Re: kernel recompile in woody

2003-09-15 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
raoul duke wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:33:27PM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: >> raoul duke wrote: > i installed it but when i rebooted, i get a message > saying kernel panic, and that i should append the proper root= . this > doesn't make sense to me 'cause i have root=/dev/hda3 in lilo.co

Re: /etc/aliases

2003-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:14:18AM -0700, Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok, so I'm now getting spam sent to (and forged from) usernames listed > in my /etc/aliases file. > > Things like "postmaster" I'll need to keep, but I'm wondering what would > break if I change things to: > >

Re: Improved responsiveness: Galeon over remote X11

2003-09-15 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake Karsten M. Self: >> I am, I think. Where would I check? > > Unfortunately, I don't know how you would change that in Galeon...I > haven't used it in quite a while. > Hmmm - aren't these fonts managed by defoma? Haven't used that since a long time, too... Gre

Getting Radio/TV on Debian.

2003-09-15 Thread Russ Pitman
Having been given Radio/TV card and finding it is working, I have had no success so far installing it in my Debian m/c running Sid,currently uptodate. The card is a Prolink Pixelview Play TV Pak modelPV-Bt878P+ Rev4E >From the cardlist No.50 an exact match The tuner is an LG TPI8PSB02P Cardlist No

Re: Using Japanese (and Chinese) on an prodominantly english system

2003-09-15 Thread Rebecca Dridan
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:55:40PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:19:49PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > vim 6.1 should handle UTF-8 or EUC for Japanese. > > http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-x-cjk Doh! bilingual should have been the obvious sea

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-15 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Ryan Walters wrote: [snip] I'm still not sure why my setup doesn't work: [snip] I must be something extremely simple that I'm missing, anybody else??? Ryan, You may think horrible things of me for giving this response instead of an answer to your question, but I stand behind Collin's o

Re: Improved responsiveness: Galeon over remote X11

2003-09-15 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Karsten M. Self: > I am, I think. Where would I check? Unfortunately, I don't know how you would change that in Galeon...I haven't used it in quite a while. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average m

Re: Group rights

2003-09-15 Thread Darik Horn
> How then, do I assign multiple groups, different permission to the > same folders You cannot assign multiple groups to an object in a traditional unix filesystem. (This is the way that Debian ships.) Past that, you'll need to install support for access control lists ("ACLs"). If you're serving

Re: vmware without X

2003-09-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 20:59, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone know if it is possible to start vmware without a X-Display. > I've installed an image and would like it to boot up a the real machines > host boot time. Any ideas? > > Rus If you are using VMWare Workstation... NO. There is a

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian (Mirror)?

2003-09-15 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Kevin McKinley wrote: I've been mirroring binary packages for the x86 architecture for several months now (woody, sarge and sid). The mirror's size hovered around 15 Gb for a while, but in the last two weeks appears to have suddenly increased to almost 21.5 Gb. Is there really that much material,

Re: vmware without X

2003-09-15 Thread Darik Horn
> start vmware without a X-Display. You can do it with a virtual frame buffer and some scripting. Alternatively, you can do it with VNC. Read this Mini-HOWTO: http://www.otterway.com/vm-vnc.htm Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know if it is possible to start vmware without a X-Display. I'v

Re: How to enlarge 3.5"?

2003-09-15 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Don Werve wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:39:08AM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote: [snip] Am I the only one who saw the subject and instantly classified this as an 'enlargement' spam, or have the scum^Wweasels^Wadvertisers just permanently altered my brain? Heh. I almost deleted the message at f

Re: procmailrc question

2003-09-15 Thread kmark
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > If you don't create a directory called $HOME/mail/debian-user, then > procmail will automatically save mail to an mbox by that name. If > there's a directory there, it'll default to a maildir (erm, as in the > mailbox format, as distinct from $MAILDIR).

Re: Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:18:01AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:40:44PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > I remember, sometime last year, using a replacement sound module to capture > > streaming audio to a file. It worked quite well. > > Are you thinking of something like

Re: xfree86 security update overwrites XF86Config-4

2003-09-15 Thread Mike Mueller
On Monday 15 September 2003 16:47, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Matthias Czapla wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I just want to say... ARRRGHHH! > > since X11 is sometimes messy always do: > root# cp -p /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.works > root# cp -p /etc/X11/XF86C

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-15 Thread Ryan Walters
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:23:46 -0400, you wrote: >> Package: * >> Pin: release potato >> Pin-Priority: 800 >> >> Package: * >> Pin: release woody >> Pin-Priority: 200 >> > >When I read the man pages for apt_preferences, the format is Pin: >release a=stable, not pin: release woody. Maybe this will

Re: cannot open /dev/modem: permission denied

2003-09-15 Thread Mario Carugno
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:50:49 -0600 Skippi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, when I tried connecting with WVDial today as user I got the message: > > cannot open /dev/modem: Permission denied > cannot open /dev/modem: Permission denied > cannot open /dev/modem: Permission denied > as root: chm

RE: Building Spamassassin 'testing' package on woody

2003-09-15 Thread Michael Bellears
> apt-get tried to build the package for a second and > then failed a bunch of dependencies. So I was sad. Something that needs to be remedied! > > My question for the list is: has anyone done this? Certainly: I added the deb-src line (only) for Unstable to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb-src http

FTP

2003-09-15 Thread Robert Storey
A few days ago somebody had a question about ftp, and I accidentally lost that message. But anyway, the gist was that the original poster could use ftp in Windows but not in Debian, and couldn't figure out why, and he was getting a lot of advice about passive vs. active mode. A thought occurred to

Re: should /usr/bin be so crowded? Is there a better way to maanage?

2003-09-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
..yes. No. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:40:44PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I remember, sometime last year, using a replacement sound module to capture > streaming audio to a file. It worked quite well. Are you thinking of something like vsound? -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: gdm/desktop password protected shutdown

2003-09-15 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 08:20:08 +0200, Jacob Anawalt wrote: Well shut my mouth... Either this is now standard with the latest update for gdm on Sid, or the feature (prompting for the root password on shutdown/reboot/halt) is enabled only on the standard greeter. Th

Building Spamassassin 'testing' package on woody

2003-09-15 Thread Graham Van Epps
Hello all; I am interested in building the Spamassassin package found in 'testing' on my stable system. I'm not willing to upgrade the whole OS to testing yet. I did try changing sources.list to testing and doing: apt-get --build source spamassassin apt-get tried to build the package for a sec

Re: Improved responsiveness: Galeon over remote X11

2003-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:08:21PM -0500, Nathan Poznick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thus spake Karsten M. Self: > > allow use of a slow but quiet and cool PPro 180Mhz 256MB as X > > > The notably exception is Galeon, which...seems...to...freeze...or...lag... > > particularly when opening or clos

Re: should /usr/bin be so crowded? Is there a better way to maanage?

2003-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:20:15PM -0400, Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: To understand why things are the way they are, see Debian Policy. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on th

Group rights

2003-09-15 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Dear Debain Users, I'm a little confused regarding the use of group to assign file rights. I was under the impression that user can be members of groups and groups can be used to assign permissions to files and folders. How then, do I assign multiple groups, different permission to the same fol

Re: Improved responsiveness: Galeon over remote X11

2003-09-15 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Karsten M. Self: > allow use of a slow but quiet and cool PPro 180Mhz 256MB as X > The notably exception is Galeon, which...seems...to...freeze...or...lag... > particularly when opening or closing tabs. Scrolling pages can be jumpy > (wheel mouse). Otherwise, once a page is loaded, re

dns BIND9 inputting lots of entries...

2003-09-15 Thread ross74
Hi all, Our company recently picked up about 100 smaller domains, which they want hosted on our DNS servers BIND 9. I remember reading about a script that can parse large amounts of entries into BIND. Has anyone ever done this, or know any good links/scripts ? Thanks :) -- Ross -- To UNSU

Re: vmware without X

2003-09-15 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:59:06AM +0100, Rus Foster wrote: > > Does anyone know if it is possible to start vmware without a > X-Display. I've installed an image and would like it to boot up a the > real machines host boot time. Any ideas? TMK, it's not possible with VMWare Workstation. It shou

Improved responsiveness: Galeon over remote X11

2003-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm currently running my desktop over a remote X11 display within my LAN. That's with an exported X11 display, not tunneled. Reason is to allow use of a slow but quiet and cool PPro 180Mhz 256MB as X terminal, while the heavy(er) lifting is done by a P4-1.7GHz 512MB box which suffers from fan noi

Re: DVD RW on Debian

2003-09-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:58:12PM -0500, wsykes.lists wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good internal or external DVD RW drive i could use > with Debian? The Panasonic drives are always a good bet. I have a A05 in my main box with no problems. -- Marc Wilson | There is no royal road to geom

Re: CUPS insisting on completing print job

2003-09-15 Thread David
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:00:23PM -0700, Deryk Barker wrote: > I'm running woody with CUPs controlling an Epson C82. > > Problem: while configuring and testing a PDF converter in Open Office > I accidentally sent a raw pdf file to the printer. 200+KB... > > And here is where the problem starts:

vmware without X

2003-09-15 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Does anyone know if it is possible to start vmware without a X-Display. I've installed an image and would like it to boot up a the real machines host boot time. Any ideas? Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Dedicated Servers

Install over the Net, Authenticating proxy.

2003-09-15 Thread David Corbin
Is there any way to do a Debian install over the Internet where I have to pass through an authenticating proxy? Thanks -- David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Not a speed reader.

2003-09-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:23:51AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:45:25AM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:37:11PM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote: > > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > > Note, though, that neither of those shows you messa

repquota entries after deleting a user

2003-09-15 Thread Marcus Schopen
Hi, after deleting a user its uid is still shown as #uid (here #6004) when executing "repquota -avug". Is that ok or do I have to remove the quota entry before deleting a user using deluser? Block limitsFile limits Userusedsofthard gr

Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-15 Thread Carl Fink
I remember, sometime last year, using a replacement sound module to capture streaming audio to a file. It worked quite well. Then I didn't have to do it for over six months and completely forgot what the program was called. Anyone want to jog my memory? Thanks. -- Carl Fink [E

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:57:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 18:37, Jeremy Brooks wrote: > > This subject looked like the unholy union of, er, personal enhancement > > spam and the Debian mailing list. ;) > > > > Sorry; I haven't slept in 30 hours. > > It shows. What does

Re: Not a speed reader.

2003-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:45:25AM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:37:11PM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > Note, though, that neither of those shows you messages output by init > > > scripts. > > > > are there any tricks for obtai

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-15 Thread Johann Koenig
On Monday September 15 at 06:57pm Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It shows. What does the binary-package mirror have to do with spam > on the mailing lists? The subject: "Sudden increase in size of Debian?" -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Voodoo Glow Skulls - Delinquent Song : Punk-O-Ra

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 10:27:51PM +1200, cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 15 September 2003 18:52, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:23:47PM +1200, cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > It'd be nice to have a self-contained floppy with just the basic > > > componenets ne

should /usr/bin be so crowded? Is there a better way to maanage?

2003-09-15 Thread Edwin Lau
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Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:18:19PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: > I've been mirroring binary packages for the x86 architecture for several > months now (woody, sarge and sid). The mirror's size hovered around 15 Gb > for a while, but in the last two weeks appears to have suddenly increased to > alm

Re: ..chroot-installs onto RAID-1 disks ,was: Evolving Debian from Red Hat

2003-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 04:38:50PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 03:40:40 +0100, > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > As I frequently say, the advantage of a chroot install is that it > > allows you to tackle o

Re: Not a speed reader.

2003-09-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:37:11PM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Note, though, that neither of those shows you messages output by init > > scripts. > > are there any tricks for obtaining this? I always just use Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q; see further up the thread. Cheers, -- Coli

Re: directfb w ATI Radeon

2003-09-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:31:17AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:18:54 -0700, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The test is to run > > % yes | nl > > for say 30 seconds. VGA text mode was like 100 times faster for me. > > .._sweet_. Try 'time

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 18:37, Jeremy Brooks wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:18, Kevin McKinley wrote: > > I've been mirroring binary packages for the x86 architecture for several > > months now (woody, sarge and sid). The mirror's size hovered around 15 Gb > > for a while, but in the last two week

Re: Am I ready for the internet?

2003-09-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jimmy Johansson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030915 09:43]: > Hello, I'm just wondering if I am ready for the internet? Well, there's no such thing as "finished" securing a system. You're ready when you think you're ready enough, when you've evaluated your security needs and taken steps to convince yo

checking for listening ports (Was: Mysql question.)

2003-09-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Kenneth Dombrowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030915 10:53]: > $ nmap localhost | grep mysql > > just to verify that it is, in fact, listening.. it should be using port > 3306 by default A better way to see listening ports is to use netstat -tln. This will show listening ports on all interfaces, an

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-15 Thread Jeremy Brooks
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:18, Kevin McKinley wrote: > I've been mirroring binary packages for the x86 architecture for several > months now (woody, sarge and sid). The mirror's size hovered around 15 Gb > for a while, but in the last two weeks appears to have suddenly increased to > almost 21.5 Gb.

Re: Not a speed reader.

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Pepas
> Note, though, that neither of those shows you messages output by init > scripts. are there any tricks for obtaining this? -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: directfb w ATI Radeon

2003-09-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:18:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The test is to run > % yes | nl > for say 30 seconds. VGA text mode was like 100 times faster for me. .._sweet_. Try 'time yes |nl '. ;-) 5608 y 5609 y 561 real0m10.684s user0m0.

Re: Using Japanese (and Chinese) on an prodominantly english system

2003-09-15 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Monday 15 September 2003 5:01 am, Rebecca Dridan wrote: > Hi all, > > I speak a little Japanese and am now learning Mandarin. I would like > to be able to read and write both languages on my computers, but > leave my systems basically in English. > > I'm looking mostly to be reading and writing

Re: Evolution + LDAP on unstable?

2003-09-15 Thread Kent West
Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm trying to use Evolution 1.4.4-2 on my unstable system. I'm connecting to an OpenLDAP 2.0 server for shared addressbooks. I'm having a problem; every time I launch Evolution and click on "New/Mail Message", I get a dialog: The addressbook backend for [LDAP URL] has cra

Re: CUPS on a standalone: turn off port 631 how?

2003-09-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Geoff Thurman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030915 11:45]: > I'm still using more or less what I installed from Knoppix 3.2, with > which I am happy enough. When I first did the installation I closed all > open ports apart from 631 - the one used by CUPS. The security howto > advises to close this one

Evolution + LDAP on unstable?

2003-09-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
I'm trying to use Evolution 1.4.4-2 on my unstable system. I'm connecting to an OpenLDAP 2.0 server for shared addressbooks. I'm having a problem; every time I launch Evolution and click on "New/Mail Message", I get a dialog: The addressbook backend for [LDAP URL] has crashed. You will have

Re: directfb w ATI Radeon

2003-09-15 Thread tb . nospam
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 02:11:03PM -0400, Mental Patient wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:39:01AM -0400, Mental Patient wrote: > > > >Is the framebuffer accelerated with a Radeon [9700]? I got it to work > >but it was very slow compared to not using it. This would m

Re: Small, silent system with 2 NICs?

2003-09-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 21:57, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry for this being slightly OT, but I was wondering whether > anybody here could advise me concerning a small debian compat- > ible system that is supposed to sit SILENTLY in my living room > and function as a firewall and sshd

A4tech WOP-35PU optical mouse

2003-09-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi: I got 2 A4tech USB mice for the Ruby Backstreet Multiseat Linux project. They have 2 wheels 2 top buttons and 2 side buttons. Of course the installation folder only discusses Windoze and does not say what the side buttons are for. Has anybody figured out how to use it? Thanks! Hugo. ___

Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-15 Thread Kevin McKinley
I've been mirroring binary packages for the x86 architecture for several months now (woody, sarge and sid). The mirror's size hovered around 15 Gb for a while, but in the last two weeks appears to have suddenly increased to almost 21.5 Gb. Is there really that much material, or do I need to invest

Re: Troubles connection to the LAN

2003-09-15 Thread Klemens
Yo! This it was. (: I had the CONFIG_FILTER flag not in my options. But maybe the help text is a little bit confusing there as well since it states that this option is needed for PPP (whicht i do not use). thanxalot, ~klemens "Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<

Re: Using Japanese (and Chinese) on an prodominantly english system

2003-09-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:19:49PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > Rebecca Dridan wrote: > >I've installed canna, kinput2-canna, and jvim, but I don't understand > >how to use them. I've installed japanese fonts and generated all the > >japanese locales I could find, although my normal LANG et al are

Re: xfree86 security update overwrites XF86Config-4

2003-09-15 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Monday 15 September 2003 10:33 pm, Matthias Czapla wrote: > Hi! > > I just want to say... ARRRGHHH! > > Gruß > lal Yes, this happened to me too; my mouse dropped out. I thought perhaps I'd made a mistake somewhere. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: xfree86 security update overwrites XF86Config-4

2003-09-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Matthias Czapla wrote: > Hi! > > I just want to say... ARRRGHHH! since X11 is sometimes messy always do: root# cp -p /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.works root# cp -p /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config.works root# cp -p /usr/X1

Re: Using Japanese (and Chinese) on an prodominantly english system

2003-09-15 Thread Travis Crump
Rebecca Dridan wrote: Hi all, I speak a little Japanese and am now learning Mandarin. I would like to be able to read and write both languages on my computers, but leave my systems basically in English. I'm looking mostly to be reading and writing Japanese with a text editor. I use vim and do not

Re: Using Japanese (and Chinese) on an prodominantly english system

2003-09-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya debian has a bunch of pre-packaged apps for japanese ... and donno about chinese char sets to switch between english and japanese/other languages, just change the environment variables source ~/.iln.english -- for plain ole engleesh source ~/.ilm.jp-- fo

trouble linking with libc6-dev in Sid

2003-09-15 Thread Freels, James D.
Hello !  I have cross posted this inquiry to both -user and -devel in hopes of finding the right person to answer this question. I have been using the intel fortran compiler and am current with their present version (7.1.031).  This compiler is only supports 2.2.5 and 2.2.93 of libc which limi

DVD RW on Debian

2003-09-15 Thread wsykes.lists
Can anyone recommend a good internal or external DVD RW drive i could use with Debian? Thanks in advance -Will -- William Sykes Systems Engineer DeepNines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Japanese (and Chinese) on an prodominantly english system

2003-09-15 Thread Edwin Lau
> > Hi all, Hi, > > > I've installed canna, kinput2-canna, and jvim, but I don't understand > > how to use them. I've installed japanese fonts and generated all the > > japanese locales I could find, although my normal LANG et al are set > > to C. Which locale settings do I need to change? All

pls recommend virtual email setup

2003-09-15 Thread Kevin Coyner
I have been charged with setting up a new server to provide email for a number of virtual domains. The server I've selected to use for this is a Debian stable box. I've done this before in other distributions, but have not yet with Debian (although I've been a big debian fan for my personal use

Re: Fwd: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

2003-09-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:51:09 +0100, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi David > > I'm sending this to the list because my message to you bounced. ..Shri's NetRail list announcement should come any minute now, I'm #2 enlisted. ;-) > > - Forwarded

xfree86 security update overwrites XF86Config-4

2003-09-15 Thread Matthias Czapla
Hi! I just want to say... ARRRGHHH! Gruß lal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: two intractable problems

2003-09-15 Thread Kent West
Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: On the Toshiba Tecra 780 laptop, I can't get sound with any modern distro. Not Debian, not Redhat 9, not SuSE 8.2. SuSE 7.3 does it, but then no Gnome 2 and no gnomemeeting. I had a look at the modules loaded in SuSE 7.3/alsa 0.5, and I've built alsa 0.9 and alsa 0.5

Pinning question

2003-09-15 Thread Ryan Walters
Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now, and can't seem to get it to work. I want to pin not based on [stable, testing, unstable], but based on distribution release, in my case, [woody, potato]. I want to have a mainly potato system, with select packages from woody. I have th

Re: superfreeswan on Debian

2003-09-15 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Just grab the Debian freeswan source debs as they install all the patches that superfreeswan incorporates already... I'm running it myself on my woody/stable box... I just grab'd the source deb and recompiled on stable... Regards, Jeremy T. Bouse On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03

problems installing kde3.x on woody

2003-09-15 Thread raoul duke
hey, i have a fresh installation of woody (r0) here and upgraded. i got the line that i added to my sources.list from kde.org but it won't let me install kde, it gives a load of dependency issues (most of which are kde apps). even if i try to install kdm, apt grabs it from my debian source and n

Re: 2.4.18-bf2.4 and Alsa sound configuration

2003-09-15 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El lunes, 15 de septiembre de 2003, a las 13:54, wsykes.lists escribe: > I am trying to use Alsa, but I am getting "Can't locate module snd" Which alsa packages do you have installed? It seems like only alsa-base, is this true? Regards, Ismael -- "Tout fourmille de commentaries; d'auteurs il en

Re: Q: Oracle vs Debian?

2003-09-15 Thread John Hasler
Wayne Sitton writes: > ...the only reason to certify only red hat was a purely motivated by the > fact that ignorant management only recognizes redhat when the word linux > is mentioned. And only Red Hat is willing to finance support. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse H

Re: adding a directory to apt source

2003-09-15 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 04:50:06 +0200, Skippi wrote: > Greetings. I am trying to add a directory to the list of sources for > APT to use for installing deb packages. [snip] > It tells me there is an error in line 10 (the line I'm adding). > > I am adding > > deb file:/home/skippi/0data/backup/de

Re: CUPS on a standalone: turn off port 631 how?

2003-09-15 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Geoff" == Geoff Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Geoff> The snag is, it appears to me to be impossible. Checking Geoff> /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, I found the place where port 631 is Geoff> allocated, but commenting this out prevents CUPS from Geoff> working. Changing it to 'Listen hos

superfreeswan on Debian

2003-09-15 Thread Fraser Campbell
Hi, I found some backported freeswan packages for woody at http://people.debian.org/~nobse/deprecated/backported/freeswan/ They are based on freeswan 1.99 and work well for basic vpns. I was hoping to find packages for superfreeswan since I require some of the many patches that the superfrees

Re: Not a speed reader.

2003-09-15 Thread Stefan Waidele jun.
Colin Watson wrote: [...] You can hit Ctrl-S as messages are scrolling up the screen to pause them. Hit Ctrl-Q to resume when you're ready. Thank you so much. You just solved my problem: I hit Ctrl-S quite often accidently. Either missing the Ctrl-D by just one key to the left, or by hitting emac

CUPS insisting on completing print job

2003-09-15 Thread Deryk Barker
I'm running woody with CUPs controlling an Epson C82. Problem: while configuring and testing a PDF converter in Open Office I accidentally sent a raw pdf file to the printer. 200+KB... And here is where the problem starts: I cannot persuade (presumably) CUPS to stop printing the damn thing. I've

2.4.18-bf2.4 and Alsa sound configuration

2003-09-15 Thread wsykes.lists
All, Can I run Sound on this Kernel Version without patching the Kernel? Im running 2.4.18-bf2.4 on an IBM thinkpad with a ESS1969 card. I am trying to use Alsa, but I am getting "Can't locate module snd" I remember messing with this once before and failing. Is there a problem with the version o

via-rhine in 2.6.0 kernel

2003-09-15 Thread mess-mate
Hi, I've compiled the 2.6.0-test4 kernel but didn't find the via-rhine driver (DFE-530TX network-card). mess-mate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where is the file /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ?

2003-09-15 Thread jjluza
hmm ... I don't know but in other directories I have in /lib/modules, build point to their kernel source directory. So I make it point to kernel source, and now, it works ... that's all I can tell you Le Lundi 15 Septembre 2003 20:03, Colin Watson a écrit : > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 07:25:10PM

Re: Where is the file /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ?

2003-09-15 Thread jjluza
it is the cause of the problem ! I don't know why this link his wrong by defaults, but when I make the link point to the right directory, all work fine ... raaah ! how can such a little error be so annoying ! :/ so, thank to all ;) Le Lundi 15 Septembre 2003 19:29, jjluza a écrit : > I just not

Re: all those DHCP packages

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Ferlatte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:57:44PM -0400: > I'm confused by the large number of available DHCP client packages. > There's dhcp-client, dhcp3-client, dhcpcd, udhcpc, and pump. > > Right now I'm using pump, but it's not very well documented and not as > flexible as I'd like.

Kernel with initrd, remove unused modules

2003-09-15 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Hi, I just installed kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 (I am running sid), which boots using initrd. Thus, after booting, lsmod shows a lot of unused modules. I'd like to know which is the clean way (even the Debian-specific one, if it exists) on configuring the booting procedure so it loads only the modu

CUPS on a standalone: turn off port 631 how?

2003-09-15 Thread Geoff Thurman
Hello all. I'm a novice, so if this is all nonsense or I'm missing something easy please forgive me. I'm still using more or less what I installed from Knoppix 3.2, with which I am happy enough. When I first did the installation I closed all open ports apart from 631 - the one used by CUPS. Th

Re: Bind 9 chroot now slave/tmp- failed

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Chad M Stewart said on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 11:07:56AM -0400: > The following is in my logs > > named[1813]: transfer of 'domain.com/IN' from x.x.x.x#53: failed while > receiving responses: file not found > named[1813]: transfer of 'domain.com/IN' from x.x.x.x#53: end of > transfer > named[1813]

Re: Re: Mozilla fonts

2003-09-15 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Ashish Ariga wrote: > Turns out that Mozilla and a bunch of other GNOME/GTK2 apps use > fonts that are configured via some fontconfig. (I don't know > much about it.) > fc-list reports fonts that are available through fontconfig. > Ensure that the path where you installed the fonts are listed in >

Re: Compiling Mozilla 1.4 on Debian Woody

2003-09-15 Thread Torsten Reuss
This might be too obvious, but do you have /usr/local/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf ? No, only these: /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/atlas I tried putting /usr/lib /usr/local/lib into the file and that made no difference. You should run ldconfig after making changes to the file. /usr/lib does no

Re: Where is the file /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ?

2003-09-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 07:25:10PM +0200, jjluza wrote: > I just notice that there is an error with the link "build" : > lrwxr-xr-x1 root root1 2003-09-15 19:19 build -> . > in the directory /lib/modules/2.6.0-test5-mm2/ > it's strange ... it's the first time I notice such an er

Re: Installation problem

2003-09-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:01:20 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi people, > > at first, my English is very bad, so please don't wonder about this > mail. ..gibts auch eine Deutsch-spracheliche Debian users liste; http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/ http:

Re: Compiling Mozilla 1.4 on Debian Woody

2003-09-15 Thread David List
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Torsten Reuss wrote: >> ./conftest: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot >> open shared object file: No such file or directory > >This might be too obvious, but do you have /usr/local/lib in your >/etc/ld.so.conf ? No, only these: /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/

Re: NFS share: cannot write

2003-09-15 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dilluns 15 Setembre 2003 12:53, en Angel L. Mateo va escriure: > nless you configure the share to mount it as root, when you mount a > nfs share, you use nobody, so if nobody can't write to the directory, > you can't write. That was it. Thanks ;)

Re: directfb w ATI Radeon

2003-09-15 Thread Mental Patient
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:39:01AM -0400, Mental Patient wrote: Turns out it was a kernel config error. Recompiled with frame buffer console enabled, it goes. Is the framebuffer accelerated with a Radeon [9700]? I got it to work but it was very slow compared to not usin

Re: Q: Oracle vs Debian?

2003-09-15 Thread Wayne Sitton
Yes, I installed Oracle 8i and 9 on Woody. The only problem I remember having is having to make a symlink because the name of the gcc library was different than what oracle was looking for. also in looking through a bunch of support docs, I remember reading that alot of the oracle guys used Debia

Re: Using Japanese (and Chinese) on an prodominantly english system

2003-09-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:01:14 +1000, Rebecca Dridan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > I speak a little Japanese and am now learning Mandarin. I would like > to be able to read and write both languages on my computers, but leave > my systems basically in Engl

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