke combination switches the focus of the keyboard from one monitor t

Re: XFree86 4.3

2003-07-01 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Quoting Joeri De Backer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Is there anybody who can tell me if it's possible to install > XFree86 version 4.3? If so: how? :-) > By Googling ;) First result from search on "xfree 4.3 debian" http://www.linuxcompatible.org/print17614.html -- M. Kirchhoff ( .:m

Re: kernel-source-2.4.21 from unstable with woody

2003-07-01 Thread David
On Monday 30 June 2003 01:57 pm, Andre Berger wrote: > I'm trying to compile a 2.4.21 kernel on my woody system. I apt-got > -b kernel-source-2.4.21 and installed all resulting .deb files. > However when I cd to the source directory > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21-2.4.21 and do "make-kpkg clean > ;

Re: Junk mail on the list.

2003-07-01 Thread David
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 08:39 am, Wim De Smet wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:24:43 -0500 > > David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 29 June 2003 03:01 am, cr wrote: > > > On Saturday 28 June 2003 05:39, alex wrote: > > > > I'm getting a lot of junk mail that is addressed to this list. Am

Re: make-kpkg: permission denied making modules_image

2003-07-01 Thread David
On Monday 30 June 2003 05:06 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.06.30.1548 +0200]: > > When you do "fakeroot make-kpkg ..." make-kpkg itself runs under > > fakeroot, so a root environment is provided whenever necessary, > > instead of "as expected" by

Kernel Build Methodology

2003-07-01 Thread Johan Parin
Hi all, I've read through chapter 7 in the Debian Reference and man make-kpkg, but I'm not sure I'm completely clear on the "Debian standard method" to build the kernel. I built my first custom kernel the way it's described, no problem. I used --append_to_version -486 --revision=rev.01 Now, I w

Re: NFS

2003-07-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/07/03 16:37), tt tt wrote: > Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:37:41 +0100 (BST) > From: tt tt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: NFS > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am going to try and learn NFS between two debian boxes. Does anyone know of any > good guides for debian? Is it already compliled into the

installing saxon

2003-07-01 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Hey all: I'm trying to get the Saxon XSLT Processor installed on my system. apt-cache search saxon reveals: docbook-xsl - Stylesheets for processing DocBook XML files to HTML and FO. arbortext-catalog - Catalog support classes and parsing tools lib-saxon-jav

Re: Kernel image for amd xp 1900+

2003-07-01 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:36:29PM +0100, tt tt wrote: > Which kernel image (2.4.20) should I be using for a amd xp 1900+ > processor? Am i best using the one of the i686 k7 ones? k7 -- Jamin W. Collins Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question. - Neo -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Trying Again

2003-07-01 Thread Abrasive
I've had some trouble posting to this group, so I'm trying again with a different mail client. Here's my problem. I don't know what I'm doing... But about my other problems... I just installed a fresh copy of Debian 3.0r1, and in order for my hardware to work, I need to upgrade the kernel to a

Re: XFree86 4.3

2003-07-01 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Do you know about www.apt-get.org, to see if anyone has made it a .deb package yet? Otherwise, I'd look for installation instructions wherever you find the software itself. Cheers, Bret On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 08:37, Joeri De Backer wrote: > Hello, > > Is there anybody who can tell me if it's po

Acpi support fails (2.4.21)

2003-07-01 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I've downloaded Debian's patched kernel-source-2.4.21 and compiled it enabling Acpi support (HP Omnibook XT1000)... ... but acpi is not working. No /proc/acpi/ directory is created after reboot. Running dmesg shows: - - tbxface-0

Re: Jerky Screen Saver

2003-07-01 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Jerry said on Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:00:23AM -0700: > Thanks Mike for your reply. But, I'm such a greenie that I don't know > how to tell if OpenGL is working or not. I do know that when I run > glxgears, I only get about 66 - 80 fps. Could you please show me how to > tell if OpenGL is working,

RE: /. debate

2003-07-01 Thread Hill, Benjamin W
I like the quote: "Good article, especially interesting if you have been a fan of Debian." BEEN ;-) -Original Message- From: M. Kirchhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 July 2003 20:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /. debate Quoting Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -

Re: XFree86 4.3

2003-07-01 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 07:37, Joeri De Backer wrote: > Hello, > > Is there anybody who can tell me if it's possible to install > XFree86 version 4.3? If so: how? :-) > add to sources.list: #xfree86 4.3 deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/ ./ -matt -- To UNSUBSCRI

RE: HOWTO change a subscriber email address ?

2003-07-01 Thread Hill, Benjamin W
I guess you mean you wish to change the address that is subscribed to this list. In which case, resign from the group, then re-join with your new address. Cheers, Ben -Original Message- From: Courtney Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 July 2003 15:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subje

Re: kernel-source-2.4.21 from unstable with woody

2003-07-01 Thread Andre Berger
--XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2003-07-01 10:16 -0400: > * Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030701 10:13]: > > I'm trying to compile a 2.4.21 kernel on my w

Re: How to change a symlink without breaking anything (problemswith g++)

2003-07-01 Thread David Z Maze
Morten Eriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the correct manner of changing a symlink file belonging to a > Debian package? Is it sufficient to just rm and re-link, or should I > use any of the package-handling tools? You can't. (Well, you can, but the next time you upgrade the package,

Re: dselect

2003-07-01 Thread David Z Maze
Thomas Gies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why does dselect update packages from unstable even if I put > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > in my apt.conf? Because dselect isn't terribly cognizant of APT; dselect was written first, and doesn't really understand why one would have multiple avai

via-rhine & dhclient

2003-07-01 Thread Piero
Each time I turn onmy computer, I have to give commands: modprobe via-rhine dhclient How can I have them authomatically executed at every boot? I guess it's simple, but I cannot find the solution in any handbook or any man page. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Automount

2003-07-01 Thread Bob Proulx
JZidar wrote: > Is there an app or trick that would enable to just pop a cd or floppy in the > drive and use it without the need for mount and unmount every time? Can be > this built-in in the kernel? There is an automount but there not not any auto'un'mount of which I am aware. Which means you c

Re: Apache is killed everyday at 6:28

2003-07-01 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Am Die, 2003-07-01 um 13.30 schrieb Maria Garcia Suarez: > Jun 30 06:28:18 ser kernel: VM: killing process apache Maybe something (which has nothing to do with apache) consumes all your memory? 1. Have a look at /var/spool/cron and /etc/cron* 2. Maybe someone else on a different computer has a

gdm and /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile

2003-07-01 Thread matt zagrabelny
hello, gdm in the past (maybe 1 or 2 months ago) used /etc/profile when i logged in. now it doesnt seem to. same with my .bash_profile. has anyone else experienced this? is there an option in a config file for this? thanks. -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: PDF viewers capable of high zoom factors

2003-07-01 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Mon, 2003-06-30 um 15.23 schrieb Pigeon: > I have a map of the British mainland as a .pdf file. In order to see > useful local details on it, I want to be able to zoom in by about 50x. > I have tried xpdf, gv, ghostview and kghostview, but nothing appears > to be able to zoom in more than 1

Re: PDF viewers capable of high zoom factors

2003-07-01 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:04:59PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > Are Gnome applications still supposed to do stuff like this? > > rei $ gpdf LJ1300.pdf > > (gpdf:20471): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 729 > (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed > > (gp

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Richard Heycock
ls | while read file do cat "$bob" done for loops treat spaces and newlines the same (which is what you are seeing), the read command reads till the end of the line including spaces. Note that when you use the environment variable you must quote it (be sure to use " as opposed to '). If y

Problems with ncurses in X

2003-07-01 Thread Paladin
Hi everyone, For some time now I've been having some problems with ncurses programs inside X. When running "make menuconfig", for example, inside xterm or Eterm all frame lines appear as characters! Also, some times when exiting the program the characters "1;2c" appear in the shell. I think that t

Re: Upgrading the kernel

2003-07-01 Thread Kristian Peters
Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >># apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc [...] > ls /boot (see if that new kernel is in there) > ls /lib/modules (see if it gave you any modules to go with it) No no.. This is not intel. It's a Macintosh. In order to install a new kernel it is the b

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 9:46 am, Stephan Sauerburger wrote: > How do I have it make sure it iterates file-by-file? The following example, > to play all mp3s in the current directory: > > for file in `ls` > do > mpg123 $file > done > > ...will do just a fine job, so long as none of the file names

Odd Firebird Issue

2003-07-01 Thread James Lademann
Hi there, I recently installed Debian then upgraded to unstable and I'm working on setting things how I like it and installing all my favourite programs, but I've hit a snag with Mozilla-Firebird. I installed it and at first everything seemed fine and I installed a few of the extensions that looke

Re: Automount

2003-07-01 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 03:11:48PM +0200, JZidar wrote: > Is there an app or trick that would enable to just pop a cd or floppy in the > drive and use it without the need for mount and unmount every time? Can be > this built-in in the kernel? > > Basically this would an aoutmounter of some kind. a

Forcing installation over unmet dependencies

2003-07-01 Thread Morten Eriksen
Hi, probably another newbie question, but I couldn't find the answer in any doc: I wanted to upgrade the Qt development kit on my system, but on doing # apt-get install libqt3-dev I get Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libqt3-dev: Depends: xli

Re: port forwarding issues

2003-07-01 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On 07/01/2003 09:32:48 Bas Zoetekouw wrote: >> Hi Peter! >> >> You wrote: >> >> > i'm about to set up port forwarding on a firewall to be able to reach >> > some hosts on the lan from the outside. i wish to use iptables prerouting >> > rules. my question is, is there a way to detect the port

How to change a symlink without breaking anything (problems with g++)

2003-07-01 Thread Morten Eriksen
Hi, this is probably a newbie question, but I didn't see it covered in any of the FAQs or HOW-TOs I found at debian.org/docs/ (and the list search facilities seems quite sloppy, and I had no luck there either): What is the correct manner of changing a symlink file belonging to a Debian package? I

Re: port forwarding issues

2003-07-01 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:32:48PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > PS: debian-security is not meant for discussing securing your > firewall, but rather for reporting security vulnerabilities in > Debian packages. The debian-user mailing list is more > appropraite for this kind of qu

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:04:35PM +0200, Alfredo Valles wrote: > On Tuesday 01 July 2003 3:18 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > There's one mistake in the above even before looking at the contents of > > "#stuff", namely that you shouldn't be using ls here. Have a look at > > this document written by a

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 3:18 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > There's one mistake in the above even before looking at the contents of > "#stuff", namely that you shouldn't be using ls here. Have a look at > this document written by a friend of mine: > http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2001/04/shell.html

Newbie Question

2003-07-01 Thread Abrasive
Okay, after loading a new machine with Debian 3.0r1, I've found that I need to install a newer kernel. Without the kernel, debian won't recognize my NIC or my display adapter. So, I don't have internet access on that computer. I'd like to download all the necessary files to upgrade the kerne

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 07:43:28AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:46:58AM -0500, Stephan Sauerburger wrote: > > So how can one have the for loop separate the elements of the list > > only by newlines ("\n"), filling the contents of "file" with the > > whole line, and no

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Lukas Ruf
Jon Haugsand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-01 19:43]: in your directory. > > A very failsafe variant is to use find: > > find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 mpg123 I usually make use of find's parameter -maxdepth level if you would like to restrict the search to a certain depth of the directory

Re: HOWTO change a subscriber email address ?

2003-07-01 Thread TR
Unsubscribe the old address. Subscribe the new address. Should be enough. On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:44:04 -0500 Courtney Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to change my email address immediately. > > Please advise me how to do it. > > Thank you. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Automount

2003-07-01 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 03:11:48PM +0200, JZidar wrote: > Is there an app or trick that would enable to just pop a cd or floppy in the > drive and use it without the need for mount and unmount every time? Can be > this built-in in the kernel? Yes, you can have automounting. Install the autofs pac

Re: 2.4.21 not compiling

2003-07-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 21:44:07 +1000 "SYNeR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After I let this compile run, I checked / , and saw that the kernel had > not in fact been updated like it was supposed to (before, it installed it > to / for me, then pointed the vmlinuz to the new kernel, and vmlinuz.old > to

Re: removing a package from apt-get?

2003-07-01 Thread j2
> I'm assuming that the packages that you tried to install with dpkg are the > gnokii packages. Correct. > It appears that they were compiled for unstable or > testing, and you are using stable (I can tell because of the libc6 > dependancy). Well, more correctly: I ran apt.get on the wrong syste

Re: --purge after apt-get remove?

2003-07-01 Thread gaumer
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 19:44, Tod Hagan wrote: > I did > > apt-get remove > > on a freshly-installed system (woody) without realizing that the conf > files would be retained. Since it's a freshly-installed system, I > don't need these conf files, so I should have done > > apt-get --purge remove

unsubscribe

2003-07-01 Thread Curtis Dunlap
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Re: make-kpkg: permission denied making modules_image

2003-07-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:17:58 +0200, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > also sprach David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.06.30.2141 +0200]: >> > cp: cannot create regular file >> > `/usr/src/modules/nvidia/debian/control': Permission denied >> >> Right: with the default setup, the u

Re: make-kpkg: permission denied making modules_image

2003-07-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:50:13 +0200, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I just configured, then made the kernel_image for a custom 2.4.21 > kernel with a couple of patches: > make-kpkg --append-to-version > -diamond-grsec-1.9.10+freeswan-ext-1.99+preempt-20030617-2 > --revision 200

Re: HOWTO change a subscriber email address ?

2003-07-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-06-30T20:44:04Z, Courtney Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to change my email address immediately. > > Please advise me how to do it. Unsubscribe/resubscribe? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: make-kpkg: permission denied making modules_image

2003-07-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:17:58 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right: with the default setup, the user who runs make-kpkg needs write > > access to /usr/src/modules, or you need to run under sudo. > > what??? this must be a joke? /usr can be mounted read-only! That's not a jok

Re: make-kpkg: permission denied making modules_image

2003-07-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 01 Jul 2003 09:57:19 +0200 JG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Setup: > 1.- Add yourself to the "src" group (/usr/src/ belongs to root.src) > 2.- Check that /usr/src/modules belongs to root.src, and has the sticky > bit on: > > $ls -lsd /usr/src/modules/ >4 drwxrwsr-x2 root src

Re: GRUB problem

2003-07-01 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 19:54:51 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Errrm, *I* didn't produce that line > kernel /vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci root=/dev/hda1 ro > - grub-install did. > > In fact, if I read GRUB terminology aright, it's looking for > (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci. > Or, as Linux se

Re: run-parts bug (maybe)

2003-07-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 19:09:39 -0500, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> > Is this a bug or something about my particular system? >> > Apparently the maintainer of the kernel-patch package expected it >> > to work, because the name of the file to be run was >> > debian-2.4.21. >> >> If there is

dselect

2003-07-01 Thread Thomas Gies
Hi. Why does dselect update packages from unstable even if I put APT::Default-Release "testing"; in my apt.conf? Thomas -- Die Welt ist kunterbunt, mein Arsch wiegt 180 Pfund. - Hans Peter Gies, 1989 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: --purge after apt-get remove?

2003-07-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:44:14PM -0400, Tod Hagan wrote: | Is there a way to purge the conf files that's quicker than | reinstalling and then purging the packages? dpkg --purge (yeah, it's too bad apt can't do that) -D -- The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a man from t

Re: openbox3

2003-07-01 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Quoting gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does anyone know if there is a deb of openbox3? > I don't believe so. It was just released as source on 29 June...doubt anyone has created a .deb package yet. I'm excited to try it, though; supposedly version 3 is written from scratch. -- M. Kirchhoff (

NFS

2003-07-01 Thread tt tt
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Kernel image for amd xp 1900+

2003-07-01 Thread tt tt
Which kernel image (2.4.20) should I be using for a amd xp 1900+ processor? Am i best using the one of the i686 k7 ones?Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger

caching for shfs, lufs

2003-07-01 Thread Gregory Seidman
I'm trying to get at my (legal) mp3 collection on my home machine from work. I do not want to run a web server on my home machine. Really, I'd like to just mount my mp3 directory over ssh, which is where lufs and shfs come in. I've compiled and installed the modules for both lufs and shfs, and I ca

Re: Remove With Understanding Due Work, Power And Nature Of I Associative We

2003-07-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 12:34:02PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 23:59, cr wrote: > > On Friday 27 June 2003 11:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > LABOR TRUE SOLUTIONS WITH RESOLVE TOMORROW METABOLIC MIXTURE > > > THE TRADE WITH PEACE IS NOT CONSUMPTION CONTROVERSIAL DEALINGS

Re: Worked around (dirty...) How to apply no-debianized kernel patch to debianized kernel-source?

2003-07-01 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:53:40AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Sounds like the GFDL. You might want to have a look at debian-legal > archives on this topic; there are unfortunately various concerns about > its freeness as far as Debian's definition of the term is concerned. :-/ http://lists.debia

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Johannes Zarl
> for file in *.ogg; do > ogg123 "$file" > done > > (Since the double-quotes allow variable expansion, but force the > result to be a single "world" for shell purposes.) To deal with all (im)possible filenames, you could even do: for file in *.ogg do ogg123 -- "$file" done Just in case

Re: bash: display running foreground command in xterm title

2003-07-01 Thread Paul Foote
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:17:03PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > How can I get bash to display the currently running command (at least the > foreground process) in the titlebar of an xterm? All I'm finding on Google > involves the C shell, which I don't use. I gave it a little try, but the prob

Re: kernel 2.5.xx and Qt

2003-07-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:17:44AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > menuconfig works fine with kernel 2.5.xxx, but xconfig needs Qt. > Why to use Qt rather Gtk ? Because that's what the kernel developers WANTED to do. Why favor GTK over Qt? -- Marc Wilson | problem drinker, n.: A man who never

Re: apt-get / sources.list

2003-07-01 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Tue, July 01 at 10:56 AM EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >I'm using testing and stable. Yesterday I had to install some packages >from unstable. > >When I added the sourcelines for unstable and run an apt-get update the >information about the packages was fetched, but when reading the >pack

Re: /. debate

2003-07-01 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Quoting Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:00:18PM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote: > > Ok, how many of you participated in the /. debates over the weekend? :) > > What were they about? The impending death of Debian (a

Re: debian popularity contest mail bounce

2003-07-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:46:45AM +0530, K S Sreeram wrote: > I am running debian sarge, and debian popularity contest mail that was > addressed to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' bounced. > > I have attached the mail delivery failure report. > > Is there some problem with the mail address which is being us

Re: Jerky Screen Saver

2003-07-01 Thread Jerry
Mike Dresser wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, debian_newbie wrote: Sorry for taking so long to respond. Yes, Euphoria also does the same thing. Except it is even worse. Euphoria has an 18 second delay between jerks (movements). I also noticed that I have a lot of screensaver names listed but they

Re: apt-get error?

2003-07-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:31:15AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Today I noticed a starnge (to me) behaviour of apt-get. I am running a > predominantly sarge system with the latest xpdf installed. For some > reason I downloaded the deb sources of the same and installed it. > > But, when I do an ap

Re: make-kpkg: permission denied making modules_image

2003-07-01 Thread martin f krafft
Package: kernel-package Version: 8.040 Severity: normal I am filing this as a bug. also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.06.30.2217 +0200]: > > fakeroot make-kpkg --options > > How will that help. It is actually trying to create a file under > /usr/src while being called as a non

XFree86 4.3

2003-07-01 Thread Joeri De Backer
Hello,   Is there anybody who can tell me if it's possible to install XFree86 version 4.3?  If so: how? :-)   I need this version for my video-driver...   Thanks,   Joeri.

Re: please help me to editi xconfig

2003-07-01 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 03:10:07 +0200, Reza wrote: > I have installed nvidia driver in debian woody, You mean the binary driver from nVidia? > but i still confused in > editing the xconfig-4. Actually i have edit it based on the example, but > fail, it said that server error, no screen found. Since

Re: --purge after apt-get remove?

2003-07-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:44:14PM -0400, Tod Hagan wrote: > I did > > apt-get remove > > on a freshly-installed system (woody) without realizing that the conf > files would be retained. Since it's a freshly-installed system, I > don't need these conf files, so I should have done > > apt-get --

xosd: can't get it to work....

2003-07-01 Thread Joel Alexandre
hi, i've just found out xosd. i installed it from source (http://www.ignavus.net/xosd-2.2.2.tar.gz). but when i run the example from http://ldots.org/xosd-guide/osd_cat.html i get "Error initializing osd: Default font not found" $ FONT="-adobe-helvetica-bold-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" $ tail -f /va

Re: HOWTO change a subscriber email address ?

2003-07-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 03:44:04PM -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote: > I need to change my email address immediately. Send an email from the address you're leaving to [EMAIL PROTECTED], subject set to unsubscribe. Doesn't matter what's in the body. You w

Re: HOWTO change a subscriber email address ?

2003-07-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Monday 30 June 2003 22:44, Courtney Thomas wrote: > I need to change my email address immediately. > > Please advise me how to do it. unsubscribe and then subscribe using your new email. joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: HOWTO change a subscriber email address ?

2003-07-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 03:44:04PM -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote: > I need to change my email address immediately. > > Please advise me how to do it. Unsubscribe using the old address (you can explicitly say 'unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]' if necessary, as long as you can still read mail sent to t

Re: samba error

2003-07-01 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 12:09, caleb vaale wrote: [snip] > The Samba 'panic action' script, /usr/share/samba/panic-action, > was called for pid 1509 (/usr/sbin/smbd). > > Below is a backtrace for this process generated with gdb, which [snip] > (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols fo

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:28:32AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > ITYM 'for file in *'... > ISTR earlier versions... flip man! i needed two references to `dict` to read your email. Guess i should learn some acronyms! -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: run-parts bug (maybe)

2003-07-01 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi, David! * David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-01 16:09]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/apply/ > total 4 > lrwxrwxrwx1 dlb dlb13 Jun 28 20:40 debian-2-4-21 -> > debian-2.4.21* > -rwxrwxr-x1 root src 689 Jun 28 08:36 debian-2.4.21*

Re: port forwarding issues

2003-07-01 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Peter! You wrote: > i'm about to set up port forwarding on a firewall to be able to reach > some hosts on the lan from the outside. i wish to use iptables prerouting > rules. my question is, is there a way to detect the port forwarding, > and/or get info about the host i forward to (ip addres

Re: gdm help

2003-07-01 Thread David Z Maze
"Robert Soricone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wndering if someone could tell me where I could find the file > that contains all of the possible window managers under gdm. I > looked under /etc/X11, and couldn't find it. I'm running woody, > with kernel 2.4.21. gdm tends to leave its con

Re: --purge after apt-get remove?

2003-07-01 Thread David Z Maze
Tod Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apt-get remove ... > Is there a way to purge the conf files that's quicker than > reinstalling and then purging the packages? Just running 'dpkg --purge packagename' should DTRT, no need to reinstall. You should be able to find packages with only configur

Re: HOWTO change a subscriber email address ?

2003-07-01 Thread Bob Hilliard
Courtney Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to change my email address immediately. > > Please advise me how to do it. First, unsubscribe the old address (using the directions at the bottom of this mail), then subscribe the new address. HTH. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D.

Re: apt-get / sources.list

2003-07-01 Thread Bob Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > When I added the sourcelines for unstable and run an apt-get update the > information about the packages was fetched, but when reading the > packagelist, apt stoped with an error message saying, that it has not > enough memory. You didn't quote the exact error mes

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread thomas . gies
Hi. Try find. It has the -exec parameter. That is what you want. -- Die Welt ist kunterbunt, mein Arsch wiegt 180 Pfund. - Hans Peter Gies, 1989 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Stephan Sauerburger > This is a general shell-scripting question: > > In a for loop which runs through all files, as in: > > for file in `ls` > do > #stuff > done > > How do I have it make sure it iterates file-by-file? The following example, to play > all > mp3s in the current directory: > >

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Tue, July 01 at 2:46 AM EDT Stephan Sauerburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So how can one have the for loop separate the elements of the list only >by newlines ("\n"), filling the contents of "file" with the whole line, >and not separate by spaces, tabs, or other white space? You'll probably

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