Re: weird tcpdump dependency on libaviplaydha

2003-07-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.11.0824 +0200]: > results instead of crapping out completely. Although, I guess if the > magic numbers and some headers are correct, ldd could do its thing. > It could have somehow gotten crossed up with another library which does > depend on l

OT: Dairy Apt

2003-07-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was using aptitutde while listening to the radio when a Dairy Queen ad came on. Towards the end of the ad, they said their advertising slogan, "D.Q. something different." Well, I had to cancel right after I hit g too many times. When they read the

RE: sources.list

2003-07-10 Thread Louie Miranda
Sure nick. -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Original Message- From: Nick Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sources.list Hi, please do not email directly to people. Email to the list only. * Loui

Re: sources.list

2003-07-10 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Fri, July 11 at 1:47 PM EDT "Louie Miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /* *>Yes I am. Do you know where can I get a list of sources from debian? I *>cant find it on the debian.org website. *> *>-- *>Thank you, *>Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) */ */ # stable deb http://http.us.debian.

Re: weird tcpdump dependency on libaviplaydha

2003-07-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030704 03:59]: > also sprach Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.03.2026 +0200]: > > My next suspicion is that although tcpdump itself is fine, libpcap > > may be screwy. I have libpcap0.7 0.7.2-1 here. > > You got it. Now either my libpcap got trojane

Re: make-kpkg: permission denied making modules_image

2003-07-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.11.0457 +0200]: > See? Each lndir directory only has files that were patched, or > object files; and the ../linux-2.4.20 is pristine, ready to be > patched up to 2.4.21. I see this, yes. I used to do it exactly the same way, with ha

Re: sources.list

2003-07-10 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, please do not email directly to people. Email to the list only. * Louie Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030711 14:39]: > Gerard, the url you provided does not exist. Not top posting would make it easier too. > -Original Message- > additional non official sources. Http://apt-get.org is

Re: Spamassassin & SA Proxy

2003-07-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 10:56:53PM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > Of course, that could be a tad overkill just to filter email. Actually, it's super-efficient. I do it this way, works wonders. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

Re: Gnome-Terminal size not restored

2003-07-10 Thread Javier Kohen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark L. Kahnt wrote: | On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 00:28, Javier Kohen wrote: | |>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |>Hash: SHA1 |> |> |>Am I the only one experiencing this problem? (See report at |>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=161011 ) |

RE: sources.list

2003-07-10 Thread Louie Miranda
Yes I am. Do you know where can I get a list of sources from debian? I cant find it on the debian.org website. -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Original Message- From: Nick Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subje

RE: Exim virus scanner?

2003-07-10 Thread Louie Miranda
No wait, now I can see it :) hehe. -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Original Message- From: Nick Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Exim virus scanner? Hi, * Louie Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03

RE: sources.list

2003-07-10 Thread Louie Miranda
But anyway, I did update the packages now using apt-setup. Thanks. -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Original Message- From: Louie Miranda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:39 PM To: 'gerard'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: sources.list Gerard, th

Re: sources.list

2003-07-10 Thread Nick Hastings
* Louie Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030711 14:14]: > Am I missing something? > > -- > root:/# cat /etc/apt/sources.list You apear to be using Woody (stable), as my email indicated I am using unstable: hence the are more/newer packages avaliable to me. Nick. -- Debian testing

RE: sources.list

2003-07-10 Thread Louie Miranda
Gerard, the url you provided does not exist. -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Original Message- From: gerard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sources.list depends what you are looking for, but there are n

Re: sources.list

2003-07-10 Thread gerard
depends what you are looking for, but there are no internet sources for updates and upgrades. Try running apt-setup to help you get some more sources. Depending on what software you want to use you may need to get additional non official sources. Http://apt-get.org is a pretty good source for that.

Re: Exim virus scanner?

2003-07-10 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Louie Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030711 13:59]: > Hello, > > Does anyone know an exim virus scanner for debian? Yes, apt-cache does: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 17% apt-cache search exim virus amavis-ng - AMaViS "Next Generation" amavisd-new - Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content f

problems with using dpkg on new installation

2003-07-10 Thread Allasso
Hello, I am installing Debian Woody on my second hard-drive, using my existing system to intall. Completed to the point of installing dbootstrap, (following the instructions outlined in "Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 for Intel x86", http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.html#cont

sources.list

2003-07-10 Thread Louie Miranda
Am I missing something? -- root:/# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 Update CD 20030109: i386]/ woody contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main non-US/non-free non-free deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20021218)]/ unstable

RE: Exim virus scanner?

2003-07-10 Thread Louie Miranda
I did not see your search on my box. Just the amavis-postfix. -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Original Message- From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Exim virus scanner? On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 1

Re: Exim virus scanner?

2003-07-10 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
check out clamav .. its in testing - Original Message - From: "Louie Miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 10:27 AM Subject: Exim virus scanner? > Hello, > > Does anyone know an exim virus scanner for debian? > > > -- > Thank you, > Louie Mirand

Re: Exim virus scanner?

2003-07-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:57:22 +0800 "Louie Miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know an exim virus scanner for debian? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache search exim virus amavis-postfix - Interface between MTA and virus scanner. amavisd-new - Interface between MTA and virus scanner/conten

Exim virus scanner?

2003-07-10 Thread Louie Miranda
Hello, Does anyone know an exim virus scanner for debian? -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keyboard died when switch from X to console and back(using Alt-Fn)

2003-07-10 Thread Zhao YouBing
Zhao YouBing wrote: When I kill X, the keyboard get reponse again, I don't know how to get around of this problem. Thanks I use framebuffer, I've tried if I use console there will be no such problems -- Zhao YouBing, Ph.D student State Key Lab of CAD&CG,Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P.

Re: Gnome-Terminal size not restored

2003-07-10 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 00:28, Javier Kohen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Am I the only one experiencing this problem? (See report at > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=161011 ) > > I'm using Debian's gnome-session, so I'm not doing anything weird.

Linux Kernel 2.4.21 and bootldr.ver

2003-07-10 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
Am I the only one having trouble building ALSA modules for the 2.4.21 kernel? While it built and works fine with 2.4.20, with 2.4.21, I get: make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/bootldr.ver', needed by `hwdep.o'. Stop. I get the absence of that file noted wit

Re: xine playback is jerky

2003-07-10 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 8:50 pm, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:29:37 -0500 > > Marino Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Run xine-check again, do you still get those errors?. > > Yes, even though I can watch the DVDs. It must be that you do not have that xine-config script.

Re: what plugins i needed?

2003-07-10 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Thursday 10 July 2003 8:57 am, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Rus Foster wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: > >> What plugins i need to download when i viewed a web sites with mozilla > >> with the following error message? > >> > >> "This page contains information of a

Re: Spamassassin & SA Proxy

2003-07-10 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Jernej Zidar wrote: > Can Spamassassin be made into a fictious proxy server to whom one could > point his email client? If you want to filter a remote email account through spamassassin for incoming mail, you could: 1) Set up a MTA agent on the proxy machine.

Re: Need help getting sound working

2003-07-10 Thread irvine
Hei I didn't read all of your email but will recommend the following link anyway. http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=541&page=1 Just in case I pasted the link incorrectly go to www.linuxorbit.com, click on HOWTOs, go to the bottom

Re: Trouble getting uml networking going.

2003-07-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 06 Jul 2003 04:48:39 -0400, Shaun ONeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Two things that strike me are that uml_net's default permissions > require you to be root, or in group uml-net .. and uml_net performs > the tun/tap configuration itself - I'm not sure if the route already > existing would be

keyboard died when switch from X to console and back(using Alt-Fn)

2003-07-10 Thread Zhao YouBing
When I kill X, the keyboard get reponse again, I don't know how to get around of this problem. Thanks -- Zhao YouBing, Ph.D student State Key Lab of CAD&CG,Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P.R.China Tel : 0571-87951045(O), 87933444(H) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- T

Re: make-kpkg: permission denied making modules_image

2003-07-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 09:31:28 +0200, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > i hope you don't mind me asking a question... also sprach Manoj > Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.06.0223 +0200]: >> % sudo echo 'debian := 5:501c' >> /etc/kernel-pkg.conf > what does this line do? I

Re: Games thru SSH

2003-07-10 Thread Ian Melnick
> Actually, Quake becomes quite playable with aalib over the network. > If you consider aalib playable to start with. So how do I use aalib with it? 'ttyquake' segfaults. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Need help getting sound working

2003-07-10 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm trying to get sound working on my Woody computer. I have some confidence that the hardware is correctly installed because the computer plays the ogg vorbis files that are provided with Knoppix, but only with the software on the Knoppix demo disk. I have installed xmms debian package and copie

Re: vi Qustion

2003-07-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:42:35 -0400 Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :%s/^/text/ > is all you need. Showing the regex was also covering the other base which is if the entire line isn't needed, or repeating text in the line. IE *any regex can go here*. > You sure like to do things t

Re: [OT] Is there a HOWTO for HOWTO's

2003-07-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:11:57PM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > What is a good source of information about writing properly formatted > HOWTOs? I googled for it, but I couldn't find anything really concrete. > Do I just imitate how other HO

Re: vi Qustion

2003-07-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 07:29:10PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On 11 Jul 2003 12:23:21 +1000 > Richard Heycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The easiest way to do this is to type: > > A [insert at the beginning of the line] > > > > j [moves down one line] > > . [re-do

Re: Games thru SSH

2003-07-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:55:44PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Not really. Not if you're actually thinking that you can *play quake* > over an ssh session. On a local lan, you *might* be able to do it (with > a very low framerate), but there's no

Re: vi Qustion

2003-07-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On 11 Jul 2003 12:23:21 +1000 Richard Heycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The easiest way to do this is to type: > A [insert at the beginning of the line] > > j [moves down one line] > . [re-does the last command] > > This will work in both vi and vim. Un

Re: Spamassassin & SA Proxy

2003-07-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:08:13PM +0200, Jernej Zidar wrote: > Can Spamassassin be made into a fictious proxy server to whom one could > point his email client? What do you intent to accomplish that way? We might be able to suggest a better, actuall

Re: HELP! installing from boot floppies

2003-07-10 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:49:59AM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Shaul Karl wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 04:12:33PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > > >>When trying to install from floppies per instructions on Debian site, > >>after the first disk (made from rescue.bin), I am asked to "Inser

Re: vi Qustion

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Heycock
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 09:25, Jake Johnson wrote: > I used to be able to use the arrow keys to move around with out any > problems, but know when I move (with the arrow keys after pressing "i") to > the beginning of the line I have to press I again. How do I change it so > that I don't always have

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-10 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 July 2003 05:06, Aaron wrote: > Just an update on this font thing... > And I don't mean not anti-aliased, I mean the characters are TRASHED. > Also, they are trashed the same way every time, like if you look at a > capital W in one place

Re: Log of init.d services started....

2003-07-10 Thread Colin Watson
[Please don't send me private copies of list mail.] On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:08:55PM -0400, David Corbin wrote: > On Thursday 10 July 2003 19:27, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:56:57PM -0400, David Corbin wrote: > > > Is there any log of services started on boot from the rc?.

PHP + GD + Type 1 Fonts

2003-07-10 Thread Sam Minnee
Hi, I've been trying to get PHP's GD functions (imagecreate etc) to draw text using type 1 fonts, without much success. I've tried both the stable and unstable releases of the php4 + php4-gd2 packages, and i've tried i. The symptoms vary, between one of the 3 options: * PHP crashes with a segme

Re: Log of init.d services started....

2003-07-10 Thread David Corbin
On Thursday 10 July 2003 19:27, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:56:57PM -0400, David Corbin wrote: > > Is there any log of services started on boot from the rc?.d/init.d > > directories. > > I'm afraid not. > While we're on the subject, any reason debian doesn't use a standardized

Re: bash: get file modification time query

2003-07-10 Thread Zhao YouBing
Robin Gerard wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:32:25PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: * David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030709 12:08]: Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls -l & sed ? I have a bash script that needs to get the info. Because the file size var

Re: vi Qustion

2003-07-10 Thread Zhao YouBing
Jake Johnson wrote: Thanks Nicos, This has been bugging me for a while now. I just installed vim and it works perfectly. Thanks again, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best

syncing with a palm using evolution from kde

2003-07-10 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi folks, I recently got presented a sony clie which I have managed to work under linux - coldsync recognises and communicates with it just fine. I would however, like to sync it with Evolution. I have installed gnome-pilot and its other dependencies but I am running kde and cant installed the ne

Re: Libc 6.2, Debian and compiling modules for ATI Radeon 9700

2003-07-10 Thread Nick Lidakis
Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: I was able to accomplish this by following ATI's well-enough written HOWTO (it is the "Release Notes" link). Their driver is compatible with the newer version of libc in unstable. I am currently running this setup right now. Just use their Xfree4.2.x and libc dri

Extracting fields (was bash: get file modification time query)

2003-07-10 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Wed 9 Jul 2003 19:53:05 +(+0100), David selby wrote: > Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls > -l & sed ? I have a bash script that needs to get the info. Because the > file size varies I cannot use cut, it may cut the wrong bit. Dave, Firstly I don't me

[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: kdvi fonts ragged but xdvi is OK]]

2003-07-10 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
--- Begin Message --- H, Hilmar Preusse wrote: On 10.07.03 R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Folks, I have upgraded to Debian unstable KDE 3.1.2-1 and teTeX 2.0.2-4. A DVI file using default cmr fonts looks ragged and unreadable in kdvi while it dislays clearly and readably

Re: Log of init.d services started....

2003-07-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:56:57PM -0400, David Corbin wrote: > Is there any log of services started on boot from the rc?.d/init.d > directories. I'm afraid not. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: vi Qustion

2003-07-10 Thread Jake Johnson
Thanks Nicos, This has been bugging me for a while now. I just installed vim and it works perfectly. Thanks again, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims, Car

Re: Shell problem!! I'm going crazy!

2003-07-10 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:59:33PM +0200, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > > When I do "cat *" in my homedirectory I get > the following error message > > In english something like > cat: unknow flag "--exclude" > Try "cat --help" for more information. You have a file called "--exclude" in your home d

Re: bash: get file modification time query

2003-07-10 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 01:00:19AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:32:25PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030709 12:08]: > > > Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls > > > -l & sed ? I have a bash script tha

Re: vi Qustion

2003-07-10 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Friday 11 July 2003 01:25, Jake Johnson wrote: > I used to be able to use the arrow keys to move around with out any > problems, but know when I move (with the arrow keys after pressing "i") to > the beginning of the line I have to press I again. How do I change it so > that I don't always have

vi Qustion

2003-07-10 Thread Jake Johnson
I used to be able to use the arrow keys to move around with out any problems, but know when I move (with the arrow keys after pressing "i") to the beginning of the line I have to press I again. How do I change it so that I don't always have to press "i"? I hope that wasn't too confusing. example

Re: color picker

2003-07-10 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: I remember using a color picker tool a while back that allowed you to select any color on the desktop (or in windows etc). I have a feeling it was a KDE application. Does anyone know what it might have been off hand? I tried doing apt-cache sea

Re: Libc 6.2, Debian and compiling modules for ATI Radeon 9700

2003-07-10 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: I just purchased a Radeon 9700 Pro (new MB also, Intel 875PBZ)so I could play America's Army in Linux. I used to play with a Radeon 8500LE, debian testing, a custom kernel and ATI's drivers for 3d acceleration. At this time last year ,IIRC, Debi

Re: [OT] Is there a HOWTO for HOWTO's

2003-07-10 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:11:57PM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > What is a good source of information about writing properly formatted > HOWTOs? I googled for it, but I couldn't find anything really concrete. > Do I just imitate how other HOWTO's are written?? Here are a few that I know

Re: Games thru SSH

2003-07-10 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:40:09 +0200, Ian Melnick wrote: > What about Doom in Dosemu? How do I get that to work? It locks up right > before the main game screen comes up. Is there a HowTo somewhere? I > couldn't find a good one...but I did find screenshots! The best thing for doom is (rather then fs

[OT] Is there a HOWTO for HOWTO's

2003-07-10 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
What is a good source of information about writing properly formatted HOWTOs? I googled for it, but I couldn't find anything really concrete. Do I just imitate how other HOWTO's are written?? TIA, -- Harshwardhan Nagaonkar Electrical Engineering Sysop Brigham Young University, UT-84602 -- To UNS

Re: Shell problem!! I'm going crazy!

2003-07-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:59:33PM +0200, Nils-Erik Svang?rd wrote: > When I do "cat *" in my homedirectory I get > the following error message > > cat: ok?nd flagga "--exclude" > F?rs?k med "cat --help" f?r mer information. You've got a file called "--exclude" in your home directory. Try: cat

Re: bash: get file modification time query

2003-07-10 Thread Robin Gerard
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:32:25PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030709 12:08]: > > Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls > > -l & sed ? I have a bash script that needs to get the info. Because the > > file size varies I cannot us

Log of init.d services started....

2003-07-10 Thread David Corbin
Is there any log of services started on boot from the rc?.d/init.d directories. For reason I can't fathom (yet), my DSL connection doesn't come up on boot, but running the init.d later does work. It's currently set up as S95adsl in rc2.d. I knwow I could do something by modifying the script

Re: Shell problem!! I'm going crazy!

2003-07-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: Hello! When I do "cat *" in my homedirectory I get the following error message cat: okänd flagga "--exclude" Försök med "cat --help" för mer information. In english something like cat: unknow flag "--exclude" Try "cat --help" for more information. If I "cd .." and "cat

Re: using the debianlogo kernel patch fails. (sollution provided)

2003-07-10 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op do 10-07-2003, om 19:15 schreef Kevin McKinley: > On 10 Jul 2003 16:50:52 +0200 > Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > apt-get install tk8.4/unstable (-> i removed it prior to the kernelbuild > > so i reinstalled it. This could be useful to add to newbie kernel > >procedure

Re: Games thru SSH

2003-07-10 Thread Ian Melnick
> Not really. Not if you're actually thinking that you can *play quake* > over an ssh session. On a local lan, you *might* be able to do it (with > a very low framerate), but there's no way you're going to be able to: > - shove 30fps or so across an ssh connection > - do any sort of serious graph

Re: Shell problem!! I'm going crazy!

2003-07-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Nils-Erik Svangård ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030710 15:21]: > Hello! > > When I do "cat *" in my homedirectory I get > the following error message > > cat: okänd flagga "--exclude" > Försök med "cat --help" för mer information. 20 bucks says you have a file called '--exclude' in that directory! =)

Libc 6.2, Debian and compiling modules for ATI Radeon 9700

2003-07-10 Thread Nick Lidakis
I just purchased a Radeon 9700 Pro (new MB also, Intel 875PBZ)so I could play America's Army in Linux. I used to play with a Radeon 8500LE, debian testing, a custom kernel and ATI's drivers for 3d acceleration. At this time last year ,IIRC, Debian testing had Libc 6.2, which according to the ATI

Shell problem!! I'm going crazy!

2003-07-10 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Hello! When I do "cat *" in my homedirectory I get the following error message cat: okänd flagga "--exclude" Försök med "cat --help" för mer information. In english something like cat: unknow flag "--exclude" Try "cat --help" for more information. If I "cd .." and "cat mydir/*" it works and th

Re: Games thru SSH

2003-07-10 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:34:49PM -0500, Ian Melnick wrote: > Hello, all > > For a while I've been wanting to play games like doom and quake thru an > ssh session. I would have settled for 'text mode' quake, but the older > libraries provided with it segfault on my system. Then I thought maybe I

color picker

2003-07-10 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
I remember using a color picker tool a while back that allowed you to select any color on the desktop (or in windows etc). I have a feeling it was a KDE application. Does anyone know what it might have been off hand? I tried doing apt-cache search color picker, but didn't see anything obvious. tha

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-10 Thread Aaron
Just an update on this font thing... First I found out that RedHat 7.x uses a hacked version of xft that includes TTF support from xfstt (yes, I use RedHat on one of my machines, forgive me). I finally did get TTF files to become available to X, and I can browse them in xfontsel, but they all look

Re: Games thru SSH

2003-07-10 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Ian Melnick: > Hello, all > > For a while I've been wanting to play games like doom and quake thru an > ssh session. I would have settled for 'text mode' quake, but the older > libraries provided with it segfault on my system. Then I thought maybe I > could use dosemu; as people say doo

Games thru SSH

2003-07-10 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello, all For a while I've been wanting to play games like doom and quake thru an ssh session. I would have settled for 'text mode' quake, but the older libraries provided with it segfault on my system. Then I thought maybe I could use dosemu; as people say doom runs in it, but I've had no luck;

Installing a package without overwriting files

2003-07-10 Thread Johan Parin
Hi all, I have the following problem: I'm using the "fglrx" driver for my ATI Radeon. The driver came as an rpm which I converted to a debian package using alien. The package installs /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2. This file is also installed by xlibmesa3-gl. I'm not sure if the fglrx package compl

Re: USB mouse not recognized till after gpm starts

2003-07-10 Thread Kent West
Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:00:35AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I've got a Del Optiplex GX260 with a USB mouse. When I boot up, gpm starts before the USB mouse driver stuff kicks in, therefore gpm doesn't see the mouse. After I get logged in, I can then run "/etc/init.d/gpm restar

Re: HELP! installing from boot floppies

2003-07-10 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Actually, I did try that. Same error. Shaul Karl wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 04:12:33PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: When trying to install from floppies per instructions on Debian site, after the first disk (made from rescue.bin), I am asked to "Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into

Re: utopia.sty missing from Debian teTeX 2.0.2 unstable packages

2003-07-10 Thread Thomas Esser
> I have recently upgraded to the unstable Debian teTeX 2.0.2-4 packages > and cannot seem to find utopia.sty. > > Is this a feature of the teTeX release or a bug in the Debian packaging? That's part of the feature of teTeX being free software. The utopia fonts are not free. Thomas -- To UNS

Re: netastat errors

2003-07-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
Please do not start new threads by replying to messages from existing threads. On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 13:06:29 -0400, Gabriel Jeffrey wrote: > ..Starting AppleTalk services (this will take a while): socket: Address > family not supported by protocol This typically means that the kernel you're r

Re: Problem installing soft modem drivers.

2003-07-10 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 07:31:36PM +0100, Ben Edwards wrote: > Trying to compile softmodem drivers on Debian stable. > > Have got kernel source at /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 > > In common.mk set KERNELSRC=/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 > > When I try to 'make install' I get an error that 'KERN

kdvi fonts ragged but xdvi is OK

2003-07-10 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Folks, I have upgraded to Debian unstable KDE 3.1.2-1 and teTeX 2.0.2-4. A DVI file using default cmr fonts looks ragged and unreadable in kdvi while it dislays clearly and readably with anti-aliasing under xdvi. I installed fonts using the KDE Control Centre font installer before this problem

utopia.sty missing from Debian teTeX 2.0.2 unstable packages

2003-07-10 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I have recently upgraded to the unstable Debian teTeX 2.0.2-4 packages and cannot seem to find utopia.sty. Is this a feature of the teTeX release or a bug in the Debian packaging? --Chandra 11 Jul 03 -- Dr R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar Australian Research Centre for Medical Enginee

Problem installing soft modem drivers.

2003-07-10 Thread Ben Edwards
Trying to compile softmodem drivers on Debian stable. Have got kernel source at /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 In common.mk set KERNELSRC=/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 When I try to 'make install' I get an error that 'KERNELSRC douse not point to a proper directory'. Any ideas? Ben **

Re: Recommend site for debian lan topology

2003-07-10 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:19:22PM +0200, lists1 wrote: > For Debian, which will be woody on the mail/dns/ntp server, and a mix > of woody/testing/unstable (basically the knoppix install, plus some > customization) for the desktops and internal servers, what would be > the easiest combination in t

Re: using the debianlogo kernel patch fails. (sollution provided)

2003-07-10 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 10 Jul 2003 16:50:52 +0200 Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get install tk8.4/unstable (-> i removed it prior to the kernelbuild > so i reinstalled it. This could be useful to add to newbie kernel >procedure doc of Kevin McKinley) What would need to be added to the new

netastat errors

2003-07-10 Thread Gabriel Jeffrey
if anyone has deal with this particular error before, i would greatly appreciate any sort of guidance. i have not had this problem with other debian machines. regards, gabe /etc/init.d/netatalk restart Restarting AppleTalk Daemons (this will take a while)Stopping AppleTalk Daemons: afpd papd

Re: best imap daemon ?

2003-07-10 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:31:43AM +0200, juan wrote: > i need an mbox imap serveur, which one should i use ? > imap, uw-imapd, mailutils-imap4d ? I'm using uw-imapd and it works great. If you're just looking for something mbox compatible, that's the one. It also has ssl built in for security.

Re: bash: get file modification time query

2003-07-10 Thread David selby
Vineet Kumar wrote: * David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030709 12:08]: Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls -l & sed ? I have a bash script that needs to get the info. Because the file size varies I cannot use cut, it may cut the wrong bit. stat -c "%y" $

Kernel/lilo/initrd upgrade issue

2003-07-10 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Something I noticed installing a kernel I compiled without using the initrd stuff. I have been using the kernels provided by Debians archives. They do the prompt to add 'initrd=/initrd.img' to lilo.conf. The prompt suggests adding to the actual sta

Re: [OT] How to batch-process data files

2003-07-10 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:30:51AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > (Anyway, it would still be interesting how to just comment out the first > six lines of text...) Pipe it through sed -e '1,6s/^/#/' or to get rid of the first 6 lines entirely pipe it through tail -n +7 -- Pigeon Be kin

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-10 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:19:36AM +1200, cr wrote: > It looks as if the kernels on the Woody CD-ROMS aren't actually in the form > of packages, since 'apt-cache search vanilla' (or compact, or idepci) brings > up lists of other programs but nothing kernel-like.apt-cache search > vmlinuz

Re: the evergreen: mozilla 1.0 and gnome2

2003-07-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 18:27, Andreas Wüst wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 09-Jul-03 at 23:01:12, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 00:23, Andreas Wüst wrote: > >> > >> On Mittwoch, 09-Jul-03 at 22:30:19, Michel Dänzer wrote: > >> > >>> On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 17:47, Andreas Wüst wrote: >

Re: Install Problems

2003-07-10 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:17:50PM -0500, Mark Rinaudo wrote: > I'm trying to install debian 3.0 woody on a Dell PE1400 with a MegaRaid > Pci card installed. I get the install to load the module (megaraid.o) > off of a floppy and then it partitioned the drive and installed > everything. Great!! no

Re: OT: CPU Speed and Temperature

2003-07-10 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 16:23, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:52:52AM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > >a P4 should be running at about 30-35C ... in idle > > > > Yes, you are correct. It runs 30-35C at idle. At 100% utlisation for a > > while, it pops

Re: the evergreen: mozilla 1.0 and gnome2

2003-07-10 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hello Michel Thanks a lot for your answer! On Mittwoch, 09-Jul-03 at 23:01:12, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 00:23, Andreas Wüst wrote: >> >> On Mittwoch, 09-Jul-03 at 22:30:19, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 17:47, Andreas Wüst wrote: >>> >>> I've installed

Spamassassin & SA Proxy

2003-07-10 Thread Jernej Zidar
Can Spamassassin be made into a fictious proxy server to whom one could point his email client? thanks Jernej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] How to batch-process data files

2003-07-10 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Joerg Johannes wrote: > For plotting those files with gnuplot, I have to comment out the first 6 > lines with a # sign. I know it must be possible writing a quick sed/awk > script for batch-processing this heap of data. Any experts around? Someone else answered this problem

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