Re: rms on debian

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Kevin Mark wrote: > http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=260 > > [ SNIP ] > > RMS: When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on > ethical considerations. Today I would recommend GNU/LinEx, the > distribution prepared by the government of

Re: rms on debian

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:18:08AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > So now that Debian is 10, RMS changes to another distro? What's up? > -K The tale of the RMS/Debian relationship is told in _Free as in Freedom_ by Sam Williams, a biography of RMS. You can of course buy it from O'Reilly, or read it a

Re: Web script

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 05:42:23PM -0400, Reaz Baksh wrote: > Hell > > Can some one help me with some information? > > > > I'm looking for a script that will allow me to get web pages, and then > copy some of the information from them, then create a new page with the > information I pulled. >

Re: exim does not add domain to outgoing addresses...

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:59:57PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I need to add: > > testmail is not a local user. It is just an entry in the /etc/aliases (which > is used as an addressbook for all users on the system). > > > How do I tell exim to _only_ use domainnames instead of hostnames? >

rms on debian

http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=260 TRB: Let's say I came to you and I'm an end-user that has never used anything other than Windows. I have no command line experience, just point-and-click abilities. How would you configure a system for me -- what distribution (assuming

Re: airo problem

I'm not running the same model but with the 2.6.0-test? series I've been running into problems with the airo/airo_cs drivers with my 350 pcmcia card... Sometimes it'll work, sometimes it will load the driver but won't initialize and other times it just locks the whole machine up... I did ha

Re: kernel-package system: install a boot block using the existing /etc/lilo.conf?

Kevin McKinley wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > installed, the symlinks pointing to it, and running lilo will set up > > the boot to go to the new kernel. > [...] > When I got to the "install ... existing lilo.conf" question, if I answered > yes rebooting the system when the script finished would boo

Re: fetchmail error

On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 18:25, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi deb-users, > could anyone point me in the right direction. > pop3 server->fetchmail->sendmail->pop3 client (evolution) > Fetchmail issues an SMTP error and cant continue getting the rest of my > email. After I used evolution to d/l my mail direct

Re: Backporting debhelper

Travis Crump wrote: > Wouldn't it be a bug in the package if it build-depended on debhelper 4, > but didn't actually use any features not available in debhelper 3[in > which case it should build-depend on debhelper 3]?[and I have debhelper > 4.1.52 and dh_shlibs isn't on my system...] Everythin

Re: which woody-iso ?

> got a broadband connection. > > [1] From the Debian.org main page, select "Network install" -> "Minimal > CD" -> "LordSutch.com ISOLINUX mini-ISO image". You're probably > interested in the > . > > Another option is bonzai linux. http://d

Re: Hardware

Repeat after; *sits in the corner repeating "Do not post at 2:30am after coming down off a caffiene buzz. Do not post..."* Seriously though. While ATi has drivers, they don't appear to work for the full range of OpenGL functions. To my understanding, they have a bunch of patents, some not owned by

Re: ATI Radeon 9000 question

Hi, I installed sid a few months ago with the experimental X4.3 and gor my Radeon 9000 Pro working well in 2D, but never got 3D working for OpenGL. Then a few weeks ago, my hard disk had problems and my root partition was unbootable. I downloaded the Knoppix CD to use as a rescue disk (and to tr

Reports from the 10th Birthday Party Zurich/Switzerland

Fellow Debian-Geeks, I tore my ligaments this afternoon playing volleyball, but the doctor seemingly didn't understand when she called me crazy to go to a party. Well, I did -- on crutches -- and I am glad I did. In the hope that other sites will share a short report of their event, I am herewith

rpc.statd message on syslog...

Hello, I run nfs-kernel-server on some boxes running sid & I noticed the following message on syslog : [rpc.statd] statd running as root. chown /var/lib/nfs/sm to choose different user Creating a nfs user or something & chowning that dir to him should make things a little more secure or I should

Re: Named Pipes

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:16:04PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:24:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I wanted to use a named pipe to provide random images. > Do you have a particular task in mind? If so, maybe someone knows of an > alternative way without de

Re: telnet localhost slow, telnet 127.0.0.1 ok

Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rupert> Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rupert> Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> On Sat,

airo problem

I have a cisco/aironet 340 pci carrier for a pcmcia card that's giving me issues. I installed woody on a Pentium II/300 with this card. I then installed the pcmcia-cs package and wireless-tools from stable (pcmcia-cs from the woody r1 cd and wireless-tools from a mirror). Now when I modprobe

Konqueror pull down menus pull down a little too slow

Konqueror pull down menus pull down a little too slow. Is there a way to speed it up? Usually there is a way to remove animation. Thanks in advance, J ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! -- To UNSUBSCR

fetchmail error

Hi deb-users, could anyone point me in the right direction. pop3 server->fetchmail->sendmail->pop3 client (evolution) Fetchmail issues an SMTP error and cant continue getting the rest of my email. ---error--- Aug 16 18:13:02 debian fetchmail[1383]: reading me

Re: exim does not add domain to outgoing addresses...

I need to add: testmail is not a local user. It is just an entry in the /etc/aliases (which is used as an addressbook for all users on the system). How do I tell exim to _only_ use domainnames instead of hostnames? I think that would solve my problem completely. Thanks, Rainer -- Rainer Dors

Web script

Hell Can some one help me with some information?   I’m looking for a script that will allow me to get web pages, and then copy some of the information from them, then create a new page with the information I pulled.   I saw one that used, I think, RSS but I lost it.   Thanks Reaz

Re: Hardware

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:01:15PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:36:28AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote: > > > > As for ATi. Go with nVidia, same yourself the pain. > > I would point out that while "My ATI 9000 isn't working" has come up a > few times on the list recently, "My NV

Re: Help needed with ethernet configuration - dhclient seems to ignore DHCPOFFER

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:03:36PM +0200, Komáromi Eszter wrote: > I use SMC EtherEZ (8416) card on i486, Woody, kernel 2.4.18. ISA, pnp is > disabled and the driver (smc-ultra) loads fine. The problem is, while I got > several DHCPOFFERs, I never get an IP address. Here're a few lines from my > d

Re: Named Pipes

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:24:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wanted to use a named pipe to provide random images. I know I can use > a program in a loop writing to the pipe, but that means starting the > program initially (from say a init.d or xdm startup script) where it > sits bl

snort - ip in report don't appear in log

I get a daily report from snort which claims all sort of ICMP Destination Unreachable (Communication Administratively Prohibited) and (spp_portscan2) Portscan detected from 132.66.40.250: 21 targets 21 ports in 1 seconds The IPs appearing in this report don't apear in any of the /var/log/{messages|

Re: telnet localhost slow, telnet 127.0.0.1 ok

"Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rupert> Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rupert> Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 12:25:16AM +0100, >> >> [EMAIL P

wflogs - wrong filter expression

I get a daily message from cron daily stating that : /etc/cron.daily/wflogs_report: /usr/bin/wflogs: error: wrong filter expression. run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/wflogs_report exited with return code 1 I tried running the script myself and didn't get any errors. It is settup by debconf to produce ema

extension "XFree86-DRI" missing

I am running Xfree86 4.3 from the unofficial packages by Daniel Stone. When running matlab, and displaying graphics I get the following message: Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0" I am not sure what kind of images produce this, since its not completely consistent for some reas

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

On Friday 15 August 2003 06:43 pm, John Foster wrote: > I want to locate an editor that will run on Linux that will handle .pdf > flie format. I really am only interested in one with a WYSIWYG GUI > frontend. I just tried kile & it seeems to be partially there but does > not appear to have a WYSIW

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:44:59AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > Sorry, I should have mentioned that these are various types of FORMS > that need to be filled > out and either faxed or mailed (US Postal). My goal is to be abel to > fill them out using the > keyboard & mouse...if possible. When I t

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:43:00 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > [tla] > > > Another, perhaps less useful feature is symlink versioning. > > > Subversion (and CVS) don't have this, and it's not targeted for > > > pre-1.0, either. > > > > Does it also support hardlinks (i.e. a file that has several > >

Re: Named Pipes

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:24:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wanted to use a named pipe to provide random images. I know I can use > a program in a loop writing to the pipe, but that means starting the > program initially (from say a init.d or xdm startup script) where it > sits block

Help needed with ethernet configuration - dhclient seems to ignore DHCPOFFER

I use SMC EtherEZ (8416) card on i486, Woody, kernel 2.4.18. ISA, pnp is disabled and the driver (smc-ultra) loads fine. The problem is, while I got several DHCPOFFERs, I never get an IP address. Here're a few lines from my daemon.log while dhclient is running: Aug 16 12:40:21 teknoc dhclient-2.

Re: Hardware

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:36:28AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote: > > As for ATi. Go with nVidia, same yourself the pain. I would point out that while "My ATI 9000 isn't working" has come up a few times on the list recently, "My NVidia isn't working" comes up all the time. With NVidia you have a

Debian and Emacs

Hi, I am using Debian unstable with Emacs. I edit files via Tramp, so I can SSH into the developmental servers and edit files through there. However, every so often, Emacs locks up for a few seconds with en error such as this: auto-saving : opening output file no such file or directory /home/rlb/

bootcd program

List: I am trying to use your program bootcd to create debian system fully bootable from dvd. After several hours of tweaking it passes all tests without error. I am using standard debian unstable kernel 2.4.21 with initrd. After burning to DVD and attempting to boot I receive "unable to

emacs & spell checking broke

A quick question concerning emacs & spell checking. I have emacs20/emacs21 installed, and aspell, aspell-bin, aspell-en, to work with sylpheed. Since aspell, evidently supersedes ispell, now emacs does not spell check, complaining about not finding ispell. What are my options to getting emacs to

Re: CUPS fails outside of Gimp. HP1200 LJ

List: I am trying to use your program bootcd to create debian system fully bootable from dvd. After several hours of tweaking it passes all tests without error. I am using standard debian unstable kernel 2.4.21 with initrd. After burning to DVD and attempting to boot I receive "unable to

Re: Win machine cannot print to a linux printer (cups)

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 08:05:17PM +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Es Dissabte 16 Agost 2003 14:47, en David Fokkema va escriure: > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 07:48:54PM +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > >

CUPS fails outside of Gimp. HP1200 LJ

My printer stopped printing yesterday and I can't figure out what happened from debugging output from CUPS. In most cases there is no apparent indication of any problem. What appears logged is cupsysd reporting seeing a Trailer and EOF, and announcing that the job is complete. The LaserJet 1200

Re: Backporting debhelper

Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:26:29PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: Mensaje escrito por Bob Proulx el 14/08/2003 1:54: For my own backports I have been changing the debhelper version dependency in the debian/control file to specify the woody version. I have not backported d

Re: ISA network cards

Hello jleclair (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Can anyone assist me installing a d-link 220 isa nic? The OS is woody, > and the platform is intel 486. The install routine doesnt see the > card. Have also tried a few modules but no auto-probing was > successful. Guess I have been spoiled with PCI p

Re: ISA network cards

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:32:27PM -0300, jleclair wrote: > > Can anyone assist me installing a d-link 220 isa nic? The OS is woody, and > the platform is intel 486. The install routine doesnt see the card. Have > also tried a few modules but no auto-probing was successful. Guess I have > been spo

xterms with invisible fonts...

Hello in the meantime in managed to set up a somehow working X setup, there are still some glichtes running around... the xterm still shows white on white an empty screen, but there is a shell in it... typing blindly and hoping, yields a result: the command respond, even better: a cut&paste wo

Re: gpilotd / gnome-pilot issues

Ok, I added myself to dialout, but being as I do not use ppp at all to connect its a rather odd group to be added to...but I did already have permissions set up so that I could access the device, Jpilot was working. I notice that lately it has been crashing almost always as soon as I hit the sync

ISA network cards

Can anyone assist me installing a d-link 220 isa nic? The OS is woody, and the platform is intel 486. The install routine doesnt see the card. Have also tried a few modules but no auto-probing was successful. Guess I have been spoiled with PCI plug n play! A nod to a good link with documentatio

Re: Backporting debhelper

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:26:29PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Mensaje escrito por Bob Proulx el 14/08/2003 1:54: > >For my own backports I have been changing the debhelper version > >dependency in the debian/control file to specify the woody version. I > >have not backported debhelpe

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

Carl Fink wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:59:32AM -0500, John Foster wrote: I would be happy to find a way to download .pdf files & convert them to html...that way I could Any special reason you can't just open them in , e.g. Acrobat Reader, then Select All, Copy, and Paste into any ed

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 the mental interface of John Foster told: > I want to locate an editor that will run on Linux that will handle .pdf > flie format. I really am only interested in one with a WYSIWYG GUI > frontend. I just tried kile & it seeems to be partially there but does > not appear to

Re: EnsonIQ 1370, KDE, USB Mouse?

Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >I've been running Mandrake 9.1 on my desktop since it came out, >then removed it and installed SuSE. Wanted to try Debian, did a >clean install on Debian Stable last night. > >Install went pretty well, the desktop is up, netwo

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:56:15PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:22:52PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > You know, I've been wondering about this for quite sometime. > > > > What are the tradeoffs between these two scenarios? > > > >fetchmail -> exim -> procma

Re: Subscription attempt

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 05:15:14PM +0300, Ogulla, Alphonse wrote: > Subscribed! > Any ideas on how to take out the disclaimer attached to all outgoing mail by > an exchange creature? > Two dashes on the last line had a zero effect. The proper signature seperator is two dashes and a space, then a n

Re: 'apt-get update' crashes

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:30:10PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 12:15:42AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > > I have both stable and unstable in my sources.list, for and for about > > the last week, apt-get update keeps failing with the following error: > > > > Reading Pac

Re: bug in libc6

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 03:38:37PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 12:54:40PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > | Is it fair to assume that by the time this version of libc6 occurs > | in a stable release, old commercial apps will run, or will they have > | to be recompiled

gnome-core OR gnome-panel but not both??

In Sarge: "apt-get install gnome-panel" wants to uninstall gnome-core, and vice versa. And I need gnome-core as a prerequisite for gnome-media, without which I get no mixer applet (boo hoo). Without gnome-panel, I get no panels whatsoever, thus definately no mixer applet. I'm something of a ninn

EnsonIQ 1370, KDE, USB Mouse?

Hey all, I've been running Mandrake 9.1 on my desktop since it came out, then removed it and installed SuSE. Wanted to try Debian, did a clean install on Debian Stable last night. Install went pretty well, the desktop is up, network works, X is configured. Question one is: how to I specif

Re: Lost /etc/init.d/mysql

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 12:38:23PM +0200, Friedrich-Daniel M?ller wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I accidently deleted my /etc/init.d/mysql from Woody. I didn't find a way to > reinstall this one file. Could someone please be that nice and send it to me > at [EMAIL PROTECTED] In future, you can either pur

Re: linux 2.4.21 on stable (was: Re: booting 2.4 kernel on old PC)

--- Marco Franzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hi, > > > Would it be possible that the 2.4 kernel has dropped support for a > > chipset that worked in in the 2.2 kernel? Should I file a bug report? > > Digging on kernel.org I found that this is likely a bug, which was > fixed in the officia

Re: Hardware

[Please don't top quote! It makes your message harder to read, especially in long threads.] On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:36:28AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote: > Generally, anything that the Linux kernel supports, Debian supports. > > However, SATA support last time I checked was non-existant in > L

Re: Named Pipes

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:24:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wanted to use a named pipe to provide random images. I know I can use > a program in a loop writing to the pipe, but that means starting the > program initially (from say a init.d or xdm startup script) where it > sits bl

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 02:57:45AM +0900, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 22:45:24 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > I do, for a few things. I only discovered it after I'd been using > > Subversion for a while, so perhaps I can provide some contrast to > > the numerous svn-only users abov

Re: telnet localhost slow, telnet 127.0.0.1 ok

Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rupert> Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 12:25:16AM +0100, > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> Running strace telnet localhost 22 shows that

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:59:32AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I would be happy to find a way to download .pdf files & convert them to > html...that way I could Any special reason you can't just open them in , e.g. Acrobat Reader, then Select All, Copy, and Paste into any editor you like? -- Ca

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:59:32AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > > I would be happy to find a way to download .pdf files & convert them > to html... You mean, like say: pdftohtml - Translates pdf documents into html format Description: Translates pdf documents into html format Translates pd

Re: Inspiron laptop, framebuffer console

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:42:56 -0400 Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks- > > I finally got a framebuffer console to actually WORK on my Inspiron > 4100 with its GeForce2 GO under Sarge 2.4.21 by compiling with only > VESA framebuffer and 16-color VGA framebuffer support in the kernel. >

Re: kernel-package and grub

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:42:07 +0200 Engosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Is there any way to update grub menu.lst when installing a kernel > package made by kernel-package (I mean as it does whith lilo)? http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html#GRUB-KERNEL-PKG Kevin

Re: getting dpkg's source code

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:56:41AM -0700, Zhi Wen Huang wrote: > I am wonder if I can get dpkg's source to install dpkg on RedHat. I just need > dpkg to try something small. > I believe you can get the tar ball and the .dsc file from any Debian mirror under debian/pool/main/d/dpkg. I am not s

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 21:51, John Foster wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 21:05, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:43:24PM -0500, John Foster wrote: I want to locate an editor that will run on Linux that will handle .p

Re: NVIDIA driver (nvidia-kernel-source)

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:53:13AM +0200, Engosh wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 05:14:55 -0400 (EDT) Michael Bonert wrote: > > > I'm still having some problems and I think it lies somewhere with the > > module configuration. > > > > Screen capture from 'startx': > > ---SNIP--- > > (==) Using config

Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)

On 13 Aug 2003 18:25:16 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4. Proceed with installing the rest of the packages I need. Of >course, I have a list of such packages, since I make regular >backups, including a "COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l > package.lis" and >scp it to another machine.

Re: Hardware

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:36:28AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote: > Generally, anything that the Linux kernel supports, Debian supports. > > However, SATA support last time I checked was non-existant in > Linux/Debian. Blame the manufactures. > > As for ATi. Go with nVidia, same yourself the pain.

Re: kernel-package system: install a boot block using the existing/etc/lilo.conf?

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:36:17 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > > A longer answer is that writing a new boot block with the existing > > lilo.conf would simply re-write the current boot sector, which would > > boot the old kernel. > > Are we talking about the same question? At the poi

Re: Hardware

Generally, anything that the Linux kernel supports, Debian supports. However, SATA support last time I checked was non-existant in Linux/Debian. Blame the manufactures. As for ATi. Go with nVidia, same yourself the pain. Edward On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 01:38, Henk Vuijk wrote: > Hello, > > I have

dualboot xp debian with grub

hello. I have 2 computers with windows XP and redhat, booted with grub. I want to install debian on both machines, booted with the existing grub. How do i do that? Regards Claus _ Get your spam-free, Linux email now --> http://www.Lin

Re: net install with eepro100 / 845G

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:45:53 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > The 2.4.18 bf24 kernel has the eepro100 driver build in. The modular > kernels need eepro100 in /etc/modules. Or modprobe it manually and > restart networking to avoid needing to reboot. Perhaps you're thinking of anothe

Hardware

Hello, I have to buy soon a new komputer and I wonder if Debian support: - the S-ATA standard for hard disks - are there drivers for Videocards with the ATI 9000 and 9200 chips Sorry to bother you, but I cannot find a friendly list to check these things and the HOW-TO's do not answer my questio

Re: Suggestion for Common Third Party Install system

On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 00:53, Nicos Gollan wrote: > This sounds awfully like an extended version of stow. It'd be nice to see > that. Hmm, having looked up stow, I see what you mean. The only thing is that stow, as far as I can tell, tries to do it for everything, which apt/dpkg already does bett

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade problem

Since they're not crucial packages (by crucial, I mean things like bash, and init), I would suggest forcing the removal of all of them, and then apt-get the new ones. Edward On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 23:21, ZekeVarg wrote: > I just ran dist-upgrade on my sid-box and I got problems with: > python2.3-g

Re: telnet localhost slow, telnet 127.0.0.1 ok

"Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rupert> Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 12:25:16AM +0100, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Running strace telnet localhost 22 shows that it's trying to >>> resolve the hostname localho

Named Pipes

I wanted to use a named pipe to provide random images. I know I can use a program in a loop writing to the pipe, but that means starting the program initially (from say a init.d or xdm startup script) where it sits blocked until read from. Question: Is there a way in Linux to have the action

Re: Graphical units conversion program?

> I like unts. But I'm asking as my wife prefers GUI based programs on her > Gnome desktop. Units has a menu entry: selecting it should pop up an xterm with units running in it. It would be trivial to write a GTK front-end, but I don't see much point in doing so. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody Stable Kernel

Hello Stephane (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Le Sat, 16 Aug 2003 11:36:07 +0200 > Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > >> Recent packages are not affected by the ptrace bug. This was >> corrected with version >> kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4_2.4.18-5woody1_i386.deb (DSA 311-1). > > OK this

Re: Suggestion for Common Third Party Install system

On Saturday 16 August 2003 14:48, Edward Murrell wrote: > The 'Applications' folder is accessible from the users Control panel as > a special directory, allowing write access with sudo and the root > password. The folder itself would most likely sit in somewhere like > /usr/local/Applications/. Thu

Re: Lost /etc/init.d/mysql

Thanx for the advice. It perfectly worked. "Andreas Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can also get the deb package, extract it to some dir with dpkg -x > and copy the missing init script to /etc/init.d. > > best regards > Andreas Janssen > >

Suggestion for Common Third Party Install system

Recently, I have been working over strategies for Linux on the desktop. In particular, I've been comparing usability of system administration tasks to Windows 2K/XP and Mac OS X, the main contenders on the desktop. System administration tasks are done by almost everybody who owns a computer. It's

Re: Win machine cannot print to a linux printer (cups)

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 07:48:54PM +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hallo! > > I cannot print from a windows computer to a printer shared using cups. > Security is set in samba to "user", user name & pwd are the same in both > computers and the XP co

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 22:21, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 21:05, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:43:24PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > > > I want to locate an editor that will run on Linux that will handle .pdf > > jpeg or tiff, you edit jpeg or tiff directly (usi

Re: Win machine cannot print to a linux printer (cups)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dissabte 16 Agost 2003 01:21, en Bijan Soleymani va escriure: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 07:48:54PM +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > > And raw jobs are available in cups... > > This might not help you with this problem, but... > > I had a winprinter with fla

Re: Lost /etc/init.d/mysql

Hallo Friedrich-Daniel Möller (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I accidently deleted my /etc/init.d/mysql from Woody. I didn't find a > way to reinstall this one file. Could someone please be that nice and > send it to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also get the deb package, extract it to some dir

Re: Woody Stable Kernel

Le Sat, 16 Aug 2003 11:36:07 +0200 Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > Recent packages are not affected by the ptrace bug. This was corrected > with version kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4_2.4.18-5woody1_i386.deb (DSA > 311-1). OK this sounds good to me. But I'm wondering something else now:

Re: Remote Filesystem Administration

  "Todd Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Newbie question,   It would seem that the best way to do this would be to remove the K20ssh script from /etc/rc1.d and replace it with the S20ssh script from run level 2.  When I tried this, h

Re: Happy Birthday to Debian :-)

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 10:07:02AM +1200, Haralambos wrote: > > > Hi Ian, > > you read this list @ all nowadays? > > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/print/4959/ > > Thanx. :-) Nice reading, ;-) Happy Birthday! Many thanks to the community, :-) > (I am on Red Hat 9.0 for now, as I suf

apt-get dist-upgrade problem

I just ran dist-upgrade on my sid-box and I got problems with: python2.3-glade2, python2.3-gnome2, python2.3-gtk2 & python2.3-pyorbit and got a suggestion to run #apt-get -f install to fix it. This is the output of #apt-get -f install after I accept the install of the above packages. (Reading dat

Lost /etc/init.d/mysql

Hi Folks, I accidently deleted my /etc/init.d/mysql from Woody. I didn't find a way to reinstall this one file. Could someone please be that nice and send it to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: exim does not add domain to outgoing addresses...

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:02:35PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > I am running a exim on my host silverboxy. I have an alias file, which > contains e.g. > > testmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When I send now a mail to testmail, The To: field looks like > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > without

Re: Graphical units conversion program?

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:33:38PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Why would you want a graphical units program? What would it so that > 'units' doesn't do? I'm not attacking you: as the maintainer of units I > honestly want to know. A valid question. I like unts. But I'm asking as my wife prefers

Re: Anti-aliased fonts in galeon/mozilla/epiphany

On Saturday 16 August 2003 05:11, Jeff Schwaber wrote: > I'm trying to get rid of anti-aliased fonts in the various mozilla-based > web browsers that come with gnome, and I've been pretty unsuccessful. > There's a page for Mandrake describing how to set the minimum size for > anti-aliasing in /usr/

Re: telnet localhost slow, telnet 127.0.0.1 ok

Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 12:25:16AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> If I run telnet localhost 22 then I have to wait 15-30 seconds >> before it connects; with telnet 127.0.0.1 22 it connects at once. I >> have the same results using other open ports. >>

Re: exim does not add domain to outgoing addresses...

Am Freitag, 15. August 2003 23:39 schrieb Sven Clasen - Hacki: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:02:35PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am running a exim on my host silverboxy. I have an alias file, which > > contains e.g. > > > > testmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > When I send now a m

Re: exim does not add domain to outgoing addresses...

Am Freitag, 15. August 2003 23:41 schrieb Sven Clasen - Hacki: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:02:35PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am running a exim on my host silverboxy. I have an alias file, which > > contains e.g. > > > > testmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > When I send now a m

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