Re: Newbie about using extern in C.

2003-10-15 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Thu Oct 16, 2003 at 01:51:18PM +0800, James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: > I am a newbie in using linux and C language. I want to ask how to use > "extern". In C language, we can have two .c file, in one file the > variable(s) can be open for other .c file use if extern is the storage > class of the

Re: Newbie about using extern in C.

2003-10-15 Thread James Mills
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 01:51:18PM +0800, James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: > Hello, > > I am a newbie in using linux and C language. I want to ask how to use > "extern". In C language, we can have two .c file, in one file the > variable(s) can be open for other .c file use if extern is the storage > class

adduser broken

2003-10-15 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, My friends woody server is having problems adding users, groups and deleting users and groups. First, yes, the server is probably busted up good. A mix of mostly woody, with some sarge in there, and to top it off, some non-admins had root access, so who knows what happened. :) Anyway, when

Newbie about using extern in C.

2003-10-15 Thread James Ng Yuen Sum
Hello, I am a newbie in using linux and C language. I want to ask how to use "extern". In C language, we can have two .c file, in one file the variable(s) can be open for other .c file use if extern is the storage class of the variable. But my teacher has told me that in gcc, I have to use Makefi

Re: iiimf

2003-10-15 Thread Marshal Wong
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 18:57, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed the server and some language "modules"; but how would I > know whether it works as expected? I mean, I have installed Emacs and > iiimcef package, and executed meta-x iiim-*. But I don't think that I > can change any language

Re: downgrading libc6

2003-10-15 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Yeatman wrote: I'm tempted to downgrade with a: dpkg -i libc6_2.2.5-11.5_i386 libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.5_i386 locales_2.2.5-11.5_i386 I'm I asking for a lot of trouble Is there a safer more sure way to do this? Thanks, Paul How much of an idiot do you think the former admin was? It seems

Re: XFS over EXT3

2003-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, what I did is get the iso from http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/ burn to CD and then install Debian. Cool. I was unaware of that. I've bookmarked it for future reference. In my case though, I needed to use Knoppix as I had very recent hardware that wa

Re: XFS over EXT3

2003-10-15 Thread moseley
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:11:55AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Greetings to all: > > > >I'm planning to install debian and planning to use XFS instead of Ext3, > >does anybody know how to do ti, or know of any advantage of one file > >system over the other, any recom

Dialup utmp entires (pon)

2003-10-15 Thread James Mills
Hi, Everytime I used to dialup on my system using pon, the system would create a utmp entry for the user 'dialout'. I could then see the number of times and length of dialup sessions by using the command sac. I'm no longer able to do this as it doesn't record these entries anymore. How am I able

debian daemon init

2003-10-15 Thread Mike Mueller
Is it the job of the package maintainer of a daemon (for example OpenSSH) to adapt whatever initialization the upstream developer creates (BSD in this case I imagine) to the Debian style of System V init? -- Mike Mueller 324881 (08/20/2003) Make clockwise circles with your right foot. Now use y

Re: The following packages have been kept back

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:57:59AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Fellows, it's time for a dist-upgrade, but - From what to what? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when y

Re: preloading modules, sarge netinst cd

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:37 pm, Eliot Stock wrote: > Hello, > > I have a network card not supported by the sarge netinst CD, but > would like to do a net install anyway. > > The documentation on the CD is the same as the install docs on > debian

The following packages have been kept back

2003-10-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
Fellows, it's time for a dist-upgrade, but The following packages have been kept back python-gtk2 python2.3-gtk2 Could it be a fault of mine? # apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true dist-upgrade Package perl-modules has broken dep on libcgi-pm-perl Considering libcgi-pm-perl 0 as a solution

Re: XFS over EXT3

2003-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings to all: I'm planning to install debian and planning to use XFS instead of Ext3, does anybody know how to do ti, or know of any advantage of one file system over the other, any recomendation will be appretiated. That's all for the moment, good night to everyone,

Re: Does DRI work?

2003-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..ok, I can do decent rpms the "rpmbuild -ta" way, never tried to build X or DRI rpm's though, debs is as easy? (Have Mach64 ugh cards.) .debs are a cinch: apt-get source cd dpkg-buildpackage Of course, for something like XFree86 4.3, you would specifically need the source

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Yeatman wrote: Thanks for the reply! ->>In response to your message<<- --received from Roberto Sanchez-- I had to get a 2.4.21 kernel to get support for the 20276 chipset. I suppose you are using the testing distribution? Actually I installed that on a Woody system. I just did a wget fo

Re. CD writer

2003-10-15 Thread Sidney Brooks
I now think that I should explain how I have set up my computer because what I thought should be irrelevant may somehow be the cause of my troubles. I welcome criticism. I have separate partitions on my hard drive for WindowsXP and two versions of Debian woody. I think of one Debian partition as m

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:05:21PM -0700, Paul Yeatman said > So, for the sake of clarification as some conflicting statements have > been made, as long as the FontPath to > /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType is given in > XF86Config-4, the order of the FontPaths doesn't matter, ie. e

Re: XFS over EXT3

2003-10-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings to all: > > I'm planning to install debian and planning to use XFS instead of Ext3, > does anybody know how to do ti, or know of any advantage of one file > system over the other, any recomendation will be appretiated. for a benchm

Re: Mozilla Mail & Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 20:45, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > Hi. > Has anyone tried/succeeded in importing messages from Microsoft Outlook > (.pst files) to Mozilla Mail? > Does anyone have any idea on how to do this? > Thanks > --Fred Presuming that you: - aren

Re: Re. CD writer

2003-10-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:38:52 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:43:12PM -0400, Antonio RodrP`? wrote: > | > | > Here's what worked (very well, I might add) for me: > | > > | > Configuring the kernel (this is d

Re: Gnome 2 and window manager selection?

2003-10-15 Thread Tony Godshall
Back when I used to use Gnome, I used it with Sawfish. It was the lightest gnome-compliant WM around. Check your /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager Of course there may be a typo someplace... you might want to search /etc/... for 'elightenment' ;-) According to Todd Pytel, > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003

RE: Mozilla Mail & Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-15 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Probably better to export as text from outlook first. Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Frederico Rodrigues Abraham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 16 October 2003 12:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mozilla Mail & Microsoft Outlook > > > Hi. > Ha

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 at 02:06 GMT, Kent West penned: > > Feel free to ask more questions; I can be vague for weeks at a time > :-) > I will ask as I think of it, or when I get the machine =P Right now I'm still in the researching/rationalization/scraping together the cash phase. -- monique

Mozilla Mail & Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-15 Thread Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
Hi. Has anyone tried/succeeded in importing messages from Microsoft Outlook (.pst files) to Mozilla Mail? Does anyone have any idea on how to do this? Thanks --Fred -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

XFS over EXT3

2003-10-15 Thread nemesisdivina
Greetings to all: I'm planning to install debian and planning to use XFS instead of Ext3, does anybody know how to do ti, or know of any advantage of one file system over the other, any recomendation will be appretiated. That's all for the moment, good night to everyone, Didier. -- To mess up

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 19:01, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Clive Menzies penned: > > It is worth reviewing the archive for [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Speaking of which, http://www.debian.org/ports/ lists the motorola 68k > as the second-most popular debian-port, then late

Re: CD writer

2003-10-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:57:25 -0700 (PDT), Sidney Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The instructions for 2.2 worked for 2.4.22. ..damn good instructions! ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Monique" == Monique Y Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Monique> I do love how rapidly debian releases security updates to Monique> their packages -- this is one area where I suspect that Monique> Apple isn't as industrious as debian? Don't know about Monique> the fink maint

Re: Does DRI work?

2003-10-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 22:53:07 +0800, csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:21:37 +0200, > Nicos Gollan wrote: > > [...] > > > Everyone working on and packaging X has my deepest respect if > > that helps. :-) However, that doesn't mean that I can

Re: re__cdwriter

2003-10-15 Thread Sidney Brooks
--- steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi sidney, > > maybe this is of some help, i hope. > > why not install a kernel like vanilla, with - as > root - a line in /etc/lilo.conf > > append="hdx=ide-scsi", hdx = hdd, hdc, or something > like that: the name woody > gives to your cdrom-writer

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 10:06 pm, Kent West wrote: >Monique Y. Herman wrote: >>So, lately, I've been drooling over the latest 15" powerbooks. I have >>never owned or even really used a Mac, but when looking at laptop >>choices, powerbooks look to be the best. I'll provide more detail if req

Re: sa-exim: What user does spamassassin run as?

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:49:55PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > The other method I've documented for integrating sa with exim performs > the processing after the message is accepted and on the queue and > scans the message once per recipient.

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:46:15PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad Colin> wrote: >> I'd suggest you try OS X if you buy a Mac before you give up >> and go to Debian or some other Linux distribution. Colin> Moving to Debian i

Re: Re. CD writer

2003-10-15 Thread Sidney Brooks
--- Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing that occurs to me: you did do > > make modules > make modules_install > > right? > -- > Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] These are not in the instructions that I am following. At what point are these things to be do

Re: mutt pgp nosign variable?

2003-10-15 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:10:24PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i'm trying to create a send-hook in my .muttrc so that i can > automatically not pgp-sign messages i send to specific addresses. but > i can't figure out which variable to use, or if i'm not seeing them > all. i know it'll be along

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Kent West
Monique Y. Herman wrote: So, lately, I've been drooling over the latest 15" powerbooks. I have never owned or even really used a Mac, but when looking at laptop choices, powerbooks look to be the best. I even had a dream about it last night ... except in the dream, salesmen kept giving me the wr

iiimf

2003-10-15 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have installed the server and some language "modules"; but how would I know whether it works as expected? I mean, I have installed Emacs and iiimcef package, and executed meta-x iiim-*. But I don't think that I can change any languages or input-methods (ie: no default values). What Debia

Re: downgrading libc6

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 20:30, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Well, for the record, with not getting anyone else's opinion on this, I > finally gave things a try and ran > > dpkg -i libc6_2.2.5-11.5_i386.deb libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.5_i386.deb > > and the only warning (other than the obvious fact that I was

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-15 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 October 2003 19:28, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > If you're in an UTF8 environment, you guarantee that all files on your > system are encoded in UTF8. All I was saying is that any program that > imports a file into your filesystem that's no

A note to Emacs `debview' and `debbugs-el' users

2003-10-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Hello, The debview package (an Emacs mode to view Debian packages) and the debbbugs-el package (Emacs helpers for the Debian BTS) have been merged into a new package called `debian-el': debian-el: Emacs helpers specific to Debian users This package contains: apt-sources.el: major mode for edi

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-15 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 October 2003 19:38, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > Not "will try", but "does try". It still has some issues, in particular > the fact that if you have some broken font installed it is now even > harder to figure out which font is the culprit

Re: apt: exporting and importing list of installed packages

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 19:48, Jens Grivolla wrote: > Hi, > > I apparently have a lot of leftovers from old packages that did not > get cleanly uninstalled, and am losing quite a bit of disk space for > that. > > I would therefore like to do a fresh install (backing up /home and > /etc), but using

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Yeatman
Thanks for the reply! ->>In response to your message<<- --received from Roberto Sanchez-- > > I had to get a 2.4.21 kernel to get support for the 20276 chipset. I suppose you are using the testing distribution? Do you know that previous kernels such as 2.4.18 didn't support this specific chip

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Yeatman wrote: Hi, similarly, I have an onboard Promise RAID chip but with chipset PDC20276 which, however so close, doesn't seem to be offered the same support by the 2.4.18(-19) kernel (at least it doesn't explicitely say it supports it as it does the PDC202067 chipset). The device is calle

Re: Re. CD writer

2003-10-15 Thread Carl Fink
One thing that occurs to me: you did do make modules make modules_install right? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Ron Johnson-- > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:27, Greg Vickers wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Just wondering if there is a person or group working on supporting the > > mirror features of the Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian? > > Have you tried

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 at 23:42 GMT, Colin Watson penned: > > Heh. I've just ordered one of these, which will probably become my new > primary development machine. It's due to arrive in early November. > > > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook/ appears to be good advice. > There are some other

Re: downgrading libc6

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Yeatman
Well, for the record, with not getting anyone else's opinion on this, I finally gave things a try and ran dpkg -i libc6_2.2.5-11.5_i386.deb libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.5_i386.deb and the only warning (other than the obvious fact that I was downgrading packages) was that such a downgrade would requ

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 at 22:46 GMT, Shyamal Prasad penned: > > Here is another take on your idea: We (my wife and I) own two Mac's - > a G4 desktop, and a 15" Powerbook. I use a Debian x86 desktop most of > the time, my wife uses the Macs most of the time. > > I never got around to installing any d

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Clive Menzies penned: > It is worth reviewing the archive for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Speaking of which, http://www.debian.org/ports/ lists the motorola 68k as the second-most popular debian-port, then later down the list mentions the powerpc. Both mention Macs. Are a

opening files

2003-10-15 Thread Frank
I'm using win98 and  I hope you can help me find the way to open .pps files and .dat files.  I'm told to go to my computer, view , options, then there is on other information.   Thanks in advance.   Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:46:15PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > I'd suggest you try OS X if you buy a Mac before you give up and go to > Debian or some other Linux distribution. Moving to Debian is not "giving up"! :-P Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:47:35PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > So, lately, I've been drooling over the latest 15" powerbooks. I have > never owned or even really used a Mac, but when looking at laptop > choices, powerbooks look to be the best. I even had a dream about it > last night ... ex

Re: can't upgrade/re-install pkgs

2003-10-15 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:29:56AM -0800, J Y wrote: > If you reply to this please cc me thanks. > > Maybe there's a better way to do this? I'm trying to get my system > working right (Debian3.0 w/k7 kernel) There are some packages and > modules that don't work i.e alsa or sound, the screensaver m

Re: ssh-add : where's the reaper.

2003-10-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:33:32PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bill Moseley wrote: > > I'm using this (subsection) in .xsession: > > > > $HOME/bin/root_window.pl & > > ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa_pine < /dev/null & > > Tsk, tsk! You should have a passphrase on your key. Contempl

Re: Upgrading kernel

2003-10-15 Thread Simon Windsor
Hi Thanks to all who helped, networking is working, all I had to do was add 8139too to /etc/modules. Many thanks, Simon -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Mailscanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -

re__cdwriter

2003-10-15 Thread steef
hi sidney, maybe this is of some help, i hope. why not install a kernel like vanilla, with - as root - a line in /etc/lilo.conf append="hdx=ide-scsi", hdx = hdd, hdc, or something like that: the name woody gives to your cdrom-writer this a f t e r you installed p.e. vanilla, bf24..., and

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Monique" == Monique Y Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Monique> So, question for people who have used this architecture Monique> before: If I buy a system from Apple, how hard would it Monique> be to reconfigure it for dual-boot? Single-boot debian? Monique> What is the Mac

Re: Upgrading kernel

2003-10-15 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Simon Windsor wrote: > Hi > > The results from lspci are > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3116 > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] > 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3147 > 00:11.1 IDE

Re: Upgrading kernel

2003-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Simon Windsor wrote: Hi I have just upgraded my kernel from 2.2.20-idepci to 2.4.18-k7 and all appears ok apart from networking. The server has a RealTek 18139 card that works fine for 2.2, using rt18139. There is no equivalent module for the 2.4.18-k7 kernel, and attempts to try 3x59x, ne2k-pci

Re: Gnome 2 and window manager selection?

2003-10-15 Thread Todd Pytel
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 21:48:10 +0200 (CEST) Johan Braennlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Todd Pytel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you don't mind compiling, you might try > > Openbox 3. AFAIK, it's not in any apt repositories yet since it's > > still at Release Candidate phase. > > Actually,

Re: Upgrading kernel

2003-10-15 Thread Simon Windsor
Hi The results from lspci are 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3116 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3147 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06

Re: Gnome 2 and window manager selection?

2003-10-15 Thread Todd Pytel
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:27:02 -0400 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, .xsession-errors has a clue. It's trying (and failing) to run > /usr/bin/elightenment,a Acording to dselect, this is not installed. > Should I install it? If I have a choice, I think I like sawfish, at > least from the breif

Re: Upgrading kernel

2003-10-15 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Simon Windsor wrote: > Hi > > I have just upgraded my kernel from 2.2.20-idepci to 2.4.18-k7 and all appears ok > apart from networking. > > The server has a RealTek 18139 card that works fine for 2.2, using rt18139. There is > no equivalent module for the 2.4.18-k7 kernel,

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/10/03 15:47), Monique Y. Herman wrote: > So, lately, I've been drooling over the latest 15" powerbooks. I have > never owned or even really used a Mac, but when looking at laptop > choices, powerbooks look to be the best. I even had a dream about it > last night ... except in the dream, sa

Upgrading kernel

2003-10-15 Thread Simon Windsor
Hi   I have just upgraded my kernel from 2.2.20-idepci to 2.4.18-k7 and all appears ok apart from networking.   The server has a RealTek 18139 card that works fine for 2.2, using rt18139. There is no equivalent module for the 2.4.18-k7 kernel, and attempts to try 3x59x, ne2k-pci fail miserabl

debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
So, lately, I've been drooling over the latest 15" powerbooks. I have never owned or even really used a Mac, but when looking at laptop choices, powerbooks look to be the best. I even had a dream about it last night ... except in the dream, salesmen kept giving me the wrong model, and I'd get hom

preloading modules, sarge netinst cd

2003-10-15 Thread Eliot Stock
Hello, I have a network card not supported by the sarge netinst CD, but would like to do a net install anyway. The documentation on the CD is the same as the install docs on debian.org. Section 10.4, Preloading Existing Modules, tells me to do this: Extract the kernel and modules for the flavor

Re: Re. CD writer

2003-10-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya sidney On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Antonio [ISO-8859-1] Rodr wrote: > > I am reaching a stage of complete frustration in my > > effort to install a CD writer. I have Debian woody > > with a 2.4.22 kernel that I got from www.kernel.org. > > > > My effort to configure the kernel for the scsi > > e

Re: ssh-add : where's the reaper.

2003-10-15 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:33:32PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bill Moseley wrote: > > I'm using this (subsection) in .xsession: > > > > $HOME/bin/root_window.pl & > > ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa_pine < /dev/null & > > Tsk, tsk! You should have a passphrase on your key. I do hav

Re: Does DRI work?

2003-10-15 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 18:29, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:21:37PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > Every once in a while, apt thought it just had to "update" X (from 4.2 to > > some early 4.1 at that time), so I had to move the "normal" X directory > > back, have apt do its work

Re: ssh-add : where's the reaper.

2003-10-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm using this (subsection) in .xsession: > > $HOME/bin/root_window.pl & > ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa_pine < /dev/null & Tsk, tsk! You should have a passphrase on your key. Contemplate this instead. xterm -e ssh-add > exec icewm-session > > But I'm l

Re: mutt pgp nosign variable?

2003-10-15 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:32:29AM -0700, Dave Carrigan insinuated: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:10:24PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > i'm trying to create a send-hook in my .muttrc so that i can > > automatically not pgp-sign messages i send to specific addresses. but > > i can't figure out which

Re: Rescue CDs.

2003-10-15 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:32:29 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > I've seen a few references to this subject line, but I haven't seen > one > > to this particular utility, so I thought I would drop off the URL. > > The screenshots look good. > > Has anybody tried it? > > Tried what? >

Re: What filesystem for no-halt boot?

2003-10-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Arnt Karlsen wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > editor /etc/default/rcS > > # Set FSCKFIX to "yes" if you want to add "-y" to the fsck at > > # startup. > > FSCKFIX=no > > > > If the time it takes to fsck is not a factor and it sounds like it is > > not then any of the journaling filesystems s

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-15 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:05:38PM -0700, Tom wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:40:09PM +0200, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > [snip] > > 100 DM = 51 ? 13 ¢. > > My /etc/environment is now: LANG=en_US, and 'locale' says "en_US" for > everthing except LC_ALL which is blank. So things like

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-15 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:23:46PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Pigeon writes: > > Thanks. And this site has the source code, which is mysteriously missing > > from the Debian/unstable version. > > You _have_ filed a bug? Have now. I don't like to scream "BUG!" as soon as I find the slightest wrin

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-15 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:40:09PM +0200, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: [snip] > 100 DM = 51 ? 13 ¢. My /etc/environment is now: LANG=en_US, and 'locale' says "en_US" for everthing except LC_ALL which is blank. So things like ½,é,¢ are working, but what I guess is the Euro symbol in Rüdige

Re: change medium type on Sis 900

2003-10-15 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Tim Broddin wrote: > it still gives me 90-100% packet loss. The 100 mbps indicator on the > switch also stays on. I'm planning on buying a decent NIC for her this > weekend but I'm still interested in what the problem could be... > > Any thoughts? Start with checking the cabl

Re: Can't install kernel compiled on sid machine on a woody system

2003-10-15 Thread Magnus von Koeller
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 18:53, Pigeon wrote: > What about with gcc-2.95.4? How would that make any difference? Shouldn't such a kernel package be pretty much self-contained, not depending on any binary interfaces or stuff like that? Still, I'll try with gcc-2.95. -- --- Magnus von Koell

Re: Re. CD writer

2003-10-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:43:12PM -0400, Antonio RodrP`? wrote: | | > Here's what worked (very well, I might add) for me: | > | > Configuring the kernel (this is done before compiling the kernel): | | How do you do this, through make menuconfig? Choose your poison ;-). | I suspect you mea

Re: Re. CD writer

2003-10-15 Thread Sidney Brooks
I must confess that I am still confused although the messages here are helping. When I look at my installed Debian packages, I have: kernel-image-2 Custom.2 (the last one that I made). The only things that I have in /etc/modules are: af_packet sr_mod If I knew how you printed out "make config" b

Re: Does DRI work?

2003-10-15 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:21:37PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > Every once in a while, apt thought it just had to "update" X (from 4.2 to some > early 4.1 at that time), so I had to move the "normal" X directory back, have > apt do its work and then move that chunk out of the way again. check ou

Re: apt: exporting and importing list of installed packages

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Yeatman
> It is not quite clear to me from the man-page what would happen to > already installed packages. I suppose that set-selections only > affects those packages that are actually in the list. Yes, I believe it only changes the packages listed in the file. All others are unaffected. -- Paul Yeatm

Re: sa-exim: What user does spamassassin run as?

2003-10-15 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:21:58AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Does sa-exim suid to the user recieving the mail when it runs? Dunno, but: make it touch a file in /tmp and see who owns it? Run pgrep in a loop while you send yourself a mail? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-15 Thread Tom
I just did a clean reinstall of SID (I keep a local mirror and have it scripted down to 30 minutes :-)). My /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/fonts.alias is an empty file. Here's the the contents of that directory: # ls /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/ fonts.alias

Re: Can't install kernel compiled on sid machine on a woody system

2003-10-15 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:40:18PM +0200, Magnus von Koeller wrote: Content-Description: signed data > PLEASE CC ME, I'M NOT ON THIS LIST! Thanks! > > I tried compiling a new 2.4.22 kernel for the old pentium machine that > does my routing services. Because this is done about 20 times as fast >

Re: Gnome 2 and window manager selection?

2003-10-15 Thread Johan Braennlund
Todd Pytel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:00:23 -0400 > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What window manager should I have installed? > Metacity is the semi-official window manager for GNOME 2. Check to see > if you've got that. Sawfish is also GNOME-compliant, but has so

Re: Rescue CDs.

2003-10-15 Thread Naitik Shah
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:32:29AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > I've seen a few references to this subject line, but I haven't seen > one > > to this particular utility, so I thought I would drop off the URL. > > The screenshots look good. > > Has anybody trie

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-15 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:23:21AM -0200, klaus imgrund wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2003 03:21, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > Better make sure that your friend's kids aren't 12. The RIAA seems to > > have it in for 12 year olds. :) > > > That aside you could try mldonkey or xmule for the edon

USB printer doesn't print

2003-10-15 Thread Alexander Borghgraef
Strange problem here: I have an HP Laserjet 6L parallel printer connected through an parallel/USB convertor cable to the USB port of my pc. I'm running debian with the 2.4.20 kernel, usb-ohci, ehci-hcd and printer modules loaded, usb-core compiled in the kernel. USB filesystem mounted and all, my

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-10-15 Thread Graeme Tank
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:07:40PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > An article in Oct issue of Linux journal got me interested in Mondo > Archive, which is software that builds self-booting restore CDs for > Linux systems. So, I started to try to use it. I found a debian > package in Woody, and did th

Re: Re. CD writer

2003-10-15 Thread Antonio RodrP`
> > Here's what worked (very well, I might add) for me: > > Configuring the kernel (this is done before compiling the kernel): > How do you do this, through make menuconfig? I suspect you mean manually editing some file. Could you please be more concrete as to what file needs editing? > Once

change medium type on Sis 900

2003-10-15 Thread Tim Broddin
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian on my mom's PC. The only problem is her Sis900. For some reason it won't work at 100 mbps. All other PC's in this house are happily working together at 100 mpbps but my mom's Sis900 NIC refuses to work at 100 mbps (it gives 99% packet loss). In that other "Oper

Re: mutt header display question

2003-10-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:42:17AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | I've been trying to write a mailfilter rule, nothing worked. Finally I | noticed that while mutt displays the From header as | | AmikaGuardian Server <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | This showed the same whether with the full headers togg

Re: Re. CD writer

2003-10-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:12:55AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: | I am reaching a stage of complete frustration in my | effort to install a CD writer. I have Debian woody | with a 2.4.22 kernel that I got from www.kernel.org. | | My effort to configure the kernel for the scsi | emulation always fai

Re: Scrolling Apps = High CPU Utilization

2003-10-15 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Quoting David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My guess is that you wind up doing the scrolling operation all in > software with the nv driver, which is why you get that much CPU > usage. I'd guess that switching to the (non-free) NVidia driver would > in fact help you get around this problem. Ther

Re: CD writer

2003-10-15 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:39:52AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > > Although Alvin Oga pointed me in the right direction, > I have still not been successful in modifying my > kernel to allow CD writing. The hang-up seems to be > the instruction to remove "native ATAPI support". > There are a numbe

insults - was: Re: windows NT

2003-10-15 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:30:41PM +0200, Lajos Mester wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:13:23AM +0200, Lajos Mester wrote: > > > No one borns with the GREAT LINUX KNOWLEDGE allready preloaded in the > > > mind, as you. Sorry. > > > > Or

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